Who ever figures out how to do it more efficiently (patents aren't for ideas, but particular implementation, right?) should be victorious. I'm glad to be on the consumer side on this one, however.
An alternative power car that doesn't look like crap. In fact to me it looks fantastic. Compare this to all the Priuses and Insights in the world, and those are just hybrids. Sure there is that Ford hybrid SUV, Toyota's large sedan and I beleive Honda has hybrid Accord as well that look like a regular car, but again, they also burn fuel in the car (yes, electricity has to get produced somewhere, bu doesn't have to come from coal - how about wind/solar/hydro, the more demand grows, the more we will see these eco-friendlier plants appearing).
Interestingly enough, their main site http://www.teslamotors.com/ says there is still couple an hours to go before unveiling. If this thing actaully performs as advertised, it will finaly give the name Tesla some more cradit that it surely deserves. I have already started saving for it (hope they have financing plans available)!
Um... it's more fun for everyone involved if they ask NASA? Scientists get to guss what it's used for (and also play a practical joke by sending all 40,000 digits), while Groening and krew get to talk to NASA.
Also, who wants to shift through million digits just to find one number?
>> This is exactly what the employee told >> the customer, word for word... >> "This lets you keep the rental for a couple >> of days extra, just to allow you extra time."
This pretty much tells me that it's still business as usuall, and after those extra few days there will be some fees incuring; wether they call them restocking or late fees should be irrelevant to anyone who has better things in life to do than worry about other people's nomenclature.
Dropline is great! If you have fast connection, then installation is painless - just start the instaler, select few options, go outside (gasp!) and when you are back you new gnome is waiting for you.
I've been using it for some time now, and I haven't found anything missing (besides win32 video codec drivers:) I use Serbian Cyrillic trnaslations, and I'm glad that they included everyting, and it works out of box.
Also they update packages fairly often (stuff like mozilla); they even provide an applet for panel that checks for updates.
Overall, strongly recomended for any slacker outhere!
That people who lived under communism for so long have mastered capitalism so quickly.
Actually the only way to live "normaly" (ie. above poverty line) was to be as big of a capitalist as possible. Otherwise you get to starve while trying to live of off various social programs and low paying government owned jobs.
Distros like Slackware 9.1 are already 2.6 ready - meaning just plug 2.6 in and it should work! The only reason why kernel 2.6 wasn't included is, well, that it wasn't released until now:)
FADE system, used by Codemasters (Pro Race Driver, Colin McRae Rally...) does the similar thing, and considers virtual drive software to be a sign of piracy and degrades the game slowly if it detects something fishy.
From the video (yay, I managed to snatch it before/. wave propagated), it runs really smooth - they have netscape and two movie players running and it all happens with no lagging as the guy rotates the whole thing around in 3D (and when you look at it from the back, the movie is mirrored and still plays smooth). I wonder what kind of machine it is the whole thing is happening on.
Another thing i'm impressed by is that it didn't seem ackward the way they were using it - i remeber trying some other 3D wms on X, and they were all pretty bad from usability point. This introduces 3D in a way where it solves problem of organizing apps on the desktop instead of creating new problems. I'm amazed and think this is a step in the right direction.
Tell that to my friend, who after spending $30* on black-jack (same as me) put in one quater in a slot machine and got $300! At first we tought it got broken, what with all the buttons being stuck and some wierd noise. Then the security guard came and told us we won, and that that kind of money is not being spewed out by the machine, instead we had to wait for them to bring the cash to us:) First quater he put in...
* we were at a casino just to try it out, generaly it's fun to go every year or so and wast a bit of money also, i'm talking canadian dollars here:) and no, he never won anything since (but we were there maybe twice since then)
Did you read the article? It says they have >150 miles of major roads + who knows how many aleys and such. So you can select "take a ride", get cops on your tail, and have a huge chase. I think regular misions can be big chases as well. And with 3 cities this is huge - it says in the article modeling eat up the most budget.
I always go for LyX for all my editing needs, I think it will do just fine for a novel as well... what's that, not that kind of editor? Oh, well, LyX has spellcheck and thesaurus features, so it still might be on topic:)
Ok, people will you stop with this "Blender has horrible interface" bs? I've started playing with 3d porgrams in 98, and first thing I used was 3D Studio MAX, which has this windows application look and feel for most things. Then I tried blender, and at first i had no idea where to look for what, but then i read 2 short interface tutorials, and i was set. I still don't find it any more difficult than 3D MAX, because I woouldn't know what to do with it either, if my friend didn't show me the basics of (seamingly simple) interface. Also, for any sufficiently advanced feature, you really need a book or a tutorial, for any 3D prog. Maya, Lightwave 3D and Softimage have interfaces that are somewhere in between of your-regular-win32-app and blenderesque-maze-of-keystrokes. So, whatever you choose, I recomend find a nice book (or site full of tutorials) to go with it.
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Who ever figures out how to do it more efficiently (patents aren't for ideas, but particular implementation, right?) should be victorious. I'm glad to be on the consumer side on this one, however.
An alternative power car that doesn't look like crap. In fact to me it looks fantastic. Compare this to all the Priuses and Insights in the world, and those are just hybrids. Sure there is that Ford hybrid SUV, Toyota's large sedan and I beleive Honda has hybrid Accord as well that look like a regular car, but again, they also burn fuel in the car (yes, electricity has to get produced somewhere, bu doesn't have to come from coal - how about wind/solar/hydro, the more demand grows, the more we will see these eco-friendlier plants appearing).
