If you are asking if I work for Microsoft, the answer is yes. I do not work on MSRS though, and posting to slashdot is not part of my job (although wouldn't it be cool to get that in your job duties?) I have been playing with MSRS and Lego NXT.
There is a guy at Microsoft in the Windows Mobile group who has interfaced his bluetooth enabled camera phone to the NXT brick. He has instructions for replicating his bot at wimobot.com.
No. This one was printed in Analog, or one of those other magazines, in the late eighties. There was a punch line of where the cell line came from, but I don't feel like saying it here. I think it would come out wrong.
I read a science fiction story about that many year ago. Meat was grown in a vat and pretty much every imaginable type of meat had been grown and marketed -- including some extinct species. Some clever person came out with a mystery meat that turned out to be the best meat ever. It was eventually revealed to be human.
I think the lesson there is to never eat anything labeled "mystery meat".
The story they need to tell is the Stargate program becoming public knowledge to Earth. Then they can turn it into Star Trek as Earth attempts to expand and build alliances in space.
You are assuming each passenger will get his own pen. Read it again: "all passengers shall be assigned a 3' x 3' x 8' pen" not "each passenger shall be assigned a 3' x 3' x 8' pen".
I would never describe myself as a graphic artist so I will neither agree nor disagree with you.
However, for the web impaired here is a direct link for the web developer version only (which you can get to by clicking the big download picture on the right hand side of each product specific page and then clicking "Download" in step 2).
And as long as I am providing overly simple instructions to trolls, I guess I'll point out that ATLAS does not come installed with Visual Studio. You have to download it from atlas.asp.net (hint: there is a big download icon at the top of the screen).
And if you would like a demo of how easy it is to create ajax applications with atlas, there is current a video on the front page of someone creating a database backed todo-list application in 18 minutes (the express version of Visual Studio comes with a lightweight database and web server for development. I think you can probably repeat this demo with the free tools).
And in the interest of full-disclosure, I recently started working for Microsoft on Visual Studio features directly related to AJAX and ATLAS. So now this post is just ordinary spam instead of a sneaky shill.
I do this, but not as a form of protest. If I experience difficulty in the self-checkout lane I do the following in order: 1. Wait around 20 seconds for the cashier to help me. If the problem is cleared then exit error handling. 2. If there is another self checkout kiosk available then move all of my items, exit error handling and begin the checkout process again. This process repeats until I have either checked out or all of the kiosks are locked. 3. Estimate the time to go through the cashier line and weigh that against how much I want my potential purchases right now. If the time is short enough then move to the cashier, otherwise leave all of my good where they are and exit the store.
I do not feel guilty at all about doing this. Self-checkout is used to save money. I find cost savings unacceptable if they simply transfer the cost to me in the form of inconvenience and time. My response to this is to cause these "cost saving measures" to fail so that the store improves them or removes them. I am recreating the jobs the machines inefficiently try to replace and creating an economic incentive to improve the machines. The stores have already made improvements. It used to be that the machines were unmanned. Now they have a single employee staffing a set of four machines. I find myself exiting in step one more often now than I used to, and I am fine with that.
If you really want to protest the machines on some sort of ethical level, then pay for all of your purchases in pennies. The change repository will be more expensive to empty and the machine doesn't care (unlike a human cashier). And it is completely legal since pennies are legal tender. I don't think it is against the law to be annoying quite yet.
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Actually some professional athletes train in low oxygen environments to give them more stamina in normal oxygen environments.
Game theory predicts that a plurality voting system like we have will result in a two party system. The two parties will adopt viewpoints to cover as much of the voting public as possible. Voting for a third party sends a signal to the parties that they should shift their views closer to the two party system.
The big danger in low voter turnout is that money becomes more powerful because it needs to influence fewer people. This means that the parties shift their viewpoints to cover the money. Since the money gives to both parties, both parties start looking the same.
Others have answered your questions pretty well. Here is my interpretation of the story behind the scenes.
