Re:web designers...siiigh.
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From what I've seen, variable compression is only really useful for the control and framing elements of your page (buttons, borders), not for the content. Unless your graphics are chock full of whitespace for some reason, it's not likely to save you a huge amount of bandwidth. Also, 1k transfers in about 0.15 seconds, not 1 second on a 56k modem. I'm also a bit dubious that you'll be saving 1k on each image, since the images where this technique is useful (borders, elements) tend to be very small (1k in many cases) to begin with.
Wouldn't such a table be largely dependant on the geometry of the engine? It seems to me that unless the other guy is copying your engine design wholesale that the lookup tables should be of little use to them. In any light, that argument sounds like an excuse more than anything else.
You've actually been able to grab a splinter or a jumper with those tweezers? In my experiance, the metal is far too flimsy and they lack a lip on the end so you can't actually grab anything with them. They just slide off jumpers and you can't exert enough force on a splinter to keep it inside the tweezer.
Did anybody notice the _other_ tools on this knife. There's the standard blade, good for cutting zip ties, opening boxes, and peeling off stubborn labels in a pinch. Scissors, which are generally useful, and a nail file, which I thought only showed up on the really big knives and the ones aimed at women. Where is the phillips head screwdriver, or even the flathead screwdriver? Actually, some knives have a nice snap on toolset that works quite well. IMHO, if you're going to stick a USB stick on a knife, it should have the following additional tools:
Blade -- Every knife needs one. A combination large and small blade is nice but not necessary on this knife
Scissors -- From cutting down labels to just about anything else, the Scissors are mandatory
Phillips head screwdriver -- Or replace this with the socket set
Flathead screwdriver -- Or replace this with the socket set
Inanimate carbon-steel rod -- In place of the useless tweezers, for ejecting stubborn CDs or rebooting PDAs
Micro-flashlight -- Built into the case, a small white LED bulb at one end is activated by pressing on a certain spot on the handle. The battery is stored in the case. I don't think any knife has this yet, but I know I've wanted it for ages. The light switch should be a toggle, so you don't have to keep holding it down while you're working.
That's all I'm looking for in a knife. I'd pay $100 for one like that, especially if they called it the Geekman.
Whew! For a second there I thought you said: "...electronic probation tether things for cocks, but it reports back to Bill Gates". The last thing I need is a shock to the nuts when I boot up Linux.
I've seen credit cards rendered unusable by mere kitchen magnets before.
Quick tip for the ladies: When you find a souvenir magnets, don't stick them in your bag next to your credit cards. There's nothing worse that getting half way though your vacation and realizing that none of your bank cards or credit cards are working anymore.
Well, it's not exactly plagiarism if the second person had never even heard of the first. It's more the result of somewhat obvious ideas being published and then other people coming up with the same ideas at a later date.
This is also the basis for the submarine patent. You think up some novel but not-too-difficult idea for a solution to a problem we will have in the future. Something like a method for syncronizing multiple PVRs using IP maybe. Then you wait for the problem to come up, someone to come up with the same (fairly straightforward) solution, and sue them for millions. Of course you can't guarentee that people will have the problem or use the same solution, but you can submit thousands of patents for various ideas (basically just spam the patent system) and wait for one of them to come up.
I doubt it will do much to HDDs, they're reasonably well shielded from this sort of low level magnetic fields. I'd worry more about floppies, and much more about my credit cards.
Well, how much reading do you get done while driving around? The ability to listen to them in the car is one of the primary advantages of audiobooks, especially when you're on long trips and have lots of interstate driving to do through parts of the country that don't get NPR.
You're probably thinking of Prion based dieseases, which occur when you eat members of your own species. The most familiar prion diesease at the moment is Mad Cow diesease, which came around when farmers started adding ground up cow parts in the feed for their cows to increase their protein consumption.
All I want is a builtin phonebook (like all phones have), and (most importantly) a very good radio path. So many phones these days seem to have really crummy radios that loose the signal far too soon as you leave the cell.
