Maybe it depends on the neighborhood you are in. Where I am, the pubs and restaurants are just 10 minutes walk or a 2 minute bus ride away. Other parts of the city, I wouldn't want to go out of my door for fear of the drunk yobs wandering around. Alternatively, being out in a rural or suburban area, travelling down to the nearest entertainment venue might require a car or taxi.
I thought it was mainly art students who liked Second Life, so that they could demonstrate virtual versions of their creations.
To work off a well known story, take the Hitchhiker's guide. It is Sci-fi (sort of), but also a social commentary presented with a darkish humor.
I would categorise that as present time on Earth but with future technology (Vogon starfleet, The Improbability Drive) , while Star Wars is far future and with future technology in distant space. Dr. Who is more future technology in the present day given the number of scenes that are street based (+time travel for the past/present).
The womenfolk in my family can watch what they consider Science Fiction as long as it doesn't have actors in rubber suits or with lumpy faces. They don't mind robots, furry creatures but they draw the line at Godzilla Jr., so they can watch Blakes 7, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Logan's Run, but they tune out with Babylon 5, Voyager and anything with demons like Angel or Good vs. Evil.
I guess that explains why there is so much more of what is more supernatural (vampires/ghosts/hauntings/reality TV) on the channel now, rather than pure Space Science Fiction (Star Trek, Voyager, Babylon 5, Farscape, Lexx).
What degree did you do... that would help us give you some valuable Slashdot insight and advice on getting back on track in order to achieve your dreams.
Most of us like having the government provide roads and schools and the like, for instance, as well as regulate things like utilities.
Local roads and schools are maintained by local cities. You are free to move to a different city or county if you don't like the quality of the roads where you live.
This seems to break down once a large city starts incorporating its neighbors (Unified school boards never seem to sound too popular in the newspapers).
A telephone handset is basically a microphone at one end, and a loudspeaker at the other. Both the microphone and the speaker require two wires to the telephone exchanges. So you get four wires.
In the past, there was some electrical voodoo performed where only two wires were required. Both the microphone and the speaker were both on the same circuit - but with the right use of capacitors and resistors between the two, the feedback could be cancelled out. This was known as a two-wire circuit.
There is a certain amount of capacitance in the wires because they are running together all the way to the exchange, so the circuit is "loaded" with some other components to block out high frequencies. Unfortunately, this really does not work well when you start trying to running high bandwidth data across the line ie. ISDN, DSL or ADSL. So you can get the line "unloaded".
The specification even extends into advanced CAD techniques (Coons patches and tensor products in page 232) for background shading, 3D artwork (page 789-841) which is more based on objects, nodes, multiple lightsources and user input (very close to an entire scene-graph API). Given the hierarchical format of PDF, they could very well absort VRML and other 3D formats into the specification.
There are also a few stacks that are used for rendering graphics, which could possibly be overloaded.
I would have moderated that 'funny and sad but true'. Discovery has really gone downhill. They used to have some really good future technology shows (Discovery 2000), but now it only seems to have war machines, with maybe "Megastructures" the exception.
Some companies did propose that, you would have a thin client which connected to the server, and the server would render the final frame then send it back (or just the changes) back down to the client. This worked with itty bitty 3D graphics windows on an X-window server, but on a full-screen HDTV system, you would need to do full movie-style compression on the data. Since, the latest DVD compression methods take hours to perform and reference the last sixteen frames or more, this isn't practical just now.
Perhaps it is the exchange rate. I looked at some super expensive books at Amazon. "Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume I", 4th edition, cost around $100 dollars to $176 dollars.
In the UK, the same edition of book costs anything from 36 to 93 pounds. The lower price is about the same cost as a one month bus pass or the rent for a room for a week.
In both cases, delivery is free.
No wonder the booksellers are upset. The only other time I have seen such price-gouging was when ComputerLand charged $200 for pre-formatted 3.5" floppy disks back in the mid 1990's.
But if you are purchasing from a mail-order retailer like Amazon, you have to factor in the delivery charge. It might be fairly small, not more than a couple of dollars/pounds, but might make the difference between purchasing from the college bookstore.
The main reason, I prefer to use Amazon, is that my local college bookstore insists that you provide them with a cell-phone number or E-mail address before they put in any order.
When they mean object orientation abstractions, they mean that every entity (eg. texture, display list, fragment, geometry, or vertex shader) registered on the graphics card will be created with a functions that returns a reference token, and all operations will operate on that token (including the removable of that object).
This is more in line with the design of scene-graph API's.
