Actually, it doesn't have to be encrypted--any hoop that you can people jump through to mail you is fine, as long as it isn't something that spammers will be able to automate. For example, you could also use a randomly generated email address that changes frequently, and provide a website with a "mailto" link and a challenge image.
Would it be possible to assign an E-mail address on a per-query/per-case basis. That would allow you to sort correspondence by thread automatically.
When I heard my city were outsourcing their garbage collection services, I imagined office blocks of staff in India sifting through online hex editors looking for spare memory blocks to delete.
That sounds like a "PlaySchool" project I saw on Childrens TV. "And today children, we're going to make a model rocket. You'll need an old Pringles can, a plastic straw, some pieces of cork, a couple of balloons, orange or lemon juice and some baking soda..."
...
"...Now, the pressure inside the Pringles can should increase from the mixing of the orange juice and the baking soda, and eventually push the cork out from the lid. If you're rocket doesn't take off within a few minutes, then stay well away, as someone coud get seriously injured".
I actually built my first robot using parts from a BigTrak, it was much like a Hero and I used a modified Armitron
I remember seeing the BigTrak advertised in Byte/ Personal Computer World back in the 1980's. I always thought that would be fun to program, but it was just too expensive.
Instead, the first programmable toy I had was a lego robot crane that was programmed using those 4x1 racks bricks driving 8 tooth gears, which were all placed on a 8x20 flat panel. A motor drove the tray through the inside of the machine. The moving racks then made the different gears turn, which could make the robot arm rotate, turn the arm and raise/lower the crane hook. The only limit to what could be done was a shortage of those rack pieces.
As far as in the USA, most scanners will print something over the scanned money. Generally its "Void" in stripes over the entire scan. Copiers are worse. There are several Xerox models that will literally lock up until a service tech fixes it if American money is inserted.
I don't believe it's the scanner itself, there is probably some ink pattern imprinted on the paper which the scanner can see, but which the human eye can't see. You could probably test this out using coloured filters.
Replace it with a key labelled [help]
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I am still amazed that after 20 years of the desktop PC, we still have to press the key labelled [F1] to get any type of GUI help, rather than having a key labelled [HELP], although Microsoft did find a way of squeezing in a key with the Windows logo.
...then perhaps they should look at why projects forks?
Projects fork because the software doesn't support new features which are required, or have more features than are required for a particular application.
For example, one version of an application my not support multithreading. In that case, a fork is performed and the multithreading code is added. To merge the projects in the future, the differences are identified and #ifdef'ed. Another example is the case in which a desktop application is being ported to an embedded system. The embedded system GUI (PDA's) may not support all the features of the desktop GUI, and so use of these has to be removed and compensated for.
Already, JAVA has two variants; Embedded Java (J2ME) and Enterprise Java (J2EE). The language has not changed, but there are whole set of API's available: Foundation classes (JFC), Media Framework (JMF), Advanced Imaging (JAI), Java 3D API (J3D), to name but a few. The existance of all of these reduces the likelyhood of any fork from occurring, since the features are already supported. So long as the entire system is split up into small sections, developers can choose which components to support. Sun could always refuse to provide any assistance to anyone who needlessly forked the Java programming environment (they could set up a certification program, and refuse to certify any application which did this).
... is the Vodka advert at the top of slashdot. For whatever reason, the cursor on my screen keeps flickering whenever it plays. Although the simplest solution (next to running an adblocker) is to scroll the window down a bit.
Or maybe if the rover could carry it's own rock climbing rope (like spiders going down walls). It's got the drill to make holes, all it would need is a climbing rope wrapped around a spindle and a means to release/cut the rope if it was no longer needed.
"Whoever knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles, transfers, acquires, retains, or possesses any biological agent, toxin, or delivery system for use as a weapon"
Uh-Oh! I better remove those pre-packaged foods with expired use-by dates from my fridge freezer before someone gets hurt.
Nintendo knew that poor quality of titles was what killed the Atari 2600 (E.T. anyone?). Thus they implemented a "Nintendo Seal of Quality" for their NES system. This worked well as a stop-gap measure.
I read somewhere that they buried a whole container of E.T. cartridges somewhere in the desert in California. I've always wondered whether this was really true or not.
The pedometers simply count the number of vertical accelerations/deaccelerations you've made. I guess there's a weight held in place by two springs. Whenever it crosses a certain threshold (around 1cm/sec.)that counts as one step. Larger steps probably make the weight oscillate and count as multiple steps.
Another way - Could it possible to decompose strings of words according to the rules of sentence construction. Classify each word according to whether it's a noun, verb, adjective, whatever. Then check to see if that combination is valid or not. Increment a counter if it's an invalid combination. Above a certain threshold, the message is classified as spam.
Amazingly someone has already has. It's a patent relating to controlling the rate of photosynthesis in tuber plants. They even include the DNA sequence of the genes responsible - it's hard to believe the patent actually includes 10 pages of CTAGGGTAGGCCAC... Is the patent invalidated if one of these sequences misspelled?
How much of the info stored under your various accounts is actually important if you are dead?
