IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that in the absence of explicit DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders, caregivers are expected to err on the side of caution and administer potentially life-saving measures.
For example, if Grandma takes a trip away from home and is found unconscious by the hotel cleaning staff (who call paramedics for her), the paramedics would be pretty well indemnified if it was later found out that Grandma filed some DNR orders back home.
Any tips on this? I could've used some. My Rio Karma's LCD and battery bit the dust. I sent that unit back, and Rio shipped me a refurbished one - with another dead battery.
I did complain that I shouldn't have to pay to ship this one back too, since it was Rio that shipped me a dud. They promised me an airbill to send the bad one back, but I've called twice and haven't seen it yet.
I got it at Circuit City, and now I'm kind of regretting not getting the extended warranty. But, barring the odd lightning strike, I tend to keep things in good working order for a long, long time (TI calculator: 14 yrs, Sun SPARCstation 2 and 5, 2 Amiga 3000s and a 4000 - all working.). I figured this Karma was no different. D'oh!
MS doesn't make it easy to download the pieces for IE6. I have a firewalled Internet connection when I download these things, but I still get tired of sucking IE6 through a T1 instead of a share on a local 100Mbps segment. You have to download the stub installer, then invoke it with some special command-line options:
In Mozilla and Firefox, when you hit the page down key, the page doesn't scroll as far as when you click down for the next page in the scrollbar. IE does this too, I think. It always kind of annoys me because I have to scan a couple lines to get back to where I stopped reading.
However, in the old 4.x Netscape versions, the page moved the same amount for either method, which is what I like.
Can anyone explain to me why browsers would page like that? Even better, is there a setting in Mozilla or Firefox that will make them page down like clicking the scroll bar?
Now that I think about it, I think X-Chat is all right, but it was gaim and pan and GIMP that required GTK+ for Windows. FWIW, I have recent versions of everything on Windows and they're all playing nicely. I think the trick is to upgrade everything at the same time.
Now, if Mozilla had a music player and Chatzilla did other IM protocols, I wouldn't need an OS...
I use X-Chat and gaim on both Windows and Linux, and I'm pretty happy with both of them. I haven't used Gaim for IRC, but it's in there. The only issue I've ever had is keeping gaim, pan, X-Chat, and GIMP 2.0 happy with whatever versions of the Win32 port of GTK+ I have managed to install.
Seeing as how you're going to have to carry this thing on your head (it'll be the stablest platform on a bike, and is aimable), you're going to be limited to something about the size of a readily-available laser pointer.
Before you spend any serious money on this, I would suggest taking a laser pointer outside to see how far away you can make out the spot. I don't think it's going to be very far at all. Maybe one of those laser tape measures would do the trick, though.
More powerful lasers, to put a bigger spot farther away, aren't going to be as portable, and will probably be a danger to pedestrians or fellow cyclists if you glance at them to say hi.
I would suggest trying to satisfy your number fetish with a top-line bicycle computer. Mine (a Specialized P-Brain) records heart rate and altitude along with speed and distance, and can download data to a Windows box for graphing (I tried the software under Wine but it didn't seem to work). Other computers use GPS to track your location, or measure the chain tension to record the smoothness of your pedal stroke. Others record your power output with a special hub.
When I ride, I never do more than glance at my computer. It's not safe when the traffic's heavy- the numbers *always* take a back seat to situational awareness. And on lonely roads, I tend to ride by my perception of my own effort. Worrying over the numbers is for later, in front of a computer looking at the graphs!
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I suppose I'll have similar black bars on the side instead when watching a square TV show or movie format, but at least I won't be forced to throw data away.
For the sets I'm familiar with (CRT rear-projection), the bars on the sides are gray, not black. Gray bars "exercise" the phosphors when you're watching non-stretched 4:3 content on a 16:9 screen. That way, the side phosphors age/mature/burn-in at about the same rate as the center phosphors, keeping the picture consistent across the screen even if image quality degrades over time.
It would be frelling annoying to have good colors on the sides of a 16:9 show and off colors in the middle! Better to have off colors everywhere, heh.
The author of that page has a point, but I think it's a bit incomplete.
Playfair (actually, this could apply to decss and other programs of that sort) doesn't necessarily exist because Apple didn't provide a way to play iTunes songs, but because someone else did find a way to do it.
Sir Edmund Hillary didn't claim to climb Mt. Everest because no one else had done it, but because "it was there." (maybe the quote is apocryphal, I can't find a good reference at the moment, but you get the picture)
Like programming perl: there's more than one way to do it.
Google and Akamai do different things. Sure, it would be possible for Akamai to run things from a few huge datacenters. But I'm not at all convinced that it would save them money.
Akamai does content delivery. Per end user, Akamai probably delivers lots more bits on average than the typical surfer gets searching a few pages from Google. Remember, one of the things Google uses to be fast is that their layout is pretty light bandwidth-wise (all-text ads, you know?).
