Uhh, if the code was written from guessed at specs I don't see how it could be good quality. You can't build a good house from shitty blueprints unless it is a very simple house or you're the luckiest person I know. I'm sure the code is beautifully commented and everything is documented (aren't all open source projects?), but now matter how many "eyes view it" or whatever open source mantra you throw out there it doesn't change the fact that you don't have the specs for the device.
How do you find OS X works on it? I tried something similar on an old Acer Veriton at work. It worked ok, but it only had intel's 8xx graphics not the 9xx that OSX wanted so I didn't get any accelerated video and I also had to put in an old startech nic because the onboard wasn't supported. Worked better than my system I built (athlon 64 3500+ on a soltek motherboard) on which I got most of it working but sound only came out of 1 speaker and I had similar problems with video and sound as before. I really liked OS X though and will probably buy a macbook come tax back time (should be the same time leopard comes out conveniently).
I'd be carefull buying a via cpu again. I had a 533MHz 6000 C3 and it wasn't even as fast as an equivalently clocked celeron. Don't get me wrong the C7s might be better but I'm still kicking myself for not just buying a mac mini.
See I was waiting for a philosophy major to chime in with a quick explanation of lift and drag in an attempt to refute my point. It fails however when you consider that you didn't learn that in your philosophy classes. Don't lie and say that you did.
..Might help if you remember that Newton was a philosopher. Putting us in the same category as Sociologists is like confusing "Astrologer" and "Astronomer".
Newton was many things not just a philosopher. I don't think it is like confusing astrologer and astronomer at all. Remember that in addition to things like symbolic logic, philosophy has metaphysics which really gets awful close to astrology for my liking.
But some of that context used to be handled by education as well--you had to read the classics, you had to study some philosophy, you had to know history. My aero engineer friend has really never done any of that, so he's an engineer who doesn't know what "empiricism" means. Is this also a failing by our educational system? Isn't such education necessary to be a good researcher?
It goes the other way too. Ask a philosophy student to explain lift and drag and see how far you get.
. But if you can't afford Photoshop you have no right to steal it. Don't you even try justifying it either.
The gp need not justify anything. Copying a piece of software does not deprive the owner of anything if you aren't selling it afterwards and weren't going to pay for it anyways. BTW the gimp lacks many features found in photoshop, has a shitty UI, and just isn't used by anyone in work or school. Granted it's free and I use it too, but don't oversell it.
Your parents haven't found the lack of flash to be a problem? I know flash is the spawn of satan, but I know my parents go to sites that use it. Not any serious flash stuff but just basic shit. Maybe that's working in Linux now I don't know, but it wasn't last I tried.
thanks for the reply, first of it was just a joke and second:
1. a day is still a while
2. only works if all the machines are the same which isn't always the case
3. don't use either so I can't say, personally I prefer FreeBSD (what Gentoo tries to be;))
4. I agree, plus you have the additional time after the initial setup to deal with virii and shit
Round it out as you want, you can pay a friggin good health insurance and tuition for kids when your paycheck is not cut in half. I traveled the states for 3 years, and talked to people. People with my job down there are having a lot more for their money.
Thanks for the reply. I admittedly don't spend that much time ripping and transcoding, but more than many I would guess. The other problem I found was that at any resolution much higher than dvd and the machine choked. I downloaded the 1st and 2nd seasons of Weeds in "high def" (the term used in the filename, I'm not sure what the resolution is and I'm too lazy to look) and it could not play them. Guess I could have transcoded them but...
Your suggestion about just buying a bigger hdd is a good one that I have considered, the problem is that I like to take movies to friends houses and an actual DVD disk just works better for that. I know I could use a usb hdd but then they would require media center pcs or an xbox etc. Now that DVD players are like 30 bucks, everyone has one, but not everyone has one of the former.
I built a system based on a via epia 6000 at 533MHz. It uses little power and basically runs like shit. It takes 15-18 hours to transcode an avi to DVD while my Athlon 64 3500+ can do it in less than 2. So you need to ask yourself, does it really save anything?
By the way, I'm looking to sell the epia system (1gb ram, 30gb hdd, slim dual layer dvd burner in a travella case), if anyone is interested reply to this post.
Perhaps you didnt hear of it, but when Bill Clinton was in office, there was a national story of a toilet seat that cost 5000$
That's pretty standard pricing for aircraft toilet equipment. Remember the mythbusters where they did a myth about being sucked into the toilet when it flushes? They had to buy one for the myth test and it was thousands of dollars.
