With firewire at 800mbps and USB2 at 840mbps, why use firewire at all?
Do you plan on housing more than the max supported items on one USB channel (127 devices)?
Firewire supports only 63 devices...
They have been expirimenting with multi-layered parallel processing for a long time, and I think this is the "realized results" of those expiriments.
We will see newer dual and multi-core processors come out in the future, and tha ability to parallel process with multiple chips on one board...
Should be exciting...
1 -.338 Lapua Magnum 225 grain match grade round of ammo, $1.17
1 - Blaser LRS2 Level 3 Sporting Rifle, $4500
5 years of tactical sniper training, $1 mil +
Ridding the planet of "worthless, walking turds",
PRICELESS...
I don't know how many of you remember old Ma' Bell... the major Bell Corporation that included SBC, Pacific Bell, Mountain Bell, etc...
But when the Helpful Government came in and decided that $0.10 was too much to pay for a payphone call, and broke old Ma' Bell into the "baby bells"...
Do ya think they actually helped?
The marked can only handle so many choices...and we can now see, with the mergers of all the variety of phone companies, that limit had been passed...
Now everything is merging again...and soon, we may end up with another version of the old Bell...only, everything will be far more expensive.
I guess it was only a matter of time before they were able to decode the electric impulses sent out by eyes and received by the brain...
Once this information in known, they can manipulate it or copy it with artificial means.
I have a friend with RP, and this would really help him...
What I want is a way to
A) do a "shine job" on my eyes so I can better see in the dark
or
B) implant one of these kind of chips to enhance my vision with the UV and IR spectrums...
I sure hope this guy got a patent on this thing...
or, in the true spirit of Open Source, he should publish the parts list and build instructions...
Neat idea...I can see it now...a Detector Ring for the UNSECURED wi-fi network...Detector Ring to identify A/B/G networks, or networks on 900mhz, 2.4, or 5.8 ghz...
Endless possibilities...
The internet is a very big space...
There are millions of "transactions" going on every second
If someone wants to listen to YOU specifically, they need to know you exist...
Carnivore is dead, but what good was it anyway? With anon servers, and other tricks, like encryption, and attachments, how could they even know what is going on?
So, if the FBI or anyone takes an interest in YOU it is because you came to be on their radar in some way...either by visiting a suspected web site, or sending e-mail to a suspect...then, you are in their scope...
What is the moral of the story?
Stay out of their radar...
I wouldn't recommend wireless for anything but the occation that you want to sit on the couch and do homework on your laptop...
I have to do wireless in the rental I currently live in...it is slow, and expensive to set up.
RUN Conduit!
We are building a home, and I am installing conduit. Running a 1.5" conduit at 18" off the ground, and a 1" conduit at 18" off the ceiling.
If you have walls up already, and want to take the time to do it, you can simply run conduit vertically, just like you would a wire, just drill the holes to the size of your conduit.
Install boxes and tiled faceplaces, so you can add phone, fiber, gigabit, power, etc...
There really is no crisis with social security...
Only what we allow the Government to make...
If the legislators, senators, president, and others were bound by the same rules and social security system that we (the people) currently are, then you would see just how fast this "crisis" would get fixed.
If we REALLY wanted "social security reform" we would demand that the "special treatment" of our "governmental leaders" would be stopped, and that the participate in the same system that the "rest of us" do, and the problem would fix itself...
This is a simple thing to do, and indeed,/. put out a story a day or two ago about how the government will be using some "aluminum paint" or was it "copper paint" with "real metal flecks" in it to ground and prevent "spillage" of wireless signal.
so simply set your apartment up like a Faraday Cage, and your signal is protected, and the wifi will work IN your apartment, and you won't see any signal from OUTSIDE your apartment...
--E--
My dad was a Programmer/Analyst.
He bought a TI994A (remember those?) and I played with it. I started learning Basic, and then Assembly.
Later, my dad brought an old machine from work, it was an 8088, green screen with a 4 mb memory card (it was about 12 inches long and covered with sockets and memory chips.) The hard drive was about 3 inches thick and had 10 mb capacity.
I even had an acustic modem.
I learned MS Basic, and wrote several minor programs.
Later, my friend bought an Atari 1040ST, and we had loads of fun...
I was 12 when I got the old 8088.
My son, while not into programming, he is into art, and digital graphics. I don't really want to do it, but Movie Maker just isn't enough anymore. He is going to need some real "art" programs soon...and he will go from there...
Everyone will be different in their needs and wants when it comes to computers...so supply them with what they like, and their skills on the computer and in the online world will develop just fine.
Keeping track of employees is not a big deal. Like some other readers have said, if you are on the clock, you are accountable...
The bad part comes in with stories like you describe, where police are falsifying records...
If they would have simply written, "10 minute jaunt over to deposit paycheck" then they would not have been suspended...they do, after all, get "smoke breaks"
For me, the problems come in when the government is using things like OnStar to track suspected vehicles, without court order or consent.
With just about everything being GPS embedded, you have to wonder who is really tracking your movements, and why.
