I've seen that done with the photographs in online property guides. It's rather funny to see the properties in your locality in super-saturated Disney technicolor with forest green trees, rich prairie green grass, deep electric blue skies, and sunlit Mediterranean whitewashed walls.
The next stage would be for the Cable/Satellite TV setbox to have a built in DVD player "for your convenience". Combining this with RFID'ed DVD's, and they would be able to determine what movies you had acquired from elsewhere (perhaps this could already be done using the serial numbers of the DVD).
Here, in America, it would be one great big middle finger.
And you would give the camera operators reason to arrest you - making an obscene comment or gesture is an arrestable offence. Especially they would probably have recorded the video.
Fortunately, all the British jails are fully booked, so there isn't any space to put anyone arrested anyway.
No, what piss me off are the product commercials that have shown up in the last few years. Maybe they haven't hit in the UK yet, but don't worry, they will...
We used to/do get adverts for the local shops (like the Indian takeaway, Italian pizza delivery service, taxi services, home improvements and disability aids like stairlifts and zimmerframes). It was obvious that this reel was played non-stop since it would always have black lines and spots, each advert would have an tinny ethnic soundtrack along with a deep bassy voiceover. Usually, a good few public health and safety adverts were played for good measure.
Over here in the UK, the Sunday newspapers regularly (if not every week) put in a free movie DVD with the papers (everything from Clockwise to Highlander, and first episodes of series). Along with these, there will also be movie trailers (accessible through a menu).
It's interesting that a movie trailer with a newspaper is seen as a bonus, while having to sit through a movie trailer while waiting to watch a movie is seen as an inconvenience.
Personally, I think the much bigger reason is that our computers do so much more these days. Back when I got my first computer, it didn't really do a lot. Once I beat Crystal Caves and Secret Agent Man, GWBASIC was about the only interesting thing that was left.
Maybe you could have done with a free fun pack of 100 games/programming examples. I still remember getting an Atari 800 for Christmas 1981 - It came with a fun pack of 100+ programs + games from the local mom'n'pop computer shop (the programs had been collected from the computer/programming magazines of the day, and they are still in business).
Having so many examples was a great inspiration to learn advanced programming. Once past the fundamentals of BASIC programming (conditionals, loops, subroutines), there was assembly language programming, player misile graphics and so on...
Just about every home computer at the time had some variation of BASIC and graphics (some provided triangle/circle drawing routines in assembler, while others provided routines to multiply matrices/vector arrays).
There should be a considerable performance improvement if the core's are on the same chip die, since communication doesn't have to go through the motherboard.
According to the technical articles on the Clovertown CPU's, each CPU is built from two separate cores, each with 4 MBytes of cache memory (8 MBytes total).
Multiplying the number of cores brings distinct advantages. First, it cuts down overall energy consumption for equivalent levels of performance. If the recent Core Duo chips released for notebooks from Intel had only one core, the chips would consume far more power, he said.
Integrating processor cores into the same piece of silicon or same processor package also increases performance by reducing the data pathways
"To go from core to core can be a matter of nanoseconds," Rattner said. "As soon as you move cores together you get an automatic improvement in available bandwidth."
My favourite quote from the Microsoft site: **Free T-shirt offer good only to the first 500 Partners who Register, Attend and fill out the web seminar survey, with a valid U.S. address. This offer is non-transferable. Limit one t-shirt per company. Please allow 4-6 weeks for shipment. Microsoft is not responsible for non-delivery of gift due to incorrect postal information provided by respondent. Government Customers: Microsoft intends that this promotion comply with applicable federal, state, and local government gift and ethics rules. If you are a government employee (including an employee of a public education institution), you may not claim the t-shirt for your personal use or benefit. You should consult with your agency/institution counsel or ethics officer prior to claiming this t-shirt**
So for government employees, is there a communal pool of T-shirts acquired through free registration to seminars, that employees can sign out and return after use?
