I propose the poor guy sues his company. before it has time to sue him.
IANAL, but I'm sure a pro can find a few nicely worded offenses commited by this company (Breaking the freedom of choosing its employer, being considered as a serf belonging to the company while slavery has been abolished for some time, moral prejudice for unneeded sufferings, cruelty (in group), libel (?), being an asshole (NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, even if 2 centuries of practice make most american think it is), intimidation, unheeded meddling in someone's affairs, etc...
Anyhow, if they want to play dumb, he should just play harder...
The videos from youtube might play @ 1 or 2 fps because the tablet is used to decode the video frames.
Would it be possible to turn the n800 into a passive receiver, all decoding done somewhere on a server and only the frames displayed on the tablet ? =>strong central computer and "passive" receptor... I'm sure I saw it somwhere, maybe in vlc ?
Would be ideal @home where I have some computing power available...
Still no strong IR emitter to turn the tablet into a universal remote... Anyone knows of a 8-10 meters SD IR emitter ?
Fist you give them Quad-Core AMD/Intel 3GHz Cpus Then you give them Ultra-speedy flash memory HDDs and lots of Ram
And only then can you find back that speed feeling you had when you first launched Win95...
BTW, you forgot something :
"each file is decrypted, scanned" then encrypted again into a secure memory heap with a random location in Ram then reinterpreted and decrypted from memory by the CPU for processing "and then viewed" on a secured, shielded screen that itself is decrypting the secured data transmission from the HDMI so you can't divert the data to a VCR/PVR.
Also you are using a laser-interrupt shielded keyboard with a white noise generator, so we cannot infer the electromagnetic blip from hitting a key or reconstruct the words from typing noise frequency, a hardened mouse so you can hit and strangle the person who tried to read above your shoulder all that super secure multi-encrypted BBC newsfeed you have on your 7 vision angle screen.
Gosh I hope you also encrypt all internal network traffic with a multi-gigabit differential quantum thingy. that all you network equipment is in the hardened nuclear bio hazard bunker, with all Cat 10 titanium head hardened Ethernet cables screwed/glued/welded to the unapprochable High Voltage Switch (220 V on the inside, 10000V on the outside).
BTW, now that we finished securing you infrastructure, can you please remind me what OS you are using ?
So, if he's not in the minority in doing so, and he lives in a real democracy, then what he did must be deemed legal by public assent... Alas he lives in a republic, and it's a different beast altogether....
The really bluffing thing with induction is bringing a gallon of water to boil within 60 seconds. And temperature control is just as fast as activating a rheostat...
As this part of the story is the only one that is remotely of interest to me (Mac Controlled Roomba ! Wow ! at last ! my dreams are fulfilled ! and I can now die at peace knowing humanity has reached its peak !)
Do any of you know of a robotic toy to amuse the cat ? The Roboraptor Robotic Dinosaur is very nice, but it lacks the ability to going back on its feets on its own. Knowing my cat, I think i'd have to reset it upright every 5/10 seconds.
I'm looking at something that could be "autonomous", can stand upright by itself, and is more or less cat-proof so my cat can have something to play with while I'm at work.
I thought about robotic insects that look for dark places and are shy of movements, but don't really want cockroachs at home, even robotic ones.
So, any Idea ? (except of course a mac controlled Roomba, please...)
use the nifty little tool provided with XP, msconfig...
try Start, then Execute, then type "msconfig" and enter.
Then you remove all the services you don't need at startup.
My parents newly delivered, Dell installed XP went from 90s boot time to a bit less than 50s, login included. And I couldn't believe how much crap Dell installs on a virgin system.
"1 / Create a pipeline to transport Hydrogen from your solar powered hydrogen farm"
implying transport, as in pipeline, as in a hole at both end, a more or less compex valve system and hydrogen flowing from the production plant to the city/container/hydrogen distribution station.
You know, a pipeline....
"And what happens to liquid hidrogen continuously evaporating, as it absorbs heat from the surroundings, inside a sealed container/pipe with no leaks or escape valves ?"
lets see ? I think the answer is "its pressure increases !". But then you would have to get a moronic engineer to create such a scheme...
1 / Create a pipeline to transport Hydrogen from your solar powered hydrogen farm
2 / Make it hydrogen leaks proof, but extremly poorly isolated thermally speaking
3 / coat your pipeline with a low temperature Superconductor, isolate electrically on both sides, cover with thermal protection, plug to Solar Farm electric outlet
IANAO (I am not an optician) but as far as I know, the proper exercises can fortify your eyes and even ameliorate your vision.
