It's a Centris 650. And for $10 (or even $50) it wouldn't be worth the trouble (seriously). I'd have to confirm with the company that bought it for me that they don't want it (surely they don't, but I'd have to check). Then I'd have to remove the hard drive, as there is confidential data on there.
Would you pay more than $50 (plus shipping) for a Centris 650 with no hard drive? Nobody would. So there it sits.
I've been working at home as a consultant (software engineering) for over 15 years. Doing a lot of embedded programming, I've accumulated lots of custom and COTS hardware over the years that I almost never use. The problem is the word "almost." On a rare occasion some suspected bug gets reported and I have to dig out some hardware that I haven't used in years and get it working again. After verifying that the suspected bug is really user error, I then pack it away in the basement.
So for me, I just keep everything. It's all worthless, anyhow. How much would someone pay for a Hayes 2400 baud modem? Or a 68040 based Mac running System 7? Or an 802.11 (not a, b, or g) Access Point? I also have early 802.11-draft wireless equipment if that sweetens the deal for anyone.:)
My FreeBSD router/firewall/email server/web server/dns server/etc was shut down *once* last year to vacuum out the accumulated dust. Other than that, it was never shut down or rebooted.
I've been coding for many years, and always use pale yellow (R-255,G-255,B-192) foreground and black background. The monitor doesn't emit a lot of light because of the black background, and the pale yellow is plenty bright without being too bright (like white). YMMV
I completely agree. It really disturbs me that people accept as absolutely correct a cartoon image of where the ball landed. It's a cartoon for god's sake! I'd much rather see a high speed real image.
>For non-interactive sports such as sprinting, an automatic system works very efficiently
The system (photo finish) used in sprinting isn't exactly automatic. A line scan image is taken of the finish line as the runners cross and a human looks at the image to determine in which frame the chest of a runner first appears.
I'm not quite sure why, but this is the funniest idea yet. The cheapness of it. The thought of Gates in Applebees. The thought of him using a gift card. It just works all around.:)
If you are taking a programming course and you are so uninterested in programming that you pay someone else to do the work for you then that is pathetic. I stand by my post. It would be the same for a course on any topic. If you don't do the work yourself, why are you there?
It sounds like you don't like to program *and* you aren't taking a programming course. What's wrong with that? Nothing. It would only be pathetic if you took a programming course now and paid someone to do the work for you.
It sounds like you made a poor choice of college and/or major.
I made a compiler *in* the compiler class (what else would you expect?). I made a game in object oriented programming class. I made a game in digital hardware class (assemble discreet components to make a simple MCU and then write firmware for it). I made graphics rendering software in graphics class. All were challenging and fun. All helped make me the programmer I am today.
I have always written programs because it is fun and rewarding. That was true in middle school, true in high school, true in college, and true now (I'm close to 40). When it's not fun I'll stop doing it. How is paying someone else to write your programs fun? How is it rewarding? It's not; it is just pathetic.
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The CIO of a Fortune 500 company has a 7 digit UID? Man, I'm getting old.
I will cancel as well, though probably sooner just out of spite. I maintain one queue for me and my wife, and my kids each get a queue. We don't use it that much, so the benefit of the separate queues just barely tips it in favor of keeping the service. Without separate queues, it isn't worth the hassle.
I really thought traffic would level off, and maybe even drop over the next several years. The Internet is a fad. I would never tell it that, but it won't last.
>In 2007, I can no longer justify $3500ish for MSDN.
I couldn't agree more. I subscribed to the International level of MSDN (got all the foreign flavors of Windows for I18N/L10N testing) from about 1996 to about 2001. The last release OS I got through MSDN was Windows 2000. I haven't missed it since. I still have the July 2001 documentation installed on my computer, which is fine for my needs. I rarely use an API that hasn't existed since 95/NT3.51.
My standard requirement when doing Windows programming is that the API must have existed since Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51. Once or twice I have used a particularly handy API that started with 95/NT4, but that's as "recent" as I've ever gone. A surprising number of my users are still on 95 (or its ugly sisters, 98 and ME). I find that it just isn't worth the effort to try to use some "new" API feature, even if compatability with old Windows flavors wasn't a concern.
I've been working with IQinvision's IQEye 511 camera (www.iqeye.com) for the past couple of months. It is a 1.3MP camera capable of 15 fps. It communicates over and is powered by 100mbit PoE. I think the street price is somewhere around 600-700 dollars, depending on what you get with it (PoE injector, lens, etc). The camera seems to take pretty good pictures and can deal with pretty varied lighting conditions. It has various ways to retrieve images, like emailing or ftping them to you on a set schedule. Hope this helps.
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Nice! I'm a reasonable man. I'll let both of my Hayes modems go for $500, and I'll even throw in a generic internal 2400 if I can find it.
Not bad. I also have a Hayes 1200, and I think I have the power supplies for both the 1200 and 2400. Just think how much I could get for the pair!
It's a Centris 650. And for $10 (or even $50) it wouldn't be worth the trouble (seriously). I'd have to confirm with the company that bought it for me that they don't want it (surely they don't, but I'd have to check). Then I'd have to remove the hard drive, as there is confidential data on there.
