I'd like to see a place where hobyists could send their robots on a survival trip. Just plug in a wireless card (or wathever) and follow your robot via the internet. Now that would be cool/nerdisch.
Like in Italy, where a law is being voted to enable people to demand another judge when they feel the current one isn't "impartial" enough. Earlyer they voted a law to make fraud less punishable. I think the USA can learn a lot from Italy's way of life;).
Well, this "fooseball" is more fun than pinball (IMHO - it is not yet proven). It is a very social game. Especially when you're playing with 4 people, it can be very amusing. It's really a 'multiplayer game' - pinball is not, unless you control one flipper each.
The current computer games in bars are quite stupid. I guess it's more economic to place a small console with some (stupid) games on, than those huge pinball machines. Luckily we still have table football (at least in Belgium). Do you have it in the states too? (I will try to explain the game if you're interested).
I do think however that your parent poster had a point. There is a point where you no longer notice a better resolution (This has an angular unit more than a pixel or size unit). So what we are actually trying to do is to make it displayable on larger screens.
So the question we need to address is, how will we look at movies in the future? How big will our screens get? Once we have determined that, we can choose a good movie resolution.
It will actually depend on the quality I guess. While the current DivX quality is pretty good, when I look back at movies I copied a couple of years ago, the quality is pretty bad. At the time, it seemed much better. Will DivX be regarded the same in the years to come?
Also, what machines would be needed to stream it? My current computer (dual PII-350) can hardly keep up with high-res movies.
If you compare this to software piracy, you might see the insanity. Software is easily copied. It is much more often copied than bought. Seeds copy themselves. It's just the way life works. It's like microsoft adding virus code to copy itself on every computer it can hack, while threatening to sue if it succeeds!
I've done some embedded developing, and I have put an applet on a webpage of a TCP/IP enabled 8bit controller. It opens a connection back to the server and displays real-time data. This is much less overhead and the communication protocol separates the GUI from the application code somewhat. The way I see it, VNC is overhead. (It remains cool however).
I first noticed it with racing games.
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It was quite strange. Whenever I thought I was going soooo slow, I set a new record. This "flow" affects time awareness, everything slows down around you.
I can somehow imagine a frustrated kid making a virus "for fun" or "because I can". But this is *evil*!! And stupid, not to mention! What if someone close to him dies due to his crime?
I dunno what exactly I'd do if someone DID start leaching, since I have no real contract, but then again, I have the switch in my condo, so all I need to do is pull the plug.
I have cable at my student appartment, and half a year ago I started wiring the building. There are four students using my connection. When one of them uses eDonkey, but it poses no real problem. I just went up and told him to limit his upload limit to 7k/sec. Since my ISP does not have quota, the more my connection is used, the better.
Hmm.. seems like the right time to me to completely throw that intellectual property concept in the waste basket. I mean, when hardware gets as copyable as software....
I find it is not that hard, I mean, when I write a program I first make a design (or at least take some notes) on paper. Once you have divided the problem, writing down some implementation (pseudo) code is much easyer. Those notes will also tell the examinator that you understood the problem, making it easyer for him/her to forgive eg. a pointer error, and to understand the code.
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I'd like to see a place where hobyists could send their robots on a survival trip. Just plug in a wireless card (or wathever) and follow your robot via the internet. Now that would be cool/nerdisch.
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Hello flonker,
Could you please post your telephone number? My lawyer would like to talk to you. I'm off to the hospital, cu guys.
Like in Italy, where a law is being voted to enable people to demand another judge when they feel the current one isn't "impartial" enough. Earlyer they voted a law to make fraud less punishable. I think the USA can learn a lot from Italy's way of life ;).
Well, this "fooseball" is more fun than pinball (IMHO - it is not yet proven). It is a very social game. Especially when you're playing with 4 people, it can be very amusing. It's really a 'multiplayer game' - pinball is not, unless you control one flipper each.
The current computer games in bars are quite stupid. I guess it's more economic to place a small console with some (stupid) games on, than those huge pinball machines.
Luckily we still have table football (at least in Belgium). Do you have it in the states too? (I will try to explain the game if you're interested).
A great (and funny) game where you have to destroy all koules. Check it out and grow an addiction
I hate it when an abreviation is thrown in my face without explanation. Am I the only one?
Maybe the .com implosion caused a lot of people to do other things than reading /. at work? :)
I do think however that your parent poster had a point. There is a point where you no longer notice a better resolution (This has an angular unit more than a pixel or size unit). So what we are actually trying to do is to make it displayable on larger screens.
So the question we need to address is, how will we look at movies in the future? How big will our screens get? Once we have determined that, we can choose a good movie resolution.
It will actually depend on the quality I guess. While the current DivX quality is pretty good, when I look back at movies I copied a couple of years ago, the quality is pretty bad. At the time, it seemed much better. Will DivX be regarded the same in the years to come?
Also, what machines would be needed to stream it? My current computer (dual PII-350) can hardly keep up with high-res movies.
If you compare this to software piracy, you might see the insanity. Software is easily copied. It is much more often copied than bought. Seeds copy themselves. It's just the way life works. It's like microsoft adding virus code to copy itself on every computer it can hack, while threatening to sue if it succeeds!
I've done some embedded developing, and I have put an applet on a webpage of a TCP/IP enabled 8bit controller. It opens a connection back to the server and displays real-time data. This is much less overhead and the communication protocol separates the GUI from the application code somewhat. The way I see it, VNC is overhead. (It remains cool however).
It was quite strange. Whenever I thought I was going soooo slow, I set a new record. This "flow" affects time awareness, everything slows down around you.
Ehm.. nice.. now, do you know weither I'm right or not? Or does your existence only consists of remarks like this one?
Or maybe they'll crash a swarm of them into a large building.
"The error in our knowledge of where NT7 will be on 1 February 2019 is large, several tens of millions of kms."
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Earth's diameter is 6000km, so that's still a small chance I guess. Luckily. I was already turning green when I read the
The probes are gradually dying because their plutonium fuel is running out
I thought it was more the degration of the thermocouples.
I can somehow imagine a frustrated kid making a virus "for fun" or "because I can". But this is *evil*!! And stupid, not to mention! What if someone close to him dies due to his crime?
I dunno what exactly I'd do if someone DID start leaching, since I have no real contract, but then again, I have the switch in my condo, so all I need to do is pull the plug.
I have cable at my student appartment, and half a year ago I started wiring the building. There are four students using my connection. When one of them uses eDonkey, but it poses no real problem. I just went up and told him to limit his upload limit to 7k/sec. Since my ISP does not have quota, the more my connection is used, the better.
Hmm.. seems like the right time to me to completely throw that intellectual property concept in the waste basket. I mean, when hardware gets as copyable as software....
You should be shot at sight, coward.
I find it is not that hard, I mean, when I write a program I first make a design (or at least take some notes) on paper. Once you have divided the problem, writing down some implementation (pseudo) code is much easyer.
Those notes will also tell the examinator that you understood the problem, making it easyer for him/her to forgive eg. a pointer error, and to understand the code.
By a strange coincidence, "mostly harmless" is exactly the same descrption of "earth" in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
It failed 1-2 moths after the warranty has ended?