I thought this was going to be about Woz's Sweet-16 interpreter for the Apple II (see bottom of that page), but no luck. I guess it's about 28 years old now....
Not only do they have scooby doo in india, but he's much more evil than he is in the united states -- he gives kids tattoos and has got them buying 75 gram packages of "krackjack". We americans have to settle for regular crack.
Right-on! I got to play that game for about a week before I had to install panther to play with xcode. I can't believe that the retail Apple store I bought it at has been selling a game for the last two months that won't work on an up-to-date system (I had to downgrade QT on jaguar) - Apple should have pulled it until macplay got it working (even if it was apple that broke quicktime). Good idea with the ipod - I hadn't thought of that, thanks.
Opals are actually just a mixture of tiny silica spheres and 3-10% water... "nanospeheres" are a defining characteristic of an opal; it's not a single crystal like many other types of gems. interesting reference
the period is related to gravity... and gravity changes depending where you are. Of course, you could specify a standard gravity, but then that's in meters per second per second... oh well, I guess just picking a long fixed distance that's impossible to measure starts to make sense.
And in this case, kilometers makes extra sense, since the informal "edge of space" definition is 100km. (Otherwise, 330,000 feet seems like a totally arbitrary number)
km is also good for the circumference of the earth... it's 40,000km because an original definition of a km was that 10,000 of them was the average distance from the earth's pole to the equator.
ha ha - new jersey mandatory full service! The guy pumping my gas was smoking a cigarette. The gas station manager didn't care - he said that if the pumper got disciplined, the pumper would go home and cost the station a lot in lost revenue (it was a busy station on the turnpike)... so no pumpers were ever disciplined, even with customer complaints. Very interesting page you linked to describing the price structure.
My gym has a fancy touchscreen thingy to track your workouts. I suspect that they used a capactive touchscreen* because if you get a tiny drop of sweat on the screen, it stops working. I guess they didn't really test their kiosks in actual gyms. Maybe that was intentional so that people would wipe up after themselves.
(* I don't know what the actual technology is, I just know these screens have this problem)
The highest density chip samsung is shipping is 4 Gbit (512MB), so the 4GB card probably has eight chips in it. While I didn't do a complete search, Samsung has been on the high end of flash density of a couple of years now. I'm guessing that the new 8Gbit chip will allow for 8GB compact flash cards. I was just comparing leading edge technologies at a low level.
I finally made the digital camera plunge last week (yep, I'm the one who hacked the dakota, and that's a lot of fun, but I wanted something a bit nicer.), and I'm still using the 16MB "starter" card nikon provided... I'm just starting to scope out the compact flash market and will be getting a larger card soon (in time for the holidays)
I wonder how this will compete with Samsung's new one gigabyte (8 GBit) flash. With a storage capacity of only 2-3 GB, this drive is only 2 or 3 of these flash chips, so competing on size would be hard. Hopefully it's much cheaper.
generally, fire codes don't like extensions cords to be permanently installed, even if you can't trip over them. (I'd like a reference, but I'm feeling lazy, so I might be wrong. That's just experience from when we wired up our lab and resorted to adding permanent taps)
True story: a customer had one of our systems in a rack, and it worked great when all closed up. But as soon as they opened the cover to see the pretty lights that blinked while we recorded the data generated by their radar system, the system stopped working. We had debugged it in the lab with the covers off (albiet with simulated data), so it should work best in this configuration.
Problem: humongus radar sitting on the roof of the building was glitching our circuit... that was the radar we were recording data off of, and the whole purpose of our system. Closing the front cover shielded us. We had concentrated on recording the binary data that their A/D's were giving us, and had forgotten the implications of the source of this data.
AMD used version 7.0 to compile it's entries for SpecInt performance, and I'm guessing that they didn't just pick it because they thought it had a cute name.
Compiler:
Intel C++ 7.0 build 20021021Z
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 7.0.9466 (libraries)
MicroQuill Smartheap Library 6.0
Sounds like fun, but this is only for pretty serious people. Unless you're a corporate sponsor of the FSF, expect to pay for these 9-hour seminars:
Both Courses: $875 for registrations on or before Dec 24, 2003 and $975 after First Course Only $495 for registrations on or before Dec 24, 2003 and $595 after
that's fine... just break it up into 282 smaller files. In the mean time, I'll just go out and get a set of seven huge drives to store them on. Thanks!
They've got the tables on their ftp server, but it seems slashdotted because it's going really slow... my computer says "downloaded 4194304 bytes of 1209462790550 bytes (0.00034%)"
You're forgetting one very big abuse I think microsoft has committed here... they didn't just wait around for FAT to become standard - their monopoly position allowed them to refuse to support any other standard. Being able to read mac disks would be a sellable feature and they should include in the operating system, but they don't have to because they've got a monopoly. So, they've bullied their way into forcing everyone else to support FAT (even solaris!) as a least-common-denominator.
