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I hate mice and would much prefer a good quality keyboard with pointing stick like the IBM notebooks. Preferably something matching layout of my notebook keyboard, and comfortable for lap or desktop use.
Pirating satellite is relatively easy and you'll never get caught if you don't get greedy with bandwidth.
Spread spectrum over a television transponder, at low bit rate will not raise the noise floor enough to arouse suspicion. If you're feeling particularly paranoid, bit rate can be kept low enough to be completely undetectable.
Find a buddy with a mail server and use it. Port 25? You should use port 22 to talk to your mail server from anywhere other than it's console. Seriously, if you want to tx&rx mail from wherever you are there are plenty of servers available to friends and friends of friends.
ISPs should block zombies. A simple auto-generated email aroused by traffic level and requesting an explanation should be sufficient. Blcok all except port 53and whatever the heck VOIP uses if there is no reply.
DNS cache stuffing is still a problem. Who needs an open proxy when you're a legal host?
A bounty on spammers perhaps? Outsource to Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Belarus, Ukraine, Pakistan, or any number of places.
Hell, my lawn guy in USA, and this is an honest to $deity(s) quote...
"Twenty dollah? TWENTY DOLLAH? I KEE a MAN FO TWENTY DOLLAH!"
Getting the information out or profiting via control of information?
You'd think that searchable electronic versions of the journals would further the goals that led to researching and writing the papers in the first place. The peer review portion costs nothing, the cost of production of the papers is not borne by the journals. They don't sponsor(in the sense of paying for) the conferences.
All that said, I think most people prefer a hard copy of a paper that they will be using in their research. I know I do. So the journals should still have an audience.
The problem is that the way it's set up now, one must either wait forever for an interlibrary loan or buy the reprints. This impedes research as one must spend a lot of time-money to weed through all the stuff that's not important to ones research in order to uncover 'the good stuff'. Sure, one can join a professional society for a 'discount' on the journals, but this is of no use when one is interested in cross discipline research. The time-money is better spent on actual reading and research than on acquiring tons of paper.
The journals are only delaying the inevetable anyway. On line, peer reviewed, publication is going to happen eventually. It's faster and more people will be able to make use of each others research. Better the journals 'get in on the ground floor' before they become irrelevant(sp?).
RANT Follows
Of course we see control of information on the internet as well. The most frustrating is this assymetrical bandwidth crap that is being used to keep independent producers in their place. Sure, someone can pay for bandwidth for the equivilent of broadcast, i.e. a big fat web server farm, but this is money and time taken away from production (just like the journals above). With symmetrical broadband, distributed distribution of content becomes a reality for music, films, and even computing. i.e. AI or heaven forbid, a distributed google work-a-like. This is the real fight because distributed distribution will eventually make ALL of broadcast irrelevant, including google.
Back when the WREK transmitter and antenna were located on the roof of the Van Leer(sp) Electrical Engineering building at Georgia Tech a few of us went up on the roof with flouresecnt tubes. Made dandy light sabres (long before star wars) as the RF got the atoms in the tube excited. Procol Harem or maybe a bit of Rossinni.
If you're gonna use flourescent tubes, it's probably easiest to generate some high voltage using an old TeeVee or computer display flyback transformer. Wear it in your pocket with a couple of pounds of Alkaline D-Cells. You can spiral a very thin wire around the outside of the tube and fix it with wide, clear, packaging tape. This will prevent injury from glass when the tune breaks.
Gasoline? Evolution in action.
IANAEE, I am not an electrical engineer but instead a wayward physics major about to head back to school after 30 years if they'll let me in.
half assed restoration'. But no, gotta blame the Digits. Where's the personal responsibility. The Digits had nothing to do with this. I think what happened is they took a stab at restoring Popeye in the Land of the Goons and are now being, for all intents and purposes, blackballed. It was thought that all copies had been destroyed. Cultural sensitivity trumps culture, you know. Can't portray cargo cult and head hunters in a negative light.
If anyone has a pointer to a copy of 'Popeye in the Land of the Goons', I have been looking for years...
Which scenario makes more sense?
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D'Souza family. Obviously culturally acclimated as their house is not garishly painted behind the metal sheets (I saw some detailed photos on a live TeeVee newscast) is nutzo. The whol efriggin family.
OR
OR
OR
There is a single, LONE NUT, in their neighborhood who coupled the magnetron from his microwave oven to an antenna and is actually tossing photons at the D'Souzas.
