The Tom's Hardware article was a great proof-of-concept, and is still useful if you have a spare LCD screen and an OHP floating around, but it's hardly elegant or robust or electrically safe. The Lumenlab style of PJ is a refinement of the idea - less duct-tape and more lounge-room appliance. Your wife would probably want the TH PJ thrown out:)
So the reason you're condemning this is because your *eight year old* OHP projection screen is, um, eight years old.
This isn't putting an OHP LCD on an OHP, it's converting a normal desktop LCD screen (you know, the ones that have gotten very, very cheap and very, very good in the past couple of years) into a projection system. The output can be great, and they are an order of magnitude cheaper to run than *any* commercial projector. Sure, you need to hook up a PC or a video-to-VGA converter to it, but so what? Laptops and HTPCs (and video-to-vga converters) are plentiful.
It's a lot of work, there is some risk involved, and there are areas that don't come close to a commercial projector. Commercial projectors can pump out a lot more light than a diy pj... but the catch is that their bulbs are rated for only a few thousand hours and cost many hundreds of dollars to replace. Spending half the cost of your projector every year or so to replace the bulb, doesn't sound like much fun to me. Or you could keep it in it's box and only use it once a year to conserve the bulb... but then you're not getting your money's worth then either.
DIY pj's use metal halide HID lamps that last for upwards of *twenty thousand hours* and cost anywhere between $50 and $150 each. Have the thing on all day every day if you want:)
And there's no understating the worth of boggling the minds of your friends and family when you tell them you made it yourself:D
No, nor do they have plans for vacuum cleaners, cyclotrons, gazebos, juicers, carousels, air-conditioning units or space shuttles.
These things (and more, including your scanner doohickey) fall under the very broad category of "things that have absolutely nothing to do with diy video projectors and, by extension, lumenlab".
As long as Disney has enough money to bribe^H^H^H^H^Hlobby Congress into extending the copyright term every time Mickey Mouse's copyright is about to expire, then GNU/Linux is going to be copyright protected for the forseeable future.
Ok, so it'll probably happen one day, but by then I'll be long dead.
Oops, looks like slashdot edited out the degrees symbols in my post:S Add the little circle in the appropriate places in the second example, and just before "key:)" and things should make a little more sense...
Nintendo released a device like this last year called the Pokemotion - and I have one. Amongst it's presets are a whole set of ascii smileys (the japanese variant, at least, but still recognisable as such.)
You're correct that 88 wasn't randomly chosen, but if memory serves it's a reference to the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Through The Eighth Dimension, of which there are several in BTTF. (Lloyd and producer Neil Canton worked on both movies.)
The 88 was taken from Banzai's stylised 'BB' logo, of course both B and 8 are identical on the time machine's digital LED display:)
So we are to trust everything the DVD Forum says, but when the +RW Alliance says something they are merely trying to mislead us?
FYI, many of the companies in the Alliance are ALSO members of the Forum.
The "technically +RW isn't even DVD" argument is purely a nomenclature/licensing issue and has nothing to do with the technical merits of either medium.
Nor, incidentally, do any of your other arguments. So what if DVD-R is "approved" by the Forum? I'm pretty sure the people who produce the Oxford dictionary don't "approve" the particular dialect of English that I speak, but that doesn't prevent me from talking to someone else, or to you.
The intrinsic difference in compatibility between +R/-R and +RW/-RW is quite small. Other factors (for instance media quality, and drive model) can have a massive effect on compatibility as well, and are not confined to one format or the other.
Also, saying that dvd player manufacturers had to "buckle" to support the +RW is misleading at best. The +RW standard was developed from the beginning to try and be as compatible with standalone players as possible. A lot of compatibility issues arise from 1) the lower reflectivity of the recordable media compared to pressed DVDs, and 2) players rejecting any disc which isn't explicitly marked as a pressed DVD. Each affects both +R/+RW and -R/-RW.
And nobody is forcing manufacturers of players to support more than one standard - the usual scenario is the manufacturers decide to add support for more formats to make their product look better to consumers - and the format holders try and force the manufacturers to only support the formats they make. Which is exactly what is happening here - in fact what you quote the Forum as saying shows it quite well.
