A quick googling listed a recent/. discussion as the first link. Could this be a step towards doing the same thing to the United States? It seems like exactly the kind of data that would be necessary to tie in information from other sources.
With the potential to store terabytes in a desktop computer (and terabytes more on media), it's possible to transport the data of entire organizations, corporations, and governmments around. For large amounts of data, probably easier and a whole lot cheaper, too. Just ask Netflix and the USPS.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon..."
I've been a tech manager, off and on, for most of the last decade. There are three things that I was told that made my management jobs a lot easier.
"As a new manager, you will make more and worse mistakes than ever before." Everybody makes mistakes. With higher responsibility comes the opportunity to screw up even bigger. Fix the mistakes, do the job, get over it, repeat.
"Manage in this order: people first, then everything else." Nothing matters more than the people who work for you, what they think, and their satisfaction in their jobs, the company, and you. Take care of them, as people, and they will take care of you.
"Get a mentor." This is incredibly important. Find someone at your company with a lot of management experience. Someone you trust, have faith in, have respect for, and is well-liked by the people who learn from them.
---------- I once heard a sysadmin compare his job to management. I asked him when the last time his Solaris box filed a sexual harrasment compaint was.
I've seen comments here and elsewhere about Picasa being better than iPhoto in some or all ways. Until Picasa runs on my Mac, it's not even a contender.
You don't have to respect my bias, but at least you're aware of it.
In 1998-9 I created a system that would automatically update the company's bug database (arguably a TODO list) whenever a developer checked in code with the proper comments inserted. It was obvious to me, and it's been obvious to thousands of developers for many years.
Sigh.
Just waiting for someone to patent the concept of Prior Art itself.
While the manufacturer's page doesn't mention it at all, the keyboard and trackpad of this little powerhouse are detachable and use Bluethooth. I'm sure you need more than a laptop can provide as an HTPC, but maybe you can get one of the keyboards as a spare part.
I assume it has batteries that need to be charged, and I don't know how that would happen without the laptop to chrage it.
While a formal statement is being prepared, please allow me to express my outrage and personal dismay at the coninuing lies about the origins of the "Linux" operating system. It took many arduous years of skillful coding and deliberate system design for my employer to create what has been stolen from him. In the interest of the public good, he has continued, against my best advice, to allow the bastardization of his avocation to be coninually distributed without compensation or even recognition.
But now, as Linus Torvalds insists on further disregard of the truth, my employer has become enraged and will soon begin legal action to claim his rightful place as the creater of "Linux", originally and forever known to his friends, employees, and supporters as Bunix.
Sincerely, Bun E. Sue Chief Counsel Easter Bunny Inc.
The only reason I can think that the RIAA is pushing for more money is that they know their time left is very limited. They are therefore bilking as much as possible from the market while they can.
I say we begin to hasten their demise and support projects like MUTE and other secure filesharing methods that are sure to evolve quickly.
For the love of money is the root of all evil; and while some have coveted after it, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." - 1 Timothy 6:10
0. All updates (including perl and the dev software)
1. Fink ('cuz you're not really a geek without it)
2. MS Office ('cuz you're not compatible without it)
3. Adobe CS Suite (yeah, yeah, more than one app)
4. VLC ('cuz DVDPlayer sucks)
5. Cyberduck ('cuz Apple still can't do FTP right)
6. iLife 4 (never spent a better $49)
7. Firefox (because gMail doesn't support Safari yet)
8. Fire (now 1.0! Woohoo!)
9. iJournal (offline LiveJournal app)
10. PandoCalendar (innocuous and functional calendar widget)
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Last night I had a discussion with a friend of mine about his new digital camera. He and his wife rented digital cameras to try them out before buying. As a digital image professional, he was looking to spend over $1000 on a camera, so spending a little money up front wasn't a bad idea.
They tried several cameras in a few days and ended up loving a 5 megapixel Sony over the higher resolution "Pro" cameras because it took consistently better pictures more easily and quickly. Image stabilization was the kicker, as they took pictures from a moving car and none of the high resolution cameras came close, even for lots more money.
I've got a Sony VPH 1270, something you can still find on eBay for under $1000. Yeah, it's big, but no LCD is ever going to compare to a 3-gun CRT. Add a line doubler and hang the projector from the ceiling, pointed at a nice screen, and you've got a beautiful view of any video game, movie, or computer screen you dare to hook up to it. Lifespan of the guns is 10,000 hours if they're taken care of. Line doublers are less than $500 and a good screen should be less than $300. Ceiling mounts are usually about $200. So, for less than $2000 you can have a complete setup. Hell, I'll sell you mine for $1500.
