Well yes, obviously. You could, however, maintain the data by running a small battery charge through the chips. Why would this be benificial? Because RAM is cheap. I was on eBay a few weeks ago, and I picked up 512Mb of RAM for UK£68, including shipping and handling. Compare that to, say, CompactFlash. I can't even *find* a 512Mb CompactFlash card. Even if I could, you can be sure it would cost more than £68.
If I could have a camera that would loose your photos after 3 days without charging, but that had five hundred and twelve megabytes of storage space, I would happily get one. It'd be cool!
But Blueyonder isn't a free ISP; it's a pay ISP. thier website is (Somewhat obviously) blueyonder.co.uk - a look at http://info.blueyonder.co.uk/promo/index.html reveals they resell broadband... Quote from one of thier info pages: "Every blueyonder customer has access to 30MB of free personal webspace."
My gusee is this guy has a 512kbit/s broadband connection into his house, and he's going to get some long-range 802.11b equiptment, and offer some service along his line. You can jump to http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ and look at other bits on his website.
Obviously, this could well work. But equally, it could suck royally. We don't really have enough data to come to a firm conclusion.
Personally, I don't feel that places like London are that important for wireless... In London, you can get all manner of wired solutions, which are actually availiable at the moment. I think fixed wireless access would have more application in locations where it would be too costly to run new cabling (cable modems) and/or BT doesn't think it would be profitable to convert the exchange for ADSL. If someone could arrange a long-range wireless solution that would provide such people with access, the uptake could be quite high.
That's just my opinion, of course; I could be wrong.
The guy making the claim has a page here. The guy (called Greg Gaub) details his story in which his Hewlett packard desktop computer's motherboard was ruined; Greg's claim is that the motherboard was damaged because of a faulty or badly designed Palm V cradle which doesn't dissapate static charges.
Quoth I: As you may be aware, The PalmV and Vx devices have an aluminum casing. They also have a cradle with, in my opinion, a design flaw that does not dissipate static electric charges that travel from a person (holding or reaching for their PalmV) into the cradle, and on into the desktop computer's motherboard via the serial connector.
It does seem a somewhat unlikely problem, but I suppose it could be possible, in theory at least.
not only is GPS too innacurate for a missile intercept
In addition to DavidBro's comments, I would point out that 'military grade' GPS is (supposedly) accurate to a couple of meters.
When you are trying to destroy a flying thing, you don't have to aim to hit it. That would make air to air missiles unworkable, unless they were launched from right behind the enemy plane.
How many air-to-air munitions work is by proximity. You shove a big load of explosives into your rocket, then give it a radar, and you twll it to blow up when it gets within, say, 5 meters of your target. Then the explosion and flying hunks of missile hit into the plane, and (hopefully) destroy it.
If you have pleanty of explosives (And you can get a lot of explosives for $100 million), you just fly to within 10 meters or so of the rocket, and detonate. Kaboom!
Well, that's what I'd do. After all, this is only rocket science, not brain surgery!
Is there some secret stash of lawyers on Slashdot that I'm not aware of yet?
Sure!
CmdrTaco) Hmm... Got another law 'Ask Slashdot' here.
Hemos) Another? What's it about?
JonKatz) It's a case that has the ugliest implications not only for the press (online and off) but for open discussion of technology, and especially for the First Amendment.
CmdrTaco) Some guy wants to know if he can post secret documents he gets e-mailed.
Roblimo) Are you sure we want to post this? Don't you think slashdot is posting too many law-related stories, when there are no lawyers reading? We don't want the site to get boring...
JonKatz) Slashdot is at times witty, imaginative and entertaining, no small accomplishment, especially this summer. It reminds us that when it comes to ominous design and atmosphere, nobody can top CmdrTaco. Where he seems to have trouble is with storytelling.
Hemos) Well, we could just blindly post it... or we might have to break out the.... SECRET STASH OF LAWYERS!
CmdrTaco) Great idea! Where did you leave the lawyers, Cliff?
Cliff) They're in the fridge, behind the Jolt.
