Theoretically, on a scene where the camera is panning, you could have one eye see one or two frames ahead of the other. It would look like both eyes seeing it from different perspectives.
I admit that this would be a very limited and not very good way to get 3D, but it's the only way I can think to do it.
I already bought 4 250 GB drives for $50 each plus $5 shipping. I bought them from www.woot.com , they sell a different thing each day at great prices.
When computers were first being made, they were designed by people who had a background in mechanical and electrical engineering, simply just so they could get the darn things built.
Later on, when computers became versatile enough to execute arbitrary code, do you think they hired mechanical or electrical engineers then? No, they hired mathemeticians. A computer program, when you look at it in its basic form, is just an extremely long, complicated, and interactive algorithm. While electrical and mechanical engineers need to know a lot of math, a pure mathemetician is obviously the best person for the job.
I do admit that in modern times this situation has changed. With some software projects involving hundreds of people and taking years to complete, it's obvious that more than just an mathemetician is needed. Specifications, design plans, bug tracking, all of that. However, most amount of the "software engineers" out there are just a new and different type of mathemetician. Those who really do spend their time creating specifications and design plans are not really "software engineers"; a better way to say it would probably be "software architect".
Consider the design of a building; an architect would decide how it would look like on the outside, the general floor plan for inside the building, the landscape around the building, etc. etc., and while they at least have to pay attention to things like making sure the building they designed can stand up for itself, they don't have to verify it either. Then, an actual engineer or team of engineers get together, and based on the properties of well known and reliable building materials, they make certain that the building will stand. Then at last, the construction crew comes along and builds it.
The problem with software is that it's not done in the same order. First the "architect" decides how the program should function, and creates a list of features wanted. Then, the "construction crew" creates all the pieces of code. Then at last, they stick all the pieces together, and only then do the "engineers" try and calculate it all out to make sure it works right. Eventually they get something that seems like it won't fall in on itself, and they tell the customer that it's done. The problem is that instead of using known and verifiable building materials like an engineer working on a building, the materials used to create have usually just been created on the spot, and cannot always be fully verified and tested, as opposed to building materials such as steel beams, which can be tested and verified to support a weight of X metric tons or whatever.
Until such a time exists where software can and is tested to such an extreme length that it can be considered to have the reliability of a steel beam, a software "engineer" by my definition is just someone who certifies software as ready for release because they can't find any more bugs... not because they can prove that there aren't any. In fact, it has been mathematically proven that it is impossible to prove that all programs can be proven to work. I don't want to go into it now but it has to do with Godel'sTheorem and the improvability of certain systems of axioms.
Disclaimer: I am a computer science student at a state university. I have not worked at a professional software development firm and much of what is written above was extrapolated from stories and hearsay from those who have worked professionally. And while the university I attend has chosen to place computer science in the college of engineering, I personally do recognize the fact that I am studying what is essentially a very specialized form of mathematics and algorithm creation. Some schools I considered attending did not have a college of engineering but had a computer science program in their math department. In addition, I h
The last episode aired in the US was season 3, episode 18, "Fractures". However, season 3 episodes 19 through 22 have already aired in the UK and Israel... you can find them floating around your favorite farscape channels in IRC.
Of course, those of us who have seen the extra 4 episodes still long for more...
...doesn't mean he's totally immume to prosecution. It remains possible that either the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty or the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty could possibly be used to prosecute him, despite the fact that he is not a US citizen. The recent arrest of Skylarov has cast a lot of FUD in this area when a Russian citizen was arrested under US law.
What probably would have been the best way to handle this was to have anonymously written a detailed description of the encryption and then posted it to FreeNet, or any number of semi-anonymous bulletin boards, and not sign it. He couldn't take credit for it, but that's not what this is about, is it?
For anyone wondering if it's worth it to download the whole 180 meg avi off of fileplanet... better be sure you have nothing better to do with your bandwidth for a while.
The only good part about the movie was that the animation was good... the plot was bad, the voice acting was mediocre at best, and the script just sucked. Improper use of contractions abound (you're vs your), a lame introduction about the french bastille that has zero to do with the plot, a fight scene that totally rips off the martix... ugh. My computer saved me and crashed out a bit over 8 minutes into the 12-minute movie.
This actually happened once in Oregon. Someone went to the DMV, bought a CD-ROM containing the state license records for the entire state, and put them online with a "search" feature.
No legal action was brought forth, but within two days the site was taken down because of public outcry. This was a few years back, and I can't find any links to any stories about it.
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It shouldn't doesn't matter, old ISA bus cards nowadays run off of a PCI to ISA bridge, which does run at 33 MHz. I should also point out that in addition to the speed of the bus, the width of the bus is important. PCI is 32-bit whereas ISA is 16-bit, so PCI can transport 133 megabytes per second whereas the ISA bus is limited to 16 megabytes\second.
My guess is that it was your CPU usage that went down because the SB Live has a more advanced audio processor that requires less CPU use, especially if you had advanced audio features enables in your game.
