If I'm going hiking, a $1 coke in my backpack is too damn heavy. I'll be carrying a couple of lightweight plastic bottles filled with home-mixed lemonade.
Just works? I recently had to use a new computer, and I decided to try IE. First site I went to, I was hit with three popup ads and a spyware download. Second site I went to was www.opera.com.
This could be a confirmation of one of the competing theories of gravitation: the "MOND" theory, that at very low accelerations, gravity gets stronger.
As I recall, MOND solves some of the more annoying problems of astronomy: missing matter, and the apparent need for a period of faster-than-light expansion early in the history of the universe.
The "three-body problem" is that there is no known general closed-form solution to Newton's laws if more than two gravitating bodies are involved. In short, you can't derive an equation that will give you the positions of all three objects at any arbitrary point in time.
Instead, iterative solutions are used: given the current masses, positions, and velocities of the objects involved, figure out where they'll be a short time from now. Lather, rinse, repeat. The problem with this is that over long timespans (tens of millions of years), errors build up.
Why wait only six months? I won't purchase a game unless it's been out for at least a year and a half, and is still on the shelves. I also only purchase two or three games a year; this year's games were Escape Velocity: Nova, Morrowind, and Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri.
Just to be on-topic: As of earlier this week, it was determined that SecondLife had around 15,000 subscribers, based on data released about the in-game economy. Earlier this year (around May, I think) the official subscriber numbers were 10,000 accounts.
The early numbers look right for paying accounts. I was estimating subscriber numbers for the first six months or so, and the January to July end of the 2002 curve looks right.
If it was "all active accounts", the February 2002 data point would be around 150,000 players. If it was all accounts ever created, the February 2002 point would be around a million.
Who the hell is interested in "hacking" these things anyway? The picture quality sucks.
Let's say you need to take pictures of something, but you're fairly sure the camera isn't going to survive. A few of these cameras, hacked for continuous download, would be a good solution.
One of my wife's favorite stories is about Chevrolet being puzzled that their Nova wasn't selling in South America, until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
Wrong. "Nova" means about the same in Spanish as it does in English, so there's no reason to change. However, in Spanish, it also makes for a decent pun if your car isn't working: "I've got a Chevy No Va".
No, you build in a mismatch between the sensor resolution and the display resolution. Let's say the best electrode grid you can fit into an eyeball is 1 megapixel. If you've got a 5 megapixel camera feeding that grid, you've got the potential for digital zoom.
Can we please apply some comon sense to this discussion? When I release a program under the GPL, I indicate that everybody have the right to modify and distribute the program. They can't take away their own right to do so, just by disagreeing with the GPL. I don't care if they disagree or not, they have my permission anyway.
If that's your view, you should probably be distributing your software under something other than the GPL.
I was kind of hoping that one of these vendors would step up to bat in the Linux world. But I guess that I am one of many, especially here in/. world. I just hope these windows cards are less buggy than the ATI ALL-In-Wonder cards have traditionally been. Time will tell!
There is one: the HD-2000, from pcHDTV -- it's the world's first Linux-only TV tuner card, and it supports both NTSC (analog) and ATSC (digital) broadcasts.
Right now, they're selling out the last of their HD-2000 cards to make room for the HD-3000. It's speculated that the HD-3000 adds support for digital cable, but there's nothing definite.
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If I'm going hiking, a $1 coke in my backpack is too damn heavy. I'll be carrying a couple of lightweight plastic bottles filled with home-mixed lemonade.
That's a "SHOULD", not a "MUST". In other words, it's possible to ignore that sentence and still be RFC compliant.
The spam filter I use uses HTML-like tags as word delimiters, and considers all invalid HTML tags to be the same token for spam-filtering purposes.
So, viag<invalid>ra would be parsed into "viag", "html:invalid", and "ra". Guess what? All three of those score high on the "spam" listing".
Just works? I recently had to use a new computer, and I decided to try IE. First site I went to, I was hit with three popup ads and a spyware download. Second site I went to was www.opera.com.
Given that light can be slowed down, what reason have we to assume that c is not some slowed-down light speed?