We could use the word Quarto. Then the whole series of multi-core CPU's will be as follows:
Core Solo Core Duo Core Trio Core Quarto Core Quarto Solo Core Quarto Duo Core Quarto Trio Core Quarto Quarto Core Quarto Quarto Solo Core Quarto Quarto Duo Core Quarto Quarto Trio Core Quarto Quarto Quarto
On the nethack discussion groups, players would bitch and complain about the fact that unknown potions could prove to be fatal if consumed in the game, yet they would not drink from an unlabelled bottle in the real world.
Looking at the Land Use map of China, vast areas of China seem to be desert (as seen on "The Silk Road").
This doesn't seem to be too different from the USA (The mid-Western area around Nevada and the Rockies seems to be totally uninhabited) or Canada (all major Canadian cities seem to be strategically placed close to the US border).
But why would someone go out of their way to continue to use it? I can understand practical and pragmatic answers like "It's still functional for me" or "I just like it better and I haven't had any problems". But are there other reasons?
Perhaps sentimental memories from childhood? Maybe it was the best Christmas present he received as a teenager?
On another note, I do agree that his system being a Commodore 64 will "complicate investigators' efforts"; but to say that it would be difficult to transfer files "without loss" is disingenuous at best. Do they mean "transfer files" to include possibly-deleted files (in which case I agree there may be "loss")?
There shouldn't be any difficulty in recovering data off the floppy disk drive. A simple 5.25" disk drive will still have read disk sector commands accessible from BASIC, that allow data to be read into a character array or string.
How can I start a new threat where we can collect links to University podcasts and lecture webcasts? (Or somebody else please do it - I'm new here.)
Set up a web page with a hierachical structure organised by university, the department, and subject. You might want to cross-reference by subject as well.
Although, if the universities take this seriously, they might call in the Department of Homeland Security, and if they are really, really serious will call in the RIAA.
I've notice this with some slashdot stories - an interest story can be pushed off the front page if there is a flurry of new stories (10 or more). I read slashdot maybe two or three times a day, and managed to miss this story:
In our apartment complex, we have communal rubbish bins. For every thirty six apartments, there are six large wheelie bins (plus a couple for newspapers and empty bottles/cans). Even if the bins were RFID tagged, there is no way of itemising each bag of rubbish (a shredder for bills/receipts only cost $10 from the local supermarket).
Given that the current government seems to be in favour of "garden grabbing" (the conversion of family homes with 200 foot gardens into apartments), the use of bin-tagging isn't to work out in the long term. It just seems to be another tax on home owners.
There's been tons of 'program games quickly' apps out there and none of them have every produced a game worth selling... And I haven't met any that I felt were worth playing, either.
That's been going on since the early days of the home computer in the 1980's. Back then, it was text based adventure games and pinball creation kits; "Build the ultimate pinball machine".
I have to say that while most special effects enhacements were good, the one thing I really didn't like was the ring explosions around both Death Stars.
Those explosions eventually gained the acronym BSR (Big Stupid Ring).
This happened to my laptop drive last Summer. I left the laptop running with the screen folded down, and left it somewhere shady and cool which I thought would be safe (it was being used as Linux serveR). However, the hard drive started making a loud grinding noise, and had died within 15 minutes.
The solution was to place the hard drive (sealed in a freezer bag) overnight, then give it a flick along the radial axis. This helped to unstick the hard drive heads, and I was able to recover all my data.
Slashdot Mirror
I've seen that done with the photographs in online property guides. It's rather funny to see the properties in your locality in super-saturated Disney technicolor with forest green trees, rich prairie green grass, deep electric blue skies, and sunlit Mediterranean whitewashed walls.
... the company will be offering a self-assembly human sized guard robot with automatic laser rifle.
The next stage would be for the Cable/Satellite TV setbox to have a built in DVD player "for your convenience". Combining this with RFID'ed DVD's, and they would be able to determine what movies you had acquired from elsewhere (perhaps this could already be done using the serial numbers of the DVD).
