(I still don't get why so many people are so afraid of physical labor that they feel it is worse than anything else anyone could have to do? McDonalds(tm) employees probably put out far less "back-breaking physical labor" than, say, a construction foreman or auto mechanic. Is a construction foreman a worse job than the mind-numbing rote at a fast-food place as a result? Personally, I'd rather pound nails than flip burgers[1] any day, extra physical effort or not.)
Maybe it's to do with the danger of permanent physical disability, rather than anything else. My uncle worked as a builder. Sure, he managed to buy and renovate a townhouse, but after damaging his should after a set of bricks fell on him, he's had to take early retirement. He did receive compensation, but that doesn't make up for his loss of mobility.
I know Brussels is said to generate a lot of hot air, but I didn't believe it would be that visible from space. Either that or it's the result of Amsterdam's relaxed drug controls on Cannabis.
The main pollution hotspots in Europe seem to be the Liverpool/Birmingham/London transport route, Paris(France), Madrid (Spain), Milan(Italy), Warsaw(Poland), Minsk (Belarus) and Moscow(Russia). Car pollution seems to be the most likely explanation.
Agreed. But when you cut down thousands of acres of forest a day and forcefully kill the plant, please do not tell me that it is unnatural.
To each team of loggers, they are only cutting down a few hundred trees in the rain forest each week. And since other people want to buy the logs, this is a good way for them to make money in order to feed and cloth their families. No president is going to be able to say "stop feeding your families" to these guys and remain popular.
And of course, you also have to consider the departmental politics. A government agency never has any spare resources availble. If they had, then the funds of those resources would be redirected elsewhere. So, the sysadmin had to be fired. He was undermining the official line that the social services and benefits office was perpetually underfunded.
I always wondered whether you could have airships that fill up with the hot and humid air above the ocean areas where hurricanes start, and have them travel to the regions where there are shortages of water (or at least some high-altitude grouond and let gravity do the rest).
You could also go and see if you can buy a British newspaper. The weekend issues are regularly giving away free albums (10-15 tracks) with the newspapers. They're not exactly the latest hits, but if you're into classic music it's a good deal. Of course, you have to wait until at least of the tracks is something you are looking for.
Personally, I'm waiting for DVD albums to become mainstream. There are quite a few songs in which the video was just as good as the music (Dire Straits: Money for Nothing, U.S.U.R.A's: Open Your Mind), (U2: Numb).
And cigarette and cigar manufacturers will enter the fray, adding layers of protection to the "flavor" that accompanies their image in the marketplace.
Now, if someone can patent the smell of nicotine, or the stale smell of cigarette smoke, they can put the tobacco companies out of business.
Maps and/or aerial photographs combined together make the best time-lapse animation. It's amazing to see the growth of a city all the way from the first harbour/warehouse in Roman times to the metropolised supercity of today.
Just like the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. To make this year even better than last year, for each show the organisers flew military aircraft not just over a capital city, a vast crowd of spectators, but over a royal residence as well just for extra measure.
It is rather significant - even a rural village 100 miles away from the nearest town in an economically depressed country can afford to burn a couple of street lights at night. If no city in North Korea can afford street lighting, they are well beyond poverty level.
You need a recoil-less space squirrel launcher. With a stronger spring, and some crosshairs you could practise space skeet shooting with all that space junk orbiting the earth.
Rather than ejecting space junk using a directional force, couldn't you use a couple of contra-rotating buckets (like a centrifuge). At the right angle, release the buckets and the junk would fly out and away.
The 60fps limit is due to the LCD display. 'glxgears' runs at 900 frames/sec without waiting for vertical refresh. The manufacturer had the brilliant idea of sticking a GeForce FX5600 in a laptop and boosting the screen resolution to 1400x1050. Unfortunately, they had the not so bright idea of locking the refresh rate to 60Hz rather than 85Hz.
There's Bzflag - a multiplayer networked tank game with many variations (capture-the-flag with teams, free-for-all, hunt-the-rabbit). All options can be set by the admin (jumping, gravity, ricochet, 1 to infinite missiles, tank speed, missile speed, teleporters, superflags [shockwave, superbullets, oscillation overdrive, guided missile, seer] ). Runs at over 60 frames/sec at 1400x1050 with full texturing on a Sony laptop.
Even up here in North Dakota we've had an incident were NDA's had to be signed after a student presented a project he was working on.
