Your sig is offering gmail to strangers.
Your backup strategy involves using your gmail storage.
Makes me wonder, do you realize that your gmail account gets nuked if someone invited by you starts sending spam? I'm not sure how far up the tree the nuking goes, but if you invite a spammer, you both get the axe.
Just sayin....
Or, you could read the customer reviews at geek.com:
where have you guys been (12:02am EST Wed Sep 24 2003)
I have had one of these for almost a year...here is the REAL review... #1 I have never had a problem burning a disk and I have tried from many a computer...the software that is included is simple and easy to use but I went back to my old reliable pal, Nero...which runs flawlessly (probably because Sony's burn proof is handled magnificiently by Nero)
#2 battery life is actually better than stated for various reasons...first dvd playback squeezes to about 2 and 1/2 to 3 hours with Single layer disks and closer to 2 hours with dual layer disks...it is important to note that there is an 8mb buffer...that means if you play an MP3 CD the entire track and most of the next track is loaded in and then the drive shuts down...this limits the motor run time and reduces the most energy consuming part of the player...so run time for mp3s can equal well over 15 hours
#3 this comes with a lot of accessories...including a BASE STATION that has its OWN place for batteries so here is the ADD on pack the reviewer DID NOT add in...lets dvd playback go for 6 hours...MP3 CD playback in the 50 hour range probably...
#4 the remote is perfectly designed--after years of product testing (on other players)...nice thing it lights up too
#5 HERE IS THE REAL KICKER!!!!!!! It plays MP3 DVDs...just burn a dvd (+/- R or RW) in DVD data format and you have 4.7 GIG MP3 player at a dollar or two a disk...and in rewritable you can load in thousands of songs then clear the disk and start all over...amazing thing is play back is in the 20-35 hour range and with base station 100hours maybe? This is because the rotation needed to load in 8mbs is so little with a dvd the disk rarely spins (I actually thought it was broken at first)...this player has been an amazing purchase and I got it for $240 and no DAMN rebates to deal with and that was a year ago)...you can probably pick this up for a little over $200 I'm guessing (dont forget that this thing has high speed 2.0 memory stick drive too) - by Jason
There was a Dilbert strip long ago in which he returned to college. The professor introduced his class by presenting a complex diagram -- "This diagram explains why I'm an expert in economics, yet dress like a flood victim."
Call me when it's out of the Uni and into a corporation's lab, then we can talk.
I love this site! Really goes right at the heart of a DIY hacker, not just someone striving to get a few more FPS out of their LN2-cooled high end system.
Favorite quote, from the section dealing with old monitors: Btw, if you do this wrong, say hi to Jesus for me alright?
My laptop is slower than the article's example of "old" -- it's a P3-650 Dell. It keeps up for everything except compiles, but the benefit of using older stuff (with recent batteries) is that I get 8 to 9 hours of battery life, even while using the wifi card.
Show me a P4-3Ghz laptop that can do that!
In addition to the cut of your jib, I likes the sound of the name of your slashdot account.... gPHINch.
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I realize that Dr Mead's Foveon has narrowed down to digital imaging products, but one of his PhD's, Rahul Sarpeshkar, has gone on to a professorship at MIT, and has taken the cochelar implant one step beyond what was done at Caltech. That article is from May of 2003, and I don't know if they have reached human trials yet, but I'd hardly call it a dead-end. Digital SP has sped up a lot in the past decade, of course, but the process that we're seeking to model is still on the order of tens of thousands (for auditory) to tens of millions (for visual) of signals being processed in parallel. It's just plain nuts to try to model this with a general-purpose, serial processor. Particularly when there is a reasonably mature science of building specific parallel-input hardware to mimic the natural processes.
But then again, I'm just a hobbyist in the field. I'm neither a researcher nor a professional in the area, so take my thoughts with the appropriate grain of salt.
Carver Mead (at Caltech last I heard) was pioneering work to take neural processes such as vision and hearing, and model them in silicon via custom-fab VLSI circuits. This is a MUCH better approach to modelling these proceses, since your neurons process the information in massively-parallel, simple-cicuit networks.
The traditional approach was to take a
(completely) serial CPU and have it iterate over sampled data using a complex model of the naturally-occuring network.
It seems like a no-brainer to me, but I doubt that $1million will be much when all is said and done.
