Without wanting to troll, it seems to me that the Debian island is located in the Linux atoll.
Using Linux has advantages and drawbacks, among which the limited subset of hardware working with the operating system. Using the Debian distribution of Linux has advantages and drawbacks, among which the limited subset of hardware working with the operating system. For me, it's the same kind of tradeoff.
There are two or three interesting facts, when viewed from the inside, which can help us learn more about the French society (or global society?) in general.
- There has been much less debate and outcry about this law that about HADOPI, the law to fight P2P piracy. Does that mean that people do not care about censorship, as long as they can download their mp3 and divx files ?
- This specific law also comes in a package that loosens up the penalties for reckless drivers. Does that mean that people do not care about censorship, especially if it allows them to drive faster on the road as a side effect ?
Your friend was just using a good crack that was circumventing this particular copy protection. I remember that back in the times, we used cracks for Red Alert 2 and C&C at LAN parties - that's quite a shame for such good games, but you couldn't really expect everybody to have genuine copies of the games, even if they came with 2 CDs.
Well, the bottom line is that with many cracks, the exploding base phenomenon was real.
Honestly, by reading your first two bullet points I really thought your post was a good joke. But when I consider the entirety of what you've written, there is a distinct possibility that it may be instead a sad story.
As for space flight simulators, there is already a "remake" (more like an engine upgrade) of one of the best games of its kind, Freespace 2. And even better, it's open source. Freespace source code project
I really fail to see how Pluto is so much more different from Earth than Earth is from Jupiter. This planetary discriminant as a way to measure the cleanliness of an orbit is an interesting metric, but it is a bit strange to define an object according to its surroundings. A much more relevant metric to characterize an object would be its mass. There are two to three orders of magnitude of difference between the mass of Pluto and Earth, and there is about the same order of magnitude difference between Earth and Jupiter. Likewise, the composition of Earth and Jupiter are totally different, but that does not preclude them from both being called planets.
But when it comes to Firefox, I'd rather have a plugin that would allow the use of the operating system codecs (if available) to play HTML5 video encoded in h264. That, along with the built-in support for Ogg Theora and WebM, would allow us not to care about codecs from a user perspective.
You make an interesting point about different parts of the world having different beliefs.
And you are very right about it: when when you start to use expressions such as "free market perspective", everybody knows for sure you are from the USA. I wouldn't say that it is copyright maximalism which defines the US culture, i'd say it is really free market enthusiasm. And this is definitely not shared by everybody around the world.
CD's don't last as long, will deteriorate after 10 years or so (the "forever" hype was BS... maybe it's cosmic rays, maybe it's microwaves, idk, the inner foil falls apart often in less than 10 years).
Call me surprised. I have a good number of audio CDs which are at least 20 years old, and I have yet to see this effect. Maybe you just stumbled upon a batch that were not manufactured properly ?
Yes, but your the LED on your computer is precisely not a "power LED": it doesn't light up a thing. For LEDs, life expectancy is directely correlated to output power.
Other times, often, it works...but only to a degree. The brain has a bit of a tolerance for this, but eventually it generates what is known as simulator sickness. The brain catches on to the fact that not all of the visual cues are saying the same things...at which point evolution does its job and tells you to quit doing whatever you're doing while possibly trying to pump your stomach. Somehow, most people don't find headaches and nausea very entertaining. This can be fixed - there is ongoing research attempting to address simulator sickness and improve immersion through developing head-mounted displays which satisfy a broader set of visual cues - but no current 3D technology avoids these issues.
I tend to think this is not such a significant issue. The brain is usually very adaptable. The first times you play first person shooters, you tend to get motion sickness and headaches. Just as you say, there are many visual and sensorial cues missing from a traditional game in first person view - it's just not very natural. But with time, these feelings go away rather quickly, as you get used to the experience. Is current research saying that for any reason, the process wouldn't be the same ?
Are you sure this is the original battery ? My anecdotal evidence on a dozen of samples tells me that after about 6 years, most laptop Li-On batteries cannot hold charge anymore.
Well you know, if you followed a bit the launch of Street View in Germany, Google is not just "being nice" - it was forced by the governement to adopt this policy before launching its Street View service in this country, because of privacy concerns. More than 200 000 of such requests have already been sent. I'm not German, so I can't evaluate if these requests have a strong legal basis or not. But it seems clear that both the government and and a large part of the public opinion in Germany seem against unrestricted Street View, and as another slashdotter pointed out, the law can always be changed to be explicitly more restrictive if needed.
For the pictures, it looks like the subsonic airplane is equipped with turboprop engines - or are these propfans ? If so, our next generations airliners might very well be equipped with propellers again: Airbus is also considering propfans.
Indeed, behind the gorilla that is E-Ink (which seem the only ones to have successfully industrialized an e-paper technology so far), there are many innovative display technologies competiting. Another interesting technology that comes to my mind is Liquavista which uses electrowetting. And we shouldn't forget that iRex is also working on its own color e-paper technology for the next generation iLiads.
