RTFA, at the end he discusses the use of a pressed steel Wok, he thinks it would work pretty good.
The drawback is that unlike the scoop, the wok is not normally designed to performs its typical function with a half inch by 2mm slot cut into for the USB jack to be fitted through. So if you convert a wok to this purpose it's kind of a one way transformation. Now those brushed aluminum wok lids with screwed on handles in the middle might be a different story.
I was just thinking the other day about products that became so pervasive that they became a generic term - and now the product itself AND the generic term have faded into the background. The example I was thinking of was "Sanka" which at one point was widely used as a generic term for decafeinated coffee. But now, other than for the over 50 set, I don't think you'd find many people familiar with that use of it - or even able to identify what the brand name was for.
Courtesy the GOOGLE USENET archive which gives 120 hits (103 unique) searching on "user interface" and "windows" prior to November 1985.
There is one I found curious though. If you change the search to "user interface" and "Microsoft windows" you get a single hit from Nov 16, 1983 about a spreadsheet program. Had MS been using that name for a precurser to Excel on Macintosh?
And personally, If I were going to to subpeona any documents, I would wan't to see the presentation slides used for this conference where "Leo Nicora [sic *], Product Marketing Mgr, Microsoft Windows" was to give a talk on "window architectures". If a MS employee was documented using the term generically in march of 1984 it would pretty much be a slam dunk for Lindows.
Another strong piece of evidence is a few references to "Sun Windows" which may have been a development environment, or maybe it was just references to their window management implementation and isn't meant to be a brand.
When you call, remind both of them that active stolen credit cards can be used by terrorists to purchase things like AIRPLANE TICKETS, and that you do not find it acceptable that these agencies responses were not prompt and definitive.
These Hotlines must come to some final resolution for every reported allegation. That should provide you some assurance that even if they decide to not pursue the matter it is being documented that decision was made by law enforcement.
Oh, Adam P. Arkin, I thought they were talking about this guy I loved his work on Northern Exposure and Chicago Hope, I thought maybe he let the Chicago Hope role get to him too much and decided he really was a doctor.
You mean the NetZero that is one of about Five surviving nationwide dialup internet providers?
Doesn't seem like failure to me. The ones that failed miserably were the ones that not only gave away the internet access, but also gave away the PC to get on the net in the first place, those did fail miserably.
The cost to such a start-up is hardware, and this FreeFi place has to have essentially NO HARDWARE, (other than whatever they run their web and ad servers on - which they could easily have hosted by a third party). All the hardware is owned by the locations providing the FreeFi service. It seems like a pretty good business model to me, just as long the ads aren't too obtrusive, the ads are served up in a way that doesn't require a specifc OS or browser (they could for examply hijack the ad space already on webpages by redirecting browser GETs for ad images to their own adservers, and clickthroughs of the ads to their advertisers), and they get a enough locations signed up to get real advertisers interested.
You've actually been able to do that for almost nine months now in the courtyard of the FCC's office on 12th St. SW, just south of the National Mall. Though, per their press release they seem to frown on the hacking part.
I wonder if the algorhythms used in the distributed computing effort to find cancer cures could be adapted toward this - it would seem like you could get a lot of Italians to dedicate some cysles to the project.
I agree tho, that archeologists and paleontolgists will likely be the first to really benefit from the software they are currently using - piecing together skull fragments or amphorae would seem to be pretty analogous tasks.
But those really were about ala carte cable. This story is about ala carte SATELLITE: "His television bill is about $25 per month. Yours? Often twice that much,... Angry? Angry enough to pour concrete in your yard and plant a motorized 10-foot satellite dish [emphasis aded], like Cooper did more than 15 years ago?
using several of these pot devices, uncleansed water could be made relatively safe to drink.... set up a second pot with a condensation coil.
No condensation coil is needed. Put the pot set-up in a hole in the ground with the top about 6 inches below surface level and a clean pan sitting on top of the pot. Just suspend a 10 cent 1 yard/meter square sheet of plastic several inches above the pot setup, the evaporated water will condense on the plastic and drip into pan, where is can be collected for drinking. This is called a Solar Still and is knowledge of how to make one is a basic part of most survival training.
