Well, I sincerely thank you for the reply and the reasonable tone you took in giving it. In all honesty I'd expected a bunch of flames an no one actually adressing the point.
But... I just can't bring myself to care. I mean if there's some fellow who's making a buck submitting interesting and topical stories to slashdot... more power to him. Granted, instead of a slashdot user acount his name is linked to his website so I cannot readily tell if his previous submissions were worthwhile, but... This one at least was an interesting article, and except for the "I hate Roland" posts spawned an average lazy Sunday slashdot discussion.
I'm afraid I don't understand, please elaborate. It seems like he puts together content that's interesting to the slashdot readership and this is a problem how?
Very valid points, all of them. It sucks that they didn't work for you, but for me -- the "did it" after a fair amount of tweaking. The pitch-black room was the thing that helped the most for me -- that reduced the sensation of flickering and increased the depth and rise a lot. I actually wish my glasses were full goggles because I think most of the flicker I experience now is because even when my eye is "blacked" I'm still seeing ambient light from the monitor.
Tweaking the refresh rate was very important in my experiments with these too -- the LCDs on the glasses do take time to change state so it's important to find the fastest rate that the glasses can sustain.
Question -- did the glasses you played with support the "blanking-every-other-scanline" feature? I was utterly unimpressed with mine until I found that sweetness.
And a note to everyone else: it seems that the site I mentioned has stopped selling in individual units. Although this is a sadness there are other companies.
And remember: I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together.
Best bang-for-buck I've seen for home VR is a pair of shutter glasses. Basically the way it works if you have an LCD in front of each eye -- and in software the system renders a left eye image, and the glasses blank out your right eye -- then vice versa (syncing is handled by hooking the glasses inline between your monitor and your video card). I have the VR Visualizers from http://www.vrex.com/ ) and they're pretty cool.
However: the DepthCharge plugin they have for viewing 3D content in a webpage Just Plain Sucks -- it doesn't keep state and remember what kind of glasses you have so you need to pick it again and again and again.
The best-viewing mode with these glasses is interlaced (in addition to left/right image pairs, the dongle will blank our alternate scan lines on your monitor improving the effect a lot). Unfortunately on my glasses this mode requires you to hold-down a button on the glasses-controller, so it sucks for gaming without duct tape.
Video cards and drivers that will put out stereo image-pairs are few and far between. Make sure your card will, or buy a card that will if you want to do any gaming. Game compatability is also an issue. Google will help here.
Eyestrain. 'nuff said.
It needs to be done in a completely dark room -- any light reflecting off of your monitor will tend to ruin the illusion of 3d.
Your screen needs to be resonably flat -- curved monitors distort the 3d image ruining the illusion.
Worst case -- your _terrabyte_ of data is going to need a hard drive for a predictive read-ahead cache and a delayed-write cache. You're already doing this for your hard drive with your RAM. Sure, a cache hit would suck, but oh well.
If it's painfully slow then think of it as a replacement for backup tapes instead of hard drives.
But as many other posters have pointed out, it has the equicalent of thousands of heads, so it's possible it could prod some serious buttock.
Because "addiction" has specific diagnostic criteria, and the shoe fits. DSM-IV:
1. Substance is often taken in larger amounts or over longer period than intended
We've all heard an EQhead or whatever talk about how they just meant to log in for a minute and then played all night.
2. Persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use
I've seen lots of people post "I'll be leaving for a while" only to find them back the next day
3. A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance (e.g., visiting multiple doctors or driving long distances), use the substance (e.g., chain smoking), or recover from its effects
Great deal of time spent using qualifies here.
4. Important social, occupational, or recreational activities given up or reduced because of substance abuse
Me: Why weren't you at Bob&Wendy's wedding? Gamehead: Oh, I was playing EQ
5. Continued substance use despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent psychological, or physical problem that is caused or exacerbated by use of the substance
EQFatties.
6. Tolerance, as defined by either:
a. need for amounts of the substance in order to achieve intoxication or desired effect; b. markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount
Funny, when the start out an hour in the evening is enough. Then they spend a Saturday or something
7. Withdrawal, as manifested by either:
a. characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance; or the same (or closely related) substance is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms
I've seen this on a camping trip -- she had a lot of classic withdrawl symptoms -- iritibilaty, said she kept having EQ games,...
You're a slimy piece of troll shit. I know what a laser is, I don't know how to make one myself. I know what a lot of things are and don't know how to make one at home out of spare parts in my spare time on the cheap.
Sir, the thing is that slashdot is targetted at people who can read the front page. PBX is by no means obscure, at least as far as the slashdot readership is concerned. This is not a problem with the slashdot submission process as you had said in a previous post, the problem is the fact that you are ignorant of things which are just assumed to be known. I'm not saying this to trash on you in any way -- maybe twice a month I'll hit google and ask it to "define: tla".
