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Show me a link to a confederate flag on Amazon and I'll buy one. You can't. Who gives a phuck about a rainbow flag?

Howabout a Confederate Rainbow Flag?

By the way, I checked. No, they don't.

guess you don't remember, Volvo has some game

Don't you know what happens when you douse yourself with liquid nitrogen?

Orange is the best color.

It's the maintenance man. He knows I like orange.

Also, and on-topic, Deus Ex is a must-play game.

Came to instigate a reinstallation. Saw that I was beaten to it. Left satisfied.

Everytime someone mentions Deus Ex, someone reinstalls Deus Ex

Farewell Sony

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/...

Hmmm, which of these 3 did you mean?

bereave
[bih-reev]
verb (used with object), bereaved or bereft, bereaving.
1. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of ): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
2. to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of ): The war bereaved them of their home.
3. Obsolete. to take away by violence.

Quite frankly, with Sony, any of those is a viable option.

A quick review is in order.

How about you actually study some real Paleoclimatology instead of pulling neo-liberal statements out of your ass?

The truth is, the earth, as a whole, is currently at about the lowest average temperature that can be inferred from the all sources of ancient data. Normally, we should be about 2-3 C higher, globally, given the historical record.

"Global Warming" is just a return to trend and should be expected whether humans are walking around or not.

There is a great bullshit test I came up with to give to someone who advocates capitol punishment. Ask them if our court system is 100% perfect in convicting the guilty. Then ask them if that means that means that we are murdering at least a few of the wrong people with capitol punishment. Then ask them if they would still feel that capitol punishment was fair and just if they were one of those people that was selected to die. Then ask them if they still support capitol punishment. If they say still yes, they are lying.

How about if the choice was being killed by a repeat murderer?

Or if the death penalty does deter, being killed by someone who wasn't deterred?

Getting rid of the death penalty is not a cost-free option.

you sir have no fucking clue what you are talking about.

exhibit A we have a normal installed headlight. notice how the light is dim, meaning the intensity falls off with distance. it may be bright if you are on a plane below the car, but for a normal two-way road situation the light is not blinding.

exhibit B we have retard with retrofit hids in stock DOT-approved housing. notice how the light is extremely intense, especially towards the top. going above 90 degrees means that is light going into your eyes. look how bright that is.

now, this light is not going to make you go blind. you can look to the left or right and it won't be too terribly blinding.. but if you are making an emergency manuever and you look directly into those lights (as you scan around for a place to move) your vision will be temporarily reduced. and we're talking about regular joe schmoe on the road, not you mr twitch counterstrike gamer. there are enough bad drivers on the road, let's not give them reasons to spin out and hit me who's going in a completely different direction to see my kids.

Can't wait to get a pair of these!

For those unfamiliar with firearms, a handy guide.

A great deal of the (all negative) comments are about the fixed-width design, which is horrible--especially for wide monitors. And I agree.

Yes, that is my main complaint (together with the text spacing, which also reduces the amount of text you get on screen).

Just to show an example, this is what the new design looks like on my 2560x1440 screen (screenshots of the old and the new design in Firefox):

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8241/vpnt.jpg

[News that matters...]

Robot gets unboxed.

How about someone unboxing a full-size, fully-functional "Atlas" like *this*?

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/807/mech.png/

Would that qualify as "news that matters"?

Besides, you'd be better be nice. Some of the TFA's Atlas's close relatives may be armed and patrolling and manning checkpoints in and around your neighborhood before too long.

"In Soviet US, droids look for YOU!"

You know what's even worse than "Skynet"-style AI-controlled armies of "Terminator"-style cyborgs/robots?

Government/human-controlled armies of "Terminator"-style cyborgs/robots.

At least an emotionless AI has no concept of enjoying other's suffering/pain, or blind and illogical hatred, revenge for revenge's sake, lust for power, wealth, and domination, or any of a thousand other similar negative human thoughts/feelings/behaviors.

How long do you think that the US government would continue to even pretend to acknowledge individual rights, Rule of Law, or any limits at all set by the US Constitution, if they had a functional robotic army and didn't have to worry about the human US military fracturing if ordered to attack US citizens en-masse? The speed of their deciding our fate would rival that of Skynet's.

