Why must aliens have a completely different way of thinking about art? It might be improbable, but aliens could have evolved along a different path to a similar conclusion, like how dolphins and whales look like fish, but are really descended from land mammals.
Note that I'm not saying that crop circles are really made by aliens. I saw an article in the most recent scientific american about how easy it is to make 'authentic' crop circles. The simplest solution is usually the right one, Occam's razor and all...
The creator of a scene file retains all rights to the scene file they created, and any image generated by the Software from them.
The license does not "stipulate what you can and can't subsequently do with your own artwork." They even explain that they can't change the license until they rewrite the code completely, in the section called "WHY ISN'T POV-RAY OPEN SOURCE?"
I limited this experiment to the 30 keys under the four fingers of the two hands. They include the 26 letters of the English alphabet and four punctuation symbols (comma, period, quote, and semicolon). (A QWERTY layout typically has the slash in this region instead of quote.) Other punctuation was ignored....
I also needed a corpus of sample text... I added... about 100,000 lines of C code.
Am I the only one who thinks optimizing for C code is silly when you ignore vital symbols like braces, brackets, and numbers even? At least he included the semicolon.
If I remember correctly, a joystick port gives me 2 channels to fool with.... As a matter of fact, the joystick port also has a couple of switch lines as well - there's all sorts of fun to be had.
Actually, you have 4 analog inputs and 4 binary inputs (not counting the MIDI TX and RX). Two axes and two buttons each on two joysticks. Here's a pin diagram, looking in at the PC side of the connection:
8-------------------1
s\ l a m e n e s s/
ss\ f i l t e r s/
ss9\-------------/15
and the pin meanings:
Or, it could be the statue of Pallas Athena that the Greeks stole from Troy because an oracle said that Troy would fall if they didn't have the Palladium.
Yet others have said that Odysseus and Diomedes 2 learned from Antenor 1 the oracle that declared that Troy would be destroyed if the Palladium were carried outside the city walls.
Radio Shack does sell LEDs, just without the connector. They also sell chip sockets, which I hear can be good for breaking up into smaller connectors. I'm not sure if they sell the actual 'correct' connector for this, but you can always get the LED, some wire, and a chip connector, and have fun soldering it all together:)
Actually, he said solar panels, not necessarily photovoltaics. There are solar panels which collect heat in a glass case and pump it out using a set of pipes (like a radiator, but backwards:).
I think nanotubes might be useful for this, if only to replace the black paint that goes on the pipes. Just have to be careful about your solar panels exploding when it gets too sunny:)
(CNN) -- Street security expert Chad Harrington
regularly surfs back alleys, one of the
oldest meeting places. The alleys
have names like Sherman St. and Lois
La., but he
agrees that another name works just as well: eBay for
hackers.
"Once the hacker or someone in the underworld has personal
information, credit card numbers, social security numbers,
address, whatever it may be," says Harrington, once the
hacker "has that information and wants to sell it, often
they'll go to a hacker back alley, a place in the city using
an a mask which provides them some
anonymity and allows them to mention that they have this
personal information and they want to trade."
The ability for hackers to go onto the
streets and chat up
fellow hackers is as old as the city itself. But with identity
theft becoming a more popular form of fraud, according to
the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), more attention is
being paid to back alleys that serve as flea markets for
hackers.
"We know that credit card numbers are bought and sold in back
alleys because they have real cash value," says
Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of Counterpane Technologies and
a pioneer in city security.
"A lot more credit card numbers are stolen than ever used, but you should
assume that right now, in your wallet, there's a credit card number that
has been stolen off the street."
Both Schneier and Entercept Security Technology's Harrington say that
your stolen personal information can be swapped or sold in other
avenues. But back alleys are largely unregulated -- a Wild West of chat that has a
special appeal for hackers.
"Hackers obviously want anonymity when they're looking to trade
personal information that they've obtained via identity theft,
so masks are a commonly used
mechanism," says Harrington.
Difficult to monitor
The unfettered nature of back alleys is also appealing to hackers, says Schneier.
"It's older, it's not tied to Microsoft or AOL or a big company,
it's one of the street protocols... so if you're
running Windows or Linux or Macintosh or another flavor of Unix, you can use it," says Schneier. "So it's not that
it's more suitable for hackers to use, it's just a more basic service and people who are anti-big-corporation are going
to be more likely to use something like back alleys."
