Nope. 2048x1530 is quite doable with today's graphics cards. According to my X server output, my voodoo3 can handle a dot clock of 300MHz; 2048x1530@60Hz would be about 200MHz. That leaves about 100MHz of bandwidth for other graphics tasks such as blitting, etc. Further, DVDs *do* require processing to display! The video overlay has to be mixed in with the desktop image, and this process steals bandwidth from the available pool-- especially if a color key is used.
The parent comment should be marked "Funny". It's a reference to the fact that Brainball is played by trying to minimize brainwave activity. (See today's "Brainball!" article on slashdot.
All of Starship Troopers is believable, except at the end where they capture the "bug brain"...
What?!? You think that bugs that can launch asteroids out of their ass at escape velocity, perfectly aimed and timed to impact Earth 100s of millions of years later, just to start a war with a bipedal race that hasn't even swam out of the primordal yet, is a believable movie?
My @home experience has been better than yours. In my market, the service goes for about $50, and I have seen data rates as high as 600 kps (actually, 3 concurrent transfers averaging 200 kps each, as each maxed out at 200 kps individually.) Granted, I don't get that throughput ALL the time, but I didn't buy into the @home service with that expectation, either.
Repressed memories are resurfacing! I actually saw this! It had Storm Troopers bustin down the front door... and one of the STs sadistically broke the kid's favorite toy...
To those with a shorter memory then me, the secret message in their previous page said something like:
"There are no secret messages in the source of this web page."
"There are no tyops in this web page."
Now... follow me, because this gets sticky: "tyops" can't be a typo of "typos", because the statement would then be false. But likewise, it cannot not be a typo, because if it was, then it'd be a secret message, when clearly the previous sentence says that it isn't!
Netscape forgot that diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy!' while carrying a big stick. I really think they would have gotten a lot farther if they had kept a low profile, and subtly started adding things such as Java, without the "We're gonna squash Microsoft like the bug that they are!" fanfare. Instead of sneaking past the sleeping giant, they woke him up...
While your points concerning baby formula are valid, I really fail to see how "terminator" seeds can be economically viable. The breast-feeding mothers in China were naive, and the company exploited this. I doubt this will be a problem with farmers. Why would anyone smart enough to run a farm buy seeds that they could only use for one season? Yes, the company might make them cheaper than buying Natural seeds, but what about Total Cost of Ownership? It seems that the good ol' laws governing supply and demand (or more accurately, the lack of demand) would keep these seeds from being a problem.
No, Bob does QUOTE the bits he received to Alice... he says "I received bit #5, bit #17, bit #42," etc.) This doesn't give Eve any useful information, because she'd have to know what those bit values are, and if she knew that, Bob wouldn't have received them.
Exactly HOW do you find out about IPO launches in time to take advantage of them! I always hear about them after the fact! (I knew this one was COMING... but where was the announcement that said, "mm-dd-yy is the date"?!?)
Here's a PC onna Chip! You can have it for real cheap, and that's Cuttin' Me Own Throat!
(Note to the humor impaired: If you haven't read Terry Pratchett, don't bother trying to understand this comment.)
--synaptik
You have to admire this guy...
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...for being consistent in his message, and sticking to his guns. ("Sticking to his guns" may be a more appropriate cliche' for ESR, over RMS, but you get my point.;) ) I don't always agree with him, but I have a deep respect for people like him who live by their ideological principles consistently and non-hypocritically.
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...for being consistent in his message. I don't always agree with him, but I have a deep respect for people like him who live by their ideological principles consistently and non-hypocritically.
Something tells me that if aliens had the ability to modulate a "heavenly phenomenon" such as a enormous burst of gamma radiation, that they would have no trouble getting us to notice them using much easier methods. Namely, showing up on our doorstep.
I did an altavista search for "The ECS Network", and found several pages describing them as an Internet Presence Provider. The pages had a high linux-topic content, but were physically located at another domain. To wit: http://yardim.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/Linux/
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Nope. 2048x1530 is quite doable with today's graphics cards. According to my X server output, my voodoo3 can handle a dot clock of 300MHz; 2048x1530@60Hz would be about 200MHz. That leaves about 100MHz of bandwidth for other graphics tasks such as blitting, etc. Further, DVDs *do* require processing to display! The video overlay has to be mixed in with the desktop image, and this process steals bandwidth from the available pool-- especially if a color key is used.
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...Except that Bowie doesn't do them anymore. He pawned it off on someone else.
