Was it just a switch so you could toggle between Japan and U.S. modes? Those are pretty useful (and totally legal, btw). Nintendo had the right idea with this, I think, i.e. Make it easy to play out-of-region games, but make it hard to pirate games. Sony, on the other hand, tied its region coding into the same part of the hardware as the copy restriction hardware. So if you modified a PSX to play out-of-region games, you got CD-R compatibility for free.
Obviously you have never submitted an article. To get an article on the front page, you have to submit it at least several times. One editor will read it and call it trash and reject it. So then you resubmit it. Another editor will see it and think it is brilliant and post it to the front page. If the article author is smart, he will save his text somewhere in a file on his computer. Otherwise he will need to quickly retype the article from memory, most likely introducing typos.
We had to write a modeller and a raytracer for the 3D graphics class at UCSB. The modeller was just a single window with no pull-down menus or text or anything fancy like that. You would click the 'n' key to start a new polygon, then you would click around on the screen a few times to create the polygon. We only supported polygons. You could select polygons with the mouse and use 'r' to rotate them around. The drawing to the screen was via OpenGL. The modeller was simple, but it worked. If I recall, you hit 't' to do a raytrace of the current scene. It would pop up another window of a hard-coded size and do the raytrace for each pixel (i.e., traverse accross the data set figuring out what to draw). By the end of the quarter (it was a 10 week course), it did lighting with the blinn-hill ambient, specular, highlight model and it had different reflectivities and transparancy. Plus, in the modeller, you could save and load models and reparent objects to create a hierarchy.
Anyway, it was a good way to learn a lot of 3D graphics stuff.
You rarely ever hear of the massive amount of child pornography, illegal software, or other things that make sleeping a little harder.
Who loses sleep over illegal software? Even software companies don't really care. For aftermarktet software you can't get tech support or updates without a valid customer ID number, so no resources of the company are wasted. You basically can't buy a pre-built computer without Windows these days ($200 WalMart computers excepted). And every pre-built business computer comes with some version of Office. Almost every home computer comes with Works (which includes a full version of Word).
Even games have tackled the piracy problem with unique CDkey's required for online play. Console games have had hardware protection mechanisms built-in for a long time.
Of course, if you're the kind of person who doesn't need tech support or updates, then you're also the kind of person who uses Linux and free software whenever possible.
The recording provision of VCR's is used almost exclusively for piracy. Does this mean they should be illegal? The courts have decided that if they have "substantial non-infringing uses", then they are not illegal. The ability to run your own programs on the hardware you bought and paid for seems to me like a substantial non-infringing use.
They sell a black Game Cube here in the U.S. I'm tempted to buy one, if only to play Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil Zero. Nintendo does have more of its share of "kiddy games" than it should. That was their selling point originally, that they were a "family computer system", not a game system.
Now for someone to find the easter egg that'll cause the car to skid out on the freeway, flip over the guardrail, and burst into flames.
Accelerate to at least 80 miles per hour (130km/h) while on a freeway.
Wait for the freeway to change direction.
Turn the wheel sharply to the left or right, then bring it back straight.
At the same time, slam on your brakes, then release them.
You will probably skid at first. After that, you will hit the center divider or another car.
This is the point where you detonate the exlposives in the gas tank, causing the fuel to spray out into a cloud.
Detonate the secondary incindiary device which causes the fuel to ignite. (This step is not necessary if the fuel is already ignited).
Spectators are guaranteed to be awestruck. Emergency personnel will probably be confused, until they figure out the explosive devices and determine that the accident was actually an elaborate suicide.
Is that 0.5% rate the "false positive" or "false negative" error rate? If it is a false positive rate, then that means 1 in 200 times, the wrong person will be allowed access. That is much worse than the false negative, i.e., 1 in 200 times the correct person will have his authentication fail.
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Sega Saturn was superior to Sony Playstation (two processors, more memory, etc). Sega Dreamcast was superior to PS2 in some ways (it had a more "normal" graphics system and each one came with a modem).
Sometimes, the superior systems don't "win".
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Bear in mind that Sony and Nintendo areevil ruthless/faceless/heartless companies too (Nintendo to a lesser extent).
How fast is your plane moving? How big are the RC ships? What is your targetting system? The rules specify the type of ammunition to be used (CO2-fired round steel pellets). So you have a steel ball launcher mounted on your B2 bomber. How do you track a moving target on the ground and launch balls at it with any kind of decent accuracy (hit/miss ratio)?
