I use Igo and USB cables to charge my devices. Igo junk is available at a lot of retailers. There are varying power source and wattage ratings of the chargers, including air/car/110~/220~ power supplies that automatically adjust voltage and current, and can charge four or more devices at once if necessary. It is based on tip adapters that deliver power specific to their respective devices. They are pretty fast to make new connectors.
There are also the alkaline/lithium battery powered auxillury chargers, most of which are universal with multiple connecters. You can also use the solar chargers, most of which include a DC car socket.
I think that sooner than later, everything small will charge from USB and everything larger will have automatically switching power supplies that can run from any typical power source without adaptation.
Modern consumer culture is price-centric. People will wait or travel for the lower priced like item. Quality plays a smaller part in the retail triangle (GOOD - FAST - CHEAP: PICK ANY TWO). The effect of this consumer preference has been to drive down manufacturing costs, by using cheaper equipment and labor. Lower quality products live a significantly shortened life, but replacements are cheaply and widely available. Failed devices are disposed of, ironically, near the people that manufactured them in the first place, partly because the consumer refuses to have them disposed in their back yard.
Those of us in technical retail see this and shrug. I prefer to sell the higher priced, higher quality item because I know the consumer will be more satisfied in the long run, but my profit in dollars is the same or better if I sell more lower priced, lower quality items. Once again, consumers almost always choose lower priced items, so what is the point of stocking the higher quality product?
Thus, the market forces have driven manufacturing jobs, manufacturing waste, and manufacturing profit to foreign nations, leaving the service end alone to developed nations. Well, we have already discussed the state of the technical service market.
I have thought about this before, and I have fallen short on solutions. We DEFINITELY don't want some crap government oversight of manufacturing, trade, or recycling. If you want something done inefficiently, corrupted, and complex enough to fail for sure, put a government in charge of it. That leaves the consumer and free market forces to solve our silicon woes. Is there a way to make a junk market in the developed nations that produce the junk? How recyclable are modern devices?
It was not my intention to lend credibility to the question. That is why I called it a cliche. In Doom 3, you run around Mars blowing up freaky aliens. Why not just go fight freaky aliens on Mars in real life?
My real point was that Wii could see an exercise business evolution, and that Nintendo has had physically interactive games before.
Remember the original Nintendo's game mat, the PowerPad? You could use it with an Olimpics themed game and compete in track and field events. I recall kneeling on the floor and smacking the pressure spots with my hands to achieve unrealistic scores.
I think maybe something like this may make a venture into the trendy excercise market. If they can sell a big ball for a hundred bucks, they can sell a Wii controller too.
This begs the now cliche question: Why not just go outside and play the actual sport? Alas, there is not a chance in hell.
Giant Mexican anything is an alarming headline! At first I thought a new mutated species of something had been discovered, and was set to enslave us.
TFA:
The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), which cost $120m, was partly funded by the US.
What other space and astrology projects does Mexico host?
My thoughts exactly. The article makes it sound like mass chaos when a section of the grid fails. One would believe that they have tens of thousands of poor bastards checking lines inch by inch trying to figure out which transmission station had a moth fly into it. This is really more of an upgrade or modernization to existing systems, and if it aint broke what the hell are they trying to fix?
Energy costs are a constant in the headlines. Fluctuate the price a penny per unit in either direction and the markets go into gridlock. Why, exactly, do I feel like these automagical wireless "nano" deals are just a big hole in the power grid into which we all will be throwing money? The grid health monitoring systems seem to be robust enough, for now.
I don't get that behavior at all.
Typing "Jon Stewart" took me to http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/ index.jhtml.
"White House" took me to http://www.whitehouse.gov/
"star garf log par" took me to the Google search results page.
It seems better at disambiguation than before... I think something may be broken in your Firefox.
Good luck!
I begrudgingly agree. While Windows as an entity has always been a pain in the ass, when it comes to supporting friends and family it is a wash. After installing the standard set of applications (VNC and its ilk is never a bad idea here) the most frequent question begins with "I forgot how to." With coaxing and instruction, there is seldom a challenge for anti-stuff these days. My grandmother is 88 and has a frigging genealogy blog.
I run Windows for gaming pretty much exclusively, but when it comes to ease of support I sleep soundly knowing that I can see their desktops in my head, no research required.
