This is a tried and true method in the apologist community. If you disagree with the exposure of flaws and ulterior motive in a study, you can always accuse the exposing party as using a tried and true cop-out. That way, you never have to make an effort to actually find the truth.
Users of rpm-based distros could try Yum, which will automatically determine neccessary updates and apply them. You can also create a local repository and have client machines use that. Automatically via cron, even.
Your body produces the bulk of its energy by converting glucose to ATP by a process known as chemiosmosis (electron transport). It takes advantage of the loosly-bound electrons in glucose, and at one point during the reaction the electrons flow along the inner membranes of your cells' mitochondria.
The process the researchers have come up with probably uses the same effect to produce a current. The waste product? Urine. The same thing you'd produce if you metabolized the glucose yourself.
1.2v isn't a problem if the voltage doesn't drop off quickly. The device you're using will just draw a little more amperage.
NiMH and NiCad both have very flat terminal voltage curves compared to alkaline. I know NiMH starts around 1.4v and goes down to around 1.1 before dying (1.2v is a conservative average). Alkaline starts at 1.5v and just drops from there. mAh ratings on alkalines tend to be poor indicators of battery life because of this. They rapidly draw more amperage to feed the device they're in as they wind down.
That said, alkalines self-discharge very slowly and are great for long-term use like smoke detectors, remote controls, emergency flashlights, etc... because of their long charge storage life.
For battery-eaters like a GBA or a discman, you should try some of the newer NiMH batteries with 2000+ mAh capacities. You'll be surprised at how long they last, and you can recharge them hundreds of times before their capacity drops below a useful level. If it's the one you've got, rayovac's 3-in-1 smart charger will properly charge NiMH cells as well as alkaline without risk of overcharge. Just don't leave them in there for weeks because it isn't smart enough to keep them topped up.
One problem with fitting rechargable Li-Ion batteries into a small form-factor is the need for "smart" circuitry in the battery to regulate charging. Overcharging a Li-Ion battery is very, very bad. The contents are extremely dangerous and you do not want one leaking, catching fire or blowing up.
NiMH is probably a bad idea for a PDA with months of run time.
They'd last a few hundred re-uses, but you'd have to swap them every three weeks as they passively discharge themselves faster than the PDA will. They're designed for more high-drain devices, like video cameras, game & audio devices, etc...
about 2200(I think) mAh for a AA, compared with the low 1000's range for most Ni-MHs
I've got a bunch of 2100 mAh NiMH AA's, so they're catching up.:) They do have the distinct disadvantage of discharging themselves, but it's not a problem at all when you use them as much as I do. They're also good for a lot more recharge cycles than alkaline.
I can second this recommendation. I've been using 2100mAh/1.2v NiMH AA's in just about all my gadgets. I haven't had to replace them since I got them over a year ago, and they still hold a full charge.
You can recharge NiMH any time; they don't have a memory effect like NiCad. They don't hold a charge more than a few weeks on the shelf though, but that's fine for devices you use a lot.
I've got a "smart" charger that will stop charging the batteries when they're full and top them off every hour or so to counteract passive discharge, so I've always got some batteries ready to go. I just swap out the ones in my devices whenever neccessary. Frequent recharging (rather than full discharge-recharge cycles) seems to be really good for these batteries. At this rate of wear, it's not likely I'll need to buy new ones for a few years yet.
As well as making money, Mr Ishikawa's vision for BayTSP is to become a hi-tech version of Pinkerton, the legendary detective agency that protected presidents like Abraham Lincoln and hunted outlaws like Jesse James.
Yet their bosses are big business like the RIAA, and not the President... I guess they know who really runs the country.
kernel.org should get into the habit of making.torrents available given how every test release from here 'till 2.6.0 will wind up on the front page of/.
Secure to you and me means something completely different from what it means to the legal system and the general public. If you employ even mildly complex obfuscation, you can slap on the label "secure".
eg: DVD CSS, which is still legally considered a protection mechanism and is illegal to circumvent.
