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Is that the zinger in this article is nothing but a wireframe mockup hosted on flickr. Seriously. What the fuck? So we are now reduced to using poorly compressed JPG's on flickr as an excuse to get up in arms about Microsoft?

Do you think, even if that photo was of the patent, the price in that image has any bearing on reality besides being a wireframe mockup? Seriously?

The "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination" exhibit has been going on for quite some time (three years now). It was in Portland two years ago where I got some pics of the same exhibit.

(read "Drove a sword through it to keep me from trying to repair it again and wasting my time")

There has to be an interesting story behind this. Or, at least, a good youtube video...

The story is basically the fact that I knew that if I kept the thing around, I would keep working on it.

The unit would operate fine for about an hour or so, then random errors would occur, and finally it would become unusable. After I recovered all the data from the drives, I replaced every "decently educated user serviceable" part inside. Several re-image, re-assemblies, and frustrated screams later I discovered the burned out chassis fan.

The fan was embedded in the magnesium chassis of the machine, and is not replaceable without heroic effort and some extensive modifications.

Since there were many more pressing things to fix, I knew that I would have to make sure the machine could NOT be fixed, or I would keep trying to fix it every time I looked at it.

So I took all the hardware out, broke out my stage combat rapier, and put the damned thing out of my misery forever(p)

Sorry for the lack of video.

Direct link to Flickr set http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvo/

Stollen rocks too, but let's not forget traditional Irish alcoholic christmas fruitcake recipes. Cake is baked, then "fed" with whiskey regularly over the course of weeks of maturation (obviously most of the alcohol would evaporate if added before baking, so you make little holes in the cake and pour it in afterwards!). Usually wrapped in marzipan and icing. It's sort of like the alcohol analogue of a hash spacecake and is totally awesome.

http://www.dochara.com/eat/traditional/christmas-cake.php

Not to be confused with christmas pudding (also eaten in ireland and britain) - that's steamed, then doused in alcohol and set alight.

http://flickr.com/photos/roaring_mouse/102008926/

Smile, maser loves u!

(That's actually the work of a Dublin graffiti artist, quite a clever one. "maser" stuff is all over Dublin. You need to look through his website and Flickr stream.)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3235/2869757210_4f05a7bcdd_b.jpg

She's pretty hot for a lying demon-woman.

The penalty isn't that substantial. On the Intel X25-M it's less than half slower (44% to be precise). With CrystalDiskMark, I get 77.12MB/s for sequential writes and 42.50MB/s for 4K random writes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33524247@N06/3119124721/

I was going to leave this alone, but...+1 informative? Really?
Hold the phone, let me call my friends at MIT and let them know that their wireless chargers are hopeless, because they don't have a core.

*facepalm*...air is still a core. And the effect is diminished with large coils, like these people are using. And smaller distances, which is the case with cell phones. I'm pretty sure the engineers at MIT have figured this stuff out.

How about this instead? http://www.flickr.com/photos/rowandw/2276721446/

Seems more appropriate given the topic.

Being out in Kansas, its kind of expected that we have some totally awesome storm chasing vehicles.

Being out in Kansas, its kind of expected that we have some totally awesome storm chasing vehicles.

Being out in Kansas, its kind of expected that we have some totally awesome storm chasing vehicles.

It's kind of strange when someone you've met at a barbecue shows up in a spam e-mail.

Speakeasy specifically told me in pre-sales chats that I could run my DSL line at 100% capacity 24/7, then later harassed me saying I was downloading too much, then after that said "100G per month or you're terminated", then after that terminated me. Then they threatened me with a $300 early termination fee if I didn't talk about it online (yeah right). Then it took a few months to get the money they DID owe me back.

Oh, you'd have to be insane to do business with people who blatantly lie to you before you buy their internet. Speakeasy specifically told me I could run my line at 100% capacity 24/7 if I wanted. I thought they might be lying, so I made screenshots of the chat, which I did under an assumed name so they wouldn't know it was me. Guess what happened? First they said I was downloading too much. Then they gave me specific numbers (200G/mo or 100G/mo, something like that). Then they terminated my service. Then they tried to threaten me with the early termination fee, saying they'd waive it if I didn't talk about what happened online (yeah right)... whole chat is here.

Nintendo Fun Club News was the prelude to Nintendo Power. It was a cheaper, more newsletter style mag.

