I hook my iBook to the TV, then put on VLC. I then play a 700mb mp4 usually in DivX codec of the movie I want. Small enough to fit on a CD (as a avi), works well in terms of viewing. and, for a lot less then my iBook cost, a mini can do the same. Ad a Airport Extreme card and I could now streme the movie from the main machine in the study....All with more ease then the PC equivelant could ever achieve. Oh, and the sound feeds right into the home theater system. There is of course always the option of burning back to DVD or VDC if needed, but why waste the plastic?
Iam NOT a programmer. I am a techie with a leatherman who plugs in servers, and fixes the wiring mess under your desk. I also need to know the software hardware and wash and wear of every vendor out there because someday I am gong to get a call to interface the Sun down the hall with this toaster over here. With that said: I have also personally used every operating system from Apple DOS 3.3 on and have a desk full of various boxes in my study at home. I have a current Compaq Deskpro (XP Pro) from work and a G5 dual(OS X) of my own, oh and even a Apple IIgs running GS/OS 6.0.1- my REAL favorite!:)
That Compaq is nice, but has not been fired up in a week.
So...if RFID via dart is a viable communication protocol (by the way, what is the RFC number for RFID/DART?), and if it were coupled with RFC 1149 which has evolved into PPTP (Pigeon Packet Transfer Protocol)...and if the packet injection system were carefully tailored it seems one would conceivable be able to construct, after the proper application of heat...and condiments....lunch
In the Middle Ages, a fellow named Gutenberg developed a new tech that had the church in an uproar. Know why? Indulgences. What is an Indulgence? Well, it is a piece of paper that is a "Get out of jail free" card for sin. "Present this to St Peter and you will be without sin. uh that will be 3 farthings please", said the village priest.
Scribes composed it (they had scribal sweat-shops in the monasteries for this), a priest would "bless" it, then a poor peasant would pay a life's savings for it to insure paradise in his afterlife. Along came Gutenberg's press and scribes were layed off right and left. Indulgences could be printed at a fraction of their earlier cost. For a while the Church made out like bandits. But then...Someone ELSE used a press to print them and suddenly Europe was flooded with Pirate indulgences... The Church declared unauthorized presses to be sinful and heavy penalties were imposed. Eventually Presses were everywhere and the Church lost control of a lucrative, and dishonorable scam. As you see, nothing new under the sun...
Indeed. Many more years ago then I care to rememeber, I was a tech working on a Cray computer during the install process. We ran a Mersenne search as part of the burn-in. I forget the number of the one we found, but I do recall I used to have a Cray poster that was from the previous Mersenne discovered; also found on a Cray burn-in. Now where di I put that dang thing...
The treaty is a flawed work of law, based on a demonstratably flawed piece of junk science. Recent articles in the Wall Street Journal are quite indicative of this. I would also suggest reading Jerry Pournelle's log (look it up I ain't about to slash dot the fellow). Also if you want some TRUE insight on the effects of Volcanism and its effects on El Nino as an indicator of global warming, I would suggest reading this paper: Handler P., and K. Andsager, 1994: El-Niño, Volcanism, and Global Climate. Human Ecology, 22, 37-57,and looking into the whole subject in depth. I realize that what I just said is not in accord with the current "Eco-truth du jour" but it has the nasty quality of being on the side of the scientific method (provable, repeatable experimentation based on peer reviewed methodology and open available data) as vs. based more on enzyme secretion as do most chicken little scenarios.
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Seems to me, "talkin to the folks back home" has always been a function of aid organizations like USO, or of the Army itself. Soldiers needing to BUY time to talk to loved ones seems a terrible solution. Our soldiers are already putting life on the line, (and for lousy pay too one could add). In older conflicts the two things that armies KNEW you could NEVER be mucked with was 1 Chow and 2 Mail. Seems in today's world this would fall under catagory number 2. Also, in WWII at least; letters to home were free, no stamp.
I rememeber reading once that IE loads into memory at boot. That is, IE is substantially tied in as a portion of the operating system itself. This makes for superb integration with the UI for all system tasks, it also results in blazing fast speed as a browser. It ALSO means any threat to the browser becomes by nature a threat to the entire computer, its system its data, its hardware, and its user. If IE 7 has been decoupled from Windows that would be the one greatest security improvement Microsoft could perform.
Dvorak is correct about Usenet Deja-News and the terrible job Google has done to it. If the Wikipedia suffers a similar fate it would be just as useless.
No matter how many ads are on a page no one visits, the hit counts will tell the tale..
It has never been about safety, about catching bad guys, about any of the reasons they state. It is about control of the citizenry pure and simple. Welcome to the brave new world. Oh and remember: RFID tags can be refreshed, and updated if periodically treated for 10 seconds in a microwave...
in old East Side Kids serials (1930s vintage movies designed for the matinee trade), the kids used "Pig-Latin" to avoid detection by the kindly Irish COp on the beat. Igpay Atinlay ookslay ikelay isthay. Would such be considered an attempt to deceive given that the program probably could not parse it?
