Perhaps it should be reading the web pages that link to a clip and finding some context from that. Esp. when the computer doesn't know who's talking context becomes evertying. Obviously gathering context from sourrounding audio isn't sure fire.
That's what I wonder. If this heads up display is basically just a video screen, then you loose all real depth perception. Sure you can still drive, but I can't imagine it'd be better. (cool sure) Also, where else is heads up technology used for such a high information density? Arn't heads up images translucent? This would be very cool if it made the driver precieve the images overlaied in space on their real view, but if the images floats at arms-length and is flat, I can see this causing accadents.
Off topic, but do any companies make zippers other than YKK? Take a look at any zippers on anything at all. 99% chance it'll say YKK on it... and I thought microsoft had a monopoly:-)
It may insult all mentioned religions, but it mentions almost all religions so it's not really biased. I'd say it's more poking fun at rather than insulting. If you are insulted that your religion can be summed up so easily, perhaps you should try a different religion:-)
As an Episcopalian, I find "Shit happens, let's hold a procession" quite funny. It's funny not because it's making fun of Episcopalians, but because to an extent, it's true.
The risk I see is that of a lawsuit. Sure it'd be just another stupid suit, but I could just see it happening. If "War of the Worlds" had happened in the '90s I'm sure there'd have been hundreds of huge lawsuits for the people who jumped out of windows or whatever. (That was NBC also, no?)
If people end up being victimized this new year the fingers will begin pointing and what better target than the media.
I'm most likely wrong in which case correct me, but isn't capacitence proportional to the areas of the two "plates" and their distance apart? Doesnt' that mean that if the scale is halved, the surface areas are quartered and the distance is halved, so the capacitence goes up by a factor of two for the seperation and down by a factor of four from the distance making the real capacitence go down liniarly with respect to the scale.
The resistance would (if i'm not forgetting:-) then go up by a factor of four from being proportional to cross sectional area.
Not only are there the same "number" of odd numbers as integers, but there are the same "number" of integers as rational numbers. There are infinitely many more irrational numbers than rational numbers. There are also far more than infinitely many more surreal numbers than that but that's a different story...
How do I love thee, let me count the ways...
one, two, skip a few, 99, 100, skip a few more, {1,2,3...| }
Scuicide is not a choice in the usual sense of the word. I would agree that there are times when a mentally sound person would decide to kill themselves, be it for a political reason or painfull terminal illness. Most of the time, though, when a person trys to kill themself they are experiencing some sort of mental illness which has lead them to be someone other than themself.
When a human kills themself, it is their doing phisically, but mentally it is not them.
Either they will delete all mp3's, etc. or none at all. There is *no* way for someone to know if these files are related to school work if big brother doesn't know the context. I think they are trying to just scare people off.
Universities are created to spread information and I think most professors find that notion fundamental to their value system.
It sounds like the university wants to cover it's asets but can a university really get anywhere if the professors would argue that the intilectual propterty is not theirs?
"that's the matter of taste. one thing I hate about the IE is smooth scrolling (which sucks a lot). other then that I don't want ANY browser interface, I want to see web pages."
I find smooth scroling one of the best features of IE. I find it makes pages easier to read because I can easily keep my place as I scroll down the page. I'd hope it will be an *option* in NS5.
Um... it's been based on Debian for a long time now. If you look all the packages are.deb files. Just because it has similar aspects to Mandrake doesn't mean it's a derivative.
You could. This sort of thing is done by recording white noise. If I have a secure chanel and send you hours of white noise, I can then xor my data against my coppy of the noise, then send you the result. you can then get the data back. withought a secure chanel, it would be security through obscurity, but if I want to email you something secret and I called you, telling you that I'd xor'd it against a piece of music, the chances are no one could decrypt this. Of course the way sugnificant bits go in 16 bit music, I'd suspect that the first several bits of every other byte would be the same 90% of the time, so it wouldn't help much... It could be done, though. --Ben
>Effective April 2000 Certain Web Sites Must >Obtain Parental Consent before Collecting >Personal Information from Children
Clearly this is an April fool joke. Right?
Seriously, though. If web sites have to have parental concent for kids under 13, doesn't that mean that they have to validate everyone's age? Or is this gonna be like at the movies where if you don't ask for a student ticket you don't get carded? (That works some places, kids. Go try it:-)
If you watch carefully, the computers in that fine film have multiple personality dissorder. In onc scene, a computer is a mac (you can see the white menubar across the top, mac style windows) then a file gets saved onto c:\ then while the file is saving, the mouse cursor becomes an hourglass... you clearly see mac dialogs, etc. then there is a c:\ text prompt at which point he turns the comptuer off...
In terms of cool looking computer UI in movies, translucent text windows are frequent, as well as far out window shapes. Clearly Hollywood has found Enlightenment.... and Eterm.
Remember, the UI in a movie is *never* inacurate. They just have an E theme you dont.
KDE may be in the lead at the moment, but (IMHO) It's not "winning"
I recently tried KDE just to see what the fuss was about. It does do cool things, but I found it a bit kludgy in comparison to Gnome. This is my personal oppinion, not ment as flame bait.)
