There's a diference between the words "3D" and "Real".
3D simply means that it arives at your eyes at two diferent perspectives. Flicker Glasses do this. 3d Goggles do this, and as you say, Real Life shotguns will do this.
No, because in almost all instances the formula would involve operating with multi-million-digit numbers totaling more then the original MP3.
You'd waste a tremendous amount of processing trying to find applicable equations that would rival current compression.
Of course if you're willing to take some loss then it starts looking up again. But that doesn't help for this contest. Who would want lossy white-noise? It'd be rendered completly worthless!
That's a terrible definition of a "Good enough message client". Carrier Pigeons meet that definition!
For Windows machines, I feel the real solution is to find an old version of AIM. I'm not sure where though. Before they added a stock-tickers, inline images, a pop3 client, voice-over-IP, and virus scanners. Before they added two(2) ad banners and a 'search the web' dialog. Before people could have their own animated icons, and before the 'preferences' dialog was more complex then it's counterpart in MS-Word! Anyone know where I could pick up one of those old versions? (It's not like they added anything useful, I'm still waiting for a simple spell-checker!)
For *nix You can't go wrong with Gaim. I've never had any problems with it. Even when headlines here suggested otherwise.
That's just silly. If CMGI honestly thought people were stealing, taking credit for and profiting from technologies they owned, they would have started fighting it right away! I mean, if you realy were suffering damages of some sort, why would you wait years before even saying anything about it?
To me this sounds like they told someone in the legal department. "Here's a stack of unused and otherwise worthless patents, see if you can find someone to sue.".
You can't just wait until everyone in the world is using your stuff and suddenly spring on them and claim they all owe you money.
I'm trying to illistrate that people seem to think you could treat a huge organisation the way you would a child. If the parents are firm, a child could be made(hopefully) to do his homework by withholding the reward until it gets done.
But you can't go to someplace like NASA and try the same thing, they just won't respond in the same way. If NASA has problems they're going to be dificult to fix. Taking away their funding won't solve them and will just cause more problems.
I wasn't trying to say that all goverment employees are greedy idiots. I was just trying to point out that they're going to respond diferently then a single individual would. Perhaps my analogy is stupid.
Now, I think you and I will have to disagree about the utility of that fucking little robot. In all likelyhood, itll be 50 years or more before we get to mars. Would *you* want to rely on 50 year old pictures before you set your ass down on a planet millions of miles from home?
Absolutely not. Id want more then one set of data on the region before I committed to landing anywhere.
I certainly wouldnt say "Well, Since Im going to Mars next year, Id better start thinking about mapping the surface, and discovering what the environment is like."
Yes, it is the cry of the Government-Funded Parasite, but sometimes its true! Its also the Cry of the under-funded project.
You cant treat a government agency the way you would a child. You cant say "Do your all homework correctly, then you can have some ice cream.".
The individual child will think "The only way to get ice-cream is to do my homework right. Therefor I must shut off the tv and concentrate on homework."
But the government agency is full of individuals who all think "Everyone else is lazy! They wont do the homework in time! Theres nothing I can do about that! Theres going to be less ice-cream at lunch today! Ive got do something to make sure Im not one of the ones going hungry!"
Withholding the childs ice-cream will make him realize that his parents arent fooling around, and if he didnt do it this time hell certainly do his homework next time. But withholding the Agencys ice-cream just weeds out the employees who arent good at covering their ass and playing the office politics.
That said, I dont know what a good solution to good solution to NASAs problems. But Im prety sure itll involve tax-payer dolars. And Im sure cutting the budget until results improve is a bad idea and would probably result in the scuttling of the whole project.
"Oh wait, I forgot. I built one yesterday. It looks like it's out there destroying the town. I could stop it with this here kill-switch.... but I've already got my pajama's on."
Go to a hospital and you'll see liqued O2 tanks that are just sitting there unrefrigerated. (You'll also see plain old compressed O2, but that's not what we're talking about.)
Well, the first one doesn't matter to anyone except people who already know about it, and the third one is off-topic.
