If you couldn't get it from the title, the obvious answer is to make coasters out of them! Even put some batteries in there and make the lights blink in some cool pattern.
I had a webcam pointing out the front of my apartment at the intersection there (just for fun) for about a week, and no matter what I did, I couldn't see anything but headlights at night. I also had a problem with a security light that killed the contrast. I was able to beat that by changing the view angle so it wasn't included, though.
I might also mention the quality is crap (even at 640x480) for anything farther than 20m away, and if you slow the framerate down you're not likely to get a shot of them facing the camera in range.
Sorry, you're going to have to spend some serious cash if you want a decent system.
Well can you blame them? The administrators at school districts are all the ex-bullies at campuses. They work there because they have fond memories of high school, and can only identify with the bullies, not with the geeks. Pretty much what they said in Breakfast Club.
Brian
Or when a sniper shoots it with a bullet, killing all soldiers within a square kilometer of you!
Aw shit, we already discussed this!
Still could be a factor, because those cell phone batteries are so big, and you'd (gasp) have to spend sometime letting it absorb light - I don't think your monitor quite has the luminence for the job. What I really want is a cell phone powered like one of those watches: by the motion of my body.
Yeah, my parents have a brand new house that had dual lines of cat5, one for the (up to) four phone lines, and one for ethernet. However, we had rat problems when we first moved in, and apparently one of them chemed through the ethernet line. It was nice to be able to sacrafice a phone line to be able to still get ethernet.
I'd actually recommend putting in 3 or 4 now if you can, even if you don't put heads on them, for rodent problems or if you ever may want to have multiple networks running around your house (perhaps a private "home net" disjunct from the internet).
Uh, this might be just a little difficult to get through airport security. I dunno, but I don't think the airlines will particuarly like the idea of someone carrying a bomb on board, no matter how small.
Seriously: now they're putting a man in orbit, does this mean that Canada is a "space power" along with the US and Russia? Canada's not exactly as aggressive as either of them, and certainly doesn't equate it's national pride with such "manly" things like nukes and tanks. Personally, I'm sure Canada doesn't care what we think, but this is certainly a big event in my perception of them. Right now I'd say "no" just because Canada doesn't really own much of the sky, but I know very little and would like the opions & insights of those with more knowledge on the subject.
If you say "yes" when did they become a space power?
If you say "no" what does it take for them to become a space power?
First - they are very small containers of hydrocarbons, and they are much less dangerous than the equivalent amount of hydrogen.
Second - if you could shoot the fuel cell, why not just shoot the soldier?
Third - I don't know if you've noticed but the military does pretty good with protecting our soldiers. If this turns our as big a liability as you say, they'll figure out something to mitigate it or drop the system.
(Actually, I think this would be great for our (us being the US) soldiers because of the offensive capabilies it'd add - thermal imaging will let our snipers own theirs!)
Hot robot-on-robot action!
Wheeled robots doing legged robots!
Legged robots doing Wheeled robots!
Watch routers get packets passed through every port!
Watch expression generators overflow expression parsers!
Hot paperclip action like you've never seen before!
All can be had for only...
Wait a minute, that said "AI Movie Promo" didn't it?
My bad.
If anyone is wondering why the site is so slow, here's what they have to say:
Wednesday, April 11 ::Please accept our apologies for the site performance issues. The problem is that we had set the dial on the front of the web server to "slow" and now it appears to be jammed up. (Seriously: some complicated SQL issues which are being resolved as we speak. Some pieces of functionality may disappear and reappear as the work is done. Enjoy your nice non-SQL-optimizing and server-reinstalling day.)
I'd have to say this is first - of course, now we're just going to kill it dead.
Yes, tries, and for low end systems may very well be sufficient. However, I'm guessing you have standards above that and would find the real-world performance of USB 2.0 insufficient. I'll use both firewire and USB for their respective appropriate tasks.
