I use a sprint pcs phone myself with more minutes than I can use.
I know some people who like to talk on the phone alot that use a new service called cricket in our area. Unlimited wireless minutes locally for about $35 a month. You can't roam outside the metro with that service, but it's pretty good.
I personally don't use that many minutes, and like to be able to roam and use free long distance, so I don't see myself changing any time soon, but you never know. I'd like to see sprint come out with unlimited local. I'd pay $40 a month for something like unlimited local with call waiting/voicemail/etc, 10 cents/minute or so long distance and at least the *ability* to use my phone on roam in an emergency. I've only used my phone on roam maybe 1-2 hours total in a year, but I've *really* needed it those times.
Your dishwasher can (1) do the dishes. The computer can (2) watch your shopping list and have whatever you need delivered, and then, (3) have takeout delivered.
Of course (1) doesn't involve the computer, and (2) and (3) don't really involving *using* the kitchen, but hey, at least you get to be lazy.
What your saying is like saying gzip can compress random text x amount, compressing it, then expecting it to compress by x amount again. Once you've compressed the data, it's no longer random.
That said, I'm pretty sure it's not real as well, or is something less than what they've said it is. It is possible than somebody came up with a completly new way of thinking about things though.
Almost any relativly large carpet store should have it, we had it in every computer room in every school I've ever been in. The non-computer office type rooms where I've worked have it too. It's just a little more than normal carpet. The computer rooms of course had raised floors with cooling underneath, but some had carpet squares on top of the raised floors, along with sound dampeners hanging from the ceiling to cut down on noise for the operators.
I can back this up. I asked my cousin who used to work for compuserve the proper pronounciation a while ago. It is indeed pronounced 'JIF' like the peanut butter.
What about combining fingerprint security (not on bootup, but on OS load) with a passphrase to allow you to decrypt a disk volume with your sensitive data?
It's just like a bios password otherwise, easily bypassed with physical access.
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I always wondered why the people who want to use opensource don't just support the founding of a non-profit orginization that hires and pays programers to write software for them. Instead of each of 30 companys paying $500,000 on microsoft licenses, and not getting exactly what they want, they each spend $50,000 (3 million can write alot of software if spent wisely) each and gets a tax writeoff.
you'd have the problem of software designed by committee, but I don't have the exact ideal solution for that right now. perhaps if the org doesn't do exactly what each wants they can hire an in house programer to add a feature of choice.
this of course needs to be thought about alot, it's just a quick offhand idea floating in my head.
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Only problem is: what if you have multiple machines, some of which only have a CD drive, with others having both? I know SuSE, at least with Professionl, give you both. Call me a SuSE fanboy, but I am.
It's debian, if you want 6 cds and 1 dvd, pay for it. If you don't, don't buy the dvd, or don't buy the cds. Debian isn't generally a 'boxed' distro. The developers almost always use the network to set it up, and update themselves... The cdroms/dvds are good for initial install. I havn't done a cdrom install since RedHat 4.0.
Also, before somebody bashes it, the $50 for a beta copy on DVD would probobly be because they're doing it on DVDR. Call it a guess.
Regardless that silo is from the 60s... It's probobly got a few pairs of copper going away from it, not exactly new fiber or anything.
Nice to see...
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Don't expect great new features in a next version. Vim has grown into a complex program with so many features and options that there is nobody who uses them all. Stability and easy of use are the main goals for the future.
I'm not a vi user, and this isn't intended to start a flame war, but it's nice to see vim sticking by it's one of it's principles - making a lightweight editor.
I agree, why do some pdas still use regular batts? Take a hint from the cell phone industry, put a high power batt in, and provide a charger. It works great for my motorolla timeport/startac phone. I just plug it in when I get home, or whip out the charger when I'm at a hotel, it's small and fits in my bags easily. The batts last about 2-3 days with moderate talk time usage. Seems like that's about the same length of time a pda lasts. Compared to a pda my cell phone probobly sucks batts like no tomorrow, but I rarely have a problem with it going dead.
It used to be you could replace defective media if you shipped it back to them. I had done it in the past with floppy disk. That was many years ago though, I don't know how it is nowadays, the last media I bought was a copy of redhat 3 or something from a cheap cdrom place for like $2. It wasn't scratched...
You're probobly going to have to buy the Pro edition. The home edition will lack things home users don't need.. Like permisions.. Get out the extra $100 if you want feature ms says you don't need.
I worked for a computer center in a small rural town when I was in high school. We were offered ms products for free if we used them exclusivly. There was no way, I (the only tech guy) wasn't going to have it. It meant ditching the macs, buying windows machines, ditching the novell server, buying nt 3.11 (this was a while ago), and so on. Forget that... We did manage to get office on both platforms for free though, through another grant.
-- Seriously though, there are a couple people (5, or 6) using MP3 for legitimate purposes. --
Oh c'mon I'm sick of seeing everybody saying that besides what everybody says nobody really uses mp3 for legit purposes.
Yes I have thousands of illegal songs.