"Give me a plasma rifle in the 40-watt range."

Strat

Hipsters!

Why would a slashdotter make a post about global warming when it's obvious that the underground canyon was excavated by aliens many eons ago? Haven't you seen the surface entrance to the subterranean alien base in Google Earth (of course, the US government has pressured Google into removing from their image database)?

Spend lots of resources on breaking the SSL encryption? No, just sent a National Security letter to Verisign because Deutsche Telekom’s webmail uses a Verisign certificate: http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/3742/y87k.jpg

These are only first impressions, but it looks ridiculously easy to solve automatically.

First of all the warp angle jumps significantly more before and after the "correct" image than between other images, so a fairly simple block tracking algorithm would have a very good chance of identifying the correct image:

[image]

You don't have to get exactly the right image - one or two either side and you're okay.

Secondly, the warped images are significantly less sharp than the correct image - in a purely mathematical sense, too, which means it'd be simple for a computer to identify the correct image (confirmed with high pass filters and histograms).

But it's actually a lot simpler than that, as plover has posted here.

What you've got there is CAPTCHA through obscurity, nothing more.

To which the reply will be: SQUEAK.

Nothing better than the taste of broken...

For what it's worth, I think this might be what you're looking for: http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/6687/16421896.jpg

This is done with 3 dell monitors and is referred to as a "PLP" setup (Portrait-Landscape-Portrait). One 30" in landscape and two 20" monitors in portrait. I'm sure it doesn't meet all your criteria, but it might be a reasonable option for you. Good luck in your never ending search for the perfect monitor setup, I'm on the same hunt. Right now using 2x24 Dell 2408WFP on Ergotron LX mount, but deciding on what three 27" monitors to upgrade too right now (Dell U2713HM is currently at the top of the list for a nice compromise for gaming, development, photograph/photoshop, etc).

If you think the Feds you knew were there were the only Feds there, you're an idiot.

Personally, were I an FBI wonk, I'd have long-ago made penetrating DEFCON a priority on so many levels and so long ago that I'd have deep-penetration spooks in the leadership today, guiding policy. That's practically Machiavelli 101.

Hell, I'd have even doubled-up, and sent honeypot Feds to BE hacked/cracked/busted, so the Defcon kids would feel like they were winning, ala:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8581/4puc.jpg

(SFW aside from PG13 language).

I'm positive it's placebo here.

LED PWM frequencies are FAR higher than the old CRT refresh rates.

I'm highly sensitive to this - I can see the flicker of the old fluorescent lights. It's not a placebo. Most cheap LED PWM frequencies (up to about 250 Hz) are blindingly obvious. Above about 250 Hz I have to look for the effect to see it, though I can detect it up to a bit over 1 kHz.

The old CRT refresh rates were mitigated by having phosphors, so they slowly dimmed in between refreshes, never turning off (when you turned the CRT off, the length of time it took for the screen to go completely black was how long the phosphors stayed lit). So if you scanned your vision side-to-side, even though the CRT scan image might not remain constant in brightness, it was still a continuously scrolling image.

By contrast, LED PWM is almost binary - totally on to totally off. If you scan side-to-side while viewing an LED PWM screen, you see multiple individual images instead of one continuously scrolling one. It's like watching a poorly animated cartoon from the 1970s - easy to lose track of which parts are supposed to be static and which are supposed to be moving. (Well, I assume those of you with normal vision can tell 1970s cartoons were more poorly animated.)

I have a friend who is extremely photosensitive - the flicker of fluorescent lights without high frequency ballasts make him begin feeling sick almost immediately, and before he was on seizure medications, would cause seizures.

In static applications like a computer screen it doesn't make me sick. In fact, for me at least, it's pretty easy to ignore since I rarely have to scan side to side. Most of the scanning I do is just slightly side to side or slightly up and down. I'm just aware it's flickering. Then again I rarely get seasick so perhaps I'm not as sensitive to contradictory signals from my eyes and other senses.

