An instant swimming pool without the costs or space of the structure. Just turn on a switch and the pool of water takes shape. Turn on, jump in.
Dazzle your friends with the Levetating Electronic Bartender (tm).
Levetating drinking glasses. No cups to wash, coasters to pick up, just levetate your Jolt Cola (tm) above your desk and guide it with the joystick toward your mouth.
Zero gravity has got to be the ultimate environment for people who like to have fun.
What you need is a pair of the new Alcohol-cooled slacks.
hehe... I wear fire resistant refrigerated cooling vests when at work and riding my bike in 100+ degree heat, but I never thought of wearing such protective wear while hacking on the laptop.
The only protective wear I would like while using the computer might be a helmet and gloves while playing video games. It might be a few years before tactile feedback technology progresses to that point.
I hear the backlight argument suggesting the power consumption by the CPU is not too important when it comes to battery life. Could someone please explain why the underside of my notebooks feel like toaster ovens in my lap, sometimes leaving burns if I'm wearing my shorts? I'm not joking about the burns.
This is right underneath the CPU area, but the whole underside of the laptop gets nice and toasty too. Nothing like a nice, sweaty laptop. The Crusoe processors might be a nice change.
X11R6.5.1 is important. It will help us to read slashdot in bold new ways, where non X users have not gone before. Its lightyears ahead of other GUI's, allowing for quite some time to remotely run X applications from across the universe directly on your computer screen.
Better technology to better advance technology. That's what its all about! Slashdot puts the N in Nerds!
There are some good links to the original classic code, such as the first C compiler by Dennis Ritchie. Now all I need is the old vi editor code by Bill Joy and I'll be set!
I'd give my left mouse button for a genuine compiled binary by Mr. Joy himself...:)
I can vouch for liquid nitrogen being dangerous in an enclosed container, such as a glass jar with a tightly closed lid. I spent a week picking up glass shards from my bedroom years ago. Liquified gasses can really pack a lot of energy, but that didn't stop me until...
Dry ice in a sealed container is also dangerous, but kind of cool when it starts liquifying and bubbling just before hell breaks lose. The reason why I say dangerous, because it was violent enough to rip apart a metal filing cabinet it was placed upon. Luckly, I was not injured.
Its the nostalgia of the legendary games I grew up with. Doom was the first game that really showed us the potential of an AT type (now they just call it Windows compatible) personal computer. The classic sound effects and vision in the gameplay from that game is what still excites me.
Thanks for mentioning RSA. I was searching for new CPU's to increase my rate.:)
This office has 2 panels of 4, 40w bulbs each.
That's 320w worth of fluorescent lighting in a small (~10x10) office.
You mentioned turning off 320 watts of lights to conserve energy. That might be an understatement if your office is also air conditioned. It takes an additional amount of power to pump that generated heat out of the office too.
So, you would be saving, perhaps 640 watts of power. There's a reason why computer monitors are fluorescent. Don't make them compete with the overhead lights.
I come from a country where fluorescence is norm, and I have not seen people complaining about "dizziness" blah etc. It's all a fixation with light bulbs (a 60W light bulb emits less than 10% irradiation than a 40W fluorescence). That's not
good.
Hi, I'm a technician at a large manufacturing plant who also considers it a part of my job to repair people's problems with thier workplace. One of them is disagreements with lighting. Examples include disabling epileptic seizures, headaches, and fustration at flickering lights. Be considerate of people who are brave enough to complain about lighting, because they may also be in the payroll or accounting office that does the paper work for your office too.
But most importantly, lighting (or lack of) is often the most stimulating factor in the workplace. To me, white text on a dark screened computer monitor in a dark room allows me to focus on the subject at hand. Most people are familiar with a white browser and black text that has the familiar look of paper and india ink --instantly recognizable as user friendly software, but can be brutaly harsh on the eyes after long periods of time.
