"802.11 is FREE, all you need to do is buy a lousy wireless NIC and an AP. After that you get 10mbps, instead of crappy unreliable 1.5mbps "
Odd. I just put a 802.11 card in my computer. I got NO BANDWITH. Turns out the only way I'm going to get any connectivity on my wi-fi card is if I connect another node to an old-school source of bandwith (Cable modem, DSL modem, a computer with dial-up.)
Turns out that 802.11 is just another protocoll, not a magical source of 10mpbs bandwith. If you want to get 10mbps out of the 802.11 hardware, you're going to need 10mbps+ of some other sort of data-pipe. Perhaps 10 of your neighbors have 10 wi-fi cards connected to their "crappy unreiable 1.5mbps" cable modems. 802.11 is all about leeching ALOT from your neighbors while they leech a little back from you.
I think he dosen't understand. These laptops won't have windows pre-installed. No need to put them into doorstop duty so quickly, you could wait till you find a lack of applications for the laptop before it keeps your doors oepn for you.
Look how they copy Microsoft's tactic of giving away computers with their OS.
Give students your OS, get them convinced that it's the only way a computer should work, and you've got a loyal userbase that *should* continue to use your OS and buy upgrades from you, instead of your competitors.
I'd like to see this program offer a choice. Do you want a MacOS, M$, or some flavor of unix on your free laptop?
Install one in every light socket behind the bulbs - every bulb in the house is now a spotlight.
Make a suit of armor out of them and confidently proclaim you've invented the new police tool for the 22nd century - the laser proof vest!
Attach them to every road-side post and save a few lives - high intensity reflectors!
While we're at it . . . put them on the outside of all military ground-vehicles. Those damned laser-guided bombs will be so confused by the hundreds of laser spots reflected by the disks!
Can you say Juggle?
Make a stack of 1000, replace axle on car with stack of 1000. Instant steam roller.
Have a friend throw them into the air everytime you shout "PULL!" and open fire.
Glue them to the rims of your ghetto-ride.
Stack them in bulk (think a few hundred) and slap them on the ends of a metal bar and start bench-pressing.
Line your roof with these. Cut your cooling costs by 80% for those in the sun-belt. Reflect sunlight into your home and save on lighting. Relfect sinlight onto a dark bit of metal and enjoy the no-cost no-noise heating system.
Break them up into bits and make a disco-ball.
Use the left-over bits and make a tasteful [yeah right] mosaic.
Break them up, use the glittery foil parts to make a nice fine glittry dust that your female friends can use in their hair (don't ask.)
You can make an array of them, put them inside a reflecting telescope, and adjust them each at the optimal angle and create a self correcting mirror for the ultimate telescope.
Spin them like coins, or mount them to some rotary motor, and bounce lasers off of them for an interesting show.
Weave them through the spokes in your bike tires for extra saftey at night (think reflectors.)
Cover your walls with these. No more pesky problems with the IR remote not working in THAT corner of the room (don't we all have this problem somewhere in our home?)
While the wall is covered with these things, a little wattage lightbulb will go along way for illumination.
With all that reflecting going on you can open up a photo studio.
Throw them, and if someone asks you what you're up to, tell'm you've found a way to get AOL to launch with 100% reliability.
Line the inside of a paraobilic dish with these and run a dark water carrying pipe through the focus. Solar water heater. (Maybe use the steam to drive a turbine, and get some power as well as hot H2O.)
If you're being tailgated, use them to blind the drivers behind you, he'll never notice the breaklights. Start thinking about what color you would like the tailgater to paint your car:).
Throw them out the sunroof if your car is already the right color. 65MPH CD-ROM Shiruken will work wonders on their paintjob and windshield.
Use the 800 number on the package and demand a copy of the AOL client that works with your non-M$ operating system. (C-64s didn't have CDRoms..too bad.)
Welcome to the new 12 step program of GA - Gamers Anonymous. Please feel free to stand and introduce yourself.
I am Casio282, and I'm a gameoholic. My wife told me I spent too much time on the computer playing games. She said I was dropping out of life for a game. She said I was giving up on being a social being.
I told her that the game was played over the modem and I was being Massively Social in my MMPORPG of choice.
Indeed a quick google of contribution limits lead me to the following info:
Individual Citizens may contribute the following per year (at maximum) 1) $1,000 to any Canidate or Canidate comittee 2) $20,000 to any National Party 3) $5,000 to any other political comitee 4) A cap of $25,000 per year between all combined contributions.
So, while you and I can "Buy" $25,000 of senator, Microsoft is not limited in it's ability to buy shares of a political-whore?
