I do like reusing technology for additional purposes - a few years ago I hacked up the motion sensors from a mouse into each pivot of a double pendulum (worked like a treat actually). It was a simple effective means to an end.
For more modern control systems, something like this might be better suited.
Plugs directly into the USB and has upto 16 digital I/O lines, or alternative systems with 8 each analog inputs/digital IO.
Nice price as well, around $80.
Depending on what you need it for, theres also things like Lego Mindstorms type kits where you can program up the motions and upload to the system.
When there is a common thread drawing like minded folks together, the web can be a wonderful place (slash trolls aside, this place draws together like minded ppl). Where it turns is when people start abusing this and unfortunately the web makes it really easy to put on a fake persona.
Whilst you should enjoy yourself and relax on the web, people should remember not to become too embedded in the web and remember the real people in the same building/surroundings are also there to support them.
You would turn up for an event to be asked "Did you mean to see....." at the door (which incidentally would be 99% complete but would still have workmen tweaking it), and when you finally did get into it the performers would spend 20% of their time on stage doing their own projects.
You would like the experience though, and leave with a general feeling of wellbeing and none evilness.
Step one should be to conserve whatever we have now. To stop wasting energy for EVERYTHING.
Why should we wait until we have run out of fuel to push for efficiency?
We have the technology now to create extremely low power devices which run at perfectly reasonable speeds and which cut down on wasted energy.
If everybody turned off none essential lights when they left the room or underclocked their machines when browsing, or drove a more efficient vehicle we would help to save the precious resources we have.
If everyone in the world just put their minds to it, we might actually have enough energy available from renewable sources.
Theres a group in the UK who have the right idea, they are called The Carbon Trust. Their site is well worth a visit, and it might just save you some money as well.
People like to connect the dots. "i go *here* to play my media, why can't i burn my playlists from here as well?"
I'd rather just be able to drag & drop files I wanted to use on the player onto the player's icon under My Computer, rather than having to use a media player to manage it.
two words: Custom playlists. Instead of having to reselect an entire range of files stored in seperate subfolders (from the original albums) I can simply transfer the playlist in one go (see above burning as well).
Why not store all your media in a single location? That's a much simpler solution.
Because "My Music" is not your music, and shared music is not everything on my machine, and I don't always want everything together, and because whichever p2p software by default stores it in one place, and something else stores it in another, and my mp3 player comes up in a different drive, and instead of being a jack of all trades and needing to tell people how to configure every single piece of media software on the planet (to look for media in one place) I would just like to scan my machine and find it all for me.
I understand you like operating using single individual steps, but not everyone is as savvy as yourself and just wants a simple life, your steps may be simple, and once configured it might be easy to manage, but its getting started thats the problem.
People already have the option to do all the things you suggest, and most who do similar to yourself won't like this new media player, but for the rest of the population, the suggested features don't seem out of step at all.
The blood test is used to backup a failed breath test. It happens back at the station and has been known to prove the breathtest was incorrect (suck a fishermans friend then drive a bit silly and you will find out for yourself).
If every article from every news site was confirmed true and there was never any lies or half truths published then I would have no problem with your comment.
However, in todays society its always better to have complete 100% confirmed sources for news articles. News from the horses mouth is a hell of a lot better than crappy cut and paste from god knows where.
If somebody comes up with the original source then its to the benefit of everyone - let the lad have his karma.
When the Commonwealth games came to town a couple of years ago, some Kenyan riders didn't know about this little law, and decided to go riding around on the motorway (at around 40mph!).
XP is up because they stopped "selling" the other Windows operating systems. Most "sales" of XP come from pre-installed setups.
People go out to buy a computer that can run all the software in the local PC world or game store - at the moment, that is a Microsoft OS.
Times are changing though, and more space is being given to the alternative OS's. Its kind of like the time when "PC" software was nowhere to be found and all the stores were filled with Amiga/ST stuff.
Windows will not be dominant forever, it will be replaced just like everything else.
Recent development on Windows using anything other than Visual Studio was always hit and miss.
VS was a nice environment to code in and was what the kiddies and college students all used. There was no real programs using java on the desktop.
Now, a couple of things happened, MS released.net and fucked up visual studio, and Java started to become l33t. We see more diverse programs recently written in numerous languages and runtimes (BT clients in java and python,.net this and that, more java here and there).
Its not just Eclipse MS should be afraid of, Interpretted languages are back in fashion and they need a dev environment.
Up until recently, I would have (shush) used Visual Studio, I have v6 at home and handles everything all legacy code, but I won't get the.net version. I've recently started playing with the sharpdevelop/mono combination and have no complaints thus far.
Why do I need to pay x hundreds of pounds for Visual Studio?
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Cool ideas!
I do like reusing technology for additional purposes - a few years ago I hacked up the motion sensors from a mouse into each pivot of a double pendulum (worked like a treat actually). It was a simple effective means to an end.
For more modern control systems, something like this might be better suited.
Plugs directly into the USB and has upto 16 digital I/O lines, or alternative systems with 8 each analog inputs/digital IO.
Nice price as well, around $80.
Depending on what you need it for, theres also things like Lego Mindstorms type kits where you can program up the motions and upload to the system.
It brings us together in different ways however.
When there is a common thread drawing like minded folks together, the web can be a wonderful place (slash trolls aside, this place draws together like minded ppl).
Where it turns is when people start abusing this and unfortunately the web makes it really easy to put on a fake persona.
Whilst you should enjoy yourself and relax on the web, people should remember not to become too embedded in the web and remember the real people in the same building/surroundings are also there to support them.
But if you turn the light back on and discover you have chosen the wrong cat, does the light come on at all?
