An important question on a "Linux site." I'll consider buying one of these cards, but only if good Linux drivers are available either freely or for a few bucks. Not $20, I mean perhaps $5. Charging so little might not offset the cost of work that went into the software, but the important thing is to build a customer base.
Mod parent up. There is a huge untapped resource in the geek community that state and local police departments could draw upon to help them with computer crime investigations. A lot of these people would work for little or no pay, and departments who took this route would be able to get tons of informal on-the-job training for their uniformed personnel.
PDF does have a grip on academic publications, but
there are other technologies that can duplicate it.
Perhaps, but PDF is an open standard, and ubiquitous. Search for a document on Google and you get a screen full of PDF links. You want to download a manual for your new sound card? PDF. You want to print up a corporate shareholder report? It's probably a PDF.
He did an interview on Coast to Coast AM a few weeks ago, during which he gave his assessment of the old Star Trek cast. What I found most illustrative was his admonishment to "read between the lines" as he read through the roster, conspicuously omitting the name of William Shatner. When the host, George Noory, rather ham-handedly asked for Koenig's opinion of Shatner, Koenig gently reminded him again to "read between the lines."
Inferior steel and poor maintainance (rust) is the reason why fairly new merchant vessels are still routinely disappearing. They get into some rough seas and the keel snaps. Glub, glub. The vessels are comparatively cheap and insured. The small crews come from developing countries and there's no big, dramatic oil spill when an ore carrier sinks. It doesn't make the news and nobody cares.
Dude, polyester rocks. I wore this lime green polyester shirt for years until I gave it away. Now, aside from the sheer tackiness of it, what was most remarkable about this shirt was that it was in the same near-pristine condition when I gave it away as when I received it. Those fibers are tough.
IANARS, but I think Rutan ought to start thinking really big and start a privately-funded consortium to build a spaceport down in Ecuador. They build a launch ramp on the western slope of a mountain, as the Skyramp people are proposing, and rapidly put all of their competitors out of business.
Then, when the materials tech becomes practical, they build a space elevator on the very same site. Makes perfect sense; at that point, they have the name and a shitload of capital to make it happen. Taxpayers have spent enough on incremental baby steps and aerospace subsidies.
May dreams such as these take wing and I'd be happy just to watch: (link)
Now. There's a guy who's been working for years on a vehicle like the old Teledyne-Ryan ducted fan-powered vehicle from the 60's. It looked somewhat like the Osprey, but used four shrouded fans like those found on blimps. In forward flight, they would be tilted diagonally on stubby wings.
Here's the website for the "new" iteration of this idea. It looks promising.
Get the speed up to 70 knots (two days) and price it competitively with aircraft and I'd use it.
Maybe it would be cost-effective to bring back the Zeppelins, only bigger this time. They would useful for hauling freight at a lower cost than fixed-wing aircraft. With modern materials, you could make a massive, very cost-effective vehicle.
I think upfront cost is the reason the Air Force won't spring for new B-52 engines. Tactically, it would be incredibly useful to increase the range, and most importantly, loiter time, but they're in the pockets of defense contracters, who want to sell shitloads of expensive fighter planes and advanced UAVs.
There has to be a reasonably simple technical solution to prevent airline pilots from blacking out from catastrophic depressurization, like a wearable 20-min oxygen cylinder with a simple button-activated valve. Make the pilots put it on before take-off and see to it that they are inspected monthly. Problem solved, right?
Cumulus' and Clearchannel's profit margins are thin. Satellite and Internet radio will eat away at the remainder, and the two hegemons will fold. Just give it a few years for these institutional sociopaths to die.
I foresee broadcast radio as the province of a few 50,000-watt megastations who have the huge listening audiences to make ad sales profitable, and a handfull of community-supported stations who rely on quality programming. The broadcast market won't support anything else if it has to compete with satellite and the internet. And those remaining broadcast stations had better start getting bold and creative if they want to distinguish themselves from their competition, which excludes the hegemons by default.
Of course, being corporations, they will attempt to react to the change through further metastasis...
Now it's all ABC, Ebert Roeper, Newsweek same shit you see on the newstand. Why waste time with a new medium, if it is the same people delivering the same message.
It's because Time/Warner and company bid on that space on the iTunes site. That's fair enough to me. The whole point of iTunes, from Apple's perspective, is to make money, which the media conglomerates have. The natural progression of this is to find that the top 10 podcast feeds are McMedia. I sympathize, but my advice is to just scroll down the list to find the shit you like.