My understanding is that there is a Bible story (any one rememeber which one?) in which there is a round building/wall/whatever that explicitly has a diamiter of xunits, and a circumfrence of 3x units. The Bible _must_ be 100% correct, of course, so pi=3.
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Knuth has done some other non-computer stuff. For instance the book Surreal Numbers
or 3:16. Lots of interesting things.
--Ben
Perhaps it should be reading the web pages that link to a clip and finding some context from that. Esp. when the computer doesn't know who's talking context becomes evertying. Obviously gathering context from sourrounding audio isn't sure fire.
--Ben
I can see it now...
"Objects in windshield are closer than they appear"
That's what I wonder. If this heads up display is basically just a video screen, then you loose all real depth perception. Sure you can still drive, but I can't imagine it'd be better. (cool sure)
Also, where else is heads up technology used for such a high information density? Arn't heads up images translucent? This would be very cool if it made the driver precieve the images overlaied in space on their real view, but if the images floats at arms-length and is flat, I can see this causing accadents.
Off topic, but do any companies make zippers other than YKK? Take a look at any zippers on anything at all. 99% chance it'll say YKK on it... and I thought microsoft had a monopoly :-)
--Ben
As an Episcopalian, I find "Shit happens, let's hold a procession" quite funny. It's funny not because it's making fun of Episcopalians, but because to an extent, it's true.
Get a grip.
If people end up being victimized this new year the fingers will begin pointing and what better target than the media.
The resistance would (if i'm not forgetting :-) then go up by a factor of four from being proportional to cross sectional area.
Isn't the real problem quantum tunneling, though?
How do I love thee, let me count the ways...
one, two, skip a few, 99, 100, skip a few more, {1,2,3...| }
When a human kills themself, it is their doing phisically, but mentally it is not them.
that sounds like VMware does the same thing.... wine too for that matter...
Either they will delete all mp3's, etc. or none at all. There is *no* way for someone to know if these files are related to school work if big brother doesn't know the context. I think they are trying to just scare people off.
Universities are created to spread information and I think most professors find that notion fundamental to their value system.
It sounds like the university wants to cover it's asets but can a university really get anywhere if the professors would argue that the intilectual propterty is not theirs?
"that's the matter of taste. one thing I hate about the IE is smooth scrolling (which sucks a lot). other then that I don't want ANY browser interface, I want to see web pages."
I find smooth scroling one of the best features of IE. I find it makes pages easier to read because I can easily keep my place as I scroll down the page. I'd hope it will be an *option* in NS5.
--Ben
1984
I think that's the sort of mentality involved.
Um... it's been based on Debian for a long time now. If you look all the packages are .deb files. Just because it has similar aspects to Mandrake doesn't mean it's a derivative.
--Ben
You could. This sort of thing is done by recording white noise. If I have a secure chanel and send you hours of white noise, I can then xor my data against my coppy of the noise, then send you the result. you can then get the data back. withought a secure chanel, it would be security through obscurity, but if I want to email you something secret and I called you, telling you that I'd xor'd it against a piece of music, the chances are no one could decrypt this. Of course the way sugnificant bits go in 16 bit music, I'd suspect that the first several bits of every other byte would be the same 90% of the time, so it wouldn't help much...
It could be done, though.
--Ben
>Effective April 2000 Certain Web Sites Must
:-)
>Obtain Parental Consent before Collecting
>Personal Information from Children
Clearly this is an April fool joke. Right?
Seriously, though. If web sites have to have parental concent for kids under 13, doesn't that mean that they have to validate everyone's age? Or is this gonna be like at the movies where if you don't ask for a student ticket you don't get carded? (That works some places, kids. Go try it
--Ben
If you watch carefully, the computers in that fine film have multiple personality dissorder. In onc scene, a computer is a mac (you can see the white menubar across the top, mac style windows) then a file gets saved onto c:\ then while the file is saving, the mouse cursor becomes an hourglass... you clearly see mac dialogs, etc. then there is a c:\ text prompt at which point he turns the comptuer off...
:-)
funny movie though,
In terms of cool looking computer UI in movies, translucent text windows are frequent, as well as far out window shapes. Clearly Hollywood has found Enlightenment.... and Eterm.
Remember, the UI in a movie is *never* inacurate. They just have an E theme you dont.
--Ben
>Since when has Microsoft been interested in
:-)
>locking vendors into a single platform? Since
>when have Nuns been Catholic?
I actually know at least one Episcopalian nun.
(A agree, though, most nuns are Catholic
--Ben
KDE may be in the lead at the moment, but (IMHO) It's not "winning"
I recently tried KDE just to see what the fuss was about. It does do cool things, but I found it a bit kludgy in comparison to Gnome.
This is my personal oppinion, not ment as flame bait.)
just my 2e-2$
If you follow Enlightenment, a minor version number is not a minor version number :-)
If you don't like the button-1 mouse menu on the desktop background, you can change it... E's nice like that :-)
:-)
look at the documentation (middle click on the desktop and go to Help) there's a section on configuring menus
My understanding is that there is a Bible story (any one rememeber which one?) in which there is a round building/wall/whatever that explicitly has a diamiter of xunits, and a circumfrence of 3x units. The Bible _must_ be 100% correct, of course, so pi=3.
One thing's irrational... Is it people or pi?
--Ben