What's involved in reading an RFID? Is there a standard on what is on an RFID, with vendor ID's set aside as in Ethernet MAC addresses, or is it just a generic number format like with barcodes?
It would be interesting to get a nice, sensitive, portable RFID antenna hooked up to a laptop and go, uhm, war-walking...
In a few seconds. Net-install the whole shebang, all of debian-stable for instance, in a few seconds. You'll need a monster machine to handle that bandwidth, probably a dual itanium or dual opteron at the least. Maybe the Tyan Thunder K8 dual opteron board, with dual PCI-X NICs feeding into your switch.
Our company foils this by stacking meetings end to end. Although it's the same set of people, it suddenly becomes a different meeting. Thank God for laptops.
"Ideas do not manifest in a person's mind out of nothing." Yes, but the way in which each person assembles and processes the stimuli around themselves is unique. Re: Ghost In The Shell / Individuality Re: "But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down, and the eyes in his head sees the world spinning 'round" - (P. McCartney / Beatles)
"A person can invent a thing because society created the right conditions through education, health care, etc." A person can invent a thing because they see a need for a thing/process in society and has the ability to create such thing/process.
"With an invention this person just pays back his debt to society." A person is under no obligation to invent or create anything. They are under obligation to work, to better the society by generating wealth, in exchange for capital so that person can survive. If that person creates/invents something, they have gone beyond the call of duty, and if that something is very useful to society as a whole, they deserve to be rewarded. Re: Invention is 1% Inspiration, 99% Persperation (T.A. Edison)
"Also, there is no non-obvious thing to invent." If a device/process is obvious it would have already been invented.
"Without Einstein we would have had GR 5 or 10 years later, because the time was ripe to invent it." Relativity isn't an invention, it's a discovery, and a rather obtuse one at that. Poor analogy as well, as discoveries cannot be patented, or *shouldn't* be patented (Re: chromosomes)
"In fact, Dargo contends that a 2.7 wish list from each of the vendors would reflect their particular technology interests and that there will be different wishes from the different groups within those companies."
Wow! You mean, each vendor says what features they would like, and those features might be included in the next kernel? How horrible! Next, we'll be deciding on who gets into government by writing their name down on a peice of paper, and whoever gets the most pieces of paper wins! Egads!
My personal wishlist: - framebuffer device screensavers (From xscreensaver?) - Customizable PC speaker beeps - Better ARCnet support - Loopback ROT13 encryption support - Support for my IBM PC-RT as I can't find ANY OS to run on it
I noticed they only carry Warp's catalog in MP3 form, although the Warp Mart online CD/vinyl service also carries SKAM, Rephlex, and many others. Too bad, I was hoping to pick up the tracks that weren't on the Caustic Window compilation due to copyright or some other nonsense.
It will be interesting to see if they release the unreleased Aphex stuff, like Analog Bubblebath 5, or Melodies from Mars, both of which I have on mp3, but poor quality. I would most definatly buy high quality VBR versions.
I own most of the Warp catalog in analog, record form. I think the tracks sound harsh and thin on CD. Autechre's albums in particular, sound nice, full and meaty on vinyl, come out with messy treble and anemic bass on digital. I belive one of Autechre's releases even says "Incomplete without record pops and clicks."
I most definatly WILL use the service to download the rare albums I don't own. Hangable Auto Bulb is almost impossible to find in the states, and the second version is even more rare.
I wonder if they would sell T-shirts digitally? Still looking for an AFX one:)
I would say most of the policies the government sets up are unworkable.
Let's see...
1. Pollution & Environment - Yes, the government has many policies based on well founded scientific data that verily balance the rights of landowners with the need of clean air and water (/scarcasm off) 2. Business Monopolization - Like Microsoft? Yeah, the fed *really* let them have it! Keep in mind that many monoplies are government mandated, which Libertarians are dead-set against. 3. Utility Regulation - Multistate power outages? That'll never happen again! Mostly the fed only cares about getting their taxes out of utilites, not much about regulation. 4. Transportation - Except for a few agencies, mostly the fed taxes the crap out of states and gives the money back for transportation dependent on some reason or another. Usually it's pork barrel projects.
If the same policies and agencies were set up on a state by state basis, tons of overhead and beauracy would be cut out.
My favorite federal budget item: A rebuilt highway linking Washington state and Alaska, IN CANADA. Yes, your federal transportation tax dollars at work. Canada must have a hell of a lobby...
... for switching is, after many years, the employees are finally going insane from using Lotus Notes. They would probably retrograde to OS/2 running IBM Works if it meant no more Notes.
> email and websites under consideration are both available to the Net public at large
The difference being E-mail is usually considered personal communication, or one to one, where websites and USENET are mass communication, or one to many.
