I just checked some of the images I had saved and you can't see the watermarks in the image. If you zoom in closely there are some artifacts of the watermark in some places. I'm not sure, but it seems there was some removal method happening.
I would bet that the main reason that this was taken down is because they were displaying images that either didn't add the watermark or were removing the watermarks. If they had added one Google watermark to the bottom of the tiled image they generated, this might not have happened.
Put lots of plants there. Plants are great! They look good and they recycle the CO2 into oxygen for us. It's important to have beautiful things around and it's even more important to have nice, good quality air to breath.
It's crazy to think that the speed they are getting of approx. 800 MB per sec transfering from LA to Europe is faster than the effective bandwith of PC133 RAM to the CPU.
The majority of the computers in this world are probably using PC133 RAM.
Did anyone else notice that EvilTwinSkippy got 7 posts in this story moderated +5 funny?!
This has got to be a record for one person in one story...
Chris
Re:I dont think I would hack my car
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Hack Your Car
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Reminds me of the first time I got a flat. Put the car up on the jack, took off bad tire, put on spare and proceeded to tighten the lug nuts. I had been told by mechanic friends that it was best to tighten the nuts, lower the car off the jack and then finish tightening the rest of the way. I do this and am off on my way.
3 minutes later I'm going down the hill at about 45mph and the front of the car suddenly drops and I see one of my wheels bouncing and rolling down the hill past me! I skid a little ways and came to a stop half way off the road.
Luckily I was on back country roads and not the highway. Somehow the wheel was on crooked and still managed to tighten fully. Needless to say I learnt how to do it properly the hard way.
Back when Novalogic made the original Comanche, F22, Armored Fist (i think,) and DeltaForce I would talk with my friends about how amzing it would be to play one game where all these were integrated. It wasn't until another 10 years later that I saw Battlefield 1942 for the first time. I was amazed and it was a good bit of fun to play, but I wasn't really into the WWII timeline.
A friend recommended DesertCombat and I havn't looked back since. It's completely amazing and very well done. I was shocked that it was free too! The BF1942 engine could be a little bit better and it will be nice to see what they have in store for the next version... How about a MMPOG version? hehe.(
It is amazing though that a game company can sell thousands more copies of a game just because a free mod is made.
I've experienced this first hand...
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Stealth Inflation
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In each of my last 3 jobs I've had this happen. Each time our company would be on a specific plan/rate and at somepoint the rates would change on the bills and we would get way overbilled to the tune of thousands of dollars.
When I would call up the phone company (ATT mostly) they would say oh, there must be some mistake and they would promptly change it back and credit the amount. Now from my understanding of the the way software is made, especially billing software, there usually aren't random variables or functions programmed in that change options on an account. I mean how does the fixed rate change on an account seemingly randomly. I've had it happen too many times at work as well as at home to smell foul play. My guess was that somewhere high up the programed the system to change rates to random accounts and told their reps that if there was ever a problem just to fix it quickly without a fuss. Or maybe they just have someone doing it manually, but that would be a lot of accounts to be messing with.
There are thousands of companies out there that don't even check some bills over for consistency, especially ones from "reputable" companies like ATT. I hope to hell something like this is proven and these scamming phone companies (and other companies) are given what they deserve.
I tried to check. I installed the Cortona VRML viewer for IE and tried to open the file. All IE memory usage just goes thru the roof. I ended the task when mem usage got past 500mb.
I tried to install the Cosmo viewer and open the file, but IE crashed.
So, sorry, can't answer your question. Maybe my computer has auto goatse.cx protection.;)
hehehe.. I'm very lucky I wasn't reading this at the office.
havn't seen it mentioned in this discussion yet...
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Synthesized Singers
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I have seen this program called Virtual Singer and it has been doing something similar for a while. I tried to get a sample mp3 from their website, but the links weren't working.
As far as I know this program is actually synthesizing rather than basing it on samples and they have a "Real Singer" module that does it based on samples. It has a score that you can make and it will sing to the notes on your score.
while everyone is at it...
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I guess they didn't realize the GRAVITY of their decision to post this to Slashdot and the inevitable CHAOS that was to follow.
I think they have everyone fooled. Note the speakers and subwoofer at the bottom of the pic.;) Why whould a flute playing robot need speakers?
Seriously though, this is very impressive. From the lung to the lips and mouth like piece that makes the air come out is if from a normal mouth, it's amazing. I'd like to hear how it sounds and I'd be interested in the software that was made to convert the midi notes into breath strength/time and the finger movements.
Yes, I agree with what you say for the most part. I think the interesting thing tho is that for people to have the CHOICE to leave the matrix, they would have to know all about it and the real world. The matrix would have to be rebooted with a senario depicting both realms educating the humans about them and then allowing the option of staying or leaving.
one thing you are not mentioning is that most widescreen displays are much more expensive and also if you look at the resolution they support it is usually the same width resolution as a comparable size monitor, but with less height resolution. ie. a normal 19" monitor running 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 and the wide screen 19" would be 1280x768 or 1600x1024.
