Tablet PC on a desk = lighter than 3 ring-binders, easily portable, easy to use (Touch screen).
Laptops are getting there, but a tablet PC is an ideal replacement for paper. I did look at shoving a Linux distro on but for what I needed (A quick, reliable notekeeper software) I'm afraid OneNote won.
Even MSDN itself confuses terms, advertising Vista downloads on the public pages but referring to Longhorn in all the downloads for subscribers. The software calls itself Vista, but the download title is "Windows Longhorn Beta 1"
I know saying this on/. is probably suicide, but Microsoft Office OneNote on a tablet PC is absolutely brilliant for working in a school/college/university. I cut 6 lever-arch files down to one tablet PC.
Conversion is the time consuming bit. Find something you can start a 'digital everything' policy on such as a new project at work, and encourage other people to do the same. Eventually you convert old things you use to digital because it saves time, and eventually everything is converted without you noticing.
If all you do is drive your little darling the 5 minutes to school every morning, you would do far better in a small city car than a 4x4. The fact you drive less does not mean that you should drive a vehicle not suited to the job. I wouldn't try doing farm work in a Honda Civic, and I wouldn't try driving to the shops in a Land Rover with snorkel.
You say you bike - this is the ideal solution. I would personally say don't drive at all if it can be solved by a 10 minute walk or a 10 minute bike ride (Carring heavy loads does make a car necessary, so obvious exclusions apply).
But anyway, back to your 'trivial' pollution. Assume a school of 300 children. A few of these will be related, so say 200 car journeys. If every one of these was in an SUV but it's only a short journey with 'trivial' pollution then do the math. Suddenly it's a lot of pollution for something which could be solved by 5 minutes walking and excercise to boot!
The USA is doubtlessly the source of this abysmal misuse of 4x4 vehicles, but it's certainly spreading to the UK where mothers drive huge 4x4s to drop off their single child to the school a 5 minute walk down the road.
Just make the minimum required fuel efficiency far lower than it is currently. It's possible to build a 4x4 around an efficient engine, why not make it compulsory and if you feel the need to pay 150% for the fact your car is 3' taller and makes you feel 'safer' on the road then more fool you.
Actually they're useful for carrying around to half a litre of water, and as such unlubricated extra-strong condoms are recommended for inclusion into emergency survival kits.
On the more entertaining side, microwave an extra-strong condom for 4 seconds and it will stretch over a Mini.
Trouble is, I use Bluetooth on a couple of devices as a base state of being ie I walk around with it turned on. Why? Because then my PDA and phone can keep in sync with various PCs without me needing to muck around with cables or even turning bluetooth on explicitly. I just walk past the general area.
Is there any way of having selective bluetooth, so it waits for a trusted device (say a PC broadcasting a ping every 5 secs) before fully turning on bluetooth?
I'd rather have one organisation being monolithic about patents than a lot of smaller ones which will lead to worse problems.
G0T 1N\/3NT10N? P4T3NT 4 $4.99!!!!!!!!!
It's bad enough as it is without 15 companies competing on price, ease of use and general mucking about. Plus, what's to stop Microsoft creating a spin-off to specialise in software patents? Not that it would be biased, of course.
One problem with multiple patent companies - patents need to be centrally referenced to prevent doubling of them. This needs a central body. Say, the patent office.
Look at the photo. You see the deep end, the longest wall visible is the deep end wall. The slope visible on the left is the beginning of the slope to the shallow end, meaning there is most of the pool out of shot.
For a server that's fine, but for a workstation I don't want to edit config files stored in a different folder for every distro, application or variation around.
You'll find Windows has this thing called Group Policies for centrally controlling most aspects of the OS. On an application level, there is the app's own config.
I'm not saying Windows is ultimate, I'm not saying Linux is useless. But I am saying Windows is far nicer to use as a workstation for those of us who don't have time to edit config files or customise applications by learning language xyz and finding the exact library to do what we want.
On the other hand, when paid to get systems running precicely as specified, Linux is ideal because the time usually spent using the system can be spent in configuration, after which the box mostly runs itself (ie a server).
In some places Linux excells, in others Windows excells. Similarly, OS X has its perfect uses, as does BSD.
