Color for the sake of color on such a small device seems pointless to me
The thing is about colour in a user interface; if you don't notice it, it's doing it's job. Colour cues should be unconscious and subtle, instructing your mind of the widgets function without you having to think of it.
Want to test this? Colour your "OK" option red and the cancel "green". See how many people it confuses.
So, I tried turning off Anti-Aliasing (this is one of the most demanding graphics features, as the GPU essentially has to treat each pixel as many pixels and work out the difference - it's to reduce the jagged, stepped appearance of diagonal lines). And d'you know what? I couldn't tell the difference at all. The frame rates went right up, but the appearance on screen was basically identical.
I concur. I also just got a 7600 GeForce Go and I've been playing Half Life 2 with all of the settings maxed out. When on a particularly complex scene involving water reflection, I noticed that looking at your hoverboat craft slowed the FPS right down. I turned down AA and got a huge performance increase with no noticable quality difference. I made a point of looking through chain-link fences and up at the trees. To be honest, I couldn't even notice any improvement with the AA maxed out. You still got the jaggies and moving the view point produced the usual "dot crawl" you get when looking at thin objects. I'm currently running at 2xAA IIRC which should be a decent tradeoff.
Nothing to say about the graph I supplied which shows a steady decline in the US's nuclear stockpile?
Nuclear disarmament is a joke. Both the USSR and the US only decommissioned their old, outdated weapons. Ones they would have had to get rid of anyway due to warhead and propelant shelf-life. Sure, we many have less by volume today, but the actual warhead power and modern "distribution" systems more than make up for the deficiency.
Yes, it utterly destroyed them. There's a reason that the footage from the aftermath was censored in the west. Everyone shown on the films was broken. The city was completely destroyed and there wasn't much hope for those who survived the blast. It was very similar to the Katrina footage, to put it in a modern context. All buildings were destroyed and the only thing hinting that it was once a city were the roads that had been bulldozed to open them up.
The footage was recently declassified. Well worth a look if you are wondering what the after-effects of a "relatively small" nuclear weapon are. You'll toast Stanislav Petrov's decission all the more when you see what he really prevented. And that was just a test prototype for the weapons we have today.
The US estimated that if we were to invade North Korea, there would be more than 50,000 casualties in the first three months of fighting.
I call BS on that being the real reason. The deaths in Iraq, which are way over 50,000, suggest that casualties are NEVER a consideration in war. The only consideration is how to sell this bad news to your population. A lot of work went into that, we've even come up with phrases such as "collaterol damage" to allow us to put it out of our minds.
You need to open them up to get to some hidden switches etc. I guess ATMs have a different design as they need to be physically tougher. Adding access doors is adding weakness.
It's also a sign that the oil is running out when the oil companies stop calling themselves oil companies, and start calling themselves energy companies.
Nah, that's just a sign that they have better PR agencies working for them now. Oil is such a dirty word, "energy" is heaped in synergy and convergence.
It's entire business model is based on making content they do not own available to entities not entitled to it.
So what? The recording industries model is based on owning content they do not make. They are surplus to requirements nowadays as the artists themselves (or their agents) can handle distribution just fine.
To release an incomplete game (no cars or courses as given in the example) and expect users to buy additional components to make the game playable is ridiculous.
There are however many meatspace games where that is the norm. This being slashdot, I'm sure many of you are familiar with them and some of you will have spent $1000+ on them.
Never trust Hollywood accounting. Films rarely make a profit. Remember how Stan Lee had issues getting paid? Spiderman didn't turn a profit. They simply need to mark a whole load of things as expenses and do a lot of shady inter-company purchases of footage/equiptment and the IRS doesn't see a dime of the profits.
Example: In the fightclub cave-dream, the fog from his breath is actually a digital effect originally used from Titanic. Some of the "profits" for Fight Club were funneled via the Titanic accounts in order to make them disappear.
It is kind of pointless and taking things to far. The idea of a smart holster (for this purpose) is completely unnecessary.