In short, it sounds like a fun but time- and money-consuming project.
The Phatnoise Car Audio System and Kenwood Music Keg both run Linux (on an ARM processor) and support WMA audio. While the Linux kernel is open source, the WMA player is not.
No, you're out of shape. Get some exercise. Exercise is more important than staying up late playing games or looking at porn. By the way, people are pretty much all the same. We just look different so we can tell each other apart. You're not really much different from anyone else, dispite what you may think.
Stability isn't the issue. Exposure is. If you use a faster shutter speed blur will be less of an issue. The resolution you set the camera to will have nothing to do with it.
A more sensitive CCD (but retaining the same quality level) would allow you to use a faster shutter speed. So his statements were correct. Because the sensitivity of current CCD's is low (on the order of 50-100 ISO), you need a lot of light and/or long exposures. Using long exposures has its own requirements (no movement of camera or subject or light sources or blur will result). CCDs exposed (charged) for long periods of time will also experience strange effects (noise).
With film, it is quite common to use film speeds of 400, 800, 1600, 3200, or even faster. Each time you go up a number, the amount of light you need to properly expose the film drops in half. If less light is needed you can use faster shutter speeds, or you can use smaller apertures. When you make the aperture smaller, more of the scene will be in focus. When you increase the shutter speed, you capture a smaller and smaller moment of time.
Better cameras have high-quality lenses which allow the maximum amount of light into the camera and only minimally distort the light passing through them. Because of this, using faster shutter speeds or smaller apertures becomes possible.
How do I know you're not the one spreading false information? Maybe you made up your statements. Why should I trust what Lucas says? Why should I go and look at this Sony promotional DVD to hear what Lucas says?
Ultimately, it doesn't matter. AotC is just a stupid movie, and HDTV cameras aren't good enough to match film, whether they were used for all of AotC or only most of it. For things that do matter, however, it is a good idea to check your sources of information and weigh the reliability of those sources.
Everyone knows not to trust something you read on slashdot.
This IS SRAM. It has all the features of SRAM. Only instead of being built out of ordinary transistors, it is built out of FinFet transistors, which feature a smaller leakage current. The drawback is they are harder/more expensive to make.
So it's never going to be cheaper. It might one day be faster and/or more efficient than current chips.
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Was it just a switch so you could toggle between Japan and U.S. modes? Those are pretty useful (and totally legal, btw). Nintendo had the right idea with this, I think, i.e. Make it easy to play out-of-region games, but make it hard to pirate games. Sony, on the other hand, tied its region coding into the same part of the hardware as the copy restriction hardware. So if you modified a PSX to play out-of-region games, you got CD-R compatibility for free.
Not if they like the idea of meeting teenagers online for sex. If that's their game, then AOL is the place to be.
Obviously you have never submitted an article. To get an article on the front page, you have to submit it at least several times. One editor will read it and call it trash and reject it. So then you resubmit it. Another editor will see it and think it is brilliant and post it to the front page. If the article author is smart, he will save his text somewhere in a file on his computer. Otherwise he will need to quickly retype the article from memory, most likely introducing typos.
Lead, not mercury.
I guess I understand too much Japanese to find that funny.
You're probably one of those people who thinks that "Cheese Nips" are the most hillariously named snack ever.
We had to write a modeller and a raytracer for the 3D graphics class at UCSB. The modeller was just a single window with no pull-down menus or text or anything fancy like that. You would click the 'n' key to start a new polygon, then you would click around on the screen a few times to create the polygon. We only supported polygons. You could select polygons with the mouse and use 'r' to rotate them around. The drawing to the screen was via OpenGL.
The modeller was simple, but it worked. If I recall, you hit 't' to do a raytrace of the current scene. It would pop up another window of a hard-coded size and do the raytrace for each pixel (i.e., traverse accross the data set figuring out what to draw). By the end of the quarter (it was a 10 week course), it did lighting with the blinn-hill ambient, specular, highlight model and it had different reflectivities and transparancy. Plus, in the modeller, you could save and load models and reparent objects to create a hierarchy.
Anyway, it was a good way to learn a lot of 3D graphics stuff.
You rarely ever hear of the massive amount of child pornography, illegal software, or other things that make sleeping a little harder.
Who loses sleep over illegal software? Even software companies don't really care. For aftermarktet software you can't get tech support or updates without a valid customer ID number, so no resources of the company are wasted. You basically can't buy a pre-built computer without Windows these days ($200 WalMart computers excepted). And every pre-built business computer comes with some version of Office. Almost every home computer comes with Works (which includes a full version of Word).
