I was able to catch a football before I even studied mathematics, let alone arithmetic. There is no calculus problem being solved.
Yes there is.
Just because you hadn't been taught how to manipulate manmade concepts such as symbols and numbers and call the process 'calculus' doesn't mean your brain hadn't formed skills to calculate changes in dozens of variables such as position/velocity over time and act on the results.
You might as well say "I never learned biochemistry until college. Prior to that, eating involved no complex carbohydrates being digested because I didn't know how."
It's one of few that can actually do mathematically perfect surfaces at arbitrary resolutions without having to decompose the scene into polygons. Of course, this is because it is a raytracer and not a zbuffer-based renderer, so it isn't the fastest out there.
It doesn't have a native modeller, but many third-party modellers can export as POV scene format.
The other good thing about roller-ball wireless mice is that the excess energy in the two opto-mechanical translation wheels can be stored in a NiCd/NiMH cell and used for RF transmission.
Never need to replace your batteries!
The only disadvantage I can think of would be that the increased drag of the generators would make the ball more likely to skid on smooth surfaces.
I suppose with motion coils you could do the same with optical mice, but I doubt it would be as efficient.
I know of several well-educated evolutionists. Many are a bit zealous about it, especially those who insist it is science and not philosophical doctrine, but they're generally a nice bunch.
I meant the speaker cones, while of course analogue, would be housed in sealed units which have only two inputs: PowerIn and DigitalSignalIn.
While it would be possible for an enthusiast to crack open the units and solder wires to the analogue speaker terminals and drive them to an analogue recorder (if they're still around) then it would be sufficiently impractal to deter most music thieves, as well as those of us who want to duplicate our music for legitimate purposes.
As long as you don't have a SBLive or SBAudigy running under windows.
The latest drivers for these cards have automatic DRM support. That's right, they DISABLE the digital interface if any copyrighted data is transmitted over it.
Fortunately the linux drivers are not so crippled.
We can't get too complacent and say "we'll always be able to make copies". Our degrees of freedom are slowly closing in. Think about it. In a few years there will be no analogue speakers or signal lines; it will be digital (with DRM) all the way.
All the RIAA has to do is make a fully red-book incompatible technology (eg encrypted RIAA-filesystem CD slightly larger than current ones) and flood the market with machines that can play them. Suddenly all our "illegal circumvention" devices such as midi systems and car CD players will be useless.
Except that OS/2 was originally a joint venture by IBM and Microsoft. When MS figured they could use the code elsewhere, they gave IBM the big one-fingered gesture, and made their own version called Windows NT.
Why do you think there was ever an emulation layer? The underlying technologies are very similar, so emulation was trivial (though I'd still argue that OS/2 Warp handles pre-emptive multitasking better than Windows NT 5.1).
"Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2." - William Henry Gates III, 1990
Should we just accept everything the news media feeds us? So naive...
Whether or not the landings were faked, the point is that when news of the landing spread in 1969, most of the world blindly accepted what they were seeing on telly without a moments hesitation.
At least these articles that cast doubt over the plausibility of the moon landings (never mind the nutters who say "It definitely was a hoax) encourage people to think for themselves before believing everything they read.
Transmeta, if you can hear me, don't do it! Signing a deal with an illegal monopoly will *not* help your business.
Microsoft has demonstrated time and time again that everything they do is in answer to the question, "how will this benefit our stranglehold on technology?".
They will swallow you up without a second thought and then mysterously release the "MS Tablet" a year or so down the track.
I'd rather see the tax dollars go to explaining the difference between a theory and a philosophical doctrine, and examining the evidence without assumption or prejudice.
Would it confirm evolution? Or would it confirm creationism? Probably neither.
Would it disprove one or both? Possibly. But don't make the mistake for a minute of calling the doctrines of creation/evolution a science.
ffmpeg is great for video streams, and even sound streams. Just don't try doing both at once.
I have had *zero* luck trying to get the audio track to sync with the video, even at insanely low resolutions (eg half PAL) with no frame drop. Different combinations of different codecs make little difference it seems.
The FAQ even says so: 4) I get audio/video synchro problems when grabbing.