I guess it comes down to what your family has always run. If they have always run Mac OS, the same would apply.
I am writing to request that you take action to mitigate the witch hunt of Christopher Soghoian, that security enthusiast who created a computer program that is capable of generating a fake boarding pass. The FBI has now destructively raided his home. I find the persecution of a private citizen under the guise of the War on Terror quite ironic indeed, as the intent of the pass generator was to help to improve security. It is irresponsible to pursue such a lame excuse for a security issue at any time, but particularly amid an election cycle and the fervor that accompanies it.
Please, do the right thing. Do what you can to alleviate this man's horror. Senator Schumer did almost exactly the same thing in February 2005, and nobody kicked his door down. Why the double standard? Are citizens in a different class from senators?
Pay special attention to point three in this tongue-in-cheek synopsis of the intent of the programmer:
1. Meet your elderly grandparents at the gate
2. 'Upgrade' yourself once on the airplane - by printing another boarding pass for a ticket you're already purchased, only this time, in Business Class.
3. Demonstrate that the TSA Boarding Pass/ID check is useless.
You have opined that airline security has many shortcomings. This young student feels the same way, and has decided that talk is cheap. Unlike most of our legislative officials, he used his knowledge to take action, and that is a very American thing to do. We are all scared out of our wits when it comes to homeland security issues. This brave young man has stood up and demonstrated for the nation the very nature of that fear.
Take action Mr. Congressman, please. After calling for Mr. Soghoian's head, what more benevolent action could there be but to learn from him -- and to spare him?
Firefox to internet:
If you are for any reason dissatisfied with your Firefox experience, we will gladly refund your money.
There will, of course, be growing pains. TFA highlights a known security bug, and points out that the memory leak has found its way into Firefox 2. CSS is initially seeing some compatibility hickups. There is always room for improvement. I began using Firefox 2 a few hours after the actual release. I was surprised to see an article complaining.
The other points of the article are matters of preference and wishful thinking.
-"I don't like the theme." ORLY well how is that IE theme support working out for you?
-"The anti phishing is weak!" ---compared to what? The antiphishing in 1.5?
-"Extensions did not automagically compatible-ize themselves!" OOOOHHH, well let me switch to that other browser that inherently supports third-party code. Perhaps we have overlooked the ".0" in the release version number. Third parties will have to adapt to meet the changes as Mozilla works to meet them. This does constitute a reason to potentially delay switching if extensions are absolutely necessary for your casual web usage.
-"I don't understand the options screen!" BWAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! This can't be serious.
-"I don't like the RSS thingy! IE does it better!" Where was it again that RSS originated? Was that Redmond? While IE's RSS Just Works (TM) there are clearly many custom options for this feature with Firefox, and unimaginable numbers of extensions are to follow.
So why delay switching to 2.0? Because 1.5 is just fine. Not because 2.0 is broken. Comparing a.0 release to an established release, and to Internet Explorer, is just pretty laughable where I am sitting. I have not experienced a single crash or bug, but then I have not exactly been trying to break it. Overall, I am quite impressed and look forward to seeing where this release takes the community.
You are absolutely right sir. If you mess with a government agency, they are going to get real busy making you look like a public enemy. We have always been at war with Oceania. It has been like this since FDR was president.
Fortunately for Mr. Soghoian, our judicial branch still retains a semblance of ultimate decision-making power (while they are not without their own fundamental systemic flaws). For him to endure this public shaming and taunting by our other two branches of government is a symptom of a bipartisan disease. Those two branches are the ones we elect!
This should not be a debate about the legality of the PHP script. While it was pretty stupid to post the damned thing, his right to do so is specifically guaranteed by the first amendment to our Constitution (as other slashdotters have pointed out). By this standard, I could be arrested for painting as art canvas-sized boarding passes and giving them away. The core of this problem is much more vile than terrorist threats against our population. We, as citizens, have voted our Constitution into obsolescence, having replaced it with a dynastic caste of political scumbags. How has this happened? Why?
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on
the majority always votes for the candidates promising the
most benefits from the public treasury, with the results
that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy,
always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's
great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have
progressed through this sequence:from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;from dependency back again to bondage.
--Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
I sent Markey a letter. I feel sorry for the poor intern that has to respond to a bunch of angry geeks.
I basically accused him of campaigning on the stump of homeland security by grasping for the first straw dog he could find.