The biggest problem with reading (and computers, also) is CONTRAST.
Black on white is awful on your eyes. A yellowish or brownish page with blue ink would do marvels for your extenuated sight. Black on White will just strain it more and more.
Ethanol and bio-fuel pollute a little bit less, but do still exhaust CO2.
The cleanest alternative seems to come from a little known company that created a compressed air motor. They use it in conjuction with a standard engine for starting the vehicle
Few pollution whatsoever, you need a little bit of electricity to run a compressor, and get almost 2000 km in one go...
Maybe we should start getting interested in the technology, the drawback in electric cars being the pollution you create in actually producing the batteries and the electricity to feed them.
Also, as it uses very few fuel, the big petrol/car companies doesn't show any interest in the technology...
1 mm thick, color paper, made by sharp, should be available in 2007... We still must have a look at the drm limitations if any, but the product do look superior !
"it has built-in performance monitoring for you! When the system crashes or starts throwing weird errors or denies you running new programs, etc... then it is telling you "time for more RAM"."
True, that is why I still give 1 gig Swap partition to the systems, so I have some time for the replacement ram to get in. but my memory monitoring system is quite simple : if swap used > 0, mail the admin.
"But who ever sits there watching their hard drive light?"
Right now I have a 24 Mb DSL for 30 Euro/month. I regularly max up the connection.
In September the fiber offer will be available in my district, I will have to upgrade to PCI-x or something and get a 2 GB fiber card for the router. 4Gb cards are still too expensive, and that network is not scheduled for 4,5 GB internet till 2010.
Sad, no, when the most recent and speedy computer in the room is your router...
Well, I'm ready : Bring on the Pain !!!
I might even re-think about providing a small web-hosting solution to friends and customers...
1 / Backup often, backup just before taking the plane 2 / Take a picture of you bag content, zip and lock it 3 / Take Luggage Insurance or check your credit card coverage in case of "lost or destroyed items" 4 / Sue ! ASAP ! when you discover you miss some stuff (you should check your bag while STILL in the airport, better while still into the luggage zone 5 / 10 % of all benefits to be sent to my paypal account. Just answer this post 8)
I've been one of the monkey luggage handler during a piss poor summer.
We hated the hard case people, giving us a 10 pound metal luggage containing almost nothing We loathed the guy that put his guitar in a soft case We despised the fellow that was sending a FULL FRIDGE home We took the name of everyone on that bastard jumping team THAT HAD THEIR JUMPING POLES IN A TOO SMALL CARGO HOLD
There is no real solution. Get a full metal case, use foam to pad the essentials, get 2/3 exotic locks and make sure you can spend 2-3 hours in the airport after you landed.
Well, actually, he would probably have used a cat gut. or a kitten's if he was in the XXSmall category.
That's the problem with reading too much about history, you learn too much you would have been happy to ignore. As a happy side bonus, you feel very happy living now, instead of then...
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Now that's the idea.
...
I propose the poor guy sues his company. before it has time to sue him.
IANAL, but I'm sure a pro can find a few nicely worded offenses commited by this company (Breaking the freedom of choosing its employer, being considered as a serf belonging to the company while slavery has been abolished for some time, moral prejudice for unneeded sufferings, cruelty (in group), libel (?), being an asshole (NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, even if 2 centuries of practice make most american think it is), intimidation, unheeded meddling in someone's affairs, etc
Anyhow, if they want to play dumb, he should just play harder...
4400 US dollars for 64 Go...
I think I can build a small multi-tera NAS for the price.
And a VERY LARGE BAGGY JEAN to put it into my pocket, too... 8p
The videos from youtube might play @ 1 or 2 fps because the tablet is used to decode the video frames.
Would it be possible to turn the n800 into a passive receiver, all decoding done somewhere on a server and only the frames displayed on the tablet ? =>strong central computer and "passive" receptor... I'm sure I saw it somwhere, maybe in vlc ?
Would be ideal @home where I have some computing power available...
Still no strong IR emitter to turn the tablet into a universal remote... Anyone knows of a 8-10 meters SD IR emitter ?
And Lo, behold ! Democracy was spead so thin there was hardly any of it left everywhere you went....
Fist you give them Quad-Core AMD/Intel 3GHz Cpus
Then you give them Ultra-speedy flash memory HDDs and lots of Ram
And only then can you find back that speed feeling you had when you first launched Win95...
