trust me, if there's one group that can savage a machine, it's teachers and students. A fair number of these efforts have already been discussed on/. before, so i won't bother with linkage. for a tight, basic machine, though, i think that'd be your best starting point. now, if only one of those projects ran debian. sigh.
approximate pricing for the higher end board?
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looked at all three of the articles and darned if i saw more than a listing of the lower end board at $100, which would be about right. The higher end board would be perfect for a lan party rig, or a computer for your stereo, or some such, if the price was right.
I tend to stay out of RMS flamewars, but this (apparent change) intrigues me. On the Gnu site, they refer to it as Gnu/Linux. In this article, RMS' quote refers to it as Gnu+Linux. Leaving aside the propriety of calling it Gnu/Linux in the first place, this seems to me to be a better nomenclature, since it is indeed Gnu software plus the Linux kernel. Does this signify a change, or is it just a slipup? I find it hard to believe that RMS would slipup in such a fashion.
betcha when they find out it uses the advanced technology of their e-meters, they'll sue.
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just as well, i suppose. but while i'm here, i can clear up a few misconceptions i've seen so far.
first, since it's milled, they can bevel the inner edge- or at least the place i got mine from, Rings Forever did. (they did a really cool job, btw.) anyway, they'll make it however you want. but the beveled edge made it easy to slide on and off. it also seemed slippery than regular gold. they used medical grade Ti, which cuts easy enough, too.
second, they stated in a faq that came with it(and i can't find it on the website now) that you had to use a special machine to make one bigger, and it was only good for a one time enlargement. they do say now that they'll do resizings for free.
third, they sound great when struck. beautiful tone.
fourth, the beautiful matte finish they have wears off, unfortunately. but it's still pretty regardless.
i showed mine off to Orson Scott Card at a signing once. he said he had never actually seen one in person; his novelization of 'the abyss' was where i got the idea. (this was back about 93, I guess; got married in 92.)
i don't care about the thickness of my PDA. after seeing the sony clie 750 (i think that's the number) at best buy, i now care about the resolution. the color model with 320x320 is the first PDA i've seen where you could actually conceivably use it to read books on. comparing it to the prism was laughable- and it looked better than any of the pocket pc's.
by my reckoning, it is 144 dpi. if handspring would come out with color at 144dpi, i'd buy it in a heartbeat.
i keep threatening to get personal business cards made up with this, but haven't yet.
punniest dept. name, and disappointing resolution.
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first, that's got to be the loudest i've groaned at a dept. title in months.
second, following a commented link on PDI's rendering statistics, you can see that they render at (approx.) 1880x990. film can take approximately 2000 pixels top to bottom. this is what scares me about digital film: the loss of picture quality. i don't know about you, but i could tell the scene in phantom menace where it was digital, because it looked grainier.
i see no need to take a step backwards to a quarter of the resolution that we have today, when in 10 years computers will handle a full 4000x2000 frame easily. does anybody know at what level pixar renders its films at?
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i don't know why this comes as a surprise etc.
to get the cheap per-seat pricing for education, you have pay a 2 year tithe, at the end of which you have to renew. at about $43 per seat, including licenses to access any back office application as well as for office pro, it's relatively affordable.
and this should not be ignored, next time somebody wants to prove that there do exist communities of ethical hackers.
i can't decide i'm surprised or relieved, but i think at heart i'm neither. it is nice to see proof of my central belief that people are mostly good, and that the computer hacker community is no different.
all that being said, kudos to DirecTV for the elegance of their solution, short-lived as it will be. boos to the thieves, who while certainly clever, could better be using their energies to other purposes.
that's what i did. after considering making some drawer units, at considerable expense (the slides are ridiculous) and time, i found a used fireproof locking file cabinet.
it was used by a county courthouse to hold deed records. it fits 4 cds across in each drawer, spine up, and fits 75 deep in each drawer. with its 5 drawers, i'm still about 1.5 drawers away from running out of space.
cost? $200, and one missed day of work because i tore my diaphragm moving it. (fireproofing = weight. it weighs about 1000 lbs. minus drawers.)
i use matboard as dividers and indexing cards.
the fireproofing was unusual, but they had multiple other file cabinets that were designed for 8x5 cards and such that would have worked as well.
The reason I wonder is that this is very nearly the same thinking that's used in missiles- an ICBM has a rounder nose, too, not a sharp point. Just as a diver doesn't cleave into the water, but rather punches his way, so too do missiles. You would have thought the Navy would have been thinking about this since the 60's. Interesting idea, though, but I think moreso for the mine-killing aspect of it.
