How about writing code????
Learning the theory is good, but writing code is very important..
I agree with this... pick a project, dream up some application and build it. If you have something in mind that's great but if not just do something simple like maybe building a tick-tack-toe or checkers game, or building a database application for your DVD collection or something along those lines. It doesn't have to be an app that you'll use but getting your feet wet with a real project is invaluable to the learning experience.
It's still better than some of the alternatives. EA recently shut off the Madden 2009 servers, how's that for replay value?
I was actually really happy when I read this announcement because as an Xbox 360 owner there are a number of features that I and others have wanted to see for a while but had been told "sorry due to the limitations of Xbox 1 games the live service can't be upgraded to incorporate that feature."
In all honesty though, unless you're a AAA title like Halo 2, the multiplayer servers are a ghost-town inside of 2 months. I can't tell you how often I've tried to get online and end up spending 35 minutes searching for a match and not finding anyone.
Honestly I'd be shocked if more than 2 or 3 Xbox 1 games actually got regular play on the network. And of those most have private networks that they can be played on such as XBConnect and XLink Kai.
YES... my personal preferred hardware scaler for old 640x480 graphics is the Faroudja DCDi. I don't play PC games much anymore but I bought a Front projector with that chipset specifically so I could play old console games on my HD projector.
There is better scaler hardware out there for HD to HD (ie: 720p to 1080p, or 1080i to 720p, etc.) but the DCDi does an amazing job upscaling SD and ED resolutions.
I don't know of any stand alone scaler for PC applications though, I think it's generally assumed that you'd just use a software scaler, or rely on the crappy scaler built into your monitor... your best bet would be to find a monitor with a Faroudja chip in it, I don't know of any though. Searching "Faroudja LCD" turns up a few LCD TVs and a few "monitors" but I don't really know how good any of them are.
Considering that we have between the US and Russia close to TWENTY thousand warheads, if we take even 20% of that collectively, that'd be enough for another 15-20 years. By which time one would think we'd have gotten our act together on these other more renewable resources.
I live in NH, most of the people who move there from MA do so to get away from MA politics the rest of them just vacation here (traveling north on Friday nights or South on Sunday nights is a real hassle)... it's still less screwed up than any other state I've ever been to. As much as I hate the weather here, there's no other place I'd rather live.
Do you really think it would change their behavior? or would they just wine and point fingers on their slow descent? (see: RIAA, General Motors, et al)
really that's not as bad of an idea as it sounds... though really you could help them help themselves.
Ideally you'd want to build "Internet 2". Start by getting major bandwidth intensive services onboard like Steam, NetFlix, Xbox Live, maybe some of the larger web entities like Google, eBay, Amazon etc. and market it as a better faster way to get your content similar to the way FIOS is being advertised now.
The Pr0n industry will jump on board quickly (like they always do) and once that ball is rolling ISPs will be forced to adopt it by demand alone..
I've referred to it as "The Shitty Shack" or "RatShack" for nearly a decade already...
I lost complete faith in them when they started putting more emphasis in selling mobile phones than any other product in the store.... where the F else are you going to pickup that last little electrical component you need for your project instead of paying Digikey $12 to ship a 5 cent part?... though it pisses me off when there is only one clerk in the store helping some old lady decide on a cell phone while I stand at the register for 10 minutes waiting to buy a fresh roll of solder.
I miss the college days... there was an electronics shop down the street from the school that was what you'd imagine if mouser opened a retail outlet.... it's a shame how few places like that still exist. It's an even bigger shame how not only is most of society not interested in learning about and working with electronics but actually FEAR peole who do... I miss the cold-war era sci-fi culture where it was actually cool to and respected if you got into the technical side of things./rant
I ran into a similar problem once and it ended up being a bad DVD drive... while odd and time consuming to track down... those cases are extremely rare.
I'm up in Tilton, but less than a mile from the RT93... I can be in Boston in an hour 20 so long as I don't hit any crazy traffic. I have few complaints, the crazy snow in the winter, and the humid summers, but on a whole I can't think of any other place I'd rather live.
figure out how many calories you burn in a typical day, and eat less than that, the amount less than that you eat will determine how fast you lose weight.
