Is the ability to use both frequencies available only on the newest models? I have a lot of 2.4GHz interference where I am (Manhattan) which I have bypassed by using my Airport Extreme in 5GHz 802.11n/a mode. This is great for my main box and my laptop, but it means that my phone can't connect to my network anymore (It doesn't support 802.11a either). My Airport Extreme is about 2 years old, it's the one that has 802.11n but only 100Mbps Ethernet. Am I out of luck?
My Airport Extreme has the following radio options:
I could see instances where it could hurt a company NOT to check social networking sites. If a prospective employee's profile indicates a tendency toward racial or sexual discrimination, for instance, and the person was hired in a supervisory position, then acted in a discriminatory manner, those discriminated against may be able to argue in court that the company was lax in its hiring practices, which would make it responsible for the discrimination due to its lack of research.
Or their profile might indicate that they make a habit of checking out other people's profiles, which should be grounds for you not to hire them.
I did write this headline. Nobody would that the CPA was competent with Microsoft Word. Very few would argue that they've been competent with Iraq. If you RTFWD, you see that their internal discussions still reflected the rosy point of view that the attacks we're diminishing because they were doing such a great job governing the place. The only theory that bore any resemblance to reality was the last one, which they described as "boring".
A final argument for the downturn in attacks offers what briefly looks like a flash of reality. The "Operational Pause" theory surmises that reduced attacks may be a statistical blip. They may increase again as "terrorists" regroup for future fights against the Americans and "other Iraqis." But then the author calls this "a boring theory," and notes, "There are very few persons we have met who subscribe to this."
For an overview, watch Robert Smigel's truly amazing 'Conspiracy Theory Rock', a very funny cartoon on this very topic which was shown once on Saturday Night Live and censored from subsequent reruns by NBC, because apparently media companies get a kick out of proving their critics right.
You can find an absolutely fascinating study of how the symbols of our creation myths (primarily Genesis, but others are explored fairly well) seem to reflect our actual evolutionary history in Carl Sagan's Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence.
While it includes some later-disproven assertions (dinosaurs being killed off by a nearby supernova, mainly), most of it is brilliant and engrossing for anyone interested in topics like this.
He postulates that Genesis is really the story of the evolution of human intelligence being selected for because it was necessary for us to defeat the reptiles which preyed on our ancestors. We defeated the serpents -- there are no more legged "dragon" type creatures which every human civilization remembers in legend. However, the price we paid was a separation from the animal kingdom, self-consciousness (the realization that we are naked), and most interesting to me, pain in childbirth because of our big brain-holding heads.
Another interesting bit from the book: In every single culture in the world, the sounds "ssssssss" or "sssshhhhhhhhhh" mean "Everybody Shut Up!", as in, "Quiet! Snake!".
It's a good, quick read. I enjoyed it on a Lufthansa flight from Philly to Frankfurt a few years ago. Highly recommended.
"When the time came for him... to fire his weapon" is the important clause describing when the training came into effect. Nothing in TFA implies that this training turned any soldiers into bloodthirsty trigger-happy monsters (not that there haven't been such soldiers in the past, but the past includes a lot of time before gaming).
The video games are just an effective supplement to and replacement for some aspects of regular military training.
I find it very plausible that FPS and related games help hone the instincts one would use in similar real-life situations where he or she would have to hold a gun and shoot it. The same could be said of target shooting or playing paintball. I'm very willing to believe that any of these would make a person better at firing a gun and hitting something, maybe even someone, at some point
Where the argument against gaming falls apart is the contention that playing these games somehow makes people (THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!) more likely to go out and kill other innocent human beings. What these critics fear is murder and violent crime, which is a form of mental illness and/or objective evil which can't be caused by video games. Or target shooting.
Or paintball. Hard evidence to the contrary is, as always, welcome.
Sweetie, the shareholders and I took that product line off to a beautiful farm where it will be happy forever running through fields of Newtons on the banks of Crystal Pepsi River. Aibo is in a better place now.
Wouldn't this automatically end their common carrier status, if they're filtering blocking traffic from certain sources to certain destinations?
