I don't think most companies will just cave in like toshiba.
It may have been attractive to Toshiba to partner with the patent owners for "protection" of a nice share of the market. After all, if you go to bed with the patent owner, the market is your oyster.
End result is that our prices are higher, thier profits are higher, all while the competition is under control by the patent owners.
Speaking of making light bulbs glow, we used to have this problem in our cars when CB radio was popular among my peer group. The car of a friend would suddenly die when keying down the microphone. Mine had lights that weren't even connected to the battery anymore, such as what went to old fog lights, would light up when keying down.
OK, so I had a 150 watt amplifier. It also caused problems with phones and television in the vicinity, but it was nothing compared to the problems a friend of mine who had a 500 watt Tram amplifier connected to a beam antenna. He demonstrated how his radio got into cable television broadcasts.
So those were a bit more than one watt, but we had a crazy idea of making our own 10GHz 1KW coffee heater installed in our front bumpers. Most people who have radar detectors would know the other use of that one.
Better yet, put Windows in your washer and dryer. They claim they have cured DLL hell, but it will still lose a sock in the dryer and possibly tear your favorite shirt to shreds.
Seriously, I did put Windows to use in my in my microwave last year and it was a glorious sight, but the office stunk for a few days.
...and don't forget warez.slashdot.org for your cool popular software that should be instantly recognizable. Get yours today before it gets slashdotted.
I'm just waiting for mp3.slashdot.org to get started.
FUD, eh? Well, if its such a great idea, why isn't it available? Seems to me its a great concept for one of those infomercials for business plans. A great way to lose money.
Sounds great, but can I go out and buy one of these flywheels down the street from multiple vendors, such as the parts store or walmart?
Magnetic bearings? Made possible by superconducting magnets? I can see the costs escalate now. Its difficult for the average person to get a hold of even a gallon of liquid nitrogen to make them work.
Even conventional ball bearings are expensive. I work in the maintainance department at work and the mechanics might be very interested in magnetic bearings that just don't fail. We recently replace a set of bearings in a medium sized machine and the bill for the bearings alone was $50,000. Things like mechanical shock, temperature changes, and impurities such as water break the oil film between moving parts and all cause wear. If it moves, its expensive.
And what kind of composites do they use? Carbon-graphite? We use carbon graphite at work for high speed 20 foot bows and when they break due to imperfections and fractures, they rip the housings, wiring, and other things in the machine. They don't turn into hot dust, but chunks and splinters. If you know something that turns into dust, I'd be mighty interested in knowing what it is. The last time one of these bows turned over 2000 rpm, I had to replace the wiring in that machine. No fun.
I still see batteries as a much more viable solution since they are readily available at the local parts store or Walmart down the street. They are also easily charged by commonly available generators that cost less than a few thousand dollars and the makeshift setup through an automobile.
I hear a lot about how a flywheel can store energy. These are the things that spin around at high speeds right? Moving parts, bearings, grease, and all those things that wear out? Sounds like something great for the lab, but expensive in terms of reliability and maintainance for practical use.
What about trusty old chemical storage batteries? I have a rather healthy marine battery connected to my UPS supply. A voltmeter on the computer tells me when a battery needs to be swapped. Two other batteries are connected through jacks to allow hot swapping of batteries if a blackout ever gets to be more than several hours. Not only is my computer system supplied by this power, but my entertainment, and lighting in this room.
If the power ever fails in this house, I might have to put the jumper cables from the car or motorcycle to keep the lights and other stuff on here.
It was clear from the start that Judge Jackson was out to get Microsoft,
If you listen to the words of Mr. Gates, yes. If you actually read Judge Jackson's findings, you might see that he is indeed quite fair. To listen to Microsoft's legal, PR, and the media outlets they have bought and partnered with is being biased.
Microsoft fakes video tape and lies in court, aggressively pays for opinion pieces in its favor, and we even get to see some of its employees post here. Its not a one time thing. That's what they do. Contrast this behavior to the court. Who do you trust? Microsoft is going to use every trick it can to maintain its monopoly, because one they lose it, its gone.
Don't mess with me or I'll take my ball home to BC and see what that does to your economy...