Many of the online data services for the various smartphones already implement lock-down systems. For example, Windows Mobile 5 will allow you to completely reset the device when you mark it as stolen. Provided you password-protect the device, your data is safe.
Given that services to remote-erase the device already exist, all this gizmo does is gives you an alert when it happens. You'd be as well just using a goth style key chain or a zipped pocket for similar effects.
Hell, the phone I have (which is almost two years old) has anti-theft built into the ROM image I flashed it. Should a non-approved sim card be inserted, I get txt'ed the sims phone number and current location. Even if I don't get the device back, I can piss-off whoever stole it indefinately.
Wouldn't it make no difference if light were reflected back from the ocean's surface as the same net energy from sunlight is still going to be trapped within our sphere?
No, much of the light goes back out into space. That is how you can see the ice caps from orbit!;-)
Even if the energy get absorbed in the atmosphere, it'll just be the air which doesn't heat up the water. It's the IR taken in by the water that causes it to heat up and melt more ice. It's a positive-feedback cycle; less ice == more heat.
It's amazing how much we see eye to eye, and I'm your foe why?
I honestly can't remember! I think it was yesterday I marked it, but looking at your posts from then I have no idea why. I must have clicked on the wrong person, sorry!
I'm aware of all of the above. However, given that the TSA won't allow water, hair gel, infant formula, breast milk, and other seemingly innocuous substances on board, I seriously doubt that they would allow gasoline, diesel, methanol, butane, or any other substance on board that could be deliberately set aflame while the plane was in flight.
Yes, but that's a recent change. Prior to that, no one has ever tried to use something like gasoline to down an airliner. The fact is that there are easier and better ways to do it. For one, gas doesn't hold as much energy by mass compared to many other potential terrorist weapons. It's also very identifable by most people by smell alone.
Prior to the US IRAQ invasion there were weekly stories focusing around how evil Iraq is... Iraq "might" be responsible for this, Iraq "might" have helped with that... The sort of "Iraq hurts kittens and little children for fun" but more subtle kind of stuff...
Now we have weekly Iran stories...
Yes, this has been ramping up for six months or so now. The Project For a New American Century has a vision for the middle east which they have been stating since around 1998. Check their official webpage under "publications". Look at the names on these publications, they are currently running the USA government. The first stage of this plan was the Iraqi regime change, to be followed by Iran.
We'll be in there under twelve months for sure. My money is on a terrorist attack in the US (or maybe the UK) with a "smoking gun" to Iran sometime around the midterm elections.
I'll leave you with a quote from the Nazi's, the masters of propaganda. Everytime a politician kisses a baby, they are literally implementing techniques pioneered by these guys.
Naturally, the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. - Hermann Goering, 1946
That whole scuffle was Israel versus Iran-By-Proxy.
No, it was the USA verses Iran by proxy. While Iran was helping Hezbolla, the USA was providing Israel with sat intel, communications intercepts and all the weapons they could handle.
It's a warmup for the real thing which is likely to start within the next 12 months. Just after the midterms I reckon.
That doesn't mean that Sony actually makes them. There is a more-than-likely chance that it's subcontracted out to another company that owns the manufacturing plants and pays the wages.
If you still feel you're faster in Eclipse, you could always stick with it.
If you are using Eclipse right, you should always be faster in it. An IDE can handle a lot of code/class generation for you. It's much like vi; unless you learn the not-so-obvious features, you'll never get the most out of it.
To start off, use type "whi" and hit control space. Try some of the while loop autogeneration templates and use the TAB key to jump through the fields. Another example, NEVER create a class. Just reference it in the code, select the "errored" reference and hit "ctrl-1". One of the options is "create class". "ctrl-1" on any error is useful. I use it to add any casts I need, along with "add field", "add variable" and "add parameter".
Learn all of these tricks and you outpace even the most hardended vi/emacs user.
but it seems to me that here in the USA and most other similar countries (e.g. UK), anything that's out in a public place (outdoor sculptures, buildings, etc.) can be photographed as much as you like.
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but this has definitely happened in Chicago
There are two solutions to the internet dilema for old media companies:
How do we stop/control it?
How do we make money of it?