This was a fine thing to post on July the 4th. Yes, as was posted earlier, there have been a number of scary incidents involving nuclear weapons. However, there have also been some truly wonderful results: putting a man on the moon, having wonderful photos of the cosmos, communicating to anywhere on the globe. I grew up a military brat. I was born at Patrick AFB, at the Cape. My father was a geodetic surveyor for the Air Force, and so I lived at mostly missile bases- F.E. Warren in Wyoming, Vandenberg in California. Every summer, the ICBM crews would fly their missiles into Vandenberg in C5a Galaxies, and then fire them off in training. Watching all those Minutemen IIIs go into the sky, heading downstream to Kwajalein (sp., i'm sure) Atoll was a thrilling experience. Supposedly, they would land in the middle of it, thanks to my dad's work (and 1000s of other peoples, too) on the guidance system. I also got to see a good chunk of the GPS satellites go into orbit, and also watched the first MX missile, aka Peacekeeper, launch. At the time, I wished that we lived somewhere that had fighter planes, or bombers, or some active squadron- instead, we only saw big transports and such. Now, though, I can't imagine growing up any other way. One time, during the halftime of a water polo match, a minutemen went up. It was near winter, and was about 9pm. It was a normal launch, except for one thing: at about 50 degrees on the horizon, its vapor trail left a glowing cross that stayed in the sky for about 15 minutes. I still don't know why it happened, but it's one of the prettiest things I've even seen. Even after the glory days of the space program, with its vigor, there was still an aura of excitement that was more than just military: it was geek excitement, that of making things, things that worked in spectacular ways, even if their intended purpose wasn't always nice. That aura shaped me, made me what I am, a computer professional, and I'm happy today for it. This is a wonderful country, and I hope Americans never lose sight of it.
i was real glad to see coverage of the broderbund issue, because it explained (at least partially) why Broderbund software is so behind the times in technological requirements. Unfortunately, I have to deal with the quirks of their stuff on a daily basis, and software that only works in 256 color mode is quite unpleasant. and with mattel continuing to have problems, it doesn't look that's going to get any better. i think the one app that could really convince people to switch to linux/bsd would be printshop, scary as that is.
Why would a company with the smartest people in the world make life more difficult on themselves by making their own formats hard to read?
That's a good question I'd like to know the answer to. Having tried in the past to plumb its depths in order to output database reports in it, I really don't know.
Are these formats really open, however, or are they like the shrinkwrap on the Kerberos license? Back when I got the format, I had to sign an NDA and promise not to use the format in a word processing program.
Microsoft are moving to XML based everything.
Yes, and have you looked at how they use it to save HTML? Biggest bunch of spaghetti known to man.
Look, I'm not an agnostic here: I use Windows 98 everyday, and Office, too, and am an MCSE. But it is futile to defend a company who attempts to maintain their monopoly by making things complicated. I would defend them more if they merely trusted the quality of their own products, instead of doing their best to lock you in by means that go against computing's best practices: keeping things simple, and allowing you to move your data however you like.
I think the quote on the OpenDWG Alliance page sums it up:
Who should have control of your DWG files? You should.
It is very scary that a good chunk of word processed documents are stored in an overly complicated binary format.
Some of you who are in K12 schools may know this. With the wiring of schools and school districts finally happening, due to e-rate funding and paranoid school boards, there has been an explosion of k12 presence, and a good use of the.us domain as well. Here in georgia, there are any number of sites ending in k12.ga.us, and I've seen lots of other states encouraging it too. We still have school districts who insist on having a shorter.org address, but they are (thankfully) the minority.
you know, i would feel different about allocation of.gov,.mil, and.edu if it weren't for the fact that American dollars created it all. I wonder how long it would have taken a worldwide network to get to the current size of the internet without the US military having instigated things? The fact is, we DID create it, so deal with it. I'd rather energy be invested in creating new TLD and/or kicking businesses back into.com from.net and.org addresses.
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trust me, if there's one group that can savage a machine, it's teachers and students. A fair number of these efforts have already been discussed on /. before, so i won't bother with linkage.
for a tight, basic machine, though, i think that'd be your best starting point.
now, if only one of those projects ran debian. sigh.
looked at all three of the articles and darned if i saw more than a listing of the lower end board at $100, which would be about right. The higher end board would be perfect for a lan party rig, or a computer for your stereo, or some such, if the price was right.
i can infer that it's the quantity of workable units that come off a wafer, but is that correct? why not just use the word yield, then?
didn't find anything informative with a quick googling.
