Completely different at the bottom but completely the same at the top, huh?
It occurs to me that this could be bollocks, an empty attempt to scare away NTP with a "Yeah, you'll maybe win, and then you'll have wasted all that time and money for nothing."
There doesn't seem to be any detail on what the actual new technology is (I presume it is, you know, proprietary, or something. And stuff.).
Because they don't want to unnecessarily force their corporate customers to upgrade their server-side software? Or to unnecessarily obsolete any unupgradable devices? Just a concept.
That's one downside of the supra-aural (thanks, WP) foam-padded design, is that a lot of them have cheap foam, and will inevitably break down. But to be fair I can't recall many that have broken down within less than 4-5 years. And IMO it's worse when the plastic covering the foam on the circum-aural ones tears, because that foam is not designed to be exposed, and when it is, it soon becomes a crunchy mess.
Anyway. RS sells a 6-foot 1/8'' stereo extension cord for about $5, I think. This is good for me because otherwise I'd have to keep my head next to the CD tray, which would not be comfortable. Also this gives me a plug near my hands that I can switch to plugging desk speakers into after-hours.
I try to avoid fancy RS branded items. The low-end items actually are more trustworthy and reliable IMO than the high-end items. The high-end items are universally covered in cheap decorative silver-painted plastic and end up being more fragile and more expensive for no actual gain in functional quality.
Case in point: I asked for a variable DC car adapter at RS the other day, and was directed to this rack display featuring a $40 converter which is compatible with an assortment of connectors each as much as $10-$20. When I protested, the tech^H^H^H^H sales guy realized what kind of customer I was, and took me to the old, simple, black Adaptaplug converter which was roughly $20, comes with 4 plugs, and what I was looking for.
Call me a loser geek, but I'm all about function > form.
That as may well be, but he wants to shell $30-$40 or more for what are small speakers on a bent piece of metal. Frankly $20 is outrageous for such a device -- unless he really wants somewhat fancy ones.
I guess I don't know what sort of sound quality he wants. I'd argue you can't get awesome sound quality if you don't block out external noise. Does he want the phones to vibrate his cartilage on the bass guitar, or something?
I stand by my Walkman-style phones, which sound fine on my head, don't block out all external noise (some, but not all) but are just sufficiently open air enough that I can usually toss them down on the desk and then soon forget that something is still playing.
I have a pair of what are probably Radio Shack foam-padded old-school jobs that probably didn't even cost $20. They're sufficiently hearable and they don't block out outside noise.
Jeez, why make it so damn complicated. Who needs to show off their headphones at work?
No, my post is that it's not noteworthy, and posting everyone who makes a motorized couch these days would be like posting everyone who ran a BBS in the 80s. It's no longer novel.
Make a flying couch, or couch BASE jumping, or even the couch bike someone else posted, that would at least be remotely novel. But after a while Stupid Couch Tricks will get old overall.
It's scary, I read that book as a teenager, and completely missed the race thing. Either that or I forgot it. It seemed sufficient to my 80s mind that the peril of the future was that slavery could redevelop in different forms, including some not based on race.
the first alternative that came to my mind was an intranet knowledge-base.
Took you long enough. Anyway, the one thing lacking from Wikis in that area is group-page access control. TWiki is the only Wiki which claims to sort of have it, but also warns vigorously that it doesn't work securely.
The main criticism of the company Wiki I set up is that there is not an easy way to control access to different groups. Management doesn't want, for example, Marketing to have access to edit (or maybe even view) Accounting's wiki material. I've had to set up a parallel MW instance with restricted access in order to lock down some material, but I don't want to have to do that for all possible Wiki-using groups.
Unfortunately most Wikis are not developed with alternative uses in mind. MW development is notorious for not supporting or adding any feature not required by WP and its information-should-be-free philosophy. TWiki seems to specifically court that market, but they can't be that serious about it or they'd close the search hole.
The very first sentence of the article says "companies using Linux for EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS" (caps mine, for those who apparently can't read lower case).
...[T]he objects that were moving were twisted and distorted into wonderful shapes. At first, I thought that this was a mistake, that something was wrong with my new contraption. But I soon realized that the motion of the scanner was meshing with the motion of the recorded scene, creating unexpected, yet predictable, results.
Besides the fact that you won't have a clue what you're doing since you'll never have learned anything, if you don't have any desire to do it in the first place, why are you in the field?
I think you just identified the problem with most modern American technology companies. (I wonder why...)
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From the article: "The appearance of violins means we are getting locked by spam".
Violins? Wouldn't it have been a better alert system to instead switch the music from, say, Vivaldi to, say, Apocalyptica?
Didn't I already see this movie?
Completely different at the bottom but completely the same at the top, huh?
It occurs to me that this could be bollocks, an empty attempt to scare away NTP with a "Yeah, you'll maybe win, and then you'll have wasted all that time and money for nothing."
There doesn't seem to be any detail on what the actual new technology is (I presume it is, you know, proprietary, or something. And stuff.).
