This IS the Nordic women we're talking about. I'm sure even a bumbling slashdotter could land something decent.
No honestly, do you guys have fat unattractive girls over there that no one photographs? I swear every picture I've seen taken in Sweden or Finland looks like the hot sorority house on campus.
They use it currently to store up energy at night and smooth out the demand during the day.
I have a crawlspace at my house that would be perfect for a 15' flywheel. Spin it up during the day and drain off of it at night.
Toss in a good insulated tank and I can have hot water all night, even use that hot water to heat my house. If geothermal works good at 55F, then it'd be awesome at 90F. Few hundred gallon tank buried and cycle the water up to my roof and back down all day.
30 day trial. Thing is, that's an 'absolute' limit, not time actually spent.
So I decide I want to try something out. I install it. Then I get busy with other classes. 30 days up. No more trial.
I'm not saying no one ever gets a job without knowing Matlab nor do any companies ever buy software without having someone that has pirated work for them.
If I go to my boss say "I tried this out for 30 days, we should risk it." If we had the budget, maybe. But if I go to him and say "I used this for 3 years in college. It's awesome and works. I even have this huge library of scripts." I have a higher chance.
And if I never had put Matlab on my application, then I may have never gotten the job.
So there's a start... but what about Simulink? IMHO the REAL power of Mathworks is Simulink. My company, and I imagine most others have compilers for their ECMs built in. You make a model. Mathworks compiles it, and you can flash it to your ECM. Beats the hell out of Raw Assembly:) (Especially for some of the non linear PID, rate limiting, saturation controllers that most people run these days).
My group has probably cut some of our project man-hour times in half with System ID toolbox. No more step response stuff, feed it U and Y and it gives you the Nth order system and delay. Toss that into your simulink model as your plant, start swinging your controller around and full off line system minimal time.
Such as? If you could give me a good, viable alternative to Matlab, Simulink and the Auto Coding functions I'm listening.
*Everyone* uses Matlab. That level of support does not come cheap. Boeing, Ford, GM, Chrysler, BMW, VW, Benz, Caterpillar, Deere, Cummins, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Haldex, Samsung. I bet you can't go a day without using something Mathworks helped design. There are some people out there using it for Day Trading.
It is almost to the point that electing to boycott Mathworks is like trying to boycott the i386.
Tools cost money. Good tools cost more money. If I built houses for a living I'd buy a Dewalt. Even if 99% of slashdot scoffed at paying $300 for a 'cordless drill.'
If you really want Tiny, that's the way to go. I'm leaning towards an old cheap 1.5gHz board with a GT210 or GT220, which are Feature Set C VDPAU boards.
Meaning they toss off Divx and Xvid in addition to the x264. Plus they support SD content upscaling in the GPU.
The Nettop box with the power it has will probably do a very good upscaling as is and not have any problems.
Then again I like to build my own cases, plus I already have an old MiniATX laying around for $60 I have myself a brand new shiny machine.
Through college I had the full version of Matlab/Simulink. I used toolboxes that the school didn't have when doing class projects. I learned everything I could about it and the toolboxes available.
Now, 6 years later, I was able to talk my boss into buying a few extra special toolboxes for the work we do. Something close to $30k a seat a year. Had I never 'pirated' all that software I would have never been able to sell my self to my company, nor sell my company on Matlab toolboxes.
Same goes for Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and quite a few other "Pro" applications that should they be needed, I can put them on a resume.
The personal stuff I use at home. GraphicConverter, etc, I like to pay for.
You'll need an LIRC setup. Which means either a generic USB/Serial IR receiver, or I just went with a cheap HP MCE remote from ebay (With that Ugly Win Logo). With LIRC you can map any button to about any function. Eject, Sleep, Power, etc
Only thing most people don't seem to have gotten perfect yet is sleep, but I think that's more of a Linux thing than anything. I haven't timed my boot, but I think it's in the 50 second range with nothing fancy on a debian install.
Check out the forums. http://xbmc.org/forum/ for answers to almost all of your questions, including step by step walkthroughs.
Straw is what you sit on at the county fair and people spread over mud.
"Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalk of a cereal plant, after the grain or seed has been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. In times gone by, it was regarded as a useful by-product of the harvest, but with the advent of the combine harvester, straw has become more burdensome to agriculture"
Given they haven't paid attention for the last 20 years, somehow I don't think they're going to start.
Yes BT was 100% free. And I was against paying for anything. But with that of which we do not speak, TV and Movies are closer to VOD. My cable company just upgraded me to 1.4MB/s... I can get a 30 minute TV show in 3 minutes. I can get a whole movie in 10-15, enough time to pop popcorn and get settled in. It's well worth the $11 I spend on it.
