Hmmm let's see a bathtube sized piece of copper or 4.7 million tons of TNT as in 4.7 mega tons. A "lumb" of high explosive at that weight equivalence is called a nuke, and the odds of that happening are about zero.
Actually it wasn't quite $20,000 but it was pretty expensive. I think the final cost was about $800 each. The toilet seat in question is the one located on the B1-B bomber, not your garden variety standard toilet.
Those days are long gone, well not entirely, but the budget excess of the 80's at least for weapons developement are getting smaller every year, and in the case of silly things like toilets, we are going off the shelf instead of paying some engineer $400 an hour to develope and another company $400 an hour to custom fabricate them.
Take heart though, it's a damn fine toilet. Very rarely spills shit all over the place during heavy manuevering. (Usually it's the crew that can't hit the "target", and they blame it on mechanical failures.)
The FBI doesn't use OSX they use Apples to run other OS's and I doubt this doesn't extend much beyond a few security people.
There is also the little fact for the price of one Apple I can get three windows machines which is the real reason why the military won't consider it. The specialized security guys in the FBI or the military may have enough budget and justification to buy these toys, but jo blow slob is going for bottom dollar.
Besides the only reason OSX is "secure" is it's the littlest fish in the pond. Virus writing is a numbers game. What would you want to do, write a piece of code with the opportunity to infect dozens of machines or one that could infect hundreds of thousands? I assure you if Max ever managed to claw above their misserable market share then they'd see their fair share of viruses, same goes for Linux.
You hit the thumb square with the hammer. Junkware plus old hardware which is running win2000/XP is our biggest problem. It bogs down the network and the work PC's that barely have the resources to run the OS.
Linux and Apple are out of the question since finding people to support them would be impossible. We have a hard enough time finding people to manage the the most common (MS) it would be even worse for the others. Imagine people trying to use MS, and Linux, and Apple machines. God people have a hard enough time just getting things to print on the right printer.
It would be a blessing if I could have a stripped down version of windows, that doesn't allow most of the multimedia/browsing BS and keeps things from self installing from the web. (IE no cookies, no adware, no spyware, no activex, no flash games, etc, etc)
The only thing I wish would be a spam blocker, since too many people are too lazy to actually target their emails and will just spam whole squadrons in order to "disseminate" useless info that was really only relavent for a half a dozen people.
The best way to establish the proper dipomatic relationship with any political entity is to make sure you have the proper amount of rock (a few hundred tons will do nicely)of rock in geo-sync-orbit over all their major cities.
First off there is no such thing as a non-prolematic energy source, they all cause problems.
Nuclear makes you glow
Coal polutes the air/destroys the ground
Oil same problem
Solar only works during the day/expensive
Wind only works in wind areas
Tidal doesn't work well
Hydro destroys eco systems
Wood eco destruction/polution
Agricultural based causes enviro/air/water polution eats into food production capabilities.
The thing is if you don't pick one then you end up with nothing.
1) Who ever wants it feel free to come get it
2) It's renewable just put good ol' regular He up there and let the cosmic rays do the rest.
3) Very observant of you, what's your point? They used to think peopel were crazy and was to much trouble to drill out in the open ocean for oil even as late as the 80's.
That would be easy, ever dropped anything from an overpass on passing cars? It's not much different. A little boost to get it going after that it's a mater of dropping it in the right spot.
Of course getting there in the first place is the hard part.
Actually that's easy. A 15 watt solar panel runs your about $100 these days. There is also the fact that nearly all automotive and RV type systems as well as the bulk of your small off the grid power supplies are all 12vdc. Developing a small portable and inexpensive power supply can be done quite easily for a relatively small amount of money. A few thousand dollars to out fit a school with the computers and a few more thousands for the power supply affordable by even 3rd world standards.
Alot more affordable than the power hungry machines that are available these days at your local Best Buy.
In the 1st world I can see alot of public computing applications being put to use with these machines. Especially for basic info services or free public web surfing.
I still like the idea of non-tape media. Copy and paste is always going to be more desireable in my mind than having to convert a tape over using a third device or the camera itself. You are right to say for production work it's not going to cut the mustard, though I don't see why a laptop or pc harddrive based solution couldn't work as well as or better than tape in term of speed and quality.
Another strategy would to be to throw in a WiFi card and you can have your "all day" capability as the camera dumps the footage off, either on the fly or during downtime, onto your laptop which is back in the car or desktop inside the house/office. This is already occurring in the world of photo journalism, so the pictures are being uploaded within moments of being taken and passed on to the editors.
Cool idea, but why the large minimum order requirements. I'm sure the community in the first world would love to have these little toys to play with. The 12 volt power supply would make this thing a shoe in for remote/mobile aps.
Well it helps to read the article. CF2 will do nicely, though I'd rather see a larger laptop drive in the thing, or if they are going to bother with "flash memory" use either SD or CF1 instead of CF2 so I don't have to go out and buy even more types of memory.
I absolutely hate tape and optical finally a company gets a clue and goes with something better, and possibly cheaper.
Now let's hope they were thoughtfull enough to leave consumer access to the HD so we can dump the standard drive and super size it with something better.
