The picture (or at least the thumbnail versions) contains all of New England, New York, Michigan and much of the Midwest, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. And I think a parts of the rest of the northern border states.
As was noted, you have a lot of power to configure it to meet your needs. One option is to specify the IRC server/s it connects to, that option can also be left open to allow it to connect to any IRC server. So likely people are looking for those unconfigured copies running out in the open on the net so they can connect to a third party server.
CGIIRC is a great little ap, its offers a choice of interfaces including a mIRC like client option, and seems to have the ability to let users connect to an IRC server via port 80 connection while NOT requiring configuring proxy servers. Great if you have users trying to connect from behind firewalls.
It supports user accounts and passwords so authentication shouldn't be a problem, and your more sohpisticated users have a nearly endless choice of other IRC clients to use to connect to your server.
You would still need to configure an IRC server, but if you can't find an Open Source one you like, you probably aren't trying very hard.
I'd be tempted to buy one if they only supported Macs (their support page only lists Windows downloads).
I am getting one of their flash based players (the iRiver iFP-180T) for myself [a PC guy] and one for my brother [a Mac guy]. I too was pretty discouraged that they didn't support Mac but after a lot of fruitless Googling, then some more digging on their site I eventually found that they are Mac compatible. The iHP-100 series FAQ is very clear about this, it just not clear why they the FAQ isn't better labelled to indicate it applies to the iHP-120: "Q. Will the iHP work on a Mac? A. The iHP is compatible with Mac OS 10.2. When attached, the iHP will display as an icon on the desktop. Open the iHP icon to add files to the player. Note, the DB functions described in the manual are not available at this time, as the index can not be created with Mac OS. This means that Album, Artist, Genre, and Title searching will not be available. ".
The iFP-100 series (the flash players) FAQ is also clear but less so since they directly contradict themselves in two consecutive sentences: "Q. What operating systems are the iFP-Players compatible with? A. The iFP-Players are only compatible with Windows 98SE (Second Edition) / Me / 2000 / XP. They are also compatible with Mac versions OS9 and OSX. The iFP-Players cannot be used with Windows NT (NT does not support / recognize USB based devices)."
FWIW, the reason I picked this player is that the flash version not only has the built in voice recorder and FM receiver, it will also record FM directly to memory. I can't count the number of times I've seen people on Slashdot asking for a Tivo like device for FM, well this seems to be the first step toward such a device, though there is no way to automate the process.
As to support for Open OS's, as noted elsewhere, any OS with USB & vfat support can read and write to the flash player just like thumb drive - which was the other significant item on my Xmas list this year. So with one sub-$100 item, I'm all set. The iRiver music management software is only available for Macs and Windows though.
I see this as the final nail in the coffin for floppy disks. For at least a decade now floppies have come pre-formatted with FAT. It takes forever in computertime to format a blank disk, so switching to unformatted disks is not a viable option, and adding $.25 to the cost of each disk (i.e. device) is also cost prohibitive when storage is selling at pennies [or less] per megabyte.
Assuming this goes forward (and short of a state's Attornies General getting injunctions to stop it - I imagine it will) the floppy format will be dead by mid-2004 at the latest. If MS doesn't intend that as the outcome, then pricing for the license should be based on the amount of storage being formatted. At say $.001/Mb the additional cost for a floppy would be just $.014, and 256Mb flash drives would be treated about the same as the MS proposed pricing: $.256 more each.
For example its actually two new identified species since whales previously all considered Bryde's Whales are now considered to make up three distinct species - two known types previously thought to be the same species: Bryde's, and Eden, and this third species B. omurai.
I take this to be good news, because if there are three distinct species that cannot be visually distinguished from each other, and one of them is determined to be rare or threatened, the Japanese will have a much harder time arguing for an outright hunt of Bryde's. I just hope they don't take the now proven usefulness of DNA information collected through "scientific" whaling, to be evidence that that particular insult to science should be continued or even expanded.
A mobile phone and/or PDA cradle that is located right inside the front door to your house or apartment (or anywhere you want, I guess) that connects to your current POTS** phone wiring in your home so that you can continue to use the existing POTS phones throughout your home. Essentially the mobile phone or PDA would provide the dialtone service for your home and/or IP connectivity for ethernet/wifi connections throughout the house - all calls (or IP traffic) would be routed through the existing wiring to the phone and onto your wireless providers network.
