I am pretty sure that we have (maybe) one generation of optical disc technology to go before solid-state technology overwhelms it. Data will be transferred over the network or with small solid-state storage devices (MicroSD?).
You might find the ZoneMinder project useful. It is a Linux open-source project that handles video surveillance. They also have a discussion forum that should provide even more information, such as camera selection.
I feel that only Christians have the wisdom that God gives, and I feel that this wisdom is essential for a man who is to be President.
A man's faith determines who he is, and influences what decisions he will make.
This country was founded by men of faith, and I'd like to keep it that way.
America should never be a theocracy. There are too many idiots out there who try to speak for God but have never heard his voice. The first amendment was wisely written to exclude any possibility of an official state church.
Huckabee: Apparent Conservative. Christian. Willing to try new things, like redoing the tax system.
McCain: Gun-grabbing wimp, whose thinking doesn't line up with most Republicans.
Romney: Former governor of a gun-grabbing Liberal state. Mormon. Flip/Flopper.
It is absolutely essential that my candidate by unquestionably Christian and Conservative. Huckabee is my current choice (though Thompson would have been better in some regards).
What they need to do is encourage companies to put in private electronic billboards. Municipalities would then require, as a part of the license, that the signs show critical data in times of emergency.
Criminals love the absence of light. Light, especially when activated suddenly, scares them away.
Which do you prefer, violent crime or pretty -- useless -- stars?
Apparently, the FCC has not yet realized that traditional broadcast television -- other than for hobbiest purposes -- will not exist beyond the next decade. As evidenced by the success of the TIVO and other DVR devices, consumers want to choose what they see and when they see it, which is incompatible with the broadcast method.
Since the existing television spectrum won't be used anyway in a few years, what's the big deal?
My brain features the Logic subroutine, which prevents me from falling for scams like phishing. This is a killer application; everyone should install it!
We've been using the business class of Verizon's FTTP service for a few months. Their entry level is $100/month, and they give you a solid connection, no nonsense, and 5 public IP addresses. They do the install and everything.
We've been pretty happy with it, but recently Verizon seems to have been doing maintenance, and connection speed has gone downhill. This is not typical, however.
An added advantage of using Verizon for the connection is that they also provide residential connections. This allows those in the local area to have faster access to videos that are hosted by us.
Another disadvantage of FIOS is that Verizon, being a large corporation, isn't very good at providing quality and timely telephone customer service. I waited an hour once, being transfered all around the country, trying to get instructions for using the free dial-up from anywhere service that is included free with the package.
Overall, I've been happy with FIOS, and would recommend looking into it if it is available in your area.
In contrast to the original article, you can obtain the fiber Internet connection separate from your telephone service. This may only be true for the business package. We are only purchasing our Internet connection from Verizon, our phone lines are coming from another provider.
We have it here, from Verizon. The basic home deal is 5/2 Mbps for $35, which is what DSL cost a year ago. My only beef with it is that it uses PPPoE, instead of DHCP. They also block port 80, and you are not supposed to host any servers on it. Our install took about five hours, which included us convincing them to put some extra wires in. Granted, we are a family of computer geeks, so we all had a good time.
We recently changed over our church from a microwave link to the fiber business deal. For $100 a month, we get 15/2 Mbps, five static public IP addresses, and no blocked ports or other interference. What impressed me is that connection is truly static and doesn't have any sort of PPPoE nonsense. Sure beats paying the same price for a 256/256 connection, with one static IP.
Both packages include the D-Link DI-624 Wireless Router. For both setups, I have the router acting as a switch/access point instead of routing, due to the fact that IPCop does the job perfectly well for us.
Looking at the traffic graphs on our IPCop firewalls, we have yet to actually fully utilize the bandwidth available to us.
"... but locking to WMV is a sin."
Exactly; try to find a universal format for your files.
I use Darwin Streaming Server (the free version of Quicktime Server). It does its job well. For formats that Darwin does not support, I use good old fashioned HTTP streaming via Apache. I use these because of cost, security, and simplicity; they run on Linux.
Another thing to consider is transcoding. You may be able to keep everyone happy by keeping your original files in a high-resolution format and transcoding them to the requested format (file type, size) that your users need. Keep the transcoded files in a cache on your media servers, and leave the original on your file server.
I started (at about 10 years old) playing with QBasic examples from a kids programming book. I would type them in exactly, and then modify them.
When I was about 11, my father created a web page for me, and required me to maintain it myself. I made all changes by hand, through trial and error. No fancy GUI tools at that age!
