Is your laptop a Presario V2000 series? I just purch'd the AMD64-powered V2630 - I installed a Suse10.0 which found pretty much everything - even the Hawking HWD54G PCMCIA card, then I got a Dapper pre-relase which would not boot - even with acpi=off. NExt I downloaded Suse10.1 DVD iso after the annoucement here on./, PCMCIA rolled over dead and the box is running hot, but at least NDISWrapper runs the Broadcom 4318 okay.
I used Breezy on the previous laptop and was a big fan of Ubuntu; I hope Dapper fixes my Presario V2630 problems (I was *really* used to hibernate+wireless on the old box).
> (1) The perps will be able to watch, too, won't they. This means that they will be able to work out exactly what the cameras cover and exactly what they don't, and will be able to plan their misdeeds accordingly,
Methinks you overestimate the intelligence of the opportunistic street criminal. Sure, this system might be taxed by a gang organized by the Artful Dodger, but the "man I'm broke and bored; hey, that l.o. lady looks like an easy mark" fellows are just dumb enough to help the CCTV's become a significant part of their Darwinian elimination.
> Now all of you are bad as the worst person in my neigborhood.
Unless said person calls you up at 4am telling you that somebody is breaking into your car again, and the police have been called; then this person magically morphs into the greater neighbor ever.
Can you post a link to info on this mod? I purch'd a DirecTV tivo last year when I noticed the display unit had a USB port in the back (and only after I subscribed did I find out it was inactive). When my unit goes off warranty soon I want to replace the stock HD with something bigger and faster, and fix it so I can plug a DVD recorder into USB.
Thx
In a total of about 12 person-hours, Adam Savage and Grant Imahara (my cohosts on MythBusters) and I were able to build a functional, if somewhat basic, prototype equivalent of an iRobot's PackBot."
Because Imahara's an electrical engineer with years of experience building remote controlled logic boxes?
Just saw Master Miyazaki's latest;
Extropolating into the next 50-100yrs, with advances in AI and robo-locomotion (including the recent./ on the transforming robot), this fancifal dwelling (minus the smoke spewing chimneys all about) dips into the possible.
Yeah, I want a moving castle.
Plain JDBC and SQL with a little bit of intellgent in-house or 3rd party framework wrapping really isn't that bad for goodness sake people.
I loved a tool call J3 which was a very thin wrapper/generator for JDBC and EJB's - unfortunately the tool hasn't been updated since '03 (the website still refers to the upcoming EJB-2.0 spec.)
I would bet that the fact that the sequence is replayed backwards in this case is just arbitrary.
Maybe not; don't bees, returning to the hive after locating a juicy pollen spot, do a "dance" that teaches the other bees the location, but the dance is in reverse? I will try to find a reference.
The iPod was successful because the design and interface was clean and "sexy".
So why get rid of it? Maybe that's why the nano is so small, it's going to be the "hood" of a new mobile phone, the ENTIRE nano is the size of many cell phone's screen bit. Put an earpiece in the middle of the click wheel, then put an entire cell phone on the other half of the clamshell, maybe even with it's own battery.
Damn skippy. Aren't songs on iTunes a buck 'cause they don't waste $$ on plastic cases, shipping and full color cover art? If a book is delivered straight from the author's word processor and quick-formatted for the book outline, can't I get some of that savings too?
Irregardless, the ebook isn't going to succeed until it's cheap. From the article:
The Reader is about the size of a paperback, is 14mm thick at its widest and weighs little more than 250g.
Sony Reader, BBC
The slim device is the size of a paperback book
It will go on sale in the spring and is expected to sell for between $300 and $400 in the US.
Wot?!?! For $400 I can get a video ipod, then download an entire season of "Battlestar Galactics" for $25, or I can get a single "Davinci Code" or "Harry Potter" for ~$30?
Frack that. If my 'book reader' is more than about $100 (and the price to get it flying off the shelves is $75, trust me) it's just not worth it.
Anyone who has traveled much knows you rarely spend much time in the room other than sleeping
Amen, brother! God, I have stayed in so many bloody expensive hotel rooms! First conference for the university I worked for in the 80's, room was bloody $250/nite. Conference ran 7am to 8p, plus BOF session until after midnight. The travel coordinator back at the U even said "I booked you next to the pool" like she was doing me a favor. We have pools in Mich, who GAF?
There should be two types of hotels, the big fancy ones for travelling rock stars and divas who need that crap, and small, CHEAP and CLEAN (yeah, you can get cheap, but does it smell of urine?) rooms that are there for one purpose, somewhere to sleep when I'm not out in the bloody town to which I travelled spending my time enjoying the locale's local color, who cares about the stupid hotel room?
Pool? Exercise room? Concierge? What is this, some Beaches-like all inclusive abomination?
Give me a clean $70/night room with easy access to downtown Toronto,Paris, Montreal, Chennai, Tokyo, London, San Francisco, NYC, DC and probably 20 other cities around the planet, and you can keep your bloody pillow mint.