This case is unique, in that it it the only dispute I've heard of in the computer industry where I actually want *both* parties to loose.
"It appears that Microsoft is backing off their much ballyhooed itty bitty teeny weeny sliver of flexibility and heading back to the rigid stance that has been slapped down by the second-highest court in the land," said AOL Time Warner vice president John Buckley.
Gotta love that quote though. People don't use the word 'ballyhooed' anything like enough.
Joe Mega-corp contacts IPSTAG holder. "Hey, make the www.joe-mega-corp-sucks.com website go away."
Whilst this could happen, I refer you to the original post:
If you have a dispute about the way your IPSTAG holder has treated you, you may take your complaint to Nominet, where it will get dealt with by the Nominet committee......There are strict rules about what an IPSTAG holder may or may not do to customers......breaking those rules is dealt with severely
Sure, your registrar could cut your DNS entry, but that would likely be frowned upon by the Nominet committee - (most of these are people like you and me - sysadmins and hostmasters) - and you could simply re-register with another tag holder who didn't suck. The (quite small) company I work for, A2Z Computing, is thinking of getting a tag, and I know that they won't cut my service without justification.
In short, yes, your DNS provider could cut your entry, but if the Nominet committee judged them to have acted unfairly, they could loose thier tag.
Uh... Nominet is good. I like it.
Michael
Second page: Digitising back-catalogue books.
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Books on Demand
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· Score: 2
Hey,
On the second page:
Though virtually every American book published since the late 1980s was typeset by computer and presumably exists in digital file format, the vast majority of books ever published were not and do not. While some publishers have begun to digitize their back catalogues, it's a forbiddingly expensive enterprise.
Presumably they type the books in manually. It would be easier to get a nice digital camera, put it on a tripod, point it at the desk, and get some nice OCR software. It would be easy enough to automate the system - just place the book in, hit the camera button, and it pulls down one page, then turn the page, hit the button again, and so on.
He might have been alluding to the fact that the US isn't properly funding NASA to do science that will benefit us all, but they are more than happy to fund investigations into how visible it would be if they decided to nuke the moon.
Even if it were only used once, to stop just one bomb, it would more than pay for itself
Personally, I wrote to my MP (I'm not American) voicing my opinion that we should have nothing to do with this US 'missile defense system'. The US and USSR agreed not to build missile defense systems. America has now decided screw that, they want a missile defense system, thus breaking the treaty. I do not want to be associated with that.
If america said it was decommissioning it's 'nuclear deterrent' now it had this system, that would be acceptable, but if America wants nukes and a defense system, they would essentially be able to use them with imputity.
Besides, do you think that (Whoever it is George Bush is is scared of) will say "Hey, let's fire a big ICBM at america, so that they can detect it, see where it came from, and fry us to a crisp with nukes of thier own!"? No. They wouldn't. They'd smuggle a nuke in a container lorry, covered in consumer electronics, then drive past the whitehouse and set it off. Kaboom.
In other words, it is my opinion that a missile defense system would be inflamatory to international relations whilst not protecting against the real risks.
Another thing to note is that if you take a screenshot in OS 9 while playing a DVD you get a big magenta rectangle where the DVD screenshot is supposed to be. Is there a technical reason for this or are the MPAA really that paranoid?
They are really that paranoid. In Windows, if you take a DVD screenshot (on my player, at least) and paste it into Paint Shop Pro, you get an image up that is magenta if you close the DVD software, but you see the image if you leave the software open. If you then move the image around in the PSP window, the movie screen doesn't move with you.
Presumably the software puts a big magenta block in the OS's what-to-show memory, then it goes to the video buffer and rewrites everything that particular RGB value of magenta as the appropriate movie pixel colour.
problem comes when you don't have sufficient guards against abuse.
