Genda may not of quite nailed it on the head in writing but does have a point: capacitors have the ability to discharge a huge amount of their stored energy at once. All the people I know that used to fix TVs have stories of being thrown across their rooms by forgetting to bleed the charges on (non-super-cap) capacitors and letting something short. In comparison, batteries and gasoline even seem have a limit on the amount of discharge they provide in any period... though a comparable example for gasoline might be to finely mist the all the gas into a well oxygenated room and throw in a match. Wheee!;)
That said, as it's so fast to charge, hopefully it'll become a practical tech at some point. It'd be great to just be able to plop my laptop/phone/whatever on the tray for a few seconds then walk away with a fully charged battery.
If it's a futuristic japanese city, it'd be a gag on the rest of us. Nanaimo is a homonym for "seven potatos" in japanese. "Google maps seven potatos" FTW;)
That may be the general consensus amongst laymen, but not amongst photographers.
*nods*
I enlarged one of my 300d images to a 24"x36" and it was quite easy to see the individual pixels. Perhaps in the latest of the professional cameras (Canon 1ds comes to mind) it's possible to get no pixelation but for work that ends up in larger prints, digital doesn't quite yet cut it.
Can picture some fun stuff though that might be fun if it were possible to hack a camera though, such as how it'd be nice if it were possible to stuff a CF wireless card into the slot instead of a flash card.
mmmmmmm... lusting after overclocked mobos outside of their cases wanting to do a little bit of Software EXchange but only being able to do single player mode...;p
Base: "Err..., we're getting a little bit of unexpected orbital variation in the new satellite and I can't tell it to point its detectors away from the intermediate hardware production plants..."
If it has to be a choice for a degree, perhaps the reputation of the school in industry is more important. Typically, from what I've heard, the degree is simply what opens a door into an interview and convinces people to even bother reading your resume.
The ability to adapt to the future... while it sounds corny doesn't really come from any institution but you have to find it within youself and be willing to work at it.
Really need both. Can't really say which is the better order as long as eventually both are learned. The primary thing I've walked away learning is that no matter what you call it, all program seems to be about is just about shuffling data around in sometimes very creative ways.
The difference between learning the algos vs the machine is that divide between the theory and the practical. Remember Tanenbaum and his infamous "Linux is obsolete" quote?
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/ ap pa.html
It really depends on what you want to put out. It seems like programming as a field is changing as well, with so many layers of APIs, wrappers, systems, it's becoming almost a danger to do anything but the plodded path...
Improperly done, the knock sentry could become a security/QOS issue in itself.
This definitely is security through obscurity and perhaps would work in the same way as a car alarm. There's lots more systems out there that are easier to break into, and if someone does try, just hope that they get fed up and moves on to the next one.
If you've gone this far, why not do something like they do on radio. Open up severable ports at the same time and multiplex your signal over several of them while sending noise over the ununsed ports randomly switching between ports using a syncronized random selector.
I see the taxes eventually ending up going both ways. First there is the originating state sales tax, then as it crosses a border, a tarrif of some sort will be applied by the destination state. That way, the sales state captures taxes for a sale and the destination state captures tax for what is currently, a "lost sale".
The tarrifs places on products coming into the country, say Canada, I wonder if they'll be even more heavily taxed thus negating the cost savings.
It almost sounds like not only the issue of lost revenue is compelling the movement, but just as much, protectionist fears.
People have been saying for years that banners don't work. I've yet to click on one myself (except that bash the monkey one when it first came out)
Unfortunately, this means that I'll never go back there again. Paid listings, assuming they're done like overture/goto.com are not something I want to deal with, the results are often annoying and irrelevant. Google's I can deal with since the paid results are to the right and so small.
Though, it was neat snooping in on the recently asked questions on jeeves, some of the questions were occasionally interesting.
Going down to the polls and marking off "none of the above" will have zero effect.
I don't see it that way, if enough people spoil their ballots it does send a message. Where I live, they had a referendum and one voice that quickly gained momentum was to spoil your ballot.
Granted, not voting and spoiling your ballot results in the same election winner but enough people do spoil their ballot, it's a clear enough message. There is no way of not being complicit in this case, in your example, bascially, you've given the guy your gun.
It's great that you go out and talk to people, but how many joes you know do that? I'll bet more people don't vote simply because they see themselves as uneducated in the matter, or worse yet, simply don't care.
