You might have misunderstood. I am from holland and I don't feel prison is a place people should be treated as animals (I am against the US system).
This is unrelated to the fact that for my job I moved to the United States. I met my wife there and find that I can build a really nice life here in California.
The punishment is in the form of taking someones "freedom" to move around in society for a reasonably period. This is truely painfull for everyone who likes society (and though the Dutch know how to complain, they like living in the society they have build).
Mostly because of my job. I studied Computer Science in Utrecht and wanted to see what Silicon Valley was like.
Found a job that rocks. Found a women that rocked (now my wife who rocks). Found a house that rocks. Found that the weather rocks. Found that I like rocks.
I have nothing against Holland. Hmmm, let me refrace that, I LOVE Holland. But when it comes to your every day life it doesn't really matter where you live. I am super pro Holland when I am here, and pro US when I am in Holland (a little harder, but hella fun);-)
feel free to ask me more: dbacker@micron.co (add the 'm' at the end)
This happened in The Netherlands. He will be judged by a single judge, no jury. Having full access to lawyers who are not capable of making any money out of this beyond their reasonable salary. He will maybe even go to prison (not that likely though). Single person in a room. 4 Nice painted walls, a door with a friendly window. TV in the room. Possibly a window for a decent view of the outside world. 3 Good meals a day. Sports facilities and libraries. Guards without guns. Lots of therapeutic little jobs....so he doesn't f&^%#ng hate society when he gets out next month!
My name is Dam Backer. I am from The Netherlands and I switched to the US 6 years ago.
(all of the above might not be perfectly accurate, but it schetches an idea of the philosophy of the Dutch punishment system)
The neighbours also have their site in English. They offer serverspace from an old Dutch gold storage facility (nuclear safe building deep underground). As cool as this is their quality leaves something to be desired;-)
(the error in the last link is theirs, not mine...try it yourself by going to this page and clicking on "qualty".....really...quite funny)
with lotsa other foreigners tossed in for maximum commercial coverage.
Anyway, it IS pretty spectacular stuff, here are some facts: 4.000.000 dominoes 51 projects 85 x 90 square meters of building space 100 domino builders Builders are from Holland, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy 27 basic colours 1.320.998 painted dominoes 331 variety of dominoes
Now that we got the governament to admit that there is indeed a secret stealth fighter called "bird of pray", something we knew all along, I would like to be the first to start the rumour that there is in fact no such thing as a "bird of pray" stealth fighter. Look at those pictures will ya, I could have done a better job using Photoshop. Sheesh, the thing doesn't even have a laser cannon. And everyone knows that secret fighterjets are black, not regular-fighterjet gray.
Why would you 'remake' this classic? The Anime genre is as much about the style of the drawings as it is about the story. Remaking just the story part going to lose most of the appeal of the original. Sorry to say, but this looks like a typical Hollywood thing to do. I'm really a little upset about the stupidity of this project even though the final outcome might not be... half bad.
I am one of those gamers that spends about that amount of money on the latest hardware. Yes, 3-4 thousand dollars to build a computer for gaming. I do that about twice a year. It's a hobby, both the gaming and the box-building. I do have other hobbies (and work) so at some point I might be tempted to 'upgrade' the easy way and just shell out the $$ instead of building it myself. Most of the 'work' in building these machines by far is the research. Having a company claim to have done the research to build a gaming system sounds like an interesting attempt at the least.
I can asure you that $3000 is easily spend on: - Intel 2.8GHz at roughly $550 - Latest graphics card, currently the ATI 9700 family for about $400 - NEC 21" monitor for $800 (I actually bought a Sony 24" for $2000...Not a good buy) - 2*512 DDR PC-2700 from Crucial for $360 - Adaptec ATA RAID for $390 - 2*100Gb IBM HD for $240 - Motherboard, sound, mouse, other perifirals $500
we are at $3240 without any games to play
yeah, these choices are not the cheapest solutions. You can save about 50% of the price giving in only about 10% performance. I'm just telling you there is a (small) market for these systems.
Anyway, back to CounterStrike at 1 BILLION frames per second;-)
Here is what we know: - These companies are stealing money. - But not your money. - They do this with your knowledge. Not just the EULA, but you read about it here. - You install this program anyway because you don't really care...hell, you want to steal music.
