Harold Edgarton also has book published about his work called "Stopping Time". The photos are amazing. He did so much more than shooting bullets through cards and apples. My favorite is the pictures in the back of the book from an atomic bomb test. He was able to capture images of the explosion from several miles away as the fireball grew from a small ball engulfing the top of the metal tower on which the bomb sat to a ball that then englufed the tower and began reaching the ground.
The best input device is one where you dont have to move your hands to control something. If you can move your hands and eyes/head to control the computer...
I have the pleasure of having a relative with schizophrenia. I was raised with her rantings, lawsuits, and her telling me that the phones were bugged, and people were out to get her.
I realize that the person who has these thoughts beleives they are real. But you'd have to ask why would that one person believe that everyone is out to get them. That they believe they are part of something so monumental and important that people would want to harm them. It's just messed up.
You really need to go back to the psychiatrist. Schizophrenia doesn't cure itself.
I worked one summer at a Toyota dealership as a mechanic. I was not ASE certified, so I was often stuck doing oil changes.
The 4 cylinder engines in the older Camrys are not fun to work on when they're hot. Customers would drive their cars around all day, in 90deg heat and then come to have their oil changed. The only way to change the oil filter is to reach between the radiator and the exhaust manifold.
Also, having a $50,000 3ton SUV over you on a lift is not fun.
I work for an insurance company, and during a recent re-org, I was moved to a new cubicle. On the third floor, in a back room, no windows, and a strong chlorine smell, which the building maintence "can't smell".
What's worst about it is the cubicle I moved into. It's been vacant for two years. The guy who sat here before me died over christmas break at his parents house. All I could think of is that this cubicle is open because the last guy sitting here died!
Great job to all those who worked on the integration! I have been worried that Gnome might overtake KDE as the popular desktop and KDE might then be subject to a smaller niche for the desktop. I'm glad that all the work that the KDE teams have done will continue to be used alongside Gnome.
I may be wrong... but believe the big bang did not actually happen. I say this because of something I've believed since I was younger, and which is constantly being proven by astronomers as they peer farther and farther out into what should be the "edge" of the universe... but they dont find it, so they extend the age of the universe to compensate.
Is there a place where someone can find a list of the hardware that is supported by the 2.6.x kernel? I have been able to find hardware compatability lists for the 2.4.x kernel on redhat and mandrake's websites, but I have not found anything for the 2.6 kernel.
It seems pretty critical of Linux. It also seems to talk about migrating from UNIX to Windows. They dont state the difference between UNIX and Linux. Linux being free, and most UNIXes being just as expensive as Windows.
So, they are using the Linux name, but comparing (some of) the costs of migrating from UNIX.
I think the best practice is to simply pay American programmers less. There are thousands of people who want a job, and are willing to work for less just to have a job. I'm referring to the 'experiment' done by a company in the US recently.
American programmers already speak english. They live close to the central office. There are fewer security risks having your code and systems in the same building as you. Shipping customer information to subcontractor upon subcontractor to build a system or to manipulate that information can be dangerous.
This policy of paying American workers less could work in many fields. There are many people who would rather have a lower paying job in a field they know how to work in, than having no job at all or having to retrain for a new job.
What ever happened to just screaming/yelling down a hallway?
Thats what I'm talking about! That is how I was raised, and it worked just fine. I plan to make sure IMs from my children are thoroughly ignored. If they want to talk to me, they can walk the 20 feet into the next room and talk. Or they can yell down the hall.
I'll point out the inaccuracies of your statements about Israel. Each one of your statements is false. Israel has been attacked continuously since it's formation in 1948. Israel attacked Egypt because Egypt was threatening quite openly to attack Israel. The land that was occupied by Israel following the war was given back. Israel has offered to create a Palestinian state more than once. The Palestinians refused to have a state. The Arab countries surrounding Israel also refused to take Palestinian refugees. Israel did not intentionally try to sink a US ship, much like the US did not intend to shoot down an airliner over the Indian Ocean in the 1980s.
I will assume that you use incorrect information because you hold a different belief about Israel. Either you are misinformed, or you choose to be.
