I've got some of the non-IE-supported stuff going on like PNG files with alpha-channels, etc. Right now the pages I'm developing look like crud in IE as colours are missing from transparent windows, etc...
Once all the pages are together though, I'll throw in a.CSS file that loads for the IE users. They won't look as spiffy as firefox/etc but the pages will at least not be hard on the eyes in IE.
Many species have been shown to adapt (or for those who aren't afraid of the word, evolve) to fit their environment and the hazards within. Given human's tendency towards the use of low-radiation devices, would it make sense that within a few centuries we might develop some sort of immunity/response-system to deal with such things.
Are there any lifeforms which are immune to heavy radiation? Perhaps we can learn from them and stimulate defences in ourselves.
Given the current trend of American industry towards creating an overload of patents and then going sue-crazy with them, I think that it's not too far a stretch to imagine the domestic tech market taking a dive. So far as I know, China wouldn't have any qualms with violating American crap-patents in order to create cheaper, better software.
Heck, China probably doesn't even have to do anything to bring it about. It's a simple strategy: Let the Americans kill their own industry, then come in and clean house.
Every time you play, not just once, but even every single-player game... you need to authenticate to steam. And yes, you can run steam in offline mode for when your internet connection isn't available, but that only lasts for a awhile and then you must re-authenticate.
For many, the biggest debacle was when the traffic to steam servers caused them to become unavailable, meaning that if you had a perfectly legit copy of the game, you still couldn't play because steam couldn't call home.
Everything works (including widescreen/w accelerated Nvidia driver, wireless, sound, ethernet, touchpad, USB, firewire, etc) except for the built-in cardreader, and the cruddy winmodem. A Xircom PCMCIA card allows me to still use dialup on the road, but it would be nice to have the internal modem work and it's annoying that there's no driver for the cardreader.
Being that the cardreader is a weird brand "ENE Technology Inc CB710" and the modem is, of course, a soundcard-linked winmodem... well I'm not really surprised at this point that they don't work.
If I really wanted to bitch though, I'd complain about the lack of proper native sound mixing support in the ALSA, etc drivers. A lot of laptop soundcards don't support hardware-mixing, and having sound available from one app-at-a-time is so 1990's...
I've often wondered how you send the WOL signal. Is it bound the MAC of the recipient card, or do you need a direct connection, etc? Would most newer boards with an Onboard-NIC support it?
And for this case, you might not even need WOL... as some motherboards actually support scheduled wakeup operations so you could just have them all with virtual alarm clocks waking up at the appropriate time...
Well, if the tool could be used to track a KP peddler I'm sure it would be just as useful in certain ways for tracking "terrorists." How about if a picture with a 'target' is being passed around online, intercept picture and analyse senders, recipients, etc...
Are there any formats that offer high compression without loss? At some point you'd definately end up trading storage-space for CPU+memory, but for the latter they're only used on an as-needed basis and as time goes on the CPU power to handle this will increase as well.
A lot of that depends on your phone too. I know that my flip-phone doesn't get great reception in the local mall, whereas friends with a standard nokia phone can manage in many places I can't.
Well, it seems to me that if this is one of the last few companies producing machines, then eventually you'll find and good condition+working machines will climb in value.
After all, as it gets harder to find a machine, those that really want one will pay more...
There was a cool related article linked from the original here
Personally, I'd rather regenerate my original optic nerves (if that's what is damaged)... although I do admit being wired in would be cool if I could have infrared vision enhancements or something similar.
Some companies have tried, and failed. If you're putting up a purely inflammatory site with little to support your opinion, you may get slammed in court. If you're posting a site with legitimate/true stories etc in a regards to a company's actions, then you'll likely be better off.
Currently we're experimenting with using an open WLAN with logged http/https access (for guests), and then OpenVPN for all the internal users. Same network, but the VPN users have good data encryption (better than if we used WEP) and thus are allowed to access many more services.