Duh it's called a property tax. Or God forbid look up the numbers yourself, not like the come screeming in within 2 minutes unless you live in the low crime part of town.
All US local, state, and federal and I would assume foreign governements cry foul when their distributed tax schemes get consolidated. See we only charge you 1% here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here....sure it adds up to 67% but this tax is only 1% see.
Now as far as universal service, several cities are trying to do that. Which would provide the poor with near free wireless ISP, cell, and phone service. Of course they are being sued left and right for it.
Personally I like when people spam the person in the real world. Effectively shutting down their home phone, cell phone, business phone, mail box, post office box, answering service, etc, etc, etc.
This is not a bad idea, but I don't see how they'll be able to legally do it for very long.
Yeah he's thinking about it. The only problem he's having is there's only so far, so fast a one man show can expand his business. As long as he keeps it slow and steady, and doesn't suffer any catostropic equipment failures I see no reason why he couldn't be out your way by next summer. His past expansion projects took him about 6 months to arrange and then execute. The hardest part was finding somewhere he could put up his repeater towers for free/near free. Since he runs them off of solar it doesn't take him too long to set one up.
Well then if we are going to warn people about the phone exploding we should warn them of other things that could happen to them that are of similar odds.
Warning:
The use of this device may cause large carniverous fish to attack you while walking down the streat in New York
.
May attract the ledgendary figure known as big foot with cute ring tones which could result in user getting fleas.
A piece of blue ice may fall from the sky and crush your girlfriend who just happens to be sleeping with your brother at his place
You may unknowningly discover the lost city of Atlan......
That's because the Matrox did nothing more than just stretch the picture over three monitors it didn't actaully give you any more degrees of view than with a single monitor, that and it had very poor stats compaired to other cards (Nvidia/ATI).
The antena uses a sat dish mount but the antena itself is only about 6x9x4inches. An adapter to put power over an unused pair of cat5 cable juices the the whole thing up.
This is true, but the telco's have been going after the small towns first since they don't have the resources (the right politicians in their pockets) to fight off the legal challenges they'll use to set a precident to fight the larger cities and their rollouts.
I'm just looking forward to the day when connecting to the internet means putting an advanced wifi antenna (if they can ever beat the routing problems) on your roof and using an ad-lib connection which uses other peoples antenas to span the distances, and forgo the monthly cost all together. A one time purchase of hardware to create a network that is self expanding and self upgrading.
Yeah I see your point, but hey I like using the 3d accelleration too. I had a pair of 19" CRTs before and yes it was way too heavy. The table I used for a computer desk began to bow in the middle.:)
I see the multi-monitor systems becoming more popular once the high end $400 cards of today become the $50 cards of tomorrow, or simply being able to continue to use your "slow" graphics card for an extended desktops with your latest and the greatest running your games.
It'll be interesting to see how things go since the next version of windows is supposed to dump, or at least add to, the 2d desktops in favor of 3d desktops. (You can still have your 2d by simply showing one side of a square/shape.)
I don't know the name but there is a wireless ISP down in Rosamond too. The range is about 20-30 miles with the directional antenas we use here. The range is pretty good, though you might have to chop down some of the neighbors trees if they are in the way of the line of site from your house to the tower. That or you'll have to raise your antenna above the obstructions. The ISP here in Cal City has Cal City, Boron, N Edwards all linked up. He's working on Mojave and China Lake. He was trying to get onto Edwards, but the freq manager on base said no way. Afraid they might interfere with military traffic. Too bad the service on base is garbage though better than nothing. (It's about half as fast as a typical DSL connection.)
If you go to www.tcnuts.com and email James. He should be able to tell you who the wireless ISP in Rosamond is. Keep in mind you are dealing with a local small scale ISP which is nothing more than a single guy putting up a couple of towers around town and then managing a few T1 connections. So the wait to get hooked up can be long. (Took 3 months before I made it to the front of the backlog).
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Hmmm let's see a bathtube sized piece of copper or 4.7 million tons of TNT as in 4.7 mega tons. A "lumb" of high explosive at that weight equivalence is called a nuke, and the odds of that happening are about zero.
No but he is getting sued for copyright infringment.
Those days are long gone, well not entirely, but the budget excess of the 80's at least for weapons developement are getting smaller every year, and in the case of silly things like toilets, we are going off the shelf instead of paying some engineer $400 an hour to develope and another company $400 an hour to custom fabricate them.
Take heart though, it's a damn fine toilet. Very rarely spills shit all over the place during heavy manuevering. (Usually it's the crew that can't hit the "target", and they blame it on mechanical failures.)
There is also the little fact for the price of one Apple I can get three windows machines which is the real reason why the military won't consider it. The specialized security guys in the FBI or the military may have enough budget and justification to buy these toys, but jo blow slob is going for bottom dollar.
Besides the only reason OSX is "secure" is it's the littlest fish in the pond. Virus writing is a numbers game. What would you want to do, write a piece of code with the opportunity to infect dozens of machines or one that could infect hundreds of thousands? I assure you if Max ever managed to claw above their misserable market share then they'd see their fair share of viruses, same goes for Linux.
