Okay, he made 7 cool mods and boasted how cool they look. But he didn't post any details on HOW he did them. No sources, no plans, no guide, just final results.
The problem with this guy is he writes WHAT he does, but very rarely HOW he does it, which is a bummer and badly against the hacker nature.
Take this "biofeedback" hack. Using your emotions to perform actions on the computer (think FPS games!) - Cool. But all the guy does is to leave a link to a photo of his uber-leet biofeedback device case.
I just don't get it. This is the most basic thing you check with the LCD display. Some people out there still look for higher vertical refresh rate at LCD. *sigh*
Common features: Diagonal Color quality/reliablity [1] GFX input capablity. (VGA/DVI/S-Video etc) No missing (dark) pixels.
Important with CRT: Maximum resolution Maximum Vertical refresh rate at resolution you most frequently use.[2] Image sharpness Black pitch [3] Flatscreen/Trinitron(cyllinder)/Sphere screen.
Important with LCD: Default (non-interpolated) resolution [4] <b>Pixel switch-on time</b> (display lag) Pixel switch-off time (ghosts) Vieving polarization angle[5] Maximum brightness Working temperature range backlight LED lifetime [6]
[1] These ARE different. LCDs have sugar-sweet beautiful colors, that can't be repeated in print, that's why LCDs are the worst choice for a graphician, while your average end user will enjoy the more-than-lifelike graphics immensely [2] On CRT image at 25HZ hurts your eyes badly. On LCD you can freely read books at 25HZ, the refresh rate doesn't mean cycles between switching the image on and off, but between changes to constant content. [3] Is black really black or just a shade of grey? [4] LCDs have one fixed resolution at which they look great, all the other resolutions suck as computer output pixels don't match display pixels. [5] If you don't look straight ahead at the screen, some colors just go dark on some screens. [6] LCD doesn't shine. LCD switches half-transparent pixels on and off, masking the white backlight LEDs off. Without backlight you'll see hardly anything. It's the backlight that eats up most of your batteries too. And it's the LEDs that die first if the screen doesn't get broken/scratched etc first.
How can they conduct such cruel experiments?! They want to ban cloning humans, they protest nuclear technology development, yet they allow such inhuman monstrosities to happen! I'm shocked and disgusted!
So I follow their suggestion and ask a full question: "What sites contain free CAD/CAM software?" Answers: Free posts... Free demo download... $75 Cad Cam Software Sale... Web Cam Watcher Software... CAD for Adobe Illustrator... ($249) Easy drawing and no CAD hassles! Cad cam Information (404) Imaging Software (link farm) Compete CAD/CAM $385 Click here to get your FREE monthly subscription. somebody's resume Ewebeye.com sites list page 115 of a percentage of error-free seconds... Computer Hardware Computer Help Made Simple - Get Your Free
Google: Within first 10 links: Free software for mechanical engineering. Free MAC PCB CAD/CAM Software. FreeCAD.com
Who here can still hum/whistle the theme tune from the Atari game?:) It was the first computer game I won (with positive game over) ever:) Ehh, shooting the mother ship at the border, bombing the XAN bases, tactics to take out whole wing of enemy fighters in one shot, refuelling on the star surface:) True classic.
I'm sick of waiting 2 mins to transfer a DIVX movie to a different partition. For us, average nerds, if we ever got connection that fast, it would still feel slow because of our storage speed.:P
Sorry to disappoint you but the idea isn't as stupid as it looks:) Electric motor needs magnets on both sides, both stator and motor. Only one needs to create variable field. You can perfectly well make the stator or rotor with normal magnets, frequently done with small motors too. The problem is any larger magnets are damn heavy compared to their strength, so usually in stronger/bigger motors electromagnets are used instead. Now if the plastic magnet was light enough and strong enough, it could perfectly well replace half of the coils present in the motor. The other half would have to remain there to create the changing field.
The problem with most magnets and electromagnets is that they are excellent conductors. In some applications this is desired, in many irrelevant, in some very undesired. A neat new way to mount easily replacable chips/cartridges, etc wherever spare metal parts may mean problems...
