If this is just about optimizing progressive meshes, then it's been around for over a decade in mainstream games. Progressive meshes are like mipmaps for polygons. Mesh optimization is sort of like low-frequency noise reduction, where you get rid of minor details that don't really show in the rendered scene, merging adjacent polys, occlusion filtering etc etc.
If they just combined the two then I give a big Whoop, because that's like claiming to have invented steak & cheese. Steak rocks, cheese rocks, steak & cheese is just a combination of rock-ness.
My main problem with the w3c is that they speak chinese. It is torture to read through their dreadfully verbose standards documents because they're just unreadable. I find myself googling for proper digests of the information as pertaining to real-world uses.
Praise the lord. I'm an audiophile, so says my 300$ sound card. I use the onboard sound of my NForce2 system for games n'stuff because the pro card doesn't do 3D. I can hear a slight difference in dynamic range if I do A-B comparisons, otherwise the onboard is just fine to me. Oh, maybe that's because I run it straight digital through a high-end DAC into my mixer, crossover and then to the amps.
But yeah, even the analog outs are better than SBLive. Nothing like cheap ECS boards where you hear the AGP bus humming harmonics out your speakers.
Oh so have to agree with this. I loathe Creative Labs and their half-assed devices, if only because of pathetic driver support.
I once splurged and tried the Audigy when it first came out. 48 hours later I was paying a restocking fee to get it out of my sight. It wouldn't grok my 4.1 speakers, insisted on 5.1 (which means anything panned dead-center was mute on my system). The ASIO would crash/stutter consistently, and it didn't sound nearly as good as they claimed.
I went out and bought a Midiman Audiophile 2496, the rest is history. My only gripe about the Midiman line is poor 3D audio support. I never really cared about that stuff anyways, as few games do it right. I'd rather see a game with software 3D sound done properly, at the expensive of cpu power, than having to upgrade a sound card every couple of years because it's onboard processor is obsolete.
In a sense you're quite right. PHB's don't actively seek out and slaughter their notebook thiefs. My financial reasoning is quite different. Considering the market value for someone's head is around 500$ US (here at least - we're pooor), also considering I paid about 1500$ for my laptop, then anyone who deprives me of said laptop will be thrice beaten to death with an old Micropolis hard drive.
But I do agree people don't seem to target Macs for some obscure reason. Perhaps out of ignorance (where's the start button?), perhaps out of brotherly respect "Macs rock, share the love, I'll yoink your roommate's Athlon".
In any event, the only way someone will get to your notebook, is by beating you into submission first. Now I don't know how big you are, but I know I'm not worried myself:)
Give them to someone smarter, that knows Sharper Image is full of lies.
Me, it's quite easy. I have all of 2 keys I carry around: #1 is my car key, #2 is my house key. Since I can't leave the house without using my car, and since I have no reason to pull out my keys at work or any other non-house location, well I just never lose my keys:)
RFID is easily foiled (*rimshot*) by any sufficiently massive _OR_ properly positioned hunk of metal. I played with the RF stickers at a video store that was once blessed with my dutiful presence, and soon discovered that they were rendered silent by merely holding an Xacto knife against the little bump in the center of the sticker. The knife would absorb the energy from the RF towers and thus the poor passive tag couldn't sing.
Now it is safe to assume that most of my customers were too retarded to even try the obvious, but I'm equally sure that a select few elite weirdos had perfected this art, or maybe even just lined their travel bag with a few layers of foil/sheetmetal, cuz we sure lost tons of tapes.
Dude, I hardly ever hear "I'd love to get a laptop" without being followed by "My buddy gets them for cheap". They're quite content in receiving X-random-laptop with X-lacking-features. Meanwhile, I blew a nice chunk on an Inspiron 8500 and even after a year I still love the damned thing and use it daily.
Now don't get me wrong, I was once in the dark, having purchased (and quickly resold) a few questionably-obtained mobile computing apparati. I didn't resell for monetary gain, which didn't happen anyways. I resold because I wanted those things out of my life forever, they sucked monkey balls. Sure, for the typical suit who just wants to "read email" and look as rich as the guy sitting next to him, yeah fine, but for a power hacker you want the fastest, most connectable, graphically-superior machine out there. It just so happens that when you blow 2500$ on a toy, you will see no wrong in spending another 100$ or so on security devices to protect your beloved electronic companion. Me, I like how my Bios is modded to phone home during POST. And how everything is passworded to infinity and beyond. And how I never leave it in plain sight unless I'm standing near with a weapon of mass bludgeoning.
