Ditto, Virginia Tech had such a beast in the Media department. Actually, it was the only burner at the University. It was running off of a Macintosh at the time, and could only burn at 1X.
... us early adopters who actually paid for WinAmp back in the day?
If I'm not mistaken, you could purchase WinAmp back then with free upgrades for life. 2 monthes later, they honored that contract by making it free. Now that the Pro version isn't, I want my free upgrade:)
It is possible that the donut in the sky is a Pulse-Jet Engine, which is completely different from the Detonation Engine.
Then again, this site supports your theory.
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The current limit is around 200 tags per second for the best sensor.
So imagine the situation across a busy highway.
Damn dude, where do you live. I would never leave the house if there were 200 tags a second flying down 460.
Now imagine every script kiddie having the full source to W2K or XP, or heck even Office. Lets say, following the rules of the article, MS removes the 1% of intellectual property and replacing them with stub routine. There is still enough there to determine the weaknesses, and maybe even enough to create a new trusted OS that really isn't trusted?
I understand the benifit is to be able to determine the weaknesses and report them back, but as fast a MS is at getting patches out, this would become insane really quick.
"...in fact, had they not been safety-harnessed during the tests, many would have broken bones."
Wouldn't this open the door to police brutality lawsuits? Let's say there were 95% peaceful demonstrators and 5% non-peaceful demonstrators. Police slim the crowd and 20% of the crowd sufferes broken bones just screams class-action. What about the first time someone dies? Is it the riot participants fault?
How cool is that! Good thing you didn't attach a link to her, or she would be slashdotted! Oh wait, she probably is!
{And I was just going to send flowers to my GF}
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It's called a lock-out. Persumably by the real owners of the building that we leased, or by the court handling the case. Everyone is locked out, and all leased equiptment is returned to said leasing companies, which is where most of the good servers came from. All else, is auctioned.
Sounds like you want to do something similar to a laser show. See http://www.laser-light-show.com/ for an example. The biggest draw back I can see with doing it with a led is keeping the beam focused over the projection distances you proposed. Now if we had cheap RGB lasers, it would be a fun project.
While I can't speak directly on the current DSL situation, I know for a fact that Adelphia is running Fiber cable all over the town, and even more impressively to the dense neighborhoods +5 miles out.
My neighboorhood is getting cabled as we speak, and they are claiming to provide 2 way cable modems when complete.
Ditto. I was in charge of converting a legacy library system into supporting unicode, and it was easier than you might think. It was no small system either, with the main windows user interface weighing in at over 200K lines of code, and the server at over 500K lines... You get the gist.
UTF8 is about the only way to go. Windows provides some decient convertions between local character sets and unicode (UTF8). Also, you may want to look at the Mozilla code, that had a decent UTF8 convertion set as well.
The details are this: On the server we used Oracle 8i, and converted all the tables to UTF8. Importing old data was fairly straight forward, especially the english since it maps 1 to 1. We used Fulcrum to index with. Fulcrum was our biggest scare, but the easiest to fix. Fulcrum was only capable of ASCCII, and even worse it used a lot of special control characters, with prevent us from using UTF8 with it. The trick was we wrote our own UTF7 layer that encoded UTF8 into our homegrown UTF7 to avoid using the control chars. Beautiful.
The client side was our biggest hurdle, but Delphi and the windows API saved our butts. Since all the code was based on a common library, i.e. the VCL, we simple rewrote the VCL to handle Unicode. All internal data was in UTF8, so only minor changes were needed for most the controls. We wrote wrappers for the entire windows API. Depending on which Windows you were using, we switched out layers. On english only boxen, the layer simply converted UTF8 to Ascii and visa when dealing with the API. For boxen that supported Unicode, we used a different layer to convert between UTF8 and Unicode. For foreign language boxen, it was the same Ascii layer, but using local page convertions, so the user would always at minimum see their language.
If you want more details, feel free to email me at bfleming@rjktech.com
Actually, there is a seperate Arabic space character (Shared with the hebrew space as well). This character is sometimes called the non-breaking space character. Microsoft script processors, such as in W2K, use this character to ensure correct word order rendering. The use of a standard space will really screw up the word order on W2K.
What is innovative about taking something that already exists in plentitude, and decoding what parts do what!?! Unix didn't just pop up out of a flower, waiting for someone to find it. The PC didn't grow on a fruit tree, or out of someone abdoman. They came out of someone's head, and idea, a fleeting thought.
I wish I could beleive that genome's where an innovative idea, but I have enough of them already, I don't need anymore:)
What if Matt were to set up some sort of offshore fund, where money went straight to the service provider, and not to Matt. Matt never sees a check, thus doesn't ever have to incorporate, claim incomes, or anything else releated to the Fund.
I know people do this all the time for collecting money for individuals who may need special surgery and such. The fund doesn't have to be claimed on anyones taxes I beleive, since no one but the hospital manages the fund.
Am I the only one who thought those mueseum displays where horizontal to save construction costs of a hugely high ceiling? I guess it always made sense to me. Nice to know there is a real theory behind the decision:)
Way back I was reading up on theories of a more dense water atmosphere. I can't remember the exact name, but the theory was that during the dinasour era the humidity was extremely high compared to todays limits. This extremely dense water vapor environment would be the only type of environment that a Paradactal (sp?) could fly in due to the airodynamics of its wings.
Would such an environmental difference, if it were to exist, affect the hydrolic nature of the heart such that dinosaurs could walk with there heads high?
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Ditto, Virginia Tech had such a beast in the Media department. Actually, it was the only burner at the University. It was running off of a Macintosh at the time, and could only burn at 1X.