I don't know about your car, but pressing the start button on the remote starts mine, then when you press the brake or try to put it into gear without the key in run position it shuts off.
The point is, Islam as we know it today has brought nothing to the table to advance society. While I am all for giving people their due, Modern Islam is owed no credit for any discoveries (unless you consider suicide bombers a discovery), and trying to credit them for this smacks of Political Correctness gone awry.
Biologically inspired sensors can augment sonar, vision system in submarines
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- To find prey and avoid being preyed upon, fish rely on a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line. Now, a research team led by Chang Liu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has built an artificial lateral line that can provide the same functions in underwater vehicles.
"Our development of an artificial lateral line is aimed at enhancing human ability to detect, navigate and survive in the underwater environment," said Liu, a Willett Scholar and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. "Our goal is to develop an artificial device that mimics the functions and capabilities of the biological system."
In fish, the lateral line provides guidance for synchronized swimming, predator and obstacle avoidance, and prey detection and tracking. Equipped with an artificial lateral line, a submarine or underwater robot could similarly detect and track moving underwater targets, and avoid collisions with moving or stationary objects.
The artificial lateral line consists of an integrated linear array of micro fabricated flow sensors, with the sizes of individual sensors and spacings between them matching those of their biological counterpart.
"By detecting changes in water pressure and movement, the device can supplement sonar and vision systems in submarines and underwater robots," said Liu, who also is affiliated with the university's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.
Liu and colleagues at Illinois and at Bowling Green State University described their work in the Dec. 12, 2006, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To fabricate the tiny, three-dimensional structures, individual components are first cast in place on sacrificial layers using photolithography and planar deposition. A small amount of magnetic material is electroplated onto each of the parts, which are then freed from the substrate by an etchant. When a magnetic field is applied, the induced torque causes the pieces to rotate out of the plane on tiny hinges and lock into place.
Each sensor is integrated with metal-oxide-superconductor circuitry for on-chip signal processing, noise reduction and data acquisition. The largest array the researchers have built consists of 16 flow sensors with 1 millimeter spacing. Each sensor is 400 microns wide and 600 microns tall.
In tests, the researchers' artificial lateral line was able to localize a nearby underwater vibrating source, and could detect the hydrodynamic wake (such as the wake formed behind a propeller-driven submarine) for long-distance tracking. With further advances in engineering, man-made underwater vehicles should be able to autonomously image hydrodynamic events from their surroundings, Liu said.
"Although biology remains far superior to human engineering, having a man-made parallel of the biological system allows us to learn much about both basic science and engineering," Liu said. "To actively learn from biology at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organism level is still the bigger picture."
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The work was funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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I've tried many drugs in my days and one thing I've found is that giving you delusions isn't necessarily an indicator of quality.
Uhh, if the code was written from guessed at specs I don't see how it could be good quality. You can't build a good house from shitty blueprints unless it is a very simple house or you're the luckiest person I know. I'm sure the code is beautifully commented and everything is documented (aren't all open source projects?), but now matter how many "eyes view it" or whatever open source mantra you throw out there it doesn't change the fact that you don't have the specs for the device.
How do you find OS X works on it? I tried something similar on an old Acer Veriton at work. It worked ok, but it only had intel's 8xx graphics not the 9xx that OSX wanted so I didn't get any accelerated video and I also had to put in an old startech nic because the onboard wasn't supported. Worked better than my system I built (athlon 64 3500+ on a soltek motherboard) on which I got most of it working but sound only came out of 1 speaker and I had similar problems with video and sound as before. I really liked OS X though and will probably buy a macbook come tax back time (should be the same time leopard comes out conveniently).
I still think that if it were up to me I'd eliminate patents and copyrights altogether. Technology has made both a thing of the past.
I'd be carefull buying a via cpu again. I had a 533MHz 6000 C3 and it wasn't even as fast as an equivalently clocked celeron. Don't get me wrong the C7s might be better but I'm still kicking myself for not just buying a mac mini.
That's what metaphysics was 500 years ago with Newton. Today it's all about God and faith healing.
Seriously, your degree might not be "pigeonholed", but I know lots of philosophy majors that never quite got beyond plato and socrates.