I find the problem is public utilities serve the public, whilst private utilities serve shareholders. For example lets say you were a large telecommunications company. Let's call you 'British Telecom', shall we? Any you had this hypothetical new technology. Let's call it 'ADSL' shall we? Now, this 'ADSL' lets people have an always-on connection to the internet, which is really fast. But it needs some equiptment installed at the telephone exchange. If your aim was to serve thte public, you'd shell out the money to install equiptment in all the exchanges you could, even in rural areas. If you were aiming to sereve shareholders, you would only install the equiptment in exchanges where you know you can make a big profit, and post off big phat bundles of money to your shareholders.
And this is the problem: Serving customers costs money, and companies have to cut costs to please shareholders. They won't be striving to supply the best service they can to consumers at a reasonable price. They will be striving to supply the worst possible service to consumers at the highest possible price, thus making profit.
If you ask me, making vital infrastructure components privately owned is a bad plan. Germany has a public rail network, and they have virtually no accidents. We have a private rail network, and there are many accidents. This is not a co-incidental correlation. Services like rail travel and telecommunications cannot be entrusted to companies thta want to make a profit. They should remain publicly owned entities. This is what produces the best results for 'the people'.
And sadly it will take the backing of major players like Visa to get a system off the ground. (If someone can do an end run around them, so much the better.)
The problem is probably that you have to pay about a $2 charge for credit card transfers, etc.
One could develop a centeral site (Secure, open source, etc) where you pay, say $10 by credit card, and that apears in your 'online account'. You can then pay that to another person, bit by bit. i.e. you can pay out $0.05 or so to one site. The site then balances things up, and sends out money when you collect above a certain amount.
Siesta isn't lazy hours, it's sanity. Your body's natural rhythm is to slow down at around 2PM.
Yah. The problem is people eating. All the food you eat at lunchtime ends up in your intestines around 2PM.
Now, your intestines want to get all the nutrients and things out of this food. But the way the nutrients and things are transferred is by diffusion. There's little holes in your intestines' linings, and the nutrients go through them. On the inside of your intestines, there is level X, and outside, level Y. X and Y naturally try to equalise, so you need to keep the outside level (Y) low, so nutrients keep getting transferred.
To do that, when nutrients diffuse out, you need to move them away as quickly as possible. They ae moved in the blood, so you need quite a bit of it flowing around as you digest things. More than you normally use. So blood is directed from other body areas - i.e. the brain, muscles, etc - to help carrying the nutrients away from the gut. The blood being directed away to the gut means cells in the brain, muscles, etc. get less food-carrying blood flow and thus less food, which is required to perform.. well, most things.
In conclusion, after you eat, your body floods the guts with blood to make digestion work. This influx of blood comes at the expense of other organs, such as the brain. Which makes us tired.
Re-code websites to be complient with new standards, like XHTML and CSS. Start a site listing all the fully standards-compliant sites you have modified.
Fit an extra-loud ringer to the telephone, and take in a camp bed and get some sleep.
Hear over to Everything2 and read / write some nodes.
Play an MP3 at full blast, and sing along. Then record yourself singing, and compare the waveforms. With a bit of practice, you can pick up quite good impersonations.
Find a user/pass combo for somewhere like this, and go through the excercises every evening.
Redirect the calls to your mobile phone, and start going for strength-building nightly runs, either in the building or outside.
Find a flight of steps and see how many you can hop up, without stopping or touching the hand rails. Do this every night, until you can get right up the building on either foot.
Teach yourself to juggle.
Scatter copies of 'Soldier of Fortune' magazine around your office. Or someone else's.
Take in a laptop and play Baldur's Gate 2, Diablo 2 and games like that.
F1rst P0st! Need I say more?
Learn a high-tech-sounding internet standard like WML, and design things your company doesn't need, but that will look good, i.e. a WML e-mail access client, so your users can tap your address into thier phones, and see thier e-mail. Don't step on anyone's toes, though.
Download Linux ISOs to your proxy's cache, during the slow period so if anyone gets them in the day, it will be faster for everyone.
Work on a university theesis or something.
Browse some Pr0n
Bring in a TV and watch that.
Pull DivXed DVDs down off the internet and watch them.
Go through slashdotters' webpages and start your own web page, listing pages that contain interesting information.
Memo to self: Run doctoral thesis through thesaurus a few times.
