I would like to point out that there is nothing in the DMCA that prevents you from continuing to persue the occupation you desire. You were interested in becoming a lawyer weren't you?
Considering that Linux runs on a heck of a lot of Laptops, and Most of those have LCD screens, I think your facts are out of wack.
There may be issues with some DVI video cards and LCD screen combinations. What those combinations are I do not know. However I suspect that those issues will be resolved presently.
-Rusty
Just remember, a technology that...
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... costs five times as much as another technology can sell 1/5th the volume of the other, and still have the same revenue.
Personally I will be a lot more impressed when the volume of sales of CRTs is less than the volume of sales of LCD screens at the same or higher resolution.
Considering a 15" LCD is visually compariable to a 17" CRT, and I have seen pricing along the lines of $500 for 15" LCDs and $99 for 17" CRTs, I don't really expect the crossover to happen this year.
What you are looking for is a built-in Digital Encoder, as the signal from your sat receiver will be analog.
The integrated pvr/sat receiver system uses a digital receiver (actually two) that processes the digital stream, and stores it decoded-re-encoded on the hard drive, then uses a single decoder to display the stream to your TV.
There are also HDTV capable receivers, which will use a system similar to the sat receiver systems to store the digital stream from your local TV stations if that is available.
Go check the statistic for yourself, but DishPVR has a larger customer base than TiVo at this time.
Microsoft discontinued their side of the UltimateTV product line and sold the ongoing support to DirecTV.
TiVo is more widely known because they have been friendly to their customers, and have not fought customers that are interested in seeing what more they can do with the TiVo products, so long as theft of service is not an issue.
TiVo has also been reasonably sensible wrt usability and features when it comes to protecting the broadcasters. The 30 second skip is not advertized as a feature, and is not documented in the product literature. It is not a blank seaker, which is more accurately what Replay did, so you do have to fiddle around looking for the end of the commercials, though it is not as bad as watching 20 30 second comercials every 5 min of programming.
Then again, that's my opinion. You have fun with your own.
2) Flash? it's solid state, and no moving parts, but the write speed SUCKS for real data sizes. Also, the density just isn't there. IIRC flash cards top out at 512 mb now.
While I won't argue about write speed, Flash in cf format is becoming available in capacities of 4 Gig, see story at C|Net. Doing ide raid with this would cover much of the speed barrier by distributing writes across many cards. It would also increase capacity.
How much data is going to be captured anyway. If it is a stream of values for several sensors sampled at 8khz, is doubtful to exceed the write speed of the current types of flash.
At the same time we are looking at hardware that is decades old....
WiFi drivers are built in, just about any CF based 802.11b card should work.
Bluetooth drivers can be installed from one of the Zaurus Zone Feed. I know that there are at least two sets of drivers. What addapters are available for bluetooth I have less knowledge about. i.e. I do not know if the drivers work well with the Palm SD/MMC bluetooth adapter or not.
Considering that the Agenda PDA does run X, on a 66 mhz cpu with 8 to 16 Meg of memory, I don' think they are saying it can not run X. OpenZaurus itself is running X as well.
The question is really to what advantage does running X on this platform provide. Do those advantages outweigh the battery and performance improvements that running a different windowing system would provide.
Personally I don't think that the choice was particularly bad. Palm chose their own UI, the UI in PocketPC/WinCE is different from WinNT. Granted, in both cases the underlying OS also is significantly different.
I won't make any claims as to it being a perfect solution, but there is a CF slot camera available for the Z. With only one CF slot avaiable however you won't get both 802.11b and the camera. One alternative would be to get a bluetooth SD card at which point you could use both the camera and a blutooth connection (perhaps to another Z with both a bluetooth and 802.11b adapter?)
The camera is somewhat limited however, I believe it is a 640x480 resolution camera. That may be enough for web work, but I wouldn't recomend it for other tasks.
My Z recongized the SMC CF 802.11b card with no problem. Runs fine at 11mbps. I was expecting problems as my two PCMCIA cards have had spotty support until recently.
Those are just my observations however. I have chosen not to get either the camera or the bluetooth adapters, so I can not give you test results.
