What disaster? Wouldn't a disaster be something that is in "late breaking" news? Something on everyone's lips, something everyone knows about? This is the first I've heard of it. Deplorable? Yes. Disaster? Uh, not yet...
While Galaxy Quest was probably my favorite non-Harry-Potter movie that had Alan in it, Quigley Down Under ranks pretty close to it. "Oh, by the way, you're fired."
This was the first thing I thought of when I read this. With a positional accuracy of 1mm (sure to get better) you can 'easily' type away at a virtual keyboard. You could do the above key chording as well for shortcuts or whatever. I would love to lean back in my chair, position my hands comfortably, and be able to type without being tied to a particular format of keyboard on my desk. My current favorite keyboard is a Microsoft 4000, I HATE the non-ergonomic straight line keyboards, and save particular loathing for laptop keyboards.
How similar are the 'hair' cells in the cochlea to regular hair? Two things come to mind: Rogaine(TM) and hair plugs. Maybe injections of Rogaine into the cochlea would prove fruitful. Or transplanting those fine hairs you have in various places into the cochlea will do the trick. I suffer from general hearing loss, and also have a brick wall at 3600hz... nothing after that. I would LOVE to be able to hear music as others hear it.
I just recently bought a Maxpedition Fatboy to carry around my stuff. Nice, as it has a readily accessible back pocket that my Google Nexus 7 fits in, a separate pocket for my cell phone, AND a pocket for my water bottle. Lesser accessibility is under a buckled strap, where I put my wallet. For my purposes, this is actually overkill as 90% of the storage is currently unused. But, give me some years and I anticipate filling it.
I'm going to really miss that, I've got mine chock full of little gadgets. Lots of magazines, movies, weather, gmail, wikipedia, etc. I'll just have to see if saving it as a "Web Page, complete" will work... (Nope:()
I loved apple scripting, I used it to tie a multitude of programs together. I would use apple script to close the file I was in in LightSpeedC, open it up in MPW, format it the way I liked it with the gnu indent tool, save and close it, and reopen it in LSC. I wrote boatloads of this type of stuff integrating different programs together. I'm sad that it's an idea that never really took off:(.
Last year I bought an Adaptec 20160N scsi controller, and 3 Plextor Ultraplex Wide cdrom drives. I don't sit at the computer and rip cds all the time, I'll just have a session where I'll rip about 20 at a time, scanning the covers at the same time. They rip >20x so about 2 minutes per disk. And the scanner scans the covers in much less time so I do have a little idle time, but,it's not too bad. With them round robin-ing I don't have to worry about having to cool down the drives.
I bought the Nook the week they came out, after researching the hardware available at the time, and after seeing the screen at the store. It had, at the time, a really nice screen, and I still like the screen. However, I didn't realize that only the B&N app store was going to be available. As someone said, above, the B&N app store is a ghost town... though I must admit they do have, literally, hundreds of apps. The browser interface, to be charitable, sucks. The book app periodically freezes necessitating a hard reboot. It did not come with a calculator! To be fair, the book app IS fast, and pleasurable to read with. I've heard that you can copy and paste from some of the apps, but, none of the apps I have have copy and paste.
I wanted a tablet so that I could retire both my Sony eReader and my iPod Touch, having just one device that would fit my back pocket. The Nook sucked so much that I was not able to retire my iPod... When the Nexus 7 was announced I was a little more careful in evaluating it. With it having Android 4, and access to a large app store, I was satisfied that I'd found the replacement for the Nook. I pre-ordered it, and have been happily Nexusing since. It doesn't have quite a 'retina' display, but, very dense, and quite pleasing to use. I was able to get all the essential apps that tied me to my iPod. I bought the 16GB version, and was not irked by the lack of addon memory.
Postscript: However, it got run over last week by a car and the screen protector failed to protect it... And I discovered that all the data that I had on the device was now locked inside a brick. NEXT device I get will either have addon memory for all user data, or some kind of cloud sync for ALL user data.
Have any of you simulated an iPad, to see what size it's going to be? I have and love my ipod Touch, and was fully planning on getting one when they came out. But, I wanted to make sure it was going to fit the pockets that I'd be (or attempting to) putting it in. I cut a sheet of paper to the iPad's dimensions (Height: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm) Width: 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)). It's HUGE! Well, relatively speaking. I have no pockets that it would fit into. It's not going to be blowing any ebook readers out of the water at that size. If I were in school, toting around a book bag anyway, it'd be no big deal, and probably a good choice, but, for me, it's too large. A 600x800 screen in a 7.5x5 inch form factor would have been perfect, which is about the size of the reader I got instead.
I had heard that this book was supposed to be out in September, so I reread the entire series in August. Then I found out it was supposed to be November. Now I find out it's been out two days. Anyway, despite the slowness in places and repetitive annoying idiosyncrasies, I've enjoyed this series. Jordan had a visual manner of writing that immersed you in the story. Or at least immersed me. I look forward to getting it on the way home from work.
it's not like a game where they can take their ball home, and there's no game. You can make your OWN ball... If you can't get into a FOSS project because they object to 'cooties', then think up your OWN project. AND let them in even with THEIR 'cooties'. Heck CLONE their project and run it the way you see fit. Whoever you are.
