I deal with large to very large images all the time. The virtual mem for my graphic app is often between 1 and 2 Gb and would like to get rid of this 2Gb practical limitation from both Windows and Linux. I've tried both Ubuntu64 and XP64 and had to get rid of them because of missing crucial drivers. Right now I'm playing with VMware to see if I can get everything working together. I imagine video enthusiasts will need a lot more mem for their work than I do.
To give you an idea, a 5400dpi scan at 16bits takes 280Mb in mem. Do a bit of manipulation, layers and in-mem undo and you hit the ceiling.
You are right, but my point was that it's not limited to primate/snake interactions. Snakes/birds of prey, primates/poisonous spiders, primates/poison ivy... There are many other interaction pairs.
Anyway, it reminded me of an experiment a couple years ago that proved that the fear of snakes is hardwired into our brains and is not an educational/cultural issue. Don't remember the details, but it was based on reflex reaction upon seing a snake or fake snake, which was quicker that the conscious identification.
It's been thought of a long time ago, but spammers make a first connection, send a single test message, and if it doesn't get there (as you drop all messages), they won't use it. Only if the test has been successful do they drop their load, so to speak.
Why are there such bullshit theories regularly sprouting in the news ? Either the summary is (very) bad, or the theory itself is. It's so obvious that there are _many_ factors guiding the evolution of several _sets_ of species like that. And snakes don't eat primates (except for a few exceptions). They only bite when threatened or scared, so I don't see how this could be a leading evolutionary factor.
Like my father said after I explained this singularity 'thing' over dinner (and lotsa wine): "Puting a million calculators next to each other doesn't make an intelligent computer". Understating the question that we may have the hardware, but we are very far from having the software for that thing...
The most common result is frostbite, of course. In addition, after it happens once, you are best advised to not subject the same body part to another incident, as tissue durability in regards to a repeat is lost.
Speaking from experience, it takes a good 6 months for tissue regeneration to overcome the damages done by frostbites. And some people never recover full sensitivity after nerve damage (and also freeze much easier if it happens again). Fortunately there are a few drugs that can speed up the recovery process.
I remember reading about this company where meetings were held standing around a bar-like table. They were much shorter and to the point than traditional afterlunch meeting that drag on and on...
this is the first time I can ever recall them becoming MORE lax on licensing schemes for a new OS
Not quite, I recall when the first dual processor mobos came out, at first they wanted to aply: one processor = one license. It didn't last long and the relented to one computer = one license, with some limits on number of procs. Currently 2 procs for XP pro, 16 for server and more for datacenter. Of the top of my head, the numbers may have changed.
Today I diched Windows from my laptop and was right in the process of installing Kubuntu. Unfortunately there are a few Windows apps I still need and that have postponed my use of Linux on the desktop for a long time although I've been using it on servers for quite a while. I keep hearing of those emulator/virtualizers/whatnots but can't really figure out what is the difference between them: VMware, Win4Lin, Crossover, Wine... Do you install Windows after or before Linux ? How do you install Windows apps ? Etc... Is there a comparision of them somewhere (I've searched in the past) ?
I do wish my webcam could deal with that wide a range of operating environments though
It probably does: simple webcams are extremely tough as they have no moving parts. I took with me a couple of 10$ webcams for cloud cover monitoring in Antarctica. They worked fine down to -80C, unprotected and all ! The only (but large) problem I had was that they would saturate on the snow during the summer day and be totally dark during the winter night. I've put up a time-lapse video here.
Question is: how do you touch the bone with the sound transmitter ? Either you surgically implant it in there or you press the skin very hard to get close enough to the bone. Friends of mine have bone-conduction helmets for use in mountain rescue helicopters. Reception is on top of the head, below the helmet, emission is on the jawbone sling of the helmet. In order for that thing to work the helmet needs to be worn very tight (very uncomfortable). And the frequency response makes it so weird you have to concentrate hard to understand, although I guess it could be solved with the right amount of signal processing.
I think part of the problem is that every economic theory is based on growth. Economics need to understand that growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. It leads to the death of the individual (or humanity in that case). They need to figure out an economic theory of 'stagnation'. Otherwise the old proven solution or wars and plagues will hit with a vengence to make sure our numbers stay down. Besides Kurzweill very hypothetical 'singularity' I don't see any other solution, particularly with dwindling resources like petroleum (you do know that production of petroleum hit an all time high last year and will only be going down from now on, while demand keeps increasing, don't you ?)
Would stores buy "smell printers" to pipe the smell of popcorn or fresh-baked bread near the high-margin retail shelves?
