Willow had great effects. Pixar has done some great stuff, of course. I think Final Fantasy is the farthest we've come. I also liked the plot, but I think they'd have been more succesful if they just took the story from FFVII or IX, but that's me.
How 'bout the tic-tac-toe game in wargames? Just wondering how far you'd go.
Twister and the water in A Perfect Storm both had great effects. And let's not forget Dobbie in Harry Potter, and the Golem in LOTR:TT (which comes out today or tomarrow on DVD, FYI).
Everything I've heard on TV and Radio that's been more than just "There is a new virus" that has an attitude that I just can't stand. A thing I heard on NPR put it perfectly. Basically the attitude is that this is the way the computer industry is, and maybe they should do something about it.
Computer industry? WHAT COMPUTER INDUSTRY? The VAST majority of these big viruses exploit who's products? All togerther now: MICROSOFT. This isn't Apple's fault, Macromedia's fault, iD's fault, or anyone else. These things are almost all MICROSOFT's. Finally someone in the media seems to get it.
I think that the Windows GUI (the 9x/2K one, I don't like new XP one) is a fantastic GUI. It's VERY well done, and some of the things (like the start menu and the systray) are very well done.
When pepole bash Windows (this includes me), we're usually bashing the stability, the security holes, etc. The "standard" Windows GUI, is quite good though.
If you want to expirament with radio connectivity between computers, protocalls for use over radio, and other such things, which is easier? Windows or Linux?
With Linux, you have full access to source code for the OS, and can EASILY add new protocalls, network interface like things, and other such things you may need for expiramenting. It's all very well documented too.
With Windows, you... um... good question. You COULD write drivers, but I don't know how you would get started. I'm sure there are a few books on the subject, and maybe some web pages, but the ease of information could hardly match Linux. I'd guess most things are implemented as programs rather than drivers.
Add to the fact that many (most?) hams are technically minded, and the fact that Linux and such are free and come with compilers and other such things, and that Linux CAME FROM expiramentation, can we really be that suprised?
What about PopFile? I've tried SpamAssassin and a few others, and I like PopFile the best. After a little training it's EXTREEMLY accurate. It survived the deluge of mail I've gotten in the last few days (due to virii) with flying colors.
According it it's internal statistics, it has classified 2821 messages as of the time I type this. It has made only 95 errors (often close calls, so I don't blame it). That puts it at an accuracy of 96.63%. For the record, of the e-mail I've gotten, it's 308 messages of ham, 2513 spam.
I have only been using PopFile since June 7th of this year, but it's working fantastic. The only thing I've used that's this good was Cloudmark's SpamNet, who stabbed the community in the back, so I switched to something else. I'm glad I've found PopFile, and I suggest you try it too if you're looking for something good.
Am I the only one who thinks that FightBox sounds a little like SmashTV? I know it's not, but still, that's what the blurb sounded like to me.
Speaking of which, where is SmashTV? We need a remake! Just a copy of the arcade game, only with polygonal graphics. It could look amazing! And now we have dual analog sticks on every console, you you could have full 360 degree movement and aiming!
I think this is for two reasons. First is the environmental effects. Very few people seem to care what we do to space, but if were kill a single cell of Prussian Fire-Itch Fart Grass (which doesn't even exist) there are big protests and such. Messing with the oceans is not easy especialy since there are international treaties that you have to abide be.
Second is on the technical side. Which is easier? Designing something to withstand one atmosphere of pressure (holding an atmosphere in) and a bunch of heat (re-entry), or designing something to hold hundres of atmopheres of pressue (holding the water out) and a bunch of cold (no sun light means most of the deep ocean is VERY cold). I'm all for searching the sea, but odd as it seems it's easier to get into space. And don't forget that decompression issues that crop up because we often increase the pressue in deep see subs so they don't have to hold quite as much pressue in. I mean the Marianis Trench is nealry 11km deep, do you have any idea how much pressue that is?