I put on A LOT of weight when I first started working in IT and I was busy enough that I rarely made it to the gym. I THOUGHT I was eating less, and eating healthy and even tried all kinds of stupid diets that never seemed to get me anywhere. About 4 months ago I decided to look for a diet that was specifically tailored to a programmer's lifestyle (I figured there are enough smart people out there that someone must have come up with something) After about 2 minutes of searching I found The Hackers Diet. I read it and it made a lot of common sense... I decided to try it. and so far I've lost 35 lbs and I haven't set foot in a gym since I started.
in short it's just calorie counting in a way that makes good logical sense... I don't even follow the diet plan that closely, I weight myself every day so I can plot my change, and the first week I took a closer look at how many calories the foods I typically eat contain. The first few days I had some crazy hunger pains but after that I don't feel hungry anymore than usual and I the only time I even really think about how many calories I'm eating is when I break away from my normal daily eating habits (ie: family BBQ, or a party, etc.) and even then I just make a rough guess and eat a little less during my meals earlier in the day.
I still go out for ice cream, have pizza at lunch, etc. I just keep a mental tally of roughtly how many calories I'm taking in so I can adjust my other meals accordingly...
I love the city because of how much is going on, lots of interesting hole in the wall places to hang out, meet people, do interesting things, etc.
I live in a rural area though and here's why: I decided that I want a few things out of where I live:
a garage where I can work on my cars
an office where I can work on my electronics/computer projects
a home theater room big enough to support a projector, proper surround sound and seat a half dozen people comfortably
I bought a small house in New Hampshire and work in IT for a manufacturer, the pays not the best, the jobs not the best, but I'm satisfied with both of those and I get to live in the home I wanted for relatively cheap money. I'm walking distance (half mile) from my local down town which certainly isn't as happening as any city to be sure, but there are some restaurants and small shops. My house is surrounded by trees, I have a large back yard with a patio where I can have bonfires and cookouts. It's got a guest room where friends can visit and spend the night and if I really want to catch a show in the city, it's a little over an hours drive to Boston...
By comparison a friend of mine, same age, same vocation, lives outside of Boston makes about 20K more a year than I do, but his condo was close to THREE times what I paid for my house (nevermind the condo fees and taxes), and it's smaller than my college apartment. Even though he's paying city prices, he's not walking distance from anything, had has his car broken into a number of times sitting in the lot outside his condo, and for what?
My company has a division in LA and they've tried to get me to move out there a number of times, the cost of living increase isn't worth what I'd be sacrificing... I've lived in the city, and I've lived in rural areas... there is a lot of middle ground, the key is figuring out what is truly important to you and finding the middle ground that suites your needs.
that looks like a nice resource but it has nothing for automotive connectors.... the site in TFA does, which I found to be a pleasant surprise since there is FAR FAR less standardization in the automotive realm than there is with computers, audio equipment or even video game consoles... compound with the fact that most auto guys seem to HATE wiring if and when you do find some information its written by someone who doesnt understand how to document these kinds of things appropriately.
Not that this wiki has the deepest list of automotive pinouts I've ever seen but it's got a nice list of PCM/ECU pinouts which is a great start.
how much energy are we saving by not manufacturing and eventually disposing of those cables?
Also keep in mind that it's 80% efficiency at distance, I'm sure it's higher at close range (eg: a charge plate on your night stand that your phone sits pretty much directly on) and once the technology is being mass produced, just like every other product on the planet improvements will be made to improve it's efficiency over time.
just because it's not perfect RIGHT NOW doesn't mean it wont be, but making it RIGHT NOW will often allow us to reach that pay-off point sooner. I also see this tech being beneficial for other applications... like putting a solar panel on on the roof of my garage and using this tech to charge the battery of my electric vehicle by simply parking in said garage.
Plates with "H8" in them referred to as "hate plates" have been banned in the state, there was a big to-do about it a number of years ago when they started revoking plates with that in them.
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Another case of the best engineers crippled by the worst management.
