All you young whippersnappers with your "dupe" stories from 2003 and 2004. Back in my day, we had real dupes. From 2001, when Pacman was being played on the streets of New York.
But seriously, check out the videos (Coral Cache link). They're priceless. (Edit: The videos seem to be offline -- does anybody have an archive?)
"That ghost's gonna catch Pac-man, gonna *$#@ him up."
Touch-screen
If you (and your wife) like touch-screens (and don't mind the lack of tactile feedback), the Pronto is the only way to go. These have been the most flexibly programmable for a very long time (so the tools are very mature, including Tonto, a free, third-party java-based editor). The older models (TS-1000) are available on eBay for fairly cheap (under $100). The newer ones have a few more buttons and color screens.
Pros: You can see what you're doing, incredibly flexible.
Cons: You can't use it by feel (e.g. without looking at it).
Button-only
If you don't mind an incredibly cryptic remote, get one of the Radio Shack models. Quite programmable, learning, etc. The but the big catch is remembering where you assigned those obscure buttons from your original remote. You know, like subtitle on/off. The 15-1994 has been discontinued, but there are successors.
Pros: Cheap.
Cons: Very hard for anyone other than the programmer to use -- you can't relabel buttons. Requires building your own cable to be computer-programmable, but that might be a plus for/. readers.
Hybrid (LCD display, hard buttons)
If you can't stand touch screens and need tactile feedback, look at the MX-700. You can label 10 of the hard buttons next to the LCD (non-touch) display. And then it has the majority of buttons you usually want (arrows/enter, play, stop, etc.). The 700 is more expensive than the 500 mentioned above, but it's computer-programmable. The 500 isn't.
Pros: You can use it by feel & you can label nonstandard buttons using the LCD.
Cons: You only get text labels, no pretty graphics, and this particular model has a few odd programming limitations.
Following the link in the story takes me to the parent page of the gigantic bill written to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 commission. There are dozens of amendments, and some comments above pointing me to 1017 and 3081, but I'm having trouble following the maze of links.
Could someone link to the controversial portion please?
There's also NetworkStreaming, formerly ExpertVNC. Their focus seems to be on making it easy for an administrator to allow VNC to work from the 'wrong' side of a firewall, letting off-site support reps do their thing.
I don't work for them, I just know some of the folks there.
Also, let's repeat once again that all the 9/11 terrorists were travelling on perfectly valid, non-faked passports. This wouldn't have helped one bit.
I realize it's NYT, but upon actually reading the article, or say even the first sentence, you might find something that would have "helped one bit":
Following a recommendation of the Sept. 11 commission, the House and Senate are moving toward setting rules for the states that would standardize the documentation required to obtain a driver's license, and the data the license would have to contain.
Setting real minimum documentation requirements is a good thing -- that way someone can't just pick the state with the weakest requirements and get a valid ID there.
The scary parts of this bill have to do with the data contained by the license, the database, and the integrated network. But trying to fight those by making erroneous assertions isn't going to get you very far.
The New Millennium Mission's first Earth Observing (EO1) satellite was launched in 2000 as a platform for testing new technologies and strategies for improving missions while reducing cost and development time.
I second this recommendation. Another excellent (and cheap!) resource is Difficult Conversations, from the same group at Harvard and co-written by one of the same authors.
I had the good fortune of sitting in a class with two of the authors of this book while we threw some real-life examples at them, which they then played out -- both the "wrong" way and the "right" way. The "right" way still doesn't guarantee ease or success, even for them.
It was extremely entertaining watching Sheila Heen trying to confront her co-author about "his" body odor problem (one of the examples suggested by a classmate) while he reacted with confusion and hurt (he was having a lot of fun with his role). After a while of struggling with this confrontation, she finally stopped and exclaimed, "this is really hard!"
So while I do whole-heartedly recommend this book, don't expect it to be some miracle instant fix -- there's no such thing. It does, however, provide some outstanding insight and tools.
Think Secret is reporting that new displays are due soon. The new displays apparently will be DVI only -- no more ADC. (The 30" display requires 150W, which ADC couldn't handle.)
What puzzles me is the GPUs currently in these new G5s -- they seem to be dual-head ADC+DVI. That's not terribly useful once ADC goes the way of the dodo. If you're in the market for the new displays, it might be worth holding off on the G5 a few weeks, in order to get a DVI+DVI video card.
Different colors display on the door tips, antennas, headlamps, side and rear panels, and rear wheels to indicate what activities are taking place in the PM.
This might be worrisome, except for the fact that the PM lacks a back seat...
Note that while OWC's firmware update has only been tested with their drives, other people in the forums have successfully used it to update other vendors' drives using the Oxford chipset.
Their updater will also tell you which chipset (911 or 922) your drive has and which firmware it's running. Note that some FW400 drives use the affected Oxford 922 chipset rather than the 911.
As of this writing, nobody's quite sure yet whether Oxford 911 (FW400) chipsets are also affected. Some evidence indicates that they are, Official Statements to the contrary.