Where it kills me is in mobile applications. Certain cars are using LEDs with low refresh rate PWM (I'd estimate around 50 Hz) on their tail lights. When I'm driving at night, I'm not staring straight ahead. I scan side-to-side every few seconds to maintain situational awareness. If one of these cars is ahead of me, the act of scanning turns my field of vision into a sea of individual sets of lights making it difficult to pick apart separate cars. With the old continuous lighting, I could count the light trails and tell you how many cars there were. But if there are multiple cars ahead of me with the PWM lights, it's nearly impossible for me to tell how many cars there are while I'm scanning. I have to wait a couple tenths of a second to finish scanning, regain a static image, and see individual car lights. The lower the frequency of the PWM, the further the individual images of the lights are, and the harder it is to "connect the dots" and rationalize that they all represent one car.

To use a PC monitor, he had to always have ultra-high-refresh rate CRTs - until LCDs became common. He has NEVER had ANY issues with any LCD monitor, regardless of whether the backlight was LED or CCFL. They have been a godsend for him.

I never had much problem with CCFL - either they didn't use PWM or used it at such a high frequency it didn't bother me. Most LED screens however use PWM to decrease brightness. If you use the monitor at or near max brightness, you're unlikely to notice the PWM. But if you lower the brightness a lot like a laptop screen used indoors, the PWM becomes pretty obvious. I've learned to slow down how quickly I scan my eyes across the screen to compensate. Also, your peripheral vision is more sensitive to the flickering than your central vision, so avoid brightly-colored or cluttered desktop backgrounds.

I think he meant it more in the sense of The Onion's Drugs Win Drugs War.... When you go to war against something, you can lose to it even if the thing doesn't care about winning.

In this case, we went to war with "terror" and we have succeeded in terrorizing ourselves, thus it has won.

No, they totally didn't announce him as the new doctor!

You got to get the "non-schizotypic ignorance of the decade" award! ;)

Ya, that is what I said in the post that you are replying to. I made a mistake, and admitted it. Now you are saying I'm ignorant, but in reality, that who is the ignorant one? Me, for making an assumption and then admitting I made a mistake? Or you, for replying to the post where I admitted I made the mistake and then tell me I'm wrong (which I admitted) and that I'm ignorant for being wrong?

No, they totally didn't announce him as the new doctor!

You got to get the "non-schizotypic ignorance of the decade" award! ;)

Considering the last episode credits had: Introducing John Hurts as the Doctor, it was a pretty damn big clue that Matt was leaving the show.

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/9985/doctorwho20057x13thenamz.jpg

Oh look, here's Firefox supporting 5 out of those 9 single html5 form elements.

Yet another Slashdot article presenting 3D printing. More specifically, homebrew 3D printing. It's been quite the rage on Slashdot lately. Almost, though not quite, as much as Bitcoin stories.

I chose to provide what so many of these stories fail to provide, a picture of the complete product. This particular picture comes from the same person that the story was about. On his picture site are pictures of his printer, the PengPad and output for the printer.

The linked picture of printed output clearly shows a crudely finished object made from stacked layers of strings of molten plastic. It is obviously poorly finished, akin to a skilled amateur's wood carving. Upon observing the extensive layering, one cannot escape the conclusion that it has poor strength. Perhaps most damning of all, it is clear that the tolerances of the finished product are very limited and unreliable.

These are all just observations of the finished product from yet another, seemingly over-hyped article on 3D printers. My post was simply intended to ground the hype in a little dose of reality.

  What is bizarre is your butt-hurt post of apparent defense of 3D printers. Apparently, you have a serious problem with anyone that points out that homebrew 3D printers aren't 'all that'. But, if you'd like to provide an actual example of a finished homebrew 3D printed product that disproves my examples, I strongly encourage you to do so. Let me get you started with this, oh so useful, iPhone tripod bracket. Super handy(?). How about something more useful like this lens cap holder.

So far as I can see, my original point remains. 3D printing is very cool, but actual results are of poor quality and questionable use. The reality is not matching the level of hype.

This is the result.

Technically, 3D printing is VERY cool. Practically, this 3D printing does not produce anything really functional. Let's not oversell.

