The Microclient Jr. is advertised specifically as running with complete driver support on Puppy Linux, and does so directly from a 128Mbyte CF card plugging into the computer's built in CF socket.
That fact was the decider when I bought one... though from experimentation it looks like Win98 is faster. The Puppy works directly without messing about at all though.
See the $120 (1 off) tiny PC at http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html and make the CPU a VIA Eden 1.2GHz, the GPU/subsystem a VIA CX700M with MPEG2/4 hardware decode, USB2... and you have a desktop replacement that is fanless because it draws under 20W total with HDD.
It's called Microclient Sr., and announced at CES this week.
If you want onboard DVD/CD player/burner, there are other versions that are bigger to accommodate a slimline DVD.
I have a Microclient Jr., and it is acceptable with XP and zippy with Win98 - not bad for 200MHz and 8W!
Give it a couple of years, and desktop cases will be just for the gamers and people needing a lot of cards of storage.
However, buying a name-brand PC, people who don't want to buy Windows are still Microsoft customers. Microsoft can therefore choose to violate your Rule 1 if they wish. The US cellphone and high speed ISP markets are similar.
To your very nicely put explanation that the customer normally thinks something they have done wrong or have misunderstood is the manufacturer's fault, let me offer my two rules of customer service:
Rule 1. The customer is always wrong. Rule 2. Never even hint this to the customer.
1. The data can't be corrected by the 'suspect' 2. The data is subject to abuse, partly because it will be so easy to access. Many people can be cowed into opening up when the interrogator shows a little unexpected history on a person, because many people feel guilty about something. For example, "Does your wife know you surf porn channels?" would open up a lot of men... 3. Law enforcement tend to regard legitimate individual political protests as quasi-illegal, un-American activity, and so any personal protest activity monitored by FBI would count against you. It's only called lobbying if you are paid to do it. 4. The data will passed to companies and other countries, treated as accurate, and used against you. This is not a forecast; it's in the plan already. So you won't get that job because your potential boss thinks you are a Democrat...
Yeah, you know how to install an OS, ignore phishers, and you won't execute a virus or rootkit. So you're in a few percent of the internet 'consumers'.
I wish he'd mentioned emails, too. Here's the lecture: Don't ever put something in an email that you wouldn't want everyone to read.
Here's the more subtle lecture: Always send to your personal email account any work email involving you that you might want a copy of later for legal reasons... and if it's for very legal reasons, cc your personal email account when communicating to HR or Legal at work...
"A 44.1Khz sampling rate perfectly records a 22.05Khz signal, 48 Khz does 24Khz, etc."
Er, no. Two samples per period of a waveform is nowhere near perfect. The 2:1 ratio rule between sampling and f(max) is an aliasing issue, not a quality one.
Interesting... presumably the owner is told about this feature, so even if the owner doesn't like it and can't turn it off, there's full disclosure. However if one buys a phone full price, and it phones home secretly - in the absence of legislation forcing the behaviour, it's lawsuit time.
When the phone is genuinely off, it is not listening to base station and so cannot be turned on by it. However, the phone could be designed so that the base station can tell it not to turn off, but pretend to be off. This is practical engineering wise because if every phone was turning itself on and checking in for command to go into surveillance mode, the phone-off life would drop noticeably. However all phone designers would know this, and the info would have leaked by now.
Do you have any evidence (articles etc) about your assertion re Irish network?
Actually when you take out a new phone number, you can state what you want in the phone book. Sensible to just put initial(s) and surname, not address, unless you have a very common handle. If your name is Fred Artichoke Smith you could have just FAS next to your number. The telcos generally charge for you not to be lisetd at all, but most people don't realise there is flexibility in the entry too.
I show my EU driving license in USA whenever asked for ID, when renting cars, everything except police stop when driving. Had no trouble except registering at a hotel in Vegas, which got upset and wanted to see my passport. I said I don't carry it with me. A bit of whining later, I was in. I am curious to know whether it is Gov, IR, or the casinos that demand the data.
I disagree with your statement that people don't buy music that they download. I argue that people learn which music they like buy sampling it (taping in my generation) at an age they can't afford much... and buy it later when they can. Most of my music collection is CDs of stuff I have LPs and infringing tapes of.
For music, you have to hear it to like it. I've bought many a book on the basis of the title alone - never for music.
Replace "lawyer" with "virus protection s/w provider" and "legal advice" with "updates" and it reads well. Also "garage" and "servicing".
There seems to be a presumption of dishonesty against lawyers, which is foolish. Like any service, the consumer needs to have a reasonable technical knowledge about the service being provided to be in a position to manager the provison without being taken for a ride.
The media companies are not Microsoft's customer. The end users - customers - of Vista surely want to play HD content where possible, so Microsoft is deliberately acting not in their customer's interest but in a third party's interest. So your FSF argument is a strawman.
