Great, now I have to buy a PS2 and broadband adapter thingy, and keyboard/mouse, all to get a worse quality crack than I have right now in my computer...
This is how I understand it... I could be completely wrong. (:
If you open up a jp2 file, it will look something like this:
xxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The first set of data, all by itself, will give you a thumbnail of the picture. It might contain one pixel of every 16 in the image... enough to make out what it is, but not enough to be a full size 8x10 photo. If you want a slightly larger, better quality picture, you ask your browser to open up the first two chunks, and it will give you a decent screen resolution image, but still nothing worth framing. In most cases, this is probably all you need for x-10 camera ads and such, and you've only grabbed 1/4 of the full image data. If you want a BIG lossless file that you can make a printed photo-realistic copy of, you tell your browser to download the whole darn thing. It might take longer than a jpg file, but it is lossless, and you can do without grabbing the whole thing for all the pictures you don't want to print.
This setup would be useful for servers that generally save seperate "thumbnail" pictures, because instead of a completely different set of pictures, they could just send you the first section of the file, and if you wanted the big picture, you could grab the rest of the file. The server saves bandwidth and storage space, as it only has one copy of each picture, and only sends you what you NEED to see.
I can confirm.. I just checked out my yahoo account, and all of the marketing garbage was set to "yes", including that I want to get junk from postal mail and over the phone.
I promptly set all of the radio buttons to "no", as well as changed my middle initial to "Y", so if I do get snail mail, I'll know where my address was obtained from.
But Microsoft is being very hypocritical... The same (inflexible, expensive tech support, hard to run well) can all be said about Microsoft Server products.
And the election in the US was extremely questionable too.
After the way they ruined the middle of Battlefield Earth (the book), I don't want to have any part in seeing the end of the book get mutilated for a stupid audience.
The previous poster doesn't want to support Microsoft at all, which is what he would be doing, just by buying the laptop. It doesn't matter one bit what he does with it once he has it... MS already has his money.
Just as long as I don't get an email saying "Move out of CowboyNeal's place next month!"
Does voting on Slashdot opt me in to some marketing company spam list?
Re:Anyone up for Zork: The Movie?
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[Text scrolls down the screen, as though the screen was a giant monitor] > Open the mailbox There is a letter inside. > Read letter You have no letter to read. > Take letter You are holding a letter. > Read letter [The simple text fades to white, revealing a clear sky, camera pans down to a mailbox in front of a white house...] VoiceOver: Thank you for watching ZORK: The movie. No theatre or DVD collection should be without it. [Camera pans through an open window, under a rug in the living room to a nearly pitch dark basement. A CGI Grue flies out of the darkness towards the camera's POV, engulfing the screen in darkness.] [Inside an office, daytime] .... ....
OK, I wrote the first 3 minutes of the movie. Who wants to tackle the last 87?
The article said that people who are legally blind (most likely because their eyes don't focus correctly) can see the laser image pasted on their retinas.
Attach this device to a head-mounted camera (even a cheap web-cam would work) and you could pretty much restore vision, much like hearing aids work. I would love to see these things helping the average person, as well as professionals who need the extra edge (doctors, astronauts, etc).
The Windows XP Plus pack comes with a shareware version of this game.. There's no comparison to the original at the Metreon, especially if you're just using a mouse... If I had a trackball, it might be closer.
Hmm, could you get out of paying some measure of taxes by placing all of your money in PayPal from Dec 31 to Jan 1? End of year statement would say that you didn't have any money in the bank collecting interest.
Of course, PayPal would then (via Murphey's Law) get wiped out by the Y2K+3 bug, and you'd lose all your money in the process, since it's not FDIC insured...
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Great, now I have to buy a PS2 and broadband adapter thingy, and keyboard/mouse, all to get a worse quality crack than I have right now in my computer...
But ya know, I'll do it cause I'm an addict.
*sigh*
I shudder at the thought of having to buy software at Fry's... Aren't there other computer stores in Cali?
