I'll have to check out this emulator! Hopefully it's better then some of the ones that used be out there...
I tried one a few years ago that scared me away from them: it sucessfully began emulating a C64. However, my brand new (at the time), very expensive (at the time), Pentium 100 didn't want to STOP being a C64. No matter how I tried to quit or reboot it kept coming up as a C64.
'Great' I think to myself, 'I have the worlds most expensive Commodore 64... and I don't even have a 1541 floppy.':)
It's entirely possible to install almost every version of Linux on one machine. New versions of LILO eliminate the 1,024th cylinder boundary, enabling you to use up to 160GB for Linux. However, I decided to stop at around 10 versions because any more seemed redundant. (Emphesis mine)
This must be a use of the word "redundant" I have never heard before.
...because they didn't have the cavalier audacity to credit someone else without checking the ramifications.
Excuse me? Let me get your reason straight here...
It's okay for me to pinch something, so long as I don't give due credit?/Me thinks that's pretty damned twisted.
My experience has been people are generally much happier with you if you DO give them credit for something they came up with. Usually it gets nasty when you try to pass their idea off as your own.
Don't get my wrong, the idea that you can copyright silence is ridiculous. Your statement strikes me as even more so.
"I still get Lego for my birthday and at Christmas, too. So do my kids," says the 44-year-old academic, who teaches poultry production and physiology in the University of Alberta's department of agriculture.
Not only does he wield a mean lego block, but he's also a man who can tell you exactly how the chicken crossed the road!
Hrmmm, but what exactly does one do in poultry production class? I hope you're not making any really weird home movies...
Kodak: The numbers all go to thirteen. Look, right across the board, thirteen, thirteen, thirteen and -
Canon: Oh, I see. And most cams go up to eleven?
Kodak: Exactly.
Canon: Does that mean it's sharper? Is it any sharper?
Kodak: Well, it's two sharper, isn't it? It's not eleven. You see, most blokes, you know, will be shooting at eleven. You're on eleven here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on eleven on your camera. Where can you go from there? Where?
Canon: I don't know.
Kodak: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Canon: Put it up to thirteen.
Kodak: Thirteen. Exactly. Two sharper.
Canon: Why don't you just make eleven sharper and make eleven be the top number and make that a little sharper?
Kodak: [Pause] These go to thirteen.
Hrmm, given some of the colourful titles in the Xanth series that might not be such a good idea.
Would you tell your girlfriend you and the guys were off to see "The Color of Her Panties"? I'd love to see that... somehow I don't think you'd have long to live though.
As time goes by, more and more ports/connectors add up on my motherboards. When are we going to get ride of ps/2 buses, parallels and serial ports?
So now we would have:
bluetooth
parallel port
serial ports
Serial IDE
Parallel IDE
Firewire
ps2 buses
USB
It better not be anytime soon! I happen to have rather a lot of money invested in external devices which happen to use these legacy devices you are so wanting to be rid of.
Such as you ask? I have multiple KVMS switches for handling multiple monitors connected to multiple systems. These all use standard VGA and serial/PS2 ports for mouse/keyboard. One KVMS can run $200-$1000 easily - and that's before buying all the cabling for them. Heck, a few of 'em still use the large DIN connectors for keyboard and 9 pin serial for the mouse.
My printer likes Parallel and I like my printer - it works just fine. Now I'm supposed to drop another few hundred bucks on a printer?
My UPS's use serial - am I to buy a new set of battery backups because my current ones can no longer notify the server that time is running out?
Oop, lets not foget the external diagnostic LCD which happens to run on Parallel.
Heck, I even use the Joystick port for some very basic Midi stuff from time to time.
So, keep your grubby hands off my ports!
(just because it's not the latest and greatest doesn't mean it's not important to people)
Why is it that for things like this many geeks will automatically think of the same name? Ie, way back when I first saw a:) (ah BBS days) I got its meaning and thought of it as a "smiley". Quickly I found out that was what people called it. This kind of thing happens to most geeks I know.