> there is no good way to opt-out of spam, and no good way to opt-out of the/. effect
Block http requests by referrer./. effect minimized.
> spammers and/. would probably both claim it is beyond the scope of their responsibilities to check whether their targets are willing/able to handle increased load due to their activities.
It can be argued/. is a journalistic source, or an electronic newspaper. If a newspaper runs an article on someone, they can't be held liable for causing that person's phone to ring more often. Spammers are basically advertisers, sort of like telemarketers. If a telemarketer calls you twenty times a day, there *is* legal recourse.
I only put back doors into networked apps if asked to. I could care less about gaining access to some big machine, I've yet to work for anyone with cooler hardware than what's in my basement:)
Someone needs to start a list of companies Microsoft has screwed over. It needs to be the first site that comes up when someone googles for "Microsoft Business Partner"
Let's see: Citrix ("Yes, we're building virtual desktops into Windows now...") Sendo ("Hey, nice phone tech, we'll just be taking it, then. Enjoy your chapter 11.") Timeline, Inc. (New, from article) VMWare ("Oh, and virtual system imaging is going in, too. Thanks Connectix!")
How about sites that code for IE only, and won't display anything, or broken tables, or text layered on top of other text..
It's also annoying when using a high res, small screen, as on a laptop, you crank up the font size in Mozilla or IE and the fixed size tables sites use to do layout make it impossible to read anything. ARGH!
>I'd like to see the ride a Caddie body on a standard size frame gets.
You can adjust the ride dramatically by changing suspension, brake, and steering components. The Jaguar X-type is a Mercury Sable chasis...
>In addition, the fuel efficiency of a small car (and how small could you make it) on a standard chassis would suck, too.
Fuel efficiency would be determined by the weight and aerodynamics of the body and can be adjusted accordingly. Sports cars would get the best economy as long as you're not drag racing around town all the time. Besides, the fuel is just H2.
The Sega Broadband (Ethernet) adapter is, like most of the rest of the Dreamcast, an off the shelf ethernet chip on a PCI-to-Dreamcast bus adapter. In fact, a genius/loony in Japan made a whole Dreamcast->ISA adapter, as witnessed here.
>he thinks reverse-engineering software to find security holes should be criminal
Man this makes me angry. It's the *COMPANY* that screwed up. It's shoddy programming. It's poor QA. It's bad product design. And they want the heat on people that find their errors. That's like slamming Consumer Reports for finding saftey issues with cars.
Waiting for G4 Newtons with the new process:) This should give the MHz deprived (But MIPS/FLOPS enriched) PowerPC line a boost in the PR speed department.
There are dozens of variations of Go, in different board configurations and rules. Many have rules simliar to cellular automata, such as Attaxx by Atari. Also the microscope game in the 7th Guest, which is based on Attaxx. I still prefer Othello(TM) or MacGO, with it's very hard to beat NerfMaster level.
Here are a bunch of them: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloa ds/crit ical/default.asp
Grab Mozila, http://www.mozilla.org/ OpenOffice, htt p://www.openoffice.org Cygwin, http://www.cygwin .com/ and the ActiveState ports of Perl, Python, and TCL/Tk, http://www.activestate.com/ And you have a really nice open source suite that can do most everything the M$ suite of crap can do.
Because you'd end up with something like a pentium, a RISC core surrounded by CISC subcomponents for backwards compatability. Many of the things you mentioned (CPU codec support, encryption) don't belong on a general purpose processor, it's much more efficent these days to make a really fast processor core and do everything else in software. Much cheaper to optimize, easier to fix bugs (F00F anyone?) The problem is you need good compilers to get decent performance, and many compiler writers these days are more interested in bundling more pre-heated graphics routines and bloated enterprise frameworks than optimizing for code speed (*cough*Microsoft*cough*) Apple did it the (mostly) right way when they switched from 680x0 to PowerPC, "We're doing RISC now, everybody move, but you can still run your lowly 680x0 code in emulation"
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What's involved in reading an RFID? Is there a standard on what is on an RFID, with vendor ID's set aside as in Ethernet MAC addresses, or is it just a generic number format like with barcodes?
It would be interesting to get a nice, sensitive, portable RFID antenna hooked up to a laptop and go, uhm, war-walking...
In a few seconds. Net-install the whole shebang, all of debian-stable for instance, in a few seconds. You'll need a monster machine to handle that bandwidth, probably a dual itanium or dual opteron at the least. Maybe the Tyan Thunder K8 dual opteron board, with dual PCI-X NICs feeding into your switch.
Our company foils this by stacking meetings end to end. Although it's the same set of people, it suddenly becomes a different meeting. Thank God for laptops.
You can go out on virtual dates and have virtual kids! Or maybe a dog.
"Ideas do not manifest in a person's mind out of nothing."
Yes, but the way in which each person assembles and processes the stimuli around themselves is unique.