That's happened in the UK too. We've had students do research projects (MSc/PhD) in conjunction with external companies. The research is good, but they end up having to signed a NDA/confidentiality agreement. So they can't talk about their research to any other potential employer.
And on another level, if you're a mature student and are looking for employment software engineer, you need to be able to demonstrate that you have skills that no entry level graduate has. The benefits of any work you do can be blown away if your supervisor decides that he would like to use your research as teaching material for an undergraduate/postgraduate course. And there is also the horror story abou a final year student published a paper six months prior to submitting a PhD only to see a startup company commoditise his research within three months, with the result he didn't get his Ph.D.
That's about the same amount our IP adviser came out with. Not only do you have to search entire patent office across the world, but you also have to check every research journal and digest for papers. Some of the multinationals are rather sneaky - they'll publish papers, but only in exclusively expensive/small subscription list journals.
The management of one entertainment software company I worked for, were so scared of being sued for violating software patents, that they wouldn't allow any of the programmers to use a particular technique unless it was already documented in the public domain. So much for the opportunity to do something completely different, unique and creative.
There's nothing wrong with Europe. IThe problem is that Brussels gives the appearance to be some sort of early retirement club for MP's who have given up on national politics, and just want to pass legislation without actually consulting anyone.
This is the advice that has been given to our university (in the UK) covering all possible research areas (hardware/software engineering). A good example is the Dyson vs. Hoover patent lawsuit:
I really miss the quality TV programming we had about five years ago, it was so much more enriching and educational.
The problem is the explosive growth in the number of satellite/cable channels. For every new channel, there are fewer viewers to go around each channel. For every new cable channel that appears, another two will merge or go off the air.
Trusted computing appeals to your boss, the same guy who ordered padlocks fitted on every PC case at work.
When I was a student back in the 1990's, we had a professor who was a paranoid sys-admin (paranoid in the sense that he Burt Gummer seem like a Quaker). In one of his fits of paranoia, he decided to fit locks onto the data lines of the floppy disk drives to stop software being installed on 8Mhz MS-DOS PC's. (This was pre-Internet so there was not WWW, or even Ethernet cards on the PC's, just RS232 terminal lines to the server), and where PC's only had a single user account. It took the technicans the entire bank holiday to drill a little square hole in each PC case in the lab, thread and fit a lock, rewire the floppy disk drive, and lock the case. On the first day after the holiday, our sys-admin had a big cheesy grin as he saw the reaction of the students.
Three days later he was mad as hell, as somebody had contacted a componenets supplier, and requested an identical lock with a specific key number - the same key number that matched all the locks in the lab. The department had spent thousands on getting approval, purchasing locks, drilling, rewiring, and it had all gone up in smoke due to a $20 lock.
Universities and small companies have considered this situation. One of the problems is that if you stake your claim in knowledge-space and file a patent, a large company can come along and file a hefty number of patents in every possible direction your research could go in. Sure you own the land, but they now own the access.
And filing/defending a patent isn't easy. Filing costs are around $10,000 and you have to register your patent across the world (Europe, USA, Japan) and you must defend the patent the minute it is violated. For a university it's the big company/little company. If the university has good funding, it will have the warchest to fight all patent violations. Otherwise, it's blowing away all that cash which could be spent on equipment.
The concept of using high-level instructions encoded by as bytes isn't new. P-code was one of the early virtual machine systems.
Kodak's profits have been declining from it's traditionally strong consumer products (home photography) as users switch to digital photography, and so now they are looking for earnings through patent lawsuits. Kodak layed off 1700 staff a couple of years ago, and were planning another 20 per cent reduction at the start of the year. More or less the same situation as SCO.
Given that many image processing companies (Quantel) have become dependent on Java for the programmable aspect of their custom hardware and Kodak wants to focus on digital processing, this is going to become another Infineon/Hyundai/Micron Technology Rambus shoot-out.
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(I still don't get why so many people are so afraid of physical labor that they feel it is worse than anything else anyone could have to do? McDonalds(tm) employees probably put out far less "back-breaking physical labor" than, say, a construction foreman or auto mechanic. Is a construction foreman a worse job than the mind-numbing rote at a fast-food place as a result? Personally, I'd rather pound nails than flip burgers[1] any day, extra physical effort or not.)
