99.999% of the electronics devices I own and used seem to have fixed purposes and fixed designs. Perhaps this technology will find itself interfacing with organics/nerves in the future. Maybe it's distant circuit-child will do better than poking electrodes around on a brain saying to the patient "Are you still there?" The articles about human-electronic-vision seem to talk a lot about plugs going into heads.
Maybe this tech, combined with fixed technological components, will find itself into the human/electronic interface.
Big Time Scraping
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I work for a telecom company. You wouldnt believe the scope of devices which require screen scraping to work with. The biggest one that comes to mind that _can_ require it is the Lucent 5ESS telecom switch. While the 5ESS has an optional X.25 interface (for tens of thousands $), our company uses the human-ish text based interface.
Lets say a user (on PC) wants to look up a customers phone line. They pull up IE, go to a web page, make the request into an ASP page, it gets stored in SQL Server.
Meanwhile, a perl program retrieves a different URL, which gives all pending requests. It keeps an open session onto the 5ESS, like a human would. It then does the human tasks, retrieves the typically 1 to 10 page report and starts parsing goodies out of it for return.
More than just 5ESS switches -- DSC telecom switches, some echo cancellers, satellite modems, lots of other devices require scraping to work with.
I have the one-earlier model. The A03. I use it for two things: 1) to burn videos that play on my set top DVD player, and 2) to burn 4450 megs of whatever per platter.
What more can you ask for?? The A03 or A04 is THE machine to buy. If your interest is item #1 or item #2 mentioned above, go for it.
I remember my friend and I in 1992 to sitting around and playing with capacitors. We were even getting paid. We were hooking them up reversed polarity on a small DC power supply. They EXPLODE. We were doing small caps. Big caps would be too scary. We were putting them in the McDonalds quarter pounder with cheese styrofoam boxlets that were sold back then. Remember those? They add to the effect. I will always have that mental image of DC power leads running out of a closed McDonalds QPw/C container.
This sounds nice. The jump from 10 megabits to 100 megabits in the home office was a very substantial improvement. Moving 60 - 100 megabyte scans between machines is much more tolerable.
And all from a 10 times improvement. This 10 gigabit/sec network is 100 times faster.
It will come down to the disk storage. My 100 megabit network already has me waiting on hard disk reads and writes, so I'm not sure if I'd see any more benefits if this were available now.
We wish to express our sympathetic apology to all our regular Clone Cinema viewers. Unfortunately, Toy Story 3 requires at least a Quad-Pentium projector with a GeForce 6 card to display properly.
Re:Pablo? Come to Florida honey, we miss you.
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This sounds like a success story! (If you were an independant contractor.)
Software Bug Affects Human Bone Length !!
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I developed the original software for a robotic human bone lengthening/correcting device (called "Autogenesis") which slowly transforms bones based on the Ilizarov technique. It was written in Franklin embedded "C" on an 8051 processor. One of the tables containing motor rates and rhythms had an incorrect value. The result? That rate and rhythm would move bone at a rate other than the doctor intended!
Dont count on using moose to derail the trains. Here is a quote from an Alaskan school page:
http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/awe/moose/f atalities. html
The worst year ever for moose kills on the Alaska's railroad tracks was 1989-90 when 722 moose were killed.
Basically, the train pummels the holy hell out of the moose, moose falls to side of track.
You could calculate which hemisphere of Earth was facing the asteroids approach, and then figure out how much land/water was exposed on that hemisphere.
A friend of mine implementing logic in a process control system, overseeing water control for an entire valley, repeatedly dumped over a million gallons of water doing a few test runs.
Advanced google groups search yields Osama from Feb/19/1994
Text: In The Statement Sent To Several Saudi Newspapers, The Bin
Laden Family Members Said They Want To Disassociate Themselves
From Osama Bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden Is Believed To Be Living In Sudan And Is Said To
Have Been A Main Financial Backer Of The So-Called Afghan Arabs.
They Are Muslim Arabs Who Fought Alongside The Afghan Mujahedin
Against Soviet Forces In Afghanistan.
The Bin Laden Statement Was Signed By Bakr Mohamed Bin Laden,
Osama Bin Laden'S Brother. In Their Statement The Family Said
All Family Members -- Whose Number Exceeds 50 -- Would Like To
Express Their Regret, Denunciation, And Condemnation For All Acts
That Osama Bin Laden May Have Committed, Which, In Their Words,
We Do Not Condone And Which We Reject.
