The color wheel has been used successfully in the movie business in recent years. Digitally produced movies are made by taking pictures of computer graphics on a CRT.
If you want to see something slightly related and cool, point a live feed into it's own monitor. You get some hella trippy effects, like blue swirling globs of lava lamp looking stuff. You have to be close the the monitor in a dark room, otherwise you just get a hall of mirrors effect. It's interesting that the effect can be "seeded" too. A red light will seed the red image which will keep feeding back after the red light is off. Play with it sometime.
You must never have had the misfortune to listen to the "Big Show" on the radio, or any of a million other radio shows that aim for a slight shock value. You may not get away with saying stuff like that in a Nazi state like California, but in the rest of the country it's still OK to say what's on your mind.
A concerted effort to remove the causes of Terrorism is a far more constructive use of resources
You don't get it. The government is losing the battle of public opinion over the drug war, so they need a new FUD machine to keep the people scared. No one wants to treat the causes in cases like these, their jobs depend on treating the symptoms, and never actually making any real headway, just like the drug war.
Well, I agree with you as far as MS flight sim being the best. (argh did I just say that?)
But if you have a linux or IRIX box and inifnite patience, you might try FlightGear. It's Free(free). It's a bitch to install properly, but it does look like it has potential. It's a direct stab at MS flight sim type sims, with an open framework for expansion.
That won't help. The latency is bounded by the speed of light, and while a larger window size may increase bandiwdth, it cannot reduce latency below the hard limit dictated by physics.
But it also doesn't mean you can transmit ethernet on the FM radio band, just because the FM radio band includes 100Mhz, that was the point I was responding to. I think FM radio has a bandwidth of something around 300khz per channel.
Not only that, but if everyone uses highly directional antennas for both transmission and reception, then pretty much the amount of bandwidth scales linearly with the number of users
Why not take it a step futher, and enclose the signal in a sort of waveguide, with a central wire and a copper braid to protect from the signal leaking out? You could just run these "simul-axial waveguides" from transceiver to transceiver.
Just think, in the future, we may be able to modulate light and send it down a similar enclosed waveguide, for miles at a time!
The second way that reality defies the old logic is what happens when you add wireless devices to networks. I won't go into the details of Reed's argument, which you can find on his site, but he contends that you end up with more capacity -- the ability to move bits of data around -- than when you started.
This guy never owned a CB radio apparently.
(Yes I know AM is terrible compared to SSB or Spreadspectrum, but those just mitigate the limitations, not eliminate them.)
No wonder it is still beta, it associates Rob Malda with RMS and Bill Gates!
Richard Stallman Bill Gates Linus Torvalds Larry Wall Bruce Perens Eric Raymond Steve Jobs Brian Behlendorf Chris Dibona Larry Augustin Rob Malda Michael Tiemann Randal Schwartz Jamie Zawinski
Learn RPG and get rich. Seriously. There is a lot of demand for RPG programmers for sucke^Wcompanies that bought IBM all those years ago and can't get off it now.
They bet that by reinvesting that money back into the company, the shareholder value will increase. That in of itself is better than a dividend.
And they are fools to do that. A stock is worthless if it never really represented anything of worth. Suppose MS decides to never, ever, pay dividends. Well, then what did that stock really mean anyway? Not much of anything.
Basically, unless MS eventually either buys back stock, or pays dividends, all everyone was really doing was gambling, there was no real equity involved. It's zero-sum.
Why do you think the "core slashdot audience" likes the X-Files?
I never did like the show much. It was a novelty the first couple seasons, but I have seen maybe 15 episodes total.
From reading the summary of the finale, it looks like I didn't miss much either. It isn't Sci-Fi by any stretch of the term. It's a fantasy soap-opera.
But then you have to prove that all of them interact in the intended fashion, which becomes very difficult when you throw things like threading into the mix.
Wouldn't the math look something like,
every possible input * every possible state * number of objects/procedures/whatever
That's a lot to prove, in any meaningful meaning of the word "proof".
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The color wheel has been used successfully in the movie business in recent years. Digitally produced movies are made by taking pictures of computer graphics on a CRT.
I was with you up to here. Elucidate.
If you want to see something slightly related and cool, point a live feed into it's own monitor. You get some hella trippy effects, like blue swirling globs of lava lamp looking stuff. You have to be close the the monitor in a dark room, otherwise you just get a hall of mirrors effect. It's interesting that the effect can be "seeded" too. A red light will seed the red image which will keep feeding back after the red light is off. Play with it sometime.
You must never have had the misfortune to listen to the "Big Show" on the radio, or any of a million other radio shows that aim for a slight shock value. You may not get away with saying stuff like that in a Nazi state like California, but in the rest of the country it's still OK to say what's on your mind.
