I've done it with a briefcase....pictures to come as soon as I find my digital camera.
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IBM (OS/2), Amiga is going to try it "soon", Palm (granted now they are breaking apart the OS and hardware divisions), and there are others
A harder question is name another company besides Apple that has been successfull with proprietary hardware and software....SGI and Sun are both currently dying slow deaths.
none of the shots come from FF11 previews, and there's no way in hell they could have done that animation from the limited children's 3D software put out by disney
HDTV on the other hand (for instance) is much less useful, as most porn-watchers are too (ahem) busy to notice the higher resolution
Or maybee its because HDTV reveals all the blemishes, and the garish amounts of makeup used to cover it up to a level of detail that the human eye normally wouldn't pick up. While Cindy Crawford's mole is considered a "beauty mark", I'm sure many porn stars have less than flattering blemishes.
you want hard to get through the airport, I'm currently finishing up a computer crammed inside an aluminum briefcase.....can't wait to try taking it through the x-ray machine
I do. That 5 minute rendering difference is on a typically 20 minute render. Take a 3 hour render (much more typical when rendering 36"x48"@300 dpi renderings for architectural presentations), and thats a half hour difference. An extra half an hour for Photoshop touchup before needing to print for the client meeting is invaluable. Granted, I agree the extra Photoshop speed is mostly usesless (untill you try to do filters on a 36" x 48" @ 300dpi image). 3D modeling and photoshop is what I do for a living. The faster the machine renders, the more time I have to fix problems between test renders, and the more time I have for layout and touchup at the end. Those 5 minutes add up, fast.
I am currently running 2 monitors on 2 different video cards on WinXP....I have been doing this for about 3 years since win98. I have tried multiple times to do multimonitor on X11 to no avail - seems you are (or at least were) limited to using 2 of the same video card. If one is AGP....well rules out that possibility. On XP/2000/98, if they're not the same card, not the same vendor, not the same chipset, No Problem! Multiple sound cards? Got it.....again built in support.
I do think that *NIX is overall better than Win. But if your gonna gripe about it, get your facts straight, and post in a story where its on topic.
Now, about this space launch. - Best kick in the butt I can see for NASA. And if Chinese can get reusable space vehicles and research into space stations going, well then the resulting competition would be a good thing for human aerospace development, much as if Microsoft was forced to have competition. (see how I worked that in by staying ontopic?)
Slashdot just had an article on those 2 days ago. They work. They rely on differences in electromagnetic fields. NASA has a patent on it. Lots of info on how it works. Check it out.
True....but, nuclear fuel is a lot more efficient for its weight than a rocket engine. A system based on this would use electricity probably from a onboard nuclear (maybe fusion someday) plant....drasticly more efficient if it can work.
No, the security is still much tighter than a current password system:
Lets say you can narrow down the event to a 5 minute window (they took about a minute total to pick all 3 images randomly from different channels) and your local cable provides about 60 channels. Thats 60 channels x 30 frames per second x 60 seconds x 5 = 540000 So the odds of the "password" being right on any given guess is 540000^3 = 1.57464 x 10^17 By comparison, an alphanumeric 8 character password (allowing caps) is 63^8 = 2.48156 x 10^14
So, the 3 images is much more secure. Adding just a fourth image makes for 8.50306 x 10^22 possibilities.
Factor in the fact that most television stations don't tape their broadcasts (except for live events) they most just log the tapes they play, and to it outages and "technical difficulties", and static/picture noise on the recieving end and you have a pretty secure system that shoots down the 8 character alphanumeric one.
The biggest weak point in this system is the transmittal of the images to your intended recipient. Best place for the feds to watch to get into the data. And if you can securely send images that unlock the data, why can't you send the data?
just kidding, I'm actually in college now, but I like pine. I can check my email from anywhere (try finding a Win or OSX box w/out telent) including the user labs, which are notorious for not allowing anything besides MSWord and Netscape 4.7 to be run....although the Sparc stations can be fun.
But pine+telnet is good; so is IMAP; but pine+telnet is better.
I'm the same way with reading and not observing the "sound" of the word. Unfortuneately although benificial, it has caused me problems. For instance, consistently mispronouncing words, and being laughed at, simply because I had read them and absorbed their meaning long before I ever heard them or had them presented to me in a classroom situation. In 3rd grade I was charted at being able to read (for comprehension) at an 8th grade level. I read LOTR for the first time in 2nd grade. I naturally read at 350-400 wpm, and have been able to conciously speed read (without any kind of training) at a much higher rate, albeit at a lower level of comprehension.
