Not keeping up with the Joneses or the latest discussion about the latest version of Gnome, I was left in the dark when it came to know what was meant when the poster mentioned, "spacial tree browsing." I found the following two articles useful:
If you search for a title of a recent movie, or optionally add a ZIP code it will give you the aggregate out of five "star score" and a list of theaters and showtimes near you for the given film.
A search for "Robots 55419" yields the following:
Robots showtimes for 55419 1hr 30min - Rated PG - Animation/Comedy/SciFi/Fantasy - 58 reviews: (3.5 of 5 stars)
AMC Southdale 16 - 400 Southdale Center, Edina, MN - Map 11:10 1:30 4:00 6:30 9:15 AMC Mall of America 14 - 401 South Ave., Bloomington, MN - Map 1:20 2:20 3:40 4:40 6:40 7:40 9:20 More theaters...
A common application for this sort of device is that you can just plug it into an existing device that doesn't have ethernet or wireless ethernet and voila! Ethernet connected device!
For example, say your company makes heart monitors with an RS-232 interface or some other serial or GPIO controllable bus. You can just sit this device in your design and instantly have an Ethernet-enabled heart monitor running with a command line or a web-interface, etc. It's a pretty cool way to upgrade old hardware designs cheaply.
I concur. CRM114 has been working/extremely/ well for me as well.
This month I had 1295 messages, 210 that were spam (my mail account is relatively new). 2 out of the 210 were false-negatives and 1 was a false positive. That is a failure rate at worst of 3/210 or ~1.5%
Hopefully this would finally be a way to escape the "at-home dead zone" when I try and use my mobile down in the basement and I can get rid of that silly land-line once and for all!
Funny, when I first read the posting I had an image of women on their new humming pleasure phones...One more place mobile phones probably don't belong.
When we start seeing more of these, AV companies will have a hard time keeping up.
At a recent developers conference, I had the pleasure of having a few technical conversations with an engineer that worked for a big AV software company, he gave me a demo of AV software that actually runs suspect code (even VB scripts and apps such as word and outlook) in a virtual machine environment.
The net effect is that they observe what the net effect is on the VM if signature checks fail. The whole thing looked pretty impressive.
I have put together an M10000 Mini-ITX system with the hopes that it, too, could be silently actively or passively cooled. Unfortunately, even though it does run at less than 27 watts, I still have to cool it with a large--yet quieter--fan than the one that ships with the board placed above the passive heatsinks for the processor and bus glue logic.
I've done a fair bit of searching and have thus far come up empty for any silent cooling techniques for this PC. Does anybody have any recommendations for cooling the board and hard drive silently within this small form factor?
You are of course quite correct, perhaps the word "preference" contains an air of over-triviallizing some peoples tendancy toward extroversion or introversion: but of course the point both the test giver and I were making was that just because you use your right hand all the time as an adult does not disqualify the fact that if you broke your arm you could not--at all--use your left.
If you were right-handed and became incapacitated, I am sure that you would adapt to using your left for all of the feeding, wiping, and check-signing that our modern life requires (that is, I guess unless you have got live-in Swedish-nursing care: you lucky devil!)
This is how it is with any of the Meyers-Briggs types, just because you are Introverted it does not mean that you cannot ever become "situationally" extroverted as another poster has mentioned or vice-versa.
In fact, there is even research that states that certain types actually flip to become other types when under stress. Can you recall a time when a strong Extroverted acquantence (the guy or gal who can never seem to be quiet and never seems to think before they speak) of yours has become extremely quiet and Introverted when they were experiencing personal difficulties? At times like these it is often said, "are you alright? You don't seem to be acting like yourself..."
Lastly, it should be stressed that these type changes are temporary--rarely do people ever flip-flop types permanently in a short time-frame--however, over one's lifetime people can change and actually develop different preferences later in life. I think a good example of this is the old Engineer who may be more willing to go on hunches (although these "hunches" may be referred to as "wisdom") whereas before he may have been more diligent in his designs. This may be an example of an Sensor tending more towards being an iNtuitive.
The thing is about Myers-Briggs type indicators is that they aren't absolutes, they are preferences. When I was given a Myers-Briggs assessment, here was how the "exactitude" of the types were presented to me:
The assessment booklet was placed before me and next to it was placed a piece of paper. I was asked if I was right or left handed. I told the test administrator that I was a righty and she handed me a pencil and told me to sign my name with my right hand on the piece of paper.
