I just switched the mouse to the LEFT side and I've never had problems since. I was overusing my right arm.
It took about a week of cursing, but pretty soon everything worked out.
It's quite fascinating how the body learns and how it can adapt. At first my movements were like watching a 5-year-old play a video game - lots of concentration and emotion, but a pretty low score. Little by little my fine motor skills developed and the mouse cursor ended up where it was supposed to. Now I'm pretty much ambidextrous mouse-wise.
Another side effect is in FPS games, I use a left-handed mouse, and my right hand uses the cursor keys for movement. This is a little more intuitive for me.
I got a Garmin Emap. I've taken it everywhere with me. The main difference is that it does mapping. (though now the more expensive etrex legend units do too)
It's about the same size and runs on 2 AA batteries. It has a backlight for nighttime use (do all of them have this?)
It has a map of all the major roads in the wester hemisphere built in, but it's expandable with the mapsource CD and it's flash memory slot (unfortunately proprietary - though it IS small).
I got it for $195 a long time ago at www.tvnav.com. It's $190 now.
The guy who runs the site also runs a mailing list that's pretty informative. Whenever a firmware or software update comes out, he usually posts a message.
The only downside is that it doesn't do any sort of routing, and neither does the $125 Metroguide Mapsource software - which sucks since that $19 AAA map software at fry's does it pretty easily. You can also get topo maps.
Last plane flight I took it on registered 620 mph (or was it 650?) at 41,000 feet.
A friend and I have been exploring a new GPS idea...
Ok, it's a little silly, but we call it geolunching (or geomunching). We just give each other GPS coordinates for friday lunches.
And you know, those "what do you want to eat?" indecisive questions never come up. You have no idea what you'll encounter at the end.
I've been toying with the idea of putting waypoints into the scheme somehow. Something like "go to this point and find a sign with a phone number. Put a decimal place in front of it. Add that number +.34567 to your N position and that number +.01024 to your W position and that's the final destination.".
If your gps does mapping, it's more fun to keep the destination way off the map and go by the direction of travel arrow.
Just move the computer. I have my computer on the other side of a wall, with long monitor and keyboard cables. Cut a hole in the drywall if you want. It works very well and the room is completely silent. Take care though - if you put your system in a closet or the like, it will most likely heat up the air in the closet and start causing the computer to fail.
Another solution is a quieter case. This case is *much* quieter: http://www.koolance.com. Your components run significantly cooler too.
I think they're trying to prove a correlation between two variables which may not be related.
I would also look for a couple more factors to correlate against, such as the economy and/or disposable income.
I could make another assertion that would be just as valid as their claim: "Since napster came out, crime has gone down". This is also just as valid of an assertion, because the economy is usually related to the crime rate.
I'll bet if you plotted record sales vs. nasdaq you'd find a better correlation.
I bought this book a long time ago. I don't think it's being published anymore and the information may be out of date, but the concepts are still very relevant. It deals with a lot of the nuts and bolts of game design. It covers a lot of the practical aspects of creating games.
Designing a game - yes, even a mediocre one - takes a lot of effort. I think a pass through this book might get you over some of the rough spots and may make the difference.
The vehicle also comes equipped with a black box, like the ones that record mechanical functions and pilot conversations on airplanes.
"The auto companies are very interested in this feature," Wend said. "They are looking at adapting those black boxes for consumer use any day now. They could reduce warranty costs and speed up service by diagnosing and even fixing problems remotely."
I wonder if the reason they're interested is "reduce warranty costs" == "deny warranty claims"
I've heard that there may be tracking/monitoring equipment in rental cars nowadays. Anybody heard anything?
A better hack would to be crack slashdot, (possibly from Japan), then post a very subtle and believable story telling of other sites being compromised with "vulgar pictures"...
and then chuckle in a maniacal way as the slashdot effect works as a DOS attack on those sites...
However, you should realize that there a *millions* of species of bacteria and viruses on earth - the viruses that affect us are a very small minority.
Seems that someone figured out that OpenBSD is making the play for the lucrative baby mulching business and they're using ipf as a roadblock to these ends...
Despite a 100% matter to energy conversion rate antimatter has got to be one of the most inefficient fuel sources out there when you look at the entire picture! We'd be conserving resources by making coal-powered spaceships...
But when you think of the sheer amount of fuel necessary to brute force REALLY long-distance missions, the numbers quickly expand exponentially. I keep thinking how big a rocket would be required to lift a saturn-5 into orbit.
However with antimatter, a kg of antimatter would take you virtually anywhere in the universe and back. Some missions would never be achievable within a human lifespan without antimatter, but with antimatter, high acceleration could be maintained for long long periods of time, significantly shortening the journey.
So looking at the entire (long-term) picture, antimatter seems like the answer.
Of course, if we can find replenishable sources of coal on other planets, maybe we'd better go that route...:-)
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Heck, this could create a whole new market for the bottom of elevator-shafts - tuck the flywheels down there.
What if the elevator fell on the flywheel?
I think you'd have a chain reaction on your hands...
