Just registered and tried to transcribe some fragments, but either the interface is completely non-intuitive (and any help missing), or the app doesn't work in Firefox.
Quite a shame, finally found a fragment I could transcribe too:(
Basically I had done nothing but suffer a dissociative episode at my family doctor's office, for which I had warned them, but which they had dutifully ignored. I knocked over some glass items, they called the cops, and despite not resisting I was forced against the ground, the cuffs forced on so tight that they had trouble removing them, and I will suffer from nerve damage in my wrists for a long time.
I was locked in a jail cell for nearly 24 hours, only allowed to leave it to visit the hospital for some glass cuts I had suffered. I was crying and screaming and basically breaking down the whole time while I was in the cell. The feeling of powerlessness was just beyond any words. I have been persecuted for my IS and denied medical help for years already, but at least then I still had the choice to walk away. When I begged some cops to let me out, they just laughed at me and threw me against the nearest wall.
Even if it isn't entirely new, it's been used very effectively here, with the uncovering of so much archaeological material to study it'll keep archaeologists occupied for decades. And this was just the first run. I'm very excited about what else will be uncovered, now that someone finally bothered to use this methode, be it old or new.
Maybe QML really is easier... I have been doing some Android development lately, and defining the UI in a separate XML file definitely has its advantages.
As pointed out and as I have discovered during my own research into QML its feature set in 4.7 is pretty aenemic. If they can make it a carbon copy of the feature set of the Qt widgets, then it might be worth looking into:)
I agree. I have looked at QML (I'm a part-time C++/Qt developer), and it looks to me like JS and CSS had a very unsightly baby. QML is also not nearly as efficient or compact as the C++-based widgets. The latter could use a bit of an overhaul to remove some redundancy, but that's another matter again.
Seems like Qt5 will be more buzzword-compliant, though:(
And how about intersexual people who are physically neither gender? I had a friend before who was IS and it just was really hard to tell from the looks what gender one should assume. Mentally she identified as female, but that can't obviously be told from a picture.
It really differs among IS people. I am a hermaphrodite yet there is no way to tell this while I'm still wearing clothes. Everyone identifies me as being a regular female, even at the swimming pool. There are heaps of 'regular' women who would get IDed by this system as being men, making it inaccurate for regular men and women, and a huge mess for IS people. As for TS people, most MtF TSs I have seen would be identified as being male, and most FtM TSs as being female. As said, unless you are going to modify the skeletal structure of the face etc. taking hormones doesn't magically transform you into the other gender/sex.
That's not correct. The 6 and 8-pin PCIe connectors are identical. They have the same number of ground and 12V wires between the GPU and the PSU, the same wire gauge and can carry the same amount of power. The 8-pin connector exists because in the PCIe spec they had a sense wire for the 12V line specified on this connector, which would then allow the connector to carry more current as the PSU would be able to better regulate the voltage. In practice this is much more easily done at the PSU side, making the 8-pin connector useless and allows the 6-pin connector to carry the same 150 Watt as the 8-pin one.
Want to check this? Just use a 6-pin connector and short the remaining two pins on the GPU to ground to satisfy the GPU if it checks for a connection there and everything will work just peachy fine. If you check 8-pin PCIe connectors you'll see that this is all they do: short the two extra pins to ground.
Yes, because it threatens their business model of threatening to sue people even if they have no intention to ever do so. All the USCG wants is for the people it sends a threatening letter to pay up $2,500. Negotiating a settlement or heavens forbid an actual court case would drive up their lawyer costs and make their business model unprofitable. Hence them trying to take out this 'threat'. Of course, they're trying to take on a real attorney, not some Joe Shmuck without a clue about legal proceedings.
I like them a LOT more than flat screens. I think they are easier to read and more vibrant.
'Vibrant', yes, but they also mess with one's perception of contrast. Try editing a photograph on a glossy screen and then printing it. Even on glossy paper the colours will look dull and everything but vibrant. That's because the glossy screen is basically lying to your eyes.
