Who is really going to use 1kW of power in their system? What I'd rather see is a mainstream affordable redundant power supply. I just finished building a new low-cost file server and I'd love to have a redundant power supply that isn't overpriced just beause it's industrial. Oh well something to add to my list of things to build when I'm not busy....
Doesn't really sounds like anything new, except for a new pricing scheme. Time Warner already does this with some shows and their on-demand setup. So there's a new pricing scheme to get "all" shows, at least for one network. Then to get the shows for another network you need to sign up for Comcast, then for another network you need to sign up for DirecTV. So now you're subscribing to 2-3 cable services to watch all your shows which you still can only watch using that service's receiver.
Hmmmmm I think I'll stick with my Tivo for instant gratification and torrenting network tv shows when my Tivo is busy doing something else.
I've done this when explorer decides to hang on doing something network-related (searching for a network drive that isn't logged on to begin with, just being slow in general, etc.). The bringing up the task manager then allows you to run, change, kill any other tasks without the annoyance of explorer. Of course you also lose your desktop and file explorer. Didn't know you could stop so many other things and maintain some usability though.
I wonder if there's any studies done on mid-range hearing loss due to being around the noise computers produce too much. I've had my ears tested by a friend who was studying audiology multiple times for her research projects and have some mid-range hearing loss but seem to be fine in all ranges. The only thing I could attribute it to would be living around computer noise all the time, including all night (college life means sleeping in the same room as your file server). I could be wrong, but it might be an interesting study.
At my office we've already switched over to new Cisco VoIP phones, which are powered via the ethernet cable. There is an optional DC plug for a wall wart if it can't power up via the ethernet cable.
On a related note, when I called my parents today my call was dropped because their VoIP connection was too busy. So I still don't entirely trust the technology to be reliable, especially in emergencies, not to mention power outages in rural areas where when the power goes out, the ISP provider's (cable company's) equipment also goes down.
If you have VoIP, I suggest a cellphone as a backup. But if you have cellphone with a reasonable plan, do you even NEED VoIP?
Back when Win2k came out I had an old Compaq P60 system with 32mb ram, and some friends needed a cablemodem router (back when we didn't have these cheap little unsecured Linksys boxes). So I figured what the heck, I'll just try to install even though it was below the minimum requirements. Win2k installed just fine, though rather slowly, and on boot-up even detected and asked if I wanted to install a software workaround for the co-processor bug. Since it only had a 540mb hard drive I never got SP2 installed, it ran out of hard drive space downloading and decompressing the updates, but it ran quite fine as a router for about 2 years. Eventually the SCSI hard drive seized up when it was turned off over Christmas break and I managed to get it up for a few more months by hitting it rather firmly with a rubber mallet (I figured the heads managed to stick to the platters). Then it died a nearly natural death. So I guess the lesson learned is the minimum requirements on the box aren't always necessarily the bare minimum.
Also the title makes it sound like one of those things where people dress up as cartoon characters and show up at the local mall... next will be Transformers on Ice.
I thought I took typing class in high school so I wouldn't have to look at the keyboard... this would be tempting to reverse this. Now just integrate the entire computer screen into the keyboard... or maybe I should just get a 17" touchscreen and lay it flat on my desk and use a on-screen keyboard... minus the tactile response of course.
Alright so music... BAD! movies... BAD! TV shows...?
I'm really curious to see how this might be applied to P2P websites which distribute copies of network TV shows. No matter how we look at it in the end if you're downloading a movie/song/software package that you'd otherwise have to pay for to get access to you're doing something "wrong." Now the magnitude of that wrong might be blown out of proportion by isolating you from the free world for 3 years, but still it's going to be considered wrong. Now for TV shows which I could either turn my TV on and watch when the network decides to spew them at me (which may or may not be the most convenient time for me to watch), record it on my good ol fashioned VCR or new-fangled Tivo, or right now download it from one of these TV torrent websites. Unfortunately every article I read about these TV torrents seems to refer to them as "illegal" yet I haven't seen any law that differentiates between my VCR tape and my 24.e401.avi copy of a TV show I got either from my Tivo or online. I could possibly see producers using this law though claiming someone is distributing their work which they planned to profit from (via series DVD sales later on or whatnot). I'm hoping it doesn't happen, but this may be a step in that direction.
