Only just this morning my firstborn child walked into the kitchen, looked at the cat and said LOLWTFBBQ!!1!!. Later that day I discovered a porn mag in his room containing explicit hardcore furry midgets with tentacles.
You need three giant screens roughly 20' high each, on the first you would display all the current inbound and outbound traffic, status controls for nodes etc. The second would display routing information with a giant map of the world and flashing lines running backwards and forwards. Then the third would be allocated to display the biggest game of solitaire in the world. If the first two screens don't impress them, then the last will certainly make all the customers go "oooh!"
Then you need to buy 5 chimps from the local zoo and train them on how to change tape drives.
And THEN you need to hire about 30 circus midgets, paint them orange, with green hair and stripey suits, so that whenever a potential customer gets locked into a server cage they can magically appear and sing a little song...
I was the designer and developer of a major endoscopic image capture system here in Australia for a company who sold thousands of copies in the UK, US and parts of Asia. A lot of the difficult work at the time wasn't actually capturing the images and storing them, that was relatively easy, VfW did a lot of the work on most video capture boards, even though it didn't give you as much control over the video overlay as you really wanted. Some video cards provided MCI drivers which gave much more control, zoom, pan etc. Like the Matrox capture cards. All video endoscopic systems provided some sort of analog video output, composite, S-Video, RGB. The major systems were Olympus, Fujitsu and Pentax with a few minor players in specialty endoscopic fields.
The hard part was actually remotely triggering the capture on the PC. We initially tried to get the specialists to tell a PC operator to press a button, but they just got frustrated with the whole procedure.
Our next thing was to use the buttons on the scopes themselves (the flexible scopes have two dials for lateral movement and usually one or more buttons which can be assigned to various functions on each unit) so we slowly begged and borrowed one of each model of each type of scope unit so we could create interfaces to plug into them.
Myself and a colleage researched over 100 units, measured signals, found suppliers of connectors, found manufacturers who could copy proprietary connectors (and there were about 30 different types of custom connectors in the end) and then wrote the code.
We started using it for upper endoscopy and colonoscopies, but it was sold for ERCP's, MRI/PET/CAT scanning, rigid scope procedures and also for overhead cameras in surgery.
It's an interesting field, I personally sat in on over 200 procedures to test the software, colonoscopies being the worst. Not great a procedure. I'm glad they give people drugs to make them forget that 15 minutes...
I was just busted 10 minutes ago on my way to work by a speed camera in Queensland, I get in, load up Slashdot, see this article and feel a little better...
It's strange that this application is written specifically for windows for the general public. For businesses who submit a quarterly or yearly BAS electronically, there's a Java application available for download. They set you up with keys and from then you're submitting your business income online.
However, it is a tricky program to setup, not for the weak hearted. I can't imagine the average business owner setting it up and getting it working by themselves.
If someone held me under duress I would give up my password, hold my hand against a scanner or do some other biometric thing. So the only way to combat this is to arm yourself, companies should hand out standard issue firearms at the end of every successfull job interview with the pass card. All you need is the right to bear arms, which potentially makes the USA the most company safe country in the world. The postal service has a great deal of experience with armed employees, they could consult, screw all this biometric stuff.
I tend to use the first letter from each word of the opening line out of a book. Non-dictionary strings, plus I pick books that are relevant to where I work.
I much prefer the electronic arrangement by the Boards Of Canada called Magic Window. It appears as the last track on their Geodaddi album. It has a much richer feel than Cage's piece and can really get the dancefloor standing still.
"As you can see from this computer simulation, the driver was in fact distracted by the 20 foot high Blue Screen of Death standing on the opposite corner of the intersection..."
Yes, I grew up in Calne, a town further along the A4, past Silbury hill and Cherhill downs. We used to hang out at Silbury hill during the various fertility seasons to watch people dance around in the buff at midnight. The spoils of being a teenager with a car.
Not too far away from Avebury is the remains of RAF Yatesbury where the infamous video clip for the KLF's Doctorin' The Tardis was shot. Cardboard daleks, shopping trolleys and a crap old car running everything over. Not quite the same Dr Who, but a classic music video none the less...
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Only just this morning my firstborn child walked into the kitchen, looked at the cat and said LOLWTFBBQ!!1!!. Later that day I discovered a porn mag in his room containing explicit hardcore furry midgets with tentacles.
Makes my distant childhood duller by the day...
I think we need to rename the really dangerous one to Tyranosaurus Regina...
"Upon discovering the new fossilised remains of this giant 50 foot high chick, we've decided to name it the Darylhannansaur"
You need three giant screens roughly 20' high each, on the first you would display all the current inbound and outbound traffic, status controls for nodes etc. The second would display routing information with a giant map of the world and flashing lines running backwards and forwards. Then the third would be allocated to display the biggest game of solitaire in the world. If the first two screens don't impress them, then the last will certainly make all the customers go "oooh!"
