You want WindowsXP lite?
Jeebus, save me I'm giving XP tips on/.
I found this site one time (in band camp) and it's made me tolerate WindozeXP ever since.
The site (listed above) is way too complex, so the summary is this -- create another "Hardware Profile" then when you go into Services, click on the "Log On" tab under "Properties" for each service, and disable just about everything except RPC and Server for your new profile. Then on bootup you'll see nifty new boot profile with no damage to registry or real changes to system. And when you need to let M$ remotely log into your computer or spread viruses or take part in the latest worm... you can reboot into original HW profile.
My $0.02 on the whole worm thing is that 100% of the blame goes to M$ and not the average user (also all of the Outlook script problems in the past). M$ by DEFAULT ships with stupid crap turned on. It's hard for *me* to know how / what to turn off, let alone what a Service is, let alone what Services are running. DID YOU FORGET they had to tell people that it is SAFE to turn off the computer!?! And people (including M$) are bitching cause 'users need to patch their computers'. Car makers have millions of recalls and people don't pay attention to those and their lives are at risk! (Granted, computer user's lives might be somewhat more valuable than the average Ford driver's) [1 in 2 American homes has a computer --- 1 in 7 American males are currently in prison --- 1 in 100 Americans are mentally ill or retarded --- No actual facts we harmed or used in the formation of this sentence]
diabetic testing is killer app for the whole bio-tech industry (the other ones being DNA chips, STD chips, biological chemical testing chips). When they get lab on chip and micro-needles and disposable silicon chips that can measure blood sugar the industry will be ready to explode. But, it's one of the first hurdles.
Since everyone else is off-topic, I'll say that it is interesting to look at stomach/intestine cancer rates in cities that Fluorinate their water.
I also find it interesting that there might be a correlation to high-iron diets and cancer (ie. iron is an anti-anti-oxidant, meaning it makes free-radicals).. Western diet is high in red meat and iron-fortified foods.. Eastern diet is high in soy & tea (both very high in iron-absorbtion supressing chemicals, like tannins which are only available in green teas).. In the 70s they were so afraid newer soy milks / soy foods would be a real problem for kids which need Iron so they overdosed all our breakfast cereals to ensure kids would get enough.
Men should avoid iron supplements and cereal. Actually, 1 in 200 people have over-iron-absorption gene mutation and most never find out about it.
I was bored this summer and bought like 4 or 5 low-end DVD players to see which really is the best and could play VCD/SVCD/XSVCD/wmv and my findings were in general, cheaper was better.
My friend has an expensive Toshiba piece of crap which only plays SVCDs and barely at that, it doesn't even attempt to play any other format.
My parents thinking they were smart or something.. went out to get the cheapo APEX/MinTek and thought they'd get the next model up cause it looked better.. Turns out the processor is crappier and won't play any VCD/SVCD without major artifacts.
The latest to market cheapo has the latest asian low-end technology to bring cost down and end up playing more formats and doing a better job. Oh, and *SCREW* Sony if you want it to play anything other than DRM, special-branded media, licensed DVDs from your region./rant off
You know what would be KEWL is a webcam that updates every min and some image processing that says car here or not here for each spot and then given employees assigned parking spots!!!
You could automate the whole process of time clocks for the whole building and even have those too long lunches noted. It's so brillant it's evil. OR the barcode on cars for the whole gate thing, just need to also include it on the exits.
Caveats: car pooling.. (F U environment) and motorcycles (F U rebels.. oh wait) and Bill Gates helo-pad / personal jetpack
We are all at a critical juncture in our relationship with music fans and now is our opportunity to put their interests first. Not ours. I firmly believe that when the music consumer is well served, so will we all be as well.
Consumers' needs from record companies have become more complicated but they start with the same basics. Fans want great music. Their perception of cost is directly related to their perception of value. (ED: so, you do get it that we think the crap you are putting out over the last few years is worthless) They want music in more formats than we give them. They want deeper catalog more easily available. They want to know when their favorite artists have a new record coming out. They want a way to make compilations without feeling guilty or like criminals. They want us to find a way to solve our piracy problems without encroaching on - or even talking about - their personal use flexibility. (ED: so major press releases and public policing campaign is quietly solving the problem, eh?)
