These guys are about to wipe the memory of a robot on another planet and they're confident and casual. Just flashing the bios of my motherboard in my computer room causes me anguish and fills me with terror...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a cheap hardrive and cheap ram get you pretty close to 99$.
This is an example of the power of a monopoly trying to break into another market. There is NO way that a company could start out and keep losing tons of money like they're doing on the xbox. That's what's wrong with monopolies. They get so much income from selling windows xp pro (full version 449$CAN at futureshop.ca) and office Pro full (sells for 650$CAN at futureshop.ca) that they can keep losing until they make competition in an area go bankrupt. Then you start paying.
The xbox doesn't seem cheap when you realize you're paying for it when you buy software from Microsoft's monopoly areas. Same goes for IE, media player and all the little utilities included in the OS that used to be made by various companies. It's never free, you just pay elsewhere.
A 2cm bend radius means that rolled up, this display will form a tube 4cm wide. This is NOT "roll-up into a pen", this is more "roll up into a scrollcase".
To put in another way: this is a 5 inch diagonal display - say 3x4 inches - that rolls up into a 2 inch wide tube. Yes, that is a HUGE improvement.
See, at the start where it says 2 cm, and during your text where you switched to 2 inches? You've just equated 1 cm to 1 inch. So you're 2.54 times off in your diameter. That's not about significant digits.
I've had more than my share of experience with significant digits during my 6 years of post-secondary scientific education. Unfortunately YOU need to go back and redo a simple english course, because you misunderstood the original article and you did not understand my post.
Once again, since you have a hard time reading : 2 cm != 2 inches, 2 cm = 0.79 inches. That's not a few digits appart, that's 1.21 inches appart. That's why your original post was wrong, which prompted my correction which just totally flew over your head.
Matlab can hardly be beat in speed when you need to produce custom software to crunch huges matrices full of number. You can have a GUI designed, working, put some code quickly together that can grab data from any txt format, run mathematical formulas on those data. Then you can do any operations you want on the matrices that are in memory and easily accessible. Want to throw your data into a chart? A few minutes of coding and you've got the perfect chart on there.
Back in my days of internship at the canadian space agency, I'd program multiple custom apps to pre-process the data before it being fed to the mainframes of a contractor for finite element analysis. Matlab is the tool to use for anybody involved in scientific projects. Yes, your code in C will run much faster, but it'll take significantly longer to get it up and running.
If you run a lot of loops and it's really bogging the performance down, you can program just those sections of code in C and compile with matlab libraries to be able to use it in Matlab like the native commands. I did one piece of code that took a finite element file and created the 3d model in matlab. Took 20 minutes to run the code in matlab, 3.45 seconds once I had compiled the tough part of the code in C.
In the end it's all about using the right tool, and for engineering/matlab, Matlab is excellent.
Well, for starters this kuro5hin story lists a few. Fat wreck chords on there is one of my favorite labels. Good groups include Propaghandi, Strung Out, No Use for a Name, and NOFX, whose singer, Fat Mike, owns the label. NOFX is pretty good, Fat Mike has got to be the worst singer but I'd rather listen about him whining that there's something sticking in his eye (True song : "Sticking in my eye") than whatever American Idol spews up this season with a oh-so melodious voice. That "Simon" judge would probably throw him out at the auditions, and he'd hopefully get a nice skateboard slammed across his face.
Other, a fav "local for me" non-RIAA band/label is owned by Montreal band "Grim Skunk"who also run indica records and publish albums for roughly 20 non-corporate bands. They also distribute albums from alternative (as in non-commercial) europeans bands. It won't come as a surprise, but the bassist of Grim Skunk was one of the founder of the marijuana partyand the provincial bloc pot party. Their song are in english, french, greek, spanish, some german and arabic thrown in there if I recall. If you like heavy, non mainstream music start with their album "Exotic Blend". Not a cent of what you buy from them goes to the RIAA, but expect some of it to fund pot legalisation and their compassion club where they hand out medicinal marijuana.
Don't blame me if your government sends the DEA and FBI after you though.
