The real-time programming course at the University of Waterloo has a model train set we write a control program form.
It's a lot of fun for the first couple of days until it sinks in how hard it's going to be to write a real-time OS and a GUI-based train management program for it in 3 months.
One of the tests is to keep adding trains to the tracks while it's running to see how much it can handle. If your program crashes, the trains crash.
I took the course in 1999 so if any of what I said sounds wrong, it's because it changed since then.
Remember the Sci-Fi channel's Dune Mini-Series in 2000?
It is an excellent movie, with very high production quality very well acted and directed. To compare it to the new star wars trilogy, I'd say Dune is much higher quality except the special effects are slightly worse. Dune cost $15M to make while the star wars trilogy with about the same run-time cost about $500M. I'd rather watch Dune again on DVD than even think about watching one of the new Star Wars movies ever again.
Sci-Fi can be done on the cheap with extemely high quality. You just have morons like George Lucas making people think it can't be done.
Great, one extra thing to worry about in an emergency. First you have to remember to disable the system then you have to get out of the way.
A friend of mine rolled a golf cart for such a reason. The parking break was activated by pressing hard on the break pedal and released by pressing again. My friend started down too steep a slope, reflexively pressed too hard on the break activating the parking break and locked all 4 tires. In the 2 seconds it took the thing to roll, while panicing, he couldn't remember he had to release his foot, press again to unlock the break, and then use the break more carefully.
In an emergency, people will not have time to remeber how to disable this system. Slamming down the accelerator to leap out of the way is instinctive, whatever operations override the lockout are not instinctive.
This could cause a lot of deadly accidents if it kicks in when you're trying to quickly move out of the way of an oncoming vehicle or you're passing someone. I hope whoever came up with it is personally liable for any wrongful death cases.
Anyone else find it funny they're considering offering a discount on a fee they just happen to be raising? Why can't they be honest and admit it's a fee not to use this.
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6$ is far too much for that tiny bandwidth and storage !
You're right; consider it a textbook example of why monopolies are bad.
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Try here for free domains on the.eu.org second level domain.
You're never going to get a second level for free because ICANN takes a $6 cut from each one, but there are countless domain name owners who offer free or cheap subdomains.
I like the deck of dice...36 cards, typical 2 day distribution.
There's so much you can do with it in monopoly. Players can have a hand of cards and choose which to play, they can trade/sell cards to other players, the cards can be auctioned by the bank to come into the game, it can normally be a die roll but there's some mechanic to buy cards and you have the option of using a card, or the basic idea of just using the deck to make sure the short term trends follow a normal distribution.
Why not do something interesting like this based on a game that is actually fun to play. Puerto Rico, Catan, Carcassonne, etc. Especially in Europe where they don't play crap like Monopoly, and they play good games.
Wikipedia is self moderating. The end users restore defaced pages. There was even an article in Wired a couple of months ago about it. On average, defacements are cleaned within a few minutes by other users, and the repairs are so fast that vandals quickly get discouraged.
I used to use a ton of HP5 plus. I'd buy it by the 100 foot roll.
I have to admit that these days I use XP2 on pre-wound rolls and have it commercially developed. Commercial color processing is so cheap now it works out about the same price as buying the chemicals if I get film only procession. Of course, I get the prints too and I get nice 4x6" proofs for about 5 cents each.
I get better grain and possibly better contrast from the chomogenic XP2 film too, but it's not a huge difference, the real reason I use it is laziness.
Why yes, records are better than CD's. This is not a subjective thing like the vacuum tube amps.
A record stores an analog waveform of the original sound with much more detail than the quantized digital data on a CD.
But...playing a record with a needle wears down the recording surface and after just a few plays a CD already sounds better. CD's are also much more portable, otherwise durable, and cheaper to make.
You can buy a laser record player in the mind 4-digit price range that will play a record without touching it and wearing it down, and you can still buy new records to play on it.
Ilford is so much better, and Kodak relying on their band name is more expensive. I still use a few hundred sheets a year of black and white photographic paper and I hadn't even heard about this.
When Ilford stops making paper that will be a sad day. Kodak stoping isn't even newsworthy.
I have an embedded app custom made for the iPod by a team of programmers dedicated to that one appplication. Why would I want to replace it with a more general OS and an app hastily written by a few people?
Which is is going to make a better mp3 player? After all, the iPod makes a great mp3 player but the UI stinks for anything else.
