Thats great if you want to turn the library into a bookstore. Dropping $15 (or whatever) for a book is no big deal for some people and they will feel no obligation to return the book.
Crush SUVs? Maybe if you fall over onto one. This thing is just a tall, wheeled automobile, not a walker. It can't pick up its feet. You couldn't climb over a fence with this thing, you probably couldn't even climb over a curb.
To be a true walker, a machine would need to have articulated hips, and power to "push off" with one foot and lift its knee while remaining balanced on the other leg while it gets the leg moved forward and back on the ground. And a true walker would undoubtedly fall over occasionally, and need to be able to right itself without outside help.
I just recently discovered the original CSI (Vegas) show and have been watching it a lot. I haven't watched any of the spinoffs.
Do police departments really have the budget for the kinds of things this show depicts, though? I mean, is it really necessary to sacrifice a pig every other show to demonstrate some arcane principle?
And why do none of the CSI techs never wear headcover while leaning over a crime scene looking for evidence; hairs, dandruff, etc?
Just remember your page (in this case) is 2.2 inches measured diagonally. That's pretty small. Taka page from a book or newspaper and cut out a rectangular piece 1.3 inches by 1.8 inches. That's about what you'll be able to see on the LCD.
Another way to think about it is to put your computer into 640x480 video mode and look at it from several feet away.
1. Full install of all FreeBSD distribution sets 2. elm 3. XFree86 4. The Gimp 5. ImageMagick 6. Xscreensaver 7. setiathome 8. nedit 9. mpeg_encode & mpeg_play 10. my collection of custom programs and utilities
I agree that assembly is a simple language, and a good thing for all programmers to know.
But what language to learn first is really a question that depends on what the student's ultimate goal is. Someone who wants to go on and program only high level computer programs could get by with little or no training in assembly programming. Someone who wants to program DSPs and embedded microcontrollers must know assembly, even though C compilers exist for many small devices.
Personally, I do about half assembly and half high-level programming. When programming for a 8-bit microcontroller with 256 bytes of RAM and 4k bytes of ROM, C or Java programming is pretty much not even an option. On the other hand, when writing a Windows or X program to display a graph on a computer screen, where there are basically no memory limitations, it would be kind of silly to write in assembly.
A student who doesn't know where his education will lead him, should learn assembly programming, by all means.
I worked for nearly two years (doing programming) in a metal factory building with rain and cold air blowing through cracks in the wall next to my desk, and a pair of big air compressors a few feet away that would automatically start every few minutes. There was also a furnace that heated the building over my head that roared pretty loadly. I wore hearing protectors most of the time. And there was always dirt all over the concrete floor and grit got all over my computer (and regularly destroyed my floppy drive). In order to get to my desk, I often had to climb through narrow spaces around big banks of storage batteries.
My boss picked up a surplus Sun GDM 1962-B 19 inch monitor for $50 and then found that it wouldn't connect to a VGA connector, so he gave it to me. I spent some time searching for information on the web, bought a 13W3 cable on eBay, built a sync converter in an Altoids tin, and now have a very nice working X monitor on my FreeBSD box.
I also got the sysop deal on a USR Courier modem for my BBS which ran Hermes II on a Mac SE from 1990 to 1994. I still have the modem which went through two hardware upgrades over the years, and it still works great. I use it now as an dial-up access point for a FreeBSD machine.
I have a Speedpass, and it doesn't activate the "hot spot" on the pump until it's less than an inch away. There's really not that much difference between the Speedpass and a credit card with no visible markings, except that you don't have to remember which way up to put it in the card reader.
Security concerns about someone "scanning" a credit card using this radio technology from a distance is probably unfounded, unless you have it in your wallet and sit on the scanner.
Our cable company's information channel runs Windows 2000 and they have it set up to reboot automatically every night at midnight. This event is broadcast live for all the reboot enthusiasts.
My first experieince with PCs was a Leading Edge 8088 computer with monochrome graphics. Later it was upgraded to EGA so I could do PCB layouts in color. Later, I remember buying a brand new new Video 7 VRAM card with VGA resolution to go with my new 386 computer (with an enormous 170MB ESDI hard drive). I was really impressed by the neat rainbow colored text at the bootup message.
I also recently bought the Mad Scientist's Club books (available online from Purple House Press).
I can definitely state that The Mad Scientist's Club got me interested in electronics when I was a kid.
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I think they're going to try to acquire all of them and create a monopoly on silly made-up company names.
Thats great if you want to turn the library into a bookstore. Dropping $15 (or whatever) for a book is no big deal for some people and they will feel no obligation to return the book.
But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?"
One word: Smell-O-Vision!
Crush SUVs? Maybe if you fall over onto one. This thing is just a tall, wheeled automobile, not a walker. It can't pick up its feet. You couldn't climb over a fence with this thing, you probably couldn't even climb over a curb.
