A lot of people are working on their own custom machines - some just change the artwork and layout of a playfield, some make everything including the whole hardware and software from scratch. On my site http://www.flippers.be/ I have an overview of custom pinball machines.
also my opinion.; the very wealthy will take a trip to the moon, wait for the asteroid to hit earth, and come back after a while when things have settled..
The black egg part is also mentioned in one of Ira's security books. Seems to me this happened already a few years ago. So while you can find them now everywhere, 5 years ago maybe it wasn't.
More important detail of this (not mentioned in the article but only in the book): not only did they have these eggs in the middle of nowhere, but they were even cheaper than you would buy them in China. So there was no way this was a restaurant trying to run a legimite business (and trying to make profit selling food). The book also mentions that when he asked about the eggs, they noticed he could read chines and they refused to sell food to him and they had to leave the restaurant.. Combine all these elements, and it's more obvious the restaurant he talks about was just a front end for spying or other activities.
it's about being able to have a rather healthy lifestile and combining a job with personal life without burning out or having a heart attack by the time you're 40.. drink coffee black if you need your caffeine shot and don't add suger or any other stuff into it, as that'll only make you fat and slow in the long run.. that coffee part is only a very small chapter in this book, I said it as it's something you don't expect in a book about being a dba or it professional.. most things you should already know (I hope you do if you have some work experience) but it was a good read and good to be reminded of everything again..
and no you don't have to be a DBA to read it or have any use of it. Everyone who is/wants to become a professional attitude in IT has to read it IMO ! Only 1/3rd is about databases (and high level, describing things you can apply in other IT jobs too), the rest is more about how to be at work, working with coworkers, it even says you to drink less coffee with sugar and start jogging:)
As far as I know it'll check the different faces and decide where it has to put focus and a small enough aperture so they all are sharp. So if the faces are close enough to each other it can focus on one and go for a small dof that'll have them all sharp, if they're further away then it'll increase dof (and thus exposure time) and possible put actual focus somewhere in between the faces (again, if I'm not mistaken it's around 1/3 before your focal point and 2/3 after it that's sharp).
And Japan has learned to adapt. They have to or they can't sell.
I'm in Belgium, and up to about 2 or 3 years ago you couldn't buy a Honda with a diesel engine. While Hondas were very popular cars here in the 80ies, their popularity dropped a lot. Car dealerships even switched brands as they couldn't sell enough Hondas, people looked for diesel engines. Honda finally adapted and introduced a diesel model. (launched with a rather large ad campaign to let everyone know they finally had a diesel)
Btw it was last week in the news, here in Belgium about 75% of all cars have a diesel engine.
One thing I'll test (if I ever have time) if the project can be adapted to run on pinball displays.. Pinball machines in the 80ies also used this type of vacuum displays (Gottliebs had the nice blue ones like shown here), Bally/Stern/Williams had smaller red ones - 6 and 7 digits.
I have enough of these pinball displays laying around (used ones can be found cheap from parts games on ebay and even new displays are still available from pinball parts shops).. so these are probably easier parts to find than these rare russian displays. And what will be cooler in a gameroom than to have a clock made out of pinball displays ? (maybe even put it in a fake backbox).
For those interested in fmri and marketing I suggest you read Martin Lindstroms book Buyology.
> unless you ask him (and he chooses to tell the truth) you'll never know.
What I learned from that book was that people don't know themselves if they tell the truth.. Our unconscious mind reacts very fast, makes impulse decisions (what product to buy, what you like,..) and when you're asked about it, our conscious mind will try logically explain it and make up a rationale (which may not be what actually happened)..
Ie when asked if they smoked less because of health warnings on cigarette packages, most people answer yes.. however the fmri showed it causes people to like smoking even more (the warnings make it even more a forbidden pleasure).
After reading the book 'spies among us' I've learned that making contact for selling information is just as simple as walking to an embassy/consulate from the specific country and asking to speak with someone about information..
how most red light cameras in europe work is they have sensors just behind the white line where you're supposed to stop.. if it's red and a car passes the pictures get taken (and only if the car passes fast enough - I've heard that if you drive very slow it doesn't goes off but haven't tried it myself:) once the car is on the intersection it doesn't matter anymore if it'll stop or not
and 2 pictures are taken and speed is also measured and recorded (most intersection cameras also can take your picture if you speed through a green light btw)
and like someone else said - traffic cameras should be bought, sharing profits is a bad idea
> the cameras were an invasion of privacy and their constituents thought they had been unfairly ticketed
1/ don't speed and there's no picture taken so no invasion of your privacy 2/ unfairly ticketed ? if there's a picture as proof I'd say it's fair you get a ticket..
when a salespersons commision and raise depends on it..