As everyone mentioned 3.5" ide drives with a removable rack are very inexpensive. I bought a 60 gig drive for $149 at fry's a couple of weeks ago.
But what about laptop 2.5" drives? 9.5mm 20gb drives are only about $120 now. I'm sure somebody could make one of these portable.
And remember, you don't even NEED the drive unit, just an IDE connector.
By the way, I've tried one of those USB external drives, and they're not all they're cracked up to be. I don't know about the latest linux kernels, but redhat 7.0 didn't recognize the drive. Even with windows they require a driver CD to tag along. However, the worst thing is that they're painfully slow.
I think firewire drives may be ok, but firewire isn't ubiquitous yet.
Why have an internal hard disk at all? It requires you to distrute the music to the edge. You don't have a backup and what you end up doing is paying for a very expensive hard disk.
For the same price, you could put several of them around your house and connect them to the linux computer you already have, which could be the central music server.
Basically, you plug it into your network through it's ethernet port and turn it on. It scans all SAMBA shares for mp3 music in/audio or/my music
and lets you select from the IR remote. The output is a SPDIF jack, RCA stereo jacks and a headphone jack. The list price is $299 (cheaper other places).
The only other thing I found was the dell digital audio reciever, but it's totally tied to windows and I think it requires real player installation. It's inexpensive though - $199.
Another interesting one is the harman kardon/zapstation. It can do the same thing, but with video as well. However, if you look deeper into the specs, it's another pile of crap: they try to control everything about the device. You can't load DVD's onto the hard disk, and it incorporates most of the other controlware tactics.
"due process requires at a minimum that the codes should be available for inspection and copying at the city offices in towns where they have been adopted"
Slashdot Mirror
I just switched the mouse to the LEFT side and I've never had problems since. I was overusing my right arm.
It took about a week of cursing, but pretty soon everything worked out.
It's quite fascinating how the body learns and how it can adapt. At first my movements were like watching a 5-year-old play a video game - lots of concentration and emotion, but a pretty low score. Little by little my fine motor skills developed and the mouse cursor ended up where it was supposed to. Now I'm pretty much ambidextrous mouse-wise.
Another side effect is in FPS games, I use a left-handed mouse, and my right hand uses the cursor keys for movement. This is a little more intuitive for me.
I thought there was a satellite based tivo that didn't need to encode analog video? If so, it would have perfect MPEG instead of "resampled" video.
I got a Garmin Emap. I've taken it everywhere with me. The main difference is that it does mapping. (though now the more expensive etrex legend units do too)
It's about the same size and runs on 2 AA batteries. It has a backlight for nighttime use (do all of them have this?)
It has a map of all the major roads in the wester hemisphere built in, but it's expandable with the mapsource CD and it's flash memory slot (unfortunately proprietary - though it IS small).
I got it for $195 a long time ago at www.tvnav.com. It's $190 now.
The guy who runs the site also runs a mailing list that's pretty informative. Whenever a firmware or software update comes out, he usually posts a message.
The only downside is that it doesn't do any sort of routing, and neither does the $125 Metroguide Mapsource software - which sucks since that $19 AAA map software at fry's does it pretty easily. You can also get topo maps.
Last plane flight I took it on registered 620 mph (or was it 650?) at 41,000 feet.
A friend and I have been exploring a new GPS idea...
.34567 to your N position and that number + .01024 to your W position and that's the final destination.".
Ok, it's a little silly, but we call it geolunching (or geomunching). We just give each other GPS coordinates for friday lunches.
And you know, those "what do you want to eat?" indecisive questions never come up. You have no idea what you'll encounter at the end.
I've been toying with the idea of putting waypoints into the scheme somehow. Something like "go to this point and find a sign with a phone number. Put a decimal place in front of it. Add that number +
If your gps does mapping, it's more fun to keep the destination way off the map and go by the direction of travel arrow.
Of course, other people think it's stupid.
Just move the computer. I have my computer on the other side of a wall, with long monitor and keyboard cables. Cut a hole in the drywall if you want. It works very well and the room is completely silent. Take care though - if you put your system in a closet or the like, it will most likely heat up the air in the closet and start causing the computer to fail.
Another solution is a quieter case. This case is *much* quieter: http://www.koolance.com. Your components run significantly cooler too.
I think they're trying to prove a correlation between two variables which may not be related.
I would also look for a couple more factors to correlate against, such as the economy and/or disposable income.
I could make another assertion that would be just as valid as their claim: "Since napster came out, crime has gone down". This is also just as valid of an assertion, because the economy is usually related to the crime rate.
I'll bet if you plotted record sales vs. nasdaq you'd find a better correlation.
I bought this book a long time ago. I don't think it's being published anymore and the information may be out of date, but the concepts are still very relevant. It deals with a lot of the nuts and bolts of game design. It covers a lot of the practical aspects of creating games.
Designing a game - yes, even a mediocre one - takes a lot of effort. I think a pass through this book might get you over some of the rough spots and may make the difference.
good luck.
