if it can't do proper HD then it's not interesting. there are plenty of tiny low res video players on the market now.
Even at it's native resolution heavily compressed h264 might be too much to decode in real time. Then again, it seems the chipset supports hardware acceleration according to another post. If that works it would work out.
But it's hard to tell if 720p or 1080i would work even so. Those resolutions can be hard to get working properly even with dedicated hardware decoders. (I work with IPTV technologies.)
At school its reasonably blocked (I can get by, she can't) and at home she's on my network. She knows I have firewall logs, and reserve the right to forensically review her machine. I don't though. I really really really don't want to know her taste in p0rn
It's great to see someone accepting the facts: Kids will get access to porn one way or another. For a parent the only critical thing is to make it clear that sex in a porn movie is as realistic as fighting in an action movie... It's a fantasy, and should be dealt with as such. Sex is a natural part of human behavior, so what is so problematic with watching some porn every now and then? Better to brainwash yourself with porn than violence, if you ask me...
If you ask me, Lwaxana Troi was one of the most interesting characters in TNG. She brought a whole lot of depth to the whole Betazoid thing, and let's not forget (this being Slashhdot) she even appeared naked in one episode! Very few characters had the same ability to stir things up on the Enterprise, Q being another obvious example.
Not sure about the specs, and not that "politically correct", but Wormux, http://www.wormux.org/ is a GPL clone of the ever classic 2D Worms. Should be right-on for 13-16 year olds.
Also note that in the end of the release notes are info on the migration path from Python 2 to 3. I'll leave the rest to people who bother to RTFA...;)
I currently work as a Systems Architect, working on fairly distributed systems and a wide range of languages and tools. I have the Finnish equivalent of a High School education, on the formal level.
I started in a help desk job and worked my way up, always trying to learn new stuff and seeking out new jobs when I felt I was standing still. With enough experience I now hold positions which need the skills equivalent of a university level education.
So yes, it's possible. Risky, but possible. Learn the art of interviewing.
That last statement shows ignorance. Fast food is much more expensive than home cooked healthy food. Even high-end, organic, hippy-store produce is cheap and fish is one of the cheapest and healthiest forms of protein. You don't eat poorly because of cost you eat poorly because of convenience as cooking for yourself is time consuming and doesn't fit well with our modern chaotic schedules.
Incorrect. In my local supermarket saturated fat -heavy minced meat costs about 6 Euros / kilo. Fish costs 15-20 Euros / kilo. We cook all our meals ourselves at home, but the ingredients could be better if we had the funds.
I guess I should point out that living in Finland also means that most vegetables need to be grown in greenhouses or shipped from abroad. This further increases the price of enjoying a healthy diet.
Sadly, the price on vegetables in Finland where I live is such, that it's a hell of a lot more expensive to go on a healthy diet. In fact, a chicken salad does indeed cost more than a McMeal, at least for the same energy content.
I'm not surprised that generally mismanaging your body with bad nutrition would make it more likely to get some kind of degenerative disease... While it's nice to find hard evidence I think at least the geek population would be plain dumb so assume otherwise.
Now if we could only get governments to have some kind of taxes on the bad stuff, and subsidize the good stuff. I'd eat better if I could afford it, quite frankly.
one would think watchmen was unfilmable, but apparently early previews say it is fantastic
one would have thought lord of the rings was unfilmable, and yet jackson made some of the best films ever made
as long as they do it right... for values of "doing it right" that are largely unquantifiable
This is why I'm sad that a real version of The Neverending Story hasn't been made. The 80's films are just about about as true to the book as a movie about Jesus Christ leaving out the whole 'God' bit... The book on the other hand is FSCKing awesome.
The hard part is that really great movies aren't guaranteed to make really good profits. Maybe there should be a way to fund a movie with micropayments, so that true fans could help fund filming great stories, or something? In any case the core problem still is that there's always more than one way to interpret a great story. Just take the Bible or the Qu'ran as prime examples: There are huge numbers of decent Christians and Muslims out there, and there are some fanatical idiots of both varieties too. All of these four groups largely tap their beliefs from suitably interpreted versions of the same stories.
Regular tap water has a small amount of minerals, whereas distilled water (which this is, I presume) has none. Those minerals are actually rather critical:
I've never tried lively, but I did give Second Life (with it's rather amazing content creation and scripting abilities) a try. The way I see it there's one major obstacle to these worlds: The "ghost town effect".
