They obviously mean to invoke 'Linux on Intel', but in the context of the story, it is being used synonymously with Linux. The story has nothing to do with Intel platforms.
Just what exactly is that word supposed to mean? Wintel I can understand, because it refers to the monopoly-cartel-alliance that has dominated computing, but the word Lintel doesn't add anything. It is basically being used to mean Linux. Throw that word away. Now if Linus and the boys at Intel start making backroom deals to take over the world, then come talk to me.
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads There is hope that we can get out of legal mess. This article says that 90% - 95% of artists are unsigned. There has got to be plenty of quality out there, waiting for the people to find them. With good collaborative filtering, we can find the music we want without those bastard lawyers. Musicians, don't sell out! We want to support you! Let us hear your work, and the money will come. I am downloading iRate right now.
... is that web broadcasting functions like traditional broadcasting. Playing a song owned by the RIAA is advertising the RIAA's product. Although I agree with you, that ideally bypassing the RIAA would be the solution. A nice free market solution. Now if we were only monopoly free...
I don't know what you guys are getting so worked up about. "Stereoscopic technique for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop" doesn't sound anything like "how to use ordinary Saran Wrap as a polarized filter to turn your laptop into a stereoscope" to me! I mean... "polarized". Definantly some new information there, right?
Auggh! 90s flashback! It's a good thing "That 80s Show" was a flop, or somebody would be already creating a hilarious situation comedy about a code shop in San Fransico, with "internal space for team gaming."
The even bigger question is what will happen after Linus is gone? Despite what you may think, he is mortal. What happens to the copyrights? Is that in his will?
Its one more step towards mankind's ultimate dream , bouncy world! Car crash? No problem, you're in bouncy world! Airplane fly into a building? Boing! Ha, Ha, Ha, everybody OK!
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the decision to higher younger (and typically cheaper) employees
That is so unfair! Younger employees are not always "higher"!
Those curved lines you are experiencing are not an artifact of your lens. They are the inevitable result of living in a 3-D world. They occur because you are mapping straight 3-D lines onto a curved picture plane.
You may be familiar with the concept of a picture plane that is used in perspective drawings. The idea is that a transparent sheet is placed between the object and the eye, and rays are mapped onto the surface. That works fine for narrow fields of vision, but it falls apart as the lens gets wider.
Imagine an extreme case: You are standing in a train station. To your left the tracks disappear to a point on the horizon, straight ahead of you the train sits, and to your right the tracks disappear off to another point. If this image is cut up into small enought chunks, you won't notice the abberations of traditional perspective. You have a one point perspective of the train, and a two point perspective on each side. But try to stitch the images into a whole, which is similar to what you are trying to do with a wide angle lens, and all those straight lines are going to have to bend somewhere! A more accurate picture plane, one that could actually capture a real image without any distortion, would be a sphere, with the eye at the center. Straight lines now map to great circles on the sphere, and whole images, just like the ones your eye sees, can be presented in their entirety.
But then you can't exactly paste them into your photo album. So you are back to the question of, how do you map a sphere onto a plane?
Or maybe you could get some funny looking virtual reality googles.
Next they will be extracting energy from humans! We could plug them into giant towers, and feed their brains with sensations of the world before the apocolypse!
This weeks Cringley column points out a variation on this that makes even more sense to me. His plan is, instead of a tax, the money goes to the recipient, a la PayPal. And, as he states, For most people, their payments and receipts would probably balance out, so only the spammers would really be paying, which would create the equivalent of postal junk mail except in this case the postage goes to the reader, not to the Post Office. And it doesn't require legislation, you could join voluntarily. And you could still use the "white list" as described by Scott Fahlman.
From the article:...without alienating neophytes who type in "amazon.com" to find . . . Amazon.com. ( Yes, people really do that. Google doesn't know why. )
I have watched users do this, and it is pretty obvious why. To the neophyte, there are just these boxes where you type in stuff. It is not clear that one is part of the browser and one is being generated by a web page. Advertisers take advantage of this same misunderstanding when they have ads that look like dialog boxes. Which reminds me, I don't know how to tell you this, but, your computer is not optimized for downloading!
I bet you are getting your K5 mixed up with your/. Happens to me all the time. I almost submitted it here when I saw it there, but my last 4 submissions were are rejected:( so I didn't bother.
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They obviously mean to invoke 'Linux on Intel', but in the context of the story, it is being used synonymously with Linux. The story has nothing to do with Intel platforms.
