bah... all you need is 120 wire pairs, clip off the LEDs, solder the pairs to the sign, then to the lasers... that's 4 solder points per laser... 480 points total... if it takes you a minute for each one (that's cutting it pretty short, especially when you consider icing the burns from dropping the iron because the cat was playing with the cord)... that's 8 hours...
get one of the signs from here or build your own, mount the pointers in a grid, wire the sign to control the pointers instead of LEDs, ta-da, instant mobile sign.... project onto passing cars, buildings, etc...
Movies need to be encoded at 1280x720 and 1920x1080 with the original audio data on the disc. Currently, anyone with a decent 36", or larger, display
I'm sorry... maybe I'm missing something, correct me if I'm wrong, but TV's now days run at 420 (isn't it, or is it 480, I can never remember for sure), and HD is considered 720/1080.... WHY OH WHY would you encode at anything higher than that? I just purchased a TV that can display 1080p, I'm not planning on buying another for at least 4-5 years.... by then, any movies I encode will be lost in my coaster pile....
OK if you're displaying it on your monitor, but you bring up HDTV....
Here's what I understand: you already have everything up and running on an access database you want to use a different database platform
doesn't sound like you need to worry about designing anything, its already there.... especially if you want to go from access to MySQL (or any other of the same family), just build the database structure to match the old one, export to.csv from word, and import to your chosen database... interfacing should be similar, it depends on how you're accessing it (if web based, and you have admin privs on the host machine, you just change the database type in the control panel, google:asp+mysql )...
so unless I've over simplified something, sounds like this is a classic mountain != molehill problem
I'd go with a Nexus Power supply... my next paycheck will go towards purchasing one from quietpc.com... they're widely known as the quietest power supplies available.
That said, also look into the miniITX stuff pointed to in one of the earlier posts... I have a miniITX computer with external power supply, but you can't run a pentium or AMD on it, just doesn't provide enough power.
here's the deal... the only way to load anything other than the xbox OS is to have that code signed by MS... you can read any disks you want to, that doesn't matter... it's being able to load your own OS without modding it thats important.... and you can do that once you have the key......
True, but that doesn't keep everyone from comparing it price-wise to the low-end GF4s
ohh... I can get the GeF4 for $100, why should I spend $300?...blah..blah...blah I'm mortally biased against ATI, therefore it's ok for me to make absurd claims
You're right... so lets all export all of the water from our farmlands to the needy countries of the world....
never mind that of the cows out here (in South Dakota)... I have NEVER EVER seen any actually irrigated... not with purified water, sometimes underground wells, but most farmers come up with this really neat idea of digging big holes in the ground, they call this a reservoir, it's a real nifty idea.
so this whole 5000 gallons of a resource we don't spend any energy "extracting" actually ends up being a bunch of bull-shit, as the water wouldn't be doing anything but SITTING...
just because you have an arguement, doesn't mean it's a good one... sure, there may be some places in the world where water is scarce... and we even felt the drought here in south dakota... but the point is that cattle can move to where the water IS, where you have to bring the water to the crops.... which do you think expends more energy?
there is nothing wrong with raising cattle, but there is something wrong with raising cattle where it's not viable
I currently have 3 seperate jobs (I'm a college student), and each one is affected by HIPAA in different ways... one is a branch of an insurance company, where I'm sure eventually all of our inter-company emails will have to be encrypted, reguardless of content, and we'll be very limited on what we can actually talk about on the phone (I'm in the phone cube all day)
the second is a hospital, where I work registration and transfers. Completely different setting, as I'm dealing with the patients face-to-face instead of over the phone, but there are lots of restrictions there, from where the monitors can be located (can't have a non-employee looking over your shoulder...) to how long the screen saver is set for (1 minute, and it's password protected, pain in the ass when you have to type that EVERY time you want to touch the computer)
for the third I work as a programmer for my college, we recently bid on a programming project to develop internet-based training for a very large hospice-based corporation. we'll be designing 20 modules to train volunteers and other very non-technical (i.e. retired, or first time workers) workers how to manage information correctly.
all of my jobs will be having INTENSIVE seminar type classes on what we need to stop doing so we don't get shut down. every one of them has taken a "do it or lose it" attitude about it because of the very short time frame to work with. There are still HIPAA mandates that are being changed, which means that nobody has even started creating the training, much less the training itself, and the compliance checks...
if you're a do-it-yourselfer, try baking it... my girlfriend gets violently sick when she smells flux (therefore my bench is outside, which is a bitch in south dakota winters), so baking it should get rid of the offending oder....
