Thanks for pointing this out, I've tried it and it works really well, I was surprised at how quickly I memorized my faces. I'm not so sure about lodging passwords with them, and I can't figure out their business model, tho I havn't read all the small print yet.
BBC also have this. They say the reason is "DRAM memory chips have become commoditised in recent years, with massive oversupply as Asian manufacturers moved into the market after a drought in the mid-90s."
I sure hope this doesn't leave to increases! Crucial had 128MB for 30 bucks last I checked!
Reminds me of an old joke...
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How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
None - Bill declares Darkness an Industry Standard!
I have a strange feeling of having read this story somehwere before on Slashdot. I must go see my shrink, It must be me because I just know Slashdot would never duplicate their stories....
Anyone else having problems with the gallery viewer? IE6 politely informs me that a serious error has occured, for which they are very sorry, and would I like to send an "error report" to Microsoft?
I don't see the disk icon as a problem at all, I prefer that to cluttering my desktop with lots of folder icons. Maybe it's just me and my warped mind, but I find teh hierarchical anture of the disk's contents very easy to navigate and explore, I use it constantly.
As to the limitations of the desktop - isn't the desktop contents just a directory on the drive anyway?
The mouse can't leae the desktop? sure it can - if you have virtual desktops - I just hover my mouse at one of the screen edges and it flips to the next panel. I use virtual desktops to access the multitude of application windows I have open, not to organize my filing system and have it cluttered with a zillion icons - I'd never be able to find anything!
As another poster here said, power users who understand the file system on their machines don't have a problem with it.
Safewev has gone down the tubes. Your link don't work no more.
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Re:Why do I need a watch, binary or not?
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Ah, but yours shows the time in BCD which is MUCH easier to read than Binary. e.g. 36 minutes is 0011 1010 in bcd, nice and easy, but 100100 in binary which takes more than a glance to read.
Your bcd led display is much nicer than their binary lcd display, and much easier to read.
This has a GREAT geekness factor, but it's not hugely practical really. Instead of a quick 1/2 second (0.101 in binary) glance at the watch to see what the time is, you'll now have to stare at it for several seconds to work out what the time is. The hours wouldn't be too bad, but the minutes and seconds would be up to 6 digits each, and how many of us can convert a 6 digit binary number instantly - ok you could probably do it quite rapidly with practice, but you'd never be able to tell the time as quicky as glancing at normal digital or analogue hands.
My point was that to make notes *on the pda* whilst on the phone would be impossible without the headset, as the device would be somewhere near your ear.
As to not beiong allowed to wear headphones whilst working, here in the UK, it is rare to be allowed to. In my 25+ years of programming, at about a dozen places, I've only ever worked at one site which *tolerated* headphones, it was official policy, but middle managemenrt allowed it, senior management frowned on it.
One of he disadvantages of having a single "mega-device" is that you pretty much have to be wearing the headset all the time if you want make/take calls and also use the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-in-my-hand device to also retrieve information or make notes. This is ok if you're already wearing the headset say on a train or out walking, and listening to MP3s (assuming the device is intellegent enough to cut in and pause the music when you receive a call) but what if you're in a business meeting or slaving over a hot keyboard at work where headset-wearing is not allowed. You're a bit scuppered then! I guess in that situation, you have to rely on the original killer app (pencil & paper) to make notes and then transfer into your device at the end of the call, which kinda makes it all pointless!
Hmm, the article talks about using CG models in games.
Developed by Atlus Co. Ltd., the game allows users to manipulate female (of course) CG models in a variety of poses and have photographs taken of them. Users can choose the setting, clothes, props and several other aspects of the game and even hear the models talk back when they are asked to perform poses a little too difficult for even a computer-generated character.
Clothes???? Why does she need clothes???
Anyone care to lay odds on how long before this technology is exploited for those "hormone charged" people the article talks about?!
I just know somepne's gonna tell me it's alreadsy been done. I wouldn't be at all surprised.
I dare not as what the sticky substance is that might be covering your fingers!
Seriously though, if you need to use a stylus to operate the keyboard, why not just have a virtual keyboard on screen. OK, you lose some screen space whilst you have the keyboard popped up but your keys won't get sticky substances on them... but then again, the screen's a bit small for displaying images of nekked folks...
I guess you just have to have linux programming skills (whatever *that* means!) - there's nothing on the order form that says "are you a developer?" - looks like just anyone could order the thing!
