the google cached page is likely just as slow since I'm prety sure they only cache the text, which would be links to the images - so you are going to quickly load the cached text, and still have to wait for the images to come off of the/.'ed server.
I've been impressed with the pics they are sending out, but the rate of refresh leaves something to be desired - jerky images and long delays for audio. but it is very impressive that the images are as clear as they are, and the audio doesn't seem to break up at all - I presume they give prioirty to audio, or since it is a *phone* after all perhaps the voice part is already taken care of.
He is claiming that Microsoft makes it hard to change file extensions and then bases the arguements further from there. That is just the point of view of someone that apparently is computer retarded. Windows has that option to associate files in *every single folder*
it hardly seems like a hiding tactic.
this argument makes me think of someone that just runs into a door, then keeps trying, and then complains when they can't find the doorknob even though they've flipped all the light switches in teh room.
and as usual, someone makes an asinine comment with the Mac as a defense of the right way to do something. They somehow magically detect what it is and you are forever saved - WTF?! Mac just has a descriptor in the file type, but it isn't part of the command line descriptor of the file - big deal - it is still associated with some program, and if you are too stupid to know how to change it, then you will use whatever it defaults to.
I usually respect what CmdrTco says, but in this case, it seems like he agrees with this article, and it seems an obvious bash at microsoft, fine, but it is a lousy argument, at least give better points.
I recall seeing a special on tv in school once as a young lad in the mid 80's where a man out in the desert of the states made his whole house out of aluminum cans and tires. apparently it was really good at insulating.
at the time, I was just amazed that he washed so many cans, and didn't crush them all up in the process.
I'm a total sucker for shiny sliding things with buttons (I own both of these: 8860 and 8890), and this certainly fits the bill - I want one - but I really have no clue - I mean I have a handspring Visor and I rarely use it - the screen is just too damn small to do much with aside from keep numbers and stuff...
but as long as they keep making shiny things, I'll keep buying them.
is there a way to backup if that quote has any validity behind it? bush supposedly said it, but it seems to me more of a net rumor.
either way it is funny.
hee hee - good point.
everyone has a different sense of fun I suppose. personally, I see it on the same level of "fun" as if someone said "here is this math problem I want you to solve" (and I love math/logic problems) and it turns out it is impossible to solve (find what pi to the last digit is, and then divide by two)... that then falls, IMO, away from "fun" and into "waste of my time"
that said, I use all of my extra processor time on distributed.net, the RC5 section (the other stuff I turn off).
I think protein folding efforts are also worthwhile, and I think there is also use in the g.rulers.
they have real hard concrete evidence of what their goal is and they will know when they've found it - otherwise, the rest are just good projects to bring people together, and maybe you get a screensaver out of it.
I've never understood why you would want to bother with this. there are so many factors pointing to why it i s awaste that I'm confused as to why people that I consider smart still waste their time with it.
do I think there is other life out there? or course, it is possible, there is just so *much* out there that the chances seem decent.
do I think it will be intelligent? well, that depends on how you define intelligence. even on our own planet there is much disagreement as to what defines intelligence just within humans (Howard Gardner at Harvard for instance could elaborate on this). or if you want to take a page out of The Collapse of Chaos (I think that is Ian Stewart), depending on the criteria, humans might not even be considered to have any intelligence - we are just biased towards out way of thinking.
it seems like there is a pretty good chance of life out there, but that good chance is more towards mold, fungus, spores, bacteria, virus, etc - not complex creatures as ourselves.
then you don't know if they can even comminucate to each other, let alone broadcast a signal out. and if they could, is it something we could detect? and then if that were the case, would we even know if we did get it, and could we understand it?
it goes back to the same base human nature things you learn in a psych 101 class or poli sci - people are weak by nature, they feel vulnurable in a world they can't control - therefore they need to be controlled, they need to feel they have a purpose, and they need to feel like they aren't alone.
this applys from everything to the rash of movies coming out that show men spending their lives looking for a woman they just happened to see - if gives women that feel lonely hope that there is someone out there looking for them, making them feel special.
this is also much like religion in my mind - an opiate to calm that feeling that maybe you are worthless, maybe you have to purpose here, and maybe you aren't special, and maybe, there really is nothing after this.
instead of blowing this life, do something good with it - or find religion and look to the stars.
since 1995 I've been doing cryptography and also digital graphics (3D) and for a long time (well, in terms of technology it is long), Intel was king b/c they were better at floating point calc, and both of those were almost all reliant on that. But then the amd athlon came along and now it kicks ass in that area too.
