I am a recent Mac convert for my work development environment and my wife's home general computer - I've made the switch and could only be very little happier.
However, parent's viewpoint is valid and shouldn't be discounted just because it's not pro-Apple.
I'm on comcast now. It is next to pathetic. Constant latency issues as soon as the kids in the area get home from school. Frequent line drops - and they don't seem to care. Even when I paid business service rates the quality of service issues were identical - and they didn't care a lick more because I was a business customer.
Charter isn't the holy grail, but they are a lot better than Comcast in my experience.
Laws like these will allow providers to further consolidate and monopolize their areas. Without competition of some sort, you'll either never get the high speed connection, or the provider won't care about providing you a quality service. By locking out municipalities, there's almost a guarantee of no competition.
I'm looking around the DC area - PA was on my list. I've even been looking in some of the nearer-to-DC towns. Municipality-provided internet (whatever the form) promises to be the only high-speed internet available in a lot of areas because the big businesses deploying broadband do not see enough return on investment.
Since my job requires high-speed internet access, I might have to turn to a municipal-sourced connection at some point, but it looks like that's not a possibility in PA. Since I've got so much free range in places to move, PA's probably now permanently off my list. This is a short-sighted state tax-revenue based decision.
I played a bit with NeoOffice/J but in the end returned to the X11 version - I just can't stand not having the mouse wheel.
For work I have to use Office:Mac, but I prefer OOo for personal work. I'm pretty close to seeing if anyone will join in a pledge drive to fund a native Aqua port of OOo. I'd be willing to pay the purchase price of Office:Mac - I wonder how many others would be willing to do the same.
If only they'd get the stinking scroll wheel working in NeoOffice/J (base it on JDK 1.4.2 and pass the events through), I'd use it. I'm using the X11 version of OOo for anything personal, though I have to have full-fledged MS Office 2004 for work documents.
Maybe they have picked the right metaphor... you ever watched what happens to a box that gets a few copies of SA running in parallel? It takes a long time!
This is actually what I built - it fits in an Altoids-sized mint tin. I had a wall-wart for it at work, though now that I'm telecommuting, I may just build a very nice solid-state amp that runs off mains - I'm thinking separate circuitry from power to output. Not sure how to do the volume control in a synchronized way, though. Perhaps a dual pot that is physically synchronized on one knob.
Ok, maybe this is over the top geeky, but I built a solid state headphone amp for http://www.headwize.com/ has tons of info, but it would be neat to see this geeky pursuit put in print with good research and recommendations.
Anyway, it's amazing what a difference in sound quality a headphone amp can make. As a magazine wanting to help you get the most out of your tech at home and elsewhere, I think headphone amps qualify.
I have separate firewall and server, but I hate having all the boxen around.
Is there a consumer device (WRT54G or whatever) that can run linux and do high enough speed prioritized queuing to keep a Vonage connection happy despite anything else going on with the connection? I've managed to achieve this with OpenBSD's pf, and it's nice - the phone works regardless of any upload or download activity. It would sure be nice to do it for the power cost of a little wall-wart.
We're so instant gratification few of us Americans with a weight problem can stand it taking time and effort to resolve.
I once lost 90 pounds over 18 months, gradually, with patience, and exercise.
Of course, since moving to WI, I've put 30 back on, but hey, I'm moving back east and decided it's a change point to put exercise back into my daily existence.
Sorry... that is not the link you were looking for. For whatever reason, I confused what you were asking for (Paul Samuelson's article) with the link another poster offered.
These books are in the public domain in several other parts of the world besides the US.
If using this approach makes your conscience feel guilty, go borrow them from the library during the period of time you use an electronic device to read them.
So many people misquote and misparaphrase from _1984_, _Fahrenheit 451_, and _Brave New World_. I went and read them all because of so many people referencing them. Either people haven't read them, or they haven't read them with the equivalent analysis of high school english.
I was at the Burton Group conference where Miguel de Icaza, John Montgomery, and Graham Hamilton participated in a forum discussion.
I mentioned how prolific scripting languages had become, that some very large and revenue-generating systems were built on scripting languages. I asked given the industry-wide move toward virtual machines, what each of their products would be doing to facilitate scripting languages targeting the VMs.
John Montgomery admitted that the CLR did not really handle dynamically typed scripting langauges very well. Graham Hamilton did not say the same thing about the JVM, but did mention they were working on getting the JVM into better shape to be able to allow dynamically typed scripting languages more ease of integration.
Yes, there are clearly tradeoffs. I took the projector approach and I couldn't be happier. Not quite movie-theater angular size, but closer than anything short of a movie theater. For 1/3 the price of a plasma 3/4 the size of the screen.
It will be interesting to see how the new prototype Sony technology (the black screen thing) works out. It would be amazing to have a high quality projected image without needing great control of the ambient light.
There are also people doing reverse projection setups using front projectors. These also reduce the need for ambient light control.
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Why not just use C-[ ? That's escape, and keeps your hands on home row. I have used this for years.
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The military GPS system already runs on a rolling encryption system. This is not shutdown.
The clear system that is for non-military use would be shutdown.
Someone should mod parent up.
I am a recent Mac convert for my work development environment and my wife's home general computer - I've made the switch and could only be very little happier.
However, parent's viewpoint is valid and shouldn't be discounted just because it's not pro-Apple.
I'm on comcast now. It is next to pathetic. Constant latency issues as soon as the kids in the area get home from school. Frequent line drops - and they don't seem to care. Even when I paid business service rates the quality of service issues were identical - and they didn't care a lick more because I was a business customer.
