1. You are parked legally 2. Everybody else has these "tickets"
I've gotten tickets when I was parked legally and successfully contested them. All the other cars on the block were also incorrectly ticketed at the same time - apparently a cop misunderstood the parking rules, or didn't know how to operate a watch.
Furthermore, given the city's trend of contracting out ticking, the fact that the URL pointed to some third party website and not a subdomain of the city or county sites wouldn't have set off any red flags either (although one hosted in the Czech Republic would:). The red-light tickets we get in the mail today directs you to the website of the contracted company and not to the city website.
There are some differences from the Vista versions, if the reports are to be trusted. Most importantly, Home Basic is only being sold to developing countries. The difference between Home Basic and Home Premium was the most confusing aspect of the Vista versions that I saw. Furthermore, Professional will now include everything that is in Home Premium (including Windows Media Center), in addition to the ability to join a domain, etc, which eliminates the main reasons why anyone bought Ultimate Edition.
Mmmm lentils. Although I have to say that shredded beef or pork tacos are much tastier than both, without the fat of pan-frying ground beef. Just cook an inexpensive cut of meat in a crockpot with your favorite chiles and spices until it easily separates with a fork.
Yep, software encryption has it's own set of limitations and vulnerabilities. The methods that I have tried for encrypting swap are all too slow to be usable, especially on Windows. You also have to consider remapped sectors and other factors that make it difficult to delete sensitive data that was accidentally written as plaintext. Using in-drive encryption gives you better general protection for the random sensitive data that finds a way to get into the normally unencrypted portions of the disk, while still using software encryption for known sensitive files. And all without any significant performance loss.
Yeah, and even lower than that are the ALIX boards from PC Engines. They are around $100-$135 for the board (add $25 for a case and AC-DC converter), and like the Soekris boxes come in smaller form factors than MiniITX.
I really hope that something fills the niche that the geode had. There aren't really any offerings using VIA or Atom processors at those prices and form factors. There are a ton of single-board-systems that use ARM or Freescale (which should be better picks anyway) but the fact is that not all software has as good of support for those other platforms as they do for x86, so for a hobbyist the geode boards often required less work to get running.
I go to pro-choice rallies Recycle my cans and jars I'll honk if you love the Dead Hope those funny grunge bands become stars But don't talk about revolution That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me I'm a liberal
Yeh, I read the New Republic Rolling Stone and Mother Jones too If I vote it's a Democrat With a sensible economy view But when it comes to terrorist Arabs There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me I'm a liberal
From Jello Biafra's remake of the Phil Ochs song.
Seriously though, you just have to look at Obama's record to see that he was basically cut from the same cloth as Clinton and FDR. Both presidents who continued/expanded the role of government for security and social purposes. If you liked them you'll probably like Obama. As a libertarian-leaning person, I think he'll be a refreshing change from the last 8 years, and marginally better than McCain, but doesn't represent any significant change in the political spectrum of the last 50 years. Just another period in the spiral of expansionism.
And the thing is he has never really represented himself as anything different. You have this very charismatic leader, that agrees with you on some issues and suddenly people start fooling themselves into believing he is everything they want him regardless of what he says. I can't count how many times I've heard, "well he has to say that to get elected" over the last 6 months. Those people are now going to be shocked that he is doing the exact thing he promised, in addition to the normal broken campaign promises.
The main purpose of this project is to enable easy embedding of Javascript into a GNOME application for scripting purposes, on the basis that lots of people know javascript so it makes a good extension language. The fact that you can write entire applications with it is just a (disturbing) side-effect.
But if you really want to frighten yourself notice that these applications are run just like any scripting language in unix - with a shebang header line. So javascript init scripts are now yours to have.
No it doesn't. Science intentionally limits itself to that which can be observed and tested in a rational manner. Science does not and cannot say that the Universe is actually like that. Some philosophers say that, most scientists say that, and all athiests say that, but Science itself does not make that assumption.
What does it matter? Science is the process of building and testing models that explain our observations. That's it. Whether our observations are "reality" or not doesn't change what science is. Believing that those observations are reality is not a prerequisite for doing science. On the flip side, science will always be limited by our observations and limited to models that are testable.
Thus no philosophy is needed to do science, and science is incapable of fulfilling the aim of philosophy, which is the search for truth. Science is not a subset of philosophy; they are about as orthogonal as you can get. Philosophy is useful for interpreting science, and the results of science is one of many things that people can use to shape their view of the world as a whole, but that is the extent of their relationship.
