How far are you willing to go for China's best tea? Wow. Now just up a few steps. (They are on the left in the picture) Gets a little steeper here - so put your toes in the holes. A few more steps to go. Finally in sight, the Teahouse! Click here to Watch the Cliff Hanger PPS! Click here to Watch the Cliff Hanger PPS! Dhtml Menu Navigation by Vista-Buttons.com v5.7. Fog Creek Software. Ordered by Date. GSoC 2011 - Accepted Projects. Wiki - XorgEVoC. For the last several years, X.Org was a participating mentoring organization in Google's most excellent Summer of Code (GSoC) program. This program provides approximately US$5000 to students to spend their summer developing code for an open source project. Each student proposes a project and is matched with an organization mentor who guides and evaluates the work. GSoC was great for X.Org; we saw more than a dozen students through it, and some of these students went on to be extremely active contributors to X.Org.
However, for whatever reason some students with good project proposals who would like to participate in GSoC have been unable to do so. Rather than lose out on getting students working on X, the X.Org Foundation Board voted in 2008 to initiate a program known as the X.Org Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC) program. Non-students may also participate in EVoC. Students need to have at least a basic understanding of the following: MATLAB Functions -- Basic Features. Functions versus Scripts Anatomy of a MATLAB function Creating function m-files with a plain text editor Function Defintion Input and Output parameters Comment statements Some simple examples Calling MATLAB Functions Local Variables Flow Control if constructs Logical comparisons while constructs for constructs Functions versus Scripts See Scripts versus Functions.
Anatomy of a MATLAB function MATLAB functions are similar to C functions or Fortran subroutines. MATLAB programs are stored as plain text in files having names that end with the extension ``.m''. These files are called, not surprisingly, m-files. Each m-file contains exactly one MATLAB function. One nifty difference between MATLAB and traditional high level languages is that MATLAB functions can be used interactively. MATLAB functions have two parameter lists, one for input and one for output.
Creating function m-files with a plain text editor Function Defintion The first word must always be ``function''. Google Launches the Closest Thing to a Real Time Machine. Remember watching those time-lapse videos of growing plants in science class? They look pretty dated once you've checked out the same sequence through Google's new "GigaPan Time Machine" application, which lets you zoom in and out of a panoramic, super high-resolution time-lapse video. Remember watching those time-lapse videos of growing plants in science class? They look pretty dated once you've checked out the same sequence through Google's new "GigaPan Time Machine" application, which lets you zoom in and out of a time-lapse video without losing resolution.
"With Time Machine, the cameras capture these image mosaics at regular intervals to create a video with hundreds of millions or even billions of pixels in each frame. The result is a video that viewers have the ability to zoom in on while it's playing and see incredible detail," Google wrote in a blog post (see video demo below). For example, Google links to a video of potted plants growing from seed to full bloom. My Android/mbed powered home control system. Topic last updated 26 Apr 2012, by Herson Bagay. 8 replies My share in the forum. mbed + android home control system.
This was supposed to be my submission for the recently held contest but I wasn't able to finish the wireless part of the project. Anyway, the idea is having an Android based application capable of controlling parts of your house (lights, AC, locks, fridge temperature, garage doors, etc). Anyway, heres a list of stuff I used for the project Microchip EEPROM 24LC256 - storage of peripheral device codes RFM70 wireless transceiver - mbed to peripheral device communication typical RJ-45 breakout board mbed - webserver/home control brain arduino (as an end device, moving to attiny85 chips(cheaper, smaller) eventually for simple devices) mbed server sample peripheral device the Android application Im still in the process of migrating the bulky Arduino controller to a smaller attiny85 chip but I have yet to learn to do assembly language programming.
Thanks for looking... Hi Herson, Sener. Parikshit. Parikshit (Sanskrit: परिक्षित्, Parikṣit[note 2]) was a Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period (12th or 11th century BCE).[5] Along with his successor Janamejaya, he played a decisive role in the consolidation of the Kuru state, the arrangement of Vedic hymns into collections, and the development of the orthodox srauta ritual, transforming the Kuru realm into the dominant political and cultural center of northern Iron Age India.[6] He also appears as a figure in later legends and traditions.
According to the Mahabharata and the Puranas, he succeeded Yudhisthira to the throne of Hastinapur. Etymology[edit] Parikshit's name came from the Sanskrit verb root परि-क्षि pari-kṣi = "around-possess" (or, less likely here, "around-destroy"). An alternate suggestion from Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala''s translation is Pariskhita. Alternative modern, not all of them correct as regards the original Sanskrit, spellings of his name are Pariksita, Pariksit, Parikshat, Parixit and Parikshita. The Mountain. New Question and Answer Types| TakeTheGRE.com. India Journal: The Unnecessary Decline of Calcutta - India Real Time. Leisure - Cricket passion. Why You Should Learn "Weird" Languages - Blog - Alex Thornton.
Work - The Story Behind the MATLAB Default Image | Steve on Image Processing. When MATLAB 5 was released, some users noticed that the default image had changed. image colormap(gray(32)) axis ij A few users also noticed that the pixel values in the new default image were not integers. h = findobj(gcf,'type','image'); cdata = get(h,'CData'); cdata(1:3,1:3) ans = 11.2307 12.4251 10.4251 14.4251 15.7483 13.7483 12.3938 13.7483 12.7483 Is there something interesting about the fractional part?
Imagesc(cdata - floor(cdata)) Apparently so. I now confess - you can blame me for all of this. I joined The MathWorks toward the end of 1993. Once I won the auction, I had to decide what image to pick. Here are the various images "hidden" in different bit slices of the default image pixel values. The image stored in the 5 most-significant bits is the one you usually see. Defimage = pow2(get(0,'DefaultImageCData'),47); mag = 200; imshow(bitslice(defimage,47,51), 'initialmag', mag); The next 5 bits show a dog that belonged to a MathWorks developer. Here's another MathWorks pet. Me. Cottingley Fairies. The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.
Interest in the Cottingley Fairies gradually declined after 1921. Both girls married and lived abroad for a time after they grew up, yet the photographs continued to hold the public imagination; in 1966 a reporter from the Daily Express newspaper traced Elsie, who had by then returned to the UK. Elsie left open the possibility that she believed she had photographed her thoughts, and the media once again became interested in the story.
In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked, using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine. 1917 photographs[edit] Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies Elsie's father, Arthur, was a keen amateur photographer, and had set up his own darkroom. 1920 photographs[edit] Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon. Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.” —Rosanne Cash“Filled with well-formed advice that applies to nearly any kind of work.”
—Lifehacker.com“Immersing yourself in Steal Like An Artist is as fine an investment in the life of your mind as you can hope to make.” Read an excerpt below… Tags: steal like an artist. Laser Scope. Informals - Bookshelf Porn. A Pirate Hard Drive that provides Infinite Capacity !!! It happens allot and not just Play Stations. I ALWAYS OPEN THE BOX IN THE STORE BEFORE LEAVING.. I pay for it first though then at the register open it. Buyer Beware: Bricks in the Box There’s a problem in retail circles known as the Brick-in-the-box return. 1. Most famously, this involved bricks replacing VCR’s many, many years ago. I bring this up because a guy ran afoul of this very scam at Best Buy. I think he’s screwed. I’ve had three direct experiences with bricks in the box, and these are exactly why the policy is in place. In the first instance, an elderly man purchased a laptop.
In the second instance, a man purchased a 20″ television. In the third instance, a man purchased a video camera. In the first case the store lost, in the second two we prevented a loss. If you’re buying a high-dollar item this Christmas, I strongly recommend you open the box and inspect the contents before you leave the store.