Because they don't want to unnecessarily force their corporate customers to upgrade their server-side software? Or to unnecessarily obsolete any unupgradable devices? Just a concept.
Google recommends you disable Firefox's AdBlock,
Oh, well fuck that then.
That's one downside of the supra-aural (thanks, WP) foam-padded design, is that a lot of them have cheap foam, and will inevitably break down. But to be fair I can't recall many that have broken down within less than 4-5 years. And IMO it's worse when the plastic covering the foam on the circum-aural ones tears, because that foam is not designed to be exposed, and when it is, it soon becomes a crunchy mess.
Anyway. RS sells a 6-foot 1/8'' stereo extension cord for about $5, I think. This is good for me because otherwise I'd have to keep my head next to the CD tray, which would not be comfortable. Also this gives me a plug near my hands that I can switch to plugging desk speakers into after-hours.
I try to avoid fancy RS branded items. The low-end items actually are more trustworthy and reliable IMO than the high-end items. The high-end items are universally covered in cheap decorative silver-painted plastic and end up being more fragile and more expensive for no actual gain in functional quality.
Case in point: I asked for a variable DC car adapter at RS the other day, and was directed to this rack display featuring a $40 converter which is compatible with an assortment of connectors each as much as $10-$20. When I protested, the tech^H^H^H^H sales guy realized what kind of customer I was, and took me to the old, simple, black Adaptaplug converter which was roughly $20, comes with 4 plugs, and what I was looking for.
Call me a loser geek, but I'm all about function > form.
That as may well be, but he wants to shell $30-$40 or more for what are small speakers on a bent piece of metal. Frankly $20 is outrageous for such a device -- unless he really wants somewhat fancy ones.
I guess I don't know what sort of sound quality he wants. I'd argue you can't get awesome sound quality if you don't block out external noise. Does he want the phones to vibrate his cartilage on the bass guitar, or something?
I stand by my Walkman-style phones, which sound fine on my head, don't block out all external noise (some, but not all) but are just sufficiently open air enough that I can usually toss them down on the desk and then soon forget that something is still playing.
I have a pair of what are probably Radio Shack foam-padded old-school jobs that probably didn't even cost $20. They're sufficiently hearable and they don't block out outside noise.
Jeez, why make it so damn complicated. Who needs to show off their headphones at work?
Aren't spacesuits radiation shielded? Would that perhaps affect radio propagation?
No, my post is that it's not noteworthy, and posting everyone who makes a motorized couch these days would be like posting everyone who ran a BBS in the 80s. It's no longer novel.
Make a flying couch, or couch BASE jumping, or even the couch bike someone else posted, that would at least be remotely novel. But after a while Stupid Couch Tricks will get old overall.
like how many motorized couches have there been in geek history?
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And who's going to have one of those very specifically-tuned lasers to check them with?
I didn't believe this would get a 5. Loll.
by the late Fereydoon Batmanghelidj M.D.
Does he introduce himself by saying, "I'm Batman!...ghelidj" ?
At best, only their customers who have computers and Internet access.
And who don't mind sending their personal info to bestbuy.com.
You just know that someone's going to rip their suit and wish they hadn't tossed the spare overboard.
AFAIK none of these companies are telcos, but rather telecom equipment manufacturers.
It's scary, I read that book as a teenager, and completely missed the race thing. Either that or I forgot it. It seemed sufficient to my 80s mind that the peril of the future was that slavery could redevelop in different forms, including some not based on race.
Just think, if he'd frozen himself five years ago, and invested his trust in southern Louisiana land and Enron stock.
the first alternative that came to my mind was an intranet knowledge-base.
Took you long enough. Anyway, the one thing lacking from Wikis in that area is group-page access control. TWiki is the only Wiki which claims to sort of have it, but also warns vigorously that it doesn't work securely.
The main criticism of the company Wiki I set up is that there is not an easy way to control access to different groups. Management doesn't want, for example, Marketing to have access to edit (or maybe even view) Accounting's wiki material. I've had to set up a parallel MW instance with restricted access in order to lock down some material, but I don't want to have to do that for all possible Wiki-using groups.
Unfortunately most Wikis are not developed with alternative uses in mind. MW development is notorious for not supporting or adding any feature not required by WP and its information-should-be-free philosophy. TWiki seems to specifically court that market, but they can't be that serious about it or they'd close the search hole.
The very first sentence of the article says "companies using Linux for EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS" (caps mine, for those who apparently can't read lower case).
As well as scanner photography.
...[T]he objects that were moving were twisted and distorted into wonderful shapes. At first, I thought that this was a mistake, that something was wrong with my new contraption. But I soon realized that the motion of the scanner was meshing with the motion of the recorded scene, creating unexpected, yet predictable, results.
Someone needs to tell him that slit-scan photography has already been invented.
Besides the fact that you won't have a clue what you're doing since you'll never have learned anything, if you don't have any desire to do it in the first place, why are you in the field?
I think you just identified the problem with most modern American technology companies. (I wonder why...)