I've been caffeine free for years, as I would sometimes NOT drink a caffeinated beverage for several days and would get migraines. It was just easier to quit all together than drink them all the time.
I have water delivered, monthly, in 5 gallon bottles, and have a dispenser in the kitchen. I buy cases of bottled water, periodically, and use them till they break (or I lose them) filling them up from the dispenser. It costs me about $USD 15/month.
There are voltage regulators that can drop/boost the voltage to a predetermined voltage and do so with 90+% efficiency. Look for 'buckboost regulator' or 'switching regulator'.
I've run a home server of one kind or another since the early nineties. But, because of having to move, I reconsidered why I wanted one, and decided that using a hosting service was more cost effective(money AND time) for a 24/7 server. Not having to maintain the hardware/software, deal with the heat and noise issues made it an easy choice for me. When I was learning it was helpful to have my own server to monkey with, but, now that I'm beyond that, I let someone else do that work. For local file servers NAS servers are cheap, quiet, and low power. They can be tucked away in a closet or cupboard and ignored for the most part.
Snow crashes originally came about because screen memory was actually main memory and errant program code could write into that memory making a hash of the screen. There are some motherboards, with integrated graphics, where the screen memory is still part of main memory where this is possible. I've had several machines with these types of motherboards, but, never encountered snow crashes. However, I recently had experience with a buggy video driver that managed to crash and put a band of colored snow across the middle of the screen. So.... if you know the driver you could conceivably write code to take advantage of it to crash your screen.
Using this illustration and my trusty piece of paper straight edge, I estimate the long axis of the orbit to be 21000 AU and the minor axis to be 16000 AU. Using Ramunjan's Approximation for the circumference of the elliptical orbit and converting to light years, I guesstimate the circumference of the orbit to be ~1.99 (call it 2) light years.
For a 12 year orbital period this means that the orbiting black hole is AVERAGING 1/6c (~49965km/sec, call it 50k km/sec)... meaning at periquaserion it's really booking! Much faster than The Dash!
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What disaster? Wouldn't a disaster be something that is in "late breaking" news? Something on everyone's lips, something everyone knows about? This is the first I've heard of it. Deplorable? Yes. Disaster? Uh, not yet...
While Galaxy Quest was probably my favorite non-Harry-Potter movie that had Alan in it, Quigley Down Under ranks pretty close to it. "Oh, by the way, you're fired."
Do you still do any hobby programming or does writing Linux suffice to scratch that itch?
Actually, DO allow them in, just throttle their CPU to 5%.
This was the first thing I thought of when I read this. With a positional accuracy of 1mm (sure to get better) you can 'easily' type away at a virtual keyboard. You could do the above key chording as well for shortcuts or whatever. I would love to lean back in my chair, position my hands comfortably, and be able to type without being tied to a particular format of keyboard on my desk. My current favorite keyboard is a Microsoft 4000, I HATE the non-ergonomic straight line keyboards, and save particular loathing for laptop keyboards.
How similar are the 'hair' cells in the cochlea to regular hair? Two things come to mind: Rogaine(TM) and hair plugs. Maybe injections of Rogaine into the cochlea would prove fruitful. Or transplanting those fine hairs you have in various places into the cochlea will do the trick. I suffer from general hearing loss, and also have a brick wall at 3600hz... nothing after that. I would LOVE to be able to hear music as others hear it.
I just recently bought a Maxpedition Fatboy to carry around my stuff. Nice, as it has a readily accessible back pocket that my Google Nexus 7 fits in, a separate pocket for my cell phone, AND a pocket for my water bottle. Lesser accessibility is under a buckled strap, where I put my wallet. For my purposes, this is actually overkill as 90% of the storage is currently unused. But, give me some years and I anticipate filling it.
I'm going to really miss that, I've got mine chock full of little gadgets. Lots of magazines, movies, weather, gmail, wikipedia, etc. I'll just have to see if saving it as a "Web Page, complete" will work... (Nope :()
I loved apple scripting, I used it to tie a multitude of programs together. I would use apple script to close the file I was in in LightSpeedC, open it up in MPW, format it the way I liked it with the gnu indent tool, save and close it, and reopen it in LSC. I wrote boatloads of this type of stuff integrating different programs together. I'm sad that it's an idea that never really took off :(.
Last year I bought an Adaptec 20160N scsi controller, and 3 Plextor Ultraplex Wide cdrom drives. I don't sit at the computer and rip cds all the time, I'll just have a session where I'll rip about 20 at a time, scanning the covers at the same time. They rip >20x so about 2 minutes per disk. And the scanner scans the covers in much less time so I do have a little idle time, but,it's not too bad. With them round robin-ing I don't have to worry about having to cool down the drives.
Hehehe, why is I don't have mod points today?