The more datacenters Akamai has, the closer they are to the recipients of that content (ultimately, they're the ones paying for the whole thing through either subscriptions or by being shown enough ads). Closer in the physical sense of geography, and in the sense of there's a chance that a link that's closer geographically is also closer network-wise. The less packets have to travel, the less latency and the less chance for them to get lost along the way.
Akamai probably drops most of their servers in ISPs anyway. They have, what, 2,000 datacenters? The ISPs are footing the bills for their own servers anyway, so a couple more boxes in the server room isn't going to make a big difference to each ISP. Then, the ISP's customers get especially close to the premium content delivered by the Akamai servers.
This sort of setup would be way cheaper for Akamai than trying to maintain a few huge centers (bandwidth, HVAC, power, people). And Akamai just works on getting data to the edge of the network just once as efficiently as possible.
No, I think you've missed the point of Akamai. Akamai is in the delivery business, but bandwidth is only part of that. Akamai delivers content, and is capable of delivering CPU cycles as well. You have also forgotten about the other last mile: the content provider's Internet connection. Most people don't go buying themselves a direct-backbone connection to put up their websites- that's left to their ISP or their ISP's ISP.
Take, for example, a website linked to in a Slashdot front-page article. The HDD cannon today seems to have been hosed pretty badly by the Slashdot Effect. First problem was that the provider's bandwidth was not nearly enough to serve what was apparently a graphics-heavy page (I don't know- I never even got to see it!). The second problem was that even if it had been a simple page, it still takes a fair amount of power to serve a large number of simultaneous requests.
Had that web site operator used Akamai's services, the Slashdot Effect might not have been able to make the content unavailable. Instead of one last mile to the provider being clogged, the traffic is distributed among all of Akamai's "last miles". At the same time, no one server has to cope with answering all those requests in a timely manner.
Google can get away with a few datacenters full of servers. The bandwidth to any one Google datacenter can probably be planned for and new pipes provisioned pretty readily as they grow and expand services. Akamai is there for other uses- for example, hosting video streams of immensely popular but short-shelf-lifed sporting events. If the sanctioning body for a sport invested in enough infrastructure to provide it themselves, it would be underutilized out of season. If Akamai does it, they can host video streams of the baseball World Series for MLB, then the Superbowl for the NFL, then March Madness for the NCAA, and those organizations don't have servers sitting around twiddling virtual thumbs in the off season.
Maybe it is about the Macs. Perhaps the software the guy wrote to do the image processing works really well with AltiVec and less so with whatever version of Screaming Cindy.
Even for a few percentage points, those gains are made across 600 computers.
Auto racing not physical? Have you ever raced a car? I'm not talking about the go-karts at the state fair here. At least take a driver education day at a track before you dismiss driving as not being physical. Have you ever seen drivers at the end of a NASCAR, F1, WRC, or even local SCCA or NASA event? They've obviously been working pretty hard!
Why is defense necessary? If you run, you can run against a clock or against another person. Sport is about competition, which can be against yourself if you're aiming to beat a personal best time, or against another player who's looking to beat you across a finish line.
I agree that sports need to be physical, and that golf and figure skating would be more interesting if there were defenders: "And Tiger Woods is sacked at the tee!", but I think your definition is too narrow.
Every time he does that, call him from your own cell phone. When he hits flash to pick up the newer call, continue with, "...As I was saying..." You could even go so far as to engage him in conversation as you're dialing his cell phone, but you'll have to experiment on him to determine how he deals with more than one incoming call on his phone.
I'm thinking Zorro II at least was designed with ISA in mind. That allowed hardware like the 2086 and 2286 Bridgeboards (a PC on a card to fit inside your A2000 and later) to have access to an ISA bus on one end and the Zorro bus on the other. Zorro II was a 16-bit bus. Zorro III was, IIRC, a 32-bit version of Zorro II which squeezed 32 bits onto a 16-bit bus with a sort of double data rate scheme.
Dave Haynie's posted on Slashdot before. I'm pretty sure *he* could explain it better.:-)
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She's been in the TV show Alias, and the movies Daredevil and 13 Going On 30. But the role that most people remember was in Dude, Where's My Car?.
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Of course, having done that, users still go to the system clock properties to check a date instead of the nice calendar Outlook provides.
They occasionally lock themselves out when they click on a new date and set themselves orders of magnitude outside Kerberos's 5-minute window.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that in the absence of explicit DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders, caregivers are expected to err on the side of caution and administer potentially life-saving measures.
For example, if Grandma takes a trip away from home and is found unconscious by the hotel cleaning staff (who call paramedics for her), the paramedics would be pretty well indemnified if it was later found out that Grandma filed some DNR orders back home.