If you want, you can make a battery pack from off the shelf parts at RadioShack. You will need to decide if you want AAA, AA, C, or even D cell batteries. Obviously there are advantages to each. As well as disadvantages.
The Power connector in the bottom of the Z is a "B" connector. (Take your Z in, try the plug in their test bundle to confirm for yourself.)
Get a battery pack for either three or four batteries. The Z operates at 4 volts, and charges at 5. 3 NiCad come to 3.6 volts, so you may prefer four batteries if you want to use these. 3 NiMhs come to 4.2 volts, which is enough to provide temporary power. 3 Alcaline or rAlcaline come to 4.5 volts which is enough to kick in the charging circuitry on my Z.
The primary problem with a home made external batt pack is that it is easy to get complacent and forget that you do still need to swap out the batteries from time to time. I built mine with two AAA packs in parallel. With my WiFi card in place, running Kismet I get about three hours life. Without the WiFi I have seen it up and running for 6 hours with backlight on. One thing I would do differently next time is make the battery packs switch toggled, using either pack, but not both. This may reduce run time, but would give me the option of effectively hot swapping the batteries from either pack.
Both battery packs are epoxied onto a sheet of plexiglass with a neopreen back to keep from scratching the back of the Z too badly. I then use a couple of elastic bands to hold things together, though there is a threaded hole in the back of the Z that with proper planning I could have used. (and will next time.)
To carry mine around I generally use a belt pouch I picked up at Home Depot. It's flexible enough that as I add and remove my wifi, battery pack, etc, the pouch closes fine. It's also ridgid enough that I carry it horizontally on my belt, opening at the front. With the battery pack hanging on the pda, and the wifi card installed, I put the Z in WiFi card firs, and the power connector protrudes just enough that the flap won't close over it, but will under it.
I understand that there are comercial battery packs available to provide the same functionality. My parts cost less than $10, as the plexiglass and neoprene tape were scraps from other projects.
Oh, one last thing, remember on the Z, center is positive (+).
Depends upon the cost of maintaining the copyright.
As a suggestion, an original copyright will last no more than 10 years. If the original copyright holder feels a need to renew the copyright, he must do so before the end of the 10th year. He may renew for no more than 5 years at a time, with renewals happening within the last year.
The cost of the original copyright is the production of the work. The cost of renewals is 10 cents per megabyte of text, image or minute of music, and 1 dollar per minute of motion picture.
Works may be retained in a corporate copyright contract, however corporations are going to be interested in reducing their costs over time, so one of three things will happen. The corporation will recognize that the copyright is still earning them money, and renew the copyright, they will see no return on the copyright and will let it lapse, the company will go bust and the copyricht will lapse.
Personally I do not believe that a copyright should be handed down to heirs. The work will remain under the copyright that the creator maintaines, and the family or other heirs may benifit from that copyright, however they may not renew the copyright.
Any work for which the copyright has lapsed may not be put back into copyright.
Might be kind of tough to keep under wraps. One of the things that has to be done to confirm a "hit" is that someone other than your team has to be able to replicate your results.
With the way that Seti@home works, that confirmation would effectively require that someone who has agreeded to interupt whatever radio astronomy project they happen to be working on, and happens to be pointing at the right area of the sky, to do that and do what they can to check that star.
Part of the problem is that about all Seti@home can do is identify that there may be a signal there. It is not designed to collect or analyze content.
The "results" so far provide a list of stars that have a higher probability of being a signal source.
Really? I wasn't aware that natives in the amazon jungle, Sherpas in the Himalayas, or any hundreds of non-tech gropus in hundreds of locations throughout the world were "required" to have 'IDs'.
Arguably the myrad of wars that we are seeing today are part of the result of the social collapse that has been happening.
Most of the "IDs" that are in existance have not been around for "hundreds" of years. In fact most "IDs" from more than 75 years ago were actually affiliation marks, rather than unique IDs.
I also am looking forward to spIce-travel, though I would rather see useful spAce-travel. Initially that also would require unique ID's, however low tech collonies very well may not require such, being more concerned with whether the next harvest will support the children bourn this season.
