A decent family sized home in the Bay area is going to cost anything from $500,000 to £750,000 (typically a four-bedroomed house with garage; bedrooms for the parents, two kids and a home-office/computer room).
That's fairly cheap considering the price of housing in England and Scotland - an equivalent flat in Edinburgh is going to be at least 250K pounds (or $500K at current exchange rates). A house is going to be double that. And you are dead-on accurate with the salaries - a software engineer/team leader will be lucky to make 35K in the South of England, let alone Scotland.
I've always hated baseball games anyway, it's just 1 button you need, not even a joystick.
Unfortunately, the concept of one-click gameplay has already been patented. That's why console system controllers have so many buttons these days, and why many PC games still use the keyboard.
It might also be useful for saving application settings/user preferences.
As having to update a complete set of file reading/writing/update routines for every application became rather tedious, we found it more convenient to load and save the files as XML documents, read them into memory and access data settings through getValue/setValue calls.
The downside is that the configuration files are rather bloated. If this data exchange format can help reduce the size of these files, then that can only be a good thing.
Ford probably has a lot of custom software in their factories because that is what really differentiates themselves from the rest of the pack(whether the distinction in this case is good or bad is left as an exercise to the reader).
From articles posted in VR and CAD journals, Ford's advantage is being able to having the lowest design costs per product (measured in $ per day).
On the other hand, not throwing those positions towards the public makes them lose a full range of potential employees.
Those companies are going to get head-hunters to recruit qualified people from their competitors, or from somebody who has written a book in their field of specialty rather than advertise such positions publicly.
I have an old rotary dal that I converted into a controller for my old Atari 800. I managed to find some black plastic RS232 connectors, some RS232 cable, black duct tape, and the rotary handset. After soldering four lines of the RS232 cable onto the handset, I played around with a voltmeter to figure out which connections were being closed and broken as the dial rotated (interesting to note that 0 generates 10 pulses). These were then wired up to generate a TRIG() press whenever the dial rotated. Fortunately, the rotation of the dial was so slow, even a simple Basic program could determine which number the user has selected.
They use monochrome images for a very good reason.
To capture a colour image using CCD arrays, there are the cheap, the expensive and economic ways. The cheap way (consumer cameras) is to place itty-bitty colour filters over the entire CCD array. In this way each cell captures either red,green,blue or white. The expensive way is to have separate CCD chips for every wavelength of light you want to capture.
However, when an image is captured by a CCD array, there is a very small amount of bleed from one CCD pixel into it's neighbours. You can compensate for this by making use of image process techniques like convolution/sharpening. But these methods are completely useless with the cheap way of capturing colour images (each of RGBW will have blended with its neighbours of a different colour).
This can be done with the expensive way (professional digital cameras), but you are restricted to three wavelengths of light.
Alternatively, you can have one CCD chip, and a series of calibrated colour filters that can be swapped over. In that way you, have a low energy budget of one CCD chip, and the flexbility of analysing a scene in multiple light wavelengths, each of which can be processed separately.
The argument from SCO is that they collaborated with IBM to provide various UNIX solutions (Dynix etc...) . Their argument is that any source code that was added to Dynix shouldn't be in the Linux kernel. Going by the UNIX time line, the last time anything was transferred from SCO to AIX was in 1992-1993.
It looks like a good idea to me. You really can't copy or in any way "hack" cartridges the way you can for CDs, and since HP is making the printers too, there is no question of an "all region code" printer Aditya
All I have to do is find a way of getting the ink out of a foreign (ie. US) cartridge, and use the ink to refill the local (ie. European) cartridge. This should work unless HP have region-coded the ink molecules as well.
Have a read of the late 50's sci-fi stories (sadly I've forgotten the names of the stories), which all prophesised that the inner cities would continue to become so overcrowded that families would end up living with three generations of elderly relatives in the same house (all taking their eternitol pills), or that for every person born, another would have to leave.
The authors didn't count on the effect of the automobile and the creation of the outer suburbs - although that did lead to the creation of the ghettoes as the rural farmworkers were displaced by new housing developments.
What to do? I am in support of some sort of FORCED savings.
That's a nice idea in theory. But what do you do when you live in a country/area where you are lucky to get bank interest rates of 3% per annum, the stock market isn't going anywhere, and house prices/property taxes are rising at 10% per year? (Like the middle-class areas of the UK).
