Researcher 1: My arms are getting tired, can we take a break? Researcher 2: Sure, hang up your cloak on that wall. Researcher 1: Hey why don't we just leave the cloak on the wall? Researcher 2: We could just project onto the wall! Researcher 1: THAT'S BRILLIANT!
sarcasm mode off... seriously... this merited another post because they changed surface from a stationary person wearing a special cloak to a stationary wall???
As has often been mentioned by computer animators, renders of old people are much easier to make realistic than young people. This is due to all the blemishes (wrinkles, liver spots, speckled grey hair) that we associate with aging. Apparently the eye is drawn to the details and we pay less attention to the face as a whole, which makes the overall effect much more realistic and believable.
reverendG raises some good points, and I had a thought: what if a building represented the base page of dynamic content (the longest common url substring of the request) and variations represeted rooms within that building? Or add-ons to the building. That way you could even monitor the frequency of requests for permutations of that dynamic content.
Isn't it obvious? They won't. They'll each have to purchase and register via [insert biometric here] their own legitimate copies of any music they want. Does this surprise you? I shouldn't.
This annoyed the hell out of me too, until I realized that ctrl-L will highlight the current url *without* overwriting your other highlighted text. Then hit delete or backspace to clear the url bar, and middle-click to paste in the new url.
At least, Mozilla on FreeBSD in X with WindowMaker does this. I can't claim it works on any other combo, which in itself is a discussion for another day.
You'd be surprised. Most gamers overclock and (we) demand rock solid stability. It's not worth the extra 15 fps in the FPS of choice if it means we can crash out and lose our score at any moment.
But really the type of overclock I was getting at are the legendary Celeron 300A to 450 overclocks, or the more recent 2.4C to 3.0 overclocks. The ones where you pick up enough speed to match cpu's costing twice to three times as much.
Think of the converse. This would mean Intel would have to mark all chips capable of running at higher speeds at the higher speed, and sell them as such. There would be no more overclocking since every chip would already be running at its highest speed.
Currently, the major backbone providers like Sprint et al are already providing QOS for VOIP services currently used by major corporations (i.e. Cisco) to communicate between offices. This hasn't propogated down to the ISP level yet but there's no reason it couldn't.
Also, at the ISP level, Speakeasy already has a package that preferentially routes online game packets, providing better performance for subscribers. In fact Speakeasy toutes itself as the "gamer's ISP".
IANAL, but isn't that a form of entrapment? And isn't that... uh, like... bad? Especially if you are entrapping a minor?
IANALE, but entrapment is not illegal. Coersion is. An undercover police officer can offer to sell you drugs, and arrest you if you accept and hand him money... even if you are a minor. You can choose to say no and walk away. What he cannot do is threaten to beat you up unless you buy them.
So far, it has been an extremely positive experience and I have no problem recommending them without reservation.
This is what I hear from all of my friends, which is why I signed up for Speakeasy even though SBC was offering the same package at half the price. I was tired of dealing with SBC (which provided excellent DSL service to me for the past year, by the way) and decided to switch to someone with a good reputation. I guess I was the statistical anomaly in the sample.
I'm going to take you seriously for the sake of argument...
The final size that allowed a packet to get through to me was roughly 435 bytes, which I might mention, is below the 512 mandated by the spec.
Interesting note: yahoo's dns response is larger than that, so while I could resolve some hostnames, I could not resolve www.yahoo.com, which is how I eventually narrowed it down.
I had this exact same problem when I had my Speakeasy service (through Covad) installed earlier this year. For me it lasted exactly 14 days before it magically started working one night with no explanation to this day.
Every time I called them to see if they had made any progress, I got the same "do you have a router, does it have a firewall, are you running Windows, did you try blah blah blah" run around. I eventually narrowed it down to an MTU problem by crafting custom response packets from my external webserver until I hit a packet size that got through, but even with this information they weren't able to fix it.
What do you think runs in your microwave oven? or your fancy watch? or your car's engine computer?
My watch is 100% mechanical. It has a pendulum that swings whenever I move around so that I never have to wind it or change its batteries. There is no lcd display to crack or discolor. It keeps the date via a perpetual calendar which is accurate until 2024.
I'm not trying to disagree with you; I agree completely. I'm just trying to say that not everything that can be digitized should be.
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I'm not sure anyone could tell the difference if they were blinded first.
This idiot should take his next pay packet and sponsor a child in Africa or something.
Let me see if I understand what you're saying:
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Researcher 1: My arms are getting tired, can we take a break?
Researcher 2: Sure, hang up your cloak on that wall.
Researcher 1: Hey why don't we just leave the cloak on the wall?
Researcher 2: We could just project onto the wall!
