Replace the equipment you currently own, and/or gut out old technology and replace with new stuff:
Laptop: Don't stroll the streets with a fancy fangled widescreen ub3r1337 laptop, but instead a tough-built IBM Thinkpad 286-DX. The integrated TrackBall is so easy to use you'll wonder why you've used mice, eraserheads and touchpads for so long!
Instead of iPod, get a $20 Portable Cassette Player..you know..the analog audio type. Each tape can hold 90 minutes of music, which in todays terminology is about the equivalent of 22.5 songs or 112.5MB. (4mins/song, each song 5MB). Plus Cassette has NO DRM, and can store formats of CD/MP3/OGG/ACC/record/8Track in high quality stereo!
Cell Phone: The new phones with camera, MIDI Synthesizer, tv screen, QUERTY keyboard all get in the way of its primary function..get just what you need with a large cell phone from the 80's. With all the EMF generated by this analog phone, no crook would be caught stealing one of these!
PDA: Who needs a embedded computer that needs batteries to run when you can tote around a convienent compact notepad and pencil/pen? Your paper notepad can be backed up at any Kinko's shops or any other place with a copy machine! No more having to sync with PIM software.
If you talk to enough laptop owners who would build their own desktop computers, you'll hear more complaints about a laptop sluggish HDD transfer speed than the CPU speed. For many of the laptops I've come across (and most mainstream store-bought boxes) is that the Harddrive and/or I/O controller is the bottleneck that makes the computer feel slower.
I'd rather see advancements in laptop I/O and memory access than faster CPUs. Most of the mid to high range laptops on the market today have plenty CPU power to run presentations and and with decent decidated video chipset, FPS games. HDD access is what kills faster framerates IMO.
"Public safety is more important than public convenience"
I'll bet many of the survivors of Sept. 11 2001 made it through because of cell phone communications.
Okay, so lets say you DO run some frequency jammers...and some terrorist decide to use another means of communication to carry out their plans. Now you have a large number of people with no communication outside the affected area. Police/Medics will have a longer time of arriving to the scene. It will take longer to locate injured persons.
I'd imagine that unless you're serving very dark beer, using a simple photocell or light sensor would be difficult...seeing how ambient light can vary within an indoor environment such as a bar.
You could use an electro-optical fluid level sensor (such as shown here: http://www.gemssensors.com/electrooptical.htm) but it would most certainly bring the total cost of the project higher. (Gems Sensors cost between $20-$300+ at Digikey)
Anyone know if the color and opacity of the CDR disk have an effect on durability?
Its been my observation that the darker blue medium and opaque CDRs work better than ligher colored (more silver) and more transparent ones. I think the Verbatim's from the 1x/2x/4x days are the best: Deep blue medium, yellow/gold/green recorded region, and the top layer was thick and not prone to be scratched off like today's CDRs.
Using this logic..CDR media gets worse as recording speed of drives are pushed faster. But I haven't found quantative data to back this up.
A class learning French and trying to get to grips with gender wondered if the word "computer" should be masculine or feminine. Split into two groups, men and women, they were asked to say which they considered a computer to be, and to give four reasons for their decision
The women decided that computers are masculine because: -In order to gain their attention, you have to turn them on. -They are full of data, but are still clueless. -They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but most of the time they are the problem. -As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better one.
The men decided that computers are feminine because:
-No one but their creator understands their internal logic. -The language they use to communicate with each other is totally incomprehensible. -Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval. -As soon as you commit to them, you spend half your disposable income on buying accesories for them.
There are times in microprocessor/embedded chip microcode design where you need to insert assembly instructions in your C code, or do an entire function in assembly. Some hardware specific things cannot be worked out in C.
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For anyone who maintains websites with a text editor (myself included) the value of CSS is greatly appreciated. As you've mentioned, all you have to do is edit one css file and you can change the appearence of a whole website, or at least all the pages that use that particular CSS file. The problem is with those using WYSIWYG editors like FrontPage and Dreamweaver who have no idea of CSS, or in some cases basic HTML for that matter. I've seen how Dreamweaver (4) handles page "themes". Make one change like change link colors, and then the software traverses through each and every file and makes the changes in them. Not very efficient.
it's not thriftiness, it's Money Optimization! The game is to maximize the amount of money still remaining in your wallet after each purchasing excercise.
I just find the whole "right-click to do everything" approach fairly disorienting.
I think if you keep using it you'll start to appreciate the right-click-on-the-image deal. Say if you want to select a region and apply a sharpen filter, you can draw your box, then at the location, bring up the menu and select sharpen. Instead of having to go up to the top of the screen.
If setup on some BIOSes, press and release the power button on the case and the system goes into suspend/sleep. Press and hold for 4 seconds, system powers down.
A good book to pick up is _The Art of Electronics_ by Horowitz and Hill. It goes over a lot of circuit theory and digital computer architecture. It's straightforward and easy to read. I recently checked it out from the library and it covers a lot of things I've learned in my theory classes. It gives many examples of good circuit design ideas and bad ones. I may end up buying a copy to keep as reference.
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Replace the equipment you currently own, and/or gut out old technology and replace with new stuff:
Laptop: Don't stroll the streets with a fancy fangled widescreen ub3r1337 laptop, but instead a tough-built IBM Thinkpad 286-DX. The integrated TrackBall is so easy to use you'll wonder why you've used mice, eraserheads and touchpads for so long!
Instead of iPod, get a $20 Portable Cassette Player..you know..the analog audio type. Each tape can hold 90 minutes of music, which in todays terminology is about the equivalent of 22.5 songs or 112.5MB. (4mins/song, each song 5MB). Plus Cassette has NO DRM, and can store formats of CD/MP3/OGG/ACC/record/8Track in high quality stereo!