It's good to see old Big Blue changing its image from boring, staid men in suits and serious scientists with no sense of humour to "teenage rebel". I'm sure even the $1billion is they're spending on promoting God's own OS is mere small change, and they'll just consider the paultry fines as marketing costs. As the article says, the target audience for this campaign will be giving shouts to IBM for doing this. It's a way cool publicity stunt!
Interesting weekend! Here's the summary in case you can't get on, (or if you're lazy!)
As I've indicated, the interest of the workshop was as much what was going on outside the talks as well; Dan and I got to meet a load of interesting and clever people, and it was challenging for us to discuss our ideas with them - especially since we didn't always see eye to eye with our academic counterparts. Sadly, few people seemed to have heard much about Ruby, something they will probably come to regret in time. Dan seemed to have picked up a few more interesting technical tips, such as a way to collect reference count loops without walking all of the objects in a heap. Oh, and we found that you should pour liquid nitrogen into containers first rather than trying to make ice cream by directly pouring it into a mix of milk and butter. And that the ice-cream so produced is exceptionally tasty.
But seriously, what did we learn? I think we learned that many problems that we're facing in terms of Perl implementation right now have already been thoroughly researched and dealt with as many as 30 years ago; but we also learned that if we want to get at this research, then we need to do a lot of digging. The academic community is good at solving tricky problems like threading, continuations, despatch and the like, but not very interested in working out all the implications. To bring an academic success to commercial fruition requires one, as Olin Shivers puts it, "to become Larry Wall for a year" - to take care of all the gritty implementation details, and that's not the sort of thing that gets a PhD.
So the impetus is on us as serious language implementors to take the time to look into and understand the current state of the art in VM research to avoid re-inventing the wheel. Conferences such as LL1, and the mailing list that has been established as a result of it, are a useful way for us to find out what's going on and exchange experience with the academic community, and I look forward intently to the next one!
All this program is doing is modulating the EXISTING rf that's coming out of your monitor in a more useful way by calculating and displaying an image that will cause the modulation to be at a particular musical frequency. It ISN'T causing your monitor to emit any more radiation than it already was, it's just "un-randomizing" it.
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Thanks for pointing this out, I've tried it and it works really well, I was surprised at how quickly I memorized my faces. I'm not so sure about lodging passwords with them, and I can't figure out their business model, tho I havn't read all the small print yet.
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I sure hope this doesn't leave to increases! Crucial had 128MB for 30 bucks last I checked!
None - Bill declares Darkness an Industry Standard!
yeah, right, sure. Like MS are gonna fix it!
I don't see the disk icon as a problem at all, I prefer that to cluttering my desktop with lots of folder icons. Maybe it's just me and my warped mind, but I find teh hierarchical anture of the disk's contents very easy to navigate and explore, I use it constantly.
As to the limitations of the desktop - isn't the desktop contents just a directory on the drive anyway?
The mouse can't leae the desktop? sure it can - if you have virtual desktops - I just hover my mouse at one of the screen edges and it flips to the next panel. I use virtual desktops to access the multitude of application windows I have open, not to organize my filing system and have it cluttered with a zillion icons - I'd never be able to find anything!
As another poster here said, power users who understand the file system on their machines don't have a problem with it.
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Dude,
Safewev has gone down the tubes. Your link don't work no more.
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Ah, but yours shows the time in BCD which is MUCH easier to read than Binary. e.g. 36 minutes is 0011 1010 in bcd, nice and easy, but 100100 in binary which takes more than a glance to read.
Your bcd led display is much nicer than their binary lcd display, and much easier to read.
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This has a GREAT geekness factor, but it's not hugely practical really. Instead of a quick 1/2 second (0.101 in binary) glance at the watch to see what the time is, you'll now have to stare at it for several seconds to work out what the time is. The hours wouldn't be too bad, but the minutes and seconds would be up to 6 digits each, and how many of us can convert a 6 digit binary number instantly - ok you could probably do it quite rapidly with practice, but you'd never be able to tell the time as quicky as glancing at normal digital or analogue hands.
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Glass Fibre?
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My point was that to make notes *on the pda* whilst on the phone would be impossible without the headset, as the device would be somewhere near your ear.
As to not beiong allowed to wear headphones whilst working, here in the UK, it is rare to be allowed to. In my 25+ years of programming, at about a dozen places, I've only ever worked at one site which *tolerated* headphones, it was official policy, but middle managemenrt allowed it, senior management frowned on it.
