You can put the game in coaching mode or whatever it's called and then run it at like 8x the normal speed. IIRC you can freely switch between driving and coaching mode if you select the right thing before the race. That way you can drive the first few laps, then switch to coaching mode, up the speed to 8x and just tell your car to pit every now and then.
This obviously doesn't take much skill but then neither does getting the best car and the game and crushing all the other cars on the track (but as you said it's the only way to be safe in such a long race).
Perhaps a software solution like TOR or Freenet could help you sleep better at night?
Don't know much about TOR but I just thought I'd clarify about Freenet. It is indeed a software solution to what you are asking about in which the sites are accessed in an entirely peer to peer manner. Instead of having static routing tables located at specific points each computer in the network maintains its own routing information. If a computer doesn't know how to get to a certain site it guesses by asking a neighbor if it has the desired data. Data is cached throughout the network so that sites are stored as distributed files, meaning at any one time if your computer is a part of Freenet it could have information related to a number of sites.
The good thing about Freenet is that site accesses are entirely anonymous. There is no way to be traced AFAIK. One of the bad things is that it takes a computer a long time to build up enough routing information to access any websites at all. You have to run the Freenet program for a few days before you are able to access anything and even though its painfully slow. The other problem that people have is that you have to store any content that goes through your computer. Freenet is plagued with child porn sites because the anonyminity that it provides. This means that if you are running the freenet program you are likely to have child pornography data stored on your computer even if you have never visited those sites. While the legality of this is questionable, the ethical issues are obvious.
Still it is a very interesting concept and definitely has its applications (China anyone?).
But I think you should try to understand *why* people are criticising you so much instead of just brushing aside all criticism as unjustified/ungrounded, and you also should stop thinking that it's just a "communication" problem where people criticise you because they don't understand you. It's not. It's not people who have the problem; it's you, the editors.
You seem to think that most slashdot readers want to criticize the editors. This is a completely incorrect assumption that comes from the fact that when people are content they tend not to speak up. I would say 90% of slashdot doesn't care about these silly grammar problems and dupes. Most of us think CmdrTaco and the rest are doing a great job, but it so much less common for people who are happy with a service to compliment then it is for dissatisfied people to criticize.
The first time I ever worked in food service I was told over and over again that when a customer is pleased with something they don't often go tell their friends "Hey, I had great service at that restaurant the other day." It's when something makes someone mad that they speak up: "Don't ever go to that resaurant, the service is horrible and the menu has grammatical errors."
Taco and others: It is my opinion that I speak for the majority of slashdot when I say you are doing a great job and keep up the good work.
Additionally, social networking is one of the best ways to find employment.
I fully agree with the parent and would like to point out that another thing to keep in mind is that on campus recruiting provides huge oppurtunities for a career. Companies come to career fairs at a campus because they respect the school's program. It's much easier to get an interview with these companies because you get the chance to talk to their recruiters one on one no matter what your resume looks like. If you do decide to get an online degree at least make sure that you are able to attend these events on the college's campus.
You also don't want to miss on out on your chance to meet with professors as other posts have pointed out. Every professor that I've ever had has had specific hours during the week for students to stop by their office just to talk. Getting to know people who are already well established in the field in a personal way can give you a huge advantage as a professional. While I'm sure there are chances to communicate with professors in online curriculums I have a hard time believing that you could achieve quite as personal of a relationship. Knowing a professor or two is crucial to having a good grad school application as well.
If you do decide to go with an online degree it is very important to put a lot of effort into gaining the same social experiences you would with an on campus degree.
The point was that if the Microsoft page starts becoming widely used advertisers will have to make the choice between advertising on Microsoft's portal or with Google's Adsense and Adwords, thus reducing Google's revenue by splitting the ad market.
Any modern distro will boot from a sata drive. I have been booting from one in Redhat Enterprise for 2 years and I am writing from an Ubuntu install booted from a sata drive.
An outstanding market concept that few if any had really tried - a new game that was cheap to develop, with little or no marketing, priced to sell. An unfortunate side effect is that there was very little big media attention payed.
Maybe the second part of their strategy is to continue to release cheaply developed Katamari games in the hopes that as the ball is rolling it will pick up more and more fans, thus eventually drawing big media attention.
