There are a few companies (iterated.com, lizardtech.com, some others) that have been doing fractal and wavelet scaling for a while now. Pretty impressive stuff. I don't know all the theroretical details, just the practical uses. Scaling up to about 1600% is possible with no noticable artifacts (to the human eye). We've been using some of this stuff in the prepress/graphic arts industry for a while.
Not to say buffer overflows aren't major, but it's not like one is typically any bigger than another. Whether you can throw a cat through or a mouse, is all up to the media and (l)user hype.
Sorry. Just another one of those rants I guess about making mountains out of molehills.
"People love to buy things, but they hate to be sold things."
I think that about sums things up. It's always made sense to me.
Incidently, if it matters, I think I heard that from my Dad. He was a salesman, but at least understood the idea that he's there to give information when asked for it.
Prices change all the time. They're dynamic anyway. This just sounds like "real-time supply & demand". It's how things work anyways, just updated more often.
Just wire some logic into one of those realdolls (realdolls.com? or something. i'm at work and afraid to pull it up...).
Then you could have the ultimate sex machine.. or something closer to Woody Allen's Sleeper.
Some other effects they're coming out with sound pretty cool:
Plans for EyeVision include erasing players from the video who aren't critical to the play and putting a transparent plane on the goal line to show distinctly whether the ball penetrated the plane and crossed the goal line.
The goal line plane will actually be kinda cool, sort like the 1st down line they have now, but a big wall. They'll probably soon add sound effects of crashing glass sounds when they break through...
And removing other players sounds neat, but I would think that everyone out there is effecting some part of the play. Although, it could be super-sweet for training videos.
Just brainstorming here, but what about newsgroup like names, such as comp.os.etc etc? Only reversed. Or whatever works.
That seemed to work for a large number of groups because the individual control was not at such a high level in tree. What I mean is, all we have is.com. From there, everyone fights about what comes before that. Why not split that into several groups? For instance, resturaunts.com. Then the resturaunts can fight over just that level.
some 747's with freakin' laserbeams on their heads! Honestly people, throw me a freakin' bone here...
-Dr Evil
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I meant REI's version of gore, called REI Elements. Omni-Tech is Columbia's version. Other companies have funky names for their stuff. Like I mentioned previously, I don't know how close a copy these are of gore. When the patent runs out, I don't know how other companies can copy it- the exact receipe, or the little bits of technology that make it work, but in their own mix?
This brings up the question, to view from several angles, how would you try to sneak in a back door (or any kind of 'easter egg' type code that doesn't need to be there) into an open source project? Obscure hashing of keys in the code? Just naming functions so they sound official?
There can't be a way to completely hide it. Just make the trail harder to follow. So, as an exercise of what to look for, how would you go about pulling something like this off?
Jason
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The patent on gore-tex ran out in the last year or there abouts. So the price has come down, and there are lots of choices. Helly Hansen, Columbia (which is finally making realy good stuff), REI, etc. all have their version of breathable waterproof shells.
The only problem is, they are probably based completely or in part on gore's patent. I have no idea how that may affect things, but they would probably be similar in characteristics to gore (ie, not quite up to the market hype yet). I've found Helly Hansen's stuff to be barely acceptable, but have had decent luck with REI's stuff.
Anyways, have fun out there....
Jason
Portland, OR
Letterboxing is a hobby that's been around for I guess forever. It's kinda like geocaching, but typically uses just compass and your feet. You follow 'clues', basically instructions, containing bearings and number paces to your turns until you find the goal.
The website has all this info. As other replies have mentioned, the math isn't hard, but there is the Poles Problem. Basically as you approach the poles the longitude lines come close together. Near a pole, it's not worth trying to get to one confluence only a few miles away from another. So, they remove don't count certain intersections.
Overall, another mindless, worthless, but totally interesting reason for geeks to get outside.