..Might help if you remember that Newton was a philosopher. Putting us in the same category as Sociologists is like confusing "Astrologer" and "Astronomer".Newton was many things not just a philosopher. I don't think it is like confusing astrologer and astronomer at all. Remember that in addition to things like symbolic logic, philosophy has metaphysics which really gets awful close to astrology for my liking.
It goes the other way too. Ask a philosophy student to explain lift and drag and see how far you get.
The gp need not justify anything. Copying a piece of software does not deprive the owner of anything if you aren't selling it afterwards and weren't going to pay for it anyways. BTW the gimp lacks many features found in photoshop, has a shitty UI, and just isn't used by anyone in work or school. Granted it's free and I use it too, but don't oversell it.
Your parents haven't found the lack of flash to be a problem? I know flash is the spawn of satan, but I know my parents go to sites that use it. Not any serious flash stuff but just basic shit. Maybe that's working in Linux now I don't know, but it wasn't last I tried.
1. a day is still a while ;))
2. only works if all the machines are the same which isn't always the case
3. don't use either so I can't say, personally I prefer FreeBSD (what Gentoo tries to be
4. I agree, plus you have the additional time after the initial setup to deal with virii and shit
Yeah, and it only took 3 weeks of compiling to get to that point.
If it didn't affect you personally, how could it have been the worst day of your life?
Then go be a yankee and leave Canada to us.
It's still only cheaper if you value your time at $0.
I'd like to see that.
Your suggestion about just buying a bigger hdd is a good one that I have considered, the problem is that I like to take movies to friends houses and an actual DVD disk just works better for that. I know I could use a usb hdd but then they would require media center pcs or an xbox etc. Now that DVD players are like 30 bucks, everyone has one, but not everyone has one of the former.
By the way, I'm looking to sell the epia system (1gb ram, 30gb hdd, slim dual layer dvd burner in a travella case), if anyone is interested reply to this post.
That's pretty standard pricing for aircraft toilet equipment. Remember the mythbusters where they did a myth about being sucked into the toilet when it flushes? They had to buy one for the myth test and it was thousands of dollars.
I think you mean "amount" as opposed to "about". You made the same mistake twice. Your point is correct though.
I don't know about your car, but pressing the start button on the remote starts mine, then when you press the brake or try to put it into gear without the key in run position it shuts off.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Don't give them any ideas.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- To find prey and avoid being preyed upon, fish rely on a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line. Now, a research team led by Chang Liu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has built an artificial lateral line that can provide the same functions in underwater vehicles.
"Our development of an artificial lateral line is aimed at enhancing human ability to detect, navigate and survive in the underwater environment," said Liu, a Willett Scholar and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. "Our goal is to develop an artificial device that mimics the functions and capabilities of the biological system."
In fish, the lateral line provides guidance for synchronized swimming, predator and obstacle avoidance, and prey detection and tracking. Equipped with an artificial lateral line, a submarine or underwater robot could similarly detect and track moving underwater targets, and avoid collisions with moving or stationary objects.
The artificial lateral line consists of an integrated linear array of micro fabricated flow sensors, with the sizes of individual sensors and spacings between them matching those of their biological counterpart.
"By detecting changes in water pressure and movement, the device can supplement sonar and vision systems in submarines and underwater robots," said Liu, who also is affiliated with the university's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.
Liu and colleagues at Illinois and at Bowling Green State University described their work in the Dec. 12, 2006, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To fabricate the tiny, three-dimensional structures, individual components are first cast in place on sacrificial layers using photolithography and planar deposition. A small amount of magnetic material is electroplated onto each of the parts, which are then freed from the substrate by an etchant. When a magnetic field is applied, the induced torque causes the pieces to rotate out of the plane on tiny hinges and lock into place.
Each sensor is integrated with metal-oxide-superconductor circuitry for on-chip signal processing, noise reduction and data acquisition. The largest array the researchers have built consists of 16 flow sensors with 1 millimeter spacing. Each sensor is 400 microns wide and 600 microns tall.
In tests, the researchers' artificial lateral line was able to localize a nearby underwater vibrating source, and could detect the hydrodynamic wake (such as the wake formed behind a propeller-driven submarine) for long-distance tracking. With further advances in engineering, man-made underwater vehicles should be able to autonomously image hydrodynamic events from their surroundings, Liu said.
"Although biology remains far superior to human engineering, having a man-made parallel of the biological system allows us to learn much about both basic science and engineering," Liu said. "To actively learn from biology at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organism level is still the bigger picture." ###
The work was funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.