Key word: if. Fry's is not selling it for $20 despite what the original poster says, it's $45. The reference to "some stores" must mean returns or some other non-stock way of purchasing it. The official price is $45 which is $2 less than the LinkSys and the DD-WRT firmware is tried and true unlike the new attempt.
Considering that I can get the LinkSys WRT54G at Amazon.com for $47 and flash it with the great DD-WRT firmware, I really don't see this device as being all that attractive.
Camera pans to show children playing with various toys. Billy is sitting on the side by himself playing with his chemistry set. The more popular kids are playing with a football. Suddenly Billy decides he's superior than his friends and vows to remain alone for the rest of his life so as not to soil his intellect with their mundane "fun".
Suddenly something in one of the tubes starts fizzling. Suddenly the President comes into view and hands Billy a big bag of money and says, "By God Billy, you've found a new weapon of mass destruction" Everyone starts cheering.
All the kids playing with non-science related toys grow up, get married, have kids and live out their lives in bliss. Billy takes his money and rolls around naked in it, then slips into a deep depression and blows his brains out. Billy is given a parade in his honor.
Roll credits.
A little extreme perhaps but having the government try to manipulate us through the media (like they don't already) sounds a little like brainwashing.
Yes, I read the article...sh*thead. Are YOU just dumb or are you missing the point? The gist of the article is that MS doesn't deliberately break other peoples software. And if you removed your head from your rectum then you might understand that. Oh wait! You're too stupid to comprehend what the author was saying. In the words of Shakespeare...BITE ME!
Uh-oh: "Positronics Research, headed up by Dr. Smith" Good Heavens! Next it will be "MIT, headed up by Dr. Otto Octavius" or "NASA, headed up by Dr. Victor Von Doom" or "Scientology, headed up by L. Ron Hubbard". Oh the pain...
No wonder NASA has budget problems. I wonder if there are any bags of money lying around Cape Canaveral that they've forgotton about. "Hey guys, look at this. Some really expensive real estate that we never use. Is that Jimmy Hoffas body in there?"
...synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix since its an excimer, frozen in its excited state, as soon as they apply a field, they couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state and voila! Popcorn for everyone!
Although this is a great advancement in helicopter design it's not going to become a flying car. You still have to deal with engine outages and auto-rotation so you'll need to be a pilot to fly it. I can but a Robinson R22 2-person chopper and do everything that this unit can do, although it takes more skill. It's a great achievement but it's not a car. It's a hobbyists toy. Even if they enclose it, it will face the same issues as modern small choppers.
My company currently leases their computer equipment and it's a nightmare. The CFO sayes "it's good because you always have fresh equipment in the environment" which masks what's really going on. The technology is being driven by the lease, rather than corporate need. You can replace purchased equipment every three years also, nothing is preventing you from doing this if you realy want "freshness". By leasing you are forced to upgrade and migrate systems that do not necessarily need upgrading and you need to take time away from other projects to do it.
Watch for the announcement of the new rebranded MSNASA coming to you via MSNBC. They need some time to paint the "Designed for Windows" logo on the tail of the Space Shuttle.
Hmmmm, interesting. If it's only meant to be a mechanism for agreeing to pay, then why sign the card itself? It's obvious that the signing of the card and the checking of the signature on the receipt by the seller is meant to be a security measure. Look at what you're saying. If the sig is meant as a agreement between the seller an the buyer, then why sign at all? The act of giving your card to the cashier is actually creating the agreement. The sig is proving to the seller that you are the person who owns the card.
I give a shit about the credit company covering all that fraud, who in turn are covered by the insurance company, who in turn are covered by my ever-increasing premiums. Sure, if someone steals your card just pluck a new one from the trees...it's not that simple. There are no free rides.
Say you lost your signed credit card and some nefarious type found it. With about 2 minutes of practice they would be able to forge your sig good enough to get by the minimum-wage-high-school-attending cashier so why bother with this lame security device from our distant past. Another reader mentioned signing onto a screen which does not seem to check your sig against any database but makes it easier to store I guess. If the stores can roll out this technology then there should be nothing standing in the way of biometrics. Im currently typing this on a ThinkPad T42 with a fingerprint reader and it works great so to me it would seem that the technology is ready for prime-time. Maybe using bio-metrics and having a picture card backup if the biometrics fails to match would be the answer.
