We occassionally have "movie day" where people are selected at random to see a movie on company time and they vote on which movie to see.
We just set up one of our Dimension Desktops with a THX certified speakers and a dvd player, pushing the video through one of our Dell Projectors.
Now, I don't really know that much about projectors in general, but let me tell you...having watched a few movies on the Dell Projector, I was and am just amazed at the quality. Absolutely stunning...amazing home theatre setup.
Dell isn't selling this as an IPOD clone, but rather a competing product. It doesn't have the ipod features it has it's own features.
Hmm...USB 2.0 makes it a lot easier for me to use than 1394, I only have one computer with 1394, I have 4 with USB 2.0.
15-16 hour battery life is fantastic
Most importantly though, it can play.mp3 format, which can be uploaded from your own music collection on your computer and doesn't require some proprietary format that I have to convert all my files too.
Is it the perfect player? No, I'm sure over the next two years we'll see a lot of changes as this, PDA's and Digital Phones are all combined into one device (no reason to have 3). But for now, it's a competing device with attractive features.
Now that I've had my say, you can mod me down for flamebait since I didn't bow at the Altar which is Apple...
I would normally be all over Dell winning this contract. But since I do corporate wireless networking support...I'm not sure I want calls from 1,000 elementary school IT guys who can't figure out their 1,300 systems with wireless cards.
So maybe this one should go to Apple...
p.s. This was sarcasm...I'm all for Dell winning the contract! *looks around for management*
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Original c.1950's Orange Fiesta Ware. Mantles from a Coleman lantern. The detection element from a smoke alarm. Old (c. 1900-1920) ceramic dental work. Rose tinted sunglasses from the 1950's.
All of those items are radioactive. In fact, the Orange Fiesta Wear is about 25,000-50,000 cpm of beta radiation.
Beta radiation cannot penetrate through your clothes. Alpha radiation cannot penetrate through the dead skin cells covering most of your body (but avoid getting it near your eyes). Gamma's will go through you no matter what, but unless they are in high doses they do little damage. As for neutrons, you should never have a reason to encounter a neutron source...but if you do, you are likely screwed.
Given up on Media anyway. Even the media organizations that you could once count on being neutral and just reporting the facts are lost to us now.
If you trust anything reported by so called unbiased media sources, you are a fool. Times have changed, the news is all about ratings. Sensationalism, no matter the truth or consequences is the order of the day.
And no, you can't trust the news from the internet either. Honestly, as a society, I am concerned about what we are going to do next. If we continue along this path, Time-Warner, Clear Channel and the rest might as well just start speaking for us.
I'm certainly not against free speech...but I think more effort needs to be invested in keeping media conglomerates in check.
A million more to go. Until people, health officials and governments take outbreaks of this nature more seriously. We'll always be in danger from them. In a time when people couldn't just span the globe in a matter of hours, diseases like the flu still managed to kill 25 million people.
Nowadays we are tied together by a lattice work of airlines and freedom of worldwide travel that make us so much more at risk. Of course, where do you draw the line? We need some serious concern, not worldwide paranoia.
I'm not saying SARS was badly handled everywhere. I'm just saying that there may very well come a time in the future where another event starts just like one...but the ending will be much worse.
*shrugs* Maybe I need to buy into paranoia more. But you know what...debug, format and reinstall can fix most anything a hacker can do to my computer. If I handled sensitive finances, credit card info or other items worth protecting on my computers..then I would be more concerned.
But as it is, people want me to spend more time trying to protect my computers then I would spend just doing an OS reinstall...that it probably needed anyway. No sir, not worth it.
If I had something worth protecting, I would agree. But if someone sinister really wants to attack my computer while I'm in the middle of a mad game of scrabble with my Wife...then I'll fix whatever they broke and take the needed security precautions.
And I'll really hope that whoever decided to do this is within range of my network...cause that will mean I'm in range of theirs. *evil grin*
You are right...and as soon as I think one of my neighbors can/will do that, I'll upgrade my wireless network security.