If your just going to show it on your own screen, then wouldn't you be better of displaying it on a video monitor?
If you are going to stream on the web - do you have an upload pipe bigger than USB 1.1? If so, then I think you can afford to get hardware that is designed for that prupose, rather than trying to a consumer product in an enterprise application that it was not designed for.
I have the Sony DCRTRV350 Digital 8cam corder and it has built-in USB streaming for use as a webcam. It also has a firewire port but doesn't ship with the firewire cable.
I haven't tried streaming with the firewire, since I don't have the cable, but I don't see why you would need firewire instead of USB - unless you have some tremendous amount of upstream bandwidth.
I don't get it - when some 1337 h@xx0r does it its warchalking and applauded, when a company does it's somehow corporate piracy?
How does this hurt anybody - I can see that putting the stickers up without persmission is a bad idea, but only if the business doesn't allow people to post any kind of advertising in the store. Most of the free hot spots I've been too have free weekly papers, a bulletin board with local businesses to post business cards or people to lost their lost cat posters, all sorts of free advertising.
If you don't believe in community and offering free access, then why are you doing it?
If you don't want o be listed in every single directory of free wifi access points - then why are you offereing free wifi access?
To me it sounds like mis-communication. And likely a lot of cases of local patrons - perhaps not-affiliated with Austin Wireless City, who to see their local access point getting more business to show offerinf free wifi is a viable business driver. That certainly sounds like the case for Goose Island brewery mentioned in the article (good beer, I went there a few years back).
I've been told that Costco has a "member for the day" pass you can get./I. that is typically done as a local promotion where they mail the coupon for it to people who live in the area where a new store is going in. It's not something you can depend on them having at any given store - and definately not something to expect will be offered to someone who doesn't live near the store and just wants to buy one high-value item.
The good news is that membership is $40 not $75.
The bad news is I don't think they sell Dell's in the store - only through the Costco website. If they did sell them through the store, Dell would have to start charging sales tax on all of their products and lose one of their competitive advantages.
If I were going to get a Dell delivered under the circumstnaces above, I would get one of the scratch and dent ones with stock parts - so it doesn't have to be built and burned-in prior to shipment.
To clarify - it will allow you to basically get the digital signal of the current analog stations in your area for free (after buying the box).
If you pay the subscription you will also get the encrypted channels, which look like your standard short list of BASIC Cable stations, but minus a few that you might expect - notably the Viacom ones like MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central. AS noted elsewhere, it means paying about $2/month for each additional channel.
The box itself is not worth it since failure to subscribe aparently raises the price $250, and make the box unusable. As HDTV capable DTV receivers (ie set-top boxes) seem to start at about $180, meaning you'd save $70 by getting one and subscribing to USDTV.
ALL HEADS:
You're a Knight of the Round Table? ROBIN:
I am. LEFT HEAD:
In that case, I shall have to kill you. MIDDLE HEAD:
Shall I? RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, I don't think so. MIDDLE HEAD:
Well, what do I think? LEFT HEAD:
I think kill him. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, let's be nice to him. LEFT HEAD:
Oh, shut up. ROBIN:
Perhaps I could-- LEFT HEAD:
And you. Oh, quick! Get the sword out. I want to cut his head off! RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, cut your own head off! MIDDLE HEAD:
Yes, do us all a favour! LEFT HEAD:
What? RIGHT HEAD:
Yapping on all the time. MIDDLE HEAD:
You're lucky. You're not next to him. LEFT HEAD:
What do you mean? MIDDLE HEAD:
You snore! LEFT HEAD:
Oh, I don't. Anyway, you've got bad breath. MIDDLE HEAD:
Well, it's only because you don't brush my teeth. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, stop bitching and let's go have tea. LEFT HEAD:
Oh, all right. All right. All right. We'll kill him first and then have tea and biscuits. MIDDLE HEAD:
Yes. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, not biscuits. LEFT HEAD:
All right. All right, not biscuits, but let's kill him anyway. ALL HEADS:
Right! MIDDLE HEAD:
He buggered off. RIGHT HEAD:
So he has. He's scarpered.
their device is like a big pressure cooker. How is that going to contaminate groundwater?
