High-voltage transmission lines are frequently in the middle of nowhere, with no patrollers or police nearby, yet easily accessible from any SUV by just driving down the service road. A single stick of dynamite is probably sufficient to take down a single tower.
A single lightning strike or solar storm is also capable of disabling an entire line, not forgetting tornados or heavy snow which can also bring the cables. And the same lightning strike can also take out telephone lines.
We have friends (who own an antique store) who go around the second hand stores and jumble sales looking for bargains. They know that some things (like turn of the century leather cover books) gain more value when placed together in a collection, even more so in a related collection. These can be sold internationally, as there is particular demand from people who wish to decorate their studies with antique books. By shipping stuff to and back across the Atlantic, other merchandise can gain a "history". Georgian cutlery sets from the UK can be brought over to the USA and gain "pioneer era" description, then resold back to the UK.
Just if anyone is wondering, DSDT stands for Differentiated System Decriptor Table. It defines the configuration of the system motherboard (stored on the BIOS), so that the kernel does not need to be recompiled.
strings/proc/acpi/dsdt is simply extracting this data from the BIOS.
Google's shareholders might care - if their CTO is buying racks and racks of expensive power-guzzling boxes simply because he likes the the flashing activity lights and the noise the cooling fans make when they can get a single server to do the same job, then all that extra power consumption on hardware air-conditioning is lost shareholder dividends.
If you watch reruns of the "CHiPs" series, many of the "journeys" between home and police headquarters simply involving driving round three or four times round the same street block.
remember the same technique used on the Atari 8-bit computers, in the monochrome "Graphics Mode 8" level. By offsetting the *placement* of pixels, you could accomplish new colors.
This method of Artifacting is described in great detail in the Atari Archives.
When the professor submitted the paper, the porf switched the order of the names (made themselves fist). When the paper came back from review, the prof switched the order back, so to the student it still looked like they were the first author.
That seems odd. Normally, when a paper is reviewed all references to the authors are removed to prevent any prejudices/favouritism from creeping in (At least for UK journals).
1) Paranoia by the FAA about malfunctioning devices (which is valid, BTW-- it doesn't usually cause a problem but I have seen radio intererence from many other devices that you wouldn't expect).
Both Boeing and Eurobus have test rigs of the actual aviation equipment in their development sites (seen on Discovery channel). It shouldn't be too difficult for someone to wave a mobile phone around to see what equipment it interferes with.
All corporations perform acquisitions. Microsoft's real crime is bundling (if not mashing) their applications with the OS (Internet Explorer as one example) and demanding that hardware vendors bundle Windows OS with all desktop/laptop systems.
It seems to me that there should be some way to tell the auditors, "We used to develop 27 lines of code per hour here, and now we crank out 33."
Measure the amount of the time it takes to make a change in the source code, recompile, run and test, then propagate the changes back to the other programmers using the source code management tools, and then recompile on the other systems.
SCO have announced they are hiring the services of The Subpoenator, who is rumoured to have been recruited to travel back in time, search for the real Pamela Jones. The Subpoenator favourite weapon is believed to be the Gatling laser printer, capable firing well over 3000 summons per second. Anyone in the vicinity of The Subpoenator is advised to seek cover indoors, close all windows and door, disconnect all web-enabled equipment, and seal their letterbox with industrial strength duct tape.
We had a Computer Engineering lecturer like that - while he did give an interesting talk from his personal experience working for industry startups, he had this annoying habit of drawing an intricate diagram (say an real-time data flow diagram of a flight control system), then while everyone was frantically trying to copy it down and keep up with all the updates being made, he would loudly proclaim "however, current industry practice require that we no longer us this method" and he would completely wipe out the diagram with a single sweep of the chalkboard duster.
You have producers to do the daily management of the project - the game designer provides a list of all the features to be added to the game, while the producer maintains this list and hands them out to the programmers one at a time.
It is quite believable now in the UK, that local councils would spend millions of pounds in order to emply inspectors to wander around home owners gardens checking to see if they had a barbecue in use without a permit.
Congratulations! If you made it this far, we are pretty sure you are NOT an NVIDIA lawyer, or from ATI. Have a beer on us.
We have just one more question for you... Do you know what day it is today?
Yes, my friend, it's April 1st. Adrian's uncle was born on this day, but it's really more commonly known as April Fool's Day.
Unfortunately, there is no secret page where you can buy cheap NVIDIA cards. How we wish it were true though. Graphics cards are so very expensive.
The good news is that there is no such bug in the vertex shader of the G80. So, if you are an owner of GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS cards, you can relax on that count. Your oh-so-expensive graphics cards are not crippled in any way.
But if you are one of those who were, just moments ago, feeling vindicated that it was the card that caused your gaming skills to suffer, we are sorry to bust your chops but as they say, don't blame the tool, blame the user.
Why Two Editorials?
Well, we couldn't decide which joke to go with. The NVIDIA editorial was more serious and more likely to fool more people, thanks to the serious types of questions we used. But we felt that the AMD editorial had a truly funny series of question that's probably more in line with the spirit of April Fool's Day.