Spoiling a ballot is usually considered a protest, however, not voting is like looking the other way when someone is being wronged. Does that mean that anyone that turns away doesn't condone what's happening? Maybe, but it doesn't mean that they're doing anything about it either.
Well, then, one patent to rule them all.... I shall patent "the click"....
I don't get why this is such a patentable thing. It's a neat idea, but it's like patenting the concept of "files and folders" or databases. Get lots of data, put them into easily sorted groups and have the ability to impose some mass action or attribute on them.
I would imagine any self-respecting program for big business that ships to a chain would allow you to do something exactly like this. Say for example one bill, ship to multiple outlets... or for things such as group purchasing.
Heck maybe it's time to patent an idea so that when someone has a wishlist, you can make your purchases but also click on items from their wishlist... which will get sent directly to them along with sending the items I purchased to myself. Should I patent that?:p
Better security - the goods you shoved in your pocket or under your hat get billed as if they were in the trolley.
True, but all you need to have is something that will disable the tags and you can walk through the gates with everything in plain sight without anyone suspecting anything. Build a better mousetrap...
Here's yet another way of getting rid of that annoying whirr of motors: Get two mother-of-god sized speakers, sandwich your head in between them while they're playing at full volume for a few hours.
Not only does it solve the problem with own computer, it'll deal with other computers, mother-in-laws, bosses, and political debates.
Hey wait, you won't ever buy CDs/DVDs/8tracks again! Oh no! Will the RIAA be against this solution and slap me with a gag-order for this flagitious solution?
Probably. They always say on PDAs that using the backlight is the worst way to conserve power. As well, I'm sure running a motor has got to more effort than running a decoder.
I've got a Rio Volt and it uses the audio buffer as cache for the loaded mp3. (they say... 40secs of cd audio or upto 1200 sec of mp3 audio in the equiv space) It's cute, usually halfway through the song, the cd stops spinning and I can shake the unit till I'm blue in the face or the next song ends. It's got about the same sort of performance on 2AAs.
DSD? Sounds an awful lot like how the good old FM radio works.
Still it doesn't sound like it will stop you from ripping the CDs, as much as making it harder for you to extract the extra information... why would you want 5.1 on your earphones anyways?;)
Unfortunately, hearing that because Sony is on a promotional drive to sneakly setting up to take over the market worries me. It seems in some ways, one crazy copy protection scheme is to keep the technology changing so quickly that the tools and hardware remain out of reach of the consumer.
But, if that's the case, doesn't that stifle creativity? Fledgling musicians, artists will be compelled to use the lastest media and may not be able to distribute their work and make any profit to continue. I remember considering buying some music of a great little indie group a couple of years ago and didn't bother since they only had cassettes and those were 20$.
Of all the things geeks fight about, it's always the text editor that draws the most blood. For an outsider it must sound rather petty.;)
I've found vim to have extensive documentation, though sometimes, just finding the right information is incredibly difficult to do. (I just end up grep -r ing the documentation dirs)
If you're starting out, a cheaper hard copy alternative just to get you started (since one of the major roadblocks is the initial learning curve) is the vi quick reference from O'Reilly. Nice too that it points out vanilla commands vs implementation specific ones. Information is nicely arranged too. I think I've even seen printable posters with beautifully arranged command maps.
Myself, I only use the basic commands anyways, I don't need the full set of features. I work on so many systems that customization is not an option. And sometimes, all these extra options just get in the way. Magic indents are interesting, ability to execute perl is interesting, but I don't really need them, infact I find them annoying. (I end up undoing the formating that vim magically formats for me) For my personnal system, I usually end up remove all the xyzzy and stick with the basics.
They do have one good point, though,for many users, if something goes wrong with X, it's linux's fault. (and we usually have the bad habit of brushing the user off as a newbie) I find it rather disappointing that the linux vendors are now slamming the food they feed on. It would be nice too if we could also come up with distribution standards. All these large commercial organizations coming out with different distros and packages (.tgz,.rpm,.slpi, to name a few), it's a headache for the developper and a major source of confusion.