If you've got a battery that can get you 30 miles on a charge... you can still get pretty far by going with mixed gas/battery power. If you plug it in, well you can go 30 miles...
If you plug it in, you get better "milage" as it were because you're depending on gas less to charge the battery, but you're limited to 30 miles range before you start hitting the ol' fossil fuel again
Now, if you get a better battery in the future that can get you, say 100 miles.... you could probably go farther or get better milage mixing gas/battery driving yes, or you could get excellent milage with a change+go strategy so long as your target is within the 100 mile range.
So really, your milage depends on 3 factors:
a) How far you need to go between charges
b) How far a battery charge will take you
c) Whether you mix 'n match battery/gas power, or just plug 'er in at stops.
As things which require encryption become more commonplace, hardware aimed at the optomizing the encryption process is becoming more common and well. remember, some software encryption may be hard on your standard CPU because the PC by nature is - while optomized in certain areas - aimed at being more versatile than specific.
There are boards that have chipsets aiming at supporting hardware-based encryption though (I know VIA has a few). Just like a sub-1Ghz GPU will kick your 3.2Mhz CPU's ass for 3d rendering, a lower-speed but optomized EPU (Encryption Processing Unit?) could manage to do the process without overhead on the rest of your system, and without a largely noticable bottleneck.
Storing data without encryption still involves very specific hardware that does processing on the drive itself, data doesn't just magically jump onto the platters without the driving knowing how to put it there.
Throwing an encryption chip on motherboards (or perhaps even better on the drives themselves) would allow for all this to happen without speed issues... it's all about optimization.
And as for the security issues with the motherboards... why not restrict setting sucks things to doing so within the BIOS menus themselves... if you're playing with drive encryption options you should know what you're doing anyhow, though having an option to *lock* the encryption/passwords is definately a smart idea (perhaps even in the form of a hardware setting via jumper/toggles).
That's something that's always gotten me about "efficient" cars. Even if we did find a wondercar that would suit the needs of most people and get great milage/etc or use alternative/friendly fuels... there would still be the issues of legacy vehicles. How long until the new cars catch on so that the energy source is widely available... and also how long before the old fade out and we could get rid of the gas pumps...
I mean, even if all the new vehicles being sold suddenly works on grass clippings or whatever, there are still tons of cars out there running on gas. Not everyone could afford a new vehicle and would have to bite the bullet at the pump over time rather than being able to afford the lump sum of a new, more efficient vehicle.
With so many new technologies, you can't really pick any particular one and say it'll catch on. Electric has the advantage though that, if you *can* plug in, then yes we could beef our electric supply and the "pumps" as they were are already available. While electric is a newer thing for vehicles, it's still a well-asserted technology.
I wonder though... about vehicles such as big-rigs, aircraft, etc. Even as cars switch I think that alternative 'fuels' are needed to supply the power and storage capacity needed by the heavier-consuming vehicles.
Hmmm, well I live in BC, Canada. The large majority of the power in this province comes from Hydroelectric, which (depending on the impact of the dams build) is generally more environmentally friendly than your coal etc.
You could find negetives to anything, and on slashdot it seems there will always be somebody to bitch the negetive about any option...
I think that perhaps respect in the workplace in general is down. There seems to be a distinct lack of appreciation for the working class, while of course the visible usual-buttkissing applies to those higher up whilst we bitch about them in private.
I'm a sysadmin/technician myself, and I do notice a notible amount of disrespect at times in my job - sometimes often enough because others just don't understand the work involved in things they ask for - but I can't say I'm the only victim of this as my co-workers often enough readily disrespect each other as well.
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I've got some of the non-IE-supported stuff going on like PNG files with alpha-channels, etc. Right now the pages I'm developing look like crud in IE as colours are missing from transparent windows, etc...
.CSS file that loads for the IE users. They won't look as spiffy as firefox/etc but the pages will at least not be hard on the eyes in IE.
