Not much of a bag suggestion but power supplies are indeed a pain in the ass. My phone can charge via the USB data cable so I take the cable with me to work and top off as needed. I suppose I could also just leave a charger at work but I don't have an extra. If I'm traveling and I'm taking the laptop it means I don't need the phone charger. That would apply to your situation. Not a big difference between the two but every little bit helps. I usually use a Gap messenger-style bag which has lots of pockets.
I'm pretty sure I've seen articles about building more general-purpose power supplies and/or chargers that are USB-powered. Probably on Hackaday but maybe here. RadioShack has some kind of universal power adapter - I assume it's AC-powered wih several voltage settings and tips. If something like that could cover your devices, that could help a bit.
Considering it will require at least 3 named psycho-active drugs, in delicate balance, I doubt it's going to be easy for a student, or a drug company, to just cook up in a lab.
It wasn't easy, but I have figured out how to synthesize this compound. There's just one small problem left - it's only soluble in alcohol.
Hmm, haven't read the article or even all the comments, but I think a simpler rule that could account for this behavior would be to just go into the opposite shelter as the roach in front of you. But I'm probably thinking too much like a programmer.
I suspect a flash drive would use even less energy than a hard drive in idle mode.
Yes, but I think it's the backlight and/or CPU that draw the lion's share of the juice. I looked into this idea a while back. Sorry, don't recall the numbers, but they should be easy to find.
The code seems to be calling the cpuid instruction, so as far as the "Windows-only" patch, could anyone comment on patching the Linux kernel to essentially lie to the Skype client?
Or, so as not to break other programs that use cpuid (to determine which instructions they can run, for example) perhaps this could be done in a user-space way.
I'm thinking of artsdp as a model, so you would just launch your Skype client with something like "cpufake --cpuid='Genuine Intel Dual Core We Like Skype' skype.bin" (or whatever it's called.)
I've got no idea how such a program would work, but the article did say the code was encrypted so I wonder if that would be an issue.
As long as we're picking nits and being wildly pedantic, humans are a hybrid of ourselves and bacteria in our guts that are essential to digestion or something like that. (No, I'm not a biologist.) So legislation to prohibit... creating human-animal hybrids could ban sex for procreation as it would be the intent to create a human-animal hybrid.
I have something like this. I walk a couple of blocks to my special "garage" and swipe a special mag-stripe card. I wait a couple of minutes and my self-driving car comes along. The doors open, I get in, and when I reach another special "garage" near my destination, the doors open and I get out of my self-driving car. It's no more than $2 per use and other than some taxes, I didn't pay anything up front.
I'd... program the displays to show something useful.
Nifty idea. Not sure if you were getting at this, but you could coordinate the key displays so that collectively they form an image. Then what you have is a touch-screen with tactile feedback. If the keys were close enough together and a whole bunch of other conditions were met that I haven't bothered to think about you could even get rid of your screen.
software capable of recognising emotions just by looking at photographs could lead to PCs that adjust their response depending on the user's mood.
If your computer says "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you," then you should pull the plug immediately.
Can't you attach your X session to a remote server and just set the display locally?
I've been doing this (with X -query to a faster box with lots more RAM) from a couple of different Pentium laptops (craptops) over a 802.11b connection. Mostly I just run xterm and/or Mozilla. Adblock'ing some more aggressive flash makes Mozilla much more usable with a remote display. One problem I've been having is that they're both 8-bit displays. At the very least I get that annoying colormap flashing when I also run something like xmms or xv, but I think it's related to some Mozilla crashes as well. I haven't gotten to the bottom of that, though. As long as the X server works adequately, I would assume that the network traffic is the bottleneck and that a 486 doing the same thing wouldn't be much different.
To get back to the original question - having arm's reach access to a computer is a "productivity" boost. By "productivity" I mean that I get more use out of it, so it's really more like increased utility or something. Just as an example, I look stuff up on Google all the time. For lots of those times I either wouldn't need to know right then if at all and wouldn't bother if I had to go to the other room to do it.
I write code for a Windows app for a living and feel the need to point out that even just limited to Windows, our code has to be aware of the different Windows versions. The 9x family in particular comes up short compared to NT/2K/XP, not fully supporting many GDI calls (which is what my code mainly uses.)
I read the article on Wired a few days ago and my reaction was to write a little web form/cgi pair that takes three arguments:
URL (of an image, presumably)
Height of the tile
Width of the tile
and produces a zip file (same as ipodsubwaymaps.com does) containing a set of images with dimensions HeightxWidth that tile the source image. It even has an easily-extended set of pre-defined device dimensions for iPod Photo, iPod Nano, and Palm III - 'cause that's what I have;)
It's very simple - i.e. portable. The CGI is a bash script that grabs the file with wget, chops it up with ImageMagick's convert, and zips it with, uh, zip.
Now the politics. I'd like to think that such a page could be almost as easy to use as ipodsubwaymaps.com - you just have to know how to find out the url for an image you want to download and what device you have. (Ironically the NYC map is actually in two pieces - and my page doesn't yet support joining multiple images before tiling but that's easy to add.)
It doesn't get around the "redistribution" issue, but since it has "non-infringing uses," perhaps it can be defended. And since I'm willing to distribute it if someone in, say, Uzbekistan, were to host it, only Uzbeki copyright holders could do much about it.
I'm not going to post my URL since my site is on a DSL link, and even more importantly in this case, it's running on a P133 so all that converting and zipping would crush it. But I'd be happy to email a copy to anyone interested. Put slashdot in the subject line.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm pretty sure I've seen articles about building more general-purpose power supplies and/or chargers that are USB-powered. Probably on Hackaday but maybe here. RadioShack has some kind of universal power adapter - I assume it's AC-powered wih several voltage settings and tips. If something like that could cover your devices, that could help a bit.
