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Hey Slashdot, why are PC users such ugly dweebs in comparison to Mac users? Is it because nobody has the time or patience to put up with Windows/Linux except for friendless, sexless nerds like you?

Hey Slashdot, why are PC users such ugly dweebs in comparison to Mac users? Is it because nobody has the time or patience to put up with Windows/Linux except for friendless, sexless nerds like you?

Hey Slashdot, why are PC users such ugly dweebs in comparison to Mac users? Is it because nobody has the time or patience to put up with Windows/Linux except for friendless, sexless nerds like you?

Hey Slashdot, why are PC users such ugly dweebs in comparison to Mac users? Is it because nobody has the time or patience to put up with Windows/Linux except for friendless, sexless nerds like you?

Hey Slashdot, why are PC users such ugly dweebs in comparison to Mac users? Is it because nobody has the time or patience to put up with Windows/Linux except for friendless, sexless nerds like you?

Abusing children is the lowest of the low and anyone caught doing anything to children should be punished to the full extent of the law.

HOWEVER - thoughts and actions are NOT the same. Laws and legal action need to focus on action, not on thoughts. In a free society this is where the line must be drawn: Thoughts are OK, actions are judged.

Solely the possessing of INFORMATION (I assert) is equivalent to one's own thoughts, nothing more.

Selling, distributing, creating, abusing, ... these are all actions and should be the focus of legal repercussions.

Some one please explain how and why we have a broad class of information (disgusting as they are, and illegal as it is to make them, sell them, etc.) - that simply possessing that information (in this case, pictures from an illegal act abusing a child) lands a person in prison. Simply posession of information that results in prison... that is a terrible precedent with dire long-term consequences. Such control is the basis of thought control and tyranny. Who is the state to assert what people can and can't think? Which social taboos are so severe as to make information illegal? While most everyone agrees that the taboo against sex with children is severe enough - the problem occurs when the same reasoning (big problem, hard to fix, so make the information illegal) is applied to other kinds of information. There are lots of big problems, and lots of them are hard to fix. Law enforcement is becoming harder and harder to do well in an age of increasing technology and distributed information.

Will this image be illegal to own some day?
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7884/bushfuture 58lr.jpg
How about books? Software programs? How-To manuals?

Reading between the lines on this case, it's probably a good thing this man is being removed to prison. His child molestation case was dropped because of a statute of limitations - so there was (most likely) a mountain of reasons this man was a threat, a criminal, and deserved what he got. It is cases like this that make this issue very difficult - because if we did not have such possession laws, this man would likely go free and abuse other children.

So I want to make sure I have this right?

Wii is outselling PS3 almost 4:1
For every 1 PS3 there are almost 10 Xbox 360's

Sony = awesome? /Pre-emptive fanboy defense:
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This was the first photo I took when we headed off for a 6 week holiday last December, flying Qantas. http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7781/img0716lar gets0.jpg

"If vista scales all the way to 4"

What do you mean? 64-bit Vista scales to 1000 Gigabyte (1TB). 32-bit Vista? Probably just 2 GB.

Here is a warning message "Too little memory" using 2GB with Vista and trying to play "Company of Heroes"

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[I didn't take that screenshot. I saw it linked here:
  http://www.sweclockers.com/forum/showthread.php?th readid=656242%5D

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I still don't understand why people make this argument. Look:

http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=installde bxj7.png

How is this any more complicated than "double click on setup.exe"? Seems a hell of a lot simpler; you don't do the NextNextFinish dance, you don't have to agree to any license, it doesn't ask you where you want it installed...

This is digital sound synthesis and manipulation, but not music

Finale http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/7861/screenshot 1lx3.png is software for composing music. There is nothing equivalent in the OSS world, and there's no finale for linux either.

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You mean these? http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3804/moonenites 4te.jpg

I am telling you all we need to do is plant more marijuana.

I put the major events of the "War on Drugs" into a global temperature chart. It is plane as day, just look at it!

Click HERE

As you can see, the more we fight it the worse the planet gets! Look at the way the temp dropped when the government pushed for farmers to grow it during WWII!

Some directors, rather than whining about Pan-and-Scan videos, shoot their movies with a cinematic 2.15:1 box and a television 4:3 box on the camera. When they set their shots up, they set them up for the movie experience and the television experience they want. In that case, you aren't "loosing image to go pan-and-scan" or even worse, shooting 4:3 and zooming in for the theatrical release, you have setup the movie to be shown in two ways, two experiences.

Some directors, rather than whining about Pan-and-Scan videos, shoot their movies with a cinematic 2.15:1 box and a television 4:3 box on the camera. When they set their shots up, they set them up for the movie experience and the television experience they want. In that case, you aren't "loosing image to go pan-and-scan" or even worse, shooting 4:3 and zooming in for the theatrical release, you have setup the movie to be shown in two ways, two experiences.

but the title is correct.

