At the bottom of the article is a linked video to the robot manufacturer. The robots do indeed lift the cars by the wheels. This video is much more interesting than the animated one from the article.
I am also a T-Mobile customer. Wi-Fi calling, stupid cheap International voice roaming with free texting, caller ID with name - all on a no contract small business plan that costs $154 per month with 5 phones and a USB data modem.
As other people mention, this isn't Sprint buying T-mobile. This is Softbank buying T-mobile to merge the two together. I hope they see how much more innovation is coming from T-Mobile than Sprint, and put the T-Mobile team in charge of the merged company.
Im most likely moving to austin in the next few months, not a fan of hearing this though
If it is any consolation, the linked article is wrong. This took place in New Braunfels, not Austin. New Braunfels is in Comal County and is counted as part of the San Antonio metro area in the US census.
I like where you are going. The idea of an oven with Android isn't bad, but it should do a lot more than the oven in the article. I'd definitely add one thing to the wish list - a camera. At the very least it could give me a video feed of what is cooking that I could stream to my desktop or phone.
After the technology takes off, I then would like to get some photo recognition software going. My ideal oven will indicate when food is done by using color and pattern recognition that it downloaded from the Internet along with the recipe.
I don't think some of these replies understand the post. Of course you can buy metric sockets, but the square hole on the opposite side of the socket(the "drive") that fits the ratchet is called out in inches. So a 13mm socket might have a 3/8" or 1/4" drive.
I believe the German tool company Hazet actually engraves their 1/4 drive sockets as 6.3mm. However their catalog lists drive sizes in inches and metric.
I have an HP 8560p. It has a 15.4" 1600 x 900 screen and numeric keypad. They keyboard is the chiclet style which I'm still getting used to but the build quality seems to be pretty sturdy.
+1 For unRAID. Works perfectly with a mix of IDE and SATA (USB will mount and share as individual drives but will not be included in array). Mixing of drive sizes is OK, total space will be sum of all drives minus the biggest drive. Plenty of community plug-ins including various streaming apps. Also it powers down idle drives after a configurable timeout and only spins up drives as they are needed.
I would agree that there is still a large base of single core computers, but I think gamers generally upgrade much more frequently than business users. If your curious about the installed base of gaming computers, the best picture I have found is the monthly hardware survey built into Valve's Steam service. Take a look here to check it out. If I was a game developer, this would be the first place I would look.
It's nice to be able to finally let my readers know AT&T is the only acceptable broadband in the Austin area.
Hold up there chief. People living in Austin actually have a choice of cable companies. Grande offers 12MB+burst cable for $50 unbundled. Check out their homepage, their position on bandwidth caps is pretty clearly stated.
I know that I personally have gone well over 44GB several times before and I have never heard a peep from them or observed any kind of throttling. I do try to start most large downloads after midnight, but more out of courtesy than fear of getting my account cut off.
FiOS is a registered trademark of Verizon. AT&T's competing triple play service is called U-Verse. In areas spun off by Verizon to FairPoint they rename former FiOS service FAST.
Of course I wouldn't be surprised if the guys that AT&T hires to go door to door mistakenly used the term FiOS as a generic term for fiber services. Verizon's service has been out longer and has better name recognition.
Depending on what part of Texas you are in, try Grande. Here in Austin they offer 12Mbit cable and are starting to roll out 15Mbit FTTH. I have their 8Mbit cable right now and I can max the connection anytime on Usenet downloads.
They are pretty much evenly priced with Time Warner, but I think TW cuts prices in every area that Grande moves into. Stand alone cable modem is $50 for 12Mb and $40 for 8Mb.
I agree that a RAM upgrade alone shouldn't trigger reactivation, but I find those scenarios on the Microsoft site somewhat misleading. Scenario A only applies if your motherboard doesn't have a built in NIC. Since the NIC scores a 3 out of 10, for a large majority of machines out there a CPU/motherboard swap will hit 4 points - enough for reactivation.
Heres a quote from the Windows XP activation FAQ.
