If you had put an object oriented language on that C64 I would never have survived it. Have you looked at VB.NET? Opening that IDE is FRIGHTENING for an 8 year old. Not to mention it requires a good knowldge of the English language. No, we really need a --10 Print "Hello World"-- kinda thing. Nobody saia these kids need an all-singing-and-dancing GUI.
Handelsblatt reported friday the European central bank negociates with Hitatchi to put chips on the Euro notes. The chips would be 0.4mm thick and carry a 38 digit serial number.
From my local newspaper:De chips zouden amper 0,4 millimeter dik zijn, en dus dunner dan een bankbiljet. Ze zouden uitgerust zijn met een serienummer van 38 cijfers dat enkel leesbaar is met een speciale scanner. Op die manier kan de authenticiteit van het biljet worden gecontroleerd. De chips zouden op grote schaal worden geproduceerd en rond de 7 á 8 eurocent kosten. Een woordvoerder bij de ECB wou het bericht niet ontkennen of bevestigen.,,We voeren continu onderzoek naar een betere beveiliging van de eurobiljetten. In het belang van de euro kan ik daarover niets zeggen'', luidde het gisteren. Eerder onderzoek van de ECB wees uit dat het vervalsen van eurobiljetten toeneemt, al blijft het een marginaal fenomeen. Wel is de kwaliteit van de valse biljetten er de jongste tijd op vooruit gegaan.
In Belgium you can sign any NCA you want and use it for toilet paper 5 seconds later unless:
+ you are above a certain salary
+ you have a certain type of job (sales, managment,...)
+ you resign yourself (getting fired cancels all NCA)
+ your employer pays you a monthly check during the entire duration of the NCA
Right now you can buy AOTF cristals. It is a bit similar, but works as a filter (Acousto Optic Tunable Filter). What it does is bend off one specific wavelength of light based on which ultrasound you beam through it. By sandwiching a AOTF crystal between a piezzo and an absorber, you get a filter which you can control with a waveform generator. Brimrose will sell you a spectrometer that can scan 16,000 wavelengths per second for a ridiculously cheap 100,000$.
Downturn is it throws all other wavelengths out meaning you still need a 35 Watt halogen lightsource to measure anything. If you could "recuperate" or shift the other wavelengths then you could use LED's as a light source and have a completely solid-state spectrometer with > 30000 H MTBF. You would use less power, produce less heat, make it smaller, send it to Mars,....
We had 220V on our ethernet cables for months!
Turned out we pulled two cables through a hole that was maybe a little TOO narrow...
The PC's didn't mind though, the network admin was a little more "shocked"...
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If you had put an object oriented language on that C64 I would never have survived it. Have you looked at VB.NET? Opening that IDE is FRIGHTENING for an 8 year old. Not to mention it requires a good knowldge of the English language. No, we really need a --10 Print "Hello World"-- kinda thing. Nobody saia these kids need an all-singing-and-dancing GUI.
Handelsblatt reported friday the European central bank negociates with Hitatchi to put chips on the Euro notes. The chips would be 0.4mm thick and carry a 38 digit serial number.
From my local newspaper:De chips zouden amper 0,4 millimeter dik zijn, en dus dunner dan een bankbiljet. Ze zouden uitgerust zijn met een serienummer van 38 cijfers dat enkel leesbaar is met een speciale scanner. Op die manier kan de authenticiteit van het biljet worden gecontroleerd. De chips zouden op grote schaal worden geproduceerd en rond de 7 á 8 eurocent kosten. Een woordvoerder bij de ECB wou het bericht niet ontkennen of bevestigen.In Belgium you can sign any NCA you want and use it for toilet paper 5 seconds later unless: + you are above a certain salary + you have a certain type of job (sales, managment,...) + you resign yourself (getting fired cancels all NCA) + your employer pays you a monthly check during the entire duration of the NCA
Right now you can buy AOTF cristals. It is a bit similar, but works as a filter (Acousto Optic Tunable Filter). What it does is bend off one specific wavelength of light based on which ultrasound you beam through it. By sandwiching a AOTF crystal between a piezzo and an absorber, you get a filter which you can control with a waveform generator. Brimrose will sell you a spectrometer that can scan 16,000 wavelengths per second for a ridiculously cheap 100,000$. Downturn is it throws all other wavelengths out meaning you still need a 35 Watt halogen lightsource to measure anything. If you could "recuperate" or shift the other wavelengths then you could use LED's as a light source and have a completely solid-state spectrometer with > 30000 H MTBF. You would use less power, produce less heat, make it smaller, send it to Mars,....
We had 220V on our ethernet cables for months! Turned out we pulled two cables through a hole that was maybe a little TOO narrow... The PC's didn't mind though, the network admin was a little more "shocked"...