They're probably rated on the number of extended warranties they sell compared to the products they sell without. Ie say they have to sell 70% of items with an extended warranty. Don't sell enough products with an extended warranty and you can explain to the manager why your average is lower than that of the other salespersons, you don't get a raise,..
So to get your average up there are two options: 1/ sell more extended warranties (difficult to do) 2/ sell less products without them (easy)
Also depends on how old the websites they searched are.. only recently added websites or also websites and old pages that exist longer than the standard they validated against exists ?
Unless the OP is sure to be able to raise his grades significant (so they're very high) it may be worth to do another year.
If he still stays within the 'average student' category it'll be a lost year and decrease his income over a lifetime.
Remember 1 extra year in college will be 1 year of wage lost before your retirement (if you retire at a fixed age like 65). And don't look at the wage you'll you miss now, but the yearly salary you miss will be the one in 40 years time that should be a lot higher..
Only if you are sure the extra year now will improve your qualifications so you'll make up a whole lost year of income over your whole career, it may be worth it. But getting other qualifications may be a better solution to increase your income over your career.
One reason picking locks doesn't happen very often isn't only that you need the skill, but you also need the tools.
Possession may even be illegal on some places, but even if it's legal to own it, it shows intent to break in. Police stopping someone walking around at night in an area he has no business and he has lock picking tools ? Bad move of that guy..
My sport is target rifle shooting.. 10 meter air rifle and smallbore. Definitely a geek/zen sport and for those people who are perfectionists (if you're no perfectionist you won't be motivated to aim for a 1/2 millimeter dot 10 meter away and do it over and over again).
The 'problem' is you need to train certain skills to be good but shooting itself won't always help you develop them. It's a zen sport, you need to concentrate and make your mind empty.. so shooting helps to relax, but on the other hand if you just have too many things on your mind and can't forget them you won't shoot well. So one should learn relaxation techniques also.
And to be good you have to train your body, run and swim.. train the back muscles. I noticed my shooting improved when I biked to work, since I have a motorcycle it's worse again. So the shooting competition motivates me to do other sports that I wouldn't do otherwise (some situps and now the weather is better I'll finally start running).
And for those who think it's no real sport: it's weird but after shooting for half an hour to an hour and you're wet and sweating.. without having lifted your feet from the ground once or doing large movements with your arms, it's just from concentration (and the thick jacket also helps:)
Already done in the 80ies.. I remember viewing photos from a car show.
It was some swiss car tuner (don't remember the name, same guy that invented a wheel where the axl doesn't connect in the middle but on the side of the rim) who came up with this: a car that lowered 4 small wheels with an electro motor so the car drove sideways into a parking space.
The trick for parallel parking how I learned it (and which goes well):
- drive until your next to the car you want to park behind - start to drive slowly backwards, turn into the spot
now the trick: - look until you see front corner of the car behind you that's near the foothpath from your opposite side mirror - then start turning the wheel in the opposite direction whilst turning backwards (middle mirror or side to see how close you are) - when you're very close then just drive a bit forward and you're parked perfectly between the two cars
so if you park on the left side of the street, in your right side mirror you look for the left corner of the car behind you; park on right side of street and look in your left mirror for front right corner of car
this works very well, even better in tight places than in places where you have a lot of space (ie 2 or 3 car lengths) ideally you start to learn this when the spot is your car length + 1 metre
depending on the size of your car you need to practise a bit to know how sharp and fast you start to turn in initially.. but this way my wife can even park our 4 door break car in tight spots (ie 10 cm before and after the car, sometimes even less)
Last year in a local magazine (in Belgium, magazine is Humo) there was an article about the finances of Osama Bin Laden. I don't remember all specifics and I didn't search on the net for proof but the gist was that like 80 percent of all 'arabic gum' (sp ?) production (used in candy and other foods) comes from one concern which is owned/run by Osama (or his family).
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A lot of people are working on their own custom machines - some just change the artwork and layout of a playfield, some make everything including the whole hardware and software from scratch.
On my site http://www.flippers.be/ I have an overview of custom pinball machines.
also my opinion.; the very wealthy will take a trip to the moon, wait for the asteroid to hit earth, and come back after a while when things have settled..
The black egg part is also mentioned in one of Ira's security books. Seems to me this happened already a few years ago. So while you can find them now everywhere, 5 years ago maybe it wasn't.
