Speaking of Android, I'm having a difficult time finding this "Plane Finder AR" app for anything other than iPhone. There is another "Plane Finder" app that has a paltry 3/5 star rating in the app store, and seems to be just a Google Maps overlay of passing planes, not a Google Sky Map type "point your camera, display what's there" app. Anyone got a link to an.apk?
I run a bit of a North Korean news aggregation and info site. I posted a few weeks ago about a state-run newspaper site, uriminzokkiri.com, that hosts a number of North Korean made flash games you can play in your browser. Some of them are actually pretty fun!
Links to the games, writeup and game descriptions can be found here: http://www.reasonableman.net/archives/250 The best part is, none of the corporate web blocking apps out there are restricting a North Korean website!:)
For a game that was out in Japan 3 months previously, I am astounded at the quality of the dubbing and voice acting of FFXIII. Even previous titles in the franchise had acting that made me wince (FFX most of all, the first in the franchise to attempt it). There's a heavy cost for this sort of quality, however, and if anyone has the money to throw at this kind of thing, it's Square-Enix on their flagship franchise.
But maybe the user should be more aware of the address bar and its contents when visiting a page. For example, making note that they're on a secure page (https://) when performing an online financial transaction.
"The anomaly, according to Musk, was with the stage separation not occurring when it should. The Merlin 1C engine in the first stage (which was completely designed from scratch by SpaceX) performed "picture perfect," but the second stage rocket wasn't able to prove itself as the launch had to be aborted. At this time, I am uncertain whether Falcon 1 was remotely destroyed or whether it was allowed to plunge into the ocean (although the latter option seems unlikely). We'll know at a later date as to the details of this anomaly."
I watched this launch last night as it was happening and it was quite a thrilling experience. Better than any NASA launch I have ever seen. They aborted the launch a few times but still went for it. The camera they had on the rocket as it lifted off gave a breathtaking view of the Earth very slowly ascending from it's island launchpad location. Then it just crapped out before it looked like it was anywhere near orbit. I wasn't sure if the mission had been a success or not until the webcast updated that it had been a failure.
This is totally awesome. We've been hearing about Space-X on Slashdot for years but this is the first time I've ever given them any real attention. They have 2 more of these Falcon-1 rockets ready, and another launch window near the end of this month. Musk seems absolutely determined to succeed, and I would suspect in 10-15 years these Space-X guys will be the next Lockheed Martin or Boeing.
I'm playing all my games with specs quite similar to the ones in the article (slightly better processor, exact same 8800 GTS card). Between XP and Vista, I've honestly noticed very little, if any, difference in my game performance. I run the settings quite high.. the only real issue I've had is that Sim City 4 will simply not work under Vista.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, but when you're playing a game in fullscreen, isn't it basically getting your machine's full attention? What's Vista doing that makes XP so saintly in comparison?
I work for Environment Canada and our IT department is in no particular rush to let anyone use Vista yet either. Simply put, it's a brand new OS that may require training for employees, requires a whole lot of new policy to be created in Ottawa, requires a whole lot of software testing to make sure our government specific software doesn't break.. sure there's been a lot of time to test it, but the fact of the matter is, noone needs it just yet and it'd require a heck of a lot of hardware upgrading anyways. It took them a year just go rollout Service Pack 2 for XP to everyone. We've only just upgraded to Office 2003. And noone is allowed to have IE7 installed yet either.. or Firefox for that matter. That one I can't really justify.:)
What post did you read? I'm not complaining at all. All I'm saying is it's a shot in the dark and a scare tactic on their behalf.. nothing more. They sure could try to sue me.. over two games I already own (and I do own SOCOM now too, the ISO from the first didn't actually work, a second one did but was using up my whole memory card.. I opted to buy it), one as old as 1999 and own all the original packaging and serials for, in a country where they have little sway or authority, with an ISP that more than likely won't divulge my identity, using a protocol used to distribute only PIECES of a file.. and factoring in that, all the ESA has to go buy is a best guess from an IP address they grabbed from the tracker, and I could muddy the waters further and claim I live in an apartment building (I do) where my internet access is wide open (it isn't) and I don't know what the heck they're talking about. If it got that far. Which it wouldn't.
