It's too bad they are NOT directed towards us. Every living thing, including us, WOULD have evolved a natural defense -- which would have meant that our current crop of fusion weapons would have been far less dangerous to all life on this planet.
If things are moving slowly enough,the frame rate is fast enough. At a zillion below zero, or whatever rediculous temperature it is there, maybe creatures would move a bit more slowly? In any case, it clearly looks like something is going on. Maybe it's just stuff blowing along the ground, who knows. The resolution sux.
I sure hope someone gets a new mobile probe up there ASAP, radiation be damned, with a power supplies that can give us back some realtime movies and high res stuff.
Here is a link in case you can't find it on the page. If you save it on your desktop, you can run it in "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" and zoom in on various parts while the animation is running.
There's also a few things walking along across the ice boulders. Does anyone know what the time lag is between frames? I'd like to know how fast they walk.
Don't believe the hype. Traffic lights for example have failsafes in them to stop such things
Twice in my life I've seen traffic lights stuck on green in both directions. I don't know how it can happen, because I don't know how traffic lights are switched. Nevertheless.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the best way for Microsoft to eliminate spyware would be to take Firefox, rename it Internet Explorer, and be done with it.
If they're going into this project planning on setting the speed limit at 85mph, that means they'll spec the highway out for safe crusing at around 150mph or so.
That means that 100mph safe comfortable crusing, without fear of being pulled over, will be the norm.
Build it. I don't care how much it costs, build it.
If you think 100mph crusing is somehow unsafe, then your car is an old piece of junk and you need a new one.
we will all look back on thes AMD vs Intel arguments and find them quaintly silly, since the two companies will have merged to try to stave off tremendous competition from cheap Chinese processors.
I just did it on a lark 'cause I'm bored to tears with studying right now.
If you have ever managed to merge together images on one of those wacky posters before, you know the trick.
All I did was select two of the 3D images they have all ready to go (at nasa.jpl.gov), sized them down with photoshop on a black background, played with the placement for a while until they were just right for me to merge in my brain while aabout eight inches away from my monitor.
It was freaking unreal. The silly red/green images don't work at all like the real thing. It's worth it to do the real thing. Use only the plain left and right images designed for this. 90% of the time I had no idea what I was really looking at when looking at the regular 2D lander photos.
Suddenly, it was all so obvious! I was standing on a hill, looking down across a giant valley, with mountains rising off in the distance. Breathtaking, stunning detain and perspective. It was SO MUCH MORE REAL, like really being there and looking out a window!
Nasa should find a way to make the true 3d experience more accessible to everyone, without the funky red/green glasses. Maybe with that "Viewmaster" viewer or something. They'd have a TON more money coming their way if they passed out viewmasters with 3D imagry to all of Congress.
1. Car in fog. It would be nice to have a heads up display on my winshield, kind of like Cadillac did with night vision some years ago... Whatever happened to that anyway?
Having more browsers using the Gecko engine sure can't be a bad thing. Plus, it will put some pressure on Microsoft to improve their browser and actually support standards.
You have that exactly backwards. It would put pressure on web page designers to improve their pages and actually follow standards.
Re:For those who have no idea what this is about
on
Mambo Users Threatened
·
· Score: 2, Funny
If it took you a long time to figure this out, exactly how long does it take you to brush your teeth in the morning?
Real/.ers don't brush.
For those who have no idea what this is about
on
Mambo Users Threatened
·
· Score: 3, Informative
CMS is "content management system." It is a program to make something like a "newspaper" type web page -- what you might see when you go to NYTimes.com.
It took me a long time to figure that out, so I think I should get some upmodding here. Oh BTW, I have mod points myself right now, so if you are *bad*, I'm commin' after you;)
I've never run a firewall; I've never kept a virus scanner in the background. The first thing I do with a new box is delete all that junk. They're both a PITA and slow everything down too. I've been computing since before probably most of you were even born. (Hint: PR1ME OS) Current OS usage is about 60% XP and 40% Gentoo or Mandrake.
I've never picked up a virus or worm or whatever, except once stupidly in the 80's from a floppy someone gave me and I popped it into my Amiga 1000 without thinking about it. (It was an *outrageously fun* virus though! It loaded in about.2 seconds every sixth boot and gave wild animated graphic displays that to this day still puts most PCs to shame.)
Every few months I'll run a virus scan just to make sure, but I've really never picked up one. And yes, I've done everything with a "Z" in it. I think to pick up some kind of worm or virus you just have to be stupid, and apparently I am not.
I just keep up with security updates and don't do stupid things like install stupidware or open attachments without doing a touch of research first -- or run IE.
So just what exactly is the benefit of a firewall for non-stupid users except to make money for the authors of the software?
It seems to me that if Copywright law, made by Congress, is being used to violate political speech, that that pesky little Amendment 1 ought to void out such laws in such circumstances.
Slashdot Mirror
It's too bad they are NOT directed towards us. Every living thing, including us, WOULD have evolved a natural defense -- which would have meant that our current crop of fusion weapons would have been far less dangerous to all life on this planet.
If things are moving slowly enough,the frame rate is fast enough. At a zillion below zero, or whatever rediculous temperature it is there, maybe creatures would move a bit more slowly? In any case, it clearly looks like something is going on. Maybe it's just stuff blowing along the ground, who knows. The resolution sux.
