The effect reminds me strongly of the water sounds in Myst. I think it's an artefact of recording flowing water in isolation: without an environment to reflect the sounds, the frequency mix isn't right.
The reflections make a huge difference to the sound, and probably a huge difference in processing time too. This simulation + an environment around the source + surround sound (eg binaural processing, for us folks with earphones) would be very cool indeed.
My dad cut through a cell phone line about a month ago with his bulldozer (he lives on a farm) when we was clearing some soil for his rhubarb.
One assumes he was doing this on his own land, and that he didn't know the line was there... so that suggests it was put down without his knowledge or consent?
How would that be? The evil mastermind, who owns a pest control company, revives the prehistoric termites immune to modern pesticides. And the hero, aided by his beautiful lab assistant, releases into the environment the ancient bacteria that are the termites only natural enemy.
I think I've seen this one... It ends when the gorillas freeze to death in the winter.
But in all honesty, if someone is going to steal anything or participate in any other kind of illegal activity, why wouldn't they just sneak in and go into a stall?
Presumably the auto-flush lavatories in the stalls also have cameras. Anyway, I dunno why people are getting so upset. These guys can shove their hand up your ass - er, check your cavities - if they want to, they have back-scatter x-ray that render you completely naked as you walk past them, yet everyone's getting upset about a handful of extra chest-high cameras...
Besides, vista isn't as bad as the reputation anyway... in the 3 years I've run it, none of the problems have been insurmountable, and there are plenty of benefits over XP. No one cares that it may be 5% slower at foo task when you're running it on hardware that is 500% faster than the gear you replaced.
Out of interest, I was looking at hardware upgrades last night... thinking about moving from an ageing Pentium D and Quadro FX 570 to current hardware. Based on PassMark scores, best value seemed to be ~400% increase both CPU and Graphics, with ~700% increase very close behind. These increases are fairly cheap and very easy, so there's really no point some folks bitching about how slow Vista or similar is when running an OS designed for current systems on yesterday's hardware.
One could argue that James Bond jumped the shark, but in adjusted dollars "Dr. No" got about as much income as "Casino Royale", yet cost 1/16th as much adjusted for inflation. People are still paying as much to see James Bond today as they paid in 1962.
Actually, people are paying about 3 times more to see James Bond today than they did in 1962.
And with a bit of effort, one could even offset the screen and the buttons, so that the user is not intuitively aware of a connection between button A and function A.
Do you work on electronic voting machines perchance?
The **AA stumbled upon some sort of blackmail content (pictures or whatever) involving the judge and wanted to meet with him privately to give him the chance to toss the case before revealing said material. Hence the judge's willingness to seal everything going on. I would laugh at myself for the idea but am not sure its much of a joke these days....
Figured it out? With a name like BJ_Covert_Action, I wouldn't be surprised if you were part of it!
I had to Google "solar flare crystal planet" and the #1 hit was your post... #2 was Starflight...
Congratulations... You have made such an obscure reference that the first search result was you actually making the reference... I don't think there is actually a prize for that though... Please don't kill yourself...
Seconded. I had to make the choice though... perform better, or go flying legally. FAA et al don't much like folks flying on meds. Shame really, because many will be better pilots with their drugs of choice (or necessity).
In due time, we are going to have to pay ourselves up-front for the big budget entertainment, rather than indirectly as a cost built into the products we buy, because they got advertised as a subsidy on our media.
Nah, the ads will just move into the movies in a bigger way. Along with NOS, Autometer, Nissan, Ford and Subaru... I wonder how much Castrol paid to get in to Fast & Furious this time? Even my non-car-geek friend picked up on that advertising. Or the ads become feature length movies... either way really.
...is another man's advertising. I mean, people pay good money to get their brands into games. I wonder how much Taser would have to pay to get an "authorized" virtual product into 2nd life now.
There's a good chance that the Pirate Bay verdict will be overturned.
"The judge in the Pirate Bay case, Tomas NorstrÃm, has been a member of several of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives, Sveriges Radio's P3 news programme reports." http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/
Wow. That's so far from a fair trial it blows my mind. He should lose his position over that.
