There's a legend about the time when OMR was a new technology: a student had marked every single checkbox. The software gave him 100% points, because it only checked whether the correct answers were marked.:-)
I personally use mplayer on Linux, but it takes some work to get all the Quicktime plugins installed, all the WMP codecs installed, and then the AC3/MPG4, etc., codecs installed, etc.
Don't blame mplayer, blame the packager.
E.g. on Gentoo, simply set the 'avi' and 'real' USE flags (and 'live' for RTP/RTSP streaming support) and emerge -av mplayer.
If there are no Lose32 codec packages for your distro of choice, just go to http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html and get the 'all' tarball. You are not likely to bump into a video file you're not able to play with those (as long as you're running the x86 architecture).
I've read that if it were possible for a human to control the natural eye jitteriness and just focus absolutely still, the image you see would fade away to nothing. The eye needs constant movement to be able to keep updating what you are seeing.
You can test that with your own eyes (well, brain + eyes). Just concentrate on looking at some single point for as long as possible, and try to avoid blinking. The image will begin fading to gray.
Being tired seems to enhance the effect.
What actually happens looks like a negative version of the image you're seeing is mixed to the actual image. If you close the eyes, you will see it. The high-frequency content of the negative image will disappear first, and it will continue blurring gradually until it is gone. If you have been looking at some text (with large letters), you can actually read the text for a while after closing the eyes.
For an interesting effect, do the experiment up to the point you see mostly gray, and then have something or someone move in your field of vision.
set the "Resolution" spinner to get the fonts to the right size.
If the monitor doesn't tell its physical dimensions to Xorg, you can add DisplaySize xx yy (in millimeters) to the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Then Xorg will be able to calculate the DPI value correctly at any resolution.
This design change actually had the bonus effect of speeding up typing by letting the user alternate hands more often - think drum roll.
<nitpick>Actually, to do a really fast drumroll, a drummer hits the drum twice with one stick, then twice with the other. She utilizes the fact that the stick bounces back from the drum after a hit.</nitpick>
Naturally it speeds up typing if you're able to alternate hands oftenly, but i'd say the situation is optimal if you can type about two successive letters with one hand's separate fingers before switching to the other hand. You can press both of them easily with a single 'hit' (QWERTY examples: the 'as' in 'slashdot' and the 'nu' in 'gnu').
It talks about problems that VoIP used to have with compatibility, how they are being solved with open standards now, and how services such as Skype revert us back to the time when one piece of VoIP software - or hardware - wasn't able to communicate with another.
Really worth reading IMHO. Read the comments as well.
Bono los servicios mi nia kuniatera interior? On a gremos escouta et thalio y preferencias de particionamiento. Anaconda (http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/, la grado pik mit la fumbo) configurar las particiones e coco a coupa automático. Entente cordiale el "hardware probing" concordia del Detect les Debian, o Kudzu les RedHat?
Nikko fuerto tippo magico mucho scorchio. Mi volta nos molto kinagraphos y deep massago MoLinux sportsero.
I wonder how soon is the RIAA going to claim he committed a copyright infringement by processing the music with a neural network (presumedly) and publishing the results?
I also wonder how many software patents he infringed on by implementing the program(s)... Y'know, math isn't everyone's privilege.
In case anyone is interested, here's a video of me beatboxing.
I wonder how the game measures the quality of beatboxing? I guess it can't be very difficult to measure how well one keeps the rhythm, but then how about the "phatness" of the actual sounds?
Btw, check humanbeatbox.com out, if you're interested of beatboxing.
Also on offer, apparently, is the Enterasys Dragon IDS 6.1 intrusion detection system (IDS) software for $16,000 and an old Napster file sharing code, a snip at $10,000.
Yes, and they also offer a BSD-licensed copy of Linux for $50,000.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a torrent of the news conference video.
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Quoth the linked article:
One can copy a DVD without ever breaking CSS. You need DeCSS to decode the contents -- for example to watch the DVD.
