Most of these endeavors from TFA may be pie-in-the-sky, literally; however, according to this article from the Economist the other week, the Goddard Space Flight Center has some serious plans for missions to the moon under direction of President Bush's Vision for Space Exploration. Going for the pie-in-the-sky plans may sound exciting and adventurous, but reality needs to set in eventually. Making gradual steps and acting when the technology is developed is the best plan to ensure safety and success in the space in the future.
Down in the CBD, which is only about 5 sq miles, you can get the country's first free municipal wifi network. It started up shortly after the hurricane. It's done wonders for stimulating opportunities for lower income residents. Well, at least the business folks making five times the average population can get free wifi.
From what i hear, this is just an attempt to create a protocol "hierarchy" where us lowly terran-based inhabitants are forced to fight amongst the allowable IPv4 addresses, while the more affluent elite who are permitted access to the great beyond get to roll with IPv6. Fight the powers!
Spot on in the analysis, if i follow it correctly... just one thing.
Where does Consumer B come into all this? Maybe Consumers B through E will invest in the technologies of Companys C through E and thus, allow them to dominate over Company's A and B shrinking market share over Consumer A. Thus desroying the buisness model that allowed them to do this in the first place!
I dont think printed circuit boards should be allowed to use the acronym PCB, its way too confusing. I just circulated this article to about 20 different experts and journals thinking they were talking about poly-chlorinated bi-phenyls.
What?! I read slashdot, did you really expect me to RFA?!?!
that this thing is too bulky, or too expensive, or not abusive enough from its petrol-consuming counterparts (yes electricity is petrol-consuming, not directly but indirectly, of course), i wait for the day when either the cost of your electricity is $1000s for your home and car because the supply has diminished to such a level there is hardly any left in the world anyway or we are so overwhelmed by the effects of globalwarming that we cannot go outside except in Tyvek suits and assisted-breating apparati and the use of such materials are banned. This will be so vogue and desired, i hope you guys (and gals, theres females on here right) are kicking yourself in the ass for complaing.
You dont get it, there is no solution to pollution. You dont answer byproduct. You live with it. Technology is almost by definition the manipulation of matter. And as time progresses we as humans force ourselves into more and more complex methods of manipulation; rather than working with the environment, living harmoniously with it, we transform and make it into our own polluted image.
However if you think you have to wait a 100 years to see nuclear waste stations dotting your landscape. Why dont you try your backyard today, with services like radiac and other private nuclear waste facilities. They just further your desire for bringing us closer to a) the mutation of our species to something else, or b)the death of us all. Pick your poison i say. I prefer green.
But, who CAN do it safely? Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Hanford...and now Rocky Flats. Fact is it will never be done safely, and it cant. So, as long as you are willing to live with known risk, even if considered to the smallest degree, of human endangerment, then i say go for it, build away.
One of the biggest reasons i swore off Maxtor for the last two years was a new policy in their RMA dept that says they WILLNOT accept an HD for return unless you run Maxblast software which analyzes the drive and returns a code to repeat to them over the phone. I had a bad drive that i couldnt return for six months because i couldnt run the software? Why...? Well it only runs on a 3.5" floppy. If you dont have that installed on your computer the software wont work, no ability to use a flash drive, burned cd, etc. I personally have not had a floppy drive in my computer for over three years. All the ones i had didnt work. And i wasnt going to go out and buy one just for a replace hard drive. I would rather just never buy from Maxtor again. There was a time when their warranty service impressed me, but requiring the software code killed it for me. BTW- the code was something really stupid like BADDRIVE or something. Go figure. Western Digital till the end for me now...
I heard gentoo was the way to go. I revved it up in 04 (after many uninspiring stints with Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE, i even cheated on my wonderful gentoo for Lindows and whatever its called now, Ubuntu, and Debian, yet i still run to Gentoo) and i have been burning the rice at both ends since. I wouldnt call myself Anti-Microsoft, merely frustrated with all its downfalls. I am actually EXCITED everytime i make headway on a Gentoo box. I learn so much more about computing (not being an IT person, its merely for the interest, like a hobby) which makes me a stronger computer-user in general. I like things that are a challenge because they are interesting (like linux), not because they are frustrating (like Win).
