Holography is actually really simple to accomplish, and I imagine that's what was being used here. Unfortunately, it's just far too expensive to film an entire movie like this, and not too many people have the kind of equipment required to view it.
Of course, the images shown on that site only seem to use red lasers, but I see no reason why a green and a blue can't be used as well to reconstruct the proper colouring.
On the network configuration page, below the list of adapters, there is an option to either acquire host name through DHCP or specify it. The default is DHCP, but swap the radio button and type it in.
PCMCIA support is BROKEN
My PCMCIA ethernet card was detected by the installer and works beautifully
Similarly, my mouse pad works (may not be Synaptics, not sure). This is a *very* old laptop (233 MHz), and despite being slow, FC2 is usable...much more so than FC1
I haven't had a lot of time to play around with FC2 just yet, so I'm not going to say whether the same happens to me. Nothing has crashed or frozen for me as yet though.
up2date hasn't worked for me since FC1, but I just use yum and/or apt (depending on my mood). Perhaps a GUI for these tools that lists available packages and updates, and allows for easy addition of repositories would be a huge improvement.
In general, at least in gnome, everything is significantly faster than in FC1. It used to take 5 or 6 seconds to get a nautilus window open on my 1.8 GHz athlon, and now it's almost instantaneous.
You don't need to update the entire XMMS package, if the one that ships with fc2 works, there is an xmms-mp3 package at freshrpms (among other locations) that simply adds the mp3 functionality to it (afaik), and a properly configured yum will even install it for you.
I agree with a few of the annoyances mentioned in the article, but several of them are simply misinformed and show that he didn't look very deeply into the thing. Things like mentioning a lack of mplayer or xcdroast, for example, are just incorrect. Perhaps this if this guy had selected a few of the packages he was looking for from the cd....
I'm no physicist, but I seem to recall from an optics course that photons are even more messed up than that. If, say, you put two cameras side by side and release N photons at them, each piece of film could easily be hit by all N photons. This might explain why the diffraction pattern still shows up when you let only one photon through at a time, but how the heck do you explain the photons occupying more than one location in space at the same time?
This may be complete bs, I could be remembering poorly (it was quite a while ago), but either way I think physicists are a long way away from explaining photons or light in general...and parallel universes just don't seem to explain it. After all, if these "parallel" universes are truly parallel, they shouldn't interact with this one at all...something about two parallel lines never crossing comes to mind.
Sorry, by B.C., I meant Vancouver....it truly was shortsighted of me and I realized my mistake right after hitting submit. However, compared to, say, Newfoundland, Vancouver truly does get hardly any snow.
No, there was no recession here....we outperformed all of the other G7 nations by a lot...of course things were bad, we're exporters...our customers couldn't afford to buy anything, but somehow we did amazingly well.
I have a few questions: When was this? Why hasn't anybody heard about it? And why was it "not available"? That page implies it was because it was a standup act about stereotypes, yet that very comedian and many many others have done acts on that topic on the CBC (Just for Laughs for instance) and nothing is said.
Perhaps it wasn't a case of censorship but that some licensing issues prevented it from airing in Canada. Often stations get blacked out due to licensing restrictions...which may or may not have to do with the CRTC but has nothing to do with censorship. Heck, it could have been the US FCC preventing it from being exported. Truth is, unless you know somebody in the CRTC, FCC, or CNN, I doubt you know what it was.
1) It was Alan Greenspan that caused the economy to tank...he did it because it was out of control. Ideally the fall would have been controlled, but a certain president *ahem* Bush *ahem* managed to do everything in his power to counteract any and all of Greenspan's efforts to slow the fall. The same thing happened in the early '90s and the mid '80s -- it's called a counter-cyclical monetary policy
2) David Dodge did same thing here in Canada, and, for the first time ever was successful in controlling it where you Americans failed -- there was no recession.
3) Just because the Iraqis do it to you doesn't make it right to do it to them
4) On topic, I really have no basis for comparison, but having grown up and now going to school and working in Canada, I don't think I could possibly want to be anywhere else. The only real downsides are there are only 10 stat holidays in the year, there is a slightly higher tax rate (but that goes to pay for health care among a lot of other government programs), and if you commute, driving through snowstorms sucks -- but it doesn't snow everywhere...B.C. hardly gets any.
FYI Paul Martin has been in charge (as PM) since December.
If you want to go back to when he came into power as the finance minister the, yes, not only has the deficit been eliminated, but the feds have run a surplus every year since I think about '96. They've been paying off the debt bit by bit, but they're in no hurry.
The surplusses plus all this scandalous money spending that has come to light in recent weeks makes me wonder wtf are we missing out on? I, for one, would have loved to see this money go into university funding or in health care.
shhh....don't tell them that...they might look us up on a map and make up some excuse to attack us.