BTW, you forgot something :
"each file is decrypted, scanned" then encrypted again into a secure memory heap with a random location in Ram then reinterpreted and decrypted from memory by the CPU for processing "and then viewed" on a secured, shielded screen that itself is decrypting the secured data transmission from the HDMI so you can't divert the data to a VCR/PVR.
Also you are using a laser-interrupt shielded keyboard with a white noise generator, so we cannot infer the electromagnetic blip from hitting a key or reconstruct the words from typing noise frequency, a hardened mouse so you can hit and strangle the person who tried to read above your shoulder all that super secure multi-encrypted BBC newsfeed you have on your 7 vision angle screen.
Gosh I hope you also encrypt all internal network traffic with a multi-gigabit differential quantum thingy. that all you network equipment is in the hardened nuclear bio hazard bunker, with all Cat 10 titanium head hardened Ethernet cables screwed/glued/welded to the unapprochable High Voltage Switch (220 V on the inside, 10000V on the outside).
BTW, now that we finished securing you infrastructure, can you please remind me what OS you are using ?
[evil joy] MU HAH HAH HAH HAH [/evil joy]
So, if he's not in the minority in doing so, and he lives in a real democracy, then what he did must be deemed legal by public assent...
Alas he lives in a republic, and it's a different beast altogether....
Basically anything with a tape reader, or even better if you can find them, anything with puch cards.
Psychotic Computer spying on my life and discussions, programmed with secret instructions and ultimately trying to kill me as it cannot control me ...
Looks a bit like Vista 8p
pilot lights are nowadays only found in history books pictures or on quite expensive, pro level 5KW gas burners.
[jealous]And on some nifty, very expensive ovens for the too much ric... the connaisseur.[/jealous] http://www.lacornue.com/gb/chateau_93.html
But yes, gas can be dangerous.
The really bluffing thing with induction is bringing a gallon of water to boil within 60 seconds.
And temperature control is just as fast as activating a rheostat...
Lets put a stop to this silly and pointless discussion.
Look, the answer is actually in the question.
All we have to do is change the laws of physics, and Voila !
(Please remember to disconnect your sarcasm filters and re-read)
8p
As this part of the story is the only one that is remotely of interest to me (Mac Controlled Roomba ! Wow ! at last ! my dreams are fulfilled ! and I can now die at peace knowing humanity has reached its peak !)
Do any of you know of a robotic toy to amuse the cat ? The Roboraptor Robotic Dinosaur is very nice, but it lacks the ability to going back on its feets on its own. Knowing my cat, I think i'd have to reset it upright every 5/10 seconds.
I'm looking at something that could be "autonomous", can stand upright by itself, and is more or less cat-proof so my cat can have something to play with while I'm at work.
I thought about robotic insects that look for dark places and are shy of movements, but don't really want cockroachs at home, even robotic ones.
So, any Idea ? (except of course a mac controlled Roomba, please...)
D.
use the nifty little tool provided with XP, msconfig...
try Start, then Execute, then type "msconfig" and enter.
Then you remove all the services you don't need at startup.
My parents newly delivered, Dell installed XP went from 90s boot time to a bit less than 50s, login included.
And I couldn't believe how much crap Dell installs on a virgin system.
Best of luck
D.
So that is what they meant by temporal lobe !
And there I was thinking it was just the brain area that is on the side of my head.
"1 / Create a pipeline to transport Hydrogen from your solar powered hydrogen farm"
implying transport, as in pipeline, as in a hole at both end, a more or less compex valve system and hydrogen flowing from the production plant to the city/container/hydrogen distribution station.
You know, a pipeline....
"And what happens to liquid hidrogen continuously evaporating, as it absorbs heat from the surroundings, inside a sealed container/pipe with no leaks or escape valves ?"
lets see ? I think the answer is "its pressure increases !". But then you would have to get a moronic engineer to create such a scheme...
1 / Create a pipeline to transport Hydrogen from your solar powered hydrogen farm
/. !
2 / Make it hydrogen leaks proof, but extremly poorly isolated thermally speaking
3 / coat your pipeline with a low temperature Superconductor, isolate electrically on both sides, cover with thermal protection, plug to Solar Farm electric outlet
4 / Profits ?
Damn, an actual workable business plan on
I'm doomed.
IANAO (I am not an optician) but as far as I know, the proper exercises can fortify your eyes and even ameliorate your vision.
