Really. My Cell phone has "GPS" written all over it, but it has no GPS capabilities. I've really been pondering calling up Verizon Wireless and ask why they're selling products that don't have advertised features.
For that to work, you'd need to make the equivalent of a faraday cage. Take a look at the old case and make any airholes the same size.
Also be sure you have metal overlapping, as gaps beween sheets of metal will allow it to radiate out. Take a look at the existing case and all the metal bits sticking out all over the place on panels for ideas.
And remember, as the CPU speeds increase, the wavelenghts get shorter, and the holes that they can radiate out of get smaller. It would stink if Moore's Law gets stopped not by IBM but by the FCC.
Aluminum is the best but really expensive a cheapo person would make a case out of wood
Not this again.
Fer crying out loud. There's a number of reasons to build a case out of aluminum. The most important one is it's conductive. Any radiation coming off the motherboard/CPU/PCI cards gets blocked by the case and then goes to ground, preventing it from interfering with other devices around it. Open up any standard PC (or Apple or Sun or...) and you'll see the inside full of metal.
If you use something that's nonconductive (plastic or wood), then the radiation just blasts out and makes your TV/radio fuzzy. Wonder not why your 2.4Ghz phone or WiFi isn't working.
If you want to line the outside with wood, that's fine. But leave the metal case!
(not an RF engineer, but worked with them and took many products for FCC testing - all made of metal)
The point isn't the cost - the point is it exists. Those of us who know better don't need to get it. Those who need to convince those who don't know better can use this as a fallback (but boss, you *can* get insurange).
There are some organizations that still have a bias, but it's slight and recognized. There's other organizations that has a lot of bias, and it's obvious, but hidden behind some "fair and balanced" nonsense. Noone else claims to be unbiased.
The problem comes in when you have non-journalists (Wonkette, Drudge,/.) reporting something that may or may not be true. FOX picks it up and runs it. CNN, not wanting to be left out, picks it up too. Next thing you know, the NYT and print media have picked it up and are reporting it. Then it turns out the original Drudge article was just plain wrong (think Kerry's mistress). In that case, it was debunked before the print media really picked it up. That's not always the case though.
The fault here lies with the FOX/CNN/24-hour news organizations that don't do enough fact-checking before reporting a potentially wrong story.
Seriously though, I'm an author and do a lot of writing. We are a visual species - look at the popularity of TV, movies, and video games. Why are GUIs popular? It gives you a lot of information in a small amount of space. Think small applets, like CPU usage or disk usage. More information can be sent quicker using a pie graph and setting colors than just giving raw capacity and percentage used.
But writing is much more precise. When you write something down, you need to know *exactly* what you're saying and who you're saying it to. Otherwise the meaning could be lost.
At least now I have a choice. Pay less, have a slightly more restrictive license, or pay more and get a physical CD. Before iTMS, the only option was to buy the CD.
Even so, iTMS allows you to burn the CD and license up to 4 machines. Given the CDs I purchase says I can't make any copies of it, iTMS may have a less restrictive license than regular CDs.
I buy singles because I want the remixes. Lots of good Seal singles out there, but I skip over the ones that are only the single - I already own the CD.
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But if a designer settles on Docbook--and does it right--then they might as well still attach good CSS for the HTML output.
No disagreement there. The LDP (which I've been working with for something like 8 years) has done a pretty good job with Docbook so far. I don't write HTML, but the CSS examples elsewhere shows it has real potential.
CSS can and should be used to enhance screen output, braille output, screen-reader output, print output.
But CSS only helps if you're using HTML as an intermediary step. Docbook already has something similar to CSS (called just "stylesheets") and the LDP has their own version of stylesheets already, depending on the output method. So in a way, we're already using CSS, just under a different name and skipping the HTML step.
And nukular bombs could be used for mining and creating canals.
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*groan*
Docbook already does this. Want print? Docbook exports to PDF, TeX, and PS. Want screen? There's HTML. Want light? There's text. You can also output to.rtf and Braille.
CSS shouldn't be used to make something printable, but it should be used to enhance the screen output.
But Echostar had to cave in - otherwise everyone would switch to DirecTV
We don't know what the final deal was, but everyone appeared happy about it. I doubt Echostar caved in.
If this legislation were passed Disney wouldn't be able to negotiate - EchoStar would be legally unable to sign a contract which required bundling.
Disney would still be able to negotiate, but only in terms of price per channel without bundling required. So instead of "If you want Disney Channel, you also have to pick up ESPN", it's "Disney channel is $.50/subscriber, ESPN $.45/subscriber" or whatever.
Then Comcast gives up, buys Disney, and gets the channels for "free".
It's not always the cable companies that force bundling. Take a look at Disney. They force cable companies to buy their channels in blocks so that while a cable company may only want ESPN and the Disney Channel, they also have to pick up Toon Disney and other channels as well. This additional cost gets pushed onto the consumers.
Didn't Viacom and EchoStar have a fight over this issue just a few weeks ago?
