Scratch that, the page has a huge amount of absolute URIs.
What happens when you are really smart like Google-lead-engineer smart, you move into a new place that has a big blank living room wall and you end up being bored one weekend? Well, Ill tell you what I would do I would order pizza, probably watch a movie, stare at the wall for a good 45mins until I decided it wasnt going to change on its own, then play some video games.
But thats not what Justin Voskuhl did.
What you see above isnt a horribly pixelated image in 8-bit or something that like its actually a picture of a flower done completely with Lego pieces; yes these:
What Justin did is write a computer program that, taking a source picture, would establish the most optimized colors, Lego brick sizes and orientations in order to reproduce the source image completely in Legos.
To do this justice, Ill just paste his explanation here:
I moved into a new place about ten months ago, and had a huge
blank wall in the main room. So I decided to make some funky Lego art
for the walls.
I started with some square nature images, and wrote some Java code to
use a simulated annealing technique to figure out a layout for Lego
bricks that when stacked on each other look like the image (but also
try to minimize cost of the parts, and also try to ensure the result
has some structure rigidity - these images are held together only by
gravity and the Lego bricks themselves - no glue.
So the Java program runs for about ten hours for each image, spits out
a preview and parts list and some HTML that you can print out to use
as a diagram to assemble the whole thing. The assembly time took
about fifteen hours for each image. I enslaved some graduate student
friends of mine and traded free dinner for time in my Lego sweatshop.
Check out the results. Each image is pretty different, but all with a
nature theme. For scale purposes each one is a 34×34 inch square.
The Legos are stacked 250 rows high, and 100 lego nubs wide. The
maple leaves are on a background that dithered a LOT but I thought it
was a feature since it really shows off the fact that these are just
stacks of Lego bricks.
More or less what I would have done had I had an empty white wall either writing annealing algorithms to reproduce pictures with Legos, or draw on it with washable Crayon; something my wife lets me do every Saturday if Im good.
Justin has plans to release the source code soon, so stay posted!
Despite the famous Streisand effect, the ban does appear to have some effectiveness - it's currently pretty difficult to find out the names on Google.
For su
"The free market wasnâ(TM)t adequate to regulate smoking on planes and it wonâ(TM)t be sufficient to regulate cell phones either," DeFazio said. "I am pleased that we are taking steps to stop this disruption before it becomes an issue for American consumers."
It's massively important because these online Chinese can still visit many, many sites - they might not be able to go to pages with political content, but they can still support Chinese Ebays and Craigslists and whatnot.
Frankly it's likely that Digg and Slashdot have vastly larger Chinese equivalents, and most/.ers would have no idea because they don't read Chinese.
And political discussion still goes on, albeit through euphemisms and with some care. The restrictions exist, but they're not all that effective.
In the Doom novels, the main character is referred to as Flynn "Fly" Taggart, which is universally suggested to be the Doomguy from the games. However, Tom Hall's original design draft, also known as The Doom Bible, suggested his name was Buddy Dacote ("Dacote" being short for "Dies at conclusion of this episode", which is indeed the fate of the character, although he continues his adventure in the second episode). In the Doom film adaptation, the main character, John "Reaper" Grimm (played by Karl Urban) is also suggested to be the Doomguy, which comes as a surprise to those expecting the more recognizable Sarge (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) to take the role.
I haven't seen a digital camera that requires separate drivers in ages. My own camera is detected as a USB hard drive - XP, Vista, and Ubuntu alike - and it's more than four years old.
The researchers publishing these papers typically don't get much more than citations - the money mostly goes to publishers like Elsevier. Blame them instead.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know how to get to the gallery images.
Nyud.net mirror. Slow, but works.
7-zip's interface is actually pretty easy to use. How complicated does an file compressor interface need to be?
Coral cache. But it's insanely slow for me there, too.
John Taylor freely switches between general relativity and philosophical relativity. Don't watch if you get easily irked by such musing.
So... why's there an tag around everything from "dancing..." to "...images."?
They're going to release it anyway; what they're selling is exclusive earlier access.
And if what you say is true, any CEO who's intending to cover-deny would be just as vehement as NVidia's CEO now.
Otherwise we would be able to tell what he's doing, and he won't be able to deny anything, no?
Despite the famous Streisand effect, the ban does appear to have some effectiveness - it's currently pretty difficult to find out the names on Google. For su
I build my own hard drives and power supply too!
because being a l33t sup4 h4x0r doesn't actually require any, you know, qualifications.
It's pronounced "chan ting" (with less of a "h" sound) so the answer to your qn is no...
It's massively important because these online Chinese can still visit many, many sites - they might not be able to go to pages with political content, but they can still support Chinese Ebays and Craigslists and whatnot.
/.ers would have no idea because they don't read Chinese.
Frankly it's likely that Digg and Slashdot have vastly larger Chinese equivalents, and most
And political discussion still goes on, albeit through euphemisms and with some care. The restrictions exist, but they're not all that effective.
"Wet" and "icy" are not mutually exclusive. Go watch an ice-cube melt.
Air quality indexes like the PSI are better if lower.
This is StudiVZ. It doesn't look like a ripoff. This is what a ripoff looks like!
Slashdot needs a "important software updates" section.
You're misunderstanding him, he means working directory
Four million.
I haven't seen a digital camera that requires separate drivers in ages. My own camera is detected as a USB hard drive - XP, Vista, and Ubuntu alike - and it's more than four years old.
but a bruiser can punch you and keep punching, while in chess you'd have to wait for him to move before enacting your Master Plan
The researchers publishing these papers typically don't get much more than citations - the money mostly goes to publishers like Elsevier. Blame them instead.
It's developing faster.
What significance that has depends on how much you care, I guess.