A laptop would be ideal, yes. But, if I'm going to use this in living room full of drunk people carring alchohol around in hands, the last thing I want is a single unit that cost me $2500 to go up in flames when a drink is spilled.
As the posting says, this will also be used in my car. Having my laptop open in the passenger seat in order to play this doesn't sound like a good idea.
It has grown beyond almost anybody's earliest imaginings to become a thoroughly mainstream and very American communications medium., thoroughly corporatized and Disnified.
Only Jon could turn the word "Disney" in to an adverb...
It is not a question of whether or these individuals have become adept programmers, but whether the university is teaching. That's right, not certifying, but teaching. The university's upmost responsibility is to provide an environment where the largest amount of usefull information is available to those who want to learn can absorb it. Somewhere along the line our twisted society started thinking, "If they've been to college, they must be good." This is so many shades of wrong.
If a person cheats their way through college, ideally, the only people they've hurt is themselves. If the people who work with these supposed inept programmers were to actually report it no one would be grumbling. I have no sympathy for those for people who complain and do nothing about it.
The only way the system will change is when people start truely believing in the part that education plays in becoming a good human being. Bravo to CmdToco for pointing out the stupidity of the system.
This technology has existed in access control systems for years. It's important to note that they're not 'chips' in the common sense of the word... they're actually coils of copper etching.
The coil is 'read' by emmitting a radio signal and reading the reflected frequency from the coil. This makes the currency immune to all forms of defacing short of cutting the coil out of the currency or cutting it in half. If the bank was smart, the coil spans the entire currency so it's impossible to complete remove it. It can be read from up to twenty feet away. However, it's difficult to discern different signatures or how many signatures there are when the coils are in close proximity to each other.
And no, microwaves will only serve to ignite your currency. But hey, if you've got money to burn, go for it, honey.
IMHO, e-paper needs to be white. From the photo in this article, it's the same color as your old LCD screen. This presents a problem when going for 256 gray-scale in games/apps because your white is already 25% gray. The real hoop to jump through is finding a way to bleach the proteins and platics while maintaining their functionallity.
An equally interesting feature of Windows 2000 and XP that doesn't cause a resource drain is the ability to blend cursors. CursorEx is a free program for loading PNG images in to the hardware cursor space. It uses the same acceleration used to draw the cursor shadow feature. It includes some glass-like cursors as well as a set that's been anti-aliased.
Straight from 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar':
13. ``Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.''
I ran in to the same problem just recently. Not only does RR not support Win XP, but the reps have been told to effectivly 'hang up' on anyone using Linux.
They recently misconfigured their DHCP server here in KC, MO. It took me six hours of arguing to finally get to someone who understand what DHCP was and that it had nothing to do with which client was connecting. They temporarilly fixed the problem, but this last weekend, they went back to the old way forcing me to patch around the probelm without help from RR.
My/etc/hosts file contains all the possible combinations of host names they might assign me. Each one points back to 127.0.0.1 so that I can start Gnome and XFS.
They told me it was my problem for choosing an alternative opperating system, not theirs.
I'm not sure of the brand name, but Drury college in Springfield, MO is utilizing the technology. The software runs on Windows NT and is connected to mass storage devices. Any computer on the network with privaleges can watch or review footage from any time frame, instantly.
The benefit to digital storage is that, in the case of a break in, instead of spending 24 to 36 hours going through the tapes to find the incarcerating frames, the computer can instantly jump to any indexed point, or even better, ONLY record if there's a difference between the frame before it and the one it's recording. So, instead of recording TONS of useless video (especially at night) the cammeras only record motion. So, 8 TB becomes 1 GB. MPEG4 is used.
D&J Automatic Gates in Springfield, MO has installed the technology. Anyone looking to obtain it might call them: 417-725-5215
... having no permissions for the system folder and registry (and the like) severly limit the level at which one can degub errors caused by the intercommuication between the kernel modules and your application.
On the other hand, if you want drones that do nothing but what their told... it's ideal. In this case, a project manager would likely have the appropriate access to ensure the final product is acceptable.
It's the structured heirarchy vs. social system, again. The cathedral and the bazar. Clearly, your boss has some reason that he doesn't trust your co-workers. He must also believe that the people at the top are more innovative than the people who are writting the code.
