> Some people believe that such systems unfairly limit their freedom to listen to music and watch movies on whatever devices they choose.
What the is that? Could they maybe cite one of many sources who will freely give that opinion? Fox pioneered this terrible technique of interjecting their own opinion via the construct "Some say...", and it's terrible journalism. I imagine this article was written off the cuff, but just give the EFF or anyone else a buzz for a quick quote.
So the point of the article is that Digg's own lawyers made the call to take down the key. Due to Digg's own actions, without any notice from AACS or whoever, this key is famous. So basically if the AACS group wants to nail anybody, they'll hit Digg. In addition, Digg has lost a ton of street cred with its user base. Clearly whoever made the call or accepted the lawyer's advice didn't make the right decision, because it really screwed them. They could've been just one more site hosting the key, but instead they are the main offenders.
Against the backdrop of a tradition of hacking over here at MIT, this reaction looks like a ton of bull. Boston totally overreacted, and the strength of the connection between the graffiti artists and Cartoon Network is tenuous at best. Why should a CEO resign because some renegade avant-guard artists messed up a slick hack?
Honestly, I'm a freshman at MIT, and I voted absentee this year for the first time. When you can fill out the ballot right on your desk, you can do all the research you need to do right from your computer. Spend an hour or two doing the research that you may not have done, and you can come up with some intelligent things to say. Perhaps some topics you may not understand or feel comfortable voting on, and you can in fact leave them blank. It's more convenient to vote absentee anyway, so register that way.
Can't ANYONE see the significance here? You can exchange songs *wirelessly* with this player. Various demagogues have been predicting that when there is a device that allows you to swap songs with trusted friends in a decentralized manner, copyright will become irrelevant. If someone hacks into the device, installs Linux, and reverse engineers the wireless transfer, (a tall order, mind you), anyone will be able to fileshare. Today, you have to know a thing or two about the Internet and Bittorrent and you risk being caught. How will the RIAA prosecute kids running around with modded Zunes? The only barrier to this happening was the production of hardware, and if the Zune actually reaches critical mass, the hardware will be ubiquitous. Mind you, the software is a hard problem, but if that happens, it will be the end of copyright as we know it.
If it's a pain to offer support at a distance, try all the above measures, but also try installing an SSH daemon and a VNC server. You can start the VNC server with SSH and then do your support over the phone. I assume that occaisional contact is actually a problem, but it might not be. It's how my dad handles my grandparents' machinery.
Purchase a little dongle to test how much power your utilities consume while you plan this project. I'd much rather have empirical knowledge about power consumption on a given system rather than trying to piece together information from shottily written technical documents on the internet. My family owns one of these devices from http://www.seasonic.com/, and I recommend purchasing something from their S-12 power supply line. Supposedly they have the highest ratio of power drawn to power consumed by the system, and all of their gear is tagged "80 plus" for 80% efficient or better. Also see this article: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article261-page1.htm l.
You think they aren't already stainless? Saltwater can be pretty corrosive if the metal never actually gets dry. I know you can get saltwater rigging, so I assume the bearings are already proofed as best as can be.
My crew club is having another problem (which I know all crews are subjected to). The steel ballbearings in the slide wheels rust out, and when you have 4 wheels for 8 seats you have 32 wheels rusting. We end up replacing the shotty we find about every two weeks. The old slide solution didn't involve ballbearings, but it sucked. It involved rolling axles attached to the wheels, a sliding plate, and another set of rollers below the actual seat. It jams all the time, but it never rusted out. What would anyone say is a more appropriate mechanical solution?
Thanks for not modding this off-topic, because you don't see crew on/. very often...
Two things that the first/.er to get this PDF down has to do:
1. Get a bloody torrent up and post it here.
2. Convert the PDF into a nice chapter by chapter HTML site. I hate PDF.
Looks like good literature!
HOW?!?! I know this is slashdot, and maybe not the place to ask for help, but I have a Dell Latitude Cpx and I would kill to get some help with this process. My experiences have been quite negative and I used to have this on Win2K, so I crave it. Then again I have some weird hardware issues we might not share, but please, email!
For the record, donations are a rather shotty way to get some cash from your project/comic/free thing. The only way to lure people into opening their wallets is to sell some cheap merchandise with your name on it. I've seen so many Java/Microsoft t-shirts, this could become quite popular.