More power to them! Microsoft Word's default Hebrew fonts are non-existent, and the alternative Hebrew fonts aren't very good. Nor are any of the office products very good at inputing right-to-left text. I hope the improvements to openoffice will make their way to other countries.
You should always be able to squeeze melons. Theres nothing wrong with squeezing them, you need to be able to tell if it's firm but soft. Too soft isn't good.
A label will never be able to replace the feel of squeezing a melon. _____________________________________
They're selling plus signs, in fact they're selling a whole bunch of plus signs. They seem to sell them in groups. they can catch criminals and make a guy get home from the moon.
The bleeding is actually massive hemmoraging. Where the person bleeds from every orafice, including the their eyes, nose, and even their nipples. They begin to bleed from their rectum, cough up blood, and begin to bleed internally in the same way. The patient will then die from blood loss. The patient's blood contains tiny virus particles, which look like little black crystals in the blood.
If you are lucky enough to survive this, and you are male, chances are your testicles will be destroyed, as the virus attacks that area intensively.
These symptoms are actually from the marburg virus, which is very similar to ebola.
I wouldn't imagine how you would do a clinical trial, except to have a control group receiving a placebo vaccine. It's similar to an AIDS vaccine clinical trial. I wouldn't expect a lot of volunteers for a trial that involves a virus with such a high mortality rate.
If the subject of the book is similar to the review, then I agree completely with the author. Computer Science in the corporate world is nothing like it is in the academic world. Something that is accurate and efficient in college is often not something that is done in a company.
The concept of politics is something that changes the meaning of the work you do at a company. In college, you are given an assignment to do. You do it, you are graded on it and you move on. At a company, you are asked what the customer wants in their software, and are not given specs. You are supposed to guess what they want. You are also never given a realistic timetable in which to do the project.
Some of those hindrences to doing a project are caused by outside forces, but most are caused by inside forces. Someone is trying to impress someone else in the company by promising something before it can be done. Or they may have their team develop a project and then release it to upper management only to find its not wanted.
Politics plays a huge role in what happens to the programmers at the bottom as well. Utimately everything that occurs to the programmer can be a result of politics. If someone cancels a project, it may be that they simply didn't like the person doing it.
At my company, we are in limbo over whether we will continue to develop a program to do something that we currently license software to do. To replace the functionality of the software will take a couple months and is nothing more than a couple of webpages and a database. We pay $250,000/yr for the outside software and can save all of that by doing it in house. The reason we are having trouble is politics. Certain people dont want the software inhouse.
Is it in the best interest of the company? No. But it's in the best interest of someone at the company. Thats a danger inside such large corporations, but it is how business gets done.
I certainly think the word 'internet' was synonymous with 'google'. Especially as it exists as toolbar in internet explorer. My Google searches have become more frequent, common, and I realize that most of things I would've looked in the newspaper, encyclopedia, dictionary, or library are all available online, and I'm able to find them.
Like the original question, I sometimes forget that these other sources of information exist. So when looking for a bike shop near me, and google and other directories didn't turn up anything useful, I remember that I had a Yellow Pages! and I found what i was looking for in there.
I've also searched for a used car over the internet, which had it's own pitfalls.
I register for classes online, pay bills without writing a check, find sources of books for 90% off the cover price. and many other things that I would have had to do in seperate places or had great difficulty doing them before.
Sometimes they can't tell the difference between the computer world and the real world. Or as happened in The Blue Nowhere by Jeffrey Deaver. Very interesting, and very scary.
I don't know how true the book is, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to have some nut running around who thinks he's getting points for killing people. There are certainly plenty of nuts out there without giving some of them ideas of how to do it.
I've found EditPlus to be an extremely useful editor. I especially like the column select feature. Search and replace is nice. and also the ability to load 70MB files without any problem.
While I'm not familiar with Textpad, it seems similar to EditPlus
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Harold Edgarton also has book published about his work called "Stopping Time". The photos are amazing. He did so much more than shooting bullets through cards and apples. My favorite is the pictures in the back of the book from an atomic bomb test. He was able to capture images of the explosion from several miles away as the fireball grew from a small ball engulfing the top of the metal tower on which the bomb sat to a ball that then englufed the tower and began reaching the ground.
Simply amazing photos in his book.
