I see a lot of people talk about this difference. What is the difference between looking at an object reflecting light, and an object that is emitting light of the same intensity?
I was an art student, so i had color theory. I have a good understanding of additive and subtractive color systems. It's been my understanding that you can create a certain color either through reflective or emissive means, but ultimately your eyes are receiving a certain nm of light at a certain intensity, it shouldn't really matter where that light was first (maybe overly simplistic. but i'm not certain how much scattering of light effects your eye-feel of what you see. i'm aware of the mechanics, but still think it has more to do with how other stuff in the environment looks than your comfort in looking at something).
with a light meter and a controlled environment, you could perform an experiment to see if people feel there is a difference between reading a kindle, or an lcd emitting the same intensity of light. I imagine with the right equipment you could measure the light and find it exactly the same.
I have performed a different experiment though. Look at a reflection of the sun, it's not much better than looking at the light source.
am i right? is this griping about lcd screens really griping about how we can't yet make a device that is crisp and clear without pumping way more photons than our eyes want?
or just get a $2300 bicycle. You'd be surprised how much farther and faster you can go on a carbon fiber frame with good componetry and high end ceramic bearings. Yeah yeah, it's the rider, not the bike. Lance Armstrong might be able to smoke me on any old beach cruiser, but i know it's a hell of a lot easier for normal people to ride on a really nice bike.
Conversely, Austin, TX seems to be a great bike city. I spent a week there a couple years ago and loved the miles of mountain bike trails. It seemed like you could get anywhere on an off road trail. Our B&B even had a fleet of fat tire cruisers you could take out.
Austin is really a strange oasis in the land of Texas.
Isn't that a bit of hyperbole? WoW's a recreational activity, nobody needs to play WoW. It can even be argued that, due to it's social nature, one should expect the same privacy you would get from any public activity.
Worried about your boss finding out you called in sick to play WoW? That's like bitching that you called in sick to go to the ball game and showed up on the jumbotron.
And online stalking? isn't that one of the most overblown boogeymen of the internet? Don't we all snicker inside when the nightly news trots out a victim of cyber stalking who tearfully recounts recieving profane emails? What is the stalker going to do in WoW? Maybe they can find you and dance in front of you? Maybe they could teabag your avatar?
I guess the seriousness of the situation seems to be directly proportional to the importance you place on WoW.
BTW, where's the article about the SERIOUS PRIVACY ISSUES of slashdot posts showing up with a timestamp and user id? I mean wtf? now my stalkers can read my posts and know when i posted them!
TFA leaves me with a ton of questions. Wouldn't his teacher have known of this project (assuming that science projects are for school)? I don't recall getting the assignment, "Make a science project", in school. My teachers always checked in every step of the way.
Why did they think it was a bomb? Did the kid deny it was a bomb? I usually don't think of 11 year olds as making explosives with complicated electronic detonators. Did the kid claim it was a bomb jokingly or just to be difficult?
What is the counseling recommended for? Is it because the kid and family are upset that all this happened (understandable) or because he's a troublemaker/prankster kid who's causing problems?
yeah. these are among the smartest people in the world and they pick a clock? they know that they want to let it sit in one place forever, maybe move it back if they are happy, and they pick a clock?
I would have picked the doomsday thumb and index finger illustration with some copy that read, "Doomsday is THIS close."
DirectX is made for games. You can use it for other kinds of applications, but if you want to do something that you do in a game, there is likely a function or construct specifically for what you need. It's docs assume you are making a game and when there are multiple ways to do something they often point out the faster way. heck it only works with triangulated mesh data.
Open GL is made for EVERYTHING. Sure, you can use it for games. There's nothing wrong with that, but i'm not John Carmack. That shit is hard for me. If i want to make a game, i'll take the platform that holds my hand.
Plus, like others said, direct x is a whole game api. it's not just graphics. it's input, it's networking, it's sound. the whole platform is very cohesive. I'd rather just keep up with one api, one download, etc than have to follow open gl, open al, etc.
anyway modern game development means licensing an engine. engine developers worry about supporting open gl or direct x.
I thought Avatar looked great. I thought the use of 3D really enhanced the experience. I wouldn't want to have to put on stupid glasses every time i want to watch something though.
Glasses are something you can lose, or break, or not have enough of for everyone in the room. Meh. It sounds like too much work. I just want to plunk down in front of the boob tube and veg out.
it's intended to be used by developers as a shortcut, but it's undocumented. How does hiding a feature from a developer make things easy on the developer?
i was going to release my site, ssnbook.com, where users could enter and exchange thier social security numbers. Now i'm worried someone to will file a complaint with the FTC against me:(
I'm pretty sure the lawnmower batteries are also proprietary. Once you choose a lawnmower, if you want to replace the batteries you would need to buy the specific battery made for your lawnmower. That's lock-in.
If anything there would be more lock in with a lawnmower purchase. I only expect my laptop to last 2 - 3 years. I've never really felt the need to replace laptop batteries after that time, as i'm looking for a whole new laptop.
