AUCtex mode under *emacs is a first-rate method of editing and almost-WYSIWYG text processing.
OK, I love AUCtex. I wrote my thesis in emacs using AUCtex. But it's not WYSIWYG. It's not even close. Word is WYSIWYG. LaTeX, AUCtex-mode or not, is marked up text. Have you ever had to insert a diagram? Or change a margin, for that matter?\\
{\em This} is not {\large WYSIWYG}. Neither is this equation: $y=\int_0^T x(t) dt$. Sorry.
I skipped a grade in elementary school, and I thought about taking a year between high school and college. I ended up going straight through, and I had a great time. I had a bunch of friends, though, who did take a gap year. They loved that, too.
Most colleges and universities are happy to let you defer your admission for a year (after you're already accepted, of course), as long as you have something interesting planned. Don't take a year off if you think that you're going to end up sitting around your parents' house, or working for McDonalds for a year. But if you can afford to go travel around the world, or you can volunteer to save the planet, or learn to play the bagpipes, or work on a lobster boat, or something else that you probably will never have the time to do again, then I say go for it.
As far as what you want to study, I'm guessing that if you don't have a firm idea now, you won't have a firm idea in a year. But that's not really a problem. Most people have no idea what they want to study when they're freshmen, and a large number of them have no idea what they want to study when they're graduating. You just take the courses that sound interesting, and you'll find something that you want to spend a little more concentrated effort on. Don't stress about it.
It's not so much that the eye is less sensitive to blue light, but it's less sensitive to *variation* in blue intensities. The blue light content of an image is simply less meaningful to our perception of what an image looks like than red or green. A page on this I got from googling "eye sensitivity blue green" is here
The upshot of this is that, because there are 4 green subpixels, assuming that each subpixel can range from 0-255 in intensity, the color range of one of these "pixels" can go from 0-2047, while the color range in blue is only 0-255. It wouldn't be productive to have as much range in blue as in green or red, simply because we're not as sensitive to such variation. Of course, normal monitors *do* vary as much in blue as red and green, and that's why subpixel rendering is an improvement.
One would expect a ratio of 2:1:1 for green:red:blue emitters. They have 4:2:1. Maybe their red emitters are much brighter than the blue, which would make sense.
4:2:1 makes sense because of the relative sensitivity of the eye's receptors for those colors. Humans are much less sensitive to blue than red or green, and they're more sensitive to green than red. The standard YIQ color encoding for (analog) color television broadcasting also takes advantage of this relative sensitivity for compression, and carries much less information about blue intensities than other colors.
Also, when you say "red emitters are much brighter than blue"; LCDs don't use additive color, they use subtractive color. That is, a red subpixel doesn't emit red light, instead it filters the blue and green out of the white backlight. That's why you need a backlight at all, otherwise the pixels would light themselves.
Check out Keep It Going, a site dedicated to getting people to go see this movie. We're signing up volunteers to host screenings on a national screening day.
So come to the site and read through our blog or sign up to host a screening. More info on the site.
Well, there's no such thing as a "hot" laser. It's just the amount of power that it pumps out, which, because of the nature of laser light, will all be output as photons of a specific wavelength. For something (e.g. an air molecule) to be heated up by those photons, it has to absorb them; otherwise they just go by or bounce off (get diffracted). Even if you're sending 53 jW (jiggawatts) of power through the air, it's not going to heat anything up until something absorbs it.
I guess if the laser is powerful enough, it will start to actually *move* the air as the molecules get physically deflected by the photons hitting them, like the way a solar sail works, but that's orders of magnitude more power than these lasers (I think). Wavelengths that are high enough (X-rays, gamma rays) will actually ionize the air by knocking electons off the air, which will heat things up, but that's way higher frequency than visible (or ultraviolet) light.
IANAP(hysicist), but I think it depends on the wavelength of the laser. The various components (N2, O2, CO2, H2O, etc.) of air absorb on different wavelengths, and the laser would have to match the frequency (or a harmonic) of those wavelengths in order to heat up the air molecules. I think.
We don't do no farkin' around these here parts, buddy. What site d'you say you was from? A good ol' fashioned Slashdottin'll fry ten servers before breakfast and still have time to read the comics. I don't think any fancy-pants farkin' can do that, boy.
Use an ATM. You get the best exchange rate (bank rate), and the surcharge isn't any more than withdrawing from an off-network ATM in the states. Even better, though, is to just use a credit card when you can. You don't have to worry about surcharges, you still get the best exchange rate, and (best of all), they often take care of refunding VAT (value added tax) for you.
The Fry's I frequented in Sacramento was full of people who could tell me the average failure rates of the brand name RAM vs. their generic stuff, whether a 5400 or 7200 RPM hard drive would make a difference, etc.
