If Apple enters the electronic book market, I wonder what they will call their device. iBook is obviously already taken for their laptop line, so perhaps their electronic book line will be called the iLaptop?
> if you smack a pedestrian, the hood is automatically raised to cushion his landing on the engine block.
I'm not sure I can visualize how this would be safer, unless the hood was hinged at the front. With the hood near the window, as is most common, wouldn't this at worst just cause said pedestrian to strike the leading edge of the hood as it was coming up (painful) or catapult the pedestrian into the air (just as painful)?
It was my understanding that to convert from one DC voltage to another efficiently (that is, ignoring a trivial resistive voltage divider), you needed to convert to AC, run it through a transformer, and convert it again into DC. This little circuit seems to accomplish it without transformers. How does it work? References to some articles would be appreciated:)
-- Marcio
Thank you. I have posted to the appropriate places and have someone from the Samba project looking into this for possible violations. Hopefully some good will come out of this and we can have some more open hardware to tinker with. Long live the GPL!:)
They are made by KingByte and I have reason to suspect that it is Linux based. It would be nice to have the source since the IP functionality is absolutely hiddeous (in other words, I never really got it to work, although USB functionality works fine).
So what's the procedure for pressuring a manufacturer to comply with a GPL? Can I report suspected violations someplace?
But nobody will actually look at this page once the media blitz wears off.
A more sustainable idea might be a a site that pays you a few bucks a week to turn on ActiveDesktop and make this into your desktop. Then advertizers are able to buy pixels on *your* desktop. It would be less annoying than popup boxes, methinks.
Or, on a more sinister note, maybe a worm will come out which will set peoples desktops to this web site, using one of the recently announced exploits.
He in fact did come up with a bubble that didn't burst. He came up with one that bounced like a rubber ball. He said it was his best bubble he made, but sadly he was unable to reproduce it. This was because he took no notes and obviously wasn't systematic about his experiments. It was the loss of the bouncing bubble that prompted him to set up a video camera to record his subsequent experiments, so he could reproduce it later.
I haven't tried this yet, but I bet it will revert to the original state every time you shut it down, otherwise they would essentially be giving the product away for free.
So if you started with a blank machine, you would loose all your work unless you kept it running 24/7.
But this is just speculation. I have no idea how they chose to limit this, but even so, I think it is great of VMWare to release this. I teach operating system courses and I'm going to definitely try it out (the only reason I haven't is that it supposedly does not install on a machine that already has VMWare Workstation on it, so I need to find another box for testing).
I can't see the point of this, since it introduces a pad which we have to find a place for and yet another wall wart to plug in. Utterly pointless.
A better idea... how about making it so we could quick-charge our devices by putting it in the microwave oven for a minute or two? Microwave ovens would be a really good source of high-power EM fields and we wouldn't have to have *yet another* device in our homes.
-- Marcio
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In other news, man unearths fossilized remnants of giant man-eating ants in his backyard and sends it in to the Smithsonian Institute with the proposed taxonomy of "procreatium spiff-arino"
As the plane plummets towards the ground, the terror of the passengers turns to extreme agony as the dischordant blast of bad karaoke revibrates through the cabin's PA system in the pilot's last ditch effort to regain control of his craft.
While I was in college, I used to use a HP 100LX as a mini-word processor and I wrote many journal entries on it. It works fine if you don't mind typing with your thumbs.
The HP100LX still my favorite miniature computer and I feel bad it was discontinued. It runs for months on two AA batteries and has a very nice and functional user interface created by a parnership between HP and Lotus. For those who don't know, the 100LX is a IBM PC XT class microcomputer that was shrunk to fit in your pocket.
It has DOS 5.5 on it, so you can run PC software on it. During college I had loaded up MATLAB, Derive (a symbolic algebra package), TURBO C++ and all sorts of goodies that became indespensable during my studies.
Today I still use my 100LX as a password database and an alarm clock.
>> Not only self-promotion on part of the author, >> but a completely irrelevant non-article...
To counter this, I want to say I'm glad I was introduced to this excellent piece of "free as in beer" software that I would not otherwise have known about.
As for self promotion, perhaps the person who posted this is promoting his own made up prize, but he does not stand to profit from this. Neither is he the author of Wink, so I see nothing at all wrong with what is being done. It's an independent evaluation of a free piece of software that some people might benefit from. And it even runs on Linux nad may be used to generate much needed tutorials for Linux apps.
Sounds relevant to me and I welcome further posts like this.
> > Bah! When I was young, we used to chug a > > pitcher of Plutonium and really light up the bowl.
