It had been thought only four species of apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror.
I remember many years ago having a puppy sleeping at the end of my bed wake up in the middle of the night and start barking at its own reflection in the mirror across the room. It was startled at first, but after five or ten seconds worked out that the "other dog" was... not another dog.
Sure, its anecdotal but the puppy saw another dog at first and if it didn't finally "recognize [its] own body in [that] mirror" then how else to explain what went on?
Consider the iPhone, which despite being so crippled, a developer can still create and compile some native application for it, and install it via iTunes store or jailbreak. Google has decided TO BAN ALL NATIVE APPLICATIONS for its Android phones, and only allow Java.
Surely we will end up seeing "jailbroken" Android phones. If you are willing to consider a jailbroken iPhone as a legitimate target platform, you should know that people are already working on (and have met some success with) building and executing C and C++ applications on the Android emulator.
It seems to me that Lucas' first movie, THX 1138 can be seen as an allegory for his career. The "American Zoetrope" production house he formed with Francis Ford Coppola back in the revolutionary days of the late '60s in San Francisco was all about the independent thinker escaping from the machine of control and exploitation which was the "old boys'" movie studio system at the time.
***SPOILER ALERT***
At the end of the movie, when he has finally escaped and is free of the system (as Lucas is now free and able to produce any movie he chooses from conception through to finished product) the protagonist finds him system alone, in the middle of a barren wasteland. All credit to Lucas for escaping the machine, but it sees his imagination is just as empty these days.
gspca is the driver for your webcam.
do a search or just install the package by named (under Fedora 7 at least, maybe another name for Ubuntu).
works great here, good luck.
First off, as far as our relation as viewers to the characters themselves, they are all "dead" now that the series is over.
For the director, writers, actors, and everyone else involved with the show's production, these roles have all been played for the last time.
Second, beyond the open-ended cliffhanger regarding Tony, I feel they did a good job of walking each major personna across the stage for a final bow over the course of the final episodes.
Third, as far as Tony is concerned, we don't know what happens but does it really matter? Its implied that he might be killed suddenly by the shifty-looking character who walks past into the bathroom, especially considering Bobby's remarks during the "Soprano Home Movies" episode and the flashback last week, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Of course with Phil dead (and Tony having received permission prior) there is nothing in the episode to suggest who might still want to have him killed or why. It may be that the two guys walking into the restaurant just before Meadow are Feds coming to arrest him - even if he isn't killed that night it is understood that he'll have to face the Rico case that been built against him throughout the series. Perhaps nothing happens at all everything follows what others have stated, that the last five minutes are just expressing to the what every moment of Tony's life is like, never knowing what might happen next. The greatest part of about the ending (whether you liked it or not) is that it opens the floor for the viewers to think, discuss, and decide for themselves.
I saw at least one or two posts here saying that had no idea how to pronounce pidgin even.
I completely thought it was an "open source" play on the word "pidgeon." Like the kind with little notes tied to their feet and sent across long distances.
Time is rarely shown as continuous, forward moving, and in real time.
Try Rope by Hitchcock. It was shot in "real time" using a series of continuous takes, each exactly as long as the maximum length of a movie reel available at the time.
Try taking a look at marine equipment. There's plenty of resources online, or if you're near the coast try a boating shop. The larger the better. They're experienced with all sorts of weather-hardened equipment (what if the rain comes back?) that generates power in that range. Be aware you'll likely need some sort of battery system to store the juice and provide output at a sustained rate. You'll probably want to look into deep-cycle batteries.
Basically there's people on the go all over the world with no steady supply of power or fuel who have to be prepared for intense weather conditions - they're called yachties (c:
"Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin Smart man.
and a Philadelphian
A lot of people seem to be critisizing the idea, but there are some uses for it.
I have a multifunction scanner/printer/copy/fax that cost around $100 when it was purchased with a computer a year or two ago. Its great for scanning in receipts for work expense claims, and having soft copies of important paperwork. I used to hand-hold a digital camera, with receipts and papers on a well-lit, flat surface, and photograph in macro mode. Now I'll be going back to that method as I've moved into a very small place where space and power are limited. I don't have room for the big bulky device, nor a filing cabinet for storage of the originals.