Many users prefer customized settings for thier own experience and for a good reason. Some people may tolerate the exhilerating intensity of 60Hz flourescent lights as it simulates the great outdoors. But for others, it will cause mental blackouts and collapse. People have entered the hospital for such a trivial thing such as lighting. Its happened where I work. Please do not dismiss other's complaints about lighting as "myths about mental health and computer power" and having been from places where "fluorescence is norm."
Perhaps people need to lose thier freedom and be tracked to see what its like. I can just imagine being rewarded or punished depending on where I have been tracked and have been doing.
Imagine married couples who are tagged to make sure every moment of thier lives are honest and with thier partner. Imagine our social lives being enforced with the law so we will be sure we do not make mistakes. The last bit of freedom we have ever known can be controlled by our government if you wish. Its all about privacy and freedom.
I saw his humorous reference to mainframes too. From what I remember of mainframes, their memory capacity at the time had several kilobytes of RAM. Also, I remember Linus hacking out a new kernel for his 386, because DOS just didn't do it for him. When maddog mailed him a very sweet Digital Alpha, cross platform compatibility then became a priority. But I have never heard of Linux running on an intensive I/O machine such as a mainframe, except in emulation.
...because if someone you hired doesn't have proper documentation skills, it's all Linux's fault.
I can relate to that. I work at a place where we have a computer guy who installs Windows solutions everwhere; unfortunately, his communication skills are mute. It works both ways.
In this case, it is even worse, because the underlying operating system is full of undocumented holes and not designed for hacking. No one can really grasp why the hell his software fails often because the debugging tools are not there, but expensively licensed on one machine.
1.) wireless. I'm talking some sort of line of sight. microwave will cost a couple grand
Wireless can be done cheaply too. Here's a low cost wireless network howto someone did after a slashdot article on the subject a few moons ago. In my experience, microwave networks work and are cheap too.
If flash memory is too expensive, a spare laptop with a large hard drive might work well. My Kodak DC215 can be controlled to take pictures from the serial cable through a script. Additionally, parallel port hard drives work very well too. Mount a 40G hard drive and you could take pictures until the helicopter's next service.:)
128 shades of gray is insignificant if it can still run under heavy use for 6 months on just one set of batteries.
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My definition of a higher standard of living does not include paying $0.75 per liter of gasoline and high taxes. A few days ago, I paid $1.24 a gallon for gas in Missouri. A higher standard of living is being able to purchase more with your dollar, not having devalued currency and paying high taxes.
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1. Canada. I just visited there last week. For the warmer season its supposed to be in Thunder Bay, Ontario, I had to wear a sweater. The population of all Canada combined might equal the state of Mississippi. Beautiful country, but no massive wealthy cities.
It's not his site - it's the public's site (and partly mine).
Go make your own site if you want just kiss-ass politicaly correct news -the source code is available. I might also recommend cnn, or perhaps msnbc. Now here, we have a tradition here in the spirit of free speech especially when others wish to gag it. I found this subject very thought provoking.
um, never mind! I found it works by changing the port number of the sploit to something like 8088, not the same as my junkbuster proxy 8080... Now to turn my java back off for normal browsing...
Well, I enabled java and javascript to try it out (I usually think running programs in a browser just to look at articles is silly) and it was blocked. Anyone else running junkbuster find this relief?
Novell's Groupwise has a neat little date field exploit. It doesn't crash or anything, but if you set the date to the distant past, say, the year of 1985, the message will seemingly "self destruct" after it was read and shuffle itself at the old of the mail spool. Its a cool trick if you want a message to disappear after someone reads it. In the spirit of Inspector Gadget (the cartoon, not the stupid movie,) include the quote, "This message will self destruct in 30 seconds."
Anyhow, for more fun, take a look at the source for msnbc's article. It is one HUGE mess of scripting for a short little article. What are they trying to hide in there? Easter eggs? Why all the features for just a damn story?
Slashdot Mirror
oh, how about a levetating waterbed?
An instant swimming pool without the costs or space of the structure. Just turn on a switch and the pool of water takes shape. Turn on, jump in.
Dazzle your friends with the Levetating Electronic Bartender (tm).
