I'm extremely skeptical of the "high quality lifestyle for everyone" utopia being promoted.
In America, the Republican view is that if you're not supporting yourself through work, you're a freeloader and a drain on society. The top 1%, and even the top.1% rightfully earned their billions. They're the "job creators", and how dare we impose higher taxes on them for the betterment of the rest of society.
What you're suggesting is that Universal Basic Income becomes accepted everywhere. I feel like that's a fantasy that only happens in Science Fiction.
Why can't I cue up several podcasts on soundcloud or a book on audible.com (while stationary) and then listen to them while I drive?
If I can legally interact with a dash mounted GPS (or in-car Nav system), why can't I run a Nav app on my phone and mount it to the dash?
What would be really smart is a way to map some generic steering wheel mounted buttons to controls in the phone's nav app. This could easily be achieved over bluetooth, the same way that handheld Powerpoint presentation devices emulate the PC keyboard and allow presenters to drive their slideshow from the remote.
Steering wheel buttons could get mapped to the Google Maps app for Zoom In, Zoom Out, Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute.
I had a 1200XL, and after updating the ROM, a 256K RAM upgrade, and the video output circuitry, it was every bit as good as the 800XL.
I actually took an XF551 drive modified to use a 3.5" floppy drive mech, and hacked the controller board and drive inside the 1200XL case. The floppy drive was accessible on the right side of the computer via a nice square slot I cut out of the case.
It was pretty darn cool at the time. SpartaDOS was very similar to MS-DOS in terms of a command oriented disk operating system, and I made the leap from my Atari to PC's pretty easily.
I can't believe someone came up with a SD reader hack for them. I'm amazed some people are still hacking them!
You'd need a circuit that detects the average power supplied, as opposed to looking at the voltage level of the rectified peak output. I haven't done EE in like 12 years, so maybe this is simple to do. *shrug*
Seriously, does this not seem like Darl McBride is so obsessed with going after "the great white whale" that it's all he can think about, to the exclusion of everything else?
I think something like a Basic Stamp would be a better fit. You're not gonna have time to teach these kids Assembly Language or C programming AND still have time left over so that they can do something useful with it. I think you'd want to them over the hurdle of learning to program as quickly as possible so that they can move onto the fun stuff: making robots that can move, make decisions, sense their environment, etc.
I think learning BASIC would be much easier. It's what we learned in 7th & 8th grade. We had 68HC11 Heathkit trainers in an advanced digital electronics class taught at the High School level. It took us a long time to learn to do even trivial things in assembly on those things, and we met for 10 hours per week. (Two 5 hour days).
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I signed up for Vonage 10 days ago, and once the switchover of my phone number from my POTS line becomes effective, I'll be looking to tie the other phones in my house into the VOIP router.
From what I understand, the technique is to open the Telco box on the side of my house, and remove the wires that bridge the Telco's incoming POTS line to my home's phone wiring.
Can anyone shed any further light on this? Additional precautions? I can meter out some of the jacks to be sure there isn't any active voltage on the home wiring before tieing it into the VOIP router, but I'm not sure if there are other considerations.
Ya know, I used to have an "everything integrated" computer. There were no expansion slots inside. It had onboard audio and video, and even an integrated keyboard. There was a slot along the top to plug in add-on ROM modules. Ports along the back allowed you to plug in your mouse, monitor, and other external storage devices, just like this new MAC.
It was called an Atari 800XL, and I hated it. Why? Upgrading memory required soldering parts to the motherboard. Every new external storage device I wanted required a separate external device. My desk was actually more cluttered than it is now with a big mid-tower ATX case with lots of free bays in it.
Imagine this new iMac or whatever it's gonna be called, if the user should ever decide to upgrade to:
A new DVD player as an external Firewire or USB device
A Magneto-Optical storage device, external Firewire or USB
An add-on hard drive, external Firewire
A MMC or Compact Flash card reader, external Firewire or USB
What's better? All of this in a tower case or having a ultra-sleek Apple unit that now looks like a tarantula with lots of extra communications and power cables going to all this external, expensive stuff?
I guess I'm just not a big fan of BIC lighter computer designs anymore. I like the idea of adding new components to my system without adding additional cable clutter and having to dig out yet another power strip to feed yet another external device.
It seems to me that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
The automotive companies are going retro with cars like the Ford T-Bird and the Ford GT-40, the Chrysler PT-Cruiser and the Prowler, and the Chevy Bel-Air. And now Steve Jobs thinks it's cool to re-introduce a modernized Apple IIc?
