Many of you will be familiar with the idea of "shells" of electrons inside an atom, representing groups of possible energy levels for an electron, each able to hold just one electron.
Not true. The first shell can hold two, and the upper ones can hold more than that. I did a google search for "electron shells" and took the first link; it talks about this a bit at the bottom of the page. In fact the idea of the noble gasses depends on the fact that they have the properties that they do because each sucessive shell is maxed out, thus they are inert. You could even say that the idea of the periodic table organization is built upon the idea of the filling of electron shells.
Perhaps you just got this confused with the quark theory and misspoke?
but then, if the artist is succesfull, the artist pays back all of the money with their share of the profits. Not to mention that their share of the profits is very small, since the record company takes most of it.
Maybe someone should have investigated this before raising a stink about it.
yeah, they aren't great modems, but I bought one (got it for free with the rebate at compusa). I put it in my linux machine and downloaded a kernal module for it. It works pretty well.
I used to work for a company that was a bit "ahead of the curve" in outsourcing work overseas. (that was about the only thing they were ahead of the curve on, to be sure!). consiracy theories abounded (such as getting rid of all regular employes with n years to be replaced with the overseas folks).
All this, and now they are getting rid of most of their overseas contractors and staffing up a bit. They have found that the work is just not up to par. You spend more time cleaning up after these people than you save.
And some of these people are better than others, but you have to pay more to get more. After you pay for better contractors, as it turns out, you can hire americans for not much more and get better software.
This type of thing might happen a bit, but I don't forsee a large turn to overseas IT work.
Actaully, if you rtfa (I didn't read the entire thing either), it says that it was an improper for loop to generate this lookup table. This I think was a software problem: they used software to generate this lookup table. It doesn't really matter what the did with the data (burned it into silicon or printed it on a report).
Um, yeah. I see the same thing you describe (glad to hear my area's not the only one). I am glad to have a job that is stable; that is pretty much it. After being unemployed for six months, I'll take what I can get.
My experience has always been that this type of crap is always followed by "save the company" pushes. Basicly, (we are laying off your staff)|(cutting your pay), but need you to work extra to take up the slack, and by the way, we have these new projects that need to go out faster than usual, because we need to save the company. If you don't work harder, faster, smarter, you will be out of a job too.
Dude, get another job. Its not that bad. There are better places to work. Trust me, I've been to both worlds. Don't let them tell you that "it isn't any better anywhere else". They lie.
I feel for you, like I said, I've been there, and I can't say that I'm not there now.
Doctors do have people stand over them and dictate what they are alowed to do. But instead of a person that you can sometimes reason with (just the thought that you can reason with them keep me sane), it is a faceless buruacrat from an HMO. Sometimes its not even a buruacrat, they (some HMOs) are using computers to reject 40% of requests and claims.
I don't think of it as "dead-end", but maybe as a "losing game". I don't think we (programmers) can ever know as much as we want or need to know, but we get by somehow. We are constantly fighting against these issues, and are holding our ground, only because they (business) needs us. That is life, many jobs are like this. (maybe the medical profession, how many doctors know everything we would like them to know?)
Also, my approach to programming for a job is this: do what you love to do and money will follow. Maybe not all the money that you dream of, but if you love it enough and work enough, you can make a living. But you probably won't be a rock star.
Still have to take my hands off the keyboard, but hey, nothing's perfect. Someday I will take the leap and try something out. I guess my problem is that I can't test something long-term without buying it, and I'm cheap.
Unless I am mistaken (it has happened in the past, I'm sure of it!) the cursor would move faster. When translating the circular movement to a horizontal line, the further from your head, less movement would be required to trace an equal length. Think about it exagerated to the point of a 6 foot 2x4 sitting on a desk that you are looking at from left to right horizontaly. It would require more movement to scan the section in front of you, but as you move on to the end, less rotation of your head it required to keep it moving, until (say an 6 mile long 2x4) it requires hardly any movement all to keep scanning its length. Whenever I am presented with something I have trouble visualizing, I imagine it exagerated, sometimes to infinity (the angular motion of your head would approach zero as the linear tracking approched infinity). Hope that helps.
That said, I think that within the confines of a small space (a standard or even a large monitor) the effects would be very small, maybe even negligible, but like you said, I haven't tried it, so that part is purely conjecture.
