The optics in... well anything assume that the glasses I wear cover the viewfinder/eyepiece/whatever - which is a reasonable assumption, as if I am looking through a camcorder or telescope eyepiece then I will be looking directly at it, so the glasses will lie between the eyepiece and my pupil.
Of course "tall" aviator-style glasses cover the entire field of view with corrective lenses and so they'll work, but as lots of (most?) people wear "short" fashion specs the part of the field of view that is occupied by the LCD display may not intersect that part of the display occupied by the lens.
I'm wondering - is there any chance of projection into the retina in a device like this?
You get LCD alarm clocks that project images of the time onto the wall already, surely it's only a matter of time before VDU images are projected into the retina...
Data mining and espescially subversive data collection is the kind of thing that makes me angry because it pisses me off to an incredible degree and there's absolutely fucking NOTHING I can do about it. I know 1984 and Brave New World references are terribly cliché and oft-abused but man, Big Brother is alive and well and distributing Soma in the form of privacy policies.
o wait getting on the "do not call" list will solve ALL my problems!!!
Yes. Running an X-server on your ancient machine shouldn't be too painful if you're using it to display 'nice' clients running on remote machines - mplayer will of course saturate a network connection and! no sound, but emacs and xterm windows are fully responsive.
If you hunt around on the 'net you can find product licence key things that work and aren't blocked by Microsoft's update servers... well, not yet anyway.
One way to fill the remaining seats would be to let latecomers (i.e., those who've missed say fifteen minutes at least of the main feature) into the theatre for a ridiculously low price, say a pound a throw or so.
Think about it: you'd get almost everyone paying the full, regular price for the first time, and if it's a good movie they'll want to see it again. However, few films are good enough to warrant me paying the full price more than once, but if I could see most of it for a low price I'd probably do that once or twice. The cinema gets an extra pound or two, I get to see the film again, everyone's a winner.
I'm just waiting for Hercules to appear and shovel shit for weeks. Might get rid of the smell... or is that the pizza I dropped in the PSU? I'll never know!
I remember reading somewhere that, due to things like thermal radiation and cosmic rays, every so often a bit in RAM is changed by 'accident'... isn't the ECC RAM (which, IIRC, negates the effects of such interaction) horrendously expensive though, more so than the 'normal' SDRAM variants we have these days?
What's wrong with calling it just that? It's the Mozilla browsing core and, er, that's it. Nice and simple, rather like Phoenix / Firebird / whatever itself.
It would also have zero legal problems assosciated with it and that would leave the project team free to develop it. Just choose a plain, functional name for a plain, functional browser.
I dislike Macs as they are nigh on impossible to use.
For starters: The maximise button does not work. Want an app to fill the screen? Tough, you cant. At best you'll get a highly annoying 10px margin all around the window, at worst it will go into some completely unwanted portrait-orientation that can even leave you with less of an app window size than you had before.
Similarly, the application's menubar is ALWAYS at the top of the screen. Right at the very top. You have to go out of the application, to go to it's menubar! Where's the sense in that?
Their keyboards and mice are utterly horrible to use, but they can be replaced so that's a short term problem.
Want me to use a Mac? Make MacOS user friendly then. All this guff about it being THE user-friendly OS applies only in the days when the alternative was command-line DOS.
Everyone on 100mbps. All connections get served within fractions of a second. All that will happen will be that for your connection to start getting served you might have to wait a wee while for the connection to be initiated but once its there it'll be delivered instantaneously.
The hydrogen economy needs trillions of dollars in investment to get it going. This won't happen in our "returns-in-six-months-or-else" system we have at present, beacuse it is more cost-effective in the short term to do what we're doing right now. When the global energy system becomes dire - which it WILL, eventually, and sooner than you think - the hydrogen economy will take off, because if it doesn't the human race is quite literally doomed.
But it's not doomed for more than six months. The accountants won't let the investment happen. It's not too late... yet.
That was an excellent troll. You didn't have to use redirect scripts or anything as you made the monstrosity known as TubGirl appear to be a friendly tech site. You used the readers ignorance and gullibilty against them. Well done.
However, having never heard of TubGirl before I wish a thousand demonic monkeys would materialise beside your ears and wrap your testicles around a beanpole, before playing some swingball with them. You bastard.
What's the point of being able to solve differential equations in an instant if you don't know how it's being done or, more importantly, why?
-Mark
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If sites like Slashdot and the SomethingAwful forums can store that ridiculous amount of information that they do, I'm sure that others can do.
Yes, there are loads of books, but are there all that many? A few million at most, I'd say. And how much info would you need on each one? I mean really? Not very much, just the ISBN, authour and things like that. Admittedly it would still be one big-ass server cluster to host -/. cubed or so, at least - but it is technologically feasible.
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AVI is a container format; it can contain anything.
The optics in... well anything assume that the glasses I wear cover the viewfinder/eyepiece/whatever - which is a reasonable assumption, as if I am looking through a camcorder or telescope eyepiece then I will be looking directly at it, so the glasses will lie between the eyepiece and my pupil.
Of course "tall" aviator-style glasses cover the entire field of view with corrective lenses and so they'll work, but as lots of (most?) people wear "short" fashion specs the part of the field of view that is occupied by the LCD display may not intersect that part of the display occupied by the lens.