On a tangent: "Bloomfield's wildly popular two-part course, "How Things Work," offers an introduction to the physics of everyday life -- how an airplane flies, how a television works -- taught in laymen's language." Don't they teach this stuff in high school?
This could be done very much like Crowds, which is also an online privacy tool. It seems to be closed source though, so I havn't tried it. I predict the following extra features in the CDC program:
1) Strong encryption, ideally masquerading as SSL, to stop it being too easily blockable. Or better sill, MSN Messenger format messages.
2) Open source, and availiable on all platforms.
3) Something to allow all your HTTP traffic to be routed through the same machine for one session, so it is possible to access sites like Hotmail that forward you about a lot, and check your IP address.
4) More cow pictures.
Interestingly, there is a relitavely easy (if a little counter-intutive) way of invoking a standard dialog, with the CommonDialog control. Create a Microsoft CommonDialog Control named CommonDialog1 on your form, then use the code:
Private Sub OpenButton_Click()
' Instruct an error to be generated on cancel
CommonDialog1.CancelError = True
' Say where to go on error
On Error GoTo Cancel
' Set CommonDialog settings flag (Details)
CommonDialog1.Flags = cdlOFNHideReadOnly
' Set the pull-down for what filetypes are allowable.
CommonDialog1.Filter = "Text files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*"
' Make the first filetype default
CommonDialog1.FilterIndex = 1
' Set the title of the dialog to be displayed
CommonDialog1.DialogTitle = "Select file to open..."
' Go with the Open dialog!
CommonDialog1.ShowOpen
' Create a new variable, SomeVar
Dim SomeVar as Variant
' Put the file name into the variable
SomeVar = CommonDialog1.FileName
' Leave this subroutine
Exit sub
Cancel:
'We come here if the user cancels. We do nothing.
Exit sub
End sub
Taa-daa! SomeVar now contains the path to the selected file. It's simple enough if you know what you're doing. COMMENTING YOUR CODE IS EASY TOO.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey,
Last time I checked, RAM was volatile...
Well yes, obviously. You could, however, maintain the data by running a small battery charge through the chips. Why would this be benificial? Because RAM is cheap. I was on eBay a few weeks ago, and I picked up 512Mb of RAM for UK£68, including shipping and handling. Compare that to, say, CompactFlash. I can't even *find* a 512Mb CompactFlash card. Even if I could, you can be sure it would cost more than £68.
If I could have a camera that would loose your photos after 3 days without charging, but that had five hundred and twelve megabytes of storage space, I would happily get one. It'd be cool!
Michael
Hey,
/ wireless/index.html" name="uk2.net">
I noticed that too. That frameset in full:
<frame src="http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
But Blueyonder isn't a free ISP; it's a pay ISP. thier website is (Somewhat obviously) blueyonder.co.uk - a look at http://info.blueyonder.co.uk/promo/index.html reveals they resell broadband... Quote from one of thier info pages: "Every blueyonder customer has access to 30MB of free personal webspace."
My gusee is this guy has a 512kbit/s broadband connection into his house, and he's going to get some long-range 802.11b equiptment, and offer some service along his line. You can jump to http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ and look at other bits on his website.
Obviously, this could well work. But equally, it could suck royally. We don't really have enough data to come to a firm conclusion.
Personally, I don't feel that places like London are that important for wireless... In London, you can get all manner of wired solutions, which are actually availiable at the moment. I think fixed wireless access would have more application in locations where it would be too costly to run new cabling (cable modems) and/or BT doesn't think it would be profitable to convert the exchange for ADSL. If someone could arrange a long-range wireless solution that would provide such people with access, the uptake could be quite high.
That's just my opinion, of course; I could be wrong.
Michael
Hey,
The article implies that this is somehow software-based, and most people probably thought 'Bullshit', and rightly so.
A google search for Palm damage motherboard turns up some better articles: This one, and a follow-up here are both pretty good.
