Of course, as AlecC has pointed out, you'd want to light the display from the front, not the rear. As it is going to look pretty much like a traditional paper-and-paste billboard, it can be lit in the conventional way. Daylight performance should be pretty good too.
Despite the difference in costs, however, the Forrester report also noted that "many organizations will adopt Linux instead of Microsoft's alternative" because of the expertise they have built up on the Unix platform, Sun's proprietary operating systems used to run computer server networks.
Unix, Sun's proprietary operating system ??
computer server networks ??
Come on.
The other SCO code snippet Perens walks through had to do with memory allocation functions in Unix System V and Linux. He says there was, in fact, "an error in the Linux developer's process," specifically a programmer at SGI, and he says while the Linux community had the legal right to this code, it didn't belong in Linux and was therefore removed.
So it would seem that Darling McBride is spouting his usual crap.
This is laughable. From where did "database providers" get THEIR information? (By cutting and pasting someone else's database of course.)
If you extrapolate your assertion to the logical conclusion, then what you are saying is that no-one put the information (represented as data) into the original database. Doesn't whoever put the data there in the first place deserve the rights over that information, assuming that it was not in the public domain, and that they wish to excercise said rights ?
AIBO's clever new behaviour has been rewarded with a new toy, the 'AIBONE'. In the form of a pink bone, AIBO can, for the first time ever, pick it up in it's mouth.
I suppose it can lick it's balls too, just like the real thing !
Three years ago, the residents of Tagish Lake in northern Canada witnessed a bright explosion in the sky, as an asteroid burned up in the atmosphere above them. Jim Brook was lucky enough to find debris from the impact. The first thing he noticed was that it was far lighter than he expected it would be. Like a sponge, the chunks of debris were mostly air.
Dan Durdan makes his living by firing ball bearings at asteroid samples - meteorites - to study what happens when they are hit. When he tested samples similar to the Tagish Lake meteorite, he was surprised to see that, rather than shattering or being deflected, these less dense asteroids simply absorbed the impact of the blast.
These results were worrying. This could mean that many asteroids would not be deflected by a nuclear blast. Trying to deflect an asteroid with a blast might have no effect, and would keep it coming on its deadly trajectory.
The programme also covered an alternative solution (another quote..)
The power of the Sun
Jay Meloch has suggested a radical new way of dealing with a dangerous asteroid. He wanted a surer, more controlled way of diverting a large body - with a gentle push instead of a blast. His idea was to find a way of harnessing the biggest power source in the Solar System - the Sun.
In the same way as you can use a magnifying glass to set fire to a sheet of paper, you could focus the Sun's rays onto a point on the surface on an asteroid. The spot where the Sun's rays met would heat up, blasting particles of the asteroid into space. This would act like a rocket engine, and might be enough nudge the asteroid out of harm's way.
The scientific community ridiculed his suggestion - until Meloch received a phone call from someone who took his idea very seriously. The US military already uses collectors like Meloch's to gather radio waves. Meloch may well have come up with a suggestion that will one day save the Earth.
Taroon ships with version 2.1 of the open source Eclipse Development Environment. Eclipse requires a Java virtual machine to run, but Taroon doesn't ship with one.
Huh ? Eclipse + no JVM seems a bit pointless IMO..
Eclipse is a cool IDE tho, and it saves a download..
No, they're going to identify regular players (i.e. players who lose), so that they can then encourage them to keep on losing by giving them free drinks and so on. From the article:
Instead, they say the true value of the system is giving casinos an accurate way to rate and comp regular players, who get free rooms, meals, show tickets and the like in return for routinely dropping small fortunes at the casino. That's extremely important, the casinos say, because these days, loyal players demand to get something back.
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I guess the advantages are really quite subjective i.e. it depends what languages you are coming from, and also depends on what you need to get done.
I came to Python from Perl, dealing mainly with text manipulation and glue-type applications, in which both Perl and Python are very adept languages. For me, Python was a breath of fresh air, - no more curly braces, indentation became an integral part of the code, rather than an annoyance (when it went wrong), and mainly, Python is OO by design, whereas in Perl I always felt that objects were bolted on as an afterthought.
I learnt from the book "Python Essential Reference" - see Amazon's page. It has an excellent first chapter which will give you an excellent grasp of the fundamentals. Good luck, and have fun:o)
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things will get faster
the increased prevalance of a meat-based western diet is leading to increased levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1972621.stm
or block the bot by name ?
Mod parent up !
Of course, as AlecC has pointed out, you'd want to light the display from the front, not the rear. As it is going to look pretty much like a traditional paper-and-paste billboard, it can be lit in the conventional way. Daylight performance should be pretty good too.
found a picture and writeup here - http://www.budlife420.com/pg5/v1e7index.html
How making a bong out of an old Mac - apparently someone did it already - http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50820,00.html
see my sig
it states
Despite the difference in costs, however, the Forrester report also noted that "many organizations will adopt Linux instead of Microsoft's alternative" because of the expertise they have built up on the Unix platform, Sun's proprietary operating systems used to run computer server networks.
