The use of unicode will be a major boon to phishers, and a security risk to the rest of us, because unicode contains many different characters that look alike.
For example, I could get the domain name CNN.com, using the Cyrillic capital C and Greek capital Nu.
I second IrfanView. It's very fast, light, and you can turn off all chrome to save screen space. It is MUCH faster than the default "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer", and it won't resize your images for no reason.
the GBA did not have an unusable screen, have you played a GBA or are you just parroting what you have read online?
Of course I played it! The placement of the shoulder buttons was especially unfortunate, because you tend to tilt the GBA away to reach them, which exacerbates the glare. I eventually installed an Afterburner kit on my GBA, but it didn't really work that well. If Nintendo buys back my GBA, I'll get an SP, but until then, I'm boycotting them.
2001: gameboy advance launched.
2003: gameboy advance sp launched. Mostly cosmetic changes to the original gameboy advance.
The big deal about the GBA SP was not the cosmetic changes. The big deal was that the GBA had an unusable screen, while the SP had a usable screen. It should not have taken two years and a redesign to fix the glare and lighting problems.
I've relocated my mouse driver into the RAM of my laser printer. When I need to load a big custom font, I simply stream the data from my CD-RW's write buffer, since I'm rarely burning and printing at the same time. However, one time I needed to, so I buffered the disc image chunks in MIDI instrument patch area in my SoundBlaster. The details are left as an exercise for the reader.
Thank you for the sane response. I live in an urban area with underfunded courts. The AUSAs are so overworked (each responsible for 300-500 cases) that they won't prosecute cases without overwhelming evidence.
And as someone else stated, both you and him would need a GPS unit. Because even if you could prove he was at a particular place, you'd have to prove you were there too.
In my district, the petitioner's home and workplace are typically also covered by the order, so a single GPS on the respondent's car could at least track incursions into those well-defined geographic areas.
But, you are right that it would probably take at least one violation (or immediate threat of violence) before the judge felt the expense of ordering GPS tracking was justified.
I was awarded a civil protection order (what my district calls a domestic violence restraining order) in an adjudicated hearing.
The order has been violated numerous times, but it has been extremely difficult to prosecute these acts of contempt of court, because the respondent can almost never be caught in the act.
Example: Respondent repeatedly drives past my home. If I call the cops, she is gone before they arrive, and if they do catch her, she can claim it was only that one time, and merely a coincidence.
I cannot comment on the utility of tracking probation violators, but I can say for sure that GPS tracking would help immensely in curbing restraining order violations.
I think many places still count axles. At least, I've seen signs for it up and down I-95.
It seems to me that for the same curb weight, increasing the number of axles decreases ground pressure, and thus should damage the roads *less*. Or are they worried about the extra re-tread tire rubber that flies off?
I worked on VCF as an SAIC employee, and I can tell you that the project had any number of problems.
Sure, changing requirements were one, but we could have coped with that if they allowed us to do proper use cases. The requirements team was a joke; all of the useful analysis was performed by software engineers, especially IBM Global Services consultants. Then SAIC forced most of the IBM people out to increase their share of the pie.
It was also horribly overstaffed, to the point of absurdity. I am working on a similar project for the State Department with 1/30th the number of people working on it, and it is a month away from beta after only two years.
The FBI kept changing requirements and technology, but SAIC was the company that allowed it to get out of control, so they could keep billing more and more hours.
Sing it sister! I live in DC, too. The game issue is not worth making a fuss about. Let's talk about representation, statehood, or the fact that 95% of Bush's closest neighbors voted against him.
...and let the kids play Nethack; it was good enough for me!
As a DC resident, I'd like to point out that most of our problems follow from our lack of representation in congress. Although DC population exceeds that of Wyoming, we have no senators or representatives.
Also, since DC is not a state (no governor), many DC laws are dictated by congress, not the city council.
Buy an old C64 or Amiga copy still in the box if you can. Seriously, I mean it. It comes with 2 manuals.
