Viewing it from the transmission perspective not the storage perspective, 3MB vs 5MB makes a significant difference, especially on low bandwidth connections.
.WMP - Although "Windows Media Photo" would have been more straight-forward than "Windows Digital Photo" (or whatever), can you imagine how much fun the punsters would have with that....
If they can keep from killing it with DRM and licensing, I for one would love to have a photo format where the quality doesn't degrade as much as JPEG does at high compression.
Amen. Any time an academic says the word impossible, they're simply setting themselves up to get egg on their face. Doesn't mean this guy's not a nut-job - and he probably is - but to declare something impossible is a stupid move. The correct move would be to investigate all the claims and validate all the research. Examine the facts: There's several piles of rocks with suspiciously geometric sides. There apparently a tunnel of some sort under at least one of these piles of rocks. Several of the rocks that have been dug up appear to be quite geometrically regular (straight edges, right angles). The positioning and sizing of the piles of rock are somewhat of a stretch, but could be significant.
Does this mean that there's 12,000 year-old pyramids? Maybe not. But to say "it's impossible" that there are pyramids there? That makes the magazine look more like a hack than he does.
There's a huge difference between eye candy and visual feedback.
Visual feedback is not only nice, in many cases it is critical - thinking here of the hourglass that tells you a program is working on something. Eye candy, on the other hand, does nothing more than make the desktop look pretty - thinking here of the WindowsXP menu transition effects feature, or the Vista "glossy chrome" effect that will be on all window borders.
Some features that could be called eye candy can also be called functions, such as transparent windows. As one other poster commented, a transparent window could allow a code editor to be open over a web site that provides sample code or api reference.
It seems to me that the majority of GUI improvements lately have been in the form of eye candy. Personally, as soon as I install Windows XP, I turn off everything that I consider eye candy - specifically I switch to classic mode, turn off transition effects, turn off personalized menus, etc.
special pen, special bullets that track the pen's motion, send a radio signal to a special bullet that they hold in their mouth which reproduces the design... ok yeah that was stupid...
This is one of their most famous tricks - Penn fires, Teller "catches" the bullet with his teeth. I've seen them do this twice, once at the Warner Theater in D.C., and once at the Ferst Center at Georgia Tech. Both times they had audience members come up and draw on the shell and slug before firing and then verify their drawings afterwards, and they also had a pane of glass that was broken by the bullet.
They claim that they are the only act to do this trick.
My guess is Teller has a bullet in his mouth that he "catches" at the right time, and Penn has a blank in the gun. The "bullet" that gets drawn on is rigged to come apart easily, and Penn pulls some sleight-of-hand after the shot to present the audience members with the pieces for validation.
You have a point here... Although it would not work for encryption/decryption, it seems one could build a digital signature signer/verifier accelerator that would work in an AGP slot. Large amounts of data in, small amount of data out... not sure where you'd find a high demand for frequent signings, but for verifications an authenticating domain name server or mail server could benefit.
Wow, that's a blast from the past... I tried mine about 18 years ago, never finished it. Maybe I should try again... when I finish the Yamaha motorcycle model I'm working on now.
While I agree with you that the dissappearing dye is the most significant discovery here, I don't think you should completely disregard the preceding discovery of how to bind the dye to the soap molecule so that it doesn't run down the side and pool at the bottom of the bubble.
Also, what happens after the color fades - the chemical is still there, isn't it? Having read the article, they refer to the dye being an "open box" - when oxygen, water, or rubbing occur, the box closes. Well, the box is still there, right? Which means after I brush my teeth for 30 sec, the dye is still there. On that needle you proposed, the dye is still there. Does this introduce any further complications?
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Civ II is considered by a lot of Civ gamers to be the best of the lot. That being said, the same gamers agree that there are a lot of bugs and other undesirable behavior in the game. Many of these gamers are also software developers, and many have expressed interest in obtaining the source so that fixes can be made for the benefit of the gaming community. Several forums have gone so far as to prepare petitions for the release. The most mature petition that I have seen included provisions for limiting the release of fixed code to existing owners of the game.