And a nice property of many polymers is that it's quite common to make transparent derivatives. "glass magnet", interesting idea?
Correction: Getting 1 bit more (4G support) would require just giving up signed int as addresses, not so hard really if you do it from scratch, pretty nasty work if you convert an existing large system that never cared about the last bit of the pointers.) Getting 2 bits more is way harder. You go above the 32bit address space limit and either use tricks like paging (think 128K in Commodore) or use architecture, compilers and generally everything with address space bigger than 32bit (the next step is 64 bit, 16 exabytes of address space, should suffice for a while...).
He's talking about upper limit, not the actual memory the box is shipped with. Empty RAM slots don't cost that much. Supporting 1-2 bits of address space more isn't THAT hard either. But true, for today and next 3-5 years (when the box becomes obsolete anyway), 2G RAM ought to be enough for everyone;)
Mozilla developers can confirm! They spend 100% their time removing bugs! Example bugs (some resolved fixed): - Bounce command not implemented in MailNews - Progress bar should be displayed only when loading stuff - Download Manager unimplemented - Mozilla should include IRC client - "Sort bookmarks" missing - Add interface to unblock secure ports - Coffee machine on 2nd floor broken (old one, from Netscape times yet...) - Developer conference should be organised...
More frequent yes. But there are more parts within one board, so each of them separately needs less bandwidth than all of them taken together. So, 1G carefully engineered/switched (so each part has 1G bandwidth, not 1G shared between all) is quite sufficient. But then, say, 100 parts need 1G bandwidth between each other and 100M bandwidth to the other board, each. Makes 10G of throughput between boards easily.
Okay, so the idea is brillant. There's been quite a few brillant ideas in the past of Microsoft. And I mean really brillant and great. But so far Microsoft managed to screw up implementing ALL of them. Just think of Samba, what a great thing. But find a neighbour computer in Microsoft Network. About 70% success rate. Thanks. What about getting internet URLs interchangable with file paths? Wow! But the support for that feature at best, lacks in many places. Maybe ability to upgrade transparently from Internet without any user interaction required? Okay, cool, but it takes AGES and computer is insecure in the meantime, plus the upgrades often break the system.
I guess the great idea of database of files will turn into another dull "clippy-style" annoying misfeature that pisses users off because of some stupid flaws that shouldn\t be there but are there and are unremovable. Microsoft screwed up too many times in the past to let me believe they will get that right this time.
People who work at User Support, and especially people writing manuals should be FORCED to use software (general) in language version they support.
I got a CAM program with translation to English. The problem is the translator apparently never used any english program himself, learnt english at school and never had to use it really before the translation. Examples? (with my translations)
Secure Tool - save the tool set to a file. Save Under Programme End Displace - move Edit Row - (the only way to enter text into project) Demark - unselect Adjust position - move point Size line - measure distance Clearance - material to be removed by the CNC
No, the program is not an after-hours shareware. It's a multi-thousand-dollar commercial software, a flagship product of the company that makes it. And no, it's not really crappy. The backend is marvelous. It's the frontend and translations that really suck.
Tricky:) Just fold it in harmonica instead in a block;)
A different task: Take a 1"x1" piece of paper and rip a hole in it so you could put your head through it without ripping it apart (so it remains a loop around that hole)
(the trick is to rip a zig-zag pattern so it stretches into a long tape)
Simply. High density CCD (say, 100 gigapixel?). Or variable density CCD. In zoom 1x you use only 1 in 100 of CCD sensors (the rest still can be used as redundant backup). With 100x zoom you use all of them but only from 1/100 the original area.
And if so, what does it do? I guess not much of an useful thing. I think the Obfuscated C Code Contest poems in C were better, as they at least had to compile to something useful.
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At one of Amiga demoscene demo parties, the 1st prize in one of the compos was a hour with a whore (quite fine too) in the backroom.
But... But replacing crude oil with alternate fuels, that would mean all the american boys who lost their lives in Iraq, died for nothing!
Okay, he made 7 cool mods and boasted how cool they look. But he didn't post any details on HOW he did them. No sources, no plans, no guide, just final results.