My priority would be the POTS telephony device, especially given that commercial WiFi that PDAs and 3G phones connect to is still prohibitively slow and expensive compared to wired broadband service for residential users. With the POTS cradle system, you could disconnect your current landline phone from the RBOC's** and just get an unlimited minutes mobile phone plan that would give you a single number that is always with you (the ability to switch your current POTS/landline phone number to your mobile phone is one of the benefits of recent cell phone regs reform). You could throw out your current answering machine and/or drop your landline voicemail since you would only need the voicemail that comes with your mobile phone.
Remember, as the RBOC's remind us anytime we have phone problems, the wiring in your your home belongs to you. Once you drop your RBOC account, you would be free of their charges (and the accompanying taxes) entirely.
I figure the unit could be built with off-the-shelf components for about $25, and could easily sell for $90, given that it should be able to rapidly pay for itself. The cradle would be designed to act as a charger for the mobile phone, but in the case of power outage, the battery of the phone would ideally be able to power the POTS dialtone wiring for up to a day. A speaker phone version of the cradle is a possible upgade, as it would be nice for retrieving voicemail, but I don't think it would be needed for the basic unit.
* If any tech firm wants to use this idea contact me via my Slashdot Journal. I'm sure we can work out a mutually agreeable arrangement. The ideal development partner would be a Cell phone provider, or an IP telephony provider.
** POTS = Plain Old Telephone System, aka Landline.
RBOC = Regional Bell Operating Companies, the former AT&T subsidiaries that run the POTS, aka Verizon, SBC, PacBell, etc.
Not a Movie (Yet) But in the Book FLUKE
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FLUKE by Christopher Moore has a scene where a local geek comes to assist the researchers by writing a computer program for them "in Linux" so its not a great reference in that the author (while IMHO the best working novelist of our time) seems a bit unclear as to what Linux is, it is - I think - a good example of the comprehension of the non-Geek public of the Linux phenomenon. i.e. something coders/computers geeks use as opposed to "normal" computer users.
what instincts do humans have... (as an evolutionary biology and ecology major...)
I learned what instincts humans had in Sociology 101 in college. While I can't reel off their scientific names I know in addition to suckling, there is also a clinging response that makes infant grasp for the mothers if they think they are falling - and also to clutch our fingers and toes in response to stimulus of the palms or pads of the feet, and a diving reponse that tells us to stop breathing underwater. Since we share these with all other primates they provide some of the more convincing evidence that we evolved from tree-dwelling ancestors.
You also say "humans are far more complex than the other animals.... I know this for a fact." While our brains are more complex, from an evolutionary standpoint we really aren't any more complex than the other Great Apes. Our paths of evolution divurged, but we've both been evolving just as long.
I'd seriously look into another major if I were you.
Just to keep things straight I find it easiest to think of "Big A" Atheism and "little a" atheism much as "Big D" Democrat and "little d" democrat.
a "big A" Atheist must have an affirmative belief that there is no god. That there being a god is impossible.
A "little a" atheist is just someone who doesn't happen to currently believe in god. They might in the future, they might just not care, or they might be a Big A Atheist. You might be better off you some term other than atheist when talking about this group - such a "a non-religious person" or "someone who doesn't believe in god". Otherwise many people, especially fundies will think you mean a "Big A" type atheist - who they have been programmed since birth to think of as agents of the devil. Trying to explain to a fundie what a "little a" atheist believes or doesn't believe is just wasting your time. And really, it can't be done becuase other than NOT having an affirmative belief in god, you can't make a blanket statement about their beliefs.
Here is a quick version, in a form many slashdotters might understand:
For an Atheist the "Believes in God" field of their mental database is set to ZERO. For a non-atheist/christian/muslim/jew/etc the value is ONE, for what I call a "little a" atheist the value is NULL/NOT SET/VOID/OUT OF RANGE/INVALID CHARACTER/UNDEFINED *OR* ZERO - Whatever, but not a value of ONE.
Also, the Treasury (including the Bureau of Printing and Engraving that prints the currency) is officially part of the Government. You might be thinking of the Federal Reserve Banks and the Federal Reseve Board, which are more like government controlled (the President appoints the Board, the Board controls the Banks)- but seperate - entities. They are in charge of the money supply which is done by increasing or decreasing the amount of cash provided to the private banking system - through the use of interest rates.
