Before UPC's appeared on all products, people manually tagged products with pricetags & cashiers were used to reading and typing these into the registers. It was walmart that pushed manufacturers to adopt the UPC & they reaped a killing in savings.
This article talks about a group of small webcasters is threating to sue the RIAA for antitrust violations. They feel the royalty agreement favors only big webcasters and is being used as a stick to drive out the smaller ones.
They somewhat do this in developing countries - they dye your thumb in an indelible ink so you can't vote twice (at least on the same day). Of course, guerillas who don't want anyone to vote tend to cut those thumbs off... and it isn't just so that the peasents can try to vote again
I love your moto rule. I say motorcyclists don't have to obey any laws as long as they don't wear a helmet. Also, anyone with one or more points on their license will have their airbag replaced with a giant spike. And, kids don't have to be restrained in child safety seats as long as they are securely attached to the bumper.
According to this interview with a previous high-scorer (879,200 in Aug of 2000), the trick is to use up all your lives before you reach the kill level, effectively trading them in for points. But, that's assuming you have lives left to spare at that point...
This is exactly the situation that Claris was formed for. The company was spun out of Apple in the late 80's to market the AppleWorks office suite - since it was independent, 3rd party developers (like adobe) were competing on an even playing field, and not directly with the owner of the OS & HW. It was a good situation for the market, and I think good for the mac platform as a whole. But, that's all over since Apple reabsorbed claris back in '98. Oh well...
Sega is coming out with its DreamEye camera... article and pictures. Oh wait, it's already out. It was released in the summer of 2000.
Ok, maybe the dreamcast was pulled before they could sell this outside the japanese market. But, sony coming out with a product THREE YEARS after its competitors doesn't get me too excited. Sega had some other kick-ass hardware: its VMU had a much more usable screen compared to sony's almost useless pocketstation screen (which sony never released in the US), plus there is a dev community for it! I guess we just have to wait for Sony to come out with a fishing controller before we get excited with their innovation!
It looks like the G4 should walk all over these other processors- the whole dataset fits in cache. One really interesting thing about the dual G5 is that each processor can access data in the other's cache... Since the 2nd processor was still installed, I wonder if its cache was still operating! If so, then this might boost the G5's cache to roughly the size of the data set.
There's been a spate of news stories covering the topic, perhaps the most prominent in the WSJ of Friday, 27 June, "'Junk Science' Ban Also Keeps Jurors From Sound Evidence" (regrettably not freely available online)
Oh, I wish the people at the pentagon's new program for a database that will contain "raw, non-validated" reports of "anomalous activities" understood this principle. I guess they want to be buried in a mountain of data so that when something bad happens, they can claim that they knew something about it. Argh!!
Today microsoft released the first service pack for it's Spot line of watches. When the microsoft programmers who designed this watch were informed that New York and London have a five hour time difference rather than one, the blushing engineers claimed "but it looks so close on the map".
Open source enthusiasts responded: "this is yet another case of microsoft taking an open standard and mostly complying with it, but then perverting it enough to become incompatible with the rest of the world. They are clearly abusing their monopoly position in operating systems to force changes in world timekeeping."
Service pack 2 (to be released on Febsoft 29th, 2004) will hopefully also correct the direction of the earth's spin. Normally, London time is New York time + 5 hours, not - 1 hour.
Here's a trick - most keyboard are organized in a square matrix. Sometime pressing 3 keys that are form a square will generate a phantom 4th keypress - if you do it right, you'll get a "P" (and have to erase 3 other chars you used to get that "P"). The keyboard electrical matrix may not always look like the actual keyboard layout, so it may take some experimenting.
You don't happen to have a sprint A500 phone like I have, do you? I found out it's not really 3G and it doesn't have GPS.
You can, however find out your location relative to base stations that are at known lat/lon locations, and they used gps to find these tower locations. Enabling the GPS rx'er that I thought I had bought was one of the first things I tried to do when I joined the sprint pcs developer program
I thought that yesterday's veritest g5 specint report was funny when it comes to describing how they configured the systems. They compared OSX vs. Redhat 9.
One pages 5-6, the describe the apple process for each of the 2 configurations. Each config is about 1/2 page or 24 lines. Besides control panel stuff, you must edit/etc/hostconfig manually, physically remove a processor and reboot twice.
The redhat config, on page 7, is only 9 lines long, requires no file editing, and has only the initial boot to select 1 or 2 processors.
It seems that easy-of-configuration is a reason to use these new machines with linux!
A freind-of-a-friend got the biggest trailer hitch he could find for just this problem. He doesn't have a trailer; it's just additional metal to slow down/inflict damage on tailgaters.
It seems that production of 2002 Volkswagon Beetls is down inifity% to a year-long low of zero cars. If production continues at this rate, production will become negative, and in one year there will be NO MORE 2002 VOLKSWAGON BEETLES on the planet! If I owned one, I'd sell it a soon as possible before it self-destructs!
In 2 years, we expect to ship the non-existant cars to other planets to create a negative quantity of 2002 BEETLES on our planet. This trend will continue, and 10 years, 90% of human effort on the planet will involve shipping these non-existant cars.
