It doesn't take a huge investment to create software anymore.
It doesnt take a huge investment to work in a grocery store, but I sure as hell wouldnt do it for free. You cannot create a working business model when there is no exchange of money. As a game programmer, I expect to be paid for my work because I need to eat and have a home.
Isnt predicting the weather the job of that huge ass supercomputer in Japan? I think it is called Earth Simulator, but I am not sure... I remember a post about it awhile ago, and it showed all of the racks being 'crooked' because it allowed the heat from the processors to actually rise out of the case, and not stay in the rack.:P
I just wanted to point out this guy as a great example of using video games (in this game virtual reality) for more than just entertainment. He created "Spider world" to help people with aracnaphobia get used to spiders, and then later created "Snow world" to help burn victims during painful procedures.
I wrote a big 26-page paper on the guy a year ago in my english class after he gave a lecture at my school. Seemed like a very interesting guy.
Bluetooth is the SHITTIEST 'standard' in the goddamn world! My girlfriend had a bluetooth cellphone and bluetooth USB thing, and it worked about 5% of the time. And the other 95% of the time the USB card animated itself and attacked her. Seriously.
Messier object 1 (M1), more commonly known as the Crab Nebula, is a good example of a "Long ago" supernova remnant.
Crab Nebula Info
The star went supernova almost a thousand years ago, and that is whats left.
During the actual event of a supernova, though, the star (from so far away) only seems to go from being a normal star to an amazingly bright one, and then slowly dimming down over a few months (or years). The reason is because stars are so huge they cannot simply explode like in the movies, after all they are in a constant state of nuclear fusion!!
They arrows are fine... You just have to realize that the first images have the majority of the galaxy cropped out... They are only showing NGC 2403-1, instead of the large NGC 2403.
Just to let everyone know, what this little camera is, is a scanner on its side. Instead of moving a linear CCD sensor back and forth, this is just a linear sensor mounted around a servo. Really basic stuff here.
As far as the lens goes, It may be possible that they are not even using one, by using the "pin-hole" technique, but I am not sure this would produce good optics.
If we used the same description of megapixels for scanners, most scanners would be capable of a few tens of megapixels.
CMOS is cheaper and can transfer the image faster off of the chip, but CCDs offer lower dark noise and lower reading noise, which means that your pictures are clearer and more scientifically usuable. CCDs are also INCREDIBLY more sensitive than CMOS, with the newer chips able to get upwards of 85% efficiency.
The recv window is an int. Thats 2^32. The window size is unknown, but you can guess that its say... 65k, thats pretty big. Even at that rate, youd have to go:
This doesnt seem too bad, this is only 65,000 guesses, but you have to keep in mind that the window is moving the whole time, so you might accidentally skip over it, or if your not going fast enough, never reach it! (And, 65k is a pretty damned big window, I havnt tested any long term connections, but chances are it wont get this big).
No, its not a problem that is software-specific. They are utilizing a 'flaw' in the design of TCP by spoofing the sender's IP address and port, *AND* guessing the recvwindow number!!
The reason it only affects long-term connections is because it takes awhile to probe for the magic number to reset the connection, and ALL this does is reset the connection, nothing more.
This whole thing is retarded, if you know enough about TCP this exploit was already on your mind and forgotten because its stupid.:P
I dont think they are talking about singular objects, they still name comments and asteroids pretty randomly at first, then the person who discovers it gets to name it (typically). Like Shoemacher-Levy 9... Stars usually have two names, actually. One is the constellation its in followed by a letter or number to signify its brightness. And the other is a 'given' name, usually after greek mythology or something. So you could have Orion-beta which could be the start Beatleguise(sp). Oh, and I dont actually think beatleguise is orion-beta, but.. you get the idea.
What the article was talking about was the difference between a NEO (Near Earth Object), a Kuiper belt object (really far away), etc. Personally I dont see what all the fuss is about.:)
Those terms are just like the ones in the computer field, FPS, GNU, FTP, Skript Kiddie, Turd Burgler, etc.
Of course its not organized, because they are designed not to let newbies into the arena of astronomy, just like computer science.
I mean c'mon, its a f*cking mouse... WHY??? Because nobody wanted to call it a "hand movement input device".... actually that could work for mouce... I'll shuttup now.
I hate the DMCA. And it should burn. Along with any bill or law that is supposed to do anything with technology. Burn in hell anyone who thought the DMCA was gonna be cool.
G4 Network has a series (I cant think of the name right now) which uses in-game movies and added in dialog to do all sorts of shorts and such. Kind of like a soap opera for teenage boys. Personally I think it sucks, but whatever. You can get to the website at http://www.g4tv.com/ Oh, the name of the show is Portal. Seems they only use MMORPG engines (Dark Age of Camelot, Everquest, etc).
-Bill
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What you just posted has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen posted on ./. Please kill yourself.
LOL, thats hilarious... Funniest part is that sooo many stupid users will do it!
Private Parts is the best movie EVVARRR!!!!
It doesn't take a huge investment to create software anymore.
It doesnt take a huge investment to work in a grocery store, but I sure as hell wouldnt do it for free. You cannot create a working business model when there is no exchange of money. As a game programmer, I expect to be paid for my work because I need to eat and have a home.
