Similar here. I work on bigger stuff. The company will have to lend me a $2k oscope, a $80k oscope, a $60k spectrum analyzer, and let me take home large (20x30") prototypes and bench supplies if I were to do work from home, and that's assuming I don't need some other piece of equipment and fast access to the network for other data. I'd have to bill the company for power, too. These 1.6kW boxes will have a material effect on my power bill if I had to have it running for any significant amount of time.
It's interesting that I had an "ew" reaction to that, even though logically, there is nothing physiologically/chemically "bad" about eating lab grown meat based on human DNA. (assuming basic food safety issues are taken care of.)
I wonder where that comes from, evolutionary/instinct-wise.
A few years ago, a colleague of mine and I were working in Japan. He was writing up a request for a quote and ran it through Google Translate to check his Japanese; expecting to get back an English phrase that at least vaguely corresponded to what he wanted to convey. All I remember was that the output contained the phrase "stormy bedroom". I had no idea how that came from his original text. Anyways, I told him to forget using Google translate.
I just read that as an IP phone connected to the LAN. I have one of those at work. It is theoretically better audio quality than the analog internal phone system it replaced. So cell phone=really bad, LAN line=really good audio quality.
This is amusing because a few years ago, there was news that Muslim countries were trying to constrain/ban Pokemon using propaganda that claimed Pokemon was a Jewish plot to weaken the minds of their youth. So Pokemon might be Jewish and Nazi at the same time.
If this becomes real, and if there were an accident, I'd hate to be the guy that has to scrape off what's left of the passengers from whatever they collided with. 700mph..cheesh.. a thin layer of organic goo and a fine red mist.
That's the first thing I thought, too. I figure people are more likely to spill their drinks in the Jacuzzi, and they'll be more concentrated in the smaller volume, too.
Some schools bend over backwards, but not Stanford. (at least that was the case 25 years ago) All the places I got accepted to offered a financial aid package that made some sort of sense, albeit still difficult for my family. What Stanford offered was a joke. It expected me to come up with 12K-per year, and my folks for another 12K ish, which the financial aid forms clearly showed we don't have. (the numbers are fuzzy, but it was all ridiculous.) They were telling me to my face "if you're not rich, no need to apply".
So I went elsewhere. They weren't my first choice anyways.
The wording is to the effect that you're not allowed to have a video display visible to the driver in any way, with a specific exception for video displays specifically dedicated to navigation or vehicle information.
I'm also too lazy to look it up but that's what I remember.
I bought the X-COM series (the first 3) a while back. I could easily copy the DOS executable and associated files over to my regular DOSBox folder and play it. In fact, I keep my DOSBox folder on an SD card so that I can move it around to any of my computers and play it at will, even on computers that don't run Steam.
So surely, you're exaggerating. Maybe "some" or "many" games stop working but not "all".
(Oddly enough, some games on Steam that are obviously just DOSBox wrappers around the original game aren't available on MacOS, even if I could easily manually copy the DOS files over to the Mac version of DOSBox w/o issue. GOG seems to do this better.)
Coincidentally, I was just mulling over the lead thing this morning before I saw this. My pet theory/wishful thinking is that just as we saw reduction in petty crime rate as the "leaded generation" moved out from that age group (teens-30), we will see reduction in "big" crime as the leaded generation moves out of positions of power and influence. Most politicians and business leaders of influence are 50-70 range. It's possible that even at levels that don't cause a measurable decrease in IQ, lead may affect decision making and long term planning in ways that, on the average across the population, are detrimental to society. (In D&D terms, if everyone took a -1 to WIS penalty across the population, individual effects might be small, but the population effects would be large.)
I also speculate (or it's my wishful thinking that) the general "I got mine FU" attitude and anti-science denialism also stems from this.
I think fondly of my 'Pismo'.
-RAM - upgradable, two slots, up to 1GB (!!!)
-Hard drive - upgradable, no silly 8GB/32GB BIOS barriers like the competition
-CPU - upgradable (for a while, some vendors would take your CPU card and replace the G3 with a G4)
-optical bay - upgradable/swappable, supports two battery mode
-wireless card - replaceable (Built-in wireless was rare back then)
-2xUSB & 2xFirewire & VGA out & audio in/out & Ethernet
-Cardbus with Zoomed Video
-One of the first laptops to feature Rage128 AGP, usable for gaming
-Modem and IR ports
It really was a beautiful machine. Expensive, but had the features to show for it. Apple have jumped the shark. Won't buy another until they bring back replaceable RAM/storage and ethernet port (or ethernet itself becomes obsolete).
I let it slide... Just once, while I prepare my Linux transition (I'll do it slowly over the next few years). It's annoying enough that they ditched the Ethernet port. If I need to have yet another dongle to have basic functionality, it's just not worth it any more. I use the 3.5mm jack daily with earphones I already own and work perfectly fine. I'll miss OS X and the goodies it comes with, but the hardware is losing functionality with every generation, which is ridiculous.