If I want to make a "studio-quality" recording, I'm not going to use an iPod and a regular old microphone. If I want to play tetris, pong, etc, I'll use my PDA with its nice big touchscreen and more suitable hardware buttons instead of my iPod with its tiny screen and clickwheel.
This is a great example of "just because you can't doesn't mean you should"
If I made a cartoon of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, or any of dozens of other fairy tales that are in the public domain, do you really think I'd get them released with Disney fighting me?
Is it that different if the government blocks free speech directly or allows companies to do it?
if you feel that $20 a print (or whatever is being charged) is to steep, have your friend take the photos at your wedding. but remember that these are the pictures that will be on your wall in 50 years, when you celebrate your anniversary.
Exactly...but the point of this article is that if those pictures your friend takes actually look decent, you won't be able to get the printed to hang on your wall at all because "surely, some pro photographer took them since they look good, so if you print them, you're ripping him off.
Just look how "popular" tubgirl and goatse are. I doubt many of the people with those images in their possession on their hard drives viewed them on purpose.
I have a link in my sig. If there are illegal images there, should the people who follow the link be subject to prosecution?
What happens is the griefers for a group and hunt down people near their level who are soloing. Level limits wouldn't help. They also wait until you're weak from having just killed a few creeps and then pounce.
The best idea I've seen is that every kill you make increases the Exp players get for killing you, and you're clearly marked as having high exp. It will give the bigger players reason to hunt down griefers.
I have been known to undo the quick-release lever of the front wheel when I forget my lock. A thief breaking his collar bone because the front wheel came off is going to be more obvious than one rolling along a bike with no seat.
That was great, I really laughed out loud. I almost wish your bike had been stolen to put a bike thief out of comission.
Shortly before I started university someone had been going around loosening the front wheel on people's bikes as an act of vandalism, so when I started there were warnings every to check your wheel.
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The real-time programming course at the University of Waterloo has a model train set we write a control program form.
It's a lot of fun for the first couple of days until it sinks in how hard it's going to be to write a real-time OS and a GUI-based train management program for it in 3 months.
One of the tests is to keep adding trains to the tracks while it's running to see how much it can handle. If your program crashes, the trains crash.
I took the course in 1999 so if any of what I said sounds wrong, it's because it changed since then.
Remember the Sci-Fi channel's Dune Mini-Series in 2000?
It is an excellent movie, with very high production quality very well acted and directed. To compare it to the new star wars trilogy, I'd say Dune is much higher quality except the special effects are slightly worse. Dune cost $15M to make while the star wars trilogy with about the same run-time cost about $500M. I'd rather watch Dune again on DVD than even think about watching one of the new Star Wars movies ever again.
Sci-Fi can be done on the cheap with extemely high quality. You just have morons like George Lucas making people think it can't be done.
Great, one extra thing to worry about in an emergency. First you have to remember to disable the system then you have to get out of the way.
A friend of mine rolled a golf cart for such a reason. The parking break was activated by pressing hard on the break pedal and released by pressing again. My friend started down too steep a slope, reflexively pressed too hard on the break activating the parking break and locked all 4 tires. In the 2 seconds it took the thing to roll, while panicing, he couldn't remember he had to release his foot, press again to unlock the break, and then use the break more carefully.
In an emergency, people will not have time to remeber how to disable this system. Slamming down the accelerator to leap out of the way is instinctive, whatever operations override the lockout are not instinctive.
This could cause a lot of deadly accidents if it kicks in when you're trying to quickly move out of the way of an oncoming vehicle or you're passing someone. I hope whoever came up with it is personally liable for any wrongful death cases.
Anyone else find it funny they're considering offering a discount on a fee they just happen to be raising? Why can't they be honest and admit it's a fee not to use this.
6$ is far too much for that tiny bandwidth and storage !
You're right; consider it a textbook example of why monopolies are bad.
Try here for free domains on the .eu.org second level domain.
You're never going to get a second level for free because ICANN takes a $6 cut from each one, but there are countless domain name owners who offer free or cheap subdomains.
I like the deck of dice...36 cards, typical 2 day distribution.
There's so much you can do with it in monopoly. Players can have a hand of cards and choose which to play, they can trade/sell cards to other players, the cards can be auctioned by the bank to come into the game, it can normally be a die roll but there's some mechanic to buy cards and you have the option of using a card, or the basic idea of just using the deck to make sure the short term trends follow a normal distribution.
