They say necessity is the mother of invention, well surly coolness is the father.
3D displays are fantastic for some things, obviously not that useful for all though. I don't know if that's an actual photo on the article maybe I need to RTFA but if it is it's a lot more clear than most 3D displays I've seen. I'd be interesting to see how it stacks up in usability for medical and engineering professionals vs something like SGI's Reality Center products.
If you have it in a closet 99.99% of the time, what does it do for that 0.8766 hours a year when it's not there?
On a short enough timeline I could say my computer not only has 100% uptime at 100% cpu usage with 0 user input and no connection to the power grid! Truth is the battery runs out in 2 hours and it seldom hits 100% usage but that's the breaks.
It's just not useful and the lack of an Atom feed (Yes I prefer Atom over RSS) bothers me.
Yes it's kind of fun but not all that useful and it's fraught with errors.
It's too easy for people to use the search and end up finding news from disreputable sources and then IM spamming their friends with something no better than an Onion article.
Not to mention it added yet another button to Google's font page there by taking it one step closer to being Yahoo, how long before headlines show up on the start page and ads for "Music At Google" featuring Britney Spears and "Cool Camera Phones" from AT&T
Google News top headline July 27 2009: "Google has become Yahoo"
Duhh the simple solution is to bombard the LCD with a tachion emitter and there by de-synch it with the time-line relative to it's mouse. Since we all know that tachions move backwards through time this will allow you to adjust the lag down to a time you find acceptable. Noted side effects would be decreased aging and the ability to see what the enemy will do before they actually do it.
I'd rat out just about anyone for spamming for like $1000. let alone 100x that.
Although oddly I don't have a problem with well focused spam. I dont' mind getting spam from my regional compeditors and suppliers. But knock off Pfizer products is a little annoying.
Yeah right. We've seen lots of companies that pay hansomly to people who work on nothing. Their just bloated on VC. How many.coms have we all seen who went from 100 people living in swanky lofts to 2 guys working in a basement ass soon as everyone found out they didn't have a product or worse 25 people in jail and 75 living in boxes?
Sure we all have an affinity for our favorite toxic cleaners, who doesn't I love gasoline. However many of them dissolve various parts of the computer..
I recommend that you take some of the less used components, ie some old video cards or nics or whatever and do test batches. You'll need to clean and then TEST the components to know if there is damage.
Cleaning is going to need to be done in agitated baths, scrubbing can be harmful, especially if damp fibers remain on the boards and soaking generally isn't as good as it doesn't lift contaminants off.
Place one part into each bath and let them soak rocking the bath for 20 seconds every 15 minutes then take the parts out and let them dry depending on the cleaning agent. I recommend the following.
Please note I take no responsibility for the outcome of any of these also please watch for toxic vapors and combustible agents.
!! DO NOT USE HYDROCARBON BASED CLEANERS !! !! DO NOT CLEAN MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICES !!
this includes, tapes, hard drives, disks etc
90%+ tetraethyl alcohol for 2 hours, let dry for 48 hours in a well ventilated space Hand Dish soap (DO NOT use dishwasher soap) in filtered water for 1 days, let dry 5 days 25% White Vinegar for 1 day then rinse with water, let dry for 5 days 10% Chlorine bleach in water for 1 hour. let dry for 5 days.
Remember the value of old components is typically pretty close to their weight in water so don't put too much effort into saving them, you could replace then with far fewer new computers, maybe just one if you plan well, obviously we don't know your setup
You know that really don't seem that far off. Not with confections maybe but it's almost gotten this bad. You should all move to Canada. Or vote. Damnit you Americans need to take a stand against your corrupt politicians. Write more letters, not emails.
However the units would be more helpful in decimal metric rather than imperial. He should develp a standard XML format for these things and the charts.
Depending on how complex your network is you might even be able to get the company to fund a "model city" at work in a spare room.
You can use local sources to buy outdated computers, used switches, hubs, routers and etc to build a "dumbed down" low cost clone of your current network which will allow you to learn using it just like the real network, heck even the same IPs if you're going to put that much effort in. You can practice deploying software, using the systems etc. You might also want to get exact (sans-serial-numbers) clones of key servers if possible so you can test things very carefully.
