I agree that handheld should have "instant-on", but IMO the games don't have to be that simple (as in 1985 arcade games) as long as you can at least save at any time, or better, put it in stand-by without losing anything (My laptop with a modern OS and numerous applications can do it, why should it not be possible for the simple OS and single application running on a handheld?).
I don't think the minute it takes to boot really matters. I've been using a laptop on the bus for the last few months and IMO the bit of time it takes to start isn't really that terrible.
Perhaps he got "persuaded"? As in "Your wife is having a lovely vacation at our resort in Guatanamo bay. We believe you'd want to join her here as there are so many steep cliffs around here and, well, accidents happen..."
Might be, but the real issue is if God considers jumping out of a burning building to be suicide. This may be a serious legal issue to start your afterlife with.
Nobody checks *anything* on/. The articles are only there to set the topic of the threads. What did you think this site was? A news site or something?:-D
You're at the 58th floor of a building.
There is a fire. You can't use the stairs or elevators.
A)You break the glass, jump out and fall to your death.
B)You don't break the glass and suffocated because of the smoke.
It doesn't have to be illegal. For example: a ladder isn't illegal to own, however if you would be carrying one late at night you can expect the cops to ask some questions about it. The RFID-Killer(tm) might be legal to own, but it could be illegal to carry one in a shop.
I haven't heard of any...-killer for anti-theft stickers and things in the news so far, these have exactly the same vulnerability.
I've been reading some books on UML lately and one recommended to draw the schemas on a whiteboard before a meeting, have them modified during and then afterwards digitized with a digital camera.
No, he used something called "paper" and "pencil". IMO we should start using those again. How practical it would, being able to write and read stuff without worrying about a battery.
Well, there is a whole lot of demand for a certain kind of video content. The upside is you don't have to spend much on costumes locations. Probs may be a little expensive.
I agree. I don't understand what Linus' issue with specs is. Anyone can decide how detailed his specs have to be, nobody says you have to write out every aspect of your project down to the smallest detail. IMO at least document your interfaces (on every level that you could expect someone to (re)use your code or software), the implementation is your own problem, but the interfaces are the problem of everyone who has to work with your code afterwards. You just can't rely on reading the code as only documented interfaces can be seen as somewhat static (and even that depends on how well the writer understands what exactly he's building).
See, the climber has a very advanced AI that analyses the people inside and generates muzak tailert to those people. Then it analyses the effects of extreme annoyance.
The first experiment involves testing if people are capable of chewing off their own ears.
If you provide every one in the thirth world with sufficent food, the next year there will be just more people to feed. You can't solve the problems of the 3th world just with sending food, they need birth control as well. Better get them to farm there own food so an increase in population will also lead to an increase in food production, otherwise you just create more hungry people.
Besides even if every one in the world has 3 meals a day, there will still be sufficent people to hate you simply because you have a TV/car/whatever and they don't.
Well, it's not that we build small satelites, it's that Americans always need to build big things. Makes me think you're trying to compensate for something...;-)
Didn't Max Payne tought you how to deal with Musak? Just shoot the damn speaker. Ok, making a hole in a capsule that's heading to space might not be such a good idea, so lets replace the gun with a screwdriver and wire cutter. Just don't cut the wrong wire, the one leading to certain live support systems for example.
Why make it so hard? Give each clicker a unique ID, store them in a box, let each student take one at the beginning of the class and return them at the end. No way to know who had which clicker and secondly you can keep an eye on those clickers and prevent them from disappearing.
The ID is necessary, how are you otherwise going to prevent a student from voting multiple times (intended or not)? Normal RCs toggle a particlar bit in the code they send each time the button is pressed. This way a receiver can know if you pressed the button again or are still holding the button down. But a receiver can't distinguish between differend RCs.
If the ID is noted on the clicker in a human-readable format, the ID can be matched with a student at the beginning of the lecture if the teacher intents to hold a test.
This way provides more options than generating random IDs and posses less problems as well (how to make sure the IDs are unique and anonymous?).
IMO it's possible to do even with a standard IR-DA port. A classic IR-DA port supports up to 4Mb/s or 500KB/s. Let each clicker send out its byte at this rate, then wait a relative long time and resend. Timing can be random. With a bit experimentation such a system can run reliable.
C'mon natural selection, where is our war, pestilence, and drought?
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Using paper is fun you know. I've been to theme weekends where we used paper to write letters. Just like in the middle ages, before the internet you know. Pretty intresting thing you know, there were strict rules on how to write, each word had only one spelling and different kinds of words had to be placed in a specific order. They called it "grammar" or something. And the really weird thing is that you had to use special symbols at specific places in your sentences. Punctuation as they were called.
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I agree that handheld should have "instant-on", but IMO the games don't have to be that simple (as in 1985 arcade games) as long as you can at least save at any time, or better, put it in stand-by without losing anything (My laptop with a modern OS and numerous applications can do it, why should it not be possible for the simple OS and single application running on a handheld?).
