Lost an eye to cancer when I was young (retinoblastoma), but my understanding is that this solution is not for everyone:
"The device doesn't work for all types of blindness. People who were blind from birth, or who lost their vision in childhood are not expected to benefit because their visual cortexes would not have developed fully, Smith said.
But people who had vision, have intact visual cortexes and have memories of what a tree or a building look like are able to recognize them using the artificial eye, he said.
"
My current 'glass eye' cost $1K and is made of silicone.
?sp
of Amtrak doing something almost right. The Northeast Corridor is the only profitable route for Amtrak.
This is a good article written on the topic of Amtrak, its 87 VPs, its end of subsidization, and what must be done moving forward.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Acela
No matter what happens over the next 20+ years we will require industry to produce and transport the consumer goods we can no longer live without. Subsequently, we will need factories and low labor cost countries to produce our 'necessities'. Germany cut emissions? Guess what? It moved to China/Malaysia/Eastern European States, etc.
Analogous to the so called 'drug problem' in South America. We require drugs, they are farmed in S. America. Then we spend tens of millions of dollars going after farmers who supply demand to. Then it shifts to another region. Guess what? We still use the drugs: squeezing the balloon.
Like with masturbation -- you can go blind if you do it too much. Look, if a kid is ready to whack it then he can play bloody video games in my book. Better than smoking crack or knocking up the neighbor girl whilst playing doctor.
If you miss type a URL on the address line, IE6 default configuration is to search MSN.com for the misstyped URL. Of course, you can turn this address line searching off in the tools>options>advanced menu, but if you mistype another URL, it'll turn itself right back on.
Q. We are a company considering using the PC/104 standard in an embedded system. One big worry that we need to get answered, before even thinking of using this standard in our products, is: What is the future of PC/104 when Microsoft has announced not to support in the future the ISA bus (that is, PC/104)?
A. Despite the "PC99" recommendations of Microsoft and Intel, which eliminate the need for the ISA bus, Intel (and others) have promised to keep current ISA chipsets alive for at least five to seven years. There are many PC/104-based "real world" interfaces from hundreds of manufacturers, and these are not going to become obsolete just because the desktop PC does not require or use ISA slots anymore.
Functions such as analog I/O, digital I/O, motion control, and custom application interfaces can still take advantage of low cost and design simplicity of the ISA bus. Contrary to Microsoft's and Intel's marketing focus, the 386 and 486 processors are still the most popular in PC/104-based embedded systems, with Pentium designs only recently becoming available on a wide scale.
The PC/104 Consortium added PCI to PC/104, resulting in PC/104-Plus (= ISA bus PLUS PCI bus), in order to allow high speed processors such as the Intel Pentium to utilize higher speed I/O bandwidth to achieve their full potential in embedded systems. The PC/104- Plus standard, with its PCI in addition to ISA bus, provides a long-term future for PC/104. Manufacturers of PC/104 modules now have three choices from which to choose, all within the industry standard PC/104 form- factor:(1) ISA bus only; (2) PCI plus ISA buses; and (3) PCI bus only.
Despite the popularity of PCI in desktop PCs, there will continue to be an advantage to having two separate buses in many embedded system applications: PCI bus, for high speed block data transfers (e.g. video, networking, disk storage); and ISA bus, for byte-oriented (e.g. real-world data acquisition and control).
Today, 80% to 90% of PC/104 form-factor modules are using ISA bus only. Within approximately five years, it is likely that there will be greater than 50% using the PCI bus. It will probably take ten years before the situation of today is reversed, with 80% to 90% of PC/104 form-factor modules using PCI bus only. Even so, ISA will still be supported on PC/104-Plus modules, ten years from now.
Clearly the Poochie episode (wherein Homer becomes the voice of a new, ridiculous character in the Itchy and Scratchy Show) falls into your criteria, no?