Then you need to buy 5 chimps from the local zoo and train them on how to change tape drives.
And THEN you need to hire about 30 circus midgets, paint them orange, with green hair and stripey suits, so that whenever a potential customer gets locked into a server cage they can magically appear and sing a little song...
Man, that's MY idea of a great ops building!
oh, and just to let you know, by making his own head-end for the scope, he's saved himself about $70,000 dollars US...
I was the designer and developer of a major endoscopic image capture system here in Australia for a company who sold thousands of copies in the UK, US and parts of Asia. A lot of the difficult work at the time wasn't actually capturing the images and storing them, that was relatively easy, VfW did a lot of the work on most video capture boards, even though it didn't give you as much control over the video overlay as you really wanted. Some video cards provided MCI drivers which gave much more control, zoom, pan etc. Like the Matrox capture cards. All video endoscopic systems provided some sort of analog video output, composite, S-Video, RGB. The major systems were Olympus, Fujitsu and Pentax with a few minor players in specialty endoscopic fields.
The hard part was actually remotely triggering the capture on the PC. We initially tried to get the specialists to tell a PC operator to press a button, but they just got frustrated with the whole procedure.
Our next thing was to use the buttons on the scopes themselves (the flexible scopes have two dials for lateral movement and usually one or more buttons which can be assigned to various functions on each unit) so we slowly begged and borrowed one of each model of each type of scope unit so we could create interfaces to plug into them.
Myself and a colleage researched over 100 units, measured signals, found suppliers of connectors, found manufacturers who could copy proprietary connectors (and there were about 30 different types of custom connectors in the end) and then wrote the code.
We started using it for upper endoscopy and colonoscopies, but it was sold for ERCP's, MRI/PET/CAT scanning, rigid scope procedures and also for overhead cameras in surgery.
It's an interesting field, I personally sat in on over 200 procedures to test the software, colonoscopies being the worst. Not great a procedure. I'm glad they give people drugs to make them forget that 15 minutes...
I was just busted 10 minutes ago on my way to work by a speed camera in Queensland, I get in, load up Slashdot, see this article and feel a little better...
It's strange that this application is written specifically for windows for the general public. For businesses who submit a quarterly or yearly BAS electronically, there's a Java application available for download. They set you up with keys and from then you're submitting your business income online.
However, it is a tricky program to setup, not for the weak hearted. I can't imagine the average business owner setting it up and getting it working by themselves.
They'll have to attach some kind of face to the device to finish it off, otherwise there's no way of giving good face to that Hendrix riff.
If someone held me under duress I would give up my password, hold my hand against a scanner or do some other biometric thing. So the only way to combat this is to arm yourself, companies should hand out standard issue firearms at the end of every successfull job interview with the pass card. All you need is the right to bear arms, which potentially makes the USA the most company safe country in the world. The postal service has a great deal of experience with armed employees, they could consult, screw all this biometric stuff.
Is there a Silly Organised Crime Agency?
Hole made in planet. Last seen whizzing around solar system getting smaller and smaller.
If they're including images with their transmission then they'll already know we're a valid planet...
I tend to use the first letter from each word of the opening line out of a book. Non-dictionary strings, plus I pick books that are relevant to where I work.
Like Mein Kampf...
I don't need no stinking spyware to find that out for me, I just use the user agent to help me with that. Everyone knows that real men use Linux.
6) Have more food colouring parties
I wonder how much red food coloring you can take before you start hallucinating?
*imagines getting wealthy from black market food coloring...
Weigh as much as a duck?
Came early this year...
Which finds 1,150,000 year old nanotech already there, gets eaten, turned into Martian nanotech electro-waste...
I much prefer the electronic arrangement by the Boards Of Canada called Magic Window. It appears as the last track on their Geodaddi album. It has a much richer feel than Cage's piece and can really get the dancefloor standing still.
IsToo!
"Ah, I see this has the new Windows CE thing attached, I'll be a smart shopper now!"
*pushes trolley, front wheel wobbles out of control
"As you can see from this computer simulation, the driver was in fact distracted by the 20 foot high Blue Screen of Death standing on the opposite corner of the intersection..."
Yes, I grew up in Calne, a town further along the A4, past Silbury hill and Cherhill downs. We used to hang out at Silbury hill during the various fertility seasons to watch people dance around in the buff at midnight. The spoils of being a teenager with a car.
Not too far away from Avebury is the remains of RAF Yatesbury where the infamous video clip for the KLF's Doctorin' The Tardis was shot. Cardboard daleks, shopping trolleys and a crap old car running everything over. Not quite the same Dr Who, but a classic music video none the less...