I managed to track a copy on ebay! Use isfdb to find which book contains the story you want to read, then check ebay and see what you can afford.
Good leads are "Another Part of the Galaxy", "The Best of Eric Frank Russell", and "Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell".
Hey mate,
Dells are piss easy to modify. Service manuals and all.
Isn't there a new Dell laptop you can put your screen into? I have an E5500 with a 1920x1200 screen I got of an older precision. The connectors at the back of the LCD were the same and although the screen is darker than I would like (CCFL?), it's still pretty good.
Be careful with that, while IANAL, I do know that often contracts contain severance clauses which specify that if a clause is struck down as unenforceable through future court action or mutual agreement, the other parts of the contract are still enforceable.
Thank you for the info. I've never seen such a clause but I guess it makes sense... from the employer's point of view, of course.
You're right, a contract translation in layman's terms is worth paying for (especially if legaleese is not your first language)
What I've been told (in the UK) is that if you signed a contract with a single non-inforcable clause, then the whole contract is invalid.
Not sure how this is true, but I know of a friend who went to court, had his contract examined by a solicitor... and his contract was invalid. Sorry, can't remember the details and IANAL so I might as well be talking out of my arse (or is that what IANAL means?)
Last night, I dreamt of this zebra that jumped of a plane and landed on a ski slope upsidedown... on its horns. It then slided downhill wiggling its legs around.
Me wife told me "good thing it was a zebra and not a unicorn, otherwise it'd just got stuck in the snow"
Sure you need to bust your ass off to finish your Ph.D, especially when your funding is about to dry out (always a good inscentive, that...). But sometimes, all it takes is a caring supervisor who will most likely pre-chew the work for you and all you need to do in the end is to fill-in the blanks in his/her bright idea.
Does filling-in some blanks make you a genius of some sort? Is that worth a doctorate degree? Not sure... In Soviet Russia, you are not a doctor until you have a proven record of papers in your field. Handing in a thesis makes you a good candidate (the russian term) for being a doctor but don't expect to become one until your mid 40s.
In any case, working on your own is not ideal either. Fsckin supervisor was never there when I needed him and it's taken me 3 years of my time after my Ph.D to understand the maths I could see myself using all along. Oh well, if all goes well, I'll get a couple of papers out and a pat on the head... happy days.
Frontier Labs (flash anims included) makes such players. One in particular, the nex cube seems really interesting: It's a cheap no frill player which uses CF memory, 2xAAA and has USB 2.0 (see the animations on the Frontier Labs website). Some users seem to hint that the sound quality is below average, though... I don't know what the deal is, there aren't that many reviews on the net. Maybe better earphones will improve the sound. It's a cheap player, so get what you pay for.
There's another company doing CF players: Maxtech. They went for more conventional designs with LCDs and loads of dials and buttons which is unfortunate because the player also has to accomodate space for the CF memory. Looking at the piccies, they are much bigger than the iriver players. Amyway, specs of the SSP-100 here. No idea if you can find it in the US, but some retailers in Europe seem to have it.
Here: copy of the page and final example. The extended version has it too (towards the bottom of the page). The author thought it might be more convenient to zip the whole thing up, but it's available as links too.
Most Slashdot visitors would have the CSS file cached, so we could ballpark the daily savings at ~10 GB bandwidth. A high volume of bandwidth from an ISP could be anywhere from $1 - $5 cost per GB of transfer, but let's calculate it at $1 per GB for an entire year. For this example, the total savings for Slashdot would be: $3650! All of that for just a couple of KB.
The article has even been discussed in slashcode. Gathered from the discussion, there appears to be at least one engine (elixss) which uses CSS templates.
That, plus the original display required a four-head graphics card (or cards w/ four total outputs) to drive it. Looks like the newer Viewsonic uses four separate DVI-D connections.
4 DVI channels it is... I saw the blurb at Matrox about their Parhelia HR256.
Aggregating DVI channels is pretty extreme, but I wonder how high a resolution LCD manufacturers could produce using (multiple) PCI express? Decent frame rate as well?
I was kidding... I'm not stuck with windows, just for what I'm doing at the moment it fits my bill.
My portege 7220 came with win98se (updated since to service pack 1.5) and considering pretty much all I use is vim, latex, python (wx,numeric,vtk) and the free borland compiler, I am happy with my setup.