The Dakota Disposable Digital uses the FAT12 file system internally (just like all smart-media products), but this isn't really noticible though its interface to the outside world. The only externally visibile part is the directory entry, of which they don't use all the fields. The FAT table & directories (it does use 2 directories internally) is totally hidden from the interface.
Nah, I don't have a link to that picture (I've got it on CD, but I'm not sure if I can redistribute it). But I did dig up some more info... I think it was the TARPS program (photo gallery), but it might have been an improvement on it. My image was 4x+ more detailed than this one - altitude, slant angle, and camera all play a big role in determining this. It wasn't really my project, but I got the picture because my computer was the only one that had enough RAM to hold the entire image at once. It might have been a similar program, like TARS and ATARS (see how I'd get confused?!) - we were just a subcontractor that handled the recorder interface and didn't get a lot of mention in the press.
We had a 150 megapixel image (greyscale, in 1999 or so) that had been taken by an F15 equiped with a survailiance pod. The plane flew many passes over this little section of town and the images had been stitched together. I printed it out at 11x17 (my inkjet couldn't physically capture all the detail even at that level - it was more like 1 bit per pixel) and we'd play "I spy"
There must have been 100 homes or more in there... you could see all the trees and cars pretty clearly. One car had a sunshade in the front, another had its door open. Some vehicles were trucks, and one had some old tires in the back. One guy's house was really messy, and there was an area where they parked construction equipment.
The most interesting part of the picture was the pool at the apartment complex.. there were lots of empty chairs, but someone in a bikini was lying in one face-up, unaware that the F15 flying way overhead was taking her picture.
Another couple of weeks would have been 2 years before his third trial, so the timing doesn't really matter.
He had to draw the line somewhere where he could continue on with his life and not be afraid of retrials - might as well make it well after his first trial.
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I'd like to see the intricacies of the human nervous system represented in ASCII.
Oh, no you didn't say that. Slashdot trolls already have ASCII anatomical representations in WAAAY too much detail for my tastes!
I thought this was going to be about Woz's Sweet-16 interpreter for the Apple II (see bottom of that page), but no luck. I guess it's about 28 years old now....
darn, I dated myself.
Not only do they have scooby doo in india, but he's much more evil than he is in the united states -- he gives kids tattoos and has got them buying 75 gram packages of "krackjack". We americans have to settle for regular crack.
Right-on! I got to play that game for about a week before I had to install panther to play with xcode. I can't believe that the retail Apple store I bought it at has been selling a game for the last two months that won't work on an up-to-date system (I had to downgrade QT on jaguar) - Apple should have pulled it until macplay got it working (even if it was apple that broke quicktime). Good idea with the ipod - I hadn't thought of that, thanks.
Opals are actually just a mixture of tiny silica spheres and 3-10% water... "nanospeheres" are a defining characteristic of an opal; it's not a single crystal like many other types of gems. interesting reference
... a tree that produces amber! (it just takes a little time)
ha ha!
the period is related to gravity... and gravity changes depending where you are. Of course, you could specify a standard gravity, but then that's in meters per second per second... oh well, I guess just picking a long fixed distance that's impossible to measure starts to make sense.
And in this case, kilometers makes extra sense, since the informal "edge of space" definition is 100km. (Otherwise, 330,000 feet seems like a totally arbitrary number)
km is also good for the circumference of the earth... it's 40,000km because an original definition of a km was that 10,000 of them was the average distance from the earth's pole to the equator.
ha ha - new jersey mandatory full service! The guy pumping my gas was smoking a cigarette. The gas station manager didn't care - he said that if the pumper got disciplined, the pumper would go home and cost the station a lot in lost revenue (it was a busy station on the turnpike)... so no pumpers were ever disciplined, even with customer complaints. Very interesting page you linked to describing the price structure.
Also, don't forget the line of swatch smart tag watches used for ski passes
My gym has a fancy touchscreen thingy to track your workouts. I suspect that they used a capactive touchscreen* because if you get a tiny drop of sweat on the screen, it stops working. I guess they didn't really test their kiosks in actual gyms. Maybe that was intentional so that people would wipe up after themselves.
(* I don't know what the actual technology is, I just know these screens have this problem)
The highest density chip samsung is shipping is 4 Gbit (512MB), so the 4GB card probably has eight chips in it. While I didn't do a complete search, Samsung has been on the high end of flash density of a couple of years now. I'm guessing that the new 8Gbit chip will allow for 8GB compact flash cards. I was just comparing leading edge technologies at a low level.
