but I had a 5.6" LCD, and the backlight went out on me. The panel itself was fine, but the light wouldn't turn on, so I disassembled the device and laid the panel on a over head projector I bought for $30 on eBay, and each lamp cost about $15 (two lamp set up, you flip a lever and it slides the spare lamp over in case of a burn out). The LCD has a 12V power source, which I hooked up to a SFF computer I bought, and the other inputs are audio/video RCA. Obviously the speaker on the thing is shit, so I leave the audio open. I got a VGA to NTSC converter from eBay for $14. You can probably make your own, the circuit looks simple enough. I don't have any capability to make circuit boards though, so $14 sounded good to me. Run the computer into the LCD and presto.
The projector is about 2400 lumens. In PITCH DARK it works great. Any ambient light and forget it. You'll need more like 4000 lumens if you can't eliminate all the light. Obviously you have to fashion some sort of light blocker for the rest of the projector or the light will over come the image. Being cheap and poor, I used a piece of foam board and cut out a rectangle to match the LCD screen. It works pretty well, but foam board is a mother fucker to cut straight. Next iteration of this I'm gonna use fiberglass.
My parents also had a slide projector screen. I "borrowed" that and it works a thousand times better than a sheet or a blank wall. The material is the best for reflecting the image. I highly recommend getting an actual projection screen.
As a full fleged EE, this will prove to be simple unless you have trouble fabricating your own things. Good luck. You can easily do this for under $200 if you shop around.
The solution is to make it easy and cheap (within reason, $0.99 a song is actually sorta expensive, but $0.75 seems sort of cheap) to get the music you want, when you want, in whatever format you want. I do NOT want a shitbag MP3 of my music. I want a lossless WAV (I'd even prefer better quality than 16-bit 44100Hz, DVD Audio all the way), with a good file transfer speed, (hell, you could even make money by offering various levels of transfer speeds) and then let ME do what I want with it. I'll compress it to Ogg Vorbis if I want to. It's all about me, because it's my money these pricks want. So give me the rights I have, stop bothering me and provide me with the ability to actually GET the songs in a format that's worthy of being played.
Neil Diamond even said that he doesn't care about file sharing, because the quality is so crappy that it's like getting a junk demo of the song. I feel the same way. Offer me the things listed above and you won't have to worry about me stealing your songs.
No, by this logic we should deal with problems that matter, like poverty, hunger and physical crimes. Not stealing a song from a rich guy who by all rights, has no reason to make money from said song. If the artists were the ones losing out then this would be a different story.
The only problem at my old work was that it was a fully electronic clock, and reported times directly to the HR guy who, coincidentally, was the instant downfall of this business. He instituted draconian rules (like the god forsaken clock, bathroom limits, and break limits) and no one liked him, well, no one except for the marshmellow-headed weasel. You know the type of person I'm talking about. They'll suck off a fat bald guy if they think it'll get them points. Anyhow, there was no fudging the clock, unless I wanted to hack it, which was out of the question since I was hoping the job would get better. Well, long story short, it didn't, so I started slipping up, calling "marshmellow-head" names like "fucking idiot" and "dumb bitch" in front of many, many other people. I assume some told the HR guy who seemed to take a liking to this fat-faced broad. Or writing emails to my girlfriend about how fucking stupid the place was and how the rules and environment changed for the worse. I was also coerced into signing a document that limited my ability to browse on the internet, for very, very poor reasons. I wish I had it here to show everyone how stupid it was. I disobeyed that just out of spite. And that is how they fired me. "Disobeyed company policies." Heh, they got me in the end, I couldn't even file for unemployment. I was gonna quit in a week anyhow, but they beat me to the punch.
They can't make you punch a timeclock... nor can they deduct pay for being late or leaving early.
This exact bullshit happened to me, where despite being salaried, I had to punch a clock. That job ended in a flurry of "Fuck yous" and I wish I had had the sense to quit before they fired me.
I think that's a bit outlandish. First off, what can you even call homosexuals now that won't hurt someones feelings? Next, I suppose I'm in one of the least oppressed groups in history. (Straight, White Anglo-Saxon, but not Protestant, although my family is) I can't even think of a good example to tie in, but I've had my fair share of tormenting in my day (being sub-five-feet tall in 6th grade and all) and I'm not killing myself over it. I got my ass kicked for it, threats every day, etc. Oh well. I just learned to fight better.
However, I'm a sensible man, if it really pisses so many people off then I won't write it anymore. But man, some people have GOT to learn it isn't the end of the fucking world when the word "Gay" is used in a context other than describing a sexual orientation... I don't beat gays, I don't hate gays, I'm not scared of gays, hell I'll fucking vote so that they have all the rights straights do! I feel they get the short end of the stick a lot, and that sucks. What I will NOT do, however, is play some petty game over an adjective. If someone commits suicide over me writing that word like that, then they had more problems than just being an oppressed homosexual.