The data that you consider irrelevant may be extremely valuable to someone else. For example, that senior year class photograph your sister sent you from college 20 years ago, may be of little use to you, but to a complete stranger, that might be the last remaining photograph of their mother when she was young.
We encountered this situation in our family. I was telling my mother about the various reunion web sites, and she was interested in seeing if there was anyone she knew. Unfortunately, there weren't any from her year, but we did manage to find a photograph of Dad, and of her brother when he was at high school.
There used to be a road safety wand version, which allowed you to enter a preprogrammed message which would appear when the wand was waved from side to side in the air. However, I could ever figure how anyone would have the time or skill to fiddle around with the programming buttons in order to create a coherent message after an accident.
For the life of me, i cannot think of any productive use for cpu id's.
There were several uses:
1. Software licensing per CPU - an application could query the ID number and use it with a licence key to determine whether the software could run or not.
2. Inventory control - A company could keep track of its technological assets (ie. hardware) using these serial numbers.
3. Recovery of stolen property - If any hardware was stolen, a company could report the serial numbers to the authorities. Security software could also be used to read the CPU ID's and determine if they were stolen or not.
There was some opposition in Silicon Valley to the latter option. Small PC manufactueres were scared they'd get the blame for handling stolen goods if they bought cheap CPU's and sold them off as part of complete systems.
BTW you don't need a car and a VCR to create movies like this. If you live next to water where boats go by, or a busy road, or construction-works, it's very easy to create a timelapse-movie with only a webcam and webcam-software. Just make a pic every second, and use a tool to stitch all those pics to 1 movie afterwards. I did this a lot with cloudy skies, and it much fun to watch afterwards.
I'll back this one up. It's definitely worth trying. It's just amazing the things you can see. If you're looking in the direction of an airport, a time-lapse movie will make contrails appear like missile launches. You can actually see the shadows of cirrus clouds moving across cumulus clouds. The most amazing thing is seeing the different cloud layers travelling in different (if not totally opposite) directions. The best frame rate I've found is taking 1 frame ever 10 seconds, replaying at 30 frames seconds for clouds.
You can actually make your own time lapse software using Microsoft's MFC Vidcap demo. Just add a delay loop for the desired number of seconds. The only restriction is that there's a 2.5 Gigabyte file limit (around 2200 640x480 frames).
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Actually, it doesn't have to be encrypted--any hoop that you can people jump through to mail you is fine, as long as it isn't something that spammers will be able to automate. For example, you could also use a randomly generated email address that changes frequently, and provide a website with a "mailto" link and a challenge image.
Would it be possible to assign an E-mail address on a per-query/per-case basis. That would allow you to sort correspondence by thread automatically.
When I heard my city were outsourcing their garbage collection services, I imagined office blocks of staff in India sifting through online hex editors looking for spare memory blocks to delete.
That sounds like a "PlaySchool" project I saw on Childrens TV. "And today children, we're going to make a model rocket. You'll need an old Pringles can, a plastic straw, some pieces of cork, a couple of balloons, orange or lemon juice and some baking soda..."
...
"...Now, the pressure inside the Pringles can should increase from the mixing of the orange juice and the baking soda, and eventually push the cork out from the lid. If you're rocket doesn't take off within a few minutes, then stay well away, as someone coud get seriously injured".
I actually built my first robot using parts from a BigTrak, it was much like a Hero and I used a modified Armitron
I remember seeing the BigTrak advertised in Byte/ Personal Computer World back in the 1980's. I always thought that would be fun to program, but it was just too expensive.
Instead, the first programmable toy I had was a lego robot crane that was programmed using those 4x1 racks bricks driving 8 tooth gears, which were all placed on a 8x20 flat panel. A motor drove the tray through the inside of the machine. The moving racks then made the different gears turn, which could make the robot arm rotate, turn the arm and raise/lower the crane hook. The only limit to what could be done was a shortage of those rack pieces.
As far as in the USA, most scanners will print something over the scanned money. Generally its "Void" in stripes over the entire scan. Copiers are worse. There are several Xerox models that will literally lock up until a service tech fixes it if American money is inserted.
I don't believe it's the scanner itself, there is probably some ink pattern imprinted on the paper which the scanner can see, but which the human eye can't see. You could probably test this out using coloured filters.
I am still amazed that after 20 years of the desktop PC, we still have to press the key labelled [F1] to get any type of GUI help, rather than having a key labelled [HELP], although Microsoft did find a way of squeezing in a key with the Windows logo.
...then perhaps they should look at why projects forks?
Projects fork because the software doesn't support new features which are required, or have more features than are required for a particular application.
For example, one version of an application my not support multithreading. In that case, a fork is performed and the multithreading code is added. To merge the projects in the future, the differences are identified and #ifdef'ed. Another example is the case in which a desktop application is being ported to an embedded system. The embedded system GUI (PDA's) may not support all the features of the desktop GUI, and so use of these has to be removed and compensated for.