I've gotten two letters from the ESA in the last 6 months like this.. I don't think they hold a lot of water, they were sent to my ISP who forwarded them to me. My ISP was awfully nice, they offered a link to their site showing how to disable uploads on many popular P2P file sharing apps (made me laugh), covering damn near everything except BitTorrent. Now the first time they caught me was OK, I was downloading software I shouldn't have been, it scared me straight for about 15 minutes till I give it some serious consideration. The second one just made me laugh, it was for downloading an ISO of Starcraft (no cracks or anything, just the ISO), which I do have a legit copy and serial for but left my original copy at work..
Anyways, I'm rambling, but my only real point here is that the only one you should be afraid of is your ISP in cases like this. The ESA/RIAA/MPAA, whatever, holds little to no jurisdiction here in Canada (afaik noone in Canada has ever been convicted along these lines, please enlighten me if you've heard otherwise), but your ISP can easily give you the boot for violating their own terms of service.
Now I think this is a great idea, unfortunately it's not available for the latest model, iPod Video 5G. I'm not trying to be a troll here, but does anyone know why that is?
Lighter fluid, such as the kind that comes with a Zippo, works incredibly well for this purpose. I've used this on everything from CD cases to electronics to books. A small squirt of lighter fluid on the edges of the sticker.. then let it sit for a couple of minutes and soak it up. The sticker will fall right off, no matter how stubborn, and all adhesiveness will be lost. Wipe off the lighter fluid.. it can stain some books if you leave it too long.
Well, at least the first part of it. The whole contest was comprised of 3 levels.. the first level was an introduction to mainframes that held your hand and as long as you followed instructions carefully, you could move on to level 2. I never did level 2 (exams were right around the corner!), but that consisted of instructions, with a lot less hand holding and reportedly took a lot longer than level 1.
The fun part of level 1 was that you had to write a haiku and fire it off as an attachment to whoever was running the contest. Don't ask me what my haiku was, but I remember being very proud of it. 6-8 weeks later I received this fabulous t-shirt that I use exclusively for pyjamas:
http://www.dsfargeg.com/ibmshirt1.jpghttp://www.dsfargeg.com/ibmshirt2.jpg
I am in third year of a three year software engineering program at my college. This is officially my third and last co-op semester of the program, as I only have one semester of school left after this.
My first co-op was very unsatisfying. I was in second year then, and I was hired by the college to basically unpack and image new Dell machines and put them outside of people's desks so the real help desk staff could install them. I was greatly dissatisfied with this, but I plugged away ar it anyways. It paid $8.50 an hour, but it did pay for my next semester of school (and a breakfast club every morning). And I did do a lot of self education, specifically learning a lot more about PC hardware and operating systems.
For my second co-op term, I was interviewed against about 8 other people for the job of Helpdesk technician for Environment Canada. This was sort of a neat job because you never know what 's going to come next and how you're going to deal with it. There was a lot of learning at first, mostly hardware and networking things, or specifics to various Microsoft products. And this job had its extreme tediums as well. I enjoyed it for the most part, though when it was frustrating, it was REALLY frustrating (spending 45 minutes cleaning spyware off a Windows 98 Pentium II). I was responsible for answering the help desk telephone line, which makes me more or less a secretary as well. This means I would be doing about 80% of the helpdesk calls while the other two people I worked with worked on their own things like server backups and software rollouts.
This paid for college once more, as long as a few other nice things. The whole semester allotted me about $6500 @ 11.50 an hour. Not great compared to what some of my classmates who were doing real code analysis for the big banks were making. What intrigued me the most were what the other two people I worked with were making. They both have super secure, nice jobs with the government that has great benefits, job security, lots of room for growth and promotion, and these two were barely a few olders than me, graduates of my own college and making approx. $50,000 a year.