Example of the issue in questions: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robboudon/1243676069/

sure you can ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/exavior/2462658431/

it would be intresting to walk around down town witht hat thing

I think I'll pass on that. Don't really want that sort of power aimed directly at the boys.

This early test subject agrees.

well in that case you need to check this out:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3063863618_bedb6183d8_o.jpg

I'm assuming that CAPTCHA stores the correct answer in such a way that it can't be directly read by a bot - the CAPTCHA has to be solved.

Why don't they just use CAPTCHAs that ask questions that are artistic, subjective, etc.? Smoe examples, using pictures I searched for on flickr:

1) What color is this fruit?

2) What kind of animal is this?

3) How many rungs are on this ladder?

All questions that would be easy for a human to ask but are subjective enough that it would be difficult for a computer to answer them.

We could even go for outright trickery, such as this one: How many dogs are in this picture? (Acceptable answers: zero, 0, none, no dogs, etc.)

And just for shits and giggles, we can randomly include letters in pictures to confuse the Hell out of CAPTCHA readers.

The only thing I wonder about something like this - would having multiple possible answers make a CAPTCHA like this stronger or weaker?

This wouldn't solve the CAPTCHA farmer problem, but I think it would solve the bot problem.

I'm assuming that CAPTCHA stores the correct answer in such a way that it can't be directly read by a bot - the CAPTCHA has to be solved.

Why don't they just use CAPTCHAs that ask questions that are artistic, subjective, etc.? Smoe examples, using pictures I searched for on flickr:

1) What color is this fruit?

2) What kind of animal is this?

3) How many rungs are on this ladder?

All questions that would be easy for a human to ask but are subjective enough that it would be difficult for a computer to answer them.

We could even go for outright trickery, such as this one: How many dogs are in this picture? (Acceptable answers: zero, 0, none, no dogs, etc.)

And just for shits and giggles, we can randomly include letters in pictures to confuse the Hell out of CAPTCHA readers.

The only thing I wonder about something like this - would having multiple possible answers make a CAPTCHA like this stronger or weaker?

This wouldn't solve the CAPTCHA farmer problem, but I think it would solve the bot problem.

I'm assuming that CAPTCHA stores the correct answer in such a way that it can't be directly read by a bot - the CAPTCHA has to be solved.

Why don't they just use CAPTCHAs that ask questions that are artistic, subjective, etc.? Smoe examples, using pictures I searched for on flickr:

1) What color is this fruit?

2) What kind of animal is this?

3) How many rungs are on this ladder?

All questions that would be easy for a human to ask but are subjective enough that it would be difficult for a computer to answer them.

We could even go for outright trickery, such as this one: How many dogs are in this picture? (Acceptable answers: zero, 0, none, no dogs, etc.)

And just for shits and giggles, we can randomly include letters in pictures to confuse the Hell out of CAPTCHA readers.

The only thing I wonder about something like this - would having multiple possible answers make a CAPTCHA like this stronger or weaker?

This wouldn't solve the CAPTCHA farmer problem, but I think it would solve the bot problem.

I'm assuming that CAPTCHA stores the correct answer in such a way that it can't be directly read by a bot - the CAPTCHA has to be solved.

Why don't they just use CAPTCHAs that ask questions that are artistic, subjective, etc.? Smoe examples, using pictures I searched for on flickr:

1) What color is this fruit?

2) What kind of animal is this?

3) How many rungs are on this ladder?

All questions that would be easy for a human to ask but are subjective enough that it would be difficult for a computer to answer them.

We could even go for outright trickery, such as this one: How many dogs are in this picture? (Acceptable answers: zero, 0, none, no dogs, etc.)

And just for shits and giggles, we can randomly include letters in pictures to confuse the Hell out of CAPTCHA readers.

The only thing I wonder about something like this - would having multiple possible answers make a CAPTCHA like this stronger or weaker?

This wouldn't solve the CAPTCHA farmer problem, but I think it would solve the bot problem.

Real furry conventions are much more fun than PafCon. As for furry cartoons, Softpaw Magazine springs to mind, but they take pains to avoid a resemblance to humans.

I just reported this picture. It's child porn! You can even see his penis!
http://flickr.com/photos/tednmiki/2573243755/

This should silence your doubts...

