Oops. That's not right. Further reading and pondering enlightened to the fact that there's 80 million polygons in a *still* life-like image. Soo.. to do 60 fps in life-like detail would require 4.8 trillion fps. Damn.
If this box actually performs as they claim it does (and I wouldn't bet on that, *cough cough Nvidia*), then this will be interesting. It has been theorised that it takes eighty million polygons per second for "life-like" pictures. Basically if you could take a snapshot of whatever your eyes are seeing right now, and model the whole scene in 3D, it'd take 80mil pps to model it just as smoothly as you see if you turn your head, etc. If the PS2 can really do 70mil pps, then we're in for something that's just completely unprecedented here, folks. Imagine watching a full length feature film and being able to pan and turn, and basically control the camera at a whim, while still remaining smooth and photorealistic. Granted, it depends on the skill of the modeller, but for once something exists that we can use to harness all of our creative powers.
Actually, 2.2.11 is the first kernel patch in recent memory to fix a pertinent, widespread problem, namely the massive FS corruption that seemed endemic in 2.2.10. How bad was it? It scared me into buying a tape drive. I'm quite glad to see 2.2.11.
The Slashdot feed is still there, featured on the _first_ line under "News & Views." Why must everyone go apeshit with the conspiracy theories when it concerns Redhat? - "aah! they're offering content! My god they must be trying to kill *our* Slashdot." Guess what - if you consider their page as it is right now a portal, then so is practically every other software company website. Chill.
Personally I thought plastering Slashdot and Freshmeat headlines on the front page was a bit much anyways. Literally, they accounted for about 25% of the real estate.
Again, there's no point. Write a set of shell scripts for different room control if you must, but otherwise just tee the output to multiple audio devices.
The source is out there? Why hack the source, possibly introducing memory leaks, cruddy performance, and worse, security holes, when you can do the same thing using tried, true, and secure shell commands:
AFAIK if it can't read a CDR, it sure as hell won't read a CD-RW. I know this because I bought a CD-RW drive thinking that I could burn rewriteable audio CDs and that way always have a CD loaded up with whatever cool MP3s I was into at that time. Not so. I've tried it with probably ten different audio CD players, and none can read a CD-RW. The overwhelming response I got when I inquired about this was that the CD-RW material isn't dye, like a CDR, but a dimorphous crystalline substance that takes a much higher strength laser to even produce a reflection. So my point is that if his player can't read CD-R because the laser isn't strong enough, it probably won't be able to read CD-RW either.
We have a pair of these at our school. If you want to judge the quality, try the following URLs:
http://www.bnet.org/ruhs3/n/n-neteye/net.shtml - Our campus walkway. *Do* forgive the actual webpage; it sure as hell wasn't my doing:)
http://www.bnet.org/ruhs3/n/n-neteye2/net2.shtml - A second axis cam, staring through a dirty old window at the Freshmen circle.
Check out the sidebar too, where you can pick a half-sized image or also some form of push. I think otherwise it refreshes every ten seconds.
If you want to test the refresh rate, just open up the picture itself in a new windows and do mass reloads. I think what other people said here was accurate, ~1 picture a second max. Try it, they're pretty cool.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Next thing it'll be Ballmer on Oracle: "Well, it's about time someone *someone* gave us some competition in the relational database field."
Yeah, that's pretty easy actually. Check the Printing-HOWTO on how to set your/etc/printcap file to create a printer that sends all traffic to an IP address. Most (?) of the HP printers that have Jetdirect built in can do Postscript, so you should be all set. Then just share that "virtual" printer over Appletalk.
You make an intelligent, lucid point. But c'mon, you have to draw the line at "Hitler probably had some good qualities." I feel almost hypocritical for shouting at you for this, in light of the subject of the original post, but let's face it: Hitler was an absolute monster. I have never seen evidence to the contrary, and yes this is despite searching outside of the proverbial box (and not forming my opinions based solely on Discovery & A&E biographies about the guy). He was writing anti-semitic texts in his teens. Every once in awhile - a hundred years, a thousand, who knows? - you get someone who is the embodiment of pure evil. IMO Hitler was it this time around.
Funny, I just got done reading a chapter on different webservers in Philip Greenspun's new book "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing," which incidentally I bought after reading the review here on Slashdot. This guy loves AOLServer, and claims to have rolled out over two hundred sites using it. His main knock against it is that it's not open source, but I guess that's a moot point now. Anyways, if you're a TCL wizard (I'm not), after reading a couple hundred pages of him praising this thing like it was the greatest invention since sliced bread, I can't help but recommend that you go and check it out.