I haven't upgraded my current systems yet, and even the newest one is a dual PIII b/c at that time the athlons weren't able to do dual - but now they have the MP and great boards (see the articles about the tyan tigermp).
So I don't understand why you would seek out the Intel...
cable so reception doesn't matter.
wireless network on the inside.
as long as you can get a fast connection inside, then that is my ideal pad. I'd love that - you could make it a really kick-ass loft. I never leave my apartment, so that would be great - not to mention those taliban fuckers don't give a shit about Kansas, whereas Boston is a target...
oh I see - I missed something there. I was just saying sending out rendered frames (life and cg together) straight so that they could be critqued (the dalies) would be large - but I didn't mean the extra textures and such - once rendered out they don't need to go with the film (unless you are going to render it out in realtime as nVidia says they can do with final fantasy and some box they have with a bunch of geforce3's.... drool)
I used to follow all the newsgroups and the mailing lists back in the day, but I got away from it and haven't been back. I am about to get back into Maya for a game I'm deveoloping, except this time I have money, so I'll actually buy a license. I learned on a beta prior to 1.0 - now they are up to 4.0 and variants within that... damn skippy.
also, I should note that hushmail source is available for download and perusal - which I've done with the older stuff, but not the new one. unsure about ziplip. and they are both free.
if you go to the apple recall site - their's was 6 cases. I don't know out of how many - but I'd assume it is similar or acutally probably even larger since it spans several years of powerbooks.
you have to admit, with those 5-6 people, it was probably not the one where the power supply was out in the open on a hardwood floor, but somebody had it under some drapes, or left a polyester shirt on it or something.
both are web accessible and secure as long as you talk to others that are also on the same system. hushmail uses a java applet and depending on which version you are using the blowfish algorithm or a PGP spin-off. off the top of my head, I don't recall what ziplip uses.
hmmm, perhaps your parent note was modded down b/c I'm not sure if there is further context here - but they are filmed in Sydney for one reason. Money. The special effects team is there, and they are chaper, and the city allows things to be done cheaper than in the states, and then also the weather.
I'm not entirely certain what the WTC has to do with it, but I suppose one of the articles (which I didn't read...) must have mentioned something about terrorist activity there that paused work or something? not sure why they'd go after australia.
doesn't say the bit-depth of the des - but i tis technically doable, just a matter of computing power. it is also easier if you know something you are looking for (distributed.net knows the result string that is encrypted, or at least a part of it).
and in the crypto field, there are many that will claim that "PGP CAST 128" is fairly worthless.
it seems to me that you *might* be able to get one frame - and even that would be impressive. but I am seriously doubting anyone would get the whole enchalada. at least not from sniffing and then bruting the result.
you are far more likely to have success to find the servers on either end and try to break into them and then puruse the data in the decrypted state.
Film images are huge. Even on local area networks (some with fiber backbones) it's a huge undertaking just transmitting the data files for FX.
yeah, I thought I had said only FX that I knew of before - and I'm pretty sure I recall a friend at digital domain telling me about them using the net - but perhaps it was just a LAN... pretty sure it wasn't - but I can't double check since I haven't been in contact with him in some time now (over a year which is ages in that industry).
and movie image size (one frame) is crazy big - I recall rendering out some of my movies to 800x600 and thinking that was impressive for school projects - then seeing that the fx things are WWAAAAAAYY bigger... I'm no entirely sure I recall what the exact figures were, but they were along the line of a factor of ten or more larger. (it has been awhile of me being out of special effects, 3d, and movies and now just doing various programming things - but I think I recall film is doubled so that it can get up to a frame rate that we like - whereas video stills would be single... so if you look at a film, there are two frames for every one frame of action... so you actually can render fewer frames for your FX (one is just a copy) on film than on video... but the video resolution is much lower...
I can recall when Major Damage was just getting started - people discussing it on some mailing lists.
