Apple does this with the ADC (Apple Desktop Connector). It is a standard developed by IBM a while ago.
It runs power, DVI, and usb over one cable to the monitor. The only problem is that the video card has to have a 24v connector on it also (i believe) to power the display. For people who don't have an Apple video card in their mac, or a pc, there are companies that sell an external powersupply that you run DVI + USB to, and then plug the ADC cable on the other side. I guess that is the closest you could get, unless gainward et all start designing video cards with ADC connectors and PSU adapters to power the display.
Or of course, we could atleast compensate and anticipate such drastic change in the global climate, instead of plodding along dumbfounded with our heads up our asses as anything we could possibly could do passes us by.
Re:Yeah, that's a MUCH better business model....
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Well, considering that they only have to deal with the hosting fees of the central servers, paying them for entrance onto the network (something similar to adultcheck or something) means that they will probably very low expenses. All the bandwidth for the data would be provided by the members, and they would just have to seed out the high quality stuff, and let it trickle down to the rest of the users.
Could make it a lot easier than trying to download porn movies off of kazaa or something like that.
I can't get it in coleman, olin, vaughn lit, or any other major class rooms, with the exception of the engineering building, and some rooms with line of site to that.
This isn't wilson. its another chris, not purcell.
Well, you do have inertia moving the machine forward.
Althou I doubt one could build an effecient enough machine to not lose massive amounts of energy in the recharge phase, but it could be a more effecient way for an electric vehicle to operate.
Well, what really gets me is that you can have a high quality AV system that has almost all the hackability of a PC, but without having to deal with various noise (both signal and auditory) issues that a cheap box you built yourself would have.
I mean, have it be an mp3 / movie playback system for your nice highend AV setup. You got dolby 5.1, you could use divx's with AC3 support, the works. And it has lan.
I think the idea is to add to their list of possible violations to write someone up for.
They do a bust at a "warez site" and could then slap more charges against them. Or to take down some grey hat security site. More rules to hit people with.
If you take a look at the war chalking card, which includes the 3 different symbols used. One of which is a Wep Node , where you can list the SSID and the contact email address of the person running the node (to ask for permission to get on).
So war chalking is again a tool used to identify wireless access points. ones that are open, closed, and ones that require permission to access. How people use this tool is up to them.
Well, I wouldn't sit back and wait for them to fall.
When they become oppressive, it makes it a lot easier to mobilize a movement against them. More oppression means more people realizing that the said government or corporation really needs an ass whooping. (not as elegant as the taoist saying, but most things hardly are).
Many major hollywood places are using linux in shop anyway... Just not for the editing.
And I have yet to seen any video editing program that is as refined as final cut pro is. i think it would take a while for VIMP or whatever, to get up to speed to where apple is. And I doubt it would be good for any video that is meant outside of the computer (color correction and accuracy don't seem to be big in the linux field yet).
The other thing is that all the caffeine in the soda causes dehydration. So you get thirsty, and you decide to drink more soda, which makes you more thirsty, etc. etc. etc.
Low grade dehydration causes increased tempers, joint pains, and various other fun things.
No wonder us americans are so pissed off all the time.
Could she use a button that just needs to be depressed for a second (and then locks into place?). Or a very lose toggle switch, so she can activate the alarm and not have to worry about letting go of something and it turning off.
I can't load the article, but from the copy and paste here, it doesn't appear to say which one he got (he just mentions apple's iBook as the last machine he looked at).
I also just checked, and apples flat screen iMac has a max of 130watt power draw, which is quite impressive for a low power usage situation. I'm glad my college bought those to replace the macs, to counter balance the P4's they are putting in (in terms of power consumption).
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My highschool Shackleton spends about 1/2 a year on the road. We have iBooks with wireless. We drive big school busses across the country, where a lot of productive work could be done. So I put together a wireless fileserver consisting of an airport basestation, a quantum snap drive, and a 5 port 10/100 switch (for wired connections, backups, etc.). Attach that to a UPS and then to an invertor, and students could work on the server from any laptop with a wireless connection, no more worrying about which laptop they saved their files on.
It was originally a p90 with 48 megs of ram and a crossover cable to the basestation. I would have loved to use a SBC with a wireless card and a laptop drive for better size / power usage, but I didn't have the time for a custom hacked job, which I didn't want to have to support when I graduated.
Possibly because of contract terms with the MPEG4 group, over the whole stream licensing issue. I believe there were a lot of people also from the movie industry involved, so making it harder to play back mpeg2 (DVD) files could have been the trade off.
Nestle was boycotted by most of europe for a while before it was advertising in africa that it's baby formula was healthy and better for a baby than mother's breast milk. The result was children started to become malnurish as their impoverished mothers, wanting to do the best for their children, ONLY fed their children the expensive formula, and since they couldn't afford enough of it to be a suitable replacement for breast milk, the children were malnurished.
