When I use to be on call I setup a ringtone for calls from the overnight answering service. Reveille was usually my choice as bugles blaring full blast usually woke me up from even my worst alcohol induced slumbers. With the Blackberry I know you can set these rules to override your sound profile. So you could set your profile to silent and avoid all other calls\txts but the custom rules would still come through.
Man I miss my BlackBerry....stupid WinMo pos smartphone, Oh well I'm not on call anymore:D so it isn't as bad.
This is possible and probably has been done. The thing that everyone (media and joe schmoe) don't realize or forget is that it takes a lot of energy to change something 1 degree.
I don't remember all of the calculations from chemistry and physics but the amount of energy required to burn a whole through a person (as lasers are portrayed) is quite significant. Think about your local laser barcode scanner, you could hold your hand in front of that for days and not feel anything.
The problem with lasers is the power required to generate that type of energy. Hence the ones that are developed right now are no where NEAR man portable.
If anyone wants any first hand knowledge about this i can probably get it. My dad is working on this project right now as one of the HVAC engineers for it.
This is a great concept and hopefully Linux has implemented it effectively (haven't used it yet). I have personally used Microsoft's clustering services and I think they stink. The HA side of it is horrid. In the time it takes for the service to gain control on another cluster machine you could have cycled the original machine that went down.
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At my college we have had a rapid prototyping center years, isn't anything new. Sure new advances are making it more and more useful, but the article still failed to mention two things.
One is the time required to make the object. Sure it is faster then regular manufacturing, but it isn't anything like a few minutes, more like a few hours. Second is the strength and durability of the objects. Most Rapid Prototyping machines either use plastic which is hardened by a laser, or a powder which is glued together. The objects however aren't that strong, accidently bump it, or rub it wrong and pieces will fall off.
Sure Rapid Prototyping makes manufacturing and design a whole heck of a lot simplier but it is still years away from being in the normal joe's office.
There isn't a problem with your SMP kernel. It's responding fine. On a SMP box, APM should not be enabled and/or installed. I don't know about ACPI but APM should diffently be disabled.
I don't see much of a problem with copying a design/layout if proper credit is given. I do think there is a problem with exact copies of images though.
The two websites were very similar in design. It was very obvious one copied somewhat from the other (don't know which was first). However, the images on each of theme were exactly the same. Now if the images were part of a canned clip art package then no problem. If the original creator however spent lots of time making them by hand then I think s/he should at least get some credit for them.
Something similar was done with FPGA's and a voice controlled circuit. I don't remember where I read the article but I think it came off/.
The experiment had the evolution program design thousands of simlar functioning circuits that would respond to the words "stop" and "go". Each design was then tested and rated on it's responsiveness. These ratings where then feed back into the program and it ran another interation.
This process proceeded for some amount of time (I can't remember) and the final circuit that came out for the FPGA made practicaly no sense but worked. The circuit had dead end branches, no known method of timing and a few other things. But somehow everything mattered because when one of the "dead" branches was removed it no longer functioned.
This does work but only if you have ZoneAlarm installed on that computer.
I for example have ZoneAlarm installed on a computer that is being used temporarily(sp?) for a router. If I accessed a Word document with this bug on another computer connected to my network it wouldn't detect the local connection request (127.0.0.1). It would then let it pass through since it (the router) would see the request as coming from IE, which unfortunately I have enabled since I can't stand netscape.
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When I use to be on call I setup a ringtone for calls from the overnight answering service. Reveille was usually my choice as bugles blaring full blast usually woke me up from even my worst alcohol induced slumbers. With the Blackberry I know you can set these rules to override your sound profile. So you could set your profile to silent and avoid all other calls\txts but the custom rules would still come through.
Man I miss my BlackBerry....stupid WinMo pos smartphone, Oh well I'm not on call anymore :D so it isn't as bad.
This is possible and probably has been done. The thing that everyone (media and joe schmoe) don't realize or forget is that it takes a lot of energy to change something 1 degree.
I don't remember all of the calculations from chemistry and physics but the amount of energy required to burn a whole through a person (as lasers are portrayed) is quite significant. Think about your local laser barcode scanner, you could hold your hand in front of that for days and not feel anything.
The problem with lasers is the power required to generate that type of energy. Hence the ones that are developed right now are no where NEAR man portable.
If anyone wants any first hand knowledge about this i can probably get it. My dad is working on this project right now as one of the HVAC engineers for it.
This is a great concept and hopefully Linux has implemented it effectively (haven't used it yet). I have personally used Microsoft's clustering services and I think they stink. The HA side of it is horrid. In the time it takes for the service to gain control on another cluster machine you could have cycled the original machine that went down.
Just my $.02
Call me ignorant but what was the pen trick?
At my college we have had a rapid prototyping center years, isn't anything new. Sure new advances are making it more and more useful, but the article still failed to mention two things.
One is the time required to make the object. Sure it is faster then regular manufacturing, but it isn't anything like a few minutes, more like a few hours. Second is the strength and durability of the objects. Most Rapid Prototyping machines either use plastic which is hardened by a laser, or a powder which is glued together. The objects however aren't that strong, accidently bump it, or rub it wrong and pieces will fall off.
Sure Rapid Prototyping makes manufacturing and design a whole heck of a lot simplier but it is still years away from being in the normal joe's office.
There isn't a problem with your SMP kernel. It's responding fine. On a SMP box, APM should not be enabled and/or installed. I don't know about ACPI but APM should diffently be disabled.
I don't see much of a problem with copying a design/layout if proper credit is given. I do think there is a problem with exact copies of images though.
The two websites were very similar in design. It was very obvious one copied somewhat from the other (don't know which was first). However, the images on each of theme were exactly the same. Now if the images were part of a canned clip art package then no problem. If the original creator however spent lots of time making them by hand then I think s/he should at least get some credit for them.
Nope, that's the article I was referring to.
Something similar was done with FPGA's and a voice controlled circuit. I don't remember where I read the article but I think it came off /.
The experiment had the evolution program design thousands of simlar functioning circuits that would respond to the words "stop" and "go". Each design was then tested and rated on it's responsiveness. These ratings where then feed back into the program and it ran another interation.
This process proceeded for some amount of time (I can't remember) and the final circuit that came out for the FPGA made practicaly no sense but worked. The circuit had dead end branches, no known method of timing and a few other things. But somehow everything mattered because when one of the "dead" branches was removed it no longer functioned.
Isn't science and evolution amazing
This does work but only if you have ZoneAlarm installed on that computer.
I for example have ZoneAlarm installed on a computer that is being used temporarily(sp?) for a router. If I accessed a Word document with this bug on another computer connected to my network it wouldn't detect the local connection request (127.0.0.1). It would then let it pass through since it (the router) would see the request as coming from IE, which unfortunately I have enabled since I can't stand netscape.