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Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

Ok, here are some of the images I made... I started simple and got kind of fancy as ideas hit...

Basic, single-colour surfaces (sums of several exponential decay functions):
  1
  2
  3 (just for kicks I made the polygons large enough to see)
  4
  5 (exponentially decaying 2D cosine function)

Playing with some lighting/reflective effects I added:
  1
  2
  3

Simulated texture by adding noise to the colour (still only a static colour for the surface, though):
  1
  2
  3

2D cosine again but with variable colour(x,y):
  1
  2

Another variable colour, this time as a function of z:
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5

While some canadians tell me that they believe people that this dude thinks that he is this dude, I completely disagree, however I think that

this guy believes himself to be this guy.

This asshole really wants to be this asshole

This goof is really this goof.

Yah, it needs 4GB so that Firefox can hog up 1.5GB doing jack shit.

I don't know why people complain about Genuine Advantage. If you buy the software it is unlocked. If you pirate it it will still work, even though it knows it is pirated, but it won't work 100%. I.e. pirate copies are partially locked.

Genuine Advantage would be better if they had a sense of humour about it. Like instead of black screening pirate copies they could shrink the desktop slowly surrounded it by a dirty border and have photorealistic DirectX 10 cockroaches in the border. When you unlocked the workstation they'd scatter, but you still see the odd leg or antenna poking out from the edge of the monitor. Every so often one would run across the screen when you were hard at work. Hell, maybe you'd let people crush them with the mouse pointer but it would leave a nasty yellow blob on the screen. The longer you held out against buying a license, the more bold the roaches would become, and the more hit points they would have.

Essentially Microsoft discovered a way to make people RAGE! by accident with Clippy. They should put that knowledge to use annoying pirates and making everyone else laugh at them. Most people have a fear of being mocked for being cheap, they should put that fear to use.

Dont know if other soe games have it too, but few months ago the devs intergrated mozilla into starwars galaxies.

with /browser [url] a website can be opened, ingame macros can be used as favorites. Someone shows it here how it works.

Just tried it out and watching boobs while playing works too :P

If people are bored with MMO's, they should play paladin-type characters and watch more porn. This embedded browser makes it all the more feasible.

As an example, [though not from the AP as far as I know, but a different news agency.] is the following picture of a woman holding up two bullets she claims were fired at her house by American soldiers.

Woman holds up two bullets.

Now for those unfamiliar with firearms - Yes those are indeed two bullets. However, note how pristine and unfired they are. You can see this sort of thing *a lot* in various forms of media if you look for it.

Those hundreds of memory leaks the FF team fixed in 3.0? All attributed to add-ons, until they were fixed.

Fixed? Really? Somehow, I doubt that they have fixed a whole lot...

Guess we need a new tag: eek! Probably that's what the frog would say anyways...

You mean this myth about protected media path consuming considerable CPU power even on unprotected streams?

Folding@home is sustaining over 4.2 Petaflops and rising quickly.
You can see statistics here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats
And a nice graph charting the rise here: http://img388.imageshack.us/my.php?image=foldinghome20kx2.png

I also enjoy reading the Wiki article on the NSA's headquaters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Facilities

It goes on to talk about their own private chip fab, and how they are using an inordinate amount of power. I can only assume they are running some major hardware...

For all those who don't believe that a single ISP can be responsible for this amount of spam: take a look at the munin graph from our spam scanner. When I looked at it in the morning I went "huh, did I misconfigure something on our mail server?", didn't find anything, went to Google News and submitted to /. shortly after that.

The age of the internet, where things go bad and no one thinks it's unusual. Lots and lots of crap, all free, mind you, that dumbs down the users that much more. If you paid $1000 for it, you might have other thoughts, like this Photoshop 11 catastrophic UI failure

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b6eb20

which is demonstrated here

http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ps11dropdownblacknotyelbt5.jpg

Yeah Windows XP Service Pack 3 using Firefox 3 and Google Chrome (Even at full screen). It doesn't always happen but the behaviour is stupid. When there isn't enough room it shouldn't bunch up. It's a stupid design decision.