I was just thinking about this today when I skipped down to the local public library to pick up some books for school. Whenever I go there, I grab the text-based console hickey instead of the new-fangled web-page based ones. Whoever designed that text one was a genius, and I wonder if the source is out. Truly, all the formatting and really small links on web pages only serve to get in the way of simple tasks like this one, and the omission of the mouse made it faster. Forced to use a mouse, I would waste precious time moving my hand around. Mice are the devil.
Those are not legos! I remember those things from way back when, they're Duplos. They're way bigger than Legos, and they don't cut your foot when you step on them. They're designed so that little kids can't hurt themselves. I never thought I'd see those again.
Flywheels are a really cool idea. I've never heard of one in practice, but they have been touted as a solution to peak hour power shortages. Just spin a heavy disk up with extra electricity in a low friction environment, and then siphon it off during peak hours. As a resident or a power company you could save money. It's not an option available right now, however.
Sure, if you enjoy scrambling through crawlspaces. Good way to ruin your lungs. It would also suck if you grew old. The best tactic has to be the PVC pipe or strings in conduit, I'll remember that.
This DOES piss me off. These PowerPoint presentations are so mindless. Whenever I'm asked to do a presentation like this, I just use some bloody HTML. FORGET the memory consuming crap. Not only that, I can present from any computer with a browser. And if I want to load the next page at a certain time? META refresh. It's all the same junk.
As for Word, I'm tired of getting very specific menu directions from my teachers that don't apply to me. Somebody ought to add some kind of selected word count to OpenOffice, because I have to make a new document to count the words in one paragraph.
I will send a link to that "PowerPoint makes you dumb" thingy to my district now...
Yes. Protectionism will get you nowhere. The problem is now that the standard of living in western countries is pretty high, and the standard in the rest of the world is really low. Think of it as a lake in the mountains draining out to the ocean. Western wealth MUST diffuse. The only way to help the western world in the long run is, however counterintuitive and impossible it may sound, raise the level of the ocean. Economics to bring the rest of the world UP rather than the U.S. down. So think of things to do that benefit everybody!
In response to the ideas in italics.
People publish family and personal web sites not so much for you, the generic web surfer, but rather for their friends and family. I know that my family's site has bijillions of digital photos for my Boy Scout troop and relatives and they all think it is really great. I also blog a little to my friends.
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> Some people believe that such systems unfairly limit their freedom to listen to music and watch movies on whatever devices they choose.
What the is that? Could they maybe cite one of many sources who will freely give that opinion? Fox pioneered this terrible technique of interjecting their own opinion via the construct "Some say...", and it's terrible journalism. I imagine this article was written off the cuff, but just give the EFF or anyone else a buzz for a quick quote.
So the point of the article is that Digg's own lawyers made the call to take down the key. Due to Digg's own actions, without any notice from AACS or whoever, this key is famous. So basically if the AACS group wants to nail anybody, they'll hit Digg. In addition, Digg has lost a ton of street cred with its user base. Clearly whoever made the call or accepted the lawyer's advice didn't make the right decision, because it really screwed them. They could've been just one more site hosting the key, but instead they are the main offenders.
Viva la revolucion!
Against the backdrop of a tradition of hacking over here at MIT, this reaction looks like a ton of bull. Boston totally overreacted, and the strength of the connection between the graffiti artists and Cartoon Network is tenuous at best. Why should a CEO resign because some renegade avant-guard artists messed up a slick hack?
Honestly, I'm a freshman at MIT, and I voted absentee this year for the first time. When you can fill out the ballot right on your desk, you can do all the research you need to do right from your computer. Spend an hour or two doing the research that you may not have done, and you can come up with some intelligent things to say. Perhaps some topics you may not understand or feel comfortable voting on, and you can in fact leave them blank. It's more convenient to vote absentee anyway, so register that way.
Can't ANYONE see the significance here? You can exchange songs *wirelessly* with this player. Various demagogues have been predicting that when there is a device that allows you to swap songs with trusted friends in a decentralized manner, copyright will become irrelevant. If someone hacks into the device, installs Linux, and reverse engineers the wireless transfer, (a tall order, mind you), anyone will be able to fileshare. Today, you have to know a thing or two about the Internet and Bittorrent and you risk being caught. How will the RIAA prosecute kids running around with modded Zunes? The only barrier to this happening was the production of hardware, and if the Zune actually reaches critical mass, the hardware will be ubiquitous. Mind you, the software is a hard problem, but if that happens, it will be the end of copyright as we know it.