Of course there is a way to respond.
With a gesture.
Here, in America, it would be one great big middle finger.
And you would give the camera operators reason to arrest you - making an obscene comment or gesture is an arrestable offence.
Especially they would probably have recorded the video.
Fortunately, all the British jails are fully booked, so there isn't any space to put anyone arrested anyway.
No, what piss me off are the product commercials that have shown up in the last few years. Maybe they haven't hit in the UK yet, but don't worry, they will...
We used to/do get adverts for the local shops (like the Indian takeaway, Italian pizza delivery service, taxi services, home improvements and disability aids like stairlifts and zimmerframes). It was obvious that this reel was played non-stop since it would always have black lines and spots, each advert would have an tinny
ethnic soundtrack along with a deep bassy voiceover. Usually, a good few public health and safety adverts were played for good measure.
'Dog' the Bounty Hunter?
Over here in the UK, the Sunday newspapers regularly (if not every week) put in a free movie DVD with the papers (everything from Clockwise to Highlander, and first episodes of series). Along with these, there will also be movie trailers (accessible through a menu).
It's interesting that a movie trailer with a newspaper is seen as a bonus, while having to sit through a movie trailer while waiting to
watch a movie is seen as an inconvenience.
Personally, I think the much bigger reason is that our computers do so much more these days. Back when I got my first computer, it didn't really do a lot. Once I beat Crystal Caves and Secret Agent Man, GWBASIC was about the only interesting thing that was left.
Maybe you could have done with a free fun pack of 100 games/programming examples. I still remember getting an Atari 800 for Christmas 1981 - It came with a fun pack of 100+ programs + games from the local mom'n'pop computer shop (the programs had been collected from the computer/programming magazines of the day, and they are still in business).
Having so many examples was a great inspiration to learn advanced programming. Once past the fundamentals of BASIC programming (conditionals, loops, subroutines), there was assembly language programming, player misile graphics and so on...
Just about every home computer at the time had some variation of BASIC and graphics (some provided triangle/circle drawing routines in assembler, while others provided routines to multiply matrices/vector arrays).
There should be a considerable performance improvement if the core's are on the same chip die, since communication doesn't have to
go through the motherboard.
According to the technical articles on the Clovertown CPU's, each CPU is built from two separate cores, each with 4 MBytes of cache
memory (8 MBytes total).
Some details at LinuxElectrons
Another discussion here:
Multiplying the number of cores brings distinct advantages. First, it cuts down overall energy consumption for equivalent levels of performance. If the recent Core Duo chips released for notebooks from Intel had only one core, the chips would consume far more power, he said.
Integrating processor cores into the same piece of silicon or same processor package also increases performance by reducing the data pathways
"To go from core to core can be a matter of nanoseconds," Rattner said. "As soon as you move cores together you get an automatic improvement in available bandwidth."
My favourite quote from the Microsoft site:
**Free T-shirt offer good only to the first 500 Partners who Register, Attend and fill out the web seminar survey, with a valid U.S. address. This offer is non-transferable. Limit one t-shirt per company. Please allow 4-6 weeks for shipment. Microsoft is not responsible for non-delivery of gift due to incorrect postal information provided by respondent.
Government Customers: Microsoft intends that this promotion comply with applicable federal, state, and local government gift and ethics rules. If you are a government employee (including an employee of a public education institution), you may not claim the t-shirt for your personal use or benefit. You should consult with your agency/institution counsel or ethics officer prior to claiming this t-shirt**
So for government employees, is there a communal pool of T-shirts acquired through free registration to seminars, that employees can sign out and return after use?