I see that a non-controversial option is right in front of the SCOTUS - make no ruling on the Pledge - or rule that its mere existence is not establishing religion - but rule that the Pledge cannot be made compulsary - which would be consistent with prior rulings (someone cited a case of a Jehovah's Witness that the SCOTUS ruled in 1947? could not be required to say the Pledge).
Actually there would be pressure to at least pass it through Congress, its hard to vote against both God AND Country. But it would stall in states. Sure a good 25 or so would get it passed within a two years, but those last dozen are awfully hard to get. And I know I would be campaigning heavily against my state ratifying it. Plus you get pressure from groups that think their cause is a higher priority and should be dealt with first - whether its ERA, overturning Roe v. Wade, whatever.
It seems more like a topic for a civil libertarian blog. . . . I'm just asserting this is off topic. Michael, can't you find another website to pound your drums on?
Might I humbly suggest PLASTIC? It is primarily a political group newsblog with generally a libertarian readership.
It also has a couple of advantages that would keep a -1 Off Topic post such as this one is to SlashDot from running in the first place. The submission queue is readable to most users, and hundreds of users have sufficient karma to comment and vote on the submissions in the queue.
They also have a way for users to post "Quick Links" stories that might be interesting to the community but either don't have discussion potential, or which aren't generally relevant to the topics Plastic deals with.
Oh, and because the main reason I can see this running here is that it generates page views and thus ad revenue, you might be interested in learning that Plastic has no advertising and so is free of the motivation of posting something just to make money off user supplied content.
But what annoys me most about the Dean websites is howarddean.tv, which not only is STILL running IIS on Win2K, but also requires you to be running a recent version of Windows Media Player and a recent version of IE on Windows to get the streaming content. They have a way of downloading QuickTime versions of some of the videos, but that's assuming you can even navigate the site with the 'wrong' kind of browser. When they have all the videos available in ogg vorbis on a site accessible via LYNX, then we'll know they 'get it'.
A SlashDot interview would be good, but it shouldn't be with Dean himself, it should be with his web guru.
BALTIMORE -- A Popeye's fried chicken restaurant in Baltimore City remains open Thursday night after a complaint about a mouse found in the food.
Mouse Found Inside Popeye's Chicken
Baltimore health officials said they're keeping a close eye on the restaurant after a patron claimed to have found something furry in his chicken dinner.
Tony Hill, of Baltimore, said he bit into the second piece of a three-piece meal from the Popeye's at Moravia Road and Sinclair Lane and found something that wasn't supposed to be there -- a mouse had been fried along with his chicken.
But WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Jeff Pegues reported that it is unclear as to whether the complaint is a hoax or the real thing.
Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Peter Beilenson told Pegues that the restaurant has been closed twice before in the past two years for mouse infestation and unsanitary conditions.
Beilenson told 11 News that his office is investigating.
"It appears to be a legitimate complaint... but we found no evidence of mouse infestation," Beilenson said.
Health inspectors examined the restaurant Thursday morning, and Beilenson said they may soon return.
From the first link:"The 148 tonne turbine can generate 20 megawatts at peak output."
From the second (PDF) link:"In 1984, the company assumed operation of the Annapolis Tidal Generating Station, a federal and provincial government pilot project initially designed to explore harnessing energy from the sea that now contributes its 20 MW capacity to the provincial grid."
But as another poster has pointed out, I erred in that it is a barrage type plant - though I find the terminaology confusing, in that it is submerged in the sea, which I thought meant it was a "sub-sea" plant.
I seem to recall seeing one of these in a 50s crime movie.
RTFA - the NYT article discusses and has a pic of one the '50s era garages in NYC. They have elevators which lets them save the ramp space, but rely on valets to park the cars on each level - the article says 8 valets are needed during peak periods. I believe the one and only time I had to park in Manhattan I parked in one of them.
The new system has only two staff, and it sounded like they could get by with having only one working at a time if the maintenance tech worked the night shift and doubled as shift "manager".
I'm glad to see the one in DC has different prices for SUVs versus standard cars. Since in the fully automated system you only need a space 5 ft high for a standard car, and with a smaller wheel base. The pricing should in large part be based on the cubic footage the car takes up when parked.
