this a great tablet, used mine daily for 4 years before the graphics chip partially failed, (probably the ball grid array)
12" 1440x1080 screen with integrated wacom tablet.. writing looks and feels like a fineliner pen, dedicated vram.
can ebay them cheap now
performs great with extra ram
used it teaching graphics.
I used the groundbreaking Symbolics 3D graphics workstation for a while
It had a fast response graphics tablet paint system that was hardware based.
It did a lot, and was impossible to crash... well if it ever "crashed", you clicked ok, and it kept going. was bulletproof, modular and nice.
haha yeah, theory, all theory. practice is different.
K, if I remember correctly, the bad poly's were not consistent, something funky in some source models combined with a bad exporter. So some models would barf on some polys, but not the same ones each time. If the model was edited that would change vertex and polygon numbering. Also, since it was an orientation thing in texture space, it wasn't trivial to trap/mask for. Absolute poly and UV numeric order isn't guaranteed, its relative. So scripting the fix would only reproduce a fix that had already occurred and may not reoccur.
Also I recall some legacy evilness about exporting animations which was why the source art couldn't be fixed. Believe me I wan't happy about it, was just tasked with fixing it. Not my design. But isn't what this thread was about?
A 3d model export would break regularly screwing up the texture map orientation on certain polygons. The godawful export couldn't be fixed on the deadline, and risk management said best not to touch it cuz EVERYTHING might bust, let alone all the coders being nailed to the wall by the ship date. So I fixed the model files in an ascii editor. All the art builds that had tweaks needed this "touch" Since it was a hockey game, you can imagine how many goalie pads that was. Oh yeah, you couldn't see if the fixes were correct except in the game engine after more pipeline.
Technically not a code fix, but still a valid solution.
Hook this arm up to the emotive stuff they are doing with face/intent interpretation and expression and you should be able to "tap out" if it squeezes you too tight, unless its a ruthless torture robot.
I never really connected a purpose with the robot emotional interpretation and expressive stuff before, but I can see a good use for it now. Alternatively, torture robots are self explanatory. Also, I wonder if it can do back massage?
Stormtroopers: are all clones who are weak minded to make them compliant. The armour is to stop them from going crazy seeing themselves everywhere by de-referencing their appearance.. (Think malkewich malkewich malkewich)
R2: Is a purely functional robot that follows commands, akin to a universal keyboard, you'd go nuts if your keyboard talked to you all the time.
C3P0: A mild manner doesn't intimidate. Primary function is to communicate.
Blasters: an exothermic chemical reaction produces the power to throw a plasma charge.. think "ball lightning". The light is a side effect. It is not a "light" weapon.
The Asteroid Worm must eat rock, So I'm thinking it survives on metals, and radioactive ores, ships just look like a spicy sandwich. They travel from asteroid to asteroid by blowing dust at high speeds out their tail.
I got the idea that midi-chlorians were a sentient species, similar to the mitochondria in an Ursula LeQuinn series. Its not just the population, but also their intent. They gather to attempt a goal.
My reasons are all made up, but so is the universe, get me some more cereal please?
Heard of a computer at SFU BC that was called "pig fucker" since it was programmed by setting the bits, then pressing "enter" I think all it had was a "run" and a "stop" button too. Rack mount of 3 components, power supply with beer can size caps, the data entry component and the CPU. It collected data well, so it was used for years... had to be re-programmed each time it was turned off tho... could never figure out why they didn't swap the buttons for relays and serial port it, but I guess the operator liked hating it more.
The roots of this go right down to the core of: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the equivalent legal tracts in other countries.
vs The corporate charter that companies such as Facebook are granted.
Corporate charters historically were granted very rarely and can be revoked (still). The legal prop that gives so many ball-busting industrial monoliths the power to trample governments, and citizens is that an incorporated company has become a weird person/non-person hybrid. This relentless legal craftwork is an intentional product designed to protect the corporate entity. People were afraid of Artificial Intelligence taking over, but the real threat is the mindless, ruthless, psychopathic corporate hive and the lawyer/accountant fraternity that Buckminister Fuller described very well in "Critical Path" in chapter 3 "Legally Piggily".