I regularly run net stumbler and the like to see if I can pick up other wireless networks. When I think I actually need better security I'll add it. For the time being though, there is nothing on any of my computers that really needs securing.
As for why I don't use WEP? I've found it somewhat buggy and it sucks up bandwidth.
Best solution for a home network. Because I'm sorry, if you need more then the 5-20mbps throughput you'll get from 802.11b/g network...then you don't need a home network. You need an office network, at home.
Does wireless have it's drawbacks? Yes, but so do wired networks. I run 5 computers at home on a wireless network, sharing one internet connection through a Linksys Router.
I don't run WEP, but secure my network by changing the default ip address of my router and disabling DHCP. So you have to know the correct subnet to use to get on my network and assign your own ip address.
Perfect security solution? No, but it works for me and I have a great home network with file sharing, print sharing and net access, in a reasonably secure environment for under $200.00 on 5 computers.
To see the FCC open up more of the 2.4GHz band for unlicensed use under 4 watts. Right now it ranges from 2.4-2.5GHz, but as far as I know the FCC could expand that.
That way there would be more then 3 non-overlapping bands for 802.11b/g. This alone would alleviate a great deal of the wireless congestion.
802.11a has 8 non-overlapping bands in the 5GHz range, but signal propagation problems make it unfeasible for many wireless applications.
The real point though has been touched on by many people here. Cellular and Wi-Fi, in most cases, are not in competition with one another. They are used for different purposes and can happily co-exist.
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We occassionally have "movie day" where people are selected at random to see a movie on company time and they vote on which movie to see.
We just set up one of our Dimension Desktops with a THX certified speakers and a dvd player, pushing the video through one of our Dell Projectors.
Now, I don't really know that much about projectors in general, but let me tell you...having watched a few movies on the Dell Projector, I was and am just amazed at the quality. Absolutely stunning...amazing home theatre setup.
Anyone on /. not bow down at the altar which is Apple...fanboys.
Carry on, nothing to see here.
I should have actually been more clear. It's my understanding that iTunes only supports their proprietary mpeg-4 codec (AAC?).
.wmv downloads.
While musicmatch allows mp3 and
Why don't you just change the name now?
.mp3 format, which can be uploaded from your own music collection on your computer and doesn't require some proprietary format that I have to convert all my files too.
Dell isn't selling this as an IPOD clone, but rather a competing product. It doesn't have the ipod features it has it's own features.
Hmm...USB 2.0 makes it a lot easier for me to use than 1394, I only have one computer with 1394, I have 4 with USB 2.0.
15-16 hour battery life is fantastic
Most importantly though, it can play
Is it the perfect player? No, I'm sure over the next two years we'll see a lot of changes as this, PDA's and Digital Phones are all combined into one device (no reason to have 3). But for now, it's a competing device with attractive features.
Now that I've had my say, you can mod me down for flamebait since I didn't bow at the Altar which is Apple...
I would normally be all over Dell winning this contract. But since I do corporate wireless networking support...I'm not sure I want calls from 1,000 elementary school IT guys who can't figure out their 1,300 systems with wireless cards.
So maybe this one should go to Apple...
p.s. This was sarcasm...I'm all for Dell winning the contract! *looks around for management*
Now this is news for nerds! This really matters.
Slander, liable, emotional distress...someone get this kid a lawyer! (like they won't be lining up offering to help, heh).
That would be 121 Celsius there Mensa...as opposed to the 130 fahrenheit that your runner bug survives at, which is only 54.4C
A $1.95 a can...last time I checked
If various governments survive the embarrassment of Sexual Infidelity, Corruption, Law Breaking and various other political plagues...
Do you really think you can embarrass them by their choice of Operating System?
When they build the first Gauze pistol!!
Original c.1950's Orange Fiesta Ware. Mantles from a Coleman lantern. The detection element from a smoke alarm. Old (c. 1900-1920) ceramic dental work. Rose tinted sunglasses from the 1950's.
All of those items are radioactive. In fact, the Orange Fiesta Wear is about 25,000-50,000 cpm of beta radiation.