Cheap high-capacity HD's are not the be-all-and-end-all of storage. They're too unreliable for long-term storage of important data, they're susceptible to magnetic fields, if you leave them powered on constantly then they wear out, but if you leave them unpowered for a couple of years they seize up... and so on. They have their advantages and disadvantages just as DVDR/tape/whatever have theirs.
If that were the case, then how come animation does so well? Even series/movies from american studios which tend not to have the dramatic range of anime.
I know *I* have been deeply affected by some of the anime I have watched, and I know many other people that have as well.
Secondly - your basic assumption is faulty. Even with animated works (cel or cg) there is a real person behind each character. Because whilst the image may be completely fake, the VOICES are not.
Now, given the current speech synthesis technology, if a series was voiced using it I *would* be put off. Because the voices have just as big an effect on the emotional impact of a show as the visuals. Hell, I think they have more. Many a fantastic anime series/movie has been ruined by a pathetic english dub cast.
And there is another medium for stories that has NO dependence on live people for the telling - BOOKS. By your reasoning books must be the most boring things in the world, because by definition all the characters in them are entirely fictional. And if none of the people you talked to are interested in books, they are hardly a representative sample, are they?
Paying money doesn't make you eligible. If you are eligible then you are permitted to join the list by signing the appropriate NDA's and paying the fees.
Even if I had a million US dollars and offered it to the ISC, I can't get onto the list - I don't run any DNS server critical enough.
Think about it - if you could join the list by simply paying for it, then the utility of the list DROPS TO ZERO. All you need is one cracker(or group of crackers) to get the cash and join, and then there is no longer any benefit in delaying notification because it is ALMOST CERTAINLY ALREADY PUBLIC. This service is for a select group of white-hats.
The fact that ISC collects fees from them is irrelevant; you are confusing implementation with motivation.
"ploy to raise capital" - they have to get money from somewhere. They are not-for-profit, so every cent they raise goes back into actually keeping the ISC functioning. And "market value of early information" only applies when that information is on the market. It's not - you *cannot* get the information using money alone.
I don't know where you get the "moving to a security-through-obscurity model" from. The FAQ makes it absolutely, positively clear that EVERY SINGLE CURRENT AVENUE of bug notification will REMAIN IN PLACE.
The list is purely an ADDITIONAL resource for those people running "if this dies then half the internet goes with it" DNS servers. It gives them a chance to patch up the mission-critical machines before every single script-kiddie in existence finds out how to bring them down. They ALREADY get this advanced notice; they have SINCE 1993! The only difference now is that the mechanism has changed.
EVERYONE who previously got their critical bug notification from CERT will CONTINUE TO DO SO. In THE SAME TIMEFRAME as before.
And as for you calling them arrogant, I think it's YOU who is arrogant. They're saying that if someone else produces a better product than they do (lets face it, BIND **IS** the dominant DNS server product - it's not boasting), that they will learn from it. And you're saying they SHOULDN'T learn from any better product that surfaces? You're just spouting flamebait.
If you'd read the update text at the top of the page, you'd have realised that it says "French, German and Portuguese have been added, but they currently don't do anything"!
Hehe. I just KNEW someone would derive a Slayers reference (fyi, the different series and movies have the following names - Perfect, Great, Excellent, Next, Gorgeous - they must have picked up an english thesaurus and looked up "superlative"...):)
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The Tom's Hardware article was a great proof-of-concept, and is still useful if you have a spare LCD screen and an OHP floating around, but it's hardly elegant or robust or electrically safe. The Lumenlab style of PJ is a refinement of the idea - less duct-tape and more lounge-room appliance. Your wife would probably want the TH PJ thrown out :)
So the reason you're condemning this is because your *eight year old* OHP projection screen is, um, eight years old.
This isn't putting an OHP LCD on an OHP, it's converting a normal desktop LCD screen (you know, the ones that have gotten very, very cheap and very, very good in the past couple of years) into a projection system. The output can be great, and they are an order of magnitude cheaper to run than *any* commercial projector. Sure, you need to hook up a PC or a video-to-VGA converter to it, but so what? Laptops and HTPCs (and video-to-vga converters) are plentiful.
