I got a Garmin 76s for my birthday about a month ago. It does have about every feature with plenty of RAM for maps and waypoints. The only complaint I have (I don't know how it it is on other units) is that it compains if I am not holding it level with any of the applications that use the magnetic compass. Obviously this is expected, except when i use it in my car and can't hold it level and lean over the display. I'd like to be able to hold it againt my steering wheel and get a heading, but alas, it'll complain after a few seconds.
The barometer can be a bit flaky if moving irradically, but accurate when still.
It works great for wardriving with a serial-usb converter (I use an io gear one). I haven't tried it camping or anything else yet.
run two cat5s - one for data, one for phone. The cat5 for phone can support up to 4 lines (You only need two wires for a phone)! Or you could hook up two data lines or 8 phone lines per drop.
Definetly hook up coax, but you don't need a drop for each jack, one run would work for a whole room unless you plan on transmitting data, in which case, make two drops (or more). You can splice a T connector into the cable for each jack. Sort of like the old BNC days. It saves cable. A signal amplifier will be necessary, though.
Find a comfortable computer lab on campus and buddy up with the attendant. With permission you could do most of what you want, minus fullblown games, but that's good, right? Free tech support if you need it. Top of the line computers that are upgraded almost every year to 18 months. Free printer access (quota, however). With a USB thumb drive you can store all your personal docs and apps. I keep a copy of Firebird (the browser) and trillian along with whatever paper I'm working on at the time. If you're nice enough the attendant may let you boot knoppix for a better enviroment and personal apps. You can print papers out literally 5 minutes before class because its just down the hall (closer than the dorms).
I've used Dasher on the PC and Pocket PC. On the PC it rocks, although not very handy. It takes up half of my precious screen realty. Its deffinetly one of the cooler concept programs I've tried.
As for dasher on the Pocket PC: it sucks. It is a demo so you can't use it for application input unless you want to cut and paste a lot. That can be easily solved (perhaps a horizontal layout like the keyboard inputs?). The problem is the PDA lacks the screen size to efficiently use it. You can hardly see the letters as they come towards your stylus. I end up squinting an inch or two away. Even then I don't know what I'm aiming for.
When a friend of mine came to the US from Japan, she had this fat (and ugly, I might add) box she had to attach to her cell phone charger. It was an inverter or whatever. I wish I had looked closely at the devices.
I live along I-80 near Auburn (just north of placerville) in California. There are very few wi-fi hotspots between Auburn and Rocklin, however, a quick trip through rocklin, off Highway 65 will reveal hundreds of open APs. Most of the APs coming down the mountain are blocked by trees and hills anyways.
Your best bet for getting any hotspots will always be in suburbia.
Programmers could be like bounty hunters, looking for the bugs which have racked up the most loot.
In a perfect world, that may work, but this isn't. People will go for the highest dollar mark, missing the cheap little bugs that may make the difference in a programs sucess. What if there is no money on a critical bug while people are piling a goldmine on something stupid like window transparency or a faster in-line find.
Men work only for that which will bring them glory, riches, or both.
Although your idea is novel, I believe this solution will only hurt the quality of Open Source Software and Free Software and thus the movement. It already has a reputation of being buggy and difficult to use
A few rotten developers might get the idea to purposely plant bugs so they can "fix" them later and profit. Or they may make code extremely difficult to read and overly complex so that only they can work on the project. This may work with corporations such that Transmeta goes to Red Hat and says "Here's 20,000 USD, make a kernel that supports 15 of our new processors" (And corporations like Intel already do that, as pointed out by one thread). When this ideology gets down to SourceForge and home brewed projects, someone may say "here's 20 bucks, make sure your word processor can cut and paste." That is when we get hurt.
Development trees may include less features with hopes that some wealthy individual will finance the growth of features.
Donate to your favorite project as a whole, not to the individual developers. Those funds pay for servers and other stuff too.
I like to get alerts on my cell phone for weather and news, so I signed up for the services on Yahoo. At first I didn't want to reveal my phone number, so I used a forwarding email service. All I ever got was the occasional (about once a month) weather messege from yahoo and a newsletter from the forwarding service.
With the miserable rate, I added my original number/email address to the service and subscribed to all the same alerts. I was getting all my weather every morning for the first week or two, but now I only get weather once a week and I never get news updates.
There is a reason I always have to ask my friends if they got my SMS
Why not spend the money to wire rural areas in the US? I have no broadband and further up the hill (Sierra Nevada's, California) they do not even have lan lines for a simple telephone call.
