A security guard recognises a criminal from a mug shot on one of his cameras. He might be right, or mistaken. He'll have to check to be sure.
A piece of software flags a person as a criminal. It might be right or mistaken. It will have to let the security guard check it out to be sure.
The only difference is now one guard can handle more cameras better. The same with finger print software. You can check more fingerprints faster. The crime labs have used those for years. A human eye must still be the ultimate authority, the computer narrows the field a bit.
I don't like getting pages that arn't important, be it spam, wrong numbers, anoying friends. I did see a pager services a while back that you didn't have to pay for. I gave you a 900 number, and the caller had to pay something like $.25us to page you. Now that I like. If your serious about getting in touch with me right now, you'll pay. Any seen this service latly?
Sure Martian material does impact the Earth every day, but even if microbes survived the journey through space, they might not survive entry into Earth's atmosphere. Martian rocks could very well contain organisims that could only be brought through by a re-entry craft. Better safe than dead.
We should have access to the unencripted data to transfer it to another media. DVD technology will not last forever. Sooner or later well need to copy our DVD archives to some new medium. Any out there have a Laser Disc collection they wish they could copy to DVD?
Why didn't they make this an AGP card? It's a dedicated port designed for fast I/O. I know that AGP is the reincarnation of VESA, but does anyone know any reason why this wouldn't work?
Why can't it be free (as in beer)? We donate money to free software all the time. Let's just create a fund for a free Linux DVD project, and pay royalties out of that. Ok, so it can't be GPL, but it would still be in the spirit of FreeSoftware(tm).
If you are starting from scratch (no rack equipment at all), forget using rackmount. You don't really need it in a home environment (unless you really start to get HUGE numbers of computers).
All of your computers should already be in tower cases (full or mid).
Go to your local hardware supply and pick up some wood to make shelves (whatever you can afford), sliding drawer hardware, screws and small hinges.
Build a set of shelves a little wider than your largest tower case using the drawer hardware. You now have shelves that slide out or can be removed altogether to make room.
Use the hinges and small pieces of wood to make folding bridges on the back of the shelves. The bridges should be fully extended when the shelf slides all the way out. This is for your wiring (you can use whatever you like to secure the wires). Now when you slide out the case to work on the machine, there is always enough slack in the wires and they don't get tangled.
Paint, laminate or stain (as appropriate) your wood so that you wife does not demand the unsitely thing be burned.
The unit can be expanded by simply adding another vertical board and more shelves to one side.
I hate to be the only one to point this out (I think?), but if this processor is so revolutionary, it will be useless. Ok, maybe it will run Linux, but what will it run on? Is Transmeta going to make motherboards for these things too? Even if it can emulate an x86, MAC, or Alpha or other chip, it can only emulate a processor that is compatible with it's surrounding hardware! Is someone else involved in this, or is Transmeta going it alone? Anyone out there have info on hardware that might support an unconvensional chip? If someone else is building the supporting hardware, are they keeping as tight a lid on it, or are we just not looking?
Compact Flash! Palm? Handspring? Anyone but CE?
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On a related note; why haven't Palm or especially Handspring come out with support for Compact Flash cards? There is the obvious power strain, but is that enough to rule it out? Why did Handspring use the same connector and almost the same form factor as CF, but it's not CF compatible? So far WindowsCE devices are the only ones that have Compact Flash slots, but perhapse thats because you need that extra 96 megs of ram for the MS-BLOTE factor. Anyway, there are lots of useful devices built on the CF platform. Why is MicroBorg the only one taking advantage of it? I for one could live with the tiny added weight and power drain of a CF card on a PalmV.
The only real advantage the Palm Vx will have over the Visor, is size. Otherwise the high end Visor has the same speed and memory plus expandability. Is this damage control for Palm? Perhaps Palm has a better upgrade in the works, but slapping a bigger ram chip into the PalmV was the best they could do to compete on short notice. Maybe they didn't expect Handspring to spring up so quickly.:)
What if that person links to something legitimate, but then someone else buys the domain name and puts kiddy porn on it (assuming you get busted before you find out the link is bad)? You didn't originally link to something illegal. Could you sue them for changing the content of a site you linked to? Seems just a reasonable to me. Or, how about printed books? If I write a book, and I list another book as reference, can I be arrested if that book is considered illegal? As my wife says "We need to put all of the stupid people on an island and nuke 'em".
