I suppose this will be seen as a plug, but so far as I know, the best surge suppressors available are to be had from the brick wall folks. Kind of expensive though, even after quantity discount, but still less expensive than replacing the equipment it protrects.
Then I plug my relatively ordinary UPS into the surge protector.
Somebody seems to be forgetting the definition of "copyright", as in "the right to make copies". To the extent you know that that right belongs to the artist and to those granted permission by the artist, then that is the extent to which you know whether or not you have that permission. "Theft" may be the wrong word for violating permissions, but the activity is still a "violation" that is inappropriate.
On another subject altogether, and referring back to the original Article, what about asking RIAA and MPAA if their attempts to clamp down on P2P is actually a thinly disguised effort to prevent "outside" artists, not controlled by RIAA or MPAA, from distributing their own works? Anti-trust laws need to be applied here!
Here are two keyboards with touchpads built into them, PLUS countours, so you can have MORE than the basic ergonomic feature of the RollerMouse. one two
I prefer touchpads too, EXCEPT for their so-called feature that causes mouse-clicks whenever you touch them too hard. I suspect the non-popularity of touchpads is directly related to how many people don't know that that "feature" can be disabled in the driver/property settings. Too bad this "feature" is enabled by default. If it was disabled by default, then I bet the popularity of touchpads would soar.
It WOULD be interesting to know what aspect of the European Union Constitution lets a minority like some committee claim the power to ignore the requests of the elected representatives.
Can some sort of intragovernmental lawsuit be filed, to put the greedy ones in their place?
JENNINGS: Everybody I talked to seems to, particularly if they are young, seems to think that open sourcing is important and that among the reasons it is important is that it enables them to run more secure systems. Is that true from your point of view?
GATES: Actually no, but that is the kind of competition that we have. Is that they will innovate in that space, we will innovate in our space. And in fact, we do a lot of work to make sure that these things can inter-operate so that a company can have a mix of Microsoft products, Unix products, Mainframe products, and then each time they do a project they can look and say - is the Microsoft solution best? Is the other solution best? And so there will just be a lot of choices there, no one approach is going to replace the other.
(emphasis above added)
" If you visit the download center with IE you get an activex control, but if you try with Firefox, you'll have to download a little program, that returns a code you have to copy into the download page, to get access to the download you selected. By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry
key, this key is... SOFTWARE\Wine\Wine\Config
the wine configuration key. the Windows Genuine Advantage program press release says that in the second half of 2005, all users connecting to the
Microsoft download center or to windows update
will have to validate their copy of windows. Interestingly if you run the validation program on wine, and the version of windows you're emulating is prior to 2000 or is windows server 20003, you get a message saying a validation code
couldn't be found, because of technical difficulties or because you're running an unsupported operating system."
The magazine Popular Science has an article this month about how printing technology is starting to get for making everything from microcircuits to houses.
According to the guy's logic, then this should be illegal too:
Buy an original copy.
Make a copy.
Archive the original
Use the copy until it wears out.
Make another copy from the archived original.
Use that until it wears out.
Etc.
After all, it is pretty well known that the average person cannot make a copy that is as high-quality as the original. (CD-rot seldom happens to originals, just to CDRs, see?). So, if I use the original, and it suffers wear and tear, then how can I be sure that my archived copy is really going to save my bacon when needed? While archiving the original practically guarantees it!
Anyway, if the preceding is illegal, then we need a new law!!!
So, this means that somebody invites all his friends, and they invite all their friends, and so on, and if every invited person joins up, just about everyone will be included after the 6th iteration. How does that differ from the original vast number of blogs to look through?:)
Then why aren't spammers already their own ISP outfits? Obviously if spamming is their business, getting obstructive middlemen out of the way is a priority!
That was the movie "Chain Reaction". I'm not sure the phrase "cold fusion" was used in that movie, but I did get the impression that something like that was what it was about.
It's on-topic, at least. The best answer I know is that if you find a bug in Windows, you have to wait for Microsoft to fix it, but a bug in Linux is one you can fix right away.
I have some experience with an Epson Perfection scanner. The overall Epson program handles both scanning and a printer (Epson of course) so that you can use the two like a copy machine. But relevant to your Question is this: The program presents you with a preview (low resolution) of everything on the scanner bed, and you can select a region for high-res scan. So, if the bandwidth of the low-res preview is OK for your needs, then this might be a way to go.