More important detail of this (not mentioned in the article but only in the book): not only did they have these eggs in the middle of nowhere, but they were even cheaper than you would buy them in China.
So there was no way this was a restaurant trying to run a legimite business (and trying to make profit selling food). The book also mentions that when he asked about the eggs, they noticed he could read chines and they refused to sell food to him and they had to leave the restaurant..
Combine all these elements, and it's more obvious the restaurant he talks about was just a front end for spying or other activities.
it's about being able to have a rather healthy lifestile and combining a job with personal life without burning out or having a heart attack by the time you're 40.. drink coffee black if you need your caffeine shot and don't add suger or any other stuff into it, as that'll only make you fat and slow in the long run..
that coffee part is only a very small chapter in this book, I said it as it's something you don't expect in a book about being a dba or it professional.. most things you should already know (I hope you do if you have some work experience) but it was a good read and good to be reminded of everything again..
Just read this book and it's excellent for what you need:
http://www.amazon.com/DBA-Survivor-Become-Rock-Star/dp/1430227877
and no you don't have to be a DBA to read it or have any use of it. :)
Everyone who is/wants to become a professional attitude in IT has to read it IMO !
Only 1/3rd is about databases (and high level, describing things you can apply in other IT jobs too),
the rest is more about how to be at work, working with coworkers, it even says you to drink less coffee with sugar
and start jogging
As far as I know it'll check the different faces and decide where it has to put focus and a small enough aperture so
they all are sharp.
So if the faces are close enough to each other it can focus on one and go for a small dof that'll have them all sharp, if they're further away then it'll increase dof (and thus exposure time) and possible put actual focus somewhere in between the faces (again, if I'm not mistaken it's around 1/3 before your focal point and 2/3 after it that's sharp).
me too :-)
quite a coincidence, was yesterday surfing around reading the guides and playing the online versino again.
Got curious, opened google maps, and learned that Upper Sandusky actually exists ?!
I always thought it was a fictional place..
No, Subaru was first, Audi Quattro was most popular/better marketing so people remember it more.
And Japan has learned to adapt. They have to or they can't sell.
I'm in Belgium, and up to about 2 or 3 years ago you couldn't buy a Honda with a diesel engine.
While Hondas were very popular cars here in the 80ies, their popularity dropped a lot.
Car dealerships even switched brands as they couldn't sell enough Hondas, people looked for diesel engines.
Honda finally adapted and introduced a diesel model.
(launched with a rather large ad campaign to let everyone know they finally had a diesel)
Btw it was last week in the news, here in Belgium about 75% of all cars have a diesel engine.
It's also possible to call the doctor and ask him to come at your house..
then you won't infect others.
I really like this project..
One thing I'll test (if I ever have time) if the project can be adapted to run on pinball displays..
Pinball machines in the 80ies also used this type of vacuum displays (Gottliebs had the nice blue ones like shown here), Bally/Stern/Williams had smaller red ones - 6 and 7 digits.
I have enough of these pinball displays laying around (used ones can be found cheap from parts games on ebay and even new displays are still available from pinball parts shops).. so these are probably easier parts to find than these rare russian displays.
And what will be cooler in a gameroom than to have a clock made out of pinball displays ?
(maybe even put it in a fake backbox).
> (once you build a huge fleet of ships).
Sounds like time to invest in stocks of ship yards if he actually continues with this plan..
For those interested in fmri and marketing I suggest you read Martin Lindstroms book Buyology.
> unless you ask him (and he chooses to tell the truth) you'll never know.
What I learned from that book was that people don't know themselves if they tell the truth.. ..)
Our unconscious mind reacts very fast, makes impulse decisions (what product to buy, what you like,
and when you're asked about it, our conscious mind will try logically explain it and make up a rationale (which may not be what actually happened)..
Ie when asked if they smoked less because of health warnings on cigarette packages, most people answer yes..
however the fmri showed it causes people to like smoking even more (the warnings make it even more a forbidden pleasure).
After reading the book 'spies among us' I've learned that making contact for selling information is just as simple as walking
to an embassy/consulate from the specific country and asking to speak with someone about information..
ok in that situation it's unfair.
how most red light cameras in europe work is they have sensors just behind the white line where you're supposed to stop.. :)
if it's red and a car passes the pictures get taken
(and only if the car passes fast enough - I've heard that if you drive very slow it doesn't goes off but haven't tried it myself
once the car is on the intersection it doesn't matter anymore if it'll stop or not
and 2 pictures are taken and speed is also measured and recorded (most intersection cameras also can take your picture if you speed through a green light btw)
and like someone else said - traffic cameras should be bought, sharing profits is a bad idea
> the cameras were an invasion of privacy and their constituents thought they had been unfairly ticketed
1/ don't speed and there's no picture taken so no invasion of your privacy
2/ unfairly ticketed ? if there's a picture as proof I'd say it's fair you get a ticket..
when a salespersons commision and raise depends on it..