If Microsoft left the United States, it might be the best thing that ever happened to our economy. We can thank them for people being afraid of opening email, users blaming themselves for computers "crashing," a term that used to refer to actual physical hard drive head crashing, lost data, incompatibility between releases and vendors, etc.
It might be the best thing for our industry to have a more reliable computing platform from which to operate than to be continously conned by this monopoly. Less scrap in our manufacturing, fewer mistakes due to miscommunication, more networking from increased connectivity, and the possiblities are endless. We have a bully eating away at our communications infracture and need relief.
I'm glad you are happy with taxes. I do not have health problems or pay for health care even though I have damn good insurance from my employment. I don't get sick, but part of my paycheck pays for those who lead unhealthy lifestyles. It would be even worse if taxpayer money paid for health care as I just could not quit if it got real bad.
How did you get 20 Hydrogen atoms into one molecule?
Ah yes, the patent that is pending on hydrocarbons. Its so innovative, it doesn't require common manufacturing techniques to make this fossil fuel. Using proprietary techniques, it is pressure formed in the deep safety well below the ground. Guaranteed to produce billions of barrels of such fuel for the entire earth.
You can bet when the patent office grants my patent, the world will be my oyster.
The US Department of Labor's OSHA has quite a library that includes Material Safety Data Sheets (all those chemicals in that soap and what they do,) stastics and inspection data of companies and products, and information how to keep a workplace friendly to the worker and environment.
Most HR people should find this site a valuable resource to make a workplace safer through education; however, there are bosses who hate the hell out of this government organization. They inspect companies to follow up on complaints and they do have some big teeth. Some employers, such as ones refered to as "sweatshops" hate OSHA. I'm glad I work for a company that recognizes the value of a safe workplace when it comes to health insurance and community relations.
If you really want to get into evironmental concerns, there is Greepeace and and I would also strongly recommend checking out the National Audubon Society. These are organizations that help promote environmental awareness through activities involving recreation at national parks (read as camping at places very few venture) and activism (voting, writing letters, civil disobediance.) They are worth joining if you have kids as they sponsor many fun outings.
As an example of the interesting things they do, the Greenpeace homepage has information about ecologically friendly mousepads made out of 100% natural Amazon rubber.
I think it's pretty pathetic that when Microsoft uses a loophole in an agreement to start exploiting someone else's technology to their own ends people use it as an example of MS' evil, but when some GNU project does the same thing they're applauded for their efforts...
Close, but no cigar. Microsoft also offers the product for free under a restrictive license. This puts the competing company at a severe economic disadvantage. When the competitor folds, Microsoft is then free to jack up the prices. By then, the consumer base is hooked on that product. You can bet upgrades will force said consumer to use a new version in order for existing documents to work. Its all about monopoly practices.
When the source is free under a non restrictive license, you will not be forced into submission.
Open the attachment while holding down shift will force the VB script NOT to execute.
Thanks, I'll try that sometime. I've never heard of this feature. Apparently, millions of other Windoze users haven't either. Gotta love a well documented, secure mail interface with a built in world-self-destruct feature.
Why is lead solder still so popular? 60/40 lead solder is cheap. There's also another evil to lead solder: it tends to crack over time under heat stessed components. This is why over 50% of televisions fail. It makes sense for companies to sell a product that works very good at first and start to have intermittent problems after a predictable 4 years. 60/40 solder is the perfect time bomb for this.
Lead solder is the most accurate time bomb for those 3 year warranties.
Ever shake a malfunctioning television that starts to act flaky after a few years you bought it? Resoldering the problem areas almost always fixes these problems. I used to fix televisions and big screens for $150 up to $450 each when it was very profitable several years ago. To keep the recall rate low, I used silver solder. Of course, I checked if the overheated capacitors were out of tolerance which can also aggrevate the hot spots.
It would cost very little for a company to release the documenation for obsolete hardware and allow the Open Source community to maintain it.
I love recycling --especially the kind where hardware gets a new lease on life in ways we never dreamed.
Economic reasons? Think environmental. Think of the savings when our environment is concerned. Yeah, I know, most people don't give a damn about all that toxic lead used to solder those several layer circuit boards or worse yet all the chemicals needed to move them through hundreds of costly steps in production.
Let's promote green open source solutions and the companies that support them.
