A QR code is a two-dimensional barcode. A pretty decent way to embed a serial number.
What exactly about the idea makes the poster believe the banks' scanning software would jump to some arbitrary website after the scan? Presumably, a much more sane and secure thing to do would be to look up the serial number in a database on a single, secure site.
In my case, going for a master's let me get a 30% increase in pay over the job I had with an undergraduate degree, and to work in a field more closely aligned with my interests. I consider this to be a good use of two years of my time, but I was also under a sizable scholarship (about 25% of the undergrad degree pay, tuition waived.)
It really depends on how research-oriented your job is going to be. If it has a lot of algorithmic work, then there are probably a lot of former academics in the company who would look highly upon a graduate degree since they have ones themselves.
b, because you can get a compiler or checking tool to warn you about assignments in if statements, and a is harder to read.
Of course, YMMV. This is more of a personal preference thing, and strikes me as only slightly more relevant than asking to justify the ideal tab length.
Don't be ridiculous. Having run a successful business does not render the Google Corporation and its employees slaves of the state, no matter how much that inconveniences me and the rest of the world. If they decided to close shop five minutes from now, I don't see any defensible reason they should not be allowed to.
They are not the police force or the hospital; if they decide to end their business, switching to MSN or Yahoo will not cause any grave harm to you.
Does anyone else find the practice of using the foreign-language version of "astronaut" a bit annoying? It seems a bit bizarre.
A Chinese astronaut is... an astronaut. A Russian astronaut is... an astronaut. You'll notice that during the Olympics, Chinese athletes were still called "athlete."
Why arbitrarily translate some words into the foreign language?
1) They carry transponders that other UAVs can detect. A different, perhaps greater concern is the detection of things without transponders. Military aircraft, airliners and most light civilian aircraft have transponders, but some light civilian aircraft (mostly older or ultralights) do not. Birds also do not carry transponders.
2) The defence industry has a fair bit of experience making difficult-to-jam communications systems. That one's probably easier to deal with than #1.
So... your premise is that the pretty, stupid female community is the same as the capable, skilled female engineer community?
Does the set of "male" gets subdivided into "geek" and "non-geek" but all women just go under "women"?
I'm not either female or what would be called a feminist, but come on. Someone needs to work with more women, but I guess that's probably the crux of the problem.
We're talking about jetliners. Not exactly stealth aircraft, y'know. Guided missiles using essentially any guidance system will probably hit them just fine, transmitting GPS location or no.
And besides, the planes already carry and activate Mode A/C transponders that respond to queries automatically. The usual intention is to make civilian planes _easy_ to see, not hard, because safety concerns trump ground attack worries any day of the week.
Is it 'not real' when a painter adds an object to his painting that isn't in the scene?
Should we also object to the use of lighting on movie sets, because it modifies the natural lighting of the scene? Maybe makeup as well?
If someone detonates an EMP device over an army emplacement, I think the last thing they'd be worried about is making sure peoples' barcodes still worked.
I'd guess the more immediate concern would be, y'know, the large attack taking place while all their electronics are destroyed or incapacitated. The broken radios, radars, nightvision equipment, power generators, and many other things seem far more important.
Use the Canadian method: when you're sued for patent infringement, you have to prove damages.
IANAL, but here's my understanding. If you hold a patent on some item X but never make any implementation of it, you are able to sue for the extent of your damages: $0.
If you can play it on something that makes sounds, I'll be able to record it. Unless they manage to convince the government that we need DRM implanted in our ear canals.
But they'd never do that...err....uh oh.
It might be a reason for the Australian gov't to refuse to fund him, but it'd be stupid for the IOC even to consider it.
The Olympics are an athletic competition, if the skier has done something illegal then being in jail should be what deters him from going. Otherwise, it has no relation to their athletic ability. If Australia feels it hurts their country's image then don't put him on the team.
Hey it's not that crazy an idea. There are cell phones with voice recognition nowadays; I can make calls on mine with a single button for names on a contact list. It's certainly feasible for dialing, though you'd probably want a more sophisticated interface for changing your settings etc.
For an idea of how this could work, you can look at a current phone: Motorola E-815. The headset it comes with has a little microphone and a button on it. If you're listening to MP3s on the phone and a call comes in, the song pauses and you hear ringing. You push the button on the headset and can take your call without opening the phone or anything.
Works pretty nicely, and something similar is done on other phones I imagine.
I know a lot of people say comments are unnecessary if you have nice self-documenting code. But personally I find nothing beats a short comment at the top of chunks of code to give a quick idea what it's doing (or supposed to do).
Well, if they're offering to get you $100, then they can hardly ask you for an initial investment in the $1000s. They need to pick a value high enough that it seems "reasonable" to somebody to front them a few thousand bucks.
Am I the only one somewhat annoyed by the move towards cordless mice? I tried one for the first time a few months ago (Logitech MX700) and found it way too heavy.
The thing actually made my wrist hurt after extended use, and switching back to a corded one felt like moving a feather afterwards. Sitting at a desk, is the mouse cord really that irritating to some people?
I suspect the people developing the fuel cells probably do care about CPU speed advances. I don't imagine much research of anything would get done if everyone was stuck using P2/233 MHz machines.
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A QR code is a two-dimensional barcode. A pretty decent way to embed a serial number. What exactly about the idea makes the poster believe the banks' scanning software would jump to some arbitrary website after the scan? Presumably, a much more sane and secure thing to do would be to look up the serial number in a database on a single, secure site.