..to match my defective Windows operating system. Is it me or is the quality of EVERYTHING going to hell. Pretty soon we'll be living in carboard houses and driving aluminum foil cars.
This isn't about protecting sources, this is corporate espionage plain and simple. They're not protecting reporting sources, they're shielding criminals.
Dude, you need to relax. I guess all those BSOD's have really stressed you out. Yes, the GIMP is available on Windows but we're talking about setting up a Linux Lab here. I'm sure that a mouse works with Windows too but the post is asking for a way to setup a good workstation for students to learn on that will work within the limited educational budget boundries. I'm not a zealot, just planning for the future...and the future will not be Windows despite what you think. Free your mind and your ass will follow.
I gave my nephews copies of the GIMP and now it's unbelievable what they come up with. It's a great way to get kids interested in the Open Source movement and can prep some of them for rewarding careers in Graphics or Web design. It also forces them to learn their way around a Linux box.
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... up to $A5000 a year ...
So that works out to about...50 pence?
Key word: if. Fry's is not selling it for $20 despite what the original poster says, it's $45. The reference to "some stores" must mean returns or some other non-stock way of purchasing it. The official price is $45 which is $2 less than the LinkSys and the DD-WRT firmware is tried and true unlike the new attempt.
Considering that I can get the LinkSys WRT54G at Amazon.com for $47 and flash it with the great DD-WRT firmware, I really don't see this device as being all that attractive.
No, it was Spock in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield; episode of TOS. In Star Trek III it was Checkov and it went like this:
:)
KIRK: Sequence one. Code one, one-A.
CHEKOV: Sequence two. Code one, one-A, two-B.
SCOTT: Sequence three. Code one-B, two-B, three.
KIRK: Code zero, zero, zero, destruct zero.
You would think that between the two times they would have changed the password.
KIRK: Destruct sequence one. Code one, one-A.
SPOCK: Destruct sequence number two. Code one, one-A, two-B.
SCOTT: Destruct sequence number three. Code one-B, two-B, three.
KIRK: Begin thirty second countdown. Code zero, zero, zero, destruct, zero.
Bill Paxton as the divorced Oceanographer who's trying to balance being a father to his 18 year-old son with his job.
Susan Sarandon as the head of the Governments Task Force on the Environment. She's tough and passionate but is there anything she can do?
Alec Baldwin as the President whos up for re-election. Can he fend off the powerful lobbyists yet still keep his office?
Jennifer Lopez is the scientist with a solution, but no one will listen due to her reputation as being an alarmist.
Wil Wheaton with a cameo as The Beaver.
Steven Spielberg is rumored to be interested.
How about this:
Camera pans to show children playing with various toys. Billy is sitting on the side by himself playing with his chemistry set. The more popular kids are playing with a football. Suddenly Billy decides he's superior than his friends and vows to remain alone for the rest of his life so as not to soil his intellect with their mundane "fun".
Suddenly something in one of the tubes starts fizzling. Suddenly the President comes into view and hands Billy a big bag of money and says, "By God Billy, you've found a new weapon of mass destruction" Everyone starts cheering.
All the kids playing with non-science related toys grow up, get married, have kids and live out their lives in bliss. Billy takes his money and rolls around naked in it, then slips into a deep depression and blows his brains out. Billy is given a parade in his honor.
Roll credits.
A little extreme perhaps but having the government try to manipulate us through the media (like they don't already) sounds a little like brainwashing.
Yes, I read the article...sh*thead. Are YOU just dumb or are you missing the point? The gist of the article is that MS doesn't deliberately break other peoples software. And if you removed your head from your rectum then you might understand that. Oh wait! You're too stupid to comprehend what the author was saying. In the words of Shakespeare...BITE ME!
"Nowadays, I know from personal experience that today Microsoft takes application compatibility very seriously."