This is true for a lot of people I'd guess. My playlist of "A" grade songs is less than 150 songs long out of 4 gigs of MP3's. Yeah I've ripped all of my pearl jam albums, but for a good mix i'll be damned if more than 5 or 6 out of 60-70 tracks will make it in. I've got all of the "System of a Down" (no, this is not's Bill Gate's band:) ) tracks, but only 3 go in there. Metallica? I put "battery" and maybe another 1 or 2 that I really like (those I download off Kazaa though). I'll be damned if I can put 1.5 gigs of song that are the same quality together. Only way you get to 20 gigs is if you drop ALL of your beatles, pearl jam songs in there without even choosing to listen only to the ones you really like.
I've got a bunch of cd's that are burned, archived and removed from my HD's song because they were full albums of groups I don't even listen to and they diminish the quality of my mega-mix when you put all of your tracks on "Random".
Am I the only one appalled that the lawyers decide to spend tons of money in legal fees (straight into their pockets) instead of just settling the buyback at 10 000$? Of course then you have to give 10 000$ to every other infringing site out there. But what if even that makes it cheaper than the legal costs?
Then again lawyers do this job because they are justice fighters, not to get rich.
Did anybody ever catch that newscast about people hired by companies to promote products secretly? It was on cbs.
Some of these actors would be on the streets, and keep asking passerbys to take picture of them and another actor on that brand new camera that just came out.
On the more insidious end of the scale, they would hire pretty women (believe me, those REAL lookers in bars) to go smoke in bars, and give cigarettes/ask for a light. Men would of course be eager to please, and they would see what the lovely lady was smoking.
And then...there were those that were paid to surf around public forums and do publicity like "I totally saw "whatever" movie, it's really good!, you have to see it!". Basically it's manufactured word to mouth. If parent isn't one of those drones, he's trying to look like one.
I'll be sure to mention it on my way to talk to the attack helicopter pilot who shot these missiles or maybe those, or the sharpshooter in this bullseye.
Point is, it's two sides killing the other side. Using suicide bombing is not more horrible than using high-tech weapons and vehicles. It's just harder to have those handy when you're not receiving BILLIONS every year to buy to toys to murder your adversaries.
I haven't checked the tally yet, but last time I checked, Israel had a confortable lead in kills. They'll probably make the playoffs.
George, you've got the content control, it's your universe, you define it. BUT, someone else writes the scripts and dialogue, someone else produces it, and someone else directs it.
From that page : "Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Unix, and Linux often crash, lock up, or go crazy."
Woah, these guys would have a field day on slashdot fighting all the zealots from all the sides simultaneously.
One thing that they do not mention in their little glorification, it's that these OS have to support thousands of devices, poorly written drivers, 3d graphic cards in conjonction with directx/opengl, run that recently released game that is really cool, and more.
I'm pretty sure any of those systems would be rock solid if they stripped EVERYTHING out of them.
That's pretty funny, that's exactly the term people use to justify using tube guitar amps instead of transistor amps. Hell, I should know, I've got a tube amp!
Exactly. Dying of a heart attack renders you immune to any further diseases. In fact studies shows that dead people are 100% less likely to contract cancer, aids and diabetes.
That's 14 meters per minute, not seconds. So roughly 0.23 m/s. About 9 inches per seconds for a 26 inch robot. The only thing surprising is that it manages to get both feet off the floor at this slow speed.
A good proof of that is Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic. KOTOR is sensibly Planescape:Torment in the star wars universe with a 3d engine and a star wars story. As far as dialogue, interaction with party members and feel they are really similar. Hell, even the "memory" aspect of planescape is there, but I'd feel bad to spoil.
I have to disagree. To me it seems that "cross-platform" is the word of the day. I have no worries that in the future years games will be released for PS3, other future consoles and the pc at the same time.
PC's will still be the resolution and frame rate kings. Of course we'll still pay our graphic cards more than what a new console is worth, but I guess that is beside the point. Right?
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These guys are about to wipe the memory of a robot on another planet and they're confident and casual. Just flashing the bios of my motherboard in my computer room causes me anguish and fills me with terror...
In this era of stealth advertising, one must be getting a pretty good bonus at the end of the month for getting a product on the slashdot front page.
(Yes, I'm stealing links from some of my old posts)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a cheap hardrive and cheap ram get you pretty close to 99$.
This is an example of the power of a monopoly trying to break into another market. There is NO way that a company could start out and keep losing tons of money like they're doing on the xbox. That's what's wrong with monopolies. They get so much income from selling windows xp pro (full version 449$CAN at futureshop.ca) and office Pro full (sells for 650$CAN at futureshop.ca) that they can keep losing until they make competition in an area go bankrupt. Then you start paying.
