Regarding constructing a mini-clean room, I wonder if you could use the air vented off a HEPA filtered vacuum (as in carpet/upright vacuum). You'd probably want to empty the dust-bin/bag first, but the vacuum combined with a (clean) dryer hose might provide a decent air handling system for mini-clean room.
Actually, depending on the application, you may want "untrained" monkeys. "Trained" monkeys might not provide a reasonable simulation of your end-users.:)
That's why Jamie Kellner, chairman of Turner Broadcasting System, told the Television Critics Association this month that DVR users should pay an extra $250 a year for ad-free TV. "Don't think for a moment that there's a free lunch involved in this," he said.
$250/yr is all that those ads are worth? WOW! Who do I send a check to? Since this is the TBS chair, I assume that the he's figuring the $250 be sufficient to cover all of my extended-basic cable channels. West Wing will be 45 minutes with no interruptions -- no home loan / precious metal ads on CNN in the morning. Hour long MTV shows will be a mere 20 minutes! Best of all, I won't wear out the FF button on my Tivo remote.
Now where does this check go and how do I receive the ad-free video stream?
Koolance has been building this type of system for quite a while now. The parts are almost identical except Koolance incorporates the radiator at the top of the case with with 'blowhole' fans moving the air and a digital temperature readout. Their more recent designs are modified Antec/Chieftec/Alienware tower cases (you can even get them with a window... geez...). The original cases were somewhat more impressive as they incorporated a liquid-cooled power supply as well.
One amusing 'coming soon' product on their website is a liquid-cooled 1U case. I keep imagining a whole rack of these units and one word springs to mind: waterfall.
A number of people have made the comment that current airport jetways are not well designed for servicing this type of aircraft. So why not ditch jetways (heck, it's only money...) and replace them with something like Dulles' "mobile lounges" (history of Dulles). Just board on oddly-shaped bus in the terminal building and be ferried out to your plane sitting on the tarmac. Naturally you'd need a small fleet of them, but it might allow for a more flexible airport design in the long term. In the short term, an airline could simply run the shuttle out of a normal jetway (assuming there's space on the tarmac to park the beast...)
From an admin's point of view, I can't stand Windows. (Let's forget for a moment that MS tried to eliminate my necessity with something they called ZAW, yet another failed MS pursuit.)
While I understand your livelihood is based on computers requiring careful management, I'm not going to fault Microsoft for attempting to remove some overhead costs for a company. That they failed is not surprising, but making computers better able to manage themselves is hardly a pointless pursuit. It's kind of the John Henry principle -- technology can and will make jobs obsolete.
The purpose of the government is to serve the will of the people.
Sorry, but no. Thats a nice fantasy. The purpose of the government is to server the Constitution.
It may seem that way at times, but I disagree. The government serves the will of the people within the bounds of the Consitution. Hence, even if 51% of Coloradans decide it's ok to discriminate based on sexual orientation, the government is not able to legalize it (old issue). Clearly the Consitution says nothing about Fire Departments, yet at some point US citizens decided they were a good idea and should be government-run.
Well, I like the first few responses, but not the last few...
Terrorism poses no long-term threat to the United States.
I'd agree if I expected us to be dealing with the Ireland/UK type of terrorism or even the Israel/Palestine type, but I don't think we are. That terrorism has "always existed" and doesn't now pose a long term threat is, in my mind, incorrect. The weapons that are available to terrorists "now" as opposed to "then" are tremendously different. I think this is something like suggesting that bands of militia pose no threat to an organized army in 1750. As it turns out, rifles leveled the playing field there and I'm somewhat concerned that bioweapons can level the playing field now. Whether the solution to terrorism is militarily or politically based, I don't know, but I don't think the threat can be dismissed out of hand. Perhaps it may have been more appropriate for the original poster to say the US as-we-know-it may not exist in 2022. Aside from a few relatively minor changes, I sorely hope he'd be wrong stating that.
The purpose the government isn't to send people to Mars. We don't want tax cuts, we demand them, and deserve them.
