It has been a while, but here's my memory of how things unfolded:
NVidia comes to market with one of the first 3D accelerators, and Diamond puts it into this Edge3D card
I buy Edge3D card because it seems like the newest coolest thing
I play the games that came with the card and they run great..
New games come out, none of them support Edge3D.
I find out about how awesome linux is, try to install it, but no linux support. Also, no DOS support, for the older VGA/SVGA modes. So, basically, card only functions in Windows, and even then, no acceleration for most games.
DirectX comes out, doesn't support Edge3D, card is forgotten about, I get a different video card with my next computer.
I built that computer in 1995, so I think it still wins out in the old-and-crappy department. I wonder if I still have that thing lying around...
At the time I thuoght it would be cool because you were supposed to be able to hook up sega saturn controllers to it, but it didn't actually play sega saturn games. It was supposed to play special computer versions of saturn games, but the only ones they ever came out with were the ones that came with the card.
I got you beat. I bought a Diamond Edge 3D card for the first computer I ever assembled. It turned out to be a colossally bad idea, never realized how bad lack of drivers could be.
I don't even know how much memory the thing had, I think maybe 2MB, which was a lot at the time. And now, I feel old.
wait, are you making claims, or are you mocking the claims made by others?
1) maybe true
2) utterly and completely false Check out the comparison data in a handy dandy spreadsheet. An actual volcano erupting didn't pump out as much CO2 as the European aviation industry. That's just one industry, one little chunk out of a huge amount of global CO2.. In case you were actually trying to make claim #2 there.
Although, there is a small portion of the population that doesn't have fingerprints.. and this scanner has so much detail, it might still be able to capture identity for such people. Also, I think I remember a story about fingerprint scanners being used in a school to take attendance, and some kid figured out how to fake a fingerprint using gummi bears (or similar). This would probably allow for enough additional accuracy that forged fingerprints would be much more difficult.
This is so damn cool I don't know why there aren't more comments. I guess it's because there's no real controversy here- it's just cool tech. Quick, somebody claim that this is going to create an invasion of privacy! Or that it will cause climate change!
And upon further reading of the article, it looks like they didn't destroy the science fair project at all. It was a completely different situation, where somebody had a minty mp3 player (or similar) in an unattended bag at the airport, and the TSA took no chances. This summary confused me several times....
I don't think the item they took from the Grad student was an mp3 player. I think it was some other sort of electronic doodad- although the summary makes it confusing by posting past examples of the evils of the mintyboost. I do rather wonder what the Doctoral student thought about his work being destroyed in the name of security- it'll probably make for an interesting chapter in his thesis.
How is incandescent light not "good" light? Incandescent sources still set the bar for CRI, and you're never going to have a truly full-spectrum LED or Fluorescent source. Incandescents are also always dimmable, from completely off up through full brightness, which is something that other technologies can't touch. "White" LED's aren't as efficient as a lot of people think, either, and the lumen per watt values often are rather inflated. Plus, you know, CFL's have mercury in them that can leech into the environment if not disposed of properly, and how many people do YOU know that take their CFL's to a hazardous waste disposal drop instead of just tossing them in the garbage?
I agree, I suppose my point is that even as a necessity, the testing should reflect the driving circumstances that one would actually encounter during normal driving. Having a test that doesn't require (or even allow) one to go above 25mph, doesn't require parallel parking, and doesn't even remotely touch on hazard awareness or avoidance is a problem. People that drive out of necessity SHOULD be able to deal with all these situations easily, so why not test for them?
That said, I am also a big proponent of both bike lanes and public transit. It's too bad that the standard way of implementing bike lanes seems to be to put some paint on the road inside an already existing lane for car traffic, rather than widening the road a bit to accommodate bikes..
Glad to see this study acknowledges that there are an awful lot of distractions other than cellphones, most of which can't reasonably be banned. It also mentions that there's no evidence that cellphone or texting bans have any effect on accident rate. So focussing all attention on banning cellphone usage is not the solution, or at least not the only solution. Personally thing most likely to distract me is incompetent drivers who don't know which lane they're supposed to be in, when to signal, or when to join a roundabout. Learn to drive, people.
I think you bring up a good point. More thorough driver training and testing could probably do a much better job at reducing accident than enacting a bunch of laws that may or may not work. I was fairly shocked at the contrast between motorcycle license exams and regular car exams, for instance- On my bike, I had to demonstrate my ability to do figure 8's, emergency stops, S-curves (with a stopwatch to make sure I didn't go too slowly) and a bunch of other stuff. When I got my regular car license all I had to do was drive around the block and do a rudimentary maneuverability test that wasn't even parallel parking.
