My HP49GII has an SD card slot in it and reads and writes just fine to my 1gb sd card. If you really need that kind of storage in a calculator maybe you don't actually need a calculator so much as a palmtop?
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...Then Pacman is a particuarly horrbile game and I'm quite conent with it being targeted like this. Pacman encourages lots of destructive behavior, such as:
Running around in a dark room with a blacklight taking pills and mumbling "waka waka"
Taking a couple of larger, different pills, so powerful that you begin to eat people alive, yet inexplicably spit the eyes back out
Celebrating the deaths of those around you by listening to electronic music, presumably still under the effects of the pills.
It's pretty clear that Pacman could lead this entire country, nay the entire world, to extensive drug use, poor taste in music, and cannibalism unless we legislate against it.
I would certainly reccomend trying to climb the phone ladder as high as you can go, don't let them move you laterally with the transfers! Be sure to get numbers or extensions of reps before you start becoming a problem so if you get transfered to somebody useless you can dodge the customer service wait. If things get bad, you might want to consider getting a phone recorder so you can catch them with their pants down, just verify how you can do it legally. You can also dig a little in to their company and directly contact by phone or mail one of their managers. If you can only get a name, find the number for their reception desk or operator and ask to be transfered to that person. If you can't even find a name you could always try some social engineering. Call reception and say something like "Hi this is Bob in Engineering, I've been trying to track down the head of customer service but nobody here can remember his name to look up his number in the system, could I get that from you real quick?"
If that fails there is an uglier option. I had something simmilar happen to me, and I was able to get it resolved before needing to get ugly. However, one ultimatum I was ready to use, or at least threaten with, was informing them that you will no longer allow them to charge your credit card which will create an undesireable mess as someone has to go through the paperwork of dealing with dispute with visa/mastercard/etc. The danger of this, of course, is it getting sent to collections and having it ruin your credit so unless you are feeling particularly brave it might prudent to consult a lawyer before denying them any funds.
That is is because it is not an really meant to be an intelligent, autonmous robot. It is a telepresence device that has automatic fidgeting and breathing capabilities to allow it to appear more human.
I think the point of this robot was to allow the human side of teaching to be projected remotely. Something like this, if the professor can get the robots look and actions farther towards the right of the uncanny valley, will hold a student's attention far better than a video-conference type setup and allow a single professor to be in multiple places at once. Doesn't seem like a bad idea at all.
I think you missed something here. The ads in question were ads for the PSP system itself, particularly the introduction of "I wish we were as popular as iPods" white PSP.
Email postal address? This must be part of the US Government's revolutionary new program to send mail from place to place via the postal service allowing actual paper mail to be sent from place to place rather than just data! Revolutionary!
The summary makes it sound like prosthetics fused to the bone and controlled by the nervous impulses are here, but they certainly are not yet. Likewise haven't given superadvanced prosthetics to any wounded soliders yet either. As pointed out by the article, victims of the current war are not getting more advanced than advanced predictive prosthetics like the C-leg, which pretty much represent the latest in production prosthetic technology. Don't get to excited yet people, prosthetics like the summary imagines are still a long ways off.
My current job invovles alot of work similar to what you have to do. Both Visual Basic and Perl can do anything within office that Visual Basic for Applications can do. VB accomplishes the connection by specifying the respective office compenent's DLLs in the VBs references dialog box. Perl can talk to Office via Win32::OLE pm, see http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/libwin32-0.26/OLE/lib/ Win32/OLE.pm. Using the method produces code very similar VBA macros but with all the advantages of perl syntax and functionailty. In your situation I would use Perl for its excelent Office interaction and ease of text processing. There are nice free tools out there for packaging perl scripts as transparent binaries as well, so you don't have to worry about people not having Perl, etc on their laptops. I'll check up this thread later if anyone wants to pick my brain about this stuff.
That I didn't know! What is it with Japanese video game directors and their obsesson with Queen? As another example, the Guilty Gear series of fighting games is pretty much built from the ground up with references to Queen and their songs.
You are thinking of two different games. Tactic's Ogre is a RPG with a combat system simmilar to Final Fantasy Tactics, Disgea, etc. Let us cling together is probably a literal translation of the Japanese subtitle which I would gather is something like Ishouni Dakishiteimashou which is still a mouthful...
The Japanese title of NGE, Shinseki Evangelion, literally means New Genesis Evangelion, so I imagine the American distributors (or maybe even Gainax) decided that Neon sounded cooler than Neo or New, etc.
Are these the same batteries we saw pictures of heating up and warping a few days ago? Are these Mac users trying to make their own exploding Japanese Dells?
So not only are they charging through the roof for their technologically "superior" console, like SNK before them with the Neo*Geo, but they are going to charge more than their competition for the games as well! Admitedly, even without adjusting for inflation they don't sound like they are going to go the 100+ dollar extreme that we saw with the Neo*Geo home system (at least the NG carts cost almost made some sense due to the relative high cost of making the boards). Is it just me, or is the PS3 starting to seem more and more like some kind of bizzare temporal echo of the failed business and technology mistakes of yesteryear?
