Looks like its a Windows-only tool. Yet one more reason to be glad I don't run Windows. (Not that I expect to be doing anything the FBI would want to track me down for)
Whats actually weird about the Microsoft ads, is instead of saying "Windows", they call it "a PC".
A PC is a hardware platform. It can run a variety of Operating Systems, many of which are not licensed by Microsoft and are not called "Windows". Heck, if you get just the right combination of "PC" hardware, and you have the right skillset, you can even run a slightly modified MacOSX on a "PC".
Despite the fact that way too many people are accustomed to assuming "PC" = "Windows" and Microsoft happily encouraging them to do so because that furthers the assumption that there is no such thing as a "PC" that runs anything else, "PC" does NOT automatically mean the same thing as "Windows PC"
In fact, taking the literal, original, generic meaning of "PC", which was "Personal Computer", the reference "PC" could even refer to a hardware sold by Apple itself. But at the very least, even if you take it to mean "IBM PC" "compatible", it still doesn't automatically mean "Windows".
Yes, I know I will get flamed by brainwashed sycophants and MS astroturfers. I don't care.
59 million views of the video does NOT equal 59 million people taken in by the scam. While there are a great many fools out there, there are actually people who can view/read/see a scam, and just laugh at it, recognizing it as a scam.
If it was found and determined that it really was a satellite, what would require that information to be made public? Or even the fact that anything was found?
I would assume that the *launcher* stayed on the ground, while this missile/rocket (the media can't make up its mind) is what was launched and landed in the Pacific.
1. As much as I hate telecom companies, AT&T, like any other ISP, has the right to offer or not offer any particular service they want, with any terms they want. You, and everyone else, has the right to decide wether to purchase service from them.
2. Skype is closed proprietary crap anyway. If you are gonna use VoIP, use real VoIP (eg, SIP).
Disclaimer - I have an iPhone. I don't have AT&T service. I don't use Skype. I *do* use VoIP (and *have* tried a couple of iPhone SIP clients [Hint: They arent in the appstore and some of them *do* work over cell-data Internet] just for grins, but don't really have any need for one, either over Wifi or Edge/Cellular[I have an orig iPhone not 3G])
It seems like you are trying to correct the spelling of the post you are replying to by capitalizing the word, so I thought I'd correct your correction.
a BOARDER is a client of a boarding house. ("Room and board")
to BORDER on something is to be next to it, or near.
The original use was correct. I agree with the point of your post, however.
If you can't find a URL that actually links to what you are talking about DONT FUCKING POSTING IT.
It took me about ten seconds to find the URL's below. Just imagine, how much time could be saved overall, if either the submitter or the/. ed had taken this ten seconds to find a good URL, for everyone, instead of *every individual reader* having to either wade through the jackass NYT login nonsense, or google around for this themselves.
Hallelujah! (Although I just googled model that and the main drawbacks for me would be the enter key being on the small side, and the F-keys in the wrong place)
Look to the left of the 'a' key. If you see some sort of 'shift-lock' nonsense there, you have a 'typewriter' keyboard. Computer keyboards have the Control key there, where Steve Jobs and God intended, dammit!
Perhaps not on a desktop (or even laptop) machine. But on a (physically) small portable device with permanently installed non-upgradeable storage, I think it probably still is.
And the right solution (for non-idiots) is to have larger high quality files (where available) on their home/'base' machine, and then encode smaller lower quality files for said portable device(s).
So its a new music format for idiots, basically. No advantages for non-idiots that know the difference between a MP3, AAC, OGG, and raw 44Khz files. And how to convert between them with Free software.
They are embedded systems, so it isn't easy to upgrade them, especially to do stuff they don't have the hardware to support. If files just appeared on a SD (say from you pushing data on to a Eye-Fi), would any of the data in cached in ram about the filesystem lead to corruption? If you had to turn the system off when updating the files, would the SD card have the power?
