What are these hardware hacks? What is done with the CueCat? Are they removing the serial number chip from the CueCat or are they turning it into a laser pointer or what? What did they do to the Atari, and which Atari? Mod it to play Xbox games? Turn it into a general purpose computer? A home automation control center? What? What other hardware is hacked, and will I need to do the hacks? If I can buy something cheap on eBay and turn it into something cool, great, but if this is just about adding expensive components to expensive or rare stuff, forget it.
A review should tell me why I might want this book; this review did not.
for example Kraft, that own a ton of different name brands
Yeah, brands like Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Merit, Parliament, Alpine, Basic, Cambridge, Bristol, Bucks, Chesterfield, Collector's Choice, Commander, English Ovals, Lark, L&M, Players and Saratoga.
Following distance? We don't need no stinking foll
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Drivers could then avoid driving within another car's trail.
Pretty much everywhere I've driven in North America if you "avoid driving in another's trail" you'll have two or three cars pull in between you and that other car. If you then slow down for them it will happen again; iterate until you're pretty much standing still and everyone else is passing you on both sides. You'll be lucky if they just honk and wave their middle finger.
when somone trys to tailgate me I floor it and hit 120mph.
If I'm tailgating you and you floor it, that's exactly what I want. Thank you for getting the hell out of my way. Anybody I'm tailgating is going too damn slow and should get out of the passing lane.
Ever notice there are two types of drivers? The morons in front of you and the idiots behind you? The morons are going too slow and the idiots are going too fast. Trouble is, to the moron you're an idiot, and to the idiot you're a moron.
Too bad VNC servers haven't made it to DOS (I guess DOS's mono-tasking nature rules that out), then you could stuff a headless 486 in a closet and run the DOS games from your actual workstation.
Believe me, if you'd ever visit the town you'd find out that "Environmental Impact Statement" does not *really* apply...
If that's true, then why would WalMart refuse to build there without the waiver? WalMart builds lots of stores without waivers, so why not in Inglewood? The whole story puzzles me, but I care so little I'm not going to research it further than what I heard on the news.
Yeah, so? Just because your CIO sucks doesn't mean you don't have to deal with him/her. Most of us don't get to pick the CIO, we just get to work with (for) them.
I once had to work with the idiot who became the CIO (after I left, thank God). Contrary to corporate security policy, he had his secretary (excuse me, Admin) log on to his email, print it out, and put it on his desk. He would read it and reply in longhand, and she would then log on to his email and type the replies -- sometimes the next day, sometimes that afternoon. Email turnaround with him took days, but he considered typing to be her job, not his. And they made him the CIO! Rumor was they picked Exchange over Notes for the entire corporation because that's what his secretary preferred. At least he asked one actual user:-)
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We don't have much evidence of a civilization pre-Egyptian times, do we. Did it just 'spring' up just like that?
Yes and no. Egypt was the first durable civilization; others pre-date it, but little of them remains for us to study. When you build with wood what you build doesn't last. Two things converged to make Egypt the durable success we know today: the invention of the plow and the flooding of the Nile. Together, these made it possible for one person to grow more food than their immediate family needed. It also made it possible to settle down in one place. When that happened, you freed up people to make pottery, learn to carve rock, etc. Next thing you know, you've built the pyramids. Well, your great-grand children have:-)
Oh, yeah, that page -- http://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/membersh ome/entrypage.do, is seriously hosed - NOT! Looks just fine to me. There is no evidence that it was down a few minutes ago (check the timestamps on the posts and this post) and/or that it has been down for two weeks. Who's posting this and what evidence do they provide? It's a good story -- if it's true. If it's not true, you do everyone here a disservice by promoting lies.
You got it wrong. The issue in Inglewood was whether or not to grant WalMart some zoning and building code waivers, including a waiver of the Environmental Impact Statement. WalMart said in advance that if they had to play by the rules, they wouldn't play. I won't speculate on why the voters decided not to grant WalMart their request.
WalMart's not disallowed from anything -- it's they who chose not to build in Inglewood under the same rules as all other businesses.
No, his error was assuming foreign courts would react as the USA courts have, and find "Windows" a generic term. Anyone who's followed the Asterixcase would know better. Apparantly those dudes have a trademark on any word that ends in the letter "x". But for some reason they haven't sued Xerox.
"different story" indeed. When I read the headline I thought it was a story about someone being arrested for violating someone else's privacy by reading their email.
Too bad I was wrong. "'That's the first admission I've actually seen that they [NSA] actually monitor Internet traffic. I assumed they did, but no one ever admitted it,' Mr. Farber [an Internet pioneer and computer-science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh] said." So, did the NSA have a warrant for this? If not, why won't these arrests be thrown out of court? Or don't Canadian and Brittish courts care about search warrants? Or don't warrants apply in international law?
I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop with a sticker on it that says "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP." This thing is designed for XP, and I have to re-boot it at least once a week to keep it stable, more often if I close the lid and let it "hibernate" (more like "go comatose"). I'm very disappointed with the stablity of XP -- at work I've used Dell Latitudes and desktops with Windows 2000 that didn't need rebooting for months. I used to hibernate my Latitude at the office, take it home and wake it up undocked and go right back to work with no problem. I don't know if it's the Inspiron vs. the Latitiude, but I really suspect it's XP vs. 2000. So far XP does not impress me for stability.
If you look a map that puts the USA into perspective, you'll see that the only thing "northwest" about Washington, Oregon, etc. is that they're the northwestern most states.