I too have a wiz bang tape deck, and let me tell you, with the new Dolby S algorithm, there is absolutely *no* discernable difference between a tape and CD. I can record from my CD player using optical digital output into my tape deck using Dolby S and wouldn't be able to tell the difference if the CD/tape hit me in the face. The cool part too is that Dolby S is somewhat backwards compatibly with Dolby C, so most older stereos (and most car stereos) can enjoy many of the same benefits. Nevertheless, I still have a CD-R which I tend to use exclusively for burning audio CDs, but if anyone out there is strapped for cash I suggest trying out tapes with Dolby S. Aside from the liner issue, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
It doesn't matter. Equating Shoutcast with the be-all-end-all of streaming MP3 technology is as much a sin as saying Redhat is Linux, too. Shoutcast is just another streaming player, and really no more different from RealAudio or any other streaming format except for the files they're sending over the connection. Very little hubris goes into the statement that I could have probably written Shoutcast or a suitable alternative (sans all the Win32 GUI stuff) if I had the time and inclination, as could have a lot of people on/. Thus it really doesn't matter what AOL decides to do with Shoutcast. Even in the worst case scenario (AOL colluding with RIAA to produce an SDMI based Shoutcast, or, worse, just killing it) there will always be someone out there willing to write an open version. In this case, it's Icecast, and it's already starting to take form.
Not to mention the heat. I was at an airshow once when a Harrier mistakenly hovered over a 60 ft. diameter asphalt helipad. Big mistake - the asphalt and landing markings all melted into a pile of steaming goo, and the area had to be cordoned off for an hour to cool so that no kid would mistakenly wander over and melt off his foot/leg/pelvis. And this thing was hovering at 15 feet. Imagine some hick parking one of the babies at 6 feet over his car, electrical transformer, lawn, or foolish person. I think human intellect might have to evolve before the Moller car becomes safe enough for mass production.
Anyone else find this funny? Moller has spent $100 million and 30 years designing their rocket car, which if everything goes according to plan will occupy a spot in anyone's garage who can afford a Lexus (eventually). Even without a mass-produced, 8 fan jetsled in the equation, it would be an optimistic estimate to assume that the world's oil supplies will last for century. So basically, by the time Moller actually produces these babies, there'll only be a need for them for another 50 or 60 years. Compound this by the fact that VTOL is tremendously taxing on fuel - the Sea Harrier that they allude to on their site uses something like 1/3 of its fuel just for a hover takeoff and landing - and I think that "rocket cars for everyone!" will only exacerbate a problem that is still becoming progressively worse in our environmentally conscious, emission regulated, ULEV times.
Ground effect wouldn't exactly matter for an airplane. If this thing actually flies low enough to use the ground effect, I'd be a lot more worried about sucking things up into my fancy new jet engines, thereby causing a flameout and crash, than gas mileage.
True, but one of the rules of the contest is that the business must be a small business (400 people). I doubt if Dell would just overlook the other 2.6milliion currently in the Armed Services. You're right though. The military does keep all its computers.. hell the first computer was technically invented for defense purposes.
The similarities don't exactly end there. Mitochondria are also thought to be symbiotes, but not exactly in the same way. Mitochondria share many properties of a bacterial cell - they have the same linear DNA, and also their same ribosomes. They aren't produced by a newly formed cell; they (and chloroplasts, in plants) divide separately using their own mechanisms during mitosis/meiosis. Thus it is believed that mitochondria evolved as symbiotic bacterial cells living within eukaryotic host cells. I hadn't even considered a mitichlorian-mitochondria connection before reading your post, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. I don't have any clue where Lucas could be going with this, but the similarities are there. Maybe you shouldn't dismiss it so fast.
You're missing the point. If Jake Lloyd played a brooding pre-teen sociopath in TPM, then there would be no sense of tragedy in his subsequent seduction by the dark side. His innocence will be shown to gradually give rise to more nefarious person, and I can all but guarantee that this will lead up to a climax in Episode 3 in which he is lost forever to hate, fear, and evil.
Furthermore, it's time you realized that Jar Jar was a Disney character added to attract a Disney audience. All the 9 year olds I know loved him, including my brother with whom I saw the movie. This, I have no doubt, fits into the Lucas plan of milking this cow for all she's worth, as do the restaurant tie-ins and actions figures. The same kids that *love* Jar Jar will feed in a pirahna-like frenzy on Darth Maul action figures, Taco Bell promo cups, and the like. It's insidious, and alienates many of the true fans of the series, but it's almost a guaranteed billion for Lucas and company. Yes, it's pretty hard to miss the annoying qualities in Jar Jar, and to suggest that Lucas actually did is ludicrous. He knew damn well what he was doing, and what seems annoying to us is actually pretty entertaining to younger generations - the same generations that will beg their parents into spending untold millions on the merchandise. Do the Power Rangers ring a bell?
