If they could get street lights that can turn on and off quickly, then it might be possible to add a noise or motion sensor so that a strip of street lights turn on automatically when needed.
These are all theories. Maybe there should be an X-prize for someone who can come up with a desktop experiment that can prove or disprove one or more of these theories.
1. If it's powered by your body heat, it's going to make you colder...
If you turn down the thermostat on your central heating it's going to make you colder...... but your body will burn more calories to maintain core and extremity body temperature.
Many console games do require custom controllers, additional memory cards or perhaps even an online service subscription. That's one reason why I stopped buying games for past console systems when new games came out.
What is your screen resolution? On a 1400x1050 screen the icons appear small and highly detailed. Gnome does allow you to customize your desktop layout. You can delete and reduce the size of the toolbars (down to 25 pixels). You can even make them transparent if you want. Some people may like to have their icons all in one side for quick retrieval, others might like to have toolbar icons located according to potential damage (eg. place all the shutdown/kill window icons in one corner, all the startup icons in another, and information icons in the middle; CPU temperature, system activity, time/date).
Given the portability of Linux, everyone is going to have a different configuration, so what might be good for a multi-monitor multi-core workstation isn't necessarily going to be good for an 800x600 server console.
This used to happen to people who owned PO Boxes in foreign countries. One time, some people working on charity work kept getting junk mail for fertilizer delivered to their PO Box in Africa. Because they were so far away from the local post office, collecting mail involved a long jeep drive into town to collect the mail from the PO Box. They would be charged a small service fee every time this happened. Despite numerous requests to get the junk mail canceled, the company wouldn't give up. So they go some friends to send back a large box of soil samples through the international Payment-On-Delivery system. They never received another leaflet from the company.
I've used both Gnome and KDE for over five years, but what I don't understand about Gnome is why the move to have icons at both the top and bottom of the screen. Is this to emulate the Mac look?
According to The Time, the Polish economy is booming, and the Poles are actually going back home because they have a higher quality of living back home than they do in the UK.
As reported by the St. Petersburg Times, Benjamin Smith III was recently arrested in Florida for "hacking into" an open WiFi network. According to the newspaper report, Richard Dinon, a St. Petersburg resident, saw an SUV parked outside his home, with its driver "furtively hunched over his computer," and called the cops. Smith was charged with unauthorized access to a computer network, a felony.Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.
Police officers in London arrested a 39-year-old man using his laptop to access someone else's wireless Internet connection on Tuesday. His actions could potentially breach the Computer Misuse Act and the Communications Act, according to a Metropolitan Police Service statement. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest on Thursday.
Gregory Straszkiewicz, 24, was found guilty of "dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service" and "possessing equipment for fraudulent use of a communications service" after he was found logging on with a laptop outside an apartment building. Straszkiewicz was fined £500 ($872) and given a year's probation; he also had his laptop confiscated.
Very true. At this time our schools computing facilities consisted of two Apple ]['s. One up at one end of the school with a printer for word processing, while the other was in the school library (of all places) with another printer. Only at the end of the year did they get a roomful of BBC model A's.
But all the BASIC programming tutorials were based on database processing, batch processing and basic arithmetic. Other schools taught Pascal or used BBC BASIC with procedures.
Out in the your local newsagents, there were whole loads of games and technical programming magazines:
Modern DSLR have a monochrome CCD image sensor. But there is a color filter array above this which converts each group of 2x2 elements into a GRBR pattern. You lose half the full resolution that way. You also get color bleed from adjacent elements which can be difficult to correct.
If you have a monochrome CCD image sensor and have interchangable filters, then you can keep your images to the full resolution of the sensor, and have a much easier time sharpening the image.
From what I have seen of.NET, most of it is wrappers around the existing Win32 widgets. On the blog, there is a comment about cyclic dependencies between different class libraries. This doesn't seem too good - surely it would be possible to split those modules up until the dependencies are removed?
It varied from county to county. There are good many people that I know who are bitter about not being able to get an education simply because of this exam, and are determined that their children should not go through the same.
I also know family with digital TV who will filter news themselves and only catch the bits the want.
We have retired relatives who will change to a different channel as soon as a news article on animal cruelty is aired. Even if the poor critter has recovered and running around in a green field or there is no video, the channel still gets changed. Anyone in the room who objects is regarded as some twisted animal sadist.