I have two methods that I personally use. Since I own my domain and recieve all e-mail sent there, I can be anything@world-domination.net. So the first technique is to choose mail addresses that get rejected by spambots, webmaster@world-domination.net, support@world-domination.net, etc., or in the case of slashdot, root, for the l33tness factor.
Second, I use the address as an identifier in my addresses. At mp3.com it's mp3@world-domination.net, at yahoo it's yahoo@world-domination.net. Then if I start getting spammed at one of those addresses, I know which site's fault it is, and I can change my address at that site and block all future mail to that address.
I admit this solution isn't for everyone, but it works great for me.
I'm halfway through the computer science program at Oregon State. I withdrew to work for a while, possibly to go back later. Why? Because college programming classes weren't teaching me anything.
It's like learning to read. You either can't read, you can read but have to spell out the words, or you can speedread silently and just need to look up the words you don't know. Programming is the same way. You either can't program, you can program just barely but always have to look up everything, or you are a master programmer at heart who has to look up new functions, etc, but otherwise knows what they're doing. I'm in that last section. I have the proper state of mind to program; I just need to look up stuff now and then. But I'll be damned if I want to go to college for two more years to get a piece of paper so I can prove it.
They may be able to ignore one e-mail from you. But what if, say, 100 or 1,000 antispam slashdot readers were all to e-mail them asking them to please stop?
This may not be completely ethical or legal, since it would bear a small resemblance to a DoS/spam scheme, but I know I'd be pissed if I got spam from the same company for 2 years straight. It would also be sort of hard to prevent false alerts, e.g. false alarms designed to piss off the recipient.
Possibly you could try e-mailing them with a different address, on a different subject, to get proof that someoene on the other end is listening. Could be an ISP run by slackers who never check e-mail not coming from their own subscribers, because it's just a waste of their time.
As a gamer, it is necessary for me to have Winblows 98 installed on one partition of one of my computers, just so I can play games that don't work with WINE for whatever reason. All of these options look great for my linux systems, but what about Windows? Is there anything at all out there that resembles a port scanner detector for windows?
All the other posts I've seen say "Nothing's free, but this one's not too expensive and I like it..." or something along those lines.
What you need to do is write a letter to all the companies that make this software and ask for a donation. Since you are a nonprofit org (right?) it will be tax deductable for them. Even if it doesn't work, all you will have lost will be a bit of postage, right?
Slashdot Mirror
Theoretically, on a scene where the camera is panning, you could have one eye see one or two frames ahead of the other. It would look like both eyes seeing it from different perspectives.
I admit that this would be a very limited and not very good way to get 3D, but it's the only way I can think to do it.
I already bought 4 250 GB drives for $50 each plus $5 shipping. I bought them from www.woot.com , they sell a different thing each day at great prices.
I guess the future is now?
They just spell it differently now.
"Do Know Evil".
Slashdotted already, I guess.
When computers were first being made, they were designed by people who had a background in mechanical and electrical engineering, simply just so they could get the darn things built.
Later on, when computers became versatile enough to execute arbitrary code, do you think they hired mechanical or electrical engineers then? No, they hired mathemeticians. A computer program, when you look at it in its basic form, is just an extremely long, complicated, and interactive algorithm. While electrical and mechanical engineers need to know a lot of math, a pure mathemetician is obviously the best person for the job.
I do admit that in modern times this situation has changed. With some software projects involving hundreds of people and taking years to complete, it's obvious that more than just an mathemetician is needed. Specifications, design plans, bug tracking, all of that. However, most amount of the "software engineers" out there are just a new and different type of mathemetician. Those who really do spend their time creating specifications and design plans are not really "software engineers"; a better way to say it would probably be "software architect".
Consider the design of a building; an architect would decide how it would look like on the outside, the general floor plan for inside the building, the landscape around the building, etc. etc., and while they at least have to pay attention to things like making sure the building they designed can stand up for itself, they don't have to verify it either. Then, an actual engineer or team of engineers get together, and based on the properties of well known and reliable building materials, they make certain that the building will stand. Then at last, the construction crew comes along and builds it.
The problem with software is that it's not done in the same order. First the "architect" decides how the program should function, and creates a list of features wanted. Then, the "construction crew" creates all the pieces of code. Then at last, they stick all the pieces together, and only then do the "engineers" try and calculate it all out to make sure it works right. Eventually they get something that seems like it won't fall in on itself, and they tell the customer that it's done. The problem is that instead of using known and verifiable building materials like an engineer working on a building, the materials used to create have usually just been created on the spot, and cannot always be fully verified and tested, as opposed to building materials such as steel beams, which can be tested and verified to support a weight of X metric tons or whatever.
Until such a time exists where software can and is tested to such an extreme length that it can be considered to have the reliability of a steel beam, a software "engineer" by my definition is just someone who certifies software as ready for release because they can't find any more bugs... not because they can prove that there aren't any. In fact, it has been mathematically proven that it is impossible to prove that all programs can be proven to work. I don't want to go into it now but it has to do with Godel's Theorem and the improvability of certain systems of axioms.