Re: Ghost In The Shell / Individuality
Re: "But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down, and the eyes in his head sees the world spinning 'round" - (P. McCartney / Beatles)
"A person can invent a thing because society created the right conditions through education, health care, etc."
A person can invent a thing because they see a need for a thing/process in society and has the ability to create such thing/process.
"With an invention this person just pays back his debt to society."
A person is under no obligation to invent or create anything. They are under obligation to work, to better the society by generating wealth, in exchange for capital so that person can survive. If that person creates/invents something, they have gone beyond the call of duty, and if that something is very useful to society as a whole, they deserve to be rewarded.
Re: Invention is 1% Inspiration, 99% Persperation (T.A. Edison)
"Also, there is no non-obvious thing to invent."
If a device/process is obvious it would have already been invented.
"Without Einstein we would have had GR 5 or 10 years later, because the time was ripe to invent it."
Relativity isn't an invention, it's a discovery, and a rather obtuse one at that. Poor analogy as well, as discoveries cannot be patented, or *shouldn't* be patented (Re: chromosomes)
"In fact, Dargo contends that a 2.7 wish list from each of the vendors would reflect their particular technology interests and that there will be different wishes from the different groups within those companies."
Wow! You mean, each vendor says what features they would like, and those features might be included in the next kernel? How horrible! Next, we'll be deciding on who gets into government by writing their name down on a peice of paper, and whoever gets the most pieces of paper wins! Egads!
My personal wishlist:
- framebuffer device screensavers (From xscreensaver?)
- Customizable PC speaker beeps
- Better ARCnet support
- Loopback ROT13 encryption support
- Support for my IBM PC-RT as I can't find ANY OS to run on it
I noticed they only carry Warp's catalog in MP3 form, although the Warp Mart online CD/vinyl service also carries SKAM, Rephlex, and many others. Too bad, I was hoping to pick up the tracks that weren't on the Caustic Window compilation due to copyright or some other nonsense.
:)
It will be interesting to see if they release the unreleased Aphex stuff, like Analog Bubblebath 5, or Melodies from Mars, both of which I have on mp3, but poor quality. I would most definatly buy high quality VBR versions.
I own most of the Warp catalog in analog, record form. I think the tracks sound harsh and thin on CD. Autechre's albums in particular, sound nice, full and meaty on vinyl, come out with messy treble and anemic bass on digital. I belive one of Autechre's releases even says "Incomplete without record pops and clicks."
I most definatly WILL use the service to download the rare albums I don't own. Hangable Auto Bulb is almost impossible to find in the states, and the second version is even more rare.
I wonder if they would sell T-shirts digitally? Still looking for an AFX one
I would say most of the policies the government sets up are unworkable.
Let's see...
1. Pollution & Environment - Yes, the government has many policies based on well founded scientific data that verily balance the rights of landowners with the need of clean air and water (/scarcasm off)
2. Business Monopolization - Like Microsoft? Yeah, the fed *really* let them have it! Keep in mind that many monoplies are government mandated, which Libertarians are dead-set against.
3. Utility Regulation - Multistate power outages? That'll never happen again! Mostly the fed only cares about getting their taxes out of utilites, not much about regulation.
4. Transportation - Except for a few agencies, mostly the fed taxes the crap out of states and gives the money back for transportation dependent on some reason or another. Usually it's pork barrel projects.
If the same policies and agencies were set up on a state by state basis, tons of overhead and beauracy would be cut out.
My favorite federal budget item: A rebuilt highway linking Washington state and Alaska, IN CANADA. Yes, your federal transportation tax dollars at work. Canada must have a hell of a lobby...
US Army troop strength: ~ 500,000 (Enlisted + Officers)
.5 million force.
US Population: ~292,000,000
( http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html )
291.5 Million pissed-off citizens, even untrained, can do quite a bit of damage to a
... for switching is, after many years, the employees are finally going insane from using Lotus Notes. They would probably retrograde to OS/2 running IBM Works if it meant no more Notes.
-At least 80GB Hard Drive. $72 for the WD Special Edition.
-TV Card. Cheap WinTV for $80 or the bonzo PVR350 for $200.
-Video Card. Cheapie GeForce/TVO for ~$40, or a nice Matrox GXX for ~$80. (Matrox has the best TV-Out, IMHO)
- Computer. Cheapo Chaintech integrated everything MB w/ Athlon XP 2400 CPU. ~ 256MB DDR. $150.
- Case. Either a plain minitower for ~$50, or a nice HTPC case for $150.
- Remote. The 350PVR comes with one, supported by lirc. Otherwise buy a remote keyboard/mouse for ~$80. Or you can build your own remote.
Most everything else is commodity ($20) CD-ROM drive, or DVD-ROM drive. Floppy if desired.
