I just recently used a hdmi connection from a netbook to a (intended as by vendor) computer monitor and it was completely lagless. I've heard there are lag issues with tv's that process the picture by upsampling, interpolating in-between frames (like 120hz tv's) or some other processing. That has more to do with your display than the hdmi standard, I THINK
Don't underestimate the man! Check out this vid of him rocking on stage, anticipating some dude running up on him in time to start properly beating him with his guitar, and resume rocking out like it was no thing.
I worked this one job where the boss would routinely ignore my planning advice, get some outside incompetent guy to do things, get me to clean it up when things went horribly wrong, and then complain to me that I wasn't getting enough progress on my own initiatives. What I'm getting at here is that I would *love* to be able to hold people accountable for ignoring good, substantiated advice and planning.
I read your comment and I suspect you're not entirely aware of what bit banging is. From the wikipedia article:
Bit-banging is a technique for serial communications using software instead of dedicated hardware. Software directly sets and samples the state of pins on the microcontroller, and is responsible for all parameters of the signal: timing, levels, synchronization, etc. In contrast to bit-banging, dedicated hardware (such as a modem, UART, or shift register) handles these parameters and provides a (buffered) data interface in other systems, so software is not required to perform signal demodulation.
And then a concerned friend should call them and ask who beat that sense in to them, only to be met with "...", "...", "it was nothing, I walked into a door. Good thing Ken was here to help me up."
agreed - I just finished playing the winning game and found it extremely anti-climactic. The point of that game is to learn that insecure girls put up with abusive boys and there's absolutely nothing I can do to help. Even though I found the prevention poster in my room with a hotline number AND ADDED IT TO MY MEMOS, I couldn't talk about that on the phone with her. Gee, compared to talking about how the party went or telling her that her boyfriend sucks (both of which will get her to hang up on you and never talk to you again), it seems like MAYBE I'D WANT TO ACTUALLY SAY SOMETHING HELPFUL.
Is the point of this game to educate boys that girls would rather talk in circles and not get problems solved even when they have the solution right there? I can relate to that.
I would argue it does a right shitty job of it because it's obviously manually constructed. It's extremely difficult to follow the lines as they are all the same thickness and color, and do not indicate direction until they're at the node. Plus, they're all right next to each other and many of them are obscured (notice the transparency) by the nodes they pass THROUGH, not around.
An interactive map of this would be a lot more helpful with very minor modifications. Just hovering over a node and having all its connecting lines highlight would make it ten times easier to follow.
Don't even get me started on how tedious all the manual construction of this diagram makes it a poorly maintainable document.
I think you're missing the point. The concern is with the military having institutionalized an ineffective means of intercommunication, using specifically powerpoint as their tool of choice.
Even if they didn't use PP, it would still be referred to by that name as people used to call all photocopies "xerox" and all inline skates "rollerblades".
The process of "quickly" creating slides in the presentations made conducive by the software creates a false sense of understanding, and that is the issue.
I used to be the sole IT guy at a busy real estate office where 40+ agents were constantly printing things off of their computer in order to feed it into the fax machine, which would indicate a successful transmission by printing out a note to that effect.
In the first two weeks I was there I proposed setting up a system where agents could "print" a fax from their desk and save a bundle on toner and paper. The boss wasn't interested, and in the scheme of things this was one of the less idiotic situations to deal with.
I chose a similar solution: I dropped the university for a better life. Very rarely during my time at university did I feel it was worth my time to be there. But *every* moment felt like a huge waste of money.
Even the classes that interested me weren't as valuable as they could be because I had to waste my time doing BS homework for BS classes instead of studying worthwhile things in the depth I would have liked to.
You used to be able to acquire a book and know that since it was a book the author(s) had done their homework.
I used to be forced to buy textbooks and know that I was being screwed by my university and the textbook publishers simultaneously. In one year I had to get three different calculus textbooks that basically all had the same contents. Even in middle school I'd find inaccuracies in the textbooks.
Call me pedantic, but I get really irked when people hijack a language to confuse the rest of us who know what words actually mean. I'm sure it happens all the time but ink for me will always be that liquid stuff I can use to write on paper, have my INKjet write on paper, or have a squid squirt at me.
I spilled a whole crapload of toner on my pants leg once. It all came off after rubbing it with a dry paper towel and shaking it off a lot. Try *that* with ink.
You know, so the management understand.
True dat. They could take an extra few milliseconds to know the difference, but then their bosses would get as mad as they do for being told nerd-speak.
I click Google Earth...it is neat how it zooms down to where I'm at from outer space..but after that...what?
Then you can turn around and look at the stars. Or go over to the nearest ocean and explore underwater. Or enjoy the ever-increasing amounts of 3d buildings and user-submitted photos. See what places look like in 3d (try dragging w/ the middle mouse button). Spin the globe (drag quickly and let go) and explore some place new. Play with the built-in flight simulator! Find crazy and unusual things on the earth by accident. Improve your geography skills.
