With no free licensing for personal and/or academic use available, I don't see that happening. Furthermore, it's only supported on Win 98 and up and Linux. One of the principal strengths of OpenGL is that it works on all Windows flavors, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac,... -- Paul
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While cute, that's not entirely accurate. A well-maintained WinXP installation with antivirus installed still boots in the 30 second range on a P4 with a decent amount of RAM. It's the extra stuff that can really slow it down. (OpenOffice or MS Office, taskbar goodies, etc.)
Just like a really good Gentoo installation can boot up very quickly, but it can take awhile to go through the process if it isn't so well-optimized. Out-of-the-box on a dual boot P4, it's been my experience that WinXP boots faster than out-of-the-box Linux. (But I'm not enough of a linux guru to trim it down.) -- Paul
It's one of two entries by Carnegie Mellon. The other, a modified red Humvee dubbed Sandstorm, took third position in the trials. It was the best performer in last year's race despite covering only 7 1/2 miles of the 150-mile course.
The exact route of Saturday's race will be kept secret until two hours before start time, but organizers have said it will begin and end in Primm and is expected to be more difficult than last year while covering as many as 175 miles.
So, it's a bit shorter (by 18 miles), but expected to be more difficult. -- Paul
That's funny. I remember getting quite a taste for seafood when snorkeling among rainbow snappers in the Florida Keys. (Mmm, those look tasty!) And when my wife and I saw giant crabs at the Long Beach Aquarium before lunch, all the kids said "whoa," while all the adults said, "Looks like lunch!"
I can only fear the cravings brought on by robot fish!!!:-) -- Paul
As others mentioned, this isn't intended for a case with zero airflow. But the benefit is clear: rather than cooling the video card with a fast, whiny 40mm or 60mm fan, you can take advantage of the existing case airflow from one or two slow, quiet 120mm fans. Since the case should already have some good airflow anyway (passive video cooler or not), this is a net win.:-) -- Paul
Nice, cheap fix!:-) Interestingly, I also used it recently to get some shallow scratches out of my eyeglasses and finish removing an anti-glare coating that was flaking off and making night vision terrible. It worked surprisingly well. Just a minor point: don't get any of the super-duper toothpastes that have baking soda in them. (Larger particles act like a coarser grit). Instead, get good ol' "regular paste" toothpaste. It's cheaper, anyway. -- Paul
The Z-series is intended to win such customers with features such as a specially wide screen suited both to making data presentations and watching DVDs, as well as built-in wireless data access in the US.
This is interesting (and potentially bad). I was at a Ph.D. candidacy talk last week where using a widescreen laptop to design a PowerPoint talk was bad. The projector she was connected to could only do a 4:3 aspect ratio, so when she kept her laptop in its native resolution, the text was horizontally compressed on its projection, and when she changed her laptop resolution to match the projector's resolution, some of the presentation text ended up being cropped on the projection. This seemed to be a case in point, that it's best to not plan a presentation for the 4:3 world on a widescreen laptop. Great for DVD's, not so hot for data presentation if you don't allow for differing aspect ratios! -- Paul
The article mentioned models on the spokes, and spoke a bit on photoelectric effects, but didn't go into much detail to describe just what's going on. Does anybody have some better insight?
Also, could any of these spokes be created by a large object cutting across the rings on the way to an impact with Saturn? (e.g., a meteor or small comet) I suppose that type of event would be too rare to explain the spokes that have been observed... -- Paul
I like that you can set FF to prompt you on whether or not to accept site cookies and then set your choice as a rule. However, every now and then you find a site where denying cookies won't allow you to browse properly.
But because you've already set a rule to deny all cookies for the site, you have to go to tools->options->privacy->cookies->options, scroll through the list, and change the rule. To my knowledge, there isn't anywhere on the browser or tab (e.g., an icon in a corner) where you can double-click to view and/or change cookie behavior for the currently viewed page. Too bad. -- Paul
Very good point. While a few trailers can add to the ambience of the theater experience, and they can be fun to make fun of with your spouse/date/friends, 30 minutes are just to much, especially when combined with the theatre's own advertising.
Let's go buy some snacks...
Shop at Karl's Jewelry...
The Fremont Mall has a new Chinese food joint! ...
And now with our feature presentation.
[trailer 1]
[trailer 2] ...
