Do what my friend did.
He had a dolby 5.1 / dts reciever, dvd player, vcr, cable box, ps2, ps1, dreamcast all in a cabinet. The Audio reciever would get hot as hell, so he punched nice 6inch or so holes in the back of the cabinet, behind each shelf (in total 3 holes) and mounted some big fans there. They are powered off of an AUX power source on the reciever, meant for a dvd player or something. When the reciever turns on, so do all of the fans. Close the glass paneled door on the front, and you can barely make out the whirring sound when the room is silent. It gets silenced once the reciever is put to use (ie, powering the subwoofer).
Of course, his apartment is full of the constant whine of his computers, but no one minds.
A little ingeniuty one could mount the fans quieter and use quieter fans.
Yeah, think so far outside of the box by copying other people's ideas.
Or thats what my first impression was. Still really very cool. I was thinking to myself, great they are giving away all the secrets of the thing, then I realized that possibly the majority of people who would run into these things probably wont be reading something like this.
There are plants in the US that use the big bunch of mirrors system. It actually boils salt(!) which stays incredibly warm for incredible amounts of time. That is then used to boil water for turbine generators.
I think the current bottleneck of electrical energy production is the whole "lets make a bunch of magnets spin" solution. Solutions where you capture the energy from the breaking of atomic or nuclear bonds, will be what will give us boat loads of power. At that level of effeciency, we could even use oil and have it last a lot longer than we think. Right now its "lets get something really hot, make steam, have that steam spin a generator" or in the case of dams or windmills: lets use water / air to spin something.
Yeah, i think that was caused from the fact that the camera worked by taking 3 photos very quickly, with different color filters. So the points of reflection on the water shifted, as it has a tendancy to do, with each photo, giving an individual red, green, blue color that doesn't overlap.
High level of encryption. Sounds like these guys have the ability to purchase some of the high end hardware solutions. Even is some breaks WEP, the traffic is still encrypted. Sure someone now has access to the network, but they can't see anything. I am sure orielly would set this up outside of their firewall, so one doesn't end up inside their network if you choose "orielly public lan" in their Airport network selector.
-Pfhor
If you A) posted things that weren't just inflammatory B) gave us links or real reports C) gave logical rebuttals.
I can see how in some cases pornography could be forced upon someone, but that person could be a man or a woman. Homosexual boys end up worse in some cases, since they end up getting kicked out of the house, and some turn to prostitution.
Have you considered that some people enjoy being on video. Enjoy having sex for money. Enjoy their choice in life. And they weren't forced into it.
You sound like either a single view pointed bigot or a well planned troll. Your last 5 points are meant to be inflammatory. The one about monkeys is just a joke. So either shutup or make a legitimate argument.
Apperantly somebody at the Hackers, like the screenwriter or director, went to some 2600 meetings and may have talked to Goldstein. Little if anything that is in the movie is accurate. The guys freaking rollerblade!
Angelina Jolie is quite cute in the movie. I would want to be 31337 too, so I can get in the pants of a girl like Angelina Jolie.
The only thing I think they may have gotten right, was the ability of the company "cr/hacked" to manipulate the FBI.
For my school. We travel a lot (about to go on the road for 8-9 weeks at a time) and having internet access from the middle of mexico, a rest-stop, etc. would allow the school to start putting it's work and research on the internet as it is happening, so other schools who may not be able to travel as we do, can use the material.
A lot cheaper than even TRYING to get cellphone internet working on the wireless lan setup that we carry with us.
There is a company called Tachyon (http://www.tachyon.net/) that does something similar, however its $6,000 for the unit and like $300 a month for 384k up/down and one would get 500-1200 ms lag. But for sending email and things, its perfect (considering the campus is on a dual shared 56k dialup system).
Take one "small" telescope motor / self pointing device (one where you punch in x/y and it points there, so you can see yoru favorite constellations) along with a pc connected to a gps reciever, and mount the dish on that. Whenever internet access is needed, just hop out, setup the tripod with the antenna, let GPS get a fix, pc calculates proper angle for the dish, motor aims it, and your online. (obviously the system would have to be modified in case certain areas / time zones have different settings).