Any tips on this? I could've used some. My Rio Karma's LCD and battery bit the dust. I sent that unit back, and Rio shipped me a refurbished one - with another dead battery.
I did complain that I shouldn't have to pay to ship this one back too, since it was Rio that shipped me a dud. They promised me an airbill to send the bad one back, but I've called twice and haven't seen it yet.
I got it at Circuit City, and now I'm kind of regretting not getting the extended warranty. But, barring the odd lightning strike, I tend to keep things in good working order for a long, long time (TI calculator: 14 yrs, Sun SPARCstation 2 and 5, 2 Amiga 3000s and a 4000 - all working.). I figured this Karma was no different. D'oh!
fink your competitor out to the cops and you're saved the trouble and expense of filling him with lead and dumping him into a sausage grinder.
:-)
That's horrible! Lead is poisonous. Think of the children's breakfast! Use non-lead bullets instead.
MS doesn't make it easy to download the pieces for IE6. I have a firewalled Internet connection when I download these things, but I still get tired of sucking IE6 through a T1 instead of a share on a local 100Mbps segment. You have to download the stub installer, then invoke it with some special command-line options:
/c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E"
"C:\Downloads\ie6setup.exe"
Yeah, like I'd have figured that out on my own! See this page for details:
http://www.updatexp.com/download-ie6.html
In Mozilla and Firefox, when you hit the page down key, the page doesn't scroll as far as when you click down for the next page in the scrollbar. IE does this too, I think. It always kind of annoys me because I have to scan a couple lines to get back to where I stopped reading.
However, in the old 4.x Netscape versions, the page moved the same amount for either method, which is what I like.
Can anyone explain to me why browsers would page like that? Even better, is there a setting in Mozilla or Firefox that will make them page down like clicking the scroll bar?
Now that I think about it, I think X-Chat is all right, but it was gaim and pan and GIMP that required GTK+ for Windows. FWIW, I have recent versions of everything on Windows and they're all playing nicely. I think the trick is to upgrade everything at the same time.
Now, if Mozilla had a music player and Chatzilla did other IM protocols, I wouldn't need an OS...
In the tabbed browsing preferences in Mozilla, try the "Load links in the background" option.
Middle-clicking will open the link in a new tab, but your focus will stay put until you select the new tab.
Is there a good free/Free irc client for Windows?
I use X-Chat and gaim on both Windows and Linux, and I'm pretty happy with both of them. I haven't used Gaim for IRC, but it's in there. The only issue I've ever had is keeping gaim, pan, X-Chat, and GIMP 2.0 happy with whatever versions of the Win32 port of GTK+ I have managed to install.
Seeing as how you're going to have to carry this thing on your head (it'll be the stablest platform on a bike, and is aimable), you're going to be limited to something about the size of a readily-available laser pointer.
Before you spend any serious money on this, I would suggest taking a laser pointer outside to see how far away you can make out the spot. I don't think it's going to be very far at all. Maybe one of those laser tape measures would do the trick, though.
More powerful lasers, to put a bigger spot farther away, aren't going to be as portable, and will probably be a danger to pedestrians or fellow cyclists if you glance at them to say hi.
I would suggest trying to satisfy your number fetish with a top-line bicycle computer. Mine (a Specialized P-Brain) records heart rate and altitude along with speed and distance, and can download data to a Windows box for graphing (I tried the software under Wine but it didn't seem to work). Other computers use GPS to track your location, or measure the chain tension to record the smoothness of your pedal stroke. Others record your power output with a special hub.
When I ride, I never do more than glance at my computer. It's not safe when the traffic's heavy- the numbers *always* take a back seat to situational awareness. And on lonely roads, I tend to ride by my perception of my own effort. Worrying over the numbers is for later, in front of a computer looking at the graphs!
I suppose I'll have similar black bars on the side instead when watching a square TV show or movie format, but at least I won't be forced to throw data away.
For the sets I'm familiar with (CRT rear-projection), the bars on the sides are gray, not black. Gray bars "exercise" the phosphors when you're watching non-stretched 4:3 content on a 16:9 screen. That way, the side phosphors age/mature/burn-in at about the same rate as the center phosphors, keeping the picture consistent across the screen even if image quality degrades over time.
It would be frelling annoying to have good colors on the sides of a 16:9 show and off colors in the middle! Better to have off colors everywhere, heh.
The author of that page has a point, but I think it's a bit incomplete.
Playfair (actually, this could apply to decss and other programs of that sort) doesn't necessarily exist because Apple didn't provide a way to play iTunes songs, but because someone else did find a way to do it.
Sir Edmund Hillary didn't claim to climb Mt. Everest because no one else had done it, but because "it was there." (maybe the quote is apocryphal, I can't find a good reference at the moment, but you get the picture)
Like programming perl: there's more than one way to do it.
