To some point, we're already standardized on the magsafe standard. At most of my friends houses, if I bring my laptop over I can borrow an apple power supply, because someone in the house has a mac laptop made in the past 4 years. Wattage doesn't matter that much; I just don't play games when I borrow a smaller supply.
They make leather gloves for those tools. No fibers means no pulling. At my last job they had big signs all over the drill press: "NO KEVLAR."
I can only imagine the pain of getting a Kevlar glove stuck in a drill press bit.
You think any of these guys are going to submit with their real names?
Nah, they'll spend the extra 10 minutes to come up with a super-sweet hacker name.
Just objectively, the Buckeye Bullet 2, made at the Center for Automotive Research at OSU (where I work) will soon beat whatever record this car creates. This car is designed for speed, rather than using some bulky Ford Focus shape. I have seen it in person; it is very large and very powerful. The engine is simply massive, and the fuel cells are the size of V8s.
I can imagine it. How about this: since Canada has public health care, why don't they use the money to fund that? Then the people, who paid for the CDs, will get their money back!
The problem with that is that this computer is very specialised to molecular simulations. It can't very easily do other things, like seti or folding (okay, well, maybe that it can do). It was easy to design and cheap because it didn't have to be general purpose and adaptable, like BlueGene/L is.
Does anyone realise that the NSA is not on that list?
I am just guessing here, but the NSA has to have the fastest supercomputer there is, but I am sure it is secret enough to avoid this list. How long do you think they have been trying to break codes that they would stand not having the best technology in the world to do so? Especially with this "war on terror" and whatnot.
I would bet dollars to something that costs slightly less than a dollar that the NSA has had the most powerful computer for a good long time.
Anyone agree?
The only problem with that analogy is that if I am a newcomer to the town, I can walk right up to the barn, pull out my screwdriver, and rip off the door. Then I can take it home and build a new barn around that door.
mediamonkey has always worked for me. It has great tools to name tags from Amazon.com, name from filename, etc. It doesn't slow down on my 4200 files, searching is very powerful, and it is skinnable.
But the best feature above all, and this is what sold me, was the ability to organise my files on the drive using a string, so i can do D:\music\\\ - and it manages everything beautifully!
free too.
It just takes a trained eye to see them. It is much like the ability to hear the encoding artifacts in someone's 128 kbps song off iTunes. Once you have heard enough, and done the research, you are forever tainted with the headache that comes with listening to badly encoded music. I find that I am able to pick out the lower quality songs where others cannot.
It is the same situation here. You want to see the encoding artifacts inherent in the MPEG-2 encoding used on DVDs? Load up a copy of your favorite high quality DVD with some strong color casts or large skylines. (I find the sky is often the easiest place to see the effects.) I like to use House of Flying Daggers, with its beautiful expanses of color artfully placed. (Get the movie anyway, it is great.)
Watch the sky or background. You can see the artifacts. Where there should be a clean black or a clean color gradient you can see blocks and patches of color, somewhat like a much shrunken gif or jpeg. HD-DVD or Blu-ray, with its more powerful and accurate H.264 or VC-1 codec eliminates these problems to a large extent.
Once you are used to watching movies with a discerning eye, you will begin to pine for the better encoding and higher resolution offered by next-gen formats. However, if you do not see the problems, then go right ahead and use your DVDs for another 10 years to come.
If you really cannot see them, try encoding and burning a VCD or SVCD and see if you can see the problems there. They should be more prominent.
I have to say that, knowing what physics I do, the article loses all credibility with me the minute it mentions "centrifugal force," which, in truth, is complete B.S. Say inertia, say pressure imbalance is the centripetal force, but don't give us that 3rd grade science bullshit.
No, it does not support the firewire protocol at all.
This has caused some problems for people with some accessories, for example, belkin makes an alternative to the camera connector for the ipod, and it uses the firewire protocol through the dock connector. It will no longer work on the new ipods. Apple's will, as it uses usb to transfer over the dock.
It has enough mass to shape itself into a spheroid.
It is not a part of a belt of similar objects. (i.e. similar composition and creation)
Looks pretty easy to me. Pluto, being a Kuiper Belt object, is not a planet, neither are any of the asteroids in the asteriod belt. The Earth is, and so is Jupiter and Mars.
The problem comes in defining the terms, such as belt and regular.
Although I tend to believe, like Justice Stewart said a few years ago, "I know it when I see it."
Well, its about time something nice happens in ohio.
Too bad none of the actual people here know about OSS. In middle America, FOSS still faces the daunting ignorance that surrounds it intrinsically. We tend to believe that if it is free, it is stolen, or bad. I hope that this kind of thing can spread awareness to places like Ohio to let people know that there is a great horizon, and we are approaching it. FOSS is the future!
Yeah, sure OSU is here, and there are the big companies like Nationwide and BankOne, but other than that, we aren't are very technologically advanced state.
I would go, but, i well, don't have time, and, well, I am the only one in the city (Worthington, that is), that knows what Linux is.
At least it is nice to know that someone cares. Maybe next year then. (God I hope there will be a next year!)
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To some point, we're already standardized on the magsafe standard. At most of my friends houses, if I bring my laptop over I can borrow an apple power supply, because someone in the house has a mac laptop made in the past 4 years. Wattage doesn't matter that much; I just don't play games when I borrow a smaller supply.
They make leather gloves for those tools. No fibers means no pulling. At my last job they had big signs all over the drill press: "NO KEVLAR."
I can only imagine the pain of getting a Kevlar glove stuck in a drill press bit.
You think any of these guys are going to submit with their real names? Nah, they'll spend the extra 10 minutes to come up with a super-sweet hacker name.
