Do RFID tags taste good? Are they nourishing? Do they offer fiber functionality?
To make things more convenient, municipalities will now be able to accurately charge individuals for usage of the sewer system. Therefore, your employer's sewer bill will go down and yours will go up. In addition, this will eliminate the need for pay toilets, as you will be billed automatically. As the RFID will identify the food that was consumed, it will correspond to the mass of the waste produced and you will be billed accordingly.
When I think of "utility" I generally think of something that serves one purpose and serves it well, but that may just be there in the background waiting most of the time when it's not needed.
Think of a utility knife. It does one thing -- cut -- and does it rather well. It doesn't work very well as a screwdriver, a prybar, or a hammer.
Utility appliances -- a washer washes, a dryer dries, a microwave heats, a vacuum cleaner sucks dirt off the floor. You don't have a general appliance that does all of this, though we are beginning to see dual-purpose appliances like the stove that keeps the food cold until it's time to cook it or the washer that dries the clothes when the spin cycle is done. However, these appliances still do only one thing at a time. It can't dry one load while it's washing another.
"Utilities" -- water, sewer, electricity, phone -- these are services that provide one service only and do it well. OK, so there is IP-over-powerline, and phone-over-cable, but it's questionable if they do it well.
So... Utility Computing... then that would be computers that serve only one function and do it well. Most embedded systems fall into this category. An email terminal that doesn't provide any other Internet eXperince (buzzword alert!) would be a utility computer. Your telephone is a terminal to a utility computer. That adding machine on your desk is a utility computer. Your digital watch with alarm clock is a utility computer.
Do one thing. Do it well. Be there when I need you. Utility. Kind of describes ladies of the night, doesn't it?
Practice writing this, you will be able to focus on the letterforms instead of words and content:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Reading all these posts, I find two recurring themes:
1. Slow Down.
2. Practice.
Other than that, there's no magic bullet that will fix your handwriting. I got some spam the other day promising me perfect handwriting if I take this little green pill, but I'm a bit skeptical of the claims.
The thing to remember with binoculars is that for very distant objects, they will not give you a stereo image. You will not have depth perception when viewing distant galaxies, planets, even the moon. Now if the interocular distance of the objective lenses were 1000 km apart, you might have some depth perception of the moon. But that's a really big pair of binoculars, and you probably wouldn't be able to hold them steady.
What binoculars do is give you eye relief; you can observe distant objects for a longer period of time before feeling fatigue, are typically more portable than telescopes, and are to some degree more readily available. I'm sure the binoculars rossifer refers to are very good, and could I afford such a beast, I too would buy a pair. If you can find a pair with a tripod screw mount, so much the better.
Placing an artificial point of light in the upper atmosphere may not be feasible, but why not have the ISS take some measurements so we know the properties of light emitted by the points of light that are already there? Then we'd have some known reference points for correcting for the atmosphere's effects.
My favorite download manager is wget (if RMS is reading this, I really meant to say GNU wget). Thankfully, I don't have a DirecWay connection, but if I did, I'd make use of the --limit-rate option.
What you need is a GoreTex membrane (the membrane only, not a GoreTex rain jacket) hood over the dish. Since GoreTex is made out of Teflon, it does a pretty good job of shedding water, and it's transparent to RF.
I forgot to mention that some versions of Ghost allow you to create a bootable recovery CD of your system at a given state.
Read the license agreement, you may need to purchase the correct Ghost license for what you aim to do; the off-the-shelf variety typically allows you to only use it on ONE computer system.
"Linus also got some other stuff via mail. For example, a pair of 40 megabyte hard disks. That was really nice, since it meant that Linus was finally able to keep some backups. Not that he did, of course. One of his well-known quotes is: "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." He said that even after dialling his hard disk.
"At one point, Linus had implemented device files in/dev, and wanted to dial up the university computer and debug his terminal emulation code again. So he starts his terminal emulator program and tells it to use/dev/hda. That should have been/dev/ttyS1. Oops. Now his master boot record started with "ATDT" and the university modem pool phone number. I think he implemented permission checking the following day."