I'd really love to know how you came up with those numbers. I mean, if you're trying to count mora, as you would in Japanese, I still don't see how you'd get 13 for the middle line. Anyway, there's absolutely no way to apply Japanese phonetic analysis to English; the syllable structures are entirely different (English allows consanant blends that are impossible in Japanese in both the onset and the coda, and long and short vowels don't contrast in the same way).
So, if you're willing to call anything that's not in Japanese a haiku, I think you'd have to call this a haiku (5-7-5 English syllables).
Geez, it might not be wonderful right now, but it's not exaclty the Great Depression. Have any of your friends started jumping out of windows? Living in shantytowns? Try to keep just a little perspective.
Ok, 802.11g is bad enough to pronouce, but I am not saying "eight-oh-two-dot-fifteen-dot-three" all the time, dammit!
I gather that 802.15.3 is supposed to compete directly with Bluetooth; does anyone have any idea how they compare (in terms of speed/power consumption/security/etc.)? If it's a Bluetooth-killer, we should call it Redtooth.
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Isn't this a little redundant?
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I mean, the Matrix essentially is an MMORPG. Who knows, maybe this is how the Matrix got started. Instead of the Matrix Online, it should be called Matrix 0.0.1 (alpha). Let's just hope they don't make the AI too good.
"Hey man, I just got the Matrix Online. It's awesome. They've got this great new interface, too. The surgery wasn't too bad, but it's kinda hard to sleep comfortably with this thing on the back of my neck."
For the love of God, don't start the Wheel of Time
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I started reading Jordan's series in middle school, and I loved it. In fact, I would still love it if either a), it had ended 2000 pages ago, or b), the most recent books were as good as the first few.
The series is good up until the 5th or 6th book, at which point it stalls and dies a long, slow, painful death. I recently bought the 10th book out of the same vague sense of obligation that sent me to the theater for Star Wars: Episode II, and I wouldn't want anyone else to be sucked into that vortex.
On the other hand, if you want a good fantasy series, take a look at George R. R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" (starts with _A Game of Thrones_). Another multivolume, incomplete series, but he promises only 6 books, so maybe it'll work out. I also just recently read Neil Gaiman's _Neverwhere_, a dark-comedy urban fantasy (how's that for a sub-sub-genere?), which is excellent.
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{\em This} is not {\large WYSIWYG}. Neither is this equation: $y=\int_0^T x(t) dt$. Sorry.
I skipped a grade in elementary school, and I thought about taking a year between high school and college. I ended up going straight through, and I had a great time. I had a bunch of friends, though, who did take a gap year. They loved that, too.
Most colleges and universities are happy to let you defer your admission for a year (after you're already accepted, of course), as long as you have something interesting planned. Don't take a year off if you think that you're going to end up sitting around your parents' house, or working for McDonalds for a year. But if you can afford to go travel around the world, or you can volunteer to save the planet, or learn to play the bagpipes, or work on a lobster boat, or something else that you probably will never have the time to do again, then I say go for it.
As far as what you want to study, I'm guessing that if you don't have a firm idea now, you won't have a firm idea in a year. But that's not really a problem. Most people have no idea what they want to study when they're freshmen, and a large number of them have no idea what they want to study when they're graduating. You just take the courses that sound interesting, and you'll find something that you want to spend a little more concentrated effort on. Don't stress about it.
It's not so much that the eye is less sensitive to blue light, but it's less sensitive to *variation* in blue intensities. The blue light content of an image is simply less meaningful to our perception of what an image looks like than red or green. A page on this I got from googling "eye sensitivity blue green" is here
The upshot of this is that, because there are 4 green subpixels, assuming that each subpixel can range from 0-255 in intensity, the color range of one of these "pixels" can go from 0-2047, while the color range in blue is only 0-255. It wouldn't be productive to have as much range in blue as in green or red, simply because we're not as sensitive to such variation. Of course, normal monitors *do* vary as much in blue as red and green, and that's why subpixel rendering is an improvement.
4:2:1 makes sense because of the relative sensitivity of the eye's receptors for those colors. Humans are much less sensitive to blue than red or green, and they're more sensitive to green than red. The standard YIQ color encoding for (analog) color television broadcasting also takes advantage of this relative sensitivity for compression, and carries much less information about blue intensities than other colors.
Also, when you say "red emitters are much brighter than blue"; LCDs don't use additive color, they use subtractive color. That is, a red subpixel doesn't emit red light, instead it filters the blue and green out of the white backlight. That's why you need a backlight at all, otherwise the pixels would light themselves.
Check out Keep It Going, a site dedicated to getting people to go see this movie. We're signing up volunteers to host screenings on a national screening day.
So come to the site and read through our blog or sign up to host a screening. More info on the site.
