The book's display is an absorptive technology, which is easier on your eyes than the projective nature of the monitor
Light is light, whether it reaches you by being reflected from something or being directly transmitted. The only difference is that light will obviously be brighter on a monitor than from a book.
I can understand the editors' decision to dupe stories based on the fact that many people may have missed them first time around. But perhaps a better idea would be for people to rate the importance of a story, and then have the story to float around the top for longer if it's important enough.
Based on this same idea, people can filter out stories which are above a certain threshold of importance.
If I own something that has value and someone else takes it and prevents me from profitting myself from it, that is theft, plain and simple. I don't want someone else's prefences in exchange for mine. I want the monetary value of my opinion.
The thing you don't realise is that you're not losing anything as such. It's just that they're gaining.
Overall net result: positive.
Heck, maybe you would also gain if an advertisement came along that you were interested in.
If a site is of use to you, then isn't that a small 'price' (if you want to call it that, but it's not) to pay for free access to their content?
It's true, The graphics don't need to be photorealistic to look good. I often find that texture mapped graphics actually/spoil/ the look of the graphics. The night time demo shown reminds of the kind of surreal graphics you might expect from a game like Outrun; nice & clear colours, lines and vectors.
Take a look at the "TwistTube" animation at my site for another example of simple but really effective gfx.
I never would keep that kind of advertising on my website, but I have to admit - the popups and popunders don't really bother me too much, not even two or three of them, unless I visit that site very often. I just close them as soon as they start to load.
If it did come to the point where "mouse-dodging javascript widows that pop up fifteen new windows when you manage to close them" started appearing quite often, I would then start to complain a lot more.
What many people don't seem to realise is that using a purely metadata filesystem can imitate the folder heiarchy by simply giving the old folder name/s as a keyword.
All in all, it's much more efficient. You get dynamic viewing of files, and saving and loading is much quicker, because you don't have to trundle through multiple folders to retrieve the file/folder you want. To make saving much quicker still, you would be able to select the 'keyword group' that you used for the previous saved file/s.
Are there any graphics cards or operating systems which support a fully custom resolution? If I want 2560*1024 for an occasion, everything would look horizontally squashed on a normal sized screen, but it would still be great to have the option.
What are the main reasons why it's so difficult to drill to the center of the Earth? Seriously, if we can dig out caves underneath the ground, then what's stopping us going all the way?
And if the processor is capable of searching though those 10s of thousands of files very quickly? A simple flat database would do the trick. Processors are getting faster too.
with counter-intuitive names (file001.jpg, readme-542.txt, etc)
The problem would still exist with folders. Also you would give the files more/better metadata then file001.jpg, especially if they were important files.
I agree that the relational filesystem (synonym with a metadata filesystem presumably) would be the way to go. The increase in speed and power would be phenomenal. If we take the paradigm to its logical conclusion, then only one 'folder' would be needed for all files, though of course, there's no reason to prevent the two models existing together.
The funny thing is, it's now modded 5 funny, but I think that's because a lot of slashdotters think that the grandparent is being sarcastic/the other way/! In other words, IE has a bad reputation for security, and banking has a lot to do with security.
I thought as much. Yeah, the reason I said conspiracy was because they would need to be in contact to 'agree' that neither party will put out better blades that will actually last longer.
I feel very sad that it's come to this. Maybe a new company will surface and make a longer-lasting blade with a diamond coating. Here's hoping.
I still don't know the answer to this. Why aren't shaver razor blades coated with diamond, so that they last much longer? Is there some kind of conspiracy between the top manufacturers to prevent this from happening so that they keep selling blades?
I don't know what's more irritating, Apple thinking that one mouse button is enough, or Microsoft thinking that non-tabbed browsing is the way to go. Tabbed browsing (or for word processors) is so obviously a good thing, I'm amazed Microsoft hasn't realised it until now.
On a side note, I wonder if people will spend longer on the net because of this. Is there a correlation between tabs, and spending longer on the net?
I think what that video shows is what you see if you travelled at near the speed of light, and recorded the whole thing with a high speed camera, and then played the recording back.
Either that or the buildings and roads are so many thousands of times bigger than real life, in which case you would again see what the video shows.
Alternatively, you could set the speed of light very slow, and you would see the same effect even if you travelled at only 100mph and with normal sized buildings and roads.
I only wish they did the anim at 60fps instead of 30 frames per second. It'd look even nicer. "Oooh movies are at 30fps, so I must copy them".
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- The book's display is an absorptive technology, which is easier on your eyes than the projective nature of the monitor
Light is light, whether it reaches you by being reflected from something or being directly transmitted. The only difference is that light will obviously be brighter on a monitor than from a book.The readers. They can vote similar to standard post moderation.
I can understand the editors' decision to dupe stories based on the fact that many people may have missed them first time around. But perhaps a better idea would be for people to rate the importance of a story, and then have the story to float around the top for longer if it's important enough.
Based on this same idea, people can filter out stories which are above a certain threshold of importance.
- If I own something that has value and someone else takes it and prevents me from profitting myself from it, that is theft, plain and simple. I don't want someone else's prefences in exchange for mine. I want the monetary value of my opinion.