You have to work harder to pay the increased cable bill as channels have to pay to buy new equipment. Then you have to work harder still to afford the new TV to receive the signals. Then you have to get a car big enough to carry said new TV from the store to your house. Then you have to haul it around and get it in a place where your wife (or SO) approves so it follows the flow of the room. By this point, all the overtime/additional work and physical exercise has caused your heart to explode. You die, your spouse/SO gets your life insurance, your company gets to hire a younger replacement worker and pay 2/3 of what they paid you.
Lower unemployment, more money flowing in the economy, and all the fat unhealthy people are gone! All because the FCC wanted HDTV.
Just saying "XML->TeX doesn't work" is somewhat incorrect. The DTDs you're using may not be able to render to TeX, but DocBook can. For a while, it was the only way to generate PDFs from SGML DocBook.
Now, if you meant TeX->XML, well, there you're mostly right.
Liberal media is a myth for the most part. Some reporters are liberal-leaning on social issues since they're highly educated, but since they make far more than the average family, they tend to lean further to the conservative on financial matters.
Neuros might have a Linux-version of it's software, but if the player appears as a regural HD to the OS, why would you need dedicated software?
Because the Neuros as an on-board database of what songs are installed. Startup times are on the order of just a few seconds while that database is read instead of minutes while it does a search of the entire HDD.
You can drop non-music files on the Neuros as well and it will act as a portable drive.
The process appears to be something like the following:
Install device-mapper patch into 2.4 kernel. Devmapper isn't part of the 2.4, but is part of 2.6. Not sure if any distros include the patch in their 2.4 releases (Red Hat doesn't) Install LVM2 into existing system (LVM1 and LVM2 commands can co-exist) Boot 2.4 kernel w/device mapper and LVM2
Install 2.6 kernel w/device mapper and LVM2 In this case, you're only running LVM2 commands and device mapper. You still have to convert the LVM1 metadata on disk to LVM2 *hand waving*
LVM2 uses an 'lvm' command that has the operation you want to perform as an argument. This 'lvm vgcreate' instead of 'vgcreate'. AFAIK, the remainder of the arguments are the same as before.
The painful process of upgrading LVM1 to LVM2. Little documentation on the process, and installing Fedora Core 2 test 1 over an existing Fedora Core 1 gives all sorts of fun. Much hand-holding of your system and other hand-waving is required.
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Really. My Cell phone has "GPS" written all over it, but it has no GPS capabilities. I've really been pondering calling up Verizon Wireless and ask why they're selling products that don't have advertised features.
For that to work, you'd need to make the equivalent of a faraday cage. Take a look at the old case and make any airholes the same size.
Also be sure you have metal overlapping, as gaps beween sheets of metal will allow it to radiate out. Take a look at the existing case and all the metal bits sticking out all over the place on panels for ideas.
And remember, as the CPU speeds increase, the wavelenghts get shorter, and the holes that they can radiate out of get smaller. It would stink if Moore's Law gets stopped not by IBM but by the FCC.
Aluminum is the best but really expensive a cheapo person would make a case out of wood
Not this again.
Fer crying out loud. There's a number of reasons to build a case out of aluminum. The most important one is it's conductive. Any radiation coming off the motherboard/CPU/PCI cards gets blocked by the case and then goes to ground, preventing it from interfering with other devices around it. Open up any standard PC (or Apple or Sun or...) and you'll see the inside full of metal.
If you use something that's nonconductive (plastic or wood), then the radiation just blasts out and makes your TV/radio fuzzy. Wonder not why your 2.4Ghz phone or WiFi isn't working.
If you want to line the outside with wood, that's fine. But leave the metal case!
(not an RF engineer, but worked with them and took many products for FCC testing - all made of metal)
tunesbrowser doesn't work. Doesn't see other itunes machines, and is quite unstable (running on FC1 anyway).
Little documentation, so it's hard to figure out where the problem is, or what is supposed to happen.
Ooh. Rockin. Thanks for the pointer.
Don't forget the Linux-friendliness of the developers, the ability to play OGG Vorbis, and MyFi (broadcast to a nearby FM receiver).
The point isn't the cost - the point is it exists. Those of us who know better don't need to get it. Those who need to convince those who don't know better can use this as a fallback (but boss, you *can* get insurange).
For the 100,000th time:
/.) reporting something that may or may not be true. FOX picks it up and runs it. CNN, not wanting to be left out, picks it up too. Next thing you know, the NYT and print media have picked it up and are reporting it. Then it turns out the original Drudge article was just plain wrong (think Kerry's mistress). In that case, it was debunked before the print media really picked it up. That's not always the case though.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNBIASED MEDIA
There are some organizations that still have a bias, but it's slight and recognized. There's other organizations that has a lot of bias, and it's obvious, but hidden behind some "fair and balanced" nonsense. Noone else claims to be unbiased.
The problem comes in when you have non-journalists (Wonkette, Drudge,
The fault here lies with the FOX/CNN/24-hour news organizations that don't do enough fact-checking before reporting a potentially wrong story.
one picture is worth a thousand words?
Seriously though, I'm an author and do a lot of writing. We are a visual species - look at the popularity of TV, movies, and video games. Why are GUIs popular? It gives you a lot of information in a small amount of space. Think small applets, like CPU usage or disk usage. More information can be sent quicker using a pie graph and setting colors than just giving raw capacity and percentage used.