I once did something similar -- I was going to back up my MBR to a floppy. Using the 'dd' utility. I got the command line options backwards, and overwrote the first 1.44MB of the hard drive with the contents of a blank floppy disk. Required a low-level format of the hard drive to reuse the sucker. Thankfully, it had no critical or irreplaceable data on it.
While it's legal to make certain reproductions of currency, I think it's Adobe's right to write code however they want, and it's your right to purchase image manipulation software by other manufacturers. Adobe would be stepping into a messy legal area if the software reported the use of currency images.
As our water is blue because of the SKY, not the water it self.
BZZZT! Wrong answer. The longer wavelengths of light (toward the red end of the visible spectrum) tend to be absorbed by water, while the shorter wavelengths (blue) are transmitted. This probably has something to do with water containing oxygen. Therefore, by definition, water is blue. Have you ever seen a clear, deep lake on a cloudy day? It's still intensely blue. In that picture, you'll notice that couds are actually kind of bluish, too. After all, they're made of water.
Where is the proper RGB test pattern image on the lander to calibrate it?
The camera needs to be calibrated under laboratory lighting conditions where a full-spectrum light source is available. If indeed the atmosphere IS reddish, then a test pattern will appear reddish under that atmosphere.
If we want to see what the landscape would look like under earth's lighting conditions, then we can do color balancing. This can be valuable to someone analyzing the image.
Slashdot Mirror
When I think of "utility" I generally think of something that serves one purpose and serves it well, but that may just be there in the background waiting most of the time when it's not needed.
Think of a utility knife. It does one thing -- cut -- and does it rather well. It doesn't work very well as a screwdriver, a prybar, or a hammer.
Utility appliances -- a washer washes, a dryer dries, a microwave heats, a vacuum cleaner sucks dirt off the floor. You don't have a general appliance that does all of this, though we are beginning to see dual-purpose appliances like the stove that keeps the food cold until it's time to cook it or the washer that dries the clothes when the spin cycle is done. However, these appliances still do only one thing at a time. It can't dry one load while it's washing another.
"Utilities" -- water, sewer, electricity, phone -- these are services that provide one service only and do it well. OK, so there is IP-over-powerline, and phone-over-cable, but it's questionable if they do it well.
So... Utility Computing... then that would be computers that serve only one function and do it well. Most embedded systems fall into this category. An email terminal that doesn't provide any other Internet eXperince (buzzword alert!) would be a utility computer. Your telephone is a terminal to a utility computer. That adding machine on your desk is a utility computer. Your digital watch with alarm clock is a utility computer.
Do one thing. Do it well. Be there when I need you. Utility. Kind of describes ladies of the night, doesn't it?
"...Dilbert's Dream of passing IP packets via the sewer system..."
Wouldn't that be IPoo packets?
I guess they'll have to rename it SimS*itty.
Practice writing this, you will be able to focus on the letterforms instead of words and content:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
More info here.
Reading all these posts, I find two recurring themes:
1. Slow Down.
2. Practice.
Other than that, there's no magic bullet that will fix your handwriting. I got some spam the other day promising me perfect handwriting if I take this little green pill, but I'm a bit skeptical of the claims.
How many of you read the headline and imagined smoke billowing out of a 1337 Hax0r's computer?
Head to OSU's Surplus Property site. Specifically, the Online Auctions page.
No. You'd better to refer to MilSpec MIL-J-26149 if you want to do things right.
I see three possible options with this scenario:
1. The coward's way out: use the jet to fly to a non-RIAA supporting country and defect.
2. The wimpy way out: sell the jet and use the proceeds to pay off the RIAA.
3. The preferred way out. Turn the engines on the RIAA. Full afterburner.
The thing to remember with binoculars is that for very distant objects, they will not give you a stereo image. You will not have depth perception when viewing distant galaxies, planets, even the moon. Now if the interocular distance of the objective lenses were 1000 km apart, you might have some depth perception of the moon. But that's a really big pair of binoculars, and you probably wouldn't be able to hold them steady.
