I think it could work assuming that some strong method of verification were including to ensure the integrity of the sent message. That and some sort of pre-registration that would facilitate a follow-up phone call to verify info.
A heavily automated system using e-mail as is would be disasterous. I could see it now. The next president of the US... Viagra!
I've tested somthing similar to this back in the late nineties. Not sure if it ever was produced or if it is related to this article, but the device gave tactile feedback to a real catheder. Veins could be from a child, middle aged, old person, and my favorite, the heroin addict. The simulator even yelled "ouch" if you poked it too hard. Very cool indeed!
No doubt. Those old 100's go for days. My old Toshiba T-1000 could go for quite a while on it's rechargable battery too. No backlights, no hard-drives. Just a blazing 8088 and a huge 512K ram!
I can see it now. A bunch of 35 year olds sitting in their monther's basement wearing their Trekkie suits and tinfoil hats... "Hey wouldn't it be cool if, like, a laser could stun people. Yeah! Set up a site on GeoShitties! By the way aren't SeaMonkeys the best..."
I think these boys have had their undies yanked too many times.
In my career I've had the best results with a 0+1 RAID also known as a striped mirror. Particularly because RAID 5 has some performance hitches to due to the redundancy method, you have to have a lot of disks to really get good performance and redunancy, and if you loose a disk your performance drops like a bomb.
In 0+1 is all just data baby! Loose a disk, just break the mirror and you'll still get good speed until you can fix the failed disk.
Ok, so the Windows stuff is shaky. What's new there? At least I can get it to work without becoming an expert in wireless chipset technology. I've tried using a Proxim Symphony card with Linux with no problem. Didn't work at all with Windows. I've also tried a DLink card. Works great with windows XP-pro, but never got it to work with Linux, despite so-called TI chipset support.
I've forsaken wireless for a friendly 3com 905c-TX card.:)
So far the highest resoluion is 1920x1080. It is possible for that to be progressive at 24 frames per second too. I'm not aware of any sets that do more than 1080i though. Overall there are quite a few more formats than 1080i and 720p. About 18 if I'm not mistaken. And that's only US DTV which is only kinda standard last time I checked.
When SCO's a worthless company, and they already are in my eyes, I'll shell out the $10 and buy 'em out. First thing I'll do is I'll move Darl's desk into the basement and change his title "GPL Promotion Assistant". If he's got a stapler... yeah... I'll just be taking that from him too...
I'm still stuck on Windows. Mainly cause of some games and some multitrack audio recording, and DVD authoring software. I've not found anything acceptable for linux with regards to the last two. I'm not aware of any good linux software that can record audio in 24-bit resolution.
There are projects that may fill that gap soon though!
NVidia's X windows drivers are fantastic and KDE 3.2 and OpenOffice leave no reasons to stick with Windows otherwise. I'm currenly using WinXP, gotten at a huge and legal discount, and do not plan to ever pay for Microsoft products again.
I'm currently dual booting between WinXP and Suse 9.1. I also use Solaris 9 rather heavily at home.
I've had a lot of contact with the folks at the FCC back in the late 90's. One gentlemen from the FCC explained why they were commissioned in the first place. Before the air waves were regulated, anyone could set up a radio station or the like. There was so much interference that important communications such as wireless telegraph were unreliable. The president at that time (Roosevelt?) thus commissioned the FCC to keep things sane.
It would be nuts to deregulate the airwaves! Could you imagine folks setting up some crazy 1kw transmitter on the 2.4GHz frequency? Very bad.
How the heck do you get rid of BIND? It's everywhere unless your a MS Windows shop that is ruled by DDNS... but most folks I know won't expose DDNS directly to the internet, cause you know why... BIND often acts as an intermediate.
I know there are better alternatives out there, but why aren't they more popular?
Many moons ago I had a linux box with a Proxim Symphony (1.5Mbps) wireless card that acted as a cable modem router/firewall/kitchen sink. It worked great!
Unfortunately the bums at Proxim didn't make WinXP drivers so I scrapped it all for D-Link cards... that I've never gotten to work with linux. A DI-614+ access point is dirt cheap though so no big deal.
Yeah, um... were going to need you here this Saturday... and oh yeah... Sunday too.
I can see this as a great opportunity for tech sweatshops to own their employees free time. My guess is the federal gov't wants to get out of paying contractors overtime fees?
I agree, as I worked in the $30's as a programmer when I was getting started. And this was when the geek market was excellent. Where you live can make a difference. That isn't so bad for a youngster in the MidWest, while in New York you couldn't even afford to squat in a crack house with that salary.
To get into better salary ranges you'll likely have to job-hop on a yearly basis.
I agree that VMware is a low cost, compact and easy way to set up a testing environment. The particular nice thing is that you can all of a sudden decide that you need 4 or 5 test systems, and add those immediately at no significant extra cost. Or you can switch easily from one sandbox to another as needed.
VMware is actually having something of a sale right now where you can pick it up for about $189. Couple that with something dual processor and 2G+ ram an you should be ready for action.
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Shit. Ya'll have not seen my mortgage payment! I could buy a couple GeForce XG9000 Ultra Supers for one dirty little house payment.
House = Under a Bridge
Looks like geeks with spelling skills are still a Myth too?
Good point. I'd mod you up if I had the points to do it... :(
I think it could work assuming that some strong method of verification were including to ensure the integrity of the sent message. That and some sort of pre-registration that would facilitate a follow-up phone call to verify info.
A heavily automated system using e-mail as is would be disasterous. I could see it now. The next president of the US... Viagra!