It's a great way to learn but it'll really help to have a guru to get you going.
Find the local Linux User Group and get involved, make friends and then pester them on IM.
I've been using Python for years and I like to read all the books I can get my hands on. Yeah I'm one of those Python Zealots.
This book is quite good, although the PDF has odd little gray icond behind some of the text for some reason. It doesn't bother me really but I'm not sure what their for.
The book does have some great chapters and some not so hot ones but it's probably not the best read if you don't already have some Pygramming (that's Python Programming) experiance.
Lots of fun and by far one of the best free books I've ever read.
I hate how when they ask you stuff you want to install just after the visible window all the stuff is checked off and the underhanded tactics they use. Their applications are so close to mal-ware it's crazy. Real can burn for all I care.
Anyone else think it's ironic or perhaps moronic to call a *media* device Zen?
Sheesh, Zen is about as big of a buz word these days as I dunno some kinda crazy buz word.
I'm pretty sure most people don't really even know what Zen is, and if they did, they'd wonder why people call stuff Zen. It has nothing to do with motorcycle riding.
Hard and tedious are different things
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The End of Encryption?
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Adding 2 numbers and 25 billion numbers is really not that dissimilar in ways of difficulty, however it still takes a lot longer to do one than the other. The strength of cryptography doesn't come from how hard something is so much as how long it takes to do all that simple math.
Wow if I ever needed confirmation that/. was a bunch of kids and academics this story was it. $1,600 is peanuts for business software. PEANUTS There would be plenty of companies willing to shell that out just to TRY something like this.
Is it revolutionary? No Is it complex? No Is it useful? Yes Would it take more than $1600 to develop it in house? Yes
Think about that for just a minute, Excel doesn't do all of this and this looks fairly easy to use. MANY companies are willing to fork over around $400 for Office (bulk) for every one who has a computer Maybe only 2 or 3 people in a large company would use this and it would be useful
Perhaps this will put it in perspective, when trying to do price point setting in a large volume company selling 3200 products and shipping over 5000 units (in various amounts of those 3200 products) it can be EXTREMELY taxing to figure out what's going on when you have to plot sales vs seasonal vs price changes vs competitor data. A $1600 program that can help your $500/hour accountant save time is a pretty good deal even if they use it only to set the prices of 5% of the items that iss 160 items and if you can make an extra $5 on something you ship 900 of a day the software was barely a fringing blip in cost when it might have saved your accountant 80 hours or more of work you've made out well.
For the most part I get the feeling that/.ers have never worked in the corporate world. They have no idea how little money $1600 is.
You can get just about aftermarket anything for a Chevy, I'm sure someone will come out with a resonably priced kit soon enough.
Seriously though, there are already air ride kits for it. Although not quite right I'm sure Jeg's part number 029-ARF6600 can be adapted to work with a 68.
I like the MSN interface, the popups and the easy to use windows. Not that anything else would be too hard for me but my friends aren't techies and it works well for them. So it's good. I get to talk to the ladies and the ladies get to talk to me, and they could call care less about switching.
This is excelent because it will become far too complex bloated insecure expensive and all that to be good and OOo will get bigger as a result.
So are we going to have to install a 2GB ActiveX component to make this work?
I'd also like to note that, that would be in breach of their settlment with the DoJ and illigal as it would forcing the use of one monopoly product for the use of another. In this case IE for Office.
I've found most of my clients feel office is WAY too complicated and slow as is. So anything that makes it worse makes it easier for me to get them to go with OpenOffice.org, actually I've never had trouble convincing a client to switch.
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Wouldn't the tax dollars be better spent if the AI were on a ground computer?
They say necessity is the mother of invention, well surly coolness is the father. 3D displays are fantastic for some things, obviously not that useful for all though. I don't know if that's an actual photo on the article maybe I need to RTFA but if it is it's a lot more clear than most 3D displays I've seen. I'd be interesting to see how it stacks up in usability for medical and engineering professionals vs something like SGI's Reality Center products.