Somehow, I think that, since the pirate bay guys got a bad verdict, comparing organizations to the Pirate Bay because they're screwing with your profits will become a fad. In which case, with due credit to that Godwin chap, I hereby claim ownership of Alperxe's Law: "All discussions about an organization hurting IP-based corporations will eventually devolve into the target of the discussion being compared to The Pirate Bay".
Unfortunately, Xouumalperxe's Law just doesn't have the same ring to it.
As for https, my preliminary observation is that gmail is still working for me, but it might be bypassing the proxy setting in firefox. Don't know.
Indeed it is a shame, but HTTPS proxying seems not to be supported. This from Opera configured with localhost:4444 proxy for HTTP and HTTPS:
I2P ERROR: NON-HTTP PROTOCOL The request uses a bad protocol. The I2P HTTP Proxy supports http:/// requests ONLY. Other protocols such as https:/// and ftp:// are not allowed.
Heres a quote from the article: "We heard this claim during the trial when John Kennedy of music trade group IFPI flew up from London and talked about his antipiracy team and how they are in daily communication with Google. The Pirate Bay, on the other hand, famously posted (and then ridiculed) the letters it received from rights-holders asking for material to be removed from the site."
So being nice should give you preferential treatment under the law, to the value of millions of dollars and a year of your life? Or perhaps the Google guys being billionaires counts more?
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The effect reminds me strongly of the water sounds in Myst. I think it's an artefact of recording flowing water in isolation: without an environment to reflect the sounds, the frequency mix isn't right.
The reflections make a huge difference to the sound, and probably a huge difference in processing time too. This simulation + an environment around the source + surround sound (eg binaural processing, for us folks with earphones) would be very cool indeed.
Can we do audio-tracing on a GPU yet?
Seconded. Could be quite useful on mobile phones too.
Patented in 3... 2... 1...
My dad cut through a cell phone line about a month ago with his bulldozer (he lives on a farm) when we was clearing some soil for his rhubarb.
One assumes he was doing this on his own land, and that he didn't know the line was there... so that suggests it was put down without his knowledge or consent?
How would that be? The evil mastermind, who owns a pest control company, revives the prehistoric termites immune to modern pesticides. And the hero, aided by his beautiful lab assistant, releases into the environment the ancient bacteria that are the termites only natural enemy.
I think I've seen this one... It ends when the gorillas freeze to death in the winter.
But we all know glass bottles just make it taste better. :)
They're also much better in a fight.
But in all honesty, if someone is going to steal anything or participate in any other kind of illegal activity, why wouldn't they just sneak in and go into a stall?
Presumably the auto-flush lavatories in the stalls also have cameras. Anyway, I dunno why people are getting so upset. These guys can shove their hand up your ass - er, check your cavities - if they want to, they have back-scatter x-ray that render you completely naked as you walk past them, yet everyone's getting upset about a handful of extra chest-high cameras...
Besides, vista isn't as bad as the reputation anyway... in the 3 years I've run it, none of the problems have been insurmountable, and there are plenty of benefits over XP. No one cares that it may be 5% slower at foo task when you're running it on hardware that is 500% faster than the gear you replaced.
Out of interest, I was looking at hardware upgrades last night... thinking about moving from an ageing Pentium D and Quadro FX 570 to current hardware. Based on PassMark scores, best value seemed to be ~400% increase both CPU and Graphics, with ~700% increase very close behind. These increases are fairly cheap and very easy, so there's really no point some folks bitching about how slow Vista or similar is when running an OS designed for current systems on yesterday's hardware.
In my university the only thing you see on dorm windows is stacked bottles of beer. Seriously.
You went to the wrong school. At my university the dorm windows were full of stacked coeds. Seriously. :-P
The expectation was killin me, it's like a girlfriend that always teases but never puts out.
Just to clarify, that's not a girlfriend, and she's not teasing... It's a girl who doesn't like you that much and is trying not to hurt your feelings.
