One what car? I know of no car where power steering works when the key is on. The cars I know of with power steering all all operated by a pump connected by belt to the engine. Every one I have ever seen or heard of works this way. When the engine is not turning you don't have power steering. (I drive a stick so I can have a situation where the engine is running, but still turning, automatics work differently)
I'm taking driving lessons (after years of putting it off) in a Vauxhall Corsa, and one of the requirements of the UK driving test is being able to demonstrate that various parts of the car are OK; checking oil, brakes, lights and so on.
One of the checks was the power steering; turn the car off and turn the wheel until there's some resistance, then turn the key to get the electrics on (but not start the engine); the electrical power steering then turns the wheels.
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Crossfading is in the 2.x DirectSound output plugin and doesn't have any of the problems you describe.
Can't see it in the version history, unless it was one of the things added in the '* updated to PP's latest input and output plugins' entry in version history; but it's there in 2.81.
You're missing the point. They changed their terms and conditions on their website, they didn't get their customers' signatures. Customers purchased an Unlimited bandwidth service for a 1-year fixed contract which cannot be broken by law. Now halfway through this contract they have altered the contract, leaving customers who have signed the 1-year contract with a service that doesn't reflect what they purchased, and are forced to continue purchasing.
There is this clause in the ntl terms and conditions:
20. Cancellation Rights
20.1 You may cancel the Services without penalty in the following circumstances:-
[snip]
20.1.2 if we significantly reduce the content of the Services you may terminate this Agreement by giving us one month's notice in writing within 30 days of such change irrespective of whether the minimum period in respect of such Services has expired.
Arguably, that could apply, although it's ambiguous.
The quietest drive I've had so far is the one in my current machine, a Seagate Barracuda IV. It's not silent, but it's a LOT quieter than my previous IBM drives. Can hardly hear it spin up, and it rumbles quietly when accessing rather than the irritating series of clicks that the IBMs produce.
Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Minority Report is about a cop in the future working in a division of the police department that arrests killers before they commit the crimes courtesy of some future viewing technology
Sounds similar to an Asimov story, called 'All The Troubles Of The World'. There is a central world computer called Univac, which pretty much knows everything about everyone (submission of a psychological profile is compulsory at 18, and all electronic information from anywhere is constantly fed into Univac), and can statistically predict who is likely to commit a crime.
The would-be perpitrator is either arrested pre-emptively, or in one case just told in a phone call that they know they're about to commit a crime, which is enough to deter them.
Only 8.78% saved; not going to get you 5 CDs on a disc there.
However, from the site:
But because the discs pack data densely and the music is compressed using methods similar to that of MP3 software, each can contain up to five albums of music.
Wasn't this in a William Gibson novel? A young girl has a computer with an AI companion that only she can see, and she communicates with it by "subvocalizing" instead of actually speaking.
Yes, it was in Mona Lisa Overdrive.
The AI was Colin, a Maas-Neotek biosoft unit that acts as a guide to England, given to Kumiko by her father.
Can you guess which points a typical person would click on that image of a face? That's right - Eye, eye, nostril, mouth.
user@server:~$ passwd
Changing password for user
Old password:click click click New password:click click click Bad password, too simple. Try again.
Password must be at least 5 pictures long, and include one body part, one mammal and one reptile.
New password:
I guess you could make PS2 graphics look that good with a boatload of antialiasing, but I don't think you could get the kind of framerates we see in the opening scenes with the engine and the car being dropped off the jacks. I could be wrong though; It happens now and then.
Are you thinking of GT3 (Gran Turismo 3), rather than GTA3 (Grand Theft Auto 3)? GT3 does have loads of prerendered movies.
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So are you telling me FF10 did not have pre-rendered MPEG-2 cutscenes? How about GTA3?
No, GTA3 doesn't have any pre-rendered MPEG cutscenes, they're all done quite nicely with the 3D engine.
I hate it when people spell the word 'its' wrong! Especially people that claim to be smart, like Katz here. Look... if the word is posessive, there is no apostrophe!! How hard is it to remember that?
United States Patent
6,666,666
Inventor: Satan, et. al.
Friday, 13th September 2002 Secure repository of souls in unpleasant conditions.
Abstract
This patent covers a method of storage of a plurality of souls, selected by an inverse meritocratic criteria, in a plurality of areas containing, but not limited to, fire, brimstone and bubbling pools of sulphur.
Actually, what makes their story rubbish is that (1) it doesn't accept the W3C HTTP Validator and (2) the splash page doesn't even *pass* the validator.
Neither does the main page. (file, save as, choose upload option in the validator)
Sorry, this document does not validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
If you use CSS in your document, you should also check it for validity using the W3C CSS Validation Service.
There's about 4 pages of errors, mainly due to them using presentation attributes in tags despite it claiming to be 'strict'.
It doesn't even validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional (after taking out the XML tags and forcing document type).