So after my first semester in year three, my third semester rolled around. This semester meant a lot to me in terms of computer knowledge in programming and Linux. Perl instantly became my favourite programming language, and Linux my favourite OS, though I still depend on Windows for quite a few things. However, rather than pursue by reinspired lust for code, I went back to Enviroment Canada for a second term; something not uncommon for co-op students to do at this place.
And here I still am, largely doing the same stuff I was doing last co-op, which makes it that much more tedious because there's a lot less to learn from there. I was having regrets for a few weeks about coming back, as I was apparently going to graduate with pretty much no real world programming experience from a software engineering program.
I don't feel so bad now though. I'm going to learn an awful lot more during my last semester of school about Linux administration and Java programming and creating a major software engineering project and offering it to a company. My resume will look good with 8 months experience for this very corporate-like government institution. And I will have some great references. This particular place more than likely won't hire me because it is much cheaper for them to just keep getting co-op students for the monkey-work, but there are a lot of other government institutions in Canada that have an IT staff. And all of the baby boomers are retiring, former punch card programmers that have worked there for 35 years and now their main job is creating new email accounts in Exchange and making $80k a year. That is job security.
I guess the moral of the story is you can take some great experience out of anything you do, even if it's not quite what you expected to be doing. For the most part, you decide what you want to do with your life in the end.
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Silly person, all the cool apps are on iOS not Android.
But the summary says it's available for both...
Speaking of Android, I'm having a difficult time finding this "Plane Finder AR" app for anything other than iPhone. There is another "Plane Finder" app that has a paltry 3/5 star rating in the app store, and seems to be just a Google Maps overlay of passing planes, not a Google Sky Map type "point your camera, display what's there" app. Anyone got a link to an .apk?
I run a bit of a North Korean news aggregation and info site. I posted a few weeks ago about a state-run newspaper site, uriminzokkiri.com, that hosts a number of North Korean made flash games you can play in your browser. Some of them are actually pretty fun! Links to the games, writeup and game descriptions can be found here: http://www.reasonableman.net/archives/250 The best part is, none of the corporate web blocking apps out there are restricting a North Korean website! :)
I had heard that they slightly altered the timings on the North American version, to more accurately match their lips to what they're saying.
For a game that was out in Japan 3 months previously, I am astounded at the quality of the dubbing and voice acting of FFXIII. Even previous titles in the franchise had acting that made me wince (FFX most of all, the first in the franchise to attempt it). There's a heavy cost for this sort of quality, however, and if anyone has the money to throw at this kind of thing, it's Square-Enix on their flagship franchise.
Oh, Adobe is to blame for that crap! I wondered how it kept getting on my PC without any Apple software installed.
But maybe the user should be more aware of the address bar and its contents when visiting a page. For example, making note that they're on a secure page (https://) when performing an online financial transaction.
From http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/03/elon-musk-i-will-never-give-up-after-falcon-1-loss/:
"The anomaly, according to Musk, was with the stage separation not occurring when it should. The Merlin 1C engine in the first stage (which was completely designed from scratch by SpaceX) performed "picture perfect," but the second stage rocket wasn't able to prove itself as the launch had to be aborted. At this time, I am uncertain whether Falcon 1 was remotely destroyed or whether it was allowed to plunge into the ocean (although the latter option seems unlikely). We'll know at a later date as to the details of this anomaly."