I have always wanted a device that would track my movements this way, not for the mouse, but for windows activation. I always use focus-follows-mouse (even in windows (look for xmouse2k)). I am a programmer, so I am usually typing, but I have to move the mouse mostly to change windows (type code, compile, run, debug, repeat). But if the active window was whatever window I was looking at (touch typing needed, I guess) then I wouldn't ever need the mouse, except for graphics (which needs more fine precision than I expect this 'dot on my forehead' can do, I seems to me).
Go to your preferences: Homepage, down about half the way, you will see "customize slashboxes". Check the stuff you want, leaving out "slashdot poll". (all of the default stuff is in bold.)
I have found that if a book is call "bible" by its author/publisher, it never is (not that I have see, anyway; flames/exceptions to/dev/null;-). If it is called "bible" by users, it usually is.
I think not. I would bet that this is a pretty high latency connection to the internet. Thus, playing pretty much any kind of action game would be useless.
Graphics hardware gets to power the Windows shell, and compositing is going to be the big deal. Windows will be treated like surfaces, as opposed to rectangular blocks of bits, as they are now. Everything, in effect, is a texture. GPUs certainly know how to move textures around, and manipulate them, and work with them. Longhorn puts the pressure on the 3D engines of GPUs, and Microsoft is exploring minimum hardware requirements and standards for OEMs to aim for.
If windows are textures, it seems like it will be pretty difficult to get perfect 1-to-1 mapping of pixels via a graphics gpu. Right now, the only thing that is a big deal is "jaggies", but noone expects a perfect image of textures. I know part of this is the game itself, but it is very hard to make textures fit exactly how you want them to.
Sounds neat tho, if they can pull it off. Middle of the next decade indeed.
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but most programming on cable/satellite tv is commertial anyway. So that doesn't really solve anything.
Or are you talking about the pay channels? I don't see that replacing commertial tv anytime soon.
Where did these 4 points come from? Did you just make it up? Just because you think something should be, doesn't mean that that is how it is.
All kidding aside, sounds pretty neat.
Great, then he will want to change all the rest to reflect changes to Episode I. Thus generating a truly recursive series?
We could be getting DVD releases of this stuff for years to come.
Danger, Danger!! [robot swings his arms in terror]
Nice, but you misstated something:
Many of you will be familiar with the idea of "shells" of electrons inside an atom, representing groups of possible energy levels for an electron, each able to hold just one electron.
Not true. The first shell can hold two, and the upper ones can hold more than that. I did a google search for "electron shells" and took the first link; it talks about this a bit at the bottom of the page. In fact the idea of the noble gasses depends on the fact that they have the properties that they do because each sucessive shell is maxed out, thus they are inert. You could even say that the idea of the periodic table organization is built upon the idea of the filling of electron shells.
Perhaps you just got this confused with the quark theory and misspoke?
HTH.
but then, if the artist is succesfull, the artist pays back all of the money with their share of the profits. Not to mention that their share of the profits is very small, since the record company takes most of it.
Who's getting screwed? Poor record companies.
Microtel winmodems work fine in Linux.
Maybe someone should have investigated this before raising a stink about it.
yeah, they aren't great modems, but I bought one (got it for free with the rebate at compusa). I put it in my linux machine and downloaded a kernal module for it. It works pretty well.
just fyi
I used to work for a company that was a bit "ahead of the curve" in outsourcing work overseas. (that was about the only thing they were ahead of the curve on, to be sure!). consiracy theories abounded (such as getting rid of all regular employes with n years to be replaced with the overseas folks).
All this, and now they are getting rid of most of their overseas contractors and staffing up a bit. They have found that the work is just not up to par. You spend more time cleaning up after these people than you save.
And some of these people are better than others, but you have to pay more to get more. After you pay for better contractors, as it turns out, you can hire americans for not much more and get better software.
This type of thing might happen a bit, but I don't forsee a large turn to overseas IT work.
Actaully, if you rtfa (I didn't read the entire thing either), it says that it was an improper for loop to generate this lookup table. This I think was a software problem: they used software to generate this lookup table. It doesn't really matter what the did with the data (burned it into silicon or printed it on a report).
Hm, yes. Seems state government isn't a good place for anyone, even the fat cats.
I guess I should have said "military".
Um, yeah. I see the same thing you describe (glad to hear my area's not the only one). I am glad to have a job that is stable; that is pretty much it. After being unemployed for six months, I'll take what I can get.
My experience has always been that this type of crap is always followed by "save the company" pushes. Basicly, (we are laying off your staff)|(cutting your pay), but need you to work extra to take up the slack, and by the way, we have these new projects that need to go out faster than usual, because we need to save the company. If you don't work harder, faster, smarter, you will be out of a job too.
