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where are you seeing these "rating colors"?

i didn't know either, so i looked it up -- it's the /. firehose quality filter. When you're logged in, you can see the popularity color on the left side of the summary heading. You can also increase/decrease this rating. See screen cap. Also, when browsing the front page of /., you can filter based on the color...see top-right of screenshot. The rating colors are ROYGBIV + Black. Red is the highest (most popular), black is the lowest. submitted articles initially have the color rating of blue.

I had seen the color filtering before on the front page, but never looked into enough to find out. I learned something new. Hope you did too!

The 1987 anime Daimajuu Gekitou Hagane No Oni clearly shows us what cellphones will be like in the future:

http://i29.tinypic.com/2cfd1f4.jpg

I simply can't wait to get my hands on such a technical marvel. Compact, functional and incredibly stylish - it makes me wish I was born in the future.

To be fair, the device did show similarities to a modern smart phone in terms of functionality, so while the producers were a bit off the mark with the design their vision of a future mobile phone was fairly accurate.

Shame on you TacoMan :)

I'm one of those with double height taskbars in windows classic mode.

If you allow me to give you a hint, move your Windows taskbar to the right side (like this). This way you can have as many windows opened as you wish without cluttering.

Additionally, this setup frees vertical space in exchange of horizontal (which is usually wasted in today's wide-screen monitors).

I started with this setup about a year ago, and although it was a bit "uncomfortable" the first days (due to muscle memory), now I find the default setup very cluttered. Combined with virtual desktops this setup shines :)

You are Completely wrong.

Looks like he was right to me... dogs and liberals both need someone's time and money to support them.

As a small business owner, I bet you vote for the party that does though. That's disgusting. I've had enough of this kind of moral calculus: the kind of treatment works here receive is outright illegal in Western Europe. Society there hasn't collapsed: in fact, they're better off for it. So screw your pro-business rhetoric. There comes a point when being anti-business is also anti-people, but we're nowhere near that point.

You are Completely wrong.

Your second link is bad, simple 'shopped promo material. This is how Doom3 graphics actually look like: http://i31.tinypic.com/28b4d3q.jpg

Set GL_LensCap to 0, you fool.

Your second link is bad, simple 'shopped promo material. This is how Doom3 graphics actually look like: http://i31.tinypic.com/28b4d3q.jpg

Yes! The Internet is serious business!!!11!!one!!11

I was initially kind of shocked at the lack of distinction between ads and legit results, but then I looked at this screenshot someone else posted: http://i29.tinypic.com/mihpqw.png

Apparently there aren't any.

http://i31.tinypic.com/35906z7.png

I was initially kind of shocked at the lack of distinction between ads and legit results, but then I looked at this screenshot someone else posted: http://i29.tinypic.com/mihpqw.png

Apparently there aren't any.

http://i31.tinypic.com/35906z7.png

Seems completely clear to me (Screenshot), unless you're browsing with Internet Explorer, or another browser without ad blocking.

Lol, it reminds me that picture posted a while ago "The world according to America " :-) http://i8.tinypic.com/6h89yes.gif

I would love the fact if Facebook was being stingy with my information to advertisers, but they're not

A bit outdated...but behold the beauty of easily scrapable ajax ad interfaces.

The FCC is the American version of China's MIIT.

If you think the MIIT has that much power over the Chinese people, how much more power does the FCC have over the entire world?

It's funny, there are so many similarities between China and the U.S. Both are huge world powers that use their military and economic power to intimidate neighbors. Both are led by an oligarchy of unremovable political parties. And both have populaces that are brainwashed and fiercely patriotic.

China is a good mirror of ourselves, so when this type of thing comes up, it's a good idea to take note and think about how we ourselves are being manipulated right here at home.

Your nickname is a bit ironic here.
Try to not paint everyone with the same brush who displays a certain characteristic.
Case in point: Tank Man versus 1999 WTO Protests in Seattle.

