And in the unlikely event we actually manage to get enough people to boycott the movies what happens then? Oh that's right. The MPAA goes before Congress telling them, that the reason we're not watching any movies, is because we're pirating them.
It's a lose/lose situation, and it's not getting any better.
"Linux on the desktop does every work related task I've had for four years now [...]"
Sorry to cut your sentence in half, but this part is the important part.
It works for what you need - that doesn't mean it works for everyone else. I've been wearing size 11 shoes for more than 10 years now, and they work just fine for me, so just shut the fuck up and use the size 11 shoes you're handed.
Heaven forbid that some people actually want the unified interface. Let me give you a few simple reasons why they might want that:
Having only to remember a single copy/cut/past/undo command.
Having only to remember the standard menus.
Having only to remember a single "change document window" shortcut.
Not having to worry about how the hell to use the "alien abduction in corpus minor with flying cows playing cubic pigs", that the person next to them in the office is using.
Moving on to another subject, try finding your nose. Place your finger on the tip of your nose. Now - try looking beyond the tip of your nose.
When ever you have trouble with the concept of "other peoples perspective" - repeat what I just learned you.
Being a minor, he wasn't allowed to license his code to them, but that doesn't invalidate his claim to the copyright. Well - his parents are probably the rightfull guardians of that copyright, but no matter what, if they can't let him contribute because he's a minor, then they can't use his code without breaking the copyright law either.
IANAL etc.
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Well - it's not like it was an interesting Nobel prize anyway. I mean - a Nobel prize in Economic Sciences? Damn that's so exciting I can't help but fall asleep... hehe:-)
Yeah, so it's for developing some game theory: "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non- cooperative games"
But it's still boring.
"Why does/. have to concentrate on this film?"
Probably because more slashdotters have read The Lord of the Rings than have heard of John Nash or even care about game theory.
A shim (as I understand it) will do about as much for your heat transfer as jumping up and down will cause an earthquake. More or less.
I thought, that maybe I was missing something in my vocabulary (english isn't my maternal language), but neither Merriam-Webster nor my Oxford dictionary was able to find more than one meaning of the word:
a thin often tapered piece of material (as wood, metal, or stone) used to fill in space between things (as for support, leveling, or adjustment of fit)
If you were to create a heat spreader (the chip on the left) as in the old socket 370 celerons and new Pentium III and Pentium IV (the large block of metal protecting the chip die), it would probably be a lot more useful (depending on it's strength of course).
If it is stong enough, it would probably be quite useful as a heatsink as well, although it would probably cost you a bundle at the moment.
But why use it as a shim? What next? Only use money for wiping your butt (don't try this trick with coins. Don't ask!)?
Actually the numbers aren't off base. I suck at writing by hand/pen. I've actually timed myself, and I clock in at aprox 60 chars per minute, when using handwriting. I don't own any palm-like devices, but that doesn't make it impossible to test.
Find a simple page of text, and type it into a texteditor. I clock in at aprox 250 chars per minute when typing. Then write the same text by hand. I clock in at aprox 60 chars per minute by hand, and yes, that's including spaces.
I never said, I was any good at handwriting. I think one of the things really dragging my speed down, is that I make alot more mistakes with handwriting, than with keytyping.
Let's see: The FreeBSD Copyright: Copyright 1994-2002 FreeBSD, Inc. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
The BSD Copyright:
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What kind of problem would there be? The BSD licenses are far less restrictive than the GPL license.
I'll hazard a guess that using the built in hand recognisition will be the way to go.
I don't know about you, but I can type aprox. 250 chars per minute on a regular keyboard with aprox. 0.5% errors. I can probably write around 60 chars per minute using normal handwriting. That's a 75% slowdown, if you're right. Me - I'd much rather use a keyboard.
Besides the question of how quickly and accurately this device can detect your 'key taps"[...]
Well, since a regular keyboard can "only" keep up with 30 chars per second (1,800 chars per minute), you "only" need to be able to translate 30 keytaps per second. Given the power of even low-end processors, I don't think this will be a problem; I'll guess that it'll be the reading-equipment, that'll be setting the limits at first.
