My car has this too, it's called a transponder key. However, no alarm goes off if I don't use the key in the ignition and I can see no reason for the alarm to go off. What if I just want to open the door to get a CD out of my visor or my gloves from the glove box? Transponder keys are a great idea, but car alarms are not.
You can burn every song you download from the iTunes Music Store onto CD, and you can even mix and match these songs with your existing MP3 collection.
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So no, you are not limited to listening to iTunes content on an iPod. Other than burning to a CD, you stream the content to other machines on your LAN.
I'll second that. I have one of the older models (sans flash), and it is great for taking random pictures of the interesting things that you run into on any given day.
Don't every try to use it indoors or you'll feel ripped off, but outside it's fine as long as you have decent lighting (doesn't have to be that bright).
However, beware getting it to work with non-commercial OSes. I still haven't had any luck with that, though I haven't looked in a few months.
Re:On the subject of Mars...
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The Mars24 application lets you mark several 'Martian landmarks' on the map that it provides. This includes the Beagle 2's landing sight. I don't see Mars Express in the list, but the Jar includes an XML document of the landmarks, so if they've done their job you simply need to add entries to the XML document.
On a similar note, looking at the contents of the Mars24 app reveals classes named EarthTime, MarsTime, and TitanTime. So, I'm wondering why they didn't include the functionality to let us monitor Titan time as well.
The cheaper model also has a 300 MHz processor whereas the higher end model has a 400 MHz processor and a USB cradle that includes a battery charging slot.
If you check this screenshot you can see that the "A" drive is a floppy drive and there is no "B" drive. There is also no CD-ROM drive present. I'm curious what would happend under Win9X if he were to add another drive; it would be as simple as mapping a network drive. Is Win9X smart enough to support this and use something like double letters for the drive, like the "AA" drive?
Consoles tend to have a large variety of controllers available as well, including a keyboard/controller combo and wireless controllers. The only type of controller that I've never seen for a console is a mouse.
The slashdot article mentioning Maxtor's upcoming 320 GB drive can be found here.
Unfortunately, the drive will be a 5400 rpm drive when it comes out some time around the end of this year. However, the article also mentions a 250 GB model that will run at 7200 rpm.
Hopefully this will be the first step towards several similar changes such as removing "In God We Trust" from our currency and taking bibles out of swearing in ceremonies.
You've had a much better experience with this than I have. I've only had one instance so far where I've had to tell the PM that it was impossible but the problem was that he didn't believe me. His reply was "So, you don't know how to do this?" so I gave him a mathematical proof as to why it was possible. This PM has a Masters in Strcutural Engineering from a well-respected university, so I thought that should be enough, however he simply crumpled it up and told me that he would write the code since I obviously didn't understand what he wanted. A couple of months later he raises the issue with me again and tells me that he is having trouble implementing it. Knowing that he is going to ignore my proof if I show it to him again I came up with the most basic and realistic data set that I could that would be unsolvable. I then asked him to try solving this data set by hand. Two days later when he came to me and told me that he didn't think it was possible I had to fight very hard to hold back the "I told you so" because I was hoping that this incident would convince him that in the future if I say "impossible" then he should consider the possibility of something really being impossible. Unfortunately nothing has changed and I am now looking to change jobs.
Anyone know a company that doesn't treat its developers like morons and that is hiring?
When I told some of my friends that I was going with wireless net access they laughed at me. When they saw how much faster my connection was than their cable and DSL connections they stopped laughing. It's also cheaper than the local DSL provider. I'm about to move and am really going to miss the service, but if you're in the Rock Hill, SC area you should really check out CetLink's wireless access - it's as good as they advertise and they have most of the county covered.
Ever had a lay over at an airport or been stuck in the hotel during vacation because of lousy weather?
Think outside of the box (er, car) and see how great this would be for a kid during that 2hr flight to see the grandparents or when flying home from college during breaks.
Console manufacturers have traditionally taken a loss of the sale of consoles and made up for it with licensing fees from games, so it's hard to think that a company has a pricing problem with a product that they are losing money on. Also, look at the price tags on the competition: PS2 and XBox are $100 more expensive and neither offer portability yet. Sure, you get the DVD capabilities, but I've already got a DVD player and even if I didn't, I could pick one up at Best Buy for less than $80 that will also play mp3's.
Well, unless the power adapters are specific to the GameCube's hardware, then $150 screen + $50 Dreamcast + $50 battery = $250 portable game console. The DC may not have the latest and greatest games any more, but it's still alive and kicking.
Re:Phase Three: Profit!
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You do NOT have a right to take my work and plaster it all over the fucking internet.
True. Very true.
And that's what they're trying to stop. If stopping that means you can't make copies whenever you want, then that's just too bad...
Wrong. Very wrong. As a US citizen I'm subject to it's laws which grant me the right to make copies of legally obtained works whenever I want for limited purposes. See Title 17 of the US Code for more information. It's not "just too bad" if I can't, it's a violation of my civil liberties.
