Well, it sounds like you have never lived in or know anyone in an area with expensive toll charges. Try calling someone on the other side of the planet sometime. $.55 per minute adds up quickly. Imagine how much it costs to those with a deflated currency. That is where VoIP is making it big.
The article states it will probably pick the top 60% of cars. I think it will use a plurality. It can also find correlations between the different groupings of stations that it picks up.
I just drove by the sign a half hour ago. Looks so much nicer than that hideous light-bulb based sign it replaced and it doesn't blind you at night like that old one did. I think it would be great for your commute. Something a little different to see while driving!;) Either that or it will drive you to take the Light Rail now. One of the two. I'm glad I don't have to make that commute anymore.
He is trying to protect it from the rain? What??? My compost bin gets a regular watering. If you do not have enough water in it, IT WON'T DECOMPOSE! This is also the case if you have too much water. The drains on the bottom and propping it up seem a little excessive. Mine is just a pile on the ground with a few wooden slats around it. It looks kinda like a few pallets bolted together, but it isn't! Honest!
There are several reasons for keeping your compost quite wet enough: to keep it decomposing; to keep the worms alive; to keep it from catching on fire (spontaneous combustion isn't fun); and to keep the smell down. A properly maintained compost heap really doesn't smell much. Now I wouldn't want it under my dining room window, but I digress.
He is saying six months for compost? Hmmm... seems a little long for me. I don't ever remember compost taking that long. Oh, don't forget to go out and stir it up with a pitch fork or something every once in a while.
I saw this really cool trackball for the Amiga back in the day that had a clear ball and you could get different colored LEDs that would glow behind the ball. It was really cool looking. As you moved the ball the LED flickered. Really cool disco type of effect. Couldn't find a link too quickly as I forget who made the thing.
Actually it is not as clammy as you might think for the chemicals used in the cement will actually eat your flesh away. I had a coworker once who climbed inside a broken transit mixer to try and shovel out the concrete before it hardened. His legs were so burned that he was off of work for several weeks.
MAPI is a client API, not a server one. MAPI compatibility is a way to send/receive email etc. from a client to any given server. It abstracts out the calls to the server for any given client to attach to. A mail client will install a mapi.dll onto the system. If you write another application that wants to send an email, you use the MAPI interface to send an email through that system's default server using that server's protocol. This has nothing to do with the compatibility SuSE's product may or may not have with Outlook. As a drop in replacement it needs to support the communications protocol and command set (basically an extended IMAP, try browsing the server with an IMAP client... kinda fun) that Outlook supports. Again, nothing to do with MAPI. If this product works with Outlook Express (read: POP3 or IMAP) then it has MAPI compatibility as Outlook Express is a MAPI compliant client. I have written many MAPI mail projects. It sucks. I like piping a file through sendmail on any *nix. So bloody easy. It doesn't give me the ability to pick up an email, but I've only done that once in all the times I've used MAPI.
About the other items I don't have a clue except your PDC would be much more stable running on Linux than on Windows.
Imagine that crowded Japanese subway with everyone "data enabled" onboard and all those packet collisions. Probably some kind of neural net would have to be developed.
I'll second that. I don't have a 2100, but I have a 5000. Ink is way too expensive, startup times are way too long (it is an inkjet not a laser!), compatibility issues bugged me routinely, and I could not even get it to work with Windows XP. Seems like I'll never be buying a Canon again either.
Ahh, but can you dig a trench down the road to the local phone company box and hook up your fiber? I seriously doubt you could afford to hire that done. In California at least it is illegal for someone unlicensed to do that kind of work and getting permits to do it also sucks. Anyone can climb around your attic/basement/etc. and run a couple of cables. That is the easy part.
What a wimp. Try flying to the other side of the planet! 20+ hours! Now that's a flight!;)
I just about wore out the batteries in my Handspring Visor playing all the little games on there. I even downloaded a copy of Adventure to play on the flight. That would be a good travel game and it runs on ANYTHING. I'll second any of the comments about the arcade games (MAME) as those are really engrossing and can keep you occupied.
Don't forget to bring some kind of backup in case your batteries don't last or you get tired of being so cramped on the plane.
It isn't a big deal to have it fixed, but you do have to go to your American consulate in your region and stand in a couple of lines. Act dumb. Be nice. Be confident. Be contrite.
