Think of the poles. Both poles have sunlight that only strikes it obliquely, at most say 10 degrees off the horizon (just like on earth). Then you've got craters on the poles, so if a crater is deeper than that angle then you can have a region that's permanently in shadow.
Ahhhhhh... Crystal quest.... So many hours were spent on that game! What a fantastic game too, all those different aliens with different behaviours, the action got pretty frantic right at the end of each level as I remember as you desperately tried to get into the gate before the bombers dropped mines near the entrance!
What you're probably after is an XPort in a box with a battery. These devices use 3.3V, have a full TCP/IP stack, a web server, some flash memory, all somehow shoehorned into an RJ45 connector. Yep that's right, the thing is about the size of an RJ45 connector! If it runs at 3V you could probably run it off a 3V lithium battery, of not then use 6V with a 3.3V low power regulator.
These retail for around $30 in bulk, with a bit of digging you should be able to get one for less than $50 I'd think...
With a switch, battery, regulator and heatshrink around it, it will still be quite small enough to lose easily:-)
Man, that's such a shame. I recently bought a 12" PowerBook, after owning a 12" iBook before that. The powerbook is the epitome of what technology should be -- small, light, powerful.
Just like mobile phones, actually. Who heard of a mobile manufacturer saying "Well, lots of people are buying our phones because they're BIGGER than the competition"?
I like my technology small, and that includes being able to stuff my powerbook into a backpack. Come on, who would buy a 17" laptop? Someone who wants to have a bigger one than their friend? Come on.
Shortsighted: Because the software is being installed on the consumers machine. There are a myriad of ways of detecting this, and I imagine a myriad of ways for this system to be faked into giving alibis and working against the government.
I don't imagine that it will be long before a "DetectGovKeylog.exe" program comes out, and the details of the protocol they use is made public so that you can send whatever misinformation you like to the police.
Phone tapping can work because the software/hardware is installed in the exchange.
Unworkable: Linux, MacOS, need I say more? Not everyone uses PC's you know. And if you're completely patched then there should be no way for the government to install these programs.
...so it's not like Australia's move towards normalizing law enforcement techniques to modern standards is anything new.
That's right, down there in little Australia they still use stone tools and hunt kangaroos with spears.
How is a shortsighted unworkable piece of legislation modern?
1) Bad result, but result appears to confirm the prediction - this is not a successful experiment
2) Bad result, but result appears to invalidate the prediction - this is not a successful experiment. Possibility of an insufficiently sensitive instrument, or just a badly designed experiment.
3) Good result, but result appears to contradict the prediction - this is a successful experiment - a negative result is as valid as a positive one.
4) Good result, and result appears to confirm the prediction - this is a successful experiment
The problem as you described is probably because the 'new ideas' are outside the envelope of the company. You might think that middle management is useless, but the beancounters would get rid of them if they could -- so they're probably doing SOMEthing, even if it's just making sure that the company's capital isn't frittered away on frivolous experiments that may or may not work.
If the rate of innovation is really that stifled, then your brilliant ideas will get lapped up by a market starved for new and interesting solutions. The market has the final say, after all.
If you have a good idea, start a company. Attract investors, organise capital, supplies, and a place to work. Or you could just make your ideas more persuasive. You think you've got the managers figured out and you think you're smarter than they are... So go ahead and prove it. Or not, it's up to you.
But don't complain about the two-month stints you do. After all, it's your life, YOU get to choose what you do with it.
It shouldn't be modded as redundant though -- since the site is slashdotted I went looking through the posts, looking for some mirrored text. Eventually I found it, but only due to the above comment!
If I had karma I'd award the parent post 'informative' because it's the only way I could get the information...
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lol, not trying to be the one that explains to the slow kid, but...
The parent was a joke.
Yep, once again the engineer gets caught out by the strange unquantifiable phenomenon that goes by the name of humour. (Ha ha just kidding I'm an engineer too, but I mean come on it was pretty obvious!)
Now I know what all those "Slashdot editors don't read slashdot" posts are about. Also that weird feeling of deja-vu I got when reading this article... (Very similar article was posted yesterday). Read all about it here, including all those "HA HA we're still the best, computers can't play Go" posts you always get.
So my thesis is thus: Boeing represents the American ideal of maximum individual freedom, while Airbus shows the European tendancy to defer to an 'authority' (the state, or in this case, the manufacturer) rather than be responsible for oneself, and others.
Newspapers in France, for example, can get away with basically saying 'The masses are too stupid to know what's good for them.' Such a thing would not go over well here in the US.
Interesting the differences between how Americans and the rest of the world perceive Americans -- If you're in the 'good old US of A' then you perceive Americans as being on top of the world, smart as anything, and free to do as you choose.
In the rest of the world, Americans are mostly perceived as being one sandwich short of a picnic, with little or no idea of what goes on outside America. They are also perceived as being extremely arrogant, which is quite funny when someone is running rings around them in a conversation and they're too stupid to realise just how much they're being put down.
I think you'd be more correct in stating your thesis thus:
One element of human nature is to say that the country you identify with is far better than any other country, including the geography, people's ideals, beliefs and freedoms.