Well, I don't really see what would be the difference between autosteroscopy and glasses stereoscopy for the matter. In both cases, you focus on the screen, and in both cases, your eyes are presented two different images with an offset.
The only difference is the channel separation method: glasses are filtering out the images for the left and right eye, while for autostereoscopy it is a grazing that directs left and right images to your left and right eyes.
An interesting difference though, is that you are either focusing on a very far screen or at infinity at the theatre, or very close in case of the 3DS.
Here is the relevant part of TFA:
Clear single vision of an object requires both accommodation and vergence to operate.
The process of accommodation, in which the eyes focus on near objects and relax focus
for distant objects, is driven by image blur. The primary goal of accommodation is to
minimise the blur. The vergence system operates to produce a single perceived image
from the two retinal images, by bringing the images close to the fovea of each eye so
that they can be fused into a percept of a single object at a given depth. During this
process the eyes converge upon near objects and diverge to fixate upon far objects. The
accommodation and vergence systems interact via neural cross-links, so that a response
in one system drives a corresponding response in the other. While it is known that the
cross-links are open to adaptive change the process and limits of adaptation are not
fully understood [Rushton & Riddell 1999; Wann & Mon-Williams 1997].
Problems of stress on the visual system have been most obvious in HMDs. While poor
engineering design or incorrect calibration for the user can be a source of visual stress,
a problem less easy to avoid is the challenge to the accommodation-vergence cross-
links. Current stereoscopic VR displays provide an illusion of depth by providing each
eye with a separate 2D image on a fixed focal plane. The mechanisms of binocular
vision fuse the images to give the 3D illusion. Because there is no image blur, the eyes
must make a constant accommodative effort. But at the same time the images stimulate a changing vergence angle with changes in apparent depth, so that the normal cross-
linked relationship between the systems is disrupted [Mon-Williams & Wann 1998].
The problem is not limited to HMDs as any stereoscopic display, from a stereoscopic
desktop to immersive systems such as the CAVE, uses the same display method [Wann
& Mon-Williams 1997]. Within certain limits the visual system can adapt, as shown by
results of orthoptic exercises and of adaptation to different prisms placed in front of
each eye. However, whether the changes are long term or whether there can be dual
adaptation to both the real and virtual environments has not been established [Rushton
& Riddell 1999].
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The irony is that from historical evidence, it seems that the Dodo tasted rather poor.
Without wanting to troll, it seems to me that the Debian island is located in the Linux atoll.
Using Linux has advantages and drawbacks, among which the limited subset of hardware working with the operating system. Using the Debian distribution of Linux has advantages and drawbacks, among which the limited subset of hardware working with the operating system. For me, it's the same kind of tradeoff.
There are two or three interesting facts, when viewed from the inside, which can help us learn more about the French society (or global society?) in general.
- There has been much less debate and outcry about this law that about HADOPI, the law to fight P2P piracy. Does that mean that people do not care about censorship, as long as they can download their mp3 and divx files ?
- This specific law also comes in a package that loosens up the penalties for reckless drivers. Does that mean that people do not care about censorship, especially if it allows them to drive faster on the road as a side effect ?
Your friend was just using a good crack that was circumventing this particular copy protection. I remember that back in the times, we used cracks for Red Alert 2 and C&C at LAN parties - that's quite a shame for such good games, but you couldn't really expect everybody to have genuine copies of the games, even if they came with 2 CDs.
Well, the bottom line is that with many cracks, the exploding base phenomenon was real.
Honestly, by reading your first two bullet points I really thought your post was a good joke. But when I consider the entirety of what you've written, there is a distinct possibility that it may be instead a sad story.
As for space flight simulators, there is already a "remake" (more like an engine upgrade) of one of the best games of its kind, Freespace 2. And even better, it's open source.
Freespace source code project
How do you dare to utter a bad word about Daytona USA.
I really fail to see how Pluto is so much more different from Earth than Earth is from Jupiter. This planetary discriminant as a way to measure the cleanliness of an orbit is an interesting metric, but it is a bit strange to define an object according to its surroundings. A much more relevant metric to characterize an object would be its mass. There are two to three orders of magnitude of difference between the mass of Pluto and Earth, and there is about the same order of magnitude difference between Earth and Jupiter. Likewise, the composition of Earth and Jupiter are totally different, but that does not preclude them from both being called planets.
But when it comes to Firefox, I'd rather have a plugin that would allow the use of the operating system codecs (if available) to play HTML5 video encoded in h264. That, along with the built-in support for Ogg Theora and WebM, would allow us not to care about codecs from a user perspective.
As far as I know, newer sony readers (PRS-350 and 650) do use pearl displays.
You make an interesting point about different parts of the world having different beliefs.
And you are very right about it: when when you start to use expressions such as "free market perspective", everybody knows for sure you are from the USA. I wouldn't say that it is copyright maximalism which defines the US culture, i'd say it is really free market enthusiasm. And this is definitely not shared by everybody around the world.
Well, as far as I know, the PS3 doesn't update without notice.