I know this is a foreign concept on Slashdot, but you don't have to upgrade! Any USB 2.0 device should be compatible with USB 1.X, and if not, well you deserve what comes to you.
As it says above, USB is for low speed devices (like keyboards). Firewire is for high speed devices (like hard drives). A keyboard doesn't need firewire. This is why Macs have moved from SCSI/ADB to Firewire/USB
I've been wondering this myself, and the only thing I could think of is that maybe the workers thought it was something like a really fancy air conditioner or water heater. Hell, they were at a University, I'm sure they figured with all the fancy research equipment they had around, they probably had fancy air conditioners too.
That, or it was the end of their shift. Don't tell me you've never half-assed something to get out of the office a little earlier.
Wow, this reminded me of that story that slashdot ran last year about guys who willingly put their thermostat under internet control, and as I remember, people had that thing above 90. Anybody want to fuck with some Europeans? Particularly the PHBs who think it would be a good idea to do this to their engineers? he he he...
Mac OS Rumors - For any Apple fanatics out there, here's a good site, although they are a little starry-eyed. I've been reading them for a year or two, and they knew all about Sawtooth (and a host of other code-names). Do you know what had the code name "V'Ger"?
Ok, I'm all for all this privacy stuff and everything, but honestly guys, this just seems a little far-fetched. Yes, it istechnically possible, but then again, are you really that important that Microsoft is going to monitor you? And if you really are that vain, guess what:
You don't have to use it!
Personally, I will not use this because I like my computer dumb and predictable. However, there are people that think this is a good thing, and buy it, sacraficing a little more privacy for convenience. And if you don't think you're sacraficing privacy for convenience, think about this: Do you have a Credit Card? Do you shop at stores with security cameras? Does anyone have your Social Security ID? Did you respond to the census? Do you take any anonymizing measures when surfing the web? Apply equivalents to whatever locality you're from.
It's all about the gradient between convenience and privacy. It's analagous to: the more ports you have open, the more you can do, but the more you expose yourself.
These are great and all, but who's going to be the first to make the legs longer (and thus get more ups)? I don't have much money, but I'm willing to be guinea pig for someone who does.
Yes, I am serious.
I wish I could name more, but how many movies out there deal with atomic war (Omega Man (Project?), Mad Max, 9 monkeys), interstellar battles (Last Starfighter, Independence Day, Titan AE), and just about anything else imaginable that I'm sure has showed up in some anime movie? (Nothing against anime, it's just that they are the most creative, and thus have explored more in every direction) Any good movie has conflict, because that's what keeps us interested. I also don't think it's really bodycount that is the best indicator of violence either. I was much more disturbed by movies like Seven, where you begin to appreciate the villan's intelligence, and perhaps are able to relate to that. I guess that would be why that was an "R" movie and Star Wars isn't. (Sorry to all the non-Americans for being so US centric, but that's all I know)
Or how about we just get it right this time and find some company that's willing to provide residential customers with ethernet or fiber. There's enough money in California to generate demand, I can't imagine DSL is going to keep people placated for long. I'm moving out to work there in a few months, and my primary criteria is bandwidth availability. Will someone help me?
Ya know, this could really throw a wrench in that whole affirmative action thing; I'm pretty sure that non-earthlings have been highly under represented in all fields.
Enthusiasts of "all-natural" drugs rushed to stores these past few weeks to buy the latest pills, in hopes it would make them happy and healthy looking like the models in the commercials. Though these "Apoptosis Inducing Factor" pills are commonly associated with death, that didn't stop these proud souls, as they bought them by the pallet.
In other news, the average IQ of the world has gone up dramatically in the past few weeks, leaving researchers puzzled.
Slashdot Mirror
If you couldn't get it from the title, the obvious answer is to make coasters out of them! Even put some batteries in there and make the lights blink in some cool pattern.
Kurdt
I had a webcam pointing out the front of my apartment at the intersection there (just for fun) for about a week, and no matter what I did, I couldn't see anything but headlights at night. I also had a problem with a security light that killed the contrast. I was able to beat that by changing the view angle so it wasn't included, though.