Is "gay" a name? I suppose in that context it could be construed as one, but it's quite obvious I meant no harm to homosexuals. Damn, do I ever hate having to watch what I say.
About travelling with a band: Now a days if you spend more than a few weeks out of work, your potential employers will actually ask you why... Gay as all hell, none of their business if you ask me. I'm doing the same thing this summer, so hopefully I can come up with a good lie.
I read it affected every version of TCP they tested (too bad they didn't list affected systems...) Anyhow, this is going to require a LOT of rewriting/updating of software and firmware. Which, in turn, most people won't even apply, a la Blaster.
You hit the nail on the head right in the middle of your paragraph. I'm talking more low-level malicious so the core OS files don't get all buggered up. That way you always have SOME functionality. Obviously virii have predictable patterns, or else hueristic patten matching wouldn't work as well as it does. If I do attempt this endeavor (yeah... I'm the laziest man alive) I will need that luck, so thanks;)
I wonder if a simple AI could be set up to detect malicious/erroneous code and prevent itself from self-corrupting... That would be such a boon and SO worth the cycles to implement...
Some anaerobic bacteria are damn near invincible. I'd wager they could survive an impact given the right angle of incidence to the planet. Of course then it's a billion years or so before complex organisms could evolve.
I don't know why I decided to respond to your particular post, but I need to ask if anyone else notices the randomizer in Winamp sucks balls? I have a good 8,000 songs, and Winamp will constantly play ~300 of them and tend to ignore the rest. I put their little "morph" slider all the way up to change the playlist quickly but to no avail.
That plane was an Airbus A300 (Thanks to mcbridematt for the info). I doubt it has fly-by-wire capabilities, the last revision was in 1988. I'm sure a computer controlled rudder would not let a catastrophic command like that execute.
In Europe there's a country... I think it's Finland, they base fines on your income. The fine for driving over the limit is a product of the severity and a percentage of your income , for example. I think that's a better way to handle it.
This is a real fucking problem... I want to advertise for an HR guy with half a fucking brain. Or is that a fairy tale just like a guy with 15 years of Linux experience...
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but I had a 5.6" LCD, and the backlight went out on me. The panel itself was fine, but the light wouldn't turn on, so I disassembled the device and laid the panel on a over head projector I bought for $30 on eBay, and each lamp cost about $15 (two lamp set up, you flip a lever and it slides the spare lamp over in case of a burn out). The LCD has a 12V power source, which I hooked up to a SFF computer I bought, and the other inputs are audio/video RCA. Obviously the speaker on the thing is shit, so I leave the audio open. I got a VGA to NTSC converter from eBay for $14. You can probably make your own, the circuit looks simple enough. I don't have any capability to make circuit boards though, so $14 sounded good to me. Run the computer into the LCD and presto.
The projector is about 2400 lumens. In PITCH DARK it works great. Any ambient light and forget it. You'll need more like 4000 lumens if you can't eliminate all the light. Obviously you have to fashion some sort of light blocker for the rest of the projector or the light will over come the image. Being cheap and poor, I used a piece of foam board and cut out a rectangle to match the LCD screen. It works pretty well, but foam board is a mother fucker to cut straight. Next iteration of this I'm gonna use fiberglass.
My parents also had a slide projector screen. I "borrowed" that and it works a thousand times better than a sheet or a blank wall. The material is the best for reflecting the image. I highly recommend getting an actual projection screen.
As a full fleged EE, this will prove to be simple unless you have trouble fabricating your own things. Good luck. You can easily do this for under $200 if you shop around.
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What suite number? There's a bunch of shit there from what I see. New York Pizza Department, some sort of Japanese restaurant and a Best Buy.
The solution is to make it easy and cheap (within reason, $0.99 a song is actually sorta expensive, but $0.75 seems sort of cheap) to get the music you want, when you want, in whatever format you want. I do NOT want a shitbag MP3 of my music. I want a lossless WAV (I'd even prefer better quality than 16-bit 44100Hz, DVD Audio all the way), with a good file transfer speed, (hell, you could even make money by offering various levels of transfer speeds) and then let ME do what I want with it. I'll compress it to Ogg Vorbis if I want to. It's all about me, because it's my money these pricks want. So give me the rights I have, stop bothering me and provide me with the ability to actually GET the songs in a format that's worthy of being played.
Neil Diamond even said that he doesn't care about file sharing, because the quality is so crappy that it's like getting a junk demo of the song. I feel the same way. Offer me the things listed above and you won't have to worry about me stealing your songs.
No, by this logic we should deal with problems that matter, like poverty, hunger and physical crimes. Not stealing a song from a rich guy who by all rights, has no reason to make money from said song. If the artists were the ones losing out then this would be a different story.