Levetating drinking glasses. No cups to wash, coasters to pick up, just levetate your Jolt Cola (tm) above your desk and guide it with the joystick toward your mouth.
Zero gravity has got to be the ultimate environment for people who like to have fun.
What you need is a pair of the new Alcohol-cooled slacks.
hehe... I wear fire resistant refrigerated cooling vests when at work and riding my bike in 100+ degree heat, but I never thought of wearing such protective wear while hacking on the laptop.
The only protective wear I would like while using the computer might be a helmet and gloves while playing video games. It might be a few years before tactile feedback technology progresses to that point.
I hear the backlight argument suggesting the power consumption by the CPU is not too important when it comes to battery life. Could someone please explain why the underside of my notebooks feel like toaster ovens in my lap, sometimes leaving burns if I'm wearing my shorts? I'm not joking about the burns.
This is right underneath the CPU area, but the whole underside of the laptop gets nice and toasty too. Nothing like a nice, sweaty laptop. The Crusoe processors might be a nice change.
X11R6.5.1 is important. It will help us to read slashdot in bold new ways, where non X users have not gone before. Its lightyears ahead of other GUI's, allowing for quite some time to remotely run X applications from across the universe directly on your computer screen.
Better technology to better advance technology. That's what its all about! Slashdot puts the N in Nerds!
There are some good links to the original classic code, such as the first C compiler by Dennis Ritchie. Now all I need is the old vi editor code by Bill Joy and I'll be set!
:)
I'd give my left mouse button for a genuine compiled binary by Mr. Joy himself...
I can vouch for liquid nitrogen being dangerous in an enclosed container, such as a glass jar with a tightly closed lid. I spent a week picking up glass shards from my bedroom years ago. Liquified gasses can really pack a lot of energy, but that didn't stop me until...
Dry ice in a sealed container is also dangerous, but kind of cool when it starts liquifying and bubbling just before hell breaks lose. The reason why I say dangerous, because it was violent enough to rip apart a metal filing cabinet it was placed upon. Luckly, I was not injured.
Its the nostalgia of the legendary games I grew up with. Doom was the first game that really showed us the potential of an AT type (now they just call it Windows compatible) personal computer. The classic sound effects and vision in the gameplay from that game is what still excites me.
:)
Thanks for mentioning RSA. I was searching for new CPU's to increase my rate.
This office has 2 panels of 4, 40w bulbs each.
That's 320w worth of fluorescent lighting in a small (~10x10) office.
You mentioned turning off 320 watts of lights to conserve energy. That might be an understatement if your office is also air conditioned. It takes an additional amount of power to pump that generated heat out of the office too.
So, you would be saving, perhaps 640 watts of power. There's a reason why computer monitors are fluorescent. Don't make them compete with the overhead lights.
I come from a country where fluorescence is norm, and I have not seen people complaining about "dizziness" blah etc. It's all a fixation with light bulbs (a 60W light bulb emits less than 10% irradiation than a 40W fluorescence). That's not
good.
Hi, I'm a technician at a large manufacturing plant who also considers it a part of my job to repair people's problems with thier workplace. One of them is disagreements with lighting. Examples include disabling epileptic seizures, headaches, and fustration at flickering lights. Be considerate of people who are brave enough to complain about lighting, because they may also be in the payroll or accounting office that does the paper work for your office too.
But most importantly, lighting (or lack of) is often the most stimulating factor in the workplace. To me, white text on a dark screened computer monitor in a dark room allows me to focus on the subject at hand. Most people are familiar with a white browser and black text that has the familiar look of paper and india ink --instantly recognizable as user friendly software, but can be brutaly harsh on the eyes after long periods of time.
Many users prefer customized settings for thier own experience and for a good reason. Some people may tolerate the exhilerating intensity of 60Hz flourescent lights as it simulates the great outdoors. But for others, it will cause mental blackouts and collapse. People have entered the hospital for such a trivial thing such as lighting. Its happened where I work. Please do not dismiss other's complaints about lighting as "myths about mental health and computer power" and having been from places where "fluorescence is norm."
