I don't think it's too complicated. The more popular a console is with the masses, the more games get developed. So it doesn't matter whether I buy one, it matters if other people do.
If the name keeps them from buying, the name keeps me from buying.
My brother-in-law had this very problem recently at Costco. After arguing with the person, he eventually had to fill out all sorts of silly paperwork to get them to let him print his own damn work. Just because he's got a good eye and a decent camera (Digital Rebel rocks with the kit lens, folks) they told him the images must have been done by a professional. A compliment of sorts, but quite an annoying one.
Like others have said, PRINT ONLINE. There are some great services out there, and if you know exactly what you're looking for you can get a good deal. My favorite for amateur photos is currently Mpix.com. They have a great turnaround time, but more importantly, they have metallic paper. If any of you have noticed those crazy cool silver gelatin prints in museums, this gives that same sort of effect. Looks great for black and whites, but especially amazing with reds, blues, and yellows. They also have this cool continuous tone black and white paper (regular digital prints won't give this). Their prices are good, too.
If you're looking to do real work somewhere in the semi-pro realm, there's really only one choice: White House Custom Color. This place is for real. You don't just open up an account and upload photos. This place has you fill out a client questionnaire and then they send you samples of their stuff. The coolest thing they have, which I've not seen anywhere else, is linen textured paper (you'll have to read through one of the PDF's).
If you need something local and same day, Walgreens is great. They almost always have some sort of a special each week, and I ended up paying $.19 for each 4x6 the last time I was there. The color might not be spot on, but it is same day service. Shipping and tax end up balancing out in the end. Not bad at all.
I know this is off-topic, but really, are we ever really on-topic here?
It's when people try forcing their beliefs on me and tell me that their way is the one true way that I start to get a little indignant.
I wholeheartedly agree. I hate it when people have no patience with me when I disagree with them. And I try to not take it personally when someone else thinks my ideas are rather daft.
It does bear pointing out, however, that in your statement you have advocated that others conform their behavior to yours.
The idea that people should not force ideas upon others is perhaps a bit naive. We cannot help but force our ideas on others. It is the nature of human interaction, and it is a good thing. This is how we learn.
It all comes down to how someone goes about exchanging those ideas.
trust me, you don't want the apple earbuds anyways, whatever color they are.
sony makes some very nice earbuds that come in black. surprisingly good sound quality, and they don't hurt your ears one bit. i've had them on for hours at a time with no discomfort. sony has a lot of similar ones, but the mdr-ex71's are great.
it helps to break them in a bit first. crank up the audio from the ipod to full for 5 or 6 minutes, and you're all set.
Canon's WFT-E1 Wireless Transmitter reportedly also works on Canon's three newest digital cameras, including the 1DsmkII (as mentioned), as well as the 20D ($1500, 8mp, 1.6x crop factor, high end consumer level) and 1DmkII ($4500, 8mp, 1.3x crop factor, pro body).
Rob Galbraith has a much more information here, as Canon's site appears to still need an update.
For the non-pro enthusiast, the 20D looks to be a great camera. It can handle 5 frames per second, instant on, and has ISO 3200 performance that beats most ISO 400 digicams. They are finally trickling into the market, and Calumet likely has a few in stock (they have several kits locally here in Boston). Just give them a call.
Re:Here's where you get the metal for lockpicks, f
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I've made several sets, and it really is this easy. Best way really is to follow the street sweeper. The spring steel bristles that come loose have perfect properties. I've tried making them out of other materials, and the spring steel is quite easy to shape and very resilient.
Then just find a decent pick you want to copy, and sit down at the grinder with your blank bristle. They've still got grinders in my old dorm and the lockpicking culture is indeed alive and well at MIT.
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I'm suprised no one has linked to the (in)famous MIT Guide to Lockpicking yet.
Dang it, I was going to post that. Now I would just be redundant.