In terms of techincal considerations, there are work arounds for pretty much everything you should want to do: DDE for App to App exchange and 'INI' files for config, but you'll never be able to write a working install program without full access.
Exactly! Awesome idea... anyone know why it costs so much $? I've posted how to create this device yourself in a post below title "Summary Schematic". My design should only cost roughly $500 dollars to make.
I've been browsing through the ideas posted here and here's what the ideal device seems to be (with my own ideas added, of course):
To overcome the limitation of specific device drivers being required for RAM mounted on a PCI card, the ram would be mounted in a slanted, parrallel 5.25" IDE/RAID drive design. Within the casing, circuitry would interface with the IDE/RAID bus to emmulate an complete IDE drive. In this senario, to the system, a RAM disk is no different than a hard disk
A second IDE cable would loop from the IDE-RAM drive to a redundancy unit, also 5.25". The redundancy unit. This unit is a IDE hard drive of the same capasity of the RAM drive. The platter disk drive is completely invisible to the BIOS and is only connected to the RAM drive drive for redundancy.
Also in the 5.25" casing is the battery write-out unit that provides temporary power to the RAM and redundancy unit when the system is shut down (or power faliure) to dump the contents of the RAM in to the magnetic medium. The battery backup also allows the RAM to retain the data in it for extended periods without A/C power input.
If the battery backup fails, the RAM drive loads the image on the magnetic medium in to RAM at boot time. Idealy though, the user will use the system frequently enough to never have the contents of the RAM lost.
The end result is that the user sees programs and the OS load almost as fast as the current processor, IDE bus, and FSB can request it.
I imagine that *nixs would boot at roughly the same rate, since most of the boot time is device configuration. Very little time is spent fetching data from disk during a *nix boot. However, I believe that a Windows base machine might boot in as little as 10 secs with this configuration.
Some problems one might run in to is the increasing power consumption of large amounts of RAM chips (DRAM) and, also, the increasing cost of low power RAM chips (SDRAM/RDRAM/DDR)the solve the first problem.
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A laptop would be ideal, yes. But, if I'm going to use this in living room full of drunk people carring alchohol around in hands, the last thing I want is a single unit that cost me $2500 to go up in flames when a drink is spilled.
The intention is not to be a DJ. It's to take my passion with me where ever I go.
Minimalism. If I'm going to buy a drive for both my PC and my portable, why not combine them in to one?
As the posting says, this will also be used in my car. Having my laptop open in the passenger seat in order to play this doesn't sound like a good idea.
The intention is not to be a profession DJ, but to be a party animal. I party allot and I'd like to be able to take my passion with me whereever I go.
I'm paying USD 44.95 for 3 megabits down, 1 megabit upstream.
Only Jon could turn the word "Disney" in to an adverb...
Haven't I seen this before somewhere?
If a person cheats their way through college, ideally, the only people they've hurt is themselves. If the people who work with these supposed inept programmers were to actually report it no one would be grumbling. I have no sympathy for those for people who complain and do nothing about it.
The only way the system will change is when people start truely believing in the part that education plays in becoming a good human being. Bravo to CmdToco for pointing out the stupidity of the system.
This technology has existed in access control systems for years. It's important to note that they're not 'chips' in the common sense of the word... they're actually coils of copper etching.
The coil is 'read' by emmitting a radio signal and reading the reflected frequency from the coil. This makes the currency immune to all forms of defacing short of cutting the coil out of the currency or cutting it in half. If the bank was smart, the coil spans the entire currency so it's impossible to complete remove it. It can be read from up to twenty feet away. However, it's difficult to discern different signatures or how many signatures there are when the coils are in close proximity to each other.
And no, microwaves will only serve to ignite your currency. But hey, if you've got money to burn, go for it, honey.
IMHO, e-paper needs to be white. From the photo in this article, it's the same color as your old LCD screen. This presents a problem when going for 256 gray-scale in games/apps because your white is already 25% gray. The real hoop to jump through is finding a way to bleach the proteins and platics while maintaining their functionallity.