I'm reminded of watching a documentary on ex-pres Reagan's speeches being realtime tracked with "satisfaction knobs" by focus group members, allowing specific words and phrases to be chosen for future speeches for certain demographics. Reagan said "A thousand stars", Bush Sr said " A thousand points of light" and so on.
So that Selection Bias can equate to a target demographic.
I expect a pay per tweet model to be offered as an incentive, for instance as a rebate against cell phone charges within certain demographics, at certain times ie elections or by "lottery", soliciting participation with a text message.
/quick patent this in my name please. available for business model consultation.
The rings are non-concentric at that point. Pushing the brightness levels to expand bright artifacts shows interesting "twisting" (look on each side lower on left, higher on right) The close-up views miss some details that a "big picture" shows, reductionism, feh.
We assume an orientation of the anomaly parallel to Saturn's axis, but from the brightness of the reflected light on the "dark side" of it suggests an angle maybe closer to that of the ring plane... remember where the sun is. Although, it could be illumination of backscatter from Saturn, or by internal reflections between the particles.
Ring particles could be caused to move by electrostatics, not just gravity or collision, so I'm thinking a long plasma trail behind a comet passing thru, or a slower moving (orbital?) charged object causing a ruction. Heck, why not a moving cloud of magnetic particles colliding with the ring bits, which are then drawn along Saturns magnetic field.
Imaging the surface of an exoplanet may be more of a challenge than finding an interesting one, given the distance
I remember a proposal for an orbital pinhole camera space telescope. The imager satellite was quite a distance from the screen with the "pinhole" in it. It was said that it would be able to resolve weather patterns and any vegetation covers.
I've been waiting for this (acoustically contained/pumped fusion). Its just one more way to add energy, create confinement and maintain resonance. And whats with Sonoluminescence anyways? The whole tokamak thing seemed a little ill conceived when I heard how difficult it is to keep the vacuum from being poisoned and energy from leaking away from the desired chain reaction.
Those are the obvious questions. Seems pretty basic tho, gotta build one I guess. The battery charging stage @ Instructables is only used to condition the battery, it works without that, just at a lower capacity... Think Lemon/Potato Battery. The Greeks were creating electricity rubbing amber circa 600 BC, so charging is not impossible. Heck, just drive the motor backwards and it will produce current. If you compare a Leyden Jar with a Baghdad Battery, they are similar. Some illustrations show an internal asphalt plug, but others don't. Batteries fit into things so I expect some kind of holder to complete it. The "battery" clay has also been described as porous, so contact completing the circuit (battery) could be external. Ben Franklin made a simple electrostatic (no magnet needed)electric motor powered by Leyden Jars
As far as I can tell without building one and metering it, The voltage/amperage required for a homopolar motor is very small, just enough to overcome the friction of the "bearing" point, When work is used then, of course it is the force of friction + the energy extracted for work. The fabrication "hack" of sticking a magnet on a battery is not required for a homopolar motor. I believe it is using the battery to extend the magnetic field lines such that the field from the current in the wire has something to push against. An iron rod on a magnet would suffice. The wire rotor does not need to contact the magnet (stator). It only needs current flowing through it to spin, or conversely, could be built with the wire as the stator and the magnet spinning.
Why has this not been done? We have lots of better motors, batteries and so on, so why would anyone dabble in less efficient ancient devices? We regularly dismiss our past as primitive, that is why we are surprised when we truly learn of their accomplishments.
It is so easy to do that I totally will build these as fun experiments...
The prior devices and knowledge also come to mind. The crafts, arts, maths and sciences leading up to this must have included similar devices, possibly going back much farther. As well, other fine geared devices are likely.. I wonder what other similar mechanisms would be useful in the ancient world?
