Seriously, guys, why does nobody ever link to the original source? ThreatPost got it from M86 Security got it from TLLOD. Would it kill the submitters to link to the original, or the editors to fix it?
First, how did he manage to come up with a design for the new case matching exactly all of the buttons? Do you just take some calipers and start measuring?
Well, many of the buttons are in a regular pattern and of the same shape and size, just warped, so using calipers would be a little easier than you'd think at first. (Photo of original TI-89 Titanium and milled case here.)
After viewing all the pictures, though, it seems the holes are approximations of the buttons. Dunno how that'd affect debris entry.
Of course, one could always just take an original case, use a 3D scanner, and then tweak the 3D model.;)
I went to DC on a school trip in 8th grade, and I didn't even know there was an FDR memorial. (Of course, this was a tightly structured and scheduled trip, so that'd probably be why.)
That aside, there's one little feature of Street View that blew my mind just now. While you're around the Tidal Basin, drag the little Street View man out of his home on the little toolbar. You'll notice that there are a lot of single spots around the area. These are user-contributed images--and, since several are in the Tidal Basin itself, probably user-positioned as well.
Anyway, drag the little man to the southernmost spot wholly in the Tidal Basin. You'll see it's not actually a picture from the Tidal Basin, it's a picture of the Jefferson Memorial from the west side, across the water. Now, here's the cool part.
See that dot on the Memorial you get when you mouse over? Click it.
It warps you to another image of the Memorial from a similar angle. From this point, you can warp to four images.
It might just be because it's late, but it sure blew my mind. (Especially if it's computer-generated linking.)
The bottom line is the worst thing...the most terrible awful thing I have to experience as a Linux Desktop User is the delay between clicking on Firefox and it appearing.
That's because Firefox is hueg. It takes just as long to start up in Windows (if not longer).
By the problems/software you reference, I take it you're on Ubuntu. If you're using a recent version, it should include ureadahead, which should make frequently-accessed files load faster (through caching or something).
I had Firefox start up automatically when I logged in, so that helped eliminate some delay. You could try it.
Don't just tell them gasoline is dangerous, show them.
Okay. Here, hold this can of gasoline. I'll just insert this fuse and light it. You stand right there, and I'll, uh, just stand over here behind this building.
Hopefully, though, in the modern world, a program with such a routine would be running it a lot. Taking so much (relative) time, it should pop up in profiling and be targeted for improvement.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease, after all...
All lawyer meetings are about getting as much money as possible out of their client... Why do you think they charge by the hour (and bill for fractions of an hour)?
And, a lawyer joke:
Dear John, Thought I saw you on the street the other day. Crossed over to say hello, but it wasn't you. 1/10th of an hour: $80.00.
This.
I went on an abbreviated tour of a Waste Management facility a few weeks ago, and the guide (actually a manager of something) told us that a lot of recycled paper goes to Japan.
It's actually pretty interesting to see everything first-hand (especially the scale of everything!). Your local Waste Management or other plant will probably give a tour if you ask. Write an article for something if you think you'll need it to get the tour.
And, apropos of nothing, Waste Management is a surprisingly "green" company for one whose industry is waste. The WM landfills around here are all tapped for their methane, which is captured and piped to a converted locomotive engine, which generates power for the WM plant (and probably some of the grid, but I don't remember). And they're serious about it, too. They've got three guys with pagers who get called if the fuel/air ratio in the methane system goes off, and they come out and hand-adjust each capture point on the landfill.
Portal is not only proprietary, but requires a proprietary OS.
Last time I checked, the Source engine ran pretty well under Wine...
Sure enough, according to the AppDB, Portal has gotten a "platinum" rating in the last two entries. (Platinum is the best rating: it means the application works "out of the box", more or less.)
That page suggests setting the DirectX mode to 8.0, so you won't be getting all the eyecandy... But then, you're playing it for a class, not the eyecandy.
Yeah, I got a question like that on a test in high school once... we were given a fictional creature (one, either female or unspecified gender), and the rate at which they reproduce, and told to find how many creatures there would be after so much time.
I puzzled over whether the answer was "one" or whatever the math worked out to, because it was fictional and there was no indication of whether the creature reproduced sexually, asexually, or whatever. Turned out, the answer was, sure enough, one.
Yes, I was reminded of America's Army as well.
