Armari can also put you together a decent high-end workstation.
Back in the day (c. 1999) I needed a new workstation. Armari set me up with Dual PIII-400's, LVD-SCSI HD, lots of RAM. Man that was a dream machine in it's day. Set me back of the (then) equivalent of $5,000 but it cut through my compliations like a knife through butter.
Still running. Man it's a crap machine now though!
For a long time I've thought it would be cool to equip digital cameras with GPS (including facing information) and Packet Radio transmitters. Every photo could be invisibly stamped (via metadata) with the time and location of the shot and users could choose whether or not to "upload" the photo to a central server via the radio/cell/communications service.
Yes, a lot of shots would be useless but the central server could build up a massive "montage" to document what the world looks like at ground-level. I think this would also be very useful for providing data to create virtual tours of places.
Of course, I'm also harbouring the hope that the data could be used to create a truly detailed virtual world that I'll be able to live in once this meat-body packs up and I go completely digital....
they do but they're using it as a smoke screen for some real reason
As some other poster pointed out, could it be that the wireless telco's are nervous that citizens could help each other to blanket the map with free 802.11b access and thereby bypass the elaborate by-the-second and for-the-kilobyte toll network the telco[n]s have paid so much to put together? Nah, that couldn't be it.
If you take the time to read between the lines of his other posts you'll see their shot through with subtle irony.
Guess : "Adam Rightmann" (if that is his name and not an ironic nom de plume) is an ascerbic Brit with a penchant for poking fun at the Catlick Church.
I'm not convinced the "baby boomer" generation have deliberately and cynically screwed it up for everyone that followed them.
National Insurance (the system of pay now, your children will pay later) was set up at a time when workers outnumbered retirees by a factor of at least 15-1 (fact : in the US in 1950 the rate was 16-1).
In the years since two major trends have reduced that ratio down to 5-1 or less : "Family Planning" which until 1960 was an oxymoron and secondly a significant increase in life expectancy.
Lets face it, this was an age where people genuinely belived that smoking was good for them. Sure, they may have f*cked things up royally for those who followed them but did they know any better?
About 6 years ago the youngest MP in the UK was 26, so GenX is already in power. I don't see things getting better in the UK...
I watched The Godfather on TNN the other night. In a bedroom scene Michael's newlywed wife's nipples were pixellated.
Several scenes later Michaels brother is brutally machine-gunned to death. There was no pixellation of his bullet-ridden body during or after the attack.
What kind of weird society thinks we need to be protected from the sight of a pair of nipples but that acts of murder are family viewing?
Well, the Daewoo has the option of selecting any region by number or "Bypass". I've had it in bypass mode which I expect in your region free bit set at 255.
However, I can just as easily select the region from the available list too.
Dead wrong. CGI is still in its infancy, akin to programming in Assembly. Sure, you can do great work in assembly but its painstaking work.
Higher and higher levels of abstraction are the key here. There is no reason at all why you can't load a sufficiently complex human model with a "personality" (modified methods of movement, facial expressions etc) and then have it run through a programmed script.
Sure, this might be a way off but never say never.
True, you can't browse but Amazon's "People who bought this also bought..." information can lead you to some great books you wouldn't necessarily have picked out yourself.
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The average flyer is, well, average. In the US this means that they are likely obese and/or unattractive.
I suspect that the airport security people arn't going to enjoy this one bit..
The thought of watching an endless parade of naked fat people isn't too appealing to me at least.
It's a new 64bit version of Firebird called "Project Vulcan".
a ge =vul_announcement
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&p
Armari can also put you together a decent high-end workstation.
Back in the day (c. 1999) I needed a new workstation. Armari set me up with Dual PIII-400's, LVD-SCSI HD, lots of RAM. Man that was a dream machine in it's day. Set me back of the (then) equivalent of $5,000 but it cut through my compliations like a knife through butter.
Still running. Man it's a crap machine now though!
According to Fred Brooks the average american programmer only creates 11 lines of code a day.
You don't need to be able to type 80wpm to achieve that.
Wow, look at that. 8 more lines and I can call it a day.
Wait, I'm not American, D'oh!
For a long time I've thought it would be cool to equip digital cameras with GPS (including facing information) and Packet Radio transmitters. Every photo could be invisibly stamped (via metadata) with the time and location of the shot and users could choose whether or not to "upload" the photo to a central server via the radio/cell/communications service.
