Also consider that she is currently using a *bell*. A very lightly made bell. Remember the Simpsons episode where Homer rings the bell, and it crumbles apart? "Damn you, eBay!" And now they are looking for something better. IMHO, something electronic that is custom-built for her situation, even if it is from Wal-Mart/Radio Shack, is an enormous improvement over a very light bell.
I'm a big DVD fan, I'll pick this up as soon as it's out. But I found something else for my Star Wars costume/collection. There's this site that sells incredibly realistic lightsaber replicas. They use blades that are supposedly unbreakable and they glow, and there are 5 colors. I've never seen a yellow lightsaber before. The handles look almost exactly like the ones I've seen in the Star Wars Visual Dictionary series (unfortunately, no curved Count Dooku handles yet) and have little blinking lights on them. I'm not advertising for the company or anything, I just thought it was really cool. The price is a little steep (around $265), but you know what I'll be getting for Christmas;)
...and I found this: "The secret of its making can be rendered somewhat less obscure by examining the grid-paper sketch the artist made in preparation for this lithograph. (picture here)Note how the scale of the grid grows continuously in a clockwise direction. And note especially what this trick entails: A hole in the middle. A mathematician would call this a singularity, a place where the fabric of the space no longer holds together. There is just no way to knit this bizarre space into a seamless whole, and Escher, rather than try to obscure it in some way, has put his trademark initials smack in the center of it." The whole article can be found here. I didn't see the site, apparently/.ed. Just my $0.02.
If you're willing to fork over the dough the "Bible" series is awesome. They've helped me more than any other books, mostly because they contain everything pertaining to the topic. If you're looking to learn something fast, I use the Visual series from MaranGraphics.
Forget that comments about civil disobedience. I can't believe that someone we credited with having such huge balls could back out of this. I guess no one in this world has enough of a spine to stand up for themselves. I am disgusted. And HP's probably just crabby because they broke up with Dell. What ever happened to the open-source and Linux spirit of invention and innovation, improving things, against all odds? Have we all forgotten how important this is? I really hope not.
It WILL be an act of war. Arm yourselves, people. PGP your files and offload to a disconnected machine. And get a firewall. And Nmap. If they do this, we can fight right back and when they do, the government will finally see the error of this bill.
You could carry this as backup. Emphasis on could. I won't. Emergencies are the only situations that I could ever picture using this for. In any other situations, this unit is good for nothing. Outlets are everywhere! Plug-in chargers are tiny and convenient! This is no better than hamsters running on wheels to power it.
2.4Ghz has been in cordless phones for a while now. There's one right next to me. It's great that video game companies will finally take advantage of this.
Dell really should go ahead with their own line of printers. They're obviously the best in the computer market, and they can be awesome with printers, too.
If he does get arrested for this, which I think he should not, the following trial may prove one thing: The DMCA is (partially) unconstitutional. I think enough people would voice their opinion that it would herald a major change.
Though he didn't really have to be so open about it. "If you can get away with DMCA violations, why not?"
Consider this: It is 95% likely that you are in the middle 95% of an event or thing's duration. That's 2.5% at the far ends. If you are witnessing it at the extreme 95% beginning, the future is 39 times longer than the past. At the other extreme, only 1/39th of the future remains. So using the factor of 39 rule, it is 95% likely that something will last more than 1/39th of its current duration, but less than 39 times its current duration. Let's apply this to Homo sapiens. Our current duration is about 200,000 years. So, it's 95% likely that we will live for more than 5,100 years, but less than 7.8 million years.
The odds are all for us. Note: This concept was originally created by astrophysicist J. Richart Gott III.
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... but I still think they should take more pictures or the face, pyramids, and "city" at Cydonia.
Also consider that she is currently using a *bell*. A very lightly made bell. Remember the Simpsons episode where Homer rings the bell, and it crumbles apart? "Damn you, eBay!" And now they are looking for something better. IMHO, something electronic that is custom-built for her situation, even if it is from Wal-Mart/Radio Shack, is an enormous improvement over a very light bell.
OOPS! Sorry! The site's at parksabers.com . I forgot...
