ADHD is not so cut and dry. You can't do a blood test for ADHD as you can for AIDS and the like. Not that it isn't a 'real' disorder, but it just cannot be diagnosed as readily as most others can be.
The Ionic Breeze gets wonderful reviews. A friend of mine uses one in the house. I'm sure a few of them strategically placed could help your dust situation...no filters or bags to be replaced, so minimal upkeep. Link to follow:
http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/productv iew.jhtml?pid=175000&pcatid=1&catid=101
Threat to world?
on
Strike on Iraq
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
The first bombs of the war are dropped with the specific intent of removing the dictator while keeping civilian casualties to an extreme minimum. Are you leftists still claiming that the US wishes to cause injury or death to Iraqi men/women/children?
You in the big cities and even you in the more heavily populated rural areas may not realize what this means. But ask anyone who has driven across Montana, Wyoming, and one or both of the Dakotas: There are literally miles and miles where you cannot get any radio at all. I'm not saying "nothing but talk" or "nothing but Hat Act music". I'm saying literally NOTHING.
For this reason, I'm guessing that satellite radio receivers would be a big hit in Ryder/UHaul trucks. It would also keep them from having to reprogram the radio settings at every location.
SearchKing is a 'service' that says they will improve your score on search engines like Google. They do this by trying to exploit the algorithms of engines like the Google PageRank system. So Google updated their algorithm to prevent the abuse.
I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.
But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.
Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.
Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.
So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand.
But by the time it gets to about $500, sign me up.
The problem is that there is no other ISP in the NY metro area that comes close to Optimum's upload bandwith while being relatively close in price.
Optimum threatened to terminate my account if I continued to upload. They are tracking bandwith statistics, so switching ports will do nothing to solve this.
If Hungarian startup Timothy Technologies has its way, the Internet is about to take a giant leap forward, off the pages of the user's Web browser and right into every home appliance, from toaster ovens to air conditioners. Well, perhaps not the entire Internet, per sé, but enough of it to turn an ordinary home of the present into a remote-controlled Smart Home of the future. With an innovative new device known as the FlatStack, a user can log on to a Web page and operate home appliances with commands issued through an ordinary Web browser, with point-and-click ease.
The FlatStack is a tiny circuit board with an embedded operating system that functions as a Web server. The device connects to the Internet and, in turn, can receive commands through an ordinary Web page. The user logs on to the Internet, opens the Web page and is presented with various options. For example, on a hot day, one can log on to the Web page, check the current temperature at home and turn on the air conditioner remotely, so that the area will be cool by the time the user arrives home. Likewise, the user can switch on a coffee maker, TV, lights or any other home appliance to which the FlatSstack device is connected.
Vast Universe of Uses
And while uses are nearly unlimited for consumers, the FlatStack is also applicable in industrial settings, including offices, factories and agricultural arenas. Wherever there is an electronically controlled device, the FlatStack can be used.
Still, the sophisticated technology that powers FlatStack will remain outside of the user's view, as in nearly all other embedded systems. "You, as a user, will never be able to see it," Meta Group vice president Steve Kleynhans told NewsFactor recently when commenting on similar Smart Home devices. "The only thing you'll ever see is the interface they [graft] onto it." For FlatStack users, this is good news, as the Web interface is particularly simple and easy to use.
Timothy Not Home Alone
Timothy Technologies, however, is not the only high-tech company with the vision of extending the power of computing to the home. At the recent Comdex trade show, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) chairman Bill Gates announced, "Today, the home environment is one where the PC is starting to play a bigger role."
To that end, a new class of computers equipped with the upcoming Microsoft XP Media Center Edition will be able to remotely control televisions, DVD players and display digital images. The new version of Windows XP will make its debut on PCs produced by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) that carry a price tag of several thousand dollars. By contrast, the FlatStack offers similar remote capabilities and retails for somewhere between US$75 and $100, while offering a key benefit that the Microsoft/HP system does not.
Fitting into the palm of a hand, FlatStack can remain mostly unseen and does not take up space in the home. The Microsoft/HP system, on the other hand, is relatively large and obtrusive in comparison, though it does offer some bells and whistles not offered by FlatStack.
Here's the site text, in preperation for the inevitable slashdot'ing:
--
Please Check Our Press Release, more to come soon, below you can find a picture of the device.
FlatStack Your Home To The Internet
A very small Internet server has been developed. The name of this server is FlatStack, it replaces a complete PC and it is so small that nobody will even notice it. Still it is able to connect to many types of equipment at home, in the office, on the farm or in any type of logistical or industrial production process.
FlatStack Your Home To The Internet
Budapest - 12 November 2002 - FlatStack is the Hungarian answer to a trend in which all kind of ordinary household machines like heating systems, air conditioners, refrigerators and coffee machines will be connected to the Internet in the near future. By connecting them, users can control them from any place, even from their mobile phone.
In order to be able to do so a very small Internet server has been
developed. The name of this server is FlatStack, it replaces a complete PC and it is so small that nobody will even notice it. Still it is able to connect to many types of equipment at home, in the office, on the farm or in any type of logistical or industrial production process.
