It just reminds me of the TI-99/4A expansion slot with a string of peripherals: see the second picture on this page. Luckily, TI also had a Peripheral Expansion Box where you could put your stuff in.
Apple did do a lot to improve the boot time: there's a boot cache, a kernel extension cache, hot file clustering, prebinding, on-the-fly defragmentation and more. Even old macs (e.g. 300 Mhz G3's) boot up OS X fairly quick.
Projecting on non-flat and not uniformly bright surfaces is possible with 'smart projectors', which use camera feedback and pixel shaders to adjust the projected image.
I used to connect my XP-box to my projector (Sony VW12HT) with PowerStrip to generate an HDTV-signal. Audio went through an spdiff-cable to my receiver. WinAmp and Zoomplayer were used for playing media. A wireless Gyration keyboard and mouse were used for operating the system from the sofa. But that's more than two years ago.
The XP-box now burns DVDRs (mainly containing DVD-video) and cd's with MP3, which I can play using my progressive scan DVD-player. Even my girlfriend can now watch movies on the projector, partly due to my Pronto Neo with a gf-friendly interface.
The only thing I miss sometimes is playing games on the projector. Need for Speed on a big screen is funny, especially with the subwoofer on:)
The problem with NULL is that you don't know what it means. Suppose you have a field 'Job' in a table 'Persons'. When it's not NULL, you know that person has a job. But when it is NULL, it could mean: -this person has no job; -the job of this person is unknown. More on this.
From the introduction: "Rel is intended to serve multiple purposes: -It is a tool for learning, teaching, and exploring relational database concepts in general; -It is a tool for discovering the power and expressiveness of a true relational language; -It is a tool for learning Tutorial D; -It is a relational database server; -It may serve as a prototype or "working blueprint" for future implementations of Tutorial D or any "D" language (more on this later); -It may serve as a platform for experimenting with and/or examining database engine internals. "
RTFA: -"you ask a database for "all entries where field X is not equal to 47" it won't return any of those where field X is null because instead of saying "Null doesn't equal 47", the value "null" is deemed not to be comparable with any non-null field." -"rather arbitrary habit of allowing nested queries in some places but not others, for instance"
Several cometes hosting rebel troops governed by evil and rebelious law were fretted by an unusual hungry BigMac. The 250 hotspots were digested within less than a second. BigMac's first comment: 'This was fun! Where exactly did you say that cluster of beowulfs is located? Buuurghrp.' The BigMac is now heading for McDonald's Plaza in Oak Brook, IL and dying to see Birdie. The extra-terrestial fresh quality of the Cometa, the main ingredient of McDonald's most popular burger, the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Bacon and Eggs and Cometa, is a result of a unique process and BigMac's ability to eat the Cometa directly after catching.
This tells me that the loading weight should be less than 75 kg. No problem for the average asian man/woman, but for a lot europeans/americans this will be a huge problem. And, more weight will decrease the action radius of 40-50 km.
Microsoft's practise of patching security holes is a matter of patch economics. Patches will be released if: a. Microsoft will significantly lose customers if they do otherwise; b. legal threads/law enforcement force them to do so. I always compare it to primitive Saudi-style oil-patch economics with West Bank settler-type religion.
Some dutch folks use this location data for traffic-jam information. slow moving phones indicate a jam, it appears. anonymity guaranteed, in most cases i guess.
AMSTELVEEN/MADRID, 17 November 2003 - the movement information service mobile Traffic services (MTS) of Ict-dienstverlener LogicaCMG have produced reliable information on the travel times and speeds of vehicles in a part of noord-Brabant. On realm - and provincial ways come the information which obtains LogicaCMG by means of GSM's with the real situation. Also - and evacuation ways of and to realm ways have been gained with MTS similar results. Mts-gegevens of realm ways are at least this way precise such as the information that realm water state collects by means of lusdetectie on these ways.
This becomes clear from the validatiestudie which verkeersk! undig recommendation - and research office gold apple for LogicaCMG has carried out Coffeng. The results of this study LogicaCMG have vanmiddag announced on the intelligent transport Systems World conference in Madrid.
In contrast to other systems MTS can provide movement information on the whole road network, both that of rich and of provinces and municipalities. The current lusdetectie only provide information on realm ways. The infrastructure for this is precious, logistical difficult moor and asks maintenance. With MTS this is not necessary. Moreover the customer, mostly the administrator must, no additional management organisation, arrange because MTS are offered as a service in the form of a subscription.