Yes, a lot of shots would be useless but the central server could build up a massive "montage" to document what the world looks like at ground-level. I think this would also be very useful for providing data to create virtual tours of places.
Of course, I'm also harbouring the hope that the data could be used to create a truly detailed virtual world that I'll be able to live in once this meat-body packs up and I go completely digital....
To me TM seems like pure scam. I wanted to see a concert. The tickets were $30. The "convenience charge" was $8 a ticket.
Convenient for who?
Sadly it seems Ticketmaster has a near-monopoly for online ordering of tickets of all kinds. Gougers.
Ermm....no. If you read the article (a stretch for a /. poster I know) you'd see that the they tie genius (and crime) to testosterone....
>>(Delphi, give me a break)
Troll.
they do but they're using it as a smoke screen for some real reason
As some other poster pointed out, could it be that the wireless telco's are nervous that citizens could help each other to blanket the map with free 802.11b access and thereby bypass the elaborate by-the-second and for-the-kilobyte toll network the telco[n]s have paid so much to put together? Nah, that couldn't be it.
I've always thought that the term "Patriot Act" had a "Ministry of Love" type ring about it.
Yeah, spamming is bad. But since when is getting unwanted ads for penis enlargement a "complete invasion of privacy"?
Now, if they broke into your house and forcibly performed the said surgery on you *that* could be considered a complete invasion of privacy.
Errmm..I'm all for Linux Advocacy but choosing a school for your kids based solely on its IT infrastructure seems kind of short sighted.
If you take the time to read between the lines of his other posts you'll see their shot through with subtle irony.
Guess : "Adam Rightmann" (if that is his name and not an ironic nom de plume) is an ascerbic Brit with a penchant for poking fun at the Catlick Church.
@ Crossroads.
I'm not convinced the "baby boomer" generation have deliberately and cynically screwed it up for everyone that followed them.
National Insurance (the system of pay now, your children will pay later) was set up at a time when workers outnumbered retirees by a factor of at least 15-1 (fact : in the US in 1950 the rate was 16-1).
In the years since two major trends have reduced that ratio down to 5-1 or less : "Family Planning" which until 1960 was an oxymoron and secondly a significant increase in life expectancy.
Lets face it, this was an age where people genuinely belived that smoking was good for them. Sure, they may have f*cked things up royally for those who followed them but did they know any better?
About 6 years ago the youngest MP in the UK was 26, so GenX is already in power. I don't see things getting better in the UK...
SilkTest from Segue Solutions is very good too. $$$ but worth it.
www.segue.com
IBM is putting big money behind Linux and OpenSource in general right? A threat to the Kernel is a threat to IBM.
I wouldn't want to go toe-to-toe in a tit-for-tat on patents with Big Blue, no siree.
An example :
I watched The Godfather on TNN the other night. In a bedroom scene Michael's newlywed wife's nipples were pixellated.
Several scenes later Michaels brother is brutally machine-gunned to death. There was no pixellation of his bullet-ridden body during or after the attack.
What kind of weird society thinks we need to be protected from the sight of a pair of nipples but that acts of murder are family viewing?
Well, the Daewoo has the option of selecting any region by number or "Bypass". I've had it in bypass mode which I expect in your region free bit set at 255.
However, I can just as easily select the region from the available list too.
It's a pretty decent product.
I got my region-free, 110/220volt, NTSC/PAL/SECAM/everything DVD player from :
www.110220volts.comPlays my UK PAL DVD's on my NTSC TV with zero hassle.
The build quality isn't excellent but its not crap and for the money (about $120 as I recall) if it breaks I'll just buy another one.
For me at least, region coding is already over.
Dead wrong. CGI is still in its infancy, akin to programming in Assembly. Sure, you can do great work in assembly but its painstaking work.
Higher and higher levels of abstraction are the key here. There is no reason at all why you can't load a sufficiently complex human model with a "personality" (modified methods of movement, facial expressions etc) and then have it run through a programmed script.
Sure, this might be a way off but never say never.
True, you can't browse but Amazon's "People who bought this also bought..." information can lead you to some great books you wouldn't necessarily have picked out yourself.
Rekall might come close to your needs (depending on what those needs are).
The only problem with the H1-B visa program is that it unreasonably ties the visa holder to their employer
No longer true. An H1-B holder who leaves the employment of the sponsor company now has 30 days to find a new sponsor company.
Did we get the skynet^H^H^H^H^H Grid achieves consciousness at 2pm EST time joke yet?