I also have -thousands- of legal songs, I have a HUGE cd collection I've ripped, I also listen to alot of mp3s from mp3.com's independent musicians.
I've even produced mp3's from my friend's band live performance that I put online, they don't have a record deal and their cd isn't out yet. They're getting a good following online, and they're opening for better than ezra next week. The fact that they're good helps, but a good online presense with the ability for everybody to listen to their mp3s helps too.
Let's not forget mp3s I've downloaded for cds that have been destroyed, and live bootlegs, remixes, and whatnot, which make up the majority of my collection.
Pirating music is wrong, yes, and I disagree with the outright pirating of music. People need to ralize though, something needs to be done about that, and the record industry is realizing that. The massive greed and the lawers will probobly win, but, I had mp3s before napster, and I'll have them after napster.
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Oh yah, I completly forgot, a 6 chan heli radio, or aircraft radio costs over $300. Most profesional bots will probobly have an 8 chan radio, a high end futaba most likely, you're looking at about $1000 for one of those.
R/C cars are fun, but they don't hurt your wallet like planes and helis do...
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-- I think people on battlebots are just too cheap sometimes to drop in a $250 all digital 3-channel control system. In my opinion, its damn worth it. --
As the other poster said, most of these run like tanks. It would be rough to get good control out of a tank like car using a pistol style control. Allthought, it would be interesting to see how they control a tank style system using the two sticks as forward/reverse for each side, considering the left stick is usually a throtle that doesn't snap back to the middle like the stick on the right. Maybe there's a way to modify the radio to fix that problem, I've never looked into that... If you read the build your own battle bot thing, the author recomends a 6 chan heli radio. That's still twice as many chans as your high end 3 chan pistol system. You need that kind of control for turning on saws and droping blades, and whatever else it is your bot does.
Besides, using a stick system isn't that hard, I do cars and airplanes right now, maybe helis soon. You get used to the controls for both. I'm precise with either a car or a well built plane. Allthough since I don't normally do cars, I'm much better with a stick type radio I use with my planes. It's just a matter of practice.
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So if some random person runs into a store in france and stick some nazi stuff with a price tag on the shelf, the gov can punish the store?
After all, they were selling it, right? Even if they didn't put it there, and they would take it down if they knew about it. They're still selling it.
Dumb.
I use a sprint pcs phone myself with more minutes than I can use.
I know some people who like to talk on the phone alot that use a new service called cricket in our area. Unlimited wireless minutes locally for about $35 a month. You can't roam outside the metro with that service, but it's pretty good.
I personally don't use that many minutes, and like to be able to roam and use free long distance, so I don't see myself changing any time soon, but you never know. I'd like to see sprint come out with unlimited local. I'd pay $40 a month for something like unlimited local with call waiting/voicemail/etc, 10 cents/minute or so long distance and at least the *ability* to use my phone on roam in an emergency. I've only used my phone on roam maybe 1-2 hours total in a year, but I've *really* needed it those times.
Since when did I say it was good? I just pointed out it existed.
http://www.dbxml.org/
Sure looks like a native xml database to me.
Yes, you could nitpick and say it's really an object database, but whatever.
Your dishwasher can (1) do the dishes. The computer can (2) watch your shopping list and have whatever you need delivered, and then, (3) have takeout delivered.
Of course (1) doesn't involve the computer, and (2) and (3) don't really involving *using* the kitchen, but hey, at least you get to be lazy.
Eeek scratch out my comment, it's too early, I'm dumb.
TRUE random data would be much harder to compress than your typical text file full of slashdot troll stories.
I'm pretty sure they'd mean random raw data.
What your saying is like saying gzip can compress random text x amount, compressing it, then expecting it to compress by x amount again. Once you've compressed the data, it's no longer random.
That said, I'm pretty sure it's not real as well, or is something less than what they've said it is. It is possible than somebody came up with a completly new way of thinking about things though.
I know what he meant, I was just going along with the topic.
You joke, but we have fiber running through our sewers here in Omaha, NE.
http://www.citynettelecom.com/cities/index.html
Slashdot did a story on it a while back, you can dig that url up though.
Almost any relativly large carpet store should have it, we had it in every computer room in every school I've ever been in. The non-computer office type rooms where I've worked have it too. It's just a little more than normal carpet. The computer rooms of course had raised floors with cooling underneath, but some had carpet squares on top of the raised floors, along with sound dampeners hanging from the ceiling to cut down on noise for the operators.
Sounds like they use ospam:
http://omail.omnis.ch/ospam/
It's qmail only though...
I can back this up. I asked my cousin who used to work for compuserve the proper pronounciation a while ago. It is indeed pronounced 'JIF' like the peanut butter.
What about combining fingerprint security (not on bootup, but on OS load) with a passphrase to allow you to decrypt a disk volume with your sensitive data?
It's just like a bios password otherwise, easily bypassed with physical access.
