Of course Slashdotters will tell you Ubuntu just like they want you to encode your music in ogg, but the answer is XP, clearly. It's still the standard, for better and (mostly) worse, so if the machine can run it, run it. If it's a donated machine, there are low/no expectations for future support other than scrub-and-reinstall, so XP makes the most sense. But also, what they said re: what's the machine's target use, maybe Ubuntu is a good route... but XP is unfortunately the best bet.
Citation PLEASE?! I suppose you don't like vaccines in general.
For the sane people: get a flu shot-- any flu shot-- and don't worry about your cell phone.
For that matter, maybe life has and continues to spontaneously emerge on our warm, wet, densely living planet in different nooks and crannies but hasn't found the right conditions to start sprouting in other places at all... as far as we can tell... yet.
With the "chemicals for life" and every imaginable condition spread across the universe, the suggestion that life spontaneously emerged on the Earth implies that the universe has sprouted life millions or billions of other times; in other words, that the universe itself "is alive."
First came MySpace, and when people realized Facebook suited them better, they saw MySpace as the pile of crap software that it really was.
Now Facebook is falling victim to its own success, and people are seeing its limits and pitfalls, looking for the next thing as Facebook tries to monetize their personal information.
What will it be? Probably not something called "diaspora*" in spite of its founders' apparent good intentions: despite the upbeat definition they picked, most people associate diaspora with slavery, oppression, and other painful historical memories.
Seriously: what's next?
Somebody needs to tell them that the person on the other end can't appreciate their grinning and nodding.
Those pleated pants do go nicely with the headset, though-- nice look, bluetard.
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A film camera shooting at 24fps typically has an exposure of 1/48 of a second. The other 1/48 of a second is used to move the exposed bit of film out of the way and to position the next bit of film in the gate for exposure. This is referred to at a 180-degree shutter, since the shutter is open for 1/2 of the 360 degrees of the camera movement's rotation. When the film is shot overcranked-- at 48fps or 72fps or whatever for a slo-mo effect-- the shutter is still usually 180 degrees, so the motion blur looks about the same when played back at 24fps.
Your test doesn't indicate as much about frame rate as it points to flaws in your rendering technique.
With accurate motion blur, your viewers would have a very hard time telling the difference between 24fps, 30fps, and 60fps.
NOES!!! We like our USPS very much, thank you... er, some of us do. The ones who send mail.
In my experience, things do/not/ get "lost in the mail"-- that's just a slacker's excuse for not having sent something. In this case, stuff's getting/stolen/ in the mail-- different issue, and I'm sure the USPS has federal agents on the case.
Given the size of the US, and that a first class stamp will send your letter across town or from Miami to Honolulu, I consider the USPS (1) a bargain and (2) a poster-child for the idea that government/can/ do things very, very well. Them, and the, um, Flowers By Irene.
I'd like to know what the original/. post refers to, but perhaps it was posted from Windows 7, which did not approve the "unauthorized" posting of a critical URL.
Anyway, with Linuxes getting better and easier to run every day, more data and apps in the cloud and Apple leading the usability charge, let's hope Windows continues its agonizing death spiral.
I sort of saw it as sarcasm on his part-- the confidence of youth, etc.
Whatever, you kids and your internet machines-- I want to know about his policies regarding developing new technology to deal with the impending whale oil crisis...
As somebody who (ab)uses that particular rig daily, the article misses the point about what's so awesome about the system.
It's a good sized datacenter, but what it's able to support in processing ability is the impressive part, and that the fat bandwidth runs at capacity almost all of the time by the demands of processing jobs. Proprietary software doles out jobs 24/7 to thousands of procs all over campus-- including artists' desktop machines-- for heavy duty computation: rendering and simulation and whatever it takes.
I can't imagine a facility where so many people are creating and pumping so much data around.
Palm's products reached a level of quality a long time ago that gave them a sort of immunity-- people covet well-designed products and keep them in use in spite of corporate twists and turns for better or worse.
