I've been toying with the RFID idea also. So a mysql database of all the tags and the items. Put items in a Contico with a tag, and hierarchically log whats in the box. The database is keyed on items, add a digial picture + description/audio clip. When you are about to search for that item that you know will be in the last spot, consult the database, find the Contico take the item out. Later, a quick scan of the item will reveal what box it needs to go back into. Something like that.
You can put a 10/100 hub on your conn and tap packets leaving/entering your LAN. Even better would be a GUI for a quick look at current utilization and port activity. Perhaps also a top 5 ip addrs knocking on the door. With a second NIC you can policy data coming in but these laptops prob don't have enough power for that.
My normal failure mode with a cable jumble, that reassuring crack as it breaks off ensuring a lurking connectivity problem when its used in the future. I suppose those tabs need to be maintained in the contest FTW no?
My $0.02 is that the air density computation came out wrong for whatever reason. Result: A very lean burn flaming out #2 and causing #1s request for more power to spin out to high RPM with not much to show for it. One passenger inside @the port side said it was takeoff loud how can it be takeoff loud with no power? If the 14:1 air:fuel ratio is wrong...
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No end of projects if you want to go old school. If you get your glass blowing down, you can make a mercury arc rectifier! Its all good right up until the part about the 2kg of mercury needed to "make it happen". Also, the voltages and currents tend to be a bit high. Great to look at! Just don't breath the vapour that leeches out.
I had both those professors at NYU. PL/1 with Schonberg and Dewar for compilers. The curriculum back then for a CS major was an inrto language, at the time PL/1, an assembly class (BAL on a 370). Discrete math was a must. Data structures using PL/1, a graph class. OS design and comp arch (others that I forgot I am sure). This was a good challenging major and I am glad they are making the case that the current trend is bad. I agree, its difficult to find good programmers. Bad habits seem to get into folks very early with these hands off the hw languages. That is at least from where I need people (embedded fw). For a web gui perhaps C# and Java are all thats needed these days. To me, I need to understand the hw on up to, if used, the vtable and the objects on top, complete understanding of all the layers. If you dont know your system, how can you grasp the ramnifications of change of any of the pieces (new processor, different compiler, runtime, etc). If you understand all the pieces, your life is ultimately better and easier I feel. I dont think the new CS majors get that training any longer.
might I recommend this book by Bo Lojek. Its a great history of how it all happened with a lot of technical detail. English is not Bo's first language but that is not an issue as its the technical detail and the science that carries this book.
This nefarious landmine I wound not say has 'helped' but it surely has changed lives. Its a plastic mine very little metal content, inexpensive and is the most widely seeded mine in the world. This is the kind of change the world did not and should not ever have needed. Perhaps one day, a high tech soln can dispose of these low tech scourges. There has been a lot of progress but still, its the de-miner with the stick and a face shield that gets them out today.
I wonder, negative publicity never looks good for the schools in these gigs. But what is the school statute that they would invoke to do it... I suppose its a bit like a hiring arrangement, it can be severed by any party at anytime for any reason.
Back in the late 80's we had a network of Apollo DN300's. Days of lost time when the ring went down. Once and entire day lost. IT scrambling about in the ceiling tiles trying to TDR the cable, finally, a NIC out in a workstation in a closed office, the employee was on vacation. Whilst on vacation that NIC, like a bad xmas tree bulb took down the whole lan whilst it wouldn't play nice and pass on the token. Total junk and a total waste of time. I used to dream of taking that Apollo from CA to Chemlsford mass and heave it wrapped in lemons at the stairs of Apollo's plant.
Games with imperfect information. Very hard to design good AI to play these games, as the story says, tree search is not a win here. A game like stratego also has concepts that go beyond individual piece movement, i.e. you may want to group an few pieces together to make an attack, moving the unit (subject to input from the enemy) forwards. I have yet to see a good stratego game, there is one for $ called "The General". It can be defeated quite easily. I have found a stratego game in the past that could *not* be defeated! But, some sleuthing on my part (via saving the game and restoring it at key points) showed the sw was cheating by moving its pieces around to adjust to the threats(!). I have had an obsession with this style of AI but its such a daunting problem its hard to get a good handle on where to start to chip away at it. I suspect the polaris folks have been doing just this, the AI and methods they develop would be useful for other games I am sure.
The sacks may contain clues to Puzzle people (according to Anna Funder's book Stasiland). The first files the Stasi shred are the most incriminating. Remember, these fine folks made some of the dissidents back then 'dissapear'. Which files do you think would be into the shredder at the time of the wall coming down? Also realize that they wanted to shred all of it, but they burned out the shredders with the sheer volume. With about 60-70 people per watcher in East Germany, there was a lot of info in a lot of files about a lot of people!