Actually, It's plenty fast for what I'm doing, the S3 savage videochip has enough oomph to render my VTK/OpenGL stuff, the video output is nice enough that I can watch DVDs or play the odd amstrad cpc game (bombjack:) on the telly.
So after what, 4 years using the same machine, I still haven't reinstalled the OS.
Okay, so what's my point? Well, the machine just runs... Only a few things give me headaches, USB external disks being one of them. The battery is nowhere near where it was (the big one is shot, the other one will give me about 45 minutes if I'm lucky) but the OS (I guess as long as you take care of it) just runs.
My previous laptop (portege 7020) was running debian and olvwm (when in 8 bit mode) or windowmaker (often the 2 at the same time) and I did have mutt and vim installed on it. It was a different experience. Realy, a lot of the hardware was just barely supported but what worked worked extremely well (like hot docking-undocking which I still can't do reliably in win98). I do try Knoppix on my machine from time to time, but KDE is less responsive than what I was used to with olvwm (of course) or with 98. I would try XP if it came on a live CD but I'm affraid I already know it's a waste of time (P3 650 with 192 megs of RAM + XP??? naaaah).
But what's the point??? something about the OS fitting the purpose? me being happily stuck with win98se? Oh yeah, and vim running on Linux, I think;)
If that post is related (msits.exe) then you have real shit going on when you get highjacked:
This popped up six windows which installed both the default-homepage-network hijacker and also some nasty stuff [...]
This crashed Windows Media Player and then it was overwritten with a small windows executable (I have it if you want it) - this was called wmplayer.exe and was in the Windows Media Player folder. The real Windows Media Player had been deleted. [...]
The next time a WMP media file was accessed the new wmplayer.exe file ran and installed lots of adware, junkware, spyware etc, etc. [...]
Now, I use K-meleon and privoxy for 99% of my browsing and only switch to IE when I can't do otherwise.
Yes, this is a lot of work for the price of keeping windows running. Some people don't have a choice... Me, as soon as my favourite IDE gets ported to Linux, I'll swap;-)
Seriously though, if there are any other tools you guys use to try and keep windows secure, please share.
Eye of the Frog writes "Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and its subsidiary NTT DoCoMo Inc. have developed a device that attaches to your PDA which uses the body's conductivity to transmit data at an amazing 10 megabits per second.
the keywords being amazing and megabits. Please, in the future, keep your gut feelings to yourself.
that's for video processing (impressive nonetheless), what we're talking about is bus data transfer. The problem seems to be that you can push arrays (texture data) to the card's memory but cannot get the processed data back nowhere fast enough...
A couple of years back there was an article on/. about this. Some guy (team?) had designed a benchmark to show the assymetrical throughput. There was a program you could download to check it out for yourself (windows)
Moderate me as flamebait again if you wish... I was telling people that after downloading microsoft's gift I can't make any use of it because I have the wrong OS.... it's not flamebait, it's in-for-ma-tive (maybe too long a word for some?)
Is this a ploy to force people to upgrade? If I remember, I had no problems installing the.NET framework on 98.
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Good leads are "Another Part of the Galaxy", "The Best of Eric Frank Russell", and "Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell".
I just bought the first one for a few quid :-)
Hey mate, Dells are piss easy to modify. Service manuals and all. Isn't there a new Dell laptop you can put your screen into? I have an E5500 with a 1920x1200 screen I got of an older precision. The connectors at the back of the LCD were the same and although the screen is darker than I would like (CCFL?), it's still pretty good.
Your IE is vulnerable to any malware that will pop-up through an ad, so keep your interaction with IE to a minimum.
Or if you really can't remember the website's name (happens with old age), just type www.ie7.com in explorer. Trust me on that one :-)
I'm using vi, you insensitive clod sucker!
Just wow! Thank you for sharing (he said, looking at his wife suspiciously :)
You're right, a contract translation in layman's terms is worth paying for (especially if legaleese is not your first language)
Not sure how this is true, but I know of a friend who went to court, had his contract examined by a solicitor... and his contract was invalid. Sorry, can't remember the details and IANAL so I might as well be talking out of my arse (or is that what IANAL means?)
