As an aside, I've never figured out why the laughing skull virus had a soundtrack. If the bugs could not hear (as established earlier in the movie), then why would they put a soundcard into their computer!?
Aha! That's just where I'm heading.
There are plenty of comments on this site that are black and white, leaving no room for trusting your kid.
EG., this guy demanding 100% surveilance[sp?]. comment
I know it's a bit out of context, but the message is still there: "Don't say that parents can't keep an eye on their children all the time becuase that is bs."
I wish I had time to find more references where comments say the same thing; If you don't know what your kid is doing 100% of the time, then you're a bad parent. There are plenty of them out there.
Did his parents know about every last thing he did? Of course not. As with me, I am sure that not all of these activities would have met his parent's approval. For most kids, getting into trouble is part of growing up!
Well, for one, if have a child, then you had better learn to monitor their every waking moment to ensure they are not playing Grand Theft Auto, even if they are at their friend's house, and you are away on a business trip.
Anything less, and you will suffer the wrath of other/.ers who believe you should be thrown in jail for not being a responsible parent! "We demand 100% surveilance!"
Aside from believing it is real, which is a problem, watching this stuff WILL affect us/them. Assuming that it enters your brain, you are affected. You can remember it, can't you?
I am not saying the effect will cause people to do certain actions; I am saying that you are now a (marginally) different person for watching the show, compared to if you didn't watch the show. You know, parallel universes, decisions, and stuff like that.
On a vaguely related note, med students (well, the ones I know) went to 'desensitization' classes. During this time, they watched movies of gross stuff; blood, surgery, accidents... You know, stuff that would make normal people faint, barf, hide, or maybe all three!
If watching that stuff didn't affect them, then there would be no point in doing it.
So, I am open to the idea that watching CSI / playing violent games may desensitize you to the subject.
On another tangent, I do like the idea of someone making a video game where you play a CSI... It could be a GTA mod! Then, play online, and if you prove someone else is guilty... they get kicked! Ha ha!
I assure you that in real life, you can experience blurring of fast moving objects. When you were driving at 150MPH, did you see each link in the chain link fence, in perfect clarity? What about the pavement? Pavement starts to blur fairly early. The other cars don't blur, 'cuz they have low relative speed.
For an easier example, take a look at a hubcap on a moving car, on the highway. (Please don't do this while driving!!!)
One problem with consoles is that the frame rate is fixed. Thirty frames per second. Now add to that:
- Varying monitor persistence
- XBox360 supports both interlaced and progressive displays
The image you are seeing is a 'sample'. The sample is static for (eg.) 1/60th of a second. Fast moving objects can move a fair distance in 1/60th of a second. Because movie cameras have a shutter, they capture these objects at more than one instantaneous location, as the shutter is not instantaneous.
In the audio world, there is tons and tons of material on sampling and ways to combat side effects of sampling. This is true for the video world, too. Anti-aliasing can combat spatial aliasing. Blurring can help combat time-domain 'aliasing', by attempting to reproduce having fast moving objects being shown at more than one location.
Computer gamers have the option of turning up the actual scan rate of their monitor to crazy high rates; 125 frames per second is the fastest I've seen, I think.
building 8 cores, each capable of running 4 jobs simultaneously (4 threads), onto a single chip. Doing the math, we'll be delivering a 32-way chip, running 9.6GHz, which sips power (about 70 watts). [sun.com], JonathanSchwartz BLOG.
Apparently, their brain was already fully engaged in multiplying 4 and 8 together.
Can't or don't take advantage of UI elements available on the desktop
Did I mention, slow SlowSLOW!
Google maps shows that an interface can be fast.
We are still missing 'reliable', and 'more UI elements'.
On an aside, XUL brings more UI elements to the (moz) browser. BUT, have you tried to program the treeview? Crap, it takes me back to the horrid GTK1.0 treeview which was implemented on a listview. I pretty much had to give up on XUL for my current project.
Re:"cell" architecture is all about local memory
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> It's not really clear...
There was a Toshiba demo, showing 8 Cells; 6 used to decode forty-eight HDTV MPEG4 streams, simultaneously, 1 for scaling the results to display, and one left over. A spare, I guess?
This reminds me of the Texas Instruments 320C80 processor; 1 RISC general purpose cpu, plus four DSP-oriented CPUs. Each had an on-chip memory chunk. 4KB. 256KB would be fantastic, after the experience of programming for the C80. 256KB will be plenty of memory to work on a tile of framebuffer.
1. DMA tile -> local RAM 2. render to local... 3. ??? 4. Profit!
Hear, hear!
As someone who has been involved with DST related programming, this couldn't happen soon enough for me.
Now, what can we do about this, to make it happen?
Well, for one, we could write a virus, err, I mean a self-replicating utility, that forces everyone's computer to stay off DST! Ha! That alone could do the trick!
PS., I am rather surprised to see someone complain about too much of that 'DAMN' sunlight!
How could you be tired of this drama?
