Not exactly pointless. The wireless ones are great if you are outside in the garden or something. But yeah, you only need a monitor if you can't hear the baby when it's really calling for help.
The way my wife and I handled it was to have the bassinet in ours or the next room (or in bed on a bad night) until they were a few months old.
And peak in on your kids while they are sleeping as much as you can. There is something very special about seeing your kids asleep. No matter how much of a monster they've been whilst awake, seeing your child asleep makes it all seem okay again.
In theory, it's all compiled down to assembly in the end anyway so it has equal chance of being just as fast. For some types of code, JIT can be faster.
Some of the advantages of byte-code are: . branch prediction and other speculative optimisations can be done based on observing the flow at runtime rather than guessing at compile time. . it's not necessarily tied to a specific architecture . if code optimisation technology improves, you don't need to recompile anything. the new JIT engine can do it all for you. . as above but for bugs in the optimiser.
I'm sure someone else will point out some of the disadvantages.
You wouldn't want it have too much intelligence. The last thing you want is for it to tell you "Get your own fscking beer", and then go and hump your girlfriend behind your back.
re #2, any decent robot would have an inbuilt remote which works by voice anyway.
all sql's are not created equal. most sql languages have been described as a superset of a subset of the original standard. I can think of one application which we are agents for which is basically limited to sql server. I believe they had a look at postgresql for a short time but that was cancelled as it didn't support a few features that they used. I think the most painful one was case insensitive identifiers.
Sybase and MSSQL both come from the same roots and so making an MSSQL application work with Sybase under Linux may be less of a gargantuan effort than, say, postgresql under any platform.
In addition, don't burn bridges for your co-workers. I used to work in a manufacturing plant for a major computer company. The plant was sold to a contract manufacturer startup, with the original owner being the major client. After a while things weren't going so well, and some staff were layed off. On his last day, some fsckwit sent an email addressed to 'l.gerstner' (the head guy at the original owner and major client).
The email contained an ASCII moon, and not the kind you'd normally see hanging in the sky.
Chances are Mr Gerstner never saw it, one would assume that he'd have email monkeys vetting his mail first, but it sure made us look bad.
speaking of doctors appointments, i've had some incredibly long waits in the doctors waiting rooms... most likely this isn't the doctors fault. And in fact i've had a few emergencies with the kids where i've brought them in needing stitches etc, which would have resulted in some people being delayed. In the town I live in, i'm never more than about 20 minutes away from anywhere, it would be really cool if I could leave my cell phone number with the office and they could sms me about 30 minutes before I can be seen, or alternatively, just let me know if things are running a bit slow and I should come in 15 minutes later. A bit of extra time to eat lunch or walk around the park has to be better than coughing around, or being coughed around, in a doctors waiting room full of sick people.
It could be worse though... in the local public hospital, they get all the pregnant women in between 9am and 10am, and see them all in some random order (such that my wife is always last) sometime before about 2pm. That's up to 5 hours wait and strikes me as really really bad planning!!!
an even better version could take breath alcohol readings when you talk into it, figure out when you're drunk, and then talk to your car and tell it not to let you drive.
(or alternatively, figure out that you have gotten behind the wheel and are driving a car and send the cops your gps coordinates)
Either way, it would mean less drunk fsckwits that i have to share the road with.
Another version could detect the presence of drunk members of the opposite sex via a signal sent out by their phone.
there are millions of reasons why this would be a bad idea, but howabout giving everyone on a plane a gun. single shot, not reloadable, but a gun nonetheless.
the x-ray machines would instead be used to make sure you were carrying your gun (a la the nra meeting on the simpsons).
Most people are the sickest they've ever been leading up to their deaths, regardless of age and so of course they will require more care.
May the last thing you hear when you are carted into the emergency room of a hospital be "nah. it will take too much money to give this person a new lease on life...".
Who knows, maybe in the interests of prioritising calls to 000 (911 for those of you in the wrong hemisphere:) the first question you'll be asked is "and how old is the person who requires an ambulance?"
I don't know the science behind it, but I did used to work in a manufacturing plant for a certain very large computer manufacturer (whose name has 3 letters in it), and the part numbers for monitors for southern and northern (and in at least 1 case, equatorial) units was in fact different for precisely this reason.
To be fair though, I did try out a nothern hemisphere monitor once (I am in Australia) and don't remember noticing any difference.
