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See, I was thinking more along the lines of Gundam 00 with the Ptolemaios.... http://i34.tinypic.com/210hqaq.gif

It seemed more poignant to capture that screenshot rather than this one as I got hit by the noob stick when I got home.

windows would complain that I didn't have antivirus -- and no you couldn't turn it off.

Have to call you on this one.

Bullshit.

Though there are multiple methods to remove that message, this is by far the most effective.

http://i31.tinypic.com/wi7ksx.jpg

I'm a lot more worried about this guy

I believe this slide deomnstrates how incedibly innovative this feature is!

One thing I have noticed is that Cairo's font rendering isn't as "overall pretty" as FF2 with IFE... but it is more readable. IFE, on all but the lowest settings blurred the fonts too much, as Windows on most of it's settings do. That especially (or mostly) applies to small text... but that is mostly what I use.

Maybe that's what you see as "sucks"? I prefer the text a little less anti-aliased to make the smaller fonts more readable - it especially helps where sites select font sizes using CSS, and the browser's minimum font size is set really low (which I do, to allow a site to render how it wants).

First--I believe that Firefox used GDI+ for rendering in Fx2, but may use Cairo in Fx3.

I browse on an LCD from about two feet away (laptop). This is IE7's text on the "Smallest" setting: http://i37.tinypic.com/dcaee9.jpg Dunno about you, but that looks a lot easier to read than a similar size on Firefox: http://i34.tinypic.com/rhtymo.jpg I already closed Safari and can't be assed to reopen it, but it looks very poor at small sizes, much worse than either Firefox or IE7.

Could just be me/my monitor, admittedly, but hey--not to put too fine a point on it, but if IE can do it right, Firefox ought to be able to.

One thing I have noticed is that Cairo's font rendering isn't as "overall pretty" as FF2 with IFE... but it is more readable. IFE, on all but the lowest settings blurred the fonts too much, as Windows on most of it's settings do. That especially (or mostly) applies to small text... but that is mostly what I use.

Maybe that's what you see as "sucks"? I prefer the text a little less anti-aliased to make the smaller fonts more readable - it especially helps where sites select font sizes using CSS, and the browser's minimum font size is set really low (which I do, to allow a site to render how it wants).

First--I believe that Firefox used GDI+ for rendering in Fx2, but may use Cairo in Fx3.

I browse on an LCD from about two feet away (laptop). This is IE7's text on the "Smallest" setting: http://i37.tinypic.com/dcaee9.jpg Dunno about you, but that looks a lot easier to read than a similar size on Firefox: http://i34.tinypic.com/rhtymo.jpg I already closed Safari and can't be assed to reopen it, but it looks very poor at small sizes, much worse than either Firefox or IE7.

Could just be me/my monitor, admittedly, but hey--not to put too fine a point on it, but if IE can do it right, Firefox ought to be able to.

IE: http://i37.tinypic.com/a4ne44.png
Safari: http://i35.tinypic.com/m7qdyh.jpg
Firefox: http://i36.tinypic.com/152gwsl.png

No antialiasing/hinting in Firefox; it's harder to read (on an LCD, at least, probably easier on a CRT). Of the three viewed on this LCD screen, IE looks nicest, Safari next, and Firefox last.

As for the freezing issues--I've seen it only on two computers, this laptop (Dell Inspiron E1505) and on a MacBook Pro running Windows. I haven't looked on others. I've been tempted to file a bug report, but since every previous time I've filed a bug against a Mozilla product it was shot down as "works for me" or "not a bug" (despite, you know...not being correct and, in fact, being changed later), to hell with 'em.

And it's noticeably slower than IE7. I use Firefox mostly because it has the extensions I like and because IE7's UI is annoying and weird, but I've been thinking about switching to Maxthon (which I really think Microsoft should buy up, because they actually get how to make a usable browser on the IE core).

IE: http://i37.tinypic.com/a4ne44.png
Safari: http://i35.tinypic.com/m7qdyh.jpg
Firefox: http://i36.tinypic.com/152gwsl.png

No antialiasing/hinting in Firefox; it's harder to read (on an LCD, at least, probably easier on a CRT). Of the three viewed on this LCD screen, IE looks nicest, Safari next, and Firefox last.