<bad_jokes>That said, bring on SeaQuest DSV. It's about time someone makes a talking dolphin. And they can visit SeaLab 2021 (if it doesn't get blown up in this week's episode). And maybe we'll find aqua-man and can ask why, as a super hero, his powers are so pathetic!</bad_jokes>
Lots of sites do many MANY reviews. Overclockers.com, Hardocp.com, and even THG have done stories on watercooling. I've been following the "scene" for quite a while now, as the noise from my PCs drives me nots. There are a few thing I can comment on:
Watercooling is MUCH more efficent than the average stock heatsink. You can beat a cheap watercooling system with a REALLY GOOD heatsink, but...
Watercooling is much QUIETER. In a normal heatsink, you are cooling a small area with a small fan (on the order of 60x60mm for a good heatsink/fan, but you can use an 80x80mm fan). But with the radiator that cools in a (standard) watercooling setup, you can fit at least one 80mm fan, or even 2. And since the air is designed to pass through it and over it (instead of onto it and off the sides) it's quieter. You can either run your system cold at a decent noise level, or go near silent and get fine temperatures.
You can cool the water many ways. While most of the time you run it though a radiator, I have seem setups on the 'net that use a bong (Water is sprayed in a tube of air as a mist, it loses it's heat as it falls through the air), groud cooling (one guy buried a welding tank DEEP in his yard. He pumps water in and out, and the earth cools it for him), watercooling (you could make a little heat exchanger that runs cold water from your water pipes next to the water from your PC to cool it down), etc. You have OPTIONS.
The biggest problem I've seen is usually the cost. This is mostly due to the fact that a LARGE number of watercoolers are overclockers, and they are willing to PAY big cash for a great waterblock and such. So the majority of waterblocks you find cost $50 or more. So if you cool your CPU, Graphics card, and chipser, you could easily spend $150 on the blocks alone if you wanted to. Most watercooling kits (that cool the CPU and graphic card) seem to be around $300. This is due both to the aformentioned situation, and low volume of sales (relative to other options, like a new heatsink).
Customisation! You think putting a cold cathode in your PC is cool? How 'bout putting an adative in your watercooling water that under blacklights or ultraviolet lights glows a bright color. It looks REALLY cool. Check the forums mentioned below to find some pics of this.
Learn more, it is facinating. Look around the old articles on HardOCP and Overclockers.com and you can find out a ton. Just search google! Also, if you look at like the HardOCP forums under cooling, you can find tons of pics of people's Watercooled PCs.
Overclockers use Peltiers often. The problem is, that while a Peltier gets one side VERY cold, the other side gets VERY hot. Cooling this side requires you to either attach it to a waterblock in a watercooling system (which is what you were trying to fix in the first place) or put a big fan on it with a heatsink (which is LOUD and innefficent). The fact is, a Peliter would only make things WORSE as far as "cooling things quietly" goes.
The green thing is true. That's one of the reasons why night vision goggles are green. The eyes are more sensitive to the wavelength. When I first saw this camera (saw a link to it a few days ago) that's why I was thinking. Why a blue color instead of a green? All I can think of as a reason is that the camera is already sensitive enough in the green wavelengths, and that it's in the more blue region that they need more sensitivity to be more comparable to film or the eye. Who knows.
The unfortunate effect of this is because they only have that gene (since it's obviously recessive), all their male offspring are colorblind. Interesting none the less, though.
Can't the government force patents to be available to anyone at atleast a reasonable price when it's in the public good? Even if not through regulation, what about the old "only companies that let others use their advanced turbine patents can get government contracts" kind of stuff. At some point the government should step in and deal with specific cases of "patent hording" when it's clearly in the public interest.
I believe that AC was chosen not only because it was safer, but becasue it was FAR easier to transmit over long distances. As far as I know those two things are still the same. AC is what we have, and besides, do you really think that switching to DC will solve problems? If the problem was the overburdened grid, the same thing would happen. And let's not forget all the trouble and fried electronics that would result during the switchover.
I read somewhere (a comment on OSNews perhaps) that people have been complaining about that, and the reason that it's quite is because the GNOME people have taken over the project and trying to basically combine the two, and it's been quiet to keep people from talking/complaining/discussing what they're trying to do. An interesting idea to be sure
Is it true? Who knows, probably not. Is it an interesting rumor? Sure why not.