I watched it on nasaTV's webcast, and there wasn't a shot of the ground as it hit, more like this:
Shot of sky. They're saying there's a dot in the sky, but it just looks like sky to me.
Shot of sky. One of the static bits seems to stay put more that the rest of the static.
Shot of sky with dot.
Dot becomes triangle thingy, looks like it's spinning
Spinning thing gets bigger, more in focus.
Spinning thing has a saucer-ish shape, is now seen to be tumbling, not just spinning. (voice over at this point is saying something to the effect that the parachute hasn't deployed.)
Bigger, better focus.
Even bigger, still better focus.
Ground.
It was obvious that the camera operator was focused on the craft, getting the best shot possible of it for as long as possible. As a result, the ground was very surprising when it flashed into the frame.:( -- GMail invites for iPod referrals
...Mr. Torrone, who is on sabbatical from his day job in advertising...
Apparently his day job in advertising pays considerably better than my day job in software engineering.
Of course, they don't mention his wife's job. Maybe she's a dot com gazillionaire.
This summer I found the two CD set for Atari Arcade Hits (volume 1 and 2) for $5.
I've played a LOT of tempest this year.:)
I highly recommend searching eBay if you want this stuff, or simply searching garage sales for old CDs.
By taking the CPU over Intel's rated speed, there's no warrantee from Intel. Does Alienware promise to replace 'em if they fail during a (nominal) warrantee period?
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Wow, ya learn something every day.
Thanks for pointing that out.
sigh.
That should be "ad-free" as in "free of advertising" not "add-free" as in "free of arithmetic"
Your sig is offering gmail to strangers.
Your backup strategy involves using your gmail storage.
Makes me wonder, do you realize that your gmail account gets nuked if someone invited by you starts sending spam? I'm not sure how far up the tree the nuking goes, but if you invite a spammer, you both get the axe.
Just sayin....
Now I'm just waiting for the next company to offer true unlimited servce
Uhh... You've come to the right place
Of course, OSDN isn't giving them away, but they are also giving add-free access for $14/year.
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Or, you could read the customer reviews at geek.com:
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where have you guys been (12:02am EST Wed Sep 24 2003)
I have had one of these for almost a year...here is the REAL review...
#1 I have never had a problem burning a disk and I have tried from many a computer...the software that is included is simple and easy to use but I went back to my old reliable pal, Nero...which runs flawlessly (probably because Sony's burn proof is handled magnificiently by Nero)
#2 battery life is actually better than stated for various reasons...first dvd playback squeezes to about 2 and 1/2 to 3 hours with Single layer disks and closer to 2 hours with dual layer disks...it is important to note that there is an 8mb buffer...that means if you play an MP3 CD the entire track and most of the next track is loaded in and then the drive shuts down...this limits the motor run time and reduces the most energy consuming part of the player...so run time for mp3s can equal well over 15 hours
#3 this comes with a lot of accessories...including a BASE STATION that has its OWN place for batteries so here is the ADD on pack the reviewer DID NOT add in...lets dvd playback go for 6 hours...MP3 CD playback in the 50 hour range probably...
#4 the remote is perfectly designed--after years of product testing (on other players)...nice thing it lights up too
#5 HERE IS THE REAL KICKER!!!!!!! It plays MP3 DVDs...just burn a dvd (+/- R or RW) in DVD data format and you have 4.7 GIG MP3 player at a dollar or two a disk...and in rewritable you can load in thousands of songs then clear the disk and start all over...amazing thing is play back is in the 20-35 hour range and with base station 100hours maybe? This is because the rotation needed to load in 8mbs is so little with a dvd the disk rarely spins (I actually thought it was broken at first)...this player has been an amazing purchase and I got it for $240 and no DAMN rebates to deal with and that was a year ago)...you can probably pick this up for a little over $200 I'm guessing (dont forget that this thing has high speed 2.0 memory stick drive too) - by Jason
It's still not a car unit though.
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Now maybe I can finally get some sleep while Dr. Demento is recorded by my Mac late at night...
At least for the 7-10 days that they're up, before Tandy sues them back into vapor.
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Now that they've made it back in one piece, I don't mind saying that this turned out much better than the last nasa webcast I watched.
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On the topic of certification, "It's not rocket science."
errr......
