You'd really be surprised at how much you can get done, if you're doing a little hobby programming or electronics instead of watching TV.
You've only got a few hours between work and sleep; spend them watching TV and in a few years you'll be just as stupid and have nothing to show for it.
That's if you don't have kids. If you do, there is no excuse for teaching them that ambition is pointless, and the road to success is sitting on the couch in front of the tube.
Don't watch TV just to keep up with your coworkers. Do something constructive, and grab a few movies off Netflix and watch one or two a week for entertainment.
No, if you were a paid subscriber, you'd probably be one of those self-righteous geeks who think that paying $5 elevates them above the unwashed masses.
Gotta face it, most people who visit this site regularly are pretty dismal. That includes me, I'm underpaid (and a temp), overweight (for the first time in my life), and actually post to this site believing somehow it's worthwhile.
No no no...the ISP's policy is that they aren't responsible for attacks. But they do their best to warn customers of avoidable bandwidth suckers like a hundred employees forwarding Melissa around.
The real answer is that the twit whose server got owned and is spewing garbage out on the net should be responsible for paying. But enforcing that is going to be a problem.
Precisely.
And that's what will happen, if the situation is handled as I posted above.
Of course the ISP should do its best to block well-known attacks.
Keep up to date on current worms and other bandwidth threats. Notify your customers about these threats, and provide information on how to eliminate or reduce the impact.
Any massive bandwidth they log after that, is their responsibility. You notified them, and they did not listen.
After a few incidents like that, they will start to listen to your warning messages.
If one person downloads one CD of the Redhat ISOs, that's more than a quarter of their monthly bandwidth. Now, if all three Redhat ISOs are downloaded from 20 civil and chemical engineering majors, then nobody's hurting.
See, the people who would download a Redhat ISO are the ones who need bandwidth most. The object is to appropriate the bandwidth of those who don't need it.
Whip up a little distributed program that people can run on their machines. When a bandwidth addict runs out of their 2GB, Internet packets can be forwarded and micropayments credited, undercutting Cornell's prices! The program automatically directs packet requests to the users with the most remaining bandwidth, and you can set a maximum forward limit, to save a little Internet for yourself.
Perfect for those students who don't use 2GB per month.
Also, could a paid subscriber get linked stories and post them to some other geek/nerd news site (not to mention free), thus getting the jump on Slashdot and causing more people to go there instead?
I always wondered what the "climbers" would hold on to. Carbon nanotubes are probably a bit slippery, like graphite. Are they going to punch chain holes in it? Also, how do the climbers adjust for the changing width and thickness along the ribbon?
Obviously the answer is not a space elevator, but a space escalator. Make it an endless belt that can be rotated. Provides a two-way transportation path, as well. The mass would have to be much larger though (continous profile along the entire length).
Well, don't swing too far away from the center on this.
SCC is trying to get several items listed as not having the DMCA applied to them, including:
Computer programs embedded in a machine or product and which cannot be copied during the ordinary operation or use of the machine or product.
Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not so sure I want just anyone to have free license over my embedded code. In the instance of ink cartridges, though, it does seem unreasonable to apply the DMCA (since the chip is really there to prevent cloning in the first place).
But in many embedded devices, the hardware is easily identified and duplicated. The hard work is all in the firmware. I certainly don't want some company to be able to just copy my firmware and build a competing device. They didn't pay the high cost of research and development. Any of you would object to some company ripping your code, and using for their profit.
It is interesting to see what the archeologists have dug up next. We are all curious about what happened in ancient times past. It would be regretful to lose parts of the story.
But we should never place the ancient over the present. They are not going to discover anything of real value to us now. Certainly nothing more valuable than the lives of thousands of people living in the present.
Don't they suck? I've had to use one of those pieces of crap for months, 1.8GHz but it's slower than my Athlon 1.2.