"YOU cannot defeat the Drakkai!" in a really high-pitched squeaky voice.
There was limited enough disk space that they didn't really have much variety in the sounds, so you heard the above over and over and over and over again. It was most amusing when you'd hear:
It's a two-channel recorder (up to 24-bit/96kHz, but also has 88.2kHz to avoid aliasing when you eventually sample down to 44.1kHz). It has a built-in hard disk. It has SPDIF input and output.
However, it lacks any high-speed digital I/O. SPDIF can only do 20-bit, and only at real time. The built-in CD burner is only 4x. The CD will burn ISO 9660 discs, though, so you can transfer off the full 24-bit 96 kHz files -- of course you'll chew through 700MB with fairly few minutes of recording at that sample rate.
That said, it might satisfy the poster's requirements.
I've also seen a few cheap 4-track digital recorders that record 2 channels at a time to CompactFlash, but I don't know how good their ADCs are. I think the machines themselves are fairly small, though.
Ship it air. Under no circumstances ship it ground. Ground is slow (especially that far) and it's murder on equipment. Also, ground tracking is terrible.
As others have mentioned, use the original packaging. If you're really paranoid, pack that box (insulated by peanuts or bubble wrap) inside another box.
Also, as others have mentioned, insure it.
That said, most of the carriers are probably fine as long as it's one of their air services. I'd probably go with FedEx 3-day air.
These keyboards have been discussed on/. before, but thankfully more than 24 hours ago. Check out the prior articles on FingerWorks keyboards for a lot more information.
The review I wrote is here. As a further update to their helpfulness, my keyboard died for no apparent reason, and they're fixing it for free (a long time after I bought it).
Yup. Run a scanner to see who's around. When I checked, there were about 8 networks in range. Six of them (Apple/Lucent) were channel 1 (the default). Two of them (Linksys) were channel 6 (the default). Channel 11 was free for me to use.
Remember, this channel is only the base. You use bandwidth from 2 channels on either side as well. So channel 1 uses bandwidth up through 3. 6 uses from 4 through 8. 11 uses 9 through 13.
In other words, the only 3 non-overlapping channels (in the U.S.) are 1, 6, and 11.
The USPTO lists 105 patents assigned to the NSA. They're not all related to cryptography (some have to do with data capture, analysis, etc.) but a number are.
Slashdot Mirror
I know, it's bad karma to reply to your own post, but...here are some of the videos, thanks to The Wayback Machine:
And, yes, this was from 2004, not 2001. My bad.
All you young whippersnappers with your "dupe" stories from 2003 and 2004. Back in my day, we had real dupes. From 2001, when Pacman was being played on the streets of New York.
But seriously, check out the videos (Coral Cache link). They're priceless. (Edit: The videos seem to be offline -- does anybody have an archive?)
"That ghost's gonna catch Pac-man, gonna *$#@ him up."
Touch-screen
Pros: You can see what you're doing, incredibly flexible.If you (and your wife) like touch-screens (and don't mind the lack of tactile feedback), the Pronto is the only way to go. These have been the most flexibly programmable for a very long time (so the tools are very mature, including Tonto, a free, third-party java-based editor). The older models (TS-1000) are available on eBay for fairly cheap (under $100). The newer ones have a few more buttons and color screens.
Cons: You can't use it by feel (e.g. without looking at it).
Button-only
If you don't mind an incredibly cryptic remote, get one of the Radio Shack models. Quite programmable, learning, etc. The but the big catch is remembering where you assigned those obscure buttons from your original remote. You know, like subtitle on/off. The 15-1994 has been discontinued, but there are successors.
Pros: Cheap. /. readers.
Cons: Very hard for anyone other than the programmer to use -- you can't relabel buttons. Requires building your own cable to be computer-programmable, but that might be a plus for
Hybrid (LCD display, hard buttons)
If you can't stand touch screens and need tactile feedback, look at the MX-700. You can label 10 of the hard buttons next to the LCD (non-touch) display. And then it has the majority of buttons you usually want (arrows/enter, play, stop, etc.). The 700 is more expensive than the 500 mentioned above, but it's computer-programmable. The 500 isn't.
Pros: You can use it by feel & you can label nonstandard buttons using the LCD.
Cons: You only get text labels, no pretty graphics, and this particular model has a few odd programming limitations.
Following the link in the story takes me to the parent page of the gigantic bill written to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 commission. There are dozens of amendments, and some comments above pointing me to 1017 and 3081, but I'm having trouble following the maze of links.
Could someone link to the controversial portion please?
There's also NetworkStreaming, formerly ExpertVNC. Their focus seems to be on making it easy for an administrator to allow VNC to work from the 'wrong' side of a firewall, letting off-site support reps do their thing.
I don't work for them, I just know some of the folks there.
Also, let's repeat once again that all the 9/11 terrorists were travelling on perfectly valid, non-faked passports. This wouldn't have helped one bit.
I realize it's NYT, but upon actually reading the article, or say even the first sentence, you might find something that would have "helped one bit":Setting real minimum documentation requirements is a good thing -- that way someone can't just pick the state with the weakest requirements and get a valid ID there.