With a lawnmower, i'm expecting it will last 10 years or longer. My parents have had the same mower for 30 years. If i want that kind of longevity from my battery powered mower, i expect i'm going to have to shop for some proprietary batteries in that time.
If you want to be really pessimistic, you could assume that the manufacturer will simply discontinue the model of battery for my mower after 5 years. They could force me to buy a new mower every 5 years. They could even pull an apple and integrate the battery into a sleek sexy white lawnmover that is obsolete when the battery fails.
while TradElect is based on Microsoftâ(TM)s.Net technology. The choice of the latter, which has raised quite a few eyebrows in the market, is defended by Lester. He claims that LSE is coming off TradElect not because of the.Net technology itself (although its trading speed is 2.7 milliseconds compared to Linux-based Chi-Xâ(TM)s 0.4 milliseconds), but âfor more control, less costs, and the ability to build and innovateâ(TM). Furthermore, he describes LSEâ(TM)s experience with.Net as âvery positiveâ(TM).
i will grant that the 2.7 ms benchmark is definately slower than.4 ms. However, i don't think you can benchmark the trading speed of.Net, only the trading speed of TradElect. Last time i checked msdn, there was no System.StockExchange namespace provided with the.net framework.
These articles sound more like MilleniumIT's just got a faster, nicer, cheaper product than TradElect. It sounds to me like Accenture failed, not.net
You'll never land a government contract with that attitude mister. If you can't build a website for over $16 million, you probably don't even know what you are doing.
wouldn't the rate of addition to any encyclopedic system slow down?
Human knowledge isn't static, but it seems to increase at a lower rate than compiling all that is known into a database.
A mad rush to enter everything that is known, followed by a period of thumb twiddling waiting for new knowledge seems like a pretty natural course of events in the life of an encyclopedia.
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I see a lot of people talk about this difference. What is the difference between looking at an object reflecting light, and an object that is emitting light of the same intensity?
I was an art student, so i had color theory. I have a good understanding of additive and subtractive color systems. It's been my understanding that you can create a certain color either through reflective or emissive means, but ultimately your eyes are receiving a certain nm of light at a certain intensity, it shouldn't really matter where that light was first (maybe overly simplistic. but i'm not certain how much scattering of light effects your eye-feel of what you see. i'm aware of the mechanics, but still think it has more to do with how other stuff in the environment looks than your comfort in looking at something).
with a light meter and a controlled environment, you could perform an experiment to see if people feel there is a difference between reading a kindle, or an lcd emitting the same intensity of light. I imagine with the right equipment you could measure the light and find it exactly the same.
I have performed a different experiment though. Look at a reflection of the sun, it's not much better than looking at the light source.
am i right? is this griping about lcd screens really griping about how we can't yet make a device that is crisp and clear without pumping way more photons than our eyes want?
i think it goes without saying that a weapon is designed to be a disaster, for somebody.
or just get a $2300 bicycle. You'd be surprised how much farther and faster you can go on a carbon fiber frame with good componetry and high end ceramic bearings. Yeah yeah, it's the rider, not the bike. Lance Armstrong might be able to smoke me on any old beach cruiser, but i know it's a hell of a lot easier for normal people to ride on a really nice bike.
Conversely, Austin, TX seems to be a great bike city. I spent a week there a couple years ago and loved the miles of mountain bike trails. It seemed like you could get anywhere on an off road trail. Our B&B even had a fleet of fat tire cruisers you could take out.
Austin is really a strange oasis in the land of Texas.
Isn't that a bit of hyperbole? WoW's a recreational activity, nobody needs to play WoW. It can even be argued that, due to it's social nature, one should expect the same privacy you would get from any public activity.
Worried about your boss finding out you called in sick to play WoW? That's like bitching that you called in sick to go to the ball game and showed up on the jumbotron.
And online stalking? isn't that one of the most overblown boogeymen of the internet? Don't we all snicker inside when the nightly news trots out a victim of cyber stalking who tearfully recounts recieving profane emails? What is the stalker going to do in WoW? Maybe they can find you and dance in front of you? Maybe they could teabag your avatar?
I guess the seriousness of the situation seems to be directly proportional to the importance you place on WoW.
BTW, where's the article about the SERIOUS PRIVACY ISSUES of slashdot posts showing up with a timestamp and user id? I mean wtf? now my stalkers can read my posts and know when i posted them!
TFA leaves me with a ton of questions. Wouldn't his teacher have known of this project (assuming that science projects are for school)? I don't recall getting the assignment, "Make a science project", in school. My teachers always checked in every step of the way.
Why did they think it was a bomb? Did the kid deny it was a bomb? I usually don't think of 11 year olds as making explosives with complicated electronic detonators. Did the kid claim it was a bomb jokingly or just to be difficult?
What is the counseling recommended for? Is it because the kid and family are upset that all this happened (understandable) or because he's a troublemaker/prankster kid who's causing problems?
yeah. these are among the smartest people in the world and they pick a clock? they know that they want to let it sit in one place forever, maybe move it back if they are happy, and they pick a clock?
I would have picked the doomsday thumb and index finger illustration with some copy that read, "Doomsday is THIS close."
or a pie chart.