The only way to keep up is to invest in property (Buy-to-rent, houses-to-flats conversions, living in popular areas ie. areas with good schools), which has it's own side-effect of reducing the number of available houses that starting families can afford, and thus the number of future workers to share the load).
That's why everyone is in credit card debt - why save? If you do, you just end up being taxed to compensate those who didn't save.
And it happens in government as well. The education department has a pension budget deficit for the year. To balance this budget, they recover unspent funds from schools. The schools which blew their budgets within six months don't have to pay a thing, the schools which were prudent get whacked).
Better still replace the curved parenthesis with curly parenthesis and use infix notatation. We could also use the . to access object fields and functions();
And use ; to terminate expressions
Then it becomes:
{ if ( record.age < threshold )
record.release(); }
I believe I may have read about a similar language somewhere in the national museum of ancient programming languages. I'll have to go through my history books for that one.
It seems some people are desperate to do anything to avoid actual implementation (work?),
That reminds me of an industrial placement (intern) student we once had. His career goal was to become a a systems analyst, so we asked him to write a simple application plugin to process some third party data. Oh sure, he wrote a very concise specification for management approval in Microsoft Word, presentation summaries in Powerpoint, wrote all the class definitions in the header files, function implementations in the source files, along with well commented file headers. And inside each function?
// TODO: Implement this - see specification
Twenty neatly commented and documented source files of nothingness
I prefer to be paid a decent salary so I could afford to buy my own research hardware/software licences and work on my pet projects at home. That way, my employer gets their hours and priority, and I keep my pet projects confidential.
Sometime in the future, scientists sent out a fully automated research probe manned by cyborgs. Their prime directive was to collect as much information about other civilisations as possible, but not to give out any information on advanced technology or other civilisations. They were also allowed to provide assistance to any other vessels in distress, and augment their systems with anything they could salvage. But after visiting many planets and collecting much information, they soon realised that many civilisations had advanced technologically faster than their governments had, and decided that they themselves would make the better guardians of this knowledge.
If you book well in advance, your air tickets are less than 1 pound per flight . I was able to fly from Edinburgh to NW France via Luton (EasyJet and Ryanair) for 2 pounds total - The airline duty taxes and airport taxi fairs amount for another £45 pounds). It's only when you book at the last minute that the prices rocket up to something like 120 pounds per flight. Fortunately, most flights are less than 1 hour in duration (Edinburgh to London is around 400 miles - about the same as SF to LA) - By train this takes 6 to 8 hours. Ryanair operate by avoiding the big city airports (London Heathrow/Gatwick, Paris) and using provincial airports. They used to do deals with the local airports, where in return for running a regular service, the airport would upgrade their facilities using local government subsidies. But this was ruled illegal under EEC laws.
The other important thing is to check in at least two hours before departure, as you are given a seating priority number based on order of check-in. While there aren't any seat reservations on the flights, order of entry is based on being disabled, having children with you, and then priority number. It really sucks being the last on the plane, as the only lockers left remaining for hand luggage are about 10 rows away from whatever seat you find. Easyjet actually herd their passengers into separately fenced queues based on priority number.
If Monsanto can't control the self-installation of their own products, doesn't that make their product "malware". If any other company claimed a patent on a technology that would self-install itself on other people's property without their permission, they would be sued out of existance.
Probably the most prophetic scene was the one in which one of the starfighter crews land on one of the colonies struck by the Cylon attack, and are besieged by survivors.
This was mirrored in real life by the first helicopter crews to view the after-effects of the tsunami on the coasts of India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.
How can I be hip if I can't wave my phone around frantically and then hold it like a taco?
You'll just have to buy one of those novelty telephone that's shaped like a banana or a fizzy drinks can.
Or you could always just hold one hand to your ear, wave the other hand around and speak to yourself. Given the compact size of mobile phones these days, nobody will know that you're not actually talking to another person.
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You forget the price of housing.
A decent family sized home in the Bay area is going to cost anything from $500,000 to £750,000 (typically a four-bedroomed house with garage; bedrooms for the parents, two kids and a home-office/computer room).
That's fairly cheap considering the price of housing in England and Scotland - an equivalent flat in Edinburgh is going to be at least 250K pounds (or $500K at current exchange rates). A house is going to be double that. And you are dead-on accurate with the salaries - a software engineer/team leader will be lucky to make 35K in the South of England, let alone Scotland.