Wow, cool thought!! You heard it here first: The Baghdad Battery, another ancient mystery device which dates to almost exactly the same time as the Antikythera Mechanism, performs well enough to drive a Homopolar Motor (very cool video link). I believe that there is no actual evidence of a handle with the Antikythera Mechanism, but simply an input shaft with a coupling. If I remember correctly, one turn of the shaft advanced it one day. I'll bet that a homopolar motor could accumulate enough power over a day to drive the Antikthera device.
Now the homopolar motor in its simplicity could easily be missed as a ancient device, or its 2 useful components (wire and magnet) scavenged for another use, leaving no artifact to find. Finally, here is a variable speed homopolar motor video I know I'm synthesizing the electric motor invention.. its just so simple that its invention at that time is possible, let alone any other type of motor. And an voltage/amperage controlled speed regulator seems likewise possible.
I just wondered whether those formerly large populations were sustainable because of a factor like this, and once they were reduced beyond a point, the ocean became less "fertile", causing an additional downward pressure...
The densities of sea life in the past is apparent in the history of its harvest. Were the oceans more prolific because of the amount of fish mixing? Mixing creates more interface, so wouldn't that affect tiny organisms because they get more exposure on the food chain?
I recently read history of herring runs spawning in the Salish Sea so abundantly that the water was white, and that eggs were laid on everything in the water, such that they could be collected simply by submerging cedar branches. Not to mention historical quantities of fish all over the world...
Just heard a flying astronaut again describing how thin a veil the atmosphere is and I realized that for how big a volume the earth is, its livable surface area(biosphere) isn't really that large at all. *duh* but I never connected spherical geometry (area vs volume) and the concept of how profoundly we could affect our environment when the earth is soo big.
Which is worse, falling behind in technology, or failing to effectively integrate technologies?
The brilliance of russian thrift and efficiency (no doubt brought about by scarcity) is unmatched by the west's treadmill of newer and better, which is disruptive to integration and has lead to many technological dead ends and restarts. Not to mention inability to reproduce past results.
An example is their space launch systems that run like clockwork, while ARES designs call for a 6 ton rubber damper be added. Lunacy. All the russian coders I have had the privilege of working with produced amazing results... now maybe the lame ones just stayed at home, but I think there is a resiliency there that we could all learn from.
If we stopped creating new technologies, and just fully integrated what we have already, I would bet that overall progress would be greater, since so many technologies have moved ahead without being fully understood or cross connected. Now with regard to super computers, we have all those cycles, but can we really harness them effectively other than for specific models?
Reminiscent of the "franchulates" in Snow Crash... They were pravate member franchinse/consulates, that is a chain of convenience/service agency mini-malls.
I don't think anything is static. It depends on the scope one observes. Since time is the most accurately measurable dimension in the universe, we can observe a scope below fempto-seconds and on the high side, a good fraction of the estimated age of the universe.
Since proportionally, there is more time resolution than there are particles, there is a good likelyhood of more transient states occurring regularly, given the balance and diversity of forces/energy concentrations.
Things exist as a synergy of dynamic states. It is the stability of the "symbiosis", not the stability of the individual components that gives the impression of steady states. Self sustaining chain reactions are full of transient states, such as fire, fission, or fusion. Exotic transient states are totally relevant when considering the macro scale.
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this a great tablet, used mine daily for 4 years before the graphics chip partially failed, (probably the ball grid array) 12" 1440x1080 screen with integrated wacom tablet.. writing looks and feels like a fineliner pen, dedicated vram. can ebay them cheap now performs great with extra ram used it teaching graphics.
I used the groundbreaking Symbolics 3D graphics workstation for a while It had a fast response graphics tablet paint system that was hardware based. It did a lot, and was impossible to crash... well if it ever "crashed", you clicked ok, and it kept going. was bulletproof, modular and nice.