Neither was peaceful, but the fact I'm able to read about and discuss these past events instead of being state-censored is a pretty significant difference between the USA and China.
I realize nothing I say will change your mind, so enjoy your stereotypical view of America.

Screen cap here, in case the data appears soon...

My folder have an average of 3,800. What about yours? http://i44.tinypic.com/2j4vd76.jpg

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Then why do you sign your posts Anonymous Cowardon?

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ia33bn.jpg

and this is what I think of her math skillz

Guys, ZFS is currently in the Snow Leopard Server preview, it's just not in the main desktop version of Snow Leopard yet (it'll probably come in a few months). Not only that, but there are HFS+ and ZFS drivers for bootcamp. My friend just installed Windows 7 RC on a ZFS partition with Bootcamp on Snow Leopard Server. The following screenshot is SFW http://i40.tinypic.com/xdumw0.jpg

The guys pic

http://i41.tinypic.com/zjdqgy.jpg

RIP

The easiest way to get a stereo 3D movie is actually by taking advantage of camera motion.

1. Detect camera motion
2. Detect the direction
3. Detect the velocity
4. display frame t=N for one eye
5. display frame t=+-x for the other eye, depending on 2, and x depending on 4.

If you've got the movie Swordfish, you can apply this technique to the action sequence in the beginning where a camera orbits the scene. In fact, try here*:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2a6tw82&s=5

It's in cross-eyed stereoscopic format, so just cross your eyes, focus, and enjoy the scene in stereoscopic 3D.

It also shows (slightly) the pitfalls...
1. If there's no camera motion, this doesn't work.
2. If there's too much non-camera motion, this shows ghosting (as e.g. a person will be in place A at t=N, and place B at t=N+x)
3. If there's any post effects, they will stick out like a sore thumb if they are not accurately composited in. In that video, for example, the explosion-y bits halfway in look like they're kind of floating at a place in the scene they shouldn't be. It doesn't show so much in the original (just watch either left/right alone), but it shows up easily once made stereoscopic 3d.

It is a cute method, just not well-suited to any and all movies at all.

Other methods that might be employed are detecting fog and using the fog as a depth cue, or parent poster's method; but that will take a more hefty processor (most of the above steps can easily be derived from e.g. an mpeg processor, which already does motion estimation).

( *original material copyright Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures, NPV Entertainment and Jonathan Krane Group and Warner Bros (distributor). Broadcast by SBS Broadcasting, a subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. Used only to demonstrate a 2D to stereographic 3D conversion method, for educational purposes. )

We still have these instruments in some parts of Romania, they are called "bucium" or "tulnic" (varies across the regions of the country).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucium
http://i41.tinypic.com/6jgkk8.jpg

The near future of gaming is easy to predict... More and more publishers will go bankrupt and/or get consolidated with the big ones. In the past 20 years development costs have been increasing exponentially, while revenue hasn't been increasing as fast. It's easy to tell where that leads to.

The cause is mainly that graphics are getting better and better, which means more and more artists are required to make a game. Polyphony Digital, makers of the Gran Turismo series have said a single artist takes 6 months to make a car model for GT5 (for PS3), whereas the same artist took a month doing so for GT3 and GT4 (for PS2), and just a day in GT and GT2 (for PS1).

This has lead to a lot of bankruptcies and consolidation in the gaming industry, with publishers like EA growing a lot. However, we're now at the point that even these big fish are losing money, with EA full of red ink ever since the current generation of consoles started. Take 2 has been posting losses even with its GTA4 multi-million-units cash cow (which has allegedly cost around $100 million to develop. Just open up google finance and check out these companies earnings, they're consistently dismal in the last few quarters/years.

In recent times, Midway has gone bankrupt, troubled Eidos got bought out by Square-Enix and 3D Realms has gone bankrupt. More will follow, THQ being one of the most troubled in the short term.

About the only big companies making money on gaming these days are Nintendo (which took a cautious approach to graphical capabilites in order to keep development costs manageable), Ubisoft, Epic (which makes a lot of its money from engine licensing), Valve (which has Steam) and of course Activision-Blizzard with the WoW cash cow.