One could argue that James Bond jumped the shark, but in adjusted dollars "Dr. No" got about as much income as "Casino Royale", yet cost 1/16th as much adjusted for inflation. People are still paying as much to see James Bond today as they paid in 1962.
Actually, people are paying about 3 times more to see James Bond today than they did in 1962.
Ref: http://www.bbhq.com/prices.htm
Just don't count on much of a social life.
Two words: Coeds. Tutoring.
If the latest video quality surpasses x264, there's only one thing they need to get me to use it: A GPU accelerated encoding library/app.
And with a bit of effort, one could even offset the screen and the buttons, so that the user is not intuitively aware of a connection between button A and function A.
Do you work on electronic voting machines perchance?
Way to spam an unrelated link, dumbass.
But, but, but... It's not spam, it's astro-turfing... er... no, wait. I know, it's marketing!
Less powerful than these cards.
I'm old enough to remember such things. Your comment should've been modded Insightful.
The **AA stumbled upon some sort of blackmail content (pictures or whatever) involving the judge and wanted to meet with him privately to give him the chance to toss the case before revealing said material. Hence the judge's willingness to seal everything going on. I would laugh at myself for the idea but am not sure its much of a joke these days....
Figured it out? With a name like BJ_Covert_Action, I wouldn't be surprised if you were part of it!
I had to Google "solar flare crystal planet" and the #1 hit was your post... #2 was Starflight...
Congratulations... You have made such an obscure reference that the first search result was you actually making the reference... I don't think there is actually a prize for that though... Please don't kill yourself...
'sup dawg...
Seconded. I had to make the choice though... perform better, or go flying legally. FAA et al don't much like folks flying on meds. Shame really, because many will be better pilots with their drugs of choice (or necessity).
In due time, we are going to have to pay ourselves up-front for the big budget entertainment, rather than indirectly as a cost built into the products we buy, because they got advertised as a subsidy on our media.
Nah, the ads will just move into the movies in a bigger way. Along with NOS, Autometer, Nissan, Ford and Subaru... I wonder how much Castrol paid to get in to Fast & Furious this time? Even my non-car-geek friend picked up on that advertising. Or the ads become feature length movies... either way really.
...is another man's advertising. I mean, people pay good money to get their brands into games. I wonder how much Taser would have to pay to get an "authorized" virtual product into 2nd life now.
There's a good chance that the Pirate Bay verdict will be overturned.
"The judge in the Pirate Bay case, Tomas NorstrÃm, has been a member of several of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives, Sveriges Radio's P3 news programme reports." http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/
Wow. That's so far from a fair trial it blows my mind. He should lose his position over that.
Somehow, I think that, since the pirate bay guys got a bad verdict, comparing organizations to the Pirate Bay because they're screwing with your profits will become a fad. In which case, with due credit to that Godwin chap, I hereby claim ownership of Alperxe's Law: "All discussions about an organization hurting IP-based corporations will eventually devolve into the target of the discussion being compared to The Pirate Bay".
Unfortunately, Xouumalperxe's Law just doesn't have the same ring to it.
You must be new here
You must be new here if you're saying that to NYCL.
As for https, my preliminary observation is that gmail is still working for me, but it might be bypassing the proxy setting in firefox. Don't know.
Indeed it is a shame, but HTTPS proxying seems not to be supported. This from Opera configured with localhost:4444 proxy for HTTP and HTTPS:
I2P ERROR: NON-HTTP PROTOCOL
The request uses a bad protocol. The I2P HTTP Proxy supports http:/// requests ONLY. Other protocols such as https:/// and ftp:// are not allowed.
Generated on: Mon Apr 20 11:39:26 GMT 2009
Heres a quote from the article: "We heard this claim during the trial when John Kennedy of music trade group IFPI flew up from London and talked about his antipiracy team and how they are in daily communication with Google. The Pirate Bay, on the other hand, famously posted (and then ridiculed) the letters it received from rights-holders asking for material to be removed from the site."
So being nice should give you preferential treatment under the law, to the value of millions of dollars and a year of your life? Or perhaps the Google guys being billionaires counts more?