Whats really bad is I recognized some of the gear shown on bug eye's web site. I remember that hexagonal shell display from the F-22 flight trainer sim. (open house at L3 back when I worked hell desk there)
First off, RTFA. Second, strongly centralized governments envy banana republics that don't have this "rule of law" democracy seeking people keep asking for.
I think Indymedia's problem really is that they don't know why the servers were seized, they just got a call from rackspace saying "dude, the FBI is here with a warrant, so that server is coming down". In fact, I think that this could have been done without Indymedia knowing until the server was unplugged, sort of a Patriot Act style no knock raid.
The first rule about patriot act is we don't talk about patriot act. The second rule about patriot act is we don't talk about patriot act!
In theory, if/. refered to a project that was supposed to be secret in a foreign coutry the 1st amendment rights of/. can be broached by that country issuing subpeonas via the MLAT thingy? I read the article and it refered to a pic of some Swiss undercover brownshorts getting their cover blown on an Indymedia server as the likely cause of the take down.
Ah, the swiss, in their hollowed out little country. The nice germans, or as they say, "The other white race"
There are a bunch of peeps saying that the technology projects onto a peice of rotating material. Thats not what the article says. For the very first time, computer users will be able to view 3D objects hovering a few inches away from a screen that rotates 360 degrees - without wearing glasses I think this phrase is confusing people. That refers to seeing it from 360 deg around. Later in the article it says The 3Dsolar device projects the Windows or MAC desktop image into the air whereby users click on icons for manipulation. Nothing about any rotating surface. I still think there's something funny going on here, but we'll have to wait for some real photos to say how it works, not that PR junk on the site.
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I've seen a handfull of display systems that used a fog screen to project 2d images before, and a few that relied on mirrored surfaces to create a 3d illusion. Light must be reflected off of something in order to be seen. This article doesn't say how it's done, so we'll have to wait for Oct 25 to see how its actually done.
If this uses a fog screen, will it therefore be vaporware.
This looks like a high tech version of the ancient carbon cell battery. I would hope that this design can be made rechargeable, I wouldn't want to replace a battery made with a super expensive nanotube component, EVER. And no, I'm not thinking MP3 player, I'm thinking sensors that you don't want to have to visit regulary.
Okay, there have been plenty of bad, and a few good, take offs of marvel comics. Is the proliferation of marvel movies because it's profitable or because they can't write a new idea.
I hope they actually kill people in the new animated series. If batman woulda just frick'n killed the joker he woulda saved gotham millions.(This is why Cowboy Bebop kicks ass)
I remember hearing about how this program was providing funds to school districts that really didn't know what things cost. I think it was the El Paso school district that wound up being sold a few $million worth of Cisco gear that was never installed because it wasn't part of the IS architecture plans, drawn by the same people that sold the gear.
All in all, this is a program that should have started really big to make initial investments in hardware, but cut back a little to just maintain.
Viacom, as all liberal media, want to redistribute wealth to lower socio-economic classes so that they can consume more and the advertisers can pay more for the commercials.
This is due to the lower marginal savings rates for people that don't make much or any money, where as wealthier ($75k+) start having a higher savings rate, which means they aren't buying as much as they make. Economics 101 meets Media 101.
The Coffee in the beer products go way back. At the 1904 worlds fair (the same place that gave jack daniels the ribbons on the label) a beer was awarded a medal that used coffee instead of hops.
I only know this cuz it was Kurt Vonnegut's grandfather (I think thats the right relation) and was mentioned in Time Quake.
That in part explains why there were gym style showers at the call center I used to work at. Never used, no one biked to work cuz no one could afford to actually live in that part of town for the wages they paid us.
Since almost all servers are not connected to better than 100Mbps (I haven't been on that side of the eq since 1998 so I'm making assumptions, 'scuze me if I'm wrong) , network congestion, etc, I never see the full bandwidth of my 4Mbps line used on one task. 360Mbps might make for an impressive show of ability, but that has limitations at other bottle necks.
The only immediate application I can think of for is setting up temporary offices where you don't want the expense of cabling, but even then you quickly fill the RF bandwidth.
I'd say windows is like a house of cards, but that is too straight forward. Windoz is more like an ancient rustbucket of a car that stops running if you remove that plastic figurine of the Virgin Mary on the dash.