"Understanding hydrophobicity, and how different conditions change it, is probably one of the most fundamental components in understanding how proteins fold in water and how different biomolecules remain stable in it," says Kumar.
When asked by a reporter, Kumar said the idea came to him while hitting the bong.
I am free? Fine, so I can piss on your carpet can I? Thought so.
Most advocates of genuine freedom are careful to point out that freedom to cause harm to others is itself antithetical to freedom. Your point becomes valid as soon as you can equate pissing on someone's carpet to growing a plant and consuming it entirely within your own house for your own purposes without hurting anyone else.
From TFA: "There is no bulky power adapter. The power supply is built inside the Gecko so that all you need to carry is a power cord."
I've had enough ATX power supplies and laptop power adapters go bad... one of the latter even threw sparks and smoke. Never damaged the actual computer, and they were all easy to replace.
The power adapter for my netbook is smallish, but bigger than I'd want embedded inside my netbook. And what about RF noise? What about safety? Sounds crazy, but I've had a waterfall (from a leaky roof) open right up on me while using a computer before. Once I even used a faulty laptop that shocked me when using it, annoying but not deadly.
If you want to watch a DVD, good luck--your netbook is probably a little too small for that DVD drive!
Yeah, but what really gets me is that none of these "fancy" new-fangled computers will let me play my LP records. If only there was some way for me to listen to my music using these digi-pad notbook things, THEN we could start worrying about spreading VD's with them.
Get off my lawn!
On a serious note, you could physcially embed many, many times more capacity from micro SD cards INTO a plastic dvd disc. Why the crap would you want to waste your netbook battery spinning around obsolete media?
I can imagine that woz explained specifically what the problem is (and how to reproduce it), but the article doesn't mention any specifics. Now I have nothing empirical to form an opinion off of.
a quick look over at northrup grumman and aerovironment's stock would challenge your observation. I mean, killing people isn't exactly the main focus of their efforts, but it's probably up there.
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I just recently used a hdmi connection from a netbook to a (intended as by vendor) computer monitor and it was completely lagless. I've heard there are lag issues with tv's that process the picture by upsampling, interpolating in-between frames (like 120hz tv's) or some other processing. That has more to do with your display than the hdmi standard, I THINK
Don't underestimate the man! Check out this vid of him rocking on stage, anticipating some dude running up on him in time to start properly beating him with his guitar, and resume rocking out like it was no thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK0y02HvVc
I worked this one job where the boss would routinely ignore my planning advice, get some outside incompetent guy to do things, get me to clean it up when things went horribly wrong, and then complain to me that I wasn't getting enough progress on my own initiatives. What I'm getting at here is that I would *love* to be able to hold people accountable for ignoring good, substantiated advice and planning.
I read your comment and I suspect you're not entirely aware of what bit banging is. From the wikipedia article:
Bit-banging is a technique for serial communications using software instead of dedicated hardware. Software directly sets and samples the state of pins on the microcontroller, and is responsible for all parameters of the signal: timing, levels, synchronization, etc. In contrast to bit-banging, dedicated hardware (such as a modem, UART, or shift register) handles these parameters and provides a (buffered) data interface in other systems, so software is not required to perform signal demodulation.
Someone should beat some sense into them.
And then a concerned friend should call them and ask who beat that sense in to them, only to be met with "...", "...", "it was nothing, I walked into a door. Good thing Ken was here to help me up."
agreed - I just finished playing the winning game and found it extremely anti-climactic. The point of that game is to learn that insecure girls put up with abusive boys and there's absolutely nothing I can do to help. Even though I found the prevention poster in my room with a hotline number AND ADDED IT TO MY MEMOS, I couldn't talk about that on the phone with her. Gee, compared to talking about how the party went or telling her that her boyfriend sucks (both of which will get her to hang up on you and never talk to you again), it seems like MAYBE I'D WANT TO ACTUALLY SAY SOMETHING HELPFUL.
Is the point of this game to educate boys that girls would rather talk in circles and not get problems solved even when they have the solution right there? I can relate to that.
And create all that space debris that will jeopardize countless other satellites?
I would argue it does a right shitty job of it because it's obviously manually constructed. It's extremely difficult to follow the lines as they are all the same thickness and color, and do not indicate direction until they're at the node. Plus, they're all right next to each other and many of them are obscured (notice the transparency) by the nodes they pass THROUGH, not around.
An interactive map of this would be a lot more helpful with very minor modifications. Just hovering over a node and having all its connecting lines highlight would make it ten times easier to follow.
Don't even get me started on how tedious all the manual construction of this diagram makes it a poorly maintainable document.
I think you're missing the point. The concern is with the military having institutionalized an ineffective means of intercommunication, using specifically powerpoint as their tool of choice.
Even if they didn't use PP, it would still be referred to by that name as people used to call all photocopies "xerox" and all inline skates "rollerblades".