Not only do they have an effective monopoly on operating systems, they (along with other corporations) have been able to make the $25,000 shares of your average citizen look like pennies that get discarded on the city street because they're not worth the effort to pick up after they fall from your pocket.
Are there not limits set that a single person can donate to any single canidate? It was always my understanding that corperations were treated as if they were their own person. If there are indeed limts to contributions that an individual can make to any party/canidate/measure/whatnot, why should a corperate entity be allowed to make huge contributions (read:bribes) while individual citizens are limited in their ability to contribute?
I wonder if these texts would help a terrorist build a vehicle-mobile weapon capable of screwing our technological infrastructure. Such a thing might be good for more than one shot, as opposed to some EMP devices that use chemical explosives to drive their EMP wave. At least a one-shot weapon is used up.
(See http://orbat.com/site/agtwopen/dirtybomb.html for an article that briefly describes a explosive powered EMP device.)
"Can it automaitcaly re-modulate the phase buffer to route power to the primary shields without someone having to crawl through dark monster infeseted tunnels?"
Perhaps, or perhaps not. More importantly, you get to avoid the BSOD in a system where the D is BSOD can't be fixed with a back-up disk and a reboot.
Warning: Illegal Function Call in Module "Life Support" - Now shutting down.
So...we're looking at taking away the ability of 'terrorists' to use free connectivity via 802.11? Do folks have to turn over their ID and proof of residency to get a hotmail address? Do you have to give your ssn# to use the computer at the local library? What about CyberCafes and PCBaangs? I don't see how a wireless lan makes our nation that much more a target for terrorism. Things that one might think are a little more important on the list are:
1) Our borders that are SO resistant to illegal entry [ I have a sponge that stops water better than our borders keep out illegal foreign nationals ]
2) Our ports in which only a small fraction of containers are ever searched. Will it we keep up the status quo until a WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction) is smuggled in and used against us?
3) Our politicans that are more concerned with their positions of power than the saftey and well being of the citizens they are supposed to represent?
Now, wouldn't some of those old tunnels and depots make for an interesting setting for a little party? No 2 hour long drives to get out to the boonies, just a nice underground party. [Cheap pun, I know.]
Hell, forget my drive question - where does this thin find the room for a fan+heat sync. P3 in a dive bay...that's all the thermal energy of my old Gateway packed into a package the size of my CD-RW drive. That baby is going to run HOT! So much for making a beowulf cluster inside a tower case.
My firt question would be : "Who's making applications for this thing?" I wouldn't want to adopt the best OS and best Hardware only to find that I can't get a good selection of quality software at a reasonable price. I mean, there is a reason I have a PC and not a MAC.
Hell, you could sit outside a Ross, Macy's, Sears, or other major retailer and leech the bandwith off their inventory. They'll all be turned on, afterall, you can't really know how well that nightie will fit you when it's turned off . . . some people DO need alot of bandwith when nearly naked (think of your typical "We're naked with a web-can if you've got a credit card" type of website.)
"If you live in a city for instance, there are many who pass within a few yards of you each day who could give you a ride home, buy an item you're trying to sell..."
So, I wouldn't worry about virtual panhandlers spamming. I'd worry about targeted spam from vendors you'd rather not have other people know you frequent. Imagine walking past a bar with your AA friends and you're beamed a frequent customer perk. You're with your ladyfriend (who think's she's the only lady friend) when Victoria Secrets sends you a frequent customer discount - but those sexy undies you got were all intended for a diffrent lady friend (or worse, yourself!)
Reading targted spam (or junk mailings) can let you know alot about the target of said spam/mailings. (You'll find gun stuff, camera stuff, computer stuff, and aviation junkmail all over my mailbox and e-mail box for example.)
Now, this really gets me thinking. Radioactive materials occur naturaly. Wouldn't that be a source of problems considering that those materials are found underground, and the subways, of course, run underground. Anyone have any info on how they filter out background radiation and still keep their sensors so sensitive?
Well, wow. How annoying will this be? Don't fire alarms use radiological material? I know my guns have tritrium (a nuke component material) in their glowing sights...so does my son's watch. What is the threshhold for these sensors anyhow? I guess we haven't heard any stories about timex setting off the nuke detectors...so it can't be all that bad can it?
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"802.11 is FREE, all you need to do is buy a lousy wireless NIC and an AP. After that you get 10mbps, instead of crappy unreliable 1.5mbps "
Odd. I just put a 802.11 card in my computer. I got NO BANDWITH. Turns out the only way I'm going to get any connectivity on my wi-fi card is if I connect another node to an old-school source of bandwith (Cable modem, DSL modem, a computer with dial-up.)
