What exactly is a "color professional photograph"? Landscapes? Portraits? Group shots? Sports photography? Photo journalism? Abstracts? Artistic Nudes?
This may be an interesting programming toy but it has little to no use in the real world, unless you have a desire to locate generically boring pictures built to formula. (or, generically boring pictures that have been run through the "ALIPR Picture Score Optimizer" Photoshop filter)
The "theoretical" ways to read data off a zero'ed disk involve looking at a bit on the platter, seeing how close to 0 it is and using that to figure out what it used to be. If it is "0.01" it was probably a zero before, if it's "0.2" it might have been a one. If the disk controller rounds everything down to zero, that isn't possible... which is why the drive needs to be opened up, and why a challenge that requires you to read data from a zero'ed disk without opening up the drive is meaningless.
The import tool may make use of photoshop layers to simplify the process of moving from your image work to actual level; it could also be able to make use of alpha maps and similar extra channels that more common image formats like jpeg lack.
If the tool already exists for the developers, and it already is designed to work with.PSD files (because that is what they use in their workflow) then it might not support other layered image formats.
The conflict between second and third laws in a robot with different weightings to the usual (the third law being more strongly emphasized to prevent loss of the robot) was covered by Asimov in Runaround:
The Mars lander would be in a similar situation; it's very expensive to create and get there, and self preservation is therefore more important than for robots back here on earth.
> Am I the only person who has actively concealed themselves from prying online eyes?
I've done the same, and I'm very happy I did. Searching for my real name comes up with some photographic work and a few old linux mailing list discussions; nothing I'd want to hide. (yes, it's true that in 1997 I wasn't certain how to check for bad disk sectors under linux; I'm not ashamed to admit that!)
I'm more concerned about the horrid football themed myspace page that comes up as the first result.
...lower the prices of games? With new games costing $90-$110 here in Australia I'd love to see that pushed down, and I'll accept in-game ads to do it.
The cynic in me says it won't happen though, and none of teh savings will be passed on to consumers.
In Australia you can raise a complaint with the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. Just go to their website ( http://www.tio.com.au/ ) and submit a complaint.
Once this happens all sorts of management in the offending company get involved, because if they don't solve the problem to your satisfaction within 14 days the TIO steps in and that causes a huge amount of work for the company unless they are clearly and unambiguously correct.
> If it's mission critical, you have redundancy. If you don't > have redundancy, it's not mission critical - you've already > decided you can survive without it.
Ha!
You clearly have never worked in tech support. Sometimes a programmer is told "you're the systadmin" and they have to try and figure things out, while still doing their programming job. Sometimes they get it right; sometimes they screw up basic things like having backups.
Tea. Either black tea with suger (a spoonfull of suger is about 1/6th as much as a can of softdrink) or white tea. I don't mean black-tea-with-milk, white tea is a special way of picking and preparing tea that gives a very light, smooth tea when brewed.
> There's only one unique advantage of online play is when you don't have any friends.
Not true; there is also ease of access. Once you and all your friends are out in the real world with jobs and partners and all those things regular peopel do it's very hard to try and schedule a time to get together to gaming.
MMORPGs let you jump in whenever it's convienient and play online with friends (both from the real-world and that you only know online) whenever it's convienient.
I'd love to be able to play more table-top RPGs with my friend, because I find them a much more enjoyable experience than online RPGs, but it's just not going to happen anytime soon.
I recently bought a 17" LCD monitor. It has excellent colour reproduction and I can't notice any ghosting even when playing FPS games. Is there any reason this same technology can't be used on LCD TVs without the need to make everything flicker? I can only guess that the cost is prohibative once you go beyond a certain screen size, but surely the larger pixel size of TV (as opposed to a high resolution monitor) would make fabrication easier.
They may have a legitmate patent if they have designed some gee-whiz new way to build asyncronous circuits that isn't hideously complicated. I did some circuit design while studying electrical engineering at uni and syncronous is vastly easier to werk with, even at the small scales we were working on with only a dozen components.
Provided the input/output interfaces of the CPU aren't changed the rest of the system won't care if the internal workings of the CPU are clocked, clockless, or performed by thousands of pixies using pen and paper. Clockless input/output lines would certainly make for some interesting design needs accross the entire device, but after a quick read of the arcticle I suspect the changes relate only to the inner workings of the chip.