All-in-all, the whole system reminds me of those sites that store paper archives. You give them a box identifier and a robotic forklift seeks out the proper aisle, row, and shelf, and retrieves the box. Finally modern logistics principals are being applied to parking.
The Annapolis Tidal Power station at the mouth of the Annapolis river in Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy has been running (and providing power to Nova Scotia Power's grid) since the mid '80s. (this PDF of a magazine article provides more info.)
While considered a "pilot" operation, it does generate 20 MW of power, supplying the electrical needs for 4500 customers.
The ability to dial a "real" telephone is exactly what I'm waiting for.
I think a P2P system would be ideal for this. I see the technology working by having a directory of "servers" that have broadband connections and voice-capable modems. People could call into these by phone and then the broadband connection would link them to a server which is within local calling distance of party you're calling. That distant server then makes a POTS call to the receiving party and the connection is established.
I wouldn't make the system "free", instead I'd make it credit based where running a server earned you credits (even without calls being made) and calls made through your server earned you bonus credits. Users without broadband (or no POTS phone service) could buy credits from the "company". Additional credits would be earned/needed for calls made in or to countries where there are per minute charges even for local calls.
That brings me to another idea I have, which is a system to connect the POTS phones in your own house to your mobile phone by a simple docking cradle that you drop your mobile phone into whenever you are at home. It would let you make all your calls through your mobile but using any wired or wireless handset currently in your house. You just subscribe to an unlimited minutes mobile plan and you could drop your POTS service - without giving up the convenience of your POTS phones.
Anyone interested in making this a reality contact me through my Journal here.
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I wonder if SCO intends all this publicity and open source community reply to do their work for them.
Ironically that would be the true open source solution to the issue.
But my biggest concern is that at 7.5 cents per line of alleged copyright violation, even if the community ultimately ID's 100 lines of code inadvertantly included in Linux, it could mean SCO seeking $7.50 per license, and with the current copyright law they could then go after significant penalties and legal costs far in excess of that - even after the offending code is replaced.
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The picture (or at least the thumbnail versions) contains all of New England, New York, Michigan and much of the Midwest, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. And I think a parts of the rest of the northern border states.
But I for one welcome our new Canadian Overlords.
As was noted, you have a lot of power to configure it to meet your needs. One option is to specify the IRC server/s it connects to, that option can also be left open to allow it to connect to any IRC server. So likely people are looking for those unconfigured copies running out in the open on the net so they can connect to a third party server.
CGIIRC is a great little ap, its offers a choice of interfaces including a mIRC like client option, and seems to have the ability to let users connect to an IRC server via port 80 connection while NOT requiring configuring proxy servers. Great if you have users trying to connect from behind firewalls.
It supports user accounts and passwords so authentication shouldn't be a problem, and your more sohpisticated users have a nearly endless choice of other IRC clients to use to connect to your server.
You would still need to configure an IRC server, but if you can't find an Open Source one you like, you probably aren't trying very hard.
I'd be tempted to buy one if they only supported Macs (their support page only lists Windows downloads).
I am getting one of their flash based players (the iRiver iFP-180T) for myself [a PC guy] and one for my brother [a Mac guy]. I too was pretty discouraged that they didn't support Mac but after a lot of fruitless Googling, then some more digging on their site I eventually found that they are Mac compatible. The iHP-100 series FAQ is very clear about this, it just not clear why they the FAQ isn't better labelled to indicate it applies to the iHP-120:
"Q. Will the iHP work on a Mac?
A. The iHP is compatible with Mac OS 10.2. When attached, the iHP will display as an icon on the desktop. Open the iHP icon to add files to the player. Note, the DB functions described in the manual are not available at this time, as the index can not be created with Mac OS. This means that Album, Artist, Genre, and Title searching will not be available. ".
The iFP-100 series (the flash players) FAQ is also clear but less so since they directly contradict themselves in two consecutive sentences:
"Q. What operating systems are the iFP-Players compatible with?
A. The iFP-Players are only compatible with Windows 98SE (Second Edition) / Me / 2000 / XP. They are also compatible with Mac versions OS9 and OSX. The iFP-Players cannot be used with Windows NT (NT does not support / recognize USB based devices)."