Nvidia up after restatement, CFO splits
By Chris Kraeuter, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:15 PM ET April 29, 2002
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (CBS.MW) - Shares of Nvidia jumped 17 percent Monday after announcing an upward revision of earnings for the last three years and better than expected targets for the current quarter.
Also, the graphics chipmaker named Corporate Controller Mary Dotz as interim CFO as Christine Hoberg takes a "leave of absence." Nvidia said it will conduct a search for a permanent CFO.
Shares (NVDA: news, chart, profile) rose $5.06 to $35.43 on Monday.
For the quarter ended in April, Nvidia said it expects earnings of $79 million to $84 million, or 45 to 48 cents a share, on revenue of $570 million to $580 million. This outlook is ahead of Wall Street's consensus projections for a profit of 42 cents a share and revenue of $533.7 million.
As for the restatement, Nvidia will adjust results for the first three quarters of 2002 and fiscal 2001 and 2000 upward by a total of $1.3 million.
The restatement follows a review by the company's independent audit committee. The SEC had asked Nvidia to conduct a review.
Just bought some Dell inspiron 8100's for the office with xp installed, it took me an hour to config each one into a state that i didn't feel guilty handing to the employees
I have a couple of interesting comments regarding
searching and XP:
1) TweakUI, part of the XP Powertoys released, then later unreleased, has a parser for IE. It enables me to search from the Address bar using only a single letter to designate where I want to search. Thus, when I want to search google I type: "g [insert search terms]". Here are some of the URLs, (these should NOT be hyperlinks):
d - http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s
g - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
t - http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=rog et&words=%s
y - http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s
2) Whenever I screw up typing in the address bar (i.e., whenever I forget to type the 'g' or 'd'), an MSN search page gets pulled up. Of course you can disable this searching from the address bar in the options menu. But if you screw up typing again, the option automatically turns on and pushes you further into M$-land. IE 6.0
sp?
I've used XP on my laptop for the past 2 months (3M, 1.1GHz processor, 0.5 GB Ram). I use Access and Excel extensively, 2 Gig databases, big queries, etc. I crash the son-of-a-bitch 5-10 times a day.
?sp
I believe the business model is more reflective
of the Gillette model, i.e., give away razors, sell and make money on razor blades. They intend to make money on the licensing and sale of the games on their proprietary, enabling hardware.
?sp
Yes -- 8 miles per hour replaces only a single
mode of transportation that I am familiar with:
walking.
Not true -- elevators go O(10^1) mph, safest
mode of transport too, unlike these death traps!
(sp?)
As I understand it, 5 patients have had surgically implanted artifical hearts since they were created. 1 is dead, 1 is on the verge of dying (the first patient, lasted several months), 3 are living.
If you ask me -- the hearts failed in the first place because they _were_ human organs, and needed replacement. Why would I want some organ which hasn't genetically mutated into something that can handle the fat/cholesterol we intake today?
I'm all for animal grown human organs in the short term, but somebody better keep working on the artifical types as well.
of my personal statistics/metrics stored
on any data storage medium.
However, we seem to have been powerless against the advance of such archival.
Would a centralized database for such a database (i.e., the US Id. Card) provide security advantages? Isn't there a reason that Oregon was the first state?
Slashdot Mirror
This would be true if it was a multiple crystal structure.
But we've been growing metal single crystalline structures for years (in turbines).
?sp
That reminds me, I need to drink a blue potion and
push this rock over a little bit before I go up, up the mountain ahead!
?sp
Lost an eye to cancer when I was young (retinoblastoma), but my understanding is that this solution is not for everyone:
"The device doesn't work for all types of
blindness. People who were blind from birth,
or who lost their vision in childhood are not
expected to benefit because their visual
cortexes would not have developed fully,
Smith said.
But people who had vision, have intact visual
cortexes and have memories of what a tree or
a building look like are able to recognize
them using the artificial eye, he said.
"
My current 'glass eye' cost $1K and is made of silicone.