If you have it in a closet 99.99% of the time, what does it do for that 0.8766 hours a year when it's not there?
On a short enough timeline I could say my computer not only has 100% uptime at 100% cpu usage with 0 user input and no connection to the power grid! Truth is the battery runs out in 2 hours and it seldom hits 100% usage but that's the breaks.
I almost never use Google news.
It's just not useful and the lack of an Atom feed (Yes I prefer Atom over RSS) bothers me.
Yes it's kind of fun but not all that useful and it's fraught with errors.
It's too easy for people to use the search and end up finding news from disreputable sources and then IM spamming their friends with something no better than an Onion article.
Not to mention it added yet another button to Google's font page there by taking it one step closer to being Yahoo, how long before headlines show up on the start page and ads for "Music At Google" featuring Britney Spears and "Cool Camera Phones" from AT&T
Google News top headline July 27 2009:
"Google has become Yahoo"
Duhh the simple solution is to bombard the LCD with a tachion emitter and there by de-synch it with the time-line relative to it's mouse. Since we all know that tachions move backwards through time this will allow you to adjust the lag down to a time you find acceptable. Noted side effects would be decreased aging and the ability to see what the enemy will do before they actually do it.
Large transactions online?
I'm pretty sure people who do large online transactions don't use AOL...
Large transaction to me is something over $500,000.00
I'd rat out just about anyone for spamming for like $1000. let alone 100x that.
Although oddly I don't have a problem with well focused spam. I dont' mind getting spam from my regional compeditors and suppliers. But knock off Pfizer products is a little annoying.
Yeah right. .coms have we all seen who went from 100 people living in swanky lofts to 2 guys working in a basement ass soon as everyone found out they didn't have a product or worse 25 people in jail and 75 living in boxes?
We've seen lots of companies that pay hansomly to people who work on nothing. Their just bloated on VC. How many
Sure we all have an affinity for our favorite toxic cleaners, who doesn't I love gasoline. However many of them dissolve various parts of the computer..
I recommend that you take some of the less used components, ie some old video cards or nics or whatever and do test batches. You'll need to clean and then TEST the components to know if there is damage.
Cleaning is going to need to be done in agitated baths, scrubbing can be harmful, especially if damp fibers remain on the boards and soaking generally isn't as good as it doesn't lift contaminants off.
Place one part into each bath and let them soak rocking the bath for 20 seconds every 15 minutes then take the parts out and let them dry depending on the cleaning agent. I recommend the following.
Please note I take no responsibility for the outcome of any of these also please watch for toxic vapors and combustible agents.
!! DO NOT USE HYDROCARBON BASED CLEANERS !!
!! DO NOT CLEAN MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICES !!
this includes, tapes, hard drives, disks etc
90%+ tetraethyl alcohol for 2 hours, let dry for 48 hours in a well ventilated space
Hand Dish soap (DO NOT use dishwasher soap) in filtered water for 1 days, let dry 5 days
25% White Vinegar for 1 day then rinse with water, let dry for 5 days
10% Chlorine bleach in water for 1 hour. let dry for 5 days.
Remember the value of old components is typically pretty close to their weight in water so don't put too much effort into saving them, you could replace then with far fewer new computers, maybe just one if you plan well, obviously we don't know your setup
Give it a shot and let us know how it goes.
You know that really don't seem that far off. Not with confections maybe but it's almost gotten this bad. You should all move to Canada. Or vote. Damnit you Americans need to take a stand against your corrupt politicians. Write more letters, not emails.
However the units would be more helpful in decimal metric rather than imperial. He should develp a standard XML format for these things and the charts.
Your joke is a little out of date, not to mention Russia wouldn't get any .gov addresses.
Depending on how complex your network is you might even be able to get the company to fund a "model city" at work in a spare room.
You can use local sources to buy outdated computers, used switches, hubs, routers and etc to build a "dumbed down" low cost clone of your current network which will allow you to learn using it just like the real network, heck even the same IPs if you're going to put that much effort in. You can practice deploying software, using the systems etc. You might also want to get exact (sans-serial-numbers) clones of key servers if possible so you can test things very carefully.