They might get my money again if they put the Ethernet port back in and leave the audio jack alone. Or maybe, if they are replaced with something clearly superior in every way. (I'm not aware of any such tech, though.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It was truly hilarious the first time I saw this.
Maybe they can pull off a humor angle... though a trilogy is probably a stretch.
I was in college when my roommate told me about the coolest new game; it's like Wolfenstein but better.
It being college, somebody kindly left some bootleg copies in the lab computers between the routine clean-up/reimage. I was initially uninterested, but eventually gave it a try. After one all-night session a few weeks later, I crawled out of the lab feeling somewhat ill. Ever since then, playing Doom makes me slightly nauseous. I don't have any problems with other games like Descent, but I'm sick of Doom forever.
Maybe, 20-odd years later, the effect has worn off...
Ditto here. The wife got the grandparent to get it for the kids. It is a bit of a disappointment. I wish it at least had a couple of different resistor values, a few caps, and maybe a discrete transistor or two.
In terms of documentation for the "IC" blocks, the manual did contain some description, and the PDF on their web site contains the internal circuit diagram (well, sort of. The inside of their custom ICs are still "black box".)
I had one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as a kid. It was wonderful. I wish my folks didn't get rid of it after I moved out.
My brother had one o these http://cba.sakura.ne.jp/ex/mx1..., which I inherited after he moved on to bigger and better things. Both of those beat the pants off of snap circuits.
I don't know about identifying things after the fact, but an idea I've tossed around for a few years now is a forensic digital camera.
Basically, the hardware will sign/watermark all the photos it takes with some sort of digital signature unique to the camera. The private key would be buried in silicon in such a way as to destroy it if attempts are made to discover it.
I'm not a security/encryption expert by any means, so I don't know how feasible this is (or does it already exist?) but sounds plausible to me.
One of the ideas I've had for a long time is to make digital cameras that cryptographically sign every photo. Maybe such things already exist. I'm not expert enough on those matters to tell whether there are pitfalls in this idea. The key would have to be buried in the silicon somehow such that attempts to get at it would destroy it.
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Similar here. I work on bigger stuff. The company will have to lend me a $2k oscope, a $80k oscope, a $60k spectrum analyzer, and let me take home large (20x30") prototypes and bench supplies if I were to do work from home, and that's assuming I don't need some other piece of equipment and fast access to the network for other data. I'd have to bill the company for power, too. These 1.6kW boxes will have a material effect on my power bill if I had to have it running for any significant amount of time.
So, why is everyone afraid to compete with Google? Ocrs are easy and cheap now.
Zug Zug! More work?... only 200 gold to train a peon.
Oh, wait... nemmind.
The un-sink-able taste of chee-ri-os!
Not a lot of sugar to weigh you down!
The un-sinka-able taste!
Chee-ri! Chee-ri! Chee-ri!
Cheerios!
It's interesting that I had an "ew" reaction to that, even though logically, there is nothing physiologically/chemically "bad" about eating lab grown meat based on human DNA. (assuming basic food safety issues are taken care of.)
I wonder where that comes from, evolutionary/instinct-wise.
A few years ago, a colleague of mine and I were working in Japan. He was writing up a request for a quote and ran it through Google Translate to check his Japanese; expecting to get back an English phrase that at least vaguely corresponded to what he wanted to convey. All I remember was that the output contained the phrase "stormy bedroom". I had no idea how that came from his original text. Anyways, I told him to forget using Google translate.
I just read that as an IP phone connected to the LAN. I have one of those at work. It is theoretically better audio quality than the analog internal phone system it replaced. So cell phone=really bad, LAN line=really good audio quality.
My recollection was that when the iPod first arrived, iTunes was not on Windows. I think iTunes for Windows came later.
This is amusing because a few years ago, there was news that Muslim countries were trying to constrain/ban Pokemon using propaganda that claimed Pokemon was a Jewish plot to weaken the minds of their youth. So Pokemon might be Jewish and Nazi at the same time.
If this becomes real, and if there were an accident, I'd hate to be the guy that has to scrape off what's left of the passengers from whatever they collided with. 700mph..cheesh.. a thin layer of organic goo and a fine red mist.
In Japan, they already sort of do this. New drivers are required to display the "newbie mark" on their cars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And, they also already have the "old geezer mark"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So the new rules will be in addition to these much older measures.
That's the first thing I thought, too. I figure people are more likely to spill their drinks in the Jacuzzi, and they'll be more concentrated in the smaller volume, too.
Some schools bend over backwards, but not Stanford. (at least that was the case 25 years ago)
All the places I got accepted to offered a financial aid package that made some sort of sense, albeit still difficult for my family.
What Stanford offered was a joke. It expected me to come up with 12K-per year, and my folks for another 12K ish, which the financial aid forms clearly showed we don't have. (the numbers are fuzzy, but it was all ridiculous.) They were telling me to my face "if you're not rich, no need to apply".