A long time friend of mine, who until just recently played WoW like a full-time job, pointed out his biggest gripe with WoW, and MMOs in general, is that you never win. A more accurate way of putting that is that when you win, by being the best etc, you generally un-win with each new patch which nicely robs you of accomplishment by adding incredibly rare bracers that grant +1 more agility than the previous best pair that you spent 40 300-man raids getting. This dangling carrot effect keeps alot of competitive people firmly reigned in and forces them to invest long hours in to the game. It is only natural that this would come at the expense of other games. From another perspective, MMOs, WoW in particular, have another draw over other PC games in that they need not be run on the fastest system with the biggest graphics card to be fully enjoyed. I find myself unwilling to buy the newest, hottest games because I know they will not run that well on my computer. Upgrading is also not a great option because, like many people, I have an older machine with an AGP slot and a worthwhile upgrade would mean replacing the mainboard, processor and the graphics card at the same time, which is prohibitively expensive. This gives MMOs a sigificant draw to spendthrift as well.
Personally, I'm just going to keep playing Natural Selection and Metal Gear Online for my online fix and wait for the Wii to come out in a few months.
"...but until now it has been too expensive and too difficult for many people to use effectively..."
According to their licensing model EVERY machine costs 469 dollars... Meaning a 20 machine cluster would have a 10,000 dollar overhead just on the OS alone. Not to mention the fact that you'd be compelled to buy it again as Longhorn Cluster Ed. in just a couple of years...
It seems like a little work setting up a free OS cluster would be a vastly preferable option, is there really any need or reason for this (at this cost anyway)?
Have fun waiting for a few hours encoding some guys multi-GB My Documents folder with a 1024+bit public key... There is a reason we don't use 2-key systems for everything after all.
That sounds like a great scheme, involuntarily move players to other servers at random and then charge them a fee to move their character to the server of their choosing. I can see blizzard needing to do this to stay a float, since it's pretty clear that they are barely making any money off of WoW.
I think they did this so they did not need to make the Revolution bigger than it needed to be just to accept a DVD disk. An external DVD atachment could just be a standard DVD rom drive with some kind of serial port, and that could certainly be sold VERY cheap.
The article neglects to cover the numbers of land sharks still roaming the earth. Despite their service to candygram distributors the seem to have fallen from public notice as of late.
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My HP49GII has an SD card slot in it and reads and writes just fine to my 1gb sd card. If you really need that kind of storage in a calculator maybe you don't actually need a calculator so much as a palmtop?
...Then Pacman is a particuarly horrbile game and I'm quite conent with it being targeted like this. Pacman encourages lots of destructive behavior, such as:
Running around in a dark room with a blacklight taking pills and mumbling "waka waka"
Taking a couple of larger, different pills, so powerful that you begin to eat people alive, yet inexplicably spit the eyes back out
Celebrating the deaths of those around you by listening to electronic music, presumably still under the effects of the pills.
It's pretty clear that Pacman could lead this entire country, nay the entire world, to extensive drug use, poor taste in music, and cannibalism unless we legislate against it.
I would certainly reccomend trying to climb the phone ladder as high as you can go, don't let them move you laterally with the transfers! Be sure to get numbers or extensions of reps before you start becoming a problem so if you get transfered to somebody useless you can dodge the customer service wait. If things get bad, you might want to consider getting a phone recorder so you can catch them with their pants down, just verify how you can do it legally. You can also dig a little in to their company and directly contact by phone or mail one of their managers. If you can only get a name, find the number for their reception desk or operator and ask to be transfered to that person. If you can't even find a name you could always try some social engineering. Call reception and say something like "Hi this is Bob in Engineering, I've been trying to track down the head of customer service but nobody here can remember his name to look up his number in the system, could I get that from you real quick?"
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If that fails there is an uglier option. I had something simmilar happen to me, and I was able to get it resolved before needing to get ugly. However, one ultimatum I was ready to use, or at least threaten with, was informing them that you will no longer allow them to charge your credit card which will create an undesireable mess as someone has to go through the paperwork of dealing with dispute with visa/mastercard/etc. The danger of this, of course, is it getting sent to collections and having it ruin your credit so unless you are feeling particularly brave it might prudent to consult a lawyer before denying them any funds.
Just don't get yourself in trouble
That is is because it is not an really meant to be an intelligent, autonmous robot. It is a telepresence device that has automatic fidgeting and breathing capabilities to allow it to appear more human.
I think the point of this robot was to allow the human side of teaching to be projected remotely. Something like this, if the professor can get the robots look and actions farther towards the right of the uncanny valley, will hold a student's attention far better than a video-conference type setup and allow a single professor to be in multiple places at once. Doesn't seem like a bad idea at all.
101 titles, but I don't know how much they cost because... Well that's great. Guess we can rule out smart windows users and linux users. Apparently
Yeah watching "Coming soon" on an otherwise blank HDTV sounds like it would be fantastic!
I think you missed something here. The ads in question were ads for the PSP system itself, particularly the introduction of "I wish we were as popular as iPods" white PSP.
Email postal address? This must be part of the US Government's revolutionary new program to send mail from place to place via the postal service allowing actual paper mail to be sent from place to place rather than just data! Revolutionary!