The only problem at my old work was that it was a fully electronic clock, and reported times directly to the HR guy who, coincidentally, was the instant downfall of this business. He instituted draconian rules (like the god forsaken clock, bathroom limits, and break limits) and no one liked him, well, no one except for the marshmellow-headed weasel. You know the type of person I'm talking about. They'll suck off a fat bald guy if they think it'll get them points. Anyhow, there was no fudging the clock, unless I wanted to hack it, which was out of the question since I was hoping the job would get better. Well, long story short, it didn't, so I started slipping up, calling "marshmellow-head" names like "fucking idiot" and "dumb bitch" in front of many, many other people. I assume some told the HR guy who seemed to take a liking to this fat-faced broad. Or writing emails to my girlfriend about how fucking stupid the place was and how the rules and environment changed for the worse. I was also coerced into signing a document that limited my ability to browse on the internet, for very, very poor reasons. I wish I had it here to show everyone how stupid it was. I disobeyed that just out of spite. And that is how they fired me. "Disobeyed company policies." Heh, they got me in the end, I couldn't even file for unemployment. I was gonna quit in a week anyhow, but they beat me to the punch.
I think that's a bit outlandish. First off, what can you even call homosexuals now that won't hurt someones feelings? Next, I suppose I'm in one of the least oppressed groups in history. (Straight, White Anglo-Saxon, but not Protestant, although my family is) I can't even think of a good example to tie in, but I've had my fair share of tormenting in my day (being sub-five-feet tall in 6th grade and all) and I'm not killing myself over it. I got my ass kicked for it, threats every day, etc. Oh well. I just learned to fight better.
However, I'm a sensible man, if it really pisses so many people off then I won't write it anymore. But man, some people have GOT to learn it isn't the end of the fucking world when the word "Gay" is used in a context other than describing a sexual orientation... I don't beat gays, I don't hate gays, I'm not scared of gays, hell I'll fucking vote so that they have all the rights straights do! I feel they get the short end of the stick a lot, and that sucks. What I will NOT do, however, is play some petty game over an adjective. If someone commits suicide over me writing that word like that, then they had more problems than just being an oppressed homosexual.
Is "gay" a name? I suppose in that context it could be construed as one, but it's quite obvious I meant no harm to homosexuals. Damn, do I ever hate having to watch what I say.
Heh, sorry. I really have nothing against gays, it's more a figure of speech than anything. At least for me.
About travelling with a band: Now a days if you spend more than a few weeks out of work, your potential employers will actually ask you why... Gay as all hell, none of their business if you ask me. I'm doing the same thing this summer, so hopefully I can come up with a good lie.
I read it affected every version of TCP they tested (too bad they didn't list affected systems...) Anyhow, this is going to require a LOT of rewriting/updating of software and firmware. Which, in turn, most people won't even apply, a la Blaster.
I believe he meant Ecstasy...
You hit the nail on the head right in the middle of your paragraph. I'm talking more low-level malicious so the core OS files don't get all buggered up. That way you always have SOME functionality. Obviously virii have predictable patterns, or else hueristic patten matching wouldn't work as well as it does. If I do attempt this endeavor (yeah... I'm the laziest man alive) I will need that luck, so thanks ;)
I wonder if a simple AI could be set up to detect malicious/erroneous code and prevent itself from self-corrupting... That would be such a boon and SO worth the cycles to implement...
Some anaerobic bacteria are damn near invincible. I'd wager they could survive an impact given the right angle of incidence to the planet. Of course then it's a billion years or so before complex organisms could evolve.
I don't know why I decided to respond to your particular post, but I need to ask if anyone else notices the randomizer in Winamp sucks balls? I have a good 8,000 songs, and Winamp will constantly play ~300 of them and tend to ignore the rest. I put their little "morph" slider all the way up to change the playlist quickly but to no avail.
That plane was an Airbus A300 (Thanks to mcbridematt for the info). I doubt it has fly-by-wire capabilities, the last revision was in 1988. I'm sure a computer controlled rudder would not let a catastrophic command like that execute.
Heh, then they fuck up and burrow into your skin, eating your fingernails and scalp/pubic hair as well. That's be a sight to see...
Failure to yield is usually what people get.
but how bout a fucking map?
In Europe there's a country... I think it's Finland, they base fines on your income. The fine for driving over the limit is a product of the severity and a percentage of your income , for example. I think that's a better way to handle it.
Hot damn you're good. So being DOUBLE gay... Can you explain this new form of faggotry to me please?
This is a real fucking problem... I want to advertise for an HR guy with half a fucking brain. Or is that a fairy tale just like a guy with 15 years of Linux experience...
Egotism + Stereotyping = Eurpoean