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that's why we have so many lousy "web designers" these days! Kids are spoiled rotten by pretty web tools from Geocities and the like that spit out horrible code, and the kids are satisfied with it, and proclaim to me "I made a web page, aren't you proud of me????". They aren't willing to receive advice either, and think that HTML is hard to learn.:-(
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When I was a sophomore in HS (would've preferred starting programming as a freshman, but they made me take a computer application class as a pre-req), I learned the basics of MS's Visual Basic 6. I liked the quick results, which are essential if you want to get someone's interest long enough to actually teach them something. Most of the kids were there because the description in the course selection book basically said "Create cool programs by dragging icons onto a form". I actually helped teach this class. (By the way, it took six months of annoyed programming before I figured out that "End if" was a statement, not a condition. Nobody had bothered to explain it, they just told me I had to have it there because the compiler demanded it.)
My junior year, I learned the basics of C++. We spent almost the entire time making basic command line programs. This was good, because I actually had to learn structure and the importance of good code and documentation, rather than making a mess because I was in a hurry. I also was forced to learn the importance of planning, rather than the dive-in method.
Now, I am getting into PHP, which is relatively easy for me, because it is very similar to C++, and I already understand HTML. It also helps that there are lots of tutorials out there for it, and it is fun to play with.
My case was a little different than most kids these days, because my father is a programmer, and I had been exposed to computers all of my life, and had been required to fix my own problems, with guidance from him only when I really needed it. My oldest brother was formatting floppies from the DOS command line at 5. We had all built at least one computer and did all setup (format the hard drive, figure out why DOS refused to install, etc.) on it by the age of 10.
If you are willing to spend the cash, TI now has a keyboard that can be hooked into your calculator for note taking. Their goal is to make their calculators (I have a TI83 Plus Silver Edition) useful for every class.
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Don't buy her a ring that cannot be cut off in an emergency. Make sure that the ring cutter they use will be able to penetrate the ring's material.
I am pretty sure that we have (maybe) one generation of optical disc technology to go before solid-state technology overwhelms it. Data will be transferred over the network or with small solid-state storage devices (MicroSD?).
It's Y2K all over again! :-D
Use a standard deck of playing cards. Each suit represents an exercise, and each value represents the number of repetitions.
Shuffle and enjoy.
An example: http://www.ehow.com/how_2100794_cardio-circuit-workout-deck-cards.html
You might find the ZoneMinder project useful. It is a Linux open-source project that handles video surveillance. They also have a discussion forum that should provide even more information, such as camera selection.
I thought the Dell Latitude XT supported multi-touch?
"SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" is pretty clear to me.
I feel that only Christians have the wisdom that God gives, and I feel that this wisdom is essential for a man who is to be President.
A man's faith determines who he is, and influences what decisions he will make.
This country was founded by men of faith, and I'd like to keep it that way.
America should never be a theocracy. There are too many idiots out there who try to speak for God but have never heard his voice. The first amendment was wisely written to exclude any possibility of an official state church.
Huckabee: Apparent Conservative. Christian. Willing to try new things, like redoing the tax system.
McCain: Gun-grabbing wimp, whose thinking doesn't line up with most Republicans.
Romney: Former governor of a gun-grabbing Liberal state. Mormon. Flip/Flopper. It is absolutely essential that my candidate by unquestionably Christian and Conservative. Huckabee is my current choice (though Thompson would have been better in some regards).
Go after the Arabs and crazy people and leave everyone else alone. Think probability, not hurt feelings.
What they need to do is encourage companies to put in private electronic billboards. Municipalities would then require, as a part of the license, that the signs show critical data in times of emergency.
I was the valedictorian of a class of one (a small church school).
Criminals love the absence of light. Light, especially when activated suddenly, scares them away. Which do you prefer, violent crime or pretty -- useless -- stars?
The Supreme Court has ruled that you are required to identify yourself to the police upon request.
Apparently, the FCC has not yet realized that traditional broadcast television -- other than for hobbiest purposes -- will not exist beyond the next decade. As evidenced by the success of the TIVO and other DVR devices, consumers want to choose what they see and when they see it, which is incompatible with the broadcast method. Since the existing television spectrum won't be used anyway in a few years, what's the big deal?
I'm still hoping for an Enterprise C movie or series. There has been little information about it other than what we saw in "Yesterday's Enterprise".
I went to the Sun.com website and what advertisement do they pick to show me? "Power Up and Go!".