If anyone stayed until the end to see the credits, near the end of the credits there where some words I didn't recognize. It was a normal font, but it looked almost elvish? Anyone else notice this? Anyone knows what it means, elvish or not?
To answer my own question: Toward the end of the credits, there are some lines in Maori, thanking the
people of New Zealand, where the movie was filmed.:
He mihi nui hoki ki nga tangata whenua o Aotearoa. Ma rangi raua ko papa
tatou e manaaki, e tiaki hei nga tau e tu mai nei. (source)
Haven't you played Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast? There are dozens of mods available, let alone maps and models. It would be nice, for once, to have all these consolidated under one trustworthy (as opposed to a virus ridden copy of an unknown server) roof.
I do agree with what you have to say about single player. Cheating in single player can add a whole new dimension and challenge to the game.
It was the FCC who made the ruling because of all the mudslinging (I think). Just like the 7 words you can't say on TV (or radio), you'll be fined for prinitng or transmitting campaign information (ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court).
While on the topic of moderatly priced and near useless 3d tools, I ran into this glove called the P5 (http://www.essentialreality.com/). It operates on all 3 axis including yaw, pitch, and roll. It looks good on paper, but reviews have been light. Does anyone have any experiance with this? It'd be cool to use my hand instead of a mouse for surfing the web but especially awesome for games (Jedi Outcast and Opera ^_^).
yeah, I just bought mine new about 3 weeks ago. I did something to the same model before that so that it would no longer pick up cell service. The i is for the SMS, the closest its got to internet.
I've got a nokia 5170i. Its just got SMS, phone, and phone book. Okay, its got an alarm clock and more than 5 ring tones (not downloadable), but those are features I've come to expect as standard. It is just a cell phone.
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I got a Garmin 76s for my birthday about a month ago. It does have about every feature with plenty of RAM for maps and waypoints. The only complaint I have (I don't know how it it is on other units) is that it compains if I am not holding it level with any of the applications that use the magnetic compass. Obviously this is expected, except when i use it in my car and can't hold it level and lean over the display. I'd like to be able to hold it againt my steering wheel and get a heading, but alas, it'll complain after a few seconds.
The barometer can be a bit flaky if moving irradically, but accurate when still.
It works great for wardriving with a serial-usb converter (I use an io gear one). I haven't tried it camping or anything else yet.
Link to the download page: http://www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/eosd/resources/mosa ic_e.html
Anyone have a torrent yet?
And thanks to my subscription, I got a heads up from the mysterious future on this ;) Just in case /. gets slashdotted
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You could consider a state of no fingers on either hand, thus giving you base 12. coincidence?
(say, for example, "All The Things She Said", by t.A.T.u., that fake-lesbian pop duo from last year)
;)
Thanks, I was looking for the name of that song
remember: opensource != free software.
This may push microsoft to open its source, but it'll still cost several grand for its products.
All InterTrust would have to do is sit around, do nothing except drop an occasional law suit on someone and then collect money.
Sounds like SCO
run two cat5s - one for data, one for phone. The cat5 for phone can support up to 4 lines (You only need two wires for a phone)! Or you could hook up two data lines or 8 phone lines per drop.
Definetly hook up coax, but you don't need a drop for each jack, one run would work for a whole room unless you plan on transmitting data, in which case, make two drops (or more). You can splice a T connector into the cable for each jack. Sort of like the old BNC days. It saves cable. A signal amplifier will be necessary, though.
Ask it what, again?
Find a comfortable computer lab on campus and buddy up with the attendant. With permission you could do most of what you want, minus fullblown games, but that's good, right? Free tech support if you need it. Top of the line computers that are upgraded almost every year to 18 months. Free printer access (quota, however). With a USB thumb drive you can store all your personal docs and apps. I keep a copy of Firebird (the browser) and trillian along with whatever paper I'm working on at the time. If you're nice enough the attendant may let you boot knoppix for a better enviroment and personal apps. You can print papers out literally 5 minutes before class because its just down the hall (closer than the dorms).
I still suggest having a desktop at home.
I've used Dasher on the PC and Pocket PC. On the PC it rocks, although not very handy. It takes up half of my precious screen realty. Its deffinetly one of the cooler concept programs I've tried.
As for dasher on the Pocket PC: it sucks. It is a demo so you can't use it for application input unless you want to cut and paste a lot. That can be easily solved (perhaps a horizontal layout like the keyboard inputs?). The problem is the PDA lacks the screen size to efficiently use it. You can hardly see the letters as they come towards your stylus. I end up squinting an inch or two away. Even then I don't know what I'm aiming for.