It's a lot of work, there is some risk involved, and there are areas that don't come close to a commercial projector. Commercial projectors can pump out a lot more light than a diy pj... but the catch is that their bulbs are rated for only a few thousand hours and cost many hundreds of dollars to replace. Spending half the cost of your projector every year or so to replace the bulb, doesn't sound like much fun to me. Or you could keep it in it's box and only use it once a year to conserve the bulb... but then you're not getting your money's worth then either.
:)
:D
DIY pj's use metal halide HID lamps that last for upwards of *twenty thousand hours* and cost anywhere between $50 and $150 each. Have the thing on all day every day if you want
And there's no understating the worth of boggling the minds of your friends and family when you tell them you made it yourself
No, nor do they have plans for vacuum cleaners, cyclotrons, gazebos, juicers, carousels, air-conditioning units or space shuttles.
These things (and more, including your scanner doohickey) fall under the very broad category of "things that have absolutely nothing to do with diy video projectors and, by extension, lumenlab".
Sorry.
Damn. My lack of a pithy quote for this post means it's been too long since I last watched that movie, and must rectify the situation RIGHT NOW. :)
Besides, his ideas regarding watermelons are interesting and require further study.
As long as Disney has enough money to bribe^H^H^H^H^Hlobby Congress into extending the copyright term every time Mickey Mouse's copyright is about to expire, then GNU/Linux is going to be copyright protected for the forseeable future.
Ok, so it'll probably happen one day, but by then I'll be long dead.
So... the best game AI therefore must be one which just stands in one spot but has infinite hit points.
Having decent AI in the first place is still important, even if there are other things you can tweak to improve game balance.
Oops, looks like slashdot edited out the degrees symbols in my post :S Add the little circle in the appropriate places in the second example, and just before "key :)" and things should make a little more sense...
Try it:
:) And the "'s are for seconds, not string quoting.
22.3330S 150.11002E works;
also -22 19' 58.80", +150 6' 36.07"
and -22 19' 58.80", +150 6' 36.07"
The last one is useful since most people don't have a key
(I munged these from the real ones I was using, so the coords don't point anywhere interesting... but they do point somewhere)
Just make sure we don't pass any mirrors - if we do, I'm there for the day.
Nintendo released a device like this last year called the Pokemotion - and I have one. Amongst it's presets are a whole set of ascii smileys (the japanese variant, at least, but still recognisable as such.)
:)
Scared yet?
"Ye cannae change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics. Ye cannae change the laws of physics, laws of physics, Jim."
:)
And who are we to argue?
You're correct that 88 wasn't randomly chosen, but if memory serves it's a reference to the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Through The Eighth Dimension, of which there are several in BTTF. (Lloyd and producer Neil Canton worked on both movies.)
:)
The 88 was taken from Banzai's stylised 'BB' logo, of course both B and 8 are identical on the time machine's digital LED display
That argument also has the 0.00001=0 issue in it, it's just obscured.
.999...9 ("ending" in 9)
r =
10r = 9.999...0 ("ending" in *zero*!)
10r-r = 9.000...9
9r = 9.000...9
r = 1.000...1
Pesky one, get out of there!
So we are to trust everything the DVD Forum says, but when the +RW Alliance says something they are merely trying to mislead us?
FYI, many of the companies in the Alliance are ALSO members of the Forum.
The "technically +RW isn't even DVD" argument is purely a nomenclature/licensing issue and has nothing to do with the technical merits of either medium.
Nor, incidentally, do any of your other arguments. So what if DVD-R is "approved" by the Forum? I'm pretty sure the people who produce the Oxford dictionary don't "approve" the particular dialect of English that I speak, but that doesn't prevent me from talking to someone else, or to you.
The intrinsic difference in compatibility between +R/-R and +RW/-RW is quite small. Other factors (for instance media quality, and drive model) can have a massive effect on compatibility as well, and are not confined to one format or the other.
Also, saying that dvd player manufacturers had to "buckle" to support the +RW is misleading at best. The +RW standard was developed from the beginning to try and be as compatible with standalone players as possible. A lot of compatibility issues arise from 1) the lower reflectivity of the recordable media compared to pressed DVDs, and 2) players rejecting any disc which isn't explicitly marked as a pressed DVD. Each affects both +R/+RW and -R/-RW.