"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about spce travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
Other useful quotes at http://www.musespace.com/musings/quotes/lazaruslon g.html
Sorry, I think of spammers as more along the lines of someone injecting low concentrations of poison into the bloodstream. An individual cell in the body is unlikely to be directly impacted, but the body as a whole losses something with each shot.
White blood cells may be very good at dealing with Viruses and bacterial infections, but are going to be less usefull in dealing with deliberate poisoning.
Thick skin, better prevention, and increasing tollerance to the poison seems to be the only way to deal with the issue. Treating the person doing the injecting as a criminal seems legitimate to me.
While my experience is not perfect with it, Beta3 and RC1 recognized my Wacom Graphire2 tablet, including the wheel mouse component. The imperfection of it relates to the fact that positioning is treated as a combination of relative and absolute. As you place the pen or mouse on the tablet, it is positioned absolutely. Once you start moving it, it is relative, and apparently not mapped nicely to the movement of the mouse pointer on the screen.
The installer did recognize a usb mouse, including the wheel, but would not recognize a USB Keyboard, even though I did try teling the bios to tell whatever OS was running on top that the USB Keyboard was a PS2 keyboard. The Installer apparently recognized that it was not a PS2 (or older) keyboard, and didn't know what to do with it. After the install, the keyboard does work in the running OS. I can live with a PS2 keyboard during the install for now, but I would prefer that the USB keyboard work during the install.
Those are just my experiences. Others may be different.
When the distribution updates the network software, it is not unusual to break something that was a kludge to begin with. Just because something works in an earlier distribution does not mean that it was working the way it should. An example is Intersil varients of 802.11b nics. My experience with this was that I could get my Speedstream or D-Link cards to work in 8.0, though for some reason it was only running at 802.11 speeds of 2mbps. 9.0 broke my D-Link card, but I was able to get the SpeedStream card to work, and it actually worked at 11mbps.
The 9.2Beta2 would not recognize my D-Link card, and since I was building a new system I had to temporarily string cat5 to get the system on the network. (built in ethernet on the motherboard) After I downloaded and burned the ISO's for RC1 I decided that for SNG to put the D-Link card in while installing RC1. I was tremendously happy to see the installer recognize both interfaces and was happily ripping out the now un-needed cat5 that very night.
The installer is not perfect. At one point I selected an app to install, and had to go through a dozen of the same dialog messages letting me know that it had to install something else as well.
Yes, RC means it is out of the Beta stage. That does not mean that _all_ functions _will_ work. It means we have a strong belief that using this software will not cause your printer to burst into flames, your supported hardware should be working (but may not) and you can probably get productive work done on your computer with this software. You still may run into problems, and we (Mandrake developers) want to know about them to get those problems resolved. We believe that it is ready to be released, but having been bitten before by releases that ended up being buggy, we want to have some people check things out for us ahead of time.
The primary reason that weather baloons are used is not to collect the high altitude information, it is to collect information about the weather at all altitudes that it passes through.
Dopler radar tends to work best when there is liquid water in the air, as it uses the reflection from those droplets to determine whether the air is moving that water toward or away from the receiver. It works across a cone, and can not tell if the signal it is receiving is coming from water in the air 100 feet above you, or 10,000 feet above someone closer to the antena than you are, or 5,000 feet up on a line perpendicular to the line between you and the antena a bit closer to you. than the 10,000 foot reading.
NexGen radar is a bit better about positioning, but even it needs liquid water to reflect off of, so cold dry air is harder to measure than warm moist air.
I suspect that weather baloons will continue to be part of the weather monitoring system for several more decades.
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I would like to point out that there is nothing in the DMCA that prevents you from continuing to persue the occupation you desire. You were interested in becoming a lawyer weren't you?
I have heard about DOOM, Great game, used to play it all the time in the 90s. You seem to know something about this GLOOM game, can you tell us more?
-Rusty
Considering that Linux runs on a heck of a lot of Laptops, and Most of those have LCD screens, I think your facts are out of wack.
There may be issues with some DVI video cards and LCD screen combinations. What those combinations are I do not know. However I suspect that those issues will be resolved presently.