As you approach companies, don't ask for a job. Unfortunately, you describe the situation many of us have fallen into with jobs that we don't have the past 10 years experience in...
The best way to approach it is to go to companies that HAVE what you are looking for, ask them about an Apprentis or Intern program, apply with them for that program and work from that POV.
OR, if they don't have these programs, then you could ask to start one.
If you get your security clearance, you may find that companies are not unwilling to NOT pay you to come in and work...sure, you work for free, but you CAN put the experience on your resume!
Task a class with finding 10 preveiously undiscovered security vulnerabilities, and a way to exploit those vulnerabilities...
I bet everyone in the class would pass...
Not only that, but if the study was made public, you would have microsoft being sued for allowing such security holes in the software. And to top it off, people would cry for Linux of any flavor.
If this is true, that any indexing type software will/can make it easier for Virus/Mall Ware writers, then is it easier for them to write viruses for IIS?
Longhorn, Microquat's next encarnation of Bloat Ware, would likely include WinFS, which would completely index and catalog all aspects of the OS and Programs loaded.
I wonder if it really is such a big risk?
How about to people using Mozilla, etc.?
Just switch to Linux it wont matter.
Earlier we read a story on/. where IBM was selling their Computer side of business...
WHy would they get involved with Apple if they are planning on selling?
Maybe Apple is looking to buy?
--E
There have been several threads already that have talked about this very simple idea...
Fully Interactive TV. Satellites and Cable and "DSL" can all handle the bandwidth (or soon will be) and it would allow for the user to customize their "viewing experience".
I imagine something along the lines of "watch wne you want", and the shows are "streaming media" and can also be downloaded as .
That way, the networks/providers put TiVo and other DVR/PVR companies "out of business", as you can go back to weeks previous and download or stream the entire show at your desire.
You would still get the commercials, but you would be able to "skip" them...
The unfortunate thing is, it would be harder to limit the number of "ads" that the providers want to foist upon you on your interactive screen...
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With firewire at 800mbps and USB2 at 840mbps, why use firewire at all?
Do you plan on housing more than the max supported items on one USB channel (127 devices)?
Firewire supports only 63 devices...
SO why support a loosing standard?
They have been expirimenting with multi-layered parallel processing for a long time, and I think this is the "realized results" of those expiriments.
We will see newer dual and multi-core processors come out in the future, and tha ability to parallel process with multiple chips on one board...
Should be exciting...
Maybe violence doesn't solve every problem, but it is a lucrative business...
;-}
With an initial investment of $10k, you can net $25k per job.
Hay, I don't make the rules, I just live by them.
1 - .338 Lapua Magnum 225 grain match grade round of ammo, $1.17
1 - Blaser LRS2 Level 3 Sporting Rifle, $4500
5 years of tactical sniper training, $1 mil +
Ridding the planet of "worthless, walking turds", PRICELESS...
For everything else, there is a grenade...
Does anyone wanna guess when this new schema will be "cracked", when a program will be available to allow DVD copying on a PC?
Anyone???
I don't know how many of you remember old Ma' Bell... the major Bell Corporation that included SBC, Pacific Bell, Mountain Bell, etc...
But when the Helpful Government came in and decided that $0.10 was too much to pay for a payphone call, and broke old Ma' Bell into the "baby bells"...
Do ya think they actually helped?
The marked can only handle so many choices...and we can now see, with the mergers of all the variety of phone companies, that limit had been passed...
Now everything is merging again...and soon, we may end up with another version of the old Bell...only, everything will be far more expensive.
But you gotta admit, Microsoft is more secure than Linux...
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At least according to that fool from this morning...
Mike Nash at http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/11/14
Hmmm, lets see...
WINDOWS XP PRO
Secunia advisories rated Highly critical
Currently, 21 out of 87 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
RH LINUX
0 Secunia advisories
Currently, 0 out of 133 Secunia advisories
So, is Windows more secure than Linux?
The answer is right in front of you...
What kills me is, with Linux, you can have a patch in days, with Windows, you get your patch in weeks, or months...
I guess it was only a matter of time before they were able to decode the electric impulses sent out by eyes and received by the brain...
Once this information in known, they can manipulate it or copy it with artificial means.
I have a friend with RP, and this would really help him...
What I want is a way to
A) do a "shine job" on my eyes so I can better see in the dark
or
B) implant one of these kind of chips to enhance my vision with the UV and IR spectrums...
I think the name says it all...
Bloatware.
It plagues us...
If you wanna see the performance improvement, install DOS on you P4, or Win311 or even Win95...
WOW, what an improvement...
HAY BILL...Just because the computer CAN handle more load, doesn't mean YOU need to find ways to waste it...
I sure hope this guy got a patent on this thing... or, in the true spirit of Open Source, he should publish the parts list and build instructions... Neat idea...I can see it now...a Detector Ring for the UNSECURED wi-fi network...Detector Ring to identify A/B/G networks, or networks on 900mhz, 2.4, or 5.8 ghz... Endless possibilities...
The internet is a very big space...
There are millions of "transactions" going on every second
If someone wants to listen to YOU specifically, they need to know you exist...
