yep, power-wise the Fantastic Four have similar powers, but it's not a copy. From what I remember of the F4, the personalities are very very different. Bob Parr is a thoughtful, sensitive strong man embarrassed when he accidently breaks something -- very unlike The Thing.
A lot of these super powers have been recycled - strength, flexibility, invisibility, speed. The only suspicious thing is that invisibility and force-field are in the same person in both families.
With every movie, computer graphics takes another step. Antz had water, Lion King had computer-generated herds... Although we're really close, we'll get to a point where the animation no longer constrains the story.
driving home tonight I heard that Boulder County (aka. Republic of Boulder) hasn't been counted yet. We're pretty liberal and, thankfully, we used good old fashion "mark x here" paper ballots.
I take the spam and dice it up in to 1cm cubes. Then I take a cube and slice it as thin as possible. Lay it in the center of a big hamburger bun, and top with lettuce, tomatoes, 1/2 lb barbecued ground beef, onions, and ketchup.
Makes a great sandwich -- just don't eat the middle.
It's not a sports watch & I'm just an exotic-materials freak.:-) It's a simpler ventura that's not on the website anymore. Yeah, it was a bit spendy, but I made up for it by getting a lower-end ventura model on shopnbc.com for 80% off. And someone was still making a profit on that!
You might as well go all the way and demand something as hard as carbon nanotubes.
Of course, the penalty of extra hardness is the fact that it becomes brittle. Glass CD's wouldn't scratch, but I'd prefer soft plastic over them any day.
I've got a synthetic sapphire crystal on my watch, and the rest of it is made of a hardened titanium, and 4 years so far without a single scratch. It's obvious that I've never whacked the crystal hard against a rock.
Dremel tool / Roto-sip - Man, I thought these two would be great at carving. I even bought a "carving" tool for my dremel. I had high hopes. Unfortunately, I never considered the fibrous nature of the pumpkin. As you try to carve a straight line using a spining carving tool, it will slide through some spots and then snag a fibrous spot and jerk to one side. These two tools just don't work. Use a jig saw for carving and you'll be much happier. The in and out motion is much easier to use.
According to them, the best tools are the Sawzall, Jigsaw, Router, and Ice Cream scoop.
I've been following this case and glad to hear this. SCC has been prevented from selling their product for about 8 months now... will lexmark have to reimburse them for their lost sales? or, how about customers, who have been deprived of a legal cheaper product?
The other half of that coin is that, because pointers take twice the memory, they'll consume twice the memory bandwidth. Adding more sticks doesn't help the problem -- you need to up the front-side-bus just to keep even.
The solution is to make your own 16 and 32-bit pointers & do a little math at the last second to convert to a 64-bit pointer (e.g. add a base address). Depending one what your mix of calculation/memory access, that conversion could be totally masked by the time it takes to access memory.
That's probably a malloc/gcc limitation. However, if you roll your own memory system, you can pack it any way you want. We did that and it helped a lot (we also got to pack it so our data was more cache-efficient) -- it's not as hard as you'd think if you build a good infrastructure for your programs.
+1: used the word like, but with "you have like reached your destination" -1: used the words "motorway" and "rotary" instead of "boulevard" and "that circle thingy"
It's basically accent - not a change in vocabulary. Oh well, that's why there is tamtam - to do the job properly!
Like oh my god, they already have a totally tubular voice - Zappa, American Valley Girl. so, like gag me with a spoon, why would I ever want anything else?
It had better have that valspeak attitude, too - "take that bitchin' right slider up there". It should, of course, base all directions on local malls (go to the point, then up the boulevard, then to the mulitplex, and then you're almost there) even if that's not the fastest way to go. (it's all about the style!)
You can get a VGA screen that is only 0.2 inches. It is about 2000 dpi.
But, it's always a price/resolution tradeoff; I suspect this lets them use cheaper production techniques to produce these smaller displays (which, as volumes ramp up, are now being squeezed on price).
There was a bit of calculator one-up-manship in some of my classes, so I always wanted to connect a little model airplane engine to a little generator and use it to power my calculator during exams. Besides the roar of the non-mufflered engine (dropping in RPMs during every keypress as it consumes more power), there would be the smell half-burnt gas coming out of that little two-stroke. The intimidation factor alone would have skewed the curve in my direction.
We're saying the same thing, except for what software level does the error correction. I was thinking transfer protocol (xmodem) & you were thinking something lower level.
just figured out that downloading 7 hours at the highest quality would take 10.6 years. This is clearly a case where it's best to sit on your butt for 10 years and wait for the 9600 baud modem, and then download the entire thing in just 4 months.