Well, I'm thinking the card could report itself as 'removed' (electrically disconnecting its contacts if that was the only way), and then 'reinsert' itself after changes. Possibly it could have a tiny recharagable battery with enough capacity to hold it for the brief loss of power (it could even double buffer, to keep that time as short as possible)
My original plan was to either use a laptop (with linux) somehow mounted in a box bent over with only the LCD showing (possibly mechanically detached from the hinge), or to have a small SBC with a USB port (and wifi) (you can plug the frame into a host machine and either its storage or an inserted SD card is accessible) I'd need to have a relay control so as to reboot the frame after making changes.
1. A picture frame wouldnt be making any changes to the underlying card.
2. It seems like it wouldn't be such a big deal for something like the eye-fi to electrically report to the device its plugged into that its been removed, make the modifications, then 'be plugged in' again. If there was an issue with getting power while a device saw it as 'not there' during an update, it could pretend to be empty instead (with an intervening remove/insert cycle for the transitions)
Your solution would almost be workable, if I could stomach using a Windows-based device.
I assume I could setup an "RSS feed/server" (I dont know crap about RSS, I'd have to learn) on my *own* hardware so as to avoid using outside servers.
My key objection to any frames with wifi that I've seen so far is that they all want you to subscribe to service from some outside website.
I'm also not keen on it depending on net access to be able to show pictures - I want it to copy them to a local SD card (I'd also like to be able to delete them, so I can rotate whats on there)
The second one you refer to is rather pricey, especially since I already have a frame. I'd really like to find a way to connect wifi-accessible storage to the one I already have.
- It can be set to display a Flicker or Kodak Gallery account automatically.
And there would be the deal breaker for me. I don't want the pictures on some third party's company service - I want to copy them from my machine directly to an SD card plugged into the frame. I would _settle_ for a frame that had the ability to load pictures from *my own* server (http, ftp, even [ugh] samba)
I think you've hit the nail on the head, at least with me. At one point I was trying to find a way to be able to upload photos (over wifi or even wired ethernet) to a digital frame without having to physically go move SD cards around. (So the frame could stay in the folks living room)
I was looking at single board computers with USB (the frame's internal flash can me mounted like a USB disk) but ended up abandoning the idea. Then I happened to glance at one of these eye-fi cards at a best buy. I didn't look too closely at the time (I didnt buy it), but later on I did some more looking with the idea of maybe using it exactly like that - it seemed like it would exactly solve my problem - a wifi-connected SD card.
But then I released it was locked down to proprietary windows software that didn't even support copying *to* the card that only supported one use - copying pictures from a camera, and completely ignored and prevented any other possible use. So yes, it was "almost" exactly what I wanted, but due to no vision on the part of the maker, its flaws completely screwed my desired use of it.
I havent looked at it yet (I will) but what I'd like to see is the ability to *upload* files to the card. The application would be putting it in a digital picture frame (which would be in a different room than where the computers were) and be able to add photos to it without having to physically go get the SD card and apply sneakernet.
of what other comments might call the 'best solutions' for the bandwidth problem - if you want to remain employed, do what your boss tells you, if you can't convince him otherwise.
You can get USPS Priority mail packaging for *Free* by requesting it from usps.com (or you can pick it up from the Post Office yourself).
And if it will fit in the USPS 'Small Flat Rate' box (regardless of weight), the actual postage cost is $4.80 if you use the website to print the postage.
So $6 would more than cover the actual cost to ship even an old 5.25 dinosaur hard drive, if you use a free flat-rate box from USPS.
Thankfully, to make items with ludicrous "Shipping&Handling" fees such as these, the default sort of 'by price' on ebay has been "price + S&H" for quite some time now.
So an item that sells for $2 but has a reasonable shipping cost, will appear before an item listed as 99 cents with a ludicrous S&H. Of course I usually see like $10 - $15 listed as S&H, for an item that weighs an ounce, thats just a scam.
I'll gladly pay a little more for an item than pay less and get ripped of with S&H charges.
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You have misunderstood the meaning of the word 'Free', in the context RMS is using it. Hint - it has nothing to do with money or finance.
Looks like its a Windows-only tool. Yet one more reason to be glad I don't run Windows. (Not that I expect to be doing anything the FBI would want to track me down for)
Whats actually weird about the Microsoft ads, is instead of saying "Windows", they call it "a PC".