So what's are your favorite local ride (within about 3 hours of home)? What's your favorite ride overall, anywhere? And the obvious required question from one biker to another- What's your best carnage story?:)
There's another competitor to MrSID by Iterated Systems called MediaBin. We were helping Iterated out from an actual field use (we're a prepress/graphic arts shop) but they were more interested in the science and not implementation. Looks like MediaBin is their offering.
Lately we've been much more interested in MrSID and have been using it a little bit, but are hoping to include it in our home brewed media management system.
Comparing it to how some states (or at least Oregon) votes, how does something get put on the ballot even before it can be voted on? Someone gathers signatures? Or a pre-vote? Otherwise there could be hundreds of bugs, feature requests, etc that end up on the ballot. There will still have to be some higher power or gatekeeper deciding on what gets voted on.
What does nutscrape provide that Mozilla doesn't? Couldn't you just continue to use Mozilla on it's own? It's got email and browsing and news. What more do you need? And with the mozilla engine available, I'm guessing we'll be seeing a LOT of packaged programs to choose from, not just from AOL.
Haven't the inclination yet to try netscape 6, so we'll just see what Mozilla matures to...
Is that really in 4 dimensions? Or just one way to make a 3d maze on a flat screen? I don't see where the 4th dim comes in. You can move L and R, and back and forth to adjacent squares. It just seems like a 3d maze and you view slices of it that you can move between.
But then again I could be missing something here. Wouldn't be the first time, I was wrong once before but it turned out I was mistaken.
:)
Jason
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There are a few companies (iterated.com, lizardtech.com, some others) that have been doing fractal and wavelet scaling for a while now. Pretty impressive stuff. I don't know all the theroretical details, just the practical uses. Scaling up to about 1600% is possible with no noticable artifacts (to the human eye). We've been using some of this stuff in the prepress/graphic arts industry for a while.
Jason
... that it's just another buffer overflow.
Not to say buffer overflows aren't major, but it's not like one is typically any bigger than another. Whether you can throw a cat through or a mouse, is all up to the media and (l)user hype.
Sorry. Just another one of those rants I guess about making mountains out of molehills.
Jason
"People love to buy things, but they hate to be sold things."
I think that about sums things up. It's always made sense to me.
Incidently, if it matters, I think I heard that from my Dad. He was a salesman, but at least understood the idea that he's there to give information when asked for it.
Jason
Prices change all the time. They're dynamic anyway. This just sounds like "real-time supply & demand". It's how things work anyways, just updated more often.
Jason
Could this be applied to voice recognition software? That your speech is being used to control the actions of a computer?
Or is that just data?
What if you're dictating an actual programming language (something english-like, such as applescript) to your computer through voice rec software?
I think I'm straying off topic, so I'll shut up now....
Jason
Just wire some logic into one of those realdolls (realdolls.com? or something. i'm at work and afraid to pull it up...).
Then you could have the ultimate sex machine.. or something closer to Woody Allen's Sleeper.
Jason
The goal line plane will actually be kinda cool, sort like the 1st down line they have now, but a big wall. They'll probably soon add sound effects of crashing glass sounds when they break through...
And removing other players sounds neat, but I would think that everyone out there is effecting some part of the play. Although, it could be super-sweet for training videos.
Jason
Just brainstorming here, but what about newsgroup like names, such as comp.os.etc etc? Only reversed. Or whatever works.
.com. From there, everyone fights about what comes before that. Why not split that into several groups? For instance, resturaunts.com. Then the resturaunts can fight over just that level.
That seemed to work for a large number of groups because the individual control was not at such a high level in tree. What I mean is, all we have is
It's kinda like a b-tree. It's time for a split.
Jason
some 747's with freakin' laserbeams on their heads! Honestly people, throw me a freakin' bone here...
-Dr Evil
I meant REI's version of gore, called REI Elements. Omni-Tech is Columbia's version. Other companies have funky names for their stuff. Like I mentioned previously, I don't know how close a copy these are of gore. When the patent runs out, I don't know how other companies can copy it- the exact receipe, or the little bits of technology that make it work, but in their own mix?