Using two or more sensors to pick up reflections from the interupted beam, you should be able to pinpoint exactly where you are pressing. And since you know where the emitter is and where the surface is, you know which button you pressed.
It is, obviously a bit more complicated - you need only consider the option of using your SOs buttocs as a keypad to figure that one out:-)
An electrically neutral, highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles. It is a phase of matter distinct from solids, liquids, and normal gases.
Well - it can run on handhelds, and considdering the point of the program, it's a neat idea to do so. It's a building automation monitoring applet running off a _very_ small embedded webserver, meaning the entire program has to take up less 256 kbytes.
This limitation means the program has to be lean and sleek, and it starts in less than one second on an average office PC. Of course, this probably means a five to ten second startup time on a standard handheld, but in this case, being a fast starter isn't a requirement. Taking up less space than your average word-document _is_.
The fun things about making such an application are the limitations you're stuck with. Since I've started I've been forced to scrap several ideas for implementing stuff, simply because it takes up too much space. Right now I'm 97% finished - and I've cut the program down to 22 kbytes. Who said that programming in java means programming bloated applications?
"Hard to imagine a Java title would show up in the games top 10, and this mainly due to the fact, that most top titles try to really use the hardware at its limits, thus performance is an issue."
Weird - I thought that "The Sims" were constantly in the Top Ten.
I'm not entirely sure what to think if the "aesthetics" of say ClearType (or whatever it's called) in Windows. I just turned it on a few minutes ago, and my initial reaction was: "Hmm... it looks like they just made the text broader*, as if they've made something like tripple vertical AA**" It doesn't hurt my eyes, and text generaly looks more "roundish"*** which is nice - I think. Maybe it isn't, not quite sure yet. Now, this text (the text I'm typing right now) looks "skinny"* compared to the other text, as if it's only getting a double vertical AA** treatment.
Antialiased text (and other things) in theory is nice, because it's more "true to nature" (if there is such a thing in computing) - when was the last time you looked at bubble and thought "nah, those edges are jagged"? I thought so. On the other hand, I have from time to time caught myself looking out the window on say a sunrise and thinking "damn. They sure are using some cool effects."
I think another poster hit the nail. In essence he's saying that the people who make the AA algorithms are aparently more interested in making them "mathematically correct" than visually pleasing. Having stared at Microsofts ClearType for almost 15 minutes now, I tend to agree with both CmdrTaco and the aforementioned poster - somethings rotten in the state of text-AA.
*I'm Danish - can't quite think of a better word in English. **I have no idea if that even makes sence outside of my own head:-) ***Nope, can't even think of a better word in Danish.
By having come up with a plan for terrorists to strike fear into our hearts, cause havoc and mayhem and possibly killing people, you are in violation of several new federal laws!
You will be placed under arrest, put before a kangaroo court and never be heard from again.
At that point in time, they will con(vince) the government that virus-writers are terrorists, that terrorists are per default trying to kill people and destroy the economy and that as a result of that, that the government should invoke the death penalty for all virus writers.
Of course the upside of that, is that it only takes very little effort to prove, that Windows is a virus, and that every OS writer at Microsoft should be put against the wall and shot.
"I think one even got flipped right out of the arena."
That happened to one of the full-grown robots as well. Can't remember the name of the winning bot, but they got a bit cocky and charged the house robots. I think they even managed to flip Matilda...
"Microsoft said this change would "make crystal clear what is now clear.""
Isn't that kinda like the real estate agent trying to con[vince] you, that on a "clear" day "you can see the ocean from here", or trying to con[vince] you that the lake in the backyard has crystal clear water?
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The new subway/metro in Copenhagen uses driverless trains. Can't find a link to prove it though:-/
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And in the unlikely event we actually manage to get enough people to boycott the movies what happens then? Oh that's right. The MPAA goes before Congress telling them, that the reason we're not watching any movies, is because we're pirating them.