There are variations between the magnetic lines of the earth all over the place though (look at a map of variations between 'true north' and 'magnetic north'), maybe a northern hemisphere monitor in the southern hemisphere would start to show discoloration at the extremes of these.
I think the degauss function of a monitor is to neutralise any magnetic field built up in the grid or mesh of the monitor, rather than do anything about the magnetic field of the earth itself.
Even if they can trivially (for certain values of 'trivial') generate an input string the same as, say, a gzipped iso, the first thing i'm going to do, after I validate the hash, is gunzip it. What are the chances that the generated input string is a valid gzip stream?
Taking the simpler case of an uncompressed exe file, to successfully tamper with it or replace it, they have to be able to generate some data to tack on the end (or middle, or start, or whatever) of their trojan exe file, which is a different to just generating a string that has the same hash as another.
The memory refresh could be modified on a 4.77Mhz XT giving a slight boost in performance. I think it worked by sending slightly less refresh cycles to the memory, thus making it available more often to the cpu (no cache or anything in those days). Of course if you reduced the refresh interval too much you'd start to get bit rot.
I never tried it on anything but a 4.77Mhz XT so can't say if it did anything on a faster machine.
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Not exactly pointless. The wireless ones are great if you are outside in the garden or something. But yeah, you only need a monitor if you can't hear the baby when it's really calling for help.
The way my wife and I handled it was to have the bassinet in ours or the next room (or in bed on a bad night) until they were a few months old.
And peak in on your kids while they are sleeping as much as you can. There is something very special about seeing your kids asleep. No matter how much of a monster they've been whilst awake, seeing your child asleep makes it all seem okay again.
In theory, it's all compiled down to assembly in the end anyway so it has equal chance of being just as fast. For some types of code, JIT can be faster.
Some of the advantages of byte-code are:
. branch prediction and other speculative optimisations can be done based on observing the flow at runtime rather than guessing at compile time.
. it's not necessarily tied to a specific architecture
. if code optimisation technology improves, you don't need to recompile anything. the new JIT engine can do it all for you.
. as above but for bugs in the optimiser.
I'm sure someone else will point out some of the disadvantages.
Dont't click on the link. There's probably a JPEG behind that link just waiting to infect you.
They laughed at me when I installed lynx. Who's laughing now?
... someone defaces a popular website with such an image. Imagine if someone replaced the main image on the worlds most popular search engine!
Or if someone posts such an image to an automatic image rating site (are they still popular? does hotornot still exist?)
This is a real requirement right, and not a stale April Fools gag that someone still doesn't get?
(Disclaimer: I'm not in the US and therefore don't really care.)
You wouldn't want it have too much intelligence. The last thing you want is for it to tell you "Get your own fscking beer", and then go and hump your girlfriend behind your back.
re #2, any decent robot would have an inbuilt remote which works by voice anyway.
Given that the pr0n applications for such a device are endless, it shouldn't be too far away.
Why spend billions to create synthetic robotic psuedo lifeforms when the actual humans themselves are so absurdly cheap
Because if you send them to another planet they'll either explode (no atmosphere) or disolve (corrosive atmosphere).
And if you put them in spacesuits and send them there, they won't necessarily do what you tell them to.
all sql's are not created equal. most sql languages have been described as a superset of a subset of the original standard. I can think of one application which we are agents for which is basically limited to sql server. I believe they had a look at postgresql for a short time but that was cancelled as it didn't support a few features that they used. I think the most painful one was case insensitive identifiers.
Sybase and MSSQL both come from the same roots and so making an MSSQL application work with Sybase under Linux may be less of a gargantuan effort than, say, postgresql under any platform.
a lot of people here assume that 'style' means 'pissing of as many of your superiors and possibly cow-orkers as possible'.
:)
Try to go for something that everyone, including your boss (unless s/he is a real prick), will think 'wow. what a cool guy.'
Unfortunately I can't think of anything that wouldn't just make 'em mad
In addition, don't burn bridges for your co-workers. I used to work in a manufacturing plant for a major computer company. The plant was sold to a contract manufacturer startup, with the original owner being the major client. After a while things weren't going so well, and some staff were layed off. On his last day, some fsckwit sent an email addressed to 'l.gerstner' (the head guy at the original owner and major client).