Looks like Warner are the first one to pick the correct grail. Universal choose poorly and will melt in some cheesy 80's special effects. The video is on YouTube aparently...
I don't think anything that gives you an advantage is illegal. Of course, the house views any advantage as
"cheating" and ultimately they control who enters their place of business. But the police won't be bothering you.
While this cheat doesn't involve a bias, others do. There's a classic story of an engineer breaking the bank after observing the wheels. He found one with a notable bias and exploited it. He wasn't cheating in any way but did of course get banned.
I believe that nowadays the casinos monitor the wheels themselves for bias. Any that are discovered and pulled. But it they weren't on top of it you'd find that many wheels display a bias.
Whilst i'm not totally convinced on the secure attention sequence idea, lets hope that if Apple do implement it, they make sure it works.
Unlike Windows where its not secure as you can intercept it.
You can't intercept it without modifying the OS kernel. And if you've done that you already own the machine. ctrl-alt-delete is a very low level signal. This has been around since NT for login, it's nothing new. On linux you can customise what the combo does by modifying the inittab file.
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The thing is about colour in a user interface; if you don't notice it, it's doing it's job. Colour cues should be unconscious and subtle, instructing your mind of the widgets function without you having to think of it.
Want to test this? Colour your "OK" option red and the cancel "green". See how many people it confuses.
I concur. I also just got a 7600 GeForce Go and I've been playing Half Life 2 with all of the settings maxed out. When on a particularly complex scene involving water reflection, I noticed that looking at your hoverboat craft slowed the FPS right down. I turned down AA and got a huge performance increase with no noticable quality difference. I made a point of looking through chain-link fences and up at the trees. To be honest, I couldn't even notice any improvement with the AA maxed out. You still got the jaggies and moving the view point produced the usual "dot crawl" you get when looking at thin objects. I'm currently running at 2xAA IIRC which should be a decent tradeoff.
Nuclear disarmament is a joke. Both the USSR and the US only decommissioned their old, outdated weapons. Ones they would have had to get rid of anyway due to warhead and propelant shelf-life. Sure, we many have less by volume today, but the actual warhead power and modern "distribution" systems more than make up for the deficiency.
Yes, it utterly destroyed them. There's a reason that the footage from the aftermath was censored in the west. Everyone shown on the films was broken. The city was completely destroyed and there wasn't much hope for those who survived the blast. It was very similar to the Katrina footage, to put it in a modern context. All buildings were destroyed and the only thing hinting that it was once a city were the roads that had been bulldozed to open them up.
The footage was recently declassified. Well worth a look if you are wondering what the after-effects of a "relatively small" nuclear weapon are. You'll toast Stanislav Petrov's decission all the more when you see what he really prevented. And that was just a test prototype for the weapons we have today.
I call BS on that being the real reason. The deaths in Iraq, which are way over 50,000, suggest that casualties are NEVER a consideration in war. The only consideration is how to sell this bad news to your population. A lot of work went into that, we've even come up with phrases such as "collaterol damage" to allow us to put it out of our minds.
You need to open them up to get to some hidden switches etc. I guess ATMs have a different design as they need to be physically tougher. Adding access doors is adding weakness.
Nah, that's just a sign that they have better PR agencies working for them now. Oil is such a dirty word, "energy" is heaped in synergy and convergence.
So what? The recording industries model is based on owning content they do not make. They are surplus to requirements nowadays as the artists themselves (or their agents) can handle distribution just fine.
There are however many meatspace games where that is the norm. This being slashdot, I'm sure many of you are familiar with them and some of you will have spent $1000+ on them.
Yeah, in a format that only plays in their own flash video player, or as a low resolution mp4 file for mobiles. God bless Web 2.0.
Never trust Hollywood accounting. Films rarely make a profit. Remember how Stan Lee had issues getting paid? Spiderman didn't turn a profit. They simply need to mark a whole load of things as expenses and do a lot of shady inter-company purchases of footage/equiptment and the IRS doesn't see a dime of the profits.
