I found myself (briefly) designing this sort of hardware about 6 months back - my guess is that the Apple unit is designed around an off-the-shelf laptop drive (the dimensions give it away). 10 hrs is shortish - there are similar units out there with 14+ hours (the nomad of course is trez-sucky).
We actually looked at (but didn't build) a design much smaller the Apple unit (it's a PCMCIA drive with a similar form factor battery, lcd etc - the size of a credit card but 1/2 inch thick - probably 10 hr battery life) - the trouble is that the parts cost is ridiculous - final retail would end up near $7-800.
There's a basic problem in the harddrive biz - prices don't go down below a certain floor (the disks just get denser for a partiocular form factor) this limits the lowest price that will see consumer uses.
Personally I suspect that Nomad is being sold pretty close to cost - they're pushing for market share, they really can't be making much (if any) money.
IMHO USB is not a big deal - mainly because USB can happily keep up with a ripper - and with 5G (or 20G) you tend to load all your CD collection (damn I really really want that 100G drive) and carry it around with you
nope - self assembling molecules.... it's one of the areas where the nano-tech people have been working for a while - some molecules will sidle up and stand next to a similar one they happen to run into, pretty soon you have a sheet of them (assuming you have a nice substrate)....
well - that someone was Sony.... to be fair my experience was a while back before they started shoving better magnetic shields (and autodegaus etc) into monitors (TVs are les sensitive, but also are lower cost and have less hardware spent on them) - but the lines of force are not parallel with the surface of the earth - there's a large up and down component too - which IS reversed in the southern hemisphere (think of all those diagrams of the van allen belts)
Want more proof? try searching for "monitors southern hemisphere" on google, or try this link to a Sony website in Australia - not that the monitor has a "Southern Hemisphere Picture Tube"
this is basicly my feeling about the whole thing.... the comet has landed and the RIAA is wandering around like a bunch of dinosaurs bitching about the approaching winter.
Trouble is they are dinosaurs with lawyers and large bank accounts to feed them.... they are going to make a lot of trouble before their way of life goes belly up.... long term however they are toast.... it's a great time to be a mammal.
The RIAA represents a bunch of people who'se basic job is being middle men - it used to be that it cost lots of money to get music to people - you had to run an expensive recording studio, have a pressing plant, infrastructure for distribution, payola for marketing, cocaine, etc etc and you got to take a goodly chunk off of the top. The real problem is that now days it costs pennies to make a copy of some music and send it to someone - you don't even need a retail store (there's yet another markup gone) - the whole reason for the existance of these middle men is going away.
We may yet get back to the way things were just 300 years ago when the only way to distribute popular music was free (word of mouth - someone taught you a song and you sang it if you liked it).
However in our world there's still the problem that the artists need (and deserve) paying - we do need to solve that problem in a just and fair way.
I was using one lens. This turned the image upside-down. This meant I had to turn the TV upside-down to get a usable picture. This made the TV image turn funny colours. I have no idea if this happens to most TVs or not. A well-made TV *shouldn't* have this problem - it _should_ only be gravity-sensitive if some of the focusing coils are loose inside it. The electron beam certainly doesn't care about gravity. YMMV.
No - but it does care about the angle of the earth's magnetic field.... which is in effect reversed when you turn it upside down. Degausing the tube will help - but really you need either a helmholtz cage or a TV designed for the southern hemisphere (where of course they mostly use PAL so I guess you're SOL:-).
Back when I worked for a company in the computer monitors biz I learned that monitors for the northern hemisphere are alligned in Japan all facing in the same direction, those for the southern hemisphere are aligned in special cages (virtually facing the same way I guess) - we learned this the hard way after selling some monitors down south and having some really pissed customers
Yeah, it's almost too bad that Linux is a dying OS.
even if this were true why would it be relevant? QT runs on Linux, various unix varients, win32, MacOS,... plus QT/Embedded which runs on the raw hardware without an underlying GUI... etc KDE runs on FreeBSD, Solaris, etc and portions of it (Konquerer for example) run under QT Embedded too
Personally I think you're just another pro-M$ troll working on the current FUD campaign for your corporate masters
geez - learn a little history - Usenix has been putting on techy for almost 20 years now - asking them to change now is a little late:-) Many years ago 'Uniforum' was formed for this very reason (the Unix-world marketting-droids felt Usenix didn't cater to their need for glitz and suits)
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Were these two imstruments of clever manipulators ?
geez - they're puppets - of course they are instruments of clever manipulators....
Why exactly is it our (the USA) government's job to fund an alternative OS?