I sure hope someone gets a new mobile probe up there ASAP, radiation be damned, with a power supplies that can give us back some realtime movies and high res stuff.
Here is a link in case you can't find it on the page. If you save it on your desktop, you can run it in "Windows Picture & Fax Viewer" and zoom in on various parts while the animation is running.
There's also a few things walking along across the ice boulders. Does anyone know what the time lag is between frames? I'd like to know how fast they walk.
Has anyone noticed that in the animated GIF, there's something swimming around in the ethane current that the lander fell in?
Well you don't really know until you try. Did the camera even have the ability to pivot?
Huygens' signal is extremely faint. It has the power of a mobile telephone and it is 1.4 billion kilometers from the Earth.
If I'm only 3 km from the Vodafone cell base station, why do I have problems getting signal?!
I need more info. Is your three meter parabolic antenna pointed directly at the base?
Where are you seeing a goop pic? Please post a link?
Don't believe the hype. Traffic lights for example have failsafes in them to stop such things
Twice in my life I've seen traffic lights stuck on green in both directions. I don't know how it can happen, because I don't know how traffic lights are switched. Nevertheless.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the best way for Microsoft to eliminate spyware would be to take Firefox, rename it Internet Explorer, and be done with it.
If they're going into this project planning on setting the speed limit at 85mph, that means they'll spec the highway out for safe crusing at around 150mph or so.
That means that 100mph safe comfortable crusing, without fear of being pulled over, will be the norm.
Build it. I don't care how much it costs, build it.
If you think 100mph crusing is somehow unsafe, then your car is an old piece of junk and you need a new one.
In the time of Jesus it wasn't exactly kosher to be Christian.
Um, Mr. Mod? Just what exactly drinking when you bumped this as "informative?"
Why don't you just do a good thing and push all the posts listing sites still up down to -1. Make the lawyers WORK for it!!!
Pocket PC.
Go ahead. MOD me down I don't care.
You Know I am Right!
One day, soon...
we will all look back on thes AMD vs Intel arguments and find them quaintly silly, since the two companies will have merged to try to stave off tremendous competition from cheap Chinese processors.
You know I'm right.
Is this counting all the people that are just sucking it off of their neighbors?
I just did it on a lark 'cause I'm bored to tears with studying right now.
If you have ever managed to merge together images on one of those wacky posters before, you know the trick.
All I did was select two of the 3D images they have all ready to go (at nasa.jpl.gov), sized them down with photoshop on a black background, played with the placement for a while until they were just right for me to merge in my brain while aabout eight inches away from my monitor.
It was freaking unreal. The silly red/green images don't work at all like the real thing. It's worth it to do the real thing. Use only the plain left and right images designed for this. 90% of the time I had no idea what I was really looking at when looking at the regular 2D lander photos.
Suddenly, it was all so obvious! I was standing on a hill, looking down across a giant valley, with mountains rising off in the distance. Breathtaking, stunning detain and perspective. It was SO MUCH MORE REAL, like really being there and looking out a window!
Nasa should find a way to make the true 3d experience more accessible to everyone, without the funky red/green glasses. Maybe with that "Viewmaster" viewer or something. They'd have a TON more money coming their way if they passed out viewmasters with 3D imagry to all of Congress.
Make it five hot chicks and one guy. Then charge for the web feed and PayPerView.
Is Sony being run by someone new? This from the same folks that brought us the MiniDisk? I don't believe it.
1. Car in fog. It would be nice to have a heads up display on my winshield, kind of like Cadillac did with night vision some years ago... Whatever happened to that anyway?
2. Airplanes! No more grounding because of fog.
Having more browsers using the Gecko engine sure can't be a bad thing. Plus, it will put some pressure on Microsoft to improve their browser and actually support standards.
You have that exactly backwards. It would put pressure on web page designers to improve their pages and actually follow standards.
If it took you a long time to figure this out, exactly how long does it take you to brush your teeth in the morning?
/.ers don't brush.
Real
CMS is "content management system." It is a program to make something like a "newspaper" type web page -- what you might see when you go to NYTimes.com.
;)
It took me a long time to figure that out, so I think I should get some upmodding here. Oh BTW, I have mod points myself right now, so if you are *bad*, I'm commin' after you
I've never run a firewall; I've never kept a virus scanner in the background. The first thing I do with a new box is delete all that junk. They're both a PITA and slow everything down too. I've been computing since before probably most of you were even born. (Hint: PR1ME OS) Current OS usage is about 60% XP and 40% Gentoo or Mandrake.
.2 seconds every sixth boot and gave wild animated graphic displays that to this day still puts most PCs to shame.)
I've never picked up a virus or worm or whatever, except once stupidly in the 80's from a floppy someone gave me and I popped it into my Amiga 1000 without thinking about it. (It was an *outrageously fun* virus though! It loaded in about
Every few months I'll run a virus scan just to make sure, but I've really never picked up one. And yes, I've done everything with a "Z" in it. I think to pick up some kind of worm or virus you just have to be stupid, and apparently I am not.
I just keep up with security updates and don't do stupid things like install stupidware or open attachments without doing a touch of research first -- or run IE.
So just what exactly is the benefit of a firewall for non-stupid users except to make money for the authors of the software?
It seems to me that if Copywright law, made by Congress, is being used to violate political speech, that that pesky little Amendment 1 ought to void out such laws in such circumstances.