It's a robot with the ability to finish mowing after you define the parameters (edge of the field) and we're excited somebody is using a Wiimote???
Let me put it this way, which movie would you watch - the one where somebody successfully controls a robot from a distance, or the one where you give a robot a spinning deadly blade and then let loose?
IBM recently released the p575 which states "Cooling requirements Chilled inlet water supply/return required for all systems". They also have a kit to turn the rear door of a rack cabinet into a Heat Exchanger. So there is a move in that direction
From the introductory blurb "uses capacitors and relays to avoid drawing power". Drawing on my memory from my hardware (as in soldering and breadboarding) geek phase (Z8 ForthChip anybody?) a capacitor acts like a battery so all this is doing is storing power before going into standby. That can't be saving power just shifting it around.
The next part (my opionion) is the one that makes this work (FTFA)->"Solar panels provide enough power to maintain zero consumption mode". Pretty nifty, I've seen solar panels used on automatic faucets to start the water - of course if we kept the faucets wouldn't need the power in the first place (I know also cuts down on germs, just saying)
So make sure to keep a lamp on nearby (or make sure direct sunlight hits the monitor, always good for usability!)
A.sig - how quaint reminds of Usenet - is that still around?:Q
"Preview Ho" will be a compilation of the most egregious, blatant promotion for unreleased games from across the gaming press. We will challenge the editors of these magazines and websites to justify their hype on behalf of their advertisers' products
....
Help us find the biggest Hos and win public praise--and the satisfaction of knowing you helped create a future of better games.
Translation: Flock to my site, drive up my web clicks for my advertisers as I tell you with my """special""" feature about the cd coaster of the month
Only, it been done. CGW gives bad ratings. I'm sure others do, and I'm sure there are those that are exactly like the author said, pure proganda machines. The problems is not glowing press reviews (what, you don't think they can hire marketing types to write drivel for their shiny boxes anyhow?) it's not enough people going back to the store and saying "This sucks". And that includes the bad magazine.
Since the problem was that some person fat fingered the automated update of 7 test machines and accidently pushed an untested patch live to 60,000 production boxes, I have one question:
Which version of Linux is self-aware enough to say "No Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that - you didn't test this patch enough" ?
I need to know so I can welcome our new digital overlords!
Over the past few years 300,000 US jobs have been outsourced. But over two million (2,000,000 is greater then 300,000) jobs have disappeared due to automation! (Forrester Research). So play with the tax codes all you want, we've got to have people educated enough (and flexible enough) to create new sources of wealth
It's the machines you have to watch out for. Remember 'Terminator'? That computer you reading this on, it wants your job.
Agreed. Look at financial services, who try to eliminate paper to save costs. There are techniques to create auditable records, accepted (heck mandated) by third parties such as the SEC.
Problem is getting everyone to agree that it's secure. A box of paper seems not to be the best we can do, but people are comfortable with it.
You feel unsafe because of the war (and you should, because war sucks). Image how the US felt when terrorist flew planes into civilians targets. And it wasn't just 9/11, there were previous attacks on the US. So yeah we're scared too.
Now maybe Saddam wasn't a legitmate terrorist target, but he was an enemy target, and in war you take out your enemies, real and potential. Saddam invaded Kuwait, previously used chemical weapons, and did not complied with UN sanctions. We're well past the wait and see stage.
They say they need a 50% large plane to carry the same load. So depending on the economics to compete with traditionally designed planes at the time this concept becomes (if ever) real it may be too big to land anywhere but military bases and large flat saltbeds.
Of course, if they can float in for a landing, that may be a whole 'nother thing. But by that time they may have 747 sized Harriers (one can only hope)!
I don't think they are selling perpetual motion. I agree with you, they will probably be getting less air going down then they use going up. But it sounds like the plane would be charged with enough compressed air before liftoff to make up the difference for the calculated trip.
Cool concept though - like to see a working model - maybe combine this with Nausicaa Glider Project?
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Maybe it was the distribution I was using (Fedora) but I just tried to get an athlon 1400/PVR-350 combo going and I came this }{ bloody close but I just could not getting the tuner stuff working properly with MythTV. Outside of that MythTV looks excellent, and I certainly love the expandable architecture.
