A friend of mine does triathlon and he wears a name tag on his shoe. RFID tags could alos be used for this - they are small and light weight.
The reason they wear the tags is because if something happens, there is some information about themselves which people can use. It all started when someone was killed/severly injured (not sure which) when training on the roads and nothing could be done because an identity could not be resolved for a long time.
The tags are named after the person who's unfortunate accident inspired them. But unfortunatly I forget who.
... and even though I dont use Windows this is a nice step towards better security.
My main issue is this, the knowledge base is huge - there are thousands of articles, therefore although the article is there how many *normal* people actually read it ? The people that need the information the most are those that are less computer literate and the same people that would rather be playing flash games than reading a document on a "geeky computer" website.
It is same with the "oh they should use another browser", at the end of the day they dont really care until they get bitten - and even then they will make the same mistakes again. I personally think that the software update mechanism (where the window pops up if there are updates) is great under OS X. You would have to be really retarded to ignore it.
Maybe Windows and Linux could do with something like this ? I know debian has it's security feed (which I use), but it'd be useful if it alerted me that there were updates. I also remember there being a update manager but maybe it shouldn't allow you to not install the security updates. (Please forgive my lack of knowledge of the recent windows situations WRT updates- I rarely use it so please dont flame back but I would be genuinely interested to know - for the sake of my parents computers)
... just stood up all at once. The worst thing was that out of all my dvds, the one at the top of the pile was Enemy Of The State. Great film, although this story just make you wonder how many electronic eyes are watching you....
Apple uk weren't ready for this replacement scheme, but when I found out this morning, I phoned up and they took a while and elevated my technical support call up the tiers rapidly.
I actually asked if there was many calls, but got told that I was the first in the UK & Ireland to call:)
... read the topic as "BSD Chock Full o' NetBSD" and assume that, with the recent SCO/Linux issues, that NetBSD was going down the same war path as SCO but with BSD ?
[cartman] I feel as though SCO has warped my fragile little mind [/cartman]
...looking forward to pay day when their patents are used and their stocks and shares pay out.
In other news, Apple have been the main proponents of a new UNIX like OS called OS X, and Microsoft are the main proponents of a OS called Longhorn citing "We are supporting this OS especially it's security features".
Great to program with - I wrote a vm in an exam because I was bored and too suspicious to leave early.
Even things like bezier curves were fun to get going.
The only thing that anoyed me was that the TI-85 had no means of finding out if a pixel had been turned on or off in the graph view (the way you did graphics). The TI-82 had it, but not the TI-85. Why is this anoying ? It makes collision detection very hard to do and thus gaming was somewhat limited. So even though I was Mr-Fancy-Pants with my TI-85, I couldn't get the good games that my friends with the TI-82 could. Although I did write an elementry space invaders game in the text mode part of the calculator in a double lesson of pure mathematics.
This is a third hand story, but I am going to tell in anyway.
There was a chap, at our University possibly, that started a PhD in Computer Science. The subject matter isn't that important, but the method with which he conducted he research was truly novel.
One of the first things he did was goto the library and start by going at random to bookshelves and picking out a book. He would then flick to a random page and start reading. After a week he had amassed a set of random ideas for random subject areas, chose one and then based his work on converging what he had read and his area of interest (which I think was vision processing). The net result was a novel and very well received PhD and set of papers.
Reading the parent comment reminded me of this story.
I could have, and probably have, got it completely wrong but it does show the merits of accidental discovery of ideas and information.
Ok, this is probably a stupid question that could probably be solved by a little googling, but I shall ask anyway, does this mean that Java can finally be run on FreeBSD or is this just a native port of a JVM (where previous JVM's have been running in some form of emulation) ?
Is it only now that FreeBSD people can run Java code ?
Sorry if this is stupid but I have never played with FreeBSD.
My knee jerk reaction was to recommend linux as it comes with a whole host of development tools. Unfortunatly you need to be pretty switched on to get the ball rolling [Makefiles, Editor choice, compiler settings etc etc]. It wasnt until I opened up Project Builder [for the fith time today] that I realised that that is where the answer lies.
It is plainfully simple to write programs and design user interfaces and connect it all together. It supports a number of different main stream languages and there are loads of tutorials on the internet. The best thing is that all these tools come with Mac OS X on the developer cd so you dont have to fork out once again.
If I had a kid wanting to learn to program I would get them a Mac and let them play. Failing that, I would get DOS 5 out and let them use GW-Basic within a Virtual PC Window.
