heres an actual copy that I submitted to/. on sat
> A suggestion for next weeks census....
>
> question 18 deals with religion, if like me, you
> believe in no one specific religion or just simply
> object to answering that particular question, then
> please consider the following alternative.....
> we are trying to encourage people to tick the 'other'
> box and then fill their religion in as "JEDI" - all
> Star Wars fans will understand, but the point of the
> exercise is two-fold...
> 1. if 8000 people throughout new zealand do this then
> JEDI will become an offically recognised religion
> which would be a laugh, and
> 2. it's a bit of an experiment in the power of email,
> as that has been our primary means of communication,
> that's not to say that you can't tell others about in
> other ways.
>
> but i would urge you to do the above and pass this
> message/idea on to as many of your friends, relatives
> etc as you can so we can reach the magic number of
> 8000, be swift as we don't have a lot of time left!
>
> May the Force be with you
>
> Reuben - Wannabe JEDI Master
>
------- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
Example:
I recently bought a new computer for doing computer animation with (3d programs like maya are smp aware)
Looking at prices I could almost get 2 pIII 800's for the price i could get a 933.
so I got the abit vp6 and bought 2 pIII 800's to put on it, then i thought about overclocking (i have nice big heat sinks and big fans) i am now running a dual PIII 956 because of overclocking
------- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
Surely everyone wants a pentium6 motherboard that has both a RIAA and MPAA chipset.
A mothboard that checks every song you download on napster against what cd's you have bought off cd.com and if you havent bought it already it charges it to your credit card
Mruhahahahaha
I'll patent it and make millions
------- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
how will anyone ever let an implant like the ones quoted in them. From a medical point of view, there would be no doctor that would recomend unessary surgery like this. its a pointless and dangerous exercise.
The only way would be for the government to make it ilegal not to have a tracking implant. The propoganda would have to be huge for there not to be a revolt against it. I know people who were born at home and dont have birth certificates etc. whould they be hunted down and 'taged'??
I dont see this happening in anyones lifetime.
------- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
People only upgrade their browsers when they think there is suficent need. I work in the design business and always tell junior designers if there is is something that you cant do at the moment inside the html4 spec or using flash 4 then you need to revise your design skills so you can do it. the fact that you can doesnt always meen you should
people using version 3 or so browsers understand that they might not be seeing the page the way it was designed but that doesn't mean that you should block them from seeing the content. i even use lynx some days, just cos i want to. most news sites can still be read through lynx. a piece of js that tells me to upgrade to a new version of lynx is just silly
------- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
I have had quite some experience with dodged up dv tapes (from doing filming in some extreme climates)
You very rarely see dropped frames. Because dv stores the data in chunks you get dropped chunks. ie. small squares in the film will pause and then race foward as they recieve data again. Bad enough damage and most decks will stop. some even crash (power off and on to get them going again!!)
A visual efect we made once had us taking tiny tiny needles and punching holes in the tape so that it went all crazy and digital like.
------- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
this just improves the reliability. I normally carry arround two disks of the same think if I am forced to use floppies (no ftp access at school) but spanning a file over 10 - 20 disks just makes it impossible to carry 2 coppies. by packing more on it just helps people like me have more assurance
(except you prolly need new drives:(
------- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
What i've wanted to know is if you have a plant (say rice) and engineer into it some genes from an animal (say steak or meatballs).... and heres the tricky part......... would it be vegeterian or not??
------- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
The patent is entitled, ``Method of Reading and Writing Files on Nonerasable Storage Media,'' and describes a method of achieving ``apparent erasability.'' This enables features such as ``packet writing'' of small files, ``drive-letter access,'' the ability to drag-and-drop files, and the capability to randomly erase separate files encoded on nonerasable or rewriteable DVD and CD-R optical disks used in laser recording/retrieval systems.
HP cd writers have had a context menu and task tray app to do this for years. Just one more reason that I live in New Zealand
---- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
Mac osX does use open gl and Apple got help from Alias|Wavefront (make Maya and Studio, owned by SGI)
from the apple website:
Apple has also integrated OpenGL -- the blisteringhot 3D technology used by games like Quake 3Arena from id Software, and heavy-duty authoring tools like Maya from Alias/Wavefront -- into Mac OS X. And the state-of-the-art plumbing in Darwin actually boosts OpenGL's performance to a whole new level on Mac OS X, making it the ultimate PC platform for 3D games and eye-popping photorealistic graphics
From what I understand. you can make 3d acceleration speed up 2d by simply making the desktop a 3d object (or series of) that is viewed straight on.