But the fact is that I'd rather slashdot erred on the terse side, instead of excessive verbosity. If I started seeing a lot of "In case you don't know, a CPU is a Central Processing Unit...", "In case you don't know an LED is a light emitting diode", "In case you don't know a...." garbage in the submissions, I'd stop reading. If there's something that's too obscure I can always look it up.
Not to argue the point (I agree that we should launch a new telescope instead of trying to bandaid Hubble...) BUT -- you're seriously mixed up. The cost-to-orbit figure which you quoted is for a pound of payload. The weight of the shuttle you quoted is for the whole vehicle. Apples and oranges, dude. Next you're going to forget to convert between metric and imperial and...;)
Avalon Hill publishes a game called Diplomacy which I highly recommend -- it's rather like Risk, but without the dice. It is a rather long play though. They've got another interesting game called Wizard's Quest but I'm not sure how hard it is to find a copy these days.
Aren't our current random numbers generated from the clock?
No. Not any more. And even back in the day, the PRNG would seed itself once from the clock, not read it again and again. These days you can expect a the PRNG to seed itself based on a sample from the clock, the current PID, size or checksum of a file in/var/log, recent movements of the mouse, and the amount of currently allocated memory. The idea being that your attacker will be unable to get all or enough of these datapoints to guess what's next in sequence. Additionally, when you're using a modern source of randomness, the amount of data it keeps internally is larger than what it returns to you. IE -- even with a simple multiply/modulus random number generator you can increase your security by generating random numbers with 128 bits of internal state -- but only returning the low order 32 bits.
The courts have always been very conservative with regards to allowing new types of evidence -- observe fingerprints, blood testing, genetic testing, and so on. I'd be very surprised if this was admissable as evidence any time soon.
Well, given that the loss of fuel was noticed, in part, due to a discepency between what the fuel flow meter reported and what the tanks were showing on the guages that's probably not the sole factor.
I'm hoping this turns out to be due to a fuel leak or something. Because otherwise I'm really freaking dissappointed in these guys. Half of pilotage is about how not to trust your instuments and how to tell if they're wrong (think of the ground school questions, "What will your altimeter display if the pitot tube ices? If the static port ices? Why do you need to periodically reset the gyrocompass? Why should you return to straight, level, unaccelerated flight before taking a magnetic compass reading? Why does your magnetic compass register different when your radios are on? Why do you dip your tanks before takeoff?")...
Ok, fuck-knob. I hereby give you permision to flee the states. Is that what you're looking for, bitch? OK, I guess not. Call 'em up, give 'em whatfor, let 'em know why and tell your neighbors. Fuck, even a Texan could understand that.
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But... I just can't bring myself to care. I mean if there's some fellow who's making a buck submitting interesting and topical stories to slashdot... more power to him. Granted, instead of a slashdot user acount his name is linked to his website so I cannot readily tell if his previous submissions were worthwhile, but... This one at least was an interesting article, and except for the "I hate Roland" posts spawned an average lazy Sunday slashdot discussion.
I'm afraid I don't understand, please elaborate. It seems like he puts together content that's interesting to the slashdot readership and this is a problem how?
Fuck the iPod siggers. Free gmail invites to the first 48 people to mail me. See sig for address.
Very valid points, all of them. It sucks that they didn't work for you, but for me -- the "did it" after a fair amount of tweaking. The pitch-black room was the thing that helped the most for me -- that reduced the sensation of flickering and increased the depth and rise a lot. I actually wish my glasses were full goggles because I think most of the flicker I experience now is because even when my eye is "blacked" I'm still seeing ambient light from the monitor.
Tweaking the refresh rate was very important in my experiments with these too -- the LCDs on the glasses do take time to change state so it's important to find the fastest rate that the glasses can sustain.
Question -- did the glasses you played with support the "blanking-every-other-scanline" feature? I was utterly unimpressed with mine until I found that sweetness.
And a note to everyone else: it seems that the site I mentioned has stopped selling in individual units. Although this is a sadness there are other companies.
And remember: I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together.
--Fjornir
However: the DepthCharge plugin they have for viewing 3D content in a webpage Just Plain Sucks -- it doesn't keep state and remember what kind of glasses you have so you need to pick it again and again and again.
The best-viewing mode with these glasses is interlaced (in addition to left/right image pairs, the dongle will blank our alternate scan lines on your monitor improving the effect a lot). Unfortunately on my glasses this mode requires you to hold-down a button on the glasses-controller, so it sucks for gaming without duct tape.
Video cards and drivers that will put out stereo image-pairs are few and far between. Make sure your card will, or buy a card that will if you want to do any gaming. Game compatability is also an issue. Google will help here.
