I was actualy surprised to see the first 2 photos, using the "cross eyed" method. I am fairly used to seeing stereograms in chemistry and biology textbooks, and they have exclusively used the second and third photo group method for viewing stereograms - kind of a stare into the distance and the image will appear method. The cross eye method (pics 1&2) seem more tiring to look at for any length of time.
Well I searched on E-bay for user ID's for slashdot, and didn't find any. I bet that there's some dork out there who will be willing to buy low digit slashdot IDs and then change the name to theirs, just to seem more 'leet.
I don't think I'm going to get much for my UID - just under 23,000....Bah!
Set up their office any-way they want. One of my colleagues just set up his office about a year ago. I advised him to go with Apple for ease of use, but he wanted Windows - and promptly got hit with one of the big viruses, which shut down his office, until the hospitals computers were cleaned.
He called me complaining that I should have tried harder to convince him to switch away from Windows.
Read this book by Oliver Sacks (ISBN 0-684-85394-9), the famed neurologist (the movie Awakenings is about him).
Anyway, one of the small stories in the book is a bout a man who had a very minor stroke which affected the area of the brain that only recognizes faces. The man would recognize people by their voice, rhythym of their walk, etc. Oddly enough, too, is that the brain did not 'know" that it had been affected, and the mans brain could not grasp the fact that faces exist. Fascinating stuff
I must say that they (Gentoo) have made it pretty easy to install. I've been using Linux for a year now as an end user (Mandrake and more recently Suse) and I found this easier to install than I thought it would be.
There are about 20 pages of instructions on howto install the system, which after I printed it out, was much easier than I thought it would be. There is a large selection of software available from their site (games, sys utils, etc) and the whole system makes installing them very easy. The time spent compiling the program is prolly about as much as I would spend looking for it (and dealing with RPM hell)....
Overall it feels very snappy/quick and very consistent (I was beginning to find Mandrake a little flaky after 2 years of using 'drake).
I dunno, I just like it. Pretty much everyone now has an extra 10 gig or so on their hard drives, and installing this (and the new 2.6 kernel!)is pretty fun.
There is no such word as virii. The computer usage of this word stems from the medical word virus and the correct pluralization is VIRUSES - Dorlands 28th ed Medical dictionary. No doctor that I know uses the word virii..we all use viruses.
The website www.silentcomputing.com has a great review of many quiet/silent computing solutions. The Seasonic PSU is extrememly silent and more efficient than 95% of PSUs out there which will pay for itself shortly.
A nice trick is to swap out the PSU fan with a quieter one if you don't want to spring the $60 for a new PSU.
I bought a hard drive cooler/ silencer by coolermaster and it didn't quiet my harddrives noise at all. They claim it silences hard drive noise, but I don't see how it could - it's just a metal case...NOT recommended.
MOst PSU's are really noisy. I replaced my PSU fan with Panaflo fans and I can barely hear them even up close to them. You could also try the PSU's made by Seasonic - the quietest fan cooled PSUs on the market - much quieter than Vantec/enermax/coolermaster/allied/antec. A bonus for the Seasonic PSUs is that they're fairly more efficient than almost all other PSUs, and that translates in BIG electricity savings if your computer is on 24/7
Most people just don't hear them above the roar of their 3 or 4 or 5 fans on their computer. The Maxtors I've had make a fair amount of noise whine I've noticed. I recently put a Seagate Barracuda and can't hear it at all - on average they run almost a half Bel quiter than the Maxtors (2.5 vs 3.0) . Of course I've water cooled my system and put inside Panaflo fans on the case and PSU.
I have to look at the power lights to see if it's on.
I thought I read somewhere that the used cheap, cheap cheap labor in some third world countrie, and basically had people just sit at a computer and write down the answers to what they saw on the screen, thus by=passing this defense.
The place where I keep most of my CDs... The floor of my car. Some loose, some in a binder, the store-bought ones in their case. All the latest ones, and the newer mixes that I've burned all go into a pile above my sun-visor. Yah, some have some pretty fierce scratches, but it's a handy place to keep them. My wife doesn't like it when I pull a sharp left -occasionally a few break loose and fall into her lap startling her..
Well, I was able to get 2.6test 4 compiled and working on my box, EXCEPT for the bloody NVIDIA drivers!. Stuck in text mode - couldn't get X up and running, even afer DLing those patches from that german site for the NVidia stuff.
I'm an orthopaedic surgeon, and we do plenty of 'scopes (arthroscopy = placing instruments and camera into joints to perform/aid in surgery). Within 5 seonds of a residents first time at the scope, you can tell whether they have played video games.
I definately played more games than my fellow residents, and was generally reguarded as the best in arthroscopy in my class.(Yes this is anecdotal evidence, but probably 90% of the OB/Gyns, general surgeons and orthopaedists that I have worked with think that playing video games helps!)
This is probably the only time in our training where we are encouraged to play video games!(Well, that is if you are sub-optimal at scoping.)
This is IF the jury finds him guilty as accused. I imagine the defense lawyer will want a jury who has never touched a computer, so that he doesnt wind up with 12 spam angered jurors, who throw the book at his client.
