i'm probably off my rocker, but i thought gigabit has some sensing capabilities which meant that you didnt need crossover cables, you could use any old cable between two cards and it would auto-detect and cross itself over.
Landmark locations and pictures are useful, but the point of GIS is to correlate multiple data sources.
What about other spatial data? I'd be interested in getting data on rainful, population density, vegitation levels, pollution levels, all that pointless junk.
i've had an interest in generating worlds from random noise, particularly a network of probabilitsic methods and adaptive systems on top of a complex perlin noise engine. i still havent gotten to heavily into render code though, and i've definately made a backup of this page as reference materials for when i get around to turning my world into an actual optimized engine.
this seems to be his purpose: reference materials. he brushes upon everything needed to be useful and leaves the details of implementation as the due exercise. `graphics processors are optimized for sets of 500 - 4000 verticies,' BAM, fact #1 in quad-terrain methods. Ok, so my grid will be 24 x 24 point meshes: 576 vertexes and 1152 tris. 256 x 256 mesh is ~1.5 - 6 megs depending on how much your storing, I'll be using a lot of meta data and was planning on having at least a couple hundred meshes, storing intermediary stages of mesh addition, that means my world mesh alone comes dangerously close to taxing a full 64 mb.
He does a lot of the math for you, and in such a way that it can be applied readily to most problems. When you want to know more, there are references.
i've been leaning heavily towards a synthetic quad tree (makes a lot of sense with the perlin noise) and portal engine. Quick read gets my mind churning on the couple trouble spots in generating such a system (dynamic terrain). good stuff.
GT4 is the only game with enough brand reckgonition to go out and license 500+ cars. Word nothing of the fact that any competitors vehicular dynamics engine wont hold a candle, not a peep about the graphics, GT4 will tromp everyone based just on the number of cars.
I'd like to confirm it myself (aka: couple hundred nice race cars to test) but allegedly they spent inordinate amounts of efforts testing the cars and generating vehicular dynamics profiles for the cars. I have never played anything which feels half as exacting, I damn well believe it.
I just hope you can adjust downforce for all cars again. I'll happily pay the $50,000. Talk about essentials, that drove me nuts.
having just setup kerberos as my authentication gateway, and ldap running on top of that, yes, i agree.
it took about a month of on and off fiddling to get ldap and kerberos up, then get ldap running on top of kerberos.
and then i realized i couldnt do a simple bind. and i spent another month getting saslauthd working (and patching fixing and modifying everything i'd done before to make it right).
ldap + kerberos is a very in depth detail. but its the right way to go. i was suprised microsoft actually followed the right path and spun AD from ldap + kerberos, even if AD has a ton of custom cruft duct taped and hot glued on the end.
kerberos is moderately interoperable. its just the AD extentions which are extra-double-plus proprietary. i cant see samba jumping on the ldap + kerberos bandwidth.
a wing meant to significantly change its shape would be composed of a variety of smaller pieces of metal... scales.
the obvious difference between an f-14 tomcat and this article is that an f-14 merely rotates a fixed wing to achieve variable sweep, the article talks about wings which actually change form.
agreed. i really dont understand where we come up with these political candidates. looking at the primaries, i could not fathom where they dredged these guys up.
although far less than ideal, if we actually had a respsectable voter turnout, i believe these issues would eventually come to remedy in natural due course (couple decades).
to more direct address your post:
1. there's a lot of people who dont understand the issues but do vote anyways. enforcing the notion of voting as a civic responsibility will help both sides (voters without a clue & non-voters) to wisen up and stop letting these assclowns run our government. 2. a less than ideal system will have to suffice until the day comes when people realize a change is necessary. that change will come a lot faster if people have civic responsibility.
the DMCA is the greatest weapon against freedom of information ever, yes. its horribly bad, yes.
however, by esposing the value of 'freedom of information' in such absolute form, you risk your crusade ruining your support.
patents are a form of information control. our military needs information control. there is a place for the control of information. however, the point of the DMCA 'evil' is that it should not be the corporations who control every bit of information at all related to them.
take everything to its natural ending and extremity, but no further.
not voting is the problem. vote however you want, avoid the Democricans and Republicrats if you want, but for the love of god, vote.