I will have to say that it was a lot easier to get as far as I did this time compared to last time. Last time I tried about three+ (probably longer)years to get a bttv-848? card going. I had to hunt down and compile tons of packages. This time a fellow setup an apt-get for the Fedora and this was as close as to a Windows type (in terms on non-technical need on the part of the user) install that I've seen. Very nice.
Popped the PVR-350 into the Windows XP box and it just worked. That plus the Hauppauge MediaMVP (baserd on Linux) player needing Windows means it stays there. It's this level of integration that Linux needs to conquer to reach for the desktop.
Anyhow I say if you just want it to work WITHOUT doing work look at Tivo/Replay/etc. BTW one of the good things going for them is a built-in infrared blaster to control your external tuner box. Figure that cost in for any homebrew solution.
Some cables company (mine does, 8.95 additional/a box) are coming out with a DVR rental situation that would be even easier.
Actually, what caused this war (or at least the public version of the reason) was that we suspected Weapons of Mass Destruction and that Iraq wasn't fully cooperating fully in providing they didn't. Yeah maybe we were paranoid, but since they were not an innocent county (I remember them invading somebody? ) we have to assume the worse when there is a ruthless dictator running about.
Considering the magnitude of the report ("Hey Bob, here is a report if the Shuttle will explode") I think people would have read the whole report. On page 5,right before the slides Dr.Tufte critiqued, was titled
Damage Results From "Crater " Equations Show
Significant Tile Damage
which I imagine should have had the following affect on the two types of audience memebers - 'senior'engineer and 'senior'managers.
Senior Engineer - Screw the presentation give me the data the Shuttle is in trouble
Senior Managers - Big Hole can't be good
I won't disagree with Dr Tufte's conclusion on those particluar slide he outlined - yes they were packed full of words and should have been spread out. But I doubt it was PowerPoint. Especially not from the final summary bulletpoint on the last page of the report {page 13 I'll note} gave the engineer's conclusion
Conclusion
Contingent on multiple tile loss thermal analysis showing
no violation of M/OD criteria,safe return indicated even with
significant tile damage
On a morning when I'm receiving the latest windows virus in my inbox every five minutes I feel very comfortable with this."
Unless there is a menu option on the ATM to open the attachment on a email that promise to enlarge you AND your checking account that shouldn't be a problem.
After all the real problem is end-users who click on things they shouldn't - followed closely by those who allow end-users to do that.
No, the real question is why pay licensing fees to Micro$oft when Linux is free (SCO get real!) and IMHO better. Is it because of security certification??
A technical manager who has been IT grunt at some point may help communication to their techies, but this brings up the problem of somebody who last touched the technolgy years ago but thinks they still have a (intimate) clue - or better yet make low level technical decisions.
Either they keep a hand in the technology or know their limits (a la Clint Eastwood) and when in doubt ask.
If it's a large company, you could easily get caught in the grip of some corporate HR policy that ties your immediate management's hands. If that's your case, AND you have spoken to your boss about your unhappiness several times before, it becomes an "look what evil HR made us do" situation.
I took one counteroffer and did not regret it. There was another counteroffer (evil HR scenario) that I did not take and I did not regret it. You weigh the risks and make the best business decision for you.
Either way you take risks (old company lays you off for 'lack of loyalty', new company lays you off for 'lack of seniority', and so on). Make it a business decision and take the best return on your (time) investment while minimizing risks.
If you read the few sentences before this one, you will see Shahin Khan (Sun author) was discounting the idea you can take many low utilization boxes and consolidate them onto the mainframe, end up with higher utilization and still expect to handle peak loads. The many under utilized boxes have the spare capacity in case there is a surge in traffic. That's what he means by sizing for peak demand.
He could have made the point clearer, I don't think he was denying z/VMs ability to shift resources between Linux images.
Napster will only block a song only if the copyright owner requests them to. This allows the true owner of the property to decide if it should be freely available.
With Win98SE it works great; at the highest NTSC rates (S-VHS 29.997 frames) it takes less then %25 of a 700MHz Duron while churning out ~6MBs a sec of video.
I'm going to use AVI_IO(seperate $25 shareware package) with it to turn my box into a digital VCR.
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It's a robot with the ability to finish mowing after you define the parameters (edge of the field) and we're excited somebody is using a Wiimote???