Since Mac stories generaly don't make it through, I don't think this is any big suprise.
what exactly is your point anyway? Just a general "Whaaaa! He's not listening to me?" or did you somehow think we should be more concerned about what software The Forsight Institute uses to run their web site then a security glitch at a popular MMP game?
It doesn't matter how much physical space the CDs take up on your bookshelf. What matters is how much it moves to your hard drive.
There's no reason the distros can't support servers and desktops. But at install time there should be an easy way to select "Desktop - Beginer" and be done with all that other stuff.
Remember, there's nothing stoping users from installing all the bloat they want later. After they've got everything working.
[Opens door] "Hello?"
"Plumber."
"I didn't order a plumber."
"No, but you have to let me in. Your water pipes aren't working."
"Yes they are. I was in the shower when you rang the bell."
"Well, they're about to break."
"Uh huh." [slams door.] "Hello, Police?"
But those political problems have a direct relationship to the problem at hand.
They may have the experiance to do it right, but if they don't have the money to pay thier engineers and thier assembly-line folk, there's going to be problems no matter how much experience they have.
I don't understand. Are you sugesting that they wouldn't test a Win98 back with a P-4? Or are you sugesting that if there was a problem they'd take a multi-billion dolar hit to thier reputation because they didn't feel like issuing a patch?
Besides, no one is suggesting that out-of-date OSes should work with all modern hardware without a hitch. I'm prety sure Win3.1 won't support my USB joy-stick, but I'm not upset at Microsoft about it.
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There's a diference between the words "3D" and "Real".
3D simply means that it arives at your eyes at two diferent perspectives. Flicker Glasses do this. 3d Goggles do this, and as you say, Real Life shotguns will do this.
'3d' does not have to mean 'holodeck'.
Or have I just been trolled?
-Andy
My Swiss-Army knife has a plethora of usefull tools but I wouldn't want them built in to every single tool I own.
-Andy
No, because in almost all instances the formula would involve operating with multi-million-digit numbers totaling more then the original MP3.
You'd waste a tremendous amount of processing trying to find applicable equations that would rival current compression.
Of course if you're willing to take some loss then it starts looking up again. But that doesn't help for this contest. Who would want lossy white-noise? It'd be rendered completly worthless!
-Andy
On GiS He's said he has a purpose built game machine.
That's a terrible definition of a "Good enough message client". Carrier Pigeons meet that definition!
For Windows machines, I feel the real solution is to find an old version of AIM. I'm not sure where though. Before they added a stock-tickers, inline images, a pop3 client, voice-over-IP, and virus scanners. Before they added two(2) ad banners and a 'search the web' dialog. Before people could have their own animated icons, and before the 'preferences' dialog was more complex then it's counterpart in MS-Word! Anyone know where I could pick up one of those old versions? (It's not like they added anything useful, I'm still waiting for a simple spell-checker!)
For *nix You can't go wrong with Gaim. I've never had any problems with it. Even when headlines here suggested otherwise.
-Andy
Yea, People have no respect now adays. Imagine! Trying to locate a crashed probe!
Next they'll be looking for the Titanic!
That's just silly. If CMGI honestly thought people were stealing, taking credit for and profiting from technologies they owned, they would have started fighting it right away! I mean, if you realy were suffering damages of some sort, why would you wait years before even saying anything about it?
To me this sounds like they told someone in the legal department. "Here's a stack of unused and otherwise worthless patents, see if you can find someone to sue.".
You can't just wait until everyone in the world is using your stuff and suddenly spring on them and claim they all owe you money.
-Andy
I'm trying to illistrate that people seem to think you could treat a huge organisation the way you would a child. If the parents are firm, a child could be made(hopefully) to do his homework by withholding the reward until it gets done.
But you can't go to someplace like NASA and try the same thing, they just won't respond in the same way. If NASA has problems they're going to be dificult to fix. Taking away their funding won't solve them and will just cause more problems.
I wasn't trying to say that all goverment employees are greedy idiots. I was just trying to point out that they're going to respond diferently then a single individual would. Perhaps my analogy is stupid.
-Andy
Heh, yea. Your's and about 16.6 million other people's.
Absolutely not. Id want more then one set of data on the region before I committed to landing anywhere.