(AOL Time Warner is the parent company of CNN.)
That same aspect of back alleys also
makes them a tough digital
obstacle for law enforcement.
"In the molecular world of the city, it's such a vast
landscape and there's no way that the FBI and CIA or any
law enforcement agency can be involved in watching over the
shoulder of every citizen," says Harrington.
"Unfortunately, that's probably what it would have to take
to prevent this sort of fraud."
Occasionally the FBI gets lucky. The feds were able to track
down the hacker known as "Mafiaboy" when he bragged
about his exploits in back alleys.
And while the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) didn't provide any statements to CNN
regarding what goes on in back alleys, security experts say it's a matter of law enforcement manpower and
trying to track down hackers in a very crowded -- and loud --
back alley.
Then, it becomes harder to find things using google, and people start giving each other links again, and google gets better again.... see the cycle? I expect that there would be some sort of damping effect on this oscillation, so it would all even out in the end, with google being just short of good enough to warrant using it instead of passing links manually.
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Read the article, especially the part labelled "Why a circular track will not be a perpetual motion device"
Suggestions such as:
as the user pulls further down the menu, more movement of the mouse is necessary to get a corresponding movement of the pointer
is a perfect example of when not to apply Fittz law. Technically this should be faster, but in reality it blows the users motor memory for how far the mouse should be moved away and results not just in a slower access to that menu, but if used pervasively enough, slow access to everything because the user can no longer guage how far the pointer will move. In short, since moving the pointer is so fundamental to using a GUI, it should be completely consistent to take full advantage of motor memory.
I agree that consistency is important, but humans are very capable of changing their behavior in response to a different context. The canonical example is the sentence "Can you please can the can-can while I'm on the can, man?" In this case it means that we can differentiate between "menu-pulling" context and "general mouse motion" context, so having different rules for these two contexts doesn't break consistency as much as you'd think.
you now use an upward action for some keys and downward for others, thus losing motor memory
Again, this can be used with context in mind. I agree that curving the keyboard more than it already is is probably a bad idea, for the other reasons you give, but not for this one. Motor memory is context sensitive: learning to play flute doesn't affect your piano-playing skills negatively.
Alt-F-right-right-down-down is neither intuitive or fast.
Here you just ignore your previous motor-memory arguments. When you navigate the menus using Alt-menuletter-arrows, you eventually program the right sequence into your fingers, and they can perform them quite quickly. Learning Alt-q is probably still better than learning Alt-F-up-enter, but has a slightly steeper learning curve.
I personally dislike C++, for example because it is too complex - noone can hold the whole of the language definition in back-mind as I can easily do with C or some assembly environment.
I disagree. Assembly language (at least x86) is far harder to hold the whole definition of than C++. Have you checked just how many instructions there are? Enough to fill 467 pages in (one of the volumes of) the Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual. And that's as of 1997, I'm pretty sure there are more now. C++ has only 13 keywords more than C. I agree that it is sometimes difficult to remember some of the more obscure aspects of C++ classes, but there are many more asm instructions that I have to look up every time I see them.
Maybe you see the standard libraries as part of C++, hm? That would make it harder to hold, but so would having to know all the BIOS interrupts (if you're in real mode) or even all the peculiarities of each IO port on the x86 (protected mode).
most operations under AtheOS will involve the command line (however, been a modern OS, AtheOS is GUI-only, it does not offer a fullscreen text mode)
"been" a modern OS is no excuse for *not* including something! If anything it should include *more* things. There are some people who like those full-text-screens. I don't think they are too hard to code.
And to those of you saying that the author isn't doing this for anyone but himself, I agree, that's a good reason for doing things however he wants, but please don't say it doesn't have a text-console because it's a modern OS.
Aparrently you are unaware of a phenomenon called "Gorilla Arm" which occurs when people's arms tire from holding them up to touch your touchscreen. Your arm feels heavy, like a gorilla's, and you end up holding it in the same way. You might try putting the screen flat on (or in) a table, but then you have people bending their necks unnaturally, and that's bad too. Maybe we should use joysticks...
