Well, I think we all know where things stand with the/. crowd when you put Macintosh and 3D in one sentence Now go out and buy yourself a nice pc and get to work in 3D Studio Max or Maya or Rhino, or Solidworks and stop posting silly questions that deal with Macs doing anything other than 2D work.;)
Acting aside, special effects aside, story line aside, There were only two moments in the film where I truly enjoyed myself, the first whas when the counsel told Aniken that they would not make him a master and he replied "What?!", I nearly fell off my seat laughing because all I could envision was SL Jackson quickly changing roles and saying "You heard me MotherFucker!". It was the perfect camera change to that perfect look on SL Jacksons face. The second best line was when the Dark Lord called Yoda, "My little green friend." I could not help but see him as Tony Montanya sitting behind a huge pile of cocaine. Did I like the film, well in short, no, in long, noooooooooooooooo!
My thoughts exactly... But I also add that if you can keep the geeks away from the first week of theatre showings because they are all at home watching thier favorite bit torrent client slowly rise to 999.99999 full versions avaliable , you open up a bunch of seats for non-geek people and are assured that once the geeks have their copy they will hit the theatre during the not as profitable second or third week of showing, thereby streaching the number of days you fill theatres.
That someone will figure out how to actually do this and the boys at NASA will set off some sort of unstoppable chain reaction that turns the whole moon to oxygen resulting in a not so cool parralell to an accedent on Klingons moon, and with no Keanu Reeves in sight to miraculusly reverse the whole thing by pulling the plug on the sound generatior and releasing the white papers to be published on/.?
My uncle was a jeweller and he told me that if you want something rare that you should buy a Ruby or an Emerald. Diamonds are a dime a dozen, or if DeBeers opened their warehouses, they would be.
As to the original post, I must say, I had heard about this before too, I checked out one of the russian sites and a 5 Carat diamond was going for about $2000. With that said, I am waiting until I can get my GF a diamond that introduces its self as Irving before she opens her mouth to show it off.
Steeple chase... Kentucky Derby... Elepahant Racing in India... Microbot Schumacher wins its 70th drivers championship... Bob's small robot repair and swamp buggy design...
I guess I should have just written, "I don't know what to say to this story."
What is stopping someone from setting up a laser and printing a visual image right on the moon... Something planet sized like a big heart with an "I love you Jenn" right in the middle?
Granted I don't know about the science behind it or if a general population comercial laser would have the power to do it... But if I can write on my wall with my cat laser play toy, why can't I write on the moon?
I would love to hear what they answer to "What did the people of the United States ever do to you that they deserve to be treated in the way they have over the last 4 years?"
Granted that would be directed at Bush, but one could ask Kerry something along the same lines, "What are you going to do to prove you don't despise the people who vote you into power?"
now let the NRA have their say and i will get my m-16 moron machine gun and you will have a stupid ticket within 30 ft... either that or my Moron Bazuka... moron patriot missle... or my patented Moron Nuke... take out a whole city of morons with one press of the button...
Great idea though... perhaps we can get the auto manufacturers involved and if someone gets tagged too many times by different drivers, their car shuts down and leaves them walking
First side, get all the technical solutions possible like motion sensors, night vision cameras etc and pass on the info to the cops so they can arrest the fool...
Second side, big ass biker boyfriend in the 81, chapter the house and hold biker parties... not too many people will be stupid enough to break in...
Third side... A moat with a drawbridge at least 30 ft across and 20 ft deep, fill with sharks with freekin' lazerbeams...
What wouldn't supprise me is if we find a 128 bit Windows hot on the heels of the very late Win64. I can see Microsoft basically skipping the 64 bit thing by releasing a monster Longhorn that can just barely run on the 64 bit architecture maxed out with all the hardware goodies, but will run like a dream on a 128 bit system. It would go to explaining some of the outrageously high hardware requirements for Longhorn, and although it is a number of years off from release, and one could argue that by the time it does come out, hardware will have caught up and come down enough in price to make it a viable option, to postulate that Longhorn is an overkill OS for 64 bit computing designed to be easily updated for 128 bit computing, is not out of the question IMHO. As to XP SP2... just insert your own Microsoft bashing funny comment here.
