Anyone who's ever worked on a big server in this cash-strapped world will know that squeezing every last ounce of capacity out of apache and your web applications needs to be done.
Are just some of the great substances that you can add to their reply envelopes.
Make sure that you put the required form back in the envelope along with one of the above mentioned substances - so they can whip the form out of the envelope for maximum effect.
Glitter generally just sticks to everything (not just 4 yr olds) and also should screw up automated letter openers.
Inidigo is a nice strong blue powder dye, perfectly harmless but again makes a mess.
And well chilli powder should keep the office smelling like a taco hell.
Generally voice is sampled at 8kHz because it generally ranges from around 200Hz to 4kHz and Nyquiest suggests we need a digital sampling rate of twice the highest frequency.
The reason music sounds crappy is that in a well designed system you will loose all the audio components above 4kHz, and in a badly designed system they will manifest themselves as other lower frequencies.
Now this *does not* mean that this codec is a bad codec - merely that's it's one optimised for a specific task.
In true slashdot style i've not read the article, but if it has 8 legs then it can probably afford to loose half of them and still be able to move.
I year or so back I read about mechanisms for intelligently correcting for a broken leg, animals in nature do it pretty well... stand up anyone who's ever pulled the legs off a spider:)
As I understand it (IANAL) you can take pictures on a busy street without any real consequence. These people are in public and so long as they are not recognasible and that the image is of the street (and not the individual people) then you should be fine.
If however you take a picture of someone attending a rocky horror picture show then you are treading on very thin ice. If you choose to sell that picture without a model release then the person in it has a very strong case against you.
This is further exaggerated since it's possilbe that there are people who dress up for and attend the rocky horror picture show in the knowledge that their workmates and friends dont know about it. If you sold their picture to a magazine or newspaper then they could also probably sue for teh emotional damage called.
In short, unless you never want to sell the pictures, then you should get a model release signed for any recognisable person. The only major exception is if the image has journalistic value.... although that's not easy to quantify:)
Yeah but it'll stop the establishment from stealing my brain signals at the same time.
Anwyay assuming the laser fires for 100mS then it'll dispatch 10kJ of energy, and 0.01% of which will distributed across my head (perhaps 4kg of water, with a shc of 4180J/kg) will only raise the temperature by about 0.5mK.
Most cheap CD Audio players will play anything that's ruond and about the right size... just because most players play it doesn't mean it complies with any standard.
I know a primary school which has a lab with I think 12 sunrays running off a master server.
From what I've heard it works great and kids just dont have any trouble with new technology.
Surely it's best to give kids the most diverse start possible. I hope that I'll be able to speak a second language fluently to help my children learn that, and I fully intend to have a mix of computers in the house to give them a good grounding.
I grew up with MacOS and Dos and understand both of them pretty damn well.
Well at the end of the day I only buy the cd's of bands I really like because of their current price. Things I kinda like I'll usually download or share from a friend (sorry riaa) and maybe i'll grow to like them and buy their next cd.
However if cds were only $5 then i'd probably buy more than 4 times as many as I do today - That way I'd hear a cool song on the radio and wouldn't think twice about picking up the album.
It's the same with that one movie studio that was considering releasing dvd's at that price point. They'd do away with blockbuster and probably make just as much money by selling many times more copies.
As it happens I am a software developer and placing your product price is a tradeoff against how many copies you expect to sell at a given price point.
If a personal use copy of MS Office were $30 then i'd buy it... but instead I use Staroffice/Openoffice which is maybe only 90% as good but cheap/free.
Surely there are other people in the same boat. And yes, I do buy good shareware products - 2 in the last 6 months - because they were excellent products at a good price.
Umm because the wireless equipment manufacturers are in the wireless equipment manufacturing business.
They dont want to loose their competitive edge funding loss making access points. Sure it's a nice idea but what happens when you get 1000 wireless access points spead around the world - if we divy it up by population then the US would get 50 WAPs and here in scotland we wouldn't even get one!!!
Now consider that these points will cost money to run year after year there will never be any more than that first thousand - and as sales taper so will the number of WAPs.