Long story short, taking the pictures by hand, without a tripod means that yes the image of the papers will often be distorted (taken from an angle) or have shadows in them. But the point is you can read all of the lettering and 9 times out of 10 throw away the original. I would never bother with OCR, just keep the image files well-organized and backed up.
Imaging sitting there for an hour or more, looking at endless streams of boring security footage. Every time something interesting flashed by, the machine would record the brain activity, but the stream would just continue. Say you saw the image of a known terrorist flash by, it seems to be human nature would make you want to take a closer look - natural reaction would be to want to pay a little more attention. Unless the stream of images slows down a little when a "hit" is registered, the whole process would be a bit of a tease.
Nope. A circular technique like a roundkick didn't "show up" in my field of vision until too late to block or duck effectively. After two concussions and some broken bones, I went under the knife on both eyes. Today, I'm still 20/20 in both eyes and love it.
That's odd, I was specificially told by my eye doctor that I shouldn't undergo LASIK as long as I was still involved in kickboxing (Muay Thai) due to the risk of a blow damaging the weakened cornea.
I think you mean the "Wii get screwed" tax. Sorry, couldn't resist.
You know I hated the name "Wii" when it first came out, and while I kinda still do, I have to admit, this is the only Wii-name joke I've seen for this entire article (browsing at +3 granted). It seems like people have simply gotten it out of their systems - no offense to the parent.
Could it be Nintendo got the name right after all?
Have you looked into FRAPS (http://www.fraps.com/)? It doesn't quite meet your resolution requirements, but still gets you most of the way there.
It can record at 1152x864 (4:3) or 1280x720 (16:9) as a max resolution.
Is there anything comparable to this in the Linux world? This looks like Windows-only software.
I'd love to be able to record some tutorial videos for software I've been writing, but some of it is high-motion video and/or OpenGL. The closest I've been able to come so far is to run everything inside a VNC session and use VNC2SWF to output to flash - but VNC won't let me use OpenGL or hardware accelleration for the video.
I'm not even concerned about resolution, something like 800x600 would be just fine.
Anyway, something as small as this should be a free enhancement. Now, if they added in new player armor, weapons, and other goodies along with it, then I could see it having a cost.
Personally I see things exactly the opposite.
I don't care if something like this costs money, because it doesn't affect the play of the game. Your horse looks a little more interesting, someone has taken the time to add an "artistic touch" and maybe some other people are willing to pay extra for the look. That's terrific, I'd love to see a small artist-centric industry open up around independent contributors making money from customizations such as this.
But what bothers me is when things that do affect the play of the game cost extra money. Perhaps in a single-player game less so, I don't see it as much different than entering cheat codes or hex editing savegame files. However someone above pointed out that EA released add-on packs to Battlefield 2 which gave players who spent more money better weapons and equipment in an online multiplayer game. "Cheating" on a single player experience doesn't intefere with anyone else's enjoyment, but what happens when you can buy x-ray goggles that let you see through walls or around corners? $20 for wall hacks anyone?
Really, at the end of the day, I don't want to end up paying for a game, then getting nickle-and-dimed to receive the "full" product.
Imagine making a texture (not a picture) of something like wood or rusty metal in photoshop. You start with a base color, add some repetetive but randomized detail, apply a bunch of filters, and youve got something very nice. Now you save a picture of it. That is old school. The procedural way is to store a list of the things you did, and save that, then feed it to a copy of photoshop again later. This has two advantages. One, it saves a shitload of space, since the list is tiny and the resulting bitmap is huge. Two, it allows for really 'smooth' changes. You can change one step in the middle of the list and get a similar-but-significantly-different texture.
Actually, thanks for that. Of course I was taking the piss out of the guys over his repetition, but there's a bit of a problem when you use the same word again and again in the explanation of an idea, without actually explaining what you specifically mean when you use that word.
