I picked up a book many years ago when I was messing with some electronics stuff called Handbook of Modern Electronics Math by Sam Cowan. It is part of a series of electronics reference books put out by Prentice-Hall. Using calculus and trig to figure out circuit problems made a lot more sense to me than any of the examples I had in high school.
The ability to make a laptop smaller and cooler is all fine and good, but they have to make it usable as well.
After going through a long line of laptops for my wife (love that Circuit City return policy), we finally settled on an IBM ThinkPad T40. No water cooling, but it does not run hot (1.3GHz Centrino). The main thing it had going for it was that you could actually touch type on the keyboard. At 4.5lbs and less than 1 inch thick, I'm not sure you could get much smaller and still have it be usable for general use.
If you like mystery/suspense mixed in with your hacker lit, then check out The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll. It's the true story of a Unix (copyright Novell) administrator who is able to track and help capture someone hacking into his systems at the Lawrence Berkeley labs in the late 80's. A very good read.
My guess is that the $10/hour is only good when you actually get sent t picture to analyze. According to the article, no one is going to actually be sitting watching the images come by in real time, that is all automated. Then when you get sent a picture, the clock probably starts running. No terrorists, no dough. You would probably make more money linking to some books about terrorism on Amazon.
Three things that I think are standing in the way of adopting OpenOffice or StarOffice....
Fear of compatablity
While it may seem rediculous, as there are definite incompatabilities between versions of MS-Office, no one wants to have a file that they produce not be able to be read by a client because they chose something other than Microsoft. Blaming the incompatability on MS is fine, but they don't want the blame put on their decision
Office customization
Many corporate environments have customizations that they have done to MS-Office, whether it is COM Outlook Add-In's, Excel vba macros, custom Word styles, that they have invested a lot of time and effort into. Generally those customizations will work with upgrades to MSOffice, but none of them would translate to OpenOffice or StarOffice
Outlook/Exchange
Outlook is still ahead of open source collaborative email/scheduling/planning applications, especially when combined with Exchange. However, most people who use Outlook don't use but about 1% of the functionality that is possible with it. My personal opinion is that someone could come up with an Outlook killer, but not by copying outlook (Evolution), but by coming up with a radical new interface, especially one that integrated more workflow into it. Don't ask me about details, though.
I used to play it on a teletype my dad had in our shed. I forget what it was dialing into. Nice thing about the teletype was that you then had a printed record that you could go through offline and create a map from.
McDonald's is your kind of place
Hamburgers in your face
French fries between your toes
Dill pickles up your nose
and don't forget those chocolate shakes
Made from polluted lakes
McDonalds is your..... kind of place
So you would rather just have the manure put in lagoons that stink up the area, break open during big rainstorms and pollute the local waterways?
The idea is that you use every resource available to it's fullest potential...and that shit is just laying there asking to be composted into a viable fuel. I don't see that is an inefficient process.
How I'd like to see this work
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One of my favorite wastes of time is following threads on Allmusic. I love the way they have a description of a band, and also have information on contemporaries, styles, members etc. that are dynamically hotlinked to other items in the db. If you could do the same kind of thing with the author information, it would be really great.
eMusic.com has most if not all of epitaph's catalog. $14.99/month with unlimited downloads for a 3 month membership. 128Kb encoding, but punk often sounds better the crappier the recording.
They are going to run into even more trouble if they attempt to just check filenames. What if I have a FTP server with a self-extracting zip file of word documents that I have written named MS-Office.exe?
They should have to identify themselves to the server(none of this nobody@imacoward.com crap), download the file, and compare that file against a database of their member's software before any cease and desist letters go out.
Of course, some of the software they download might get installed... and they might start to like it... and they might turn against the overlords.
Here is a project that probably has a little more impact. The one good thing about the wireless access project might be that volunteers such as this would have better access to resources they need while they are there. Email is a great thing when you are communicating with people in a vastly different time zone.
I would be surprised to see people go back from a PDA to paper for planning. From what I have seen, people who make effective use of a planner/planning system (Franklin, Getting Things Done), make the transition to a PDA very well and would never go back. People who do not work well in that structured of an environment (and I'm one of them) won't find the Palm/CE device to be a magic bullet that makes them more "productive".
Coming from a family with a lot of rural dwellers, I wonder what exactly the point is. The rural communities that I visit have plenty of net access, most are already getting high speed cable connections. Of course this is nc, not iowa. Still, farmers everywhere have some pretty cool technology used for crop management. What is this supposed to show them?
