well, the task would then be to retrieve the bounced laser image. it's non trivial to have a sensor at every spot that the laser could bounce on. also, it'd have to dynamically change the focal length on the fly in order to prevent jitter.
you know, I think you inadvertantly made a good point. does wired have the rights to publish this code? I'm not sure where assembly code or disassembled code would fall as far as this goes.
It would be nice if the next Linksys or whomever's firmware update had a "share a fraction of your connection for web users" option.
This doesn't seem likely due to the fact that MAC based IP traffic weighting is a pretty advanced feature, and is one usually reserved for higher class routers.
if i understood what you were refering to, as I had somone call me on this once when I was 15 or so, if you threaten to file a suit against somone, and then don't, they can file a suit back against you for not actually carrying through.
I believe this is based on the fact that if somone says they're going to file suit against somone else, that other party might go out and spend time/money preparing a case, and then when the first person doesn't actually do it, the second person lost all that time and money.
hmmm, I think I read about this on somethingaweful too.
yes, but the magnetic field on it change in a very predictable pattern. It's Simple and Harmonic if you will. But even to go to the next step, if you use magnets, you are really only concerned with the induced current, which will have a maximum value when the pendulum is at the bottom of it's stroke. As such, you can watch the distance between peek, same sign, currents(as one direction of swing will produce a positive current, the opposite, a negative current).
probably one of the miscellaneous walnut creek cdroms. always worth the $25 for 4 CDs of straight rips of the sunsite/wherever archives. I don't believe that I ever did get anything other than 1.0.86 to compile until I finally switched back about 8 months ago. Now being a moron and using 2.5.64-bk. oh well... never do learn.
which makes sense. If I'm trying to implement the core of a product that I intend on finishing in my lifetime, I don't want a million people e-mailing me telling me that this part should be handle that way and that part should be handled this way. Once it reaches Beta and Release stage, it's already implemented and now it's just bug fixes. At that point, make it open source and let somone else do all the rewrites while you finalize the initial release.
th escreen rotates 180 degrees so that the back of the screen is covering the keyboard. If you've ever seen any of the sony handicams that have the rotating screen, it's the same idea.
since the graphics cards use DDR, it'd be seemingly very simple for them to address more ram. The ati radeon 9700s are already adressing 4 banks at 256mbit. that ends up being 128 Mbytes of ram. if each of those banks had their chip doubled, it would double the ram in the system. Remember, to double the amount of address space, you only need one more address line. The reason there's 'only' 128megs on cards now is to keep card cost down. They could easily go up to a gig of ram on card, it'd just cost more.
a MUCH higher AGP bus would not be required in this sort of situation, at least for gaming. Since textures are stored on card, and the card renders polygons and does all it's magic in card, then sends it out the graphics connector(DVI or old DB15) to the monitor.
What will be needed is graphics cards with more memory(to store more detailed textures) and probably longer load times between areas(so the textures can be transfered to the card)
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We use GyroRats here at Florida Tech in about 40 classrooms. We rarely have mice conflict between the classrooms and they're clustered pretty near each other. Even if you DO have troubles, you set the mouse back in the base for 3 seconds and it picks a new channel.
the actual problem with IR for an application like this is the blackbody radiation at 300K(room temperature) is smack dab in the IR range. This is why Night Vision Goggles work. They see the IR
With SiGe, IBM tackles a new generation of wireless communications and data-conversion components, with application to products such as:
Inexpensive safety systems for automobiles, including radar at up to 24 GHz for collision here's their list of applications for that process.... I don't see CPUs anywhere on there
-warning or advanced cruise control. -Wireless voice and data handsets at 1.8 GHz and beyond, with both RF and digital subsystems on a single chip. -High-speed A/D and D/A converters for data acquisition, direct-to-baseband radio receivers, signal synthesis, and more. -Low-cost, portable Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receivers. -Other innovative high-frequency products as the imagination and market evolve
If you could make a CPU out of it, I think they'd list it as a application.
the REASON that you can't just stop a photon like that is that it's half life is VERY short, and the only reason that photons get here is that they go very fast and their time dialation(sp) causes that short time to last a LONG time in our frame.
Paper Weight is commonly used. Target Practice is a good one also. I use mine as a space heater(a pentium 90, one of the ones that runs at around 800K)
Slashdot Mirror
that wasn't the same mirror /temp/*
but a certain domain would have the same files stored in
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well, the task would then be to retrieve the bounced laser image. it's non trivial to have a sensor at every spot that the laser could bounce on. also, it'd have to dynamically change the focal length on the fly in order to prevent jitter.
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you know, I think you inadvertantly made a good point. does wired have the rights to publish this code? I'm not sure where assembly code or disassembled code would fall as far as this goes.
Pat
great troll. it's very magical, the way you tickled the scrotum of logic there.
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isn't the definition of irony something like when the actual meaning of a thing is the opposite of the literal meaning. I don't know... whatever.