I'm glad I work for the government now....
Dude, get another job. Its not that bad. There are better places to work. Trust me, I've been to both worlds. Don't let them tell you that "it isn't any better anywhere else". They lie.
I feel for you, like I said, I've been there, and I can't say that I'm not there now.
Doctors do have people stand over them and dictate what they are alowed to do. But instead of a person that you can sometimes reason with (just the thought that you can reason with them keep me sane), it is a faceless buruacrat from an HMO. Sometimes its not even a buruacrat, they (some HMOs) are using computers to reject 40% of requests and claims.
I know what you mean tho.
I don't think of it as "dead-end", but maybe as a "losing game". I don't think we (programmers) can ever know as much as we want or need to know, but we get by somehow. We are constantly fighting against these issues, and are holding our ground, only because they (business) needs us. That is life, many jobs are like this. (maybe the medical profession, how many doctors know everything we would like them to know?)
Also, my approach to programming for a job is this: do what you love to do and money will follow. Maybe not all the money that you dream of, but if you love it enough and work enough, you can make a living. But you probably won't be a rock star.
Still have to take my hands off the keyboard, but hey, nothing's perfect. Someday I will take the leap and try something out. I guess my problem is that I can't test something long-term without buying it, and I'm cheap.
I'll keep it in mind.
I think his idea was to hover the mouse on something for "one second" to follow the link. I think that would drive me crazy, tho.
;0)
Also, if your hands aren't on the mouse, they are probably on the keyboard. (let's hope they are on the keyboard
Unless I am mistaken (it has happened in the past, I'm sure of it!) the cursor would move faster. When translating the circular movement to a horizontal line, the further from your head, less movement would be required to trace an equal length. Think about it exagerated to the point of a 6 foot 2x4 sitting on a desk that you are looking at from left to right horizontaly. It would require more movement to scan the section in front of you, but as you move on to the end, less rotation of your head it required to keep it moving, until (say an 6 mile long 2x4) it requires hardly any movement all to keep scanning its length. Whenever I am presented with something I have trouble visualizing, I imagine it exagerated, sometimes to infinity (the angular motion of your head would approach zero as the linear tracking approched infinity). Hope that helps.
That said, I think that within the confines of a small space (a standard or even a large monitor) the effects would be very small, maybe even negligible, but like you said, I haven't tried it, so that part is purely conjecture.
I have always wanted a device that would track my movements this way, not for the mouse, but for windows activation. I always use focus-follows-mouse (even in windows (look for xmouse2k)). I am a programmer, so I am usually typing, but I have to move the mouse mostly to change windows (type code, compile, run, debug, repeat). But if the active window was whatever window I was looking at (touch typing needed, I guess) then I wouldn't ever need the mouse, except for graphics (which needs more fine precision than I expect this 'dot on my forehead' can do, I seems to me).
Sure, seems like it.
btw, there is something between reading the comment and not reading the comment, its called mis-reading the comment.
You already can.
Go to your preferences: Homepage, down about half the way, you will see "customize slashboxes". Check the stuff you want, leaving out "slashdot poll". (all of the default stuff is in bold.)
It really is that simple.
duh.
I have found that if a book is call "bible" by its author/publisher, it never is (not that I have see, anyway; flames/exceptions to /dev/null ;-).
If it is called "bible" by users, it usually is.
but can you blast away at Wolfenstein?"
I think not. I would bet that this is a pretty high latency connection to the internet. Thus, playing pretty much any kind of action game would be useless.
Graphics hardware gets to power the Windows shell, and compositing is going to be the big deal. Windows will be treated like surfaces, as opposed to rectangular blocks of bits, as they are now. Everything, in effect, is a texture. GPUs certainly know how to move textures around, and manipulate them, and work with them. Longhorn puts the pressure on the 3D engines of GPUs, and Microsoft is exploring minimum hardware requirements and standards for OEMs to aim for.
If windows are textures, it seems like it will be pretty difficult to get perfect 1-to-1 mapping of pixels via a graphics gpu. Right now, the only thing that is a big deal is "jaggies", but noone expects a perfect image of textures. I know part of this is the game itself, but it is very hard to make textures fit exactly how you want them to.
Sounds neat tho, if they can pull it off. Middle of the next decade indeed.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.... oh wait, never mind.
Sorry I just couldn't resist.
next on the list is Slashdot, and anyone else that has run this story, link to a story that links to the story about....