This statement is completely circular. First you say you're spread out because the closest work is 25-40 miles away and defend it by saying that affordable housing is hard to find. Well here is one consideration, the housing wouldnt be so expensive if you didnt have a car or payment and the loads of gas you buy to traverse these insane distances. I have recently moved to a sprawled city and hate the amount i have had to increase my driving to get to work only because the public transport, i.e. buses are practically non-existant. The ironic thing is, new housing developments are popping up every 5000ft while older apartments and housing goes vacant, not because it costs too much (really it is cheaper actually) and is not centrally located (the downtown sections of most cities are falling to disrepair and abandonment even though this is where most of the work is), but because everyone wants to keep up with jones' by buying NEW! Its depressing and dangerous for our future. We should cluster our cities, and abandon far out towns for agricultural and preservationary purposes only. There is no point in developing every last square of land until weve paved over every inch of the 70% permittable area.
The radiation safety field has been using plexiglass (polymethylmethacrylate) as shielding against high energy beta particles for decades so its not very surprising that another polymer of a similar type can be used to shield against intrastellar particles of a similar type. The thing to understand is that although they liken the structure to that of a garbage bag, the higher the energy of the particle, the thicker the material needs to be and since those particles have very high energy in space, it is likely you are going to have a ten foot thick garbage bag as your shielding in future space ships...
I dont know im kind of reluctant to go down that route with the VideoPod as you so creatively call it:) (being not too into ipods i like to call it the Personal Media Player, PMP). Only because to really enjoy it you have to at LEAST have a 5" screen... but thats LCD which if it breaks yr out of a schtload of money, good luck with a warranty on that. So the design could be clamshell, now you nearly doubled your width. So now you are carrying around this big bulky piece of junk just to whip out and maybe get 15-30mins of viewing time in on a commute or something, unless its a plane, but come on who doesnt ride on a plane with a 5" screen staring you in the face anyway? And come on, its portable so you better not be watching that thing at home?! It just doesnt seem what it would be worth to buy.
As for the large capacity player, heres all you have to do if you really want one, buy the XClef i linked in my first post (399USD), buy that fujitsu 120GB drive from the last post (~250USD), slap it in there. Now you have that 120GB pod original poster was screaming about, it cost you ~650USD. Dont see what the big deal is was my point. And if it got mass produced its gonna cost that much AT LEAST, so there you go. Tomorrows technology today:).
Granted. And i think you especially with not even with since shn and flac albums go well over a couple hundred megs but my point is at this stage of the game there is just no need let alone a motivation for these companys to want to produce a 120GB or 200GB player since most people are running around with a half filled 20GB player today! See these companies are building for today except for the exceedingly small R&D departments which are building concept not next-gen. They arent going to mass produce a 200GB player for 50 djs in rotterdam who want a lossless codec. You better be able to sell a couple million units minimum before that happens. Especially at the price of that kind of tech TODAY! I mean didnt Fujutisu JUST make a 120GB 2.5" drive for the first time like a few months ago?!
Well you are right, the law was passed in 1996, but was finished and began being enforced in 2003. If you havent worked in a hospital environment in this time. The HIPAA hysteria was not as bad as it is today. It is very difficult to know all the rules and when to use them and when to not, and most workers are very concerned whether this or that action violates the law as they should be! And I can assure you, even the possibility of taking those records home today of which you speak would be completely illegal. Even providing information to police without a warrant as parent to my original comment is illegal. Just because you could sell them and make money and didnt do it, which obviously NEVER crossed your mind:), doesnt mean it wasnt illegal. And your statement could be changed to any law really. "DMCA is only as good as the people who use it and oversee it, e.g." At any rate, i was trying to point out that the privacy of such a device would be crucially considered by the organizations that would authorize its use.
Come on... do you REALLY NEED 120GB of music on one device? Let me put it to you this way, do you need (i mean need not want, and by need i mean have enough music to fill it up at this moment) 6 ipods? I actually easily have this much music but come on, the amount of time to listen to it all would be in the range of months! I find even on one of my little 20GB players i sit there for 10mins flipping through directories trying to decide what to play... 120GB would only increase the amount of time i would take to decide.
At any rate, there have been 100GB players available for awhile now, most notably the XClef 500. Though i believe it uses a 2.5" HD. So now yr one ipod short.
I would suggest you arent too familar with the healthcare sector... A major law been enacted in the last two years that revolutionized how privacy issues are handled in the healthcare industry. The HIPPAA law has created quite frankly an almost overwhelming weight of regulations regarding patient and information privacy issues that are difficult to wade through as a healthcare worker. Nonetheless, i assure you nothing like this would even be considered for practical use unless very stringent requirements of privacy were considered.
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Most of these endeavors from TFA may be pie-in-the-sky, literally; however, according to this article from the Economist the other week, the Goddard Space Flight Center has some serious plans for missions to the moon under direction of President Bush's Vision for Space Exploration. Going for the pie-in-the-sky plans may sound exciting and adventurous, but reality needs to set in eventually. Making gradual steps and acting when the technology is developed is the best plan to ensure safety and success in the space in the future.
