I didn't RTFA, but this is reminiscent of a project that I've seen on mp3car.com recently. One of the main developers over there made a program that constantly updates his web server which gives anyone who's interested a real-time google map of the area that they are in.
At the moment, the demo page even has a little speedometer set up, but it's rigged so that it shows random speeds (because it's late and the guy's car isn't actually moving and they just got it working):)
I'm not a musician, and have almost no musical talent at all, but I know what I like to hear. That said, I think that the number one thing is:
Step 1: Be good. If you don't write good music, you stand no chance of making it big, and doing covers forever won't get you ahead for long. Dispatch was a great band that had a huge following, and it certainly wasn't because of a big-name label that they were so popular. I also know a lot of people from HS and college who were in bands, and to be quite honest, they suck. They won't make it big because of this fact, and as much as I feel bad for them, c'est la vie.
So as to bot discourage you, I also know of a lot of good bands who never made it big because they weren't really into it. They wrote great original music, they did a few covers to keep the mindless drones happy, but they moved on to other things.
Step 2: Persistence. Don't let a few critics spoil your attitude. There will be people who don't like your music, especially if you're in a genre-defining band. Develop a following and try to have them spread the word.
Sorry for going OT and not giving a real business model, but this is what I have seen as the biggest issues facing my friends' bands.
I'd say that your second degree should really reflect your interests. If you're looking to do something that you have a passion for, and you don't care about the marketability, just study something that you love. If you're looking for marketability alone, get a business degree. If you're trying to break into a certain field, study the area most closely related to it.
I'm studying for a dual bachelor's in MechE / CS at RPI. Combining these majors was one of the best things I did at RPI. I love working with computers and I love learning about the mechanical world; I didn't choose my majors solely because that's what I wanted to do for a job.
I didn't think a dual degree would be very marketable, but now that I'm looking for a job, I'm finding that not only are the employers from both fields contacting me, but when I talk to them, they love the fact that I'm able to talk as comfortably about program stacks as grar trains.
Talking with my gf (a teller for BankNorth), she is fairly confident that they can do just that. It's not a national bank, but it's pretty big so far...
For now though, just check your statements promptly each month and use the method that a previous poster recommended: report any fraudulent activity immediately.
I've had my Samsung SGH-x427 for about 6 months now, and it's the best cellphone I've ever used. It's cheap and light, and I can go about a week without charging it.
It also doesn't have all those features that you don't like, which is one of the reasons that I got it. I love that I can fit it in the leg pocket of my jeans or the breast pocket of my coat, and it's very sturdy - I've dropped it a bunch of times and it hasn't yet skipped a beat.
Wow! I just had to do that exact thing! She's in the room with me, and when I mentioned the story she thought that "patching" meant something bad. So I needed to explain what it really meant:P
I don't see this being more practical in small planes than simply having individual passenger parachutes in small planes, and letting them bail.
I personally knew the man who died in the Oct 29 plane crash in Rhode Island. That article is a bit inaccurate, but all the news reports were in regards to the crash. He had built the plane (Adventure Air Amphibious 6-seater) in his garage over the course of almost 15 years and it had only been in the air for about a month when it went down. During that entire time he studied to get his private pilot's certificate and all the relevant certifications to properly fly his plane. He was a very good pilot by all the accounts that I had heard (my father - he's also a pilot, and other friends of his).
Anyways, the plane went down about 2.5 miles off the end of the runway, which is about a minute of flying, and by my guess (I am a student pilot with 47 flight hours logged), maybe 1000' or 1500' of elevation AGL. I don't yet know what went wrong that day, but I get the impression from the eyewitness report that the plane was intact until it hit. The bigger factor for me is that I saw how much detail he put into the plane... he was a stickler for perfection and he knew his stuff (he studied mechanical engineering before going into law). So this leads me to believe that the plane was OK as far as the airframe. With a huge parachute like that and even just 500' elevation to pull it, he just might have survived the crash.
The cockpit of that plane and the big harnesses that he had in there would have taken more time to get out than he had. Whole-plane parachutes give pilots more time to react, rather than having to aim the plane away from (as was the case in Paul's crash) a shopping mall, unbuckle yourself, open the canopy (not an option in certain planes where you'd have to push the door against the air resistance), bail, and pull your chute. This is a big problem because most crashes happen in the very first or the very last minutes of flying (when the plane is flying slow and is more susceptible[sp?] to stalling). It can save lives.