Have they changed the material on the back of cards recently? Last year I got a new slew of cards (they all expired in the same month of the same year somehow) and the one I use the most I signed in regular blue ballpoint pen like the previous one. That actually rubbed off the back of the card in less than 4 months. So I figured alright I just won't sign it again because you're only supposed to sign it once, right?
Well I had to go get my passport renewed and one payment option for at least one portion of the passport is a credit card, and since I didn't have $90 in cash on me that day it seemed like a viable option. When I handed it to the lady she looked at the back and explained that she couldn't accept it because it wasn't signed. I explained that I had previously signed it and that it had rubbed off over time. She then handed me a fat black marker and told me she would accept it if i signed it for her again, which needing my passport I of course did.
Now that is also rubbing off the back of the card and it just looks like a large black blob of ink more or less. I do get more people that ask to check my ID though, specially at electronic stores. No restaurants have cared yet though.
I completely agree. One feature I miss from my Sprint PCS phone is when I connected it to the charging cradle it would automatically exit vibrate mode and ring like a normal phone on my desk. Now the phone I have just vibrates across my desk. I guess you could get a couple models and have phone races or something.
Winamp's randomizer has always done this for me too. The answer should be in the header of each file though, unless your player is biased toward a certain string of bits. 10010101>01101010. YUM!
I'm glad we can now consider downloading of all media (especially over Bittorrent) as piracy. Last I checked (at least in the US) it was OK for me to record a broadcast show and share it with my friends independent of the media type or venue.
I realize this is a minor detail, but with the I2C protocol SDA (the EEPROM line that is grounded) is actually the serial data/address line. SCL is the serial clock line.
Write 10 new buggy pieces of UNIX software. That'd be the creative way to solve the assignment. Who is realistically going to find 10 UNIX security flaws within a given time frame anyways, and what professor is going to fail a majority of the class? Clearly the problem, while ambitious, is way too difficult in the given time frame. Take it to someone higher up. I think they'd agree.
While FIRST can be somewhat and expensive and possibly hard to get started, what usually helps is to find a sponsor of some sort. I'm not directly involved with FIRST in my area, but I know quite a few mentors at Ohio State that run 2-3 FIRST teams here in Columbus. One of the teams is actually a group of homeschooled students. As these students enter college (at least in engineering where I work in the first year program) at some point or another their experience in the program helps them out and they're always enthusiastic about it at the same time. Getting sponsors for both mentors and money does require work and sometimes being in the "right place." A good place to look for mentors and occasionally financial help is nearby colleges/universities. Typically they'll be interested in helping somewhat for outreach and also for recruiting purposes. Another option in the sciences involves designing your own robot competition of sorts. For at least one idea you may want to check out the FEH Website which I manage for OSU. The Design Project page contains a good deal of materials used for such a project with freshmen engineering students. You may also want to check out the Lecture Notes pages for ENG H192 and ENG H193. Materials can be somewhat costly ($200 per robot contoller, roughly $150/team to build a robot) and the learning curve requires some time to introduce C programming with the controllers used, but OSU freshmen typically come out with a all around good idea as to what goes into a team design project from start to finish and get some good electrical/mechanical experience.
"Depending on battlefield circumstances, the vehicle could be controlled remotely, freeing up the soldiers inside it for other tasks, Greiner said." So you're putting your driver in a box somewhere behind the frontlines and letting him drive a vehicle full of people into what may be a dangerous battlezone, and without the full feedback of actually being there. Sounds like a bad idea to me, but if I get drafted I want that job.;)
It'll be interesting to see how the media covers any potential problem that occurs this time. They hyped up the whole roll situation like it was the end of the world, even after he safely made it back down (a majority of the questions asked of him were about the unexpected roll). Gotta love how reporters constantly repeat nearly the same question when they don't really understand the situation....
I used to have a nice little Macintosh Classic footrest, but then I upgraded to a Iris Indigo footrest (with dead clock battery). I've also seen a larger old SGI machine used as a coffee table. Hurray for CPU furniture!
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Who is really going to use 1kW of power in their system? What I'd rather see is a mainstream affordable redundant power supply. I just finished building a new low-cost file server and I'd love to have a redundant power supply that isn't overpriced just beause it's industrial. Oh well something to add to my list of things to build when I'm not busy....