It also came with a radiation detection badge!
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Not all the best schools are ACM accredited. Some don't bother with it, because they don't want to have to offer basic or outdated courses, and their reputations let them get away with it.
I got a Computer Science Engineering degree from U. Penn in the mid '90s, and it was not accredited in CS. Neither was MIT. For I know, both schools still aren't.
I'm not claiming this is good, I'm just reporting it.
It crashed on startup for me under Windows NT. Seemed like a DirectX DLL issue. If you are still running NT for some reason, I recommend sticking with Trillian 0.74
Why not just.m ? That would be even less keystrokes and the fact that it is so short would remind us that it is for mobile-friendly resources (like WML pages).
I agree that career placement is very important. I have a CSE degree from an Ivy. I think their CS/CSE curriculum could have been better (Mintz = teh suck).
However, their career placement service was fantastic. I had excellent resume guidance, great preparation for interviews, and many many companies recruited on campus.
State schools can have decent on-campus recruiting, but it tends to be from local companies. If you are open to jobs anywhere, you should consider a school that has prestige everywhere.
Consider this: The number of graduates who find jobs are one of the factors that rank top schools at the top.
I have a super PS2, too! I got mine launch day (US) from Circuit City. I play games often, and it also serves as my DVD player. It has survived many trips in my backpack, and my apartment is very dusty and often humid.
HDLoader is not the PS2 hard drive, it is a boot disc for use with the hard drive. HDLoader is used to rip and play images of DVD-based games, which greatly reduces load times. It does not allow you to store game saves on the hard drive, either.
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The use of unicode will be a major boon to phishers, and a security risk to the rest of us, because unicode contains many different characters that look alike. For example, I could get the domain name CNN.com, using the Cyrillic capital C and Greek capital Nu.
I second IrfanView. It's very fast, light, and you can turn off all chrome to save screen space. It is MUCH faster than the default "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer", and it won't resize your images for no reason.
Subaru is a Japanese constellation name. The logo for Subaru cars looks like a bunch of stars, but it actually depicts that constellation.
"Psychology is the study of the obvious.
Sociology is the study of the blatently obvious."
-- Anon.
the GBA did not have an unusable screen, have you played a GBA or are you just parroting what you have read online?
Of course I played it! The placement of the shoulder buttons was especially unfortunate, because you tend to tilt the GBA away to reach them, which exacerbates the glare. I eventually installed an Afterburner kit on my GBA, but it didn't really work that well. If Nintendo buys back my GBA, I'll get an SP, but until then, I'm boycotting them.
2001: gameboy advance launched.
2003: gameboy advance sp launched. Mostly cosmetic changes to the original gameboy advance.
The big deal about the GBA SP was not the cosmetic changes. The big deal was that the GBA had an unusable screen, while the SP had a usable screen. It should not have taken two years and a redesign to fix the glare and lighting problems.
Why not just use the HD Cache? I mean some of those have 8mb of space. It's not like it's doing anything THAT important.
I'm already using that as a ramdisk.
I've relocated my mouse driver into the RAM of my laser printer. When I need to load a big custom font, I simply stream the data from my CD-RW's write buffer, since I'm rarely burning and printing at the same time. However, one time I needed to, so I buffered the disc image chunks in MIDI instrument patch area in my SoundBlaster. The details are left as an exercise for the reader.
I don't see... ...why any rational company would actually be afraid of this.
Of course not, since Rational was bought by IBM, which has a huge catalog of patents.
Thank you for the sane response. I live in an urban area with underfunded courts. The AUSAs are so overworked (each responsible for 300-500 cases) that they won't prosecute cases without overwhelming evidence.
And as someone else stated, both you and him would need a GPS unit. Because even if you could prove he was at a particular place, you'd have to prove you were there too.
In my district, the petitioner's home and workplace are typically also covered by the order, so a single GPS on the respondent's car could at least track incursions into those well-defined geographic areas.
