MS Word picked me up for using a split infinitive the other day. I'd typed "to digitally sign the transaction" when "to sign digitally the transaction" is correct English. But the latter sounds total crap because the expression is originally derived from "digital signature".
Dongles are expensive (compared to a few cents for a CD), annoying for genuine users and easily circumvented once someone cracks the software to remove the dongle existence check. They are consquently very unusual.
The only viable copy protection is similar to that used in Quake III, where you're banned from any Internet servers if you use a duplicate key. There's no killer solution for software that doesn't require the Internet to run (even Q3 would always work in single-player mode).
But hey, look at how many people downloaded the warezed copy of Doom 3, and Activision still sold a metric shedload of CDs. I wouldn't cry too much - piracy is going to hurt the publishers of weak games worst, 'cos everyone can find out that it sucks before it goes on sale;-)
At the risk of creating a "me too" thread, Steve's Digicams is also pretty good. If a camera is junk, he says so, but the full size sample pictures are the really useful feature.
Or maybe Bush knows you can't really win a war against a country which has nukes, where half the population belongs to a highly indoctrinated army, and besides, NK is a crappy little piece of the world with no money and no oil so it's not worth invading. I mean, I hate Bush as much as anyone else does, but he may have some common sense here.
here in the UK you are required by law to leave at least six foot between your car and any cyclist you're overtaking, that is the approximately the space that a cyclist would need if they fell off their bike into the road.
I've never heard of that law, although it may be in the Highway Code somewhere (much of the HC is *not* law). I agree with your sentiments though - I'm about 5 miles from work and the main disincentive to cycling is the attitude of drivers. It's not as if I'm lazy; I go out and ride after work instead when it's a bit quieter. I worked out that, riding defensively, I have a near-miss, usually being cut up by an artic or a van, about every 20-30 rides. I reckon I'd be dead if I rode every day for a year, and I have about 25 years' experience of main road cycling.
We bought a secondhand baby monitor. It never even got plugged in, because little Zogette is loud enough to wake the dead. We can hear her anywhere in the house or garden. On the other hand, her volume control does seem to go up to 11 compared to other babies.
OK, electric vehicles are nice for keeping the local air clean in crowded California, but once you've allowed for generator efficiency (30-40%) and substantial transmission losses, you might as well have a small petrol engine. Same CO2 emissions at the end of the day.
Unless you can guarantee your e-bike is charged using hydro/nuclear/wind power, but most electricity still comes from good old fashioned dino compost.
You're missing the point. Shatner slipped into a kitsch alternative reality decades ago (have you never heard any of his spoken-word recordings?), and is now the SF fan's equivalent of a freak-show exhibit. The world would be a poorer place without him.
Anyway, he's marginally more interesting than Leonard Nimoy and his arty nude photos.
Most of us are running on a newer Pentium 4/Athlon 64 box with lots of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive and a uber-sweet graphics card that pushes 100 FPS in Doom 3
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Weird fact about the original Ceefax font
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It was duplicated on the BBC Micro as the default graphics mode.
Some TVs substitute their own font these days, but the original one is quite recognisable.
Bummer for users of Win2K, which is supported for a few years yet. If the browser is an inextricable part of the OS as MS keep telling us, Win2K is NOT supported any more, is it?
The Internet is the best counter-example. A government project put in place a series of non-owned, open protocols and standards,pr0n sites appeared, people came, and for the most part, it just works
I thought no-one could actually make money out of a service like this because of the crippling fees the record companies charge. Even Apple, with a priceless brand and, of course, the iPod.
Looks really good in terms of picture quality, but Han/Greedo obsessives will not be placated; they now shoot at almost exactly the same time. And Sebastian "Anakin Skywalker" Shaw (at least in his non-disfigured state) has been CGI'd out of history and replaced with a mulleted Hayden Christensen.
These weren't just on/off devices. For a different air pressure at the valve, acting against a spring, you could achieve a different valve opening (poorly damped actuators used to bounce up and down in an alarming fashion). The clever bit was achieving the correct air pressure by using sensors (thermometers, flowmeters etc) elsewhere in the system to open or close air bleeds. Think of a pneumatic version of an thermionic triode where the grid voltage - or electrical pressure - controls the main circuit, and you're almost there. Setting the things up was a nightmare of calculus - Laplace transforms anybody? - and the most boring book I've ever owned was devoted to the subject.
