In the UK the fees are instantly transferred as well, if you wish, even between different banks.
From my experience the only time transfers are instantaneous when using online banking is when both parties are with the same bank, between different banks there's a delay.
How close is the wall to the road anyways? There's a reason you're supposed to keep all structures and fences a few feet back from the road.
The wall is immediately next to the road, the house is over 100 years old, as are several of the other houses with adjacent walls, it's just that our wall is immediately next to the house and the road, opposite the road is the high bank of another person's property.
There's no space (or money for that matter) to widen the road just to cater for a few fuckwit lorry drivers. We'll just have to keep claiming wall rebuilding on the said drivers insurance policies:(
Sat-nav keeps damaging/destroying our property boundary wall, fucking delivery lorry drivers will blindly punch in a destination which takes them right past our house, the lane is too narrow for a lot of lorries so when they go past they often scrape the drystone wall, sometimes hitting it so hard the whole thing shifts a bit.
One time we came home from holiday ro find the wall had been knocked down by a 5 axle lorry that didn't even realise what they'd done.
Much more steps should have been taken during the writing of sat-nav code so shit like this doesn't happen, Tom-Tom, Garmin etc. should have consulted gotten local knowledge so to avoid problems like this. I read of one village that has had some serious problems with lorry drivers treating it as a rat-run, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/08/satnav_menaces_somerset_village/
Sat-nav creators should hold some responsibility for their actions, or rather inactions in forseeing shit like this happen.
I have a 1983 Kyocera 30 watt panel which still gives me an accurately measured 24 watts in mid summer, mid day sunlight, 80% of it's original rating after 25+ years is pretty good I think.
Whenever someone adds/updates a pinout, please can they include 3D pictures/photos of the plug/socket in question.
Whenever I have to wire up a new plug or hack an existing plug, especially things like D & scart plugs/sockets, finding a flat 2D picture of the plug can confusing when the plug/socket doesn't have numbers on it, but an isometric 3D style drawing/photo of the plug/socket in question makes identifying which pin is what much much quicker and easier.
Well my mobile phone doesn't have polyphonic or mp3 ringtones, doesn't have a camera, doesn't have GPS, doesn't have a touchscreen, doesn't have the ability to send/receive MMS, doesn't have a memory card slot, doesn't run linux, doesn't have a very good battery life.
A mobile phone for me is an annoyance, I don't turn it on very often now because I've learnt that people keep phoning me asking for favours/help much more often than to see how I am/do I want to go to the pub etc. If I want to talk to people for any length of time I go over and see them in person.
I never tell anyone what the Christmas Letter will look like, and I have only one rule â" I have to outdo whatever I did the last year.
I fear I've fallen into that trap too, last year I made some edge lit christmas cards but instead of using coin batteries I included twisted white wire with a soldered USB plug so the card will never run out of power (unless you switch your PC off). Just about everyone who received one loved it.
This year I'm planning on doing another edge lit card but with several layers, powered by a SMD PICAXE chip embedded into the card for animation, flashing, sequencing or whatever I decide.
The year after next I may do yet another USB powered edge lit card but include a flash drive for a christmas video or something *shrug* hopefully I'll get some good ideas from this topic:)
How would I go about mounting a 50" LCD monitor or a projector + screen on my head in a way that doesn't make result in me constantly falling over?
/Mikael
Strapping a projector + screen to your head may not be as absurd as it sounds, the pocket projectors now on sale are small & light enough to strap to your head without feeling like you're carrying an ACME 20 ton weight.
Then all you need is a screen in front of you - kite material should do the job, using fibreglass poles to strech out & hold some white nylon fabric in front of your face without encurring much weight. Have the 'screen' strapped to your body instead of your head for extra steadyness, in fact you could have the projector strapped to your chest too.
Just watch out for strong gusts of wind!
I picked up some Sony PLM-700E Glasstrons a couple of years back, 832x624 native resolution which can display a PC's 800x600 without scaling and 1024x768 with scaling.
Trying to use a PC with them for any length of time is frustrating, the screens are clear and the optics are excellent (most of the cheap LCD glasses you get nowadays have atrocious optics), but something just doesn't seem quite right, I guess it's to do with how the screen is always set directly in front of your face no matter how much you move your head.
As for gaming, I can stand to use them for 60-90 minutes at most until they become uncomfortable, both the physical thing strapped to your head and the eyestrain at looking at a screen which optically fools you into believing it's about a metre in front of your eyes but not actually physically a meter in front of your eyes.
One of the best applications I've used my various sets of LCD glasses for (somehow I've managed to end up with 6 different pairs now!) is a wireless camera mounted on an RC car - driving it around for long enough you do get a feeling of immersion, that you are actually on/in the small car and driving it around. For that application you need the largest diagonal field of view possible, my Sony PLM-A55's are best at that because despite the low resolution of the screens they're pretty comfortable to wear (glasses style, not strapped on), great optics and have a larger FOV than all the other LCD glasses I have. The Olympus FMD-200's I once owned had as equally as good FOV & optics for this kind of task.