I was curious on the Stasi after enjoying the recent(USwise) release of the "Lives of Others" It won an academy award. Anyway, Funders book covers this topic of the sacks of shredded documents. The statistics were rediculous and 100's of years would be needed at the rate they were getting through the sacks. Kindof like the Blechley park people, recruitment seeks special skills, in this case, people who enjoyed board puzzles were hired.
The book is a good read, this systematic control they had on a society from cradle to grave produced some very odd people and behaviours.
Very annoying. It happens from time to time, windows just can never move from their frozen screen position. If you can nav the browser somewhere else (depends if the buttons are not occluded) then it can unstick itself. Did I mention its annoying?
I am also trying to see a way for the mkts to help combat this. The pink sheet market can help here. If spam for a symbol on their market reaches some predefined high water metric, remove the symbol from trading for one week. Another alterative is to allow short selling on the thinly traded issue. The pumper has already taken a position and is most likely the reason why the ask price is so high when the emails start arriving. Shorting would be a clear brake here on exuberance. Once the symbol is out of play, remove the short selling allowance.
Its a constant battle against that pumper: (here is my spamassassin user_pref for them)
body __LR_PUMP_A/Symbol:/ body __LR_PUMP_C/Short-Term Projected Price:/ body __LR_PUMP_D/Long-Term Target Price:/ meta LR_PUMP_1 (__LR_PUMP_A && __LR_PUMP_C && __LR_PUMP_D) score LR_PUMP_1 5.0
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I've been toying with the RFID idea also. So a mysql database of all the tags and the items. Put items in a Contico with a tag, and hierarchically log whats in the box. The database is keyed on items, add a digial picture + description/audio clip. When you are about to search for that item that you know will be in the last spot, consult the database, find the Contico take the item out. Later, a quick scan of the item will reveal what box it needs to go back into. Something like that.
Hedley
You can put a 10/100 hub on your conn and tap packets leaving/entering your LAN. Even better would be a GUI for a quick look at current utilization and port activity. Perhaps also a top 5 ip addrs knocking on the door. With a second NIC you can policy data coming in but these laptops prob don't have enough power for that.
Strong typing. Garbage collection. Native code generation.
Lack of OO and a current up to date machine code generating compiler would be a detriment though
to a rollout anytime soon of this old language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68/
H.
My normal failure mode with a cable jumble, that reassuring crack as it breaks off ensuring a lurking connectivity problem when its used in the future. I suppose those tabs need to be maintained in the contest FTW no?
Or continued to pump but with a 30000ft mixture ratio vs a sealevel one.
My $0.02 is that the air density computation came out wrong for whatever reason. Result: A very lean burn flaming out #2 and causing #1s request for more power to spin out to high RPM with not much to show for it. One passenger inside @the port side said it was takeoff loud how can it be takeoff loud with no power? If the 14:1 air:fuel ratio is wrong...
Hedley
No end of projects if you want to go old school. If you get your glass blowing down, you can make a mercury arc rectifier! Its all good right up until the part about the 2kg of mercury needed to "make it happen". Also, the voltages and currents tend to be a bit high. Great to look at! Just don't breath the vapour that leeches out.
I had both those professors at NYU. PL/1 with Schonberg and Dewar for compilers. The curriculum back then for a CS major was an inrto language, at the time PL/1, an assembly class (BAL on a 370). Discrete math was a must. Data structures using PL/1, a graph class. OS design and comp arch (others that I forgot I am sure). This was a good challenging major and I am glad they are making the case that the current trend is bad. I agree, its difficult to find good programmers. Bad habits seem to get into folks very early with these hands off the hw languages. That is at least from where I need people (embedded fw). For a web gui perhaps C# and Java are all thats needed these days. To me, I need to understand the hw on up to, if used, the vtable and the objects on top, complete understanding of all the layers. If you dont know your system, how can you grasp the ramnifications of change of any of the pieces (new processor, different compiler, runtime, etc). If you understand all the pieces, your life is ultimately better and easier I feel. I dont think the new CS majors get that training any longer.
might I recommend this book by Bo Lojek. Its a great history of how it all happened with a lot of technical detail. English is not Bo's first language but that is not an issue as its the technical detail and the science that carries this book.