I might be confused with another product, but I think Visual Studio Express expires after a month demo period.
It only expires if you don't do the e-mail registration.
In my case, going for a master's let me get a 30% increase in pay over the job I had with an undergraduate degree, and to work in a field more closely aligned with my interests. I consider this to be a good use of two years of my time, but I was also under a sizable scholarship (about 25% of the undergrad degree pay, tuition waived.)
It really depends on how research-oriented your job is going to be. If it has a lot of algorithmic work, then there are probably a lot of former academics in the company who would look highly upon a graduate degree since they have ones themselves.
b, because you can get a compiler or checking tool to warn you about assignments in if statements, and a is harder to read.
Of course, YMMV. This is more of a personal preference thing, and strikes me as only slightly more relevant than asking to justify the ideal tab length.
Don't be ridiculous. Having run a successful business does not render the Google Corporation and its employees slaves of the state, no matter how much that inconveniences me and the rest of the world. If they decided to close shop five minutes from now, I don't see any defensible reason they should not be allowed to.
They are not the police force or the hospital; if they decide to end their business, switching to MSN or Yahoo will not cause any grave harm to you.
Does anyone else find the practice of using the foreign-language version of "astronaut" a bit annoying? It seems a bit bizarre.
A Chinese astronaut is... an astronaut. A Russian astronaut is... an astronaut. You'll notice that during the Olympics, Chinese athletes were still called "athlete."
Why arbitrarily translate some words into the foreign language?
No DMR? Well that's a relief. It would be better if they kept out the DRM, though.
1) They carry transponders that other UAVs can detect. A different, perhaps greater concern is the detection of things without transponders. Military aircraft, airliners and most light civilian aircraft have transponders, but some light civilian aircraft (mostly older or ultralights) do not. Birds also do not carry transponders.
2) The defence industry has a fair bit of experience making difficult-to-jam communications systems. That one's probably easier to deal with than #1.
So... your premise is that the pretty, stupid female community is the same as the capable, skilled female engineer community? Does the set of "male" gets subdivided into "geek" and "non-geek" but all women just go under "women"? I'm not either female or what would be called a feminist, but come on. Someone needs to work with more women, but I guess that's probably the crux of the problem.
We're talking about jetliners. Not exactly stealth aircraft, y'know. Guided missiles using essentially any guidance system will probably hit them just fine, transmitting GPS location or no.
And besides, the planes already carry and activate Mode A/C transponders that respond to queries automatically. The usual intention is to make civilian planes _easy_ to see, not hard, because safety concerns trump ground attack worries any day of the week.
This strikes me as very silly.
Is it 'not real' when a painter adds an object to his painting that isn't in the scene? Should we also object to the use of lighting on movie sets, because it modifies the natural lighting of the scene? Maybe makeup as well?
If someone detonates an EMP device over an army emplacement, I think the last thing they'd be worried about is making sure peoples' barcodes still worked. I'd guess the more immediate concern would be, y'know, the large attack taking place while all their electronics are destroyed or incapacitated. The broken radios, radars, nightvision equipment, power generators, and many other things seem far more important.
Use the Canadian method: when you're sued for patent infringement, you have to prove damages. IANAL, but here's my understanding. If you hold a patent on some item X but never make any implementation of it, you are able to sue for the extent of your damages: $0.
Interesting contacts, a job closer to my interests, and higher pay. Not so bad a combination, I think.
If you can play it on something that makes sounds, I'll be able to record it. Unless they manage to convince the government that we need DRM implanted in our ear canals. But they'd never do that...err....uh oh.
It might be a reason for the Australian gov't to refuse to fund him, but it'd be stupid for the IOC even to consider it. The Olympics are an athletic competition, if the skier has done something illegal then being in jail should be what deters him from going. Otherwise, it has no relation to their athletic ability. If Australia feels it hurts their country's image then don't put him on the team.
Hey it's not that crazy an idea. There are cell phones with voice recognition nowadays; I can make calls on mine with a single button for names on a contact list. It's certainly feasible for dialing, though you'd probably want a more sophisticated interface for changing your settings etc.
For an idea of how this could work, you can look at a current phone: Motorola E-815. The headset it comes with has a little microphone and a button on it. If you're listening to MP3s on the phone and a call comes in, the song pauses and you hear ringing. You push the button on the headset and can take your call without opening the phone or anything. Works pretty nicely, and something similar is done on other phones I imagine.
Microsoft should go ahead and sell the new version for $0.02 less than the full version. Nobody would buy it, and they would still be in compliance.
I know a lot of people say comments are unnecessary if you have nice self-documenting code. But personally I find nothing beats a short comment at the top of chunks of code to give a quick idea what it's doing (or supposed to do).
Well, if they're offering to get you $100, then they can hardly ask you for an initial investment in the $1000s. They need to pick a value high enough that it seems "reasonable" to somebody to front them a few thousand bucks.
Because the thing seems to have enough as it is.
Am I the only one somewhat annoyed by the move towards cordless mice? I tried one for the first time a few months ago (Logitech MX700) and found it way too heavy.
The thing actually made my wrist hurt after extended use, and switching back to a corded one felt like moving a feather afterwards. Sitting at a desk, is the mouse cord really that irritating to some people?
It'll only make you cook faster!
I suspect the people developing the fuel cells probably do care about CPU speed advances. I don't imagine much research of anything would get done if everyone was stuck using P2/233 MHz machines.