I've been using http://www.vonage.com for a couple of months now, and despite a few billing issues which have now been resolved, the service is great.
I can now make thousands of minutes of calls to the USA for $40/mo. I'm in the UK and so effectively get free international instead of free long distance.
If any of my friends here want to save $40 with a referral then let me know:) graha dot ms at graha dot ms
Yes! It's a great printer. We've printed a lot of pages on it (4 uni students living together) in the past 3 yrs and it's only needed one new toner cartridge!
I've never actually tried it on linux (will probably in the next few weeks - so i can decomission a crappy win box) but if you email me I'll let you know how that works out.
The drums are very expensive relative to the printer, but essentially the printer itself is just some electronics & motors wrapped around a drum (so that figures). I've never had to buy one tho, a good cleaning once in a while seems to keep the printouts looking great.
Email me on "graha dot ms at graha dot ms" if you have any more questions
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My university was founded in 1583, and there are others in this country which were around at the time when your country was producing maps like this :)
The article seemed way too focused on hardware.
Anyone who's ever worked on a big server in this cash-strapped world will know that squeezing every last ounce of capacity out of apache and your web applications needs to be done.
Are just some of the great substances that you can add to their reply envelopes.
Make sure that you put the required form back in the envelope along with one of the above mentioned substances - so they can whip the form out of the envelope for maximum effect.
Glitter generally just sticks to everything (not just 4 yr olds) and also should screw up automated letter openers.
Inidigo is a nice strong blue powder dye, perfectly harmless but again makes a mess.
And well chilli powder should keep the office smelling like a taco hell.
I thought this wasn't proven - when they did that simulation of awari the managed to prove that perfect play always results in a draw.
There is some chance that being second to start actually gives you the advantage but it's virtually impossible to prove.
Yes!
Generally voice is sampled at 8kHz because it generally ranges from around 200Hz to 4kHz and Nyquiest suggests we need a digital sampling rate of twice the highest frequency.
The reason music sounds crappy is that in a well designed system you will loose all the audio components above 4kHz, and in a badly designed system they will manifest themselves as other lower frequencies.
Now this *does not* mean that this codec is a bad codec - merely that's it's one optimised for a specific task.
In true slashdot style i've not read the article, but if it has 8 legs then it can probably afford to loose half of them and still be able to move.
:)
I year or so back I read about mechanisms for intelligently correcting for a broken leg, animals in nature do it pretty well... stand up anyone who's ever pulled the legs off a spider
As I understand it (IANAL) you can take pictures on a busy street without any real consequence. These people are in public and so long as they are not recognasible and that the image is of the street (and not the individual people) then you should be fine.
:)
If however you take a picture of someone attending a rocky horror picture show then you are treading on very thin ice. If you choose to sell that picture without a model release then the person in it has a very strong case against you.
This is further exaggerated since it's possilbe that there are people who dress up for and attend the rocky horror picture show in the knowledge that their workmates and friends dont know about it. If you sold their picture to a magazine or newspaper then they could also probably sue for teh emotional damage called.
In short, unless you never want to sell the pictures, then you should get a model release signed for any recognisable person. The only major exception is if the image has journalistic value.... although that's not easy to quantify
Yeah but it'll stop the establishment from stealing my brain signals at the same time.
Anwyay assuming the laser fires for 100mS then it'll dispatch 10kJ of energy, and 0.01% of which will distributed across my head (perhaps 4kg of water, with a shc of 4180J/kg) will only raise the temperature by about 0.5mK.
Perhaps a tin-foil hat would actually be some use here.
:)
It'll be amusing when finds that you can beat a frickin big "laser" with a fickin big mirror
I dont mind having the *choice* to let MS have some of my personal data.
Interoperability is great if it increases choice - although I hope that we'll also have the choice not to interoperate.
Brings a whole new meaning to that phrase
I hope you are being sarcastic.
Most cheap CD Audio players will play anything that's ruond and about the right size... just because most players play it doesn't mean it complies with any standard.
Does anyone know of a tool that can reliably test a CD to see if it meets any of the various *book standards published for CDs.
That way it'd be real easy to prove that it wasn't a CD-Audio disc and return it.
