The only problem with the way they are implementing it (and I don't see any workaround short of implanting the kids skin with RFID devices) is that since the tracking devices are tied to their book bags, if a pedo or other person wants the kid, they just have to drop or incapacitate the book bag chip.. thus making the tracking device useless.
Now if parents want to know if their kid is down at the pachinko parlour or some such,. than it might be useful.
If I'm not mistaken, this might have something to do with a (publically known) contract stipulation that they would build out 4 high speed data markets by X date.
And not to fan old flames, but isn't UMTS basically WCDMA ? Such that the gsm vs cdma arguments are largely mooted by the fact that all of the next generation GSM protocols are carrier division based rather than time division (GSM works by dividing the broadcast frequency into multiple time chunks for each device)
The "real" use for advancemame and related programs is the magic it can work with real arcade equipment.
I for one bought an old Rampage game that had been converted to Sunset Riders.. dead.. for $35 at a local auction last year.
$4.00 in parts and $120 in joysticks / buttons / PC interface and some time on a drill press and I've got me a SF2 style cabinet with enough room to add another 2 joysticks and a spinner for spinnet games and berserk like games.
All played on a real arcade monitor at 15.75 khz (that would be a 19" CGA monitor).
Believe it or not the monitor is better because it isn't so crisp and high quality as a PC VGA monitor is. The look and feel of these old.50mm dot pitch screens is what makes it feel authentic.
Advancemame's wonder is that you can feed it the scanning range of your monitor and it will generate a mode line that drives your video card and monitor at native resolution and scanning rate,. rather than mame32 and others that use line doubling or tripling and overscan to get the same effect.
Don't forget that most of these old games.. even new ones.. run at 320/240 or less.
"Microsoft argues that increased integration will cut down ongoing costs, maintenance and what not, but whether that will be the case has yet to be seen. The increased acquisition costs, though, are pretty clear."
Perhaps microsoft needs to usurp & change another dictionary word,. like the apparent change of acquisition from a word meaning to aquire,. as in implied ownership.
To a new usage defined closer to "toll, some thing paid each and every time used."
Last time I checked, if you purchased 100 copies of WordPerfect( software anymore. While the issue of updates is a valid one.. as in a company can justifibly stop supporting patching for a version past a certain point.. if you have to pay every year or lose the ability to safely use a piece of software than you are not getting anything lasting for your money.
These are all obvious facts,. but not necessarily to small business or some corporate purchasers.. like the fact that at some places,.unless it's written into the contract explicitly,. you have to "purchase" a copy of windows with the PC and than "purchase" the right to use that software over and over again
For those who care who the 8 who voted AGAINST this peace at dinnertime / TV / whatever legislation.. here they are
Ron Paul, R-Texas Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio Ted Strickland, D-Ohio Lee Terry, R-Neb Rob Bishop, R-Utah, Chris Cannon, R-Utah
Who knows.. does telemarketing employ more Utah residents than the rest of the US is aware ?
Amazing.. Sen Brownback actually introducing something rather than just tow the Republican party line with nary a comment.
Being one of his constituants, I welcome this type of legislation.. though it has about a snowballs chance in a warm place of actually getting to the floor for a vote.. or even debated in committie (If I remember correctly, Brownback doesn't have any committie chairs or other bully pulpit to push this from)
Memory sounds like a good idea in theory.. but what about power failures or momentary blips.. UPS can help but not eliminate that risk.
A recent hardware write up I read from HP / Compaq has ram partitioning / raid'ing on some of the higher end x86 servers.. with some options for active standby and hot replacement available.
Another little burb was that with ram.. as the number of individual ram components increases the risk of a single bit non ecc correctable fault scales up accordingly.. such that with 8 gig + arrays the chance of uncorrectable error approches 50% per time interval
I know memory can develop stuck bits without any warning.. several of the Sun Fire 6800 series machines I work with on a regular basis develop these kinds of errors occasionally.. though with Sun the hardware is smart enough to map around the error and make relevent OBP console & syslog entries.
