That's unkind, you coward. Jon Katz doesn't deserve to be told to die. Reserve your venom for someone who deserves it, like someone who kidnaps or rapes your children.
My father, a retired power engineer who worked for the New York State PSC in System Planning told me about Plug Power , a company that is making and selling PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cells for home use. According to the web site, the fuel cells are powered by "natural gas, propane, or methanol and are expected to achieve 40% electrical efficiency. Excess heat generated by the fuel cell can be captured and used for hot water or heating. When this is done, overall efficiency can exceed 80%."
They've had a house running on a 7kW fuel cell in Upstate New York since June 17, 1998.
It's becoming more and more common for public libraries to offer free net access. Most of the libraries around Washington, DC to. When I rode my bike from Alexandria, VA to Richmond, VA last year, I found that the Fredericksburg public library had it, too.
No matter what your product is, the most important thing for you to tell your investors is when your company will start making money. Investors these days want to see a quick return. You want to sell them black ink, not red ink.
Make sure that all of your founders understand your market and all that stuff that is in your business plan. Everybody must know your elevator pitch and what's behind it!
One more thing: If there's an MIT Enterprise Forum chapter in your area, go there regularly. You'll meet many people like you and they'll help you.
Last year, I used the Siag spreadsheet from the free Siag Office suite to prepare my taxes on my NetBSD machine. I coded Form 1040 and Schedule A. It was't too hard. Write to me if you want a copy to use at your own risk.
I use a Ricochet modem on my server at home in Alexandria, Fairfax County, VA. It's my only connection to the Internet. Sometimes I get nearly 28.8K out of it. Other times it's much slower. Overall, I'm happy with the service although I wish that its interactive performance was better. It's unusable for telnet. In spite of the sometimes slow connections, I'm running a couple of services over the radio link. Visit Madison to play with my NetBSD port of Alan Cox's Linux Portaloo and also Ben Reser's Echelon Armor thingie which I swiped from here. I'm running an OpenVerse server on madison.dynip.com:7000 and a dopewars server on the default dopewars port. Feel free to try any of them. I don't advertise, so I don't get lot of traffic. Don't be surprised if the connection is slow!
I've also used the modem on my NetBSD-running Sony PCG-505 laptop. I've used it to listen to WPFW in DC and WWOZ in New Orleans using RealAudio. In fact, Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post wrote about my experience in an article on the future of radio. It appeared on January 21, 1999. Depending on network congestion, it acutally sounds OK. In the article, I think I said the sound was "like a cheap transistor radio". Mr. Ahren's editor cut out the qualification that that was a weakness of the small Sony speakers I used rather than the streaming audio technology or the wireless modem.
Eric is known to be a medievelist. I would like to know if Eric has ever participated in a May Day celebration. Has he ever been crowned King of the May? Has he ever defended his title?
I run NetBSD on my VAIO 505G. Sometimes, I use my Ricochet wireless modem and the RealAudio client to listen to broadcast.com stations from far away. I live near Washington, DC and I like to listen to WWOZ in New Orleans.
Please, oh, please bring back ultramode.txt. I have a script that parses it and puts the first few sentences of each article into a menu. It's nice to be able to browse the/. news before visiting./ for real. slashdot.xml doesn't have any article text at all. It just has author, title, URL, and some other things that I don't care about.
Both it and the Z-1 are sexy, slim machines. I like the idea of not cluttering my desktop. I think it's going to be the trend if it isn't already. Our lives are cluttered and this small-footprint machine is a metaphor for the simpler live styles we need.
CmdrTaco wrote that he'd rather have a VAIO. I suppose that I would, too, because I've had a VAIO PCG-505G, the first of the VAIO super thin laptops, for over a year and it's performed flawlessly. For most of that year, it's been running NetBSD. I'm inclined to buy another VAIO when I have the opportunity. Other people complain about Sony's support policies but I haven't needed support from Sony yet. My 505 just works.
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That's unkind, you coward. Jon Katz doesn't deserve to be told to die. Reserve your venom for someone who deserves it, like someone who kidnaps or rapes your children.