I always wondered why the people who want to use opensource don't just support the founding of a non-profit orginization that hires and pays programers to write software for them. Instead of each of 30 companys paying $500,000 on microsoft licenses, and not getting exactly what they want, they each spend $50,000 (3 million can write alot of software if spent wisely) each and gets a tax writeoff.
you'd have the problem of software designed by committee, but I don't have the exact ideal solution for that right now. perhaps if the org doesn't do exactly what each wants they can hire an in house programer to add a feature of choice.
this of course needs to be thought about alot, it's just a quick offhand idea floating in my head.
Only problem is: what if you have multiple machines, some of which only have a CD drive, with others having both? I know SuSE, at least with Professionl, give you both. Call me a SuSE fanboy, but I am.
It's debian, if you want 6 cds and 1 dvd, pay for it. If you don't, don't buy the dvd, or don't buy the cds. Debian isn't generally a 'boxed' distro. The developers almost always use the network to set it up, and update themselves... The cdroms/dvds are good for initial install. I havn't done a cdrom install since RedHat 4.0.
Also, before somebody bashes it, the $50 for a beta copy on DVD would probobly be because they're doing it on DVDR. Call it a guess.
Not very recent, but still informative:
http://ssadler.phy.bnl.gov/adler/SDE/ SlashDotEffect.html
Regardless that silo is from the 60s... It's probobly got a few pairs of copper going away from it, not exactly new fiber or anything.
Don't expect great new features in a next version. Vim has grown into a complex program with so many features and options that there is nobody who uses them all. Stability and easy of use are the main goals for the future.
I'm not a vi user, and this isn't intended to start a flame war, but it's nice to see vim sticking by it's one of it's principles - making a lightweight editor.
I agree, why do some pdas still use regular batts? Take a hint from the cell phone industry, put a high power batt in, and provide a charger. It works great for my motorolla timeport/startac phone. I just plug it in when I get home, or whip out the charger when I'm at a hotel, it's small and fits in my bags easily. The batts last about 2-3 days with moderate talk time usage. Seems like that's about the same length of time a pda lasts. Compared to a pda my cell phone probobly sucks batts like no tomorrow, but I rarely have a problem with it going dead.
It used to be you could replace defective media if you shipped it back to them. I had done it in the past with floppy disk. That was many years ago though, I don't know how it is nowadays, the last media I bought was a copy of redhat 3 or something from a cheap cdrom place for like $2. It wasn't scratched...
You're probobly going to have to buy the Pro edition. The home edition will lack things home users don't need.. Like permisions.. Get out the extra $100 if you want feature ms says you don't need.
I worked for a computer center in a small rural town when I was in high school. We were offered ms products for free if we used them exclusivly. There was no way, I (the only tech guy) wasn't going to have it. It meant ditching the macs, buying windows machines, ditching the novell server, buying nt 3.11 (this was a while ago), and so on. Forget that... We did manage to get office on both platforms for free though, through another grant.
-- Seriously though, there are a couple people (5, or 6) using MP3 for legitimate purposes. --
Oh c'mon I'm sick of seeing everybody saying that besides what everybody says nobody really uses mp3 for legit purposes.
Yes I have thousands of illegal songs.
I also have -thousands- of legal songs, I have a HUGE cd collection I've ripped, I also listen to alot of mp3s from mp3.com's independent musicians.
I've even produced mp3's from my friend's band live performance that I put online, they don't have a record deal and their cd isn't out yet. They're getting a good following online, and they're opening for better than ezra next week. The fact that they're good helps, but a good online presense with the ability for everybody to listen to their mp3s helps too.
Let's not forget mp3s I've downloaded for cds that have been destroyed, and live bootlegs, remixes, and whatnot, which make up the majority of my collection.
Pirating music is wrong, yes, and I disagree with the outright pirating of music. People need to ralize though, something needs to be done about that, and the record industry is realizing that. The massive greed and the lawers will probobly win, but, I had mp3s before napster, and I'll have them after napster.
Oh yah, I completly forgot, a 6 chan heli radio, or aircraft radio costs over $300. Most profesional bots will probobly have an 8 chan radio, a high end futaba most likely, you're looking at about $1000 for one of those.
R/C cars are fun, but they don't hurt your wallet like planes and helis do...
-- I think people on battlebots are just too cheap sometimes to drop in a $250 all digital 3-channel control system. In my opinion, its damn worth it. --
As the other poster said, most of these run like tanks. It would be rough to get good control out of a tank like car using a pistol style control. Allthought, it would be interesting to see how they control a tank style system using the two sticks as forward/reverse for each side, considering the left stick is usually a throtle that doesn't snap back to the middle like the stick on the right. Maybe there's a way to modify the radio to fix that problem, I've never looked into that... If you read the build your own battle bot thing, the author recomends a 6 chan heli radio. That's still twice as many chans as your high end 3 chan pistol system. You need that kind of control for turning on saws and droping blades, and whatever else it is your bot does.
Besides, using a stick system isn't that hard, I do cars and airplanes right now, maybe helis soon. You get used to the controls for both. I'm precise with either a car or a well built plane. Allthough since I don't normally do cars, I'm much better with a stick type radio I use with my planes. It's just a matter of practice.