If it's a pain to offer support at a distance, try all the above measures, but also try installing an SSH daemon and a VNC server. You can start the VNC server with SSH and then do your support over the phone. I assume that occaisional contact is actually a problem, but it might not be. It's how my dad handles my grandparents' machinery.
Purchase a little dongle to test how much power your utilities consume while you plan this project. I'd much rather have empirical knowledge about power consumption on a given system rather than trying to piece together information from shottily written technical documents on the internet. My family owns one of these devices from http://www.seasonic.com/, and I recommend purchasing something from their S-12 power supply line. Supposedly they have the highest ratio of power drawn to power consumed by the system, and all of their gear is tagged "80 plus" for 80% efficient or better. Also see this article: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article261-page1.htm l.
You think they aren't already stainless? Saltwater can be pretty corrosive if the metal never actually gets dry. I know you can get saltwater rigging, so I assume the bearings are already proofed as best as can be.
My crew club is having another problem (which I know all crews are subjected to). The steel ballbearings in the slide wheels rust out, and when you have 4 wheels for 8 seats you have 32 wheels rusting. We end up replacing the shotty we find about every two weeks. The old slide solution didn't involve ballbearings, but it sucked. It involved rolling axles attached to the wheels, a sliding plate, and another set of rollers below the actual seat. It jams all the time, but it never rusted out. What would anyone say is a more appropriate mechanical solution? Thanks for not modding this off-topic, because you don't see crew on /. very often...
Two things that the first /.er to get this PDF down has to do:
1. Get a bloody torrent up and post it here.
2. Convert the PDF into a nice chapter by chapter HTML site. I hate PDF.
Looks like good literature!
HOW?!?! I know this is slashdot, and maybe not the place to ask for help, but I have a Dell Latitude Cpx and I would kill to get some help with this process. My experiences have been quite negative and I used to have this on Win2K, so I crave it. Then again I have some weird hardware issues we might not share, but please, email!
For the record, donations are a rather shotty way to get some cash from your project/comic/free thing. The only way to lure people into opening their wallets is to sell some cheap merchandise with your name on it. I've seen so many Java/Microsoft t-shirts, this could become quite popular.
I was just thinking about this today when I skipped down to the local public library to pick up some books for school. Whenever I go there, I grab the text-based console hickey instead of the new-fangled web-page based ones. Whoever designed that text one was a genius, and I wonder if the source is out. Truly, all the formatting and really small links on web pages only serve to get in the way of simple tasks like this one, and the omission of the mouse made it faster. Forced to use a mouse, I would waste precious time moving my hand around. Mice are the devil.
Those are not legos! I remember those things from way back when, they're Duplos. They're way bigger than Legos, and they don't cut your foot when you step on them. They're designed so that little kids can't hurt themselves. I never thought I'd see those again.
Flywheels are a really cool idea. I've never heard of one in practice, but they have been touted as a solution to peak hour power shortages. Just spin a heavy disk up with extra electricity in a low friction environment, and then siphon it off during peak hours. As a resident or a power company you could save money. It's not an option available right now, however.
Sure, if you enjoy scrambling through crawlspaces. Good way to ruin your lungs. It would also suck if you grew old. The best tactic has to be the PVC pipe or strings in conduit, I'll remember that.
This DOES piss me off. These PowerPoint presentations are so mindless. Whenever I'm asked to do a presentation like this, I just use some bloody HTML. FORGET the memory consuming crap. Not only that, I can present from any computer with a browser. And if I want to load the next page at a certain time? META refresh. It's all the same junk. As for Word, I'm tired of getting very specific menu directions from my teachers that don't apply to me. Somebody ought to add some kind of selected word count to OpenOffice, because I have to make a new document to count the words in one paragraph. I will send a link to that "PowerPoint makes you dumb" thingy to my district now...
Yes. Protectionism will get you nowhere. The problem is now that the standard of living in western countries is pretty high, and the standard in the rest of the world is really low. Think of it as a lake in the mountains draining out to the ocean. Western wealth MUST diffuse. The only way to help the western world in the long run is, however counterintuitive and impossible it may sound, raise the level of the ocean. Economics to bring the rest of the world UP rather than the U.S. down. So think of things to do that benefit everybody!
New Zealand is the next Hollywood! w00t! I guess New Zealand is good for filming because it's got wonderful scenery.
In response to the ideas in italics. People publish family and personal web sites not so much for you, the generic web surfer, but rather for their friends and family. I know that my family's site has bijillions of digital photos for my Boy Scout troop and relatives and they all think it is really great. I also blog a little to my friends.