But wait there's more! I for one welcome our mediocre yet satisfactory overlords.
haha yeah, theory, all theory. practice is different.
K, if I remember correctly, the bad poly's were not consistent, something funky in some source models combined with a bad exporter. So some models would barf on some polys, but not the same ones each time. If the model was edited that would change vertex and polygon numbering. Also, since it was an orientation thing in texture space, it wasn't trivial to trap/mask for. Absolute poly and UV numeric order isn't guaranteed, its relative. So scripting the fix would only reproduce a fix that had already occurred and may not reoccur.
Also I recall some legacy evilness about exporting animations which was why the source art couldn't be fixed. Believe me I wan't happy about it, was just tasked with fixing it. Not my design. But isn't what this thread was about?
A 3d model export would break regularly screwing up the texture map orientation on certain polygons. The godawful export couldn't be fixed on the deadline, and risk management said best not to touch it cuz EVERYTHING might bust, let alone all the coders being nailed to the wall by the ship date. So I fixed the model files in an ascii editor. All the art builds that had tweaks needed this "touch" Since it was a hockey game, you can imagine how many goalie pads that was. Oh yeah, you couldn't see if the fixes were correct except in the game engine after more pipeline.
Technically not a code fix, but still a valid solution.
Hook this arm up to the emotive stuff they are doing with face/intent interpretation and expression and you should be able to "tap out" if it squeezes you too tight, unless its a ruthless torture robot.
I never really connected a purpose with the robot emotional interpretation and expressive stuff before, but I can see a good use for it now. Alternatively, torture robots are self explanatory. Also, I wonder if it can do back massage?
Stormtroopers: are all clones who are weak minded to make them compliant. The armour is to stop them from going crazy seeing themselves everywhere by de-referencing their appearance.. (Think malkewich malkewich malkewich)
R2: Is a purely functional robot that follows commands, akin to a universal keyboard, you'd go nuts if your keyboard talked to you all the time.
C3P0: A mild manner doesn't intimidate. Primary function is to communicate.
Blasters: an exothermic chemical reaction produces the power to throw a plasma charge.. think "ball lightning". The light is a side effect. It is not a "light" weapon.
The Asteroid Worm must eat rock, So I'm thinking it survives on metals, and radioactive ores, ships just look like a spicy sandwich. They travel from asteroid to asteroid by blowing dust at high speeds out their tail.
I got the idea that midi-chlorians were a sentient species, similar to the mitochondria in an Ursula LeQuinn series. Its not just the population, but also their intent. They gather to attempt a goal.
My reasons are all made up, but so is the universe, get me some more cereal please?
Heard of a computer at SFU BC that was called "pig fucker" since it was programmed by setting the bits, then pressing "enter" I think all it had was a "run" and a "stop" button too. Rack mount of 3 components, power supply with beer can size caps, the data entry component and the CPU. It collected data well, so it was used for years... had to be re-programmed each time it was turned off tho... could never figure out why they didn't swap the buttons for relays and serial port it, but I guess the operator liked hating it more.
The roots of this go right down to the core of: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the equivalent legal tracts in other countries.
vs
The corporate charter that companies such as Facebook are granted.
Corporate charters historically were granted very rarely and can be revoked (still). The legal prop that gives so many ball-busting industrial monoliths the power to trample governments, and citizens is that an incorporated company has become a weird person/non-person hybrid. This relentless legal craftwork is an intentional product designed to protect the corporate entity. People were afraid of Artificial Intelligence taking over, but the real threat is the mindless, ruthless, psychopathic corporate hive and the lawyer/accountant fraternity that Buckminister Fuller described very well in "Critical Path" in chapter 3 "Legally Piggily".
I'm reminded of watching a documentary on ex-pres Reagan's speeches being realtime tracked with "satisfaction knobs" by focus group members, allowing specific words and phrases to be chosen for future speeches for certain demographics. Reagan said "A thousand stars", Bush Sr said " A thousand points of light" and so on.