Holy shit. I would have never thought of using a database to store information that controls a system. And to use this database for updating packages. I'm damn glad there are companies like Microsoft that knows how to *cough* innovate.
Want to gain weight? Beer helps, but try some of those greasy foods that seem to be so popular at those fast food places in the morning. Next time at the drive through, get a McBreakfast with greasy sausage, eggs, and enjoy all that pork.
How do you think people get those big butts and have massive guts sticking out of thier shirts? Its the fat content. The body has an easier time burning sugar and would rather just store the fat.
My only problem is that greasy foods don't hit the sweet spot on my taste buds. So I look like a wimpy toothpick with no backbone.
Consider the processor die as a microstrip that keeps the microwaves where they belong in the circuit flipping the flops and toggling the gates. If a significant portion of its valuable switching electrons were radiated as RF, not to be eventually used up as heat, the circuitry would be very ineffecient. That's why there is a ground plane under the chip and sandwiched inside all motherboards. We wouldn't want all those overclocked electrons to be radiated from the bus before they reached its I/O port. The resulting reflections caused by leaky transmission lines on the bus would cause errors and crash the computer.
If there just a few milliwatts of radiated power, it should not be enough to burn tissue. Compare to the kilowatt of a microwave oven antenna, which was designed to radiate its power.
Anyhow, the microwaves or xrays from a computer and its monitor will not kill a person. Sitting in the chair across from the monitor for extended periods of time may cause fatigue, depression, alchoholism, and madness, which is another story.
Its because The Man doesn't want you to know about technology that can reduce stock values in his favorite portfolio. Apologies to the author, I made a little mirror on my slow link if you want to try it.
Here is a Wireless HOWTO that covers just about everything including what and where to get wireless cards, antennas, cables, design, construction, amplifiers, etc. Look on the links page for all kinds of goodies wireless.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think most companies will just cave in like toshiba.
It may have been attractive to Toshiba to partner with the patent owners for "protection" of a nice share of the market. After all, if you go to bed with the patent owner, the market is your oyster.
End result is that our prices are higher, thier profits are higher, all while the competition is under control by the patent owners.
Speaking of making light bulbs glow, we used to have this problem in our cars when CB radio was popular among my peer group. The car of a friend would suddenly die when keying down the microphone. Mine had lights that weren't even connected to the battery anymore, such as what went to old fog lights, would light up when keying down.
OK, so I had a 150 watt amplifier. It also caused problems with phones and television in the vicinity, but it was nothing compared to the problems a friend of mine who had a 500 watt Tram amplifier connected to a beam antenna. He demonstrated how his radio got into cable television broadcasts.
So those were a bit more than one watt, but we had a crazy idea of making our own 10GHz 1KW coffee heater installed in our front bumpers. Most people who have radar detectors would know the other use of that one.
Better yet, put Windows in your washer and dryer. They claim they have cured DLL hell, but it will still lose a sock in the dryer and possibly tear your favorite shirt to shreds.
Seriously, I did put Windows to use in my in my microwave last year and it was a glorious sight, but the office stunk for a few days.
...and don't forget warez.slashdot.org for your cool popular software that should be instantly recognizable. Get yours today before it gets slashdotted.
I'm just waiting for mp3.slashdot.org to get started.
FUD, eh? Well, if its such a great idea, why isn't it available? Seems to me its a great concept for one of those infomercials for business plans. A great way to lose money.
Sounds great, but can I go out and buy one of these flywheels down the street from multiple vendors, such as the parts store or walmart?
Magnetic bearings? Made possible by superconducting magnets? I can see the costs escalate now. Its difficult for the average person to get a hold of even a gallon of liquid nitrogen to make them work.
Even conventional ball bearings are expensive. I work in the maintainance department at work and the mechanics might be very interested in magnetic bearings that just don't fail. We recently replace a set of bearings in a medium sized machine and the bill for the bearings alone was $50,000. Things like mechanical shock, temperature changes, and impurities such as water break the oil film between moving parts and all cause wear. If it moves, its expensive.
And what kind of composites do they use? Carbon-graphite? We use carbon graphite at work for high speed 20 foot bows and when they break due to imperfections and fractures, they rip the housings, wiring, and other things in the machine. They don't turn into hot dust, but chunks and splinters. If you know something that turns into dust, I'd be mighty interested in knowing what it is. The last time one of these bows turned over 2000 rpm, I had to replace the wiring in that machine. No fun.
