Here in Rhode Island the voting machines are like that. We connect lines on paper ballots with a special marker and then feed them into a machine that scans in the votes. So you get an electronic tally but still have the paper trail. Hell, here at URI we use them in our student senate elections. I don't know why they aren't put into use elsewhere. They seem pretty difficult to screw with and I would imagine not all that expensive.
I picked up a USB hookup for my phone at radioshack for 20 dollars and put on some midi files. My phone now plays "Who can it be now" when someone calls and "Message in a bottle" when I get a text message. I'm so clever.
When is someone going to make one of these for plan 9? Leaving one of those in my drive would be a perfect way to make sure no one can screw with my computer.
Ski shooting? I think you mean the biathalon but I could be mistaken.
If you do, thats pretty damn impressive. They cross country ski for a while racing to get to one of the lil places with the lil targets. Then they have to pull off their rifle and shoot the targets. I don't know much about shooting but I know enough to know that weezing for air with a racing heart dosen't make it easy. Sure its a random combination, unless you're trying to train mountain troops, but its not an easy one.
I suspect the video game companies have rated the patriots players a bit low what with the real life team being on a 14 game winning streak and all. I would guess that the reason the games have been fairly accurate predictors in the past is because they have done a good job capturing the varrying skill levels of the players, but for some reason the patriots I watch on TV seem vastly better then the patriots I control in Madden.
It seems to me that you argue against yourself. Sure YOU might not be able to pick up french in two weeks, but a linguist may be able to, and thats what the post was saying, that a CS grad is akin to a linguist. When you know the basic structures of languages and how they vary, it takes significantly less time to pick up new ones.
1. Move all game input to one hand 2. Modify magical one hand controller for use by both hands, giving double the input of previous two hand controllers 3. Repeat until we go totally insane from trying to learn how to play games using new super-inputy controllers.
Yeah thats great, when there is a book, but when I have to read documents where my only options are to pay some insane amount to print it or read it on electronicly, an e-book reader sure sounds nice. And if there was one out there that wasn't utter crap I'd own one.
1. Gather together a banana, an onion, a chicken liver, salt, warm water, a blender, liquid soap, toothpicks, a strainer, a glass jar and rubbing alcohol.
2. Cut your banana, onion and liver into tiny pieces.
3. Place your banana pieces in the blender, add a teaspoon of salt and slightly cover the mixture with warm water.
4. Mix in the blender for 5 to 10 seconds making sure the mixture is not too runny.
5. Pour the mixture into the glass jar through the strainer. You want the jar to be about half full.
6. Add about 2 teaspoons of liquid soap and gently stir the mixture. You should try not to create bubbles when stirring.
7. Carefully pour the rubbing alcohol down the side of the glass stopping near the top.
8. Wait for 5 minutes.
9. Use the toothpicks to extract the DNA that floats to the surface.
10. Repeat this procedure for the onion and the chicken liver.
Because I'd rather not stick my hand in a blender.
I worked at a place Stichin' Waves for a while running an embroidery machine made by toyota. Most of what we did was custom lettering and designs from books. The machine could handle custome designs, but you had to buy a 10,000 peice of software to make them. The machine itself was pretty solid, aside from broken needles or snapped thread it never broke down during the summer I worked there. It was easy to pick up how to use, and easy to work with. If you can get over the initial 20 to 30 grand it'd take to get a setup going, it's pretty profitable too.
That was proactive, the solution described here is reactive. Rather then using network resources searching for infected computers, it would only respond to infected computers that attempt to infect it. Seems somewhat resonable to me.
That is not the only difference. It is hardly on par with the workout one can get playin basketball, running laps, ect. They compare it to a stair stepper in the article, and I don't know about you, but I can stay on a stair stepper for a damn long time before I feel anything.
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Here in Rhode Island the voting machines are like that. We connect lines on paper ballots with a special marker and then feed them into a machine that scans in the votes. So you get an electronic tally but still have the paper trail. Hell, here at URI we use them in our student senate elections. I don't know why they aren't put into use elsewhere. They seem pretty difficult to screw with and I would imagine not all that expensive.
Could you imagine them doing this with a beowulf cluster?