How about as a suggestion for posting guidelines. Most of the initial replies I have seen so far on this article indicated that they didn't read the article. Can you make a link counter, or cookie system that automatically mods down the posters score by 1 point if they haven't read at least one of the links? I know there could be problems with this, but it'll help reduce the chaff, and improve the S/N ratio. Just a thought
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I was actualy surprised to see the first 2 photos, using the "cross eyed" method. I am fairly used to seeing stereograms in chemistry and biology textbooks, and they have exclusively used the second and third photo group method for viewing stereograms - kind of a stare into the distance and the image will appear method. The cross eye method (pics 1&2) seem more tiring to look at for any length of time.
Well I searched on E-bay for user ID's for slashdot, and didn't find any. I bet that there's some dork out there who will be willing to buy low digit slashdot IDs and then change the name to theirs, just to seem more 'leet.
I don't think I'm going to get much for my UID - just under 23,000....Bah!
He called me complaining that I should have tried harder to convince him to switch away from Windows.
Anyway, one of the small stories in the book is a bout a man who had a very minor stroke which affected the area of the brain that only recognizes faces. The man would recognize people by their voice, rhythym of their walk, etc. Oddly enough, too, is that the brain did not 'know" that it had been affected, and the mans brain could not grasp the fact that faces exist. Fascinating stuff
He didn't say that his grade went up... it could've been changed DOWN.
Either way, it doesn't make sense that he would do it.
There are about 20 pages of instructions on howto install the system, which after I printed it out, was much easier than I thought it would be. There is a large selection of software available from their site (games, sys utils, etc) and the whole system makes installing them very easy. The time spent compiling the program is prolly about as much as I would spend looking for it (and dealing with RPM hell)....
Overall it feels very snappy/quick and very consistent (I was beginning to find Mandrake a little flaky after 2 years of using 'drake).
I dunno, I just like it. Pretty much everyone now has an extra 10 gig or so on their hard drives, and installing this (and the new 2.6 kernel!)is pretty fun.
A simple goole search will also show which is the most popular usage.
computer viruses 3,690,000 hits
computer virii 80,000 hits
3 out of 3 on line dictionaries also used viruses as the plural for computer virus..
There is no such word as virii.
The computer usage of this word stems from the medical word virus and the correct pluralization is VIRUSES - Dorlands 28th ed Medical dictionary.
No doctor that I know uses the word virii..we all use viruses.
A nice trick is to swap out the PSU fan with a quieter one if you don't want to spring the $60 for a new PSU.
Panaflo makes some of the quietest fans out there
I bought a hard drive cooler/ silencer by coolermaster and it didn't quiet my harddrives noise at all. They claim it silences hard drive noise, but I don't see how it could - it's just a metal case...NOT recommended.
MOst PSU's are really noisy. I replaced my PSU fan with Panaflo fans and I can barely hear them even up close to them. You could also try the PSU's made by Seasonic - the quietest fan cooled PSUs on the market - much quieter than Vantec /enermax /coolermaster /allied/antec. A bonus for the Seasonic PSUs is that they're fairly more efficient than almost all other PSUs, and that translates in BIG electricity savings if your computer is on 24/7
I have to look at the power lights to see if it's on.
I thought I read somewhere that the used cheap, cheap cheap labor in some third world countrie, and basically had people just sit at a computer and write down the answers to what they saw on the screen, thus by=passing this defense.
It wont install under the latest version of WineX - generates an error and stops the installation.
I cant get it to work under WIneX, and pretty much most windows programs I can get to work with it.
Oh well..
The place where I keep most of my CDs... The floor of my car. Some loose, some in a binder, the store-bought ones in their case. All the latest ones, and the newer mixes that I've burned all go into a pile above my sun-visor. Yah, some have some pretty fierce scratches, but it's a handy place to keep them. My wife doesn't like it when I pull a sharp left -occasionally a few break loose and fall into her lap startling her..
Sigh....... I'll guess I'll have to wait..
I don't intend to be inflammatory or a troll, but I do think it was a Microsoft flight sim.
Within 5 seonds of a residents first time at the scope, you can tell whether they have played video games.
I definately played more games than my fellow residents, and was generally reguarded as the best in arthroscopy in my class.(Yes this is anecdotal evidence, but probably 90% of the OB/Gyns, general surgeons and orthopaedists that I have worked with think that playing video games helps!)
This is probably the only time in our training where we are encouraged to play video games!(Well, that is if you are sub-optimal at scoping.)
This is IF the jury finds him guilty as accused. I imagine the defense lawyer will want a jury who has never touched a computer, so that he doesnt wind up with 12 spam angered jurors, who throw the book at his client.
How about as a suggestion for posting guidelines. Most of the initial replies I have seen so far on this article indicated that they didn't read the article. Can you make a link counter, or cookie system that automatically mods down the posters score by 1 point if they haven't read at least one of the links? I know there could be problems with this, but it'll help reduce the chaff, and improve the S/N ratio. Just a thought
Im DLing it at a measley 25 kb/sec.
Bah should be called something more like
BitDrip
With the security record of Windows, a $250 cracking reward isn't cheap when you have to pay it out several thousands of times
Uh, Try Staten Island, NY (Ramones)
Every once and a while, that guy, Anonymous coward, comes up with something funny
"Hmm, I better install this new Microsoft e-mail update."
I predict a much worse disaster than the 2000 bug.