It... the other side... was there before the taping, *not* there after the taping. Where does it go? Clearly it must go into AN INVISIBLE DIMENSION. Is it a dimension of sound? of sight? of mind? Is it vast as space, timeless as infinity? Initially a mobius strip is two dimensional, but when you tape the two ends together you get those twists. This take the mobius strip into the third dimension - and THAT's where your other side went.
You might weant to patent some of those ideas, if there isn't already prior art!
I like that you have come up with an entire suite of theft deterrents - the battery is a nice touch, though it should be an owner-chosen last ditch option;)
Or we can keep invading countries and enrichen US companies that import foreign oil. You have to show that the money spent on your "defense" budget was worth something...
Of course - if everything is working well - you can't actually see what your defense budget is spent on, bar the odd piece of hardware moving around.
Why not just (common sense)reform the patent system, thus crushing this holding companies?
The US appears to be dependant on Intellectual Property superseeding actual goods in it's balance of payments with other countries. Have a look at how standardisation of laws between the US and other countries regarding IP is a high priority now.
Reforming the patent system would lessen the ability to do this - why do you think there is so much action around DRM and IP for music/movies right now?;)
o_0 ouch I didn't even realise what I was implying there!
Then again, we have had an issue when someone plugged in there own PDA (no idea what kind), so I wouldn't let anything off the hook just yet - Mac's included.
If you need to work outside the office, you get a work laptop and take that home. NEVER connect a home computer to your corporate network. That would be like wandering into the seedy part of town and grabbing a random prositiute for unprotected sex. Waaaay too much risk.
If I'm offered 5Mits/s from my cable provider, that is an obligation for them to fill my order. Here 'Down Under' there are typically monthly limits on how much you can download, after you hit that you are generally limited to 64kb/s speed. This takes care of those people that believe that they can run fullspeed on their Net connection, yet allows ISP's to run a contention ratio that doesn't (usually) bankrupt them.
With line speeds hitting 24Mb on ADSL2+, you need these type of restrictions to stop people leeching hundreds to thousands of GB a month.
It's not the best option, but it has enabled a number of ISP's to florish in a very restricitve market - where only one Telco owns pretty much all of the phone lines in the country.
Maybe it's just me, but I hardly use the Start Menu. I assign keyboard shortcuts to all my commonly used applications. I might go digging around in the Start Menu a couple times a week, but's hardly a reason to change operating systems. I have an autohide, always on top toolbar at the top of my screen. Much faster than the start menu, which is used for uncommon program accesses. Once you get used to it, it's a lot faster too.
I have the same at work, with the toolbar located on my personal shared drive. Setup on all PC's I login to, it makes it a hell of a lot quicker to get productive on a new PC.
XP search is painful, I use it as little as possible. Just opening it gives me the shits, after becoming used to NT4's search box.
Used to have similar toolbars on the sides also, but once you hit 3 monitors it's too far to get to them, even with on-the-fly selectable mouse acceleration.
I had no idea what this post was about, then I actually looked at the left hand navigation frame. I had never noticed this Opinion Center, with the highlighted 'Intel' under it. How long has it been there?
Guess I have been ready Slashdot so long now* that I don't bother looking at those things. At home my RSS feed means I never even see the front page.
Now to get back top ignoring those links.
*early 2000, though I didn't register until recently.
I agree that *nix can handle that type of uptime. What I didn't mention was that this server is running WinNT4SP6...
That time I gave was from the Notes process itself 'show server' which gives you an accurate amount of uptime of the Notes application server.
Task manager is (well was, when I looked some hours back) showing ~3106 hours of idle time, so obviously not a good indication of how long Notes itself has been running...
I just wandered into our server room and checked the Notes (6) server for uptime:
130 days 5 hours 10 mins 15 secs.
Coincidently there's about as many users as the number of days the server has been up - one thing we do have is mail file limitations, so there's nothing larger than a few GB, and only a handful are actually over 1GB.
I'm sure that the depreciation on your computer equipment, the % of monthly internet access fees & electricity - plus the floorspace rental - would readily offset your online gambling wins.