Doesn't really sounds like anything new, except for a new pricing scheme. Time Warner already does this with some shows and their on-demand setup. So there's a new pricing scheme to get "all" shows, at least for one network. Then to get the shows for another network you need to sign up for Comcast, then for another network you need to sign up for DirecTV. So now you're subscribing to 2-3 cable services to watch all your shows which you still can only watch using that service's receiver. Hmmmmm I think I'll stick with my Tivo for instant gratification and torrenting network tv shows when my Tivo is busy doing something else.
I've done this when explorer decides to hang on doing something network-related (searching for a network drive that isn't logged on to begin with, just being slow in general, etc.). The bringing up the task manager then allows you to run, change, kill any other tasks without the annoyance of explorer. Of course you also lose your desktop and file explorer. Didn't know you could stop so many other things and maintain some usability though.
I wonder if there's any studies done on mid-range hearing loss due to being around the noise computers produce too much. I've had my ears tested by a friend who was studying audiology multiple times for her research projects and have some mid-range hearing loss but seem to be fine in all ranges. The only thing I could attribute it to would be living around computer noise all the time, including all night (college life means sleeping in the same room as your file server). I could be wrong, but it might be an interesting study.
At my office we've already switched over to new Cisco VoIP phones, which are powered via the ethernet cable. There is an optional DC plug for a wall wart if it can't power up via the ethernet cable. On a related note, when I called my parents today my call was dropped because their VoIP connection was too busy. So I still don't entirely trust the technology to be reliable, especially in emergencies, not to mention power outages in rural areas where when the power goes out, the ISP provider's (cable company's) equipment also goes down. If you have VoIP, I suggest a cellphone as a backup. But if you have cellphone with a reasonable plan, do you even NEED VoIP?
Back when Win2k came out I had an old Compaq P60 system with 32mb ram, and some friends needed a cablemodem router (back when we didn't have these cheap little unsecured Linksys boxes). So I figured what the heck, I'll just try to install even though it was below the minimum requirements. Win2k installed just fine, though rather slowly, and on boot-up even detected and asked if I wanted to install a software workaround for the co-processor bug. Since it only had a 540mb hard drive I never got SP2 installed, it ran out of hard drive space downloading and decompressing the updates, but it ran quite fine as a router for about 2 years. Eventually the SCSI hard drive seized up when it was turned off over Christmas break and I managed to get it up for a few more months by hitting it rather firmly with a rubber mallet (I figured the heads managed to stick to the platters). Then it died a nearly natural death. So I guess the lesson learned is the minimum requirements on the box aren't always necessarily the bare minimum.
Also the title makes it sound like one of those things where people dress up as cartoon characters and show up at the local mall... next will be Transformers on Ice.
I misread the earlier story title about the Optimus keyboard as the "Optimus Prime" keyboard. Guess I was anticipating this.
I thought I took typing class in high school so I wouldn't have to look at the keyboard... this would be tempting to reverse this. Now just integrate the entire computer screen into the keyboard... or maybe I should just get a 17" touchscreen and lay it flat on my desk and use a on-screen keyboard... minus the tactile response of course.
It would have been worthwhile, except it's just a PC in a foreign box. I prefer this "put a small computer in a random object" website.
How about "The RIAA's Computer" or the "MPAA's Computer" depending on which one you love more.
Alright so music... BAD! movies... BAD! TV shows ...?
I'm really curious to see how this might be applied to P2P websites which distribute copies of network TV shows. No matter how we look at it in the end if you're downloading a movie/song/software package that you'd otherwise have to pay for to get access to you're doing something "wrong." Now the magnitude of that wrong might be blown out of proportion by isolating you from the free world for 3 years, but still it's going to be considered wrong.
Now for TV shows which I could either turn my TV on and watch when the network decides to spew them at me (which may or may not be the most convenient time for me to watch), record it on my good ol fashioned VCR or new-fangled Tivo, or right now download it from one of these TV torrent websites.
Unfortunately every article I read about these TV torrents seems to refer to them as "illegal" yet I haven't seen any law that differentiates between my VCR tape and my 24.e401.avi copy of a TV show I got either from my Tivo or online. I could possibly see producers using this law though claiming someone is distributing their work which they planned to profit from (via series DVD sales later on or whatnot). I'm hoping it doesn't happen, but this may be a step in that direction.