I want to give you a brief overview today of why I am confident that the music industry is positioned to recapture growth in future years.(ED: I'm confident that indies are positioned to capture some of your market share) And since piracy is near the top of everyone's mind as the variable that will either make or break that growth potential, I want to give you some detail on some of the strategies we are undertaking to address that problem.
Think about it. The challenges we have faced as an industry with Napster and its clones are in many ways unprecedented in American commercial history. There we were rockin' along, producing and selling great music and producing enough revenue to not just support everyone, but also to grow the opportunities around the world for a bigger and bigger business. Then suddenly we wake up one day and everything we have worked so hard to build is being offered to consumers for free or for a scant dollar on the street corner. Not 10 percent off. Not reduced interest rates. Not negotiated payment schedules. Our product is suddenly being offered to consumers for absolutely nothing.
...
Finally I must talk about enforcement. I want you all to have the very latest information about what is being done to fight piracy directly at the sources.
First and foremost, I believe that we should not be ashamed to protect our rights. I am tired of those who suggest that because sometimes someone is a music fan or a technology innovator or even, god forbid, a teenager (ED: How profetic) or a student that they have a right to steal. They don't. We know too many people who suffer from the consequences of that insensitivity to buy that self-serving argument.
Where would this business be without strong laws to protect intellectual property and more specifically copyrights? I would not be here; none of us in this room would be here.(ED: Hmm.. I guess I see the root of the problem now) Copyright are the rules of the road that encourage and ensure that creators bring forward new art every day. The right to decide how and when to reproduce, perform and distribute your works.
It may seem obvious, but it should not be overlooked. It is the guiding principle and philosophy of what the RIAA does, and the stake that retailers have in this principle is significant.
In addition to street piracy, we all are, of course, confronting the epidemic if of illegal downloading occurring on p
Well I am an EE and this is sort of interesting, but capacitively coupled is still driving a large capacitive load. There are a few packaging ideas that are better for this idea of reducing chip-chip speed and wire widths.
flip-chip bonding of two chips basically puts the silicon directly on top of each other. Problem with this is getting the heat out. There are also ideas about tiny printed conductive ink lines used to connect two silicon chips in a package, etc.
The interesting idea you'll hear about at the same conference involves 'pin modems' and the idea of instead of a signal coming out of your chip and driving another chip, but to make each pin into a modem and achive higher bandwidth than a simple analog signal. All the ideas of traditional modems apply, carrier freq, compression, connecting at the highest speed available. This idea of coupled chips will be VERY sensitive to the environment and PCB your systems sits on. But modems, like bad phone lines still work.
What's up with all these/.ers yelling 'Shenangians'??!!
Did *no* one read the pdf entitled Near Field Magnetic Communtication Properties?? It is a quasi-static magnetic field (READ: electro-magnet creates magnetic field with small variation in magnetic field with most of that 'variation' energy around the 24MHz ISM band) The idea has two-fold benefit over using RF-coupling..
The energy falls off as 1/R^6 instead of what they claim is RF's 1/R^2 (I could have sworn my Emag classes said RF signals die as 1/R^3)
The majority of the coupled energy is used for a static field and the signal uses very little energy. This is better than RF in the sense that the EM energy is proportional to the freq, and RF uses HIGH freq RF for the transmission/ coupling benefits of using high-freq RF but the signal is a low(er) freq signal riding withing the RF energy.
Interesting that you need coil loop orientation diversity rather than RF's antenna diversity (in space).
What interests me is how this can be used for low-power sensing applications (like RFID tags) (BTW I'm claiming the first use of MIID tag for magnetic induction)
Why doesn't some independent music folks, or geeks, or whomever, put some files on KaZaA.. (maybe named 'HowToTrickTheRIAA') wait until that file is d/l by one of the known-evil-IP's
and then serve them with a subpeona to look at their harddrives. (BTW, bittorrent would be perfect because the IP tracking/correlation is good and the file would be positively uploaded to other folks, thereby infringing on my intellectual-property)
This is such a no-brainer Ask/. that it makes me
think it was placed here as an advert for Cisco.
Hi, I'm a software guy (just like most readers here) and was wondering if I should get certified (all the replies say, yes, of course, CCNA look so good on CV - like butter on fish).. I am also curious if this had made you consider *your* resume'.. OH, and here's a convenient link to a Cisco enrollment form (here)
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XviD codec, looks about as good as the HQ mov
That should make all the people saying 'only quicktime' happy.