Otherwise return it if you bought it locally, or try and get a RMA if you got it online..
I've baked a couple boards that didn't get the "de-fluxed" completely, with mixed results, but if you follow his procedure closely (keep an eye on the temps!!!!), you'll be fine
Hey guys... read the whole article... notice who they cite as the provider for ALL of the information (for the lazy ones, it's an AMD paper that's hidden in their web site)
I love AMD, I only own AMD (and a C3, but that's in my vehicle) processors, but this is rather underhanded... for them to do tests, and quietly release the results so that a web site can regurgitate(sp) the information and make it look independant.
2 wrongs don't make a right... and their first wrong was not cooperating with the benchmark people in the first place.
Ignore the comments about free drinks. That's completely idiotic. Bowling alleys give away the games (almost) in an attempt to sell sodas and nachos.
actually, you're right and wrong at the same time... the deal is that you can make a higher profit margin on pop than you can on games...
pop itself is usually about $0.005 / oz... that means if you give away free pop, and the average person drinks an amazing amount of 64 oz per visit, you're only spending $0.32 on the customer... on the other hand, if you charge a buck or two less on the games, but charge $1 for 20oz of pop, you're making back the money, and all of the money they spend on food is above and beyond...
now which way is really more profitable depends on how you market things... if you give away fountain pop to people who have a membership (i.e. give mugs away w/ membership), but sell special things like bawls/red bull w/ a markup, it would be the best of both worlds
and about the video games... as long as they own a copy of the games that are installed on their computers, everything is fine... almost all liscenses are on a per-computer basis, not per-individual-user basis... and if they BYOC, they gotta sign a waiver that says they're responsible for everything they do
it's often easy to add on a cyber-cafe in a year or two when you upgrade the machines... you have all of the machines there, just make sure you have a room that's isolated from the noise of the LAN room, buy a laser printer, and you've instantly doubled the potential client base
shiat.... why not just travel back in time 2 years and tell people about it? pick some kind of encryption standard that's been reasonably safe until recently (or maybe release some kind of cryptic message that relies on a certain event, i.e. 9/11/01, to be decrypted... )
why would they want to take off the banner ads? Hey guys, we're gonna get 1 month worth of traffic in the next 2 hours, let's take off the adds that we get paid $.0125 per viewing....
the only reasons some sites can actually "survive" a/. is because of the income generated by so many people
I'm sorry, I meant it the other way around.... 80-90% gas, 10-20% ethanol.... damn typing at work, I lose train of thought in the middle of sentances....
how much would you buy a bunch of land in the middle of nowhere for?.... not much, I'm sure.... and if you sell it to a developer, they aren't interested in the house or anything like that, so you aren't gonna get enough to move to some small apartment in a city. Then what will they do there? all of the skills they learned growing up (because they had to work the farm as kids, otherwise it woulda meant hiring another laborer) are now useless.
The problem lies in the fact that the american people, despite all of their so called patriotism (i.e. wearing flags on their shirts cuz we got some buildings blown up... isn't that patriotism?[all apologies to real, pre 9/11 patriots out there]) won't pay attention to what the government is trying to do.... we live in a democracy, so there must be some reason the bills passed to give the farmers subsidies.... but just remember that EVERY time you buy gas w/o ethanol, you're wasting your tax dollars.... if you want something changed, vote for it, or against it, but whatever happens, live by it instead of complaining
yeah, but every car produced within the last 5 years (and most within the last 10 years) can run on 80-90% ethanol....
oh no... you can't run 100% ethanol... but at least do your part, and if nothing else, pay your countrymen rather than the foreigners... (and besides, it's cheaper because of the tax differences)
Yes... farming is a business.... so therefore it's a slave to the laws of supply and demand....
if the government decides that they want more corn produced for ethanol, they give out subsidies to farmers... the farmers grow the corn....