A concerted effort to remove the causes of Terrorism is a far more constructive use of resources
You don't get it. The government is losing the battle of public opinion over the drug war, so they need a new FUD machine to keep the people scared. No one wants to treat the causes in cases like these, their jobs depend on treating the symptoms, and never actually making any real headway, just like the drug war.
Well, I agree with you as far as MS flight sim being the best. (argh did I just say that?)
But if you have a linux or IRIX box and inifnite patience, you might try FlightGear. It's Free(free). It's a bitch to install properly, but it does look like it has potential. It's a direct stab at MS flight sim type sims, with an open framework for expansion.
And, as others pointed out, it wasn't a stolen trade secret, it was reverse engineered, which is totally different, and totally legal.
Lets face it what is it? Its a camera and a few motors.
A computer is just a bunch of transistors and capacitors, just put them together!
That won't help. The latency is bounded by the speed of light, and while a larger window size may increase bandiwdth, it cannot reduce latency below the hard limit dictated by physics.
Uh, that's the point.
But it also doesn't mean you can transmit ethernet on the FM radio band, just because the FM radio band includes 100Mhz, that was the point I was responding to. I think FM radio has a bandwidth of something around 300khz per channel.
AM will soon sound like FM.
I very seriously doubt that. That low you don't have enough cycles to work with to encode more than 300-600bps or so.
Cat5 has a nominal bandwidth of 100Mhz, you are confusing bandwidth and frequency.
0 C: www.molexpn.com.au/solution/files/ufab.pdf+etherne t+frequency+and+bandwidth&hl=en&ie=utf-8
Try this URL if you want the details.
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:vRq6AoANKp
Not only that, but if everyone uses highly directional antennas for both transmission and reception, then pretty much the amount of bandwidth scales linearly with the number of users
Why not take it a step futher, and enclose the signal in a sort of waveguide, with a central wire and a copper braid to protect from the signal leaking out? You could just run these "simul-axial waveguides" from transceiver to transceiver.
Just think, in the future, we may be able to modulate light and send it down a similar enclosed waveguide, for miles at a time!
The radio waves don't care about the packet headers in the data they are carrying.
We are talking about fundamental things here, like noise floor, and front end overload.
The second way that reality defies the old logic is what happens when you add wireless devices to networks. I won't go into the details of Reed's argument, which you can find on his site, but he contends that you end up with more capacity -- the ability to move bits of data around -- than when you started.
This guy never owned a CB radio apparently.
(Yes I know AM is terrible compared to SSB or Spreadspectrum, but those just mitigate the limitations, not eliminate them.)
No wonder it is still beta, it associates Rob Malda with RMS and Bill Gates!
Richard Stallman
Bill Gates
Linus Torvalds
Larry Wall
Bruce Perens
Eric Raymond
Steve Jobs
Brian Behlendorf
Chris Dibona
Larry Augustin
Rob Malda
Michael Tiemann
Randal Schwartz
Jamie Zawinski
If the metal wire had a button to press named "make.paperclip()" built into it, it would have been a different story, right?
I dont know what I would do if I were to be charged per meg, or gig. I would most likely have to declare bankruptcy in about 15 days of that.
That's what you get for running a business on a home connection.
Learn RPG and get rich. Seriously. There is a lot of demand for RPG programmers for sucke^Wcompanies that bought IBM all those years ago and can't get off it now.
They bet that by reinvesting that money back into the company, the shareholder value will increase. That in of itself is better than a dividend.
And they are fools to do that. A stock is worthless if it never really represented anything of worth. Suppose MS decides to never, ever, pay dividends. Well, then what did that stock really mean anyway? Not much of anything.
Basically, unless MS eventually either buys back stock, or pays dividends, all everyone was really doing was gambling, there was no real equity involved. It's zero-sum.
Other things, such as always including { and } in C, and putting them alone on their own line
Phew, I thought I was alone. I'm glad it makes sense to someone other than myself to actually have the braces line up vertically.
What happens when you recast it to something else?
Why do you think the "core slashdot audience" likes the X-Files?
I never did like the show much. It was a novelty the first couple seasons, but I have seen maybe 15 episodes total.
From reading the summary of the finale, it looks like I didn't miss much either. It isn't Sci-Fi by any stretch of the term. It's a fantasy soap-opera.
I always wonder how your guys who are still on 40 column systems manage to make it onto Slashdot. Are you on a Commodore or an Atari? Maybe a TRS-80?
But then you have to prove that all of them interact in the intended fashion, which becomes very difficult when you throw things like threading into the mix.
Wouldn't the math look something like,
every possible input * every possible state * number of objects/procedures/whatever
That's a lot to prove, in any meaningful meaning of the word "proof".