Similarly, you need only tenuously connect it to a product to have it legally apply. DirectX contains some DRM "functionality", so it can therefore be applied to most of their games. I'm not sure what the link is for Visual Studio or MS Office (locking documents?), but you can bet it's there.
The legal system is severely deficient when it comes to computers in general and software in particular. We're just seeing yet another symptom of that.
I'd recommend an HP Color LaserJet like a 2500L, due to reliability I've experienced and excellent *nix support. Most of HP's laserjets have great *nix support, and they're at the top of the scorecard over at linuxprinting.org... But there are some models to avoid, like the 1500L which uses a non-PS/PCL language and is essentially a doorstop outside of windows.
A color laserjet is going to be expensive up-front, but they cost less in the end. I've found that the toner lasts for years with typical home use. An old B&W laserjet lasted me nearly 6 years on one cartridge. I replaced it with a color laserjet, having never had to change the toner. There's no cleaning print heads all the time (and wasting ink) if you go a few days without printing, and toner doesn't dry up. They print fast, and the ones I've used are quiet too.
Yes- lasers run the whole page over the drum at the same speed no matter what's being printed, so they don't take any longer for more coverage. The only difference will be, as you said, in the initial data transfer... Which isn't bad at all over USB.
If you don't like how an online business does things, don't use the online business.
I've got a better idea. Offer them some criticism and suggestions instead, so that they might possibly remedy shortcomings and make it a better place to shop. It's either that or find them snooping on you to find out what you want, because they don't just magically know. For an online bookstore- TOC/appendix, chapter summaries and samples of content from each would be nice, and no need to give the whole book away electronically. Though, personally, I much prefer the dead tree versions and have no interest in an electronic copy.
Original point, if you don't like the rules, don't play the game.
"You think this is a game? You think this is a fucking game?!" (had to be done) That was a terrible analogy. Have you been playing the Price is Right all this time or something? This isn't some game with regulation button sizes and referees; It's business.
Doesn't sending an IPv6 packet over a IPv4 tunnel still have the exact same flaws IPv4 has anyways?
Not really. People tunnel IP over ethernet all the time (got broadband? You're doing it right now), and it doesn't have all of ethernet's limitations. IPv6 likewise retains its advantages over IPv4. It just uses v4 links as a transport mechansim much like v4 uses PPP/Ethernet/ATM/etc... Those IPv4 tunnels are just like any other link. You can route through them transparently and reach your IPv6 peers.
I mean ultimately you are either proxying off someone who has a IPv6 gateway or you are just wasting bandwidth over IPv4.
No need for a dedicated proxy; you just need to know who your peers are so you can fire packets down tunnels to them. Routing, not proxying. That said, getting rid of the tunnels and using IPv6 directly would be much cleaner and reduce overhead.
Your music file "Angels We Have Heard On High.mp3" matches "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy in our audio fingerprint database. Our lawyers will be in contact with you about this infringement.
Sincerely, Recording Industry Association of America
They claim that it'll also work on Netscape 6, so it's not ActiveX. If it turns out to be Java, then it should work on other OSes as well. One example is Entrust TruePass, which uses a Java applet as the client end of a web-based public key authentication system. It works just fine in Mozilla on Linux.
When I read "/.-centric", I thought "slashdot community", which is much more along the lines of the readers than the editors. The editors are biased and rarely read the submissions in depth, but that's why I tune out the commentary (both editor and submitter) in the summaries and go straight to the article. Provided it's not slashdotted; in which case it's off to the comments for a mirror.
Now who's jumping to conclusions? The story submitter insinuated the motive in rather unsubtle terms. I don't doubt that some vocal people will display such double-standards, but it's certainly not the majority.
Slashdot Mirror
All you'd have to do is read it
You're new here, aren't you?
This is a tried and true method in the apologist community. If you disagree with the exposure of flaws and ulterior motive in a study, you can always accuse the exposing party as using a tried and true cop-out. That way, you never have to make an effort to actually find the truth.