CD's don't last as long, will deteriorate after 10 years or so (the "forever" hype was BS... maybe it's cosmic rays, maybe it's microwaves, idk, the inner foil falls apart often in less than 10 years).
Call me surprised. I have a good number of audio CDs which are at least 20 years old, and I have yet to see this effect. Maybe you just stumbled upon a batch that were not manufactured properly ?
Yes, but your the LED on your computer is precisely not a "power LED": it doesn't light up a thing. For LEDs, life expectancy is directely correlated to output power.
Maybe you have heard about this site called flickr ?
Other times, often, it works...but only to a degree. The brain has a bit of a tolerance for this, but eventually it generates what is known as simulator sickness. The brain catches on to the fact that not all of the visual cues are saying the same things...at which point evolution does its job and tells you to quit doing whatever you're doing while possibly trying to pump your stomach. Somehow, most people don't find headaches and nausea very entertaining. This can be fixed - there is ongoing research attempting to address simulator sickness and improve immersion through developing head-mounted displays which satisfy a broader set of visual cues - but no current 3D technology avoids these issues.
I tend to think this is not such a significant issue. The brain is usually very adaptable. The first times you play first person shooters, you tend to get motion sickness and headaches. Just as you say, there are many visual and sensorial cues missing from a traditional game in first person view - it's just not very natural. But with time, these feelings go away rather quickly, as you get used to the experience. Is current research saying that for any reason, the process wouldn't be the same ?
Are you sure this is the original battery ? My anecdotal evidence on a dozen of samples tells me that after about 6 years, most laptop Li-On batteries cannot hold charge anymore.
As far as I know, V8 only works on x86. Which is quite a pity if you wanted to use it on a mobile phone.
Well you know, if you followed a bit the launch of Street View in Germany, Google is not just "being nice" - it was forced by the governement to adopt this policy before launching its Street View service in this country, because of privacy concerns. More than 200 000 of such requests have already been sent. I'm not German, so I can't evaluate if these requests have a strong legal basis or not. But it seems clear that both the government and and a large part of the public opinion in Germany seem against unrestricted Street View, and as another slashdotter pointed out, the law can always be changed to be explicitly more restrictive if needed.
This is really a good paper. Thanks !
That doesn't work for Warty Warthog and Hoary Hedgehog, though.
He actually read TFPDF that was linked in the modded-up post. For this achievement, he deserves the mod points !
For the pictures, it looks like the subsonic airplane is equipped with turboprop engines - or are these propfans ? If so, our next generations airliners might very well be equipped with propellers again: Airbus is also considering propfans.
Indeed, behind the gorilla that is E-Ink (which seem the only ones to have successfully industrialized an e-paper technology so far), there are many innovative display technologies competiting. Another interesting technology that comes to my mind is Liquavista which uses electrowetting. And we shouldn't forget that iRex is also working on its own color e-paper technology for the next generation iLiads.
Well, I don't really see what would be the difference between autosteroscopy and glasses stereoscopy for the matter. In both cases, you focus on the screen, and in both cases, your eyes are presented two different images with an offset.
The only difference is the channel separation method: glasses are filtering out the images for the left and right eye, while for autostereoscopy it is a grazing that directs left and right images to your left and right eyes.
An interesting difference though, is that you are either focusing on a very far screen or at infinity at the theatre, or very close in case of the 3DS.
Here is the relevant part of TFA:
Clear single vision of an object requires both accommodation and vergence to operate. The process of accommodation, in which the eyes focus on near objects and relax focus for distant objects, is driven by image blur. The primary goal of accommodation is to minimise the blur. The vergence system operates to produce a single perceived image from the two retinal images, by bringing the images close to the fovea of each eye so that they can be fused into a percept of a single object at a given depth. During this process the eyes converge upon near objects and diverge to fixate upon far objects. The accommodation and vergence systems interact via neural cross-links, so that a response in one system drives a corresponding response in the other. While it is known that the cross-links are open to adaptive change the process and limits of adaptation are not fully understood [Rushton & Riddell 1999; Wann & Mon-Williams 1997].
Problems of stress on the visual system have been most obvious in HMDs. While poor engineering design or incorrect calibration for the user can be a source of visual stress, a problem less easy to avoid is the challenge to the accommodation-vergence cross- links. Current stereoscopic VR displays provide an illusion of depth by providing each eye with a separate 2D image on a fixed focal plane. The mechanisms of binocular vision fuse the images to give the 3D illusion. Because there is no image blur, the eyes must make a constant accommodative effort. But at the same time the images stimulate a changing vergence angle with changes in apparent depth, so that the normal cross- linked relationship between the systems is disrupted [Mon-Williams & Wann 1998]. The problem is not limited to HMDs as any stereoscopic display, from a stereoscopic desktop to immersive systems such as the CAVE, uses the same display method [Wann & Mon-Williams 1997]. Within certain limits the visual system can adapt, as shown by results of orthoptic exercises and of adaptation to different prisms placed in front of each eye. However, whether the changes are long term or whether there can be dual adaptation to both the real and virtual environments has not been established [Rushton & Riddell 1999].