IIRC, the original game boy used black and white strobing to create the four color effect. I've seen calculator programs (for the ti-8x and 9x calcs) that could display color images as well.
Of course, the contrast wasn't as good or anything. It would be interesting to see comparisons between the two. Someone posted a link, but it was to geocities, and obviously it's dead now.
Does anyone have the details on how this supposed color increasing worked? I think it would be intresting to see.
A fluid is something that will change its shape to its container. A liquid is something that has spesific chemical properties, and may not be a fluid. That's why glass can be a liquid, but not a fluid. Read the artical.
The glass transition is purely kinetic: i.e. the disordered glassy state does not have enough kinetic energy to overcome the potential energy barriers required for movement of the molecules past one another. The molecules of the glass take on a fixed but disordered arrangement.
Your windows are in the exact same shape they were when they were made.
Maybe he meant that even though it was a liquid, it was a not a fluid. The articaly clearly states that it is not a fluid (it will not move to fill it's container), although it may be considered a liquid.
Conclusion: Glass will flow download, but the motion is imperceptible and extremely slow, not noticable except over a long period of time. This may not apply to all varieties of glass however, but the old glass panes are definately thicker on the bottom (and we not when installed).
Or: People couldn't make perfictly flat glass, and chose to put the fat-side down to make the window more stable.
The glass was thicker at the bottom when it was made. Usualy it was put big-side-down, but occasionaly you will find window panels where the larger part is on the top.
how could google.com be in the US but google.com/china be in china?
The could do google.com.cn or google.cn or cn.google.com, but http directories can't be served from different machines without at least connecting to the 'base' machine first and being redirected.
you know, if you got to http://autopr0n.com:8080/ (for example) You'll make an http connection over port 8,080, and talk directly to the apache tomcat servlet/JSP engine rather then going through apache. (but don't do that, there is no mod_gzip on 8080:P)
There is no reason I couldn't run a web server, or any other server on any other port. I could even run a p2p app on 80 if I wanted to. Blocking ports only makes things more frustrating for people because things don't work 'out of the box'. A little configuration will get it running in no time.
Also, a lot of protocols (such as HTTP, as in the example) include port numbers in URLs or other identification. So rather then getting a packet that says "there's another Freenet node on bla.somesite.com" it says something like "there's another Freenet node on bla.somesite.com port 80"
Freenet can even masquerade as other services, so connecting to them with a non-Freenet client will give you another service ("nothing to see here, move along") which means there is actually (well theoretically) no way to detect Freenet by bulk scanning. (well, actually there's away to get around that... and then another way to get around that workaround, but describing that would take me forever and would be entirely beside the point)
And no, I (apperantly) can't make it clickable, because/. changes the text in the about part.
It's so hypocritical the way slashdot argues for free speech but then places so many filters on what you can post, especially since they do it in such a ham-fisted manner, frequently preventing valid points from being posted.
There was a slashdot story about alltheweb a while aback, with them claming to be >= google. My own search for my own name yielded more and (possibly even) better results then google. And, like google the superfluous crap is stripped out. It's just a clean interface to search, not a 'portal'.
They also have a nicer graphic design:P
Of course, I still use google most of the time because 1) Its easier to type 2) Its hardcoded into my homepage and 3) It usually finds anything I'm looking for.
If I couldn't get to google, (or if alltheweb had a better domain name) I'd probably use them.
Otoh, doing in a search in Chinese for "车" (new car) on Alltheweb and got only two results, vs about 4,450 on google.
Altavista converted the chinese characters into HTML entities (新汽车) and found nothing
Metacrawler found about 27 results, but displayed the link titles and 'abstracts' in ASCII so they all looked like "ÓÐ×ÅÓƾÃÄÀúÊ£" or whatever.
So I dunno. For chinese people doing queries in english alltheweb would be great. I have no idea what could replace google for chinese language searches. Since I'm only barely literate in Chinese I can't really go looking around for native-chinese pages to comment on:P
Slashdot Mirror
Where you could see reflections of the earth in the night sky.
It only happened once in a great while, like a comet or something, so everyone was outside trying to look.
It was a pretty trippy dream.
IIRC, the original game boy used black and white strobing to create the four color effect. I've seen calculator programs (for the ti-8x and 9x calcs) that could display color images as well.
Of course, the contrast wasn't as good or anything. It would be interesting to see comparisons between the two. Someone posted a link, but it was to geocities, and obviously it's dead now.
Does anyone have the details on how this supposed color increasing worked? I think it would be intresting to see.
I'd be supprised if there was any actual, noticable diffrence between 64k and 58,261.
I mean, there are only 25k pixles on the thing.
What kinds of things would Eartlings trade me for moon property? Air? Water? Sometimes I wonder if the Earth even belongs to us.
Little beeds.
Actualy, the US and russia have signed treaties banning 'ownership' of space. It belongs to all humankind (they did this to save money).