Seriously guys, which is more believable? It's California after all. Personally, you couldn't pay me enough to live in any city in that state.
How the hell can I get funding for my dumnbass ideas???
"idea powering"? this idea couldn't power a mouse to lick his ass.
The idjits obviously never bother to listen to the radio. The DJ doesn't say, "and now feast your ears on this latest from Captain Beefheart" No, he waits until the end of play or maybe a few plays and then announces, "you've just heard Blind Willy McFee singing 'Short Irish Girl Blues'. which was preceeded by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans singing that old favorite 'Trigger Braunsweiger, It Be da Best' and preceeding that the Opossum Brothers instrumental version of 'Wild Wood Weed'".
But if you can't waut for the DeeJay, pray tell, how the hell is the service gonna distinguish between the 103 different covers of Ring of Fire or 88 covers of Ghost Riders in The Sky???
Old laws are kept around for selective enforcement. Who knows when some middle easternee entering boston might look suspicious and yet not be stoppable bacause of the dumbass liberals at NPR grinning over the 'no indians' law repeal.
i mean it's like the 55 MPH spped limit on I-75/85 through Atlanta or the 70mph on I-20 in Eastern Alabama. No one obeys the law but if some punk ass indian keeping up with the 95mph traffic in a tanker truck rouses the suspicion of Sheriff Luger Axhandle, recently transferred from Heater County, Ca. Why that well respected law enforcement officer would have the law on his side in pulling said furreeneer over for closer inspection.
It's plain old fraud and the onus should be on the merchants and lenders who fail to verify the identity of the person they are extending credit to.
But no, this is too costly, so they try to put it back on the person who's information is used in the fraud.
It's NOT RIGHT! If someone else borrows money in your name, it's the lenders problem, not yours. Your identity was not stolen. You are still you. The lender is at fault because he failed to exercise due diligence in a climate where fraud is rampant.
Just think about it for a minute. You are NOT the victim of identity theft. You are still you and the other guy screwed some third party. Why should it cost you any money or any time... Instead, the idiots who carelessly or out of greed failed to verify that it was indeed you and not someone else requesting a credit report and credit should pay.
There's a simple solution too.
The credit reporting companies need to stop selling information to anyone other than the person who owns the information. Mainly you if it's your information. You want a loan, you request the information. Hell, if it takes a photo ID and a visit with a rep from the reporting company, then that's what it takes... But it's their problem to solve, NOT yours.
If any of your fire-ees are reading this and want to have a go, let me know. With all those years in at IBM you should each have a couple of hundred thousand Euros accumulated net worth to get the ball rolling.
Hell, with three billion dollars and a bit of a loan, we could buy Novell, or RedHat, or maybe even Sun!
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"First. It's not a matter of 'loading' ones brain into some bit of hardware. It's integration of that hardware into the brain function to the degree that, as has been observed for decades with other prosthetics, the brain ceases to recognize the machine as distinct from itself. As brain function is slowly replaced and integrated there will come a point at which the brain is totally aware of it's self yet that self is totally contained within the hardware which replaced it. WIth the rapidly declining cost of hardware and synthetic diamond for physical interfacing, it's more likely that somone will discover that he has been a machine for many years rather than consciously set out to 'load' his self into that machine. See the machine. Become one with the machine. Be the machine. But in this case, machine becomes you instead."
Extracted from my earlier rambling comment on instigating/. news
will be able to download their consciousness into computers by 2050 - the not so well off by "2075 or 2080", claims futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson, head of the Futurology unit at BT."
The second thing that comes to Senor Programmer, futureologistismo extroadinaires mind is... Once again those who wait will benefit from the excursions and expense of early adopters. The first thing was tooo involved to type fast and follows with SP's predictions as coda.
Thing the first. Why is it that these arts and letters types, and Ian surely is one, Otherwise he'd be out working on brain loading rather than trying t get his arse in the history books as the prognisticating dude who ripped off my AC comments to/. and got his other A&L buds to print it. Or perhaps it's his barber shop dipl0ma d0ct0rate in the social upheavals resulting from the simple overhand knot as misapplied in early French lamb gut scum bag manufacturing. Which reminds me of that fugs tune, Saran Wrap. But I digress and am not to thing the first yet, it being...
