My 1920x1080 monitor might as well be 640x1080. The fonts are huge though, so I can read the article titles from 8 feet away However, I can only see 5 articles without scrolling.
What a waste of space and effort.
The employees may have worked hard to improve themselves, but apparently they didn't improve themselves in a way that was valued by their employer. Sometimes all the employer wants (short sightedly or not) is an employee who is good enough.
I don't understand this whole unpaid overtime anyway. If these companies are so bought into capitalism, then they ought to buy more of your labor when they need more.
It sounds to me like the companies you refer to are thoroughly bought into capitalism. Why should a company buy overtime when employees will work for free?
If employees (and their elected representatives) allow employers to set up software sweatshops, they will.
I guess this means that Grecian Formula is nanotechnology. It's got lead and sulfur too. Who would have thunk it was so advanced?
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You're absolutely right. It's easy to make people love panda bears. It's a lot harder to get people to see the beauty and importance of a crocodile, a snake, or a tarantula. Steve did a wonderful job of conveying his enthusiastic appreciation for every sort of creature and its place in nature. My kids are much better off for having watched so many hours of his shows.
O.K., I had my filtering level set too high, so I'll label my previous post redundant.
In my defense, I think the original poster was looking for advice about software. After reading a lot of self-righteous pontification from various paragons of parenting wisdom and virtue, I was in a mad rush to help the O.P. find the requested software.
This program is supposed to be able to convert photos to color by number pictures, suitable for paint, crayon, etc. I haven't tried it, but it does have a free trial and is $19.95 to buy.
http://www.stoik.com/hobby/colorbynumber.htm
I thought the "we've lost the fleet" thing was pretty cool. I don't know how long "jumps" are supposed to be, but suppose you jump a lightyear or so and your direction is off by a degree. You'll end up about a 100 billion miles away from were you're supposed to be, and it will take your sensors days to detect the rest of the fleet. The writers do seem to have the scale thing right.
BTW, I love those old Navy "bitch boxes" (intercoms) that pass for communications gear on the bridge.
I remember "ripping" Pink Floyd's "The Wall" from a WBCN broadcast in Boston in the late Seventies. The quality of the cassette sucked, but I couldn't in my wildest dreams afford the album on my budget, so it sufficed for a while. As soon as I could afford it I bought the real thing.
Maybe RIAA could make part of their problem go away if record labels made lower quality downloads of tunes available for free. Good enough for blasting out the dorm room window, but bad enough so that if you can afford the real thing you'll want to pay for it. Artists could build markets, not alienate listeners, and still make money from people who can afford to pay for full-bandwidth versions of the music. They obviously aren't making any money from people who can't pay anyway.
WebMachines "iaNetwork" used to support remote storage and management of user preferences, so you could log into any machine managed by iaNetwork and see your data the way you liked. It handled remote updates, individual user preferences, devive settings, etc. See this link, courtesy of the WayBack Machine for a look at the (sadly, defunct) WebMachines iaNetwork. The iaNetwork "Identity Server" and iaNetwork "Device Server" seem most relevant to the patent in question.
According to Microsoft, Windows 1.0 was released on November 11, 1983. Anybody know for sure if that date is correct? Screenshots of Windows 1.0.1 say 1985. Anyway, it's conceivable that the author of the article has been using Windows for about 20 years. It's hard to believe that Windows is older than many Slashdotters.
how can an optical receiver (say, my eye) discern between the two?
My eye can distinguish between two green light sources, as long as they aren't in precisely the same direction. So can a camera obscura.
A similar idea works just fine with radio, if you have a directional antenna. My old GE SuperRadio has a great ferrite rod that lets me selectively listen to two AM stations on the same frequency by orienting the rod to null-out the station that I don't want to hear. A better antenna might let me distinguish between more than two stations on the same frequency.
If you're American, you have to wonder how the current topic squares with this Wired article on engineering brain-drain and how it impacts the U.S. Military. When the engineers leave, where are they going?
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My 1920x1080 monitor might as well be 640x1080. The fonts are huge though, so I can read the article titles from 8 feet away However, I can only see 5 articles without scrolling. What a waste of space and effort.
Not what the OP is looking for, but here's a commercial product that tracks buses and children using GPS and RFID.
Yeah, I know. Big Brother, etc.
The employees may have worked hard to improve themselves, but apparently they didn't improve themselves in a way that was valued by their employer. Sometimes all the employer wants (short sightedly or not) is an employee who is good enough.
It sounds to me like the companies you refer to are thoroughly bought into capitalism. Why should a company buy overtime when employees will work for free?
If employees (and their elected representatives) allow employers to set up software sweatshops, they will.
Submitted for your approval: a fine team of geek girls by any definition.
I guess this means that Grecian Formula is nanotechnology. It's got lead and sulfur too. Who would have thunk it was so advanced?
You're absolutely right. It's easy to make people love panda bears. It's a lot harder to get people to see the beauty and importance of a crocodile, a snake, or a tarantula. Steve did a wonderful job of conveying his enthusiastic appreciation for every sort of creature and its place in nature. My kids are much better off for having watched so many hours of his shows.
In my defense, I think the original poster was looking for advice about software. After reading a lot of self-righteous pontification from various paragons of parenting wisdom and virtue, I was in a mad rush to help the O.P. find the requested software.
This program is supposed to be able to convert photos to color by number pictures, suitable for paint, crayon, etc. I haven't tried it, but it does have a free trial and is $19.95 to buy. http://www.stoik.com/hobby/colorbynumber.htm
I think this guy was a patent examiner too.
BTW, I love those old Navy "bitch boxes" (intercoms) that pass for communications gear on the bridge.
Reminds me a lot of this (funnier!) column from Computer Language magazine.
I remember "ripping" Pink Floyd's "The Wall" from a WBCN broadcast in Boston in the late Seventies. The quality of the cassette sucked, but I couldn't in my wildest dreams afford the album on my budget, so it sufficed for a while. As soon as I could afford it I bought the real thing.
Maybe RIAA could make part of their problem go away if record labels made lower quality downloads of tunes available for free. Good enough for blasting out the dorm room window, but bad enough so that if you can afford the real thing you'll want to pay for it. Artists could build markets, not alienate listeners, and still make money from people who can afford to pay for full-bandwidth versions of the music. They obviously aren't making any money from people who can't pay anyway.
Except for large values of 50.
WebMachines "iaNetwork" used to support remote storage and management of user preferences, so you could log into any machine managed by iaNetwork and see your data the way you liked. It handled remote updates, individual user preferences, devive settings, etc. See this link, courtesy of the WayBack Machine for a look at the (sadly, defunct) WebMachines iaNetwork. The iaNetwork "Identity Server" and iaNetwork "Device Server" seem most relevant to the patent in question.
Young kids might like Enchanted Learning.
My eye can distinguish between two green light sources, as long as they aren't in precisely the same direction. So can a camera obscura.
A similar idea works just fine with radio, if you have a directional antenna. My old GE SuperRadio has a great ferrite rod that lets me selectively listen to two AM stations on the same frequency by orienting the rod to null-out the station that I don't want to hear. A better antenna might let me distinguish between more than two stations on the same frequency.
If you're American, you have to wonder how the current topic squares with this Wired article on engineering brain-drain and how it impacts the U.S. Military. When the engineers leave, where are they going?
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