the movie mallrats, which was a sort of loose sequal to clerks, and predecessor to chasing amy and dogma, all of which feature the characters Silent Bob and Jay
Most of these things are hacked up in macromedia director, I believe. They do a lot of coding things so that any keypress will take the next appropriate action, with this or some other package, if I am mistaken on what they are actually using. Since the technical people involved with the movie were most likely already familiar with this technique, I would assume that it's likely that's what they used.
the official windows screensaver at Whatisthematrix runs in 800x600, if memory serves. On a larger, higher resolution monitor, it will be a little box of matrix goodness surrounded by black bars. Add that to the fact that flat panel monitors generally look like crap if not set to the resolution they are designed for, and you've got one basic choice... xmatrix on UN*X, which, while great fun and the screensaver I use, is a basic hacked version which is not at all like the actual matrix code from the movie. (for instance, notice the lack of the "explosion-like" bursts of bright expanding squares as seen in the movie.).
Looks like its time for you to start coding up a newer better version of xmatrix, to be released for all us/. ers to enjoy, naturally:)
RMS has been butting heads with Linux people for a long time. RMS is a FREE SOFTWARE enthusiast, and not a Linux enthusiast. RMS is actually pissed off that people call the whole system Linux, when its actually the kernel that's linux, and most of the other parts that make the system work (low level stuff like compilers and basic UNIX tools) are GNU utilities, which have been around a lot longer than Linus' kernel
The moon is geologically stable, dead, as it were. There's little for us to learn there, really, the rock makeup has shown to be fairly uniform, so we wouldn't gain much by a second trip. It's not like anything has changed on the moon in the last few decades. To do anything interesting would involve things like heavy drilling or excavating, and think about the uproar that would cause...
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no, silly, that's what grad students are for, writing the code. However, I am an undergrad and hence do not recieve grad students, so I will focus my efforts on the science until I am accomplished enough to warrant my own lackie grad students to do my coding while I concentrate on the important stuff.
a simple pager system with pretty graphics, maybe a chart, and the ability to interact with the dialog window. not quite the same
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writing my own client would naturally be more efficient, but I am a scientist, not a programmer. To me, reinventing the wheel is pointless when something exists that fits me needs. I already do this on a laptop, using a small chunk of the screen and a wavelan card. Being able to immediately, cheaply, and most importantnly, quickly, move this to a smaller platform is very appealing to me
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actually we have an 11 mbps wireless network throughout campus, which is what i'd use. Tolerable over slow ethernet = tolerable over wireless. Plus VNC doesn't really fit my needs, I don't want complete control of the system, just a small dialog window updating to my display. I realize I could just have the thing post data and write my own protocols and whatnot but X is quick and easy for me. It give me more time to code simulations and not worry about display issues
So you can use it to run X applications wirelessly, and easily display anything from a monitor for your seti@home progress, to a instant message session, to the GIMP, to anything else that needs more processor power than a PDA has, but can still be used in a pinch on a small screen.
In my personal experience, one thing that I plan to use something like this as is a portable monitor for the simulations I have running on a remote supercomputer, doing nonlinear dynamics calculations for my senior research. I can easily use X to display a progress monitor/dialog/error popup box on something I can take with me, so I can monitor my simulation at lunch, or while in a class, or on the bus.
I've been looking all over for Overfiend DVD's. What I'd like to get is all four movies, either seperate or as a boxed set, preferably with both dub and subtitles, and they must absolutely be uncensored. Looking at the myriad of reviews and different releases available, I am totally lost.
I tend to disagree somewhat, the fact that/. readers know less about you might make it more interesting to see what kind of stuff you get your hands into...
as editor-in-chief for Andover you are the most visible member of what alot of the slashdot readers would call the "other guys."
People were incredibly worried when slashdot was bought by Andover, I think an interview could give a good forum to talk about improvements/changes/bad things that have happened since the purchase of/.
Plus, think of how much an interview with the Editor could give a golden opportunity for all the spelling nazi trolls to really shine:)
Ah but if I wanted to nitpick, I could argue that that is indeed not a CRT, because it doesnt employ an electron gun nor include a vacuum tube.
However, being a wearable computing enthusiast, I have looked at this research before, and if some of the issues were resolved it would certainly be interesting. Then again so would about 100 other mostly-vapor products that have come across my desk in the last year or so
flat CRT? I have never heard of such a thing. There are other viable flat-screen technologies, but I fail to see how a cathode ray tube could possibly be fit into a PDA form factor. Otherwise, I tend to agree with the rest of your points.
Let me be so bold as to make the assumption that you are an engineering major.
You see, I am a Drexel student as well, and let me start with this disclaimer:
Dr. Venkat is a dedicated and talented professor and also a man whom I am proud to know.
HOWEVER, What makes Dr. Gilmore special is not only a desire to make his students learn and understand and all the things a great teacher does, but also the fact that the man is, not to put him up on a pedestal or anything, but he's a genius.