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Oops. That's not right. Further reading and pondering enlightened to the fact that there's 80 million polygons in a *still* life-like image. Soo.. to do 60 fps in life-like detail would require 4.8 trillion fps. Damn.
If this box actually performs as they claim it does (and I wouldn't bet on that, *cough cough Nvidia*), then this will be interesting. It has been theorised that it takes eighty million polygons per second for "life-like" pictures. Basically if you could take a snapshot of whatever your eyes are seeing right now, and model the whole scene in 3D, it'd take 80mil pps to model it just as smoothly as you see if you turn your head, etc. If the PS2 can really do 70mil pps, then we're in for something that's just completely unprecedented here, folks. Imagine watching a full length feature film and being able to pan and turn, and basically control the camera at a whim, while still remaining smooth and photorealistic. Granted, it depends on the skill of the modeller, but for once something exists that we can use to harness all of our creative powers.
Actually, 2.2.11 is the first kernel patch in recent memory to fix a pertinent, widespread problem, namely the massive FS corruption that seemed endemic in 2.2.10. How bad was it? It scared me into buying a tape drive. I'm quite glad to see 2.2.11.
Yes it really is. That's almost *way* too amazing. How heavy is your usage?
Personally I thought plastering Slashdot and Freshmeat headlines on the front page was a bit much anyways. Literally, they accounted for about 25% of the real estate.
I suggest procmail. It's really effective and proven, and it will probably do what you need it to.
;)
Again, there's no point. Write a set of shell scripts for different room control if you must, but otherwise just tee the output to multiple audio devices.
/dev/audio0 > /dev/audio2
whore# mpg123 -s crack.mp3 | tee
AFAIK if it can't read a CDR, it sure as hell won't read a CD-RW. I know this because I bought a CD-RW drive thinking that I could burn rewriteable audio CDs and that way always have a CD loaded up with whatever cool MP3s I was into at that time. Not so. I've tried it with probably ten different audio CD players, and none can read a CD-RW. The overwhelming response I got when I inquired about this was that the CD-RW material isn't dye, like a CDR, but a dimorphous crystalline substance that takes a much higher strength laser to even produce a reflection. So my point is that if his player can't read CD-R because the laser isn't strong enough, it probably won't be able to read CD-RW either.
We have a pair of these at our school. If you want to judge the quality, try the following URLs:
:)
l - A second axis cam, staring through a dirty old window at the Freshmen circle.
http://www.bnet.org/ruhs3/n/n-neteye/net.shtml - Our campus walkway. *Do* forgive the actual webpage; it sure as hell wasn't my doing
http://www.bnet.org/ruhs3/n/n-neteye2/net2.shtm
Check out the sidebar too, where you can pick a half-sized image or also some form of push. I think otherwise it refreshes every ten seconds.
If you want to test the refresh rate, just open up the picture itself in a new windows and do mass reloads. I think what other people said here was accurate, ~1 picture a second max. Try it, they're pretty cool.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Next thing it'll be Ballmer on Oracle: "Well, it's about time someone *someone* gave us some competition in the relational database field."
Yeah, that's pretty easy actually. Check the Printing-HOWTO on how to set your /etc/printcap file to create a printer that sends all traffic to an IP address. Most (?) of the HP printers that have Jetdirect built in can do Postscript, so you should be all set. Then just share that "virtual" printer over Appletalk.
You make an intelligent, lucid point. But c'mon, you have to draw the line at "Hitler probably had some good qualities." I feel almost hypocritical for shouting at you for this, in light of the subject of the original post, but let's face it: Hitler was an absolute monster. I have never seen evidence to the contrary, and yes this is despite searching outside of the proverbial box (and not forming my opinions based solely on Discovery & A&E biographies about the guy). He was writing anti-semitic texts in his teens. Every once in awhile - a hundred years, a thousand, who knows? - you get someone who is the embodiment of pure evil. IMO Hitler was it this time around.
I too have a wiz bang tape deck, and let me tell you, with the new Dolby S algorithm, there is absolutely *no* discernable difference between a tape and CD. I can record from my CD player using optical digital output into my tape deck using Dolby S and wouldn't be able to tell the difference if the CD/tape hit me in the face. The cool part too is that Dolby S is somewhat backwards compatibly with Dolby C, so most older stereos (and most car stereos) can enjoy many of the same benefits. Nevertheless, I still have a CD-R which I tend to use exclusively for burning audio CDs, but if anyone out there is strapped for cash I suggest trying out tapes with Dolby S. Aside from the liner issue, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
It wasn't swallowed; the name was merely changed. Personally I think Altima sucks just as bad as Worldforge, though.
