Why do you need smartphone access for a 2 week holiday? Surely you can reduce your phonecalls to keep the cost down and spend 2 weeks enjoying your vacation rather than having your nose stuck in your phone. Free WiFi is common in hotels, restaurants, pubs, and coffeeshops.
Why do students need graphing calculators to sit exams?
My University specified a standard model for exams (I studied Physics), which they supplied during exams. You could buy one the same (cost was approximately $20, since it didn't do graphing or anything clever) if you wanted, but since all one needs is trig functions, perhaps some stats, and basic arithmetic. Everything else should likely be understood/remembered by the student since that's what exams are there to test.
If I could buy a car that got me to my destination without the time and hassle of requiring me to guide it and avoid traffic/bad drivers, then that would be a feature that I would value. So, if there is someone out there working on a car for people who hate driving, I'd like to encourage them to continue working on it. Do not be discouraged by the preceding poster.
Perhaps it could run on some sort of metal guides embedded in the road. You could then create a network of these guides and maybe even share the vehicle with others -- perhaps the city could own them and the infrastructure and you could just pay when you need to use it?
lol I feel sorry for anyone who has to go through a body scanner or who is singled out for a search (having gone through many, since I often travel with weird prototypes), the girl in that movie keeps saying, "all I was doing was asking questions." Totally reminds me of this.
When I completed my science degree at university a few years ago, the calculator for exams was supplied by the university. The whole university standardised on one calculator for exams, published the model at the start of the course and kept a couple of hundred in storage for use only during exams.
Oh, and ban any other type of electronic gizmo (our foreign-speaking students were allowed a paper dictionary only, and perhaps a few more minutes at the end to make up for the time they may have spent looking up words).
If you start typing immediately (the textfield has focus when the homepage loads), rather than moving your mouse, the fade doesn't happen. It's only when you move your mouse that the rest of the UI appears.
In order to apply coordinates to these maps, coordinates that are usable for anything other then simple viewing, you will have to find some way of morphing a grid with coordinates across the images you have after scanning. It might be something as simple as creating a transparent layer in Photoshop that can be stretched to align properly. My guess is that you would need some sort of custom plug-in for this to deal with the various projections used on the map images. Scaling shouldn't be an issue unless it is inconsistent and changes across the image.
Any graphics whizzes out there that can expand on this?
Even inconsistent scaling shouldn't be a problem. The company I work for sells PIV software (to measure fluid flows) and that has a dewarping algorithm which can correct for distortions caused by curved windows and off-plane camera alignment. I'm pretty sure that something like it could be applied to an old map that has incorrectly positioned features to bring them onto a sensibly shaped square grid for geocoding.
Also, ice will build up on the mesh when the engine flies through a cloud. Ice is a big problem for jet engine manufacturers, and they spend a lot of money and time ensuring that it won't build up on an engine or affect the performance of the engine if it does build up and break off.
... Go look up what they have in Poland. You have to drive on a skidpad during one test even!
On several occasions I have had the 'pleasure' of experiencing driving in Poland. I have to say that it is - without doubt - the scariest driving that I've ever seen anywhere in the US, Europe or Far East.
Everyone treats the road like a racetrack, there is a mix of really slow trucks and speeding cars, few people seemed to obey the speed limit and 'no overtaking' signs, in fact some of my colleagues were nearly mown down by someone trying to drift his car round an intersection in Krakow.
On one journey, I remember overtaking a line of trucks (I was the passenger of a Pole) and dipping into the space between two of them for a second to allow someone to pass in the opposite direction, before continuing the overtaking manoeuvre.
The only time you should ever spend a prolonged period of time with the car idling and the transmission in gear with the clutch pressed is during your driving test. (at least in the USA).
I failed my UK driving test first time for pressing the clutch down and coasting up to junctions. It reduces the amount of control that you have over the car.
I remember I discovered my old '83 Firebird's door key would start a friend's GM truck
Heh, an old colleague of mine often tells the story of when he borrowed his boss' VW to run a (500km) errand. When he got back later that day, his boss asked
"Why didn't you take my car?"
Long story short. There were two identical looking cars in the same street with the same key. One of which had a great deal less fuel in it at the end of the day:0)
You can turn on access to something like that in the accesibility prefs. It lets you do something like Cmd-Option-M for the menus, Cmd-Option-D for the Dock. (Can't remember exactly 'cos I'm not in front of my Mac right now).
The newest european cars nowadays come with an extra protection agains collisions with pedestrians: The hood in front of the car is lifted a few inches after 40 or so milliseconds so the pedestrian gets lifted as well and won't get run over by the car but lands on the softer hood and might hit the car glass.
Actually, the bonnet lifts to increase the space between the bonnet and the engine underneath. Because of the current fad of sleek cars with big engines, the top of the engine case is very close to the underside of the bonnet.
A pedestrian hitting the bonnet will just smash directly into the engine.
Lifting the bonnet up a bit increases the distance that the deformable material has to move meaning the the pedestrian is moving more slowly when they meet the engine, reducing the severity of their injuries.
no doubt including large numbers of apes, to the U.S. in an era when Bush has decided to restart nuclear weapons research...
How could apes and nuclear war be bad? There's plenty of planet for everyone.
Isn't this also dangerously close to the plot of a movie?
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On this (UK) powerbook, | is next to '" (@ is above 2) and return.
~ Is bottom left next to Z and left-shift.
Thing is, since I do 90% of my hacking on this thing, I only notice when I go somewhere else and the keys aren't where I reach for them.
I think that Sharazaa offers this 'feature'. You can set it so that it won't offer uploads of the file to the swarm. Fortunately, Azureus allows you to block people who do this...