Currently, the grabbing stuff does not handle synchronisation correctly. You are free to correct it. It is planned to fix it ASAP
So IMHO, ffmpeg as it stands is completely useless as an audiovisual grabber.
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what does the LCD have to say to my computer?
"Hello, I'll be your primary display today. I am a Brand X LCD display and can do 1280x1024@60Hz natively. I can do 32bpp, 24bpp, or even 16bpp if you really want, via my digital interface. My black-to-white response time is 20ms, so you can take advantage of that if you like. I have dead pixels at 334,125; 4,85; and 942,223. Hope you can compensate for this. Incidentally, I am DRM-enabled, and you're not registered, so don't even try sending me any copyrighted content. Have a nice day."
I meant "...advantage of LCD"
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Advantage of LCD, not CRT. Now where's that 'preview' button?
They forgot one important advantage of CRT:
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Health.
For two reasons:
Lower EM than CRT. For those that have to stare at monitors all day, not being bombarded with EM radiation and beta particles is a definite plus. Even todays "low-radiation" models still put out a good dosage (I don't have figures to back this up).
No flicker. Even at 120Hz, a CRT is still continuously blanking and retracing the image, and your brain has to continuously reconstruct the series of pictures and blanks into a static picture. With prolonged exposure, this leads to massive fatigue, as well as eye strain. Don't believe me? Try waving your hand in front of your CRT while it's displaying a white background. Now try it with an LCD. Compared to the CRT, it's like looking at a sheet of paper. Much more comfortable.
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Brain 1, Computers 0.
Now evacuate all the oxygen from the room for thirty minutes:
Brain 1, Computers 1
I was able to catch a football before I even studied mathematics, let alone arithmetic. There is no calculus problem being solved.
Yes there is.
Just because you hadn't been taught how to manipulate manmade concepts such as symbols and numbers and call the process 'calculus' doesn't mean your brain hadn't formed skills to calculate changes in dozens of variables such as position/velocity over time and act on the results.
You might as well say "I never learned biochemistry until college. Prior to that, eating involved no complex carbohydrates being digested because I didn't know how."
That's what we have SDL for.
Kinda like a mainstream desktop operating system like Linux?
You get the picture.
Shortly Linux/ogg will be one of the few platforms on which you will be able to play 'free' music.
Good luck trying to play an 'untrusted' mp3 on a palladium-enabled windows computer.
POV-Ray.
It's one of few that can actually do mathematically perfect surfaces at arbitrary resolutions without having to decompose the scene into polygons. Of course, this is because it is a raytracer and not a zbuffer-based renderer, so it isn't the fastest out there.
It doesn't have a native modeller, but many third-party modellers can export as POV scene format.
The other good thing about roller-ball wireless mice is that the excess energy in the two opto-mechanical translation wheels can be stored in a NiCd/NiMH cell and used for RF transmission.
Never need to replace your batteries!
The only disadvantage I can think of would be that the increased drag of the generators would make the ball more likely to skid on smooth surfaces.
I suppose with motion coils you could do the same with optical mice, but I doubt it would be as efficient.
You're right.
I know of several well-educated evolutionists. Many are a bit zealous about it, especially those who insist it is science and not philosophical doctrine, but they're generally a nice bunch.
Those little demos are so neat, based on former years.
I especially like the 'cram as much cool stuff in as few bytes as possible' sections, like 4k or 256B.
I meant the speaker cones, while of course analogue, would be housed in sealed units which have only two inputs: PowerIn and DigitalSignalIn.
While it would be possible for an enthusiast to crack open the units and solder wires to the analogue speaker terminals and drive them to an analogue recorder (if they're still around) then it would be sufficiently impractal to deter most music thieves, as well as those of us who want to duplicate our music for legitimate purposes.
As long as you don't have a SBLive or SBAudigy running under windows.
The latest drivers for these cards have automatic DRM support. That's right, they DISABLE the digital interface if any copyrighted data is transmitted over it.
Fortunately the linux drivers are not so crippled.
We can't get too complacent and say "we'll always be able to make copies". Our degrees of freedom are slowly closing in. Think about it. In a few years there will be no analogue speakers or signal lines; it will be digital (with DRM) all the way.