Researchers say the heliodisplay can be used to interact with images of movie stars and others.
Yeah, "others".
Just what exactly is that word supposed to mean? Wintel I can understand, because it refers to the monopoly-cartel-alliance that has dominated computing, but the word Lintel doesn't add anything. It is basically being used to mean Linux. Throw that word away.
Now if Linus and the boys at Intel start making backroom deals to take over the world, then come talk to me.
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads There is hope that we can get out of legal mess. This article says that 90% - 95% of artists are unsigned. There has got to be plenty of quality out there, waiting for the people to find them. With good collaborative filtering, we can find the music we want without those bastard lawyers. Musicians, don't sell out! We want to support you! Let us hear your work, and the money will come. I am downloading iRate right now.
I read 'Oedipus the King' for school, and I killed dad and had sex with mom. Next semester we are reading Hamlet.
... is that web broadcasting functions like traditional broadcasting. Playing a song owned by the RIAA is advertising the RIAA's product. Although I agree with you, that ideally bypassing the RIAA would be the solution. A nice free market solution. Now if we were only monopoly free...
I don't know what you guys are getting so worked up about.
"Stereoscopic technique for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop"
doesn't sound anything like
"how to use ordinary Saran Wrap as a polarized filter to turn your laptop into a stereoscope"
to me! I mean... "polarized". Definantly some new information there, right?
Auggh! 90s flashback! It's a good thing "That 80s Show" was a flop, or somebody would be already creating a hilarious situation comedy about a code shop in San Fransico, with "internal space for team gaming."
keep two doctors away.
The even bigger question is what will happen after Linus is gone? Despite what you may think, he is mortal. What happens to the copyrights? Is that in his will?
Its one more step towards mankind's ultimate dream , bouncy world! Car crash? No problem, you're in bouncy world! Airplane fly into a building? Boing! Ha, Ha, Ha, everybody OK!
Also unplug the power cords.
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the decision to higher younger (and typically cheaper) employees
That is so unfair! Younger employees are not always "higher"!
You may be familiar with the concept of a picture plane that is used in perspective drawings. The idea is that a transparent sheet is placed between the object and the eye, and rays are mapped onto the surface. That works fine for narrow fields of vision, but it falls apart as the lens gets wider.
Imagine an extreme case: You are standing in a train station. To your left the tracks disappear to a point on the horizon, straight ahead of you the train sits, and to your right the tracks disappear off to another point. If this image is cut up into small enought chunks, you won't notice the abberations of traditional perspective. You have a one point perspective of the train, and a two point perspective on each side. But try to stitch the images into a whole, which is similar to what you are trying to do with a wide angle lens, and all those straight lines are going to have to bend somewhere!
A more accurate picture plane, one that could actually capture a real image without any distortion, would be a sphere, with the eye at the center. Straight lines now map to great circles on the sphere, and whole images, just like the ones your eye sees, can be presented in their entirety.
But then you can't exactly paste them into your photo album. So you are back to the question of, how do you map a sphere onto a plane?
Or maybe you could get some funny looking virtual reality googles.
Next they will be extracting energy from humans! We could plug them into giant towers, and feed their brains with sensations of the world before the apocolypse!
Ahhhh! Undo! Undo!
Offtopic, but what does "Study puts paid to common myth" mean? Is that Australianese?
You know what the problem is with that artice? Not enought hype.
My cat's breath smell's like catfood!
This weeks Cringley column points out a variation on this that makes even more sense to me. His plan is, instead of a tax, the money goes to the recipient, a la PayPal. And, as he states, For most people, their payments and receipts would probably balance out, so only the spammers would really be paying, which would create the equivalent of postal junk mail except in this case the postage goes to the reader, not to the Post Office. And it doesn't require legislation, you could join voluntarily. And you could still use the "white list" as described by Scott Fahlman.
From the article: ...without alienating neophytes who type in "amazon.com" to find . . . Amazon.com. ( Yes, people really do that. Google doesn't know why. )
I have watched users do this, and it is pretty obvious why. To the neophyte, there are just these boxes where you type in stuff. It is not clear that one is part of the browser and one is being generated by a web page. Advertisers take advantage of this same misunderstanding when they have ads that look like dialog boxes. Which reminds me, I don't know how to tell you this, but, your computer is not optimized for downloading!
Have you tried putting "search engine" in a search engine?
I bet you are getting your K5 mixed up with your /. :( so I didn't bother.
Happens to me all the time. I almost submitted it here when I saw it there, but my last 4 submissions were are rejected