*Not that it's really worked; the market will find a way. In this case with non-livery cars that you call and they pick you up. Legally only actual taxis can respond to street hails.
Some related info... as of April 2012 the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission decided to open up street hails and beginning in July issuing 6000 permits to existing vehicles. Eventually, 18000 such TLC permits will be extended to for hire vehicles.
It's currently tied up in a lawsuit, and permits are not being issued, but expect it to go into effect and some of the 40k+ for-hire vehicles will be able to legally take street hails.
I've already solved the Netflix disc problem (and the scratched disc problem... I have kids) with HBC and USBLoaderGX. The USBLoaderGX channel made it easy for the rest of the family.
The question I have, and can't find answered anywhere, is will the Wii disc version continue to work?
Yes, but the thought of grinding skills for hours on end on a MUD doesn't seem quite as entertaining now that I don't have a thesis to write:)
I'll never forget writing elaborate tinyfugue scripts to grind skills and finally being newted by Ogma when he noticed that my character gave the same ack on his entry (random, but it kept track of who entered and didn't re-ack unless a few minutes had passed).
I can't be the only one here who scraped together the registration for VGAP3, a turn-based multiplayer space conquest/economy game. I used to play by email and upload turns via BBS door. Probably cost me a few points on my GPA (both VGAP and DartMUD...).
Nice to see it still exists http://www.vgaplanets.com/
Stop; don't do it. Your love of programming doesn't automatically make you a good teacher and layering inexperience on the ingrained patterns of behaviour between brothers will be a problem. Next assess if you want him to learn or if he wants to learn. If it's the first, consider that strike three.
Now, assuming he actually wants to learn and approached you for advice, start him with something fun like Bootstrap, http://www.bootstrapworld.org/, based on Scheme, or Scratch, http://scratch.mit.edu/Smalltalk, based on Smalltalk. He'll learn fundamentals in a well-designed language and have a community of educators and students to interact with.
The secret is that the people who say that Emacs is more an operating system than a text editor are right. It's a Lisp environment where anything and everything can me modified while the system is running.
The point is that it's not an operating system or a text editor. It is, paraphrasing Alan Kay, a construction material, designed for building things that work with text.
And I want to thank him for his other contributions, as it has made me some good cash, installing BSD boxes in front of Windows email servers with packet filtering!
The "degradation" idea is interesting. The rest doesn't sound new.
If anyone remembers the old copy protections, the "subtle pattern" sounds very much like the deliberate damage of particular sectors on a floppy disk. A refinement was to use bit patterns for the sector data or the track format that the hardware of the time could not reliably read (iirc- a long series of 1 bits, you wrote the data encoded as nybbles with no pattern having more than two consecutive ones). The principle was simple: read the bad spots a few times, if you can read them, or read them reliably, the disk is fake. You could detect it during a raw nybble copy by reading the track multiple times and doing either a CRC (quick) or aligning and comparing the buffers (good) and looking for difference.
You could then try to write the same pattern or figure out how to circumvent the check, but at least one knew where on the disk the check would look.
You must be referring to PVCS Dimensions, which is their database-based product (uses Oracle, last I checked). It is good. The original PVCS, which went through many hands but started as PolyView Version Control System, was worse than RCS. In fact it was a steaming pile. It is hard to irreversibly trash a file with RCS just using co/ci but the PVCS gui could do it easily if you had multiple developers working.
I'll put in a plug for my favorite. I have two from PC Power & Cooling, an "ultra-quiet" AT/ATX one and one of their "turbo-cool" AT models. Both are still going after six years of constant use and even the 300W "turbo" one is quieter than most weaker power supplies. They aren't the cheapest you'll find but they sell a better quality product. I'm happy with it, anyway.
HP sells a remote management PCI card for it's x86 boxes that is a scaled-down version of the ones for it's enterprise units (http://netserver.hp.com/netserver/products/highli ghts_remote_card.htm). The neat thing was that it had both in-band (IP) and out-of-band (serial), unlike the Remote Assist EISA card, could be used to power cycle the server and had a ARM processor with a flash rom running a port of the DOS version of PCAnywhere. The engineer who accompanied the salesrep believed the thing could be coerced into running Linux but didn't know if anyone had done it.
Fwiw, the Micron NetFrame series also all have serial redirection of the console.
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*Not that it's really worked; the market will find a way. In this case with non-livery cars that you call and they pick you up. Legally only actual taxis can respond to street hails.
Some related info... as of April 2012 the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission decided to open up street hails and beginning in July issuing 6000 permits to existing vehicles. Eventually, 18000 such TLC permits will be extended to for hire vehicles.
