You ask "is IT art?" I think the question is "wrong", since this is art of course, but the artist is the programmer.
Also you ask "Does anyone know of other candidates for computer-created art?" This guy, for example, has a wonderful gallery of computer-generated art. The system he usesis used both to teach programming in a visual way, and to create some great art (some of which was exposed in various museums).
Actually I think prices never changed. For example, over the last 15 years or so, I've alwasy spent 100$ for a reasonable amount of memory, every time I needed a memory upgrade. Of course the amount changed, but if you buy a "reasonble" PC today, you end up spending the same money you spent for an Amiga 500 in 1989.
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...can be built with two analog joysticks. See here
And I'll let you in on a little secret -- those pins that go in the holes are actually there to slow the CPU down. No need to buy a new processor -- just clip off a couple of the pins on your current PC and it'll go much faster.
I tried, but the magic smoke came out of the CPUand it doesn't work anymore (for those who knows, the magic smoke is what makes the chip work; if it escapes, the chip dies).
No it is not. HTML is not even a programming language. It lacks of all the basic concepts like variables, expressions, assignements and an execution flow.
Microsoft states that more than 100 million copies of WMP 9 were downloaded in the ten months the software was available to the general public and specifies that these copies were downloaded by people who already had a version of Windows Media Player installed on their PCs. Microsoft concludes that these statistics rebuts the notion that consumers are unwilling to download a media player from the Internet if they already have one on their PC. But Microsoft states that the media player these users already [have] on their PC was WMP. This is important to note because Microsoft has implemented a mechanism in WMP by which WMP regularly looks for WMP upgrades on Microsoft's Web site (it 'phones home'), and in case it finds such an upgrade, prompts the user to download it. The users Microsoft refers to are thus likely to have been prompted to download WMP 9 (and repeatedly so if they chose not to do so at the first prompt).
Downloading a WMP upgrade in a situation where Microsoft recommends to do so via a recurring screen prompt is different from a situation where third party media player vendors whose players are not automatically present on each newly bought Windows PC have no possibility to prompt users to download their media player onto the PC for the first time. Only once the initial obstacle of the first download has been overcome will they also be able to rely on mechanisms which allow them to use screen prompts to offer the user downloads of upgrades.
JPEG is a lossy format -- regardless of what you do with it.
Jpeg CAN BE a lossy format, and you can specify how much you want to "loose". You can also specify to retain the whole information (i.e. act as a lossless format) and have nice file sizes.
This is not really correct. The graphics cards Gelato uses are consumer hardware. This doesn't mean that the image is generated directly by the card! The 3D hardware is used as a specialized fast and parallel calculation unit, used especially for geometric calculation (matrix per vertex multiplication, essentially) and other stuff. This (of course) means that the rendering is NOT done in realtime.
Smells like you shoud read some documentation on buffer overflow techinques. Of course image files cannot run commands, but you can do some nice tricks if the program that is loading the file fails to check where the data is loaded. If the data is bigger than the allocated space, you can garble the stack in some funny way and actually craft a picture that gets to be executed (in some parts at least). Of course, doing something other that crashing the process is NOT easy, but...
Mh, if that was true, we would be in wonderland, where nobody would be using things like server-side java software, whose ONLY added value is development ease (just an example).
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You ask "is IT art?"
I think the question is "wrong", since this is art of course, but the artist is the programmer.
Also you ask "Does anyone know of other candidates for computer-created art?"
This guy, for example, has a wonderful gallery of computer-generated art. The system he usesis used both to teach programming in a visual way, and to create some great art (some of which was exposed in various museums).
I don't.
It's specific enough that I doubt there is any. Anybody know of software that traces geographically incoming connections, 'cause I don't.
You mean like XTraceRoute?
This one is also very very good, and free.
... 13 months of 4 weeks each (13 times 28 days = 364) plus one or two extra sundays. That way you can have all months starting on the same week day.
I don't think so. Believe it or no, many people still have a dialup connection, or no connection at all.
Actually I think prices never changed. For example, over the last 15 years or so, I've alwasy spent 100$ for a reasonable amount of memory, every time I needed a memory upgrade. Of course the amount changed, but if you buy a "reasonble" PC today, you end up spending the same money you spent for an Amiga 500 in 1989.
...can be built with two analog joysticks. See here
Why should anybody care about GIFs? The alternatives are out there. Just use them.
Let's hope they take his head, too.
And I'll let you in on a little secret -- those pins that go in the holes are actually there to slow the CPU down. No need to buy a new processor -- just clip off a couple of the pins on your current PC and it'll go much faster.
I tried, but the magic smoke came out of the CPUand it doesn't work anymore (for those who knows, the magic smoke is what makes the chip work; if it escapes, the chip dies).
No it is not. HTML is not even a programming language. It lacks of all the basic concepts like variables, expressions, assignements and an execution flow.
No. (John Maynard Keynes)
The fact that this obvious troll is moderated as "interesting", is a little wonder that should be preserved as an example about "how NOT to moderate".
...to their website. here it is.
This is not really correct. The graphics cards Gelato uses are consumer hardware. This doesn't mean that the image is generated directly by the card! The 3D hardware is used as a specialized fast and parallel calculation unit, used especially for geometric calculation (matrix per vertex multiplication, essentially) and other stuff. This (of course) means that the rendering is NOT done in realtime.
Well, it's not the fonts that are bat. It's the way they are rendered on screen. Fuzzy.
Wasn't Opteron the fair king? ;-)
Smells like you shoud read some documentation on buffer overflow techinques. Of course image files cannot run commands, but you can do some nice tricks if the program that is loading the file fails to check where the data is loaded. If the data is bigger than the allocated space, you can garble the stack in some funny way and actually craft a picture that gets to be executed (in some parts at least). Of course, doing something other that crashing the process is NOT easy, but...
Mh, if that was true, we would be in wonderland, where nobody would be using things like server-side java software, whose ONLY added value is development ease (just an example).
It is more intuitive because it is the way the brain works. Mine, at least. When I evaluate expressions I do it stack-based.
Well, really it's the opposite. The ide-scsi has been REMOVED from the kernel and the direct support for ATAPI burners has been added in the cdrtools.