And nobody is forcing manufacturers of players to support more than one standard - the usual scenario is the manufacturers decide to add support for more formats to make their product look better to consumers - and the format holders try and force the manufacturers to only support the formats they make. Which is exactly what is happening here - in fact what you quote the Forum as saying shows it quite well.
Cheap high-capacity HD's are not the be-all-and-end-all of storage. They're too unreliable for long-term storage of important data, they're susceptible to magnetic fields, if you leave them powered on constantly then they wear out, but if you leave them unpowered for a couple of years they seize up... and so on. They have their advantages and disadvantages just as DVDR/tape/whatever have theirs.
If that were the case, then how come animation does so well? Even series/movies from american studios which tend not to have the dramatic range of anime.
I know *I* have been deeply affected by some of the anime I have watched, and I know many other people that have as well.
Secondly - your basic assumption is faulty. Even with animated works (cel or cg) there is a real person behind each character. Because whilst the image may be completely fake, the VOICES are not.
Now, given the current speech synthesis technology, if a series was voiced using it I *would* be put off. Because the voices have just as big an effect on the emotional impact of a show as the visuals. Hell, I think they have more. Many a fantastic anime series/movie has been ruined by a pathetic english dub cast.
And there is another medium for stories that has NO dependence on live people for the telling - BOOKS. By your reasoning books must be the most boring things in the world, because by definition all the characters in them are entirely fictional. And if none of the people you talked to are interested in books, they are hardly a representative sample, are they?
Look at the dates - the site is set in the 22nd century, pretty much a dead giveaway the site is fictional.
Anyway, it's one of the sites that is part of the game - you'll want to go to http://www.cloudmakers.org/ to find out more.
Don't believe me? Check out http://www.starblazers.com/
Fire the wave motion gun! For great justice!
Paying money doesn't make you eligible. If you are eligible then you are permitted to join the list by signing the appropriate NDA's and paying the fees.
Even if I had a million US dollars and offered it to the ISC, I can't get onto the list - I don't run any DNS server critical enough.
Think about it - if you could join the list by simply paying for it, then the utility of the list DROPS TO ZERO. All you need is one cracker(or group of crackers) to get the cash and join, and then there is no longer any benefit in delaying notification because it is ALMOST CERTAINLY ALREADY PUBLIC. This service is for a select group of white-hats.
The fact that ISC collects fees from them is irrelevant; you are confusing implementation with motivation.
"ploy to raise capital" - they have to get money from somewhere. They are not-for-profit, so every cent they raise goes back into actually keeping the ISC functioning. And "market value of early information" only applies when that information is on the market. It's not - you *cannot* get the information using money alone.
I don't know where you get the "moving to a security-through-obscurity model" from. The FAQ makes it absolutely, positively clear that EVERY SINGLE CURRENT AVENUE of bug notification will REMAIN IN PLACE.
The list is purely an ADDITIONAL resource for those people running "if this dies then half the internet goes with it" DNS servers. It gives them a chance to patch up the mission-critical machines before every single script-kiddie in existence finds out how to bring them down. They ALREADY get this advanced notice; they have SINCE 1993! The only difference now is that the mechanism has changed.
EVERYONE who previously got their critical bug notification from CERT will CONTINUE TO DO SO. In THE SAME TIMEFRAME as before.
And as for you calling them arrogant, I think it's YOU who is arrogant. They're saying that if someone else produces a better product than they do (lets face it, BIND **IS** the dominant DNS server product - it's not boasting), that they will learn from it. And you're saying they SHOULDN'T learn from any better product that surfaces? You're just spouting flamebait.
"Whether black hats can become white hats is not a black-and-white question"
:)
I thought that was EXACTLY the kind of question it was!
IIRC, the creator of Dragon Half got busted for drug-use (cocaine, I think), and was blacklisted from the industry. So no more Dragon Half :(
:)
Though, you have to wonder just how much that drug use influenced DH...
If you'd read the update text at the top of the page, you'd have realised that it says "French, German and Portuguese have been added, but they currently don't do anything"!
Hehe. I just KNEW someone would derive a Slayers reference (fyi, the different series and movies have the following names - Perfect, Great, Excellent, Next, Gorgeous - they must have picked up an english thesaurus and looked up "superlative"...) :)