Just to add to this, there's no way you will be able to find a professional LCD anywhere which even has a glossy option. This is because of the above reason. It would make any kind of accuracy in Photoshop, 3D modelling apps and anything else which requires colour accuracy impossible. I know this for a fact because it's what I do for a living.
The real reason why glossy screens are so popular is because most people are dim-witted sheep who go for that which is the most shiny. They also tolerate crappy TN LCDs, backlight leaking and heavens know what other defects and keep asking for more by buying the cheapest and shiniest junk they can find.
I blogged about something similar a while ago: 'What's yours probably isn't on the internet'. In my case it was about me losing the password to my Flickr account (or someone else 'reset' it for me), and me trying to convince the Yahoo helpdesk that it really was my Flickr account. In the end it failed because I couldn't remember the security answer, even though the emails from the account kept getting sent to my email account and I know every other piece of information associated with that account. What can I do about it? Absolutely nothing apparently.
Fortunately I don't need the Flickr account as I have my personal site with a gallery I control, but it's still annoying that there's a zombie account on Flickr which will keep sending email to me for now and probably eternity (or until Flickr gets shut down).
This whole thing stinks. Badly. Allow me to explain:
Here in the Netherlands we got a similar debate going on, with some groups demanding the downloading of copyrighted works to be made illegal (currently legal for movies and music). My housemate and good friend Pieter Hulshoff was present at a debate on this last Thursday together with a number of politicians, artists, lawyers and many other types of people (including the very embarrassing Dutch Pirate Party). As he pointed out during this debate, there is no conceivable way one could successfully implement a 'roadblock' against the downloading of copyrighted content. First of all, there's the technical limitation.
DPI, or Deep Packet Inspection, is a technique which can look into the packets sent through an ISP's network and which is suggested as a way to find those guilty of infringement. There is no way to figure out in even a fraction of all cases, even after assembling multiple packets, what format the packet's contents are in, what encoding was used, how to read it, let alone somehow figure out whether it is copyrighted information.
P2P, or basically anything involving Bittorrent, eDonkey and similar networks used for filesharing can easily be anonymized using encryption, private trackers, making it very hard to get into a cloud or similar, or figure out what is being shared.
Then there's the aspect of determining whether a copyrighted work being downloaded is actually 'illegal'. If personal copies are allowed like here in the Netherlands, or some form of fair use exists and the person downloading Generic Movie #24 also has a matching copy of the DVD he or she legally bought but feels too lazy to make a rip off (or wants a rip of the Blu-Ray version... another huge grey legal patch). Look at for example the demands made by media companies at Youtube and similar sites to keep out copyrighted content. It should be clear that it isn't feasible for even a huge company like Google to keep people from uploading copyrighted material they supposedly don't have the rights to to YouTube. Automatic filters fail, reports aren't affective enough and employing people to sift through incoming videos is so ridiculous for being impractical that it's laughable.
In other words this is yet another wet dream of the companies behind such constructs as the RIAA/MPAA and their many cousins throughout the world, put into law thanks to bribes and clueless politicians and completely not feasible in the Real World (tm).
I'm not sure you get what the article means. If VP8 can't be used without paying royalties it's no better or worse than H.264. In fact it'll be the same and Mozilla will drop it like a rock. Things will be back at where they were before the VP8 open-sourcing and WebM announcement.
Also, ever wondered what happened to MP3 support in Firefox? JPEG2000 support? Just to name a few examples.
That's why I specifically mention on the site that this version of Firefox is not meant for anyone in a country which has such patents. No American, South-Korean or anyone from another country which has or will get such software patents can not, is not allowed to and shall never use Wild Fox. Period. Unless they cough up the licensing costs for using a h.264 decoder.
According to Akihito Nishikawa, senior manager, Memory Division, SSD Application Engineering Dept of Toshiba, "The memory cell is assured for about 3,000 rewrites. If the target SSD capacity is 128GB, then the total bit capacity is 128GB times 3,000 cycles divided by 1.5 (our figure for rewrite efficiency), or 256TB. Toshiba research indicates that actual PC users generally don't rewrite more than 20GB, max, per day. If these numbers are used to estimate the SSD service life, it works out to 256TB divided by 20GB divided by 365 days, or about 35 years.
