IAAEE (and working in power management), and I can't believe I'm agreeing with the CS guy. The original author's comments are valid. The efficiency of such com chips is getting quite better as far as efficiency goes over the years. For example, the energy per bit, on your RS232 serial port is quite a bit higher than energy/bit of a new Ethernet MAC/PHY. This is a (good) assumption, however. Anybody know the actual data on clock/power requirements of EDGE vs. 3G to put some real data into this discussion?
Work/Life balance and start-up rarely mix -- that's what big companies are for. A start-up needs to attract people that want to work alot now and retire early, not a long boring career. That is not for everyone - surely not metamatic.
Be honest with the people you are interviewing about what work is like and what you expect out of people. That should be the best way to find the right fit.
*All* drives have the possibility to fail - you should have a backup system or raid system in place if you care about your data - even if you have had "ZERO problems" in the past with your cute scsi drives.
I've had some good luck with drives in servers as well - but I still expect to have failures.
Your fancy 5 year warantee does not cover your loss of data.
It took half a year for the FBI (and others) to contact him. I would suspect they were 'tracking this guy's every move'... or at least some of them.
We're continually riding a fine line between security and privacy. I would have liked to see the agencies contact him earlier. I wonder why now was a good time to 'talk'
woops. so my 10sheet crosscut choked about halfway through a cdr - it sounded like too much fun not to try. reminds me of when this unit first arrived. we looked at the user's guide, and figured it was better as a test sheet. i wonder what it said
"If you live in a real world, you'll see many applications where batteries/cells are connected in parallel."
yes. but in the real world there are a lot of dumb engineers. I mean really. lots.
for example, you will never find a battery made up of cells connected in parallel - battery manufacturers know batteries. (a 9v is 6 AAAA's in series)
batteries connected in parallel will most definately discharge each other. Usually very slowly, mind you, so you can usually get away with it - and nearly double the life of just one. but that doesnt make it a good thing - at all. so there.
any metal lined bag will easily block rfid readers from reading tags. In the lab we use anti-static bags to store the tags we dont want to read-- works great.
I bet thats a bit cheaper (and smarter) compared to anti-rfid tags.
For any cool experiments? Is the transmitter range long enough to track my pet to within lets say 400 feet? Could they be hacked into some sort of packet network backbone or radio station?
I've only been able to get a range of about 25 feet with my Alien system. Sure, you could read these tags yourself, with your own Alien reader (not cheap), but I'm not sure if you'd be able to figure out which product the ID string belongs to... might be a fun experiment though.
lex
Interesting comparison with bond. Makes me wonder if the Indiana series can change into an ongoing, bond-like series with many different Indiana actors. Could a fifth movie follow with a new Indiana.
My first thaught is probably not. Its more possible that the series will end with a fade of Ford's curreer. But its an interesting possibility.
i was not impressed with this film. maybe it was becuase of high expectations going in as a result of The Sixth Sense, but i dont see why it is getting so may good reviews. what plagues this movie the most? the story. not impressive at all.
Katz describes the story as "simple, improbable, fantastic"... lets add predictable, and uninteresting.
and another thing... not to sound like a katz hater, but 3 G4's are computers in my book.:)... althoug my initial thaught was it was one three-head G4.. that would be fun.
Why was this made? lets see... Shyamalan has a great success with The Sixth Sense, he has complete control over his next project. So he has this film, an idea probably he's been thinking about for a while, that must take place in his home town. this doesnt make it bad... but it sure smells like a pet project.
So, worth seeing on the big screen, i would say no. good camera effects, good cast, and well made, but the story is a complete dissapointment.
and another thing... not to sound like a katz hater, but 3 G4's are computers in my book.:)... althoug my initial thaught was it was one three-head G4.. that would be fun.
"real laptops for people demanding tasks", with big screans and more features doesnt seem like the place for transmeta chips, because the increased battery life would be less apparent.
when you keep adding -stuff- to a laptop the percentage of power that the cpu pulls from the system will become smaller... the big lcd's, etc, will still pull lots of juice in crusoe systems as it would in other systems.
i think that is why we will see transmeta chips become more dominant in this "little itsy things" line of 'puters.
"If you have the L0Phtcrack software and don't use it illegaly, I doubt anybody will come knocking on your door."
but that's just it... they face "two counts of possession of burglary or theft tools (specifically, a software program for extracting user IDs and passwords from a computer system)." your correct, you probably wont have anyone knocking on your door if you have it... but if for some reason the police stumble on L0Phtcrack on your box... they can say: hey, thats possession of burglary or theft tools.
it probably wont happen, but it can. you might be able to convince a judge that it wasnt used for illegal stuff.... but how good of lawers did you buy?
i dont like it.... they are in trouble for thier actions, regardless of how they did it.
lexicon
-i cant spell and i dont care how bad i type.... if its so bad where you cant understand.. email me or something, dont bitch about it here.
so i'm sitting here, at work, relolading slashdot, when i see one of the best headlines in a long while. yeah, i laughed out loud in my office. then i read the article, then i read the comments.