I assumed that quote about home PCs was in reference to using them in fans.
Isn't that what has been happening with all the latest worms?
I picked up a USB hookup for my phone at radioshack for 20 dollars and put on some midi files. My phone now plays "Who can it be now" when someone calls and "Message in a bottle" when I get a text message. I'm so clever.
First one of the guys at track practice asks me about installing linux on his computer...
now this
When is someone going to make one of these for plan 9? Leaving one of those in my drive would be a perfect way to make sure no one can screw with my computer.
MacGiver? is that a goatse.cx reference?
I thought with bittorrent you are uploading while you are downloading, thus distrubuting.
no
Cloned people are not any less human than "naturally born" people.
That's something a clone would say, he's one of them!
I thought they changed that back, am I wrong on that?
Ski shooting? I think you mean the biathalon but I could be mistaken.
If you do, thats pretty damn impressive. They cross country ski for a while racing to get to one of the lil places with the lil targets. Then they have to pull off their rifle and shoot the targets. I don't know much about shooting but I know enough to know that weezing for air with a racing heart dosen't make it easy. Sure its a random combination, unless you're trying to train mountain troops, but its not an easy one.
I suspect the video game companies have rated the patriots players a bit low what with the real life team being on a 14 game winning streak and all. I would guess that the reason the games have been fairly accurate predictors in the past is because they have done a good job capturing the varrying skill levels of the players, but for some reason the patriots I watch on TV seem vastly better then the patriots I control in Madden.
It seems to me that you argue against yourself. Sure YOU might not be able to pick up french in two weeks, but a linguist may be able to, and thats what the post was saying, that a CS grad is akin to a linguist. When you know the basic structures of languages and how they vary, it takes significantly less time to pick up new ones.
1. Move all game input to one hand
2. Modify magical one hand controller for use by both hands, giving double the input of previous two hand controllers
3. Repeat until we go totally insane from trying to learn how to play games using new super-inputy controllers.
Yeah thats great, when there is a book, but when I have to read documents where my only options are to pay some insane amount to print it or read it on electronicly, an e-book reader sure sounds nice. And if there was one out there that wasn't utter crap I'd own one.
1. Gather together a banana, an onion, a chicken liver, salt, warm water, a blender, liquid soap, toothpicks, a strainer, a glass jar and rubbing alcohol.
2. Cut your banana, onion and liver into tiny pieces.
3. Place your banana pieces in the blender, add a teaspoon of salt and slightly cover the mixture with warm water.
4. Mix in the blender for 5 to 10 seconds making sure the mixture is not too runny.
5. Pour the mixture into the glass jar through the strainer. You want the jar to be about half full.
6. Add about 2 teaspoons of liquid soap and gently stir the mixture. You should try not to create bubbles when stirring.
7. Carefully pour the rubbing alcohol down the side of the glass stopping near the top.
8. Wait for 5 minutes.
9. Use the toothpicks to extract the DNA that floats to the surface.
10. Repeat this procedure for the onion and the chicken liver.
Because I'd rather not stick my hand in a blender.
The classics major is right, clearly.
I worked at a place Stichin' Waves for a while running an embroidery machine made by toyota. Most of what we did was custom lettering and designs from books. The machine could handle custome designs, but you had to buy a 10,000 peice of software to make them. The machine itself was pretty solid, aside from broken needles or snapped thread it never broke down during the summer I worked there. It was easy to pick up how to use, and easy to work with. If you can get over the initial 20 to 30 grand it'd take to get a setup going, it's pretty profitable too.
A lot of us jog for longer then 25 minutes, so 25 minutes of skip protection wouldn't be enough.
That was proactive, the solution described here is reactive. Rather then using network resources searching for infected computers, it would only respond to infected computers that attempt to infect it. Seems somewhat resonable to me.
That is not the only difference. It is hardly on par with the workout one can get playin basketball, running laps, ect. They compare it to a stair stepper in the article, and I don't know about you, but I can stay on a stair stepper for a damn long time before I feel anything.
I picked one up before they re-worked the case. It keeps my 1.4 ghz athlon at about 34 degrees C. Haven't had any problems with it.