I used to wear glasses for about 20 years since the age of 6, until I just got completly pissed of with the hassle of them - the main one being the feeling of always looking through a narrow window on the world, so I just stopped stopped one day and feel better for it.
My right eye almost permanently sees the world in a blur (glasses never could get it to see things in sharp focus) but my left eye compensates enough to cycle/drive/solder SMD without any magnifying optics (though I do use a magnifying glass to check afterwards).
Only recently after about 8 years of not wearing them I think I may go back to the opticians for a new pair, not for general wearing but just for archery, I aim with my right eye which as I just mentioned is pretty buggered, so when I start shooting much longer distances (60+ yards) I'll need more precision on aiming.
A lot depends on deadlines. If you have 3 things that needs to be done and committed by tomorrow, then there's going to be a tendency towards hackery. If you've got one thing that the company wants you to work on until it's finished, then you need to be more of a thinker.
I agree to a certain extent, if I'm given a deadline by which something has to be done by (like it's being shipped off somewhere or someone important has to see it) then I'm more able to finish the task in a timely manner (even if I rush things in the last 'minute') than if I were just told it has to be done but without any time parameters.
As for rituals, I find if I've got a programming/construction problem within a project I find getting away from where the thing is being programmed and/or built frees me from the problem enough to think about it, usually when I'm cycling and listening to music at the same time gives me enough of a distraction from the problem to actually think about individual parts of it rather than the whole.
You'd have to do something more subtle like shake the drive vigorously to scar the heck out of the drive surface and shred the drive heads while randomly seeking all over the disk.
I wonder what a paint mixer in a DIY store would do to a harddrive, especially if you powered it on whilst being shaken.
"Well, the thing about a Black Hole, its main distinguishing feature, is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you supposed to see them?"
*later on*
"They weren't Black Holes."
"What were they?"
"Grit. Five specks of grit on the scanner-scope. See, the thing about grit is, it's black, and the thing about scanner-scopes..."
"Oh shut up!"
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In the UK the fees are instantly transferred as well, if you wish, even between different banks.
From my experience the only time transfers are instantaneous when using online banking is when both parties are with the same bank, between different banks there's a delay.
How close is the wall to the road anyways? There's a reason you're supposed to keep all structures and fences a few feet back from the road.
The wall is immediately next to the road, the house is over 100 years old, as are several of the other houses with adjacent walls, it's just that our wall is immediately next to the house and the road, opposite the road is the high bank of another person's property. :(
There's no space (or money for that matter) to widen the road just to cater for a few fuckwit lorry drivers. We'll just have to keep claiming wall rebuilding on the said drivers insurance policies
Sat-nav keeps damaging/destroying our property boundary wall, fucking delivery lorry drivers will blindly punch in a destination which takes them right past our house, the lane is too narrow for a lot of lorries so when they go past they often scrape the drystone wall, sometimes hitting it so hard the whole thing shifts a bit.
One time we came home from holiday ro find the wall had been knocked down by a 5 axle lorry that didn't even realise what they'd done.
Much more steps should have been taken during the writing of sat-nav code so shit like this doesn't happen, Tom-Tom, Garmin etc. should have consulted gotten local knowledge so to avoid problems like this. I read of one village that has had some serious problems with lorry drivers treating it as a rat-run, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/08/satnav_menaces_somerset_village/
Sat-nav creators should hold some responsibility for their actions, or rather inactions in forseeing shit like this happen.
I have a 1983 Kyocera 30 watt panel which still gives me an accurately measured 24 watts in mid summer, mid day sunlight, 80% of it's original rating after 25+ years is pretty good I think.
Whenever someone adds/updates a pinout, please can they include 3D pictures/photos of the plug/socket in question.
Whenever I have to wire up a new plug or hack an existing plug, especially things like D & scart plugs/sockets, finding a flat 2D picture of the plug can confusing when the plug/socket doesn't have numbers on it, but an isometric 3D style drawing/photo of the plug/socket in question makes identifying which pin is what much much quicker and easier.
Well my mobile phone doesn't have polyphonic or mp3 ringtones, doesn't have a camera, doesn't have GPS, doesn't have a touchscreen, doesn't have the ability to send/receive MMS, doesn't have a memory card slot, doesn't run linux, doesn't have a very good battery life.
A mobile phone for me is an annoyance, I don't turn it on very often now because I've learnt that people keep phoning me asking for favours/help much more often than to see how I am/do I want to go to the pub etc. If I want to talk to people for any length of time I go over and see them in person.
Nah, something that doesn't taste of dishwater; Assam.
*in the voice of Michael Westen*
Baiting Slashdotters is much like shooting fish in a barrel, the trick is to find the right ammunition, from then on it's childs play.
Make a few christmas cards and suddenly everyone thinks you have oodles and oodles of free time...
FFS!
That'll be an implausable christmas considering I don't live in the US and I hand delivered all the cards I made.
It was viewable earlier, strange they changed it to invite only.
I never tell anyone what the Christmas Letter will look like, and I have only one rule â" I have to outdo whatever I did the last year.