Long story short: stolen laptops suck, because good laptops have watchful caring owners.
Take it from a fellow elitist: get out of that nerd-camp while you still can. There's nothing more depressing than posting to slashdot on a laptop with your cell phone while waiting for a cab fare. 25 years old, 160+ iq, driving a cab, hacking Apache source and poorer than the day I graduated.
If you're still not broken, well at least get a laptop so you'll be able to cohort with your fellow geeks a few years down the line when your life is a mess and all you've got left is that peachy old laptop.
RTFS (rtf sarcasm), I don't care how much it costs. Google is the ultimate faq/howto/encyclopedia. If someone is moving onto Linux they should at least be handy with a search engine. First things first, as they say ?
It's simply really, the idiot programmer didn't bother i18n'ing his driver, so he just blocks out everything that's not US English. He does this because he works for Sony, whose corporate mindset is "Fuck them as hard as we can get away with". Now you, the customer, go out and buy Sony because you like the flashy colours and are led to believe that it's a better toy than Brand-X because of its heavy price tag, thus you just made "their" system work.
Return that piece of crap, I'll even drive you to the store at gunpoint if you're not convinced.
I used to be a Sony fanboy, heck I used to have a few shares in Sony stock, but I eventually learned that the grass is much greener on the other side of the megacorp.
Take my audio advice, if you want a nice tech toy, go with a company that has a proven track record with MP3 players, such as Rio, or a Creative Nomad or even an Archos if those things still exist. Don't waste your time with the TV-maker brands like Sony, Samsung, RCA, they pretty much all such in one major way or another. I am no expert on these devices, as my idea of a portable mp3 player is my car and its 3000$ sound system (screw headphones!), but I think a company whose main focus is computers and sound, is quite likely to build a better product than one who specializes in selling cheap electronics to the common ignorant majority.
Myself, I'd get a PocketPC or a tabletized notebook.. at least you can use those for other things than MP3, and you don't have to bust an artery when AAC or WMV or whatever-next-gen-format takes over.
I'd endorse this book if it had only one page that read "Kill Yourself Now!", because any dummy who shells 90$ for a hardcopy about using Linux, REALLY doesn't get it.
When I started using Linux I had RedHat installed, and I used a windoze box to IM my guru whenever I ran into a brick wall... until I got the hang of installing RPM's n'stuff. Today (4 years later) I've got a fully-tweaked Debian as well as a minimalist LFS build on the nat box. I can't say I've seen any book on Linux that wasn't full of condescending bile.
I know I'm being overly broad, but to me Linux is good for 2.5 things: servers, code hackers and network enthusiasts (who can at least script in Perl). Anyone else, no matter how clever, is really just wasting their time (and ours once they hit the forums/irc). If you can't fire up google and find your own damn answers, then you shouldn't be fooling around with Linux. My first linux distro was a store-bought copy of Slackware 2.0, and I never managed to get past the install phase because back in 1993 the Internet wasn't really a popular thing for kids, besides I still think BBS'es were much cooler, the lo-fi ANSi graphics, the very personal feel of it all, the fact that a human could be watching the terminal and hop in at any moment for a nice chat. So I tossed the Slack discs and got back to wardialing.
#1 You do not talk about Internet of 1995 Club #2 You do not talk about Internet of 1995 Club #3 If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the wardial is over #4 Only two guys to a cracked password #5 One browser at a time #6 No winmodems, no SLIP #7 Downloads will go on as long as they have to #8 If this is your first night at Internet of 1995 Club, you HAVE to gopher.
If you don't want MAPS to hinder your mailability, well, just ignore them. MAPS is a pain in the ass for anyone with a [too-small-to-bribe-maps-admins]-sized e-business. You get MAPS bounces all the time for no apparent reason, they just hate everyone.
The main problem is that sometimes, one man's spam is another man's treasure. I don't think it is up to a central authority to tell me what I can and can't read. I much prefer the client-side flavors of spam filtering, such as bayesian filters (of which a distributed system exists under the name Cloudmark). At least that way the mail still gets around, it is just pre-sorted as Ham, Spam or Unsure. I usually just wipe the "spam"-flagged mail, then quickly peruse the Unsure and Ham folders. In this scenario I am free to read "spam" mail if it happens to be a false-positive, or maybe I'm just curious about Cialis =)
I'd really like to know how to draw a nonlinear line. Oh wait, would that be a curve ?
