Dammit I hate tests like that sometimes. Took the first test and got 75wpm with 6 errors. What were those errors? Pressing space between words that happened to wrap, and pressing space twice after a ".". IT's not rocket science guys! It's just sentence structure.
OK, other way around really but the priest who erm, "runs"? my local church (he didn't actually perform either my wedding or child's christening due to illness, but his church nonetheless) has been getting free Excel support ever since.
It's getting to be a running joke that each week or two he'll turn up at the door with printouts in hand and an unquenchable need for tea.
So I guess he bartered christian services for MS Office development and support services.
In case you don't remember, the processor family is known for its extremely low power consumption and blazingly high computing speeds
Obviously someone who's not used the Transmeta based Compaq Tablet. About as blazingly fast as a shackled tortoise. It does have great power consumption stats though:)
OK, I read the headline and could practically see the red lights circling into view and hear the alarm bells ringing. It's a really really obvious way of making life even more difficult!
However, I do have to remember that this is PARC we're talking about. They've got a pretty good track record of innovation. At very least I think they should be given a bit of rope. Hopefully they won't hang themselves with it!
Of course, I find it hard to see how this simplifies or improves computing and networking in any way, and it rips SO hard through the OSI models that it could be pretty damaging in that respect too.
Isn't this missing the point of how google works? OK, so it measures the success, but it won't tell you anything (or much) about the actual search algorythm as google is actually basing the score not only on the page you link to but also pages that link to IT.
Hence, it's an interesting read, and maybe you could draw your own preferences from what the weighting turns out to be in the listed cases, but it's not a very fair representation of how google works. *NB* I've no clue how Yahoo/Inktomi works, so I couldn't comment.
I guess one reason for the phone line is that the service doesn't allow you to call emergency services. I'm suprised they are doing that, I'd have thought any connected phone would HAVE to be able to call emergency services.
There have been a few bluetooth success stories now, and it's in-arguable that it's a pretty cool technology.
As an example the Parrot CK3000 car kit is an excellent bit of kit. Simple to install which makes up for the fact it's a bit more expensive than most generic car kits. But once it's in, it's simply amazing. It's high quality (it can be, it's a premium item), quite slick (call your phone by name and It'll answer!)
But others like the Jabra headsets (neat looking, not too expensive and great for techies) are also becoming popular.
It's just taking some time to get both ends of the market going (manufacturers and consumers), but I think it'll still fly.
the.uk registry (Nominet) went to positive renewals across the board recently. I'm not actually sure how tucows are managing this, but they're SUPPOSED to specifically get a renewal on all the domains or they'll expire.
Remembering their system, you could set it to auto as an option, but default was to expire (after complaining LOTS to you!)
At about 20 miles out of takeoff/landing, the noise is only at the level of noticeably loud. The only reason it stops conversation is that everyone still looks up to get a look.
Concorde passes over my house regularly, and it will be greatly missed after Friday. Hopefully the path taken for one of the three incoming concordes will be this way so I can bid it farewall.
It's a huge pity that I never managed to fly on it as it's possible I'll now ever get to move faster than the speed of sound (relative to the earth!).
It's pretty rare that any industry manages to combine such technical feats with such beauty (the only other airplane I can think of that managed it was the blackbird), and it will be a huge loss to the skies.
For the records, public safety worries were the least of it's problems. It's rarely, if ever been a profitable plane to fly for the two airlines, and as soon as Air France had an excuse they wanted to ground it.
I, like most others who read/., am in the same boat. My suggestions are as follows:
1) Sleep. Make sure you get a good night sleep, plenty of resources on how to do this out there!
2) Music. Get some background music. If you're nice and familiar with it it may help occupy your brain in a non-distracting way. Works great for me!
3) Air. Open the windows. It'll keep you more alert and awake.
Finally, if all else fails, remove everything from your computer and environment other than the items needed to study/work. An easy way to achieve this is to use a laptop with only the essentials in your local/school library.
I notice a lot of people cheerfully diagnose ADD or ADHD. What a bunch of baloney, this is just the human condition. Of course, it could be a good early indicator that you don't like your work and you might consider finding something more fulfilling to do for the rest of your life.
Very good, no problems here whatsoever. The reason? The screen isn't touch sensitive, it's done using a special, powered pen.
Now, this has a great extra effect. My party piece on my Compaq tablet is scratching my ring across the screen a few times. It makes a GOD AWFUL scratching noise, but does NO damage whatsoever. Nice hard shell on this baby:)
Get an xbox for each room (they're dirt cheap now)
Chip them.
Install XBox Media Player.
Wire it to a central PC that's on the net.
Stream anything you like (mp3s, video files, streamcast broadcasts.
Bonus is you can play games, you can amp it to DD 5.1 as appropriate, it's built to be in front rooms, you get a DVD player at every station as well.. and on and on...
You can view your digital photos in any room etc, all over simple cat5, with LOADS of developers out there improving things every day.
1) A computer with an infrared/RF input device. 2) An A/V tuner + amp + display device in each location as required 3) Loadsa co-ax cable. 4) a bank of modulators/demodulators.