See for yourself:

FireFox 3.1
Google Chrome

Yeah Windows XP Service Pack 3 using Firefox 3 and Google Chrome (Even at full screen). It doesn't always happen but the behaviour is stupid. When there isn't enough room it shouldn't bunch up. It's a stupid design decision.

See for yourself:

FireFox 3.1
Google Chrome

At least he's lucky enough to even have a home line. I live 20 min away by foot (or 5 min by bus) from Sydney CBD (Central Business District), and my house isn't even wired for a phone line. The house in the middle of a heavily residential area (Glebe), it's not too old or new, and it's got 3 floors with 3 one- or two-bedroom apartments on each floor.

Telstra demands $700 to connect the house to the phone line, and neither the landlord nor the tenants will cough up the money. Hence I'm stuck with a wireless HSDPA (3G) plan from Three, which is $20 a month for a 2 GB download+upload cap. One day, my girlfriend left LimeWire open on her laptop when she left for work in the morning; that month we had a $360 bill. I thank $deity every day for unlimited Internet at uni and ImageShack's Torrent Drive.

The Internet situation in Australia truly is atrocious. I have no doubt that the OP had a better experience out in the outback. It seems that all the plans the government has been proposing put the sheep farmer's interests first. I guess they need to track their flock via GPS or something.

Reason #1: Indexed databases/libraries are searched/browsed more quickly than file systems, and in multiple ways. And
#2: because libraries can contain and search through tag info/content, which can be queried (well, in Foobar you can. ie. "%last_played% BEFORE 2008-07-04" or w/e)), which makes my library a lot more managable (see for instance my GUI setup)
Still, that doesn't mean Joe Sixpack uses his library the same way I do, but even he probably enjoys a (dumbed-down) centralized search iTunes features, even when they have only 300 files to search through.

I prefer this correlation study.

Credit: er, some guy on the tubes.

The trailer and the NAME have been out for a few months, I've seen some screenshots before but I can't find them now, but the best I could find was this MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Looks like that trailer got leaked pretty early. A whole year before the official trailer was released? Nice work pirates!

Nice picture, too. I'm somewhat surprised that the only screenshot Bethesda has is of a mountain. Not to mention that it's hosted on imageshack. I guess they're really getting overloaded on the server.

Merry Christmas and TYCLO

The trailer and the NAME have been out for a few months, I've seen some screenshots before but I can't find them now, but the best I could find was this
MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Hi, I find your link to CNN to be humorously incorrect but fun nonetheless. The true links to live election coverage are MS-NBC, Fox News and CNN. Be sure to wait until election day to tune in!

Hi, I find your link to CNN to be humorously incorrect but fun nonetheless. The true links to live election coverage are MS-NBC, Fox News and CNN. Be sure to wait until election day to tune in!

Hi, I find your link to CNN to be humorously incorrect but fun nonetheless. The true links to live election coverage are MS-NBC, Fox News and CNN. Be sure to wait until election day to tune in!

you might post some supporting documents to fully show you've found a flaw in the report

Well very simply, here is a spectrogram of the two first sounds. It ranges vertically from 200 Hz to 700 Hz, each vertical pixel representing 1 Hz, the horizontal scale is 10 pixels per second and the amplitude is linear with a gamma of 1.5. Each modulated sine is what constitutes a bright horizontal bar, and as you can see each bar is regularly spaced by about 11.3 Hz. It's also clear enough that each "bar" is a sine modulated by what looks like noise, which supports my claim that the original spectrogram this was synthesised from was noisy.

Also I'd like to add, the third sound suffered the same flaws as the two first, but I think it sounds close enough to what it would with a proper synthesis. As for the fourth sound (the Sun), judging by the looks of its spectrogram, this one is genuine, as in, not resynthesised from a spectrogram.

Kinda like this. Hahaha, now they can't patent it...

Here are two more screen caps that I just took. Maybe you can tell me why this isn't DRM?

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9635/galcivactivatefailnq9.png
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4140/galcivactivateke2.png

Maybe we need to look up the definition of DRM again:
"DRM is a restriction on the use or copying of files, imposed by the copyright owner."