More specifically: I am NOT suggesting that a morse option would be a good idea on phones. My point (still standing) was that getting a message through with a morse transmitter is apparently faster than getting it through with text messages.
Then you are speaking out of context of the article and should be modded offtopic.
The whole point of this experiment, although not perfect, is to compare REALISTIC conditions.
The whole point of the article is to suggest that using morse code on cell phones might be a good alternative to standard text message input methods, which the root post of this thread successfully argues against.
I was under the impression that the whole idea of a laser trap is that you CAN'T drop the ball. Small particles get trapped in the beam due to photon pressure, if the particle shifts away from the center of the beam, it automatically is recentered. Then you can move the beam to manipulate the particle which is attached to a molecule. They use these to fold and unfold proteins, lipid layers, DNA, etc.
I mean, it's great that they're using a realtime kernel, but they really shouldn't NEED it
From the article:
"In other experiments, researchers use the laser beam to apply minute forces to the beads and to the connected myosin molecule."
They need real time feedback in order to compensate for motion caused by applied forces that might push the molecule out of the focal point of the laser.
They may also be using realtime feedback to continually focus the laser since very small variations can cause changes large enough to drop the molecule (although I believe many of these systems use purely electronic/optical means to do this).
Now we need a story about a website, about a guy who made a video, of people in costumes, waiting to see a movie, including an interview of the guy in the line, making a video, about the people waiting to see the movie, and his website.
I don't really see this as a problem. It takes time for new terms' meanings to come to be understood by everyone. It's not like we're going to replace the word Trojan with "Asneakyprogramthathidesonyourcomputeranddoesbadth ings." Instead we'll continue to use those words, defining them when asked, until most people understand.
Be careful when reading this article. Numbers that should be 10 to the n power are displayed as "10n". For example in the third point a result is given: 5x1019 electronVolts. This should be interpreted as 5x10^19 eV.
Yes, but then the firefox slashdot render error would occur 25% more often!
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I thought SLI stood for Scan Line Interleaving. "Scaleable Link Interface" is completly vauge. Did they change the technology and keep the old name, or is this writer just an idiot?
Upon further investigation it seems that nVidia's SLI stands for "Scaleable Link Interface", but you are correct in noting that it used to stand for "Scan Line Interleaving". They likely wanted to keep the acronym so that people would know what the technology's function was, but Scan Line Interleaving would be non-despcriptive, as their cards don't interleave at all, each renders approximately half of the screen.
How else would it search handwritten documents? Am I missing something here?
You write down exactly what you want to find in exactly the same handwriting that the document is written in and then it blocks scans it for what you wrote... duh.
I think each sheet is sprayed into the air via a row of nozzles in the lake there. They weren't very thick, you could see through them to some extent, but they were much bigger than a movie screen. This had to take place at night of course because of contrast. The only unpleasant side effect was that pieces of "screen" were blown onto us spectators and it wasn't very warm out.
For example, if a program contains rules about Pac-Man shrinking when he hits a ghost, Whyline will let the programmer ask "Why didn't Pac-Man resize?"
In this context it seems like it records the last few possible paths of execution the program could have taken and then tells you which branch caused the program to go the wrong way.
at the beach. I set slashdot to "lite" right before I left for the beach. The problem was that I left max stories at 30, which caused my cell phone to run out of memory. I finally managed to get to my preferences, still on my phone, and set the max articles to 10 or something like that. I then had to hold the down button for about 15 minutes until my phone got to Save at the bottom (there are tons of check boxes that it has to go through). I actually had to do that last step about three times because at first the preferences caused my phone to run out of memory too, but I didn't realize that until I got almost to the bottom to find that the bottom was missing. So after I rebooted the browser (yes, you can do that on a cell phone), I finally set the number of articles to 10 and was able to read the headlines (comments were way too much for the phone to handle). The phone is a Sanyo 5500.
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For 10 dollars I would have told you that you can't hold something in the air for several hours without getting tired, and that a new product deserves a new name.
I don't know if it's that other researchers prefer to reinvent the wheel so much as that these are obvious points.
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You can put the game in coaching mode or whatever it's called and then run it at like 8x the normal speed. IIRC you can freely switch between driving and coaching mode if you select the right thing before the race. That way you can drive the first few laps, then switch to coaching mode, up the speed to 8x and just tell your car to pit every now and then. This obviously doesn't take much skill but then neither does getting the best car and the game and crushing all the other cars on the track (but as you said it's the only way to be safe in such a long race).
