(Whoops... wrong country) Riga is a beautiful capital. The plaza area in front of the stock exchange is a cool place to hang out, and the cat house's statue is wonderful!
Buildings usually have a whole lot of small rooms; once you get air moving with a fan, you're usually blocked by walls. Could you use the unused elevator shafts as a cold air source/hot air sink? Open the doors 2 feet wide, stick a desk in front of it (one without a vanity cover, like a folding table) for safety, and stick 2 box fans there (the lower pulling cold air from the shaft, the upper near the ceiling pumping warm air back in).
but, the real answer, like others have said, is that if it's so critical, you should have planned for it.
The Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 kernel now includes support for laptop mode. When placed in laptop mode, the kernel batches disk I/O, allowing the disk drive to become idle long enough for the drive's power-saving features to take affect. This can result in significant increases in battery runtime.
Considering I used to do most of my development while on batteries, this is great! (Gotta love the dell 7000 with its 7 hour batteries!)
You got that it's an analogy, but then didn't follow through... The state DOT and the Federal gov design all the features of the highway system, from which roads are placed where, to how cars interact with it (i.e. weight limits, expected traction in curves, etc.), and what licenses are required. An OS does much the same thing: it determines what files are stored where, which API's are used to access different things, and the permissions required to run different programs. The OS and the Gov don't need to be related, just analogous.
The second example was more for humor, drawn from my own personal experience...
No, that would be a run-of-the-mill advertisement. A FUI would be an offical looking "All Trucks Must Exit Here" sign leading to a truck-repair center.
Or, maybe more realistically, a sign that says "Warning: next stop for blinker fluid in 200 miles"
I want to control the iPod with the default radio buttons on the steering wheel. With this and the toaster-style mounting, there would be no need to have to reach to use the ipod's buttons. The swivel looks like an add-on that will get caught on things and get knocked about. I'm thinking of the slot being placed on top of the dash, or maybe under the radio. True, the LCD screen to the ipod isn't the greatest in terms of angle-of-view, so a swivel might be helpful... either good placement of the slot from the start, or adding a swivel to the toaster-slot could solve this.
It is a wicked commercial! - great photography & music, plus a neat "oh wow you can do that" factor.
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When CDs started becoming more popular, the tape-players had aux inputs meant for discman-type players. Then they switched to in-dash CD players and dropped the inputs... now they're being caught behind the MP3-player curve again and are trying to re-add the input. With a car lifespan so long, you'd think that car manufacturers should give up trying to predict what personal electronic trends will be 15 years in the future, and just add the jack to all radios.
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The holster is a bit hokey... would it kill apple/vw to design the ipod so that it can go inside a slot fairly deep such that only the lcd screen is showing? I'm thinking on top of the dash, kinda like a toaster. If necessary, the ipod should be able to rotate the image on its screen accordingly (for upside-down or sideways installations).
I wonder if the car can control the ipod - i.e. fast forward, rewind, etc. The older-style remote protocol is documented here so that you can build an interface to anything you want. It includes nice pictures & working source code!
Let's see... 8% interest on Microsoft's $49 billion in cash works out to be $430,000 per hour. And that's just interest on savings. Take into account $2 billion/quarter profits, and that's another $913,000/hour. They could afford to give away $1000 every 3 seconds and still be profitable!
Why run a contest at all? Just buy every non-MSN instant messager user (78 million people) for $11 cash/month... and still be profitable!
True enough, and for the same reasons their other freedoms are abridged...they've demonstrated they're not worthy.... and...
Here's where you're completely off-base. Gun ownership is not a privilege. It is a right that is not subject to the whims of the state.
Don't these strike you as opposites? It's a right that's not subject to the whims of the state, but it can be revoked by the state? That's not much of a right if you support revocation.
I haven't seen any single-chip solutions yet... that's probably because the magnetics already add some parts, and probably also because the high-speed digital processor and the relatively noisy ethernet connection process technologies don't coexist.
Thanks for the reply - wish I could mod you up. It's a great idea & I think it'll help a lot of people. I lived in Peru at the dawn of BBS's, and access was a nightmare - we dialed in to a special satellite link to get out of the country (land lines were too expensive and noisy), and we still paid through the nose for it.
I was a bit wrong on the compression - if you're running the program overnight, you might as well try an compress it as much as possible - I didn't consider that CSLIP is more speed-optimized than size-optimized. It also depends on how the internet access is billed - per byte or by minute. The modem-level compression will only help the 'by-minute' billing.
Sorry about the email protocols & antiquaited 7-bit and non-ascii systems; it would be cool if email was naitively binary-compatible. If you've got custom software, then can you use a socket protocol? Email might have delays and if the response is delayed, would require multiple dial-ups. It's also robust, and schools probably do a morning fetch-mail anyway.