Would you pay more than $50 (plus shipping) for a Centris 650 with no hard drive? Nobody would. So there it sits.
I've been working at home as a consultant (software engineering) for over 15 years. Doing a lot of embedded programming, I've accumulated lots of custom and COTS hardware over the years that I almost never use. The problem is the word "almost." On a rare occasion some suspected bug gets reported and I have to dig out some hardware that I haven't used in years and get it working again. After verifying that the suspected bug is really user error, I then pack it away in the basement.
So for me, I just keep everything. It's all worthless, anyhow. How much would someone pay for a Hayes 2400 baud modem? Or a 68040 based Mac running System 7? Or an 802.11 (not a, b, or g) Access Point? I also have early 802.11-draft wireless equipment if that sweetens the deal for anyone. :)
My FreeBSD router/firewall/email server/web server/dns server/etc was shut down *once* last year to vacuum out the accumulated dust. Other than that, it was never shut down or rebooted.
I've been coding for many years, and always use pale yellow (R-255,G-255,B-192) foreground and black background. The monitor doesn't emit a lot of light because of the black background, and the pale yellow is plenty bright without being too bright (like white). YMMV
I completely agree. It really disturbs me that people accept as absolutely correct a cartoon image of where the ball landed. It's a cartoon for god's sake! I'd much rather see a high speed real image.
>For non-interactive sports such as sprinting, an automatic system works very efficiently
The system (photo finish) used in sprinting isn't exactly automatic. A line scan image is taken of the finish line as the runners cross and a human looks at the image to determine in which frame the chest of a runner first appears.
I'm not quite sure why, but this is the funniest idea yet. The cheapness of it. The thought of Gates in Applebees. The thought of him using a gift card. It just works all around. :)
We could have outsourced this flip-flopping to India for a lot less than was paid to members of congress.
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If you are taking a programming course and you are so uninterested in programming that you pay someone else to do the work for you then that is pathetic. I stand by my post. It would be the same for a course on any topic. If you don't do the work yourself, why are you there?
It sounds like you don't like to program *and* you aren't taking a programming course. What's wrong with that? Nothing. It would only be pathetic if you took a programming course now and paid someone to do the work for you.
It sounds like you made a poor choice of college and/or major.
I made a compiler *in* the compiler class (what else would you expect?). I made a game in object oriented programming class. I made a game in digital hardware class (assemble discreet components to make a simple MCU and then write firmware for it). I made graphics rendering software in graphics class. All were challenging and fun. All helped make me the programmer I am today.
I have always written programs because it is fun and rewarding. That was true in middle school, true in high school, true in college, and true now (I'm close to 40). When it's not fun I'll stop doing it. How is paying someone else to write your programs fun? How is it rewarding? It's not; it is just pathetic.
The CIO of a Fortune 500 company has a 7 digit UID? Man, I'm getting old.
I will cancel as well, though probably sooner just out of spite. I maintain one queue for me and my wife, and my kids each get a queue. We don't use it that much, so the benefit of the separate queues just barely tips it in favor of keeping the service. Without separate queues, it isn't worth the hassle.
How many 0.08 bits every 14 days. I like it.
I would assume average bytes per unit time.
I really thought traffic would level off, and maybe even drop over the next several years. The Internet is a fad. I would never tell it that, but it won't last.
Write code that doesn't have bugs. Make sure it is as simple as possible, and no simpler.
Seriously, isn't this kind of thinking what *you* are supposed to be doing for this thesis?
You're not getting off that easy. ;)
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>// Loop counts from i to j, with increments of one
Even with the less than sign, the comment is wrong. The loop runs from 0 to j-1, not from i to j.
Your male colleague is still an idiot.
>// Loop counts from i to j, with increments of one
>for (unsigned int i=0;ij;i = i + 1)
This loop starts at zero and keeps incrementing by one as long as the variable ij is non-zero. Your male colleague is an idiot.
>In 2007, I can no longer justify $3500ish for MSDN.
I couldn't agree more. I subscribed to the International level of MSDN (got all the foreign flavors of Windows for I18N/L10N testing) from about 1996 to about 2001. The last release OS I got through MSDN was Windows 2000. I haven't missed it since. I still have the July 2001 documentation installed on my computer, which is fine for my needs. I rarely use an API that hasn't existed since 95/NT3.51.
My standard requirement when doing Windows programming is that the API must have existed since Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51. Once or twice I have used a particularly handy API that started with 95/NT4, but that's as "recent" as I've ever gone. A surprising number of my users are still on 95 (or its ugly sisters, 98 and ME). I find that it just isn't worth the effort to try to use some "new" API feature, even if compatability with old Windows flavors wasn't a concern.
I've been working with IQinvision's IQEye 511 camera (www.iqeye.com) for the past couple of months. It is a 1.3MP camera capable of 15 fps. It communicates over and is powered by 100mbit PoE. I think the street price is somewhere around 600-700 dollars, depending on what you get with it (PoE injector, lens, etc). The camera seems to take pretty good pictures and can deal with pretty varied lighting conditions. It has various ways to retrieve images, like emailing or ftping them to you on a set schedule. Hope this helps.