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I've never used vim or emacs, but would like to learn. However, I'm concerned that I'd be losing out on a lot of Eclipse's functionality when it comes to writing Java, e.g. refactoring, object-sensitive method name autocompletion, etc. Would vim or emacs really be better?
"On 24 October 2005, an 'Asteroid Space Resort' was bought by "Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs" for a sum of 1,000,000 PED (100,000 US Dollars), greatly surpassing Treasure Island. According to a Digital hollywood Bio, Jon Jacobs is the U.S. Spokesperson for Project Entropia, where his functions include US strategic relations as well as, business development, marketing and content acquisition. He is also the writer and producer of a song played within the Project Entropia Universe called "Gamer Chick". The Asteroid was named Club NEVERDIE after Jacobs's own in game Avatar and has made headlines around the world for the high price of the purchase and his own ambitious plans to turn the resort into a venue for "Live Entertainment in Virtual Reality"."
So, this ramp generates 10kW when 'active'. Let's say you have a continual stream of cars so that it is active 50% of the time (since there must be gaps between the cars). This mean it's generates 5kWh of energy per hour.
Assume that the standard cost for elecricity is US$0.10 per kWh. So this thing can generate US$0.50 of electricity per hour. Over the course of a year it will generate about USD4000 worth. So after about ten years it/might/ just pay for itself.
And that's not even considering maintaining the thing. Road wear out, and they're just simple concrete. This is a mechanical device, which will have/millions/ of cars passing over it.
In the UK, digital TV is widely available over the air with both free channels and a small number of subscription ones. There are now several cards which can capture the MPEG2 stream directly from the broadcast, meaning no encoding and no quality loss. One such company selling these is Nebula Electronics.
I think this would be useful for dealing with companies with poor customer service. You can check if your mail was actually read by a human. Chances are they are all using Outlook with HTML enabled, so the tracking would work.
Many people seem to suggest reburning data every few years. But each time you do this, are you not risking corrupting a small number of files? I know OSs and hardware have error correction, but when you're dealing with gigabytes of data isn't there a risk that eventually an error will go through uncaught?
Manufacturers could be encouraged to build technology in phones which detects when the user is in a 'quiet-zone' (by a particularly encoded low-power radio signal). The owner could then have the option to pre-set the phone to be silent, or vibrate, or even just to ring as normal when in a quiet zone (meaning the user still has full control).
iStill uses a proprietary image enhancement engine, which analyzes multiple images and creates one single, high resolution final image by performing a pixel-by-pixel calculation. The result is an image guaranteed to be at least as good as a normal iSight camera screen grab, but which can be considerably better (for the math gurus out there, this is essentially a realtime convolution along the z axis). This is the first software product for the Macintosh to utilize this technique for still image enhancement, and is only the tip of the iceberg
I have my phone (non-Nokia) on discoverable all the time for convenience. I run Mac OS X, and use the Address Book application to send SMS messages via the phone. I also have iSync configured to automatically sync my address book once a day when the phone is in the vicinity of the Mac. I don't notice a major drain on the battery with Bluetooth kept on. Having to disable it every time I went outside would be very annoying.
I was very suprised to see Sprint marketing their service using the '3G' buzzword. Here in Europe, 3G phones are only just becoming available. So unless the U.S. has suddenly made incredible progress this is very misleading since these are not 3G phones.
GPRS, SMS, multimedia messaging, HSCSD (up to 60kbps) and WAP are NOT specific to 3G. These are all already available on the so-called 2.5G network for years.
It seems that yet again, stupid marketing people are going to cause mass confusion.
(The domains are only shown in-line when they're part of the comments, not stories).
With a high resolution display, you can barely see the pixel or two gap between the underscores. It just looks like one big long link.
To find out what each link is for I need to mouse-over each one individually. But Slashdot doesn't even make of the TITLE attribute of A tags, so I need to look at some cryptic URL in the status bar to figure out where it will take me!
The Related Links section is automatically generated from the links within a submission. But it's now rendered useless since it contains link titles such as 'many' and 'cutting'.
A longer more-descriptive sentence would allow easier embedding of links, even though it may sound awkward when read aloud.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK and many other countries your ATM card is also your debit card (Switch).
If you ATM card is lost or stolen, usually what will happen is the thief will visit a number of stores in a short period, buying a small amount of goods at each place, but using the "cash back" facility most supermarkets offer to withdraw a maximum of £50 each time.
("cash back" is where the checkout person will give you cash straight out the till, which is debited from your account. You don't need your card PIN number, you just sign the receipt and they're supposed to verify your signature, but we all know how unreliable that is).
For this system to be effective, every place you could use your ATM/debit card would need to have the iris recognition equipment.