Lockpicking was standard teaching for freshman the East Campus dorm at MIT. This guide has served as the standard since around 1991 iirc. During the yearly EC "Oddball Olympics" lockpicking was one of the main events. I remember a masterlock being picked in 9 seconds. Really, masterlock padlocks can be that easy. And I've seen master hackers (roof and tunnel in this case) spend an hour and a half on a Schlage and never get it.
This is a great guide and a good place to start, but lockpicking is all about feel. Like anything else, it just takes practice to get good.
my roommate did this as an undergrad
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Bah. My roommate did this three years ago when he was an undergrad at MIT for his senior thesis. He designed and built it himself. You can see it here. Granted, it is entirely mechanical, but dang it's cool. He's got a video of it going across water.
Most recently he built a robotic snail that, in its current incarnation, actually goes completely upside down. Oddly enough, he calls it robosnail.
I got a decent price for a 4 port gigabit hub. It was around $250, which was much cheaper than any other alternatives at the time.
About a month after I spent the money, I found out that in the real world, gigabit ethernet is only about twice as fast as 100 megabit. I think this is the original article I read is here. Make sure to look all the way to the end at the "Using the speed" section. Basically, it says that if all you are doing is copying from hard drive to hard drive, gigabit is only about twice as fast.
I wonder if Microsoft could be sued at all for unfair competition if Bill Gates chose to openly fund SCO shares from his private money?
Didn't you know? All of Bill Gates' private money has been donated to charity.
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for those too lazy to hunt through and find the 4 or 5 threads on this, the basic gist is this: 1) removal of the 4gb hard drive is easy (I hesitate to call it compact flash right now, but wait for the explanation) with the instructions mentioned in this article 2) repartitioning in windows or macosx is no problem 3) getting it to work in a digital camera is more problematic. one of the guys on dpreview was able to get in contact with an engineer from hitachi who said that these drives do not conform to the CF standard, and have not been branded that way. people are currently working on trying to find a way to hack around the limitations, but so far efforts have been fruitless. it is recommended that all slashdot hackers jump into the fray. 4) instead, go buy a creative muvo2 at amazon or buy.com. people have reported these drives working very nicely, and being able to replace the muvo CF card with many solid state CF cards. i hear that amazon is delivering in about a week, even though they say it is a preorder.
Actually, I just bought one at $199. Here or here.
I will then replace it with my 512 cf card, and sell the now solid state player to a friend for $70 (even though I could sell that cf card for more on ebay). Not a bad deal. And I get a 4gb cf card out of it for $130. Seems like a steal to me.
Instructions, experiences, and photos here and here.
Mangband hasn't been updated really for some time. It was first written by a friend of mine back in early '97, and got up to version 0.4 or 0.5 or something. Then it got passed around, and someone tried to make a variant of the variant. Eventually, PernMangband became much better, and iirc, it developed into tomenet or somesuch.
darn right. my first semester at MIT i took 18.01 (intro calc course). in 10 minutes they basically covered everything i had ever learned with regards to any sort of math.
believe it or not, but robostrider was brian chan's undergrad thesis. he is now working on robosnail, and was recently featured on cnn. it now looks like they took the article down, but his personal website with all that stuff is here.his personal research info, not linked off his main page, is here.
oh yeah, he was my roommate when he was working on the robostrider. brian is fascinated by insects and such. we had a foot long 3/4" diameter millipede as a pet. one day it got loose.
he also forges traditional japanese swords. one day he came back from doing poorly on a test, and embedded it it 2 feet in the wall. luckily, no one was on the other side at the time.
Yes, it sounds so childish - Moving Picture Expert Group. Certainly not professional-sounding.
I mean seriously, it really does sound unappealing. Ogg theora? It has no meaning to me, and conjures no emotion whatsoever, except perhaps as something a caveman might grunt.
In contrast, the new viagra replacement "Levitra" does a very nice job conjuring a response.
this is a rather silly and short sighted question, as far as i can tell. maybe i am missing something, but won't we have to have people to design the robots, at the very least? you can't teach a machine creativity.
technology is not necessarily getting us anywhere. we just have more stuff now. okay, maybe medicine. medicine is good. everything else bad. i do like movies, though... hmm.