-Rusty
... costs five times as much as another technology can sell 1/5th the volume of the other, and still have the same revenue.
Personally I will be a lot more impressed when the volume of sales of CRTs is less than the volume of sales of LCD screens at the same or higher resolution.
Considering a 15" LCD is visually compariable to a 17" CRT, and I have seen pricing along the lines of $500 for 15" LCDs and $99 for 17" CRTs, I don't really expect the crossover to happen this year.
-Rusty
Then get any of the TiVo SA products.
What you are looking for is a built-in Digital Encoder, as the signal from your sat receiver will be analog.
The integrated pvr/sat receiver system uses a digital receiver (actually two) that processes the digital stream, and stores it decoded-re-encoded on the hard drive, then uses a single decoder to display the stream to your TV.
There are also HDTV capable receivers, which will use a system similar to the sat receiver systems to store the digital stream from your local TV stations if that is available.
Enjoy.
-Rusty
Go check the statistic for yourself, but DishPVR has a larger customer base than TiVo at this time.
Microsoft discontinued their side of the UltimateTV product line and sold the ongoing support to DirecTV.
TiVo is more widely known because they have been friendly to their customers, and have not fought customers that are interested in seeing what more they can do with the TiVo products, so long as theft of service is not an issue.
TiVo has also been reasonably sensible wrt usability and features when it comes to protecting the broadcasters. The 30 second skip is not advertized as a feature, and is not documented in the product literature. It is not a blank seaker, which is more accurately what Replay did, so you do have to fiddle around looking for the end of the commercials, though it is not as bad as watching 20 30 second comercials every 5 min of programming.
Then again, that's my opinion. You have fun with your own.
-Rusty
-Rusty
2) Flash? it's solid state, and no moving parts, but the write speed SUCKS for real data sizes. Also, the density just isn't there. IIRC flash cards top out at 512 mb now.
While I won't argue about write speed, Flash in cf format is becoming available in capacities of 4 Gig, see story at C|Net. Doing ide raid with this would cover much of the speed barrier by distributing writes across many cards. It would also increase capacity.
How much data is going to be captured anyway. If it is a stream of values for several sensors sampled at 8khz, is doubtful to exceed the write speed of the current types of flash.
At the same time we are looking at hardware that is decades old....
-Rusty
WiFi drivers are built in, just about any CF based 802.11b card should work.
Bluetooth drivers can be installed from one of the Zaurus Zone Feed. I know that there are at least two sets of drivers. What addapters are available for bluetooth I have less knowledge about. i.e. I do not know if the drivers work well with the Palm SD/MMC bluetooth adapter or not.
-Rusty
Considering that the Agenda PDA does run X, on a 66 mhz cpu with 8 to 16 Meg of memory, I don' think they are saying it can not run X. OpenZaurus itself is running X as well.
The question is really to what advantage does running X on this platform provide. Do those advantages outweigh the battery and performance improvements that running a different windowing system would provide.
Personally I don't think that the choice was particularly bad. Palm chose their own UI, the UI in PocketPC/WinCE is different from WinNT. Granted, in both cases the underlying OS also is significantly different.
-Rusty
I won't make any claims as to it being a perfect solution, but there is a CF slot camera available for the Z. With only one CF slot avaiable however you won't get both 802.11b and the camera. One alternative would be to get a bluetooth SD card at which point you could use both the camera and a blutooth connection (perhaps to another Z with both a bluetooth and 802.11b adapter?)
The camera is somewhat limited however, I believe it is a 640x480 resolution camera. That may be enough for web work, but I wouldn't recomend it for other tasks.
My Z recongized the SMC CF 802.11b card with no problem. Runs fine at 11mbps. I was expecting problems as my two PCMCIA cards have had spotty support until recently.
Those are just my observations however. I have chosen not to get either the camera or the bluetooth adapters, so I can not give you test results.
-Rusty
Battery life help...
If you want, you can make a battery pack from off the shelf parts at RadioShack. You will need to decide if you want AAA, AA, C, or even D cell batteries. Obviously there are advantages to each. As well as disadvantages.
