The AMD point is true (useless side note: I actually just got a machine with a Phenom tri-core a few weeks ago), but if you look at the die photo you can see that there's nowhere for a pair of disabled cores. It's possible that they're just making native 6-core dies until they get the manufacturing process stable enough to make 8s though./me is okay with the fact he's probably just feeding trolls
That took a quick turn I wasn't expecting. I figured addressing the root cause was not begging their users to do something for them, but rather to up their lobbying.
Except that Kongregate is alternately full of teenagers bringing their drama onto chat (entirely too many trying to be their very own gossip girls), annoying preteens begging for everybody to be their friend, or a combination of the two insisting that 20-year-olds should not be on Kongregate.
How does Reagan being dead affect his ability to lose to Ventura and the Governator?
Or is this a weird "In Soviet Russia, president deads you" sort of thing? Is that the real reason he wanted Gorbachev to tear down the wall, so he could invoke a meme to beat actors from the grave?
Sure, because that sounds easy... some people in my department are working on with stuff like that I think (construction of 3d models from collection of photos), and it requires a large number of photos (at a non-trivial amount of disk space) and a lot of processing power. Also, in a general-purpose application, you'd have to be able to correct for thing like people, birds, trees, etc...
Such a technique would no doubt be cool, and probably could be useful for constructing models of areas without having to go there yourself with a team of photographers. It's overkill though for navigating your/a photo collection, which seems the main purpose here.
Actually, the color-correcting was interesting, but I have to wonder how novel their automatic correction algorithm is. I haven't had a chance to read the SIGGRAPH paper yet, but at first glance it reminds me of something one of my undergrad professors did several years ago (at least 5 or 6 at this point) to false color B&W photos based on a user-supplied color photo of a similar scene. The main difference here is I guess that the B&W false-coloring used luminance values to match against the color photo, whereas here correcting for different lighting conditions maybe means by definition the luminance is different?
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It's funny, in a kind of depressing way, actually. There are several people in this so-called "engineering physics" department who get into it with no particular knowledge of programming, even though all of the engineering physics students I know ultimately spend most of their time writing and running simulations. I've spent time with them doing everything from debugging doubly-linked lists to explaining how to use fscanf. Sure, they may know the math behind whatever they're trying to implement, but I think they're in that zone where if they weren't grad students, it would be much faster to explain to a programmer how the equations work than it is for a programmer to explain to them how to write what they want.
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Such as it is, this is when I made him learn C. (I take no responsibility for him deciding to learn C++ though.)
Somehow seems unlikely. Basically they're taking brain cells from a rat fetus. Now, PETA members should be on the far left, which means they should be supporting stem cell research*, and therefore should be very far away from those on the far right who might complain about aborting rats.
* This is a one way containment, I'm not implying that only far lefties approve of stem cell research
Oh, hell.../me ducks behind flame shield and runs from flamebait mod
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True story:
A guy I go to school with (I'm in CS, he's in physics) used to talk about how he was a Bash wizard. Since he was generally talking about writing scripts to submit jobs to a PBS-based cluster, I assumed he meant just in terms of rapidly submitting a large variety of jobs. One day he complains to me that his simulations were slow and wanted me to look at it with him to help him speed them up. So I say fine, send me the file...
He'd written a particle physics Monte Carlo sim using Bash and Linux command line tools (in particular, there were calls to bc everywhere).
What I want to know is what all of these people are doing that gets them SMS spam. the only "unsolicited" messages I get on my phone are promos from Cingular/AT&T, and they don't charge us for those.
Yes, and speculation is arguably screwing everybody except the speculators.
I don't think opening Alaska or the continental shelf will significantly affect speculators. It's true that oil (and other commodities) are speculated on based on future availability, but in general the speculation is something like oil delivery for next month, or two months from now, and we know that it will take considerably longer than a month or two for any gains to be seen from drilling new locations.
"With rare exception, once you've seen the movie you're unlikely to watch it a second time," Kocher said. "You don't have the benefit the music guys have, that piracy can help build buzz. For the movie industry, it's purely a destructive force."
So you're telling me that people know they're only going to watch the movie once, yet opt to pay $15-$20 or more for a DVD months after it's come out to see on a small(er) screen with a weak(er) sound system, instead of paying $10 to see it on a big screen with good sound and relatively comfortable seating?
