Please, don't film Tintin. Thanks. Why not ? It worked fine for other comics, like Daredevil, Hulk, Dennis the Menace, Garfield... Uh, ok, I see your point.
Never mind. We can't read the Anarchist's Cookbook over here any more but at least we can still wear a flashing LED on our clothing without having guns pointed at us. Would you dare to actually try this at Heathrow ? (I wouldn't)
One thing the headline, summary and article itself don't make clear is that this guy had half a kilo of potassium nitrate, 250g of calcium chloride, videos of beheadings and he had recently visited Pakistan. More information article. While this is certainly potentially more incriminating, it's still quite puzzling that his documentation was this lame book (that most network old timers must have read or browsed) and not one of the many proper military manuals on the same topic that float about. If he indeed went to Pakistan and had contacts with some sort of indoctrination organisation there, one would expect that they would have pointed him to some proper documentation with recipes that actually worked or didn't blow up in your face. Based on the little information leaked, it seems to me that he's some kind of wannabe that just wanted to get noticed.
I've seen users who as part of their daily routine would casually get rid of their "your anti virus is now effectively dead in the water" nag screen would click on the pup up, wait for the web browser to spawn with the anti-virus registration page (which would dismiss the pop up), close the browser and do their stuff without thinking about it or even really understanding what that was all about. Amazing really.
Wow, so his attitude made Microsoft the biggest software company in the world. You put too much weight on his attitude. Not at all, I too have always been of the opinion that it was mostly hal9000(jr) (316943)'s fault all along. I actually wanted to testify to that effect in front of the EU a few months ago but they kicked me out. But since you put the topic on the table...
When you consider the amount of rural area in the United States compared to Japan, the cost to reach cable to them is even more, because you are running cable (copper or fiber) a lot farther to reach a relatively few people. I bet it would be cheaper with tubes...
Come on, if it's "much better than OSX from Apple", people will just *have* to flock to it. I'm sure even Duke Nukem Forever will be ported to it.
I know I can't wait. It's too bad I'll have to discard all my Linux software of course, and I'll probably have to junk all of my hardware as well, but since it's "much better", this can't be helped. Gotta stay with the times.
It's so exciting to be there when this revolution in computing is about to happen, the rebirth of Amiga, wow. Who would have thought !
That's why kids get Legos while the grown ups play with laptops, and the Olpc project had to go through all of this to create such a kid resistant beast.
I still have all of my laptops here as well although my iBook is probably going to get sold and once had to replace the keyboard on my old Sony PictureBook (a book fell on it from an overhead shelf):(.
The really funny thing is, I'm flicking back and forth between watching the video and the Youtube comments, and going 'Hmmm...' I sometimes do that with YouTube videos as well... Often going "Hmmm a crow could certainly have posted something more insightful than most of what I read here..."
Crows are also among the few animals able to learn by observation, that is by watching another perform an act to solve a problem and then repeating the steps themselves when confronted to the same problem. I've seen this done with octopus as well which can also solve fairly complex problems. (and a number of primates of course) I have magpies (which are basically small crows, like ravens are) living behind my appt, they are always very interesting to watch.:)
except that in spacecraft, small free-floating objects are choke hazards. Zomg ! the children could choke on zero-g coins ! Won't somebody please think of the children !
Have a look here. The prices listed are 887 for the extended version and 580 for the basic version. (Note: I think the basic one would more than suffice. It's been a while since I looked it up, but I don't think any serious photo critical tools are missing...) It shows the pounds symbol instead of euros... I don't understand that, I thought pounds were replaced by euros. Well, it is the UK shop according to the URL... However for some reason that page won't render on my machine in Firefox (I had tried it before as well). It just shows up blank and the source isn't very legible. 887.00 GBP = 1,280.21 EUR for the record. So it is indeed a bit cheaper.
Interesting. What does that do in Photoshop? In Krita, you get banding even in 32 bpc float mode, though it's not as strong as the GIMP. hint : your screen doesn't display in 32 bit per colour.
Same here - I only register for websites if registering gives me some sort of perk that I want. I only registered with slashdot to filter out topics I'm not interested in. Same here, I only finally registered on that special day when they sent out tshirts to all the new subscribers back when they were trying to bring the numbers up... Ah those were the days...
Sorry, I screwed up an italics tag and part of my post is unreadable. Here's what I originally meant to say:
$649 is not exactly cheap, but that's barely more than a PS3 or an iPhone. Unlike the PS3 and the iPhone, you can use Photoshop to make money. [...]
Well over here you'd better expect to make quite a bit of money out of it : Adobe Photoshop CS3 PC : 1 075,00€ (price taken from one of the popular computer chains) That's about $1,513.00 for the currency impaired.
For a high-end amateur photographer, I don't know many who are going to take that step. For me it was a no-brainer (especially since I work in Linux and wasn't too fond of running stuff in a virtual machine or in Wine anyway). I bought Bibble-pro which covers a lot of what I need and make do with Gimp and Krita for the rest (as well as the tools in digiKam) even though Gimp indeed does have many deficiencies (as noted below in another post), and Krita, while solid, still lacks a number of tools.
Gimp while certainly nice to have is not a very good photographer's tool (and I've been using it since the very first version). Cinepaint helps a bit but is broken in other ways. Currently we can hope either Krita (which nobody ever mentions for some reason) matures enough to really be usable (and it's getting there quite fast) or that the new Gimp engine finally enables the features everybody needs.