Once all the pages are together though, I'll throw in a
Many species have been shown to adapt (or for those who aren't afraid of the word, evolve) to fit their environment and the hazards within. Given human's tendency towards the use of low-radiation devices, would it make sense that within a few centuries we might develop some sort of immunity/response-system to deal with such things.
Are there any lifeforms which are immune to heavy radiation? Perhaps we can learn from them and stimulate defences in ourselves.
Given the current trend of American industry towards creating an overload of patents and then going sue-crazy with them, I think that it's not too far a stretch to imagine the domestic tech market taking a dive. So far as I know, China wouldn't have any qualms with violating American crap-patents in order to create cheaper, better software.
Heck, China probably doesn't even have to do anything to bring it about. It's a simple strategy: Let the Americans kill their own industry, then come in and clean house.
Every time you play, not just once, but even every single-player game... you need to authenticate to steam. And yes, you can run steam in offline mode for when your internet connection isn't available, but that only lasts for a awhile and then you must re-authenticate.
For many, the biggest debacle was when the traffic to steam servers caused them to become unavailable, meaning that if you had a perfectly legit copy of the game, you still couldn't play because steam couldn't call home.
OK, I might not pay that much more for a blue rose, but a blue rose that glows in the dark... now that sounds like an interesting idea to try...
How about drivers like NVidia wherein the driver is partly prebuilt, and partly compiled to allow working with your current kernel, etc.
Doesn't that way of doing things tend to lend better compatability?
Everything works (including widescreen /w accelerated Nvidia driver, wireless, sound, ethernet, touchpad, USB, firewire, etc) except for the built-in cardreader, and the cruddy winmodem. A Xircom PCMCIA card allows me to still use dialup on the road, but it would be nice to have the internal modem work and it's annoying that there's no driver for the cardreader.
Being that the cardreader is a weird brand "ENE Technology Inc CB710" and the modem is, of course, a soundcard-linked winmodem... well I'm not really surprised at this point that they don't work.
If I really wanted to bitch though, I'd complain about the lack of proper native sound mixing support in the ALSA, etc drivers. A lot of laptop soundcards don't support hardware-mixing, and having sound available from one app-at-a-time is so 1990's...
I've often wondered how you send the WOL signal. Is it bound the MAC of the recipient card, or do you need a direct connection, etc? Would most newer boards with an Onboard-NIC support it?
And for this case, you might not even need WOL... as some motherboards actually support scheduled wakeup operations so you could just have them all with virtual alarm clocks waking up at the appropriate time...
Well, if the tool could be used to track a KP peddler I'm sure it would be just as useful in certain ways for tracking "terrorists." How about if a picture with a 'target' is being passed around online, intercept picture and analyse senders, recipients, etc...
Are there any formats that offer high compression without loss? At some point you'd definately end up trading storage-space for CPU+memory, but for the latter they're only used on an as-needed basis and as time goes on the CPU power to handle this will increase as well.
A lot of that depends on your phone too. I know that my flip-phone doesn't get great reception in the local mall, whereas friends with a standard nokia phone can manage in many places I can't.
Well, it seems to me that if this is one of the last few companies producing machines, then eventually you'll find and good condition+working machines will climb in value.
After all, as it gets harder to find a machine, those that really want one will pay more...
There was a cool related article linked from the original here
Personally, I'd rather regenerate my original optic nerves (if that's what is damaged)... although I do admit being wired in would be cool if I could have infrared vision enhancements or something similar.
For all married guys, that mute button will be doubly-handy on a night of extreme nagging...
Some companies have tried, and failed. If you're putting up a purely inflammatory site with little to support your opinion, you may get slammed in court. If you're posting a site with legitimate/true stories etc in a regards to a company's actions, then you'll likely be better off.
How about 1024-bit keys?
Currently we're experimenting with using an open WLAN with logged http/https access (for guests), and then OpenVPN for all the internal users. Same network, but the VPN users have good data encryption (better than if we used WEP) and thus are allowed to access many more services.