The summary makes it sound like prosthetics fused to the bone and controlled by the nervous impulses are here, but they certainly are not yet. Likewise haven't given superadvanced prosthetics to any wounded soliders yet either. As pointed out by the article, victims of the current war are not getting more advanced than advanced predictive prosthetics like the C-leg, which pretty much represent the latest in production prosthetic technology.
Don't get to excited yet people, prosthetics like the summary imagines are still a long ways off.
My current job invovles alot of work similar to what you have to do. Both Visual Basic and Perl can do anything within office that Visual Basic for Applications can do. VB accomplishes the connection by specifying the respective office compenent's DLLs in the VBs references dialog box. Perl can talk to Office via Win32::OLE pm, see http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/libwin32-0.26/OLE/lib/ Win32/OLE.pm. Using the method produces code very similar VBA macros but with all the advantages of perl syntax and functionailty. In your situation I would use Perl for its excelent Office interaction and ease of text processing. There are nice free tools out there for packaging perl scripts as transparent binaries as well, so you don't have to worry about people not having Perl, etc on their laptops.
I'll check up this thread later if anyone wants to pick my brain about this stuff.
That I didn't know! What is it with Japanese video game directors and their obsesson with Queen? As another example, the Guilty Gear series of fighting games is pretty much built from the ground up with references to Queen and their songs.
You are thinking of two different games. Tactic's Ogre is a RPG with a combat system simmilar to Final Fantasy Tactics, Disgea, etc. Let us cling together is probably a literal translation of the Japanese subtitle which I would gather is something like Ishouni Dakishiteimashou which is still a mouthful...
The Japanese title of NGE, Shinseki Evangelion, literally means New Genesis Evangelion, so I imagine the American distributors (or maybe even Gainax) decided that Neon sounded cooler than Neo or New, etc.
Are these the same batteries we saw pictures of heating up and warping a few days ago? Are these Mac users trying to make their own exploding Japanese Dells?
So not only are they charging through the roof for their technologically "superior" console, like SNK before them with the Neo*Geo, but they are going to charge more than their competition for the games as well! Admitedly, even without adjusting for inflation they don't sound like they are going to go the 100+ dollar extreme that we saw with the Neo*Geo home system (at least the NG carts cost almost made some sense due to the relative high cost of making the boards). Is it just me, or is the PS3 starting to seem more and more like some kind of bizzare temporal echo of the failed business and technology mistakes of yesteryear?
Be sure to use the link in the article to get the compiled packages, as the official site has not been updated with them yet.
A long time friend of mine, who until just recently played WoW like a full-time job, pointed out his biggest gripe with WoW, and MMOs in general, is that you never win. A more accurate way of putting that is that when you win, by being the best etc, you generally un-win with each new patch which nicely robs you of accomplishment by adding incredibly rare bracers that grant +1 more agility than the previous best pair that you spent 40 300-man raids getting. This dangling carrot effect keeps alot of competitive people firmly reigned in and forces them to invest long hours in to the game. It is only natural that this would come at the expense of other games.
From another perspective, MMOs, WoW in particular, have another draw over other PC games in that they need not be run on the fastest system with the biggest graphics card to be fully enjoyed. I find myself unwilling to buy the newest, hottest games because I know they will not run that well on my computer. Upgrading is also not a great option because, like many people, I have an older machine with an AGP slot and a worthwhile upgrade would mean replacing the mainboard, processor and the graphics card at the same time, which is prohibitively expensive. This gives MMOs a sigificant draw to spendthrift as well.
Personally, I'm just going to keep playing Natural Selection and Metal Gear Online for my online fix and wait for the Wii to come out in a few months.
"...but until now it has been too expensive and too difficult for many people to use effectively..." According to their licensing model EVERY machine costs 469 dollars... Meaning a 20 machine cluster would have a 10,000 dollar overhead just on the OS alone. Not to mention the fact that you'd be compelled to buy it again as Longhorn Cluster Ed. in just a couple of years... It seems like a little work setting up a free OS cluster would be a vastly preferable option, is there really any need or reason for this (at this cost anyway)?
Have fun waiting for a few hours encoding some guys multi-GB My Documents folder with a 1024+bit public key... There is a reason we don't use 2-key systems for everything after all.
What kind of dual-layer DVD burner are YOU buying? I bought my DL DVD+/-RW drive for 50 dollars nearly a year ago.
That sounds like a great scheme, involuntarily move players to other servers at random and then charge them a fee to move their character to the server of their choosing. I can see blizzard needing to do this to stay a float, since it's pretty clear that they are barely making any money off of WoW.
I think they did this so they did not need to make the Revolution bigger than it needed to be just to accept a DVD disk. An external DVD atachment could just be a standard DVD rom drive with some kind of serial port, and that could certainly be sold VERY cheap.
don't forget the cheap two-scoop tuesday at Baskin Robins and two-for-tuesday items at Woot.com!
The article neglects to cover the numbers of land sharks still roaming the earth. Despite their service to candygram distributors the seem to have fallen from public notice as of late.