Perhaps a software solution like TOR or Freenet could help you sleep better at night?
Don't know much about TOR but I just thought I'd clarify about Freenet. It is indeed a software solution to what you are asking about in which the sites are accessed in an entirely peer to peer manner. Instead of having static routing tables located at specific points each computer in the network maintains its own routing information. If a computer doesn't know how to get to a certain site it guesses by asking a neighbor if it has the desired data. Data is cached throughout the network so that sites are stored as distributed files, meaning at any one time if your computer is a part of Freenet it could have information related to a number of sites.
The good thing about Freenet is that site accesses are entirely anonymous. There is no way to be traced AFAIK. One of the bad things is that it takes a computer a long time to build up enough routing information to access any websites at all. You have to run the Freenet program for a few days before you are able to access anything and even though its painfully slow. The other problem that people have is that you have to store any content that goes through your computer. Freenet is plagued with child porn sites because the anonyminity that it provides. This means that if you are running the freenet program you are likely to have child pornography data stored on your computer even if you have never visited those sites. While the legality of this is questionable, the ethical issues are obvious.
Still it is a very interesting concept and definitely has its applications (China anyone?).
But I think you should try to understand *why* people are criticising you so much instead of just brushing aside all criticism as unjustified/ungrounded, and you also should stop thinking that it's just a "communication" problem where people criticise you because they don't understand you. It's not. It's not people who have the problem; it's you, the editors.
You seem to think that most slashdot readers want to criticize the editors. This is a completely incorrect assumption that comes from the fact that when people are content they tend not to speak up. I would say 90% of slashdot doesn't care about these silly grammar problems and dupes. Most of us think CmdrTaco and the rest are doing a great job, but it so much less common for people who are happy with a service to compliment then it is for dissatisfied people to criticize.
The first time I ever worked in food service I was told over and over again that when a customer is pleased with something they don't often go tell their friends "Hey, I had great service at that restaurant the other day." It's when something makes someone mad that they speak up: "Don't ever go to that resaurant, the service is horrible and the menu has grammatical errors."
Taco and others: It is my opinion that I speak for the majority of slashdot when I say you are doing a great job and keep up the good work.
Additionally, social networking is one of the best ways to find employment.
I fully agree with the parent and would like to point out that another thing to keep in mind is that on campus recruiting provides huge oppurtunities for a career. Companies come to career fairs at a campus because they respect the school's program. It's much easier to get an interview with these companies because you get the chance to talk to their recruiters one on one no matter what your resume looks like. If you do decide to get an online degree at least make sure that you are able to attend these events on the college's campus.
You also don't want to miss on out on your chance to meet with professors as other posts have pointed out. Every professor that I've ever had has had specific hours during the week for students to stop by their office just to talk. Getting to know people who are already well established in the field in a personal way can give you a huge advantage as a professional. While I'm sure there are chances to communicate with professors in online curriculums I have a hard time believing that you could achieve quite as personal of a relationship. Knowing a professor or two is crucial to having a good grad school application as well.
If you do decide to go with an online degree it is very important to put a lot of effort into gaining the same social experiences you would with an on campus degree.
The point was that if the Microsoft page starts becoming widely used advertisers will have to make the choice between advertising on Microsoft's portal or with Google's Adsense and Adwords, thus reducing Google's revenue by splitting the ad market.
Any modern distro will boot from a sata drive. I have been booting from one in Redhat Enterprise for 2 years and I am writing from an Ubuntu install booted from a sata drive.
An outstanding market concept that few if any had really tried - a new game that was cheap to develop, with little or no marketing, priced to sell. An unfortunate side effect is that there was very little big media attention payed.
Maybe the second part of their strategy is to continue to release cheaply developed Katamari games in the hopes that as the ball is rolling it will pick up more and more fans, thus eventually drawing big media attention.
More specifically: I am NOT suggesting that a morse option would be a good idea on phones. My point (still standing) was that getting a message through with a morse transmitter is apparently faster than getting it through with text messages.
Then you are speaking out of context of the article and should be modded offtopic.
The whole point of this experiment, although not perfect, is to compare REALISTIC conditions.