After reading your post I went ahead and re-photoshopped the picture. Obviously she would want to upload the pictures that would illustrate the before-after contrast best. So it's no surprise (no pun intended) that she enhances her 'surprised look' in the second shot be wide opening her eyelids, which more than anything gives it the unnatural look: you can actually see the whole of both her pupils (which you usually don't see on people with normal expressions), and there's no mention of 'eye lid reduction'.

So, here's the version with an adjusted face length and I also did one with a less surprised look (crudely copied over the eyes from the left).

After reading your post I went ahead and re-photoshopped the picture. Obviously she would want to upload the pictures that would illustrate the before-after contrast best. So it's no surprise (no pun intended) that she enhances her 'surprised look' in the second shot be wide opening her eyelids, which more than anything gives it the unnatural look: you can actually see the whole of both her pupils (which you usually don't see on people with normal expressions), and there's no mention of 'eye lid reduction'.

So, here's the version with an adjusted face length and I also did one with a less surprised look (crudely copied over the eyes from the left).

Here's a screenshot of my computer running Beryl and Call of Duty. By the way, this is with an NVIDIA card on Linux.

http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=berylcall ofdutyuu5.jpg

I just don't understand where you're coming from. Are you just a plant, or do you seriously believe what you're saying? Your post basically degrades into an advertisement for Vista.

I've been using Beryl/Compiz since September. Why do people still say Vista is "new" and "impressive"? There is nothing new. There is nothing impressive. People like you just don't know any better.


You don't get what I am talking about, and I apologize for the miscommunication here.

I used an example of how well Vista scales GPU operations because of the changes in the multi-tasking and RAM sharing features added to the WDDM (Driver Model).

Sure your screen looks impressive, but that was not the point.

Imagine your screen with 2 other games running at the same time, that each max out the onboard GPU RAM available, and then view them in your version of Flip3D while they run at the same time and also run without dropping but a couple FPS.

Vista is doing this, and Vista already not only knows how to virtualize GPU RAM, but also multi-task and scale to GPUs so that several applicaitons can utilize the GPU, and vice versa, where Vista will scale one application across multiple GPUs, without having to resort to separate rendering concepts like Crossfire or SLI.

Truly take a minute and check out what MS is doing right with Vista in regards to Video and GPU usage and how it will change how a GPU plays a roll, but also advances gaming.

Check out some true technical articles on Vista and WDDM and its relation to DirectX10. People that know gaming and 3D, are going 'holy crap' because the way Vista is handling Video is new in several ways.

I truly don't want to push back and seem rude, but Beryl Compiz is just an OpenGL 3D bitmap based composer, and yes it goes beyond the simplistic UI concepts like the GPU double buffering you find in OSX, but it is FAR FROM what the WDDM in Vista is doing.

One other quick example of difference, Vista is a Vector/Bitmap based composer, so that applications written for Vista or WPF don't send bitmap Window information to the composer, they update the vector information and the composer manages the repainting and rendering, this offers speed because the composer is on top of what the applications need to repaint and the also makes programming easier on the developer.

It also uses less GPU RAM than a Bitmap only composer like Beryl Compiz because for newer applications it only has to hold the Vector data and not a bitmap; it also knows how to virtualize the GPU RAM for textures in a way that doesn't degrade the performance of high speed 3D games.

By Vista being a Vector/Bitmap composer there are also other side effects, like Vista even enables vector and 3D on a RDP connection (Remote Desktop/TS).

You can run Flip3D and Glass and a WPF 3D animated application on a computer you are remoting into over a ISDN level connection 12,000 miles away.

I know MS didn't add as much eye candy to Vista with regard to wiggly windows, or spacial positioning, but that was a choice of the UI and usability department, not because of limitations in the Vista Video Subsystem.

Some of the animation effects from projects like Beryl are fun and pretty cool, I will definately give it up to them for that. The base animations and Glass and Flip3D in Vista are very sterile in comparison.

This is impressive and shows that Vista can squeeze a lot of performance out of the hardware and games beyond what any other OS, including XP has been able to acheive.

Here's a screenshot of my computer running Beryl and Call of Duty. By the way, this is with an NVIDIA card on Linux.

http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=berylcall ofdutyuu5.jpg

I just don't understand where you're coming from. Are you just a plant, or do you seriously believe what you're saying? Your post basically degrades into an advertisement for Vista.

I've been using Beryl/Compiz since September. Why do people still say Vista is "new" and "impressive"? There is nothing new. There is nothing impressive. People like you just don't know any better.

2 week ago I cud not even spell "web develeper" and now I is one.

Nuclear Reactor on Texas A&M's Campus

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For those of you too lazy to check for yourself, here's a screenshot. I wonder how long before it's pulled.

