When I see real life motion blur, I don't see two or three discrete after images. I see a smudge. Perhaps it would be more accurate for 3dfx to have called this motion-strobe or motion-stutter.
I think this kid just illustrates how stupid most hackers really are. It's like a pretty mild form of being an idiot-savant. Not bad with programming and such, but socially retarded. And I don't mean the girlfriend kind of social, I mean interacting with the rest of society. Your idiocy is most truly expressed when you guys share your political 'insight'.
I'm not just saying this as flamebait--flamebait doesn't have a point. I'm just expressing my opinion, and I feel it relates to the story in that this kid was 'smart' enough to crack some security, but apparently is too socially inept to comprehend sarcasm.
Now I wasn't there, so I don't *know* that the teacher was being sarcastic, and even if the teacher was, it may have come across as sounding serious. But the fact that this kid was 'dreaming of living the good life' (paraphrased) on the supposed reward money demonstrates the idiot part of idiot-savant.
On the other hand, I agree with most of you in that the school over-reacted. Give the kid after school detention or something, but suspending him is only going to harm him.
To me that doesn't sound logical. If I leave my car doors unlocked, am I giving implicit permission for someone to enter it? Maybe if I leave the door open, flapping in the breeze, maybe then I can see the implicit permission.
How about the policewoman (or man I suppose) masquerading as a whore. Doesn't that look like an invitation?
Don't mis-understand, I'm not arguing with you--unless you happen to be this Attorney-General. Just listing some of my thoughts on this.
Your reasoning is so ridiculous, it is traumatic. He's not a black hat, because he says he's not. Truly amazing logic there. Flabbergasting
Besides, if you can't trust people on the net where stuff doesn't really matter, then where can you trust them? Astounding. Just astounding. I'm glad credit cards don't really matter, because I just noticed a bunch of charges on my card that don't belong to me.
I believe the company in question, space imaging, inc, is owned by lockheed and raytheon. Seeing as how these are two major US defense contractors, I don't see them trying to skirt US laws.
What you said, "Instead of scrolling the text, just move your eyes?" reminded me of a special I saw on Nova or something regarding the serial presentation of text. The experiment was to measure comprehension and reading speed. They had a person watch a screen, and would present sentences to them, one word at a time, at a high rate of speed.
I don't remember what the control of the experiment was, or how they qualified their speed measurement--but they found that people could read 4 times faster with about the same level of comprehension with the words flashed one at a time.
It'd be interesting to have a single word display front end for the gutenburg project, just to experiment with.
On a side note, I really don't like reading on a monitor. Even at high refresh rates, I just don't like it much. I prefer paper.
At work, when I have to read a spec, I always print it out.
Well, I was thinking of this from an external point of view--meaning another person's point of view.
The only way to know anything about anyone besides yourself is through their actions. So from an external point of view, the actions are defining.
I think your point is that actions are symptomatic of who you are, and I agree with that too. You have an idea in your head, and then you express it. You don't express an idea and then, epiphany, you have it in your head.
Maybe I am just speaking nonsense. I do that sometimes.
I suppose. One tried really hard to ground itself in reality, the other was just kind of goofy. It's up to you to decide which one you thought was goofy.
It wasn't the hero aspect that drew me to the movie, it was the actors and the director.
What made me like the movie was that this one has heros, is about cool things, AND has character development. Real development. I felt like I knew the characters, and felt the pain and the joy that they went through.
I don't think you should compare this to the sixth sense, they are different movies. An author can write books about different things, and can try out different writing styles--directors/script writers can too.
If you want to compare this to something, at least choose something that was similar--compare it to X-Men.
The biggest difference, or the one that is most important to me, is that X-Men tries to hit the ground running at the beginning of the movie. Yeah, they try to give you a little feel for the characters, but it is a pretty lame attempt. It seems when a script writer, or whatever, isn't sure how to start and develop a plot, they don't. They start in the middle and have little hints dropped everynow and then as to what the beginning could have been.
shyamalan (I hope I spelt that right) took the task of creating a 'super' hero, and added into that the idea of 'believability'.
Oh, and Katz, I think you gave away more than I've seen in any previews--but maybe it couldn't be helped.
Years back, several theatres I went to had at least one 70mm projector, and would advertise if a particular movie was 70mm. It was always on a larger screen than the rest, probably cause they could get away with it.
I've got a question though... could you, or anyone else, define anamorphic for me? Is this letter boxing (what I call it anyway) or the pan and scan? Or is it something totally different?
Thanks,
Scott
Copper is a pretty troubling metal to work with on such scales. It doesn't etch very nicely. The copper in cpu's is all in the interconnects between layers. The layers themselves are still aluminum.
So I guess I wonder if there is much application for copper in these things. Not sure.
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So you are not one who believes that decentralized government is good. Interesting. What are you doing in America?
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I'm probably too late for anyone to read this message, but here it goes anyway. I'd like for you to explain exactly how the vote of someone in a less populated state is, in your opinion, worth more than the vote of someone in a more populated state?
The number of electoral college votes a state gets is directly related to it's population.
The reason the electoral college exists is to move power from the federal level to the state level. I think that is a good thing, but maybe you don't. I can't really argue that one, I believe I am right, you believe you are right.
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When I see real life motion blur, I don't see two or three discrete after images. I see a smudge. Perhaps it would be more accurate for 3dfx to have called this motion-strobe or motion-stutter.
I think this kid just illustrates how stupid most hackers really are. It's like a pretty mild form of being an idiot-savant. Not bad with programming and such, but socially retarded. And I don't mean the girlfriend kind of social, I mean interacting with the rest of society. Your idiocy is most truly expressed when you guys share your political 'insight'.