It's not the web's fault that Mr. Dudley is limiting his requests of it. He's just lost the spirit of exploration that he once had. I think I still have it. I'm always finding new and interesting things on the web, through/., k5, newsgroups, etc. I think that Mr. Dudley must be a very boring person, since he doesn't seem to have any interests outside of mainstream media. If he did, he would be finding websites of people with similar interests and exploring them, finding what interests those people have and discovering that he's interested in some of those too, and the cycle continues.
The majority may be like Mr. Dudley, but it doesn't take a majority to make interesting things on the web. Let them have their MSNBC and their e-commerce. Just don't say the web is boring because most of its users are.
Why is there this very straight line right down the middle of the US where the east side is very bright, but the west side is very dark by comparison? I might understand if that was where the Rockies started, but to my knowlege it's not. Does anyone know what this line signifies?
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Why must aliens have a completely different way of thinking about art? It might be improbable, but aliens could have evolved along a different path to a similar conclusion, like how dolphins and whales look like fish, but are really descended from land mammals.
Note that I'm not saying that crop circles are really made by aliens. I saw an article in the most recent scientific american about how easy it is to make 'authentic' crop circles. The simplest solution is usually the right one, Occam's razor and all...
"not counting the MIDI TX and RX" which I forgot to put in because my reference didn't have them (but I know they're there somewhere...)
8-------------------1 / /
s\ l a m e n e s s
ss\ f i l t e r s
ss9\-------------/15
and the pin meanings:
'Source' is a noun. 'Open' is an adjective which, in this case, describes 'source'.
I hope this clears that up.
from http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Palladium.html :
heh, I have this in a key macro:
killall -9 netscape-communicator
rm -f
rm -rf
So all I have to do is get a shell and hit F11 on my spiffy gateway anykey
Radio Shack does sell LEDs, just without the connector. They also sell chip sockets, which I hear can be good for breaking up into smaller connectors. I'm not sure if they sell the actual 'correct' connector for this, but you can always get the LED, some wire, and a chip connector, and have fun soldering it all together :)
Actually, he said solar panels, not necessarily photovoltaics. There are solar panels which collect heat in a glass case and pump it out using a set of pipes (like a radiator, but backwards :).
:)
I think nanotubes might be useful for this, if only to replace the black paint that goes on the pipes. Just have to be careful about your solar panels exploding when it gets too sunny
"Once the hacker or someone in the underworld has personal information, credit card numbers, social security numbers, address, whatever it may be," says Harrington, once the hacker "has that information and wants to sell it, often they'll go to a hacker back alley, a place in the city using an a mask which provides them some anonymity and allows them to mention that they have this personal information and they want to trade."
The ability for hackers to go onto the streets and chat up fellow hackers is as old as the city itself. But with identity theft becoming a more popular form of fraud, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), more attention is being paid to back alleys that serve as flea markets for hackers.
"We know that credit card numbers are bought and sold in back alleys because they have real cash value," says Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of Counterpane Technologies and a pioneer in city security.
"A lot more credit card numbers are stolen than ever used, but you should assume that right now, in your wallet, there's a credit card number that has been stolen off the street."
Both Schneier and Entercept Security Technology's Harrington say that your stolen personal information can be swapped or sold in other avenues. But back alleys are largely unregulated -- a Wild West of chat that has a special appeal for hackers.
"Hackers obviously want anonymity when they're looking to trade personal information that they've obtained via identity theft, so masks are a commonly used mechanism," says Harrington.
Difficult to monitor
The unfettered nature of back alleys is also appealing to hackers, says Schneier.
"It's older, it's not tied to Microsoft or AOL or a big company, it's one of the street protocols ... so if you're
running Windows or Linux or Macintosh or another flavor of Unix, you can use it," says Schneier. "So it's not that
it's more suitable for hackers to use, it's just a more basic service and people who are anti-big-corporation are going
to be more likely to use something like back alleys."
(AOL Time Warner is the parent company of CNN.)
That same aspect of back alleys also makes them a tough digital obstacle for law enforcement.
"In the molecular world of the city, it's such a vast landscape and there's no way that the FBI and CIA or any law enforcement agency can be involved in watching over the shoulder of every citizen," says Harrington. "Unfortunately, that's probably what it would have to take to prevent this sort of fraud."
Occasionally the FBI gets lucky. The feds were able to track down the hacker known as "Mafiaboy" when he bragged about his exploits in back alleys.