But they ARE powered, and they COULD be clocked.
It would be possible to do the equilavent of powering the logic gates, but it would add more hardware and this is a way to power them using already-necessary hardware.
Electronic logic gates have a delay between changing the inputs and the outputs changing, so why not clock it?
I suppose that aanother solution would be to evaluate the slop on the mechanical gates to determine the maximum length of gates that could be be passively run, and then for every 5th gate, say, clock it to get rid of that slop. Think of it as repeating a degrading signal.
Giving the gates gain may be possible, too, but it would require powering each gate, either with electrical power or some sort of funky mechanical setup.
When I read the title of this article, I tried coming up with a design in my head of how I would do this, and my idea is to make the clock pulse out of a rotating shaft with cams (easy enough for Lego pieces). The cams are what would actually power the pieces, thereby eliminating the effects of backlash and fanning. The only problem comes with a lack of torque, but it would be easy to simply tie in more motors (or more hand-cranks) to get more power down the line. I think that this is a more elegant solution than having a person manually slide a shaft back and forth for the clock pulses.
(1) George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. This is my favorite series of all. The characters are realistic, the story draws you in, and the outcome is anything but expected. I could only wish that these books came out every month.
I just have to echo your sentiments that this is one of the best series I have ever read. I love how he has no particular attachments to his characters, and yet how he doesn't forget any of them either - every single chapter is as interesting as the last and I don't have the slightest urge to skip any of them.
My dad got one of those really primitive speech recognition software programs like 10 years ago, one of the ones that only recognizes volume changes. It worked well for about 20 minutes, and then I coughed into the mic. It opened the calculator, we both laughed about it, and stopped using the software.
I have an IBM T20 and I have learned to not rest it in my lap without to use it. Other than the immediate problem of the computer getting very hot, I found that it has the capability of giving an electrical shock. I remember when I found out: I was sitting in bed playing a video game and all of a sudden, I felt electricity flowing through my legs. It only took that one instance before I learned to rest the computer on a small 3-ring binder to:
1) Angle the computer so that the keyboard was in a more comfortable position to type.
2) Keep the computer's scalding hot case from contacting my legs by providing a volume of air between the computer (where there are no air vents anyways) to cool it down a small amount.
3) Prevent the nasty electrical shock.
I'm just grateful that I was wearing boxers and had the computer resting closer to my knees than my hips...
When CSS was implemented, DVD burners weren't yet readily available on the consumer market. CSS was designed to prevent copying from a DVD to a computer, which DeCSS solved.
You can have Half-Life v1.xxx whatever installed, and also have Steam installed. It isn't like Steam uninstalls it.
It uninstalled it for me. My original Half-Life directory is now all but empty.
Also, Steam has an off-line mode, for LAN parties/etc., which allows you to run fully cached (read: downloaded/installed) games without having an internet connection.
AFAIK you can't restart your computer in between activating it and playing it. I never tried doing it and it's certainly not obvious to me how to do it.
Regarding downloading over your cablemodem-- you're sharing it with "20" people, yet bitching about just Steam running slow? Pretty much anything's going to be slow when you're sharing your cablemodem with 20 other people, much less college students.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I've never used Steam while sharing my connection that way. I go to school in upstate NY and I'm living in Connecticut temporarily: I'm talking about when I get back to school it's GOING to be bad, because the updates are mandatory. I won't be able to play the single-player version (which is all I'll be able to do while sharing the connection) without verifying over Steam, whether it's HL1 or HL2. In terms of HL1, it is NOT acceptable to change the minimum requirements 5 years after the game came out so that the person needs to 1) upgrade their connection, or 2) wait for the big-ass download.
I wasn't exaggerating about the number 20: I live in a fraternity house at school. It's really closer to 30 computers / X-Boxes and 20 people, there was no need to to put the 20 in quotes.
And whose fault is it that the maps are so bad? I stick by my convictions and continue to call incompetence, whether it's the city's fault or the subcontractor's.
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I didn't RTFA, but this is reminiscent of a project that I've seen on mp3car.com recently. One of the main developers over there made a program that constantly updates his web server which gives anyone who's interested a real-time google map of the area that they are in.