I haven't used Verizon, but Qwest's DSL sounds very simular. Pretty much all DSL uses PPPoE which requires you to setup the DSL modem with a username and password to authenticate with the system (unlike cable-modem where you plug it in and it just works). Qwest ships with software for Windows and Mac OS that would lookup(generate?) your username and password given an account number (phone number).
To get it setup without using the software I had to call Qwest tech support to get my username and password, and then enter them into the modem using it's webconfig interface. I wouldn't expect a normal person to be able to figure it out, but I'm sure that they could send out a tech to do the initial setup if need be as it requires no knowledge of the OS that the person is running.
Almost all of those issues are from third party software.
And it is Canonical's job to test that software and choose which version they are going to ship with. The last release of Ubuntu, all sorts of software broke on my computer that used to work before. This is their fault for choosing to package bad software.
Also, for what it's worth, I've been having the same problem that he is having with Flash when using Gnash and swfdec as well. It seems like ndiswrapper has some issues in the latest Ubuntu that were not a problem in previous releases, beyond the fact that the flash plugin sucks.
Yeah, I've often toyed with the idea of banning politicians for re-election if a bill they vote for is ruled unconstitutional. It would keep the idiots, traitors, and attention-whores out, and give the rest more incentive to actually read and understand the laws they are voting on (or at least hire an aid that understands the constitution, which wouldn't hurt). Of course it would shift power towards the judicial and could be abused to force politically motivated shakeups of the legislative.
Which is great for people who already had roof antennas. However, there are lots of folks whose set-top antennas worked just fine for analog, but are finding they need to get something better for digital. This is especially true for areas where all the important analog channels were on the VHF band, but those corresponding digital channels are now on the UHF band. Personally, I've never had any luck getting decent UHF signal on an indoor antenna, even those fancy ones, while VHF stations come in clear with simple rabbit-ears.
There are also places where the digital channels are being broadcast from a different tower than the analog (and this may change again once analog turns off). In those locations people may need to adjust the direction of their antenna to get the best reception.
Why? Polarized glasses like you would get at a 3D movie are also shaded like that.
It's too bad they didn't look more closely. The telltale of a shutter would be if you could find some sort of transmission to the glasses to synchronize the shutter. The NVIDIA system uses IR which would be a piece a cake to spot using a digital camera. Alternately, if it was IR they would be able to block the receiver with their hand, stopping the 3D effect. If they were using RF, it would be harder to spot, although it is possible they might see a flicker if they looked at a florescent light.
Polarized glasses would be even easier to check for. I doubt they would be normal polarized glasses, because then the image would degrade if your head was exactly perpendicular to the display. They would more likely be circular polarized, which could still be easily checked with a pair of glasses or a mirror.
Given Sony's expertise in TV/monitor manufacturing, and the fact that all the press releases talk about a new display, it seems more likely to me that they created a display with alternate polarization on each column. Without the glasses and with a normal video source this would appear like a normal display. But with the glasses, each eye would see an image with half the horizontal resolution of the display, and the output source could interlace these images to provide a different image to each eye.
Magink has an E-ink system used by billboards with a 9mm resolution. Curved lines would be a little pixelated, and you wouldn't be able to replicate wood grain, but it would be enough resolution for the the sake of the game, and could do some interesting things during half-time. The reflective nature of E-Ink would make it much better suited for this project than an emissive display, and if it is cheap enough for a billboard, it is definitely cheap enough for a court (especially since it would likely be used as a billboard part of the time). Most indoor courts get their surface properties from varnish/wax, not the flooring material so that wouldn't be a problem either.
My main concerns would be structural support (can this stuff take being pounded on by 200 pound athletes), and how you would replace bad cells once you put the varnish surface over it. Plus something like this would become out-of-date almost as soon as you finished building it.
Bwahaha - That is a brilliant idea! I think the site would have been funnier though if their descriptions were worded the way an actual company with more subtle references to carbon offsets. Ie just tell the joke, don't explain it:)
Yeah, from what I've heard the Windows 7 beta looks pretty good. But that's the thing - even if Vista was completely stable (and I know folks that still have problems after SP1), I do not want to pay for Vista only to shell out again 6 months later because 7 is that much better. I can wait for 7.
Here is a Computerworld article that states MS may give away free Windows 7 upgrades to those who purchase Vista after July 1st, 2009.