> email and websites under consideration are both available to the Net public at large
/. effect
/. effect minimized.
/. would probably both claim it is beyond the scope of their responsibilities to check whether their targets are willing/able to handle increased load due to their activities.
/. is a journalistic source, or an electronic newspaper. If a newspaper runs an article on someone, they can't be held liable for causing that person's phone to ring more often. Spammers are basically advertisers, sort of like telemarketers. If a telemarketer calls you twenty times a day, there *is* legal recourse.
The difference being E-mail is usually considered personal communication, or one to one, where websites and USENET are mass communication, or one to many.
> there is no good way to opt-out of spam, and no good way to opt-out of the
Block http requests by referrer.
> spammers and
It can be argued
I only put back doors into networked apps if asked to. I could care less about gaining access to some big machine, I've yet to work for anyone with cooler hardware than what's in my basement :)
Someone needs to start a list of companies Microsoft has screwed over. It needs to be the first site that comes up when someone googles for "Microsoft Business Partner"
Let's see:
Citrix ("Yes, we're building virtual desktops into Windows now...")
Sendo ("Hey, nice phone tech, we'll just be taking it, then. Enjoy your chapter 11.")
Timeline, Inc. (New, from article)
VMWare ("Oh, and virtual system imaging is going in, too. Thanks Connectix!")
How about sites that code for IE only, and won't display anything, or broken tables, or text layered on top of other text..
It's also annoying when using a high res, small screen, as on a laptop, you crank up the font size in Mozilla or IE and the fixed size tables sites use to do layout make it impossible to read anything. ARGH!
In five easy steps.
1 - Climb down out of the tree.
2 - Get a job.
3 - Save up money.
4 - Buy land with trees on it.
5 - Don't cut them down.
Out of all of them, #2 is the only one that takes a lot of effort.
>I'd like to see the ride a Caddie body on a standard size frame gets.
You can adjust the ride dramatically by changing suspension, brake, and steering components. The Jaguar X-type is a Mercury Sable chasis...
>In addition, the fuel efficiency of a small car (and how small could you make it) on a standard chassis would suck, too.
Fuel efficiency would be determined by the weight and aerodynamics of the body and can be adjusted accordingly. Sports cars would get the best economy as long as you're not drag racing around town all the time. Besides, the fuel is just H2.
Most interaction with convenience store clerks is sub-human anyway. "Six fifty" and "Thanks" are usually the only words spoken, even when spoken to.
If they came up with a vending machine that had decent SDRAM and video card prices, I'm there...
I wonder if they are going to advertise the fact that Dells come with DOS now. "Dude, you're gonna run DOS!" :)
The Sega Broadband (Ethernet) adapter is, like most of the rest of the Dreamcast, an off the shelf ethernet chip on a PCI-to-Dreamcast bus adapter. In fact, a genius/loony in Japan made a whole Dreamcast->ISA adapter, as witnessed here.
http://www.ma.nma.ne.jp/~ikehara/dc/dcne.html
>he thinks reverse-engineering software to find security holes should be criminal
Man this makes me angry. It's the *COMPANY* that screwed up. It's shoddy programming. It's poor QA. It's bad product design. And they want the heat on people that find their errors. That's like slamming Consumer Reports for finding saftey issues with cars.
Waiting for G4 Newtons with the new process :)
This should give the MHz deprived (But MIPS/FLOPS enriched) PowerPC line a boost in the PR speed department.
There are dozens of variations of Go, in different board configurations and rules. Many have rules simliar to cellular automata, such as Attaxx by Atari. Also the microscope game in the 7th Guest, which is based on Attaxx. I still prefer Othello(TM) or MacGO, with it's very hard to beat NerfMaster level.
Here are a bunch of them:a ds/crit ical/default.asp
t p://www.openoffice.orgn .com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downlo
Grab Mozila,
http://www.mozilla.org/
OpenOffice,
ht
Cygwin,
http://www.cygwi
and the ActiveState ports of Perl, Python, and TCL/Tk,
http://www.activestate.com/
And you have a really nice open source suite that can do most everything the M$ suite of crap can do.
Because you'd end up with something like a pentium, a RISC core surrounded by CISC subcomponents for backwards compatability. Many of the things you mentioned (CPU codec support, encryption) don't belong on a general purpose processor, it's much more efficent these days to make a really fast processor core and do everything else in software. Much cheaper to optimize, easier to fix bugs (F00F anyone?) The problem is you need good compilers to get decent performance, and many compiler writers these days are more interested in bundling more pre-heated graphics routines and bloated enterprise frameworks than optimizing for code speed (*cough*Microsoft*cough*) Apple did it the (mostly) right way when they switched from 680x0 to PowerPC, "We're doing RISC now, everybody move, but you can still run your lowly 680x0 code in emulation"