When I was in college I interned briefly (more of a class really) at Kliezer Walzack (sp?) Construction Company (I think they are www.kwcc.com).
it was a husband and wife team and they did some micheal jackson vids, judge dread, the spiderman ride at universal and I think Honey I blew up the Kids... all bad films, but cool special effects. At the time, Jeff Lew was there - he is a huge name in the character animation field.
anyway, Jeff (Klisier - again I don't know how to spell it) was one of the owners and his first real film was Tron. According to him, they'd program all the efffects, then never really see them until the process of putting the data to film was complete, then the film would be mailed back to them, they'd watch it, and then make corrections. It was amazing how well and how fast they did it all considering that was the case.
eveyrthing is now net based, so this isn't as big a deal - a much bigger deal that the whole movie is done this way - but as far as adding in digital efects, they've been doing it for awhile now (Sending the stuff over the net that is).
why the hell is this AC's post modded down? it is very informative!
the one thing I've thought about this monitor is that I'd actually have to turn my head to see stuff on screen, whereas now I can run on a 19-21" at 1600x1200 and it is just right to fit a good amount on there, things are small enough that my eyes are happy (I like things "far away") and I don't have to turn my head, it is all in my field of vision...
WAP is very dead - but if you really want - then:
1) go to openwave and download the simulator
2) then just use whatever web server and scripting pages you want - asp, jsp, php, whatever, just make sure your headers output that it is a wml page and then it will render just dandily on a WAP device.
speaking from experience, I ported an entire asp site over to a wap device (not so hard if you write the site with functionality classes and display classes - then you can just add a wap display class and use the logic to pass either to that or the html pages based on what the client is).
I just got a new assignment today that looks like I will now likely get the job of porting our newest software over so that it outputs via an xsl translation (of xml - duh) out to wml - which I think is silly since WAP is dead - but it will be easy enough to either add to this module, or replace it with whatever G3 tech comes popular soon enough.
it is frustrating when, like myself for example, you are working a game that uses this concept - not many things out there doing that... and it takes a while to write when it is in your "spare time" - so when someone points it out like this, then there are others smacking their head like "oh yeah, I could do THIS" and then they can beat you to your idea.
If I recall correctly, the GeForce3 doesn't do LCD screens... and probably isn't aware of that pixel depth either.
so when are they going to make me a kick ass graphics card to go with that kick ass monitor? (and I suppose just to make it fair, the graphics card really should be way out of my price range as well... perhaps a lil' something from SGI)
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the google cached page is likely just as slow since I'm prety sure they only cache the text, which would be links to the images - so you are going to quickly load the cached text, and still have to wait for the images to come off of the /.'ed server.
I've been impressed with the pics they are sending out, but the rate of refresh leaves something to be desired - jerky images and long delays for audio. but it is very impressive that the images are as clear as they are, and the audio doesn't seem to break up at all - I presume they give prioirty to audio, or since it is a *phone* after all perhaps the voice part is already taken care of.
He is claiming that Microsoft makes it hard to change file extensions and then bases the arguements further from there. That is just the point of view of someone that apparently is computer retarded. Windows has that option to associate files in *every single folder*
it hardly seems like a hiding tactic.
this argument makes me think of someone that just runs into a door, then keeps trying, and then complains when they can't find the doorknob even though they've flipped all the light switches in teh room.
and as usual, someone makes an asinine comment with the Mac as a defense of the right way to do something. They somehow magically detect what it is and you are forever saved - WTF?! Mac just has a descriptor in the file type, but it isn't part of the command line descriptor of the file - big deal - it is still associated with some program, and if you are too stupid to know how to change it, then you will use whatever it defaults to.
I usually respect what CmdrTco says, but in this case, it seems like he agrees with this article, and it seems an obvious bash at microsoft, fine, but it is a lousy argument, at least give better points.
I recall seeing a special on tv in school once as a young lad in the mid 80's where a man out in the desert of the states made his whole house out of aluminum cans and tires. apparently it was really good at insulating.
at the time, I was just amazed that he washed so many cans, and didn't crush them all up in the process.
I'm a total sucker for shiny sliding things with buttons (I own both of these: 8860 and 8890), and this certainly fits the bill - I want one - but I really have no clue - I mean I have a handspring Visor and I rarely use it - the screen is just too damn small to do much with aside from keep numbers and stuff...
but as long as they keep making shiny things, I'll keep buying them.
now off to get some tin foil.... oooooo
$10 tent and camel's butt
is there a way to backup if that quote has any validity behind it? bush supposedly said it, but it seems to me more of a net rumor.
either way it is funny.
hee hee - good point.
everyone has a different sense of fun I suppose. personally, I see it on the same level of "fun" as if someone said "here is this math problem I want you to solve" (and I love math/logic problems) and it turns out it is impossible to solve (find what pi to the last digit is, and then divide by two)... that then falls, IMO, away from "fun" and into "waste of my time"
that said, I use all of my extra processor time on distributed.net, the RC5 section (the other stuff I turn off).