Going to try to email the company to see if they are willing to help out a highschool.
That they can't get a version of software by the release date. La de Freaking da. The digital film I can see as vaporware, as they don't seem to have even shown the product to anyone. Xtrem should be up there, since they haven't shown anyone their supposed "1200 mhz g4" that they are bragging about.
I am not suprised Bungie isn't up there, but thats because they never release dates, ever (well, since marathon 2).
OS X would be considered vaporware in the same sense of win2k, since there was a public beta out this time last year, but that doesn't really count either, since both of them actually show progress and growth, that people outside of the company can attest too.
Wired is trolling slashdot for hits. Too bad my proxy doesnt load their banners;)
Which is why it would be sold at a loss.
In otherwords, it will have a bunch of cool technology and things, just not the expense of them (remember, this is the money on the scale of Bill Gates we are talking about here).
One thing that one must be careful of is how much care we put in the hands of a "Professional."
Just because someone is a professional doesn't mean that they known what they are doing. Or aren't biased. Or prejudice. I am sure most parents are aware of this, and are basing their decisions on more than just peices of paper on a wall.
I went to a daycare (or a preschool, if you may) along with my mother having me go to friends houses, playing with older kids in the neighborhood, etc. (I was fortunate as a child, my mom worked out of the house when I was growing up, so she was there when I came home from school). A major portion of my growing up was the fact that I was a part of a community in my area (mostly through their church).
I am not a parent, nore does it look like I will be anytime soon, however, one thing I would have for my child(ren) would be a neighborhood to grow up in, with kids of all ages and parents and grandparents, who treated each others children as their own. And daycare to give them even more experiences.
On a side note (and often discussed topic with my father): If I had the money of Bill G. I wouldn't spend it on a luxorious house, large open spaces, so my child could grow up isolated from the real world. Instead, something more on the grounds of developing a neighborhood, with nifty gadgets (fiber optic cable, wireless networking, t3 or greater net access, etc.) sold at a loss. Why? Because I would rather have my child grow up in a neighborhood consisting of a community of people from varying backgrounds (and I am sure others would want something similar) instead of a house and its grounds keepers.
My advisor actually dropped his powerbook g3 (1999 model, slim with USB) down a flight of stairs. WIth it asleep, end over end, the entire flight of stairs it bounced. Opened it up and it worked fine. Sturdy little buggers.
If your machine gets really warm, go to www.coolpad.com raises the machine off the ground a bit for better air circulation and lets the machine rotate also. I use one for this Pismo (2000 powerbook g3) and it runs atleats 10 degrees C cooler.
Uhh.
They actually do.
If you read apples page about the G4, it used to have (this is PRE dual g4 powermacs, but G4 none the less) a lot of articles there about using it in science. Like how it has the lowest Gigaflop per dollar or something IIRC.
take a look:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
And the iMacs are developed for the cluster because they are small, netbootable, and boards can have a G4 upgrade put on them.
if you really want, i guess you can setup a cache box at home, to load babelfish the same way it loads foreign pages, so you can then have it load porn err i mean translations for you.
Yes, people have fit powermac g4's in a a Full Tower ATX case, i believe they had to do some soldering for the powerchip (some weird voltage)
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/G4inATXcase/
Covers it.
And the reason they are stuck at 500mhz is because of the low yeilds from the motorola plant the last ive heard. The manufacturing process is taking longer than expected, which is why they went dual chip. Pretty useless until OS X comes out btw. I hope they keep the dual chips even after they get over the 500mhz hurdle.
Or have it an invite only session.
Since we dont know really when they record the shows. Just contact some people who have some really intelligent posts, and invite them to join the show. I know it can lead to elitism, and I know i'll probably never get on the show that way, but i'd rather listen to people i can learn from.
But the shows are great anyway.
A Voice over IP solutions shouldnt be that hard, even get VA or whoever owns them now to spring for dsl/t1 type internet connections in their houses.