There was a Dilbert strip long ago in which he returned to college. The professor introduced his class by presenting a complex diagram -- "This diagram explains why I'm an expert in economics, yet dress like a flood victim."
Call me when it's out of the Uni and into a corporation's lab, then we can talk.
I love this site! Really goes right at the heart of a DIY hacker, not just someone striving to get a few more FPS out of their LN2-cooled high end system.
Favorite quote, from the section dealing with old monitors: Btw, if you do this wrong, say hi to Jesus for me alright?
My laptop is slower than the article's example of "old" -- it's a P3-650 Dell. It keeps up for everything except compiles, but the benefit of using older stuff (with recent batteries) is that I get 8 to 9 hours of battery life, even while using the wifi card.
Show me a P4-3Ghz laptop that can do that!
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I like the cut of your jib.
In addition to the cut of your jib, I likes the sound of the name of your slashdot account.... gPHINch.
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VGA resolution and unreadable to anyone above 40.
Nah, we'll just use those big magnifiers from Brazil and we'll be all set!
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I realize that Dr Mead's Foveon has narrowed down to digital imaging products, but one of his PhD's, Rahul Sarpeshkar, has gone on to a professorship at MIT, and has taken the cochelar implant one step beyond what was done at Caltech.
That article is from May of 2003, and I don't know if they have reached human trials yet, but I'd hardly call it a dead-end.
Digital SP has sped up a lot in the past decade, of course, but the process that we're seeking to model is still on the order of tens of thousands (for auditory) to tens of millions (for visual) of signals being processed in parallel. It's just plain nuts to try to model this with a general-purpose, serial processor. Particularly when there is a reasonably mature science of building specific parallel-input hardware to mimic the natural processes.
But then again, I'm just a hobbyist in the field. I'm neither a researcher nor a professional in the area, so take my thoughts with the appropriate grain of salt.
Carver Mead (at Caltech last I heard) was pioneering work to take neural processes such as vision and hearing, and model them in silicon via custom-fab VLSI circuits. This is a MUCH better approach to modelling these proceses, since your neurons process the information in massively-parallel, simple-cicuit networks.
:)
The traditional approach was to take a (completely) serial CPU and have it iterate over sampled data using a complex model of the naturally-occuring network.
It seems like a no-brainer to me, but I doubt that $1million will be much when all is said and done.
But I freely confess that I haven't RTFA.
It's the Void Ghosts, as fortold (in the end of the very long story which starts) by Sluggy Freelance!
YMMV
Nah, that'd never work
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Ok, that's pretty nifty! Since I don't have mod points, I'll just play along
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I watched it on nasaTV's webcast, and there wasn't a shot of the ground as it hit, more like this:
:(
Shot of sky. They're saying there's a dot in the sky, but it just looks like sky to me.
Shot of sky. One of the static bits seems to stay put more that the rest of the static.
Shot of sky with dot.
Dot becomes triangle thingy, looks like it's spinning
Spinning thing gets bigger, more in focus.
Spinning thing has a saucer-ish shape, is now seen to be tumbling, not just spinning. (voice over at this point is saying something to the effect that the parachute hasn't deployed.)
Bigger, better focus.
Even bigger, still better focus.
Ground.
It was obvious that the camera operator was focused on the craft, getting the best shot possible of it for as long as possible. As a result, the ground was very surprising when it flashed into the frame.
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...Mr. Torrone, who is on sabbatical from his day job in advertising...
Apparently his day job in advertising pays considerably better than my day job in software engineering.
Of course, they don't mention his wife's job. Maybe she's a dot com gazillionaire.
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She's been trying to convince you for a year?? How cheap are you, anyway?
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So....this is MS against Clear Channel then?
It's always fun to watch a fight when you can eagerly cheer for the death of one (or more) of the combatants.
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This summer I found the two CD set for Atari Arcade Hits (volume 1 and 2) for $5. :)
I've played a LOT of tempest this year.
I highly recommend searching eBay if you want this stuff, or simply searching garage sales for old CDs.
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Unfortunately, this could never happen in Rhode Island because you'd have to buy off too many politicians.
But it's September, and the really big sales start next month! (wait for the "buy one, get one free" days)
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By taking the CPU over Intel's rated speed, there's no warrantee from Intel. Does Alienware promise to replace 'em if they fail during a (nominal) warrantee period?
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