America is showing all the signs of emerging from a Republic into Empire, including repudiation of its very founding principles. For more on this, see the history of Rome.
Rock dust= 6 gazillion year old irradiated molecular microbes only awaiting water and some carbon, cupric, iron based life to activate. First Martian explorer with body lice and..."Dateline Nairobi: The last reports from this city is the population has been virtually wiped out as it has in most cities by the so-called "Martian Flu..." -Or any of a thousand equal scenarios..
Remember Cavasa deVaca? Discovered all sorts of stuff in North America and in return gave the Mississippian Culture both Smallpox and the common cold. End of vast civilizations. Worry less about the effect of man on his or other environments, and more the environment's effect on man.
They COME that vulnerable. Joe Average goes down to Electronics R US, plunks a grand down and takes home a shiny new box that says Intel Inside and Windows. He is not geek. He know nada about this stuff. Unless he has a cousin Ralf who is geek he is...what was the tech term for it? oh yes: "Screwed". Mac comes prepackaged to "just work" and work right and right out of the box. Unfortunately, Market share goes with the inferior product and Joe knows not of Apple. Little Suzie and Tommy have a Dell at school so...
Lynux? It takes copious geek to make it work, it has no standardization for Joe and no office apps that "just work". Fun but..no not quite "it".
Games? Well unless Joe really WANTS Tommy shooting a laser canon into a festering deamon from hell, there are sufficent OTHER games on other platforms...
As I said: the obvious choice is a Mac but, Mac is too pricy and..wait...what was this mini I heard of?.. humm....Hey Joe: "Dude! get a mini"
PROC OPTIONS (MAIN); PUT LIST 'PL/I dates from 1964? GADS!'; END; and my 029 keypunch machine never worked well unless it was all caps.....not to mention PL/I didn't know lower case
Many years ago I switched jobs. This was MANY years ago. Back then people, the unfortunate people who no life: carried pagers. One of the things I asked in the interview for the new job was that I NEVER be placed on the "On Call List". I took a salary cut just to get that one provision. I got a life free of pager. Now, people actually PAY MONEY to have a gadget that not only interrupts diner, love making, other bodily functions, Church, Funerals, and soccer games but do so at the wrong time. The recipient invariably speaks too loud (usually in a restraunt in the booth next to you or in a movie), loose all perspective of all activates outside of the call (great for drivers), and as I said: PAY THEIR OWN MONEY for the opportunity to loose their freedom. On top of these advantages they also get (per recent slash dot articles), their own personal bug so none of their life is free from over watch, a GPS tracking device so everyone will know where they are when they get bugged, and a anytime minute plan so confusing that only a bean counter could understand it. Progress. doncha love it....
It was a open secret that in a locked case, deep in the sanctum sanctorum of Intel, Yea even unto Andy Groves' own office, there did dwell a Macintosh...
This trend is nothing new. Back in the 1950s, a brilliant Science Fiction writer named C.M. Kornbluth wrote some stories based on a world in which the majority have dumbed down to an average IQ of around 60. In his work the real business of running the world was held by a select few who were seen by the majority as janitors, hat check girls, bathroom attendants, plumbers. and the like.
One story he wrote using this backdrop became the plot of an original Twilight Zone. For those interested, it had the title: The Black Bag. It was about a doctor's bag (what a quaint notion;, as if a doctor would actually need a means of carrying instruments today, as if they would actually travel to see a patient); a doctor bag that was impossible to hurt anyone with, and was able to cure anything.
The best story in this series I would say, was one of the first. Look in anthologies for a tale called "The Marching Morons". Remember: written in the 1950s. and it is so so prescient.. --
I find it interesting that this world view of the "Big Man on Campus" (tm), usually named Ted, Biff, or some other similar monosyllable, is now the acceptable world in social integration, and justice. I am glad the judge is saving us from such social misfits as Albert Einstein, and Bill Gates. now where did I put my stone knives and bearskins....
I totally agree here. For insight into the legislative process, legal process, a simple law and how it gets warped six ways to Sunday; just follow the last 30 years of arguments in the US over gun control. It really doesn't matter what your personal stance on that issue is. What is interesting is the various arguments, and assertions brought to the table by both sides. Reality does not equate to legality... never has and never will. "Right" is on the side with the most lawyers, greatest honorium budget for the politicans, and the correct media pundits in their pocket. The rational and logical never enter the equation. For other examples, check the Congressional Record for legislation entered each year that would make pi equal to 3.