There was one family who kept the TV as a status symbol only, in their best room, which was only watched when there was a news article about the royal family.
Every card has a serial number, so there isn't any need for an address or user name for administration purposes, except that it helps when returning lost cards. Although any person could just use a friend's, neighbour's or their work address, and I'm sure they could just make up a name anyway. But if anyone was of particular "interest", and paid by cash, I'm sure the bus drivers could just radio back to their base station.
And 15 years ago, only about 15% of population were able to go to university. Now it is around 33.3%. Back in the 1970's only 10% of the school-leaving population were able to get to university. You either passed your 11+ exams (guaranteed a grammar school education) or failed them (kicked out when you turned 16). Then it was possible to pay student grants (around 3K to 6K pounds per year, depending upon subject), which barely covered rent and heating, let alone a desktop computer (20 Mhz 80x86).
The shortage of dentists is due to the fact that more expensive treatments have been developed (custom made porcelain crowns, implants, ultrasonic cleaning, sealants to prevent dental cavities). All of these are expensive but form preventative treatments rather than the "drill and pull" treatments that the NHS is willing to pay for.
And the high cost of house and apartments prices all comes down to the oil boom in the 1980's when offshore workers on the oil-rigs were being paid 400 pounds/week for two weeks on/two weeks off. Then house prices just about everywhere rocketed up, leading to the teachers going on strike because they couldn't afford to live in the catchment areas of the schools that they worked in. Then the availability of cheap loans boosted the house building market (Harry Enfield's "loadsamoney" followed by the crash in the early 90's (as Spitting Images "Our House".
The main use of having personal information on a smart-card is, depending upon your perspective, to prevent fraud and theft, or to maximise profits. Some families would just buy two oyster cards and share them around depending upon who needed to go out on that day, much to the dismay of the ticket operators. So every card must have a registered user.
Buses have smart-card readers, use GPS to determine their current location, which radio back their current location to the local depot. Card readers have be reprogrammed in software, so it wouldn't be too difficult to transmit the customer ID number back as well.
The Wayfarer system web site gives an explanation of how the different modules work together (under Integrated Solution / e-Bus family).
It worked for Scotland. Labour was kicked out, and replaced by the SNP. To get any decision approved now requires some cross-trading with the Conservatives and the Liberal-Democrats. After being used to making all the decisions, Labour now refuse to participate in such horse-trading.
Why does the system need to collect any personally identifiable data in the first place? Apart from the obvious surveillance uses, that is.
Because they are trying to implement "implicated-by-association" reasoning. If you have one suspect who attends a particular location on a regular basis, then that might tip them off on other suspects.
To truly fight guerilla you must fight them like you fight pirates.
Just carpet-bomb them with RIAA cease-and-desist lawyer letters until they are bankrupt from lawyers fees, and then confiscate their CD collections if they fail to comply.
The Sun, and The Scottish Daily Mail come to mind as being two such papers.
They always like to a bit of government-bashing, particular in the comments section. The most popular phrase now is "You couldn't this up...", especially when applied to immigration controls. Whenever the local convention center has a conference for a particular group of local government workers, the Daily Mail always sells out.
I used to have problems with my audio on Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6, but have had no problems with Fedora Core 8. I suspect it might have to do something with the way I was installing RPM's manually from the different rpm repositories rather than simply getting 'yum' set up properly. My sound controller icon would fail to display the entire bank of slide bars until I uninstalled and reinstalled everything sound related (bzflag would have all the sounds speeded up at least by a factor of two.
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If they could get street lights that can turn on and off quickly, then it might be possible to add a noise or motion sensor so that a strip of street lights turn on automatically when needed.
For example? Can you list some of these please?
Wikipedia has a concise and complete list of hypothetical and theoretical particles:
Hypothetical particles
Photino - superpartner ofthe photon
Gluino - superpartner ofthe gluon
Gravitino - superpartner of the graviton
Neutralino - superpartner of other neutral particles
Charginos - partners of charged bosons
Sterile Neutrinos - needed to explain LSND results
Sleptons and Squarks - supersymmetric partners of fermions
Tachyons - particles which travel faster than light
Higgs Boson - the origin of mass
Graviton - mediates gravity
Preons - substructure for quarks and leptons
Graviscalar and Graviphoton
Axion - Peccei-Quinn theory to solve the strong CP problem
Axino and Saxion - form together with the axion a supermultiplet
Supermultiplet - supersymmetric extensions of Peccei-Quinn theory
Branon
X and Y bosons - predicted by GUT theory
Magnetic photon
Majoron - predicted to understand neutrino masses
These are all theories. Maybe there should be an X-prize for someone who can come up with a desktop experiment that can prove or disprove one or more of these theories.
