Oh, there's a special place in hell roped off for this guy. His role in hell? He'll be running satan's mail servers, hunting down open relays that will mysteriously never close. He'll spend hours per day blocking OTHER open relays, only to find twice as many open up. He'll have nightmarish visions of "Free XXX Adult Action," "Over 60 and still HOT TO TROT" and "FREE $$$ HOME MORTGAGES ON THE CHEAP!"
Hopefully all of this will come with a white hot poker in his ass.
Not insanity, mistrial. Either mistrial, or setting himself up for an appeal. That's the handy thing about representing yourself in court... it's almost ALWAYS grounds for a second trial provided you DON'T represent yourself the second time 'round.
Now that will be truly impressive. The MMORPG has really caught on, and really has suffered no limitations. Combine that with the incredible success fo the FF series, which has led to some people purchasing game systems solely for that game, and you have something unbelievable. Combine THAT with the top four gaming platforms and you have a virtually guaranteed cash cow. If they can pull this off with the quality of an EQ or DAoC, Square will be able to afford another bomb, er... movie.
(Invidentally, I really enjoyed the FF movie. It's just too bad that nobody else did.)
The uman eye can differentiate individual pulses at up to 45-55 hz (depends on the person.) After that the LED will appear to be solid. After that, increased speed will only make the light appear slightly brighter until about 70 hz or so, at which point your eye won't be able to discern any difference. So looking at the lights is pretty much pointless.
Keep in mind that this does NOT mean that impulses above 45-55 hz will appear unchanged as freqency increases. Images will simply blend together. This is why you see an increase in quality at high frame rates in quake.
I saw a demo of hdtv several years ago featuring local newscasters. Their reaction to the demo was negative... the amount of makeup used was VERY apprent with hdtv, and those skin flaws not covered by the makeup were more visible. That and stray hairs were very much visible on the hdtv screens.
Perhaps one of the big sci-fi shows could accompish this. A show like "Friends" isn't going to see much benefit from HD, whereas special-effects saturated shows like "Enterprise" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" might. Alas, while the genre has grown substantially in recent years, I don't think it has the mass-market appeal to be a true killer-app.
Well sure, but there's a slight difference; when you hit a curb at speed in your car, you jack up the car and get jostled around. When you hit a curb on a mountain bike you jack up the bike and get jostled around. If you hit a curb on a segway you jack up the segway and dine on pavement and teeth.
And yeah, if you're going fast enough on a bike you can eat gravel, too. But if you have even a little warning you can jump the curb, saving the front wheel and a faceplant. The back wheel may not fare so well, but you won't be eating mushy foods while you wait for dental surgery...
They should've staggered the opening/closing times of the auctions. As each individual auction closed up to the last, they might see a bidding frenzy on the remaining two as the item became more "scarce." I've seen people do this with rare comics on eBay. It works like a charm.
The term "retinal scanning display" comes from the fact that the beam (from lasers or LEDs) "scans" across your retina much like electron guns scan aross the back of a CRT. Not exactly the same, the good enough for an analogy.
Why stop there? You could store four base pairs per byte with the most basic of compression schemes. You could probably compress it down much, much further.
On the one hand, I firmly believe that parody should be protected by law, and that a mangled title such as this easily falls under that category. On the other hand, anything that would prevent or even delay the release of another idiotic Mike Myers film should be counted as a blessing.
Oddly, I cracked a malicious smile when Star Ballz had and won its day in court against George Lucas. No mixed feelings there... anything that makes Georgie uncomfortable in the slightest is good news to me, especially after Ep. 1 and what I've seen of Ep 2.
Seriously, though, Hollywood is taking protection of copyrights just a little too far these days. But as we know, money talks. I'm waiting to be charged a licensing fee to wear a Bond costume on Halloween...
Could this be used to create more efficient solar panels? The photons are converted directly into energy, "stored" in the atoms. Rather than re-release the photons as light, would it be possible to capture that energy and convert it into something more useful?
My understanding of optics is rather lacking... something is nagging at the back of my mind telling me that this wouldn't work...
They just threw out information theory entirely... too restrictive. They came up with their own theory... disinformation theory! Everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon, too... these guys even compiled a list of the pioneers!
Umm... I care. If your compression/decompression time exceeds the amount of time it would take to transfer the file uncompressed, you're really not gaining anything.
The mathematical implications alone of such a breakthrough would be impressive. 100:1 compression of truly random data? Wow.
I wonder if the device will sport a version of the Microsoft eBook reader. The REB-1100 is nice for portability, but the.rb format is not common. It would be nice to have a portable device that could read eBooks in a more common (though microsoft) format.