I watched this launch last night as it was happening and it was quite a thrilling experience. Better than any NASA launch I have ever seen. They aborted the launch a few times but still went for it. The camera they had on the rocket as it lifted off gave a breathtaking view of the Earth very slowly ascending from it's island launchpad location. Then it just crapped out before it looked like it was anywhere near orbit. I wasn't sure if the mission had been a success or not until the webcast updated that it had been a failure. This is totally awesome. We've been hearing about Space-X on Slashdot for years but this is the first time I've ever given them any real attention. They have 2 more of these Falcon-1 rockets ready, and another launch window near the end of this month. Musk seems absolutely determined to succeed, and I would suspect in 10-15 years these Space-X guys will be the next Lockheed Martin or Boeing.
And for those Lost diehards.. this is how you can a job there:
I'm playing all my games with specs quite similar to the ones in the article (slightly better processor, exact same 8800 GTS card). Between XP and Vista, I've honestly noticed very little, if any, difference in my game performance. I run the settings quite high.. the only real issue I've had is that Sim City 4 will simply not work under Vista.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, but when you're playing a game in fullscreen, isn't it basically getting your machine's full attention? What's Vista doing that makes XP so saintly in comparison?
I work for Environment Canada and our IT department is in no particular rush to let anyone use Vista yet either. Simply put, it's a brand new OS that may require training for employees, requires a whole lot of new policy to be created in Ottawa, requires a whole lot of software testing to make sure our government specific software doesn't break.. sure there's been a lot of time to test it, but the fact of the matter is, noone needs it just yet and it'd require a heck of a lot of hardware upgrading anyways. It took them a year just go rollout Service Pack 2 for XP to everyone. We've only just upgraded to Office 2003. And noone is allowed to have IE7 installed yet either.. or Firefox for that matter. That one I can't really justify. :)
What post did you read? I'm not complaining at all. All I'm saying is it's a shot in the dark and a scare tactic on their behalf.. nothing more. They sure could try to sue me.. over two games I already own (and I do own SOCOM now too, the ISO from the first didn't actually work, a second one did but was using up my whole memory card.. I opted to buy it), one as old as 1999 and own all the original packaging and serials for, in a country where they have little sway or authority, with an ISP that more than likely won't divulge my identity, using a protocol used to distribute only PIECES of a file.. and factoring in that, all the ESA has to go buy is a best guess from an IP address they grabbed from the tracker, and I could muddy the waters further and claim I live in an apartment building (I do) where my internet access is wide open (it isn't) and I don't know what the heck they're talking about. If it got that far. Which it wouldn't.
Close, but no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Softwar e_Association
Here's the first email I received:
http://keeptalking.homelinux.net/esa.txt
And this is the second:
http://keeptalking.homelinux.net/esa2.txt
I've gotten two letters from the ESA in the last 6 months like this.. I don't think they hold a lot of water, they were sent to my ISP who forwarded them to me. My ISP was awfully nice, they offered a link to their site showing how to disable uploads on many popular P2P file sharing apps (made me laugh), covering damn near everything except BitTorrent. Now the first time they caught me was OK, I was downloading software I shouldn't have been, it scared me straight for about 15 minutes till I give it some serious consideration. The second one just made me laugh, it was for downloading an ISO of Starcraft (no cracks or anything, just the ISO), which I do have a legit copy and serial for but left my original copy at work.. Anyways, I'm rambling, but my only real point here is that the only one you should be afraid of is your ISP in cases like this. The ESA/RIAA/MPAA, whatever, holds little to no jurisdiction here in Canada (afaik noone in Canada has ever been convicted along these lines, please enlighten me if you've heard otherwise), but your ISP can easily give you the boot for violating their own terms of service.
Why? Did missiles shoot down any planes then?
There certainly were corpses in DOOM.. they just looked the same from every direction!
It's also stated in the second sentence of the summary.
Now I think this is a great idea, unfortunately it's not available for the latest model, iPod Video 5G. I'm not trying to be a troll here, but does anyone know why that is?
Thought this sounded familiar: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 6/2139244
Lighter fluid, such as the kind that comes with a Zippo, works incredibly well for this purpose. I've used this on everything from CD cases to electronics to books. A small squirt of lighter fluid on the edges of the sticker.. then let it sit for a couple of minutes and soak it up. The sticker will fall right off, no matter how stubborn, and all adhesiveness will be lost. Wipe off the lighter fluid.. it can stain some books if you leave it too long.