1. If it's powered by your body heat, it's going to make you colder...
... but your body will burn more calories to maintain core and extremity body temperature.
If you turn down the thermostat on your central heating it's going to make you colder...
Many console games do require custom controllers, additional memory cards or perhaps even an online service subscription. That's one reason why I stopped buying games for past console systems when new games came out.
What is your screen resolution? On a 1400x1050 screen the icons appear small and highly detailed. Gnome does allow you to customize your desktop layout. You can delete and reduce the size of the toolbars (down to 25 pixels). You can even make them transparent if you want. Some people may like to have their icons all in one side for quick retrieval, others might like to have toolbar icons located according to potential damage (eg. place all the shutdown/kill window icons in one corner, all the startup icons in another, and information icons in the middle; CPU temperature, system activity, time/date).
Given the portability of Linux, everyone is going to have a different configuration, so what might be good for a multi-monitor multi-core workstation isn't necessarily going to be good for an 800x600 server console.
This used to happen to people who owned PO Boxes in foreign countries. One time, some people working on charity work kept getting junk mail for fertilizer delivered to their PO Box in Africa. Because they were so far away from the local post office, collecting mail involved a long jeep drive into town to collect the mail from the PO Box. They would be charged a small service fee every time this happened. Despite numerous requests to get the junk mail canceled, the company wouldn't give up. So they go some friends to send back a large box of soil samples through the international Payment-On-Delivery system. They never received another leaflet from the company.
I've used both Gnome and KDE for over five years, but what I don't understand about Gnome is why the move to have icons at both the top and bottom of the screen. Is this to emulate the Mac look?
According to The Time, the Polish economy is booming, and the Poles are actually going back home because they have a higher quality of living back home than they do in the UK.
That happened two years ago:
Man charged with stealing Wi-Fi signal
Beware the wardriving menace
As reported by the St. Petersburg Times, Benjamin Smith III was recently arrested in Florida for "hacking into" an open WiFi network. According to the newspaper report, Richard Dinon, a St. Petersburg resident, saw an SUV parked outside his home, with its driver "furtively hunched over his computer," and called the cops. Smith was charged with unauthorized access to a computer network, a felony.Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.
London Man Arrested for 'Stealing' Wi-Fi
Police officers in London arrested a 39-year-old man using his laptop to access someone else's wireless Internet connection on Tuesday.
His actions could potentially breach the Computer Misuse Act and the Communications Act, according to a Metropolitan Police Service statement. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed the arrest on Thursday.
U.K. man arrested, fined for using open WiFi signal
Gregory Straszkiewicz, 24, was found guilty of "dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service" and "possessing equipment for fraudulent use of a communications service" after he was found logging on with a laptop outside an apartment building. Straszkiewicz was fined £500 ($872) and given a year's probation; he also had his laptop confiscated.
Very true. At this time our schools computing facilities consisted of two Apple ]['s. One up at one end of the school with a printer for word processing, while the other was in the school library (of all places) with another printer. Only at the end of the year did they get a roomful of BBC model A's.
But all the BASIC programming tutorials were based on database processing, batch processing and basic arithmetic. Other schools taught Pascal or used BBC BASIC with procedures.
Out in the your local newsagents, there were whole loads of games and technical programming magazines:
Atari User, Personal Computing World, Byte, Atari ST User, Computer and Video Games,
Acorn User and many other
computer magazines
Many of the BBC micro games are available online:
http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/">BBC Games
Modern DSLR have a monochrome CCD image sensor. But there is a color filter array above this which converts each group of 2x2 elements into a GRBR pattern. You lose half the full resolution that way. You also get color bleed from adjacent elements which can be difficult to correct.
If you have a monochrome CCD image sensor and have interchangable filters, then you can keep your images to the full resolution of the sensor, and have a much easier time sharpening the image.
