Because when I sit down next week and beging ripping and encoding 500 CDs, I want a proven technology, not a set of algorithms that will change perisodically, laughing in my face that I should have waited and I wouldn't have that popping noise in the background. Fraunhofer mp3enc (circa-1998) hasn't had any problems in 3 years, and when I'm going to spend a month of my life encoding music, I sure as hell ain't going to set myself up to redo it when ogg v2.1 comes out and they finally get it to sound perfect. I shouldn't even need to mention the prevalence of mp3-capable portable devices:P
After just getting DSL, this monitor is the last thing I need. C'mon, do the math, 9.2 megapixels is about 3500x2625, which on a 22" monitor (9.6" by 7.2") would be around 360 dpi. That means that even with DSL, all that high resolution porn I'm downloading would only be a 2 inch thumbnail. Might as well stick with my low res monitor and get a 14.4k modem, it'd be cheaper. =P
One has to wonder where we're going to get bitmapped images anywhere near that resolution. Obviously, if something has that many pixels it's going to be generated from vector art. Then comes the question, why do we rasterize the vectors in the computer and then send gigabytes a second to the monitor!?!
I would be much more inclinded to use a monitor like this if it used Display PostScript. They should really incorporate a custom DPS RIP (normal PS RIPs already exist, so this isn't much of a stretch). A mass produced DPS RIP would certainly cost less than 16 P4s and it wouldn't even require a bus the size of Utah between the computer and the display.
Ah, of course./me turns brain back on. For some reason I didn't remember the top of the elevator would be moving _much_ faster than the bottom. I wonder how much force would be applied to the elevator resulting from the change of angular moment of the earth when you move a large mass of material up.
I'm a little confused what a space elevator would do for us? I mean, it's not like you're weightless when you get above the atmosphere, you have to be orbiting the earth for that effect. So you go up the the top of the elevator and then what? Take cool pictures to post on your web site?
I can't imagine they could build a building large enough to house much research in because it would have to be entirely supported be the elevator and if humans are to go up there it would require a lot of insulation and reinforcement to keep it pressurized.
I guess maybe we could build a small elevator to send up "space probes" to do automated research, but that seems like even more effort than launching them on a reusable rocket. And they wouldn't get very far on an elevator either.
Dammit, it's supposed to be a stairway to heaven, not a friggin elevator.
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No promotion!? Who said open source software can't be promoted!? With AOL in charge, we'll probably be receiving Mozilla CDs every day in the mail for weeks following the 1.0 release. Seriously though, just because the majority of open source projects are managed by hobbiests who don't have capital to invest in advertising doesn't mean open source companies can't promote their products. AOL/Netscape would be stupid to have invested this much in Mozilla's development and not promote it.
I don't think starvation is as big an issue as you make it out to be. Human's have many forms of energy that can be used to power full-spectrum bulbs to grow plants and heaters to keep us cozy and warm. As long as people can remain civil in a time of disaster, we can likely survive another ice age at this point in human development.
IP over avian carriers may become a viable network technology with the addition of pnumatic tubes. I'd guess we could get them pigeons up to 50 or 60 miles per hour, cutting network latency and improving throughput. Of course this would give new meaning to network collision.
Actually its a result of the images being taken in rapid succession, instead of simultaneously. Thus any movement in the picture causes slightly different images to be taken for the RGB channels and you get strange color artifacts. For a similar effect just offset the RGB channels of a photo in Photoshop (or Gimp). Kinda trippy.
I agree with your claim, however Red Hat 7 actually keeps those files in/usr/include/linux instead of symlinking them to/usr/src/linux/include/linux. This caught me off guard, but now I've found its handy.
Back when I thought I wanted to be an EE major, I was planning a course project kinda similar to this. Basically, it was a serial port-controlled set of digital POTs that connected to some large power transistors and/or op-amps. Those controlled three high watt lamps, red, green, and blue, of course. Then you write up an xmms plugin to control it, and you get expensive DJ like effects for literally 1/100th of the price. Like I said, I decided to change majors (to CS), so I sadly never got to building it.
or there will be "Peace Love and Linux" ads on every sidewalk we look at. I have to imagine what others would think when I start screaming about all the penguins everywhere.
