That's one are I think ZigBee can be very successful. X10 works, but has less than stellar reliability. RadioRA (Lutron I beleive) and the others are properitry and can be quite expensive. Conversely, "anybody" can make a ZigBee compliant device and it should work with any other ZigBee device--even from another manufacturers. This should help to keep ZigBee home automation devices price competitive--at least I hope so.
I thought based on its compression ratio this would just be the 1st anniversary for mp3. Granted some things in those 10 years are lost, but we can't remember everything can we?
It use to be hosted on geocities, but I guess there was too much traffic.
Great way to promote this book would be...
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to use something like those The Truth smoking commericals.
MPAA exec 1: Let's put GPS chips in all computers so were can track if they are playing their (well really ours ) DVDs. If they don't play it in the right region, be know the exact location and can order congress to bomb it.
RIAA exec 1: Well GPS isn't selling albums right now, they can't even break into the top 100...all because of piracy. The CD has 3 songs on it and at $18.00 with our "shifty" copy protection we should be making billions. Instead some kid holds down the shift key when he played it on his PC and now it's all over the internet. We only sold one copy because of this.
RIAA exec 2: I think he meant those tracking thingies, not the group.
RIAA exec 1: Have you even heard of GPS...they are the bomb, here, I just got their album torrent from suprnova.
MPAA exec 1: dumbasses
Closing: It wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't true
But even a "BAD" driver knows the basics. Car goes forward, car goes backwards, car turns this way when I turn steering wheel this way, and the other way when I turn the other way (I avoided left and right since I know a bunch of drivers who don't know which is which), I need gas to make car go, car with flat needs new tire, etc.
The car/pc analogy isn't great, but I believe that a person who can drive a car (well or not), knows more about their car and rules of the road than a newb with a pc that just comes with a sticker that says "plug internet cable in here and surf the web". Excluding the 9 yrs-11 yr old who jump behind the wheel and just take off the family car you hear about every so often, most people have had some sort of instruction on how to operate the vehicle. That doesn't mean they learned safe, or good driving habits, and I agree with you that anyone can get a license, but for the "good" drivers out there, they spent the time learning how to drive, how to maintain their car, and how to avoid stupid drivers. I think if we want more "good" internet "drivers", they need to learn the same for the information superhighway.
To answer your question, I can do part of the diagnosis, but I can't fix it...
But what I was trying to say is that as more and more people get on the 'net, they should become educated on the basic "do's and don'ts". The firewire is a perfect example. Should they be expected to know how to configure it like a certified Cisco specialist...no, but they should be aware that they *should* have one and be prepared to pay someone to set on up or read a few pages of the user's guide to get it working in the first place. They should be aware that browsers, like unlocked cars, can easily be "stolen". They need not become an IT specialists, but they should know how to "drive" the net properly and as safely as possible. Accidents will happen, but if you keep your car/pc well tuned and stay alert, you are at least doing your part to minimize the chance.
Sure the internet is fully of sleazy stuff we don't want our kids to see and malware that can render our computers useless, but most of these problems wouldn't exist if people knew what they were doing.
When you are old enough to drive, you can't just get in a car a go (I guess you can, but not legally). You have to take a driver's test, you need insurance, you might have a driver probation period, etc. Why? Becuase you are no taking responsibility for not only something that can harm you, but others as well. SUre there a gov/state regulations with regards to driving, but basically you can drive to/from where you please.
Well being that a person's PC can now be used to attack others and spread virsus, that person has the responsibility to learn how to keep there PC up to date with security patches and to stay away from nude B. Spears photos. I've purchased many Dells and none of them come with a warning or label that even attempts to mention that "by taking this PC into your home, you are taking on a great responsibility, etc."
Maybe something like that is needed because we [Americans] want the government to do everything for us, oh, but don't raise our taxes....just print more money
When I view a flick at home, I don't have to worry about attendants in night vision goggles trying to take my camcorder. I can just set the camcorder on a tripod, perfectly centered on the screen I might add, although I had to then shift a little right or left to see the movie. Regardless, when filmed at home, there is much less hassle and I don't have ticket collectors asking me if that's a tripod in my pocket.--and I get a perfect miniDV recording of the movie on my 60" TV as it was meant to be seen.
IF Dell started selling (or hinted at selling) the Mac OS that ran on x86, would MS just stand by? Even thought Dell offers Linux with some boxes IIRC, I suspect they [MS] would try to ink Dell to some exclusive deal and give them a major price break on Windows and related software. I suspect they must already have some deal...this may be Dell's way of getting MS to sweeten the deal even more.