I disagree with you here. The purpose of the government is to serve the will of the people. If the people decide it's better to pursue scientific/engineering achievement and fly to Mars rather than save some tax money for that [Lexus, Night-on-the-town, house, breakfast, medicine] they need so badly, then the government should pursue the achievement. If you think the government is spending too much on X, you should work to reduce the government's spending on X (well, perhaps you should figure out why the government is interested in X first...). As to where I think the money should be spent, that's a mere 1/300-millionth of the answer. The people of the US should decide where the money goes, and the government should make it so. Obviously you think the money should go back in the pocket of the taxpayer. Apparently a lot of others think it should be sent to Mars.
Nah, communism never made much sense to me, but then I was raised under capitalism. It does seem to work in small groups of like-minded people, but you get one person in their who starts feeling the least bit superior and bam-o it all breaks down.
Anyway, I responded to your original comment mainly because regardless of whether or not communism can be a long term threat to a capitalist people, The Soviet Union did represent a military threat which I don't think can be lightly brushed aside. I mean, it's not like the USSR was really communist anyway -- more of a fascist oligarchy that liked the vocabulary of communist theory.
Frankly, I really hope that two people can have this same conversation about countries based on religious fundamentalism in XX years. Those never make much sense to me either.
Yeah, Communism is so obviously an effective threat against Capitalism that it was...erm...never mind.
You've got some awesome 20/20 hindsight there.
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Everybody seems to be complaining about the keyboard being too small to touch-type normally -- maybe that's not what you're supposed to do. At that size, I can imagine holding it with two hands and being able to reach all the keys (and the pointing-device controls) with my thumbs. This seems to match perfectly with the Gameboy-generation it's targetted at.
Actually, the US has only been around since 1776, making it quite a bit younger than Europe (the continent). Beyond that, the US is actually quite a bit older than a number of countries in Europe which were the product of the creation or splintering of Empires. Germany's only existed since 1871, after all, and look at all the trouble that country's gotten into.
Actually, the plural of octopus can go either way (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=octopus) but the plural of virus is undeniably viruses (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=virus).
I think it's possible to post a discussion of a show without giving away the primary "surprise" element n the title, thus giving the reader a chance to avoid it.
Slashdot regularly provides movie reviews with spoiler warnings. I don't think it's that much to ask. Clearly the primary offense was to west coast real-time watchers, but there's no reason the title couldn't have been changed when he discovered the problem... even if it was after 9pm PDT.
Actually, some of us do ~crazy~ things like time shifting and could have avoided having the show spoiled if you'd bother to change the title (even if it was 9pm). In fact you might _still_ be able to save some people from having the show spoiled if you'd change the bloody posting.
By the same reasoning I suppose you think ISA still has a lot of life in it, since you can't very well put a _PCI_ network card in your 486.
And surely the serial and parallel ports must be kept forever; god forbid the motherboard industry should invoke the wrath of case-modders around the world with their ph3ars0me LCD-hack projects (yes, my mockery of the hacks comes out of case-envy).
Sorry to rag on you, but to suggest that it's "insane" to dump PS/2 due to the miniscule number of consumers who need cheap KVM switches seems a little silly. Personally I'm more concerned about linux support for the various peripherals -- which is also probably of relatively little concern to Abit.
As a side note, I love all the comments about there already being a cat overpopulation problem. I just keep imagining a mad scientist wandering about, cloning cats at random just to be annoying.
Come to think of it, this procedure actually allows the "more than one way to skin a cat" theory to be proven. Currently the best anyone can do is to show that one cat can be skinned in a different way than others. Note: I do not support the skinning of cats, though one must wonder what exactly cats did for such a phrase to exist.
Your interpretation may well be correct. I always separated the two issues because I felt image control was a reasonable (as opposed to illegal) objective for MS to pursue. The best analogy I can think of is Pepsi and Coke, neither of which have a monopoly, and neither of which would let a grocery store plaster their 12 packs with advertisements for some other product. I'm sure that analogy's flawed, it's simply the first one that came to mind.
I just keep thinking of companies that don't do image control. I think Cadillac could have a very different image if they didn't allow dealers to crap their cars up with vinyl tops, gold trim, spare wheels on the trunk, and gold-and-white sided tires on wire wheels. Then again, it would probably still have bench seat. American cars...
