That's funny--I just got a call from my HP/Autonomy rep last week for the first time in years. In addition to many other failings, Autonomy hasn't done much to keep existing customers happy. Then a big how-are-you-doing, here's-what's-new presentation today, during which I had to mute the phone to hide my laughter at the brag slide about IDOL's amazing ability to extract meaning from unstructured data.
I'd love for my key app to have a home under a big, deep-pocketed, stable corporate daddy, but HP is not it.
Actually, I found the USB drivers without having to pay for Phone Tools. The Motorola Developer site has them here: http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/USB_Drivers/
Works fine for charging my KRZR K1m from a generic USB cable.
I second that, but if the needs are basic the Fluke Linkrunner is a lot cheaper and will do the job. It's the size of a pack of cigarettes and runs on 2xAA batteries.
A couple button presses and it picks up a DHCP address (and shows you that address) and default gateway and starts pinging the gateway. While it's doing this you can ping it. It also does cable tests, calculates cable lengths, detects link, flashes hub/switch link lights, generates tone. etc.
Very simple and has paid for itself many times over.
Love how you added links (that were not in the article you quoted) to pimp the Swift Boat Veterans for Pravda and try to drag some/. traffic their way. Too bad their accusations are lies.
The real issue here is the speed and low cost of astroturf attack campaigns via the net, and how easy it's been for the Bush campaign to farm out their attacks and deny that the attackers are controlled by Rove and his gang.
If Bush wins again, we can expect the Democrats to lower themselves to the same tactics in future campaigns. Then we all lose.
I loved MapBlast too, and am happy to report that Microsoft had the good sense to retain the LineDrive directions as an option (which I've used within the last week).
My favorite thing about LineDrive: it not only gives great napkin-style simple maps, it provides the name and location of the street which PRECEDES most turns. This has saved me many times.
> they're going to get us all killed in WWIII > if Iraq doesn't embarass them out of power
It could be so much worse. They could get us into WWIII and WIN, and leaving us holding the bag on governing most of the world, and stamping the current administration's neo-con^H^H^Hfascist approach on people all over the planet.
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I bought the InFocus X1 at $999 and got a $100 rebate. I picked it up (it weighs a hair under 7lbs) and took it to a friend's house to watch a big boxing match. (Try that with ANY TV!) He looked at it on his gray wall for a few seconds, called his wife in and pointed at the picture...she said "how much?" and he said "call it $1000" and she said "OK, get one." BTW, you do not want to see a nasty cut in a boxing match on a big screen.
It is especially amazing with animation. My little niece's call it their uncle's "movie theater."
Also note that it is a bargain that may be disappearing soon: the x1 FAQ
Yeah, I went there, and we took the sciences quite seriously. I don't know what other liberal arts schools that size are like, but our CS program was the real thing.
Also, it's the only college in the world with a religious affiliation to a particular low-key Christian sect, so it draws (a few) students from all over and has a far-flung and dedicated alumni and funding network. Programs like this competition are also seen as great marketing and get all the help they can, but there's no way to fake those results!
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Bunk.
An "anti-ProTools movement" if successful would take inexpensive music-making tools out of the hands of exactly the "real musicians" you want to hear. Those people are making music at home, in basements, in tiny studios, with a generation of affordable tools that level the recording playing field in the same way the web has helped to level the publishing playing field.
BTW, I'm recording a choir tonight with a tiny DAT deck and mics and earplug headphones that all fit in my pockets and run on 2 AA batteries and will make a recording that will sound better than many CDs in the stores. I'm darned happy all this stuff is out there and affordable.
I always thought that the SDI promoters had a brilliant idea based on: 1. It might work, and we would have a defense against missile attacks. 2. It would, like Apollo, create valuable spinoff technologies. 3. Most importantly, Congress and the Administration wanted to continue to spend huge amounts on "defense." Better to use this funding on new and possibly useful tech (an actual defense) than to create additional overkill in our offensive nuclear/ballistic arsenal.
I find it difficult to believe that anyone thought that this would cause the USSR to collapse. That's just a way of claiming that the senile President actually knew what he was doing. SDI as the High Frontier group saw it was just a way of diverting huge amounts of tax money from being spent on something useless to something useful.