As I recall, blanks we running about $30 a pop.
... us early adopters who actually paid for WinAmp back in the day?
:)
If I'm not mistaken, you could purchase WinAmp back then with free upgrades for life. 2 monthes later, they honored that contract by making it free. Now that the Pro version isn't, I want my free upgrade
It is possible that the donut in the sky is a Pulse-Jet Engine, which is completely different from the Detonation Engine. Then again, this site supports your theory.
The current limit is around 200 tags per second for the best sensor.
So imagine the situation across a busy highway.
Damn dude, where do you live. I would never leave the house if there were 200 tags a second flying down 460.
Now imagine every script kiddie having the full source to W2K or XP, or heck even Office. Lets say, following the rules of the article, MS removes the 1% of intellectual property and replacing them with stub routine. There is still enough there to determine the weaknesses, and maybe even enough to create a new trusted OS that really isn't trusted?
I understand the benifit is to be able to determine the weaknesses and report them back, but as fast a MS is at getting patches out, this would become insane really quick.
Well, he posted his code, so please tell us what you think.
Let's apply Occam's Razor again:
1) You really wanted some code to pour over to see if this guy was legit.
2) You wanted to some quick karma by immediately discrediting his work with no intention to do anything else.
"...in fact, had they not been safety-harnessed during the tests, many would have broken bones."
Wouldn't this open the door to police brutality lawsuits? Let's say there were 95% peaceful demonstrators and 5% non-peaceful demonstrators. Police slim the crowd and 20% of the crowd sufferes broken bones just screams class-action. What about the first time someone dies? Is it the riot participants fault?
How cool is that! Good thing you didn't attach a link to her, or she would be slashdotted! Oh wait, she probably is!
{And I was just going to send flowers to my GF}
It's called a lock-out. Persumably by the real owners of the building that we leased, or by the court handling the case. Everyone is locked out, and all leased equiptment is returned to said leasing companies, which is where most of the good servers came from. All else, is auctioned.
Sounds like you want to do something similar to a laser show. See http://www.laser-light-show.com/ for an example. The biggest draw back I can see with doing it with a led is keeping the beam focused over the projection distances you proposed. Now if we had cheap RGB lasers, it would be a fun project.
..from a 10 year resident.
While I can't speak directly on the current DSL situation, I know for a fact that Adelphia is running Fiber cable all over the town, and even more impressively to the dense neighborhoods +5 miles out.
My neighboorhood is getting cabled as we speak, and they are claiming to provide 2 way cable modems when complete.
Ditto. I was in charge of converting a legacy library system into supporting unicode, and it was easier than you might think. It was no small system either, with the main windows user interface weighing in at over 200K lines of code, and the server at over 500K lines... You get the gist.
UTF8 is about the only way to go. Windows provides some decient convertions between local character sets and unicode (UTF8). Also, you may want to look at the Mozilla code, that had a decent UTF8 convertion set as well.
The details are this: On the server we used Oracle 8i, and converted all the tables to UTF8. Importing old data was fairly straight forward, especially the english since it maps 1 to 1. We used Fulcrum to index with. Fulcrum was our biggest scare, but the easiest to fix. Fulcrum was only capable of ASCCII, and even worse it used a lot of special control characters, with prevent us from using UTF8 with it. The trick was we wrote our own UTF7 layer that encoded UTF8 into our homegrown UTF7 to avoid using the control chars. Beautiful.
The client side was our biggest hurdle, but Delphi and the windows API saved our butts. Since all the code was based on a common library, i.e. the VCL, we simple rewrote the VCL to handle Unicode. All internal data was in UTF8, so only minor changes were needed for most the controls. We wrote wrappers for the entire windows API. Depending on which Windows you were using, we switched out layers. On english only boxen, the layer simply converted UTF8 to Ascii and visa when dealing with the API. For boxen that supported Unicode, we used a different layer to convert between UTF8 and Unicode. For foreign language boxen, it was the same Ascii layer, but using local page convertions, so the user would always at minimum see their language.
If you want more details, feel free to email me at bfleming@rjktech.com
Actually, there is a seperate Arabic space character (Shared with the hebrew space as well). This character is sometimes called the non-breaking space character. Microsoft script processors, such as in W2K, use this character to ensure correct word order rendering. The use of a standard space will really screw up the word order on W2K.
What is innovative about taking something that already exists in plentitude, and decoding what parts do what!?! Unix didn't just pop up out of a flower, waiting for someone to find it. The PC didn't grow on a fruit tree, or out of someone abdoman. They came out of someone's head, and idea, a fleeting thought.
:)
I wish I could beleive that genome's where an innovative idea, but I have enough of them already, I don't need anymore
What if Matt were to set up some sort of offshore fund, where money went straight to the service provider, and not to Matt. Matt never sees a check, thus doesn't ever have to incorporate, claim incomes, or anything else releated to the Fund. I know people do this all the time for collecting money for individuals who may need special surgery and such. The fund doesn't have to be claimed on anyones taxes I beleive, since no one but the hospital manages the fund.
Am I the only one who thought those mueseum displays where horizontal to save construction costs of a hugely high ceiling? I guess it always made sense to me. Nice to know there is a real theory behind the decision :)
Way back I was reading up on theories of a more dense water atmosphere. I can't remember the exact name, but the theory was that during the dinasour era the humidity was extremely high compared to todays limits. This extremely dense water vapor environment would be the only type of environment that a Paradactal (sp?) could fly in due to the airodynamics of its wings.
Would such an environmental difference, if it were to exist, affect the hydrolic nature of the heart such that dinosaurs could walk with there heads high?