...to prove how insanely great the print quality is on this thing, the author of said article provides a very lossy jpeg scan as evidence. Having said that, if they can get 600x600 at > 100 PPM, I'm all in.
University of Houston Downtown? Have I been living under a rock, that I fail to instantly parse UHD? It might as well be the zcjisnx captcha below, that I may or may not get right on the first try.
...but I can think of a lot more important things to do with 4 8x PCIe lanes than dual-SLI. Like pumping several dual-input monitors, or perhaps up to 8 single-input displays.
Holy crap! That's amazing. Now, is this "fully open" a la' "Shared Source" or "fully open" as in "you have the same docs we do?" And what's with the comment about hardware discounts?
And how is your comment any different than me making an offensive joke about the homosexual lifestyle using stereotypes such as a lisp or a limp wrist? This is exactly the kind of thing that Microsoft says they're NOT going to tolerate.
I continue to wonder about the Open Hardware projects but call me skeptical- people contribute to Open Source because it typically costs little more than time.
People also contribute to FOSS out of a sense of duty, or of pride, or because of the perception of a superior product, or because all the cool kids are doing it, or to pad their resume, or to save money in the long run, or out of sheer necessity, or to scratch an itch, or because they are bored... et cetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
I seem to recall reading a very similar story in the sciFi channel archives (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html).
The story was actually about "organ drafting" wherein the older politicians legislated themselves new organs as necessary from prime young candidates. A neat crossover between cloning, the draft, and Social Security.
-theGreater.
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Poor Garrick:
From the Fine Article:
Garrick, insert this table and the next exactly where indicated. They do not have titles, and the last line of each table should span both columns.
You seem to be confusing religion and superstition. You are certainly entitled to that belief, but one is a fear-based avoidance of certain unreasonable things, the other is typically a system of maxims for living one's life; they are not mutually exclusive.
Also, you may have noticed that many of the great philosophers spend a lot of time ruminating about god, existence, and other domains of religion. Why shouldn't religion be allowed to return the favor?
I certainly do wish everything was as clear cut as you would suggest, however. Then we could just all discount the value of all religions (this is VERY popular on/.) and get on with our lives.
I've seen this statement made several times in many forms: "If you're not US, you're THEM and our ENEMY."
In religion it takes the form of "Follow these teachings or you're not 'saved'." In FOSS it takes the form of "Use this license or you're not 'free'.".
And, of course, as in all other worlds, you have two endpoints for people to lie between.
Did anyone here actually listen to or personally hear that speech or some of the followup interviews? The president of Harvard said something to the effect of, "There's different numbers of men and women in the sciences, and research should be done to see why: is it nature or nurture?"
Now, I don't know about you, but that sounds like a relatively innocent thing to say to me. I could see where you could misinterpret it... but it has sunk into the world's consciousness as a proven fact that the president of Harvard is a bigoted sexist jerk. This one incident simply doesn't seem to support that fact.
No really, think about it. You have a core set of guys who are -really- in touch with the new movement (RMS and ESR come to mind), but who tend to upset a lot of "normal" people. Following in their footsteps, you have a slightly larger, more polished set of people; religions call these "disciples" but we tend to call them "maintainers." They decide where the needs of the real world intersect with the tenets of the ideology.
Then there's you and me. Honestly, most of us have no idea about the gory details of the whole thing. We gladly use free and libre and EULA'd software to get along in our daily lives. Some of us are more dedicated than others, and we only run Debian. Or Catholix. Or whatever. No matter which one we choose, it's "The Best One" and all others are inferior in some way.
LUG's as churches, LiveCD's as evangelism... the list goes on and on and on of why Libre and Open Source software are more like a social / religious organization, and less like a goods and services production group.
I have no idea what IGP is, and I consider myself to be fairly well-informed as far as parts and new technologies go (que up all the elitist and fanboi jokes).
Honestly, I DID do a search on IGP: you can find it here: http://www.google.com/search?&q=define%3Aigp. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say, "Please stop assuming everyone in the world knows what the latest acronym du'jour stands for!"
-theGreater.
PS: After doing some addtional subtractive googles, it means "Integrated Graphics ()Processor(?)"
I find find it hard to imagine you have ever personally worked in the fast food industry.
I did. When I turned 14 I got a job at the local McD's. Later I added Burger King during lunch rush (I'd skip out of class early, run to BK, work, scarf, get to class a tad late).
Believe me when I say this is the most stressful job I've ever had. Your manager may or may not speak the same language as you. Your customers ditto. When the store owner comes in to bust someone's butt, it ALWAYS rolls downhill.
Slick greasy floors (no matter how many times you mop them). A constant barrage of noise. Loading and unloading crate after crate of frozen material in the walk-in. 400F grease splattering nearby.
Your manager knows you're replacable. The customers don't have time to look you in the eye. You'll get yelled at by every 10 year old who forgot to tell you not to put mayo on your burger. YOU know you're in one of the absolute worst dead-end jobs that exist, and you only take it because it's the only one available.
