Speaking of convenient buttons, how about location? I bought my first HP calculator (HP48g+)... I loved it immediately, even more so as I learned how to use it. (I went through high school on a TI-86)
Unfortunately, someone stole it less than a week after I got it. Somehow I doubt it'll do them (or whoever they sell it to) much good.;)
Somehow $150 spent on malice towards thieves feels good right now. Even if I have to take my chem exam tomorrow on the four-function calculator included on my Palm Zire 21.
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When I was a kid (10 yrs old, as opposed to 20), my dad had me use that companies film in my cheap 35mm camera on our annual shopping trip to Marshall Fields in Chicago. The reason?
If you ordered it, they'd send you back a bootable floppy disk that would run a slide show of your pictures. Something not many people did back in 1994.
If I recall, there was a huge outcry over the safety of the vehicle when a couple of them crashed a few years ago. That's why they went out of service, profitability be damned.
Does the public interest include morality? What if the private life of a person (not necessarily an office holder) can be spun to make the person massively unpopular?
I often relate todays fear of terrorism (and cyberterrorism in particular) with the communist witch hunt of the McCarthy era.
All the professional workshops I've seen (Meijers, local college, and a printing company) are more concerned about image quality than any reduction in file size. And if your JPEGs are at 95% quality, that's still 5% of the information ignored, and possibly not properly reconstituted.
PNGs are good, because they give you a wide variety of options: including up to 16 bits per channel, and an optional alpha channel.
In professional environments, masters are the files that you make your distributed versions from. Make all the changes you want, but until you're ready to put it on a web page, you need to keep it in a lossless format.
I know the public isn't very concerned about it. The point is that Clinton overestimated it as well...he probably expected there to be a public outcry as well.
I guess it depends on how long it was on his desk before he signed it.
Thats enough time for a whole two or three other Bushes to get elected.
If Bush gets a second term, his need to please the public will be significantly reduced. (He won't have to push for reelection.) I can easily see him doing something that would leave politians saying in the future "we don't need another Bush."
A similar thing happened with Clinton. It especially tends to occur during "lame duck" periods, where the elected official has no need to please the public whatsoever. IIRC, that's how the DMCA was signed.
Hm. How about a simple script called "whereami"... It would tell you the purpose of the folder you're in.
It would have a data file tailored to the distribution, a second data file for system-local information, and a datafile in each user's home directory.
All files would have the same format:
[user]:[directory]:description
Where [user] and [directory] are regular expressions, the compiled form of which may be stored in a cache file for easy loading. (Matching regular expressions can be slow enough...do you really want to compile each one every time you run the program?)
Or you might use a simpler wildcard system for the user and directory, and bypass the rest of regex's overhead.
When I was visiting Chicago, they had nice bike paths throughout the city. Perhaps an elevated path specifically for small motorized transport would be a good idea. It keeps the slow moving pedestrians walking past store fronts, while the faster-moving people on Segways could, well, be faster-moving.
Uh, he was applying the 65% figure to a fuel cell device that uses a reformer to change a hydrocarbon fuel (read, ethonal, methanol, gasoline, etc.) into waste(CO2) and hydrogen fuel.
The advantage to such a system is you can continue to use existing infrastructure. Or, if your reformer is flexible enough (which it could be...chemically, there's not much difference between converting methane, ethane, and octane. However, I'm not sure how the technology would scale to "-anol" substances, because there's an oxygen atom included at the end of the chain that would have to be accounted for in a waste product.) you can flip flop between oil-derived and synthetic hydrocarbons. Organic-based Synthetic hydrocarbons have the advantage that you're not adding carbon into the atmosphere that wasn't already part of the carbon cycle.
Too much could happen between 2008(the end of Bush's second term) and 2050 (about when WW III would have occured).
While Star Trek has focused on the influence of individuals on all of history in the past (like Edith Kieler in the episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" in TOS), I think they'd prefer to take the safe road and not get labeled "unpatriotic."