In the end, we decided to run with both. A serious one to try to catch as many people off-guard.. and a funny one just for laughs.
Before You Leave...
We hope you enjoyed the little soiree. Remember, it is the journey that counts, not the destination.
With that said, you should be proud of your achievement. After all, you are one of the few who have taken the effort to get to this end. For that, you should not go unrewarded.
Unfortunately, we have no rebates or special sales of ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards to offer you. But as a token of our appreciation for your participation, we can offer you a discount on our online BIOS Optimization Guide subscriptions.
Normally, subscriptions go for £6 for 3 months and £12 for a full year. But you can now subscribe for only £5 for 3 months and £10 for a full year. Just use the coupon code 0104 when you register.
You can subscribe for as many years as you like. Even though the system only allows you to choose between 3 months and 1 year subscriptions, just select the 1 year subscription even if you want to subscribe for several years. We will adjust it manually on our end to reflect the subscription fees paid.
Current BOG subscribers can extend their subscriptions using this coupon code. Just e-mail Adrian at awsh @ techarp.com with your login and payment details.
In addition, if you are a member of our Tech ARP forums, you can PM any of the admins with the 0104 code and we will give you a special 0104 rank to commemorate your achievement. If you are not yet a forum member, well, what are you waiting for?
Disclaimer
Please note that the "facts" and questions and answers in the previous pages do not necessarily reflect the personal or professional opinions of anyone at Team ARP. They were created with comic intent in mind.
'bzflag' had/has a bug where someone could save a screenshot while driving a tank towards a wall. Due to the time delay, that person's tank would end up walking through the wall (known as wallwalking). Particularly useful for entering another team's compound and stealing their flag. But anyone seen doing that would usually end up being banned.
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Here's another story of dumb principals - A school prefect has been banned by the principal from attending the final year prom simply because she refused to attend after-hours revision sessions. This is despite the fact she got
straight A's.
Hopefully, he can sue the police, the legal system if not the whole state and get his college tuition fees paid for.
Well, you gotta admit it's pretty impressive combination of strength and stupidity to stab someone to death with a gun ;).
You've never heard of the bayonet, invented by those crazy French people?
Many of the robot kit manufacturers organise competitions based around their kits.
Vex Labs is one such company.
Maybe you could attend a robotics tradeshow in Europe?
High-voltage transmission lines are frequently in the middle of nowhere, with no patrollers or police nearby, yet easily accessible from any SUV by just driving down the service road. A single stick of dynamite is probably sufficient to take down a single tower.
A single lightning strike or solar storm is also capable of disabling an entire line, not forgetting tornados
or heavy snow which can also bring the cables. And the same lightning strike can also take out telephone lines.
We have friends (who own an antique store) who go around the second hand stores and jumble sales looking for bargains. They know that some things (like turn of the century leather cover books) gain more value when placed together in a collection, even more so in a related collection. These can be sold internationally, as there is
particular demand from people who wish to decorate their studies with antique books. By shipping stuff to and
back across the Atlantic, other merchandise can gain a "history". Georgian cutlery sets from the UK can be
brought over to the USA and gain "pioneer era" description, then resold back to the UK.
Just if anyone is wondering, DSDT stands for Differentiated System Decriptor Table. It defines the configuration of the system motherboard (stored on the BIOS), so that the kernel does not need to be recompiled.
/proc/acpi/dsdt is simply extracting this data from the BIOS.
strings
Do total usage of power really matter that much?
Google's shareholders might care - if their CTO is buying racks and racks of expensive power-guzzling boxes simply because he likes the the flashing activity lights and the noise the cooling fans make when they can get a single server to do the same job, then all that extra power consumption on hardware air-conditioning is lost shareholder dividends.
Could this be the car?
If you watch reruns of the "CHiPs" series, many of the "journeys" between home and police headquarters simply involving driving round three or four times round the same street block.
remember the same technique used on the Atari 8-bit computers, in the monochrome "Graphics Mode 8" level. By offsetting the *placement* of pixels, you could accomplish new colors.
This method of Artifacting is described in great detail in the Atari Archives.
When the professor submitted the paper, the porf switched the order of the names (made themselves fist). When the paper came back from review, the prof switched the order back, so to the student it still looked like they were the first author.
That seems odd. Normally, when a paper is reviewed all references to the authors are removed to prevent any prejudices/favouritism from creeping in (At least for UK journals).
1) Paranoia by the FAA about malfunctioning devices (which is valid, BTW-- it doesn't usually cause a problem but I have seen radio intererence from many other devices that you wouldn't expect).
Both Boeing and Eurobus have test rigs of the actual aviation equipment in their development sites (seen on Discovery channel). It shouldn't be too difficult for someone to wave a mobile phone around to see what equipment it interferes with.
That is probably how it should read. MS didnt write anything they currently sell. They acquired it and revised it and added stuff to it.
This is probably better than coming up with a badly designed API and having it flop.
