From the web interface to the feeder at http://kittens.lonelylion.com/index.py, the cats seem to be getting around 2 fish treats per second right now. That's two happy kitties, unless they're caught in the dispenser's paddles, of course.
"Asbestos" is too generic. "Asbestosis" would be better, but the word the ambulance chasers pay a lot for is "mesothelioma", on the assumption the person typing that word already has that problem or is close to someone who has it. I would have thought "pneumoconiosis" would be high on the list, but no-one seems to be tagging it.
It seems like the performance of NetBSD will be re-evaluated, so expect the results to be recast in the next few days.
See the message thread titled "NetBSD performance" at http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1243207: an anonymous reader asks "Did you enable PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY? You have to set that variable to the number of CPUs in your system, else you won't be able to run more than one thread at a time, even you have more than one...". He replies "Sunofa. The $PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY environment variable wasn't set, as I had no idea it was an option....
It could very well be the issue. In the next few days I'll re-run the NetBSD tests with that set."
I don't understand their decision not to include wireless into the device.
In Japan, many devices have both SD and CF slots. The CF slot can take memory, but its main purpose is to add connectivity. Wi-Fi limits one to sitting around in a hotspot. Japan has better solutions: all three major carriers have 3G cards with thoughputs of up to 2Mbps. DDI and bMobile offer PHS-based cellular solutions up to 384kbps at flat rates. Connected users expect far more in the way of ubiquitous connectivity than Wi-Fi allows. The majority of the population, for example, sends and receives most of its email via cellphone rather than computer.
So PCs have Wi-Fi, PDA users tend to go with one of the cellular solutions.
I've tried to get peole to realize that in a few years, you won't be able to read many of the documents we are currently archiving
Having been through something similar, I think the reality is that you'll always be able to read older formats, but not necessarily at a pricing point you deem acceptable. We solved the problem simply by not throwing machines away: if it's ever done useful work for us, we keep one sample, whether hardware or software.
Well, getting here too late as usual, but laserdisc players are still being made. Check out the Pioneer Elite DVL-91 (which ain't cheap, but at least it exists).
The manufacturer is Mitsuishi. URL is http://www.hagakipc.jp. Pricing for 64MB & 128MB variants to be announced; power consumption is 4W. I hesitate (momentarily) to post the next link, but Mitsuishi's also got a page at Geocities, so we're not talking multinational corporations here.
Its previous hardware product from Jan 2003 was a fan.
Yes, an outstanding documentary. Commissioned by a French TV station in 1969 that then refused to broadcast it because it didn't convey the expected imagery, so released in theaters in 1971. The DVD is released by Milestone and has new English subtitling.
I saw the original series some time ago, and it was interesting for a while but each program basically degenerated into people accusing each other of not listening to what they were told to do. It was a nice demonstration of a game engine, but not very entertaining TV. I liked the original Total War a lot: I'd love to get those campaigns on the Rome engine, if that's possible.
What's the real-world performance on this kind of device like? And why is it limited to two USB devices (other than the obvious fact that there are only two USB ports on the thing)? I'm considering one simply as a network backup device.
The National Maritime Museum (http://www.nmm.ac.uk/) in the UK has world's largest collection of original drawings, consisting of some 1 million plans dating from the early 18th Century. With a couple of other resources, it's possible to track British shipbuilding continuously from 1688. Since it's a public collection, if you can name the ship they're obliged to provide a copy of the plans (but not for free).
But the designs for the first 16 ships of the modern fleet didn't exist as drawn plans at all, rather they were models. It was a case of "one like this, please, but 25 times larger."
Even when it drawn plans became the norm, the Navy Board would require a model: from http://www.nmm.ac.uk/site/request/setTemplate:sing lecontent/contentTypeA/conWebDoc/contentId/14112/v iewPage/2, "You are to prepare and send with your Draught a Solid or Model shaped exactly by the same with the Load Water Line, the height of the Decks and Wales, the Channels, Chainplates, Ports, Gallerys etc marked thereon; And that everything proper to explain your Design be done both on the Draught and Solid in as particular manner as possible for our consideration and directions therin before you proceed on your Building or Rebuilding.