Well, the looks on the faces of the testors would be neat.
On a high level, there'd be suspense in breaking into a facility without getting caught. (That'd be serious trouble.)
On a low level, it would showcase Kirk's ingenuity. Or, rather, his lack of belief in a no-win scenario. So much so that he'd risk the consequences of breaking and entering.
Of course Intel will be worried. If it costs a lot to put RAM in the machines, there won't be as much demand for high-end processors (read, gaming or server) to process the data in that RAM.
As far as I know, it's never been done before. And that's a big hurdle.
The biggest problem I can think of is that you have to be very, very, very aware of what your rotation speed is. That's going to affect the bit width you read with your magnetic heads.
You could definately benefit from reduced wear.
And, though it's somewhat unrelated, if you chose to reduce the capacity of your disk by increasing the amount of space taken by each piece of data, you would suffer from fewer bad regions over time by reducing the ambiguity of your signal received.
I don't know when Berman left, in relation to the series plot. However, I liked most of the DS9 episodes for their moral and ethical conflict. That is, until four out of five continuous episodes focused on the war with the dominion.
Even then, though, there were interesting points like the nearly undetectable mines that hid in subspace. Ezri's statement that she'd never thought the Federation would use such devices, and Sisko's response that it was a survival issue, comes to mind.
It's points like that which are why I've liked Star Trek.
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Speaking of convenient buttons, how about location? I bought my first HP calculator (HP48g+) ... I loved it immediately, even more so as I learned how to use it. (I went through high school on a TI-86)
;)
Unfortunately, someone stole it less than a week after I got it. Somehow I doubt it'll do them (or whoever they sell it to) much good.
Somehow $150 spent on malice towards thieves feels good right now. Even if I have to take my chem exam tomorrow on the four-function calculator included on my Palm Zire 21.
When I was a kid (10 yrs old, as opposed to 20), my dad had me use that companies film in my cheap 35mm camera on our annual shopping trip to Marshall Fields in Chicago. The reason?
If you ordered it, they'd send you back a bootable floppy disk that would run a slide show of your pictures. Something not many people did back in 1994.
If I recall, there was a huge outcry over the safety of the vehicle when a couple of them crashed a few years ago. That's why they went out of service, profitability be damned.
Does the public interest include morality? What if the private life of a person (not necessarily an office holder) can be spun to make the person massively unpopular?
I often relate todays fear of terrorism (and cyberterrorism in particular) with the communist witch hunt of the McCarthy era.
So much for "Live in (wherever)" reports.
But with satellite feeds and other communications, the latency was already there, wasn't it?
As another poster pointed out, the delay in your media feed's presentation will be noticable in games. I agree it won't be noticeable in much else.
All the professional workshops I've seen (Meijers, local college, and a printing company) are more concerned about image quality than any reduction in file size. And if your JPEGs are at 95% quality, that's still 5% of the information ignored, and possibly not properly reconstituted.
PNGs are good, because they give you a wide variety of options: including up to 16 bits per channel, and an optional alpha channel.
PNG supports 16 bits per channel, including the alpha channel. I'm not sure what all TIFF supports, though.
In professional environments, masters are the files that you make your distributed versions from. Make all the changes you want, but until you're ready to put it on a web page, you need to keep it in a lossless format.
I know the public isn't very concerned about it. The point is that Clinton overestimated it as well...he probably expected there to be a public outcry as well.
I guess it depends on how long it was on his desk before he signed it.
Thats enough time for a whole two or three other Bushes to get elected.
If Bush gets a second term, his need to please the public will be significantly reduced. (He won't have to push for reelection.) I can easily see him doing something that would leave politians saying in the future "we don't need another Bush."
A similar thing happened with Clinton. It especially tends to occur during "lame duck" periods, where the elected official has no need to please the public whatsoever. IIRC, that's how the DMCA was signed.
