Interesting that the banner at the top of the DRMEA site shows two people sharing music by each listening to one earpiece of some headphones. I guess their brains haven't been implanted yet.
Looking at the picture of the internals on the design page of the mini site it looks like the top is spring-clipped onto the bottom. There's about 8 bendy hook things sticking up around the perimeter of the base. I guess you'll need a special tool to get it open (like the thingy you need to get a car radio out), or lots of knives.
> The turning point for me was when I sat down and figured out how much I was actually making, based on a 8 hour day. My wife was actually making more than I was an hour.
So? I would expect this to be the case in 50% of couples. If I were you I'd be a lot nicer to my wife than your comment indicates you are.
They already have this in most nuclear power stations, if the core is a deep cherry red it's time to leave the building, if it's yellow it's time to bend over and kiss your arse goodbye.
I can't speak for the majority of the UK population but I'm not too worried by this since the government couldn't find it's own arse in the dark let alone me.
I have no problem with unlicensed (i.e. unroadworthy and uninsured) cars being easy to spot.
I live in Somerset and work in London. Maybe I should carry a chunk of old tractor around in my car (having "accidentally" disabled my own plates RFID) so I can avoid the congestion charge.
I'm starting to think of myself as disabled now - because I have problems with white backgrounds. I've had to come up with a style sheet for mozilla so I can surf without headaches and recently had to hack ghostscript to do reverse video (patch submitted to the mailing list - deafening silence in return). My next project is to create a style sheet to control the fonts on web pages since web-page designers can't agree on a suitable size.
Alt-TAB doesn't cut it. I've mapped the numeric keypad into a directional focus moving pad. Hit 7 and the focus moves to up&left to the next window, hit 6 and it moves right. I know of only one window manager to do this: FVWM with the `Direction' function.
It's a good focal point for the millenial celebrations (even if they did get the date wrong...)
They got the date exactly right. All the idiots who don't understand the millenium dates got their show when they wanted and all us wingeing cynics will get to see it closed at the end of this millenium.
Someone I know told me about an interesting Easter Egg in an ASIC in one of HP's DAT drives. Apparently if you took the main formatter ASIC off the board and wired it up with just a battery, switch and 7 LED's you could make a digital dice. It self clocked via a slow inverting async path when wired up in `Reserved' mode and the LED driver pins would cycle through all 6 combinations when the switch was closed. AFAIK no-one ever built one but it started a tradition that runs to this day.
Just for a UK perspective on this, I've just accepted a job offer in the Bristol Area of the UK. It's a silicon design post paying £48k plus a nice pension. Just in case you think that's peanuts I live in a c16th farmhouse and get to ride my horse on the beach before work.
OK so it's only going to piss off us Brits but it's worth being a bit more careful when you choose the name of your global domination corporation. Any chance of "Pearl Harbor" making it to IPO?
I had an Alps Glidepoint keyboard at one time and very nice it was too. The touchpad was right beneath the arrow keys so you could operate it with your pinky.
ObLinux: the gpm program was very useful in that it allowed the glidepoint and a conventional mouse to be used, something that Windows never did.
Alps stopped making this keyboard but I'm sure there are alternatives.
Another fantastic feature of fvwm is the direction command. You can get it to focus on the next window in any sensible combination of up, down, left and right with a single keystroke. I bind the function to keys on the keypad (KP_4 is "Direction East Focus") and it's all wonderfully intuitive. Yet another fantastic feature of the latest beta fvwm (did I mention what the f in fvwm means?) is dynamic menu creation (with auto hotkey assignment). This lets you navigate around your filesystem with the keyboard.
There is no money there, just a president who will do anything for a quiet life. Just invading would not make the phony banks dissapear. Invading Liberia would not make all those dodgy shipping companies suddenly spend lots of money to make their ships safe.
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Interesting that the banner at the top of the DRMEA site shows two people sharing music by each listening to one earpiece of some headphones. I guess their brains haven't been implanted yet.