It sounds like not only has he (and his team) come up with a genuinely new and creative game concept, but are building and experience which itself will be new and creative every time the player gives it a go.
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I remember many years ago having a puppy sleeping at the end of my bed wake up in the middle of the night and start barking at its own reflection in the mirror across the room. It was startled at first, but after five or ten seconds worked out that the "other dog" was ... not another dog.
Sure, its anecdotal but the puppy saw another dog at first and if it didn't finally "recognize [its] own body in [that] mirror" then how else to explain what went on?
Surely we will end up seeing "jailbroken" Android phones. If you are willing to consider a jailbroken iPhone as a legitimate target platform, you should know that people are already working on (and have met some success with) building and executing C and C++ applications on the Android emulator.
It seems to me that Lucas' first movie, THX 1138 can be seen as an allegory for his career. The "American Zoetrope" production house he formed with Francis Ford Coppola back in the revolutionary days of the late '60s in San Francisco was all about the independent thinker escaping from the machine of control and exploitation which was the "old boys'" movie studio system at the time.
***SPOILER ALERT***
At the end of the movie, when he has finally escaped and is free of the system (as Lucas is now free and able to produce any movie he chooses from conception through to finished product) the protagonist finds him system alone, in the middle of a barren wasteland. All credit to Lucas for escaping the machine, but it sees his imagination is just as empty these days.
I know its not what you're complaining about but this is at least how gnome-terminal currently works already.
No reason why you couldn't just use gnome-terminal under KDE and stick with what's familiar (c:
Take that, Aquinas.
damn, overslept again.
Link
(sorry for the "me too" but didn't see anyone else responding, just wanted to give some props!)
good call on ifplugd, that really helps me out, thanks!
hell while you're at it, why not start paying attention to whether or not an ethernet cable is even plugged in in the first place?
windows has been able to re-start DHCP automatically if you unplug and plug back in a cable for years and years now, why can't linux?
easily my biggest pet peeve.
gspca is the driver for your webcam. do a search or just install the package by named (under Fedora 7 at least, maybe another name for Ubuntu). works great here, good luck.
For the director, writers, actors, and everyone else involved with the show's production, these roles have all been played for the last time.
Second, beyond the open-ended cliffhanger regarding Tony, I feel they did a good job of walking each major personna across the stage for a final bow over the course of the final episodes.
Third, as far as Tony is concerned, we don't know what happens but does it really matter? Its implied that he might be killed suddenly by the shifty-looking character who walks past into the bathroom, especially considering Bobby's remarks during the "Soprano Home Movies" episode and the flashback last week, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Of course with Phil dead (and Tony having received permission prior) there is nothing in the episode to suggest who might still want to have him killed or why. It may be that the two guys walking into the restaurant just before Meadow are Feds coming to arrest him - even if he isn't killed that night it is understood that he'll have to face the Rico case that been built against him throughout the series. Perhaps nothing happens at all everything follows what others have stated, that the last five minutes are just expressing to the what every moment of Tony's life is like, never knowing what might happen next. The greatest part of about the ending (whether you liked it or not) is that it opens the floor for the viewers to think, discuss, and decide for themselves.
Finally, bonus points simply for being different.
I completely thought it was an "open source" play on the word "pidgeon." Like the kind with little notes tied to their feet and sent across long distances.
Time is rarely shown as continuous, forward moving, and in real time.
Try Rope by Hitchcock. It was shot in "real time" using a series of continuous takes, each exactly as long as the maximum length of a movie reel available at the time.
Its a great movie to boot.
You should so read this xkcd comic:
http://www.xkcd.com/c16.html
Nothing personal, but between your quote and the sig...
Try taking a look at marine equipment. There's plenty of resources online, or if you're near the coast try a boating shop. The larger the better. They're experienced with all sorts of weather-hardened equipment (what if the rain comes back?) that generates power in that range. Be aware you'll likely need some sort of battery system to store the juice and provide output at a sustained rate. You'll probably want to look into deep-cycle batteries.