As for the freezing issues--I've seen it only on two computers, this laptop (Dell Inspiron E1505) and on a MacBook Pro running Windows. I haven't looked on others. I've been tempted to file a bug report, but since every previous time I've filed a bug against a Mozilla product it was shot down as "works for me" or "not a bug" (despite, you know...not being correct and, in fact, being changed later), to hell with 'em.

And it's noticeably slower than IE7. I use Firefox mostly because it has the extensions I like and because IE7's UI is annoying and weird, but I've been thinking about switching to Maxthon (which I really think Microsoft should buy up, because they actually get how to make a usable browser on the IE core).

IE: http://i37.tinypic.com/a4ne44.png
Safari: http://i35.tinypic.com/m7qdyh.jpg
Firefox: http://i36.tinypic.com/152gwsl.png

No antialiasing/hinting in Firefox; it's harder to read (on an LCD, at least, probably easier on a CRT). Of the three viewed on this LCD screen, IE looks nicest, Safari next, and Firefox last.

As for the freezing issues--I've seen it only on two computers, this laptop (Dell Inspiron E1505) and on a MacBook Pro running Windows. I haven't looked on others. I've been tempted to file a bug report, but since every previous time I've filed a bug against a Mozilla product it was shot down as "works for me" or "not a bug" (despite, you know...not being correct and, in fact, being changed later), to hell with 'em.

And it's noticeably slower than IE7. I use Firefox mostly because it has the extensions I like and because IE7's UI is annoying and weird, but I've been thinking about switching to Maxthon (which I really think Microsoft should buy up, because they actually get how to make a usable browser on the IE core).

http://i38.tinypic.com/ipbimb.jpg

And why is it linked on the main page?

http://i33.tinypic.com/2nb4z1w.jpg

Bravo.

The link seems to be requiring registration now. For those who don't want to bother, I posted this.

Regardless of whether what you described is possible, I guarantee that picture was photoshopped. It's a very rudimentary job: just do an edge-detect on the picture of the guy and then layer it over the background picture with the correct layer mode (additive, I'm thinking).

Oh, and the New York Times' cover would have been so much cooler if they'd used this technology.

I'm not sure what Taco did wrong, but the page looks fine to me.

I used to live right around the corner from Grover's Mill - there is actually a small monument at the supposed landing site.

Hope the rest of the launch goes better than this: http://i35.tinypic.com/2nkuy3a.jpg

@-moz-document domain(slashdot.org) {
li.contain {border-left-width: 1px !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-right-width: 1px !important}
span.nbutton {background-color: white !important}
span.nbutton p b a, span.nbutton p b a:hover {color: black !important; text-decoration: underline !important; background-color: white !important}
}

End result looks like this: http://i37.tinypic.com/iw2jo0.png

I mean, taking MGS4 as an example, that game renders all cutscenes in-game, yet _still_ fills up a whole dual layer BD, meaning 50 GB of textures and sound (minus some GB of double content for better reading performance, I know).

The Japanese ISO is apparently 46.6GB, and it seems like 16GB of that is just padding. The MGS4 game data is 30GB, minus around 2.5GB for Metal Gear Online. It looks like the cutscenes take up around 12GB (I gathered that from the names of some of the files). There is a japanese site with a full folder listing of the files and their respective sizes. All I could find was this pic though: http://i32.tinypic.com/2b1574.jpg (1600 x 1000)

Windows doesn't look like Windows 3.11 anymore, but this default theme still does. That's an easy fix that should be included in the next version.

I'm sorry but WHAT part of that looks like Windows 3.1?

this That, and well, it already blocks 3rd party scripts by default, so nothing to set there. Worst part is when you go to sites like youtube, you will have to whitelist ytimg.com cause the scripts are on a secondary domain. But it only takes two seconds and its set forever.

Forgot the HTML code: Payment options

The image: http://i7.tinypic.com/5z6vt4n.jpg

Speaking of which, I can't help to think of this interesting picture placement: http://i32.tinypic.com/103zzb7.png

meh, the original was far more readable, but still, thats not bad

I made up a 3D image of the landing leg by combining two of the published pictures. You can clearly see a mount that formed that makes it look like the lander slid as it touched down. The first version is 3D if you cross your eyes, the second version requires red-blue 3D glasses:
http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=phoenixlegstereoug5.jpg
http://i27.tinypic.com/24yyfix.jpg

You can do what I did with those old game covers and cases and recycle them. It's not uncommon to see a jock with a packed trophy case or frat boys with stacks of beer bottles, but how many times do you see a wall covered in game box art? I've got about 15 years of PC games alone. I'm running out of space, actually.

