PS2s are cheap now, and I know they've had linux running on them for some time. Has anyone managed to get something like ClusterKnoppix running on PS2 hardware? A renderfarm of slim PS2s sitting on a bookshelf would be kind of neat looking.
That's a good point. If even half of the people here on Slashdot that were eligible to volunteer would do so, the Slashdot community could have a very powerful impact on the US government's broadband policy.
It's a result of E3 being scheduled two months later in the year- mid July is too late to debut a preview command for a holiday release, so there's no point in waiting for E3 to announce your product anymore. Announcements trickled out on their own in the months prior to E3 instead.
So it is E3's fault for having their conference in July this year.
How were those fair use? It's not as if he was making copies of his own CDs to listen to in his car, he was using copyrighted recordings for commercial puroposes.
As much as I can't stand the new theme music, I do respect him for using original content instead of recycling someone else's work.
Reznor's combined his clout and this business model in a way similar to what you've described once already; He produced Saul Williams's Niggy Tardust and it's available as a lossless download for cheap.
The Arduino is a wonderful piece of technology. I use it for my own projects, and I wholehartedly recommend it for anyone with a good or even basic understanding of electronics and programming. I wish I could recommend it as an entry-level educational tool, but right now the underpowered and proprietary Basic STAMP has the edge in documentation and ease of use.
As much as I love the open source Arduino board for my own personal use, and even though the basic STAMP is raher expensive (even with the education discount), Parallax has an extremely thourough set of documentation that is perfect for an educational environment. They have a fee book available for download called "What is a Microcontroller" that should fit all your needs. It contains a series of predesigned lessons that assume no technical experience for your students. All your lesson plans are done for you.
The problem with the above plan is that you're limited to clear materials when you're building the wall. The translucent wall tech described in the article could be applied to a wall of any thickness and made of any material- even a load-bearing brick or concrete wall.
Of course, you caould always just use Tansparent concrete, but that's still a ways off.
true, but don't forget the increased density of the medium.
GBA carts are small, but there's a reason you don't see any of the GBA RPGs with voice acting.
"The DMC championships make for some cool viewing if you can get a hold of the videos.
You just can't do that electronically yet. Final Scratch and any other similar device will never give the instant audible feedback that a needle on a record can give. "
Go ask DJ Craze how he feels about Final Scratch's utility in turntablism and get back to me.
Assuming three consecutive DMC championships is enough to qualify him as a "performance DJ", that is.
whether naotubes would be strong enough or not, that's a structural matter. Superconducting materials, OTOH, would (I imangine) be useful as a mechanism for moving cargo up the elevator.
Rule #0, while *essential*. is impossible to implement. Even try talking to two people on the street about that is "harmful to humanity" and you'll get totally disparate answers
Which is why Daneel eventually pushed for Galaxia. Once humanity was a single massmind organism, the Zeroth law could be effeectively implemented.
The human eye is bottlenecked at 72 hz (incidentally that's why monitor refresh rates of 72 hz or above are recommended to reduce eystrain).
If you wanted a "motion blur" effect, you would need a steady franerate in excess of that (144 hz would be ideal) so that the brain would be forced to process two crisp images per frame, creating a brute-force motion blur.
Of course, none of this matters unless the monitor is refreshing at that rate as well. so until monitors improve significantly, we'll most likely be seeing hardware motion blur that renders multiple frames and combines them in the raster (I think that's right- it's been a while) to create a motion-blurred image. Think of it as supersampling for temporal aliasing.
That's a good point, but don't overlook the fact that real-wold economies also have flaws that can and will be exploited. Anyone that has made use of a tax loophole or laundered money is filling the role of the "cheaters" in your example.
Taking your example further, you could say that our "developers" (economists and policymakers) are making changes to the system as well as "booting" the most flagrant cheaters- that's what prison sentences are for.
RGB can be approximated to CMYK, but certain RGB values can't be reproduced in CMYK.
Photoshp's CMYK support keeps you from having to deal with getting prints back that don't look like the image on your monitor.
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....or a one term House representative like Lincoln.
So is Chrome Google's current attempt to finally cut Java out of their web application strategy?