Maybe it's to do with the danger of permanent physical disability, rather than anything else. My uncle worked as a builder. Sure, he managed to buy and renovate a townhouse, but after damaging his should after a set of bricks fell on him, he's had to take early retirement. He did receive compensation, but that doesn't make up for his loss of mobility.
I know Brussels is said to generate a lot of hot air, but I didn't believe it would be that visible from space. Either that or it's the result of Amsterdam's relaxed drug controls on Cannabis.
The main pollution hotspots in Europe seem to be the Liverpool/Birmingham/London transport route, Paris(France), Madrid (Spain), Milan(Italy), Warsaw(Poland), Minsk (Belarus) and Moscow(Russia). Car pollution seems to be the most likely explanation.
Agreed. But when you cut down thousands of acres of forest a day and forcefully kill the plant, please do not tell me that it is unnatural.
To each team of loggers, they are only cutting down a few hundred trees in the rain forest each week. And since other people want to buy the logs, this is a good way for them to make money in order to feed and cloth their families. No president is going to be able to say "stop feeding your families" to these guys and remain popular.
Ah yes, but
www.slashdotdot.org gives you:
23 + 23 + 23 + 19 + 12 + 1 + 19 + 8 + 4 + 15 + 20 + 15 + 18 + 7
= 207%
I thought that was the question and answer list for getting a Green card.
And of course, you also have to consider the departmental politics. A government agency never has any spare resources availble. If they had, then the funds of those resources would be redirected elsewhere. So, the sysadmin had to be fired. He was undermining the official line that the social services and benefits office was perpetually underfunded.
I always wondered whether you could have airships that fill up with the hot and humid air above the ocean areas where hurricanes start, and have them travel to the regions where there are shortages of water (or at least some high-altitude grouond and let gravity do the rest).
You could also go and see if you can buy a British newspaper. The weekend issues are regularly giving away free albums (10-15 tracks) with the newspapers. They're not exactly the latest hits, but if you're into classic music it's a good deal. Of course, you have to wait until at least of the tracks is something you are looking for.
Personally, I'm waiting for DVD albums to become mainstream. There are quite a few songs in which the video was just as good as the music (Dire Straits: Money for Nothing, U.S.U.R.A's: Open Your Mind), (U2: Numb).
And cigarette and cigar manufacturers will enter the fray, adding layers of protection to the "flavor" that accompanies their image in the marketplace.
Now, if someone can patent the smell of nicotine, or the stale smell of cigarette smoke, they can put the tobacco companies out of business.
Maps and/or aerial photographs combined together make the best time-lapse animation. It's amazing to see the growth of a city all the way from the first harbour/warehouse in Roman times to the metropolised supercity of today.
Just like the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. To make this year even better than last year, for each show the organisers flew military aircraft not just over a capital city, a vast crowd of spectators, but over a royal residence as well just for extra measure.
It is rather significant - even a rural village 100 miles away from the nearest town in an economically depressed country can afford to burn a couple of street lights at night. If no city in North Korea can afford street lighting, they are well beyond poverty level.
You need a recoil-less space squirrel launcher. With a stronger spring, and some crosshairs you could practise space skeet shooting with all that space junk orbiting the earth.
Rather than ejecting space junk using a directional force, couldn't you use a couple of contra-rotating buckets (like a centrifuge). At the right angle, release the buckets and the junk would fly out and away.
The 60fps limit is due to the LCD display. 'glxgears' runs at 900 frames/sec without waiting for vertical refresh. The manufacturer had the brilliant idea of sticking a GeForce FX5600 in a laptop and boosting the screen resolution to 1400x1050. Unfortunately, they had the not so bright idea of locking the refresh rate to 60Hz rather than 85Hz.
There's Bzflag - a multiplayer networked tank game with many variations (capture-the-flag with teams, free-for-all, hunt-the-rabbit). All options can be set by the admin (jumping, gravity, ricochet, 1 to infinite missiles, tank speed, missile speed, teleporters, superflags [shockwave, superbullets, oscillation overdrive, guided missile, seer] ).
Runs at over 60 frames/sec at 1400x1050 with full texturing on a Sony laptop.
From the dictionary:
Landing: A controlled collision between a large planet and a man-made object.
Crash: A uncontrolled collision between a large planet and a man-made object.
Even up here in North Dakota we've had an incident were NDA's had to be signed after a student presented a project he was working on.