Besides that, I think he's still wrong; just as bad buzz about a lousy movie can kill it, good buzz about a good film can drive people to the theater. Especially in the case of having the option to see a shoddy cam rip on a small screen or the correct colors/contrast on a big screen... and, let's face it, explosions in action movies are way better on big screens.
Although it's true the papers should have fact-checked... isn't the daughter ultimately the one responsible for the false information? I guess suing one's own, minor, daughter probably doesn't make the same ch-ching sound.
Assuming the previous comment about women still hitting menopause around their 40s would not be true, then how long they remain fertile is a function of how many eggs they are going to produce. Which, as you may recall from high school biology or health class, is fixed at birth. A reply on Go Ask Alice! suggests only about 400 eggs will be be able to mature and be released, so a woman would probably only remain fertile until her mid 40s or 50s at best, regardless of when the hormonal changes associated with menopause started.
I thought it was discovered relatively recently (past year or so) that there was a link between aging and cancer--specifically, that a given gene responsible for cell growth and replacement slowly shut itself off (leading somewhat to the effects of aging) and that engineering it to not turn off led to an increase in cancer in [lab mice, I assume].
How about this one: My 3-year old nephew told my sister a couple weeks ago he wanted to go down and see the "penguins." It turns out he was pointing at a bunch of black guys wearing white tshirts.
I think that's a poor comparison. Diablo fits the criteria for a CRPG as given, and although I would disagree in that I think FF should be equally considered a CRPG, his base is a decent one to work from. I can't think of any decent base for describing tabletop RPGs that would let you squirrel M:tG into it though...tabletop wargaming, perhaps, but not RPGs.
(I'm assuming your point was "Diablo is no more a CRPG than M:tG is a tabletop RPG," which I disagree with... sorry if I missed the point.)
Oh come on, there's no reason to mod this down... it was in reply to "You stare and realize why he directed you to this computer... He wants you to become a troll...", he was merely following directions and trolling.
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The AMD point is true (useless side note: I actually just got a machine with a Phenom tri-core a few weeks ago), but if you look at the die photo you can see that there's nowhere for a pair of disabled cores. It's possible that they're just making native 6-core dies until they get the manufacturing process stable enough to make 8s though. /me is okay with the fact he's probably just feeding trolls
That took a quick turn I wasn't expecting. I figured addressing the root cause was not begging their users to do something for them, but rather to up their lobbying.
If only you'd spelled it "3M-eters", I might've gotten it the first time.
Still, somebody mod this funny.
Except that Kongregate is alternately full of teenagers bringing their drama onto chat (entirely too many trying to be their very own gossip girls), annoying preteens begging for everybody to be their friend, or a combination of the two insisting that 20-year-olds should not be on Kongregate.
How does Reagan being dead affect his ability to lose to Ventura and the Governator?
Or is this a weird "In Soviet Russia, president deads you" sort of thing? Is that the real reason he wanted Gorbachev to tear down the wall, so he could invoke a meme to beat actors from the grave?
Sure, because that sounds easy... some people in my department are working on with stuff like that I think (construction of 3d models from collection of photos), and it requires a large number of photos (at a non-trivial amount of disk space) and a lot of processing power. Also, in a general-purpose application, you'd have to be able to correct for thing like people, birds, trees, etc...
Such a technique would no doubt be cool, and probably could be useful for constructing models of areas without having to go there yourself with a team of photographers. It's overkill though for navigating your/a photo collection, which seems the main purpose here.
Actually, the color-correcting was interesting, but I have to wonder how novel their automatic correction algorithm is. I haven't had a chance to read the SIGGRAPH paper yet, but at first glance it reminds me of something one of my undergrad professors did several years ago (at least 5 or 6 at this point) to false color B&W photos based on a user-supplied color photo of a similar scene. The main difference here is I guess that the B&W false-coloring used luminance values to match against the color photo, whereas here correcting for different lighting conditions maybe means by definition the luminance is different?
It's funny, in a kind of depressing way, actually. There are several people in this so-called "engineering physics" department who get into it with no particular knowledge of programming, even though all of the engineering physics students I know ultimately spend most of their time writing and running simulations. I've spent time with them doing everything from debugging doubly-linked lists to explaining how to use fscanf. Sure, they may know the math behind whatever they're trying to implement, but I think they're in that zone where if they weren't grad students, it would be much faster to explain to a programmer how the equations work than it is for a programmer to explain to them how to write what they want.