The article mentions that Doom III only supports four players at once. Does anyone know why this is? Could you point me to a link with an explanation? If they were to limit it, I would expect it to be a little higher at least, maybe 8. But 4?
What I'd really like to see would be a graph of a BIG site when we Slashdot them now. It would be very interesting to see the subscribers and what they do before the/.ing public sees it. I couldn't seem to see one on the graph that they posted. Is it just that small? Just wondering.
My understanding is that the only thing that is different about the update is that it has the code neccessary to deal with the DVD Remote. So basically, the update is useless unless you have the remote, and the remote is useless without the update, which is why they are shipped together.
I agree with this. Get a great regular TV for $200-$300 and then get other things with the rest of the money. Use it to pay down a credit card. Get ahead on your home loan. Go on vacation. Spend some of it on a TiVo (you can't go wrong, but you can always return it if you don't like it (I know, not possible)). I'd say don't go buy a HDTV, wait a few more years for everything to settle down. And look into repairing your TV. It could give you years more service for only $50. Of course, if it's much more than $100 just get a new TV.
But definatly get a TiVo. DirecTiVos are especially great.
That's cute and all, but if you get scared off by the FreeBSD or Debian install process, RUN LIKE HELL FROM GENTOO. I use Gentoo myself, and it's great, but it's not an install for the newbie. That said, after you've gone though the full install (I'm talking stage 1, none of that stage 3 wimp stuff) you will have learned a LOT more about how Linux works than you will from a text based installer.
When I bought by Inspiron 8k, they offered RedHat as an option. I went with Windows 2k because of it's stability and the fact that I needed a Windows OS for my programming class. Besides, I could always install RedHat (or a distro that I prefer, like Debian or Gentoo) later for free.
That said, I agree that if we want Linux to be a big part of the desktop, it needs to come preinstalled on systems.
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It's been done. Simpsons Episode 1214, from wayyy back on Feb 25th, '01.
On a serious note, if you can't sing, don't go into music. Don't cheat, just don't go into music. Is it that hard? I wish this could be made illegal.
How 'bout the tic-tac-toe game in wargames? Just wondering how far you'd go.
Twister and the water in A Perfect Storm both had great effects. And let's not forget Dobbie in Harry Potter, and the Golem in LOTR:TT (which comes out today or tomarrow on DVD, FYI).
Wasn't Lawnmower Man quite groundbreaking when it was released? It has quite a bit of good CGI in it.
Origonal.
Yes, Squeezy Cheese...
The almost, but not quite,
food substitute in a can.
If it's almost food,
but not quite, it's
Squeezy Cheese!
Computer industry? WHAT COMPUTER INDUSTRY? The VAST majority of these big viruses exploit who's products? All togerther now: MICROSOFT. This isn't Apple's fault, Macromedia's fault, iD's fault, or anyone else. These things are almost all MICROSOFT's. Finally someone in the media seems to get it.
When pepole bash Windows (this includes me), we're usually bashing the stability, the security holes, etc. The "standard" Windows GUI, is quite good though.
Add to the fact that many (most?) hams are technically minded, and the fact that Linux and such are free and come with compilers and other such things, and that Linux CAME FROM expiramentation, can we really be that suprised?
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What about PopFile? I've tried SpamAssassin and a few others, and I like PopFile the best. After a little training it's EXTREEMLY accurate. It survived the deluge of mail I've gotten in the last few days (due to virii) with flying colors.
According it it's internal statistics, it has classified 2821 messages as of the time I type this. It has made only 95 errors (often close calls, so I don't blame it). That puts it at an accuracy of 96.63%. For the record, of the e-mail I've gotten, it's 308 messages of ham, 2513 spam.
I have only been using PopFile since June 7th of this year, but it's working fantastic. The only thing I've used that's this good was Cloudmark's SpamNet, who stabbed the community in the back, so I switched to something else. I'm glad I've found PopFile, and I suggest you try it too if you're looking for something good.
Speaking of which, where is SmashTV? We need a remake! Just a copy of the arcade game, only with polygonal graphics. It could look amazing! And now we have dual analog sticks on every console, you you could have full 360 degree movement and aiming!
Big Money. Big Prizes. I Love It!