Will glasses still work then?
I'm wondering - is there any chance of projection into the retina in a device like this?
You get LCD alarm clocks that project images of the time onto the wall already, surely it's only a matter of time before VDU images are projected into the retina...
Depends on how ugly she is and how drunk I am... Normally farsighted though. What difference does it make?
I already wear glasses, will this work with me?
There's also the story of how some local paper rooted through politician's garbage to find incriminating stuff, after it was ruled that rooting through garbage was a legitimate policing tactic. I will leave the official response as an extra-credit exercise.
Data mining and espescially subversive data collection is the kind of thing that makes me angry because it pisses me off to an incredible degree and there's absolutely fucking NOTHING I can do about it. I know 1984 and Brave New World references are terribly cliché and oft-abused but man, Big Brother is alive and well and distributing Soma in the form of privacy policies.
o wait getting on the "do not call" list will solve ALL my problems!!!
Yes. Running an X-server on your ancient machine shouldn't be too painful if you're using it to display 'nice' clients running on remote machines - mplayer will of course saturate a network connection and! no sound, but emacs and xterm windows are fully responsive.
I could've gotten the first fucking post on that thread. On page seven. ps you are from scotland rite
If you hunt around on the 'net you can find product licence key things that work and aren't blocked by Microsoft's update servers... well, not yet anyway.
Teach me how to troll, fucknuts.
These PCs... are they distributed under the GPL, or aren't they truly free?
One way to fill the remaining seats would be to let latecomers (i.e., those who've missed say fifteen minutes at least of the main feature) into the theatre for a ridiculously low price, say a pound a throw or so.
Think about it: you'd get almost everyone paying the full, regular price for the first time, and if it's a good movie they'll want to see it again. However, few films are good enough to warrant me paying the full price more than once, but if I could see most of it for a low price I'd probably do that once or twice. The cinema gets an extra pound or two, I get to see the film again, everyone's a winner.
I'm just waiting for Hercules to appear and shovel shit for weeks. Might get rid of the smell... or is that the pizza I dropped in the PSU? I'll never know!
I remember reading somewhere that, due to things like thermal radiation and cosmic rays, every so often a bit in RAM is changed by 'accident'... isn't the ECC RAM (which, IIRC, negates the effects of such interaction) horrendously expensive though, more so than the 'normal' SDRAM variants we have these days?
What's wrong with calling it just that? It's the Mozilla browsing core and, er, that's it. Nice and simple, rather like Phoenix / Firebird / whatever itself.
It would also have zero legal problems assosciated with it and that would leave the project team free to develop it. Just choose a plain, functional name for a plain, functional browser.
I dislike Macs as they are nigh on impossible to use.
For starters: The maximise button does not work. Want an app to fill the screen? Tough, you cant. At best you'll get a highly annoying 10px margin all around the window, at worst it will go into some completely unwanted portrait-orientation that can even leave you with less of an app window size than you had before.
Similarly, the application's menubar is ALWAYS at the top of the screen. Right at the very top. You have to go out of the application, to go to it's menubar! Where's the sense in that?
Their keyboards and mice are utterly horrible to use, but they can be replaced so that's a short term problem.
Want me to use a Mac? Make MacOS user friendly then. All this guff about it being THE user-friendly OS applies only in the days when the alternative was command-line DOS.
Everyone on 100mbps. All connections get served within fractions of a second. All that will happen will be that for your connection to start getting served you might have to wait a wee while for the connection to be initiated but once its there it'll be delivered instantaneously.
The hydrogen economy needs trillions of dollars in investment to get it going. This won't happen in our "returns-in-six-months-or-else" system we have at present, beacuse it is more cost-effective in the short term to do what we're doing right now. When the global energy system becomes dire - which it WILL, eventually, and sooner than you think - the hydrogen economy will take off, because if it doesn't the human race is quite literally doomed.
But it's not doomed for more than six months. The accountants won't let the investment happen. It's not too late... yet.
-Mark
That was an excellent troll. You didn't have to use redirect scripts or anything as you made the monstrosity known as TubGirl appear to be a friendly tech site. You used the readers ignorance and gullibilty against them. Well done.
However, having never heard of TubGirl before I wish a thousand demonic monkeys would materialise beside your ears and wrap your testicles around a beanpole, before playing some swingball with them. You bastard.
This man is talking utter fucking pish. While highly intelligent stuff and utter crap sound the same, this stuff is just crap.
Fucking useless troll.
I was getting them at almost two megabytes per sec; obviously a major French ISP is up to the task of, er, providing internet services.
What's the point of being able to solve differential equations in an instant if you don't know how it's being done or, more importantly, why?
-Mark
If sites like Slashdot and the SomethingAwful forums can store that ridiculous amount of information that they do, I'm sure that others can do.
/. cubed or so, at least - but it is technologically feasible.
Yes, there are loads of books, but are there all that many? A few million at most, I'd say. And how much info would you need on each one? I mean really? Not very much, just the ISBN, authour and things like that. Admittedly it would still be one big-ass server cluster to host -
Expensive but feasible. Like Spave Elevators...
-Mark
That's a point... is a triply posted story a tripe?
-Mark