Or is that something they hope the law they're lobbying for to address? The Telecommunications Cake Eating and Having Antiterrorism and Freedom Act of 2006!
I read and enjoyed this column. I think the main point he was making is that in terms of how much value you assign to a human life (he quotes a figure of, I believe, $100 million per), an author of a Sasser-like worm actually does more damage (measured in dollars) than a murderer and therefore, by his reasoning, could be eligible for capital punishment.
It's pretty clear that he's just framing a thought experiment for his readers to illustrate how much damage a clever black hat can actually inflict - damage well in excess of what economists calculate to be the approximate worth of the average (I may be using that term loosely, I am not familiar with the study he cites) human being, not really advocating actual execution for hackers. Also, before anyone gets on their high horse about it being impossible to put a price tag on a human life, I suggest doing a little research on how the price tags for environmental laws, automobile safety standards, and insurance policies are calculated.
Anyway, I also thought the suggestion at the end that good old Sven have to sit on Windows 95 2400 baud dial-up tech supporting AOL newbies all day at least +1 Funny.
One thing I hacked together for a friend's site serving out a lot of video was an automatic redirector to the Coral Cache (not as neat as a torrent plugin would be, but cool enough, I thought) which he could activate when his bandwidth was approaching his monthly limit.
I just used mod_rewrite to parse the URL and append.nyud.net:8090 to the hostname and send a redirect to the client. If this were made into a plugin which would combine detecting some bandwidth threshold with the option to fall back on the Coral Cache before throwing out error codes, I think it would benefit a lot of admins staring down the business end of the/. effect.
OT: The site is a video project called Channel 102 based in New York City where people make 5 minute video "pilots" which are screened at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater for an audience who then votes on which ones they want to see return next month. Many of them have some seriousgeekappeal.
So far most of the speculation here seems to be limited to listening to/recording Sirius broadcasts onto the iPod.
Think about it though - a Sirius receiver on an iPod is a receiver for a digital satellite signal, capable of receiving arbitrary data from a satellite in the sky anywhere in the country.
Normally this data is a multitude of "channels" of medium-quality audio. But imagine if some bandwidth from the audio channels was set aside for iPod use. Automatic iPod Software updates? A "Download to Sirius-enabled iPod" option in iTunes so you could buy an album online and walk out the door without having to wait for the download to the computer and the sync from computer to iPod?
I could speculate more (quite possibly beyond the actual limits of what their satellites are actually capable of) but if I were Jobs I'd be asking "So, you want us to piggyback your subscription service onto our already incredibly successful product, potentially increasing your market share by some massive percentage and providing content to the machine that competes with what we already sell (at cost) from our Music Store. OK, so what's in it for us?"
Of course, he might also be negotiating with them to give Apple better leverage over the cell phone companies whose bandwidth-stinginess has brought the development and launch of the iTunes-enabled Motorola phone (and likely corresponding iTunes Mobile Store) to a standstill.
Full Disclosure: I work at Wiley and have done work on eGrade Plus, so I am biased.
In the past year, we've launched eGrade Plus here at Wiley which is a full course management system which a professor can choose to adopt along with one of our textbooks for his or her class. It is not Open Source though we do run it on Linux servers and used a lot of open source tools for development. I used WebCT in college a couple years ago for a few of my classes and have worked with other educational products from the back end since then, but eGrade Plus is at least a generation ahead of most of these (though I too am also very interested in Sakai and have actually been messing around with it recently on a development server).
eGrade Plus is entirely web-based and runs on our servers, but the customers are assigned to domains over which they have a lot of control. We provide a large library of question banks and default assignments for each textbook, but the professor is free to make new questions, alter or create new assignments, and generally to customize the course as much as is desired.
As we make more courses to go with more of our titles, the feature set has been expanding. For our Calculus and Physics titles, we've integrated Maple into the backend to support complex symbolic notation for calculating and entering answers by whatever mathematical method the student uses to arrive at them. There's lots of pretty cool stuff we're experimenting with here based on our own ideas and feedback from our customers, most of which has been very positive.