The first version of FlatStack, which is now released, still has to be wired to the equipment but with standards like Bluetooth and wireless lan arriving, the next release of FlatStack will also support various types of wireless connection.
FlatStack is not just an embedded device, it is part of a distributed
computing approach in which centralized Internet tools take over the main processing whereas the FlatStack devices are their Email sending sensors and remote controlled robot arms.
Timothy Technologies, a new company in which HITF Hungarian Innovative Technologies Fund, and Consult4Net are the major participants has acquired the FlatStack patents from its developers Dr. Kürti Sándor and Borján Gábor who will remain involved in the further growth of FlatStack. Timothy Technologies has as its goal to market the first generation FlatStack server and to further develop its future applications.
A major advantage Timothy Technologies has is that it can deliver flexible and customized solutions because all hard- and software components needed, including the centralized Internet tools, are owned by the company. This means that Timothy Technologies is not depending on any outside source for the realization of complete FlatStack projects.
Further Information:
Timothy Technologies Kft.
Andrássy út 46.
1061 Budapest, Hungary, Ungarn
Dennis Kalfus
dennis.kalfus@flatstack.com
http://www.flatstack.com (under construction)
This kind of certification is a great thing for people running Win2K.
But I have to wonder if Microsoft's upgrade cycle will cause those people to lose official support for Win2K unless they upgrade to XP or whatever's next very soon now?
A lot of enterprises do a lot of time-consuming testing before they rollout something like Win2K, which is probably the first reasonable OS from MS.
It'd be a real shame if all that testing and certification gets thrown out the window because MS doesn't feel its customers are buying upgraded products fast enough.
Yes, but does it have a giant dinosaur like the Museum of Natural History? On second thought, dust off some of those old computers that may be the size of those brontosauruses!
Here is the way I usually use. In the quicktime settings, there is an option to cache all video files. When this is selected, open the movie and let it full load. Then, open your temporary internet folder and sort by date. Your file should be right on top.
By your logic: "I work for a living and pay income tax, and am not even vaguely interested in the welfare program. So why should *I* be taxed for it??" Same could be applied for nearly every government program.
Download the acclaimed Ad Aware program
here. It searches your registry and all
your drives for running and installed spyware programs. It works great.
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You obviously have never produced anything of merit, which you might wish to protect.
ADHD is not so cut and dry. You can't do a blood test for ADHD as you can for AIDS and the like. Not that it isn't a 'real' disorder, but it just cannot be diagnosed as readily as most others can be.
The Ionic Breeze gets wonderful reviews. A friend of mine uses one in the house. I'm sure a few of them strategically placed could help your dust situation...no filters or bags to be replaced, so minimal upkeep. Link to follow: http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/productv iew.jhtml?pid=175000&pcatid=1&catid=101
The first bombs of the war are dropped with the specific intent of removing the dictator while keeping civilian casualties to an extreme minimum. Are you leftists still claiming that the US wishes to cause injury or death to Iraqi men/women/children?
You in the big cities and even you in the more heavily populated rural areas may not realize what this means. But ask anyone who has driven across Montana, Wyoming, and one or both of the Dakotas: There are literally miles and miles where you cannot get any radio at all. I'm not saying "nothing but talk" or "nothing but Hat Act music". I'm saying literally NOTHING.
For this reason, I'm guessing that satellite radio receivers would be a big hit in Ryder/UHaul trucks. It would also keep them from having to reprogram the radio settings at every location.
SearchKing is a 'service' that says they will improve your score on search engines like Google. They do this by trying to exploit the algorithms of engines like the Google PageRank system. So Google updated their algorithm to prevent the abuse.
I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.
But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.
Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.
Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.
So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand.
But by the time it gets to about $500, sign me up.
The problem is that there is no other ISP in the NY metro area that comes close to Optimum's upload bandwith while being relatively close in price. Optimum threatened to terminate my account if I continued to upload. They are tracking bandwith statistics, so switching ports will do nothing to solve this.
If Hungarian startup Timothy Technologies has its way, the Internet is about to take a giant leap forward, off the pages of the user's Web browser and right into every home appliance, from toaster ovens to air conditioners. Well, perhaps not the entire Internet, per sé, but enough of it to turn an ordinary home of the present into a remote-controlled Smart Home of the future. With an innovative new device known as the FlatStack, a user can log on to a Web page and operate home appliances with commands issued through an ordinary Web browser, with point-and-click ease.
The FlatStack is a tiny circuit board with an embedded operating system that functions as a Web server. The device connects to the Internet and, in turn, can receive commands through an ordinary Web page. The user logs on to the Internet, opens the Web page and is presented with various options. For example, on a hot day, one can log on to the Web page, check the current temperature at home and turn on the air conditioner remotely, so that the area will be cool by the time the user arrives home. Likewise, the user can switch on a coffee maker, TV, lights or any other home appliance to which the FlatSstack device is connected.
Vast Universe of Uses
And while uses are nearly unlimited for consumers, the FlatStack is also applicable in industrial settings, including offices, factories and agricultural arenas. Wherever there is an electronically controlled device, the FlatStack can be used.