BUT if nobody uses the ethanol, then the ethanol producers don't need that much corn, so some farmers EVERYWHERE get stuck with grain-bins full of un-used corn....
they don't volunteer to be poor... they're stuck with corn that is bio-engineered to be good for ethanol, and hence isn't much good for eating, feeding cattle, or anything else. But what else could they do? The US imports too much food, and doesnt export much, so the prices on almost all agricultural products is VERY low.
see... the worst part is that these farmers have nothing else to produce. I live in south dakota, and I hear about this every year.... from the sides of paranoid hippies AND the "cry for me because it didn't rain all last month" farmers....
$125,000 is an aweful lot to live off of.... EXCEPT for when you have to pay laborers, pay for gas for the machinery, fix the machinery, etc.... consider hiring 2 men (BARE minimum) for a summer... that's $30,000... so you're already down to $95,000 then you factor in the fact that most wives work out at the farm... that comes down to ~$50,000 / person working... minus expenses... and they don't get squat for the corn they are producing... the only money they make is off the subsidy, but at least they are producing SOMETHING, rather than the posts here seem to suggest.
come out here and live for a few years, and you'll realize that these farmers don't want to be producing corn and living off the government... these are people who are putting in REAL work, and still have to rely on the government, think of how humilating(sp) that is!
but the farm is all they have, they can't decide to pick up a new trade, especially out here...
maybe some day we'll stop importing so much food from other countries, and give our farmers something to grow, so they can make a living on their own... but until then, try not to pick on the FARMERS for the government's policies
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bah... all you need is 120 wire pairs, clip off the LEDs, solder the pairs to the sign, then to the lasers... that's 4 solder points per laser... 480 points total... if it takes you a minute for each one (that's cutting it pretty short, especially when you consider icing the burns from dropping the iron because the cat was playing with the cord)... that's 8 hours...
get one of the signs from here or build your own, mount the pointers in a grid, wire the sign to control the pointers instead of LEDs, ta-da, instant mobile sign.... project onto passing cars, buildings, etc...
I'm sorry... maybe I'm missing something, correct me if I'm wrong, but TV's now days run at 420 (isn't it, or is it 480, I can never remember for sure), and HD is considered 720/1080.... WHY OH WHY would you encode at anything higher than that? I just purchased a TV that can display 1080p, I'm not planning on buying another for at least 4-5 years.... by then, any movies I encode will be lost in my coaster pile....
OK if you're displaying it on your monitor, but you bring up HDTV....
Here's what I understand:
.csv from word, and import to your chosen database... interfacing should be similar, it depends on how you're accessing it (if web based, and you have admin privs on the host machine, you just change the database type in the control panel, google:asp+mysql )...
you already have everything up and running on an access database
you want to use a different database platform
doesn't sound like you need to worry about designing anything, its already there.... especially if you want to go from access to MySQL (or any other of the same family), just build the database structure to match the old one, export to
so unless I've over simplified something, sounds like this is a classic mountain != molehill problem
mmmm... pantloads of hot grits...
I'd go with a Nexus Power supply... my next paycheck will go towards purchasing one from quietpc.com ... they're widely known as the quietest power supplies available.
That said, also look into the miniITX stuff pointed to in one of the earlier posts... I have a miniITX computer with external power supply, but you can't run a pentium or AMD on it, just doesn't provide enough power.
mmmmm... warm milk... toasty mammals... exactly what my mom used to feed us before we went to bed
here's the deal... the only way to load anything other than the xbox OS is to have that code signed by MS... you can read any disks you want to, that doesn't matter... it's being able to load your own OS without modding it thats important.... and you can do that once you have the key......