Smell generators have been in use for about a decade outside of some shops, mainly bakeries. Have you ever walked down a street, smelled a good freshly baked bread scent, only to walk into the bakery where the smell is mostly absent and the bread has been sitting in the shelves since the early morning, long baked ?
I don't have a reference or name for those items, but they do exist, google for them. The difference is that they usually do only one specific smell.
One thing that the might Google will need to address is their (lack) of Customer Service. Totally ignoring people just does not fly. The folks they have assigned to Google Adsense are a prime example.
Why do you say that ? I've been on Adsense for a few months and had some serious issues at the begining. They answered and solved the problems within a day or two each time. So no complain from this side. Adsense is their big moneymaker, so I'd hope they take care of their paying cutomers. I can understand the lack of support for some weird Google Labs beta.
this is mainly because lobbying is an industry of corruption here in the US. I'm honestly amazed that the EU hasn't been bought off yet or bribed into submission
In the country where I currently live, France, 'lobbying' translates exactly as 'corruption' and is indeed illegal. Of course it still happens under the table (politicians will always be politicians, right ?).
As to the EU, I'd be curious to know what the stance is on this whole lobbying/corruption thing. Like they say:
"Campaign contribution is the same as if you tried to hand a cop a twenty before breaking the law. There are laws against bribery in some contexts, why do we allow it in more important contexts ?"
It's been long known that italans are cell phone addicts, but last time I was in Rome I was really surprised to see two bums, one an old guy in a wheelchair and a nose half as big and just as red as the red wine bottle on his lap, the other a young girl with a baby, both talking on a cell phone. Two things I don't understand: they certainly don't buy it themselves, so who gives it to them ? And I'd think that those people are excluded/marginalized, so who do they talk to ?
She was making $500 a day just begging on the streets
I can believe that as it's nearly the amount I made one day while begging as part of a student stunt. It took me a few hours to find the proper way to approach people, but then it was really efficient... No I'm not from a business school... Why ? C;-)
I never understood why clock repartition is an issue for chip building. Just put the clock in the center and make sure the wires taking the clock signal to the different parts of the chip are all the same length (yes, you will have to coil the closest ones). Then no matter how far they all get the same click at the same time. Make sure connected areas are all smaller than 1.2mm. Done.
Disclaimer: IANACD (I am not a chip designer... just a user)
I have used a film scanner to scan all film I have ever shot in my life.
I do too, so I'll comment your comments.
my film scanner has a scan resolution of 2700DPI
That's not enough. I had 3 scanners of the 2700dpi generation (Minolta, Canon and Nikon) and they all pretty much sucked. Are you sure the grain you see is actually film grain and not scanner noise ? The Canoscan 2700 for instance had absolutely horrible noise.
even my 100 speed film has very observable film grain at this dot pitch. [...] As a note, I used relatively cheap color film.
Well, you already know the answer... I use almost exclusevely Fujichrome Provia 100F and I can tell you that at 4000dpi the grain is very hard to see. A single sweep with Noise Ninja and it's gone. For 100asa use slide and scan it, above use negative, and for Black and White I actually use a digital compact and then perform some custom channel separation.
Excuse me but this seems terribly complicated. I know very little about databases and have wanted to get into it for the longuest time. Anyone can recommand some practical tutorial on how to put together quick php pages interfacing with some easy to setup SQL flavor ? Most of the tutorials I've seen are usually about pure SQL stuff.
Worse, have you ever had to try to describe cased files over the phone?
Exactly! That's why case sensitivity doesn't make sense when dealing with files. I know it's a very old debate and I first stepped into it about 20 years ago when I first worked on a Unix machine after coming from a VMS background. I had that exact same arguments with one of the other users and then one WE I had to prepare a data file for him. I left him a phone message: "The file in called ~/whatever" but I had generated every possible combination of upper and lower case files with that same name, filling all but one with/dev/random. Okay, not a nice way to win an argument... C;-)
Take your monitor and make a gradient that is full screen from solid red to solid black. As things are now you get 256 bands of color because there are 256 possible values for red. The problem with this is that the transitions are VERY obvious.
Not quite. If you try it you won't see the transitions. But if you apply some kind of histogram-modifying filter to the result, then, yes, you'll see the banding because of truncation of the byte values. In other words, you had 256 values, you now have half that. Problem avoided with 16 bit/channel colors.
I have a friend and colleague who had an accident similar to that related in the story. He's an electrician and was sent to do repair in a large automated storage facility. It stores frozen food on different levels and is entirely automated with robots running through the aisles at high speed and trasnfering packages. They switch off the entire level and proceeded to work. Then there was a work switch and the manager in charge of the night switch just turned the level back on while they were still working inside. A robot ran into them at the speed of a car... and kept on going (they have no sensors other than related to the packes they carry). My friend ended up with a leg stuck in a railing, eventually blocking the robot. He spent 6 months in the hospital, almost being amputated and took 2 years before he could walk again. I don't remember what happened to the other guy.
