I could take my single CCD kodak digital camera, hold a red transparancy over the lens (with camera on tripod), snap a photo, hold a blue transparancy over the lens, snap a photo of the same thing, and then a green transparancy over the lens, snap photo. Upload photos, stick transparancies in laser printer, photo edit each image to a grey scale (digital camera takes pictures in color only), and then print out each image onto their respective transparancies, line up three overhead projectors, line them up properly, and shine them onto a screen, and have a full color image? Sure the left and right OH projectors would be at slight angles, but in theroy, it would produce an image, right?
so in theroy, I could take my single CCD kodak digital camera, hold a red transparancy over the lens (with camera on tripod), snap a photo, hold a blue transparancy over the lens, snap a photo of the same thing, and then a green transparancy over the lens, snap photo. Upload photos, stick transparancies in laser printer, photo edit each image to a grey scale (digital camera takes pictures in color only), and then print out each image onto their respective transparancies, line up three overhead projectors, line them up properly, and shine them onto a screen, and have a full color image? Sure the left and right OH projectors would be at slight angles, but in theroy, it would produce an image, right?
so is it possible he wasn't using entirely pure red, green, or blue filters? wouldn't the impurities in the color/arrangment of the polarization cause this?
hmm...you sound alot like my dad, an EE... "We engineers have thought patterns of 1 in 1000, very organized....blah blah blah".
Just b/c you're incredibly organized and efficnent with your time doesn't mean that everyone in the world is going to be the same way. Alot of people were brought up in a very lax environment (myself), and therefore have a lax work ethic. That's not to say I don't have any work ethic, I'm just not determined to get things out the door ahead of schedule. The world would be a great place if everyone had your work ethic, but if they did, there'd be someone with a "120%!!!" effort, compared to your "110%" effort, and complaining about you.
For those of you with well organized days and ways of setting goals, maybe you should talk to your managment and have them hold a week long casual time management seminar every morning for 30 minutes....alot of us never had any formal training when it comes to time management. Fortunatly, some colleges are requiring a 1 semester time management class (finally), yet High Schools have yet to catch on, let alone middle schools.
I remember waaaay back when, when HomePC used to still be around, which was eventually replaced with somthing else...but as an added "sign on bonus", you got a special utilities and fun CD...of the most interesting was some WAV files for windows 3.1 start up and shutdown sounds like "Good Morning", and"Elvis has left the building". Of course, that was back in the day when PC's rarely came with sound cards, and my 386 sx 15, salvaged from my dad's work scrap pile, certianly did not. To solve this problem, they had a nifty thing that allowed you to play.wav files through your PC speaker. That, combined with www.twistedtunes.com (this was long before napster), I was able to play 20 meg wav file songs off my hard drive. It would only play the first 45 seconds or so, of course, the computer couldn't handle the buffering or somthing. I tried installing the win3.1 driver on an old P90 last year that was void a sound card, and had no luck; I was hoping I'd be able to play MP3's off it, but no luck.
Anyone know of a windowze 9x speak.dll, or equivlent? That would come in awfully handy occasionally.
that's funny b/c it's my mom, and a large number of "do nothing in high school" females she's friends with here in the dallas area. And a good portion of the elderly, who are trying to somewhat come out of retirement and looking for a non physical effort type job, and see IT as it.
at least people are competent enough to turn on the computer, open up the desired office (or open source deriviative) application, and print it out. I have a friend at school who downloaded and tried out napster once, b/c after that "it broke the computer" and they don't want to do that again. when it "broke" the computer, windows just happened to have a GPF at the moment napster's window was on top. These things happen all the time; people just need to be educated that GPF = save and close everything and reboot. Just like people should know that when they get a flat, they should pull over to the side of the road and change it (with the black circular thing in the back). NOT sit in that lane and cause a traffic jam.
why are you modding down a good troll? that makes no sense. a good troll tries to make conversation and create disruption inside the slashdot community, creating a wider variety of arguments, other than "i'm sure this building will house only microsoft's entire de bugging staff, there won't be any room left over for anyone else". Mod down the micro-bashers and beowolf fanatics, but not the inovators.