Graphical improvements must be toned down for the gaming industry to be viable. Expect the next generation of consoles to take a Wii-like approach towards hardware power, increasing little over the previous generation. Instead the gaming industry will have to generate real innovation, instead of just more polygons and pixels on the screen.

Urban-related warming over China is shown to be about 0.1ÂC/decade over the period 1951â"2004, with true climatic warming accounting for 0.81ÂC over this period"

Cute, isn't it, how he compares a rate-per-decade with a rate-per-specific-54-year-period in order to make the former appear small. Here's a chart of China's warming since 1900; if UHI accounts for 0.1ÂC/decade there's not much left. The other plots featured - the ones that don't involve China - are basically cover fire, answering a claim nobody made. But it actually gets better than that. Jones claims urban trends are carefully accounted for in the NASA data, but the nature of these corrections is basically a secret. Jones is famously uncooperative with anyone who wants to look at the source data and try to reproduce his calculations. Jones is the one who said:

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.

http://i40.tinypic.com/xduk2b.jpg

HHAHAHAHAHAAA What did I just told you guys! I always bet on Duke!

This is why

I believe eMule, for example, is set to open up a max of 800 or 1000 simultaneous connections out of the box.

No. It may allow a user/system to do that, but it uses far fewer connections out of the box, not counting KAD/DHT and such. Same goes for BitTorrent and many other p2p-apps. The problem usually lies the user setting insanely high settings for bandwidth and connections.

Here's a picture of eMule out of the box (fresh install as of 4/30/09) with a limit of 800 connections:
http://i44.tinypic.com/mjveds.jpg

I did not change anything. I went through the wizard and answered the bandwidth connections as I would a normal home user -- honestly.

On top of that, you seem to be extremely oblivious about the default values for connection limits on p2p applications like eMule, or most bittorrent clients.

I just did a default install of eMule, the latest version from their website.

Here's my connection window. I changed no options, selecting the closest speed to my ISP's connection (1.5/768):
http://i44.tinypic.com/mjveds.jpg

I did have 49b installed (but unused), and it was at something along the lines of 400/800 or 600/800 before doing an uninstall and reinstall.

Unless I'm confused, that says 800 connections max. The only other thing connection related I can find is under Extended, which has a "Max. New Connections / 5 secs.: 20".

So I'm not crazy. The default limit for an average DSL user is 800 connections at the same time.

I could never make out the captchas so this doesn't affect me.

i dunno i found them "captchas" rather interesting :P

and then we had the these cats and dogs

I could never make out the captchas so this doesn't affect me.

i dunno i found them "captchas" rather interesting :P

and then we had the these cats and dogs

"But at least for the way I used those things, the Vista start menu more than makes up for their loss"

But if you look at the way I use them, you'll see that they're basically like multiple start menus, doing different things. Sure you could have these as submenus, but that's slower.

"and they had some security problems"

So have them disabled by default but let me turn them back on. I don't have security problems, I'm far too good for that. I don't even mind downloading the feature as a powertoy or equivalent, but I do need it (where need is equal to very high levels of want)

"For example?"

Take a pre-vista Windows. Make sure the taskbar is unlocked (in right click menu), and add a new toolbar such as the Address or Quick Launch (if you don't have one). The left hand side of this bar has a drag bar, which you can move it around, or pull it out of the taskbar and dock it to the top or sides of the screen, creating a new dock bar which you can populate. This, along with freelaunchbar I find very useful (example, my desktop: screenshot).

Argue or not whether this would be useful to you, the fact is that Vista/7 just won't let you do it*. You can move your taskbar, sure, but all my attempts to create a second, as in my screenshot, have failed*.

