I can understand the warning for the swimmer flipping the bird but the shot of girls in bikinis seems fairly benign. Even in the sexually repressed USA, that's acceptable summer attire almost anywhere public.
Without trying to normalize other factors, it's difficult to successfully argue either way.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, I'm just saying that when you *want* to compare the effect of gun control, you should try to isolate it as a variable as best you can.
It's interesting to read the original verbiage for the second amendment as submitted by Madison to Congress:
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
Considering how little the meaning of each was changed while being condensed, I definitely support the Heller interpretation of the second amendment.
While I agree on your points for gun control, you probably should have tried to compare states with similar population sizes or densities with and without strict gun control. Not stacking people on top of each other goes a long way to reducing violent crime on it's own.
Honestly I wouldn't have spent $80 on headphones for myself, someone gave them to me as a gift. Should they ever stop working I'll gladly replace them with something of similar quality and price. Climbing down the price/quality bell curve is always a case of diminishing returns, but for something with the quality/comfort/performance/lifespan of 280-HDs, $80 is a reasonable proposition for many.
Not that that it's desirable on it's own, but we're talking about headphones that are so sensitive that I could hear a "click" between the discrete volume levels on the winamp volume slider. Even on very poor quality audio outputs I would still hear notes, sounds and even vocals that were not reproduced by desktop speakers or lower quality headphones. Of course that can also be a result of inappropriate mastering of the original tracks.
Even better, the passive noise suppression of 280-HDs is better than the active noise suppression in most powered noise canceling headphones. At that level of suppression, you can run the master and wav volume levels to the lowest notch above mute and hear your music/game/movies just fine.
While I could never justify paying $1500 for headphones, I have to say that I've been consistently impressed with the sound quality from Sennheiser 280-HD headphones. I'm sure there are better headphones to be had, but probably not for anywhere near $80.
I just had a 6mm screw threaded into my jawbone through the gum tissue this morning. It's not the first they've done. Some local when they put it in and some aspirin over the next day. Definitely not a big deal - I'd imagine that something just penetrating the first layer of skin on the scalp is a cakewalk compared.
I'd bet if you asked someone getting a prosthesis that uses this for control, they'd opt for the small pain up front for screws similar to mine than to shave bits of hair off for a solid connection with normal pads.
This reminds me of the fellow that used google records for his area to prove in court the "Community Standards" relating to obscenity were not as conservative as one would think.
So long as it's anonymous and stays that way(isn't that always the rub), I'm all for google using their info like this.
You can't see it too well in the pictures on that site, but the TY cakebox has a fairly unique shape that can be used to identify it when it's rebranded and sold under other names. Check out your local retailer to see if you can find it that way as well.
Strange, I took the US citizenship/naturalization practice test online out of curiosity and one of the questions was "To whom does the US constitution apply?" it was multiple choice, among the answers was "US citizens" and "Anyone in the United States"
I went with the latter and got it right. Granted there are portions of the constitution that refer to citizens specifically and those obviously would not apply. However, many portions are much more broad in their scope and the constitution as a whole is certainly applicable to all people within our border.
I've heard it said that Li-Ion batteries are typically rated for the number of full charge cycles it takes to reduce their effective capacity to 80% of what it was originally. Supposedly, partial charges effect the longevity of Li-Ion cells in a proportional manner so they handle 2x as many discharges to half capacity as they do full drains. YMMV
While I appreciate the joke you've made, it's important to keep in mind - this system seems to have taken a very difficult and tedious chemistry/physics problem and relegated it to the slightly less difficult and tedious realm of signal processing.
I'll have to give that a try, though I'd probably want to do it with widescreen CRTs for giggles. Nothing like a top heavy 200lb 3D monitor that that does 1080p at 96hz;)
nVidia's driver has supported shutter glasses (and several other stereoscopic view modes) for a while. The older forceware driver had issues with SLI but I never had that setup in my machine anyway. I did end up picking up a refurb widescreen CRT that can do 96hz refresh at 1900x1200, and obviously higher at lower refresh rates.
Aside from the obvious issues of having half the effective refresh rate, there are issues with low gamma (which can be corrected in the driver) and ghosting from the other eye as the dark shutter isn't completely opaque. All in all, it's quite an enjoyable experience once you acclimate to these behaviors.