Unfortunatly, it's very hard to test how good the radio is in the store, and no manufacturer seems to advertise the radio features at all. What good a 320x240 full color screen and web browsing capabilities if the signal strength goes to 0 when you walk inside?
No thanks, I already have a Sharp Zaurus SL-C750, why do I need a vapor product that's a bit faster (and with a HDD), but doesn't fit in my pocket? It's still going to be too small to do any serious typing, and this thing looks like it's going to be too big and overpowered (heavy, crummy battery life) to be a good PDA (actually, the Zaurus isn't a great PDA either, but that's a software issue).
You can play Dance Dance Revolution online now? When did that happen?
Re:Sorta agree with both points of view
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Funny you should mention David Weber because I'm reading Field of Dishonor now. Unfortunatly, although I rather liked the second book in the Honor series (I read it first off of the Baen free library), I think i'm going to stop after this one. I swear my hands start to feel sticky whenever Weber goes off on one of his "Honor is the bestest person in the world ever!!!" tangents. His admiration for his own main character borders on pornographic at times, and the villans are so one dimentional with absolutely no redeeming qualities or plausible motivations whatsoever. And he's spending page after page on Honor doing her desk job and other mundane tasks.
...and this book is taking far too long to get to the space battle. If he doesn't hurry up, I might actually make good on my promise not to buy the next book. The space battle in the last book was the only thing that made be buy this one.
Given the amount of time I spend trudging around in the sewers in your average 3D shooter, I think I'll pass on this technology. At least until Doom4: Field of Flowers is released.
Sure. Here is a pretty good idea of what it looks like on a modest 132x60 console. Most people using console mode probably do better than this, but this is what you can do without getting too funky with your video card.
I'd always heard that it was around the turn of the century that Bayer was looking for a way to reduce the addictiveness of Morphene, so they buffered it with Asparin. The result was called Heroin, and was sold as a cough suppressant (move over Robitussin) for awhile.
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From what I've seen, variable compression is only really useful for the control and framing elements of your page (buttons, borders), not for the content. Unless your graphics are chock full of whitespace for some reason, it's not likely to save you a huge amount of bandwidth. Also, 1k transfers in about 0.15 seconds, not 1 second on a 56k modem. I'm also a bit dubious that you'll be saving 1k on each image, since the images where this technique is useful (borders, elements) tend to be very small (1k in many cases) to begin with.
You know, in any case the amount of money is too small for a large corporation to spend much time at all worring about.
Er, GPS satellites are in low Earth orbit. I don't think may space vehicles use GPS when in orbit.
Wouldn't such a table be largely dependant on the geometry of the engine? It seems to me that unless the other guy is copying your engine design wholesale that the lookup tables should be of little use to them. In any light, that argument sounds like an excuse more than anything else.
You've actually been able to grab a splinter or a jumper with those tweezers? In my experiance, the metal is far too flimsy and they lack a lip on the end so you can't actually grab anything with them. They just slide off jumpers and you can't exert enough force on a splinter to keep it inside the tweezer.
- Blade -- Every knife needs one. A combination large and small blade is nice but not necessary on this knife
- Scissors -- From cutting down labels to just about anything else, the Scissors are mandatory
- Phillips head screwdriver -- Or replace this with the socket set
- Flathead screwdriver -- Or replace this with the socket set
- Inanimate carbon-steel rod -- In place of the useless tweezers, for ejecting stubborn CDs or rebooting PDAs
- Micro-flashlight -- Built into the case, a small white LED bulb at one end is activated by pressing on a certain spot on the handle. The battery is stored in the case. I don't think any knife has this yet, but I know I've wanted it for ages. The light switch should be a toggle, so you don't have to keep holding it down while you're working.
That's all I'm looking for in a knife. I'd pay $100 for one like that, especially if they called it the Geekman.I'm not sure I want to pick up a DVD boxset with the "2 man lift" warning on the side...