It has probably been said before, but when I hear "SuperDrive" in association with a macintosh, I still think of the first line of Mac 3.5" floppy drives that could read both Mac and PC formatted media. Of course, the filesystem wasn't supported in the OS of the first few machines with the drive, but eh.
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Umm, I'm going to classify it as pretty funny.
About your sister; her viewpoint does not strike me as particularly healthy. For 20+ years I've been told that science would cure my macular degeneration, and my mother was told the same thing about HER eyes for 20+ years before me. Living life waiting for a cure is unhealthy, as it can lead to depression when that cure doesn't arrive, and unproductive for obvious reasons.
I read articles like this and take them with a grain of salt. They're neat little curiosities, but they get shoved in the same mental pile as all of the stories about terahertz processors, holographic memory, and privatized spaceflight that we'll have "some day Real Soon Now." So don't hold your breath.
A bit of advice (which I'm sure she's heard a hundred times before) for your sister; don't wait for a cure. Assume that it's never going to happen, and get on with your life. It's a whole lot easier than you think.
This will probably get modded as flaimbait or something, but here goes...
From a corporate perspective, IRC is very, very far from legitimate or reliable tech support. Same goes for usenet. People want a phone number that they can call and get an answer RIGHT NOW. Or if they don't get one RIGHT NOW, they want to know that a technician is working on the problem until it's solved.
There's very little of such support available in the world of Linux right now. RedHat is getting there, and LinuxCare used to be on its way.(they're gone now, right?) So yeah, in the realm of Tech Support with capital letters, MS blows linux away.
But you're right. I get answers faster through IRC and/or USENET posts than though MS tech support almost every time.
Again, looks like it can only do passthrough. The computational reqirements of such a card, and the relatively low demand, don't suggest that we'll see a card with hardware ac3 encoding in the near future. After all, it's only a small portion of users that connect their computers via s/pdif to their home theater systems. X-box/nforce supports it because game systems are typically connected to the home entertainment center. This does not (currently) apply to PCs.
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Oh, there's a special place in hell roped off for this guy. His role in hell? He'll be running satan's mail servers, hunting down open relays that will mysteriously never close. He'll spend hours per day blocking OTHER open relays, only to find twice as many open up. He'll have nightmarish visions of "Free XXX Adult Action," "Over 60 and still HOT TO TROT" and "FREE $$$ HOME MORTGAGES ON THE CHEAP!"
Hopefully all of this will come with a white hot poker in his ass.
Not insanity, mistrial. Either mistrial, or setting himself up for an appeal. That's the handy thing about representing yourself in court... it's almost ALWAYS grounds for a second trial provided you DON'T represent yourself the second time 'round.
Now that will be truly impressive. The MMORPG has really caught on, and really has suffered no limitations. Combine that with the incredible success fo the FF series, which has led to some people purchasing game systems solely for that game, and you have something unbelievable. Combine THAT with the top four gaming platforms and you have a virtually guaranteed cash cow. If they can pull this off with the quality of an EQ or DAoC, Square will be able to afford another bomb, er... movie.
(Invidentally, I really enjoyed the FF movie. It's just too bad that nobody else did.)
The uman eye can differentiate individual pulses at up to 45-55 hz (depends on the person.) After that the LED will appear to be solid. After that, increased speed will only make the light appear slightly brighter until about 70 hz or so, at which point your eye won't be able to discern any difference. So looking at the lights is pretty much pointless.
Keep in mind that this does NOT mean that impulses above 45-55 hz will appear unchanged as freqency increases. Images will simply blend together. This is why you see an increase in quality at high frame rates in quake.
I saw a demo of hdtv several years ago featuring local newscasters. Their reaction to the demo was negative... the amount of makeup used was VERY apprent with hdtv, and those skin flaws not covered by the makeup were more visible. That and stray hairs were very much visible on the hdtv screens.
Why? Because nobody has figured out how I can download pieces of someone else's life and play them back at will. Stupid, stupid Strange Days.
Perhaps one of the big sci-fi shows could accompish this. A show like "Friends" isn't going to see much benefit from HD, whereas special-effects saturated shows like "Enterprise" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" might. Alas, while the genre has grown substantially in recent years, I don't think it has the mass-market appeal to be a true killer-app.
Yeah! Foam sidewalks!
Well sure, but there's a slight difference; when you hit a curb at speed in your car, you jack up the car and get jostled around. When you hit a curb on a mountain bike you jack up the bike and get jostled around. If you hit a curb on a segway you jack up the segway and dine on pavement and teeth.