As I mentioned before, it is not open source. Furthermore, it is only offered for use with our textbooks. Having said that, it is very very tightly integrated with our textbooks -- each registered student has access to a full electronic version of the textbook (as well as many eGP-only supplements) which is cross-referenced with all the other assignments, questionbanks, concept demos and other supplements through their domain.
While eGrade Plus does come with the textbook we also allow and encourage students who don't like to keep their textbooks after the semester is over to purchase a registration code for eGrade Plus only instead of buying a hard copy of the book. You will have semester-long access to the electronic version of the full text for considerably less than the cost of the hard copy and with some extra features to boot.
Finally, eGrade Plus can be integrated with Blackboard and WebCT if that's what your college ends up adopting in the end (just thought that was worth a mention). If you're interested in reading even more, go here.
Anyway, good luck finding the right solution, I'm very interested in some of the other links I've seen posted here too. Sorry if I sounded too much like a not-too-slick marketing droid -- sales pitches aren't really my department, I'm just a code monkey interested in this stuff only partially because it's my job.
When the project is complete, OS X users will be able to open EXE files with Darwine. Darwine will use QEMU to execute the x86 instructions, however when the program makes calls to the Windows API, Darwine calls those functions in WineLib compiled natively for PPC.
So, where Bochs and VirtualPC and others like them emulate the entire operating system environment (Emulated BIOS, emulated hardware, emulated Windows, and finally the emulated x86 application... overhead city), Darwine allows applications to run essentially linked to native code - Wine/WineLib for PPC.
Thus for most Windows applications, the GUI and event handling and everything else the Windows API is good for will be executed in native PPC code. QEMU will then emulate an x86 processor for all the compiled code in the application.
Imagine some internal corporate application that uses all standard Windows widgets to let a user interact with some data: all those widgets plus the menu and root pane will be handled by the native WineLib code except when the programmer has included some special functions or number-crunching routines that are emulated on QEMU's fake x86.
Think about it -- It's a lot better than having an entire emulated instance of Windows 98 (and maybe even an actual x86 box) to do the same thing.
Want to run Linux on a device that supports TV-Out with 0 XFree configuration required right of the box, has controllers supported in Linux for games, a solid video card, built in Ethernet, has several distributions optimized for its standardized hardware and looks nice as a media center in a home theater setup? For UNDER $200 on eBay?
Now don't get me wrong, these guys are silly, but Linux on an XBox has plenty of uses. MythTV frontend anyone?
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My mom and pop were East Germans, you insensitive clod!
...or to the people. There's a comma, not a period :)
Is the ability to use both frequencies available only on the newest models? I have a lot of 2.4GHz interference where I am (Manhattan) which I have bypassed by using my Airport Extreme in 5GHz 802.11n/a mode. This is great for my main box and my laptop, but it means that my phone can't connect to my network anymore (It doesn't support 802.11a either). My Airport Extreme is about 2 years old, it's the one that has 802.11n but only 100Mbps Ethernet. Am I out of luck?
My Airport Extreme has the following radio options:
Or their profile might indicate that they make a habit of checking out other people's profiles, which should be grounds for you not to hire them.
If it's your webserver, you could always install Webshell.
For an overview, watch Robert Smigel's truly amazing 'Conspiracy Theory Rock', a very funny cartoon on this very topic which was shown once on Saturday Night Live and censored from subsequent reruns by NBC, because apparently media companies get a kick out of proving their critics right.
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Fair enough. Still cool.
You can find an absolutely fascinating study of how the symbols of our creation myths (primarily Genesis, but others are explored fairly well) seem to reflect our actual evolutionary history in Carl Sagan's Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence.
While it includes some later-disproven assertions (dinosaurs being killed off by a nearby supernova, mainly), most of it is brilliant and engrossing for anyone interested in topics like this.
He postulates that Genesis is really the story of the evolution of human intelligence being selected for because it was necessary for us to defeat the reptiles which preyed on our ancestors. We defeated the serpents -- there are no more legged "dragon" type creatures which every human civilization remembers in legend. However, the price we paid was a separation from the animal kingdom, self-consciousness (the realization that we are naked), and most interesting to me, pain in childbirth because of our big brain-holding heads.