Say you have 100 people wanting to try and win this prize. 1 person reports 400 crimes, but the average is around 40-50 crimes.
So for £1,000 a month, you get 5000 crimes reported. - It'll be interesting if 4Chan decides to start trolling this.... thousands of people reporting Pedo Bear at the Palace, or just any single crime somewhere cops aren't.
Long answer, get hat ever the hell makes you happy, Just make sure that it runs an Nvidia video card that supports VDPAU and you're in the money.
There are nightly.deb builds here: http://sshcs.com/xbmc/ (Also available for other platforms). There are a ton of tutorials available on xbmc.org.
Most people are fond of the ION series, it's a 9300 series GeForce paired with an Intel processor. There's one guy who is working on getting a $30 broadcom chip working in the AppleTV that can decode everything up through 1080p, however it seems to be 'a month away'. Plus there aren't any legal drivers for any OS out there yet.
You can even boot it as a 'live' CD/USB. I'm thinking about getting a small CF card and using that. I have the XBMC Debian install down to around 700MB. Most of the Devs and other users prefer Ubuntu. (as far as linux goes).
XBMC has taken leaps and bounds since forking from the original XBox hardware. It's absolutely gorgeous. The skins... wow. There are companies out there that can't come up with an interface as nice or slick as this that works as well. UPnP, Bonjour, SMB, ReplayTV, even Live TV with some plugins.... which also kick ass. There are plugins for Youtube to Apple TV trailers to YouPorn:).
I rarely buy software (and stick to freeware) and even more rarely donate much (I'm just frugal). However XBMC just got $100 from me. For $50 and I got a used xbox with a broken DVD drive 6 years ago. It has been hands down the best multimedia device I have ever seen. With the addition of a CPU/GPU that can do 1080p... no questions asked.
Nonsense. I mean you install the alsa drivers for your sound card. Then you install pulse audio to load and use the drivers. Then something something alsa user settings to use pulse.
So then all your app has to do is send stuff to alsa userspace thingy, which sends everything to pules, which CAN send stuff over the network, but most likely sends it to the ALSA device drivers.
2-3 hours later and XBMC with HDMI audio works great!/sarcasm.
A good portion of Windows "freeware" I've found seems to be complete crap. In addition the noise to signal ratio is rather large. There are very few closed or open source Windows applications I think are great (Putty, Lanchy & FF come to mind).
In comparison there are quite a few closed source Mac Apps I use that look like they could have been made by Apple themselves. Maybe it's Apple building the 'UI Guidelines' into XCode's interface builder that makes it easy, or the fact that most Mac developers are Mac users and know how the stuff should work.
Not to mention with MacPorts/Fink or plain ole GCC I have almost every project ever uploaded to sourceforge at my disposal. Even if it has an ugly X11 interface there has been some progression in getting Quartz for X11 apps.
So add parity. Even if you added 50% parity, that'd still be a decent amount of information on each disk, enough to back up every photo I've ever taken and some video.
Seriously, how many photos of hot young girls in the mirror or even worse that look like they're trying to point the camera at themselves.
Do the world a favor, show them that most cameras have a self timer. Heck my Canon has an awesome feature where it'll crank off up to 10 photos after a custom timer delay. Plenty of time to 'get into position'.
A majority of the problem comes from how people hold their phones. Quite a few people I see texting seem to either have it in their lap or right up in their face.
May I suggest holding the phone at arms length right above the dashboard. Your eyes won't have to swap focus as much nor will they have to change location. It'd be about the same as a HUD.
I'm not saying it's perfect or better than no texting, but it's much better than setting it in your lap.
What about everything else? Makeup, Food, Kids, etc? Does the EU regulate what you can and can't do in your cars? I know Americans are different from a few countries in the regard that driving is a waste of your time and you can multitask, where other countries see driving as 'the task at hand'.
After driving German cars for most of my life, you can see that Germans use their cars to drive. I can just see the conversation now from back in the day: Manager: Zee Americans komplain about 'cup holders'. Engineer: Vee can not put cup holders. Vee vill spill Das Bier! Plus, How can you drink at 175 kph? Manager: Zee Americans vant it. Zehr 'interstate' has 100 kph limit. Engineer: Oh. Here. Perfekt cup holder for 12 oz. Plenty of fluid for zeh average human.
Before 1993 VW's didn't come with any cup holder. 1993-1999 You could fit a can of soda... but not use the ashtray. 1999+ they seem to hold some bigger cups/cans.