Turns out that 802.11 is just another protocoll, not a magical source of 10mpbs bandwith. If you want to get 10mbps out of the 802.11 hardware, you're going to need 10mbps+ of some other sort of data-pipe. Perhaps 10 of your neighbors have 10 wi-fi cards connected to their "crappy unreiable 1.5mbps" cable modems. 802.11 is all about leeching ALOT from your neighbors while they leech a little back from you.
"Free doorstop here I come!!!"
I think he dosen't understand. These laptops won't have windows pre-installed. No need to put them into doorstop duty so quickly, you could wait till you find a lack of applications for the laptop before it keeps your doors oepn for you.
Look how they copy Microsoft's tactic of giving away computers with their OS.
Give students your OS, get them convinced that it's the only way a computer should work, and you've got a loyal userbase that *should* continue to use your OS and buy upgrades from you, instead of your competitors.
I'd like to see this program offer a choice. Do you want a MacOS, M$, or some flavor of unix on your free laptop?
"Female friends? What are those?"
I'm right here. You just have to click the right links.
"Roseblood, you are amazingly creative."
I wonder if you forgot to add <sarcasm></sarcasm> to your post.
Install one in every light socket behind the bulbs - every bulb in the house is now a spotlight.
Make a suit of armor out of them and confidently proclaim you've invented the new police tool for the 22nd century - the laser proof vest!
Attach them to every road-side post and save a few lives - high intensity reflectors!
While we're at it . . . put them on the outside of all military ground-vehicles. Those damned laser-guided bombs will be so confused by the hundreds of laser spots reflected by the disks!
Can you say Juggle?
Make a stack of 1000, replace axle on car with stack of 1000. Instant steam roller.
Cool hub-caps for that radio-flyer.
Have a friend throw them into the air everytime you shout "PULL!" and open fire.
Glue them to the rims of your ghetto-ride.
Stack them in bulk (think a few hundred) and slap them on the ends of a metal bar and start bench-pressing.
Line your roof with these. Cut your cooling costs by 80% for those in the sun-belt. Reflect sunlight into your home and save on lighting. Relfect sinlight onto a dark bit of metal and enjoy the no-cost no-noise heating system.
Break them up into bits and make a disco-ball.
Use the left-over bits and make a tasteful [yeah right] mosaic.
Break them up, use the glittery foil parts to make a nice fine glittry dust that your female friends can use in their hair (don't ask.)
:).
You can make an array of them, put them inside a reflecting telescope, and adjust them each at the optimal angle and create a self correcting mirror for the ultimate telescope.
Spin them like coins, or mount them to some rotary motor, and bounce lasers off of them for an interesting show.
Weave them through the spokes in your bike tires for extra saftey at night (think reflectors.)
Cover your walls with these. No more pesky problems with the IR remote not working in THAT corner of the room (don't we all have this problem somewhere in our home?)
While the wall is covered with these things, a little wattage lightbulb will go along way for illumination.
With all that reflecting going on you can open up a photo studio.
Throw them, and if someone asks you what you're up to, tell'm you've found a way to get AOL to launch with 100% reliability.
Line the inside of a paraobilic dish with these and run a dark water carrying pipe through the focus. Solar water heater. (Maybe use the steam to drive a turbine, and get some power as well as hot H2O.)
If you're being tailgated, use them to blind the drivers behind you, he'll never notice the breaklights. Start thinking about what color you would like the tailgater to paint your car
Throw them out the sunroof if your car is already the right color. 65MPH CD-ROM Shiruken will work wonders on their paintjob and windshield.
Use the 800 number on the package and demand a copy of the AOL client that works with your non-M$ operating system. (C-64s didn't have CDRoms..too bad.)
Funny - The parent went from 2,funny to 1,Troll. Someone got the joke. Then someone didn't get the joke.
"chronic /. addiction"
/. addict!
/.? I think you've got it all wrong!
Wow, if there was ever someone that was in need of an invervention, it would be the chronic
Hey, look who's here, all my friends and family. Oh, what problem? Too much time on
"I once had the Everquest on my back. . ."
Welcome to the new 12 step program of GA - Gamers Anonymous. Please feel free to stand and introduce yourself.
I am Casio282, and I'm a gameoholic. My wife told me I spent too much time on the computer playing games. She said I was dropping out of life for a game. She said I was giving up on being a social being.
I told her that the game was played over the modem and I was being Massively Social in my MMPORPG of choice.
Indeed a quick google of contribution limits lead me to the following info:
Individual Citizens may contribute the following per year (at maximum)
1) $1,000 to any Canidate or Canidate comittee
2) $20,000 to any National Party
3) $5,000 to any other political comitee
4) A cap of $25,000 per year between all combined contributions.