The biggest problem with reading (and computers, also) is CONTRAST.
Black on white is awful on your eyes. A yellowish or brownish page with blue ink would do marvels for your extenuated sight. Black on White will just strain it more and more.
Small addendum : the most advanced company on this technology seems to be korean : http://www.energine.com/
D.
just to shift the debate a bit...
Ethanol and bio-fuel pollute a little bit less, but do still exhaust CO2.
The cleanest alternative seems to come from a little known company that created a compressed air motor. They use it in conjuction with a standard engine for starting the vehicle
Few pollution whatsoever, you need a little bit of electricity to run a compressor, and get almost 2000 km in one go...
here : http://www.theaircar.com/
Maybe we should start getting interested in the technology, the drawback in electric cars being the pollution you create in actually producing the batteries and the electricity to feed them.
Also, as it uses very few fuel, the big petrol/car companies doesn't show any interest in the technology...
Da5Id
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/sony -librie-ebook-hacks-115752.php
r ototype-color-ebook-17256.php
Firmwarez are available for the librie, so maybe you can find one with just the features you want.
Personnally, I will be holding my breath for the Secong Generation devices, like this one : http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/tag/sharps-shows-p
1 mm thick, color paper, made by sharp, should be available in 2007... We still must have a look at the drm limitations if any, but the product do look superior !
Should do the trick... Small factor, linux based, luggable, has internet acces and can connect with WiFi or RJ45...
369Eu, should be cheaper in the US...
Deal ?
Lol
"it has built-in performance monitoring for you! When the system crashes or starts throwing weird errors or denies you running new programs, etc... then it is telling you "time for more RAM"."
True, that is why I still give 1 gig Swap partition to the systems, so I have some time for the replacement ram to get in.
but my memory monitoring system is quite simple : if swap used > 0, mail the admin.
"But who ever sits there watching their hard drive light?"
Be carefull...This is slashdot after all ! 8)
And is 1000 times faster ?
So, to answer the original question :
Optimal amount of Swap ? 0 !
Even my old PIII 1Ghz takes 2 gigs of ram. Newest system we have at the office takes 64 Gigs.
=> right now I consider the Linux systems @ work as having a problem if they use swap...
Adding just a wee bit of RAM to your system and seeing swap disappear means your perfomance just exploded on this particular task...
Best Regards,
D.
Welcome to Paris, France, where the national Telco is testing FTTH (fiber to the Home) @ 2,5 GB down and 1,2 GB up...
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Cost is announced @ 70 Euro / month, no caps...
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0,3902077
Right now I have a 24 Mb DSL for 30 Euro/month. I regularly max up the connection.
In September the fiber offer will be available in my district, I will have to upgrade to PCI-x or something and get a 2 GB fiber card for the router. 4Gb cards are still too expensive, and that network is not scheduled for 4,5 GB internet till 2010.
Sad, no, when the most recent and speedy computer in the room is your router...
Well, I'm ready : Bring on the Pain !!!
I might even re-think about providing a small web-hosting solution to friends and customers...
Da5id
1 / Backup often, backup just before taking the plane
2 / Take a picture of you bag content, zip and lock it
3 / Take Luggage Insurance or check your credit card coverage in case of "lost or destroyed items"
4 / Sue ! ASAP ! when you discover you miss some stuff (you should check your bag while STILL in the airport, better while still into the luggage zone
5 / 10 % of all benefits to be sent to my paypal account. Just answer this post 8)
I've been one of the monkey luggage handler during a piss poor summer.
We hated the hard case people, giving us a 10 pound metal luggage containing almost nothing
We loathed the guy that put his guitar in a soft case
We despised the fellow that was sending a FULL FRIDGE home
We took the name of everyone on that bastard jumping team THAT HAD THEIR JUMPING POLES IN A TOO SMALL CARGO HOLD
There is no real solution. Get a full metal case, use foam to pad the essentials, get 2/3 exotic locks and make sure you can spend 2-3 hours in the airport after you landed.
and shave your beard...
Best of luck,
Hoping to hear from you on Channel 4
Knewbie 8)
"Jesus would have used a Durex!"
Well, actually, he would probably have used a cat gut. or a kitten's if he was in the XXSmall category.
That's the problem with reading too much about history, you learn too much you would have been happy to ignore. As a happy side
bonus, you feel very happy living now, instead of then...
Sorry, slow day here too.