MTS last summer has been used for the first time by the province noord-Brabant as a test in the area around breda and tilburg - on and between A16, A58, A59 and N261. Measurings have taken place during and outside peak hours hours. ! province wants get a better picture with MTS of the traffic flows. Peter the Wolff, project LEADER province noord-Brabant: The first results indicate that MTS are promising. The system possibly also makes a good chance of laying the foundation for movement management in our province and in the rest of the Netherlands. Using MTS we want will exploit the road network more efficiently, for example by informing travellers swiftly concerning the movement situation, expected travel times and alternative routes.
"the first findings of gold apple Coffeng confirm that ours Mts-diensten are arranged for broad application by the administrator or provision of information to the motorist", say be Rutten, project LEADER of LogicaCMG in The Hague. Technique is there, the applications are developed and the movement information can be provided. MTS are possible now targeted and are used on large scale administrators, thus Rutten.
The basis of m.! T are the use of Gsm-netwerk. This happens in association with the Scottish partner Applied Generics and telecombedrijf Vodafone. Mts-verkeersgegevens are calculated using dates which to Gsm-netwerk are withdrawn anonymously. By means of encoded dates insight in the displacement of mobile tel. on the road network is obtained. On this basis travel times and speeds are vervolgens calculated. By means of passive monitoring of Gsm-netwerk anonymous information is obtained without individual mobile tel. are approached.
The definite results of the validatiestudie appear in January 2004.
NVidia has released a compiler for their GPU's, Cg (C for graphics). I had great fun playing with it and see different effects (charcoal, dynamic fur,...) in real time (pixel & vertex shading). It's even open source:P
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It just reminds me of the TI-99/4A expansion slot with a string of peripherals: see the second picture on this page. Luckily, TI also had a Peripheral Expansion Box where you could put your stuff in.
Next!
Apple did do a lot to improve the boot time: there's a boot cache, a kernel extension cache, hot file clustering, prebinding, on-the-fly defragmentation and more. Even old macs (e.g. 300 Mhz G3's) boot up OS X fairly quick.
Right here.
Get your iPOd Boot Loader here!
You're absolutely right about the second laser.
Projecting on non-flat and not uniformly bright surfaces is possible with 'smart projectors', which use camera feedback and pixel shaders to adjust the projected image.
I used to connect my XP-box to my projector (Sony VW12HT) with PowerStrip to generate an HDTV-signal. Audio went through an spdiff-cable to my receiver. WinAmp and Zoomplayer were used for playing media. A wireless Gyration keyboard and mouse were used for operating the system from the sofa. But that's more than two years ago.
:)
The XP-box now burns DVDRs (mainly containing DVD-video) and cd's with MP3, which I can play using my progressive scan DVD-player. Even my girlfriend can now watch movies on the projector, partly due to my Pronto Neo with a gf-friendly interface.
The only thing I miss sometimes is playing games on the projector. Need for Speed on a big screen is funny, especially with the subwoofer on
The problem with NULL is that you don't know what it means. Suppose you have a field 'Job' in a table 'Persons'. When it's not NULL, you know that person has a job. But when it is NULL, it could mean:
-this person has no job;
-the job of this person is unknown.
More on this.
Is right here.
From the introduction: "Rel is intended to serve multiple purposes:
-It is a tool for learning, teaching, and exploring relational database concepts in general;
-It is a tool for discovering the power and expressiveness of a true relational language;
-It is a tool for learning Tutorial D;
-It is a relational database server;
-It may serve as a prototype or "working blueprint" for future implementations of Tutorial D or any "D" language (more on this later);
-It may serve as a platform for experimenting with and/or examining database engine internals. "
RTFA:
-"you ask a database for "all entries where field X is not equal to 47" it won't return any of those where field X is null because instead of saying "Null doesn't equal 47", the value "null" is deemed not to be comparable with any non-null field."
-"rather arbitrary habit of allowing nested queries in some places but not others, for instance"
This patent from Sony gives some detail. To view the images, you need a tiff-viewer plugin.
Forget Java, go Lombok.
Several cometes hosting rebel troops governed by evil and rebelious law were fretted by an unusual hungry BigMac. The 250 hotspots were digested within less than a second. BigMac's first comment: 'This was fun! Where exactly did you say that cluster of beowulfs is located? Buuurghrp.' The BigMac is now heading for McDonald's Plaza in Oak Brook, IL and dying to see Birdie. The extra-terrestial fresh quality of the Cometa, the main ingredient of McDonald's most popular burger, the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Bacon and Eggs and Cometa, is a result of a unique process and BigMac's ability to eat the Cometa directly after catching.