Oh, sure, go ahead and post a more informed, succinctly written comment why don'cha? :-)
Google and Akamai do different things. Sure, it would be possible for Akamai to run things from a few huge datacenters. But I'm not at all convinced that it would save them money.
Akamai does content delivery. Per end user, Akamai probably delivers lots more bits on average than the typical surfer gets searching a few pages from Google. Remember, one of the things Google uses to be fast is that their layout is pretty light bandwidth-wise (all-text ads, you know?).
The more datacenters Akamai has, the closer they are to the recipients of that content (ultimately, they're the ones paying for the whole thing through either subscriptions or by being shown enough ads). Closer in the physical sense of geography, and in the sense of there's a chance that a link that's closer geographically is also closer network-wise. The less packets have to travel, the less latency and the less chance for them to get lost along the way.
Akamai probably drops most of their servers in ISPs anyway. They have, what, 2,000 datacenters? The ISPs are footing the bills for their own servers anyway, so a couple more boxes in the server room isn't going to make a big difference to each ISP. Then, the ISP's customers get especially close to the premium content delivered by the Akamai servers.
This sort of setup would be way cheaper for Akamai than trying to maintain a few huge centers (bandwidth, HVAC, power, people). And Akamai just works on getting data to the edge of the network just once as efficiently as possible.
No, I think you've missed the point of Akamai. Akamai is in the delivery business, but bandwidth is only part of that. Akamai delivers content, and is capable of delivering CPU cycles as well. You have also forgotten about the other last mile: the content provider's Internet connection. Most people don't go buying themselves a direct-backbone connection to put up their websites- that's left to their ISP or their ISP's ISP.
Take, for example, a website linked to in a Slashdot front-page article. The HDD cannon today seems to have been hosed pretty badly by the Slashdot Effect. First problem was that the provider's bandwidth was not nearly enough to serve what was apparently a graphics-heavy page (I don't know- I never even got to see it!). The second problem was that even if it had been a simple page, it still takes a fair amount of power to serve a large number of simultaneous requests.
Had that web site operator used Akamai's services, the Slashdot Effect might not have been able to make the content unavailable. Instead of one last mile to the provider being clogged, the traffic is distributed among all of Akamai's "last miles". At the same time, no one server has to cope with answering all those requests in a timely manner.
Google can get away with a few datacenters full of servers. The bandwidth to any one Google datacenter can probably be planned for and new pipes provisioned pretty readily as they grow and expand services. Akamai is there for other uses- for example, hosting video streams of immensely popular but short-shelf-lifed sporting events. If the sanctioning body for a sport invested in enough infrastructure to provide it themselves, it would be underutilized out of season. If Akamai does it, they can host video streams of the baseball World Series for MLB, then the Superbowl for the NFL, then March Madness for the NCAA, and those organizations don't have servers sitting around twiddling virtual thumbs in the off season.
Maybe it is about the Macs. Perhaps the software the guy wrote to do the image processing works really well with AltiVec and less so with whatever version of Screaming Cindy.
Even for a few percentage points, those gains are made across 600 computers.
IMO, you're wrong in a couple places here.
Auto racing not physical? Have you ever raced a car? I'm not talking about the go-karts at the state fair here. At least take a driver education day at a track before you dismiss driving as not being physical. Have you ever seen drivers at the end of a NASCAR, F1, WRC, or even local SCCA or NASA event? They've obviously been working pretty hard!
Why is defense necessary? If you run, you can run against a clock or against another person. Sport is about competition, which can be against yourself if you're aiming to beat a personal best time, or against another player who's looking to beat you across a finish line.
I agree that sports need to be physical, and that golf and figure skating would be more interesting if there were defenders: "And Tiger Woods is sacked at the tee!", but I think your definition is too narrow.
Have you ever noticed that when software is executed it starts and when people are executed they stop?
Check out the circumventor at http://www.peacefire.org/
Every time he does that, call him from your own cell phone. When he hits flash to pick up the newer call, continue with, "...As I was saying..." You could even go so far as to engage him in conversation as you're dialing his cell phone, but you'll have to experiment on him to determine how he deals with more than one incoming call on his phone.
It's pronounced "ga-new", actually.
I'm thinking Zorro II at least was designed with ISA in mind. That allowed hardware like the 2086 and 2286 Bridgeboards (a PC on a card to fit inside your A2000 and later) to have access to an ISA bus on one end and the Zorro bus on the other. Zorro II was a 16-bit bus. Zorro III was, IIRC, a 32-bit version of Zorro II which squeezed 32 bits onto a 16-bit bus with a sort of double data rate scheme.
:-)
Dave Haynie's posted on Slashdot before. I'm pretty sure *he* could explain it better.
A mod point! A mod point! My kingdom for a +1 Funny mod point!
So, I wonder what pets think of our modern video and audio systems?
Pets probably think modern video and audio systems don't smell very interesting.