I agree wholeheartedly. Well, I'd have put Von Neumann and Harvard in there somewhere, but you're right -- this guy certainly hasn't gotten the recognition that the tone of the article suggests he should have.
He must have kept quiet over the past couple of centuries... if he was that good you'd have expected at least a couple of "I told you so"'s!
btw what's with posting as an AC? I almost missed your post 'cos it was scored 0.
Hey, not sure if this is your problem, it probably isn't but try Tools->Options->Advanced->Default_Open_Mode->Share d. Works for me in an environment with ten or so people all using the one database at once.
That's assuming you are tied into an Access system, although I've found MS Access to be more reliable as a database than MS SQL. For example, in MS SQL you can retrieve a date record and it will be in Australian date format, put exactly the same data back into the database and it will be treated as US date format. Also this bug really shits me.
If your IT department is as anal retentive about MS as mine is, then you can't just use a real database like mySQL so unfortunately it looks like you're stuck with Access. But I don't find it all that bad, in fact I prefer using Access databases with a web frontend to any other system because you can treat the database as a file (unlike mySQL, MSSQL, oracle etc).
So although it's an Apple product, it's really windows where the fault lies. From the article:
When processing a QuickTime
URL, the application is launched in the following manner as can be seen
from the Windows registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/quicktime:
%PATH TO QUICKTIME%\QuickTimePlayer.exe -u"%1"
A URL containing 400 characters will overrun the allocated space on the
stack overwriting the saved instruction pointer (EIP). This will thereby
allow an attacker to redirect the flow of control. An example URL that
will cause QuickTime player to crash is:
quicktime://127.0.0.1/AAAA...
Where the character 'A' is repeated 400 times.
Had windows used a decent method of starting applications (instead of some stupid extension to DOS) then this overflow wouldn't happen. Yes, yes, I know, Apple should have checked for this overflow. However 1 kludge + 1 workaround != 1 good system. *sigh*
I've had a CDMA phone for over two years now, and love it to death! There are a number of benefits, including longer range, lower amounts of microwaves hitting your skull, and so on.
GSM phones can exist in the same area as CDMA, I know this for a fact because all my friends have GSM...
What will probably happen is that the standard competitive environment will emerge anyway -- company A puts up GSM towers, company B puts up CDMA towers, and both try to convince the public that their system is better. Some people buy one system, some buy the other, based on what's important to that individual. This is, in my opinion, a much better system than relying on one technology -- and it's a system that will emerge without any form of legislation. Why can't political leaders just keep their noses out of it?:-)
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4 GB? Man, the laptop I had before this one had more than 4 GB!
Oh, you mean GHz. Obviously you're very well equipped to make comments about "All the power you need".
*sigh*
Yep, that's just what I need to read. Thanks, /. for making me work even less now.
:D
otoh, anyone know where the latest download of Dark Castle 3 is?
Think of the poles. Both poles have sunlight that only strikes it obliquely, at most say 10 degrees off the horizon (just like on earth). Then you've got craters on the poles, so if a crater is deeper than that angle then you can have a region that's permanently in shadow.
Ahhhhhh... Crystal quest.... So many hours were spent on that game! What a fantastic game too, all those different aliens with different behaviours, the action got pretty frantic right at the end of each level as I remember as you desperately tried to get into the gate before the bombers dropped mines near the entrance!
Thanks for the memory!!
The funny thing about people who just don't get it is that they just don't get that they just don't get it.
What you're probably after is an XPort in a box with a battery. These devices use 3.3V, have a full TCP/IP stack, a web server, some flash memory, all somehow shoehorned into an RJ45 connector. Yep that's right, the thing is about the size of an RJ45 connector! If it runs at 3V you could probably run it off a 3V lithium battery, of not then use 6V with a 3.3V low power regulator.
:-)
These retail for around $30 in bulk, with a bit of digging you should be able to get one for less than $50 I'd think...
With a switch, battery, regulator and heatshrink around it, it will still be quite small enough to lose easily
hth,
Ben
Man, that's such a shame. I recently bought a 12" PowerBook, after owning a 12" iBook before that. The powerbook is the epitome of what technology should be -- small, light, powerful.
Just like mobile phones, actually. Who heard of a mobile manufacturer saying "Well, lots of people are buying our phones because they're BIGGER than the competition"?
I like my technology small, and that includes being able to stuff my powerbook into a backpack. Come on, who would buy a 17" laptop? Someone who wants to have a bigger one than their friend? Come on.
DON'T KILL THE 12"!
Shortsighted: Because the software is being installed on the consumers machine. There are a myriad of ways of detecting this, and I imagine a myriad of ways for this system to be faked into giving alibis and working against the government.
I don't imagine that it will be long before a "DetectGovKeylog.exe" program comes out, and the details of the protocol they use is made public so that you can send whatever misinformation you like to the police.
Phone tapping can work because the software/hardware is installed in the exchange.
Unworkable: Linux, MacOS, need I say more? Not everyone uses PC's you know. And if you're completely patched then there should be no way for the government to install these programs.
...so it's not like Australia's move towards normalizing law enforcement techniques to modern standards is anything new.