You can get an USB to IDE adapter in order to convert a 2.5" IDE laptop drive into an external hard drive. It just clips over the ID adapter and plugs into a USB cable.
An oxford student managed to capture some crispy clear pictures of the burglar who stole his laptop computer... he had a webcam which periodically took a picture and sent to to his private web page while the machine was on. And the OS was Linux.
I have some non-games based applications written a couple of years ago that use hardware shaders for rendering. Even those fairly simple shaders suffer from the occasional bit-rot. The first occasion was when I got so used to adding f's to all my floating point constants (recommended for C/C++ programming), then when the next update of the device drivers, the compiler started choking on them. On the other hand, two years ago, the shader compiler refused to allow me to use for-next loops or mid-function return statements. It seems to have relented a bit on this issue now. But on any earlier drivers, this will be fatal.
And as far as Vietnam, I suspect the withdrawl had more to do with a broken and demoralized millitary than any protests going on. Maybe I'm cynical, but I really don't think the government was impressed by Woodstock or teach-ins.
The Kent State shootings certainly didn't seem to help. Going by the worldwidee shock that was expressed after the Virginia Tech shootings, I can only imagine what the shock must have been back thirty years. From wikipedia, over eight million students at high schools and colleges went on strike.
What we really need is some kind of helmet with solar panels on each side, and on the top. That way, it can collect all that wasted light emitted by the laptop screen, provide shade to keep the laptop cool, and keep the glare off the screen, all at the same time.
For me, the channels with the worst visual quality always looked like they had been MPEG compressed at a low bitrate. Rapidly moving objects such as exploding fireballs would look blocky in the same way as a magnified JPEG image.
I am guessing you have a digital (LCD/Plasma) display rather than a CRT display - then your comment would have been funny.
For some reason after reading the word "tubes" and the claim of property ownership, I just thought of that scene in the movie Brazil. Moral of the story: Don't mess with the tubes
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With the site URL, Google will know the server and exact page.
With only the IP address, they would only know the server.
And given that most of these phishing sites seemed to be an PC on a broadband connection (botnet?), they only really need to know the IP address.
Maybe it depends on the neighborhood you are in. Where I am, the pubs and restaurants are just 10 minutes walk or a 2 minute bus ride away. Other parts of the city, I wouldn't want to go out of my door for fear of the drunk yobs wandering around. Alternatively, being out in a rural or suburban area, travelling down to the nearest entertainment venue might require a car or taxi.
I thought it was mainly art students who liked Second Life, so that they could demonstrate virtual versions of their creations.
To work off a well known story, take the Hitchhiker's guide. It is Sci-fi (sort of), but also a social commentary presented with a darkish humor.
I would categorise that as present time on Earth but with future technology (Vogon starfleet, The Improbability Drive) , while Star Wars is far future and with future technology in distant space. Dr. Who is more future technology in the present day given the number of scenes that are street based (+time travel for the past/present).
The womenfolk in my family can watch what they consider Science Fiction as long as it doesn't have actors in rubber suits or with lumpy faces. They don't mind robots, furry creatures but they draw the line at Godzilla Jr., so they can watch Blakes 7, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Logan's Run, but they tune out with Babylon 5, Voyager and anything with demons like Angel or Good vs. Evil.
I guess that explains why there is so much more of what is more supernatural (vampires/ghosts/hauntings/reality TV) on the channel now, rather than pure Space Science Fiction (Star Trek, Voyager, Babylon 5, Farscape, Lexx).
What degree did you do ... that would help us give you some valuable Slashdot insight and advice on getting back on track in order to achieve your dreams.
They are in rot13 encryption, then you have to read them backwards.
Most of us like having the government provide roads and schools and the like, for instance, as well as regulate things like utilities.
Local roads and schools are maintained by local cities. You are free to move to a different city or county if you don't like the quality of the roads where you live.
This seems to break down once a large city starts incorporating its neighbors (Unified school boards never seem to sound too popular in the newspapers).
Try ".desktop files" linux.
.desktop files and security
Here's a link:
A telephone handset is basically a microphone at one end, and a loudspeaker at the other. Both the microphone and the speaker require two wires to the telephone exchanges. So you get four wires.
In the past, there was some electrical voodoo performed where only two wires were required. Both the microphone and the speaker were both on the same circuit - but with the right use of capacitors and resistors between the two, the feedback could be cancelled out. This was known as a two-wire circuit.
There is a certain amount of capacitance in the wires because they are running together all the way to the exchange, so the circuit is "loaded" with some other components to block out high frequencies. Unfortunately, this really does not work well when you start trying to running high bandwidth data across the line ie. ISDN, DSL or ADSL. So you can get the line "unloaded".