Users of rpm-based distros could try Yum, which will automatically determine neccessary updates and apply them.
You can also create a local repository and have client machines use that. Automatically via cron, even.
Your body produces the bulk of its energy by converting glucose to ATP by a process known as chemiosmosis (electron transport). It takes advantage of the loosly-bound electrons in glucose, and at one point during the reaction the electrons flow along the inner membranes of your cells' mitochondria.
The process the researchers have come up with probably uses the same effect to produce a current. The waste product? Urine. The same thing you'd produce if you metabolized the glucose yourself.
1.2v isn't a problem if the voltage doesn't drop off quickly. The device you're using will just draw a little more amperage.
NiMH and NiCad both have very flat terminal voltage curves compared to alkaline. I know NiMH starts around 1.4v and goes down to around 1.1 before dying (1.2v is a conservative average). Alkaline starts at 1.5v and just drops from there. mAh ratings on alkalines tend to be poor indicators of battery life because of this. They rapidly draw more amperage to feed the device they're in as they wind down.
That said, alkalines self-discharge very slowly and are great for long-term use like smoke detectors, remote controls, emergency flashlights, etc... because of their long charge storage life.
For battery-eaters like a GBA or a discman, you should try some of the newer NiMH batteries with 2000+ mAh capacities. You'll be surprised at how long they last, and you can recharge them hundreds of times before their capacity drops below a useful level. If it's the one you've got, rayovac's 3-in-1 smart charger will properly charge NiMH cells as well as alkaline without risk of overcharge. Just don't leave them in there for weeks because it isn't smart enough to keep them topped up.
One problem with fitting rechargable Li-Ion batteries into a small form-factor is the need for "smart" circuitry in the battery to regulate charging. Overcharging a Li-Ion battery is very, very bad. The contents are extremely dangerous and you do not want one leaking, catching fire or blowing up.
Those alkalines will stop holding a good charge after maybe a dozen recharge cycles, though. The NiMH will last hundreds.
Just at a store in a local mall. They're made by some company called Emerging Power.
NiMH is probably a bad idea for a PDA with months of run time.
They'd last a few hundred re-uses, but you'd have to swap them every three weeks as they passively discharge themselves faster than the PDA will. They're designed for more high-drain devices, like video cameras, game & audio devices, etc...
about 2200(I think) mAh for a AA, compared with the low 1000's range for most Ni-MHs
:)
I've got a bunch of 2100 mAh NiMH AA's, so they're catching up.
They do have the distinct disadvantage of discharging themselves, but it's not a problem at all when you use them as much as I do. They're also good for a lot more recharge cycles than alkaline.
I can second this recommendation. I've been using 2100mAh/1.2v NiMH AA's in just about all my gadgets. I haven't had to replace them since I got them over a year ago, and they still hold a full charge.
You can recharge NiMH any time; they don't have a memory effect like NiCad. They don't hold a charge more than a few weeks on the shelf though, but that's fine for devices you use a lot.
I've got a "smart" charger that will stop charging the batteries when they're full and top them off every hour or so to counteract passive discharge, so I've always got some batteries ready to go. I just swap out the ones in my devices whenever neccessary. Frequent recharging (rather than full discharge-recharge cycles) seems to be really good for these batteries. At this rate of wear, it's not likely I'll need to buy new ones for a few years yet.
As well as making money, Mr Ishikawa's vision for BayTSP is to become a hi-tech version of Pinkerton, the legendary detective agency that protected presidents like Abraham Lincoln and hunted outlaws like Jesse James.
Yet their bosses are big business like the RIAA, and not the President...
I guess they know who really runs the country.
kernel.org should get into the habit of making .torrents available given how every test release from here 'till 2.6.0 will wind up on the front page of /.
Secure to you and me means something completely different from what it means to the legal system and the general public. If you employ even mildly complex obfuscation, you can slap on the label "secure".
eg: DVD CSS, which is still legally considered a protection mechanism and is illegal to circumvent.