Thank you for you kind presents this year, they were certainly an improvement so far on last year - the stories, even though splitting my sides, were not that great as it was not really all that subtle. But I want to say that I am impressed how subtle you have been with this present, thank you! I would never have even guessed that this was a fake! How stupid I felt when I realised that it was!
One of the great things about pratical jokes on April Fools is their comedy timing [you couldn't get it wrong with the time being restricted to a lowly 12 hours] but also their shere subtlty.
Once again I thank you.... er..... I think I got the wrong forum.....
[Here comes the nice bit]
Have a nice day everyone:-) With a Game Boy Advance SP - I know I will:-)
Go for the SP! Damn. I want one so much. Even though I have a GBA anyway. But I also have a digital camera. Damn. Choices. The SP is going to be the best bet - you can't play games on a camera. You may not remember where you have been and what people have done - but hot diggaty, at least you will be a couple more levels up against that dastedly boss!
A simple request, but I want the fire effects you got when you pulled off a gesture in Black and White. All of these apps are good, they work and they do their thing, but I often found myself doing gestures in the game for the *click* *poof* *pretty fire effects*, made them that little bit more magical.
Well I have to confess to being mildly curious. I mean, a 16 year old school boy writing 780,000 lines of code in 18 months ? Well I am impressed, by my meagre calculations that equates to _roughly_ 1,400 lines of code a _day_ every day for 18 months. And this application makes the internet go upto 6 times faster [apparently 7 times make it crash]. Not only that, it has been a secret project for the entire time. I smell a rat, either that or a complete genius code writer.
But what really got me where the two most important features someone could ever want in a Web Browser - it can play dvd's [it incorporates ever media player!], and also has a handy animated assisant called Pheobe.
Now, I am most probably wrong, and will happily eat my hat, but I cant help but feel that this isn't an entirely accurate article.
ps. Does anyone know if it is standard compliant ?
...guess what, I am going to enjoy it. We only have one chance [unless people can prove otherwise], and therefore I am going to adlib it. I am going to work hard enough to pay for the things I would like to do, but not spend my life working. I am not going to regret things I havent done. I honestly live my life on a day-by-day, week-by-week basis enjoying the things I do and look forward to things that I will hopefully be doing tomorrow or next week. I dont want money and to be hugely rich [granted it is nice - but I am not going to dedicate my life to obtaining it only to die with it all in the bank]. What am I going to do? Well, I want to learn about model helicopters, I want to race my radio controlled car. I want to go back to Australia and spend more time there. I want to write a perl compatible regular expression library even though PCRE already exists so I can learn how Non-deterministic finite automaton work on the implementation side of things. Doing things like this are far more important [in my eyes] than the pursuit of being rich and famous [which is what most people class as being successfull].
I am enjoying my life at the minute learning through my Ph.D. and hacking on my opensource projects. All I can say, is that I consider success not in monetry terms but in what I have learned for myself and the happiness that comes from it. Some people would say that I am being silly with all this and I should join the Real World. This is my Real World.
I suppose my final word is this, do what you want because it makes you happy, not because you feel you have to. Ultimatly the only person that can judge whether you have been successfull is yourself.
I dont know about the windows player, but on the Mac you only get to do full screen when you purchase Quicktime Pro. Where you also unlock a plethera of other goodies.
The wordsmith article it mentions that the word "Good Samaritan" is also known as "Samaritan".
So why do we prefix the word "Samaritan" with the word "Good" ? Is there any particular reason for it other than the bible story ? Can you get such a thing as a "Bad Samaritan" ?
This is just a curiosity thing so please dont take it as flmaebait.
I dont really read Asimov and therefore couldn't really call myself a fan. I also havent read the book.So I wont make a comment.
But I do wish to comment on Will Smith. Personally I really like him as an actor. In MIB he was funny. In Enemy Of The State and Ali he played non comic characters in non comic films and pulled it off. Both those films where good [imho] and in Ali he did a great job. I am looking forward to seeing Will Smith on screen again to see how he does again.
So, yes, the point, please dont slate Will Smith before you have seen him in these two [more] serious films as he isn't such a bad actor and may just suprise you.
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A friend of mine does triathlon and he wears a name tag on his shoe. RFID tags could alos be used for this - they are small and light weight.
The reason they wear the tags is because if something happens, there is some information about themselves which people can use. It all started when someone was killed/severly injured (not sure which) when training on the roads and nothing could be done because an identity could not be resolved for a long time.
The tags are named after the person who's unfortunate accident inspired them. But unfortunatly I forget who.
... and even though I dont use Windows this is a nice step towards better security.