Long and short of it is, it definately hurts your ego when in high school you do things like pronouncing "dachshund" (wiener-dogs) as "dash-hound" not only to be laughed at and later hear it pronounced "doxond". Even still, I pronounce composite as "KOM-pahzit" instead of "kom-PO-zit" or "KOM-PAH-zit"
dont need to write the software....just install a bunch of burners on a RAID machine, and ebable the "multiple burner support" on Ahead Nero Burning ROM and away you go.
There are 50's style jukeboxes out there modified with CDs instead of the "45 LPs". These already have data ports so that they can be programmed. Sounds like a better starting point.
Does your data have to be burned (i.e., are you sending different data to each disk?) or can you just create a master cd. If you can create a master, look into getting the CDs proffesionally pressed, its definately cheaper than your manhours+media. You just bring them a master and they can pump out disks for you at an incredible speed (think turn arround for an order of 1000 CDs in less than a week)
I'm sorry to have to be the one to say it, but in the immortal words of Nelson: "hah hah!"
I have seen countless jazz drives and disks go bad over the years, both the 1 and 2 Gb versions. Makes me all the much more merrier that I didn't buy one and instead opted for CDRs.
For instance in my degree program (architecture) 95% of this year's entering freshman class (of about 120) have laptops they cart between class and home
If its anything like my university (University of Southern California) then you are only allowed one machine per port. They run a script to check the network for hubs (or, more importantly multiple NIC addresses using the same jack) and automatically shut it down.
I've had the problem. Best way to solve it is make friends w/ a student employee who has access to the appropriate network tools. If you're good enough friends they'll enable it as soon as you call them.
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What makes this even more impressive is that (as the article says) this is solid state storage. Not a magnetic system. Damm I want some!
I've done it with a briefcase....pictures to come as soon as I find my digital camera.
IBM (OS/2), Amiga is going to try it "soon", Palm (granted now they are breaking apart the OS and hardware divisions), and there are others
A harder question is name another company besides Apple that has been successfull with proprietary hardware and software....SGI and Sun are both currently dying slow deaths.
what are you talking about?
none of the shots come from FF11 previews, and there's no way in hell they could have done that animation from the limited children's 3D software put out by disney
HDTV on the other hand (for instance) is much less useful, as most porn-watchers are too (ahem) busy to notice the higher resolution
Or maybee its because HDTV reveals all the blemishes, and the garish amounts of makeup used to cover it up to a level of detail that the human eye normally wouldn't pick up. While Cindy Crawford's mole is considered a "beauty mark", I'm sure many porn stars have less than flattering blemishes.
So what did his wife say when she got home? He did mention that she wouldn't be happy about him pulling apart her ibook.
"a little more delicate than pictured"
what? how can it be more delicate? the pictures show the hard drive balancing on a pen!
you want hard to get through the airport, I'm currently finishing up a computer crammed inside an aluminum briefcase.....can't wait to try taking it through the x-ray machine
Who cares if a 3D scene finishes 5 minutes later?
I do. That 5 minute rendering difference is on a typically 20 minute render. Take a 3 hour render (much more typical when rendering 36"x48"@300 dpi renderings for architectural presentations), and thats a half hour difference. An extra half an hour for Photoshop touchup before needing to print for the client meeting is invaluable. Granted, I agree the extra Photoshop speed is mostly usesless (untill you try to do filters on a 36" x 48" @ 300dpi image). 3D modeling and photoshop is what I do for a living. The faster the machine renders, the more time I have to fix problems between test renders, and the more time I have for layout and touchup at the end. Those 5 minutes add up, fast.
you dont know what you are talking about.
I am currently running 2 monitors on 2 different video cards on WinXP....I have been doing this for about 3 years since win98. I have tried multiple times to do multimonitor on X11 to no avail - seems you are (or at least were) limited to using 2 of the same video card. If one is AGP....well rules out that possibility. On XP/2000/98, if they're not the same card, not the same vendor, not the same chipset, No Problem! Multiple sound cards? Got it.....again built in support.
I do think that *NIX is overall better than Win. But if your gonna gripe about it, get your facts straight, and post in a story where its on topic.