True, but that doesn't keep everyone from comparing it price-wise to the low-end GF4s
ohh... I can get the GeF4 for $100, why should I spend $300?...blah..blah...blah I'm mortally biased against ATI, therefore it's ok for me to make absurd claims
RadioShaft
(sorry, used to work there.... RadioShack!!)
that's like saying 5000 cubic meters of air per pound = wasteful... or howmuchever energy that the cattle absorb from the sun = wasteful
water in the the areas where cattle are commonly raised is a resource that replensishes itself, so to say...
You're right... so lets all export all of the water from our farmlands to the needy countries of the world....
never mind that of the cows out here (in South Dakota)... I have NEVER EVER seen any actually irrigated... not with purified water, sometimes underground wells, but most farmers come up with this really neat idea of digging big holes in the ground, they call this a reservoir, it's a real nifty idea.
so this whole 5000 gallons of a resource we don't spend any energy "extracting" actually ends up being a bunch of bull-shit, as the water wouldn't be doing anything but SITTING...
just because you have an arguement, doesn't mean it's a good one... sure, there may be some places in the world where water is scarce... and we even felt the drought here in south dakota... but the point is that cattle can move to where the water IS, where you have to bring the water to the crops.... which do you think expends more energy?
there is nothing wrong with raising cattle, but there is something wrong with raising cattle where it's not viable
I currently have 3 seperate jobs (I'm a college student), and each one is affected by HIPAA in different ways... one is a branch of an insurance company, where I'm sure eventually all of our inter-company emails will have to be encrypted, reguardless of content, and we'll be very limited on what we can actually talk about on the phone (I'm in the phone cube all day)
the second is a hospital, where I work registration and transfers. Completely different setting, as I'm dealing with the patients face-to-face instead of over the phone, but there are lots of restrictions there, from where the monitors can be located (can't have a non-employee looking over your shoulder...) to how long the screen saver is set for (1 minute, and it's password protected, pain in the ass when you have to type that EVERY time you want to touch the computer)
for the third I work as a programmer for my college, we recently bid on a programming project to develop internet-based training for a very large hospice-based corporation. we'll be designing 20 modules to train volunteers and other very non-technical (i.e. retired, or first time workers) workers how to manage information correctly.
all of my jobs will be having INTENSIVE seminar type classes on what we need to stop doing so we don't get shut down. every one of them has taken a "do it or lose it" attitude about it because of the very short time frame to work with. There are still HIPAA mandates that are being changed, which means that nobody has even started creating the training, much less the training itself, and the compliance checks...
I agree with both parent posters :-)
if you're a do-it-yourselfer, try baking it... my girlfriend gets violently sick when she smells flux (therefore my bench is outside, which is a bitch in south dakota winters), so baking it should get rid of the offending oder....
Otherwise return it if you bought it locally, or try and get a RMA if you got it online..
I've baked a couple boards that didn't get the "de-fluxed" completely, with mixed results, but if you follow his procedure closely (keep an eye on the temps!!!!), you'll be fine
Hey guys... read the whole article... notice who they cite as the provider for ALL of the information (for the lazy ones, it's an AMD paper that's hidden in their web site)
I love AMD, I only own AMD (and a C3, but that's in my vehicle) processors, but this is rather underhanded... for them to do tests, and quietly release the results so that a web site can regurgitate(sp) the information and make it look independant.
2 wrongs don't make a right... and their first wrong was not cooperating with the benchmark people in the first place.
actually, you're right and wrong at the same time... the deal is that you can make a higher profit margin on pop than you can on games...
pop itself is usually about $0.005 / oz... that means if you give away free pop, and the average person drinks an amazing amount of 64 oz per visit, you're only spending $0.32 on the customer... on the other hand, if you charge a buck or two less on the games, but charge $1 for 20oz of pop, you're making back the money, and all of the money they spend on food is above and beyond...