Odd use of bittorrent.. Discourage lots of users..
Suprnova torrent is this file: :/
rev_trailer-tpd.avi (32MB)
XviD @ 1600kbps & Lame-MP3 -q0 @ 160Kbps. However, still transcoded
FileRush torrent is this one:
rev_theatre_0x3839_640_dl.mov (50MB)
Torrent is up Matrix Revolutions Trailer (XviD/Mp3)
You want WindowsXP lite? Jeebus, save me I'm giving XP tips on /.
I found this site one time (in band camp) and it's made me tolerate WindozeXP ever since.
The site (listed above) is way too complex, so the summary is this -- create another "Hardware Profile" then when you go into Services, click on the "Log On" tab under "Properties" for each service, and disable just about everything except RPC and Server for your new profile. Then on bootup you'll see nifty new boot profile with no damage to registry or real changes to system. And when you need to let M$ remotely log into your computer or spread viruses or take part in the latest worm... you can reboot into original HW profile.
My $0.02 on the whole worm thing is that 100% of the blame goes to M$ and not the average user (also all of the Outlook script problems in the past). M$ by DEFAULT ships with stupid crap turned on. It's hard for *me* to know how / what to turn off, let alone what a Service is, let alone what Services are running. DID YOU FORGET they had to tell people that it is SAFE to turn off the computer!?! And people (including M$) are bitching cause 'users need to patch their computers'. Car makers have millions of recalls and people don't pay attention to those and their lives are at risk! (Granted, computer user's lives might be somewhat more valuable than the average Ford driver's) [1 in 2 American homes has a computer --- 1 in 7 American males are currently in prison --- 1 in 100 Americans are mentally ill or retarded --- No actual facts we harmed or used in the formation of this sentence]
A "raer" disorder... oh, you mean "raer" disorder..
Are you maekign fun of dislexics?
diabetic testing is killer app for the whole bio-tech industry (the other ones being DNA chips, STD chips, biological chemical testing chips). When they get lab on chip and micro-needles and disposable silicon chips that can measure blood sugar the industry will be ready to explode. But, it's one of the first hurdles.
Since everyone else is off-topic, I'll say that it is interesting to look at stomach/intestine cancer rates in cities that Fluorinate their water.
I also find it interesting that there might be a correlation to high-iron diets and cancer (ie. iron is an anti-anti-oxidant, meaning it makes free-radicals).. Western diet is high in red meat and iron-fortified foods.. Eastern diet is high in soy & tea (both very high in iron-absorbtion supressing chemicals, like tannins which are only available in green teas).. In the 70s they were so afraid newer soy milks / soy foods would be a real problem for kids which need Iron so they overdosed all our breakfast cereals to ensure kids would get enough.
Men should avoid iron supplements and cereal. Actually, 1 in 200 people have over-iron-absorption gene mutation and most never find out about it.
Poor Mac users.. It's just like the old floppy disk days when disks came pre-formatted for IBM.
Maybe Apple should pay someone to pre-format with OSX 10.x and try to sell hardware that way.
The genius of this last comment is that each comment alone is at best (-1, Troll) but all of them together is almost a guaranteed (+5, Funny)...
/must remember secret power of SuperClicheFriends (maybe this is a real example of synergy)
Brilliant.. Kids with low-iron and low blood volume from staying up all night *playing* Glucomon (Gotta catch them all)
I read it was because of spammers and kiddie pr0n..
I can only hope they shut down Hotmail next, though I feel it is more the S&M version of mail for people that enjoy getting spam in their mailbox.
It can pat you on the back.
It can kiss your ass.
It could get pissed at you and then pretend it doesn't know you're there for weeks at a time.
..in from stage left walks the average Joe Husband.
Cut to frame of just door handle.. hand reaches in from left of frame and turns handle.
Door opens showing a delivery boy holding a pizza and asking, "Who ordered the large extra-cheese sausage?"
Cut to close up of husband's face looking puzzled.. then turns to look over shoulder with a stern look of annoyance.
Cut to full-frame shot of the three-section sofa.