Example: In the fightclub cave-dream, the fog from his breath is actually a digital effect originally used from Titanic. Some of the "profits" for Fight Club were funneled via the Titanic accounts in order to make them disappear.
It is kind of pointless and taking things to far. The idea of a smart holster (for this purpose) is completely unnecessary.
Many of the online data services for the various smartphones already implement lock-down systems. For example, Windows Mobile 5 will allow you to completely reset the device when you mark it as stolen. Provided you password-protect the device, your data is safe.
Given that services to remote-erase the device already exist, all this gizmo does is gives you an alert when it happens. You'd be as well just using a goth style key chain or a zipped pocket for similar effects.
Hell, the phone I have (which is almost two years old) has anti-theft built into the ROM image I flashed it. Should a non-approved sim card be inserted, I get txt'ed the sims phone number and current location. Even if I don't get the device back, I can piss-off whoever stole it indefinately.
No, much of the light goes back out into space. That is how you can see the ice caps from orbit! ;-)
Even if the energy get absorbed in the atmosphere, it'll just be the air which doesn't heat up the water. It's the IR taken in by the water that causes it to heat up and melt more ice. It's a positive-feedback cycle; less ice == more heat.
I honestly can't remember! I think it was yesterday I marked it, but looking at your posts from then I have no idea why. I must have clicked on the wrong person, sorry!
Yes, but that's a recent change. Prior to that, no one has ever tried to use something like gasoline to down an airliner. The fact is that there are easier and better ways to do it. For one, gas doesn't hold as much energy by mass compared to many other potential terrorist weapons. It's also very identifable by most people by smell alone.
Yes, this has been ramping up for six months or so now. The Project For a New American Century has a vision for the middle east which they have been stating since around 1998. Check their official webpage under "publications". Look at the names on these publications, they are currently running the USA government. The first stage of this plan was the Iraqi regime change, to be followed by Iran.
We'll be in there under twelve months for sure. My money is on a terrorist attack in the US (or maybe the UK) with a "smoking gun" to Iran sometime around the midterm elections.
I'll leave you with a quote from the Nazi's, the masters of propaganda. Everytime a politician kisses a baby, they are literally implementing techniques pioneered by these guys.
No, it was the USA verses Iran by proxy. While Iran was helping Hezbolla, the USA was providing Israel with sat intel, communications intercepts and all the weapons they could handle.
It's a warmup for the real thing which is likely to start within the next 12 months. Just after the midterms I reckon.
That doesn't mean that Sony actually makes them. There is a more-than-likely chance that it's subcontracted out to another company that owns the manufacturing plants and pays the wages.
If you are using Eclipse right, you should always be faster in it. An IDE can handle a lot of code/class generation for you. It's much like vi; unless you learn the not-so-obvious features, you'll never get the most out of it.
To start off, use type "whi" and hit control space. Try some of the while loop autogeneration templates and use the TAB key to jump through the fields. Another example, NEVER create a class. Just reference it in the code, select the "errored" reference and hit "ctrl-1". One of the options is "create class". "ctrl-1" on any error is useful. I use it to add any casts I need, along with "add field", "add variable" and "add parameter".
Learn all of these tricks and you outpace even the most hardended vi/emacs user.
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but this has definitely happened in Chicago
Looks like Warner are the first one to pick the correct grail. Universal choose poorly and will melt in some cheesy 80's special effects. The video is on YouTube aparently...
I don't think anything that gives you an advantage is illegal. Of course, the house views any advantage as "cheating" and ultimately they control who enters their place of business. But the police won't be bothering you.
While this cheat doesn't involve a bias, others do. There's a classic story of an engineer breaking the bank after observing the wheels. He found one with a notable bias and exploited it. He wasn't cheating in any way but did of course get banned.
I believe that nowadays the casinos monitor the wheels themselves for bias. Any that are discovered and pulled. But it they weren't on top of it you'd find that many wheels display a bias.
You can't intercept it without modifying the OS kernel. And if you've done that you already own the machine. ctrl-alt-delete is a very low level signal. This has been around since NT for login, it's nothing new. On linux you can customise what the combo does by modifying the inittab file.
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