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(only posted not anonymously because I think everyone should take credit for their posts, whether on topic or not)
http://ascii.dyne.org/
will render any video4linux source as ascii. had a ton of fun with this, and a projector earlier this semester playing 'matrix'.
Pat
It would be nice if the next Linksys or whomever's firmware update had a "share a fraction of your connection for web users" option.
This doesn't seem likely due to the fact that MAC based IP traffic weighting is a pretty advanced feature, and is one usually reserved for higher class routers.
P
the one that always pissed me off was "techie".
"Hey Techie, how do I get it to print to this little dohicky printer thingy sitting on my desk again?"
"hey techie, blah blah blah"
I was in the Sirsi war room for a library... I don't believe it gets much worse than that.
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if i understood what you were refering to, as I had somone call me on this once when I was 15 or so, if you threaten to file a suit against somone, and then don't, they can file a suit back against you for not actually carrying through.
I believe this is based on the fact that if somone says they're going to file suit against somone else, that other party might go out and spend time/money preparing a case, and then when the first person doesn't actually do it, the second person lost all that time and money.
hmmm, I think I read about this on somethingaweful too.
P
yes, but the magnetic field on it change in a very predictable pattern. It's Simple and Harmonic if you will. But even to go to the next step, if you use magnets, you are really only concerned with the induced current, which will have a maximum value when the pendulum is at the bottom of it's stroke. As such, you can watch the distance between peek, same sign, currents(as one direction of swing will produce a positive current, the opposite, a negative current).
P
quite possibly the most useful/informative post in the history of slashdot.
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probably one of the miscellaneous walnut creek cdroms. always worth the $25 for 4 CDs of straight rips of the sunsite/wherever archives. I don't believe that I ever did get anything other than 1.0.86 to compile until I finally switched back about 8 months ago. Now being a moron and using 2.5.64-bk. oh well... never do learn.
P
which makes sense. If I'm trying to implement the core of a product that I intend on finishing in my lifetime, I don't want a million people e-mailing me telling me that this part should be handle that way and that part should be handled this way. Once it reaches Beta and Release stage, it's already implemented and now it's just bug fixes. At that point, make it open source and let somone else do all the rewrites while you finalize the initial release.
P
th escreen rotates 180 degrees so that the back of the screen is covering the keyboard. If you've ever seen any of the sony handicams that have the rotating screen, it's the same idea.
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since the graphics cards use DDR, it'd be seemingly very simple for them to address more ram. The ati radeon 9700s are already adressing 4 banks at 256mbit. that ends up being 128 Mbytes of ram. if each of those banks had their chip doubled, it would double the ram in the system. Remember, to double the amount of address space, you only need one more address line. The reason there's 'only' 128megs on cards now is to keep card cost down. They could easily go up to a gig of ram on card, it'd just cost more.
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a MUCH higher AGP bus would not be required in this sort of situation, at least for gaming. Since textures are stored on card, and the card renders polygons and does all it's magic in card, then sends it out the graphics connector(DVI or old DB15) to the monitor.
What will be needed is graphics cards with more memory(to store more detailed textures) and probably longer load times between areas(so the textures can be transfered to the card)
P
ahhh, the obligitory caddy shack reference.
THank you.
We use GyroRats here at Florida Tech in about 40 classrooms. We rarely have mice conflict between the classrooms and they're clustered pretty near each other. Even if you DO have troubles, you set the mouse back in the base for 3 seconds and it picks a new channel.
P
the actual problem with IR for an application like this is the blackbody radiation at 300K(room temperature) is smack dab in the IR range. This is why Night Vision Goggles work. They see the IR
With SiGe, IBM tackles a new generation of wireless communications and data-conversion components, with application to products such as:
Inexpensive safety systems for automobiles, including radar at up to 24 GHz for collision
here's their list of applications for that process.... I don't see CPUs anywhere on there
-warning or advanced cruise control.
-Wireless voice and data handsets at 1.8 GHz and beyond, with both RF and digital subsystems on a single chip.
-High-speed A/D and D/A converters for data acquisition, direct-to-baseband radio receivers, signal synthesis, and more.
-Low-cost, portable Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receivers.
-Other innovative high-frequency products as the imagination and market evolve
If you could make a CPU out of it, I think they'd list it as a application.
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yah.... wasted post and whatever
but where is the "+1 mission from god" mod when you need it?
and did that other guy REALLY miss the joke ?!?
I've done one fix that took me from 75 errors to 0. one semi colon. In C++ and not Java.
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to expand on this idea a bit.....
the REASON that you can't just stop a photon like that is that it's half life is VERY short, and the only reason that photons get here is that they go very fast and their time dialation(sp) causes that short time to last a LONG time in our frame.
or not, whatever.
Pat
Paper Weight is commonly used. Target Practice is a good one also. I use mine as a space heater(a pentium 90, one of the ones that runs at around 800K)
Pat