I fear I've fallen into that trap too, last year I made some edge lit christmas cards but instead of using coin batteries I included twisted white wire with a soldered USB plug so the card will never run out of power (unless you switch your PC off). Just about everyone who received one loved it.
:)
This year I'm planning on doing another edge lit card but with several layers, powered by a SMD PICAXE chip embedded into the card for animation, flashing, sequencing or whatever I decide.
The year after next I may do yet another USB powered edge lit card but include a flash drive for a christmas video or something *shrug* hopefully I'll get some good ideas from this topic
and seriously, spreadsheets are so 90s!
That doesn't make them any less useful.
Will there also be a live action tv series spinoff like a lot of films?
Someone's already created a rather good intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQi9LHIzbA
I was seriously considering getting some eMagin z800 OLED glasses a few years back, until they tripled their price literally overnight.
How would I go about mounting a 50" LCD monitor or a projector + screen on my head in a way that doesn't make result in me constantly falling over?
/Mikael
Strapping a projector + screen to your head may not be as absurd as it sounds, the pocket projectors now on sale are small & light enough to strap to your head without feeling like you're carrying an ACME 20 ton weight.
Then all you need is a screen in front of you - kite material should do the job, using fibreglass poles to strech out & hold some white nylon fabric in front of your face without encurring much weight. Have the 'screen' strapped to your body instead of your head for extra steadyness, in fact you could have the projector strapped to your chest too.
Just watch out for strong gusts of wind!
I picked up some Sony PLM-700E Glasstrons a couple of years back, 832x624 native resolution which can display a PC's 800x600 without scaling and 1024x768 with scaling.
Trying to use a PC with them for any length of time is frustrating, the screens are clear and the optics are excellent (most of the cheap LCD glasses you get nowadays have atrocious optics), but something just doesn't seem quite right, I guess it's to do with how the screen is always set directly in front of your face no matter how much you move your head.
As for gaming, I can stand to use them for 60-90 minutes at most until they become uncomfortable, both the physical thing strapped to your head and the eyestrain at looking at a screen which optically fools you into believing it's about a metre in front of your eyes but not actually physically a meter in front of your eyes.
One of the best applications I've used my various sets of LCD glasses for (somehow I've managed to end up with 6 different pairs now!) is a wireless camera mounted on an RC car - driving it around for long enough you do get a feeling of immersion, that you are actually on/in the small car and driving it around. For that application you need the largest diagonal field of view possible, my Sony PLM-A55's are best at that because despite the low resolution of the screens they're pretty comfortable to wear (glasses style, not strapped on), great optics and have a larger FOV than all the other LCD glasses I have. The Olympus FMD-200's I once owned had as equally as good FOV & optics for this kind of task.
I used to wear glasses for about 20 years since the age of 6, until I just got completly pissed of with the hassle of them - the main one being the feeling of always looking through a narrow window on the world, so I just stopped stopped one day and feel better for it.
My right eye almost permanently sees the world in a blur (glasses never could get it to see things in sharp focus) but my left eye compensates enough to cycle/drive/solder SMD without any magnifying optics (though I do use a magnifying glass to check afterwards).
Only recently after about 8 years of not wearing them I think I may go back to the opticians for a new pair, not for general wearing but just for archery, I aim with my right eye which as I just mentioned is pretty buggered, so when I start shooting much longer distances (60+ yards) I'll need more precision on aiming.
A lot depends on deadlines. If you have 3 things that needs to be done and committed by tomorrow, then there's going to be a tendency towards hackery. If you've got one thing that the company wants you to work on until it's finished, then you need to be more of a thinker.
I agree to a certain extent, if I'm given a deadline by which something has to be done by (like it's being shipped off somewhere or someone important has to see it) then I'm more able to finish the task in a timely manner (even if I rush things in the last 'minute') than if I were just told it has to be done but without any time parameters.
As for rituals, I find if I've got a programming/construction problem within a project I find getting away from where the thing is being programmed and/or built frees me from the problem enough to think about it, usually when I'm cycling and listening to music at the same time gives me enough of a distraction from the problem to actually think about individual parts of it rather than the whole.
Using off the shelf components that do the job with a setup that's practically plug'n'play doesn't always help you learn how something works.
"Re-inventing the wheel" can be a good way to learn & understand how something works and why it's built/programmed etc. in a certain way.
You'd have to do something more subtle like shake the drive vigorously to scar the heck out of the drive surface and shred the drive heads while randomly seeking all over the disk.
I wonder what a paint mixer in a DIY store would do to a harddrive, especially if you powered it on whilst being shaken.
I've been wondering for a while now; at what age should you stop wearing tshirts with funny slogans on and start buying cardigans?
I'm waiting for the one which has DON'T PANIC in big friendly letters on the front.
Take this wise lesson from Red Dwarf:
"Well, the thing about a Black Hole, its main distinguishing feature, is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you supposed to see them?"
*later on*
"They weren't Black Holes."
"What were they?"
"Grit. Five specks of grit on the scanner-scope. See, the thing about grit is, it's black, and the thing about scanner-scopes..."
"Oh shut up!"
"Ma na ma na"
Do doo do-do-do!