Definitely the larger vehicles. I used to see the double deckers buses cause potholes to form. First of all a crack in the tarmac would form, then the bus would drive to the side of the road, put all the weight on that side and compress the road. Water would flow out of the pothole, and when the bus moved away, the water would pour back into the pothole.
What happens if they decide to use bicycles, rollerblades, motorcycles and public transport instead? Seems the government want it both ways; high taxes on carbon emitting cars, and high taxes on clean emission cars.
That was done 20 years ago with TIGA graphics boards. There was a simple BSP tree demo (flysim) which downloaded the scenery database and renderer into the cards memory. All the host PC did was to convert keyboard events into camera motion commands.
It's always amazing how there is a faster way of doing calculations in using a few simple instructions rather than one complex instruction. Swapping registers using XOR instructions, using SUB to clear registers, and using integer arithmetic to manipulate floating point data were the ones I heard about.
There still seems to be demand for Fortran programmers in the parallel processing industry, but you need a mathematics degree to be able to get into that field.
Very true - the jobs left in the UK that haven't been offshored, are the customer-facing, experienced with all leading applications and development tools, leading and mentoring junior programmers, providing accurate estimates of timescales, work to tight deadlines and providing senior management with regular progress reports type software developer positions.
These types of jobs just seem to sit open for years and years...
Used to do that as a kid - had one of those large square batteries and a spare light-bulb from a lego set (one of those for 4x2 bricks. Could see the outline of my bones in my hand). Freaky.
Just about every cell is sensitive to infra-red heat - helps them to align properly during the healing process. Also indirectly sensitive to ultra-violet light due to the damage caused.
From what I heard, the Blackberry doesn't receive plaintext messages, but receives an http link to the encrypted message. Maybe there are backdoors to the encryption algorithms. Funny how the authorities have been complaining so much about these devices.
Unless the police substantially outnumber the rioters, it only ends up chasing the rioters across the city, encourage more to join in and spreading the damage. The police have got to "kettle them" into a dead-end.
My last apartment block had an "unofficial" recycling space, as it was really the heavy-item collection point for the refuse department, and happened to be in a sheltered spot underneath some apartments. When I was about to leave, it was fun to throw out old but functional stuff and see how long it would be there before being taken. Surprisingly, electronics like modems weren't touched, but CD's were taken. The quickest items to go were binder boxes taken by a couple of accountants.
They were data-mining Facebook and Twitter. They are picking on Blackberry's in particular due to the way that they "push" your regular E-mail into an encoded http link and encrypt the contents (triple DES/AES) before sending it to the Blackberry. Basic messaging services are free, so their is no financial trace either.
All of these measures help to obfuscate the sender and receiver as well as the contents, thus defeating all types of signal intelligence.
You write software like apps and game from home. You sell it worldwide. If people want it, they buy it. It used to be like that with the games for the first home computers.
You will find that the credit rating agencies are owned by banks and international corporations. Wikipedia will give you the whole ownership chain of these companies.
At the top universities, it will be the authors themselves teaching you the material direct from fresh research papers. Other places, they will be teaching you from other peoples books.
The bigger institutions tend to have larger research groups and more high-profile projects. If a smaller university does work on a niche area that becomes a new key research field, the whole research group can end up moving to a larger place.
There have been/are lego space sets. One had Moon tiles (two L shaped tile craters, a yellow line runway and landing pad) along with spaceships, roving vehicles and a few astronauts.
The fun thing I remember from those days was having those battery packs, wires and little lighting bricks and the transparent coloured bricks. It was fun to modify a standard lego model and add motors/lights everywhere, then switch the room lights off.
The Register had a discussion on this some time ago. Basically, every health board patient record system had evolved to completely different formats for ranging from basic details like names and addresses to additional information pages on medical conditions. Imagine trying to merge 200+ separate and constantly evolving online job application webpages into a single unified webpage format including portfolios and show-reels, then you'd understand what they have to do. Add to that, the standard need for consultancy style specifications, reviews, and you could see they were trying to hit a moving target.
Never mind torrents - my last university was proud that they had a 1 Gigabit link shared between 40,000 PC's and servers across several campus sites, which ended up giving everyone effectively 25K/second. Doing a remote login to my home PC and downloading the same file from the same server at the same time gave a download speed of 500K/second.
There are some businesses who gets discounts on their electricity contracts if they are able to shut or slow down during times of excessive demand. These were mainly aluminum smelter plants and construction materials manufacturers (clay bricks).
We used to get storage electric heaters in the UK - they had an electric heating element combined with insulated ceramic bricks. Off-peak hours, the heating element would heat up the bricks, then enough heat would be retained and released by the bricks during the following day to provide heat to the room. An insulated flap would allow for the control of released heat. The heating element could also be left on all day as a further boost.
It's a simple thing to do. Many websites offer lists of "proxy servers" - though some seem to be a bit iffy as they seem to be client-end cable-TV broadband addresses. It's easy enough to write a script to extract the IP addresses and ports though, then you can use 'wget' in conjunction with "http_proxy" to set up the proxy server download request.
There's a cool little web counter link called "Flag Counter" that allows you to see the countries that have visitor your webpage - they show the number of visitors from each country. One bizarre thing I notice was that visits using USA proxy servers would also register visits from China to that page, and that some proxy servers were actually faster than my own ISP....
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Definitely the larger vehicles. I used to see the double deckers buses cause potholes to form. First of all a crack in the tarmac would form, then the bus would drive to the side of the road, put all the weight on that side and compress the road. Water would flow out of the pothole, and when the bus moved away, the water would pour back into the pothole.
