I almost wonder if we should not just use biosphere II and do just that. It would be interesting to see how 8 ppl would do. We just keep the CO2 at the elevated levels and see how humans and plants do.
When I visited there a few years ago they were doing almost exactly that, with plants at least. They were trying to figure out how much more CO2 plants could take out of the air before they couldn't keep up. Interesting stuff...
Sure you can do it with SCSI hardware, but for how much extra you spend on controllers and disks you might as well buy an entire separate machine to burn CDs.
What's loading up a Java applet vs. loading up a Flash one?
The term "native executable" comes to mind.
well the term 'tall frosty beer' also comes to mind but that doesn't really have much to do with the subject either. Seriously though, I am completely ignorant of the Flash implementation of these video players, but are they using system's installed codecs or something to render the video? I can't imagine that's the case since I can watch them easily on my Linux, Mac, and Windows machines without installing anything extra (which is, I hear, why Google moved away from the VLC plugin deal to a Flash player). If that is the case I can see your point, otherwise why couldn't the exact same player be implemented as a Java applet?
Now, out in the suburbs. You definately need a car.
Agreed, being in the burbs makes it very difficult to get around. I live in Eagan and I'm within a block of a bus park-n-ride. I've tried checking bus schedules to get around (say downtown Minneapolis) and it's pretty much impossible unless you're in the tide of daily commuters. If you want to get anywhere after 5PM you better call a cab. Pretty much the only way to do it is to get the MOA somehow and jump downtown from there.
Thankfully I live only 3 miles from where I work and only a couple miles from shopping so day-to-day driving isn't strictly required, but finding nearby non-fast-food places to eat or drink is a chore.
This last week highlighted why I still need a car, though. I ended up driving up to St Paul proper about 6 times for emergency vet issues and there's no way I'd have been able to do it via anything but car.
I was under the impression that a lot of (if not all) dimmers sold these days are like little solid state switching power supplies, not resistive. I imagine dissipating the heat generated by a resistive dimmer in an in-wall single gang box has got to be dangerous.
This looks similar to the thing he was talking about. Might be a bit weird to wear on your head, though I assume you could get the same effect with a refractive vs reflective device.
How do they get the 360 degrees out of a single camera?
I knew a guy who had this setup for taking 360 views for real estate agents. Basically it was a semi-spherical lens that you point your camera at then position the whole thing vertically. You get a view of the whole room you're in then run some script-fu on the resulting image to get a view you can rotate inside of. I don't know if that's what they're doing here but it's probably the easiest and cheapest way to get a single-camera 360 view.
I've switched from CGIProxy to using this same method with great success. It is much much more flexible.
There's an extension called SwitchProxy for firefox that will let you switch back and forth from your usual proxy to the tunnelled one. I try to only use the tunnelled one when something is blocked in case anyone is keeping track. They might think it odd that I only connect to one machine
all day.:)
You might be able to use port 563 (NNTP over SSL) also. Not sure why they have it open here at work, but it's worth a shot if you really can't take httpd off of 443 at home.
oops, I should say she checked her serial # and it matched so she had the replacement shipped out. We didn't have to send in the bad one until we had a new good one.
Though I will wait out till the initial rush dies out.
Why wait? My wife sent in the battery for her powerbook the day the recall was announced and got a replacement inside of a week. You won't need to send your faulty one in until you get the new one.
and I am currently recompiling my entire system as a result of upgrading gcc from 3.3.6 to 4.1.1. Talk about a PITA. Things seem to work that way a lot which makes me wait to upgrade stuff. I usually end up waiting until 3-6 months have passed and I have some downtime here to spend the requisite 3 days babysitting my emerge -Duv world.
I ordered cables from here. I temporarily dropped $250 for four cables at BB to get my stuff running, ordered the equivalent at that site for $26 shipped then returned the BB stuff 3 days later when it arrived. yay! Never heard of bluejeanscable, but their prices seem pretty comparable... except on their dual-link dvi cables, ouch
agreed. incidentally it is truly strange to be on the other side of the fabled/. groupthink for a change and see salient points modded down as flamebait or troll and blatant 'bullet to the head' BS propped up as 'insightful'. no, I'm not new here.