Interestingly enough, their main site http://www.teslamotors.com/ says there is still couple an hours to go before unveiling. If this thing actaully performs as advertised, it will finaly give the name Tesla some more cradit that it surely deserves. I have already started saving for it (hope they have financing plans available)!
I would be rather interested in seing those evaluations, do you happen to have a link?
Thanks!
While I agree, there's still this: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
Um... it's more fun for everyone involved if they ask NASA? Scientists get to guss what it's used for (and also play a practical joke by sending all 40,000 digits), while Groening and krew get to talk to NASA.
Also, who wants to shift through million digits just to find one number?
>> This is exactly what the employee told
>> the customer, word for word...
>> "This lets you keep the rental for a couple
>> of days extra, just to allow you extra time."
This pretty much tells me that it's still business as usuall, and after those extra few days there will be some fees incuring; wether they call them restocking or late fees should be irrelevant to anyone who has better things in life to do than worry about other people's nomenclature.
Black ducktape
I see no problem with this - now all those whining "save the kids" types can't complain and get the game completely banned.
Good decision, I applaud Ontario.
New KDE contains some pretty nifty hot-key action editor (in control center), take a look, you might find it's what you are looking for.
Dropline is great! If you have fast connection, then installation is painless - just start the instaler, select few options, go outside (gasp!) and when you are back you new gnome is waiting for you.
:) I use Serbian Cyrillic trnaslations, and I'm glad that they included everyting, and it works out of box.
I've been using it for some time now, and I haven't found anything missing (besides win32 video codec drivers
Also they update packages fairly often (stuff like mozilla); they even provide an applet for panel that checks for updates.
Overall, strongly recomended for any slacker outhere!
That people who lived under communism for so long have mastered capitalism so quickly.
Actually the only way to live "normaly" (ie. above poverty line) was to be as big of a capitalist as possible. Otherwise you get to starve while trying to live of off various social programs and low paying government owned jobs.
Distros like Slackware 9.1 are already 2.6 ready - meaning just plug 2.6 in and it should work! The only reason why kernel 2.6 wasn't included is, well, that it wasn't released until now :)
FADE system, used by Codemasters (Pro Race Driver, Colin McRae Rally...) does the similar thing, and considers virtual drive software to be a sign of piracy and degrades the game slowly if it detects something fishy.
From the video (yay, I managed to snatch it before /. wave propagated), it runs really smooth - they have netscape and two movie players running and it all happens with no lagging as the guy rotates the whole thing around in 3D (and when you look at it from the back, the movie is mirrored and still plays smooth). I wonder what kind of machine it is the whole thing is happening on.
Another thing i'm impressed by is that it didn't seem ackward the way they were using it - i remeber trying some other 3D wms on X, and they were all pretty bad from usability point. This introduces 3D in a way where it solves problem of organizing apps on the desktop instead of creating new problems. I'm amazed and think this is a step in the right direction.
Means "Good Water", for those of you with no slavic background...
I would think that more important question to be raised here is how moral/ethical it is to dig out graves for tourists' money.
Tell that to my friend, who after spending $30* on black-jack (same as me) put in one quater in a slot machine and got $300! At first we tought it got broken, what with all the buttons being stuck and some wierd noise. Then the security guard came and told us we won, and that that kind of money is not being spewed out by the machine, instead we had to wait for them to bring the cash to us :)
:) and no, he never won anything since (but we were there maybe twice since then)
First quater he put in...
* we were at a casino just to try it out, generaly it's fun to go every year or so and wast a bit of money
also, i'm talking canadian dollars here
Some are silly, some are sick, some make you angry, and some just flat-out suck, and some of them sound fun
So, it's actually a list of all the science jobs...
Did you read the article? It says they have >150 miles of major roads + who knows how many aleys and such. So you can select "take a ride", get cops on your tail, and have a huge chase. I think regular misions can be big chases as well. And with 3 cities this is huge - it says in the article modeling eat up the most budget.
aw, what the heck, i've got too much karma:
:)
"Promising Norwegian HIV vaccine" - GNAA must be really excited
Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and its Applications is best hands down. Used it in couple of courses here at SFU (sfu.ca), i just love it.
I always go for LyX for all my editing needs, I think it will do just fine for a novel as well... what's that, not that kind of editor? Oh, well, LyX has spellcheck and thesaurus features, so it still might be on topic :)
Ok, people will you stop with this "Blender has horrible interface" bs? I've started playing with 3d porgrams in 98, and first thing I used was 3D Studio MAX, which has this windows application look and feel for most things. Then I tried blender, and at first i had no idea where to look for what, but then i read 2 short interface tutorials, and i was set. I still don't find it any more difficult than 3D MAX, because I woouldn't know what to do with it either, if my friend didn't show me the basics of (seamingly simple) interface. Also, for any sufficiently advanced feature, you really need a book or a tutorial, for any 3D prog.
Maya, Lightwave 3D and Softimage have interfaces that are somewhere in between of your-regular-win32-app and blenderesque-maze-of-keystrokes. So, whatever you choose, I recomend find a nice book (or site full of tutorials) to go with it.
...Buzz Lightyear, i just started downloading and was wondering why it slowed down to a crawl. Can't :)
you keep your mouth shut for at least few days?