So you know, be careful about putting force on the port for too long. Ive had one of those happen to an iBook at school, and eventually the port was dead (it had fully been broken off the mboard apperantly).
Another workaround if you have some electrical tool slying around (wire, electrical tape, plyers) you can just splice your power cable, put some end on them (like a bit of straigh wire) and plug them into the two metal ports on the underside of the laptop. If i remember properly, with the laptop upside down and the handle facing away from you, the white cable goes on the left, and the sheilding around the cable goes into the right socket. It doesnt seem to fry the machine if you reverse it. You know it works because the charge light around the power port lights up.
There was a thread on this a while ago, about a guy wiring his house, and then have to re-wire it afterwards.
I cant answer your fiber question, but one thing you can do is run venting instead of just cable, and run the cabl throught the vents. Makes it much easier to replace the cable if you decide to switch to fiber (and fibers extremely expensive, last ive heard, like 9 dollars a foot)
Or even better, someone finds a way to make the TIVO stream television over your home network. Using quicktime or real media (it has the hardware encoders) or just plain mpeg with some modifications. I would want something to do that.
I built one already, without a network
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I used my friends Minidisc player (with noise cancelation head phones) proper placement of its controller device, a palm III and a nokia cell phone, all in my trenchcoat. I never got around to networking, but I could of, since the nokia has IrDA on it.
Any my trenchcoat was teflon coated, so everything was waterproofed if kept inside the coat. I hide the cables on the inside, the remote ran down to the inside cuff of my left sleeve, and the earbuds were hidden by my hair. I was listening to pink floyd most of my creative writing class, and people didnt know it.
Ok, I love id games for kill, blam, their dead games. However for story lines, I think bungie soft.. err studios, made games with killer story lines. The head guys, Jason Jones and Alex seropin (or whatever) are scifi nuts, and really make sure games have a really good plot. There are discussions STILL going on about various aspects of the games. And those games are: The Marathon Series. (Dont let people tell you the opposite, these games had better graphics, AI, and playability, can you you say mouselook, for the time)
Well, if you want to take a look at some of the stuff people have done to analyze the story:
http://www.marathon.org/story/ (its run by a Hamish Sinclair, in his spare time) it is THE source for marathon information.
There is one solution I think that works, and that is KidSafe, from apple. It uses the opposite, it only lets you search and go to sites from a predetermined list. Now of course, some sites, like slashdot, mail.yahoo.com arent allowed, because the list is managed by teachers and the such. However, it does allow for one to add specific addresses (i am waiting for an offline version to edit the configuration, and wild card characters, like *.slashdot.org, so it will download the images also).
However, i think it is a better solution, specificly for younger students / children, considering that it significantly lowers the signal to noise ratio on searchs. and it makes it easier for a child to search with a more logical phrasing.
Would i use it for my kids? no, however would i want my library to use it in the kids computer area? yes.
From friend of mine who have visited Japan and/or are from there, they pretty much agree with me that big companies OWN the country. You work for one company your entire life, there are few startups there, and since you stay with your company, they also pay for your housing (which is really expensive).
The average japanese salary is equal to that of an american salary in the same feild, however (i read this somewhere) since some of the major living expenses, it allows for a larger amount of money to be spent on "entertainment" devices, such as nifty new laptops, super small minidisc players, computers with minidisc drives, etc. Also, the average work day is longer, so the other reason why some gadgets are small (apperantly) is to take them with you, since there isnt as much as "leisure time" as an american worker.
What exactly does this mean? Well, it means that companies that sell things in Japan can have a faster product life, since their customers can afford to upgrade, and that people will buy their newest niftiest gadgets, because they can afford too, and they really like them. (also, if my friend is someone to represent the japanese, he doesnt get rid of anything, so he has tons of gadgets, that he doesnt use).
I would love to be corrected by someone who is much more knowledgable, but this is what ive picked up.
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Do what my friend did.
