Hmm... Why not turn the F or J key into a mouse, such as a touchpad or eraser? You press the key and it acts as a key, or you glide your finger across and it becomes a pointer. Put the left and right mouse buttons somewhere on the keyboard that you can reach without lifting your pointer fingers off the "home row." (Ooh! I call patent! Prior art! Prior art!)
Then again, maybe I just need a full-sized keyboard with an Eraserpoint, but between F and G instead of below G and H.
Or you could just get 20 times as many people to run the client. There are LOTS of unused CPU cycles in the world. Probably 99.999% of all CPU cycles are doing nothing but spinning in main{} right now. Let's put 'em to work!
Or let's put 'em to sleep! I used to leave all my computers running all night just to crack RC5. I noticed a significant drop in my power bill when I started turning machines off. (Also, my laptop battery started lasting 2.5 hours instead of 40 minutes.)
Maybe if they started paying for my cycles, I'd reconsider, but I'd still have to look at peak power prices first.
If you need the low profile and don't need the superfluous stacked ports, couldn't you go in there and clip them off the motherboard? I don't think anything would need to be tied back together. Granted this doesn't reduce the size of the motherboard, but it does eliminate the need to provide holes out the back for those ports.
Sure Metrolink is expensive ($276 per month from San Bernardino to Irvine), but it sure beats putting 40,000 miles a year on my car. Even in my Metro (40 mpg), I just about break even once you throw in the Toll Roads.
Metrolink gets me to the Irvine station in the same amount of time that taking the Toll Roads on a GOOD day does, and my Honda Helix (55 mpg) gets me from the station to work in less than 5 minutes. During that time, I can surf wirelessly or read instead of burning up my clutch disc at the 91/15 suckage.
That said, grade-separated high-speed rail from Irvine/Riverside to Stockton (where my folks live) will do the job much more quickly and cheaply than driving (6-8 hours) or flying (1.25 hours plus getting to the airport two hours ahead of time, plus driving down from Sacramento or across from San Jose.) Amtrak would be fine if they could get a rail line over the Tehachapis so you don't have to take a bus to Bakersfield first.
1. Company A opens new office, obtains three hundred consecutive phone numbers for extensions in this office.
2. One month later, Fax.com wardials all three-hundred numbers, looking for fax machines.
3. Once Fax.com finds fax machines, it adds them to the 'spam list'. Everyone who picks up a fax off the machine assumes that someone else mistakenly signed up for a fax list, not knowing that Fax.com illegally wardialed that number.
In my company's case, all of our deskphones go to a Glenayre voicemail system that can also receive faxes (listening for the fax send tones while playing the greeting.) Thus, every single deskphone was signed up, and people started received these crap faxes on their desk voicemails.
Obviously, "If you want to enter another fax number to be excluded, please call back" 300 times wasn't going to work for us. So I called their exclusion number and selected the option for their "marketing and new business department." Needless to say, after a threatening voicemail, someone called me back and removed all 300 numbers.
Oh, and I should mention:
2001-12-12 00:35:40 Fax spammers flaunting federal laws? (askslashdot,privacy) (rejected)
You're running NT Services for Macintosh for one client machine? Just "Connect to Server" on the client and put in SMB://username@servername/sharename. When the box pops up, put in the domain name and password.
Anybody else noticed this? In the olden days of IE 3, the page was rendered as it was loading. While probably slower overall, it meant that I could start reading the email/article/whatever immediately.
Nowadays, all of the browsers I tried seem to want to load the whole page (including most pictures) and display it all at once. That means I'm sitting at a blank page because some adserver somewhere takes 60 seconds to cough up its piece of the pie.
Is there a browser out there that renders as it loads?
I've never been given an opportunity to moderate, so someone please moderate great-grandparent up.
I'm interested in this one as well. I worked on a home network for a friend. His two kids have Kazaa on their machines (I know, I know.) Point is, even when idle, Kazaa takes up enough bandwidth to put a noticeable strain on the network, and the cable modem to which it is connected. When all you have is a 3MB run (IIRC), one or two Kazaa users can make things miserable for everyone else. I would like to start a similar co-op in my neighborhood (no DSL or cable modems available), but I'm worried about one or two users (starting with my own daughter) dragging the network down.