The closest nature seems to have got to the wheel is the flagellum (a bacterium's tail that rotates through chemical reactions)
From what I have seen of .NET, most of it is wrappers around the existing Win32 widgets. On the blog, there is a comment about cyclic dependencies between different class libraries. This doesn't seem too good - surely it would be possible to split those modules up until the dependencies are removed?
It varied from county to county. There are good many people that I know who are bitter about not being able to get an education simply because of this exam, and are determined that their children should not go through the same.
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I also know family with digital TV who will filter news themselves and only catch the bits the want.
We have retired relatives who will change to a different channel as soon as a news article on animal cruelty is aired. Even if the poor critter has recovered and running around in a green field or there is no video, the channel still gets changed. Anyone in the room who objects is regarded as some twisted animal sadist.
There was one family who kept the TV as a status symbol only, in their best room, which was only watched when there was a news article about the royal family.
Every card has a serial number, so there isn't any need for an address or user name for administration purposes, except that it helps when returning lost cards. Although any person could just use a friend's, neighbour's or their work address, and I'm sure they could just make up a name anyway. But if anyone was of particular "interest", and paid by cash, I'm sure the bus drivers could just radio back to their base station.
And 15 years ago, only about 15% of population were able to go to university. Now it is around 33.3%. Back in the 1970's only 10% of the school-leaving population were able to get to university. You either passed your 11+ exams (guaranteed a grammar school education) or failed them (kicked out when you turned 16). Then it was possible to pay student grants (around 3K to 6K pounds per year, depending upon subject), which barely covered rent and heating, let alone a desktop computer (20 Mhz 80x86).
The shortage of dentists is due to the fact that more expensive treatments have been developed (custom made porcelain crowns, implants, ultrasonic cleaning, sealants to prevent dental cavities). All of these are expensive but form preventative treatments rather than the "drill and pull" treatments that the NHS is willing to pay for.
And the high cost of house and apartments prices all comes down to the oil boom in the 1980's when offshore workers on the oil-rigs were being paid 400 pounds/week for two weeks on/two weeks off. Then house prices just about everywhere rocketed up, leading to the teachers going on strike because they couldn't afford to live in the catchment areas of the schools that they worked in. Then the availability of cheap loans boosted the house building market (Harry Enfield's "loadsamoney" followed by the crash in the early 90's (as Spitting Images "Our House".
Sounds familiar?
The main use of having personal information on a smart-card is, depending upon your perspective, to prevent fraud and theft, or to maximise profits. Some families would just buy two oyster cards and share them around depending upon who needed to go out on that day, much to the dismay of the ticket operators. So every card must have a registered user.
It's mounted on an airplane, so we could paint a shark onto the side of the airplane if you like. Otherwise, we are all out of sharks at the moment.
Buses have smart-card readers, use GPS to determine their current location, which radio back their current location to the local depot. Card readers have be reprogrammed in software, so it wouldn't be too difficult to transmit the customer ID number back as well.
The Wayfarer system web site gives an explanation of how the different modules work together (under Integrated Solution / e-Bus family).
It worked for Scotland. Labour was kicked out, and replaced by the SNP. To get any decision approved now requires some cross-trading with the Conservatives and the Liberal-Democrats. After being used to making all the decisions, Labour now refuse to participate in such horse-trading.
Why does the system need to collect any personally identifiable data in the first place? Apart from the obvious surveillance uses, that is.
Because they are trying to implement "implicated-by-association" reasoning. If you have one suspect who attends a particular location on a regular basis, then that might tip them off on other suspects.
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To truly fight guerilla you must fight them like you fight pirates.
Just carpet-bomb them with RIAA cease-and-desist lawyer letters until they are bankrupt from lawyers fees, and then confiscate their CD collections if they fail to comply.
The Sun, and The Scottish Daily Mail come to mind as being two such papers.
They always like to a bit of government-bashing, particular in the comments section. The most popular phrase now is "You couldn't this up...", especially when applied to immigration controls. Whenever the local convention center has a conference for a particular group of local government workers, the Daily Mail always sells out.
I used to have problems with my audio on Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6, but have had no problems with Fedora Core 8. I suspect it might have to do something with the way I was installing RPM's manually from the different rpm repositories rather than simply getting 'yum' set up
properly. My sound controller icon would fail to display the entire bank of slide bars until I uninstalled and reinstalled everything sound related (bzflag would have all the sounds speeded up at least by a factor of two.