Can we apply some kind of techno-butter to one side to see if the robot can stay in a constant state of airborne suspension?
Bah, can't we put this to rest?
The cat/buttered bread assembly is a hoax. What would and does happen is that the mass of the cat and the ability to land on it's feet far outweigh the attractive forces of the tiny amount of butter to the floor. If you increased the mass of butter to counter the mass of the cat, you would not have a hovering cat/butter object, but something that slams to the ground... remember we're talking attractive forces here. For something to remain hovering there'd have to be something repulsing the floor.
I'm not scientist, but do know that cat's backs do not repulse the floor; if you hang a cat upside down 3" above the floor and drop it, it will land on its back.
Who the hell wants to deal with Citrix anymore? And everyone BESIDES microsoft already had similar solutions in place.
Well, if you don't need printing, local drives, or sound, sure. Yes, there are ways to print over RDP, but ever try talking a home user through turning on sharing?
With Win2003 RDP is much better, but still can't do what you can with ICA and not nearly as easily.
Here in Portland, we firebomb new Starbucks facilities. Fuck you and your corporate coffee. Quit Walmarting the good old coffee shops out of existence.
They've just opened another one across the street from the tiny espresso shack I love to frequent in the mornings. If she ends up going under because of it, I think I might get in the mood for a little firebombing myself...
If that coffee shop goes under, it's not the fault of Starbucks, but the cheap customers. We have plenty of indy coffee shops in NYC that survive because there's enough people willing to put their money where their mouths are. If the shop goes under, then go rant to the PATRONS who decided the fate of the small shop; SB and WM only gives them the choice, they don't make it.
Running Citrix in the office; anyone can log in at any desktop and it connects them directly to Citrix. No local apps, no local data, all work done in Citrix.
When they get home, they connect through a web page which redirects them to the same Citrix box. Anywhere in the the world, any computer system, they can connect to the office (as long as they can install the ICA client). Client exists for Macs, *nix, PocketPC, EPOC, Java... sounds like it's already ubiquitous to me.
Wrong, because by the time you've ghosted, and are installing another machine, oh, say, half a year later, it turns out there's 80 new patches available on Windows Update, and Apache has been cracked to shits, thus requiring updates, and, well, just about the same for a whole lot of programs.
Insightful? Jeez, moderators need to get a clue.
How long does it take to install 40 some apps? How long to customize each app the way you like? About four days worth of customization; I know, as a systems integrator, I'm rebuilding my machine all the time after testing. From scratch, it takes about 4 days to get everything back where I like it (with years of practice). Installing 40 some apps takes a LONG time. Remember that reinstalling apps, you *still* have to download and install patches *separately*.
From a ghost image, I'm up and running in a few minutes. If you image your machine once every few months, you don't need that many updates; updates take less than 30 minutes after imaging, maybe an hour at most.
This is great ! If DELL is putting their weight behind that will be a major policy shift for *many* corporations.
Not at all. If Dell quit selling Windows entirely and began shipping only Lindows machines, then yes, it could be said that Dell was putting their weight behind it. That Dell is only offering it as an alternative means little, it'll be interpreted as Dell going after some market shares they don't have.
Seems to me the first step should be to disable USB on machines which do not need it in the BIOS then lock the BIOS....
Ah. So we go back to PS2 mice and keyboards?
Even if you relied strictly on corporate machines and requested PS2 mice and keyboards, you still couldn't disable USB in the BIOS. I've seen some BIOS where you could "disable" USB, but it was probably a feature that wasn't yet implemented because the ports still worked; maybe machines produced in the past 6 months are different. The only solution we've seen is to epoxy the ports shut...
This is the same Homeland Security that advised Americans to duct tape their windows to safeguard against a biological or chemical attack, no?
Duct taping windows... using Firefox on Windows... hey I bet the same guy came up with both these recommendations. The same guy who didn't understand the framework around a window was insecure, and who doesn't undertand the Windows framework is insecure.
Ok, he takes a block of IP addresses, and connects to his new ISP. Surprise, nothing works!He calls the ISP and they laugh. He sues, and a different judge rules he can't force the new ISP to use his old IP addresses.