But, still, it is interesting. It is probably about the only thing that could convince me to buy Vista at this point rather than waiting for Windows 7 to come out.
So now you have a lousy keyboard you can't replace with a decent one.
Sure you can, it has USB ports. Cue the dueling typists. Heck, the built-in keyboard is probably a USB device internally so you could take it apart and have some nice form-factor circuit boards to build a Model-M computer if you wanted. I know you do:)
Seriously though, at least this makes more sense to me than the current iMac. I don't mind throwing out a keyboard when I need to get a new computer, but throwing out a monitor is ridiculous. And while I don't love the chicklet keyboard, if the touchpad works well and it's priced right I may very well get one for my livingroom.
Since there are no functions and the only way to reuse code is to put it in a different file people tend not to do this.
Oh yeah, and when you do so, you have to draw an icon to represent the function instead of just giving it a name, and many people don't do this (even though the icon could just be text in a box). And since the data-flow nature of the language also eliminates most intermediate variables, you end up with code that is nothing but unlabeled lines drawn between generic-looking boxes. In otherwords, the semi-self-documenting nature of function and variable names is lost because those names don't exist, or are not shown.
Just another example of how LabView makes it easy for people to write bad code while being far more time-consuming to write good code than other languages.
Say you realize that you need to check for another corner case that you forgot, or need to extend a function for another purpose, or whatever. In any other language, you would type a few lines of code and be done with it. Not with labview. With labview you have to move things around to make room for the new code, disconnect wires and reconnect them. NI has added stuff into the newer version to help with this (auto growing, etc) but it still turns into a mess in short order.
Other things are just easier to type than to draw, and also easier to read in text then as a schematic, like equations. So much so that they have added the ability to type portions of the code, but the amount of setup that you need to do with a code block often defeats the time benefit you get from using it.
As someone who likes "clean code" I find LabView much more tedious and time consuming to keep neat, and when dealing with other coders that are not as picky, I find that their LabView code is much messier and harder to read than Java or C code by the same developer.
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1. You are parked legally
2. Everybody else has these "tickets"
I've gotten tickets when I was parked legally and successfully contested them. All the other cars on the block were also incorrectly ticketed at the same time - apparently a cop misunderstood the parking rules, or didn't know how to operate a watch.
Furthermore, given the city's trend of contracting out ticking, the fact that the URL pointed to some third party website and not a subdomain of the city or county sites wouldn't have set off any red flags either (although one hosted in the Czech Republic would :). The red-light tickets we get in the mail today directs you to the website of the contracted company and not to the city website.
There are some differences from the Vista versions, if the reports are to be trusted. Most importantly, Home Basic is only being sold to developing countries. The difference between Home Basic and Home Premium was the most confusing aspect of the Vista versions that I saw. Furthermore, Professional will now include everything that is in Home Premium (including Windows Media Center), in addition to the ability to join a domain, etc, which eliminates the main reasons why anyone bought Ultimate Edition.
Mmmm lentils. Although I have to say that shredded beef or pork tacos are much tastier than both, without the fat of pan-frying ground beef. Just cook an inexpensive cut of meat in a crockpot with your favorite chiles and spices until it easily separates with a fork.
Yep, software encryption has it's own set of limitations and vulnerabilities. The methods that I have tried for encrypting swap are all too slow to be usable, especially on Windows. You also have to consider remapped sectors and other factors that make it difficult to delete sensitive data that was accidentally written as plaintext. Using in-drive encryption gives you better general protection for the random sensitive data that finds a way to get into the normally unencrypted portions of the disk, while still using software encryption for known sensitive files. And all without any significant performance loss.
Yeah, and even lower than that are the ALIX boards from PC Engines. They are around $100-$135 for the board (add $25 for a case and AC-DC converter), and like the Soekris boxes come in smaller form factors than MiniITX.
I really hope that something fills the niche that the geode had. There aren't really any offerings using VIA or Atom processors at those prices and form factors. There are a ton of single-board-systems that use ARM or Freescale (which should be better picks anyway) but the fact is that not all software has as good of support for those other platforms as they do for x86, so for a hobbyist the geode boards often required less work to get running.
I go to pro-choice rallies
Recycle my cans and jars
I'll honk if you love the Dead
Hope those funny grunge bands become stars
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me
I'm a liberal
Yeh, I read the New Republic
Rolling Stone and Mother Jones too
If I vote it's a Democrat
With a sensible economy view
But when it comes to terrorist Arabs
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me
I'm a liberal
From Jello Biafra's remake of the Phil Ochs song.