Researcher 1: THAT'S BRILLIANT!
sarcasm mode off... seriously... this merited another post because they changed surface from a stationary person wearing a special cloak to a stationary wall???
As has often been mentioned by computer animators, renders of old people are much easier to make realistic than young people. This is due to all the blemishes (wrinkles, liver spots, speckled grey hair) that we associate with aging. Apparently the eye is drawn to the details and we pay less attention to the face as a whole, which makes the overall effect much more realistic and believable.
... the Invisby?
reverendG raises some good points, and I had a thought: what if a building represented the base page of dynamic content (the longest common url substring of the request) and variations represeted rooms within that building? Or add-ons to the building. That way you could even monitor the frequency of requests for permutations of that dynamic content.
Seeing as how it's (was?) an IIS server, a blue background is rather appropriate.
Was the text white, by any chance?
...how will your family be given access to it?
Isn't it obvious? They won't. They'll each have to purchase and register via [insert biometric here] their own legitimate copies of any music they want. Does this surprise you? I shouldn't.
No offense, but you do know you're posting on /., right?
Maybe he's new here, you insensitive clod!
This annoyed the hell out of me too, until I realized that ctrl-L will highlight the current url *without* overwriting your other highlighted text. Then hit delete or backspace to clear the url bar, and middle-click to paste in the new url.
At least, Mozilla on FreeBSD in X with WindowMaker does this. I can't claim it works on any other combo, which in itself is a discussion for another day.
You'd be surprised. Most gamers overclock and (we) demand rock solid stability. It's not worth the extra 15 fps in the FPS of choice if it means we can crash out and lose our score at any moment.
But really the type of overclock I was getting at are the legendary Celeron 300A to 450 overclocks, or the more recent 2.4C to 3.0 overclocks. The ones where you pick up enough speed to match cpu's costing twice to three times as much.
Think of the converse. This would mean Intel would have to mark all chips capable of running at higher speeds at the higher speed, and sell them as such. There would be no more overclocking since every chip would already be running at its highest speed.
Not so attractive now is it?
Currently, the major backbone providers like Sprint et al are already providing QOS for VOIP services currently used by major corporations (i.e. Cisco) to communicate between offices. This hasn't propogated down to the ISP level yet but there's no reason it couldn't.
Also, at the ISP level, Speakeasy already has a package that preferentially routes online game packets, providing better performance for subscribers. In fact Speakeasy toutes itself as the "gamer's ISP".
IANAL, but isn't that a form of entrapment? And isn't that ... uh, like ... bad? Especially if you are entrapping a minor?
IANALE, but entrapment is not illegal. Coersion is. An undercover police officer can offer to sell you drugs, and arrest you if you accept and hand him money... even if you are a minor. You can choose to say no and walk away. What he cannot do is threaten to beat you up unless you buy them.
Someone should tell Yahoo that. Theirs is 520 bytes last time I checked (about 5 months ago).
They have Open Source hardware now?
Yeah but it's free as in speach, not free as in beer.
So far, it has been an extremely positive experience and I have no problem recommending them without reservation.
This is what I hear from all of my friends, which is why I signed up for Speakeasy even though SBC was offering the same package at half the price. I was tired of dealing with SBC (which provided excellent DSL service to me for the past year, by the way) and decided to switch to someone with a good reputation. I guess I was the statistical anomaly in the sample.
What size MTU eventually got through? 1492?
I'm going to take you seriously for the sake of argument...
The final size that allowed a packet to get through to me was roughly 435 bytes, which I might mention, is below the 512 mandated by the spec.
Interesting note: yahoo's dns response is larger than that, so while I could resolve some hostnames, I could not resolve www.yahoo.com, which is how I eventually narrowed it down.
I had this exact same problem when I had my Speakeasy service (through Covad) installed earlier this year. For me it lasted exactly 14 days before it magically started working one night with no explanation to this day.
Every time I called them to see if they had made any progress, I got the same "do you have a router, does it have a firewall, are you running Windows, did you try blah blah blah" run around. I eventually narrowed it down to an MTU problem by crafting custom response packets from my external webserver until I hit a packet size that got through, but even with this information they weren't able to fix it.
Fortunately, when people graduate from high school and enter the workforce they become motivated to always make their best effort.
You must not work for the government.
Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Oh you are so going to burn for that one. =)
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What's that Lassie?
Woof!
Hold on girl let me take out my cell phone!
What do you think runs in your microwave oven? or your fancy watch? or your car's engine computer?
My watch is 100% mechanical. It has a pendulum that swings whenever I move around so that I never have to wind it or change its batteries. There is no lcd display to crack or discolor. It keeps the date via a perpetual calendar which is accurate until 2024.
I'm not trying to disagree with you; I agree completely. I'm just trying to say that not everything that can be digitized should be.
Those are man hands, man!