While the idea of an enclosure is nice, I think I'd rather spend the same amount of money on something that could be an access point, too. Netgear surprised me with their new router, the WGT634U, which offers a USB 2.0 port for attaching storage devices in addition to 108Mb turbo wi-fi. This is a trend I like.
You can blame the marketing department all you want (please do), but at some point it was a geek (maybe someone who reads/.) who actually programmed this functionality. Their boss is probably somewhat of a techie, too. The testers who checked this functionality and the folks who created the web page also have some tech skills and savvy. Did they all think this was right?
The point is that geeks are to blame for this. The marketroids may come up with some stupid ideas, but who actually implements them?
I understand (completely) the self-presevation necessary in today's economy and the unwillingness to say, "No!" to something like this. I hope there were technical objections at Belkin. I hope there were testers jumping up and down and screaming about RFCs and proper routing and a failure rate of 3 per day per unit shipped, but I doubt it.
The next time your boss comes to you with one of these half-baked, assinine ideas, I hope you tell him that you object, as a Geek.
--- Q: Why do marketing guys wear ties? A: To keep the foreskin from flapping up!
It's the only pen I use for technical stuff - it writes on PCBs. American ingenuity at its finest, which we invented for use in a zero-g environment. The Russians used pencils.
"If it ain't broke, you ain't doing yer job!" - QA Manager's motto.
Comparable.....GNU/Linux.......Apple
Hardware.......Almost Any......Apple Only
Compat.........Custom drivers..Plug and Play
Installation...Troublesome.....Infantile
Updates........Troublesome.....Infantile
Support........Many people.....AppleCare
Applications...Many............Many More
Cost...........Free (uh-huh)...$129
Man in Charge..Nobody..........Steve
Where that leaves me is with a definite win on the desktop for Apple. Highly simplified, but that's the point, isn't it? Troll:If you want to fsck with your computer, get Linux. If you want to use your computer, get a Mac.
I don't think there would be much of hydrogen economy if we were letting 10 to 20 percent escape. Businesses wouldn't stand for losing even 10% of their generated product and I know that this consumer would want better than 90% retention out of any hydrogen-powered device.
Slashdot Mirror
I am instituting use of the Slashdot search feature...
Very daring of you (to call it a feature)!
A quick googling listed a recent /. discussion as the first link. Could this be a step towards doing the same thing to the United States? It seems like exactly the kind of data that would be necessary to tie in information from other sources.
With the potential to store terabytes in a desktop computer (and terabytes more on media), it's possible to transport the data of entire organizations, corporations, and governmments around. For large amounts of data, probably easier and a whole lot cheaper, too. Just ask Netflix and the USPS.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon..."
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I once heard a sysadmin compare his job to management. I asked him when the last time his Solaris box filed a sexual harrasment compaint was.
I've seen comments here and elsewhere about Picasa being better than iPhoto in some or all ways. Until Picasa runs on my Mac, it's not even a contender.
You don't have to respect my bias, but at least you're aware of it.
Like an Apple Newton 2x00 form-factor. In fact, it looks just like one.
In 1998-9 I created a system that would automatically update the company's bug database (arguably a TODO list) whenever a developer checked in code with the proper comments inserted. It was obvious to me, and it's been obvious to thousands of developers for many years.
Sigh.
Just waiting for someone to patent the concept of Prior Art itself.
Post an article on a high-traffic site and wait for the hacker's server to burst into flames.
They can't stop people from trying.
Check this out.
While the manufacturer's page doesn't mention it at all, the keyboard and trackpad of this little powerhouse are detachable and use Bluethooth. I'm sure you need more than a laptop can provide as an HTPC, but maybe you can get one of the keyboards as a spare part.
I assume it has batteries that need to be charged, and I don't know how that would happen without the laptop to chrage it.
While a formal statement is being prepared, please allow me to express my outrage and personal dismay at the coninuing lies about the origins of the "Linux" operating system. It took many arduous years of skillful coding and deliberate system design for my employer to create what has been stolen from him. In the interest of the public good, he has continued, against my best advice, to allow the bastardization of his avocation to be coninually distributed without compensation or even recognition.
But now, as Linus Torvalds insists on further disregard of the truth, my employer has become enraged and will soon begin legal action to claim his rightful place as the creater of "Linux", originally and forever known to his friends, employees, and supporters as Bunix.
Sincerely,
Bun E. Sue
Chief Counsel
Easter Bunny Inc.
It's been around a while.
The only reason I can think that the RIAA is pushing for more money is that they know their time left is very limited. They are therefore bilking as much as possible from the market while they can.