While this campain looks promising.. it is sort of telling that Yahoo flags the campain email as spam... but than again my very much opt in email notification from my long distance provider is flagged as spam.
'our customers have seen a lot more innovation from us than they have seen from that [open-source] community'
Perhaps he is commiting the cardinal sin of confusing market share and marketing speak with innovation and creativity.
As has worked for the majority of M$ innovations, they put a pretty gui on things created by others, and leave the real details to registry entries and third party plug ins.
the.net "innovations" seems to have a lot in common with the stuff Novell was doing several years ago with single sign on and single vendor application development etc etc (NDS / Btreave / groupwise / wordperfect suite / ZENworks etc )
"For example, he envisions that video recognition would allow CR cell phones to visually authenticate their owners."
What are they expecting.. to develop identification based on how your ear looks rather than fingerprints?
Either that or everyone will be walking around with they're handset at arms length trying to keep the little camera trained on they're face to authenticate.
(the preceeding has been a joke and should be treated as such.. though it might happen)
Though it is precisely the existance of cancelbots that make it important for companies to NOT accept third party cancels.. signed or not.
What about the sometimes nasty people / groups (riaa??) who poison the binary groups with cancels of 1 part out of 10 or 100 so that the entire file is at best corrupt and at worst unusable.
anymore with Usenet.. there are so many commercial providers with peering arrangements out the wazoo that if a message gets to any of them the propagation goes up 100 fold.
Now a UDP if you can lock off they're specific peering providers might be a bit more effective.. and that information is possible to get from some servers if they don't rebuild the header of every message like some are configured to do (seems like Twister is one such program.. or at least it can)
Wow.. maybe the prestige of living in Kansas will be just higher than dirt (on slashdot) ever since that nasty "take the science out of the science classes" episode a few years ago.
On a more related note, the only other facilities based carrier pulled out of the residential market last year. Birch Telecom will be missed.
There are other companies, but most are simply reselling other SBC services. Sprint and MCI Neighborhood are the ones who come to mind.
It would be interesting to see if our Attorney General had anything to do with this. As I remember she was involved in keeping Kansas involved in the Microsoft antitrust suite going, despite being a Republican and generally in the "pro business" camp.
Most are private use only.. only other reason are for emergency landing purposes.
Also, the definition of a airfield is pretty loose. A lot of them are just large fields.. not even paved or gravel. So unless you REALLY need to land I wouldn't recommend using them.
Only one I've payed any attention to was the one at Disney World.. It's still listed on the relevent maps, even though the southern end of it has been made into a mini-indy racetrack.
Take 1 week to study first book Take 2 days to study cram session book
Take Solaris Admin 1
Read second official book - 1 week Read brief section in cram book
Take Solaris Admin 2
Result.. $300 for the testing center and a nice piece of paper sandwiched between two pieces of cardboard from SUN.
Other recommendation for this test..
Test is NOT adaptive
Study basic commmand syntax.. this will weed out invalid answers quite often.
Don't skip on the admin 1 chapters dealing with older technology like NIS / NIS+.. Solaris 2.51 - 8 don't have a built in LDAP support.. and solaris loves to have different name services available.. like setting a NIS domain name even if you are on local files only.
DO skip the chapter on LPR.. there isn't anything about printing on the test.
Knowing how to use command line for backing up to tape (not just tar) and using Solaris fdisk (format command) is needed
About 1/2 of it is specific commands and options.. going back to the syntax above, Solaris / Sun teaches ksh or csh.. not bash.
The tests themselves are not to bad, standard question answer steps.
Each runs about 65 questions each.
Solaris Admin 1 pass grade is 67% Solaris Admin 2 pass grade is 70%
Things that threw me off a little were vi syntax and per directory ACLs.. in VI there are 3 ways to do most anything and they want it one way.
Also they want the answers using true unix VI.. no vim or others.. so if you for example try to move around with the arrow keys while in insert mode it will screw up.
I passed both tests within a 2 weeks of each other, as required by my employer.