Compared to most American cars I've been in since the 1980s seem to be able to hold a Super Gulp 64 with ease.
* The Savannah was designed as a showboat. Her purpose was to demonstrate American technology as part of the "Atoms for Peace" program. Pretty lines and luxurious staterooms were more important than cargo capacity or loading ease. * She made politically motivated port calls, not economically motivated ones. * She was a one of a kind ship, required to support a specialized infrastructure by herself. * There were some difficulties with union negotiations. She spent almost a year tied to the pier because of the deck officers did not want the engineers to make more money than they did.
With the air craft carriers no one seems to have a NIMBY problem. You could move quite a bit of cargo with a few lbs of uranium.
So it'll require hiring some more staff (Like an actual engineer and maybe some armed guards). The US Navy has managed to not have any nuclear powered vessel captured by pirates.
Heck I wouldn't have a huge problem if the US Government wanted to own and operate a super-super cargo ship if it ran on Nuclear energy. The amount of oil those ships burn is measured in thousands of gallons per mile.
Just drive an old diesel. One of the old VW or Benz's from the 80's and earlier. You MAY have to swap the solenoid operated fuel valve for something mechanical, everything else should be just fine.
If you have a manual you don't even need a starter/battery. Hurray for compression ignition.
By taking away market share. It's the same way bicycles compete with cars, not the way BMW competes with Kia.
If you already have a gaming system in your pocket. Games cost $0.99-$10, and they're all 'fun' there will be a certain segment of the population that used to get a 360 that will just stick with the phone. Just as there are certain people who swear by PC gaming as being the 'best' because you can use your 105-key keyboard.
Now extend that a bit further. You now have a TON of developers that know the ins and outs of Cocoa programming, OpenGL (for the 3GS), etc.
Imagine a MMO where you can play at home on OS X, but when you go on the road, hop online for some 'short missions' or so.
Slashdot Mirror
This IS the Nordic women we're talking about. I'm sure even a bumbling slashdotter could land something decent.
No honestly, do you guys have fat unattractive girls over there that no one photographs? I swear every picture I've seen taken in Sweden or Finland looks like the hot sorority house on campus.
Binary files Wiki1.7z and Wiki2.7z differ.
Or did you think they were sending it all over the internet uncompressed?
So store the energy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage
They use it currently to store up energy at night and smooth out the demand during the day.
I have a crawlspace at my house that would be perfect for a 15' flywheel. Spin it up during the day and drain off of it at night.
Toss in a good insulated tank and I can have hot water all night, even use that hot water to heat my house. If geothermal works good at 55F, then it'd be awesome at 90F. Few hundred gallon tank buried and cycle the water up to my roof and back down all day.
You have to confirm pokes. TWO random accidental mouse clicks is highly improbable.
30 day trial. Thing is, that's an 'absolute' limit, not time actually spent.
So I decide I want to try something out. I install it. Then I get busy with other classes. 30 days up. No more trial.
I'm not saying no one ever gets a job without knowing Matlab nor do any companies ever buy software without having someone that has pirated work for them.
If I go to my boss say "I tried this out for 30 days, we should risk it." If we had the budget, maybe. But if I go to him and say "I used this for 3 years in college. It's awesome and works. I even have this huge library of scripts." I have a higher chance.
And if I never had put Matlab on my application, then I may have never gotten the job.
So there's a start... but what about Simulink? IMHO the REAL power of Mathworks is Simulink. My company, and I imagine most others have compilers for their ECMs built in. You make a model. Mathworks compiles it, and you can flash it to your ECM. Beats the hell out of Raw Assembly :) (Especially for some of the non linear PID, rate limiting, saturation controllers that most people run these days).
For those that aren't familiar, this is a list of the Matlab/Simulink Toolboxes Available: http://www.mathworks.com/products/product_listing/
My group has probably cut some of our project man-hour times in half with System ID toolbox. No more step response stuff, feed it U and Y and it gives you the Nth order system and delay. Toss that into your simulink model as your plant, start swinging your controller around and full off line system minimal time.
Such as? If you could give me a good, viable alternative to Matlab, Simulink and the Auto Coding functions I'm listening.
*Everyone* uses Matlab. That level of support does not come cheap. Boeing, Ford, GM, Chrysler, BMW, VW, Benz, Caterpillar, Deere, Cummins, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Haldex, Samsung. I bet you can't go a day without using something Mathworks helped design. There are some people out there using it for Day Trading.
It is almost to the point that electing to boycott Mathworks is like trying to boycott the i386.
Tools cost money. Good tools cost more money. If I built houses for a living I'd buy a Dewalt. Even if 99% of slashdot scoffed at paying $300 for a 'cordless drill.'