My main issue is this, the knowledge base is huge - there are thousands of articles, therefore although the article is there how many *normal* people actually read it ? The people that need the information the most are those that are less computer literate and the same people that would rather be playing flash games than reading a document on a "geeky computer" website.
It is same with the "oh they should use another browser", at the end of the day they dont really care until they get bitten - and even then they will make the same mistakes again. I personally think that the software update mechanism (where the window pops up if there are updates) is great under OS X. You would have to be really retarded to ignore it.
Maybe Windows and Linux could do with something like this ? I know debian has it's security feed (which I use), but it'd be useful if it alerted me that there were updates. I also remember there being a update manager but maybe it shouldn't allow you to not install the security updates. (Please forgive my lack of knowledge of the recent windows situations WRT updates- I rarely use it so please dont flame back but I would be genuinely interested to know - for the sake of my parents computers)
Anyway, end of post.
... just stood up all at once. The worst thing was that out of all my dvds, the one at the top of the pile was Enemy Of The State. Great film, although this story just make you wonder how many electronic eyes are watching you....
Apple uk weren't ready for this replacement scheme, but when I found out this morning, I phoned up and they took a while and elevated my technical support call up the tiers rapidly.
:)
:)
I actually asked if there was many calls, but got told that I was the first in the UK & Ireland to call
But they are picking up my iBook so I am happy
... read the topic as "BSD Chock Full o' NetBSD" and assume that, with the recent SCO/Linux issues, that NetBSD was going down the same war path as SCO but with BSD ?
[cartman] I feel as though SCO has warped my fragile little mind [/cartman]
...looking forward to pay day when their patents are used and their stocks and shares pay out.
In other news, Apple have been the main proponents of a new UNIX like OS called OS X, and Microsoft are the main proponents of a OS called Longhorn citing "We are supporting this OS especially it's security features".
A great graphics calculator.
:)
Great to program with - I wrote a vm in an exam because I was bored and too suspicious to leave early.
Even things like bezier curves were fun to get going.
The only thing that anoyed me was that the TI-85 had no means of finding out if a pixel had been turned on or off in the graph view (the way you did graphics). The TI-82 had it, but not the TI-85. Why is this anoying ? It makes collision detection very hard to do and thus gaming was somewhat limited. So even though I was Mr-Fancy-Pants with my TI-85, I couldn't get the good games that my friends with the TI-82 could. Although I did write an elementry space invaders game in the text mode part of the calculator in a double lesson of pure mathematics.
Ohwell, the time wasted at school
This is a third hand story, but I am going to tell in anyway.
There was a chap, at our University possibly, that started a PhD in Computer Science. The subject matter isn't that important, but the method with which he conducted he research was truly novel.
One of the first things he did was goto the library and start by going at random to bookshelves and picking out a book. He would then flick to a random page and start reading. After a week he had amassed a set of random ideas for random subject areas, chose one and then based his work on converging what he had read and his area of interest (which I think was vision processing). The net result was a novel and very well received PhD and set of papers.
Reading the parent comment reminded me of this story.
I could have, and probably have, got it completely wrong but it does show the merits of accidental discovery of ideas and information.
ctr. over and out.
Awesome, thank you very much :)
:)
It did strike me odd that if this was the first outing of Java, that FreeBSD was so popular as the base system for web applications.
It now makes perfect sense
Ok, this is probably a stupid question that could probably be solved by a little googling, but I shall ask anyway, does this mean that Java can finally be run on FreeBSD or is this just a native port of a JVM (where previous JVM's have been running in some form of emulation) ?
Is it only now that FreeBSD people can run Java code ?
Sorry if this is stupid but I have never played with FreeBSD.
I wonder if this change in name will delay the launch of the next tungsten model [set to debut late september]?
I really hope not as I have been holding out for one....
Oh well, good luck to them!
My knee jerk reaction was to recommend linux as it comes with a whole host of development tools. Unfortunatly you need to be pretty switched on to get the ball rolling [Makefiles, Editor choice, compiler settings etc etc]. It wasnt until I opened up Project Builder [for the fith time today] that I realised that that is where the answer lies.
It is plainfully simple to write programs and design user interfaces and connect it all together. It supports a number of different main stream languages and there are loads of tutorials on the internet. The best thing is that all these tools come with Mac OS X on the developer cd so you dont have to fork out once again.
If I had a kid wanting to learn to program I would get them a Mac and let them play. Failing that, I would get DOS 5 out and let them use GW-Basic within a Virtual PC Window.
So there we go. Thats what I reckon.
I have had one since the ~30th March 2003. Nothing new :)
I do live in the uk which probably makes the difference.