Sure, like their Java compatibility and XML compatibility. Please, give me a break. Have you been living in a cave or is MS sending you a check?
Uh-oh: "Positronics Research, headed up by Dr. Smith" Good Heavens! Next it will be "MIT, headed up by Dr. Otto Octavius" or "NASA, headed up by Dr. Victor Von Doom" or "Scientology, headed up by L. Ron Hubbard". Oh the pain...
No wonder NASA has budget problems. I wonder if there are any bags of money lying around Cape Canaveral that they've forgotton about. "Hey guys, look at this. Some really expensive real estate that we never use. Is that Jimmy Hoffas body in there?"
...synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix since its an excimer, frozen in its excited state, as soon as they apply a field, they couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state and voila! Popcorn for everyone!
Chairface Chippendale will be real disappointed.
SPOON!!!!
...so it'll be over and there will be no more articles about it on Slashdot.
Although this is a great advancement in helicopter design it's not going to become a flying car. You still have to deal with engine outages and auto-rotation so you'll need to be a pilot to fly it. I can but a Robinson R22 2-person chopper and do everything that this unit can do, although it takes more skill. It's a great achievement but it's not a car. It's a hobbyists toy. Even if they enclose it, it will face the same issues as modern small choppers.
It's time for drastic measures
My company currently leases their computer equipment and it's a nightmare. The CFO sayes "it's good because you always have fresh equipment in the environment" which masks what's really going on. The technology is being driven by the lease, rather than corporate need. You can replace purchased equipment every three years also, nothing is preventing you from doing this if you realy want "freshness". By leasing you are forced to upgrade and migrate systems that do not necessarily need upgrading and you need to take time away from other projects to do it.
Watch for the announcement of the new rebranded MSNASA coming to you via MSNBC. They need some time to paint the "Designed for Windows" logo on the tail of the Space Shuttle.
He said "maximum exposure". Huh, huh. Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh.
Hmmmm, interesting. If it's only meant to be a mechanism for agreeing to pay, then why sign the card itself? It's obvious that the signing of the card and the checking of the signature on the receipt by the seller is meant to be a security measure. Look at what you're saying. If the sig is meant as a agreement between the seller an the buyer, then why sign at all? The act of giving your card to the cashier is actually creating the agreement. The sig is proving to the seller that you are the person who owns the card.
I give a shit about the credit company covering all that fraud, who in turn are covered by the insurance company, who in turn are covered by my ever-increasing premiums. Sure, if someone steals your card just pluck a new one from the trees...it's not that simple. There are no free rides.
Say you lost your signed credit card and some nefarious type found it. With about 2 minutes of practice they would be able to forge your sig good enough to get by the minimum-wage-high-school-attending cashier so why bother with this lame security device from our distant past. Another reader mentioned signing onto a screen which does not seem to check your sig against any database but makes it easier to store I guess. If the stores can roll out this technology then there should be nothing standing in the way of biometrics. Im currently typing this on a ThinkPad T42 with a fingerprint reader and it works great so to me it would seem that the technology is ready for prime-time. Maybe using bio-metrics and having a picture card backup if the biometrics fails to match would be the answer.
..to match my defective Windows operating system. Is it me or is the quality of EVERYTHING going to hell. Pretty soon we'll be living in carboard houses and driving aluminum foil cars.
This isn't about protecting sources, this is corporate espionage plain and simple. They're not protecting reporting sources, they're shielding criminals.
Dude, you need to relax. I guess all those BSOD's have really stressed you out. Yes, the GIMP is available on Windows but we're talking about setting up a Linux Lab here. I'm sure that a mouse works with Windows too but the post is asking for a way to setup a good workstation for students to learn on that will work within the limited educational budget boundries. I'm not a zealot, just planning for the future...and the future will not be Windows despite what you think. Free your mind and your ass will follow.
I gave my nephews copies of the GIMP and now it's unbelievable what they come up with. It's a great way to get kids interested in the Open Source movement and can prep some of them for rewarding careers in Graphics or Web design. It also forces them to learn their way around a Linux box.