So a block of IP addresses is gone permanently from the internet. Well, at least until overturned on appeal. At the moment, it's not much different from companies sitting on large blocks of addresses and refusing to give them up.
Ummm.. what? The fastest $117 2.8ghz celeron got the shit kicked out of it by a lowly $55 Athlon 2400XP. Who in their right mind would buy one of these chips?
That "Intel Inside" sticker on the case is worth $62... I hear it adds 50 gigahorses of torque to the hard drive.
Eventually, I bet you'll be able to pick up a "phone", say "New York City, Michael Joseph Smith and Mary Ellen Smith", and have it connect you.
It already exists... to some extent. In NYC, you dial 411, and ask for a name of a person or business. The operator will then ask if you want to be connected to that number. If you ask to be connected, then you never need to know what number you are being connected to.
411 is easy to remember; but how soon before phones (sold in NY) are preprogrammed with 411, 911, 311 (NYC services)?
As the aleged copyright infringement was textual, the US ISP investigated.
Did the US ISP really investigate? Did they do anything at all? From reading through the PDF, all I can tell is that they read the complaint email (after several resends) and sent back what seems to be a basic form letter response; "you forgot to check box A, initial part B, and sign on line C before we process your request."
How did you know which papers were the seminal ones to read though? In my experience, you learn that by considering which journals they first appeared in.
I can't see myself paying that much for a gaming machine. I can buy a PS2/XBOX/GAMECUBE for less than 200 dollars.
Yeah, but that PS2/XBOX/GAMECUBE isn't gonna do much for you at the big gaming convention. That's where I've seen the most expensive machines, and yeah some of them probably spend $2k-$4k customizing their systems. But there's the problem, they're spending big money on the customization, they probably don't want an HP or Dell 'solution'.
Actually, I beg to differ. We use less than 10% of our brain.
Thank you, you just proved my point. The idea that humans only use 10% of their brains is a MYTH. And that you spout it as fact, that most people believe this myth to be true shows just how far the masses are from enlightenment.
Do a google search before you post, you might save yourself some humiliation in the future.
I almost shudder to imagine the wisdom and intelligence of a person who has lived 5000 years...
Ha... most people will be just as clueless after 5000 years as they are after 100. Really, 4900 years isn't going to make their brains any bigger, make them store more information, nor, most importantly, process and correlate that data any better. Unless of course we develop some "smart drugs" that do precisely that, there will be plenty of stupid and ignorant people around.
Yes, when they're enforced by the DMCA and jail sentences for those who reverse-engineer them
Why does the DMCA have anything to do with this? There's absolutely NO copyright issues in hacking the OS of the camera, you're not planning on making your very own digital camera and installing the Rebel's OS, are you? You're not trying to use the Rebel's OS to play illegally copied DVDs, are you? So where are the similarities with DeCSS?
Yeah, Canon may be able to sue Minolta if Minolta reverse engineers the OS and uses parts of it in their own cameras, but as an end user there's nothing in the DMCA that prevents you from mucking around with your own system.
Is it a typo, or maybe it's supposed to be "Wearable spreading factor"? The Japanese phones are pretty small, it's possible they've sewn it into a shirt collar or something?
Tired of buying gifts your wife hates? Unsure exactly what size she wears? RFID is the answer! Put a detector by the door, collect a couple weeks of data, and voila, you have a list of her favorite clothes! Then you can go buy similar items and she'll think you're wonderful and so intuitive about her tastes!
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Can we apply some kind of techno-butter to one side to see if the robot can stay in a constant state of airborne suspension?
Bah, can't we put this to rest?
The cat/buttered bread assembly is a hoax. What would and does happen is that the mass of the cat and the ability to land on it's feet far outweigh the attractive forces of the tiny amount of butter to the floor. If you increased the mass of butter to counter the mass of the cat, you would not have a hovering cat/butter object, but something that slams to the ground... remember we're talking attractive forces here. For something to remain hovering there'd have to be something repulsing the floor.