Yet the moment any of us start coding, damned if we don't come up with naming conventions that mean squat to everyone else. Unless, of course, we've been dictated to use someone elses nonsense!:)
You wouldn't happen to know who it was who advised the writers of Voyager that:
- having the ship run smack into the "event horizon" of a black hole, then
- cracking it like an egg, followed by
- 'reflections' off the 'event horizons inner surface' as they attempted to escape
People go on and on about how high the resolution on a camera is, but I rarely take a picture with my 2 megapixel camera that's sharp enough to take advantage of all 2000 of those pixels. If I jitter the camera just slightly, I cut the effective resolution in half. Most of the time I could've taken the picture at a lower resolution and scaled the picture up in the GIMP and gotten the same damn picture.
I think the issue you are having is more to do with your particular camera or camera model & lense than it is to do with the megapixel count.
I took these pictures of a laser I'm selling on eBay. Lasers are notoriously difficult photography cleanly without then photo editing them. I shot them with a Canon Powershot G2 4.0 megapixel camera and they look great.
Previously I had been shooting with a Canon Powershot Pro IS90 which did 2.6 MP. Even when shooting the G2 at lower resolutions the images are consistently better than the IS90. Why? Better lens and CCD.
However, you say:
A razor sharp 1600x1200 picture can be printed at nearly any size and look great. Unless you have nerves of steel to hold the camera steady, you're not going to be able to take a picture sharp enough to take advantage of 11 megapixels.
Stability isn't the issue. Exposure is. If you use a faster shutter speed blur will be less of an issue. The resolution you set the camera to will have nothing to do with it.
Additionally, if you plan to print at higher than 72dpi (yetch) you will need a higher resolution image to get the same width & height dimensions on the printed page. Which means more pixels!
I'd be interested to know what kind of camera that you are using that needs such a slow exposure to generate a decent picture. It sounds to me you have a camera that is doing less than midrange digitals currently can. Nevermind highend ones.
From what I've read about the specifics of the case, and the court's decisions so far, your idea is akin to trying to sue Ford because all of their trucks are mysteriously trespassing on your driveway.
Except that Ford cannot sue me because one of their trucks happens to be sitting in my driveway and they don't like it - whether I bought it or not.
If a truck that isn't mine turns up in my driveway Ford (or the Police) are welcome to take it away - you just damn well better not damage my property on the way out. Nor can you sue me for having a vehicle I shouldn't (assuming I didn't take it or know it was stolen). It's not mine, I don't want it, take the bloody thing away.
This is not the first time this has happened with GE grain. There have been similar instances in Africa. It's a disturbing concept: I can be sued because your wacky seeds have blown into my fields. It's not my responsibility to ensure you don't go broadcasting your IP on the wind. How can it be my fault if you seeds grow in my fields when you let the seeds blow into them in the first place?
The farmer should sue the grains patent owner for unlawfully seeding his land. Given the success of the patent suit you have proof, by definition, that the foreign grain has invaded his land.
I figure you could argue criminal trespass and sabotage (to the existing crops). Possibly more.
Heck, these days the farmer could probably claim the patent owners were Genetic Terrorists bent destroying natural grain fields. Hrmmm. With cases like this that suddenly doesn't sound so far fetched.
(a translation for the l337 disabled. And yes, I know, I used '7' as an L instead of a 'T' - sue me)
Dream if you can a network
A connection of 'puters in peer
Music trade for free
They feel the sound
The sound of MP3
How can you leave me pingless
A geek in a world that blows
Maybe I'm too used to pandering
Maybe It's just my pots modem too slow
Maybe Rosens just like my girl
She's never satisfied
Why do you scream when you read this
This is what is sounds like
When English teachers cry
This is accomplished through a series of backlit pictures which Spodek compares to "the frames in a film reel."
Ok, so it appears that they've basically hung a series of still images along the subway route. As you go zipping by, they blur together to form a continuous animated image. Same concept as a flipbook: draw a picture on a series of pages and flip them quickly so the images appear to be in motion. (yes, same way a film strip works, etc.)
Fine. But this should only work in one direction. Passengers riding from point A to point B will see the animation correctly. But a passenger traveling from B to A is going to get the animation in reverse as they will be passing the same pictures in reverse order.
