do you mean that the four year old should put it in and out of the drunk/. er a few times?
That's kindof disturbing, but it makes me wonder how much alcohol would be required. And would a slashdotter have a higher or lower tolerance for this kind of thing than the average person...
Rado recently introduced the V10K watch, made out of synthetic diamonds. The crystal is still sapphire, so I guess they couldn't get the diamonds to a good optical quality. Also, the band is rubber and a bit garish for a $5k watch. Still, pretty cool for a materialiphile. More pics & review.
Here's his website - he's been planning this for a few years now and the schedule is set for this month.
I remember reading about one of the previous jumpers and he said that without any wind (no air), there was no sensation of falling for the first few minutes -- it was just like floating.
If the slower you go, the better gas mileage you get, you might think you get infinite gas mileage at a standstill. Of course, you don't.
BMWs have an extra needle that shows you your instantaneous gas milage. When I sold my trusty old '89 yuppie-mobile I got a newer 2003 version of the same car. The gauges act differently at low speed -- the old one would correctly show 0 mpg. The new car will, for some reason, go to infinite mpg below a certain speed. I guess it was a marketing decision so it wouldn't scare people, but the extra movement is a little distracting. I've heard that new cars sold in canada will show the 0mpg, so it's something special just for Americans.
The new car has 33% more hp and it gets 5 mpg better milage (both by EPA estimates and real world experience -- the engine of the old car was in great shape) There were a lot of engine improvements in the last 14 years that made this possible! (variable valve timing, knock sensors, new low-friction oils)
good link, but read it a little closer. The line item veto was ruled unconstitutional, so W. can't use it (if he wanted to). Last year there was an effort to revive the veto for certain types of spending only -- not sure where that went, but I don't think it would apply to this policy bill.
There was a similar one in Boulder, CO today, too. As of posting, the pictures aren't up yet, but there are pictures of past-years events. I found out about it too late -- hopefully I'll be there next year.
Sample chapters are available from this book's webpage on O'Reilly's website -- you can even read about my hacking on the sega dreamcast VMU in chapter 52 or from my (outdated) website.
The tasty ugly ripe tomato has been banned from export from florida. There's nothing wrong with it -- it's tasty, but it doesn't look smooth like the other tomatoes. The regulations only cover appearance and not taste.
Oh well, kindof off topic, but we can't even handle inter-state commerce. Too much power that was put in the hands of other (competing) growers -- it should have never left the government. If you get one of these tomatoes, it probably came from mexico.
For Tiger, Apple created launchd: one launch daemon to rule them all.
If you want to complain for the sake of complaining, go ahead. If you don't like to use multiple systems, what's your proposed solution -- use the first one that comes along and live with its limitations? Or, do you want to try something better that attempts to do exactly what you just asked for?
Reports that NY Times writer David Pogue found a severed finger in his copy of the new operating system have not been confirmed, although there is photographic evidence in his video review.
I had a co-worker who needed a little help with his program. It was C code, but all the semicolons were in column 80, arranged in a nice column. Yikes. He casually said "what, you've never seen that?". Turns out that part of his problem was that he was using float to represent a byte position in an extremely large file. He knew enough that UINT32 wouldn't do it, but...
I first saw this on the Korean war memorial in Washington DC (see images at top of that page). That one is low resolution, but a really neat effect. closeup of surface
It was a couple of months before I got there, so I don't have the whole story. Basically, they had only one product and one customer, and that customer was slow on the payments. So they stopped work until they got paid. That, and they had been working really hard... Maybe two months was a little much rest & relaxation, but I wasn't there. I personally would have picked a fun project and started on that, but the company's technologies were all kindof similar, so it may have been hard to get away from that... Great guys and plenty productive.
The Athlon used an external bridge chip that connected directly to each processor (the 760, as used on the Thunder K7).
The Opteron processors connect directly to each other, and one (or more) of them also connect to the rest of the computer. It's glueless, like in this board. Good thing, too, because one chip that connected to 4 or 8 processors would have so many pins on it that it would be incredibly expensive.
I work at a company that makes LCOS devices (liquid crystal on silicon), so we've got some fancy microscopes custom-made for looking at pixel arrays under a wide variety of lighting conditions. I also happen to be hacking the PV2 disposable digital camera and didn't know the sensor resolution. So, we popped it in and found it was a 1.3 megapixel camera, even though it was claimed to provide 2 megapixel quality.
We've got a laser that can cut metal traces in IC's; I've been dying to find a use for it. Or the NMR machine.
I also used to work at a small startup company that decided, for some interesting good reasons, instead of programming, they should play Civilization on-line 8 hours a day, for 2 months. So, if you lost to three really good players in early 2002, they weren't cheating -- just really determined and on company time. Too bad that was a couple months before I started there.
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do you mean that the four year old should put it in and out of the drunk /. er a few times?
That's kindof disturbing, but it makes me wonder how much alcohol would be required. And would a slashdotter have a higher or lower tolerance for this kind of thing than the average person...
Rado recently introduced the V10K watch, made out of synthetic diamonds. The crystal is still sapphire, so I guess they couldn't get the diamonds to a good optical quality. Also, the band is rubber and a bit garish for a $5k watch. Still, pretty cool for a materialiphile. More pics & review.
Here's his website - he's been planning this for a few years now and the schedule is set for this month.