But we already do, although I'm getting used to the little Jiffy Lube ad they stick in the corner of my windshield and the "Ray Ban" on the edge of my sunglasses. I can just imagine what would happen if contact lens manufacturers caught on. The thermal ink would "Thank You For Choosing Acuvue" before fading away when the lenses reach body temp.
He did mean multiuser. Before now, NetBSD only ran on multiprocessor Alphas in single user mode, for whatever reason. Now that it runs in multiuser mode, it's on par with the other NetBSD ports, although from the web page it doesn't support all multiprocessor Alpha boxes out there, yet.
Apple is threatening the American Mathematical Society for creating the number 3, which when combined with the 'Apple' and 'Shift' keys takes a desktop screenshot, enabling people to copy Apple's graphics. They've issued a cease-and-desist order that AMS remove the number 3 from all webservers under their control, "including any hyperlink to other locations where the number 3 may be available".
The letter also included a post script to the order, stating "All your 3 are belong to us," however the comment was scribbled out before delivery, when Apple executives realized it was no longer funny.
I happened to be thinking about something like this the other day. Why doesn't somebody set up a distributed.net like system which resells users unused computer resources but then pays the users for their trouble?
You could have a payment structure that pays based on CPU time (measured in a unit independent of CPU type or speed), RAM use, network utilization, storage space, and storage activity (I would expect to be paid more for drive activity than CPU time since drive lifetime is more affected by activity than a CPU).
In fact, the user could even specify how much they want to be paid for each type of resource. The managing server would chose how many and which computers to utilize depending on how much the client (business client, not network client) would be willing to pay. Of course users would also be able to specify the limit of each resource which the (network) client could use.
All jobs would be crytographically signed by the managing company. For the paranoid among us, the daemon could run in a chrooted environment as user nobody (although the server and all the jobs would have to be statically linked binaries). There isn't a good way to provide such security on Windows, although if you're paranoid, you shouldn't be running an MS operating system anyhow.
Also, this would be an interesting economic experiment, with real time statistics available for a large market practicing good ol' supply and demand.
If somebody's up to the task of setting this up, I'd be happy to spare some cycles for a few bucks a month.
Ok, first off, 'light' or visible light, is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths from about 4*10^-7 m (violet) to 7*10^-7 m (red). If you 'mix' two sources of light, each of their own frequency, they to not become a third frequency.
The reason light 'mixes' is based entirely on our biological response to it. It just so happens that when we see red and green light at the same time, our retina responds about the same way as it would to pure yellow light.
Now, we consider red, green, and blue to be the primary colors of light because we can fool ourselves into seeing most other colors with combinations of them. Again, this is a result of our biology.
In fact, there are colors in the visible spectrum that we can see that _cannot_ be simulated using a combination of red, green, and blue. Likewise, there are colors that can be produced with red, green, and blue, that cannot be reproduced with the absorbtion of cyan, yellow, and magenta from white light. Hence the development of Hexechrome, a 6 primary ink system from Pantone, that can better approximate red, green, blue.
So it's perfectly reasonable that given a forth color of light we could expand the range of simulated colors to better approximate the entire visual spectrum. In fact, there are color systems, LAB (luminence, a, and b) and probably others, that allow us to store more color information in a file than our RGB monitors can reproduce. Anyhow, I hope this straigtened out a few people, although I hope I didn't confuse anybody into thinking this article was legit. It ain't.