The xbox doesn't seem cheap when you realize you're paying for it when you buy software from Microsoft's monopoly areas. Same goes for IE, media player and all the little utilities included in the OS that used to be made by various companies. It's never free, you just pay elsewhere.
That proves nothing. I think about white bears all the time.
Well, let's re-read your post :
A 2cm bend radius means that rolled up, this display will form a tube 4cm wide. This is NOT "roll-up into a pen", this is more "roll up into a scrollcase".
To put in another way: this is a 5 inch diagonal display - say 3x4 inches - that rolls up into a 2 inch wide tube. Yes, that is a HUGE improvement.
See, at the start where it says 2 cm, and during your text where you switched to 2 inches? You've just equated 1 cm to 1 inch. So you're 2.54 times off in your diameter. That's not about significant digits.
I've had more than my share of experience with significant digits during my 6 years of post-secondary scientific education. Unfortunately YOU need to go back and redo a simple english course, because you misunderstood the original article and you did not understand my post.
Once again, since you have a hard time reading : 2 cm != 2 inches, 2 cm = 0.79 inches. That's not a few digits appart, that's 1.21 inches appart. That's why your original post was wrong, which prompted my correction which just totally flew over your head.
To put in another way: this is a 5 inch diagonal display - say 3x4 inches - that rolls up into a 2 inch wide tube.
Metric or imperial, pick one. If it's 2cm, that 5 inch display rolls into a 0.78", or 13/16", wide tube.
Matlab can hardly be beat in speed when you need to produce custom software to crunch huges matrices full of number. You can have a GUI designed, working, put some code quickly together that can grab data from any txt format, run mathematical formulas on those data. Then you can do any operations you want on the matrices that are in memory and easily accessible. Want to throw your data into a chart? A few minutes of coding and you've got the perfect chart on there.
Back in my days of internship at the canadian space agency, I'd program multiple custom apps to pre-process the data before it being fed to the mainframes of a contractor for finite element analysis. Matlab is the tool to use for anybody involved in scientific projects. Yes, your code in C will run much faster, but it'll take significantly longer to get it up and running.
If you run a lot of loops and it's really bogging the performance down, you can program just those sections of code in C and compile with matlab libraries to be able to use it in Matlab like the native commands. I did one piece of code that took a finite element file and created the 3d model in matlab. Took 20 minutes to run the code in matlab, 3.45 seconds once I had compiled the tough part of the code in C.
In the end it's all about using the right tool, and for engineering/matlab, Matlab is excellent.
Patent on punctuation expires! You can now freely make use of it!
Well, for starters this kuro5hin story lists a few. Fat wreck chords on there is one of my favorite labels. Good groups include Propaghandi, Strung Out, No Use for a Name, and NOFX, whose singer, Fat Mike, owns the label. NOFX is pretty good, Fat Mike has got to be the worst singer but I'd rather listen about him whining that there's something sticking in his eye (True song : "Sticking in my eye") than whatever American Idol spews up this season with a oh-so melodious voice. That "Simon" judge would probably throw him out at the auditions, and he'd hopefully get a nice skateboard slammed across his face.
Other, a fav "local for me" non-RIAA band/label is owned by Montreal band "Grim Skunk"who also run indica records and publish albums for roughly 20 non-corporate bands. They also distribute albums from alternative (as in non-commercial) europeans bands. It won't come as a surprise, but the bassist of Grim Skunk was one of the founder of the marijuana partyand the provincial bloc pot party. Their song are in english, french, greek, spanish, some german and arabic thrown in there if I recall. If you like heavy, non mainstream music start with their album "Exotic Blend". Not a cent of what you buy from them goes to the RIAA, but expect some of it to fund pot legalisation and their compassion club where they hand out medicinal marijuana.
Don't blame me if your government sends the DEA and FBI after you though.