/quick patent this in my name please. available for business model consultation.
So that Selection Bias can equate to a target demographic.
I expect a pay per tweet model to be offered as an incentive, for instance as a rebate against cell phone charges within certain demographics, at certain times ie elections or by "lottery", soliciting participation with a text message.
Raw cabbage leafs are used to relieve breast pain in nursing mothers.
Brings to mind the explanation "Found you under a cabbage leaf."
MOD PARENT UP. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! There are several tabs which have essential settings.
The rings are non-concentric at that point. Pushing the brightness levels to expand bright artifacts shows interesting "twisting" (look on each side lower on left, higher on right) The close-up views miss some details that a "big picture" shows, reductionism, feh.
We assume an orientation of the anomaly parallel to Saturn's axis, but from the brightness of the reflected light on the "dark side" of it suggests an angle maybe closer to that of the ring plane... remember where the sun is. Although, it could be illumination of backscatter from Saturn, or by internal reflections between the particles.
Ring particles could be caused to move by electrostatics, not just gravity or collision, so I'm thinking a long plasma trail behind a comet passing thru, or a slower moving (orbital?) charged object causing a ruction. Heck, why not a moving cloud of magnetic particles colliding with the ring bits, which are then drawn along Saturns magnetic field.
Imaging the surface of an exoplanet may be more of a challenge than finding an interesting one, given the distance
I remember a proposal for an orbital pinhole camera space telescope. The imager satellite was quite a distance from the screen with the "pinhole" in it. It was said that it would be able to resolve weather patterns and any vegetation covers.
I disagree, all this energy latent in the structure of the universe came from something beyond nuclear (brane theory, etc)
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young man, its turtles all the way down!
I've been waiting for this (acoustically contained/pumped fusion). Its just one more way to add energy, create confinement and maintain resonance. And whats with Sonoluminescence anyways? The whole tokamak thing seemed a little ill conceived when I heard how difficult it is to keep the vacuum from being poisoned and energy from leaking away from the desired chain reaction.
Btw sound waves are observed>/a> on the surface of the sun.
But the stunts are so cunning.
Those are the obvious questions. Seems pretty basic tho, gotta build one I guess. The battery charging stage @ Instructables is only used to condition the battery, it works without that, just at a lower capacity... Think Lemon/Potato Battery. The Greeks were creating electricity rubbing amber circa 600 BC, so charging is not impossible. Heck, just drive the motor backwards and it will produce current. If you compare a Leyden Jar with a Baghdad Battery, they are similar. Some illustrations show an internal asphalt plug, but others don't. Batteries fit into things so I expect some kind of holder to complete it. The "battery" clay has also been described as porous, so contact completing the circuit (battery) could be external. Ben Franklin made a simple electrostatic (no magnet needed)electric motor powered by Leyden Jars
As far as I can tell without building one and metering it, The voltage/amperage required for a homopolar motor is very small, just enough to overcome the friction of the "bearing" point, When work is used then, of course it is the force of friction + the energy extracted for work. The fabrication "hack" of sticking a magnet on a battery is not required for a homopolar motor. I believe it is using the battery to extend the magnetic field lines such that the field from the current in the wire has something to push against. An iron rod on a magnet would suffice. The wire rotor does not need to contact the magnet (stator). It only needs current flowing through it to spin, or conversely, could be built with the wire as the stator and the magnet spinning.
Why has this not been done? We have lots of better motors, batteries and so on, so why would anyone dabble in less efficient ancient devices? We regularly dismiss our past as primitive, that is why we are surprised when we truly learn of their accomplishments.
It is so easy to do that I totally will build these as fun experiments...
The prior devices and knowledge also come to mind. The crafts, arts, maths and sciences leading up to this must have included similar devices, possibly going back much farther. As well, other fine geared devices are likely.. I wonder what other similar mechanisms would be useful in the ancient world?