Jason
This brings up the question, to view from several angles, how would you try to sneak in a back door (or any kind of 'easter egg' type code that doesn't need to be there) into an open source project? Obscure hashing of keys in the code? Just naming functions so they sound official?
There can't be a way to completely hide it. Just make the trail harder to follow. So, as an exercise of what to look for, how would you go about pulling something like this off?
Jason
The patent on gore-tex ran out in the last year or there abouts. So the price has come down, and there are lots of choices. Helly Hansen, Columbia (which is finally making realy good stuff), REI, etc. all have their version of breathable waterproof shells.
The only problem is, they are probably based completely or in part on gore's patent. I have no idea how that may affect things, but they would probably be similar in characteristics to gore (ie, not quite up to the market hype yet). I've found Helly Hansen's stuff to be barely acceptable, but have had decent luck with REI's stuff.
Anyways, have fun out there....
Jason
Portland, OR
Explained here.
Basically, the longitude lines get too close together as you approach the poles to be any fun.
Jason
Letterboxing is a hobby that's been around for I guess forever. It's kinda like geocaching, but typically uses just compass and your feet. You follow 'clues', basically instructions, containing bearings and number paces to your turns until you find the goal.
Take a look at the Letterboxing website.
Have fun,
Jason
The website has all this info. As other replies have mentioned, the math isn't hard, but there is the Poles Problem. Basically as you approach the poles the longitude lines come close together. Near a pole, it's not worth trying to get to one confluence only a few miles away from another. So, they remove don't count certain intersections.
Overall, another mindless, worthless, but totally interesting reason for geeks to get outside.
Jason
And presiding over the case? Judge Jackson... The same one who ordered the company split in the antitrust case.
Just a pure coincidence according to the article, but kinda humorous.
Jason
The article say there are no export controls on toys. Anyone know the details on this law? Just seems kinda strange. Does this include software?
Maybe a couple years ago before the relaxed controls on encryption a PGP game should have been marketed.
Jason
Oh yeah? Well, I can break into the NSA's computers in under 4 minutes...
So, where's my new job?
Jason
Anyone who ever has to do with users should take a read through:
http://techtales.com/
Funny as hell, and you can submit your own stories.
Have fun,
Jason
So what's are your favorite local ride (within about 3 hours of home)? What's your favorite ride overall, anywhere? And the obvious required question from one biker to another- What's your best carnage story? :)
Stay muddy,
Jason
There's another competitor to MrSID by Iterated Systems called MediaBin. We were helping Iterated out from an actual field use (we're a prepress/graphic arts shop) but they were more interested in the science and not implementation. Looks like MediaBin is their offering.
Lately we've been much more interested in MrSID and have been using it a little bit, but are hoping to include it in our home brewed media management system.
Jason
Taken from somewhere on the net:
"Always avoid annoying alliteration"
Comparing it to how some states (or at least Oregon) votes, how does something get put on the ballot even before it can be voted on? Someone gathers signatures? Or a pre-vote? Otherwise there could be hundreds of bugs, feature requests, etc that end up on the ballot. There will still have to be some higher power or gatekeeper deciding on what gets voted on.
Jason
What does nutscrape provide that Mozilla doesn't? Couldn't you just continue to use Mozilla on it's own? It's got email and browsing and news. What more do you need? And with the mozilla engine available, I'm guessing we'll be seeing a LOT of packaged programs to choose from, not just from AOL.
Haven't the inclination yet to try netscape 6, so we'll just see what Mozilla matures to...
Jason
Is that really in 4 dimensions? Or just one way to make a 3d maze on a flat screen? I don't see where the 4th dim comes in. You can move L and R, and back and forth to adjacent squares. It just seems like a 3d maze and you view slices of it that you can move between.
But then again I could be missing something here. Wouldn't be the first time, I was wrong once before but it turned out I was mistaken.
:)
Jason