After doing some more reading on the subject, I've read about how gas puts out about 125,000 BTU's, and Diesel puts out about 147,000 BTU's, but after visiting biovan.com and biodiesel.com, nowhere did they mention bio diesel's power output...The harley goes slower than a gas powered one...I'm guessing the power output of Biodesiel is somwhere between 1/2 and 2/3rds of standard petrolem deisel?
Does anyone have good estimates on what the power output of biodiesel that was made from Rapeseed, Vegtable oil?
how many slashdotters are highschool students/were last year? I'm sure if your school had even a meager collection of computers conencted to the internet, you were more than happy to be able to use those to find information for research papers and the likes. The only problem was that "the internet isn't a reliable source for information. It can be there one day, 3 weeks later it's gone". Other than that, they said, anything off of an.edu or.gov site was ok. Well thanks to Google, most evey publicly accessable page is accessable forever (for now, barring bankruptcy) thanks to their cashing ablity.
Well now they know of google, and the librarians need another way to keep their job of "keeper of the books" seeming important, so they make you use the library's books for any of your projects, and rarely look highly upon using digital resources, and grudgingly "ok" your use of some inanely expensive and cryptic UI "online article" database they subscribed to for some unknown reason. The reason behind the cryptic UI is probably that the librarians need to look tech savvy somehow (not to say there aren't any comp whizzes out there who are librarians, just not in my schooling carreer), so they give help with the only computer system they're familiar with. If the librarians made it too easy to access the information, there wouldn't be any need for their services, their staff would be cut back, and then they'd be out of the job, replaced by computers. Personally, I'll be glad to see them when they go, replaced by friendly techies in their late 20's who check out digital equipment.
the halfkeyboard people have some spiffy software that allows for typing with one hand on a normal keyboard (an extension of the demo software). It seems pretty easy to do, although I'm still just barely learning the language. This type of app would be really handy in chatting online situations when you have pizza in one hand and a particularly important convo on the other. I'm sure it could have some useful "shady" purposes when chatting online when one only has use of the left hand. anyways, anybody set up somthing for us singlehanded chatters on sourceforge?
wow. sombody mod that one up. I think he nailed the whole argument on the head. I guess in the past governments took a little over a hundred years to start cracking down on original copyright theifs of the gutenberg bible and other books being pressed/printed. their solution of censorship WAS book burning. there's a couple of books of the history of pirating stuff, talk about how the government finally started cracking down on pirated versions of gershwin-type sheet music in the mid 20's and what not. Now comes the internet, and with today's speed of everything, it didn't take 100 or even 50 years to begin censoring things, it's taken them really at best 10 years (6 years if you assume the net went mainstream in '94). Fuck it. I'm buying a copyright enabled HD, and setting up a networked linux jupebox.
so does this mean that we're going to see a whole lot nicer bootlegs of movies the day they come out? (just plug your firewire digital camera into the output of the movie player, hit record, then transfer to hotline server). personally I have a copy of charlie's angels and it looks like CRAP. Planning on buying the director's cut when the DVD comes out in a couple of months, even if the "special ed" stuff is nothing more than 3 giggling girls talking about the movie.
this only works with win98 and up to my knowledge; goto "my computer", right click on c:\, click properties, click on the "disk cleanup" button there. from there you should be able to turn the "disk cleanup" option down to a lower MB left, or off. Your CS game is going to run a whole lot faster if you delete some of those unused MP3's though, to my knowledge, win9x uses the C:\ as a swap file, and usually ends up expanding to like 35 megs or larger, hence the need to run scandisk when the blue screen o' death commands the 3 finger salute. moderators don't mod me up on this one, it's only useful to one or two people.
Really? I could have sworn it was stock options. Last I heard, the whole cycle for microserfs was that they were hired right out of school with about $30k in stock options/year and just enough wages to keep them alive and healthy in a 2 bedroom apartment, burn them out in about 5 years, at which point they retire, turn in their stock options, and end up with about 3 mil in the bank (pre-taxes). Same goes for cisco, 'cept that the options don't increase as quickly and it's spread out over a longer time period. At a smaller buisness, though, I'd agree with you.