i might have guessed that maybe one id10t would post...... "um... i dont get the obvious joke embedded in this headline", but come on people, there are too many comments destroying my illusion that slashdot readers are a bit smater than the average person.
how about we think before we get that first post. slashdot is about sharing knowledge and fun... not about having the most karma, or complaining over bad posts, or repeat posts, or pretending that were more important than posters, linus, or god.
lets try to respect slashdot... and congrats michael for a great post.
i would like to pretend i'm from some country in europe for this post... this is damn embarassing.
what the hell can we do about crap like this?
people should be free to sue whoever they want to. if this freedom gets cut down, it would become more difficult for legit lawsuits to take place. but then there still is this problem with getting money for being stupid (not realizing coffee is made of hot water, not taking responsibility for gambling away all of your money). there has always been the idea that the loser in a lawsuit would have to pay for the other parties legal fees or something along that line... this seams good at first, but what this would also do is discourage people who could not afford to lose from suing someone who has done somehting wrong... once again, the more $, the more power.
so it seams to me we cant change much of the system.... but how about this idea..... maybe the smart people we trust as judges should more often throw out crap like this... something like: lawsuit invalid because the plaintiff is incredibly stupid and should never breed. //end rant
I own a small record compnay and in the interest of making things open sourcey, unofficially, we have no prolems with the free distrubution of any kind. in fact, I do my best to get bands music out on free, probably not so legal, indexes of mp3's... This works very well at getting people to know of our bands.
keeping the free distribution looking illegal, influences honest people to buy the actual cd. dishonest, cheap, people would probably not buy the cd anyway.
this stance, i understand would not work for major labels... but for indie music, where the biggest difficulty is getting people to know of the existance of a band, this strategy has worked very well.
i'm just happy that the computer topping the list is in a magical, far away place, where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer, and the towels are oh so fluffy! Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long, and anyone on the street will gladly shave your back for a nickel!
currently i'm paying for a 256k adsl line. happy is me that it often outperforms that mark, but the service was just offered to our area. i'm sure that speeds will drastically go down when more people take advantage of the service.
will this new technology, that i cant have yet , have the same sort of problems? does anyone really know what the connections would be like if/when a real %age of people are using these lines. by the time this new tech comes out we may already be in that position. is the industry taking into consideration this as much as they should or is this new fast connection just going to be a gimmick to geeks who want to brag.
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IAAEE (and working in power management), and I can't believe I'm agreeing with the CS guy. The original author's comments are valid. The efficiency of such com chips is getting quite better as far as efficiency goes over the years. For example, the energy per bit, on your RS232 serial port is quite a bit higher than energy/bit of a new Ethernet MAC/PHY. This is a (good) assumption, however. Anybody know the actual data on clock/power requirements of EDGE vs. 3G to put some real data into this discussion?
Work/Life balance and start-up rarely mix -- that's what big companies are for. A start-up needs to attract people that want to work alot now and retire early, not a long boring career. That is not for everyone - surely not metamatic.
Be honest with the people you are interviewing about what work is like and what you expect out of people. That should be the best way to find the right fit.
*All* drives have the possibility to fail - you should have a backup system or raid system in place if you care about your data - even if you have had "ZERO problems" in the past with your cute scsi drives.
I've had some good luck with drives in servers as well - but I still expect to have failures.
Your fancy 5 year warantee does not cover your loss of data.
chipcon has has a single chip zigbee transceiver for a while now (CC2420).
They claim "industry first"... maybe there was an earlier one still.
It took half a year for the FBI (and others) to contact him. I would suspect they were 'tracking this guy's every move'... or at least some of them.
We're continually riding a fine line between security and privacy. I would have liked to see the agencies contact him earlier. I wonder why now was a good time to 'talk'
woops. so my 10sheet crosscut choked about halfway through a cdr - it sounded like too much fun not to try. reminds me of when this unit first arrived. we looked at the user's guide, and figured it was better as a test sheet. i wonder what it said
i might have to take this guy appart.
finally a comment that actually answers the question...
'nothing you noob' is not very helpful. but this is... yea!
"If you live in a real world, you'll see many applications where batteries/cells are connected in parallel."
yes. but in the real world there are a lot of dumb engineers. I mean really. lots.
for example, you will never find a battery made up of cells connected in parallel - battery manufacturers know batteries. (a 9v is 6 AAAA's in series)
batteries connected in parallel will most definately discharge each other. Usually very slowly, mind you, so you can usually get away with it - and nearly double the life of just one. but that doesnt make it a good thing - at all. so there.
any metal lined bag will easily block rfid readers from reading tags. In the lab we use anti-static bags to store the tags we dont want to read-- works great.
I bet thats a bit cheaper (and smarter) compared to anti-rfid tags.
note quite. but you're close.
date of invention is important. not-so-much date of file or date of patent award.
anybody know when they claim to have invented this ip?
Interesting comparison with bond. Makes me wonder if the Indiana series can change into an ongoing, bond-like series with many different Indiana actors. Could a fifth movie follow with a new Indiana.