This tells me that the loading weight should be less than 75 kg. No problem for the average asian man/woman, but for a lot europeans/americans this will be a huge problem. And, more weight will decrease the action radius of 40-50 km.
buy one here (with screenshot).
And the Google cache
Microsoft's practise of patching security holes is a matter of patch economics. Patches will be released if: a. Microsoft will significantly lose customers if they do otherwise; b. legal threads/law enforcement force them to do so. I always compare it to primitive Saudi-style oil-patch economics with West Bank settler-type religion.
William, thou scurvy patch!
I guess those guys must be Jesse Eichenlaub and Arnie Lagergren from DTI. Their displays have been discussed before.
According to this article Half Life 2 has been translated into Russian, compiled, and is for sale on the shelves of a Russian trader in Novosibirsk.
Sack the sigs
According to this forum (contains some specs as well!) "it took 40 engineers 4 years to develop this." Exhaustive testing, i guess :P.
Some dutch folks use this location data for traffic-jam information. slow moving phones indicate a jam, it appears. anonymity guaranteed, in most cases i guess.
Horrible translation from systran:
AMSTELVEEN/MADRID, 17 November 2003 - the movement information service
mobile Traffic services (MTS) of Ict-dienstverlener LogicaCMG have
produced reliable information on the travel times and speeds of
vehicles in a part of noord-Brabant. On realm - and provincial ways
come the information which obtains LogicaCMG by means of GSM's with
the real situation. Also - and evacuation ways of and to realm ways
have been gained with MTS similar results. Mts-gegevens of realm ways
are at least this way precise such as the information that realm water
state collects by means of lusdetectie on these ways.
This becomes clear from the validatiestudie which verkeersk! undig
recommendation - and research office gold apple for LogicaCMG has
carried out Coffeng. The results of this study LogicaCMG have
vanmiddag announced on the intelligent transport Systems World
conference in Madrid.
In contrast to other systems MTS can provide movement information on
the whole road network, both that of rich and of provinces and
municipalities. The current lusdetectie only provide information on
realm ways. The infrastructure for this is precious, logistical
difficult moor and asks maintenance. With MTS this is not necessary.
Moreover the customer, mostly the administrator must, no additional
management organisation, arrange because MTS are offered as a service
in the form of a subscription.
MTS last summer has been used for the first time by the province
noord-Brabant as a test in the area around breda and tilburg - on and
between A16, A58, A59 and N261. Measurings have taken place during and
outside peak hours hours. ! province wants get a better picture with
MTS of the traffic flows. Peter the Wolff, project LEADER province
noord-Brabant: The first results indicate that MTS are promising. The
system possibly also makes a good chance of laying the foundation for
movement management in our province and in the rest of the
Netherlands. Using MTS we want will exploit the road network more
efficiently, for example by informing travellers swiftly concerning
the movement situation, expected travel times and alternative routes.
"the first findings of gold apple Coffeng confirm that ours
Mts-diensten are arranged for broad application by the administrator
or provision of information to the motorist", say be Rutten, project
LEADER of LogicaCMG in The Hague. Technique is there, the applications
are developed and the movement information can be provided. MTS are
possible now targeted and are used on large scale administrators, thus
Rutten.
The basis of m.! T are the use of Gsm-netwerk. This happens in
association with the Scottish partner Applied Generics and
telecombedrijf Vodafone. Mts-verkeersgegevens are calculated using
dates which to Gsm-netwerk are withdrawn anonymously. By means of
encoded dates insight in the displacement of mobile tel. on the road
network is obtained. On this basis travel times and speeds are
vervolgens calculated. By means of passive monitoring of Gsm-netwerk
anonymous information is obtained without individual mobile tel. are
approached.
The definite results of the validatiestudie appear in January 2004.
Here...
Preferences Toolbar 2 doesn't work with IE 6, dammit...
At the web site of Changing World Technologies.
NVidia has released a compiler for their GPU's, Cg (C for graphics). I had great fun playing with it and see different effects (charcoal, dynamic fur, ...) in real time (pixel & vertex shading). It's even open source :P
See http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=cg_main and www.cgshaders.org.
Sack the sigs.