You also do not realize how immune we are to our own culture. We all know to question advertisements, we are used to them, and they are just there to make money for the company. However, people in 3rd world countries who have never been exposed to the corporate advertising machine don't realize that they are being LIED to (many of these countrys do not have regulations against mis information / mis leading ads, because they are willing to take any money they can get).
A companies only interest is in money. Making more of it, acquiring more wealth, and the end result is that the only way to regulate companies is through their proverbial wallet.
That is why nestle has stopped its ads. It started losing revenue in first world nations because of it.
Our freedom has come at the cost of others. Those others have started to strike back, and it is going to get worse. Realize the privileges that you have, and do something for the better, not for you.
A family with 2 children in the US consumes the same as a family with 200 children in India. It would take 12.5 billion Indian's to consume the same as the 250 Million Americans.
(Statiistics from my Contemp. Environment class, they are old, and I don't have the sources off hand).
What scares me is the growing globalism. Not every country is like the US, but for some reason, we try to make every country to act like a US consumer, forcing goods on them, etc. So what if eventually, our consumer culture infects india's population?
Don't save the environment, save the planet. Human's, animals, plants, the whole sort of them. A city is just as much of an environment that needs protection from toxins, pollution, chemical waste, bad water, etc. (actually more so, because of the population density) as a forest is. We need to realize we are part of this environment before we can save it.
Thing is, apple doesn't want to sell computers in Bursts. It doesn't want to be tied to the two expo a year cycle (which is why it has started spreading out into doing special press releases, etc.)
It would rather trade the 2 surge in sales every year for a consistent income all year round, which makes it easier to plan around. Also means they can release products out of sync with the expo cycle, and people would stil snap them up (instead of waiting until apple updates them at the next expo, etc.).
How are you going to power that computer? Or store it? What if you are nomadic and don't actually have a house to live in. Having to carry a computer around with you would suck. Also make it hard to share, since everyone would be hanging out at your house using it.
The simputer can easily have its batteries swapped out and recharged elsewhere. Also it is probably a lot more durable than a normal computer / PDA, include custom software, so it costs more.
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Apple does this with the ADC (Apple Desktop Connector). It is a standard developed by IBM a while ago.
It runs power, DVI, and usb over one cable to the monitor. The only problem is that the video card has to have a 24v connector on it also (i believe) to power the display. For people who don't have an Apple video card in their mac, or a pc, there are companies that sell an external powersupply that you run DVI + USB to, and then plug the ADC cable on the other side. I guess that is the closest you could get, unless gainward et all start designing video cards with ADC connectors and PSU adapters to power the display.
Yeap.
Or of course, we could atleast compensate and anticipate such drastic change in the global climate, instead of plodding along dumbfounded with our heads up our asses as anything we could possibly could do passes us by.
Well, considering that they only have to deal with the hosting fees of the central servers, paying them for entrance onto the network (something similar to adultcheck or something) means that they will probably very low expenses. All the bandwidth for the data would be provided by the members, and they would just have to seed out the high quality stuff, and let it trickle down to the rest of the users.
Could make it a lot easier than trying to download porn movies off of kazaa or something like that.
It's not really everywhere.
I can't get it in coleman, olin, vaughn lit, or any other major class rooms, with the exception of the engineering building, and some rooms with line of site to that.
This isn't wilson. its another chris, not purcell.
they forgot to mention bucknell, that's why krout is Bitching.
I doubt the cafe, the bison, the library and the engineering building count as a wiredless campus.
Die Karma!
This is also why caching servers would become very important.
Stuff like Akamai, but on a planetary scale for most major sources (or just most commonly reffered sources).
Would suck to be a bored mars colonist trying to surf the Earth web at night thou, all those old pages being un cached and stuff.
Well, you do have inertia moving the machine forward.
Althou I doubt one could build an effecient enough machine to not lose massive amounts of energy in the recharge phase, but it could be a more effecient way for an electric vehicle to operate.
Well, what really gets me is that you can have a high quality AV system that has almost all the hackability of a PC, but without having to deal with various noise (both signal and auditory) issues that a cheap box you built yourself would have.
I mean, have it be an mp3 / movie playback system for your nice highend AV setup. You got dolby 5.1, you could use divx's with AC3 support, the works. And it has lan.
I think the idea is to add to their list of possible violations to write someone up for.
They do a bust at a "warez site" and could then slap more charges against them. Or to take down some grey hat security site. More rules to hit people with.
If you take a look at the war chalking card, which includes the 3 different symbols used. One of which is a Wep Node , where you can list the SSID and the contact email address of the person running the node (to ask for permission to get on).
So war chalking is again a tool used to identify wireless access points. ones that are open, closed, and ones that require permission to access. How people use this tool is up to them.
Well, I wouldn't sit back and wait for them to fall.
When they become oppressive, it makes it a lot easier to mobilize a movement against them. More oppression means more people realizing that the said government or corporation really needs an ass whooping. (not as elegant as the taoist saying, but most things hardly are).
Many major hollywood places are using linux in shop anyway... Just not for the editing.
