Someone made some software for the TI-82 that let you play music on AM radio.
Back in the 70s and early 80s, that's how we made sound effects on home computers. Games sometimes contained loops specifically designed to do nothing but generate sound effects when you placed an AM radio in close proximity to the computer.
The biggest problem with trackballs: Your thumb is not a precision instrument. It did not evolve to move over a large range or with any accuracy. Using your thumb as a pointer is like using a hammer to measure distance.
But it's the alarm company that dispatches the police, not the alarm doing it directly. I have a friend with very sophisticated home-built home automation, and he thought it would be great to have the alarm contact the police. It would fax images from every motion-triggered camera and placed a phone call with a pre-recorded message.
The first time it went off they just gave him a warning (although they did respond, and they did catch the guy). At that time they explained that it's not legal to do this anywhere in the country. Now his system is monitored.
A few years later I built a home-automation system and when I registered the alarm with the local cops (a requirement in our town, with a fee of course), the paperwork they gave me spelled it out, too.
A burglar alarm that alerts the police or a security company would seem to offer better protection.
In virtually everywhere in the US, it is illegal to operate a security system which automatically contacts the police or other emergency services. In some places the fine can be quite large.
I don't disagree with you. I was merely pointing out that the right to remain silent is not itself automatic protection from arrest in today's world, as the earlier post suggested.
You are also not compelled to speak under any circumstances even when you are given sworn testimony.
But yes, the ruling was wrong. In effect, when an officer requests identification he is [i]searching[/i] for information. I believe that makes this illegal search and siezure.
The right to remain silent doesn't protect you from arrest.
Otherwise you could just climb the old clocktower and start shooting, then just clam up and walk home scott-free when Johnny Law finally dropped the donut and came to see what all the noise and excitement was about.
On the other hand, it should make it easier for cops to get dates....Whoa! Where did that come from?
You joke, but 15 years ago I was in high school, and my 15 year old girlfriend was regularly stopped by cops -- different cops -- trying to "get to know her". And there weren't THAT many cops around (we lived in a town of about 40,000 people). At first she was practically traumatized, then she was just disgusted, and finally she just became fed up.
She was a hottie, to be sure, but (1) she was a high school kid, and (2) WHAT THE FUCK?
Those are just the big-publicity projects -- basically research and proof-of-concept things. (And I disagree this falls into that category.) He actually has several thriving aerospace lines of business which are quite successful, and they derive significant benefit from these projects.
Considering his next stated goal is to reach orbit, it's unlikely civilian spaceflight will never be heard of again. It may not happen overnight, but that's because these things are difficult, expensive, and complicated.
The question was "why" and was unrelated to the cost, but yes, you're right. It only costs about $1500 to have somebody do the install, and that includes them supplying the cable. In the bigger picture, it's very much worth it to pay someone else to do it.
The funny part is, we do also have a wireless point almost dead-center in the house. However, my wife does a lot of video editing at that sort of thing, so we can't realistically get away from the wire yet.
I personally have great hopes for the new HomePlug AV standard -- it looks like I may have missed it by just a few years, unfortunately, but if HPAV works out, we'll have 200Mbps LAN and full audio/video shared over household powerlines.
That's just stupid. There are many, many people who run nitrous on daily driven street cars. In fact, you can buy them in as small as 25 HP shots, so they are by no means something that should be reserved for "dedicated race machines".
Your comments about needing an aftermarket ECU are also misled. Most stock ECUs are programmable to some degree, and some are highly adaptable. I know a guy running a 30 PSI turbo in his 780+ HP Supra and he's on the stock ECU. Granted, if he went aftermarket he could pick up another 50 HP or so, but that's beside the point.
Why does a single house need that many cables in the closet anyway?
Our new house (over 7000 square feet under-roof) will have 12 audio/visual sources routed to 12 separate zones (some of which have multiple output points per zone) via an AutoPatch Modula matrix switcher, almost all of which runs as baseband signals on CAT5e. IR signals are also sent back to the AV closet via CAT5e, and telephony runs on CAT5e. Additionally, we have LAN jacks in 10 locations.
He's right. I've played GT, GT2 and GT3 and none of them are even close to the real thing. I spend about 10 days out of each year on real road courses pushing a 525 HP car to it's limits, so I do know a little about the subject.