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Why do you need smartphone access for a 2 week holiday? Surely you can reduce your phonecalls to keep the cost down and spend 2 weeks enjoying your vacation rather than having your nose stuck in your phone. Free WiFi is common in hotels, restaurants, pubs, and coffeeshops.
Why do students need graphing calculators to sit exams? My University specified a standard model for exams (I studied Physics), which they supplied during exams. You could buy one the same (cost was approximately $20, since it didn't do graphing or anything clever) if you wanted, but since all one needs is trig functions, perhaps some stats, and basic arithmetic. Everything else should likely be understood/remembered by the student since that's what exams are there to test.
Nor will it dazzle anyone: it's mid infra-red and invisible to the human eye.
Reminds me of MIT undergrads.
Heh. They are MIT grads... From: http://www.nerdkits.com/team/ "We started NerdKits as MIT students "
It had to run LabView
If I could buy a car that got me to my destination without the time and hassle of requiring me to guide it and avoid traffic/bad drivers, then that would be a feature that I would value. So, if there is someone out there working on a car for people who hate driving, I'd like to encourage them to continue working on it. Do not be discouraged by the preceding poster.
Perhaps it could run on some sort of metal guides embedded in the road. You could then create a network of these guides and maybe even share the vehicle with others -- perhaps the city could own them and the infrastructure and you could just pay when you need to use it?
lol I feel sorry for anyone who has to go through a body scanner or who is singled out for a search (having gone through many, since I often travel with weird prototypes), the girl in that movie keeps saying, "all I was doing was asking questions." Totally reminds me of this.
Heh. Makes me think of this XKCD
When I completed my science degree at university a few years ago, the calculator for exams was supplied by the university. The whole university standardised on one calculator for exams, published the model at the start of the course and kept a couple of hundred in storage for use only during exams. Oh, and ban any other type of electronic gizmo (our foreign-speaking students were allowed a paper dictionary only, and perhaps a few more minutes at the end to make up for the time they may have spent looking up words).
Or Hitler??????? Ye gods, there's no hope left.
I call Godwin's Law
If you start typing immediately (the textfield has focus when the homepage loads), rather than moving your mouse, the fade doesn't happen. It's only when you move your mouse that the rest of the UI appears.
In order to apply coordinates to these maps, coordinates that are usable for anything other then simple viewing, you will have to find some way of morphing a grid with coordinates across the images you have after scanning. It might be something as simple as creating a transparent layer in Photoshop that can be stretched to align properly. My guess is that you would need some sort of custom plug-in for this to deal with the various projections used on the map images. Scaling shouldn't be an issue unless it is inconsistent and changes across the image.
Any graphics whizzes out there that can expand on this?
Even inconsistent scaling shouldn't be a problem. The company I work for sells PIV software (to measure fluid flows) and that has a dewarping algorithm which can correct for distortions caused by curved windows and off-plane camera alignment. I'm pretty sure that something like it could be applied to an old map that has incorrectly positioned features to bring them onto a sensibly shaped square grid for geocoding.
discludes
You mean excludes?
The activation only takes a few minutes over the phone. The rest of the time is spent complaining to the MS rep...
Interesting. I often get mod points, but whenever I try to use them, I get an error: You do not have permission to use the requested resource. :/
Also, ice will build up on the mesh when the engine flies through a cloud. Ice is a big problem for jet engine manufacturers, and they spend a lot of money and time ensuring that it won't build up on an engine or affect the performance of the engine if it does build up and break off.
Come on, the Cold War ended nearly 20 years ago.
... Go look up what they have in Poland. You have to drive on a skidpad during one test even!
On several occasions I have had the 'pleasure' of experiencing driving in Poland. I have to say that it is - without doubt - the scariest driving that I've ever seen anywhere in the US, Europe or Far East.
Everyone treats the road like a racetrack, there is a mix of really slow trucks and speeding cars, few people seemed to obey the speed limit and 'no overtaking' signs, in fact some of my colleagues were nearly mown down by someone trying to drift his car round an intersection in Krakow.
On one journey, I remember overtaking a line of trucks (I was the passenger of a Pole) and dipping into the space between two of them for a second to allow someone to pass in the opposite direction, before continuing the overtaking manoeuvre.
The only time you should ever spend a prolonged period of time with the car idling and the transmission in gear with the clutch pressed is during your driving test. (at least in the USA).
I failed my UK driving test first time for pressing the clutch down and coasting up to junctions. It reduces the amount of control that you have over the car.
Heh, an old colleague of mine often tells the story of when he borrowed his boss' VW to run a (500km) errand. When he got back later that day, his boss asked
"Why didn't you take my car?"
Long story short. There were two identical looking cars in the same street with the same key. One of which had a great deal less fuel in it at the end of the day :0)
You can turn on access to something like that in the accesibility prefs. It lets you do something like Cmd-Option-M for the menus, Cmd-Option-D for the Dock. (Can't remember exactly 'cos I'm not in front of my Mac right now).
Actually, the bonnet lifts to increase the space between the bonnet and the engine underneath. Because of the current fad of sleek cars with big engines, the top of the engine case is very close to the underside of the bonnet. A pedestrian hitting the bonnet will just smash directly into the engine.
Lifting the bonnet up a bit increases the distance that the deformable material has to move meaning the the pedestrian is moving more slowly when they meet the engine, reducing the severity of their injuries.
Isn't this also dangerously close to the plot of a movie?
On this (UK) powerbook, | is next to '" (@ is above 2) and return. ~ Is bottom left next to Z and left-shift. Thing is, since I do 90% of my hacking on this thing, I only notice when I go somewhere else and the keys aren't where I reach for them.
I think that Sharazaa offers this 'feature'. You can set it so that it won't offer uploads of the file to the swarm. Fortunately, Azureus allows you to block people who do this...