I'm not just saying this as flamebait--flamebait doesn't have a point. I'm just expressing my opinion, and I feel it relates to the story in that this kid was 'smart' enough to crack some security, but apparently is too socially inept to comprehend sarcasm.
Now I wasn't there, so I don't *know* that the teacher was being sarcastic, and even if the teacher was, it may have come across as sounding serious. But the fact that this kid was 'dreaming of living the good life' (paraphrased) on the supposed reward money demonstrates the idiot part of idiot-savant.
On the other hand, I agree with most of you in that the school over-reacted. Give the kid after school detention or something, but suspending him is only going to harm him.
To me that doesn't sound logical. If I leave my car doors unlocked, am I giving implicit permission for someone to enter it? Maybe if I leave the door open, flapping in the breeze, maybe then I can see the implicit permission.
How about the policewoman (or man I suppose) masquerading as a whore. Doesn't that look like an invitation?
Don't mis-understand, I'm not arguing with you--unless you happen to be this Attorney-General. Just listing some of my thoughts on this.
Your reasoning is so ridiculous, it is traumatic. He's not a black hat, because he says he's not. Truly amazing logic there. Flabbergasting
Besides, if you can't trust people on the net where stuff doesn't really matter, then where can you trust them? Astounding. Just astounding. I'm glad credit cards don't really matter, because I just noticed a bunch of charges on my card that don't belong to me.
It would be interesting if IBM would donate some time as a form of charity
I believe the company in question, space imaging, inc, is owned by lockheed and raytheon. Seeing as how these are two major US defense contractors, I don't see them trying to skirt US laws.
Apparently six moderators thought it was funny.
What you said, "Instead of scrolling the text, just move your eyes?" reminded me of a special I saw on Nova or something regarding the serial presentation of text. The experiment was to measure comprehension and reading speed. They had a person watch a screen, and would present sentences to them, one word at a time, at a high rate of speed.
I don't remember what the control of the experiment was, or how they qualified their speed measurement--but they found that people could read 4 times faster with about the same level of comprehension with the words flashed one at a time.
It'd be interesting to have a single word display front end for the gutenburg project, just to experiment with.
On a side note, I really don't like reading on a monitor. Even at high refresh rates, I just don't like it much. I prefer paper.
At work, when I have to read a spec, I always print it out.
Well, I was thinking of this from an external point of view--meaning another person's point of view.
The only way to know anything about anyone besides yourself is through their actions. So from an external point of view, the actions are defining.
I think your point is that actions are symptomatic of who you are, and I agree with that too. You have an idea in your head, and then you express it. You don't express an idea and then, epiphany, you have it in your head.
Maybe I am just speaking nonsense. I do that sometimes.
--Scott
You do know the definition of plagiarism, right?
I think who you are is defined by everything you do. This includes things done for fun.
What are you even talking about? Nowhere in the article does he say that every child in america plays for 49 minutes a day (or more).
lol. If I had mod points right now, that post would have scored a +1 from me.
you hire the people that wrote the free software.
Google says it. Maybe you are suggesting that they aren't being honest?
I suppose. One tried really hard to ground itself in reality, the other was just kind of goofy. It's up to you to decide which one you thought was goofy.
Is that so. hmm. I'll have to keep my eye out for that.
30 nanometers refers to the width of the transistor gate. not the thickness/height.
It wasn't the hero aspect that drew me to the movie, it was the actors and the director.
What made me like the movie was that this one has heros, is about cool things, AND has character development. Real development. I felt like I knew the characters, and felt the pain and the joy that they went through.
I don't think you should compare this to the sixth sense, they are different movies. An author can write books about different things, and can try out different writing styles--directors/script writers can too.
If you want to compare this to something, at least choose something that was similar--compare it to X-Men.
The biggest difference, or the one that is most important to me, is that X-Men tries to hit the ground running at the beginning of the movie. Yeah, they try to give you a little feel for the characters, but it is a pretty lame attempt. It seems when a script writer, or whatever, isn't sure how to start and develop a plot, they don't. They start in the middle and have little hints dropped everynow and then as to what the beginning could have been.
shyamalan (I hope I spelt that right) took the task of creating a 'super' hero, and added into that the idea of 'believability'.
Oh, and Katz, I think you gave away more than I've seen in any previews--but maybe it couldn't be helped.
--Scott
I am amazed at the political stupidity and ignorance of so many slashdot posters.
Years back, several theatres I went to had at least one 70mm projector, and would advertise if a particular movie was 70mm. It was always on a larger screen than the rest, probably cause they could get away with it.
I've got a question though... could you, or anyone else, define anamorphic for me? Is this letter boxing (what I call it anyway) or the pan and scan? Or is it something totally different? Thanks, Scott
Have a hang over?
Copper is a pretty troubling metal to work with on such scales. It doesn't etch very nicely. The copper in cpu's is all in the interconnects between layers. The layers themselves are still aluminum.
So I guess I wonder if there is much application for copper in these things. Not sure.
So you are not one who believes that decentralized government is good. Interesting. What are you doing in America?
I'm probably too late for anyone to read this message, but here it goes anyway. I'd like for you to explain exactly how the vote of someone in a less populated state is, in your opinion, worth more than the vote of someone in a more populated state?
The number of electoral college votes a state gets is directly related to it's population.
The reason the electoral college exists is to move power from the federal level to the state level. I think that is a good thing, but maybe you don't. I can't really argue that one, I believe I am right, you believe you are right.