As a 14-year-old self-identitying geek interested in all things science & technology, I'd just got home from school after staying an extra hour to mess about in the computer room (networked BBC Micros) and was watching TV (the 2 main TV channels here at the time programmed kids entertainment between around 3pm and 6pm) when John Craven's Newsround came on (around 5pm) and broke the news
Newsround is a highly-respected news programme aimed at children, set up by the BBC in the '70s, which often pulled no punches with its reporting and more tan once scooped breaking news stories, as it was broadcast an hour before the 'adult' news bulletins at 6pm.
I vividly remember being pretty distraught and running into the kitchen to tell my mum that 'the Space Shuttle has just blown up!'
Nokia E90 and PuTTY here. 'Huge' screen, full keyboard and WLAN capability. I also run a VNC viewer on it...slightly painful to use (have to jump through hoops to do things like right click), but does the job.
I used to work at an electronics surplus type shop years ago and we used to get all sorts of interesting components in, including some big, heavy-duty toggle switches -- ex-military, I think -- that you had to pull the toggle outwards in order to switch them -- no chance of accidentally knocking them and launching a missile or something.
[quote]The brits get their power from a third rail. Very hard wearing BUT you got a live wire exposed where everyone can touch it. Bad for level crossings, meaning the train needs facilities to be able to cross a spot without third rail.[/quote]
The only rail systems over here that have power supplied from a third rail are 'underground' ones, where nothing but the trains come in contact with the rails (OK, so the London underground does go outside in some places, but the rails are elevated and certainly do not have level crossings).
'Overground' (like the Metro here in Manchester) and national rail systems use overhead cables.
Crickey, has this guy run his comments through a digital thesaurus or something? I read the first few introductory paragraphs, and they contain the most inappropriate words and turns of phrase...doesn't really make me want to read the rest of the doc (I've completed LoZ:TP anyway).
It's not really much different to dumping binary data to screen memory. Some old home computers used to use screen memory as a temporary store (e.g. when loading a large programme, prior to relocating it elsewhere in memory), and you sometimes saw interesting patterns in it (ignoring graphics data).
For me, the biggest problem with Meetup.com is that the meetup day/time appears to be abitrarily decided by the site, with no way (as far as I can tell) to change it. If there is a group of people with a common interest in close geographical proximity to each other, it makes more sense to schedule a meetup for a day and time that is most convenient to the majority of the people in the group that are likely to attend.
I run an anime community web site for fans in the North-West of England , and have been organising monthly meetups for over two years. Whilst I generally try to stick to the same schedule for these meetups (last Sunday of every month), I have to be flexible if, for example: the venue we use is not available; it would clash with another event that most of the regulars will be attending (e.g. anime convention); it's on a Bank Holiday weekend; etc.
Whilst there are anime-related Meetup.com groups in the region that NanimeW (and some other anime communities) covers, I've never seen the point in participating due to the inflexible way the meetups are organised.
Although ultimately it is probably not very useful to have tilt control on a laptop, I could see it being possible to build a USB dongle containing the necessary kit to add the facility to any USB-enabled laptop. A bit of configuration software would take care of the different orientations of USB sockets. I don't know how hard it would be to home-brew something like that.
With pop-ups/unders, you can get rid of them by closing the browser window that contains them -- this is something that is under the control of the browser application/OS, not the web page.
Floaters are integrated into the page content, so there are no standard browser controls available to remove them -- you have to rely on any provision that has been made within the floater/containing web page to remove it.
I would not trust that clicking on part of a floater will remove it and not just link to an advert page, or even worse, exploit a browser vunerability -- afterall, plenty of pop-ups use underhand techniques (e.g. mimicing OS dialogue boxes) to try and get people to click on them.
I too managed to replace the cracked screen on a laptop with a replacement I obtained cheaply from eBay (the laptop didn't cost me anything, as it was going to be binned as it was broken).
I think there is actually a market for a dedicated on-line service for sourcing/supplying spare parts for electronic goods like this -- whilst eBay does work sometimes, it would be better if there was somewhere where a person could advertise that they wanted a replacement thingymajig for a Acme Genericator, and if someone else comes along who has such a thing that they want to get rid of, then both parties can hook up with each other.
Wonder if it'll have an EL backlight...give a whole new meaning to MS bluescreening...(^_^)
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What would be cute would be a wristwatch that Bluetooths to the PDA/phone in your pocket, and you the user could configure what to send to it to display as an alert...as well as stock quotes, newsflashes, etc., you could have notifications of incoming e-mails/text messages/telephone calls, appointment reminders, etc., all without having to dig the main unit out of your pocket.
"Rememeber this story from a couple months ago about reconstructing data from the blinking LEDs of modems..."? Yeah...I also remember this Slashdot article...
I guess my memory isn't as bad as I thought it was...
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Whatever happened to the LCD technology that was being developed that did just this -- power was only required to turn pixels on or off, not to maintain their state.
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As a 14-year-old self-identitying geek interested in all things science & technology, I'd just got home from school after staying an extra hour to mess about in the computer room (networked BBC Micros) and was watching TV (the 2 main TV channels here at the time programmed kids entertainment between around 3pm and 6pm) when John Craven's Newsround came on (around 5pm) and broke the news Newsround is a highly-respected news programme aimed at children, set up by the BBC in the '70s, which often pulled no punches with its reporting and more tan once scooped breaking news stories, as it was broadcast an hour before the 'adult' news bulletins at 6pm. I vividly remember being pretty distraught and running into the kitchen to tell my mum that 'the Space Shuttle has just blown up!'