What happens if they decide to use bicycles, rollerblades, motorcycles and public transport instead? Seems the government want it both ways; high taxes on carbon emitting cars, and high taxes on clean emission cars.
That was done 20 years ago with TIGA graphics boards. There was a simple BSP tree demo (flysim) which downloaded the scenery database and renderer into the cards memory. All the host PC did was to convert keyboard events into camera motion commands.
Still fascinating though.
It's always amazing how there is a faster way of doing calculations in using a few simple instructions rather than one complex instruction. Swapping registers using XOR instructions, using SUB to clear registers, and using integer arithmetic to manipulate floating point data were the ones I heard about.
Take a chill-pill. They're only going to ask whether or not you want to install a plugin - that's all.
There still seems to be demand for Fortran programmers in the parallel processing industry, but you need a mathematics degree to be able to get into that field.
Very true - the jobs left in the UK that haven't been offshored, are the customer-facing, experienced with all leading applications and development tools, leading and mentoring junior programmers, providing accurate estimates of timescales, work to tight deadlines and providing senior management with regular progress reports type software developer positions.
These types of jobs just seem to sit open for years and years...
Used to do that as a kid - had one of those large square batteries and a spare light-bulb from a lego set (one of those for 4x2 bricks. Could see the outline of my bones in my hand). Freaky.
Just about every cell is sensitive to infra-red heat - helps them to align properly during the healing process. Also indirectly sensitive to ultra-violet light due to the damage caused.
From what I heard, the Blackberry doesn't receive plaintext messages, but receives an http link to the encrypted message. Maybe there are backdoors to the encryption algorithms. Funny how the authorities have been complaining so much about these devices.
Unless the police substantially outnumber the rioters, it only ends up chasing the rioters across the city, encourage more to join in and spreading the damage. The police have got to "kettle them" into a dead-end.
My last apartment block had an "unofficial" recycling space, as it was really the heavy-item collection point for the refuse department, and happened to be in a sheltered spot underneath some apartments. When I was about to leave, it was fun to throw out old but functional stuff and see how long it would be there before being taken. Surprisingly, electronics like modems weren't touched, but CD's were taken.
The quickest items to go were binder boxes taken by a couple of accountants.
They were data-mining Facebook and Twitter. They are picking on Blackberry's in particular due to the way that they "push" your regular E-mail into an encoded http link and encrypt the contents (triple DES/AES) before sending it to the Blackberry. Basic messaging services are free, so their is no financial trace either.
All of these measures help to obfuscate the sender and receiver as well as the contents, thus defeating all types of signal intelligence.
Amazon is now stopping the sale of baseball bats, mace spray and other self-defence items.
You write software like apps and game from home. You sell it worldwide. If people want it, they buy it. It used to be like that with the games for the first home computers.
You will find that the credit rating agencies are owned by banks and international corporations. Wikipedia will give you the whole ownership chain of these companies.
"Trespassers will be shot!"
"Survivors will be shot again!"
These days, you'd have a custom shaders to do that ... in autostereoscopic HDR with ambient occlusion no less.
At the top universities, it will be the authors themselves teaching you the material direct from fresh research papers. Other places, they will be teaching you from other peoples books.
The bigger institutions tend to have larger research groups and more high-profile projects. If a smaller university does work on a niche area that becomes a new key research field, the whole research group can end up moving to a larger place.
There have been/are lego space sets. One had Moon tiles (two L shaped tile craters, a yellow line runway and landing pad) along with spaceships, roving vehicles and a few astronauts.
The fun thing I remember from those days was having those battery packs, wires and little lighting bricks and the transparent coloured bricks. It was fun to modify a standard lego model and add motors/lights everywhere, then switch the room lights off.
I'm sure I once saw one of those magnetic office toys with lego bricks - definitely had the one with the circular pad and the diamond shaped leaves.
The Register had a discussion on this some time ago. Basically, every health board patient record system had evolved to completely different formats for ranging from basic details like names and addresses to additional information pages on medical conditions. Imagine trying to merge 200+ separate and constantly evolving online job application webpages into a single unified webpage format including portfolios and show-reels, then you'd understand what they have to do. Add to that, the standard need for consultancy style specifications, reviews, and you could see they were trying to hit a moving target.
A guide to the crisis in the NHS national IT programme
Never mind torrents - my last university was proud that they had a 1 Gigabit link shared between 40,000 PC's and servers across several campus sites, which ended up giving everyone effectively 25K/second. Doing a remote login to my home PC and downloading the same file from the same server at the same time gave a download speed of 500K/second.
There are some businesses who gets discounts on their electricity contracts if they are able to shut or slow down during times of excessive demand. These were mainly aluminum smelter plants and construction materials manufacturers (clay bricks).
We used to get storage electric heaters in the UK - they had an electric heating element combined with insulated ceramic bricks. Off-peak hours, the heating element would heat up the bricks, then enough heat would be retained and released by the bricks during the following day to provide heat to the room. An insulated flap would allow for the control of released heat. The heating element could also be left on all day as a further boost.
It's a simple thing to do. Many websites offer lists of "proxy servers" - though some seem to be a bit iffy as they seem to be client-end cable-TV broadband addresses. It's easy enough to write a script to extract the IP addresses and ports though, then you can use 'wget' in conjunction with "http_proxy" to set up the proxy server download request.
There's a cool little web counter link called "Flag Counter" that allows you to see the countries that have visitor your webpage - they show the number of visitors from each country. One bizarre thing I notice was that visits using USA proxy servers would also register visits from China to that page, and that some proxy servers were actually faster than my own ISP ....