This is further evidence that the major US TV networks have lost touch with the way technology has changed how people consume their media. Futurama gained a huge audience on Cartoon Network because they can show a few episodes a day, so it's not tough for people to catch one. The way the networks operate, there's a tiny window of opportunity for watching a show, so it's very hard for people to "catch on" to something. A few things the networks could do to make sure good shows get a real chance: * When a show's schedule changes, let one last show air in the old time slot, with "we're moving!" notices every time the show goes to or comes back from commercial.
* Support their own programming by cutting down on informercials and re-airing episodes of prime time shows late and early, with "if you missed it..." plugs.
* Put them online or on iTunes and let people share them x number of times, so they can spread shows around.
(As for Arrested Development, I love the show and have watched every episode numerous times. Afternoon Deelite is still hard to beat. At the same time, I wonder what kind of staying power it has or if it *should* go on for more than two seasons-- a lot happens on the show, so why does the end have to be doom and gloom? I'd love to a LITERAL shark-jumping moment (maybe Buster, in a leather jacket, loses a foot?) in the second to last episode, with Henry Winkler there to save the day (and get hired back as the family attorney).)
Generally, stats like this are compared with similar stats from other years, to adjust for seasonal effects. So, does anybody know if iTMS sales dipped last year before xmas?
Nay saying folks-- please rtfa again-- the metals are used in very small quantities to catalyze the reaction to produce hydrogen. Instead of spewing waste ino the air, the post-reaction catalyst is retained for processing later. It sounds like the processing wouldn't take a whole lot of energy, plus it could be done at a site which uses a renewable energy source. Before poo pooing this tech, please realize that it takes a whole lot of energy to get your gas to the pump to begin with.
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Of course Slashdotters will tell you Ubuntu just like they want you to encode your music in ogg, but the answer is XP, clearly. It's still the standard, for better and (mostly) worse, so if the machine can run it, run it. If it's a donated machine, there are low/no expectations for future support other than scrub-and-reinstall, so XP makes the most sense. But also, what they said re: what's the machine's target use, maybe Ubuntu is a good route... but XP is unfortunately the best bet.
Citation PLEASE?! I suppose you don't like vaccines in general. For the sane people: get a flu shot-- any flu shot-- and don't worry about your cell phone.
For that matter, maybe life has and continues to spontaneously emerge on our warm, wet, densely living planet in different nooks and crannies but hasn't found the right conditions to start sprouting in other places at all... as far as we can tell... yet. With the "chemicals for life" and every imaginable condition spread across the universe, the suggestion that life spontaneously emerged on the Earth implies that the universe has sprouted life millions or billions of other times; in other words, that the universe itself "is alive."
First came MySpace, and when people realized Facebook suited them better, they saw MySpace as the pile of crap software that it really was. Now Facebook is falling victim to its own success, and people are seeing its limits and pitfalls, looking for the next thing as Facebook tries to monetize their personal information. What will it be? Probably not something called "diaspora*" in spite of its founders' apparent good intentions: despite the upbeat definition they picked, most people associate diaspora with slavery, oppression, and other painful historical memories. Seriously: what's next?
Somebody needs to tell them that the person on the other end can't appreciate their grinning and nodding.
Those pleated pants do go nicely with the headset, though-- nice look, bluetard.
A film camera shooting at 24fps typically has an exposure of 1/48 of a second. The other 1/48 of a second is used to move the exposed bit of film out of the way and to position the next bit of film in the gate for exposure. This is referred to at a 180-degree shutter, since the shutter is open for 1/2 of the 360 degrees of the camera movement's rotation. When the film is shot overcranked-- at 48fps or 72fps or whatever for a slo-mo effect-- the shutter is still usually 180 degrees, so the motion blur looks about the same when played back at 24fps.
Your test doesn't indicate as much about frame rate as it points to flaws in your rendering technique.