"Specifically, product activation determines tolerance through a voting mechanism. There are 10 hardware characteristics used in creating the hardware hash. Each characteristic is worth one vote, except the network card which is worth three votes. When thinking of tolerance, it's easiest to think about what has not changed instead of what has changed. When the current hardware hash is compared to the original hardware hash, there must be 7 or more matching points for the two hardware hashes to be considered in tolerance. If the network card is the same, then only 4 additional characteristics must match (because the network card is worth 3, for a total of 7). If the network card is not the same, then a total of 7 characteristics other than the network card must be the same. If the device is a laptop (specifically a dockable device), additional tolerance is allotted and there need be only 4 or more matching points. Therefore, if the device is dockable and the network card is the same, only one other characteristic must be the same for a total vote of 4. If the device is dockable and the network card is not the same, then a total of 4 characteristics other than the network card must be the same."
HP and Dell are both willing to sell you a business PC with a Vista Business edition COA label on the side thats preloaded with XP Pro. Since the Vista Business and Premium edition EULA allows this "downgrade", its a pretty good deal all around. Business customers can get XP out of the box, but have the option to re-image the PC with Vista down the road if they feel the need. I'd guess that Microsoft still chalks up the sale as a Vista machine, so they can continue to spin the PR story of Vista's success.
When self-checkout machines first appeared in groceries I thought of this one.
1) Go to your nearest grocery store that has self checkout machines as well as a weigh station in the produce dept.
2) Pick up an expensive bottle of wine.
3) Go to the produce section and put the wine on the scale and enter the code for a cheap item such as potatoes.
4) Place the printed barcode sticker over the barcode on the wine bottle.
5) Pay for your items using the self checkout. The machine verifies all purchases by checking the weight in the bagging area - which of course will match perfectly.
As an added bonus for those under 21, you will not be carded for your alcohol purchase. Of course I would never do this, but I can't imagine that I am the first person to think of it.
Not just any airline, the corp parent of Comair
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Remember when this happened? Interesting choice bringing in a manager whose company experienced a very publicized computer crash during his tenure. Hopefully Mr. Whitehurst carries forward some of the lessons learned from that experience.
There are a couple of roll-ups that include Asterisk, a GUI, and other apps along with a Linux distro on a single CD. I personally have used trixbox for a home server with a telasip VOIP line. If you just want to do an easy home install on an old machine or VM you could start with one of these.
Trixbox is one of the most popular, I found it very easy to install and use. However they were featured in yesterdays article about a phone-home "feature" that allowed Fonality to run code on an installed machine. AsteriskNOW is made by Digium, the maintainers of Asterisk. Its still in beta, but there are prebuilt VMware and Xen virtual machines ready for download if you just want to give it a try. Elastix seems to be getting some good reviews, but the main site has been down for the past few days. The link to the left is the sourceforge pages.
OpenVista is an implementation of VistA as in Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, which existed long before Microsoft Windows Vista, or any Microsoft Windows for that matter.
As Michael Bolton once said "No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
Here is my reservation with online poker - what if instead of a table of bots, you were playing a single bot holding 4 hands? The bot still doesn't have perfect information, but can now factor in all of the cards from all hands that it sees. For that matter, what keeps a human player from starting a 2nd account and playing two hands at the same table?
I don't know if this works across the board, but I've had luck with holding down several keys when powering on the system. This caused a POST keyboard error and gave me time to enter the bios setup.
How about http://wpkg.org/? It covers Win98 through XP, works with all manner of installers (MSI, EXE, etc..), can run off a Windows or Linux server, and is completely open source. I set it up for one client who had a linux server with XP clients and we have had pretty good luck with it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who took issue with the singing in GH2. While I understand the great reviews for such a fun game, I couldn't believe how many reviewers actually liked the singing. For as much money as this series brings in, you think they could bring in the original artist for a few tracks. How much does Zack de la Rocha fetch for a performance these days? Matthew Sweet? The lead singer of Warrant?
Of course this doesn't work for Nirvana or Lynyrd Skynyrd. But at least they could do a little better covers.
Does either FreeNAS or any of the alternatives discussed here offer HD encryption? Ideally where the key can be stored on a thumb drive that can be removed after boot?
I have checked the site and couldn't find anything, but maybe someone has some experience integrating this in or knows of another project.
