Alright, I've been a Slashdot reader for many years now, and I've yet to ever complain about a story, even the blatant Slashvertisements. Usually I just ignore them. However, this story is probably the most useless thing I've seen posted here. I mean, honestly, the article has about 0 actual substance to it, all it says is that a review will be conducted. What is there to even discuss, as no facts are presented yet? Alright.. back to my hole...
FPS games also rely on lightning quick reactions, yet those seem to work pretty well over the internet. If the arcades had some decent dedicated connections between their sites, they could also help avoid occasional drop-outs and other latency related issues in online gaming.
This might work in theory, not in practice. I still get tons of voicemails all the time like "Hey Jim, I'm going to be late for our meeting today..." or "Bob, I couldn't find that thing you wanted.." etc... hint: my name is neither Bob or Jim..
So basically it's still only polling, just with a long timeout.
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Hm, that's an interesting theory, haven't heard that idea before. I just saw this in a forum or newsgroup some years back and thought it was likely just a result of bored engineers.
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My ScanJet 4p has "Ode to Joy" embedded in the firmware. If you set the SCSI channel to 0 and hold the green "scan" button on the front while switching on the power, it will play. I always thought this was a neat easter egg..
I don't see the big deal is in this DVD format argument. I regularily use both DVD-R and DVD+R disks without usually giving it much thought, and I've yet to ever come across a situtation where I was not able to use a disk in a particular player, regardless of format. And where the heck do you even see DVDRAM these days or whatever the heck the other format was? I don't think think that writable DVD's failed to kill off VHS recording because of too many writable formats, that's just a silly argument. What really happened is that people who used to record TV shows on VHS started using PVR's because it's simply more convenient. You don't have to worry about changing disks, and usually portability is not an issue, and most of the devices can automatically record your favorite shows in case you forget. DVD recording is still widely used to convert home movies and the like in to a portable format and duplicate for family, friends, and whatnot without loss of quality. In that respect DVD has replaced VHS. It's simply a matter of using the best tool for the job.
...providing all my "creative" productions for free, and have never asked anyone to give me a dime or even give me recognition... I request the money at the end of the book and I've received more than I've paid to get the books out.
Funny that you should mention MSN, which... doesn't look like any other Windows app at all! It uses its own crazy-ass themable curvy colored UI everywhere... *very* consistent indeed. That being said, I think that GTK even with WIMP looks like crap on Windows. Take a look at the file selectors in Gaim for example, godawful ugly.
Well, as someone pointed out, it's a new feature in 1.5, which I had just recently switched to, through using the auto-update mechanism no less:) So I *used* to be right;)
Doesn't FF still download the entire package whenever there is an update? I'm pretty sure even the autoupdater downloads the whole install, but I could be wrong...
Valid point there about the conservation of energy, but this is not quite the equivalent of taxing gas. For example, you could install these devices on a downhill section of road, where motorists should be looking a deccelerating, so in addition to slowing them down you would get some power in the process. Another suitable location is before intersections on cross-streets. Many cross-streets here that come on to a major road have their light red until a car arrives, and then it turns green after some time. This means that motorists approaching the main road pretty much always have to stop. This would be a prime place to install such a device, which could likely also perform double duty as the sensor that detects approaching vehicles. I agree that putting these on a major road where traffic is moving most of the time and motorists have their foot on the gas is probably a bad idea, but it's not the only possibility.
Um, if you had to spend any considerable amount of time looking for references to database calls in your application when making DB changes I think that's more your fault in doing a poor design rather than any fault of Rails.
I'm not sure what software you are using, but I think Photoshop supports this with the "Snapshots" feature in its history Window. Not sure if GIMP has something similar yet..
As someone who worked in IT support in the past, I can tell you that there are many times where people "Save" their document in a state they don't want it in, only to be unable to recover the old one. Furthermore, there's those people who don't want to screw up their existing version so they *don't* save, only to have 3 hours of work go down the drain when their application crashes or something else... I think developers need to look in to better ways of supporting working on large documents (I like the transactional saves recommended by some posters)
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Alright, I've been a Slashdot reader for many years now, and I've yet to ever complain about a story, even the blatant Slashvertisements. Usually I just ignore them. However, this story is probably the most useless thing I've seen posted here. I mean, honestly, the article has about 0 actual substance to it, all it says is that a review will be conducted. What is there to even discuss, as no facts are presented yet? Alright.. back to my hole...