Whew! For a second there I thought you said: "...electronic probation tether things for cocks, but it reports back to Bill Gates". The last thing I need is a shock to the nuts when I boot up Linux.
I've seen credit cards rendered unusable by mere kitchen magnets before.
Quick tip for the ladies: When you find a souvenir magnets, don't stick them in your bag next to your credit cards. There's nothing worse that getting half way though your vacation and realizing that none of your bank cards or credit cards are working anymore.
Well, it's not exactly plagiarism if the second person had never even heard of the first. It's more the result of somewhat obvious ideas being published and then other people coming up with the same ideas at a later date.
This is also the basis for the submarine patent. You think up some novel but not-too-difficult idea for a solution to a problem we will have in the future. Something like a method for syncronizing multiple PVRs using IP maybe. Then you wait for the problem to come up, someone to come up with the same (fairly straightforward) solution, and sue them for millions. Of course you can't guarentee that people will have the problem or use the same solution, but you can submit thousands of patents for various ideas (basically just spam the patent system) and wait for one of them to come up.
I doubt it will do much to HDDs, they're reasonably well shielded from this sort of low level magnetic fields. I'd worry more about floppies, and much more about my credit cards.
Well, how much reading do you get done while driving around? The ability to listen to them in the car is one of the primary advantages of audiobooks, especially when you're on long trips and have lots of interstate driving to do through parts of the country that don't get NPR.
You're probably thinking of Prion based dieseases, which occur when you eat members of your own species. The most familiar prion diesease at the moment is Mad Cow diesease, which came around when farmers started adding ground up cow parts in the feed for their cows to increase their protein consumption.
All I want is a builtin phonebook (like all phones have), and (most importantly) a very good radio path. So many phones these days seem to have really crummy radios that loose the signal far too soon as you leave the cell.
Unfortunatly, it's very hard to test how good the radio is in the store, and no manufacturer seems to advertise the radio features at all. What good a 320x240 full color screen and web browsing capabilities if the signal strength goes to 0 when you walk inside?
The article is talking about a vaprous product. The Sharp, on the other hand, is very much real. I should hope it's not vapor, since I own one!
No thanks, I already have a Sharp Zaurus SL-C750, why do I need a vapor product that's a bit faster (and with a HDD), but doesn't fit in my pocket? It's still going to be too small to do any serious typing, and this thing looks like it's going to be too big and overpowered (heavy, crummy battery life) to be a good PDA (actually, the Zaurus isn't a great PDA either, but that's a software issue).
Then they obviously won't be in competition. You can't compete with someone if you're not even in the market.
You can play Dance Dance Revolution online now? When did that happen?
Funny you should mention David Weber because I'm reading Field of Dishonor now. Unfortunatly, although I rather liked the second book in the Honor series (I read it first off of the Baen free library), I think i'm going to stop after this one. I swear my hands start to feel sticky whenever Weber goes off on one of his "Honor is the bestest person in the world ever!!!" tangents. His admiration for his own main character borders on pornographic at times, and the villans are so one dimentional with absolutely no redeeming qualities or plausible motivations whatsoever. And he's spending page after page on Honor doing her desk job and other mundane tasks.
...and this book is taking far too long to get to the space battle. If he doesn't hurry up, I might actually make good on my promise not to buy the next book. The space battle in the last book was the only thing that made be buy this one.
Given the amount of time I spend trudging around in the sewers in your average 3D shooter, I think I'll pass on this technology. At least until Doom4: Field of Flowers is released.
Sure. Here is a pretty good idea of what it looks like on a modest 132x60 console. Most people using console mode probably do better than this, but this is what you can do without getting too funky with your video card.
Slashdot is pretty readable with w3m.
I'd always heard that it was around the turn of the century that Bayer was looking for a way to reduce the addictiveness of Morphene, so they buffered it with Asparin. The result was called Heroin, and was sold as a cough suppressant (move over Robitussin) for awhile.
Your 7-11 still has arcade machines? I don't think I've seen a machine in a 7-11 for years now. Where do you live?