I think it would be great if Dell provided MS, Apple, and Linux OSes as choises, but I just can't see MS allowing this to go on without some sort of "intervention". It wold be even better if they also sold AMD based systems.
Great mag for hobbyists
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If you've ever built a Heathkit something or another, or a old analog signal cable descrammbler from radio shack parts (or for the newer generation, if you've ever modded your xbox I guess), you owe it to yourself to check out the Make magazine. It has lots of great projects and it proves to my wife that I am not a crazy as some other people.
gosh how long til we see: "And it's a total train wreck"
"And it's derailed"
"When Gates said 'security reigns', the developers heard 'trains' and they were no where near the station"
"If a Linux patch leave the {Linux dsitro city of choise} station at 3 PM and a MS patch leaves the Redmond station at 6 PM, how many people on/. will it take to claim First Post?"
Yeah and the culture has really changed over the past 10 years. Even though I went to an *IT school, there were your usual fraternities and sororities and you could count on numerous parties Friday and Saturday night in the "quad" or at the local dive bar. Upon a recent visit, I stopped by on a Friday night and there was just the ominous glow of CRTs/LCDs coming from most of the dorm windows. I went down to the bar and the one of the old-timers who never left town told me that more and more of the "kids" just stay in the rooms IMing, play games, etc. He said the traditional (non academic) Greek societies had all but died out and that most of the kids just seemed to prefer their new "online parties" or most likely never had been to a real one and didn't know the finer points of a keg stand.
should read: "It will further help reduce the amount of time kids need to search for porn so that they have more time to eat fast food, watch tv, IM each other, and play video games"
So this means no CRTs with embeddd floppy?
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Just like the floppy still hasn't died completely, I don't see CRTs being completely replaced...even in the next 10 years. The number of manufacturers may drop and we may get to a point where CRTs become more expensive that their equivalent LCDs brothers, but there are enough projects/programs/industries around that require CRT displays I find it hard to believe that there will no CRT manufacturers--probably just high priced/specialized ones.
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There is a blog entry about this here
That's one are I think ZigBee can be very successful. X10 works, but has less than stellar reliability. RadioRA (Lutron I beleive) and the others are properitry and can be quite expensive. Conversely, "anybody" can make a ZigBee compliant device and it should work with any other ZigBee device--even from another manufacturers. This should help to keep ZigBee home automation devices price competitive--at least I hope so.
...that's the serial I was trying remember when I posted; now I can put my mind at easy from trying to remember that good ole original.
...after users attempted to update, MS found out that there is actually only 1 registered copy of Windows XP.
...being that he only has four fingers and all and hence no real middle finger.
I thought based on its compression ratio this would just be the 1st anniversary for mp3. Granted some things in those 10 years are lost, but we can't remember everything can we?
Guess that makes 7% now :)
"Surprisingly, a full six percent indicated that they'd rather watch TV from cable or satellite than eat or have sex."
These were the 6 percent that just found out that Firefly was going to air on SciFi in its intended order.
It use to be hosted on geocities, but I guess there was too much traffic.
to use something like those The Truth smoking commericals.
MPAA exec 1: Let's put GPS chips in all computers so were can track if they are playing their (well really ours ) DVDs. If they don't play it in the right region, be know the exact location and can order congress to bomb it.
RIAA exec 1: Well GPS isn't selling albums right now, they can't even break into the top 100...all because of piracy. The CD has 3 songs on it and at $18.00 with our "shifty" copy protection we should be making billions. Instead some kid holds down the shift key when he played it on his PC and now it's all over the internet. We only sold one copy because of this.
RIAA exec 2: I think he meant those tracking thingies, not the group.
RIAA exec 1: Have you even heard of GPS...they are the bomb, here, I just got their album torrent from suprnova.
MPAA exec 1: dumbasses
Closing: It wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't true
Yeah, I know, I have of photo of you going into class :)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=4705698
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and here is a link to a blog that refers to the photographer's rights: http://blog.photoblogs.org/2004/06/photographers_
"me too"
But even a "BAD" driver knows the basics. Car goes forward, car goes backwards, car turns this way when I turn steering wheel this way, and the other way when I turn the other way (I avoided left and right since I know a bunch of drivers who don't know which is which), I need gas to make car go, car with flat needs new tire, etc.
The car/pc analogy isn't great, but I believe that a person who can drive a car (well or not), knows more about their car and rules of the road than a newb with a pc that just comes with a sticker that says "plug internet cable in here and surf the web". Excluding the 9 yrs-11 yr old who jump behind the wheel and just take off the family car you hear about every so often, most people have had some sort of instruction on how to operate the vehicle. That doesn't mean they learned safe, or good driving habits, and I agree with you that anyone can get a license, but for the "good" drivers out there, they spent the time learning how to drive, how to maintain their car, and how to avoid stupid drivers. I think if we want more "good" internet "drivers", they need to learn the same for the information superhighway.