I might also mention the quality is crap (even at 640x480) for anything farther than 20m away, and if you slow the framerate down you're not likely to get a shot of them facing the camera in range.
Sorry, you're going to have to spend some serious cash if you want a decent system.
Kurdt
Well can you blame them? The administrators at school districts are all the ex-bullies at campuses. They work there because they have fond memories of high school, and can only identify with the bullies, not with the geeks. Pretty much what they said in Breakfast Club. Brian
Kurdt
...and doesn't explode when you drop it.
Or when a sniper shoots it with a bullet, killing all soldiers within a square kilometer of you!
Aw shit, we already discussed this!
Still could be a factor, because those cell phone batteries are so big, and you'd (gasp) have to spend sometime letting it absorb light - I don't think your monitor quite has the luminence for the job. What I really want is a cell phone powered like one of those watches: by the motion of my body.
Kurdt
Hey, who said I was talking about the US?
Kurdt
And slowly, across the nation, work grinds to a halt for all Slashdot'ers...
Kurdt
Yeah, my parents have a brand new house that had dual lines of cat5, one for the (up to) four phone lines, and one for ethernet. However, we had rat problems when we first moved in, and apparently one of them chemed through the ethernet line. It was nice to be able to sacrafice a phone line to be able to still get ethernet.
I'd actually recommend putting in 3 or 4 now if you can, even if you don't put heads on them, for rodent problems or if you ever may want to have multiple networks running around your house (perhaps a private "home net" disjunct from the internet).
Kurdt
Uh, this might be just a little difficult to get through airport security. I dunno, but I don't think the airlines will particuarly like the idea of someone carrying a bomb on board, no matter how small.
Kurdt
Seriously: now they're putting a man in orbit, does this mean that Canada is a "space power" along with the US and Russia? Canada's not exactly as aggressive as either of them, and certainly doesn't equate it's national pride with such "manly" things like nukes and tanks. Personally, I'm sure Canada doesn't care what we think, but this is certainly a big event in my perception of them. Right now I'd say "no" just because Canada doesn't really own much of the sky, but I know very little and would like the opions & insights of those with more knowledge on the subject.
If you say "yes" when did they become a space power?
If you say "no" what does it take for them to become a space power?
Kurdt
First - they are very small containers of hydrocarbons, and they are much less dangerous than the equivalent amount of hydrogen.
Second - if you could shoot the fuel cell, why not just shoot the soldier?
Third - I don't know if you've noticed but the military does pretty good with protecting our soldiers. If this turns our as big a liability as you say, they'll figure out something to mitigate it or drop the system.
(Actually, I think this would be great for our (us being the US) soldiers because of the offensive capabilies it'd add - thermal imaging will let our snipers own theirs!)
Kurdt
Hot robot-on-robot action!
Wheeled robots doing legged robots!
Legged robots doing Wheeled robots!
Watch routers get packets passed through every port!
Watch expression generators overflow expression parsers!
Hot paperclip action like you've never seen before!
All can be had for only...
Wait a minute, that said "AI Movie Promo" didn't it?
My bad.
Kurdt
If anyone is wondering why the site is so slow, here's what they have to say:
::Please accept our apologies for the site performance issues. The problem is that we had set the dial on the front of the web server to "slow" and now it appears to be jammed up. (Seriously: some complicated SQL issues which are being resolved as we speak. Some pieces of functionality may disappear and reappear as the work is done. Enjoy your nice non-SQL-optimizing and server-reinstalling day.)
Wednesday, April 11
I'd have to say this is first - of course, now we're just going to kill it dead.
Kurdt
Yes, tries, and for low end systems may very well be sufficient. However, I'm guessing you have standards above that and would find the real-world performance of USB 2.0 insufficient. I'll use both firewire and USB for their respective appropriate tasks.