Ok, it'll be beaten to death here, but here's the numbers:
The shortest video they have, at 2 MB and just about a minute, would take 19 hours to download at 300 baud. More time if there were any errors (the 300 baud modems didn't error-correct; that was done in software).
The same video at highest quality (22.9 MB) would take 9.25 days to download... for a minute of video.
Never mind that this would take 15 and 168 Apple ][ disks (respectively), and that the high quality version would require almost 3 disk changes a second during playback. The old drive heads would take over a second just to move across the disk, much less read any data.
When I said "alternative entry: is there a code slashdotters can use to get in", I wasn't trying to find some sneaky way to get in. Often times, residents can give out special entry codes to friends and relatives so that they don't have to call in. This possibility would be issued by and be at the sole discretion of xmas2003 (and hopefully revoked nov 1st).
Also, just so we're on the same track here... the gate I'm talking about is a community gate. It limits access to probably about a hundred homes; I'm not talking about a gate in front of one person's house. During the day it is a public area open for any traffic.
But, technically, it's private property owned by the homeowners' association. Like a shopping mall, they can apply their own rules and deny access to anyone they like. And those rules have got to be respected.
Whoa, not my intention! Kinda a rhetorical question; just pointing out the choice their community has made and the consequences (i.e. calls at odd hours). I don't know him, so I wouldn't call him. It's just odd that viewing hours are generally when the gate is closed.
When you get to the front gate of the community, the keypad invites you to call the house you're visiting to get buzzed in. (I think this is the model I saw) I didn't use it, but from the sign and the buttons, it looks like you can type in their phone number or select their name from a handy list. I presume it calls the people and they press a touch-tone to let you in. (where I used to work, you could dial any number, then use a portable tone dialer to let yourself in)
Generally, I do think of a well-advertised home with a limited-time outdoor display as an invitation to visit and view (respectfully, of course, keeping in mind their privacy). Am I off base? That's the way it always worked in my neighborhood.
thanks for responding... hope I didn't come off as bitter, I'm just not a fan of gated communities, but I respect peoples' choices.
Where I grew up there were lots of neighborhoods that decorated. My favorite, in Pimmit Hills, even put xmas lights on their vw beetle.). We always took family and visitors on evening car tours to the best houses. People respected the privacy of the homeowners and the neighbors... hopefully people out here don't ruin it and do the same.
... to get a 120Hz refresh rate with infinite resolution. I'd love to see it blinking in response to people pinging it on the web. Like the light displays in my neighborhood, I like mingling and sharing comments with the other spectators... and the look on young kids faces as they go "wow". Reality usually beats web-cam.
(alternative entry: is there a code slashdotters can use to get in, or do they actually not mind being called by strangers during the dinner-to-bedtime hours?)
don't try to visit ... it's a gated community
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Ok, first I considered the facts...
- the guy has a big public display of lights at his house, twice a year - he encourages zillions of people see his house & publishes it on the web - he publishes detailed pictures, the address, and lan/lon coordinates of his house.
You would think he'd want people to come see his house, right? I saw he lived pretty close to where I was so I decided to visit - I thought it would be neat to post a video of what the house looked like as people voted.
so I drive there only to find, IT'S A GATED COMMUNITY!!
I got to the head of Blue Heron, and there's a gate that closes at 7 pm. I could call and ask to be let in, but it was 9:15pm on a Sunday night and I know this guy has two little kids, so I don't bother calling - it would be rude. As a faithful slashdotter, I would have tried the "911" entry code, but I saw there was a special key for emergency personnel, so I didn't try (plus, they put they keypad in a hard-to-reach place)
<RANT>What is it with gated communities?! I don't see how crime is much of a problem in this place because it's pretty much alone in the countryside. It's not like there is a crackhouse next door. And, since most burglaries occur before 7pm, the gate won't help much. And, if you want to commit some crime at night, just get there before 7pm, wait, and then make your getaway whenever you want -- the gates will always let you out.</RANT>
I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I think he should reconsider where he lives, or push the homeowner's association to remove the gate.
So, anyway, don't try to go there. You're not welcome... unless you come before 7pm, and then sit on their lawn until dark.
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yep, power-wise the Fantastic Four have similar powers, but it's not a copy. From what I remember of the F4, the personalities are very very different. Bob Parr is a thoughtful, sensitive strong man embarrassed when he accidently breaks something -- very unlike The Thing.