FPGAs are really neat, but waaay to expensive for a consumer product. (High-end FPGAs run $1k+, the cheapest moderately compex ones* are still $50-150). Audio is still relatively simple in processing and data thoroughput requirements - an FPGA would be overkill. For expandability, it would be best to get a cheap massively-overpowerful DSP and do it all in custom software. For power, an ASIC would be most efficient (also cheapest, but the least flexible)
---- *Yes, with a lead-in like that, I must have pulled that number out of my butt!
You'll have to do more than just pay cash. You'll have to either buy it in person, or rent a PO box with a false ID. But this is a legal product and you shouldn't have to go to great lengths to buy it. Otherwise, you'd be careful buying cutlery, cd burners, ethernet cards, NAT boxes, airplane tickets, and renting Ryder trucks.
CSLIP already compresses it, most modems made since 1994 compress data, compressing it again at the application level won't help. Nevermind that the mail program will uuencode the data anyway & severely bloat it.
some googling found that there were about 20 billion processors in 2000, and they are being made at about 5 billion/year, so in 2003 there should be 35 billion. At a penny a piece, that's only $350 million. 4.3 Trillion (to equal Gate's wealth) is still far away... at this rate (linearily and thats a *really* bad assumption when we know it's closer to exponetial), that will take 850 more years. But, by then the cryogenically frozen gates will have had time to earn some interest on his money. If he plays it safe with 5% interest, then he'll have $4.4e27.
I think that Athlon, Nvidia, and RH7.3 is good enough for a 7x7 LCD grid @ NASA. It may require more software work, and may not be able to handle flinging data around internally as well, but it'll cost a whole lot less and still provide some astounding graphics.
Cool! I'll just head on down to compusa and check out their database interaction aisle. I think it will be their "I/O and processing" section as opposed to their "platform physical implementations" section and their "internal interaction compliance and configuration" counter.
Sounds like they are using the older PS2 price even though the article didn't mention the exact model. The price could be valid; the date of that heist wasn't given. I don't think the original playstations ever sold for that much, but I could be wrong.
He had little burn marks where the phone line connectors were touching his leg for about a week.
You'd think that after about 3 seconds he'd figure it out and not let those phone line connectors touch his leg... leaving it there for a week is a bit excessive -- how many calls did he get in that time and how'd he go to the bathroom?
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(Whoops... wrong country) Riga is a beautiful capital. The plaza area in front of the stock exchange is a cool place to hang out, and the cat house's statue is wonderful!
Buildings usually have a whole lot of small rooms; once you get air moving with a fan, you're usually blocked by walls. Could you use the unused elevator shafts as a cold air source/hot air sink? Open the doors 2 feet wide, stick a desk in front of it (one without a vanity cover, like a folding table) for safety, and stick 2 box fans there (the lower pulling cold air from the shaft, the upper near the ceiling pumping warm air back in).
but, the real answer, like others have said, is that if it's so critical, you should have planned for it.
At the end of the release notes is this gem:
The Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 kernel now includes support for laptop mode. When placed in laptop mode, the kernel batches disk I/O, allowing the disk drive to become idle long enough for the drive's power-saving features to take affect. This can result in significant increases in battery runtime.
Considering I used to do most of my development while on batteries, this is great! (Gotta love the dell 7000 with its 7 hour batteries!)
I'm not sure if this is what they intended, but this picture comes up with google images... I'll just stick with 8, thank you.
You got that it's an analogy, but then didn't follow through... The state DOT and the Federal gov design all the features of the highway system, from which roads are placed where, to how cars interact with it (i.e. weight limits, expected traction in curves, etc.), and what licenses are required. An OS does much the same thing: it determines what files are stored where, which API's are used to access different things, and the permissions required to run different programs. The OS and the Gov don't need to be related, just analogous.
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The second example was more for humor, drawn from my own personal experience
No, that would be a run-of-the-mill advertisement. A FUI would be an offical looking "All Trucks Must Exit Here" sign leading to a truck-repair center.
Or, maybe more realistically, a sign that says "Warning: next stop for blinker fluid in 200 miles"
I want to control the iPod with the default radio buttons on the steering wheel. With this and the toaster-style mounting, there would be no need to have to reach to use the ipod's buttons. The swivel looks like an add-on that will get caught on things and get knocked about. I'm thinking of the slot being placed on top of the dash, or maybe under the radio. True, the LCD screen to the ipod isn't the greatest in terms of angle-of-view, so a swivel might be helpful... either good placement of the slot from the start, or adding a swivel to the toaster-slot could solve this.
It is a wicked commercial! - great photography & music, plus a neat "oh wow you can do that" factor.
When CDs started becoming more popular, the tape-players had aux inputs meant for discman-type players. Then they switched to in-dash CD players and dropped the inputs... now they're being caught behind the MP3-player curve again and are trying to re-add the input. With a car lifespan so long, you'd think that car manufacturers should give up trying to predict what personal electronic trends will be 15 years in the future, and just add the jack to all radios.
The holster is a bit hokey... would it kill apple/vw to design the ipod so that it can go inside a slot fairly deep such that only the lcd screen is showing? I'm thinking on top of the dash, kinda like a toaster. If necessary, the ipod should be able to rotate the image on its screen accordingly (for upside-down or sideways installations).