I don't know, maybe it was the cheese, I told my parents not to send any smelly stuff by post :-)
Me wife told me "good thing it was a zebra and not a unicorn, otherwise it'd just got stuck in the snow"
Does filling-in some blanks make you a genius of some sort? Is that worth a doctorate degree? Not sure... In Soviet Russia, you are not a doctor until you have a proven record of papers in your field. Handing in a thesis makes you a good candidate (the russian term) for being a doctor but don't expect to become one until your mid 40s.
In any case, working on your own is not ideal either. Fsckin supervisor was never there when I needed him and it's taken me 3 years of my time after my Ph.D to understand the maths I could see myself using all along. Oh well, if all goes well, I'll get a couple of papers out and a pat on the head... happy days.
Some users seem to hint that the sound quality is below average, though... I don't know what the deal is, there aren't that many reviews on the net. Maybe better earphones will improve the sound. It's a cheap player, so get what you pay for.
Another site with a bigger photo here.
There's another company doing CF players: Maxtech. They went for more conventional designs with LCDs and loads of dials and buttons which is unfortunate because the player also has to accomodate space for the CF memory. Looking at the piccies, they are much bigger than the iriver players. Amyway, specs of the SSP-100 here. No idea if you can find it in the US, but some retailers in Europe seem to have it.
Here: copy of the page and final example. The extended version has it too (towards the bottom of the page). The author thought it might be more convenient to zip the whole thing up, but it's available as links too.
This is the most interesting claim:
The article has even been discussed in slashcode. Gathered from the discussion, there appears to be at least one engine (elixss) which uses CSS templates.Aggregating DVI channels is pretty extreme, but I wonder how high a resolution LCD manufacturers could produce using (multiple) PCI express? Decent frame rate as well?
I got mine with 2 packs of 4 2300mAh batteries for about 30$ (sorry, I could be off, I don't usually use $).
I thought I'd mention it because mine came with a 12V wall-wart charger and a car adapter as see here.
My portege 7220 came with win98se (updated since to service pack 1.5) and considering pretty much all I use is vim, latex, python (wx,numeric,vtk) and the free borland compiler, I am happy with my setup.
Actually, It's plenty fast for what I'm doing, the S3 savage videochip has enough oomph to render my VTK/OpenGL stuff, the video output is nice enough that I can watch DVDs or play the odd amstrad cpc game (bombjack :) on the telly.
So after what, 4 years using the same machine, I still haven't reinstalled the OS.
Okay, so what's my point? Well, the machine just runs... Only a few things give me headaches, USB external disks being one of them. The battery is nowhere near where it was (the big one is shot, the other one will give me about 45 minutes if I'm lucky) but the OS (I guess as long as you take care of it) just runs.
My previous laptop (portege 7020) was running debian and olvwm (when in 8 bit mode) or windowmaker (often the 2 at the same time) and I did have mutt and vim installed on it. It was a different experience. Realy, a lot of the hardware was just barely supported but what worked worked extremely well (like hot docking-undocking which I still can't do reliably in win98). I do try Knoppix on my machine from time to time, but KDE is less responsive than what I was used to with olvwm (of course) or with 98. I would try XP if it came on a live CD but I'm affraid I already know it's a waste of time (P3 650 with 192 megs of RAM + XP??? naaaah).
But what's the point??? something about the OS fitting the purpose? me being happily stuck with win98se? Oh yeah, and vim running on Linux, I think ;)
Broken link? This is the image i meant... the first one
AVG free edition sygate personal firewall and Spybot seach and destroy (site down) will complete your collection nicely. Might want to have a look at Hijack this and this tutorial as well.
Yes, this is a lot of work for the price of keeping windows running. Some people don't have a choice... Me, as soon as my favourite IDE gets ported to Linux, I'll swap ;-)
Seriously though, if there are any other tools you guys use to try and keep windows secure, please share.
The independant has it priced at UK pound 22,000 while another website has is at UK pound 26,000.
Reviews: 3-Wheelers and The independant.
A couple of years back there was an article on /. about this. Some guy (team?) had designed a benchmark to show the assymetrical throughput. There was a program you could download to check it out for yourself (windows)
Is this a ploy to force people to upgrade? If I remember, I had no problems installing the .NET framework on 98.
Ah, fuck it... Next time, I'll just post
to get loads of karma and hands free uptime...I'll stick to BCC55 then...