A lot of these super powers have been recycled - strength, flexibility, invisibility, speed. The only suspicious thing is that invisibility and force-field are in the same person in both families.
I was amazed at the rendering of long, wet hair. I dug up this cool paper on the subject.
With every movie, computer graphics takes another step. Antz had water, Lion King had computer-generated herds... Although we're really close, we'll get to a point where the animation no longer constrains the story.
driving home tonight I heard that Boulder County (aka. Republic of Boulder) hasn't been counted yet. We're pretty liberal and, thankfully, we used good old fashion "mark x here" paper ballots.
I wonder if it will look like this
I take the spam and dice it up in to 1cm cubes. Then I take a cube and slice it as thin as possible. Lay it in the center of a big hamburger bun, and top with lettuce, tomatoes, 1/2 lb barbecued ground beef, onions, and ketchup.
Makes a great sandwich -- just don't eat the middle.
It's not a sports watch & I'm just an exotic-materials freak. :-) It's a simpler ventura that's not on the website anymore. Yeah, it was a bit spendy, but I made up for it by getting a lower-end ventura model on shopnbc.com for 80% off. And someone was still making a profit on that!
You might as well go all the way and demand something as hard as carbon nanotubes.
Of course, the penalty of extra hardness is the fact that it becomes brittle. Glass CD's wouldn't scratch, but I'd prefer soft plastic over them any day.
I've got a synthetic sapphire crystal on my watch, and the rest of it is made of a hardened titanium, and 4 years so far without a single scratch. It's obvious that I've never whacked the crystal hard against a rock.
Ah, that explains it - thanks!
:-)
I was really hoping you had the interdimensionaly time thingy
From What tools don't work well:
Dremel tool / Roto-sip - Man, I thought these two would be great at carving. I even bought a "carving" tool for my dremel. I had high hopes. Unfortunately, I never considered the fibrous nature of the pumpkin. As you try to carve a straight line using a spining carving tool, it will slide through some spots and then snag a fibrous spot and jerk to one side. These two tools just don't work. Use a jig saw for carving and you'll be much happier. The in and out motion is much easier to use.
According to them, the best tools are the Sawzall, Jigsaw, Router, and Ice Cream scoop.
I don't know what sort of scary interdimensional time warp decoration you have in your front yard, but at my house, I've still got 4 days.
I've been following this case and glad to hear this. SCC has been prevented from selling their product for about 8 months now ... will lexmark have to reimburse them for their lost sales? or, how about customers, who have been deprived of a legal cheaper product?
The other half of that coin is that, because pointers take twice the memory, they'll consume twice the memory bandwidth. Adding more sticks doesn't help the problem -- you need to up the front-side-bus just to keep even.
The solution is to make your own 16 and 32-bit pointers & do a little math at the last second to convert to a 64-bit pointer (e.g. add a base address). Depending one what your mix of calculation/memory access, that conversion could be totally masked by the time it takes to access memory.
That's probably a malloc/gcc limitation. However, if you roll your own memory system, you can pack it any way you want. We did that and it helped a lot (we also got to pack it so our data was more cache-efficient) -- it's not as hard as you'd think if you build a good infrastructure for your programs.
Great work, thanks!
+1: used the word like, but with "you have like reached your destination"
-1: used the words "motorway" and "rotary" instead of "boulevard" and "that circle thingy"
It's basically accent - not a change in vocabulary. Oh well, that's why there is tamtam - to do the job properly!
Like oh my god, they already have a totally tubular voice - Zappa, American Valley Girl. so, like gag me with a spoon, why would I ever want anything else?
It had better have that valspeak attitude, too - "take that bitchin' right slider up there". It should, of course, base all directions on local malls (go to the point, then up the boulevard, then to the mulitplex, and then you're almost there) even if that's not the fastest way to go. (it's all about the style!)
You can get a VGA screen that is only 0.2 inches. It is about 2000 dpi.
But, it's always a price/resolution tradeoff; I suspect this lets them use cheaper production techniques to produce these smaller displays (which, as volumes ramp up, are now being squeezed on price).
There was a bit of calculator one-up-manship in some of my classes, so I always wanted to connect a little model airplane engine to a little generator and use it to power my calculator during exams. Besides the roar of the non-mufflered engine (dropping in RPMs during every keypress as it consumes more power), there would be the smell half-burnt gas coming out of that little two-stroke. The intimidation factor alone would have skewed the curve in my direction.
So, wow, my silly dreams could become reality!
Welcome to the nothing-better-to-do club!