I've always hated baseball games anyway, it's just 1 button you need, not even a joystick.
Unfortunately, the concept of one-click gameplay has already been patented. That's why console system controllers have so many buttons these days, and why many PC games still use the keyboard.
You mean this link? Ford gains from finance not cars
It might also be useful for saving application settings/user preferences.
As having to update a complete set of file reading/writing/update routines for every application became rather tedious, we found it more convenient to load and save the files as XML documents, read them into memory and access data settings through getValue/setValue calls.
The downside is that the configuration files are rather bloated. If this data exchange format can help reduce the size of these files, then that can only be a good thing.
Ford probably has a lot of custom software in their factories because that is what really differentiates themselves from the rest of the pack(whether the distinction in this case is good or bad is left as an exercise to the reader).
From articles posted in VR and CAD journals, Ford's advantage is being able to having the lowest design costs per product (measured in $ per day).
On the other hand, not throwing those positions towards the public makes them lose a full range of potential employees.
Those companies are going to get head-hunters to recruit qualified people from their competitors, or from somebody who has written a book in their field of specialty rather than advertise such positions publicly.
I have an old rotary dal that I converted into a controller for my old Atari 800. I managed to find some black plastic RS232 connectors, some RS232 cable, black duct tape, and the rotary handset. After soldering four lines of the RS232 cable onto the handset, I played around with a voltmeter to figure out which connections were being closed and broken as the dial rotated (interesting to note that 0 generates 10 pulses). These were then wired up to generate a TRIG() press whenever the dial rotated. Fortunately, the rotation of the dial was so slow, even a simple Basic program could determine which number the user has selected.
They use monochrome images for a very good reason.
To capture a colour image using CCD arrays, there are the cheap, the expensive and economic ways. The cheap way (consumer cameras) is to place itty-bitty colour filters over the entire CCD array. In this way each cell captures either red,green,blue or white.
The expensive way is to have separate CCD chips for every wavelength of light you want to capture.
However, when an image is captured by a CCD array, there is a very small amount of bleed from one CCD pixel into it's neighbours. You can compensate for this by making use of image process techniques like convolution/sharpening. But these methods are completely useless with the cheap way of capturing colour images (each of RGBW will have blended with its neighbours of a different colour).
This can be done with the expensive way (professional digital cameras), but you are restricted to three wavelengths of light.
Alternatively, you can have one CCD chip, and a series of calibrated colour filters that can be swapped over. In that way you, have a low energy budget of one CCD chip, and the flexbility of analysing a scene in multiple light wavelengths, each of which can be processed separately.
The argument from SCO is that they collaborated with IBM to provide various UNIX solutions (Dynix etc...) . Their argument is that any source code that was added to Dynix shouldn't be in the Linux kernel. Going by the UNIX time line, the last time anything was transferred from SCO to AIX was in 1992-1993.
Already done - XORing the source text with itself is a provably perfectly secure form of encryption!
But you still need to apply for an export licence if you use a encryption key greater than 128 bits in size.
It looks like a good idea to me. You really can't copy or in any way "hack" cartridges the way you can for CDs, and since HP is making the printers too, there is no question of an "all region code" printer Aditya
All I have to do is find a way of getting the ink out of a foreign (ie. US) cartridge, and use the ink to refill the local (ie. European) cartridge. This should work unless HP have region-coded the ink molecules as well.
Have a read of the late 50's sci-fi stories (sadly I've forgotten the names of the stories), which all prophesised that the inner cities would continue to become so overcrowded that families would end up living with three generations of elderly relatives in the same house (all taking their eternitol pills), or that for every person born, another would have to leave.
The authors didn't count on the effect of the automobile and the creation of the outer suburbs - although that did lead to the creation of the ghettoes as the rural farmworkers were displaced by new housing developments.
What to do? I am in support of some sort of FORCED savings.
That's a nice idea in theory. But what do you do when you live in a country/area where you are lucky to get bank interest rates of 3% per annum, the stock market isn't going anywhere, and house prices/property taxes are rising at 10% per year?
(Like the middle-class areas of the UK).
The only way to keep up is to invest in property (Buy-to-rent, houses-to-flats conversions, living in popular areas ie. areas with good schools), which has it's own side-effect of reducing the number of available houses that starting families can afford, and thus the number of future workers to share the load).