Unless of course you are good enough to quit your day job - in which case you'd have to declare it as otherwise you have no visible means of support.
I've shown my Wii console to friends and family, and every single person that played wanted to get one.
Even my Luddite parents (who use the PC I provided for them to play solitaire and freecell only) wanted to know what would be required to get a setup going for them.
Not once did I drag out Zelda. The basic sports games appealed to everyone in one shape or form. Zelda would be too confusing. I've only played it for a few hours myself, over the last 2 weeks or so. I'll get into it eventually, but to say Zelda was the reason it is so popular? Not in my experience.
...do not have a handle made out of smooth plastic.
My Wiimote slipped out of my hand when I was playing tennis. Hadn't washed my hasnds since dinner, plus a little bit of sweat and there you go, a nice slightly greasy remote that is tough to hold on to.
I can see why some people would loose a grip, especially when pitching.
Lesson = wash your hands before playing.
A 3x3m panel will halve the amount of sunlight I receive in my dungeon-like ground floor unit (only 1 side is external). You bet I want more efficient panels that take less square meter-age! A single 50cms strip along the edge of the fence, now that's doable!
all of us would pay a bit (or a lot) extra for our broadband access and that money would be used to pay artists, publishers, etc From what I understand, the money collected this way would go to the RIAA's of the world - certainly not the artists or songwriters...
I wandered into the local Electronics Boutique yesterday and picked one up. Someone that pre-ordered didn't pick theirs up in the timeframe listed, so their order became 'general availability'. Good for me, too bad for them.
It was an impulse buy, I didn't realise the Wii was out until I heard people talking about it.
Good upselling on peripherals though by the girl behind the counter.
However, after looking through a few other places, I reckon there's none left down under until the next shipment.
The only comment they made I haven't seen here is "how many virtual windows servers do you want to run on your SuSe install?"
MS keep their license income, while Novell score the host OS.
Multi-displays is relatively easy under XP, and amazing easy if you compare to linux.
Once you setup the hardware: XP = Display properties, a few ticks to enable & span, and it's running. Linux: edit xorg.conf, play around for may hours attempting to get it right, get frustrated and rip out all the cords, going back to a single display.
You try it with 2 dual output displays but only 3 monitors (of different capabilities) hooked up. Drove me so nuts the Linux box is now only hooked to one monitor, while XP gets all 3 (boxes are now seperated so I can play around and not worry about partitions).
If Linux could get this to work easier, I would be using it as a primary OS. Actuall even 2 monitors on a dual-output card was terrible (horrible memories).
Spamhaus are probably afraid to do that - what happens if the internet survives? It would be only a short time before another blacklist would show up to take their spot.
Instant goodbye to their business.
I'd say that Transmeta just wants to get cross-licensing happening with Intel, so that they aren't counter-sued.
That's what seems to happen now, Company A sues Company B for infringing patent, Company B counter-sues. Both companies end up cross-licensing the respective technologies.
The obvious way to use a 'do not register' list while not letting spammers get hold of it, is to filter every e-mail through a secure server instance that checks the register and filters e-mails to those people on the list.
Bonus is that all e-mails can be saved in the one location for your NSA to have fun with;)
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You might weant to patent some of those ideas, if there isn't already prior art! I like that you have come up with an entire suite of theft deterrents - the battery is a nice touch, though it should be an owner-chosen last ditch option ;)
Of course - if everything is working well - you can't actually see what your defense budget is spent on, bar the odd piece of hardware moving around.
Then again, we have had an issue when someone plugged in there own PDA (no idea what kind), so I wouldn't let anything off the hook just yet - Mac's included.
Point taken though.
If you need to work outside the office, you get a work laptop and take that home. NEVER connect a home computer to your corporate network. That would be like wandering into the seedy part of town and grabbing a random prositiute for unprotected sex. Waaaay too much risk.
Used to have similar toolbars on the sides also, but once you hit 3 monitors it's too far to get to them, even with on-the-fly selectable mouse acceleration.