I agree with this... pick a project, dream up some application and build it. If you have something in mind that's great but if not just do something simple like maybe building a tick-tack-toe or checkers game, or building a database application for your DVD collection or something along those lines. It doesn't have to be an app that you'll use but getting your feet wet with a real project is invaluable to the learning experience.
It's still better than some of the alternatives. EA recently shut off the Madden 2009 servers, how's that for replay value?
I was actually really happy when I read this announcement because as an Xbox 360 owner there are a number of features that I and others have wanted to see for a while but had been told "sorry due to the limitations of Xbox 1 games the live service can't be upgraded to incorporate that feature."
In all honesty though, unless you're a AAA title like Halo 2, the multiplayer servers are a ghost-town inside of 2 months. I can't tell you how often I've tried to get online and end up spending 35 minutes searching for a match and not finding anyone.
Honestly I'd be shocked if more than 2 or 3 Xbox 1 games actually got regular play on the network. And of those most have private networks that they can be played on such as XBConnect and XLink Kai.
XLink Kai
Actually Bioshock was essentially System Shock 2 reskin with a few features removed and the difficulty turned down
YES... my personal preferred hardware scaler for old 640x480 graphics is the Faroudja DCDi. I don't play PC games much anymore but I bought a Front projector with that chipset specifically so I could play old console games on my HD projector. There is better scaler hardware out there for HD to HD (ie: 720p to 1080p, or 1080i to 720p, etc.) but the DCDi does an amazing job upscaling SD and ED resolutions. I don't know of any stand alone scaler for PC applications though, I think it's generally assumed that you'd just use a software scaler, or rely on the crappy scaler built into your monitor... your best bet would be to find a monitor with a Faroudja chip in it, I don't know of any though. Searching "Faroudja LCD" turns up a few LCD TVs and a few "monitors" but I don't really know how good any of them are.
you forgot this: http://xkcd.com/627/
sounds quite optimistic to me.
I live in NH, most of the people who move there from MA do so to get away from MA politics the rest of them just vacation here (traveling north on Friday nights or South on Sunday nights is a real hassle)... it's still less screwed up than any other state I've ever been to. As much as I hate the weather here, there's no other place I'd rather live.
Do you really think it would change their behavior? or would they just wine and point fingers on their slow descent? (see: RIAA, General Motors, et al)
really that's not as bad of an idea as it sounds... though really you could help them help themselves.
Ideally you'd want to build "Internet 2". Start by getting major bandwidth intensive services onboard like Steam, NetFlix, Xbox Live, maybe some of the larger web entities like Google, eBay, Amazon etc. and market it as a better faster way to get your content similar to the way FIOS is being advertised now.
The Pr0n industry will jump on board quickly (like they always do) and once that ball is rolling ISPs will be forced to adopt it by demand alone..
I've referred to it as "The Shitty Shack" or "RatShack" for nearly a decade already... I lost complete faith in them when they started putting more emphasis in selling mobile phones than any other product in the store.... where the F else are you going to pickup that last little electrical component you need for your project instead of paying Digikey $12 to ship a 5 cent part?... though it pisses me off when there is only one clerk in the store helping some old lady decide on a cell phone while I stand at the register for 10 minutes waiting to buy a fresh roll of solder.
/rant
I miss the college days... there was an electronics shop down the street from the school that was what you'd imagine if mouser opened a retail outlet.... it's a shame how few places like that still exist. It's an even bigger shame how not only is most of society not interested in learning about and working with electronics but actually FEAR peole who do... I miss the cold-war era sci-fi culture where it was actually cool to and respected if you got into the technical side of things.
OMG! WaterWorld is REAL!!1 o.O
I ran into a similar problem once and it ended up being a bad DVD drive... while odd and time consuming to track down... those cases are extremely rare.
I'm up in Tilton, but less than a mile from the RT93... I can be in Boston in an hour 20 so long as I don't hit any crazy traffic. I have few complaints, the crazy snow in the winter, and the humid summers, but on a whole I can't think of any other place I'd rather live.
I agree dieting is as simple as counting calories.
(Calories Eaten - Calories burned)/3500 = weight change [lbs]
figure out how many calories you burn in a typical day, and eat less than that, the amount less than that you eat will determine how fast you lose weight.