Count the amount of times you agree or disagree for the following statements: 1) Better then spyware. 2) "hell, everyone steals money, thats what money is for. Take a peek at CNN for cry'sake" 3) Not my money, not my problem. 4) "I hate Amazon anyway" 5) "I don't have any money, why do you think I'm installing this piece of sheet software" 6) As long as they tell me everything I consider it legal. It's MY CHOICE!
- 6 Agree You are probably 12-16 years old and stumbled onto slashdot by accident.
- 4-5 Agree Surprised you read this far, might as well moderate this up as 'funny'. Now go find that link to LimeWire.
- 3 Agree 3 Disagree Let's wait and see what the other people think, hell this is probably just going to happend anyway so might as well read through the silly comments.
- 4-5 Disagree I'm about to post some insightfull comments about why this is yet another 'end-to-the-internet-as-we-know-it'. Sigh, why don't people think before they code.
- 6 Disagree Stop reading this, start writing that letter to your congressman!
The high frame rate sensor is being sold to specialized industry like NASA, US military and other. I do not know of a camera on the open market that uses this sensor, but there is no reason other then probably lack of a market.
Over at Micron Technology in the imaging department we are working on the next generation of digital imaging sensors. All the processes are CMOS based instead of CCD. Of particular interest to high frame rates might be the MI-MV13, Micron Imaging - Machine Vision 1.3Mega Pixel CMOS digital image sensor. This particular sensor can do 500fps at 1.3Mega pixel but can also be windowed to do for example 4000 fps at 1280 x 128.
This sounds a little better then it will be in reality. The San Jose 'IMAX' theatre is in fact an OmniMax or Dome theatre format. The 180 degree (ish) * 360 degree (ish) view giving you pretty much full periferal vision if you look straight at the center. Not the super resolution rectangular 5 story high IMAX format that would make for some awsome gaming! They will either display the games on a small awkwardly stretched rectangle or stretch it beyond recognition over the whole screen.
The sound system on the other hand features 6 channel 13000 watts of quad-damage (to your ears as much as your avatar) coming from 44 speakers.
I know it is not programmer laziness, just teasing them with that. I did give an explenation of why I didn't like this system though. The checkpoints are mostly 'after' a heavy battle area and you don't know exactly where they are. I found myself cursing when walking though some of them with only a few percent health left... knowing I would never survive the next battle. Back to the beginning of that level it was, so much fun on those repetitive spaceship corridor levels. Not.
As far as I am concerned, this is an actual Bungie feature. As you mentioned in the game Marathon and also in Oni. I just don't get it.
I am wondering if the poster has actualy played Halo or if he/she bases their opinion on the horrid.mov files of Halo gameplay. Because if there is one thing that does not need to be improved about the game it is the graphics. That said, I am hoping that the time spend before the PC release is spend on the three things missing/bad about Halo: - the oft mentioned level repetion (I am willing to swallow this as a time contraint mistake trying to release the XBox version). - network play. Not a thing you want to try with the XBox version. This will be the biggest issue making the game fail or succeed on the PC. - user interface / customizing settings. We (the gamers) need mouse input, and we need to be able to mess with settings. Having the FOV (field of view) set to something less then 90 degrees ticked me off pretty badly.
Just in case those great people at Bungee/Microsoft are reading this, I would hope that you guys would consider letting us save the game (quicksave!) when we feel like it. Checkpoints are silly, anoying and show that some of the programmers are just to lazy to figure out how to save gamestate at any moment (instead of the checkpoint right after a horrible battle leaving you with 1% health). No really, I 'broke' my Oni game CD 4 hours into the game after getting so pissed about this lacking feature.
Besides those minor issue *grin* Halo is ofcourse the greatest game ever!
For starters, you are unfortunatly a little late when it comes to the internet radio stations that so often have good electronic music. The RIAA is in the middle of killing the free internet radio stations. Some of my favorite internet streams used to be over at SomaFM where among other music I was introduced to music from Tranquility Bass, Future Sounds of London, Aphex Twins and Orbital. I would prolly not have CD's by all these bands if it wasn't for da internet stream. Not all streams have disappeared, Digitally Imported Radio is one of the finest that is still there. Offering Trance, hard-trance, Eurodance and hard-house. For more streams check out shoutcast a collection of online music streams.