Spinning cube of doom, linear lines, and lawnmower plots that really look like an old-school SVGA game that doesn't quite grok the frame buffer. It all looks amateurish to me.
Considering I pay something like 5 cents per Kb for cell internet, it's only going to cost me 843.75$ per second to download all the l33test warez to my cell phone.
In such a blasphemous scenario, would it be possible to sue the 'stoolie' for harassment ? He pretty much abused police and FBI resources in order to harass someone over a rather weak and ignorant suspicion.
What if someone from the boonies had never seen a compact disc, if they thought it was a saw blade or other potentially dangerous device, they might overreact the same way this idiot landlord did, and label me a manufacturer of weapons of mass cutting.
If their code or data structures are too flawed to stream in as fast as the game needs, then they simply need to rethink their code/data. If the Gamecube is 20% slower (big vulgarisation here), then just reduce the map data by 20% and go on with life. Heck, if people can port games to the 32mb PS2 and the 64mb Xbox with minor visual or audio differences, but still fully playable... well, Gamecube can't be that far away in terms of development hurdles.
E.T. was kind cool in a lo-fi way, until you hit that glitch where as soon as your neck sticks out of a pit, your legs pull you back down, and then you repeat this until you die and that faggot comes around to revive you. And then you die again.
Maybe I'm being an ignorant genius, but isn't it just plain obvious that there is an infinite number of primes, thus an infinite number of twin primes. Why ? Because there is an infinite number of possible numbers. Sure, primes get farther distanced from each other as the number increases in magnitude, but there's always one around the corner.
I wish mathematicians spent more time on matters of current affair, like gas prices! This kind of 'discovery' bullcrap was fine in the egyptian era where school was nonexistent and everyone was a fricking ignorant unless they happened to suck some royalty's appendage the right way. Today it's obsolete, those who do not understand either don't care, or lack the requisite synaptic ability to function adequately in modern times.
I have also witnessed a minor reduction in my yearly insurance rate due to having no at-fault claims in 8 years. That is what I call a relative reduction. My insurance may be cheaper than my neighbor's, but slowly and surely it will gradually increase to keep up with market trends and inflation and all sorts of synthetic financial benchmarks. Even though a Big Mac probably costs less than a dollar to make, they will keep on selling it for 2.99$ until some analyst calculates they could still sell just as many at 3.29$.. then a few years later at 3.49$ etc.
The products themselves do not necessarily improve or offer greater satisfaction, in fact the opposite is often true. The more a company can charge and the less they spend, that's good business. The imaginary goal of every capitalist entity is to work/sell/offer less and charge more.
The hard part in pay-for-porn is authentication. Not hard to implement, but hard on the server. If you have 40-50 simultaneous users clicking on the "Next" arrow to surf through your photo galleries, each time a pic is loaded you need to confirm the user's login. This means either grepping the htpasswd file, or running a database lookup.
I can serve 1200 static pages per second, but if there is an SQL query or even just moderate PHP processing that number drops down to 150-200 hits-per-second. It's not dragging the server to its knees, but it does cause noticeable lag in the 400-500ms area. If you've got 20 thumbnails on the page then you're looking at roughly 10 seconds before everything is loaded, no matter how much bandwidth you have.
To work around such things, I've been playing with a shared-memory caching system. I keep the valid user list in shm, then have the perl/php use that instead of hitting the database all the time, since login data only changes once or twice a day. It is trivial to trigger a shm-update whenever the billing company calls up their cgi to alter the user list. I just wish this kind of functionality existed right inside apache because it would sure help several thousand other webmasters:)
If you're into speed, you should look into ultralight frames like carbon/titanium-mesh. Some of them are under 5 lbs (without wheels). The downside is that you will fly to the moon if you jump off a pothole:)
I remember being taught this very thing by my good buddy the electronics geek, when I was EIGHT!
Though we didn't use it on people, we just liked to stick it against metallic things and leave burn streaks =) In my case it wasn't a constant buzzing thing, it was just a flash discharge so it would let off a gigantic blast every 2-3 seconds. Still damned cool for 3rd grader:)
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If this is just about optimizing progressive meshes, then it's been around for over a decade in mainstream games. Progressive meshes are like mipmaps for polygons. Mesh optimization is sort of like low-frequency noise reduction, where you get rid of minor details that don't really show in the rendered scene, merging adjacent polys, occlusion filtering etc etc.
