Not to sound offish (I'm an Amiga man), but plenty of people run their webservers from old home machines, 486s and low spec pentiums are very common. Its only big business that pays for new servers.
They perform really well, and most can even survive a slashdotting (usually more because bandwidth tops out before the cpu). Don't knock the dark net.
MS has OEM partners to release its software to and can therefore push what the consumer sees in the big stores. You have to look further or head online to see none MS software. Joe public sees microsoft in the same way as Sony or even Heinz, something to look out for.
Also the google cache, how come we can have a cached version of this article, and yet when its NYT we have to do the signin thing, even though a no signin google entry point is almost always available?
I don't think so. The more I look at this, the more I think they are making life difficult for themselves, and the resultant image quality shows.
Since making my first postings on this discussion, I decided to have a look around at how the professionals handle high speed photography and came up with some nice results.
Theres a company called Photron that have a range of single digital cameras capable of megapixel images at 2000fps.
In their gallery, they even have an example of a water filled baloon popping, and tbh it looks a lot better than this multi camera version.
Agreed, this is a way to do it on the cheap, but because of the spatial issues and timing complexities, it may be more trouble than its worth, and may well be wise to buy a camera from the professionals.
To be honest, for the examples given, the image quality is somewhat lacking. I can imagine this working REALLY well for crash simulation studies where the subject is a greater distance from the camera array.
The baloon popping movie needs quite severe modification to the captured images, and doesn't do much justice. The effect has already been used in bullet time type fx effects anyway, they used an array of cameras firing in a sequence whilst laid around a subject.
The effect with bullet time is a lot cleaner because the captured images are not expected to be spatially aligned, and instead are made to give the effect of moving the camera around a subject.
Yours is the most enlightening - novel - suggestion I have seen on this page so far.
If I was google, I would hire you.
I realise 100% you were talking in jest, but you were thinking outside the box, most of the other suggestions have been seen in one form or another before.
Hang on, he got the bloody thing working in Linux. The company don't market this towards Linux, they don't supply drivers, he now has information available for other Linux users who want to use this. This is true linux spirit and not selling out at all.
From the looks of the review, he wasn't sent this item by the company, he went out and got something which looks cool. I've seen them myself, and the only thing preventing me from getting one was cost.
tbh as well, I don't mind if people "sellout", we are all trying to make ourselves and our families lives better, and money does that job a lot easier. Get what you can when you can, cos you don't know what tomorrow will bring.
I have a wireless mouse that communicates with its own geostationary satellite. I can use it anywhere from within the UK, and surrounding parts of Europe. It works a treat, and allows me to mouse from anywhere. However, after a few seconds of use, the dish and battery pack makes my arm somewhat tired and I have to drop it quick.
Does anyone know where I can get some steroids from?;)
What I wonder about the current orbit is the following.
Does the asteroid come close to impacting earth on multiple occasions in the run up to this, or is the coming from a single large orbit to hit us?
Any spacecraft sent to intercept it will have a tough time landing on this if its heading straight for us, it will need immense amounts of fuel to do a uturn in space.
Stocks of Boeing and Lockheed today rose 20 points. The FTSE index says the rises came after a sudden wave of visitors from the online cult site "slashdot".
We, the humans, are destroying the earth around us with ruthless efficiency. We have lost the knowledge to co-exist and care for our environment - on a local AND global scale. This asteroid won't kill us, but something will, and you can bet it would have been preventable with planning and preperation.
UK Company: Good morning blah blah, how may I help you? SCO: I was just looking on your website, thats a nice computer system you've got there. Wouldn't want anything to happen to it now would we? A thing so precious would need protection. We could offer that protection. Because protection is good to have. $699 per cpu per year to you. UK Company: Martha, its another crank caller [click] beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Unfortunately, I don't think this will ever be guaranteed to save your life, merely give you an extra step to try.
However, it gives you a MUCH better chance of survival than nothing at all. Its much the same as seat belts in cars.
My father goes hang-gliding, and its manditary to carry an emergency chute, but there are still accidents and incidents which occur.
Your right to want one, and in the long run, the governments should be right to mandate them and if I ever became a pilot, I would expect one of these to be installed.
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it could be because we can portray santa in a good light and appeal to everyone.
