is the R2D2 case. What detail! Someone must have freeze framed Starwars frame by frame and blown up all the images of R2 and then measured the photos. Bet that case could win a scale model contest.
The toilet case was real shitty. (sorry about that chief!).
Sorry but IP over powerlines does NOT work, and most power companies that experimented with offerng the service found they were either 1: shut down due to interferrence problems (THEY were interferring with other radio services). Either they couldn't fix the problem, or it was too expensive for them to do so. -or- 2: couldn't compete with the rates offered by the Bells or the Cable companies. BPL has so far been a business FAILURE in most cases. Don't hold your breath waiting for it.
Micro-Soft basic was actually quite a good implementation of the basic language. It did seem to be inspired by the language as implemented by DEC for their PDP-8 and PDP-11 computers, though microsoft interchanged the ':', '/' and '\' characters as used to put multiple statements on a single line (which made porting programs from the PDP's to MS basic a bit of work before the days of editors like EMACS). Despite this exception of syntax, most of the programs in the book '101 Basic games' (written for the PDP-8) would run just fine on MS 8K or 12K basic after some substution of 'punctuation' characters. Of course there wasn't a true 'ANSI standard' for the basic language at the time, so who was to say just what the language should include? You looked at either the Dartmouth, DEC or DG implementations and made your own decisions.
The 8K basic was a mostly complete port of DEC's basic language, missing only disk files and file handling routines (which were added in the 12K version that INCLUDED a primative stand alone DOS). The 4k basic left out some string and higher math functions. The early MS basics were heavy on code bumming making use of many programming tricks based on the 8080 instruction set to use as few bytes of program space as possible. As a result, the first versions wouldn't run on the Z80 because they relied on the way the 8080 set it's status flags between instructions (which the Z80 didn't completely follow). I think this was one of the few examples of Z80 code NOT being compatible with the 8080. (Patches were later issued to fix this).
The only other basics available at the time were the 'tiny' basics for the 6800 and 6502 by Tom Pitman and the 5K basic by Processor Technology. The Tiny basics were interger math only with no strings, Processor Tech's 5k was a nearly full basic implementation with single dimensioned arrays but no string functions. You could fake out two dimension arrays by doing some math on the array index such as Z[(X*SIZEY)+Y]. I got the startrek game working on PT basic5 that way.
This was a hardware centric article, software was only mentioned where it made a difference in the direction a company took or where it changed market share. And Linux DID get a mention, be it a one liner.
DUH! How about the one that hit Newton on the head? In fact, that is EXACTLY what was on the original Apple computer logo, a drawing of Isacc Newton and the apple.
Ahhh, but a TRUE macro lens WILL stop down to F32 or even F45 when focused at INFINITY!! Add the extension tube to that and what do you get????
Also an extension tube only increases the ability to focus closer. A lens could be built with a longer spiral cam so it could focus from infinity to zero-(almost nothing). Would it's F-ratio change as it's focused? Does ANY lens F ratio change as it is focused?
Actually a true macro lens usually has additional lens elements to correct for various defects resulting from the decreased subject to lens distance. Also they stop down more. While a 'normal' lens can stop down to F16 (sometimes F22), a true macro will go down to F32 or even F45 for greater depth of field.
when I left on my own power, even when I was on contract. But then again, I was not a sys admin type, just a grunt geek programmer. I cleaned up my stuff and backed up all project material to the network. I wanted to leave things such that anybody looking at the code and documentation later and seeing my name on it would think good of me. You never know when you might need a good word later on from a former employeer.
The only time I heard of people being let go before their two weeks were up were when they left to go to a company in the same business, or if there was fear they might try and take others with them.
Radio used to fill that function. In fact, so well that some radio stations were requiring the labels to pay 'tribute' to get air time. Remember the 'payola' kickback scandel?
BTW, any bands out there that DON'T want their music being sold on damaged DRM'ed CD's should get a lawyer before they sign any contracts with a record company. Get it in your contract that your CD's get released 'clean'.
I used to use Gnome, but at some point (on Debian) it got broken and would not work (bad packages?) so I switched to KDE and havn't looked back. Actually BOTH have some features missing from the other, especially in the area of config apps. For example, Gnome has a real nice setup gui for Samba while KDE makes adding printers under cups a dream. I'd like to steal bits and pieces from both and get the best of both (blue curve?)
As long as the decoder is just an external module (library) there is no GPL violation whatsoever. Well there is some argument about that. The FSF considers ANY kind of linking (dynamic or static) of a gpl program with a closed source one as being a derived work. If XINE was licensed under the LGPL then there would be no problem. And they DID modifiy Xine so it would only run under Linspire so they have to make the source to those mods public.
ER, that's XINE they are selling for $39.95, which is an open souce (GPL'ed) player. So how can it be legal? If they are using DeCSS then it is NOT legal, if they use a closed source licensed decoder then they are in violation of the GPL and can't distribute the program. Also they must distrute the source for the program on demand.
Don't know if your machine was running Linux or Windows, but if the latter than you had a legally licensed dvd player, and if the dvd refused to play then it wasn't really a dvd was it? (just like copy protected cd's are not really cds).
