Ive come across a better, more dense power source. Its invisible, but you can see it, its all pervasive during the day, and I can charge 4 NiMh AA batteries in 8 hours using a 10x10cm collection device that cost 10 zorkmids at Maplins.
I belive its called 'photonic energy' and is collected using a 'photovolatic device', the power source is a nearby 'stellar fusion orb'.
Sounds pretty "Star Trek", but I assure you it works.
Developers smarter than you have spent decades building useful higher-level layers to speed up the development of complex code.
What if all those high level languages start getting replaced bu IDEs that turn out the raw assembly? Assembler is supposed to be 7 times slower to code as a HLL, but most of that is in having to maintain lables and equates all over the place.
I can see the day when something like eclipse gets good enough that it handles all the parmlist work and maintains a DSECT as you go, without having to scroll between CSECT and DSECT parts of the program. It could also maintain the boilerplate for well known situations, have a macro wizard that does the MF=E and MF=L forms simultaneously, and perhaps even be more efficient in its use of register saves, I'm always using STM into a 16 fullword savearea when Im only using a couple of registers.
You can do this the other way too. Most zombie films use real actors that just dont look dead, and the Stepford Wives used the Uncanny Valley to great effect as you and the wife slowly discovered why the other women were so unsettling.
Ive had similar problems with other devices, including the Archos Gmini 220. These days the firmwares are so crap that the devices lock up given 1/2 a chance. I wouldnt buy a device till its 'family' has been on the market for a while and there is a long changelog of bugfixes.
Most new players that come out arnt even of Alpha quality, particularly as the Gmini clearly never had any testing done beyond the developers setup. The manual shows different hardware than what shipped and also dont describe the interface correctly: therefore the hardware and firmware was still changing when the the product went into mass production.
Between you, magnatunes, and possibly quite a few others, I can see the rise of the aggregator site (kind of like cnet) that points the user to the best tunes (via reviews, etc).
This looks like the place you want to be, cos then you can eventually stop aggregating and sell direct. The artists themselves may set up sites and you can aggregate artists, rather than record companies. You revenue will have to be advertising, hosting for artists, etc.
Isnt there another problem for the Mongols as they get further west? Their composite bows become ineffective in the damp, the longbow comes into its own. Also those tiny horses are great on the plains, but would get bogged down in the likes of Flanders.
Even the Romans had problems in Europe, they couldnt penetrate Germany, and failed to get past Carlisle or into Ireland. They even struggled to get into Britain, taking 3 tries and 100 years.
The GPL only comes into effect when you distribute the software.
You may do what you like with the software, including modifying it. Only when you take a copy of the software or your modifications and pass them on to someone else does the GPL come into effect.
You may reject the GPL, you can still get support from someone who has accepted it (and hence is allowed to distibute).
This says 10-11 hours at -q7 versus 15-17 hours of (admittidly lower bitrate) MP3.
I guess its the higher bitrates that are the killer. iRiver force high Ogg bitrates by having a 96kbps floor, so many -q3 and even some -q4 encodings wont play.
Vorbis's problem is that it suck batteries dry in about 2/3rds the time it takes MP3 to do it. Thats only based on my iRiver, but I think the Rio Karma gets similar figures.
But what do I know, my first player was a POS Nex ia.
Debunker states that they took a motorcycle helmet with them on an offical car trip. Theres no sign of any helmet in the photos,. Thers 1 pic of motorbike at a recognisable location.
There are problems with the original photos, though, her jacket changes from green motorcycling jacket to a black fashion one, and the weather appears to change. I guess the first few pics are of a real motorcycle trip.
The 'feel' I get from this is that the trip did happen, it involved staying with researchers at chernobyl, the authorities were notified but only get involved when 'incidents' happen. Several details were left out either for narrative or personal reasons.
How about getting their intimate thoughts? interview the driver or something.
I have an iriver ifp300t that would do the trick (I find AA batts in a device means never having find a powerpoint to recharge). Add in a small digicam and you are away.
No, they cannot measure how many individuals existed at any given moment from the fossil record. Counting fossils only give you an indication of how many were preserved, and some clue as to relative abundances for the more common specimens.