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Here is a amazon link.
After going through a long line of laptops for my wife (love that Circuit City return policy), we finally settled on an IBM ThinkPad T40. No water cooling, but it does not run hot (1.3GHz Centrino). The main thing it had going for it was that you could actually touch type on the keyboard. At 4.5lbs and less than 1 inch thick, I'm not sure you could get much smaller and still have it be usable for general use.
If you like mystery/suspense mixed in with your hacker lit, then check out The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll. It's the true story of a Unix (copyright Novell) administrator who is able to track and help capture someone hacking into his systems at the Lawrence Berkeley labs in the late 80's. A very good read.
My guess is that the $10/hour is only good when you actually get sent t picture to analyze. According to the article, no one is going to actually be sitting watching the images come by in real time, that is all automated. Then when you get sent a picture, the clock probably starts running. No terrorists, no dough. You would probably make more money linking to some books about terrorism on Amazon.
Converting between lossy formats would result in a lower quality file.
.5 seconds left in the NCAA final. UNC is up by one and Duke has the ball. God, I have to pee. It sure would be great if the TV was wireless.
Fear of compatablity
While it may seem rediculous, as there are definite incompatabilities between versions of MS-Office, no one wants to have a file that they produce not be able to be read by a client because they chose something other than Microsoft. Blaming the incompatability on MS is fine, but they don't want the blame put on their decision
Office customization
Many corporate environments have customizations that they have done to MS-Office, whether it is COM Outlook Add-In's, Excel vba macros, custom Word styles, that they have invested a lot of time and effort into. Generally those customizations will work with upgrades to MSOffice, but none of them would translate to OpenOffice or StarOffice
Outlook/Exchange
Outlook is still ahead of open source collaborative email/scheduling/planning applications, especially when combined with Exchange. However, most people who use Outlook don't use but about 1% of the functionality that is possible with it. My personal opinion is that someone could come up with an Outlook killer, but not by copying outlook (Evolution), but by coming up with a radical new interface, especially one that integrated more workflow into it. Don't ask me about details, though.
I used to play it on a teletype my dad had in our shed. I forget what it was dialing into. Nice thing about the teletype was that you then had a printed record that you could go through offline and create a map from.
Hamburgers in your face
French fries between your toes
Dill pickles up your nose
and don't forget those chocolate shakes
Made from polluted lakes
McDonalds is your..... kind of place
There are other versions as well.
Why 5?...SCSI 5 is a minimum of 3 drives...of course you lose the space of one of them.
But when I see something like this...I see the good that can be done with this amazing tool.
I've just been re-reading the print versions of his stuff that I have. I find them to be amazingly relevant in today's world.
Not really... go to a dairy farm sometime. That stuff shoots out at about 1/gal per second.
least that's what we call them in nc.
The idea is that you use every resource available to it's fullest potential...and that shit is just laying there asking to be composted into a viable fuel. I don't see that is an inefficient process.
One of my favorite wastes of time is following threads on Allmusic. I love the way they have a description of a band, and also have information on contemporaries, styles, members etc. that are dynamically hotlinked to other items in the db. If you could do the same kind of thing with the author information, it would be really great.
I used to be punk, too.
They should have to identify themselves to the server(none of this nobody@imacoward.com crap), download the file, and compare that file against a database of their member's software before any cease and desist letters go out.
Of course, some of the software they download might get installed... and they might start to like it... and they might turn against the overlords.
References???
From xe.com
Just so others don't have to look it up.
May the 7 brave souls on that flight have a good journey to infinity and beyond.
Here is a project that probably has a little more impact. The one good thing about the wireless access project might be that volunteers such as this would have better access to resources they need while they are there. Email is a great thing when you are communicating with people in a vastly different time zone.
I would be surprised to see people go back from a PDA to paper for planning. From what I have seen, people who make effective use of a planner/planning system (Franklin, Getting Things Done), make the transition to a PDA very well and would never go back. People who do not work well in that structured of an environment (and I'm one of them) won't find the Palm/CE device to be a magic bullet that makes them more "productive".
Coming from a family with a lot of rural dwellers, I wonder what exactly the point is. The rural communities that I visit have plenty of net access, most are already getting high speed cable connections. Of course this is nc, not iowa. Still, farmers everywhere have some pretty cool technology used for crop management. What is this supposed to show them?