It's a great way to learn but it'll really help to have a guru to get you going.
Find the local Linux User Group and get involved, make friends and then pester them on IM.
I've been using Python for years and I like to read all the books I can get my hands on. Yeah I'm one of those Python Zealots.
This book is quite good, although the PDF has odd little gray icond behind some of the text for some reason. It doesn't bother me really but I'm not sure what their for.
The book does have some great chapters and some not so hot ones but it's probably not the best read if you don't already have some Pygramming (that's Python Programming) experiance.
Lots of fun and by far one of the best free books I've ever read.
I hate how when they ask you stuff you want to install just after the visible window all the stuff is checked off and the underhanded tactics they use. Their applications are so close to mal-ware it's crazy. Real can burn for all I care.
Anyone else think it's ironic or perhaps moronic to call a *media* device Zen?
Sheesh, Zen is about as big of a buz word these days as I dunno some kinda crazy buz word.
I'm pretty sure most people don't really even know what Zen is, and if they did, they'd wonder why people call stuff Zen. It has nothing to do with motorcycle riding.
Adding 2 numbers and 25 billion numbers is really not that dissimilar in ways of difficulty, however it still takes a lot longer to do one than the other. The strength of cryptography doesn't come from how hard something is so much as how long it takes to do all that simple math.
Wow if I ever needed confirmation that /. was a bunch of kids and academics this story was it.
/.ers have never worked in the corporate world. They have no idea how little money $1600 is.
$1,600 is peanuts for business software. PEANUTS There would be plenty of companies willing
to shell that out just to TRY something like this.
Is it revolutionary? No
Is it complex? No
Is it useful? Yes
Would it take more
than $1600 to develop
it in house? Yes
Think about that for just a minute, Excel doesn't do all of this and this looks fairly easy to use.
MANY companies are willing to fork over around $400 for Office (bulk) for every one who has a computer
Maybe only 2 or 3 people in a large company would use this and it would be useful
Perhaps this will put it in perspective, when trying to do price point setting in a large volume company selling 3200 products and shipping over 5000 units (in various amounts of those 3200 products) it can be EXTREMELY taxing to figure out what's going on when you have to plot sales vs seasonal vs price changes vs competitor data. A $1600 program that can help your $500/hour accountant save time is a pretty good deal even if they use it only to set the prices of 5% of the items that iss 160 items and if you can make an extra $5 on something you ship 900 of a day the software was barely a fringing blip in cost when it might have saved your accountant 80 hours or more of work you've made out well.
For the most part I get the feeling that
You can get just about aftermarket anything for a Chevy, I'm sure someone will come out with a resonably priced kit soon enough.
Seriously though, there are already air ride kits for it. Although not quite right I'm sure Jeg's part number 029-ARF6600 can be adapted to work with a 68.
I like the MSN interface, the popups and the easy to use windows. Not that anything else would be too hard for me but my friends aren't techies and it works well for them. So it's good. I get to talk to the ladies and the ladies get to talk to me, and they could call care less about switching.
This isn't news this picture has been around for YEARS
This is excelent because it will become far too complex bloated insecure expensive and all that to be good and OOo will get bigger as a result.
So are we going to have to install a 2GB ActiveX component to make this work?
I'd also like to note that, that would be in breach of their settlment with the DoJ and illigal as it would forcing the use of one monopoly product for the use of another. In this case IE for Office.
I've found most of my clients feel office is WAY too complicated and slow as is. So anything that makes it worse makes it easier for me to get them to go with OpenOffice.org, actually I've never had trouble convincing a client to switch.
Excelent news I must say.
How the heck did this make it to the /. front page? was OSDN paid to foist that on there or what?
My opinion is this product reeks of lame.
Unless you're a 17 year old Asian part of aego mass that demands you have the latest gadgets to show off your affluence.
When was the last time Huston lapped Anchorage?
The dopler effect is about relative speeds. Reletivly speaking two points on the earth only move because of continental drift.
As long as you and I are alive Huston and Anchorage will always be 1,817 miles of cold glass appart.
worst movie ever,
I assure you I was on the Internet within minutes registering my disgust AROUND the world.