I've had 3 laptops over the past 10 years, and not a single pixel has ever gone bad in them. In our CS department we have over 100 LCDs, and I've never seens a bad pixel on any of them... I fail to acknowledge that bad pixels are a common thing.
I did some image processing on this image and discovered a couple things:
1) The "streak" does not line up with the street light. If I draw a straight line right along the very bottom side of the streak, it's barely touching the street light. But who really knows...
2) As someone else mentioned, the "before" and "after" images are reversed.
3) The leaves in the trees/bushes near the camera do not move more than a pixel or two. The clouds move a little (looks pretty cool in sequence, actually), but not a lot. This leads me to believe that there is very little wind. However, by watching the waves in the water over the 3 frames, it appears that the wind is traveling towards the camera and to the camera's right. This is consistant with the direction the "smoke" appears from the streetlight with the "flash". Due to the somewhat calm nature of the wind, the smoke must have been traveling for some non-zero period of time, and obviously a much longer time than the period of the exposure of the camera (or we'd see smoke blurred all the way out from the light).
4) Now I will contradict the last thing I said. Notice that the "smoke" from the light is perfectly semetrical and has an odd shape, sort of like a curly-brace '}'. Its direction relative to the light is exactly opposite that of the streak. This may lead one to conclude these two shapes are related. Fudging #1 a bit, this would lead me to believe that the streak and the "smoke" are artifacts generated by the lens of the camera. Notice that the streak only appears on parts of the image with certain brightness levels. One might note also that the hue of the streak is exactly the same as the hue of the clouds around it, it is just darker.
So I don't know exactly what's going on, but my guess would be a camera artifact taking place as a result of an exploding street light at the moment the image was captured.
Since they only have two spaces for addon cards, instead of getting a Radeon 9600 XT and a TV tuner, why didn't they use one card, the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600 XT, which has the tuner built-in? Then they'd have another slot to put somethin in.
The fact that the percentage of all shared files being music decreasing does not mean that less music is being downloaded. Although the OECD has not released their report yet, I would be willing to bet that the actual number of shared music files did increase or stay somewhat level, while the number of video/software shares increased by much more. Percentages don't mean a lot when the totals aren't constant:)
Doesn't anyone realize that Paul Allen left Microsoft in 1983? Sure, all his money comes from MSFT stock... but he doesn't work for Microsoft anymore. At least that's the impression I got from this CNN story, despite the fact that the title is Allen, the other Mr. Microsoft.
Some day is the first birthday of one of my computers, leopard, that was delivered (in peices) to my house in 2003. It weighs under 20 pounds, uses no vacuum tubes, and can perform about 5,200,000,000 calculations per second (avg 2 instructions per clock cycle). It was the first >1 GHz computer in my house, as well as the first with hyperthreading technology. It can retain a maximum of 134,217,728 32-bit numbers and is able to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and thousands of other things. Its transfer rate to and from magnetic floppy disk is about 32,768 characters per second, and its transfer rate from magnetic hard disk buffers is about 35,410,000 characters per second.
I am a comcast user and don't run servers, but as I understand it, you are allowed to run "server" programs as long as you agree that Comcast is not responsible for damage to your computer yada yada yada
Some time in the last few months, Sun Microsystems has lost their collective mind. Not that I don't agree with their decisions, but they have changed quite a bit. I'm just not sure yet whether it's good or bad.
I saw the site when it was still up, and if I recall correctly, it had a map that showed him going to somewhere in Oregon. And it said something about baseball camp or something.
Personally I'd much rather read the article and generate my opinions about it than have to guess what it said by reading other people's comments about it. The fact is that sites slashdot links to often go down, and it's nice to be able to read the article without waiting a couple days for the site to be back. I would like to thank the person who posted the copy of the article very much for doing so.
Here is the actual information release from Scaled: "Launch conditions were 46,000 feet and 120 knots. Motor light off occurred 10 seconds after release and the vehicle boosted smoothly to 150,000 feet and Mach 2.5. Subsequent coast to apogee of 211,400 feet. During a portion of the boost, the flight director display was inoperative, however the pilot continued the planned trajectory referencing the external horizon. Reaction control authority was as predicted and the vehicle recovered in feather experiencing 1.9M and 3.5G's. Feather oscillations were actively damped by the pilot and the wing was de-feathered starting at 55,000 feet. The onboard avionics was re-booted and a smooth and uneventful landing made to Mojave." - Scaled Composites LLC
So it looks like it went to 211,400 ft. Those witnesses knew what they were talking about.
