Taking a look through those blots without reading the descriptions below them, and I would get one set of answers. Then when I read the descriptions, I am surprised how almost EVERYONE of them *could* be interpreted to be sexual in some way. Some of the suggestions are obvious once you have read that description, but some are just odd. "A vagina in the middle of the blot" - when the area is a solid color... That's like saying you see vagina's when you close your eyes, or look at a wall that is a solid color.
Seems to me psychologists are overly interested in sex and the people that may be like minded...
I use XML/XSL to render my content as needed - including images and SVG graphics where needed. Then I use the FOP project to convert the generated XML-FO into PDF. Works great and can be scripted easily. But the learning curve is kinda steep. Luckily there are a few tutorials out there.
killing the car battery in an hour would be a serious problem. Luckily that's not the case.
But the FreeRunner is charged via a mini-usb port. Still you are right, a suitable charger cable can be found.
You seem to have made an assumption that the commercial GPS units are suitable in EVERY possible need. The edge cases are not covered in most cases and still need a way to start from an existing solution that does most of what may be needed.
An example. GPS Datalogging is well known/solved. But throw some custom analysis on there. Perhaps you want the unit to automagically know which trips are business trips and which are personal, and then provide a nice convenient report showing the total business usage of the vehicle. I've yet to see a commercial device do this. And that's just ONE sample.
Of course, if you are simply trying to recreate a basic GPS data logger, then yeah it's probably better to spend $100 bucks or so to buy one.
turning on GPS and Bluetooth (supposing you needed BT for some reason), gives you about 1 hour of battery life, in my experience. The Freerunner does "fit the bill" in a number of ways, but it's battery life, and steep learning curve (compared to a TomTom type tool) score it lower. (I've been trying to get the GPS stuff working reliably on the FR for a week or so - getting the base system stable is um, troublesome in my case at least)
I've been looking into this recently as well. Best bet I've found, in terms of "tinkering" ability is to use an Arduino and a GPS Shield (more details here). The two of these (and the GPS chip) will cost under $150, but allow you to code it to do whatever you want. Throw in a TouchShield and you begin to open up possibilities.
The downside is the time/effort needed here. The "convenience" factor is not part of this solution...:)
Modern OS's allow you to set up multiple users - each of which has their own login environment. Set up one account for your everyday use. Set up a second account for your "guest" users. Whenever you need to allow a compatriot to use your system, log out of your account, log in as the guest account. Lock down the guest account as needed.
Linux allows this very easily, and both KDE and Gnome have a Switch User option where you don't even need to log out of your own account (running processes keep running). You'll still need your password to get back to your original environment too. I haven't used Windows at this level for quite some time, so don't know if there is an equivalent to the Switch User, without logging out totally and logging in.
You can always blow away the guest account if you ever suspect any foul play. This should be relatively safe. Insert your own values for relative here.
make congress/senate/etc mandated roles for short terms. Much like Jury duty. If you are randomly selected to serve your country, you get a reasonable wage for your efforts, but you only do it for a year or two. Representation for the people BY the people. Think this through and it begins to counter a number of "bad" things with politics in the world today.
But no politician would ever vote for this approach. I doubt the general public would either. But the reasons for this type of approach is becoming more and more clear as time moves on....
subsided over the past decade or so? As one of the volunteers with the A.V. Roe Canada Heritage Museum (http://www.avromuseum.ca) who is building a 2/3 scaled piloted replica of the Arrow, I beg to differ. The people I speak with continue to show much resentment over the entire fiasco, and much interest in preserving the story for future generations.
The 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Arrow just recently passed. With it some newspaper articles appeared with a very selective remembering of the way things went. Check the Timeline on the above site - the history is very clear. And we try to be as unbiased as possible. Everything on that list is taken directly from artifacts (newspapers/magazine articles of the time, etc.). So it is all backed up by fact - not just somebody's memory.
As for selling Canadian tech companies to the States, I think in this case the government has done the right thing. But then again, I don't know all the details either.
"Microsoft will spend $235m in schools worldwide over the next five years, part of a plan to triple the number of students and teachers trained in its software programs to up to 270 million by 2013."
So, does that mean it costs close to $1 million to train each user? (ok, if I do the math it's something like $870,000)
Here I thought writing software was where the good money was.... silly me...
Full multithreading? When was the last time you used JavaScript? Have you never had to deal with the asynchronous issues with images/windows/iframes? Have you never used this asynchronous feature to do things a web page just wasn't meant to? I sure have. And the asynch stuff is as multithreaded as I need to get for any web based application.
Asychronous may not be the same as multithreading, but it's close enough for my needs. I would propose that if you truly need multithreading then you are building a DESKTOP application, not a web based application.