I'm a self professed j-walking addict. Sometimes even when the crosswalk is near, I'll *still* run across the road :p
FPS games also rely on lightning quick reactions, yet those seem to work pretty well over the internet. If the arcades had some decent dedicated connections between their sites, they could also help avoid occasional drop-outs and other latency related issues in online gaming.
Also all current Canon digital SLR's use CMOS sensors, with the largest being the 16 MP sensor in the 1Ds MK II
The issue is not externally generated noise but thermal noise in the sensor itself.
This might work in theory, not in practice. I still get tons of voicemails all the time like "Hey Jim, I'm going to be late for our meeting today..." or "Bob, I couldn't find that thing you wanted.." etc... hint: my name is neither Bob or Jim..
So basically it's still only polling, just with a long timeout.
Hm, that's an interesting theory, haven't heard that idea before. I just saw this in a forum or newsgroup some years back and thought it was likely just a result of bored engineers.
My ScanJet 4p has "Ode to Joy" embedded in the firmware. If you set the SCSI channel to 0 and hold the green "scan" button on the front while switching on the power, it will play. I always thought this was a neat easter egg..
OR a 2000" screen viewable from 200 feet! It's like having a drive in movie, in your own living room! :p
I don't see the big deal is in this DVD format argument. I regularily use both DVD-R and DVD+R disks without usually giving it much thought, and I've yet to ever come across a situtation where I was not able to use a disk in a particular player, regardless of format. And where the heck do you even see DVDRAM these days or whatever the heck the other format was? I don't think think that writable DVD's failed to kill off VHS recording because of too many writable formats, that's just a silly argument. What really happened is that people who used to record TV shows on VHS started using PVR's because it's simply more convenient. You don't have to worry about changing disks, and usually portability is not an issue, and most of the devices can automatically record your favorite shows in case you forget. DVD recording is still widely used to convert home movies and the like in to a portable format and duplicate for family, friends, and whatnot without loss of quality. In that respect DVD has replaced VHS. It's simply a matter of using the best tool for the job.
Actually the first one said "asked", not "demanded"...
...providing all my "creative" productions for free, and have never asked anyone to give me a dime or even give me recognition... I request the money at the end of the book and I've received more than I've paid to get the books out.
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Funny that you should mention MSN, which... doesn't look like any other Windows app at all! It uses its own crazy-ass themable curvy colored UI everywhere... *very* consistent indeed. That being said, I think that GTK even with WIMP looks like crap on Windows. Take a look at the file selectors in Gaim for example, godawful ugly.
Well, as someone pointed out, it's a new feature in 1.5, which I had just recently switched to, through using the auto-update mechanism no less :) So I *used* to be right ;)
Doesn't FF still download the entire package whenever there is an update? I'm pretty sure even the autoupdater downloads the whole install, but I could be wrong...
Valid point there about the conservation of energy, but this is not quite the equivalent of taxing gas. For example, you could install these devices on a downhill section of road, where motorists should be looking a deccelerating, so in addition to slowing them down you would get some power in the process. Another suitable location is before intersections on cross-streets. Many cross-streets here that come on to a major road have their light red until a car arrives, and then it turns green after some time. This means that motorists approaching the main road pretty much always have to stop. This would be a prime place to install such a device, which could likely also perform double duty as the sensor that detects approaching vehicles. I agree that putting these on a major road where traffic is moving most of the time and motorists have their foot on the gas is probably a bad idea, but it's not the only possibility.
Um, if you had to spend any considerable amount of time looking for references to database calls in your application when making DB changes I think that's more your fault in doing a poor design rather than any fault of Rails.
I'm not sure what software you are using, but I think Photoshop supports this with the "Snapshots" feature in its history Window. Not sure if GIMP has something similar yet..
As someone who worked in IT support in the past, I can tell you that there are many times where people "Save" their document in a state they don't want it in, only to be unable to recover the old one. Furthermore, there's those people who don't want to screw up their existing version so they *don't* save, only to have 3 hours of work go down the drain when their application crashes or something else... I think developers need to look in to better ways of supporting working on large documents (I like the transactional saves recommended by some posters)
And here I thought it was Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep...
Ah, but the clocks run in an 8-phase configuration, giving you an effective clock rate of 9.6 GHz :p
it doesn't tell people WHAT you are watching. That could lead to some... uncomfortable situations...
;)
Now watching: "Underage Interracial Horses Gone Wild"
Got any links to information about "Code Rush" ? I couldn't find any info on a film with that name through my searches..
Also, use A/D converters and not D/A, otherwise you won't be getting much data in to your PC ;)