You should report the incident to the EPA since it is illegal to dispose of monitors in that manner due to the amount of lead in the CRT. Here in cali I think you have to pay $15/crt to dispose of it. That should teach the bank.
I think you've partially answered how a person with one eye can have depth perception. Instead of figuring out the angles and such that both eyes make to an object, just use the angle that one eye makes and add in the amount of muscular force the eye is using to focus. That muscular force is directly related to the curvature of the lens and thus the focal length.
So the angle of the eye positions the object in 2D space and the curvature of the lens gives you the depth of the object in the center of your vision.
Another important aspect is if you're migrating software from sparcs then the only choice is to use a mac cluster. Especially if you have fortran in the mess. The reason is that sparcs and PPC are both big endian machines. If you're trying to move numerical software to a different platform and you're not positive that there are no endian fsckups then you'll be hurting when your results come out different than the expected and you have to figure out what the hell is screwed up.
I won't even get into intel's 80bit fp and random rounding to ieee specifications... Somebody wrote a good paper on what it means w.r.t. Matlab. Too lazy to find the links, I'm sure there's a karma whore or two around.
I'm suprised that no one has mentioned Akamai. They are probably one of the biggest users of cheap x86 hardware with linux. I don't have the reference but they figured out that it is cheaper for them to replace entire boxes when they go down rather than swap parts out or otherwise try to diagnose and fix the problem. Here we have a real life business that has shown that human time is more expensive than hardware.
It may not seem like it from the outside but I'm sure with that many free software types on the inside there is probably a lot of not so subtle hinting going on. I've often considered working for M$ to try and push them from the inside, or failing that, turn state evidence.
I prefer Borders to B&N but still dislike both of them since they're corporate monoliths. (btw I prefer Borders since they have no problem with their cafe section mingling with the perusing section.) But now that you have told me they are anti-union then that is another plus for Borders!
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So to generalize your statement, if someone acts like an asshole then they are literally an asshole?
That's the most non-logical line of reasoning I've ever heard of.
I've heard this called Photogrammetry .
... from the Third Edition of the Manual of Photogrammetry, is somewhat simpler in statement and that definition of photogrammetry is, the science or art of obtaining reliable measurements by means of photographs.
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Doing some rough calculations using about 15 songs per CD at about $15 per CD, we get $20k worth of CD's!!!! Now CT either:
a) napstered them.
b) gave $20k * 99% (less 1% for the artists) to the RIAA.
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Ethernet is not as lossy...
Actually tcp/ip over ethernet is lossless.
And Samba is supported as well as a reverse engineered M$ "don't compete with us" protocol can possibly be. That implies that the support is NOT perfect.
ATI had even less input than you think since they bought the company that made this chip, they then slapped their logo on it. Moral of the story, money can buy success.
sorry, in re-reading my post I realize I left out some crucial details in my terseness. When you use an unshielded mic to record audio out the window, the EM burst from the lightning sounds like a little static pop. This would be analagous to seeing the flash from the lightning. Then a bit later you'll have the thunder on the audio recording. The static burst is easier to detect using methods similar to the site I linked. THen you can use a similar scheme like you would counting seconds between flash and thunder to estimate distance.
As long as you're not in a raging lightning storm, you can correlate lightning strikes recorded at different computers by using a large error tolerance. e.g. the EM burst from this strike was recorded on three different computers within a span of 15 seconds. We can assume that this was the same event if the lightning was spaced several minutes apart during the storm.
The time for the EM burst to travel is considered to be zero for ease of computation. Not to mention the impossiblity of keeping things accurate for that to even be useful.
Also my initial test showed EM bursts that were o.w. undetectable which is pretty cool. Maybe the first step is an early detection system for lightning storms.
My current theory for locating lightning is to use an unshielded mic to pick up the static bursts from lightning (or the AM thing from FlashBoltzmann which I've never tried). Then assuming that you have several geographically distributed friends with known GPS coordinates and decently synced clocks, you should be able to do some poor-mans triangulation by comparing stats.
This post is wrong. Apple does NOT own the sorenson codec. They may not even have access to the source. Therefor it is not up to Apple to port it. It is however Apple's fault that the sorenson codec cannot be ported since it requires the quicktime framework to run. Thus if Apple had ported over the quicktime framework sans codec then we could all sit here and call the Sorenson people a bunch of lying turds since they would now have no excuse to not port their codec over. (I believe that the Sorenson people were not sincere in their offer to port to linux, rather they said sure we'll port it, but there's no framework so we have to wait for Apple.)
Thank god that someone here has a clue. I know how to really get the USB zealots going, firewire does this. You can connect two computers together using a firewire cable and get an instant network. heroinewarrior has some code to do this for firewire. It's not identical in functionality but something nonetheless. Macs may or may not be able to do this too.
It seems to me that Jpeg2000 will automatically disable watermarking by its very nature. A key aspect of Jpeg2000 is that it encodes images by bitplanes of significance. You have the option of say cutting out the least significant 10% of the data.(It's currently only still images but I'm sure it'll be easy to extend the technology to everything else.)
Watermarking on the other hand seems to rely on hiding in the least significant bits of the data. Pretty soon any images that are supplied in Jpeg2000 format or converted to it would have an automagic way of killing any watermarks present.