So I went elsewhere. They weren't my first choice anyways.
The wording is to the effect that you're not allowed to have a video display visible to the driver in any way, with a specific exception for video displays specifically dedicated to navigation or vehicle information.
I'm also too lazy to look it up but that's what I remember.
I bought the X-COM series (the first 3) a while back. I could easily copy the DOS executable and associated files over to my regular DOSBox folder and play it. In fact, I keep my DOSBox folder on an SD card so that I can move it around to any of my computers and play it at will, even on computers that don't run Steam.
So surely, you're exaggerating. Maybe "some" or "many" games stop working but not "all".
(Oddly enough, some games on Steam that are obviously just DOSBox wrappers around the original game aren't available on MacOS, even if I could easily manually copy the DOS files over to the Mac version of DOSBox w/o issue. GOG seems to do this better.)
Hey! It's a delicacy!
Coincidentally, I was just mulling over the lead thing this morning before I saw this. My pet theory/wishful thinking is that just as we saw reduction in petty crime rate as the "leaded generation" moved out from that age group (teens-30), we will see reduction in "big" crime as the leaded generation moves out of positions of power and influence. Most politicians and business leaders of influence are 50-70 range. It's possible that even at levels that don't cause a measurable decrease in IQ, lead may affect decision making and long term planning in ways that, on the average across the population, are detrimental to society. (In D&D terms, if everyone took a -1 to WIS penalty across the population, individual effects might be small, but the population effects would be large.)
I also speculate (or it's my wishful thinking that) the general "I got mine FU" attitude and anti-science denialism also stems from this.
I think fondly of my 'Pismo'.
-RAM - upgradable, two slots, up to 1GB (!!!)
-Hard drive - upgradable, no silly 8GB/32GB BIOS barriers like the competition
-CPU - upgradable (for a while, some vendors would take your CPU card and replace the G3 with a G4)
-optical bay - upgradable/swappable, supports two battery mode
-wireless card - replaceable (Built-in wireless was rare back then)
-2xUSB & 2xFirewire & VGA out & audio in/out & Ethernet
-Cardbus with Zoomed Video
-One of the first laptops to feature Rage128 AGP, usable for gaming
-Modem and IR ports
It really was a beautiful machine. Expensive, but had the features to show for it.
Apple have jumped the shark. Won't buy another until they bring back replaceable RAM/storage and ethernet port (or ethernet itself becomes obsolete).
I let it slide... Just once, while I prepare my Linux transition (I'll do it slowly over the next few years). It's annoying enough that they ditched the Ethernet port. If I need to have yet another dongle to have basic functionality, it's just not worth it any more. I use the 3.5mm jack daily with earphones I already own and work perfectly fine. I'll miss OS X and the goodies it comes with, but the hardware is losing functionality with every generation, which is ridiculous. They might get my money again if they put the Ethernet port back in and leave the audio jack alone. Or maybe, if they are replaced with something clearly superior in every way. (I'm not aware of any such tech, though.)
That sounds like we're starting to re-invent the Itanium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It was truly hilarious the first time I saw this. Maybe they can pull off a humor angle... though a trilogy is probably a stretch.
I was in college when my roommate told me about the coolest new game; it's like Wolfenstein but better. It being college, somebody kindly left some bootleg copies in the lab computers between the routine clean-up/reimage. I was initially uninterested, but eventually gave it a try. After one all-night session a few weeks later, I crawled out of the lab feeling somewhat ill. Ever since then, playing Doom makes me slightly nauseous. I don't have any problems with other games like Descent, but I'm sick of Doom forever. Maybe, 20-odd years later, the effect has worn off...
New Porche cars must be warped in next to this pylon, right?
Ditto here. The wife got the grandparent to get it for the kids. It is a bit of a disappointment. I wish it at least had a couple of different resistor values, a few caps, and maybe a discrete transistor or two. In terms of documentation for the "IC" blocks, the manual did contain some description, and the PDF on their web site contains the internal circuit diagram (well, sort of. The inside of their custom ICs are still "black box".) I had one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as a kid. It was wonderful. I wish my folks didn't get rid of it after I moved out. My brother had one o these http://cba.sakura.ne.jp/ex/mx1..., which I inherited after he moved on to bigger and better things. Both of those beat the pants off of snap circuits.
I don't know about identifying things after the fact, but an idea I've tossed around for a few years now is a forensic digital camera. Basically, the hardware will sign/watermark all the photos it takes with some sort of digital signature unique to the camera. The private key would be buried in silicon in such a way as to destroy it if attempts are made to discover it. I'm not a security/encryption expert by any means, so I don't know how feasible this is (or does it already exist?) but sounds plausible to me.
One of the ideas I've had for a long time is to make digital cameras that cryptographically sign every photo. Maybe such things already exist. I'm not expert enough on those matters to tell whether there are pitfalls in this idea. The key would have to be buried in the silicon somehow such that attempts to get at it would destroy it.