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Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen?
Hogwash McFly writes "My boss gave me one of those USB-powered red LED scrolling displays as a Christmas gift, and while cycling the usual 'I read your emails' and 'ID10T Error' messages will be entertaining for a day or two, I was wondering if it could be put to more constructive uses. The configuration file is plaintext and supports different scroll speeds, flashing, bitmaps, and WAV sounds. The font is defined as 5x5 pixels per character, also stored in plaintext as 5 hex values, one for each vertical line of pixels. A dynamically generated message could prove useful in my day-to-day work on the helpdesk, but are there any interesting uses beyond network notifications and news feeds?"
what a shitty gift. did you also get a cocoa of the month subscription?
If you think that the incoming President is far-left and the old President was far-right, then you need a refresher course in both politics and civics.
What planet have you been on for the last 8 years?
Two points.
#1: I'm not average. "Average driver" includes 85-year-old grandmas. You think the figure is skewed? Maybe.
#2: Unexpected stops are very rare.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Please stop talking about things you obviously haven't thought through and don't understand.
If I pass then move over after just two car lengths, I've pretty much demonstrated the classic definition of cutting someone off. The only result is that they are then caused to either tailgate me or unexpectedly slow down, potentially causing a problem for the person behind them. Just because the guy flying up my butt is anxious is no reason for me to be a dick. His tailgating means we have two cars in an unsafe relationship and if we have a wreck we can at least have a hope of confining it to one lane. But if I try to get out of Mr. Speedracer's way by cutting off the guy in the lane next to me, we now have two unsafe maneuvers happening at the same time instead of one and I've involved another car and another lane in our potential accident. Bad news. Just because the guy behind me is stupid doesn't mean I want to join him in endangering my fellow motorists.
When I pass, I wait until I can see both headlights of the car I passed in my rearview mirror. Then I signal and move over. Anyone who thinks I wait too long to move over or who, worse, tries to shoot through the gap between us is an incompetent menace.
You are one of those idiots that rides the speed limit in the left lane on a wide open highway aren't you?
I take it you're one of those trolls I've heard so much about. If this was a real response, see my other reply in this thread.
Ok. So federal relief to faith-based service organizations, private meetings with energy executives, government owned banks and industry, withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile defense, warrantless wiretapping, executive wartime powers extending to the VP and preemptive war and torture aren't far right?
The list above is so damn long I can forgive you for having amnesia. They are not mere policies of stupid; they're borderline fascist.
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