To be introduced to Electronic music you should try to find which genres within electronic you like best. Some genres are (from mellow to really fast): - Ambient - Trance - Down Tempo - Trip Hop - Acid Jazz - Eurodance - House - Garage Several of these genres are not per-se electronic but will contain lots of modern sound influences.
For the real electronic junkies there is also what is known as scene music. This will not appeal to most people out there, but please try it and check out the rest of the scene.
The transfer rate of the new records calculates as follows: 625MB over 12,272km in 13 seconds = 590000 MB*Km/s = 0.590 TB*Km/s
When I drive home from work in a few minutes: 125TB (10^15 Synapses, Von Neumann et al.) at 85 Mph during rush hour (yeah, that manic...it's me) = 4.7 Tb*Km/s
The Boing full of DVD's calculates as follows: 4.7GB * 170.5 Cubic meters cargo space / 175 Cubic cm jewel case * 912 Km/h = 662,515Gb * 0.25Km/s = 1160 TB*Km/s
Internet radio is an all or nothing thing for me. I either find the type of music I want to listen on an unlimited commercial free radio station (SomeFM 24-7 right now:-) or I am not interested at all. Say you can't fight the upcoming legislation, do you see youself survive as a (semi-)commercial internet station, or is this the end?
As much as I love internet radio and hope to see it stay I have been wondering why some of the more popular music themes on the internet are not available on commercial radio. I am talking about the sounds of SomaFM's Groove Salad, Digitally Imported and other internet radio stations playing Ambient, Trance or any of the other more mellow versions of Electronic House. What in your opinion is the reason we can't find these styles on commercial radio?
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You might have misunderstood. I am from holland and I don't feel prison is a place people should be treated as animals (I am against the US system).
This is unrelated to the fact that for my job I moved to the United States. I met my wife there and find that I can build a really nice life here in California.
The punishment is in the form of taking someones "freedom" to move around in society for a reasonably period. This is truely painfull for everyone who likes society (and though the Dutch know how to complain, they like living in the society they have build).
Mostly because of my job. I studied Computer Science in Utrecht and wanted to see what Silicon Valley was like.
;-)
Found a job that rocks. Found a women that rocked (now my wife who rocks). Found a house that rocks. Found that the weather rocks. Found that I like rocks.
I have nothing against Holland. Hmmm, let me refrace that, I LOVE Holland. But when it comes to your every day life it doesn't really matter where you live. I am super pro Holland when I am here, and pro US when I am in Holland (a little harder, but hella fun)
feel free to ask me more: dbacker@micron.co (add the 'm' at the end)
This happened in The Netherlands. He will be judged by a single judge, no jury. Having full access to lawyers who are not capable of making any money out of this beyond their reasonable salary. He will maybe even go to prison (not that likely though). Single person in a room. 4 Nice painted walls, a door with a friendly window. TV in the room. Possibly a window for a decent view of the outside world. 3 Good meals a day. Sports facilities and libraries. Guards without guns. Lots of therapeutic little jobs....so he doesn't f&^%#ng hate society when he gets out next month!
My name is Dam Backer. I am from The Netherlands and I switched to the US 6 years ago.
(all of the above might not be perfectly accurate, but it schetches an idea of the philosophy of the Dutch punishment system)
The neighbours also have their site in English. They offer serverspace from an old Dutch gold storage facility (nuclear safe building deep underground). As cool as this is their quality leaves something to be desired ;-)
(the error in the last link is theirs, not mine...try it yourself by going to this page and clicking on "qualty".....really...quite funny)
with lotsa other foreigners tossed in for maximum commercial coverage.
Anyway, it IS pretty spectacular stuff, here are some facts:
4.000.000 dominoes
51 projects
85 x 90 square meters of building space
100 domino builders
Builders are from Holland, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy
27 basic colours
1.320.998 painted dominoes
331 variety of dominoes
Their main (sponsor) site with more info.
90 minutes, live on TV in 5 countries. I'll buy that tape, makes for good party background stuff.
The name is Poincaré (with the litte thingy on the e)
Poin (POINt) - Ca (CAtastrophic)- Ray
bah, screw it, just call me Henri
Now that we got the governament to admit that there is indeed a secret stealth fighter called "bird of pray", something we knew all along, I would like to be the first to start the rumour that there is in fact no such thing as a "bird of pray" stealth fighter.