Unfortunate ad placement

Where I have seen 3D silicon before?

A number of reviewers have noted that the methodology is somewhat flawed in that the temporal resolution of the proxies used to reconstruct ancient temperatures is very low - up to 500 years, whereas the modern global temperature data that is appended to produce the hockeystick graph is at high resolution.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23247-true-face-of-climates-hockey-stick-graph-revealed.html

This, along with the averaging effect of combining numerous noisy proxy data streams has the effect of removing significant features such as the medieval, roman, minoan warming periods where temperatures rose by as much as 2C for periods of 1-300 years. It also removes similar long duration temperature dips.

So ultimately the picture presented of historical temperatures is not realistic, if we were to apply the same temporal low pass filtering to the modern temperature record as well you would not even see the recent temperature rise, and the little ice age would probably disappear as well. Eg look as Gisp2 ice core temp data for a reasonably good picture of historic temperatures:
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/6063/gisp2.jpg
shows same general trend as this paper, just preserves the frequent 1-500 year temp oscillations

Nuclear energy has a bad name cause it's fucked up. Governments fucking lie, and the fascist media mops up.

Make your pumps indestructible, and dry cask the remaining unsafe shit on the coastline, that's the LESSON motherfucker.

Otherwise you CAN suck HOT PARTICLES

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2949/radiationsacramentograp.png

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8590/radiationt.jpg

Nuclear energy has a bad name cause it's fucked up. Governments fucking lie, and the fascist media mops up.

Make your pumps indestructible, and dry cask the remaining unsafe shit on the coastline, that's the LESSON motherfucker.

Otherwise you CAN suck HOT PARTICLES

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2949/radiationsacramentograp.png

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8590/radiationt.jpg

Reminded me of this...

They also don't work (in gaming specifically) because 80% of gamers who claim they're boycotting something are hypocrites who end up buying it anyway. (See this oft-linked image.)

As long as those hypocrites exist and in such huge numbers, there's no way people boycotting the game will make a difference.

No, he moved to America.

I haven't seen a single photo of him with an assault rifle and mullet.

Now you have.

Even those doing nature documentaries often set up stuff or even fake things!

You're not kidding.

Awwwww poor widdle microsoft wubers crying cuz someone states the truth??

No, your post was most likely deemed "flamebait" because it was laughable Internet Tough Guy drivel that wasn't even pretending to offer a realistic solution to the problem. Ooh, you're putting them "on warning" for extinction and going to "finish them all off"?! Please.

Anyway, one may as well extend MS' lack of innovation to well over 30 years, since even the original MS-DOS circa 1981 was at best a workalike knockoff of CP/M that they bought in from someone else. In fact, while Gates may have written the first microcomputer implementation of BASIC in the mid-70s, he wasn't even the original creator of the language. MS were never, ever really innovators.

Kinect is one of the few original things they've created recently, and it's a wonder *that* managed to escape from the black hole of Microsoft Research, which- despite being well-funded and having lots of apparently talented people working there- never seems to actually translate into anything in practice. In fact, I'd guess that Kinect only escaped because- being an XBox peripheral- it wasn't as big a threat to existing vested interests and departmental politics in the Windows division.

Ask any physicist, what causes a body in relative inertial motion to remain in motion? I guarantee you will come face to face with either ignorance or outright superstition. If physicists don't even know what causes motion (their denials notwithstanding),

Physicist here. Motion is induced by gradients in potential energy fields, and the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy is associated with acceleration and deceleration, not with motion itself. See this image (where H is the total energy of the system, and x_i and p_i are the position and momentum, respectively, of the ith particle in the system).

I currently use 2x HP ZR2440w at work and 2x Dell 2408WFP at home. I actually prefer the HP's, for what it's worth. I will be replacing the Dell monitors at home with either 2x27" 2560x1440, or possibly 3x. One annoying thing about dual monitors is when you're gaming you have to look at either the left or right one. It's very slight, but it kind of bugs me.