Unfortunately, at least one claim has been made that the source code no longer exists.
Can you tell us whether or not the code still exists, and if it does, whether or not there is any chance of it being released? Are you in any position to influence the decision as to its release, and if so, would you argue in favor or in opposition?
Thank you for your superb contributions to the gaming scene.
You can drag the address into the Bookmarks panel. You can also drag it into the Start bar (or any other bar), which I find to be useful.
How? Is there an option I have to set? Using Opera 8.5 on Win2K, I don't see that behavior.
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Viewing it from the transmission perspective not the storage perspective, 3MB vs 5MB makes a significant difference, especially on low bandwidth connections.
Yes it's called "Windows Media Photo", but they gave it the extension ".WDP", not the extension ".WMP"
If they can keep from killing it with DRM and licensing, I for one would love to have a photo format where the quality doesn't degrade as much as JPEG does at high compression.
My primary reason:
Debian: 14 CDs
Ubuntu: 1 CD
Yeah, yeah, I know... network install... but still.
Actually, no - Blood Elves cannot be Hunters (see here)
Does this mean that there's 12,000 year-old pyramids? Maybe not. But to say "it's impossible" that there are pyramids there? That makes the magazine look more like a hack than he does.
Visual feedback is not only nice, in many cases it is critical - thinking here of the hourglass that tells you a program is working on something. Eye candy, on the other hand, does nothing more than make the desktop look pretty - thinking here of the WindowsXP menu transition effects feature, or the Vista "glossy chrome" effect that will be on all window borders.
Some features that could be called eye candy can also be called functions, such as transparent windows. As one other poster commented, a transparent window could allow a code editor to be open over a web site that provides sample code or api reference.
It seems to me that the majority of GUI improvements lately have been in the form of eye candy. Personally, as soon as I install Windows XP, I turn off everything that I consider eye candy - specifically I switch to classic mode, turn off transition effects, turn off personalized menus, etc.
special pen, special bullets that track the pen's motion, send a radio signal to a special bullet that they hold in their mouth which reproduces the design... ok yeah that was stupid...
dammit that's a good trick.
They claim that they are the only act to do this trick.
My guess is Teller has a bullet in his mouth that he "catches" at the right time, and Penn has a blank in the gun. The "bullet" that gets drawn on is rigged to come apart easily, and Penn pulls some sleight-of-hand after the shot to present the audience members with the pieces for validation.
Good trick, though... very impressive.
You don't read the "from the ... department" line, do you.
You have a point here... Although it would not work for encryption/decryption, it seems one could build a digital signature signer/verifier accelerator that would work in an AGP slot. Large amounts of data in, small amount of data out... not sure where you'd find a high demand for frequent signings, but for verifications an authenticating domain name server or mail server could benefit.
Never mind the part about the mini projector being monochrome... (RTFA)
Wow, that's a blast from the past... I tried mine about 18 years ago, never finished it. Maybe I should try again... when I finish the Yamaha motorcycle model I'm working on now.
Also, what happens after the color fades - the chemical is still there, isn't it? Having read the article, they refer to the dye being an "open box" - when oxygen, water, or rubbing occur, the box closes. Well, the box is still there, right? Which means after I brush my teeth for 30 sec, the dye is still there. On that needle you proposed, the dye is still there. Does this introduce any further complications?
Unfortunately, at least one claim has been made that the source code no longer exists.
Can you tell us whether or not the code still exists, and if it does, whether or not there is any chance of it being released? Are you in any position to influence the decision as to its release, and if so, would you argue in favor or in opposition?
Thank you for your superb contributions to the gaming scene.
Ahh, that't the trick. Thanks!
You can drag the address into the Bookmarks panel. You can also drag it into the Start bar (or any other bar), which I find to be useful. How? Is there an option I have to set? Using Opera 8.5 on Win2K, I don't see that behavior.
Uh.. Firefox? I click once to highlight the address string, then Firefox lets me drag it to create a bookmark (something Opera doesn't do).