If you look at the finish line, you might notice a small flickering box at the side of the track. Look at it closer (use slow motion if necessary), and you'll notice that it's actually a fast scrolling swatch ad, nothing virtual there. Thus the line scan camera sees different parts of the ad.
And, if the ad moves at a steady pace, it can also be used as an alignment pattern to fix possible timing fluctuations in the line camera.
There is already a Mozilla (and Firefox) extension for this, GMail Notifier (homepage http://www.nexgenmedia.net/extensions/). It works with both the Linux and windows versions of the browser.
Also, you do know that compilers are written by programmers don't you?
Let's see, if all you have is assembler, first you write a minimal compiler for the language of your choice. Then you use that compiler to compile a more complete version of the compiler until you have bootstrapped a fully grown compiler for your favourite language.
If you had to write compilers in assembler only, you wouldn't be able to have cross-compilers that easily.
That's sort of like saying, who needs a parachute, you'll go down even in what's basically a steep glide if you jump off a plane without one.
I wouldn't want to be aboard a shuttle or any other space/aircraft (Parachuting capsules, VTOLs and helicopters excluded) that lands at a steep angle on the ground. Not to mention the relatively high speeds involved with a steep decline. I've already had my share of bumpy landings on regular jetliners.
So some kind of mechanism for contolling the descent and velocity would be nice.
You couldn't be closer to the truth. How much money did the US spend on developing zero-gravity ballpoint pens and electric shavers, while the russians used pencils, and shaving cream/foam and an ordinary razor. The high-tech solution is not always the best.
SIP is not limited to just VoIP, as the name says it is Session Initiation Protocol. There already is a reasonable GNU SIP library, so let's make that better, and then we can create an open source SIP capable VoIP-phone that could interoperate with this system as well as others.
Other uses for SIP that could/should happen IMO are (starting a session of) multi-player games and messaging, conferencing software for sharing pictures, etc.
Since SIP is basically just a handshake protocol, doing all those things shouldn't be impossible. Wanna play a game of chess or go with a pal? Just initiate a SIP connection, if their end supports your game and they are available, you've got a connection. No more application specific ports to configure to get a multiuser application work.
The problem with the machine at the counter is that if the choice you want (coke without ice or something similar) was not programmed to the robot, you can't get what you want.
This doesn't sound like a big problem, but what about people with different allergies, say, you want your burger without onion or tomatoes? You can say that to the person at the counter and they might even understand you. But if something is left out from the robot's code/config, you're out of options.
Additionally, the files should be obfuscated in a way that they are not able to be played directly on any media players other than those that are used to collect royalties. Inquirer Labs US proposes that all files have their names changed to.MPx or.OGx to prevent misuse.
Hold on while I obfuscate my code by renaming all the.py files to.pl as everyone surely knows.pl looks just line noise.:-)
On a more serious note, how sad is it that a person describing a technical solution comes up with such a method for "obsucating" a file. Or are the MS-world media player dumb enough to ignore the contents of a file if the extension is not known? I know that you wouldn't be able to just double-click on them, unless you tell it (on the first time) which program to use with those files, and most of the ordinary people are too scared to open "unknown" files with any program.
We used Bailey's Irish Cream, Bristol Cream is a sherry. But then again, it was good and has some alcohol, so no wonder you did not remember the exact ingredients: 1) Irish Cream 2) liquid nitrogen
You have to let it melt a bit, as the alcohol significantly lowers the freezing point, and it would be too cold to eat if it's not soft enough,
And who in their right mind would pay for received messages or phone calls?
More over, SMS is not IM. It's not completely unlike IM, but it does not offer the one thing IM has to offer: you know before you send the message that the recipient is (somewhere) there, logged in. With SMS you send the message, and hope that the person has their mobile phone turned on (I found this a problem in the US, people trying to avoid incoming calls, because those use up the precious minutes). Even if you have the delivery confirmation turned on, you might not get the confirmation right away.
I didn't know one a few minutes ago, but here's something that might do the trick:
http://kuntsi.com/hacks/python_percent.vim
(Could't post the code, got hit by lameness filter)
According to what I've been told, "millenium" is approximately latin. Millennium means a span of thousand years (year=annus in latin). I'll leave the supposed rest of this post for you as homework.