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Genda may not of quite nailed it on the head in writing but does have a point: capacitors have the ability to discharge a huge amount of their stored energy at once. All the people I know that used to fix TVs have stories of being thrown across their rooms by forgetting to bleed the charges on (non-super-cap) capacitors and letting something short. In comparison, batteries and gasoline even seem have a limit on the amount of discharge they provide in any period... though a comparable example for gasoline might be to finely mist the all the gas into a well oxygenated room and throw in a match. Wheee! ;)
That said, as it's so fast to charge, hopefully it'll become a practical tech at some point. It'd be great to just be able to plop my laptop/phone/whatever on the tray for a few seconds then walk away with a fully charged battery.
If it's a futuristic japanese city, it'd be a gag on the rest of us. Nanaimo is a homonym for "seven potatos" in japanese. "Google maps seven potatos" FTW ;)
That may be the general consensus amongst laymen, but not amongst photographers.
*nods*
I enlarged one of my 300d images to a 24"x36" and it was quite easy to see the individual pixels. Perhaps in the latest of the professional cameras (Canon 1ds comes to mind) it's possible to get no pixelation but for work that ends up in larger prints, digital doesn't quite yet cut it.
Can picture some fun stuff though that might be fun if it were possible to hack a camera though, such as how it'd be nice if it were possible to stuff a CF wireless card into the slot instead of a flash card.
mmmmmmm... lusting after overclocked mobos outside of their cases wanting to do a little bit of Software EXchange but only being able to do single player mode... ;p
Base: "Err..., we're getting a little bit of unexpected orbital variation in the new satellite and I can't tell it to point its detectors away from the intermediate hardware production plants..."
What you really need are speed holes! ;)
Have to ditto what you just said there.
To the poster...
If it has to be a choice for a degree, perhaps the reputation of the school in industry is more important. Typically, from what I've heard, the degree is simply what opens a door into an interview and convinces people to even bother reading your resume.
The ability to adapt to the future... while it sounds corny doesn't really come from any institution but you have to find it within youself and be willing to work at it.
Really need both. Can't really say which is the better order as long as eventually both are learned. The primary thing I've walked away learning is that no matter what you call it, all program seems to be about is just about shuffling data around in sometimes very creative ways.
/ ap pa.html
The difference between learning the algos vs the machine is that divide between the theory and the practical. Remember Tanenbaum and his infamous "Linux is obsolete" quote?
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book
It really depends on what you want to put out. It seems like programming as a field is changing as well, with so many layers of APIs, wrappers, systems, it's becoming almost a danger to do anything but the plodded path...
Improperly done, the knock sentry could become a security/QOS issue in itself.
This definitely is security through obscurity and perhaps would work in the same way as a car alarm. There's lots more systems out there that are easier to break into, and if someone does try, just hope that they get fed up and moves on to the next one.
If you've gone this far, why not do something like they do on radio. Open up severable ports at the same time and multiplex your signal over several of them while sending noise over the ununsed ports randomly switching between ports using a syncronized random selector.
I see the taxes eventually ending up going both ways. First there is the originating state sales tax, then as it crosses a border, a tarrif of some sort will be applied by the destination state. That way, the sales state captures taxes for a sale and the destination state captures tax for what is currently, a "lost sale".
The tarrifs places on products coming into the country, say Canada, I wonder if they'll be even more heavily taxed thus negating the cost savings.
It almost sounds like not only the issue of lost revenue is compelling the movement, but just as much, protectionist fears.
Ohh, nasty nasty. hehehe :) Maybe that should be:
SAURONJRROX214@AOL.COM
People have been saying for years that banners don't work. I've yet to click on one myself (except that bash the monkey one when it first came out)
Unfortunately, this means that I'll never go back there again. Paid listings, assuming they're done like overture/goto.com are not something I want to deal with, the results are often annoying and irrelevant. Google's I can deal with since the paid results are to the right and so small.
Though, it was neat snooping in on the recently asked questions on jeeves, some of the questions were occasionally interesting.
Going down to the polls and marking off "none of the above" will have zero effect.
I don't see it that way, if enough people spoil their ballots it does send a message. Where I live, they had a referendum and one voice that quickly gained momentum was to spoil your ballot.
Granted, not voting and spoiling your ballot results in the same election winner but enough people do spoil their ballot, it's a clear enough message. There is no way of not being complicit in this case, in your example, bascially, you've given the guy your gun.
It's great that you go out and talk to people, but how many joes you know do that? I'll bet more people don't vote simply because they see themselves as uneducated in the matter, or worse yet, simply don't care.