So at roughly $4/GB that'd place us where, back at the late 90s? I'm not sure what part of 'catching up' people seem to think of when they're talking about SSDs replacing HDDs. Yes, they're faster in a number of applications, but HDDs are crazy cheap at $0.10/GB or better, fast enough for most purposes and have a longer life than Flash-based media. I guess I could pull out a stack of punch cards 1 km tall and claim it's got 1 TB storage capacity too, thus having 'caught up' with HDDs.
Considering Flash is reaching the point with its feature sizes (32 nm) where its data retention rate (1 year) and number of write cycles (8,000) is dropping rapidly (enterprise SSDs use 65+ nm SLC Flash instead), it's hard to see how Flash-based SSDs are winning, exactly.
What I'm more interested in than data density is what this new feature size is going to mean for data retention and write cycles. Right now 32 nm MLC Flash memory is at around 1 year data retention and ~1,000 write cycles (some at 300 cycles). Would 20 nm Flash have 2 months data retention and only a 100 write cycles? At which point will Flash memory simply not scale down any more?
I propose we link spam filters into some kind of device which shocks the user if a link is clicked or attachment opened in a spam message. Maybe it'll make them finally learn not to open those things, much like how one teaches stubborn dogs not to pee against the couch.
Basically that is true. If I were to pretend I were a transsexual as some hospitals and psychologists (looking at the VUMC hospital especially here) have attempted to brainwash me into, I could be made into a 'regular' woman and qualify for having my name & gender changed. Unfortunately I refuse to give up who and what I am. I'm intersexual and I won't ever deny that.
So far the number of embarrassing situations has been kept to a minimum. During HS I already slept in the same room as the other girls without any complaints during school trips. At the pool I wear a skirtini instead of a bikini as a preventive measure, and that's about it.
No, I haven't. So far I have limited my attempts to my own country (The Netherlands), Germany and Belgium. There seems to be a distinct lack of interest in my case, possibly because they don't believe me or something. Last Friday, however, I had a successful appointment at the UMCG hospital here in Groningen where they are now carrying out genetical tests and everything. Only took nearly 5 years to get this far.
I'm open to others bringing my case to the attention of other hospitals, though. A friend of mine (medical student) already tried it in Australia, but without luck.
Thank you:) Life most certainly isn't easy for me, but I hope that especially with the media (magazines, TV) getting more and more interested in my story that I may educate people on intersexuality and hopefully carve out some kind of place for people like me in society.
Right now a similar investigation is taking place in my case as well. I was born intersexual, have a female build, but male genitals, possibly female too (no two radiologists seem to agree on the MRI images). I really hope that the genetical testing will tell me once and for all why I ended up like this with a body that is clearly neither male nor female, even if anyone who meets me on the street, at the pool, or at the gym, will call me female, and my ID card keeps getting (nearly) refused all the time.
Worst is that the law here in the Netherlands doesn't allow me to have my official name and gender changed (I'm currently registered as male) due to the law only being focused on transsexuals (gender reassignment surgery requirement, which is impossible for intersexual people).
I'm willing to bet that it'll take less than a week before some enterprising geek manages to collect about a million of these batteries and makes a big battery pile out of them to create the most powerful printed battery. Why? Because it's possible:D
(and it'll be posted on this site and we'll all be gawking at it and making jokes about Beowulf clusters of batteries, ad infinitum, ad nauseam)
Technically speaking I do not have a blog on my personal site, as it's hosted on Blogger, yet it does direct to it, with the rest of the site being dedicated to an image gallery, my appearances on TV and some projects I'm involved in (including download links to novels I'm releasing a chapter at a time).
The site is also a showcase of my webdesign skills, as I'm a freelance webdesigner. Basically my site is all about me, more than just a basic profile:)
PhysX can run both on a CPU and a PPU/GPU. Or a Cell processor for that matter. Of course, the GPU & Cell options will be light years ahead compared to the CPU when it comes to performance, but it would run.