Replicants are illegal on Earth. The Tyrell Corporation does research into replicants and is allowed special exceptions for research purposes. Racheal is one such exception created using new memory implantation technology. Because she is a prototype, she may or may not have a built-in shortened lifespan.
Several replicants escape their servitude off world and make it to Earth to find a way to extend their preset lifespan. One of them is caught breaking into Tyrell. This is Decker. Tyrell sees an opportunity to field test his new memory technology and convinced the police to allow him to reprogram the replicant so that he thinks he is a retired Bladerunner and hunt down the other replicants. The reprogram him. Release him on the streets, then bring him into the police station and coerce him into coming out of retirement. This elaborate story is needed so that he doesn't have to remember everyone at the police force and everyone doesn't have to pretend to know him. Bryant is very nervous talking to Decker. He is afraid the programming didn't take and Decker will suddenly turn and kill him. Gaff is cooly standing by reading to send him back into retirement should this happen.
Decker is then sent back to Tyrell for evaluation before the experiment is fully put into effect.
Decker goes out to hunt down his comrads. They are weirded out when they see him because they know he was captured, but try to play along until they get an advantage. Gaff always shows up after a kill. He is evaluating Decker and standing by to end the experiment if it goes bad. The experiment is a complete success and Gaff declares, "You've done a man's job."
I'm not really sure why Gaff lets him go at the end. Maybe Gaff has sympathies for the replicants. Maybe as a Bladerunner he doesn't retire the replicants, but helps them go into hiding. I don't know what happens next.
There was never any mention of him escaping with the other replicants.
There is a reference to one of the escaped replicants being captured. They do not show his picture. There is a theory that Deckard is this replicant and his memories have been changed.
It is all an experiment to see if the new technology of added memories can be used to control the replicants better.
Use an IDE and tell them how to use the debugger. Make sure they also know how to use the command line tools. Don't require them for all of the projects, but be sure to put it on the test.
Go back and look at that scene. It is pretty clear that the picture holds some 3D information and he shifts perspective to look around the corner in the bathroom. The image in the mirror in the photograph changes as the viewpoint changes.
I'm not quite sure how that works around a corner in the video game, but then I'm not quite sure how the camera in the movie was able to capture the multiple angles in the mirror either. While I'm at it, I don't know how to build a replicant or a spinner either.
I was told by a friend even geekier than I that Jabba's Rancor was found by two Twi'lek brothers aboard a crashed spaceship. They were planning to take it to Jabba as a gift to gain favor, but one of the brothers got greedy and killed the other brother so that he could receive all of the glory. Jabba was appreciative of the gift and gave the Twi'lek a high position in his court. This is the Twi'lek that presents young Skywalker to Jabba in the third movie.
I was always under the impression that Rancors were extremely rare and dangerous. Owning one as a pet was unheard of and so it was one of Jabba's prize possessions. Seeing every Joe and his cousin training rancors and parading them around the streets of Mos Eisley was a bit of a let down for me.
If it is letting volues of cold air flow inside then then he is letting the cold in. I doubt the leaving the door open just allows for diffusion heat transfer. That is what happens when the door is closed.
In the G.I. Joe comic book, COBRA was based out of a Springfield (in fact the entire town was a COBRA operation run like some sort of Stepford Wives style cult). I am sure the fine folks at Marvel chose the name Springfield for the exact same reason.
The people cracking these messages didn't write them and since they were written in the 1940's the original copyrights haven't expired. The coded messages were obtained, copied and distributed against the wishes of the original author. Certainly the messages were encrypted as a form of rights management and protection. I think breaking the code migt very well violate the DMCA.
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If you are asking if I work for Microsoft, the answer is yes. I do not work on MSRS though, and posting to slashdot is not part of my job (although wouldn't it be cool to get that in your job duties?) I have been playing with MSRS and Lego NXT.
There is a guy at Microsoft in the Windows Mobile group who has interfaced his bluetooth enabled camera phone to the NXT brick. He has instructions for replicating his bot at wimobot.com.