In two ways. First the chemicals have to be created, second the chemicals eventually have to be disposed of.
Why not use enzymes to break down the prion proteins? They are extracted from commercially grown tropical fruits (I think from parts of the fruit that aren't eaten anyway - such as pineapple and papaya rinds), and are already available in industrial quantities for use in such things as laundry and dish machine detergent, and meat tenderizer.
Would be for the jacket to also accept firewire, USB 2.0 and bluetooth connections from the gadgets then act as a WiFi router back to your computer and/or the Internet. Now that would be sweet.
Walk by an open Access Point and suddenly you get updated for your email, the latest RSS feed from SlashDot, the MP3 tracks from that CD your friend just baought and ripped, etc.
The article doesn't state whether use of the "net send" command is permitted or not.
Did you read the same article linked from the story?
Carl did not send out a dirty word. Carl received no warning. No written policy prohibits what he did.
In case gets slashdotted, here is the full text regarding the incident:
Hey! Where's the problem? Dave Lieber IN MY OPINION Star-Telegram
Hey!
On its face, that expression is neither offensive nor disturbing. "Hey!" is an informal way to say hello. It indicates kindness, simple courtesy and an economy of words.
But a 13-year-old boy at Richland Middle School in Richland Hills was suspended for three days in December because he sent that simple message to every computer in the school using an archaic form of instant messaging. The software was created years ago in the old disk operating system used in earlier versions of personal computers.
Carl Grimmer, 13, was suspended last month for sending a one-word message to every computer at Richland Middle School.
Carl Grimmer's father taught him how to send messages through network computers as part of a tutorial on how DOS worked. DOS, you might recall, preceded Windows as the dominant operating system during the 1980s and early 1990s.
"It was neat," Carl Grimmer told me the other day. "I had never seen it before."
I guess it's only natural that the next day, Carl went to school and in his eighth-grade computer class showed a friend how the messaging system worked. That's what learning and experimenting is all about. I think that's what school is about.
The result of his trick was that every computer in the school, approximately 80 of them, received his message of "Hey!"
At first, Principal Tommy Rollins didn't think much of it. "I saw it," he said. "It didn't say who it came from. I just deleted it."
Beverly Sweeney, a computer teacher and campus computer liaison with the district, entered Carl's computer class and quickly figured out where the message originated and who sent it.
According to Carl, Sweeney asked him, "Did you do this?"
"Yes," he replied.
"Do you know that this is serious?" she asked him, according to Carl.
"No," he replied.
Then she asked how he did it, and he showed her.
The matter worked its way up to the principal, who eventually suspended Carl for three days.
Rollins told me that students had been using campus computers in unacceptable ways, and he hoped to make an example of Carl. The Birdville school district does not have a written policy on what to do in this kind of situation, so the decision rested with the principal.
"You have to use your own judgment," he told me.
I respect Rollins as a kind and sensitive educator, but in this particular case, he may have erred. A three-day suspension for this "crime" seems excessive.
Carl did not send out a dirty word. Carl received no warning. No written policy prohibits what he did. Missing three days of school for something so minor is overkill.
There is some more about the school's response to press coverage, but I'll let you get that directly from the link.
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No, but it was an excellent movie, which coincentally took place on the Coeur d'Alene tribe Reservation.
RTFA, at the end he discusses the use of a pressed steel Wok, he thinks it would work pretty good.
The drawback is that unlike the scoop, the wok is not normally designed to performs its typical function with a half inch by 2mm slot cut into for the USB jack to be fitted through. So if you convert a wok to this purpose it's kind of a one way transformation. Now those brushed aluminum wok lids with screwed on handles in the middle might be a different story.
I was just thinking the other day about products that became so pervasive that they became a generic term - and now the product itself AND the generic term have faded into the background. The example I was thinking of was "Sanka" which at one point was widely used as a generic term for decafeinated coffee. But now, other than for the over 50 set, I don't think you'd find many people familiar with that use of it - or even able to identify what the brand name was for.