That's happened in the UK too. We've had students do research projects (MSc/PhD) in conjunction with external companies. The research is good, but they end up having to signed a NDA/confidentiality agreement. So they can't talk about their research to any other potential employer.
And on another level, if you're a mature student and are looking for employment software engineer, you need to be able to demonstrate that you have skills that no entry level graduate has. The benefits of any work you do can be blown away if your supervisor decides that he would like to use your research as teaching material for an undergraduate/postgraduate course. And there is also the horror story abou a final year student published a paper six months prior to submitting a PhD only to see a startup company commoditise his research within three months, with the result he didn't get his Ph.D.
That's about the same amount our IP adviser came out with. Not only do you have to search entire patent office across the world, but you also have to check every research journal and digest for papers. Some of the multinationals are rather sneaky - they'll publish papers, but only in exclusively expensive/small subscription list journals.
The management of one entertainment software company I worked for, were so scared of being sued for violating software patents, that they wouldn't allow any of the programmers to use a particular technique unless it was already documented in the public domain. So much for the opportunity to do something completely different, unique and creative.
There's nothing wrong with Europe. IThe problem is that Brussels gives the appearance to be some sort of early retirement club for MP's who have given up on national politics, and just want to pass legislation without actually consulting anyone.
This is the advice that has been given to our university (in the UK) covering all possible research areas (hardware/software engineering). A good example is the Dyson vs. Hoover patent lawsuit:
Hoover to pay 4m [pounds sterling] damages to Dyson - News - in dispute over bagless vacuum cleaner
Hoover wins court battle with Dyson
Dust settles on Dyson's long battle
Forgive my use of the word "register", but I am using it within the context defined by the following article:
Business Law - An Overview of Patents
I really miss the quality TV programming we had about five years ago, it was so much more enriching and educational.
The problem is the explosive growth in the number of satellite/cable channels. For every new channel, there are fewer viewers to go around each channel. For every new cable channel that appears, another two will merge or go off the air.
Trusted computing appeals to your boss, the same guy who ordered padlocks fitted on every PC case at work.
When I was a student back in the 1990's, we had a professor who was a paranoid sys-admin (paranoid in the sense that he Burt Gummer seem like a Quaker). In one of his fits of paranoia, he decided to fit locks onto the data lines of the floppy disk drives to stop software being installed on 8Mhz MS-DOS PC's. (This was pre-Internet so there was not WWW, or even Ethernet cards on the PC's, just RS232 terminal lines to the server), and where PC's only had a single user account. It took the technicans the entire bank holiday to drill a little square hole in each PC case in the lab, thread and fit a lock, rewire the floppy disk drive, and lock the case. On the first day after the holiday, our sys-admin had a big cheesy grin as he saw the reaction of the students.
Three days later he was mad as hell, as somebody had contacted a componenets supplier, and requested an identical lock with a specific key number - the same key number that matched all the locks in the lab. The department had spent thousands on getting approval, purchasing locks, drilling, rewiring, and it had all gone up in smoke due to a $20 lock.
Universities and small companies have considered this situation. One of the problems is that if you stake your claim in knowledge-space and file a patent, a large company can come along and file a hefty number of patents in every possible direction your research could go in. Sure you own the land, but they now own the access.
And filing/defending a patent isn't easy. Filing costs are around $10,000 and you have to register your patent across the world (Europe, USA, Japan) and you must defend the patent the minute it is violated. For a university it's the big company/little company. If the university has good funding, it will have the warchest to fight all patent violations. Otherwise, it's blowing away all that cash which could be spent on equipment.
The concept of using high-level instructions encoded by as bytes isn't new. P-code was one of the early virtual machine systems.
Kodak's profits have been declining from it's traditionally strong consumer products (home photography) as users switch to digital photography, and so now they are looking for earnings through patent lawsuits. Kodak layed off 1700 staff a couple of years ago, and were planning another 20 per cent reduction at the start of the year. More or less the same situation as SCO.
Given that many image processing companies (Quantel) have become dependent on Java for the programmable aspect of their custom hardware and Kodak wants to focus on digital processing, this is going to become another Infineon/Hyundai/Micron Technology Rambus shoot-out.
which already include an in-house masseuse and free lunches prepared by the former chef to the Grateful Dead.
... by the former chef to the Grateful Dead".
For a moment I thought that read "an in-house massage
"And zeez is how weee tenderize zee meat before we apply zee hot sauce... bork! bork! bork!"