The Power connector in the bottom of the Z is a "B" connector. (Take your Z in, try the plug in their test bundle to confirm for yourself.)
Get a battery pack for either three or four batteries. The Z operates at 4 volts, and charges at 5. 3 NiCad come to 3.6 volts, so you may prefer four batteries if you want to use these. 3 NiMhs come to 4.2 volts, which is enough to provide temporary power. 3 Alcaline or rAlcaline come to 4.5 volts which is enough to kick in the charging circuitry on my Z.
The primary problem with a home made external batt pack is that it is easy to get complacent and forget that you do still need to swap out the batteries from time to time. I built mine with two AAA packs in parallel. With my WiFi card in place, running Kismet I get about three hours life. Without the WiFi I have seen it up and running for 6 hours with backlight on. One thing I would do differently next time is make the battery packs switch toggled, using either pack, but not both. This may reduce run time, but would give me the option of effectively hot swapping the batteries from either pack.
Both battery packs are epoxied onto a sheet of plexiglass with a neopreen back to keep from scratching the back of the Z too badly. I then use a couple of elastic bands to hold things together, though there is a threaded hole in the back of the Z that with proper planning I could have used. (and will next time.)
To carry mine around I generally use a belt pouch I picked up at Home Depot. It's flexible enough that as I add and remove my wifi, battery pack, etc, the pouch closes fine. It's also ridgid enough that I carry it horizontally on my belt, opening at the front. With the battery pack hanging on the pda, and the wifi card installed, I put the Z in WiFi card firs, and the power connector protrudes just enough that the flap won't close over it, but will under it.
I understand that there are comercial battery packs available to provide the same functionality. My parts cost less than $10, as the plexiglass and neoprene tape were scraps from other projects.
Oh, one last thing, remember on the Z, center is positive (+).
-Rusty
Depends upon the cost of maintaining the copyright.
As a suggestion, an original copyright will last no more than 10 years. If the original copyright holder feels a need to renew the copyright, he must do so before the end of the 10th year. He may renew for no more than 5 years at a time, with renewals happening within the last year.
The cost of the original copyright is the production of the work. The cost of renewals is 10 cents per megabyte of text, image or minute of music, and 1 dollar per minute of motion picture.
Works may be retained in a corporate copyright contract, however corporations are going to be interested in reducing their costs over time, so one of three things will happen. The corporation will recognize that the copyright is still earning them money, and renew the copyright, they will see no return on the copyright and will let it lapse, the company will go bust and the copyricht will lapse.
Personally I do not believe that a copyright should be handed down to heirs. The work will remain under the copyright that the creator maintaines, and the family or other heirs may benifit from that copyright, however they may not renew the copyright.
Any work for which the copyright has lapsed may not be put back into copyright.
That's just my opinion.
-Rusty
Might be kind of tough to keep under wraps. One of the things that has to be done to confirm a "hit" is that someone other than your team has to be able to replicate your results.
With the way that Seti@home works, that confirmation would effectively require that someone who has agreeded to interupt whatever radio astronomy project they happen to be working on, and happens to be pointing at the right area of the sky, to do that and do what they can to check that star.
Part of the problem is that about all Seti@home can do is identify that there may be a signal there. It is not designed to collect or analyze content.
The "results" so far provide a list of stars that have a higher probability of being a signal source.
-Rusty
Actually, I just have a really bad sense of humor.
Really? I wasn't aware that natives in the amazon jungle, Sherpas in the Himalayas, or any hundreds of non-tech gropus in hundreds of locations throughout the world were "required" to have 'IDs'.
Arguably the myrad of wars that we are seeing today are part of the result of the social collapse that has been happening.
Most of the "IDs" that are in existance have not been around for "hundreds" of years. In fact most "IDs" from more than 75 years ago were actually affiliation marks, rather than unique IDs.
I also am looking forward to spIce-travel, though I would rather see useful spAce-travel. Initially that also would require unique ID's, however low tech collonies very well may not require such, being more concerned with whether the next harvest will support the children bourn this season.