But, you are right that it would probably take at least one violation (or immediate threat of violence) before the judge felt the expense of ordering GPS tracking was justified.
I was awarded a civil protection order (what my district calls a domestic violence restraining order) in an adjudicated hearing.
The order has been violated numerous times, but it has been extremely difficult to prosecute these acts of contempt of court, because the respondent can almost never be caught in the act.
Example: Respondent repeatedly drives past my home. If I call the cops, she is gone before they arrive, and if they do catch her, she can claim it was only that one time, and merely a coincidence.
I cannot comment on the utility of tracking probation violators, but I can say for sure that GPS tracking would help immensely in curbing restraining order violations.
That would encourage heavy vehicles to have a small number of small tires, which would increase the ground pressure and damage roads more.
I think many places still count axles. At least, I've seen signs for it up and down I-95.
It seems to me that for the same curb weight, increasing the number of axles decreases ground pressure, and thus should damage the roads *less*. Or are they worried about the extra re-tread tire rubber that flies off?
Paint a while eight on it, and you'll have the Infinity Ball, from The Tick!
I worked on VCF as an SAIC employee, and I can tell you that the project had any number of problems.
Sure, changing requirements were one, but we could have coped with that if they allowed us to do proper use cases. The requirements team was a joke; all of the useful analysis was performed by software engineers, especially IBM Global Services consultants. Then SAIC forced most of the IBM people out to increase their share of the pie.
It was also horribly overstaffed, to the point of absurdity. I am working on a similar project for the State Department with 1/30th the number of people working on it, and it is a month away from beta after only two years.
The FBI kept changing requirements and technology, but SAIC was the company that allowed it to get out of control, so they could keep billing more and more hours.
I was suprised, I didn't think the Dreamcast still had any games coming out.
Sing it sister! I live in DC, too. The game issue is not worth making a fuss about. Let's talk about representation, statehood, or the fact that 95% of Bush's closest neighbors voted against him.
...and let the kids play Nethack; it was good enough for me!
As a DC resident, I'd like to point out that most of our problems follow from our lack of representation in congress. Although DC population exceeds that of Wyoming, we have no senators or representatives.
Also, since DC is not a state (no governor), many DC laws are dictated by congress, not the city council.
Buy an old C64 or Amiga copy still in the box if you can. Seriously, I mean it. It comes with 2 manuals.
It also came with a radiation detection badge!
Not all the best schools are ACM accredited. Some don't bother with it, because they don't want to have to offer basic or outdated courses, and their reputations let them get away with it.
I got a Computer Science Engineering degree from U. Penn in the mid '90s, and it was not accredited in CS. Neither was MIT. For I know, both schools still aren't.
I'm not claiming this is good, I'm just reporting it.
It crashed on startup for me under Windows NT. Seemed like a DirectX DLL issue. If you are still running NT for some reason, I recommend sticking with Trillian 0.74
Why not just .m ? That would be even less keystrokes and the fact that it is so short would remind us that it is for mobile-friendly resources (like WML pages).
I agree that career placement is very important. I have a CSE degree from an Ivy. I think their CS/CSE curriculum could have been better (Mintz = teh suck).
However, their career placement service was fantastic. I had excellent resume guidance, great preparation for interviews, and many many companies recruited on campus.
State schools can have decent on-campus recruiting, but it tends to be from local companies. If you are open to jobs anywhere, you should consider a school that has prestige everywhere.
Consider this: The number of graduates who find jobs are one of the factors that rank top schools at the top.
I have a super PS2, too! I got mine launch day (US) from Circuit City. I play games often, and it also serves as my DVD player. It has survived many trips in my backpack, and my apartment is very dusty and often humid.
HDLoader is not the PS2 hard drive, it is a boot disc for use with the hard drive. HDLoader is used to rip and play images of DVD-based games, which greatly reduces load times. It does not allow you to store game saves on the hard drive, either.