Ony Texas Toast I've ever heard of is when you butter up some bread and 'toast' it out on the BBQ. Can't imagine why somebody would call you that. Maybe if you were all greased up with a sun burn:P
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Because when I sit down next week and beging ripping and encoding 500 CDs, I want a proven technology, not a set of algorithms that will change perisodically, laughing in my face that I should have waited and I wouldn't have that popping noise in the background. Fraunhofer mp3enc (circa-1998) hasn't had any problems in 3 years, and when I'm going to spend a month of my life encoding music, I sure as hell ain't going to set myself up to redo it when ogg v2.1 comes out and they finally get it to sound perfect. I shouldn't even need to mention the prevalence of mp3-capable portable devices :P
I've always considered Windows Update the anti-virus virus.
when that system could be predicting next weeks Lotto numbers. Sign me up for an account.
Their just doin' this to piss of the US until Bart Simpsons comes over and apologizes.
After just getting DSL, this monitor is the last thing I need. C'mon, do the math, 9.2 megapixels is about 3500x2625, which on a 22" monitor (9.6" by 7.2") would be around 360 dpi. That means that even with DSL, all that high resolution porn I'm downloading would only be a 2 inch thumbnail. Might as well stick with my low res monitor and get a 14.4k modem, it'd be cheaper. =P
One has to wonder where we're going to get bitmapped images anywhere near that resolution. Obviously, if something has that many pixels it's going to be generated from vector art. Then comes the question, why do we rasterize the vectors in the computer and then send gigabytes a second to the monitor!?!
I would be much more inclinded to use a monitor like this if it used Display PostScript. They should really incorporate a custom DPS RIP (normal PS RIPs already exist, so this isn't much of a stretch). A mass produced DPS RIP would certainly cost less than 16 P4s and it wouldn't even require a bus the size of Utah between the computer and the display.
My 2 cents.
Of course doubling is an order of magnitude better, in binary that is.
Ah, of course. /me turns brain back on. For some reason I didn't remember the top of the elevator would be moving _much_ faster than the bottom. I wonder how much force would be applied to the elevator resulting from the change of angular moment of the earth when you move a large mass of material up.
I'm a little confused what a space elevator would do for us? I mean, it's not like you're weightless when you get above the atmosphere, you have to be orbiting the earth for that effect. So you go up the the top of the elevator and then what? Take cool pictures to post on your web site?
I can't imagine they could build a building large enough to house much research in because it would have to be entirely supported be the elevator and if humans are to go up there it would require a lot of insulation and reinforcement to keep it pressurized.
I guess maybe we could build a small elevator to send up "space probes" to do automated research, but that seems like even more effort than launching them on a reusable rocket. And they wouldn't get very far on an elevator either.
Dammit, it's supposed to be a stairway to heaven, not a friggin elevator.
No promotion!? Who said open source software can't be promoted!? With AOL in charge, we'll probably be receiving Mozilla CDs every day in the mail for weeks following the 1.0 release. Seriously though, just because the majority of open source projects are managed by hobbiests who don't have capital to invest in advertising doesn't mean open source companies can't promote their products. AOL/Netscape would be stupid to have invested this much in Mozilla's development and not promote it.
I don't think starvation is as big an issue as you make it out to be. Human's have many forms of energy that can be used to power full-spectrum bulbs to grow plants and heaters to keep us cozy and warm. As long as people can remain civil in a time of disaster, we can likely survive another ice age at this point in human development.
IP over avian carriers may become a viable network technology with the addition of pnumatic tubes. I'd guess we could get them pigeons up to 50 or 60 miles per hour, cutting network latency and improving throughput. Of course this would give new meaning to network collision.
Actually its a result of the images being taken in rapid succession, instead of simultaneously. Thus any movement in the picture causes slightly different images to be taken for the RGB channels and you get strange color artifacts. For a similar effect just offset the RGB channels of a photo in Photoshop (or Gimp). Kinda trippy.
Oh shit, we've got a code blue... he's blue-screening! Somebody hit the reset switch!
I agree with your claim, however Red Hat 7 actually keeps those files in /usr/include/linux instead of symlinking them to /usr/src/linux/include/linux. This caught me off guard, but now I've found its handy.