All the RIAA has to do is make a fully red-book incompatible technology (eg encrypted RIAA-filesystem CD slightly larger than current ones) and flood the market with machines that can play them. Suddenly all our "illegal circumvention" devices such as midi systems and car CD players will be useless.
Except that OS/2 was originally a joint venture by IBM and Microsoft. When MS figured they could use the code elsewhere, they gave IBM the big one-fingered gesture, and made their own version called Windows NT.
Why do you think there was ever an emulation layer? The underlying technologies are very similar, so emulation was trivial (though I'd still argue that OS/2 Warp handles pre-emptive multitasking better than Windows NT 5.1).
"Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2." - William Henry Gates III, 1990
Should we just accept everything the news media feeds us? So naive...
Whether or not the landings were faked, the point is that when news of the landing spread in 1969, most of the world blindly accepted what they were seeing on telly without a moments hesitation.
At least these articles that cast doubt over the plausibility of the moon landings (never mind the nutters who say "It definitely was a hoax) encourage people to think for themselves before believing everything they read.
Tell that to Gateway and Dell.
OK, I'll go tell them.
Review the history of OS/2 to see what happens when you rape the developers.
What, you mean it gets stolen by a technology procurement company and turned into a product line called Windows NT?
... like a hole in the head.
Transmeta, if you can hear me, don't do it!
Signing a deal with an illegal monopoly will *not* help your business.
Microsoft has demonstrated time and time again that everything they do is in answer to the question, "how will this benefit our stranglehold on technology?".
They will swallow you up without a second thought and then mysterously release the "MS Tablet" a year or so down the track.
Oh dear, there goes my karma.
I'd rather see the tax dollars go to explaining the difference between a theory and a philosophical doctrine, and examining the evidence without assumption or prejudice.
Would it confirm evolution? Or would it confirm creationism? Probably neither.
Would it disprove one or both? Possibly.
But don't make the mistake for a minute of calling the doctrines of creation/evolution a science.
... not after they've confirmed their chips will be TCPA/DRM enabled.
We can only hope that AMD won't sell out in the same way.
ffmpeg is great for video streams, and even sound streams. Just don't try doing both at once.
I have had *zero* luck trying to get the audio track to sync with the video, even at insanely low resolutions (eg half PAL) with no frame drop. Different combinations of different codecs make little difference it seems.
The FAQ even says so:
4) I get audio/video synchro problems when grabbing.
Currently, the grabbing stuff does not handle synchronisation
correctly. You are free to correct it. It is planned to fix it ASAP
So IMHO, ffmpeg as it stands is completely useless as an audiovisual grabber.
what does the LCD have to say to my computer?
"Hello, I'll be your primary display today. I am a Brand X LCD display and can do 1280x1024@60Hz natively. I can do 32bpp, 24bpp, or even 16bpp if you really want, via my digital interface. My black-to-white response time is 20ms, so you can take advantage of that if you like. I have dead pixels at 334,125; 4,85; and 942,223. Hope you can compensate for this. Incidentally, I am DRM-enabled, and you're not registered, so don't even try sending me any copyrighted content. Have a nice day."
Advantage of LCD, not CRT.
Now where's that 'preview' button?
Health.
For two reasons:
Lower EM than CRT. For those that have to stare at monitors all day, not being bombarded with EM radiation and beta particles is a definite plus. Even todays "low-radiation" models still put out a good dosage (I don't have figures to back this up).
No flicker. Even at 120Hz, a CRT is still continuously blanking and retracing the image, and your brain has to continuously reconstruct the series of pictures and blanks into a static picture. With prolonged exposure, this leads to massive fatigue, as well as eye strain. Don't believe me? Try waving your hand in front of your CRT while it's displaying a white background. Now try it with an LCD. Compared to the CRT, it's like looking at a sheet of paper. Much more comfortable.
Email is like a postcard. It's there for all who handle it to see and read.
Don't write anything in email that you wouldn't put on a postcard.
Not meaning to make it sound like you were one of the aforementioned obsessed persons. :)
Apologies if the comment appeared otherwise
I propose that all future movie theatres are constructed inside a Faraday cage.
A fact little-known on slashdot, but:
Not everyone is obsessed with pornography.