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Just registered and tried to transcribe some fragments, but either the interface is completely non-intuitive (and any help missing), or the app doesn't work in Firefox.
:(
Quite a shame, finally found a fragment I could transcribe too
Nearly two months ago I was subject to a similar abuse of power, by Dutch police: http://mayaposch.blogspot.com/2011/05/taking-nightmare-notch-further.html
Basically I had done nothing but suffer a dissociative episode at my family doctor's office, for which I had warned them, but which they had dutifully ignored. I knocked over some glass items, they called the cops, and despite not resisting I was forced against the ground, the cuffs forced on so tight that they had trouble removing them, and I will suffer from nerve damage in my wrists for a long time.
I was locked in a jail cell for nearly 24 hours, only allowed to leave it to visit the hospital for some glass cuts I had suffered. I was crying and screaming and basically breaking down the whole time while I was in the cell. The feeling of powerlessness was just beyond any words. I have been persecuted for my IS and denied medical help for years already, but at least then I still had the choice to walk away. When I begged some cops to let me out, they just laughed at me and threw me against the nearest wall.
Abuse of power is very real. And it's everywhere.
Even if it isn't entirely new, it's been used very effectively here, with the uncovering of so much archaeological material to study it'll keep archaeologists occupied for decades. And this was just the first run. I'm very excited about what else will be uncovered, now that someone finally bothered to use this methode, be it old or new.
Maybe QML really is easier... I have been doing some Android development lately, and defining the UI in a separate XML file definitely has its advantages.
:)
As pointed out and as I have discovered during my own research into QML its feature set in 4.7 is pretty aenemic. If they can make it a carbon copy of the feature set of the Qt widgets, then it might be worth looking into
I agree. I have looked at QML (I'm a part-time C++/Qt developer), and it looks to me like JS and CSS had a very unsightly baby. QML is also not nearly as efficient or compact as the C++-based widgets. The latter could use a bit of an overhaul to remove some redundancy, but that's another matter again.
:(
:D
Seems like Qt5 will be more buzzword-compliant, though
Anyone up for developing a Qt competitor?
It really differs among IS people. I am a hermaphrodite yet there is no way to tell this while I'm still wearing clothes. Everyone identifies me as being a regular female, even at the swimming pool. There are heaps of 'regular' women who would get IDed by this system as being men, making it inaccurate for regular men and women, and a huge mess for IS people. As for TS people, most MtF TSs I have seen would be identified as being male, and most FtM TSs as being female. As said, unless you are going to modify the skeletal structure of the face etc. taking hormones doesn't magically transform you into the other gender/sex.
That's not correct. The 6 and 8-pin PCIe connectors are identical. They have the same number of ground and 12V wires between the GPU and the PSU, the same wire gauge and can carry the same amount of power. The 8-pin connector exists because in the PCIe spec they had a sense wire for the 12V line specified on this connector, which would then allow the connector to carry more current as the PSU would be able to better regulate the voltage. In practice this is much more easily done at the PSU side, making the 8-pin connector useless and allows the 6-pin connector to carry the same 150 Watt as the 8-pin one.
Want to check this? Just use a 6-pin connector and short the remaining two pins on the GPU to ground to satisfy the GPU if it checks for a connection there and everything will work just peachy fine. If you check 8-pin PCIe connectors you'll see that this is all they do: short the two extra pins to ground.
Yes, because it threatens their business model of threatening to sue people even if they have no intention to ever do so. All the USCG wants is for the people it sends a threatening letter to pay up $2,500. Negotiating a settlement or heavens forbid an actual court case would drive up their lawyer costs and make their business model unprofitable. Hence them trying to take out this 'threat'. Of course, they're trying to take on a real attorney, not some Joe Shmuck without a clue about legal proceedings.
*settles back with some popcorn*
'Vibrant', yes, but they also mess with one's perception of contrast. Try editing a photograph on a glossy screen and then printing it. Even on glossy paper the colours will look dull and everything but vibrant. That's because the glossy screen is basically lying to your eyes.