When I had finished making my mark, she asked me then to sign the paper with my left hand. I had a hard time doing it, and really had to concentrate to get anything out of the pencil that remotely looked like what I had produced with my right hand.
The moral to the story and the point I would like to make is what she had then told me next; even though I preferred to write with my right hand I was able to write with my left. My right hand was simply a preference, and a preference that often was more comfortable and produced higher quality output.
Such, as she went on to explain to me, is how the Myers-Briggs preferences are. They are simply preferences. Just because, for example, one is introverted, it does not mean that they cannot be extroverted. It is simply uncomfortable for that particular individual as it is not that particular individual's preference.
I had joined leaving en masse once, not because the place we were leaving was so awful, but because the opportunity we were all given was so good. Yes, you guessed it: it was a lucrative start-up that is now firmly buried beneath the ground.
Back to the point, when we all left we were all promptly served with court papers on the very grounds that mixy1plik has mentioned. Our new employer paid to fight the suit for us and we won (and we actually counter-sued) on the grounds that we all decided to leave independantly and that in the state of Minnesota it is extremely hard to prevent anybody from earning a living. Essentially, if you prove that what you engineer is just about all you know how to engineer than no-competes and many NDAs will not stand up in court.
This advice, of course, is completely useless to people who don't have a generous future employer, the will, or the personal funds to potentially fight in court...but somebody may find it interesting or useful!
My father recently re-discovered some musical recordings on reel-to-reel mag. He brought it to a technician who specializes in doing transfers to DAT. What amazes me about this process is that he bakes the tape in a specialized oven he built.
I have heard of baking tape before, but I've never heard a good explaination of why this is done. I think it is an attempt to get moisture out of the binder to prevent the tape from sticking, but I don't understand how this does not rapidly degrade the quality of the recording...
Oh! I get it! That is cool. My brain usually has trouble with orthogonal thinking, so it's no wonder that I didn't understand.
So this feature is much akin to the 'ol M$ binder feature in MS-Office with the exception that it is more general and better integrated into the O/S, not made by Microsoft and therefore not evil. Okay, I'm a believer.
So the appropriate analogy in today's tech would be a directory full of symlinks, yes?
So I did a quick search for piles, and just about every article I read echoed this one. So, basically piles are folders (directories) that are non-nestable.
About the only use I can see for this feature is that it will help certain users who are fuzzy on how folder hierarchies are supposed to work...but heck, if that makes the user's computing experience all the more rich and it keeps people like my mother from calling me asking how to find her documents, why not?
Has anybody else reached a different conclusion than I have?
I've been wanting to ding around with bluetooth in a hobbiest fashion for awhile now, but haven't been able to find any parts and/or good websites that outline how one would go about this. Does anybody know of any resources for regular guys with soldering irons w.r.t. Bluetooth?
I would be really excited if they made a Bluetooth transciever with integrated antenae in something like a 20-pin DIP...
Wouldn't that fiber setup waste a lot of energy when you only want one or two lights on in the house--say when you've got your nightstand light on to read?
Turning on a powerful central light source seems like an awfully big waste at low utilization. I wonder how designers would get around this.
Are there any websites that explain a fiber-based central lighting system?
Muff Winwood of Sony UK adds, "The kind of information Polyphonic HMI provides in their pre-release reports helps reduce uncertainty before releasing a given song."
Muff Winwood? Muff? Win wood? That name sounds like one of the foxes from a James Bond flick. Heh heh...
I don't know why this got modded up... I think the article poster is saying the civilization that invented invented the 2,200 year old battery and the civilization that invented writing and the wheel are the same.
If this is the case (and I believe it is), then I do believe they are correct!
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Not keeping up with the Joneses or the latest discussion about the latest version of Gnome, I was left in the dark when it came to know what was meant when the poster mentioned, "spacial tree browsing." I found the following two articles useful:
However, I don't have the foggiest as to what spacial tree mode really means. Can anybody enlighten me or point me at some screen shots?
-AP
I remember reading that all the Stevens books were typeset with troff. I wonder if this new edition has been typset the same way?
-AP
Is that an example of one of the Crusoe op-code mnemonics? I've heard VLIW is complex to hand code, buy geesh!