Carnivore is dead, but what good was it anyway? With anon servers, and other tricks, like encryption, and attachments, how could they even know what is going on?
So, if the FBI or anyone takes an interest in YOU it is because you came to be on their radar in some way...either by visiting a suspected web site, or sending e-mail to a suspect...then, you are in their scope...
What is the moral of the story?
Stay out of their radar...
I wouldn't recommend wireless for anything but the occation that you want to sit on the couch and do homework on your laptop...
I have to do wireless in the rental I currently live in...it is slow, and expensive to set up.
RUN Conduit!
We are building a home, and I am installing conduit. Running a 1.5" conduit at 18" off the ground, and a 1" conduit at 18" off the ceiling.
If you have walls up already, and want to take the time to do it, you can simply run conduit vertically, just like you would a wire, just drill the holes to the size of your conduit.
Install boxes and tiled faceplaces, so you can add phone, fiber, gigabit, power, etc...
There really is no crisis with social security...
Only what we allow the Government to make...
If the legislators, senators, president, and others were bound by the same rules and social security system that we (the people) currently are, then you would see just how fast this "crisis" would get fixed.
If we REALLY wanted "social security reform" we would demand that the "special treatment" of our "governmental leaders" would be stopped, and that the participate in the same system that the "rest of us" do, and the problem would fix itself...
Hay, so I could use a second identity ;-}
Where can I go and get one?
For $60, it is a bargain! ;-}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
This is a simple thing to do, and indeed, /. put out a story a day or two ago about how the government will be using some "aluminum paint" or was it "copper paint" with "real metal flecks" in it to ground and prevent "spillage" of wireless signal.
so simply set your apartment up like a Faraday Cage, and your signal is protected, and the wifi will work IN your apartment, and you won't see any signal from OUTSIDE your apartment...
--E--
My dad was a Programmer/Analyst.
He bought a TI994A (remember those?) and I played with it. I started learning Basic, and then Assembly.
Later, my dad brought an old machine from work, it was an 8088, green screen with a 4 mb memory card (it was about 12 inches long and covered with sockets and memory chips.) The hard drive was about 3 inches thick and had 10 mb capacity.
I even had an acustic modem.
I learned MS Basic, and wrote several minor programs.
Later, my friend bought an Atari 1040ST, and we had loads of fun...
I was 12 when I got the old 8088.
My son, while not into programming, he is into art, and digital graphics. I don't really want to do it, but Movie Maker just isn't enough anymore. He is going to need some real "art" programs soon...and he will go from there...
Everyone will be different in their needs and wants when it comes to computers...so supply them with what they like, and their skills on the computer and in the online world will develop just fine.
Keeping track of employees is not a big deal. Like some other readers have said, if you are on the clock, you are accountable...
The bad part comes in with stories like you describe, where police are falsifying records...
If they would have simply written, "10 minute jaunt over to deposit paycheck" then they would not have been suspended...they do, after all, get "smoke breaks"
For me, the problems come in when the government is using things like OnStar to track suspected vehicles, without court order or consent.
With just about everything being GPS embedded, you have to wonder who is really tracking your movements, and why.
Another reason to NOT use windows in the defense of our country...
As you approach companies, don't ask for a job. Unfortunately, you describe the situation many of us have fallen into with jobs that we don't have the past 10 years experience in...
The best way to approach it is to go to companies that HAVE what you are looking for, ask them about an Apprentis or Intern program, apply with them for that program and work from that POV.
OR, if they don't have these programs, then you could ask to start one.
If you get your security clearance, you may find that companies are not unwilling to NOT pay you to come in and work...sure, you work for free, but you CAN put the experience on your resume!
Task a class with finding 10 preveiously undiscovered security vulnerabilities, and a way to exploit those vulnerabilities...
I bet everyone in the class would pass...
Not only that, but if the study was made public, you would have microsoft being sued for allowing such security holes in the software. And to top it off, people would cry for Linux of any flavor.
If this is true, that any indexing type software will/can make it easier for Virus/Mall Ware writers, then is it easier for them to write viruses for IIS? Longhorn, Microquat's next encarnation of Bloat Ware, would likely include WinFS, which would completely index and catalog all aspects of the OS and Programs loaded. I wonder if it really is such a big risk? How about to people using Mozilla, etc.? Just switch to Linux it wont matter.
Earlier we read a story on /. where IBM was selling their Computer side of business...
WHy would they get involved with Apple if they are planning on selling?
Maybe Apple is looking to buy?
--E
There have been several threads already that have talked about this very simple idea... Fully Interactive TV. Satellites and Cable and "DSL" can all handle the bandwidth (or soon will be) and it would allow for the user to customize their "viewing experience". I imagine something along the lines of "watch wne you want", and the shows are "streaming media" and can also be downloaded as . That way, the networks/providers put TiVo and other DVR/PVR companies "out of business", as you can go back to weeks previous and download or stream the entire show at your desire. You would still get the commercials, but you would be able to "skip" them... The unfortunate thing is, it would be harder to limit the number of "ads" that the providers want to foist upon you on your interactive screen...