PS2s are cheap now, and I know they've had linux running on them for some time. Has anyone managed to get something like ClusterKnoppix running on PS2 hardware? A renderfarm of slim PS2s sitting on a bookshelf would be kind of neat looking.
That's a good point. If even half of the people here on Slashdot that were eligible to volunteer would do so, the Slashdot community could have a very powerful impact on the US government's broadband policy.
It's a result of E3 being scheduled two months later in the year- mid July is too late to debut a preview command for a holiday release, so there's no point in waiting for E3 to announce your product anymore. Announcements trickled out on their own in the months prior to E3 instead.
So it is E3's fault for having their conference in July this year.
How were those fair use? It's not as if he was making copies of his own CDs to listen to in his car, he was using copyrighted recordings for commercial puroposes.
As much as I can't stand the new theme music, I do respect him for using original content instead of recycling someone else's work.
Reznor's combined his clout and this business model in a way similar to what you've described once already; He produced Saul Williams's Niggy Tardust and it's available as a lossless download for cheap.
The Arduino is a wonderful piece of technology. I use it for my own projects, and I wholehartedly recommend it for anyone with a good or even basic understanding of electronics and programming. I wish I could recommend it as an entry-level educational tool, but right now the underpowered and proprietary Basic STAMP has the edge in documentation and ease of use.
As much as I love the open source Arduino board for my own personal use, and even though the basic STAMP is raher expensive (even with the education discount), Parallax has an extremely thourough set of documentation that is perfect for an educational environment. They have a fee book available for download called "What is a Microcontroller" that should fit all your needs. It contains a series of predesigned lessons that assume no technical experience for your students. All your lesson plans are done for you.
And with a billion dollar budget, this $200 million dollar request is very feasable.
This CRT will do 1080p with plenty of room left over.
Just because there aren't any consumer CRT televisions available at 1080p doesn't mean that the technology isn't capable of the same.
I'd be more excited to see Kaneda's bike (which is actually plausible, come to think of it).
Now I'm curious: does that 40hz base frequency have anything at all to do with how fast we're capable of forming thoughts?
One neat thing about being a Jedi you seem to be forgetting: Why use a lightsaber to block bullets when you can just use The Force?
The problem with the above plan is that you're limited to clear materials when you're building the wall. The translucent wall tech described in the article could be applied to a wall of any thickness and made of any material- even a load-bearing brick or concrete wall.
Of course, you caould always just use Tansparent concrete, but that's still a ways off.
No, it doesn't. Read it again.
true, but don't forget the increased density of the medium. GBA carts are small, but there's a reason you don't see any of the GBA RPGs with voice acting.
"The DMC championships make for some cool viewing if you can get a hold of the videos.
You just can't do that electronically yet. Final Scratch and any other similar device will never give the instant audible feedback that a needle on a record can give. "
Go ask DJ Craze how he feels about Final Scratch's utility in turntablism and get back to me.
Assuming three consecutive DMC championships is enough to qualify him as a "performance DJ", that is.
whether naotubes would be strong enough or not, that's a structural matter. Superconducting materials, OTOH, would (I imangine) be useful as a mechanism for moving cargo up the elevator.
Ahh- I see you never tried using the 2.x control styles available in Goldeneye: 2 controllers per player = 2 analog sticks for control.
Which is why Daneel eventually pushed for Galaxia. Once humanity was a single massmind organism, the Zeroth law could be effeectively implemented.
cf. Foundation and Earth, ch 101
If you wanted a "motion blur" effect, you would need a steady franerate in excess of that (144 hz would be ideal) so that the brain would be forced to process two crisp images per frame, creating a brute-force motion blur.
Of course, none of this matters unless the monitor is refreshing at that rate as well. so until monitors improve significantly, we'll most likely be seeing hardware motion blur that renders multiple frames and combines them in the raster (I think that's right- it's been a while) to create a motion-blurred image. Think of it as supersampling for temporal aliasing.
Taking your example further, you could say that our "developers" (economists and policymakers) are making changes to the system as well as "booting" the most flagrant cheaters- that's what prison sentences are for.
RGB can be approximated to CMYK, but certain RGB values can't be reproduced in CMYK. Photoshp's CMYK support keeps you from having to deal with getting prints back that don't look like the image on your monitor.