if everyone actually got out there and voted, the whole election game would be miles left of where it is now. many with liberal leanings tend to feel dis-enfranchised (see: youth) and dont vote. and they make the system as bad as it is by letting all these assclown republicans actually have the relative support (votes: the only support that matters in the end) for the pranks they're pulling these days.
i think the state should release the names of everyone who doesnt vote. you should be able to track which of your friends vote in some obscenely easy manner(directly through friendster?). maybe just a red mark on everyone's head who doesnt vote.
voting is your civic duty. we have republicans because liberals are too stupid to vote. the election game would be so much better if people actually bothered to vote.
the problem is symptomatic of the current state of the world. damn the torpedoes, all that matters is today.
look at governments. they're building enough schools to meet todays demand, knowing full well they have no extra space for tomorrow. roads are not built with any thought to future traffic. and the big one, social security.;)
we're the most shortsighted society since f scott fitzgerald's lost generation.
our little boy scouts electronics project involved AND and OR gates to make a vote tallying machine. one of a series of lightbulbs went off to indicate the winner.
the fact that these clowns cant make a simple voting machine work is absolutely pathetic.
i'd think that as a positive byproduct of the capitalism age, clowns like these would have their corporate empires burned to the ground, at which point we'd apply a heavy layer of salt.
captialism wouldnt be so bad if consumers werent such complete retards. we opt to pay for these absolutely shitty products, so there's a market for them.
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beatdown if its not water cooled
them's some expensive arse space bibles!
current going rate of $10,000 a pound, I believe the shuttles had? maybe minus an order of magnitude.
i'm probably off my rocker, but i thought gigabit has some sensing capabilities which meant that you didnt need crossover cables, you could use any old cable between two cards and it would auto-detect and cross itself over.
a very big magnetron should do the job adeuqately.
Landmark locations and pictures are useful, but the point of GIS is to correlate multiple data sources.
What about other spatial data? I'd be interested in getting data on rainful, population density, vegitation levels, pollution levels, all that pointless junk.
mirrors are more effective
neat. too bad the equipment is several thousand dollars...maybe 10 years from now. :)
heh, not for 25 KW it doesnt.
when cars fly
i agree, but got a 1000w car inverter. i need a deep cycle battery before i can actually use it though. more money.
:-p
this is where i'd complain about gas prices. but i'll just put a wind generator on my car instead.
build a kickass projector
it takes two.
tv spectrum is also on a lower frequency, less prone to being attenuated from vegitation.
most promising
i've had an interest in generating worlds from random noise, particularly a network of probabilitsic methods and adaptive systems on top of a complex perlin noise engine. i still havent gotten to heavily into render code though, and i've definately made a backup of this page as reference materials for when i get around to turning my world into an actual optimized engine.
this seems to be his purpose: reference materials. he brushes upon everything needed to be useful and leaves the details of implementation as the due exercise. `graphics processors are optimized for sets of 500 - 4000 verticies,' BAM, fact #1 in quad-terrain methods. Ok, so my grid will be 24 x 24 point meshes: 576 vertexes and 1152 tris. 256 x 256 mesh is ~1.5 - 6 megs depending on how much your storing, I'll be using a lot of meta data and was planning on having at least a couple hundred meshes, storing intermediary stages of mesh addition, that means my world mesh alone comes dangerously close to taxing a full 64 mb.
He does a lot of the math for you, and in such a way that it can be applied readily to most problems. When you want to know more, there are references.
i've been leaning heavily towards a synthetic quad tree (makes a lot of sense with the perlin noise) and portal engine. Quick read gets my mind churning on the couple trouble spots in generating such a system (dynamic terrain). good stuff.
GT4 is the only game with enough brand reckgonition to go out and license 500+ cars. Word nothing of the fact that any competitors vehicular dynamics engine wont hold a candle, not a peep about the graphics, GT4 will tromp everyone based just on the number of cars.
I'd like to confirm it myself (aka: couple hundred nice race cars to test) but allegedly they spent inordinate amounts of efforts testing the cars and generating vehicular dynamics profiles for the cars. I have never played anything which feels half as exacting, I damn well believe it.
