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Related (and not a goatse, I swear.)

http://i.imgur.com/HX3pF.png
Render me impressed. The sound is a bit of a mess but works better than that javascript Doom from some days ago.
I don't have a ROM for pokemon gold/silver but they might work as well. Pretty cool.
(Why pokemon and why should you care? It squeezes the gameboy until the last drop)

Here's a pic of a container ship after going through rough seas: http://i.imgur.com/4ynah.jpg. I'm stunned that those containers are still on board. Looks like they're chained down, but even metal breaks eventually

It appears that there are a few container missing, but holy tiedown, Batman, that's an extra heapload more robust than I would have thought. And imagining the seas that vessel must have endured makes me want to sit down immediately.

Here's a pic of a container ship after going through rough seas: http://i.imgur.com/4ynah.jpg. I'm stunned that those containers are still on board. Looks like they're chained down, but even metal breaks eventually

That's kind of awesome. I feel like this belongs in a demotivation poster. Maybe "Sure, I could hack it together over the weekend" or "This is what your code will look like to the next developer."

Here, have a handy chart.

http://i.imgur.com/gDYbf.jpg

Here's a pic of a container ship after going through rough seas: http://i.imgur.com/4ynah.jpg. I'm stunned that those containers are still on board. Looks like they're chained down, but even metal breaks eventually

The only remaining legally displayable image.

The best videos, processed and raw, are available in javascript, flash, and mpg from the lockheedmartin/solarsoft group that handles SDO AIA: http://sdowww.lmsal.com/sdomedia/ssw/ssw_client/data/ssw_service_110606_235609_98013/www/

If you look at the proton monitors in L1 http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/SIS_24h.html and earth geosynchronous http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/Proton.gif orbit there is a very suggestive correlation between this flare and a flux of high energy protons! The timing is about right and the flare itself is positioned such that the parker spiral http://spaceweather.uma.es/solarstorms_files/figura1bc.JPG of the interplanetary magnetic field http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2434rAbImf0 would put earth in sun spot 1226's path http://i.imgur.com/ZIffl.gif. This tight coupling of timing between the flare time (~06:30:00) and proton arrival (07:00:00) suggests not a coronal mass ejection (that takes days) but instead of weakly relativistic particle beam traveling down the magnetic field lines to earth in only tens of minutes. This interpetation is confirmed by the UMA automatic solar energetic particle forcaster http://spaceweather.uma.es/forecastpanel.htm and later in the day mentioned by a press release http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-unusual-solar-storm-disrupt-earth.html.

"come back when you have spent ~10 years in forefront of php development trenches"

See my website? Everything database-related on that site is much easier to modify, or update, than your piece of garbage.

Come back when You actually have a clue about my 15+ years of experience getting the big shit done for multi-naional companies.

Yea, that's me, overseas in my UK office, ensuring my database modifications didn't compromise my website.

Come back when you actually get to my 15+ years of experience, okay? You're still behind me and it's apparent with your attitude and mindset you're going to stay behind me.

Electricity. You can't explain that. http://i.imgur.com/4hfC6.jpg

What is it with this modern fad of having to join some exclusive, pay-for, preorder list for something that you have NO idea what it will play like, before you get to see (for example) a bloody demo!

This, and the comments from people who have played the demo thus far, makes my decision final. Rather than saving 20% by pre-ordering via Steam's offer, I'm going to wait it out and see what happens when the real reviews come in. Then, only if it doesn't turn out to be awful, I'll wait six months and buy it for 50% or less of the release day price. Heck, HMV had DeadSapce 2 for PC at a little less than half price no more than three months after release.

Also regarding pre-order offers (and DLC, another often irritating facet of modern games), this is relevant: the sad state of modern gaming.

I'm on your side, I am, but I'm seeing more and more things that make me think the Germans do in fact know what they're talking about. (Hey, they've always been good with technology and engineering).

> Wind .. requires vast area to harness it.

Have you taken a train ride across Germany any time in the past 5 years? Their countryside is jam packed with 2MW windmills. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Germany

> Solar ...requires vast areas to harness it.

http://imgur.com/nu9D7 and they're installing 7GW more each year.

Are you sure they can't use natural gas to backfill? Russia provides huge amounts of it to Europe...

This isn't really that difficult.

Here's a screenshot I just made of DOS 3.3 / Windows 1.01 running under QEMU under Ubuntu 11.04.

http://i.imgur.com/lrEf3.png

It may even run under DOSBox, but I've not tried anything earlier than WFW 3.11 in that environment.

I was rather impressed with myself recently getting this running:

Ubuntu 11.04 > VirtualBox 4.0.something > OS/2 Warp4 FP15 > WinOS/2.

That was a challenge!

Speaking of Address/URL bars... I hate that I can't re-arrange Windows Vista/7's address bar in Explorer and remove the favorites completely from IE8. Granted, I don't use Windows except for work where I need to have IE open for at least part of my day... but it's enough to bug the shit out of me.

In case you don't understand why I'd want to move the address bar (and remove the search box):
http://i.imgur.com/b2WD9.png

That we like the way pixel art looks in the first place!