Already, JAVA has two variants; Embedded Java (J2ME) and Enterprise Java (J2EE). The language has not changed, but there are whole set of API's available: Foundation classes (JFC), Media Framework (JMF), Advanced Imaging (JAI), Java 3D API (J3D), to name but a few. The existance of all of these reduces the likelyhood of any fork from occurring, since the features are already supported. So long as the entire system is split up into small sections, developers can choose which components to support. Sun could always refuse to provide any assistance to anyone who needlessly forked the Java programming environment (they could set up a certification program, and refuse to certify any application which did this).
... is the Vodka advert at the top of slashdot. For whatever reason, the cursor on my screen keeps flickering whenever it plays. Although the simplest solution (next to running an adblocker) is to scroll the window down a bit.
I need to add some fine detail to my Powerpoint presentations.
Your hobby, unless it's birdwatching, may be next.
Wandering around a public airshow with a notebook could get you into trouble in some parts of the world.
Or maybe if the rover could carry it's own rock climbing rope (like spiders going down walls). It's got the drill to make holes, all it would need is a climbing rope wrapped around a spindle and a means to release/cut the rope if it was no longer needed.
"Whoever knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles, transfers, acquires, retains, or possesses any biological agent, toxin, or delivery system for use as a weapon"
Uh-Oh! I better remove those pre-packaged foods with expired use-by dates from my fridge freezer before someone gets hurt.
Nintendo knew that poor quality of titles was what killed the Atari 2600 (E.T. anyone?). Thus they implemented a "Nintendo Seal of Quality" for their NES system. This worked well as a stop-gap measure.
I read somewhere that they buried a whole container of E.T. cartridges somewhere in the desert in California. I've always wondered whether this was really true or not.
Better still, have an oscillating laser to project the image onto a nearby surface.
The pedometers simply count the number of vertical accelerations/deaccelerations you've made. I guess there's a weight held in place by two springs. Whenever it crosses a certain threshold (around 1cm/sec.)that counts as one step. Larger steps probably make the weight oscillate and count as multiple steps.
Another way - Could it possible to decompose strings of words according to the rules of sentence construction. Classify each word according to whether it's a noun, verb, adjective, whatever. Then check to see if that combination is valid or not. Increment a counter if it's an invalid combination. Above a certain threshold, the message is classified as spam.
That's why Mattel is introducing BarbieOS 0.99
Amazingly someone has already has. It's a patent relating to controlling the rate of photosynthesis in tuber plants. They even include the DNA sequence of the genes responsible - it's hard to believe the patent actually includes 10 pages of CTAGGGTAGGCCAC... Is the patent invalidated if one of these sequences misspelled?
How much of the info stored under your various accounts is actually important if you are dead?
The data that you consider irrelevant may be extremely valuable to someone else. For example, that senior year class photograph your sister sent you from college 20 years ago, may be of little use to you, but to a complete stranger, that might be the last remaining photograph of their mother when she was young.
We encountered this situation in our family. I was telling my mother about the various reunion web sites, and she was interested in seeing if there was anyone she knew. Unfortunately, there weren't any from her year, but we did manage to find a photograph of Dad, and of her brother when he was at high school.
30 supermassive black holes that had previously escaped detection behind masked dust bunnies.
Maybe your looking for the Skyliner Virtual Message Writer.
There used to be a road safety wand version, which allowed you to enter a preprogrammed message which would appear when the wand was waved from side to side in the air. However, I could ever figure how anyone would have the time or skill to fiddle around with the programming buttons in order to create a coherent message after an accident.
It's time somebody patented double posting a story to slashdot.
Of course, if they put a patent on the methods of delivering spam, they'd put themselves out of business.
For the life of me, i cannot think of any productive use for cpu id's.
There were several uses:
1. Software licensing per CPU - an application could query the ID number and use it with a licence key to determine whether the software could run or not.
2. Inventory control - A company could keep track of its technological assets (ie. hardware) using these serial numbers.
3. Recovery of stolen property - If any hardware was stolen, a company could report the serial numbers to the authorities. Security software could also be used to read the CPU ID's and determine if they were stolen or not.
There was some opposition in Silicon Valley to the latter option. Small PC manufactueres were scared they'd get the blame for handling stolen goods if they bought cheap CPU's and sold them off as part of complete systems.
BTW you don't need a car and a VCR to create movies like this. If you live next to water where boats go by, or a busy road, or construction-works, it's very easy to create a timelapse-movie with only a webcam and webcam-software. Just make a pic every second, and use a tool to stitch all those pics to 1 movie afterwards. I did this a lot with cloudy skies, and it much fun to watch afterwards.
I'll back this one up. It's definitely worth trying. It's just amazing the things you can see. If you're looking in the direction of an airport, a time-lapse movie will make contrails appear like missile launches. You can actually see the shadows of cirrus clouds moving across cumulus clouds. The most amazing thing is seeing the different cloud layers travelling in different (if not totally opposite) directions. The best frame rate I've found is taking 1 frame ever 10 seconds, replaying at 30 frames seconds for clouds.
You can actually make your own time lapse software using Microsoft's MFC Vidcap demo. Just add a delay loop for the desired number of seconds. The only restriction is that there's a 2.5 Gigabyte file limit (around 2200 640x480 frames).