VRML always sucked. In particular that plugins that were supposed to do VRML sucked.
Who knows if it will be any different this time around.
As for who would like 3D graphics on the web, well I would. And there are tons of 3d models out on the internet, so throwing together a simple scene shouldn't be too difficult.
Me too. I bought two iPhones and activated them around 7:30 EDT. It took about 10 minutes each, no muss, no fuss. That included transferring phone numbers over from Sprint. I think I got in before AT&T's systems started to really get hammered.
Me too. I leave my WAP wide open. I figure it's only fair, since occasionally I'll hope onto other people's wifi. I don't think I've ever seen any on mine, though.
Yahoo sucked up to the Chinese government by ratting out a journalist. Fat lot of good that did them. Instead the Chinese give them a nice ole' kick in the crotch.
Yup, I heard the story on NPR. It was an interview with Michael Downing, author of the book "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Savings Time". He said there's not much energy savings, but more shopping because of DST.
Yup. All the links in MyDD's google bomb are to news organizations (mostly local newspapers) or Wikipedia. It's not like they're linking to SpreadingSantorum or something.
There was a winner in the DVD-A / SACD war? They both pretty much ended up as losers. Only audiophiles care about hi-res audio formats. The average consumer is perfectly happy with his 128 kbit MP3 files.
I went to grad school with a FSU CS prof, Dave Banks. Really smart guy. He does research in computer graphics and scientific visualization. His dissertation was on visualizing 4-d surfaces, IIRC.
Also funny in a strange way. He tends to look at the world from a slightly askew viewpoint.
I'm working at the National Library of Medicine, part of NIH. I'm doing research in medical visualization and computer graphics. After finishing my Ph.D. in computer science I took a job as a research staff member at another university. Then after a couple years I came to NLM.
I always knew I didn't want to be tenure-track faculty. It's a lot of things I don't like (teaching, grant writing, committees, trying to churn out papers) and not much time for what I do like (hacking code). As a researcher I get to do what I like, for the most part. I might try an industry job next, since it might be more focused and product oriented.
According to a Congressional Budget Office report on Medical Malpractice, lawsuits cost the insurance companies $24 billion dollars a year, less than 2 percent of overall health care spending. A reduction of 25 to 30 percent in insurance premiums would only reduce health care costs.4 or.5 percent. Furthmore the report says that it found no evidence that tort reforms reduce defensive medicine.
You can get CD players that use tubes on the output stage. Here's a Jolida CD player that does. I think it costs 900 bucks.
As for me, I love tubes. My Bottlehead Foreplay pre-amp kicks ass. I hope to replace my power amp with a pair of single ended triode mono-block amps some day.
It's not an either/or proposition. I use tcsh and vim and all the other *nix goodness all the time on OS X. The problem with the GUIs on X11 is their lack of consistency and most of them are butt ugly.
I have no problem running Firefox. In fact most apps have run fine for me. Mail crashes on my old preferences file, but when I deleted that it ran fine.
I'm trying to solve very large sparse matrices, and I keep bumping up against the 2 GB limit for user processes.
Don't get me wrong, I love OS X. The user interface is sooo much better than anything running on Linux. But until OS X allows 64-bit user processes, I'm going to have to dual boot.
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Thanks for all you've done and best of luck to you!
VRML always sucked. In particular that plugins that were supposed to do VRML sucked.
Who knows if it will be any different this time around.
As for who would like 3D graphics on the web, well I would. And there are tons of 3d models out on the internet, so throwing together a simple scene shouldn't be too difficult.
Are you really that deluded? I got one word for you: Iraq.
Hell, here's another one: Katrina
He lied us into war and filled the government with incompetent cronies.
Me too. I bought two iPhones and activated them around 7:30 EDT. It took about 10 minutes each, no muss, no fuss. That included transferring phone numbers over from Sprint. I think I got in before AT&T's systems started to really get hammered.
Me too. I leave my WAP wide open. I figure it's only fair, since occasionally I'll hope onto other people's wifi. I don't think I've ever seen any on mine, though.
Yahoo sucked up to the Chinese government by ratting out a journalist. Fat lot of good that did them. Instead the Chinese give them a nice ole' kick in the crotch.
Well, in China they use Simplified Chinese, not Traditional Chinese.
Yup, I heard the story on NPR. It was an interview with Michael Downing, author of the book "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Savings Time". He said there's not much energy savings, but more shopping because of DST.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor
You can see the links here.
HA! For my machine language class we had to enter binary code into a PDP-11 and debug the code using the switches and LEDs on the front panel.
There was a winner in the DVD-A / SACD war? They both pretty much ended up as losers. Only audiophiles care about hi-res audio formats. The average consumer is perfectly happy with his 128 kbit MP3 files.
And Dick's Presidency has killed more people than Ted's car.
Anybody arguing that OS X is not Unix is just being anal retentive and pedantic. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
Wozniak went back and finished a Masters in EE at Berkeley.
Oh and Berkeley is much, much better than Stanfraud.
Go Bears!
I went to grad school with a FSU CS prof, Dave Banks. Really smart guy. He does research in computer graphics and scientific visualization. His dissertation was on visualizing 4-d surfaces, IIRC. Also funny in a strange way. He tends to look at the world from a slightly askew viewpoint.
Apple VP Phil Schiller has said that they will not do anything to prevent someone from running Windows on their Intel machines.
You can get the Visible Human data set here:
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/getting
I'm working at the National Library of Medicine, part of NIH. I'm doing research in medical visualization and computer graphics. After finishing my Ph.D. in computer science I took a job as a research staff member at another university. Then after a couple years I came to NLM.
I always knew I didn't want to be tenure-track faculty. It's a lot of things I don't like (teaching, grant writing, committees, trying to churn out papers) and not much time for what I do like (hacking code). As a researcher I get to do what I like, for the most part. I might try an industry job next, since it might be more focused and product oriented.
I was at Berkeley 20 years ago (scary) starting in 1984. There might have been a COBOL class for business majors but CS was Pascal and then C.
According to a Congressional Budget Office report on Medical Malpractice, lawsuits cost the insurance companies $24 billion dollars a year, less than 2 percent of overall health care spending. A reduction of 25 to 30 percent in insurance premiums would only reduce health care costs .4 or .5 percent. Furthmore the report says that it found no evidence that tort reforms reduce defensive medicine.
You can get CD players that use tubes on the output stage. Here's a Jolida CD player that does. I think it costs 900 bucks. As for me, I love tubes. My Bottlehead Foreplay pre-amp kicks ass. I hope to replace my power amp with a pair of single ended triode mono-block amps some day.
It's not an either/or proposition. I use tcsh and vim and all the other *nix goodness all the time on OS X. The problem with the GUIs on X11 is their lack of consistency and most of them are butt ugly.
I have no problem running Firefox. In fact most apps have run fine for me. Mail crashes on my old preferences file, but when I deleted that it ran fine.
Hopefully they have an economic incentive to not sell you crap. If they do, just don't use the service again. They gotta keep the customer happy.
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=352849920) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[15716]: error: Can't allocate region
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=335204352) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[15716]: error: Can't allocate region
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=318447616) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[15716]: error: Can't allocate region
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=309514240) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[15716]: error: Can't allocate region
I'm trying to solve very large sparse matrices, and I keep bumping up against the 2 GB limit for user processes.
Don't get me wrong, I love OS X. The user interface is sooo much better than anything running on Linux. But until OS X allows 64-bit user processes, I'm going to have to dual boot.
Well, Momentum CPU will sell you a motherboard with two 1.4 GHz G5's. But it'll cost you 4500 bucks.