The whole point of the article is to suggest that using morse code on cell phones might be a good alternative to standard text message input methods, which the root post of this thread successfully argues against.
I was under the impression that the whole idea of a laser trap is that you CAN'T drop the ball. Small particles get trapped in the beam due to photon pressure, if the particle shifts away from the center of the beam, it automatically is recentered. Then you can move the beam to manipulate the particle which is attached to a molecule. They use these to fold and unfold proteins, lipid layers, DNA, etc. I mean, it's great that they're using a realtime kernel, but they really shouldn't NEED it
From the article:
"In other experiments, researchers use the laser beam to apply minute forces to the beads and to the connected myosin molecule."
They need real time feedback in order to compensate for motion caused by applied forces that might push the molecule out of the focal point of the laser.
They may also be using realtime feedback to continually focus the laser since very small variations can cause changes large enough to drop the molecule (although I believe many of these systems use purely electronic/optical means to do this).
Now we need a story about a website, about a guy who made a video, of people in costumes, waiting to see a movie, including an interview of the guy in the line, making a video, about the people waiting to see the movie, and his website.
And then we need a dupe of that story.
special pair of layers called a 'p-n junction'
The p-n junction is sometimes called by its more technical name: the "diode".
I don't really see this as a problem. It takes time for new terms' meanings to come to be understood by everyone. It's not like we're going to replace the word Trojan with "Asneakyprogramthathidesonyourcomputeranddoesbadth ings." Instead we'll continue to use those words, defining them when asked, until most people understand.
Be careful when reading this article. Numbers that should be 10 to the n power are displayed as "10n". For example in the third point a result is given: 5x1019 electronVolts. This should be interpreted as 5x10^19 eV.
Yes, but then the firefox slashdot render error would occur 25% more often!
I thought SLI stood for Scan Line Interleaving. "Scaleable Link Interface" is completly vauge. Did they change the technology and keep the old name, or is this writer just an idiot?
Upon further investigation it seems that nVidia's SLI stands for "Scaleable Link Interface", but you are correct in noting that it used to stand for "Scan Line Interleaving". They likely wanted to keep the acronym so that people would know what the technology's function was, but Scan Line Interleaving would be non-despcriptive, as their cards don't interleave at all, each renders approximately half of the screen.
How else would it search handwritten documents? Am I missing something here?
You write down exactly what you want to find in exactly the same handwriting that the document is written in and then it blocks scans it for what you wrote... duh.
I think each sheet is sprayed into the air via a row of nozzles in the lake there. They weren't very thick, you could see through them to some extent, but they were much bigger than a movie screen. This had to take place at night of course because of contrast. The only unpleasant side effect was that pieces of "screen" were blown onto us spectators and it wasn't very warm out.
In Disney World (FL) movies are projected onto sheets of water during the show that they have at the end of every day.
Plus from what I read they really don't scale so well, so putting two cards together will give you about 10-25% more performance.
Actually they do scale well.
For example, if a program contains rules about Pac-Man shrinking when he hits a ghost, Whyline will let the programmer ask "Why didn't Pac-Man resize?"
In this context it seems like it records the last few possible paths of execution the program could have taken and then tells you which branch caused the program to go the wrong way.
at the beach. I set slashdot to "lite" right before I left for the beach. The problem was that I left max stories at 30, which caused my cell phone to run out of memory. I finally managed to get to my preferences, still on my phone, and set the max articles to 10 or something like that. I then had to hold the down button for about 15 minutes until my phone got to Save at the bottom (there are tons of check boxes that it has to go through). I actually had to do that last step about three times because at first the preferences caused my phone to run out of memory too, but I didn't realize that until I got almost to the bottom to find that the bottom was missing. So after I rebooted the browser (yes, you can do that on a cell phone), I finally set the number of articles to 10 and was able to read the headlines (comments were way too much for the phone to handle). The phone is a Sanyo 5500.
Digitizing content from TV has been possible for several years. If it's illegal with Tivo, then it's illegal with a VCR
not to mention impossible.
Now a single cow can cover all of the basic food groups: meat, milk, and data!
But what about Nethack?!?!? Laptop mode sucks.
For 10 dollars I would have told you that you can't hold something in the air for several hours without getting tired, and that a new product deserves a new name.
I don't know if it's that other researchers prefer to reinvent the wheel so much as that these are obvious points.