On an off note, does anybody have any idea why they're called trailers if they precede the movie rather than trail them?:-) -- Paul
Not really, the best stego packages use error correcting codes to help mitigate this kind of attack. Some stego packages don't work by using the LSB but by swapping adjacent pixels. The cleaning of the LSB would have no real impact on this type of stego.
Sounds right to me. I wrote a stego app that just modifies bitmaps in a very obvious way, and it would certainly be defeated/corrupted by changing some of the bits (in fact, that's why I didn't feel qualms about posting it), but some of the the best open source apps have just what you describe.
Furthermore, a simplistic counter-method of just modifying the LSB could be defeated without error correction: if they knew the LSB wasn't safe, they could simply choose to modify other bits instead. -- Paul
That's interesting. I'm sure many people who aren't familiar with the inner workings of the net (myself included) are surprised. The attitude of one website, one IP address seems to pretty prevalant. Take this tool, for instance, that shows the IP address of any website.
So, I suppose that visiting any one of these addresses should show the same address, right? Thanks again for your helpful explanation! -- Paul
Mod this up! This sort of technique really came in handy when I needed to add some arrows to a LaTeX figure just before submitted a research paper for review last week. The necessary steps:
More FUD of the "Eine Reich, Eine Volk, Eine Fuhrer!" variety.
Wow, I never knew Hitler was so feminine! Perhaps it's like Adolph Elizabeth Hitler in The Producers." You need a different article: "Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Führer.";-) -- Paul
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With no free licensing for personal and/or academic use available, I don't see that happening. Furthermore, it's only supported on Win 98 and up and Linux. One of the principal strengths of OpenGL is that it works on all Windows flavors, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac, ... -- Paul
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However, you can buy a new mechanical system board for 895 KiloDollars, and your warranty will be extended for 90 days. If you wish to dispute this finding, we can email you pictures that will never actually reach your inbox. Thank you for choosing AwesomeClock, Inc.
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While cute, that's not entirely accurate. A well-maintained WinXP installation with antivirus installed still boots in the 30 second range on a P4 with a decent amount of RAM. It's the extra stuff that can really slow it down. (OpenOffice or MS Office, taskbar goodies, etc.)
Just like a really good Gentoo installation can boot up very quickly, but it can take awhile to go through the process if it isn't so well-optimized. Out-of-the-box on a dual boot P4, it's been my experience that WinXP boots faster than out-of-the-box Linux. (But I'm not enough of a linux guru to trim it down.) -- Paul
Range [nm] 10,000
Wow, that's a lotta' nanometers! :-)
Your desk is all squared away. Yep, all squaaaaaaaaaaaared away. (I couldn't find an image to link to--sorry!
From
It's one of two entries by Carnegie Mellon. The other, a modified red Humvee dubbed Sandstorm, took third position in the trials. It was the best performer in last year's race despite covering only 7 1/2 miles of the 150-mile course. The exact route of Saturday's race will be kept secret until two hours before start time, but organizers have said it will begin and end in Primm and is expected to be more difficult than last year while covering as many as 175 miles.
So, it's a bit shorter (by 18 miles), but expected to be more difficult. -- Paul
That's funny. I remember getting quite a taste for seafood when snorkeling among rainbow snappers in the Florida Keys. (Mmm, those look tasty!) And when my wife and I saw giant crabs at the Long Beach Aquarium before lunch, all the kids said "whoa," while all the adults said, "Looks like lunch!"
I can only fear the cravings brought on by robot fish!!! :-) -- Paul
Perhaps slashdot can form a partnership with google to mine the vast data streaming from slashdot and detect dupes? :-) -- Paul
As others mentioned, this isn't intended for a case with zero airflow. But the benefit is clear: rather than cooling the video card with a fast, whiny 40mm or 60mm fan, you can take advantage of the existing case airflow from one or two slow, quiet 120mm fans. Since the case should already have some good airflow anyway (passive video cooler or not), this is a net win. :-) -- Paul
Too bad--selling them to a larger audience would bring production costs down and make the whole program more likely to actually work. -- Paul
Sad to see Crest brush off Linux this way ... Sorry, wrong Crest. :-) -- Paul
Nice, cheap fix! :-) Interestingly, I also used it recently to get some shallow scratches out of my eyeglasses and finish removing an anti-glare coating that was flaking off and making night vision terrible. It worked surprisingly well. Just a minor point: don't get any of the super-duper toothpastes that have baking soda in them. (Larger particles act like a coarser grit). Instead, get good ol' "regular paste" toothpaste. It's cheaper, anyway. -- Paul
From the article:
The Z-series is intended to win such customers with features such as a specially wide screen suited both to making data presentations and watching DVDs, as well as built-in wireless data access in the US.
