When I was staying in Phoenix (I believe), the hotel we were staying at had a fitness center. We checked it aout and they had two stationary bikes with TVs in front of them. You could use the bikes to explore the different maps. The graphics were very, very low quality (it was an old system), but it was 3D. It took me a while to realize it, but both were networked, so my brother and I raced. Another cool feature was that it had two fans built into the cabinet that would change speed depending on how fast you pedeled and would blow air on you to simulate wind. I thought it was very impressive and would be really cool if was updated. The fans were a great addition in my opinion.
One of my neighbors works at Amazon.com and got to try one out for a while (he was riding it around the neighborhood, unfortunately, it ran out of batteries right was we approached him). My mom also saw one in Seattle.
Somebody on the overclockers' forum got his 1.8 Ghz P4 C1 stepping (from a Dell computer) to 3.5 Ghz. While it doesn't have hyperthreading (which doesn't neccessarily give you performance benefits), it does have a much faster bus rate.
My neighboor/friend was foolish to leave Seti on as his screensaver. They never turned off their monitor and now it has some text and that LCARS like interface burned into their monitor. Haha.
At the Seattle robitics fair last summer they had something very similar to this connected to an SGI 0xygen machine. It was very cool. You moved the device around in 3d and it moved a ring on screen. If you tried to move it through some of the stationary stuff that was also on screen, it would resist. You could even put the ring on a hook on screen and the device would just rest there in midair. It was very cool.
I know someone who went there opening night. He saw it in digital. Apparantly, they were having problems with keeping the audio and video synchronized. I saw the noon showing on Sunday (right after you:) and was also disappointed it wasn't digital. The tickets cost 7 dollars for matinee! I was considering calling to ask what the deal was with these expensive tickets and trying to get a (partial) refund if it was because the movie was digital. Sadly, it wasn't digital, but it still is the best film and sound quality I have ever seen in a theatre.
Yes, I have been spoiled by the Cinerama and it is the only theatre I want to view movies in (besides my home). I prefer about 3 rows back in the same section as you (not the balcony, but the area in the 'middle'). I have a more extensive list of the reasons I like it here.
Actually, I believe the cameras use HD tapes, not hard drives. I think the camera they use is this one. That's one beautiful piece of equipment.
Andrew
I am not sure, but I have heard the Cinerama in Seattle has a digital projector. It was remodeled a few years ago by Paul Allen (of Microsoft) and has awesome sound and video systems. It supports Cinerama format, possibly digital, and possibly 70 mm. It also has a huge Cinerama screen, but I have never seen it.
Andrew
They talked about this in the Apple speech with the Geforce 3 a while back. It was rendered on a Cray and they said, IIRC, that it took 8 hours per frame to render. It amazes me that they could do this in the 1986 and Jurrasic Park in 1993. If I had a computer back in 1993 (I don't remember, I was only 7), then I can't imagine trying to do computer modeling on it.
My family was late with halloween this year. We didn't get our pumpkins until like 1700 (5 PM) on Halloween. The only reason I asked my parents to take me to the store to get a pumpkin is so I could build the mac-o-lattern. We have had just a few trick-or-treaters (like 15 groups), but one of the Moms said that my Mac-O-Latterns was one of the best pumpkins she had seen tonight. I don't think she knew that it was the mac symbol. I should have told her that, anything to bring the common folk away from Windoze.
I have only seen this movie once and it wasn't as good as I expected. Maybe I would have a different experience if I saw it in the theatre. Theatres always have different atmoshpheres then watching at home.
Andrew
4.5 million times 50. Wow, thats $225,000,000. I wonder what their incentives are! Anyway, it does cost a lot to build space crafts so maybe it will mostly be offset by that.
Andrew
www.overclockers.com also has the here. In it they talk about how this will effect "homegrown" computer websites. They also compare computer magazines to computer websites.
You are way to sensitive, I have one in my computer (and love it) and I can sleep just fine with it on. I actually sleep better with my computer in stand-by then when it is off.
Andrew
You can get the Axis Network Cameras from thinkgeek.com. It runs Linux, has integrated webserver (which can run video 25 frames/sec at 322x240 or
10 frames/sec at 704x480), plus it has a feature that allows you to back up to an FTP server. It also has motion detection and you can connect it to an alarm or doorbell. I was hoping to get a few of these for my home security, but there was one reason stopping me: they cost $1049.99 each.
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When I was staying in Phoenix (I believe), the hotel we were staying at had a fitness center. We checked it aout and they had two stationary bikes with TVs in front of them. You could use the bikes to explore the different maps. The graphics were very, very low quality (it was an old system), but it was 3D. It took me a while to realize it, but both were networked, so my brother and I raced. Another cool feature was that it had two fans built into the cabinet that would change speed depending on how fast you pedeled and would blow air on you to simulate wind. I thought it was very impressive and would be really cool if was updated. The fans were a great addition in my opinion.