Eyestrain. 'nuff said.
It needs to be done in a completely dark room -- any light reflecting off of your monitor will tend to ruin the illusion of 3d.
Your screen needs to be resonably flat -- curved monitors distort the 3d image ruining the illusion.
If it's painfully slow then think of it as a replacement for backup tapes instead of hard drives.
But as many other posters have pointed out, it has the equicalent of thousands of heads, so it's possible it could prod some serious buttock.
Sir, did you read the article? This is for your LAN, not for broadband to the home.
Would a cauchy distribution be fingerprintable?
1. Substance is often taken in larger amounts or over longer period than intended
We've all heard an EQhead or whatever talk about how they just meant to log in for a minute and then played all night.
2. Persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use
I've seen lots of people post "I'll be leaving for a while" only to find them back the next day
3. A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance (e.g., visiting multiple doctors or driving long distances), use the substance (e.g., chain smoking), or recover from its effects
Great deal of time spent using qualifies here.
4. Important social, occupational, or recreational activities given up or reduced because of substance abuse
Me: Why weren't you at Bob&Wendy's wedding? Gamehead: Oh, I was playing EQ
5. Continued substance use despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent psychological, or physical problem that is caused or exacerbated by use of the substance
EQFatties.
6. Tolerance, as defined by either:
a. need for amounts of the substance in order to achieve intoxication or desired effect; b. markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount
Funny, when the start out an hour in the evening is enough. Then they spend a Saturday or something
7. Withdrawal, as manifested by either: a. characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance; or the same (or closely related) substance is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms
I've seen this on a camping trip -- she had a lot of classic withdrawl symptoms -- iritibilaty, said she kept having EQ games, ...
There's no contradiction there.
But the fact is that I'd rather slashdot erred on the terse side, instead of excessive verbosity. If I started seeing a lot of "In case you don't know, a CPU is a Central Processing Unit...", "In case you don't know an LED is a light emitting diode", "In case you don't know a ...." garbage in the submissions, I'd stop reading. If there's something that's too obscure I can always look it up.
I was just pointing out the difference between "payload" and "gross vehicle weight"
Not to argue the point (I agree that we should launch a new telescope instead of trying to bandaid Hubble...) BUT -- you're seriously mixed up. The cost-to-orbit figure which you quoted is for a pound of payload. The weight of the shuttle you quoted is for the whole vehicle. Apples and oranges, dude. Next you're going to forget to convert between metric and imperial and... ;)
Ok, on your recommendation I snagged Munchkin today. I'm gonna see about putting together a crew for tonight. Thanks for the heads-up.
Avalon Hill publishes a game called Diplomacy which I highly recommend -- it's rather like Risk, but without the dice. It is a rather long play though. They've got another interesting game called Wizard's Quest but I'm not sure how hard it is to find a copy these days.
No. Not any more. And even back in the day, the PRNG would seed itself once from the clock, not read it again and again. These days you can expect a the PRNG to seed itself based on a sample from the clock, the current PID, size or checksum of a file in /var/log, recent movements of the mouse, and the amount of currently allocated memory. The idea being that your attacker will be unable to get all or enough of these datapoints to guess what's next in sequence. Additionally, when you're using a modern source of randomness, the amount of data it keeps internally is larger than what it returns to you. IE -- even with a simple multiply/modulus random number generator you can increase your security by generating random numbers with 128 bits of internal state -- but only returning the low order 32 bits.
The courts have always been very conservative with regards to allowing new types of evidence -- observe fingerprints, blood testing, genetic testing, and so on. I'd be very surprised if this was admissable as evidence any time soon.
How about rigging my TCP stack to add/subtract a random number to the timestamp in my headers?
"No, I'm saying that when you're ready... you won't have to."
Well, given that the loss of fuel was noticed, in part, due to a discepency between what the fuel flow meter reported and what the tanks were showing on the guages that's probably not the sole factor.
I'm hoping this turns out to be due to a fuel leak or something. Because otherwise I'm really freaking dissappointed in these guys. Half of pilotage is about how not to trust your instuments and how to tell if they're wrong (think of the ground school questions, "What will your altimeter display if the pitot tube ices? If the static port ices? Why do you need to periodically reset the gyrocompass? Why should you return to straight, level, unaccelerated flight before taking a magnetic compass reading? Why does your magnetic compass register different when your radios are on? Why do you dip your tanks before takeoff?")...
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Ok, fuck-knob. I hereby give you permision to flee the states. Is that what you're looking for, bitch? OK, I guess not. Call 'em up, give 'em whatfor, let 'em know why and tell your neighbors. Fuck, even a Texan could understand that.
Pssst. Think before you post.
Mmm. Actually Diebold doing naughty things is a perfectly valid question, all things considered.