The process of "quickly" creating slides in the presentations made conducive by the software creates a false sense of understanding, and that is the issue.
That spaghetti slide has a copyright notice at the bottom, "PA Knowledge Limited 2009"
There must be a joke about oxymorons and military intelligence in here somewhere.
I used to be the sole IT guy at a busy real estate office where 40+ agents were constantly printing things off of their computer in order to feed it into the fax machine, which would indicate a successful transmission by printing out a note to that effect.
In the first two weeks I was there I proposed setting up a system where agents could "print" a fax from their desk and save a bundle on toner and paper. The boss wasn't interested, and in the scheme of things this was one of the less idiotic situations to deal with.
I chose a similar solution: I dropped the university for a better life. Very rarely during my time at university did I feel it was worth my time to be there. But *every* moment felt like a huge waste of money.
Even the classes that interested me weren't as valuable as they could be because I had to waste my time doing BS homework for BS classes instead of studying worthwhile things in the depth I would have liked to.
You used to be able to acquire a book and know that since it was a book the author(s) had done their homework.
I used to be forced to buy textbooks and know that I was being screwed by my university and the textbook publishers simultaneously. In one year I had to get three different calculus textbooks that basically all had the same contents. Even in middle school I'd find inaccuracies in the textbooks.
Call me pedantic, but I get really irked when people hijack a language to confuse the rest of us who know what words actually mean. I'm sure it happens all the time but ink for me will always be that liquid stuff I can use to write on paper, have my INKjet write on paper, or have a squid squirt at me.
I spilled a whole crapload of toner on my pants leg once. It all came off after rubbing it with a dry paper towel and shaking it off a lot. Try *that* with ink.
You know, so the management understand.
True dat. They could take an extra few milliseconds to know the difference, but then their bosses would get as mad as they do for being told nerd-speak.
It's intended for commercial applications.
I'm willing to hold my breath for grand theft auto: google earth. Until then I'll just have to keep playing the built-in flight sim.
I click Google Earth...it is neat how it zooms down to where I'm at from outer space..but after that...what?
Then you can turn around and look at the stars. Or go over to the nearest ocean and explore underwater. Or enjoy the ever-increasing amounts of 3d buildings and user-submitted photos. See what places look like in 3d (try dragging w/ the middle mouse button). Spin the globe (drag quickly and let go) and explore some place new. Play with the built-in flight simulator! Find crazy and unusual things on the earth by accident. Improve your geography skills.
etc, etc, etc
I've been using php for 14 years and I never knew you could do that with "break" until now. THANK YOU!!!
also , I'd mod you up for the subject line alone if I wasn't posting this comment.
"Understanding hydrophobicity, and how different conditions change it, is probably one of the most fundamental components in understanding how proteins fold in water and how different biomolecules remain stable in it," says Kumar.
When asked by a reporter, Kumar said the idea came to him while hitting the bong.
I am free? Fine, so I can piss on your carpet can I? Thought so.
Most advocates of genuine freedom are careful to point out that freedom to cause harm to others is itself antithetical to freedom. Your point becomes valid as soon as you can equate pissing on someone's carpet to growing a plant and consuming it entirely within your own house for your own purposes without hurting anyone else.
From TFA: "There is no bulky power adapter. The power supply is built inside the Gecko so that all you need to carry is a power cord."
I've had enough ATX power supplies and laptop power adapters go bad... one of the latter even threw sparks and smoke. Never damaged the actual computer, and they were all easy to replace.
The power adapter for my netbook is smallish, but bigger than I'd want embedded inside my netbook. And what about RF noise? What about safety? Sounds crazy, but I've had a waterfall (from a leaky roof) open right up on me while using a computer before. Once I even used a faulty laptop that shocked me when using it, annoying but not deadly.
If you want to watch a DVD, good luck--your netbook is probably a little too small for that DVD drive!
Yeah, but what really gets me is that none of these "fancy" new-fangled computers will let me play my LP records. If only there was some way for me to listen to my music using these digi-pad notbook things, THEN we could start worrying about spreading VD's with them.
Get off my lawn!
On a serious note, you could physcially embed many, many times more capacity from micro SD cards INTO a plastic dvd disc. Why the crap would you want to waste your netbook battery spinning around obsolete media?
I can imagine that woz explained specifically what the problem is (and how to reproduce it), but the article doesn't mention any specifics. Now I have nothing empirical to form an opinion off of.
Thanks a lot modern news media!
T&A just don't move games like they used to. They need to offer gamers something they just can't get easily online:
http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2009/12/29/family-matters/
Sorry if someone else posted this already. I didn't see it.
Especially after she proved herself so cool under sniper fire in bosnia. Look how quick she was with that sidearm!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc
a quick look over at northrup grumman and aerovironment's stock would challenge your observation. I mean, killing people isn't exactly the main focus of their efforts, but it's probably up there.