3d isnt all perspective and volumetric fog although E. with fog might be fun, Cataract simulator anyone??????
---- Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
there will always be higher resolution monitors, i have seen a coupple of stories on/. in the last coupple of months talking about 200dpi monitors.
if my monitor (17"trinitron, 1280x1024) was instantly replaced with a 200dpi one, the graphics card would have to keep up with 2900x387 or some silly resolution like that. none of the 3d cards on the market get even get close to that resolution, and ofcouse i want that at 2000fps (and a monitor refresh rate to match!)
and what about fullscreen video at that resolution, the pipelines needed for that would have to have the decoder chip on the graphics card.
what about 200dpi in 3d??? we havent started on what kind of graphics card it would take to drive a 3d holigram projector at 8,000,000 dots per cubic inch;)
ok ok.
its now 4 hours after i last started playing with this and I have seen and circled over 562 craters. even put up with a slashdotting or two (clicking reload every minute utill te page DID load)
This is just a game for those intrested in space. why would people bother to look at nasa's slow loading images of mars when they can look at some varied and interesting images and feel like they are doing something semi useful at the same time.
If enough people do this then nasa will have to take notice. they have seen how much the seti @ home project has lifted the profile of seti. who even knew what it standed for before they started that.
The webpage uses a VERY well made java (or something similar) applet that is a lot of fun to use. Congratulations to whoever at nasa thought up and built this.
I have only been doing it for the last half hour but have already clicked up a hundred craters. I know what I'm doing all afternoon
it seems that intel is folowing the lead of Microsoft.
Windows had 2 product lines. one was windows 9x and one was NT. They have recently released a slightly dummed down version of their high end product (NT) targeted at geeks/power users/business, their most popular line (win 9x) has been dummed down even more and is now the os of choice for "joe home user"
Now if we look at Intel they seem to be doing the same thing:
there once was a chip for everyone (pentium x range) and a chip for the diehard servers (xeon) Now the new version of intels chip for everyone has been dummed down (had its SMP support pulled) and is now targeted at "joe home multimeda watching user"
Now all the powerusers who want smp and do some real processing have to move up a product line and get the more expensive Xeon chips.
So we end up with cheeper chips for those who dont notice the difference and those who want professional power have to pay professional prices.
well this piece from a New Zealand newspaper titled "MIR Headed Our Way" warns about how pieces are likely to fall over a reasonabbly populated country.
Much of this was done for the benift of New Zealand (Australasia is not just Australia), who as a country with a huge percentage of net users and a huge uptake of dsl and cable, suck most of what we look at (pron,/.) from the US.
Over half of this new pipe was paid for by the NZ telco Telecom. and from their press releases they plan there will be no spare bandwith by 2002
But the coolest thing about the cable has to be the cable healing robot robot ; ;;Fitted to the cable maintenance vessel, CS Pacific Guardian, the Southern Cross ROV has bulldozer-like tracks that enable it to move along the sea floor at depths of up to 2,500 metres. It is also equipped with six horizontal and four vertical thrusters to enable it to "free swim" where the seabed is too soft to support the weight of the ROV.
bats = bugs
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it has already been stated here on/. that the p4 will not be able to support smp. It is being pitched as a "multimedia chip" much as the failed and aging mediaGX chip was.
you are forgetting the old voodoo 2's. with 2 in one box and an sli cable (anyone know what sli stands for??).
each one does an alternate line of each image. this is pci only but I dont see motherboards with 2 agp slots appearing before the "next big thing"tm comes along
can anyone tell me how close to a prime time release mozilla is?
I have been using since m16 and find it a refreshing change to think that when ever i get a crash (quite rare:) I can just say "not quite finished" instead of "dum *#(%@ bug ridden nasty code *#^@^*%^@# "
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heres an actual copy that I submitted to /. on sat
> A suggestion for next weeks census....
>
> question 18 deals with religion, if like me, you
> believe in no one specific religion or just simply
> object to answering that particular question, then
> please consider the following alternative.....
> we are trying to encourage people to tick the 'other'
> box and then fill their religion in as "JEDI" - all
> Star Wars fans will understand, but the point of the
> exercise is two-fold...