The guy making the claim has a page here. The guy (called Greg Gaub) details his story in which his Hewlett packard desktop computer's motherboard was ruined; Greg's claim is that the motherboard was damaged because of a faulty or badly designed Palm V cradle which doesn't dissapate static charges.
Quoth I: As you may be aware, The PalmV and Vx devices have an aluminum casing. They also have a cradle with, in my opinion, a design flaw that does not dissipate static electric charges that travel from a person (holding or reaching for their PalmV) into the cradle, and on into the desktop computer's motherboard via the serial connector.
It does seem a somewhat unlikely problem, but I suppose it could be possible, in theory at least.
Michael
Dammitt, why does RH keep updating? It takes hours to download the CD ISOs over a dial-up connection...
Michael
Hey,
For video, there are no choices that are compatable with Linux and support both;
I. 3D (good, current-generation)
II. TV-out (RCA and/or S-video)
You could try a VGA to TV converter. The Guillemot VGA-to-TV
Converter Deluxe-2 is good, according to this article. And only $120.
It might be worth your taking a look. You should be able to get 3D through it, because it just deals with the VGA output.
Michael
Hey,
The local thriftstore has a working Mac IIci for $1.98 -- maybe I should put it on eBay as a collectable.
Ebay has a Sinclair ZX Spectrum or two for £2.99... maybe I should buy one and put it on ebay as a collectable.
Hold on, there's something wrong with this plan...
Michael
You could try BlindWrite
Blurb from the page: What's all this, then?
The BlindWrite suite is a tool designed to perfectly reproduce most CD.
To be or not to be (RAW mode compatible) ?
RAW mode is needed to produce perfect backups of some protected CDs !
DAO mode is even better. Almost all protected CD can be perfectly backed up using with DAO.
Blindread / Blindwrite are perfect tools to produce backups in RAW and DAO mode.
Don't know if that's what you mean?
Michael
Hey,
not only is GPS too innacurate for a missile intercept
In addition to DavidBro's comments, I would point out that 'military grade' GPS is (supposedly) accurate to a couple of meters.
When you are trying to destroy a flying thing, you don't have to aim to hit it. That would make air to air missiles unworkable, unless they were launched from right behind the enemy plane.
How many air-to-air munitions work is by proximity. You shove a big load of explosives into your rocket, then give it a radar, and you twll it to blow up when it gets within, say, 5 meters of your target. Then the explosion and flying hunks of missile hit into the plane, and (hopefully) destroy it.
If you have pleanty of explosives (And you can get a lot of explosives for $100 million), you just fly to within 10 meters or so of the rocket, and detonate. Kaboom!
Well, that's what I'd do. After all, this is only rocket science, not brain surgery!
Michael
Hey,
Is there some secret stash of lawyers on Slashdot that I'm not aware of yet?
Sure!
CmdrTaco) Hmm... Got another law 'Ask Slashdot' here.
Hemos) Another? What's it about?
JonKatz) It's a case that has the ugliest implications not only for the press (online and off) but for open discussion of technology, and especially for the First Amendment.
CmdrTaco) Some guy wants to know if he can post secret documents he gets e-mailed.
Roblimo) Are you sure we want to post this? Don't you think slashdot is posting too many law-related stories, when there are no lawyers reading? We don't want the site to get boring...
JonKatz) Slashdot is at times witty, imaginative and entertaining, no small accomplishment, especially this summer. It reminds us that when it comes to ominous design and atmosphere, nobody can top CmdrTaco. Where he seems to have trouble is with storytelling.
Hemos) Well, we could just blindly post it... or we might have to break out the.... SECRET STASH OF LAWYERS!
CmdrTaco) Great idea! Where did you leave the lawyers, Cliff?
Cliff) They're in the fridge, behind the Jolt.
I think that's about how it went.
Michael
This case is unique, in that it it the only dispute I've heard of in the computer industry where I actually want *both* parties to loose.
"It appears that Microsoft is backing off their much ballyhooed itty bitty teeny weeny sliver of flexibility and heading back to the rigid stance that has been slapped down by the second-highest court in the land," said AOL Time Warner vice president John Buckley.