If they just combined the two then I give a big Whoop, because that's like claiming to have invented steak & cheese. Steak rocks, cheese rocks, steak & cheese is just a combination of rock-ness.
My main problem with the w3c is that they speak chinese. It is torture to read through their dreadfully verbose standards documents because they're just unreadable. I find myself googling for proper digests of the information as pertaining to real-world uses.
Praise the lord. I'm an audiophile, so says my 300$ sound card. I use the onboard sound of my NForce2 system for games n'stuff because the pro card doesn't do 3D. I can hear a slight difference in dynamic range if I do A-B comparisons, otherwise the onboard is just fine to me. Oh, maybe that's because I run it straight digital through a high-end DAC into my mixer, crossover and then to the amps.
But yeah, even the analog outs are better than SBLive. Nothing like cheap ECS boards where you hear the AGP bus humming harmonics out your speakers.
Oh so have to agree with this. I loathe Creative Labs and their half-assed devices, if only because of pathetic driver support.
I once splurged and tried the Audigy when it first came out. 48 hours later I was paying a restocking fee to get it out of my sight. It wouldn't grok my 4.1 speakers, insisted on 5.1 (which means anything panned dead-center was mute on my system). The ASIO would crash/stutter consistently, and it didn't sound nearly as good as they claimed.
I went out and bought a Midiman Audiophile 2496, the rest is history. My only gripe about the Midiman line is poor 3D audio support. I never really cared about that stuff anyways, as few games do it right. I'd rather see a game with software 3D sound done properly, at the expensive of cpu power, than having to upgrade a sound card every couple of years because it's onboard processor is obsolete.
In a sense you're quite right. PHB's don't actively seek out and slaughter their notebook thiefs. My financial reasoning is quite different. Considering the market value for someone's head is around 500$ US (here at least - we're pooor), also considering I paid about 1500$ for my laptop, then anyone who deprives me of said laptop will be thrice beaten to death with an old Micropolis hard drive.
:)
But I do agree people don't seem to target Macs for some obscure reason. Perhaps out of ignorance (where's the start button?), perhaps out of brotherly respect "Macs rock, share the love, I'll yoink your roommate's Athlon".
In any event, the only way someone will get to your notebook, is by beating you into submission first. Now I don't know how big you are, but I know I'm not worried myself
Give them to someone smarter, that knows Sharper Image is full of lies.
:)
Me, it's quite easy. I have all of 2 keys I carry around: #1 is my car key, #2 is my house key. Since I can't leave the house without using my car, and since I have no reason to pull out my keys at work or any other non-house location, well I just never lose my keys
RFID is easily foiled (*rimshot*) by any sufficiently massive _OR_ properly positioned hunk of metal. I played with the RF stickers at a video store that was once blessed with my dutiful presence, and soon discovered that they were rendered silent by merely holding an Xacto knife against the little bump in the center of the sticker. The knife would absorb the energy from the RF towers and thus the poor passive tag couldn't sing.
Now it is safe to assume that most of my customers were too retarded to even try the obvious, but I'm equally sure that a select few elite weirdos had perfected this art, or maybe even just lined their travel bag with a few layers of foil/sheetmetal, cuz we sure lost tons of tapes.
Dude, I hardly ever hear "I'd love to get a laptop" without being followed by "My buddy gets them for cheap". They're quite content in receiving X-random-laptop with X-lacking-features. Meanwhile, I blew a nice chunk on an Inspiron 8500 and even after a year I still love the damned thing and use it daily.
Now don't get me wrong, I was once in the dark, having purchased (and quickly resold) a few questionably-obtained mobile computing apparati. I didn't resell for monetary gain, which didn't happen anyways. I resold because I wanted those things out of my life forever, they sucked monkey balls. Sure, for the typical suit who just wants to "read email" and look as rich as the guy sitting next to him, yeah fine, but for a power hacker you want the fastest, most connectable, graphically-superior machine out there. It just so happens that when you blow 2500$ on a toy, you will see no wrong in spending another 100$ or so on security devices to protect your beloved electronic companion. Me, I like how my Bios is modded to phone home during POST. And how everything is passworded to infinity and beyond. And how I never leave it in plain sight unless I'm standing near with a weapon of mass bludgeoning.