FrontPath has the ProGear webpad that sports a 1024x768 display, 802.11b via 1 PCMCIA slot, 5G HD, and runs either Linux or Windows 98. They also retail for around $3000.00. We're evaluating them as a data input device for part inspection at a large automative facility.
This $600.00 Aqua has piqued my interest, but the 800x600 screen may be a limitation for us. Some of our data input screens show numerous technical drawings of door panels with dozens of welds that need to be checked. It would be difficult to squeeze them down onto a 800x600 screen.
Jeff
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ActiveX is a concrete example of "May introduce such an extension any day". ActiveX controls in an IE web browser is an alternative to Java Applets in a web browser. I work in the industrial automation industry. Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Software has a product called ViewAnywhere that is a web browser extension of their RSView32 Human Machine Interface (HMI) software. It is only available as an ActiveX control, not as a Java Applet. They wrote it as an ActiveX because "80% of the users are IE users anyway".
This precluded us from suggesting the wireless web pad device from SonicBlue called the ProGrear as a wireless, take it with you, HMI for the factory floor. The ProGear used to be a Linux only, Netscape 4.7/6.0 browser based web tablet. It does not run ActiveX controls, hence it does not support products like Rockwell's ViewAnywhere.
Every time you choose a Microsoft product you're slowly being pulled more and more into a Microsoft only world. Visual Interdev makes it easy to build web apps that include Active X controls. These ActiveX controls only run on a Microsoft browser, and the easiest way to communicate back to a server from ActiveX is, arguably DCOM, which only works on a Microsoft server operating system. InterDev also supports project uploading and remote project debugging using FrontPage extensions and other hooks. Some of this works on Apache, but it works best against IIS on NT Server. ActiveX controls can be written in Microsoft Java (Visual J++), but again, they're best supported when written in Visual Basic or Visual C++.
Every product of Microsoft's you choose to use produces greater incentive for you to use even more Microsoft products. This slippery slope is one of the most annoying and dangerous aspects of working with Microsoft products, and it all starts with something as "trivial" as choosing IE as your corporate standard web browser.
The article mentions support for Screaming Sindie instructions. That's a good one. Someone must have dictated "Streaming SIMD" (or SSE) over the phone and the reporter obviously didn't have a clue what was meant.
I'm running Mozilla 0.7 on a K63-450 with 80M of RAM. The motherboard is an older VX97 chipset model that only supports a 66MHz bus. 0.7 works much better than previous releases did. I actually enjoyed using it last night, which was a first for Mozilla. The slugging performance always kept me using Netscape 4 until now.
I'm running Debian/GNU Linux with Windowmaker as my window manager.
I work with Fanuc Robotics who are currently playing with a 2 megabit per second wireless ethernet system. A Access point plugs into a standard ethernet hub, and a Client Access Bridge plugs into the 10/100BT ethernet port on the client device's ethernet card. This allows seamless wireless ethernet communication between a LAN and any number of clients without the need of drivers, PCMCIA wireless ethernet cards, etc.
You could couple this with something like Dallas Semiconductor's TINI - a microprocessor, RAM, EPROM, and Ethernet controller that runs Java. (www.tini.com)
The TINI device would be wired to acquire the data, and send it to the collecting server via Java's Remote Method Invocation protocol, or some other TCP/IP based protocol of your own design. With an wireless Access Point on the PC server and a wireless Client Access Bridge on each data acquition device you'd be able to meet all your requirements.
The TINI hardware is very inexpensive. The wireless ethernet hardware will be considerably more. I don't know the brand name of the hardware Fanuc is using but I could check if you're interested.
Jeff McWilliams
Software Architect
ACE Technologies
Jeff.mcWilliams@acetechnologies.net
Yes, the intent of a simulator such as this is to help developers write/port code for the AMD 64-bit "sledgehammer" platform. I believe Intel has had a Merced (Itanium) simulator out for quite some time.
You're missing the point. The author said that MFS is typically used not for writing the game, but for writing level & character editors. That is where many of the MFC porting problems arise. MFC is THE tool to use for building standard Windows applications.
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Miss seeing his name. Those were the good ole early days of /.
I'm extremely skeptical of the "high quality lifestyle for everyone" utopia being promoted.
In America, the Republican view is that if you're not supporting yourself through work, you're a freeloader and a drain on society. The top 1%, and even the top .1% rightfully earned their billions. They're the "job creators", and how dare we impose higher taxes on them for the betterment of the rest of society.
What you're suggesting is that Universal Basic Income becomes accepted everywhere. I feel like that's a fantasy that only happens in Science Fiction.
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Why can't I cue up several podcasts on soundcloud or a book on audible.com (while stationary) and then listen to them while I drive?