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One of he disadvantages of having a single "mega-device" is that you pretty much have to be wearing the headset all the time if you want make/take calls and also use the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-in-my-hand device to also retrieve information or make notes. This is ok if you're already wearing the headset say on a train or out walking, and listening to MP3s (assuming the device is intellegent enough to cut in and pause the music when you receive a call) but what if you're in a business meeting or slaving over a hot keyboard at work where headset-wearing is not allowed. You're a bit scuppered then! I guess in that situation, you have to rely on the original killer app (pencil & paper) to make notes and then transfer into your device at the end of the call, which kinda makes it all pointless!
Developed by Atlus Co. Ltd., the game allows users to manipulate female (of course) CG models in a variety of poses and have photographs taken of them. Users can choose the setting, clothes, props and several other aspects of the game and even hear the models talk back when they are asked to perform poses a little too difficult for even a computer-generated character.
Clothes???? Why does she need clothes???
Anyone care to lay odds on how long before this technology is exploited for those "hormone charged" people the article talks about?!
I just know somepne's gonna tell me it's alreadsy been done. I wouldn't be at all surprised.
I dare not as what the sticky substance is that might be covering your fingers!
Seriously though, if you need to use a stylus to operate the keyboard, why not just have a virtual keyboard on screen. OK, you lose some screen space whilst you have the keyboard popped up but your keys won't get sticky substances on them... but then again, the screen's a bit small for displaying images of nekked folks...
The page is badly /.ed but when you get there, all you see are two paragraphs of text with no detailed tech specs and 6 pictures.
MAN that keyboard looks TINY. You need real slender fingers to work it!
Anyone know if this is for real????
I guess you just have to have linux programming skills (whatever *that* means!) - there's nothing on the order form that says "are you a developer?" - looks like just anyone could order the thing!
It's good to see old Big Blue changing its image from boring, staid men in suits and serious scientists with no sense of humour to "teenage rebel". I'm sure even the $1billion is they're spending on promoting God's own OS is mere small change, and they'll just consider the paultry fines as marketing costs. As the article says, the target audience for this campaign will be giving shouts to IBM for doing this. It's a way cool publicity stunt!
Interesting weekend! Here's the summary in case you can't get on, (or if you're lazy!)
As I've indicated, the interest of the workshop was as much what was going on outside the talks as well; Dan and I got to meet a load of interesting and clever people, and it was challenging for us to discuss our ideas with them - especially since we didn't always see eye to eye with our academic counterparts. Sadly, few people seemed to have heard much about Ruby, something they will probably come to regret in time. Dan seemed to have picked up a few more interesting technical tips, such as a way to collect reference count loops without walking all of the objects in a heap. Oh, and we found that you should pour liquid nitrogen into containers first rather than trying to make ice cream by directly pouring it into a mix of milk and butter. And that the ice-cream so produced is exceptionally tasty.
But seriously, what did we learn? I think we learned that many problems that we're facing in terms of Perl implementation right now have already been thoroughly researched and dealt with as many as 30 years ago; but we also learned that if we want to get at this research, then we need to do a lot of digging. The academic community is good at solving tricky problems like threading, continuations, despatch and the like, but not very interested in working out all the implications. To bring an academic success to commercial fruition requires one, as Olin Shivers puts it, "to become Larry Wall for a year" - to take care of all the gritty implementation details, and that's not the sort of thing that gets a PhD.
So the impetus is on us as serious language implementors to take the time to look into and understand the current state of the art in VM research to avoid re-inventing the wheel. Conferences such as LL1, and the mailing list that has been established as a result of it, are a useful way for us to find out what's going on and exchange experience with the academic community, and I look forward intently to the next one!
All this program is doing is modulating the EXISTING rf that's coming out of your monitor in a more useful way by calculating and displaying an image that will cause the modulation to be at a particular musical frequency. It ISN'T causing your monitor to emit any more radiation than it already was, it's just "un-randomizing" it.
The strategy here in the UK is exactly the same - vote off the biggest threat to you. Very often, they vote off the strongest link.
Check your own spelling and grammer before complaining about others. Your statement should read "You're in college", not "your in college".
The sound of a billion bacteria shouting WAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZAAAAAAAAP!
Looks like it's because the http headers coming back say "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1"
If you grab the html and stylesheet and open them locally within IE5.5/6, it renders fine.
So much for MS being standards complient !!
All your command lines are belong to us!!
Hmmm I get a 404 when trying http://www.nasa.com
:-(
Just not my day