They're probably rated on the number of extended warranties they sell compared to the products they sell without. ..
Ie say they have to sell 70% of items with an extended warranty.
Don't sell enough products with an extended warranty and you can explain to the manager why your average is lower than that of the other salespersons, you don't get a raise,
So to get your average up there are two options:
1/ sell more extended warranties (difficult to do)
2/ sell less products without them (easy)
This solution sounds very interesting..
now what I could use is a solution to restore yellowed clear plastic (acrylic) as used on pinball machines..
I'll give it a try on some broken parts and hope it works too..
Also depends on how old the websites they searched are..
only recently added websites or also websites and old pages that exist longer than the standard they validated against exists ?
Also my opinion.
Unless the OP is sure to be able to raise his grades significant (so they're very high) it may be worth to do another year.
If he still stays within the 'average student' category it'll be a lost year and decrease his income over a lifetime.
Remember 1 extra year in college will be 1 year of wage lost before your retirement (if you retire at a fixed age like 65). And don't look at the wage you'll you miss now, but the yearly salary you miss will be the one in 40 years time that should be a lot higher..
Only if you are sure the extra year now will improve your qualifications so you'll make up a whole lost year of income over your whole career, it may be worth it. But getting other qualifications may be a better solution to increase your income over your career.
One reason picking locks doesn't happen very often isn't only that you need the skill, but you also need the tools.
Possession may even be illegal on some places, but even if it's legal to own it, it shows intent to break in.
Police stopping someone walking around at night in an area he has no business and he has lock picking tools ?
Bad move of that guy..
My sport is target rifle shooting.. 10 meter air rifle and smallbore.
:)
Definitely a geek/zen sport and for those people who are perfectionists
(if you're no perfectionist you won't be motivated to aim for a 1/2 millimeter dot 10 meter away and do it over and over again).
The 'problem' is you need to train certain skills to be good but shooting itself won't always help you develop them.
It's a zen sport, you need to concentrate and make your mind empty.. so shooting helps to relax, but on the other hand if you just have too many things on your mind and can't forget them you won't shoot well. So one should learn relaxation techniques also.
And to be good you have to train your body, run and swim.. train the back muscles. I noticed my shooting improved when I biked to work, since I have a motorcycle it's worse again. So the shooting competition motivates me to do other sports that I wouldn't do otherwise (some situps and now the weather is better I'll finally start running).
And for those who think it's no real sport: it's weird but after shooting for half an hour to an hour and you're wet and sweating.. without having lifted your feet from the ground once or doing large movements with your arms, it's just from concentration (and the thick jacket also helps
Already done in the 80ies.. I remember viewing photos from a car show.
It was some swiss car tuner (don't remember the name, same guy that invented a wheel where the axl doesn't connect in the middle but on the side of the rim) who came up with this: a car that lowered 4 small wheels with an electro motor so the car drove sideways into a parking space.
The trick for parallel parking how I learned it (and which goes well):
- drive until your next to the car you want to park behind
- start to drive slowly backwards, turn into the spot
now the trick:
- look until you see front corner of the car behind you that's near the foothpath from your opposite side mirror
- then start turning the wheel in the opposite direction whilst turning backwards (middle mirror or side to see how close you are)
- when you're very close then just drive a bit forward and you're parked perfectly between the two cars
so if you park on the left side of the street, in your right side mirror you look for the left corner of the car behind you;
park on right side of street and look in your left mirror for front right corner of car
this works very well, even better in tight places than in places where you have a lot of space (ie 2 or 3 car lengths)
ideally you start to learn this when the spot is your car length + 1 metre
depending on the size of your car you need to practise a bit to know how sharp and fast you start to turn in initially..
but this way my wife can even park our 4 door break car in tight spots (ie 10 cm before and after the car, sometimes even less)
Do you eat candy ? then you're financing Osama.
Last year in a local magazine (in Belgium, magazine is Humo) there was an article about the finances of Osama Bin Laden.
I don't remember all specifics and I didn't search on the net for proof but the gist was that like 80 percent of all 'arabic gum' (sp ?) production (used in candy and other foods) comes from one concern which is owned/run by Osama (or his family).