I bought the Nook the week they came out, after researching the hardware available at the time, and after seeing the screen at the store. It had, at the time, a really nice screen, and I still like the screen. However, I didn't realize that only the B&N app store was going to be available. As someone said, above, the B&N app store is a ghost town... though I must admit they do have, literally, hundreds of apps. The browser interface, to be charitable, sucks. The book app periodically freezes necessitating a hard reboot. It did not come with a calculator! To be fair, the book app IS fast, and pleasurable to read with. I've heard that you can copy and paste from some of the apps, but, none of the apps I have have copy and paste.
I wanted a tablet so that I could retire both my Sony eReader and my iPod Touch, having just one device that would fit my back pocket. The Nook sucked so much that I was not able to retire my iPod... When the Nexus 7 was announced I was a little more careful in evaluating it. With it having Android 4, and access to a large app store, I was satisfied that I'd found the replacement for the Nook. I pre-ordered it, and have been happily Nexusing since. It doesn't have quite a 'retina' display, but, very dense, and quite pleasing to use. I was able to get all the essential apps that tied me to my iPod. I bought the 16GB version, and was not irked by the lack of addon memory.
Postscript: However, it got run over last week by a car and the screen protector failed to protect it... And I discovered that all the data that I had on the device was now locked inside a brick. NEXT device I get will either have addon memory for all user data, or some kind of cloud sync for ALL user data.
Aum Shinrikyo and the nerve gas attack in Tokyo had no close link to any state organization.
Who's 'Inductive'?
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Why are they charging for EVs to be tested in Berlin?
Have any of you simulated an iPad, to see what size it's going to be? I have and love my ipod Touch, and was fully planning on getting one when they came out. But, I wanted to make sure it was going to fit the pockets that I'd be (or attempting to) putting it in. I cut a sheet of paper to the iPad's dimensions (Height: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm) Width: 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)). It's HUGE! Well, relatively speaking. I have no pockets that it would fit into. It's not going to be blowing any ebook readers out of the water at that size. If I were in school, toting around a book bag anyway, it'd be no big deal, and probably a good choice, but, for me, it's too large. A 600x800 screen in a 7.5x5 inch form factor would have been perfect, which is about the size of the reader I got instead.
Tom.
I had heard that this book was supposed to be out in September, so I reread the entire series in August. Then I found out it was supposed to be November. Now I find out it's been out two days. Anyway, despite the slowness in places and repetitive annoying idiosyncrasies, I've enjoyed this series. Jordan had a visual manner of writing that immersed you in the story. Or at least immersed me. I look forward to getting it on the way home from work.
Tom.
it's not like a game where they can take their ball home, and there's no game. You can make your OWN ball... If you can't get into a FOSS project because they object to 'cooties', then think up your OWN project. AND let them in even with THEIR 'cooties'. Heck CLONE their project and run it the way you see fit. Whoever you are.
Tom.
I've been caffeine free for years, as I would sometimes NOT drink a caffeinated beverage for several days and would get migraines. It was just easier to quit all together than drink them all the time.
I have water delivered, monthly, in 5 gallon bottles, and have a dispenser in the kitchen. I buy cases of bottled water, periodically, and use them till they break (or I lose them) filling them up from the dispenser. It costs me about $USD 15/month.
Tom.
There are voltage regulators that can drop/boost the voltage to a predetermined voltage and do so with 90+% efficiency. Look for 'buckboost regulator' or 'switching regulator'.
Tom.
When I saw that iPod my first thought was "Batter up!"
Tom.
Amish people do not watch television. To me that is all the evidence I need right there.
"Kumbaya" optional...
I've run a home server of one kind or another since the early nineties. But, because of having to move, I reconsidered why I wanted one, and decided that using a hosting service was more cost effective(money AND time) for a 24/7 server. Not having to maintain the hardware/software, deal with the heat and noise issues made it an easy choice for me. When I was learning it was helpful to have my own server to monkey with, but, now that I'm beyond that, I let someone else do that work. For local file servers NAS servers are cheap, quiet, and low power. They can be tucked away in a closet or cupboard and ignored for the most part.
Tom.
Snow crashes originally came about because screen memory was actually main memory and errant program code could write into that memory making a hash of the screen. There are some motherboards, with integrated graphics, where the screen memory is still part of main memory where this is possible. I've had several machines with these types of motherboards, but, never encountered snow crashes. However, I recently had experience with a buggy video driver that managed to crash and put a band of colored snow across the middle of the screen. So.... if you know the driver you could conceivably write code to take advantage of it to crash your screen.
Tom.
Using this illustration and my trusty piece of paper straight edge, I estimate the long axis of the orbit to be 21000 AU and the minor axis to be 16000 AU. Using Ramunjan's Approximation for the circumference of the elliptical orbit and converting to light years, I guesstimate the circumference of the orbit to be ~1.99 (call it 2) light years.
For a 12 year orbital period this means that the orbiting black hole is AVERAGING 1/6c (~49965km/sec, call it 50k km/sec)... meaning at periquaserion it's really booking! Much faster than The Dash!
Tom.