> 1. if 8000 people throughout new zealand do this then
> JEDI will become an offically recognised religion
> which would be a laugh, and
> 2. it's a bit of an experiment in the power of email,
> as that has been our primary means of communication,
> that's not to say that you can't tell others about in
> other ways.
>
> but i would urge you to do the above and pass this
> message/idea on to as many of your friends, relatives
> etc as you can so we can reach the magic number of
> 8000, be swift as we don't have a lot of time left!
>
> May the Force be with you
>
> Reuben - Wannabe JEDI Master
>
-------
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
Example: I recently bought a new computer for doing computer animation with (3d programs like maya are smp aware)
Looking at prices I could almost get 2 pIII 800's for the price i could get a 933.
so I got the abit vp6 and bought 2 pIII 800's to put on it, then i thought about overclocking (i have nice big heat sinks and big fans) i am now running a dual PIII 956 because of overclocking
-------
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
Thats right. and why not?
Surely everyone wants a pentium6 motherboard that has both a RIAA and MPAA chipset.
A mothboard that checks every song you download on napster against what cd's you have bought off cd.com and if you havent bought it already it charges it to your credit card
Mruhahahahaha
I'll patent it and make millions
-------
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
how will anyone ever let an implant like the ones quoted in them. From a medical point of view, there would be no doctor that would recomend unessary surgery like this. its a pointless and dangerous exercise.
The only way would be for the government to make it ilegal not to have a tracking implant.
The propoganda would have to be huge for there not to be a revolt against it. I know people who were born at home and dont have birth certificates etc. whould they be hunted down and 'taged'??
I dont see this happening in anyones lifetime.
-------
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
People only upgrade their browsers when they think there is suficent need.
I work in the design business and always tell junior designers if there is is something that you cant do at the moment inside the html4 spec or using flash 4 then you need to revise your design skills so you can do it.
the fact that you can doesnt always meen you should
people using version 3 or so browsers understand that they might not be seeing the page the way it was designed but that doesn't mean that you should block them from seeing the content.
i even use lynx some days, just cos i want to. most news sites can still be read through lynx. a piece of js that tells me to upgrade to a new version of lynx is just silly
-------
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
I have had quite some experience with dodged up dv tapes (from doing filming in some extreme climates)
You very rarely see dropped frames.
Because dv stores the data in chunks you get dropped chunks. ie. small squares in the film will pause and then race foward as they recieve data again.
Bad enough damage and most decks will stop. some even crash (power off and on to get them going again!!)
A visual efect we made once had us taking tiny tiny needles and punching holes in the tape so that it went all crazy and digital like.
-------
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
this just improves the reliability. I normally carry arround two disks of the same think if I am forced to use floppies (no ftp access at school) but spanning a file over 10 - 20 disks just makes it impossible to carry 2 coppies. by packing more on it just helps people like me have more assurance
:(
(except you prolly need new drives
-------
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
What i've wanted to know is if you have a plant (say rice) and engineer into it some genes from an animal (say steak or meatballs).... and heres the tricky part......... would it be vegeterian or not??
-------
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
this is the crux of it
The patent is entitled, ``Method of Reading and Writing Files on Nonerasable Storage Media,'' and describes a method of achieving ``apparent erasability.'' This enables features such as ``packet writing'' of small files, ``drive-letter access,'' the ability to drag-and-drop files, and the capability to randomly erase separate files encoded on nonerasable or rewriteable DVD and CD-R optical disks used in laser recording/retrieval systems.
HP cd writers have had a context menu and task tray app to do this for years.
Just one more reason that I live in New Zealand
----
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
Mac osX does use open gl and Apple got help from Alias|Wavefront (make Maya and Studio, owned by SGI)
from the apple website: Apple has also integrated OpenGL -- the blisteringhot 3D technology used by games like Quake 3Arena from id Software, and heavy-duty authoring tools like Maya from Alias/Wavefront -- into Mac OS X. And the state-of-the-art plumbing in Darwin actually boosts OpenGL's performance to a whole new level on Mac OS X, making it the ultimate PC platform for 3D games and eye-popping photorealistic graphics
From what I understand. you can make 3d acceleration speed up 2d by simply making the desktop a 3d object (or series of) that is viewed straight on.
3d isnt all perspective and volumetric fog
although E. with fog might be fun, Cataract simulator anyone??????