"COUCH!!!" comes a voice from off screen (ala Hogan's Heroes).. Cue the canned laugher from 80s sitcoms.
I was bored this summer and bought like 4 or 5 low-end DVD players to see which really is the best and could play VCD/SVCD/XSVCD/wmv and my findings were in general, cheaper was better.
/rant off
My friend has an expensive Toshiba piece of crap which only plays SVCDs and barely at that, it doesn't even attempt to play any other format.
My parents thinking they were smart or something.. went out to get the cheapo APEX/MinTek and thought they'd get the next model up cause it looked better.. Turns out the processor is crappier and won't play any VCD/SVCD without major artifacts.
The latest to market cheapo has the latest asian low-end technology to bring cost down and end up playing more formats and doing a better job. Oh, and *SCREW* Sony if you want it to play anything other than DRM, special-branded media, licensed DVDs from your region.
You know what would be KEWL is a webcam that updates every min and some image processing that says car here or not here for each spot and then given employees assigned parking spots!!!
You could automate the whole process of time clocks for the whole building and even have those too long lunches noted. It's so brillant it's evil. OR the barcode on cars for the whole gate thing, just need to also include it on the exits.
Caveats: car pooling.. (F U environment) and motorcycles (F U rebels.. oh wait) and Bill Gates helo-pad / personal jetpack
wouldn't a .login and .logout script be more useful?!
plus, the above implies everyone went home at midnight.
Valkyrie is about to die!
Save keys to open doors
Also, look a T-Shirt for "Wizard is about to die" with the food icon.. Priceless.
(It is long but there a few gems towards the end)
Well I am an EE and this is sort of interesting, but capacitively coupled is still driving a large capacitive load. There are a few packaging ideas that are better for this idea of reducing chip-chip speed and wire widths.
flip-chip bonding of two chips basically puts the silicon directly on top of each other. Problem with this is getting the heat out. There are also ideas about tiny printed conductive ink lines used to connect two silicon chips in a package, etc.
The interesting idea you'll hear about at the same conference involves 'pin modems' and the idea of instead of a signal coming out of your chip and driving another chip, but to make each pin into a modem and achive higher bandwidth than a simple analog signal. All the ideas of traditional modems apply, carrier freq, compression, connecting at the highest speed available. This idea of coupled chips will be VERY sensitive to the environment and PCB your systems sits on. But modems, like bad phone lines still work.
The only thing I found of interest is some BONUS apple pr0n pics:
Look at the rack on that one!
Even bigger rack!
What the G5 sees
Looking in.. notice no nose prints/drool marks on the window(yet)
Did *no* one read the pdf entitled Near Field Magnetic Communtication Properties??
It is a quasi-static magnetic field (READ: electro-magnet creates magnetic field with small variation in magnetic field with most of that 'variation' energy around the 24MHz ISM band)
The idea has two-fold benefit over using RF-coupling..
The energy falls off as 1/R^6 instead of what they claim is RF's 1/R^2 (I could have sworn my Emag classes said RF signals die as 1/R^3)
The majority of the coupled energy is used for a static field and the signal uses very little energy. This is better than RF in the sense that the EM energy is proportional to the freq, and RF uses HIGH freq RF for the transmission/ coupling benefits of using high-freq RF but the signal is a low(er) freq signal riding withing the RF energy.
Interesting that you need coil loop orientation diversity rather than RF's antenna diversity (in space).
What interests me is how this can be used for low-power sensing applications (like RFID tags) (BTW I'm claiming the first use of MIID tag for magnetic induction)
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Here's what I don't get...
Why doesn't some independent music folks, or geeks, or whomever, put some files on KaZaA.. (maybe named 'HowToTrickTheRIAA') wait until that file is d/l by one of the known-evil-IP's and then serve them with a subpeona to look at their harddrives.
(BTW, bittorrent would be perfect because the IP tracking/correlation is good and the file would be positively uploaded to other folks, thereby infringing on my intellectual-property)
This is such a no-brainer Ask /. that it makes me
think it was placed here as an advert for Cisco.
Hi, I'm a software guy (just like most readers here) and was wondering if I should get certified (all the replies say, yes, of course, CCNA look so good on CV - like butter on fish).. I am also curious if this had made you consider *your* resume'.. OH, and here's a convenient link to a Cisco enrollment form (here)