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In Scotland there's an area called Silicon Glen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Glen
I've never used vim or emacs, but would like to learn. However, I'm concerned that I'd be losing out on a lot of Eclipse's functionality when it comes to writing Java, e.g. refactoring, object-sensitive method name autocompletion, etc. Would vim or emacs really be better?
It is really necessary to update them every THREE seconds? Come on!
So, this ramp generates 10kW when 'active'. Let's say you have a continual stream of cars so that it is active 50% of the time (since there must be gaps between the cars). This mean it's generates 5kWh of energy per hour.
/might/ just pay for itself.
/millions/ of cars passing over it.
Assume that the standard cost for elecricity is US$0.10 per kWh. So this thing can generate US$0.50 of electricity per hour. Over the course of a year it will generate about USD4000 worth. So after about ten years it
And that's not even considering maintaining the thing. Road wear out, and they're just simple concrete. This is a mechanical device, which will have
The whole things stinks of INVESTOR SCAM.
In the UK, digital TV is widely available over the air with both free channels and a small number of subscription ones. There are now several cards which can capture the MPEG2 stream directly from the broadcast, meaning no encoding and no quality loss. One such company selling these is Nebula Electronics.
Just wait 'til you get 'spom' on your mobile phone.
I have seen this story reported on several 'reputable' news sources, and it makes me angry. It just screams of psuedo-scientific nonsense.
No units are given for any of the variables. What unit is the result in? It's completely meaningless.
Look at the guy's home page, he seems to be a press whore:
http://www.nopills.demon.co.uk/
I don't think this is Bill Gates. I think this is a mock-up, with someone who looks a bit like him.
So there's a 1 in 4550 chance of me dying in an airline crash? That figure sounds suspiciously high.
I wonder if the amount of press coverage they've had about the ad will give them more exposure than the ad itself.
(As subject.)
I think this would be useful for dealing with companies with poor customer service. You can check if your mail was actually read by a human. Chances are they are all using Outlook with HTML enabled, so the tracking would work.
You say you don't want a PDA, but it sounds like that's exactly what you need. You can get a basic Palm and a mini keyboard for under $100.
Many people seem to suggest reburning data every few years. But each time you do this, are you not risking corrupting a small number of files? I know OSs and hardware have error correction, but when you're dealing with gigabytes of data isn't there a risk that eventually an error will go through uncaught?
Manufacturers could be encouraged to build technology in phones which detects when the user is in a 'quiet-zone' (by a particularly encoded low-power radio signal). The owner could then have the option to pre-set the phone to be silent, or vibrate, or even just to ring as normal when in a quiet zone (meaning the user still has full control).
http://www.chiltonwebb.com/iStill/
I have my phone (non-Nokia) on discoverable all the time for convenience. I run Mac OS X, and use the Address Book application to send SMS messages via the phone. I also have iSync configured to automatically sync my address book once a day when the phone is in the vicinity of the Mac. I don't notice a major drain on the battery with Bluetooth kept on. Having to disable it every time I went outside would be very annoying.
I wonder if any of these are large government surveillance databases?
28 Days Later has been available on Region 2 DVD since 19 May, so it's a waste of time 'protecting' it, now that DVD ripping is so easy.
I was very suprised to see Sprint marketing their service using the '3G' buzzword. Here in Europe, 3G phones are only just becoming available. So unless the U.S. has suddenly made incredible progress this is very misleading since these are not 3G phones.
GPRS, SMS, multimedia messaging, HSCSD (up to 60kbps) and WAP are NOT specific to 3G. These are all already available on the so-called 2.5G network for years.
It seems that yet again, stupid marketing people are going to cause mass confusion.
(The domains are only shown in-line when they're part of the comments, not stories).
- With a high resolution display, you can barely see the pixel or two gap between the underscores. It just looks like one big long link.
- To find out what each link is for I need to mouse-over each one individually. But Slashdot doesn't even make of the TITLE attribute of A tags, so I need to look at some cryptic URL in the status bar to figure out where it will take me!
- The Related Links section is automatically generated from the links within a submission. But it's now rendered useless since it contains link titles such as 'many' and 'cutting'.
A longer more-descriptive sentence would allow easier embedding of links, even though it may sound awkward when read aloud.So why do Wrox insist on puttiing their faces on the covers of all their books?
At least O'Reilly have the right idea.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK and many other countries your ATM card is also your debit card (Switch).
If you ATM card is lost or stolen, usually what will happen is the thief will visit a number of stores in a short period, buying a small amount of goods at each place, but using the "cash back" facility most supermarkets offer to withdraw a maximum of £50 each time.
("cash back" is where the checkout person will give you cash straight out the till, which is debited from your account. You don't need your card PIN number, you just sign the receipt and they're supposed to verify your signature, but we all know how unreliable that is).
For this system to be effective, every place you could use your ATM/debit card would need to have the iris recognition equipment.