Linux and Apple are out of the question since finding people to support them would be impossible. We have a hard enough time finding people to manage the the most common (MS) it would be even worse for the others. Imagine people trying to use MS, and Linux, and Apple machines. God people have a hard enough time just getting things to print on the right printer.
It would be a blessing if I could have a stripped down version of windows, that doesn't allow most of the multimedia/browsing BS and keeps things from self installing from the web. (IE no cookies, no adware, no spyware, no activex, no flash games, etc, etc)
The only thing I wish would be a spam blocker, since too many people are too lazy to actually target their emails and will just spam whole squadrons in order to "disseminate" useless info that was really only relavent for a half a dozen people.
The best way to establish the proper dipomatic relationship with any political entity is to make sure you have the proper amount of rock (a few hundred tons will do nicely)of rock in geo-sync-orbit over all their major cities.
Nuclear makes you glow
Coal polutes the air/destroys the ground
Oil same problem
Solar only works during the day/expensive
Wind only works in wind areas
Tidal doesn't work well
Hydro destroys eco systems
Wood eco destruction/polution
Agricultural based causes enviro/air/water polution eats into food production capabilities.
The thing is if you don't pick one then you end up with nothing.
1) Who ever wants it feel free to come get it
2) It's renewable just put good ol' regular He up there and let the cosmic rays do the rest.
3) Very observant of you, what's your point? They used to think peopel were crazy and was to much trouble to drill out in the open ocean for oil even as late as the 80's.
Of course getting there in the first place is the hard part.
Alot more affordable than the power hungry machines that are available these days at your local Best Buy.
In the 1st world I can see alot of public computing applications being put to use with these machines. Especially for basic info services or free public web surfing.
Another strategy would to be to throw in a WiFi card and you can have your "all day" capability as the camera dumps the footage off, either on the fly or during downtime, onto your laptop which is back in the car or desktop inside the house/office. This is already occurring in the world of photo journalism, so the pictures are being uploaded within moments of being taken and passed on to the editors.
Cool idea, but why the large minimum order requirements. I'm sure the community in the first world would love to have these little toys to play with. The 12 volt power supply would make this thing a shoe in for remote/mobile aps.
Also why no MPEG-4? MPEG-2 is so 90's
I absolutely hate tape and optical finally a company gets a clue and goes with something better, and possibly cheaper.
Now let's hope they were thoughtfull enough to leave consumer access to the HD so we can dump the standard drive and super size it with something better.
All US local, state, and federal and I would assume foreign governements cry foul when their distributed tax schemes get consolidated. See we only charge you 1% here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here....sure it adds up to 67% but this tax is only 1% see.
Now as far as universal service, several cities are trying to do that. Which would provide the poor with near free wireless ISP, cell, and phone service. Of course they are being sued left and right for it.
This is not a bad idea, but I don't see how they'll be able to legally do it for very long.
Actually I'd let him know, that is some of the deals he's cut with other people as well as the towns.
Yeah but people are stupid.
Yeah he's thinking about it. The only problem he's having is there's only so far, so fast a one man show can expand his business. As long as he keeps it slow and steady, and doesn't suffer any catostropic equipment failures I see no reason why he couldn't be out your way by next summer. His past expansion projects took him about 6 months to arrange and then execute. The hardest part was finding somewhere he could put up his repeater towers for free/near free. Since he runs them off of solar it doesn't take him too long to set one up.
true but how many people run just 2d anymore? (Outside the business world)
Warning:
The use of this device may cause large carniverous fish to attack you while walking down the streat in New York
. May attract the ledgendary figure known as big foot with cute ring tones which could result in user getting fleas.
A piece of blue ice may fall from the sky and crush your girlfriend who just happens to be sleeping with your brother at his place
You may unknowningly discover the lost city of Atlan......
That's because the Matrox did nothing more than just stretch the picture over three monitors it didn't actaully give you any more degrees of view than with a single monitor, that and it had very poor stats compaired to other cards (Nvidia/ATI).
The antena uses a sat dish mount but the antena itself is only about 6x9x4inches. An adapter to put power over an unused pair of cat5 cable juices the the whole thing up.
I'm just looking forward to the day when connecting to the internet means putting an advanced wifi antenna (if they can ever beat the routing problems) on your roof and using an ad-lib connection which uses other peoples antenas to span the distances, and forgo the monthly cost all together. A one time purchase of hardware to create a network that is self expanding and self upgrading.
I see the multi-monitor systems becoming more popular once the high end $400 cards of today become the $50 cards of tomorrow, or simply being able to continue to use your "slow" graphics card for an extended desktops with your latest and the greatest running your games.
It'll be interesting to see how things go since the next version of windows is supposed to dump, or at least add to, the 2d desktops in favor of 3d desktops. (You can still have your 2d by simply showing one side of a square/shape.)
If you go to www.tcnuts.com and email James. He should be able to tell you who the wireless ISP in Rosamond is. Keep in mind you are dealing with a local small scale ISP which is nothing more than a single guy putting up a couple of towers around town and then managing a few T1 connections. So the wait to get hooked up can be long. (Took 3 months before I made it to the front of the backlog).