When you find the linux that works without me needing to persistantly edit config files, recompile applications, maintain complex version dependencies, and is generally a bugger to use quickly unless you have time to spare configuring it first, get back to me.
If your ISP only has one upstream provider then I'd suggest finding a new ISP, especially for business. If you're a big enough company, look at the possibility of getting your multiple upstream providers so it's not just one line to fail.
As for not having redundant equipment at a business level, even single redundancy on your firewall/edge router, there is no excuse.
At the moment I believe recommendation is not to sit children in a front seat where the airbags are going to hit them, and *certainly* not in a rear-facing child seat.
As for seatbelts, all things take time to perfect. The number of deaths have gone down since seatbelts were introduced, because the chances of one jamming with the driver in a life threatening situation are far slimmer than the chances of the driver being catapulted through the windscreen either head-first into whatever the car hit or head-first into the road.
Catalytic converters? See point about technology needing maturity time. I agree the compulsory cat converters was premature, but now they're more reliable there is no excuse.
Visibly, mains cable and antenna cable don't look that different. Still, I know which one I'd rather cut through by accident.
As it happens, the varying twist rate helps prevent cross-talk, reduces the effect of the cable acting as an antenna, and generally looks fairly cool. The dialectric of the insulation doesn't really feature, unless you're talking about shielded stuff.
In the UK at least (Can't speak for the US, sorry) in a major disaster all mobile companies have a plan which effectively shuts down the network for non-emergency calls. There are some pre-selected users (normally emergency coordinators etc) who recieve service, but for the average Joe all they can make is 999 or 112 (Standard UK emergency number) calls. It can also have other numbers (such as disaster helplines) added to the 'allow all calls' list, meaning people aren't isolated.
Whilst this doesn't deal with hardware damage, it does mean that what is left isn't overwhelmed by non-essential calls.
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SSL 2.0 is to SSL 3.0 as HTTP/1.0 is to HTTP/1.1 surely?
the x16 is a bit pathetic, but 1024x768 means you can fit 4 of them on a high res monitor. There is method in this madness.
Tablet PC on a desk = lighter than 3 ring-binders, easily portable, easy to use (Touch screen).
Laptops are getting there, but a tablet PC is an ideal replacement for paper. I did look at shoving a Linux distro on but for what I needed (A quick, reliable notekeeper software) I'm afraid OneNote won.
Even MSDN itself confuses terms, advertising Vista downloads on the public pages but referring to Longhorn in all the downloads for subscribers. The software calls itself Vista, but the download title is "Windows Longhorn Beta 1"
Solution?
Go up.
HP tr3000 - I knocked it off desks for a whole year and it kept going.
I know saying this on /. is probably suicide, but Microsoft Office OneNote on a tablet PC is absolutely brilliant for working in a school/college/university. I cut 6 lever-arch files down to one tablet PC.
Conversion is the time consuming bit. Find something you can start a 'digital everything' policy on such as a new project at work, and encourage other people to do the same. Eventually you convert old things you use to digital because it saves time, and eventually everything is converted without you noticing.
I would have thought that they're more likely to suffocate you...
SMART do actually make quite a nice 5-seater car, but I doubt it has reached the US yet.
If all you do is drive your little darling the 5 minutes to school every morning, you would do far better in a small city car than a 4x4. The fact you drive less does not mean that you should drive a vehicle not suited to the job. I wouldn't try doing farm work in a Honda Civic, and I wouldn't try driving to the shops in a Land Rover with snorkel.
You say you bike - this is the ideal solution. I would personally say don't drive at all if it can be solved by a 10 minute walk or a 10 minute bike ride (Carring heavy loads does make a car necessary, so obvious exclusions apply).
But anyway, back to your 'trivial' pollution. Assume a school of 300 children. A few of these will be related, so say 200 car journeys. If every one of these was in an SUV but it's only a short journey with 'trivial' pollution then do the math. Suddenly it's a lot of pollution for something which could be solved by 5 minutes walking and excercise to boot!
The USA is doubtlessly the source of this abysmal misuse of 4x4 vehicles, but it's certainly spreading to the UK where mothers drive huge 4x4s to drop off their single child to the school a 5 minute walk down the road.