He should take care of it now as it may take a few months for the paperwork to get done (or a few hours, depending...) and that may obstruct him if he wishes to go to the US for some odd reason.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
Thomas Jefferson's famous quote about separation of church and state
has been quite misused, so much so that most Americans believe that those words are actually in the constitution. The quote was in response to a church association asking then President Jefferson for support and assurance regarding their religious persecution that they were suffering. This was because the Danbury Baptist Association were Baptists in a Congretationalist state. They were constantly persecuted for that. They were obviously concerned about that and Jefferson reassured them that the federal government could not write any laws to govern their church.
"Establishing a religion" was in response to the Church of England and all the different political churches that these same people had fled from before the foundation of America. This is not to say that we can't pray in school or say the pledge. This means that we can not say that the U.S.A. is now an atheistic country by law, just like we can't say that every man is to be a Baptist or a Congregationalist. That would be the establishment of a religion. The religion of atheism.
The MSDN has a few references to 32k as the limit to their buffers for Win 9x APIs. These limits do not apply to NT versions. I was developing on an NT system with the code being tested on a 98 system. Here is the problem:
You can make a call to these APIs with a buffer sized at 32768 and the call will fail, returning an empty buffer, no error message, no error code, and no exception. If you pass in a buffer size of 32767 it works flawlessly. The documentation does state in one place that 32767 is required, but you have to look for it. Why does it not work at 32k? It took me several hours of work over a few days to find this problem.
I really have to say thanks for all the pointers. I just might have a viable open source solution that I can "sell" to my project manager. It looks really good. I am still reading through all the links that were provided in addition to what came up on my Google searching. If I am able to use an OSS solution then I will probably start hacking that project on my own time to get the features I want.
That looks GREAT! Have you used it? I'm reading docs on it right now. Is it in or nearly in a production level state? I really like the extensibility of it as well as that it is open source. If it is not extensible in the way I need, I can hack away!:)
I personally always try to put stuff back at the minimum of complete bug reports on lesser used projects and some nice little code patches on ones I'm very familiar with. If I use an open source project for the IDE then I'll resubmit every change I make to the core of it. The addin I will be writing is held by the company, but I will submit anything I can.
Speed is of no REAL concern as the slowest modern language can keep up with what we are doing. Ease of use and learning of a language is tops as it is not we who will be programming in it, but our customers. The language choice is based upon features, extensibility, and ease of learning. I have the language chosen already for the core of the system, but the user interface language is not yet finalized, nor is the interface. Just a little clarification.
is that they have gone from an average of 7 ads per commercial break to about double that in just the past few years. I get so bored with the commercials and the respective lack of content in the shows (the time has to come from somewhere) that I completely tune out. I generally don't even watch TV anymore. The rare times I do, I watch some news shows without ads or a movie that I wanted to see.
If the advertisers got a clue, they would have fewer ads in every break. The ads have gone beyond the breaking point! Do you remember when you had to rush during the commercial break to get back from the fridge in time not to miss any of your show? I can now go to the bathroom, get some snacks from the fridge, and then slowly wander back to the TV and still watch an ad or two. This has just gotten to be too much.
People are having a revolt. They are throwing away the ads because they are so frustrated and technology has finally caught up to the point where it makes it easy for a person to do so. The VCRs that skip commercials automatically and now the PVRs doing the same thing. Maybe they will get a clue, but I happen to doubt it. They will probably just put in more commercials in each segment to make up for the loss of revenue.
If it's got text-to-speech in India's native languages it's got it for English too. People in India often speak English better than we Yanks do.
That i so true, my wife speaks better English than most of the people I know. Indians have some strange ways of formulating sentences that are not from the Brittish, rather their own linguistic influences.
The biggest problem with this is that I couldn't imagine doing TTS for over 500 different languages!;-)
That is a tried and true concept of parenting. Make sure that you and your spouse are happy together. Spend time together. Make your spouse your first priority. Children come second. This may sound callous to those uneducated parents, but it works.
Out of all my married friends, the ones that practice this are the happier ones with the better adjusted children.
This also applies to the computer geeks here (myself included). Spend time with your spouse. Don't ignore her for the computer. It is such an easy trap to fall into.
I've been purchasing my 2600 with cash for as long as I've been reading it. Any time I buy anything that might be viewed as "subversive" I buy it with cash. I even buy my copies of "Catcher in the Rye" with cash!;-)
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Now this has to be the biggest Slashdot Post I have seen to date!
Obviously you haven't read anything by John Katz!
Well, it sounds like you have never lived in or know anyone in an area with expensive toll charges. Try calling someone on the other side of the planet sometime. $.55 per minute adds up quickly. Imagine how much it costs to those with a deflated currency. That is where VoIP is making it big.