For that old ST-238R . do you mean going into the only accessable bios on an XT by doing this in debug
g=c800:5
As previously said.. the drives are huge and cheap.. and if only because our data needs are that much more.
If it gets to cheap than the market may very well dry up so that only OEMs get that cheap a price.
Think of it this way, if the drives at retail have so little markup as to be useless to even sell it.
Most people out there use the stock drives for they're machine.. if only because the MSIE cache is large but not the entire drive..
(and here I am with 290 gigs online with a desktop).. I remember 5 years ago using Novell 4.1 where we gave people 10 megs of space and expected them to get by with it..
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The only problem with the way they are implementing it (and I don't see any workaround short of implanting the kids skin with RFID devices) is that since the tracking devices are tied to their book bags, if a pedo or other person wants the kid, they just have to drop or incapacitate the book bag chip .. thus making the tracking device useless.
,. than it might be useful.
Now if parents want to know if their kid is down at the pachinko parlour or some such
If I'm not mistaken, this might have something to do with a (publically known) contract stipulation that they would build out 4 high speed data markets by X date.
And not to fan old flames, but isn't UMTS basically WCDMA ? Such that the gsm vs cdma arguments are largely mooted by the fact that all of the next generation GSM protocols are carrier division based rather than time division (GSM works by dividing the broadcast frequency into multiple time chunks for each device)
The "real" use for advancemame and related programs is the magic it can work with real arcade equipment.
.. dead .. for $35 at a local auction last year.
.50mm dot pitch screens is what makes it feel authentic.
,. rather than mame32 and others that use line doubling or tripling and overscan to get the same effect.
.. even new ones .. run at 320/240 or less.
I for one bought an old Rampage game that had been converted to Sunset Riders
$4.00 in parts and $120 in joysticks / buttons / PC interface and some time on a drill press and I've got me a SF2 style cabinet with enough room to add another 2 joysticks and a spinner for spinnet games and berserk like games.
All played on a real arcade monitor at 15.75 khz (that would be a 19" CGA monitor).
Believe it or not the monitor is better because it isn't so crisp and high quality as a PC VGA monitor is. The look and feel of these old
Advancemame's wonder is that you can feed it the scanning range of your monitor and it will generate a mode line that drives your video card and monitor at native resolution and scanning rate
Don't forget that most of these old games
hey, now if all 'linked from front page of slashdot' posts were like this, no one would care if they got slashdotted.
.. or even netbeui
3 or os images and 5K of text, hell, even my little p200 'what the hell, it can run linux' can handle that.
This isn't really related to the post, but I find it very interesting the fact that in almost all things, the simplest answers are usually correct.
1. Built HTML that is simple enough to be read by lynx and you'll have a very readable, universally accessable, highly portable and translatable site.
2. Built a simple system of relaying packets with some transport validation mechanism (TCP) and it will take over the world.
of course could you imagine if we had to deal with bridged IPX or LAT based networks
Sort of like the disagreement the bankrupcy court had with lawyers in the MCI bankruptcy case.
.. the lawyers were billing for the time they took filling out the bill.
They were charging an arm and a leg (I take it) for the billing.
Namely
"Microsoft argues that increased integration will cut down ongoing costs, maintenance and what not, but whether that will be the case has yet to be seen. The increased acquisition costs, though, are pretty clear."
,. as in implied ownership.
.. as in a company can justifibly stop supporting patching for a version past a certain point .. if you have to pay every year or lose the ability to safely use a piece of software than you are not getting anything lasting for your money.
,. but not necessarily to small business or some corporate purchasers .. like the fact that at some places ,.unless it's written into the contract explicitly ,. you have to "purchase" a copy of windows with the PC and than "purchase" the right to use that software over and over again
Perhaps microsoft needs to usurp & change another dictionary word,. like the apparent change of acquisition from a word meaning to aquire
To a new usage defined closer to "toll, some thing paid each and every time used."
Last time I checked, if you purchased 100 copies of WordPerfect( software anymore. While the issue of updates is a valid one
These are all obvious facts
Clicked link to site .. loading very slowly.
