They're going to have to come up with a shorter name for this before someone starts offering this as cheap medd$ sent out in discreet packaging through their online pharmacy.
These people are so full of shit. If anyone is up for a being sued, as they are blatantly ripping off graphical content (th ewiki jigsaw) for their own personal gain. Just to be petty, if i were the wikipedia foundation I'd order the classaction.org twunts to stop using their graphics.
Dude, people were champing at the bit to do this in May of this year, never mind this month. There'll always be a community out there that wants to do this stuff immediately, just because they can.
Also, you can give people you talk to thumbs up or thumbs down ratings. After a while, your phone will decide who you talk to based on past preferences, and if you haven't called anyone in a while it'll automatically ring your favourite person.
Brilliant!
Of course, the third generation devices start introducing while you're waiting for the other person to pick up the phone, and by the time Google are in on the Cellphone act, they'll start analying youro conversations and playing ads ads in the background that are appropriate for the converstion.
I've used flash & XML to good effect for pulling & displaying documents from a web page, and I've made a start at calling a few basic AJAX requests- I'm still working on that- and there really isn't much to call between them in terms of difficulty. I love using flash, and quite obviously it does have much more advanced graphics capabilities and the ability to write your own objects & controls etc, but in terms of LOD, AJAX's isn't much more complicated that Actionscript 2.0.
the iPod is a relative newcomer to the MP3 market. Creative were making hard disk mp3 players long before Apple ever dreamed of them. They were practially the only players on the market in 1999-2000, and they used the same type of heirarchial naviation that the iPod uses.
That's not to say that Creative have a legal case they should be able to press in respect to the patent (for heirarchial display of files by category) as the patent is so f**king obvious that is should never have been granted.
Hmm yea true- large scale capture is a lot more efficient, and you addressed a good point I'd though of- where the heck do we get enough CO to feed the bacteria.
Humm, the water needs to be completely free of any dissolved 02 though, which would be difficult, plus it says scalding hot, which I would take to be close to boiling.
Anyway- what's with this fossil fuel power plant idea- we're supposed to be trying to get rid of the things:op
Okay so maybe this particular microbe would be difficult to use to produce Hydrogen, but if the microbe's DNA can be used to genetically engineer another one which works at 20-30 degrees, then we may be onto something much more efficient.
Heh, it would be just our luck if the only suitable bacteria for the manufacturing was something infectious and lethal, like Ebola (^^)
I was going to try something like this with a webcam and Flash- the new Bitmap API lets you access raw pixel information, and getting information from a webcam is a snip with the new Video object. It'd be pretty processor intensive though, and i'd need a few samples to go with it too. Ho Hum.:o/
I think this could be the best/. thread ever. Successive American administrations have fucked up enormously when it comes to foreign policy, meddling in matters that they couldn't fix even if they tried to do the right thing for everyone, and basically being dirty rotten bastards.
The thing about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan is that the Soviets would have been delighted to know the trouble that that would cause the decadent west as far into the future as 2005. Evil shits.
It's all Hitler's fault you know. Trace all of the ripples of trouble back through the century and where do you end up? Berlin 1945.
You do have a very good point there. With your own machine, the cost per image mightn't be too bad, and film is a medium that is guaranteed to be something we can read in 30 years time. Will JPEG files still be around then? Possibly, but not likely.
Okay I didn't mean to sound quite so flippant, but with the current state of affairs, it's very hard to tell where the truth lies. Everyone has their own version of the truth:o(
How do we know that the people who are 'speaking out against the BBC' aren't themselves being coerced into doing so in an attempt by the chinese govornment to negate the BBC's coverage of Chinese freedom of speech issues.
so come back and look at their graph of the number of people who signed up each day..... they're going to have to rescale the graph and put in a/. dot!
A very valid point. I'm sitting with a Nvidia Geforce FX5700 in my machine because I wanted to keep up with the gaming scene a while back but couldn't afford the All-in-wonder that would do the job. Now i have TV tuning capabilities sitting useless in the box the 5700 came in because they were tied to my gaming video card.
Slashdot Mirror
They're going to have to come up with a shorter name for this before someone starts offering this as cheap medd$ sent out in discreet packaging through their online pharmacy.
Couldn't they have just emailed both people still using IE on the Mac and saved themselves the trouble of a whole press release.
These people are so full of shit. If anyone is up for a being sued, as they are blatantly ripping off graphical content (th ewiki jigsaw) for their own personal gain. Just to be petty, if i were the wikipedia foundation I'd order the classaction.org twunts to stop using their graphics.