I've just finished college where I had a friend who insisted on photocopying the textbooks for all of his classes to avoid paying the (sometime outrageous) prices at the campus store. Is that legal? No. Could just about everyone at the university have done it? Yes. But of the 6000+ students at the school, I'm aware of very few (actually, only the one) that do this. If loads of college students, many of whom are living on tight budgets, don't try to cheat the system now despite how easy it is, then I doubt that many more people will try to cheat the system just because they can with ebooks.
Lack of DRM in ebooks most likely won't lead to a noticeable increase in the piracy of books. However, DRM that infringes on my rights as a US citizen (to make legal copies of a work for certain purposes or to resell the work) will stop me from purchasing a particular book. The inconveniences of DRM are likely to be more harmful to publishers than piracy of ebooks.
The population of the US is currently at about 285 million people. Your idea would mean that their would be about 30,000 members of congress. Think of the chaos. People say that it takes a long time to get legislation through congress now, well just imagine how bad it would be with that many representatives. Just imagine how much time that the House Rules Committee would have to allott for each debate. Nothing would ever get done.
As a South Carolinian, here is my view on this subject:
According to a poll that a Poli Sci proffessor gave me in college, most South Carolinians cannot name their junior Senator. Strom Thurmond is much more well known, and because of this Fritz Hollings tends to be able to do just about anything he wants without fear of retaliation from the voters. Senator Thurmond is a much more public figure and therefore draws all of the attention away from Senator Hollings. Many organizations target Hollings to support their bills because of this fact, and because of the numerous positions that he holds in the Senate:
He is the fifth most senior member of the Senate and the fourth most senior Democrat.
Hollings is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the senior member of the Senate Budget Committee.
He is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary and serves as the third-ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee
He is up for re-election in 2004, and if I'm still in this state then he will certainly not have my support.
Now that HavenCo will be taking over the operations of the government of Sealand will you seek recognition from other nations? I would imagine that having other nations officially recognize Sealand's sovereignty would create a precedent that would be useful if legal action were to be taken against HavenCo. Is this a priority?
I hope that this trial somehow gets televised; I'm dying to know how this guy claims that no crime was committed. This should be more interesting than the OJ trial.
Honestly, that has to be one of the most ignorant PR moves of the year.
So long as the fan sites aren't using the images, sound clips, etc. to blast the show then isn't this basically free advertising on the 'net for Iron Chefs? Why yes Bob, I believe that it is. So, instead of rejoicing that viewers thought so much of the show that they were willing to dedicate hours of work to honor it, Fuji TV decides that having loyal fans is a Bad Thing (TM). I think that their ratings are about to go South.
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My car has this too, it's called a transponder key. However, no alarm goes off if I don't use the key in the ignition and I can see no reason for the alarm to go off. What if I just want to open the door to get a CD out of my visor or my gloves from the glove box? Transponder keys are a great idea, but car alarms are not.
From the Apple iTunes overview:
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So no, you are not limited to listening to iTunes content on an iPod. Other than burning to a CD, you stream the content to other machines on your LAN.
I'll second that. I have one of the older models (sans flash), and it is great for taking random pictures of the interesting things that you run into on any given day.
Don't every try to use it indoors or you'll feel ripped off, but outside it's fine as long as you have decent lighting (doesn't have to be that bright).
However, beware getting it to work with non-commercial OSes. I still haven't had any luck with that, though I haven't looked in a few months.
The Mars24 application lets you mark several 'Martian landmarks' on the map that it provides. This includes the Beagle 2's landing sight. I don't see Mars Express in the list, but the Jar includes an XML document of the landmarks, so if they've done their job you simply need to add entries to the XML document.
On a similar note, looking at the contents of the Mars24 app reveals classes named EarthTime, MarsTime, and TitanTime. So, I'm wondering why they didn't include the functionality to let us monitor Titan time as well.
The cheaper model also has a 300 MHz processor whereas the higher end model has a 400 MHz processor and a USB cradle that includes a battery charging slot.
If you check this screenshot you can see that the "A" drive is a floppy drive and there is no "B" drive. There is also no CD-ROM drive present. I'm curious what would happend under Win9X if he were to add another drive; it would be as simple as mapping a network drive. Is Win9X smart enough to support this and use something like double letters for the drive, like the "AA" drive?
Consoles tend to have a large variety of controllers available as well, including a keyboard/controller combo and wireless controllers. The only type of controller that I've never seen for a console is a mouse.
The slashdot article mentioning Maxtor's upcoming 320 GB drive can be found here.
Unfortunately, the drive will be a 5400 rpm drive when it comes out some time around the end of this year. However, the article also mentions a 250 GB model that will run at 7200 rpm.
I was actually WATCHING Office Space when this story was posted. It's a sign, has to be a sign.
I used to be over by the window and there were squirrels and they were merry. But then they switched from the Swingline to the Boston...
Hopefully this will be the first step towards several similar changes such as removing "In God We Trust" from our currency and taking bibles out of swearing in ceremonies.