I tend to stay out of RMS flamewars, but this (apparent change) intrigues me. On the Gnu site, they refer to it as Gnu/Linux. In this article, RMS' quote refers to it as Gnu+Linux.
Leaving aside the propriety of calling it Gnu/Linux in the first place, this seems to me to be a better nomenclature, since it is indeed Gnu software plus the Linux kernel.
Does this signify a change, or is it just a slipup? I find it hard to believe that RMS would slipup in such a fashion.
wish it were up. i'd be real curious to see this.
such a silly snarky little statement to make. man's been manipulating animals for thousands of years.
betcha when they find out it uses the advanced technology of their e-meters, they'll sue.
just as well, i suppose.
but while i'm here, i can clear up a few misconceptions i've seen so far.
first, since it's milled, they can bevel the inner edge- or at least the place i got mine from, Rings Forever did. (they did a really cool job, btw.) anyway, they'll make it however you want. but the beveled edge made it easy to slide on and off. it also seemed slippery than regular gold. they used medical grade Ti, which cuts easy enough, too.
second, they stated in a faq that came with it(and i can't find it on the website now) that you had to use a special machine to make one bigger, and it was only good for a one time enlargement. they do say now that they'll do resizings for free.
third, they sound great when struck. beautiful tone.
fourth, the beautiful matte finish they have wears off, unfortunately. but it's still pretty regardless.
i showed mine off to Orson Scott Card at a signing once. he said he had never actually seen one in person; his novelization of 'the abyss' was where i got the idea. (this was back about 93, I guess; got married in 92.)
i don't care about the thickness of my PDA. after seeing the sony clie 750 (i think that's the number) at best buy, i now care about the resolution. the color model with 320x320 is the first PDA i've seen where you could actually conceivably use it to read books on. comparing it to the prism was laughable- and it looked better than any of the pocket pc's.
by my reckoning, it is 144 dpi. if handspring would come out with color at 144dpi, i'd buy it in a heartbeat.
don't know whether they're getting slashdotted or what, but their multiple entry form doesn't work.
got 30 of these suckers to get exchanged.
Kidding of course, but my first thought was that.
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i keep threatening to get personal business cards made up with this, but haven't yet.
first, that's got to be the loudest i've groaned at a dept. title in months.
second, following a commented link on PDI's rendering statistics, you can see that they render at (approx.) 1880x990. film can take approximately 2000 pixels top to bottom. this is what scares me about digital film: the loss of picture quality. i don't know about you, but i could tell the scene in phantom menace where it was digital, because it looked grainier.
i see no need to take a step backwards to a quarter of the resolution that we have today, when in 10 years computers will handle a full 4000x2000 frame easily. does anybody know at what level pixar renders its films at?
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i don't know why this comes as a surprise etc.
to get the cheap per-seat pricing for education, you have pay a 2 year tithe, at the end of which you have to renew. at about $43 per seat, including licenses to access any back office application as well as for office pro, it's relatively affordable.
that's what i really want to know. everybody else has to put up with .us or use .org or .com or .net to get a short name. seems fishy to me.
and this should not be ignored, next time somebody wants to prove that there do exist communities of ethical hackers.
i can't decide i'm surprised or relieved, but i think at heart i'm neither. it is nice to see proof of my central belief that people are mostly good, and that the computer hacker community is no different.
all that being said, kudos to DirecTV for the elegance of their solution, short-lived as it will be. boos to the thieves, who while certainly clever, could better be using their energies to other purposes.
but surely we could hope to not make an error this egregious. jvc? qvc?
that's what i did. after considering making some drawer units, at considerable expense (the slides are ridiculous) and time, i found a used fireproof locking file cabinet.
it was used by a county courthouse to hold deed records. it fits 4 cds across in each drawer, spine up, and fits 75 deep in each drawer. with its 5 drawers, i'm still about 1.5 drawers away from running out of space.
cost? $200, and one missed day of work because i tore my diaphragm moving it. (fireproofing = weight. it weighs about 1000 lbs. minus drawers.)
i use matboard as dividers and indexing cards.
the fireproofing was unusual, but they had multiple other file cabinets that were designed for 8x5 cards and such that would have worked as well.