So, while you and I can "Buy" $25,000 of senator, Microsoft is not limited in it's ability to buy shares of a political-whore?
Not only do they have an effective monopoly on operating systems, they (along with other corporations) have been able to make the $25,000 shares of your average citizen look like pennies that get discarded on the city street because they're not worth the effort to pick up after they fall from your pocket.
Are there not limits set that a single person can donate to any single canidate? It was always my understanding that corperations were treated as if they were their own person. If there are indeed limts to contributions that an individual can make to any party/canidate/measure/whatnot, why should a corperate entity be allowed to make huge contributions (read:bribes) while individual citizens are limited in their ability to contribute?
I wonder if these texts would help a terrorist build a vehicle-mobile weapon capable of screwing our technological infrastructure. Such a thing might be good for more than one shot, as opposed to some EMP devices that use chemical explosives to drive their EMP wave. At least a one-shot weapon is used up.
(See http://orbat.com/site/agtwopen/dirtybomb.html for an article that briefly describes a explosive powered EMP device.)
"Can it automaitcaly re-modulate the phase buffer to route power to the primary shields without someone having to crawl through dark monster infeseted tunnels?"
Perhaps, or perhaps not. More importantly, you get to avoid the BSOD in a system where the D is BSOD can't be fixed with a back-up disk and a reboot.
Warning: Illegal Function Call in Module "Life Support" - Now shutting down.
1) write Secure, Efficient and Easy C Programming Mini-HOWTO [done]
2) ???
3) Profit!
So...we're looking at taking away the ability of 'terrorists' to use free connectivity via 802.11? Do folks have to turn over their ID and proof of residency to get a hotmail address? Do you have to give your ssn# to use the computer at the local library? What about CyberCafes and PCBaangs? I don't see how a wireless lan makes our nation that much more a target for terrorism. Things that one might think are a little more important on the list are: 1) Our borders that are SO resistant to illegal entry [ I have a sponge that stops water better than our borders keep out illegal foreign nationals ] 2) Our ports in which only a small fraction of containers are ever searched. Will it we keep up the status quo until a WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction) is smuggled in and used against us? 3) Our politicans that are more concerned with their positions of power than the saftey and well being of the citizens they are supposed to represent?
Now, wouldn't some of those old tunnels and depots make for an interesting setting for a little party? No 2 hour long drives to get out to the boonies, just a nice underground party. [Cheap pun, I know.]
Hell, forget my drive question - where does this thin find the room for a fan+heat sync. P3 in a dive bay...that's all the thermal energy of my old Gateway packed into a package the size of my CD-RW drive. That baby is going to run HOT! So much for making a beowulf cluster inside a tower case.
That's nice. Do they make 5.25 inch floppy drives in this slim configuration as well?
Why 5.25 inch drives? Backwards compatability of course.
My firt question would be : "Who's making applications for this thing?" I wouldn't want to adopt the best OS and best Hardware only to find that I can't get a good selection of quality software at a reasonable price. I mean, there is a reason I have a PC and not a MAC.
I guess that's flamebait for both sides isn't it?
Hell, you could sit outside a Ross, Macy's, Sears, or other major retailer and leech the bandwith off their inventory. They'll all be turned on, afterall, you can't really know how well that nightie will fit you when it's turned off . . . some people DO need alot of bandwith when nearly naked (think of your typical "We're naked with a web-can if you've got a credit card" type of website.)
"If you live in a city for instance, there are many who pass within a few yards of you each day who could give you a ride home, buy an item you're trying to sell..."
So, I wouldn't worry about virtual panhandlers spamming. I'd worry about targeted spam from vendors you'd rather not have other people know you frequent. Imagine walking past a bar with your AA friends and you're beamed a frequent customer perk. You're with your ladyfriend (who think's she's the only lady friend) when Victoria Secrets sends you a frequent customer discount - but those sexy undies you got were all intended for a diffrent lady friend (or worse, yourself!)
Reading targted spam (or junk mailings) can let you know alot about the target of said spam/mailings. (You'll find gun stuff, camera stuff, computer stuff, and aviation junkmail all over my mailbox and e-mail box for example.)
Now, this really gets me thinking. Radioactive materials occur naturaly. Wouldn't that be a source of problems considering that those materials are found underground, and the subways, of course, run underground. Anyone have any info on how they filter out background radiation and still keep their sensors so sensitive?
Well, wow. How annoying will this be? Don't fire alarms use radiological material? I know my guns have tritrium (a nuke component material) in their glowing sights...so does my son's watch. What is the threshhold for these sensors anyhow? I guess we haven't heard any stories about timex setting off the nuke detectors...so it can't be all that bad can it?