I never noticed a performance hit in my gaming, as they seem to be doing a fairly simple re-arrangement of z-buffer data for the effect. The quality of the effect is largely dependent on support in the games themselves. Stuff like Half-Life 2 didn't setup their HUD in a manner that allowed it to display in the same place from both perspectives - It seemed as though it was a 2d overlay at the very front of the view. Others like GTA3 got the HUD right but things like street lights and such were in the same plane and would split into doubles when you looked "deeper" into the picture where they were supposed to be displayed.
As it stands you have several options for driver based stereo:
1) Shutter glasses - Fairly cheap these days, I think I paid $15 for mine, but low refresh and gamma issues. If you tilt your head more than about 5 degrees from one side to the other, the effect will disappear
2) Colored Glasses - The nVidia driver can separate a stereoscopic view into 2 color fields to use with normal dual color glasses. This gives full refresh and is cheap but you end up with an effectively grayscale image, no issues with tilting your head I'm aware of.
3) LCD screen glasses - expensive, probably limited to 800x600@60hz unless you want to take out a loan. No restrictions on head position.
4) Dual monitors - This is one I've wanted to try as I have 2 monitors of the same make. You set up 2 monitors side by side with a mirror angled in such a way that one eye sees the reflection of one monitor when looking straight ahead while the other eye looks directly at other monitor. The driver then shows a mirrored stereo perspective on the second monitor. This has the advantages of being cheaper than LCD screen glasses, giving full resolution and refresh and no gamma issues. Of course your head has to remain in a fairly static spot for it to work - but at least you can tilt it without ruining the effect.
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I can understand the warning for the swimmer flipping the bird but the shot of girls in bikinis seems fairly benign. Even in the sexually repressed USA, that's acceptable summer attire almost anywhere public.
Damn, they sounded better before I realized they were labeled "HD 280 Pro"
Guess I need to pull $1500 our of checking now...
Without trying to normalize other factors, it's difficult to successfully argue either way.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, I'm just saying that when you *want* to compare the effect of gun control, you should try to isolate it as a variable as best you can.
It's interesting to read the original verbiage for the second amendment as submitted by Madison to Congress:
Considering how little the meaning of each was changed while being condensed, I definitely support the Heller interpretation of the second amendment.
While I agree on your points for gun control, you probably should have tried to compare states with similar population sizes or densities with and without strict gun control. Not stacking people on top of each other goes a long way to reducing violent crime on it's own.
Honestly I wouldn't have spent $80 on headphones for myself, someone gave them to me as a gift. Should they ever stop working I'll gladly replace them with something of similar quality and price. Climbing down the price/quality bell curve is always a case of diminishing returns, but for something with the quality/comfort/performance/lifespan of 280-HDs, $80 is a reasonable proposition for many.
Not that that it's desirable on it's own, but we're talking about headphones that are so sensitive that I could hear a "click" between the discrete volume levels on the winamp volume slider. Even on very poor quality audio outputs I would still hear notes, sounds and even vocals that were not reproduced by desktop speakers or lower quality headphones. Of course that can also be a result of inappropriate mastering of the original tracks.
Even better, the passive noise suppression of 280-HDs is better than the active noise suppression in most powered noise canceling headphones. At that level of suppression, you can run the master and wav volume levels to the lowest notch above mute and hear your music/game/movies just fine.
While I could never justify paying $1500 for headphones, I have to say that I've been consistently impressed with the sound quality from Sennheiser 280-HD headphones. I'm sure there are better headphones to be had, but probably not for anywhere near $80.
This will get even better once Pan-STARRS and LSST get up and running
How about a working link to the tear down instead of a slashdotted page that just links to it anyway.
Removeable
Perhaps we should just ask John Titor
I just had a 6mm screw threaded into my jawbone through the gum tissue this morning. It's not the first they've done. Some local when they put it in and some aspirin over the next day. Definitely not a big deal - I'd imagine that something just penetrating the first layer of skin on the scalp is a cakewalk compared.