My first thaught is probably not. Its more possible that the series will end with a fade of Ford's curreer. But its an interesting possibility.
lex
I'm suprised that at 71 this guy still has the ears to be able to notice subtle differneces. That is very rare.
I hope that when i'm that old my ears are still that good, i have never counted on that though.
i was not impressed with this film. maybe it was becuase of high expectations going in as a result of The Sixth Sense, but i dont see why it is getting so may good reviews. what plagues this movie the most? the story. not impressive at all.
:)... althoug my initial thaught was it was one three-head G4.. that would be fun.
:)... althoug my initial thaught was it was one three-head G4.. that would be fun.
Katz describes the story as "simple, improbable, fantastic"... lets add predictable, and uninteresting.
and another thing... not to sound like a katz hater, but 3 G4's are computers in my book.
Why was this made? lets see... Shyamalan has a great success with The Sixth Sense, he has complete control over his next project. So he has this film, an idea probably he's been thinking about for a while, that must take place in his home town. this doesnt make it bad... but it sure smells like a pet project.
So, worth seeing on the big screen, i would say no. good camera effects, good cast, and well made, but the story is a complete dissapointment.
and another thing... not to sound like a katz hater, but 3 G4's are computers in my book.
Lexicon
"real laptops for people demanding tasks", with big screans and more features doesnt seem like the place for transmeta chips, because the increased battery life would be less apparent.
when you keep adding -stuff- to a laptop the percentage of power that the cpu pulls from the system will become smaller... the big lcd's, etc, will still pull lots of juice in crusoe systems as it would in other systems.
i think that is why we will see transmeta chips become more dominant in this "little itsy things" line of 'puters.
-lex
"If you have the L0Phtcrack software and don't use it illegaly, I doubt anybody will come knocking on your door."
but that's just it... they face "two counts of possession of burglary or theft tools (specifically, a software program for extracting user IDs and passwords from a computer system)." your correct, you probably wont have anyone knocking on your door if you have it... but if for some reason the police stumble on L0Phtcrack on your box... they can say: hey, thats possession of burglary or theft tools.
it probably wont happen, but it can. you might be able to convince a judge that it wasnt used for illegal stuff.... but how good of lawers did you buy?
i dont like it.... they are in trouble for thier actions, regardless of how they did it.
lexicon
-i cant spell and i dont care how bad i type.... if its so bad where you cant understand.. email me or something, dont bitch about it here.
so i'm sitting here, at work, relolading slashdot, when i see one of the best headlines in a long while. yeah, i laughed out loud in my office. then i read the article, then i read the comments.
i might have guessed that maybe one id10t would post...... "um... i dont get the obvious joke embedded in this headline", but come on people, there are too many comments destroying my illusion that slashdot readers are a bit smater than the average person.
how about we think before we get that first post. slashdot is about sharing knowledge and fun... not about having the most karma, or complaining over bad posts, or repeat posts, or pretending that were more important than posters, linus, or god.
lets try to respect slashdot... and congrats michael for a great post.
//end rant
lexicon
i would like to pretend i'm from some country in europe for this post... this is damn embarassing.
what the hell can we do about crap like this?
people should be free to sue whoever they want to. if this freedom gets cut down, it would become more difficult for legit lawsuits to take place. but then there still is this problem with getting money for being stupid (not realizing coffee is made of hot water, not taking responsibility for gambling away all of your money). there has always been the idea that the loser in a lawsuit would have to pay for the other parties legal fees or something along that line... this seams good at first, but what this would also do is discourage people who could not afford to lose from suing someone who has done somehting wrong... once again, the more $, the more power.
so it seams to me we cant change much of the system.... but how about this idea..... maybe the smart people we trust as judges should more often throw out crap like this... something like: lawsuit invalid because the plaintiff is incredibly stupid and should never breed.
//end rant
lexicon
I own a small record compnay and in the interest of making things open sourcey, unofficially, we have no prolems with the free distrubution of any kind. in fact, I do my best to get bands music out on free, probably not so legal, indexes of mp3's... This works very well at getting people to know of our bands.
keeping the free distribution looking illegal, influences honest people to buy the actual cd. dishonest, cheap, people would probably not buy the cd anyway.
this stance, i understand would not work for major labels... but for indie music, where the biggest difficulty is getting people to know of the existance of a band, this strategy has worked very well.
lexicon
i'm just happy that the computer topping the list is in a magical, far away place, where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer, and the towels are oh so fluffy! Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long, and anyone on the street will gladly shave your back for a nickel!
go weird al!
currently i'm paying for a 256k adsl line. happy is me that it often outperforms that mark, but the service was just offered to our area. i'm sure that speeds will drastically go down when more people take advantage of the service.
will this new technology, that i cant have yet , have the same sort of problems? does anyone really know what the connections would be like if/when a real %age of people are using these lines. by the time this new tech comes out we may already be in that position. is the industry taking into consideration this as much as they should or is this new fast connection just going to be a gimmick to geeks who want to brag.
-lexicon