Back when I thought I wanted to be an EE major, I was planning a course project kinda similar to this. Basically, it was a serial port-controlled set of digital POTs that connected to some large power transistors and/or op-amps. Those controlled three high watt lamps, red, green, and blue, of course. Then you write up an xmms plugin to control it, and you get expensive DJ like effects for literally 1/100th of the price. Like I said, I decided to change majors (to CS), so I sadly never got to building it.
or there will be "Peace Love and Linux" ads on every sidewalk we look at. I have to imagine what others would think when I start screaming about all the penguins everywhere.
But we already do, although I'm getting used to the little Jiffy Lube ad they stick in the corner of my windshield and the "Ray Ban" on the edge of my sunglasses. I can just imagine what would happen if contact lens manufacturers caught on. The thermal ink would "Thank You For Choosing Acuvue" before fading away when the lenses reach body temp.
He did mean multiuser. Before now, NetBSD only ran on multiprocessor Alphas in single user mode, for whatever reason. Now that it runs in multiuser mode, it's on par with the other NetBSD ports, although from the web page it doesn't support all multiprocessor Alpha boxes out there, yet.
Apple is threatening the American Mathematical Society for creating the number 3, which when combined with the 'Apple' and 'Shift' keys takes a desktop screenshot, enabling people to copy Apple's graphics. They've issued a cease-and-desist order that AMS remove the number 3 from all webservers under their control, "including any hyperlink to other locations where the number 3 may be available".
The letter also included a post script to the order, stating "All your 3 are belong to us," however the comment was scribbled out before delivery, when Apple executives realized it was no longer funny.
I happened to be thinking about something like this the other day. Why doesn't somebody set up a distributed.net like system which resells users unused computer resources but then pays the users for their trouble?
You could have a payment structure that pays based on CPU time (measured in a unit independent of CPU type or speed), RAM use, network utilization, storage space, and storage activity (I would expect to be paid more for drive activity than CPU time since drive lifetime is more affected by activity than a CPU).
In fact, the user could even specify how much they want to be paid for each type of resource. The managing server would chose how many and which computers to utilize depending on how much the client (business client, not network client) would be willing to pay. Of course users would also be able to specify the limit of each resource which the (network) client could use.
All jobs would be crytographically signed by the managing company. For the paranoid among us, the daemon could run in a chrooted environment as user nobody (although the server and all the jobs would have to be statically linked binaries). There isn't a good way to provide such security on Windows, although if you're paranoid, you shouldn't be running an MS operating system anyhow.
Also, this would be an interesting economic experiment, with real time statistics available for a large market practicing good ol' supply and demand.
If somebody's up to the task of setting this up, I'd be happy to spare some cycles for a few bucks a month.
The look on your friends face when he sees your new computer for half the price of his iMac... priceless.
Ok, first off, 'light' or visible light, is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths from about 4*10^-7 m (violet) to 7*10^-7 m (red). If you 'mix' two sources of light, each of their own frequency, they to not become a third frequency.
The reason light 'mixes' is based entirely on our biological response to it. It just so happens that when we see red and green light at the same time, our retina responds about the same way as it would to pure yellow light.
Now, we consider red, green, and blue to be the primary colors of light because we can fool ourselves into seeing most other colors with combinations of them. Again, this is a result of our biology.
In fact, there are colors in the visible spectrum that we can see that _cannot_ be simulated using a combination of red, green, and blue. Likewise, there are colors that can be produced with red, green, and blue, that cannot be reproduced with the absorbtion of cyan, yellow, and magenta from white light. Hence the development of Hexechrome, a 6 primary ink system from Pantone, that can better approximate red, green, blue.
So it's perfectly reasonable that given a forth color of light we could expand the range of simulated colors to better approximate the entire visual spectrum. In fact, there are color systems, LAB (luminence, a, and b) and probably others, that allow us to store more color information in a file than our RGB monitors can reproduce. Anyhow, I hope this straigtened out a few people, although I hope I didn't confuse anybody into thinking this article was legit. It ain't.
Ony Texas Toast I've ever heard of is when you butter up some bread and 'toast' it out on the BBQ. Can't imagine why somebody would call you that. Maybe if you were all greased up with a sun burn :P