The article said the problem exists when metal is in direct contact with the skin. Most cell phones have plastic which prevents direct contact with metal, and while the insulating value of that plastic is only around 10kv, that's much higher than the body provides so I don't see a cell phone changing vey much.
In any event, wouldn't the metal frame of my glasses and my metal wristwatch be much bigger threats? My wedding ring?
Mix corn starch and water to form a paste. Stir slowly, or pour the mixture, and it acts like a liquid. Stir fast, or hit the surface, and it "breaks" like a solid, dissipating energy.
Um... microsoft.com has been slashdotted? Unlikely.
Sorry, but I'm betting that CNN's hourly stories about this are sending a lot more people to Microsoft than a story on SlashDot ever could. Anyway, this is the board where most people are too cool to uses Window, remember?
Unless, that is, you were using the term slashdotted in the strictly generic sense, in which case a moderator will probably delete your post in order to protect the SlashDot trademark from infringement. Can't have SlashDot join the ranks of Kleenex and Ping-pong...
Well I'll be darned, you're right! I saw that they had a 2000/XP version but their online FAQ says:
Software version 4.0 for Windows 2000 or Windows XP does not have an upload feature.
I thought that meant that you could not send a configuration to the keyboard, so I didn't even bother to install it. But their terminology is ass-backwards and it really means that you can't retrieve the currect configs from the keyboard. That's not a big deal since you can save your configuration in a disk file.
This is fantastic! I can now recommend the Stellar without reservation! 'Scuse me, gotta go... I've got some keyboard evangelizing to do on another BBS that I frequent! It's really too bad that this Slashdot thread is about to fall off the end of the list, or I'd do it here too...
It's funny that I never see the Avant Stellar (http://www.cvtinc.com/) mentioned in these discussions about keyboards. It has a significant flaw (see below) but it's still my favorite. Great "clicky" feel, very firm, 100% programmable, macros, two sets of function keys (so you can reprogram the ones you don't normally use)... Lots of good stuff!
The problem is that their programming software doesn't work on NT/2000/XP, just 95/98/ME. It's not a problem for me because I use a KVM switch to connect six systems to the same keyboard/monitor/mouse, and one of my systems is Windows 98, so I just run the software on that system and switch to it when I need to change something.
I have it programmed so that some of the unused function keys have macros that tell the KVM to switch to different systems. Single-key switching from Windows 2000 to Linux...
Wow, you clearly don't understand the direction that technology is headed.
The article says that this new technology could lead to smaller cell phones, and that's all that is important.
In the near future cell phones will be smaller than the smallest object that normal humans can understand, the size of a human hair. People already drive, eat, walk their dogs, and sit on the toilet while talking to other people on the other side of the planet. Eventually cell phones will be so small and so powerful that everybody will be connected to everybody else, full time. You won't need to leave your bed, much less the house, so glasses will become irrelevant. Except of course for those drones, er people, who leave their hive -- sorry, I mean house -- to service the queen.
Sorry, I have probably said too much. Bu it doesn't matter, really. Resistance is futile.
> Saying that Microsoft should be used only
> because it is the dominant OS is a strawman
> argument.
How so? Going back to my "internal combustion" analogy, that's like saying that schools should not teach gasoline-engine repair simply because it is the dominant technology. Of course they should! And they should stop when it is no longer the dominant technology, not because somebody who hates smog decides to give money to the college.
> Linux is gaining marketshare amongst business,
> both as desktop OS, and as Server OS
I'll buy the Server part, but I have not seen any studies that show it making significant gains on the desktop.
Even so, I'll agree -- strongly! -- that colleges should expose students to Linux. But that's not what we are talking about here. We are talking about eliminating Microsoft products.
Regardless of anybody's personal prejudices for or against any particular operating system or company, isn't is clear that a college should prepare students for what they will encounter in the real world?
I see this as being as foolish as saying "our technical school will no longer teach people how to service internal combustion engines because they are environmentally harmful". Electric cars may well dominate the future, but the current crop of students will graduate -- and perhaps even retire -- long before they become common.
And like or not, the current crop of students at "your grandfather's well known college" will graduate into a world where Microsoft still dominates.
The whole reason that we have a problem with antibiotic-resistant germs is that cheap, widely available antobiotics are grossly overused. The find their way into so many products as a preventive measure (everything from meat to anti-bacterial hand soaps) that new strains have evolved and spread.
So if the price is kept high the new antiboitics will be more likely to be used when it is appropriate and 20 years from now we will be less likely to have strains that are resistant to this drug.
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> This is done by playing two different frequencies into
> the different ears (ie 300 hz into one ear, 304 into the
> other: your brain then entrains to a 4hz frequency)
Proximate, but no panatella.
It's not your brain that does that, it's an actual physical effect. The technical term is heterodyning and it takes place with things like radio waves as well as sound waves, so it can't be a "brain" thing.