You mean a map like this? Can you honestly look at that map and tell me that British Columbia is not in the Pacific Northwest?
the -real- absolute Pacific Northwest would refer to parts of Alaska
I never said Alaska was not in the Pacific Northwest. By disagreeing with what I did say, you're claiming that British Columbia is not. OK, then where is BC? The Artic Southwest? I stand by my statement.
Wouldn't AK be closer to the 'pacific northwest', in your line of thought?
Yes.
Pacific Northwest is more descriptive of WA,OR,ID when in the US context.
A. Who said this has to be a "US context"? B. What is "Pacific" about Idaho? I didn't list Idaho, you did. C. In a continental, North American context, you have to include British Columbia in the Pacific Northwest. The line between Canada and the USA is a European line, not a distinction drawn by the original inhabitants.
No, Comcast screwed their Tacoma customers until the city provided some competition. Now Tacoma enjoys the lowest Comcast rates in the area.
FYI, what happened was the city decided to string fiber optic throughout the town to read the electric meters. Since they were going to run the fiber anyway, using it for cable TV and broadband internet was just frosting on the cake, so to speak. This wouldn't have happened if they weren't going to run the fiber anyway. And it's only economical because of the density you get in a city. Out where I live it's still cheaper to pay some guy to go around and read the (relatively few) meters, so we'll never see it.
The only solution to this appears to be structural separation (where the company that owns the wires is not allowed to be an ISP), but this has its own problems (like it would probably be more expensive).
Well, my In-Laws live in Tacoma, WA, where the city has a cable system in direct competition with Comcast. They subscribe to the city system, and have their choice of three ISPs for high-speed internet. The city (the folks who own the wires) is not one of them. We, on the other hand, have Comcast (alas, we don't live in Tacoma). Our only choice of ISP is Comcast. And we pay more than my In-Laws. So no, what you describe is not more expensive, it's cheaper. That's what competition does -- it drives down prices.
What are the rates in Austin, compaired to nearby communities where there is only 1 cable ISP? I'll be Austin's cheaper.
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A review should tell me why I might want this book; this review did not.
Ever notice there are two types of drivers? The morons in front of you and the idiots behind you? The morons are going too slow and the idiots are going too fast. Trouble is, to the moron you're an idiot, and to the idiot you're a moron.
Is/was there a DOS equivalent to VNC?
I once had to work with the idiot who became the CIO (after I left, thank God). Contrary to corporate security policy, he had his secretary (excuse me, Admin) log on to his email, print it out, and put it on his desk. He would read it and reply in longhand, and she would then log on to his email and type the replies -- sometimes the next day, sometimes that afternoon. Email turnaround with him took days, but he considered typing to be her job, not his. And they made him the CIO! Rumor was they picked Exchange over Notes for the entire corporation because that's what his secretary preferred. At least he asked one actual user :-)
Oh, yeah, that page -- http://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/membersh ome/entrypage.do, is seriously hosed - NOT! Looks just fine to me. There is no evidence that it was down a few minutes ago (check the timestamps on the posts and this post) and/or that it has been down for two weeks. Who's posting this and what evidence do they provide? It's a good story -- if it's true. If it's not true, you do everyone here a disservice by promoting lies.
WalMart's not disallowed from anything -- it's they who chose not to build in Inglewood under the same rules as all other businesses.
Seriously, why should only the criminals know this stuff? Why can't the rest of us know it, too?
No, his error was assuming foreign courts would react as the USA courts have, and find "Windows" a generic term. Anyone who's followed the Asterix case would know better. Apparantly those dudes have a trademark on any word that ends in the letter "x". But for some reason they haven't sued Xerox.
Too bad I was wrong. "'That's the first admission I've actually seen that they [NSA] actually monitor Internet traffic. I assumed they did, but no one ever admitted it,' Mr. Farber [an Internet pioneer and computer-science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh] said." So, did the NSA have a warrant for this? If not, why won't these arrests be thrown out of court? Or don't Canadian and Brittish courts care about search warrants? Or don't warrants apply in international law?
I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop with a sticker on it that says "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP." This thing is designed for XP, and I have to re-boot it at least once a week to keep it stable, more often if I close the lid and let it "hibernate" (more like "go comatose"). I'm very disappointed with the stablity of XP -- at work I've used Dell Latitudes and desktops with Windows 2000 that didn't need rebooting for months. I used to hibernate my Latitude at the office, take it home and wake it up undocked and go right back to work with no problem. I don't know if it's the Inspiron vs. the Latitiude, but I really suspect it's XP vs. 2000. So far XP does not impress me for stability.
They're still running their own cable.
Oh, wait, that's Northwest Pacific. Nevermind.
A. Who said this has to be a "US context"?
B. What is "Pacific" about Idaho? I didn't list Idaho, you did.
C. In a continental, North American context, you have to include British Columbia in the Pacific Northwest. The line between Canada and the USA is a European line, not a distinction drawn by the original inhabitants.
This is like saying "Europe and England" or "Asia and Japan."
FYI, what happened was the city decided to string fiber optic throughout the town to read the electric meters. Since they were going to run the fiber anyway, using it for cable TV and broadband internet was just frosting on the cake, so to speak. This wouldn't have happened if they weren't going to run the fiber anyway. And it's only economical because of the density you get in a city. Out where I live it's still cheaper to pay some guy to go around and read the (relatively few) meters, so we'll never see it.
What are the rates in Austin, compaired to nearby communities where there is only 1 cable ISP? I'll be Austin's cheaper.