Do i still have to pay if i didn't enjoy it?
I wrote about blogs on my blog!
Down in the CBD, which is only about 5 sq miles, you can get the country's first free municipal wifi network. It started up shortly after the hurricane. It's done wonders for stimulating opportunities for lower income residents. Well, at least the business folks making five times the average population can get free wifi.
Expect to see endless lawsuits spring up about this. But really, is there ground to stand on against this?
Quick, everyone mod him redundant
From what i hear, this is just an attempt to create a protocol "hierarchy" where us lowly terran-based inhabitants are forced to fight amongst the allowable IPv4 addresses, while the more affluent elite who are permitted access to the great beyond get to roll with IPv6. Fight the powers!
Spot on in the analysis, if i follow it correctly... just one thing.
Where does Consumer B come into all this? Maybe Consumers B through E will invest in the technologies of Companys C through E and thus, allow them to dominate over Company's A and B shrinking market share over Consumer A. Thus desroying the buisness model that allowed them to do this in the first place!
SMB was a linux to windows networking protocol... it has NOTHING to do with Apple, duh!
I dont think printed circuit boards should be allowed to use the acronym PCB, its way too confusing. I just circulated this article to about 20 different experts and journals thinking they were talking about poly-chlorinated bi-phenyls.
What?! I read slashdot, did you really expect me to RFA?!?!
I choose B), deal with it.
Come on, if yr gonna brew up something like that, at least do something useful... like LSD!
RIP the operation of Mr. Pickard.
that this thing is too bulky, or too expensive, or not abusive enough from its petrol-consuming counterparts (yes electricity is petrol-consuming, not directly but indirectly, of course), i wait for the day when either the cost of your electricity is $1000s for your home and car because the supply has diminished to such a level there is hardly any left in the world anyway or we are so overwhelmed by the effects of globalwarming that we cannot go outside except in Tyvek suits and assisted-breating apparati and the use of such materials are banned. This will be so vogue and desired, i hope you guys (and gals, theres females on here right) are kicking yourself in the ass for complaing.
You dont get it, there is no solution to pollution. You dont answer byproduct. You live with it. Technology is almost by definition the manipulation of matter. And as time progresses we as humans force ourselves into more and more complex methods of manipulation; rather than working with the environment, living harmoniously with it, we transform and make it into our own polluted image.
However if you think you have to wait a 100 years to see nuclear waste stations dotting your landscape. Why dont you try your backyard today, with services like radiac and other private nuclear waste facilities. They just further your desire for bringing us closer to a) the mutation of our species to something else, or b)the death of us all. Pick your poison i say. I prefer green.
But, who CAN do it safely? Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Hanford... and now Rocky Flats. Fact is it will never be done safely, and it cant. So, as long as you are willing to live with known risk, even if considered to the smallest degree, of human endangerment, then i say go for it, build away.
Speaking of greenbacks and paper swans...
One of the biggest reasons i swore off Maxtor for the last two years was a new policy in their RMA dept that says they WILLNOT accept an HD for return unless you run Maxblast software which analyzes the drive and returns a code to repeat to them over the phone. I had a bad drive that i couldnt return for six months because i couldnt run the software? Why...? Well it only runs on a 3.5" floppy. If you dont have that installed on your computer the software wont work, no ability to use a flash drive, burned cd, etc. I personally have not had a floppy drive in my computer for over three years. All the ones i had didnt work. And i wasnt going to go out and buy one just for a replace hard drive. I would rather just never buy from Maxtor again.
There was a time when their warranty service impressed me, but requiring the software code killed it for me. BTW- the code was something really stupid like BADDRIVE or something. Go figure.
Western Digital till the end for me now...
I heard gentoo was the way to go. I revved it up in 04 (after many uninspiring stints with Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE, i even cheated on my wonderful gentoo for Lindows and whatever its called now, Ubuntu, and Debian, yet i still run to Gentoo) and i have been burning the rice at both ends since. I wouldnt call myself Anti-Microsoft, merely frustrated with all its downfalls. I am actually EXCITED everytime i make headway on a Gentoo box. I learn so much more about computing (not being an IT person, its merely for the interest, like a hobby) which makes me a stronger computer-user in general. I like things that are a challenge because they are interesting (like linux), not because they are frustrating (like Win).
