is there a device that will allow me to go from USB to Firewire - Sure, it's called a TRV-30:)
Firewire is key... If you buy a DV cam with only USB, better hope you've kept the receipt.
USB is good for moving images off the Memory Stick, if you could make it work (you can't), but I wouldn't want video across that channel...way too poor quality if any at all.
Bingo....so why collect specific data to base the rates on? Why not just use the average, where all drivers pay for the bad?
Insurance is a racket...a gamble by the companies. If it's going to be based on data mined by the microsecond, then there is no gamble. And no need to bill me if I don't have a need to collect.
So you're saying that your insurence company has no right to know that you habitually break safe traffic laws, thus putting yourself and others at risk?
Let's take this to the conclusion it seems to be begging for. If I drive safe, then the ins. company doesn't bill me that month. If I don't, then they check the rate chart and bill me accordingly.
If they can use collected data to know their exact risk (and they will know, and they will bill you more, you can bet on it), then I can expect them to not be allowed to bill me when that risk is documentated as being at 0. Fair is fair.
He mentions that he found that people want to control their space, and not share the 'personal' music on their iPod, yet he has yet to identify the new aspect of personal music sharing known as 'iPod mugging', where you share your headphones with strangers and they share theirs with you.
This allows you an insight snippet into the strangers persona, and perhaps a serendipitous introduction to music you may otherwise never give a listen.
I hope his research isn't a hardwired fallback on his first such venture with the original WalkMan. Times and man change... If he simply changes the element of study, without being ready to change the methodology, he's ripe to miss the mark.
One of the biggest advantages of USB is the power that flows through it
FireWire, with 12V, is much more capable. Examples are pocket drives....the USB models all require a brick/adapter. It's a bit of a stretch to give USB too much credit in this department:)
They're simply trying to move into the present...logo's are all the rage, right? Image recognition....literally.
Not that anyone here gives a flying rectal expulsion, but hey, nothiing else seems to be working for them, so 'Don't Copy' the Clown gets to join the ranks of Smokey Bear and Ruff the Crime Dog.
The problem is A Decent Office Suite For Linux That Can Interoperate Flawlessly With Microsoft Office
That is a crutch...a band-aid...a solution that only sees the problem. An also-ran...why is the target always Office? Get away from that and focus on the target that Office presumably seeks.
What is needed is a total, up-front suite that works well and is cross-platform compatible while addressing the needs of the majority of users.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators agreed Thursday to set rules for telephone calls made online, and for technology to allow computer users to reach the Internet through a household electric outlet.
The Federal Communications Commission said it would decide how to regulate calls made via high-speed Internet connections, which bypass at least part of the conventional phone network.
Among the issues to be discussed is whether such calls should be subject to the same fees as regular telephone service, such for 911 emergency services or bringing telephone service to poor and rural areas, schools and libraries. Also to be decided is whether these new services need to pay fees to local telephone companies to complete calls to conventional phones.
Separately, the FCC said it would later develop rules concerning law enforcement, such as making sure that the technology that allows Internet calls also allows investigators to tap and trace them.
The commission also voted to develop rules that would allow the power lines that bring electricity to homes and businesses to also deliver high-speed Internet connections.
Once a utility or a company it contracts with installs the necessary equipment, a computer user would only have to plug the machine into a special modem that plugs into a conventional electric outlet, according to Jay Birnbaum, vice president of Current Technologies, a company now testing such connections in the Washington suburbs.
Even as it develops rules governing Internet phone calls, the commission decided that one such service, Free World Dialup, was not subject to the same regulations as regular phones. Internet users can join Free World Dialup at no cost and make calls to each other without using the conventional phones. They use special numbers to route the calls rather than 10-digit phone numbers.
SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- In an advance that could inexpensively speed up corporate data centers and eventually personal computers, researchers used everyday silicon to build a device that converts data into light beams.
Light-based communications has until now largely been the realm of large telecom companies and long-haul fiber-optic networks because of the expense of the exotic materials required to harness photons, the basic building block of light.
Now, researchers at Intel Corp. say their results with silicon promise to reduce the cost of photonics by introducing a well-known substance that's more readily available.
In the study, published in Thursday's journal Nature, the Intel researchers reported encoding 1 billion bits of data per second, 50 times faster than previous silicon experiments. They said they could achieve rates of up to 10 billion bits per second within months.
"This is a significant step toward building optical devices that move data around inside a computer at the speed of light," said Pat Gelsinger, Intel's chief technology officer.