You've had a much better experience with this than I have. I've only had one instance so far where I've had to tell the PM that it was impossible but the problem was that he didn't believe me. His reply was "So, you don't know how to do this?" so I gave him a mathematical proof as to why it was possible. This PM has a Masters in Strcutural Engineering from a well-respected university, so I thought that should be enough, however he simply crumpled it up and told me that he would write the code since I obviously didn't understand what he wanted. A couple of months later he raises the issue with me again and tells me that he is having trouble implementing it. Knowing that he is going to ignore my proof if I show it to him again I came up with the most basic and realistic data set that I could that would be unsolvable. I then asked him to try solving this data set by hand. Two days later when he came to me and told me that he didn't think it was possible I had to fight very hard to hold back the "I told you so" because I was hoping that this incident would convince him that in the future if I say "impossible" then he should consider the possibility of something really being impossible. Unfortunately nothing has changed and I am now looking to change jobs.
Anyone know a company that doesn't treat its developers like morons and that is hiring?
When I told some of my friends that I was going with wireless net access they laughed at me. When they saw how much faster my connection was than their cable and DSL connections they stopped laughing. It's also cheaper than the local DSL provider. I'm about to move and am really going to miss the service, but if you're in the Rock Hill, SC area you should really check out CetLink's wireless access - it's as good as they advertise and they have most of the county covered.
If you're interested in knowing what kinds of hacks are available before purchasing one of these then take a look at the Linux Hacker BBS Forums.
TigerDirect is also selling the IA-2 model for $99, just look here.
Ever had a lay over at an airport or been stuck in the hotel during vacation because of lousy weather?
Think outside of the box (er, car) and see how great this would be for a kid during that 2hr flight to see the grandparents or when flying home from college during breaks.
Console manufacturers have traditionally taken a loss of the sale of consoles and made up for it with licensing fees from games, so it's hard to think that a company has a pricing problem with a product that they are losing money on. Also, look at the price tags on the competition: PS2 and XBox are $100 more expensive and neither offer portability yet. Sure, you get the DVD capabilities, but I've already got a DVD player and even if I didn't, I could pick one up at Best Buy for less than $80 that will also play mp3's.
Well, unless the power adapters are specific to the GameCube's hardware, then $150 screen + $50 Dreamcast + $50 battery = $250 portable game console. The DC may not have the latest and greatest games any more, but it's still alive and kicking.
You do NOT have a right to take my work and plaster it all over the fucking internet.
True. Very true.
And that's what they're trying to stop. If stopping that means you can't make copies whenever you want, then that's just too bad...
Wrong. Very wrong. As a US citizen I'm subject to it's laws which grant me the right to make copies of legally obtained works whenever I want for limited purposes. See Title 17 of the US Code for more information. It's not "just too bad" if I can't, it's a violation of my civil liberties.
I've just finished college where I had a friend who insisted on photocopying the textbooks for all of his classes to avoid paying the (sometime outrageous) prices at the campus store. Is that legal? No. Could just about everyone at the university have done it? Yes. But of the 6000+ students at the school, I'm aware of very few (actually, only the one) that do this. If loads of college students, many of whom are living on tight budgets, don't try to cheat the system now despite how easy it is, then I doubt that many more people will try to cheat the system just because they can with ebooks.
Lack of DRM in ebooks most likely won't lead to a noticeable increase in the piracy of books. However, DRM that infringes on my rights as a US citizen (to make legal copies of a work for certain purposes or to resell the work) will stop me from purchasing a particular book. The inconveniences of DRM are likely to be more harmful to publishers than piracy of ebooks.
The BBC also has an article today detailing some of the groups and corporations that are lining up to take on Microsoft on several different fronts.
The population of the US is currently at about 285 million people. Your idea would mean that their would be about 30,000 members of congress. Think of the chaos. People say that it takes a long time to get legislation through congress now, well just imagine how bad it would be with that many representatives. Just imagine how much time that the House Rules Committee would have to allott for each debate. Nothing would ever get done.
According to a poll that a Poli Sci proffessor gave me in college, most South Carolinians cannot name their junior Senator. Strom Thurmond is much more well known, and because of this Fritz Hollings tends to be able to do just about anything he wants without fear of retaliation from the voters. Senator Thurmond is a much more public figure and therefore draws all of the attention away from Senator Hollings. Many organizations target Hollings to support their bills because of this fact, and because of the numerous positions that he holds in the Senate:
He is up for re-election in 2004, and if I'm still in this state then he will certainly not have my support.
The BBC ran this article yesterday; their version is a little less in depth however.
~caliban
Now that HavenCo will be taking over the operations of the government of Sealand will you seek recognition from other nations? I would imagine that having other nations officially recognize Sealand's sovereignty would create a precedent that would be useful if legal action were to be taken against HavenCo. Is this a priority?
~CalibanDNS
I hope that this trial somehow gets televised; I'm dying to know how this guy claims that no crime was committed. This should be more interesting than the OJ trial.
~CalibanDNS
Honestly, that has to be one of the most ignorant PR moves of the year.
So long as the fan sites aren't using the images, sound clips, etc. to blast the show then isn't this basically free advertising on the 'net for Iron Chefs? Why yes Bob, I believe that it is. So, instead of rejoicing that viewers thought so much of the show that they were willing to dedicate hours of work to honor it, Fuji TV decides that having loyal fans is a Bad Thing (TM). I think that their ratings are about to go South.
~CalibanDNS