I finally made the digital camera plunge last week (yep, I'm the one who hacked the dakota, and that's a lot of fun, but I wanted something a bit nicer.), and I'm still using the 16MB "starter" card nikon provided... I'm just starting to scope out the compact flash market and will be getting a larger card soon (in time for the holidays)
I wonder how this will compete with Samsung's new one gigabyte (8 GBit) flash. With a storage capacity of only 2-3 GB, this drive is only 2 or 3 of these flash chips, so competing on size would be hard. Hopefully it's much cheaper.
generally, fire codes don't like extensions cords to be permanently installed, even if you can't trip over them. (I'd like a reference, but I'm feeling lazy, so I might be wrong. That's just experience from when we wired up our lab and resorted to adding permanent taps)
very funny!
True story: a customer had one of our systems in a rack, and it worked great when all closed up. But as soon as they opened the cover to see the pretty lights that blinked while we recorded the data generated by their radar system, the system stopped working. We had debugged it in the lab with the covers off (albiet with simulated data), so it should work best in this configuration.
Problem: humongus radar sitting on the roof of the building was glitching our circuit... that was the radar we were recording data off of, and the whole purpose of our system. Closing the front cover shielded us. We had concentrated on recording the binary data that their A/D's were giving us, and had forgotten the implications of the source of this data.
USB and CRT ports
pictures of ports
inside board stack (looks like it's 3 boards total)
AMD used version 7.0 to compile it's entries for SpecInt performance, and I'm guessing that they didn't just pick it because they thought it had a cute name.
.NET 7.0.9466 (libraries)
Compiler:
Intel C++ 7.0 build 20021021Z
Microsoft Visual Studio
MicroQuill Smartheap Library 6.0
Sounds like fun, but this is only for pretty serious people. Unless you're a corporate sponsor of the FSF, expect to pay for these 9-hour seminars:
Both Courses: $875 for registrations on or before Dec 24, 2003 and $975 after
First Course Only $495 for registrations on or before Dec 24, 2003 and $595 after
you can still see his legs, so that makes it shorts.
Incidently, you can convert any pair of shorts into slacks by wearing suitably long socks.
that's fine... just break it up into 282 smaller files. In the mean time, I'll just go out and get a set of seven huge drives to store them on. Thanks!
They've got the tables on their ftp server, but it seems slashdotted because it's going really slow... my computer says "downloaded 4194304 bytes of 1209462790550 bytes (0.00034%)"
Anyone have a bit torrent for this thing?
waiting for it to become so standard
You're forgetting one very big abuse I think microsoft has committed here... they didn't just wait around for FAT to become standard - their monopoly position allowed them to refuse to support any other standard. Being able to read mac disks would be a sellable feature and they should include in the operating system, but they don't have to because they've got a monopoly. So, they've bullied their way into forcing everyone else to support FAT (even solaris!) as a least-common-denominator.
The Dakota Disposable Digital uses the FAT12 file system internally (just like all smart-media products), but this isn't really noticible though its interface to the outside world. The only externally visibile part is the directory entry, of which they don't use all the fields. The FAT table & directories (it does use 2 directories internally) is totally hidden from the interface.
Nah, I don't have a link to that picture (I've got it on CD, but I'm not sure if I can redistribute it). But I did dig up some more info... I think it was the TARPS program (photo gallery), but it might have been an improvement on it. My image was 4x+ more detailed than this one - altitude, slant angle, and camera all play a big role in determining this. It wasn't really my project, but I got the picture because my computer was the only one that had enough RAM to hold the entire image at once. It might have been a similar program, like TARS and ATARS (see how I'd get confused?!) - we were just a subcontractor that handled the recorder interface and didn't get a lot of mention in the press.
We had a 150 megapixel image (greyscale, in 1999 or so) that had been taken by an F15 equiped with a survailiance pod. The plane flew many passes over this little section of town and the images had been stitched together. I printed it out at 11x17 (my inkjet couldn't physically capture all the detail even at that level - it was more like 1 bit per pixel) and we'd play "I spy"
There must have been 100 homes or more in there... you could see all the trees and cars pretty clearly. One car had a sunshade in the front, another had its door open. Some vehicles were trucks, and one had some old tires in the back. One guy's house was really messy, and there was an area where they parked construction equipment.
The most interesting part of the picture was the pool at the apartment complex.. there were lots of empty chairs, but someone in a bikini was lying in one face-up, unaware that the F15 flying way overhead was taking her picture.
Another couple of weeks would have been 2 years before his third trial, so the timing doesn't really matter.
He had to draw the line somewhere where he could continue on with his life and not be afraid of retrials - might as well make it well after his first trial.