It doesn't matter. Equating Shoutcast with the be-all-end-all of streaming MP3 technology is as much a sin as saying Redhat is Linux, too. Shoutcast is just another streaming player, and really no more different from RealAudio or any other streaming format except for the files they're sending over the connection. Very little hubris goes into the statement that I could have probably written Shoutcast or a suitable alternative (sans all the Win32 GUI stuff) if I had the time and inclination, as could have a lot of people on /. Thus it really doesn't matter what AOL decides to do with Shoutcast. Even in the worst case scenario (AOL colluding with RIAA to produce an SDMI based Shoutcast, or, worse, just killing it) there will always be someone out there willing to write an open version. In this case, it's Icecast, and it's already starting to take form.
Not to mention the heat. I was at an airshow once when a Harrier mistakenly hovered over a 60 ft. diameter asphalt helipad. Big mistake - the asphalt and landing markings all melted into a pile of steaming goo, and the area had to be cordoned off for an hour to cool so that no kid would mistakenly wander over and melt off his foot/leg/pelvis. And this thing was hovering at 15 feet. Imagine some hick parking one of the babies at 6 feet over his car, electrical transformer, lawn, or foolish person. I think human intellect might have to evolve before the Moller car becomes safe enough for mass production.
Anyone else find this funny? Moller has spent $100 million and 30 years designing their rocket car, which if everything goes according to plan will occupy a spot in anyone's garage who can afford a Lexus (eventually). Even without a mass-produced, 8 fan jetsled in the equation, it would be an optimistic estimate to assume that the world's oil supplies will last for century. So basically, by the time Moller actually produces these babies, there'll only be a need for them for another 50 or 60 years. Compound this by the fact that VTOL is tremendously taxing on fuel - the Sea Harrier that they allude to on their site uses something like 1/3 of its fuel just for a hover takeoff and landing - and I think that "rocket cars for everyone!" will only exacerbate a problem that is still becoming progressively worse in our environmentally conscious, emission regulated, ULEV times.
Ground effect wouldn't exactly matter for an airplane. If this thing actually flies low enough to use the ground effect, I'd be a lot more worried about sucking things up into my fancy new jet engines, thereby causing a flameout and crash, than gas mileage.
True, but one of the rules of the contest is that the business must be a small business (400 people). I doubt if Dell would just overlook the other 2.6milliion currently in the Armed Services. You're right though. The military does keep all its computers.. hell the first computer was technically invented for defense purposes.
The similarities don't exactly end there. Mitochondria are also thought to be symbiotes, but not exactly in the same way. Mitochondria share many properties of a bacterial cell - they have the same linear DNA, and also their same ribosomes. They aren't produced by a newly formed cell; they (and chloroplasts, in plants) divide separately using their own mechanisms during mitosis/meiosis. Thus it is believed that mitochondria evolved as symbiotic bacterial cells living within eukaryotic host cells. I hadn't even considered a mitichlorian-mitochondria connection before reading your post, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. I don't have any clue where Lucas could be going with this, but the similarities are there. Maybe you shouldn't dismiss it so fast.
You're missing the point. If Jake Lloyd played a brooding pre-teen sociopath in TPM, then there would be no sense of tragedy in his subsequent seduction by the dark side. His innocence will be shown to gradually give rise to more nefarious person, and I can all but guarantee that this will lead up to a climax in Episode 3 in which he is lost forever to hate, fear, and evil.
Furthermore, it's time you realized that Jar Jar was a Disney character added to attract a Disney audience. All the 9 year olds I know loved him, including my brother with whom I saw the movie. This, I have no doubt, fits into the Lucas plan of milking this cow for all she's worth, as do the restaurant tie-ins and actions figures. The same kids that *love* Jar Jar will feed in a pirahna-like frenzy on Darth Maul action figures, Taco Bell promo cups, and the like. It's insidious, and alienates many of the true fans of the series, but it's almost a guaranteed billion for Lucas and company. Yes, it's pretty hard to miss the annoying qualities in Jar Jar, and to suggest that Lucas actually did is ludicrous. He knew damn well what he was doing, and what seems annoying to us is actually pretty entertaining to younger generations - the same generations that will beg their parents into spending untold millions on the merchandise. Do the Power Rangers ring a bell?
Oops.. strike that. Isn't May 19 the release date of Starbuck?
I seem to have missed the point of the User Friendly comic strip... anyone care to clue me in?