FWIW, the reason I picked this player is that the flash version not only has the built in voice recorder and FM receiver, it will also record FM directly to memory. I can't count the number of times I've seen people on Slashdot asking for a Tivo like device for FM, well this seems to be the first step toward such a device, though there is no way to automate the process.
As to support for Open OS's, as noted elsewhere, any OS with USB & vfat support can read and write to the flash player just like thumb drive - which was the other significant item on my Xmas list this year. So with one sub-$100 item, I'm all set. The iRiver music management software is only available for Macs and Windows though.
I see this as the final nail in the coffin for floppy disks. For at least a decade now floppies have come pre-formatted with FAT. It takes forever in computertime to format a blank disk, so switching to unformatted disks is not a viable option, and adding $.25 to the cost of each disk (i.e. device) is also cost prohibitive when storage is selling at pennies [or less] per megabyte.
Assuming this goes forward (and short of a state's Attornies General getting injunctions to stop it - I imagine it will) the floppy format will be dead by mid-2004 at the latest. If MS doesn't intend that as the outcome, then pricing for the license should be based on the amount of storage being formatted. At say $.001/Mb the additional cost for a floppy would be just $.014, and 256Mb flash drives would be treated about the same as the MS proposed pricing: $.256 more each.
For example its actually two new identified species since whales previously all considered Bryde's Whales are now considered to make up three distinct species - two known types previously thought to be the same species: Bryde's, and Eden, and this third species B. omurai.
I take this to be good news, because if there are three distinct species that cannot be visually distinguished from each other, and one of them is determined to be rare or threatened, the Japanese will have a much harder time arguing for an outright hunt of Bryde's. I just hope they don't take the now proven usefulness of DNA information collected through "scientific" whaling, to be evidence that that particular insult to science should be continued or even expanded.
A mobile phone and/or PDA cradle that is located right inside the front door to your house or apartment (or anywhere you want, I guess) that connects to your current POTS** phone wiring in your home so that you can continue to use the existing POTS phones throughout your home. Essentially the mobile phone or PDA would provide the dialtone service for your home and/or IP connectivity for ethernet/wifi connections throughout the house - all calls (or IP traffic) would be routed through the existing wiring to the phone and onto your wireless providers network.
My priority would be the POTS telephony device, especially given that commercial WiFi that PDAs and 3G phones connect to is still prohibitively slow and expensive compared to wired broadband service for residential users. With the POTS cradle system, you could disconnect your current landline phone from the RBOC's** and just get an unlimited minutes mobile phone plan that would give you a single number that is always with you (the ability to switch your current POTS/landline phone number to your mobile phone is one of the benefits of recent cell phone regs reform). You could throw out your current answering machine and/or drop your landline voicemail since you would only need the voicemail that comes with your mobile phone.
Remember, as the RBOC's remind us anytime we have phone problems, the wiring in your your home belongs to you. Once you drop your RBOC account, you would be free of their charges (and the accompanying taxes) entirely.
I figure the unit could be built with off-the-shelf components for about $25, and could easily sell for $90, given that it should be able to rapidly pay for itself. The cradle would be designed to act as a charger for the mobile phone, but in the case of power outage, the battery of the phone would ideally be able to power the POTS dialtone wiring for up to a day. A speaker phone version of the cradle is a possible upgade, as it would be nice for retrieving voicemail, but I don't think it would be needed for the basic unit.
* If any tech firm wants to use this idea contact me via my Slashdot Journal. I'm sure we can work out a mutually agreeable arrangement. The ideal development partner would be a Cell phone provider, or an IP telephony provider.
** POTS = Plain Old Telephone System, aka Landline.
RBOC = Regional Bell Operating Companies, the former AT&T subsidiaries that run the POTS, aka Verizon, SBC, PacBell, etc.
FLUKE by Christopher Moore has a scene where a local geek comes to assist the researchers by writing a computer program for them "in Linux" so its not a great reference in that the author (while IMHO the best working novelist of our time) seems a bit unclear as to what Linux is, it is - I think - a good example of the comprehension of the non-Geek public of the Linux phenomenon. i.e. something coders/computers geeks use as opposed to "normal" computer users.
1. Microsoft raises licence prices ...
2. Consumers who use Microsoft have to pay more
3. PROFIT!
(For MS, anyway)
Something actually useful on ./, except its hidden away in the science section instead of the front page.