I think protein folding efforts are also worthwhile, and I think there is also use in the g.rulers.
they have real hard concrete evidence of what their goal is and they will know when they've found it - otherwise, the rest are just good projects to bring people together, and maybe you get a screensaver out of it.
I've never understood why you would want to bother with this. there are so many factors pointing to why it i s awaste that I'm confused as to why people that I consider smart still waste their time with it.
do I think there is other life out there? or course, it is possible, there is just so *much* out there that the chances seem decent.
do I think it will be intelligent? well, that depends on how you define intelligence. even on our own planet there is much disagreement as to what defines intelligence just within humans (Howard Gardner at Harvard for instance could elaborate on this). or if you want to take a page out of The Collapse of Chaos (I think that is Ian Stewart), depending on the criteria, humans might not even be considered to have any intelligence - we are just biased towards out way of thinking.
it seems like there is a pretty good chance of life out there, but that good chance is more towards mold, fungus, spores, bacteria, virus, etc - not complex creatures as ourselves.
then you don't know if they can even comminucate to each other, let alone broadcast a signal out. and if they could, is it something we could detect? and then if that were the case, would we even know if we did get it, and could we understand it?
it goes back to the same base human nature things you learn in a psych 101 class or poli sci - people are weak by nature, they feel vulnurable in a world they can't control - therefore they need to be controlled, they need to feel they have a purpose, and they need to feel like they aren't alone.
this applys from everything to the rash of movies coming out that show men spending their lives looking for a woman they just happened to see - if gives women that feel lonely hope that there is someone out there looking for them, making them feel special.
this is also much like religion in my mind - an opiate to calm that feeling that maybe you are worthless, maybe you have to purpose here, and maybe you aren't special, and maybe, there really is nothing after this.
instead of blowing this life, do something good with it - or find religion and look to the stars.
since 1995 I've been doing cryptography and also digital graphics (3D) and for a long time (well, in terms of technology it is long), Intel was king b/c they were better at floating point calc, and both of those were almost all reliant on that. But then the amd athlon came along and now it kicks ass in that area too.
I haven't upgraded my current systems yet, and even the newest one is a dual PIII b/c at that time the athlons weren't able to do dual - but now they have the MP and great boards (see the articles about the tyan tigermp).
So I don't understand why you would seek out the Intel...
cable so reception doesn't matter.
wireless network on the inside.
as long as you can get a fast connection inside, then that is my ideal pad. I'd love that - you could make it a really kick-ass loft. I never leave my apartment, so that would be great - not to mention those taliban fuckers don't give a shit about Kansas, whereas Boston is a target...
now I just need the $$.
and hookers. need them too.
oh I see - I missed something there. I was just saying sending out rendered frames (life and cg together) straight so that they could be critqued (the dalies) would be large - but I didn't mean the extra textures and such - once rendered out they don't need to go with the film (unless you are going to render it out in realtime as nVidia says they can do with final fantasy and some box they have with a bunch of geforce3's.... drool)
I used to follow all the newsgroups and the mailing lists back in the day, but I got away from it and haven't been back. I am about to get back into Maya for a game I'm deveoloping, except this time I have money, so I'll actually buy a license. I learned on a beta prior to 1.0 - now they are up to 4.0 and variants within that... damn skippy.
yes - who is this?
probably Paul. anyway, yeah, the best part was it was not even out of 100, but like 150. I'm a genie
also, I should note that hushmail source is available for download and perusal - which I've done with the older stuff, but not the new one. unsure about ziplip. and they are both free.
if you go to the apple recall site - their's was 6 cases. I don't know out of how many - but I'd assume it is similar or acutally probably even larger since it spans several years of powerbooks.
you have to admit, with those 5-6 people, it was probably not the one where the power supply was out in the open on a hardwood floor, but somebody had it under some drapes, or left a polyester shirt on it or something.
let your devices BREATHE
what's wrong with hushmail or ziplip??
both are web accessible and secure as long as you talk to others that are also on the same system. hushmail uses a java applet and depending on which version you are using the blowfish algorithm or a PGP spin-off. off the top of my head, I don't recall what ziplip uses.
there are
hmmm, perhaps your parent note was modded down b/c I'm not sure if there is further context here - but they are filmed in Sydney for one reason. Money. The special effects team is there, and they are chaper, and the city allows things to be done cheaper than in the states, and then also the weather.