I just hope you can adjust downforce for all cars again. I'll happily pay the $50,000. Talk about essentials, that drove me nuts.
having just setup kerberos as my authentication gateway, and ldap running on top of that, yes, i agree.
it took about a month of on and off fiddling to get ldap and kerberos up, then get ldap running on top of kerberos.
and then i realized i couldnt do a simple bind. and i spent another month getting saslauthd working (and patching fixing and modifying everything i'd done before to make it right).
ldap + kerberos is a very in depth detail. but its the right way to go. i was suprised microsoft actually followed the right path and spun AD from ldap + kerberos, even if AD has a ton of custom cruft duct taped and hot glued on the end.
kerberos is moderately interoperable. its just the AD extentions which are extra-double-plus proprietary. i cant see samba jumping on the ldap + kerberos bandwidth.
geeks like better newer, we just have different definitions from marketing as to what qualifies for better.
i guess i should just stop working on my pcb router.
(flexible electronics seems like a better reason)
a wing meant to significantly change its shape would be composed of a variety of smaller pieces of metal... scales.
the obvious difference between an f-14 tomcat and this article is that an f-14 merely rotates a fixed wing to achieve variable sweep, the article talks about wings which actually change form.
did somebody say f-14 tomcat (variable swept wing)?
i dont think anyones implying air crafts which purposely bend an individual piece of metal such taht it makes drastic airodynamic changes.
(merely refering to the fact that the left v. right game would be about three miles left of center on the raw numbers. liberals dont vote)
what linux software does everyone run for this?
i just got my gps and havent had time to make it work with my laptop yet. i look forward to netstumbler.
myren
agreed. i really dont understand where we come up with these political candidates. looking at the primaries, i could not fathom where they dredged these guys up.
although far less than ideal, if we actually had a respsectable voter turnout, i believe these issues would eventually come to remedy in natural due course (couple decades).
to more direct address your post:
1. there's a lot of people who dont understand the issues but do vote anyways. enforcing the notion of voting as a civic responsibility will help both sides (voters without a clue & non-voters) to wisen up and stop letting these assclowns run our government.
2. a less than ideal system will have to suffice until the day comes when people realize a change is necessary. that change will come a lot faster if people have civic responsibility.
myren
the DMCA is the greatest weapon against freedom of information ever, yes. its horribly bad, yes.
however, by esposing the value of 'freedom of information' in such absolute form, you risk your crusade ruining your support.
patents are a form of information control. our military needs information control. there is a place for the control of information. however, the point of the DMCA 'evil' is that it should not be the corporations who control every bit of information at all related to them.
take everything to its natural ending and extremity, but no further.
Myren
not voting is the problem. vote however you want, avoid the Democricans and Republicrats if you want, but for the love of god, vote.
if everyone actually got out there and voted, the whole election game would be miles left of where it is now. many with liberal leanings tend to feel dis-enfranchised (see: youth) and dont vote. and they make the system as bad as it is by letting all these assclown republicans actually have the relative support (votes: the only support that matters in the end) for the pranks they're pulling these days.
i think the state should release the names of everyone who doesnt vote. you should be able to track which of your friends vote in some obscenely easy manner(directly through friendster?). maybe just a red mark on everyone's head who doesnt vote.
voting is your civic duty. we have republicans because liberals are too stupid to vote. the election game would be so much better if people actually bothered to vote.
the problem is symptomatic of the current state of the world. damn the torpedoes, all that matters is today.
;)
look at governments. they're building enough schools to meet todays demand, knowing full well they have no extra space for tomorrow. roads are not built with any thought to future traffic. and the big one, social security.
we're the most shortsighted society since f scott fitzgerald's lost generation.
our little boy scouts electronics project involved AND and OR gates to make a vote tallying machine. one of a series of lightbulbs went off to indicate the winner.
the fact that these clowns cant make a simple voting machine work is absolutely pathetic.
i'd think that as a positive byproduct of the capitalism age, clowns like these would have their corporate empires burned to the ground, at which point we'd apply a heavy layer of salt.
captialism wouldnt be so bad if consumers werent such complete retards. we opt to pay for these absolutely shitty products, so there's a market for them.
myren