Slashdot Mirror
...how much these kids eat and how fat they are?
I always figured there was a reason they called them the "laws" of thermodynamics.
I don't think it's too complicated. The more popular a console is with the masses, the more games get developed. So it doesn't matter whether I buy one, it matters if other people do.
If the name keeps them from buying, the name keeps me from buying.
Okay, just to clear this up. The server is in the .mit.edu domain, but it is a server that is operated by the school newspaper - The Tech.
It's not web.mit.edu or anything. You won't be able to slashdot that one. A lowly student-run newspaper, however, is another story.
My brother-in-law had this very problem recently at Costco. After arguing with the person, he eventually had to fill out all sorts of silly paperwork to get them to let him print his own damn work. Just because he's got a good eye and a decent camera (Digital Rebel rocks with the kit lens, folks) they told him the images must have been done by a professional. A compliment of sorts, but quite an annoying one.
Like others have said, PRINT ONLINE. There are some great services out there, and if you know exactly what you're looking for you can get a good deal. My favorite for amateur photos is currently Mpix.com. They have a great turnaround time, but more importantly, they have metallic paper. If any of you have noticed those crazy cool silver gelatin prints in museums, this gives that same sort of effect. Looks great for black and whites, but especially amazing with reds, blues, and yellows. They also have this cool continuous tone black and white paper (regular digital prints won't give this). Their prices are good, too.
If you're looking to do real work somewhere in the semi-pro realm, there's really only one choice: White House Custom Color. This place is for real. You don't just open up an account and upload photos. This place has you fill out a client questionnaire and then they send you samples of their stuff. The coolest thing they have, which I've not seen anywhere else, is linen textured paper (you'll have to read through one of the PDF's).
If you need something local and same day, Walgreens is great. They almost always have some sort of a special each week, and I ended up paying $.19 for each 4x6 the last time I was there. The color might not be spot on, but it is same day service. Shipping and tax end up balancing out in the end. Not bad at all.
It does bear pointing out, however, that in your statement you have advocated that others conform their behavior to yours.
The idea that people should not force ideas upon others is perhaps a bit naive. We cannot help but force our ideas on others. It is the nature of human interaction, and it is a good thing. This is how we learn.
It all comes down to how someone goes about exchanging those ideas.
trust me, you don't want the apple earbuds anyways, whatever color they are.
sony makes some very nice earbuds that come in black. surprisingly good sound quality, and they don't hurt your ears one bit. i've had them on for hours at a time with no discomfort. sony has a lot of similar ones, but the mdr-ex71's are great.
it helps to break them in a bit first. crank up the audio from the ipod to full for 5 or 6 minutes, and you're all set.
Canon's WFT-E1 Wireless Transmitter reportedly also works on Canon's three newest digital cameras, including the 1DsmkII (as mentioned), as well as the 20D ($1500, 8mp, 1.6x crop factor, high end consumer level) and 1DmkII ($4500, 8mp, 1.3x crop factor, pro body).
Rob Galbraith has a much more information here, as Canon's site appears to still need an update.
For the non-pro enthusiast, the 20D looks to be a great camera. It can handle 5 frames per second, instant on, and has ISO 3200 performance that beats most ISO 400 digicams. They are finally trickling into the market, and Calumet likely has a few in stock (they have several kits locally here in Boston). Just give them a call.
I've made several sets, and it really is this easy. Best way really is to follow the street sweeper. The spring steel bristles that come loose have perfect properties. I've tried making them out of other materials, and the spring steel is quite easy to shape and very resilient.
Then just find a decent pick you want to copy, and sit down at the grinder with your blank bristle. They've still got grinders in my old dorm and the lockpicking culture is indeed alive and well at MIT.
Lockpicking was standard teaching for freshman the East Campus dorm at MIT. This guide has served as the standard since around 1991 iirc. During the yearly EC "Oddball Olympics" lockpicking was one of the main events. I remember a masterlock being picked in 9 seconds. Really, masterlock padlocks can be that easy. And I've seen master hackers (roof and tunnel in this case) spend an hour and a half on a Schlage and never get it.