Unix, Sun's proprietary operating system ??
computer server networks ??
Come on.
I'm afraid that you'll have to buy a license to use my sig !
well I googled for ComputerWire +"bruce perens" and found the following page: http://au.news.yahoo.com/030826/20/lfff.html
On that page, I found the following:
The other SCO code snippet Perens walks through had to do with memory allocation functions in Unix System V and Linux. He says there was, in fact, "an error in the Linux developer's process," specifically a programmer at SGI, and he says while the Linux community had the legal right to this code, it didn't belong in Linux and was therefore removed.
So it would seem that Darling McBride is spouting his usual crap.
This is laughable. From where did "database providers" get THEIR information? (By cutting and pasting someone else's database of course.)
If you extrapolate your assertion to the logical conclusion, then what you are saying is that no-one put the information (represented as data) into the original database. Doesn't whoever put the data there in the first place deserve the rights over that information, assuming that it was not in the public domain, and that they wish to excercise said rights ?
The system was called US HomeGuard and the Slashdot story is here
AIBO's clever new behaviour has been rewarded with a new toy, the 'AIBONE'. In the form of a pink bone, AIBO can, for the first time ever, pick it up in it's mouth.
I suppose it can lick it's balls too, just like the real thing !
I believe xine and mplayer (to name but two) can play WMV ?
http://www.thestreet.com/comment/keyhole/774791.ht ml
Scroll down for Paul Allen reference
http://www.savephillyschools.org/edisonwatch/
It is important to note that even Microsoft Office has trouble opening some versions of Microsoft Office programs
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Sad but true
'Horizon' on the BBC covered this issue a while back - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/armagedd on.shtml
A quote from the link above:
Asteroids like sponges
Three years ago, the residents of Tagish Lake in northern Canada witnessed a bright explosion in the sky, as an asteroid burned up in the atmosphere above them. Jim Brook was lucky enough to find debris from the impact. The first thing he noticed was that it was far lighter than he expected it would be. Like a sponge, the chunks of debris were mostly air.
Dan Durdan makes his living by firing ball bearings at asteroid samples - meteorites - to study what happens when they are hit. When he tested samples similar to the Tagish Lake meteorite, he was surprised to see that, rather than shattering or being deflected, these less dense asteroids simply absorbed the impact of the blast.
These results were worrying. This could mean that many asteroids would not be deflected by a nuclear blast. Trying to deflect an asteroid with a blast might have no effect, and would keep it coming on its deadly trajectory.
The programme also covered an alternative solution (another quote..)
The power of the Sun
Jay Meloch has suggested a radical new way of dealing with a dangerous asteroid. He wanted a surer, more controlled way of diverting a large body - with a gentle push instead of a blast. His idea was to find a way of harnessing the biggest power source in the Solar System - the Sun.
In the same way as you can use a magnifying glass to set fire to a sheet of paper, you could focus the Sun's rays onto a point on the surface on an asteroid. The spot where the Sun's rays met would heat up, blasting particles of the asteroid into space. This would act like a rocket engine, and might be enough nudge the asteroid out of harm's way.
The scientific community ridiculed his suggestion - until Meloch received a phone call from someone who took his idea very seriously. The US military already uses collectors like Meloch's to gather radio waves. Meloch may well have come up with a suggestion that will one day save the Earth.
I'd be more worried about this one which is also rated 1 on the torino scale but has a 1 in 10,000 chance of hitting the earth.
Oh by the way, it's not due 'til 2101..
wow.. that's cool - I remember reading about that now. The articles assertion that it does need a JVM must have been what threw me. - thanks rkz :o)
Taroon ships with version 2.1 of the open source Eclipse Development Environment. Eclipse requires a Java virtual machine to run, but Taroon doesn't ship with one.
Huh ? Eclipse + no JVM seems a bit pointless IMO..
Eclipse is a cool IDE tho, and it saves a download..
No, they're going to identify regular players (i.e. players who lose), so that they can then encourage them to keep on losing by giving them free drinks and so on. From the article:
Instead, they say the true value of the system is giving casinos an accurate way to rate and comp regular players, who get free rooms, meals, show tickets and the like in return for routinely dropping small fortunes at the casino. That's extremely important, the casinos say, because these days, loyal players demand to get something back.
shouldn't that be
G3offreyOne ???
I guess the advantages are really quite subjective i.e. it depends what languages you are coming from, and also depends on what you need to get done.
I came to Python from Perl, dealing mainly with text manipulation and glue-type applications, in which both Perl and Python are very adept languages. For me, Python was a breath of fresh air, - no more curly braces, indentation became an integral part of the code, rather than an annoyance (when it went wrong), and mainly, Python is OO by design, whereas in Perl I always felt that objects were bolted on as an afterthought.
YMMV.
I learnt from the book "Python Essential Reference" - see Amazon's page. It has an excellent first chapter which will give you an excellent grasp of the fundamentals. Good luck, and have fun :o)
All machines had the same password hard-wired into the code. And in some instances, it was set at 1111, a number laughably easy to hack, Rubin said.
Go figure.