Look at those pictures will ya, I could have done a better job using Photoshop. Sheesh, the thing doesn't even have a laser cannon. And everyone knows that secret fighterjets are black, not regular-fighterjet gray.
your right, I don't buy a new monitor twice a year. Maybee one every 18 months.
I did however buy a Sony 24" for $2000 replacing my old Cornerstone 21" ($2500). Just didn't want to brag beyond belief in my original story.
Why would you 'remake' this classic? The Anime genre is as much about the style of the drawings as it is about the story. Remaking just the story part going to lose most of the appeal of the original. Sorry to say, but this looks like a typical Hollywood thing to do. I'm really a little upset about the stupidity of this project even though the final outcome might not be ... half bad.
I am one of those gamers that spends about that amount of money on the latest hardware. Yes, 3-4 thousand dollars to build a computer for gaming. I do that about twice a year. It's a hobby, both the gaming and the box-building. I do have other hobbies (and work) so at some point I might be tempted to 'upgrade' the easy way and just shell out the $$ instead of building it myself. Most of the 'work' in building these machines by far is the research. Having a company claim to have done the research to build a gaming system sounds like an interesting attempt at the least.
;-)
I can asure you that $3000 is easily spend on:
- Intel 2.8GHz at roughly $550
- Latest graphics card, currently the ATI 9700 family for about $400
- NEC 21" monitor for $800 (I actually bought a Sony 24" for $2000...Not a good buy)
- 2*512 DDR PC-2700 from Crucial for $360
- Adaptec ATA RAID for $390
- 2*100Gb IBM HD for $240
- Motherboard, sound, mouse, other perifirals $500
we are at $3240 without any games to play
yeah, these choices are not the cheapest solutions. You can save about 50% of the price giving in only about 10% performance. I'm just telling you there is a (small) market for these systems.
Anyway, back to CounterStrike at 1 BILLION frames per second
Here is what we know:
- These companies are stealing money.
- But not your money.
- They do this with your knowledge. Not just the EULA, but you read about it here.
- You install this program anyway because you don't really care...hell, you want to steal music.
Count the amount of times you agree or disagree for the following statements:
1) Better then spyware.
2) "hell, everyone steals money, thats what money is for. Take a peek at CNN for cry'sake"
3) Not my money, not my problem.
4) "I hate Amazon anyway"
5) "I don't have any money, why do you think I'm installing this piece of sheet software"
6) As long as they tell me everything I consider it legal. It's MY CHOICE!
- 6 Agree
You are probably 12-16 years old and stumbled onto slashdot by accident.
- 4-5 Agree
Surprised you read this far, might as well moderate this up as 'funny'. Now go find that link to LimeWire.
- 3 Agree 3 Disagree
Let's wait and see what the other people think, hell this is probably just going to happend anyway so might as well read through the silly comments.
- 4-5 Disagree
I'm about to post some insightfull comments about why this is yet another 'end-to-the-internet-as-we-know-it'. Sigh, why don't people think before they code.
- 6 Disagree
Stop reading this, start writing that letter to your congressman!
1) Show add for camera to that neighbor with the gorgeous wife.
2) buy WarDriving equipment
The high frame rate sensor is being sold to specialized industry like NASA, US military and other. I do not know of a camera on the open market that uses this sensor, but there is no reason other then probably lack of a market.
Over at Micron Technology in the imaging department we are working on the next generation of digital imaging sensors. All the processes are CMOS based instead of CCD.
Of particular interest to high frame rates might be the MI-MV13, Micron Imaging - Machine Vision 1.3Mega Pixel CMOS digital image sensor. This particular sensor can do 500fps at 1.3Mega pixel but can also be windowed to do for example 4000 fps at 1280 x 128.
Is linux easier to install then pre-installed windows? [fill in lotsa links to DELL et al offering computers with windows pre-installed ONLY]
Think about that.
now get back to work
This sounds a little better then it will be in reality. The San Jose 'IMAX' theatre is in fact an OmniMax or Dome theatre format. The 180 degree (ish) * 360 degree (ish) view giving you pretty much full periferal vision if you look straight at the center. Not the super resolution rectangular 5 story high IMAX format that would make for some awsome gaming! They will either display the games on a small awkwardly stretched rectangle or stretch it beyond recognition over the whole screen.
The sound system on the other hand features 6 channel 13000 watts of quad-damage (to your ears as much as your avatar) coming from 44 speakers.