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At the bottom of the article is a linked video to the robot manufacturer. The robots do indeed lift the cars by the wheels. This video is much more interesting than the animated one from the article.
I am also a T-Mobile customer. Wi-Fi calling, stupid cheap International voice roaming with free texting, caller ID with name - all on a no contract small business plan that costs $154 per month with 5 phones and a USB data modem. As other people mention, this isn't Sprint buying T-mobile. This is Softbank buying T-mobile to merge the two together. I hope they see how much more innovation is coming from T-Mobile than Sprint, and put the T-Mobile team in charge of the merged company.
Im most likely moving to austin in the next few months, not a fan of hearing this though
If it is any consolation, the linked article is wrong. This took place in New Braunfels, not Austin. New Braunfels is in Comal County and is counted as part of the San Antonio metro area in the US census.
I like where you are going. The idea of an oven with Android isn't bad, but it should do a lot more than the oven in the article. I'd definitely add one thing to the wish list - a camera. At the very least it could give me a video feed of what is cooking that I could stream to my desktop or phone.
After the technology takes off, I then would like to get some photo recognition software going. My ideal oven will indicate when food is done by using color and pattern recognition that it downloaded from the Internet along with the recipe.
I don't think some of these replies understand the post. Of course you can buy metric sockets, but the square hole on the opposite side of the socket(the "drive") that fits the ratchet is called out in inches. So a 13mm socket might have a 3/8" or 1/4" drive.
I believe the German tool company Hazet actually engraves their 1/4 drive sockets as 6.3mm. However their catalog lists drive sizes in inches and metric.
I have an HP 8560p. It has a 15.4" 1600 x 900 screen and numeric keypad. They keyboard is the chiclet style which I'm still getting used to but the build quality seems to be pretty sturdy.
As an added bonus, it has a 9pin serial port.
+1 For unRAID. Works perfectly with a mix of IDE and SATA (USB will mount and share as individual drives but will not be included in array). Mixing of drive sizes is OK, total space will be sum of all drives minus the biggest drive. Plenty of community plug-ins including various streaming apps. Also it powers down idle drives after a configurable timeout and only spins up drives as they are needed.
I would agree that there is still a large base of single core computers, but I think gamers generally upgrade much more frequently than business users. If your curious about the installed base of gaming computers, the best picture I have found is the monthly hardware survey built into Valve's Steam service. Take a look here to check it out. If I was a game developer, this would be the first place I would look.
Don't forget that HP bought Compaq, who previously bought Digital Equipment. You can put both the 015/8 and the 016/8 from your list under HP.
It's nice to be able to finally let my readers know AT&T is the only acceptable broadband in the Austin area.
Hold up there chief. People living in Austin actually have a choice of cable companies. Grande offers 12MB+burst cable for $50 unbundled. Check out their homepage, their position on bandwidth caps is pretty clearly stated.
I know that I personally have gone well over 44GB several times before and I have never heard a peep from them or observed any kind of throttling. I do try to start most large downloads after midnight, but more out of courtesy than fear of getting my account cut off.
FiOS is a registered trademark of Verizon. AT&T's competing triple play service is called U-Verse. In areas spun off by Verizon to FairPoint they rename former FiOS service FAST.
Of course I wouldn't be surprised if the guys that AT&T hires to go door to door mistakenly used the term FiOS as a generic term for fiber services. Verizon's service has been out longer and has better name recognition.
Uhh, I don't know how's DST around your neck of the woods, but where I live it actually gets darker SOONER, not later.
So you live in the Southern Hemisphere but set your clock to US Daylight Saving Time?
Depending on what part of Texas you are in, try Grande. Here in Austin they offer 12Mbit cable and are starting to roll out 15Mbit FTTH. I have their 8Mbit cable right now and I can max the connection anytime on Usenet downloads.
They are pretty much evenly priced with Time Warner, but I think TW cuts prices in every area that Grande moves into. Stand alone cable modem is $50 for 12Mb and $40 for 8Mb.