The problem with this guy is he writes WHAT he does, but very rarely HOW he does it, which is a bummer and badly against the hacker nature.
Take this "biofeedback" hack. Using your emotions to perform actions on the computer (think FPS games!) - Cool. But all the guy does is to leave a link to a photo of his uber-leet biofeedback device case.
Anyone with links on DIY biofeedback?
I just don't get it. This is the most basic thing you check with the LCD display.
Some people out there still look for higher vertical refresh rate at LCD. *sigh*
Common features:
Diagonal
Color quality/reliablity [1]
GFX input capablity. (VGA/DVI/S-Video etc)
No missing (dark) pixels.
Important with CRT:
Maximum resolution
Maximum Vertical refresh rate at resolution you most frequently use.[2]
Image sharpness
Black pitch [3]
Flatscreen/Trinitron(cyllinder)/Sphere screen.
Important with LCD:
Default (non-interpolated) resolution [4]
<b>Pixel switch-on time</b> (display lag)
Pixel switch-off time (ghosts)
Vieving polarization angle[5]
Maximum brightness
Working temperature range
backlight LED lifetime [6]
[1] These ARE different. LCDs have sugar-sweet beautiful colors, that can't be repeated in print, that's why LCDs are the worst choice for a graphician, while your average end user will enjoy the more-than-lifelike graphics immensely
[2] On CRT image at 25HZ hurts your eyes badly. On LCD you can freely read books at 25HZ, the refresh rate doesn't mean cycles between switching the image on and off, but between changes to constant content.
[3] Is black really black or just a shade of grey?
[4] LCDs have one fixed resolution at which they look great, all the other resolutions suck as computer output pixels don't match display pixels.
[5] If you don't look straight ahead at the screen, some colors just go dark on some screens.
[6] LCD doesn't shine. LCD switches half-transparent pixels on and off, masking the white backlight LEDs off. Without backlight you'll see hardly anything. It's the backlight that eats up most of your batteries too. And it's the LEDs that die first if the screen doesn't get broken/scratched etc first.
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How can they conduct such cruel experiments?!
They want to ban cloning humans, they protest nuclear technology development, yet they allow such inhuman monstrosities to happen! I'm shocked and disgusted!
So I follow their suggestion and ask a full question: ...
"What sites contain free CAD/CAM software?"
Answers:
Free posts...
Free demo download...
$75 Cad Cam Software Sale...
Web Cam Watcher Software...
CAD for Adobe Illustrator... ($249)
Easy drawing and no CAD hassles!
Cad cam Information (404)
Imaging Software (link farm)
Compete CAD/CAM $385
Click here to get your FREE monthly subscription.
somebody's resume
Ewebeye.com sites list page 115
of a percentage of error-free seconds
Computer Hardware Computer Help Made Simple - Get Your Free
Google: Within first 10 links:
Free software for mechanical engineering.
Free MAC PCB CAD/CAM Software.
FreeCAD.com
Who here can still hum/whistle the theme tune from the Atari game? :) :) :) True classic.
It was the first computer game I won (with positive game over) ever
Ehh, shooting the mother ship at the border, bombing the XAN bases, tactics to take out whole wing of enemy fighters in one shot, refuelling on the star surface
I'm sick of waiting 2 mins to transfer a DIVX movie to a different partition. :P
For us, average nerds, if we ever got connection that fast, it would still feel slow because of our storage speed.
Sorry to disappoint you but the idea isn't as stupid as it looks :)
Electric motor needs magnets on both sides, both stator and motor. Only one needs to create variable field. You can perfectly well make the stator or rotor with normal magnets, frequently done with small motors too. The problem is any larger magnets are damn heavy compared to their strength, so usually in stronger/bigger motors electromagnets are used instead. Now if the plastic magnet was light enough and strong enough, it could perfectly well replace half of the coils present in the motor. The other half would have to remain there to create the changing field.
I wonder what is its conductivity?
The problem with most magnets and electromagnets is that they are excellent conductors. In some applications this is desired, in many irrelevant, in some very undesired. A neat new way to mount easily replacable chips/cartridges, etc wherever spare metal parts may mean problems...