We do however, have restrictions on setting off huge balistic missles in our airspace..
Actually, there's no evidence that catharsis actually does anything. In fact, it often accentuates feelings, rather then getting rid of them.
Slashdot seems to run a lot of obituaries. Perhaps there should be a topic for it.
A fluid is something that will change its shape to its container. A liquid is something that has spesific chemical properties, and may not be a fluid. That's why glass can be a liquid, but not a fluid. Read the artical.
Heh.
Register.com for a couple, godaddy now that I managed to get my own DNS server running :P
How could ICANN stop them from selling SSL certificates?
It'll be intresting to see if VeriSign can actualy fix this in the time alloted, given their amazingly shitty technical skills.
Fonts are explicitly excluded from being copyrighted in the US?
I never would have suspected that.
"Glass is not a fluid"
And
"glass may be a liquid"
Are not incompatable statements, as 'fluid' is not the same thing as 'liquid'
The artical clearly states that glass will not flow, so it is clearly not a fluid.
It's not possible:
The glass transition is purely kinetic: i.e. the disordered glassy state does not have enough kinetic energy to overcome the potential energy barriers required for movement of the molecules past one another. The molecules of the glass take on a fixed but disordered arrangement.
Your windows are in the exact same shape they were when they were made.
Maybe he meant that even though it was a liquid, it was a not a fluid. The articaly clearly states that it is not a fluid (it will not move to fill it's container), although it may be considered a liquid.
Conclusion: Glass will flow download, but the motion is imperceptible and extremely slow, not noticable except over a long period of time. This may not apply to all varieties of glass however, but the old glass panes are definately thicker on the bottom (and we not when installed).
Or: People couldn't make perfictly flat glass, and chose to put the fat-side down to make the window more stable.
I had no idea that micrometer's were able to see into the past! I thought they just mesured length!
The glass was thicker at the bottom when it was made. Usualy it was put big-side-down, but occasionaly you will find window panels where the larger part is on the top.
It would just look like any other fluid dripping out of something over time-lapse.
I'd imagine.
how could google.com be in the US but google.com/china be in china? The could do google.com.cn or google.cn or cn.google.com, but http directories can't be served from different machines without at least connecting to the 'base' machine first and being redirected.
you know, if you got to http://autopr0n.com:8080/ (for example) You'll make an http connection over port 8,080, and talk directly to the apache tomcat servlet/JSP engine rather then going through apache. (but don't do that, there is no mod_gzip on 8080 :P)
There is no reason I couldn't run a web server, or any other server on any other port. I could even run a p2p app on 80 if I wanted to. Blocking ports only makes things more frustrating for people because things don't work 'out of the box'. A little configuration will get it running in no time.
Also, a lot of protocols (such as HTTP, as in the example) include port numbers in URLs or other identification. So rather then getting a packet that says "there's another Freenet node on bla.somesite.com" it says something like "there's another Freenet node on bla.somesite.com port 80"
Freenet can even masquerade as other services, so connecting to them with a non-Freenet client will give you another service ("nothing to see here, move along") which means there is actually (well theoretically) no way to detect Freenet by bulk scanning. (well, actually there's away to get around that... and then another way to get around that workaround, but describing that would take me forever and would be entirely beside the point)
that URL would be about:新汽车
/. changes the text in the about part.
And no, I (apperantly) can't make it clickable, because
It's so hypocritical the way slashdot argues for free speech but then places so many filters on what you can post, especially since they do it in such a ham-fisted manner, frequently preventing valid points from being posted.
Oh well, enough bitching for one day.
Yeh, god forbid people should speak in any language but english around here.
Otoh, doing in a search in Chinese for "车" (new car) on Alltheweb and got only two results, vs about 4,450 on google.
The 'new car' would have been 'xin qi che', which theoreticaly you could see by going to the URL about:
Anyway...
There was a slashdot story about alltheweb a while aback, with them claming to be >= google. My own search for my own name yielded more and (possibly even) better results then google. And, like google the superfluous crap is stripped out. It's just a clean interface to search, not a 'portal'.
:P
:P
They also have a nicer graphic design
Of course, I still use google most of the time because 1) Its easier to type 2) Its hardcoded into my homepage and 3) It usually finds anything I'm looking for.
If I couldn't get to google, (or if alltheweb had a better domain name) I'd probably use them.
Otoh, doing in a search in Chinese for "车" (new car) on Alltheweb and got only two results, vs about 4,450 on google.
Altavista converted the chinese characters into HTML entities (新汽车) and found nothing
Metacrawler found about 27 results, but displayed the link titles and 'abstracts' in ASCII so they all looked like "ÓÐ×ÅÓƾÃÄÀúÊ£" or whatever.
So I dunno. For chinese people doing queries in english alltheweb would be great. I have no idea what could replace google for chinese language searches. Since I'm only barely literate in Chinese I can't really go looking around for native-chinese pages to comment on