Heh. My brother is going to be pissed.
Well happy for the linking but pissed at the cost.
My brother owns Hexus.net if you wanted to know =P
He doesn't. From the looks of things you have give it to the buddyzoo bot - which makes sense :)
Dear Editors,
.... er..... I think I got the wrong forum.....
:-) With a Game Boy Advance SP - I know I will :-)
Thank you for you kind presents this year, they were certainly an improvement so far on last year - the stories, even though splitting my sides, were not that great as it was not really all that subtle. But I want to say that I am impressed how subtle you have been with this present, thank you! I would never have even guessed that this was a fake! How stupid I felt when I realised that it was!
One of the great things about pratical jokes on April Fools is their comedy timing [you couldn't get it wrong with the time being restricted to a lowly 12 hours] but also their shere subtlty.
Once again I thank you
[Here comes the nice bit]
Have a nice day everyone
Go for the SP! Damn. I want one so much. Even though I have a GBA anyway. But I also have a digital camera. Damn. Choices. The SP is going to be the best bet - you can't play games on a camera. You may not remember where you have been and what people have done - but hot diggaty, at least you will be a couple more levels up against that dastedly boss!
Winnar!
Nice one. This is wicked. Hope the authors keep having fun.
Great Scott! Someone find the Doc he will know what to do!
A simple request, but I want the fire effects you got when you pulled off a gesture in Black and White. All of these apps are good, they work and they do their thing, but I often found myself doing gestures in the game for the *click* *poof* *pretty fire effects*, made them that little bit more magical.
Well I have to confess to being mildly curious. I mean, a 16 year old school boy writing 780,000 lines of code in 18 months ? Well I am impressed, by my meagre calculations that equates to _roughly_ 1,400 lines of code a _day_ every day for 18 months. And this application makes the internet go upto 6 times faster [apparently 7 times make it crash]. Not only that, it has been a secret project for the entire time. I smell a rat, either that or a complete genius code writer.
But what really got me where the two most important features someone could ever want in a Web Browser - it can play dvd's [it incorporates ever media player!], and also has a handy animated assisant called Pheobe.
Now, I am most probably wrong, and will happily eat my hat, but I cant help but feel that this isn't an entirely accurate article.
ps. Does anyone know if it is standard compliant ?
...guess what, I am going to enjoy it. We only have one chance [unless people can prove otherwise], and therefore I am going to adlib it. I am going to work hard enough to pay for the things I would like to do, but not spend my life working. I am not going to regret things I havent done. I honestly live my life on a day-by-day, week-by-week basis enjoying the things I do and look forward to things that I will hopefully be doing tomorrow or next week. I dont want money and to be hugely rich [granted it is nice - but I am not going to dedicate my life to obtaining it only to die with it all in the bank]. What am I going to do? Well, I want to learn about model helicopters, I want to race my radio controlled car. I want to go back to Australia and spend more time there. I want to write a perl compatible regular expression library even though PCRE already exists so I can learn how Non-deterministic finite automaton work on the implementation side of things. Doing things like this are far more important [in my eyes] than the pursuit of being rich and famous [which is what most people class as being successfull].
I am enjoying my life at the minute learning through my Ph.D. and hacking on my opensource projects. All I can say, is that I consider success not in monetry terms but in what I have learned for myself and the happiness that comes from it. Some people would say that I am being silly with all this and I should join the Real World. This is my Real World.
I suppose my final word is this, do what you want because it makes you happy, not because you feel you have to. Ultimatly the only person that can judge whether you have been successfull is yourself.
I dont know about the windows player, but on the Mac you only get to do full screen when you purchase Quicktime Pro. Where you also unlock a plethera of other goodies.
The wordsmith article it mentions that the word "Good Samaritan" is also known as "Samaritan".
So why do we prefix the word "Samaritan" with the word "Good" ? Is there any particular reason for it other than the bible story ? Can you get such a thing as a "Bad Samaritan" ?
This is just a curiosity thing so please dont take it as flmaebait.
I dont really read Asimov and therefore couldn't really call myself a fan. I also havent read the book.So I wont make a comment.
But I do wish to comment on Will Smith. Personally I really like him as an actor. In MIB he was funny. In Enemy Of The State and Ali he played non comic characters in non comic films and pulled it off. Both those films where good [imho] and in Ali he did a great job. I am looking forward to seeing Will Smith on screen again to see how he does again.
So, yes, the point, please dont slate Will Smith before you have seen him in these two [more] serious films as he isn't such a bad actor and may just suprise you.