I know folks here in the USA see driving as a right, or at least a personal freedom, I still think it would be worthwhile to raise the education standards a bit.
This story seemed like a dupe of this one from last year: Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells
But it seems that instead of taking a donor trachea and using it for the "scaffold," they built their own, no donor at all.. Pretty amazing.
There is actually a physically different cable architecture between cat5/cat5e cable and cat6 cable. The connectors on the ends are different as well. If you had ever worked with them, you would know this.
"Love doll" maker Orient Industry is responsible for the silicone skin (this replaces the PVC skin of the previous model) and mouth lining, which increases the realistic feel and prevents water from getting into the machinery.
Seems like if the love doll maker is already the one manufacturing the realistic face, it's pretty likely that it will make its way into their regular product lines. No jokes needed... reality is funny enough.
To me it didn't seem like GE was intentionally making bad graphics to push an agenda.. It's more that they said "Hey, it would be nice to make some graphics to demonstrate X and Y" without realizing that a simple bar graph would have done a much better job than that crap they have up there now.
BP, on the other hand.. that was deliberate misleading..
I wouldn't be surprised it the hackers also sent emails claiming to be for purposes of re-activating accounts, but instead they phish for even more used data..
Besides: they owe information to the Japanese people - it was their plant which caused the problem, it was their plant causing considerable economic damage and health risks for so many people. If you can't handle negative media reports about nuclear power, then you don't have the balls to run a nuclear power plant. Find another business to be in - maybe something with kittens and flowers.
I seem to remember there being a rather large earthquake followed by a rather large tsunami involved in the situation. Saying the reactor "caused the problem" is kind of crazy. A natural disaster caused the problems in the reactors, and TEPCO is trying to fix them safely and without inducing panic.
I think that's a pretty good dissection of the article everyone's been linking.. and also a good reminder that there's a lot of misinformation flowing around, and even the fairly knowledgeable folks make mistakes... because, well, nuclear physics is complicated, and there's a lot of different reactor designs out there.
I've seen a lot of people linking the "Simple and accurate explanation" article.. and it claims that this reactor design had a "Core Catcher" as another layer of containment in case the core melts through the primary reactor vessel.. but in the comments, people say that reactor 1 didn't have a core catcher. So, anybody with inside knowledge happen to know the reality? What about reactor 3?
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I built that computer in 1995, so I think it still wins out in the old-and-crappy department. I wonder if I still have that thing lying around...
At the time I thuoght it would be cool because you were supposed to be able to hook up sega saturn controllers to it, but it didn't actually play sega saturn games. It was supposed to play special computer versions of saturn games, but the only ones they ever came out with were the ones that came with the card.
I got you beat. I bought a Diamond Edge 3D card for the first computer I ever assembled. It turned out to be a colossally bad idea, never realized how bad lack of drivers could be.
I don't even know how much memory the thing had, I think maybe 2MB, which was a lot at the time. And now, I feel old.
I guess I should have hit refresh before I replied. :) A sarcasm font really might clear up some confusion on here, though.
wait, are you making claims, or are you mocking the claims made by others?
1) maybe true
2) utterly and completely false
Check out the comparison data in a handy dandy spreadsheet. An actual volcano erupting didn't pump out as much CO2 as the European aviation industry. That's just one industry, one little chunk out of a huge amount of global CO2.. In case you were actually trying to make claim #2 there.
I wonder how the twitter fund is doing with the sudden 500 point drop in the Dow this morning...
Although, there is a small portion of the population that doesn't have fingerprints.. and this scanner has so much detail, it might still be able to capture identity for such people. Also, I think I remember a story about fingerprint scanners being used in a school to take attendance, and some kid figured out how to fake a fingerprint using gummi bears (or similar). This would probably allow for enough additional accuracy that forged fingerprints would be much more difficult.
Yep, here's the gummy bear thing
And then there's the people with no fingerprints
This is so damn cool I don't know why there aren't more comments. I guess it's because there's no real controversy here- it's just cool tech. Quick, somebody claim that this is going to create an invasion of privacy! Or that it will cause climate change!
And upon further reading of the article, it looks like they didn't destroy the science fair project at all. It was a completely different situation, where somebody had a minty mp3 player (or similar) in an unattended bag at the airport, and the TSA took no chances. This summary confused me several times....
I don't think the item they took from the Grad student was an mp3 player. I think it was some other sort of electronic doodad- although the summary makes it confusing by posting past examples of the evils of the mintyboost. I do rather wonder what the Doctoral student thought about his work being destroyed in the name of security- it'll probably make for an interesting chapter in his thesis.
Black plastic is pretty expensive, you know...