I'm not scientist, but do know that cat's backs do not repulse the floor; if you hang a cat upside down 3" above the floor and drop it, it will land on its back.
Wait... are you telling me IE is not "the internet"?
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Mom, how many times do I have to ask you not to post to
Who the hell wants to deal with Citrix anymore? And everyone BESIDES microsoft already had similar solutions in place.
Well, if you don't need printing, local drives, or sound, sure. Yes, there are ways to print over RDP, but ever try talking a home user through turning on sharing?
With Win2003 RDP is much better, but still can't do what you can with ICA and not nearly as easily.
Here in Portland, we firebomb new Starbucks facilities. Fuck you and your corporate coffee. Quit Walmarting the good old coffee shops out of existence. They've just opened another one across the street from the tiny espresso shack I love to frequent in the mornings. If she ends up going under because of it, I think I might get in the mood for a little firebombing myself...
If that coffee shop goes under, it's not the fault of Starbucks, but the cheap customers. We have plenty of indy coffee shops in NYC that survive because there's enough people willing to put their money where their mouths are. If the shop goes under, then go rant to the PATRONS who decided the fate of the small shop; SB and WM only gives them the choice, they don't make it.
Running Citrix in the office; anyone can log in at any desktop and it connects them directly to Citrix. No local apps, no local data, all work done in Citrix.
When they get home, they connect through a web page which redirects them to the same Citrix box. Anywhere in the the world, any computer system, they can connect to the office (as long as they can install the ICA client). Client exists for Macs, *nix, PocketPC, EPOC, Java... sounds like it's already ubiquitous to me.
Wrong, because by the time you've ghosted, and are installing another machine, oh, say, half a year later, it turns out there's 80 new patches available on Windows Update, and Apache has been cracked to shits, thus requiring updates, and, well, just about the same for a whole lot of programs.
Insightful? Jeez, moderators need to get a clue.
How long does it take to install 40 some apps? How long to customize each app the way you like? About four days worth of customization; I know, as a systems integrator, I'm rebuilding my machine all the time after testing. From scratch, it takes about 4 days to get everything back where I like it (with years of practice). Installing 40 some apps takes a LONG time. Remember that reinstalling apps, you *still* have to download and install patches *separately*.
From a ghost image, I'm up and running in a few minutes. If you image your machine once every few months, you don't need that many updates; updates take less than 30 minutes after imaging, maybe an hour at most.
Insightful my ass...
This is great ! If DELL is putting their weight behind that will be a major policy shift for *many* corporations.
Not at all. If Dell quit selling Windows entirely and began shipping only Lindows machines, then yes, it could be said that Dell was putting their weight behind it. That Dell is only offering it as an alternative means little, it'll be interpreted as Dell going after some market shares they don't have.
147. Search Google for "apache 2.0 win32?. Download. Install. Copy and paste custom stuff into httpd.conf. Restart Apache service.
148. GHOST MACHINE. Never have to reinstall again.
Seems to me the first step should be to disable USB on machines which do not need it in the BIOS then lock the BIOS....
Ah. So we go back to PS2 mice and keyboards?
Even if you relied strictly on corporate machines and requested PS2 mice and keyboards, you still couldn't disable USB in the BIOS. I've seen some BIOS where you could "disable" USB, but it was probably a feature that wasn't yet implemented because the ports still worked; maybe machines produced in the past 6 months are different. The only solution we've seen is to epoxy the ports shut...
This is the same Homeland Security that advised Americans to duct tape their windows to safeguard against a biological or chemical attack, no?
Duct taping windows... using Firefox on Windows... hey I bet the same guy came up with both these recommendations. The same guy who didn't understand the framework around a window was insecure, and who doesn't undertand the Windows framework is insecure.
70m antennas are bigger that you might expect.
What, like 75 meters?
Ok, he takes a block of IP addresses, and connects to his new ISP. Surprise, nothing works!He calls the ISP and they laugh. He sues, and a different judge rules he can't force the new ISP to use his old IP addresses.