-AP
It sounds like you should write a paper!
-AP
Probably old news to many but...
If you search for a title of a recent movie, or optionally add a ZIP code it will give you the aggregate out of five "star score" and a list of theaters and showtimes near you for the given film.
A search for "Robots 55419" yields the following:
Pretty damned handy if you ask me!
Also, doing "NWA 0355" yields the status of Northwest Flight 0355...there are similar little things for weather and even FedEx/UPS/USPS packages too.
Anybody aware of any other cools ones?
-AP
This one's not an RJ-45 jack form factor...but it has USB, LCD and uses a faster ARM9 core. Pretty neat!
http://www.digi.com/products/embeddeddeviceservers /connectcore9c.jsp
-AP
Digi already makes a wireless version too:
http://www.digi.com/products/embeddeddeviceservers /digiconnectwime.jsp
A common application for this sort of device is that you can just plug it into an existing device that doesn't have ethernet or wireless ethernet and voila! Ethernet connected device!
For example, say your company makes heart monitors with an RS-232 interface or some other serial or GPIO controllable bus. You can just sit this device in your design and instantly have an Ethernet-enabled heart monitor running with a command line or a web-interface, etc. It's a pretty cool way to upgrade old hardware designs cheaply.
-AP
You, and I, will get to see the day. Here's one link with some info on the new Minolta DSLR: here.
I concur. CRM114 has been working /extremely/ well for me as well.
This month I had 1295 messages, 210 that were spam (my mail account is relatively new). 2 out of the 210 were false-negatives and 1 was a false positive. That is a failure rate at worst of 3/210 or ~1.5%
Not too bad in my book.
-AP
Yes!
Hopefully this would finally be a way to escape the "at-home dead zone" when I try and use my mobile down in the basement and I can get rid of that silly land-line once and for all!
-AP
Funny, when I first read the posting I had an image of women on their new humming pleasure phones...One more place mobile phones probably don't belong.
-AP
At a recent developers conference, I had the pleasure of having a few technical conversations with an engineer that worked for a big AV software company, he gave me a demo of AV software that actually runs suspect code (even VB scripts and apps such as word and outlook) in a virtual machine environment.
The net effect is that they observe what the net effect is on the VM if signature checks fail. The whole thing looked pretty impressive.
-AP
...spammers retaliate by launching a massive DoS attack against the entire US senate!
-AP
Have a look at Elonka Dunin, one of the coordinators of the team that cracked this beast. Is that slashdot on her screen? I think it is ;)
-AP
I have put together an M10000 Mini-ITX system with the hopes that it, too, could be silently actively or passively cooled. Unfortunately, even though it does run at less than 27 watts, I still have to cool it with a large--yet quieter--fan than the one that ships with the board placed above the passive heatsinks for the processor and bus glue logic.
I've done a fair bit of searching and have thus far come up empty for any silent cooling techniques for this PC. Does anybody have any recommendations for cooling the board and hard drive silently within this small form factor?
-AP
You are of course quite correct, perhaps the word "preference" contains an air of over-triviallizing some peoples tendancy toward extroversion or introversion: but of course the point both the test giver and I were making was that just because you use your right hand all the time as an adult does not disqualify the fact that if you broke your arm you could not--at all--use your left.
If you were right-handed and became incapacitated, I am sure that you would adapt to using your left for all of the feeding, wiping, and check-signing that our modern life requires (that is, I guess unless you have got live-in Swedish-nursing care: you lucky devil!)
This is how it is with any of the Meyers-Briggs types, just because you are Introverted it does not mean that you cannot ever become "situationally" extroverted as another poster has mentioned or vice-versa.
In fact, there is even research that states that certain types actually flip to become other types when under stress. Can you recall a time when a strong Extroverted acquantence (the guy or gal who can never seem to be quiet and never seems to think before they speak) of yours has become extremely quiet and Introverted when they were experiencing personal difficulties? At times like these it is often said, "are you alright? You don't seem to be acting like yourself..."
Lastly, it should be stressed that these type changes are temporary--rarely do people ever flip-flop types permanently in a short time-frame--however, over one's lifetime people can change and actually develop different preferences later in life. I think a good example of this is the old Engineer who may be more willing to go on hunches (although these "hunches" may be referred to as "wisdom") whereas before he may have been more diligent in his designs. This may be an example of an Sensor tending more towards being an iNtuitive.