That why the heck is is always "the rich" or "the wealthy" with these A&L futurologists? I'll tell you why. Because it fits their hidden agenda of control through class warfare, that's why. Keep those brain loading researchers in their place by pointing out that they are working for THE MAN and not for the community good. But what does he care? He's a wealthy futurologist. Oh yeh, his position of wealth is both secure and non-suspect if he maintains his position as 'one who knows best' between the evil technocrats, scientists, engineers, and the 'po folk'.
Coda follows as it by definition must.
BZZZZTTTTTTT Ian's full of shit.
First. It's not a matter of 'loading' ones brain into some bit of hardware. It's integration of that hardware into the brain function to the degree that, as has been observed for decades with other prosthetics, the brain ceases to recognize the machine as distinct from itself. As brain function is slowly replaced and integrated there will come a point at which the brain is totally aware of it's self yet that self is totally contained within the hardware which replaced it. WIth the rapidly declining cost of hardware and synthetic diamond for physical interfacing, it's more likely that somone will discover that he has been a machine for many years rather than consciously set out to 'load' his self into that machine. See the machine. Become one with the machine. Be the machine. But in this case, machine becomes you instead.
PS If anyone is interested in a FOSS hardware-software project that will show up THE MAN and put the first consciousness, I propose a dog because you never know with cats and monkeys tend to toss unpleasant stuff about, in hardware, please let me know. Seriously. Well maybe not the dog part but the ever growing in functionality brain prosthetic would be FUN.
PSS volunteers will be considered in order of descending donor ranking
Podcast is a great opportunity for radio archives. Say you run an independent radio station. College, community, what have you.
You have a programming schedule and a good many interesting programs. For example the Atlanta local WRFG is a 50KW FM stereo community supported radio station that would be of interest to a much larger audience than local Atlanta.
If WRFG were to make programs available as archives kept for a week and updated live and also make these archives easily available over 'podcast' they would benefit from a much larger audience and the additional donations that would come along with it.
What's missing is an easy to navigate playlist for the archive that the program director can easily update through his preferred management software. There is some oportunity for OSS here for anyone willing to build features of the popular program management systems with archiving or interface to popular archiving software, and couple of clicks or automatic podcast site update. If Mr Jobs is sharp, he'll get his butt in gear to fund with his site as the default.
There are a good many independent radio stations across the country offering 'different' programming that would also benefit.
But, the biggest winners will be listeners.
Radio is for the most part a one way medium so a bit of time shift doesn't matter to listeners. Take this, the CRAP that consolidation has replaced radio programming with, and adding in the simple, appliance like, user interface of 'podcasting' and you can't help but have a winner all the way around.
There is also an opportunity for consolidating what used to be 'local' interest radio for podcast. The sources are still there, they just don't work for clear channel. Sure, the market for local programming is limited but it's there and much less expensive to serve than through station ownership.
With this sort of growth in Macs, what motivation could possibly exist for major changes other than some architectural limitation leaving Macs in a state akin to salted slugs in comparison to newer AMD CPU offerings. Switch to Intel CPU would, even in this context, is crazy. PPC is keeping up handily so scenario is imaginary...
The only thing that makes sense is second sourcing some parts that might become 'tight' in the market if sales growth continues. Shortage of Macs and Ipods as a result of Not keeping tabs on the supply chain would be BIG news. Adding source to accomodate growth is not.
for investigative and prosecutorial branches in the OSS legal community. It might well be self supported from awards and even generate some $ to put in developers pockets.
anything one does to extract energy affects the environment. wind farms and nuclear plants change local micro-climates. i'm curious as to what, if any modeling has been done for 'sausage' farms.
as an aside, these things are certain to confuse and confound first time extra-solar visitors.
EU is proceeding, along with Japan, with a test bed for materials to be used in nuclear fusion reactor, if they ever sort out where it's gonna go. In the mean time, IMO, the best thing that could happen for 'clean' power would be a global standard fission plant along with a set of standards for site requirements. Cookie cutter fission plants would make nuclear power much more affordable. As for nuclear waste, IMO it's pretty arrogant to think we'll be around 50k years from now, while at the same time not being clever enough to figure out how to handle the waste by the time the 50k year countdown ends...
with PC3200+ RAM on a SIS(AFAIK lowest price chipset there is) based mommaboard.
Running CPU at stock 2.2 GHz and mem(HTT) at stock 400MHz.
It's unbelievably cool with 42 degrees C reported after sustained 92% user 8% system operation.
