If buying and LCD monitor is not an option for you, you might want to increase your refresh rate. I used to suffer from eye strain, chiefly because my CRT's refresh rate was at 60Hz. This killed my eyes. To keep them from suffering, I upped it to 85Hz. This helped quite a bit. If you can get it to 100Hz, all the better.
I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't mind if cell-phones had built-in wifi support. With wifi hotspots becoming more prevalent these days, they would seem a good alternative to lugging around a laptop, and (somewhat) cheaper than buying a PDA.
Akamai gets attacked, and the story gets rejected from slashdot, yet a minor patch about a game I've never heard about makes the front page? They must be feeding bat guano to the editors down there in the locked basement. Slashdot usually manages to post good stories, but there's always a quirk now and then.
Things aren't looking good for those opposed to software patents, although I for one am not familiar with that many computer companies based Down Under. And the article reports this as "free trade legislation"? I suppose if the developed world would stop allowing software patents, software development wouldn't be migrating towards Asia.
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Ok, that was a very disjointed post. But you know what I mean.
Democracy in the U.S.? Now that's a novel idea! No, seriously, presidential elections have never been democratic. Thanks to the electoral college, the entire country could vote for Bush or Kerry, but the electors for each county don't have to vote that way. Instead, they could all vote for Nader if they want!
That said, I think somehow this lack of democracy actually prevents this sort of "dictatorship" because even if a party rigged an election, the electors don't have to follow the vote.
And it's been done before - there are cases of electors casting their votes for other people than their county voted for, to prove a point or because they don't like the candidate.
So, lack of democracy saves democracy. It looks like our founding fathers were insightful genuises after all.
well..umm...MAC OS X doesnt work on an x86 processor either, so that wouldn't work. Fortunately thats not how it goes, PearPC emulates a PPC chip, so that everything works. So software isn't voided into oblivion;)
Someone said something about RFID's but didn't expand on it, so:
I have an idea: have several wearable RFID tags and a logbook at the entrance of the trail. If someone wants to use the tags, they can take one for each person, and put their names in the logbook (and any other information they feel like giving out).
Then the sensors along the trail can uniquely identify the passing RFID tags, allowing a person who becomes lost to have their location identified.
The best part is, you don't have to take the tags if you don't want to, and the sensors won't know where you are unless you have them. How about it?
Yes, Asleap was demonstrated at DefCon in August, but when Cisco got a hold of it they asked the developers to wait six months before releasing it to the public, so they would have time to work on a more secure successor to LEAP. So Cisco came up with EAP-FAST, and Asleap is just now being released for download. (Or that's how the story goes anyways.)
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If buying and LCD monitor is not an option for you, you might want to increase your refresh rate. I used to suffer from eye strain, chiefly because my CRT's refresh rate was at 60Hz. This killed my eyes. To keep them from suffering, I upped it to 85Hz. This helped quite a bit. If you can get it to 100Hz, all the better.
I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't mind if cell-phones had built-in wifi support. With wifi hotspots becoming more prevalent these days, they would seem a good alternative to lugging around a laptop, and (somewhat) cheaper than buying a PDA.
Any thoughts?
Yet another reason to switch to Linux. These corporations aren't helping themselves, are they?
No offense, but...
Akamai gets attacked, and the story gets rejected from slashdot, yet a minor patch about a game I've never heard about makes the front page? They must be feeding bat guano to the editors down there in the locked basement.
Slashdot usually manages to post good stories, but there's always a quirk now and then.
Things aren't looking good for those opposed to software patents, although I for one am not familiar with that many computer companies based Down Under. And the article reports this as "free trade legislation"? I suppose if the developed world would stop allowing software patents, software development wouldn't be migrating towards Asia.
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Ok, that was a very disjointed post. But you know what I mean.
Yeah, kind of weird, he makes a good post earlier and then this stuff comes out? Maybe he got high on something. Too much HDD space can do that to ya.
Is it just me, or does the name "Joseph Lieberman" stand out in the AdTI letter mentioned in this comment?
Is it the Joseph Lieberman? The one who ran alongside Al Gore as VP? If so, how did he become "Honorary Co-Chairman" of AdTI? What a shame.
Democracy in the U.S.? Now that's a novel idea! No, seriously, presidential elections have never been democratic. Thanks to the electoral college, the entire country could vote for Bush or Kerry, but the electors for each county don't have to vote that way. Instead, they could all vote for Nader if they want!
That said, I think somehow this lack of democracy actually prevents this sort of "dictatorship" because even if a party rigged an election, the electors don't have to follow the vote.
And it's been done before - there are cases of electors casting their votes for other people than their county voted for, to prove a point or because they don't like the candidate.
So, lack of democracy saves democracy. It looks like our founding fathers were insightful genuises after all.
well..umm...MAC OS X doesnt work on an x86 processor either, so that wouldn't work. Fortunately thats not how it goes, PearPC emulates a PPC chip, so that everything works. So software isn't voided into oblivion ;)
Someone said something about RFID's but didn't expand on it, so:
I have an idea: have several wearable RFID tags and a logbook at the entrance of the trail. If someone wants to use the tags, they can take one for each person, and put their names in the logbook (and any other information they feel like giving out).
Then the sensors along the trail can uniquely identify the passing RFID tags, allowing a person who becomes lost to have their location identified.
The best part is, you don't have to take the tags if you don't want to, and the sensors won't know where you are unless you have them. How about it?
Score one for using your neighbor's bandwith.
Yes, Asleap was demonstrated at DefCon in August, but when Cisco got a hold of it they asked the developers to wait six months before releasing it to the public, so they would have time to work on a more secure successor to LEAP. So Cisco came up with EAP-FAST, and Asleap is just now being released for download. (Or that's how the story goes anyways.)