Yeay the fact that another (semi)mainstream game is being ported to linux, but... I bought my copy of Sin in the CompUSA bargain bin for $5..Usually by the time it hits the bargain bin, it's considered long outdated software. Not to mention they needed to solve the load time bug/problem, which in my opinion really detracted from an otherwise good game. Has it really taken them 3 or 4 years to convert this game? I thought it was just 3 or 4.pak or.id files (with whatever extension they wanted to use when making their own). Wasn't this game just a professionally done mod?
anybody ever have problems opening the doors in sin? as a consequence, I never really got that far in my 5$ game, guess for $5 it wasn't worth more than an hour of my time, the training facility was fairly badass though.
in the us, you've got 100,000 on stock to sell, which sell immediatly.
in denmark, there wern't even lines:
i'm thinking there's less demand. when there's less demand, usually you produce less. When you end up producing less, your (initial) costs/per unit for production are quite a bit higher. As I understand it, the UK and most (all?) of europe runs off of 50 hz 110-120v. The US runs off of 60 hz 110-120v. I've heard stories of people in aust. wanting to mooch off of a local industrial company who had industrial size 50 -> 60hz converters, allowing them to use inexpensive toasters, dishwashers, ect (not counting s&h). Same deal for the PSX2. Power conversion = higher cost, higher cost = higher retail sales cost.
the first day of freshman latin our highschool latin teacher decided that after we pestered him about latin swear words and would not awnser, he told us to get out a sheet of paper and copy down the vocabulary on the board he was writing down. The first word was "facit, which uses the long A sound, pronounced (basically) "Fuck it". The translation was equally interesiting, having three translations, one being "To make", "To do", and "Do it".
I think the comic you're looking for is Here, at Hounds Home, a daily comic. He's currently running a storyline that has slowly mutated into a critisim of US society and their censorship on the media. Check it out, it's a pretty funny strip.
i'm a latin 3 ap student, our curriculum mainly being translating (gramatically) the aneied, and the current latin translating programs out there are pure *crap*. I'd actually PAY for my copy of bablefish, should they ever release a latin translator.
and what happens when your particular product drops in price to the point where it becomes financially unfeasable to produce? same thing farmers do; stockpile until the market dries up enough so that the price rockets up to the point where the producer can still profit. the us government has LONG understood this, at least since midway through the great depression, and actually PAYS farmers the vaule of their would-be crop to not grow wheat, corn, and various other crops just so that farmers who do produce can be profitable. there's actually an entire sub economy in montana of people who own areas of land of 25,000 acres and live in huge mansions. how do they make their money? by not growing wheat on that land. and the land is (nearly) tax-free, of course, because it's legitimate farm land. same deal with space mining. too much production? talk to the other miners and tell them to hold back production till prices rise. sound familiar? ever heard of OPEC? bravo. BASIC ECONOMICS.
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of course we should send it into space!....at $10,000 a pound (currrently).
did you ever see that episode of futurama where they do launch that big ball of trash into space about 200 years ago (which really is some time in the future, b/c the show is set more than 200 years in the future), anyways, it all comes back, armegeddon style, and they shoot it down, or make it be not as bad, also, armegeddon style. they should remove the copyright on armegeddon already, people make enough references about it daily on/. and there are enough stories posted each week to warrant it. and then post it for download on a slashdot ftp in divix format. ok i'm done bsing, goodnight.
lol, some guy already has it covered. he went down to the local san fransico land & title office and laid claim to all other 8 planets in one fell swoop. you can now buy i think 1/2 mi x 1/2 mi plots of mars and the moon for 20$. search for "buy mars" or "unusual gifts" on google.com or the likes. oh yeah, and a week later he went back and registered for all the asteroids in the milky way. i shit you not.