Even games have tackled the piracy problem with unique CDkey's required for online play. Console games have had hardware protection mechanisms built-in for a long time.
Of course, if you're the kind of person who doesn't need tech support or updates, then you're also the kind of person who uses Linux and free software whenever possible.
The recording provision of VCR's is used almost exclusively for piracy. Does this mean they should be illegal? The courts have decided that if they have "substantial non-infringing uses", then they are not illegal. The ability to run your own programs on the hardware you bought and paid for seems to me like a substantial non-infringing use.
Yeah, maybe they would have been forced to make Team Fortress 2.
They sell a black Game Cube here in the U.S.
I'm tempted to buy one, if only to play Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil Zero. Nintendo does have more of its share of "kiddy games" than it should. That was their selling point originally, that they were a "family computer system", not a game system.
Spectators are guaranteed to be awestruck. Emergency personnel will probably be confused, until they figure out the explosive devices and determine that the accident was actually an elaborate suicide.
Is that 0.5% rate the "false positive" or "false negative" error rate? If it is a false positive rate, then that means 1 in 200 times, the wrong person will be allowed access. That is much worse than the false negative, i.e., 1 in 200 times the correct person will have his authentication fail.
I would be more pleased if Dell would ship computers with vi preinstalled. :-)
How about speaker-independant voice to text translation so you can read your voice mails? That would be pretty cool, wouldn't it?
GNU didn't invent emacs.
http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html
Sega Saturn was superior to Sony Playstation (two processors, more memory, etc). Sega Dreamcast was superior to PS2 in some ways (it had a more "normal" graphics system and each one came with a modem).
Sometimes, the superior systems don't "win".
No. Nintendo is not a lesser evil.
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/odditie
How fast is your plane moving? How big are the RC ships? What is your targetting system? The rules specify the type of ammunition to be used (CO2-fired round steel pellets). So you have a steel ball launcher mounted on your B2 bomber. How do you track a moving target on the ground and launch balls at it with any kind of decent accuracy (hit/miss ratio)?
In short, it sounds like a fun but time- and money-consuming project.
Wow. If not for that "/sarcasm", I might have thought you were serious.
By the way, "Cheese Nips" and "Coffee Nips" are deragatory products and should be pulled from supermarket shelves.
The Phatnoise Car Audio System and Kenwood Music Keg both run Linux (on an ARM processor) and support WMA audio. While the Linux kernel is open source, the WMA player is not.
No, you're out of shape. Get some exercise. Exercise is more important than staying up late playing games or looking at porn. By the way, people are pretty much all the same. We just look different so we can tell each other apart. You're not really much different from anyone else, dispite what you may think.
A more sensitive CCD (but retaining the same quality level) would allow you to use a faster shutter speed. So his statements were correct. Because the sensitivity of current CCD's is low (on the order of 50-100 ISO), you need a lot of light and/or long exposures. Using long exposures has its own requirements (no movement of camera or subject or light sources or blur will result). CCDs exposed (charged) for long periods of time will also experience strange effects (noise).
With film, it is quite common to use film speeds of 400, 800, 1600, 3200, or even faster. Each time you go up a number, the amount of light you need to properly expose the film drops in half. If less light is needed you can use faster shutter speeds, or you can use smaller apertures. When you make the aperture smaller, more of the scene will be in focus. When you increase the shutter speed, you capture a smaller and smaller moment of time.
Better cameras have high-quality lenses which allow the maximum amount of light into the camera and only minimally distort the light passing through them. Because of this, using faster shutter speeds or smaller apertures becomes possible.
How do I know you're not the one spreading false information? Maybe you made up your statements. Why should I trust what Lucas says? Why should I go and look at this Sony promotional DVD to hear what Lucas says?
Ultimately, it doesn't matter. AotC is just a stupid movie, and HDTV cameras aren't good enough to match film, whether they were used for all of AotC or only most of it. For things that do matter, however, it is a good idea to check your sources of information and weigh the reliability of those sources.
Everyone knows not to trust something you read on slashdot.
This IS SRAM. It has all the features of SRAM. Only instead of being built out of ordinary transistors, it is built out of FinFet transistors, which feature a smaller leakage current. The drawback is they are harder/more expensive to make.
So it's never going to be cheaper. It might one day be faster and/or more efficient than current chips.
True, except for the scenes in the desert where the HDTV cameras aparrantly overheated and they had to use film.