Yeah, lable me a tin foil hat person, but I'm going to hold out as long as I can - no EZPass, no customer loyalty cards, a new non-RFID passport, etc., etc. I may go down, but not without some degree of a fight.
I have had no problem getting customer loyalty cards without handing out any personal info. I get the card and form at the checkout, say I'll fill it in later, and never do. No one has complained yet...
Lots of tech jobs in metro Phoenix - Tempe, Chandler holding Intel, On Semi, Microchip, and Freescale. Gilbert, Scottsdale are in the top 10 list. Yes, it's too hot in the summer, but weather is great for 7 months and the dust is more of a problem to me ( a LOT of building). Move north or east of of Phoenix valley and temperatures drop 20F. If you like the outdoors (mountain biking, motor boating, hiking, golfing) you will be surprised - and get used to doing the above starting 6AM at the weekends in summer to catch the cool.
Can't get enough software or hardware engineers here - I work for one of the above!
If you think cars are bad, read ahref=http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdfre l=url2html-5078http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelo cks.pdf> for article entitled Safecracking for the computer scientist. The scary bit is that the highest UL rating for a mechanical safe lock delays the intruder by an hour!
Per licence in OP, "The foregoing license granted by you terminates once you remove or delete a User Submission from the YouTube Website.". So a user just has to remove the material to retract the license...
In one of them you don't get access to the judicial system at all if the government decides, without any oversight, accountability, or direct evidence, that you are a Bad Person and you are simply locked up somewhere and left to rot.
From your link, I believe he did not surveil a "private place".
"Violation of privacy
It is a misdemeanor to unlawfully install or use "any device for observing, photographing, recording, amplifying or broadcasting sounds or events" in a private place without the consent of the persons entitled to privacy there. It is also a misdemeanor to install or use outside a private place any device for hearing, recording, amplifying or broadcasting sounds originating in such a place that would not ordinarily be audible or comprehensible outside. A "private place" means a place where one may reasonably expect to be safe from surveillance but does not include a place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access."
Hmm. If you read my OP carefully, I was actually insulting marketers on one hand, and making a joke on the other because self-respecting hardware design engineer would consider going into marketing.
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The Microclient Jr. is advertised specifically as running with complete driver support on Puppy Linux, and does so directly from a 128Mbyte CF card plugging into the computer's built in CF socket.
That fact was the decider when I bought one... though from experimentation it looks like Win98 is faster. The Puppy works directly without messing about at all though.
True for yahoo.com accounts. You can use POP with UK yahoo.co.uk accounts. http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk& .done=http://uk.yahoo.com/
That's what I use for my disposable ones... and if POP becomes billable, they get disposed of.
See the $120 (1 off) tiny PC at http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html and make the CPU a VIA Eden 1.2GHz, the GPU/subsystem a VIA CX700M with MPEG2/4 hardware decode, USB2... and you have a desktop replacement that is fanless because it draws under 20W total with HDD.
It's called Microclient Sr., and announced at CES this week.
If you want onboard DVD/CD player/burner, there are other versions that are bigger to accommodate a slimline DVD.
I have a Microclient Jr., and it is acceptable with XP and zippy with Win98 - not bad for 200MHz and 8W!
Give it a couple of years, and desktop cases will be just for the gamers and people needing a lot of cards of storage.
Agreed.
However, buying a name-brand PC, people who don't want to buy Windows are still Microsoft customers. Microsoft can therefore choose to violate your Rule 1 if they wish. The US cellphone and high speed ISP markets are similar.
To your very nicely put explanation that the customer normally thinks something they have done wrong or have misunderstood is the manufacturer's fault, let me offer my two rules of customer service:
Rule 1. The customer is always wrong.
Rule 2. Never even hint this to the customer.
1. The data can't be corrected by the 'suspect'
2. The data is subject to abuse, partly because it will be so easy to access. Many people can be cowed into opening up when the interrogator shows a little unexpected history on a person, because many people feel guilty about something. For example, "Does your wife know you surf porn channels?" would open up a lot of men...
3. Law enforcement tend to regard legitimate individual political protests as quasi-illegal, un-American activity, and so any personal protest activity monitored by FBI would count against you. It's only called lobbying if you are paid to do it.
4. The data will passed to companies and other countries, treated as accurate, and used against you. This is not a forecast; it's in the plan already. So you won't get that job because your potential boss thinks you are a Democrat...
Firefly-san, you may be right...
Yeah, you know how to install an OS, ignore phishers, and you won't execute a virus or rootkit. So you're in a few percent of the internet 'consumers'.
I wish he'd mentioned emails, too. Here's the lecture: Don't ever put something in an email that you wouldn't want everyone to read.
Here's the more subtle lecture: Always send to your personal email account any work email involving you that you might want a copy of later for legal reasons... and if it's for very legal reasons, cc your personal email account when communicating to HR or Legal at work...