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FCC? what is that?
Well, would you like getting poked at every Sunday?
Why would you need to heat hot water? Maybe the heater itself is hot? :P
When I visited there a few years ago they were doing almost exactly that, with plants at least. They were trying to figure out how much more CO2 plants could take out of the air before they couldn't keep up. Interesting stuff...
There are a few others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram#Creating_ sound_from_a_spectrogram
Sure you can do it with SCSI hardware, but for how much extra you spend on controllers and disks you might as well buy an entire separate machine to burn CDs.
you don't see any tigers around, do you?
but spelling be damned!
found this one on Google pretty quickly and it works just as well as YouTube's and Google Video's Flash apps do for me.
well the term 'tall frosty beer' also comes to mind but that doesn't really have much to do with the subject either. Seriously though, I am completely ignorant of the Flash implementation of these video players, but are they using system's installed codecs or something to render the video? I can't imagine that's the case since I can watch them easily on my Linux, Mac, and Windows machines without installing anything extra (which is, I hear, why Google moved away from the VLC plugin deal to a Flash player). If that is the case I can see your point, otherwise why couldn't the exact same player be implemented as a Java applet?
Thankfully I live only 3 miles from where I work and only a couple miles from shopping so day-to-day driving isn't strictly required, but finding nearby non-fast-food places to eat or drink is a chore.
This last week highlighted why I still need a car, though. I ended up driving up to St Paul proper about 6 times for emergency vet issues and there's no way I'd have been able to do it via anything but car.
should be "its"
You're just looking at it the wrong way. Just round up to a liter!
I didn't know Dennis Miller surfed slashdot...
I was under the impression that a lot of (if not all) dimmers sold these days are like little solid state switching power supplies, not resistive. I imagine dissipating the heat generated by a resistive dimmer in an in-wall single gang box has got to be dangerous.
hey, stop posting on slashdot and write another newsletter dammit!
This looks similar to the thing he was talking about. Might be a bit weird to wear on your head, though I assume you could get the same effect with a refractive vs reflective device.
I knew a guy who had this setup for taking 360 views for real estate agents. Basically it was a semi-spherical lens that you point your camera at then position the whole thing vertically. You get a view of the whole room you're in then run some script-fu on the resulting image to get a view you can rotate inside of. I don't know if that's what they're doing here but it's probably the easiest and cheapest way to get a single-camera 360 view.
doh, you beat me to it... I was thinking the exact same thing
There's an extension called SwitchProxy for firefox that will let you switch back and forth from your usual proxy to the tunnelled one. I try to only use the tunnelled one when something is blocked in case anyone is keeping track. They might think it odd that I only connect to one machine all day. :)
You might be able to use port 563 (NNTP over SSL) also. Not sure why they have it open here at work, but it's worth a shot if you really can't take httpd off of 443 at home.
oops, I should say she checked her serial # and it matched so she had the replacement shipped out. We didn't have to send in the bad one until we had a new good one.
Why wait? My wife sent in the battery for her powerbook the day the recall was announced and got a replacement inside of a week. You won't need to send your faulty one in until you get the new one.
and I am currently recompiling my entire system as a result of upgrading gcc from 3.3.6 to 4.1.1. Talk about a PITA. Things seem to work that way a lot which makes me wait to upgrade stuff. I usually end up waiting until 3-6 months have passed and I have some downtime here to spend the requisite 3 days babysitting my emerge -Duv world.
Currently merging package 50 of 940... sigh
I ordered cables from here. I temporarily dropped $250 for four cables at BB to get my stuff running, ordered the equivalent at that site for $26 shipped then returned the BB stuff 3 days later when it arrived. yay! Never heard of bluejeanscable, but their prices seem pretty comparable... except on their dual-link dvi cables, ouch
agreed. incidentally it is truly strange to be on the other side of the fabled /. groupthink for a change and see salient points modded down as flamebait or troll and blatant 'bullet to the head' BS propped up as 'insightful'. no, I'm not new here.