It's a lose/lose situation, and it's not getting any better.
Sorry to cut your sentence in half, but this part is the important part.
It works for what you need - that doesn't mean it works for everyone else. I've been wearing size 11 shoes for more than 10 years now, and they work just fine for me , so just shut the fuck up and use the size 11 shoes you're handed.
Heaven forbid that some people actually want the unified interface. Let me give you a few simple reasons why they might want that:
Moving on to another subject, try finding your nose. Place your finger on the tip of your nose. Now - try looking beyond the tip of your nose.
When ever you have trouble with the concept of "other peoples perspective" - repeat what I just learned you.
Being a minor, he wasn't allowed to license his code to them, but that doesn't invalidate his claim to the copyright. Well - his parents are probably the rightfull guardians of that copyright, but no matter what, if they can't let him contribute because he's a minor, then they can't use his code without breaking the copyright law either.
IANAL etc.
Well - it's not like it was an interesting Nobel prize anyway. I mean - a Nobel prize in Economic Sciences? Damn that's so exciting I can't help but fall asleep ... hehe :-)
/. have to concentrate on this film?"
Yeah, so it's for developing some game theory:
"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non- cooperative games"
But it's still boring.
"Why does
Probably because more slashdotters have read The Lord of the Rings than have heard of John Nash or even care about game theory.
I thought, that maybe I was missing something in my vocabulary (english isn't my maternal language), but neither Merriam-Webster nor my Oxford dictionary was able to find more than one meaning of the word:
If you were to create a heat spreader (the chip on the left) as in the old socket 370 celerons and new Pentium III and Pentium IV (the large block of metal protecting the chip die), it would probably be a lot more useful (depending on it's strength of course).
If it is stong enough, it would probably be quite useful as a heatsink as well, although it would probably cost you a bundle at the moment.
But why use it as a shim? What next? Only use money for wiping your butt (don't try this trick with coins. Don't ask!)?
Actually the numbers aren't off base. I suck at writing by hand/pen. I've actually timed myself, and I clock in at aprox 60 chars per minute, when using handwriting. I don't own any palm-like devices, but that doesn't make it impossible to test.
Find a simple page of text, and type it into a texteditor. I clock in at aprox 250 chars per minute when typing. Then write the same text by hand. I clock in at aprox 60 chars per minute by hand, and yes, that's including spaces.
I never said, I was any good at handwriting. I think one of the things really dragging my speed down, is that I make alot more mistakes with handwriting, than with keytyping.
Let's see:
The FreeBSD Copyright:
Copyright 1994-2002 FreeBSD, Inc. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
The BSD Copyright:
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
What kind of problem would there be? The BSD licenses are far less restrictive than the GPL license.
I don't know - I didn't design this device, I'm just making an educated guess. If you have a better idea than triangulation, then please post it :-)
I'll hazard a guess that using the built in hand recognisition will be the way to go.
I don't know about you, but I can type aprox. 250 chars per minute on a regular keyboard with aprox. 0.5% errors. I can probably write around 60 chars per minute using normal handwriting. That's a 75% slowdown, if you're right. Me - I'd much rather use a keyboard.
Besides the question of how quickly and accurately this device can detect your 'key taps"[...]
Well, since a regular keyboard can "only" keep up with 30 chars per second (1,800 chars per minute), you "only" need to be able to translate 30 keytaps per second. Given the power of even low-end processors, I don't think this will be a problem; I'll guess that it'll be the reading-equipment, that'll be setting the limits at first.
Using two or more sensors to pick up reflections from the interupted beam, you should be able to pinpoint exactly where you are pressing. And since you know where the emitter is and where the surface is, you know which button you pressed.
:-)
It is, obviously a bit more complicated - you need only consider the option of using your SOs buttocs as a keypad to figure that one out
Troll=1
Funny=1
Somebody sure doesn't have a sense of humour. Moderaions should be
Troll=1 (can't change that)
Funny=4
What next? They're gonna mod down people not supporting Zhe Offize of Vaterland Zecurity?
