Most health clubs I've seen keep their televisions at low volumes and use a different FM frequency for each tv to broadcast the audio to. Because the transmitter is so close to the exercise equipment (usually within 20 feet), the FM tuner can be pathetically weak and still let you hear the station.
Two devices that can benefit the most from a good speech recognition engine are pdas and cell phones. Being that java is quickly becoming a standard part of both cellphones and pdas, the use of java for this project makes sense to me.
I'm sorry, but you obviously don't have much experience in a big corporation. I work for a fortune 500 company which has the privilege of picking the cream of the crop to run our IT shop (besides me), and our network has been taken down several times the past few years from viruses. Firewalls and AV packages don't do a damn thing when you have third party vendors bringing in their laptops and connecting to your network to install their software. Nor do they help when you have users connecting from home.
No matter how savvy your admins are as far as patching the systems, configuring a good firewall, etc. if you run a Windows environment you are going to have downtime from viruses. How many people here work for a big corporation and haven't had downtime from Windows networks collapsing from viruses?
I'm not sure how this works in the new version of Gnome, but KDE 3.x has the slickest integration of vnc I've seen in any desktop environment. There's a feature called Remote Desktop Sharing that lets you create temporary (1 hour) invitations for people to log into your pc and view your x desktop. You can also configure it to accept connections at any time with the correct password. This feature makes remote tech support a breeze. AFAIK it is compatible with the various vnc clients out there.
Easytag is a wonderful app for mass tagging mp3, ogg, and flac files on linux. It can set tags based on the file name, rename files based on the tags, sort your mp3s into folders based on artist and album, etc. It is the best music cataloging tool I've seen on either windows or linux.
I had lasik performed on both my eyes a little over a year ago and have been thrilled with the results. My vision was so bad I couldn't even put down my glasses without fear of never finding them again. Now I have 20/20 vision.
Don't spend any time researching the horrors of lasik. Any surgical procedure has the potential to seriously injure you, and hearing about the horror stories will just discourage you. The important thing to research is the place to have it performed. If you have your lasik done at your local Walmart for $99 an eye be prepared for a lifetime of blindness. This is one life event you don't want to skimp on.
I had mine done at the Mayo Clinic for $3500. Much more expensive than most places, but well worth the money. I had a team of doctors guide me through the process. It took literally 1 minute. I went home and took a nap, and when I woke up my vision was amazing. It took a couple of days for my vision to settle down, and since then life has been wonderful.
Getting my vision repaired via Lasik is the best decision I have ever made.
How does this fit in with the Liberty Alliance / Passport authentication schemes? Is this yet another one developers will have to choose between, or this limited to UK systems? What's the point of using a single login system if there are a 1,000 such systems users have to register with and log into?
Home users aren't going to shell out $4k for this. Professionals (hopefully) will know the compatibility issues this thing will have with all the standard red laser cd readers. So who's going to buy it? Is this more of a 'proof of concept' type of product?
The very popular War ftp server is open source (GPL) and free, but is not allowed to be used by any form of government. They can't even pay to use the software if they wanted to. Here is the developer's software license:
All files that origins from Jgaa's Internet (including the War software series) are released as copyrighted freeware under these conditions. In short: Unless you are the government, you can use the software for free.
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Why not fix it up and get it working again? Most of the problems with the power button blinking & fuzziness on the screen has to do with dust in the connector. It takes 5 minutes to fix. Take the light gray top off, unscrew the black cartridge holder, and with a qtip clean the connector using a diluted rubbing alcohol solution (9:1 water to alcohol). Clean each game by rubbing both sides of its connector & the edge with the same solution. You'd be amazed at how much crap accumulates on those connectors.
I bought a 'broken' NES + 50 games off ebay for $15. Fixed it up, and now between Slashdot and Ten Yard Fight I have no life...
What about people who choose not to be online to begin with? I know plenty of parents within city limits with lots of money that are scared to death of having their kids stumble upon 'evil' websites.
While I agree cost plays a big factor to some people, and being able to use the existing powerline infrastructure should (in theory) lead to lower access costs, it certainly won't lead to everyone having broadband internet access.
I don't agree at all. The beauty of programming on linux (and in Delphi) is all the free modules out there you can use within your code. You're suggesting programmers "re-invent the wheel" for each problem they run into. How many cd recording programs would there be for linux if each programmer had to write the code from scratch to interface with cd burners?
