Well thank god you logged in long enough to register your disgust. How else would we have know to be appropriately sad for being deprived of your magnificent presence ?
You make a fair point. But also; welcome to the internet;)
I don't read slashdot anywhere near as much as I used to. And on this brief foray to sample from the pool of away-from-maintream reporting, what am I met with - an exciting progression in scientific endevour twisted into a painfully patronising slashdot summary.
See you in another 10^3 days, hopefully there will be some improvement, but I won't be holding my breath:/
I've designed kit with atomic clocks for undersea use, and specified where to procure them from. At the time (over a decade ago) rubidium clocks could be imported from Switzerland for between £1000 and £2000 with a choice of outputs (square, sine, frequency, amplitude...). They were the size of approx two Nintendo DSs on top of each other. Power consumption wasn't that bad.
Given how long ago that was, I imagine things have improved significantly in terms of form factor and power consumption since then.
So I'm not convinced on the headline assertions about how massive they are and the huge amount of power they draw:)
The people who run their diesel cars on used & filtered french fry fat drive cars that smell very tasty.
Unless they strip that out, the cars would smell of chicken.
Personally, I think I would prefer a stripped-down version. Don't make the smell overwhelming, but keep a sprinkle of good smell in there.
I make biodiesel out of waste veg oil. The biodiesel process splits the triglycerides but doesn't do much to the aromatic compounds in the source oil. It's also pretty much impossible to filter these aromatics out of the final product, so as a result it will, to some extent, smell of the source oil when burnt in an engine.
My personal experience is that the smell is usually quite pleasant (aside from one batch where the source oil smelt like someone had died in it, for which I felt very sorry for the people behind me), and that a cold engine smells more than a hot one (presumably due to incomplete combustion). Certainly nothing like as nasty as dino diesel though.
Why do I have pay $15 a movie? and rent 3d glasses? Why can't I buy then and save the $3+ rent fee? What happens if I just keep them and not put them in that box when they just get reused and maybe not even cleaned.
That's how it rolls for some UK 3D cinemas. You pay an initial fee for the glasses but if you hang onto 'em and bring 'em back for the next movie, you don't pay the fee again.
In 3d movies, or on the Nintendo 3ds, you are NOT focusing on two different objects. It's no different than looking at a mirror, as another poster pointed out.
Actually, it is different. Look at a near object in a mirror and far objects will go out of focus (and you see two of them, but the brain tunes this out). The reverse applies for far objects. 3D TV/film/3ds won't do this. It doesn't matter which part of the image you look at, other z distances within the image will remain in focus, which is not natural.
The only saving grace of 3D TV and film is that usually you're a good distance from the screen so the effect is minor. But with a Ninty 3DS the 3D screen much closer to the viewer, which may be cause for concern if the reports are to be believed, especially since the device will be popular with developing children.
(I work in broadcast TV, including 3DTV, and have yet to figure out why anyone would want to watch the news in 3D, but that's a whole other story;) )
Of course its like nothing you've ever seen. Its completely unnecessary. I've never seen a car with built-in centrifuge.. doesn't mean they should make one.
I've had Ubuntu Server Edition LTS (long term support) boxes serving stuff to the wild for a couple of years now. Never had any problems, rock solid - only restarted for kernel upgrades. Really can't fault it as a server distro. LLMP rather than LAMP because I also prefer lighttpd.
Well, for my laptop with failed HD, Knoppix live CD "just works". And that includes Wifi (using a PCMCIA wifi card) that I can connect using just a few clicks on the GUI. It even works if I don't boot with the PCMCIA card installed and then plug it in after the system has started. For me, that's "just works" on an impressive scale.:)
Summary: voluntary effort to remake the original HL but using the source engine and shiny new, graphically more appealing design.
Check out the video, it's very impressive - I can't wait to have a play when they're done.
The human condition is one of striving - we will never be happy with what we have; we will always look for the next greatest thing. And if that doesn't make you proud to be a human, then you're not an engineer.
You can fix this by starting a new Facebook account just for gaming, thus separating the social stuff from the spammy gaming stuff.
Like Mafia Wars, which requires a large Mafia to make any sensible progress. Separate account => no creepy unknowns looking at your photos. (Well, as much as you can avoid creepy unknowns looking at your photos on a social networking site).
I've never understood why CD and DVD sales leap after the death of a performer. Surely your praise and money are most useful while the performer is still alive?
I guess because you know "The Complete Collection" is actually complete. Like when I bought the Alien Trilogy and then they released Alien: Resurrection. The bastards. Die already.
And I know the Linux guys will hate me for saying this, but you really want to know why Linux didn't gain squat even with a super turkey like Vista as competition? Because of the trinity of shopping-Best Buy, Staples, Walmart. You see almost nothing you buy in those three stores actually works in Linux.
And this was modded informative?
Just to dispel your theory, these stores don't exist in some other countries (I know America does seem like the world to those within, but there is other stuff out there beyond the oceans). And despite a lack of the aforementioned stores, Windows manages to be popular over Linux in these places too.