Kurdt
And if you click on the button below "Clippy's Nicknames" it eventually comes to "%@$*#!" and "Mr. Annoying".
Kurdt
I know this is a foreign concept on Slashdot, but you don't have to upgrade! Any USB 2.0 device should be compatible with USB 1.X, and if not, well you deserve what comes to you.
Kurdt
As it says above, USB is for low speed devices (like keyboards). Firewire is for high speed devices (like hard drives). A keyboard doesn't need firewire. This is why Macs have moved from SCSI/ADB to Firewire/USB
Kurdt
I've been wondering this myself, and the only thing I could think of is that maybe the workers thought it was something like a really fancy air conditioner or water heater. Hell, they were at a University, I'm sure they figured with all the fancy research equipment they had around, they probably had fancy air conditioners too.
That, or it was the end of their shift. Don't tell me you've never half-assed something to get out of the office a little earlier.
Kurdt
Wow, this reminded me of that story that slashdot ran last year about guys who willingly put their thermostat under internet control, and as I remember, people had that thing above 90. Anybody want to fuck with some Europeans? Particularly the PHBs who think it would be a good idea to do this to their engineers? he he he...
Kurdt
Mac OS Rumors - For any Apple fanatics out there, here's a good site, although they are a little starry-eyed. I've been reading them for a year or two, and they knew all about Sawtooth (and a host of other code-names). Do you know what had the code name "V'Ger"?
Kurdt
Ok, I'm all for all this privacy stuff and everything, but honestly guys, this just seems a little far-fetched. Yes, it is technically possible, but then again, are you really that important that Microsoft is going to monitor you? And if you really are that vain, guess what:
You don't have to use it!
Personally, I will not use this because I like my computer dumb and predictable. However, there are people that think this is a good thing, and buy it, sacraficing a little more privacy for convenience. And if you don't think you're sacraficing privacy for convenience, think about this: Do you have a Credit Card? Do you shop at stores with security cameras? Does anyone have your Social Security ID? Did you respond to the census? Do you take any anonymizing measures when surfing the web? Apply equivalents to whatever locality you're from.
It's all about the gradient between convenience and privacy. It's analagous to: the more ports you have open, the more you can do, but the more you expose yourself.
Kurdt
These are great and all, but who's going to be the first to make the legs longer (and thus get more ups)? I don't have much money, but I'm willing to be guinea pig for someone who does.
Yes, I am serious.
Kurdt
I wish I could name more, but how many movies out there deal with atomic war (Omega Man (Project?), Mad Max, 9 monkeys), interstellar battles (Last Starfighter, Independence Day, Titan AE), and just about anything else imaginable that I'm sure has showed up in some anime movie? (Nothing against anime, it's just that they are the most creative, and thus have explored more in every direction) Any good movie has conflict, because that's what keeps us interested. I also don't think it's really bodycount that is the best indicator of violence either. I was much more disturbed by movies like Seven, where you begin to appreciate the villan's intelligence, and perhaps are able to relate to that. I guess that would be why that was an "R" movie and Star Wars isn't.
(Sorry to all the non-Americans for being so US centric, but that's all I know)
Kurdt
Or how about we just get it right this time and find some company that's willing to provide residential customers with ethernet or fiber. There's enough money in California to generate demand, I can't imagine DSL is going to keep people placated for long. I'm moving out to work there in a few months, and my primary criteria is bandwidth availability. Will someone help me?
Kurdt
Ya know, this could really throw a wrench in that whole affirmative action thing; I'm pretty sure that non-earthlings have been highly under represented in all fields.
Kurdt
Enthusiasts of "all-natural" drugs rushed to stores these past few weeks to buy the latest pills, in hopes it would make them happy and healthy looking like the models in the commercials. Though these "Apoptosis Inducing Factor" pills are commonly associated with death, that didn't stop these proud souls, as they bought them by the pallet.
In other news, the average IQ of the world has gone up dramatically in the past few weeks, leaving researchers puzzled.
Kurdt