Now, get each input device, (computer, sat box, cd player etc) to modulate itself onto a different channel of a single co-ax that does a loop around the house (or star network, depending on layout). They can do this from any point on the wire and broadcast it back onto it without problems.
Connect up each of the A/V decoders/demodulators/displays etc, complete with a "magic eye" that can modulate the remote signal back down the same wire, back to each device that has a decoder/re-diffuser.
The advantage is that you've got a single bit of wire going everywhere that has everything on it.
The disadvantage is that the quality can be lacking, but that's ALL down to the modulator/demodulator pairs you use.
You can then even talk to your computer via IR/RF now, which means that this can be extended into an X10 system to control lights (or anything else really).
Another advantage is that you can watch anything in any room similtaniously.
Umm, where do you get your facts from? My understanding from media reports at the time was that the accident put it's airmiles:crashes ratio through the roof, mostly due to it's extremely low logged hours for a commercial jet.
Also, commercial aircraft are required to be able to withstand certain events and still land safely. It may not have been concorde's fault, but it shouldn't have ended the way it did.
That said, I love concorde, I'll be sorry to see it go from my office window every day and I'll be trying to get my first trip on it before it's grounded.
This is a real pity. I'm going to try and get myself on it before it's canned. I live along the flightpath from Heathrow for planes to the Americas, so at 11:05 and 19:05 I see concorde thundering overhead to New York. The only plane in it's league for beauty is the Blackbird, and seeing it pass overhead is enthralling even after 5 years living around here.
Of course, it's noisy as hell. Amazing considering that you can't HEAR any regular jets this far out!
It's been the mainstay of many telesales insurance companies, and companies like them to have x% of people answering the phone quoting price a. Then, to meet sales quantity targets you add certain numbers quoting at 5 or 10% lower, or 5 or 10% higher.
I don't really see the problem with charging people what you think they'll pay. It's been the mainstay of small business for years. You charge government fortunes, and penny pinching startups with low margins.
If amazon quote me a price, I'll be checking with their competitors anyway. If it beats them, fine, if not, bye..
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Dammit I hate tests like that sometimes. Took the first test and got 75wpm with 6 errors. What were those errors? Pressing space between words that happened to wrap, and pressing space twice after a ".". IT's not rocket science guys! It's just sentence structure.
I don't get this. I've got a smallish house, but need two APs to cover it. I guess I'm considerably less directional, but still?!
Maybe these competitions could open up a second record of the largest diameter of coverage achieved. Maybe measured at four opposite points.
OK, other way around really but the priest who erm, "runs"? my local church (he didn't actually perform either my wedding or child's christening due to illness, but his church nonetheless) has been getting free Excel support ever since.
It's getting to be a running joke that each week or two he'll turn up at the door with printouts in hand and an unquenchable need for tea.
So I guess he bartered christian services for MS Office development and support services.
Obviously someone who's not used the Transmeta based Compaq Tablet. About as blazingly fast as a shackled tortoise. It does have great power consumption stats though :)
OK, I read the headline and could practically see the red lights circling into view and hear the alarm bells ringing. It's a really really obvious way of making life even more difficult!
However, I do have to remember that this is PARC we're talking about. They've got a pretty good track record of innovation. At very least I think they should be given a bit of rope. Hopefully they won't hang themselves with it!
Of course, I find it hard to see how this simplifies or improves computing and networking in any way, and it rips SO hard through the OSI models that it could be pretty damaging in that respect too.
Isn't this missing the point of how google works? OK, so it measures the success, but it won't tell you anything (or much) about the actual search algorythm as google is actually basing the score not only on the page you link to but also pages that link to IT.
Hence, it's an interesting read, and maybe you could draw your own preferences from what the weighting turns out to be in the listed cases, but it's not a very fair representation of how google works. *NB* I've no clue how Yahoo/Inktomi works, so I couldn't comment.
I guess one reason for the phone line is that the service doesn't allow you to call emergency services. I'm suprised they are doing that, I'd have thought any connected phone would HAVE to be able to call emergency services.
Anyway, prices don't look that great to me, ymmv
So someone saw it and thought it was real huh?
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0138304/
There have been a few bluetooth success stories now, and it's in-arguable that it's a pretty cool technology.
As an example the Parrot CK3000 car kit is an excellent bit of kit. Simple to install which makes up for the fact it's a bit more expensive than most generic car kits. But once it's in, it's simply amazing. It's high quality (it can be, it's a premium item), quite slick (call your phone by name and It'll answer!)
But others like the Jabra headsets (neat looking, not too expensive and great for techies) are also becoming popular.
It's just taking some time to get both ends of the market going (manufacturers and consumers), but I think it'll still fly.
the .uk registry (Nominet) went to positive renewals across the board recently. I'm not actually sure how tucows are managing this, but they're SUPPOSED to specifically get a renewal on all the domains or they'll expire.
Remembering their system, you could set it to auto as an option, but default was to expire (after complaining LOTS to you!)
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Offtopic as this is, IMHO, F1 cars are getting very ugly now, but that's down to two non-design issues.