"In the latest showing of force, Canada has amassed 80% of it's population along its border!" -- Canadian Bacon
Maybe you should do some research into what's actually going on instead of just blindly following what CNN tells you (90% of which is bull shit) before you start to look as dumb as that president of yours.
So you want to take the largest undefended border (it's that way for a reason) and patrol it with automated tanks. As if fingerprinting and face scanning just to get into the country isn't enough. I think both Canada and Mexico would have *HUGE* problems if you started military operations along the border. Americans. Not very subtle are you?
Anyways, this robot really should be called Terminator. Seriously, it doesn't look/operate too far off from the original ones shown in T3. With Bush trying to bring back Star Wars, and the rampant computer virii, each more devastating than the next, it seems that James Cameron might not be too far off.
I swear, that guy...every time the U.S. economy looks as if it might start going again and get back on track, he decides to scare the shit out of his people...something wrong with that boy.
That said, this might be a serious problem, but more likely not. It could actually be worse than Y2K since it didn't get as much focus and there could be some critical system chugging away somewhere and nobody knows about its troubles. But again, more likely not.
How badly do you want to work for a company like this anyhow? Seems to me if your manager absolutely refuses to listen to his employees and just wants people to do what they're told, then maybe outsourcing is right for them, or perhaps a trained monkey would work, but I'd say their company is going down soon enough and you'd be out of a job anyhow.
One of the most important things a manager must do is listen to his/her employees' ideas and criticisms, whether valid comments or not, they must be at least considered. If this doesn't happen, how can there be any chance for a) advancement, or b) true improvement of the product?
Gandalf did touch the ring very briefly in both the movie and the book when he went to pick it off the floor. Just in that brief touch he saw the 'eye' and thought better of picking it up.
He did not touch it in either the movie or book after that. He passed it to Frodo with the tongs and said "Don't worry, it's quite cool"
I'm not sure how he knew that, but he is a wizard after all.
Just a follow-up comment on the state of the download servers, including ausgamers. Nobody knows how to set up their servers with bloody mime-types. everybody's got.bin files downloading as plain text...which displays the text instead of downloading the binary file in my browser (Mozilla 1.5), so I have to copy the location and use wget...I could probably set up something in the browser or elsewhere on my end, but I mean, how hard is it to make that basic mime-mapping on the server? Come on people!
I don't think ausgamers.com should affect your ISP prices...their sponsors will pay for all that traffic. And yes, ausgamers is the only download site you don't have to sign up for/pay for that's listed on the main site...it sucks.
ET is the only game I play nowadays, and I must say it's an absolutely wonderful network game.
It's digital vs. analog - even if you have people marking a piece of paper a la the Canucks, what if the voter has marks in two places? You've still got a "hanging chad situation."
For one thing, most of us are smart enough to only mark one place, unlike some Americans who can't punch a hole in a piece of paper properly -- it's actually *easier* to NOT mark a box than to make sure a hole is punched correctly.
For another thing, when we vote, we vote for one party. Not 50 different individual people each differnt job. Looking up a party on a list of 5 or 6 (though last Ontario provincial election they forgot to put the party names on -- I was irritated, but I knew the name of the person anyhow) is a *lot* easier than punching out just the right hole on a card with so many names.
If this still manages to confuse someone, the vote can't be counted...I suppose that's a problem, but short of standing there *telling* someone who you want, I don't know that we can totall eliminate that.
When there are so few choices, and it's so easy, clear, fast, and secure to do it at a polling station with paper, it doesn't make a lot of sense to use a computer -- it introduces a lot of variable factors .
That said, I do think it could benefit people in remote locations to be able to vote from afar. But there is also a proxy voting system in place (I'm not sure how that works unfortunately), and with about a week to do your voting, we have most of the population covered pretty well.
That said, I should add, the simplest way to tell if you're being spoofed would be to make sure there is at least 1 slash character after the domain part since (at least mozilla) always prints the slash at the end of the domain.
That's because it's *supposed* to. Taking that out would violate the specs. It's going to goatse.cx with username www.slashdot.org.
The point is that you can SEE the goatse.cx there. This may not help uninformed users, though. If the part before the @ is long enough and the actual address short enough, it won't stand out very well.
Having it displaying and not standing out is still slightly better than not displaying it at all. Also, any slashes, question marks, or probably a whole host of other characters before the @ will break the exploit (e.g. www.google.ca/search?q=something%01@goatse.cx will go to the google search -- I tried on IE5.5 which happened to be lying around), so there is a limit on how long the "username" can believably be.
If Opera pops up a dialog that tells you what's going on, that seems pretty useful, though the idea of an alert every time I use that feature sends a chill down my spine.