And yeah, if you're going fast enough on a bike you can eat gravel, too. But if you have even a little warning you can jump the curb, saving the front wheel and a faceplant. The back wheel may not fare so well, but you won't be eating mushy foods while you wait for dental surgery...
They should've staggered the opening/closing times of the auctions. As each individual auction closed up to the last, they might see a bidding frenzy on the remaining two as the item became more "scarce." I've seen people do this with rare comics on eBay. It works like a charm.
What, Mega Deuses weren't enough? Now he's got to hunt scorpions? Good career move, Roger!
OK, that was odd... but best of luck to you anyway. You're gonna get wedding presents from slashdotters, now. That was your whole plan, wasn't it!
The term "retinal scanning display" comes from the fact that the beam (from lasers or LEDs) "scans" across your retina much like electron guns scan aross the back of a CRT. Not exactly the same, the good enough for an analogy.
Why stop there? You could store four base pairs per byte with the most basic of compression schemes. You could probably compress it down much, much further.
On the one hand, I firmly believe that parody should be protected by law, and that a mangled title such as this easily falls under that category. On the other hand, anything that would prevent or even delay the release of another idiotic Mike Myers film should be counted as a blessing.
Oddly, I cracked a malicious smile when Star Ballz had and won its day in court against George Lucas. No mixed feelings there... anything that makes Georgie uncomfortable in the slightest is good news to me, especially after Ep. 1 and what I've seen of Ep 2.
Seriously, though, Hollywood is taking protection of copyrights just a little too far these days. But as we know, money talks. I'm waiting to be charged a licensing fee to wear a Bond costume on Halloween...
...was cool, though the time slot was awful. What I REALLY want to see is a live action Johnny Bravo.
Could this be used to create more efficient solar panels? The photons are converted directly into energy, "stored" in the atoms. Rather than re-release the photons as light, would it be possible to capture that energy and convert it into something more useful?
My understanding of optics is rather lacking... something is nagging at the back of my mind telling me that this wouldn't work...
They just threw out information theory entirely... too restrictive. They came up with their own theory... disinformation theory! Everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon, too... these guys even compiled a list of the pioneers!
Umm... I care. If your compression/decompression time exceeds the amount of time it would take to transfer the file uncompressed, you're really not gaining anything.
The mathematical implications alone of such a breakthrough would be impressive. 100:1 compression of truly random data? Wow.
I wonder if the device will sport a version of the Microsoft eBook reader. The REB-1100 is nice for portability, but the .rb format is not common. It would be nice to have a portable device that could read eBooks in a more common (though microsoft) format.
It has probably been said before, but when I hear "SuperDrive" in association with a macintosh, I still think of the first line of Mac 3.5" floppy drives that could read both Mac and PC formatted media. Of course, the filesystem wasn't supported in the OS of the first few machines with the drive, but eh.
Umm, I'm going to classify it as pretty funny.
About your sister; her viewpoint does not strike me as particularly healthy. For 20+ years I've been told that science would cure my macular degeneration, and my mother was told the same thing about HER eyes for 20+ years before me. Living life waiting for a cure is unhealthy, as it can lead to depression when that cure doesn't arrive, and unproductive for obvious reasons.
I read articles like this and take them with a grain of salt. They're neat little curiosities, but they get shoved in the same mental pile as all of the stories about terahertz processors, holographic memory, and privatized spaceflight that we'll have "some day Real Soon Now." So don't hold your breath.
A bit of advice (which I'm sure she's heard a hundred times before) for your sister; don't wait for a cure. Assume that it's never going to happen, and get on with your life. It's a whole lot easier than you think.
This will probably get modded as flaimbait or something, but here goes...
From a corporate perspective, IRC is very, very far from legitimate or reliable tech support. Same goes for usenet. People want a phone number that they can call and get an answer RIGHT NOW. Or if they don't get one RIGHT NOW, they want to know that a technician is working on the problem until it's solved.
There's very little of such support available in the world of Linux right now. RedHat is getting there, and LinuxCare used to be on its way.(they're gone now, right?) So yeah, in the realm of Tech Support with capital letters, MS blows linux away.
But you're right. I get answers faster through IRC and/or USENET posts than though MS tech support almost every time.
Again, looks like it can only do passthrough. The computational reqirements of such a card, and the relatively low demand, don't suggest that we'll see a card with hardware ac3 encoding in the near future. After all, it's only a small portion of users that connect their computers via s/pdif to their home theater systems. X-box/nforce supports it because game systems are typically connected to the home entertainment center. This does not (currently) apply to PCs.
Er, sound cards. There will be no standalone sound cards.