Wow, cool thought!! You heard it here first:
The Baghdad Battery, another ancient mystery device which dates to almost exactly the same time as the Antikythera Mechanism, performs well enough to drive a Homopolar Motor (very cool video link). I believe that there is no actual evidence of a handle with the Antikythera Mechanism, but simply an input shaft with a coupling. If I remember correctly, one turn of the shaft advanced it one day. I'll bet that a homopolar motor could accumulate enough power over a day to drive the Antikthera device.
Now the homopolar motor in its simplicity could easily be missed as a ancient device, or its 2 useful components (wire and magnet) scavenged for another use, leaving no artifact to find. Finally, here is a variable speed homopolar motor video I know I'm synthesizing the electric motor invention.. its just so simple that its invention at that time is possible, let alone any other type of motor. And an voltage/amperage controlled speed regulator seems likewise possible.
I just wondered whether those formerly large populations were sustainable because of a factor like this, and once they were reduced beyond a point, the ocean became less "fertile", causing an additional downward pressure...
The densities of sea life in the past is apparent in the history of its harvest. Were the oceans more prolific because of the amount of fish mixing? Mixing creates more interface, so wouldn't that affect tiny organisms because they get more exposure on the food chain?
I recently read history of herring runs spawning in the Salish Sea so abundantly that the water was white, and that eggs were laid on everything in the water, such that they could be collected simply by submerging cedar branches. Not to mention historical quantities of fish all over the world...
Just heard a flying astronaut again describing how thin a veil the atmosphere is and I realized that for how big a volume the earth is, its livable surface area(biosphere) isn't really that large at all. *duh* but I never connected spherical geometry (area vs volume) and the concept of how profoundly we could affect our environment when the earth is soo big.
Which is worse, falling behind in technology, or failing to effectively integrate technologies?
The brilliance of russian thrift and efficiency (no doubt brought about by scarcity) is unmatched by the west's treadmill of newer and better, which is disruptive to integration and has lead to many technological dead ends and restarts. Not to mention inability to reproduce past results.
An example is their space launch systems that run like clockwork, while ARES designs call for a 6 ton rubber damper be added. Lunacy. All the russian coders I have had the privilege of working with produced amazing results... now maybe the lame ones just stayed at home, but I think there is a resiliency there that we could all learn from.
If we stopped creating new technologies, and just fully integrated what we have already, I would bet that overall progress would be greater, since so many technologies have moved ahead without being fully understood or cross connected. Now with regard to super computers, we have all those cycles, but can we really harness them effectively other than for specific models?
Reminiscent of the "franchulates" in Snow Crash... They were pravate member franchinse/consulates, that is a chain of convenience/service agency mini-malls.
The mafia delivered pizza.
I don't think anything is static. It depends on the scope one observes. Since time is the most accurately measurable dimension in the universe, we can observe a scope below fempto-seconds and on the high side, a good fraction of the estimated age of the universe.
Since proportionally, there is more time resolution than there are particles, there is a good likelyhood of more transient states occurring regularly, given the balance and diversity of forces/energy concentrations.
Things exist as a synergy of dynamic states. It is the stability of the "symbiosis", not the stability of the individual components that gives the impression of steady states. Self sustaining chain reactions are full of transient states, such as fire, fission, or fusion. Exotic transient states are totally relevant when considering the macro scale.
/b/tard: What happen ?
/arcanine/: Somebody set up us the null'd packets.
/b/tard: What !
/b/tard: It's You !!
/b/tard: What you say !! You'd best be trollin'
....
/b/tard: Take off every 'anon' !!
/b/tard: You know what you doing.
/b/tard: Move 'anon'.
/b/tard: For great justice.
moot: We get signal.
moot: Main screen turn on.
AT&T: How are you gentlemen !!
AT&T: All your internets are belong to us.
AT&T: You are on the way to Great Firewall of North America.
AT&T: You have no chance to survive make your time.
AT&T: HA HA HA HA