You could also consider doing whats called a "PLP" setup, for portrait/landscape/portrait. Here's an example.

that map is not entirely accurate.. _official_ international borders between the u.s. and canada in the great lakes are in the water, NOT along the lakes' shores. michigan, for instance, is not entirely within 100 miles of the border; and chicago is not even close to being within 100 miles of an international border (lake michigan is entirely within the u.s. which makes the nearest border to chicago over 200 miles away, near detroit).... http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/373/greatlakeborders.png

regardless, the government has gone waaaaay too far here. i refuse to submit simply because might happen to live or travel within 100 miles of one of the great lakes or an ocean coast. i wouldn't be surprised to see them try to extend this to navigable inland waterways, too.. that would cover most of the rest of the population so they could molest and harass (and steal mp3 players, laptops, tablets, ereaders, etc, just like tsa/customs at airports, from) pretty much anyone, anywhere, without cause (as if anything is really stopping them now)

Lets not mess with the TTY's they are STILL NEEDED for when things go wrong...

YES!

Hey, it may be messy but with it in kernel space; it has far better responsiveness than in userland. Anybody who has read into the Linux kernel knows that priority is set on a scale.
  Priority Scale

The best responsiveness in userland is a nice value of -15.

because it IS a presentation mockup like any of these:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2667/pavillion22so.jpg [imageshack.us]
http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/bobro15/NAA-FX-2_zps79959a9a.jpg [photobucket.com]
http://i50.tinypic.com/2yl7cs8.jpg [tinypic.com] (the one in front)

Building smaller RC models and mockups is not rare.

The head of the design team himself said they have only performed test flight with two smaller models (one with a propeller, the other with a micro jet). These are from the slides he presented.

Propeller-powered sub-scale model:
http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/250662_10151268717323603_1355114109_n.png

Jet-powered sub-scale model:
http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542333_10151268717468603_1294585182_n.png

The one in photos was a mock up. Like any of these:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2667/pavillion22so.jpg
http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/bobro15/NAA-FX-2_zps79959a9a.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/2yl7cs8.jpg (the one in front)

Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?

The nutrition information is posted in the store on a wall poster and is also available as pamphlets you can keep/look at before ordering. In fact, it's obvious you haven't been in a McDonald's lately because they now list the calorie counts on their menu items right on the menu board next to the prices, even listing the sandwich alone and the range for meal options.

According to the "Behind the Scenes" on Episodes 1-3 Naboo's architecture was based on Hagia Sophia. Examples: Hagia Sophia, Naboo, Titus Blue Mosque, more naboo.

Also ... it took them how long to notice this latent xenophobia? I'm not saying they're wrong, Lucas was a little unimaginative when he developed some of the Star Wars cultures but it's not like he presented Muslims like they did in the movie "True Lies."

I used to have an actual 720 DLP TV and it looked quite fantastic compared to the 768 LCD that replaced it, and that's not due to the tech difference.

How can you control for the difference in technology when making the comparison?

This is why many people see a difference between 1080 and 720 TVs

That's far more to do with the fact that a 720p TV only has 66% of the pixels and that 720p TVs generally use much cheaper components all over.

Try rescaling a nice clear image by 16/15 and see what happens.

Challenge accepted (with thanks to Adobe for my free copy of Photoshop CS2):

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You may complain that I've chosen a soft target, and that if I'd taken a pin-sharp image and scaled it, I'd have got worse results. That's true. But digital video for broadcast or blu-ray is a lot softer than people imagine. That's why TVs have a sharpness control.

I used to have an actual 720 DLP TV and it looked quite fantastic compared to the 768 LCD that replaced it, and that's not due to the tech difference.

How can you control for the difference in technology when making the comparison?

This is why many people see a difference between 1080 and 720 TVs

That's far more to do with the fact that a 720p TV only has 66% of the pixels and that 720p TVs generally use much cheaper components all over.

Try rescaling a nice clear image by 16/15 and see what happens.

Challenge accepted (with thanks to Adobe for my free copy of Photoshop CS2):

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You may complain that I've chosen a soft target, and that if I'd taken a pin-sharp image and scaled it, I'd have got worse results. That's true. But digital video for broadcast or blu-ray is a lot softer than people imagine. That's why TVs have a sharpness control.

Found a picture of the submitter. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7673/descent.jpg/