It's currently tied up in a lawsuit, and permits are not being issued, but expect it to go into effect and some of the 40k+ for-hire vehicles will be able to legally take street hails.
Then again, the story isn't unbelievable. Just take a look at some interesting Google Trends results:
Afghanistan's Top Image Search Terms, 2008-Present
Pakistan's Top Image Search Terms, 2008-Present
I wouldn't make much of that. It doesn't differ much for Washington, D.C..
I've already solved the Netflix disc problem (and the scratched disc problem... I have kids)
with HBC and USBLoaderGX. The USBLoaderGX channel made it easy for the rest of
the family.
The question I have, and can't find answered anywhere, is will the Wii disc version
continue to work?
Yes, but the thought of grinding skills for hours on end on a MUD doesn't seem quite :)
as entertaining now that I don't have a thesis to write
I'll never forget writing elaborate tinyfugue scripts to grind skills and finally being newted
by Ogma when he noticed that my character gave the same ack on his entry (random, but
it kept track of who entered and didn't re-ack unless a few minutes had passed).
I can't be the only one here who scraped together the registration for VGAP3,
a turn-based multiplayer space conquest/economy game. I used to play by email
and upload turns via BBS door. Probably cost me a few points on my GPA
(both VGAP and DartMUD...).
Nice to see it still exists http://www.vgaplanets.com/
Stop; don't do it. Your love of programming doesn't automatically make you a good teacher and layering inexperience on the ingrained patterns of behaviour between brothers will be a problem. Next assess if you want him to learn or if he wants to learn. If it's the first, consider that strike three.
Now, assuming he actually wants to learn and approached you for advice, start him with something fun like Bootstrap, http://www.bootstrapworld.org/, based on Scheme, or Scratch, http://scratch.mit.edu/Smalltalk, based on Smalltalk. He'll learn fundamentals in a well-designed language and have a community of educators and students to interact with.
The secret is that the people who say that Emacs is more an operating system than a text editor are right. It's a Lisp environment where anything and everything can me modified while the system is running.
The point is that it's not an operating system or a text editor. It is, paraphrasing Alan Kay, a construction material, designed for building things that work with text.
And I want to thank him for his other contributions, as it has made me some good cash, installing BSD boxes in front of Windows email servers with packet filtering!
If you haven't already, thank him by making a monetary donation or a hardware donation.
The "degradation" idea is interesting. The rest doesn't sound new.
If anyone remembers the old copy protections, the "subtle pattern" sounds very much like the deliberate damage of particular sectors on a floppy disk. A refinement was to use bit patterns for the sector data or the track format that the hardware of the time could not reliably read (iirc- a long series of 1 bits, you wrote the data encoded as nybbles with no pattern having more than two consecutive ones). The principle was simple: read the bad spots a few times, if you can read them, or read them reliably, the disk is fake. You could detect it during a raw nybble copy by reading the track multiple times and doing either a CRC (quick) or aligning and comparing the buffers (good) and looking for difference.
You could then try to write the same pattern or figure out how to circumvent the check, but at least one knew where on the disk the check would look.
You must be referring to PVCS Dimensions, which is their database-based product (uses Oracle, last I checked). It is good. The original PVCS, which went through many hands but started as PolyView Version Control System, was worse than RCS. In fact it was a steaming pile. It is hard to irreversibly trash a file with RCS just using co/ci but the PVCS gui could do it easily if you had multiple developers working.
I'll put in a plug for my favorite. I have two from PC Power & Cooling, an "ultra-quiet" AT/ATX one and one of their "turbo-cool" AT models. Both are still going after six years of constant use and even the 300W "turbo" one is quieter than most weaker power supplies. They aren't the cheapest you'll find but they sell a better quality product. I'm happy with it, anyway.
Two years ago I wrote this: Management Techniques of the Bottom 95% of U.S. Corporations.
:)
Just take all the advice and reverse it.
HP sells a remote management PCI card for it's x86 boxes that is a scaled-down version of the ones for it's enterprise units (http://netserver.hp.com/netserver/products/highli ghts_remote_card.htm). The neat thing was that it had both in-band (IP) and out-of-band (serial), unlike the Remote Assist EISA card, could be used to power cycle the server and had a ARM processor with a flash rom running a port of the DOS version of PCAnywhere. The engineer who accompanied the salesrep believed the thing could be coerced into running Linux but didn't know if anyone had done it.
Fwiw, the Micron NetFrame series also all have serial redirection of the console.