Of course, the proposals were changed and retooled by the Administration and Congress to suit their needs. Many of the original ideas in High Frontier (the push Niven and Pournelle were part of to get the US to develop space-based weapons) were tossed out to get Reagan the simple-to-name-but-impossible-to-implement "Star Wars" program he wanted. Satellite-based precision-guided kinetic energy weapons (Pournelle or Niven called them "flying crowbars") were one of the clever things proposed.
>...why would corporations go through great > lengths to exclude people with inferior genes, > if those are not real indicators of > performance?
That seems pretty naive. After all, why would corporations exclude people of different ages, genders, or nationalities if those were not real indicators of performance? 'Cause they want to discriminate, and they don't really care about performance.
Anything that can easily be measured can easily be used for discriminatory nonsense, whether it relates to the alleged goal or not. Otherwise the Highway Patrol would be buying cups of coffee for tired-looking truckers at rest stops instead of napping until their radar shows a number above 80.
I've been looking at doing this lately with my PJB-100. In the past, I've tried both the cassette adapter and an FM modulator that goes between the antenna jack on the back of the head unit and the antenna lead. It's more direct than broadcasting over-the-air, and the sound is ok. But honest, the cassette adapters give you the best sound, and are simpler than the FM modulator (which has to be wired into the dash) or FM transmitter (which takes batteries).
If you're going to be using the MP3 as your main music source, check out new head units from Jensen and Aiwa that have front-panel 1/8" Aux inputs. The cheapest Jensen is $120 at Crutchfield.
Don't mistake equipment junkies for audiophiles. By definition, audiophiles love sound. The best of them are willing to _listen_ (instead of measure or speculate) to find equipment that sounds good.
They'll never be convinced by some guy who says it _shouldn't_ sound better when they've heard that it _does_, green magic markers or no.
Take this troll elsewhere. Too bad I'm out of points for the moment.
Amen to this! I've been using Gutenberg for years as a source of Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, etc., to read on my Palm during train trips, meetings (everyone assumes you're doing something useful--try that with a paperback), and long installations.
Since PG insists on plain ASCII, all you need is a freeware txt-to-Palm converter (MakeDOC) and a freeware text reader (CSpotRun lets you turn the text sideways for easier reading). The reading experience on a sharp LCD screen is much better than on a CRT. I've actually got untouched books on my shelves that I read on my Palm because it was easier.
Thanks to PG, I still spend plenty of time with my old friends from college--the classics. If it weren't for Hart, they would have drifted away like my "real" friends.
I don't know if they're still published, but much of my early sf reading was done from the excellent Hugo and Nebula award collections, which included everything _but_ the award-winning novels. They can be found collecting dust on the shelves of many libraries, and would give an sf newbie a good idea of which authors to pursue.
A subscription to the sf magazines Analog or Asimov's would be another great source for short stories.
When plaintiffs entered the code as part of Stevenson's testimony, they requested (successfully) that it be sealed. When they received defendant's response, the defendants had (either sneakily/cleverly or carelessly) put the sealed testimony in their response, which would become public.
Plaintiff's motion is an attempt to keep their adversaries from placing the code in the public record (which would clearly be an unfair tactic in a trade secret case).
I hope this gets moderated up, because the Wired story (and many/. comments) propagates a wrongheaded belief that the plaintiffs screwed up.
I shopped like mad every night for a week after coming home from a project this summer where I walked a good dozen blocks from train station to client. I'm too small to carry a heavy pack that doesn't work, and my Armada weighs a ton.
I wanted a bag with a real (wide) hip belt, sternum straps, and compression straps so the bag wouldn't slosh. The Spire pack's other bonuses: awesome padding (a thick back-and-bottom pad and a separate removable padded sleeve for the laptop), great looks (doesn't scream "Intel Inside!"). Downside: cable stowage is at the bottom of the bag (under my books, so I have to unpack to get at the power cord), and the outer pocket is flat with a very small opening (I only use it for receipts), the mesh outside pocket is also nearly useless (train schedules.
When it's time to carry it, the Spire is all that, and I thought the Tumi and some other expensive bags were not. The Compaq backpack two colleagues have falls apart. The Kensington Saddlebag was awful. The Ports and Targuses are obvious laptop bags. The Spire looks like a lightweight climbing pack, and feels great. I throw it into the car and set it down on hard floors without worries.
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That's funny--I just got a call from my HP/Autonomy rep last week for the first time in years. In addition to many other failings, Autonomy hasn't done much to keep existing customers happy. Then a big how-are-you-doing, here's-what's-new presentation today, during which I had to mute the phone to hide my laughter at the brag slide about IDOL's amazing ability to extract meaning from unstructured data.
