Thank God I live in Australia where ISP's *must* describe exactly what the customer is getting for their money thanks mainly to the ACCC and TIO. We've even got a nice community built search form based on that information so you can easily compare ISP's.
Remember when YouTube went down for most of the day because of a mis-announced route from somewhere or other? These black holes are that type of problem. Not mis-announced necessarily, but unreachable for similar reasons.
You'd have to seriously hurt yourself to disable this biometric I don't know about you, but I find that the people who have seriously hurt themselves need medical care the most. It seems kind of silly to have an identification system that doesn't work in cases where it could be the most use.
I'm guessing they would use either polarized or flickering LCD glasses to ensure only one pre-generated image is visible to each eye. With objects appearing behind or in front of the screen in line with your nose. As with other forms of stereograms, your eyes must be focused on the screen, while angled towards the 2 images. Even if you do see the 3D image it will always seem a little off since these 2 factors will not be giving your brain the same information. Tilt your head to one side and the illusion of depth will be lost.
And the low income, working poor, that don't have $50 in hand to buy one with? Or don't bother to file tax returns? Lets deprive them of free entertainment shall we?
Besides once you have the design for all the plastic pieces in the machine you can send the designs off to be mass produced via injection molding so the cost can be reduced. Which kind of defeats the purpose anyway. While designing a machine that can build all of it's own parts is interesting. In the long term it doesn't seem that useful since the intention is to keep bootstrapping the technology when there are other existing processes that can produce the machine cheaper and more efficiently.
Sure you can. We also take away driving permits if you break the rules. You should lose demerit points if your machine is found to have been compromised.
> Farming isn't confined to land. Mariculturists have turned areas of the sea into beds of protein-rich seaweed and algae. This raw material is processed into food that looks and tastes like steak and other meats. It also is cheap; families can have steak-like meals twice a day without feeling a budget pinch. Areas in bays or close to shore have been turned into shrimp, lobster, clam and other shellfish ranches, like the cattle spreads of yesteryear.
This hadn't happened, thank the gods!
Not algae and seaweed pretending to be red meat, but there are a lot of fish farms in ocean pens around the world.
... DirectX10 requires features only present in Vista's new display system. I'd say the reverse is closer to the truth, that Vista's new display system required a new version of DirectX to allow the desktop and other 3D applications to share the graphics card. From an application perspective there is nothing in the DirectX10 client side API's that would prevent it being implemented on XP.
I'd rather see something like the way OpenVPN can be setup to tunnel an encrypted connection over UDP packets as the transport mechanism. Hide all the TCP level details completely. I'd probably go even further and use a protocol like SCTP encrypted and tunneled over UDP.
At least this would stop the Comcast forged RST problem, but there's not much you could do if they just dropped these packets instead.
They've made some progress on the manufacturing front. Last time I saw this idea posted to/. they were talking about placing a sheet of small lenses in front of a standard camera CCD at the focal point of the main camera lens.
From what I understood the last time, each small lens intercepts all the light at that focal point and splits it up on the small pixel grid behind it. So instead of just getting the intensity of the light at that point you also capture vector information about where that light entered the main lens from. And you can do some interesting things with that data.
Say you get a bright spot on 2 pixels from the sensors behind neighboring small lenses, then in software you can do some ray tracing to work out exactly where that light originated from.
By choosing which pixels to sample and how to combine their values, you can build an image which simulates any aperture size, with any focal length, from the perspective of any point on the surface of your main lens.
For instance, no baby animals of any sort will voluntarily move off of a cliff, even onto a clear surface that would support them. Fear of heights is built in Perhaps, but the process a baby uses to determine that there *is* a cliff has not necessarily developed before they are mobile enough to start exploring on their own.
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No, I mean the bassoon.
Nah, he's describing the proper disposal of the most awful sounding musical instrument known to mankind.
Thank God I live in Australia where ISP's *must* describe exactly what the customer is getting for their money thanks mainly to the ACCC and TIO. We've even got a nice community built search form based on that information so you can easily compare ISP's.
Remember when YouTube went down for most of the day because of a mis-announced route from somewhere or other? These black holes are that type of problem. Not mis-announced necessarily, but unreachable for similar reasons.
I'm guessing they would use either polarized or flickering LCD glasses to ensure only one pre-generated image is visible to each eye. With objects appearing behind or in front of the screen in line with your nose. As with other forms of stereograms, your eyes must be focused on the screen, while angled towards the 2 images. Even if you do see the 3D image it will always seem a little off since these 2 factors will not be giving your brain the same information. Tilt your head to one side and the illusion of depth will be lost.
And the low income, working poor, that don't have $50 in hand to buy one with? Or don't bother to file tax returns? Lets deprive them of free entertainment shall we?
Besides once you have the design for all the plastic pieces in the machine you can send the designs off to be mass produced via injection molding so the cost can be reduced. Which kind of defeats the purpose anyway. While designing a machine that can build all of it's own parts is interesting. In the long term it doesn't seem that useful since the intention is to keep bootstrapping the technology when there are other existing processes that can produce the machine cheaper and more efficiently.
Head for the hills folks, soon we're going to be up to our armpits in 3D self-replicating printers.
I already know all that you insensitive clod.
We might be seeing him/her real soon now though.
Nah, it was just an empty threat.
Sure you can. We also take away driving permits if you break the rules. You should lose demerit points if your machine is found to have been compromised.
Felt like venting did you?.
Speaking of Rick Rolled, have you checked out youtube's featured clips lately?
It's called timezones. It's already April Fool's here in AU.
The plot coagulates; Webkit claims 100% support while the ACID test has been modified to conform to the SVG 1.1 standard. So Opera may not have a 100% result anymore.
This hadn't happened, thank the gods!
Not algae and seaweed pretending to be red meat, but there are a lot of fish farms in ocean pens around the world.
... DirectX10 requires features only present in Vista's new display system. I'd say the reverse is closer to the truth, that Vista's new display system required a new version of DirectX to allow the desktop and other 3D applications to share the graphics card. From an application perspective there is nothing in the DirectX10 client side API's that would prevent it being implemented on XP.I'd rather see something like the way OpenVPN can be setup to tunnel an encrypted connection over UDP packets as the transport mechanism. Hide all the TCP level details completely. I'd probably go even further and use a protocol like SCTP encrypted and tunneled over UDP.
At least this would stop the Comcast forged RST problem, but there's not much you could do if they just dropped these packets instead.
Did any of those 3 people have google's toolbar installed? Scanning the email may not be the only way it could have happened.
They've made some progress on the manufacturing front. Last time I saw this idea posted to /. they were talking about placing a sheet of small lenses in front of a standard camera CCD at the focal point of the main camera lens.
From what I understood the last time, each small lens intercepts all the light at that focal point and splits it up on the small pixel grid behind it. So instead of just getting the intensity of the light at that point you also capture vector information about where that light entered the main lens from. And you can do some interesting things with that data.
Say you get a bright spot on 2 pixels from the sensors behind neighboring small lenses, then in software you can do some ray tracing to work out exactly where that light originated from.
By choosing which pixels to sample and how to combine their values, you can build an image which simulates any aperture size, with any focal length, from the perspective of any point on the surface of your main lens.
According to an earlier poster they are only counting hops over links between metro areas. The hops that get the most congested by P2P traffic.
Not sure, but process explorer has a strings page for any loaded module.