Insignia?

It's already invading

No Applescript is going to do be able to give me the X & Y dimensions of anything within a web page.

I find your lack of imagination to be tediously, depressingly predictable. Perhaps you aren't aware that the entire DOM tree is accessible through AppleScript. (Firefox doesn't even let you AppleScript the fucking UI widgets.)

In any case, why would you turn to AppleScript, let alone a fucking browser plugin, to do the Web Element Inspector's job?

setup2

Thermometer at -192 deg.C

photo of screen at 8000.7MHz

CPU-Z verified

setup2

Thermometer at -192 deg.C

photo of screen at 8000.7MHz

CPU-Z verified

setup2

Thermometer at -192 deg.C

photo of screen at 8000.7MHz

CPU-Z verified

setup2

Thermometer at -192 deg.C

photo of screen at 8000.7MHz

CPU-Z verified

setup2

Thermometer at -192 deg.C

photo of screen at 8000.7MHz

CPU-Z verified

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• Most of the issues (if not all) seem to be in the drivers.
• The hardware/software tested is several years old.
• AFAIK, Apple provides its own driver (which is a modified version of the NVIDIA/ATI driver).

• Most of the issues (if not all) seem to be in the drivers.
• The hardware/software tested is several years old.
• AFAIK, Apple provides its own driver (which is a modified version of the NVIDIA/ATI driver).

I thought we already went over this, but you PC users are so slow to learn. It's because you're boring, unadventurous folk, so intimidated by passion that you'll shy away even from missionary. But we Mac users? When we have sex, we don't just have sex. We have S E X. It's not news to those of us longtime Macworld and WWDC attendees that Rendezvous (cum Bonjour) lives up to its name. And when it comes to juggling commitments, the word "reschedule" is not in our vocabulary, if you know what I mean. There's a reason events in iCal are see-through.

And somewhere in that frantic fuckfest, sure, you're bound to stick it in a pooper or two. But you know what? We're not the neurotic type of person to care. Even leaving the sausage out of it, we're still having more sex than you.

Lonely and loveless as is your life, perhaps it's time you came to realize that beige really ain't all that hot.

Wasn't there a painted around the turn of the century that did something similar though? I can't remember the name of the artist sadly.

This may not be what you are thinking of but I remember a series of painting that mysteriously displayed photograph like perspective that later were determined to have been made using the equivalent of a pinhole camera. The artist traced the outline of the scene while inside the darkroom on the canvas which was illuminated with the pinhole image.

On second thought, you were probably thinking of Georges Seurat's use of pointillism of which Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte may be the most famous:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Afternoon_on_t he_Island_of_La_Grande_Jatte

Being the inveterate geek, I prefer this version myself:

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5358/alienjatte 30dyvq4.jpg

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wed Jan 17, '07 07:34 AM
from the i-still-hate-flash dept.

Here are some links posted from the digg page:

Original Digg link: http://www.electronichouse.com/article/star_trek_t heater/
Digg story: http://digg.com/mods/Really_Cool_Homemade_Star_Tre k_Theater_(slideshow)

From comments:
The Larger image: http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5278/bridge20p2 byb1.jpg

The Rest of the Images:
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I noticed a while back that (amongst other things) my Atari 800XL (not my photo) had yellowed badly, but that the 1050 disk drive (again, not mine), which was part of the same bundle and appeared to use the same beige plastic still looked "as new". I doubt varying exposure to daylight could account for all of this.

Interestingly, my year-old keyboard has a white plastic case and keys. However, plastics that appear identical to the naked eye, aren't always so similar when viewed with IR.

I noticed a while back that (amongst other things) my Atari 800XL (not my photo) had yellowed badly, but that the 1050 disk drive (again, not mine), which was part of the same bundle and appeared to use the same beige plastic still looked "as new". I doubt varying exposure to daylight could account for all of this.

Interestingly, my year-old keyboard has a white plastic case and keys. However, plastics that appear identical to the naked eye, aren't always so similar when viewed with IR.

This is a chart I made with the linux (and BSD) distros from the poll, ignoring the approximately 300 that didn't have any results.

How about this or this? Sorry, I couldn't find a pic of Jobs where I could squeeze the apple into his mouth =/

How about this or this? Sorry, I couldn't find a pic of Jobs where I could squeeze the apple into his mouth =/

... and cute litte clownfish as a wallpaper. What else could you want?

best show ever. 10 minutes of science, and 30 minutes adam hurting himself. i love them.

All these people defending Mythbusters, and not one has mentioned the best feature of the show. Kari is really hot. A bit ditzy, but still really hot.

Regardless, it seems like the show got dumbed down. Especially the later seasons. Maybe I just noticed it more before I stopped watching. It seems like it switched from being about interesting stuff, to being about making the biggest explosion and having a higher potential for injury.