Gotta love that quote though. People don't use the word 'ballyhooed' anything like enough.
Michael
Hey,
Joe Mega-corp contacts IPSTAG holder. "Hey, make the www.joe-mega-corp-sucks.com website go away."
Whilst this could happen, I refer you to the original post:
If you have a dispute about the way your IPSTAG holder has treated you, you may take your complaint to Nominet, where it will get dealt with by the Nominet committee......There are strict rules about what an IPSTAG holder may or may not do to customers......breaking those rules is dealt with severely
Sure, your registrar could cut your DNS entry, but that would likely be frowned upon by the Nominet committee - (most of these are people like you and me - sysadmins and hostmasters) - and you could simply re-register with another tag holder who didn't suck. The (quite small) company I work for, A2Z Computing, is thinking of getting a tag, and I know that they won't cut my service without justification.
In short, yes, your DNS provider could cut your entry, but if the Nominet committee judged them to have acted unfairly, they could loose thier tag.
Uh... Nominet is good. I like it.
Michael
Hey,
On the second page:
Though virtually every American book published since the late 1980s was typeset by computer and presumably exists in digital file format, the vast majority of books ever published were not and do not. While some publishers have begun to digitize their back catalogues, it's a forbiddingly expensive enterprise.
Presumably they type the books in manually. It would be easier to get a nice digital camera, put it on a tripod, point it at the desk, and get some nice OCR software. It would be easy enough to automate the system - just place the book in, hit the camera button, and it pulls down one page, then turn the page, hit the button again, and so on.
Well, maybe.
Michael
Hey,
Get a clue.. its missile defense
He might have been alluding to the fact that the US isn't properly funding NASA to do science that will benefit us all, but they are more than happy to fund investigations into how visible it would be if they decided to nuke the moon.
Even if it were only used once, to stop just one bomb, it would more than pay for itself
Personally, I wrote to my MP (I'm not American) voicing my opinion that we should have nothing to do with this US 'missile defense system'. The US and USSR agreed not to build missile defense systems. America has now decided screw that, they want a missile defense system, thus breaking the treaty. I do not want to be associated with that.
If america said it was decommissioning it's 'nuclear deterrent' now it had this system, that would be acceptable, but if America wants nukes and a defense system, they would essentially be able to use them with imputity.
Besides, do you think that (Whoever it is George Bush is is scared of) will say "Hey, let's fire a big ICBM at america, so that they can detect it, see where it came from, and fry us to a crisp with nukes of thier own!"? No. They wouldn't. They'd smuggle a nuke in a container lorry, covered in consumer electronics, then drive past the whitehouse and set it off. Kaboom.
In other words, it is my opinion that a missile defense system would be inflamatory to international relations whilst not protecting against the real risks.
That's my opinion anyway,
Michael
Another thing to note is that if you take a screenshot in OS 9 while playing a DVD you get a big magenta rectangle where the DVD screenshot is supposed to be. Is there a technical reason for this or are the MPAA really that paranoid?
They are really that paranoid. In Windows, if you take a DVD screenshot (on my player, at least) and paste it into Paint Shop Pro, you get an image up that is magenta if you close the DVD software, but you see the image if you leave the software open. If you then move the image around in the PSP window, the movie screen doesn't move with you.
Presumably the software puts a big magenta block in the OS's what-to-show memory, then it goes to the video buffer and rewrites everything that particular RGB value of magenta as the appropriate movie pixel colour.
That's my guess at least.
Michael.
problem comes when you don't have sufficient guards against abuse.
I find the problem is public utilities serve the public, whilst private utilities serve shareholders. For example lets say you were a large telecommunications company. Let's call you 'British Telecom', shall we? Any you had this hypothetical new technology. Let's call it 'ADSL' shall we? Now, this 'ADSL' lets people have an always-on connection to the internet, which is really fast. But it needs some equiptment installed at the telephone exchange. If your aim was to serve thte public, you'd shell out the money to install equiptment in all the exchanges you could, even in rural areas. If you were aiming to sereve shareholders, you would only install the equiptment in exchanges where you know you can make a big profit, and post off big phat bundles of money to your shareholders.