I had no idea what this post was about, then I actually looked at the left hand navigation frame. I had never noticed this Opinion Center, with the highlighted 'Intel' under it. How long has it been there? Guess I have been ready Slashdot so long now* that I don't bother looking at those things. At home my RSS feed means I never even see the front page. Now to get back top ignoring those links. *early 2000, though I didn't register until recently.
I agree that *nix can handle that type of uptime. What I didn't mention was that this server is running WinNT4SP6... That time I gave was from the Notes process itself 'show server' which gives you an accurate amount of uptime of the Notes application server. Task manager is (well was, when I looked some hours back) showing ~3106 hours of idle time, so obviously not a good indication of how long Notes itself has been running...
I just wandered into our server room and checked the Notes (6) server for uptime: 130 days 5 hours 10 mins 15 secs. Coincidently there's about as many users as the number of days the server has been up - one thing we do have is mail file limitations, so there's nothing larger than a few GB, and only a handful are actually over 1GB.
I'm sure that the depreciation on your computer equipment, the % of monthly internet access fees & electricity - plus the floorspace rental - would readily offset your online gambling wins. Unless of course you are good enough to quit your day job - in which case you'd have to declare it as otherwise you have no visible means of support.
Not once did I drag out Zelda. The basic sports games appealed to everyone in one shape or form. Zelda would be too confusing. I've only played it for a few hours myself, over the last 2 weeks or so. I'll get into it eventually, but to say Zelda was the reason it is so popular? Not in my experience.
...do not have a handle made out of smooth plastic. My Wiimote slipped out of my hand when I was playing tennis. Hadn't washed my hasnds since dinner, plus a little bit of sweat and there you go, a nice slightly greasy remote that is tough to hold on to. I can see why some people would loose a grip, especially when pitching. Lesson = wash your hands before playing.
A 3x3m panel will halve the amount of sunlight I receive in my dungeon-like ground floor unit (only 1 side is external). You bet I want more efficient panels that take less square meter-age! A single 50cms strip along the edge of the fence, now that's doable!
I wandered into the local Electronics Boutique yesterday and picked one up. Someone that pre-ordered didn't pick theirs up in the timeframe listed, so their order became 'general availability'. Good for me, too bad for them. It was an impulse buy, I didn't realise the Wii was out until I heard people talking about it. Good upselling on peripherals though by the girl behind the counter. However, after looking through a few other places, I reckon there's none left down under until the next shipment.
The only comment they made I haven't seen here is "how many virtual windows servers do you want to run on your SuSe install?" MS keep their license income, while Novell score the host OS.
Multi-displays is relatively easy under XP, and amazing easy if you compare to linux.
Once you setup the hardware:
XP = Display properties, a few ticks to enable & span, and it's running.
Linux: edit xorg.conf, play around for may hours attempting to get it right, get frustrated and rip out all the cords, going back to a single display.
You try it with 2 dual output displays but only 3 monitors (of different capabilities) hooked up.
Drove me so nuts the Linux box is now only hooked to one monitor, while XP gets all 3 (boxes are now seperated so I can play around and not worry about partitions).
If Linux could get this to work easier, I would be using it as a primary OS. Actuall even 2 monitors on a dual-output card was terrible (horrible memories).
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Dell_sho uld_make_Apple_hardware_Gartner/0,130061733,339271 751,00.htm
So, a Dell with Windows on it, but an Apple logo? What a revolutionary way to market your product!
Isn't that EXACTLY what Bush said about the US constitution?
Spamhaus are probably afraid to do that - what happens if the internet survives? It would be only a short time before another blacklist would show up to take their spot. Instant goodbye to their business.
I'd say that Transmeta just wants to get cross-licensing happening with Intel, so that they aren't counter-sued. That's what seems to happen now, Company A sues Company B for infringing patent, Company B counter-sues. Both companies end up cross-licensing the respective technologies.
The obvious way to use a 'do not register' list while not letting spammers get hold of it, is to filter every e-mail through a secure server instance that checks the register and filters e-mails to those people on the list. Bonus is that all e-mails can be saved in the one location for your NSA to have fun with ;)
Take more than one executive summary and create a 'mash-up' of course...