To answer your question, I can do part of the diagnosis, but I can't fix it...
But what I was trying to say is that as more and more people get on the 'net, they should become educated on the basic "do's and don'ts". The firewire is a perfect example. Should they be expected to know how to configure it like a certified Cisco specialist...no, but they should be aware that they *should* have one and be prepared to pay someone to set on up or read a few pages of the user's guide to get it working in the first place. They should be aware that browsers, like unlocked cars, can easily be "stolen". They need not become an IT specialists, but they should know how to "drive" the net properly and as safely as possible. Accidents will happen, but if you keep your car/pc well tuned and stay alert, you are at least doing your part to minimize the chance.
Sure the internet is fully of sleazy stuff we don't want our kids to see and malware that can render our computers useless, but most of these problems wouldn't exist if people knew what they were doing.
When you are old enough to drive, you can't just get in a car a go (I guess you can, but not legally). You have to take a driver's test, you need insurance, you might have a driver probation period, etc. Why? Becuase you are no taking responsibility for not only something that can harm you, but others as well. SUre there a gov/state regulations with regards to driving, but basically you can drive to/from where you please.
Well being that a person's PC can now be used to attack others and spread virsus, that person has the responsibility to learn how to keep there PC up to date with security patches and to stay away from nude B. Spears photos. I've purchased many Dells and none of them come with a warning or label that even attempts to mention that "by taking this PC into your home, you are taking on a great responsibility, etc."
Maybe something like that is needed because we [Americans] want the government to do everything for us, oh, but don't raise our taxes....just print more money
When I view a flick at home, I don't have to worry about attendants in night vision goggles trying to take my camcorder. I can just set the camcorder on a tripod, perfectly centered on the screen I might add, although I had to then shift a little right or left to see the movie. Regardless, when filmed at home, there is much less hassle and I don't have ticket collectors asking me if that's a tripod in my pocket.--and I get a perfect miniDV recording of the movie on my 60" TV as it was meant to be seen.
IF Dell started selling (or hinted at selling) the Mac OS that ran on x86, would MS just stand by? Even thought Dell offers Linux with some boxes IIRC, I suspect they [MS] would try to ink Dell to some exclusive deal and give them a major price break on Windows and related software. I suspect they must already have some deal...this may be Dell's way of getting MS to sweeten the deal even more.
I think it would be great if Dell provided MS, Apple, and Linux OSes as choises, but I just can't see MS allowing this to go on without some sort of "intervention". It wold be even better if they also sold AMD based systems.
If you've ever built a Heathkit something or another, or a old analog signal cable descrammbler from radio shack parts (or for the newer generation, if you've ever modded your xbox I guess), you owe it to yourself to check out the Make magazine. It has lots of great projects and it proves to my wife that I am not a crazy as some other people.
>>>need I say more? Yes you do, please say more
gosh how long til we see:
/. will it take to claim First Post?"
"And it's a total train wreck"
"And it's derailed"
"When Gates said 'security reigns', the developers heard 'trains' and they were no where near the station"
"If a Linux patch leave the {Linux dsitro city of choise} station at 3 PM and a MS patch leaves the Redmond station at 6 PM, how many people on
...getting back at you for all those screwed up acme rockets, boots, springs, hammers, etc. that you sold him. You were the road runner's best friend.
Yeah and the culture has really changed over the past 10 years. Even though I went to an *IT school, there were your usual fraternities and sororities and you could count on numerous parties Friday and Saturday night in the "quad" or at the local dive bar. Upon a recent visit, I stopped by on a Friday night and there was just the ominous glow of CRTs/LCDs coming from most of the dorm windows. I went down to the bar and the one of the old-timers who never left town told me that more and more of the "kids" just stay in the rooms IMing, play games, etc. He said the traditional (non academic) Greek societies had all but died out and that most of the kids just seemed to prefer their new "online parties" or most likely never had been to a real one and didn't know the finer points of a keg stand.
should read: "It will further help reduce the amount of time kids need to search for porn so that they have more time to eat fast food, watch tv, IM each other, and play video games"
Just like the floppy still hasn't died completely, I don't see CRTs being completely replaced...even in the next 10 years. The number of manufacturers may drop and we may get to a point where CRTs become more expensive that their equivalent LCDs brothers, but there are enough projects/programs/industries around that require CRT displays I find it hard to believe that there will no CRT manufacturers--probably just high priced/specialized ones.