I've had one for a year or so, and I can sit comfortably in the lotus position in them, and I'm a pretty big fellow. The trick is to buy the C size (the largest) so you have plenty of room, and don't get the non-fixed arm rests.
The mesh seat is great for durabilty and cleanabilitiy, but sometimes your bum does get cold (I work at home and don't have air conditioning).
At a refresh rate of 4Hz, it's not much use as a monitor, I think they currently use this stuff for signage displays and the like. It might be useful for a e-book sort of thing, where it's unlikely you'll be reading faster than four pages a second.
The big question is how much does it cost and how durable/stable is it?
No, that's to cater to the sucker mentality that letterbox=elite (as is evidenced throughout this thread): When a show or commercial wants to seem classy or refined, here comes the letterbox!
To a degree, but It can be valid, if I were shooting in a HD aspect ratio I'd probably be pretty frustrated to find that my shots ended up looking crappy in the narrow aspect. Good composition would be very difficult (if not impossible) to achive for both aspects at the same time.
But then again, we are talking about TV, not high art.
While I think releasing DVDs in widescreen is the way to go, I've noticed that more and more programs on my TV are being letterboxed, probably becuase programs are increasingly being distributed and broadcast in HD.
Meanwhile the effective size of my TV screen is being erroded beacuse of this letterboxing. Damned progress.
Maybe I should have said that you can't think anything useful faster than you can type. If you're producing code at 100 wpm you're either writing something trivial or mechanical or writing really shitty code.
That's right, Microsoft's defects are our problem, we should get our lazy arses into gear becuase we haven't got anything better to do than evaluate, install, test and support Microsoft's constant patches. God forbid that we spend anytime on what we actually bought the software for, running our business or whatever. Lets all just be extensions of Microsoft's flawed development strategy: we're all testers!
It seems life's arelady kicked you or your brain through the goalposts.
I hunt and peck faster than I need. I can hit the keys with my index finger without looking and I'm not going to learn to touch type ever, although I type for a living.
Changing keyboard layouts would reduce my typing speed with no benefit. The fact is that most people can't think faster than they can type, and only a fractiion of the population need to type very fast and would benefit from a change to Dvorak.
A sort of variation on this would be to identify the source or protocol of the attacks, then distribute a client that spoofs the behaviour they're looking for. If enough people had the client it would overload their servers.
If they distributed a worm or virus, you could capture it, analyse it and re-code it so that it mimics the spread and removes any negative effects, like deleting files or whatever. This would be a sort of inocculation.
If they try to use technology it will just be attack and counter attack. And we have more programmers...
...I live just across the park from Fox Studios in Sydney. There must be money to be made out of fanatical StarWars fans. Maybe I can rent out my loft space to hopefuls by the square meter per hour. What am I bid?
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The practical res of 35 is 2k, 4k if you wish to be pedantic.
Where did you get these numbers from? Did you pull them out of your arse per chance? Have a look at http://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/film.vs.digital.1.html it's a bit more rigourous than your arse pulling trick and it describes the range starting at 2Mpx for 3200 ISO (very past film) to 16 Mpx for 40 or 25 ISO film.
That one is simple.. because any other shape would allow the cover to fall in..
Where I live man-hole covers are square, and they seem to stay put. I think whether they fall in or not has got to do with the presence of a lip in the frame under the cover or a taper in the third dimension.
Doesn't look like you'd get hired by Microsoft. Count yourself lucky.
A Microsoft interview candidate will typically talk to four or five employees, and in general must get a "hire" recommendation from all of them.
This is lowest common denominator stuff. Your chances that at least one of them has a personality clash with you, finds you a bit threatening or other totally irrelevant judgements skyrockets.
Basically they're going to get the same guff that produce the same mediocre output that Microsoft does now.
Wow, what a propaganda machine. I use Gnutella all the time and get anything I want from it with few problems.
I could go on to explain why G1 doesn't work and G2 does, but I'd be here all night.
If it were true you could explain it in a couple of paragraphs. After all, this is Slashdot. It's not like were all a bunch of idiots. But obviously there are some who don't have the benefit of critical thinking and support your transparent, cynical actions.
They look like maths problems to me. Here's a programming problem:
Implement a business system with incomplete and changing requirements given insufficient time and resources using the latest buggy, flavour of the month tools, techniques and systems.
Extra points awarded for not turning to drink or going postal.
Yes, the fireworks did start a few minutes after my post. But it's still not very awe inspiring. Maybe it's just been said so much it's lost it's meaning. But I get the feeling that given world opinion and the potential cost to the US of rebuilding Bagdad after flattening it, that the shock and awe is being delivered piecemeal. It doesn't really make sense to actually deliver on such a threat unless you really do want to destroy the place. I think the US will slowly crank up the pressure until there's some sort of revolt. This attack may be to prep the city for the armoured column coming up from the desert.
I think the US dosn't actually want to pummel Bagdad. It's just a threat to encourage the Iraqi military to come to it's senses. It's a good strategy if it works.
Why not just execute offenders? Then people wouldn't commit any crimes. And you would weed out just the bad people and leave only the good for a perfect society.
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I've had one for a year or so, and I can sit comfortably in the lotus position in them, and I'm a pretty big fellow. The trick is to buy the C size (the largest) so you have plenty of room, and don't get the non-fixed arm rests.
The mesh seat is great for durabilty and cleanabilitiy, but sometimes your bum does get cold (I work at home and don't have air conditioning).
...it would be kinda cool if wi-fi wasnt as secure as the stream of piss going from me into the toilet
That sounds pretty secure. I'm certainly not going to intercept that stream. A man in the middle attack seems out of the question too.