Actually, it would only be illegal if MS had an illegal monopoly. I think there's a bit of a circular argument there since the incorporation of the browser seems to be one of the key arguments for MS being an illegal monopoly, yet the incorporation would only be a problem if MS were an illegal monopoly. I'd much rather see MS prosecuted based on the requirement that OEMs pay a Windows license fee for each computer sold (rather than each Windows computer sold) than on the browser issue. I think it's a much more clear-cut issue. Plus by the time the browser reached the 4.x version, I think MS was providing a far superior product (my impression only -- no factual basis is implied).
Anyway, I understand your point. I do wonder how many software packages are being destroyed by Apple's iMedia (you know what I mean) programs. MS, after all, really only squashed one browser maker.:) (Yes, I'm ignoring Opera because I hate the one window/multiple browsers style it uses)
As far as alternate universes go, I just wish I lived in the one where OSX ran on the AMD machines I already own. Oh well.
You are evidently not experienced enough with filesystem design or the web to make this judgement.
Excuse me, there appears to be an ivory tower shoved up your ass. I'm perfectly capable of deciding what I like and what I don't, thank you. I didn't suggest that the current methods were the best possible, I simply stated that I liked being presented with a text box in which I can put in any address that I formulate and get the result I want. So yes, I use IE to blur and obfuscate any number of information organization systems. I also use Linux and Windows to blur and obfuscate any number of little changes in transistor states.
Excuse me, I'm going to go point my Konqueror window (currently at/usr/tmp) to http://rcsb.org now. Oh the horror!
[BLOCKQUOTE]If you followed the lawsuit at all, you'd know that the original basis of the argument was the setting of the default browser - not the inclusion of web libraries. Had Microsoft allowed the IE icon to be removed, none of this would have occured.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
Well yes, I agree, but only kind of. The default/icon issue relates to something MS had been doing for years: exercising strict control over what OEMs could and couldn't install and how they present MS's OS. This was understandable, I think, as MS didn't want the OEMs installing something that would _appear_ to come for MS and hurt their image (say, replace solitaire with strip poker, as an extreme example).
The lawsuit was precipitated by MS _continuing_ to excercise this level of control with the introduction of IE.
I made the KDE argument in support of the idea that the browser could be an integral part of the OS (I'm talking in terms of feel, not files). If this argument holds water, then the real issue would be whether or not MS has the ability to control the look/feel of its products when filtered through vendors. I believe a company has this right; whether or not the KDE developers choose to excercise it is irrelevant.
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Do the sitings also correlate to conferencers CowboyNeal has been attending? If so, how was Slashdot able to contract service from the DoD?
Many apologies to CowboyNeal for the joke made at his expense...
Regarding constructing a mini-clean room, I wonder if you could use the air vented off a HEPA filtered vacuum (as in carpet/upright vacuum). You'd probably want to empty the dust-bin/bag first, but the vacuum combined with a (clean) dryer hose might provide a decent air handling system for mini-clean room.
Actually, depending on the application, you may want "untrained" monkeys. "Trained" monkeys might not provide a reasonable simulation of your end-users. :)
You might also look into pigeons.
Now where does this check go and how do I receive the ad-free video stream?
Koolance has been building this type of system for quite a while now. The parts are almost identical except Koolance incorporates the radiator at the top of the case with with 'blowhole' fans moving the air and a digital temperature readout. Their more recent designs are modified Antec/Chieftec/Alienware tower cases (you can even get them with a window... geez...). The original cases were somewhat more impressive as they incorporated a liquid-cooled power supply as well. One amusing 'coming soon' product on their website is a liquid-cooled 1U case. I keep imagining a whole rack of these units and one word springs to mind: waterfall.
A number of people have made the comment that current airport jetways are not well designed for servicing this type of aircraft. So why not ditch jetways (heck, it's only money...) and replace them with something like Dulles' "mobile lounges" (history of Dulles). Just board on oddly-shaped bus in the terminal building and be ferried out to your plane sitting on the tarmac. Naturally you'd need a small fleet of them, but it might allow for a more flexible airport design in the long term. In the short term, an airline could simply run the shuttle out of a normal jetway (assuming there's space on the tarmac to park the beast...)