Just to add to this, there's no way you will be able to find a professional LCD anywhere which even has a glossy option. This is because of the above reason. It would make any kind of accuracy in Photoshop, 3D modelling apps and anything else which requires colour accuracy impossible. I know this for a fact because it's what I do for a living.
The real reason why glossy screens are so popular is because most people are dim-witted sheep who go for that which is the most shiny. They also tolerate crappy TN LCDs, backlight leaking and heavens know what other defects and keep asking for more by buying the cheapest and shiniest junk they can find.
I blogged about something similar a while ago: 'What's yours probably isn't on the internet'. In my case it was about me losing the password to my Flickr account (or someone else 'reset' it for me), and me trying to convince the Yahoo helpdesk that it really was my Flickr account. In the end it failed because I couldn't remember the security answer, even though the emails from the account kept getting sent to my email account and I know every other piece of information associated with that account. What can I do about it? Absolutely nothing apparently.
Fortunately I don't need the Flickr account as I have my personal site with a gallery I control, but it's still annoying that there's a zombie account on Flickr which will keep sending email to me for now and probably eternity (or until Flickr gets shut down).
This whole thing stinks. Badly. Allow me to explain:
Here in the Netherlands we got a similar debate going on, with some groups demanding the downloading of copyrighted works to be made illegal (currently legal for movies and music). My housemate and good friend Pieter Hulshoff was present at a debate on this last Thursday together with a number of politicians, artists, lawyers and many other types of people (including the very embarrassing Dutch Pirate Party). As he pointed out during this debate, there is no conceivable way one could successfully implement a 'roadblock' against the downloading of copyrighted content. First of all, there's the technical limitation.
DPI, or Deep Packet Inspection, is a technique which can look into the packets sent through an ISP's network and which is suggested as a way to find those guilty of infringement. There is no way to figure out in even a fraction of all cases, even after assembling multiple packets, what format the packet's contents are in, what encoding was used, how to read it, let alone somehow figure out whether it is copyrighted information.
P2P, or basically anything involving Bittorrent, eDonkey and similar networks used for filesharing can easily be anonymized using encryption, private trackers, making it very hard to get into a cloud or similar, or figure out what is being shared.
Then there's the aspect of determining whether a copyrighted work being downloaded is actually 'illegal'. If personal copies are allowed like here in the Netherlands, or some form of fair use exists and the person downloading Generic Movie #24 also has a matching copy of the DVD he or she legally bought but feels too lazy to make a rip off (or wants a rip of the Blu-Ray version... another huge grey legal patch). Look at for example the demands made by media companies at Youtube and similar sites to keep out copyrighted content. It should be clear that it isn't feasible for even a huge company like Google to keep people from uploading copyrighted material they supposedly don't have the rights to to YouTube. Automatic filters fail, reports aren't affective enough and employing people to sift through incoming videos is so ridiculous for being impractical that it's laughable.
In other words this is yet another wet dream of the companies behind such constructs as the RIAA/MPAA and their many cousins throughout the world, put into law thanks to bribes and clueless politicians and completely not feasible in the Real World (tm).
I'm not sure you get what the article means. If VP8 can't be used without paying royalties it's no better or worse than H.264. In fact it'll be the same and Mozilla will drop it like a rock. Things will be back at where they were before the VP8 open-sourcing and WebM announcement.
Also, ever wondered what happened to MP3 support in Firefox? JPEG2000 support? Just to name a few examples.
That's why I specifically mention on the site that this version of Firefox is not meant for anyone in a country which has such patents. No American, South-Korean or anyone from another country which has or will get such software patents can not, is not allowed to and shall never use Wild Fox. Period. Unless they cough up the licensing costs for using a h.264 decoder.