That's right, down there in little Australia they still use stone tools and hunt kangaroos with spears.
How is a shortsighted unworkable piece of legislation modern?
'Tis you, poor deadlinegrunt, who doesn't get the joke :-)
That image is piss-funny :-)
Surely you mean:
1) Bad result, but result appears to confirm the prediction - this is not a successful experiment
2) Bad result, but result appears to invalidate the prediction - this is not a successful experiment. Possibility of an insufficiently sensitive instrument, or just a badly designed experiment.
3) Good result, but result appears to contradict the prediction - this is a successful experiment - a negative result is as valid as a positive one.
4) Good result, and result appears to confirm the prediction - this is a successful experiment
The problem as you described is probably because the 'new ideas' are outside the envelope of the company. You might think that middle management is useless, but the beancounters would get rid of them if they could -- so they're probably doing SOMEthing, even if it's just making sure that the company's capital isn't frittered away on frivolous experiments that may or may not work.
If the rate of innovation is really that stifled, then your brilliant ideas will get lapped up by a market starved for new and interesting solutions. The market has the final say, after all.
If you have a good idea, start a company. Attract investors, organise capital, supplies, and a place to work. Or you could just make your ideas more persuasive. You think you've got the managers figured out and you think you're smarter than they are... So go ahead and prove it. Or not, it's up to you.
But don't complain about the two-month stints you do. After all, it's your life, YOU get to choose what you do with it.
It shouldn't be modded as redundant though -- since the site is slashdotted I went looking through the posts, looking for some mirrored text. Eventually I found it, but only due to the above comment!
If I had karma I'd award the parent post 'informative' because it's the only way I could get the information...
lol, not trying to be the one that explains to the slow kid, but...
The parent was a joke.
Yep, once again the engineer gets caught out by the strange unquantifiable phenomenon that goes by the name of humour. (Ha ha just kidding I'm an engineer too, but I mean come on it was pretty obvious!)
Now I know what all those "Slashdot editors don't read slashdot" posts are about. Also that weird feeling of deja-vu I got when reading this article... (Very similar article was posted yesterday).
Read all about it here, including all those "HA HA we're still the best, computers can't play Go" posts you always get.
Best laugh I've had all day!!
:-)
Kudos to you, bsDaemon
Interesting the differences between how Americans and the rest of the world perceive Americans -- If you're in the 'good old US of A' then you perceive Americans as being on top of the world, smart as anything, and free to do as you choose.
In the rest of the world, Americans are mostly perceived as being one sandwich short of a picnic, with little or no idea of what goes on outside America. They are also perceived as being extremely arrogant, which is quite funny when someone is running rings around them in a conversation and they're too stupid to realise just how much they're being put down.
I think you'd be more correct in stating your thesis thus:
One element of human nature is to say that the country you identify with is far better than any other country, including the geography, people's ideals, beliefs and freedoms.
Mod points... you never have them when you need them. I just about pissed myself reading this :-)
I agree wholeheartedly. Well, I'd have put Von Neumann and Harvard in there somewhere, but you're right -- this guy certainly hasn't gotten the recognition that the tone of the article suggests he should have.
He must have kept quiet over the past couple of centuries... if he was that good you'd have expected at least a couple of "I told you so"'s!
btw what's with posting as an AC? I almost missed your post 'cos it was scored 0.
Pardon me for being so insensitive, but you sir are an idiot.
That's pretty funny coming from someone who is so lonely the only way he can get a woman is to program his own.
Geez man, lighten up!
Hey, not sure if this is your problem, it probably isn't but try Tools->Options->Advanced->Default_Open_Mode->Share d. Works for me in an environment with ten or so people all using the one database at once.
That's assuming you are tied into an Access system, although I've found MS Access to be more reliable as a database than MS SQL. For example, in MS SQL you can retrieve a date record and it will be in Australian date format, put exactly the same data back into the database and it will be treated as US date format. Also this bug really shits me.
If your IT department is as anal retentive about MS as mine is, then you can't just use a real database like mySQL so unfortunately it looks like you're stuck with Access. But I don't find it all that bad, in fact I prefer using Access databases with a web frontend to any other system because you can treat the database as a file (unlike mySQL, MSSQL, oracle etc).
Vesta has very large, circular crater
Come on, it's the deathstar, isn't it?
Had windows used a decent method of starting applications (instead of some stupid extension to DOS) then this overflow wouldn't happen. Yes, yes, I know, Apple should have checked for this overflow. However 1 kludge + 1 workaround != 1 good system.
*sigh*
I've had a CDMA phone for over two years now, and love it to death! There are a number of benefits, including longer range, lower amounts of microwaves hitting your skull, and so on.
:-)
GSM phones can exist in the same area as CDMA, I know this for a fact because all my friends have GSM...
What will probably happen is that the standard competitive environment will emerge anyway -- company A puts up GSM towers, company B puts up CDMA towers, and both try to convince the public that their system is better. Some people buy one system, some buy the other, based on what's important to that individual. This is, in my opinion, a much better system than relying on one technology -- and it's a system that will emerge without any form of legislation. Why can't political leaders just keep their noses out of it?