We could use the word Quarto. Then the whole series of multi-core CPU's will be as
follows:
Core Solo
Core Duo
Core Trio
Core Quarto
Core Quarto Solo
Core Quarto Duo
Core Quarto Trio
Core Quarto Quarto
Core Quarto Quarto Solo
Core Quarto Quarto Duo
Core Quarto Quarto Trio
Core Quarto Quarto Quarto
On the nethack discussion groups, players would bitch and complain about the fact that unknown potions could prove to be fatal if consumed in the game, yet they would not drink from an unlabelled bottle in the real world.
Does the game have a "virtual parrot"? That would be interesting....
Looking at the Land Use map of China, vast areas of China seem to be desert (as seen on "The Silk Road").
This doesn't seem to be too different from the USA (The mid-Western area around Nevada and the Rockies seems to be totally uninhabited) or Canada (all major Canadian cities seem to be strategically placed close to the US border).
Even better, a steel cable connecting the battery to the lightning conductor of a clock tower...
But why would someone go out of their way to continue to use it? I can understand practical and pragmatic answers like "It's still functional for me" or "I just like it better and I haven't had any problems". But are there other reasons?
Perhaps sentimental memories from childhood? Maybe it was the best Christmas present he received as a teenager?
On another note, I do agree that his system being a Commodore 64 will "complicate investigators' efforts"; but to say that it would be difficult to transfer files "without loss" is disingenuous at best. Do they mean "transfer files" to include possibly-deleted files (in which case I agree there may be "loss")?
There shouldn't be any difficulty in recovering data off the floppy disk drive. A simple 5.25" disk drive will still have read disk sector commands accessible from BASIC, that allow data to be read into a character array or string.
Nothing for you to see here, please move along ....
How can I start a new threat where we can collect links to University podcasts and lecture webcasts? (Or somebody else please do it - I'm new here.)
Set up a web page with a hierachical structure organised by university, the department, and subject. You might want to cross-reference by subject as well.
Although, if the universities take this seriously, they might call in the Department of Homeland Security, and if they are really, really serious will call in the RIAA.
That once did happen in the UK, to a guy called Michael Lush
See The Late, Late Breakfast Show
I've notice this with some slashdot stories - an interest story can be pushed off the front page if there is a flurry of new stories (10 or more). I read slashdot maybe two or three times a day, and managed to miss this story:
Stolen Laptop Calls In! - Will Police Act?
In our apartment complex, we have communal rubbish bins. For every thirty six apartments, there are six large wheelie bins (plus a couple for newspapers and empty bottles/cans). Even if the bins were RFID tagged, there is no way of itemising each bag of rubbish (a shredder for bills/receipts only cost $10 from the local supermarket).
Given that the current government seems to be in favour of "garden grabbing" (the conversion of family homes with 200 foot gardens into apartments), the use of bin-tagging isn't to work out in the long term. It just seems to be another tax on home owners.
There's been tons of 'program games quickly' apps out there and none of them have every produced a game worth selling... And I haven't met any that I felt were worth playing, either.
That's been going on since the early days of the home computer in the 1980's. Back then, it was text based adventure games and pinball creation kits; "Build the ultimate pinball machine".
I have to say that while most special effects enhacements were good, the one thing I really didn't like was the ring explosions around both Death Stars.
Those explosions eventually gained the acronym BSR (Big Stupid Ring).
It's supposed to be modelled on the Mach Stem caused by an explosion. When an air explosion hits the ground, it creates a secondary shock wave which travels faster than the first, and the two eventually merge. From above it looks like a rapidly expanding ring.
In case anyone wants to know what a NED (officially, a non-educated delinquent) is, there are a few websites:
Glasgow Survival, and
The Nedumentary
This happened to my laptop drive last Summer. I left the laptop running with the screen folded down, and left it somewhere shady and cool which I thought would be safe (it was being used as Linux serveR). However, the hard drive started making a loud grinding noise, and had died within 15 minutes.
The solution was to place the hard drive (sealed in a freezer bag) overnight, then give it a flick along the radial axis. This helped to unstick the hard drive heads, and I was able to recover all my data.