If I can legally interact with a dash mounted GPS (or in-car Nav system), why can't I run a Nav app on my phone and mount it to the dash?
What would be really smart is a way to map some generic steering wheel mounted buttons to controls in the phone's nav app. This could easily be achieved over bluetooth, the same way that handheld Powerpoint presentation devices emulate the PC keyboard and allow presenters to drive their slideshow from the remote.
Steering wheel buttons could get mapped to the Google Maps app for Zoom In, Zoom Out, Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute.
I would love it if Amazon would do more to vet suppliers and eliminate the counterfeit crap.
And apparently I can't remember my own ID! Young whipper snappers...
3569 But it sure isn't what it used to be.
Anyone know how Monoprice USB cables rate? In the past, I felt their products were of decent quality while being budget friendly.
My current problem with Youtube isn't the ads, it's that Youtube runs like crap on my AT&T Uverse connection at home.
I'm sure this is a problem with AT&T and not Youtube, however. :-(
This behavior by the phone makers has had perplexed me for some time now.
Can't they see how bad they're making the phones when they pile on all these crappy mods?
I had a 1200XL, and after updating the ROM, a 256K RAM upgrade, and the video output circuitry, it was every bit as good as the 800XL.
I actually took an XF551 drive modified to use a 3.5" floppy drive mech, and hacked the controller board and drive inside the 1200XL case. The floppy drive was accessible on the right side of the computer via a nice square slot I cut out of the case.
It was pretty darn cool at the time. SpartaDOS was very similar to MS-DOS in terms of a command oriented disk operating system, and I made the leap from my Atari to PC's pretty easily.
I can't believe someone came up with a SD reader hack for them. I'm amazed some people are still hacking them!
See this article on how dimmers work.
http://www.icanhome.com/downloads/iLIGHT%20Binder-HowDimmers.pdf
You'd need a circuit that detects the average power supplied, as opposed to looking at the voltage level of the rectified peak output. I haven't done EE in like 12 years, so maybe this is simple to do. *shrug*
It sounds like a cool project.
Seriously, does this not seem like Darl McBride is so obsessed with going after "the great white whale" that it's all he can think about, to the exclusion of everything else?
Where and when does it all end?
For high school kids?
I think something like a Basic Stamp would be a better fit. You're not gonna have time to teach these kids Assembly Language or C programming AND still have time left over so that they can do something useful with it. I think you'd want to them over the hurdle of learning to program as quickly as possible so that they can move onto the fun stuff: making robots that can move, make decisions, sense their environment, etc.
I think learning BASIC would be much easier. It's what we learned in 7th & 8th grade.
We had 68HC11 Heathkit trainers in an advanced digital electronics class taught at the High School level. It took us a long time to learn to do even trivial things in assembly on those things, and we met for 10 hours per week. (Two 5 hour days).
I signed up for Vonage 10 days ago, and once the switchover of my phone number from my POTS line becomes effective, I'll be looking to tie the other phones in my house into the VOIP router.
From what I understand, the technique is to open the Telco box on the side of my house, and remove the wires that bridge the Telco's incoming POTS line to my home's phone wiring.
Can anyone shed any further light on this? Additional precautions? I can meter out some of the jacks to be sure there isn't any active voltage on the home wiring before tieing it into the VOIP router, but I'm not sure if there are other considerations.
I use a Motorola 120C phone on Verizon.
I always get headaches when using it as a normal phone pressed up against my ear.
I now use a hands-free headset as much as possible, just like Maury Ballstein from "Zoolander".
Ya know, I used to have an "everything integrated" computer. There were no expansion slots inside. It had onboard audio and video, and even an integrated keyboard. There was a slot along the top to plug in add-on ROM modules. Ports along the back allowed you to plug in your mouse, monitor, and other external storage devices, just like this new MAC.
It was called an Atari 800XL, and I hated it. Why? Upgrading memory required soldering parts to the motherboard. Every new external storage device I wanted required a separate external device. My desk was actually more cluttered than it is now with a big mid-tower ATX case with lots of free bays in it.
Imagine this new iMac or whatever it's gonna be called, if the user should ever decide to upgrade to:
A new DVD player as an external Firewire or USB device
A Magneto-Optical storage device, external Firewire or USB
An add-on hard drive, external Firewire
A MMC or Compact Flash card reader, external Firewire or USB
What's better? All of this in a tower case or having a ultra-sleek Apple unit that now looks like a tarantula with lots of extra communications and power cables going to all this external, expensive stuff?
I guess I'm just not a big fan of BIC lighter computer designs anymore. I like the idea of adding new components to my system without adding additional cable clutter and having to dig out yet another power strip to feed yet another external device.