Intel believes the finding could have profound implications for the links between servers in corporate data centers. Eventually, the technology could find its way into personal computers and even consumer electronics.
"It is the kind of breakthrough that ripples across an industry over time, enabling other new devices and applications," Gelsinger said. "It could help make the Internet run faster, build much faster high-performance computers and enable high bandwidth applications like ultra-high-definition displays or vision recognition systems."
Unlike electrons that flow through copper connections common today, the photons in light are not susceptible to data-slowing interference and can travel farther.
The Intel researchers built a device called a modulator, which switches light into patterns that translate into the ones and zeros of the digital world.
A light beam was split into two as it passed through the silicon, which has tiny transistor-like devices that alter light. When the beams are recombined and exit the silicon, the light goes on and off at a frequency of 1 gigahertz, or a billion times a second.
Infrared light is used because it can pass through silicon.
"Just as Superman's X-ray vision allows him to see through walls, if you had infrared vision, you could see through silicon," said Mario Paniccia, a study author and director of Intel's silicon photonics research. "This makes it possible to route light in silicon, and it is the same wavelength typically used for optical communications."
The researchers expect to be able to increase the frequency to 10 gigahertz, making the technology commercially viable, said Victor Krutul, senior manager of Intel's silicon photonics technology strategy.
"This implies that the economies of scale that we have seen for the electronics industry could one day apply to the photonics industry," Graham T. Reed, a professor of optoelectronics at the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute, said in a commentary that accompanied the research paper.
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Go into System Prefs/Energy Saver and set the processor(s) for low performance.
This came out a year ago...and a two years before that I found my Palm could do the same thing.... You people are so behind the curve :)
A crappy TPC with legs and fleas.... get over it. I can put a PDA on a roller skate and do the same thing...big deal.
is there a device that will allow me to go from USB to Firewire - Sure, it's called a TRV-30 :)
Firewire is key... If you buy a DV cam with only USB, better hope you've kept the receipt.
USB is good for moving images off the Memory Stick, if you could make it work (you can't), but I wouldn't want video across that channel...way too poor quality if any at all.
it's based on the statistical possibility
Bingo....so why collect specific data to base the rates on? Why not just use the average, where all drivers pay for the bad?
Insurance is a racket...a gamble by the companies. If it's going to be based on data mined by the microsecond, then there is no gamble. And no need to bill me if I don't have a need to collect.
So you're saying that your insurence company has no right to know that you habitually break safe traffic laws, thus putting yourself and others at risk?
Let's take this to the conclusion it seems to be begging for. If I drive safe, then the ins. company doesn't bill me that month. If I don't, then they check the rate chart and bill me accordingly.
If they can use collected data to know their exact risk (and they will know, and they will bill you more, you can bet on it), then I can expect them to not be allowed to bill me when that risk is documentated as being at 0. Fair is fair.
Then why does he seem to insist that people don't want others to know what they're listening to?
:)
I smell a nut
He mentions that he found that people want to control their space, and not share the 'personal' music on their iPod, yet he has yet to identify the new aspect of personal music sharing known as 'iPod mugging', where you share your headphones with strangers and they share theirs with you.
This allows you an insight snippet into the strangers persona, and perhaps a serendipitous introduction to music you may otherwise never give a listen.
I hope his research isn't a hardwired fallback on his first such venture with the original WalkMan. Times and man change... If he simply changes the element of study, without being ready to change the methodology, he's ripe to miss the mark.
It's for those, who want to become ones
:)
Sounds like a merit badge ladder
Real hardware hackers don't get their ideas from books...give me a break :)
Just pull the case away from the guts and swap batteries...how bad is that?
That drive will require 12V - The USB power spec is 5V...powering a drive is not going to happen. Your example overlooks that, sorry.
One of the biggest advantages of USB is the power that flows through it
:)
FireWire, with 12V, is much more capable. Examples are pocket drives....the USB models all require a brick/adapter. It's a bit of a stretch to give USB too much credit in this department
Monroe said preventing and prosecuting cybercrimes is now the FBI's No. 3 priority, behind anti-terrorism efforts and counterintelligence operations.
:)
What a relief. Once again, it's safe for tradition to come out of the basement.
We can all go back to counterfeiting $100.00 bills and transporting drunken underage hookers across state lines
They're simply trying to move into the present...logo's are all the rage, right? Image recognition....literally.
Not that anyone here gives a flying rectal expulsion, but hey, nothiing else seems to be working for them, so 'Don't Copy' the Clown gets to join the ranks of Smokey Bear and Ruff the Crime Dog.
>See the problem?