This is interesting (and potentially bad). I was at a Ph.D. candidacy talk last week where using a widescreen laptop to design a PowerPoint talk was bad. The projector she was connected to could only do a 4:3 aspect ratio, so when she kept her laptop in its native resolution, the text was horizontally compressed on its projection, and when she changed her laptop resolution to match the projector's resolution, some of the presentation text ended up being cropped on the projection. This seemed to be a case in point, that it's best to not plan a presentation for the 4:3 world on a widescreen laptop. Great for DVD's, not so hot for data presentation if you don't allow for differing aspect ratios! -- Paul
Thank you! Very intersting, and a helpful explanation, that. Much appreciated. -- Paul
The article mentioned models on the spokes, and spoke a bit on photoelectric effects, but didn't go into much detail to describe just what's going on. Does anybody have some better insight?
Also, could any of these spokes be created by a large object cutting across the rings on the way to an impact with Saturn? (e.g., a meteor or small comet) I suppose that type of event would be too rare to explain the spokes that have been observed ... -- Paul
I like that you can set FF to prompt you on whether or not to accept site cookies and then set your choice as a rule. However, every now and then you find a site where denying cookies won't allow you to browse properly.
But because you've already set a rule to deny all cookies for the site, you have to go to tools->options->privacy->cookies->options, scroll through the list, and change the rule. To my knowledge, there isn't anywhere on the browser or tab (e.g., an icon in a corner) where you can double-click to view and/or change cookie behavior for the currently viewed page. Too bad. -- Paul
Very good point. While a few trailers can add to the ambience of the theater experience, and they can be fun to make fun of with your spouse/date/friends, 30 minutes are just to much, especially when combined with the theatre's own advertising.
Let's go buy some snacks...
...
...
Shop at Karl's Jewelry...
The Fremont Mall has a new Chinese food joint!
And now with our feature presentation.
[trailer 1]
[trailer 2]
On an off note, does anybody have any idea why they're called trailers if they precede the movie rather than trail them? :-) -- Paul
Not really, the best stego packages use error correcting codes to help mitigate this kind of attack. Some stego packages don't work by using the LSB but by swapping adjacent pixels. The cleaning of the LSB would have no real impact on this type of stego.
Sounds right to me. I wrote a stego app that just modifies bitmaps in a very obvious way, and it would certainly be defeated/corrupted by changing some of the bits (in fact, that's why I didn't feel qualms about posting it), but some of the the best open source apps have just what you describe.
Furthermore, a simplistic counter-method of just modifying the LSB could be defeated without error correction: if they knew the LSB wasn't safe, they could simply choose to modify other bits instead. -- Paul
Distorted google rankings (and accordingly worsened search results), that's why. -- Paul
MMmmmm ... we're environmentalists!
Dear ZDnet UK
We had completely forgotten you guys were over there. Thank you very much for bringing yourselves to our attention!
Sincerely,
The Google Team
*click (the sound of enacting a non-evil ban)*
That's interesting. I'm sure many people who aren't familiar with the inner workings of the net (myself included) are surprised. The attitude of one website, one IP address seems to pretty prevalant. Take this tool, for instance, that shows the IP address of any website.
So, I suppose that visiting any one of these addresses should show the same address, right? Thanks again for your helpful explanation! -- Paul
Mod this up! This sort of technique really came in handy when I needed to add some arrows to a LaTeX figure just before submitted a research paper for review last week. The necessary steps:
All in all, it took maybe 30 minutes to go from 0 to 60. A very powerful tool. Also not bad for editing captions, labels, etc. -- Paul
Quick! You get his tricorder; I'll get his wallet. :-)
In all seriousness, godspeed, Scotty! -- Paul
More FUD of the "Eine Reich, Eine Volk, Eine Fuhrer!" variety.
Wow, I never knew Hitler was so feminine! Perhaps it's like Adolph Elizabeth Hitler in The Producers." You need a different article: "Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Führer." ;-) -- Paul