This is how I understand it... I could be completely wrong. (:
x xx xxxxxxxxxxxxx|
If you open up a jp2 file, it will look something like this:
xxxx|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The first set of data, all by itself, will give you a thumbnail of the picture. It might contain one pixel of every 16 in the image... enough to make out what it is, but not enough to be a full size 8x10 photo. If you want a slightly larger, better quality picture, you ask your browser to open up the first two chunks, and it will give you a decent screen resolution image, but still nothing worth framing. In most cases, this is probably all you need for x-10 camera ads and such, and you've only grabbed 1/4 of the full image data. If you want a BIG lossless file that you can make a printed photo-realistic copy of, you tell your browser to download the whole darn thing. It might take longer than a jpg file, but it is lossless, and you can do without grabbing the whole thing for all the pictures you don't want to print.
This setup would be useful for servers that generally save seperate "thumbnail" pictures, because instead of a completely different set of pictures, they could just send you the first section of the file, and if you wanted the big picture, you could grab the rest of the file. The server saves bandwidth and storage space, as it only has one copy of each picture, and only sends you what you NEED to see.
YMMV.
Here's some layman data on it...
I know of two cases of suicide in the last 3 years blamed primarily on EQ, and one murder blamed on it.
There are 400,000 active EQ accounts. How many people are there in the US, and how many suicides per year?
Info pulled from CDC.gov:
Age-Adjusted Death Rate: 10 deaths per 100,000 population (1998)
EQ-related deaths of 2 per 400,000 (or 0.5 per 100,000) is a lot lower than the national average.
I can confirm.. I just checked out my yahoo account, and all of the marketing garbage was set to "yes", including that I want to get junk from postal mail and over the phone.
I promptly set all of the radio buttons to "no", as well as changed my middle initial to "Y", so if I do get snail mail, I'll know where my address was obtained from.
But Microsoft is being very hypocritical... The same (inflexible, expensive tech support, hard to run well) can all be said about Microsoft Server products.
And the election in the US was extremely questionable too.
Most of these gadgets and things I think "Wow, I'd really like to have one of those... maybe when I'm rich"
This one makes me sorry to be a geek at all.
It's 500 dollars though... has a bunch of really cool features for the uber GPS geek. (:
um, isn't that what mp3.com does these days?
Um. Drool.
No, please! Not that, Anything but that!
After the way they ruined the middle of Battlefield Earth (the book), I don't want to have any part in seeing the end of the book get mutilated for a stupid audience.
The previous poster doesn't want to support Microsoft at all, which is what he would be doing, just by buying the laptop. It doesn't matter one bit what he does with it once he has it... MS already has his money.
Just as long as I don't get an email saying "Move out of CowboyNeal's place next month!"
Does voting on Slashdot opt me in to some marketing company spam list?
[Text scrolls down the screen, as though the screen was a giant monitor]
> Open the mailbox
There is a letter inside.
> Read letter
You have no letter to read.
> Take letter
You are holding a letter.
> Read letter
[The simple text fades to white, revealing a clear sky, camera pans down to a mailbox in front of a white house...]
VoiceOver: Thank you for watching ZORK: The movie. No theatre or DVD collection should be without it.
[Camera pans through an open window, under a rug in the living room to a nearly pitch dark basement. A CGI Grue flies out of the darkness towards the camera's POV, engulfing the screen in darkness.]
[Inside an office, daytime]
....
....
OK, I wrote the first 3 minutes of the movie. Who wants to tackle the last 87?
The article said that people who are legally blind (most likely because their eyes don't focus correctly) can see the laser image pasted on their retinas.
Attach this device to a head-mounted camera (even a cheap web-cam would work) and you could pretty much restore vision, much like hearing aids work. I would love to see these things helping the average person, as well as professionals who need the extra edge (doctors, astronauts, etc).
The Windows XP Plus pack comes with a shareware version of this game.. There's no comparison to the original at the Metreon, especially if you're just using a mouse... If I had a trackball, it might be closer.
Ironic that you're posting anonymously...
You should log in before posting, Bill.
You mean you want me to go to the rapist to talk about my childhood? You're a sick individual.
Hmm, could you get out of paying some measure of taxes by placing all of your money in PayPal from Dec 31 to Jan 1? End of year statement would say that you didn't have any money in the bank collecting interest. Of course, PayPal would then (via Murphey's Law) get wiped out by the Y2K+3 bug, and you'd lose all your money in the process, since it's not FDIC insured...
You mean they don't even use ROT-13 to encrypt the login and password?