- Consummate dude

I was first struck with how it looked straight out of the 50s X planes...the X-1 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Bell_X-1_color.jpg

Compare that to:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/2215031466_18acd44909.jpg

Oh yeah. How did they get around the reentry stabilization problem? Or do they actually leave the influence of atmosphere?

Well-signed is an understatement. In Lima, Ohio, the power company has rented multiple billboards around town, to warn people not to steal copper from substations. "Cut copper, cut your life," they say, and look something like this.

It's like a car. Government funding, properly applied, will turn a Trabant into a stretch limo.

For the people who like pictures, feel free to check out pictures of one of our socket F server boards before it got closed up and installed.

"Maybe I'm leaning too much on fond remembrance here, but I prefer the isolated, solitary feel of the first Half-Life to the more character-driven atmosphere in the sequel."

Especially in Ep. 1 when she tagged around with you pretty much THE WHOLE TIME, and gave you directions, directed your attention, etc. ("There must be a fuse box around here. Gordan, see if you can find it.")

How would it be to play HL1 with Alyx? http://www.flickr.com/photos/23108889@N06/2212589455/

It got worse in Ep. 2 when SHE forced you on a major side quest. In HL1, you could kneecap a scientist who got in your way and just keep going. In Ep. 2, you had to save the life of an NPC. Even on the side quest they gave you a sidekick (the Vort).

The odd part is that the solo Antlion Guardian chase was probably the closest either of the episodes got to cashing in on phobias that were so common in HL1. Then the strider attack at the end of Ep. 2 (again, a solo mission) was the BEST part of the game.

Did you notice that only once in HL1 did the player lose control of Gordon? (During the Apprehension level.) That was the one break in the game's continuity, which was HUGE progress from Quake and other level-based games. Though HL2, Ep. 1, and Ep. 2 are mainly contiguous, in Ep. 2 the developers started taking the control from the player so they could tell *their* story. If you listen to the developers' commentary it is quite explicit.

I'll save the spoilers, but the ending of Ep. 2 didn't leave me wanting revenge against the combine, it left me cursing the developers who put *their* story before *my* gameplay.

And just which body part is this supposed to make us think of?

Then what do you do with XP?

I develop Windows-based image manipulation software in C, and I also use said software, so I am constantly moving image files in and out of the VFS, that is, between my Mac and the VM running XP. Right now I'm working on image stacking capabilities, of use to me directly in unguided, bare-camera astrophoto foolery, working them into the layer handling model in as transparent a manner as I can manage. So I shoot images (EOS 50D), import 'em into the Mac via USB, keep the photo library on the Mac (Apple's "Aperture"), etc. So for instance, should I want a series to stack, I clip them to the dimensions of the stellar object, shove em in a shared folder and then grab that in XP. I also export source code regularly into the Mac filesystem, where it exists separately from Windows and where it is automatically backed up for me.

Unless all your files and work only move in one direction (out of the VM and never into it), then you should run a virus scanner.

Images from my camera are not a threat to either OSX or XP. And the idea that something *running* on my Mac would attack my virtual XP installation... no, don't think so. Nor is my own software a threat. No games, in fact other than my own stuff and Microsoft's VC++ to develop it, I don't think I've run a windows app in a couple of years. See, at some point, you just have to look rationally at what you're doing, recognize there's no credible threat vector, and just relax.

I would agree with this. When talking to grandma about trying Linux since all she wants to do is check e-mail, look at pictures of the grand kids and keep her MySpace page updated(...)

Your grandma uses myspace? Oh my god... http://www.flickr.com/photos/driveafastercar/2110340303/sizes/o/

More details about the Ponca City's wireless mesh in the slideshow presentation here.

Well, you really can't get macro shots like that without external light sources.

This is all off-topic, but having been converted from booing flash like you to appreciating its skillful use, I thought you might be interested in what I have to say about it.

Flash when applied with skill can look amazing, and can look completely natural too. As you say yourself, they're beautiful photographs at that link. They wouldn't be the same at all without the flash.

Of course, it's perfectly acceptable to boo using direct, on-camera flash, which looks awful 100% of the time. Read some of the archive material at http://www.strobist.com/ for a lot of interesting, sometimes stunning use of flash, or check out the strobist flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/pool/ (the quality varies as it's an open group, but a lot of great stuff gets posted.) Here's one I did myself that I'm proud of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/penguinchris/2360013001/ :)

Well, you really can't get macro shots like that without external light sources.