Long story short: stolen laptops suck, because good laptops have watchful caring owners.
Take it from a fellow elitist: get out of that nerd-camp while you still can. There's nothing more depressing than posting to slashdot on a laptop with your cell phone while waiting for a cab fare. 25 years old, 160+ iq, driving a cab, hacking Apache source and poorer than the day I graduated.
If you're still not broken, well at least get a laptop so you'll be able to cohort with your fellow geeks a few years down the line when your life is a mess and all you've got left is that peachy old laptop.
RTFS (rtf sarcasm), I don't care how much it costs. Google is the ultimate faq/howto/encyclopedia. If someone is moving onto Linux they should at least be handy with a search engine. First things first, as they say ?
Just get a humongous 2.4ghz transmitter to squash all the rogues on all channels.
Or hire a bunch of evil nazi unabrow dykes to slap cheaters silly.
It's simply really, the idiot programmer didn't bother i18n'ing his driver, so he just blocks out everything that's not US English. He does this because he works for Sony, whose corporate mindset is "Fuck them as hard as we can get away with". Now you, the customer, go out and buy Sony because you like the flashy colours and are led to believe that it's a better toy than Brand-X because of its heavy price tag, thus you just made "their" system work.
Return that piece of crap, I'll even drive you to the store at gunpoint if you're not convinced.
I used to be a Sony fanboy, heck I used to have a few shares in Sony stock, but I eventually learned that the grass is much greener on the other side of the megacorp.
Take my audio advice, if you want a nice tech toy, go with a company that has a proven track record with MP3 players, such as Rio, or a Creative Nomad or even an Archos if those things still exist. Don't waste your time with the TV-maker brands like Sony, Samsung, RCA, they pretty much all such in one major way or another. I am no expert on these devices, as my idea of a portable mp3 player is my car and its 3000$ sound system (screw headphones!), but I think a company whose main focus is computers and sound, is quite likely to build a better product than one who specializes in selling cheap electronics to the common ignorant majority.
Myself, I'd get a PocketPC or a tabletized notebook.. at least you can use those for other things than MP3, and you don't have to bust an artery when AAC or WMV or whatever-next-gen-format takes over.
I'd endorse this book if it had only one page that read "Kill Yourself Now!", because any dummy who shells 90$ for a hardcopy about using Linux, REALLY doesn't get it.
When I started using Linux I had RedHat installed, and I used a windoze box to IM my guru whenever I ran into a brick wall... until I got the hang of installing RPM's n'stuff. Today (4 years later) I've got a fully-tweaked Debian as well as a minimalist LFS build on the nat box. I can't say I've seen any book on Linux that wasn't full of condescending bile.
I know I'm being overly broad, but to me Linux is good for 2.5 things: servers, code hackers and network enthusiasts (who can at least script in Perl). Anyone else, no matter how clever, is really just wasting their time (and ours once they hit the forums/irc). If you can't fire up google and find your own damn answers, then you shouldn't be fooling around with Linux. My first linux distro was a store-bought copy of Slackware 2.0, and I never managed to get past the install phase because back in 1993 the Internet wasn't really a popular thing for kids, besides I still think BBS'es were much cooler, the lo-fi ANSi graphics, the very personal feel of it all, the fact that a human could be watching the terminal and hop in at any moment for a nice chat. So I tossed the Slack discs and got back to wardialing.
Here are the rules of Internet of 1995 Club.
#1 You do not talk about Internet of 1995 Club
#2 You do not talk about Internet of 1995 Club
#3 If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the wardial is over
#4 Only two guys to a cracked password
#5 One browser at a time
#6 No winmodems, no SLIP
#7 Downloads will go on as long as they have to
#8 If this is your first night at Internet of 1995 Club, you HAVE to gopher.
If you don't want MAPS to hinder your mailability, well, just ignore them. MAPS is a pain in the ass for anyone with a [too-small-to-bribe-maps-admins]-sized e-business. You get MAPS bounces all the time for no apparent reason, they just hate everyone.
The main problem is that sometimes, one man's spam is another man's treasure. I don't think it is up to a central authority to tell me what I can and can't read. I much prefer the client-side flavors of spam filtering, such as bayesian filters (of which a distributed system exists under the name Cloudmark). At least that way the mail still gets around, it is just pre-sorted as Ham, Spam or Unsure. I usually just wipe the "spam"-flagged mail, then quickly peruse the Unsure and Ham folders. In this scenario I am free to read "spam" mail if it happens to be a false-positive, or maybe I'm just curious about Cialis =)
I'd really like to know how to draw a nonlinear line. Oh wait, would that be a curve ?