This statement is completely circular. First you say you're spread out because the closest work is 25-40 miles away and defend it by saying that affordable housing is hard to find. Well here is one consideration, the housing wouldnt be so expensive if you didnt have a car or payment and the loads of gas you buy to traverse these insane distances. I have recently moved to a sprawled city and hate the amount i have had to increase my driving to get to work only because the public transport, i.e. buses are practically non-existant. The ironic thing is, new housing developments are popping up every 5000ft while older apartments and housing goes vacant, not because it costs too much (really it is cheaper actually) and is not centrally located (the downtown sections of most cities are falling to disrepair and abandonment even though this is where most of the work is), but because everyone wants to keep up with jones' by buying NEW! Its depressing and dangerous for our future. We should cluster our cities, and abandon far out towns for agricultural and preservationary purposes only. There is no point in developing every last square of land until weve paved over every inch of the 70% permittable area.
The radiation safety field has been using plexiglass (polymethylmethacrylate) as shielding against high energy beta particles for decades so its not very surprising that another polymer of a similar type can be used to shield against intrastellar particles of a similar type. The thing to understand is that although they liken the structure to that of a garbage bag, the higher the energy of the particle, the thicker the material needs to be and since those particles have very high energy in space, it is likely you are going to have a ten foot thick garbage bag as your shielding in future space ships...
I dont know im kind of reluctant to go down that route with the VideoPod as you so creatively call it :) (being not too into ipods i like to call it the Personal Media Player, PMP). Only because to really enjoy it you have to at LEAST have a 5" screen... but thats LCD which if it breaks yr out of a schtload of money, good luck with a warranty on that. So the design could be clamshell, now you nearly doubled your width. So now you are carrying around this big bulky piece of junk just to whip out and maybe get 15-30mins of viewing time in on a commute or something, unless its a plane, but come on who doesnt ride on a plane with a 5" screen staring you in the face anyway? And come on, its portable so you better not be watching that thing at home?! It just doesnt seem what it would be worth to buy. :).
As for the large capacity player, heres all you have to do if you really want one, buy the XClef i linked in my first post (399USD), buy that fujitsu 120GB drive from the last post (~250USD), slap it in there. Now you have that 120GB pod original poster was screaming about, it cost you ~650USD. Dont see what the big deal is was my point. And if it got mass produced its gonna cost that much AT LEAST, so there you go. Tomorrows technology today
Granted. And i think you especially with not even with since shn and flac albums go well over a couple hundred megs but my point is at this stage of the game there is just no need let alone a motivation for these companys to want to produce a 120GB or 200GB player since most people are running around with a half filled 20GB player today! See these companies are building for today except for the exceedingly small R&D departments which are building concept not next-gen. They arent going to mass produce a 200GB player for 50 djs in rotterdam who want a lossless codec. You better be able to sell a couple million units minimum before that happens. Especially at the price of that kind of tech TODAY! I mean didnt Fujutisu JUST make a 120GB 2.5" drive for the first time like a few months ago?!
Well you are right, the law was passed in 1996, but was finished and began being enforced in 2003. If you havent worked in a hospital environment in this time. The HIPAA hysteria was not as bad as it is today. It is very difficult to know all the rules and when to use them and when to not, and most workers are very concerned whether this or that action violates the law as they should be! And I can assure you, even the possibility of taking those records home today of which you speak would be completely illegal. Even providing information to police without a warrant as parent to my original comment is illegal. Just because you could sell them and make money and didnt do it, which obviously NEVER crossed your mind :), doesnt mean it wasnt illegal. And your statement could be changed to any law really. "DMCA is only as good as the people who use it and oversee it, e.g." At any rate, i was trying to point out that the privacy of such a device would be crucially considered by the organizations that would authorize its use.
Come on... do you REALLY NEED 120GB of music on one device? Let me put it to you this way, do you need (i mean need not want, and by need i mean have enough music to fill it up at this moment) 6 ipods? I actually easily have this much music but come on, the amount of time to listen to it all would be in the range of months! I find even on one of my little 20GB players i sit there for 10mins flipping through directories trying to decide what to play... 120GB would only increase the amount of time i would take to decide.
At any rate, there have been 100GB players available for awhile now, most notably the XClef 500. Though i believe it uses a 2.5" HD. So now yr one ipod short.
I would suggest you arent too familar with the healthcare sector... A major law been enacted in the last two years that revolutionized how privacy issues are handled in the healthcare industry. The HIPPAA law has created quite frankly an almost overwhelming weight of regulations regarding patient and information privacy issues that are difficult to wade through as a healthcare worker. Nonetheless, i assure you nothing like this would even be considered for practical use unless very stringent requirements of privacy were considered.