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The parent comment should be marked "Funny". It's a reference to the fact that Brainball is played by trying to minimize brainwave activity. (See today's "Brainball!" article on slashdot.
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Moderators: Please moderate the parent message up.
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If you want to flame me, do so here.
All of Starship Troopers is believable, except at the end where they capture the "bug brain"...
What?!? You think that bugs that can launch asteroids out of their ass at escape velocity, perfectly aimed and timed to impact Earth 100s of millions of years later, just to start a war with a bipedal race that hasn't even swam out of the primordal yet, is a believable movie?
--synaptik
If you want to flame me, do so here.
Who's this "Abstain" fellow that made his way into every category? He must have stuffed the polls! ;)
--synaptik
If you want to flame me, do so here.
My @home experience has been better than yours. In my market, the service goes for about $50, and I have seen data rates as high as 600 kps (actually, 3 concurrent transfers averaging 200 kps each, as each maxed out at 200 kps individually.) Granted, I don't get that throughput ALL the time, but I didn't buy into the @home service with that expectation, either.
--synaptik
If you want to flame me, do so here.
Dude... Lunar eclipses ONLY happen at night. You must be thinking of a solar eclipse.
--synaptik
Oh my gawd!
Repressed memories are resurfacing! I actually saw this! It had Storm Troopers bustin down the front door... and one of the STs sadistically broke the kid's favorite toy...
--synaptik
You've obviously never been a sperm!
--synaptik
I'm an INTP-- of course I'm reading too much into it.
Sheesh!
--synaptik
Heh, nice "Princess Bride" reference!
"Incontheeevable!"
--synaptik
To those with a shorter memory then me, the secret message in their previous page said something like:
Now... follow me, because this gets sticky: "tyops" can't be a typo of "typos", because the statement would then be false. But likewise, it cannot not be a typo, because if it was, then it'd be a secret message, when clearly the previous sentence says that it isn't!
Someone please help me....
--synaptik
Netscape forgot that diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy!' while carrying a big stick. I really think they would have gotten a lot farther if they had kept a low profile, and subtly started adding things such as Java, without the "We're gonna squash Microsoft like the bug that they are!" fanfare. Instead of sneaking past the sleeping giant, they woke him up...
--synaptik
While your points concerning baby formula are valid, I really fail to see how "terminator" seeds can be economically viable. The breast-feeding mothers in China were naive, and the company exploited this. I doubt this will be a problem with farmers. Why would anyone smart enough to run a farm buy seeds that they could only use for one season? Yes, the company might make them cheaper than buying Natural seeds, but what about Total Cost of Ownership? It seems that the good ol' laws governing supply and demand (or more accurately, the lack of demand) would keep these seeds from being a problem.
--synaptik
Er, that should hav read, "Bob doesn't quote", not "Bob does quote". Damn fingers, did it to me again. :(
--synaptik
No, Bob does QUOTE the bits he received to Alice... he says "I received bit #5, bit #17, bit #42," etc.) This doesn't give Eve any useful information, because she'd have to know what those bit values are, and if she knew that, Bob wouldn't have received them.
--synaptik
The article answers every single question you ask! Read the article, THEN ask questions.
--synaptik
Dude... he was joking.
--synaptik
Exactly HOW do you find out about IPO launches in time to take advantage of them! I always hear about them after the fact! (I knew this one was COMING... but where was the announcement that said, "mm-dd-yy is the date"?!?)
--synaptik
Here's a PC onna Chip! You can have it for real cheap, and that's Cuttin' Me Own Throat!
(Note to the humor impaired: If you haven't read Terry Pratchett, don't bother trying to understand this comment.)
--synaptik
...for being consistent in his message, and sticking to his guns. ("Sticking to his guns" may be a more appropriate cliche' for ESR, over RMS, but you get my point. ;) ) I don't always agree with him, but I have a deep respect for people like him who live by their ideological principles consistently and non-hypocritically.
--synaptik
...for being consistent in his message. I don't always agree with him, but I have a deep respect for people like him who live by their ideological principles consistently and non-hypocritically.
--synaptik
Something tells me that if aliens had the ability to modulate a "heavenly phenomenon" such as a enormous burst of gamma radiation, that they would have no trouble getting us to notice them using much easier methods. Namely, showing up on our doorstep.
--synaptik
I did an altavista search for "The ECS Network", and found several pages describing them as an Internet Presence Provider. The pages had a high linux-topic content, but were physically located at another domain. To wit: http://yardim.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/Linux/
--synaptik