Letter from the Navy Board to the Master Shipwrights at the Royal Dockyards, 1716."
So using models for patent applications is a very reasonable concept when describing a three-dimensional entity.
Early in the 80's, I bought one of the first BBC Micros (serial # 13?) for my brother. It maxed out my credit card and I upgraded it from 8kB to 16kB (or maybe 16kB to 32kB) by ordering one chip a week from the US.
In 1988 I upgrade the company's 286 desktop from, I think, 5 MB to 30 MB. It was much cheaper to fly from Japan to Singapore, buy a drive and fly back, than to purchase locally.
Not long after, I built the company's first drive rack out of unexpectedly big, heavy full-height 5" drives, learning in the process how important spindle sync can be. I can't remember the cost, but I do remember the company CEO pointing out that I got the drives instead of him getting his new company car.
We also had the local Apple rep try to "unsell" us our Laserwriter, because he couldn't believe it was working with a PC.
Not only was everything expensive, companies were learning only slightly faster than their customers.
I have some sympathy for Best Buy's situation. I like cheap stuff as much as the next person, but I like my cheap stuff to be in a factory-sealed box. Wandering around Fry's it can be hard to find something that isn't someone else's return.
Then there's the clothing that's strategically pre-stained and the store hasn't noticed or doesn't care. Yeuk.
Some of the anti-jam techniques I've seen around the world tend to be based on getting information to the driver as quickly as possible.
The ring road around Eindhoven has recommended speed indicators that show what speed you should be travelling at to hit the next light on green. It seems to work quite well.
The Hanshin Expressway network around Osaka has video processing equipment that can automatically recognise traffic congestion, including the characteristics of traffic accidents. It then alters roadside information boards to route drivers around the congestion. Other areas do the same thing.
adio bReacons update vehicle navigation systems in real time to show time to destination, congested roads, and if you're following a planned route, will re-route you as traffic conditions change.
Unfortunately most signals in Japan aren't load-sensitive, but set to 1 minute green in each direction irrespective of time of day, day of the week or class of road. So circular routes around Tokyo, for example, become major barriers to traffic entering in the morning and leaving in the evening.
On Japanese freeways, the major cause of congestion is the humble tollbooth.
Then you should check out the IOData or Buffalo products. I have the former, which plays everything thrown at it. It supports RTSP so I imagine third-party servers would work. I wouldn't recommend the IOData because, although it's Region 2, it doesn't play Region 0. It's not made by IOData, of course: some of the more exotic error messages are still in English. It also responds sluggishly to the remote. Since you're in Japan, you know you can get a Cyberhome DVD player for next to nothing that will play all regions, right? Nowt wrong with having more than one DVD player.
Many older DVD players don't have DVD+R or DVD+RW in their lookup table of book types, so don't know how to read them. DVD+R9 is even worse, of course. You can get around this by using software to force the DVD's book type to DVD-ROM when recording (or, with DVD+RW, at any time).
Bonch, dude, you just spent 3 hours writing a review of a 2 hour film....
Or he spent 2 minutes cutting and pasting Devin Faraci's review over at CHUD.
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You'd imagine the corporate world would have enough avenues for subjecting us to a continuous barrage of advertising without the need for graffiti, no matter how cleverly disguised as "cleaning", or illegally flyposting (hello Sony). Ads on TVs, in newspapers, on billboards, in trains, on the windows in trains, the bottom half of the "mind your fingers" warning on the train doors, the entire train, the front of the steps leading from the platform, stickers on the ticket gates, the windows of taxis, one side of my commuter pass, at the bottom of my shop receipts... it never stops. I dunno, my office is the most advert-free environment I see during the day.
Nonsense. Nikon D70, Canon Rebel and others are fine bodies, under 1 grand in any currency you care to mention (except lira & yen). If you've got an existing lens collection, adding a digital body is the way to go.
In the digital world, if it's not an optical viewer then the image is being taken from the sensor, so "SLR" is irrelevant: what you see is what you get on all digital viewers -- they're using the imaging sensor.
10X or more
You're talking about going out to, say, 350mm. Good luck hand-holding that sucker.