The Microsoft Robotics Studio also supports the Lego NXT platform.
No. This one was printed in Analog, or one of those other magazines, in the late eighties. There was a punch line of where the cell line came from, but I don't feel like saying it here. I think it would come out wrong.
I read a science fiction story about that many year ago. Meat was grown in a vat and pretty much every imaginable type of meat had been grown and marketed -- including some extinct species. Some clever person came out with a mystery meat that turned out to be the best meat ever. It was eventually revealed to be human.
I think the lesson there is to never eat anything labeled "mystery meat".
The story they need to tell is the Stargate program becoming public knowledge to Earth. Then they can turn it into Star Trek as Earth attempts to expand and build alliances in space.
You are assuming each passenger will get his own pen. Read it again: "all passengers shall be assigned a 3' x 3' x 8' pen" not "each passenger shall be assigned a 3' x 3' x 8' pen".
I would never describe myself as a graphic artist so I will neither agree nor disagree with you.
However, for the web impaired here is a direct link for the web developer version only (which you can get to by clicking the big download picture on the right hand side of each product specific page and then clicking "Download" in step 2).
And as long as I am providing overly simple instructions to trolls, I guess I'll point out that ATLAS does not come installed with Visual Studio. You have to download it from atlas.asp.net (hint: there is a big download icon at the top of the screen).
And if you would like a demo of how easy it is to create ajax applications with atlas, there is current a video on the front page of someone creating a database backed todo-list application in 18 minutes (the express version of Visual Studio comes with a lightweight database and web server for development. I think you can probably repeat this demo with the free tools).
You forgot step zero: Download the free version of Visual Studio Express.
And in the interest of full-disclosure, I recently started working for Microsoft on Visual Studio features directly related to AJAX and ATLAS. So now this post is just ordinary spam instead of a sneaky shill.
I do this, but not as a form of protest. If I experience difficulty in the self-checkout lane I do the following in order:
1. Wait around 20 seconds for the cashier to help me. If the problem is cleared then exit error handling.
2. If there is another self checkout kiosk available then move all of my items, exit error handling and begin the checkout process again. This process repeats until I have either checked out or all of the kiosks are locked.
3. Estimate the time to go through the cashier line and weigh that against how much I want my potential purchases right now. If the time is short enough then move to the cashier, otherwise leave all of my good where they are and exit the store.
I do not feel guilty at all about doing this. Self-checkout is used to save money. I find cost savings unacceptable if they simply transfer the cost to me in the form of inconvenience and time. My response to this is to cause these "cost saving measures" to fail so that the store improves them or removes them. I am recreating the jobs the machines inefficiently try to replace and creating an economic incentive to improve the machines. The stores have already made improvements. It used to be that the machines were unmanned. Now they have a single employee staffing a set of four machines. I find myself exiting in step one more often now than I used to, and I am fine with that.
If you really want to protest the machines on some sort of ethical level, then pay for all of your purchases in pennies. The change repository will be more expensive to empty and the machine doesn't care (unlike a human cashier). And it is completely legal since pennies are legal tender. I don't think it is against the law to be annoying quite yet.
Actually some professional athletes train in low oxygen environments to give them more stamina in normal oxygen environments.
This comment is another social experiment to see how people react to a lack of information.
Sadly, the kid doesn't know who Crocodile Dundee is either.
Actually, maybe that isn't such a sad thing.
Game theory predicts that a plurality voting system like we have will result in a two party system. The two parties will adopt viewpoints to cover as much of the voting public as possible. Voting for a third party sends a signal to the parties that they should shift their views closer to the two party system.
The big danger in low voter turnout is that money becomes more powerful because it needs to influence fewer people. This means that the parties shift their viewpoints to cover the money. Since the money gives to both parties, both parties start looking the same.
I think you are lying.
You deceiving, no good, dirty... deveiver.
Others have answered your questions pretty well. Here is my interpretation of the story behind the scenes.
