But you don't need to flash the subject three times or use a 3x rate camera. You can continuously light the subject with the three colors and separate the colors in each frame in the computer, much like how Photoshop lets you manipulate the red, green, and blue channels of a digital photo. The 3D effect comes from the three lights being in different, predetermined positions (three axes of a cube converging on the subject). You get the full 3D effect at a normal framerate without increasing the amount of data captured.
That depends, how crappy is your TV? Mine has VGA and HDMI inputs..
You should check that VGA input. My first HDTV (pre-HDMI) will only do HD over the component input. The two VGA inputs will only do 640x480, and it would only do HD as cropped or distorted, not letterboxed.
Come 2011, no new device will support HD at all on this TV (and those that can be updated will be updated to disable that support).
Dell has reportedly said that they were leaving China in search of a "safer environment with [a] climate conducive to enterprise." [...]
[...] Between the strict censorship on Google, and now Dell implying that China isn't conductive for business, it seems that some western companies are getting fed up with the cost of doing business in China.
So saying one country is conducive implies the other isn't conductive?
That's interesting. You've come up with a purpose that actually increases your security.
And here I was just thinking of setting up a fake device that isn't a real access point and just advertises SSIDs out of a generator of a randomized list of =< 32-character strings. Or that sequential queries would produce Burma Shave-poetry. Or the cell phone numbers of random drug dealers/telemarketers.
If such a device could be made cheap enough and low enough power, it would open up a new area of virtual graffiti, as well as be useful for geocachers as a way to add hidden additional clues restricted by region.
Wasn't "numo" also the name air rifles were called on the original Battlestar Galactica? One could kill a lupus within ten metrons if you hit it just right.
Cylon Centurion: I cannot be destroyed by a numo. Many have tried.
Rhinoplasty makes this ideal, especially for those who may need to have their identity changed for their own safety, unlike fingerprints or gods forbid a retinal pattern.
It will however lead to more stringent federal regulation of the practice because you can never be allowed to hide your identity from the government.
I take it they didn't include a television with a portable video camera in their tests?
In fact, I'd expect they'd lose more weight having a TV and video camera than they would having a computer with a webcam. A video camera would encourage more recording outdoors; a webcam would only encourage sex-skyping.
If it's a computer with a portable video camera, they're more likely to do editing.
It's like having a supercomputer to control a toaster. It makes no sense at all.
Toaster: Would you like some toast? Lister: Uh-uhm. Toaster: Some nice hot crisp brown buttered toast? Lister: Uh-uhm. Toaster: You don't want any toast then? Lister: No. Toaster: What about a muffin? Lister: Nothing! Toaster: You know the last time you had toast? Eighteen days ago. 11:36, Tuesday the third. Two rounds. Lister: Ssshhh! Toaster: I mean, what's the point of buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast? Lister: I do like toast. Toaster: I mean, this is my job! This is cruel, just cruel! Lister: Look, I'm busy! Toaster: Oh, you're not busy eating toast, are you! Lister: I don't want any! Toaster: I mean, the whole purpose of my existence is to serve you with hot, buttered, scrummy toast. If you don't want any, then my existence is meaningless. Lister: Good. Toaster: I toast, therefore I am. Lister: Will you shut up?!
The satellite is in free fall and, according to general relativity, not in an accelerated reference frame.
If you're not moving in a straight line at a constant speed, you're in an accelerated reference frame. Satellites are in orbit; there's no such thing as a straight-line orbit.
Well, you have to consider that FLAG wasn't confident enough about the capabilities of their car's artificially intelligent on-board computers to recognize its driver to not require a hidden fingerprint scanner underneath its door handles as an access control.
Blogs and other anthology-sites integrate information from many sources.
Oh, hyphens. Are there two words you can't improperly join?
Here we have an adjective joined by hyphen with a noun and the compound improperly being used as a noun when it must be used as an adjective, casting the following word not as a verb but as a noun, leaving the sentence without a verb. And of course the plural is misapplied on the compound adjective and must shift to the 'nounified' verb, so you have:
"Blogs and other anthology-site [adj.] integrates [n.] <missing verb> information from many sources."
Unless of course you 'verbify' "information" to "informationize", which leaves open whether or not you can "informationize from" something. Or would it be "informationate"?
In light of Congressional resistance to the new plans for NASA (criticized as 'radical') proposed by NASA head Charles Bolden
Dixon: Guardians are here to mend and defend, okay? Not sit around trying to work out the way User thinks and why Viruses are introduced into systems. Sheesh. I'm just glad the Prime Guardian hasn't seen any of your works. Bob: I had a meeting with Turbo just last second. He thought my ideas to reprogram Viruses for the good were radical! Dixon: Radical. Ha, he used the word "radical" and you think--
Yeah, but March 1, 2006 was a Wednesday. Who files bug reports on Wednesdays?