And I have yet to seen any video editing program that is as refined as final cut pro is. i think it would take a while for VIMP or whatever, to get up to speed to where apple is. And I doubt it would be good for any video that is meant outside of the computer (color correction and accuracy don't seem to be big in the linux field yet).
The other thing is that all the caffeine in the soda causes dehydration. So you get thirsty, and you decide to drink more soda, which makes you more thirsty, etc. etc. etc.
Low grade dehydration causes increased tempers, joint pains, and various other fun things.
No wonder us americans are so pissed off all the time.
Could she use a button that just needs to be depressed for a second (and then locks into place?). Or a very lose toggle switch, so she can activate the alarm and not have to worry about letting go of something and it turning off.
One of those really loud alarms, meant for women to carry at night, to draw attention to them, in case of a mugger or something like that.
Take it apart, and solder on a larger button. Or just build your own, from a Piezo electric speaker, a battery and a switch.
I am sorry to hear of her situation, hopefully someone can post a more indepth solution than mine that will be what you are looking for.
I can't load the article, but from the copy and paste here, it doesn't appear to say which one he got (he just mentions apple's iBook as the last machine he looked at).
I also just checked, and apples flat screen iMac has a max of 130watt power draw, which is quite impressive for a low power usage situation. I'm glad my college bought those to replace the macs, to counter balance the P4's they are putting in (in terms of power consumption).
My highschool Shackleton spends about 1/2 a year on the road. We have iBooks with wireless. We drive big school busses across the country, where a lot of productive work could be done. So I put together a wireless fileserver consisting of an airport basestation, a quantum snap drive, and a 5 port 10/100 switch (for wired connections, backups, etc.). Attach that to a UPS and then to an invertor, and students could work on the server from any laptop with a wireless connection, no more worrying about which laptop they saved their files on.
It was originally a p90 with 48 megs of ram and a crossover cable to the basestation. I would have loved to use a SBC with a wireless card and a laptop drive for better size / power usage, but I didn't have the time for a custom hacked job, which I didn't want to have to support when I graduated.
Wait..
I thought that was how the CIA was able to fund their own personal military campaigns....
Oh wait, Al-Qaeda, CIA, sometimes I get them confused.
Possibly because of contract terms with the MPEG4 group, over the whole stream licensing issue. I believe there were a lot of people also from the movie industry involved, so making it harder to play back mpeg2 (DVD) files could have been the trade off.
Or I could just be making stuff up.
8th Dimensoin!
And returned with a rocket car.
Nestle was boycotted by most of europe for a while before it was advertising in africa that it's baby formula was healthy and better for a baby than mother's breast milk. The result was children started to become malnurish as their impoverished mothers, wanting to do the best for their children, ONLY fed their children the expensive formula, and since they couldn't afford enough of it to be a suitable replacement for breast milk, the children were malnurished.
You also do not realize how immune we are to our own culture. We all know to question advertisements, we are used to them, and they are just there to make money for the company. However, people in 3rd world countries who have never been exposed to the corporate advertising machine don't realize that they are being LIED to (many of these countrys do not have regulations against mis information / mis leading ads, because they are willing to take any money they can get).
A companies only interest is in money. Making more of it, acquiring more wealth, and the end result is that the only way to regulate companies is through their proverbial wallet.
That is why nestle has stopped its ads. It started losing revenue in first world nations because of it.
Our freedom has come at the cost of others. Those others have started to strike back, and it is going to get worse. Realize the privileges that you have, and do something for the better, not for you.
A family with 2 children in the US consumes the same as a family with 200 children in India. It would take 12.5 billion Indian's to consume the same as the 250 Million Americans.
(Statiistics from my Contemp. Environment class, they are old, and I don't have the sources off hand).
What scares me is the growing globalism. Not every country is like the US, but for some reason, we try to make every country to act like a US consumer, forcing goods on them, etc. So what if eventually, our consumer culture infects india's population?
Don't save the environment, save the planet. Human's, animals, plants, the whole sort of them. A city is just as much of an environment that needs protection from toxins, pollution, chemical waste, bad water, etc. (actually more so, because of the population density) as a forest is. We need to realize we are part of this environment before we can save it.
--end hippy rant--
Thing is, apple doesn't want to sell computers in Bursts. It doesn't want to be tied to the two expo a year cycle (which is why it has started spreading out into doing special press releases, etc.)
It would rather trade the 2 surge in sales every year for a consistent income all year round, which makes it easier to plan around. Also means they can release products out of sync with the expo cycle, and people would stil snap them up (instead of waiting until apple updates them at the next expo, etc.).
How are you going to power that computer? Or store it? What if you are nomadic and don't actually have a house to live in. Having to carry a computer around with you would suck. Also make it hard to share, since everyone would be hanging out at your house using it.
The simputer can easily have its batteries swapped out and recharged elsewhere. Also it is probably a lot more durable than a normal computer / PDA, include custom software, so it costs more.
Now the real question is, do you get the glass of Jim Bean?
Damnit, where is adcritic when you need it?