For reference: http://i28.tinypic.com/5wxg5j.jpg

And to add insult to injury, the page renders poorly on my box, further enhancing the pain:

http://i27.tinypic.com/b47tbc.jpg

'You won't foreseeably need any more than 640K.'

This has been discussed a lot of times before. Bill Gates didn't say that. So the misleading thing here is attributing that statement to Microsoft.

(Posted anonymously because I've moderated this topic and slashdot refuses to let me post a comment. Take a look at http://i28.tinypic.com/2hzsjg1.png and explain where I should have clicked)

actually a link to a picture.
http://i30.tinypic.com/jh5wr8.jpg

tl;dr

Here it is!
http://i32.tinypic.com/mbn2x4.jpg

You mean something like this? http://i7.tinypic.com/5z6vt4n.jpg

http://i29.tinypic.com/6h2vll.jpg

Data recovered from Seagate drive in Columbia shuttle disaster

posted on 06 May 2008 20:05
Most amazing disk data recovery ever

It was one of the most iconic and heart-stopping movie images of 2003: the Columbia Space Shuttle ignited, burning and crashing to earth in fragments.

Now, amazingly, data from a hard drive recovered from the fragments has been used to complete a physics experiment - CXV-2 - that took place on the doomed Shuttle mission.

Columbia's fragments were painstakingly and exhaustively collected. Amongst them was a 400MB Seagate hard drive which was in the sort of shape you think it would be in after being in an explosive fire and then hurled to earth from several miles up with a ferocious impact.

The Johnson Space Centre workers analysing the shuttle crash sent it off the CVX-2 (Critical Viscosity of Xenon) experiment engineers, who sent it on to Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see if the data, any data, could be recovered. For researcher Robert Berg and his team it was the only hope, a terribly slim hope, of salvaging significant data from the experiment looking at Xenon gas flows in microgravity.

The Kroll people managed to recover 90 percent or so of the 400MB of data from the drive with its cracked and burned casing. Now, a few years on, Berg and his team have analysed the data and reported the experiment and its results in the April edition of the Physical Review E journal. These showed that, rather liked whipped cream which changes from a fluid to a near-solid after being whipped or stirred vigorously, the gas Xenon change its viscosity from gas to liquid when similarly treated in very low gravity. The phenomenon of a sudden change in viscosity is called shear thinning.

It was a highly complex experiment needing prologed and detailed analysis of the data on the hard drive to discover the shear thinning effect. But it, like the drive, was eventually found. So ends a twenty-year research project and in doing so helps bring to a finish the dreadful story of the Columbia Space Shuttle mission.

[Chris Mellor, editor.]

heres a screenshot!

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/609/image2jl5.png

or

http://i27.tinypic.com/34xf094.png

Penny arcade has a comic for you.

I can't believe how perfect this was:

http://i28.tinypic.com/111rsyr.png

(But, no, I'm not on Comcast. Still funny.)

How about this?

What Comcast truly thinks of its customers.

I wasn't going to post this (bored lunch break GIMP work), but now I must. http://i29.tinypic.com/25rjrew.png

No really. http://i31.tinypic.com/jk7nsm.jpg

"bei zhan you" is silly, that's the conventional meaning for "owned"

IMHO it's "miao" , lit."second". It's short for "miao sha", i.e "slay somebody within seconds".(here's a picture of the characters http://i3.tinypic.com/6kqmirc.gif )

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hell I forget I even got a username on slashdot...surprise for a Chinese non-nerd

This was the first sign of trouble: http://i23.tinypic.com/2ezqkht.jpg

The cynic in me wonders why this story was published at 9pm EST on a Saturday night. Not just any Saturday night, the weekend before Christmas where most people have office Christmas parties or are otherwise occupied.

Nah, must be a coincidence.

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I was about to post this as is, but the CAPTCHA for posting as Anonymous Coward is "congress"

http://i23.tinypic.com/2ezqkht.jpg

This is what the internet is going to turn into if we don't have net neutrality:

http://i7.tinypic.com/5z6vt4n.jpg

This is what the internet is going to turn into if we don't have net neutrality:
http://i7.tinypic.com/5z6vt4n.jpg