Let me put it this way, which movie would you watch - the one where somebody successfully controls a robot from a distance, or the one where you give a robot a spinning deadly blade and then let loose?
See what I mean.
BTW trick question geeks would watch both
Peace out.
IBM recently released the p575 which states "Cooling requirements Chilled inlet water supply/return required for all systems". They also have a kit to turn the rear door of a rack cabinet into a Heat Exchanger. So there is a move in that direction
p575 spec http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/575/specs.html
Rear door exchanger http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=-840&storeId=1&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73&categoryId=4611686018425028106&productId=4611686018425023461
From the introductory blurb "uses capacitors and relays to avoid drawing power". Drawing on my memory from my hardware (as in soldering and breadboarding) geek phase (Z8 ForthChip anybody?) a capacitor acts like a battery so all this is doing is storing power before going into standby. That can't be saving power just shifting it around.
.sig - how quaint reminds of Usenet - is that still around? :Q
The next part (my opionion) is the one that makes this work (FTFA)->"Solar panels provide enough power to maintain zero consumption mode". Pretty nifty, I've seen solar panels used on automatic faucets to start the water - of course if we kept the faucets wouldn't need the power in the first place (I know also cuts down on germs, just saying)
So make sure to keep a lamp on nearby (or make sure direct sunlight hits the monitor, always good for usability!)
A
"Preview Ho" will be a compilation of the most egregious, blatant promotion for unreleased games from across the gaming press. We will challenge the editors of these magazines and websites to justify their hype on behalf of their advertisers' products
....
Help us find the biggest Hos and win public praise--and the satisfaction of knowing you helped create a future of better games.
Translation: Flock to my site, drive up my web clicks for my advertisers as I tell you with my """special""" feature about the cd coaster of the month
Only, it been done. CGW gives bad ratings. I'm sure others do, and I'm sure there are those that are exactly like the author said, pure proganda machines. The problems is not glowing press reviews (what, you don't think they can hire marketing types to write drivel for their shiny boxes anyhow?) it's not enough people going back to the store and saying "This sucks". And that includes the bad magazine.
Since the problem was that some person fat fingered the automated update of 7 test machines and accidently pushed an untested patch live to 60,000 production boxes, I have one question:
Which version of Linux is self-aware enough to say "No Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that - you didn't test this patch enough" ?
I need to know so I can welcome our new digital overlords!
Over the past few years 300,000 US jobs have been outsourced. But over two million (2,000,000 is greater then 300,000) jobs have disappeared due to automation! (Forrester Research). So play with the tax codes all you want, we've got to have people educated enough (and flexible enough) to create new sources of wealth
It's the machines you have to watch out for. Remember 'Terminator'? That computer you reading this on, it wants your job.
Agreed. Look at financial services, who try to eliminate paper to save costs. There are techniques to create auditable records, accepted (heck mandated) by third parties such as the SEC.
Problem is getting everyone to agree that it's secure. A box of paper seems not to be the best we can do, but people are comfortable with it.
You feel unsafe because of the war (and you should, because war sucks). Image how the US felt when terrorist flew planes into civilians targets. And it wasn't just 9/11, there were previous attacks on the US. So yeah we're scared too.
Now maybe Saddam wasn't a legitmate terrorist target, but he was an enemy target, and in war you take out your enemies, real and potential. Saddam invaded Kuwait, previously used chemical weapons, and did not complied with UN sanctions. We're well past the wait and see stage.
They say they need a 50% large plane to carry the same load. So depending on the economics to compete with traditionally designed planes at the time this concept becomes (if ever) real it may be too big to land anywhere but military bases and large flat saltbeds.
Of course, if they can float in for a landing, that may be a whole 'nother thing. But by that time they may have 747 sized Harriers (one can only hope)!
I don't think they are selling perpetual motion. I agree with you, they will probably be getting less air going down then they use going up. But it sounds like the plane would be charged with enough compressed air before liftoff to make up the difference for the calculated trip.
Cool concept though - like to see a working model - maybe combine this with Nausicaa Glider Project?
Maybe it was the distribution I was using (Fedora) but I just tried to get an athlon 1400/PVR-350 combo going and I came this }{ bloody close but I just could not getting the tuner stuff working properly with MythTV. Outside of that MythTV looks excellent, and I certainly love the expandable architecture.