Similarly, you need only tenuously connect it to a product to have it legally apply. DirectX contains some DRM "functionality", so it can therefore be applied to most of their games. I'm not sure what the link is for Visual Studio or MS Office (locking documents?), but you can bet it's there.
The legal system is severely deficient when it comes to computers in general and software in particular. We're just seeing yet another symptom of that.
I'd recommend an HP Color LaserJet like a 2500L, due to reliability I've experienced and excellent *nix support.
Most of HP's laserjets have great *nix support, and they're at the top of the scorecard over at linuxprinting.org... But there are some models to avoid, like the 1500L which uses a non-PS/PCL language and is essentially a doorstop outside of windows.
A color laserjet is going to be expensive up-front, but they cost less in the end. I've found that the toner lasts for years with typical home use. An old B&W laserjet lasted me nearly 6 years on one cartridge. I replaced it with a color laserjet, having never had to change the toner.
There's no cleaning print heads all the time (and wasting ink) if you go a few days without printing, and toner doesn't dry up. They print fast, and the ones I've used are quiet too.
Yes- lasers run the whole page over the drum at the same speed no matter what's being printed, so they don't take any longer for more coverage.
The only difference will be, as you said, in the initial data transfer... Which isn't bad at all over USB.
If you don't like how an online business does things, don't use the online business.
I've got a better idea. Offer them some criticism and suggestions instead, so that they might possibly remedy shortcomings and make it a better place to shop.
It's either that or find them snooping on you to find out what you want, because they don't just magically know.
For an online bookstore- TOC/appendix, chapter summaries and samples of content from each would be nice, and no need to give the whole book away electronically. Though, personally, I much prefer the dead tree versions and have no interest in an electronic copy.
Original point, if you don't like the rules, don't play the game.
"You think this is a game? You think this is a fucking game?!" (had to be done)
That was a terrible analogy. Have you been playing the Price is Right all this time or something? This isn't some game with regulation button sizes and referees; It's business.
Doesn't sending an IPv6 packet over a IPv4 tunnel still have the exact same flaws IPv4 has anyways?
Not really. People tunnel IP over ethernet all the time (got broadband? You're doing it right now), and it doesn't have all of ethernet's limitations.
IPv6 likewise retains its advantages over IPv4. It just uses v4 links as a transport mechansim much like v4 uses PPP/Ethernet/ATM/etc... Those IPv4 tunnels are just like any other link. You can route through them transparently and reach your IPv6 peers.
I mean ultimately you are either proxying off someone who has a IPv6 gateway or you are just wasting bandwidth over IPv4.
No need for a dedicated proxy; you just need to know who your peers are so you can fire packets down tunnels to them. Routing, not proxying.
That said, getting rid of the tunnels and using IPv6 directly would be much cleaner and reduce overhead.
A personal laser printer.
You can get a good b&w one for about $300, and the toner lasts damn near forever.
Father O'Malley,
Your music file "Angels We Have Heard On High.mp3" matches "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy in our audio fingerprint database. Our lawyers will be in contact with you about this infringement.
Sincerely,
Recording Industry Association of America
They claim that it'll also work on Netscape 6, so it's not ActiveX. If it turns out to be Java, then it should work on other OSes as well.
One example is Entrust TruePass, which uses a Java applet as the client end of a web-based public key authentication system. It works just fine in Mozilla on Linux.
When I read "/.-centric", I thought "slashdot community", which is much more along the lines of the readers than the editors.
The editors are biased and rarely read the submissions in depth, but that's why I tune out the commentary (both editor and submitter) in the summaries and go straight to the article. Provided it's not slashdotted; in which case it's off to the comments for a mirror.
Now who's jumping to conclusions?
The story submitter insinuated the motive in rather unsubtle terms. I don't doubt that some vocal people will display such double-standards, but it's certainly not the majority.
When I'm on an XP machine the first thing I do is wonder whose office I'm in, 'cause it certainly ain't mine.
Doom on the intellivision was an april fool's joke.
The intellivision was fast in its day, but not that fast.