If you mix a 100KHz radio signal with a 110KHz radio signal you will generate "beat" signals at plus-and-minus the difference, i.e. 90KHz and 120KHz. In fact that is the basis for many (all?) analog radio/tv/etc. receivers. The tuner uses an oscillator to generate an RF signal of a certain frequency, which beats with the off-air signal to produce a new signal at a specific frequency. The tuner then decodes the signal at the "intermediate frequency". Change the freqency of the RF oscillator and you change the off-air frequency which beats with it to produce the intermediate frequency. That way the tuner can be optimized to receive a single frequency, thereby simplifying the design.
> What is with the sudden onslaught of superhero movies?
Yep, ever since Superman came out.
In 1978.
That's about the time special effects were making large leaps forward (no pun intended) and it was finally possible to make a realistic-looking flying man. The Superman tagline was "You'll believe a man can fly".
Now we are seeing the results of a new generation of low-cost, high-power computers, which make realistic effect cheaper and cheaper.
Superhero movies are a necessary result of Moore's Law.
> ooooo...sending it backwards makes it all better.
It does, because that makes it encrypted. I invented a similar scheme for passing secret notes in the second grade. Nobody ever intercepted a message and figured out the code.
Seriously, look at any multi-dot domain and the most significant element is always on the right. So it makes sense to have the area code on the right, the exchage in the middle, and the "last" 4 digits on the left.
More Information about ENUM
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From http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/printableAr ticle?doc_id=NMG20020304S0011:
"Just how does ENUM turn phone numbers into domains? When an ENUM client queries DNS, it reverses the phone number ordering and applies the domain name at the end. If the original number is +1-415-947-6022, for example, the ENUM client removes all the dashes and punctuation to get 14159476022. The phone number is then sent to DNS as 2.2.0.6.7.4.9.5.1.4.1.e.164.arpa, assuming the server is located in the.arpa domain."
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The article said the problem exists when metal is in direct contact with the skin. Most cell phones have plastic which prevents direct contact with metal, and while the insulating value of that plastic is only around 10kv, that's much higher than the body provides so I don't see a cell phone changing vey much.
In any event, wouldn't the metal frame of my glasses and my metal wristwatch be much bigger threats? My wedding ring?
...should have an episode where Denny Crane buys a phaser pistol from the auction, and starts carrying it instead of his handgun.
"Nobody will ever get more than 64,000 spams."
Shouldn't that be "use only short glasses"? It's New Year's Eve, after all.
Next year's English Oxford Dictionary will have an entry for that last word.
"Noun;The only word in the 2005 ten-letter acrostic solution which did not appear in a dictionary at the time."
VoIPoWiFi ? Kinda catchy.
Dunno. But 20 divided by zero is &)%*$%*_))[LOST CARRIER]
Mix corn starch and water to form a paste. Stir slowly, or pour the mixture, and it acts like a liquid. Stir fast, or hit the surface, and it "breaks" like a solid, dissipating energy.
Unless I am mistaken, it should probably say "extremely old form of matter".
> And any bystander seeing some kid playing
> with "PENIS" might call the police.
That may be my all-time favorite SlashDot quote.
Um... microsoft.com has been slashdotted? Unlikely.
Sorry, but I'm betting that CNN's hourly stories about this are sending a lot more people to Microsoft than a story on SlashDot ever could. Anyway, this is the board where most people are too cool to uses Window, remember?
Unless, that is, you were using the term slashdotted in the strictly generic sense, in which case a moderator will probably delete your post in order to protect the SlashDot trademark from infringement. Can't have SlashDot join the ranks of Kleenex and Ping-pong...
GD&R
> I downloaded all pictures sent to alt.binaries.pictures.eroica .
> I got nothing but pictures of bloody Beethoven.
Erocia -> Beethoven
Erotica -> Beat-Off-'n
1) Change your phone number to a 976 number, where the caller is automatically charged $49.95 just for connecting.
2) Spam the Russian Deputy Communications Minister.
3) Allow the Russian Deputy Communications Minister to tie up your phones for several days.
4) Profit!!!
P.S. In Russia, spam profits YOU!
> They have software for 2000/XP now.
Well I'll be darned, you're right! I saw that they had a 2000/XP version but their online FAQ says:
Software version 4.0 for Windows 2000 or Windows XP does not have an upload feature.
I thought that meant that you could not send a configuration to the keyboard, so I didn't even bother to install it. But their terminology is ass-backwards and it really means that you can't retrieve the currect configs from the keyboard. That's not a big deal since you can save your configuration in a disk file.
This is fantastic! I can now recommend the Stellar without reservation! 'Scuse me, gotta go... I've got some keyboard evangelizing to do on another BBS that I frequent! It's really too bad that this Slashdot thread is about to fall off the end of the list, or I'd do it here too...
It's funny that I never see the Avant Stellar (http://www.cvtinc.com/) mentioned in these discussions about keyboards. It has a significant flaw (see below) but it's still my favorite. Great "clicky" feel, very firm, 100% programmable, macros, two sets of function keys (so you can reprogram the ones you don't normally use)... Lots of good stuff!
The problem is that their programming software doesn't work on NT/2000/XP, just 95/98/ME. It's not a problem for me because I use a KVM switch to connect six systems to the same keyboard/monitor/mouse, and one of my systems is Windows 98, so I just run the software on that system and switch to it when I need to change something.