Not all of Generation M can synthesize the loads of information they're accessing, educators say.
Even the complainant can't use tech words correctly. One suitable word would be assimilate.
Yeah, I know I'm a pedant, but educators should know which word to pick...
"A 44.1Khz sampling rate perfectly records a 22.05Khz signal, 48 Khz does 24Khz, etc."
Er, no. Two samples per period of a waveform is nowhere near perfect. The 2:1 ratio rule between sampling and f(max) is an aliasing issue, not a quality one.
Interesting... presumably the owner is told about this feature, so even if the owner doesn't like it and can't turn it off, there's full disclosure. However if one buys a phone full price, and it phones home secretly - in the absence of legislation forcing the behaviour, it's lawsuit time.
When the phone is genuinely off, it is not listening to base station and so cannot be turned on by it. However, the phone could be designed so that the base station can tell it not to turn off, but pretend to be off. This is practical engineering wise because if every phone was turning itself on and checking in for command to go into surveillance mode, the phone-off life would drop noticeably. However all phone designers would know this, and the info would have leaked by now.
Do you have any evidence (articles etc) about your assertion re Irish network?
Actually when you take out a new phone number, you can state what you want in the phone book. Sensible to just put initial(s) and surname, not address, unless you have a very common handle. If your name is Fred Artichoke Smith you could have just FAS next to your number. The telcos generally charge for you not to be lisetd at all, but most people don't realise there is flexibility in the entry too.
I show my EU driving license in USA whenever asked for ID, when renting cars, everything except police stop when driving. Had no trouble except registering at a hotel in Vegas, which got upset and wanted to see my passport. I said I don't carry it with me. A bit of whining later, I was in. I am curious to know whether it is Gov, IR, or the casinos that demand the data.
I disagree with your statement that people don't buy music that they download. I argue that people learn which music they like buy sampling it (taping in my generation) at an age they can't afford much... and buy it later when they can. Most of my music collection is CDs of stuff I have LPs and infringing tapes of.
For music, you have to hear it to like it. I've bought many a book on the basis of the title alone - never for music.
Replace "lawyer" with "virus protection s/w provider" and "legal advice" with "updates" and it reads well. Also "garage" and "servicing".
There seems to be a presumption of dishonesty against lawyers, which is foolish. Like any service, the consumer needs to have a reasonable technical knowledge about the service being provided to be in a position to manager the provison without being taken for a ride.
You can't leave it hanging!
The media companies are not Microsoft's customer. The end users - customers - of Vista surely want to play HD content where possible, so Microsoft is deliberately acting not in their customer's interest but in a third party's interest. So your FSF argument is a strawman.
Yeah, lable me a tin foil hat person, but I'm going to hold out as long as I can - no EZPass, no customer loyalty cards, a new non-RFID passport, etc., etc. I may go down, but not without some degree of a fight.
I have had no problem getting customer loyalty cards without handing out any personal info. I get the card and form at the checkout, say I'll fill it in later, and never do. No one has complained yet...
Lots of tech jobs in metro Phoenix - Tempe, Chandler holding Intel, On Semi, Microchip, and Freescale. Gilbert, Scottsdale are in the top 10 list. Yes, it's too hot in the summer, but weather is great for 7 months and the dust is more of a problem to me ( a LOT of building). Move north or east of of Phoenix valley and temperatures drop 20F. If you like the outdoors (mountain biking, motor boating, hiking, golfing) you will be surprised - and get used to doing the above starting 6AM at the weekends in summer to catch the cool.
Can't get enough software or hardware engineers here - I work for one of the above!
If you think cars are bad, read ahref=http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdfre l=url2html-5078http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelo cks.pdf> for article entitled Safecracking for the computer scientist. The scary bit is that the highest UL rating for a mechanical safe lock delays the intruder by an hour!
Per licence in OP, "The foregoing license granted by you terminates once you remove or delete a User Submission from the YouTube Website.". So a user just has to remove the material to retract the license...
Too true.
In one of them you don't get access to the judicial system at all if the government decides, without any oversight, accountability, or direct evidence, that you are a Bad Person and you are simply locked up somewhere and left to rot.
From your link, I believe he did not surveil a "private place".
"Violation of privacy
It is a misdemeanor to unlawfully install or use "any device for observing, photographing, recording, amplifying or broadcasting sounds or events" in a private place without the consent of the persons entitled to privacy there. It is also a misdemeanor to install or use outside a private place any device for hearing, recording, amplifying or broadcasting sounds originating in such a place that would not ordinarily be audible or comprehensible outside. A "private place" means a place where one may reasonably expect to be safe from surveillance but does not include a place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access."
Hmm. If you read my OP carefully, I was actually insulting marketers on one hand, and making a joke on the other because self-respecting hardware design engineer would consider going into marketing.