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I could take my single CCD kodak digital camera, hold a red transparancy over the lens (with camera on tripod), snap a photo, hold a blue transparancy over the lens, snap a photo of the same thing, and then a green transparancy over the lens, snap photo. Upload photos, stick transparancies in laser printer, photo edit each image to a grey scale (digital camera takes pictures in color only), and then print out each image onto their respective transparancies, line up three overhead projectors, line them up properly, and shine them onto a screen, and have a full color image? Sure the left and right OH projectors would be at slight angles, but in theroy, it would produce an image, right?
so in theroy, I could take my single CCD kodak digital camera, hold a red transparancy over the lens (with camera on tripod), snap a photo, hold a blue transparancy over the lens, snap a photo of the same thing, and then a green transparancy over the lens, snap photo. Upload photos, stick transparancies in laser printer, photo edit each image to a grey scale (digital camera takes pictures in color only), and then print out each image onto their respective transparancies, line up three overhead projectors, line them up properly, and shine them onto a screen, and have a full color image? Sure the left and right OH projectors would be at slight angles, but in theroy, it would produce an image, right?
so is it possible he wasn't using entirely pure red, green, or blue filters? wouldn't the impurities in the color/arrangment of the polarization cause this?
hmm...you sound alot like my dad, an EE... "We engineers have thought patterns of 1 in 1000, very organized....blah blah blah".
Just b/c you're incredibly organized and efficnent with your time doesn't mean that everyone in the world is going to be the same way. Alot of people were brought up in a very lax environment (myself), and therefore have a lax work ethic. That's not to say I don't have any work ethic, I'm just not determined to get things out the door ahead of schedule. The world would be a great place if everyone had your work ethic, but if they did, there'd be someone with a "120%!!!" effort, compared to your "110%" effort, and complaining about you.
For those of you with well organized days and ways of setting goals, maybe you should talk to your managment and have them hold a week long casual time management seminar every morning for 30 minutes....alot of us never had any formal training when it comes to time management. Fortunatly, some colleges are requiring a 1 semester time management class (finally), yet High Schools have yet to catch on, let alone middle schools.
err, not a CD...3.5" diskette...whatever.
I remember waaaay back when, when HomePC used to still be around, which was eventually replaced with somthing else...but as an added "sign on bonus", you got a special utilities and fun CD...of the most interesting was some WAV files for windows 3.1 start up and shutdown sounds like "Good Morning", and"Elvis has left the building". Of course, that was back in the day when PC's rarely came with sound cards, and my 386 sx 15, salvaged from my dad's work scrap pile, certianly did not. To solve this problem, they had a nifty thing that allowed you to play .wav files through your PC speaker. That, combined with www.twistedtunes.com (this was long before napster), I was able to play 20 meg wav file songs off my hard drive. It would only play the first 45 seconds or so, of course, the computer couldn't handle the buffering or somthing. I tried installing the win3.1 driver on an old P90 last year that was void a sound card, and had no luck; I was hoping I'd be able to play MP3's off it, but no luck.
Anyone know of a windowze 9x speak.dll, or equivlent? That would come in awfully handy occasionally.
that's funny b/c it's my mom, and a large number of "do nothing in high school" females she's friends with here in the dallas area. And a good portion of the elderly, who are trying to somewhat come out of retirement and looking for a non physical effort type job, and see IT as it.
at least people are competent enough to turn on the computer, open up the desired office (or open source deriviative) application, and print it out. I have a friend at school who downloaded and tried out napster once, b/c after that "it broke the computer" and they don't want to do that again. when it "broke" the computer, windows just happened to have a GPF at the moment napster's window was on top. These things happen all the time; people just need to be educated that GPF = save and close everything and reboot. Just like people should know that when they get a flat, they should pull over to the side of the road and change it (with the black circular thing in the back). NOT sit in that lane and cause a traffic jam.
sigh.
why are you modding down a good troll? that makes no sense. a good troll tries to make conversation and create disruption inside the slashdot community, creating a wider variety of arguments, other than "i'm sure this building will house only microsoft's entire de bugging staff, there won't be any room left over for anyone else". Mod down the micro-bashers and beowolf fanatics, but not the inovators.
apparently you never downloaded the hack for SC2K...