Wikipedia has a list of 60 companies acquired since 1994, along with investments in another 160
That compares similarly with (Yahoo's acquisition list and Google's acquisition list>/a>
All corporations perform acquisitions. Microsoft's real crime is bundling (if not mashing) their applications with the OS (Internet Explorer as one example) and demanding that hardware vendors bundle Windows OS with all desktop/laptop systems.
I think the real question everyone wants to know is, who would pirate christian rock CDs?
Satanists. So they could can play the music backwards.
It seems to me that there should be some way to tell the auditors, "We used to develop 27 lines of code per hour here, and now we crank out 33."
Measure the amount of the time it takes to make a change in the source code, recompile, run and test, then propagate the changes back to the other programmers using the source code management tools, and then recompile on the other systems.
Unix Evolution Diagrams
Unix History
Development Tree of Unix Networking code
Unix timeline
Another timeline
They are, but you need a lot of practise.
SCO have announced they are hiring the services of The Subpoenator, who is rumoured to have been recruited to travel back in time, search for the real Pamela Jones. The Subpoenator favourite weapon is believed to be the Gatling laser printer, capable firing well over 3000 summons per second. Anyone in the vicinity of The Subpoenator is advised to seek cover indoors, close all windows and door, disconnect all web-enabled equipment, and seal their letterbox with industrial strength duct tape.
Here are some recent examples of abuse of privacy:
Peeping tom CCTV workers jailed
Police Video Caught a Couple's Intimate Moment on a Manhattan Rooftop
We had a Computer Engineering lecturer like that - while he did give an interesting talk from his personal experience working for industry startups, he had this annoying habit of drawing an intricate diagram (say an real-time data flow diagram of a flight control system), then while everyone was frantically trying to copy it down and keep up with all the updates being made, he would loudly proclaim "however, current industry practice require that we no longer us this method" and he would completely wipe out the diagram with a single sweep of the chalkboard duster.
You have producers to do the daily management of the project - the game designer provides a list of all the features to be added to the game, while the producer maintains this list and hands them out to the programmers one at a time.
The one that got me was the Council inspectors to demand £5 'carbon offset' for barbecues
It is quite believable now in the UK, that local councils would spend millions of pounds in order to emply inspectors to wander around home owners gardens checking to see if they had a barbecue in use without a permit.
Here's the actual admission that this is a April Fool's Joke
The actual "secret page"
One Last Question...
Congratulations! If you made it this far, we are pretty sure you are NOT an NVIDIA lawyer, or from ATI. Have a beer on us.
We have just one more question for you... Do you know what day it is today?
Yes, my friend, it's April 1st. Adrian's uncle was born on this day, but it's really more commonly known as April Fool's Day.
Unfortunately, there is no secret page where you can buy cheap NVIDIA cards. How we wish it were true though. Graphics cards are so very expensive.
The good news is that there is no such bug in the vertex shader of the G80. So, if you are an owner of GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS cards, you can relax on that count. Your oh-so-expensive graphics cards are not crippled in any way.
But if you are one of those who were, just moments ago, feeling vindicated that it was the card that caused your gaming skills to suffer, we are sorry to bust your chops but as they say, don't blame the tool, blame the user.
Why Two Editorials?
Well, we couldn't decide which joke to go with. The NVIDIA editorial was more serious and more likely to fool more people, thanks to the serious types of questions we used. But we felt that the AMD editorial had a truly funny series of question that's probably more in line with the spirit of April Fool's Day.
In the end, we decided to run with both. A serious one to try to catch as many people off-guard.. and a funny one just for laughs.
Before You Leave...
We hope you enjoyed the little soiree. Remember, it is the journey that counts, not the destination.
With that said, you should be proud of your achievement. After all, you are one of the few who have taken the effort to get to this end. For that, you should not go unrewarded.
Unfortunately, we have no rebates or special sales of ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards to offer you. But as a token of our appreciation for your participation, we can offer you a discount on our online BIOS Optimization Guide subscriptions.
Normally, subscriptions go for £6 for 3 months and £12 for a full year. But you can now subscribe for only £5 for 3 months and £10 for a full year. Just use the coupon code 0104 when you register.
You can subscribe for as many years as you like. Even though the system only allows you to choose between 3 months and 1 year subscriptions, just select the 1 year subscription even if you want to subscribe for several years. We will adjust it manually on our end to reflect the subscription fees paid.
Current BOG subscribers can extend their subscriptions using this coupon code. Just e-mail Adrian at awsh @ techarp.com with your login and payment details.
In addition, if you are a member of our Tech ARP forums, you can PM any of the admins with the 0104 code and we will give you a special 0104 rank to commemorate your achievement. If you are not yet a forum member, well, what are you waiting for?
Disclaimer
Please note that the "facts" and questions and answers in the previous pages do not necessarily reflect the personal or professional opinions of anyone at Team ARP. They were created with comic intent in mind.
'bzflag' had/has a bug where someone could save a screenshot while driving a tank towards a wall. Due to the time delay, that person's tank would end up walking through the wall (known as wallwalking). Particularly useful for entering another team's compound and stealing their flag. But anyone seen doing that would usually end up being banned.