"Manhandled" meaning men using machines, of course. We already routinely move millions of tons of earth and rock around every year, so doing something about LaPalma (and there's another big fracture on Hawaii waiting to dump into the Pacific) IS possible.
First, we drill hundreds of cores from the surface THROUGH the slippage fault and insert temporary steel beams. This holds ("pins") the overall mass in place.
Second, starting at both side-edges of the loose region, we start removing the beams and digging up the material and dumping it into the sea. (Or, if we trust the "pins" enough, we can use explosives for this part.) Each dump is thus just a tiny tiny landslide, and after enough have been done (after a few years, probably), there will be nothing left to cause a disaster. Yes, a fair part of the work may require underwater equipment. So? Different tasks in different places require different machines. Nothing new there.
First, while the parent to this message is the one out of many is the one to which I am replying, I have read through all the replies and I do thank you all for them.
I would like to address the two major objections here. First, regarding the persistence of vision, I do agree that that could be a problem. However, there is a reasonably simple solution. Just cover the projection-screen with 3 colors of phosphors like inside a CRT, and then replace the 3 lasers with one UV laser.
Second, regarding rotating mirrors, I do think this is not so tough as has been claimed. Let's look at a bit of math: If in a high-quality CRT there are 1000 scan lines at 70 frames per second, then that is 70,000 scanned lines per second or 1/70,000 second per scanned line. If we took a somewhat cylindrical mirror, but it actually has 7 sides (heptagonal instead of circular cross section), and we arrange the optics so that while one rotating facet is reflecting the laser(s), one line is being scanned, then the cylinder needs to rotate at 10,000 revolutions per second to duplicate the CRT. Yes, that IS extreme. But there are ways to rearrange things. What about 700 facets to the cylinder and a rotation of 100 revolutions per second (6,000RPM)? what about using RAM as an intermediary between the video input and the output system, to hold one whole frame, such that can then scan the RAM to multiple lasers to divide the work even more?
The other rotating mirror, that causes the scanned lines to be incremented vertically acros the screen, is much less of a problem (may need some special angling so its rotation doesn't throw off each horizontal scan).
I think you naysayers take too little time to consider variations on a theme. But still, Thanks Again!
Hey, if the Eskimos can manage with a bunch of words that all mean "snow" (variants on a theme), then certainly we can do the same with respect to "Open Source" and "Free Software".
Just need three lasers, red, blue (not yet widely available), and green, and means to switch their (big not needed!) output power to 256 levels very rapidly. Then a fairly simple arrangement of horizontal and vertical rotating mirrors can scan the flickering beams across, say, an ordinary home-movie projection screen, rather like we do with electron beams and electromagnets in a CRT. Somehow I think somebody somewhere has been working on this...but the lasers have so far been too expensive. But not much longer! Remember Blu-Ray? That diode laser is the last piece needed!
I just use plain rubbery earplugs, available cheap at any hardware store. For reference, one U.S. brand name of the type to which I refer is "AOSafety" (here's a rough equivalent sold in Australia). They generally cost less than US$3; they reduce noise by about 20 decibels; I find them to be comfortable for hours; and they last for months, before they start to disintegrate from age and/or earwax.
Note that some of these earplugs come with a longer-than-necessary fingergrip, which you use to insert/remove them. I just snip off the excess length with scissors. This also makes them generally unnoticed by the people you face when talking. To those who notice, I just tell them that I can hear them just fine (true for me; I still have all my hearing ability), and I like my hearing more than the office noise.
With all eyes on this asteroid, how long will it be before they remember to keep looking for the still-unknown ones that might hit BEFORE April 13, 2029?
Open applications that work on Windows CAN help migrate users to another platform IF two or three things happen:
1) The Open application is better than the non-Open equivalent application.
2) The more great Open applications, the better.
3) Microsoft closes down the way the Open application(s) work on Windows.
Thus users who really liked the application(s) will migrate to where they can still use it. This partly explains why some people still use DOS, and WordPerfect 5.1
Slashdot Mirror
I suppose this will be seen as a plug, but so far as I know, the best surge suppressors available are to be had from the brick wall folks. Kind of expensive though, even after quantity discount, but still less expensive than replacing the equipment it protrects.
Then I plug my relatively ordinary UPS into the surge protector.