There's an old ZDNET articles on fire-optic wire-tapping that made it to a previous slashdot article
Just a brief skim through the PDF specification document (1310 pages!) will reveal that a PDF document viewer has to support image reading and loading, JPEG, CCITT and LZW compression (page 39). Any vulnerabilities in standard image libraries may very well be present in the document reader.
The specification even extends into advanced CAD techniques (Coons patches and tensor products in page 232) for background shading, 3D artwork (page 789-841) which is more based on objects, nodes, multiple lightsources and user input (very close to an entire scene-graph API). Given the hierarchical format of PDF, they could very well absort VRML and other 3D formats into the specification.
There are also a few stacks that are used for rendering graphics, which could possibly be overloaded.
I would have moderated that 'funny and sad but true'. Discovery has really gone downhill. They used to have some really good future technology shows (Discovery 2000), but now it only seems to have war machines, with maybe "Megastructures" the exception.
Some companies did propose that, you would have a thin client which connected to the server, and the server would render the final frame then send it back (or just the changes) back down to the client. This worked with itty bitty 3D graphics windows on an X-window server, but on a full-screen HDTV system, you would need to do full movie-style compression on the data. Since, the latest DVD compression methods take hours to perform and reference the last sixteen frames or more, this isn't practical just now.
Perhaps it is the exchange rate. I looked at some super expensive books at Amazon. "Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume I", 4th edition, cost around $100 dollars to $176 dollars.
In the UK, the same edition of book costs anything from 36 to 93 pounds. The lower price is about the same cost as a one month bus pass or the rent for a room for a week.
In both cases, delivery is free.
No wonder the booksellers are upset. The only other time I have seen such price-gouging was when ComputerLand charged $200 for pre-formatted 3.5" floppy disks back in the mid 1990's.
But if you are purchasing from a mail-order retailer like Amazon, you have to factor in the delivery charge. It might be fairly small, not more than a couple of dollars/pounds, but might make the difference between purchasing from the college bookstore.
The main reason, I prefer to use Amazon, is that my local college bookstore insists that you provide them with a cell-phone number or E-mail address before they put in any order.
When they mean object orientation abstractions, they mean that every entity (eg. texture, display list, fragment, geometry, or vertex shader) registered on the graphics card will be created with a functions that returns a reference token, and all operations will operate on that token (including the removable of that object).
This is more in line with the design of scene-graph API's.
Yes, I see what you mean....
Dumb criminal caught by writing his name on the wall
As one detective once commented - "Every dumb criminal is a failure of the education system".
You can get an USB to IDE adapter in order to convert a 2.5" IDE laptop drive into an external hard drive. It just clips over the ID adapter and plugs into a USB cable.
An oxford student managed to capture some crispy clear pictures of the burglar who stole his laptop computer... he had a webcam which periodically took a picture and sent to to his private web page while the machine was on. And the OS was Linux.
Ben Park mugshots
Well, do give the comment submitter credit for having a website identifying himself.
This comment is actually a copy of one of his blog articles
I have some non-games based applications written a couple of years ago that use hardware shaders for rendering. Even those fairly simple shaders suffer from the occasional bit-rot. The first occasion was when I got so used to adding f's to all my floating point constants (recommended for C/C++ programming), then when the next update of the device drivers, the compiler started choking on them. On the other hand, two years ago, the shader compiler refused to allow me to use for-next loops or mid-function return statements. It seems to have relented a bit on this issue now. But on any earlier drivers, this will be fatal.
And as far as Vietnam, I suspect the withdrawl had more to do with a broken and demoralized millitary than any protests going on. Maybe I'm cynical, but I really don't think the government was impressed by Woodstock or teach-ins.
The Kent State shootings certainly didn't seem to help. Going by the worldwidee shock that was expressed after the Virginia Tech shootings, I can only imagine what the shock must have been back thirty years. From wikipedia, over eight million students at high schools and colleges went on strike.
What we really need is some kind of helmet with solar panels on each side, and on the top. That way, it can collect all that wasted light emitted by the laptop screen, provide shade to keep the laptop cool, and keep the glare off the screen, all at the same time.
For me, the channels with the worst visual quality always looked like they had been MPEG compressed at a low bitrate. Rapidly moving objects such as exploding fireballs would look blocky in the same way as a magnified JPEG image.
I am guessing you have a digital (LCD/Plasma) display rather than a CRT display - then your comment would have been funny.
For some reason after reading the word "tubes" and the claim of property ownership, I just thought of that scene in the movie Brazil. Moral of the story: Don't mess with the tubes