Just objectively, the Buckeye Bullet 2, made at the Center for Automotive Research at OSU (where I work) will soon beat whatever record this car creates. This car is designed for speed, rather than using some bulky Ford Focus shape. I have seen it in person; it is very large and very powerful. The engine is simply massive, and the fuel cells are the size of V8s.
http://buckeyebullet.com/vehicle.htm
I can imagine it. How about this: since Canada has public health care, why don't they use the money to fund that? Then the people, who paid for the CDs, will get their money back!
Brilliant!
The problem with that is that this computer is very specialised to molecular simulations. It can't very easily do other things, like seti or folding (okay, well, maybe that it can do). It was easy to design and cheap because it didn't have to be general purpose and adaptable, like BlueGene/L is.
Does anyone realise that the NSA is not on that list?
I am just guessing here, but the NSA has to have the fastest supercomputer there is, but I am sure it is secret enough to avoid this list. How long do you think they have been trying to break codes that they would stand not having the best technology in the world to do so? Especially with this "war on terror" and whatnot. I would bet dollars to something that costs slightly less than a dollar that the NSA has had the most powerful computer for a good long time. Anyone agree?
The only problem with that analogy is that if I am a newcomer to the town, I can walk right up to the barn, pull out my screwdriver, and rip off the door. Then I can take it home and build a new barn around that door.
Might not go over so well with the owner.
mediamonkey has always worked for me. It has great tools to name tags from Amazon.com, name from filename, etc. It doesn't slow down on my 4200 files, searching is very powerful, and it is skinnable. But the best feature above all, and this is what sold me, was the ability to organise my files on the drive using a string, so i can do D:\music\\\ - and it manages everything beautifully! free too.
It was charging that next customer's gas to your card. Seems like something that would have set off warning bells for me. Just sayin'.
Twinkle!
Glitter!
Fuzzy!
& c.
What happened to manly, all caps, yet equally nonsensical names, like:
GIMP!
LAME!
PHP!
NSIS!
GAIM!
Or at least make up your own words that mean little to nothing!
Azureus!
Shareaza!
Audacity!
Fink!
Heck, pick a real word and make up some explanation!
Python!
Asterisk!
eMule!
Gallery!
But please, please, give us some better names!
MajorGeeks Torrent here
Oh, there are quality differences.
It just takes a trained eye to see them. It is much like the ability to hear the encoding artifacts in someone's 128 kbps song off iTunes. Once you have heard enough, and done the research, you are forever tainted with the headache that comes with listening to badly encoded music. I find that I am able to pick out the lower quality songs where others cannot.
It is the same situation here. You want to see the encoding artifacts inherent in the MPEG-2 encoding used on DVDs? Load up a copy of your favorite high quality DVD with some strong color casts or large skylines. (I find the sky is often the easiest place to see the effects.) I like to use House of Flying Daggers, with its beautiful expanses of color artfully placed. (Get the movie anyway, it is great.)
Watch the sky or background. You can see the artifacts. Where there should be a clean black or a clean color gradient you can see blocks and patches of color, somewhat like a much shrunken gif or jpeg. HD-DVD or Blu-ray, with its more powerful and accurate H.264 or VC-1 codec eliminates these problems to a large extent.
Once you are used to watching movies with a discerning eye, you will begin to pine for the better encoding and higher resolution offered by next-gen formats. However, if you do not see the problems, then go right ahead and use your DVDs for another 10 years to come.
If you really cannot see them, try encoding and burning a VCD or SVCD and see if you can see the problems there. They should be more prominent.
On the page there is an ad link to a copycat site!
Check this out: http://www.pixellance.com/new/
Good creativity.
I have to say that, knowing what physics I do, the article loses all credibility with me the minute it mentions "centrifugal force," which, in truth, is complete B.S.
Say inertia, say pressure imbalance is the centripetal force, but don't give us that 3rd grade science bullshit.
My 2 cents.
"nearly ready to strike a deal to install"
in technology terms, you have got nothing.
I was ready to make a deal with a nice Nigerian fellow, but that doesn't mean a darn thing.
No, it does not support the firewire protocol at all.
This has caused some problems for people with some accessories, for example, belkin makes an alternative to the camera connector for the ipod, and it uses the firewire protocol through the dock connector. It will no longer work on the new ipods. Apple's will, as it uses usb to transfer over the dock.
This is what qualifies as news now?
I had expected better from a website with such a reputation.
Maybe this is just new to everyone else. I don't know.
1. Help build largest music store. ...
2. Make lots of money selling music in store.
3. Argue with owner of store.
4. Leave store.
5. Profit!!!
I think I have your problem solved.
I give you... the mini usb cable!
Looks pretty easy to me. Pluto, being a Kuiper Belt object, is not a planet, neither are any of the asteroids in the asteriod belt. The Earth is, and so is Jupiter and Mars.
The problem comes in defining the terms, such as belt and regular.
Although I tend to believe, like Justice Stewart said a few years ago, "I know it when I see it."
voodoo magic.
We got people like this sitting around chatting on Slashdot!
I would bet that Slashdot alone loses this world 1 year of progress for every 10 years of time.
Well, its about time something nice happens in ohio.
Too bad none of the actual people here know about OSS.
In middle America, FOSS still faces the daunting ignorance that surrounds it intrinsically. We tend to believe that if it is free, it is stolen, or bad. I hope that this kind of thing can spread awareness to places like Ohio to let people know that there is a great horizon, and we are approaching it. FOSS is the future!
Yeah, sure OSU is here, and there are the big companies like Nationwide and BankOne, but other than that, we aren't are very technologically advanced state.
I would go, but, i well, don't have time, and, well, I am the only one in the city (Worthington, that is), that knows what Linux is.
At least it is nice to know that someone cares. Maybe next year then. (God I hope there will be a next year!)
everyone's tubes keep getting longer and harder all the time.