Try it sometime (for 2 years or so) and then come talk to me about how easy we pimple-faced teens could kick back and enjoy our idyllic lifestyle.
So, you have all the hardware you already need? What's wrong with the following?
Find a volunteer location that is near the network center of the three locations. Do the webcast from here, which simply includes your host's webcam image overlayed with the text questions as s/he speaks. This is to avoid any one pub having an unfair advantage.
Assuming quality webcams, at each pub you should display on the overhead a split-screen -- maybe the announcer on the top 1/2 and each of the other pubs left-to-right below that? For simplicity's sake you should probably have one real workhorse that combines the feeds at location 4 (non-pub) and makes that stream available in psuedo-realtime.
The most important aspect, though, would be (a) spotter(s) at each location: The best idea I can come up with is two spotters with one scorekeeper. The spotters simply point to whichever contestant "rings in" first, and if they disagree the scorekeeper breaks the tie. S/he also keeps score, nitwit.
Perhaps, for the sake of more helpful suggestions, you could describe the format of this quiz show? In my head I pictured a "1 point per pub" series of elimination rounds followed by a "pub off", but maybe that's not what you had in mind...
Yeah, what the title said. ml.h4xx.com will screw your browser, and who the heck mods these things UP? Incidentally, the guy over at haxx.com, where I mistakenly started my WHOIS, seems a decent chap.
>>-theGreater Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
>You really sure you want to use that sig? Some people just might take offense.
Yes, I'm sure. I was being a grammar and/or spelling Nazi, then being elitist and condescending about it. It was an intentional calculation on my part, and likely funny only to myself.
Do you mean to imply that she got better, then had a faith healing?
Perhaps you meant it was better back when faith healing was the only option?
Oh, NOW I get it. You meant better THAN faith healing.
-theGreater Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
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Sadly, as you can see here, many of their products are now copy Cat (har har) Yellow. Of course, it beats those abominable blue ford tractors.
-theGreater.
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...to prove how insanely great the print quality is on this thing, the author of said article provides a very lossy jpeg scan as evidence. Having said that, if they can get 600x600 at > 100 PPM, I'm all in.
-theGreater.And how, pray tell, does one go about decreasing pressure with a centrifuge?
-theGreater.Or you could just go grab the juicebox source from emsoft and save yourself some time.
-theGreater.University of Houston Downtown? Have I been living under a rock, that I fail to instantly parse UHD? It might as well be the zcjisnx captcha below, that I may or may not get right on the first try.
-theGreater.
...but I can think of a lot more important things to do with 4 8x PCIe lanes than dual-SLI. Like pumping several dual-input monitors, or perhaps up to 8 single-input displays.
-theGreater.Holy crap! That's amazing. Now, is this "fully open" a la' "Shared Source" or "fully open" as in "you have the same docs we do?" And what's with the comment about hardware discounts?
-theGreater.And how is your comment any different than me making an offensive joke about the homosexual lifestyle using stereotypes such as a lisp or a limp wrist? This is exactly the kind of thing that Microsoft says they're NOT going to tolerate.
-theGreater.People also contribute to FOSS out of a sense of duty, or of pride, or because of the perception of a superior product, or because all the cool kids are doing it, or to pad their resume, or to save money in the long run, or out of sheer necessity, or to scratch an itch, or because they are bored... et cetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
-theGreater Counterexample.Shouldn't that be, "Public revises book with Lawrence Lessig" or better yet, "Lawrence Lessig Invites Public to Edit Book."
:D
The way they write headlines around here, you'd think Public is some fancy new ncurses based word processor
-theGreater Downmodded.
You mean dmoz? Or deli.cio.us? Or any other distributed referral system?
-theGreater.
I seem to recall reading a very similar story in the sciFi channel archives (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html).
The story was actually about "organ drafting" wherein the older politicians legislated themselves new organs as necessary from prime young candidates. A neat crossover between cloning, the draft, and Social Security.
-theGreater.
From the Fine Article:
-theGreater.
You seem to be confusing religion and superstition. You are certainly entitled to that belief, but one is a fear-based avoidance of certain unreasonable things, the other is typically a system of maxims for living one's life; they are not mutually exclusive.
/.) and get on with our lives.
Also, you may have noticed that many of the great philosophers spend a lot of time ruminating about god, existence, and other domains of religion. Why shouldn't religion be allowed to return the favor?
I certainly do wish everything was as clear cut as you would suggest, however. Then we could just all discount the value of all religions (this is VERY popular on
-theGreater.
I've seen this statement made several times in many forms: "If you're not US, you're THEM and our ENEMY."
In religion it takes the form of "Follow these teachings or you're not 'saved'." In FOSS it takes the form of "Use this license or you're not 'free'.".
And, of course, as in all other worlds, you have two endpoints for people to lie between.
-theGreater.