But writing is much more precise. When you write something down, you need to know *exactly* what you're saying and who you're saying it to. Otherwise the meaning could be lost.
At least now I have a choice. Pay less, have a slightly more restrictive license, or pay more and get a physical CD. Before iTMS, the only option was to buy the CD.
Even so, iTMS allows you to burn the CD and license up to 4 machines. Given the CDs I purchase says I can't make any copies of it, iTMS may have a less restrictive license than regular CDs.
I buy singles because I want the remixes. Lots of good Seal singles out there, but I skip over the ones that are only the single - I already own the CD.
But if a designer settles on Docbook--and does it right--then they might as well still attach good CSS for the HTML output.
No disagreement there. The LDP (which I've been working with for something like 8 years) has done a pretty good job with Docbook so far. I don't write HTML, but the CSS examples elsewhere shows it has real potential.
CSS can and should be used to enhance screen output, braille output, screen-reader output, print output.
But CSS only helps if you're using HTML as an intermediary step. Docbook already has something similar to CSS (called just "stylesheets") and the LDP has their own version of stylesheets already, depending on the output method. So in a way, we're already using CSS, just under a different name and skipping the HTML step.
And nukular bombs could be used for mining and creating canals.
*groan*
.rtf and Braille.
Docbook already does this. Want print? Docbook exports to PDF, TeX, and PS. Want screen? There's HTML. Want light? There's text. You can also output to
CSS shouldn't be used to make something printable, but it should be used to enhance the screen output.
But Echostar had to cave in - otherwise everyone would switch to DirecTV
We don't know what the final deal was, but everyone appeared happy about it. I doubt Echostar caved in.
If this legislation were passed Disney wouldn't be able to negotiate - EchoStar would be legally unable to sign a contract which required bundling.
Disney would still be able to negotiate, but only in terms of price per channel without bundling required. So instead of "If you want Disney Channel, you also have to pick up ESPN", it's "Disney channel is $.50/subscriber, ESPN $.45/subscriber" or whatever.
Then Comcast gives up, buys Disney, and gets the channels for "free".
It's not always the cable companies that force bundling. Take a look at Disney. They force cable companies to buy their channels in blocks so that while a cable company may only want ESPN and the Disney Channel, they also have to pick up Toon Disney and other channels as well. This additional cost gets pushed onto the consumers.
Didn't Viacom and EchoStar have a fight over this issue just a few weeks ago?
Leftist bent being proposed by a Republican.
Think of it this way.
You have to work harder to pay the increased cable bill as channels have to pay to buy new equipment. Then you have to work harder still to afford the new TV to receive the signals. Then you have to get a car big enough to carry said new TV from the store to your house. Then you have to haul it around and get it in a place where your wife (or SO) approves so it follows the flow of the room. By this point, all the overtime/additional work and physical exercise has caused your heart to explode. You die, your spouse/SO gets your life insurance, your company gets to hire a younger replacement worker and pay 2/3 of what they paid you.
Lower unemployment, more money flowing in the economy, and all the fat unhealthy people are gone! All because the FCC wanted HDTV.
(just kidding....or am I?)
Just saying "XML->TeX doesn't work" is somewhat incorrect. The DTDs you're using may not be able to render to TeX, but DocBook can. For a while, it was the only way to generate PDFs from SGML DocBook.
Now, if you meant TeX->XML, well, there you're mostly right.
Liberal media is a myth for the most part. Some reporters are liberal-leaning on social issues since they're highly educated, but since they make far more than the average family, they tend to lean further to the conservative on financial matters.
Read "What Liberal Media" for a good overview.
Neuros might have a Linux-version of it's software, but if the player appears as a regural HD to the OS, why would you need dedicated software?
Because the Neuros as an on-board database of what songs are installed. Startup times are on the order of just a few seconds while that database is read instead of minutes while it does a search of the entire HDD.
You can drop non-music files on the Neuros as well and it will act as a portable drive.
But Powell didn't make this ruling during Clinton's presidency.
The process appears to be something like the following:
2 /0 111.html
Install device-mapper patch into 2.4 kernel. Devmapper isn't part of the 2.4, but is part of 2.6. Not sure if any distros include the patch in their 2.4 releases (Red Hat doesn't)
Install LVM2 into existing system (LVM1 and LVM2 commands can co-exist)
Boot 2.4 kernel w/device mapper and LVM2
*hand waving*
http://linux.msede.com/lvm_mlist/archive/2003/1
(AKA http://tinyurl.com/2jj3h)
Install 2.6 kernel w/device mapper and LVM2
In this case, you're only running LVM2 commands and device mapper. You still have to convert the LVM1 metadata on disk to LVM2 *hand waving*
LVM2 uses an 'lvm' command that has the operation you want to perform as an argument. This 'lvm vgcreate' instead of 'vgcreate'. AFAIK, the remainder of the arguments are the same as before.
The painful process of upgrading LVM1 to LVM2. Little documentation on the process, and installing Fedora Core 2 test 1 over an existing Fedora Core 1 gives all sorts of fun. Much hand-holding of your system and other hand-waving is required.