It's not - it's the govt's job to promote the public good. In this case the govt has a law that encourages competition because it's for the public good. M$ has been found guilty in a court of law of breaching that law and is now going to be punished for doing that. Punishment often has two components - the first restitution to those hurt by a crime, and a punative component designed to hurt the guilty party in a manner intended to discourage them from repeating their transgression.
It seems to me that fining M$, who appears to have money flowing from all bodily orifices, isn't going to have a lot of effect, unless it's a really big fine - enough to hurt their stock price (and therefore cause the company's managers to be put under pressure to change by the stockholders). I think that a having smaller fine, one that's more likely to be upheld in court, and then taking that money and using it to fund Open Source programs would be a wonderfull way to truely punish M$, encourage them to really compete, and would in the long term provide relief, in the form of a viable alternative, to those people hurt by the existing abuse of monopoly
Leaving a large bunch of pissed but brilliant programmers out in the cold just has to be a bad idea (just look at CSS) don't these music industry bozos ever learn... if they choose a DRM system that's supported everywhere far fewer people will have the incentive to break their encryption - and it's not like they're in the music player software biz
M$ NZ gets its first XP tech support cal after the user added a new harddrive and XP told them they'd have to get permission from M$ before they continued... and so it begins...
The reason we've had an unprecedented 55 years peace in europe since WW2 is not because of the bomb, not because of the cold war, not because we beat Hitler, certainly it had nothing to do with Ronald Regan.... it's because we followed up with the Marshall plan.... we made it so that the germans and japanese citizens had comfortable lives and have too much to lose by going to war again - we need to do the same all over the world - it's very simple: middle class people don't start wars - that's the real key to world peace
I had this same surgery last year, they go in through your navel and 2 other places, they also inflate your abdomen with dry nitrogen (I guess I must have looked like that:-), you have to walk a lot afterwards to help your body expell any that's left over
It's the only surgery I've ever had and it was a breeze - I walked home within 24 hrs
The fun part was when the doc removed the drain he'd left in a few days later - he said "this may feel a bit funny and it might hurt" - hit hurt like hell, but it felt ssooo wierd (all that stuff moving inside you as it came out) I couldn't stop laughing even though it hurt so much.... now I know how that guy felt in the 1st alien movie....
Better to evangelize the people who are running the lame-ass M$ servers.
I mail every single one I can get an email address for, but frankly it's a losing battle and shouldn't be my job anyway - many of these servers are living on dhcp leases from their ISP.
I think that a person who's running a rougue computer that's breaking into other people's machines should be shutdown by their ISP - and they afterall are the people who can match DHCP leases/times with email addresses/accounts.
I'd like to see ISPs take a public proactive initiative in this area.... and if they don't we should all install scripts in our apache servers that report each and every attack to the attacker's ISP....
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actually some people were apparently able to escape down stairwells from points on both towers above where the planes hit (and after) - but I suspect that was only possible just after the impact and before the fire took hold.
I believe the stairwells were actually in the central column area and may have been protected from the direct impact by the mass of the central core
both laptops I've had (Dell and IBM) have had easily replaced hard drives - I've replaced the drive on the Dell twice (once when it started making too much noise, and the second time to increase the disk size). Trashing your disk isn't a reason to replace a laptop - just pop down to Frys (or wherever) and buy a new one - convince yourself you can remove the old one first.
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oops you're right - that explains the price - I missed the narrower width
We actually looked at (but didn't build) a design much smaller the Apple unit (it's a PCMCIA drive with a similar form factor battery, lcd etc - the size of a credit card but 1/2 inch thick - probably 10 hr battery life) - the trouble is that the parts cost is ridiculous - final retail would end up near $7-800.
There's a basic problem in the harddrive biz - prices don't go down below a certain floor (the disks just get denser for a partiocular form factor) this limits the lowest price that will see consumer uses.
Personally I suspect that Nomad is being sold pretty close to cost - they're pushing for market share, they really can't be making much (if any) money.
IMHO USB is not a big deal - mainly because USB can happily keep up with a ripper - and with 5G (or 20G) you tend to load all your CD collection (damn I really really want that 100G drive) and carry it around with you
of course, they even print their own currency :-)
nope - self assembling molecules .... it's one of the areas where the nano-tech people have been working for a while - some molecules will sidle up and stand next to a similar one they happen to run into, pretty soon you have a sheet of them (assuming you have a nice substrate) ....
I should never have let the PR people make me put this silly molecule model together with superglue ....