If you really want Tiny, that's the way to go. I'm leaning towards an old cheap 1.5gHz board with a GT210 or GT220, which are Feature Set C VDPAU boards.
Meaning they toss off Divx and Xvid in addition to the x264. Plus they support SD content upscaling in the GPU.
The Nettop box with the power it has will probably do a very good upscaling as is and not have any problems.
Then again I like to build my own cases, plus I already have an old MiniATX laying around for $60 I have myself a brand new shiny machine.
This is exactly how I use my Pirated software.
Through college I had the full version of Matlab/Simulink. I used toolboxes that the school didn't have when doing class projects. I learned everything I could about it and the toolboxes available.
Now, 6 years later, I was able to talk my boss into buying a few extra special toolboxes for the work we do. Something close to $30k a seat a year. Had I never 'pirated' all that software I would have never been able to sell my self to my company, nor sell my company on Matlab toolboxes.
Same goes for Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and quite a few other "Pro" applications that should they be needed, I can put them on a resume.
The personal stuff I use at home. GraphicConverter, etc, I like to pay for.
Octave is NOT an alternative for most of Matlab.
You'll need an LIRC setup. Which means either a generic USB/Serial IR receiver, or I just went with a cheap HP MCE remote from ebay (With that Ugly Win Logo). With LIRC you can map any button to about any function. Eject, Sleep, Power, etc
Only thing most people don't seem to have gotten perfect yet is sleep, but I think that's more of a Linux thing than anything. I haven't timed my boot, but I think it's in the 50 second range with nothing fancy on a debian install.
Check out the forums. http://xbmc.org/forum/ for answers to almost all of your questions, including step by step walkthroughs.
MooThermal Heat Pump?
Straw is not edible.
Hay is edible.
Straw is what you sit on at the county fair and people spread over mud.
"Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalk of a cereal plant, after the grain or seed has been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. In times gone by, it was regarded as a useful by-product of the harvest, but with the advent of the combine harvester, straw has become more burdensome to agriculture"
Given they haven't paid attention for the last 20 years, somehow I don't think they're going to start.
Yes BT was 100% free. And I was against paying for anything. But with that of which we do not speak, TV and Movies are closer to VOD. My cable company just upgraded me to 1.4MB/s... I can get a 30 minute TV show in 3 minutes. I can get a whole movie in 10-15, enough time to pop popcorn and get settled in. It's well worth the $11 I spend on it.
No WPA(2) sounds very open to me.
£1,000 for the person with the MOST crimes.
Say you have 100 people wanting to try and win this prize.
1 person reports 400 crimes, but the average is around 40-50 crimes.
So for £1,000 a month, you get 5000 crimes reported.
-
It'll be interesting if 4Chan decides to start trolling this.... thousands of people reporting Pedo Bear at the Palace, or just any single crime somewhere cops aren't.
Short answer, If you're a 'plop down some cash and be done with it' type of guy. Get the Acer Aspire Revo AR1600-U910H at newegg for $199US.
Long answer, get hat ever the hell makes you happy, Just make sure that it runs an Nvidia video card that supports VDPAU and you're in the money.
There are nightly .deb builds here: http://sshcs.com/xbmc/ (Also available for other platforms). There are a ton of tutorials available on xbmc.org.
Most people are fond of the ION series, it's a 9300 series GeForce paired with an Intel processor. There's one guy who is working on getting a $30 broadcom chip working in the AppleTV that can decode everything up through 1080p, however it seems to be 'a month away'. Plus there aren't any legal drivers for any OS out there yet.
You can even boot it as a 'live' CD/USB. I'm thinking about getting a small CF card and using that. I have the XBMC Debian install down to around 700MB. Most of the Devs and other users prefer Ubuntu. (as far as linux goes).
XBMC has taken leaps and bounds since forking from the original XBox hardware. It's absolutely gorgeous. The skins ... wow. There are companies out there that can't come up with an interface as nice or slick as this that works as well. UPnP, Bonjour, SMB, ReplayTV, even Live TV with some plugins.... which also kick ass. There are plugins for Youtube to Apple TV trailers to YouPorn :).
I rarely buy software (and stick to freeware) and even more rarely donate much (I'm just frugal). However XBMC just got $100 from me. For $50 and I got a used xbox with a broken DVD drive 6 years ago. It has been hands down the best multimedia device I have ever seen. With the addition of a CPU/GPU that can do 1080p... no questions asked.
Nonsense. I mean you install the alsa drivers for your sound card. Then you install pulse audio to load and use the drivers. Then something something alsa user settings to use pulse.
