In the self-portrait by the river, the water, unlike everything else in the picture, seems... blurry, oily, I can't
quite get it, but it doesn't look like a normal river.
This is due to exposure time.
Some modern photographers do something similar to give the effect of mist rolling down a river (which isn't really misty but is a raging white water river).
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I saw a similar device about 6+ years go, it was like a normal flashlight, but had an IR mode thing. The flashlight would virbate (quietly) if you pointed it at a human (or something of that IR sig.).
I'd guess that the IR version doesn't see through walls quite as well as the RADAR version.
I can't remember what happened in the company, I think they found a nitch in the sex shop industry and changed there business model...;-)
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The dxr2 project does subtitles really well, but that is a hardware card. Of course I can start a 2 hour build and kick back and watch a movie with out stealing CPU cycles from my build. --
The main reason CSS was put onto DVDs is to stop people watching movies bought in other countries,
so the movie companies could actually control prices for these movies.
CSS has nothing to do with watching movies bought
in other countires. That is the region code bitty you are confused with. I have movies from Europe that only play on my hacked linux box with CSS turned off. These movies have no CSS but cannot be played on most US DVD players. --
Great, I need a qt base web browser more than I need a stable web browser. I went to the Mozzila parties, they where fun as well, but what I would
really like is a working web browser. Don't integerate an email client and web browser, that is really dumb, now when my web browser crashes I lose that email I was about to send.
Currently they aren't any web browsers that don't crash and can still browser 99% of web pages, I don't know why that is, but I don't a qt port is going to help this.
I hope Mozzila can pull itself together, I'd really like to use a work web browser and an open source one at that.
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This isn't any great suprise that Wind River are dropping Slackware. Wind River used to be in direct competition with Cygnus Solutions, during that time they would say a
lot of negative things about open source and the GPL. Wind River did use gcc but never contributed changes back to the FSF or anybody else.
I don't think *BSD is in too much danger of being dropped, since the BSD license doesn't force them to publish thier code (compared to the GPL).
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So does Trusted Solaris, TRIX and Trusted BSD. So does Squid and (IIRC) Bind. Regardless of
that though, there's no reason to discount a good idea because a company you dislike uses it. In fact, its pretty
childish. Its nice to know this usually comes from trolls rather than anyone who works on major Linux based
projects I discussed this with at conferences and on mailing lists.
Add VMS to that list as well. The first multi-user system I got to program on was a VMS system. It has ACLs (or some form of like) and they aren't hard to learn at all. Unix premissions where totally alien after ACLs. I look forward to using them again.
It's been a while since I've watched or read HHGTTG, but come on, the movie starts with a body
count of around 5 billion in the first 15 minutes or don't you remember the
Earth being destroyed just to build a new space
freeway?
I'm not sure if the Universe being destroyed counts since that was natural causes (or what it?)
but that bumps up the body count beyoned any other movie. And not to forget the bloody wars and what not.
Overall, using whatever violence rating system that/. used for Star War, Hitch hikers guild to the galaxy is 1000 times more violent.
A plane's noise signature doesn't mean anything,
because you don't use a sound-wave vector to detect it.
Well, it did mean something before radar (I should have done prop vs. balloon), but that didn't stop the development of faster and louder planes.
Passive sonar is used to listen to mechanical sounds traveling through the
water.
This is true, how ever "passive" sonar does take a while (5 to 10 minutes, heading on the same course in good conditions), this is how US subs can hit relatively large fishing boats in good weather. If a super fast sub was used, it could be out of the area before any body could start the long procedure of getting fix.
I've very sure that this technology will catch on regardless. I'm sure the cavitation could also be turned off and on pretty fast making it even harder to locate than a normal sub.
So when cavitating, a sub is deaf and at the same time loudly
transmitting its location to every other sub or surface warship in its vicinity.
So, in that case why wouldn't the cavitating sub use an active sonar (selected Freq. to avoid cavitating side effects). Anybody listening already knows it's in the area, so why not have a look, it wouldn't compromise you more that
cavitating does. When cavitation is off it could return to a passive sonar.