now which way is really more profitable depends on how you market things... if you give away fountain pop to people who have a membership (i.e. give mugs away w/ membership), but sell special things like bawls/red bull w/ a markup, it would be the best of both worlds
and about the video games... as long as they own a copy of the games that are installed on their computers, everything is fine... almost all liscenses are on a per-computer basis, not per-individual-user basis... and if they BYOC, they gotta sign a waiver that says they're responsible for everything they do
it's often easy to add on a cyber-cafe in a year or two when you upgrade the machines... you have all of the machines there, just make sure you have a room that's isolated from the noise of the LAN room, buy a laser printer, and you've instantly doubled the potential client base
shiat.... why not just travel back in time 2 years and tell people about it? pick some kind of encryption standard that's been reasonably safe until recently (or maybe release some kind of cryptic message that relies on a certain event, i.e. 9/11/01, to be decrypted... )
lemme get this straight
you tell your aspiring customer to go to buyfromme.com
because you are using opennic and not supporting icann, your domain name doesnt resolve to anything
so you point them to www.opennic.unrated.net... except that you can't, because they couldn't resolve your site in the first place...
guess they're going to www.I-stick-with-the-money-hungry-monopoly.com
he could, of course, attempt to bring something out of the closet EVERY DAY for the next couple years
:-)
court costs alone will bring icann to their knees
why would they want to take off the banner ads? Hey guys, we're gonna get 1 month worth of traffic in the next 2 hours, let's take off the adds that we get paid $.0125 per viewing....
/. is because of the income generated by so many people
the only reasons some sites can actually "survive" a
I'm sorry, I meant it the other way around.... 80-90% gas, 10-20% ethanol.... damn typing at work, I lose train of thought in the middle of sentances....
how much would you buy a bunch of land in the middle of nowhere for?.... not much, I'm sure.... and if you sell it to a developer, they aren't interested in the house or anything like that, so you aren't gonna get enough to move to some small apartment in a city. Then what will they do there? all of the skills they learned growing up (because they had to work the farm as kids, otherwise it woulda meant hiring another laborer) are now useless.
The problem lies in the fact that the american people, despite all of their so called patriotism (i.e. wearing flags on their shirts cuz we got some buildings blown up... isn't that patriotism?[all apologies to real, pre 9/11 patriots out there]) won't pay attention to what the government is trying to do.... we live in a democracy, so there must be some reason the bills passed to give the farmers subsidies.... but just remember that EVERY time you buy gas w/o ethanol, you're wasting your tax dollars.... if you want something changed, vote for it, or against it, but whatever happens, live by it instead of complaining
yeah, but every car produced within the last 5 years (and most within the last 10 years) can run on 80-90% ethanol....
oh no... you can't run 100% ethanol... but at least do your part, and if nothing else, pay your countrymen rather than the foreigners... (and besides, it's cheaper because of the tax differences)
Yes... farming is a business.... so therefore it's a slave to the laws of supply and demand....
if the government decides that they want more corn produced for ethanol, they give out subsidies to farmers... the farmers grow the corn....
BUT if nobody uses the ethanol, then the ethanol producers don't need that much corn, so some farmers EVERYWHERE get stuck with grain-bins full of un-used corn....
they don't volunteer to be poor... they're stuck with corn that is bio-engineered to be good for ethanol, and hence isn't much good for eating, feeding cattle, or anything else. But what else could they do? The US imports too much food, and doesnt export much, so the prices on almost all agricultural products is VERY low.
see... the worst part is that these farmers have nothing else to produce. I live in south dakota, and I hear about this every year.... from the sides of paranoid hippies AND the "cry for me because it didn't rain all last month" farmers....
$125,000 is an aweful lot to live off of.... EXCEPT for when you have to pay laborers, pay for gas for the machinery, fix the machinery, etc....
consider hiring 2 men (BARE minimum) for a summer... that's $30,000... so you're already down to $95,000
then you factor in the fact that most wives work out at the farm... that comes down to ~$50,000 / person working... minus expenses... and they don't get squat for the corn they are producing... the only money they make is off the subsidy, but at least they are producing SOMETHING, rather than the posts here seem to suggest.
come out here and live for a few years, and you'll realize that these farmers don't want to be producing corn and living off the government... these are people who are putting in REAL work, and still have to rely on the government, think of how humilating(sp) that is!
but the farm is all they have, they can't decide to pick up a new trade, especially out here...
maybe some day we'll stop importing so much food from other countries, and give our farmers something to grow, so they can make a living on their own... but until then, try not to pick on the FARMERS for the government's policies