BTW, many of the new portable dvd players are built with computer parts so such a dvd might not play on any of them either. Hope the studios are ready for angry hordes returning defective DVD's.
There are some bad apples in the "big" one, but there are also good ones. 47th Street photo was always hit or miss. They sold 'gray market' goods, but DID back them up themselves. They did have a few 'schmucks' in the sales department, but also some people who knew their stuff. I used to buy from their 'brick and mortar' store, but was real carefull! It seems that most of the stores that used to be in Manhattan have moved to Brooklyn (lower rent?). I would suggest not buying from any Brooklyn area camera shop on the internet that DOESN'T also have ads in several of the major camera magazines. In general the stores that advertise in print are legit.
Next new medical procedure will be Ass transplants. Hey if they use Ass tissue to repair someone's face then they truly would have their head up their ass? (might explain a few things on capital hill.....)
"Because of alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act of 2005, the Attorney General is seeking civil penalties of $100,000 for each violation of the law, attorneys' fees and investigative costs."
Let's see, how many copies of the CD did they sell, multiply by $100,000. Wow, I'd sure sell Sony stock short if they get it!
Diesel engines have their advantages, but it may be that they just aren't suited for automotive uses. Where the diesel shines is that like the energizer bunny, they keep on going. Most big diesel trucks will make it to over a 1,000,000 miles on the 'meter before they get sent to the bone yard. Diesel locomotives log an extra order of magnitude more. Consider the case of a generator set designed for back up power. With the past two years of Hurricane activity I bought a propane powered generator set, only to discover that I can't really expect the thing to last more than a few years if It has to run more than a few days straight a year. I've already put over two weeks of use on the thing in one year. At $4/gallon for LP, and with two gallons of LP delivering the energy equal of 1 gallon of diesel (at $3/gallon)... well do the math. Plus you can legally buy red diesel (off road fuel not subject to road taxes) if you use it to run a generator or farm equipment. Think I'll be upgrading my gen set to one powered by a Diesel engine (A John Deere if I can afford it).
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Or they could have bought one of the million R2-D2 toys/action figures/miniatures/replicas.
LIFE SIZE?!!!!!
Did he MOTORIZE it and have the computer control it?
(Just imagine the case walking across the room and
falling down a flight of stairs!)
is the R2D2 case. What detail! Someone must have freeze framed
Starwars frame by frame and blown up all the images of R2
and then measured the photos. Bet that case could win a scale
model contest.
The toilet case was real shitty. (sorry about that chief!).
yes the ARRL has approved this system in the latest issue of QST.
Sorry but IP over powerlines does NOT work, and most power companies
that experimented with offerng the service found they were either
1: shut down due to interferrence problems (THEY were interferring with
other radio services). Either they couldn't fix the problem, or it was
too expensive for them to do so.
-or-
2: couldn't compete with the rates offered by the Bells or the Cable
companies.
BPL has so far been a business FAILURE in most cases. Don't
hold your breath waiting for it.
Micro-Soft basic was actually quite a good implementation of the basic language. It did seem to be inspired by the language as implemented by DEC for their PDP-8 and PDP-11 computers, though microsoft interchanged the ':', '/' and '\' characters as used to put multiple statements on a single line (which made porting programs from the PDP's to MS basic a bit of work before the days of editors like EMACS). Despite this exception of syntax, most of the programs in the book '101 Basic games' (written for the PDP-8) would run just fine on MS 8K or 12K basic after some substution of 'punctuation' characters. Of course there wasn't a true 'ANSI standard' for the basic language at the time, so who was to say just what the language should include? You looked at either the Dartmouth, DEC or DG implementations and made your own decisions.
The 8K basic was a mostly complete port of DEC's basic language, missing only disk files and file handling routines (which were added in the 12K version that INCLUDED a primative stand alone DOS). The 4k basic left out some string and higher math functions. The early MS basics were heavy on code bumming making use of many programming tricks based on the 8080 instruction set to use as few bytes of program space as possible. As a result, the first versions wouldn't run on the Z80 because they relied on the way the 8080 set it's status flags between instructions (which the Z80 didn't completely follow). I think this was one of the few examples of Z80 code NOT being compatible with the 8080. (Patches were later issued to fix this).
The only other basics available at the time were the 'tiny' basics
for the 6800 and 6502 by Tom Pitman and the 5K basic by Processor Technology. The Tiny basics were interger math only with no strings, Processor Tech's 5k was a nearly full basic implementation with single dimensioned arrays but no string functions. You could fake out two dimension arrays by doing some math on the array index
such as Z[(X*SIZEY)+Y]. I got the startrek game working on PT basic5 that way.
This was a hardware centric article, software was only mentioned where it made a difference in the direction a company took or where it changed market share. And Linux DID get a mention, be it a one liner.
DUH! How about the one that hit Newton on the head? In fact, that
is EXACTLY what was on the original Apple computer logo, a drawing of Isacc Newton and the apple.