They get to go home and grow up... Give me a break, more like become more addicted to the net... So how does this conversation go?... 'Ummm, I got a net problem so I can't serve...' 'Ummm... ok, go home and grow up, come back in two years when you get over it....' 'Dahhhhh right Louie, search da puddy tat.... Dahhhhhh...'
Although I agree with you on the fact that until new technology makes its way into our, the consumers hands, there will be a trade off between features and longevity, One can not overstate the problems that will be associated with fuel cell batteries. For example, what airline is going to let you get on an aeroplane carrying what amounts to a piece of electronics with a gas can atatched to it? How will you convince them that the spare fuel you are lugging around in a bright red container is for your laptop and not to set the guy beside you on fire mid flight. Remember, these people won't let grandma on the plane with a pair of nail clippers. The other problem I can see, and I am no expert but would imagine, is in the question of, will you have to run your laptop battery on Premium gasoline? and how can you be sure that the fuel you are putting into it is of the right grade? You know what it is like if you don't put premium into your brand new Cadillac... knocks and pings, running rough and a rapp on the back of the hand by the service guy as he tells you that you are a pillock for screwing with 'their' suggested lubricants, and that your warrenty is no longer valid. I am sure the fuel you will need will be sold in a special can at authorised dealers, read computer stores, at first, but are you going to trust, let's say 5 years through development and marketing, your expensive fuel cell battery to some no name, cheep WalMart knockoff fuel? As for batteries now, I can't say I can comment on them as I don't use a laptop save some power usage on my Clie, which does get pretty good battery life. But from my experience, the Panasonic batteries I got with one of my portable devices lasted forever. Granted they were regular 1.5V AA batteries, but consider that Panasonic is the worlds largest producer of batteries, here at the company I work for in Japan, we use their batteries in our own products such as UPS units, and Panasonic among other things manufactures electric bicycles under the name National here.
Programmer: What happened? Debugger: Windows crashed. Pr: Why did it crash? Db: Faulty code. Pr: (mumbles)I know that you stupid piece of s*!t... Pr: Can you show me the faulty code that caused this crash? Db: Yes. Pr: Show me the code. Db: One second while I compute the time needed...... Db:................. Db:....... Db: It will take 4 Days 14 hrs. 34 min. and 12 sec to display the code. Do you want to continue? Pr: Nevermind. Show me the lines that did not cause the crash. Db: 10 rem Windows Db: 20 rem By BG Db: EOF
There is also the possibility that walking with the use of its arms causes discomfort. Pain and discomfort is a strong convincer of learned behaviour. For example, if you are unfortunate enough to break a bone, how long after the cast comes off do you still tentatively utilise that body part? If your hip gets broken, a limp occurs and only through extensive retraining through physotherapy is the muscles and learned knee jerk reaction to avoid pain unlearned. Having a physiotherapist in the immediate family and spending lots of time around recovering individuals, I have noted that people who refuse to perform their physio properly inevitably take longer to heal and revert back to normal physical movement. The fact that this animal refuses to, can not, or will not revert back to normal movement may just be an indication of its non-complete healing. I believe time will tell on this one.
I have a NTT DoCoMo cell phone, and although I use white listing to only allow the few people who actually have my private number to reach me, another form of spam goes on here that does not involve e-mail or text message.
Here seedy companies, usually based in Tokyo phone your number and hang up after 1 ring. They then bank on the fact that you will call them back figuring you missed an important call. The number that comes up on the display is for a pay per min, up front minimum charge service. When you don't pay, they actually send goons to get the money out of you. Granted it is difficult to block numbers comming from a specific area code, especially if you live in that area. I fortunately do't live in the area where most of these calls come from, so seeing a different area code is a pretty good indication it is spam. While white listing is a bit of a pain, and as others have pointed out may block important information you were not expecting from comming through, the amount of spam I was getting previous to turing it on was mental. something to the tune of 20 a day using a e-mail address on my phone that there is no way a name generator could come up with. I was limited to 25 characters for my name and I used a random set of numbers and letters as well as the few non-basic characters I was allowd to, and still within 20 min of setting up the account I had spam. Now if only I could get a spam filter plugin for my phone things would be great, though I do believe the filter should be hosted on DoCoMo's end and configureable by myself.