Now would you say it was the robot's fault ? It took several years the get the manager fired.
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I deal with large to very large images all the time. The virtual mem for my graphic app is often between 1 and 2 Gb and would like to get rid of this 2Gb practical limitation from both Windows and Linux. I've tried both Ubuntu64 and XP64 and had to get rid of them because of missing crucial drivers. Right now I'm playing with VMware to see if I can get everything working together. I imagine video enthusiasts will need a lot more mem for their work than I do.
To give you an idea, a 5400dpi scan at 16bits takes 280Mb in mem. Do a bit of manipulation, layers and in-mem undo and you hit the ceiling.
Anyway, it reminded me of an experiment a couple years ago that proved that the fear of snakes is hardwired into our brains and is not an educational/cultural issue. Don't remember the details, but it was based on reflex reaction upon seing a snake or fake snake, which was quicker that the conscious identification.
It's been thought of a long time ago, but spammers make a first connection, send a single test message, and if it doesn't get there (as you drop all messages), they won't use it. Only if the test has been successful do they drop their load, so to speak.
Why are there such bullshit theories regularly sprouting in the news ? Either the summary is (very) bad, or the theory itself is. It's so obvious that there are _many_ factors guiding the evolution of several _sets_ of species like that. And snakes don't eat primates (except for a few exceptions). They only bite when threatened or scared, so I don't see how this could be a leading evolutionary factor.
Like my father said after I explained this singularity 'thing' over dinner (and lotsa wine): "Puting a million calculators next to each other doesn't make an intelligent computer". Understating the question that we may have the hardware, but we are very far from having the software for that thing...
I remember reading about this company where meetings were held standing around a bar-like table. They were much shorter and to the point than traditional afterlunch meeting that drag on and on...
Today I diched Windows from my laptop and was right in the process of installing Kubuntu. Unfortunately there are a few Windows apps I still need and that have postponed my use of Linux on the desktop for a long time although I've been using it on servers for quite a while. I keep hearing of those emulator/virtualizers/whatnots but can't really figure out what is the difference between them: VMware, Win4Lin, Crossover, Wine... Do you install Windows after or before Linux ? How do you install Windows apps ? Etc... Is there a comparision of them somewhere (I've searched in the past) ?
Question is: how do you touch the bone with the sound transmitter ? Either you surgically implant it in there or you press the skin very hard to get close enough to the bone. Friends of mine have bone-conduction helmets for use in mountain rescue helicopters. Reception is on top of the head, below the helmet, emission is on the jawbone sling of the helmet. In order for that thing to work the helmet needs to be worn very tight (very uncomfortable). And the frequency response makes it so weird you have to concentrate hard to understand, although I guess it could be solved with the right amount of signal processing.
I think part of the problem is that every economic theory is based on growth. Economics need to understand that growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. It leads to the death of the individual (or humanity in that case). They need to figure out an economic theory of 'stagnation'. Otherwise the old proven solution or wars and plagues will hit with a vengence to make sure our numbers stay down. Besides Kurzweill very hypothetical 'singularity' I don't see any other solution, particularly with dwindling resources like petroleum (you do know that production of petroleum hit an all time high last year and will only be going down from now on, while demand keeps increasing, don't you ?)
It's been long known that italans are cell phone addicts, but last time I was in Rome I was really surprised to see two bums, one an old guy in a wheelchair and a nose half as big and just as red as the red wine bottle on his lap, the other a young girl with a baby, both talking on a cell phone. Two things I don't understand: they certainly don't buy it themselves, so who gives it to them ? And I'd think that those people are excluded/marginalized, so who do they talk to ?
I never understood why clock repartition is an issue for chip building. Just put the clock in the center and make sure the wires taking the clock signal to the different parts of the chip are all the same length (yes, you will have to coil the closest ones). Then no matter how far they all get the same click at the same time. Make sure connected areas are all smaller than 1.2mm. Done.
Disclaimer: IANACD (I am not a chip designer... just a user)
white discoloring to yellow ?!? Shouldn't it be coloring ?
Excuse me but this seems terribly complicated. I know very little about databases and have wanted to get into it for the longuest time. Anyone can recommand some practical tutorial on how to put together quick php pages interfacing with some easy to setup SQL flavor ? Most of the tutorials I've seen are usually about pure SQL stuff.
Now would you say it was the robot's fault ? It took several years the get the manager fired.