I'd bet if you asked someone getting a prosthesis that uses this for control, they'd opt for the small pain up front for screws similar to mine than to shave bits of hair off for a solid connection with normal pads.
I'm glad there's some informed conversation in the comments here, the lack of historical comparisons in the article made it next to useless.
This reminds me of the fellow that used google records for his area to prove in court the "Community Standards" relating to obscenity were not as conservative as one would think.
So long as it's anonymous and stays that way(isn't that always the rub), I'm all for google using their info like this.
You can't see it too well in the pictures on that site, but the TY cakebox has a fairly unique shape that can be used to identify it when it's rebranded and sold under other names. Check out your local retailer to see if you can find it that way as well.
Strange, I took the US citizenship/naturalization practice test online out of curiosity and one of the questions was "To whom does the US constitution apply?" it was multiple choice, among the answers was "US citizens" and "Anyone in the United States"
I went with the latter and got it right. Granted there are portions of the constitution that refer to citizens specifically and those obviously would not apply. However, many portions are much more broad in their scope and the constitution as a whole is certainly applicable to all people within our border.
With the site building this feature in as an option, they make the virus writing part of it much easier.
Good job Google.
Well done, sir (ma'am?)
I've heard it said that Li-Ion batteries are typically rated for the number of full charge cycles it takes to reduce their effective capacity to 80% of what it was originally. Supposedly, partial charges effect the longevity of Li-Ion cells in a proportional manner so they handle 2x as many discharges to half capacity as they do full drains. YMMV
While I appreciate the joke you've made, it's important to keep in mind - this system seems to have taken a very difficult and tedious chemistry/physics problem and relegated it to the slightly less difficult and tedious realm of signal processing.
I believe Sheriff Joe has the patent on this one
I did a quick glance at it at work and didn't get that, I should have realized that it would be doing something to segregate the signals to each eye
I'll have to give that a try, though I'd probably want to do it with widescreen CRTs for giggles. Nothing like a top heavy 200lb 3D monitor that that does 1080p at 96hz ;)
nVidia's driver has supported shutter glasses (and several other stereoscopic view modes) for a while. The older forceware driver had issues with SLI but I never had that setup in my machine anyway. I did end up picking up a refurb widescreen CRT that can do 96hz refresh at 1900x1200, and obviously higher at lower refresh rates.
Aside from the obvious issues of having half the effective refresh rate, there are issues with low gamma (which can be corrected in the driver) and ghosting from the other eye as the dark shutter isn't completely opaque. All in all, it's quite an enjoyable experience once you acclimate to these behaviors.
I never noticed a performance hit in my gaming, as they seem to be doing a fairly simple re-arrangement of z-buffer data for the effect. The quality of the effect is largely dependent on support in the games themselves. Stuff like Half-Life 2 didn't setup their HUD in a manner that allowed it to display in the same place from both perspectives - It seemed as though it was a 2d overlay at the very front of the view. Others like GTA3 got the HUD right but things like street lights and such were in the same plane and would split into doubles when you looked "deeper" into the picture where they were supposed to be displayed.
As it stands you have several options for driver based stereo:
1) Shutter glasses - Fairly cheap these days, I think I paid $15 for mine, but low refresh and gamma issues. If you tilt your head more than about 5 degrees from one side to the other, the effect will disappear
2) Colored Glasses - The nVidia driver can separate a stereoscopic view into 2 color fields to use with normal dual color glasses. This gives full refresh and is cheap but you end up with an effectively grayscale image, no issues with tilting your head I'm aware of.
3) LCD screen glasses - expensive, probably limited to 800x600@60hz unless you want to take out a loan. No restrictions on head position.
4) Dual monitors - This is one I've wanted to try as I have 2 monitors of the same make. You set up 2 monitors side by side with a mirror angled in such a way that one eye sees the reflection of one monitor when looking straight ahead while the other eye looks directly at other monitor. The driver then shows a mirrored stereo perspective on the second monitor. This has the advantages of being cheaper than LCD screen glasses, giving full resolution and refresh and no gamma issues. Of course your head has to remain in a fairly static spot for it to work - but at least you can tilt it without ruining the effect.
If you're using google services from IPv6, it's even easier to figure out who you are.
I mean, it's either you or the other guy...