I say we begin to hasten their demise and support projects like MUTE and other secure filesharing methods that are sure to evolve quickly.
For the love of money is the root of all evil; and while some have coveted after it, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." - 1 Timothy 6:10
Modding me down doesn't make me wrong.
I agree - the Press Release doesn't say anything about WM9. Timothy apparently didn't bother to RTFPR before writing the headline.
0. All updates (including perl and the dev software) 1. Fink ('cuz you're not really a geek without it) 2. MS Office ('cuz you're not compatible without it) 3. Adobe CS Suite (yeah, yeah, more than one app) 4. VLC ('cuz DVDPlayer sucks) 5. Cyberduck ('cuz Apple still can't do FTP right) 6. iLife 4 (never spent a better $49) 7. Firefox (because gMail doesn't support Safari yet) 8. Fire (now 1.0! Woohoo!) 9. iJournal (offline LiveJournal app) 10. PandoCalendar (innocuous and functional calendar widget)
Last night I had a discussion with a friend of mine about his new digital camera. He and his wife rented digital cameras to try them out before buying. As a digital image professional, he was looking to spend over $1000 on a camera, so spending a little money up front wasn't a bad idea.
They tried several cameras in a few days and ended up loving a 5 megapixel Sony over the higher resolution "Pro" cameras because it took consistently better pictures more easily and quickly. Image stabilization was the kicker, as they took pictures from a moving car and none of the high resolution cameras came close, even for lots more money.
I've got a Sony VPH 1270, something you can still find on eBay for under $1000. Yeah, it's big, but no LCD is ever going to compare to a 3-gun CRT. Add a line doubler and hang the projector from the ceiling, pointed at a nice screen, and you've got a beautiful view of any video game, movie, or computer screen you dare to hook up to it. Lifespan of the guns is 10,000 hours if they're taken care of. Line doublers are less than $500 and a good screen should be less than $300. Ceiling mounts are usually about $200. So, for less than $2000 you can have a complete setup. Hell, I'll sell you mine for $1500.
While the idea of an enclosure is nice, I think I'd rather spend the same amount of money on something that could be an access point, too. Netgear surprised me with their new router, the WGT634U, which offers a USB 2.0 port for attaching storage devices in addition to 108Mb turbo wi-fi. This is a trend I like.
It's not the gear, it's the functionality.
I'm sure EV1 will be happy when they get to sue the pants off of SCO for extortion.
Lack of trust in current laws is the reason I'm not a lawyer.
You can blame the marketing department all you want (please do), but at some point it was a geek (maybe someone who reads /.) who actually programmed this functionality. Their boss is probably somewhat of a techie, too. The testers who checked this functionality and the folks who created the web page also have some tech skills and savvy. Did they all think this was right?
The point is that geeks are to blame for this. The marketroids may come up with some stupid ideas, but who actually implements them?
I understand (completely) the self-presevation necessary in today's economy and the unwillingness to say, "No!" to something like this. I hope there were technical objections at Belkin. I hope there were testers jumping up and down and screaming about RFCs and proper routing and a failure rate of 3 per day per unit shipped, but I doubt it.
The next time your boss comes to you with one of these half-baked, assinine ideas, I hope you tell him that you object, as a Geek.
---
Q: Why do marketing guys wear ties? A: To keep the foreskin from flapping up!
It's the only pen I use for technical stuff - it writes on PCBs. American ingenuity at its finest, which we invented for use in a zero-g environment. The Russians used pencils.
"If it ain't broke, you ain't doing yer job!" - QA Manager's motto.
Comparable.....GNU/Linux.......Apple
Hardware.......Almost Any......Apple Only
Compat.........Custom drivers..Plug and Play
Installation...Troublesome.....Infantile
Updates........Troublesome.....Infantile
Support........Many people.....AppleCare
Applications...Many............Many More
Cost...........Free (uh-huh)...$129
Man in Charge..Nobody..........Steve
Where that leaves me is with a definite win on the desktop for Apple. Highly simplified, but that's the point, isn't it?
Troll: If you want to fsck with your computer, get Linux. If you want to use your computer, get a Mac.
I don't think there would be much of hydrogen economy if we were letting 10 to 20 percent escape. Businesses wouldn't stand for losing even 10% of their generated product and I know that this consumer would want better than 90% retention out of any hydrogen-powered device.
I doubt that the Honda FCX has this problem.
Don't feed your mind FUD.
...now available to the highest bidder.
Just th' good ol' boys
Never meanin' no harm...
Check those URLs!
That should have been:
...has been around a while...