With accurate motion blur, your viewers would have a very hard time telling the difference between 24fps, 30fps, and 60fps.
Whatever-- I know you never sent that check.
NOES!!! We like our USPS very much, thank you... er, some of us do. The ones who send mail. In my experience, things do /not/ get "lost in the mail"-- that's just a slacker's excuse for not having sent something. In this case, stuff's getting /stolen/ in the mail-- different issue, and I'm sure the USPS has federal agents on the case.
Given the size of the US, and that a first class stamp will send your letter across town or from Miami to Honolulu, I consider the USPS (1) a bargain and (2) a poster-child for the idea that government /can/ do things very, very well. Them, and the, um, Flowers By Irene.
I'd like to know what the original /. post refers to, but perhaps it was posted from Windows 7, which did not approve the "unauthorized" posting of a critical URL.
Anyway, with Linuxes getting better and easier to run every day, more data and apps in the cloud and Apple leading the usability charge, let's hope Windows continues its agonizing death spiral.
I sort of saw it as sarcasm on his part-- the confidence of youth, etc. Whatever, you kids and your internet machines-- I want to know about his policies regarding developing new technology to deal with the impending whale oil crisis...
Way too much sketchiness and outright fraud on eBay-- they seemed to stop engineering the system years ago.
I bet a few Google engineers have thought of this and at least a few have thrown a little 20% time at this isue...
As somebody who (ab)uses that particular rig daily, the article misses the point about what's so awesome about the system.
It's a good sized datacenter, but what it's able to support in processing ability is the impressive part, and that the fat bandwidth runs at capacity almost all of the time by the demands of processing jobs. Proprietary software doles out jobs 24/7 to thousands of procs all over campus-- including artists' desktop machines-- for heavy duty computation: rendering and simulation and whatever it takes.
I can't imagine a facility where so many people are creating and pumping so much data around.
Palm's products reached a level of quality a long time ago that gave them a sort of immunity-- people covet well-designed products and keep them in use in spite of corporate twists and turns for better or worse.
Mod parent up!!!
thinks like CCD's... and this little thing... called the internet...
Thank you President Bush.
One question-- did the government invent the word "duh" as well?
...is an os that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators!
Bring on the links! A favorite of mine-- Cable camera rig.
I'm tempted to bid... please, somebody, stop me?!!!!
if rateMe(points=-1, reason=troll): whoCares()
sorry this AD stuff is OT, but Steve, thank you! must run home to TiVo asap...
* When a show's schedule changes, let one last show air in the old time slot, with "we're moving!" notices every time the show goes to or comes back from commercial.
* Support their own programming by cutting down on informercials and re-airing episodes of prime time shows late and early, with "if you missed it..." plugs.
* Put them online or on iTunes and let people share them x number of times, so they can spread shows around.
(As for Arrested Development, I love the show and have watched every episode numerous times. Afternoon Deelite is still hard to beat. At the same time, I wonder what kind of staying power it has or if it *should* go on for more than two seasons-- a lot happens on the show, so why does the end have to be doom and gloom? I'd love to a LITERAL shark-jumping moment (maybe Buster, in a leather jacket, loses a foot?) in the second to last episode, with Henry Winkler there to save the day (and get hired back as the family attorney).)
parent's a douchebag
Generally, stats like this are compared with similar stats from other years, to adjust for seasonal effects. So, does anybody know if iTMS sales dipped last year before xmas?
gimp == lame
and it's more than the name...
Nay saying folks-- please rtfa again-- the metals are used in very small quantities to catalyze the reaction to produce hydrogen. Instead of spewing waste ino the air, the post-reaction catalyst is retained for processing later. It sounds like the processing wouldn't take a whole lot of energy, plus it could be done at a site which uses a renewable energy source. Before poo pooing this tech, please realize that it takes a whole lot of energy to get your gas to the pump to begin with.