Still, the sophisticated technology that powers FlatStack will remain outside of the user's view, as in nearly all other embedded systems. "You, as a user, will never be able to see it," Meta Group vice president Steve Kleynhans told NewsFactor recently when commenting on similar Smart Home devices. "The only thing you'll ever see is the interface they [graft] onto it." For FlatStack users, this is good news, as the Web interface is particularly simple and easy to use.
Timothy Not Home Alone
Timothy Technologies, however, is not the only high-tech company with the vision of extending the power of computing to the home. At the recent Comdex trade show, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) chairman Bill Gates announced, "Today, the home environment is one where the PC is starting to play a bigger role."
To that end, a new class of computers equipped with the upcoming Microsoft XP Media Center Edition will be able to remotely control televisions, DVD players and display digital images. The new version of Windows XP will make its debut on PCs produced by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) that carry a price tag of several thousand dollars. By contrast, the FlatStack offers similar remote capabilities and retails for somewhere between US$75 and $100, while offering a key benefit that the Microsoft/HP system does not.
Fitting into the palm of a hand, FlatStack can remain mostly unseen and does not take up space in the home. The Microsoft/HP system, on the other hand, is relatively large and obtrusive in comparison, though it does offer some bells and whistles not offered by FlatStack.
Here's the site text, in preperation for the inevitable slashdot'ing: -- Please Check Our Press Release, more to come soon, below you can find a picture of the device. FlatStack Your Home To The Internet A very small Internet server has been developed. The name of this server is FlatStack, it replaces a complete PC and it is so small that nobody will even notice it. Still it is able to connect to many types of equipment at home, in the office, on the farm or in any type of logistical or industrial production process. FlatStack Your Home To The Internet Budapest - 12 November 2002 - FlatStack is the Hungarian answer to a trend in which all kind of ordinary household machines like heating systems, air conditioners, refrigerators and coffee machines will be connected to the Internet in the near future. By connecting them, users can control them from any place, even from their mobile phone. In order to be able to do so a very small Internet server has been developed. The name of this server is FlatStack, it replaces a complete PC and it is so small that nobody will even notice it. Still it is able to connect to many types of equipment at home, in the office, on the farm or in any type of logistical or industrial production process. The first version of FlatStack, which is now released, still has to be wired to the equipment but with standards like Bluetooth and wireless lan arriving, the next release of FlatStack will also support various types of wireless connection. FlatStack is not just an embedded device, it is part of a distributed computing approach in which centralized Internet tools take over the main processing whereas the FlatStack devices are their Email sending sensors and remote controlled robot arms. Timothy Technologies, a new company in which HITF Hungarian Innovative Technologies Fund, and Consult4Net are the major participants has acquired the FlatStack patents from its developers Dr. Kürti Sándor and Borján Gábor who will remain involved in the further growth of FlatStack. Timothy Technologies has as its goal to market the first generation FlatStack server and to further develop its future applications. A major advantage Timothy Technologies has is that it can deliver flexible and customized solutions because all hard- and software components needed, including the centralized Internet tools, are owned by the company. This means that Timothy Technologies is not depending on any outside source for the realization of complete FlatStack projects. Further Information: Timothy Technologies Kft. Andrássy út 46. 1061 Budapest, Hungary, Ungarn Dennis Kalfus dennis.kalfus@flatstack.com http://www.flatstack.com (under construction)
Yeah...but this year, it's really once in a lifetime!
This kind of certification is a great thing for people running Win2K. But I have to wonder if Microsoft's upgrade cycle will cause those people to lose official support for Win2K unless they upgrade to XP or whatever's next very soon now? A lot of enterprises do a lot of time-consuming testing before they rollout something like Win2K, which is probably the first reasonable OS from MS. It'd be a real shame if all that testing and certification gets thrown out the window because MS doesn't feel its customers are buying upgraded products fast enough.
A world without nuclear weapons is a far scarier than a world than one with such weapons.
What are you using your upload bandwidth for? Many windows programs, such as ServU FTP server, allow you to cap your upload speeds.
Otherwise, perhaps something like this would be better for you.
Yes, but does it have a giant dinosaur like the Museum of Natural History? On second thought, dust off some of those old computers that may be the size of those brontosauruses!
Not only will they have to reinvent themselves, but they will have to dodge falling satallites.
What about the backyard roller coasters? What kind of regulations will be needed?
Here is the way I usually use. In the quicktime settings, there is an option to cache all video files. When this is selected, open the movie and let it full load. Then, open your temporary internet folder and sort by date. Your file should be right on top.
This is like the advertisement at the end of all Yahoo emails....the "Do You Yahoo" garbage.
What is NASA's feedback rating, and do they take/pay by Paypal?
I already posted this same story (different source) on April 25th.
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And this is a bad thing...?!?
If pro- is the opposite of con-, what is the opposite of progress?
By your logic: "I work for a living and pay income tax, and am not even
vaguely interested in the welfare program. So why should *I* be taxed for it??"
Same could be applied for nearly every government program.
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