He had a dolby 5.1 / dts reciever, dvd player, vcr, cable box, ps2, ps1, dreamcast all in a cabinet. The Audio reciever would get hot as hell, so he punched nice 6inch or so holes in the back of the cabinet, behind each shelf (in total 3 holes) and mounted some big fans there. They are powered off of an AUX power source on the reciever, meant for a dvd player or something. When the reciever turns on, so do all of the fans. Close the glass paneled door on the front, and you can barely make out the whirring sound when the room is silent. It gets silenced once the reciever is put to use (ie, powering the subwoofer).
Of course, his apartment is full of the constant whine of his computers, but no one minds.
A little ingeniuty one could mount the fans quieter and use quieter fans.
Yeah, think so far outside of the box by copying other people's ideas.
Or thats what my first impression was. Still really very cool. I was thinking to myself, great they are giving away all the secrets of the thing, then I realized that possibly the majority of people who would run into these things probably wont be reading something like this.
There are plants in the US that use the big bunch of mirrors system. It actually boils salt(!) which stays incredibly warm for incredible amounts of time. That is then used to boil water for turbine generators.
I think the current bottleneck of electrical energy production is the whole "lets make a bunch of magnets spin" solution. Solutions where you capture the energy from the breaking of atomic or nuclear bonds, will be what will give us boat loads of power. At that level of effeciency, we could even use oil and have it last a lot longer than we think. Right now its "lets get something really hot, make steam, have that steam spin a generator" or in the case of dams or windmills: lets use water / air to spin something.
Yeah, i think that was caused from the fact that the camera worked by taking 3 photos very quickly, with different color filters. So the points of reflection on the water shifted, as it has a tendancy to do, with each photo, giving an individual red, green, blue color that doesn't overlap.
Just pointing out the obvious.
Still amazing.
High level of encryption. Sounds like these guys have the ability to purchase some of the high end hardware solutions. Even is some breaks WEP, the traffic is still encrypted. Sure someone now has access to the network, but they can't see anything. I am sure orielly would set this up outside of their firewall, so one doesn't end up inside their network if you choose "orielly public lan" in their Airport network selector. -Pfhor
If you A) posted things that weren't just inflammatory B) gave us links or real reports C) gave logical rebuttals.
I can see how in some cases pornography could be forced upon someone, but that person could be a man or a woman. Homosexual boys end up worse in some cases, since they end up getting kicked out of the house, and some turn to prostitution.
Have you considered that some people enjoy being on video. Enjoy having sex for money. Enjoy their choice in life. And they weren't forced into it.
You sound like either a single view pointed bigot or a well planned troll. Your last 5 points are meant to be inflammatory. The one about monkeys is just a joke. So either shutup or make a legitimate argument.
Apperantly somebody at the Hackers, like the screenwriter or director, went to some 2600 meetings and may have talked to Goldstein. Little if anything that is in the movie is accurate. The guys freaking rollerblade!
Angelina Jolie is quite cute in the movie. I would want to be 31337 too, so I can get in the pants of a girl like Angelina Jolie.
The only thing I think they may have gotten right, was the ability of the company "cr/hacked" to manipulate the FBI.
For my school. We travel a lot (about to go on the road for 8-9 weeks at a time) and having internet access from the middle of mexico, a rest-stop, etc. would allow the school to start putting it's work and research on the internet as it is happening, so other schools who may not be able to travel as we do, can use the material.
A lot cheaper than even TRYING to get cellphone internet working on the wireless lan setup that we carry with us.
There is a company called Tachyon (http://www.tachyon.net/) that does something similar, however its $6,000 for the unit and like $300 a month for 384k up/down and one would get 500-1200 ms lag. But for sending email and things, its perfect (considering the campus is on a dual shared 56k dialup system).
Take one "small" telescope motor / self pointing device (one where you punch in x/y and it points there, so you can see yoru favorite constellations) along with a pc connected to a gps reciever, and mount the dish on that. Whenever internet access is needed, just hop out, setup the tripod with the antenna, let GPS get a fix, pc calculates proper angle for the dish, motor aims it, and your online. (obviously the system would have to be modified in case certain areas / time zones have different settings).
Going to try to email the company to see if they are willing to help out a highschool.