This nefarious landmine I wound not say has 'helped' but it surely has changed lives. Its a plastic mine very little metal content, inexpensive and is the most widely seeded mine in the world. This is the kind of change the world did not and should not ever have needed. Perhaps one day, a high tech soln can dispose of these low tech scourges. There has been a lot of progress but still, its the de-miner with the stick and a face shield that gets them out today.
Importing and manipulating hex would please me no end.
H.
I wonder, negative publicity never looks good for the schools in these gigs. But what
is the school statute that they would invoke to do it... I suppose its a bit like a
hiring arrangement, it can be severed by any party at anytime for any reason.
H.
Should VoIP users consider using Phil Zimmermans Z-fone? possibly a bit more secure than what we have now
I would wager.
http://zfoneproject.com/
With a atomic orbit logo below it. They have the most memorable city motto and logo I have
ever seen.
Back in the late 80's we had a network of Apollo DN300's. Days of lost time when the ring went down. Once and entire day lost. IT scrambling about in the ceiling tiles trying to TDR the cable, finally, a NIC out in a workstation in a closed office, the employee was on vacation. Whilst on vacation that NIC, like a bad xmas tree bulb took down the whole lan whilst it wouldn't play nice and pass on the token. Total junk and a total waste of time. I used to dream of taking that Apollo from CA to Chemlsford mass and heave it wrapped in lemons at the stairs of Apollo's plant.
Dr Smith works for a subcontractor now? That Jupiter2 gig must have finished.
Games with imperfect information. Very hard to design good AI to play these games, as the story says, tree search is not a win here. A game like stratego also has concepts that go beyond individual piece movement, i.e. you may want to group an few pieces together to make an attack, moving the unit (subject to input from the enemy) forwards. I have yet to see a good stratego game, there is one for $ called "The General". It can be defeated quite easily. I have found a stratego game in the past that could *not* be defeated! But, some sleuthing on my part (via saving the game and restoring it at key points) showed the sw was cheating by moving its pieces around to adjust to the threats(!). I have had an obsession with this style of AI but its such a daunting problem its hard to get a good handle on where to start to chip away at it. I suspect the polaris folks have been doing just this, the AI and methods they develop would be useful for other games I am sure.
H.
Mariana trench is only about 10900 meters. Whats he imaging at 16000? Sounds a bit crusty to me.
H.
The sacks may contain clues to Puzzle people (according to Anna Funder's book Stasiland). The first files the Stasi shred are the most incriminating. Remember, these fine folks made some of the dissidents back then 'dissapear'. Which files do you think would be into the shredder at the time of the wall coming down? Also realize that they wanted to shred all of it, but they burned out the shredders with the sheer volume. With about 60-70 people per watcher in East Germany, there was a lot of info in a lot of files about a lot of people!
Hedley
I was curious on the Stasi after enjoying the recent(USwise) release of the "Lives of Others" It won an academy award. Anyway, Funders book covers this topic of the sacks of shredded documents. The statistics were rediculous and 100's of years would be needed at the rate they were getting through the sacks. Kindof like the Blechley park people, recruitment seeks special skills, in this case, people who enjoyed board puzzles were hired.
The book is a good read, this systematic control they had on a society from cradle to grave produced some very odd people and behaviours.
Check out the film also.
Hedley
Very annoying. It happens from time to time, windows just can never move from their frozen screen position. If you can nav the browser somewhere else (depends if the buttons are not occluded) then it can unstick itself. Did I mention its annoying?
H.
The Burroughs could reconfigure itself also. But that was the 70's and this new machine is... new so it must be the first!
http://www.answers.com/topic/burroughs-b1700
I am also trying to see a way for the mkts to help combat this. The pink sheet market can help here. If spam for a symbol on their market reaches some predefined high water metric, remove the symbol from trading for one week. Another alterative is to allow short selling on the thinly traded issue. The pumper has already taken a position and is most likely the reason why the ask price is so high when the emails start arriving. Shorting would be a clear brake here on exuberance. Once the symbol is out of play, remove the short selling allowance.
Its a constant battle against that pumper: (here is my spamassassin user_pref for them)
/Symbol:/ /Short-Term Projected Price:/ /Long-Term Target Price:/
/Physician Adult Daycare/
body __LR_PUMP_A
body __LR_PUMP_C
body __LR_PUMP_D
meta LR_PUMP_1 (__LR_PUMP_A && __LR_PUMP_C && __LR_PUMP_D)
score LR_PUMP_1 5.0
body LR_PAD_1
describe LR_PAD_1 Physician Adult Daycare
score LR_PAD_1 5.0
H.
If we can just get him to handle elections... Oh wait, thats why we have
Diebold machines.