I wrote a search engine once which was designed to index the entire web and some other basic Google-like features. It only took me a couple days (probably 20 total hours) to write the indexer and search engine. It searched quick and used very little disk space, but it was really slow to index due to CPU usage problems. If I had millions of dollars like Google, I could have bought a large number of machines to do the indexing, but I only had 3 machines. So after 2 months or so of attempting to index the web, I gave up... having predicted it would take almost 10,000 years at the current rate for me to index the entire current web. Oh well, it was fun:)
It's about time someone set a goal like this. Human expansion to Mars is a great idea -- it will push our technology (and some human beings in the process) to new limits. Personally, I've always wanted to go to Mars... I just don't want to take the trip there. Zero gee ain't for me! (Even if it's just for a while until we get a centrifuge running)
I can't believe I'm seeing the names "Microsoft" and "SourceForge" in such a context! If it was still April 1st (it isn't, is it? I lose track of time when reading Slashdot) I'd wonder if this was a joke.
This layout of program storage reminds me of The Olden Days on DOS, when the whole program was in one directory. It's still very much like this in Windows, in fact, with the "Program Files" directory often containing everything (although "Documents and Settings" is becoming more used for user settings storage). Personally I like the idea. I've always been confused trying to locate various files which belong to a single application in *nix.
I have wondered for some time how much of an advantage the 2.6 kernel would be. This clearly shows--at least for dual Xeon systems--that the 2.6 kernel does some excelent stuff for Samba, and seems great for MySQL, while only marginally better for the other tests (and sometimes worse). Someone should do similar testing with various processors. I would be interested in seeing how different it is for the Pentium 4 (with hyperthreading) and Athlon XP, especially.
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I've had 3 laptops over the past 10 years, and not a single pixel has ever gone bad in them. In our CS department we have over 100 LCDs, and I've never seens a bad pixel on any of them... I fail to acknowledge that bad pixels are a common thing.
I did some image processing on this image and discovered a couple things:
1) The "streak" does not line up with the street light. If I draw a straight line right along the very bottom side of the streak, it's barely touching the street light. But who really knows...
2) As someone else mentioned, the "before" and "after" images are reversed.
3) The leaves in the trees/bushes near the camera do not move more than a pixel or two. The clouds move a little (looks pretty cool in sequence, actually), but not a lot. This leads me to believe that there is very little wind. However, by watching the waves in the water over the 3 frames, it appears that the wind is traveling towards the camera and to the camera's right. This is consistant with the direction the "smoke" appears from the streetlight with the "flash". Due to the somewhat calm nature of the wind, the smoke must have been traveling for some non-zero period of time, and obviously a much longer time than the period of the exposure of the camera (or we'd see smoke blurred all the way out from the light).
4) Now I will contradict the last thing I said. Notice that the "smoke" from the light is perfectly semetrical and has an odd shape, sort of like a curly-brace '}'. Its direction relative to the light is exactly opposite that of the streak. This may lead one to conclude these two shapes are related. Fudging #1 a bit, this would lead me to believe that the streak and the "smoke" are artifacts generated by the lens of the camera. Notice that the streak only appears on parts of the image with certain brightness levels. One might note also that the hue of the streak is exactly the same as the hue of the clouds around it, it is just darker.
So I don't know exactly what's going on, but my guess would be a camera artifact taking place as a result of an exploding street light at the moment the image was captured.
Since they only have two spaces for addon cards, instead of getting a Radeon 9600 XT and a TV tuner, why didn't they use one card, the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600 XT, which has the tuner built-in? Then they'd have another slot to put somethin in.
You'd think with millions of dollars the lawyers would be able to afford a decent web host:
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The host 63.123.235.144 could not be contacted. If this persists, you should contact the administrator of the remote site.
The fact that the percentage of all shared files being music decreasing does not mean that less music is being downloaded. Although the OECD has not released their report yet, I would be willing to bet that the actual number of shared music files did increase or stay somewhat level, while the number of video/software shares increased by much more. Percentages don't mean a lot when the totals aren't constant :)
Doesn't anyone realize that Paul Allen left Microsoft in 1983? Sure, all his money comes from MSFT stock... but he doesn't work for Microsoft anymore. At least that's the impression I got from this CNN story, despite the fact that the title is Allen, the other Mr. Microsoft.