I'd love for my key app to have a home under a big, deep-pocketed, stable corporate daddy, but HP is not it.
Actually, I found the USB drivers without having to pay for Phone Tools. The Motorola Developer site has them here:
http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/USB_Drivers/
Works fine for charging my KRZR K1m from a generic USB cable.
I second that, but if the needs are basic the Fluke Linkrunner is a lot cheaper and will do the job. It's the size of a pack of cigarettes and runs on 2xAA batteries.
A couple button presses and it picks up a DHCP address (and shows you that address) and default gateway and starts pinging the gateway. While it's doing this you can ping it. It also does cable tests, calculates cable lengths, detects link, flashes hub/switch link lights, generates tone. etc.
Very simple and has paid for itself many times over.
Love how you added links (that were not in the article you quoted) to pimp the Swift Boat Veterans for Pravda and try to drag some /. traffic their way. Too bad their accusations are lies.
The real issue here is the speed and low cost of astroturf attack campaigns via the net, and how easy it's been for the Bush campaign to farm out their attacks and deny that the attackers are controlled by Rove and his gang.
If Bush wins again, we can expect the Democrats to lower themselves to the same tactics in future campaigns. Then we all lose.
I loved MapBlast too, and am happy to report that Microsoft had the good sense to retain the LineDrive directions as an option (which I've used within the last week).
My favorite thing about LineDrive: it not only gives great napkin-style simple maps, it provides the name and location of the street which PRECEDES most turns. This has saved me many times.
It seems obvious to me that pushing a finger into the recessed number surrounded by four letter buttons would depress the four letters all at once.
And even if you only got three actuated, that would be enough to identify the number you were trying to key.
> they're going to get us all killed in WWIII
> if Iraq doesn't embarass them out of power
It could be so much worse. They could get us
into WWIII and WIN, and leaving us holding the
bag on governing most of the world, and stamping
the current administration's neo-con^H^H^Hfascist
approach on people all over the planet.
I bought the InFocus X1 at $999 and got a $100 rebate. I picked it up (it weighs a hair under 7lbs) and took it to a friend's house to watch a big boxing match. (Try that with ANY TV!) He looked at it on his gray wall for a few seconds, called his wife in and pointed at the picture...she said "how much?" and he said "call it $1000" and she said "OK, get one." BTW, you do not want to see a nasty cut in a boxing match on a big screen.
It is especially amazing with animation. My little niece's call it their uncle's "movie theater."
Also note that it is a bargain that may be disappearing soon: the x1 FAQ
Highly recommended.
Yeah, I went there, and we took the sciences quite seriously. I don't know what other liberal arts schools that size are like, but our CS program was the real thing.
Also, it's the only college in the world with a religious affiliation to a particular low-key Christian sect, so it draws (a few) students from all over and has a far-flung and dedicated alumni and funding network. Programs like this competition are also seen as great marketing and get all the help they can, but there's no way to fake those results!
Bunk.
An "anti-ProTools movement" if successful would take inexpensive music-making tools out of the hands of exactly the "real musicians" you want to hear. Those people are making music at home, in basements, in tiny studios, with a generation of affordable tools that level the recording playing field in the same way the web has helped to level the publishing playing field.
BTW, I'm recording a choir tonight with a tiny DAT deck and mics and earplug headphones that all fit in my pockets and run on 2 AA batteries and will make a recording that will sound better than many CDs in the stores. I'm darned happy all this stuff is out there and affordable.
I always thought that the SDI promoters had a brilliant idea based on:
1. It might work, and we would have a defense against missile attacks.
2. It would, like Apollo, create valuable spinoff technologies.
3. Most importantly, Congress and the Administration wanted to continue to spend huge amounts on "defense." Better to use this funding on new and possibly useful tech (an actual defense) than to create additional overkill in our offensive nuclear/ballistic arsenal.
I find it difficult to believe that anyone thought that this would cause the USSR to collapse. That's just a way of claiming that the senile President actually knew what he was doing. SDI as the High Frontier group saw it was just a way of diverting huge amounts of tax money from being spent on something useless to something useful.