When I first got into surfing I thought it would be great to have one of these. My main thoughts were along the lines of safety. If you could have a normal surfboard that when an extra big wave was heading towards you about to crash down on you, you could (while laying down on your board) press a button near the front of your board with your thumbs to accelerate out of harms way. You would either go at the wave full speed to get over it or go down under the wave and actually be able to have power while under water. For me that hardest part about surfing was actually getting under the wave that is about to crash or has already crashed. As the waves get bigger this gets increasingly harder/impossible (really really big waves.) It could also serve well to help catch those large waves with having to use a jet-ski to tow-in surf.
Seeing this article excited me for a second, but what a dissapointment... and I think i've changed my mind about these things now.
No where in the article does it mention how well it really surfs. Most of the pics on their website show people standing up on them riding like a jetski. That's really what this is. Not a motorized surfboard. Surfing means riding waves and if it's not still good at riding a wave, then it's not for surfing... more like waterskiing.
If it could be done without altering the shape of a normal surfboard and also allowing full operation when underwater as well and being completely quiet and environmentally friendly, then I will be excited. That day is likely a long ways away.
There is a certian "spiritual" feeling you get from surfing that you would definately loose if it didn't meet those criteria. Adding to the safety of surfing with a properly well made board as mentioned would be great, but not with something that replaces what you get from paddling out, humbly getting crushed by the ocean, rushing to catch a wave, dropping down the face, and getting the ride of your life!
Another saftey thing that I'm surprised isn't available are small, cheap "aqua lungs" that would provide 2-5 min of air for a surfer stuck underwater for longer then planned. Or maybe they do have these and I just havn't seen them?
They could be just part of the leash that velcros to your ankle and you reach down and snap it off in an emergency. Maybe these things would be seen as "wussy" or whatever, but I wonder how many lives something like this could/would have save(d.) These would also boost your confidence when out there in the water and maybe help to increase your surfing skills.
...sorry, I know, I'm rambling on now. It's late and it's not often that surfing make the news on slashdot, so... goodnight.
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I just checked some of the images I had saved and you can't see the watermarks in the image. If you zoom in closely there are some artifacts of the watermark in some places. I'm not sure, but it seems there was some removal method happening.
I would bet that the main reason that this was taken down is because they were displaying images that either didn't add the watermark or were removing the watermarks. If they had added one Google watermark to the bottom of the tiled image they generated, this might not have happened.
After having listened to these it is obvious that they ran the program on the wrong directory. Should have been:
/allthegoodchristmasmusic /home/brian/newmusic
/dev/null /home/brian/newmusic
$ automakemusic -scan
not:
$ automakemusic -scan
Thank you! After trying all the Nasa mirrors with no luck... BitTorrent to the rescue indeed. Getting great speeds (200kBps.)
:)
Oh wait... just checked and was up to 390kBps on my lowly cable connection here.
Put lots of plants there. Plants are great! They look good and they recycle the CO2 into oxygen for us. It's important to have beautiful things around and it's even more important to have nice, good quality air to breath.
if you have one more invite in you... send it this way please: kd_121@hotmail.com (for testing purposes ;-))
It's crazy to think that the speed they are getting of approx. 800 MB per sec transfering from LA to Europe is faster than the effective bandwith of PC133 RAM to the CPU.
The majority of the computers in this world are probably using PC133 RAM.
kd
Did anyone else notice that EvilTwinSkippy got 7 posts in this story moderated +5 funny?!
This has got to be a record for one person in one story...
Chris
Reminds me of the first time I got a flat. Put the car up on the jack, took off bad tire, put on spare and proceeded to tighten the lug nuts. I had been told by mechanic friends that it was best to tighten the nuts, lower the car off the jack and then finish tightening the rest of the way. I do this and am off on my way.
3 minutes later I'm going down the hill at about 45mph and the front of the car suddenly drops and I see one of my wheels bouncing and rolling down the hill past me! I skid a little ways and came to a stop half way off the road.
Luckily I was on back country roads and not the highway. Somehow the wheel was on crooked and still managed to tighten fully. Needless to say I learnt how to do it properly the hard way.
Back when Novalogic made the original Comanche, F22, Armored Fist (i think,) and DeltaForce I would talk with my friends about how amzing it would be to play one game where all these were integrated. It wasn't until another 10 years later that I saw Battlefield 1942 for the first time. I was amazed and it was a good bit of fun to play, but I wasn't really into the WWII timeline.
A friend recommended DesertCombat and I havn't looked back since. It's completely amazing and very well done. I was shocked that it was free too! The BF1942 engine could be a little bit better and it will be nice to see what they have in store for the next version... How about a MMPOG version? hehe.(
It is amazing though that a game company can sell thousands more copies of a game just because a free mod is made.
In each of my last 3 jobs I've had this happen. Each time our company would be on a specific plan/rate and at somepoint the rates would change on the bills and we would get way overbilled to the tune of thousands of dollars.