It's a very effective system for not stepping on any toes (also, it's the US Army, they're not going to let you play the bad guys). Only problem with it is realism and symmetry--the M203 grenade launcher doesn't have a smoke trail, but the enemy's GP30 grenade launcher does. So when you take down an enemy, you can pick up their weapon and get a small advantage. What you see is not what your enemy sees. (Same for tracers--the Army's M249 light machine gun has red tracers, while the enemy's RPK has green.)
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Er... You're going to get about the same experience no matter what distro you use. About the only thing that'll change is the package management system.
You're already using Ubuntu, so why not just install KDE and give it a try? Just install one of the "kde-" packages and it'll pull in everything it needs (that you don't already have). I recommend "kde-standard", as it includes the base KDE applications. (Although 99% of GTK+ apps work under KDE, and the same is probably true of Qt apps under Gnome. So you can use apps you're familiar with in KDE.)
If your wife/girlfriend is a CS major with cryptology in her repertoire though... might want to find a different 'hobby'.
If your wife/girlfriend is a CS major with cryptology in her repertoire, something tells me it's more likely she'd be more receptive to these "hobbies", even to the point of participating.;)
I don't remember where I heard it, but I heard that at least one Congressman's office, any handwritten letters go directly to the Congressman's desk (presumably after being screened for anthrax, etc., of course). Form-filled/pre-printed letter probably were fast-tracked for the trash.
I even remember after reading this one guy's paper on the inner workings of Metroid's engine and spending more time in hex editors altering the the levels slightly.
May or may not be the same guy you're thinking of, but the source to Metroid is available here. Somewhat commented. (I don't speak Assembly, so I can't opine on the code.)
(Also: Metroid doesn't have levels, it has areas.;))
How many elephants can you fit in a Volkswagen Beetle?
Four. Two in the front, two in the back.
...which is the set-up to the real joke:
How can you tell when there's an elephant in your fridge?
- There's elephant prints in the butter.
How can you tell when there's TWO elephants in your fridge?
- There's two sets of prints in the butter.
How can you tell when there's THREE elephants in your fridge?
- The door won't close.
How can you tell when there's FOUR elephants in your fridge?
- There's a Volkswagen Beetle in your driveway.
I'm not familiar with BlackBerries (or really most cell phones; I don't have one), but I assume that your transmissions would be picked up at the tower and intercepted soon after (and, of course, forwarded on to their destination).
So you'd see no difference in service (except maybe latency).
This.
Just hook it up to your sound card and record with Audacity.
(This method is especially useful with logic analysis, as you can just play it back, too!)
PS: Verifying your voltage, amperage, etc. is your responsibility.
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Seriously, guys, why does nobody ever link to the original source? ThreatPost got it from M86 Security got it from TLLOD. Would it kill the submitters to link to the original, or the editors to fix it?
Well, many of the buttons are in a regular pattern and of the same shape and size, just warped, so using calipers would be a little easier than you'd think at first. (Photo of original TI-89 Titanium and milled case here.)
;)
After viewing all the pictures, though, it seems the holes are approximations of the buttons. Dunno how that'd affect debris entry.
Of course, one could always just take an original case, use a 3D scanner, and then tweak the 3D model.
I went to DC on a school trip in 8th grade, and I didn't even know there was an FDR memorial. (Of course, this was a tightly structured and scheduled trip, so that'd probably be why.)
That aside, there's one little feature of Street View that blew my mind just now.
While you're around the Tidal Basin, drag the little Street View man out of his home on the little toolbar. You'll notice that there are a lot of single spots around the area. These are user-contributed images--and, since several are in the Tidal Basin itself, probably user-positioned as well.
Anyway, drag the little man to the southernmost spot wholly in the Tidal Basin. You'll see it's not actually a picture from the Tidal Basin, it's a picture of the Jefferson Memorial from the west side, across the water. Now, here's the cool part.
See that dot on the Memorial you get when you mouse over? Click it.
It warps you to another image of the Memorial from a similar angle. From this point, you can warp to four images.
It might just be because it's late, but it sure blew my mind. (Especially if it's computer-generated linking.)
That's because Firefox is hueg. It takes just as long to start up in Windows (if not longer).
By the problems/software you reference, I take it you're on Ubuntu. If you're using a recent version, it should include ureadahead, which should make frequently-accessed files load faster (through caching or something).
I had Firefox start up automatically when I logged in, so that helped eliminate some delay. You could try it.