Maybe a Linux-based bandwidth throttler that gives each house a maximum or quota, and if they want to break that maximum, they're willing to share a larger portion of the load?
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Hmm... does that mean if AOL sends me an unsolicited CD, I become owner of that software and can do with it as I please regardless of the shrinkwrap license?
Right, but if I can get oil for $2/gallon in pre-packaged 5-gallon bottles from a local retail store, I'm sure I could get it a _lot_ cheaper from a national distribution chain the size of your gas stations.
Besides, diesel engines generally get significantly more miles per gallon than gasoline, so the gap is narrowed even further.
The discontinued EV1 was a joke -- it batteries spread throughout the vehicle and was available only on a lease basis.
The EV1 was available in lead-acid and NiMH versions. The lead-acid got a respectable 75-100 miles per charge and the NiMH got up to 180 miles per charge. The joke was that GM wasn't serious about promoting, selling or advertising them. (Quite the opposite, in fact.)
What kind of cleanup/toxicity issues do fuel cells have, considering all of the elements used (catalysts/fuel/fuel generation).
Consider that for many years to come, hydrogen will be produced by splitting existing petroleum products. Same dependence on foreign oil, same refinery pollution.
Is this plan really a better bet than electric cars with high density batteries and some type of remote hydrogen powerplant running the juice over cables?
If the fuel and power companies would have spent these billions on ramping up production of advanced battery chemistries (NiMH, LiIon, NiZn) instead of beating up on fuel cells, the problem would have been licked already.
But we're talking oil companies here.
I've always had the sneaking feeling that fuel cell technology was just another way for the petrochemical industries to keep their jobs when the wells run dry.
It also keeps the aerospace and defense industries running. (No reason to have wars over there if we don't need their oil.)
An interesting point to note is that fuel cell cars, once mass-produced, may be more competitively priced than one would expect. There *are* federal subsidies for alternative-fuel vehicles. The reason hybrid cars are so expensive is that because they still use gas some of the time, they're technically not alternative-fuel vehicles. Stupid loophole standing in the way of progress.
How is a car that is 100% powered by gasoline considered an "alternative fuel" vehicle? A hybrid is a gasoline car with regenerative braking (either electric or hydraulic.) Alternative-fueled vehicles are called that because they are powered with cleaner-burning (LPG, CNG) and/or renewable (electric, alcohol, biodiesel) fuels.
You don't have to plug it in? Make that, "You CAN'T plug it in!"
Download your MP3's at home and burn them to a couple of CD's. Go to your friendly neighborhood Wally World or Fry's and buy a $60 Walkman-clone that can play MP3's.
Sometimes the best way to win the argument is to just avoid it entirely.
They'll just do like California does with its driver license: Charge $10 every four years for a new card, and $10 any time you lose your card. After all, if it's levied as a new fee, and doesn't come out of existing taxes, it isn't new spending, right? Right??
Actually, Visa allows up to 12 months, but most issuers put 60 days in the contract to reduce their workload. But if it's enough money (and not reimbursed by a company like this) the employees may be able to file a claim directly through Visa.
Since billjones.org is down (either slashdotted or still disabled because of his upstream ISP) I have created a petition. If you are a registered California voter and want him to know why he won't get your vote, please make your voice heard.
Y'know, a gold ring with an embedded digital timepiece, not much bigger than your standard gold band. Even something that displays at the push of a button to conserve battery power. What's the use of having a cellphone the size of a ring when you have to have that 3-ounce watch around your wrist?
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Hmm... Why not turn the F or J key into a mouse, such as a touchpad or eraser? You press the key and it acts as a key, or you glide your finger across and it becomes a pointer. Put the left and right mouse buttons somewhere on the keyboard that you can reach without lifting your pointer fingers off the "home row." (Ooh! I call patent! Prior art! Prior art!)