I certainly wouldnt say "Well, Since Im going to Mars next year, Id better start thinking about mapping the surface, and discovering what the environment is like."
-Andy
Yes, it is the cry of the Government-Funded Parasite, but sometimes its true! Its also the Cry of the under-funded project.
You cant treat a government agency the way you would a child. You cant say "Do your all homework correctly, then you can have some ice cream.".
The individual child will think "The only way to get ice-cream is to do my homework right. Therefor I must shut off the tv and concentrate on homework."
But the government agency is full of individuals who all think "Everyone else is lazy! They wont do the homework in time! Theres nothing I can do about that! Theres going to be less ice-cream at lunch today! Ive got do something to make sure Im not one of the ones going hungry!"
Withholding the childs ice-cream will make him realize that his parents arent fooling around, and if he didnt do it this time hell certainly do his homework next time. But withholding the Agencys ice-cream just weeds out the employees who arent good at covering their ass and playing the office politics.
That said, I dont know what a good solution to good solution to NASAs problems. But Im prety sure itll involve tax-payer dolars. And Im sure cutting the budget until results improve is a bad idea and would probably result in the scuttling of the whole project.
-Andy
"Oh wait, I forgot. I built one yesterday. It looks like it's out there destroying the town. I could stop it with this here kill-switch.... but I've already got my pajama's on."
Only if you havn't designed your tank properly.
Go to a hospital and you'll see liqued O2 tanks that are just sitting there unrefrigerated. (You'll also see plain old compressed O2, but that's not what we're talking about.)
-Andy
Well, the first one doesn't matter to anyone except people who already know about it, and the third one is off-topic.
Since Mac stories generaly don't make it through, I don't think this is any big suprise.
what exactly is your point anyway? Just a general "Whaaaa! He's not listening to me?" or did you somehow think we should be more concerned about what software The Forsight Institute uses to run their web site then a security glitch at a popular MMP game?
-Andy
Ummm... sending messages into the future isn't that tough.
Perhaps you're thinking of the past?
-Andy
The point is, that he trusts his friends not to use aim-bots.
"Multi-player" doesn't have to mean "Play with complete strangers."
-Andy
Well, it is too bad. Because it'd be cooler if everyone was watching out for everyone else. Then this wouldn't even be an issue.
But that's just not how the universe works. The way the universe does work is people look out for themselves. Including Napster and the nazis.
There's nothing wrong with this. It's just that some people don't quite seem to understand why Napster isn't looking out for them personaly.
-Andy
It doesn't matter how much physical space the CDs take up on your bookshelf. What matters is how much it moves to your hard drive.
There's no reason the distros can't support servers and desktops. But at install time there should be an easy way to select "Desktop - Beginer" and be done with all that other stuff.
Remember, there's nothing stoping users from installing all the bloat they want later. After they've got everything working.
-Andy
First ammendment to what? As far as I know Napster doesn't have a constitution.
If you're refering to the U.S. constitution it only ensures that you could start your own web site/service to trade as much nazi music as you like.
Napster only has to look out for Napster's interests. It's too bad, but it's the way the universe works.
-Andy
[Opens door] "Hello?"
"Plumber."
"I didn't order a plumber."
"No, but you have to let me in. Your water pipes aren't working."
"Yes they are. I was in the shower when you rang the bell."
"Well, they're about to break."
"Uh huh." [slams door.] "Hello, Police?"
No one needs a mouse-pad either, but if they caused cancer I think that would be a bad thing.
-Andy
But those political problems have a direct relationship to the problem at hand.
They may have the experiance to do it right, but if they don't have the money to pay thier engineers and thier assembly-line folk, there's going to be problems no matter how much experience they have.
-Andy
Yea, He didn't need 'U' at all!
I don't understand. Are you sugesting that they wouldn't test a Win98 back with a P-4? Or are you sugesting that if there was a problem they'd take a multi-billion dolar hit to thier reputation because they didn't feel like issuing a patch?
Besides, no one is suggesting that out-of-date OSes should work with all modern hardware without a hitch. I'm prety sure Win3.1 won't support my USB joy-stick, but I'm not upset at Microsoft about it.
-Andy
Woa, I've got a plus-one bonus! Where did that come from?