Okay. Here, hold this can of gasoline. I'll just insert this fuse and light it. You stand right there, and I'll, uh, just stand over here behind this building.
TweakUI (an XP powertoy) has nice little checkboxes that allow you to change autorun by drive, by device type, and also add or remove autorun actions.
Clearly, you have not watched your Stargate.
Hopefully, though, in the modern world, a program with such a routine would be running it a lot. Taking so much (relative) time, it should pop up in profiling and be targeted for improvement.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease, after all...
Relevant bash.org quote: http://bash.org/?246624
That's the problem with random numbers... you can never be sure.
And, a lawyer joke:
Alexa's data is derived from those who have installed the Alexa toolbar. Thus, you only see a subset (and a biased one at that) of all traffic.
This.
I went on an abbreviated tour of a Waste Management facility a few weeks ago, and the guide (actually a manager of something) told us that a lot of recycled paper goes to Japan.
It's actually pretty interesting to see everything first-hand (especially the scale of everything!). Your local Waste Management or other plant will probably give a tour if you ask. Write an article for something if you think you'll need it to get the tour.
And, apropos of nothing, Waste Management is a surprisingly "green" company for one whose industry is waste. The WM landfills around here are all tapped for their methane, which is captured and piped to a converted locomotive engine, which generates power for the WM plant (and probably some of the grid, but I don't remember). And they're serious about it, too. They've got three guys with pagers who get called if the fuel/air ratio in the methane system goes off, and they come out and hand-adjust each capture point on the landfill.
Last time I checked, the Source engine ran pretty well under Wine...
Sure enough, according to the AppDB, Portal has gotten a "platinum" rating in the last two entries. (Platinum is the best rating: it means the application works "out of the box", more or less.)
That page suggests setting the DirectX mode to 8.0, so you won't be getting all the eyecandy... But then, you're playing it for a class, not the eyecandy.
Yeah, I got a question like that on a test in high school once... we were given a fictional creature (one, either female or unspecified gender), and the rate at which they reproduce, and told to find how many creatures there would be after so much time.
I puzzled over whether the answer was "one" or whatever the math worked out to, because it was fictional and there was no indication of whether the creature reproduced sexually, asexually, or whatever. Turned out, the answer was, sure enough, one.
Funny site... On my first try of answering questions, I got this Slashdot-(comment-)worthy result: http://cats-or-dogs.com/results/2/14705/
Yes, I was reminded of America's Army as well.
It's a very effective system for not stepping on any toes (also, it's the US Army, they're not going to let you play the bad guys).
Only problem with it is realism and symmetry--the M203 grenade launcher doesn't have a smoke trail, but the enemy's GP30 grenade launcher does. So when you take down an enemy, you can pick up their weapon and get a small advantage. What you see is not what your enemy sees. (Same for tracers--the Army's M249 light machine gun has red tracers, while the enemy's RPK has green.)
Er... You're going to get about the same experience no matter what distro you use. About the only thing that'll change is the package management system.
You're already using Ubuntu, so why not just install KDE and give it a try? Just install one of the "kde-" packages and it'll pull in everything it needs (that you don't already have). I recommend "kde-standard", as it includes the base KDE applications. (Although 99% of GTK+ apps work under KDE, and the same is probably true of Qt apps under Gnome. So you can use apps you're familiar with in KDE.)
If your wife/girlfriend is a CS major with cryptology in her repertoire, something tells me it's more likely she'd be more receptive to these "hobbies", even to the point of participating. ;)
I don't remember where I heard it, but I heard that at least one Congressman's office, any handwritten letters go directly to the Congressman's desk (presumably after being screened for anthrax, etc., of course). Form-filled/pre-printed letter probably were fast-tracked for the trash.
May or may not be the same guy you're thinking of, but the source to Metroid is available here. Somewhat commented. (I don't speak Assembly, so I can't opine on the code.) ;))
(Also: Metroid doesn't have levels, it has areas.
I'm not familiar with BlackBerries (or really most cell phones; I don't have one), but I assume that your transmissions would be picked up at the tower and intercepted soon after (and, of course, forwarded on to their destination).
So you'd see no difference in service (except maybe latency).
This.
Just hook it up to your sound card and record with Audacity.
(This method is especially useful with logic analysis, as you can just play it back, too!)
PS: Verifying your voltage, amperage, etc. is your responsibility.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Surely you've heard of Hollywood accounting...?