Now that Comcast have bought into this whole "IPV6" thing us geeks have been falsely feeding them for years, we can all be off on the other part of the internet using our hushed-up IPV256 network (every fundamental particle in the universe needs an IP) and sniggering at their (now isolated) backwardness.;)
I hope you've been putting in subliminal messages as an Easter egg. e.g. splicing in frames of hard-core porn randomly every couple of hours.
You joke about it, but its all too easy to do that kind of thing accidentally, and certainly something I've seen happen - for example; switching services without clearing all frame stores, and then later displaying an early frame accidentally under certain circumstances (IE where a frame has to be repeated because of external frame-sync, showing the old picture instead of repeating the last one).
If someone hasn't figured out they need to pick up a DTV tuner, and gone out and obtained one by now, but they can sit there and watch the static. There has been AMPLE warning that this was coming, so even stupidity and laziness wont cut it for an excuse.
I work for a company the supplies a large proportion of the world with digital content distribution equipment (as a s/w engineer, it's a rather cool job - quite a lot of what people watch/hear has been touched (not necessarily in a good way;) ) by my code).
Your observation is easy to say from the viewpoint of someone technologically aware - but you have to recognise there are plenty of people that just "don't get it" because even a basic level of technology is more than they want to get to grips with. These people don't understand how cordless phones work, and have little interest in internet connectivity. The whole digital television thing is a blur. But, they are happy like that; the digital switch over is just an annoyance they don't understand.
I don't think that makes them lazy or stupid - its just a different set of life values that people in our demographic don't understand.
Maybe one day our kid's kid's will be complaining about how we haven't had our brains flash frozen for inclusion in the AI singularity grid. Don't we know organic matter will be obsolete in a couple of years?:)
Thankfully until then the progress that I do understand pays the mortgage - and I hope the numerous beers don't dull my excitement over new technology - though as I get older, I feel that certain inevitability that it will. Maybe one day we'll be left watching the static too...
Slashdot Mirror
You make a fair point. But also; welcome to the internet ;)
I don't read slashdot anywhere near as much as I used to. And on this brief foray to sample from the pool of away-from-maintream reporting, what am I met with - an exciting progression in scientific endevour twisted into a painfully patronising slashdot summary.
See you in another 10^3 days, hopefully there will be some improvement, but I won't be holding my breath :/
I've designed kit with atomic clocks for undersea use, and specified where to procure them from. At the time (over a decade ago) rubidium clocks could be imported from Switzerland for between £1000 and £2000 with a choice of outputs (square, sine, frequency, amplitude...). They were the size of approx two Nintendo DSs on top of each other. Power consumption wasn't that bad.
Given how long ago that was, I imagine things have improved significantly in terms of form factor and power consumption since then.
So I'm not convinced on the headline assertions about how massive they are and the huge amount of power they draw :)
Does that count as a Trojan article?
Ironic, for our pleasure.
Those cookie crumbs sure do itch though.
The people who run their diesel cars on used & filtered french fry fat drive cars that smell very tasty.
Unless they strip that out, the cars would smell of chicken.
Personally, I think I would prefer a stripped-down version. Don't make the smell overwhelming, but keep a sprinkle of good smell in there.
I make biodiesel out of waste veg oil. The biodiesel process splits the triglycerides but doesn't do much to the aromatic compounds in the source oil. It's also pretty much impossible to filter these aromatics out of the final product, so as a result it will, to some extent, smell of the source oil when burnt in an engine.
My personal experience is that the smell is usually quite pleasant (aside from one batch where the source oil smelt like someone had died in it, for which I felt very sorry for the people behind me), and that a cold engine smells more than a hot one (presumably due to incomplete combustion). Certainly nothing like as nasty as dino diesel though.
Why do I have pay $15 a movie? and rent 3d glasses? Why can't I buy then and save the $3+ rent fee? What happens if I just keep them and not put them in that box when they just get reused and maybe not even cleaned.
That's how it rolls for some UK 3D cinemas. You pay an initial fee for the glasses but if you hang onto 'em and bring 'em back for the next movie, you don't pay the fee again.
Spot on. And for those that haven't seen the Farmville parody ad, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBDAcOEKuI
Its only funny because its true...
In 3d movies, or on the Nintendo 3ds, you are NOT focusing on two different objects. It's no different than looking at a mirror, as another poster pointed out.
Actually, it is different. Look at a near object in a mirror and far objects will go out of focus (and you see two of them, but the brain tunes this out). The reverse applies for far objects. 3D TV/film/3ds won't do this. It doesn't matter which part of the image you look at, other z distances within the image will remain in focus, which is not natural.
The only saving grace of 3D TV and film is that usually you're a good distance from the screen so the effect is minor. But with a Ninty 3DS the 3D screen much closer to the viewer, which may be cause for concern if the reports are to be believed, especially since the device will be popular with developing children.
(I work in broadcast TV, including 3DTV, and have yet to figure out why anyone would want to watch the news in 3D, but that's a whole other story ;) )
Of course its like nothing you've ever seen. Its completely unnecessary. I've never seen a car with built-in centrifuge.. doesn't mean they should make one.