Maya (Wild Fox maintainer)
Source: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20090528/170920/
So at roughly $4/GB that'd place us where, back at the late 90s? I'm not sure what part of 'catching up' people seem to think of when they're talking about SSDs replacing HDDs. Yes, they're faster in a number of applications, but HDDs are crazy cheap at $0.10/GB or better, fast enough for most purposes and have a longer life than Flash-based media. I guess I could pull out a stack of punch cards 1 km tall and claim it's got 1 TB storage capacity too, thus having 'caught up' with HDDs.
Considering Flash is reaching the point with its feature sizes (32 nm) where its data retention rate (1 year) and number of write cycles (8,000) is dropping rapidly (enterprise SSDs use 65+ nm SLC Flash instead), it's hard to see how Flash-based SSDs are winning, exactly.
What I'm more interested in than data density is what this new feature size is going to mean for data retention and write cycles. Right now 32 nm MLC Flash memory is at around 1 year data retention and ~1,000 write cycles (some at 300 cycles). Would 20 nm Flash have 2 months data retention and only a 100 write cycles? At which point will Flash memory simply not scale down any more?
I propose we link spam filters into some kind of device which shocks the user if a link is clicked or attachment opened in a spam message. Maybe it'll make them finally learn not to open those things, much like how one teaches stubborn dogs not to pee against the couch.
Basically that is true. If I were to pretend I were a transsexual as some hospitals and psychologists (looking at the VUMC hospital especially here) have attempted to brainwash me into, I could be made into a 'regular' woman and qualify for having my name & gender changed. Unfortunately I refuse to give up who and what I am. I'm intersexual and I won't ever deny that.
;)
So far the number of embarrassing situations has been kept to a minimum. During HS I already slept in the same room as the other girls without any complaints during school trips. At the pool I wear a skirtini instead of a bikini as a preventive measure, and that's about it.
As for your bright side, it's true in my case
No, I haven't. So far I have limited my attempts to my own country (The Netherlands), Germany and Belgium. There seems to be a distinct lack of interest in my case, possibly because they don't believe me or something. Last Friday, however, I had a successful appointment at the UMCG hospital here in Groningen where they are now carrying out genetical tests and everything. Only took nearly 5 years to get this far.
I'm open to others bringing my case to the attention of other hospitals, though. A friend of mine (medical student) already tried it in Australia, but without luck.
Thank you :) Life most certainly isn't easy for me, but I hope that especially with the media (magazines, TV) getting more and more interested in my story that I may educate people on intersexuality and hopefully carve out some kind of place for people like me in society.
Right now a similar investigation is taking place in my case as well. I was born intersexual, have a female build, but male genitals, possibly female too (no two radiologists seem to agree on the MRI images). I really hope that the genetical testing will tell me once and for all why I ended up like this with a body that is clearly neither male nor female, even if anyone who meets me on the street, at the pool, or at the gym, will call me female, and my ID card keeps getting (nearly) refused all the time.
Worst is that the law here in the Netherlands doesn't allow me to have my official name and gender changed (I'm currently registered as male) due to the law only being focused on transsexuals (gender reassignment surgery requirement, which is impossible for intersexual people).
You can find more info on my case at my site, www.mayaposch.com.
I'm willing to bet that it'll take less than a week before some enterprising geek manages to collect about a million of these batteries and makes a big battery pile out of them to create the most powerful printed battery. Why? Because it's possible :D
(and it'll be posted on this site and we'll all be gawking at it and making jokes about Beowulf clusters of batteries, ad infinitum, ad nauseam)
Technically speaking I do not have a blog on my personal site, as it's hosted on Blogger, yet it does direct to it, with the rest of the site being dedicated to an image gallery, my appearances on TV and some projects I'm involved in (including download links to novels I'm releasing a chapter at a time).
:)
The site is also a showcase of my webdesign skills, as I'm a freelance webdesigner. Basically my site is all about me, more than just a basic profile
Magic-1, a 16-bit TTL-based, wire-wrap PCB computer.
Slashdot posted an article on Magic-1 when it was completed years ago as well.
PhysX can run both on a CPU and a PPU/GPU. Or a Cell processor for that matter. Of course, the GPU & Cell options will be light years ahead compared to the CPU when it comes to performance, but it would run.