Basically there's people on the go all over the world with no steady supply of power or fuel who have to be prepared for intense weather conditions - they're called yachties (c:
"Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin Smart man. and a Philadelphian
A lot of people seem to be critisizing the idea, but there are some uses for it.
I have a multifunction scanner/printer/copy/fax that cost around $100 when it was purchased with a computer a year or two ago. Its great for scanning in receipts for work expense claims, and having soft copies of important paperwork. I used to hand-hold a digital camera, with receipts and papers on a well-lit, flat surface, and photograph in macro mode. Now I'll be going back to that method as I've moved into a very small place where space and power are limited. I don't have room for the big bulky device, nor a filing cabinet for storage of the originals.
Long story short, taking the pictures by hand, without a tripod means that yes the image of the papers will often be distorted (taken from an angle) or have shadows in them. But the point is you can read all of the lettering and 9 times out of 10 throw away the original. I would never bother with OCR, just keep the image files well-organized and backed up.
Sounds to me a bit frustrating for the user.
Imaging sitting there for an hour or more, looking at endless streams of boring security footage. Every time something interesting flashed by, the machine would record the brain activity, but the stream would just continue. Say you saw the image of a known terrorist flash by, it seems to be human nature would make you want to take a closer look - natural reaction would be to want to pay a little more attention. Unless the stream of images slows down a little when a "hit" is registered, the whole process would be a bit of a tease.
Nope. A circular technique like a roundkick didn't "show up" in my field of vision until too late to block or duck effectively. After two concussions and some broken bones, I went under the knife on both eyes. Today, I'm still 20/20 in both eyes and love it.
That's odd, I was specificially told by my eye doctor that I shouldn't undergo LASIK as long as I was still involved in kickboxing (Muay Thai) due to the risk of a blow damaging the weakened cornea.
I think you mean the "Wii get screwed" tax. Sorry, couldn't resist.
You know I hated the name "Wii" when it first came out, and while I kinda still do, I have to admit, this is the only Wii-name joke I've seen for this entire article (browsing at +3 granted). It seems like people have simply gotten it out of their systems - no offense to the parent.
Could it be Nintendo got the name right after all?
It can record at 1152x864 (4:3) or 1280x720 (16:9) as a max resolution.
Is there anything comparable to this in the Linux world? This looks like Windows-only software.
I'd love to be able to record some tutorial videos for software I've been writing, but some of it is high-motion video and/or OpenGL. The closest I've been able to come so far is to run everything inside a VNC session and use VNC2SWF to output to flash - but VNC won't let me use OpenGL or hardware accelleration for the video.
I'm not even concerned about resolution, something like 800x600 would be just fine.
Personally I see things exactly the opposite.
I don't care if something like this costs money, because it doesn't affect the play of the game. Your horse looks a little more interesting, someone has taken the time to add an "artistic touch" and maybe some other people are willing to pay extra for the look. That's terrific, I'd love to see a small artist-centric industry open up around independent contributors making money from customizations such as this.
But what bothers me is when things that do affect the play of the game cost extra money. Perhaps in a single-player game less so, I don't see it as much different than entering cheat codes or hex editing savegame files. However someone above pointed out that EA released add-on packs to Battlefield 2 which gave players who spent more money better weapons and equipment in an online multiplayer game. "Cheating" on a single player experience doesn't intefere with anyone else's enjoyment, but what happens when you can buy x-ray goggles that let you see through walls or around corners? $20 for wall hacks anyone?
Really, at the end of the day, I don't want to end up paying for a game, then getting nickle-and-dimed to receive the "full" product.
Actually, thanks for that. Of course I was taking the piss out of the guys over his repetition, but there's a bit of a problem when you use the same word again and again in the explanation of an idea, without actually explaining what you specifically mean when you use that word.
It sounds like not only has he (and his team) come up with a genuinely new and creative game concept, but are building and experience which itself will be new and creative every time the player gives it a go.
good ..uhm... on him!