And a nice property of many polymers is that it's quite common to make transparent derivatives. "glass magnet", interesting idea?
Correction:
Getting 1 bit more (4G support) would require just giving up signed int as addresses, not so hard really if you do it from scratch, pretty nasty work if you convert an existing large system that never cared about the last bit of the pointers.) Getting 2 bits more is way harder. You go above the 32bit address space limit and either use tricks like paging (think 128K in Commodore) or use architecture, compilers and generally everything with address space bigger than 32bit (the next step is 64 bit, 16 exabytes of address space, should suffice for a while...).
He's talking about upper limit, not the actual memory the box is shipped with. Empty RAM slots don't cost that much. Supporting 1-2 bits of address space more isn't THAT hard either. But true, for today and next 3-5 years (when the box becomes obsolete anyway), 2G RAM ought to be enough for everyone ;)
Mozilla developers can confirm! They spend 100% their time removing bugs!
Example bugs (some resolved fixed):
- Bounce command not implemented in MailNews
- Progress bar should be displayed only when loading stuff
- Download Manager unimplemented
- Mozilla should include IRC client
- "Sort bookmarks" missing
- Add interface to unblock secure ports
- Coffee machine on 2nd floor broken (old one, from Netscape times yet...)
- Developer conference should be organised...
More frequent yes. But there are more parts within one board, so each of them separately needs less bandwidth than all of them taken together. So, 1G carefully engineered/switched (so each part has 1G bandwidth, not 1G shared between all) is quite sufficient. But then, say, 100 parts need 1G bandwidth between each other and 100M bandwidth to the other board, each. Makes 10G of throughput between boards easily.
Okay, so the idea is brillant. There's been quite a few brillant ideas in the past of Microsoft. And I mean really brillant and great. But so far Microsoft managed to screw up implementing ALL of them. Just think of Samba, what a great thing. But find a neighbour computer in Microsoft Network. About 70% success rate. Thanks. What about getting internet URLs interchangable with file paths? Wow! But the support for that feature at best, lacks in many places. Maybe ability to upgrade transparently from Internet without any user interaction required? Okay, cool, but it takes AGES and computer is insecure in the meantime, plus the upgrades often break the system.
I guess the great idea of database of files will turn into another dull "clippy-style" annoying misfeature that pisses users off because of some stupid flaws that shouldn\t be there but are there and are unremovable. Microsoft screwed up too many times in the past to let me believe they will get that right this time.
Sorry.
People who work at User Support, and especially people writing manuals should be FORCED to use software (general) in language version they support.
I got a CAM program with translation to English. The problem is the translator apparently never used any english program himself, learnt english at school and never had to use it really before the translation. Examples? (with my translations)
Secure Tool - save the tool set to a file.
Save Under
Programme End
Displace - move
Edit Row - (the only way to enter text into project)
Demark - unselect
Adjust position - move point
Size line - measure distance
Clearance - material to be removed by the CNC
No, the program is not an after-hours shareware. It's a multi-thousand-dollar commercial software, a flagship product of the company that makes it. And no, it's not really crappy. The backend is marvelous. It's the frontend and translations that really suck.
Damn the author for not providing any standard Origami notation. WTF happens between step 6 and 9???
Tricky :) ;)
Just fold it in harmonica instead in a block
A different task: Take a 1"x1" piece of paper and rip a hole in it so you could put your head through it without ripping it apart (so it remains a loop around that hole)
(the trick is to rip a zig-zag pattern so it stretches into a long tape)
Simply. High density CCD (say, 100 gigapixel?). Or variable density CCD. In zoom 1x you use only 1 in 100 of CCD sensors (the rest still can be used as redundant backup). With 100x zoom you use all of them but only from 1/100 the original area.
Heh, they will be 100 times better.
Extended spectrum, nightvision, antiblinder, zoom, the possiblities are unlimited!
Unfortunately not always.
Anybody up to...?
Stop trofling poor gnerk, his brilusive postment was truxceptionally Lewiscarollian in its arture!
And if so, what does it do? I guess not much of an useful thing.
I think the Obfuscated C Code Contest poems in C were better, as they at least had to compile to something useful.