I remember reading about one of the previous jumpers and he said that without any wind (no air), there was no sensation of falling for the first few minutes -- it was just like floating.
You're not worthy of watching the movie until you've survived the TV cartoon series.
If the slower you go, the better gas mileage you get, you might think you get infinite gas mileage at a standstill. Of course, you don't.
BMWs have an extra needle that shows you your instantaneous gas milage. When I sold my trusty old '89 yuppie-mobile I got a newer 2003 version of the same car. The gauges act differently at low speed -- the old one would correctly show 0 mpg. The new car will, for some reason, go to infinite mpg below a certain speed. I guess it was a marketing decision so it wouldn't scare people, but the extra movement is a little distracting. I've heard that new cars sold in canada will show the 0mpg, so it's something special just for Americans.
The new car has 33% more hp and it gets 5 mpg better milage (both by EPA estimates and real world experience -- the engine of the old car was in great shape) There were a lot of engine improvements in the last 14 years that made this possible! (variable valve timing, knock sensors, new low-friction oils)
good link, but read it a little closer. The line item veto was ruled unconstitutional, so W. can't use it (if he wanted to). Last year there was an effort to revive the veto for certain types of spending only -- not sure where that went, but I don't think it would apply to this policy bill.
There was a similar one in Boulder, CO today, too. As of posting, the pictures aren't up yet, but there are pictures of past-years events. I found out about it too late -- hopefully I'll be there next year.
According to the document, the passwords are:
ID password description
root sc0root1 system admin ID
scoid sc0cmvc1 cmvc ID
Sample chapters are available from this book's webpage on O'Reilly's website -- you can even read about my hacking on the sega dreamcast VMU in chapter 52 or from my (outdated) website.
that's a naïve view. Just because something is more expensive doesn't mean it's better... or even equal.
Price may be an indicator of quality, but it's more strongly correlated with profit and/or sucker value.
You could buy this $400 digital camera, but I think I'd prefer my $300 nikon coolpix 5400 despite it having only "half" the pixels.
The tasty ugly ripe tomato has been banned from export from florida. There's nothing wrong with it -- it's tasty, but it doesn't look smooth like the other tomatoes. The regulations only cover appearance and not taste.
Oh well, kindof off topic, but we can't even handle inter-state commerce. Too much power that was put in the hands of other (competing) growers -- it should have never left the government. If you get one of these tomatoes, it probably came from mexico.
dude. you totally missed the point!
Let me hop in my delorean and I'll be there in 5 minutes ago.
Did you even read the Ars Technica article?
For Tiger, Apple created launchd: one launch daemon to rule them all.
If you want to complain for the sake of complaining, go ahead. If you don't like to use multiple systems, what's your proposed solution -- use the first one that comes along and live with its limitations? Or, do you want to try something better that attempts to do exactly what you just asked for?
Reports that NY Times writer David Pogue found a severed finger in his copy of the new operating system have not been confirmed, although there is photographic evidence in his video review.
I had a co-worker who needed a little help with his program. It was C code, but all the semicolons were in column 80, arranged in a nice column. Yikes. He casually said "what, you've never seen that?". Turns out that part of his problem was that he was using float to represent a byte position in an extremely large file. He knew enough that UINT32 wouldn't do it, but ...
Keep in mind that was 500 TB in a *metric week* -- 10 days. Those crazy physicists!
Here are some examples...
I first saw this on the Korean war memorial in Washington DC (see images at top of that page). That one is low resolution, but a really neat effect. closeup of surface
Wow, the USGS... that must have been a big stone!... geological in scale ...
It was a couple of months before I got there, so I don't have the whole story. Basically, they had only one product and one customer, and that customer was slow on the payments. So they stopped work until they got paid. That, and they had been working really hard... Maybe two months was a little much rest & relaxation, but I wasn't there. I personally would have picked a fun project and started on that, but the company's technologies were all kindof similar, so it may have been hard to get away from that... Great guys and plenty productive.
I'll just extend on that...
The Athlon used an external bridge chip that connected directly to each processor (the 760, as used on the Thunder K7).
The Opteron processors connect directly to each other, and one (or more) of them also connect to the rest of the computer. It's glueless, like in this board. Good thing, too, because one chip that connected to 4 or 8 processors would have so many pins on it that it would be incredibly expensive.
I work at a company that makes LCOS devices (liquid crystal on silicon), so we've got some fancy microscopes custom-made for looking at pixel arrays under a wide variety of lighting conditions. I also happen to be hacking the PV2 disposable digital camera and didn't know the sensor resolution. So, we popped it in and found it was a 1.3 megapixel camera, even though it was claimed to provide 2 megapixel quality.
We've got a laser that can cut metal traces in IC's; I've been dying to find a use for it. Or the NMR machine.
I also used to work at a small startup company that decided, for some interesting good reasons, instead of programming, they should play Civilization on-line 8 hours a day, for 2 months. So, if you lost to three really good players in early 2002, they weren't cheating -- just really determined and on company time. Too bad that was a couple months before I started there.
ha ha! Here's a picture of it and the history behind the Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper.
Now, excuse me, there's a guy offering me pudding pops for my laptop...
It's not a technical question -- those can be solved -- but, rather, it's a legal question.
exactly. I did the googling ... try this 2-20GB SCSI RAM drive, or similar products.
doh - thanks! It's centimeters that are smaller than inches; I get that mixed up.