Unless you want to be broadcasting "very important internal document" to the rest of the P2P network. I would recommend an alternate solution. Make an automatic file uploader that sends the document(s) to a secure web site. Either IM or e-mail the intended recipient, giving them the URL and username/password. Ideally, they would have the username and password previously and you don't have to send it over the Internet at all (give it to them via phone call). Let them know the document will be deleted from the web server in X number of days (15? 30? pick something reasonable).
Yesterday we had
this article about reducing building electrical use with XML. Everyone jumped on it as playing up the fact that it used XML to implement the solution.
Here, we have a automatic car parking computer that plays up the fact it uses Linux as part of the solution. If it was using PalmOS or WindowsCE (or another non-open source OS), everyone would be up in arms.
What difference does it make how something was done, but for the fact it works? Granted, this car parking computer looks like it has quite a bit of refinement to go through before it'll work in the real world, but is nonetheless interesting. Insurance reasons, not technical, will probably be what kill this project. If you engage it to parallel park your vehicle and it rams the vehicles in front and in back of you, the vendor will be liable because it was their system that malfunctioned. The user engaged it, expecting it to behave as advertised.
I was thinking along the same lines, but extending it a bit more. What happens when spyware infects your PC and starts spewing popup ads everywhere, charging you for the privilage? Or you mis-type a URL and get a hundred popup ads? I realise the former is very unlikely to happen with non-Windows users, but let's face it: most consumers today run Windows with IE, don't use Windows Update, and have never heard of a firewall.
Not quite. Remember how igloos have 2 doors? The very outside door, a small entryway, and then a door leading to the living quarters. Set your building up like that, and only allow one of the doors to be opened at the same time (except in case of fire or other emergency).
Windows aren't necessarily a requirement for buildings, although it probably would hurt employeee morale if there weren't any...
Any chances that you'ld be willing to provide a download spot for your scripts? I know that I can't be the only one interested in seeing how you did this:)
One popular solution I've seen is to use a Belkin TuneCast or similar item. Plugs into your speaker jack/line out/whatever and broadcasts a (short range. 50 yard) FM signal that you can tune in to. This one offers a choice of 4 different broadcast frequencies.
I would also place limits on patents such as the following:
1. No individual or corporation shall be able to apply for more than 1 patent a month.
2. If a patent is awarded and found to be invalid, the USPTO will refund all fees for that patent to the individual or company. At the same time, the individual or company will be unable to apply for ANY patents for a period of 1 year.
Odds are that you hook the CD player into your phone system through a "line in" jack. If you are playing a radio station over the intercom system, you already (should) have payed the fee to whatever music group that allows you to do a public performance. Extending this over the phone system would not include another fee.
If this isn't the case, I would recommend any material on which copyright has expired (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc). There should not be a fee for playing this type of music because it is in the public domain (at least until copyright is made retroactive 1000 years).
Just make sure that anything you're downloading has a couple of seeds before starting the download.;-)
And THAT is why this is unsuitable for your average user. They want to download it and expect it to work, regardless of how many other people are sharing it at the time. When's the last time you had a large file you were getting from an FTP site just disappear mid-download (except in the case of/. effect)?
Edit the registry to disable autorun??? You're out of your gourd! The answer to this (and many other Windows "features") is TweakUI It installs a new control panel icon that lets you enable/disable almost all of the automatic stuff that Windows can do.
I wouldn't send an old VCR (shipping costs). I would send pens and a ream of paper. They contribute towards copyright infringement every time a High School kid plagiarizes someone else's work w/o giving credit.
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Unless you want to be broadcasting "very important internal document" to the rest of the P2P network. I would recommend an alternate solution. Make an automatic file uploader that sends the document(s) to a secure web site. Either IM or e-mail the intended recipient, giving them the URL and username/password. Ideally, they would have the username and password previously and you don't have to send it over the Internet at all (give it to them via phone call). Let them know the document will be deleted from the web server in X number of days (15? 30? pick something reasonable).
Yesterday we had this article about reducing building electrical use with XML. Everyone jumped on it as playing up the fact that it used XML to implement the solution.
Here, we have a automatic car parking computer that plays up the fact it uses Linux as part of the solution. If it was using PalmOS or WindowsCE (or another non-open source OS), everyone would be up in arms.
What difference does it make how something was done, but for the fact it works? Granted, this car parking computer looks like it has quite a bit of refinement to go through before it'll work in the real world, but is nonetheless interesting. Insurance reasons, not technical, will probably be what kill this project. If you engage it to parallel park your vehicle and it rams the vehicles in front and in back of you, the vendor will be liable because it was their system that malfunctioned. The user engaged it, expecting it to behave as advertised.
I was thinking along the same lines, but extending it a bit more. What happens when spyware infects your PC and starts spewing popup ads everywhere, charging you for the privilage? Or you mis-type a URL and get a hundred popup ads? I realise the former is very unlikely to happen with non-Windows users, but let's face it: most consumers today run Windows with IE, don't use Windows Update, and have never heard of a firewall.
Not quite. Remember how igloos have 2 doors? The very outside door, a small entryway, and then a door leading to the living quarters. Set your building up like that, and only allow one of the doors to be opened at the same time (except in case of fire or other emergency).
Windows aren't necessarily a requirement for buildings, although it probably would hurt employeee morale if there weren't any...
Any chances that you'ld be willing to provide a download spot for your scripts? I know that I can't be the only one interested in seeing how you did this :)
One popular solution I've seen is to use a Belkin TuneCast or similar item. Plugs into your speaker jack/line out/whatever and broadcasts a (short range. 50 yard) FM signal that you can tune in to. This one offers a choice of 4 different broadcast frequencies.
I would also place limits on patents such as the following:
1. No individual or corporation shall be able to apply for more than 1 patent a month.
2. If a patent is awarded and found to be invalid, the USPTO will refund all fees for that patent to the individual or company. At the same time, the individual or company will be unable to apply for ANY patents for a period of 1 year.
and the almighty goatse shall appear!
I've always just used a riser card to get a PCI card to run parallel to the motherboard. What's so special about this?
Just remember this thie next time you see products advertised as "all natural": cyanide and arsenic are "all natural" too.
Odds are that you hook the CD player into your phone system through a "line in" jack. If you are playing a radio station over the intercom system, you already (should) have payed the fee to whatever music group that allows you to do a public performance. Extending this over the phone system would not include another fee.
If this isn't the case, I would recommend any material on which copyright has expired (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc). There should not be a fee for playing this type of music because it is in the public domain (at least until copyright is made retroactive 1000 years).
Just remember that you will be paying for any cure that Folding at Home comes up with. The pharma companies will make sure of that...
How does that differ from the "slashvertisements" we get every so often here about "new piece of hardware/software from company ________"?
Edit the registry to disable autorun??? You're out of your gourd! The answer to this (and many other Windows "features") is TweakUI It installs a new control panel icon that lets you enable/disable almost all of the automatic stuff that Windows can do.
I wouldn't send an old VCR (shipping costs). I would send pens and a ream of paper. They contribute towards copyright infringement every time a High School kid plagiarizes someone else's work w/o giving credit.
There goes my monitor tan!
Then how do you find a politician who DOESN'T introduce new taxes? I have yet to find just ONE!