Well, at least the first part of it. The whole contest was comprised of 3 levels.. the first level was an introduction to mainframes that held your hand and as long as you followed instructions carefully, you could move on to level 2. I never did level 2 (exams were right around the corner!), but that consisted of instructions, with a lot less hand holding and reportedly took a lot longer than level 1. The fun part of level 1 was that you had to write a haiku and fire it off as an attachment to whoever was running the contest. Don't ask me what my haiku was, but I remember being very proud of it. 6-8 weeks later I received this fabulous t-shirt that I use exclusively for pyjamas: http://www.dsfargeg.com/ibmshirt1.jpg http://www.dsfargeg.com/ibmshirt2.jpg
My pictures are too dirty to have developed by anyone but me.
Does it work for any kind of smoke?
I am in third year of a three year software engineering program at my college. This is officially my third and last co-op semester of the program, as I only have one semester of school left after this.
My first co-op was very unsatisfying. I was in second year then, and I was hired by the college to basically unpack and image new Dell machines and put them outside of people's desks so the real help desk staff could install them. I was greatly dissatisfied with this, but I plugged away ar it anyways. It paid $8.50 an hour, but it did pay for my next semester of school (and a breakfast club every morning). And I did do a lot of self education, specifically learning a lot more about PC hardware and operating systems.
For my second co-op term, I was interviewed against about 8 other people for the job of Helpdesk technician for Environment Canada. This was sort of a neat job because you never know what 's going to come next and how you're going to deal with it. There was a lot of learning at first, mostly hardware and networking things, or specifics to various Microsoft products. And this job had its extreme tediums as well. I enjoyed it for the most part, though when it was frustrating, it was REALLY frustrating (spending 45 minutes cleaning spyware off a Windows 98 Pentium II). I was responsible for answering the help desk telephone line, which makes me more or less a secretary as well. This means I would be doing about 80% of the helpdesk calls while the other two people I worked with worked on their own things like server backups and software rollouts.
This paid for college once more, as long as a few other nice things. The whole semester allotted me about $6500 @ 11.50 an hour. Not great compared to what some of my classmates who were doing real code analysis for the big banks were making. What intrigued me the most were what the other two people I worked with were making. They both have super secure, nice jobs with the government that has great benefits, job security, lots of room for growth and promotion, and these two were barely a few olders than me, graduates of my own college and making approx. $50,000 a year.
So after my first semester in year three, my third semester rolled around. This semester meant a lot to me in terms of computer knowledge in programming and Linux. Perl instantly became my favourite programming language, and Linux my favourite OS, though I still depend on Windows for quite a few things. However, rather than pursue by reinspired lust for code, I went back to Enviroment Canada for a second term; something not uncommon for co-op students to do at this place.
And here I still am, largely doing the same stuff I was doing last co-op, which makes it that much more tedious because there's a lot less to learn from there. I was having regrets for a few weeks about coming back, as I was apparently going to graduate with pretty much no real world programming experience from a software engineering program.
I don't feel so bad now though. I'm going to learn an awful lot more during my last semester of school about Linux administration and Java programming and creating a major software engineering project and offering it to a company. My resume will look good with 8 months experience for this very corporate-like government institution. And I will have some great references. This particular place more than likely won't hire me because it is much cheaper for them to just keep getting co-op students for the monkey-work, but there are a lot of other government institutions in Canada that have an IT staff. And all of the baby boomers are retiring, former punch card programmers that have worked there for 35 years and now their main job is creating new email accounts in Exchange and making $80k a year. That is job security.
I guess the moral of the story is you can take some great experience out of anything you do, even if it's not quite what you expected to be doing. For the most part, you decide what you want to do with your life in the end.