:)
At the moment, the demo page even has a little speedometer set up, but it's rigged so that it shows random speeds (because it's late and the guy's car isn't actually moving and they just got it working)
I'm not a musician, and have almost no musical talent at all, but I know what I like to hear. That said, I think that the number one thing is:
Step 1: Be good. If you don't write good music, you stand no chance of making it big, and doing covers forever won't get you ahead for long. Dispatch was a great band that had a huge following, and it certainly wasn't because of a big-name label that they were so popular. I also know a lot of people from HS and college who were in bands, and to be quite honest, they suck. They won't make it big because of this fact, and as much as I feel bad for them, c'est la vie.
So as to bot discourage you, I also know of a lot of good bands who never made it big because they weren't really into it. They wrote great original music, they did a few covers to keep the mindless drones happy, but they moved on to other things.
Step 2: Persistence. Don't let a few critics spoil your attitude. There will be people who don't like your music, especially if you're in a genre-defining band. Develop a following and try to have them spread the word.
Sorry for going OT and not giving a real business model, but this is what I have seen as the biggest issues facing my friends' bands.
In Soviet Russia, technology controls you!
Not to disagree with you, but he did go through the NY court system for this decision for this...
lol :)
I'd say that your second degree should really reflect your interests. If you're looking to do something that you have a passion for, and you don't care about the marketability, just study something that you love. If you're looking for marketability alone, get a business degree. If you're trying to break into a certain field, study the area most closely related to it.
I'm studying for a dual bachelor's in MechE / CS at RPI. Combining these majors was one of the best things I did at RPI. I love working with computers and I love learning about the mechanical world; I didn't choose my majors solely because that's what I wanted to do for a job.
I didn't think a dual degree would be very marketable, but now that I'm looking for a job, I'm finding that not only are the employers from both fields contacting me, but when I talk to them, they love the fact that I'm able to talk as comfortably about program stacks as grar trains.
Just one poor student's opinion.
This is an old /. tactic, don't get so excited: /. editor's attention.
1) Use misleading buzzword to capture
2) Front page story.
3) ???
4) Profit!
Talking with my gf (a teller for BankNorth), she is fairly confident that they can do just that. It's not a national bank, but it's pretty big so far...
For now though, just check your statements promptly each month and use the method that a previous poster recommended: report any fraudulent activity immediately.
I've had my Samsung SGH-x427 for about 6 months now, and it's the best cellphone I've ever used. It's cheap and light, and I can go about a week without charging it.
It also doesn't have all those features that you don't like, which is one of the reasons that I got it. I love that I can fit it in the leg pocket of my jeans or the breast pocket of my coat, and it's very sturdy - I've dropped it a bunch of times and it hasn't yet skipped a beat.
I'm hoping for the Playstation 3.... Hey, I can dream :P
Wow! I just had to do that exact thing! She's in the room with me, and when I mentioned the story she thought that "patching" meant something bad. So I needed to explain what it really meant :P
Here.
I don't see this being more practical in small planes than simply having individual passenger parachutes in small planes, and letting them bail.
I personally knew the man who died in the Oct 29 plane crash in Rhode Island. That article is a bit inaccurate, but all the news reports were in regards to the crash. He had built the plane (Adventure Air Amphibious 6-seater) in his garage over the course of almost 15 years and it had only been in the air for about a month when it went down. During that entire time he studied to get his private pilot's certificate and all the relevant certifications to properly fly his plane. He was a very good pilot by all the accounts that I had heard (my father - he's also a pilot, and other friends of his).
Anyways, the plane went down about 2.5 miles off the end of the runway, which is about a minute of flying, and by my guess (I am a student pilot with 47 flight hours logged), maybe 1000' or 1500' of elevation AGL. I don't yet know what went wrong that day, but I get the impression from the eyewitness report that the plane was intact until it hit. The bigger factor for me is that I saw how much detail he put into the plane... he was a stickler for perfection and he knew his stuff (he studied mechanical engineering before going into law). So this leads me to believe that the plane was OK as far as the airframe. With a huge parachute like that and even just 500' elevation to pull it, he just might have survived the crash.
The cockpit of that plane and the big harnesses that he had in there would have taken more time to get out than he had. Whole-plane parachutes give pilots more time to react, rather than having to aim the plane away from (as was the case in Paul's crash) a shopping mall, unbuckle yourself, open the canopy (not an option in certain planes where you'd have to push the door against the air resistance), bail, and pull your chute. This is a big problem because most crashes happen in the very first or the very last minutes of flying (when the plane is flying slow and is more susceptible[sp?] to stalling). It can save lives.