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Taking a look through those blots without reading the descriptions below them, and I would get one set of answers. Then when I read the descriptions, I am surprised how almost EVERYONE of them *could* be interpreted to be sexual in some way. Some of the suggestions are obvious once you have read that description, but some are just odd. "A vagina in the middle of the blot" - when the area is a solid color... That's like saying you see vagina's when you close your eyes, or look at a wall that is a solid color. Seems to me psychologists are overly interested in sex and the people that may be like minded...
I use XML/XSL to render my content as needed - including images and SVG graphics where needed. Then I use the FOP project to convert the generated XML-FO into PDF. Works great and can be scripted easily. But the learning curve is kinda steep. Luckily there are a few tutorials out there.
killing the car battery in an hour would be a serious problem. Luckily that's not the case. But the FreeRunner is charged via a mini-usb port. Still you are right, a suitable charger cable can be found.
You seem to have made an assumption that the commercial GPS units are suitable in EVERY possible need. The edge cases are not covered in most cases and still need a way to start from an existing solution that does most of what may be needed. An example. GPS Datalogging is well known/solved. But throw some custom analysis on there. Perhaps you want the unit to automagically know which trips are business trips and which are personal, and then provide a nice convenient report showing the total business usage of the vehicle. I've yet to see a commercial device do this. And that's just ONE sample. Of course, if you are simply trying to recreate a basic GPS data logger, then yeah it's probably better to spend $100 bucks or so to buy one.
turning on GPS and Bluetooth (supposing you needed BT for some reason), gives you about 1 hour of battery life, in my experience. The Freerunner does "fit the bill" in a number of ways, but it's battery life, and steep learning curve (compared to a TomTom type tool) score it lower. (I've been trying to get the GPS stuff working reliably on the FR for a week or so - getting the base system stable is um, troublesome in my case at least)
I've been looking into this recently as well. Best bet I've found, in terms of "tinkering" ability is to use an Arduino and a GPS Shield (more details here). The two of these (and the GPS chip) will cost under $150, but allow you to code it to do whatever you want. Throw in a TouchShield and you begin to open up possibilities. The downside is the time/effort needed here. The "convenience" factor is not part of this solution... :)
Modern OS's allow you to set up multiple users - each of which has their own login environment. Set up one account for your everyday use. Set up a second account for your "guest" users. Whenever you need to allow a compatriot to use your system, log out of your account, log in as the guest account. Lock down the guest account as needed. Linux allows this very easily, and both KDE and Gnome have a Switch User option where you don't even need to log out of your own account (running processes keep running). You'll still need your password to get back to your original environment too. I haven't used Windows at this level for quite some time, so don't know if there is an equivalent to the Switch User, without logging out totally and logging in. You can always blow away the guest account if you ever suspect any foul play. This should be relatively safe. Insert your own values for relative here.
make congress/senate/etc mandated roles for short terms. Much like Jury duty. If you are randomly selected to serve your country, you get a reasonable wage for your efforts, but you only do it for a year or two. Representation for the people BY the people. Think this through and it begins to counter a number of "bad" things with politics in the world today. But no politician would ever vote for this approach. I doubt the general public would either. But the reasons for this type of approach is becoming more and more clear as time moves on....
subsided over the past decade or so? As one of the volunteers with the A.V. Roe Canada Heritage Museum (http://www.avromuseum.ca) who is building a 2/3 scaled piloted replica of the Arrow, I beg to differ. The people I speak with continue to show much resentment over the entire fiasco, and much interest in preserving the story for future generations. The 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Arrow just recently passed. With it some newspaper articles appeared with a very selective remembering of the way things went. Check the Timeline on the above site - the history is very clear. And we try to be as unbiased as possible. Everything on that list is taken directly from artifacts (newspapers/magazine articles of the time, etc.). So it is all backed up by fact - not just somebody's memory. As for selling Canadian tech companies to the States, I think in this case the government has done the right thing. But then again, I don't know all the details either.
"Microsoft will spend $235m in schools worldwide over the next five years, part of a plan to triple the number of students and teachers trained in its software programs to up to 270 million by 2013."
So, does that mean it costs close to $1 million to train each user? (ok, if I do the math it's something like $870,000)
Here I thought writing software was where the good money was.... silly me...
Full multithreading? When was the last time you used JavaScript? Have you never had to deal with the asynchronous issues with images/windows/iframes? Have you never used this asynchronous feature to do things a web page just wasn't meant to? I sure have. And the asynch stuff is as multithreaded as I need to get for any web based application. Asychronous may not be the same as multithreading, but it's close enough for my needs. I would propose that if you truly need multithreading then you are building a DESKTOP application, not a web based application.