Dude, people were champing at the bit to do this in May of this year, never mind this month. There'll always be a community out there that wants to do this stuff immediately, just because they can.
Also, you can give people you talk to thumbs up or thumbs down ratings. After a while, your phone will decide who you talk to based on past preferences, and if you haven't called anyone in a while it'll automatically ring your favourite person.
Brilliant!
Of course, the third generation devices start introducing while you're waiting for the other person to pick up the phone, and by the time Google are in on the Cellphone act, they'll start analying youro conversations and playing ads ads in the background that are appropriate for the converstion.
We're doomed.
I've used flash & XML to good effect for pulling & displaying documents from a web page, and I've made a start at calling a few basic AJAX requests- I'm still working on that- and there really isn't much to call between them in terms of difficulty. I love using flash, and quite obviously it does have much more advanced graphics capabilities and the ability to write your own objects & controls etc, but in terms of LOD, AJAX's isn't much more complicated that Actionscript 2.0.
there's only one way to find out....... BURN THE HAMSTER!
No, it comes with a lifekit that installs itself in your BRAIN when you watch a movie with it. A bit like that tape from Ringu, but more threatening.
the iPod is a relative newcomer to the MP3 market. Creative were making hard disk mp3 players long before Apple ever dreamed of them. They were practially the only players on the market in 1999-2000, and they used the same type of heirarchial naviation that the iPod uses.
That's not to say that Creative have a legal case they should be able to press in respect to the patent (for heirarchial display of files by category) as the patent is so f**king obvious that is should never have been granted.
Hmm yea true- large scale capture is a lot more efficient, and you addressed a good point I'd though of- where the heck do we get enough CO to feed the bacteria.
Humm, the water needs to be completely free of any dissolved 02 though, which would be difficult, plus it says scalding hot, which I would take to be close to boiling.
:op
Anyway- what's with this fossil fuel power plant idea- we're supposed to be trying to get rid of the things
Oh no, I just remembered Ebola is a virus. D'oh!
Okay so maybe this particular microbe would be difficult to use to produce Hydrogen, but if the microbe's DNA can be used to genetically engineer another one which works at 20-30 degrees, then we may be onto something much more efficient. Heh, it would be just our luck if the only suitable bacteria for the manufacturing was something infectious and lethal, like Ebola (^^)
"The ethical concerns of a face transplant...."
Someone's already supposedly cloned a human embryo. I wouldn't worry about facial transplants too much.
I was going to try something like this with a webcam and Flash- the new Bitmap API lets you access raw pixel information, and getting information from a webcam is a snip with the new Video object. It'd be pretty processor intensive though, and i'd need a few samples to go with it too. Ho Hum. :o/
I think this could be the best /. thread ever. Successive American administrations have fucked up enormously when it comes to foreign policy, meddling in matters that they couldn't fix even if they tried to do the right thing for everyone, and basically being dirty rotten bastards.
The thing about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan is that the Soviets would have been delighted to know the trouble that that would cause the decadent west as far into the future as 2005. Evil shits.
It's all Hitler's fault you know. Trace all of the ripples of trouble back through the century and where do you end up? Berlin 1945.
You do have a very good point there. With your own machine, the cost per image mightn't be too bad, and film is a medium that is guaranteed to be something we can read in 30 years time. Will JPEG files still be around then? Possibly, but not likely.
Okay I didn't mean to sound quite so flippant, but with the current state of affairs, it's very hard to tell where the truth lies. Everyone has their own version of the truth :o(
I'm Irish, we're netutral on everything.
/hides under tinfoil hat
How do we know that the people who are 'speaking out against the BBC' aren't themselves being coerced into doing so in an attempt by the chinese govornment to negate the BBC's coverage of Chinese freedom of speech issues.
Damn I'm paranoid
imagine a beowulf cluster of....... oh too late, never mind!
so come back and look at their graph of the number of people who signed up each day..... they're going to have to rescale the graph and put in a /. dot!
Ozzy Osbourne can now have black bubbles at his Christmas gigs rather than clear ones (what's f***ing evil about those?)
A very valid point. I'm sitting with a Nvidia Geforce FX5700 in my machine because I wanted to keep up with the gaming scene a while back but couldn't afford the All-in-wonder that would do the job. Now i have TV tuning capabilities sitting useless in the box the 5700 came in because they were tied to my gaming video card.