The article states it will probably pick the top 60% of cars. I think it will use a plurality. It can also find correlations between the different groupings of stations that it picks up.
;) Either that or it will drive you to take the Light Rail now. One of the two. I'm glad I don't have to make that commute anymore.
I just drove by the sign a half hour ago. Looks so much nicer than that hideous light-bulb based sign it replaced and it doesn't blind you at night like that old one did. I think it would be great for your commute. Something a little different to see while driving!
He is trying to protect it from the rain? What??? My compost bin gets a regular watering. If you do not have enough water in it, IT WON'T DECOMPOSE! This is also the case if you have too much water. The drains on the bottom and propping it up seem a little excessive. Mine is just a pile on the ground with a few wooden slats around it. It looks kinda like a few pallets bolted together, but it isn't! Honest!
There are several reasons for keeping your compost quite wet enough: to keep it decomposing; to keep the worms alive; to keep it from catching on fire (spontaneous combustion isn't fun); and to keep the smell down. A properly maintained compost heap really doesn't smell much. Now I wouldn't want it under my dining room window, but I digress.
He is saying six months for compost? Hmmm... seems a little long for me. I don't ever remember compost taking that long. Oh, don't forget to go out and stir it up with a pitch fork or something every once in a while.
I saw this really cool trackball for the Amiga back in the day that had a clear ball and you could get different colored LEDs that would glow behind the ball. It was really cool looking. As you moved the ball the LED flickered. Really cool disco type of effect. Couldn't find a link too quickly as I forget who made the thing.
Actually it is not as clammy as you might think for the chemicals used in the cement will actually eat your flesh away. I had a coworker once who climbed inside a broken transit mixer to try and shovel out the concrete before it hardened. His legs were so burned that he was off of work for several weeks.
MAPI is a client API, not a server one. MAPI compatibility is a way to send/receive email etc. from a client to any given server. It abstracts out the calls to the server for any given client to attach to. A mail client will install a mapi.dll onto the system. If you write another application that wants to send an email, you use the MAPI interface to send an email through that system's default server using that server's protocol. This has nothing to do with the compatibility SuSE's product may or may not have with Outlook. As a drop in replacement it needs to support the communications protocol and command set (basically an extended IMAP, try browsing the server with an IMAP client... kinda fun) that Outlook supports. Again, nothing to do with MAPI. If this product works with Outlook Express (read: POP3 or IMAP) then it has MAPI compatibility as Outlook Express is a MAPI compliant client. I have written many MAPI mail projects. It sucks. I like piping a file through sendmail on any *nix. So bloody easy. It doesn't give me the ability to pick up an email, but I've only done that once in all the times I've used MAPI.
About the other items I don't have a clue except your PDC would be much more stable running on Linux than on Windows.
Imagine that crowded Japanese subway with everyone "data enabled" onboard and all those packet collisions. Probably some kind of neural net would have to be developed.
I'll second that. I don't have a 2100, but I have a 5000. Ink is way too expensive, startup times are way too long (it is an inkjet not a laser!), compatibility issues bugged me routinely, and I could not even get it to work with Windows XP. Seems like I'll never be buying a Canon again either.
Ahh, but can you dig a trench down the road to the local phone company box and hook up your fiber? I seriously doubt you could afford to hire that done. In California at least it is illegal for someone unlicensed to do that kind of work and getting permits to do it also sucks. Anyone can climb around your attic/basement/etc. and run a couple of cables. That is the easy part.
What a wimp. Try flying to the other side of the planet! 20+ hours! Now that's a flight! ;)
I just about wore out the batteries in my Handspring Visor playing all the little games on there. I even downloaded a copy of Adventure to play on the flight. That would be a good travel game and it runs on ANYTHING. I'll second any of the comments about the arcade games (MAME) as those are really engrossing and can keep you occupied.
Don't forget to bring some kind of backup in case your batteries don't last or you get tired of being so cramped on the plane.
It isn't a big deal to have it fixed, but you do have to go to your American consulate in your region and stand in a couple of lines. Act dumb. Be nice. Be confident. Be contrite.
He should take care of it now as it may take a few months for the paperwork to get done (or a few hours, depending...) and that may obstruct him if he wishes to go to the US for some odd reason.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
Thomas Jefferson's famous quote about separation of church and state has been quite misused, so much so that most Americans believe that those words are actually in the constitution. The quote was in response to a church association asking then President Jefferson for support and assurance regarding their religious persecution that they were suffering. This was because the Danbury Baptist Association were Baptists in a Congretationalist state. They were constantly persecuted for that. They were obviously concerned about that and Jefferson reassured them that the federal government could not write any laws to govern their church.