They're fun, but they aren't close to real. Right now I'd have to rate TOCA Race Driver 2 on the XBox as the closest to realistic, but that has seriously video-gamey aspects, too.
They will NEVER be able to simulate the physical sensations which play into it -- a controller vibrating in your hand can't simultaneously communicate brake pedal pressure, whether the car is becoming unsettled, how greasy your tires are getting, g-loading through a turn, and a hundred other things that you sense all at once when you're really out there driving.
Granted, this level of realism probably isn't required for what the original article poster is requesting, but the GT series still doesn't cut it as a realistic "simulation", and it doesn't come anywhere close to providing real-world driving scenarios which would be useful for educating Junior on the horrors of bumper-to-bumper traffic.
I involuntarily groan every time somebody sits down at a keyboard and announces that they have to "hack the mainframe". Which inevitably takes 15 to 20 seconds.
Nah, I realized it was a joke, but (surprisingly) I actually haven't heard anyone propose that, so I decided to comment as if it was serious. There are a few rules it breaks, but it seems to come pretty damned close to satisfying many of the conditions.
I disagree that industry has the solutions necessary to attack the offroad portion with any great ease. To a degree, industry is participating since many of the teams are using 4x4 vehicles. But having spent a lot of time driving offroad myself, I can tell you that even with a well-equipped vehicle and a human driver, it's very easy to get yourself stuck quickly.
Good thought about an X-Prize style competition, though.
Of course, the flip side of that is that the sysadmins end up with the "keys to the kingdom", and since they're basically janitorial staff, they fail to understand that developers are not just another category of end-users. This becomes more prevalent the larger the company is.
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It's just a VM embedded on firmware, NOT a REAL CPU.
The CLR is not a VM.
You don't know much about the Sony corporation, do you?
Microsoft is a fucking big-eyed kitten by comparison.
Someone made some software for the TI-82 that let you play music on AM radio.
Back in the 70s and early 80s, that's how we made sound effects on home computers. Games sometimes contained loops specifically designed to do nothing but generate sound effects when you placed an AM radio in close proximity to the computer.
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concluded the molecular bonds are looser than thought.
Try "previously thought," for example.
Christ, why do we contine to pay these so-called editors?
Oh, wait...
The biggest problem with trackballs: Your thumb is not a precision instrument. It did not evolve to move over a large range or with any accuracy. Using your thumb as a pointer is like using a hammer to measure distance.
But it's the alarm company that dispatches the police, not the alarm doing it directly. I have a friend with very sophisticated home-built home automation, and he thought it would be great to have the alarm contact the police. It would fax images from every motion-triggered camera and placed a phone call with a pre-recorded message.
The first time it went off they just gave him a warning (although they did respond, and they did catch the guy). At that time they explained that it's not legal to do this anywhere in the country. Now his system is monitored.
A few years later I built a home-automation system and when I registered the alarm with the local cops (a requirement in our town, with a fee of course), the paperwork they gave me spelled it out, too.
And on a similar note, Chrysler refers to their 360 as a 5.8L.
A burglar alarm that alerts the police or a security company would seem to offer better protection.
In virtually everywhere in the US, it is illegal to operate a security system which automatically contacts the police or other emergency services. In some places the fine can be quite large.
I don't disagree with you. I was merely pointing out that the right to remain silent is not itself automatic protection from arrest in today's world, as the earlier post suggested.
You are also not compelled to speak under any circumstances even when you are given sworn testimony.
But yes, the ruling was wrong. In effect, when an officer requests identification he is [i]searching[/i] for information. I believe that makes this illegal search and siezure.
The right to remain silent doesn't protect you from arrest.
Otherwise you could just climb the old clocktower and start shooting, then just clam up and walk home scott-free when Johnny Law finally dropped the donut and came to see what all the noise and excitement was about.
On the other hand, it should make it easier for cops to get dates....Whoa! Where did that come from?
You joke, but 15 years ago I was in high school, and my 15 year old girlfriend was regularly stopped by cops -- different cops -- trying to "get to know her". And there weren't THAT many cops around (we lived in a town of about 40,000 people). At first she was practically traumatized, then she was just disgusted, and finally she just became fed up.