The reason I wonder is that this is very nearly the same thinking that's used in missiles- an ICBM has a rounder nose, too, not a sharp point. Just as a diver doesn't cleave into the water, but rather punches his way, so too do missiles.
You would have thought the Navy would have been thinking about this since the 60's.
Interesting idea, though, but I think moreso for the mine-killing aspect of it.
This was a fine thing to post on July the 4th. Yes, as was posted earlier, there have been a number of scary incidents involving nuclear weapons. However, there have also been some truly wonderful results: putting a man on the moon, having wonderful photos of the cosmos, communicating to anywhere on the globe.
I grew up a military brat. I was born at Patrick AFB, at the Cape. My father was a geodetic surveyor for the Air Force, and so I lived at mostly missile bases- F.E. Warren in Wyoming, Vandenberg in California.
Every summer, the ICBM crews would fly their missiles into Vandenberg in C5a Galaxies, and then fire them off in training. Watching all those Minutemen IIIs go into the sky, heading downstream to Kwajalein (sp., i'm sure) Atoll was a thrilling experience. Supposedly, they would land in the middle of it, thanks to my dad's work (and 1000s of other peoples, too) on the guidance system.
I also got to see a good chunk of the GPS satellites go into orbit, and also watched the first MX missile, aka Peacekeeper, launch.
At the time, I wished that we lived somewhere that had fighter planes, or bombers, or some active squadron- instead, we only saw big transports and such. Now, though, I can't imagine growing up any other way.
One time, during the halftime of a water polo match, a minutemen went up. It was near winter, and was about 9pm. It was a normal launch, except for one thing: at about 50 degrees on the horizon, its vapor trail left a glowing cross that stayed in the sky for about 15 minutes. I still don't know why it happened, but it's one of the prettiest things I've even seen.
Even after the glory days of the space program, with its vigor, there was still an aura of excitement that was more than just military: it was geek excitement, that of making things, things that worked in spectacular ways, even if their intended purpose wasn't always nice. That aura shaped me, made me what I am, a computer professional, and I'm happy today for it. This is a wonderful country, and I hope Americans never lose sight of it.
i was real glad to see coverage of the broderbund issue, because it explained (at least partially) why Broderbund software is so behind the times in technological requirements. Unfortunately, I have to deal with the quirks of their stuff on a daily basis, and software that only works in 256 color mode is quite unpleasant. and with mattel continuing to have problems, it doesn't look that's going to get any better.
i think the one app that could really convince people to switch to linux/bsd would be printshop, scary as that is.
Now that I've got that off my chest:
Why would a company with the smartest people in the world make life more difficult on themselves by making their own formats hard to read?
That's a good question I'd like to know the answer to. Having tried in the past to plumb its depths in order to output database reports in it, I really don't know.
Are these formats really open, however, or are they like the shrinkwrap on the Kerberos license? Back when I got the format, I had to sign an NDA and promise not to use the format in a word processing program.
Microsoft are moving to XML based everything.
Yes, and have you looked at how they use it to save HTML? Biggest bunch of spaghetti known to man.
Look, I'm not an agnostic here: I use Windows 98 everyday, and Office, too, and am an MCSE. But it is futile to defend a company who attempts to maintain their monopoly by making things complicated. I would defend them more if they merely trusted the quality of their own products, instead of doing their best to lock you in by means that go against computing's best practices: keeping things simple, and allowing you to move your data however you like.
I think the quote on the OpenDWG Alliance page sums it up:
Who should have control of your DWG files?
You should.
It is very scary that a good chunk of word processed documents are stored in an overly complicated binary format.
neither of whose subtleties a court reporter would understand.
i was just waiting for the hordes to leap upon that glaring wrongness.
as for grabbing a hard drive, well, it's nice to give as we get. might as well harass them too.
Some of you who are in K12 schools may know this. .us domain as well. Here in georgia, there are any number of sites ending in k12.ga.us, and I've seen lots of other states encouraging it too. We still have school districts who insist on having a shorter .org address, but they are (thankfully) the minority.
With the wiring of schools and school districts finally happening, due to e-rate funding and paranoid school boards, there has been an explosion of k12 presence, and a good use of the
you know, i would feel different about allocation of .gov, .mil, and .edu if it weren't for the fact that American dollars created it all. I wonder how long it would have taken a worldwide network to get to the current size of the internet without the US military having instigated things? .com from .net and .org addresses.
The fact is, we DID create it, so deal with it.
I'd rather energy be invested in creating new TLD and/or kicking businesses back into