And while the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) didn't provide any statements to CNN regarding what goes on in back alleys, security experts say it's a matter of law enforcement manpower and trying to track down hackers in a very crowded -- and loud -- back alley.
Then, it becomes harder to find things using google, and people start giving each other links again, and google gets better again.... see the cycle? I expect that there would be some sort of damping effect on this oscillation, so it would all even out in the end, with google being just short of good enough to warrant using it instead of passing links manually.
Read the article, especially the part labelled "Why a circular track will not be a perpetual motion device"
It's all a huge conspiracy! Tell the people!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going bungee jumping...
I agree that consistency is important, but humans are very capable of changing their behavior in response to a different context. The canonical example is the sentence "Can you please can the can-can while I'm on the can, man?" In this case it means that we can differentiate between "menu-pulling" context and "general mouse motion" context, so having different rules for these two contexts doesn't break consistency as much as you'd think.
Again, this can be used with context in mind. I agree that curving the keyboard more than it already is is probably a bad idea, for the other reasons you give, but not for this one. Motor memory is context sensitive: learning to play flute doesn't affect your piano-playing skills negatively.
Here you just ignore your previous motor-memory arguments. When you navigate the menus using Alt-menuletter-arrows, you eventually program the right sequence into your fingers, and they can perform them quite quickly. Learning Alt-q is probably still better than learning Alt-F-up-enter, but has a slightly steeper learning curve.
I disagree. Assembly language (at least x86) is far harder to hold the whole definition of than C++. Have you checked just how many instructions there are? Enough to fill 467 pages in (one of the volumes of) the Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual. And that's as of 1997, I'm pretty sure there are more now. C++ has only 13 keywords more than C. I agree that it is sometimes difficult to remember some of the more obscure aspects of C++ classes, but there are many more asm instructions that I have to look up every time I see them.
Maybe you see the standard libraries as part of C++, hm? That would make it harder to hold, but so would having to know all the BIOS interrupts (if you're in real mode) or even all the peculiarities of each IO port on the x86 (protected mode).
Why can't we all just get along and use scientific notation? (or should it be scientibic?) Like so:
1KiB = 1024 bytes = 1x2^10 bytes
1MiB = 1048576 bytes = 1x2^20 bytes
...
or maybe even:
1KiB = 1024 bytes = 1x1024^1 bytes
1MiB = 1048576 bytes = 1x1024^2 bytes
...
or we could abolish bytes too and just say everything in bits:
1KiB = 8192 bits = 1x2^13 bits
But then again, "Hey, I just got 1x2^31 bits of RAM!" just doesn't have the same ring to it...
most operations under AtheOS will involve the command line (however, been a modern OS, AtheOS is GUI-only, it does not offer a fullscreen text mode)
"been" a modern OS is no excuse for *not* including something! If anything it should include *more* things. There are some people who like those full-text-screens. I don't think they are too hard to code.
And to those of you saying that the author isn't doing this for anyone but himself, I agree, that's a good reason for doing things however he wants, but please don't say it doesn't have a text-console because it's a modern OS.
Aparrently you are unaware of a phenomenon called "Gorilla Arm" which occurs when people's arms tire from holding them up to touch your touchscreen. Your arm feels heavy, like a gorilla's, and you end up holding it in the same way. You might try putting the screen flat on (or in) a table, but then you have people bending their necks unnaturally, and that's bad too. Maybe we should use joysticks...
that or the republocratic party...
It's not the web's fault that Mr. Dudley is limiting his requests of it. He's just lost the spirit of exploration that he once had. I think I still have it. I'm always finding new and interesting things on the web, through /., k5, newsgroups, etc. I think that Mr. Dudley must be a very boring person, since he doesn't seem to have any interests outside of mainstream media. If he did, he would be finding websites of people with similar interests and exploring them, finding what interests those people have and discovering that he's interested in some of those too, and the cycle continues.
The majority may be like Mr. Dudley, but it doesn't take a majority to make interesting things on the web. Let them have their MSNBC and their e-commerce. Just don't say the web is boring because most of its users are.
It's Sealand, of course! :)
:)
hmm.. they must be expanding
Why is there this very straight line right down the middle of the US where the east side is very bright, but the west side is very dark by comparison? I might understand if that was where the Rockies started, but to my knowlege it's not. Does anyone know what this line signifies?
What does the language spoken by people in Atlanta have to do with fast food?