To be a true walker, a machine would need to have articulated hips, and power to "push off" with one foot and lift its knee while remaining balanced on the other leg while it gets the leg moved forward and back on the ground. And a true walker would undoubtedly fall over occasionally, and need to be able to right itself without outside help.
I just recently discovered the original CSI (Vegas) show and have been watching it a lot. I haven't watched any of the spinoffs.
Do police departments really have the budget for the kinds of things this show depicts, though?
I mean, is it really necessary to sacrifice a pig every other show to demonstrate some arcane principle?
And why do none of the CSI techs never wear headcover while leaning over a crime scene looking for evidence; hairs, dandruff, etc?
Smoke faster.
Just remember your page (in this case) is 2.2 inches measured diagonally. That's pretty small.
Taka page from a book or newspaper and cut out a rectangular piece 1.3 inches by 1.8 inches. That's about what you'll be able to see on the LCD.
Another way to think about it is to put your computer into 640x480 video mode and look at it from several feet away.
I use TeraTerm Pro and TTSSH regularly for accessing remote systems from my Windows machine. Very nice tools, with plenty of options.
Doom 3 will need realisitic blood and guts rendering as much as it needs realistic skin rendering.
I was building my own computer in 1981. It had a 1 MHz 6502 processor, 1024 bytes of RAM, Teletype terminal, and paper tape program storage.
1. Full install of all FreeBSD distribution sets
2. elm
3. XFree86
4. The Gimp
5. ImageMagick
6. Xscreensaver
7. setiathome
8. nedit
9. mpeg_encode & mpeg_play
10. my collection of custom programs and utilities
Great! Now if my HP 21 every breaks, I'll be able to buy another RPN calculator to relplace it.
I'll take the platters. They make great wind chimes.
I agree that assembly is a simple language, and a good thing for all programmers to know.
But what language to learn first is really a question that depends on what the student's ultimate goal is. Someone who wants to go on and program only high level computer programs could get by with little or no training in assembly programming. Someone who wants to program DSPs and embedded microcontrollers must know assembly, even though C compilers exist for many small devices.
Personally, I do about half assembly and half high-level programming. When programming for a 8-bit microcontroller with 256 bytes of RAM and 4k bytes of ROM, C or Java programming is pretty much not even an option. On the other hand, when writing a Windows or X program to display a graph on a computer screen, where there are basically no memory limitations, it would be kind of silly to write in assembly.
A student who doesn't know where his education will lead him, should learn assembly programming, by all means.
I heard that the RIAA stole a lot of proprietary code from SCO, and that people at SCO have been illegally downloading a bunch of Metallica MP3s.
I worked for nearly two years (doing programming) in a metal factory building with rain and cold air blowing through cracks in the wall next to my desk, and a pair of big air compressors a few feet away that would automatically start every few minutes. There was also a furnace that heated the building over my head that roared pretty loadly. I wore hearing protectors most of the time. And there was always dirt all over the concrete floor and grit got all over my computer (and regularly destroyed my floppy drive). In order to get to my desk, I often had to climb through narrow spaces around big banks of storage batteries.
My boss picked up a surplus Sun GDM 1962-B 19 inch monitor for $50 and then found that it wouldn't connect to a VGA connector, so he gave it to me. I spent some time searching for information on the web, bought a 13W3 cable on eBay, built a sync converter in an Altoids tin, and now have a very nice working X monitor on my FreeBSD box.
I also got the sysop deal on a USR Courier modem for my BBS which ran Hermes II on a Mac SE from 1990 to 1994. I still have the modem which went through two hardware upgrades over the years, and it still works great. I use it now as an dial-up access point for a FreeBSD machine.
I have a Speedpass, and it doesn't activate the "hot spot" on the pump until it's less than an inch away. There's really not that much difference between the Speedpass and a credit card with no visible markings, except that you don't have to remember which way up to put it in the card reader.
Security concerns about someone "scanning" a credit card using this radio technology from a distance is probably unfounded, unless you have it in your wallet and sit on the scanner.
I don't read subject lines. Your message says nothing.
Our cable company's information channel runs Windows 2000 and they have it set up to reboot automatically every night at midnight. This event is broadcast live for all the reboot enthusiasts.
My first experieince with PCs was a Leading Edge 8088 computer with monochrome graphics. Later it was upgraded to EGA so I could do PCB layouts in color. Later, I remember buying a brand new new Video 7 VRAM card with VGA resolution to go with my new 386 computer (with an enormous 170MB ESDI hard drive). I was really impressed by the neat rainbow colored text at the bootup message.
It's a hobby. You don't need a reason to have a hobby.
I also recently bought the Mad Scientist's Club books (available online from Purple House Press). I can definitely state that The Mad Scientist's Club got me interested in electronics when I was a kid.
This program sounds like a great idea.