Stroustrup should be horse whipped for tying his bloated mess to C. I think I'll start working on D.
That's going from one extreme to the other:-p
You have to be in an OO mindset to write good C++; but when it comes to compromises for the sacred reason of 'performance', at least with C++ you can fall back closer to the metal. Java doesn't give you the option; it has a laudable aim of being write once, compile anywhere, and pure-OO, but it's simply not true, with the differences between VMs.
C++ doesn't pretend to do that; it defines a language and the STL that are platform independent, and then you hook it in with platform-dependent libraries for whatever system you're compiling it with. If written well, you can abstract everything enough and have conditional compilation for every platform, which gives you the compromise between speed and platform-independence.
Java, and dare I say, C#, are going for the 'maximum abstraction, minimum platform dependence' approach by effectively _being_ a platform. When it comes down to it, C and its sucessor C++ have had several years of development by some of the greatest authorities in software engineering, which is pretty hard (not impossible, but hard) to beat.
I think I love C/C++ more than Java which is owned by Sun.
It's an often repeated thing, but C and C++ should not be bundled together into 'C/C++'. C++ may share a common ancestry with C, but in order to really get the most out of C++, you should forget almost all you know about C.
C++'s power lies in its object oriented features, and particularly in templates. And this leads to the STL (Standard Template Library); no more writing and rewriting container classes, sort algorithms, etc.; you've got a whole set of well written, generic, tried and tested classes encapsulating all that for you.
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There's quite a few in Nottingham. Not exactly the sunniest place in the world.
usort($array, create_function('$a,$b', 'return strcmp($b, $a);');
Which is relatively close.
One of the checks was the power steering; turn the car off and turn the wheel until there's some resistance, then turn the key to get the electrics on (but not start the engine); the electrical power steering then turns the wheels.
Crossfading is in the 2.x DirectSound output plugin and doesn't have any of the problems you describe. Can't see it in the version history, unless it was one of the things added in the '* updated to PP's latest input and output plugins' entry in version history; but it's there in 2.81.
The quietest drive I've had so far is the one in my current machine, a Seagate Barracuda IV. It's not silent, but it's a LOT quieter than my previous IBM drives. Can hardly hear it spin up, and it rumbles quietly when accessing rather than the irritating series of clicks that the IBMs produce.
Look up the 'Gray Goo problem' on Google, there's plenty of discussion on this.
The would-be perpitrator is either arrested pre-emptively, or in one case just told in a phone call that they know they're about to commit a crime, which is enough to deter them.
$ bzip2 -9 -v cdda.wav
cdda.wav: 1.096:1, 7.298 bits/byte, 8.78% saved, 51720524 in, 47181723 out.
Only 8.78% saved; not going to get you 5 CDs on a disc there. However, from the site: So it is lossy compression, unsurprisingly.
It's in Burning Chrome, which also contains a story named 'The Belonging Kind', which was co-authored with John Shirley.
The AI was Colin, a Maas-Neotek biosoft unit that acts as a guide to England, given to Kumiko by her father.
Changing password for user
Old password: click click click
New password: click click click
Bad password, too simple. Try again.
Password must be at least 5 pictures long, and include one body part, one mammal and one reptile.
New password:
6,666,666
Inventor: Satan, et. al.
Friday, 13th September 2002
Secure repository of souls in unpleasant conditions.
Abstract
This patent covers a method of storage of a plurality of souls, selected by an inverse meritocratic criteria, in a plurality of areas containing, but not limited to, fire, brimstone and bubbling pools of sulphur.
There's about 4 pages of errors, mainly due to them using presentation attributes in tags despite it claiming to be 'strict'. It doesn't even validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional (after taking out the XML tags and forcing document type).
You have to be in an OO mindset to write good C++; but when it comes to compromises for the sacred reason of 'performance', at least with C++ you can fall back closer to the metal. Java doesn't give you the option; it has a laudable aim of being write once, compile anywhere, and pure-OO, but it's simply not true, with the differences between VMs.
C++ doesn't pretend to do that; it defines a language and the STL that are platform independent, and then you hook it in with platform-dependent libraries for whatever system you're compiling it with. If written well, you can abstract everything enough and have conditional compilation for every platform, which gives you the compromise between speed and platform-independence.
Java, and dare I say, C#, are going for the 'maximum abstraction, minimum platform dependence' approach by effectively _being_ a platform. When it comes down to it, C and its sucessor C++ have had several years of development by some of the greatest authorities in software engineering, which is pretty hard (not impossible, but hard) to beat.
Bah, I just rebooted my machine TODAY to run 2.4.8 :-p
C++'s power lies in its object oriented features, and particularly in templates. And this leads to the STL (Standard Template Library); no more writing and rewriting container classes, sort algorithms, etc.; you've got a whole set of well written, generic, tried and tested classes encapsulating all that for you.
assert(C != C++);