This is a great guide and a good place to start, but lockpicking is all about feel. Like anything else, it just takes practice to get good.
Bah. My roommate did this three years ago when he was an undergrad at MIT for his senior thesis. He designed and built it himself. You can see it here. Granted, it is entirely mechanical, but dang it's cool. He's got a video of it going across water.
Most recently he built a robotic snail that, in its current incarnation, actually goes completely upside down. Oddly enough, he calls it robosnail.
Did I mention the dude makes his own swords?
George is being serious. Almost makes you feel sorry for him. Billions of dollars can't save him from still being an idiot...
I got a decent price for a 4 port gigabit hub. It was around $250, which was much cheaper than any other alternatives at the time. About a month after I spent the money, I found out that in the real world, gigabit ethernet is only about twice as fast as 100 megabit. I think this is the original article I read is here. Make sure to look all the way to the end at the "Using the speed" section. Basically, it says that if all you are doing is copying from hard drive to hard drive, gigabit is only about twice as fast.
for those too lazy to hunt through and find the 4 or 5 threads on this, the basic gist is this:
1) removal of the 4gb hard drive is easy (I hesitate to call it compact flash right now, but wait for the explanation) with the instructions mentioned in this article
2) repartitioning in windows or macosx is no problem
3) getting it to work in a digital camera is more problematic. one of the guys on dpreview was able to get in contact with an engineer from hitachi who said that these drives do not conform to the CF standard, and have not been branded that way. people are currently working on trying to find a way to hack around the limitations, but so far efforts have been fruitless. it is recommended that all slashdot hackers jump into the fray.
4) instead, go buy a creative muvo2 at amazon or buy.com. people have reported these drives working very nicely, and being able to replace the muvo CF card with many solid state CF cards. i hear that amazon is delivering in about a week, even though they say it is a preorder.
Actually, I just bought one at $199. Here or here.
I will then replace it with my 512 cf card, and sell the now solid state player to a friend for $70 (even though I could sell that cf card for more on ebay). Not a bad deal. And I get a 4gb cf card out of it for $130. Seems like a steal to me.
Instructions, experiences, and photos here and here.
well, this is hosted on the mit.edu web server. i would hope that of all web servers on earth, mit's could survive a slashdotting.
Mangband hasn't been updated really for some time. It was first written by a friend of mine back in early '97, and got up to version 0.4 or 0.5 or something. Then it got passed around, and someone tried to make a variant of the variant. Eventually, PernMangband became much better, and iirc, it developed into tomenet or somesuch.
The original Angband is great, though.
and they didn't slow down.
...but can he do the job?
-'joe versus the volcano'
believe it or not, but robostrider was brian chan's undergrad thesis. he is now working on robosnail, and was recently featured on cnn. it now looks like they took the article down, but his personal website with all that stuff is here.his personal research info, not linked off his main page, is here.
oh yeah, he was my roommate when he was working on the robostrider. brian is fascinated by insects and such. we had a foot long 3/4" diameter millipede as a pet. one day it got loose.
he also forges traditional japanese swords. one day he came back from doing poorly on a test, and embedded it it 2 feet in the wall. luckily, no one was on the other side at the time.
Yes, it sounds so childish - Moving Picture Expert Group. Certainly not professional-sounding.
I mean seriously, it really does sound unappealing. Ogg theora? It has no meaning to me, and conjures no emotion whatsoever, except perhaps as something a caveman might grunt.
In contrast, the new viagra replacement "Levitra" does a very nice job conjuring a response.
this is a rather silly and short sighted question, as far as i can tell. maybe i am missing something, but won't we have to have people to design the robots, at the very least? you can't teach a machine creativity.
technology is not necessarily getting us anywhere. we just have more stuff now. okay, maybe medicine. medicine is good. everything else bad. i do like movies, though... hmm.