I will have to say that it was a lot easier to get as far as I did this time compared to last time. Last time I tried about three+ (probably longer)years to get a bttv-848? card going. I had to hunt down and compile tons of packages. This time a fellow setup an apt-get for the Fedora and this was as close as to a Windows type (in terms on non-technical need on the part of the user) install that I've seen. Very nice.
Popped the PVR-350 into the Windows XP box and it just worked. That plus the Hauppauge MediaMVP (baserd on Linux) player needing Windows means it stays there. It's this level of integration that Linux needs to conquer to reach for the desktop.
Anyhow I say if you just want it to work WITHOUT doing work look at Tivo/Replay/etc. BTW one of the good things going for them is a built-in infrared blaster to control your external tuner box. Figure that cost in for any homebrew solution.
Some cables company (mine does, 8.95 additional/a box) are coming out with a DVR rental situation that would be even easier.
Actually, what caused this war (or at least the public version of the reason) was that we suspected Weapons of Mass Destruction and that Iraq wasn't fully cooperating fully in providing they didn't. Yeah maybe we were paranoid, but since they were not an innocent county (I remember them invading somebody? ) we have to assume the worse when there is a ruthless dictator running about.
Freeing the Iraq people was a nice bonus.
Damage Results From "Crater " Equations Show Significant Tile Damage
which I imagine should have had the following affect on the two types of audience memebers - 'senior'engineer and 'senior'managers.
Senior Engineer - Screw the presentation give me the data the Shuttle is in trouble
Senior Managers - Big Hole can't be good
I won't disagree with Dr Tufte's conclusion on those particluar slide he outlined - yes they were packed full of words and should have been spread out. But I doubt it was PowerPoint. Especially not from the final summary bulletpoint on the last page of the report {page 13 I'll note} gave the engineer's conclusion
Conclusion
Contingent on multiple tile loss thermal analysis showing no violation of M/OD criteria,safe return indicated even with significant tile damage
Yeah you're right but I was assuming (my bad) that they will throw a few firewalls and patches in there.
Unless there is a menu option on the ATM to open the attachment on a email that promise to enlarge you AND your checking account that shouldn't be a problem.
After all the real problem is end-users who click on things they shouldn't - followed closely by those who allow end-users to do that.
No, the real question is why pay licensing fees to Micro$oft when Linux is free (SCO get real!) and IMHO better. Is it because of security certification??
A technical manager who has been IT grunt at some point may help communication to their techies, but this brings up the problem of somebody who last touched the technolgy years ago but thinks they still have a (intimate) clue - or better yet make low level technical decisions.
Either they keep a hand in the technology or know their limits (a la Clint Eastwood) and when in doubt ask.
If it's a large company, you could easily get caught in the grip of some corporate HR policy that ties your immediate management's hands. If that's your case, AND you have spoken to your boss about your unhappiness several times before, it becomes an "look what evil HR made us do" situation.
I took one counteroffer and did not regret it. There was another counteroffer (evil HR scenario) that I did not take and I did not regret it. You weigh the risks and make the best business decision for you.
Either way you take risks (old company lays you off for 'lack of loyalty', new company lays you off for 'lack of seniority', and so on). Make it a business decision and take the best return on your (time) investment while minimizing risks.
If you read the few sentences before this one, you will see Shahin Khan (Sun author) was discounting the idea you can take many low utilization boxes and consolidate them onto the mainframe, end up with higher utilization and still expect to handle peak loads. The many under utilized boxes have the spare capacity in case there is a surge in traffic. That's what he means by sizing for peak demand.
He could have made the point clearer, I don't think he was denying z/VMs ability to shift resources between Linux images.
Napster will only block a song only if the copyright owner requests them to. This allows the true owner of the property to decide if it should be freely available.
Freedom of choice for the owner - I like it!
Check out Pinnacle's Studio DC10+ for (US) $100. Hardware based MPEG and there's a linux driver available (which I have not used yet).
With Win98SE it works great; at the highest NTSC rates (S-VHS 29.997 frames) it takes less then %25 of a 700MHz Duron while churning out ~6MBs a sec of video.
I'm going to use AVI_IO(seperate $25 shareware package) with it to turn my box into a digital VCR.