Just make the minimum required fuel efficiency far lower than it is currently. It's possible to build a 4x4 around an efficient engine, why not make it compulsory and if you feel the need to pay 150% for the fact your car is 3' taller and makes you feel 'safer' on the road then more fool you.
Alternatively, just make SMART cars compulsory.
Cooper.
How in God's name did that get insightful?
FYI I've got one. How are you doing?
Actually they're useful for carrying around to half a litre of water, and as such unlubricated extra-strong condoms are recommended for inclusion into emergency survival kits.
On the more entertaining side, microwave an extra-strong condom for 4 seconds and it will stretch over a Mini.
Trouble is, I use Bluetooth on a couple of devices as a base state of being ie I walk around with it turned on. Why? Because then my PDA and phone can keep in sync with various PCs without me needing to muck around with cables or even turning bluetooth on explicitly. I just walk past the general area.
Is there any way of having selective bluetooth, so it waits for a trusted device (say a PC broadcasting a ping every 5 secs) before fully turning on bluetooth?
Who looks after the database?
I'd rather have one organisation being monolithic about patents than a lot of smaller ones which will lead to worse problems.
G0T 1N\/3NT10N? P4T3NT 4 $4.99!!!!!!!!!
It's bad enough as it is without 15 companies competing on price, ease of use and general mucking about. Plus, what's to stop Microsoft creating a spin-off to specialise in software patents? Not that it would be biased, of course.
One problem with multiple patent companies - patents need to be centrally referenced to prevent doubling of them. This needs a central body. Say, the patent office.
Look at the photo. You see the deep end, the longest wall visible is the deep end wall. The slope visible on the left is the beginning of the slope to the shallow end, meaning there is most of the pool out of shot.
For a server that's fine, but for a workstation I don't want to edit config files stored in a different folder for every distro, application or variation around.
You'll find Windows has this thing called Group Policies for centrally controlling most aspects of the OS. On an application level, there is the app's own config.
I'm not saying Windows is ultimate, I'm not saying Linux is useless. But I am saying Windows is far nicer to use as a workstation for those of us who don't have time to edit config files or customise applications by learning language xyz and finding the exact library to do what we want.
On the other hand, when paid to get systems running precicely as specified, Linux is ideal because the time usually spent using the system can be spent in configuration, after which the box mostly runs itself (ie a server).
In some places Linux excells, in others Windows excells. Similarly, OS X has its perfect uses, as does BSD.
When you find the linux that works without me needing to persistantly edit config files, recompile applications, maintain complex version dependencies, and is generally a bugger to use quickly unless you have time to spare configuring it first, get back to me.
If your ISP only has one upstream provider then I'd suggest finding a new ISP, especially for business. If you're a big enough company, look at the possibility of getting your multiple upstream providers so it's not just one line to fail.
As for not having redundant equipment at a business level, even single redundancy on your firewall/edge router, there is no excuse.
Oh I wish I had mod points :D
At the moment I believe recommendation is not to sit children in a front seat where the airbags are going to hit them, and *certainly* not in a rear-facing child seat.
As for seatbelts, all things take time to perfect. The number of deaths have gone down since seatbelts were introduced, because the chances of one jamming with the driver in a life threatening situation are far slimmer than the chances of the driver being catapulted through the windscreen either head-first into whatever the car hit or head-first into the road.
Catalytic converters? See point about technology needing maturity time. I agree the compulsory cat converters was premature, but now they're more reliable there is no excuse.
Visibly, mains cable and antenna cable don't look that different. Still, I know which one I'd rather cut through by accident.
As it happens, the varying twist rate helps prevent cross-talk, reduces the effect of the cable acting as an antenna, and generally looks fairly cool. The dialectric of the insulation doesn't really feature, unless you're talking about shielded stuff.
In the UK at least (Can't speak for the US, sorry) in a major disaster all mobile companies have a plan which effectively shuts down the network for non-emergency calls. There are some pre-selected users (normally emergency coordinators etc) who recieve service, but for the average Joe all they can make is 999 or 112 (Standard UK emergency number) calls. It can also have other numbers (such as disaster helplines) added to the 'allow all calls' list, meaning people aren't isolated.
Whilst this doesn't deal with hardware damage, it does mean that what is left isn't overwhelmed by non-essential calls.