So a block of IP addresses is gone permanently from the internet. Well, at least until overturned on appeal. At the moment, it's not much different from companies sitting on large blocks of addresses and refusing to give them up.
Ummm.. what? The fastest $117 2.8ghz celeron got the shit kicked out of it by a lowly $55 Athlon 2400XP. Who in their right mind would buy one of these chips?
That "Intel Inside" sticker on the case is worth $62... I hear it adds 50 gigahorses of torque to the hard drive.
Eventually, I bet you'll be able to pick up a "phone", say "New York City, Michael Joseph Smith and Mary Ellen Smith", and have it connect you.
It already exists... to some extent. In NYC, you dial 411, and ask for a name of a person or business. The operator will then ask if you want to be connected to that number. If you ask to be connected, then you never need to know what number you are being connected to.
411 is easy to remember; but how soon before phones (sold in NY) are preprogrammed with 411, 911, 311 (NYC services)?
God forbid any of us be off the grid for more than a microsecond.
Well, obviously you've never surfed. I'd love to have one of these while sitting out there waiting for my turn to catch a wave.
As the aleged copyright infringement was textual, the US ISP investigated.
Did the US ISP really investigate? Did they do anything at all? From reading through the PDF, all I can tell is that they read the complaint email (after several resends) and sent back what seems to be a basic form letter response; "you forgot to check box A, initial part B, and sign on line C before we process your request."
Which is the way it should be.
How did you know which papers were the seminal ones to read though? In my experience, you learn that by considering which journals they first appeared in.
He stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night...
I can't see myself paying that much for a gaming machine. I can buy a PS2/XBOX/GAMECUBE for less than 200 dollars.
Yeah, but that PS2/XBOX/GAMECUBE isn't gonna do much for you at the big gaming convention. That's where I've seen the most expensive machines, and yeah some of them probably spend $2k-$4k customizing their systems. But there's the problem, they're spending big money on the customization, they probably don't want an HP or Dell 'solution'.
Maybe a smaller battery and the solar panel?
The battery is pretty small, probably a scooter battery. For the price, weight, and energy output, I don't think you can do much better than that.
Yeah, it's England, solar power probably never crossed their mind...
Actually, I beg to differ. We use less than 10% of our brain.
Thank you, you just proved my point. The idea that humans only use 10% of their brains is a MYTH. And that you spout it as fact, that most people believe this myth to be true shows just how far the masses are from enlightenment.
Do a google search before you post, you might save yourself some humiliation in the future.
I almost shudder to imagine the wisdom and intelligence of a person who has lived 5000 years...
Ha... most people will be just as clueless after 5000 years as they are after 100. Really, 4900 years isn't going to make their brains any bigger, make them store more information, nor, most importantly, process and correlate that data any better. Unless of course we develop some "smart drugs" that do precisely that, there will be plenty of stupid and ignorant people around.
Yes, when they're enforced by the DMCA and jail sentences for those who reverse-engineer them
Why does the DMCA have anything to do with this? There's absolutely NO copyright issues in hacking the OS of the camera, you're not planning on making your very own digital camera and installing the Rebel's OS, are you? You're not trying to use the Rebel's OS to play illegally copied DVDs, are you? So where are the similarities with DeCSS?
Yeah, Canon may be able to sue Minolta if Minolta reverse engineers the OS and uses parts of it in their own cameras, but as an end user there's nothing in the DMCA that prevents you from mucking around with your own system.
...variable spreading factor ... (WSF-...
Is it a typo, or maybe it's supposed to be "Wearable spreading factor"? The Japanese phones are pretty small, it's possible they've sewn it into a shirt collar or something?
What bugs me, is that movie goers excpect a bit of privacy in the theater (as many couples can attest).
Yeah, I can imagine the teenaged ushers with night-vision goggles...
"Check out the babe in row 7!"
"Dude, he's got his hand under her shirt!"
Tired of buying gifts your wife hates? Unsure exactly what size she wears? RFID is the answer! Put a detector by the door, collect a couple weeks of data, and voila, you have a list of her favorite clothes! Then you can go buy similar items and she'll think you're wonderful and so intuitive about her tastes!