The TIGER maps may not be the best, but they are a good starting place. (and free!!) What you could do is use this sort of GPS data to refine the TIGER maps. Roads would look like long narrow clouds of GPS fixes, with the real course of the road somewhere very close to a line of best fit through that cloud. You could use something like a least-squares algorithm to move roads in the TIGER maps to match the patterns of GPS positions.
Another alternative would be to hire me:D to gather the data, and make revised maps for your area. My rates are very reasonable!
Since Darwin is the core of OSX, most modern Apple hardware should already have drivers. It should be easy enough to add drivers for anything already supported by Linux and/or BSD, since those drivers are open-source. (ok, that's speculation, I've never tried porting drivers from one OS to another, it just seems like it should be easy, because you have another implementation to guide your coding...)
I prefer to just link the reading routines to libskimmer.so. If nothing's happening, flip ahead a few (2-3) pages. If people are swinging swords or some important-sounding exchange is going on, flip back and read the intervening pages. If not, set mypage=thispage, and recurse. If Tom Bombadil is singing or if someone is explaining elven family structures, skip the whole damn chapter.
(ob-herasy)It works well on the Old Testament, too!(*lightning bolt*)
What's the point of the WWW if you put up a site and nobody outside your local community (who could read about it in the bloody papers anyway) knows it's there? As for mirroring, I doubt/. has the megabucks it would take to hire enough lawyers to keep themselves out of copyright trouble.
I think for a typical user, both XP and OSX have reached the point that they can be considered essentially crash-proof.
You don't play many games, do you?
Unreal Tournament 2003 crashes XP every now and then. Medal of Honor kills it at least once per day (that I play it). Quake 2/3, Warcraft 3, Battlefield 1942, just about any 3D game really can crash WinXP.
Good God, are you moderators STONED?? There isn't a senator on that list! As if the names you've never heard of weren't a good enough giveaway, the @yahoo.com email addresses should have done the trick. Failing that, all the @adequacy.org addresses should have hit you like a 12' clue-by-four!
You have been trolled! I hope you feel stupid now...
This only applies if MS gets involved, but if this product takes off, they will...
Sell it at a loss to gain market share, then worry about making money later. Make it an integral part of CableBox XP, and charge cable companies royalties. (charge those that also sell TiVO double) Woo Hollywood with your strong DRM box. Charge the **AA licensing fees to lock down their movies and music with this ubiquitous new technology. Expect a convergence between this and the XBox.
It's pretty simple. HBO doesn't want digital outputs on cable boxes, so they make this clear to the cable companies, who make this clear to Moxi, and you don't get VGA.
You know, if 80% of the people using "chick" in their online nicknames weren't 40-year-old men who still live in their parent's basement, the other 20% would get a lot more respect...
An abominable bastardization, slowly poisoning the whole gnutella network with millions of tiny errors?
If you see dozens of search results with the same name, but with 1 or 2 byte differences in the filesize and different hashes, you know you're connected to a Morpheus ultrapeer node.
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I have serious doubts about the future of wine. The wine project may have achieved many milestones, but Microsoft can snap it any time. All they need to do, is to change thier APIs and making them incompatible. And if it makes bussiness sense, believe me, they will.
They already have in a way. Wine is still working on the Win9x API, so software that needs the newer Win2k or XP interfaces won't run. This may not be a big deal yet, but MS already announced (sorry, I don't have the link handy) that Office 11 will *not* run on Win9x, it will be 2k or XP only.
Wine as a platform for running old apps will live on, but wine as a viable alternative to buying windows is stuffed, IMHO.
Gee, thanks It's always helpful to remind myself just how pathetically few kanji I actually know. Way to make me feel like I've wasted the last 2 semesters trying to learn Japanese!
*grumble* Maybe if I spent more time studying, and less time posting on slashdot...
Your colors are already 3D! Look at RGB or HSV color values. They look just like 3D vectors, don't they! That's because any specific color is just a point within a 3-dimensional color space.
I can see the advertiser being FURIOUS if they paid a few million dollars to imprint, say, the newest BMW ad on the James Bond soundtrack, only to find that no consumers can view it because the plastic shrinkwrap failed to keep out enough air.
Why wait for nature to take it's course here? When these start shipping in the US, I'm going to the record shop with a needle!
Re:Dreamworks bumps the stats
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Moderators: Modding this post down as a Troll only proves this point even more. And it is on topic. The only valid negative moderation would be -1 Redundant.
"-1 flamebait" would serve well too. I'm hoping for a "-1, making up overrated statistics to support an offtopic flamebait troll", but that's too long to fit in the moderation boxes.
I think that Corel's failure was the fact that people pirate MS Office, and don't care to try out less expensive office suites.
It wouldn't help. When I was in high school, the computer applications class (yes, I *had* to take it, stop giggling!) was taught with WordPerfect (the godawful 6.0 for windows release, even). I still hate it. Wordperfect may be more intuitive, but it's also more likely to crash and eat your assignment. The only thing I learned was "save early, save often" because WP crashed an average of about 3 times per class period.
Slashdot Mirror
The TIGER maps may not be the best, but they are a good starting place. (and free!!) What you could do is use this sort of GPS data to refine the TIGER maps. Roads would look like long narrow clouds of GPS fixes, with the real course of the road somewhere very close to a line of best fit through that cloud. You could use something like a least-squares algorithm to move roads in the TIGER maps to match the patterns of GPS positions.
:D to gather the data, and make revised maps for your area. My rates are very reasonable!
Another alternative would be to hire me
Which isn't really fair IMHO, since most of the time it's not "Linux"'s fault for whatever is being bashed at the time.