And
here's a FAQ explaining why Northern hemisphere monitors don't work so well in the South
Want more proof? try searching for "monitors southern hemisphere" on google, or try this
link to a Sony website in Australia - not that the monitor has a "Southern Hemisphere Picture Tube"
Trouble is they are dinosaurs with lawyers and large bank accounts to feed them
The RIAA represents a bunch of people who'se basic job is being middle men - it used to be that it cost lots of money to get music to people - you had to run an expensive recording studio, have a pressing plant, infrastructure for distribution, payola for marketing, cocaine, etc etc and you got to take a goodly chunk off of the top. The real problem is that now days it costs pennies to make a copy of some music and send it to someone - you don't even need a retail store (there's yet another markup gone) - the whole reason for the existance of these middle men is going away.
We may yet get back to the way things were just 300 years ago when the only way to distribute popular music was free (word of mouth - someone taught you a song and you sang it if you liked it).
However in our world there's still the problem that the artists need (and deserve) paying - we do need to solve that problem in a just and fair way.
No - but it does care about the angle of the earth's magnetic field
Back when I worked for a company in the computer monitors biz I learned that monitors for the northern hemisphere are alligned in Japan all facing in the same direction, those for the southern hemisphere are aligned in special cages (virtually facing the same way I guess) - we learned this the hard way after selling some monitors down south and having some really pissed customers
even if this were true why would it be relevant? QT runs on Linux, various unix varients, win32, MacOS,
Personally I think you're just another pro-M$ troll working on the current FUD campaign for your corporate masters
it's pretty obvious that some RIAA exec has been reading about Code Red and thought "gee I wish we had ourselves one of those" ....
geez - learn a little history - Usenix has been putting on techy for almost 20 years now - asking them to change now is a little late :-) Many years ago 'Uniforum' was formed for this very reason (the Unix-world marketting-droids felt Usenix didn't cater to their need for glitz and suits)
geez - they're puppets - of course they are instruments of clever manipulators
It's not - it's the govt's job to promote the public good. In this case the govt has a law that encourages competition because it's for the public good. M$ has been found guilty in a court of law of breaching that law and is now going to be punished for doing that. Punishment often has two components - the first restitution to those hurt by a crime, and a punative component designed to hurt the guilty party in a manner intended to discourage them from repeating their transgression.
It seems to me that fining M$, who appears to have money flowing from all bodily orifices, isn't going to have a lot of effect, unless it's a really big fine - enough to hurt their stock price (and therefore cause the company's managers to be put under pressure to change by the stockholders). I think that a having smaller fine, one that's more likely to be upheld in court, and then taking that money and using it to fund Open Source programs would be a wonderfull way to truely punish M$, encourage them to really compete, and would in the long term provide relief, in the form of a viable alternative, to those people hurt by the existing abuse of monopoly
the imagery is a little too scary .....
'nuf said
Probably some pr-flack's spellcheck program has "micron" in it but not "micro-amp"
Leaving a large bunch of pissed but brilliant programmers out in the cold just has to be a bad idea (just look at CSS) don't these music industry bozos ever learn ... if they choose a DRM system that's supported everywhere far fewer people will have the incentive to break their encryption - and it's not like they're in the music player software biz
M$ NZ gets its first XP tech support cal after the user added a new harddrive and XP told them they'd have to get permission from M$ before they continued ... and so it begins ...
The reason we've had an unprecedented 55 years peace in europe since WW2 is not because of the bomb, not because of the cold war, not because we beat Hitler, certainly it had nothing to do with Ronald Regan .... it's because we followed up with the Marshall plan .... we made it so that the germans and japanese citizens had comfortable lives and have too much to lose by going to war again - we need to do the same all over the world - it's very simple: middle class people don't start wars - that's the real key to world peace
It's the only surgery I've ever had and it was a breeze - I walked home within 24 hrs
The fun part was when the doc removed the drain he'd left in a few days later - he said "this may feel a bit funny and it might hurt" - hit hurt like hell, but it felt ssooo wierd (all that stuff moving inside you as it came out) I couldn't stop laughing even though it hurt so much
I mail every single one I can get an email address for, but frankly it's a losing battle and shouldn't be my job anyway - many of these servers are living on dhcp leases from their ISP.
I think that a person who's running a rougue computer that's breaking into other people's machines should be shutdown by their ISP - and they afterall are the people who can match DHCP leases/times with email addresses/accounts.
I'd like to see ISPs take a public proactive initiative in this area
I believe the stairwells were actually in the central column area and may have been protected from the direct impact by the mass of the central core
moderators - it's not funny - it's real and serious :-(