The scary parts of this bill have to do with the data contained by the license, the database, and the integrated network. But trying to fight those by making erroneous assertions isn't going to get you very far.
...as will your friendly neighborhood competitor, spy organization, etc. And you thought the Tempest effect was bad.
I second this recommendation. Another excellent (and cheap!) resource is Difficult Conversations, from the same group at Harvard and co-written by one of the same authors.
I had the good fortune of sitting in a class with two of the authors of this book while we threw some real-life examples at them, which they then played out -- both the "wrong" way and the "right" way. The "right" way still doesn't guarantee ease or success, even for them.
It was extremely entertaining watching Sheila Heen trying to confront her co-author about "his" body odor problem (one of the examples suggested by a classmate) while he reacted with confusion and hurt (he was having a lot of fun with his role). After a while of struggling with this confrontation, she finally stopped and exclaimed, "this is really hard!"
So while I do whole-heartedly recommend this book, don't expect it to be some miracle instant fix -- there's no such thing. It does, however, provide some outstanding insight and tools.
Think Secret is reporting that new displays are due soon. The new displays apparently will be DVI only -- no more ADC. (The 30" display requires 150W, which ADC couldn't handle.)
What puzzles me is the GPUs currently in these new G5s -- they seem to be dual-head ADC+DVI. That's not terribly useful once ADC goes the way of the dodo. If you're in the market for the new displays, it might be worth holding off on the G5 a few weeks, in order to get a DVI+DVI video card.
Note that while OWC's firmware update has only been tested with their drives, other people in the forums have successfully used it to update other vendors' drives using the Oxford chipset.
Their updater will also tell you which chipset (911 or 922) your drive has and which firmware it's running. Note that some FW400 drives use the affected Oxford 922 chipset rather than the 911.
As of this writing, nobody's quite sure yet whether Oxford 911 (FW400) chipsets are also affected. Some evidence indicates that they are, Official Statements to the contrary.
If you think an auditable paper record is important, contact your representatives and voice your support for the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003.
"YOU cannot defeat the Drakkai!" in a really high-pitched squeaky voice.
There was limited enough disk space that they didn't really have much variety in the sounds, so you heard the above over and over and over and over again. It was most amusing when you'd hear:
"YOU cannot defeat the Dra--" *BOOM*
Take a look at the Alesis MasterLink 9600.
It's a two-channel recorder (up to 24-bit/96kHz, but also has 88.2kHz to avoid aliasing when you eventually sample down to 44.1kHz). It has a built-in hard disk. It has SPDIF input and output.
However, it lacks any high-speed digital I/O. SPDIF can only do 20-bit, and only at real time. The built-in CD burner is only 4x. The CD will burn ISO 9660 discs, though, so you can transfer off the full 24-bit 96 kHz files -- of course you'll chew through 700MB with fairly few minutes of recording at that sample rate.
That said, it might satisfy the poster's requirements.
I've also seen a few cheap 4-track digital recorders that record 2 channels at a time to CompactFlash, but I don't know how good their ADCs are. I think the machines themselves are fairly small, though.
The ERS-7 can understand nearly 180 voice commands
Including "give me back my $1599"?
One word: air.
Ship it air. Under no circumstances ship it ground. Ground is slow (especially that far) and it's murder on equipment. Also, ground tracking is terrible.
As others have mentioned, use the original packaging. If you're really paranoid, pack that box (insulated by peanuts or bubble wrap) inside another box.
Also, as others have mentioned, insure it.
That said, most of the carriers are probably fine as long as it's one of their air services. I'd probably go with FedEx 3-day air.
I can't believe nobody's yet mentioned this classic 1984 reference from 8-10 years ago.
You can turn the pod to the back and drop it down to 8U. But I don't know how he's expecting to get it to 4U.
I know at least one PhD who uses Jgraph (no, not that JGraph) for all her publications. I don't think it does a lot of analysis for you, though.
Um, aren't the network latency and bandwidth constraints going to obliterate any benefit you get from using RAM disks?
These keyboards have been discussed on /. before, but thankfully more than 24 hours ago. Check out the prior articles on FingerWorks keyboards for a lot more information.
The review I wrote is here. As a further update to their helpfulness, my keyboard died for no apparent reason, and they're fixing it for free (a long time after I bought it).
Yup. Run a scanner to see who's around. When I checked, there were about 8 networks in range. Six of them (Apple/Lucent) were channel 1 (the default). Two of them (Linksys) were channel 6 (the default). Channel 11 was free for me to use.
Remember, this channel is only the base. You use bandwidth from 2 channels on either side as well. So channel 1 uses bandwidth up through 3. 6 uses from 4 through 8. 11 uses 9 through 13.
In other words, the only 3 non-overlapping channels (in the U.S.) are 1, 6, and 11.
The USPTO lists 105 patents assigned to the NSA. They're not all related to cryptography (some have to do with data capture, analysis, etc.) but a number are.