I still see batteries as a much more viable solution since they are readily available at the local parts store or Walmart down the street. They are also easily charged by commonly available generators that cost less than a few thousand dollars and the makeshift setup through an automobile.
I hear a lot about how a flywheel can store energy. These are the things that spin around at high speeds right? Moving parts, bearings, grease, and all those things that wear out? Sounds like something great for the lab, but expensive in terms of reliability and maintainance for practical use.
What about trusty old chemical storage batteries? I have a rather healthy marine battery connected to my UPS supply. A voltmeter on the computer tells me when a battery needs to be swapped. Two other batteries are connected through jacks to allow hot swapping of batteries if a blackout ever gets to be more than several hours. Not only is my computer system supplied by this power, but my entertainment, and lighting in this room.
If the power ever fails in this house, I might have to put the jumper cables from the car or motorcycle to keep the lights and other stuff on here.
It was clear from the start that Judge Jackson was out to get Microsoft,
If you listen to the words of Mr. Gates, yes. If you actually read Judge Jackson's findings, you might see that he is indeed quite fair. To listen to Microsoft's legal, PR, and the media outlets they have bought and partnered with is being biased.
Microsoft fakes video tape and lies in court, aggressively pays for opinion pieces in its favor, and we even get to see some of its employees post here. Its not a one time thing. That's what they do. Contrast this behavior to the court. Who do you trust? Microsoft is going to use every trick it can to maintain its monopoly, because one they lose it, its gone.
Don't mess with me or I'll take my ball home to BC and see what that does to your economy...
If Microsoft left the United States, it might be the best thing that ever happened to our economy. We can thank them for people being afraid of opening email, users blaming themselves for computers "crashing," a term that used to refer to actual physical hard drive head crashing, lost data, incompatibility between releases and vendors, etc.
It might be the best thing for our industry to have a more reliable computing platform from which to operate than to be continously conned by this monopoly. Less scrap in our manufacturing, fewer mistakes due to miscommunication, more networking from increased connectivity, and the possiblities are endless. We have a bully eating away at our communications infracture and need relief.
I'm glad you are happy with taxes. I do not have health problems or pay for health care even though I have damn good insurance from my employment. I don't get sick, but part of my paycheck pays for those who lead unhealthy lifestyles. It would be even worse if taxpayer money paid for health care as I just could not quit if it got real bad.
How did you get 20 Hydrogen atoms into one molecule?
Ah yes, the patent that is pending on hydrocarbons. Its so innovative, it doesn't require common manufacturing techniques to make this fossil fuel. Using proprietary techniques, it is pressure formed in the deep safety well below the ground. Guaranteed to produce billions of barrels of such fuel for the entire earth.
You can bet when the patent office grants my patent, the world will be my oyster.
So, if I patent the smell of horseshit, will Microsoft owe my a royalty for each of their press releases?
No, you'd need to register the smell of bullshit. Products themselves might fall under the protection of dogshit. There's a big difference you know.
I noticed...but assumed it was just /. getting /.ed!!
New MS slogan:
Embrace, extend, extinguish
The US Department of Labor's OSHA has quite a library that includes Material Safety Data Sheets (all those chemicals in that soap and what they do,) stastics and inspection data of companies and products, and information how to keep a workplace friendly to the worker and environment.
Most HR people should find this site a valuable resource to make a workplace safer through education; however, there are bosses who hate the hell out of this government organization. They inspect companies to follow up on complaints and they do have some big teeth. Some employers, such as ones refered to as "sweatshops" hate OSHA. I'm glad I work for a company that recognizes the value of a safe workplace when it comes to health insurance and community relations.
If you really want to get into evironmental concerns, there is Greepeace and and I would also strongly recommend checking out the National Audubon Society. These are organizations that help promote environmental awareness through activities involving recreation at national parks (read as camping at places very few venture) and activism (voting, writing letters, civil disobediance.) They are worth joining if you have kids as they sponsor many fun outings.
As an example of the interesting things they do, the Greenpeace homepage has information about ecologically friendly mousepads made out of 100% natural Amazon rubber.