They can measure number of species quite easily, just by counting the different species in the fossil record. There are problems with deciding whether 2 similar animals are different species, and the data can be skewed by the fact that soft bodied animals may not preserve as well as boned and hard shelled creatures. But the species count is far more accurate than the count of individuals.
Every single one of those things on those windows are either standard window furniture, standard windows widgets, or are trying to look like a hardware hi-fi. My Denon stereo has a > layout on the remote, progress bars arnt exactly inovative, the playlist looks like a standard filelist, the shuffle/loop buttons are on my WinNT CD Player. Lsongs has a search which isnt apparent in iTunes, Lsongs has 2 more frames than the apple one. Theyve just used similar memes to create their interface, and they look similar because they do the same job.
Take a look at Honda's products vs Audi. They are pretty much identical because they do the same job and use the same standard memes.
Ditto vacuum cleaners, running shoes, light switches, guns, film posters, pens, land based mammals, etc.
I cant see how you deal with the problem of hikers who go home, forgetting to hand the tag back in. Do they send out a search party every time this happens?
There is a very good chance the UK will withdraw from the EU after the referendum. There is an unholy alliance of little englanders, anti-immigration parties, free-marketeers, beaurocracy haters, democracy lovers, and now software developers. Straw polls indicate 60% of the population will reject the new constitution.
I wouldnt be suprised if Denmark breaks away too, possibly taking the rest if Scandinavia with it.
Germanic cultures will then find itself isolated with Latin countries to the West, poor ex-communist states to the west, and independant states to the north and south. Cant imagine Germany will hang around when its having to bankroll everyone elses peasant economy.
After that, I think its Britain's turn to invade France. Or maybe Germany's, its hard to keep track these days.
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# The actual reason for the introduction of ID cards
Pandering to the 'conservative' vote. The tabloids have been banging on about immigration for so long, now the government can point to something they are actually going (apart from giving away citizenship by the 10000). The fallout wont happen till after the next election.
# Who will be able to demand an ID card and under what circumstances;
Policemen, civil servants, shopkeepers, swimming pool attendants, schoolteachers, waiters, everyone else.
# If ownership of ID cards will be compulsory
The Spanish experience is yes, because you wont be able to function without one. You wont be able to buy stamps without showing your ID.
# If the carrying of ID cards will be compulsory
See above
# The security of the ID cards and the centralised database
Totally secure till someone loses a laptop.
# How any biometric data might be collected and how much time and effort would be required of that process
They'll do it at the same time they implant the chip.
# The ability of the cardholding citizen to view personal data held on ID cards
Ha ha. No chance unless you buy the stolen data.
# The ability of the citizen to demand the correction of misleading data held on the ID card
See above, you cant correct what you dont know.
# If centralised data will be shared between government departments, researchers or commercial organisations
Yes, on easily stolen laptops.
# If personal data will be exported from the country and hence out of the remit of the Data Protection Acts
Yes, on stolen laptops.
# What protections will be put in place to prevent abuse of the ID card system by future administrations
Continued resistance to proportional representation, even more dissillusionment of the voting public. No future government will have a mandate to do anything.
# How the ID card system will not discriminate against ethnic minorities
The same way Stop and Search didnt.
# If the ID card scheme violates the Data Protection Acts
What, the current one, or the ammended one that will allow any use by the government?
That, or the fact that most cars have 2/3rd of their weight at the front... Special effect folks and stunt drivers usually stick around 500 lbs of sandbags in the trunk to achieve that fly-flat (crash)-land-flat effect.
Except in The Dukes of Hazzard. Oh the joys of watching them snap The General in half on landing, only to see them driving off in a perfectly restored car in the next shot with nary a bumper out of place.
There will be other evidence too, like tyre marks on the road. The box will also have its own self diagnostic and the police will be able to verify its accuracy by testing it.
I wait for it to come out on video, and then pick it up from the local video store on their two for $0.99 tuesday deal. At under $0.50 for a show, split amongst five people
Be careful not to mention this to the video store owner. You wouldnt want to spend a year in jail for making unlicenced public performances of an MPAA property.
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Ive come across a better, more dense power source. Its invisible, but you can see it, its all pervasive during the day, and I can charge 4 NiMh AA batteries in 8 hours using a 10x10cm collection device that cost 10 zorkmids at Maplins.