Very close. Cassini and virtually all other deep-space probes used RTGs because solar power is not nearly as effective at such great distances from the sun than on earth.
The real big difference is that they're now using nuclear to provide propulsion. The ion drive is really cool (but not because I wrote a little software for one of the early test satellites:)
To develop thrust in space, you basically have to eject some sort of particle with a given mass and speed. The traditional approach uses rocket fuel or hydrazine as the mass, and uses the potential energy of the chemical bonds to provide the velocity. Ion drives bring just the mass portion of the equation on the spacecraft (remember, it's insanely expensive to lift weight into space). To provide thrust, the ions are accelerated using electricity -- electricity is free near the earth, or in the case of deep space probes, can be generated by nuclear means far more efficiently than other means.
So, to summerize, in traditional systems, thruster mass and energy are closely coupled (i.e. chemical reaction), while in ion drives, the two are seperated so that the most efficient storage methods can be used.
The problem with the new buttons is that they are two sensitive - you can't find them by feel easily because you'll accidently press one. The old ones you could touch and feel before deciding to press.
If apple gives you two covers, then that proves bad design. It means that they acknowledge you'll probably lose at least one. If you bought a car and it came with an extra steering wheel "just in case the original one falls off", you'd be worried, wouldn't you?
I love the old design (I have it) - standard port, built in cover, tactile buttons. The smaller size of the new ones is cool, but I'm not disappointed that I don't have the latest-and-greatest.
Oh, that's great if everyone has just one computer. I currently use 5 IPs, plus 1 for my phone, and share IPs on 2 routers. Pretty soon, they'll require you to adopt some mammal for every IP you use. Sure, the lucky early-adopters will scramble to adopt all of the Pymgy Shrews, but the late ones will get stuck with odd-toed Tapirs
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Before UPC's appeared on all products, people manually tagged products with pricetags & cashiers were used to reading and typing these into the registers. It was walmart that pushed manufacturers to adopt the UPC & they reaped a killing in savings.
This article talks about a group of small webcasters is threating to sue the RIAA for antitrust violations. They feel the royalty agreement favors only big webcasters and is being used as a stick to drive out the smaller ones.
They somewhat do this in developing countries - they dye your thumb in an indelible ink so you can't vote twice (at least on the same day). Of course, guerillas who don't want anyone to vote tend to cut those thumbs off... and it isn't just so that the peasents can try to vote again
I love your moto rule. I say motorcyclists don't have to obey any laws as long as they don't wear a helmet. Also, anyone with one or more points on their license will have their airbag replaced with a giant spike. And, kids don't have to be restrained in child safety seats as long as they are securely attached to the bumper.
According to this interview with a previous high-scorer (879,200 in Aug of 2000), the trick is to use up all your lives before you reach the kill level, effectively trading them in for points. But, that's assuming you have lives left to spare at that point...
This is exactly the situation that Claris was formed for. The company was spun out of Apple in the late 80's to market the AppleWorks office suite - since it was independent, 3rd party developers (like adobe) were competing on an even playing field, and not directly with the owner of the OS & HW. It was a good situation for the market, and I think good for the mac platform as a whole. But, that's all over since Apple reabsorbed claris back in '98. Oh well...
Sega is coming out with its DreamEye camera... article and pictures. Oh wait, it's already out. It was released in the summer of 2000.
Ok, maybe the dreamcast was pulled before they could sell this outside the japanese market. But, sony coming out with a product THREE YEARS after its competitors doesn't get me too excited. Sega had some other kick-ass hardware: its VMU had a much more usable screen compared to sony's almost useless pocketstation screen (which sony never released in the US), plus there is a dev community for it! I guess we just have to wait for Sony to come out with a fishing controller before we get excited with their innovation!
610 posts, and only one AC mentioned the cache size difference in the machines? Here are some interesting numbers:
Program use 1024 KB of memory -- that's unusally low.
G5 data cache:
hw.l1dcachesize = 32 KB
hw.l2cachesize = 512 KB
G4 cache:
hw.l1dcachesize = 32 KB
hw.l2cachesize = 256 KB
hw.l3cachesize = 2048 KB
P4:
cache size: 512 KB
It looks like the G4 should walk all over these other processors- the whole dataset fits in cache. One really interesting thing about the dual G5 is that each processor can access data in the other's cache... Since the 2nd processor was still installed, I wonder if its cache was still operating! If so, then this might boost the G5's cache to roughly the size of the data set.
There's been a spate of news stories covering the topic, perhaps the most prominent in the WSJ of Friday, 27 June, "'Junk Science' Ban Also Keeps Jurors From Sound Evidence" (regrettably not freely available online)
Our good friends at Corbis have scanned in this article for us! There is also a good article at Tech Centeral Station.
same here. I also sometimes tag my snail-mail address:
Morcheeba
Dept. SD
123 street
City, state zip
I also do it with my telephone number. Example:
(212) 752-7436
That spells out sla-shdo; good enough for me to recogonize. Funny, though, I don't get many unsolicited calls to my masked phone numbers...
We've already got that... just substitute GI Joe for Aquaman.
$10/mo is what I pay for unlimited internet through my Sprint PCS Vision phone!