This project is technically interesting but as art it completely misses the point. Not every piece of human creation needs to be updated, upscaled, "improved" and redone.

I know the originals make more sense to me.

EvilHom3r over on Reddit seems to have mirrored the paper (as images) here.

My verdict: Yeah, it looks all nice and smooth, but with all upscaling, it's basically interpolating data. The original just didn't have that much detail, so you can only get so much out of it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

(Oh, and it makes all text look pretty bad. Kinda Comic Sans-y, if I can say that without invoking instant hate.)

I know what you mean but it's pretty impressive nonetheless. The flaw I found interesting was in the keyboard image. I'm sure the intention here is square keys, but their algorithm made all the keys round. Some things in a pixelated image should not be smoothed but without human context that's a very hard call to make.

They mention that form of approach in the introduction and reference Hqx specifically in Section 2: Previous work.

As mentioned two posts up there's an image of the paper (so text search blows) here: http://imgur.com/a/gRXPJ

EvilHom3r over on Reddit seems to have mirrored the paper (as images) here.

My verdict: Yeah, it looks all nice and smooth, but with all upscaling, it's basically interpolating data. The original just didn't have that much detail, so you can only get so much out of it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
(Oh, and it makes all text look pretty bad. Kinda Comic Sans-y, if I can say that without invoking instant hate.)

http://i.imgur.com/8o87u.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Y7J0e.jpg

as a 21 year old that hasn't really used an ios device for an extended period of time, it honestly took me two or three seconds to parse what i was looking at and realize that i probably want to press the "+". normally i wouldn't think twice about this, but i can kinda see where the article is coming from

it's honestly kind of a busy screen, and on the busy screen one of the most important functions (adding an alarm) is shown only as a very small button in a kind of weird location that only reads "+". while functionally identical to you or me, i imagine the android alarm screen is much more accessible
http://i.imgur.com/OjgUJ.png

When Firefox came out, I switched to it eagerly (early 2000). Then it crashed and took all my info with it. I switched to use Opera, and it proved more stable, more secure. And then I gave up using computers for a long time, like 5 years. Now I am using computer heavily, and believe me, Opera is the best. Here is a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/7yMMf.png. Can you see the URL bar? No, cause there isn't. When you click the grey bar top, then it shows up. Also the tab's are re-sizable, I can just arrange my tabs to show the necessary part of a web page. And boy, that's handy, cause there are all advr. in the pages today. So what are you waiting, switch to Opera. (Hope someone sees this post, in this crowded page, meme face goes here.)

I came across one yesterday called MacKeeper (screenshot). To close Safari, I had to use 'force quit' from Activity Monitor.

Check this topic: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=25606&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=c883e111edfabdab8f3553f8f8a93d7f They already have an executable compiled for anyone to test out. Plus you can use it to run the original voodoo drivers for windows 95 - 98 for hardware accelerated Direct 3D games. Here's a gallery of 3DMark '99, using the DirectX 6 benchmark in dosbox: http://imgur.com/a/sBwz3#XbibR You can download the compiled test executable (dosbox_mingw.zip) on this page in the forums: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=25606&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=340&sid=c77daab3a3561f5a676e32a91b2c97f5

Was /. spamming AIM as well?

was it /. that caused it to go down?

http://imgur.com/QDzXE

Tracert from Chicago comcast customer. (as image because of slashdot's lame lameness filter)

http://i.imgur.com/x26hd.jpg

Problem is in Sweden, not here.

Here's a lovely pic of a "clean coal" plant's emissions that I took just yesterday. Yummy. http://i.imgur.com/6Xaos.jpg

Sounds like it

All related links! All SFW!

Failbook
Star Trek TNG
Obama v Trump
Climbin' in yo mansion...

(This is what happens when you hide evidence - mindless link propagation.)

All related links! All SFW!

Failbook
Star Trek TNG
Obama v Trump
Climbin' in yo mansion...

(This is what happens when you hide evidence - mindless link propagation.)

And another relevant: Assange vs. Zuckerberg.

Indeed. Here's a picture.

Android phones, on first bootup asks you if you want to allow Google to track your anonymous location data. You can even disable it after via a menu option.

Nothing wrong here, move along.

You do realize most rifles tend to leave clean holes?

Unless he got popped with something .40 or larger he's still going to be recognizable.

http://imgur.com/im0ur.jpg

Like that.

"No pictures released"

http://imgur.com/im0ur.jpg

Say what? Perhaps you should watch TMZ a little more often.

http://i.imgur.com/IDsF2.gif

Interesting... I thought this was normal. 7-800 MB would be nice. I usually close it down when it hits 1.6 to 1.7 GB. I'm almost there now as you can see -> http://i.imgur.com/WRCRG.png. It gets very sluggish even on my new 64bit hexacore system, 8 Gig RAM, SSD. It could be a plugin or addon but I'm not running anything too crazy. How can I determine if it is an addon or a plugin? I'd be glad to provide all the profiling information that you need. Here are the addons that I'm running http://i.imgur.com/ieyFD.png, and the plugins http://i.imgur.com/ZT9EV.png. Do you see anything out of the ordinary? Maybe this will help -> http://i.imgur.com/qliRW.png. I have an abnormally high number of tabs open as I write this message, 34. I normally have about a dozen open and still the memory usage will grow to almost 2 GB before it get so slow that I can't stand it anymore and close it down. I find myself using Google Chrome more and more because it doesn't suffer from this problem. Firefox is still my favourite browser but this speed problem is making it difficult to use and as a web app developer, I can't have my browser hold me up like this. I really hope that this can be fixed.

