I don't know if I would want an infrared seeing eye. The top layers of skin become almost transparent, so any veins near the skin become much more obvious, like in this picture of a model wearing a swimsuit. The vein along the side of her stomach and on her legs are very obvious.
On the plus side, some dyes are transparent in IR, along with some synthetic cloths, so what would normally be a dyed shirt looks transparent
(Maybe linking to a few pictures of girls in bikini's is karma-whoring, but they really do illustrate the point I am making. I modified that IR camera for taking pictures of burning stuff, not making models look like zombies.)
Hmm, that could be the best of both worlds: Have the normal e-paper display on top, and then behind it have a 1/3 resolution color OLED display. To get color set the e-paper to white (or transparent if that is an option) and have the OLED shine through. Then you could have a color, fast refresh display in addition to the e-paper display. Maybe you could have both at the same time, with text on the e-paper surrounding a video in the OLED display?
Readability has to be as good as, or almost as good as, printed text. Mono screens are clearer and work far better in bright light and use less power. Sure, you can get sunlight readable color screens but they chew power and are costly.
Apparently you missed the part where the Kindle uses an E-paper display, so it uses power only to change the display, doesn't have a backlight, and is sunlight readable. A color version would have 1/3 the resolution, if they were able to make red, green, and blue versions of the pixels in the current display.
In general, sunlight readable displays could chew much less power than normal displays if you can turn off the backlight, like in the OLPC XO-1.
Could you have a anti-racism law that doesn't undermine free speech? One of the basic premises of free speech is that offensive speech should be allowed.
A big part of anti-racism laws is to prevent offensive speech as it relates to race, right?
Re:WTF? If AMD64 can't do it with a full x86 core.
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The only reason x86 has a software advantage is that it runs Windows (and DOS). Linux and others have been made to run on anything from bicycle shoe strings to galactic overlords, but if you want to run (desktop) Windows, x86 is pretty much your only choice.
True, which is why, aside from a very small set of closed-source applications for Linux (Adobe Flash and EVE being the main ones that I use), the premise of the summary that Ubuntu being available for ARM is going to change anything on the desktop is quite silly.
Windows NT has had versions on "IA-32, AMD64, MIPS R4000, Alpha, PowerPC, and Itanium", but mostly the earlier versions, like 3.1 and 3.51, with XP on Itanium.
WTF? If AMD64 can't do it with a full x86 core...
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The announcement sets the stage for Intel to lose the traditional 'software advantage' that has enabled x86 to shrug off attacks from other architectures for the last 30 years.
I am reading this summary as a complete joke.
We are having problems moving to AMD64, and those processors include a full speed x86 compatibility mode. Until there is an ARM7 core that has a full x86 mode I don't think it is going to go anywhere on eliminating the "software advantage" of x86.
We can't even get such smallish things as flash to be offered in 64-bit mode, so what happens to larger Windows only stuff?
Plus Wine wouldn't work, since it isn't an emulator.
Just because you are using the median doesn't mean half of the people are going to be above the median and half below.
For example, if everyone is exactly the same in whatevery parameter, then everyone is going to be at the median, and nobody is above or below the median.
Or if the variable is a boolean, and at least one person is true and another is false, then if the majority is, say, true, the minority are going to be below the median and the rest are going to be equal to the median.
Yes, spend 200+ bucks in equipment so that you can save 20 bucks! That's the answer!
Hence my suggestion of the $25 Kill-A-Watt. It seems like he wants to monitor the whole house, make some change, see how that affects the power usage over a day, and repeat. That seems like a really annoying thing to do, so my idea was to measure everything with the Kill-A-Watt directly, and then he would know what all of the "little things" used each, how much they draw when in standby, etc. It doesn't help with big things like a furnace or whole house air conditioner, but that isn't going to be easy to fix unless he can tolerate a colder or warmer house, anyways.
A Kill-A-Watt might be a better choice for "power trimming", since you can get an instant reading of the power used by anything that plugs in.
On my website I have a couple of webcams that I grab the image from at a specific interval and store the result. Basically, if you get a Trendnet TV-IP201 and a Pentax 10mm f/1.2 lens with a C-mount to CS-mount adapter, you can just wget the image however often you want. Image processing is another issue, but I don't know anything about that.
Throw that in with the fact that roughly half of the programmers reading that are going to be below average
Um for anything that is approximately normally distributed,... half of the X are going to be below average. (Especially if it is a continuous variable and you use the median)
It depends on the state, but in Colorado, an employee can detain someone if the theft detection alarm goes off. From the Colorado Revised Statutes, 18-4-407.
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Too bad for you that Tang predates NASA, much less being a spin-off.
I don't know if I would want an infrared seeing eye. The top layers of skin become almost transparent, so any veins near the skin become much more obvious, like in this picture of a model wearing a swimsuit. The vein along the side of her stomach and on her legs are very obvious.