Help me find the details on the machine's instruction set and all that, and I'll start writing an emulator for you.
Some day is the first birthday of one of my computers, leopard, that was delivered (in peices) to my house in 2003. It weighs under 20 pounds, uses no vacuum tubes, and can perform about 5,200,000,000 calculations per second (avg 2 instructions per clock cycle). It was the first >1 GHz computer in my house, as well as the first with hyperthreading technology. It can retain a maximum of 134,217,728 32-bit numbers and is able to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and thousands of other things. Its transfer rate to and from magnetic floppy disk is about 32,768 characters per second, and its transfer rate from magnetic hard disk buffers is about 35,410,000 characters per second.
I am a comcast user and don't run servers, but as I understand it, you are allowed to run "server" programs as long as you agree that Comcast is not responsible for damage to your computer yada yada yada
Some time in the last few months, Sun Microsystems has lost their collective mind. Not that I don't agree with their decisions, but they have changed quite a bit. I'm just not sure yet whether it's good or bad.
I saw the site when it was still up, and if I recall correctly, it had a map that showed him going to somewhere in Oregon. And it said something about baseball camp or something.
Personally I'd much rather read the article and generate my opinions about it than have to guess what it said by reading other people's comments about it.
The fact is that sites slashdot links to often go down, and it's nice to be able to read the article without waiting a couple days for the site to be back.
I would like to thank the person who posted the copy of the article very much for doing so.
All you have to do is look at the download page or the torrents to see what you need...
Well, my DOS 3.3 fit on one single-sided single-density 320k 5-1/4" floppy! Yeah...
You can also put two 8.5x11 (Letter) sheets of paper side by side and it equals an 11x17 (Tabloid) sheet of paper...
Here is the actual information release from Scaled:
"Launch conditions were 46,000 feet and 120 knots. Motor light off occurred 10 seconds after release and the vehicle boosted smoothly to 150,000 feet and Mach 2.5. Subsequent coast to apogee of 211,400 feet. During a portion of the boost, the flight director display was inoperative, however the pilot continued the planned trajectory referencing the external horizon. Reaction control authority was as predicted and the vehicle recovered in feather experiencing 1.9M and 3.5G's. Feather oscillations were actively damped by the pilot and the wing was de-feathered starting at 55,000 feet. The onboard avionics was re-booted and a smooth and uneventful landing made to Mojave." - Scaled Composites LLC
So it looks like it went to 211,400 ft. Those witnesses knew what they were talking about.
I wrote a search engine once which was designed to index the entire web and some other basic Google-like features. It only took me a couple days (probably 20 total hours) to write the indexer and search engine. It searched quick and used very little disk space, but it was really slow to index due to CPU usage problems. If I had millions of dollars like Google, I could have bought a large number of machines to do the indexing, but I only had 3 machines. So after 2 months or so of attempting to index the web, I gave up... having predicted it would take almost 10,000 years at the current rate for me to index the entire current web. Oh well, it was fun :)
It's about time someone set a goal like this. Human expansion to Mars is a great idea -- it will push our technology (and some human beings in the process) to new limits. Personally, I've always wanted to go to Mars... I just don't want to take the trip there. Zero gee ain't for me! (Even if it's just for a while until we get a centrifuge running)
I can't believe I'm seeing the names "Microsoft" and "SourceForge" in such a context! If it was still April 1st (it isn't, is it? I lose track of time when reading Slashdot) I'd wonder if this was a joke.
This layout of program storage reminds me of The Olden Days on DOS, when the whole program was in one directory. It's still very much like this in Windows, in fact, with the "Program Files" directory often containing everything (although "Documents and Settings" is becoming more used for user settings storage).
Personally I like the idea. I've always been confused trying to locate various files which belong to a single application in *nix.
I was a bit suprised to see such a thing posted as well. But I won't complain, I'll probably be going.
Good point.
Sounds interesting. I'm too busy reading slashdot all day to implement such a thing, though.
I have wondered for some time how much of an advantage the 2.6 kernel would be. This clearly shows--at least for dual Xeon systems--that the 2.6 kernel does some excelent stuff for Samba, and seems great for MySQL, while only marginally better for the other tests (and sometimes worse). Someone should do similar testing with various processors. I would be interested in seeing how different it is for the Pentium 4 (with hyperthreading) and Athlon XP, especially.