Comment Re:My Theory (Score 1) 888
ObOnionArticle:
"United Airlines Exploring Viability Of Stacking Them Like Cordwood"
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/united_airlines_exploring
Comment Re:Baud vs bps (Score 4, Informative) 249
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition says, "acronym n. A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging."
MOdulation/DEModulation certainly seems like it qualifies to me. It is using the initial parts of a series of words. I don't see how it is any different than RAdio Detecting And Ranging.
Comment Re:Written by someone born in the 90s? (Score 1) 249
The upload speed is not inherently limited to 33.6k. In fact, the V.92 standard allows up to 48k upload speeds but that increase comes at the cost of reduced download speeds.
Comment Re:As a child of the 80s... (Score 1) 249
I believe you had to add a *70 after the AT
It depends on your telephone company. If you have Touch Tone, you usually have to use *70 or #70. If you still have pulse dialing, you have to use 1170.
The commas are also important. Each comma adds a two-second pause (unless that's been modified in the modem's registers). Placing a comma or two after the *70 gives the telephone company time to give you a dial tone again so the phone number digits aren't lost.
Comment Re:Baud vs bps (Score 4, Insightful) 249
]P.S. The word MODEM (as the article indicates) represents MOdulatorDEModulator. Hence it should be capitalized. This is also try of enCOderDECoder (CODEC). Slightly less related yet as correct LASER and RADAR....
Generally when an acronym is pronounced as a single word and has entered general usage, it is not capitalized. These days scuba, laser, and radar are not capitalized. Nor is modem.
Comment Re:what's the point of IOS? (Score 1) 114
Whoops, I guess I was thinking IOS-XE, which is vulnerable.
Comment Re:what's the point of IOS? (Score 1) 114
Cisco IOS-XR, which is not vulnerable, has a Linux kernel.
Comment DLP has had "3d" for years (Score 1) 249
DLP has had 3d for a long time. I think my TV has it. This is an interesting trick. Other than that, no one cares.
Comment Asset Tracker for RT a toolkit? (Score 2, Informative) 251
Your description of AT is completely off. I'm an active user of RT and Asset Tracker (AT). It's not a toolkit at all, it's a clean modification that adds an 'Assets' link in the nav bar where you hold assets. From there you create and manage custom fields and custom field values from within the standard locations of RT. At no point must you know a URL to do anything in RT or AT. There are simple or complex searches, linking assets to others (depends on, requires, etc) is simply typing a few letters into a box to search on, then choose the appropriate action from a dropdown box.
Unfortunately there have been no releases of AT in a while, but it still cleanly applies even to the latest version of RT. It does have a new home for its code on google code and is getting updates, just not a new release for a few years.
Comment Re:And of course, no non-glossy displays (Score 2, Informative) 770
Can't Apple produce 15" or 13" laptops without that damn glossy display? These mirrors mounted on laptops get really annoying, and I'm not the only one who thinks that non-glossy displays are superior to their allegedly cheaper glossy displays.
One more guy who's looking for a used MBP on ebay.
Why buy used? There are other options for anti-glare screens.
Comment Re:DLP TV? SegaScope 3d? (Score 1) 137
Holy wrong thread, batman!
Comment DLP TV? SegaScope 3d? (Score 1, Offtopic) 137
This is new? Many DLP TVs support this even though not many probably care (I have one and I don't).
It took over 20 years to come out with what looks like the same technology as the Sega Master System's 3D Glasses?
I also think I saw Captain EO with the same glasses back when Michael Jackson was loved by most.
Comment Re:What's still missing (Score 1) 351
But then there's always the BSDs... they all do just fine without PAM, ALSA, sysV, apt-get/yum, etc.
PAM is part of the base system on FreeBSD, not sure about the other BSDs.
Comment Re:Finding where your disk space went. (Score 1) 2362
ls -l | sort -n +4 -- sorts files in size order, good for finding big files in a directory
Why not ls -lSr ?
Optical Fiber With a Silicon Core 60
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to the Optical Society of America, U.S. researchers have been able to create a practical optical fiber with a silicon core. As they were able to use the same commercial methods that are used to develop all-glass fibers, this might pave the way for future silicon fibers as viable alternatives to glass fibers. The scientists note that this should help increase efficiency and decrease power consumption in computers and other systems that integrate photonic and electronic devices. Here is a good summary by the lead researcher: 'In the past, we've needed one structure to process light and another to carry it. With a silicon fiber, for the first time, we have the ability to greatly enhance the functionality in one fiber.'"