While I understand your livelihood is based on computers requiring careful management, I'm not going to fault Microsoft for attempting to remove some overhead costs for a company. That they failed is not surprising, but making computers better able to manage themselves is hardly a pointless pursuit. It's kind of the John Henry principle -- technology can and will make jobs obsolete.
Yeah, you can't buy Tivos at Best Buy any more. You have to settle for a Tivo Series Two link. Thanks for the morning helping of FUD.
It may seem that way at times, but I disagree. The government serves the will of the people within the bounds of the Consitution. Hence, even if 51% of Coloradans decide it's ok to discriminate based on sexual orientation, the government is not able to legalize it (old issue). Clearly the Consitution says nothing about Fire Departments, yet at some point US citizens decided they were a good idea and should be government-run.
I'd agree if I expected us to be dealing with the Ireland/UK type of terrorism or even the Israel/Palestine type, but I don't think we are. That terrorism has "always existed" and doesn't now pose a long term threat is, in my mind, incorrect. The weapons that are available to terrorists "now" as opposed to "then" are tremendously different. I think this is something like suggesting that bands of militia pose no threat to an organized army in 1750. As it turns out, rifles leveled the playing field there and I'm somewhat concerned that bioweapons can level the playing field now. Whether the solution to terrorism is militarily or politically based, I don't know, but I don't think the threat can be dismissed out of hand. Perhaps it may have been more appropriate for the original poster to say the US as-we-know-it may not exist in 2022. Aside from a few relatively minor changes, I sorely hope he'd be wrong stating that.
I disagree with you here. The purpose of the government is to serve the will of the people. If the people decide it's better to pursue scientific/engineering achievement and fly to Mars rather than save some tax money for that [Lexus, Night-on-the-town, house, breakfast, medicine] they need so badly, then the government should pursue the achievement. If you think the government is spending too much on X, you should work to reduce the government's spending on X (well, perhaps you should figure out why the government is interested in X first...). As to where I think the money should be spent, that's a mere 1/300-millionth of the answer. The people of the US should decide where the money goes, and the government should make it so. Obviously you think the money should go back in the pocket of the taxpayer. Apparently a lot of others think it should be sent to Mars.
Simply put, "No."
Nah, communism never made much sense to me, but then I was raised under capitalism. It does seem to work in small groups of like-minded people, but you get one person in their who starts feeling the least bit superior and bam-o it all breaks down.
Anyway, I responded to your original comment mainly because regardless of whether or not communism can be a long term threat to a capitalist people, The Soviet Union did represent a military threat which I don't think can be lightly brushed aside. I mean, it's not like the USSR was really communist anyway -- more of a fascist oligarchy that liked the vocabulary of communist theory.
Frankly, I really hope that two people can have this same conversation about countries based on religious fundamentalism in XX years. Those never make much sense to me either.
Yeah, Communism is so obviously an effective threat against Capitalism that it was...erm...never mind.
You've got some awesome 20/20 hindsight there.
Everybody seems to be complaining about the keyboard being too small to touch-type normally -- maybe that's not what you're supposed to do. At that size, I can imagine holding it with two hands and being able to reach all the keys (and the pointing-device controls) with my thumbs. This seems to match perfectly with the Gameboy-generation it's targetted at.
Actually, the US has only been around since 1776, making it quite a bit younger than Europe (the continent). Beyond that, the US is actually quite a bit older than a number of countries in Europe which were the product of the creation or splintering of Empires. Germany's only existed since 1871, after all, and look at all the trouble that country's gotten into.
Actually, the plural of octopus can go either way (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=octopus) but the plural of virus is undeniably viruses (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=virus).
Don't even need to go to OED for this one...
I think it's possible to post a discussion of a show without giving away the primary "surprise" element n the title, thus giving the reader a chance to avoid it.
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Slashdot regularly provides movie reviews with spoiler warnings. I don't think it's that much to ask. Clearly the primary offense was to west coast real-time watchers, but there's no reason the title couldn't have been changed when he discovered the problem... even if it was after 9pm PDT.
Actually, some of us do ~crazy~ things like time shifting and could have avoided having the show spoiled if you'd bother to change the title (even if it was 9pm). In fact you might _still_ be able to save some people from having the show spoiled if you'd change the bloody posting.
Thanks for ruining it for me.