Isnt predicting the weather the job of that huge ass supercomputer in Japan? I think it is called Earth Simulator, but I am not sure... I remember a post about it awhile ago, and it showed all of the racks being 'crooked' because it allowed the heat from the processors to actually rise out of the case, and not stay in the rack. :P
I just wanted to point out this guy as a great example of using video games (in this game virtual reality) for more than just entertainment. He created "Spider world" to help people with aracnaphobia get used to spiders, and then later created "Snow world" to help burn victims during painful procedures.
I wrote a big 26-page paper on the guy a year ago in my english class after he gave a lecture at my school. Seemed like a very interesting guy.
Bluetooth is the SHITTIEST 'standard' in the goddamn world! My girlfriend had a bluetooth cellphone and bluetooth USB thing, and it worked about 5% of the time. And the other 95% of the time the USB card animated itself and attacked her. Seriously.
Messier object 1 (M1), more commonly known as the Crab Nebula, is a good example of a "Long ago" supernova remnant.
Crab Nebula Info
The star went supernova almost a thousand years ago, and that is whats left.
During the actual event of a supernova, though, the star (from so far away) only seems to go from being a normal star to an amazingly bright one, and then slowly dimming down over a few months (or years). The reason is because stars are so huge they cannot simply explode like in the movies, after all they are in a constant state of nuclear fusion!!
They arrows are fine... You just have to realize that the first images have the majority of the galaxy cropped out... They are only showing NGC 2403-1, instead of the large NGC 2403.
Anyone else read that and get a sudden urge to eat a cheeseburger and fries?
-Bill
Get a free iPod!
Boooo!!
-Bill
Get a FREE iPod!
So long as I can download Windows XP and get a valid serial number generator, I have no reason to install Linux.
-Bill
Leave the software firewall turned on if you can, if not, get a cheap Linksys Cable/DSL router, it will block all of those viruses.
:P
I have to reinstall most of my family's computers when I go home, I made all of them have routers.
-Bill
Just to let everyone know, what this little camera is, is a scanner on its side. Instead of moving a linear CCD sensor back and forth, this is just a linear sensor mounted around a servo. Really basic stuff here.
As far as the lens goes, It may be possible that they are not even using one, by using the "pin-hole" technique, but I am not sure this would produce good optics.
If we used the same description of megapixels for scanners, most scanners would be capable of a few tens of megapixels.
-Bill
"The Great Outdoors" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095253/ -Bill
CMOS is cheaper and can transfer the image faster off of the chip, but CCDs offer lower dark noise and lower reading noise, which means that your pictures are clearer and more scientifically usuable. CCDs are also INCREDIBLY more sensitive than CMOS, with the newer chips able to get upwards of 85% efficiency.
-Bill
wait wait wait...
A 500megapixel camera has 500,000,000 pixels, not 28,800,000,000!!!!!
So, its actually closer to 1GB than 54GB.
-Bill
The recv window is an int. Thats 2^32. The window size is unknown, but you can guess that its say... 65k, thats pretty big. Even at that rate, youd have to go:
//Test vulnerability with *this* number..
for(int i=0; i<0xFFFFFFFF; i+=0xFFFF )
{
}
This doesnt seem too bad, this is only 65,000 guesses, but you have to keep in mind that the window is moving the whole time, so you might accidentally skip over it, or if your not going fast enough, never reach it! (And, 65k is a pretty damned big window, I havnt tested any long term connections, but chances are it wont get this big).
-Bill
No, its not a problem that is software-specific. They are utilizing a 'flaw' in the design of TCP by spoofing the sender's IP address and port, *AND* guessing the recvwindow number!!
:P
The reason it only affects long-term connections is because it takes awhile to probe for the magic number to reset the connection, and ALL this does is reset the connection, nothing more.
This whole thing is retarded, if you know enough about TCP this exploit was already on your mind and forgotten because its stupid.
-Bill
You do realize she was popular before way Curt Cobain, right?
I mean, shes a little fucked up, and shes drugged a lot, and shes probably a whore, but she did contribute to music culture.
-Bill
What in gods name is NOC?
Nerds on Crack...
Nice/Naughty old Chicks...
-Bill
I dont think they are talking about singular objects, they still name comments and asteroids pretty randomly at first, then the person who discovers it gets to name it (typically). Like Shoemacher-Levy 9... Stars usually have two names, actually. One is the constellation its in followed by a letter or number to signify its brightness. And the other is a 'given' name, usually after greek mythology or something. So you could have Orion-beta which could be the start Beatleguise(sp). Oh, and I dont actually think beatleguise is orion-beta, but.. you get the idea.
:)
What the article was talking about was the difference between a NEO (Near Earth Object), a Kuiper belt object (really far away), etc. Personally I dont see what all the fuss is about.
-Bill
Those terms are just like the ones in the computer field, FPS, GNU, FTP, Skript Kiddie, Turd Burgler, etc.
Of course its not organized, because they are designed not to let newbies into the arena of astronomy, just like computer science.
I mean c'mon, its a f*cking mouse... WHY??? Because nobody wanted to call it a "hand movement input device".... actually that could work for mouce... I'll shuttup now.
-Bill
I hate the DMCA. And it should burn. Along with any bill or law that is supposed to do anything with technology. Burn in hell anyone who thought the DMCA was gonna be cool.
-Bill
G4 Network has a series (I cant think of the name right now) which uses in-game movies and added in dialog to do all sorts of shorts and such. Kind of like a soap opera for teenage boys. Personally I think it sucks, but whatever. You can get to the website at http://www.g4tv.com/ Oh, the name of the show is Portal. Seems they only use MMORPG engines (Dark Age of Camelot, Everquest, etc). -Bill