Anyone else have examples like that?
Courtesy the GOOGLE USENET archive which gives 120 hits (103 unique) searching on "user interface" and "windows" prior to November 1985.
There is one I found curious though. If you change the search to "user interface" and "Microsoft windows" you get a single hit from Nov 16, 1983 about a spreadsheet program. Had MS been using that name for a precurser to Excel on Macintosh?
And personally, If I were going to to subpeona any documents, I would wan't to see the presentation slides used for this conference where "Leo Nicora [sic *], Product Marketing Mgr, Microsoft Windows" was to give a talk on "window architectures". If a MS employee was documented using the term generically in march of 1984 it would pretty much be a slam dunk for Lindows.
Another strong piece of evidence is a few references to "Sun Windows" which may have been a development environment, or maybe it was just references to their window management implementation and isn't meant to be a brand.
* Nikora
For the Secret Service - call the Dept. of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General Hotline (800) 323-8603.
For the FBI - call the Dept. of Justice Office of Inspector General Hotline (800) 869-4499.
When you call, remind both of them that active stolen credit cards can be used by terrorists to purchase things like AIRPLANE TICKETS, and that you do not find it acceptable that these agencies responses were not prompt and definitive.
These Hotlines must come to some final resolution for every reported allegation. That should provide you some assurance that even if they decide to not pursue the matter it is being documented that decision was made by law enforcement.
Adam P. Arkin
Oh, Adam P. Arkin, I thought they were talking about this guy I loved his work on Northern Exposure and Chicago Hope, I thought maybe he let the Chicago Hope role get to him too much and decided he really was a doctor.
Didn't NetZero try this and fail miserably?
You mean the NetZero that is one of about Five surviving nationwide dialup internet providers?
Doesn't seem like failure to me. The ones that failed miserably were the ones that not only gave away the internet access, but also gave away the PC to get on the net in the first place, those did fail miserably.
The cost to such a start-up is hardware, and this FreeFi place has to have essentially NO HARDWARE, (other than whatever they run their web and ad servers on - which they could easily have hosted by a third party). All the hardware is owned by the locations providing the FreeFi service. It seems like a pretty good business model to me, just as long the ads aren't too obtrusive, the ads are served up in a way that doesn't require a specifc OS or browser (they could for examply hijack the ad space already on webpages by redirecting browser GETs for ad images to their own adservers, and clickthroughs of the ads to their advertisers), and they get a enough locations signed up to get real advertisers interested.
You've actually been able to do that for almost nine months now in the courtyard of the FCC's office on 12th St. SW, just south of the National Mall. Though, per their press release they seem to frown on the hacking part.
I wonder if the algorhythms used in the distributed computing effort to find cancer cures could be adapted toward this - it would seem like you could get a lot of Italians to dedicate some cysles to the project.
I agree tho, that archeologists and paleontolgists will likely be the first to really benefit from the software they are currently using - piecing together skull fragments or amphorae would seem to be pretty analogous tasks.
Even further back than that: December 2002 /. story
/. story
... Angry? Angry enough to pour concrete in your yard and plant a motorized 10-foot satellite dish [emphasis aded], like Cooper did more than 15 years ago?
AND
November 2002
But those really were about ala carte cable. This story is about ala carte SATELLITE: "His television bill is about $25 per month. Yours? Often twice that much,
using several of these pot devices, uncleansed water could be made relatively safe to drink.... set up a second pot with a condensation coil.
No condensation coil is needed. Put the pot set-up in a hole in the ground with the top about 6 inches below surface level and a clean pan sitting on top of the pot. Just suspend a 10 cent 1 yard/meter square sheet of plastic several inches above the pot setup, the evaporated water will condense on the plastic and drip into pan, where is can be collected for drinking. This is called a Solar Still and is knowledge of how to make one is a basic part of most survival training.
So will this work on my overclocked P4?
Maybe there will e a market for earthenware PC cases?
And where is that stream going to?
If your just going to show it on your own screen, then wouldn't you be better of displaying it on a video monitor?