The best input device is one where you dont have to move your hands to control something. If you can move your hands and eyes/head to control the computer...
Makes me want to continue researching eye-gaze tracking.
Thanks! :) that is what i'm fearing! That I won't smell it anymore and I'll eventually die of a brain anyurism like the last guy sitting here.
I have the pleasure of having a relative with schizophrenia. I was raised with her rantings, lawsuits, and her telling me that the phones were bugged, and people were out to get her.
I realize that the person who has these thoughts beleives they are real. But you'd have to ask why would that one person believe that everyone is out to get them. That they believe they are part of something so monumental and important that people would want to harm them. It's just messed up.
You really need to go back to the psychiatrist. Schizophrenia doesn't cure itself.
I worked one summer at a Toyota dealership as a mechanic. I was not ASE certified, so I was often stuck doing oil changes.
The 4 cylinder engines in the older Camrys are not fun to work on when they're hot. Customers would drive their cars around all day, in 90deg heat and then come to have their oil changed. The only way to change the oil filter is to reach between the radiator and the exhaust manifold.
Also, having a $50,000 3ton SUV over you on a lift is not fun.
I work for an insurance company, and during a recent re-org, I was moved to a new cubicle. On the third floor, in a back room, no windows, and a strong chlorine smell, which the building maintence "can't smell".
What's worst about it is the cubicle I moved into. It's been vacant for two years. The guy who sat here before me died over christmas break at his parents house. All I could think of is that this cubicle is open because the last guy sitting here died!
Creepy....
Great job to all those who worked on the integration! I have been worried that Gnome might overtake KDE as the popular desktop and KDE might then be subject to a smaller niche for the desktop. I'm glad that all the work that the KDE teams have done will continue to be used alongside Gnome.
I may be wrong... but believe the big bang did not actually happen. I say this because of something I've believed since I was younger, and which is constantly being proven by astronomers as they peer farther and farther out into what should be the "edge" of the universe... but they dont find it, so they extend the age of the universe to compensate.
Is there a place where someone can find a list of the hardware that is supported by the 2.6.x kernel? I have been able to find hardware compatability lists for the 2.4.x kernel on redhat and mandrake's websites, but I have not found anything for the 2.6 kernel.
US Bank notes are allowed to be copied as long as they follow some criteria:
1) the image must be more than 150% of the size of the original or less than 75% of the original
2) a note can only be copied on one side
So that Adobe has taken it upon themselves to do this isn't very good. It's almost like having a defective product.
It seems pretty critical of Linux. It also seems to talk about migrating from UNIX to Windows. They dont state the difference between UNIX and Linux. Linux being free, and most UNIXes being just as expensive as Windows.
So, they are using the Linux name, but comparing (some of) the costs of migrating from UNIX.
I think the best practice is to simply pay American programmers less. There are thousands of people who want a job, and are willing to work for less just to have a job. I'm referring to the 'experiment' done by a company in the US recently.
American programmers already speak english. They live close to the central office. There are fewer security risks having your code and systems in the same building as you. Shipping customer information to subcontractor upon subcontractor to build a system or to manipulate that information can be dangerous.
This policy of paying American workers less could work in many fields. There are many people who would rather have a lower paying job in a field they know how to work in, than having no job at all or having to retrain for a new job.
What ever happened to just screaming/yelling down a hallway?
Thats what I'm talking about! That is how I was raised, and it worked just fine. I plan to make sure IMs from my children are thoroughly ignored. If they want to talk to me, they can walk the 20 feet into the next room and talk. Or they can yell down the hall.
I'll point out the inaccuracies of your statements about Israel. Each one of your statements is false. Israel has been attacked continuously since it's formation in 1948. Israel attacked Egypt because Egypt was threatening quite openly to attack Israel. The land that was occupied by Israel following the war was given back. Israel has offered to create a Palestinian state more than once. The Palestinians refused to have a state. The Arab countries surrounding Israel also refused to take Palestinian refugees. Israel did not intentionally try to sink a US ship, much like the US did not intend to shoot down an airliner over the Indian Ocean in the 1980s.
I will assume that you use incorrect information because you hold a different belief about Israel. Either you are misinformed, or you choose to be.