If I understand the article, the optimum OC path is to keep the HTT at 400 by upping the CPU clock and upping the divisor, unless I want to worry about all the other system clocks and peripherals running beyond speced speed. If this is correct, let me know and I'll have a look at BIOS to see if this is possible with this extremely inexpensive motherboard.
I tell you what dude. The first time a prospective or current employee qualifies a statement with 'to be honest', his ass is fired. Man I love 'right to work' statutes.
As for your unqualified statements...my sister does training in India and while there ae some highly qualified workers there is also a hidden management structure. Typically she see's a the sharp guy or gal with an entourage of less capable employees who pay tribute in exchange for 'management' in the area of decision making. Not to say these folks are not intelligent...But, they do not have the capability of making decisions, only choosing options from a set which does not incur liability by that choice. Everything else is deferred to the 'hidden manager'.
I've seen this in USA middle management where it's not that big a deal. It is a disaster in technical areas beyond flow chart type troubleshooting and parts replacement. What I'm getting at is sure, the H1B and outsource workers my be less expensive in general, but the good ones, those who will own a problem and take responsibility for solving it, are not. The problem for USA workers becomes...
competing at the pay scales of this managed tier for jobs with employers who 'don't get it' or working in an environment where your imported supervisor wants directed drones who pay him tribute and independence is discouraged (like the post office, but that's another story).
"The move is to appease businesses and universities that don't want to scrap the old hardware."... "Most other programs, however, will run off a central server."... "Microsoft will continue to recommend that the best way to get more out of any operating system is to replace computers when they get old."
So let me get this straight. Microsoft is going to offer a cheapo client side OS to cheapskate businesses and po' universities.
It will either:
Require a big investment in a Microsoft based servers. OR a mess of free OS, say Linux and BSD, running well on existing older or new, less expensive servers.
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I hate mice and would much prefer a good quality keyboard with pointing stick like the IBM notebooks. Preferably something matching layout of my notebook keyboard, and comfortable for lap or desktop use.
Is a periperal like his marketed? Pointer?
Pirating satellite is relatively easy and you'll never get caught if you don't get greedy with bandwidth.
Spread spectrum over a television transponder, at low bit rate will not raise the noise floor enough to arouse suspicion. If you're feeling particularly paranoid, bit rate can be kept low enough to be completely undetectable.
Find a buddy with a mail server and use it. Port 25? You should use port 22 to talk to your mail server from anywhere other than it's console. Seriously, if you want to tx&rx mail from wherever you are there are plenty of servers available to friends and friends of friends.
ISPs should block zombies. A simple auto-generated email aroused by traffic level and requesting an explanation should be sufficient. Blcok all except port 53and whatever the heck VOIP uses if there is no reply.
DNS cache stuffing is still a problem. Who needs an open proxy when you're a legal host?
A bounty on spammers perhaps? Outsource to Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Belarus, Ukraine, Pakistan, or any number of places.
Hell, my lawn guy in USA, and this is an honest to $deity(s) quote...
"Twenty dollah? TWENTY DOLLAH? I KEE a MAN FO TWENTY DOLLAH!"
What's the goal here?
Getting the information out or profiting via control of information?
You'd think that searchable electronic versions of the journals would further the goals that led to researching and writing the papers in the first place. The peer review portion costs nothing, the cost of production of the papers is not borne by the journals. They don't sponsor(in the sense of paying for) the conferences.
All that said, I think most people prefer a hard copy of a paper that they will be using in their research. I know I do. So the journals should still have an audience.
The problem is that the way it's set up now, one must either wait forever for an interlibrary loan or buy the reprints. This impedes research as one must spend a lot of time-money to weed through all the stuff that's not important to ones research in order to uncover 'the good stuff'. Sure, one can join a professional society for a 'discount' on the journals, but this is of no use when one is interested in cross discipline research. The time-money is better spent on actual reading and research than on acquiring tons of paper.
The journals are only delaying the inevetable anyway. On line, peer reviewed, publication is going to happen eventually. It's faster and more people will be able to make use of each others research. Better the journals 'get in on the ground floor' before they become irrelevant(sp?).
RANT Follows
Of course we see control of information on the internet as well. The most frustrating is this assymetrical bandwidth crap that is being used to keep independent producers in their place. Sure, someone can pay for bandwidth for the equivilent of broadcast, i.e. a big fat web server farm, but this is money and time taken away from production (just like the journals above). With symmetrical broadband, distributed distribution of content becomes a reality for music, films, and even computing. i.e. AI or heaven forbid, a distributed google work-a-like. This is the real fight because distributed distribution will eventually make ALL of broadcast irrelevant, including google.