So then all your app has to do is send stuff to alsa userspace thingy, which sends everything to pules, which CAN send stuff over the network, but most likely sends it to the ALSA device drivers.
2-3 hours later and XBMC with HDMI audio works great! /sarcasm.
A good portion of Windows "freeware" I've found seems to be complete crap. In addition the noise to signal ratio is rather large. There are very few closed or open source Windows applications I think are great (Putty, Lanchy & FF come to mind).
In comparison there are quite a few closed source Mac Apps I use that look like they could have been made by Apple themselves. Maybe it's Apple building the 'UI Guidelines' into XCode's interface builder that makes it easy, or the fact that most Mac developers are Mac users and know how the stuff should work.
Not to mention with MacPorts/Fink or plain ole GCC I have almost every project ever uploaded to sourceforge at my disposal. Even if it has an ugly X11 interface there has been some progression in getting Quartz for X11 apps.
So add parity. Even if you added 50% parity, that'd still be a decent amount of information on each disk, enough to back up every photo I've ever taken and some video.
Seriously, how many photos of hot young girls in the mirror or even worse that look like they're trying to point the camera at themselves.
Do the world a favor, show them that most cameras have a self timer. Heck my Canon has an awesome feature where it'll crank off up to 10 photos after a custom timer delay. Plenty of time to 'get into position'.
A majority of the problem comes from how people hold their phones. Quite a few people I see texting seem to either have it in their lap or right up in their face.
May I suggest holding the phone at arms length right above the dashboard. Your eyes won't have to swap focus as much nor will they have to change location. It'd be about the same as a HUD.
I'm not saying it's perfect or better than no texting, but it's much better than setting it in your lap.
What about everything else? Makeup, Food, Kids, etc? Does the EU regulate what you can and can't do in your cars? I know Americans are different from a few countries in the regard that driving is a waste of your time and you can multitask, where other countries see driving as 'the task at hand'.
After driving German cars for most of my life, you can see that Germans use their cars to drive. I can just see the conversation now from back in the day:
Manager: Zee Americans komplain about 'cup holders'.
Engineer: Vee can not put cup holders. Vee vill spill Das Bier! Plus, How can you drink at 175 kph?
Manager: Zee Americans vant it. Zehr 'interstate' has 100 kph limit.
Engineer: Oh. Here. Perfekt cup holder for 12 oz. Plenty of fluid for zeh average human.
Before 1993 VW's didn't come with any cup holder.
1993-1999 You could fit a can of soda... but not use the ashtray.
1999+ they seem to hold some bigger cups/cans.
Compared to most American cars I've been in since the 1980s seem to be able to hold a Super Gulp 64 with ease.
Go Nuke. They did it once http://www.atomicengines.com/ships.html, but made it more of a 'show' boat than a work horse.
* The Savannah was designed as a showboat. Her purpose was to demonstrate American technology as part of the "Atoms for Peace" program. Pretty lines and luxurious staterooms were more important than cargo capacity or loading ease.
* She made politically motivated port calls, not economically motivated ones.
* She was a one of a kind ship, required to support a specialized infrastructure by herself.
* There were some difficulties with union negotiations. She spent almost a year tied to the pier because of the deck officers did not want the engineers to make more money than they did.
With the air craft carriers no one seems to have a NIMBY problem. You could move quite a bit of cargo with a few lbs of uranium.
So it'll require hiring some more staff (Like an actual engineer and maybe some armed guards). The US Navy has managed to not have any nuclear powered vessel captured by pirates.
Heck I wouldn't have a huge problem if the US Government wanted to own and operate a super-super cargo ship if it ran on Nuclear energy. The amount of oil those ships burn is measured in thousands of gallons per mile.
Just drive an old diesel. One of the old VW or Benz's from the 80's and earlier. You MAY have to swap the solenoid operated fuel valve for something mechanical, everything else should be just fine.
If you have a manual you don't even need a starter/battery. Hurray for compression ignition.
By taking away market share. It's the same way bicycles compete with cars, not the way BMW competes with Kia.
If you already have a gaming system in your pocket. Games cost $0.99-$10, and they're all 'fun' there will be a certain segment of the population that used to get a 360 that will just stick with the phone. Just as there are certain people who swear by PC gaming as being the 'best' because you can use your 105-key keyboard.
Now extend that a bit further. You now have a TON of developers that know the ins and outs of Cocoa programming, OpenGL (for the 3GS), etc.
Imagine a MMO where you can play at home on OS X, but when you go on the road, hop online for some 'short missions' or so.