And this is the problem: Serving customers costs money, and companies have to cut costs to please shareholders. They won't be striving to supply the best service they can to consumers at a reasonable price. They will be striving to supply the worst possible service to consumers at the highest possible price, thus making profit.
If you ask me, making vital infrastructure components privately owned is a bad plan. Germany has a public rail network, and they have virtually no accidents. We have a private rail network, and there are many accidents. This is not a co-incidental correlation. Services like rail travel and telecommunications cannot be entrusted to companies thta want to make a profit. They should remain publicly owned entities. This is what produces the best results for 'the people'.
The people are still important, aren't they?
Michael
Any spambots checking for addresses might like:
loardgimpy@hotmail.com
Hey.
And sadly it will take the backing of major players like Visa to get a system off the ground. (If someone can do an end run around them, so much the better.)
The problem is probably that you have to pay about a $2 charge for credit card transfers, etc.
One could develop a centeral site (Secure, open source, etc) where you pay, say $10 by credit card, and that apears in your 'online account'. You can then pay that to another person, bit by bit. i.e. you can pay out $0.05 or so to one site. The site then balances things up, and sends out money when you collect above a certain amount.
Or something.
Michael
Hey,
Siesta isn't lazy hours, it's sanity. Your body's natural rhythm is to slow down at around 2PM.
Yah. The problem is people eating. All the food you eat at lunchtime ends up in your intestines around 2PM.
Now, your intestines want to get all the nutrients and things out of this food. But the way the nutrients and things are transferred is by diffusion. There's little holes in your intestines' linings, and the nutrients go through them. On the inside of your intestines, there is level X, and outside, level Y. X and Y naturally try to equalise, so you need to keep the outside level (Y) low, so nutrients keep getting transferred.
To do that, when nutrients diffuse out, you need to move them away as quickly as possible. They ae moved in the blood, so you need quite a bit of it flowing around as you digest things. More than you normally use. So blood is directed from other body areas - i.e. the brain, muscles, etc - to help carrying the nutrients away from the gut. The blood being directed away to the gut means cells in the brain, muscles, etc. get less food-carrying blood flow and thus less food, which is required to perform.. well, most things.
In conclusion, after you eat, your body floods the guts with blood to make digestion work. This influx of blood comes at the expense of other organs, such as the brain. Which makes us tired.
Interesting, eh?
Michael
There's quite a lot of things you could do:
If you can't find a book you like, you could try some of the following, which I have read, or am planning on reading:
Thats my advice, anyway.
Hey,
It... is... too... superficial.
Hey, Katz gets to write articles, and this is better than that, dude.
-M
Hey.
"It seems to have worked, too"
Unless students just started re-wording thier (copied) work. Or copying from obscure technical books instead of other people.
Sig: "You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)"
In this case, it would seem you can...
Michael
Memo to self: Run doctoral thesis through thesaurus a few times.
On a tangent: "Bloomfield's wildly popular two-part course, "How Things Work," offers an introduction to the physics of everyday life -- how an airplane flies, how a television works -- taught in laymen's language." Don't they teach this stuff in high school?
Michael
This could be done very much like Crowds, which is also an online privacy tool. It seems to be closed source though, so I havn't tried it. I predict the following extra features in the CDC program:
1) Strong encryption, ideally masquerading as SSL, to stop it being too easily blockable. Or better sill, MSN Messenger format messages.
2) Open source, and availiable on all platforms.
3) Something to allow all your HTTP traffic to be routed through the same machine for one session, so it is possible to access sites like Hotmail that forward you about a lot, and check your IP address.
4) More cow pictures.
Michael
Taa-daa! SomeVar now contains the path to the selected file. It's simple enough if you know what you're doing. COMMENTING YOUR CODE IS EASY TOO.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.
I don't know many people that would like their house to be black
It wouldn't have to be. Why not just paint the roof, which on slate houses is near-black already? After all, the sun *is* above us, in the sky.
Michael
...another comment from Michael Tandy.