This is all off-topic, but having been converted from booing flash like you to appreciating its skillful use, I thought you might be interested in what I have to say about it.

Flash when applied with skill can look amazing, and can look completely natural too. As you say yourself, they're beautiful photographs at that link. They wouldn't be the same at all without the flash.

Of course, it's perfectly acceptable to boo using direct, on-camera flash, which looks awful 100% of the time. Read some of the archive material at http://www.strobist.com/ for a lot of interesting, sometimes stunning use of flash, or check out the strobist flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/pool/ (the quality varies as it's an open group, but a lot of great stuff gets posted.) Here's one I did myself that I'm proud of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/penguinchris/2360013001/ :)

In Hawaii, only the tourists are scared of our big-as-your-palm cane spiders. Everyone else doesn't mind having them in the house because they eat all the other bugs.

I always thought it would have been funny to mod the game so your "work" did not start a resonance cascade and everything went as normal, and they made you go back to your desk and do tons of paperwork for the rest of the game.

Btw.. here is the real Gordon:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8297787@N03/2845861422/sizes/l/

What's that saying? "Old age and treachery shall overcome youth and vigor every time."

Or some such thing.

Of course, as I found out after collecting some data in a thread with a similar topic not too long ago, /. UID does not really correlate with age.

It's a shame that Time seems to want to retain copyright over these images. The only real place meant for showcasing such images is the Flickr Commons, not some hastily-patched together image display format like Google has done. Then again, they could just upload it to flickr and still retain copyrights, but at least they can generate more comments, tag it up to make the search results rich (and describe it well) and show it to a community that actually appreciates photographs such as these.

Weird, not only does IR light make your knees on different heights, it apparently also makes some black transparent but other black not. The black in her shirt has become totally transparent, but her black bra hasn't.

Weird, not only does IR light make your knees on different heights, it apparently also makes some black transparent but other black not. The black in her shirt has become totally transparent, but her black bra hasn't.

Weird, not only does IR light make your knees on different heights, it apparently also makes some black transparent but other black not. The black in her shirt has become totally transparent, but her black bra hasn't.

Infrared and rangefinder is good

I don't know if I would want an infrared seeing eye. The top layers of skin become almost transparent, so any veins near the skin become much more obvious, like in this picture of a model wearing a swimsuit. The vein along the side of her stomach and on her legs are very obvious.

On the plus side, some dyes are transparent in IR, along with some synthetic cloths, so what would normally be a dyed shirt looks transparent

(Maybe linking to a few pictures of girls in bikini's is karma-whoring, but they really do illustrate the point I am making. I modified that IR camera for taking pictures of burning stuff, not making models look like zombies.)

Infrared and rangefinder is good

I don't know if I would want an infrared seeing eye. The top layers of skin become almost transparent, so any veins near the skin become much more obvious, like in this picture of a model wearing a swimsuit. The vein along the side of her stomach and on her legs are very obvious.

On the plus side, some dyes are transparent in IR, along with some synthetic cloths, so what would normally be a dyed shirt looks transparent

(Maybe linking to a few pictures of girls in bikini's is karma-whoring, but they really do illustrate the point I am making. I modified that IR camera for taking pictures of burning stuff, not making models look like zombies.)

Infrared and rangefinder is good

I don't know if I would want an infrared seeing eye. The top layers of skin become almost transparent, so any veins near the skin become much more obvious, like in this picture of a model wearing a swimsuit. The vein along the side of her stomach and on her legs are very obvious.

On the plus side, some dyes are transparent in IR, along with some synthetic cloths, so what would normally be a dyed shirt looks transparent

(Maybe linking to a few pictures of girls in bikini's is karma-whoring, but they really do illustrate the point I am making. I modified that IR camera for taking pictures of burning stuff, not making models look like zombies.)

Infrared and rangefinder is good

I don't know if I would want an infrared seeing eye. The top layers of skin become almost transparent, so any veins near the skin become much more obvious, like in this picture of a model wearing a swimsuit. The vein along the side of her stomach and on her legs are very obvious.

On the plus side, some dyes are transparent in IR, along with some synthetic cloths, so what would normally be a dyed shirt looks transparent

(Maybe linking to a few pictures of girls in bikini's is karma-whoring, but they really do illustrate the point I am making. I modified that IR camera for taking pictures of burning stuff, not making models look like zombies.)