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A security guard recognises a criminal from a mug shot on one of his cameras. He might be right, or mistaken. He'll have to check to be sure.
A piece of software flags a person as a criminal. It might be right or mistaken. It will have to let the security guard check it out to be sure.
The only difference is now one guard can handle more cameras better. The same with finger print software. You can check more fingerprints faster. The crime labs have used those for years. A human eye must still be the ultimate authority, the computer narrows the field a bit.
-Bocaj
huh? According the web site. The attempt hasn't been made yet.
I don't like getting pages that arn't important, be it spam, wrong numbers, anoying friends. I did see a pager services a while back that you didn't have to pay for. I gave you a 900 number, and the caller had to pay something like $.25us to page you. Now that I like. If your serious about getting in touch with me right now, you'll pay. Any seen this service latly?
-Jacob
Incredible! By replacing the old information with nothing, we can erase it! Way to move right on it to 70,s guys.
Sure Martian material does impact the Earth every day, but even if microbes survived the journey through space, they might not survive entry into Earth's atmosphere. Martian rocks could very well contain organisims that could only be brought through by a re-entry craft. Better safe than dead.
So, does it have a Compact Flash slot? Can I upgrade it? IBM Microdrive? There web site is almost, but not quite, entirely unhelpful.
We should have access to the unencripted data to transfer it to another media. DVD technology will not last forever. Sooner or later well need to copy our DVD archives to some new medium. Any out there have a Laser Disc collection they wish they could copy to DVD?
Why didn't they make this an AGP card? It's a dedicated port designed for fast I/O. I know that AGP is the reincarnation of VESA, but does anyone know any reason why this wouldn't work?
Why can't it be free (as in beer)? We donate money to free software all the time. Let's just create a fund for a free Linux DVD project, and pay royalties out of that. Ok, so it can't be GPL, but it would still be in the spirit of FreeSoftware(tm).
I hate to be the only one to point this out (I think?), but if this processor is so revolutionary, it will be useless. Ok, maybe it will run Linux, but what will it run on? Is Transmeta going to make motherboards for these things too? Even if it can emulate an x86, MAC, or Alpha or other chip, it can only emulate a processor that is compatible with it's surrounding hardware! Is someone else involved in this, or is Transmeta going it alone? Anyone out there have info on hardware that might support an unconvensional chip? If someone else is building the supporting hardware, are they keeping as tight a lid on it, or are we just not looking?
On a related note; why haven't Palm or especially Handspring come out with support for Compact Flash cards? There is the obvious power strain, but is that enough to rule it out? Why did Handspring use the same connector and almost the same form factor as CF, but it's not CF compatible? So far WindowsCE devices are the only ones that have Compact Flash slots, but perhapse thats because you need that extra 96 megs of ram for the MS-BLOTE factor. Anyway, there are lots of useful devices built on the CF platform. Why is MicroBorg the only one taking advantage of it? I for one could live with the tiny added weight and power drain of a CF card on a PalmV.
The only real advantage the Palm Vx will have over the Visor, is size. Otherwise the high end Visor has the same speed and memory plus expandability. Is this damage control for Palm? Perhaps Palm has a better upgrade in the works, but slapping a bigger ram chip into the PalmV was the best they could do to compete on short notice. Maybe they didn't expect Handspring to spring up so quickly. :)
What if that person links to something legitimate, but then someone else buys the domain name and puts kiddy porn on it (assuming you get busted before you find out the link is bad)? You didn't originally link to something illegal. Could you sue them for changing the content of a site you linked to? Seems just a reasonable to me. Or, how about printed books? If I write a book, and I list another book as reference, can I be arrested if that book is considered illegal? As my wife says "We need to put all of the stupid people on an island and nuke 'em".
Didn't I see this in the news several years ago?