An equally interesting feature of Windows 2000 and XP that doesn't cause a resource drain is the ability to blend cursors. CursorEx is a free program for loading PNG images in to the hardware cursor space. It uses the same acceleration used to draw the cursor shadow feature. It includes some glass-like cursors as well as a set that's been anti-aliased.
Straight from 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar': 13. ``Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.''
I haven't seen anyone post a link to Winbond's own web page on the WTS701 Text-to-Speech Processor so, here it is straight from the mouth:
Winbond
I ran in to the same problem just recently. Not only does RR not support Win XP, but the reps have been told to effectivly 'hang up' on anyone using Linux.
/etc/hosts file contains all the possible combinations of host names they might assign me. Each one points back to 127.0.0.1 so that I can start Gnome and XFS.
They recently misconfigured their DHCP server here in KC, MO. It took me six hours of arguing to finally get to someone who understand what DHCP was and that it had nothing to do with which client was connecting. They temporarilly fixed the problem, but this last weekend, they went back to the old way forcing me to patch around the probelm without help from RR.
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They told me it was my problem for choosing an alternative opperating system, not theirs.
Oh, I forgot: The technology also 'watermarks' the video to prevent evidence tampering.
I'm not sure of the brand name, but Drury college in Springfield, MO is utilizing the technology. The software runs on Windows NT and is connected to mass storage devices. Any computer on the network with privaleges can watch or review footage from any time frame, instantly.
The benefit to digital storage is that, in the case of a break in, instead of spending 24 to 36 hours going through the tapes to find the incarcerating frames, the computer can instantly jump to any indexed point, or even better, ONLY record if there's a difference between the frame before it and the one it's recording. So, instead of recording TONS of useless video (especially at night) the cammeras only record motion. So, 8 TB becomes 1 GB. MPEG4 is used.
D&J Automatic Gates in Springfield, MO has installed the technology. Anyone looking to obtain it might call them: 417-725-5215
On the other hand, if you want drones that do nothing but what their told... it's ideal. In this case, a project manager would likely have the appropriate access to ensure the final product is acceptable.
It's the structured heirarchy vs. social system, again. The cathedral and the bazar. Clearly, your boss has some reason that he doesn't trust your co-workers. He must also believe that the people at the top are more innovative than the people who are writting the code.
In terms of techincal considerations, there are work arounds for pretty much everything you should want to do: DDE for App to App exchange and 'INI' files for config, but you'll never be able to write a working install program without full access.
Exactly! Awesome idea... anyone know why it costs so much $? I've posted how to create this device yourself in a post below title "Summary Schematic". My design should only cost roughly $500 dollars to make.
I've been browsing through the ideas posted here and here's what the ideal device seems to be (with my own ideas added, of course): To overcome the limitation of specific device drivers being required for RAM mounted on a PCI card, the ram would be mounted in a slanted, parrallel 5.25" IDE/RAID drive design. Within the casing, circuitry would interface with the IDE/RAID bus to emmulate an complete IDE drive. In this senario, to the system, a RAM disk is no different than a hard disk A second IDE cable would loop from the IDE-RAM drive to a redundancy unit, also 5.25". The redundancy unit. This unit is a IDE hard drive of the same capasity of the RAM drive. The platter disk drive is completely invisible to the BIOS and is only connected to the RAM drive drive for redundancy. Also in the 5.25" casing is the battery write-out unit that provides temporary power to the RAM and redundancy unit when the system is shut down (or power faliure) to dump the contents of the RAM in to the magnetic medium. The battery backup also allows the RAM to retain the data in it for extended periods without A/C power input. If the battery backup fails, the RAM drive loads the image on the magnetic medium in to RAM at boot time. Idealy though, the user will use the system frequently enough to never have the contents of the RAM lost. The end result is that the user sees programs and the OS load almost as fast as the current processor, IDE bus, and FSB can request it. I imagine that *nixs would boot at roughly the same rate, since most of the boot time is device configuration. Very little time is spent fetching data from disk during a *nix boot. However, I believe that a Windows base machine might boot in as little as 10 secs with this configuration. Some problems one might run in to is the increasing power consumption of large amounts of RAM chips (DRAM) and, also, the increasing cost of low power RAM chips (SDRAM/RDRAM/DDR)the solve the first problem.