If it's abandoned, do the world a favor and put up a conspicuous note to that effect on the homepage. Nothing is more irritating than wasting time with a program that you only later discover has been dead for years.
It's natural to think of Money as an extension, but I imagine that it'd be very dangerous to do so. Weights and measures have well defined and stable conversions, money does not. There'd be some different structural requirements to deal with, and you'd have to have some mechanism for constantly updating the conversion rates.
Well, they just opened a new Coles by Southern Cross Station, but I didn't see them handing out any of these things. Have any suggestions for a cheap alternative that fits the slot?
To achieve higher video quality and longer battery life on mobile devices, YouTube has begun encoding their videos in the advanced H.264 format, and iPhone will be the first mobile device to use the H.264-encoded videos. Over 10,000 videos will be available on June 29, and YouTube will be adding more each week until their full catalog of videos is available in the H.264 format this fall.
The only way they can offer higher quality videos in H.264 is if they had the foresight to save all the originally uploaded versions for the thousands of user-submitted videos. Otherwise, if they just transcode the flv versions, they will instead suffer a slight loss in quality. I'd be surprised if they saved them all, due to the massive increase in file space, but it's possible. I guess we'll find out.
Of course they will be able to re-encode all their licensed content (from film and TV studios, for example) from masters, but that's not exactly their "full catalog" of videos.
Here's a map of the world's undersea communications cables. Notice the massive of connections out of the US, particular between US and Europe. It's practically a single line. Now look at Australia. The larger two going between Australia and the US is the Southern Cross Cable. The other major cable is the Australia-Japan Cable. The rest are low-capacity links used primarily as back-ups.
Not unless they start building roads across the Pacific. The largest problem is international connections, and in case you hadn't noticed, Australia is an island.
Having a charge hold up in court is another thing.
Oh, I wouldn't think this would be conclusive evidence in and of itself. Instead it could be used to suggest places to send officers out to, who would issue the tickets themselves after verifying the transgression.
Should I point out that the lack of light could be a flaw in your otherwise sound reasoning?
True, but if you saw the car there at say 5 PM one evening and then in the exact same spot at 7 AM the next day, and so on for a week running, you could be pretty certain something's been going on.
I'm sure that government intel agencies are doing some automated stuff like this now, but I was thinking of more general applications when the imagery becomes cheaper. Perhaps the local government could send out automatic notices when they spot some homeowner's new addition which violates the zoning law, for example. Or they could see that someone is parking cars on the street overnight in an area that aren't supposed to. Of course there could be lots of private sectors uses as well.
Many cameras have the option to record an audio note associated with an image. It's not ideal, but it's at least a quick way to save some information before you forget it. I also end up taking a number of context photos to help me out later; for example, at the zoo, take a picture of the sign that gives you information about the animal, or a photo of the street signs near an interesting building. I don't plan to include these images in the album but they help remind me where I was and what I was doing.
It's much better than here in Australia, where new paperback novels typically go for A$20. That's over US$16. What's more, in Australia it's very typical to pay the MSRP (called RRP here), whereas in the US even a major chain like Borders will give you at least 10% off the price printed on the back.
My Motorola flip phone has a similar problem. It has two exposed buttons that can be used (while the phone is closed) to change your ring type (soft, loud, vibrate, silent). If your phone is not already set to silent, it gives a happy little chirp every time you change the type. So I'd be walking around during the day with my phone in my pocket with occasional random beeps caused by random button hits. I'd also miss calls occasionally when these hits happened to have switched my phone to silent. Very annoying, and there was no way I found to disable these keys.
Oh, and another stupidity with these buttons: one button was normal and the other was a rocker button (i.e. up/down style button). To change your ring type, you had to hit first one of them, entering "change ring type" mode, and then use the other button to scroll through the options. In a sane world, you'd hit the normal button for the first step and then use the up/down feature of the rocker to scroll bi-directionally through the options. Nope. First you hit the rocker then you hit the plain button, meaning you could only move through the options in one direction. Missed the one you wanted? You have to go all the way through until it loops again. Argh...
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If it's abandoned, do the world a favor and put up a conspicuous note to that effect on the homepage. Nothing is more irritating than wasting time with a program that you only later discover has been dead for years.
From what I gather:
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or alternately:
Measure 10ms2 = Measure.valueOf(10, Unit.valueOf("m/s^2").asType(Acceleration.class))
Measure 10ms2infts2 = 10ms2.getConverterTo(Unit.valueOf("ft/s^2").asTyp
Measure 10ftmin2 = 10ms2..getConverterTo(Unit.valueOf("ft/min^2").as
It's natural to think of Money as an extension, but I imagine that it'd be very dangerous to do so. Weights and measures have well defined and stable conversions, money does not. There'd be some different structural requirements to deal with, and you'd have to have some mechanism for constantly updating the conversion rates.