Then again, maybe I just need a full-sized keyboard with an Eraserpoint, but between F and G instead of below G and H.
Oh, and don't forget Dr. Nick: "INflammable means flammable? What a country!"
Or you could just get 20 times as many people to run the client. There are LOTS of unused CPU cycles in the world. Probably 99.999% of all CPU cycles are doing nothing but spinning in main{} right now. Let's put 'em to work!
Or let's put 'em to sleep! I used to leave all my computers running all night just to crack RC5. I noticed a significant drop in my power bill when I started turning machines off. (Also, my laptop battery started lasting 2.5 hours instead of 40 minutes.)
Maybe if they started paying for my cycles, I'd reconsider, but I'd still have to look at peak power prices first.
Tim
If you need the low profile and don't need the superfluous stacked ports, couldn't you go in there and clip them off the motherboard? I don't think anything would need to be tied back together. Granted this doesn't reduce the size of the motherboard, but it does eliminate the need to provide holes out the back for those ports.
Sure Metrolink is expensive ($276 per month from San Bernardino to Irvine), but it sure beats putting 40,000 miles a year on my car. Even in my Metro (40 mpg), I just about break even once you throw in the Toll Roads.
Metrolink gets me to the Irvine station in the same amount of time that taking the Toll Roads on a GOOD day does, and my Honda Helix (55 mpg) gets me from the station to work in less than 5 minutes. During that time, I can surf wirelessly or read instead of burning up my clutch disc at the 91/15 suckage.
That said, grade-separated high-speed rail from Irvine/Riverside to Stockton (where my folks live) will do the job much more quickly and cheaply than driving (6-8 hours) or flying (1.25 hours plus getting to the airport two hours ahead of time, plus driving down from Sacramento or across from San Jose.) Amtrak would be fine if they could get a rail line over the Tehachapis so you don't have to take a bus to Bakersfield first.
Tim
1. Company A opens new office, obtains three hundred consecutive phone numbers for extensions in this office.
2. One month later, Fax.com wardials all three-hundred numbers, looking for fax machines.
3. Once Fax.com finds fax machines, it adds them to the 'spam list'. Everyone who picks up a fax off the machine assumes that someone else mistakenly signed up for a fax list, not knowing that Fax.com illegally wardialed that number.
In my company's case, all of our deskphones go to a Glenayre voicemail system that can also receive faxes (listening for the fax send tones while playing the greeting.) Thus, every single deskphone was signed up, and people started received these crap faxes on their desk voicemails.
Obviously, "If you want to enter another fax number to be excluded, please call back" 300 times wasn't going to work for us. So I called their exclusion number and selected the option for their "marketing and new business department." Needless to say, after a threatening voicemail, someone called me back and removed all 300 numbers.
Oh, and I should mention:
2001-12-12 00:35:40 Fax spammers flaunting federal laws? (askslashdot,privacy) (rejected)
Yeah, yeah, it's flouting, not flaunting.
You're running NT Services for Macintosh for one client machine? Just "Connect to Server" on the client and put in SMB://username@servername/sharename. When the box pops up, put in the domain name and password.
I'm not, but if you get his email address, forward it along, because I get asked that often. :-)
Tim
Anybody else noticed this? In the olden days of IE 3, the page was rendered as it was loading. While probably slower overall, it meant that I could start reading the email/article/whatever immediately.
Nowadays, all of the browsers I tried seem to want to load the whole page (including most pictures) and display it all at once. That means I'm sitting at a blank page because some adserver somewhere takes 60 seconds to cough up its piece of the pie.
Is there a browser out there that renders as it loads?
I've never been given an opportunity to moderate, so someone please moderate great-grandparent up.
I'm interested in this one as well. I worked on a home network for a friend. His two kids have Kazaa on their machines (I know, I know.) Point is, even when idle, Kazaa takes up enough bandwidth to put a noticeable strain on the network, and the cable modem to which it is connected. When all you have is a 3MB run (IIRC), one or two Kazaa users can make things miserable for everyone else. I would like to start a similar co-op in my neighborhood (no DSL or cable modems available), but I'm worried about one or two users (starting with my own daughter) dragging the network down.