.. don't know about other more intentional attacks
Does this mean the security information clearinghouse can be DDOS'd ?
By slashdot obviously
For those who care who the 8 who voted AGAINST this peace at dinnertime / TV / whatever legislation .. here they are
.. does telemarketing employ more Utah residents than the rest of the US is aware ?
Ron Paul, R-Texas
Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
Kendrick Meek, D-Fla.
Tim Ryan, D-Ohio
Ted Strickland, D-Ohio
Lee Terry, R-Neb
Rob Bishop, R-Utah,
Chris Cannon, R-Utah
Who knows
As bad as this is - removing support for wildcard character resolution would affect some open source projects to.
Try looking around sourceforge.net subdomain variations sometime.
www.sourceforge.net is valid - www328383.sourceforge.net is also valid using the wildcard
so when exactly does this meet the legal definition of extortion ?
Microsoft is facing a lawsuit that taken at face value is almost as big as the SCO doubt ..
.. SCO vs Microsoft that obviously are not the same .. but could be).
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10648
Basically that 80+ % of Microsofts past and present products are infringing on this guys business process patent.
again, at face value Gardner should be recommending to put off major software purchases.
(This is an example on two different levels
Amazing .. Sen Brownback actually introducing something rather than just tow the Republican party line with nary a comment.
.. though it has about a snowballs chance in a warm place of actually getting to the floor for a vote .. or even debated in committie (If I remember correctly, Brownback doesn't have any committie chairs or other bully pulpit to push this from)
Being one of his constituants, I welcome this type of legislation
GoboLinux huh .. I want to see the Doozer fork of Debian .. the one with usability enhancements for 6 inch tall puppets.
Would RedHat be Linux for the Gourds ?
Would the windows gaming package be made in spirit of Wembly, Boober and Red.
I have no idea what version of linux Trash Heap would be.
I can say that the old man would probably be running Slackware 3.0 on some old box under a pile of crap in the workshop.
Memory sounds like a good idea in theory .. but what about power failures or momentary blips .. UPS can help but not eliminate that risk.
.. with some options for active standby and hot replacement available.
.. as the number of individual ram components increases the risk of a single bit non ecc correctable fault scales up accordingly .. such that with 8 gig + arrays the chance of uncorrectable error approches 50% per time interval
.. several of the Sun Fire 6800 series machines I work with on a regular basis develop these kinds of errors occasionally .. though with Sun the hardware is smart enough to map around the error and make relevent OBP console & syslog entries.
A recent hardware write up I read from HP / Compaq has ram partitioning / raid'ing on some of the higher end x86 servers
Another little burb was that with ram
I know memory can develop stuck bits without any warning
While this campain looks promising .. it is sort of telling that Yahoo flags the campain email as spam. .. but than again my very much opt in email notification from my long distance provider is flagged as spam.
'our customers have seen a lot more innovation from us than they have seen from that [open-source] community'
.net "innovations" seems to have a lot in common with the stuff Novell was doing several years ago with single sign on and single vendor application development etc etc (NDS / Btreave / groupwise / wordperfect suite / ZENworks etc )
Perhaps he is commiting the cardinal sin of confusing market share and marketing speak with innovation and creativity.
As has worked for the majority of M$ innovations, they put a pretty gui on things created by others, and leave the real details to registry entries and third party plug ins.
the
"For example, he envisions that video recognition would allow CR cell phones to visually authenticate their owners."
.. to develop identification based on how your ear looks rather than fingerprints?
.. though it might happen)
What are they expecting
Either that or everyone will be walking around with they're handset at arms length trying to keep the little camera trained on they're face to authenticate.
(the preceeding has been a joke and should be treated as such
Though it is precisely the existance of cancelbots that make it important for companies to NOT accept third party cancels .. signed or not.
.. there are so many commercial providers with peering arrangements out the wazoo that if a message gets to any of them the propagation goes up 100 fold.