Go to your Homepage preferences and put a check in the box "Collapse Sections (show stories from all sections, unless specifically excluded)"
If you only want 'regular' front page stories and Science stories, then click the Section boxes to specifically exclude BSD, Games, Apple, etc.
what instincts do humans have ...
(as an evolutionary biology and ecology major...)
I learned what instincts humans had in Sociology 101 in college. While I can't reel off their scientific names I know in addition to suckling, there is also a clinging response that makes infant grasp for the mothers if they think they are falling - and also to clutch our fingers and toes in response to stimulus of the palms or pads of the feet, and a diving reponse that tells us to stop breathing underwater. Since we share these with all other primates they provide some of the more convincing evidence that we evolved from tree-dwelling ancestors.
You also say "humans are far more complex than the other animals.... I know this for a fact." While our brains are more complex, from an evolutionary standpoint we really aren't any more complex than the other Great Apes. Our paths of evolution divurged, but we've both been evolving just as long.
I'd seriously look into another major if I were you.
Just to keep things straight I find it easiest to think of "Big A" Atheism and "little a" atheism much as "Big D" Democrat and "little d" democrat.
a "big A" Atheist must have an affirmative belief that there is no god. That there being a god is impossible.
A "little a" atheist is just someone who doesn't happen to currently believe in god. They might in the future, they might just not care, or they might be a Big A Atheist. You might be better off you some term other than atheist when talking about this group - such a "a non-religious person" or "someone who doesn't believe in god". Otherwise many people, especially fundies will think you mean a "Big A" type atheist - who they have been programmed since birth to think of as agents of the devil. Trying to explain to a fundie what a "little a" atheist believes or doesn't believe is just wasting your time. And really, it can't be done becuase other than NOT having an affirmative belief in god, you can't make a blanket statement about their beliefs.
Here is a quick version, in a form many slashdotters might understand:
For an Atheist the "Believes in God" field of their mental database is set to ZERO. For a non-atheist/christian/muslim/jew/etc the value is ONE, for what I call a "little a" atheist the value is NULL/NOT SET/VOID/OUT OF RANGE/INVALID CHARACTER/UNDEFINED *OR* ZERO - Whatever, but not a value of ONE.
Also, the Treasury (including the Bureau of Printing and Engraving that prints the currency) is officially part of the Government. You might be thinking of the Federal Reserve Banks and the Federal Reseve Board, which are more like government controlled (the President appoints the Board, the Board controls the Banks)- but seperate - entities. They are in charge of the money supply which is done by increasing or decreasing the amount of cash provided to the private banking system - through the use of interest rates.
I see that a non-controversial option is right in front of the SCOTUS - make no ruling on the Pledge - or rule that its mere existence is not establishing religion - but rule that the Pledge cannot be made compulsary - which would be consistent with prior rulings (someone cited a case of a Jehovah's Witness that the SCOTUS ruled in 1947? could not be required to say the Pledge).
Actually there would be pressure to at least pass it through Congress, its hard to vote against both God AND Country. But it would stall in states. Sure a good 25 or so would get it passed within a two years, but those last dozen are awfully hard to get. And I know I would be campaigning heavily against my state ratifying it. Plus you get pressure from groups that think their cause is a higher priority and should be dealt with first - whether its ERA, overturning Roe v. Wade, whatever.
It seems more like a topic for a civil libertarian blog. . . . I'm just asserting this is off topic. Michael, can't you find another website to pound your drums on?
Might I humbly suggest PLASTIC? It is primarily a political group newsblog with generally a libertarian readership.
It also has a couple of advantages that would keep a -1 Off Topic post such as this one is to SlashDot from running in the first place. The submission queue is readable to most users, and hundreds of users have sufficient karma to comment and vote on the submissions in the queue.
They also have a way for users to post "Quick Links" stories that might be interesting to the community but either don't have discussion potential, or which aren't generally relevant to the topics Plastic deals with.
Oh, and because the main reason I can see this running here is that it generates page views and thus ad revenue, you might be interested in learning that Plastic has no advertising and so is free of the motivation of posting something just to make money off user supplied content.
DeanForAmerica is now running Apache on FreeBSD, but was originally running IIS on Win2k.