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Multics? I thought it was a take-off on RSTS
I hook my iBook to the TV, then put on VLC. I then play a 700mb mp4 usually in DivX codec of the movie I want. Small enough to fit on a CD (as a avi), works well in terms of viewing. and, for a lot less then my iBook cost, a mini can do the same. Ad a Airport Extreme card and I could now streme the movie from the main machine in the study....All with more ease then the PC equivelant could ever achieve. Oh, and the sound feeds right into the home theater system. There is of course always the option of burning back to DVD or VDC if needed, but why waste the plastic?
Point? I thought this was a slashdot post! -silly me...:)
Iam NOT a programmer. I am a techie with a leatherman who plugs in servers, and fixes the wiring mess under your desk. I also need to know the software hardware and wash and wear of every vendor out there because someday I am gong to get a call to interface the Sun down the hall with this toaster over here. With that said: I have also personally used every operating system from Apple DOS 3.3 on and have a desk full of various boxes in my study at home. I have a current Compaq Deskpro (XP Pro) from work and a G5 dual(OS X) of my own, oh and even a Apple IIgs running GS/OS 6.0.1- my REAL favorite! :)
That Compaq is nice, but has not been fired up in a week.
Yeah but yours doesn't include a Sushi Bar...
So...if RFID via dart is a viable communication protocol (by the way, what is the RFC number for RFID/DART?), and if it were coupled with RFC 1149 which has evolved into PPTP (Pigeon Packet Transfer Protocol)...and if the packet injection system were carefully tailored it seems one would conceivable be able to construct, after the proper application of heat...and condiments....lunch
"To the Egress" -P.T. Barnum
In the Middle Ages, a fellow named Gutenberg developed a new tech that had the church in an uproar. Know why? Indulgences. What is an Indulgence? Well, it is a piece of paper that is a "Get out of jail free" card for sin.
"Present this to St Peter and you will be without sin. uh that will be 3 farthings please", said the village priest.
Scribes composed it (they had scribal sweat-shops in the monasteries for this), a priest would "bless" it, then a poor peasant would pay a life's savings for it to insure paradise in his afterlife.
Along came Gutenberg's press and scribes were layed off right and left. Indulgences could be printed at a fraction of their earlier cost. For a while the Church made out like bandits. But then...Someone ELSE used a press to print them and suddenly Europe was flooded with Pirate indulgences... The Church declared unauthorized presses to be sinful and heavy penalties were imposed. Eventually Presses were everywhere and the Church lost control of a lucrative, and dishonorable scam. As you see, nothing new under the sun...
Indeed. Many more years ago then I care to rememeber, I was a tech working on a Cray computer during the install process. We ran a Mersenne search as part of the burn-in. I forget the number of the one we found, but I do recall I used to have a Cray poster that was from the previous Mersenne discovered; also found on a Cray burn-in. Now where di I put that dang thing...
Does this negate my degree in Phernology? The Dean did mention there might be a few bumps in the road...
The treaty is a flawed work of law, based on a demonstratably flawed piece of junk science. Recent articles in the Wall Street Journal are quite indicative of this. I would also suggest reading Jerry Pournelle's log (look it up I ain't about to slash dot the fellow). Also if you want some TRUE insight on the effects of Volcanism and its effects on El Nino as an indicator of global warming, I would suggest reading this paper: Handler P., and K. Andsager, 1994: El-Niño, Volcanism, and Global Climate. Human Ecology, 22, 37-57 ,and looking into the whole subject in depth. I realize that what I just said is not in accord with the current "Eco-truth du jour" but it has the nasty quality of being on the side of the scientific method (provable, repeatable experimentation based on peer reviewed methodology and open available data) as vs. based more on enzyme secretion as do most chicken little scenarios.
--
Seems to me, "talkin to the folks back home" has always been a function of aid organizations like USO, or of the Army itself. Soldiers needing to BUY time to talk to loved ones seems a terrible solution. Our soldiers are already putting life on the line, (and for lousy pay too one could add). In older conflicts the two things that armies KNEW you could NEVER be mucked with was 1 Chow and 2 Mail. Seems in today's world this would fall under catagory number 2. Also, in WWII at least; letters to home were free, no stamp.
I rememeber reading once that IE loads into memory at boot. That is, IE is substantially tied in as a portion of the operating system itself. This makes for superb integration with the UI for all system tasks, it also results in blazing fast speed as a browser. It ALSO means any threat to the browser becomes by nature a threat to the entire computer, its system its data, its hardware, and its user. If IE 7 has been decoupled from Windows that would be the one greatest security improvement Microsoft could perform.
Dvorak is correct about Usenet Deja-News and the terrible job Google has done to it. If the Wikipedia suffers a similar fate it would be just as useless. No matter how many ads are on a page no one visits, the hit counts will tell the tale..
An honest mythtake...