It drives me nuts that the companies selling insurance call it insurance... It will not insure that nothing will happen, it is there 'just in case'. Just in case some moron cuts you off, just in case your computer gets wet, just in case a tornado throws a cow through your bedroom window and breaks your mothers tiarra sitting on your night stand;). I was thrilled to find an insurance agent who calls it what it is, 'Just in case'. Although self insurance in the form of dedicated consistant backups is prevention and in the long run is worth more than any amount of just in case you may recieve if something does go wrong, having some form of backup income, just in case, can alliviate the costs of reverting to backup. Even if the funds your recieve only cover the costs of the techs salary for the time it takes them to bring your system back to last nights save, and covers one to two days loss of business caused directly from the misshap, then you are at least covered. Expecting to gain some form of windfall just because shit happens and you feel you are due because of the stress it may have caused you in your buisiness is not practical. So if you are going to buy 'insurance' find someone who calls it what it is and covers you for 'Just in case shit happens'.
What it says is a bit common sense and I am breaking one of the rules by telling you about it, but/. has given so much to me, I really have to give back. The Rules of Work I have read it three times and have found it invaluable in more than just work.
Did you consider some form of projection instead of having to mount a heavy (relatively) screen from a boom in front of the eye, you can mount a fairly light relfective surface and bounce the image off it into the eye. In this form you can use a fiber optic setup to the side of the face and project the image through a lens off the 'mirror' to the eye. At least you will not be too limited by screen resolution as such. The screen can be something as big as a laptop as long as the lens that picks up the image and transfers it to one end of the fiber does a decent job. On the other end a nice bubble lens should spread the image out nicely for you. I messed about in my last year of design with a wearable system including a docking station for data transfer. It was purely a form study and had no working internals, but it was based on the reflection of image to the eye. You can take a look at it Here please excuse the mess of the rest of my site. Haven't had time since graduation to rebuild it.
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Well, I think we all know where things stand with the /. crowd when you put Macintosh and 3D in one sentence ;)
Now go out and buy yourself a nice pc and get to work in 3D Studio Max or Maya or Rhino, or Solidworks and stop posting silly questions that deal with Macs doing anything other than 2D work.
Acting aside, special effects aside, story line aside, There were only two moments in the film where I truly enjoyed myself, the first whas when the counsel told Aniken that they would not make him a master and he replied "What?!", I nearly fell off my seat laughing because all I could envision was SL Jackson quickly changing roles and saying "You heard me MotherFucker!". It was the perfect camera change to that perfect look on SL Jacksons face.
The second best line was when the Dark Lord called Yoda, "My little green friend." I could not help but see him as Tony Montanya sitting behind a huge pile of cocaine.
Did I like the film, well in short, no, in long, noooooooooooooooo!
My thoughts exactly... But I also add that if you can keep the geeks away from the first week of theatre showings because they are all at home watching thier favorite bit torrent client slowly rise to 999.99999 full versions avaliable , you open up a bunch of seats for non-geek people and are assured that once the geeks have their copy they will hit the theatre during the not as profitable second or third week of showing, thereby streaching the number of days you fill theatres.
That someone will figure out how to actually do this and the boys at NASA will set off some sort of unstoppable chain reaction that turns the whole moon to oxygen resulting in a not so cool parralell to an accedent on Klingons moon, and with no Keanu Reeves in sight to miraculusly reverse the whole thing by pulling the plug on the sound generatior and releasing the white papers to be published on /.?
well duh...2 13210
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/07/1
My uncle was a jeweller and he told me that if you want something rare that you should buy a Ruby or an Emerald. Diamonds are a dime a dozen, or if DeBeers opened their warehouses, they would be.
As to the original post, I must say, I had heard about this before too, I checked out one of the russian sites and a 5 Carat diamond was going for about $2000.
With that said, I am waiting until I can get my GF a diamond that introduces its self as Irving before she opens her mouth to show it off.
Steeple chase... Kentucky Derby... Elepahant Racing in India... Microbot Schumacher wins its 70th drivers championship... Bob's small robot repair and swamp buggy design...
I guess I should have just written, "I don't know what to say to this story."
What is stopping someone from setting up a laser and printing a visual image right on the moon...