A PC is a hardware platform. It can run a variety of Operating Systems, many of which are not licensed by Microsoft and are not called "Windows". Heck, if you get just the right combination of "PC" hardware, and you have the right skillset, you can even run a slightly modified MacOSX on a "PC".
Despite the fact that way too many people are accustomed to assuming "PC" = "Windows" and Microsoft happily encouraging them to do so because that furthers the assumption that there is no such thing as a "PC" that runs anything else, "PC" does NOT automatically mean the same thing as "Windows PC"
In fact, taking the literal, original, generic meaning of "PC", which was "Personal Computer", the reference "PC" could even refer to a hardware sold by Apple itself. But at the very least, even if you take it to mean "IBM PC" "compatible", it still doesn't automatically mean "Windows".
Yes, I know I will get flamed by brainwashed sycophants and MS astroturfers. I don't care.
59 million views of the video does NOT equal 59 million people taken in by the scam. While there are a great many fools out there, there are actually people who can view/read/see a scam, and just laugh at it, recognizing it as a scam.
If it was found and determined that it really was a satellite, what would require that information to be made public? Or even the fact that anything was found?
I would assume that the *launcher* stayed on the ground, while this missile/rocket (the media can't make up its mind) is what was launched and landed in the Pacific.
1. As much as I hate telecom companies, AT&T, like any other ISP, has the right to offer or not offer any particular service they want, with any terms they want. You, and everyone else, has the right to decide wether to purchase service from them.
2. Skype is closed proprietary crap anyway. If you are gonna use VoIP, use real VoIP (eg, SIP).
Disclaimer - I have an iPhone. I don't have AT&T service. I don't use Skype. I *do* use VoIP (and *have* tried a couple of iPhone SIP clients [Hint: They arent in the appstore and some of them *do* work over cell-data Internet] just for grins, but don't really have any need for one, either over Wifi or Edge/Cellular[I have an orig iPhone not 3G])
Who're you calling Sonny, Mr. seven-digit /. ID?
It seems like you are trying to correct the spelling of the post you are replying to by capitalizing the word, so I thought I'd correct your correction.
a BOARDER is a client of a boarding house. ("Room and board")
to BORDER on something is to be next to it, or near.
The original use was correct. I agree with the point of your post, however.
It doesnt go to a story, it goes to a login page.
If you can't find a URL that actually links to what you are talking about DONT FUCKING POSTING IT.
It took me about ten seconds to find the URL's below. Just imagine, how much time could be saved overall, if either the submitter or the /. ed had taken this ten seconds to find a good URL, for everyone, instead of *every individual reader* having to either wade through the jackass NYT login nonsense, or google around for this themselves.
http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2009/03/co2_freeman_dyson_magic_trees.php
and
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/some-inconvenient-thinkers/?ref=energy-environment
Wow. That exchange would make a good Dilbert strip.
Hallelujah! (Although I just googled model that and the main drawbacks for me would be the enter key being on the small side, and the F-keys in the wrong place)
Also see http://www.cvtinc.com/products/keyboards/stellar.htm
Kinda spendy, but possibly worth it if one can afford it. For the moment I live with one of the originals - I type this on a NorthGate OmniKey/102.
'real' *computer* keyboard made anymore (at least that I've been able to find)
http://www.cvtinc.com/products/keyboards/stellar.htm
Look to the left of the 'a' key. If you see some sort of 'shift-lock' nonsense there, you have a 'typewriter' keyboard. Computer keyboards have the Control key there, where Steve Jobs and God intended, dammit!
Is storage space really that "precious" anymore?
Perhaps not on a desktop (or even laptop) machine. But on a (physically) small portable device with permanently installed non-upgradeable storage, I think it probably still is.
And the right solution (for non-idiots) is to have larger high quality files (where available) on their home/'base' machine, and then encode smaller lower quality files for said portable device(s).
So its a new music format for idiots, basically. No advantages for non-idiots that know the difference between a MP3, AAC, OGG, and raw 44Khz files. And how to convert between them with Free software.
They are embedded systems, so it isn't easy to upgrade them, especially to do stuff they don't have the hardware to support. If files just appeared on a SD (say from you pushing data on to a Eye-Fi), would any of the data in cached in ram about the filesystem lead to corruption? If you had to turn the system off when updating the files, would the SD card have the power?