This is true for a lot of people I'd guess. My playlist of "A" grade songs is less than 150 songs long out of 4 gigs of MP3's. Yeah I've ripped all of my pearl jam albums, but for a good mix i'll be damned if more than 5 or 6 out of 60-70 tracks will make it in. I've got all of the "System of a Down" (no, this is not's Bill Gate's band :) ) tracks, but only 3 go in there. Metallica? I put "battery" and maybe another 1 or 2 that I really like (those I download off Kazaa though). I'll be damned if I can put 1.5 gigs of song that are the same quality together. Only way you get to 20 gigs is if you drop ALL of your beatles, pearl jam songs in there without even choosing to listen only to the ones you really like.
I've got a bunch of cd's that are burned, archived and removed from my HD's song because they were full albums of groups I don't even listen to and they diminish the quality of my mega-mix when you put all of your tracks on "Random".
Am I the only one appalled that the lawyers decide to spend tons of money in legal fees (straight into their pockets) instead of just settling the buyback at 10 000$? Of course then you have to give 10 000$ to every other infringing site out there. But what if even that makes it cheaper than the legal costs?
Then again lawyers do this job because they are justice fighters, not to get rich.
Right?
Did anybody ever catch that newscast about people hired by companies to promote products secretly? It was on cbs.
Some of these actors would be on the streets, and keep asking passerbys to take picture of them and another actor on that brand new camera that just came out.
On the more insidious end of the scale, they would hire pretty women (believe me, those REAL lookers in bars) to go smoke in bars, and give cigarettes/ask for a light. Men would of course be eager to please, and they would see what the lovely lady was smoking.
And then...there were those that were paid to surf around public forums and do publicity like "I totally saw "whatever" movie, it's really good!, you have to see it!". Basically it's manufactured word to mouth. If parent isn't one of those drones, he's trying to look like one.
Check it out at dolby.
It's basically : Left, Center, Right; SurroundX(left,rear left, rear right, right). Total overkill IMHO, 5.1 is good enough for me.
I'll be sure to mention it on my way to talk to the attack helicopter pilot who shot these missiles or maybe those, or the sharpshooter in this bullseye.
Point is, it's two sides killing the other side. Using suicide bombing is not more horrible than using high-tech weapons and vehicles. It's just harder to have those handy when you're not receiving BILLIONS every year to buy to toys to murder your adversaries.
I haven't checked the tally yet, but last time I checked, Israel had a confortable lead in kills. They'll probably make the playoffs.
This isn't too bad. If the box set can contain the THX version of the originals (without the SE modificaitons) it will be much better.
The petition would be :
George, you've got the content control, it's your universe, you define it. BUT, someone else writes the scripts and dialogue, someone else produces it, and someone else directs it.
From that page : "Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Unix, and Linux often crash, lock up, or go crazy."
Woah, these guys would have a field day on slashdot fighting all the zealots from all the sides simultaneously.
One thing that they do not mention in their little glorification, it's that these OS have to support thousands of devices, poorly written drivers, 3d graphic cards in conjonction with directx/opengl, run that recently released game that is really cool, and more.
I'm pretty sure any of those systems would be rock solid if they stripped EVERYTHING out of them.
That's pretty funny, that's exactly the term people use to justify using tube guitar amps instead of transistor amps. Hell, I should know, I've got a tube amp!
Exactly. Dying of a heart attack renders you immune to any further diseases. In fact studies shows that dead people are 100% less likely to contract cancer, aids and diabetes.
That's 14 meters per minute, not seconds. So roughly 0.23 m/s. About 9 inches per seconds for a 26 inch robot. The only thing surprising is that it manages to get both feet off the floor at this slow speed.
Do a search for "pentium floating point bug" on google.
It's funny because they had a division bug in early pentium, and this product is new.
When you don't get jokes, keep quiet, you'll look smarter.
A good proof of that is Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic. KOTOR is sensibly Planescape:Torment in the star wars universe with a 3d engine and a star wars story. As far as dialogue, interaction with party members and feel they are really similar. Hell, even the "memory" aspect of planescape is there, but I'd feel bad to spoil.
I have to disagree. To me it seems that "cross-platform" is the word of the day. I have no worries that in the future years games will be released for PS3, other future consoles and the pc at the same time.
PC's will still be the resolution and frame rate kings. Of course we'll still pay our graphic cards more than what a new console is worth, but I guess that is beside the point. Right?
...that they would outsource my job to someone that wouldn't be reading slashdot right now and would actually be working.
Darn! Gotta go, the boss is walking this way!
Their insurance are gonna go up now, I hope they had comprehensive...