It's very resource intensive to simulate a 3D world, especially a vast one. Making the world big is eeexpeeensive, and the power required to run an arbitrary world is huge.
With MMORPGs people are paying each month, and a lot of the on screen action relates to NPCs. In something like Second Life every character is a real person with associated lag etc. It's also impossible to optimize a user generated world like a game, which imposes certains limits within a level.
All in all, Second Life at least is a huge world with comparatively small amounts of people scattered all over. The world just doesn't seem "right" when you go exploring, and most areas are empty. Sure, people gather here and there, but overall it feels like the tech just isn't there yet...
Love seems to be embedded in the very genetic fabric of mammals on some level. I'm sure there was space for love, in a way that made sense back then anyway.
Also, this is a double blind test - maybe you should have read the link? HydrogenAudio are well known for their scientific approach to audio codec testing.
Tried the link, was Slashdotted at the time at least... Seems to have opened though, gotta take a proper look.
Umm... 128 Kbps? Seriously? And no Ogg Vorbis, AAC etc... If you're bothering to set up a listening test, why limit yourself to 128 Kbps MP3?
Also, this should really be set up as a blind test, you get to listen to two clips, and have to choose which is better. The clips are randomized, of course... I could go on, but I'd just make myself sound even more arrogant.;)
Then again, on Facebook you do get to choose what information you share about yourself. Might not be the case if you have an app posting info about you automagically...
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if it can't do proper HD then it's not interesting. there are plenty of tiny low res video players on the market now.
Even at it's native resolution heavily compressed h264 might be too much to decode in real time. Then again, it seems the chipset supports hardware acceleration according to another post. If that works it would work out.
But it's hard to tell if 720p or 1080i would work even so. Those resolutions can be hard to get working properly even with dedicated hardware decoders. (I work with IPTV technologies.)
At school its reasonably blocked (I can get by, she can't) and at home she's on my network. She knows I have firewall logs, and reserve the right to forensically review her machine. I don't though. I really really really don't want to know her taste in p0rn
It's great to see someone accepting the facts: Kids will get access to porn one way or another. For a parent the only critical thing is to make it clear that sex in a porn movie is as realistic as fighting in an action movie... It's a fantasy, and should be dealt with as such. Sex is a natural part of human behavior, so what is so problematic with watching some porn every now and then? Better to brainwash yourself with porn than violence, if you ask me...
If you ask me, Lwaxana Troi was one of the most interesting characters in TNG. She brought a whole lot of depth to the whole Betazoid thing, and let's not forget (this being Slashhdot) she even appeared naked in one episode! Very few characters had the same ability to stir things up on the Enterprise, Q being another obvious example.
Not sure about the specs, and not that "politically correct", but Wormux, http://www.wormux.org/ is a GPL clone of the ever classic 2D Worms. Should be right-on for 13-16 year olds.
The release notes might interest people:
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
Also note that in the end of the release notes are info on the migration path from Python 2 to 3. I'll leave the rest to people who bother to RTFA... ;)
I currently work as a Systems Architect, working on fairly distributed systems and a wide range of languages and tools. I have the Finnish equivalent of a High School education, on the formal level.
I started in a help desk job and worked my way up, always trying to learn new stuff and seeking out new jobs when I felt I was standing still. With enough experience I now hold positions which need the skills equivalent of a university level education.
So yes, it's possible. Risky, but possible. Learn the art of interviewing.
That last statement shows ignorance. Fast food is much more expensive than home cooked healthy food. Even high-end, organic, hippy-store produce is cheap and fish is one of the cheapest and healthiest forms of protein. You don't eat poorly because of cost you eat poorly because of convenience as cooking for yourself is time consuming and doesn't fit well with our modern chaotic schedules.
Incorrect. In my local supermarket saturated fat -heavy minced meat costs about 6 Euros / kilo. Fish costs 15-20 Euros / kilo. We cook all our meals ourselves at home, but the ingredients could be better if we had the funds.
I guess I should point out that living in Finland also means that most vegetables need to be grown in greenhouses or shipped from abroad. This further increases the price of enjoying a healthy diet.
Sadly, the price on vegetables in Finland where I live is such, that it's a hell of a lot more expensive to go on a healthy diet. In fact, a chicken salad does indeed cost more than a McMeal, at least for the same energy content.
I'm not surprised that generally mismanaging your body with bad nutrition would make it more likely to get some kind of degenerative disease... While it's nice to find hard evidence I think at least the geek population would be plain dumb so assume otherwise.