Ahhh, but a TRUE macro lens WILL stop down to F32 or even F45 when focused at
INFINITY!! Add the extension tube to that and what do you get????
Also an extension tube only increases the ability to focus closer. A lens could be built with a longer spiral cam so it could focus from infinity to zero-(almost nothing). Would it's F-ratio change as it's focused? Does ANY lens F ratio change as it is focused?
Actually a true macro lens usually has additional lens elements to correct for various defects resulting from the decreased subject to lens distance. Also they stop down more. While a 'normal' lens can stop down to F16 (sometimes F22), a true macro will go down to F32 or even F45 for greater depth of field.
What he really built was an extension tube to allow an ordinary
lens to focus closer.
when I left on my own power, even when I was on contract. But then again, I was not a sys admin type, just a grunt geek programmer. I cleaned up my stuff and backed up all project material to the network. I wanted to leave things such that anybody looking at the code and documentation later and seeing my name on it would think good of me. You never know when you might need a good word later on from a former employeer.
The only time I heard of people being let go before their two weeks were up were when they left to go to a company in the same business, or if there was fear they might try and take others with them.
Radio used to fill that function. In fact, so well that some radio stations
were requiring the labels to pay 'tribute' to get air time. Remember the 'payola' kickback scandel?
BTW, any bands out there that DON'T want their music being sold on damaged DRM'ed CD's should get a lawyer before they sign any contracts with a record company. Get it in your contract that your CD's get released 'clean'.
Er, he already BUILT one HIMSELF in college! I think
he knows how to run one.
Soylent Green is PEOPLE!
I used to use Gnome, but at some point (on Debian) it got broken and would not work (bad packages?) so I switched to KDE and havn't looked back. Actually BOTH have some features missing from the other, especially in the area of config apps. For example, Gnome has a real nice setup gui for Samba while KDE makes adding printers under cups a dream. I'd like to steal bits and pieces from both and get the best of both (blue curve?)
TROLL!
The player is legal, but the codec used to play DVDs, deCSS, is not.
er DeCSS isn't a codec. It is a decrypter. IIRC a standard MP4 codec is
used.
As long as the decoder is just an external module (library) there is no GPL violation whatsoever.
Well there is some argument about that. The FSF considers ANY kind of linking (dynamic or static) of a
gpl program with a closed source one as being a derived work. If XINE was licensed under the LGPL
then there would be no problem. And they DID modifiy Xine so it would only run under Linspire so they
have to make the source to those mods public.
ER, that's XINE they are selling for $39.95, which is an open souce
(GPL'ed) player. So how can it be legal? If they are using DeCSS then
it is NOT legal, if they use a closed source licensed decoder then
they are in violation of the GPL and can't distribute the program.
Also they must distrute the source for the program on demand.
Don't know if your machine was running Linux or Windows, but
if the latter than you had a legally licensed dvd player, and if
the dvd refused to play then it wasn't really a dvd was it?
(just like copy protected cd's are not really cds).
BTW, many of the new portable dvd players are built with computer
parts so such a dvd might not play on any of them either.
Hope the studios are ready for angry hordes returning defective
DVD's.
There are some bad apples in the "big" one, but there are also
good ones. 47th Street photo was always hit or miss. They sold
'gray market' goods, but DID back them up themselves. They did have
a few 'schmucks' in the sales department, but also some people who
knew their stuff. I used to buy from their 'brick and mortar'
store, but was real carefull! It seems that most of the stores
that used to be in Manhattan have moved to Brooklyn (lower rent?).
I would suggest not buying from any Brooklyn area camera shop on the
internet that DOESN'T also have ads in several of the major camera
magazines. In general the stores that advertise in print are legit.
Next new medical procedure will be Ass transplants.
Hey if they use Ass tissue to repair someone's face
then they truly would have their head up their ass?
(might explain a few things on capital hill.....)
Did anybody read "the mouse that roared"? A country with 14th century military
technology was able to invade NYC.
"Because of alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act of 2005, the Attorney General is seeking civil penalties of $100,000 for each violation of the law, attorneys' fees and investigative costs."
Let's see, how many copies of the CD did they sell, multiply by $100,000. Wow, I'd
sure sell Sony stock short if they get it!
Diesel engines have their advantages, but it may be that they just aren't suited for automotive uses. Where the diesel shines is that like the energizer bunny, they keep on going. Most big diesel trucks will make it to over a 1,000,000 miles on the 'meter before they get sent to the bone yard. Diesel locomotives log an extra order of magnitude more. Consider the case of a generator set designed for back up power. With the past two years of Hurricane activity I bought a propane powered generator set, only to discover that I can't really expect the thing to last more than a few years if It has to run more than a few days straight a year. I've already put over two weeks of use on the thing in one year. At $4/gallon for LP, and with two gallons of LP delivering the energy equal of 1 gallon of diesel (at $3 /gallon) ... well do the math. Plus you can legally buy red diesel (off road fuel not subject to road taxes) if you use it to run a generator or farm equipment. Think I'll be upgrading my gen set to one powered by a Diesel engine (A John Deere if I can afford it).