Something planet sized like a big heart with an "I love you Jenn" right in the middle?
Granted I don't know about the science behind it or if a general population comercial laser would have the power to do it...
But if I can write on my wall with my cat laser play toy, why can't I write on the moon?
that f*ucking computer...
when the thing runs xp so I can use that wonderful mediaplayer thing...
I would love to hear what they answer to "What did the people of the United States ever do to you that they deserve to be treated in the way they have over the last 4 years?"
Granted that would be directed at Bush, but one could ask Kerry something along the same lines, "What are you going to do to prove you don't despise the people who vote you into power?"
Welcome to my nightmare... I live in Japan... See Trucks...
now let the NRA have their say and i will get my m-16 moron machine gun and you will have a stupid ticket within 30 ft... either that or my Moron Bazuka... moron patriot missle... or my patented Moron Nuke... take out a whole city of morons with one press of the button...
Great idea though... perhaps we can get the auto manufacturers involved and if someone gets tagged too many times by different drivers, their car shuts down and leaves them walking
First side, get all the technical solutions possible like motion sensors, night vision cameras etc and pass on the info to the cops so they can arrest the fool...
Second side, big ass biker boyfriend in the 81, chapter the house and hold biker parties... not too many people will be stupid enough to break in...
Third side... A moat with a drawbridge at least 30 ft across and 20 ft deep, fill with sharks with freekin' lazerbeams...
What wouldn't supprise me is if we find a 128 bit Windows hot on the heels of the very late Win64. I can see Microsoft basically skipping the 64 bit thing by releasing a monster Longhorn that can just barely run on the 64 bit architecture maxed out with all the hardware goodies, but will run like a dream on a 128 bit system.
It would go to explaining some of the outrageously high hardware requirements for Longhorn, and although it is a number of years off from release, and one could argue that by the time it does come out, hardware will have caught up and come down enough in price to make it a viable option, to postulate that Longhorn is an overkill OS for 64 bit computing designed to be easily updated for 128 bit computing, is not out of the question IMHO.
As to XP SP2... just insert your own Microsoft bashing funny comment here.
They get to go home and grow up... Give me a break, more like become more addicted to the net...
So how does this conversation go?...
'Ummm, I got a net problem so I can't serve...'
'Ummm... ok, go home and grow up, come back in two years when you get over it....'
'Dahhhhh right Louie, search da puddy tat.... Dahhhhhh...'
Although I agree with you on the fact that until new technology makes its way into our, the consumers hands, there will be a trade off between features and longevity, One can not overstate the problems that will be associated with fuel cell batteries.
For example, what airline is going to let you get on an aeroplane carrying what amounts to a piece of electronics with a gas can atatched to it? How will you convince them that the spare fuel you are lugging around in a bright red container is for your laptop and not to set the guy beside you on fire mid flight. Remember, these people won't let grandma on the plane with a pair of nail clippers.
The other problem I can see, and I am no expert but would imagine, is in the question of, will you have to run your laptop battery on Premium gasoline? and how can you be sure that the fuel you are putting into it is of the right grade? You know what it is like if you don't put premium into your brand new Cadillac... knocks and pings, running rough and a rapp on the back of the hand by the service guy as he tells you that you are a pillock for screwing with 'their' suggested lubricants, and that your warrenty is no longer valid.
I am sure the fuel you will need will be sold in a special can at authorised dealers, read computer stores, at first, but are you going to trust, let's say 5 years through development and marketing, your expensive fuel cell battery to some no name, cheep WalMart knockoff fuel?
As for batteries now, I can't say I can comment on them as I don't use a laptop save some power usage on my Clie, which does get pretty good battery life. But from my experience, the Panasonic batteries I got with one of my portable devices lasted forever. Granted they were regular 1.5V AA batteries, but consider that Panasonic is the worlds largest producer of batteries, here at the company I work for in Japan, we use their batteries in our own products such as UPS units, and Panasonic among other things manufactures electric bicycles under the name National here.
you bozo's /.'ed DARPA...
Programmer: What happened? ................. .......
Debugger: Windows crashed.
Pr: Why did it crash?
Db: Faulty code.
Pr: (mumbles)I know that you stupid piece of s*!t...