Now if we could only get governments to have some kind of taxes on the bad stuff, and subsidize the good stuff. I'd eat better if I could afford it, quite frankly.
Yay! I haven't won an anything-of-the-month award in ages! :)
one would think watchmen was unfilmable, but apparently early previews say it is fantastic
one would have thought lord of the rings was unfilmable, and yet jackson made some of the best films ever made
as long as they do it right... for values of "doing it right" that are largely unquantifiable
This is why I'm sad that a real version of The Neverending Story hasn't been made. The 80's films are just about about as true to the book as a movie about Jesus Christ leaving out the whole 'God' bit... The book on the other hand is FSCKing awesome.
The hard part is that really great movies aren't guaranteed to make really good profits. Maybe there should be a way to fund a movie with micropayments, so that true fans could help fund filming great stories, or something? In any case the core problem still is that there's always more than one way to interpret a great story. Just take the Bible or the Qu'ran as prime examples: There are huge numbers of decent Christians and Muslims out there, and there are some fanatical idiots of both varieties too. All of these four groups largely tap their beliefs from suitably interpreted versions of the same stories.
Whoops... No, by bad, shift must have gotten stuck and the kids gotten my attention while previewing my post... ;)
But 20 Gb/sec already saturates two 10 Gb network ports, which is enough to impress me for now...
...for really high bandwith stuff.
For example, these puppies from Edgeware, designed for video streaming, can do 20GB/sec:
http://www.edgeware.tv/products/index.html
(And these aren't vaporware, I've seen the actual hardware in action.)
Granted it's very custom stuff, but putting tech like this in a box with a SATA interface is really just evolutionary... Cool none the less though. :)
Regular tap water has a small amount of minerals, whereas distilled water (which this is, I presume) has none. Those minerals are actually rather critical:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
(Of course, regular tap water is dangerous too in laaarge doses.)
I have no idea if this is an issue... Anyone have a clue? :)
Also, three lightbulbs? Watts please... Found no proper specs on the site.
I've never tried lively, but I did give Second Life (with it's rather amazing content creation and scripting abilities) a try. The way I see it there's one major obstacle to these worlds: The "ghost town effect".
It's very resource intensive to simulate a 3D world, especially a vast one. Making the world big is eeexpeeensive, and the power required to run an arbitrary world is huge.
With MMORPGs people are paying each month, and a lot of the on screen action relates to NPCs. In something like Second Life every character is a real person with associated lag etc. It's also impossible to optimize a user generated world like a game, which imposes certains limits within a level.
All in all, Second Life at least is a huge world with comparatively small amounts of people scattered all over. The world just doesn't seem "right" when you go exploring, and most areas are empty. Sure, people gather here and there, but overall it feels like the tech just isn't there yet...
To whoever modded me offtopic: How can commenting on something in TFS be off topic?
Love seems to be embedded in the very genetic fabric of mammals on some level. I'm sure there was space for love, in a way that made sense back then anyway.
I had a heavy Lego phase during primary school. The floor in my room was basically a sea of Lego, with a trail going from the bed to the door... ;)
But based on the videos http://www.theneocube.com/ is an interesting option.
Tried the link, was Slashdotted at the time at least... Seems to have opened though, gotta take a proper look.
Took a proper look. The test does indeed seem to be set up very professionally. I stand corrected.
Also, this is a double blind test - maybe you should have read the link? HydrogenAudio are well known for their scientific approach to audio codec testing.
Tried the link, was Slashdotted at the time at least... Seems to have opened though, gotta take a proper look.
Umm... 128 Kbps? Seriously? And no Ogg Vorbis, AAC etc... If you're bothering to set up a listening test, why limit yourself to 128 Kbps MP3?
Also, this should really be set up as a blind test, you get to listen to two clips, and have to choose which is better. The clips are randomized, of course... I could go on, but I'd just make myself sound even more arrogant. ;)
Really, what is the fscking problem? If the city wishes to build a network it should be allowed to, period.
A real debate would be worth it if the city refuses to license bandwith on that network to operators...
*considers existence of FaceBook*
Nevermind.
Then again, on Facebook you do get to choose what information you share about yourself. Might not be the case if you have an app posting info about you automagically...
I'm sure the data is anonymized, but how well? Will people be comfortable with having their phone track them? Anyone know? Didn't RTFA yet... ;)