What binoculars do is give you eye relief; you can observe distant objects for a longer period of time before feeling fatigue, are typically more portable than telescopes, and are to some degree more readily available. I'm sure the binoculars rossifer refers to are very good, and could I afford such a beast, I too would buy a pair. If you can find a pair with a tripod screw mount, so much the better.
Placing an artificial point of light in the upper atmosphere may not be feasible, but why not have the ISS take some measurements so we know the properties of light emitted by the points of light that are already there? Then we'd have some known reference points for correcting for the atmosphere's effects.
"...scroll to the bottom and have a look at the monster antenna they used..."
Will this hang off the USB port of my laptop OK?
I think this is a duplicate of the previous Slashdot article. It tells about a free DOS program that's spreading around email, targeting SCO.
Oh, wait, you say FreeDOS isn't a no-cost denial-of-service program?
My favorite download manager is wget (if RMS is reading this, I really meant to say GNU wget). Thankfully, I don't have a DirecWay connection, but if I did, I'd make use of the --limit-rate option.
Wget has been ported to Windows, too.
What you need is a GoreTex membrane (the membrane only, not a GoreTex rain jacket) hood over the dish. Since GoreTex is made out of Teflon, it does a pretty good job of shedding water, and it's transparent to RF.
When you get it apart to silence the fan, fix your shift key while you're at it.
Not overselling bandwidth would be the stupidest thing any ISP ever did.
About as stupid as building a 200-lane freeway between my 200-house subdivision and the mall.
That and being hog tied to thier email addresses.
That's why you get your own domain name.
I forgot to mention that some versions of Ghost allow you to create a bootable recovery CD of your system at a given state.
Read the license agreement, you may need to purchase the correct Ghost license for what you aim to do; the off-the-shelf variety typically allows you to only use it on ONE computer system.
Symantec/Norton Ghost works very well for mirroring drives.
However, you may have issues when it comes to differing hardare in different machines, and all your boxes will have the same hostname and IP address.
This tidbit from Lars Wirzenius is a part of Linux Lore:
/dev, and wanted to dial up the university computer and debug his terminal emulation code again. So he starts his terminal emulator program and tells it to use /dev/hda. That should have been /dev/ttyS1. Oops. Now his master boot record started with "ATDT" and the university modem pool phone number. I think he implemented permission checking the following day."
"Linus also got some other stuff via mail. For example, a pair of 40 megabyte hard disks. That was really nice, since it meant that Linus was finally able to keep some backups. Not that he did, of course. One of his well-known quotes is: "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." He said that even after dialling his hard disk.
"At one point, Linus had implemented device files in
I once did something similar -- I was going to back up my MBR to a floppy. Using the 'dd' utility. I got the command line options backwards, and overwrote the first 1.44MB of the hard drive with the contents of a blank floppy disk. Required a low-level format of the hard drive to reuse the sucker. Thankfully, it had no critical or irreplaceable data on it.
On the Bureau of Printing and Engraving's website, we can find information on Conterfeiting Laws and Reproduction of Currency.
While it's legal to make certain reproductions of currency, I think it's Adobe's right to write code however they want, and it's your right to purchase image manipulation software by other manufacturers. Adobe would be stepping into a messy legal area if the software reported the use of currency images.
I wasn't talking about the sky. I was talking about water.
I can see why you post AC -- I'd be ashamed to put my name to something that potty-mouthed, too.
As our water is blue because of the SKY, not the water it self.
BZZZT! Wrong answer. The longer wavelengths of light (toward the red end of the visible spectrum) tend to be absorbed by water, while the shorter wavelengths (blue) are transmitted. This probably has something to do with water containing oxygen. Therefore, by definition, water is blue. Have you ever seen a clear, deep lake on a cloudy day? It's still intensely blue. In that picture, you'll notice that couds are actually kind of bluish, too. After all, they're made of water.
Where is the proper RGB test pattern image on the lander to calibrate it?
The camera needs to be calibrated under laboratory lighting conditions where a full-spectrum light source is available. If indeed the atmosphere IS reddish, then a test pattern will appear reddish under that atmosphere.
If we want to see what the landscape would look like under earth's lighting conditions, then we can do color balancing. This can be valuable to someone analyzing the image.