If you are going to stream on the web - do you have an upload pipe bigger than USB 1.1? If so, then I think you can afford to get hardware that is designed for that prupose, rather than trying to a consumer product in an enterprise application that it was not designed for.
I have the Sony DCRTRV350 Digital 8cam corder and it has built-in USB streaming for use as a webcam. It also has a firewire port but doesn't ship with the firewire cable.
I haven't tried streaming with the firewire, since I don't have the cable, but I don't see why you would need firewire instead of USB - unless you have some tremendous amount of upstream bandwidth.
I don't get it - when some 1337 h@xx0r does it its warchalking and applauded, when a company does it's somehow corporate piracy?
How does this hurt anybody - I can see that putting the stickers up without persmission is a bad idea, but only if the business doesn't allow people to post any kind of advertising in the store. Most of the free hot spots I've been too have free weekly papers, a bulletin board with local businesses to post business cards or people to lost their lost cat posters, all sorts of free advertising.
If you don't believe in community and offering free access, then why are you doing it?
If you don't want o be listed in every single directory of free wifi access points - then why are you offereing free wifi access?
To me it sounds like mis-communication. And likely a lot of cases of local patrons - perhaps not-affiliated with Austin Wireless City, who to see their local access point getting more business to show offerinf free wifi is a viable business driver. That certainly sounds like the case for Goose Island brewery mentioned in the article (good beer, I went there a few years back).
I've been told that Costco has a "member for the day" pass you can get./I. that is typically done as a local promotion where they mail the coupon for it to people who live in the area where a new store is going in. It's not something you can depend on them having at any given store - and definately not something to expect will be offered to someone who doesn't live near the store and just wants to buy one high-value item.
The good news is that membership is $40 not $75.
The bad news is I don't think they sell Dell's in the store - only through the Costco website. If they did sell them through the store, Dell would have to start charging sales tax on all of their products and lose one of their competitive advantages.
If I were going to get a Dell delivered under the circumstnaces above, I would get one of the scratch and dent ones with stock parts - so it doesn't have to be built and burned-in prior to shipment.
To clarify - it will allow you to basically get the digital signal of the current analog stations in your area for free (after buying the box).
If you pay the subscription you will also get the encrypted channels, which look like your standard short list of BASIC Cable stations, but minus a few that you might expect - notably the Viacom ones like MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central. AS noted elsewhere, it means paying about $2/month for each additional channel.
The box itself is not worth it since failure to subscribe aparently raises the price $250, and make the box unusable. As HDTV capable DTV receivers (ie set-top boxes) seem to start at about $180, meaning you'd save $70 by getting one and subscribing to USDTV.
Obligatory Holy Grail quote:
It's still missing a few things; for instance, it won't tell me the speed of an unladen swallow in knots
But it will give you The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, and you can incorporate it as a constant into other fomulas.
I'm thinking there has got to be a way to incorporate that into a random password generator, or something that might be potentially useful, someday.
heh heh, I guess the catchy acronym is the FReACC (aka freak) Act?
their device is like a big pressure cooker. How is that going to contaminate groundwater?
In two ways. First the chemicals have to be created, second the chemicals eventually have to be disposed of.
Why not use enzymes to break down the prion proteins? They are extracted from commercially grown tropical fruits (I think from parts of the fruit that aren't eaten anyway - such as pineapple and papaya rinds), and are already available in industrial quantities for use in such things as laundry and dish machine detergent, and meat tenderizer.
Would be for the jacket to also accept firewire, USB 2.0 and bluetooth connections from the gadgets then act as a WiFi router back to your computer and/or the Internet. Now that would be sweet.
Walk by an open Access Point and suddenly you get updated for your email, the latest RSS feed from SlashDot, the MP3 tracks from that CD your friend just baought and ripped, etc.
And if he manages to cut a few friends in on the lucrative research contracts along the way, its all just gravy:
Did you read the same article linked from the story?
In case gets slashdotted, here is the full text regarding the incident:
There is some more about the school's response to press coverage, but I'll let you get that directly from the link.