I've tested somthing similar to this back in the late nineties. Not sure if it ever was produced or if it is related to this article, but the device gave tactile feedback to a real catheder. Veins could be from a child, middle aged, old person, and my favorite, the heroin addict. The simulator even yelled "ouch" if you poked it too hard. Very cool indeed!
Ladies and Gentlemen (and geeks) I give you The Bug.
...and we give The Bug the Slashdot effect! *swat* :)
I've confirmed the MD5 myself and it's good. For the more cautious out there the file can be found on microsoft's web site with much digging.
No doubt. Those old 100's go for days. My old Toshiba T-1000 could go for quite a while on it's rechargable battery too. No backlights, no hard-drives. Just a blazing 8088 and a huge 512K ram!
If we use my neighborhood as a standard of an "American accent" then... Buen día mis amigos canadienses!
I got 60 m.p.g on a VW Golf Turbo Diesel once on a long trip. Regular mileage was generally better than 50 tho.
Does this mean I can take the tinfoil off my house if I upgrade???
I can see it now. A bunch of 35 year olds sitting in their monther's basement wearing their Trekkie suits and tinfoil hats... "Hey wouldn't it be cool if, like, a laser could stun people. Yeah! Set up a site on GeoShitties! By the way aren't SeaMonkeys the best..."
I think these boys have had their undies yanked too many times.
Finally someone who know what their talking about!
In my career I've had the best results with a 0+1 RAID also known as a striped mirror. Particularly because RAID 5 has some performance hitches to due to the redundancy method, you have to have a lot of disks to really get good performance and redunancy, and if you loose a disk your performance drops like a bomb.
In 0+1 is all just data baby! Loose a disk, just break the mirror and you'll still get good speed until you can fix the failed disk.
Ok, so the Windows stuff is shaky. What's new there? At least I can get it to work without becoming an expert in wireless chipset technology. I've tried using a Proxim Symphony card with Linux with no problem. Didn't work at all with Windows. I've also tried a DLink card. Works great with windows XP-pro, but never got it to work with Linux, despite so-called TI chipset support.
:)
I've forsaken wireless for a friendly 3com 905c-TX card.
Not quite.
So far the highest resoluion is 1920x1080. It is possible for that to be progressive at 24 frames per second too. I'm not aware of any sets that do more than 1080i though. Overall there are quite a few more formats than 1080i and 720p. About 18 if I'm not mistaken. And that's only US DTV which is only kinda standard last time I checked.
When SCO's a worthless company, and they already are in my eyes, I'll shell out the $10 and buy 'em out. First thing I'll do is I'll move Darl's desk into the basement and change his title "GPL Promotion Assistant". If he's got a stapler... yeah... I'll just be taking that from him too...
I'm still stuck on Windows. Mainly cause of some games and some multitrack audio recording, and DVD authoring software. I've not found anything acceptable for linux with regards to the last two. I'm not aware of any good linux software that can record audio in 24-bit resolution.
There are projects that may fill that gap soon though!
NVidia's X windows drivers are fantastic and KDE 3.2 and OpenOffice leave no reasons to stick with Windows otherwise. I'm currenly using WinXP, gotten at a huge and legal discount, and do not plan to ever pay for Microsoft products again.
I'm currently dual booting between WinXP and Suse 9.1. I also use Solaris 9 rather heavily at home.
I've had a lot of contact with the folks at the FCC back in the late 90's. One gentlemen from the FCC explained why they were commissioned in the first place. Before the air waves were regulated, anyone could set up a radio station or the like. There was so much interference that important communications such as wireless telegraph were unreliable. The president at that time (Roosevelt?) thus commissioned the FCC to keep things sane.
It would be nuts to deregulate the airwaves! Could you imagine folks setting up some crazy 1kw transmitter on the 2.4GHz frequency? Very bad.
How the heck do you get rid of BIND? It's everywhere unless your a MS Windows shop that is ruled by DDNS... but most folks I know won't expose DDNS directly to the internet, cause you know why... BIND often acts as an intermediate.
I know there are better alternatives out there, but why aren't they more popular?
- When you insult a troll, he wins.
Many moons ago I had a linux box with a Proxim Symphony (1.5Mbps) wireless card that acted as a cable modem router/firewall/kitchen sink. It worked great!
Unfortunately the bums at Proxim didn't make WinXP drivers so I scrapped it all for D-Link cards... that I've never gotten to work with linux. A DI-614+ access point is dirt cheap though so no big deal.
Nice setup, but I would at least make a feeble attempt to build in some EMI shielding. Tin foil or copper tape would be nice to match my tin foil hat.
Yeah, um... were going to need you here this Saturday... and oh yeah... Sunday too.
I can see this as a great opportunity for tech sweatshops to own their employees free time. My guess is the federal gov't wants to get out of paying contractors overtime fees?
I agree, as I worked in the $30's as a programmer when I was getting started. And this was when the geek market was excellent. Where you live can make a difference. That isn't so bad for a youngster in the MidWest, while in New York you couldn't even afford to squat in a crack house with that salary.
To get into better salary ranges you'll likely have to job-hop on a yearly basis.
I agree that VMware is a low cost, compact and easy way to set up a testing environment. The particular nice thing is that you can all of a sudden decide that you need 4 or 5 test systems, and add those immediately at no significant extra cost. Or you can switch easily from one sandbox to another as needed.
VMware is actually having something of a sale right now where you can pick it up for about $189. Couple that with something dual processor and 2G+ ram an you should be ready for action.