According to my (admittedly quite small) sailing experience and hanging around with lots of sailing people, realtime is within a 2 to 5 minutes timeframe once you're in open waters (as opposed to entering a port for example). This is assuming that you're aware of what's going on around you (which I expect the "AI" for the boat will be) and that you aren't awaken by a cargo ship when it's 10 metres away on a collision course.
The first thing to consider is whether to edit the code with vi or Emacs. Until this important point is addressed, I don't see how we can move forward to the sailing engineering bits.
Aren't you afraid the perforated cards would get soggy and would clog the reader ?
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Yes he should use MacOS 7 just to prove it can be done ! (well it *could* be done, couldn't it ?)
Actually the underlying OS doesn't matter much (as long as it provides reasonable services), so current versions of Windows (don't know about Vista) MacOS or pretty much any Unix will do just fine. He should just go with what he's most comfortable with. It's not as if he's going to fight much malware on an isolated machine.
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Uh, ok, I see your point.
(I wouldn't)
If he indeed went to Pakistan and had contacts with some sort of indoctrination organisation there, one would expect that they would have pointed him to some proper documentation with recipes that actually worked or didn't blow up in your face.
Based on the little information leaked, it seems to me that he's some kind of wannabe that just wanted to get noticed.
I've seen users who as part of their daily routine would casually get rid of their "your anti virus is now effectively dead in the water" nag screen would click on the pup up, wait for the web browser to spawn with the anti-virus registration page (which would dismiss the pop up), close the browser and do their stuff without thinking about it or even really understanding what that was all about.
Amazing really.
In the US, technology stays in the labs
*where it belongs, dammit!*
Come on, if it's "much better than OSX from Apple", people will just *have* to flock to it.
I'm sure even Duke Nukem Forever will be ported to it.
I know I can't wait. It's too bad I'll have to discard all my Linux software of course, and I'll probably have to junk all of my hardware as well, but since it's "much better", this can't be helped. Gotta stay with the times.
It's so exciting to be there when this revolution in computing is about to happen, the rebirth of Amiga, wow. Who would have thought !
(whops, I think I wet myself)
That's why kids get Legos while the grown ups play with laptops, and the Olpc project had to go through all of this to create such a kid resistant beast.
:(.
I still have all of my laptops here as well although my iBook is probably going to get sold and once had to replace the keyboard on my old Sony PictureBook (a book fell on it from an overhead shelf)
Crows are also among the few animals able to learn by observation, that is by watching another perform an act to solve a problem and then repeating the steps themselves when confronted to the same problem. :)
I've seen this done with octopus as well which can also solve fairly complex problems.
(and a number of primates of course)
I have magpies (which are basically small crows, like ravens are) living behind my appt, they are always very interesting to watch.
Won't somebody please think of the children !
Ah, wait, I had €s and $ amounts mixed up, it's actually more expensive.
Which of course is often the case when you buy direct from the publisher.
887.00 GBP = 1,280.21 EUR for the record. So it is indeed a bit cheaper.
(the above is not true)
Adobe Photoshop CS3 PC : 1 075,00€ (price taken from one of the popular computer chains)
That's about $1,513.00 for the currency impaired.
For a high-end amateur photographer, I don't know many who are going to take that step. For me it was a no-brainer (especially since I work in Linux and wasn't too fond of running stuff in a virtual machine or in Wine anyway). I bought Bibble-pro which covers a lot of what I need and make do with Gimp and Krita for the rest (as well as the tools in digiKam) even though Gimp indeed does have many deficiencies (as noted below in another post), and Krita, while solid, still lacks a number of tools.
Gimp while certainly nice to have is not a very good photographer's tool (and I've been using it since the very first version). Cinepaint helps a bit but is broken in other ways. Currently we can hope either Krita (which nobody ever mentions for some reason) matures enough to really be usable (and it's getting there quite fast) or that the new Gimp engine finally enables the features everybody needs.
Mammalian cells have no cell walls. Do they mean plasma membrane? This is basic biology, guys, please get your facts straight.
It's a pill for plants, RTFA ! (no I didn't read it either)It seems to me that 4 seconds would be plenty enough reaction time for sailing (40 probably would be enough actually).
According to my (admittedly quite small) sailing experience and hanging around with lots of sailing people, realtime is within a 2 to 5 minutes timeframe once you're in open waters (as opposed to entering a port for example).
This is assuming that you're aware of what's going on around you (which I expect the "AI" for the boat will be) and that you aren't awaken by a cargo ship when it's 10 metres away on a collision course.
The first thing to consider is whether to edit the code with vi or Emacs. Until this important point is addressed, I don't see how we can move forward to the sailing engineering bits.
Aren't you afraid the perforated cards would get soggy and would clog the reader ?
Yes he should use MacOS 7 just to prove it can be done ! (well it *could* be done, couldn't it ?)
Actually the underlying OS doesn't matter much (as long as it provides reasonable services), so current versions of Windows (don't know about Vista) MacOS or pretty much any Unix will do just fine. He should just go with what he's most comfortable with. It's not as if he's going to fight much malware on an isolated machine.
Do you actually need realtime for a sail boat ?
(just wondering)