A Tivo User
...they come in different colors! I wonder which is faster: the green or the blue ones?
I'm going to wait until the charcoal DV version comes out... it should be faster.
By the same reasoning I suppose you think ISA still has a lot of life in it, since you can't very well put a _PCI_ network card in your 486.
And surely the serial and parallel ports must be kept forever; god forbid the motherboard industry should invoke the wrath of case-modders around the world with their ph3ars0me LCD-hack projects (yes, my mockery of the hacks comes out of case-envy).
Sorry to rag on you, but to suggest that it's "insane" to dump PS/2 due to the miniscule number of consumers who need cheap KVM switches seems a little silly. Personally I'm more concerned about linux support for the various peripherals -- which is also probably of relatively little concern to Abit.
I guess this cat has 18 lives now. Geez.
As a side note, I love all the comments about there already being a cat overpopulation problem. I just keep imagining a mad scientist wandering about, cloning cats at random just to be annoying.
Come to think of it, this procedure actually allows the "more than one way to skin a cat" theory to be proven. Currently the best anyone can do is to show that one cat can be skinned in a different way than others. Note: I do not support the skinning of cats, though one must wonder what exactly cats did for such a phrase to exist.
RC
Your interpretation may well be correct. I always separated the two issues because I felt image control was a reasonable (as opposed to illegal) objective for MS to pursue. The best analogy I can think of is Pepsi and Coke, neither of which have a monopoly, and neither of which would let a grocery store plaster their 12 packs with advertisements for some other product. I'm sure that analogy's flawed, it's simply the first one that came to mind.
I just keep thinking of companies that don't do image control. I think Cadillac could have a very different image if they didn't allow dealers to crap their cars up with vinyl tops, gold trim, spare wheels on the trunk, and gold-and-white sided tires on wire wheels. Then again, it would probably still have bench seat. American cars...
RC
Actually, it would only be illegal if MS had an illegal monopoly. I think there's a bit of a circular argument there since the incorporation of the browser seems to be one of the key arguments for MS being an illegal monopoly, yet the incorporation would only be a problem if MS were an illegal monopoly. I'd much rather see MS prosecuted based on the requirement that OEMs pay a Windows license fee for each computer sold (rather than each Windows computer sold) than on the browser issue. I think it's a much more clear-cut issue. Plus by the time the browser reached the 4.x version, I think MS was providing a far superior product (my impression only -- no factual basis is implied).
:) (Yes, I'm ignoring Opera because I hate the one window/multiple browsers style it uses)
Anyway, I understand your point. I do wonder how many software packages are being destroyed by Apple's iMedia (you know what I mean) programs. MS, after all, really only squashed one browser maker.
As far as alternate universes go, I just wish I lived in the one where OSX ran on the AMD machines I already own. Oh well.
RC
Excuse me, there appears to be an ivory tower shoved up your ass. I'm perfectly capable of deciding what I like and what I don't, thank you. I didn't suggest that the current methods were the best possible, I simply stated that I liked being presented with a text box in which I can put in any address that I formulate and get the result I want. So yes, I use IE to blur and obfuscate any number of information organization systems. I also use Linux and Windows to blur and obfuscate any number of little changes in transistor states.
Excuse me, I'm going to go point my Konqueror window (currently at
[BLOCKQUOTE]If you followed the lawsuit at all, you'd know that the original basis of the argument was the setting of the default browser - not the inclusion of web libraries. Had Microsoft allowed the IE icon to be removed, none of this would have occured.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
Well yes, I agree, but only kind of. The default/icon issue relates to something MS had been doing for years: exercising strict control over what OEMs could and couldn't install and how they present MS's OS. This was understandable, I think, as MS didn't want the OEMs installing something that would _appear_ to come for MS and hurt their image (say, replace solitaire with strip poker, as an extreme example).
The lawsuit was precipitated by MS _continuing_ to excercise this level of control with the introduction of IE.
I made the KDE argument in support of the idea that the browser could be an integral part of the OS (I'm talking in terms of feel, not files). If this argument holds water, then the real issue would be whether or not MS has the ability to control the look/feel of its products when filtered through vendors. I believe a company has this right; whether or not the KDE developers choose to excercise it is irrelevant.
RC