Osama Bin Laden Has Been Specially Mentioned In Connection With A
Group That Has Committed Several Acts Of Violence In Yemen. The
Bin Laden Family Comes Originally From The Southern Part Of
Yemen. Some Family Members Emigrated To Saudi Arabia Decades
Ago. (Signed)
I find it unbelievably strange that John Carmack (of Doom,Quake fame) is also building a rocket capable of transporting humans. He's made a ton of progress. His company: Armadillo Aerospace
I consult with Microsoft, and Bill Gates has discussed this project. Bill is willing to donate $10 billion dollars to this cause. Here's the scoop. Bill will donate $10 billion towards retrieval of as much rock as possible, under the condition he gets 95% of the rock with the remaining 5% distributed under NASA control.
Reuters attributes Mr. Gates wishes to a long standing competition with Larry Ellison of Oracle. Ellison in 1998 purchased the bones of Stalin from the state of Russia for $60 million dollars under the condition they were petrified via harsh ionization by direct extended storage on the outside of the Mir space station. The bones spent about 18 months in space with direct exposure to solar radiation. Ellison took posession of these rock hard space petrified bones of Stalin in early 2000 and has since used them as the stones for his private sauna.
In the best American spirit of oneupmanship, Gates and Ellison have both agreed that sending a multibillion dollar space probe round trip to Mars, to retrieve rocks for your sauna, is extreme. The only thing more bizarre is Ellisons planned comeback.
1) This issue has come up because terrorists are using strong encryption in their communications across the Internet, hotmail, etc, and the US government cant decrypt it.
2) The article says US Government and citizens support putting backdoors into crypto products.
3) Unless you force the terrorists to "UPGRADE" their crypto products, to the new versions with crypto-backdoors, well then, they will still be using the same hard-to-crack encryption, wont they? (Loop back to point #1)
So, one more time, what is this supposed to accomplish?
They are purple skinned, and they have a "purplishness" that extends slightly into the meat of the potato. The interior, the deep potato core, is normally colored.
My GeForce fan stopped working. It destroyed the GeForce card, worked intermittently while I troubleshot things, and then took the motherboard out with it.
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99.999% of the electronics devices I own and used seem to have fixed purposes and fixed designs. Perhaps this technology will find itself interfacing with organics/nerves in the future. Maybe it's distant circuit-child will do better than poking electrodes around on a brain saying to the patient "Are you still there?" The articles about human-electronic-vision seem to talk a lot about plugs going into heads.
Maybe this tech, combined with fixed technological components, will find itself into the human/electronic interface.
I work for a telecom company. You wouldnt believe the scope of devices which require screen scraping to work with. The biggest one that comes to mind that _can_ require it is the Lucent 5ESS telecom switch. While the 5ESS has an optional X.25 interface (for tens of thousands $), our company uses the human-ish text based interface.
Lets say a user (on PC) wants to look up a customers phone line. They pull up IE, go to a web page, make the request into an ASP page, it gets stored in SQL Server.
Meanwhile, a perl program retrieves a different URL, which gives all pending requests. It keeps an open session onto the 5ESS, like a human would. It then does the human tasks, retrieves the typically 1 to 10 page report and starts parsing goodies out of it for return.
More than just 5ESS switches -- DSC telecom switches, some echo cancellers, satellite modems, lots of other devices require scraping to work with.
I have the one-earlier model. The A03. I use it for two things: 1) to burn videos that play on my set top DVD player, and 2) to burn 4450 megs of whatever per platter.
What more can you ask for?? The A03 or A04 is THE machine to buy. If your interest is item #1 or item #2 mentioned above, go for it.
They were electrolytic's, which do explode. There are some mondo-sized electrolytic caps out there (huge). They would be damn scary to try that with.
I remember my friend and I in 1992 to sitting around and playing with capacitors. We were even getting paid. We were hooking them up reversed polarity on a small DC power supply. They EXPLODE. We were doing small caps. Big caps would be too scary. We were putting them in the McDonalds quarter pounder with cheese styrofoam boxlets that were sold back then. Remember those? They add to the effect. I will always have that mental image of DC power leads running out of a closed McDonalds QPw/C container.
This sounds nice. The jump from 10 megabits to 100 megabits in the home office was a very substantial improvement. Moving 60 - 100 megabyte scans between machines is much more tolerable.
And all from a 10 times improvement. This 10 gigabit/sec network is 100 times faster.
It will come down to the disk storage. My 100 megabit network already has me waiting on hard disk reads and writes, so I'm not sure if I'd see any more benefits if this were available now.
PS/2 Linux
We wish to express our sympathetic apology to all our regular Clone Cinema viewers. Unfortunately, Toy Story 3 requires at least a Quad-Pentium projector with a GeForce 6 card to display properly.