She was a hottie, to be sure, but (1) she was a high school kid, and (2) WHAT THE FUCK?
I hate cops.
Those are just the big-publicity projects -- basically research and proof-of-concept things. (And I disagree this falls into that category.) He actually has several thriving aerospace lines of business which are quite successful, and they derive significant benefit from these projects.
Considering his next stated goal is to reach orbit, it's unlikely civilian spaceflight will never be heard of again. It may not happen overnight, but that's because these things are difficult, expensive, and complicated.
Just over $20M, according to Paul Allen who was the main source of funding.
"Beech" Starship, actually. As in "Beechcraft".
The question was "why" and was unrelated to the cost, but yes, you're right. It only costs about $1500 to have somebody do the install, and that includes them supplying the cable. In the bigger picture, it's very much worth it to pay someone else to do it.
The funny part is, we do also have a wireless point almost dead-center in the house. However, my wife does a lot of video editing at that sort of thing, so we can't realistically get away from the wire yet.
I personally have great hopes for the new HomePlug AV standard -- it looks like I may have missed it by just a few years, unfortunately, but if HPAV works out, we'll have 200Mbps LAN and full audio/video shared over household powerlines.
That's just stupid. There are many, many people who run nitrous on daily driven street cars. In fact, you can buy them in as small as 25 HP shots, so they are by no means something that should be reserved for "dedicated race machines".
Your comments about needing an aftermarket ECU are also misled. Most stock ECUs are programmable to some degree, and some are highly adaptable. I know a guy running a 30 PSI turbo in his 780+ HP Supra and he's on the stock ECU. Granted, if he went aftermarket he could pick up another 50 HP or so, but that's beside the point.
Why does a single house need that many cables in the closet anyway?
Our new house (over 7000 square feet under-roof) will have 12 audio/visual sources routed to 12 separate zones (some of which have multiple output points per zone) via an AutoPatch Modula matrix switcher, almost all of which runs as baseband signals on CAT5e. IR signals are also sent back to the AV closet via CAT5e, and telephony runs on CAT5e. Additionally, we have LAN jacks in 10 locations.
So: one house, 38 CAT5e cable runs.
Easy.
Then the originals are probably worth reading, don't you think?
I was with you until that last sentence, then you lost me.
Foot in the door? It sounds like this guy hasn't even found the door yet...
He's right. I've played GT, GT2 and GT3 and none of them are even close to the real thing. I spend about 10 days out of each year on real road courses pushing a 525 HP car to it's limits, so I do know a little about the subject.
They're fun, but they aren't close to real. Right now I'd have to rate TOCA Race Driver 2 on the XBox as the closest to realistic, but that has seriously video-gamey aspects, too.
They will NEVER be able to simulate the physical sensations which play into it -- a controller vibrating in your hand can't simultaneously communicate brake pedal pressure, whether the car is becoming unsettled, how greasy your tires are getting, g-loading through a turn, and a hundred other things that you sense all at once when you're really out there driving.
Granted, this level of realism probably isn't required for what the original article poster is requesting, but the GT series still doesn't cut it as a realistic "simulation", and it doesn't come anywhere close to providing real-world driving scenarios which would be useful for educating Junior on the horrors of bumper-to-bumper traffic.
LOL.
H4X0R TEH MA1NFRAM3, Please Wait.
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(15 seconds remaining...)
I involuntarily groan every time somebody sits down at a keyboard and announces that they have to "hack the mainframe". Which inevitably takes 15 to 20 seconds.
Nah, I realized it was a joke, but (surprisingly) I actually haven't heard anyone propose that, so I decided to comment as if it was serious. There are a few rules it breaks, but it seems to come pretty damned close to satisfying many of the conditions.
I disagree that industry has the solutions necessary to attack the offroad portion with any great ease. To a degree, industry is participating since many of the teams are using 4x4 vehicles. But having spent a lot of time driving offroad myself, I can tell you that even with a well-equipped vehicle and a human driver, it's very easy to get yourself stuck quickly.
Good thought about an X-Prize style competition, though.
Of course, the flip side of that is that the sysadmins end up with the "keys to the kingdom", and since they're basically janitorial staff, they fail to understand that developers are not just another category of end-users. This becomes more prevalent the larger the company is.