Somebody seems to be forgetting the definition of "copyright", as in "the right to make copies". To the extent you know that that right belongs to the artist and to those granted permission by the artist, then that is the extent to which you know whether or not you have that permission. "Theft" may be the wrong word for violating permissions, but the activity is still a "violation" that is inappropriate.
On another subject altogether, and referring back to the original Article, what about asking RIAA and MPAA if their attempts to clamp down on P2P is actually a thinly disguised effort to prevent "outside" artists, not controlled by RIAA or MPAA, from distributing their own works? Anti-trust laws need to be applied here!
"Artifact" by Gregory Benford
Here are two keyboards with touchpads built into them, PLUS countours, so you can have MORE than the basic ergonomic feature of the RollerMouse.
one
two
I prefer touchpads too, EXCEPT for their so-called feature that causes mouse-clicks whenever you touch them too hard. I suspect the non-popularity of touchpads is directly related to how many people don't know that that "feature" can be disabled in the driver/property settings. Too bad this "feature" is enabled by default. If it was disabled by default, then I bet the popularity of touchpads would soar.
Perhaps if the original publisher was sued for fraud ( calling silence "music"), then that would solve this particular problem easily.
It WOULD be interesting to know what aspect of the European Union Constitution lets a minority like some committee claim the power to ignore the requests of the elected representatives.
Can some sort of intragovernmental lawsuit be filed, to put the greedy ones in their place?
This may be proof that Bill Gates is a liar...
From interview:
JENNINGS: Everybody I talked to seems to, particularly if they are young, seems to think that open sourcing is important and that among the reasons it is important is that it enables them to run more secure systems. Is that true from your point of view?
GATES: Actually no, but that is the kind of competition that we have. Is that they will innovate in that space, we will innovate in our space. And in fact, we do a lot of work to make sure that these things can inter-operate so that a company can have a mix of Microsoft products, Unix products, Mainframe products, and then each time they do a project they can look and say - is the Microsoft solution best? Is the other solution best? And so there will just be a lot of choices there, no one approach is going to replace the other. (emphasis above added)
Now compare the above with this:
" If you visit the download center with IE you get an activex control, but if you try with Firefox, you'll have to download a little program, that returns a code you have to copy into the download page, to get access to the download you selected. By quickly looking at the program, I noticed it looks for a registry key, this key is... SOFTWARE\Wine\Wine\Config the wine configuration key. the Windows Genuine Advantage program press release says that in the second half of 2005, all users connecting to the Microsoft download center or to windows update will have to validate their copy of windows. Interestingly if you run the validation program on wine, and the version of windows you're emulating is prior to 2000 or is windows server 20003, you get a message saying a validation code couldn't be found, because of technical difficulties or because you're running an unsupported operating system."
The magazine Popular Science has an article this month about how printing technology is starting to get for making everything from microcircuits to houses.
Offhand (without doublechecking on 'net), I think these are MGM releases. I have about twenty of them in "widescreen". Thanks for the info!
According to the guy's logic, then this should be illegal too:
Buy an original copy.
Make a copy.
Archive the original
Use the copy until it wears out.
Make another copy from the archived original.
Use that until it wears out.
Etc.
After all, it is pretty well known that the average person cannot make a copy that is as high-quality as the original. (CD-rot seldom happens to originals, just to CDRs, see?). So, if I use the original, and it suffers wear and tear, then how can I be sure that my archived copy is really going to save my bacon when needed? While archiving the original practically guarantees it!
Anyway, if the preceding is illegal, then we need a new law!!!
So, this means that somebody invites all his friends, and they invite all their friends, and so on, and if every invited person joins up, just about everyone will be included after the 6th iteration. How does that differ from the original vast number of blogs to look through? :)
Then why aren't spammers already their own ISP outfits? Obviously if spamming is their business, getting obstructive middlemen out of the way is a priority!
That was the movie "Chain Reaction". I'm not sure the phrase "cold fusion" was used in that movie, but I did get the impression that something like that was what it was about.
It's on-topic, at least. The best answer I know is that if you find a bug in Windows, you have to wait for Microsoft to fix it, but a bug in Linux is one you can fix right away.