1) The sheer amount of mixed advertising on most of the cars
2) The ruleset that restricts how innovative everyone can be and forces them to react to artificial problems rather than natural/aerodynamic ones.
At about 20 miles out of takeoff/landing, the noise is only at the level of noticeably loud. The only reason it stops conversation is that everyone still looks up to get a look.
It was also hit very badly by the WTC hit. They reportedly lost quite a few of their most regular fliers.
Concorde passes over my house regularly, and it will be greatly missed after Friday. Hopefully the path taken for one of the three incoming concordes will be this way so I can bid it farewall.
It's a huge pity that I never managed to fly on it as it's possible I'll now ever get to move faster than the speed of sound (relative to the earth!).
It's pretty rare that any industry manages to combine such technical feats with such beauty (the only other airplane I can think of that managed it was the blackbird), and it will be a huge loss to the skies.
For the records, public safety worries were the least of it's problems. It's rarely, if ever been a profitable plane to fly for the two airlines, and as soon as Air France had an excuse they wanted to ground it.
That's just because most of the north eastern seaboard can't join in with the slashdotting.
Buy one of these:
http://www.rctoys.com/draganflyer3.php
I, like most others who read /., am in the same boat. My suggestions are as follows:
1) Sleep. Make sure you get a good night sleep, plenty of resources on how to do this out there!
2) Music. Get some background music. If you're nice and familiar with it it may help occupy your brain in a non-distracting way. Works great for me!
3) Air. Open the windows. It'll keep you more alert and awake.
Finally, if all else fails, remove everything from your computer and environment other than the items needed to study/work. An easy way to achieve this is to use a laptop with only the essentials in your local/school library.
I notice a lot of people cheerfully diagnose ADD or ADHD. What a bunch of baloney, this is just the human condition. Of course, it could be a good early indicator that you don't like your work and you might consider finding something more fulfilling to do for the rest of your life.
Very good, no problems here whatsoever. The reason? The screen isn't touch sensitive, it's done using a special, powered pen.
:)
Now, this has a great extra effect. My party piece on my Compaq tablet is scratching my ring across the screen a few times. It makes a GOD AWFUL scratching noise, but does NO damage whatsoever. Nice hard shell on this baby
http://www.pccables.com/02403.htm
a composite + twin stereo modulator for 20 bucks.
Geez, every vcr has a modulator built in, every sat box, how in gods name did you arrive at the 800 dollar mark?
Get an xbox for each room (they're dirt cheap now)
Chip them.
Install XBox Media Player.
Wire it to a central PC that's on the net.
Stream anything you like (mp3s, video files, streamcast broadcasts.
Bonus is you can play games, you can amp it to DD 5.1 as appropriate, it's built to be in front rooms, you get a DVD player at every station as well.. and on and on...
You can view your digital photos in any room etc, all over simple cat5, with LOADS of developers out there improving things every day.
The core parts of this are:
1) A computer with an infrared/RF input device.
2) An A/V tuner + amp + display device in each location as required
3) Loadsa co-ax cable.
4) a bank of modulators/demodulators.
Now, get each input device, (computer, sat box, cd player etc) to modulate itself onto a different channel of a single co-ax that does a loop around the house (or star network, depending on layout). They can do this from any point on the wire and broadcast it back onto it without problems.
Connect up each of the A/V decoders/demodulators/displays etc, complete with a "magic eye" that can modulate the remote signal back down the same wire, back to each device that has a decoder/re-diffuser.
The advantage is that you've got a single bit of wire going everywhere that has everything on it.
The disadvantage is that the quality can be lacking, but that's ALL down to the modulator/demodulator pairs you use.
You can then even talk to your computer via IR/RF now, which means that this can be extended into an X10 system to control lights (or anything else really).
Another advantage is that you can watch anything in any room similtaniously.
Umm, where do you get your facts from? My understanding from media reports at the time was that the accident put it's airmiles:crashes ratio through the roof, mostly due to it's extremely low logged hours for a commercial jet.
Also, commercial aircraft are required to be able to withstand certain events and still land safely. It may not have been concorde's fault, but it shouldn't have ended the way it did.
That said, I love concorde, I'll be sorry to see it go from my office window every day and I'll be trying to get my first trip on it before it's grounded.
This is a real pity. I'm going to try and get myself on it before it's canned. I live along the flightpath from Heathrow for planes to the Americas, so at 11:05 and 19:05 I see concorde thundering overhead to New York. The only plane in it's league for beauty is the Blackbird, and seeing it pass overhead is enthralling even after 5 years living around here.
Of course, it's noisy as hell. Amazing considering that you can't HEAR any regular jets this far out!
It's been the mainstay of many telesales insurance companies, and companies like them to have x% of people answering the phone quoting price a. Then, to meet sales quantity targets you add certain numbers quoting at 5 or 10% lower, or 5 or 10% higher.
I don't really see the problem with charging people what you think they'll pay. It's been the mainstay of small business for years. You charge government fortunes, and penny pinching startups with low margins.
If amazon quote me a price, I'll be checking with their competitors anyway. If it beats them, fine, if not, bye..