Maybe a Linux-based bandwidth throttler that gives each house a maximum or quota, and if they want to break that maximum, they're willing to share a larger portion of the load?
Hmm... does that mean if AOL sends me an unsolicited CD, I become owner of that software and can do with it as I please regardless of the shrinkwrap license?
Check out http://www.austinev.org/evalbum.
Tim
Right, but if I can get oil for $2/gallon in pre-packaged 5-gallon bottles from a local retail store, I'm sure I could get it a _lot_ cheaper from a national distribution chain the size of your gas stations.
Besides, diesel engines generally get significantly more miles per gallon than gasoline, so the gap is narrowed even further.
You can run down to the local Costco and get 5 gallons jugs of vegetable oil for about $10, so imagine the cost in "real" bulk.
Tim
"Windows Update is downloading critical security updates and service packs to your computer. Time remaining: 2 hours, 34 minutes at 53kbps."
[Clicks "Cancel".]
(The above, of course, applies to MS operating systems.)
The EV1 was available in lead-acid and NiMH versions. The lead-acid got a respectable 75-100 miles per charge and the NiMH got up to 180 miles per charge. The joke was that GM wasn't serious about promoting, selling or advertising them. (Quite the opposite, in fact.)
What kind of cleanup/toxicity issues do fuel cells have, considering all of the elements used (catalysts/fuel/fuel generation).
Consider that for many years to come, hydrogen will be produced by splitting existing petroleum products. Same dependence on foreign oil, same refinery pollution.
Is this plan really a better bet than electric cars with high density batteries and some type of remote hydrogen powerplant running the juice over cables?
If the fuel and power companies would have spent these billions on ramping up production of advanced battery chemistries (NiMH, LiIon, NiZn) instead of beating up on fuel cells, the problem would have been licked already.
But we're talking oil companies here.
I've always had the sneaking feeling that fuel cell technology was just another way for the petrochemical industries to keep their jobs when the wells run dry.
It also keeps the aerospace and defense industries running. (No reason to have wars over there if we don't need their oil.)
How is a car that is 100% powered by gasoline considered an "alternative fuel" vehicle? A hybrid is a gasoline car with regenerative braking (either electric or hydraulic.) Alternative-fueled vehicles are called that because they are powered with cleaner-burning (LPG, CNG) and/or renewable (electric, alcohol, biodiesel) fuels.
You don't have to plug it in? Make that, "You CAN'T plug it in!"
Download your MP3's at home and burn them to a couple of CD's. Go to your friendly neighborhood Wally World or Fry's and buy a $60 Walkman-clone that can play MP3's.
Sometimes the best way to win the argument is to just avoid it entirely.
They'll just do like California does with its driver license: Charge $10 every four years for a new card, and $10 any time you lose your card. After all, if it's levied as a new fee, and doesn't come out of existing taxes, it isn't new spending, right? Right??
"I saw one of those bumper stickers that said, 'Lose weight now. Ask me how.' So I asked him how. He said, 'Go on a diet, you fat pig.'"
-Bob Zany
Start your day right with a healthy breakfast, including a big bowl of GNU/WheatoniX and milk!
Actually, Visa allows up to 12 months, but most issuers put 60 days in the contract to reduce their workload. But if it's enough money (and not reimbursed by a company like this) the employees may be able to file a claim directly through Visa.
Since billjones.org is down (either slashdotted or still disabled because of his upstream ISP) I have created a petition. If you are a registered California voter and want him to know why he won't get your vote, please make your voice heard.
"Where the hell am I?"
"You're in a Johnny-Cab!"
Y'know, a gold ring with an embedded digital timepiece, not much bigger than your standard gold band. Even something that displays at the push of a button to conserve battery power. What's the use of having a cellphone the size of a ring when you have to have that 3-ounce watch around your wrist?