I explained that many of us feel that it was sensible, brave and patriotic to expose the blatantly obvious without obscuring his identity.
I pointed out that people are not sure which to fear more these days, Osama Bin Laden, or Uncle Sam.
some other things, too
I would post the letter, but I am not going to. Lets see some more open letters.
While I do wish that this order was that documents would be distributed *only* in.ODF, that is just blue-sky-software-politics.
The headline should read "French Government Recommends Standardizing on ODF, too!"
Because most people use.DOC, that is the de facto 'standard' wether we like it or not.
The real news here is the big F-U to Microsoft: We are sick of using only your software. Our governments are beginning to reccommend using alternate methods because we do not trust you. If you continue to develop software the way you do, we will proceed with our plans to isolate our governments from you. To illustrate, TFA: --
In the report, Carayon also recommended the government fund a research center dedicated to open-source software security, and set up a system to help national and local government agencies exchange information about best practice in the use of open-source software.
He also suggested that the European Union should create an agency with the ambitious goal of ensuring its technological independence.
Technological Independence. It is almost like there is going to be a Bretagne Tea Party, complete with euro-geeks dumping crates of Microsoft software into the Atlantic; What a sight they would be acting out in defiance of a monopoly of taxation without defragmentation. Bleh. Not bloody likely. Bring on the funding for OSS security, François!
Unfortunately, the DiamondMax 11's strengths don't really play to a big segment of the market.
I was not too happy to learn of the merger~boyout, and while the article hints at optimism, I definitely get the sense of a rolling of eyes out there. Competition is what spurs creativity and success. We shall see.
This article on the physiological properties of b-movie monsters sparked a pretty good discussion about the possibility of massive insects. The larger an organism, the more effective the vascular system has to be. Simply scaling up an organism does not give you a living result.
Yeah, the flash demo basically states that it is headerless email, deleted on the sender system when sent, deleted on the server when downloaded, and deleted on the receiver when closed. Stripped headers mean that the sender/recipient combo is not included in the message, but exist temporarily and separately. The message can be compromised but the source cannot be determined at the recipient end, and vice-versa. The article leads one to believe that it is an instant messenger. This sort of thing was done before via anon email. Basically, it seems to be ~post as AC~ then lurk, but for your email. It has always been amusing to me when the word 'trustworthy' appears in a Microsoft title, though.
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I use Igo and USB cables to charge my devices. Igo junk is available at a lot of retailers. There are varying power source and wattage ratings of the chargers, including air/car/110~/220~ power supplies that automatically adjust voltage and current, and can charge four or more devices at once if necessary. It is based on tip adapters that deliver power specific to their respective devices. They are pretty fast to make new connectors.
There are also the alkaline/lithium battery powered auxillury chargers, most of which are universal with multiple connecters. You can also use the solar chargers, most of which include a DC car socket.
I think that sooner than later, everything small will charge from USB and everything larger will have automatically switching power supplies that can run from any typical power source without adaptation.
Ahh, the law of unintended consequences
Modern consumer culture is price-centric. People will wait or travel for the lower priced like item. Quality plays a smaller part in the retail triangle (GOOD - FAST - CHEAP: PICK ANY TWO). The effect of this consumer preference has been to drive down manufacturing costs, by using cheaper equipment and labor. Lower quality products live a significantly shortened life, but replacements are cheaply and widely available. Failed devices are disposed of, ironically, near the people that manufactured them in the first place, partly because the consumer refuses to have them disposed in their back yard.
Those of us in technical retail see this and shrug. I prefer to sell the higher priced, higher quality item because I know the consumer will be more satisfied in the long run, but my profit in dollars is the same or better if I sell more lower priced, lower quality items. Once again, consumers almost always choose lower priced items, so what is the point of stocking the higher quality product?
Thus, the market forces have driven manufacturing jobs, manufacturing waste, and manufacturing profit to foreign nations, leaving the service end alone to developed nations. Well, we have already discussed the state of the technical service market.
I have thought about this before, and I have fallen short on solutions. We DEFINITELY don't want some crap government oversight of manufacturing, trade, or recycling. If you want something done inefficiently, corrupted, and complex enough to fail for sure, put a government in charge of it. That leaves the consumer and free market forces to solve our silicon woes. Is there a way to make a junk market in the developed nations that produce the junk? How recyclable are modern devices?