Another interesting bit from the book: In every single culture in the world, the sounds "ssssssss" or "sssshhhhhhhhhh" mean "Everybody Shut Up!", as in, "Quiet! Snake!".
It's a good, quick read. I enjoyed it on a Lufthansa flight from Philly to Frankfurt a few years ago. Highly recommended.
If anybody is in New York, mc chris is doing a live show (music & sketches) Dungeonmaster of Ceremonies this Friday at 8pm at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.
Full disclosure: I have a small part in the show and I work for the theater. But I'm on topic!
I'll bite.
... to fire his weapon" is the important clause describing when the training came into effect. Nothing in TFA implies that this training turned any soldiers into bloodthirsty trigger-happy monsters (not that there haven't been such soldiers in the past, but the past includes a lot of time before gaming).
"When the time came for him
The video games are just an effective supplement to and replacement for some aspects of regular military training. I find it very plausible that FPS and related games help hone the instincts one would use in similar real-life situations where he or she would have to hold a gun and shoot it. The same could be said of target shooting or playing paintball. I'm very willing to believe that any of these would make a person better at firing a gun and hitting something, maybe even someone, at some point
Where the argument against gaming falls apart is the contention that playing these games somehow makes people (THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!) more likely to go out and kill other innocent human beings. What these critics fear is murder and violent crime, which is a form of mental illness and/or objective evil which can't be caused by video games. Or target shooting.
Or paintball. Hard evidence to the contrary is, as always, welcome.
Sweetie, the shareholders and I took that product line off to a beautiful farm where it will be happy forever running through fields of Newtons on the banks of Crystal Pepsi River. Aibo is in a better place now.
Let's go get some ice cream.
Wouldn't this automatically end their common carrier status, if they're filtering blocking traffic from certain sources to certain destinations? Or is that something they hope the law they're lobbying for to address? The Telecommunications Cake Eating and Having Antiterrorism and Freedom Act of 2006!
I read and enjoyed this column. I think the main point he was making is that in terms of how much value you assign to a human life (he quotes a figure of, I believe, $100 million per), an author of a Sasser-like worm actually does more damage (measured in dollars) than a murderer and therefore, by his reasoning, could be eligible for capital punishment.
It's pretty clear that he's just framing a thought experiment for his readers to illustrate how much damage a clever black hat can actually inflict - damage well in excess of what economists calculate to be the approximate worth of the average (I may be using that term loosely, I am not familiar with the study he cites) human being, not really advocating actual execution for hackers. Also, before anyone gets on their high horse about it being impossible to put a price tag on a human life, I suggest doing a little research on how the price tags for environmental laws, automobile safety standards, and insurance policies are calculated.
Anyway, I also thought the suggestion at the end that good old Sven have to sit on Windows 95 2400 baud dial-up tech supporting AOL newbies all day at least +1 Funny.
One thing I hacked together for a friend's site serving out a lot of video was an automatic redirector to the Coral Cache (not as neat as a torrent plugin would be, but cool enough, I thought) which he could activate when his bandwidth was approaching his monthly limit.
.nyud.net:8090 to the hostname and send a redirect to the client. If this were made into a plugin which would combine detecting some bandwidth threshold with the option to fall back on the Coral Cache before throwing out error codes, I think it would benefit a lot of admins staring down the business end of the /. effect.
I just used mod_rewrite to parse the URL and append
OT: The site is a video project called Channel 102 based in New York City where people make 5 minute video "pilots" which are screened at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater for an audience who then votes on which ones they want to see return next month. Many of them have some serious geek appeal.
So far most of the speculation here seems to be limited to listening to/recording Sirius broadcasts onto the iPod.
Think about it though - a Sirius receiver on an iPod is a receiver for a digital satellite signal, capable of receiving arbitrary data from a satellite in the sky anywhere in the country.
Normally this data is a multitude of "channels" of medium-quality audio. But imagine if some bandwidth from the audio channels was set aside for iPod use. Automatic iPod Software updates? A "Download to Sirius-enabled iPod" option in iTunes so you could buy an album online and walk out the door without having to wait for the download to the computer and the sync from computer to iPod?
