Plays well enough with an Xbox360 controller.
(In fact, they are fantastic for most console emulation)
Don't even bother trying to play N64 games with a Playstation controller, blecch.
The next step is to run more tests with more hives, and more test groups (with - as suggested elsewhere in the discussion - graduated exposure levels) Not to run around like a headless chook claiming the preliminary test actually means anything.
1. Do limited unscientific test. 2. Profit! 3. ???
Its keys are stored in a heap, so selecting ranges of values is a core use case. The view system also uses the same mechanism, so by having a cached view you can emit any key you like per record, and grab individual or ranges of values.
This is just a motherboard, with a C7 processor already attached to it. No memory, no non-volatile storage...
According to TFA, it "comes with gOS", but gOS doesn't sit anywhere on this 'dev board', it has to be installed onto a regular hard drive just like a normal computer.
Bad article. It's not a dev board, it's an entirely normal mobo. The ONLY thing about it that is even remotely special is that there are linux drivers for all its components.
If it were a dev board I'd want at least some attached flash storage, and some interesting pin headers.
Humans don't bounce too well, and neither does anything with too much mass (inertia). It was okay for the landers because they are much smaller than a manned spacecraft was. (analogous to the oft-quoted maxim that you can drop a mouse from any height and it will survive, but a cat will not)
As the craft gets heavier, the size of the airbags that would be required to safely land it would I think increase geometrically.
Even with huge...'tracts of land'... it will probably never be safe for humans because we don't handle extremely high G impulses well.
X amount of raw cellulosic product in, plus 1 unit of energy to power the process. The output is enough ethanol to generate 16 units of energy.
In practice, these plants often loop part of the output back to power itself, so the process is simplified to: X of raw cellulosic product in, 15 units of energy out.
I'm highly dissatisfied with the IT department in my workplace.
They recently did an anonymous satisfaction survey across the 4000 employees in the company.
The survey was USELESS! - All of the questions were True/False, - Many of the questions were not even applicable to me, (but being T/F, I couldn't put a NA answer) - There was no way to adequately express my dissatisfaction on most issues. - Many questions were ambiguous.
If a survey is done... 1. Get someone else to write it, NOT just the IT department. 2. Grab some random employees to EVALUATE the survey before it's sent out, and see if it could be improved. 3. When the results have come in, publish them and any conclusions drawn, inviting anyone who disagrees to anonymously comment upon them.
I'm sure my IT department is erroneously patting themselves on the back for their interpretation of the results... don't let it happen to you!
As GP stated, you could publish on any webpage a list of links that contain malicious code in them. When Google, Yahoo, and other spiders crawl the links, *THEY* end up doing the attacking. That is rather dangerous, I'd say - it'd be very difficult to track down the person responsible, especially if the original webpage was posted on a zombie server.
It'd be nice to be able to load the chromasomes up into the piet interpreter, and see what comes out!
Wouldn't it be interesting, though, if it turns out that the genome could be understood as a 'program', and a specially coded interpreter could process it...... what would the binaries do?
And no - people don't care *enough* for manufacturers and software writers to do it.
Plus even if you power-down and store memory state on the hard drive, it takes a minimum time to load it back in.
It's not very good for a mouse hand, I'll give you that. Trust me, it's even worse with a trackpad!
I do think it'd be very useful to learn what sort of non-clicking interface conventions work better than others - there are some situations where you'd have positional control (ie something that tracks the eyes to see what you're looking at) but not an actuator to click. (you couldn't use 'blinking' or you'd have FAR too many false positives.
I used to work for a NSW power company, and as I left they were completing the south sydney project.
The city CBD needed more power than the current lines could provide, but there was no way to put in overhead high tension lines. Instead, they started in the inner south-west suburbs (the nearest new power source) and ran 3 x 330kV cables under the back-street asphalt.
When they got close, they started digging (ie tunnel boring machines) and ran it underground.
At Haymarket, they built an underground substation, and connected it up to the grid.
330kV overhead lines in NSW are bloody huge and very high, with lots and lots of insulation and separation. Putting them underground was a challenge.
(http://neurohack.com/transcendence/)
You can save&quit, and resume later.
You can purchase 'insurance' from a broker for protection against death (if your ship is destroyed you'll re-appear at the broker with full health) but the cost of insurance increases exponentially every time you make a 'claim'.
Well, you know there are other decent handheld platforms out there beyond the Gameboy and the PSP? And title for "most powerful portable platform" does NOT go to the GBA!
Check out this.
This baby has the ability to PLAY GBA games...as well as a host of older ROMS, and the classic Lucasarts titles, like Day of the Tentacle. This will be my next console purchase, for sure.
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Plays well enough with an Xbox360 controller. (In fact, they are fantastic for most console emulation) Don't even bother trying to play N64 games with a Playstation controller, blecch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Hyman
The next step is to run more tests with more hives, and more test groups (with - as suggested elsewhere in the discussion - graduated exposure levels)
Not to run around like a headless chook claiming the preliminary test actually means anything.
1. Do limited unscientific test.
2. Profit!
3. ???
