Some years ago I signed up for the chance to have my name, and the names of my family engraved on the marker thingy that got fired at the asteroid. Apparently, it's sitting on the asteroid now.
I've been looking on the web to find a copy of the list, so I can prove that I did it, but I can't find one anywhere. Anyone know where the list is? A link would be appreciated.
Actually, this isn't the first set of underwear issued to the British army. You are forgetting about the long johns, which have been issued to both sexes for decades. They had y-fronts.
A good few years ago, I had some trouble when I broke the heat-sink retaining lugs off the ZIF socket for my AMD K6 based machine. Many bodged fix attempts later, after settling for using heat-sink glue to hold the metal to the chip (and hoping that it didn't drop out from the socket), i noticed that when running at idle, the CPU temperature was 10 degs C hotter under Win95 than QNX. The answer then, is Windows...that's why!
Not to mention the potential damage to the power supply from inrush current when the batteries are flat and power comes back-on. Can the PCB tracks handle that much current? What about a low voltage supply as the battery power fades? Corrupt data anyone? No thanks.
I have a z600 mobile, a Toshiba e800 PDA, 12" iBook and an iPod mini. Oh, and a Linux desktop (late WinXP). The e800 gets little serious use now, primarily due to it's poor interoperability with the rest of the kit, but with its 480 by 640 screen courtesy of the MyVGA hack, and the PIEPlus add-on for Pocket IE, it makes a handy VGA browser to have around. My biggest gripe with the PocketPC/Windows Mobile platform is the lack of java. Anyone know if it is supported in WM2005?
Then you will be looking forward to more widespread use of JPEG-2000 and its associated JPIP protocol which provides progressive quality and interactive (multi-resolution and spatial random access) streaming delivery of (up to, depending on how long you wait) loss-less quality images over something like a 9600 bps GSM link.
Multi-GigaPixel images are not a problem, assuming you don't need to see every pixel in full loss-less quality. Typical loss-less compression is about 2 or 3 to 1. Lossy is pretty good down to about 1 to 0.5 bits per pixel.
Encoding on one of these machines might be a bit of a chore, but viewing with a JPIP client would be quite plausible, if one is ported.
Check out http://www.kakadusoftware.com/ for some JPEG-2000 command line tools (non-Windows users will probably be disappointed with the lack of a JPIP viewer) and http://jpeg.org/jpeg2000/.
It certainly requires less bandwidth. On my old R107 receiver, the narrow-band CW filter had a pass band width of only 100Hz. This was fine as long as you let the receiver warm up for about 30mins so it stopped drifting. If you didn't the signal would just drift out of the filter's pass band and you'd have to chase it with the dial.
I was a radio ham when I was younger and knew a guy in Aylesbury, UK, who used to have a morse key strapped to the gear-stick in his car. He'd work morse at about 25 words per minute. Assuming an average of 5 letter words (the standard for morse tests in the UK), that's 125 characters per minute, or 2.08 characters per second.
I could do about the same speed, and had an old army morse key that strapped to my leg. It made a pretty fair tourniquet too!
I wonder if using a morse key while driving is illegal now, as is the case for mobile phones. I'd expect the degree of concentration required when listening to morse to have a detrimental affect on ones driving!
Slashdot Mirror
Yep. I've been running the Flight 5 release for a couple of weeks with regular updating, and it is all going nicely.
I was keen to get 2.6.15 kernel so switching early to Dapper has been a good choice for me.
The only gripe for me has been buggy support for my Griffin iMic in ALSA.
Some years ago I signed up for the chance to have my name, and the names of my family engraved on the marker thingy that got fired at the asteroid. Apparently, it's sitting on the asteroid now.
I've been looking on the web to find a copy of the list, so I can prove that I did it, but I can't find one anywhere. Anyone know where the list is? A link would be appreciated.
fnord
"I'm a living breathing gorgeous redheads"
Mutant, huh? The naval aviator sure is a lucky dude. No wonder he'd rather be off bombing whatever.