?sp
of Amtrak doing something almost right. The Northeast Corridor is the only profitable route for Amtrak.
This is a good article written on the topic of Amtrak, its 87 VPs, its end of subsidization, and what must be done moving forward.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Acela
Amazon has never posted a profit, Ebay generates close to $50MM in distributive (but not distributed) earnings per quarter.
Folks,
No matter what happens over the next 20+ years we will require industry to produce and transport the consumer goods we can no longer live without.
Subsequently, we will need factories and low labor cost countries to produce our 'necessities'.
Germany cut emissions? Guess what? It moved to China/Malaysia/Eastern European States, etc.
Analogous to the so called 'drug problem' in South America. We require drugs, they are farmed in S. America.
Then we spend tens of millions of dollars going after farmers who supply demand to. Then it shifts to another region.
Guess what? We still use the drugs: squeezing the balloon.
?sp
with the genetic algorithm approach to selecting the fittest weather prediction.
Elementary, my dear sensitive dependence...
?sp
Like with masturbation -- you can go blind if you do it too much. Look, if a kid is ready to whack it then he can play bloody video games in my book.
Better than smoking crack or knocking up the neighbor girl whilst playing doctor.
?sp
If you miss type a URL on the address line, IE6 default configuration is to search MSN.com for
the misstyped URL. Of course, you can turn this address line searching off in the
tools>options>advanced menu, but if you mistype another URL, it'll turn itself right back on.
No shit -- try it at home.
from PC104.org FAQ
Q. We are a company considering using the PC/104
standard in an embedded system. One big worry
that we need to get answered, before even
thinking of using this standard in our
products, is: What is the future of PC/104
when Microsoft has announced not to support
in the future the ISA bus (that is, PC/104)?
A. Despite the "PC99" recommendations of
Microsoft and Intel, which eliminate the need
for the ISA bus, Intel (and others) have
promised to keep current ISA chipsets alive
for at least five to seven years. There are
many PC/104-based "real world" interfaces
from hundreds of manufacturers, and these are
not going to become obsolete just because the
desktop PC does not require or use ISA slots
anymore.
Functions such as analog I/O, digital I/O,
motion control, and custom application
interfaces can still take advantage of low
cost and design simplicity of the ISA bus.
Contrary to Microsoft's and Intel's marketing
focus, the 386 and 486 processors are still
the most popular in PC/104-based embedded
systems, with Pentium designs only recently
becoming available on a wide scale.
The PC/104 Consortium added PCI to PC/104,
resulting in PC/104-Plus (= ISA bus PLUS PCI
bus), in order to allow high speed processors
such as the Intel Pentium to utilize higher
speed I/O bandwidth to achieve their full
potential in embedded systems. The PC/104-
Plus standard, with its PCI in addition to
ISA bus, provides a long-term future for
PC/104. Manufacturers of PC/104 modules now
have three choices from which to choose, all
within the industry standard PC/104 form-
factor:(1) ISA bus only; (2) PCI plus ISA
buses; and (3) PCI bus only.
Despite the popularity of PCI in desktop PCs,
there will continue to be an advantage to having
two separate buses in many embedded
system applications: PCI bus, for high speed
block data transfers (e.g. video, networking,
disk storage); and ISA bus, for byte-oriented
(e.g. real-world data acquisition and
control).
Today, 80% to 90% of PC/104 form-factor
modules are using ISA bus only. Within
approximately five years, it is likely that
there will be greater than 50% using the PCI
bus. It will probably take ten years before
the situation of today is reversed, with 80%
to 90% of PC/104 form-factor modules using
PCI bus only. Even so, ISA will still be
supported on PC/104-Plus modules, ten years
from now.
Clearly the Poochie episode (wherein Homer
becomes the voice of a new, ridiculous character
in the Itchy and Scratchy Show) falls
into your criteria, no?
sp?
is what came to my mind.