Try couchdb if you want to select ranges.
Its keys are stored in a heap, so selecting ranges of values is a core use case.
The view system also uses the same mechanism, so by having a cached view you can emit any key you like per record, and grab individual or ranges of values.
Nifty. :-)
This is just a motherboard, with a C7 processor already attached to it. No memory, no non-volatile storage...
According to TFA, it "comes with gOS", but gOS doesn't sit anywhere on this 'dev board', it has to be installed onto a regular hard drive just like a normal computer.
Bad article. It's not a dev board, it's an entirely normal mobo. The ONLY thing about it that is even remotely special is that there are linux drivers for all its components.
If it were a dev board I'd want at least some attached flash storage, and some interesting pin headers.
I'd say it's like: There are thousands of restaurants in the city... but you can't just choose a different one each time you go out.
You have to pick *ONE* restaurant, and put $10,000 on the tab.
The 'airbag' approach means BOUNCING.
...'tracts of land'... it will probably never be safe for humans because we don't handle extremely high G impulses well.
Humans don't bounce too well, and neither does anything with too much mass (inertia). It was okay for the landers because they are much smaller than a manned spacecraft was.
(analogous to the oft-quoted maxim that you can drop a mouse from any height and it will survive, but a cat will not)
As the craft gets heavier, the size of the airbags that would be required to safely land it would I think increase geometrically.
Even with huge
X amount of raw cellulosic product in, plus 1 unit of energy to power the process.
The output is enough ethanol to generate 16 units of energy.
In practice, these plants often loop part of the output back to power itself, so the process is simplified to:
X of raw cellulosic product in, 15 units of energy out.
Which is pretty cool.
I'm highly dissatisfied with the IT department in my workplace.
They recently did an anonymous satisfaction survey across the 4000 employees in the company.
The survey was USELESS!
- All of the questions were True/False,
- Many of the questions were not even applicable to me, (but being T/F, I couldn't put a NA answer)
- There was no way to adequately express my dissatisfaction on most issues.
- Many questions were ambiguous.
If a survey is done...
1. Get someone else to write it, NOT just the IT department.
2. Grab some random employees to EVALUATE the survey before it's sent out, and see if it could be improved.
3. When the results have come in, publish them and any conclusions drawn, inviting anyone who disagrees to anonymously comment upon them.
I'm sure my IT department is erroneously patting themselves on the back for their interpretation of the results... don't let it happen to you!
Stupid popup boxes, always distracting me...
*goes back to reading slashdot*
As GP stated, you could publish on any webpage a list of links that contain malicious code in them. When Google, Yahoo, and other spiders crawl the links, *THEY* end up doing the attacking. That is rather dangerous, I'd say - it'd be very difficult to track down the person responsible, especially if the original webpage was posted on a zombie server.
It reminds me of this DailyWTF story: http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/The_Spider_of _Doom.aspx
Piet is an 'esoteric' (useless) programming language that reads bitmaps as source files.
n guage)
... what would the binaries do?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_la
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
It'd be nice to be able to load the chromasomes up into the piet interpreter, and see what comes out!
Wouldn't it be interesting, though, if it turns out that the genome could be understood as a 'program', and a specially coded interpreter could process it...
TONS of solar panels on top of a prius would probably result in a highly electrified pile of scrap metal.
:-P
These solar cars are light and FAST...
And they have more time and effort devoted to them than your inane idea.
And no - people don't care *enough* for manufacturers and software writers to do it. Plus even if you power-down and store memory state on the hard drive, it takes a minimum time to load it back in.
It's not very good for a mouse hand, I'll give you that.
Trust me, it's even worse with a trackpad!
I do think it'd be very useful to learn what sort of non-clicking interface conventions work better than others - there are some situations where you'd have positional control (ie something that tracks the eyes to see what you're looking at) but not an actuator to click. (you couldn't use 'blinking' or you'd have FAR too many false positives.
When will web development die?
When Netcraft confirms it!
...at least you hope that's still the case.
I used to work for a NSW power company, and as I left they were completing the south sydney project. The city CBD needed more power than the current lines could provide, but there was no way to put in overhead high tension lines. Instead, they started in the inner south-west suburbs (the nearest new power source) and ran 3 x 330kV cables under the back-street asphalt. When they got close, they started digging (ie tunnel boring machines) and ran it underground. At Haymarket, they built an underground substation, and connected it up to the grid. 330kV overhead lines in NSW are bloody huge and very high, with lots and lots of insulation and separation. Putting them underground was a challenge.
(http://neurohack.com/transcendence/) You can save&quit, and resume later. You can purchase 'insurance' from a broker for protection against death (if your ship is destroyed you'll re-appear at the broker with full health) but the cost of insurance increases exponentially every time you make a 'claim'.
Well, you know there are other decent handheld platforms out there beyond the Gameboy and the PSP? And title for "most powerful portable platform" does NOT go to the GBA!
Check out this.
This baby has the ability to PLAY GBA games...as well as a host of older ROMS, and the classic Lucasarts titles, like Day of the Tentacle.
This will be my next console purchase, for sure.