Pneumatics seem to have died out in industry - and your reason is equally valid for going to PLCs - but I bet they still have them in my old university lab;-)
I know the parent was modded Funny, but when I did my chemical engineering degree analog controls based on compressed air were running 99% of plant. They were reliable, gave smooth operation and didn't burn out like electric motors if, for example, a valve became jammed.
These days PLCs and stepper motors are taking over because they're cheaper and easier to hook up to computers. Oh well.
Hasn't anyone come up with a way of using a PC to drive a cutter which makes LPs from vinyl blanks? Besides being a cool hack, club DJs would love you for it.
They probably should, and in due course, will be. "To slashdot" has become a generic term, even when the traffic in question is coming from a link posted on another site (b3ta.com is a good example).
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Ah....for tactical nuclear weapons simulation, no doubt. And we thought General MacArthur was bonkers.
To run a $400 operating system.
MS Word picked me up for using a split infinitive the other day. I'd typed "to digitally sign the transaction" when "to sign digitally the transaction" is correct English. But the latter sounds total crap because the expression is originally derived from "digital signature".
The only viable copy protection is similar to that used in Quake III, where you're banned from any Internet servers if you use a duplicate key. There's no killer solution for software that doesn't require the Internet to run (even Q3 would always work in single-player mode).
But hey, look at how many people downloaded the warezed copy of Doom 3, and Activision still sold a metric shedload of CDs. I wouldn't cry too much - piracy is going to hurt the publishers of weak games worst, 'cos everyone can find out that it sucks before it goes on sale ;-)
A bit of black tape over the TV's IR sensor. I can make a fortune selling it to airports, TV shops, etc.
Because it sure reads like one of Yoda's to me.
At the risk of creating a "me too" thread, Steve's Digicams is also pretty good. If a camera is junk, he says so, but the full size sample pictures are the really useful feature.
No, *art* isn't, but Britney and Justin are an industry just like hamburgers. So there could be a bright side to the imminent death of the industry :-)
Or maybe Bush knows you can't really win a war against a country which has nukes, where half the population belongs to a highly indoctrinated army, and besides, NK is a crappy little piece of the world with no money and no oil so it's not worth invading. I mean, I hate Bush as much as anyone else does, but he may have some common sense here.
I've never heard of that law, although it may be in the Highway Code somewhere (much of the HC is *not* law). I agree with your sentiments though - I'm about 5 miles from work and the main disincentive to cycling is the attitude of drivers. It's not as if I'm lazy; I go out and ride after work instead when it's a bit quieter. I worked out that, riding defensively, I have a near-miss, usually being cut up by an artic or a van, about every 20-30 rides. I reckon I'd be dead if I rode every day for a year, and I have about 25 years' experience of main road cycling.
We bought a secondhand baby monitor. It never even got plugged in, because little Zogette is loud enough to wake the dead. We can hear her anywhere in the house or garden. On the other hand, her volume control does seem to go up to 11 compared to other babies.
I thought it was something to do with the Martin Amis novel.
Unless you can guarantee your e-bike is charged using hydro/nuclear/wind power, but most electricity still comes from good old fashioned dino compost.
Anyway, he's marginally more interesting than Leonard Nimoy and his arty nude photos.
"Let me see your dongle."
This is a troll, right?
Some TVs substitute their own font these days, but the original one is quite recognisable.
Bummer for users of Win2K, which is supported for a few years yet. If the browser is an inextricable part of the OS as MS keep telling us, Win2K is NOT supported any more, is it?
I thought no-one could actually make money out of a service like this because of the crippling fees the record companies charge. Even Apple, with a priceless brand and, of course, the iPod.
Looks really good in terms of picture quality, but Han/Greedo obsessives will not be placated; they now shoot at almost exactly the same time. And Sebastian "Anakin Skywalker" Shaw (at least in his non-disfigured state) has been CGI'd out of history and replaced with a mulleted Hayden Christensen.
Pneumatics seem to have died out in industry - and your reason is equally valid for going to PLCs - but I bet they still have them in my old university lab ;-)
These days PLCs and stepper motors are taking over because they're cheaper and easier to hook up to computers. Oh well.
Hasn't anyone come up with a way of using a PC to drive a cutter which makes LPs from vinyl blanks? Besides being a cool hack, club DJs would love you for it.
They probably should, and in due course, will be. "To slashdot" has become a generic term, even when the traffic in question is coming from a link posted on another site (b3ta.com is a good example).