It seems to me that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
The automotive companies are going retro with cars like the Ford T-Bird and the Ford GT-40, the Chrysler PT-Cruiser and the Prowler, and the Chevy Bel-Air. And now Steve Jobs thinks it's cool to re-introduce a modernized Apple IIc?
I'll pass.
Jeff
FrontPath has the ProGear webpad that sports a 1024x768 display, 802.11b via 1 PCMCIA slot, 5G HD, and runs either Linux or Windows 98. They also retail for around $3000.00. We're evaluating them as a data input device for part inspection at a large automative facility.
This $600.00 Aqua has piqued my interest, but the 800x600 screen may be a limitation for us. Some of our data input screens show numerous technical drawings of door panels with dozens of welds that need to be checked. It would be difficult to squeeze them down onto a 800x600 screen.
Jeff
ActiveX is a concrete example of "May introduce such an extension any day". ActiveX controls in an IE web browser is an alternative to Java Applets in a web browser. I work in the industrial automation industry. Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Software has a product called ViewAnywhere that is a web browser extension of their RSView32 Human Machine Interface (HMI) software. It is only available as an ActiveX control, not as a Java Applet. They wrote it as an ActiveX because "80% of the users are IE users anyway".
This precluded us from suggesting the wireless web pad device from SonicBlue called the ProGrear as a wireless, take it with you, HMI for the factory floor. The ProGear used to be a Linux only, Netscape 4.7/6.0 browser based web tablet. It does not run ActiveX controls, hence it does not support products like Rockwell's ViewAnywhere.
Every time you choose a Microsoft product you're slowly being pulled more and more into a Microsoft only world. Visual Interdev makes it easy to build web apps that include Active X controls. These ActiveX controls only run on a Microsoft browser, and the easiest way to communicate back to a server from ActiveX is, arguably DCOM, which only works on a Microsoft server operating system. InterDev also supports project uploading and remote project debugging using FrontPage extensions and other hooks. Some of this works on Apache, but it works best against IIS on NT Server. ActiveX controls can be written in Microsoft Java (Visual J++), but again, they're best supported when written in Visual Basic or Visual C++.
Every product of Microsoft's you choose to use produces greater incentive for you to use even more Microsoft products. This slippery slope is one of the most annoying and dangerous aspects of working with Microsoft products, and it all starts with something as "trivial" as choosing IE as your corporate standard web browser.
Jeff
Who says you don't learn something new every day?
I read slashdot and comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips regularly and this is the first time I've heard of the nickname for SSE.
Still, I don't think I deserved being called an idiot for this. Lighten up people!
Jeff
The article mentions support for Screaming Sindie instructions. That's a good one. Someone must have dictated "Streaming SIMD" (or SSE) over the phone and the reporter obviously didn't have a clue what was meant.
Jeff
I'm running Mozilla 0.7 on a K63-450 with 80M of RAM. The motherboard is an older VX97 chipset model that only supports a 66MHz bus. 0.7 works much better than previous releases did. I actually enjoyed using it last night, which was a first for Mozilla. The slugging performance always kept me using Netscape 4 until now.
I'm running Debian/GNU Linux with Windowmaker as my window manager.
Jeff
I work with Fanuc Robotics who are currently playing with a 2 megabit per second wireless ethernet system. A Access point plugs into a standard ethernet hub, and a Client Access Bridge plugs into the 10/100BT ethernet port on the client device's ethernet card. This allows seamless wireless ethernet communication between a LAN and any number of clients without the need of drivers, PCMCIA wireless ethernet cards, etc.
You could couple this with something like Dallas Semiconductor's TINI - a microprocessor, RAM, EPROM, and Ethernet controller that runs Java. (www.tini.com)
The TINI device would be wired to acquire the data, and send it to the collecting server via Java's Remote Method Invocation protocol, or some other TCP/IP based protocol of your own design. With an wireless Access Point on the PC server and a wireless Client Access Bridge on each data acquition device you'd be able to meet all your requirements.
The TINI hardware is very inexpensive. The wireless ethernet hardware will be considerably more. I don't know the brand name of the hardware Fanuc is using but I could check if you're interested.
Jeff McWilliams
Software Architect
ACE Technologies
Jeff.mcWilliams@acetechnologies.net
Yes, the intent of a simulator such as this is to help developers write/port code for the AMD 64-bit "sledgehammer" platform. I believe Intel has had a Merced (Itanium) simulator out for quite some time.
Jeff
You're missing the point. The author said that MFS is typically used not for writing the game, but for writing level & character editors. That is where many of the MFC porting problems arise. MFC is THE tool to use for building standard Windows applications.
Jeff