I think watermarking has already lost. What do you think of this?
When I tried it in my region free apex it told me that it could only be played on a box keyed to the US region. I had to set the damn thing back to region 1 to play the dvd.
It's the only disc that I know of that has that annoyance.
For your information, I was refering to the word "censorship" in the title and not "censor" which is what the poster was probably referring to. As in TV censors, the people who used to prohibit the word "ass" on TV. Which is completely different from what true censorship is. Perhaps I shouldn't have said "abusing", maybe I should have said that people should learn what the word actually means.
Take this article for example. Whenever somebody is standing on a pedastal screaming and somebody tells them to shut up, what do they say? They say that their "right to speak" is being violated. Which is usually interpreted as some kind of censorship. It's not.
I wish people would stop abusing the word censorship. This was not censorship. The line was merely out of character. That's all. It would be like The Tick saying "... make evil use emacs!"
It has a very useful benefit, it puts each program into it's own protected memory space. That way when one wanks up it will only kill itself. Makes it easier to zero-in on which program actually has the fault.
If your clever and figure out a way to log the communications/IPC then you can just feed it right back in and start figuring out what went wrong.
Why don't you just put spaces in the keywords? Like saying "This page is about S n o o p y. Or if you were ranting in a blog and didn't want to get perv hits you could easily bitch about "That a s s h o l e emailed me yesterday!" etc... I don't expect search engines to every want to fix that ever.
You know, I've noticed this kind of behaviour before. It's too coincidental to attribute to chance. I suspect that there are people who monitor what domain names people are querying and then registering them in the hopes of reselling them. Does anyone know about this?
Already there is a story right here on/. about mame on xbox. And when I said hackers I could have said hacker. It only takes one individual with too much free time to make something that is easily accessible to everyone else. What's going to happen when someone makes a linux iso for the xbox with dhcp and such to make a (shudder) beowulf cluster. Or those crazy bastards who want a way to boost their seti-type scores. There is a linux port to the dreamcast that would have been cool had the ethernet adapter been readily available.
The iopener had problems because of the hw hackery and license that they attempted to require with it. It wouldn't be suprising if the xbox needed zero mods to make it useful.
I've even heard about how the PS/2 was initially hampered because people in japan wanted it for a cheap dvd player. It doesn't sound very realistic but if it is...
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So the angle of the eye positions the object in 2D space and the curvature of the lens gives you the depth of the object in the center of your vision.
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I won't even get into intel's 80bit fp and random rounding to ieee specifications... Somebody wrote a good paper on what it means w.r.t. Matlab. Too lazy to find the links, I'm sure there's a karma whore or two around.
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That's the most non-logical line of reasoning I've ever heard of.
I've heard this called Photogrammetry .
... from the Third Edition of the Manual of Photogrammetry, is somewhat simpler in statement and that definition of photogrammetry is, the science or art of obtaining reliable measurements by means of photographs.
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Doing some rough calculations using about 15 songs per CD at about $15 per CD, we get $20k worth of CD's!!!! Now CT either:
a) napstered them.
b) gave $20k * 99% (less 1% for the artists) to the RIAA.
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Actually tcp/ip over ethernet is lossless.
And Samba is supported as well as a reverse engineered M$ "don't compete with us" protocol can possibly be. That implies that the support is NOT perfect.
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ATI had even less input than you think since they bought the company that made this chip, they then slapped their logo on it. Moral of the story, money can buy success.
As long as you're not in a raging lightning storm, you can correlate lightning strikes recorded at different computers by using a large error tolerance. e.g. the EM burst from this strike was recorded on three different computers within a span of 15 seconds. We can assume that this was the same event if the lightning was spaced several minutes apart during the storm.
The time for the EM burst to travel is considered to be zero for ease of computation. Not to mention the impossiblity of keeping things accurate for that to even be useful.
Also my initial test showed EM bursts that were o.w. undetectable which is pretty cool. Maybe the first step is an early detection system for lightning storms.
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btw, this is a really cool site Wavelet Compression of Lightning Signatures.
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But then wouldn't that imply that the screen or whatever controls that exist would be dead?
Watermarking on the other hand seems to rely on hiding in the least significant bits of the data. Pretty soon any images that are supplied in Jpeg2000 format or converted to it would have an automagic way of killing any watermarks present.
I think watermarking has already lost. What do you think of this?
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It's the only disc that I know of that has that annoyance.
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Take this article for example. Whenever somebody is standing on a pedastal screaming and somebody tells them to shut up, what do they say? They say that their "right to speak" is being violated. Which is usually interpreted as some kind of censorship. It's not.
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If your clever and figure out a way to log the communications/IPC then you can just feed it right back in and start figuring out what went wrong.
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The iopener had problems because of the hw hackery and license that they attempted to require with it. It wouldn't be suprising if the xbox needed zero mods to make it useful.
I've even heard about how the PS/2 was initially hampered because people in japan wanted it for a cheap dvd player. It doesn't sound very realistic but if it is...
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Do you realize that those cards cost like $350? And what mobo's where you thinking of? I wish the shuttle had this capability.