Disclaimer: I am a computer science student at a state university. I have not worked at a professional software development firm and much of what is written above was extrapolated from stories and hearsay from those who have worked professionally. And while the university I attend has chosen to place computer science in the college of engineering, I personally do recognize the fact that I am studying what is essentially a very specialized form of mathematics and algorithm creation. Some schools I considered attending did not have a college of engineering but had a computer science program in their math department. In addition, I h
I think Amsterdam is more appropriate... shouldn't the porn capitol of the world be the place with the most bandwidth??
The last episode aired in the US was season 3, episode 18, "Fractures". However, season 3 episodes 19 through 22 have already aired in the UK and Israel... you can find them floating around your favorite farscape channels in IRC.
Of course, those of us who have seen the extra 4 episodes still long for more...
What probably would have been the best way to handle this was to have anonymously written a detailed description of the encryption and then posted it to FreeNet, or any number of semi-anonymous bulletin boards, and not sign it. He couldn't take credit for it, but that's not what this is about, is it?
The only good part about the movie was that the animation was good... the plot was bad, the voice acting was mediocre at best, and the script just sucked. Improper use of contractions abound (you're vs your), a lame introduction about the french bastille that has zero to do with the plot, a fight scene that totally rips off the martix... ugh. My computer saved me and crashed out a bit over 8 minutes into the 12-minute movie.
No legal action was brought forth, but within two days the site was taken down because of public outcry. This was a few years back, and I can't find any links to any stories about it.
SupremeOverlord
It shouldn't doesn't matter, old ISA bus cards nowadays run off of a PCI to ISA bridge, which does run at 33 MHz. I should also point out that in addition to the speed of the bus, the width of the bus is important. PCI is 32-bit whereas ISA is 16-bit, so PCI can transport 133 megabytes per second whereas the ISA bus is limited to 16 megabytes\second.
My guess is that it was your CPU usage that went down because the SB Live has a more advanced audio processor that requires less CPU use, especially if you had advanced audio features enables in your game.
I have two methods that I personally use. Since I own my domain and recieve all e-mail sent there, I can be anything@world-domination.net. So the first technique is to choose mail addresses that get rejected by spambots, webmaster@world-domination.net, support@world-domination.net, etc., or in the case of slashdot, root, for the l33tness factor.
Second, I use the address as an identifier in my addresses. At mp3.com it's mp3@world-domination.net, at yahoo it's yahoo@world-domination.net. Then if I start getting spammed at one of those addresses, I know which site's fault it is, and I can change my address at that site and block all future mail to that address.
I admit this solution isn't for everyone, but it works great for me.
I'm halfway through the computer science program at Oregon State. I withdrew to work for a while, possibly to go back later. Why? Because college programming classes weren't teaching me anything.
It's like learning to read. You either can't read, you can read but have to spell out the words, or you can speedread silently and just need to look up the words you don't know. Programming is the same way. You either can't program, you can program just barely but always have to look up everything, or you are a master programmer at heart who has to look up new functions, etc, but otherwise knows what they're doing. I'm in that last section. I have the proper state of mind to program; I just need to look up stuff now and then. But I'll be damned if I want to go to college for two more years to get a piece of paper so I can prove it.
Haha, you took so long to type that in h4x0r that you got what, a fifth post? hahah.
Finally, I can honestly say I read the articles!
I don't know about $53 RAM, but I got a stick of 128 MB PC100 for $76. No problems with it, been using it almost nonstop for over a month.
The proof is not in the pudding, it is right here:
http://www.world-domination.net/proof.ht ml
SupremeOverlord
They may be able to ignore one e-mail from you. But what if, say, 100 or 1,000 antispam slashdot readers were all to e-mail them asking them to please stop?
This may not be completely ethical or legal, since it would bear a small resemblance to a DoS/spam scheme, but I know I'd be pissed if I got spam from the same company for 2 years straight. It would also be sort of hard to prevent false alerts, e.g. false alarms designed to piss off the recipient.
Possibly you could try e-mailing them with a different address, on a different subject, to get proof that someoene on the other end is listening. Could be an ISP run by slackers who never check e-mail not coming from their own subscribers, because it's just a waste of their time.
SupremeOverlord
As a gamer, it is necessary for me to have Winblows 98 installed on one partition of one of my computers, just so I can play games that don't work with WINE for whatever reason. All of these options look great for my linux systems, but what about Windows? Is there anything at all out there that resembles a port scanner detector for windows?
SupremeOverlord
All the other posts I've seen say "Nothing's free, but this one's not too expensive and I like it..." or something along those lines.
What you need to do is write a letter to all the companies that make this software and ask for a donation. Since you are a nonprofit org (right?) it will be tax deductable for them. Even if it doesn't work, all you will have lost will be a bit of postage, right?
SupremeOverlord