Spoiling a ballot is usually considered a protest, however, not voting is like looking the other way when someone is being wronged. Does that mean that anyone that turns away doesn't condone what's happening? Maybe, but it doesn't mean that they're doing anything about it either.
Well, then, one patent to rule them all.... I shall patent "the click"....
:p
I don't get why this is such a patentable thing. It's a neat idea, but it's like patenting the concept of "files and folders" or databases. Get lots of data, put them into easily sorted groups and have the ability to impose some mass action or attribute on them.
I would imagine any self-respecting program for big business that ships to a chain would allow you to do something exactly like this. Say for example one bill, ship to multiple outlets... or for things such as group purchasing.
Heck maybe it's time to patent an idea so that when someone has a wishlist, you can make your purchases but also click on items from their wishlist... which will get sent directly to them along with sending the items I purchased to myself. Should I patent that?
Better security - the goods you shoved in your pocket or under your hat get billed as if they were in the trolley.
True, but all you need to have is something that will disable the tags and you can walk through the gates with everything in plain sight without anyone suspecting anything. Build a better mousetrap...
*lame joke alert*
Here's yet another way of getting rid of that annoying whirr of motors: Get two mother-of-god sized speakers, sandwich your head in between them while they're playing at full volume for a few hours.
Not only does it solve the problem with own computer, it'll deal with other computers, mother-in-laws, bosses, and political debates.
Hey wait, you won't ever buy CDs/DVDs/8tracks again! Oh no! Will the RIAA be against this solution and slap me with a gag-order for this flagitious solution?
Probably. They always say on PDAs that using the backlight is the worst way to conserve power. As well, I'm sure running a motor has got to more effort than running a decoder.
I've got a Rio Volt and it uses the audio buffer as cache for the loaded mp3. (they say... 40secs of cd audio or upto 1200 sec of mp3 audio in the equiv space) It's cute, usually halfway through the song, the cd stops spinning and I can shake the unit till I'm blue in the face or the next song ends. It's got about the same sort of performance on 2AAs.
DSD? Sounds an awful lot like how the good old FM radio works.
;)
Still it doesn't sound like it will stop you from ripping the CDs, as much as making it harder for you to extract the extra information... why would you want 5.1 on your earphones anyways?
Unfortunately, hearing that because Sony is on a promotional drive to sneakly setting up to take over the market worries me. It seems in some ways, one crazy copy protection scheme is to keep the technology changing so quickly that the tools and hardware remain out of reach of the consumer.
But, if that's the case, doesn't that stifle creativity? Fledgling musicians, artists will be compelled to use the lastest media and may not be able to distribute their work and make any profit to continue. I remember considering buying some music of a great little indie group a couple of years ago and didn't bother since they only had cassettes and those were 20$.
Of all the things geeks fight about, it's always the text editor that draws the most blood. For an outsider it must sound rather petty. ;)
I've found vim to have extensive documentation, though sometimes, just finding the right information is incredibly difficult to do. (I just end up grep -r ing the documentation dirs)
If you're starting out, a cheaper hard copy alternative just to get you started (since one of the major roadblocks is the initial learning curve) is the vi quick reference from O'Reilly. Nice too that it points out vanilla commands vs implementation specific ones. Information is nicely arranged too. I think I've even seen printable posters with beautifully arranged command maps.
Myself, I only use the basic commands anyways, I don't need the full set of features. I work on so many systems that customization is not an option. And sometimes, all these extra options just get in the way. Magic indents are interesting, ability to execute perl is interesting, but I don't really need them, infact I find them annoying. (I end up undoing the formating that vim magically formats for me) For my personnal system, I usually end up remove all the xyzzy and stick with the basics.
Do away with the keyboard as well >;)
It'd make for a noisy environment, but it's be interesting. You could be typing into one window and "chatting" in another (and swap on command)
It certainly won't do for a graphics, but for most other applications I'd imagine it being a boon.
They do have one good point, though,for many users, if something goes wrong with X, it's linux's fault. (and we usually have the bad habit of brushing the user off as a newbie) I find it rather disappointing that the linux vendors are now slamming the food they feed on. It would be nice too if we could also come up with distribution standards. All these large commercial organizations coming out with different distros and packages (.tgz, .rpm, .slpi, to name a few), it's a headache for the developper and a major source of confusion.
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