It is. You can get a very slight boost in the speed of light by suppressing quantum vacuum fluctuations (the Casimir effect).
This could be a confirmation of one of the competing theories of gravitation: the "MOND" theory, that at very low accelerations, gravity gets stronger.
As I recall, MOND solves some of the more annoying problems of astronomy: missing matter, and the apparent need for a period of faster-than-light expansion early in the history of the universe.
The "three-body problem" is that there is no known general closed-form solution to Newton's laws if more than two gravitating bodies are involved. In short, you can't derive an equation that will give you the positions of all three objects at any arbitrary point in time.
Instead, iterative solutions are used: given the current masses, positions, and velocities of the objects involved, figure out where they'll be a short time from now. Lather, rinse, repeat. The problem with this is that over long timespans (tens of millions of years), errors build up.
Why wait only six months? I won't purchase a game unless it's been out for at least a year and a half, and is still on the shelves. I also only purchase two or three games a year; this year's games were Escape Velocity: Nova, Morrowind, and Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri.
+1, Geek -- and a pretty good demonstration of the point of the discussion.
Just to be on-topic: As of earlier this week, it was determined that SecondLife had around 15,000 subscribers, based on data released about the in-game economy. Earlier this year (around May, I think) the official subscriber numbers were 10,000 accounts.
Long-time subscriber Carnildo Greenacre here.
ah...so they're still pissed about the whole WW2 thing huh?
It's been going on longer than that. Korea and Japan have been invading each other about as often as England and France have.
The early numbers look right for paying accounts. I was estimating subscriber numbers for the first six months or so, and the January to July end of the 2002 curve looks right.
If it was "all active accounts", the February 2002 data point would be around 150,000 players. If it was all accounts ever created, the February 2002 point would be around a million.
Who the hell is interested in "hacking" these things anyway? The picture quality sucks.
Let's say you need to take pictures of something, but you're fairly sure the camera isn't going to survive. A few of these cameras, hacked for continuous download, would be a good solution.
Because you're probably in the fallout zone should India and Pakistan start flinging nukes around.
One of my wife's favorite stories is about Chevrolet being puzzled that their Nova wasn't selling in South America, until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
Wrong. "Nova" means about the same in Spanish as it does in English, so there's no reason to change. However, in Spanish, it also makes for a decent pun if your car isn't working: "I've got a Chevy No Va".
No, you build in a mismatch between the sensor resolution and the display resolution. Let's say the best electrode grid you can fit into an eyeball is 1 megapixel. If you've got a 5 megapixel camera feeding that grid, you've got the potential for digital zoom.
Can we please apply some comon sense to this discussion? When I release a program under the GPL, I indicate that everybody have the right to modify and distribute the program. They can't take away their own right to do so, just by disagreeing with the GPL. I don't care if they disagree or not, they have my permission anyway.
If that's your view, you should probably be distributing your software under something other than the GPL.
Why don't you just use Gator's eWallet? It's a lot cheaper.
Maybe if it ran on a PDA without a network connection, I'd replace Keyring for PalmOS.
Not.
Mine's a $99 password vault. I've given up on trying to remember all the passwords, PINs, and access codes I need.
No, but it means you've got a four-pound bag to carry around.
I was kind of hoping that one of these vendors would step up to bat in the Linux world. But I guess that I am one of many, especially here in /. world. I just hope these windows cards are less buggy than the ATI ALL-In-Wonder cards have traditionally been. Time will tell!
There is one: the HD-2000, from pcHDTV -- it's the world's first Linux-only TV tuner card, and it supports both NTSC (analog) and ATSC (digital) broadcasts.
Right now, they're selling out the last of their HD-2000 cards to make room for the HD-3000. It's speculated that the HD-3000 adds support for digital cable, but there's nothing definite.
Thanks. That's the calculation I was looking for.
Does this mean that it's no longer safe to drink beer and eat bread?
But more proof that BSD is not dead. It gets support from the companies that know what they're doing.
Don't you mean "CIS confirms: BSD is dying"?