I could speculate more (quite possibly beyond the actual limits of what their satellites are actually capable of) but if I were Jobs I'd be asking "So, you want us to piggyback your subscription service onto our already incredibly successful product, potentially increasing your market share by some massive percentage and providing content to the machine that competes with what we already sell (at cost) from our Music Store. OK, so what's in it for us?"
Of course, he might also be negotiating with them to give Apple better leverage over the cell phone companies whose bandwidth-stinginess has brought the development and launch of the iTunes-enabled Motorola phone (and likely corresponding iTunes Mobile Store) to a standstill.
Or maybe not. It's just dinner after all.
Full Disclosure: I work at Wiley and have done work on eGrade Plus, so I am biased.
In the past year, we've launched eGrade Plus here at Wiley which is a full course management system which a professor can choose to adopt along with one of our textbooks for his or her class. It is not Open Source though we do run it on Linux servers and used a lot of open source tools for development. I used WebCT in college a couple years ago for a few of my classes and have worked with other educational products from the back end since then, but eGrade Plus is at least a generation ahead of most of these (though I too am also very interested in Sakai and have actually been messing around with it recently on a development server).
eGrade Plus is entirely web-based and runs on our servers, but the customers are assigned to domains over which they have a lot of control. We provide a large library of question banks and default assignments for each textbook, but the professor is free to make new questions, alter or create new assignments, and generally to customize the course as much as is desired.
As we make more courses to go with more of our titles, the feature set has been expanding. For our Calculus and Physics titles, we've integrated Maple into the backend to support complex symbolic notation for calculating and entering answers by whatever mathematical method the student uses to arrive at them. There's lots of pretty cool stuff we're experimenting with here based on our own ideas and feedback from our customers, most of which has been very positive.
As I mentioned before, it is not open source. Furthermore, it is only offered for use with our textbooks. Having said that, it is very very tightly integrated with our textbooks -- each registered student has access to a full electronic version of the textbook (as well as many eGP-only supplements) which is cross-referenced with all the other assignments, questionbanks, concept demos and other supplements through their domain.
While eGrade Plus does come with the textbook we also allow and encourage students who don't like to keep their textbooks after the semester is over to purchase a registration code for eGrade Plus only instead of buying a hard copy of the book. You will have semester-long access to the electronic version of the full text for considerably less than the cost of the hard copy and with some extra features to boot.
Finally, eGrade Plus can be integrated with Blackboard and WebCT if that's what your college ends up adopting in the end (just thought that was worth a mention). If you're interested in reading even more, go here.
Anyway, good luck finding the right solution, I'm very interested in some of the other links I've seen posted here too. Sorry if I sounded too much like a not-too-slick marketing droid -- sales pitches aren't really my department, I'm just a code monkey interested in this stuff only partially because it's my job.
The idea for as I understand it is this:
... overhead city), Darwine allows applications to run essentially linked to native code - Wine/WineLib for PPC.
When the project is complete, OS X users will be able to open EXE files with Darwine. Darwine will use QEMU to execute the x86 instructions, however when the program makes calls to the Windows API, Darwine calls those functions in WineLib compiled natively for PPC.
So, where Bochs and VirtualPC and others like them emulate the entire operating system environment (Emulated BIOS, emulated hardware, emulated Windows, and finally the emulated x86 application
Thus for most Windows applications, the GUI and event handling and everything else the Windows API is good for will be executed in native PPC code. QEMU will then emulate an x86 processor for all the compiled code in the application.
Imagine some internal corporate application that uses all standard Windows widgets to let a user interact with some data: all those widgets plus the menu and root pane will be handled by the native WineLib code except when the programmer has included some special functions or number-crunching routines that are emulated on QEMU's fake x86.
Think about it -- It's a lot better than having an entire emulated instance of Windows 98 (and maybe even an actual x86 box) to do the same thing.
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Want to run Linux on a device that supports TV-Out with 0 XFree configuration required right of the box, has controllers supported in Linux for games, a solid video card, built in Ethernet, has several distributions optimized for its standardized hardware and looks nice as a media center in a home theater setup? For UNDER $200 on eBay?
Now don't get me wrong, these guys are silly, but Linux on an XBox has plenty of uses. MythTV frontend anyone?
-Neil
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