BlogForAmerica at least recently has been running Apache on Red Hat
But what annoys me most about the Dean websites is howarddean.tv, which not only is STILL running IIS on Win2K, but also requires you to be running a recent version of Windows Media Player and a recent version of IE on Windows to get the streaming content. They have a way of downloading QuickTime versions of some of the videos, but that's assuming you can even navigate the site with the 'wrong' kind of browser. When they have all the videos available in ogg vorbis on a site accessible via LYNX, then we'll know they 'get it'.
A SlashDot interview would be good, but it shouldn't be with Dean himself, it should be with his web guru.
Customer Finds Furry Body In Three-Piece Meal
Where on earth do you arrive at that 20MW figure?
From the first link: "The 148 tonne turbine can generate 20 megawatts at peak output."
From the second (PDF) link: "In 1984, the company assumed operation of the Annapolis Tidal Generating Station, a federal and provincial government pilot project initially designed to explore harnessing energy from the sea that now contributes its 20 MW capacity to the provincial grid."
But as another poster has pointed out, I erred in that it is a barrage type plant - though I find the terminaology confusing, in that it is submerged in the sea, which I thought meant it was a "sub-sea" plant.
I seem to recall seeing one of these in a 50s crime movie.
RTFA - the NYT article discusses and has a pic of one the '50s era garages in NYC. They have elevators which lets them save the ramp space, but rely on valets to park the cars on each level - the article says 8 valets are needed during peak periods. I believe the one and only time I had to park in Manhattan I parked in one of them.
The new system has only two staff, and it sounded like they could get by with having only one working at a time if the maintenance tech worked the night shift and doubled as shift "manager".
I'm glad to see the one in DC has different prices for SUVs versus standard cars. Since in the fully automated system you only need a space 5 ft high for a standard car, and with a smaller wheel base. The pricing should in large part be based on the cubic footage the car takes up when parked.
All-in-all, the whole system reminds me of those sites that store paper archives. You give them a box identifier and a robotic forklift seeks out the proper aisle, row, and shelf, and retrieves the box. Finally modern logistics principals are being applied to parking.
The Annapolis Tidal Power station at the mouth of the Annapolis river in Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy has been running (and providing power to Nova Scotia Power's grid) since the mid '80s. (this PDF of a magazine article provides more info.)
While considered a "pilot" operation, it does generate 20 MW of power, supplying the electrical needs for 4500 customers.
And I don't think its mere coincidence that Google is launching this at the same time Yahoo is launching a competitor to Google's Froogle service.
can't the 5500 be had new for about $240?
Yeah, about that. But It's been discontinued - I think.
Or, are they planning on introducing something "more powerful" for $300?
Well, currently they have the 5700, but that is going for $500 list and $439 on Amazon.
I presume the Royal PDA will be more in that range as far as specs.
The ability to dial a "real" telephone is exactly what I'm waiting for.
I think a P2P system would be ideal for this. I see the technology working by having a directory of "servers" that have broadband connections and voice-capable modems. People could call into these by phone and then the broadband connection would link them to a server which is within local calling distance of party you're calling. That distant server then makes a POTS call to the receiving party and the connection is established.
I wouldn't make the system "free", instead I'd make it credit based where running a server earned you credits (even without calls being made) and calls made through your server earned you bonus credits. Users without broadband (or no POTS phone service) could buy credits from the "company". Additional credits would be earned/needed for calls made in or to countries where there are per minute charges even for local calls.
That brings me to another idea I have, which is a system to connect the POTS phones in your own house to your mobile phone by a simple docking cradle that you drop your mobile phone into whenever you are at home. It would let you make all your calls through your mobile but using any wired or wireless handset currently in your house. You just subscribe to an unlimited minutes mobile plan and you could drop your POTS service - without giving up the convenience of your POTS phones.
Anyone interested in making this a reality contact me through my Journal here.
I wonder if SCO intends all this publicity and open source community reply to do their work for them.
Ironically that would be the true open source solution to the issue.
But my biggest concern is that at 7.5 cents per line of alleged copyright violation, even if the community ultimately ID's 100 lines of code inadvertantly included in Linux, it could mean SCO seeking $7.50 per license, and with the current copyright law they could then go after significant penalties and legal costs far in excess of that - even after the offending code is replaced.