What is really needed is an easier way to manage all the dependancies within applications. Apt goes a long way towards this if you're working with binaries, but you're screwed if you want to compile from source.
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Most health clubs I've seen keep their televisions at low volumes and use a different FM frequency for each tv to broadcast the audio to. Because the transmitter is so close to the exercise equipment (usually within 20 feet), the FM tuner can be pathetically weak and still let you hear the station.
jh
Two devices that can benefit the most from a good speech recognition engine are pdas and cell phones. Being that java is quickly becoming a standard part of both cellphones and pdas, the use of java for this project makes sense to me.
I'm sorry, but you obviously don't have much experience in a big corporation. I work for a fortune 500 company which has the privilege of picking the cream of the crop to run our IT shop (besides me), and our network has been taken down several times the past few years from viruses. Firewalls and AV packages don't do a damn thing when you have third party vendors bringing in their laptops and connecting to your network to install their software. Nor do they help when you have users connecting from home.
No matter how savvy your admins are as far as patching the systems, configuring a good firewall, etc. if you run a Windows environment you are going to have downtime from viruses. How many people here work for a big corporation and haven't had downtime from Windows networks collapsing from viruses?
I'm not sure how this works in the new version of Gnome, but KDE 3.x has the slickest integration of vnc I've seen in any desktop environment. There's a feature called Remote Desktop Sharing that lets you create temporary (1 hour) invitations for people to log into your pc and view your x desktop. You can also configure it to accept connections at any time with the correct password. This feature makes remote tech support a breeze. AFAIK it is compatible with the various vnc clients out there.
jh
I had lasik performed on both my eyes a little over a year ago and have been thrilled with the results. My vision was so bad I couldn't even put down my glasses without fear of never finding them again. Now I have 20/20 vision. Don't spend any time researching the horrors of lasik. Any surgical procedure has the potential to seriously injure you, and hearing about the horror stories will just discourage you. The important thing to research is the place to have it performed. If you have your lasik done at your local Walmart for $99 an eye be prepared for a lifetime of blindness. This is one life event you don't want to skimp on. I had mine done at the Mayo Clinic for $3500. Much more expensive than most places, but well worth the money. I had a team of doctors guide me through the process. It took literally 1 minute. I went home and took a nap, and when I woke up my vision was amazing. It took a couple of days for my vision to settle down, and since then life has been wonderful. Getting my vision repaired via Lasik is the best decision I have ever made.
A bigger question is, what would happen if Microsoft bought SCO's unix patents?
How does this fit in with the Liberty Alliance / Passport authentication schemes? Is this yet another one developers will have to choose between, or this limited to UK systems? What's the point of using a single login system if there are a 1,000 such systems users have to register with and log into?
Home users aren't going to shell out $4k for this. Professionals (hopefully) will know the compatibility issues this thing will have with all the standard red laser cd readers. So who's going to buy it? Is this more of a 'proof of concept' type of product?
All files that origins from Jgaa's Internet (including the War software series) are released as copyrighted freeware under these conditions. In short: Unless you are the government, you can use the software for free.
Why not fix it up and get it working again? Most of the problems with the power button blinking & fuzziness on the screen has to do with dust in the connector. It takes 5 minutes to fix. Take the light gray top off, unscrew the black cartridge holder, and with a qtip clean the connector using a diluted rubbing alcohol solution (9:1 water to alcohol). Clean each game by rubbing both sides of its connector & the edge with the same solution. You'd be amazed at how much crap accumulates on those connectors. I bought a 'broken' NES + 50 games off ebay for $15. Fixed it up, and now between Slashdot and Ten Yard Fight I have no life...
What about people who choose not to be online to begin with? I know plenty of parents within city limits with lots of money that are scared to death of having their kids stumble upon 'evil' websites.
While I agree cost plays a big factor to some people, and being able to use the existing powerline infrastructure should (in theory) lead to lower access costs, it certainly won't lead to everyone having broadband internet access.
I don't agree at all. The beauty of programming on linux (and in Delphi) is all the free modules out there you can use within your code. You're suggesting programmers "re-invent the wheel" for each problem they run into. How many cd recording programs would there be for linux if each programmer had to write the code from scratch to interface with cd burners?
What is really needed is an easier way to manage all the dependancies within applications. Apt goes a long way towards this if you're working with binaries, but you're screwed if you want to compile from source.