I have some experience with an Epson Perfection scanner. The overall Epson program handles both scanning and a printer (Epson of course) so that you can use the two like a copy machine. But relevant to your Question is this: The program presents you with a preview (low resolution) of everything on the scanner bed, and you can select a region for high-res scan. So, if the bandwidth of the low-res preview is OK for your needs, then this might be a way to go.
Sign Language! Better start studying/practicing!
The description also sounds like it could be a very large .INI file.
"Manhandled" meaning men using machines, of course. We already routinely move millions of tons of earth and rock around every year, so doing something about LaPalma (and there's another big fracture on Hawaii waiting to dump into the Pacific) IS possible.
First, we drill hundreds of cores from the surface THROUGH the slippage fault and insert temporary steel beams. This holds ("pins") the overall mass in place.
Second, starting at both side-edges of the loose region, we start removing the beams and digging up the material and dumping it into the sea. (Or, if we trust the "pins" enough, we can use explosives for this part.) Each dump is thus just a tiny tiny landslide, and after enough have been done (after a few years, probably), there will be nothing left to cause a disaster. Yes, a fair part of the work may require underwater equipment. So? Different tasks in different places require different machines. Nothing new there.
First, while the parent to this message is the one out of many is the one to which I am replying, I have read through all the replies and I do thank you all for them.
I would like to address the two major objections here. First, regarding the persistence of vision, I do agree that that could be a problem. However, there is a reasonably simple solution. Just cover the projection-screen with 3 colors of phosphors like inside a CRT, and then replace the 3 lasers with one UV laser.
Second, regarding rotating mirrors, I do think this is not so tough as has been claimed. Let's look at a bit of math: If in a high-quality CRT there are 1000 scan lines at 70 frames per second, then that is 70,000 scanned lines per second or 1/70,000 second per scanned line. If we took a somewhat cylindrical mirror, but it actually has 7 sides (heptagonal instead of circular cross section), and we arrange the optics so that while one rotating facet is reflecting the laser(s), one line is being scanned, then the cylinder needs to rotate at 10,000 revolutions per second to duplicate the CRT. Yes, that IS extreme. But there are ways to rearrange things. What about 700 facets to the cylinder and a rotation of 100 revolutions per second (6,000RPM)? what about using RAM as an intermediary between the video input and the output system, to hold one whole frame, such that can then scan the RAM to multiple lasers to divide the work even more?
The other rotating mirror, that causes the scanned lines to be incremented vertically acros the screen, is much less of a problem (may need some special angling so its rotation doesn't throw off each horizontal scan).
I think you naysayers take too little time to consider variations on a theme. But still, Thanks Again!
Hey, if the Eskimos can manage with a bunch of words that all mean "snow" (variants on a theme), then certainly we can do the same with respect to "Open Source" and "Free Software".
Just need three lasers, red, blue (not yet widely available), and green, and means to switch their (big not needed!) output power to 256 levels very rapidly. Then a fairly simple arrangement of horizontal and vertical rotating mirrors can scan the flickering beams across, say, an ordinary home-movie projection screen, rather like we do with electron beams and electromagnets in a CRT. Somehow I think somebody somewhere has been working on this...but the lasers have so far been too expensive. But not much longer! Remember Blu-Ray? That diode laser is the last piece needed!
I just use plain rubbery earplugs, available cheap at any hardware store. For reference, one U.S. brand name of the type to which I refer is "AOSafety" (here's a rough equivalent sold in Australia). They generally cost less than US$3; they reduce noise by about 20 decibels; I find them to be comfortable for hours; and they last for months, before they start to disintegrate from age and/or earwax.
Note that some of these earplugs come with a longer-than-necessary fingergrip, which you use to insert/remove them. I just snip off the excess length with scissors. This also makes them generally unnoticed by the people you face when talking. To those who notice, I just tell them that I can hear them just fine (true for me; I still have all my hearing ability), and I like my hearing more than the office noise.
With all eyes on this asteroid, how long will it be before they remember to keep looking for the still-unknown ones that might hit BEFORE April 13, 2029?
You can trickle-charge your electric car on only 13W, if you are willing to wait long enough!
Open applications that work on Windows CAN help migrate users to another platform IF two or three things happen:
1) The Open application is better than the non-Open equivalent application.
2) The more great Open applications, the better. 3) Microsoft closes down the way the Open application(s) work on Windows.
Thus users who really liked the application(s) will migrate to where they can still use it. This partly explains why some people still use DOS, and WordPerfect 5.1