.. and that information is possible to get from some servers if they don't rebuild the header of every message like some are configured to do (seems like Twister is one such program .. or at least it can)
What about the sometimes nasty people / groups (riaa??) who poison the binary groups with cancels of 1 part out of 10 or 100 so that the entire file is at best corrupt and at worst unusable.
anymore with Usenet
Now a UDP if you can lock off they're specific peering providers might be a bit more effective
Wow .. maybe the prestige of living in Kansas will be just higher than dirt (on slashdot) ever since that nasty "take the science out of the science classes" episode a few years ago.
On a more related note, the only other facilities based carrier pulled out of the residential market last year. Birch Telecom will be missed.
There are other companies, but most are simply reselling other SBC services. Sprint and MCI Neighborhood are the ones who come to mind.
It would be interesting to see if our Attorney General had anything to do with this. As I remember she was involved in keeping Kansas involved in the Microsoft antitrust suite going, despite being a Republican and generally in the "pro business" camp.
Most are private use only .. only other reason are for emergency landing purposes.
.. not even paved or gravel. So unless you REALLY need to land I wouldn't recommend using them.
.. It's still listed on the relevent maps, even though the southern end of it has been made into a mini-indy racetrack.
Also, the definition of a airfield is pretty loose. A lot of them are just large fields
Only one I've payed any attention to was the one at Disney World
For sun stuff there is also the option I took ..
.. $300 for the testing center and a nice piece of paper sandwiched between two pieces of cardboard from SUN.
..
.. this will weed out invalid answers quite often.
.. Solaris 2.51 - 8 don't have a built in LDAP support .. and solaris loves to have different name services available .. like setting a NIS domain name even if you are on local files only.
.. there isn't anything about printing on the test.
.. going back to the syntax above, Solaris / Sun teaches ksh or csh .. not bash.
.. in VI there are 3 ways to do most anything and they want it one way.
.. no vim or others .. so if you for example try to move around with the arrow keys while in insert mode it will screw up.
Get official Sun manuals
Take 1 week to study first book
Take 2 days to study cram session book
Take Solaris Admin 1
Read second official book - 1 week
Read brief section in cram book
Take Solaris Admin 2
Result
Other recommendation for this test
Test is NOT adaptive
Study basic commmand syntax
Don't skip on the admin 1 chapters dealing with older technology like NIS / NIS+
DO skip the chapter on LPR
Knowing how to use command line for backing up to tape (not just tar) and using Solaris fdisk (format command) is needed
About 1/2 of it is specific commands and options
The tests themselves are not to bad, standard question answer steps.
Each runs about 65 questions each.
Solaris Admin 1 pass grade is 67%
Solaris Admin 2 pass grade is 70%
Things that threw me off a little were vi syntax and per directory ACLs
Also they want the answers using true unix VI
I passed both tests within a 2 weeks of each other, as required by my employer.
amazing - a site that has all
.. when you could use lynx and download individual gifs and view them without problem ..
Clear text
Clear reference links
adequate pictures
interesting topic matter
and no popups or ads
Sounds like the internet around 1995
For that old ST-238R . do you mean going into the only accessable bios on an XT by doing this in debug
.. the drives are huge and cheap .. and if only because our data needs are that much more.
.. if only because the MSIE cache is large but not the entire drive ..
.. I remember 5 years ago using Novell 4.1 where we gave people 10 megs of space and expected them to get by with it ..
g=c800:5
As previously said
If it gets to cheap than the market may very well dry up so that only OEMs get that cheap a price.
Think of it this way, if the drives at retail have so little markup as to be useless to even sell it.
Most people out there use the stock drives for they're machine
(and here I am with 290 gigs online with a desktop)
This appears to be an attempt on slashdot to go directly to "OOO SHINY!" rather than something leading up to it, usually Homer related.
(And a good link as I'm looking for a new case now anyway now that I have a kid to pass it down to)
Would the results of that page be called a
Legalize-O-Matic ?
Sledge-O-Matic, not just for spraying audiences anymore!!