I know it is not programmer laziness, just teasing them with that. I did give an explenation of why I didn't like this system though. The checkpoints are mostly 'after' a heavy battle area and you don't know exactly where they are. I found myself cursing when walking though some of them with only a few percent health left ... knowing I would never survive the next battle. Back to the beginning of that level it was, so much fun on those repetitive spaceship corridor levels. Not.
As far as I am concerned, this is an actual Bungie feature. As you mentioned in the game Marathon and also in Oni. I just don't get it.
I am wondering if the poster has actualy played Halo or if he/she bases their opinion on the horrid .mov files of Halo gameplay. Because if there is one thing that does not need to be improved about the game it is the graphics. That said, I am hoping that the time spend before the PC release is spend on the three things missing/bad about Halo:
- the oft mentioned level repetion (I am willing to swallow this as a time contraint mistake trying to release the XBox version).
- network play. Not a thing you want to try with the XBox version. This will be the biggest issue making the game fail or succeed on the PC.
- user interface / customizing settings. We (the gamers) need mouse input, and we need to be able to mess with settings. Having the FOV (field of view) set to something less then 90 degrees ticked me off pretty badly.
Just in case those great people at Bungee/Microsoft are reading this, I would hope that you guys would consider letting us save the game (quicksave!) when we feel like it. Checkpoints are silly, anoying and show that some of the programmers are just to lazy to figure out how to save gamestate at any moment (instead of the checkpoint right after a horrible battle leaving you with 1% health). No really, I 'broke' my Oni game CD 4 hours into the game after getting so pissed about this lacking feature.
Besides those minor issue *grin* Halo is ofcourse the greatest game ever!
For starters, you are unfortunatly a little late when it comes to the internet radio stations that so often have good electronic music. The RIAA is in the middle of killing the free internet radio stations. Some of my favorite internet streams used to be over at SomaFM where among other music I was introduced to music from Tranquility Bass, Future Sounds of London, Aphex Twins and Orbital. I would prolly not have CD's by all these bands if it wasn't for da internet stream.
Not all streams have disappeared, Digitally Imported Radio is one of the finest that is still there. Offering Trance, hard-trance, Eurodance and hard-house. For more streams check out shoutcast a collection of online music streams.
To be introduced to Electronic music you should try to find which genres within electronic you like best. Some genres are (from mellow to really fast):
- Ambient
- Trance
- Down Tempo
- Trip Hop
- Acid Jazz
- Eurodance
- House
- Garage
Several of these genres are not per-se electronic but will contain lots of modern sound influences.
For the real electronic junkies there is also what is known as scene music. This will not appeal to most people out there, but please try it and check out the rest of the scene.
The transfer rate of the new records calculates as follows: 625MB over 12,272km in 13 seconds = 590000 MB*Km/s = 0.590 TB*Km/s
When I drive home from work in a few minutes: 125TB (10^15 Synapses, Von Neumann et al.) at 85 Mph during rush hour (yeah, that manic...it's me) = 4.7 Tb*Km/s
The Boing full of DVD's calculates as follows: 4.7GB * 170.5 Cubic meters cargo space / 175 Cubic cm jewel case * 912 Km/h = 662,515Gb * 0.25Km/s = 1160 TB*Km/s
Internet radio is an all or nothing thing for me. I either find the type of music I want to listen on an unlimited commercial free radio station (SomeFM 24-7 right now :-) or I am not interested at all. Say you can't fight the upcoming legislation, do you see youself survive as a (semi-)commercial internet station, or is this the end?
Good luck and keep up the good work!
As much as I love internet radio and hope to see it stay I have been wondering why some of the more popular music themes on the internet are not available on commercial radio. I am talking about the sounds of SomaFM's Groove Salad, Digitally Imported and other internet radio stations playing Ambient, Trance or any of the other more mellow versions of Electronic House. What in your opinion is the reason we can't find these styles on commercial radio?
Best of luck and keep up the good work!
It's 7:30am I just had 3 mug's of espresso a chocolate bar and am allready eyeing the mountain dew. I have a programming deadling this friday.
Let me play that game and see dragons fly BACKWARDS!
Alternative way to make your Aibo meow is to toss it in the freezer for a while and then run it through the circle saw....MEEEEOOWWWWWWWwwww