More power to them! Microsoft Word's default Hebrew fonts are non-existent, and the alternative Hebrew fonts aren't very good. Nor are any of the office products very good at inputing right-to-left text. I hope the improvements to openoffice will make their way to other countries.
I think Windows and Linux should form a joint platform. Windows OS with Linux firmware, called Windex!
You should always be able to squeeze melons. Theres nothing wrong with squeezing them, you need to be able to tell if it's firm but soft. Too soft isn't good.
A label will never be able to replace the feel of squeezing a melon.
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They're selling plus signs, in fact they're selling a whole bunch of plus signs. They seem to sell them in groups. they can catch criminals and make a guy get home from the moon.
The bleeding is actually massive hemmoraging. Where the person bleeds from every orafice, including the their eyes, nose, and even their nipples. They begin to bleed from their rectum, cough up blood, and begin to bleed internally in the same way. The patient will then die from blood loss. The patient's blood contains tiny virus particles, which look like little black crystals in the blood.
If you are lucky enough to survive this, and you are male, chances are your testicles will be destroyed, as the virus attacks that area intensively.
These symptoms are actually from the marburg virus, which is very similar to ebola.
I wouldn't imagine how you would do a clinical trial, except to have a control group receiving a placebo vaccine. It's similar to an AIDS vaccine clinical trial. I wouldn't expect a lot of volunteers for a trial that involves a virus with such a high mortality rate.
I want to point out that this article came from the NEW YORK POST.
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The Enquirer sometimes has more accurate stories than them.
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I am currently browsing the web on my IBM AT, and I have 640x480 resolution. And it is entirely acceptable. I have only one eye, however.
If the subject of the book is similar to the review, then I agree completely with the author. Computer Science in the corporate world is nothing like it is in the academic world. Something that is accurate and efficient in college is often not something that is done in a company.
The concept of politics is something that changes the meaning of the work you do at a company. In college, you are given an assignment to do. You do it, you are graded on it and you move on. At a company, you are asked what the customer wants in their software, and are not given specs. You are supposed to guess what they want. You are also never given a realistic timetable in which to do the project.
Some of those hindrences to doing a project are caused by outside forces, but most are caused by inside forces. Someone is trying to impress someone else in the company by promising something before it can be done. Or they may have their team develop a project and then release it to upper management only to find its not wanted.
Politics plays a huge role in what happens to the programmers at the bottom as well. Utimately everything that occurs to the programmer can be a result of politics. If someone cancels a project, it may be that they simply didn't like the person doing it.
At my company, we are in limbo over whether we will continue to develop a program to do something that we currently license software to do. To replace the functionality of the software will take a couple months and is nothing more than a couple of webpages and a database. We pay $250,000/yr for the outside software and can save all of that by doing it in house. The reason we are having trouble is politics. Certain people dont want the software inhouse.
Is it in the best interest of the company? No. But it's in the best interest of someone at the company. Thats a danger inside such large corporations, but it is how business gets done.
I certainly think the word 'internet' was synonymous with 'google'. Especially as it exists as toolbar in internet explorer. My Google searches have become more frequent, common, and I realize that most of things I would've looked in the newspaper, encyclopedia, dictionary, or library are all available online, and I'm able to find them.
Like the original question, I sometimes forget that these other sources of information exist. So when looking for a bike shop near me, and google and other directories didn't turn up anything useful, I remember that I had a Yellow Pages! and I found what i was looking for in there.
I've also searched for a used car over the internet, which had it's own pitfalls.
I register for classes online, pay bills without writing a check, find sources of books for 90% off the cover price. and many other things that I would have had to do in seperate places or had great difficulty doing them before.
Sometimes they can't tell the difference between the computer world and the real world. Or as happened in The Blue Nowhere by Jeffrey Deaver. Very interesting, and very scary.
I don't know how true the book is, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to have some nut running around who thinks he's getting points for killing people. There are certainly plenty of nuts out there without giving some of them ideas of how to do it.
I've found EditPlus to be an extremely useful editor. I especially like the column select feature. Search and replace is nice. and also the ability to load 70MB files without any problem.
While I'm not familiar with Textpad, it seems similar to EditPlus