I don't think the minute it takes to boot really matters. I've been using a laptop on the bus for the last few months and IMO the bit of time it takes to start isn't really that terrible.
Perhaps he got "persuaded"? As in "Your wife is having a lovely vacation at our resort in Guatanamo bay. We believe you'd want to join her here as there are so many steep cliffs around here and, well, accidents happen..."
Might be, but the real issue is if God considers jumping out of a burning building to be suicide. This may be a serious legal issue to start your afterlife with.
Nobody checks *anything* on /. The articles are only there to set the topic of the threads. What did you think this site was? A news site or something? :-D
You're at the 58th floor of a building.
There is a fire. You can't use the stairs or elevators.
A)You break the glass, jump out and fall to your death.
B)You don't break the glass and suffocated because of the smoke.
Either way, you're toast.
mmm, Visa: 19,83/ year.
Mastercard (and visa) (different bank): 37
Got a free one in Belgium? I don't.
Lets see. I'm 23. I don't have a credit card. Nor does anyone I know. Why should I pay for a card I don't want nor need to prove I'm above 18?
It doesn't have to be illegal. For example: a ladder isn't illegal to own, however if you would be carrying one late at night you can expect the cops to ask some questions about it. The RFID-Killer(tm) might be legal to own, but it could be illegal to carry one in a shop.
...-killer for anti-theft stickers and things in the news so far, these have exactly the same vulnerability.
I haven't heard of any
I've been reading some books on UML lately and one recommended to draw the schemas on a whiteboard before a meeting, have them modified during and then afterwards digitized with a digital camera.
No, he used something called "paper" and "pencil". IMO we should start using those again. How practical it would, being able to write and read stuff without worrying about a battery.
Well, there is a whole lot of demand for a certain kind of video content. The upside is you don't have to spend much on costumes locations. Probs may be a little expensive.
On their homepage? Isn't that page not cluthered enough already?
I agree. I don't understand what Linus' issue with specs is. Anyone can decide how detailed his specs have to be, nobody says you have to write out every aspect of your project down to the smallest detail. IMO at least document your interfaces (on every level that you could expect someone to (re)use your code or software), the implementation is your own problem, but the interfaces are the problem of everyone who has to work with your code afterwards. You just can't rely on reading the code as only documented interfaces can be seen as somewhat static (and even that depends on how well the writer understands what exactly he's building).
See, the climber has a very advanced AI that analyses the people inside and generates muzak tailert to those people. Then it analyses the effects of extreme annoyance.
The first experiment involves testing if people are capable of chewing off their own ears.
If you provide every one in the thirth world with sufficent food, the next year there will be just more people to feed. You can't solve the problems of the 3th world just with sending food, they need birth control as well. Better get them to farm there own food so an increase in population will also lead to an increase in food production, otherwise you just create more hungry people.
Besides even if every one in the world has 3 meals a day, there will still be sufficent people to hate you simply because you have a TV/car/whatever and they don't.
Maybe Microsoft wants to buy the only usefull IP AOL has: Where to get really good deals on getting your CDs made.
Well, it's not that we build small satelites, it's that Americans always need to build big things. Makes me think you're trying to compensate for something... ;-)
Didn't Max Payne tought you how to deal with Musak? Just shoot the damn speaker. Ok, making a hole in a capsule that's heading to space might not be such a good idea, so lets replace the gun with a screwdriver and wire cutter. Just don't cut the wrong wire, the one leading to certain live support systems for example.
Why make it so hard? Give each clicker a unique ID, store them in a box, let each student take one at the beginning of the class and return them at the end. No way to know who had which clicker and secondly you can keep an eye on those clickers and prevent them from disappearing.
The ID is necessary, how are you otherwise going to prevent a student from voting multiple times (intended or not)? Normal RCs toggle a particlar bit in the code they send each time the button is pressed. This way a receiver can know if you pressed the button again or are still holding the button down. But a receiver can't distinguish between differend RCs.
If the ID is noted on the clicker in a human-readable format, the ID can be matched with a student at the beginning of the lecture if the teacher intents to hold a test.
This way provides more options than generating random IDs and posses less problems as well (how to make sure the IDs are unique and anonymous?).
IMO it's possible to do even with a standard IR-DA port. A classic IR-DA port supports up to 4Mb/s or 500KB/s. Let each clicker send out its byte at this rate, then wait a relative long time and resend. Timing can be random. With a bit experimentation such a system can run reliable.
BE (Belgium) as well. Figures, our morons are famous for collecting all the worst in the world and making it into laws.
Dammit, please stop doing that before we gonna have to shell out to the music maffia when we buy a keyboard too.
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With "summarize" you mean collect all the pictures of naked women, put them on a real server and post a link?
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