Just a huge government bureaucracy determining where capital should be invested. And what jobs should be done by what people. And who gets the good stuff, etc.
Actually, I don't mind 3D renderings of planes that I ride, the renderings used for prototype and demo and what-not, being approximations. But that isn't the level at which planes in 'real life' are produced. Planes are created with metal and composite parts from flat precise mechanical drawings. With nothing at all 'virtual' about them.
I guess people who live in cyberspace wouldn't get the distinction.
The thing that I noticed about ECMA standards awhile back was that they had a lot of standards that parallel the IEEE, ANSI, etc. standards, but the ECMA ones could be freely downloaded as PDFs, whereas the ANSI and IEEE ones require you to pay $350 for a 36 page printed standard.
So I've never viewed ECMA in the negative light you seem to view it in.
MPEG and JPEG are really only as lossy as you choose to make them. Unless you're using a really bad editor or capture tool that doesn't give you compression options.
One idea that I've heard suggested for tailgaters is a mechanism you build into your trunk that sprinkles a little gravel out. If it doesn't back them off, it dings up their windshield and car body so you at least get some satisfaction. You wouldn't want it to dump a lot of gravel and cause a traffic accident, though.
It's possible that it has one of those big heavy pipes running clear through it. It's even more likely that if it doesn't at first, it will after a short period of time.
Do you recognize how noisy angle grinders are? Hopefully you will before you go at it. You'd not even be able to hear the squad car approaching if it had the siren going.
There are tons of embedded controllers available in all different sorts of sizes. Four bit controllers still make up the majority of controller sold, by raw count. 4 and 8 bit controllers completely swamp out the rest of the market, in terms of volume.
It seems ridiculous that they're using a memory module (if they are) and not a few RAM chips placed on the main board. In which case they can put a small number of RAM chips on the main board, and it doesn't matter how big the modules people buy retail for their PeeCee are.
It would be cool to think they're using SIMM modules in fragile sockets. Because that would mean it should be trivial for motorists to knock these things out. Free parking for everyone!
2. Carrying around a little pot of grey paint to dab selectively on portions of the parking meter.
I recently noticed they're putting solar 'memorial lights' all over the cemetaries. Solar cells are cool, and it would be great to have a bunch of them to build into an array. Hmmm...
I would have been more than perfectly happy with my 56K dialup. If I only had one phone line, and it meant my wife couldn't yak with the inlaws all the time. Unfortunately, before there was DSL in this neighborhood, she insisted that we maintain a second line so she could yak yak while I was online. And then when DSL became available it was only slightly more expensive than having a dialup account and the second phone line.
Really, I like having the faster DSL connection. Though buying a copy of Mandrake 10 on eBay last week (it arrived a day before the message from the eBay admins telling me that the seller had been booted from eBay for selling copies of the Mandrake CD set for four bucks. Go Mandrake! bust 'pirates' or whatever!) meant I didn't need broadband for that.
Well, not really Winzip. Use the Win32 port of infozip. Put it in your build script, have it name the zip of your build directory with a datestamp in the filename. Have it build a zip each time you run make, or whatever your build script is.
Remember, folks, this is a solitary programmer question.
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Just a huge government bureaucracy determining where capital should be invested. And what jobs should be done by what people. And who gets the good stuff, etc.
Like they had in the USSR.
The clue everybody seems to be missing is 'San Francisco.'
This boy might not swing that way.
Bullshit. The CEO is 'doing more harm' than he would if he shut down the business and the kid at Sam Goody just didn't have a job?
How much water does it take to make a baby? How about a tree? Perhaps we should start keeping track.
CRTs are a pain to dispose of?
I put two to four of them at a time out there and the trashman hauls them away. For our regular $15 per month trash pickup.
You probably just live in the wrong locality. I buy lots of used computers and scrap out a lot of stuff.
Actually, I don't mind 3D renderings of planes that I ride, the renderings used for prototype and demo and what-not, being approximations. But that isn't the level at which planes in 'real life' are produced. Planes are created with metal and composite parts from flat precise mechanical drawings. With nothing at all 'virtual' about them.
I guess people who live in cyberspace wouldn't get the distinction.