That they can't get a version of software by the release date. La de Freaking da. The digital film I can see as vaporware, as they don't seem to have even shown the product to anyone. Xtrem should be up there, since they haven't shown anyone their supposed "1200 mhz g4" that they are bragging about.
;)
I am not suprised Bungie isn't up there, but thats because they never release dates, ever (well, since marathon 2).
OS X would be considered vaporware in the same sense of win2k, since there was a public beta out this time last year, but that doesn't really count either, since both of them actually show progress and growth, that people outside of the company can attest too.
Wired is trolling slashdot for hits. Too bad my proxy doesnt load their banners
Which is why it would be sold at a loss.
In otherwords, it will have a bunch of cool technology and things, just not the expense of them (remember, this is the money on the scale of Bill Gates we are talking about here).
One thing that one must be careful of is how much care we put in the hands of a "Professional."
Just because someone is a professional doesn't mean that they known what they are doing. Or aren't biased. Or prejudice. I am sure most parents are aware of this, and are basing their decisions on more than just peices of paper on a wall.
I went to a daycare (or a preschool, if you may) along with my mother having me go to friends houses, playing with older kids in the neighborhood, etc. (I was fortunate as a child, my mom worked out of the house when I was growing up, so she was there when I came home from school). A major portion of my growing up was the fact that I was a part of a community in my area (mostly through their church).
I am not a parent, nore does it look like I will be anytime soon, however, one thing I would have for my child(ren) would be a neighborhood to grow up in, with kids of all ages and parents and grandparents, who treated each others children as their own. And daycare to give them even more experiences.
On a side note (and often discussed topic with my father): If I had the money of Bill G. I wouldn't spend it on a luxorious house, large open spaces, so my child could grow up isolated from the real world. Instead, something more on the grounds of developing a neighborhood, with nifty gadgets (fiber optic cable, wireless networking, t3 or greater net access, etc.) sold at a loss. Why? Because I would rather have my child grow up in a neighborhood consisting of a community of people from varying backgrounds (and I am sure others would want something similar) instead of a house and its grounds keepers.
My advisor actually dropped his powerbook g3 (1999 model, slim with USB) down a flight of stairs. WIth it asleep, end over end, the entire flight of stairs it bounced. Opened it up and it worked fine. Sturdy little buggers.
If your machine gets really warm, go to www.coolpad.com raises the machine off the ground a bit for better air circulation and lets the machine rotate also. I use one for this Pismo (2000 powerbook g3) and it runs atleats 10 degrees C cooler.
-Pfhor
Welcome, Tasty Primate
Uhh.
They actually do.
If you read apples page about the G4, it used to have (this is PRE dual g4 powermacs, but G4 none the less) a lot of articles there about using it in science. Like how it has the lowest Gigaflop per dollar or something IIRC.
take a look:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
And the iMacs are developed for the cluster because they are small, netbootable, and boards can have a G4 upgrade put on them.
-Pfhor
if you really want, i guess you can setup a cache box at home, to load babelfish the same way it loads foreign pages, so you can then have it load porn err i mean translations for you.
Alan Cox actually said that in his release notes...
its 2.2.17-pre20 without the pre20 tag
Yes, people have fit powermac g4's in a a Full Tower ATX case, i believe they had to do some soldering for the powerchip (some weird voltage)
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/G4inATXcase/
Covers it.
And the reason they are stuck at 500mhz is because of the low yeilds from the motorola plant the last ive heard. The manufacturing process is taking longer than expected, which is why they went dual chip. Pretty useless until OS X comes out btw. I hope they keep the dual chips even after they get over the 500mhz hurdle.
-pfhor
Or have it an invite only session.
Since we dont know really when they record the shows. Just contact some people who have some really intelligent posts, and invite them to join the show. I know it can lead to elitism, and I know i'll probably never get on the show that way, but i'd rather listen to people i can learn from.
But the shows are great anyway.
A Voice over IP solutions shouldnt be that hard, even get VA or whoever owns them now to spring for dsl/t1 type internet connections in their houses.