1. Chicken is most certainly closed source. Biologists are still trying to figure out how to decode DNA. In fact, it would be easier to decode windows because it was built by a set of rules that some person created...to reverse those rules is a lot easier than first figuring out what the rules were.
2. The KFC recipe *is* closed source. If you want to go with a different option you would have to *learn* a whole new taste.
3. How is that Microsoft's problem? Since when is it their responsibility to train you to switch to another product?
4. How is reading the windows source code going to help you migrate to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND UNRELATED OPERATING SYSTEM?
5. Quite frankly, I like the fact that MS hasn't released their source code. If they did that then I fear we would be innundated with windows clones, all of which do exactly the same thing with different subsets of bug fixes and a slightly different UI (note what's happened with Linux). Don't get me wrong here, I love Open Source too, but closed source does have the advantage in a free market of forcing significant product differentiation, which is always good for the consumer (gives them choices). Linux has that differentiation too among its distros, but, frankly, it's not nearly as significant as the differentiation b/w closed source operating systems.
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Of course, the images shown on that site only seem to use red lasers, but I see no reason why a green and a blue can't be used as well to reconstruct the proper colouring.
Except this one looks like it's flashing in the middle of the room....watch your head.
On the network configuration page, below the list of adapters, there is an option to either acquire host name through DHCP or specify it. The default is DHCP, but swap the radio button and type it in.
PCMCIA support is BROKEN
My PCMCIA ethernet card was detected by the installer and works beautifully
Similarly, my mouse pad works (may not be Synaptics, not sure). This is a *very* old laptop (233 MHz), and despite being slow, FC2 is usable...much more so than FC1
oops *removes foot from mouth* Apparently mplayer isn't there. I just got so used to having it around and hadn't tried to use it yet. My bad.
up2date hasn't worked for me since FC1, but I just use yum and/or apt (depending on my mood). Perhaps a GUI for these tools that lists available packages and updates, and allows for easy addition of repositories would be a huge improvement.
In general, at least in gnome, everything is significantly faster than in FC1. It used to take 5 or 6 seconds to get a nautilus window open on my 1.8 GHz athlon, and now it's almost instantaneous.
You don't need to update the entire XMMS package, if the one that ships with fc2 works, there is an xmms-mp3 package at freshrpms (among other locations) that simply adds the mp3 functionality to it (afaik), and a properly configured yum will even install it for you.
I agree with a few of the annoyances mentioned in the article, but several of them are simply misinformed and show that he didn't look very deeply into the thing. Things like mentioning a lack of mplayer or xcdroast, for example, are just incorrect. Perhaps this if this guy had selected a few of the packages he was looking for from the cd....
What about ATI's drivers? It'll be nice if my 9700 works at full power after I install this...and it was a real pig to get them to work on FC1.
This may be complete bs, I could be remembering poorly (it was quite a while ago), but either way I think physicists are a long way away from explaining photons or light in general...and parallel universes just don't seem to explain it. After all, if these "parallel" universes are truly parallel, they shouldn't interact with this one at all...something about two parallel lines never crossing comes to mind.
Sorry, by B.C., I meant Vancouver....it truly was shortsighted of me and I realized my mistake right after hitting submit. However, compared to, say, Newfoundland, Vancouver truly does get hardly any snow.
I have a few questions: When was this? Why hasn't anybody heard about it? And why was it "not available"? That page implies it was because it was a standup act about stereotypes, yet that very comedian and many many others have done acts on that topic on the CBC (Just for Laughs for instance) and nothing is said.
Perhaps it wasn't a case of censorship but that some licensing issues prevented it from airing in Canada. Often stations get blacked out due to licensing restrictions...which may or may not have to do with the CRTC but has nothing to do with censorship. Heck, it could have been the US FCC preventing it from being exported. Truth is, unless you know somebody in the CRTC, FCC, or CNN, I doubt you know what it was.
2) David Dodge did same thing here in Canada, and, for the first time ever was successful in controlling it where you Americans failed -- there was no recession.
3) Just because the Iraqis do it to you doesn't make it right to do it to them
4) On topic, I really have no basis for comparison, but having grown up and now going to school and working in Canada, I don't think I could possibly want to be anywhere else. The only real downsides are there are only 10 stat holidays in the year, there is a slightly higher tax rate (but that goes to pay for health care among a lot of other government programs), and if you commute, driving through snowstorms sucks -- but it doesn't snow everywhere...B.C. hardly gets any.
If you want to go back to when he came into power as the finance minister the, yes, not only has the deficit been eliminated, but the feds have run a surplus every year since I think about '96. They've been paying off the debt bit by bit, but they're in no hurry.