You wrote:
> You should try a big block of solid > potassium...fun! > I would recommend running though....
I'm not sure this would work. IIUC (if i understand correctly), by "chug a pitcher of Plutonium" the parent meant ingesting plutonium and then "lighting the bowl" during the excretory phase of digestion. This is indicated by the dictionary definition of "chug", which is "to move or travel while making dull explosive sounds" (I kid you not).
Which brings us to the present suggestion that "big block of solid potassium" might be more fun. Ingesting a big block of potassium would not be in the least fun, and in the event that you suceeded in this task, it is unclear how running would spare you from the attendant conscequence of such a wreckless act.
I'm actually pretty disappointed that those LCD panels went the way of the dodo bird. They were pretty cool, and I dare say more convenient than integrated projectors (since with the old panels you could use dual-use the projector for.... overheads!)
No, you misunderstood me. I send them a suggestion to do the little road map overlay over the satellite imagery like in multimap. I *did not* mean to imply that I had suggested satellite imagery in general.
It's a personal opinion, but I actually find configuration files to be one area in which XML does not help. It takes a lot of effort to write non-trivial XML files from scratch and it's very hard to read existing files because of all the redundancy. As the files get bigger, they also become difficult to navigate without special editors (such as ones which collapse tags).
I feel a plain old Windows-style ".ini"
file with name-value pairs is the most readable configuration file format for humans to understand.
Yes, XML is easily parsed by a computer, so in an ideal world, you would never have to read or write XML by hand, but then it seems like it may well have been an extensible binary format with an open source API and a really good open source GUI. See my related thread here:
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If Apple enters the electronic book market, I wonder what they will call their device. iBook is obviously already taken for their laptop line, so perhaps their electronic book line will be called the iLaptop?
Gonna try it as soon as I get home! :)
> if you smack a pedestrian, the hood is automatically raised to cushion his landing on the engine block.
I'm not sure I can visualize how this would be safer, unless the hood was hinged at the front. With the hood near the window, as is most common, wouldn't this at worst just cause said pedestrian to strike the leading edge of the hood as it was coming up (painful) or catapult the pedestrian into the air (just as painful)?
-- Marcio
It was my understanding that to convert from one DC voltage to another efficiently (that is, ignoring a trivial resistive voltage divider), you needed to convert to AC, run it through a transformer, and convert it again into DC. This little circuit seems to accomplish it without transformers. How does it work? References to some articles would be appreciated :)
-- Marcio
Thank you. I have posted to the appropriate places and have someone from the Samba project looking into this for possible violations. Hopefully some good will come out of this and we can have some more open hardware to tinker with. Long live the GPL! :)
-- Marcio
I bought one of these "IP Drives" on eBay:
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http://www.kingbyte.com/index.php?PA=product_list
They are made by KingByte and I have reason to suspect that it is Linux based. It would be nice to have the source since the IP functionality is absolutely hiddeous (in other words, I never really got it to work, although USB functionality works fine).
So what's the procedure for pressuring a manufacturer to comply with a GPL? Can I report suspected violations someplace?
-- Marcio
But nobody will actually look at this page once the media blitz wears off.
A more sustainable idea might be a a site that pays you a few bucks a week to turn on ActiveDesktop and make this into your desktop. Then advertizers are able to buy pixels on *your* desktop. It would be less annoying than popup boxes, methinks.
Or, on a more sinister note, maybe a worm will come out which will set peoples desktops to this web site, using one of the recently announced exploits.
- Marcio
He in fact did come up with a bubble that didn't burst. He came up with one that bounced like a rubber ball. He said it was his best bubble he made, but sadly he was unable to reproduce it. This was because he took no notes and obviously wasn't systematic about his experiments. It was the loss of the bouncing bubble that prompted him to set up a video camera to record his subsequent experiments, so he could reproduce it later.
-- Marcio
This is gonna be one hell of an ActiveX control...
> Run the player in a virtual machine :)
:(
I hadn't thought of this, but sadly when I try I get "Sorry, this product cannot be installed in a virtual machine"
-- Marcio
I haven't tried this yet, but I bet it will revert to the original state every time you shut it down, otherwise they would essentially be giving the product away for free.
So if you started with a blank machine, you would loose all your work unless you kept it running 24/7.
But this is just speculation. I have no idea how they chose to limit this, but even so, I think it is great of VMWare to release this. I teach operating system courses and I'm going to definitely try it out (the only reason I haven't is that it supposedly does not install on a machine that already has VMWare Workstation on it, so I need to find another box for testing).