Now, about this space launch. - Best kick in the butt I can see for NASA. And if Chinese can get reusable space vehicles and research into space stations going, well then the resulting competition would be a good thing for human aerospace development, much as if Microsoft was forced to have competition. (see how I worked that in by staying ontopic?)
its a difference within the foil, the top edge is rounded over the support, the bottom is sharp
Slashdot just had an article on those 2 days ago. They work. They rely on differences in electromagnetic fields. NASA has a patent on it. Lots of info on how it works. Check it out.
True....but, nuclear fuel is a lot more efficient for its weight than a rocket engine. A system based on this would use electricity probably from a onboard nuclear (maybe fusion someday) plant....drasticly more efficient if it can work.
Thats entrapment, and as such, probably unconstitutional. I'm suprised no-one has used that as part of their defence.
No, the security is still much tighter than a current password system:
Lets say you can narrow down the event to a 5 minute window (they took about a minute total to pick all 3 images randomly from different channels) and your local cable provides about 60 channels. Thats 60 channels x 30 frames per second x 60 seconds x 5 = 540000
So the odds of the "password" being right on any given guess is 540000^3 = 1.57464 x 10^17
By comparison, an alphanumeric 8 character password (allowing caps) is 63^8 = 2.48156 x 10^14
So, the 3 images is much more secure. Adding just a fourth image makes for 8.50306 x 10^22 possibilities.
Factor in the fact that most television stations don't tape their broadcasts (except for live events) they most just log the tapes they play, and to it outages and "technical difficulties", and static/picture noise on the recieving end and you have a pretty secure system that shoots down the 8 character alphanumeric one.
The biggest weak point in this system is the transmittal of the images to your intended recipient. Best place for the feds to watch to get into the data. And if you can securely send images that unlock the data, why can't you send the data?
lucky! you had pine!
just kidding, I'm actually in college now, but I like pine. I can check my email from anywhere (try finding a Win or OSX box w/out telent) including the user labs, which are notorious for not allowing anything besides MSWord and Netscape 4.7 to be run....although the Sparc stations can be fun.
But pine+telnet is good; so is IMAP; but pine+telnet is better.
I'm the same way with reading and not observing the "sound" of the word. Unfortuneately although benificial, it has caused me problems. For instance, consistently mispronouncing words, and being laughed at, simply because I had read them and absorbed their meaning long before I ever heard them or had them presented to me in a classroom situation. In 3rd grade I was charted at being able to read (for comprehension) at an 8th grade level. I read LOTR for the first time in 2nd grade. I naturally read at 350-400 wpm, and have been able to conciously speed read (without any kind of training) at a much higher rate, albeit at a lower level of comprehension.
Long and short of it is, it definately hurts your ego when in high school you do things like pronouncing "dachshund" (wiener-dogs) as "dash-hound" not only to be laughed at and later hear it pronounced "doxond". Even still, I pronounce composite as "KOM-pahzit" instead of "kom-PO-zit" or "KOM-PAH-zit"
dont need to write the software....just install a bunch of burners on a RAID machine, and ebable the "multiple burner support" on Ahead Nero Burning ROM and away you go.
There are 50's style jukeboxes out there modified with CDs instead of the "45 LPs". These already have data ports so that they can be programmed. Sounds like a better starting point.
Does your data have to be burned (i.e., are you sending different data to each disk?) or can you just create a master cd. If you can create a master, look into getting the CDs proffesionally pressed, its definately cheaper than your manhours+media. You just bring them a master and they can pump out disks for you at an incredible speed (think turn arround for an order of 1000 CDs in less than a week)
I'm sorry to have to be the one to say it, but in the immortal words of Nelson: "hah hah!"
I have seen countless jazz drives and disks go bad over the years, both the 1 and 2 Gb versions. Makes me all the much more merrier that I didn't buy one and instead opted for CDRs.
No, its not a rediculous statement.
For instance in my degree program (architecture) 95% of this year's entering freshman class (of about 120) have laptops they cart between class and home
If its anything like my university (University of Southern California) then you are only allowed one machine per port. They run a script to check the network for hubs (or, more importantly multiple NIC addresses using the same jack) and automatically shut it down.
I've had the problem. Best way to solve it is make friends w/ a student employee who has access to the appropriate network tools. If you're good enough friends they'll enable it as soon as you call them.
I just did to remove this....
checkout my post on it: 1 post before you
It worked well, and even told me the name of the dll so I could go delete it myself
Yep, the original article at Newsbytes confirms the software is bpboh.dll by Wurld Media
My removal was successfull, just make sure to completely reboot (instead of relogging on)