Of course, the proposals were changed and retooled by the Administration and Congress to suit their needs. Many of the original ideas in High Frontier (the push Niven and Pournelle were part of to get the US to develop space-based weapons) were tossed out to get Reagan the simple-to-name-but-impossible-to-implement "Star Wars" program he wanted. Satellite-based precision-guided kinetic energy weapons (Pournelle or Niven called them "flying crowbars") were one of the clever things proposed.
> ...why would corporations go through great
> lengths to exclude people with inferior genes,
> if those are not real indicators of
> performance?
That seems pretty naive. After all, why would corporations exclude people of different ages, genders, or nationalities if those were not real indicators of performance? 'Cause they want to discriminate, and they don't really care about performance.
Anything that can easily be measured can easily be used for discriminatory nonsense, whether it relates to the alleged goal or not. Otherwise the Highway Patrol would be buying cups of coffee for tired-looking truckers at rest stops instead of napping until their radar shows a number above 80.
I've been looking at doing this lately with my PJB-100. In the past, I've tried both the cassette adapter and an FM modulator that goes between the antenna jack on the back of the head unit and the antenna lead. It's more direct than broadcasting over-the-air, and the sound is ok. But honest, the cassette adapters give you the best sound, and are simpler than the FM modulator (which has to be wired into the dash) or FM transmitter (which takes batteries).
If you're going to be using the MP3 as your main music source, check out new head units from Jensen and Aiwa that have front-panel 1/8" Aux inputs. The cheapest Jensen is $120 at Crutchfield.
Don't mistake equipment junkies for audiophiles. By definition, audiophiles love sound. The best of them are willing to _listen_ (instead of measure or speculate) to find equipment that sounds good.
They'll never be convinced by some guy who says it _shouldn't_ sound better when they've heard that it _does_, green magic markers or no.
Take this troll elsewhere. Too bad I'm out of points for the moment.
Amen to this! I've been using Gutenberg for years as a source of Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, etc., to read on my Palm during train trips, meetings (everyone assumes you're doing something useful--try that with a paperback), and long installations.
Since PG insists on plain ASCII, all you need is a freeware txt-to-Palm converter (MakeDOC) and a freeware text reader (CSpotRun lets you turn the text sideways for easier reading). The reading experience on a sharp LCD screen is much better than on a CRT. I've actually got untouched books on my shelves that I read on my Palm because it was easier.
Thanks to PG, I still spend plenty of time with my old friends from college--the classics. If it weren't for Hart, they would have drifted away like my "real" friends.
I don't know if they're still published, but much of my early sf reading was done from the excellent Hugo and Nebula award collections, which included everything _but_ the award-winning novels. They can be found collecting dust on the shelves of many libraries, and would give an sf newbie a good idea of which authors to pursue.
A subscription to the sf magazines Analog or Asimov's would be another great source for short stories.
Please read plaintiff's motion carefully (line 20-26): http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_case/20000110-p i-docs/20000110-pi-docs-02.gif
/. comments) propagates a wrongheaded belief that the plaintiffs screwed up.
When plaintiffs entered the code as part of Stevenson's testimony, they requested (successfully) that it be sealed. When they received defendant's response, the defendants had (either sneakily/cleverly or carelessly) put the sealed testimony in their response, which would become public.
Plaintiff's motion is an attempt to keep their adversaries from placing the code in the public record (which would clearly be an unfair tactic in a trade secret case).
I hope this gets moderated up, because the Wired story (and many
I shopped like mad every night for a week after coming home from a project this summer where I walked a good dozen blocks from train station to client. I'm too small to carry a heavy pack that doesn't work, and my Armada weighs a ton.
I wanted a bag with a real (wide) hip belt, sternum straps, and compression straps so the bag wouldn't slosh. The Spire pack's other bonuses: awesome padding (a thick back-and-bottom pad and a separate removable padded sleeve for the laptop), great looks (doesn't scream "Intel Inside!"). Downside: cable stowage is at the bottom of the bag (under my books, so I have to unpack to get at the power cord), and the outer pocket is flat with a very small opening (I only use it for receipts), the mesh outside pocket is also nearly useless (train schedules.
When it's time to carry it, the Spire is all that, and I thought the Tumi and some other expensive bags were not. The Compaq backpack two colleagues have falls apart. The Kensington Saddlebag was awful. The Ports and Targuses are obvious laptop bags. The Spire looks like a lightweight climbing pack, and feels great. I throw it into the car and set it down on hard floors without worries.
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