Heres a quote from the Windows XP activation FAQ. "Specifically, product activation determines tolerance through a voting mechanism. There are 10 hardware characteristics used in creating the hardware hash. Each characteristic is worth one vote, except the network card which is worth three votes. When thinking of tolerance, it's easiest to think about what has not changed instead of what has changed. When the current hardware hash is compared to the original hardware hash, there must be 7 or more matching points for the two hardware hashes to be considered in tolerance. If the network card is the same, then only 4 additional characteristics must match (because the network card is worth 3, for a total of 7). If the network card is not the same, then a total of 7 characteristics other than the network card must be the same. If the device is a laptop (specifically a dockable device), additional tolerance is allotted and there need be only 4 or more matching points. Therefore, if the device is dockable and the network card is the same, only one other characteristic must be the same for a total vote of 4. If the device is dockable and the network card is not the same, then a total of 4 characteristics other than the network card must be the same."
HP and Dell are both willing to sell you a business PC with a Vista Business edition COA label on the side thats preloaded with XP Pro. Since the Vista Business and Premium edition EULA allows this "downgrade", its a pretty good deal all around. Business customers can get XP out of the box, but have the option to re-image the PC with Vista down the road if they feel the need. I'd guess that Microsoft still chalks up the sale as a Vista machine, so they can continue to spin the PR story of Vista's success.
When self-checkout machines first appeared in groceries I thought of this one.
1) Go to your nearest grocery store that has self checkout machines as well as a weigh station in the produce dept.
2) Pick up an expensive bottle of wine.
3) Go to the produce section and put the wine on the scale and enter the code for a cheap item such as potatoes.
4) Place the printed barcode sticker over the barcode on the wine bottle.
5) Pay for your items using the self checkout. The machine verifies all purchases by checking the weight in the bagging area - which of course will match perfectly.
As an added bonus for those under 21, you will not be carded for your alcohol purchase. Of course I would never do this, but I can't imagine that I am the first person to think of it.
Remember when this happened? Interesting choice bringing in a manager whose company experienced a very publicized computer crash during his tenure. Hopefully Mr. Whitehurst carries forward some of the lessons learned from that experience.
There are a couple of roll-ups that include Asterisk, a GUI, and other apps along with a Linux distro on a single CD. I personally have used trixbox for a home server with a telasip VOIP line. If you just want to do an easy home install on an old machine or VM you could start with one of these.
Trixbox is one of the most popular, I found it very easy to install and use. However they were featured in yesterdays article about a phone-home "feature" that allowed Fonality to run code on an installed machine.
AsteriskNOW is made by Digium, the maintainers of Asterisk. Its still in beta, but there are prebuilt VMware and Xen virtual machines ready for download if you just want to give it a try.
Elastix seems to be getting some good reviews, but the main site has been down for the past few days. The link to the left is the sourceforge pages.
OpenVista is an implementation of VistA as in Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, which existed long before Microsoft Windows Vista, or any Microsoft Windows for that matter.
As Michael Bolton once said "No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
Here is my reservation with online poker - what if instead of a table of bots, you were playing a single bot holding 4 hands? The bot still doesn't have perfect information, but can now factor in all of the cards from all hands that it sees. For that matter, what keeps a human player from starting a 2nd account and playing two hands at the same table?
I don't know if this works across the board, but I've had luck with holding down several keys when powering on the system. This caused a POST keyboard error and gave me time to enter the bios setup.
How about http://wpkg.org/? It covers Win98 through XP, works with all manner of installers (MSI, EXE, etc..), can run off a Windows or Linux server, and is completely open source. I set it up for one client who had a linux server with XP clients and we have had pretty good luck with it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who took issue with the singing in GH2. While I understand the great reviews for such a fun game, I couldn't believe how many reviewers actually liked the singing. For as much money as this series brings in, you think they could bring in the original artist for a few tracks. How much does Zack de la Rocha fetch for a performance these days? Matthew Sweet? The lead singer of Warrant?
Of course this doesn't work for Nirvana or Lynyrd Skynyrd. But at least they could do a little better covers.
Why is copper in the pool not good? I have been using copper algaecide in my pool for years. Works great on algae, only drawback is the price.
Does either FreeNAS or any of the alternatives discussed here offer HD encryption? Ideally where the key can be stored on a thumb drive that can be removed after boot?
I have checked the site and couldn't find anything, but maybe someone has some experience integrating this in or knows of another project.