Actually, this isn't the first set of underwear issued to the British army. You are forgetting about the long johns, which have been issued to both sexes for decades. They had y-fronts.
I think we, er, accidently killed all the native Tasmanians, didn't we? Careless, huh?
Should have been a burger dispensing robot, then...
Funny as the story is, I don't actually want to watch people writhing in agony after setting themselves on fire. Do you?
Well, if he didn't lie, then he must be stupid.
Oh, wait...
1) Lie
2) Invade
3) Profit
Me? I'm not disappointed. I'm English. I just think we should stay out of Europe until they can agree what gender a table is.
The best thing about the English language was dropping the daft notion of gender in inanimate objects.
Thanks. My Italian is worse than my French!
What did it say?
Interesting point. Anyone have experience clearing airport security with shoddy home made electronic items?
A good few years ago, I had some trouble when I broke the heat-sink retaining lugs off the ZIF socket for my AMD K6 based machine. Many bodged fix attempts later, after settling for using heat-sink glue to hold the metal to the chip (and hoping that it didn't drop out from the socket), i noticed that when running at idle, the CPU temperature was 10 degs C hotter under Win95 than QNX. The answer then, is Windows...that's why!
Not to mention the potential damage to the power supply from inrush current when the batteries are flat and power comes back-on. Can the PCB tracks handle that much current? What about a low voltage supply as the battery power fades? Corrupt data anyone? No thanks.
I have a z600 mobile, a Toshiba e800 PDA, 12" iBook and an iPod mini. Oh, and a Linux desktop (late WinXP). The e800 gets little serious use now, primarily due to it's poor interoperability with the rest of the kit, but with its 480 by 640 screen courtesy of the MyVGA hack, and the PIEPlus add-on for Pocket IE, it makes a handy VGA browser to have around. My biggest gripe with the PocketPC/Windows Mobile platform is the lack of java. Anyone know if it is supported in WM2005?
How about upgrades?
At least the kid now knows that he's a bit of a lamer and should get a job at Burger King when he grows up...
It was the carbonised EHT plug in one hand and the other hand nicely grounded that made the earth move for me...
At the airport?
Then you will be looking forward to more widespread use of JPEG-2000 and its associated JPIP protocol which provides progressive quality and interactive (multi-resolution and spatial random access) streaming delivery of (up to, depending on how long you wait) loss-less quality images over something like a 9600 bps GSM link.
Multi-GigaPixel images are not a problem, assuming you don't need to see every pixel in full loss-less quality. Typical loss-less compression is about 2 or 3 to 1. Lossy is pretty good down to about 1 to 0.5 bits per pixel.
Encoding on one of these machines might be a bit of a chore, but viewing with a JPIP client would be quite plausible, if one is ported.
Check out http://www.kakadusoftware.com/ for some JPEG-2000 command line tools (non-Windows users will probably be disappointed with the lack of a JPIP viewer) and http://jpeg.org/jpeg2000/.
It certainly requires less bandwidth. On my old R107 receiver, the narrow-band CW filter had a pass band width of only 100Hz. This was fine as long as you let the receiver warm up for about 30mins so it stopped drifting. If you didn't the signal would just drift out of the filter's pass band and you'd have to chase it with the dial.
I was a radio ham when I was younger and knew a guy in Aylesbury, UK, who used to have a morse key strapped to the gear-stick in his car. He'd work morse at about 25 words per minute. Assuming an average of 5 letter words (the standard for morse tests in the UK), that's 125 characters per minute, or 2.08 characters per second. I could do about the same speed, and had an old army morse key that strapped to my leg. It made a pretty fair tourniquet too! I wonder if using a morse key while driving is illegal now, as is the case for mobile phones. I'd expect the degree of concentration required when listening to morse to have a detrimental affect on ones driving!
Some do...
but, as my friend Bob (a Bob, not the Bob) says:
"Other peoples code is like a fart. You're own isn't so bad, but other's stinks."
Now we know why...