Hm. How about a simple script called "whereami" ... It would tell you the purpose of the folder you're in.
It would have a data file tailored to the distribution, a second data file for system-local information, and a datafile in each user's home directory.
All files would have the same format:
[user]:[directory]:description
Where [user] and [directory] are regular expressions, the compiled form of which may be stored in a cache file for easy loading. (Matching regular expressions can be slow enough...do you really want to compile each one every time you run the program?)
Or you might use a simpler wildcard system for the user and directory, and bypass the rest of regex's overhead.
When I was visiting Chicago, they had nice bike paths throughout the city. Perhaps an elevated path specifically for small motorized transport would be a good idea. It keeps the slow moving pedestrians walking past store fronts, while the faster-moving people on Segways could, well, be faster-moving.
Uh, shouldn't that mod have been "plus 1 Redundant"?
Uh, he was applying the 65% figure to a fuel cell device that uses a reformer to change a hydrocarbon fuel (read, ethonal, methanol, gasoline, etc.) into waste(CO2) and hydrogen fuel.
The advantage to such a system is you can continue to use existing infrastructure. Or, if your reformer is flexible enough (which it could be...chemically, there's not much difference between converting methane, ethane, and octane. However, I'm not sure how the technology would scale to "-anol" substances, because there's an oxygen atom included at the end of the chain that would have to be accounted for in a waste product.) you can flip flop between oil-derived and synthetic hydrocarbons. Organic-based Synthetic hydrocarbons have the advantage that you're not adding carbon into the atmosphere that wasn't already part of the carbon cycle.
Tic-Tac-Toe is the game they used to teach Joshua/WOPR that "The only winning move is 'not to play.'"
When the main character first connected, the computer wanted to play Chess.
Well, I'm pleased that attached spacecraft can fill that purpose. One wonders just how versatile Soyuz modules are.
Too much could happen between 2008(the end of Bush's second term) and 2050 (about when WW III would have occured).
While Star Trek has focused on the influence of individuals on all of history in the past (like Edith Kieler in the episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" in TOS), I think they'd prefer to take the safe road and not get labeled "unpatriotic."
Well, the looks on the faces of the testors would be neat.
On a high level, there'd be suspense in breaking into a facility without getting caught. (That'd be serious trouble.)
On a low level, it would showcase Kirk's ingenuity. Or, rather, his lack of belief in a no-win scenario. So much so that he'd risk the consequences of breaking and entering.
So that no one misses the pun.
Yeah...I'd feel like a part of me was lost, without it.
Seriouisly, though, it may not be intended, but it's a damn good groaner. Just the way my family likes em. Thanks!
IIRC, there's since been a price-fixing lawsuit. I think it was even on Slashdot.
Of course Intel will be worried. If it costs a lot to put RAM in the machines, there won't be as much demand for high-end processors (read, gaming or server) to process the data in that RAM.
As far as I know, it's never been done before. And that's a big hurdle.
The biggest problem I can think of is that you have to be very, very, very aware of what your rotation speed is. That's going to affect the bit width you read with your magnetic heads.
You could definately benefit from reduced wear.
And, though it's somewhat unrelated, if you chose to reduce the capacity of your disk by increasing the amount of space taken by each piece of data, you would suffer from fewer bad regions over time by reducing the ambiguity of your signal received.
Except it's more acceptable to embellish with "11.5 cm"
I've moved once in the last ten.
But then, I'm 20 years old and still live with my parents...
I don't know when Berman left, in relation to the series plot. However, I liked most of the DS9 episodes for their moral and ethical conflict. That is, until four out of five continuous episodes focused on the war with the dominion.
Even then, though, there were interesting points like the nearly undetectable mines that hid in subspace. Ezri's statement that she'd never thought the Federation would use such devices, and Sisko's response that it was a survival issue, comes to mind.
It's points like that which are why I've liked Star Trek.