Interesting... I thought this was normal. 7-800 MB would be nice. I usually close it down when it hits 1.6 to 1.7 GB. I'm almost there now as you can see -> http://i.imgur.com/WRCRG.png. It gets very sluggish even on my new 64bit hexacore system, 8 Gig RAM, SSD. It could be a plugin or addon but I'm not running anything too crazy. How can I determine if it is an addon or a plugin? I'd be glad to provide all the profiling information that you need. Here are the addons that I'm running http://i.imgur.com/ieyFD.png, and the plugins http://i.imgur.com/ZT9EV.png. Do you see anything out of the ordinary? Maybe this will help -> http://i.imgur.com/qliRW.png. I have an abnormally high number of tabs open as I write this message, 34. I normally have about a dozen open and still the memory usage will grow to almost 2 GB before it get so slow that I can't stand it anymore and close it down. I find myself using Google Chrome more and more because it doesn't suffer from this problem. Firefox is still my favourite browser but this speed problem is making it difficult to use and as a web app developer, I can't have my browser hold me up like this. I really hope that this can be fixed.

Interesting... I thought this was normal. 7-800 MB would be nice. I usually close it down when it hits 1.6 to 1.7 GB. I'm almost there now as you can see -> http://i.imgur.com/WRCRG.png. It gets very sluggish even on my new 64bit hexacore system, 8 Gig RAM, SSD. It could be a plugin or addon but I'm not running anything too crazy. How can I determine if it is an addon or a plugin? I'd be glad to provide all the profiling information that you need. Here are the addons that I'm running http://i.imgur.com/ieyFD.png, and the plugins http://i.imgur.com/ZT9EV.png. Do you see anything out of the ordinary? Maybe this will help -> http://i.imgur.com/qliRW.png. I have an abnormally high number of tabs open as I write this message, 34. I normally have about a dozen open and still the memory usage will grow to almost 2 GB before it get so slow that I can't stand it anymore and close it down. I find myself using Google Chrome more and more because it doesn't suffer from this problem. Firefox is still my favourite browser but this speed problem is making it difficult to use and as a web app developer, I can't have my browser hold me up like this. I really hope that this can be fixed.

Interesting... I thought this was normal. 7-800 MB would be nice. I usually close it down when it hits 1.6 to 1.7 GB. I'm almost there now as you can see -> http://i.imgur.com/WRCRG.png. It gets very sluggish even on my new 64bit hexacore system, 8 Gig RAM, SSD. It could be a plugin or addon but I'm not running anything too crazy. How can I determine if it is an addon or a plugin? I'd be glad to provide all the profiling information that you need. Here are the addons that I'm running http://i.imgur.com/ieyFD.png, and the plugins http://i.imgur.com/ZT9EV.png. Do you see anything out of the ordinary? Maybe this will help -> http://i.imgur.com/qliRW.png. I have an abnormally high number of tabs open as I write this message, 34. I normally have about a dozen open and still the memory usage will grow to almost 2 GB before it get so slow that I can't stand it anymore and close it down. I find myself using Google Chrome more and more because it doesn't suffer from this problem. Firefox is still my favourite browser but this speed problem is making it difficult to use and as a web app developer, I can't have my browser hold me up like this. I really hope that this can be fixed.

You have problems reading.

Also you're doing it wrong.

http://i.imgur.com/shrBtl.jpg

SLI + quad monitor under XP. Yes, I game on it. Go read your manual and figure out what you're doing wrong, because it's guaranteed to be YOU.

http://i.imgur.com/9fbHL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg

separated at birth?

Apple did not by any means come up with this general design. In fact Samsung has much more of a reason to sue Apple for stealing *their* design. http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg

Rubbish. http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg

This isn't the first time apple has tried to sue over vague look and feel like assholes. Last time, in a saner era (well, apart from the thousands of nukes just waiting to rain down on USA and Russia and anyone in-between), they got their ass handed to them on a plate, and today we can use computers not made by apple that have windows, icons, mouse and pointer etc. (remember apple didn't actually come up with any of those things, they're just a litigation and marketing engine since Woz left in disgust). Unfortunately with the US legal system as corrupted as it is today, they might win this time.

Amazon are doing great things for culture at the moment

( http://i.imgur.com/rgo9M.png in case they fix it before you read this )

http://i.imgur.com/y7Hm9.jpg

... one might argue that Samsung have prior art to the iphone...

Not sure what google adverts the rest of you are seeing on this story but mine are hilarious.

http://i.imgur.com/U6jCz.png

This is why I don't turn it off (as well as supporting /. ad revenues).

Yes, I got the same one and a good laugh out of it too.