I hope this clarifies what I have learned!
-AP
The thing is about Myers-Briggs type indicators is that they aren't absolutes, they are preferences. When I was given a Myers-Briggs assessment, here was how the "exactitude" of the types were presented to me:
The assessment booklet was placed before me and next to it was placed a piece of paper. I was asked if I was right or left handed. I told the test administrator that I was a righty and she handed me a pencil and told me to sign my name with my right hand on the piece of paper.
When I had finished making my mark, she asked me then to sign the paper with my left hand. I had a hard time doing it, and really had to concentrate to get anything out of the pencil that remotely looked like what I had produced with my right hand.
The moral to the story and the point I would like to make is what she had then told me next; even though I preferred to write with my right hand I was able to write with my left. My right hand was simply a preference, and a preference that often was more comfortable and produced higher quality output.
Such, as she went on to explain to me, is how the Myers-Briggs preferences are. They are simply preferences. Just because, for example, one is introverted, it does not mean that they cannot be extroverted. It is simply uncomfortable for that particular individual as it is not that particular individual's preference.
-AP
I had joined leaving en masse once, not because the place we were leaving was so awful, but because the opportunity we were all given was so good. Yes, you guessed it: it was a lucrative start-up that is now firmly buried beneath the ground.
Back to the point, when we all left we were all promptly served with court papers on the very grounds that mixy1plik has mentioned. Our new employer paid to fight the suit for us and we won (and we actually counter-sued) on the grounds that we all decided to leave independantly and that in the state of Minnesota it is extremely hard to prevent anybody from earning a living. Essentially, if you prove that what you engineer is just about all you know how to engineer than no-competes and many NDAs will not stand up in court.
This advice, of course, is completely useless to people who don't have a generous future employer, the will, or the personal funds to potentially fight in court...but somebody may find it interesting or useful!
Cheers,
-AP
Say, this is slightly OT, but:
My father recently re-discovered some musical recordings on reel-to-reel mag. He brought it to a technician who specializes in doing transfers to DAT. What amazes me about this process is that he bakes the tape in a specialized oven he built.
I have heard of baking tape before, but I've never heard a good explaination of why this is done. I think it is an attempt to get moisture out of the binder to prevent the tape from sticking, but I don't understand how this does not rapidly degrade the quality of the recording...
Just thought I would ask if you knew...
Thanks for your excellent write-ups,
-AP
Oh! I get it! That is cool. My brain usually has trouble with orthogonal thinking, so it's no wonder that I didn't understand.
So this feature is much akin to the 'ol M$ binder feature in MS-Office with the exception that it is more general and better integrated into the O/S, not made by Microsoft and therefore not evil. Okay, I'm a believer.
So the appropriate analogy in today's tech would be a directory full of symlinks, yes?
-AP
So I did a quick search for piles, and just about every article I read echoed this one. So, basically piles are folders (directories) that are non-nestable.
About the only use I can see for this feature is that it will help certain users who are fuzzy on how folder hierarchies are supposed to work...but heck, if that makes the user's computing experience all the more rich and it keeps people like my mother from calling me asking how to find her documents, why not?
Has anybody else reached a different conclusion than I have?
-AP
I've been wanting to ding around with bluetooth in a hobbiest fashion for awhile now, but haven't been able to find any parts and/or good websites that outline how one would go about this. Does anybody know of any resources for regular guys with soldering irons w.r.t. Bluetooth?
I would be really excited if they made a Bluetooth transciever with integrated antenae in something like a 20-pin DIP...
-AP
Wouldn't that fiber setup waste a lot of energy when you only want one or two lights on in the house--say when you've got your nightstand light on to read?
Turning on a powerful central light source seems like an awfully big waste at low utilization. I wonder how designers would get around this.
Are there any websites that explain a fiber-based central lighting system?
-AP
Muff Winwood? Muff? Win wood? That name sounds like one of the foxes from a James Bond flick. Heh heh...
Just thought I would point that out...
-AP
I don't know why this got modded up... I think the article poster is saying the civilization that invented invented the 2,200 year old battery and the civilization that invented writing and the wheel are the same.
If this is the case (and I believe it is), then I do believe they are correct!
-AP