I just RTFA and the numbers come to $53 million, $20 mill for the satelite and $33 mill for the satellite.
I think the article says they'd have to build 10,000 schools per year to get classrooms needed. Even using quanset huts (or rather the local equiv) the cost of building the schools and staffing them would sail on past $53 mill really quick.
Sure, the set top reciever is cheap( to us), but then you need to HAVE a TV and the electricity to run all the gear. So if the intention is to level to playing field, you have created another division around the power issue.
You're right, but wrong country on the link, I had to dig through the US amazon site to find the region 1 encoding. Thanks, I never really thought about looking for these before the news in the parent post.
I think this guy is a member of the tinfoil hat crowd. A diffuse infra red laser? Come on, put a few watts into a focused laser and zap whatever small airborn object you feel uncomfortable about. It'd be a damn bit more effective than a scattered laser.
I'm thinking that in order to secure an acre of sky with the rig described by the AC you'd have to put more than a few watts per square meter to blanket the area.
I think a CD box set would be great. I've seen the originalls on audio cassettes, but that was years ago. The BBC is sitting on a possible goldmine of old tv and radio shows. I've already spent a few hundred on red dwarf DVD's and The Young ones. I would buy H2G2 the tv series and radio shows if they were available on disc formats.
This signiture was handcrafted by monks in the distant hymalayas
If you put out a preview that lets people discover their computer doesn't have the power to keep up they deffinatly don't buy the box.(I know, thats what those software nutrition labels are for, but they can get vague.) Those that buy the software, install and discover their computer needs $300+ worth of upgrades are stuck with the software due to the no open returns policies. Thus hype sells more games if you don't put out a preview.
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It's a line from robin williams, Live on broadway.
Whats really bad is I recognized some of the gear shown on bug eye's web site. I remember that hexagonal shell display from the F-22 flight trainer sim. (open house at L3 back when I worked hell desk there)
First off, RTFA. Second, strongly centralized governments envy banana republics that don't have this "rule of law" democracy seeking people keep asking for.
I think Indymedia's problem really is that they don't know why the servers were seized, they just got a call from rackspace saying "dude, the FBI is here with a warrant, so that server is coming down". In fact, I think that this could have been done without Indymedia knowing until the server was unplugged, sort of a Patriot Act style no knock raid.
The first rule about patriot act is we don't talk about patriot act. The second rule about patriot act is we don't talk about patriot act!
In theory, if /. refered to a project that was supposed to be secret in a foreign coutry the 1st amendment rights of /. can be broached by that country issuing subpeonas via the MLAT thingy? I read the article and it refered to a pic of some Swiss undercover brownshorts getting their cover blown on an Indymedia server as the likely cause of the take down.
Ah, the swiss, in their hollowed out little country. The nice germans, or as they say, "The other white race"
There are a bunch of peeps saying that the technology projects onto a peice of rotating material. Thats not what the article says.
For the very first time, computer users will be able to view 3D objects hovering a few inches away from a screen that rotates 360 degrees - without wearing glasses
I think this phrase is confusing people. That refers to seeing it from 360 deg around. Later in the article it says The 3Dsolar device projects the Windows or MAC desktop image into the air whereby users click on icons for manipulation. Nothing about any rotating surface. I still think there's something funny going on here, but we'll have to wait for some real photos to say how it works, not that PR junk on the site.
I remember the system your talking about. I looked around and found the #@#$ed thing. "Itme Traveller,sega 1991. Used a 2d pic mirrored about. http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyerdb&subpage= thumbs&id=1213This is a company flyer for the thing
I've seen a handfull of display systems that used a fog screen to project 2d images before, and a few that relied on mirrored surfaces to create a 3d illusion. Light must be reflected off of something in order to be seen. This article doesn't say how it's done, so we'll have to wait for Oct 25 to see how its actually done.
If this uses a fog screen, will it therefore be vaporware.
This looks like a high tech version of the ancient carbon cell battery. I would hope that this design can be made rechargeable, I wouldn't want to replace a battery made with a super expensive nanotube component, EVER. And no, I'm not thinking MP3 player, I'm thinking sensors that you don't want to have to visit regulary.