On the plus side, some dyes are transparent in IR, along with some synthetic cloths, so what would normally be a dyed shirt looks transparent
(Maybe linking to a few pictures of girls in bikini's is karma-whoring, but they really do illustrate the point I am making. I modified that IR camera for taking pictures of burning stuff, not making models look like zombies.)
Hmm, that could be the best of both worlds:
Have the normal e-paper display on top, and then behind it have a 1/3 resolution color OLED display. To get color set the e-paper to white (or transparent if that is an option) and have the OLED shine through.
Then you could have a color, fast refresh display in addition to the e-paper display. Maybe you could have both at the same time, with text on the e-paper surrounding a video in the OLED display?
Um, are there any displays that use CMYK?
I have a laser printer that has 4 toner carts, but I don't have any displays that are CMYK. Even the OLPC XO-1 screen is RGB in color mode.
Agreed that color gives a large resolution penalty, and is more difficult.
Apparently you missed the part where the Kindle uses an E-paper display, so it uses power only to change the display, doesn't have a backlight, and is sunlight readable.
A color version would have 1/3 the resolution, if they were able to make red, green, and blue versions of the pixels in the current display.
In general, sunlight readable displays could chew much less power than normal displays if you can turn off the backlight, like in the OLPC XO-1.
Could you have a anti-racism law that doesn't undermine free speech?
One of the basic premises of free speech is that offensive speech should be allowed.
A big part of anti-racism laws is to prevent offensive speech as it relates to race, right?
True, which is why, aside from a very small set of closed-source applications for Linux (Adobe Flash and EVE being the main ones that I use), the premise of the summary that Ubuntu being available for ARM is going to change anything on the desktop is quite silly.
Windows NT has had versions on "IA-32, AMD64, MIPS R4000, Alpha, PowerPC, and Itanium", but mostly the earlier versions, like 3.1 and 3.51, with XP on Itanium.
I am reading this summary as a complete joke.
We are having problems moving to AMD64, and those processors include a full speed x86 compatibility mode. Until there is an ARM7 core that has a full x86 mode I don't think it is going to go anywhere on eliminating the "software advantage" of x86.
We can't even get such smallish things as flash to be offered in 64-bit mode, so what happens to larger Windows only stuff?
Plus Wine wouldn't work, since it isn't an emulator.
Just because you are using the median doesn't mean half of the people are going to be above the median and half below.
For example, if everyone is exactly the same in whatevery parameter, then everyone is going to be at the median, and nobody is above or below the median.
Or if the variable is a boolean, and at least one person is true and another is false, then if the majority is, say, true, the minority are going to be below the median and the rest are going to be equal to the median.
I did, "(Especially if it is a continuous variable and you use the median)"
Hence my suggestion of the $25 Kill-A-Watt.
It seems like he wants to monitor the whole house, make some change, see how that affects the power usage over a day, and repeat. That seems like a really annoying thing to do, so my idea was to measure everything with the Kill-A-Watt directly, and then he would know what all of the "little things" used each, how much they draw when in standby, etc. It doesn't help with big things like a furnace or whole house air conditioner, but that isn't going to be easy to fix unless he can tolerate a colder or warmer house, anyways.
A Kill-A-Watt might be a better choice for "power trimming", since you can get an instant reading of the power used by anything that plugs in.
On my website I have a couple of webcams that I grab the image from at a specific interval and store the result. Basically, if you get a Trendnet TV-IP201 and a Pentax 10mm f/1.2 lens with a C-mount to CS-mount adapter, you can just wget the image however often you want. Image processing is another issue, but I don't know anything about that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMBRelay
SMB is used by Windows for file/printer sharing.
Um for anything that is approximately normally distributed,... half of the X are going to be below average. (Especially if it is a continuous variable and you use the median)
The article says that the websites are getting hit with a sql injection attack, so ads shouldn't be the problem, unless the ad server is vulnerable.
This probably has nothing to do with ads and more to do with failing to validate user input. (Obligatory xkcd reference)
Yeah, build something with a 555.
I always get a sense of global irony when I run the command:
(I almost always edit small files like that in vi, when I am making small changes)
Because then things get complicated, and you have to actually compare things.
I do really hate how people keep talking about stuff as a binary thing, when there are a variety of options.
Dude, that is awesome. Considering how often I use localhost, I can't believe I haven't noticed that until you mentioned it.
IANAL either, but I would think that the theft detection thing going off would be the probable cause.
Although, I think actually putting someone in a back room just for setting off the theft detector probably wouldn't be "reasonable".
It depends on the state, but in Colorado, an employee can detain someone if the theft detection alarm goes off.
From the Colorado Revised Statutes, 18-4-407.
Except OpenDNS does the exact same thing, to their own "whoops" page.
Wow, not only did you skip reading the summary, you didn't even bother to read the whole TITLE? /. is getting lazy...