Just as Energy II at Drexel is not an advanced thermodynamics course, I wonder how Dr. Venkat would fare at an advanced physics course. This is no way meant as an insult to Dr. Venkat, but rather a compliment to Dr. Gilmore. High-level physics courses are simply astoundingly difficult to teach in such a manner that students truly "get it." In four years at Drexel, I have only seen two professors of the entire Department who are really up to this daunting task. Unfortunately, the other, Dr. Narducci, is nearing retirement and is now focusing his efforts on the more advanced studies of his graduate students. Dedication to students is certainly a part of makes an outstanding teacher, and Dr. Venkat is certainly an outstanding teacher. Dr. Gilmore is a life-changing inpiration to nearly everyone who has ever taken a class with him. He's not just a great teacher, he is quite possibly the greatest teacher I or any of my classmates will ever have the fortune to meet
My best professor by far is Dr Gilmore at my university. He is a prof. whose genuis and grasp of the elegance and beauty of physics dwarfs any physicist I have ever met. Apart from taking a class with on of the legendary greats, I cannot imagine possibly getting more out of a class than with Dr. Gilmore. I am currently taking a nonlinear dynamics class from him and it is absolutely fascinating. It probably helps that he's literally the man who wrote the de-facto standard book on catastrophe theory.
I've done this using an IR LED and reciever from "You've got questions, we've got blank stares" Radio Shack connected up thru a PIC to a serial port. But it would be interesting to see if someone just ripped the LEDs outta the cuecat, or if they actually used the keyboard interface on it in some way
Interesting... did you just do this using reflection or something? If I looked into it more I'm sure I could figure out exactly how I could do it, but, hey, I'm lazy, so how did you do it?
Flamebait? Now if that ain't a slap in the face, I dont know what is flamebait about it, I was addressing someone else's flame about moderation, which was admittedly offtopic. If I had been modded down as offtopic, I could care less, as I am not interested in karma, but rather having intelligent conversations. But flamebait, is, frankly, just wrong. But then this whole post is offtopic, so feel free to mod this one down. I know I probably would.
Could it possibly be that they are getting modded down because they are both offtopic and redundant? It's a friggin movie review, people. Yeah it's got Katz but it's also another guy, and its an opportunity for geeks to discuss a new geeky movie. It's not the usual Katz articles, so I don't see why you have to whine so much about ONE stinking article with his name on it. He didn't even say Columbine or Corporatismitistics or similar nonsense in this article.
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the movie mallrats, which was a sort of loose sequal to clerks, and predecessor to chasing amy and dogma, all of which feature the characters Silent Bob and Jay
Most of these things are hacked up in macromedia director, I believe. They do a lot of coding things so that any keypress will take the next appropriate action, with this or some other package, if I am mistaken on what they are actually using. Since the technical people involved with the movie were most likely already familiar with this technique, I would assume that it's likely that's what they used.
well ACTUALLY...
/. ers to enjoy, naturally :)
the official windows screensaver at Whatisthematrix runs in 800x600, if memory serves. On a larger, higher resolution monitor, it will be a little box of matrix goodness surrounded by black bars. Add that to the fact that flat panel monitors generally look like crap if not set to the resolution they are designed for, and you've got one basic choice... xmatrix on UN*X, which, while great fun and the screensaver I use, is a basic hacked version which is not at all like the actual matrix code from the movie. (for instance, notice the lack of the "explosion-like" bursts of bright expanding squares as seen in the movie.).
Looks like its time for you to start coding up a newer better version of xmatrix, to be released for all us
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RMS has been butting heads with Linux people for a long time. RMS is a FREE SOFTWARE enthusiast, and not a Linux enthusiast. RMS is actually pissed off that people call the whole system Linux, when its actually the kernel that's linux, and most of the other parts that make the system work (low level stuff like compilers and basic UNIX tools) are GNU utilities, which have been around a lot longer than Linus' kernel
it's both still kicking and gaining ground. And, oh yeah, it's also mentioned in the /. article, linked as "that other comic"
The moon is geologically stable, dead, as it were. There's little for us to learn there, really, the rock makeup has shown to be fairly uniform, so we wouldn't gain much by a second trip. It's not like anything has changed on the moon in the last few decades. To do anything interesting would involve things like heavy drilling or excavating, and think about the uproar that would cause...
no, silly, that's what grad students are for, writing the code. However, I am an undergrad and hence do not recieve grad students, so I will focus my efforts on the science until I am accomplished enough to warrant my own lackie grad students to do my coding while I concentrate on the important stuff.
a simple pager system with pretty graphics, maybe a chart, and the ability to interact with the dialog window. not quite the same
writing my own client would naturally be more efficient, but I am a scientist, not a programmer. To me, reinventing the wheel is pointless when something exists that fits me needs. I already do this on a laptop, using a small chunk of the screen and a wavelan card. Being able to immediately, cheaply, and most importantnly, quickly, move this to a smaller platform is very appealing to me
actually we have an 11 mbps wireless network throughout campus, which is what i'd use. Tolerable over slow ethernet = tolerable over wireless. Plus VNC doesn't really fit my needs, I don't want complete control of the system, just a small dialog window updating to my display. I realize I could just have the thing post data and write my own protocols and whatnot but X is quick and easy for me. It give me more time to code simulations and not worry about display issues
So you can use it to run X applications wirelessly, and easily display anything from a monitor for your seti@home progress, to a instant message session, to the GIMP, to anything else that needs more processor power than a PDA has, but can still be used in a pinch on a small screen.
