This is a little underwhelming. The real coolness that comes from a leader addressing underlings is having a giant screen displaying his image at 50x normal size. Just like the guy in the "all your base" segment.
Now, having a 3D hologram at that size would be pretty cool. Actually, it would also be cool to just do that without I2, with the guy standing in the room. Think of it - you go to see your favorite band or any speaker and it's a huge crowd. So, a 200 foot tall hologram is created above the guy and everyone watches that. That'd be sweet.
Just slap a Kuro5hin clone on the web. "Peer Review"? Isn't that what they do when users moderate the submission queue to decide if an article gets "published" on their main page?
This must be another one of Slashdot's low points. Reminds me of the thread when W. Richard Stevens died and a bunch of trolls posted some really insulting stuff about him - the nice, brilliant guy who had written the book on network programming and had just died.
Then, Tom Christiansen came and chewed them all out.
Once they start 'editing' this site, they lose common carrier status. They hide right now behind their 'peer moderation' system and claim they have no responsiblity for the content on this site.
Common carrier status already doesn't apply. They removed a post containing Co$ material.
I've got a pretty cool input device I'm trying to support. It's the Spaceball 4000 FLX - a 6 degrees of freedom motion controller. The software provided with it does not support Linux (just a few commercial unices and windows, and the apis are different in each case). There's a linux joystick driver for it but I have not been able to get it to work because it "couldn't set up serial line discipline" (which IS loaded).
Anyone know if there is support for this in SDL? Or if not, what is the best way to support this device? I'm writing a program which I intend to be cross platform and right now I'm considering talking directly to the thing through the serial port and figuring out its protocol. (I haven't been able to find it published anywhere).
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I'll second that. I'm a college student and I haven't taken notes in a class since sixth grade (when the teacher made me and I did worse as a result).
I was always the kid where every time we had to copy an overhead, I was the slowest by a full minute. If I just sit and listen though, I'll absorb it. If there are gaps in comprehension (it's amazing how many people aren't even able to tell whether they comprehend something or not) I will read the textbook. It's all there in grammar-checked prose, along with examples and extra detail. Why in the world would I ever want to take notes? It's not like I'd read them anyway.
I suspect he hadn't thought of the whole thing with life on Europa or the idea of converting Jupiter into a star. Neither of those ideas would work on saturn.
OTOH, I thought saturn made for a better story in the first book. There was more of a sense of isolation and it was just somehow cooler.
Holy Crap - Look at the dates on that list. Empire state building built in nineteen thirty one. And it's still in the top ten! Wow! That must have been an incredible sight at the time it was built.
I wouldn't be surprised if several people, starting with Taco, get picketed for this thread, and possibly worse.
Sure, he removed the post, but they have certainly harrassed people for doing much less than what Rob just did here. I commend him and if they touch him I'd like to see Rob backed up in a big way.
In case there was EVER any question on whether the moderators get the best crack, this should settle it.
This +5 post (!) is nothing more than a person biting (hard) for a troll. It's gullibility, not insight. To be fair to Mox-Dragon, it was a very good troll.
People, read the frickin posts. Look at what he replied to! Hell, he pasted it inside his own comments! To get the full flavor of it, look at the root of this thread. It'll make you laugh.
And give qtp some karma so his efforts will have more effect in the future:-)
good point - and right on the money about "fun" education. It's fun only if you are into it and in the right frame of mind, and are absorbing the concepts.
I myself have a hard time balancing the two approaches. I'm just out of high school now, and I work as a programmer and am majoring in Math and CS. I had this idea of being one of those really "creative" people who just links concepts together and makes it all work, like I'd done on my brief forrays during school.
Problem was, I had only just recently learned much unix shell stuff. I knew all about TCP/IP but had never actually implemented anything with a socket interface. I knew C and C++ really well and had written several kinds of algorithms and data structures, but didn't know any libraries for system calls, graphics, networking, GUIs/widgets, or anything else.