Beta radiation cannot penetrate through your clothes. Alpha radiation cannot penetrate through the dead skin cells covering most of your body (but avoid getting it near your eyes). Gamma's will go through you no matter what, but unless they are in high doses they do little damage. As for neutrons, you should never have a reason to encounter a neutron source...but if you do, you are likely screwed.
NNPS - Class 9204!!
Given up on Media anyway. Even the media organizations that you could once count on being neutral and just reporting the facts are lost to us now.
If you trust anything reported by so called unbiased media sources, you are a fool. Times have changed, the news is all about ratings. Sensationalism, no matter the truth or consequences is the order of the day.
And no, you can't trust the news from the internet either. Honestly, as a society, I am concerned about what we are going to do next. If we continue along this path, Time-Warner, Clear Channel and the rest might as well just start speaking for us.
I'm certainly not against free speech...but I think more effort needs to be invested in keeping media conglomerates in check.
Mentioning Physics and Quake just gave me a mental image of Postal Workers on Segway's, riding around with Machine Guns shooting at each other.
Err...for a game of course!
Tricorder? ...I knew you could.
A million more to go. Until people, health officials and governments take outbreaks of this nature more seriously. We'll always be in danger from them. In a time when people couldn't just span the globe in a matter of hours, diseases like the flu still managed to kill 25 million people.
Nowadays we are tied together by a lattice work of airlines and freedom of worldwide travel that make us so much more at risk. Of course, where do you draw the line? We need some serious concern, not worldwide paranoia.
I'm not saying SARS was badly handled everywhere. I'm just saying that there may very well come a time in the future where another event starts just like one...but the ending will be much worse.
Like the setting for Blair Witch 2003 - Back to the Woods.
With a processor and a bunch of cables and /. would love it, as long as it ran Linux.
If it ran Windows, they would just love to make fun of it.
You, out of the pool!
*shrugs* Maybe I need to buy into paranoia more. But you know what...debug, format and reinstall can fix most anything a hacker can do to my computer. If I handled sensitive finances, credit card info or other items worth protecting on my computers..then I would be more concerned.
But as it is, people want me to spend more time trying to protect my computers then I would spend just doing an OS reinstall...that it probably needed anyway. No sir, not worth it.
If I had something worth protecting, I would agree. But if someone sinister really wants to attack my computer while I'm in the middle of a mad game of scrabble with my Wife...then I'll fix whatever they broke and take the needed security precautions.
And I'll really hope that whoever decided to do this is within range of my network...cause that will mean I'm in range of theirs. *evil grin*
You are right...and as soon as I think one of my neighbors can/will do that, I'll upgrade my wireless network security.
I regularly run net stumbler and the like to see if I can pick up other wireless networks. When I think I actually need better security I'll add it. For the time being though, there is nothing on any of my computers that really needs securing.
As for why I don't use WEP? I've found it somewhat buggy and it sucks up bandwidth.
Best solution for a home network. Because I'm sorry, if you need more then the 5-20mbps throughput you'll get from 802.11b/g network...then you don't need a home network. You need an office network, at home.
Does wireless have it's drawbacks? Yes, but so do wired networks. I run 5 computers at home on a wireless network, sharing one internet connection through a Linksys Router.
I don't run WEP, but secure my network by changing the default ip address of my router and disabling DHCP. So you have to know the correct subnet to use to get on my network and assign your own ip address.
Perfect security solution? No, but it works for me and I have a great home network with file sharing, print sharing and net access, in a reasonably secure environment for under $200.00 on 5 computers.
To see the FCC open up more of the 2.4GHz band for unlicensed use under 4 watts. Right now it ranges from 2.4-2.5GHz, but as far as I know the FCC could expand that.
That way there would be more then 3 non-overlapping bands for 802.11b/g. This alone would alleviate a great deal of the wireless congestion.
802.11a has 8 non-overlapping bands in the 5GHz range, but signal propagation problems make it unfeasible for many wireless applications.
The real point though has been touched on by many people here. Cellular and Wi-Fi, in most cases, are not in competition with one another. They are used for different purposes and can happily co-exist.