Spinning cube of doom, linear lines, and lawnmower plots that really look like an old-school SVGA game that doesn't quite grok the frame buffer. It all looks amateurish to me.
Considering I pay something like 5 cents per Kb for cell internet, it's only going to cost me 843.75$ per second to download all the l33test warez to my cell phone.
Yay technology.
In such a blasphemous scenario, would it be possible to sue the 'stoolie' for harassment ? He pretty much abused police and FBI resources in order to harass someone over a rather weak and ignorant suspicion.
What if someone from the boonies had never seen a compact disc, if they thought it was a saw blade or other potentially dangerous device, they might overreact the same way this idiot landlord did, and label me a manufacturer of weapons of mass cutting.
If their code or data structures are too flawed to stream in as fast as the game needs, then they simply need to rethink their code/data. If the Gamecube is 20% slower (big vulgarisation here), then just reduce the map data by 20% and go on with life. Heck, if people can port games to the 32mb PS2 and the 64mb Xbox with minor visual or audio differences, but still fully playable... well, Gamecube can't be that far away in terms of development hurdles.
Hey!
E.T. was kind cool in a lo-fi way, until you hit that glitch where as soon as your neck sticks out of a pit, your legs pull you back down, and then you repeat this until you die and that faggot comes around to revive you. And then you die again.
Man that game sucked!
Maybe I'm being an ignorant genius, but isn't it just plain obvious that there is an infinite number of primes, thus an infinite number of twin primes. Why ? Because there is an infinite number of possible numbers. Sure, primes get farther distanced from each other as the number increases in magnitude, but there's always one around the corner.
I wish mathematicians spent more time on matters of current affair, like gas prices! This kind of 'discovery' bullcrap was fine in the egyptian era where school was nonexistent and everyone was a fricking ignorant unless they happened to suck some royalty's appendage the right way. Today it's obsolete, those who do not understand either don't care, or lack the requisite synaptic ability to function adequately in modern times.
I have also witnessed a minor reduction in my yearly insurance rate due to having no at-fault claims in 8 years. That is what I call a relative reduction. My insurance may be cheaper than my neighbor's, but slowly and surely it will gradually increase to keep up with market trends and inflation and all sorts of synthetic financial benchmarks. Even though a Big Mac probably costs less than a dollar to make, they will keep on selling it for 2.99$ until some analyst calculates they could still sell just as many at 3.29$.. then a few years later at 3.49$ etc.
The products themselves do not necessarily improve or offer greater satisfaction, in fact the opposite is often true. The more a company can charge and the less they spend, that's good business. The imaginary goal of every capitalist entity is to work/sell/offer less and charge more.
The hard part in pay-for-porn is authentication. Not hard to implement, but hard on the server. If you have 40-50 simultaneous users clicking on the "Next" arrow to surf through your photo galleries, each time a pic is loaded you need to confirm the user's login. This means either grepping the htpasswd file, or running a database lookup.
:)
I can serve 1200 static pages per second, but if there is an SQL query or even just moderate PHP processing that number drops down to 150-200 hits-per-second. It's not dragging the server to its knees, but it does cause noticeable lag in the 400-500ms area. If you've got 20 thumbnails on the page then you're looking at roughly 10 seconds before everything is loaded, no matter how much bandwidth you have.
To work around such things, I've been playing with a shared-memory caching system. I keep the valid user list in shm, then have the perl/php use that instead of hitting the database all the time, since login data only changes once or twice a day. It is trivial to trigger a shm-update whenever the billing company calls up their cgi to alter the user list. I just wish this kind of functionality existed right inside apache because it would sure help several thousand other webmasters
If you're into speed, you should look into ultralight frames like carbon/titanium-mesh. Some of them are under 5 lbs (without wheels). The downside is that you will fly to the moon if you jump off a pothole :)
I remember being taught this very thing by my good buddy the electronics geek, when I was EIGHT!
:)
Though we didn't use it on people, we just liked to stick it against metallic things and leave burn streaks =) In my case it wasn't a constant buzzing thing, it was just a flash discharge so it would let off a gigantic blast every 2-3 seconds. Still damned cool for 3rd grader