The vehicle also comes equipped with a black box, like the ones that record mechanical functions and pilot conversations on airplanes.
"The auto companies are very interested in this feature," Wend said. "They are looking at adapting those black boxes for consumer use any day now. They could reduce warranty costs and speed up service by diagnosing and even fixing problems remotely."
I wonder if the reason they're interested is "reduce warranty costs" == "deny warranty claims"
I've heard that there may be tracking/monitoring equipment in rental cars nowadays. Anybody heard anything?
John Wanamaker said it long ago, "I waste half of the money I spend in advertising. I just don't know which half."
A better hack would to be crack slashdot, (possibly from Japan), then post a very subtle and believable story telling of other sites being compromised with "vulgar pictures"...
and then chuckle in a maniacal way as the slashdot effect works as a DOS attack on those sites...
Of course, if you fill out one of
then it's ok to enter the continental U.S.
However, Hawaii is a different story
Seems that someone figured out that OpenBSD is making the play for the lucrative baby mulching business and they're using ipf as a roadblock to these ends...
from Darren Reed:
IPFilter no longer available...
Despite a 100% matter to energy conversion rate antimatter has got to be one of the most inefficient fuel sources out there when you look at the entire picture! We'd be conserving resources by making coal-powered spaceships...
:-)
But when you think of the sheer amount of fuel necessary to brute force REALLY long-distance missions, the numbers quickly expand exponentially. I keep thinking how big a rocket would be required to lift a saturn-5 into orbit.
However with antimatter, a kg of antimatter would take you virtually anywhere in the universe and back. Some missions would never be achievable within a human lifespan without antimatter, but with antimatter, high acceleration could be maintained for long long periods of time, significantly shortening the journey.
So looking at the entire (long-term) picture, antimatter seems like the answer.
Of course, if we can find replenishable sources of coal on other planets, maybe we'd better go that route...
Heck, this could create a whole new market for the bottom of elevator-shafts - tuck the flywheels down there.
What if the elevator fell on the flywheel?
I think you'd have a chain reaction on your hands...
As everyone mentioned 3.5" ide drives with a removable rack are very inexpensive. I bought a 60 gig drive for $149 at fry's a couple of weeks ago.
But what about laptop 2.5" drives? 9.5mm 20gb drives are only about $120 now. I'm sure somebody could make one of these portable.
And remember, you don't even NEED the drive unit, just an IDE connector.
By the way, I've tried one of those USB external drives, and they're not all they're cracked up to be. I don't know about the latest linux kernels, but redhat 7.0 didn't recognize the drive. Even with windows they require a driver CD to tag along. However, the worst thing is that they're painfully slow.
I think firewire drives may be ok, but firewire isn't ubiquitous yet.
Why have an internal hard disk at all? It requires you to distrute the music to the edge. You don't have a backup and what you end up doing is paying for a very expensive hard disk.
/audio or /my music
What you want is the Audiotron.
For the same price, you could put several of them around your house and connect them to the linux computer you already have, which could be the central music server.
Basically, you plug it into your network through it's ethernet port and turn it on. It scans all SAMBA shares for mp3 music in
and lets you select from the IR remote. The output is a SPDIF jack, RCA stereo jacks and a headphone jack. The list price is $299 (cheaper other places).
The only other thing I found was the dell digital audio reciever, but it's totally tied to windows and I think it requires real player installation. It's inexpensive though - $199.
Another interesting one is the harman kardon/zapstation. It can do the same thing, but with video as well. However, if you look deeper into the specs, it's another pile of crap: they try to control everything about the device. You can't load DVD's onto the hard disk, and it incorporates most of the other controlware tactics.
Take a look at this link:
http://that.ford.motor.company.lawyer.isgay.com/
Of course there's also:
http://this.comment.isgay.com/
(actually, could this help with the case? DNS humor is so much funnier when you understand the work behind it...)
I believe peer-to-peer would be a good way of distributing "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine.
:-)
I wonder what the ping times to alaska would be?
so what you're saying is "bill gates sucks"?
Remind me, again, why I would possibly want this over one of the DVD-based formats?
The same reason you want memory stick. ha ha.
"due process requires at a minimum that the codes should be available for inspection and copying at the city offices in towns where they have been adopted"
What if your city office had a webserver?
Could you donate a webserver to your city office?
Could you take a cdrom burner to the city office?
What about the Paperwork Reduction Act (read the goals)
What about RMS coming up with a couple "GPL" laws... GNU/Building code, etc...
I think there was also a similar case with westlaw owning all the law references.
Yeah, but then they'd need more machines.
Many hard disks have a "quiet mode".
Here's some good info
You give up some performance, but sometimes that would be worthwhile.
Also, here's a bunch of reliability vs. heat info from pc power and cooling
Whoops, you're forgetting something...
This system replaces several fans: power supply, case fan, video fan, (hard disk fan), cpu fan, etc...
But... Smaller fans have much more noise and move much less air.
Actually, really large fans are quieter and can move prodigious quantities of air.
So the best system would have 1 large fan.