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If you look at the finish line, you might notice a small flickering box at the side of the track. Look at it closer (use slow motion if necessary), and you'll notice that it's actually a fast scrolling swatch ad, nothing virtual there. Thus the line scan camera sees different parts of the ad.
And, if the ad moves at a steady pace, it can also be used as an alignment pattern to fix possible timing fluctuations in the line camera.
There is already a Mozilla (and Firefox) extension for this, GMail Notifier (homepage http://www.nexgenmedia.net/extensions/). It works with both the Linux and windows versions of the browser.
Let's see, if all you have is assembler, first you write a minimal compiler for the language of your choice. Then you use that compiler to compile a more complete version of the compiler until you have bootstrapped a fully grown compiler for your favourite language.
If you had to write compilers in assembler only, you wouldn't be able to have cross-compilers that easily.
That's sort of like saying, who needs a parachute, you'll go down even in what's basically a steep glide if you jump off a plane without one.
I wouldn't want to be aboard a shuttle or any other space/aircraft (Parachuting capsules, VTOLs and helicopters excluded) that lands at a steep angle on the ground. Not to mention the relatively high speeds involved with a steep decline. I've already had my share of bumpy landings on regular jetliners.
So some kind of mechanism for contolling the descent and velocity would be nice.
The wings look really small, so is that a lifting body shuttle?
You couldn't be closer to the truth. How much money did the US spend on developing zero-gravity ballpoint pens and electric shavers, while the russians used pencils, and shaving cream/foam and an ordinary razor. The high-tech solution is not always the best.
SIP is not limited to just VoIP, as the name says it is Session Initiation Protocol. There already is a reasonable GNU SIP library, so let's make that better, and then we can create an open source SIP capable VoIP-phone that could interoperate with this system as well as others.
Other uses for SIP that could/should happen IMO are (starting a session of) multi-player games and messaging, conferencing software for sharing pictures, etc.
Since SIP is basically just a handshake protocol, doing all those things shouldn't be impossible. Wanna play a game of chess or go with a pal? Just initiate a SIP connection, if their end supports your game and they are available, you've got a connection. No more application specific ports to configure to get a multiuser application work.
The problem with the machine at the counter is that if the choice you want (coke without ice or something similar) was not programmed to the robot, you can't get what you want.
This doesn't sound like a big problem, but what about people with different allergies, say, you want your burger without onion or tomatoes? You can say that to the person at the counter and they might even understand you. But if something is left out from the robot's code/config, you're out of options.
Hold on while I obfuscate my code by renaming all the .py files to .pl as everyone surely knows .pl looks just line noise. :-)
On a more serious note, how sad is it that a person describing a technical solution comes up with such a method for "obsucating" a file. Or are the MS-world media player dumb enough to ignore the contents of a file if the extension is not known? I know that you wouldn't be able to just double-click on them, unless you tell it (on the first time) which program to use with those files, and most of the ordinary people are too scared to open "unknown" files with any program.
We used Bailey's Irish Cream, Bristol Cream is a sherry. But then again, it was good and has some alcohol, so no wonder you did not remember the exact ingredients:
1) Irish Cream
2) liquid nitrogen
You have to let it melt a bit, as the alcohol significantly lowers the freezing point, and it would be too cold to eat if it's not soft enough,
And who in their right mind would pay for received messages or phone calls?
More over, SMS is not IM. It's not completely unlike IM, but it does not offer the one thing IM has to offer: you know before you send the message that the recipient is (somewhere) there, logged in. With SMS you send the message, and hope that the person has their mobile phone turned on (I found this a problem in the US, people trying to avoid incoming calls, because those use up the precious minutes). Even if you have the delivery confirmation turned on, you might not get the confirmation right away.
Feel free to make it better.
Copyright laws also include photographs and other forms of art.
According to what I've been told, "millenium" is approximately latin. Millennium means a span of thousand years (year=annus in latin). I'll leave the supposed rest of this post for you as homework.