All I want is those house-building robots fully developed. The subsequent crash in home prices around the country when attractive, well-constructed 2000sq homes can be built for
Yeah, progress!
For those more cynical among you that say poor countries need political stability first,
Why generate your own when the US will swoop in, spend hundreds of billions of $$ of their own, and HAND you political stability whether you asked them to or not!
But only if you have oil.
And we helped prop up your dictator
And we sold him most of the weapons used to keep his boot to your neck.
And you have a very generous definition of "stability".
Hmm, I can see this ad isn't going to test market very well....
The human race slowly becoming extinct because everyone would rather hump a perfect digital partner in VR t
Would that be a bad thing - not complete extinction but drastic population reduction? According to a recent episode of Nye's new show (no link; select the 'Population' show of this flash-site), this planet can comfortably hold about 42B humans if we all eat like cows, or about 2B Americans. If VR can move us from our current 6.xB to the 2B mark in a, ah, "pleasant" manner, Gia'd prob'ly appreciate it very much.
As a rule I never post w/o RTFA, but in this case...
For personal automobiles, no way in hell. This is a Very Bad Idea (TM) and I hope it goes down in a blaze of pyro. OTOH, with the vulnerability of our trucking industry, specifically the potential of converting a medical, chemical or other waste truck into a vehicle of mass destruction by a terrorist, enemy combatant or pissed-off soccer mom, i think tracking trucks should become mandatory (yes, I know there's limited truck transponder tech used for things like weigh stations, but I'm looking more for "hey, why did truck 45X3-2322, carrying spent fuel rods from the navy base just pull off I-80 next to the convention center?")
Nuclear.. we're just not ready for that leap societally, even though we were probably ready technologically at least 20 years ago
Oh yeah, we're *so* ready, with our viable storage site at Yucca... oh, nevermind.
To get my 'high-five', these dudes have to start producing biofuel from the lakes of pig, salmon, chicken and other excretory-offal that hi-yield farming produces. Only through handling our sh*t will we finally get our sh*t together and find our way out of this fuel-starved sh*tuation.
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> laptop; power manager fails
./, PCMCIA rolled over dead and the box is running hot, but at least NDISWrapper runs the Broadcom 4318 okay.
Is your laptop a Presario V2000 series? I just purch'd the AMD64-powered V2630 - I installed a Suse10.0 which found pretty much everything - even the Hawking HWD54G PCMCIA card, then I got a Dapper pre-relase which would not boot - even with acpi=off. NExt I downloaded Suse10.1 DVD iso after the annoucement here on
I used Breezy on the previous laptop and was a big fan of Ubuntu; I hope Dapper fixes my Presario V2630 problems (I was *really* used to hibernate+wireless on the old box).
> (1) The perps will be able to watch, too, won't they. This means that they will be able to work out exactly what the cameras cover and exactly what they don't, and will be able to plan their misdeeds accordingly,
Methinks you overestimate the intelligence of the opportunistic street criminal. Sure, this system might be taxed by a gang organized by the Artful Dodger, but the "man I'm broke and bored; hey, that l.o. lady looks like an easy mark" fellows are just dumb enough to help the CCTV's become a significant part of their Darwinian elimination.
> Now all of you are bad as the worst person in my neigborhood.
Unless said person calls you up at 4am telling you that somebody is breaking into your car again, and the police have been called; then this person magically morphs into the greater neighbor ever.
Mod points! Where are my f-ing mod points?!?!?!
Doomsday predictions have so-far always been wrong.
I predict the Earth will be completely uninhabitable in 5B years.
You can quote me on this.
Can you post a link to info on this mod? I purch'd a DirecTV tivo last year when I noticed the display unit had a USB port in the back (and only after I subscribed did I find out it was inactive). When my unit goes off warranty soon I want to replace the stock HD with something bigger and faster, and fix it so I can plug a DVD recorder into USB. Thx
In a total of about 12 person-hours, Adam Savage and Grant Imahara (my cohosts on MythBusters) and I were able to build a functional, if somewhat basic, prototype equivalent of an iRobot's PackBot."
Because Imahara's an electrical engineer with years of experience building remote controlled logic boxes?
Just saw Master Miyazaki's latest; Extropolating into the next 50-100yrs, with advances in AI and robo-locomotion (including the recent ./ on the transforming robot), this fancifal dwelling (minus the smoke spewing chimneys all about) dips into the possible.
Yeah, I want a moving castle.
$.25 bus ride for a 14yr old? Where do you live, *Iowa*?
No, wait, you said "near a real city".
Nevada? No, wait, ah, Idaho? S. Dakota? Kansas? Wyoming? Dang...
enjoy a refreshing bucket of KFC
Refreshing? Are the show's actors making an Original or Extra-Crispy smoothie out of the Colonel's wares?
I prefer framework based on XML/XSLT
Names, man, we need names!
Plain JDBC and SQL with a little bit of intellgent in-house or 3rd party framework wrapping really isn't that bad for goodness sake people.
