Yeah, but no matter how large you print something or how well you print it, the eye will know it's not real. Even if it's one of those 3d magic eye thingies, you'll know you're looking at a picture.
And about noise: what do you think a grainy picture is? Jpeg artifacts? Color dithering? Noise free pictures are extremely hard to get.
My CDs sound pretty good. Maybe it's just becuase I don't obsess about it, but they sound fine to me.
Your ear is a vastly more sophisticated sampling device than your eye; I don't know of a single sound compression technology on the market that can fool the human ear.
Um, no it isn't. Your eye is vastly more sophisticated. Is it easier to recognize people by their faces or thier voice? Even musical instruments, is it easier to tell what kind of instrument is being played by looking at than listening to it.
And there isn't any technology that can "fool" the eye either. When you look at a picture, you don't think it's real, you know it's a picture. Just like a recording, except a recording can come a lot closer.
Super-hardcore audiophilia is a bit of a religion.
Am I the only person who thought this referred to the government? Everybody else seems to be taking it as a literal comment on the quality of drivers...
Yeah, it did. By they were having so much fun I let them run with it.
As an American living in Canada, I feel good about this. The main benefit from living in Canada I've found so far is just a lower stress level. The people at the wheel seem saner, more composed and less twitchy, it doesn't seem as absolutely imperative to pay attention the news, that sort of thing.
5) Best estimates are for 325 long term general population deaths arising out of the Chernobyl radiation escape. Guess how many cancers due to oil/coal burning plants elsewhere?
Ummmm... Try 75,000. A whole city evacuated.
Chernobyl cost the Soviet Union a ton in lives and health. It also cost it an entire city.
Almost every tool has a key attached to it, so you can switch to it. In 3d programs, learning the hotkeys is necesarry to do anything in a reasonable ammount of time. In photoshop it's less necessary, but still a tremendous time saver.
Pressing "m" for marquee would be faster than moving a mouse to the toolbox and click the tool. Also, you'd need AMAZING hand eye coordination to use two mice at once. Just try using one with your left hand (or right, if you're a lefty).
Thanks man. I didn't think it was totally off topic either.
The topic was "a show nerds might be interested in is on tonight", and my comment was "this other show nerds might be interested in is on tonight too". I don't think that's really off topic.
Um, No and No.
We want to see if theres independent life somewhere else in the solar system. Why? Because if two planets in one solar system have life, then it is EXTREMELY likey that it is common, and that there almost must be intelligent life outside of our solar system. If we contaminate Europa, we'll never know.
And an asteroid could not kill all life on Earth. The moon crashing into earth couldn't even kill all life on Earth. Small animals, or at the very least insects, would survive just about every asteroid. Bacteria would survive the moon.
"Somebody please think of the children" isn't liberal, it's mostly from the Christian right. Thier the ones that ban books, and try to ban movies, music, games, and everything else.
Communism is economic policy and not social, so is completely unrelated.
Labeling everything you disagree with "liberal" (or conservative, or right, or left, or communist, or anything else, for that matter) is stupid.
It seems to me if they actually had achieved fusion the jar would have just exploded.
Since the energy from this can create visible light in just an ordinary chemical reaction, it seems that if they had achieved fusion the energy levels would be many orders of magnitude higher, and would just explode the jar and vaporize the remaining acetone.
Arm chair physics, but it seems to make sense to me.
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Yeah, but no matter how large you print something or how well you print it, the eye will know it's not real. Even if it's one of those 3d magic eye thingies, you'll know you're looking at a picture.
And about noise: what do you think a grainy picture is? Jpeg artifacts? Color dithering? Noise free pictures are extremely hard to get.
My CDs sound pretty good. Maybe it's just becuase I don't obsess about it, but they sound fine to me.
Your ear is a vastly more sophisticated sampling device than your eye; I don't know of a single sound compression technology on the market that can fool the human ear.
Um, no it isn't. Your eye is vastly more sophisticated. Is it easier to recognize people by their faces or thier voice? Even musical instruments, is it easier to tell what kind of instrument is being played by looking at than listening to it.