Back when the WREK transmitter and antenna were located on the roof of the Van Leer(sp) Electrical Engineering building at Georgia Tech a few of us went up on the roof with flouresecnt tubes. Made dandy light sabres (long before star wars) as the RF got the atoms in the tube excited. Procol Harem or maybe a bit of Rossinni.
If you're gonna use flourescent tubes, it's probably easiest to generate some high voltage using an old TeeVee or computer display flyback transformer. Wear it in your pocket with a couple of pounds of Alkaline D-Cells. You can spiral a very thin wire around the outside of the tube and fix it with wide, clear, packaging tape. This will prevent injury from glass when the tune breaks.
Gasoline? Evolution in action.
IANAEE, I am not an electrical engineer but instead a wayward physics major about to head back to school after 30 years if they'll let me in.
half assed restoration'. But no, gotta blame the Digits. Where's the personal responsibility. The Digits had nothing to do with this. I think what happened is they took a stab at restoring Popeye in the Land of the Goons and are now being, for all intents and purposes, blackballed. It was thought that all copies had been destroyed. Cultural sensitivity trumps culture, you know. Can't portray cargo cult and head hunters in a negative light.
If anyone has a pointer to a copy of 'Popeye in the Land of the Goons', I have been looking for years...
Tabulating machines don't kill people. People do.
D'Souza family. Obviously culturally acclimated as their house is not garishly painted behind the metal sheets (I saw some detailed photos on a live TeeVee newscast) is nutzo. The whol efriggin family.
OR
OR
OR
There is a single, LONE NUT, in their neighborhood who coupled the magnetron from his microwave oven to an antenna and is actually tossing photons at the D'Souzas.
Seriously guys, which is more believable? It's California after all. Personally, you couldn't pay me enough to live in any city in that state.
How the hell can I get funding for my dumnbass ideas???
"idea powering"?
this idea couldn't power a mouse to lick his ass.
The idjits obviously never bother to listen to the radio. The DJ doesn't say, "and now feast your ears on this latest from Captain Beefheart"
No, he waits until the end of play or maybe a few plays and then announces, "you've just heard Blind Willy McFee singing 'Short Irish Girl Blues'. which was preceeded by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans singing that old favorite 'Trigger Braunsweiger, It Be da Best' and preceeding that the Opossum Brothers instrumental version of 'Wild Wood Weed'".
But if you can't waut for the DeeJay, pray tell, how the hell is the service gonna distinguish between the 103 different covers of Ring of Fire or 88 covers of Ghost Riders in The Sky???
gladiators....
Seriously, the proposal is a joke.
Old laws are kept around for selective enforcement. Who knows when some middle easternee entering boston might look suspicious and yet not be stoppable bacause of the dumbass liberals at NPR grinning over the 'no indians' law repeal.
i mean it's like the 55 MPH spped limit on I-75/85 through Atlanta or the 70mph on I-20 in Eastern Alabama. No one obeys the law but if some punk ass indian keeping up with the 95mph traffic in a tanker truck rouses the suspicion of Sheriff Luger Axhandle, recently transferred from Heater County, Ca. Why that well respected law enforcement officer would have the law on his side in pulling said furreeneer over for closer inspection.
It's plain old fraud and the onus should be on the merchants and lenders who fail to verify the identity of the person they are extending credit to.
But no, this is too costly, so they try to put it back on the person who's information is used in the fraud.
It's NOT RIGHT! If someone else borrows money in your name, it's the lenders problem, not yours. Your identity was not stolen. You are still you. The lender is at fault because he failed to exercise due diligence in a climate where fraud is rampant.
Just think about it for a minute. You are NOT the victim of identity theft. You are still you and the other guy screwed some third party. Why should it cost you any money or any time... Instead, the idiots who carelessly or out of greed failed to verify that it was indeed you and not someone else requesting a credit report and credit should pay.
There's a simple solution too.
The credit reporting companies need to stop selling information to anyone other than the person who owns the information. Mainly you if it's your information. You want a loan, you request the information. Hell, if it takes a photo ID and a visit with a rep from the reporting company, then that's what it takes... But it's their problem to solve, NOT yours.
sounds like the beginning of a new company to me.