Have they changed the material on the back of cards recently? Last year I got a new slew of cards (they all expired in the same month of the same year somehow) and the one I use the most I signed in regular blue ballpoint pen like the previous one. That actually rubbed off the back of the card in less than 4 months. So I figured alright I just won't sign it again because you're only supposed to sign it once, right? Well I had to go get my passport renewed and one payment option for at least one portion of the passport is a credit card, and since I didn't have $90 in cash on me that day it seemed like a viable option. When I handed it to the lady she looked at the back and explained that she couldn't accept it because it wasn't signed. I explained that I had previously signed it and that it had rubbed off over time. She then handed me a fat black marker and told me she would accept it if i signed it for her again, which needing my passport I of course did. Now that is also rubbing off the back of the card and it just looks like a large black blob of ink more or less. I do get more people that ask to check my ID though, specially at electronic stores. No restaurants have cared yet though.
I completely agree. One feature I miss from my Sprint PCS phone is when I connected it to the charging cradle it would automatically exit vibrate mode and ring like a normal phone on my desk. Now the phone I have just vibrates across my desk. I guess you could get a couple models and have phone races or something.
Winamp's randomizer has always done this for me too. The answer should be in the header of each file though, unless your player is biased toward a certain string of bits. 10010101>01101010. YUM!
I'm glad we can now consider downloading of all media (especially over Bittorrent) as piracy. Last I checked (at least in the US) it was OK for me to record a broadcast show and share it with my friends independent of the media type or venue.
I realize this is a minor detail, but with the I2C protocol SDA (the EEPROM line that is grounded) is actually the serial data/address line. SCL is the serial clock line.
Bless you. Ooops there goes the environmental sensor again....
Write 10 new buggy pieces of UNIX software. That'd be the creative way to solve the assignment. Who is realistically going to find 10 UNIX security flaws within a given time frame anyways, and what professor is going to fail a majority of the class? Clearly the problem, while ambitious, is way too difficult in the given time frame. Take it to someone higher up. I think they'd agree.
While FIRST can be somewhat and expensive and possibly hard to get started, what usually helps is to find a sponsor of some sort. I'm not directly involved with FIRST in my area, but I know quite a few mentors at Ohio State that run 2-3 FIRST teams here in Columbus. One of the teams is actually a group of homeschooled students. As these students enter college (at least in engineering where I work in the first year program) at some point or another their experience in the program helps them out and they're always enthusiastic about it at the same time.
Getting sponsors for both mentors and money does require work and sometimes being in the "right place." A good place to look for mentors and occasionally financial help is nearby colleges/universities. Typically they'll be interested in helping somewhat for outreach and also for recruiting purposes.
Another option in the sciences involves designing your own robot competition of sorts. For at least one idea you may want to check out the FEH Website which I manage for OSU. The Design Project page contains a good deal of materials used for such a project with freshmen engineering students. You may also want to check out the Lecture Notes pages for ENG H192 and ENG H193. Materials can be somewhat costly ($200 per robot contoller, roughly $150/team to build a robot) and the learning curve requires some time to introduce C programming with the controllers used, but OSU freshmen typically come out with a all around good idea as to what goes into a team design project from start to finish and get some good electrical/mechanical experience.
"Depending on battlefield circumstances, the vehicle could be controlled remotely, freeing up the soldiers inside it for other tasks, Greiner said." ;)
So you're putting your driver in a box somewhere behind the frontlines and letting him drive a vehicle full of people into what may be a dangerous battlezone, and without the full feedback of actually being there. Sounds like a bad idea to me, but if I get drafted I want that job.
It'll be interesting to see how the media covers any potential problem that occurs this time. They hyped up the whole roll situation like it was the end of the world, even after he safely made it back down (a majority of the questions asked of him were about the unexpected roll). Gotta love how reporters constantly repeat nearly the same question when they don't really understand the situation....
I'm glad someone's metal detector has finally found their treasure that those ads always promise. ;)
Yay a company that makes a business out of denial of service, or at least that's what it sounds like from that description....
I used to have a nice little Macintosh Classic footrest, but then I upgraded to a Iris Indigo footrest (with dead clock battery). I've also seen a larger old SGI machine used as a coffee table. Hurray for CPU furniture!