When a friend of mine came to the US from Japan, she had this fat (and ugly, I might add) box she had to attach to her cell phone charger. It was an inverter or whatever. I wish I had looked closely at the devices.
When you go to iraq to repair the infastructure, remember this flyer:
You've got a tough job ahead of you
Before I saw this, I never considered Iraq's fiber infastructure. This really could account for all those bombing missions.
I live along I-80 near Auburn (just north of placerville) in California. There are very few wi-fi hotspots between Auburn and Rocklin, however, a quick trip through rocklin, off Highway 65 will reveal hundreds of open APs. Most of the APs coming down the mountain are blocked by trees and hills anyways.
Your best bet for getting any hotspots will always be in suburbia.
Programmers could be like bounty hunters, looking for the bugs which have racked up the most loot.
In a perfect world, that may work, but this isn't. People will go for the highest dollar mark, missing the cheap little bugs that may make the difference in a programs sucess. What if there is no money on a critical bug while people are piling a goldmine on something stupid like window transparency or a faster in-line find.
Men work only for that which will bring them glory, riches, or both.
Although your idea is novel, I believe this solution will only hurt the quality of Open Source Software and Free Software and thus the movement. It already has a reputation of being buggy and difficult to use
A few rotten developers might get the idea to purposely plant bugs so they can "fix" them later and profit. Or they may make code extremely difficult to read and overly complex so that only they can work on the project. This may work with corporations such that Transmeta goes to Red Hat and says "Here's 20,000 USD, make a kernel that supports 15 of our new processors" (And corporations like Intel already do that, as pointed out by one thread).
When this ideology gets down to SourceForge and home brewed projects, someone may say "here's 20 bucks, make sure your word processor can cut and paste."
That is when we get hurt.
Development trees may include less features with hopes that some wealthy individual will finance the growth of features.
Donate to your favorite project as a whole, not to the individual developers. Those funds pay for servers and other stuff too.
I like to get alerts on my cell phone for weather and news, so I signed up for the services on Yahoo. At first I didn't want to reveal my phone number, so I used a forwarding email service. All I ever got was the occasional (about once a month) weather messege from yahoo and a newsletter from the forwarding service.
With the miserable rate, I added my original number/email address to the service and subscribed to all the same alerts. I was getting all my weather every morning for the first week or two, but now I only get weather once a week and I never get news updates.
There is a reason I always have to ask my friends if they got my SMS
Why not spend the money to wire rural areas in the US? I have no broadband and further up the hill (Sierra Nevada's, California) they do not even have lan lines for a simple telephone call.
If anyone stayed until the end to see the credits, near the end of the credits there where some words I didn't recognize. It was a normal font, but it looked almost elvish? Anyone else notice this? Anyone knows what it means, elvish or not?
To answer my own question:
Toward the end of the credits, there are some lines in Maori, thanking the people of New Zealand, where the movie was filmed.:
He mihi nui hoki ki nga tangata whenua o Aotearoa. Ma rangi raua ko papa tatou e manaaki, e tiaki hei nga tau e tu mai nei. (source)
Perhaps someone has an accurate translation.
Haven't you played Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast? There are dozens of mods available, let alone maps and models. It would be nice, for once, to have all these consolidated under one trustworthy (as opposed to a virus ridden copy of an unknown server) roof.
I do agree with what you have to say about single player. Cheating in single player can add a whole new dimension and challenge to the game.
It was the FCC who made the ruling because of all the mudslinging (I think). Just like the 7 words you can't say on TV (or radio), you'll be fined for prinitng or transmitting campaign information (ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court).
Free as in speech, not beer.
While on the topic of moderatly priced and near useless 3d tools, I ran into this glove called the P5 (http://www.essentialreality.com/). It operates on all 3 axis including yaw, pitch, and roll. It looks good on paper, but reviews have been light. Does anyone have any experiance with this? It'd be cool to use my hand instead of a mouse for surfing the web but especially awesome for games (Jedi Outcast and Opera ^_^).
yeah, I just bought mine new about 3 weeks ago. I did something to the same model before that so that it would no longer pick up cell service. The i is for the SMS, the closest its got to internet.
I've got a nokia 5170i. Its just got SMS, phone, and phone book. Okay, its got an alarm clock and more than 5 ring tones (not downloadable), but those are features I've come to expect as standard. It is just a cell phone.