I can't believe the article didn't spend more time ripping the BabyPlus. Of all the products that seemed the lamest.
Maybe the description didn't cover all it's features, but what i read said it played womblike sounds like a mother's heartbeat.
WTF? why does someone in the womb need a womb simulator? There's already a heartbeat in there.
Maybe it's for undead mothers or something.
The problem with the iType was it only worked with the itype app. It's not anything the iphone considers a keyboard.
Maybe you would want to just type into a word processor on the flight, but i'd rather just have a netbook if i were going to carry something that big.
DirectX is made for games. You can use it for other kinds of applications, but if you want to do something that you do in a game, there is likely a function or construct specifically for what you need. It's docs assume you are making a game and when there are multiple ways to do something they often point out the faster way. heck it only works with triangulated mesh data.
Open GL is made for EVERYTHING. Sure, you can use it for games. There's nothing wrong with that, but i'm not John Carmack. That shit is hard for me. If i want to make a game, i'll take the platform that holds my hand.
Plus, like others said, direct x is a whole game api. it's not just graphics. it's input, it's networking, it's sound. the whole platform is very cohesive. I'd rather just keep up with one api, one download, etc than have to follow open gl, open al, etc.
anyway modern game development means licensing an engine. engine developers worry about supporting open gl or direct x.
i already have a device that reads the gestures of my fingers. It's called a keyboard.
I thought Avatar looked great. I thought the use of 3D really enhanced the experience. I wouldn't want to have to put on stupid glasses every time i want to watch something though.
Glasses are something you can lose, or break, or not have enough of for everyone in the room. Meh. It sounds like too much work. I just want to plunk down in front of the boob tube and veg out.
it's intended to be used by developers as a shortcut, but it's undocumented. How does hiding a feature from a developer make things easy on the developer?
all this time i thought the appearence of "i have a bad feeling about this" was a reference to the force.
i was going to release my site, ssnbook.com, where users could enter and exchange thier social security numbers. Now i'm worried someone to will file a complaint with the FTC against me :(
Why did you make Peter Parker so annoyingly emo in spider-man 3?
I'm pretty sure the lawnmower batteries are also proprietary. Once you choose a lawnmower, if you want to replace the batteries you would need to buy the specific battery made for your lawnmower. That's lock-in.
If anything there would be more lock in with a lawnmower purchase. I only expect my laptop to last 2 - 3 years. I've never really felt the need to replace laptop batteries after that time, as i'm looking for a whole new laptop.
With a lawnmower, i'm expecting it will last 10 years or longer. My parents have had the same mower for 30 years. If i want that kind of longevity from my battery powered mower, i expect i'm going to have to shop for some proprietary batteries in that time.
If you want to be really pessimistic, you could assume that the manufacturer will simply discontinue the model of battery for my mower after 5 years. They could force me to buy a new mower every 5 years. They could even pull an apple and integrate the battery into a sleek sexy white lawnmover that is obsolete when the battery fails.
The FPTS (First Person Times Square) genre comes into it's own!
People have labled me a geek and a dork for exclusively playing times square games.
"They are just so much deeper than other genres.", i've said.
"Oh yeah? There're no ads.", they've replied, "How is that fun?"
Well, IN YOUR FACE naysayers. Times square games are bustin' at the seams with ads now! let the fun begin!
i read the article and found this.
while TradElect is based on Microsoftâ(TM)s .Net technology. The choice of the latter, which has raised quite a few eyebrows in the market, is defended by Lester. He claims that LSE is coming off TradElect not because of the .Net technology itself (although its trading speed is 2.7 milliseconds compared to Linux-based Chi-Xâ(TM)s 0.4 milliseconds), but âfor more control, less costs, and the ability to build and innovateâ(TM). Furthermore, he describes LSEâ(TM)s experience with .Net as âvery positiveâ(TM).
i will grant that the 2.7 ms benchmark is definately slower than .4 ms. However, i don't think you can benchmark the trading speed of .Net, only the trading speed of TradElect. Last time i checked msdn, there was no System.StockExchange namespace provided with the .net framework.
These articles sound more like MilleniumIT's just got a faster, nicer, cheaper product than TradElect. It sounds to me like Accenture failed, not .net
the first linked article in the summary is a slashdot post. is this normal?
i never pay attention to banner ads anyway so i don't notice if they are targeted or not.
I do know that i appreciate amazon.com's suggested material. is that what people don't want? i kind of like it.
the aluminum siding does a great job of keeping wifi in my house. i can hardly get a signal in my yard without LOS to the router through my window.
:(
after installing a steel garage door, it did a pretty effective job of preventing my garage door opener from working either
(so bloody obvious he's one of the dead...)
Thanks a lot! Now you've gone and ruined the film for me!
You'll never land a government contract with that attitude mister. If you can't build a website for over $16 million, you probably don't even know what you are doing.
wouldn't the rate of addition to any encyclopedic system slow down?
Human knowledge isn't static, but it seems to increase at a lower rate than compiling all that is known into a database.
A mad rush to enter everything that is known, followed by a period of thumb twiddling waiting for new knowledge seems like a pretty natural course of events in the life of an encyclopedia.