This sounds like a success story! (If you were an independant contractor.)
I developed the original software for a robotic human bone lengthening/correcting device (called "Autogenesis") which slowly transforms bones based on the Ilizarov technique. It was written in Franklin embedded "C" on an 8051 processor. One of the tables containing motor rates and rhythms had an incorrect value. The result? That rate and rhythm would move bone at a rate other than the doctor intended!
With the Pioneer A03 and A04, you can --
(1) make DVD's that play on your settop box
(2) burn 4450 megs of file onto a platter.
What more do you need? I love my A03.
Dont count on using moose to derail the trains. Here is a quote from an Alaskan school page:f atalities. html
http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/awe/moose/
The worst year ever for moose kills on the Alaska's railroad tracks was 1989-90 when 722 moose were killed.
Basically, the train pummels the holy hell out of the moose, moose falls to side of track.
You could calculate which hemisphere of Earth was facing the asteroids approach, and then figure out how much land/water was exposed on that hemisphere.
Lets hope we dont end up having to feed our CCD sensors in the future, you know, "Pick up some Purina CCD Chow...!"
A friend of mine implementing logic in a process control system, overseeing water control for an entire valley, repeatedly dumped over a million gallons of water doing a few test runs.
What cd-roms really need is an eject button which doesnt write home to it's manufacturer (at book rates) for permission to eject a damned disc!
How frustrating it is to push an eject button and watch a device deliberate for several seconds over SOMETHING before ejecting it's cargo!
Basically, that button means "Your work here is done", so give me the disc, OK??
Advanced google groups search yields Osama from Feb/19/1994
Text: In The Statement Sent To Several Saudi Newspapers, The Bin
Laden Family Members Said They Want To Disassociate Themselves
From Osama Bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden Is Believed To Be Living In Sudan And Is Said To
Have Been A Main Financial Backer Of The So-Called Afghan Arabs.
They Are Muslim Arabs Who Fought Alongside The Afghan Mujahedin
Against Soviet Forces In Afghanistan.
The Bin Laden Statement Was Signed By Bakr Mohamed Bin Laden,
Osama Bin Laden'S Brother. In Their Statement The Family Said
All Family Members -- Whose Number Exceeds 50 -- Would Like To
Express Their Regret, Denunciation, And Condemnation For All Acts
That Osama Bin Laden May Have Committed, Which, In Their Words,
We Do Not Condone And Which We Reject.
Osama Bin Laden Has Been Specially Mentioned In Connection With A
Group That Has Committed Several Acts Of Violence In Yemen. The
Bin Laden Family Comes Originally From The Southern Part Of
Yemen. Some Family Members Emigrated To Saudi Arabia Decades
Ago. (Signed)
I find it unbelievably strange that John Carmack (of Doom,Quake fame) is also building a rocket capable of transporting humans. He's made a ton of progress. His company: Armadillo Aerospace
Reuters attributes Mr. Gates wishes to a long standing competition with Larry Ellison of Oracle. Ellison in 1998 purchased the bones of Stalin from the state of Russia for $60 million dollars under the condition they were petrified via harsh ionization by direct extended storage on the outside of the Mir space station. The bones spent about 18 months in space with direct exposure to solar radiation. Ellison took posession of these rock hard space petrified bones of Stalin in early 2000 and has since used them as the stones for his private sauna.
In the best American spirit of oneupmanship, Gates and Ellison have both agreed that sending a multibillion dollar space probe round trip to Mars, to retrieve rocks for your sauna, is extreme. The only thing more bizarre is Ellisons planned comeback.
Follow the train:
1) This issue has come up because terrorists are using strong encryption in their communications across the Internet, hotmail, etc, and the US government cant decrypt it.
2) The article says US Government and citizens support putting backdoors into crypto products.
3) Unless you force the terrorists to "UPGRADE" their crypto products, to the new versions with crypto-backdoors, well then, they will still be using the same hard-to-crack encryption, wont they? (Loop back to point #1)
So, one more time, what is this supposed to accomplish?
They are purple skinned, and they have a "purplishness" that extends slightly into the meat of the potato. The interior, the deep potato core, is normally colored.
Purple potatoes may be new to Hemos, but they are nowhere near being a new thing.
My GeForce fan stopped working. It destroyed the GeForce card, worked intermittently while I troubleshot things, and then took the motherboard out with it.
as the mass of the black hole decreases, so does the level of radiation.
should be
as the mass of the black hole decreases, the level of radiation increases.
The process accelerates as the black hole drops in mass.