I'm not entirely certain what the WTC has to do with it, but I suppose one of the articles (which I didn't read...) must have mentioned something about terrorist activity there that paused work or something? not sure why they'd go after australia.
doesn't say the bit-depth of the des - but i tis technically doable, just a matter of computing power. it is also easier if you know something you are looking for (distributed.net knows the result string that is encrypted, or at least a part of it).
and in the crypto field, there are many that will claim that "PGP CAST 128" is fairly worthless.
it seems to me that you *might* be able to get one frame - and even that would be impressive. but I am seriously doubting anyone would get the whole enchalada. at least not from sniffing and then bruting the result.
you are far more likely to have success to find the servers on either end and try to break into them and then puruse the data in the decrypted state.
Film images are huge. Even on local area networks (some with fiber backbones) it's a huge undertaking just transmitting the data files for FX.
yeah, I thought I had said only FX that I knew of before - and I'm pretty sure I recall a friend at digital domain telling me about them using the net - but perhaps it was just a LAN... pretty sure it wasn't - but I can't double check since I haven't been in contact with him in some time now (over a year which is ages in that industry).
and movie image size (one frame) is crazy big - I recall rendering out some of my movies to 800x600 and thinking that was impressive for school projects - then seeing that the fx things are WWAAAAAAYY bigger... I'm no entirely sure I recall what the exact figures were, but they were along the line of a factor of ten or more larger. (it has been awhile of me being out of special effects, 3d, and movies and now just doing various programming things - but I think I recall film is doubled so that it can get up to a frame rate that we like - whereas video stills would be single... so if you look at a film, there are two frames for every one frame of action... so you actually can render fewer frames for your FX (one is just a copy) on film than on video... but the video resolution is much lower...
I can recall when Major Damage was just getting started - people discussing it on some mailing lists.
there I go rambling again.
it is dangerous to say so on slashdot since there are so many Pro Mac people - but there is this as well: http://exchange.info.apple.com/exchange/
When I was in college I interned briefly (more of a class really) at Kliezer Walzack (sp?) Construction Company (I think they are www.kwcc.com).
it was a husband and wife team and they did some micheal jackson vids, judge dread, the spiderman ride at universal and I think Honey I blew up the Kids... all bad films, but cool special effects. At the time, Jeff Lew was there - he is a huge name in the character animation field.
anyway, Jeff (Klisier - again I don't know how to spell it) was one of the owners and his first real film was Tron. According to him, they'd program all the efffects, then never really see them until the process of putting the data to film was complete, then the film would be mailed back to them, they'd watch it, and then make corrections. It was amazing how well and how fast they did it all considering that was the case.
eveyrthing is now net based, so this isn't as big a deal - a much bigger deal that the whole movie is done this way - but as far as adding in digital efects, they've been doing it for awhile now (Sending the stuff over the net that is).
why the hell is this AC's post modded down? it is very informative!
the one thing I've thought about this monitor is that I'd actually have to turn my head to see stuff on screen, whereas now I can run on a 19-21" at 1600x1200 and it is just right to fit a good amount on there, things are small enough that my eyes are happy (I like things "far away") and I don't have to turn my head, it is all in my field of vision...
WAP is very dead - but if you really want - then:
1) go to openwave and download the simulator
2) then just use whatever web server and scripting pages you want - asp, jsp, php, whatever, just make sure your headers output that it is a wml page and then it will render just dandily on a WAP device.
speaking from experience, I ported an entire asp site over to a wap device (not so hard if you write the site with functionality classes and display classes - then you can just add a wap display class and use the logic to pass either to that or the html pages based on what the client is).
I just got a new assignment today that looks like I will now likely get the job of porting our newest software over so that it outputs via an xsl translation (of xml - duh) out to wml - which I think is silly since WAP is dead - but it will be easy enough to either add to this module, or replace it with whatever G3 tech comes popular soon enough.
it is frustrating when, like myself for example, you are working a game that uses this concept - not many things out there doing that... and it takes a while to write when it is in your "spare time" - so when someone points it out like this, then there are others smacking their head like "oh yeah, I could do THIS" and then they can beat you to your idea.
bastards
If I recall correctly, the GeForce3 doesn't do LCD screens... and probably isn't aware of that pixel depth either.
so when are they going to make me a kick ass graphics card to go with that kick ass monitor? (and I suppose just to make it fair, the graphics card really should be way out of my price range as well... perhaps a lil' something from SGI)