That's really the whole cathedral vs Bizarre issue
Boy, that is kinda bizzare, because I didn't realize that catholicism and strangeness were in conflict. Maybe he meant cathedral vs bazaar.
is because they tried a flantenna first, but the custard kept melting.
Well, there's no such thing as a "hot" laser. It's just the amount of power that it pumps out, which, because of the nature of laser light, will all be output as photons of a specific wavelength. For something (e.g. an air molecule) to be heated up by those photons, it has to absorb them; otherwise they just go by or bounce off (get diffracted). Even if you're sending 53 jW (jiggawatts) of power through the air, it's not going to heat anything up until something absorbs it.
I guess if the laser is powerful enough, it will start to actually *move* the air as the molecules get physically deflected by the photons hitting them, like the way a solar sail works, but that's orders of magnitude more power than these lasers (I think). Wavelengths that are high enough (X-rays, gamma rays) will actually ionize the air by knocking electons off the air, which will heat things up, but that's way higher frequency than visible (or ultraviolet) light.
IANAP(hysicist), but I think it depends on the wavelength of the laser. The various components (N2, O2, CO2, H2O, etc.) of air absorb on different wavelengths, and the laser would have to match the frequency (or a harmonic) of those wavelengths in order to heat up the air molecules. I think.
A stage has three walls for real. The fourth one is the invisible one, which you're not supposed to break.
We don't do no farkin' around these here parts, buddy. What site d'you say you was from? A good ol' fashioned Slashdottin'll fry ten servers before breakfast and still have time to read the comics. I don't think any fancy-pants farkin' can do that, boy.
Use an ATM. You get the best exchange rate (bank rate), and the surcharge isn't any more than withdrawing from an off-network ATM in the states. Even better, though, is to just use a credit card when you can. You don't have to worry about surcharges, you still get the best exchange rate, and (best of all), they often take care of refunding VAT (value added tax) for you.
I really hope it's not dead, because I just bought a wireless Bluetooth keyboard for my laptop, and a USB Bluetooth dongle to go with it.
The Fry's I frequented in Sacramento was full of people who could tell me the average failure rates of the brand name RAM vs. their generic stuff, whether a 5400 or 7200 RPM hard drive would make a difference, etc.
Of course, they were the other shoppers.
I'd really love to know how you came up with those numbers. I mean, if you're trying to count mora, as you would in Japanese, I still don't see how you'd get 13 for the middle line. Anyway, there's absolutely no way to apply Japanese phonetic analysis to English; the syllable structures are entirely different (English allows consanant blends that are impossible in Japanese in both the onset and the coda, and long and short vowels don't contrast in the same way).
So, if you're willing to call anything that's not in Japanese a haiku, I think you'd have to call this a haiku (5-7-5 English syllables).
Sorry, that's not a haiku. "Is to be enlightened" = 6 syllables. How about
Playing Donkey Kong
Forsaking railgun giblets
Is Enlightenment
?
Half of US population has below average intelligence!
By many accounts, we've never had it harder...
Geez, it might not be wonderful right now, but it's not exaclty the Great Depression. Have any of your friends started jumping out of windows? Living in shantytowns? Try to keep just a little perspective.
The current draft of the 802.15.3 standard (being dubbed Wi-Media)
So there is a name. Does this get abreviated to "Wi-Me"?
Ok, 802.11g is bad enough to pronouce, but I am not saying "eight-oh-two-dot-fifteen-dot-three" all the time, dammit!
I gather that 802.15.3 is supposed to compete directly with Bluetooth; does anyone have any idea how they compare (in terms of speed/power consumption/security/etc.)? If it's a Bluetooth-killer, we should call it Redtooth.
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You won't believe the results!!
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Do you have a small antenna? We can help!
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I mean, the Matrix essentially is an MMORPG. Who knows, maybe this is how the Matrix got started. Instead of the Matrix Online, it should be called Matrix 0.0.1 (alpha). Let's just hope they don't make the AI too good.
"Hey man, I just got the Matrix Online. It's awesome. They've got this great new interface, too. The surgery wasn't too bad, but it's kinda hard to sleep comfortably with this thing on the back of my neck."
I started reading Jordan's series in middle school, and I loved it. In fact, I would still love it if either a), it had ended 2000 pages ago, or b), the most recent books were as good as the first few.
The series is good up until the 5th or 6th book, at which point it stalls and dies a long, slow, painful death. I recently bought the 10th book out of the same vague sense of obligation that sent me to the theater for Star Wars: Episode II, and I wouldn't want anyone else to be sucked into that vortex.
On the other hand, if you want a good fantasy series, take a look at George R. R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" (starts with _A Game of Thrones_). Another multivolume, incomplete series, but he promises only 6 books, so maybe it'll work out. I also just recently read Neil Gaiman's _Neverwhere_, a dark-comedy urban fantasy (how's that for a sub-sub-genere?), which is excellent.