Replicants are illegal on Earth. The Tyrell Corporation does research into replicants and is allowed special exceptions for research purposes. Racheal is one such exception created using new memory implantation technology. Because she is a prototype, she may or may not have a built-in shortened lifespan.
Several replicants escape their servitude off world and make it to Earth to find a way to extend their preset lifespan. One of them is caught breaking into Tyrell. This is Decker. Tyrell sees an opportunity to field test his new memory technology and convinced the police to allow him to reprogram the replicant so that he thinks he is a retired Bladerunner and hunt down the other replicants. The reprogram him. Release him on the streets, then bring him into the police station and coerce him into coming out of retirement. This elaborate story is needed so that he doesn't have to remember everyone at the police force and everyone doesn't have to pretend to know him. Bryant is very nervous talking to Decker. He is afraid the programming didn't take and Decker will suddenly turn and kill him. Gaff is cooly standing by reading to send him back into retirement should this happen.
Decker is then sent back to Tyrell for evaluation before the experiment is fully put into effect.
Decker goes out to hunt down his comrads. They are weirded out when they see him because they know he was captured, but try to play along until they get an advantage. Gaff always shows up after a kill. He is evaluating Decker and standing by to end the experiment if it goes bad. The experiment is a complete success and Gaff declares, "You've done a man's job."
I'm not really sure why Gaff lets him go at the end. Maybe Gaff has sympathies for the replicants. Maybe as a Bladerunner he doesn't retire the replicants, but helps them go into hiding. I don't know what happens next.
Who does?
There was never any mention of him escaping with the other replicants.
There is a reference to one of the escaped replicants being captured. They do not show his picture. There is a theory that Deckard is this replicant and his memories have been changed.
It is all an experiment to see if the new technology of added memories can be used to control the replicants better.
Use an IDE and tell them how to use the debugger. Make sure they also know how to use the command line tools. Don't require them for all of the projects, but be sure to put it on the test.
Go back and look at that scene. It is pretty clear that the picture holds some 3D information and he shifts perspective to look around the corner in the bathroom. The image in the mirror in the photograph changes as the viewpoint changes.
I'm not quite sure how that works around a corner in the video game, but then I'm not quite sure how the camera in the movie was able to capture the multiple angles in the mirror either. While I'm at it, I don't know how to build a replicant or a spinner either.
I think that was me. Sorry about that. Trust me, having to live with that catchphrase is hell enough.
At least calling web pages without Java applets "decaffeinated" didn't catch on.
I've learned my lesson. No more inventing stupid phrases.
Now if you wil excuse me, I have a long night of "bar crawling" the internet ahead of me.
or randomly functioning
You mean like sometimes it records video and other times it might shoot water at the customer or sing "Hello My Darling".
I was told by a friend even geekier than I that Jabba's Rancor was found by two Twi'lek brothers aboard a crashed spaceship. They were planning to take it to Jabba as a gift to gain favor, but one of the brothers got greedy and killed the other brother so that he could receive all of the glory. Jabba was appreciative of the gift and gave the Twi'lek a high position in his court. This is the Twi'lek that presents young Skywalker to Jabba in the third movie.
I was always under the impression that Rancors were extremely rare and dangerous. Owning one as a pet was unheard of and so it was one of Jabba's prize possessions. Seeing every Joe and his cousin training rancors and parading them around the streets of Mos Eisley was a bit of a let down for me.
If it is letting volues of cold air flow inside then then he is letting the cold in. I doubt the leaving the door open just allows for diffusion heat transfer. That is what happens when the door is closed.
In the G.I. Joe comic book, COBRA was based out of a Springfield (in fact the entire town was a COBRA operation run like some sort of Stepford Wives style cult). I am sure the fine folks at Marvel chose the name Springfield for the exact same reason.
The people cracking these messages didn't write them and since they were written in the 1940's the original copyrights haven't expired. The coded messages were obtained, copied and distributed against the wishes of the original author. Certainly the messages were encrypted as a form of rights management and protection. I think breaking the code migt very well violate the DMCA.