Okay, there have been plenty of bad, and a few good, take offs of marvel comics. Is the proliferation of marvel movies because it's profitable or because they can't write a new idea.
I hope they actually kill people in the new animated series. If batman woulda just frick'n killed the joker he woulda saved gotham millions.(This is why Cowboy Bebop kicks ass)
I remember hearing about how this program was providing funds to school districts that really didn't know what things cost. I think it was the El Paso school district that wound up being sold a few $million worth of Cisco gear that was never installed because it wasn't part of the IS architecture plans, drawn by the same people that sold the gear.
All in all, this is a program that should have started really big to make initial investments in hardware, but cut back a little to just maintain.
Viacom, as all liberal media, want to redistribute wealth to lower socio-economic classes so that they can consume more and the advertisers can pay more for the commercials.
This is due to the lower marginal savings rates for people that don't make much or any money, where as wealthier ($75k+) start having a higher savings rate, which means they aren't buying as much as they make. Economics 101 meets Media 101.
Dr Cray was killed in 1995(in think thats the year) when his SUV was T-boned by a short car and rolled over.
I only know this from a Sci-Am article on using supercomputers to predict crash situation.
The Coffee in the beer products go way back. At the 1904 worlds fair (the same place that gave jack daniels the ribbons on the label) a beer was awarded a medal that used coffee instead of hops.
I only know this cuz it was Kurt Vonnegut's grandfather (I think thats the right relation) and was mentioned in Time Quake.
That in part explains why there were gym style showers at the call center I used to work at. Never used, no one biked to work cuz no one could afford to actually live in that part of town for the wages they paid us.
Since almost all servers are not connected to better than 100Mbps (I haven't been on that side of the eq since 1998 so I'm making assumptions, 'scuze me if I'm wrong) , network congestion, etc, I never see the full bandwidth of my 4Mbps line used on one task. 360Mbps might make for an impressive show of ability, but that has limitations at other bottle necks.
The only immediate application I can think of for is setting up temporary offices where you don't want the expense of cabling, but even then you quickly fill the RF bandwidth.
UGHH, I get to page 2 and the site has been /.'ed. How can a person RTFA if the FS keep bursting into flames.
no speed will ever be enough as long as you can lord your proc over someone else's.
Remember, increasing processor abilities are the key to designed obsolecence in computers. That, and M$ bloat ware
I'd say windows is like a house of cards, but that is too straight forward. Windoz is more like an ancient rustbucket of a car that stops running if you remove that plastic figurine of the Virgin Mary on the dash.
I just RTFA and the numbers come to $53 million, $20 mill for the satelite and $33 mill for the satellite.
I think the article says they'd have to build 10,000 schools per year to get classrooms needed. Even using quanset huts (or rather the local equiv) the cost of building the schools and staffing them would sail on past $53 mill really quick.
Sure, the set top reciever is cheap( to us), but then you need to HAVE a TV and the electricity to run all the gear. So if the intention is to level to playing field, you have created another division around the power issue.
You're right, but wrong country on the link, I had to dig through the US amazon site to find the region 1 encoding. Thanks, I never really thought about looking for these before the news in the parent post.
I think this guy is a member of the tinfoil hat crowd. A diffuse infra red laser? Come on, put a few watts into a focused laser and zap whatever small airborn object you feel uncomfortable about. It'd be a damn bit more effective than a scattered laser.
I'm thinking that in order to secure an acre of sky with the rig described by the AC you'd have to put more than a few watts per square meter to blanket the area.
I think a CD box set would be great. I've seen the originalls on audio cassettes, but that was years ago. The BBC is sitting on a possible goldmine of old tv and radio shows. I've already spent a few hundred on red dwarf DVD's and The Young ones. I would buy H2G2 the tv series and radio shows if they were available on disc formats.
This signiture was handcrafted by monks in the distant hymalayas
If you put out a preview that lets people discover their computer doesn't have the power to keep up they deffinatly don't buy the box.(I know, thats what those software nutrition labels are for, but they can get vague.)
Those that buy the software, install and discover their computer needs $300+ worth of upgrades are stuck with the software due to the no open returns policies. Thus hype sells more games if you don't put out a preview.
Theres that AC post a few messages ago that says Mr. Chen shows up in the Linux Credits. Is it possible he's using a linux box in richmond.
Invasion of the penguins.