That's why everyone is in credit card debt - why save? If you do, you just end up being taxed to compensate those who didn't save.
And it happens in government as well. The education department has a pension budget deficit for the year. To balance this budget, they recover unspent funds from schools. The schools which blew their budgets within six months don't have to pay a thing, the schools which were prudent get whacked).
Better still replace the curved parenthesis with curly parenthesis and use infix notatation. We could also use the . to access object fields and functions();
And use ; to terminate expressions
Then it becomes:
I believe I may have read about a similar language somewhere in the national museum of ancient programming languages. I'll have to go through my history books for that one.
It seems some people are desperate to do anything to avoid actual implementation (work?),
// TODO: Implement this - see specification
That reminds me of an industrial placement (intern) student we once had. His career goal was to become a a systems analyst, so we asked him to write a simple application plugin to process some third party data. Oh sure, he wrote a very concise specification for management approval in Microsoft Word, presentation summaries in Powerpoint, wrote all the class definitions in the header files, function implementations in the source files, along with well commented file headers. And inside each function?
Twenty neatly commented and documented source files of nothingness
I prefer to be paid a decent salary so I could afford to buy my own research hardware/software licences and work on my pet projects at home. That way, my employer gets their hours and priority, and I keep my pet projects confidential.
(anyone remember the news story about the lady who lived on her couch for years, and the fabric actually fused to her body? hehe.)
Oh, This story. I can't imagine what it must be like to be 480 pounds, and not be able to get up off a sofa.
I was thinking more in the lines of a Wifi antennae in a jumbo pack of pringles.
Apparently, they already have a prototype of the orbital transponder ready for launch
Yep,
Sometime in the future, scientists sent out a fully automated research probe manned by cyborgs. Their prime directive was to collect as much information about other civilisations as possible, but not to give out any information on advanced technology or other civilisations. They were also allowed to provide assistance to any other vessels in distress, and augment their systems with anything they could salvage. But after visiting many planets and collecting much information, they soon realised that many civilisations had advanced technologically faster than their governments had, and decided that they themselves would make the better guardians of this knowledge.
If you book well in advance, your air tickets are less than 1 pound per flight . I was able to fly from Edinburgh to NW France via Luton (EasyJet and Ryanair) for 2 pounds total - The airline duty taxes and airport taxi fairs amount for another £45 pounds). It's only when you book at the last minute that the prices rocket up to something like 120 pounds per flight. Fortunately, most flights are less than 1 hour in duration (Edinburgh to London is around 400 miles - about the same as SF to LA) - By train this takes 6 to 8 hours.
Ryanair operate by avoiding the big city airports (London Heathrow/Gatwick, Paris) and using provincial airports. They used to do deals with the local airports, where in return for running a regular service, the airport would upgrade their facilities using local government subsidies. But this was ruled illegal under EEC laws.
The other important thing is to check in at least two hours before departure, as you are given a seating priority number based on order of check-in. While there aren't any seat reservations on the flights, order of entry is based on being disabled, having children with you, and then priority number. It really sucks being the last on the plane, as the only lockers left remaining for hand luggage are about 10 rows away from whatever seat you find. Easyjet actually herd their passengers into separately fenced queues based on priority number.
If Monsanto can't control the self-installation of their own products, doesn't that make their product "malware". If any other company claimed a patent on a technology that would self-install itself on other people's property without their permission, they would be sued out of existance.
Probably the most prophetic scene was the one in which one of the starfighter crews land on one of the colonies struck by the Cylon attack, and are besieged by survivors.
This was mirrored in real life by the first helicopter crews to view the after-effects of the tsunami on the coasts of India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.
How can I be hip if I can't wave my phone around frantically and then hold it like a taco?
You'll just have to buy one of those novelty telephone that's shaped like a banana or a fizzy drinks can.
Or you could always just hold one hand to your ear, wave the other hand around and speak to yourself. Given the compact size of mobile phones these days, nobody will know that you're not actually talking to another person.
It's known that nature uses reaction-diffusion techniques to generate camouflage patterns for animals. This was noted by Alan Turing. It wouldn't be too surprising to see if this occurred inside cells as well. There's an interesting 3D demo to see what reaction-diffusion equations can do in real-time. Perhaps the pharamceutical companies will have to figure out ways of generating such signalling patterns.
100 IP hard or soft phones on site or remote
... 100 IP hard or soft porn sites ...
For a moment I thought that read