No matter what religion you are you can get your kids excited and send them to bed hoping for a gift all because of a simple premise:
Being good. Nothing more, nothing less.
The good children get a gift to warm their hearts and feel special, and the parents get to enjoy their families company.
The Christian birth of Christ is a wonderful story, and deserves its place in history, I just think its being replaced. It might be because of televisions, and the other channel syndrome, it might be because of some big conspiracy by the retailers, all I know is my kids appreciate it, so we make an effort:)
Best wishes to all this christmas eve, I hope you are all where you want to be.
When I finished HL2 it was like when I watched the second Matrix film.
I'm going to see it as an expensive way to play half a game, with the real finale in half life 3.
There were many moments in the original HL where I felt I was at the end, and that I had finally made it - for instance, driving the little train outside, and the music starting, or getting past the big evil talen thing that came out of a hole in the ground (from memory however many years ago). The ending of this second installment made me feel the same, like an end of level nasty, it definately doesn't feel over. We have removed the Earthly iconic leader, but not got rid of the actual alien invaders.
They are just milking it, and unfortunately, I've fallen into the trap, and will probably get any further installments.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to sound offish (I'm an Amiga man), but plenty of people run their webservers from old home machines, 486s and low spec pentiums are very common. Its only big business that pays for new servers.
They perform really well, and most can even survive a slashdotting (usually more because bandwidth tops out before the cpu). Don't knock the dark net.
Its a real shame.
I went from a 68020 14mhz upto a p90.
I felt for a good long time that it was a step down (upgrade was through necessity rather than want).
It wasn't until I got a Duron 650 (and win98) that I felt the playing field was almost level.
I still miss my Amiga, and occasionally hammer fists at things I could do then which are still inpractical now.
MS has OEM partners to release its software to and can therefore push what the consumer sees in the big stores.
You have to look further or head online to see none MS software.
Joe public sees microsoft in the same way as Sony or even Heinz, something to look out for.
Also the google cache, how come we can have a cached version of this article, and yet when its NYT we have to do the signin thing, even though a no signin google entry point is almost always available?
But of the circumference of the earth is now smaller because of a large shift in mass, the rotational period will alter.
Its like the effect figureskaters have when they tuck arms in when spinning.
I don't think so.
The more I look at this, the more I think they are making life difficult for themselves, and the resultant image quality shows.
Since making my first postings on this discussion, I decided to have a look around at how the professionals handle high speed photography and came up with some nice results.
Theres a company called Photron that have a range of single digital cameras capable of megapixel images at 2000fps.
In their gallery, they even have an example of a water filled baloon popping, and tbh it looks a lot better than this multi camera version.
Agreed, this is a way to do it on the cheap, but because of the spatial issues and timing complexities, it may be more trouble than its worth, and may well be wise to buy a camera from the professionals.
To be honest, for the examples given, the image quality is somewhat lacking.
I can imagine this working REALLY well for crash simulation studies where the subject is a greater distance from the camera array.
The baloon popping movie needs quite severe modification to the captured images, and doesn't do much justice.
The effect has already been used in bullet time type fx effects anyway, they used an array of cameras firing in a sequence whilst laid around a subject.
The effect with bullet time is a lot cleaner because the captured images are not expected to be spatially aligned, and instead are made to give the effect of moving the camera around a subject.
Nothing to see here.
Quite convenient for a story about a slashdotted camera.
Yours is the most enlightening - novel - suggestion I have seen on this page so far.
If I was google, I would hire you.
I realise 100% you were talking in jest, but you were thinking outside the box, most of the other suggestions have been seen in one form or another before.
from the article/sales pitch
H HHHHHHHHHHH!
- There is a 2 second delay after you click the "on" button before the laser will produce a beam.
Click.
Click.
Click.
(Peering into lens)
Hey why isn't this worARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The chances of them pulling this off are 1/233.
Oh wait, now its 1/45.
Hang on, odds have changed again 1/56000....
Hang on, he got the bloody thing working in Linux. The company don't market this towards Linux, they don't supply drivers, he now has information available for other Linux users who want to use this. This is true linux spirit and not selling out at all.
From the looks of the review, he wasn't sent this item by the company, he went out and got something which looks cool.