...you insensitive clod!
"we also have confirmed that they possess weapons of mass destruction."
It looks more like a ring than a spoke.
There's a legend about the time when OMR was a new technology: a student had marked every single checkbox. The software gave him 100% points, because it only checked whether the correct answers were marked. :-)
Such as... Slashdot?
...with some sandpaper.
This is how: just w
With some Excel(R) scripting, you can create sophisticated applications that really boost your productivity.
Here are some programs I use daily:
Don't blame mplayer, blame the packager.
E.g. on Gentoo, simply set the 'avi' and 'real' USE flags (and 'live' for RTP/RTSP streaming support) and emerge -av mplayer.
If there are no Lose32 codec packages for your distro of choice, just go to http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html and get the 'all' tarball. You are not likely to bump into a video file you're not able to play with those (as long as you're running the x86 architecture).
You can test that with your own eyes (well, brain + eyes). Just concentrate on looking at some single point for as long as possible, and try to avoid blinking. The image will begin fading to gray.
Being tired seems to enhance the effect.
What actually happens looks like a negative version of the image you're seeing is mixed to the actual image. If you close the eyes, you will see it. The high-frequency content of the negative image will disappear first, and it will continue blurring gradually until it is gone. If you have been looking at some text (with large letters), you can actually read the text for a while after closing the eyes.
For an interesting effect, do the experiment up to the point you see mostly gray, and then have something or someone move in your field of vision.
Darn, i'll have to avoid the mov instruction from now on.
If the monitor doesn't tell its physical dimensions to Xorg, you can add DisplaySize xx yy (in millimeters) to the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Then Xorg will be able to calculate the DPI value correctly at any resolution.
This wouldn't have happened had the software patents been legal in EU:
EP5506624: System and method for publishing information about a plurality of secret agents on an Internet compatible system
"What terrorism? We have always been in war with ecological degeneration."
<nitpick>Actually, to do a really fast drumroll, a drummer hits the drum twice with one stick, then twice with the other. She utilizes the fact that the stick bounces back from the drum after a hit.</nitpick>
Naturally it speeds up typing if you're able to alternate hands oftenly, but i'd say the situation is optimal if you can type about two successive letters with one hand's separate fingers before switching to the other hand. You can press both of them easily with a single 'hit' (QWERTY examples: the 'as' in 'slashdot' and the 'nu' in 'gnu').
Sounds like a good use for robots, as long as they don't hire the Red Robot.
Here's an informative article about VoIP standards: Not your father's VoIP .
It talks about problems that VoIP used to have with compatibility, how they are being solved with open standards now, and how services such as Skype revert us back to the time when one piece of VoIP software - or hardware - wasn't able to communicate with another.
Really worth reading IMHO. Read the comments as well.
Bono los servicios mi nia kuniatera interior? On a gremos escouta et thalio y preferencias de particionamiento. Anaconda (http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/, la grado pik mit la fumbo) configurar las particiones e coco a coupa automático. Entente cordiale el "hardware probing" concordia del Detect les Debian, o Kudzu les RedHat?
Nikko fuerto tippo magico mucho scorchio. Mi volta nos molto kinagraphos y deep massago MoLinux sportsero.
Ctrl+Alt+Del got it right in the "Video Games Don't Make People Violent..." strip. :-)
I wonder how soon is the RIAA going to claim he committed a copyright infringement by processing the music with a neural network (presumedly) and publishing the results?
I also wonder how many software patents he infringed on by implementing the program(s)... Y'know, math isn't everyone's privilege.
In case anyone is interested, here's a video of me beatboxing.
I wonder how the game measures the quality of beatboxing? I guess it can't be very difficult to measure how well one keeps the rhythm, but then how about the "phatness" of the actual sounds?
Btw, check humanbeatbox.com out, if you're interested of beatboxing.
Yes, and they also offer a BSD-licensed copy of Linux for $50,000.