Seriously though, the bug may not have been tripped for 2006: 0x2006 BCD treated as an int (8198) is not evenly divisible by 4, but 0x2010 BCD as an int is 8208 which is evenly divisible by 4.
Curiously, 0x2008 BCD is int 8200 which is divisible by 4, but it is also divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400. Since it worked in 2008, if it is a error failing to convert BCD to decimal, then they're just using every 4 years and not paying attention to the/100 and/400 rules.
Human representations of time should be restricted to display purposes only. A computer shouldn't care whether a particular span of 86400 seconds is in February or March.
So instead, you are suggesting that they think 0x10 is the same as 10?
If it's stored in packed decimal format, it can be.
Regardless, Sony is probably safe until at least 2014, when the next even, non-leap year occurs. We've seen that leap years work (2008)
We've seen one leap year work. We've seen two non-leap years work (2007, 2009) out of three.
If it's doing mod math on packed decimal format data without converting first, it could get even years wrong 100% of the time every other ten year cycle of this century.
In a subtle way I was trying to show that a mistake of one kind can be mistaken for another kind, i.e. possessive/contraction confusion can be read as subject/verb disagreement. The light humor in reading it the less obvious way usually serves to soften the lesson.
Do you think I could have avoided the Troll mod if I hadn't used bold tags? Because I was being very careful not to start an argument over abortion. Or was the statement of fact at the end too hard and confrontational? I tried to soften that by wrapping it in parentheses.
And yet there is no mandatory parental rating system for violent content in any printed media nor any rules against selling or otherwise making it available to minors. Just because works that aren't just the printing of words on paper are considered to be "press" only figuratively, so their freedom is subject to limitation by content.
Well, that and if books were rated, they would ban The Bible.
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But you don't need to flash the subject three times or use a 3x rate camera. You can continuously light the subject with the three colors and separate the colors in each frame in the computer, much like how Photoshop lets you manipulate the red, green, and blue channels of a digital photo. The 3D effect comes from the three lights being in different, predetermined positions (three axes of a cube converging on the subject). You get the full 3D effect at a normal framerate without increasing the amount of data captured.
This is how the Martians see us.
On a cross-country adventure
It got hit by cosmic rays
And the car was changed forever
In some most fantastic ways
No need to steer
It's here
Just call the Car
Fantastic Car
"Don't need OnStar."
"That's anticompetitive!"
Oh, the gas pedal's on elastic
The brakes just fade from sight
Johnny is The Human Torch
The pedestrians run with fright
From the Car
Fantastic Car
Fantastic Car
That depends, how crappy is your TV? Mine has VGA and HDMI inputs..
You should check that VGA input. My first HDTV (pre-HDMI) will only do HD over the component input. The two VGA inputs will only do 640x480, and it would only do HD as cropped or distorted, not letterboxed.
Come 2011, no new device will support HD at all on this TV (and those that can be updated will be updated to disable that support).
Turok Gaylord?
Actually, the TFA uses both:
So saying one country is conducive implies the other isn't conductive?
That's interesting. You've come up with a purpose that actually increases your security.
And here I was just thinking of setting up a fake device that isn't a real access point and just advertises SSIDs out of a generator of a randomized list of =< 32-character strings. Or that sequential queries would produce Burma Shave-poetry. Or the cell phone numbers of random drug dealers/telemarketers.
If such a device could be made cheap enough and low enough power, it would open up a new area of virtual graffiti, as well as be useful for geocachers as a way to add hidden additional clues restricted by region.
Wasn't "numo" also the name air rifles were called on the original Battlestar Galactica? One could kill a lupus within ten metrons if you hit it just right.
Cylon Centurion: I cannot be destroyed by a numo. Many have tried.
Rhinoplasty makes this pointless.
Rhinoplasty makes this ideal, especially for those who may need to have their identity changed for their own safety, unlike fingerprints or gods forbid a retinal pattern.
It will however lead to more stringent federal regulation of the practice because you can never be allowed to hide your identity from the government.
Now if only we still had phone booths...
There's a corner in my city with three of them in a row. Full booths too, not kiosks.
Either that, or I'd be constantly shaking it, and doing weird shit with it, just to screw up their tracking....
Hmm, I wonder if there's an app for embedding an iPhone in a hackysack ball for keeping score.
I take it they didn't include a television with a portable video camera in their tests?
In fact, I'd expect they'd lose more weight having a TV and video camera than they would having a computer with a webcam. A video camera would encourage more recording outdoors; a webcam would only encourage sex-skyping.
If it's a computer with a portable video camera, they're more likely to do editing.
Out of curiosity, how would you implement a linked list using anything in BASIC
Arrays.