I also use a tool called xneat which allows the rearranging of task buttons on the taskbar. This has been "superseded" in 7 (perhaps vista too?) - but, as far as I've found, buttons move with other buttons in the application (so moving one messenger task button moves them all with it). I group task buttons by task, not by process (so my work related chat windows go next to my work related putty windows for example, then chat windows to my friends next to browser window containing facebook). You can do this in 2003. 7, however, enforces grouping based on its own metric of what a group should be. I've not been able to break them apart so I can group them as I want.

Again, arguments whether this would be useful to you or not aside. It is to me, it's functionality that was there, and has been removed*.

(*If I am wrong on any of these, please somebody correct me, because this is a showstopper for me, I would really like to be able to do these!)

Fail Whale on Rails? Enjoy :)

{Excuse the work, its paint.net}

FWOR

Google seems to be openly blocking anyone from Iran accessing the GSOC sites for some time

2 years ago:
http://jadi.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/5/1/2917242.html

Today:
http://i41.tinypic.com/20gy3j4.jpg

they should've! look http://i40.tinypic.com/335cc4k.jpg

like this one?

Same problem with a white Eee. I went with XKCD/Don Quixote

http://i39.tinypic.com/z0sh5.jpg

Yup....here is what the insecure will use:
http://i39.tinypic.com/amwrjm.jpg

but this one will definitely come on all of them soon:
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7407/windows7clientsoftwarel.png

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=vnc6rm&s=5

Take a picture from a camera. convert it to greyscale. Shrink it down to 8x8. Then expand it to fill your entire field of vision.

So if you see this then he see this.

Perhaps its a blessing afterall.

Take a picture from a camera. convert it to greyscale. Shrink it down to 8x8. Then expand it to fill your entire field of vision.

So if you see this then he see this.

Perhaps its a blessing afterall.

Yo dawg, I heard you like waiting, so we put a timer in your timer so you can wait while you wait

No, but I'm guessing they were barking up the wrong tree. Here's a look at my User folder on a Windows 7 machine:

http://i42.tinypic.com/2cna2k5.png

Notice that a lot of the folders have shortcut arrows beside them? Well, they're not real shortcuts you just click on, they're just there for legacy programs. If a program tries to dump a file into "Local Settings", it will automatically be redirected to a different folder (Probably AppData/Roaming). Trying to double click any of those shortcuts bring an "access denied" error box, even the "My Documents" one, but I can access My Documents just fine by going to Documents as normal.
If the user in this case just did a bit of research, they'd probably find that the data they want is in AppData/Roaming/Adobe or something.

The only reason Windows doesn't let you change this is because it WILL break things and there's no reason for you to.

had to install the vista driver for my sound card. http://i39.tinypic.com/213gr3k.png

All of the information you need is available here (sorry for it being an image, but that's better than a PDF).

Given that satellites travel at speeds measured in km/s and the paths of these satellites were something close to perpendicular to each other judging by the little animation that has been produced, I'd say that the probability that they were going to hit was immeasurably small, smaller than any error contained within any calculation that could be made. That is to say: entirely unpredictable. This is without a doubt a freak occurrence if you ask me, like shooting a bullet out of the sky with another bullet... by accident. Earth is a big place... orbit is an even bigger place.

That said I agree with you: The idea that this was Putin plotting away in some dark cave to 'test' Obama by shooting down a private satellite, well yeah thats a pretty far stretch.

These satellites were Iridium33 (24946) and K-2251 (22675). Now they are pieces of debris from bowling ball sized pieces to vapor.

A nice little animation of the collision is placed here:

http://i39.tinypic.com/2vbk75z.gif

This was bound to happen and will happen again. The interesting question is how come they didn't maneuver one of them out of the way. I don't know if 22675 is an active payload that still has power but Iridium33 certainly has the capability of moving. This one was avoidable. Even my non rocket science brain can take the TLEs and figure out that they were passing way too close to each other (I put it at about 500 meters with the latest elements).

Unfortunately, this didn't create 2 'clouds' of debris. This created one huge field of debris that will continue to expand over time. Many of the pieces will be tracked but the very small pieces cannot be.

It would have been way cool to observe the collision!