I put on A LOT of weight when I first started working in IT and I was busy enough that I rarely made it to the gym. I THOUGHT I was eating less, and eating healthy and even tried all kinds of stupid diets that never seemed to get me anywhere. About 4 months ago I decided to look for a diet that was specifically tailored to a programmer's lifestyle (I figured there are enough smart people out there that someone must have come up with something) After about 2 minutes of searching I found The Hackers Diet. I read it and it made a lot of common sense... I decided to try it. and so far I've lost 35 lbs and I haven't set foot in a gym since I started.
in short it's just calorie counting in a way that makes good logical sense... I don't even follow the diet plan that closely, I weight myself every day so I can plot my change, and the first week I took a closer look at how many calories the foods I typically eat contain. The first few days I had some crazy hunger pains but after that I don't feel hungry anymore than usual and I the only time I even really think about how many calories I'm eating is when I break away from my normal daily eating habits (ie: family BBQ, or a party, etc.) and even then I just make a rough guess and eat a little less during my meals earlier in the day.
I still go out for ice cream, have pizza at lunch, etc. I just keep a mental tally of roughtly how many calories I'm taking in so I can adjust my other meals accordingly...
I live in a rural area though and here's why: I decided that I want a few things out of where I live:
I bought a small house in New Hampshire and work in IT for a manufacturer, the pays not the best, the jobs not the best, but I'm satisfied with both of those and I get to live in the home I wanted for relatively cheap money. I'm walking distance (half mile) from my local down town which certainly isn't as happening as any city to be sure, but there are some restaurants and small shops. My house is surrounded by trees, I have a large back yard with a patio where I can have bonfires and cookouts. It's got a guest room where friends can visit and spend the night and if I really want to catch a show in the city, it's a little over an hours drive to Boston...
By comparison a friend of mine, same age, same vocation, lives outside of Boston makes about 20K more a year than I do, but his condo was close to THREE times what I paid for my house (nevermind the condo fees and taxes), and it's smaller than my college apartment. Even though he's paying city prices, he's not walking distance from anything, had has his car broken into a number of times sitting in the lot outside his condo, and for what?
My company has a division in LA and they've tried to get me to move out there a number of times, the cost of living increase isn't worth what I'd be sacrificing... I've lived in the city, and I've lived in rural areas... there is a lot of middle ground, the key is figuring out what is truly important to you and finding the middle ground that suites your needs.
it doesn't have any automotive pinouts, which is the aspect that really excites me about the TFA.
that looks like a nice resource but it has nothing for automotive connectors.... the site in TFA does, which I found to be a pleasant surprise since there is FAR FAR less standardization in the automotive realm than there is with computers, audio equipment or even video game consoles... compound with the fact that most auto guys seem to HATE wiring if and when you do find some information its written by someone who doesnt understand how to document these kinds of things appropriately.
Not that this wiki has the deepest list of automotive pinouts I've ever seen but it's got a nice list of PCM/ECU pinouts which is a great start.
how much energy are we saving by not manufacturing and eventually disposing of those cables?
Also keep in mind that it's 80% efficiency at distance, I'm sure it's higher at close range (eg: a charge plate on your night stand that your phone sits pretty much directly on) and once the technology is being mass produced, just like every other product on the planet improvements will be made to improve it's efficiency over time.
just because it's not perfect RIGHT NOW doesn't mean it wont be, but making it RIGHT NOW will often allow us to reach that pay-off point sooner. I also see this tech being beneficial for other applications... like putting a solar panel on on the roof of my garage and using this tech to charge the battery of my electric vehicle by simply parking in said garage.
those other models aren't LED based
further proof that they are in-fact the antithesis of Microsoft.
Plates with "H8" in them referred to as "hate plates" have been banned in the state, there was a big to-do about it a number of years ago when they started revoking plates with that in them.
FWIW I live in NH and all of my cars have vanity plates. Though only one of them is nerdy.
they could probably do it in the visible spectrum as well, it would just take twice as long because they can't map and scan at the same time.
Failing that there are alternative methods that might work as well.
Can he Run Linux?