I have it programmed so that some of the unused function keys have macros that tell the KVM to switch to different systems. Single-key switching from Windows 2000 to Linux...
Heck, there was a /. story a few weeks back about a server in a housefly. That's much smaller than a nutshell.
> Isn't a 384.6% return-on-investment enough for
> them to have got out of it already?
It's a return of 384 times their investment (38400%) but even so...
An interviewer once asked multi-billionaire J. Paul Getty "You're a very rich man. How much is enough?"
He smiled and answered quietly, "Just a little bit more."
> What about smaller glasses
Wow, you clearly don't understand the direction that technology is headed.
The article says that this new technology could lead to smaller cell phones, and that's all that is important.
In the near future cell phones will be smaller than the smallest object that normal humans can understand, the size of a human hair. People already drive, eat, walk their dogs, and sit on the toilet while talking to other people on the other side of the planet. Eventually cell phones will be so small and so powerful that everybody will be connected to everybody else, full time. You won't need to leave your bed, much less the house, so glasses will become irrelevant. Except of course for those drones, er people, who leave their hive -- sorry, I mean house -- to service the queen.
Sorry, I have probably said too much. Bu it doesn't matter, really. Resistance is futile.
> Saying that Microsoft should be used only
> because it is the dominant OS is a strawman
> argument.
How so? Going back to my "internal combustion" analogy, that's like saying that schools should not teach gasoline-engine repair simply because it is the dominant technology. Of course they should! And they should stop when it is no longer the dominant technology, not because somebody who hates smog decides to give money to the college.
> Linux is gaining marketshare amongst business,
> both as desktop OS, and as Server OS
I'll buy the Server part, but I have not seen any studies that show it making significant gains on the desktop.
Even so, I'll agree -- strongly! -- that colleges should expose students to Linux. But that's not what we are talking about here. We are talking about eliminating Microsoft products.
It's a bad idea, and unfair to the students.
Regardless of anybody's personal prejudices for or against any particular operating system or company, isn't is clear that a college should prepare students for what they will encounter in the real world?
I see this as being as foolish as saying "our technical school will no longer teach people how to service internal combustion engines because they are environmentally harmful". Electric cars may well dominate the future, but the current crop of students will graduate -- and perhaps even retire -- long before they become common.
And like or not, the current crop of students at "your grandfather's well known college" will graduate into a world where Microsoft still dominates.
That should be the end of the discussion.
A high price means that it will work better.
Nope, I'm not kidding.
The whole reason that we have a problem with antibiotic-resistant germs is that cheap, widely available antobiotics are grossly overused. The find their way into so many products as a preventive measure (everything from meat to anti-bacterial hand soaps) that new strains have evolved and spread.
So if the price is kept high the new antiboitics will be more likely to be used when it is appropriate and 20 years from now we will be less likely to have strains that are resistant to this drug.
> This is done by playing two different frequencies into
> the different ears (ie 300 hz into one ear, 304 into the
> other: your brain then entrains to a 4hz frequency)
Proximate, but no panatella.
It's not your brain that does that, it's an actual physical effect. The technical term is heterodyning and it takes place with things like radio waves as well as sound waves, so it can't be a "brain" thing.
If you mix a 100KHz radio signal with a 110KHz radio signal you will generate "beat" signals at plus-and-minus the difference, i.e. 90KHz and 120KHz. In fact that is the basis for many (all?) analog radio/tv/etc. receivers. The tuner uses an oscillator to generate an RF signal of a certain frequency, which beats with the off-air signal to produce a new signal at a specific frequency. The tuner then decodes the signal at the "intermediate frequency". Change the freqency of the RF oscillator and you change the off-air frequency which beats with it to produce the intermediate frequency. That way the tuner can be optimized to receive a single frequency, thereby simplifying the design.
> What is with the sudden onslaught of superhero movies?
Yep, ever since Superman came out.
In 1978.
That's about the time special effects were making large leaps forward (no pun intended) and it was finally possible to make a realistic-looking flying man. The Superman tagline was "You'll believe a man can fly".
Now we are seeing the results of a new generation of low-cost, high-power computers, which make realistic effect cheaper and cheaper.
Superhero movies are a necessary result of Moore's Law.
> ooooo...sending it backwards makes it all better.
It does, because that makes it encrypted. I invented a similar scheme for passing secret notes in the second grade. Nobody ever intercepted a message and figured out the code.
Seriously, look at any multi-dot domain and the most significant element is always on the right. So it makes sense to have the area code on the right, the exchage in the middle, and the "last" 4 digits on the left.
From http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/printableAr ticle?doc_id=NMG20020304S0011:
.arpa domain."
"Just how does ENUM turn phone numbers into domains? When an ENUM client queries DNS, it reverses the phone number ordering and applies the domain name at the end. If the original number is +1-415-947-6022, for example, the ENUM client removes all the dashes and punctuation to get 14159476022. The phone number is then sent to DNS as 2.2.0.6.7.4.9.5.1.4.1.e.164.arpa, assuming the server is located in the