After doing some more reading on the subject, I've read about how gas puts out about 125,000 BTU's, and Diesel puts out about 147,000 BTU's, but after visiting biovan.com and biodiesel.com, nowhere did they mention bio diesel's power output...The harley goes slower than a gas powered one...I'm guessing the power output of Biodesiel is somwhere between 1/2 and 2/3rds of standard petrolem deisel?
Does anyone have good estimates on what the power output of biodiesel that was made from Rapeseed, Vegtable oil?
just trying to save their jobs.
.edu or .gov site was ok. Well thanks to Google, most evey publicly accessable page is accessable forever (for now, barring bankruptcy) thanks to their cashing ablity.
how many slashdotters are highschool students/were last year? I'm sure if your school had even a meager collection of computers conencted to the internet, you were more than happy to be able to use those to find information for research papers and the likes. The only problem was that "the internet isn't a reliable source for information. It can be there one day, 3 weeks later it's gone". Other than that, they said, anything off of an
Well now they know of google, and the librarians need another way to keep their job of "keeper of the books" seeming important, so they make you use the library's books for any of your projects, and rarely look highly upon using digital resources, and grudgingly "ok" your use of some inanely expensive and cryptic UI "online article" database they subscribed to for some unknown reason. The reason behind the cryptic UI is probably that the librarians need to look tech savvy somehow (not to say there aren't any comp whizzes out there who are librarians, just not in my schooling carreer), so they give help with the only computer system they're familiar with. If the librarians made it too easy to access the information, there wouldn't be any need for their services, their staff would be cut back, and then they'd be out of the job, replaced by computers. Personally, I'll be glad to see them when they go, replaced by friendly techies in their late 20's who check out digital equipment.
the halfkeyboard people have some spiffy software that allows for typing with one hand on a normal keyboard (an extension of the demo software). It seems pretty easy to do, although I'm still just barely learning the language. This type of app would be really handy in chatting online situations when you have pizza in one hand and a particularly important convo on the other. I'm sure it could have some useful "shady" purposes when chatting online when one only has use of the left hand. anyways, anybody set up somthing for us singlehanded chatters on sourceforge?
wow. sombody mod that one up. I think he nailed the whole argument on the head. I guess in the past governments took a little over a hundred years to start cracking down on original copyright theifs of the gutenberg bible and other books being pressed/printed. their solution of censorship WAS book burning. there's a couple of books of the history of pirating stuff, talk about how the government finally started cracking down on pirated versions of gershwin-type sheet music in the mid 20's and what not. Now comes the internet, and with today's speed of everything, it didn't take 100 or even 50 years to begin censoring things, it's taken them really at best 10 years (6 years if you assume the net went mainstream in '94). Fuck it. I'm buying a copyright enabled HD, and setting up a networked linux jupebox.
so does this mean that we're going to see a whole lot nicer bootlegs of movies the day they come out? (just plug your firewire digital camera into the output of the movie player, hit record, then transfer to hotline server). personally I have a copy of charlie's angels and it looks like CRAP. Planning on buying the director's cut when the DVD comes out in a couple of months, even if the "special ed" stuff is nothing more than 3 giggling girls talking about the movie.
this only works with win98 and up to my knowledge; goto "my computer", right click on c:\, click properties, click on the "disk cleanup" button there. from there you should be able to turn the "disk cleanup" option down to a lower MB left, or off. Your CS game is going to run a whole lot faster if you delete some of those unused MP3's though, to my knowledge, win9x uses the C:\ as a swap file, and usually ends up expanding to like 35 megs or larger, hence the need to run scandisk when the blue screen o' death commands the 3 finger salute. moderators don't mod me up on this one, it's only useful to one or two people.
Really? I could have sworn it was stock options. Last I heard, the whole cycle for microserfs was that they were hired right out of school with about $30k in stock options/year and just enough wages to keep them alive and healthy in a 2 bedroom apartment, burn them out in about 5 years, at which point they retire, turn in their stock options, and end up with about 3 mil in the bank (pre-taxes). Same goes for cisco, 'cept that the options don't increase as quickly and it's spread out over a longer time period. At a smaller buisness, though, I'd agree with you.