Such as it is, this is when I made him learn C. (I take no responsibility for him deciding to learn C++ though.)
Somehow seems unlikely. Basically they're taking brain cells from a rat fetus. Now, PETA members should be on the far left, which means they should be supporting stem cell research*, and therefore should be very far away from those on the far right who might complain about aborting rats.
* This is a one way containment, I'm not implying that only far lefties approve of stem cell research
Oh, hell... /me ducks behind flame shield and runs from flamebait mod
Thank you, Nick Bostrom.
True story:
A guy I go to school with (I'm in CS, he's in physics) used to talk about how he was a Bash wizard. Since he was generally talking about writing scripts to submit jobs to a PBS-based cluster, I assumed he meant just in terms of rapidly submitting a large variety of jobs. One day he complains to me that his simulations were slow and wanted me to look at it with him to help him speed them up. So I say fine, send me the file...
He'd written a particle physics Monte Carlo sim using Bash and Linux command line tools (in particular, there were calls to bc everywhere).
Some areas also have a Freecycle group for pretty much the same purpose. Check freecycle.org to see if there's one around you to post on.
Cops stop by your house often enough for you to have a standard operating procedure?
What I want to know is what all of these people are doing that gets them SMS spam. the only "unsolicited" messages I get on my phone are promos from Cingular/AT&T, and they don't charge us for those.
Yes, and speculation is arguably screwing everybody except the speculators.
I don't think opening Alaska or the continental shelf will significantly affect speculators. It's true that oil (and other commodities) are speculated on based on future availability, but in general the speculation is something like oil delivery for next month, or two months from now, and we know that it will take considerably longer than a month or two for any gains to be seen from drilling new locations.
Whoosh!
"With rare exception, once you've seen the movie you're unlikely to watch it a second time," Kocher said. "You don't have the benefit the music guys have, that piracy can help build buzz. For the movie industry, it's purely a destructive force."
So you're telling me that people know they're only going to watch the movie once, yet opt to pay $15-$20 or more for a DVD months after it's come out to see on a small(er) screen with a weak(er) sound system, instead of paying $10 to see it on a big screen with good sound and relatively comfortable seating?
Besides that, I think he's still wrong; just as bad buzz about a lousy movie can kill it, good buzz about a good film can drive people to the theater. Especially in the case of having the option to see a shoddy cam rip on a small screen or the correct colors/contrast on a big screen... and, let's face it, explosions in action movies are way better on big screens.
Netflix's problem is not storage or bandwidth. AFAIK, anyway, it's primarily licensing issues.
See, I was going to write that, but I figured I'd just get modded down for using a tired meme, so...
Although it's true the papers should have fact-checked... isn't the daughter ultimately the one responsible for the false information? I guess suing one's own, minor, daughter probably doesn't make the same ch-ching sound.
Assuming the previous comment about women still hitting menopause around their 40s would not be true, then how long they remain fertile is a function of how many eggs they are going to produce. Which, as you may recall from high school biology or health class, is fixed at birth. A reply on Go Ask Alice! suggests only about 400 eggs will be be able to mature and be released, so a woman would probably only remain fertile until her mid 40s or 50s at best, regardless of when the hormonal changes associated with menopause started.
I thought it was discovered relatively recently (past year or so) that there was a link between aging and cancer--specifically, that a given gene responsible for cell growth and replacement slowly shut itself off (leading somewhat to the effects of aging) and that engineering it to not turn off led to an increase in cancer in [lab mice, I assume].
How about this one: My 3-year old nephew told my sister a couple weeks ago he wanted to go down and see the "penguins." It turns out he was pointing at a bunch of black guys wearing white tshirts.
I think that's a poor comparison. Diablo fits the criteria for a CRPG as given, and although I would disagree in that I think FF should be equally considered a CRPG, his base is a decent one to work from. I can't think of any decent base for describing tabletop RPGs that would let you squirrel M:tG into it though...tabletop wargaming, perhaps, but not RPGs.
(I'm assuming your point was "Diablo is no more a CRPG than M:tG is a tabletop RPG," which I disagree with... sorry if I missed the point.)
Oh come on, there's no reason to mod this down... it was in reply to "You stare and realize why he directed you to this computer... He wants you to become a troll...", he was merely following directions and trolling.