Did anyone here actually listen to or personally hear that speech or some of the followup interviews? The president of Harvard said something to the effect of, "There's different numbers of men and women in the sciences, and research should be done to see why: is it nature or nurture?"
Now, I don't know about you, but that sounds like a relatively innocent thing to say to me. I could see where you could misinterpret it... but it has sunk into the world's consciousness as a proven fact that the president of Harvard is a bigoted sexist jerk. This one incident simply doesn't seem to support that fact.
-theGreater Anti-PC.
Yale Daily News
No really, think about it. You have a core set of guys who are -really- in touch with the new movement (RMS and ESR come to mind), but who tend to upset a lot of "normal" people. Following in their footsteps, you have a slightly larger, more polished set of people; religions call these "disciples" but we tend to call them "maintainers." They decide where the needs of the real world intersect with the tenets of the ideology.
Then there's you and me. Honestly, most of us have no idea about the gory details of the whole thing. We gladly use free and libre and EULA'd software to get along in our daily lives. Some of us are more dedicated than others, and we only run Debian. Or Catholix. Or whatever. No matter which one we choose, it's "The Best One" and all others are inferior in some way.
LUG's as churches, LiveCD's as evangelism... the list goes on and on and on of why Libre and Open Source software are more like a social / religious organization, and less like a goods and services production group.
-theGreater Zealot.
I have no idea what IGP is, and I consider myself to be fairly well-informed as far as parts and new technologies go (que up all the elitist and fanboi jokes).
Honestly, I DID do a search on IGP: you can find it here: http://www.google.com/search?&q=define%3Aigp. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say, "Please stop assuming everyone in the world knows what the latest acronym du'jour stands for!"
-theGreater.
PS: After doing some addtional subtractive googles, it means "Integrated Graphics ()Processor(?)"
Google Cache works just fine.
: xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html+xuDation. html&hl=en
For those afraid to click: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:GAPPZoUBZYgJ
-theGreater.
I find find it hard to imagine you have ever personally worked in the fast food industry.
I did. When I turned 14 I got a job at the local McD's. Later I added Burger King during lunch rush (I'd skip out of class early, run to BK, work, scarf, get to class a tad late).
Believe me when I say this is the most stressful job I've ever had. Your manager may or may not speak the same language as you. Your customers ditto. When the store owner comes in to bust someone's butt, it ALWAYS rolls downhill.
Slick greasy floors (no matter how many times you mop them). A constant barrage of noise. Loading and unloading crate after crate of frozen material in the walk-in. 400F grease splattering nearby.
Your manager knows you're replacable. The customers don't have time to look you in the eye. You'll get yelled at by every 10 year old who forgot to tell you not to put mayo on your burger. YOU know you're in one of the absolute worst dead-end jobs that exist, and you only take it because it's the only one available.
Try it sometime (for 2 years or so) and then come talk to me about how easy we pimple-faced teens could kick back and enjoy our idyllic lifestyle.
-theGreater Ranter.
So, you have all the hardware you already need? What's wrong with the following?
Find a volunteer location that is near the network center of the three locations. Do the webcast from here, which simply includes your host's webcam image overlayed with the text questions as s/he speaks. This is to avoid any one pub having an unfair advantage.
Assuming quality webcams, at each pub you should display on the overhead a split-screen -- maybe the announcer on the top 1/2 and each of the other pubs left-to-right below that? For simplicity's sake you should probably have one real workhorse that combines the feeds at location 4 (non-pub) and makes that stream available in psuedo-realtime.
The most important aspect, though, would be (a) spotter(s) at each location: The best idea I can come up with is two spotters with one scorekeeper. The spotters simply point to whichever contestant "rings in" first, and if they disagree the scorekeeper breaks the tie. S/he also keeps score, nitwit.
Perhaps, for the sake of more helpful suggestions, you could describe the format of this quiz show? In my head I pictured a "1 point per pub" series of elimination rounds followed by a "pub off", but maybe that's not what you had in mind...
-theGreater Riddler.
Yeah, what the title said. ml.h4xx.com will screw your browser, and who the heck mods these things UP? Incidentally, the guy over at haxx.com, where I mistakenly started my WHOIS, seems a decent chap.
-theGreater Helper.
>>-theGreater Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
>You really sure you want to use that sig? Some people just might take offense.
Yes, I'm sure. I was being a grammar and/or spelling Nazi, then being elitist and condescending about it. It was an intentional calculation on my part, and likely funny only to myself.
-theGreater PUNdit.
Oh MAN do I look silly now that they corrected it.
-theGreater Sheepish One.
PS: It used to say from the "better-then-faith-healing" dept.
Do you mean to imply that she got better, then had a faith healing?
Perhaps you meant it was better back when faith healing was the only option?
Oh, NOW I get it. You meant better THAN faith healing.
-theGreater Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
Sadly, as you can see here, many of their products are now copy Cat (har har) Yellow. Of course, it beats those abominable blue ford tractors. -theGreater.