I'll stick with my Nokia E90, thanks...whilst Symbian based rather than Linux, it is also a fully functional mobile telephone.
[Happosai]
Says the guy who's nick is a confusion between IceCat and Firefox...!
White with a red stripe down the side.
Close...but no one calls them 'Bobbie cars'...
Nokia E90 and PuTTY here. 'Huge' screen, full keyboard and WLAN capability. I also run a VNC viewer on it...slightly painful to use (have to jump through hoops to do things like right click), but does the job.
[Happosai]
Mister Splashy Pants... [Happosai]
I used to work at an electronics surplus type shop years ago and we used to get all sorts of interesting components in, including some big, heavy-duty toggle switches -- ex-military, I think -- that you had to pull the toggle outwards in order to switch them -- no chance of accidentally knocking them and launching a missile or something.
[Happosai]
[quote]The brits get their power from a third rail. Very hard wearing BUT you got a live wire exposed where everyone can touch it. Bad for level crossings, meaning the train needs facilities to be able to cross a spot without third rail.[/quote]
The only rail systems over here that have power supplied from a third rail are 'underground' ones, where nothing but the trains come in contact with the rails (OK, so the London underground does go outside in some places, but the rails are elevated and certainly do not have level crossings).
'Overground' (like the Metro here in Manchester) and national rail systems use overhead cables.
[Happosai]
...has been done in Japan, where lettuce is grown in vertical panels using UV lights and hydoponics: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Space-crunched_J apanese_farmer_goes_high_tech.html
Crickey, has this guy run his comments through a digital thesaurus or something? I read the first few introductory paragraphs, and they contain the most inappropriate words and turns of phrase...doesn't really make me want to read the rest of the doc (I've completed LoZ:TP anyway).
[Happosai]
It's not really much different to dumping binary data to screen memory. Some old home computers used to use screen memory as a temporary store (e.g. when loading a large programme, prior to relocating it elsewhere in memory), and you sometimes saw interesting patterns in it (ignoring graphics data).
[Happosai]
For me, the biggest problem with Meetup.com is that the meetup day/time appears to be abitrarily decided by the site, with no way (as far as I can tell) to change it. If there is a group of people with a common interest in close geographical proximity to each other, it makes more sense to schedule a meetup for a day and time that is most convenient to the majority of the people in the group that are likely to attend.
I run an anime community web site for fans in the North-West of England , and have been organising monthly meetups for over two years. Whilst I generally try to stick to the same schedule for these meetups (last Sunday of every month), I have to be flexible if, for example: the venue we use is not available; it would clash with another event that most of the regulars will be attending (e.g. anime convention); it's on a Bank Holiday weekend; etc.
Whilst there are anime-related Meetup.com groups in the region that NanimeW (and some other anime communities) covers, I've never seen the point in participating due to the inflexible way the meetups are organised.
[Happosai]
Although ultimately it is probably not very useful to have tilt control on a laptop, I could see it being possible to build a USB dongle containing the necessary kit to add the facility to any USB-enabled laptop. A bit of configuration software would take care of the different orientations of USB sockets. I don't know how hard it would be to home-brew something like that.
[Happosai]
That's not true.
With pop-ups/unders, you can get rid of them by closing the browser window that contains them -- this is something that is under the control of the browser application/OS, not the web page.
Floaters are integrated into the page content, so there are no standard browser controls available to remove them -- you have to rely on any provision that has been made within the floater/containing web page to remove it.
I would not trust that clicking on part of a floater will remove it and not just link to an advert page, or even worse, exploit a browser vunerability -- afterall, plenty of pop-ups use underhand techniques (e.g. mimicing OS dialogue boxes) to try and get people to click on them.
[Happosai]
I too managed to replace the cracked screen on a laptop with a replacement I obtained cheaply from eBay (the laptop didn't cost me anything, as it was going to be binned as it was broken).
I think there is actually a market for a dedicated on-line service for sourcing/supplying spare parts for electronic goods like this -- whilst eBay does work sometimes, it would be better if there was somewhere where a person could advertise that they wanted a replacement thingymajig for a Acme Genericator, and if someone else comes along who has such a thing that they want to get rid of, then both parties can hook up with each other.
[Happosai]
What if you're the passenger in a real car driving down a bumpy road...how do you keep the virtual car on the road then?
What if you're driving a real car down a bumpy road...how do you keep either of the cars on the road then?
[Happosai]Wonder if it'll have an EL backlight...give a whole new meaning to MS bluescreening...(^_^)
[Happosai]
What would be cute would be a wristwatch that Bluetooths to the PDA/phone in your pocket, and you the user could configure what to send to it to display as an alert...as well as stock quotes, newsflashes, etc., you could have notifications of incoming e-mails/text messages/telephone calls, appointment reminders, etc., all without having to dig the main unit out of your pocket.
[Happosai]
"Rememeber this story from a couple months ago about reconstructing data from the blinking LEDs of modems..."? Yeah...I also remember this Slashdot article...
I guess my memory isn't as bad as I thought it was...
[Happosai]
News for nerds.
Fuqwyt
[Happosai]
Ever play Exile?
[Happosai]
Actually, in Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm), the junkyard was below a floating city.
The Sci-Fi film Soldier (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120157) has a similar theme, where it actually is a planet used as a dumping group.
[Happosai]
Whatever happened to the LCD technology that was being developed that did just this -- power was only required to turn pixels on or off, not to maintain their state.
[Happosai]
DP! ^_^
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