Once we get olfactory manipulating things, we won't even have to shower any more. Hooraah!
An electrically neutral, highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles. It is a phase of matter distinct from solids, liquids, and normal gases.
Well - it can run on handhelds, and considdering the point of the program, it's a neat idea to do so. It's a building automation monitoring applet running off a _very_ small embedded webserver, meaning the entire program has to take up less 256 kbytes.
This limitation means the program has to be lean and sleek, and it starts in less than one second on an average office PC. Of course, this probably means a five to ten second startup time on a standard handheld, but in this case, being a fast starter isn't a requirement. Taking up less space than your average word-document _is_.
The fun things about making such an application are the limitations you're stuck with. Since I've started I've been forced to scrap several ideas for implementing stuff, simply because it takes up too much space. Right now I'm 97% finished - and I've cut the program down to 22 kbytes. Who said that programming in java means programming bloated applications?
Right now, I'm naked.
THAT's something you didn't know. I hope.
Welcome to my own personal hell.
Writing a building monitoring program, that can run in a browser. And has to fit in a 24 kbyte profile. And runs on Java 1.1
But - I'm almost there. 19.6 kbytes when the program is jarred, and I only have to add two more functions to it.
"Hard to imagine a Java title would show up in the games top 10, and this mainly due to the fact, that most top titles try to really use the hardware at its limits, thus performance is an issue."
Weird - I thought that "The Sims" were constantly in the Top Ten.
And once the bird has been located, we cover the area with poison, to get the bird collected, just to prove, that it's not extinct.
I'm not entirely sure what to think if the "aesthetics" of say ClearType (or whatever it's called) in Windows. I just turned it on a few minutes ago, and my initial reaction was: ... it looks like they just made the text broader*, as if they've made something like tripple vertical AA**"
:-)
"Hmm
It doesn't hurt my eyes, and text generaly looks more "roundish"*** which is nice - I think. Maybe it isn't, not quite sure yet. Now, this text (the text I'm typing right now) looks "skinny"* compared to the other text, as if it's only getting a double vertical AA** treatment.
Antialiased text (and other things) in theory is nice, because it's more "true to nature" (if there is such a thing in computing) - when was the last time you looked at bubble and thought "nah, those edges are jagged"? I thought so. On the other hand, I have from time to time caught myself looking out the window on say a sunrise and thinking "damn. They sure are using some cool effects."
I think another poster hit the nail. In essence he's saying that the people who make the AA algorithms are aparently more interested in making them "mathematically correct" than visually pleasing. Having stared at Microsofts ClearType for almost 15 minutes now, I tend to agree with both CmdrTaco and the aforementioned poster - somethings rotten in the state of text-AA.
*I'm Danish - can't quite think of a better word in English.
**I have no idea if that even makes sence outside of my own head
***Nope, can't even think of a better word in Danish.
By having come up with a plan for terrorists to strike fear into our hearts, cause havoc and mayhem and possibly killing people, you are in violation of several new federal laws!
You will be placed under arrest, put before a kangaroo court and never be heard from again.
Been nice to know you Mr. Gnovos.
At that point in time, they will con(vince) the government that virus-writers are terrorists, that terrorists are per default trying to kill people and destroy the economy and that as a result of that, that the government should invoke the death penalty for all virus writers.
Of course the upside of that, is that it only takes very little effort to prove, that Windows is a virus, and that every OS writer at Microsoft should be put against the wall and shot.
"I think one even got flipped right out of the arena."
...
That happened to one of the full-grown robots as well. Can't remember the name of the winning bot, but they got a bit cocky and charged the house robots. I think they even managed to flip Matilda
"Microsoft said this change would "make crystal clear what is now clear.""
Isn't that kinda like the real estate agent trying to con[vince] you, that on a "clear" day "you can see the ocean from here", or trying to con[vince] you that the lake in the backyard has crystal clear water?
The new subway/metro in Copenhagen uses driverless trains. Can't find a link to prove it though :-/
So I guess my post should get moderated as "-1 dunce"