It has thrills, intrigue, an evil, pompous villain, and many 'rebel fighters'...
We're drawing to the end, the big finish, where IBM lays the smackdown, and Darl moves into his new home (A large sanyo television box).
No, it's like some sort of soap opera for geeks all over the world. Just wait for the TV movie, starring (ummm....):
- Mark Hamill as Linus
- Tom Cruise as Groklaw
- Jabba the Hutt as Darl McBride
... ten times faster than traditional electronic devices, smashing the intrinsic speed limit...
With the rate that things are advancing, I can no longer classify 10x as 'smashing'. No, smashing is more on the order of 1000x.
On another note, put a decoder on one end of a 'bicyle-speed' light cable, and loop it back to an encoder on the other end... I wonder what sort of data-density you could achieve, with this 'dynamic ram' device?
I really wish the Qt XML implementation would support XPath.
XPath allows you to easily select part of XML DOM documents, simplifying your life...
XPath is powerful enough to become part of a programming language itself (Comega), in Microsoft's opinion...
However, last I checked, Trolltech doesn't think it's worth it. Booo!
PS., Designer and Qt are way better than WinForms!!!
Just think, if we could put a rocket on it now, we could change the trajectory of the asteroid by a tiny tiny fraction, but multiplied over 24 years, would put the asteroid far away from earth.
Of course, we'd probably screw it up, and it would impact earth in 22 years as a result.
Additionally, ads are appearing in front of DVD movies
Here's little tip:
Even if the DVD advert has disabled the fast forward buttons and the root-menu button, you can still hit 'stop', and then 'menu', which will bypass the ads. Maybe I shouldn't leak my secret, or they'll come up with a bug(feature) for that, too.
'Course, if it's a VHS tape, you can use a pair of scissors... Snip!
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe you should try reading the article.
To make things obvious, look at the picture, where it shows the item's price is looked up in a database.
As an aside, I've never figured out why the laughing skull virus had a soundtrack. If the bugs could not hear (as established earlier in the movie), then why would they put a soundcard into their computer!?
Aha! That's just where I'm heading.
There are plenty of comments on this site that are black and white, leaving no room for trusting your kid.
EG., this guy demanding 100% surveilance[sp?].
comment
I know it's a bit out of context, but the message is still there: "Don't say that parents can't keep an eye on their children all the time becuase that is bs."
I wish I had time to find more references where comments say the same thing; If you don't know what your kid is doing 100% of the time, then you're a bad parent. There are plenty of them out there.
Did his parents know about every last thing he did? Of course not. As with me, I am sure that not all of these activities would have met his parent's approval. For most kids, getting into trouble is part of growing up!
Well, for one, if have a child, then you had better learn to monitor their every waking moment to ensure they are not playing Grand Theft Auto, even if they are at their friend's house, and you are away on a business trip.
/.ers who believe you should be thrown in jail for not being a responsible parent! "We demand 100% surveilance!"
Anything less, and you will suffer the wrath of other
Aside from believing it is real, which is a problem, watching this stuff WILL affect us/them. Assuming that it enters your brain, you are affected. You can remember it, can't you?
I am not saying the effect will cause people to do certain actions; I am saying that you are now a (marginally) different person for watching the show, compared to if you didn't watch the show. You know, parallel universes, decisions, and stuff like that.
On a vaguely related note, med students (well, the ones I know) went to 'desensitization' classes. During this time, they watched movies of gross stuff; blood, surgery, accidents... You know, stuff that would make normal people faint, barf, hide, or maybe all three!
If watching that stuff didn't affect them, then there would be no point in doing it.
So, I am open to the idea that watching CSI / playing violent games may desensitize you to the subject.
On another tangent, I do like the idea of someone making a video game where you play a CSI... It could be a GTA mod! Then, play online, and if you prove someone else is guilty... they get kicked! Ha ha!
I assure you that in real life, you can experience blurring of fast moving objects. When you were driving at 150MPH, did you see each link in the chain link fence, in perfect clarity?
What about the pavement? Pavement starts to blur fairly early. The other cars don't blur, 'cuz they have low relative speed.
For an easier example, take a look at a hubcap on a moving car, on the highway. (Please don't do this while driving!!!)
One problem with consoles is that the frame rate is fixed. Thirty frames per second. Now add to that:
- Varying monitor persistence - XBox360 supports both interlaced and progressive displays The image you are seeing is a 'sample'. The sample is static for (eg.) 1/60th of a second. Fast moving objects can move a fair distance in 1/60th of a second. Because movie cameras have a shutter, they capture these objects at more than one instantaneous location, as the shutter is not instantaneous.
In the audio world, there is tons and tons of material on sampling and ways to combat side effects of sampling. This is true for the video world, too. Anti-aliasing can combat spatial aliasing. Blurring can help combat time-domain 'aliasing', by attempting to reproduce having fast moving objects being shown at more than one location.
Computer gamers have the option of turning up the actual scan rate of their monitor to crazy high rates; 125 frames per second is the fastest I've seen, I think.