I think it's pretty pathetic that when Microsoft uses a loophole in an agreement to start exploiting someone else's technology to their own ends people use it as an example of MS' evil, but when some GNU project does the same thing they're applauded for their efforts...
Close, but no cigar. Microsoft also offers the product for free under a restrictive license. This puts the competing company at a severe economic disadvantage. When the competitor folds, Microsoft is then free to jack up the prices. By then, the consumer base is hooked on that product. You can bet upgrades will force said consumer to use a new version in order for existing documents to work. Its all about monopoly practices.
When the source is free under a non restrictive license, you will not be forced into submission.
Open the attachment while holding down shift will force the VB script NOT to execute.
Thanks, I'll try that sometime. I've never heard of this feature. Apparently, millions of other Windoze users haven't either. Gotta love a well documented, secure mail interface with a built in world-self-destruct feature.
Why is lead solder still so popular? 60/40 lead solder is cheap. There's also another evil to lead solder: it tends to crack over time under heat stessed components. This is why over 50% of televisions fail. It makes sense for companies to sell a product that works very good at first and start to have intermittent problems after a predictable 4 years. 60/40 solder is the perfect time bomb for this.
Lead solder is the most accurate time bomb for those 3 year warranties.
Ever shake a malfunctioning television that starts to act flaky after a few years you bought it? Resoldering the problem areas almost always fixes these problems. I used to fix televisions and big screens for $150 up to $450 each when it was very profitable several years ago. To keep the recall rate low, I used silver solder. Of course, I checked if the overheated capacitors were out of tolerance which can also aggrevate the hot spots.
It would cost very little for a company to release the documenation for obsolete hardware and allow the Open Source community to maintain it.
I love recycling --especially the kind where hardware gets a new lease on life in ways we never dreamed.
Economic reasons? Think environmental. Think of the savings when our environment is concerned. Yeah, I know, most people don't give a damn about all that toxic lead used to solder those several layer circuit boards or worse yet all the chemicals needed to move them through hundreds of costly steps in production.
Let's promote green open source solutions and the companies that support them.
3) Databases can be avoided.
Holy shit. I would have never thought of using a database to store information that controls a system. And to use this database for updating packages. I'm damn glad there are companies like Microsoft that knows how to *cough* innovate.
Want to gain weight? Beer helps, but try some of those greasy foods that seem to be so popular at those fast food places in the morning. Next time at the drive through, get a McBreakfast with greasy sausage, eggs, and enjoy all that pork.
How do you think people get those big butts and have massive guts sticking out of thier shirts? Its the fat content. The body has an easier time burning sugar and would rather just store the fat.
My only problem is that greasy foods don't hit the sweet spot on my taste buds. So I look like a wimpy toothpick with no backbone.
Consider the processor die as a microstrip that keeps the microwaves where they belong in the circuit flipping the flops and toggling the gates. If a significant portion of its valuable switching electrons were radiated as RF, not to be eventually used up as heat, the circuitry would be very ineffecient. That's why there is a ground plane under the chip and sandwiched inside all motherboards. We wouldn't want all those overclocked electrons to be radiated from the bus before they reached its I/O port. The resulting reflections caused by leaky transmission lines on the bus would cause errors and crash the computer.
If there just a few milliwatts of radiated power, it should not be enough to burn tissue. Compare to the kilowatt of a microwave oven antenna, which was designed to radiate its power.
Anyhow, the microwaves or xrays from a computer and its monitor will not kill a person. Sitting in the chair across from the monitor for extended periods of time may cause fatigue, depression, alchoholism, and madness, which is another story.
I recommend...
I second this motion.
So, I'd imagine this handy little trick would work in /etc/hosts
208.48.26.217 www.nytimes.com
which means whenever you look up www.nytimes.com, you get partners.nytimes.com instead.
Hmmm... that link is forbidden for me.
Its because The Man doesn't want you to know about technology that can reduce stock values in his favorite portfolio. Apologies to the author, I made a little mirror on my slow link if you want to try it.
Here is a Wireless HOWTO that covers just about everything including what and where to get wireless cards, antennas, cables, design, construction, amplifiers, etc. Look on the links page for all kinds of goodies wireless.