And there isn't any technology that can "fool" the eye either. When you look at a picture, you don't think it's real, you know it's a picture. Just like a recording, except a recording can come a lot closer.
Super-hardcore audiophilia is a bit of a religion.
This is the paradigm shift
This is the what?!? Are marketing and management people posting to Slashdot now?
Well they MAYBE gates, instead of AND, OR, XOR, etc.
That this is exactly the same as this story.
I dissagree. I think people trying to get food on the internet is very funny! Food, get it! Internet! HAHA! HA!
HA!
I'm blaming this on Michael.
Damnit Michael, just stop. They just aren't funn- oh wait, this isn't a April fool's article. Carry on :)
PS: The moderation you're looking for is "funny", and not "troll"
Touche!
Am I the only person who thought this referred to the government? Everybody else seems to be taking it as a literal comment on the quality of drivers...
Yeah, it did. By they were having so much fun I let them run with it.
As an American living in Canada, I feel good about this. The main benefit from living in Canada I've found so far is just a lower stress level. The people at the wheel seem saner, more composed and less twitchy, it doesn't seem as absolutely imperative to pay attention the news, that sort of thing.
Stuff like this only helps.
5) Best estimates are for 325 long term general population deaths arising out of the Chernobyl radiation escape. Guess how many cancers due to oil/coal burning plants elsewhere? Ummmm... Try 75,000. A whole city evacuated. Chernobyl cost the Soviet Union a ton in lives and health. It also cost it an entire city.
I bet this appears on thier website soon:
"our favorite console manufacturer" - Slashdot
Just wait. You'll see.
Almost every tool has a key attached to it, so you can switch to it. In 3d programs, learning the hotkeys is necesarry to do anything in a reasonable ammount of time. In photoshop it's less necessary, but still a tremendous time saver.
Pressing "m" for marquee would be faster than moving a mouse to the toolbox and click the tool. Also, you'd need AMAZING hand eye coordination to use two mice at once. Just try using one with your left hand (or right, if you're a lefty).
Thanks man. I didn't think it was totally off topic either.
The topic was "a show nerds might be interested in is on tonight", and my comment was "this other show nerds might be interested in is on tonight too". I don't think that's really off topic.
Anyway, enjoy!
No we didn't! They (not us) just slightly blurred it. We all got a big kick out of it.
Remember, at 9 tonight Game Over is on UPN too! Two episodes actually, one at 9 and one at 9:30.
:)
Both great episodes, don't miss em (or at least the first one, if you want to watch clone wars)
How do I know? I worked on the show. This is a shameless plug
You're right, except I don't really care what color the asteroid is.
Um, No and No. We want to see if theres independent life somewhere else in the solar system. Why? Because if two planets in one solar system have life, then it is EXTREMELY likey that it is common, and that there almost must be intelligent life outside of our solar system. If we contaminate Europa, we'll never know. And an asteroid could not kill all life on Earth. The moon crashing into earth couldn't even kill all life on Earth. Small animals, or at the very least insects, would survive just about every asteroid. Bacteria would survive the moon.
Thousands of people die on beaches every year from DHM inhalation.
"Somebody please think of the children" isn't liberal, it's mostly from the Christian right. Thier the ones that ban books, and try to ban movies, music, games, and everything else.
Communism is economic policy and not social, so is completely unrelated.
Labeling everything you disagree with "liberal" (or conservative, or right, or left, or communist, or anything else, for that matter) is stupid.
It seems to me if they actually had achieved fusion the jar would have just exploded.
Since the energy from this can create visible light in just an ordinary chemical reaction, it seems that if they had achieved fusion the energy levels would be many orders of magnitude higher, and would just explode the jar and vaporize the remaining acetone.
Arm chair physics, but it seems to make sense to me.
Well, it's been shown that religion is quite impervious to logic, but even if it weren't, your logic is broken.
I'm not sure I'd want to have this guy given a kid.. he seems a little crazy. No offense, Sentosus, but you do.
If there was any doubt that Slashdot is a valid news source, those fears can now be LAYED TO REST.
Gryph, Gryph, Gryph, Please!
:)
I was responding to the apostrophe in the summary. My subject line and my link shoulda clued you in.