I note you don't mention anything about dynamic range of different sensors, charge leakage to adjacent cells, white balance limitations, pincushion & barrel distortion and so on. You shouldn't be taking people's wedding photos, they've got just the one chance of getting it right.
"Kids" don't buy Docomo. They buy au mainly because it's much cheaper but also because the phones are more youth-oriented. Second choice might be Vodafone, but they've dropped the ball spectacularly over the past 18 months with phones that neither attract young users nor business users (inability to sync with anything) so right now it might be a toss-up between Vodafone and Docomo. Everyone else (mostly) buys Docomo. But kids don't.
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From the web interface to the feeder at http://kittens.lonelylion.com/index.py, the cats seem to be getting around 2 fish treats per second right now. That's two happy kitties, unless they're caught in the dispenser's paddles, of course.
"Asbestos" is too generic. "Asbestosis" would be better, but the word the ambulance chasers pay a lot for is "mesothelioma", on the assumption the person typing that word already has that problem or is close to someone who has it. I would have thought "pneumoconiosis" would be high on the list, but no-one seems to be tagging it.
See the message thread titled "NetBSD performance" at http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12 /27/1243207: an anonymous reader asks "Did you enable PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY? You have to set that variable to the number of CPUs in your system, else you won't be able to run more than one thread at a time, even you have more than one...". He replies "Sunofa. The $PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY environment variable wasn't set, as I had no idea it was an option. ...
It could very well be the issue. In the next few days I'll re-run the NetBSD tests with that set."
German layout. Azerty for France.
In Japan, many devices have both SD and CF slots. The CF slot can take memory, but its main purpose is to add connectivity. Wi-Fi limits one to sitting around in a hotspot. Japan has better solutions: all three major carriers have 3G cards with thoughputs of up to 2Mbps. DDI and bMobile offer PHS-based cellular solutions up to 384kbps at flat rates. Connected users expect far more in the way of ubiquitous connectivity than Wi-Fi allows. The majority of the population, for example, sends and receives most of its email via cellphone rather than computer.
So PCs have Wi-Fi, PDA users tend to go with one of the cellular solutions.
Having been through something similar, I think the reality is that you'll always be able to read older formats, but not necessarily at a pricing point you deem acceptable. We solved the problem simply by not throwing machines away: if it's ever done useful work for us, we keep one sample, whether hardware or software.
Well, getting here too late as usual, but laserdisc players are still being made. Check out the Pioneer Elite DVL-91 (which ain't cheap, but at least it exists).
A vaporware input device for a vaporware PDA? I agree, that's a good combo.
Its previous hardware product from Jan 2003 was a fan.
Yes, an outstanding documentary. Commissioned by a French TV station in 1969 that then refused to broadcast it because it didn't convey the expected imagery, so released in theaters in 1971. The DVD is released by Milestone and has new English subtitling.
I saw the original series some time ago, and it was interesting for a while but each program basically degenerated into people accusing each other of not listening to what they were told to do. It was a nice demonstration of a game engine, but not very entertaining TV. I liked the original Total War a lot: I'd love to get those campaigns on the Rome engine, if that's possible.
What's the real-world performance on this kind of device like? And why is it limited to two USB devices (other than the obvious fact that there are only two USB ports on the thing)? I'm considering one simply as a network backup device.
But the designs for the first 16 ships of the modern fleet didn't exist as drawn plans at all, rather they were models. It was a case of "one like this, please, but 25 times larger."
Even when it drawn plans became the norm, the Navy Board would require a model: from http://www.nmm.ac.uk/site/request/setTemplate:sing lecontent/contentTypeA/conWebDoc/contentId/14112/v iewPage/2, "You are to prepare and send with your Draught a Solid or Model shaped exactly by the same with the Load Water Line, the height of the Decks and Wales, the Channels, Chainplates, Ports, Gallerys etc marked thereon; And that everything proper to explain your Design be done both on the Draught and Solid in as particular manner as possible for our consideration and directions therin before you proceed on your Building or Rebuilding.
Letter from the Navy Board to the Master Shipwrights at the Royal Dockyards, 1716."
So using models for patent applications is a very reasonable concept when describing a three-dimensional entity.