If any of your fire-ees are reading this and want to have a go, let me know. With all those years in at IBM you should each have a couple of hundred thousand Euros accumulated net worth to get the ball rolling.
Hell, with three billion dollars and a bit of a loan, we could buy Novell, or RedHat, or maybe even Sun!
"First. It's not a matter of 'loading' ones brain into some bit of hardware. It's integration of that hardware into the brain function to the degree that, as has been observed for decades with other prosthetics, the brain ceases to recognize the machine as distinct from itself. As brain function is slowly replaced and integrated there will come a point at which the brain is totally aware of it's self yet that self is totally contained within the hardware which replaced it. WIth the rapidly declining cost of hardware and synthetic diamond for physical interfacing, it's more likely that somone will discover that he has been a machine for many years rather than consciously set out to 'load' his self into that machine. See the machine. Become one with the machine. Be the machine. But in this case, machine becomes you instead."
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Extracted from my earlier rambling comment on instigating
will be able to download their consciousness into computers by 2050 - the not so well off by "2075 or 2080", claims futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson, head of the Futurology unit at BT."
/. and got his other A&L buds to print it. Or perhaps it's his barber shop dipl0ma d0ct0rate in the social upheavals resulting from the simple overhand knot as misapplied in early French lamb gut scum bag manufacturing. Which reminds me of that fugs tune, Saran Wrap. But I digress and am not to thing the first yet, it being...
The second thing that comes to Senor Programmer, futureologistismo extroadinaires mind is...
Once again those who wait will benefit from the excursions and expense of early adopters. The first thing was tooo involved to type fast and follows with SP's predictions as coda.
Thing the first. Why is it that these arts and letters types, and Ian surely is one, Otherwise he'd be out working on brain loading rather than trying t get his arse in the history books as the prognisticating dude who ripped off my AC comments to
That why the heck is is always "the rich" or "the wealthy" with these A&L futurologists? I'll tell you why. Because it fits their hidden agenda of control through class warfare, that's why. Keep those brain loading researchers in their place by pointing out that they are working for THE MAN and not for the community good. But what does he care? He's a wealthy futurologist. Oh yeh, his position of wealth is both secure and non-suspect if he maintains his position as 'one who knows best' between the evil technocrats, scientists, engineers, and the 'po folk'.
Coda follows as it by definition must.
BZZZZTTTTTTT Ian's full of shit.
First. It's not a matter of 'loading' ones brain into some bit of hardware. It's integration of that hardware into the brain function to the degree that, as has been observed for decades with other prosthetics, the brain ceases to recognize the machine as distinct from itself. As brain function is slowly replaced and integrated there will come a point at which the brain is totally aware of it's self yet that self is totally contained within the hardware which replaced it. WIth the rapidly declining cost of hardware and synthetic diamond for physical interfacing, it's more likely that somone will discover that he has been a machine for many years rather than consciously set out to 'load' his self into that machine. See the machine. Become one with the machine. Be the machine. But in this case, machine becomes you instead.
PS
If anyone is interested in a FOSS hardware-software project that will show up THE MAN and put the first consciousness, I propose a dog because you never know with cats and monkeys tend to toss unpleasant stuff about, in hardware, please let me know. Seriously. Well maybe not the dog part but the ever growing in functionality brain prosthetic would be FUN.
PSS volunteers will be considered in order of descending donor ranking
Podcast is a great opportunity for radio archives.
Say you run an independent radio station. College, community, what have you.
You have a programming schedule and a good many interesting programs. For example the Atlanta local WRFG is a 50KW FM stereo community supported radio station that would be of interest to a much larger audience than local Atlanta.
If WRFG were to make programs available as archives kept for a week and updated live and also make these archives easily available over 'podcast' they would benefit from a much larger audience and the additional donations that would come along with it.
What's missing is an easy to navigate playlist for the archive that the program director can easily update through his preferred management software. There is some oportunity for OSS here for anyone willing to build features of the popular program management systems with archiving or interface to popular archiving software, and couple of clicks or automatic podcast site update. If Mr Jobs is sharp, he'll get his butt in gear to fund with his site as the default.
There are a good many independent radio stations across the country offering 'different' programming that would also benefit.
But, the biggest winners will be listeners.