Pr: Can you show me the faulty code that caused this crash?
Db: Yes.
Pr: Show me the code.
Db: One second while I compute the time needed......
Db:
Db:
Db: It will take 4 Days 14 hrs. 34 min. and 12 sec to display the code. Do you want to continue?
Pr: Nevermind. Show me the lines that did not cause the crash.
Db: 10 rem Windows
Db: 20 rem By BG
Db: EOF
There is also the possibility that walking with the use of its arms causes discomfort. Pain and discomfort is a strong convincer of learned behaviour.
For example, if you are unfortunate enough to break a bone, how long after the cast comes off do you still tentatively utilise that body part? If your hip gets broken, a limp occurs and only through extensive retraining through physotherapy is the muscles and learned knee jerk reaction to avoid pain unlearned.
Having a physiotherapist in the immediate family and spending lots of time around recovering individuals, I have noted that people who refuse to perform their physio properly inevitably take longer to heal and revert back to normal physical movement.
The fact that this animal refuses to, can not, or will not revert back to normal movement may just be an indication of its non-complete healing. I believe time will tell on this one.
If the game has T&A... It will sell... Highroad, angles or storyline aside...
I have a NTT DoCoMo cell phone, and although I use white listing to only allow the few people who actually have my private number to reach me, another form of spam goes on here that does not involve e-mail or text message.
Here seedy companies, usually based in Tokyo phone your number and hang up after 1 ring. They then bank on the fact that you will call them back figuring you missed an important call. The number that comes up on the display is for a pay per min, up front minimum charge service. When you don't pay, they actually send goons to get the money out of you.
Granted it is difficult to block numbers comming from a specific area code, especially if you live in that area. I fortunately do't live in the area where most of these calls come from, so seeing a different area code is a pretty good indication it is spam.
While white listing is a bit of a pain, and as others have pointed out may block important information you were not expecting from comming through, the amount of spam I was getting previous to turing it on was mental. something to the tune of 20 a day using a e-mail address on my phone that there is no way a name generator could come up with. I was limited to 25 characters for my name and I used a random set of numbers and letters as well as the few non-basic characters I was allowd to, and still within 20 min of setting up the account I had spam.
Now if only I could get a spam filter plugin for my phone things would be great, though I do believe the filter should be hosted on DoCoMo's end and configureable by myself.
It drives me nuts that the companies selling insurance call it insurance... It will not insure that nothing will happen, it is there 'just in case'. Just in case some moron cuts you off, just in case your computer gets wet, just in case a tornado throws a cow through your bedroom window and breaks your mothers tiarra sitting on your night stand ;). I was thrilled to find an insurance agent who calls it what it is, 'Just in case'.
Although self insurance in the form of dedicated consistant backups is prevention and in the long run is worth more than any amount of just in case you may recieve if something does go wrong, having some form of backup income, just in case, can alliviate the costs of reverting to backup.
Even if the funds your recieve only cover the costs of the techs salary for the time it takes them to bring your system back to last nights save, and covers one to two days loss of business caused directly from the misshap, then you are at least covered.
Expecting to gain some form of windfall just because shit happens and you feel you are due because of the stress it may have caused you in your buisiness is not practical.
So if you are going to buy 'insurance' find someone who calls it what it is and covers you for 'Just in case shit happens'.
What it says is a bit common sense and I am breaking one of the rules by telling you about it, but /. has given so much to me, I really have to give back.
The Rules of Work
I have read it three times and have found it invaluable in more than just work.
Did you consider some form of projection instead of having to mount a heavy (relatively) screen from a boom in front of the eye, you can mount a fairly light relfective surface and bounce the image off it into the eye.
In this form you can use a fiber optic setup to the side of the face and project the image through a lens off the 'mirror' to the eye. At least you will not be too limited by screen resolution as such. The screen can be something as big as a laptop as long as the lens that picks up the image and transfers it to one end of the fiber does a decent job. On the other end a nice bubble lens should spread the image out nicely for you.
I messed about in my last year of design with a wearable system including a docking station for data transfer. It was purely a form study and had no working internals, but it was based on the reflection of image to the eye.
You can take a look at it Here
please excuse the mess of the rest of my site. Haven't had time since graduation to rebuild it.