It wasn't easy, but I have figured out how to synthesize this compound. There's just one small problem left - it's only soluble in alcohol.
Hmm, haven't read the article or even all the comments, but I think a simpler rule that could account for this behavior would be to just go into the opposite shelter as the roach in front of you. But I'm probably thinking too much like a programmer.
Yes, but I think it's the backlight and/or CPU that draw the lion's share of the juice. I looked into this idea a while back. Sorry, don't recall the numbers, but they should be easy to find.
This is a job for ... Trademark Man!
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Or, so as not to break other programs that use cpuid (to determine which instructions they can run, for example) perhaps this could be done in a user-space way.
I'm thinking of artsdp as a model, so you would just launch your Skype client with something like "cpufake --cpuid='Genuine Intel Dual Core We Like Skype' skype.bin" (or whatever it's called.)
I've got no idea how such a program would work, but the article did say the code was encrypted so I wonder if that would be an issue.
As long as we're picking nits and being wildly pedantic, humans are a hybrid of ourselves and bacteria in our guts that are essential to digestion or something like that. (No, I'm not a biologist.) So legislation to prohibit ... creating human-animal hybrids could ban sex for procreation as it would be the intent to create a human-animal hybrid.
I have something like this. I walk a couple of blocks to my special "garage" and swipe a special mag-stripe card. I wait a couple of minutes and my self-driving car comes along. The doors open, I get in, and when I reach another special "garage" near my destination, the doors open and I get out of my self-driving car. It's no more than $2 per use and other than some taxes, I didn't pay anything up front.
Nifty idea. Not sure if you were getting at this, but you could coordinate the key displays so that collectively they form an image. Then what you have is a touch-screen with tactile feedback. If the keys were close enough together and a whole bunch of other conditions were met that I haven't bothered to think about you could even get rid of your screen.
Before his film career, he was originally in NWA (Neutrinos With Attitude.)
You got it wrong - it's "Do know evil."
Or, if you want to convert crystals to protein, buy a girl some diamonds and see what she does to thank you...
I would have said no payments for the first six months, then 19.7% after that.
So when my girlfriend makes me miserable she's making me less appealing to other women, which defends her turf. Damn, women are smart!
If your computer says "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you," then you should pull the plug immediately.
WYLD GNUZ!
You sure you don't mean WYLD STALLMANS?
I've been doing this (with X -query to a faster box with lots more RAM) from a couple of different Pentium laptops (craptops) over a 802.11b connection. Mostly I just run xterm and/or Mozilla. Adblock'ing some more aggressive flash makes Mozilla much more usable with a remote display. One problem I've been having is that they're both 8-bit displays. At the very least I get that annoying colormap flashing when I also run something like xmms or xv, but I think it's related to some Mozilla crashes as well. I haven't gotten to the bottom of that, though. As long as the X server works adequately, I would assume that the network traffic is the bottleneck and that a 486 doing the same thing wouldn't be much different.
To get back to the original question - having arm's reach access to a computer is a "productivity" boost. By "productivity" I mean that I get more use out of it, so it's really more like increased utility or something. Just as an example, I look stuff up on Google all the time. For lots of those times I either wouldn't need to know right then if at all and wouldn't bother if I had to go to the other room to do it.
Cost-effective way to solve some highly-parallelizable computing problems.
What's the point of MySQL?
Open-source, easy to use database. Well integrated with PHP for web applications.
What's the point of the iPod?
Attractive, easy-to-use, portable music player. Integrates well with ITMS.
What's the point of lighting in PC's?
I'm still trying to figure this one out.
Try new, improved Arabix! Part of this complete breakfast.
I write code for a Windows app for a living and feel the need to point out that even just limited to Windows, our code has to be aware of the different Windows versions. The 9x family in particular comes up short compared to NT/2K/XP, not fully supporting many GDI calls (which is what my code mainly uses.)
It took me a few tries, but I found this excellent site which discusses the plaque story and has lots of links that look quite interesting as well.
You might like the Sony TJ-37: PalmOS, WiFi, and Camera. Here's a review.
I'm still leaning towards the Tungsten C for the built-in keyboard but a half-vga screen is kind of tempting too.
- URL (of an image, presumably)
- Height of the tile
- Width of the tile
and produces a zip file (same as ipodsubwaymaps.com does) containing a set of images with dimensions HeightxWidth that tile the source image. It even has an easily-extended set of pre-defined device dimensions for iPod Photo, iPod Nano, and Palm III - 'cause that's what I haveIt's very simple - i.e. portable. The CGI is a bash script that grabs the file with wget, chops it up with ImageMagick's convert, and zips it with, uh, zip.
Now the politics. I'd like to think that such a page could be almost as easy to use as ipodsubwaymaps.com - you just have to know how to find out the url for an image you want to download and what device you have. (Ironically the NYC map is actually in two pieces - and my page doesn't yet support joining multiple images before tiling but that's easy to add.)
It doesn't get around the "redistribution" issue, but since it has "non-infringing uses," perhaps it can be defended. And since I'm willing to distribute it if someone in, say, Uzbekistan, were to host it, only Uzbeki copyright holders could do much about it.
I'm not going to post my URL since my site is on a DSL link, and even more importantly in this case, it's running on a P133 so all that converting and zipping would crush it. But I'd be happy to email a copy to anyone interested. Put slashdot in the subject line.
Why'd you go bringing France into this?