My father, a retired power engineer who worked for the New York State PSC in System Planning told me about Plug Power , a company that is making and selling PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cells for home use. According to the web site, the fuel cells are powered by "natural gas, propane, or methanol and are expected to achieve 40% electrical efficiency. Excess heat generated by the fuel cell can be captured and used for hot water or heating. When this is done, overall efficiency can exceed 80%."
They've had a house running on a 7kW fuel cell in Upstate New York since June 17, 1998.
It's becoming more and more common for public libraries to offer free net access. Most of the libraries around Washington, DC to. When I rode my bike from Alexandria, VA to Richmond, VA last year, I found that the Fredericksburg public library had it, too.
If you had a Hotmail account, you'd be all set.
No matter what your product is, the most important thing for you to tell your investors is when your company will start making money. Investors these days want to see a quick return. You want to sell them black ink, not red ink.
Make sure that all of your founders understand your market and all that stuff that is in your business plan. Everybody must know your elevator pitch and what's behind it!
One more thing: If there's an MIT Enterprise Forum chapter in your area, go there regularly. You'll meet many people like you and they'll help you.
After 37 years of being nice, I, clever_shark, resolve to be naughty.
Last year, I used the Siag spreadsheet from the free Siag Office suite to prepare my taxes on my NetBSD machine. I coded Form 1040 and Schedule A. It was't too hard. Write to me if you want a copy to use at your own risk.
I use a Ricochet modem on my server at home in Alexandria, Fairfax County, VA. It's my only connection to the Internet. Sometimes I get nearly 28.8K out of it. Other times it's much slower. Overall, I'm happy with the service although I wish that its interactive performance was better. It's unusable for telnet. In spite of the sometimes slow connections, I'm running a couple of services over the radio link. Visit Madison to play with my NetBSD port of Alan Cox's Linux Portaloo and also Ben Reser's Echelon Armor thingie which I swiped from here. I'm running an OpenVerse server on madison.dynip.com:7000 and a dopewars server on the default dopewars port. Feel free to try any of them. I don't advertise, so I don't get lot of traffic. Don't be surprised if the connection is slow!
I've also used the modem on my NetBSD-running Sony PCG-505 laptop. I've used it to listen to WPFW in DC and WWOZ in New Orleans using RealAudio. In fact, Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post wrote about my experience in an article on the future of radio. It appeared on January 21, 1999. Depending on network congestion, it acutally sounds OK. In the article, I think I said the sound was "like a cheap transistor radio". Mr. Ahren's editor cut out the qualification that that was a weakness of the small Sony speakers I used rather than the streaming audio technology or the wireless modem.
A recent announcement from Metricom promised 128K service in 12 markets by summer 2000.
Eric is known to be a medievelist. I would like to know if Eric has ever participated in a May Day celebration. Has he ever been crowned King of the May? Has he ever defended his title?
I run NetBSD on my VAIO 505G. Sometimes, I use my Ricochet wireless modem and the RealAudio client to listen to broadcast.com stations from far away. I live near Washington, DC and I like to listen to WWOZ in New Orleans.
Please, oh, please bring back ultramode.txt. I have a script that parses it and puts the first few sentences of each article into a menu. It's nice to be able to browse the /. news before visiting ./ for real. slashdot.xml doesn't have any article text at all. It just has author, title, URL, and some other things that I don't care about.
Both it and the Z-1 are sexy, slim machines. I like the idea of not cluttering my desktop. I think it's going to be the trend if it isn't already. Our lives are cluttered and this small-footprint machine is a metaphor for the simpler live styles we need.
CmdrTaco wrote that he'd rather have a VAIO. I suppose that I would, too, because I've had a VAIO PCG-505G, the first of the VAIO super thin laptops, for over a year and it's performed flawlessly. For most of that year, it's been running NetBSD. I'm inclined to buy another VAIO when I have the opportunity. Other people complain about Sony's support policies but I haven't needed support from Sony yet. My 505 just works.