And if Apple decides to shoot themselves in the foot and dump the indie shows, which is most unlikely, then you will find them elsewhere on the net.
The way "reality" works in our world, entertainment = escape.
Right on. To paraphrase Socrates, there are two basic kinds of pleasure, the first being the kind one derives from bowing to one's immediate desires for sensory gratification, and the second being derived from acting according to one's conscience, thereby "ennobling" oneself.
Those of us living in the wealthiest societies habitually choose the former kind of pleasure.
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So there's yet another reason not to live in California.
Hear that, S3? I know you people read Slashdot.
"Say hello to muh lil' chair!"
Mod parent up. There is a huge untapped resource in the geek community that state and local police departments could draw upon to help them with computer crime investigations. A lot of these people would work for little or no pay, and departments who took this route would be able to get tons of informal on-the-job training for their uniformed personnel.
Perhaps, but PDF is an open standard, and ubiquitous. Search for a document on Google and you get a screen full of PDF links. You want to download a manual for your new sound card? PDF. You want to print up a corporate shareholder report? It's probably a PDF.
PDF isn't going anywhere.
Sounds like there's some bad blood there.
*discount*
Inferior steel and poor maintainance (rust) is the reason why fairly new merchant vessels are still routinely disappearing. They get into some rough seas and the keel snaps. Glub, glub. The vessels are comparatively cheap and insured. The small crews come from developing countries and there's no big, dramatic oil spill when an ore carrier sinks. It doesn't make the news and nobody cares.
Dude, polyester rocks. I wore this lime green polyester shirt for years until I gave it away. Now, aside from the sheer tackiness of it, what was most remarkable about this shirt was that it was in the same near-pristine condition when I gave it away as when I received it. Those fibers are tough.
Then, when the materials tech becomes practical, they build a space elevator on the very same site. Makes perfect sense; at that point, they have the name and a shitload of capital to make it happen. Taxpayers have spent enough on incremental baby steps and aerospace subsidies.
May dreams such as these take wing and I'd be happy just to watch: (link)
Here's the website for the "new" iteration of this idea. It looks promising.
Maybe it would be cost-effective to bring back the Zeppelins, only bigger this time. They would useful for hauling freight at a lower cost than fixed-wing aircraft. With modern materials, you could make a massive, very cost-effective vehicle.
I think upfront cost is the reason the Air Force won't spring for new B-52 engines. Tactically, it would be incredibly useful to increase the range, and most importantly, loiter time, but they're in the pockets of defense contracters, who want to sell shitloads of expensive fighter planes and advanced UAVs.
I read the account as well. The guy's luck was absolutely phenomenal.
There has to be a reasonably simple technical solution to prevent airline pilots from blacking out from catastrophic depressurization, like a wearable 20-min oxygen cylinder with a simple button-activated valve. Make the pilots put it on before take-off and see to it that they are inspected monthly. Problem solved, right?
Ha. I simply assumed Apple sold the top podcast slots like vendor-sponsored search engine results.
Radio? Try hentai. And you can probably order a model with tentacles.
I foresee broadcast radio as the province of a few 50,000-watt megastations who have the huge listening audiences to make ad sales profitable, and a handfull of community-supported stations who rely on quality programming. The broadcast market won't support anything else if it has to compete with satellite and the internet. And those remaining broadcast stations had better start getting bold and creative if they want to distinguish themselves from their competition, which excludes the hegemons by default.
Of course, being corporations, they will attempt to react to the change through further metastasis...
It's because Time/Warner and company bid on that space on the iTunes site. That's fair enough to me. The whole point of iTunes, from Apple's perspective, is to make money, which the media conglomerates have. The natural progression of this is to find that the top 10 podcast feeds are McMedia. I sympathize, but my advice is to just scroll down the list to find the shit you like.
And if Apple decides to shoot themselves in the foot and dump the indie shows, which is most unlikely, then you will find them elsewhere on the net.
??? = "Have a subsidary that provides the antidote."
Why not? We shoot them into our skulls with cell phones.
Hey, make fun of the man all you want, but nobody could play a tambourine like Garfunkel.
I'd suggest a balaclava. You get better coverage that way.
Dude, school administrators don't get fired. That is why you see boondoggles like the iBook sale and subsequent riot.
Right on. To paraphrase Socrates, there are two basic kinds of pleasure, the first being the kind one derives from bowing to one's immediate desires for sensory gratification, and the second being derived from acting according to one's conscience, thereby "ennobling" oneself.
Those of us living in the wealthiest societies habitually choose the former kind of pleasure.