Cell Phone: The new phones with camera, MIDI Synthesizer, tv screen, QUERTY keyboard all get in the way of its primary function..get just what you need with a large cell phone from the 80's. With all the EMF generated by this analog phone, no crook would be caught stealing one of these!
PDA: Who needs a embedded computer that needs batteries to run when you can tote around a convienent compact notepad and pencil/pen? Your paper notepad can be backed up at any Kinko's shops or any other place with a copy machine! No more having to sync with PIM software.
If you talk to enough laptop owners who would build their own desktop computers, you'll hear more complaints about a laptop sluggish HDD transfer speed than the CPU speed. For many of the laptops I've come across (and most mainstream store-bought boxes) is that the Harddrive and/or I/O controller is the bottleneck that makes the computer feel slower.
I'd rather see advancements in laptop I/O and memory access than faster CPUs. Most of the mid to high range laptops on the market today have plenty CPU power to run presentations and and with decent decidated video chipset, FPS games. HDD access is what kills faster framerates IMO.
Finally! A day will come where I can get a processor with MM and NX bit on a mobile motherboard featuring MXM interface.
I don' think that would work. Didn't SCO already try this already?
"Public safety is more important than public convenience"
I'll bet many of the survivors of Sept. 11 2001 made it through because of cell phone communications.
Okay, so lets say you DO run some frequency jammers...and some terrorist decide to use another means of communication to carry out their plans. Now you have a large number of people with no communication outside the affected area. Police/Medics will have a longer time of arriving to the scene. It will take longer to locate injured persons.
With a bit (okay...a lot) of tweaking..we can all have a robot that folds laundry from the dryer!
Fastest Linux Cluster Constructs YOU!
At least you didn't think GMail was a new email/groupware client that runs on Gnome desktop.
I'd imagine that unless you're serving very dark beer, using a simple photocell or light sensor would be difficult...seeing how ambient light can vary within an indoor environment such as a bar.
You could use an electro-optical fluid level sensor (such as shown here: http://www.gemssensors.com/electrooptical.htm) but it would most certainly bring the total cost of the project higher. (Gems Sensors cost between $20-$300+ at Digikey)
More Power! for my riding lawn mower. grr grunt grr grunt grr grunt.
Anyone know if the color and opacity of the CDR disk have an effect on durability?
Its been my observation that the darker blue medium and opaque CDRs work better than ligher colored (more silver) and more transparent ones. I think the Verbatim's from the 1x/2x/4x days are the best: Deep blue medium, yellow/gold/green recorded region, and the top layer was thick and not prone to be scratched off like today's CDRs.
Using this logic..CDR media gets worse as recording speed of drives are pushed faster. But I haven't found quantative data to back this up.
I certainly hope they're using RAMBUS memory..unless they want to be sued for "not wanting to pay loyalty fees"
A class learning French and trying to get to grips with gender wondered if the word "computer" should be masculine or feminine. Split into two groups, men and women, they were asked to say which they considered a computer to be, and to give four reasons for their decision
The women decided that computers are masculine because:
-In order to gain their attention, you have to turn them on.
-They are full of data, but are still clueless.
-They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but most of the time they are the problem.
-As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better one.
The men decided that computers are feminine because:
-No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
-The language they use to communicate with each other is totally incomprehensible.
-Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
-As soon as you commit to them, you spend half your disposable income on buying accesories for them.
What kind of (tree based) data structure is this? How would one go about making it AVL? ...and I thought B-Tree was bad.
There are times in microprocessor/embedded chip microcode design where you need to insert assembly instructions in your C code, or do an entire function in assembly. Some hardware specific things cannot be worked out in C.
For anyone who maintains websites with a text editor (myself included) the value of CSS is greatly appreciated. As you've mentioned, all you have to do is edit one css file and you can change the appearence of a whole website, or at least all the pages that use that particular CSS file. The problem is with those using WYSIWYG editors like FrontPage and Dreamweaver who have no idea of CSS, or in some cases basic HTML for that matter. I've seen how Dreamweaver (4) handles page "themes". Make one change like change link colors, and then the software traverses through each and every file and makes the changes in them. Not very efficient.
That's why I took the ACT in high school. ACT was balanced between the English (no analogies in ACT), Mathematics and Science.
it's not thriftiness, it's Money Optimization! The game is to maximize the amount of money still remaining in your wallet after each purchasing excercise.
oh good God No!
"Congratulations! You have captured the red team's flag. To continue with the game, please enter the word on the top of page 948 of the user manual."
If you miss this, you'd better be dead... or in jail...And if you're in jail, break out!
I just find the whole "right-click to do everything" approach fairly disorienting.
I think if you keep using it you'll start to appreciate the right-click-on-the-image deal. Say if you want to select a region and apply a sharpen filter, you can draw your box, then at the location, bring up the menu and select sharpen. Instead of having to go up to the top of the screen.
If setup on some BIOSes, press and release the power button on the case and the system goes into suspend/sleep. Press and hold for 4 seconds, system powers down.
Drms = ~0.707(D)
A good book to pick up is _The Art of Electronics_ by Horowitz and Hill. It goes over a lot of circuit theory and digital computer architecture. It's straightforward and easy to read. I recently checked it out from the library and it covers a lot of things I've learned in my theory classes. It gives many examples of good circuit design ideas and bad ones. I may end up buying a copy to keep as reference.
Example computer advertising
Before higher RAM costs
QAPMOC_PH 5500: 256 MB RAM
QAPMOC_PH 6200: 131,072 kB RAM
Best Buy Sales droid:"Yes, the new 6200 has more RAM than the 5500 model."
I know years ago on at least this one model of notebook Toshiba listed the 3 gb hardrive as "3,000,000 megabytes".