Yeah, I know Hasbro is running the game, but..
Why not do something interesting like this based on a game that is actually fun to play. Puerto Rico, Catan, Carcassonne, etc. Especially in Europe where they don't play crap like Monopoly, and they play good games.
I wonder how wikipedia handles it...
Wikipedia is self moderating. The end users restore defaced pages. There was even an article in Wired a couple of months ago about it. On average, defacements are cleaned within a few minutes by other users, and the repairs are so fast that vandals quickly get discouraged.
Don't be insultring cheapass.
Cheapass Games has some great products.
I used to use a ton of HP5 plus. I'd buy it by the 100 foot roll.
I have to admit that these days I use XP2 on pre-wound rolls and have it commercially developed. Commercial color processing is so cheap now it works out about the same price as buying the chemicals if I get film only procession. Of course, I get the prints too and I get nice 4x6" proofs for about 5 cents each.
I get better grain and possibly better contrast from the chomogenic XP2 film too, but it's not a huge difference, the real reason I use it is laziness.
Why yes, records are better than CD's. This is not a subjective thing like the vacuum tube amps.
A record stores an analog waveform of the original sound with much more detail than the quantized digital data on a CD.
But...playing a record with a needle wears down the recording surface and after just a few plays a CD already sounds better. CD's are also much more portable, otherwise durable, and cheaper to make.
You can buy a laser record player in the mind 4-digit price range that will play a record without touching it and wearing it down, and you can still buy new records to play on it.
Ilford is so much better, and Kodak relying on their band name is more expensive. I still use a few hundred sheets a year of black and white photographic paper and I hadn't even heard about this.
When Ilford stops making paper that will be a sad day. Kodak stoping isn't even newsworthy.
www.gwallet.com is currently owned by a domain squatter.
You're right, but unplanned excursion doesn't make a great headline that fuels people's fear of technology.
I have an embedded app custom made for the iPod by a team of programmers dedicated to that one appplication. Why would I want to replace it with a more general OS and an app hastily written by a few people?
Which is is going to make a better mp3 player? After all, the iPod makes a great mp3 player but the UI stinks for anything else.
If I want to make a "studio-quality" recording, I'm not going to use an iPod and a regular old microphone. If I want to play tetris, pong, etc, I'll use my PDA with its nice big touchscreen and more suitable hardware buttons instead of my iPod with its tiny screen and clickwheel.
This is a great example of "just because you can't doesn't mean you should"
If I made a cartoon of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, or any of dozens of other fairy tales that are in the public domain, do you really think I'd get them released with Disney fighting me?
Is it that different if the government blocks free speech directly or allows companies to do it?
if you feel that $20 a print (or whatever is being charged) is to steep, have your friend take the photos at your wedding. but remember that these are the pictures that will be on your wall in 50 years, when you celebrate your anniversary. Exactly...but the point of this article is that if those pictures your friend takes actually look decent, you won't be able to get the printed to hang on your wall at all because "surely, some pro photographer took them since they look good, so if you print them, you're ripping him off.
Both Universities are hosting POWER5-based servers and are providing free SSH account access to the Open Source development community.
The servers at my school ran painfully slow with a few dozen people connected through SSH and compiling assignments.
Imagine the whole Open Source community logged in compiling code.
Just look how "popular" tubgirl and goatse are. I doubt many of the people with those images in their possession on their hard drives viewed them on purpose.
I have a link in my sig. If there are illegal images there, should the people who follow the link be subject to prosecution?
But their victim is dead forever.
But will MS actually do anything?
It seems like Microsoft is showing their own coders how vulnerable their code is, but these are probably the people who already know that best.
What happens is the griefers for a group and hunt down people near their level who are soloing. Level limits wouldn't help. They also wait until you're weak from having just killed a few creeps and then pounce.
The best idea I've seen is that every kill you make increases the Exp players get for killing you, and you're clearly marked as having high exp. It will give the bigger players reason to hunt down griefers.
I have been known to undo the quick-release lever of the front wheel when I forget my lock. A thief breaking his collar bone because the front wheel came off is going to be more obvious than one rolling along a bike with no seat.
That was great, I really laughed out loud. I almost wish your bike had been stolen to put a bike thief out of comission.
Shortly before I started university someone had been going around loosening the front wheel on people's bikes as an act of vandalism, so when I started there were warnings every to check your wheel.
No, just fax me a copy of the CD please.