The only movie which IMHO used stereoscopic video in a postitive way was Coraline. Mainly because they used the stereoscopic effect to make the 3D renderings appear as if they were standing on a theatre set (or, "inside a box" effect).
I hate all the other films that use stereoscopic effect to throw things towards my face; specially since I have different vision potential in each eye and thus cannot focus on stereoscopic images that appear too close.
Did they tested "power consumption" of IE9 vs FF4 with extension that remove all the crap from webpages? I can imagine that after removing all the talking and moving Flash ads, the browser would require less resources.
There are no limitations, you can keep consuming bandwidth and pay the corresponding price.
You see, transfering data from Amazon's cloud to your home has a cost (no, really, promise). When you make a contract with your bandwidth provider you agree to pay a certain monthly cash amount in order to get a service with some characteristics. One of those characteristics may be the amount of data you are allowed to get each month (the price vs allowed bandwidth was surely calculated based on the costs of your provider).
If you think that yoru current plan limits you, I am sure your bandwidth provider will be very happy to change you to a plan with increased data transfer capabilities. Of course, in order to get such type of improved service, you will most likely be asked to pay additional cash.
In the first place, the OP was greedy when he bought a new laptop *for him* after his wife's computer stopped working... He should have bought a new Windows computer for her at that time.
If you compare the computer interface against any other things we work on, a lot of space (in the computer) is spent showing "buttons and ledgers" that allow you to make something, and the rest of the space is used for the actual thing we are working on (e.g., all menus, toolbars, scrollbars, etc in a document vs the actual pages.)
That's why full screen interfaces "feel" better, because we have a bigger picture of the material we are working in. The disadvantage is that when you want to do something special you may need to look for the toolbars (knowing the keyboard shortcuts is an advantage here).
Did they just give up on the idea of a window for actual sun-light?
One of the things I was thought during my Bachellors degree in Soft. Eng. was that for office workers purposes (sitting on a chair in front of a computer) artificial light is better because you always get a regular lighting pattern instead of the "morning, afternoon, evening" cycle that can alter people's mood.
I am using Firefox Minefield 4.0b13pre which is updated almost daily. Could anybody tell me if it is OK to use this as the "final" release? I do not want to download and install the "retail" version.
Hey, thanks for sharing this. One question, with the standard Bitcoin client I am not able to connect to the Bitcoin network behind an HTTP proxy (only port 80 open). Is there any way I can connect without using a virtual network? Thanks!
You should add some type of online authentication mechanism. Really, it is the only way to stop piracy. Slashdot hivemind might not like it, but piracy has only lead to that.
Yeah, some people would still pirate music and or games. But a lot of others (like me) would buy more CDs...
I for example would like to buy several CDs from a band, however they are between 16 and 20 Euro, which I feel is a ripoff (they are CDs of German bands, and the price is to buy them *in Germany* where I live), so my only option is to listen to them using Grooveshark.
If those CDs where between 5 and 10 euros, I will definitely buy them.
Agreed on that, but still after the Japan earthquake and Tsunami I am left to wonder if we as a civilization are prepared for catastrophes of that or bigger magnitude.
My main concern is the preservation of knowledge. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where the Japan earthquake epicenter was in the middle of Japan, removing the island and all the periphery from the earth (i.e., imagine if the earthquake was 10 times as strong as it was).
Besides the lives (which of course are of utmost importance, but it is not related to this discussion), imagine all the knowledge and information we will lose. I am talking about things like robotics (e.g., ASIMO technology) or other technology that is *only* being developed in Japan.
Even if "archive.org" gets a copy of all the publicly available Honda web-pages, the much of the valuable technology and knowledge might be lost.
You are so freaking dense. You can access "dos mode" by pressing WIN+R and then typing "cmd". There you go, enjoy your batch files.
I know Microsoft software used to suck HUGE fucking time, but nowadays with Win7 / Visual Studio and the like, Microsoft software is quite good. And if you look at Microsoft stand with the Kinect, it does not get "gooder" than that (openly allowing to hack your device).
But comparing them to Sony? WTF, Sony are the most control freak, anti customer/consumer evil technology company in a long time... and they are quite stupid at that.
Installing a rootkit in your *customer's* computer? Putting DRM into AUDIO CDs?? Removing an actual *feature* of MILLIONS of devices THEY DON'T OWN just because a kid published some codez?
WTF? the only compay that compares to Sony in evilness might be Apple. But hey, at least I give Apple that they have pushed the adoption of innovative electronic devices into the mainstream (making it "cool" to have an MP3, a touch-based device, etc).
Yup, CD singles also sucked big time in Mexico. They are overpriced shit for people who could not wait 1 month or so to buy the whole disk.
And also, usually the "single" contained whatever song was mainstream. Usually other songs start to grow on you after listening once or twice. Nowadays, a lot of my favourite songs from several groups are those which had no "single" released.
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Avatar made me sick.
The only movie which IMHO used stereoscopic video in a postitive way was Coraline. Mainly because they used the stereoscopic effect to make the 3D renderings appear as if they were standing on a theatre set (or, "inside a box" effect).
I hate all the other films that use stereoscopic effect to throw things towards my face; specially since I have different vision potential in each eye and thus cannot focus on stereoscopic images that appear too close.
5 != 5!
Why don't they submit their prediction competition to Kaggle. There are quite a lot of "impossible" prediction competitions over there already.
Did they tested "power consumption" of IE9 vs FF4 with extension that remove all the crap from webpages? I can imagine that after removing all the talking and moving Flash ads, the browser would require less resources.
Grooveshark you say?
Sharkthief might be useful for you...
There are no limitations, you can keep consuming bandwidth and pay the corresponding price.