"Establishing a religion" was in response to the Church of England and all the different political churches that these same people had fled from before the foundation of America. This is not to say that we can't pray in school or say the pledge. This means that we can not say that the U.S.A. is now an atheistic country by law, just like we can't say that every man is to be a Baptist or a Congregationalist. That would be the establishment of a religion. The religion of atheism.
The MSDN has a few references to 32k as the limit to their buffers for Win 9x APIs. These limits do not apply to NT versions. I was developing on an NT system with the code being tested on a 98 system. Here is the problem:
You can make a call to these APIs with a buffer sized at 32768 and the call will fail, returning an empty buffer, no error message, no error code, and no exception. If you pass in a buffer size of 32767 it works flawlessly. The documentation does state in one place that 32767 is required, but you have to look for it. Why does it not work at 32k? It took me several hours of work over a few days to find this problem.
Now they'll make it illegal for anyone under 18 to buy chalk too!
I really have to say thanks for all the pointers. I just might have a viable open source solution that I can "sell" to my project manager. It looks really good. I am still reading through all the links that were provided in addition to what came up on my Google searching. If I am able to use an OSS solution then I will probably start hacking that project on my own time to get the features I want.
Oooohhh, aaaahhhh....
:)
That looks GREAT! Have you used it? I'm reading docs on it right now. Is it in or nearly in a production level state? I really like the extensibility of it as well as that it is open source. If it is not extensible in the way I need, I can hack away!
I personally always try to put stuff back at the minimum of complete bug reports on lesser used projects and some nice little code patches on ones I'm very familiar with. If I use an open source project for the IDE then I'll resubmit every change I make to the core of it. The addin I will be writing is held by the company, but I will submit anything I can.
Speed is of no REAL concern as the slowest modern language can keep up with what we are doing. Ease of use and learning of a language is tops as it is not we who will be programming in it, but our customers. The language choice is based upon features, extensibility, and ease of learning. I have the language chosen already for the core of the system, but the user interface language is not yet finalized, nor is the interface. Just a little clarification.
Hmmmm... checked out the riot web page and it has a link back to the SDSU College of Engineering at the bottom. Coincidence? I think not.
is that they have gone from an average of 7 ads per commercial break to about double that in just the past few years. I get so bored with the commercials and the respective lack of content in the shows (the time has to come from somewhere) that I completely tune out. I generally don't even watch TV anymore. The rare times I do, I watch some news shows without ads or a movie that I wanted to see.
If the advertisers got a clue, they would have fewer ads in every break. The ads have gone beyond the breaking point! Do you remember when you had to rush during the commercial break to get back from the fridge in time not to miss any of your show? I can now go to the bathroom, get some snacks from the fridge, and then slowly wander back to the TV and still watch an ad or two. This has just gotten to be too much.
People are having a revolt. They are throwing away the ads because they are so frustrated and technology has finally caught up to the point where it makes it easy for a person to do so. The VCRs that skip commercials automatically and now the PVRs doing the same thing. Maybe they will get a clue, but I happen to doubt it. They will probably just put in more commercials in each segment to make up for the loss of revenue.
If it's got text-to-speech in India's native languages it's got it for English too. People in India often speak English better than we Yanks do.
;-)
That i so true, my wife speaks better English than most of the people I know. Indians have some strange ways of formulating sentences that are not from the Brittish, rather their own linguistic influences.
The biggest problem with this is that I couldn't imagine doing TTS for over 500 different languages!
What a concept! Is that new?
That is a tried and true concept of parenting. Make sure that you and your spouse are happy together. Spend time together. Make your spouse your first priority. Children come second. This may sound callous to those uneducated parents, but it works.
Out of all my married friends, the ones that practice this are the happier ones with the better adjusted children.
This also applies to the computer geeks here (myself included). Spend time with your spouse. Don't ignore her for the computer. It is such an easy trap to fall into.
I've been purchasing my 2600 with cash for as long as I've been reading it. Any time I buy anything that might be viewed as "subversive" I buy it with cash. I even buy my copies of "Catcher in the Rye" with cash! ;-)
not going the route of an easy defense of "We are Russian, this is an American law" and actually challenging the DMCA straight up. Good for them!