Followed by the robot rats -- robot frogs!
Nvidia up after restatement, CFO splits
By Chris Kraeuter, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:15 PM ET April 29, 2002
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (CBS.MW) - Shares of Nvidia
jumped 17 percent Monday after announcing an
upward revision of earnings for the last
three years and better than expected targets
for the current quarter.
Also, the graphics chipmaker named Corporate
Controller Mary Dotz as interim CFO as
Christine Hoberg takes a "leave of absence."
Nvidia said it will conduct a search for a
permanent CFO.
Shares (NVDA: news, chart, profile) rose
$5.06 to $35.43 on Monday.
For the quarter ended in April, Nvidia said
it expects earnings of $79 million to $84
million, or 45 to 48 cents a share, on
revenue of $570 million to $580 million. This
outlook is ahead of Wall Street's consensus
projections for a profit of 42 cents a share
and revenue of $533.7 million.
As for the restatement, Nvidia will adjust
results for the first three quarters of 2002
and fiscal 2001 and 2000 upward by a total of
$1.3 million.
The restatement follows a review by the
company's independent audit committee. The
SEC had asked Nvidia to conduct a review.
is to figure out how to get this thing to talk to ProE or AutocadLT
with all of the pressure coming down from the top of the computing power food-chain. Perhaps its time to write a version of MSWindows for linux?
To Whom It May Concern:
I believe the correct internal quote punctuation is a single quote (e.g., "...giant 'Space Lasers'.").
?sp
Just bought some Dell inspiron 8100's for the office with xp installed, it took me an hour to config each one into a state that i didn't feel guilty handing to the employees
I have a couple of interesting comments regarding searching and XP:
g et&words=%s
1) TweakUI, part of the XP Powertoys released, then later unreleased, has a parser for IE. It enables me to search from the Address bar using only a single letter to designate where I want to search. Thus, when I want to search google I type: "g [insert search terms]". Here are some of the URLs, (these should NOT be hyperlinks):
d - http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s
g - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
t - http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=ro
y - http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%s
2) Whenever I screw up typing in the address bar (i.e., whenever I forget to type the 'g' or 'd'), an MSN search page gets pulled up. Of course you can disable this searching from the address bar in the options menu. But if you screw up typing again, the option automatically turns on and pushes you further into M$-land. IE 6.0
sp?
with the SkipDoctor. In fact you can repair them up to 100 times each. This has saved me many times. Must be play-side damage, though.
I've used XP on my laptop for the past 2 months (3M, 1.1GHz processor, 0.5 GB Ram). I use Access and Excel extensively, 2 Gig databases, big queries, etc. I crash the son-of-a-bitch 5-10 times a day. ?sp
With language-centricity as our blindfold, we must fuck like rabbits!
See The Free Voyeurweb for inspiration.
?sp
I believe the business model is more reflective of the Gillette model,
i.e., give away razors, sell and make money on razor blades.
They intend to make money on the licensing and sale of the games on
their proprietary, enabling hardware.
?sp
Make us fatter?
Yes -- 8 miles per hour replaces only a single mode of transportation that I am familiar with: walking. Not true -- elevators go O(10^1) mph, safest mode of transport too, unlike these death traps! (sp?)
As I understand it, 5 patients have had surgically implanted artifical hearts since they were created. 1 is dead, 1 is on the verge of dying (the first patient, lasted several months), 3 are living. If you ask me -- the hearts failed in the first place because they _were_ human organs, and needed replacement. Why would I want some organ which hasn't genetically mutated into something that can handle the fat/cholesterol we intake today? I'm all for animal grown human organs in the short term, but somebody better keep working on the artifical types as well.
Would a centralized database for such a database (i.e., the US Id. Card) provide security advantages? Isn't there a reason that Oregon was the first state?
Here's what the ACLU thinks: "Why Does the ACLU Oppose a National I.D. Card System?"