What I'm hope is that the sub's uses wouldn't be
kept to just the military. Imagine a super fast rescue craft that could save lifes at sea. Or large ocean traveling cargo subs that aren't affected by weather and travel as fast as a jet.
I was under the impression it was the other way a round. I.E. the oil companies controlled OPEC (which collectively fucks^H^H^H^H^H bargins with
governments and stuff). I guess it doesn't matter so much which way around it is.
As a sub, you DON'T want cavitation because it gives your position away.
That is kind of old school thinking. Just like the jet engine and hot air balloon. If you would have shown a jet engine to a 1900s ballonest I'm sure he would have said it was useless for ballooning.
The military doesn't care too much about the noise that modern day jets generate. (Well they do, and they work on quieter engines, which I'm sure will happen with super cavitation as well)
Maybe they are other issues that need to
be addressed if you've to censor stuff
for you're kid.
I don't have kids, but I do remember being a kid.
I remember being trusted, I remember fucking up
and breaking it, I remember rebuilding that trust,
and learning what I really meant. Do people still do that or is it obsolete because of Net Nany?
Cigarettes don't come with child proof locks, why should video games?
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Keep it up with this shitty attuide of yours. All you're doing is making it easier for us to get Web Acessibility laws
passed that are aimed directly at morons like you who knowingly design cripped WWW sites.
Silly, it's Open Source that is cripped WWW sites.
Microsoft said so!
Disclaimer: I know nothing about the Tubro Care
think. But...
It's more than likely that they will do an ultra friendly merger/take over. This get's mega tax breaks and can really help to struggling companies, or two companies that are trying to make it to the "next level".
But the ultra friendly merger stops them from closing any divisions/offices/groups etc, for
some thing like a year.
I don't know if it's legal to do this after they
anounced the merger. They want to down scale (close stuff or what ever) and keep the tax break. This doesn't sound right to me.
Sorry to all who didn't get to stay on, working is the freesoftware industry really rulez.
As far as Turbo Linux goes, I've never met a company who's works where soooo hostile to other
free software companies. Sorry, you left me thinking "Boy, you guys are lame!".
Is Turbo Linux a really freesoftware company any way?
Slashdot Mirror
OK, so who can't wait to get the IP address of one of these suckers.
Maybe get the IP address of the one across the road from you and periodicaly flash pro-cannabis information up on the screen. ;-)
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"I wouldn't have that code finished until next week, I'm practicing having crisis this week."
OR
"NOooooooooo! this is the third time this week I've split bong water on my keyboard."
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This is due to exposure time.
Some modern photographers do something similar to give the effect of mist rolling down a river (which isn't really misty but is a raging white water river).
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I'd guess that the IR version doesn't see through walls quite as well as the RADAR version.
I can't remember what happened in the company, I think they found a nitch in the sex shop industry and changed there business model... ;-)
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The dxr2 project does subtitles really well, but that is a hardware card. Of course I can start a 2 hour build and kick back and watch a movie with out stealing CPU cycles from my build.
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CSS has nothing to do with watching movies bought in other countires. That is the region code bitty you are confused with. I have movies from Europe that only play on my hacked linux box with CSS turned off. These movies have no CSS but cannot be played on most US DVD players.
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Currently they aren't any web browsers that don't crash and can still browser 99% of web pages, I don't know why that is, but I don't a qt port is going to help this.
I hope Mozzila can pull itself together, I'd really like to use a work web browser and an open source one at that.
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I don't think *BSD is in too much danger of being dropped, since the BSD license doesn't force them to publish thier code (compared to the GPL).
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Add VMS to that list as well. The first multi-user system I got to program on was a VMS system. It has ACLs (or some form of like) and they aren't hard to learn at all. Unix premissions where totally alien after ACLs. I look forward to using them again.
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It's been a while since I've watched or read HHGTTG, but come on, the movie starts with a body count of around 5 billion in the first 15 minutes or don't you remember the Earth being destroyed just to build a new space freeway?
I'm not sure if the Universe being destroyed counts since that was natural causes (or what it?) but that bumps up the body count beyoned any other movie. And not to forget the bloody wars and what not.
Overall, using whatever violence rating system that /. used for Star War, Hitch hikers guild to the galaxy is 1000 times more violent.