I know a primary school which has a lab with I think 12 sunrays running off a master server.
From what I've heard it works great and kids just dont have any trouble with new technology.
Surely it's best to give kids the most diverse start possible. I hope that I'll be able to speak a second language fluently to help my children learn that, and I fully intend to have a mix of computers in the house to give them a good grounding.
I grew up with MacOS and Dos and understand both of them pretty damn well.
Well at the end of the day I only buy the cd's of bands I really like because of their current price. Things I kinda like I'll usually download or share from a friend (sorry riaa) and maybe i'll grow to like them and buy their next cd.
However if cds were only $5 then i'd probably buy more than 4 times as many as I do today - That way I'd hear a cool song on the radio and wouldn't think twice about picking up the album.
It's the same with that one movie studio that was considering releasing dvd's at that price point. They'd do away with blockbuster and probably make just as much money by selling many times more copies.
As it happens I am a software developer and placing your product price is a tradeoff against how many copies you expect to sell at a given price point.
If a personal use copy of MS Office were $30 then i'd buy it... but instead I use Staroffice/Openoffice which is maybe only 90% as good but cheap/free.
Surely there are other people in the same boat. And yes, I do buy good shareware products - 2 in the last 6 months - because they were excellent products at a good price.
Umm because the wireless equipment manufacturers are in the wireless equipment manufacturing business.
They dont want to loose their competitive edge funding loss making access points. Sure it's a nice idea but what happens when you get 1000 wireless access points spead around the world - if we divy it up by population then the US would get 50 WAPs and here in scotland we wouldn't even get one!!!
Now consider that these points will cost money to run year after year there will never be any more than that first thousand - and as sales taper so will the number of WAPs.
Anyone that likes bon jon enough to care about priority concern ticket sales is going to buy his albums anyway.
It's a step in the right direction, but doesn't seem like a very big one.
Why not just make the cd cost $5 instead!?
Well in some senses you dont. Most of that $20 will go on bandwidth and ammortizing the cisco router they provide to you.
:(
But yeah, it stinks of over the top advertising
Once again this lot provide a superb technical service let down by crappy marketing and a fairly inept billing department.
well my domain provider just vanished.... :/
:)
Contact me on graham at peppert dot demon dot co dot uk
I've been using http://www.vonage.com for a couple of months now, and despite a few billing issues which have now been resolved, the service is great.
:) graha dot ms at graha dot ms
I can now make thousands of minutes of calls to the USA for $40/mo. I'm in the UK and so effectively get free international instead of free long distance.
If any of my friends here want to save $40 with a referral then let me know
Currently I have an epson Perfection 2450 and a FSCKING BIG CAMERA which produces 4x5" negatives.
:)
:)
With the right film, exposure and developing I can scan those negatives/slides at 2400dpi and they look tack sharp.
Now it 48-bit colour that gives a 690Mb image file
Digital just cant match that - so i'm going to stick with analog for serious photos. Maybe go digital for snapshops
Yes! It's a great printer. We've printed a lot of pages on it (4 uni students living together) in the past 3 yrs and it's only needed one new toner cartridge!
I've never actually tried it on linux (will probably in the next few weeks - so i can decomission a crappy win box) but if you email me I'll let you know how that works out.
The drums are very expensive relative to the printer, but essentially the printer itself is just some electronics & motors wrapped around a drum (so that figures). I've never had to buy one tho, a good cleaning once in a while seems to keep the printouts looking great.
Email me on "graha dot ms at graha dot ms" if you have any more questions
It's actually got a lot of very good material.
I used it to revise for my semiconductor electronics course and was surprised by the quality or the text (and the decoration).
We bought an HL-1050 about 3 years ago.
The print quality is top notch. It does 10ppm iirc and just never seems to need toner.
Inkjets are good and well for photo prints but not what you need when u have a 50 page paper due in the next morning.
Well I'm in the UK.
We have our small cars and 2700lb is quite a lot more than just about anything on the market.
But I'd never seen a car with such a low speedo pin - just struck me as really strange. Revving it, Im' sure it could go a lot faster than 88.