Yeay the fact that another (semi)mainstream game is being ported to linux, but... I bought my copy of Sin in the CompUSA bargain bin for $5..Usually by the time it hits the bargain bin, it's considered long outdated software. Not to mention they needed to solve the load time bug/problem, which in my opinion really detracted from an otherwise good game. Has it really taken them 3 or 4 years to convert this game? I thought it was just 3 or 4 .pak or .id files (with whatever extension they wanted to use when making their own). Wasn't this game just a professionally done mod?
anybody ever have problems opening the doors in sin? as a consequence, I never really got that far in my 5$ game, guess for $5 it wasn't worth more than an hour of my time, the training facility was fairly badass though.
well think about it:
in the us, you've got 100,000 on stock to sell, which sell immediatly.
in denmark, there wern't even lines:
i'm thinking there's less demand. when there's less demand, usually you produce less. When you end up producing less, your (initial) costs/per unit for production are quite a bit higher. As I understand it, the UK and most (all?) of europe runs off of 50 hz 110-120v. The US runs off of 60 hz 110-120v. I've heard stories of people in aust. wanting to mooch off of a local industrial company who had industrial size 50 -> 60hz converters, allowing them to use inexpensive toasters, dishwashers, ect (not counting s&h). Same deal for the PSX2. Power conversion = higher cost, higher cost = higher retail sales cost.
Fuck, which comes from the word Fukar - "To Grow"
:)
really now, mr. high and mighty
the first day of freshman latin our highschool latin teacher decided that after we pestered him about latin swear words and would not awnser, he told us to get out a sheet of paper and copy down the vocabulary on the board he was writing down. The first word was "facit, which uses the long A sound, pronounced (basically) "Fuck it". The translation was equally interesiting, having three translations, one being "To make", "To do", and "Do it".
I think the comic you're looking for is Here, at Hounds Home, a daily comic. He's currently running a storyline that has slowly mutated into a critisim of US society and their censorship on the media. Check it out, it's a pretty funny strip.
lol which song is that by anthrax? must download and listen... i'm guessing they're a heavy metal band?
i'm a latin 3 ap student, our curriculum mainly being translating (gramatically) the aneied, and the current latin translating programs out there are pure *crap*. I'd actually PAY for my copy of bablefish, should they ever release a latin translator.
and what happens when your particular product drops in price to the point where it becomes financially unfeasable to produce? same thing farmers do;
stockpile until the market dries up enough so that the price rockets up to the point where the producer can still profit.
the us government has LONG understood this, at least since midway through the great depression, and actually PAYS farmers the vaule of their would-be crop to not grow wheat, corn, and various other crops just so that farmers who do produce can be profitable. there's actually an entire sub economy in montana of people who own areas of land of 25,000 acres and live in huge mansions.
how do they make their money? by not growing wheat on that land. and the land is (nearly) tax-free, of course, because it's legitimate farm land. same deal with space mining. too much production? talk to the other miners and tell them to hold back production till prices rise. sound familiar?
ever heard of OPEC? bravo. BASIC ECONOMICS.
of course we should send it into space!....at $10,000 a pound (currrently).
/. and there are enough stories posted each week to warrant it. and then post it for download on a slashdot ftp in divix format. ok i'm done bsing, goodnight.
did you ever see that episode of futurama where they do launch that big ball of trash into space about 200 years ago (which really is some time in the future, b/c the show is set more than 200 years in the future), anyways, it all comes back, armegeddon style, and they shoot it down, or make it be not as bad, also, armegeddon style. they should remove the copyright on armegeddon already, people make enough references about it daily on
lol, some guy already has it covered. he went down to the local san fransico land & title office and laid claim to all other 8 planets in one fell swoop. you can now buy i think 1/2 mi x 1/2 mi plots of mars and the moon for 20$. search for "buy mars" or "unusual gifts" on google.com or the likes. oh yeah, and a week later he went back and registered for all the asteroids in the milky way. i shit you not.