I've seen them myself, and the only thing preventing me from getting one was cost.
tbh as well, I don't mind if people "sellout", we are all trying to make ourselves and our families lives better, and money does that job a lot easier.
Get what you can when you can, cos you don't know what tomorrow will bring.
I have a wireless mouse that communicates with its own geostationary satellite.
;)
I can use it anywhere from within the UK, and surrounding parts of Europe.
It works a treat, and allows me to mouse from anywhere.
However, after a few seconds of use, the dish and battery pack makes my arm somewhat tired and I have to drop it quick.
Does anyone know where I can get some steroids from?
What I wonder about the current orbit is the following.
Does the asteroid come close to impacting earth on multiple occasions in the run up to this, or is the coming from a single large orbit to hit us?
Any spacecraft sent to intercept it will have a tough time landing on this if its heading straight for us, it will need immense amounts of fuel to do a uturn in space.
Stocks of Boeing and Lockheed today rose 20 points.
The FTSE index says the rises came after a sudden wave of visitors from the online cult site "slashdot".
Your thinking too small.
We need to combine our efforts.
We need to build a monumentally massive tin hat for the world.
Geeks of the world unite!!
Online picnic basket ordering.
From the comfort of his cave, Yogi will never be hungry again!
Wholeheartedly agree.
its a terrible loss for everyone, and my heart goes out to them.
Please everybody - if your in a country offering aid, give what you can.
The best part is that green indicates Advance to next stage everywhere else, but on the write in screen, its indicating cancel.
It looks and feels like a nightmare to use, and I would be nervous using it.
No, I don't think thats true at all.
We, the humans, are destroying the earth around us with ruthless efficiency.
We have lost the knowledge to co-exist and care for our environment - on a local AND global scale.
This asteroid won't kill us, but something will, and you can bet it would have been preventable with planning and preperation.
UK Company: Good morning blah blah, how may I help you?
SCO: I was just looking on your website,
thats a nice computer system you've got there.
Wouldn't want anything to happen to it now would we?
A thing so precious would need protection.
We could offer that protection.
Because protection is good to have.
$699 per cpu per year to you.
UK Company: Martha, its another crank caller [click] beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Plus, even if the pilot has an incident, a big red lever marked "Safety chute" will probably guide the other passengers to the best decision.
Unfortunately, I don't think this will ever be guaranteed to save your life, merely give you an extra step to try.
However, it gives you a MUCH better chance of survival than nothing at all. Its much the same as seat belts in cars.
My father goes hang-gliding, and its manditary to carry an emergency chute, but there are still accidents and incidents which occur.
Your right to want one, and in the long run, the governments should be right to mandate them and if I ever became a pilot, I would expect one of these to be installed.
it could be because we can portray santa in a good light and appeal to everyone.
:)
No matter what religion you are you can get your kids excited and send them to bed hoping for a gift all because of a simple premise:
Being good. Nothing more, nothing less.
The good children get a gift to warm their hearts and feel special, and the parents get to enjoy their families company.
The Christian birth of Christ is a wonderful story, and deserves its place in history, I just think its being replaced.
It might be because of televisions, and the other channel syndrome, it might be because of some big conspiracy by the retailers, all I know is my kids appreciate it, so we make an effort
Best wishes to all this christmas eve, I hope you are all where you want to be.
Why not?
;)
You *COULD* make something of it you know!
Call it "Back Seat Driver", stick it in a box, include a mic and sell it for 39.99 a pop.
Team fun for all the family. Let you all take out your rage shouting stuff at the computer.
Make it respond better the louder you shout.
Theres enough people out there who will buy it
When I finished HL2 it was like when I watched the second Matrix film.
I'm going to see it as an expensive way to play half a game, with the real finale in half life 3.
There were many moments in the original HL where I felt I was at the end, and that I had finally made it - for instance, driving the little train outside, and the music starting, or getting past the big evil talen thing that came out of a hole in the ground (from memory however many years ago).
The ending of this second installment made me feel the same, like an end of level nasty, it definately doesn't feel over. We have removed the Earthly iconic leader, but not got rid of the actual alien invaders.
They are just milking it, and unfortunately, I've fallen into the trap, and will probably get any further installments.