Not really. The "free" images offered by MS from that URL expire after 90 days and you can't (apparently) retrieve your data from the images after they expire. That's what the write-up on their website says, anyway.
Do you want to have to set your whole test environment up all over again every 90 days? I'd rather spend my time doing something useful, but that's just me. Since I have no use for MS stuff, so it doesn't matter to me anyway.
My wife's (Medtronic) pacemaker can be checked, logs read, and reprogrammed by hanging a device that's about the size and shape of a computer mouse on her chest. That device is connected to a computer that the cardiac technician sits in front of to do his thing.
As far as I'm aware, the entire pacemaker is controlled by the technician's computer. There is no phyiscal penetration required at all.
You would think that cinema speakers (those big honkin' speakers that sit behind the screen at the movie theatre - mine are about about six feet tall but there are many larger than that) would be impervious to damage but some movies occasionally overdrive the speakers to a point that the drivers are damaged. The most recent one that I'm aware of is Paranormal Activity 2: The Marked Ones, where there was 7 seconds of high pitched buzzing on reel 4 that could destroy the speakers.
Here is an email from Paramount that describes the problem:
QUOTE:
Dear Projectionist,
Paramount has had reports of speaker damage from some theatres playing PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES. In several cases we have been able to research, the volume had been turned up to high levels at patronsâ(TM) requests.
We are currently working to get information on speaker/amplifier brand and model to see if any particular combination of hardware might be more susceptible to damage. At this time, most of the damaged speakers have been identified as JBL model 4632â(TM)s, but this is preliminary data.
We are also working on an audio patch which may lessen the potential for damage.
For the time being, please do not set your volume at a high level on this film.
Thank you for your cooperation.
END OF QUOTE
Technicolor sent out a new soundtrack for that movie without the 7 seconds of buzzing and as far as I know that solved the problem.
The point here is that even high-end cinema audio systems can be damaged by a poorly engineered soundtrack, so I'm not surprised to find that the speakers in a cheap laptop could be damaged the same way.
Just use noscript to disallow javascript on slashdot (and pretty much everything else, actually) and you'll never see that beta thing at all.
Good to know if I ever need a federal government job...
Sheesh.
This is either someone trying to beat the system, or perhaps the system beating itself to some degree. Why is the plain meaning of "foreign language" in an English-speaking country even up for debate?
fslint is a toolkit to find all redundant disk usage (duplicate files
for e.g.). It includes a GUI as well as a command line interface.
Is it really, though?
I prefer to program in C. Not C++. Therefore, if I want a GUI I'm pretty much stuck with either motif or GTK+ and since I'm not really a huge fan of either one I avoid the issue whenever I can and try to do most of my stuff with ncurses.
However, one advantage that motif has over GTK+ is its inertia. In most cases I can compile a motif-based program that was written ten or twenty years back on an up-to-date Linux system and it will just work without modification. GTK+, on the other hand, changes so rapidly that an application written five years ago stands a really good chance of not working without modification. "Function X has been deprecated, now use function Y. Function Y has been deprecated, now use function Z and newly-added function A to do what it used to to."
Some of my software from written in the late 80's is still in use today doing things like logging oil well drilling and counting "beats" from water meters. None of that has a GUI, but it still works in the same way that it did on the first day it was installed.
C hasn't changed in any really fundamental way since the days of K&R, either. Why can't I have a long-term, slow-moving GUI framework like that, too?
The GCC digital cinema server, used for playing digital movies in theatres, has a GTK-based front-end for its user input such as setting up playlists, scheduling, managing the content on the server and so on.
I know because I've got one and use it every day.
You don't need javascript to read that article. The text and photo are at the bottom of the page. Just scroll past all of the whitespace at the top and you'll fine it.
Actually, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain. It took a court order to shake it loose, though.
Tempest and S-Boxes? I'm wondering about se-linux, myself..
With all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about.
I live in a town of 5000 people on the prairies. We have one post office, located on Main Street. Everyone in town has a mailbox at the post office, and when you want to pick up your mail you walk or drive to the post office with your key, open your mailbox, and collect your mail. If you have a parcel to pick up, something you have to sign for, or whatever, you get a card in your mailbox which you take to the service counter and they hand you your package.
Folks around here who live on farms also have a mailbox at the post office and have to come to town to pick up their mail. Nobody around here has rural delivery.
We actually had to pay a yearly rental fee for our mailbox at the post office at one time, and if you didn't or couldn't pay you didn't get a mailbox and all of your mail would be given to you over-the-counter upon request by the clerk as "General Delivery". They discontinued charging the rental fee for mailboxes here about 20 years ago. Now you get a card in your mailbox once per year stating that you must renew your mailbox. To do that, you take the card to the counter and sign a form stating that you still live in town.
I have never lived anywhere that mail was delivered to the door. I have always had to walk to the post office to pick it up. Walking to the post office on weekdays is part of my morning routine, and always has been.
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