Well, there that is, for what it's worth....
Sun announced today, that they will be chopping down one tree for every new system sold!
building 8 cores, each capable of running 4 jobs simultaneously (4 threads), onto a single chip. Doing the math, we'll be delivering a 32-way chip, running 9.6GHz, which sips power (about 70 watts). [sun.com], JonathanSchwartz BLOG.
Apparently, their brain was already fully engaged in multiplying 4 and 8 together.
And, does your manager laugh in your face, derisively? Talk about a great way to motivate.
Just who does he think he is, Bill Gates or something?
Thank God, because most web apps are atrocious.
Google maps shows that an interface can be fast.
We are still missing 'reliable', and 'more UI elements'.
On an aside, XUL brings more UI elements to the (moz) browser. BUT, have you tried to program the treeview? Crap, it takes me back to the horrid GTK1.0 treeview which was implemented on a listview. I pretty much had to give up on XUL for my current project.
Don't you mean ATLAS?
> It's not really clear...
There was a Toshiba demo, showing 8 Cells; 6 used to decode forty-eight HDTV MPEG4 streams, simultaneously, 1 for scaling the results to display, and one left over. A spare, I guess?
This reminds me of the Texas Instruments 320C80 processor; 1 RISC general purpose cpu, plus four DSP-oriented CPUs. Each had an on-chip memory chunk. 4KB. 256KB would be fantastic, after the experience of programming for the C80. 256KB will be plenty of memory to work on a tile of framebuffer.
1. DMA tile -> local RAM
2. render to local...
3. ???
4. Profit!
Whoops, where was I going with that, again?
Hear, hear!
As someone who has been involved with DST related programming, this couldn't happen soon enough for me.
Now, what can we do about this, to make it happen?
Well, for one, we could write a virus, err, I mean a self-replicating utility, that forces everyone's computer to stay off DST! Ha! That alone could do the trick!
PS., I am rather surprised to see someone complain about too much of that 'DAMN' sunlight!
How could you be tired of this drama?
It has thrills, intrigue, an evil, pompous villain, and many 'rebel fighters'...
We're drawing to the end, the big finish, where IBM lays the smackdown, and Darl moves into his new home (A large sanyo television box).
No, it's like some sort of soap opera for geeks all over the world. Just wait for the TV movie, starring (ummm....):
- Mark Hamill as Linus
- Tom Cruise as Groklaw
- Jabba the Hutt as Darl McBride
Two things I find that are missing from many documents that I have to work with, are traceability, and references.
References are great (especially if you have a hyperlink) for any number of reasons...
As for traceability, I *loathe* documents like this:
Design document version 1.1
This document describes the differences between version 1.0 and 1.1
And then, version 1.0 is not included as an appendix, and it doesn't tell you where to find it.
As for sticking the 'differences' into a document, and calling it a design, I loathe that too. &*(@# lazy turds!
... ten times faster than traditional electronic devices, smashing the intrinsic speed limit ...
With the rate that things are advancing, I can no longer classify 10x as 'smashing'. No, smashing is more on the order of 1000x.
On another note, put a decoder on one end of a 'bicyle-speed' light cable, and loop it back to an encoder on the other end... I wonder what sort of data-density you could achieve, with this 'dynamic ram' device?
1. Design GPS-signal-spoofer device
2. Download restraining order registry
3. ???
4. Profit!
I really wish the Qt XML implementation would support XPath.
XPath allows you to easily select part of XML DOM documents, simplifying your life...
XPath is powerful enough to become part of a programming language itself (Comega), in Microsoft's opinion...
However, last I checked, Trolltech doesn't think it's worth it. Booo!
PS., Designer and Qt are way better than WinForms!!!
def list
response.headers["content-type"]="application/vn d.mozilla.xul+xml"
end
and then write the view template in XUL!
I wonder how hard it would be to get Rails to spit out XUL to the (mozilla) browser, instead of HTML?
I doubt it would be that hard, and would let you do some snappy interfaces.
I hope you are using Lynx to browse, then, 'cuz those image hyperlinks to akamai will get you!
Sargent: "the new plastic composite is, in layman's terms, a layer of film that "catches'' solar energy. "
VC: looks sceptical
Sargent: "ummm, with the laser beams, umm, clayven"
VC: inks the contract
Just think, if we could put a rocket on it now, we could change the trajectory of the asteroid by a tiny tiny fraction, but multiplied over 24 years, would put the asteroid far away from earth.
Of course, we'd probably screw it up, and it would impact earth in 22 years as a result.
I doubt that GDI+ is available in Mono. GDI+ is a 'free' download from Microsoft, but it's a DLL.
Additionally, ads are appearing in front of DVD movies
Here's little tip:
Even if the DVD advert has disabled the fast forward buttons and the root-menu button, you can still hit 'stop', and then 'menu', which will bypass the ads. Maybe I shouldn't leak my secret, or they'll come up with a bug(feature) for that, too.
'Course, if it's a VHS tape, you can use a pair of scissors... Snip!