So you know, be careful about putting force on the port for too long. Ive had one of those happen to an iBook at school, and eventually the port was dead (it had fully been broken off the mboard apperantly).
Another workaround if you have some electrical tool slying around (wire, electrical tape, plyers) you can just splice your power cable, put some end on them (like a bit of straigh wire) and plug them into the two metal ports on the underside of the laptop. If i remember properly, with the laptop upside down and the handle facing away from you, the white cable goes on the left, and the sheilding around the cable goes into the right socket. It doesnt seem to fry the machine if you reverse it. You know it works because the charge light around the power port lights up.
These pretty much introduced the idea of a RTS game, where combat was important, no build orders (as in WACC games) were neccessary.
That, and they had awesome plots.
There was a thread on this a while ago, about a guy wiring his house, and then have to re-wire it afterwards.
I cant answer your fiber question, but one thing you can do is run venting instead of just cable, and run the cabl throught the vents. Makes it much easier to replace the cable if you decide to switch to fiber (and fibers extremely expensive, last ive heard, like 9 dollars a foot)
Or even better, someone finds a way to make the TIVO stream television over your home network. Using quicktime or real media (it has the hardware encoders) or just plain mpeg with some modifications. I would want something to do that.
I used my friends Minidisc player (with noise cancelation head phones) proper placement of its controller device, a palm III and a nokia cell phone, all in my trenchcoat. I never got around to networking, but I could of, since the nokia has IrDA on it.
Any my trenchcoat was teflon coated, so everything was waterproofed if kept inside the coat. I hide the cables on the inside, the remote ran down to the inside cuff of my left sleeve, and the earbuds were hidden by my hair. I was listening to pink floyd most of my creative writing class, and people didnt know it.
Ok, I love id games for kill, blam, their dead games. However for story lines, I think bungie soft.. err studios, made games with killer story lines. The head guys, Jason Jones and Alex seropin (or whatever) are scifi nuts, and really make sure games have a really good plot. There are discussions STILL going on about various aspects of the games. And those games are: The Marathon Series. (Dont let people tell you the opposite, these games had better graphics, AI, and playability, can you you say mouselook, for the time)
Well, if you want to take a look at some of the stuff people have done to analyze the story:
http://www.marathon.org/story/ (its run by a Hamish Sinclair, in his spare time) it is THE source for marathon information.
There is one solution I think that works, and that is KidSafe, from apple. It uses the opposite, it only lets you search and go to sites from a predetermined list. Now of course, some sites, like slashdot, mail.yahoo.com arent allowed, because the list is managed by teachers and the such. However, it does allow for one to add specific addresses (i am waiting for an offline version to edit the configuration, and wild card characters, like *.slashdot.org, so it will download the images also).
However, i think it is a better solution, specificly for younger students / children, considering that it significantly lowers the signal to noise ratio on searchs. and it makes it easier for a child to search with a more logical phrasing.
Would i use it for my kids? no, however would i want my library to use it in the kids computer area? yes.
From friend of mine who have visited Japan and/or are from there, they pretty much agree with me that big companies OWN the country. You work for one company your entire life, there are few startups there, and since you stay with your company, they also pay for your housing (which is really expensive).
The average japanese salary is equal to that of an american salary in the same feild, however (i read this somewhere) since some of the major living expenses, it allows for a larger amount of money to be spent on "entertainment" devices, such as nifty new laptops, super small minidisc players, computers with minidisc drives, etc. Also, the average work day is longer, so the other reason why some gadgets are small (apperantly) is to take them with you, since there isnt as much as "leisure time" as an american worker.
What exactly does this mean? Well, it means that companies that sell things in Japan can have a faster product life, since their customers can afford to upgrade, and that people will buy their newest niftiest gadgets, because they can afford too, and they really like them. (also, if my friend is someone to represent the japanese, he doesnt get rid of anything, so he has tons of gadgets, that he doesnt use).
I would love to be corrected by someone who is much more knowledgable, but this is what ive picked up.
-Pfhor
Welcome, Tasty Primate