"Digital rights management (DRM) refers to the control and protection of digital intellectual property (content), including documents, images, video and audio. DRM limits what a user can do with that content even when in possession of it."

"Digital rights managementâ"overall term for security approaches used to prevent unauthorized access to digital media."

"DRM refers to the administration of rights in a digital environment. DRM solutions may use technologies to protect files from unauthorised use, as well as manage the financial transaction processing, while ensuring that rights holders are compensated for the use of their intellectual property."

Here are two more screen caps that I just took. Maybe you can tell me why this isn't DRM?

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9635/galcivactivatefailnq9.png
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4140/galcivactivateke2.png

Maybe we need to look up the definition of DRM again:
"DRM is a restriction on the use or copying of files, imposed by the copyright owner."

"Digital rights management (DRM) refers to the control and protection of digital intellectual property (content), including documents, images, video and audio. DRM limits what a user can do with that content even when in possession of it."

"Digital rights managementâ"overall term for security approaches used to prevent unauthorized access to digital media."

"DRM refers to the administration of rights in a digital environment. DRM solutions may use technologies to protect files from unauthorised use, as well as manage the financial transaction processing, while ensuring that rights holders are compensated for the use of their intellectual property."

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5128/screenshotgalacticcivilex5.png

That's my experience with the exact same sequence of events you just describe. Care to explain it? (And yes, the same thing happened when I copied the game to my XP tablet)

That's funny because I did the exact same thing and got this message:
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5128/screenshotgalacticcivilex5.png

Yes, that's on my Wine box, but it also happened when I moved Gal Civ to my XP Tablet from my XP gaming box.

So, one of us is lying, one of us is lucky, or you have a different GalCiv than I do.

Yeah, that's credible.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9544/1163485357430nk2.gif

Your religion is weak. Forsake your old god and embrace your new faith.

I have my Max Payne mousepad still.
It and the box have a cool pic of a crime scene with police tape that said
"DO NOT CROSS A MAN WITH NOTHING TO LOSE".

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8621/89fxd8lfm1.jpg

Here's an off-the-shelf cell phone controller for BMWs from 1997. Unfortunately, the test driver totaled the only prototype they had, so the company had to switch back to pimping Aston Martins.

Stardock has real integrity to date ... pushing Sins and Gal Civ and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (through impulse) instead of DRM laden titles.

Except for the fact that Impulse/Stardock Central is DRM...

I will explain it again, and post a link to the image if you don't trust me. I cannot freely move my Gal Civ2 Files from one PC to another without having to re-install or activate. It will come up with a message about the SID not matching the hardware when I delete the sig.bin and/or move the files to my Wine box:
Wine: http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5128/screenshotgalacticcivilex5.png
Windows Activation Screen: http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8435/stardockactivationeo1.png ...and yes, for the record, it does work with just the files in the install directory. A certain... workaround... to this problem proves this but I won't go into details here.

Stardock has real integrity to date ... pushing Sins and Gal Civ and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (through impulse) instead of DRM laden titles.

Except for the fact that Impulse/Stardock Central is DRM...

I will explain it again, and post a link to the image if you don't trust me. I cannot freely move my Gal Civ2 Files from one PC to another without having to re-install or activate. It will come up with a message about the SID not matching the hardware when I delete the sig.bin and/or move the files to my Wine box:
Wine: http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5128/screenshotgalacticcivilex5.png
Windows Activation Screen: http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8435/stardockactivationeo1.png ...and yes, for the record, it does work with just the files in the install directory. A certain... workaround... to this problem proves this but I won't go into details here.

I see, so a user would try to download, for example, "hot pre-teen sex lolita underage illegal.jpg" and instead get this image.

I have been able to, with much effort, photograph this collision in all it's glory and wonder.

http://img366.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blackholecollisionhy5.jpg

You can clearly see the larger black hole in the upper right hand portion and the slightly smaller one in the bottom left hand side.

A picture says more than a thousand words...

All that tells me is that Yahoo! puts its portal on www.$domain.com/ and Google puts its search on www.$domain.com/. Compare Yahoo! Search to Google Search, or Yahoo! Portal to Google Portal, and it's much less lopsided.