Seriously, if you have to ask the question, you need to restudy Turing machines.
A 10% deposit buys you a production slot for 12 months hence.
If I put down a 20% deposit, can I get cutsies?
who puts lipstick on a bunny anyway?
Warner Bros. Especially when pranking Elmer Fudd.
It's like having a supercomputer to control a toaster. It makes no sense at all.
Toaster: Would you like some toast?
Lister: Uh-uhm.
Toaster: Some nice hot crisp brown buttered toast?
Lister: Uh-uhm.
Toaster: You don't want any toast then?
Lister: No.
Toaster: What about a muffin?
Lister: Nothing!
Toaster: You know the last time you had toast? Eighteen days ago. 11:36, Tuesday the third. Two rounds.
Lister: Ssshhh!
Toaster: I mean, what's the point of buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast?
Lister: I do like toast.
Toaster: I mean, this is my job! This is cruel, just cruel!
Lister: Look, I'm busy!
Toaster: Oh, you're not busy eating toast, are you!
Lister: I don't want any!
Toaster: I mean, the whole purpose of my existence is to serve you with hot, buttered, scrummy toast. If you don't want any, then my existence is meaningless.
Lister: Good.
Toaster: I toast, therefore I am.
Lister: Will you shut up?!
The satellite is in free fall and, according to general relativity, not in an accelerated reference frame.
If you're not moving in a straight line at a constant speed, you're in an accelerated reference frame. Satellites are in orbit; there's no such thing as a straight-line orbit.
Well, you have to consider that FLAG wasn't confident enough about the capabilities of their car's artificially intelligent on-board computers to recognize its driver to not require a hidden fingerprint scanner underneath its door handles as an access control.
Blogs and other anthology-sites integrate information from many sources.
Oh, hyphens. Are there two words you can't improperly join?
Here we have an adjective joined by hyphen with a noun and the compound improperly being used as a noun when it must be used as an adjective, casting the following word not as a verb but as a noun, leaving the sentence without a verb. And of course the plural is misapplied on the compound adjective and must shift to the 'nounified' verb, so you have:
"Blogs and other anthology-site [adj.] integrates [n.] <missing verb> information from many sources."
Unless of course you 'verbify' "information" to "informationize", which leaves open whether or not you can "informationize from" something. Or would it be "informationate"?
In light of Congressional resistance to the new plans for NASA (criticized as 'radical') proposed by NASA head Charles Bolden
Dixon: Guardians are here to mend and defend, okay? Not sit around trying to work out the way User thinks and why Viruses are introduced into systems. Sheesh. I'm just glad the Prime Guardian hasn't seen any of your works.
Bob: I had a meeting with Turbo just last second. He thought my ideas to reprogram Viruses for the good were radical!
Dixon: Radical. Ha, he used the word "radical" and you think--
Yeah, but March 1, 2006 was a Wednesday. Who files bug reports on Wednesdays?
Seriously though, the bug may not have been tripped for 2006: 0x2006 BCD treated as an int (8198) is not evenly divisible by 4, but 0x2010 BCD as an int is 8208 which is evenly divisible by 4.
Curiously, 0x2008 BCD is int 8200 which is divisible by 4, but it is also divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400. Since it worked in 2008, if it is a error failing to convert BCD to decimal, then they're just using every 4 years and not paying attention to the /100 and /400 rules.
bool isLeapYear = (((year % 4 == 0) && (year % 100 != 0)) || (year % 400 == 0));
What type is "year"?
Human representations of time should be restricted to display purposes only. A computer shouldn't care whether a particular span of 86400 seconds is in February or March.
So instead, you are suggesting that they think 0x10 is the same as 10?
If it's stored in packed decimal format, it can be.
Regardless, Sony is probably safe until at least 2014, when the next even, non-leap year occurs. We've seen that leap years work (2008)
We've seen one leap year work. We've seen two non-leap years work (2007, 2009) out of three.
If it's doing mod math on packed decimal format data without converting first, it could get even years wrong 100% of the time every other ten year cycle of this century.
In a subtle way I was trying to show that a mistake of one kind can be mistaken for another kind, i.e. possessive/contraction confusion can be read as subject/verb disagreement. The light humor in reading it the less obvious way usually serves to soften the lesson.
Do you think I could have avoided the Troll mod if I hadn't used bold tags? Because I was being very careful not to start an argument over abortion. Or was the statement of fact at the end too hard and confrontational? I tried to soften that by wrapping it in parentheses.
And yet there is no mandatory parental rating system for violent content in any printed media nor any rules against selling or otherwise making it available to minors. Just because works that aren't just the printing of words on paper are considered to be "press" only figuratively, so their freedom is subject to limitation by content.
Well, that and if books were rated, they would ban The Bible.