I don't particularly want to see an animated feminine hygiene ad... but I really don't want to see an animated feminine hygiene ad in reverse.
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I tried one a few years ago that scared me away from them: it sucessfully began emulating a C64. However, my brand new (at the time), very expensive (at the time), Pentium 100 didn't want to STOP being a C64. No matter how I tried to quit or reboot it kept coming up as a C64.
'Great' I think to myself, 'I have the worlds most expensive Commodore 64... and I don't even have a 1541 floppy.' :)
This must be a use of the word "redundant" I have never heard before.
Excuse me? Let me get your reason straight here...
It's okay for me to pinch something, so long as I don't give due credit? /Me thinks that's pretty damned twisted.
My experience has been people are generally much happier with you if you DO give them credit for something they came up with. Usually it gets nasty when you try to pass their idea off as your own.
Don't get my wrong, the idea that you can copyright silence is ridiculous. Your statement strikes me as even more so.
Not only does he wield a mean lego block, but he's also a man who can tell you exactly how the chicken crossed the road!
Hrmmm, but what exactly does one do in poultry production class? I hope you're not making any really weird home movies...
I can just picture in Koln, Germany right now...
Kodak: The numbers all go to thirteen. Look, right across the board, thirteen, thirteen, thirteen and -
Canon: Oh, I see. And most cams go up to eleven?
Kodak: Exactly.
Canon: Does that mean it's sharper? Is it any sharper?
Kodak: Well, it's two sharper, isn't it? It's not eleven. You see, most blokes, you know, will be shooting at eleven. You're on eleven here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on eleven on your camera. Where can you go from there? Where?
Canon: I don't know.
Kodak: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Canon: Put it up to thirteen.
Kodak: Thirteen. Exactly. Two sharper.
Canon: Why don't you just make eleven sharper and make eleven be the top number and make that a little sharper?
Kodak: [Pause] These go to thirteen.
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Wrong button Ensign Crusher! :)
Ermm, I don't mean to nitpick, but how exactly have you arrived at the "realistically" portrayed part? Got a magic 8 ball and a lot of questions? :)
Hrmm, given some of the colourful titles in the Xanth series that might not be such a good idea.
Would you tell your girlfriend you and the guys were off to see "The Color of Her Panties"? I'd love to see that... somehow I don't think you'd have long to live though.
So now we would have:
bluetooth parallel port serial ports Serial IDE Parallel IDE Firewire ps2 buses USB
It better not be anytime soon! I happen to have rather a lot of money invested in external devices which happen to use these legacy devices you are so wanting to be rid of.
Such as you ask? I have multiple KVMS switches for handling multiple monitors connected to multiple systems. These all use standard VGA and serial/PS2 ports for mouse/keyboard. One KVMS can run $200-$1000 easily - and that's before buying all the cabling for them. Heck, a few of 'em still use the large DIN connectors for keyboard and 9 pin serial for the mouse.
My printer likes Parallel and I like my printer - it works just fine. Now I'm supposed to drop another few hundred bucks on a printer?
My UPS's use serial - am I to buy a new set of battery backups because my current ones can no longer notify the server that time is running out?
Oop, lets not foget the external diagnostic LCD which happens to run on Parallel.
Heck, I even use the Joystick port for some very basic Midi stuff from time to time.
So, keep your grubby hands off my ports!
(just because it's not the latest and greatest doesn't mean it's not important to people)
Yet the moment any of us start coding, damned if we don't come up with naming conventions that mean squat to everyone else. Unless, of course, we've been dictated to use someone elses nonsense! :)
You wouldn't happen to know who it was who advised the writers of Voyager that:
- having the ship run smack into the "event horizon" of a black hole, then
- cracking it like an egg, followed by
- 'reflections' off the 'event horizons inner surface' as they attempted to escape
was a good idea? Youch.
I think the issue you are having is more to do with your particular camera or camera model & lense than it is to do with the megapixel count.
I took these pictures of a laser I'm selling on eBay. Lasers are notoriously difficult photography cleanly without then photo editing them. I shot them with a Canon Powershot G2 4.0 megapixel camera and they look great.