I belive its called 'photonic energy' and is collected using a 'photovolatic device', the power source is a nearby 'stellar fusion orb'.
Sounds pretty "Star Trek", but I assure you it works.
Except you have to be sat at your PC to use it.
I dont know anyone else with lounge systems, and I do my listening on the move, so the service is useless to everyone I know.
This site may be of use for previewing tracks, buts thats about it.
What if all those high level languages start getting replaced bu IDEs that turn out the raw assembly? Assembler is supposed to be 7 times slower to code as a HLL, but most of that is in having to maintain lables and equates all over the place.
I can see the day when something like eclipse gets good enough that it handles all the parmlist work and maintains a DSECT as you go, without having to scroll between CSECT and DSECT parts of the program. It could also maintain the boilerplate for well known situations, have a macro wizard that does the MF=E and MF=L forms simultaneously, and perhaps even be more efficient in its use of register saves, I'm always using STM into a 16 fullword savearea when Im only using a couple of registers.
I had the Archos gmini220 for all of 12 hours before it locked solid and wouldnt respond. Crappy firmware indeed. Nice looking unit, though.
You can do this the other way too. Most zombie films use real actors that just dont look dead, and the Stepford Wives used the Uncanny Valley to great effect as you and the wife slowly discovered why the other women were so unsettling.
Ive had similar problems with other devices, including the Archos Gmini 220. These days the firmwares are so crap that the devices lock up given 1/2 a chance. I wouldnt buy a device till its 'family' has been on the market for a while and there is a long changelog of bugfixes.
Most new players that come out arnt even of Alpha quality, particularly as the Gmini clearly never had any testing done beyond the developers setup. The manual shows different hardware than what shipped and also dont describe the interface correctly: therefore the hardware and firmware was still changing when the the product went into mass production.
Between you, magnatunes, and possibly quite a few others, I can see the rise of the aggregator site (kind of like cnet) that points the user to the best tunes (via reviews, etc).
This looks like the place you want to be, cos then you can eventually stop aggregating and sell direct. The artists themselves may set up sites and you can aggregate artists, rather than record companies. You revenue will have to be advertising, hosting for artists, etc.
Isnt there another problem for the Mongols as they get further west? Their composite bows become ineffective in the damp, the longbow comes into its own. Also those tiny horses are great on the plains, but would get bogged down in the likes of Flanders.
Even the Romans had problems in Europe, they couldnt penetrate Germany, and failed to get past Carlisle or into Ireland. They even struggled to get into Britain, taking 3 tries and 100 years.
Are you willfully misunderstanding the GPL?
The GPL only comes into effect when you distribute the software.
You may do what you like with the software, including modifying it. Only when you take a copy of the software or your modifications and pass them on to someone else does the GPL come into effect.
You may reject the GPL, you can still get support from someone who has accepted it (and hence is allowed to distibute).
I guess its the higher bitrates that are the killer. iRiver force high Ogg bitrates by having a 96kbps floor, so many -q3 and even some -q4 encodings wont play.
Vorbis's problem is that it suck batteries dry in about 2/3rds the time it takes MP3 to do it. Thats only based on my iRiver, but I think the Rio Karma gets similar figures.
But what do I know, my first player was a POS Nex ia.
Parent makes sense:
Debunker states that they took a motorcycle helmet with them on an offical car trip. Theres no sign of any helmet in the photos,. Thers 1 pic of motorbike at a recognisable location.
There are problems with the original photos, though, her jacket changes from green motorcycling jacket to a black fashion one, and the weather appears to change. I guess the first few pics are of a real motorcycle trip.
The 'feel' I get from this is that the trip did happen, it involved staying with researchers at chernobyl, the authorities were notified but only get involved when 'incidents' happen. Several details were left out either for narrative or personal reasons.
How about getting their intimate thoughts? interview the driver or something.
I have an iriver ifp300t that would do the trick (I find AA batts in a device means never having find a powerpoint to recharge). Add in a small digicam and you are away.
I love the 'May cause ear pain'
I'm on fire, Im being tossed about in a 1400kph wind, I was hit by debris traveling at mach6 just a moment ago, did I mention the earthquake?
Oh, and my ears hurt.
No, they cannot measure how many individuals existed at any given moment from the fossil record. Counting fossils only give you an indication of how many were preserved, and some clue as to relative abundances for the more common specimens.