You don't want to have a Google stadium either.
....." at the door (which incidentally would be 99% complete but would still have workmen tweaking it), and when you finally did get into it the performers would spend 20% of their time on stage doing their own projects.
You would turn up for an event to be asked "Did you mean to see
You would like the experience though, and leave with a general feeling of wellbeing and none evilness.
Step one should be to conserve whatever we have now.
To stop wasting energy for EVERYTHING.
Why should we wait until we have run out of fuel to push for efficiency?
We have the technology now to create extremely low power devices which run at perfectly reasonable speeds and which cut down on wasted energy.
If everybody turned off none essential lights when they left the room or underclocked their machines when browsing, or drove a more efficient vehicle we would help to save the precious resources we have.
If everyone in the world just put their minds to it, we might actually have enough energy available from renewable sources.
Theres a group in the UK who have the right idea, they are called The Carbon Trust. Their site is well worth a visit, and it might just save you some money as well.
Java isn't available on most web servers is it?
PHP has built in functions just like java/c# has the built in libraries.
Having many functions shows its been used for a lot of things.
Rootkits should be GPL.
At the very least they should be GNU/Rootkits.
Somebody contact the EFF or like start throwing chairs or something.
Because so many websites are now coding specifically for Flock, Opera users are changing their UA string to Flock by default ;)
Yes, that must be it.
I don't care how small it is, the all important question is whether it flies or not.
The world must know.
"Eat my Abaya!"
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it though I'm not Arabic, so wouldn't exactly know.
ps, I truly hope I haven't offended anyone with this if I have please accept my humble apology.
Why not use a CD writing application for this?
People like to connect the dots. "i go *here* to play my media, why can't i burn my playlists from here as well?"
I'd rather just be able to drag & drop files I wanted to use on the player onto the player's icon under My Computer, rather than having to use a media player to manage it.
two words: Custom playlists. Instead of having to reselect an entire range of files stored in seperate subfolders (from the original albums) I can simply transfer the playlist in one go (see above burning as well).
Why not store all your media in a single location? That's a much simpler solution.
Because "My Music" is not your music, and shared music is not everything on my machine, and I don't always want everything together, and because whichever p2p software by default stores it in one place, and something else stores it in another, and my mp3 player comes up in a different drive, and instead of being a jack of all trades and needing to tell people how to configure every single piece of media software on the planet (to look for media in one place) I would just like to scan my machine and find it all for me.
I understand you like operating using single individual steps, but not everyone is as savvy as yourself and just wants a simple life, your steps may be simple, and once configured it might be easy to manage, but its getting started thats the problem.
People already have the option to do all the things you suggest, and most who do similar to yourself won't like this new media player, but for the rest of the population, the suggested features don't seem out of step at all.
Ahhhhhh at least if you know the reasno for the failure, you can rectify it.
For eyebrows, a sort of combround from your earhair should suffice.
For anything else, you could do a comb up and over from your nasal hair.
YMMV (even less if your completely bald), but if all else fails, hold up a picture of yourself.
(herein lies the real problem with automatic facial recognition...)
The blood test is used to backup a failed breath test.
It happens back at the station and has been known to prove the breathtest was incorrect (suck a fishermans friend then drive a bit silly and you will find out for yourself).
See here for more info.
What do you propose then?
Attack of the cyan hat hackers?
Your right!
I just tried signing up liquidcoooled@googlemail.com and some bastard has already got it.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (flips out and throws an office chair ballmer style)
MS Windows is screwed then.
Oh wait, that just helps to confirm your hypothosis.
Yes, but the batterypack weighs 3 tonnes and comes with its own rickshaw trailer.
If every article from every news site was confirmed true and there was never any lies or half truths published then I would have no problem with your comment.
However, in todays society its always better to have complete 100% confirmed sources for news articles. News from the horses mouth is a hell of a lot better than crappy cut and paste from god knows where.
If somebody comes up with the original source then its to the benefit of everyone - let the lad have his karma.
When the Commonwealth games came to town a couple of years ago, some Kenyan riders didn't know about this little law, and decided to go riding around on the motorway (at around 40mph!).
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/21
We have silly laws in this country, but this one I happen to agree with.
XP is up because they stopped "selling" the other Windows operating systems.
Most "sales" of XP come from pre-installed setups.
People go out to buy a computer that can run all the software in the local PC world or game store - at the moment, that is a Microsoft OS.
Times are changing though, and more space is being given to the alternative OS's.
Its kind of like the time when "PC" software was nowhere to be found and all the stores were filled with Amiga/ST stuff.
Windows will not be dominant forever, it will be replaced just like everything else.
[X] CowboyNeal.
Recent development on Windows using anything other than Visual Studio was always hit and miss.
.net and fucked up visual studio, and Java started to become l33t. .net this and that, more java here and there).
.net version. I've recently started playing with the sharpdevelop/mono combination and have no complaints thus far.
VS was a nice environment to code in and was what the kiddies and college students all used. There was no real programs using java on the desktop.
Now, a couple of things happened, MS released
We see more diverse programs recently written in numerous languages and runtimes (BT clients in java and python,
Its not just Eclipse MS should be afraid of, Interpretted languages are back in fashion and they need a dev environment.
Up until recently, I would have (shush) used Visual Studio, I have v6 at home and handles everything all legacy code, but I won't get the
Why do I need to pay x hundreds of pounds for Visual Studio?
thats because CSS is for girls.
Men use hand crafted HTML bolted together with blood sweat and perl.
Illuminating the yellow pigment with a blue light produces a much darker series of dots (yellow ink absorbes blue light but reflects red and green).
Print everything with pretty yellow floral background and all will be fine :D