Instead of using a 380-volt DC distribution system, why not use the telephone standard: 48V? Then you could use the same 48V connectors (STD equipment, lower cost) to plug into converters that would be in the same form factor as regular AC power supplies. Then, if you really what to save money, have solar panels (or other means of power generation) to charge batteries that would feed the 48V system. Built-in UPS! Hum, I might be too idealist, here...
Today in 2015, a mix-up at the DC General Hospital caused a Presidential hopeful to get a Sex-change operation instead of a triple-bypass heart surgery. The makers of Robo-surgeon disavow any responsibility since it is the Hospital's underpaid orderlies that roll in the patients in to the wrong room. The now Congress-woman was unavailable for comment. Doctors give the patient a few days to live due to the excitement of not getting enough of herself.
Novell has had a feature like this since the mid eighties and called it salvage. It would keep deleted files until it needed the space.
The MS version seems to do this and on every file save that you do. From what I know of Volume Shadow it is a pain to restore a deleted file because you need to know the file name or you are SOL.
Imagine how much longer a defrag will now take with this feature.
Who knows. Slashdot is getting slower and slower putting up new stories. I thought the same and submitted my 1st story in a year but it got shot down. (nobody else posted the story, either)
I used to have a hard time keeping up with/. now I get bored. I heard about digg and now I go there when I'm bored or when/. is having their usual "slownewsday" Comments there suck and are hard to read due to spelling but it is getting better. At/., there are too many comments to bother for because there are too few stories to comment on.
Alas, I tried to tell them but they scoff at the possibility of something bad happening. Today's (non-geek, non-Slashdot reading) teens are either stupid or too busy getting stoned/laid.
What's needed is movie where this blissful fog that the teens are living in is used against them. This would have to be released on YouTube or something because Hollywood would dumb it down for the 50+ crowd.
re:How about finding a 5 1/4" disc in a 3 1/2" drive? The client said he didn't have the bigger drive, so he figured if he folded the disc over and shoved it in.
I remember talking to a WordPerfect tech (before Corel bought WP) where the customer at theother end of the phone had CUT the 5 1/4" floppies so that they would fit in a 3 1/2" drive!
1-How long before someone hijacks the calls to collect the info that MS is supposedly not collecting? 2-How long before someone create a worm/virus that fools WGA into locking you out? 3-How long before someone create a worm/virus that triggers WGA's kill switch?
You are probably right. What to you expect when you create software that put it's fingers into every other piece of software that you've created and vice versa.
Everybody else creates MODULAR software where you can define where the application starts and end. IE, however, is inter-twined in the OS to avoid the "Bundling browser with the OS" ruling from years ago. Therefore, it is effectively designed by lawyers.
-Software Patents will make it impossible to create a non-infringing application unless you are as big as MS or IBM. -Patent litigation will become part of the development process. -Overseas competition will be able to release their version much sooner because they don't bother playing the SW patent game.
Nice try but it won't work. Right now teens are the #1 buyers of music. There are very few teens who would give up buying a popular song in protest of something.
The real solution is to convince Small/Medium labels to either leave the RIAA or not join the RIAA in the first place. Convincing the Small/Medium labels without the help of their #1 customers is the hard part. You'd have to make it un-cool to buy from the RIAA. You'd have to make it as un-cool as drunk driving and give them options on how to buy the music differently.
Imagine a video ad showing a teen in a music store thinking about where the money goes, how it funds corruption in our government (DRM, DMCA), how it makes the police kick down your door if they *think* you pirated the music, How it pays for lawyers to sue grandmas, and how little the artist actually makes from the sale. Then show the teen walking out the door without buying it. Then show the teen getting the music differently.
Getting the music differently is part I haven't figured out, yet. Can they buy the music directly from the artist's web site? Does the artist get more $ if you buy the music at their concert? I dunno
If AT+T claims ownership of all traffic flowing on its network, then all special interest groups will finally have somebody to sue with big $$ when something "bad" is found on the Internet.
AT+T will now be a lightning rod for lawsuits, frivolous or not.
Now that the stock price is in free fall, He needs to have something to show that he and his cronies were not out to use SCO stock "Boiler Room" style (http://imdb.com/title/tt0181984/) when the stockholders sue. This way, he'll be able to say: "We tried to make a go at it and nobody wanted to develop for our platform...".
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It sounds like a book sign out card used in libraries and they added comments.
Do they still use sign out cards?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-365311429 6815352489
It's just like prohibition.
BTW: Don't we have enough wars going on?
Switching to ODF is like switching to the Metric System
The USA won't change.
Instead of using a 380-volt DC distribution system, why not use the telephone standard: 48V? Then you could use the same 48V connectors (STD equipment, lower cost) to plug into converters that would be in the same form factor as regular AC power supplies. Then, if you really what to save money, have solar panels (or other means of power generation) to charge batteries that would feed the 48V system. Built-in UPS!
Hum, I might be too idealist, here...
If you do a search these days you'll end up with these bogus sites that only contain keywords. Some of them even look like mini, useless search sites.
4 &btnG=Search&meta=
Here's an example.
The other day I was trying to do a search on a Dimplex DS5804 electric fireplace stoves.