You see, transfering data from Amazon's cloud to your home has a cost (no, really, promise). When you make a contract with your bandwidth provider you agree to pay a certain monthly cash amount in order to get a service with some characteristics. One of those characteristics may be the amount of data you are allowed to get each month (the price vs allowed bandwidth was surely calculated based on the costs of your provider).
If you think that yoru current plan limits you, I am sure your bandwidth provider will be very happy to change you to a plan with increased data transfer capabilities. Of course, in order to get such type of improved service, you will most likely be asked to pay additional cash.
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Man.... this guy really knows about SQL uh?
Yeah, that and remember to use the correct function:
mysql_real_for_real_we_swear_this_is_the_shit_escape_string()
. If a person can learn Windows, they can switch to OSX without a whole lot of problems - unless they are really stupid or something.
Hi Steve, didn't know you made a new account.
In the first place, the OP was greedy when he bought a new laptop *for him* after his wife's computer stopped working... He should have bought a new Windows computer for her at that time.
This...
If you compare the computer interface against any other things we work on, a lot of space (in the computer) is spent showing "buttons and ledgers" that allow you to make something, and the rest of the space is used for the actual thing we are working on (e.g., all menus, toolbars, scrollbars, etc in a document vs the actual pages.)
That's why full screen interfaces "feel" better, because we have a bigger picture of the material we are working in. The disadvantage is that when you want to do something special you may need to look for the toolbars (knowing the keyboard shortcuts is an advantage here).
Did they just give up on the idea of a window for actual sun-light?
One of the things I was thought during my Bachellors degree in Soft. Eng. was that for office workers purposes (sitting on a chair in front of a computer) artificial light is better because you always get a regular lighting pattern instead of the "morning, afternoon, evening" cycle that can alter people's mood.
I am using Firefox Minefield 4.0b13pre which is updated almost daily. Could anybody tell me if it is OK to use this as the "final" release? I do not want to download and install the "retail" version.
Is it sad that in my computer, the website looks more "fluid" in Chrome browser than in Firefox 4?
I just Firefox due to several extensions. But damn Chrome is FAST. Opera is "so fast" that sometimes it won't render some pages until I reload them.
And I know I a word.
Is it sad that in my computer, the website looks more "fluid" in Chrome browser than in Firefox 4?
I just Firefox due to several extensions. But damn Chrome is FAST. Opera is "so fast" that sometimes it won't render some pages until I reload them.
Hey, thanks for sharing this. One question, with the standard Bitcoin client I am not able to connect to the Bitcoin network behind an HTTP proxy (only port 80 open). Is there any way I can connect without using a virtual network?
Thanks!
No, vote for the dudes who have a trajectory of being honest and working for the people.
Really, is it that difficult to at least read the Wikipedia entry of each candidate?
By giving you access to the hardware at the very low level, you give games developers a chance to innovate
I am ready!
MOV DX, 03D4h
MOV AX, 06B00h
OUT DX, AX
Yup, and also fellow slashdotter Marcansoft (from Spain) was named in the lawsuit IIRC.
I wanna flyyy! flyy!!
They are doing it because they can.
You should add some type of online authentication mechanism. Really, it is the only way to stop piracy. Slashdot hivemind might not like it, but piracy has only lead to that.
Yeah, some people would still pirate music and or games. But a lot of others (like me) would buy more CDs...
I for example would like to buy several CDs from a band, however they are between 16 and 20 Euro, which I feel is a ripoff (they are CDs of German bands, and the price is to buy them *in Germany* where I live), so my only option is to listen to them using Grooveshark.
If those CDs where between 5 and 10 euros, I will definitely buy them.
Agreed on that, but still after the Japan earthquake and Tsunami I am left to wonder if we as a civilization are prepared for catastrophes of that or bigger magnitude.
My main concern is the preservation of knowledge. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where the Japan earthquake epicenter was in the middle of Japan, removing the island and all the periphery from the earth (i.e., imagine if the earthquake was 10 times as strong as it was).
Besides the lives (which of course are of utmost importance, but it is not related to this discussion), imagine all the knowledge and information we will lose. I am talking about things like robotics (e.g., ASIMO technology) or other technology that is *only* being developed in Japan.
Even if "archive.org" gets a copy of all the publicly available Honda web-pages, the much of the valuable technology and knowledge might be lost.
You are so freaking dense.
You can access "dos mode" by pressing WIN+R and then typing "cmd". There you go, enjoy your batch files.
I know Microsoft software used to suck HUGE fucking time, but nowadays with Win7 / Visual Studio and the like, Microsoft software is quite good. And if you look at Microsoft stand with the Kinect, it does not get "gooder" than that (openly allowing to hack your device).
But comparing them to Sony? WTF, Sony are the most control freak, anti customer/consumer evil technology company in a long time... and they are quite stupid at that.
Installing a rootkit in your *customer's* computer?
Putting DRM into AUDIO CDs??
Removing an actual *feature* of MILLIONS of devices THEY DON'T OWN just because a kid published some codez?
WTF? the only compay that compares to Sony in evilness might be Apple. But hey, at least I give Apple that they have pushed the adoption of innovative electronic devices into the mainstream (making it "cool" to have an MP3, a touch-based device, etc).
discl. I am drunk.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. That is why I buy my socks by the unit. Usually each one of a different color.
Yup, CD singles also sucked big time in Mexico. They are overpriced shit for people who could not wait 1 month or so to buy the whole disk.
And also, usually the "single" contained whatever song was mainstream. Usually other songs start to grow on you after listening once or twice. Nowadays, a lot of my favourite songs from several groups are those which had no "single" released.