The email contained an ASCII moon, and not the kind you'd normally see hanging in the sky.
Chances are Mr Gerstner never saw it, one would assume that he'd have email monkeys vetting his mail first, but it sure made us look bad.
speaking of doctors appointments, i've had some incredibly long waits in the doctors waiting rooms... most likely this isn't the doctors fault. And in fact i've had a few emergencies with the kids where i've brought them in needing stitches etc, which would have resulted in some people being delayed. In the town I live in, i'm never more than about 20 minutes away from anywhere, it would be really cool if I could leave my cell phone number with the office and they could sms me about 30 minutes before I can be seen, or alternatively, just let me know if things are running a bit slow and I should come in 15 minutes later. A bit of extra time to eat lunch or walk around the park has to be better than coughing around, or being coughed around, in a doctors waiting room full of sick people.
It could be worse though... in the local public hospital, they get all the pregnant women in between 9am and 10am, and see them all in some random order (such that my wife is always last) sometime before about 2pm. That's up to 5 hours wait and strikes me as really really bad planning!!!
You don't want to be around me in a network game of ms-hearts!!!
and there are likely to be better ways of making or acquiring money than that.
your cries of 'but your honour, I only intended this fake cash to thwart muggers' will be laughed out of court.
:)
Monopoly money might do just as well though
- ...
:)
- profit
(and being Microsoft, we can be sure that they'll pull off that last one!
there would have to be a significant amount of warpage for this to happen. The laser doesn't sit that close to the disc.
an even better version could take breath alcohol readings when you talk into it, figure out when you're drunk, and then talk to your car and tell it not to let you drive.
(or alternatively, figure out that you have gotten behind the wheel and are driving a car and send the cops your gps coordinates)
Either way, it would mean less drunk fsckwits that i have to share the road with.
Another version could detect the presence of drunk members of the opposite sex via a signal sent out by their phone.
Exactly. Because when you post anonymously on slashdot, the terrorists have already won.
there are millions of reasons why this would be a bad idea, but howabout giving everyone on a plane a gun. single shot, not reloadable, but a gun nonetheless.
the x-ray machines would instead be used to make sure you were carrying your gun (a la the nra meeting on the simpsons).
I pity the fool who tries to hijack that plane!
well duh!
:) the first question you'll be asked is "and how old is the person who requires an ambulance?"
Most people are the sickest they've ever been leading up to their deaths, regardless of age and so of course they will require more care.
May the last thing you hear when you are carted into the emergency room of a hospital be "nah. it will take too much money to give this person a new lease on life...".
Who knows, maybe in the interests of prioritising calls to 000 (911 for those of you in the wrong hemisphere
okay. i'm done now.
I don't know the science behind it, but I did used to work in a manufacturing plant for a certain very large computer manufacturer (whose name has 3 letters in it), and the part numbers for monitors for southern and northern (and in at least 1 case, equatorial) units was in fact different for precisely this reason.
To be fair though, I did try out a nothern hemisphere monitor once (I am in Australia) and don't remember noticing any difference.
There are variations between the magnetic lines of the earth all over the place though (look at a map of variations between 'true north' and 'magnetic north'), maybe a northern hemisphere monitor in the southern hemisphere would start to show discoloration at the extremes of these.
I think the degauss function of a monitor is to neutralise any magnetic field built up in the grid or mesh of the monitor, rather than do anything about the magnetic field of the earth itself.
Even if they can trivially (for certain values of 'trivial') generate an input string the same as, say, a gzipped iso, the first thing i'm going to do, after I validate the hash, is gunzip it. What are the chances that the generated input string is a valid gzip stream?
Taking the simpler case of an uncompressed exe file, to successfully tamper with it or replace it, they have to be able to generate some data to tack on the end (or middle, or start, or whatever) of their trojan exe file, which is a different to just generating a string that has the same hash as another.
I'm reserving the right to panic until later.
You foolish person. You have admitted on a public forum that you have reverse engineered a program and discovered its secrets.
There are laws against that you know!
The memory refresh could be modified on a 4.77Mhz XT giving a slight boost in performance. I think it worked by sending slightly less refresh cycles to the memory, thus making it available more often to the cpu (no cache or anything in those days). Of course if you reduced the refresh interval too much you'd start to get bit rot.
I never tried it on anything but a 4.77Mhz XT so can't say if it did anything on a faster machine.