The sound hardware is the worst piece of semi-developed-lowest-overseas-bidder junk I've ever seen. The static noises never go away, and you hear everything the CPU and hard drive ever do. Turning up the volume only amplifies the noise.
Makes it worthless for listening to any music. But then, I guess Compaq figures people shouldn't be listening to music at work.
Those require an external coil and some passive components depending on the design, and they do simplify switching supply design. However, you don't want to slap one of these into a stripboard from Radio Shack, assuming the hole pattern would fit. So you either have to etch or mill your own circuit board, or have one made (cheapest I've seen is $25 for one-offs). The poster above was talking about power supplies they built in high school, which were most likely rectifiers and LM78xx series regulators, nowhere near computer supply requirements. Five amps isn't that close either, except when your computer is a laptop.
I would probably do something like that for the fun of it, and to make it exactly to my requirements...plus I have experience and friends with the right equipment. However, it's not going to save any money for the average person.
I knew that...but they are still very thin and flat, and lend themselves to an array large enough to make a brake light. Instead of a deep wiring and reflector pocket, the LED array can be set just a few millimeters into the skin and sealed flush with the car's finish.
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Better worded as: "Do something constructive, and for entertainment just grab a few movies off Netflix and watch one or two a week."
One for the grammer nazi's [slashdot.org]
Correction: "Here's one for the grammar Nazis:"
I don't have a TV.
You'd really be surprised at how much you can get done, if you're doing a little hobby programming or electronics instead of watching TV.
You've only got a few hours between work and sleep; spend them watching TV and in a few years you'll be just as stupid and have nothing to show for it.
That's if you don't have kids. If you do, there is no excuse for teaching them that ambition is pointless, and the road to success is sitting on the couch in front of the tube.
Don't watch TV just to keep up with your coworkers. Do something constructive, and grab a few movies off Netflix and watch one or two a week for entertainment.
The 64 used a 6502 chip, like the Apples.
Now, if porting to the Z80 is possible, how long before a TI-85 port? Serving web pages from my 6-year-old calculator...heh.
It's a contraction of "System Admimistrator."
No, if you were a paid subscriber, you'd probably be one of those self-righteous geeks who think that paying $5 elevates them above the unwashed masses.
Gotta face it, most people who visit this site regularly are pretty dismal. That includes me, I'm underpaid (and a temp), overweight (for the first time in my life), and actually post to this site believing somehow it's worthwhile.
No no no...the ISP's policy is that they aren't responsible for attacks. But they do their best to warn customers of avoidable bandwidth suckers like a hundred employees forwarding Melissa around.
The real answer is that the twit whose server got owned and is spewing garbage out on the net should be responsible for paying. But enforcing that is going to be a problem.
Precisely.
And that's what will happen, if the situation is handled as I posted above.
Of course the ISP should do its best to block well-known attacks.
Keep up to date on current worms and other bandwidth threats. Notify your customers about these threats, and provide information on how to eliminate or reduce the impact.
Any massive bandwidth they log after that, is their responsibility. You notified them, and they did not listen.
After a few incidents like that, they will start to listen to your warning messages.
If one person downloads one CD of the Redhat ISOs, that's more than a quarter of their monthly bandwidth. Now, if all three Redhat ISOs are downloaded from 20 civil and chemical engineering majors, then nobody's hurting.
See, the people who would download a Redhat ISO are the ones who need bandwidth most. The object is to appropriate the bandwidth of those who don't need it.
Cornell students:
Whip up a little distributed program that people can run on their machines. When a bandwidth addict runs out of their 2GB, Internet packets can be forwarded and micropayments credited, undercutting Cornell's prices! The program automatically directs packet requests to the users with the most remaining bandwidth, and you can set a maximum forward limit, to save a little Internet for yourself.
Perfect for those students who don't use 2GB per month.
Also, could a paid subscriber get linked stories and post them to some other geek/nerd news site (not to mention free), thus getting the jump on Slashdot and causing more people to go there instead?