I travel by centrifuge you insensitive clod.
A true geek appreciates the insides of a PC. A case is purely superfluous.
The wireless stack is a work in progress, based on the FreeBSD 8.0 WLAN stack.
http://www.haikuware.com/blog
http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/activity/haiku-wifi
Colin is working to a bounty in the spirit of carrot driven development:
http://www.haikuware.com/bounties/
I tried to patent some code that checks submissions for stupid patents, but the patent office stack overflowed...
Are those multiple tags I see against the summary?
Source, now!
I've had Ubuntu Server Edition LTS (long term support) boxes serving stuff to the wild for a couple of years now. Never had any problems, rock solid - only restarted for kernel upgrades. Really can't fault it as a server distro. LLMP rather than LAMP because I also prefer lighttpd.
Well, for my laptop with failed HD, Knoppix live CD "just works". And that includes Wifi (using a PCMCIA wifi card) that I can connect using just a few clicks on the GUI. It even works if I don't boot with the PCMCIA card installed and then plug it in after the system has started. For me, that's "just works" on an impressive scale. :)
Playing the original HL now is a little disappointing - we've seen what can be done. I think that's what drives these guys:
http://www.blackmesasource.com/
Summary: voluntary effort to remake the original HL but using the source engine and shiny new, graphically more appealing design.
Check out the video, it's very impressive - I can't wait to have a play when they're done.
The human condition is one of striving - we will never be happy with what we have; we will always look for the next greatest thing. And if that doesn't make you proud to be a human, then you're not an engineer.
You can fix this by starting a new Facebook account just for gaming, thus separating the social stuff from the spammy gaming stuff.
Like Mafia Wars, which requires a large Mafia to make any sensible progress. Separate account => no creepy unknowns looking at your photos. (Well, as much as you can avoid creepy unknowns looking at your photos on a social networking site).
I've never understood why CD and DVD sales leap after the death of a performer. Surely your praise and money are most useful while the performer is still alive?
I guess because you know "The Complete Collection" is actually complete. Like when I bought the Alien Trilogy and then they released Alien: Resurrection. The bastards. Die already.
And I know the Linux guys will hate me for saying this, but you really want to know why Linux didn't gain squat even with a super turkey like Vista as competition? Because of the trinity of shopping-Best Buy, Staples, Walmart. You see almost nothing you buy in those three stores actually works in Linux.
And this was modded informative?
Just to dispel your theory, these stores don't exist in some other countries (I know America does seem like the world to those within, but there is other stuff out there beyond the oceans). And despite a lack of the aforementioned stores, Windows manages to be popular over Linux in these places too.
http://www.hardwarebook.info/ has been around for a very long time and has huge numbers of pinouts and cable diagrams.
Now that Comcast have bought into this whole "IPV6" thing us geeks have been falsely feeding them for years, we can all be off on the other part of the internet using our hushed-up IPV256 network (every fundamental particle in the universe needs an IP) and sniggering at their (now isolated) backwardness. ;)
I hope you've been putting in subliminal messages as an Easter egg. e.g. splicing in frames of hard-core porn randomly every couple of hours.
You joke about it, but its all too easy to do that kind of thing accidentally, and certainly something I've seen happen - for example; switching services without clearing all frame stores, and then later displaying an early frame accidentally under certain circumstances (IE where a frame has to be repeated because of external frame-sync, showing the old picture instead of repeating the last one).
If someone hasn't figured out they need to pick up a DTV tuner, and gone out and obtained one by now, but they can sit there and watch the static. There has been AMPLE warning that this was coming, so even stupidity and laziness wont cut it for an excuse.
I work for a company the supplies a large proportion of the world with digital content distribution equipment (as a s/w engineer, it's a rather cool job - quite a lot of what people watch/hear has been touched (not necessarily in a good way ;) ) by my code).
Your observation is easy to say from the viewpoint of someone technologically aware - but you have to recognise there are plenty of people that just "don't get it" because even a basic level of technology is more than they want to get to grips with. These people don't understand how cordless phones work, and have little interest in internet connectivity. The whole digital television thing is a blur. But, they are happy like that; the digital switch over is just an annoyance they don't understand.
I don't think that makes them lazy or stupid - its just a different set of life values that people in our demographic don't understand.
Maybe one day our kid's kid's will be complaining about how we haven't had our brains flash frozen for inclusion in the AI singularity grid. Don't we know organic matter will be obsolete in a couple of years? :)
Thankfully until then the progress that I do understand pays the mortgage - and I hope the numerous beers don't dull my excitement over new technology - though as I get older, I feel that certain inevitability that it will. Maybe one day we'll be left watching the static too...
Also confusing to me is that I thought YouTube reached a deal with these guys back in 2007? Did that just fall apart?
The PRS wanted to increase the fees. From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm back in March:
Mr Walker told BBC News the PRS was seeking a rise in fees "many, many factors" higher than the previous agreement.
I think they only realised they were shooting themselves in the foot after the trigger was already pulled.
I'm still trying to figure out how and where they are launching the Moon... ;)
That's no moon...