Charter isn't the holy grail, but they are a lot better than Comcast in my experience.
Laws like these will allow providers to further consolidate and monopolize their areas. Without competition of some sort, you'll either never get the high speed connection, or the provider won't care about providing you a quality service. By locking out municipalities, there's almost a guarantee of no competition.
I'm looking around the DC area - PA was on my list. I've even been looking in some of the nearer-to-DC towns. Municipality-provided internet (whatever the form) promises to be the only high-speed internet available in a lot of areas because the big businesses deploying broadband do not see enough return on investment.
Since my job requires high-speed internet access, I might have to turn to a municipal-sourced connection at some point, but it looks like that's not a possibility in PA. Since I've got so much free range in places to move, PA's probably now permanently off my list. This is a short-sighted state tax-revenue based decision.
Bummer. I hope no other states follow suite.
I played a bit with NeoOffice/J but in the end returned to the X11 version - I just can't stand not having the mouse wheel.
For work I have to use Office:Mac, but I prefer OOo for personal work. I'm pretty close to seeing if anyone will join in a pledge drive to fund a native Aqua port of OOo. I'd be willing to pay the purchase price of Office:Mac - I wonder how many others would be willing to do the same.
Oh please, let's do this for Mac OS X!
Yes, I'm responding to a troll, but come on, it's not just any one group of extremists, it's all of them.
Yes, that's what I have installed.
The problem is inherent in that jdk1.3 does not support scroll wheel mice. The fix is to move to jdk1.4.2 for their development, but they haven't yet.
If only they'd get the stinking scroll wheel working in NeoOffice/J (base it on JDK 1.4.2 and pass the events through), I'd use it. I'm using the X11 version of OOo for anything personal, though I have to have full-fledged MS Office 2004 for work documents.
*sigh*
Maybe they have picked the right metaphor... you ever watched what happens to a box that gets a few copies of SA running in parallel? It takes a long time!
This is actually what I built - it fits in an Altoids-sized mint tin. I had a wall-wart for it at work, though now that I'm telecommuting, I may just build a very nice solid-state amp that runs off mains - I'm thinking separate circuitry from power to output. Not sure how to do the volume control in a synchronized way, though. Perhaps a dual pot that is physically synchronized on one knob.
It may not be done because it's not as "cool" as having an earth orbiting telescope.
Anyway, it's amazing what a difference in sound quality a headphone amp can make. As a magazine wanting to help you get the most out of your tech at home and elsewhere, I think headphone amps qualify.
This sounds interesting to try to replace my servers.
Where do you find all the parts to put one of these together?
Thanks!
I have separate firewall and server, but I hate having all the boxen around.
Is there a consumer device (WRT54G or whatever) that can run linux and do high enough speed prioritized queuing to keep a Vonage connection happy despite anything else going on with the connection? I've managed to achieve this with OpenBSD's pf, and it's nice - the phone works regardless of any upload or download activity. It would sure be nice to do it for the power cost of a little wall-wart.
We're so instant gratification few of us Americans with a weight problem can stand it taking time and effort to resolve.
I once lost 90 pounds over 18 months, gradually, with patience, and exercise.
Of course, since moving to WI, I've put 30 back on, but hey, I'm moving back east and decided it's a change point to put exercise back into my daily existence.
Sorry... that is not the link you were looking for. For whatever reason, I confused what you were asking for (Paul Samuelson's article) with the link another poster offered.
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Republican-Pr opaganda1sep04.htm
You may know this, but here's a hint.
These books are in the public domain in several other parts of the world besides the US.
If using this approach makes your conscience feel guilty, go borrow them from the library during the period of time you use an electronic device to read them.
So many people misquote and misparaphrase from _1984_, _Fahrenheit 451_, and _Brave New World_. I went and read them all because of so many people referencing them. Either people haven't read them, or they haven't read them with the equivalent analysis of high school english.
I was at the Burton Group conference where Miguel de Icaza, John Montgomery, and Graham Hamilton participated in a forum discussion.
I mentioned how prolific scripting languages had become, that some very large and revenue-generating systems were built on scripting languages. I asked given the industry-wide move toward virtual machines, what each of their products would be doing to facilitate scripting languages targeting the VMs.
John Montgomery admitted that the CLR did not really handle dynamically typed scripting langauges very well. Graham Hamilton did not say the same thing about the JVM, but did mention they were working on getting the JVM into better shape to be able to allow dynamically typed scripting languages more ease of integration.
I have one of these for work.
I can watch TWO DVD movies on a plane with it on a single charge.
When I bring it home and work on it in the evening, it can sit on until I go to bed with its WiFi card on full power and not run out.
I typically get 5h+
I don't get this - how can you file for a patent on routing between two networks? There's no way this is non-obvious to an engineer in the trade.
Jeez, I've done this with nat under linux to my Verizon Wireless 1x phone.
Patents are out of control.
Yes, there are clearly tradeoffs. I took the projector approach and I couldn't be happier. Not quite movie-theater angular size, but closer than anything short of a movie theater. For 1/3 the price of a plasma 3/4 the size of the screen.
It will be interesting to see how the new prototype Sony technology (the black screen thing) works out. It would be amazing to have a high quality projected image without needing great control of the ambient light.
There are also people doing reverse projection setups using front projectors. These also reduce the need for ambient light control.
Why not just use C-[ ? That's escape, and keeps your hands on home row. I have used this for years.