"Don't you hate that, when you're trying to impress your guest and your vehicle spontaneously explodes behind you?"
It was not my intention to lend credibility to the question. That is why I called it a cliche. In Doom 3, you run around Mars blowing up freaky aliens. Why not just go fight freaky aliens on Mars in real life?
My real point was that Wii could see an exercise business evolution, and that Nintendo has had physically interactive games before.
Jeez! Dodging bricks over here!
Remember the original Nintendo's game mat, the PowerPad? You could use it with an Olimpics themed game and compete in track and field events. I recall kneeling on the floor and smacking the pressure spots with my hands to achieve unrealistic scores.
I think maybe something like this may make a venture into the trendy excercise market. If they can sell a big ball for a hundred bucks, they can sell a Wii controller too.
This begs the now cliche question: Why not just go outside and play the actual sport? Alas, there is not a chance in hell.
TFA: What other space and astrology projects does Mexico host?
shucks, and awwwwwww.
nice try. no politics here, move along.
My thoughts exactly. The article makes it sound like mass chaos when a section of the grid fails. One would believe that they have tens of thousands of poor bastards checking lines inch by inch trying to figure out which transmission station had a moth fly into it. This is really more of an upgrade or modernization to existing systems, and if it aint broke what the hell are they trying to fix?
Energy costs are a constant in the headlines. Fluctuate the price a penny per unit in either direction and the markets go into gridlock. Why, exactly, do I feel like these automagical wireless "nano" deals are just a big hole in the power grid into which we all will be throwing money? The grid health monitoring systems seem to be robust enough, for now.
If the Tsunami had been named 12/26 we would all remember the date.
--Mr. Obvious
I don't get that behavior at all. Typing "Jon Stewart" took me to http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/ index.jhtml.
"White House" took me to http://www.whitehouse.gov/
"star garf log par" took me to the Google search results page.
It seems better at disambiguation than before... I think something may be broken in your Firefox.
Good luck!
I begrudgingly agree. While Windows as an entity has always been a pain in the ass, when it comes to supporting friends and family it is a wash. After installing the standard set of applications (VNC and its ilk is never a bad idea here) the most frequent question begins with "I forgot how to." With coaxing and instruction, there is seldom a challenge for anti-stuff these days. My grandmother is 88 and has a frigging genealogy blog. I run Windows for gaming pretty much exclusively, but when it comes to ease of support I sleep soundly knowing that I can see their desktops in my head, no research required. I guess it comes down to what your family has always run. If they have always run Mac OS, the same would apply.
Congressman Markey:
I am writing to request that you take action to mitigate the witch hunt of Christopher Soghoian, that security enthusiast who created a computer program that is capable of generating a fake boarding pass. The FBI has now destructively raided his home. I find the persecution of a private citizen under the guise of the War on Terror quite ironic indeed, as the intent of the pass generator was to help to improve security. It is irresponsible to pursue such a lame excuse for a security issue at any time, but particularly amid an election cycle and the fervor that accompanies it.
Please, do the right thing. Do what you can to alleviate this man's horror. Senator Schumer did almost exactly the same thing in February 2005, and nobody kicked his door down. Why the double standard? Are citizens in a different class from senators?
Pay special attention to point three in this tongue-in-cheek synopsis of the intent of the programmer:
1. Meet your elderly grandparents at the gate
2. 'Upgrade' yourself once on the airplane - by printing another boarding pass for a ticket you're already purchased, only this time, in Business Class.
3. Demonstrate that the TSA Boarding Pass/ID check is useless.
You have opined that airline security has many shortcomings. This young student feels the same way, and has decided that talk is cheap. Unlike most of our legislative officials, he used his knowledge to take action, and that is a very American thing to do. We are all scared out of our wits when it comes to homeland security issues. This brave young man has stood up and demonstrated for the nation the very nature of that fear.
Take action Mr. Congressman, please. After calling for Mr. Soghoian's head, what more benevolent action could there be but to learn from him -- and to spare him?
Respectfully yours,
Firefox to internet:
.0 release to an established release, and to Internet Explorer, is just pretty laughable where I am sitting. I have not experienced a single crash or bug, but then I have not exactly been trying to break it. Overall, I am quite impressed and look forward to seeing where this release takes the community.