The thing you don't realise is that you're not losing anything as such. It's just that they're gaining.Overall net result: positive.
Heck, maybe you would also gain if an advertisement came along that you were interested in.
If a site is of use to you, then isn't that a small 'price' (if you want to call it that, but it's not) to pay for free access to their content?
Firefox reaches 82,500,000 downloads. Only another 2,500,000 to go before the big one!
It's true, The graphics don't need to be photorealistic to look good. I often find that texture mapped graphics actually /spoil/ the look of the graphics. The night time demo shown reminds of the kind of surreal graphics you might expect from a game like Outrun; nice & clear colours, lines and vectors.
Take a look at the "TwistTube" animation at my site for another example of simple but really effective gfx.
No way to purchase a good inkjet? How about the continuous ink printers as mentioned in this post?6 8&cid=13268990
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1583
At the very least, why can't they just leave the archive online without updating it? That wouldn't cost much money surely?
Here's your tonic:
http://www.cecimoz.co.uk/content/flash.htm
I never would keep that kind of advertising on my website, but I have to admit - the popups and popunders don't really bother me too much, not even two or three of them, unless I visit that site very often. I just close them as soon as they start to load.
If it did come to the point where "mouse-dodging javascript widows that pop up fifteen new windows when you manage to close them" started appearing quite often, I would then start to complain a lot more.
- It's mostly the BIG software companies that love patents. Smaller ones or even hobby programmers can't afford patenting their software.
Would patents possibly be in any way a good thing if they were free, easy and very quick to do?- (hp's the print heads are disposable so it doesn't matter as much, and lexmarks aren't even worth mentioning)
Is refilling a safer bet than a clone cartridge?I was so close to buying either a 'clone' cartridge or refill for my Lexmark X1130 from the following page:
http://www.ask4ink.com/printers.asp?PrinterID=116
Namely:
"Lexmark 10n0016 Black Remanufactured Cartridge" and:
"Lexmark 10n0016 Black Refill Kit"
Please tell me one of the above is worth the investment. I don't mind less than perfect printouts, but I don't want to wreck the printer.
What many people don't seem to realise is that using a purely metadata filesystem can imitate the folder heiarchy by simply giving the old folder name/s as a keyword.
All in all, it's much more efficient. You get dynamic viewing of files, and saving and loading is much quicker, because you don't have to trundle through multiple folders to retrieve the file/folder you want. To make saving much quicker still, you would be able to select the 'keyword group' that you used for the previous saved file/s.
Are there any graphics cards or operating systems which support a fully custom resolution? If I want 2560*1024 for an occasion, everything would look horizontally squashed on a normal sized screen, but it would still be great to have the option.
What are the main reasons why it's so difficult to drill to the center of the Earth? Seriously, if we can dig out caves underneath the ground, then what's stopping us going all the way?
But we have rechargeables? If the market were that bad, I'm sure we would still be buying disposables all the time...
- with counter-intuitive names (file001.jpg, readme-542.txt, etc)
The problem would still exist with folders. Also you would give the files more/better metadata then file001.jpg, especially if they were important files.I agree that the relational filesystem (synonym with a metadata filesystem presumably) would be the way to go. The increase in speed and power would be phenomenal. If we take the paradigm to its logical conclusion, then only one 'folder' would be needed for all files, though of course, there's no reason to prevent the two models existing together.
You may be interested to read the following article from my site:
Towards a single folder metadata (database) filesystem
It's a good thing. The last thing we need is something like this. Worse than doomsday!
Perhaps that says something about the state of the quality of the games around that time compared to now.
The funny thing is, it's now modded 5 funny, but I think that's because a lot of slashdotters think that the grandparent is being sarcastic /the other way/! In other words, IE has a bad reputation for security, and banking has a lot to do with security.
I thought as much. Yeah, the reason I said conspiracy was because they would need to be in contact to 'agree' that neither party will put out better blades that will actually last longer.
I feel very sad that it's come to this. Maybe a new company will surface and make a longer-lasting blade with a diamond coating. Here's hoping.
I still don't know the answer to this. Why aren't shaver razor blades coated with diamond, so that they last much longer? Is there some kind of conspiracy between the top manufacturers to prevent this from happening so that they keep selling blades?
I don't know what's more irritating, Apple thinking that one mouse button is enough, or Microsoft thinking that non-tabbed browsing is the way to go. Tabbed browsing (or for word processors) is so obviously a good thing, I'm amazed Microsoft hasn't realised it until now.
On a side note, I wonder if people will spend longer on the net because of this. Is there a correlation between tabs, and spending longer on the net?
I think what that video shows is what you see if you travelled at near the speed of light, and recorded the whole thing with a high speed camera, and then played the recording back.
Either that or the buildings and roads are so many thousands of times bigger than real life, in which case you would again see what the video shows.
Alternatively, you could set the speed of light very slow, and you would see the same effect even if you travelled at only 100mph and with normal sized buildings and roads.
I only wish they did the anim at 60fps instead of 30 frames per second. It'd look even nicer. "Oooh movies are at 30fps, so I must copy them".