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I believe the collective term is a "nuisance of JW's". They are not, of course, to be mistaken for a "hairdo of evangelical preachers".
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Well, it depends on how much you want to pay for your IMU.
There are some really tiny one chip integrated triple axis accelerometers and triple axis gyros.
Or, from hobby electronic stores you can buy custom boards like this one: Sparkfun electronics 6-DOF IMU
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Don't know if it's a repost (I suspect not, hence my post this very moment), but anyway. Microsoft has released a jQuery template plugin for Visual Studio. Full article[^] or Download page[^].
I am surely going to try this; maybe the headaches around jQuery will finally be over.. 
"My personality is not represented by my hometown."
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If Microsoft has released this why aren't there any links back to any MS Developer blogs, or MS download locations?
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I thought the same thing; however, I got this information through an MSDN Flash newsletter[^].
Seems pretty 'Microsoft-ish' to me
"My personality is not represented by my hometown."
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yeah, it does say;
Learn how to do it with the jQuery Template plug-in developed by the Microsoft Ajax Core team
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Tomorrow is election day here in the Solomons.
There's no alcohol on sale for today and the election day itself (officially) so I really don't know if we can trust a vote cast by someone who is only temporarily sober.
Currently great conveys of vehicles are driving all over the capital to 'promote' their candidate. This consists of all of the vehicles blowing their horns, large PAs (running off generators) on the backs of trucks blaring music (why would you talk), and those same trucks full of people screaming (literally).
It gets really funny when two conveys pass each other and start a noise war. Which seems to be happening every 15 minutes or so outside my office.
One of the candidates for a local (Honiara) seat is a naturalised Vietnamese. Here's one conversation he had while campaigning.
Local: Yu from wea (where are you from)?
Candidate: Mi kam from Vietnam (I came from Vietnam)
Local: Wat taem bae yu go bak (When are you going back)?
What makes it even funnier is that the locals final comment wasn't even meant to be malicious.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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Sounds like High School Student Council elections to me; not that anyone cared who got elected, since the Council had no actual meaning...
Is there any chance that you'll get any effective government out of this public display of idiocy?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Lee Humphries wrote: There's no alcohol on sale for today and the election day itself (officially)
Thats brilliant. Although it does sort of imply that you are a country of alcoholics. Did you mean to say Solomons or Scotland?
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This XKCD reminds me of a memory from high school. I spent all summer saving up for a TI-83 calculator (I was a slacker, so chore money was my only source of income). Unfortunately, my dad washed my backpack with the calculator still in it. Luckily, my mom came to the rescue and argued with the employees at whatever store I bought the calculator from. They didn't have a TI-83 in stock, so they upgraded me to a TI-83+ to replace the ruined TI-83 (I guess my mom is pretty scary when she's angry). My god, I'm starting to get old enough to appreciate what my parents did for me... no good can come of this. I wonder if there's an XKCD for that. 
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Good times.. how I loved my Casio CFX9950GB Plus[^]
..remember how you used it to store all your awnsers...? 
"My personality is not represented by my hometown."
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Eaverae wrote: remember how you used it to store all your awnsers
I have a terrible memory. I prefer to store information in the form of algorithms. I only used the calculator to help me process those algorithms quickly.
Well, that and to make little games and screensavers (and to play drug wars (and to write "8008")).
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..and trying to make graphs look like this[^].
"My personality is not represented by my hometown."
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I thought I was the only person who ever bought one of those.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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aspdotnetdev wrote: My god, I'm starting to get old enough to appreciate what my parents did for me... no good can come of this
If you're not a parent already, that's a sign that you might be ready for it.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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I may be ready for it, but I ain't ready to be ready for it. 
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For years I used the HP 75C as a calculator, and I loved it. I could hack a quick bit of BASIC to solve almost any problem, including some quite sophisticated stuff.
Then it died! 
I replaced it with the HP 50g, and found to my horror that it was no faster than the 75C, unless I use a third-party C compiler.
I wish someone still built a powerful (and fast) calculator that was programmable in BASIC.
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Nice! I used to use QuickBasic 4.5 on my old 386 (or was it a 486) as a graphing calculator. I even made an equation parser and "graphical" (in a text graphics mode) calculator program. I really should put some screenshots of that on my developer portfolio website.
Chris C-B wrote: I wish someone still built a powerful (and fast) calculator that was programmable in BASIC.
TI-Basic? And then there's always TI-ASM for raw performance. 
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When I started college I got a TI that actually took the square root! No memory. Battery life about 20 minutes. I got it at half price of $60 (US). Now at just about every trade show you can get a solar powered freebie that has more features.
I still have an HP11C that uses Reverse Polish notation[^] and is programmable but I have not programmed it in about 20 years. Just did a quick search and on ebay they are selling for over $100 (US).
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I still use the Casio fx-5000F I bought for college in the late '80s.
The VAX Assembly teacher said we needed calculators that could display hex and binary.
It's not a graphing calculator, but you can store functions.
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Ole and Lena were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Ole kissed his wife goodbye and said, 'Vell Lena, I'm off now. The man should be here soon.'
Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer happened to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. 'Good morning, Ma'am', he said, 'I've come to...'
'Oh, no need to explain,' Lena cut in, embarrassed, 'I've been expecting you.'
'Have you really?' said the photographer. 'Well, that's good. Did you know babies are my specialty?'
'Well that's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat'.
After a moment she asked, blushing, 'Well, where do we start?'
'Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch, and perhaps a couple on the bed. And sometimes the living room floor is fun. You can really spread out there.'
'Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work out for Ole and me!'
'Well, Ma'am, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results.'
'My, that's a lot!', gasped Lena
'Ma'am, in my line of work a man has to take his time. I'd love to be in and out in five minutes, but I'm sure you'd be disappointed with that.'
'Don't I know it,' said Lena quietly.
The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. 'This was done on the top of a bus,' he said.
'Oh, my God!' Lena exclaimed, grasping at her throat.
'And these twins turned out exceptionally well - when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with.'
'She was difficult?' asked Lena
'Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. People were crowding around four and five deep to get a good look'
'Four and five deep?' said Lena , her eyes wide with amazement.
'Yes', the photographer replied. 'And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate, and when darkness approached I had to rush my shots. Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just had to pack it all in.'
Lena leaned forward. 'Do you mean they actually chewed on your, uh...equipment? '
'It's true, Ma'am, yes.. Well, if you're ready, I'll set-up my tripod and we can get to work right away.'
'Tripod?'
'Oh yes, Ma'am. I need to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big to be held in the hand very long.'
Lena fainted...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Kinda OK, but the punchline is seriously lacking.
Cheers,
विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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