If that's too complicated for you to deal with, then please, do us all a favor and stay far away from programming.
Well, they just opened a new Coles by Southern Cross Station, but I didn't see them handing out any of these things. Have any suggestions for a cheap alternative that fits the slot?
I hate this system! Very often I don't have a gold coin on me, forcing me to haul my stuff around in those too-small plastic baskets.
ATM owners don't charge users fees here in Australia, but nearly every bank will charge you $1.50 for using another bank's ATM to access your account.
Never heard of zk before, but their demos are very uninspiring.
Now this is an impressive ajax framework demo.
To achieve higher video quality and longer battery life on mobile devices, YouTube has begun encoding their videos in the advanced H.264 format, and iPhone will be the first mobile device to use the H.264-encoded videos. Over 10,000 videos will be available on June 29, and YouTube will be adding more each week until their full catalog of videos is available in the H.264 format this fall.
The only way they can offer higher quality videos in H.264 is if they had the foresight to save all the originally uploaded versions for the thousands of user-submitted videos. Otherwise, if they just transcode the flv versions, they will instead suffer a slight loss in quality. I'd be surprised if they saved them all, due to the massive increase in file space, but it's possible. I guess we'll find out.
Of course they will be able to re-encode all their licensed content (from film and TV studios, for example) from masters, but that's not exactly their "full catalog" of videos.
Spot on.
Here's a map of the world's undersea communications cables. Notice the massive of connections out of the US, particular between US and Europe. It's practically a single line. Now look at Australia. The larger two going between Australia and the US is the Southern Cross Cable. The other major cable is the Australia-Japan Cable. The rest are low-capacity links used primarily as back-ups.
Not unless they start building roads across the Pacific. The largest problem is international connections, and in case you hadn't noticed, Australia is an island.
Cue the AYB jokes...
The filter is transparent. The sensor behind it 'absorbs' light.
Having a charge hold up in court is another thing.
Oh, I wouldn't think this would be conclusive evidence in and of itself. Instead it could be used to suggest places to send officers out to, who would issue the tickets themselves after verifying the transgression.
I have no relationship/vested interest in the company, but I think this shirt is awesome. It's a great shibboleth for geeks of a certain age.
Should I point out that the lack of light could be a flaw in your otherwise sound reasoning?
True, but if you saw the car there at say 5 PM one evening and then in the exact same spot at 7 AM the next day, and so on for a week running, you could be pretty certain something's been going on.
I'm sure that government intel agencies are doing some automated stuff like this now, but I was thinking of more general applications when the imagery becomes cheaper. Perhaps the local government could send out automatic notices when they spot some homeowner's new addition which violates the zoning law, for example. Or they could see that someone is parking cars on the street overnight in an area that aren't supposed to. Of course there could be lots of private sectors uses as well.
This will really get interesting when it becomes automated... for all sorts of purposes.
It doesn't appear he is being accused of any wrongdoing himself, rather he is raising the issue about others.
Not true - according to the article, he won $10,000 for winning one of the first round weekly games that got him into the final.
Many cameras have the option to record an audio note associated with an image. It's not ideal, but it's at least a quick way to save some information before you forget it. I also end up taking a number of context photos to help me out later; for example, at the zoo, take a picture of the sign that gives you information about the animal, or a photo of the street signs near an interesting building. I don't plan to include these images in the album but they help remind me where I was and what I was doing.
Who's Joost?
It's much better than here in Australia, where new paperback novels typically go for A$20. That's over US$16. What's more, in Australia it's very typical to pay the MSRP (called RRP here), whereas in the US even a major chain like Borders will give you at least 10% off the price printed on the back.
It says he tried to donate the books but was unable to find any takers.
My Motorola flip phone has a similar problem. It has two exposed buttons that can be used (while the phone is closed) to change your ring type (soft, loud, vibrate, silent). If your phone is not already set to silent, it gives a happy little chirp every time you change the type. So I'd be walking around during the day with my phone in my pocket with occasional random beeps caused by random button hits. I'd also miss calls occasionally when these hits happened to have switched my phone to silent. Very annoying, and there was no way I found to disable these keys.
Oh, and another stupidity with these buttons: one button was normal and the other was a rocker button (i.e. up/down style button). To change your ring type, you had to hit first one of them, entering "change ring type" mode, and then use the other button to scroll through the options. In a sane world, you'd hit the normal button for the first step and then use the up/down feature of the rocker to scroll bi-directionally through the options. Nope. First you hit the rocker then you hit the plain button, meaning you could only move through the options in one direction. Missed the one you wanted? You have to go all the way through until it loops again. Argh...