:)
...when I pay SJ's salary, and he refuses an interview, then there will be a problem.
You being an ass? Who could miss that?
...there are terrestrial extremophile bacteria which thrive in highly acid environments."
:)
Let's leave the Haight out of this, shall we?
An option that isn't an option is a spec. A 'fixed' spec.
The problem is A Decent Office Suite For Linux That Can Interoperate Flawlessly With Microsoft Office
That is a crutch...a band-aid...a solution that only sees the problem. An also-ran...why is the target always Office? Get away from that and focus on the target that Office presumably seeks.
What is needed is a total, up-front suite that works well and is cross-platform compatible while addressing the needs of the majority of users.
Anything else is just a bag on the side...
Just the final step in any circumcision....no big deal :)
Most likely because the root cellar is already stuffed to the drip rails with spot-lighted mule deer and snare-trapped rooster pheasant...
You think the streets of Seattle are tough, try going out in the woods.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators agreed Thursday to set rules for telephone calls made online, and for technology to allow computer users to reach the Internet through a household electric outlet.
The Federal Communications Commission said it would decide how to regulate calls made via high-speed Internet connections, which bypass at least part of the conventional phone network.
Among the issues to be discussed is whether such calls should be subject to the same fees as regular telephone service, such for 911 emergency services or bringing telephone service to poor and rural areas, schools and libraries. Also to be decided is whether these new services need to pay fees to local telephone companies to complete calls to conventional phones.
Separately, the FCC said it would later develop rules concerning law enforcement, such as making sure that the technology that allows Internet calls also allows investigators to tap and trace them.
The commission also voted to develop rules that would allow the power lines that bring electricity to homes and businesses to also deliver high-speed Internet connections.
Once a utility or a company it contracts with installs the necessary equipment, a computer user would only have to plug the machine into a special modem that plugs into a conventional electric outlet, according to Jay Birnbaum, vice president of Current Technologies, a company now testing such connections in the Washington suburbs.
Even as it develops rules governing Internet phone calls, the commission decided that one such service, Free World Dialup, was not subject to the same regulations as regular phones. Internet users can join Free World Dialup at no cost and make calls to each other without using the conventional phones. They use special numbers to route the calls rather than 10-digit phone numbers.
The war machine springs to life...
Are you perhaps looking for other metrosexuals, or just looking...?
SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- In an advance that could inexpensively speed up corporate data centers and eventually personal computers, researchers used everyday silicon to build a device that converts data into light beams.
Light-based communications has until now largely been the realm of large telecom companies and long-haul fiber-optic networks because of the expense of the exotic materials required to harness photons, the basic building block of light.
Now, researchers at Intel Corp. say their results with silicon promise to reduce the cost of photonics by introducing a well-known substance that's more readily available.
In the study, published in Thursday's journal Nature, the Intel researchers reported encoding 1 billion bits of data per second, 50 times faster than previous silicon experiments. They said they could achieve rates of up to 10 billion bits per second within months.
"This is a significant step toward building optical devices that move data around inside a computer at the speed of light," said Pat Gelsinger, Intel's chief technology officer.
Intel believes the finding could have profound implications for the links between servers in corporate data centers. Eventually, the technology could find its way into personal computers and even consumer electronics.
"It is the kind of breakthrough that ripples across an industry over time, enabling other new devices and applications," Gelsinger said. "It could help make the Internet run faster, build much faster high-performance computers and enable high bandwidth applications like ultra-high-definition displays or vision recognition systems."
Unlike electrons that flow through copper connections common today, the photons in light are not susceptible to data-slowing interference and can travel farther.
The Intel researchers built a device called a modulator, which switches light into patterns that translate into the ones and zeros of the digital world.
A light beam was split into two as it passed through the silicon, which has tiny transistor-like devices that alter light. When the beams are recombined and exit the silicon, the light goes on and off at a frequency of 1 gigahertz, or a billion times a second.
Infrared light is used because it can pass through silicon.
"Just as Superman's X-ray vision allows him to see through walls, if you had infrared vision, you could see through silicon," said Mario Paniccia, a study author and director of Intel's silicon photonics research. "This makes it possible to route light in silicon, and it is the same wavelength typically used for optical communications."
The researchers expect to be able to increase the frequency to 10 gigahertz, making the technology commercially viable, said Victor Krutul, senior manager of Intel's silicon photonics technology strategy.
"This implies that the economies of scale that we have seen for the electronics industry could one day apply to the photonics industry," Graham T. Reed, a professor of optoelectronics at the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute, said in a commentary that accompanied the research paper.