I wonder if the car can control the ipod - i.e. fast forward, rewind, etc. The older-style remote protocol is documented here so that you can build an interface to anything you want. It includes nice pictures & working source code!
the company is CNET Networks, "CNET" on the NASDAQ. The own a bunch of other services.
Let's see... 8% interest on Microsoft's $49 billion in cash works out to be $430,000 per hour. And that's just interest on savings. Take into account $2 billion/quarter profits, and that's another $913,000/hour. They could afford to give away $1000 every 3 seconds and still be profitable!
Why run a contest at all? Just buy every non-MSN instant messager user (78 million people) for $11 cash/month... and still be profitable!
True enough, and for the same reasons their other freedoms are abridged...they've demonstrated they're not worthy. ... and ...
Here's where you're completely off-base. Gun ownership is not a privilege. It is a right that is not subject to the whims of the state.
Don't these strike you as opposites? It's a right that's not subject to the whims of the state, but it can be revoked by the state? That's not much of a right if you support revocation.
I haven't seen any single-chip solutions yet... that's probably because the magnetics already add some parts, and probably also because the high-speed digital processor and the relatively noisy ethernet connection process technologies don't coexist.
You may want to check out Rabbit Semiconductor's core modules. There's also the xport, that, while small, has got limited I/O.
wow, harsh. just to be clear, that was not me posting as an AC.
Thanks for the reply - wish I could mod you up. It's a great idea & I think it'll help a lot of people. I lived in Peru at the dawn of BBS's, and access was a nightmare - we dialed in to a special satellite link to get out of the country (land lines were too expensive and noisy), and we still paid through the nose for it.
I was a bit wrong on the compression - if you're running the program overnight, you might as well try an compress it as much as possible - I didn't consider that CSLIP is more speed-optimized than size-optimized. It also depends on how the internet access is billed - per byte or by minute. The modem-level compression will only help the 'by-minute' billing.
Sorry about the email protocols & antiquaited 7-bit and non-ascii systems; it would be cool if email was naitively binary-compatible. If you've got custom software, then can you use a socket protocol? Email might have delays and if the response is delayed, would require multiple dial-ups. It's also robust, and schools probably do a morning fetch-mail anyway.
FPGAs are really neat, but waaay to expensive for a consumer product. (High-end FPGAs run $1k+, the cheapest moderately compex ones* are still $50-150). Audio is still relatively simple in processing and data thoroughput requirements - an FPGA would be overkill. For expandability, it would be best to get a cheap massively-overpowerful DSP and do it all in custom software. For power, an ASIC would be most efficient (also cheapest, but the least flexible)
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*Yes, with a lead-in like that, I must have pulled that number out of my butt!
You'll have to do more than just pay cash. You'll have to either buy it in person, or rent a PO box with a false ID. But this is a legal product and you shouldn't have to go to great lengths to buy it. Otherwise, you'd be careful buying cutlery, cd burners, ethernet cards, NAT boxes, airplane tickets, and renting Ryder trucks.
CSLIP already compresses it, most modems made since 1994 compress data, compressing it again at the application level won't help. Nevermind that the mail program will uuencode the data anyway & severely bloat it.
some googling found that there were about 20 billion processors in 2000, and they are being made at about 5 billion/year, so in 2003 there should be 35 billion. At a penny a piece, that's only $350 million. 4.3 Trillion (to equal Gate's wealth) is still far away... at this rate (linearily and thats a *really* bad assumption when we know it's closer to exponetial), that will take 850 more years. But, by then the cryogenically frozen gates will have had time to earn some interest on his money. If he plays it safe with 5% interest, then he'll have $4.4e27.
Just switch to PPC Linux 2.5.75, where you can get 30 years of uptime. And some people complain about this like it's a bad thing!!
I think that Athlon, Nvidia, and RH7.3 is good enough for a 7x7 LCD grid @ NASA. It may require more software work, and may not be able to handle flinging data around internally as well, but it'll cost a whole lot less and still provide some astounding graphics.
Cool! I'll just head on down to compusa and check out their database interaction aisle. I think it will be their "I/O and processing" section as opposed to their "platform physical implementations" section and their "internal interaction compliance and configuration" counter.
p.s. good post!
Wow, thanks. I'm not a big gamer & hadn't realized that.
$5 million / 17,000 = $294 each.
The prices of the various playstation models are (source1) (source2):
PS1: $50
PS1+LCD: $150
PS2 (may2003) $179
(may2002) $199
(pre-may2002) $299
Sounds like they are using the older PS2 price even though the article didn't mention the exact model. The price could be valid; the date of that heist wasn't given. I don't think the original playstations ever sold for that much, but I could be wrong.
He had little burn marks where the phone line connectors were touching his leg for about a week.
You'd think that after about 3 seconds he'd figure it out and not let those phone line connectors touch his leg... leaving it there for a week is a bit excessive -- how many calls did he get in that time and how'd he go to the bathroom?
oh, I love the english language!!