Well, I'm thinking the card could report itself as 'removed' (electrically disconnecting its contacts if that was the only way), and then 'reinsert' itself after changes. Possibly it could have a tiny recharagable battery with enough capacity to hold it for the brief loss of power (it could even double buffer, to keep that time as short as possible)
My original plan was to either use a laptop (with linux) somehow mounted in a box bent over with only the LCD showing (possibly mechanically detached from the hinge), or to have a small SBC with a USB port (and wifi) (you can plug the frame into a host machine and either its storage or an inserted SD card is accessible) I'd need to have a relay control so as to reboot the frame after making changes.
1. A picture frame wouldnt be making any changes to the underlying card.
2. It seems like it wouldn't be such a big deal for something like the eye-fi to electrically report to the device its plugged into that its been removed, make the modifications, then 'be plugged in' again. If there was an issue with getting power while a device saw it as 'not there' during an update, it could pretend to be empty instead (with an intervening remove/insert cycle for the transitions)
Your solution would almost be workable, if I could stomach using a Windows-based device.
I assume I could setup an "RSS feed/server" (I dont know crap about RSS, I'd have to learn) on my *own* hardware so as to avoid using outside servers.
My key objection to any frames with wifi that I've seen so far is that they all want you to subscribe to service from some outside website.
I'm also not keen on it depending on net access to be able to show pictures - I want it to copy them to a local SD card (I'd also like to be able to delete them, so I can rotate whats on there)
The second one you refer to is rather pricey, especially since I already have a frame. I'd really like to find a way to connect wifi-accessible storage to the one I already have.
- It can be set to display a Flicker or Kodak Gallery account automatically.
And there would be the deal breaker for me. I don't want the pictures on some third party's company service - I want to copy them from my machine directly to an SD card plugged into the frame. I would _settle_ for a frame that had the ability to load pictures from *my own* server (http, ftp, even [ugh] samba)
I think you've hit the nail on the head, at least with me. At one point I was trying to find a way to be able to upload photos (over wifi or even wired ethernet) to a digital frame without having to physically go move SD cards around. (So the frame could stay in the folks living room)
I was looking at single board computers with USB (the frame's internal flash can me mounted like a USB disk) but ended up abandoning the idea. Then I happened to glance at one of these eye-fi cards at a best buy. I didn't look too closely at the time (I didnt buy it), but later on I did some more looking with the idea of maybe using it exactly like that - it seemed like it would exactly solve my problem - a wifi-connected SD card.
But then I released it was locked down to proprietary windows software that didn't even support copying *to* the card that only supported one use - copying pictures from a camera, and completely ignored and prevented any other possible use. So yes, it was "almost" exactly what I wanted, but due to no vision on the part of the maker, its flaws completely screwed my desired use of it.
I havent looked at it yet (I will) but what I'd like to see is the ability to *upload* files to the card. The application would be putting it in a digital picture frame (which would be in a different room than where the computers were) and be able to add photos to it without having to physically go get the SD card and apply sneakernet.
of what other comments might call the 'best solutions' for the bandwidth problem - if you want to remain employed, do what your boss tells you, if you can't convince him otherwise.
I think the point being made was that if a company isn't really offering 'unlimited', they shouldn't be allowed to *say* it is 'unlimited'.
You can get USPS Priority mail packaging for *Free* by requesting it from usps.com (or you can pick it up from the Post Office yourself).
And if it will fit in the USPS 'Small Flat Rate' box (regardless of weight), the actual postage cost is $4.80 if you use the website to print the postage.
So $6 would more than cover the actual cost to ship even an old 5.25 dinosaur hard drive, if you use a free flat-rate box from USPS.
Thankfully, to make items with ludicrous "Shipping&Handling" fees such as these, the default sort of 'by price' on ebay has been "price + S&H" for quite some time now.
So an item that sells for $2 but has a reasonable shipping cost, will appear before an item listed as 99 cents with a ludicrous S&H. Of course I usually see like $10 - $15 listed as S&H, for an item that weighs an ounce, thats just a scam.
I'll gladly pay a little more for an item than pay less and get ripped of with S&H charges.