-- Marcio
I can't see the point of this, since it introduces a pad which we have to find a place for and yet another wall wart to plug in. Utterly pointless.
A better idea... how about making it so we could quick-charge our devices by putting it in the microwave oven for a minute or two? Microwave ovens would be a really good source of high-power EM fields and we wouldn't have to have *yet another* device in our homes.
-- Marcio
In other news, man unearths fossilized remnants of giant man-eating ants in his backyard and sends it in to the Smithsonian Institute with the proposed taxonomy of "procreatium spiff-arino"
As the plane plummets towards the ground, the terror of the passengers turns to extreme agony as the dischordant blast of bad karaoke revibrates through the cabin's PA system in the pilot's last ditch effort to regain control of his craft.
While I was in college, I used to use a HP 100LX as a mini-word processor and I wrote many journal entries on it. It works fine if you don't mind typing with your thumbs.
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Review and Screenshots: http://www.crypticlife.net/attic/www/hp200lx/lx-r
Pictures: http://images.google.com/images?q=100LX&hl=en&btn
The HP100LX still my favorite miniature computer and I feel bad it was discontinued. It runs for months on two AA batteries and has a very nice and functional user interface created by a parnership between HP and Lotus. For those who don't know, the 100LX is a IBM PC XT class microcomputer that was shrunk to fit in your pocket.
It has DOS 5.5 on it, so you can run PC software on it. During college I had loaded up MATLAB, Derive (a symbolic algebra package), TURBO C++ and all sorts of goodies that became indespensable during my studies.
Today I still use my 100LX as a password database and an alarm clock.
-- Marcio
So this means I just plug this card in to an old 486 and I can run Windows Longhorn right on my graphics card's GPU and RAM, right?
Seriously though, it would be neat if you could boot an operating system on a GPU and have it run without a main CPU installed on your motherboard.
-- Marcio
I read it as "Online Contortionist". I must just read the ending of the words and assume the rest. Go figure. -- Marcio
>> Not only self-promotion on part of the author,
>> but a completely irrelevant non-article...
To counter this, I want to say I'm glad I was introduced to this excellent piece of "free as in beer" software that I would not otherwise have known about.
As for self promotion, perhaps the person who posted this is promoting his own made up prize, but he does not stand to profit from this. Neither is he the author of Wink, so I see nothing at all wrong with what is being done. It's an independent evaluation of a free piece of software that some people might benefit from. And it even runs on Linux nad may be used to generate much needed tutorials for Linux apps.
Sounds relevant to me and I welcome further posts like this.
-- Marcio
Original post:
> > Bah! When I was young, we used to chug a
> > pitcher of Plutonium and really light up the bowl.
You wrote:
> You should try a big block of solid
> potassium...fun!
> I would recommend running though....
I'm not sure this would work. IIUC (if i understand correctly), by "chug a pitcher of Plutonium" the parent meant ingesting plutonium and then "lighting the bowl" during the excretory phase of digestion. This is indicated by the dictionary definition of "chug", which is "to move or travel while making dull explosive sounds" (I kid you not).
Which brings us to the present suggestion that "big block of solid potassium" might be more fun. Ingesting a big block of potassium would not be in the least fun, and in the event that you suceeded in this task, it is unclear how running would spare you from the attendant conscequence of such a wreckless act.
-- Marcio
Just buy an old-school LCD panel for overhead projectors and duct tape it to the front of your CRT...
I'm actually pretty disappointed that those LCD panels went the way of the dodo bird. They were pretty cool, and I dare say more convenient than integrated projectors (since with the old panels you could use dual-use the projector for.... overheads!)
-- Marcio
> Distro Renamed to Irritate Various Americans
Good idea, but you got it slightly wrong. It's a recursive acronym:
Driva Really Irrates Various Americans.
-- Marcio
No, you misunderstood me. I send them a suggestion to do the little road map overlay over the satellite imagery like in multimap. I *did not* mean to imply that I had suggested satellite imagery in general.
That feature is awesome! I sent this as a suggestion to Google, including a link to multimap.
How long before we have one of these
Fun thriller, about a building who kills off its inhabitants...
-- Marcio
I feel a plain old Windows-style ".ini" file with name-value pairs is the most readable configuration file format for humans to understand.
Yes, XML is easily parsed by a computer, so in an ideal world, you would never have to read or write XML by hand, but then it seems like it may well have been an extensible binary format with an open source API and a really good open source GUI. See my related thread here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136513&cid=114 03147