Score: -1, Bad Pun
No, in fact it's a desperate way of trying to say something final, that you'll regret some day in the future when you're more mature.
There's nothing more depressing than people who have nothing to say that they won't regret in a few years.
Do you believe in anything? (Other than making fun of people braver than yourself, I mean)
Since Darwin is the core of OSX, most modern Apple hardware should already have drivers. It should be easy enough to add drivers for anything already supported by Linux and/or BSD, since those drivers are open-source. (ok, that's speculation, I've never tried porting drivers from one OS to another, it just seems like it should be easy, because you have another implementation to guide your coding...)
I prefer to just link the reading routines to libskimmer.so. If nothing's happening, flip ahead a few (2-3) pages. If people are swinging swords or some important-sounding exchange is going on, flip back and read the intervening pages. If not, set mypage=thispage, and recurse. If Tom Bombadil is singing or if someone is explaining elven family structures, skip the whole damn chapter.
(ob-herasy)It works well on the Old Testament, too!(*lightning bolt*)
What's the point of the WWW if you put up a site and nobody outside your local community (who could read about it in the bloody papers anyway) knows it's there? As for mirroring, I doubt /. has the megabucks it would take to hire enough lawyers to keep themselves out of copyright trouble.
I think for a typical user, both XP and OSX have reached the point that they can be considered essentially crash-proof.
You don't play many games, do you?
Unreal Tournament 2003 crashes XP every now and then.
Medal of Honor kills it at least once per day (that I play it).
Quake 2/3, Warcraft 3, Battlefield 1942, just about any 3D game really can crash WinXP.
What's the air speed velocity of an unladen P4M
At least 1200CFM, unless you want a meltdown!
Good God, are you moderators STONED?? There isn't a senator on that list! As if the names you've never heard of weren't a good enough giveaway, the @yahoo.com email addresses should have done the trick. Failing that, all the @adequacy.org addresses should have hit you like a 12' clue-by-four!
You have been trolled! I hope you feel stupid now...
This only applies if MS gets involved, but if this product takes off, they will...
Sell it at a loss to gain market share, then worry about making money later. Make it an integral part of CableBox XP, and charge cable companies royalties. (charge those that also sell TiVO double) Woo Hollywood with your strong DRM box. Charge the **AA licensing fees to lock down their movies and music with this ubiquitous new technology. Expect a convergence between this and the XBox.
It's pretty simple. HBO doesn't want digital outputs on cable boxes, so they make this clear to the cable companies, who make this clear to Moxi, and you don't get VGA.
VGA is analog...
And does anyone know of a pc port of the Pointblank that used to ship with SGI's?
Tried BZflag?
You know, if 80% of the people using "chick" in their online nicknames weren't 40-year-old men who still live in their parent's basement, the other 20% would get a lot more respect...
What do you think Morpheus v2.0 was?
An abominable bastardization, slowly poisoning the whole gnutella network with millions of tiny errors?
If you see dozens of search results with the same name, but with 1 or 2 byte differences in the filesize and different hashes, you know you're connected to a Morpheus ultrapeer node.
I have serious doubts about the future of wine. The wine project may have achieved many milestones, but Microsoft can snap it any time. All they need to do, is to change thier APIs and making them incompatible. And if it makes bussiness sense, believe me, they will.
They already have in a way. Wine is still working on the Win9x API, so software that needs the newer Win2k or XP interfaces won't run. This may not be a big deal yet, but MS already announced (sorry, I don't have the link handy) that Office 11 will *not* run on Win9x, it will be 2k or XP only.
Wine as a platform for running old apps will live on, but wine as a viable alternative to buying windows is stuffed, IMHO.
http://www.asahi.com/business/update/1116/005.html
Gee, thanks
It's always helpful to remind myself just how pathetically few kanji I actually know. Way to make me feel like I've wasted the last 2 semesters trying to learn Japanese!
*grumble*
Maybe if I spent more time studying, and less time posting on slashdot...
Your colors are already 3D!
Look at RGB or HSV color values. They look just like 3D vectors, don't they! That's because any specific color is just a point within a 3-dimensional color space.
heh
Make a copy, and send that back too. Just a little message to point out that no format is uncopyable...
I can see the advertiser being FURIOUS if they paid a few million dollars to imprint, say, the newest BMW ad on the James Bond soundtrack, only to find that no consumers can view it because the plastic shrinkwrap failed to keep out enough air.
Why wait for nature to take it's course here? When these start shipping in the US, I'm going to the record shop with a needle!
Moderators: Modding this post down as a Troll only proves this point even more. And it is on topic. The only valid negative moderation would be -1 Redundant.
"-1 flamebait" would serve well too. I'm hoping for a "-1, making up overrated statistics to support an offtopic flamebait troll", but that's too long to fit in the moderation boxes.
Maya is for 3D modeling
FilmGIMP is for frame-by-frame retouching
It's like comparing apples to sea cucumbers.
I'd add some clever names of songs from RATM but with an added tech influence, but I should be working or something.
I'll do it for you then!
Take the Bandwidth Back
Guerilla P2P
Packet in the Net
Fuck the Cable Company
Know Your ISP
...how much money the MPAA has earmarked for bribes to get the signal encrypted.
e) Enlightenment 17
f) Any BitBoys 3D accelerator
g) The secong coming of Amiga
I think that Corel's failure was the fact that people pirate MS Office, and don't care to try out less expensive office suites.
It wouldn't help. When I was in high school, the computer applications class (yes, I *had* to take it, stop giggling!) was taught with WordPerfect (the godawful 6.0 for windows release, even). I still hate it. Wordperfect may be more intuitive, but it's also more likely to crash and eat your assignment. The only thing I learned was "save early, save often" because WP crashed an average of about 3 times per class period.