-Rusty
As Heinlein pointed out through Lazarus Long,
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"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about spce travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
Other useful quotes at http://www.musespace.com/musings/quotes/lazaruslo
Doesn't this presume that there are four hours of quality DVD movies?
Sorry, I think of spammers as more along the lines of someone injecting low concentrations of poison into the bloodstream. An individual cell in the body is unlikely to be directly impacted, but the body as a whole losses something with each shot.
White blood cells may be very good at dealing with Viruses and bacterial infections, but are going to be less usefull in dealing with deliberate poisoning.
Thick skin, better prevention, and increasing tollerance to the poison seems to be the only way to deal with the issue. Treating the person doing the injecting as a criminal seems legitimate to me.
Then again I may be wrong.
-Rusty
shouldn't that be:
10 ? "HELLO WORLD"
-Rusty
As with many programers, the management system starts looking for a ten year old when you get to 30. Thus no profit at 40.
-Rusty
While my experience is not perfect with it, Beta3 and RC1 recognized my Wacom Graphire2 tablet, including the wheel mouse component. The imperfection of it relates to the fact that positioning is treated as a combination of relative and absolute. As you place the pen or mouse on the tablet, it is positioned absolutely. Once you start moving it, it is relative, and apparently not mapped nicely to the movement of the mouse pointer on the screen.
The installer did recognize a usb mouse, including the wheel, but would not recognize a USB Keyboard, even though I did try teling the bios to tell whatever OS was running on top that the USB Keyboard was a PS2 keyboard. The Installer apparently recognized that it was not a PS2 (or older) keyboard, and didn't know what to do with it. After the install, the keyboard does work in the running OS. I can live with a PS2 keyboard during the install for now, but I would prefer that the USB keyboard work during the install.
Those are just my experiences. Others may be different.
-Rusty
When the distribution updates the network software, it is not unusual to break something that was a kludge to begin with. Just because something works in an earlier distribution does not mean that it was working the way it should. An example is Intersil varients of 802.11b nics. My experience with this was that I could get my Speedstream or D-Link cards to work in 8.0, though for some reason it was only running at 802.11 speeds of 2mbps. 9.0 broke my D-Link card, but I was able to get the SpeedStream card to work, and it actually worked at 11mbps.
The 9.2Beta2 would not recognize my D-Link card, and since I was building a new system I had to temporarily string cat5 to get the system on the network. (built in ethernet on the motherboard) After I downloaded and burned the ISO's for RC1 I decided that for SNG to put the D-Link card in while installing RC1. I was tremendously happy to see the installer recognize both interfaces and was happily ripping out the now un-needed cat5 that very night.
The installer is not perfect. At one point I selected an app to install, and had to go through a dozen of the same dialog messages letting me know that it had to install something else as well.
Yes, RC means it is out of the Beta stage. That does not mean that _all_ functions _will_ work. It means we have a strong belief that using this software will not cause your printer to burst into flames, your supported hardware should be working (but may not) and you can probably get productive work done on your computer with this software. You still may run into problems, and we (Mandrake developers) want to know about them to get those problems resolved. We believe that it is ready to be released, but having been bitten before by releases that ended up being buggy, we want to have some people check things out for us ahead of time.
-Rusty
Are you running DOS again?
-Rusty
The primary reason that weather baloons are used is not to collect the high altitude information, it is to collect information about the weather at all altitudes that it passes through.
Dopler radar tends to work best when there is liquid water in the air, as it uses the reflection from those droplets to determine whether the air is moving that water toward or away from the receiver. It works across a cone, and can not tell if the signal it is receiving is coming from water in the air 100 feet above you, or 10,000 feet above someone closer to the antena than you are, or 5,000 feet up on a line perpendicular to the line between you and the antena a bit closer to you. than the 10,000 foot reading.
NexGen radar is a bit better about positioning, but even it needs liquid water to reflect off of, so cold dry air is harder to measure than warm moist air.
I suspect that weather baloons will continue to be part of the weather monitoring system for several more decades.
-Rusty
Tile, center or stretch, choices choices. Or I could use 8 bit color, or greyscale...
Next, how much would stay the same between minor and major revisions...
-Rusty