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Well, it did mean something before radar (I should have done prop vs. balloon), but that didn't stop the development of faster and louder planes.
Passive sonar is used to listen to mechanical sounds traveling through the water.
This is true, how ever "passive" sonar does take a while (5 to 10 minutes, heading on the same course in good conditions), this is how US subs can hit relatively large fishing boats in good weather. If a super fast sub was used, it could be out of the area before any body could start the long procedure of getting fix.
I've very sure that this technology will catch on regardless. I'm sure the cavitation could also be turned off and on pretty fast making it even harder to locate than a normal sub.
So when cavitating, a sub is deaf and at the same time loudly transmitting its location to every other sub or surface warship in its vicinity.
So, in that case why wouldn't the cavitating sub use an active sonar (selected Freq. to avoid cavitating side effects). Anybody listening already knows it's in the area, so why not have a look, it wouldn't compromise you more that cavitating does. When cavitation is off it could return to a passive sonar.
What I'm hope is that the sub's uses wouldn't be kept to just the military. Imagine a super fast rescue craft that could save lifes at sea. Or large ocean traveling cargo subs that aren't affected by weather and travel as fast as a jet.
We've got water, let's use it!
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I was under the impression it was the other way a round. I.E. the oil companies controlled OPEC (which collectively fucks^H^H^H^H^H bargins with governments and stuff). I guess it doesn't matter so much which way around it is.
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YEAH! well said.
Somebody mod that up to a five.
Did Taco(I love VA) really seem like the best people to report and write articles on redhat?
I liked the idea that Taco put forward, oh wait, no he didn't say anything, he just said it was crappy.
You gotta love the truth.... yes slashdot is becoming more like the National Encrapper.
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Why? did they buy BP Amco?
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How do you right click on a Mac?
I can't watch on my 3 button mouse machine.
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That is kind of old school thinking. Just like the jet engine and hot air balloon. If you would have shown a jet engine to a 1900s ballonest I'm sure he would have said it was useless for ballooning.
The military doesn't care too much about the noise that modern day jets generate. (Well they do, and they work on quieter engines, which I'm sure will happen with super cavitation as well)
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You don't?
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Does trust work?
Maybe they are other issues that need to be addressed if you've to censor stuff for you're kid.
I don't have kids, but I do remember being a kid. I remember being trusted, I remember fucking up and breaking it, I remember rebuilding that trust, and learning what I really meant. Do people still do that or is it obsolete because of Net Nany?
Cigarettes don't come with child proof locks, why should video games?
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Silly, it's Open Source that is cripped WWW sites. Microsoft said so!
We've upped our standards, so up yours.
Am I the only one here reads "up yours" as "fuck you". (Or is the rest of slashdot different some how.)
This is what people are saying to us now.
"We've upped the standards, so fuck you if you've got an old browser."
I'm not going to upgrade.
I'll be living in the Retro Web. And anything that doesn't will be read through a Retro Web to New Web Gate Way (like a HTML->WAP portwhole).
It'll be totally fun hiding out in retro web when all the New Web users get high-jacked and data mined.
GO RETRO!
------- see rettro.txt for details. -------
I'm a W2K user.
When I want to remind myself what a BSoD looks like, I boot linux on a spare box and run the screensaver.
And you think that has nothing to MS trying to be as good as linux?
I hope Red Hat desides to take the BSoD out of linux - oh hey wait - never mind.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about the Tubro Care think. But...
It's more than likely that they will do an ultra friendly merger/take over. This get's mega tax breaks and can really help to struggling companies, or two companies that are trying to make it to the "next level".
But the ultra friendly merger stops them from closing any divisions/offices/groups etc, for some thing like a year.
I don't know if it's legal to do this after they anounced the merger. They want to down scale (close stuff or what ever) and keep the tax break. This doesn't sound right to me.
Sorry to all who didn't get to stay on, working is the freesoftware industry really rulez.
As far as Turbo Linux goes, I've never met a company who's works where soooo hostile to other free software companies. Sorry, you left me thinking "Boy, you guys are lame!".
Is Turbo Linux a really freesoftware company any way?
How did that get there officer?
mod it up more, it's funner than a 2.