It has never been about safety, about catching bad guys, about any of the reasons they state. It is about control of the citizenry pure and simple. Welcome to the brave new world. Oh and remember: RFID tags can be refreshed, and updated if periodically treated for 10 seconds in a microwave...
in old East Side Kids serials (1930s vintage movies designed for the matinee trade), the kids used "Pig-Latin" to avoid detection by the kindly Irish COp on the beat. Igpay Atinlay ookslay ikelay isthay. Would such be considered an attempt to deceive given that the program probably could not parse it? America is showing all the signs of emerging from a Republic into Empire, including repudiation of its very founding principles. For more on this, see the history of Rome.
Rock dust= 6 gazillion year old irradiated molecular microbes only awaiting water and some carbon, cupric, iron based life to activate. First Martian explorer with body lice and..."Dateline Nairobi: The last reports from this city is the population has been virtually wiped out as it has in most cities by the so-called "Martian Flu..." -Or any of a thousand equal scenarios.. Remember Cavasa deVaca? Discovered all sorts of stuff in North America and in return gave the Mississippian Culture both Smallpox and the common cold. End of vast civilizations. Worry less about the effect of man on his or other environments, and more the environment's effect on man.
They COME that vulnerable. Joe Average goes down to Electronics R US, plunks a grand down and takes home a shiny new box that says Intel Inside and Windows. He is not geek. He know nada about this stuff. Unless he has a cousin Ralf who is geek he is...what was the tech term for it? oh yes: "Screwed". Mac comes prepackaged to "just work" and work right and right out of the box. Unfortunately, Market share goes with the inferior product and Joe knows not of Apple. Little Suzie and Tommy have a Dell at school so... Lynux? It takes copious geek to make it work, it has no standardization for Joe and no office apps that "just work". Fun but ..no not quite "it".
Games? Well unless Joe really WANTS Tommy shooting a laser canon into a festering deamon from hell, there are sufficent OTHER games on other platforms...
As I said: the obvious choice is a Mac but, Mac is too pricy and..wait...what was this mini I heard of?.. humm....Hey Joe: "Dude! get a mini"
PROC OPTIONS (MAIN);
PUT LIST 'PL/I dates from 1964? GADS!';
END;
and my 029 keypunch machine never worked well unless it was all caps.....not to mention PL/I didn't know lower case
Many years ago I switched jobs. This was MANY years ago. Back then people, the unfortunate people who no life: carried pagers. One of the things I asked in the interview for the new job was that I NEVER be placed on the "On Call List". I took a salary cut just to get that one provision. I got a life free of pager. Now, people actually PAY MONEY to have a gadget that not only interrupts diner, love making, other bodily functions, Church, Funerals, and soccer games but do so at the wrong time. The recipient invariably speaks too loud (usually in a restraunt in the booth next to you or in a movie), loose all perspective of all activates outside of the call (great for drivers), and as I said: PAY THEIR OWN MONEY for the opportunity to loose their freedom. On top of these advantages they also get (per recent slash dot articles), their own personal bug so none of their life is free from over watch, a GPS tracking device so everyone will know where they are when they get bugged, and a anytime minute plan so confusing that only a bean counter could understand it. Progress. doncha love it....
It was a open secret that in a locked case, deep in the sanctum sanctorum of Intel, Yea even unto Andy Groves' own office, there did dwell a Macintosh...
This trend is nothing new. Back in the 1950s, a brilliant Science Fiction writer named C.M. Kornbluth wrote some stories based on a world in which the majority have dumbed down to an average IQ of around 60. In his work the real business of running the world was held by a select few who were seen by the majority as janitors, hat check girls, bathroom attendants, plumbers. and the like.
One story he wrote using this backdrop became the plot of an original Twilight Zone. For those interested, it had the title: The Black Bag. It was about a doctor's bag (what a quaint notion;, as if a doctor would actually need a means of carrying instruments today, as if they would actually travel to see a patient); a doctor bag that was impossible to hurt anyone with, and was able to cure anything.
The best story in this series I would say, was one of the first. Look in anthologies for a tale called "The Marching Morons". Remember: written in the 1950s. and it is so so prescient..
--
I find it interesting that this world view of the "Big Man on Campus" (tm), usually named Ted, Biff, or some other similar monosyllable, is now the acceptable world in social integration, and justice. I am glad the judge is saving us from such social misfits as Albert Einstein, and Bill Gates. now where did I put my stone knives and bearskins....
I totally agree here. For insight into the legislative process, legal process, a simple law and how it gets warped six ways to Sunday; just follow the last 30 years of arguments in the US over gun control. It really doesn't matter what your personal stance on that issue is. What is interesting is the various arguments, and assertions brought to the table by both sides. Reality does not equate to legality... never has and never will. "Right" is on the side with the most lawyers, greatest honorium budget for the politicans, and the correct media pundits in their pocket. The rational and logical never enter the equation. For other examples, check the Congressional Record for legislation entered each year that would make pi equal to 3.