I used to use a similar style of lawnmower without the rubber skirt (Flymo brand, IIRC) to mow the grass and it did a great job. The biggest benefit was manouverability; you could push it around in any direction. The biggest drawback was moving it when it wasn't on; without the downforce of the blade you had to pickup the entire thing and carry it.
I think the idea is if there's a problem (flat battery, run out of air, etc), you should be close enough to the surface to just swim up. Which is a great theory, but not something I'd want to rely on.
> Maximum Depth: > The intended use of this vehicle is for shallow > water operation.The vehicle should never exceed > its buoy safety length.
Does anyone know what "buoy safety length" actually means? Is there a saftey bouy attached to the subo-doo?
...but enough to allow a remote community to access the internet for moderate email and web access, considering the only other choices are an ISDN line (hideously enxpensive to install, considering the distances involved to the end users) or a modem at 9600 baud (which is all a lot of the rural lines can handle; some won't even go above 2400)
Besides which, it's likely that the data is billed as.35c/MB. A few years back I worked in satellite networking, and that is how all the providers charges for data..35c/MB == $3500/GB, because they use 1000 instead of 1024 as when converting. (that includes the bytes->kB->MB conversions)
.35c/MB seems to be Telstra's default cost for data. This figure includes both transport of the data, as well as providing the data; some satellite network providers will give much cheaper transfer rates but you need to somehow supply the data to their uplink for them, meaning you need to pay extra for an internet link. (assuming you want the remote sites to have internet access)
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What exactly is a "color professional photograph"? Landscapes? Portraits? Group shots? Sports photography? Photo journalism? Abstracts? Artistic Nudes?
This may be an interesting programming toy but it has little to no use in the real world, unless you have a desire to locate generically boring pictures built to formula. (or, generically boring pictures that have been run through the "ALIPR Picture Score Optimizer" Photoshop filter)
The "theoretical" ways to read data off a zero'ed disk involve looking at a bit on the platter, seeing how close to 0 it is and using that to figure out what it used to be. If it is "0.01" it was probably a zero before, if it's "0.2" it might have been a one. If the disk controller rounds everything down to zero, that isn't possible... which is why the drive needs to be opened up, and why a challenge that requires you to read data from a zero'ed disk without opening up the drive is meaningless.
The import tool may make use of photoshop layers to simplify the process of moving from your image work to actual level; it could also be able to make use of alpha maps and similar extra channels that more common image formats like jpeg lack.
If the tool already exists for the developers, and it already is designed to work with .PSD files (because that is what they use in their workflow) then it might not support other layered image formats.
> Well from my understanding of it, you get some people from a crowd and shove them through a compiler
With one slight difference that is exactly my recipie for Crowdsauce!
The conflict between second and third laws in a robot with different weightings to the usual (the third law being more strongly emphasized to prevent loss of the robot) was covered by Asimov in Runaround:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround
The Mars lander would be in a similar situation; it's very expensive to create and get there, and self preservation is therefore more important than for robots back here on earth.
> Am I the only person who has actively concealed themselves from prying online eyes?
I've done the same, and I'm very happy I did. Searching for my real name comes up with some photographic work and a few old linux mailing list discussions; nothing I'd want to hide. (yes, it's true that in 1997 I wasn't certain how to check for bad disk sectors under linux; I'm not ashamed to admit that!)
I'm more concerned about the horrid football themed myspace page that comes up as the first result.
How else do you build a reactor that you can fold up to fit in a laptop?
...lower the prices of games? With new games costing $90-$110 here in Australia I'd love to see that pushed down, and I'll accept in-game ads to do it.
The cynic in me says it won't happen though, and none of teh savings will be passed on to consumers.
...but they wont sell them to you unless you show up with 39 friends.
In Australia you can raise a complaint with the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. Just go to their website ( http://www.tio.com.au/ ) and submit a complaint.
Once this happens all sorts of management in the offending company get involved, because if they don't solve the problem to your satisfaction within 14 days the TIO steps in and that causes a huge amount of work for the company unless they are clearly and unambiguously correct.