Just my $0.02.
Does the Whitehouse know that ...
Yes, but it's classified.
But they ARE powered, and they COULD be clocked. It would be possible to do the equilavent of powering the logic gates, but it would add more hardware and this is a way to power them using already-necessary hardware. Electronic logic gates have a delay between changing the inputs and the outputs changing, so why not clock it? I suppose that aanother solution would be to evaluate the slop on the mechanical gates to determine the maximum length of gates that could be be passively run, and then for every 5th gate, say, clock it to get rid of that slop. Think of it as repeating a degrading signal.
Giving the gates gain may be possible, too, but it would require powering each gate, either with electrical power or some sort of funky mechanical setup.
When I read the title of this article, I tried coming up with a design in my head of how I would do this, and my idea is to make the clock pulse out of a rotating shaft with cams (easy enough for Lego pieces). The cams are what would actually power the pieces, thereby eliminating the effects of backlash and fanning. The only problem comes with a lack of torque, but it would be easy to simply tie in more motors (or more hand-cranks) to get more power down the line. I think that this is a more elegant solution than having a person manually slide a shaft back and forth for the clock pulses.
(1) George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. This is my favorite series of all. The characters are realistic, the story draws you in, and the outcome is anything but expected. I could only wish that these books came out every month.
I just have to echo your sentiments that this is one of the best series I have ever read. I love how he has no particular attachments to his characters, and yet how he doesn't forget any of them either - every single chapter is as interesting as the last and I don't have the slightest urge to skip any of them.
You forgot step 6: ? and step 7: Profit!
My dad got one of those really primitive speech recognition software programs like 10 years ago, one of the ones that only recognizes volume changes. It worked well for about 20 minutes, and then I coughed into the mic. It opened the calculator, we both laughed about it, and stopped using the software.
I have an IBM T20 and I have learned to not rest it in my lap without to use it. Other than the immediate problem of the computer getting very hot, I found that it has the capability of giving an electrical shock. I remember when I found out: I was sitting in bed playing a video game and all of a sudden, I felt electricity flowing through my legs. It only took that one instance before I learned to rest the computer on a small 3-ring binder to:
1) Angle the computer so that the keyboard was in a more comfortable position to type.
2) Keep the computer's scalding hot case from contacting my legs by providing a volume of air between the computer (where there are no air vents anyways) to cool it down a small amount.
3) Prevent the nasty electrical shock.
I'm just grateful that I was wearing boxers and had the computer resting closer to my knees than my hips...
when does this copy protection kick in?
When CSS was implemented, DVD burners weren't yet readily available on the consumer market. CSS was designed to prevent copying from a DVD to a computer, which DeCSS solved.
Notice I didn't say who was incompetent. The people who drew up the maps / maintained records should have kept them accurate and up-to-date!
I maintain my claim of incompetence.
You can have Half-Life v1.xxx whatever installed, and also have Steam installed. It isn't like Steam uninstalls it.
It uninstalled it for me. My original Half-Life directory is now all but empty.
Also, Steam has an off-line mode, for LAN parties/etc., which allows you to run fully cached (read: downloaded/installed) games without having an internet connection.
AFAIK you can't restart your computer in between activating it and playing it. I never tried doing it and it's certainly not obvious to me how to do it.
Regarding downloading over your cablemodem-- you're sharing it with "20" people, yet bitching about just Steam running slow? Pretty much anything's going to be slow when you're sharing your cablemodem with 20 other people, much less college students.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I've never used Steam while sharing my connection that way. I go to school in upstate NY and I'm living in Connecticut temporarily: I'm talking about when I get back to school it's GOING to be bad, because the updates are mandatory. I won't be able to play the single-player version (which is all I'll be able to do while sharing the connection) without verifying over Steam, whether it's HL1 or HL2. In terms of HL1, it is NOT acceptable to change the minimum requirements 5 years after the game came out so that the person needs to 1) upgrade their connection, or 2) wait for the big-ass download.
I wasn't exaggerating about the number 20: I live in a fraternity house at school. It's really closer to 30 computers / X-Boxes and 20 people, there was no need to to put the 20 in quotes.
And whose fault is it that the maps are so bad? I stick by my convictions and continue to call incompetence, whether it's the city's fault or the subcontractor's.