----
Drink Coffee - Do Stupid Things Faster And With More Energy!
there will always be higher resolution monitors, i have seen a coupple of stories on /. in the last coupple of months talking about 200dpi monitors.
;)
if my monitor (17"trinitron, 1280x1024) was instantly replaced with a 200dpi one, the graphics card would have to keep up with 2900x387 or some silly resolution like that. none of the 3d cards on the market get even get close to that resolution, and ofcouse i want that at 2000fps (and a monitor refresh rate to match!)
and what about fullscreen video at that resolution, the pipelines needed for that would have to have the decoder chip on the graphics card.
what about 200dpi in 3d??? we havent started on what kind of graphics card it would take to drive a 3d holigram projector at 8,000,000 dots per cubic inch
bats = bugs
ok ok.
l ickworker=13186001283783000&nocache=5826# and circle some more of them cute wee craters.
its now 4 hours after i last started playing with this and I have seen and circled over 562 craters. even put up with a slashdotting or two (clicking reload every minute utill te page DID load)
This is just a game for those intrested in space. why would people bother to look at nasa's slow loading images of mars when they can look at some varied and interesting images and feel like they are doing something semi useful at the same time.
If anyone feels like continuing my good work for the afternoon click on http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/crater-marking?c
we could even make click worker id 13186001283783000 team slashdot
bats = bugs
If enough people do this then nasa will have to take notice. they have seen how much the seti @ home project has lifted the profile of seti. who even knew what it standed for before they started that.
The webpage uses a VERY well made java (or something similar) applet that is a lot of fun to use. Congratulations to whoever at nasa thought up and built this.
I have only been doing it for the last half hour but have already clicked up a hundred craters.
I know what I'm doing all afternoon
bats = bugs
well in a news story on television (tv one news in New Zealand) it had a quote from sony that the target market is 18 to 30 year old males.
/.'s market too?
:)
isn't that a large chunk of
how long before we see ps2 banner adds on slashdot
bats = bugs
it seems that intel is folowing the lead of Microsoft.
Windows had 2 product lines. one was windows 9x and one was NT. They have recently released a slightly dummed down version of their high end product (NT) targeted at geeks/power users/business, their most popular line (win 9x) has been dummed down even more and is now the os of choice for "joe home user"
Now if we look at Intel they seem to be doing the same thing:
there once was a chip for everyone (pentium x range) and a chip for the diehard servers (xeon)
Now the new version of intels chip for everyone has been dummed down (had its SMP support pulled) and is now targeted at "joe home multimeda watching user"
Now all the powerusers who want smp and do some real processing have to move up a product line and get the more expensive Xeon chips.
So we end up with cheeper chips for those who dont notice the difference and those who want professional power have to pay professional prices.
bats = bugs
well this piece from a New Zealand newspaper titled "MIR Headed Our Way" warns about how pieces are likely to fall over a reasonabbly populated country.
bats = bugs
Much of this was done for the benift of New Zealand (Australasia is not just Australia), who as a country with a huge percentage of net users and a huge uptake of dsl and cable, suck most of what we look at (pron, /.) from the US.
;Fitted to the cable maintenance vessel, CS Pacific Guardian, the Southern Cross ROV has bulldozer-like tracks that enable it to move along the sea floor at depths of up to 2,500 metres. It is also equipped with six horizontal and four vertical thrusters to enable it to "free swim" where the seabed is too soft to support the weight of the ROV.
Over half of this new pipe was paid for by the NZ telco Telecom. and from their press releases they plan there will be no spare bandwith by 2002
But the coolest thing about the cable has to be the cable healing robot robot
; ;
bats = bugs
it has already been stated here on /. that the p4 will not be able to support smp. It is being pitched as a "multimedia chip" much as the failed and aging mediaGX chip was.
bats = bugs
its out the back hunting with good ol' things like gopher
you are forgetting the old voodoo 2's. with 2 in one box and an sli cable (anyone know what sli stands for??).
each one does an alternate line of each image. this is pci only but I dont see motherboards with 2 agp slots appearing before the "next big thing"tm comes along
can anyone tell me how close to a prime time release mozilla is? I have been using since m16 and find it a refreshing change to think that when ever i get a crash (quite rare :) I can just say "not quite finished" instead of "dum *#(%@ bug ridden nasty code *#^@^*%^@# "