The thing that I noticed about ECMA standards awhile back was that they had a lot of standards that parallel the IEEE, ANSI, etc. standards, but the ECMA ones could be freely downloaded as PDFs, whereas the ANSI and IEEE ones require you to pay $350 for a 36 page printed standard.
So I've never viewed ECMA in the negative light you seem to view it in.
You mean, like the lack of an open 3D File standard is 'seriously burning' everyone now??
MPEG and JPEG are really only as lossy as you choose to make them. Unless you're using a really bad editor or capture tool that doesn't give you compression options.
One idea that I've heard suggested for tailgaters is a mechanism you build into your trunk that sprinkles a little gravel out. If it doesn't back them off, it dings up their windshield and car body so you at least get some satisfaction. You wouldn't want it to dump a lot of gravel and cause a traffic accident, though.
That wasn't a sound card. It was a dot matrix printer, and the only song it could play was a monotonic rendition of The William Tell Overture.
It's possible that it has one of those big heavy pipes running clear through it. It's even more likely that if it doesn't at first, it will after a short period of time.
Do you recognize how noisy angle grinders are? Hopefully you will before you go at it. You'd not even be able to hear the squad car approaching if it had the siren going.
The crook then comes by with a thin magnet and pulls out the coin.
Coins in the U.S. have not been magnetic since WWII. And then, only cents, in one year of issue, were magnetic.
I don't think there have ever been magnetic Candian coins (I may stand corrected by someone more familiar with the history of Candian coinage).
Are you sure you're not citing some sort of snopes article?
I remember the ARM-powered Net Winder. One of the bigger Linux hardware flops. From Corel!
A large pipe cutter would probably be faster, and far quieter. And the standing pipe left behind wouldn't be a hazard.
But don't they use hardened steel for the pipe?
Rustoleum is cheaper, per applied quantity.
Little pots of driveway coating (very durable tarlike material) would work well, too.
My solar powered calculator doesn't have a big 206 Megahertz processor and 64 megs of RAM.
Is the solar cell behind a durable glass window?
Those 'self punching' center punches, the ones that have a spring loaded in the tube, pack a real wallop.
the gargantuan heap
-Program the meter to melt the tires of bicycles chained to or near it.
A 68HC11A1 would be my choice. Easy but durable reprogrammability, built in RAM, more power than an 8051. Tons better a PIC.
echo "fdisk /mbr" >> /mnt/windows/autoexec.bat
There are tons of embedded controllers available in all different sorts of sizes. Four bit controllers still make up the majority of controller sold, by raw count. 4 and 8 bit controllers completely swamp out the rest of the market, in terms of volume.
It seems ridiculous that they're using a memory module (if they are) and not a few RAM chips placed on the main board. In which case they can put a small number of RAM chips on the main board, and it doesn't matter how big the modules people buy retail for their PeeCee are.
It would be cool to think they're using SIMM modules in fragile sockets. Because that would mean it should be trivial for motorists to knock these things out. Free parking for everyone!
So now drivers have the choice of:
1. putting change in a meter.
2. Carrying around a little pot of grey paint to dab selectively on portions of the parking meter.
I recently noticed they're putting solar 'memorial lights' all over the cemetaries. Solar cells are cool, and it would be great to have a bunch of them to build into an array. Hmmm...
I would have been more than perfectly happy with my 56K dialup. If I only had one phone line, and it meant my wife couldn't yak with the inlaws all the time. Unfortunately, before there was DSL in this neighborhood, she insisted that we maintain a second line so she could yak yak while I was online. And then when DSL became available it was only slightly more expensive than having a dialup account and the second phone line.
Really, I like having the faster DSL connection. Though buying a copy of Mandrake 10 on eBay last week (it arrived a day before the message from the eBay admins telling me that the seller had been booted from eBay for selling copies of the Mandrake CD set for four bucks. Go Mandrake! bust 'pirates' or whatever!) meant I didn't need broadband for that.
Well, not really Winzip. Use the Win32 port of infozip. Put it in your build script, have it name the zip of your build directory with a datestamp in the filename. Have it build a zip each time you run make, or whatever your build script is.
Remember, folks, this is a solitary programmer question.