I'm a big DVD fan, I'll pick this up as soon as it's out. But I found something else for my Star Wars costume/collection. There's this site that sells incredibly realistic lightsaber replicas. They use blades that are supposedly unbreakable and they glow, and there are 5 colors. I've never seen a yellow lightsaber before. The handles look almost exactly like the ones I've seen in the Star Wars Visual Dictionary series (unfortunately, no curved Count Dooku handles yet) and have little blinking lights on them. I'm not advertising for the company or anything, I just thought it was really cool. The price is a little steep (around $265), but you know what I'll be getting for Christmas ;)
I believe Andersen was bought out by Accenture, now it's the Big Four.
...what would it be like to have your coffee machine crash? Not to mention your refrigerator...
...and I found this: /.ed. Just my $0.02.
"The secret of its making can be rendered somewhat less obscure by examining the grid-paper sketch the artist made in preparation for this lithograph. (picture here)Note how the scale of the grid grows continuously in a clockwise direction. And note especially what this trick entails: A hole in the middle. A mathematician would call this a singularity, a place where the fabric of the space no longer holds together. There is just no way to knit this bizarre space into a seamless whole, and Escher, rather than try to obscure it in some way, has put his trademark initials smack in the center of it."
The whole article can be found here. I didn't see the site, apparently
If you're willing to fork over the dough the "Bible" series is awesome. They've helped me more than any other books, mostly because they contain everything pertaining to the topic. If you're looking to learn something fast, I use the Visual series from MaranGraphics.
Forget that comments about civil disobedience. I can't believe that someone we credited with having such huge balls could back out of this. I guess no one in this world has enough of a spine to stand up for themselves. I am disgusted.
And HP's probably just crabby because they broke up with Dell.
What ever happened to the open-source and Linux spirit of invention and innovation, improving things, against all odds? Have we all forgotten how important this is? I really hope not.
Kind of like the "brown noise" on South Park.
Maybe, but which part? I actually saw this on another message board. I thought it was interesting.
Does this blind them permanently or temporarily? And what about the pain beam that they were developing?
That would be 264GB, not 200GB. Unless you're talking about 3 platters. Then it adds up rather neatly.
You have a zettabyte. 5 000 000 000 000? You have a yottabyte. And that's about as far as metric goes.
We know that the maker is Western Digital... ;)
because Maxtor's site has not been Slashdotted
It WILL be an act of war. Arm yourselves, people. PGP your files and offload to a disconnected machine. And get a firewall. And Nmap. If they do this, we can fight right back and when they do, the government will finally see the error of this bill.
You could carry this as backup. Emphasis on could. I won't. Emergencies are the only situations that I could ever picture using this for. In any other situations, this unit is good for nothing. Outlets are everywhere! Plug-in chargers are tiny and convenient! This is no better than hamsters running on wheels to power it.
There's a program called Snort that does packet sniffing and intrusion detection, among other things. It's at snort.org.
That and good ol' P.G.P.
2.4Ghz has been in cordless phones for a while now. There's one right next to me. It's great that video game companies will finally take advantage of this.
Epson also is pretty good. And it has good software to go along with it, too. I use a Lexmark Z31 and an Epson C60 and they both work great.
I really hope they have Lexmark make their printers. IMHO, their quality is unsurpassed.
Dell really should go ahead with their own line of printers. They're obviously the best in the computer market, and they can be awesome with printers, too.
My perfect gift would be the right to replace the users with shell scripts for the day. *nix is more reliable :)
If he does get arrested for this, which I think he should not, the following trial may prove one thing: The DMCA is (partially) unconstitutional. I think enough people would voice their opinion that it would herald a major change.
Though he didn't really have to be so open about it.
"If you can get away with DMCA violations, why not?"
Consider this: It is 95% likely that you are in the middle 95% of an event or thing's duration. That's 2.5% at the far ends. If you are witnessing it at the extreme 95% beginning, the future is 39 times longer than the past. At the other extreme, only 1/39th of the future remains. So using the factor of 39 rule, it is 95% likely that something will last more than 1/39th of its current duration, but less than 39 times its current duration.
Let's apply this to Homo sapiens. Our current duration is about 200,000 years. So, it's 95% likely that we will live for more than 5,100 years, but less than 7.8 million years.
The odds are all for us.
Note: This concept was originally created by astrophysicist J. Richart Gott III.