I don't think so. Light has mass which allows it to be pulled into the black hole while gravity doesn't have mass.
It's kind of hard to take a flying car to your relatives' house when you are living in a colony on the moon!
One of my neighbors works at Amazon.com and got to try one out for a while (he was riding it around the neighborhood, unfortunately, it ran out of batteries right was we approached him). My mom also saw one in Seattle.
BTW, this was using air cooling, no liquid nitrogen.
Somebody on the overclockers' forum got his 1.8 Ghz P4 C1 stepping (from a Dell computer) to 3.5 Ghz. While it doesn't have hyperthreading (which doesn't neccessarily give you performance benefits), it does have a much faster bus rate.
Forget pictures, real geeks use QuickTime VR! Anyway, here is my room. It is a fairly old picture, but not too much has changed.
If you go to this page you will see an announcement for the cluster.
And I quote: "We will call it Pink."
My neighboor/friend was foolish to leave Seti on as his screensaver. They never turned off their monitor and now it has some text and that LCARS like interface burned into their monitor. Haha.
I stayed up late this morning trying to download it from nVIDIA. I finally got it and put it on my server. It is available here:
http://andrewhitchcock.org/ArmyOpsRecon.exe
It may be slow, but as of last night, it was still faster than the official mirrors who are swamped (and it beats waiting in FilePlanet's line).
At the Seattle robitics fair last summer they had something very similar to this connected to an SGI 0xygen machine. It was very cool. You moved the device around in 3d and it moved a ring on screen. If you tried to move it through some of the stationary stuff that was also on screen, it would resist. You could even put the ring on a hook on screen and the device would just rest there in midair. It was very cool.
I know someone who went there opening night. He saw it in digital. Apparantly, they were having problems with keeping the audio and video synchronized. I saw the noon showing on Sunday (right after you :) and was also disappointed it wasn't digital. The tickets cost 7 dollars for matinee! I was considering calling to ask what the deal was with these expensive tickets and trying to get a (partial) refund if it was because the movie was digital. Sadly, it wasn't digital, but it still is the best film and sound quality I have ever seen in a theatre.
Yes, I have been spoiled by the Cinerama and it is the only theatre I want to view movies in (besides my home). I prefer about 3 rows back in the same section as you (not the balcony, but the area in the 'middle'). I have a more extensive list of the reasons I like it here.
Actually, I believe the cameras use HD tapes, not hard drives. I think the camera they use is this one. That's one beautiful piece of equipment.
Andrew
I am not sure, but I have heard the Cinerama in Seattle has a digital projector. It was remodeled a few years ago by Paul Allen (of Microsoft) and has awesome sound and video systems. It supports Cinerama format, possibly digital, and possibly 70 mm. It also has a huge Cinerama screen, but I have never seen it.
Andrew
They talked about this in the Apple speech with the Geforce 3 a while back. It was rendered on a Cray and they said, IIRC, that it took 8 hours per frame to render. It amazes me that they could do this in the 1986 and Jurrasic Park in 1993. If I had a computer back in 1993 (I don't remember, I was only 7), then I can't imagine trying to do computer modeling on it.
My family was late with halloween this year. We didn't get our pumpkins until like 1700 (5 PM) on Halloween. The only reason I asked my parents to take me to the store to get a pumpkin is so I could build the mac-o-lattern. We have had just a few trick-or-treaters (like 15 groups), but one of the Moms said that my Mac-O-Latterns was one of the best pumpkins she had seen tonight. I don't think she knew that it was the mac symbol. I should have told her that, anything to bring the common folk away from Windoze.
I would take crappy cable modem service over crappy dial up service any day. I can't get DSL so I do care.
and of course for celebrities for the promotional value!
Just what we need, aliens cloning our boy bands...
I have only seen this movie once and it wasn't as good as I expected. Maybe I would have a different experience if I saw it in the theatre. Theatres always have different atmoshpheres then watching at home.
Andrew
4.5 million times 50. Wow, thats $225,000,000. I wonder what their incentives are! Anyway, it does cost a lot to build space crafts so maybe it will mostly be offset by that.
Andrew
www.overclockers.com also has the here. In it they talk about how this will effect "homegrown" computer websites. They also compare computer magazines to computer websites.
You are way to sensitive, I have one in my computer (and love it) and I can sleep just fine with it on. I actually sleep better with my computer in stand-by then when it is off.
Andrew
I have a mirror set up here:
Here
Since the main site is so slow I thought you guys might want a mirror, enjoy.
You can get the Axis Network Cameras from thinkgeek.com. It runs Linux, has integrated webserver (which can run video 25 frames/sec at 322x240 or 10 frames/sec at 704x480), plus it has a feature that allows you to back up to an FTP server. It also has motion detection and you can connect it to an alarm or doorbell. I was hoping to get a few of these for my home security, but there was one reason stopping me: they cost $1049.99 each.
Andrew