There's already a cell-phone based system. People with phones call local radio stations when there's a delay. Unfortunately it probably won't help much. If there were a good alternative, there probably wouldn't be traffic to begin with. I commute on 95 & PA turnpike, and if its closed, I'm pretty much screwed into a 3 times as long commute. Getting an instant update won't really do anything other than give me a few more minutes of misery through anticipation.
Really? Anyone on Slashdot should have enough experience to know coding something that complex is hard, whether it be first-hand or not. Especially when it is for this type of hardware platform. Hell, half of us probably tried making a game at some point. I tried making Pacman in high school and Tetris in Visual C++ / Opengl in college. Neither were as easy as they sound, and that was for relatively simple games on relatively homogenized systems.
Yeah. tail -f is amazing. Other big time savers:
-watch (reruns last comand at set interval)
-ctrl+z and then %(bg # goes here) & (stops current process and resumes it in background
-using tab instead of typing out file paths
- pipe redirects such as > and | (lets you put stuff in new places)
I think its only fair that I hyjack this thread to talk about Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics. Political payback's fun, you insensitive clods!
I haven't gotten a chance to test this as my cell doesn't seem to have this problem, but supposedly if you put a magnet around the wires going to your speakers it reduces / removes the buzzing sound. Old USB wires will have a usable magnet in the chubby part near where it plugs in. I'd be interested to know if this works for anyone or if it was just someone's way of earning money on metacafe:-p.
As a practical matter, nobody is 100% honorable, and somebody who's in charge of building voting machines should not be politically active.
When they came for the people in charge of building voting machines, I said nothing because I was not in charge of buiding voting machines.
Seriously though, it really shouldn't be an issue. Any machine built for this purpose should at the very least be inspected (including code and all other pratical aspects) by an independant non-political technical review board.
I think you over exaggerate the time to write a new engine. It might not do all the fancy stuff like do simple math for us when we're lazy, but the recent development of cuil makes me think you were incorrect.
Granted it sucked, but it shows people are still willing to go against the Goliaths of the industry.
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That's awesome. Its a shame you weren't logged in so I could add you as a friend. Well played.
There's already a cell-phone based system. People with phones call local radio stations when there's a delay. Unfortunately it probably won't help much. If there were a good alternative, there probably wouldn't be traffic to begin with. I commute on 95 & PA turnpike, and if its closed, I'm pretty much screwed into a 3 times as long commute. Getting an instant update won't really do anything other than give me a few more minutes of misery through anticipation.
Really? Anyone on Slashdot should have enough experience to know coding something that complex is hard, whether it be first-hand or not. Especially when it is for this type of hardware platform. Hell, half of us probably tried making a game at some point. I tried making Pacman in high school and Tetris in Visual C++ / Opengl in college. Neither were as easy as they sound, and that was for relatively simple games on relatively homogenized systems.
Also:
pkillall init
kill -9 -1
Any thoughts on a recursive kill -HUP? My goal is to find one.
Disclaimer: don't use *nix commands you found online unless you know what they do.
Reminds me of the delightfully morbid glee I got out of running deltree c:/win. Who says you couldn't do anything useful in DOS?
Yeah. tail -f is amazing. Other big time savers:
-watch (reruns last comand at set interval)
-ctrl+z and then %(bg # goes here) & (stops current process and resumes it in background
-using tab instead of typing out file paths
- pipe redirects such as > and | (lets you put stuff in new places)
TED has a decent video on the possibilities of tissue regeneration. Not to difficult to imagine more generalized use soon.
/snicker
Not sure how easy it is to turn up the gain but how hard can it be to strap a can-tenna to one of the new mind controlled video game controllers?
CNN already uses holograms.
Great show, but isn't it a little early for them to cover this? It will be nice to find out who did it though.
Then he still "crashed", you insensitive clod.
Screw the newt, I'm more afraid of the dragon.
Finally, a thread where my sig makes sense...
It is "lol: You see no door there." for posterity.
Why thats a whopping 2.5 k of memory per core!
I think its only fair that I hyjack this thread to talk about Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics. Political payback's fun, you insensitive clods!
Analogy fail. There are laws against possessing explosives and faking passports.
the maximum size a black hole may reach is only few tens of billion of solar masses
Physics understanding fail! Volume != Mass
You probably wouldn't be able to test the hardware other than to put software tests on it and make sure the numbers come out right every time.
I haven't gotten a chance to test this as my cell doesn't seem to have this problem, but supposedly if you put a magnet around the wires going to your speakers it reduces / removes the buzzing sound. Old USB wires will have a usable magnet in the chubby part near where it plugs in. I'd be interested to know if this works for anyone or if it was just someone's way of earning money on metacafe :-p.
As a practical matter, nobody is 100% honorable, and somebody who's in charge of building voting machines should not be politically active.
When they came for the people in charge of building voting machines, I said nothing because I was not in charge of buiding voting machines.
Seriously though, it really shouldn't be an issue. Any machine built for this purpose should at the very least be inspected (including code and all other pratical aspects) by an independant non-political technical review board.
Mock all you want, but you'll be glad for it when you experience the realism of GTA 6.
But if we completely reverse the standards we should be at 95.87% compliance!
Yeah, I don't even know why they bother telling us before like 99.999%.
why should I work harder than the smokers when I get paid less than they do?
So you don't?
I guess this makes up for a lot of personal time away from the office spent checking email, blackberry, and phone calls.
False alarm, they forgot to clean the lens.
I think you over exaggerate the time to write a new engine. It might not do all the fancy stuff like do simple math for us when we're lazy, but the recent development of cuil makes me think you were incorrect.
Granted it sucked, but it shows people are still willing to go against the Goliaths of the industry.