We're saying the same thing, except for what software level does the error correction. I was thinking transfer protocol (xmodem) & you were thinking something lower level.
just figured out that downloading 7 hours at the highest quality would take 10.6 years. This is clearly a case where it's best to sit on your butt for 10 years and wait for the 9600 baud modem, and then download the entire thing in just 4 months.
Ok, it'll be beaten to death here, but here's the numbers:
The shortest video they have, at 2 MB and just about a minute, would take 19 hours to download at 300 baud. More time if there were any errors (the 300 baud modems didn't error-correct; that was done in software).
The same video at highest quality (22.9 MB) would take 9.25 days to download... for a minute of video.
Never mind that this would take 15 and 168 Apple ][ disks (respectively), and that the high quality version would require almost 3 disk changes a second during playback. The old drive heads would take over a second just to move across the disk, much less read any data.
Thanks for not changing the color of that dot!
When I said "alternative entry: is there a code slashdotters can use to get in", I wasn't trying to find some sneaky way to get in. Often times, residents can give out special entry codes to friends and relatives so that they don't have to call in. This possibility would be issued by and be at the sole discretion of xmas2003 (and hopefully revoked nov 1st).
Also, just so we're on the same track here... the gate I'm talking about is a community gate. It limits access to probably about a hundred homes; I'm not talking about a gate in front of one person's house. During the day it is a public area open for any traffic.
But, technically, it's private property owned by the homeowners' association. Like a shopping mall, they can apply their own rules and deny access to anyone they like. And those rules have got to be respected.
Whoa, not my intention! Kinda a rhetorical question; just pointing out the choice their community has made and the consequences (i.e. calls at odd hours). I don't know him, so I wouldn't call him. It's just odd that viewing hours are generally when the gate is closed.
When you get to the front gate of the community, the keypad invites you to call the house you're visiting to get buzzed in. (I think this is the model I saw) I didn't use it, but from the sign and the buttons, it looks like you can type in their phone number or select their name from a handy list. I presume it calls the people and they press a touch-tone to let you in. (where I used to work, you could dial any number, then use a portable tone dialer to let yourself in)
Generally, I do think of a well-advertised home with a limited-time outdoor display as an invitation to visit and view (respectfully, of course, keeping in mind their privacy). Am I off base? That's the way it always worked in my neighborhood.
thanks for responding... hope I didn't come off as bitter, I'm just not a fan of gated communities, but I respect peoples' choices.
Where I grew up there were lots of neighborhoods that decorated. My favorite, in Pimmit Hills, even put xmas lights on their vw beetle.). We always took family and visitors on evening car tours to the best houses. People respected the privacy of the homeowners and the neighbors... hopefully people out here don't ruin it and do the same.
Keep up the good work!
... to get a 120Hz refresh rate with infinite resolution. I'd love to see it blinking in response to people pinging it on the web. Like the light displays in my neighborhood, I like mingling and sharing comments with the other spectators... and the look on young kids faces as they go "wow". Reality usually beats web-cam.
(alternative entry: is there a code slashdotters can use to get in, or do they actually not mind being called by strangers during the dinner-to-bedtime hours?)
Ok, first I considered the facts...
- the guy has a big public display of lights at his house, twice a year
- he encourages zillions of people see his house & publishes it on the web
- he publishes detailed pictures, the address, and lan/lon coordinates of his house.
You would think he'd want people to come see his house, right?
I saw he lived pretty close to where I was so I decided to visit - I thought it would be neat to post a video of what the house looked like as people voted.
so I drive there only to find, IT'S A GATED COMMUNITY!!
I got to the head of Blue Heron, and there's a gate that closes at 7 pm. I could call and ask to be let in, but it was 9:15pm on a Sunday night and I know this guy has two little kids, so I don't bother calling - it would be rude. As a faithful slashdotter, I would have tried the "911" entry code, but I saw there was a special key for emergency personnel, so I didn't try (plus, they put they keypad in a hard-to-reach place)
<RANT>What is it with gated communities?! I don't see how crime is much of a problem in this place because it's pretty much alone in the countryside. It's not like there is a crackhouse next door. And, since most burglaries occur before 7pm, the gate won't help much. And, if you want to commit some crime at night, just get there before 7pm, wait, and then make your getaway whenever you want -- the gates will always let you out.</RANT>
I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I think he should reconsider where he lives, or push the homeowner's association to remove the gate.
So, anyway, don't try to go there. You're not welcome... unless you come before 7pm, and then sit on their lawn until dark.