Preslash.com is available.
So, can subscribers grab the story URL, hop into the latest public thread, and anonymously post the URL for everyone's viewing?
I always wondered what the "climbers" would hold on to. Carbon nanotubes are probably a bit slippery, like graphite. Are they going to punch chain holes in it? Also, how do the climbers adjust for the changing width and thickness along the ribbon?
Obviously the answer is not a space elevator, but a space escalator. Make it an endless belt that can be rotated. Provides a two-way transportation path, as well. The mass would have to be much larger though (continous profile along the entire length).
Probably 99% of the employers they interview with never give them a call back. Why invest that much time for a position they most likely won't get?
Obviously they should go home and write some code to show for the next interview. But to write code specifically for you....
You even admitted that you wouldn't hire them on the basis of that little project. Then it honestly was not worth their time to do it.
Don't worry; with enough power, the signal can punch through any such interference.
There is this possibility: countless children twist it into a legal reason for not having to take the garbage out.
For those of you living near or in Wisconsin, remember way back when the state slogan was "Wisconsin: You're among Friends."?
At the time, I grabbed two bumper stickers and clipped them so that the composite sticker read "Wisconsin: You're among Fiends."
Only one driver caught it, and he was laughing too hard to drive when the light turned green.
That's how your company makes them. Most other white LEDs use the phosphor mechanism.
Well, don't swing too far away from the center on this.
SCC is trying to get several items listed as not having the DMCA applied to them, including:
Computer programs embedded in a machine or product and which cannot be copied during the ordinary operation or use of the machine or product.
Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not so sure I want just anyone to have free license over my embedded code. In the instance of ink cartridges, though, it does seem unreasonable to apply the DMCA (since the chip is really there to prevent cloning in the first place).
But in many embedded devices, the hardware is easily identified and duplicated. The hard work is all in the firmware. I certainly don't want some company to be able to just copy my firmware and build a competing device. They didn't pay the high cost of research and development. Any of you would object to some company ripping your code, and using for their profit.
Music Shapers will enable children to more efficiently find frequencies and harmonics with the maximum annoyance factor.
;-)
Honestly, they are just embroidered round pillows, with 70's style designs on them. I'm sure they were originally developed for stoners.
The Line 6 amp is neat though; any word on when this amazing technology called "modeling" and "DSPs" can be used for other purposes?
Yes.
It is interesting to see what the archeologists have dug up next. We are all curious about what happened in ancient times past. It would be regretful to lose parts of the story.
But we should never place the ancient over the present. They are not going to discover anything of real value to us now. Certainly nothing more valuable than the lives of thousands of people living in the present.
Don't they suck? I've had to use one of those pieces of crap for months, 1.8GHz but it's slower than my Athlon 1.2.
The sound hardware is the worst piece of semi-developed-lowest-overseas-bidder junk I've ever seen. The static noises never go away, and you hear everything the CPU and hard drive ever do. Turning up the volume only amplifies the noise.
Makes it worthless for listening to any music. But then, I guess Compaq figures people shouldn't be listening to music at work.
Those require an external coil and some passive components depending on the design, and they do simplify switching supply design. However, you don't want to slap one of these into a stripboard from Radio Shack, assuming the hole pattern would fit. So you either have to etch or mill your own circuit board, or have one made (cheapest I've seen is $25 for one-offs). The poster above was talking about power supplies they built in high school, which were most likely rectifiers and LM78xx series regulators, nowhere near computer supply requirements. Five amps isn't that close either, except when your computer is a laptop.
I would probably do something like that for the fun of it, and to make it exactly to my requirements...plus I have experience and friends with the right equipment. However, it's not going to save any money for the average person.
I knew that...but they are still very thin and flat, and lend themselves to an array large enough to make a brake light. Instead of a deep wiring and reflector pocket, the LED array can be set just a few millimeters into the skin and sealed flush with the car's finish.