It's not science or art, it's engineering.
I had one do that to me from behind about 6 inches from my ear. I nearly wet myself.
I ping www.bbc.co.uk because I pay a little bit for it to be there.
Looking at the picture of the internals on the design page of the mini site it looks like the top is spring-clipped onto the bottom. There's about 8 bendy hook things sticking up around the perimeter of the base. I guess you'll need a special tool to get it open (like the thingy you need to get a car radio out), or lots of knives.
Not worrying at all. Mobile phones are an easy fit into someones rectum so that should stop them.
> The turning point for me was when I sat down and figured out how much I was actually making, based on a 8 hour day. My wife was actually making more than I was an hour.
So? I would expect this to be the case in 50% of couples. If I were you I'd be a lot nicer to my wife than your comment indicates you are.
They already have this in most nuclear power stations, if the core is a deep cherry red it's time to leave the building, if it's yellow it's time to bend over and kiss your arse goodbye.
True, and the buggers won't die and you can't shoot them.
I can't speak for the majority of the UK population but I'm not too worried by this since the government couldn't find it's own arse in the dark let alone me.
I have no problem with unlicensed (i.e. unroadworthy and uninsured) cars being easy to spot.
I live in Somerset and work in London. Maybe I should carry a chunk of old tractor around in my car (having "accidentally" disabled my own plates RFID) so I can avoid the congestion charge.
P.S. 17mph is a good top speed in London.
Prior art for communication via tapping was invented by death watch beetles.
If I'd noticed a hot grit falling from the sky I would have got my trousers undone in readiness.
I'm starting to think of myself as disabled now - because I have problems with white backgrounds. I've had to come up with a style sheet for mozilla so I can surf without headaches and recently had to hack ghostscript to do reverse video (patch submitted to the mailing list - deafening silence in return). My next project is to create a style sheet to control the fonts on web pages since web-page designers can't agree on a suitable size.
Alt-TAB doesn't cut it. I've mapped the numeric keypad into a directional focus moving pad. Hit 7 and the focus moves to up&left to the next window, hit 6 and it moves right. I know of only one window manager to do this: FVWM with the `Direction' function.
They got the date exactly right. All the idiots who don't understand the millenium dates got their show when they wanted and all us wingeing cynics will get to see it closed at the end of this millenium.
Someone I know told me about an interesting Easter Egg in an ASIC in one of HP's DAT drives. Apparently if you took the main formatter ASIC off the board and wired it up with just a battery, switch and 7 LED's you could make a digital dice. It self clocked via a slow inverting async path when wired up in `Reserved' mode and the LED driver pins would cycle through all 6 combinations when the switch was closed. AFAIK no-one ever built one but it started a tradition that runs to this day.
Just for a UK perspective on this, I've just accepted a job offer in the Bristol Area of the UK. It's a silicon design post paying £48k plus a nice pension. Just in case you think that's peanuts I live in a c16th farmhouse and get to ride my horse on the beach before work.
OK so it's only going to piss off us Brits but it's worth being a bit more careful when you choose the name of your global domination corporation. Any chance of "Pearl Harbor" making it to IPO?
ObLinux: the gpm program was very useful in that it allowed the glidepoint and a conventional mouse to be used, something that Windows never did.
Alps stopped making this keyboard but I'm sure there are alternatives.
Another fantastic feature of fvwm is the direction command. You can get it to focus on the next window in any sensible combination of up, down, left and right with a single keystroke. I bind the function to keys on the keypad (KP_4 is "Direction East Focus") and it's all wonderfully intuitive. Yet another fantastic feature of the latest beta fvwm (did I mention what the f in fvwm means?) is dynamic menu creation (with auto hotkey assignment). This lets you navigate around your filesystem with the keyboard.
There is no money there, just a president who will do anything for a quiet life. Just invading would not make the phony banks dissapear. Invading Liberia would not make all those dodgy shipping companies suddenly spend lots of money to make their ships safe.