Perhaps people need to lose thier freedom and be tracked to see what its like. I can just imagine being rewarded or punished depending on where I have been tracked and have been doing.
Imagine married couples who are tagged to make sure every moment of thier lives are honest and with thier partner. Imagine our social lives being enforced with the law so we will be sure we do not make mistakes. The last bit of freedom we have ever known can be controlled by our government if you wish. Its all about privacy and freedom.
I saw his humorous reference to mainframes too. From what I remember of mainframes, their memory capacity at the time had several kilobytes of RAM. Also, I remember Linus hacking out a new kernel for his 386, because DOS just didn't do it for him. When maddog mailed him a very sweet Digital Alpha, cross platform compatibility then became a priority. But I have never heard of Linux running on an intensive I/O machine such as a mainframe, except in emulation.
...because if someone you hired doesn't have proper documentation skills, it's all Linux's fault.
I can relate to that. I work at a place where we have a computer guy who installs Windows solutions everwhere; unfortunately, his communication skills are mute. It works both ways.
In this case, it is even worse, because the underlying operating system is full of undocumented holes and not designed for hacking. No one can really grasp why the hell his software fails often because the debugging tools are not there, but expensively licensed on one machine.
1.) wireless. I'm talking some sort of line of sight. microwave will cost a couple grand
Wireless can be done cheaply too. Here's a low cost wireless network howto someone did after a slashdot article on the subject a few moons ago. In my experience, microwave networks work and are cheap too.
If flash memory is too expensive, a spare laptop with a large hard drive might work well. My Kodak DC215 can be controlled to take pictures from the serial cable through a script. Additionally, parallel port hard drives work very well too. Mount a 40G hard drive and you could take pictures until the helicopter's next service. :)
To have the time continuously updated, simply type this in any shell:
watch date
128 shades of gray is insignificant if it can still run under heavy use for 6 months on just one set of batteries.
My definition of a higher standard of living does not include paying $0.75 per liter of gasoline and high taxes. A few days ago, I paid $1.24 a gallon for gas in Missouri. A higher standard of living is being able to purchase more with your dollar, not having devalued currency and paying high taxes.
1. Canada. I just visited there last week. For the warmer season its supposed to be in Thunder Bay, Ontario, I had to wear a sweater. The population of all Canada combined might equal the state of Mississippi. Beautiful country, but no massive wealthy cities.
5. Iceland. The name is chilling in itself.
I'd love for Bill Gates behind bars
Wish granted.
It's not his site - it's the public's site (and partly mine).
Go make your own site if you want just kiss-ass politicaly correct news -the source code is available. I might also recommend cnn, or perhaps msnbc. Now here, we have a tradition here in the spirit of free speech especially when others wish to gag it. I found this subject very thought provoking.
Here's another warez and pr0n site:
warez.slashdot.org
enjoy!
um, never mind! I found it works by changing the port number of the sploit to something like 8088, not the same as my junkbuster proxy 8080... Now to turn my java back off for normal browsing...
Well, I enabled java and javascript to try it out (I usually think running programs in a browser just to look at articles is silly) and it was blocked. Anyone else running junkbuster find this relief?
Novell's Groupwise has a neat little date field exploit. It doesn't crash or anything, but if you set the date to the distant past, say, the year of 1985, the message will seemingly "self destruct" after it was read and shuffle itself at the old of the mail spool. Its a cool trick if you want a message to disappear after someone reads it. In the spirit of Inspector Gadget (the cartoon, not the stupid movie,) include the quote, "This message will self destruct in 30 seconds."
Anyhow, for more fun, take a look at the source for msnbc's article. It is one HUGE mess of scripting for a short little article. What are they trying to hide in there? Easter eggs? Why all the features for just a damn story?
The best way I see to combat this is the unfortunate trend of putting a copyright notice in one's .sig
Or put something in the headers like this:
X-Advertising-desecration=NO!
...maybe not like that, but you get my point!
Either that, or I can see a small patch in Junkbuster to remove the fake promotions from the text body.