In my personal experience, one thing that I plan to use something like this as is a portable monitor for the simulations I have running on a remote supercomputer, doing nonlinear dynamics calculations for my senior research. I can easily use X to display a progress monitor/dialog/error popup box on something I can take with me, so I can monitor my simulation at lunch, or while in a class, or on the bus.
I've been looking all over for Overfiend DVD's. What I'd like to get is all four movies, either seperate or as a boxed set, preferably with both dub and subtitles, and they must absolutely be uncensored. Looking at the myriad of reviews and different releases available, I am totally lost.
I tend to disagree somewhat, the fact that /. readers know less about you might make it more interesting to see what kind of stuff you get your hands into...
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as editor-in-chief for Andover you are the most visible member of what alot of the slashdot readers would call the "other guys."
People were incredibly worried when slashdot was bought by Andover, I think an interview could give a good forum to talk about improvements/changes/bad things that have happened since the purchase of
Plus, think of how much an interview with the Editor could give a golden opportunity for all the spelling nazi trolls to really shine
I'd be interested in seeing a link supporting this. I was under the impression that all watchman's used an LCD display
Ah but if I wanted to nitpick, I could argue that that is indeed not a CRT, because it doesnt employ an electron gun nor include a vacuum tube.
However, being a wearable computing enthusiast, I have looked at this research before, and if some of the issues were resolved it would certainly be interesting. Then again so would about 100 other mostly-vapor products that have come across my desk in the last year or so
true, but in the context of the conversation (PDA's), I'd say it's safe to assume the original poster meant thin profile
flat CRT? I have never heard of such a thing. There are other viable flat-screen technologies, but I fail to see how a cathode ray tube could possibly be fit into a PDA form factor. Otherwise, I tend to agree with the rest of your points.
Let me be so bold as to make the assumption that you are an engineering major.
You see, I am a Drexel student as well, and let me start with this disclaimer:
Dr. Venkat is a dedicated and talented professor and also a man whom I am proud to know.
HOWEVER, What makes Dr. Gilmore special is not only a desire to make his students learn and understand and all the things a great teacher does, but also the fact that the man is, not to put him up on a pedestal or anything, but he's a genius.
Just as Energy II at Drexel is not an advanced thermodynamics course, I wonder how Dr. Venkat would fare at an advanced physics course. This is no way meant as an insult to Dr. Venkat, but rather a compliment to Dr. Gilmore. High-level physics courses are simply astoundingly difficult to teach in such a manner that students truly "get it." In four years at Drexel, I have only seen two professors of the entire Department who are really up to this daunting task. Unfortunately, the other, Dr. Narducci, is nearing retirement and is now focusing his efforts on the more advanced studies of his graduate students. Dedication to students is certainly a part of makes an outstanding teacher, and Dr. Venkat is certainly an outstanding teacher. Dr. Gilmore is a life-changing inpiration to nearly everyone who has ever taken a class with him. He's not just a great teacher, he is quite possibly the greatest teacher I or any of my classmates will ever have the fortune to meet
My best professor by far is Dr Gilmore at my university. He is a prof. whose genuis and grasp of the elegance and beauty of physics dwarfs any physicist I have ever met. Apart from taking a class with on of the legendary greats, I cannot imagine possibly getting more out of a class than with Dr. Gilmore. I am currently taking a nonlinear dynamics class from him and it is absolutely fascinating. It probably helps that he's literally the man who wrote the de-facto standard book on catastrophe theory.
I've done this using an IR LED and reciever from "You've got questions, we've got blank stares" Radio Shack connected up thru a PIC to a serial port. But it would be interesting to see if someone just ripped the LEDs outta the cuecat, or if they actually used the keyboard interface on it in some way
Interesting... did you just do this using reflection or something? If I looked into it more I'm sure I could figure out exactly how I could do it, but, hey, I'm lazy, so how did you do it?
Flamebait? Now if that ain't a slap in the face, I dont know what is flamebait about it, I was addressing someone else's flame about moderation, which was admittedly offtopic. If I had been modded down as offtopic, I could care less, as I am not interested in karma, but rather having intelligent conversations. But flamebait, is, frankly, just wrong. But then this whole post is offtopic, so feel free to mod this one down. I know I probably would.
Could it possibly be that they are getting modded down because they are both offtopic and redundant? It's a friggin movie review, people. Yeah it's got Katz but it's also another guy, and its an opportunity for geeks to discuss a new geeky movie. It's not the usual Katz articles, so I don't see why you have to whine so much about ONE stinking article with his name on it. He didn't even say Columbine or Corporatismitistics or similar nonsense in this article.