At a refresh rate of 4Hz, it's not much use as a monitor, I think they currently use this stuff for signage displays and the like. It might be useful for a e-book sort of thing, where it's unlikely you'll be reading faster than four pages a second.
The big question is how much does it cost and how durable/stable is it?
If someone were to break into my Hotmail account they would find out all the secret ways that I make my penis and breasts larger.
Using said exploit I can now reveal your secrets:
To have larger breasts: eat lots of fatty food.
To make your penis larger: look at heaps of flithy porn.
I have tested these and they work.
No, that's to cater to the sucker mentality that letterbox=elite (as is evidenced throughout this thread): When a show or commercial wants to seem classy or refined, here comes the letterbox!
To a degree, but It can be valid, if I were shooting in a HD aspect ratio I'd probably be pretty frustrated to find that my shots ended up looking crappy in the narrow aspect. Good composition would be very difficult (if not impossible) to achive for both aspects at the same time.
But then again, we are talking about TV, not high art.
While I think releasing DVDs in widescreen is the way to go, I've noticed that more and more programs on my TV are being letterboxed, probably becuase programs are increasingly being distributed and broadcast in HD.
Meanwhile the effective size of my TV screen is being erroded beacuse of this letterboxing. Damned progress.
Maybe I should have said that you can't think anything useful faster than you can type. If you're producing code at 100 wpm you're either writing something trivial or mechanical or writing really shitty code.
That's right, Microsoft's defects are our problem, we should get our lazy arses into gear becuase we haven't got anything better to do than evaluate, install, test and support Microsoft's constant patches. God forbid that we spend anytime on what we actually bought the software for, running our business or whatever. Lets all just be extensions of Microsoft's flawed development strategy: we're all testers!
It seems life's arelady kicked you or your brain through the goalposts.
I hunt and peck faster than I need. I can hit the keys with my index finger without looking and I'm not going to learn to touch type ever, although I type for a living.
Changing keyboard layouts would reduce my typing speed with no benefit. The fact is that most people can't think faster than they can type, and only a fractiion of the population need to type very fast and would benefit from a change to Dvorak.
A sort of variation on this would be to identify the source or protocol of the attacks, then distribute a client that spoofs the behaviour they're looking for. If enough people had the client it would overload their servers.
If they distributed a worm or virus, you could capture it, analyse it and re-code it so that it mimics the spread and removes any negative effects, like deleting files or whatever. This would be a sort of inocculation.
If they try to use technology it will just be attack and counter attack. And we have more programmers...
Seriously, if I wanted to see a bunch of oddly proportioned women who wear too much makeup getting it on with average looking guys, I'll watch a porn.
I just have to look at the mirrors on my ceiling.
OMG they took away anonymous posting!
...I live just across the park from Fox Studios in Sydney. There must be money to be made out of fanatical StarWars fans. Maybe I can rent out my loft space to hopefuls by the square meter per hour. What am I bid?
The practical res of 35 is 2k, 4k if you wish to be pedantic.
l .1.html it's a bit more rigourous than your arse pulling trick and it describes the range starting at 2Mpx for 3200 ISO (very past film) to 16 Mpx for 40 or 25 ISO film.
Where did you get these numbers from? Did you pull them out of your arse per chance? Have a look at http://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/film.vs.digita
That one is simple.. because any other shape would allow the cover to fall in..
Where I live man-hole covers are square, and they seem to stay put. I think whether they fall in or not has got to do with the presence of a lip in the frame under the cover or a taper in the third dimension.
Doesn't look like you'd get hired by Microsoft. Count yourself lucky.
A Microsoft interview candidate will typically talk to four or five employees, and in general must get a "hire" recommendation from all of them.
This is lowest common denominator stuff. Your chances that at least one of them has a personality clash with you, finds you a bit threatening or other totally irrelevant judgements skyrockets.
Basically they're going to get the same guff that produce the same mediocre output that Microsoft does now.
Why do people use oracle?
Beacuse they have a large, aggressive sales force and extensive marketting.
"You can make up statistics to support anything. 44% of people know that." - Homer
People still get get work done even if their computer is infested with Windows.
Gnutella1 doesn't work
Wow, what a propaganda machine. I use Gnutella all the time and get anything I want from it with few problems.
I could go on to explain why G1 doesn't work and G2 does, but I'd be here all night.
If it were true you could explain it in a couple of paragraphs. After all, this is Slashdot. It's not like were all a bunch of idiots. But obviously there are some who don't have the benefit of critical thinking and support your transparent, cynical actions.
They look like maths problems to me. Here's a programming problem:
Implement a business system with incomplete and changing requirements given insufficient time and resources using the latest buggy, flavour of the month tools, techniques and systems.
Extra points awarded for not turning to drink or going postal.
... if can it tell that you're smoking crack with the highschool crackwhore (or if you are the crackwhore).
True. If the US military delivered a Tomahawk through my window I would be shocked and in awe.
Yes, the fireworks did start a few minutes after my post. But it's still not very awe inspiring. Maybe it's just been said so much it's lost it's meaning. But I get the feeling that given world opinion and the potential cost to the US of rebuilding Bagdad after flattening it, that the shock and awe is being delivered piecemeal. It doesn't really make sense to actually deliver on such a threat unless you really do want to destroy the place. I think the US will slowly crank up the pressure until there's some sort of revolt. This attack may be to prep the city for the armoured column coming up from the desert.
I think the US dosn't actually want to pummel Bagdad. It's just a threat to encourage the Iraqi military to come to it's senses. It's a good strategy if it works.
On the TV Bagdad looks pretty quiet...
Why not just execute offenders? Then people wouldn't commit any crimes. And you would weed out just the bad people and leave only the good for a perfect society.