I'd definitely go with the fellow/gal who worked his way through school.
My brain features the Logic subroutine, which prevents me from falling for scams like phishing. This is a killer application; everyone should install it!
We've been using the business class of Verizon's FTTP service for a few months. Their entry level is $100/month, and they give you a solid connection, no nonsense, and 5 public IP addresses. They do the install and everything.
We've been pretty happy with it, but recently Verizon seems to have been doing maintenance, and connection speed has gone downhill. This is not typical, however.
An added advantage of using Verizon for the connection is that they also provide residential connections. This allows those in the local area to have faster access to videos that are hosted by us.
Another disadvantage of FIOS is that Verizon, being a large corporation, isn't very good at providing quality and timely telephone customer service. I waited an hour once, being transfered all around the country, trying to get instructions for using the free dial-up from anywhere service that is included free with the package.
Overall, I've been happy with FIOS, and would recommend looking into it if it is available in your area.
Or other public domain videos, such as those from the Internet Archive. The Prelinger Archives, in particular, is really good.
In contrast to the original article, you can obtain the fiber Internet connection separate from your telephone service. This may only be true for the business package. We are only purchasing our Internet connection from Verizon, our phone lines are coming from another provider.
We have it here, from Verizon. The basic home deal is 5/2 Mbps for $35, which is what DSL cost a year ago. My only beef with it is that it uses PPPoE, instead of DHCP. They also block port 80, and you are not supposed to host any servers on it. Our install took about five hours, which included us convincing them to put some extra wires in. Granted, we are a family of computer geeks, so we all had a good time.
We recently changed over our church from a microwave link to the fiber business deal. For $100 a month, we get 15/2 Mbps, five static public IP addresses, and no blocked ports or other interference. What impressed me is that connection is truly static and doesn't have any sort of PPPoE nonsense. Sure beats paying the same price for a 256/256 connection, with one static IP.
Both packages include the D-Link DI-624 Wireless Router. For both setups, I have the router acting as a switch/access point instead of routing, due to the fact that IPCop does the job perfectly well for us.
Looking at the traffic graphs on our IPCop firewalls, we have yet to actually fully utilize the bandwidth available to us.
"... but locking to WMV is a sin." Exactly; try to find a universal format for your files. I use Darwin Streaming Server (the free version of Quicktime Server). It does its job well. For formats that Darwin does not support, I use good old fashioned HTTP streaming via Apache. I use these because of cost, security, and simplicity; they run on Linux. Another thing to consider is transcoding. You may be able to keep everyone happy by keeping your original files in a high-resolution format and transcoding them to the requested format (file type, size) that your users need. Keep the transcoded files in a cache on your media servers, and leave the original on your file server.
I started (at about 10 years old) playing with QBasic examples from a kids programming book. I would type them in exactly, and then modify them.
When I was about 11, my father created a web page for me, and required me to maintain it myself. I made all changes by hand, through trial and error. No fancy GUI tools at that age!
Rant:
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}
When I was a sophomore in HS (would've preferred starting programming as a freshman, but they made me take a computer application class as a pre-req), I learned the basics of MS's Visual Basic 6. I liked the quick results, which are essential if you want to get someone's interest long enough to actually teach them something. Most of the kids were there because the description in the course selection book basically said "Create cool programs by dragging icons onto a form". I actually helped teach this class. (By the way, it took six months of annoyed programming before I figured out that "End if" was a statement, not a condition. Nobody had bothered to explain it, they just told me I had to have it there because the compiler demanded it.)
My junior year, I learned the basics of C++. We spent almost the entire time making basic command line programs. This was good, because I actually had to learn structure and the importance of good code and documentation, rather than making a mess because I was in a hurry. I also was forced to learn the importance of planning, rather than the dive-in method.
Now, I am getting into PHP, which is relatively easy for me, because it is very similar to C++, and I already understand HTML. It also helps that there are lots of tutorials out there for it, and it is fun to play with.
My case was a little different than most kids these days, because my father is a programmer, and I had been exposed to computers all of my life, and had been required to fix my own problems, with guidance from him only when I really needed it. My oldest brother was formatting floppies from the DOS command line at 5. We had all built at least one computer and did all setup (format the hard drive, figure out why DOS refused to install, etc.) on it by the age of 10.
If you are willing to spend the cash, TI now has a keyboard that can be hooked into your calculator for note taking. Their goal is to make their calculators (I have a TI83 Plus Silver Edition) useful for every class.