Radio is for the most part a one way medium so a bit of time shift doesn't matter to listeners. Take this, the CRAP that consolidation has replaced radio programming with, and adding in the simple, appliance like, user interface of 'podcasting' and you can't help but have a winner all the way around.
There is also an opportunity for consolidating what used to be 'local' interest radio for podcast. The sources are still there, they just don't work for clear channel. Sure, the market for local programming is limited but it's there and much less expensive to serve than through station ownership.
2ND quarter 05,
"Apple shipped 1,070,000 Macintosh® units and 5,311,000 iPods during the quarter, representing a 43 percent increase in CPU units and a 558 percent increase in iPods over the year-ago quarter."
With this sort of growth in Macs, what motivation could possibly exist for major changes other than some architectural limitation leaving Macs in a state akin to salted slugs in comparison to newer AMD CPU offerings. Switch to Intel CPU would, even in this context, is crazy. PPC is keeping up handily so scenario is imaginary...
The only thing that makes sense is second sourcing some parts that might become 'tight' in the market if sales growth continues. Shortage of Macs and Ipods as a result of Not keeping tabs on the supply chain would be BIG news. Adding source to accomodate growth is not.
for investigative and prosecutorial branches in the OSS legal community. It might well be self supported from awards and even generate some $ to put in developers pockets.
Seeing as it's genereally regarded as being on the leading edge of internet profiting...
I often grab a SPAM musubi and a couple of manapua(a pork and a duck or a curry chicken and a duck) for lunch.
anything one does to extract energy affects the environment. wind farms and nuclear plants change local micro-climates. i'm curious as to what, if any modeling has been done for 'sausage' farms.
as an aside, these things are certain to confuse and confound first time extra-solar visitors.
EU is proceeding, along with Japan, with a test bed for materials to be used in nuclear fusion reactor, if they ever sort out where it's gonna go. In the mean time, IMO, the best thing that could happen for 'clean' power would be a global standard fission plant along with a set of standards for site requirements. Cookie cutter fission plants would make nuclear power much more affordable. As for nuclear waste, IMO it's pretty arrogant to think we'll be around 50k years from now, while at the same time not being clever enough to figure out how to handle the waste by the time the 50k year countdown ends...
with PC3200+ RAM on a SIS(AFAIK lowest price chipset there is) based mommaboard.
Running CPU at stock 2.2 GHz and mem(HTT) at stock 400MHz.
It's unbelievably cool with 42 degrees C reported after sustained 92% user 8% system operation.
If I understand the article, the optimum OC path is to keep the HTT at 400 by upping the CPU clock and upping the divisor, unless I want to worry about all the other system clocks and peripherals running beyond speced speed. If this is correct, let me know and I'll have a look at BIOS to see if this is possible with this extremely inexpensive motherboard.
I tell you what dude. The first time a prospective or current employee qualifies a statement with 'to be honest', his ass is fired. Man I love 'right to work' statutes.
As for your unqualified statements...my sister does training in India and while there ae some highly qualified workers there is also a hidden management structure. Typically she see's a the sharp guy or gal with an entourage of less capable employees who pay tribute in exchange for 'management' in the area of decision making. Not to say these folks are not intelligent...But, they do not have the capability of making decisions, only choosing options from a set which does not incur liability by that choice. Everything else is deferred to the 'hidden manager'.
I've seen this in USA middle management where it's not that big a deal. It is a disaster in technical areas beyond flow chart type troubleshooting and parts replacement. What I'm getting at is sure, the H1B and outsource workers my be less expensive in general, but the good ones, those who will own a problem and take responsibility for solving it, are not. The problem for USA workers becomes...
competing at the pay scales of this managed tier for jobs with employers who 'don't get it' or working in an environment where your imported supervisor wants directed drones who pay him tribute and independence is discouraged (like the post office, but that's another story).
"That prescription sounds suspiciously similar to the oversimplistic advice found in positive thinking self-help books."
"The move is to appease businesses and universities that don't want to scrap the old hardware." ... ...
"Most other programs, however, will run off a central server."
"Microsoft will continue to recommend that the best way to get more out of any operating system is to replace computers when they get old."
So let me get this straight.
Microsoft is going to offer a cheapo client side OS to cheapskate businesses and po' universities.
It will either:
Require a big investment in a Microsoft based servers.
OR
a mess of free OS, say Linux and BSD, running well on existing older or new, less expensive servers.
SCO-IBM
IBM-Linux
SCO-Linux
minix-linux
go read it...