I loved a tool call J3 which was a very thin wrapper/generator for JDBC and EJB's - unfortunately the tool hasn't been updated since '03 (the website still refers to the upcoming EJB-2.0 spec.)
I would bet that the fact that the sequence is replayed backwards in this case is just arbitrary.
Maybe not; don't bees, returning to the hive after locating a juicy pollen spot, do a "dance" that teaches the other bees the location, but the dance is in reverse? I will try to find a reference.
Mesh networks ... threaten the entire status quo
According to this recent article from The Nation, that would be a good thing. If the telecoms are trying to co-opt the net, WIFI could be our savior.
Also, this sounds somewhat like my ISP's wifi sharing plan.
Mount RO
Damn, beat me to it.
So why get rid of it? Maybe that's why the nano is so small, it's going to be the "hood" of a new mobile phone, the ENTIRE nano is the size of many cell phone's screen bit. Put an earpiece in the middle of the click wheel, then put an entire cell phone on the other half of the clamshell, maybe even with it's own battery.
Irregardless, the ebook isn't going to succeed until it's cheap. From the article:
The Reader is about the size of a paperback, is 14mm thick at its widest and weighs little more than 250g. Sony Reader, BBC The slim device is the size of a paperback book It will go on sale in the spring and is expected to sell for between $300 and $400 in the US.
Wot?!?! For $400 I can get a video ipod, then download an entire season of "Battlestar Galactics" for $25, or I can get a single "Davinci Code" or "Harry Potter" for ~$30?Frack that. If my 'book reader' is more than about $100 (and the price to get it flying off the shelves is $75, trust me) it's just not worth it.
Anyone who has traveled much knows you rarely spend much time in the room other than sleeping
Amen, brother! God, I have stayed in so many bloody expensive hotel rooms! First conference for the university I worked for in the 80's, room was bloody $250/nite. Conference ran 7am to 8p, plus BOF session until after midnight. The travel coordinator back at the U even said "I booked you next to the pool" like she was doing me a favor. We have pools in Mich, who GAF?
There should be two types of hotels, the big fancy ones for travelling rock stars and divas who need that crap, and small, CHEAP and CLEAN (yeah, you can get cheap, but does it smell of urine?) rooms that are there for one purpose, somewhere to sleep when I'm not out in the bloody town to which I travelled spending my time enjoying the locale's local color, who cares about the stupid hotel room?
Pool? Exercise room? Concierge? What is this, some Beaches-like all inclusive abomination?
Give me a clean $70/night room with easy access to downtown Toronto,Paris, Montreal, Chennai, Tokyo, London, San Francisco, NYC, DC and probably 20 other cities around the planet, and you can keep your bloody pillow mint.
rant=off
The other was addressed to astronaut John Glenn"
Perhaps you meant, Senator Glenn?
parsing can be slow for large docs
..for those not executing this job on a handy desktop beowolf cluster running XSLT scripts in parallel.
What?
All I want is those house-building robots fully developed. The subsequent crash in home prices around the country when attractive, well-constructed 2000sq homes can be built for
Yeah, progress!
For those more cynical among you that say poor countries need political stability first,
Why generate your own when the US will swoop in, spend hundreds of billions of $$ of their own, and HAND you political stability whether you asked them to or not!
But only if you have oil.
And we helped prop up your dictator
And we sold him most of the weapons used to keep his boot to your neck.
And you have a very generous definition of "stability".
Hmm, I can see this ad isn't going to test market very well....
Err.... Profit!
The human race slowly becoming extinct because everyone would rather hump a perfect digital partner in VR t
Would that be a bad thing - not complete extinction but drastic population reduction? According to a recent episode of Nye's new show (no link; select the 'Population' show of this flash-site), this planet can comfortably hold about 42B humans if we all eat like cows, or about 2B Americans. If VR can move us from our current 6.xB to the 2B mark in a, ah, "pleasant" manner, Gia'd prob'ly appreciate it very much.
As a rule I never post w/o RTFA, but in this case...
For personal automobiles, no way in hell. This is a Very Bad Idea (TM) and I hope it goes down in a blaze of pyro. OTOH, with the vulnerability of our trucking industry, specifically the potential of converting a medical, chemical or other waste truck into a vehicle of mass destruction by a terrorist, enemy combatant or pissed-off soccer mom, i think tracking trucks should become mandatory (yes, I know there's limited truck transponder tech used for things like weigh stations, but I'm looking more for "hey, why did truck 45X3-2322, carrying spent fuel rods from the navy base just pull off I-80 next to the convention center?")
Nuclear .. we're just not ready for that leap societally, even though we were probably ready technologically at least 20 years ago
Oh yeah, we're *so* ready, with our viable storage site at Yucca... oh, nevermind.
To get my 'high-five', these dudes have to start producing biofuel from the lakes of pig, salmon, chicken and other excretory-offal that hi-yield farming produces. Only through handling our sh*t will we finally get our sh*t together and find our way out of this fuel-starved sh*tuation.