Seriously though, you just have to look at Obama's record to see that he was basically cut from the same cloth as Clinton and FDR. Both presidents who continued/expanded the role of government for security and social purposes. If you liked them you'll probably like Obama. As a libertarian-leaning person, I think he'll be a refreshing change from the last 8 years, and marginally better than McCain, but doesn't represent any significant change in the political spectrum of the last 50 years. Just another period in the spiral of expansionism.
And the thing is he has never really represented himself as anything different. You have this very charismatic leader, that agrees with you on some issues and suddenly people start fooling themselves into believing he is everything they want him regardless of what he says. I can't count how many times I've heard, "well he has to say that to get elected" over the last 6 months. Those people are now going to be shocked that he is doing the exact thing he promised, in addition to the normal broken campaign promises.
Wait, who are you calling Chicken?
The main purpose of this project is to enable easy embedding of Javascript into a GNOME application for scripting purposes, on the basis that lots of people know javascript so it makes a good extension language. The fact that you can write entire applications with it is just a (disturbing) side-effect.
But if you really want to frighten yourself notice that these applications are run just like any scripting language in unix - with a shebang header line. So javascript init scripts are now yours to have.
No it doesn't. Science intentionally limits itself to that which can be observed and tested in a rational manner. Science does not and cannot say that the Universe is actually like that. Some philosophers say that, most scientists say that, and all athiests say that, but Science itself does not make that assumption.
What does it matter? Science is the process of building and testing models that explain our observations. That's it. Whether our observations are "reality" or not doesn't change what science is. Believing that those observations are reality is not a prerequisite for doing science. On the flip side, science will always be limited by our observations and limited to models that are testable.
Thus no philosophy is needed to do science, and science is incapable of fulfilling the aim of philosophy, which is the search for truth. Science is not a subset of philosophy; they are about as orthogonal as you can get. Philosophy is useful for interpreting science, and the results of science is one of many things that people can use to shape their view of the world as a whole, but that is the extent of their relationship.
I haven't used Verizon, but Qwest's DSL sounds very simular. Pretty much all DSL uses PPPoE which requires you to setup the DSL modem with a username and password to authenticate with the system (unlike cable-modem where you plug it in and it just works). Qwest ships with software for Windows and Mac OS that would lookup(generate?) your username and password given an account number (phone number).
To get it setup without using the software I had to call Qwest tech support to get my username and password, and then enter them into the modem using it's webconfig interface. I wouldn't expect a normal person to be able to figure it out, but I'm sure that they could send out a tech to do the initial setup if need be as it requires no knowledge of the OS that the person is running.
Almost all of those issues are from third party software.
And it is Canonical's job to test that software and choose which version they are going to ship with. The last release of Ubuntu, all sorts of software broke on my computer that used to work before. This is their fault for choosing to package bad software.
Also, for what it's worth, I've been having the same problem that he is having with Flash when using Gnash and swfdec as well. It seems like ndiswrapper has some issues in the latest Ubuntu that were not a problem in previous releases, beyond the fact that the flash plugin sucks.
Yeah, I've often toyed with the idea of banning politicians for re-election if a bill they vote for is ruled unconstitutional. It would keep the idiots, traitors, and attention-whores out, and give the rest more incentive to actually read and understand the laws they are voting on (or at least hire an aid that understands the constitution, which wouldn't hurt). Of course it would shift power towards the judicial and could be abused to force politically motivated shakeups of the legislative.
Which is great for people who already had roof antennas. However, there are lots of folks whose set-top antennas worked just fine for analog, but are finding they need to get something better for digital. This is especially true for areas where all the important analog channels were on the VHF band, but those corresponding digital channels are now on the UHF band. Personally, I've never had any luck getting decent UHF signal on an indoor antenna, even those fancy ones, while VHF stations come in clear with simple rabbit-ears.
There are also places where the digital channels are being broadcast from a different tower than the analog (and this may change again once analog turns off). In those locations people may need to adjust the direction of their antenna to get the best reception.
But he asked for a function. This will do the same thing, and will be just a fast with a modern compiler, but will meet the interface specifications.
inline int sum0To100 () // calculated using formula n(n+1)/2
{
return 5050;
}
To me the black glasses are a dead giveaway.
Why? Polarized glasses like you would get at a 3D movie are also shaded like that.