Trust me, if you did that you'd probably be able to find your document on P2P networks three years from now! :-)
I've got a new 1Ghz VIA in place right now, only fan is a teeny one that makes less noise than the drives, etc.
Sure, dust is a consideration over time, but even without the fan too much dust tends to impair the heatsinks' dissipation rate as well...
Well, wouldn't it be a combination?
If you've got a battery that can get you 30 miles on a charge... you can still get pretty far by going with mixed gas/battery power. If you plug it in, well you can go 30 miles...
If you plug it in, you get better "milage" as it were because you're depending on gas less to charge the battery, but you're limited to 30 miles range before you start hitting the ol' fossil fuel again
Now, if you get a better battery in the future that can get you, say 100 miles.... you could probably go farther or get better milage mixing gas/battery driving yes, or you could get excellent milage with a change+go strategy so long as your target is within the 100 mile range.
So really, your milage depends on 3 factors:
a) How far you need to go between charges
b) How far a battery charge will take you
c) Whether you mix 'n match battery/gas power, or just plug 'er in at stops.
As things which require encryption become more commonplace, hardware aimed at the optomizing the encryption process is becoming more common and well. remember, some software encryption may be hard on your standard CPU because the PC by nature is - while optomized in certain areas - aimed at being more versatile than specific.
There are boards that have chipsets aiming at supporting hardware-based encryption though (I know VIA has a few). Just like a sub-1Ghz GPU will kick your 3.2Mhz CPU's ass for 3d rendering, a lower-speed but optomized EPU (Encryption Processing Unit?) could manage to do the process without overhead on the rest of your system, and without a largely noticable bottleneck.
Storing data without encryption still involves very specific hardware that does processing on the drive itself, data doesn't just magically jump onto the platters without the driving knowing how to put it there.
Throwing an encryption chip on motherboards (or perhaps even better on the drives themselves) would allow for all this to happen without speed issues... it's all about optimization.
And as for the security issues with the motherboards... why not restrict setting sucks things to doing so within the BIOS menus themselves... if you're playing with drive encryption options you should know what you're doing anyhow, though having an option to *lock* the encryption/passwords is definately a smart idea (perhaps even in the form of a hardware setting via jumper/toggles).
That's something that's always gotten me about "efficient" cars. Even if we did find a wondercar that would suit the needs of most people and get great milage/etc or use alternative/friendly fuels... there would still be the issues of legacy vehicles. How long until the new cars catch on so that the energy source is widely available... and also how long before the old fade out and we could get rid of the gas pumps...
I mean, even if all the new vehicles being sold suddenly works on grass clippings or whatever, there are still tons of cars out there running on gas. Not everyone could afford a new vehicle and would have to bite the bullet at the pump over time rather than being able to afford the lump sum of a new, more efficient vehicle.
With so many new technologies, you can't really pick any particular one and say it'll catch on. Electric has the advantage though that, if you *can* plug in, then yes we could beef our electric supply and the "pumps" as they were are already available. While electric is a newer thing for vehicles, it's still a well-asserted technology.
I wonder though... about vehicles such as big-rigs, aircraft, etc. Even as cars switch I think that alternative 'fuels' are needed to supply the power and storage capacity needed by the heavier-consuming vehicles.
Hmmm, well I live in BC, Canada. The large majority of the power in this province comes from Hydroelectric, which (depending on the impact of the dams build) is generally more environmentally friendly than your coal etc.
You could find negetives to anything, and on slashdot it seems there will always be somebody to bitch the negetive about any option...
This one is *NOT* work-friendly...
I've heard there's a good market for Politician's brains/souls... very low usage, after all.
I think that perhaps respect in the workplace in general is down. There seems to be a distinct lack of appreciation for the working class, while of course the visible usual-buttkissing applies to those higher up whilst we bitch about them in private.
I'm a sysadmin/technician myself, and I do notice a notible amount of disrespect at times in my job - sometimes often enough because others just don't understand the work involved in things they ask for - but I can't say I'm the only victim of this as my co-workers often enough readily disrespect each other as well.