Previously I had been shooting with a Canon Powershot Pro IS90 which did 2.6 MP. Even when shooting the G2 at lower resolutions the images are consistently better than the IS90. Why? Better lens and CCD.
However, you say:
A razor sharp 1600x1200 picture can be printed at nearly any size and look great. Unless you have nerves of steel to hold the camera steady, you're not going to be able to take a picture sharp enough to take advantage of 11 megapixels.
Stability isn't the issue. Exposure is. If you use a faster shutter speed blur will be less of an issue. The resolution you set the camera to will have nothing to do with it.
Additionally, if you plan to print at higher than 72dpi (yetch) you will need a higher resolution image to get the same width & height dimensions on the printed page. Which means more pixels!
I'd be interested to know what kind of camera that you are using that needs such a slow exposure to generate a decent picture. It sounds to me you have a camera that is doing less than midrange digitals currently can. Nevermind highend ones.
I wonder how many engineers died choking on someone elses vomit?
Except that Ford cannot sue me because one of their trucks happens to be sitting in my driveway and they don't like it - whether I bought it or not.
If a truck that isn't mine turns up in my driveway Ford (or the Police) are welcome to take it away - you just damn well better not damage my property on the way out. Nor can you sue me for having a vehicle I shouldn't (assuming I didn't take it or know it was stolen). It's not mine, I don't want it, take the bloody thing away.
This is not the first time this has happened with GE grain. There have been similar instances in Africa. It's a disturbing concept: I can be sued because your wacky seeds have blown into my fields. It's not my responsibility to ensure you don't go broadcasting your IP on the wind. How can it be my fault if you seeds grow in my fields when you let the seeds blow into them in the first place?
I figure you could argue criminal trespass and sabotage (to the existing crops). Possibly more.
Heck, these days the farmer could probably claim the patent owners were Genetic Terrorists bent destroying natural grain fields. Hrmmm. With cases like this that suddenly doesn't sound so far fetched.
Mind you, IANAL.
Dream if you can a network
A connection of 'puters in peer
Music trade for free
They feel the sound
The sound of MP3
How can you leave me pingless
A geek in a world that blows
Maybe I'm too used to pandering
Maybe It's just my pots modem too slow
Maybe Rosens just like my girl
She's never satisfied
Why do you scream when you read this
This is what is sounds like
When English teachers cry
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@ c0nn3ct10n 0f 'putt3r2 1n p33r
Mu21c tr@d3 4 fr33
T43y f33l t43 s0und
T43 s0und 0f MP3
40w c@n u l3@v3 m3 p1ngl322
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M@yb3 1t'2 my p0t2 2 sl0w
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Anyhow, if you've never seen it, check out this music video inspired by various Atari games (including Pitfall!).
And what about families with 2.5 children?
WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?
Only if the box is Schroedinger's...
And how, exactly, is the question of whether I have a cat - alive or dead - or not, going to help with any MP3 royalties?
Personally the only thing I can see is it getting me into serious trouble with the ASPCA.
We'll be keeping all dead cats out of this discussion if you please.
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so. -- Isaiah 56:12, New Standard Version
Freaky. What future bastard is playing with my head??
wishes for new Haiku posts
a clever trolls dream
However such posts
make for technical chatter
an uncertainty
for what spin does a
poetic quantum qubit
return when observed
Doesn't Windows make your computer a quantum computer?
You never know its stability state until you attempt an operation. Upon doing so you can't tell what it will do next.
(With apologies to Mr. Schrodinger and Mr. Heisenberg)
Ok, so it appears that they've basically hung a series of still images along the subway route. As you go zipping by, they blur together to form a continuous animated image. Same concept as a flipbook: draw a picture on a series of pages and flip them quickly so the images appear to be in motion. (yes, same way a film strip works, etc.)
Fine. But this should only work in one direction. Passengers riding from point A to point B will see the animation correctly. But a passenger traveling from B to A is going to get the animation in reverse as they will be passing the same pictures in reverse order.
I don't particularly want to see an animated feminine hygiene ad... but I really don't want to see an animated feminine hygiene ad in reverse.
I don't know about you Timothy, but I wouldn't mind making seven figures now.