It's too bad they didn't look more closely. The telltale of a shutter would be if you could find some sort of transmission to the glasses to synchronize the shutter. The NVIDIA system uses IR which would be a piece a cake to spot using a digital camera. Alternately, if it was IR they would be able to block the receiver with their hand, stopping the 3D effect. If they were using RF, it would be harder to spot, although it is possible they might see a flicker if they looked at a florescent light.
Polarized glasses would be even easier to check for. I doubt they would be normal polarized glasses, because then the image would degrade if your head was exactly perpendicular to the display. They would more likely be circular polarized, which could still be easily checked with a pair of glasses or a mirror.
Given Sony's expertise in TV/monitor manufacturing, and the fact that all the press releases talk about a new display, it seems more likely to me that they created a display with alternate polarization on each column. Without the glasses and with a normal video source this would appear like a normal display. But with the glasses, each eye would see an image with half the horizontal resolution of the display, and the output source could interlace these images to provide a different image to each eye.
Magink has an E-ink system used by billboards with a 9mm resolution. Curved lines would be a little pixelated, and you wouldn't be able to replicate wood grain, but it would be enough resolution for the the sake of the game, and could do some interesting things during half-time. The reflective nature of E-Ink would make it much better suited for this project than an emissive display, and if it is cheap enough for a billboard, it is definitely cheap enough for a court (especially since it would likely be used as a billboard part of the time). Most indoor courts get their surface properties from varnish/wax, not the flooring material so that wouldn't be a problem either.
My main concerns would be structural support (can this stuff take being pounded on by 200 pound athletes), and how you would replace bad cells once you put the varnish surface over it. Plus something like this would become out-of-date almost as soon as you finished building it.
Bwahaha - That is a brilliant idea! I think the site would have been funnier though if their descriptions were worded the way an actual company with more subtle references to carbon offsets. Ie just tell the joke, don't explain it :)
Yeah, from what I've heard the Windows 7 beta looks pretty good. But that's the thing - even if Vista was completely stable (and I know folks that still have problems after SP1), I do not want to pay for Vista only to shell out again 6 months later because 7 is that much better. I can wait for 7.
Here is a Computerworld article that states MS may give away free Windows 7 upgrades to those who purchase Vista after July 1st, 2009.
But, still, it is interesting. It is probably about the only thing that could convince me to buy Vista at this point rather than waiting for Windows 7 to come out.
So now you have a lousy keyboard you can't replace with a decent one.
Sure you can, it has USB ports. Cue the dueling typists. Heck, the built-in keyboard is probably a USB device internally so you could take it apart and have some nice form-factor circuit boards to build a Model-M computer if you wanted. I know you do :)
Seriously though, at least this makes more sense to me than the current iMac. I don't mind throwing out a keyboard when I need to get a new computer, but throwing out a monitor is ridiculous. And while I don't love the chicklet keyboard, if the touchpad works well and it's priced right I may very well get one for my livingroom.
Yeah, and you practically have to take time off of work to check your mail with the horrible hours they keep.
Since there are no functions and the only way to reuse code is to put it in a different file people tend not to do this.
Oh yeah, and when you do so, you have to draw an icon to represent the function instead of just giving it a name, and many people don't do this (even though the icon could just be text in a box). And since the data-flow nature of the language also eliminates most intermediate variables, you end up with code that is nothing but unlabeled lines drawn between generic-looking boxes. In otherwords, the semi-self-documenting nature of function and variable names is lost because those names don't exist, or are not shown.
Just another example of how LabView makes it easy for people to write bad code while being far more time-consuming to write good code than other languages.
Say you realize that you need to check for another corner case that you forgot, or need to extend a function for another purpose, or whatever. In any other language, you would type a few lines of code and be done with it. Not with labview. With labview you have to move things around to make room for the new code, disconnect wires and reconnect them. NI has added stuff into the newer version to help with this (auto growing, etc) but it still turns into a mess in short order.
Other things are just easier to type than to draw, and also easier to read in text then as a schematic, like equations. So much so that they have added the ability to type portions of the code, but the amount of setup that you need to do with a code block often defeats the time benefit you get from using it.
As someone who likes "clean code" I find LabView much more tedious and time consuming to keep neat, and when dealing with other coders that are not as picky, I find that their LabView code is much messier and harder to read than Java or C code by the same developer.
-What about my current iTunes song library? Will the DRM magically disappear with my next update?
You still have to pay 30 cents per song (or 30% of album price) to remove the DRM on previously purchased songs.