How is incandescent light not "good" light? Incandescent sources still set the bar for CRI, and you're never going to have a truly full-spectrum LED or Fluorescent source. Incandescents are also always dimmable, from completely off up through full brightness, which is something that other technologies can't touch. "White" LED's aren't as efficient as a lot of people think, either, and the lumen per watt values often are rather inflated. Plus, you know, CFL's have mercury in them that can leech into the environment if not disposed of properly, and how many people do YOU know that take their CFL's to a hazardous waste disposal drop instead of just tossing them in the garbage?
I guess you weren't riding on a Goldwing. I'm surprised they haven't come out with one of those that has AC. :)
I agree, I suppose my point is that even as a necessity, the testing should reflect the driving circumstances that one would actually encounter during normal driving. Having a test that doesn't require (or even allow) one to go above 25mph, doesn't require parallel parking, and doesn't even remotely touch on hazard awareness or avoidance is a problem. People that drive out of necessity SHOULD be able to deal with all these situations easily, so why not test for them?
That said, I am also a big proponent of both bike lanes and public transit. It's too bad that the standard way of implementing bike lanes seems to be to put some paint on the road inside an already existing lane for car traffic, rather than widening the road a bit to accommodate bikes..
Glad to see this study acknowledges that there are an awful lot of distractions other than cellphones, most of which can't reasonably be banned. It also mentions that there's no evidence that cellphone or texting bans have any effect on accident rate. So focussing all attention on banning cellphone usage is not the solution, or at least not the only solution. Personally thing most likely to distract me is incompetent drivers who don't know which lane they're supposed to be in, when to signal, or when to join a roundabout. Learn to drive, people.
I think you bring up a good point. More thorough driver training and testing could probably do a much better job at reducing accident than enacting a bunch of laws that may or may not work. I was fairly shocked at the contrast between motorcycle license exams and regular car exams, for instance- On my bike, I had to demonstrate my ability to do figure 8's, emergency stops, S-curves (with a stopwatch to make sure I didn't go too slowly) and a bunch of other stuff. When I got my regular car license all I had to do was drive around the block and do a rudimentary maneuverability test that wasn't even parallel parking.
I know folks here in the USA see driving as a right, or at least a personal freedom, I still think it would be worthwhile to raise the education standards a bit.
This story seemed like a dupe of this one from last year:
Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells
But it seems that instead of taking a donor trachea and using it for the "scaffold," they built their own, no donor at all.. Pretty amazing.
If we were going somewhere that this satellite was trying to map, then I think leaving LEO would be one of the lesser challenges...
There is actually a physically different cable architecture between cat5/cat5e cable and cat6 cable. The connectors on the ends are different as well. If you had ever worked with them, you would know this.
Nah - They wouldn't do that next..... Would they?
Insert realdoll joke in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
"Love doll" maker Orient Industry is responsible for the silicone skin (this replaces the PVC skin of the previous model) and mouth lining, which increases the realistic feel and prevents water from getting into the machinery.
Seems like if the love doll maker is already the one manufacturing the realistic face, it's pretty likely that it will make its way into their regular product lines. No jokes needed... reality is funny enough.
To me it didn't seem like GE was intentionally making bad graphics to push an agenda.. It's more that they said "Hey, it would be nice to make some graphics to demonstrate X and Y" without realizing that a simple bar graph would have done a much better job than that crap they have up there now.
BP, on the other hand.. that was deliberate misleading..
I wouldn't be surprised it the hackers also sent emails claiming to be for purposes of re-activating accounts, but instead they phish for even more used data..
The Arena quake was 3.0
I would love a mod point right now.
Besides: they owe information to the Japanese people - it was their plant which caused the problem, it was their plant causing considerable economic damage and health risks for so many people. If you can't handle negative media reports about nuclear power, then you don't have the balls to run a nuclear power plant. Find another business to be in - maybe something with kittens and flowers.
I seem to remember there being a rather large earthquake followed by a rather large tsunami involved in the situation. Saying the reactor "caused the problem" is kind of crazy. A natural disaster caused the problems in the reactors, and TEPCO is trying to fix them safely and without inducing panic.
Thanks for posting the groklaw article.
I think that's a pretty good dissection of the article everyone's been linking.. and also a good reminder that there's a lot of misinformation flowing around, and even the fairly knowledgeable folks make mistakes... because, well, nuclear physics is complicated, and there's a lot of different reactor designs out there.
I've seen a lot of people linking the "Simple and accurate explanation" article.. and it claims that this reactor design had a "Core Catcher" as another layer of containment in case the core melts through the primary reactor vessel.. but in the comments, people say that reactor 1 didn't have a core catcher. So, anybody with inside knowledge happen to know the reality? What about reactor 3?