The surplusses plus all this scandalous money spending that has come to light in recent weeks makes me wonder wtf are we missing out on? I, for one, would have loved to see this money go into university funding or in health care.
shhh....don't tell them that...they might look us up on a map and make up some excuse to attack us. "In the latest showing of force, Canada has amassed 80% of it's population along its border!" -- Canadian Bacon
except that it was HP Canada, so it's Canadian funds....so who cares what the exchange rate is?
Maybe you should do some research into what's actually going on instead of just blindly following what CNN tells you (90% of which is bull shit) before you start to look as dumb as that president of yours.
Anyways, this robot really should be called Terminator. Seriously, it doesn't look/operate too far off from the original ones shown in T3. With Bush trying to bring back Star Wars, and the rampant computer virii, each more devastating than the next, it seems that James Cameron might not be too far off.
I swear, that guy...every time the U.S. economy looks as if it might start going again and get back on track, he decides to scare the shit out of his people...something wrong with that boy.
That said, this might be a serious problem, but more likely not. It could actually be worse than Y2K since it didn't get as much focus and there could be some critical system chugging away somewhere and nobody knows about its troubles. But again, more likely not.
One of the most important things a manager must do is listen to his/her employees' ideas and criticisms, whether valid comments or not, they must be at least considered. If this doesn't happen, how can there be any chance for a) advancement, or b) true improvement of the product?
He did not touch it in either the movie or book after that. He passed it to Frodo with the tongs and said "Don't worry, it's quite cool"
I'm not sure how he knew that, but he is a wizard after all.
Just a follow-up comment on the state of the download servers, including ausgamers. Nobody knows how to set up their servers with bloody mime-types. everybody's got .bin files downloading as plain text ...which displays the text instead of downloading the binary file in my browser (Mozilla 1.5), so I have to copy the location and use wget...I could probably set up something in the browser or elsewhere on my end, but I mean, how hard is it to make that basic mime-mapping on the server? Come on people!
ET is the only game I play nowadays, and I must say it's an absolutely wonderful network game.
For one thing, most of us are smart enough to only mark one place, unlike some Americans who can't punch a hole in a piece of paper properly -- it's actually *easier* to NOT mark a box than to make sure a hole is punched correctly.
For another thing, when we vote, we vote for one party. Not 50 different individual people each differnt job. Looking up a party on a list of 5 or 6 (though last Ontario provincial election they forgot to put the party names on -- I was irritated, but I knew the name of the person anyhow) is a *lot* easier than punching out just the right hole on a card with so many names.
If this still manages to confuse someone, the vote can't be counted...I suppose that's a problem, but short of standing there *telling* someone who you want, I don't know that we can totall eliminate that.
When there are so few choices, and it's so easy, clear, fast, and secure to do it at a polling station with paper, it doesn't make a lot of sense to use a computer -- it introduces a lot of variable factors .
That said, I do think it could benefit people in remote locations to be able to vote from afar. But there is also a proxy voting system in place (I'm not sure how that works unfortunately), and with about a week to do your voting, we have most of the population covered pretty well.
If you can't see the acronym, people, don't ask me to spell it out.
That said, I should add, the simplest way to tell if you're being spoofed would be to make sure there is at least 1 slash character after the domain part since (at least mozilla) always prints the slash at the end of the domain.
The point is that you can SEE the goatse.cx there. This may not help uninformed users, though. If the part before the @ is long enough and the actual address short enough, it won't stand out very well.
Having it displaying and not standing out is still slightly better than not displaying it at all. Also, any slashes, question marks, or probably a whole host of other characters before the @ will break the exploit (e.g. www.google.ca/search?q=something%01@goatse.cx will go to the google search -- I tried on IE5.5 which happened to be lying around), so there is a limit on how long the "username" can believably be.
If Opera pops up a dialog that tells you what's going on, that seems pretty useful, though the idea of an alert every time I use that feature sends a chill down my spine.
2. The KFC recipe *is* closed source. If you want to go with a different option you would have to *learn* a whole new taste.
3. How is that Microsoft's problem? Since when is it their responsibility to train you to switch to another product?
4. How is reading the windows source code going to help you migrate to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND UNRELATED OPERATING SYSTEM?
5. Quite frankly, I like the fact that MS hasn't released their source code. If they did that then I fear we would be innundated with windows clones, all of which do exactly the same thing with different subsets of bug fixes and a slightly different UI (note what's happened with Linux). Don't get me wrong here, I love Open Source too, but closed source does have the advantage in a free market of forcing significant product differentiation, which is always good for the consumer (gives them choices). Linux has that differentiation too among its distros, but, frankly, it's not nearly as significant as the differentiation b/w closed source operating systems.