How many people spend $120/year on watches? Add the cost of the hardware to that, and how many people are left?
Exactly.
And it also misses weapons hidden in body cavities (including the obvious i/o ports, but also under this woman's breasts)
Oh, I wish the people at the pentagon's new program for a database that will contain "raw, non-validated" reports of "anomalous activities" understood this principle. I guess they want to be buried in a mountain of data so that when something bad happens, they can claim that they knew something about it. Argh!!
The soundex is part of my maryland number, too:
S-sss-###-###-###
Where S-sss is the soundex (and I thought the first digit was an 'M' for maryland, but it's really part of the Soundex for Morcheeba!)
It's better than VA where the driver's license number was your SSN
Today microsoft released the first service pack for it's Spot line of watches. When the microsoft programmers who designed this watch were informed that New York and London have a five hour time difference rather than one, the blushing engineers claimed "but it looks so close on the map".
Open source enthusiasts responded: "this is yet another case of microsoft taking an open standard and mostly complying with it, but then perverting it enough to become incompatible with the rest of the world. They are clearly abusing their monopoly position in operating systems to force changes in world timekeeping."
Service pack 2 (to be released on Febsoft 29th, 2004) will hopefully also correct the direction of the earth's spin. Normally, London time is New York time + 5 hours, not - 1 hour.
I'd love to have that computer!
Here's a trick - most keyboard are organized in a square matrix. Sometime pressing 3 keys that are form a square will generate a phantom 4th keypress - if you do it right, you'll get a "P" (and have to erase 3 other chars you used to get that "P"). The keyboard electrical matrix may not always look like the actual keyboard layout, so it may take some experimenting.
You don't happen to have a sprint A500 phone like I have, do you? I found out it's not really 3G and it doesn't have GPS.
You can, however find out your location relative to base stations that are at known lat/lon locations, and they used gps to find these tower locations. Enabling the GPS rx'er that I thought I had bought was one of the first things I tried to do when I joined the sprint pcs developer program
I thought that yesterday's veritest g5 specint report was funny when it comes to describing how they configured the systems. They compared OSX vs. Redhat 9.
/etc/hostconfig manually, physically remove a processor and reboot twice.
One pages 5-6, the describe the apple process for each of the 2 configurations. Each config is about 1/2 page or 24 lines. Besides control panel stuff, you must edit
The redhat config, on page 7, is only 9 lines long, requires no file editing, and has only the initial boot to select 1 or 2 processors.
It seems that easy-of-configuration is a reason to use these new machines with linux!
A freind-of-a-friend got the biggest trailer hitch he could find for just this problem. He doesn't have a trailer; it's just additional metal to slow down/inflict damage on tailgaters.
The EU just commissioned one that will be 1.05 meter to 1 meter, making this slightly bigger than yours.
(+/- 5% tolerance)
It seems that production of 2002 Volkswagon Beetls is down inifity% to a year-long low of zero cars. If production continues at this rate, production will become negative, and in one year there will be NO MORE 2002 VOLKSWAGON BEETLES on the planet! If I owned one, I'd sell it a soon as possible before it self-destructs!
In 2 years, we expect to ship the non-existant cars to other planets to create a negative quantity of 2002 BEETLES on our planet. This trend will continue, and 10 years, 90% of human effort on the planet will involve shipping these non-existant cars.
That's, of course, if current trends continue.
Very close. Cassini and virtually all other deep-space probes used RTGs because solar power is not nearly as effective at such great distances from the sun than on earth.
:)
The real big difference is that they're now using nuclear to provide propulsion. The ion drive is really cool (but not because I wrote a little software for one of the early test satellites
To develop thrust in space, you basically have to eject some sort of particle with a given mass and speed. The traditional approach uses rocket fuel or hydrazine as the mass, and uses the potential energy of the chemical bonds to provide the velocity. Ion drives bring just the mass portion of the equation on the spacecraft (remember, it's insanely expensive to lift weight into space). To provide thrust, the ions are accelerated using electricity -- electricity is free near the earth, or in the case of deep space probes, can be generated by nuclear means far more efficiently than other means.
So, to summerize, in traditional systems, thruster mass and energy are closely coupled (i.e. chemical reaction), while in ion drives, the two are seperated so that the most efficient storage methods can be used.
The problem with the new buttons is that they are two sensitive - you can't find them by feel easily because you'll accidently press one. The old ones you could touch and feel before deciding to press.
If apple gives you two covers, then that proves bad design. It means that they acknowledge you'll probably lose at least one. If you bought a car and it came with an extra steering wheel "just in case the original one falls off", you'd be worried, wouldn't you?
I love the old design (I have it) - standard port, built in cover, tactile buttons. The smaller size of the new ones is cool, but I'm not disappointed that I don't have the latest-and-greatest.
Oh, that's great if everyone has just one computer. I currently use 5 IPs, plus 1 for my phone, and share IPs on 2 routers. Pretty soon, they'll require you to adopt some mammal for every IP you use. Sure, the lucky early-adopters will scramble to adopt all of the Pymgy Shrews, but the late ones will get stuck with odd-toed Tapirs