When I would call up the phone company (ATT mostly) they would say oh, there must be some mistake and they would promptly change it back and credit the amount. Now from my understanding of the the way software is made, especially billing software, there usually aren't random variables or functions programmed in that change options on an account. I mean how does the fixed rate change on an account seemingly randomly. I've had it happen too many times at work as well as at home to smell foul play. My guess was that somewhere high up the programed the system to change rates to random accounts and told their reps that if there was ever a problem just to fix it quickly without a fuss. Or maybe they just have someone doing it manually, but that would be a lot of accounts to be messing with.
There are thousands of companies out there that don't even check some bills over for consistency, especially ones from "reputable" companies like ATT. I hope to hell something like this is proven and these scamming phone companies (and other companies) are given what they deserve.
I tried to check. I installed the Cortona VRML viewer for IE and tried to open the file. All IE memory usage just goes thru the roof. I ended the task when mem usage got past 500mb.
;)
I tried to install the Cosmo viewer and open the file, but IE crashed.
So, sorry, can't answer your question. Maybe my computer has auto goatse.cx protection.
All the other files are ok though.
Hey, many thanks for the torrent! good work. :)
It's bloody amazing. Slashdot is the biggest, most powerful DDoS attack. You just list someone's site/article, and it's gone...
/. , neh?
;)
People with little servers ph33r their project being posted on
You're new here aren't you?
hehehe.. I'm very lucky I wasn't reading this at the office.
I have seen this program called Virtual Singer and it has been doing something similar for a while. I tried to get a sample mp3 from their website, but the links weren't working.
As far as I know this program is actually synthesizing rather than basing it on samples and they have a "Real Singer" module that does it based on samples. It has a score that you can make and it will sing to the notes on your score.
I guess they didn't realize the GRAVITY of their decision to post this to Slashdot and the inevitable CHAOS that was to follow.
this should have been modded +6 funny! I dodn't think I've ever seen a story with more funny mods than this one.
I think they have everyone fooled. Note the speakers and subwoofer at the bottom of the pic. ;) Why whould a flute playing robot need speakers?
Seriously though, this is very impressive. From the lung to the lips and mouth like piece that makes the air come out is if from a normal mouth, it's amazing. I'd like to hear how it sounds and I'd be interested in the software that was made to convert the midi notes into breath strength/time and the finger movements.
I have a red sign on my door. It says "If this sign is blue, you're going too fast."
:D
Hehehehe... man I love that one!
Yes, I agree with what you say for the most part. I think the interesting thing tho is that for people to have the CHOICE to leave the matrix, they would have to know all about it and the real world. The matrix would have to be rebooted with a senario depicting both realms educating the humans about them and then allowing the option of staying or leaving.
Can we say... Outpost Firewall?? :-)
it can be found here
As for the antivirus i don't really know what to say.
one thing you are not mentioning is that most widescreen displays are much more expensive and also if you look at the resolution they support it is usually the same width resolution as a comparable size monitor, but with less height resolution. ie. a normal 19" monitor running 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 and the wide screen 19" would be 1280x768 or 1600x1024.
Exactly!! Mod parent up!
When I first got into surfing I thought it would be great to have one of these. My main thoughts were along the lines of safety. If you could have a normal surfboard that when an extra big wave was heading towards you about to crash down on you, you could (while laying down on your board) press a button near the front of your board with your thumbs to accelerate out of harms way. You would either go at the wave full speed to get over it or go down under the wave and actually be able to have power while under water. For me that hardest part about surfing was actually getting under the wave that is about to crash or has already crashed. As the waves get bigger this gets increasingly harder/impossible (really really big waves.) It could also serve well to help catch those large waves with having to use a jet-ski to tow-in surf.
...sorry, I know, I'm rambling on now. It's late and it's not often that surfing make the news on slashdot, so... goodnight.
Seeing this article excited me for a second, but what a dissapointment... and I think i've changed my mind about these things now.
No where in the article does it mention how well it really surfs. Most of the pics on their website show people standing up on them riding like a jetski. That's really what this is. Not a motorized surfboard. Surfing means riding waves and if it's not still good at riding a wave, then it's not for surfing... more like waterskiing.
If it could be done without altering the shape of a normal surfboard and also allowing full operation when underwater as well and being completely quiet and environmentally friendly, then I will be excited. That day is likely a long ways away.
There is a certian "spiritual" feeling you get from surfing that you would definately loose if it didn't meet those criteria. Adding to the safety of surfing with a properly well made board as mentioned would be great, but not with something that replaces what you get from paddling out, humbly getting crushed by the ocean, rushing to catch a wave, dropping down the face, and getting the ride of your life!
Another saftey thing that I'm surprised isn't available are small, cheap "aqua lungs" that would provide 2-5 min of air for a surfer stuck underwater for longer then planned. Or maybe they do have these and I just havn't seen them? They could be just part of the leash that velcros to your ankle and you reach down and snap it off in an emergency. Maybe these things would be seen as "wussy" or whatever, but I wonder how many lives something like this could/would have save(d.) These would also boost your confidence when out there in the water and maybe help to increase your surfing skills.