Second is on the technical side. Which is easier? Designing something to withstand one atmosphere of pressure (holding an atmosphere in) and a bunch of heat (re-entry), or designing something to hold hundres of atmopheres of pressue (holding the water out) and a bunch of cold (no sun light means most of the deep ocean is VERY cold). I'm all for searching the sea, but odd as it seems it's easier to get into space. And don't forget that decompression issues that crop up because we often increase the pressue in deep see subs so they don't have to hold quite as much pressue in. I mean the Marianis Trench is nealry 11km deep, do you have any idea how much pressue that is?
<bad_jokes>That said, bring on SeaQuest DSV. It's about time someone makes a talking dolphin. And they can visit SeaLab 2021 (if it doesn't get blown up in this week's episode). And maybe we'll find aqua-man and can ask why, as a super hero, his powers are so pathetic!</bad_jokes>
Learn more, it is facinating. Look around the old articles on HardOCP and Overclockers.com and you can find out a ton. Just search google! Also, if you look at like the HardOCP forums under cooling, you can find tons of pics of people's Watercooled PCs.
Overclockers use Peltiers often. The problem is, that while a Peltier gets one side VERY cold, the other side gets VERY hot. Cooling this side requires you to either attach it to a waterblock in a watercooling system (which is what you were trying to fix in the first place) or put a big fan on it with a heatsink (which is LOUD and innefficent). The fact is, a Peliter would only make things WORSE as far as "cooling things quietly" goes.
The green thing is true. That's one of the reasons why night vision goggles are green. The eyes are more sensitive to the wavelength. When I first saw this camera (saw a link to it a few days ago) that's why I was thinking. Why a blue color instead of a green? All I can think of as a reason is that the camera is already sensitive enough in the green wavelengths, and that it's in the more blue region that they need more sensitivity to be more comparable to film or the eye. Who knows.
The unfortunate effect of this is because they only have that gene (since it's obviously recessive), all their male offspring are colorblind. Interesting none the less, though.
Can't the government force patents to be available to anyone at atleast a reasonable price when it's in the public good? Even if not through regulation, what about the old "only companies that let others use their advanced turbine patents can get government contracts" kind of stuff. At some point the government should step in and deal with specific cases of "patent hording" when it's clearly in the public interest.
I believe that AC was chosen not only because it was safer, but becasue it was FAR easier to transmit over long distances. As far as I know those two things are still the same. AC is what we have, and besides, do you really think that switching to DC will solve problems? If the problem was the overburdened grid, the same thing would happen. And let's not forget all the trouble and fried electronics that would result during the switchover.
Is it true? Who knows, probably not. Is it an interesting rumor? Sure why not.
The article mentions that Doom III only supports four players at once. Does anyone know why this is? Could you point me to a link with an explanation? If they were to limit it, I would expect it to be a little higher at least, maybe 8. But 4?
What I'd really like to see would be a graph of a BIG site when we Slashdot them now. It would be very interesting to see the subscribers and what they do before the /.ing public sees it. I couldn't seem to see one on the graph that they posted. Is it just that small? Just wondering.
My understanding is that the only thing that is different about the update is that it has the code neccessary to deal with the DVD Remote. So basically, the update is useless unless you have the remote, and the remote is useless without the update, which is why they are shipped together.
I agree with this. Get a great regular TV for $200-$300 and then get other things with the rest of the money. Use it to pay down a credit card. Get ahead on your home loan. Go on vacation. Spend some of it on a TiVo (you can't go wrong, but you can always return it if you don't like it (I know, not possible)). I'd say don't go buy a HDTV, wait a few more years for everything to settle down. And look into repairing your TV. It could give you years more service for only $50. Of course, if it's much more than $100 just get a new TV.
But definatly get a TiVo. DirecTiVos are especially great.
PS. Good job on reaching 1.4! Go Gentoo!
When I bought by Inspiron 8k, they offered RedHat as an option. I went with Windows 2k because of it's stability and the fact that I needed a Windows OS for my programming class. Besides, I could always install RedHat (or a distro that I prefer, like Debian or Gentoo) later for free.
That said, I agree that if we want Linux to be a big part of the desktop, it needs to come preinstalled on systems.