If you are for any reason dissatisfied with your Firefox experience, we will gladly refund your money.
There will, of course, be growing pains. TFA highlights a known security bug, and points out that the memory leak has found its way into Firefox 2. CSS is initially seeing some compatibility hickups. There is always room for improvement. I began using Firefox 2 a few hours after the actual release. I was surprised to see an article complaining.
The other points of the article are matters of preference and wishful thinking.
-"I don't like the theme." ORLY well how is that IE theme support working out for you?
-"The anti phishing is weak!" ---compared to what? The antiphishing in 1.5?
-"Extensions did not automagically compatible-ize themselves!" OOOOHHH, well let me switch to that other browser that inherently supports third-party code. Perhaps we have overlooked the ".0" in the release version number. Third parties will have to adapt to meet the changes as Mozilla works to meet them. This does constitute a reason to potentially delay switching if extensions are absolutely necessary for your casual web usage.
-"I don't understand the options screen!" BWAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! This can't be serious.
-"I don't like the RSS thingy! IE does it better!" Where was it again that RSS originated? Was that Redmond? While IE's RSS Just Works (TM) there are clearly many custom options for this feature with Firefox, and unimaginable numbers of extensions are to follow.
So why delay switching to 2.0? Because 1.5 is just fine. Not because 2.0 is broken. Comparing a
yes, but. Politicians have no brains, so they are not eligible for thought crime prosecution. Somehow, citizens are.
This should not be a debate about the legality of the PHP script. While it was pretty stupid to post the damned thing, his right to do so is specifically guaranteed by the first amendment to our Constitution (as other slashdotters have pointed out). By this standard, I could be arrested for painting as art canvas-sized boarding passes and giving them away. The core of this problem is much more vile than terrorist threats against our population. We, as citizens, have voted our Constitution into obsolescence, having replaced it with a dynastic caste of political scumbags. How has this happened? Why?
--Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
I sent Markey a letter. I feel sorry for the poor intern that has to respond to a bunch of angry geeks. I basically accused him of campaigning on the stump of homeland security by grasping for the first straw dog he could find. I explained that many of us feel that it was sensible, brave and patriotic to expose the blatantly obvious without obscuring his identity. I pointed out that people are not sure which to fear more these days, Osama Bin Laden, or Uncle Sam. some other things, too I would post the letter, but I am not going to. Lets see some more open letters.
Just... wow. Great to see that there is life in the old girl yet. Our galaxy is to suffer a similar fate, some 3 billion years hence.
The headline should read "French Government Recommends Standardizing on ODF, too!"
Because most people use
The real news here is the big F-U to Microsoft: We are sick of using only your software. Our governments are beginning to reccommend using alternate methods because we do not trust you. If you continue to develop software the way you do, we will proceed with our plans to isolate our governments from you. To illustrate, TFA:
-- Technological Independence. It is almost like there is going to be a Bretagne Tea Party, complete with euro-geeks dumping crates of Microsoft software into the Atlantic; What a sight they would be acting out in defiance of a monopoly of taxation without defragmentation. Bleh. Not bloody likely. Bring on the funding for OSS security, François!
...computer reads book about you!
I was not too happy to learn of the merger~boyout, and while the article hints at optimism, I definitely get the sense of a rolling of eyes out there. Competition is what spurs creativity and success. We shall see.
This article on the physiological properties of b-movie monsters sparked a pretty good discussion about the possibility of massive insects. The larger an organism, the more effective the vascular system has to be. Simply scaling up an organism does not give you a living result.
Here are two Escher-licious images from google maps:
...and an interesting effect that can occur when frames are spliced:
Boston
Dallas
Sidewalk ends
Of course, there are tons of these, including the popular ipod.
Thanks! I needed that!
Yeah, the flash demo basically states that it is headerless email, deleted on the sender system when sent, deleted on the server when downloaded, and deleted on the receiver when closed. Stripped headers mean that the sender/recipient combo is not included in the message, but exist temporarily and separately. The message can be compromised but the source cannot be determined at the recipient end, and vice-versa. The article leads one to believe that it is an instant messenger. This sort of thing was done before via anon email. Basically, it seems to be ~post as AC~ then lurk, but for your email. It has always been amusing to me when the word 'trustworthy' appears in a Microsoft title, though.