You can be good at math/logic and have all kinds of conceptual knowledge of the stuff, but I'm not going to be able to do anything until I am handy with the tools of the job. Then maybe the creative juices can flow.
It's the nine point circle, which is neither the circumscribed nor the inscribed circle.
The nine point circle includes:
o the midpoints of the three sides
o the feet of the three altitudes
o the midpoints of the lines joining the orthocenter (there the three altitudes meet) to the vertices.
The easiest way to find it is to simply take any of these three groups (say, the midpoints of the three sides) and find the circle that touches those three - the circle that circumscribes the triangle formed by those three.
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Now, having a 3D hologram at that size would be pretty cool. Actually, it would also be cool to just do that without I2, with the guy standing in the room. Think of it - you go to see your favorite band or any speaker and it's a huge crowd. So, a 200 foot tall hologram is created above the guy and everyone watches that. That'd be sweet.
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Then, Tom Christiansen came and chewed them all out.
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Common carrier status already doesn't apply. They removed a post containing Co$ material.
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Anyone know if there is support for this in SDL? Or if not, what is the best way to support this device? I'm writing a program which I intend to be cross platform and right now I'm considering talking directly to the thing through the serial port and figuring out its protocol. (I haven't been able to find it published anywhere).
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nowim stroking yourbreasts STOP
im leaningover and sucking onyour nipples STOP
youpant as ifree mymember andpressit against yourfemininity STOP
ipenetrate and werhythmically thrust against eachother STOP
myballs are slappingslapping on your ass andifinger your clit STOP
we climx tgthr and you cry out in xtcy STOP
i have togoto work early tomorrow STOP
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I was always the kid where every time we had to copy an overhead, I was the slowest by a full minute. If I just sit and listen though, I'll absorb it. If there are gaps in comprehension (it's amazing how many people aren't even able to tell whether they comprehend something or not) I will read the textbook. It's all there in grammar-checked prose, along with examples and extra detail. Why in the world would I ever want to take notes? It's not like I'd read them anyway.
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OTOH, I thought saturn made for a better story in the first book. There was more of a sense of isolation and it was just somehow cooler.
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Guess what the "Daylight" means?
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gooooooooooooooooone...
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Write the Linux kernel in Java.
The benefits are obvious - it will be cross-platform and garbage collection will be taken care of.
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Sure, he removed the post, but they have certainly harrassed people for doing much less than what Rob just did here. I commend him and if they touch him I'd like to see Rob backed up in a big way.
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Gives new meaning to the term, "cult classic" don't it?
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In case there was EVER any question on whether the moderators get the best crack, this should settle it.
This +5 post (!) is nothing more than a person biting (hard) for a troll. It's gullibility, not insight. To be fair to Mox-Dragon, it was a very good troll.
People, read the frickin posts. Look at what he replied to! Hell, he pasted it inside his own comments! To get the full flavor of it, look at the root of this thread. It'll make you laugh.
And give qtp some karma so his efforts will have more effect in the future
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/03/14/14
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I myself have a hard time balancing the two approaches. I'm just out of high school now, and I work as a programmer and am majoring in Math and CS. I had this idea of being one of those really "creative" people who just links concepts together and makes it all work, like I'd done on my brief forrays during school.
Problem was, I had only just recently learned much unix shell stuff. I knew all about TCP/IP but had never actually implemented anything with a socket interface. I knew C and C++ really well and had written several kinds of algorithms and data structures, but didn't know any libraries for system calls, graphics, networking, GUIs/widgets, or anything else.
You can be good at math/logic and have all kinds of conceptual knowledge of the stuff, but I'm not going to be able to do anything until I am handy with the tools of the job. Then maybe the creative juices can flow.
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The nine point circle includes:
o the midpoints of the three sides
o the feet of the three altitudes
o the midpoints of the lines joining the orthocenter (there the three altitudes meet) to the vertices.
The easiest way to find it is to simply take any of these three groups (say, the midpoints of the three sides) and find the circle that touches those three - the circle that circumscribes the triangle formed by those three.
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