> If it's mission critical, you have redundancy. If you don't
> have redundancy, it's not mission critical - you've already
> decided you can survive without it.
Ha!
You clearly have never worked in tech support. Sometimes a programmer is told "you're the systadmin" and they have to try and figure things out, while still doing their programming job. Sometimes they get it right; sometimes they screw up basic things like having backups.
Tea. Either black tea with suger (a spoonfull of suger is about 1/6th as much as a can of softdrink) or white tea. I don't mean black-tea-with-milk, white tea is a special way of picking and preparing tea that gives a very light, smooth tea when brewed.
It's healthy, and nicely relaxing.
> There's only one unique advantage of online play is when you don't have any friends.
Not true; there is also ease of access. Once you and all your friends are out in the real world with jobs and partners and all those things regular peopel do it's very hard to try and schedule a time to get together to gaming.
MMORPGs let you jump in whenever it's convienient and play online with friends (both from the real-world and that you only know online) whenever it's convienient.
I'd love to be able to play more table-top RPGs with my friend, because I find them a much more enjoyable experience than online RPGs, but it's just not going to happen anytime soon.
I recently bought a 17" LCD monitor. It has excellent colour reproduction and I can't notice any ghosting even when playing FPS games. Is there any reason this same technology can't be used on LCD TVs without the need to make everything flicker? I can only guess that the cost is prohibative once you go beyond a certain screen size, but surely the larger pixel size of TV (as opposed to a high resolution monitor) would make fabrication easier.
...a hack allows you to read obsolete media of one type with obsolete hardware of another type.
[i]The easiest solution I see to this is to limit players to one character, per account, per credit card.[/i]
:-)
I've got multiple credit cards, so I guess i'm allowed to abuse newbies.
They may have a legitmate patent if they have designed some gee-whiz new way to build asyncronous circuits that isn't hideously complicated. I did some circuit design while studying electrical engineering at uni and syncronous is vastly easier to werk with, even at the small scales we were working on with only a dozen components.
Provided the input/output interfaces of the CPU aren't changed the rest of the system won't care if the internal workings of the CPU are clocked, clockless, or performed by thousands of pixies using pen and paper. Clockless input/output lines would certainly make for some interesting design needs accross the entire device, but after a quick read of the arcticle I suspect the changes relate only to the inner workings of the chip.
> i love how the auto-linking of a URL requires user specification, and so isn't automatic at all.
:-)
I love how somone just got modded +5 informative for making a link clickable.
I used to use a similar style of lawnmower without the rubber skirt (Flymo brand, IIRC) to mow the grass and it did a great job. The biggest benefit was manouverability; you could push it around in any direction. The biggest drawback was moving it when it wasn't on; without the downforce of the blade you had to pickup the entire thing and carry it.
I think the idea is if there's a problem (flat battery, run out of air, etc), you should be close enough to the surface to just swim up. Which is a great theory, but not something I'd want to rely on.
> Maximum Depth:
> The intended use of this vehicle is for shallow
> water operation.The vehicle should never exceed
> its buoy safety length.
Does anyone know what "buoy safety length" actually means? Is there a saftey bouy attached to the subo-doo?
I don't like the way you start to drown as soon as you fall off. :-)
...but enough to allow a remote community to access the internet for moderate email and web access, considering the only other choices are an ISDN line (hideously enxpensive to install, considering the distances involved to the end users) or a modem at 9600 baud (which is all a lot of the rural lines can handle; some won't even go above 2400)
.35c/MB. A few years back I worked in satellite networking, and that is how all the providers charges for data. .35c/MB == $3500/GB, because they use 1000 instead of 1024 as when converting. (that includes the bytes->kB->MB conversions)
Besides which, it's likely that the data is billed as
.35c/MB seems to be Telstra's default cost for data. This figure includes both transport of the data, as well as providing the data; some satellite network providers will give much cheaper transfer rates but you need to somehow supply the data to their uplink for them, meaning you need to pay extra for an internet link. (assuming you want the remote sites to have internet access)
I know most people who use Photoshop have no idea of how to use adjustment layers, but I use them constantly and have trouble working without them.
:-(
Looks like I'm staying with Photoshop for now.