In 1988 I upgrade the company's 286 desktop from, I think, 5 MB to 30 MB. It was much cheaper to fly from Japan to Singapore, buy a drive and fly back, than to purchase locally.
Not long after, I built the company's first drive rack out of unexpectedly big, heavy full-height 5" drives, learning in the process how important spindle sync can be. I can't remember the cost, but I do remember the company CEO pointing out that I got the drives instead of him getting his new company car.
We also had the local Apple rep try to "unsell" us our Laserwriter, because he couldn't believe it was working with a PC.
Not only was everything expensive, companies were learning only slightly faster than their customers.
Then there's the clothing that's strategically pre-stained and the store hasn't noticed or doesn't care. Yeuk.
The ring road around Eindhoven has recommended speed indicators that show what speed you should be travelling at to hit the next light on green. It seems to work quite well.
The Hanshin Expressway network around Osaka has video processing equipment that can automatically recognise traffic congestion, including the characteristics of traffic accidents. It then alters roadside information boards to route drivers around the congestion. Other areas do the same thing.
adio bReacons update vehicle navigation systems in real time to show time to destination, congested roads, and if you're following a planned route, will re-route you as traffic conditions change.
Unfortunately most signals in Japan aren't load-sensitive, but set to 1 minute green in each direction irrespective of time of day, day of the week or class of road. So circular routes around Tokyo, for example, become major barriers to traffic entering in the morning and leaving in the evening.
On Japanese freeways, the major cause of congestion is the humble tollbooth.
Then you should check out the IOData or Buffalo products. I have the former, which plays everything thrown at it. It supports RTSP so I imagine third-party servers would work. I wouldn't recommend the IOData because, although it's Region 2, it doesn't play Region 0. It's not made by IOData, of course: some of the more exotic error messages are still in English. It also responds sluggishly to the remote. Since you're in Japan, you know you can get a Cyberhome DVD player for next to nothing that will play all regions, right? Nowt wrong with having more than one DVD player.
I've got a similar product. On the off-chance the Gateway also uses RTSP, these might point you somewhere useful.
Many older DVD players don't have DVD+R or DVD+RW in their lookup table of book types, so don't know how to read them. DVD+R9 is even worse, of course. You can get around this by using software to force the DVD's book type to DVD-ROM when recording (or, with DVD+RW, at any time).
Or he spent 2 minutes cutting and pasting Devin Faraci's review over at CHUD.
You'd imagine the corporate world would have enough avenues for subjecting us to a continuous barrage of advertising without the need for graffiti, no matter how cleverly disguised as "cleaning", or illegally flyposting (hello Sony). Ads on TVs, in newspapers, on billboards, in trains, on the windows in trains, the bottom half of the "mind your fingers" warning on the train doors, the entire train, the front of the steps leading from the platform, stickers on the ticket gates, the windows of taxis, one side of my commuter pass, at the bottom of my shop receipts... it never stops. I dunno, my office is the most advert-free environment I see during the day.
Nonsense. Nikon D70, Canon Rebel and others are fine bodies, under 1 grand in any currency you care to mention (except lira & yen). If you've got an existing lens collection, adding a digital body is the way to go.
In the digital world, if it's not an optical viewer then the image is being taken from the sensor, so "SLR" is irrelevant: what you see is what you get on all digital viewers -- they're using the imaging sensor.
10X or more
You're talking about going out to, say, 350mm. Good luck hand-holding that sucker.
I note you don't mention anything about dynamic range of different sensors, charge leakage to adjacent cells, white balance limitations, pincushion & barrel distortion and so on. You shouldn't be taking people's wedding photos, they've got just the one chance of getting it right.
Street price on the U50 is now down to 147,000 yen or around $1300. It's tempting, pop more RAM in and a 40GB 1.8" drive.
"Kids" don't buy Docomo. They buy au mainly because it's much cheaper but also because the phones are more youth-oriented. Second choice might be Vodafone, but they've dropped the ball spectacularly over the past 18 months with phones that neither attract young users nor business users (inability to sync with anything) so right now it might be a toss-up between Vodafone and Docomo. Everyone else (mostly) buys Docomo. But kids don't.