So I did a search using: Dimplex DS5804
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=dimplex+ds580
(today) I get 105 hits but only the top 4-5 are real site (YMMV)
The rest are these bogus sites, IF they come up at all.
Since Google doesn't pay bogus site owners for this inconvenience, I don't see any advantage for setting up these bogus sites. Do any of you?
Meanwhile, Google looks more and more like a pile of useless info.
Today in 2015, a mix-up at the DC General Hospital caused a Presidential hopeful to get a Sex-change operation instead of a triple-bypass heart surgery. The makers of Robo-surgeon disavow any responsibility since it is the Hospital's underpaid orderlies that roll in the patients in to the wrong room. The now Congress-woman was unavailable for comment. Doctors give the patient a few days to live due to the excitement of not getting enough of herself.
Novell has had a feature like this since the mid eighties and called it salvage.
It would keep deleted files until it needed the space.
The MS version seems to do this and on every file save that you do.
From what I know of Volume Shadow it is a pain to restore a deleted file because you need to know the file name or you are SOL.
Imagine how much longer a defrag will now take with this feature.
RE: Aren't there enough submissions?
/. now I get bored. /. is having their usual "slownewsday" /., there are too many comments to bother for because there are too few stories to comment on.
Who knows. Slashdot is getting slower and slower putting up new stories.
I thought the same and submitted my 1st story in a year but it got shot down.
(nobody else posted the story, either)
I used to have a hard time keeping up with
I heard about digg and now I go there when I'm bored or when
Comments there suck and are hard to read due to spelling but it is getting better.
At
I could go on but I would cause a flame war.
Alas, I tried to tell them but they scoff at the possibility of something bad happening.
Today's (non-geek, non-Slashdot reading) teens are either stupid or too busy getting stoned/laid.
What's needed is movie where this blissful fog that the teens are living in is used against them. This would have to be released on YouTube or something because Hollywood would dumb it down for the 50+ crowd.
re:How about finding a 5 1/4" disc in a 3 1/2" drive? The client said he didn't have the bigger drive, so he figured if he folded the disc over and shoved it in.
I remember talking to a WordPerfect tech (before Corel bought WP) where the customer at theother end of the phone had CUT the 5 1/4" floppies so that they would fit in a 3 1/2" drive!
1-How long before someone hijacks the calls to collect the info that MS is supposedly not collecting?
2-How long before someone create a worm/virus that fools WGA into locking you out?
3-How long before someone create a worm/virus that triggers WGA's kill switch?
I'm sure it's still integrated somewhat. Remember all those apps that required IE4/5/6 to run...
You are probably right.
What to you expect when you create software that put it's fingers into every other piece of software that you've created and vice versa.
Everybody else creates MODULAR software where you can define where the application starts and end.
IE, however, is inter-twined in the OS to avoid the "Bundling browser with the OS" ruling from years ago. Therefore, it is effectively designed by lawyers.
so... tdoes this mean that we'll have 2 flavours of IE to support now?
-IE 6
-IE 6 with a few bug fixes and new quirks (aka IE 7)
Posts it on Youtube.com,Google videos or lots of other places.
The word will get out.
TV is for old people.
Internet is for cool for teens.
There seems to be a few more than that:
m l
http://papersplease.org/hiibel/facts.html
Now, they'll have no problem thanks to this:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0622/p01s01-usju.ht
Soon you see commercials:
Your National ID card.
Don't leave home without it, or else!
-Software Patents will make it impossible to create a non-infringing application unless you are as big as MS or IBM.
-Patent litigation will become part of the development process.
-Overseas competition will be able to release their version much sooner because they don't bother playing the SW patent game.
All we need now are a few more of these incidents, a few FOX reports siding with the police and the conversion will be complete.
Sad but true.
Nice try but it won't work.
Right now teens are the #1 buyers of music.
There are very few teens who would give up buying a popular song in protest of something.
The real solution is to convince Small/Medium labels to either leave the RIAA or not join the RIAA in the first place.
Convincing the Small/Medium labels without the help of their #1 customers is the hard part.
You'd have to make it un-cool to buy from the RIAA.
You'd have to make it as un-cool as drunk driving and give them options on how to buy the music differently.
Imagine a video ad showing a teen in a music store thinking about where the money goes, how it funds corruption in our government (DRM, DMCA), how it makes the police kick down your door if they *think* you pirated the music, How it pays for lawyers to sue grandmas, and how little the artist actually makes from the sale. Then show the teen walking out the door without buying it. Then show the teen getting the music differently.
Getting the music differently is part I haven't figured out, yet.
Can they buy the music directly from the artist's web site?
Does the artist get more $ if you buy the music at their concert?
I dunno
As part of their "Get Legal" campaign.
If AT+T claims ownership of all traffic flowing on its network, then all special interest groups will finally have somebody to sue with big $$ when something "bad" is found on the Internet.
AT+T will now be a lightning rod for lawsuits, frivolous or not.
Now that the stock price is in free fall, He needs to have something to show that he and his cronies were not out to use SCO stock "Boiler Room" style (http://imdb.com/title/tt0181984/) when the stockholders sue. This way, he'll be able to say: "We tried to make a go at it and nobody wanted to develop for our platform...".
The appropriate joke should be:
Dude, Where's my balls?
Since Sony killed their robotics division.
If they elect another Republican government, they will.