They can measure number of species quite easily, just by counting the different species in the fossil record. There are problems with deciding whether 2 similar animals are different species, and the data can be skewed by the fact that soft bodied animals may not preserve as well as boned and hard shelled creatures. But the species count is far more accurate than the count of individuals.
Original book? Have they published the scripts for the radio show?
Every single one of those things on those windows are either standard window furniture, standard windows widgets, or are trying to look like a hardware hi-fi. My Denon stereo has a > layout on the remote, progress bars arnt exactly inovative, the playlist looks like a standard filelist, the shuffle/loop buttons are on my WinNT CD Player. Lsongs has a search which isnt apparent in iTunes, Lsongs has 2 more frames than the apple one. Theyve just used similar memes to create their interface, and they look similar because they do the same job.
Take a look at Honda's products vs Audi. They are pretty much identical because they do the same job and use the same standard memes.
Ditto vacuum cleaners, running shoes, light switches, guns, film posters, pens, land based mammals, etc.
I cant see how you deal with the problem of hikers who go home, forgetting to hand the tag back in. Do they send out a search party every time this happens?
There is a very good chance the UK will withdraw from the EU after the referendum. There is an unholy alliance of little englanders, anti-immigration parties, free-marketeers, beaurocracy haters, democracy lovers, and now software developers. Straw polls indicate 60% of the population will reject the new constitution.
I wouldnt be suprised if Denmark breaks away too, possibly taking the rest if Scandinavia with it.
Germanic cultures will then find itself isolated with Latin countries to the West, poor ex-communist states to the west, and independant states to the north and south. Cant imagine Germany will hang around when its having to bankroll everyone elses peasant economy.
After that, I think its Britain's turn to invade France. Or maybe Germany's, its hard to keep track these days.
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kernel source
libdvdread
libdvdcss
Moz flash plugin
Moz orbit 3+1 theme
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nvidia drivers (gfx and nforce2)
ut2004
weznoth (and hence a huge collection of sdl-devel stuff)
pySol (she insists on it)
mplayer (incl win32 plugins)
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My huge pr0n collection
Box of tissues
Pandering to the 'conservative' vote. The tabloids have been banging on about immigration for so long, now the government can point to something they are actually going (apart from giving away citizenship by the 10000). The fallout wont happen till after the next election.
# Who will be able to demand an ID card and under what circumstances;
Policemen, civil servants, shopkeepers, swimming pool attendants, schoolteachers, waiters, everyone else.
# If ownership of ID cards will be compulsory
The Spanish experience is yes, because you wont be able to function without one. You wont be able to buy stamps without showing your ID.
# If the carrying of ID cards will be compulsory
See above
# The security of the ID cards and the centralised database
Totally secure till someone loses a laptop.
# How any biometric data might be collected and how much time and effort would be required of that process
They'll do it at the same time they implant the chip.
# The ability of the cardholding citizen to view personal data held on ID cards
Ha ha. No chance unless you buy the stolen data.
# The ability of the citizen to demand the correction of misleading data held on the ID card
See above, you cant correct what you dont know.
# If centralised data will be shared between government departments, researchers or commercial organisations
Yes, on easily stolen laptops.
# If personal data will be exported from the country and hence out of the remit of the Data Protection Acts
Yes, on stolen laptops.
# What protections will be put in place to prevent abuse of the ID card system by future administrations
Continued resistance to proportional representation, even more dissillusionment of the voting public. No future government will have a mandate to do anything.
# How the ID card system will not discriminate against ethnic minorities
The same way Stop and Search didnt.
# If the ID card scheme violates the Data Protection Acts
What, the current one, or the ammended one that will allow any use by the government?
Except in The Dukes of Hazzard. Oh the joys of watching them snap The General in half on landing, only to see them driving off in a perfectly restored car in the next shot with nary a bumper out of place.
Mmmmmmmmmm! Daisy Duke.
He could run Quicken under wine, solving all 4 in one go.
There will be other evidence too, like tyre marks on the road. The box will also have its own self diagnostic and the police will be able to verify its accuracy by testing it.
Be careful not to mention this to the video store owner. You wouldnt want to spend a year in jail for making unlicenced public performances of an MPAA property.