And if we're talking heavily used, let's talk about Bittorrent. Written in Python. Runs on whatever OS spins your daisies. Doesn't take a half hour to fire up the VM.
Stereotypical American attention span of 7.5 minutes--not that I fully subscribe to that theory or anything.
I watched Raise the Red Lantern a few years ago with a couple friends. One friend fell asleep about halfway through and afterwards declared it the most boring movie he'd ever seen.
Then again, he's not a fan of Kubrick's 2001, really. At least the slow parts.
Having a long attention span and the patience to view stuff that isn't in 30-second easily digestible sound bites with MTV-style editing is a requirement for some of this shit. Sugar, salt, clips and trivialities neatly packaged and quickly discarded.
Like a lot of Japanese cinema it suffers from a cultural disconnect (to Americans). But anyway, the philosophical scenes in GITS don't even begin to compare to the rotting man's rant in the (genius) anti-anime Tamala 2010.
Actually, putting a window behind your monitor has real benefits, like giving your eyes something else to focus on perodically. This reduces eye strain in the long term.
Obviously if it's blindingly bright outside the window should be partially shaded with blinds or something (plants are good here).
Any large delta between the brightness of the screen and what's behind it strains your eyes, anyway. A pitch black room lit only by your CRT/LCD is just as bad as your hypothetically bright window.
The other benefit to an open window behind the screen is it can light up the room, reducing the need for artifical lights without putting undue glare on the monitor.
That said, any natural light or window viewable from the vantage point of your desk is a Good Thing.
You might find some insight here. Or you might find a bunch of bullshit.
Brakes, no brakes. Helmet, no helmet. The other day I saw a guy weaving through traffic on a brakeless fix sans helmet, sans shirt, listening to an iPod. One man's deathwish is another man's zen, I suppose.
Disclaimer: I ride with a front brake. Not so much for stopping, but rather to save my knees going down hills. Anyway off to a Tib loop...
UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale, the international bicycle racing governing body) has a number of controversial (depending on who you ask) rules regarding bicycle weight and design.
Besides the 6.8kg weight minimum, there's the "double diamond" frame design restriction, that effectively bans all non-traditional frame designs from upper level racing. Trek, Softride, Kestrel, and a number of other companies have designed some very novel wind-cheating non-traditional frame designs--ostly revolving around eliminating the seatpost. Due to UCI regulations, you'll never see anyone ride one of these in a road race.
Triathalons (Ironman, etc) are regulated by a different body, so the rules are different there, with more emphasis on "aero" designs, time-trial bikes, mainly because drafting is disallowed. This is where you see some of the more interesting frame designs.
I take issue with your "one gear" metaphor. Singlespeed, fixed gear and track bikes are hardly slow.
On the contrary, a track bike is the purest form of the machine--simple, elegant, pared down to the bare minimum. Rather like (insert favorite *nix here).
Wilson is an innovator, but he has a healthy respect for current designs along with a good deal of skepticism for passing fads such as that for ultralight components.
Hardly a passing fad. People have been drilling their chainrings (and everything else) for as long as there have been hills to climb.
Every day I ride home to the top of my hill I'm glad to be hauling 17 pounds of bike versus 25.
version 1.0B7
Gatling-type 3-mm hypervelocity railgun system
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PRERELEASE VERSION - NOT FOR FIELD USE
DO NOT TEST IN A POPULATED AREA
Xbox is a closed platform, and every Xbox is the same as every other Xbox. PC development is a rats nest of compatibility, bugs, drivers, lowest-common-denominator hardware.
Until recently, console games were virtually* bug free compared to PC games, due to rigorous QA that's only possible when you have a single hardware platform.
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* Notable exceptions include patching recent console games for online exploits, and hardware-related snafus with USB steering wheels on Gran Turismo 3, etc. Whether the former counts as a bug is debatable.
Actually, Microsoft will make more money off each purchase of an Xbox game played on a PC, Windows or otherwise, as the per-game royalty/license fee won't have to cover the loss on the console.
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Funny, insightful, whatever.
Corporate rock^H^H^H^HJava still sucks.
And if we're talking heavily used, let's talk about Bittorrent. Written in Python. Runs on whatever OS spins your daisies. Doesn't take a half hour to fire up the VM.
Why bother--even if nvidia did compile them for ppc Linux, you still can't play Enemy Territory...
Stereotypical American attention span of 7.5 minutes--not that I fully subscribe to that theory or anything.
I watched Raise the Red Lantern a few years ago with a couple friends. One friend fell asleep about halfway through and afterwards declared it the most boring movie he'd ever seen.
Then again, he's not a fan of Kubrick's 2001, really. At least the slow parts.
Having a long attention span and the patience to view stuff that isn't in 30-second easily digestible sound bites with MTV-style editing is a requirement for some of this shit. Sugar, salt, clips and trivialities neatly packaged and quickly discarded.
Like a lot of Japanese cinema it suffers from a cultural disconnect (to Americans). But anyway, the philosophical scenes in GITS don't even begin to compare to the rotting man's rant in the (genius) anti-anime Tamala 2010.
To each his own I guess.
Similar to inkjet printer cartriges, the bulbs are more expensive than the projectors.
Actually, putting a window behind your monitor has real benefits, like giving your eyes something else to focus on perodically. This reduces eye strain in the long term.
Obviously if it's blindingly bright outside the window should be partially shaded with blinds or something (plants are good here).
Any large delta between the brightness of the screen and what's behind it strains your eyes, anyway. A pitch black room lit only by your CRT/LCD is just as bad as your hypothetically bright window.
The other benefit to an open window behind the screen is it can light up the room, reducing the need for artifical lights without putting undue glare on the monitor.
That said, any natural light or window viewable from the vantage point of your desk is a Good Thing.
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Well, at least you'd take care of the evil elderly pirates with pacemakers.
And you're still a coward.
Wait I'm going limp
Silly rabbit, Peter Jackson's working on King Kong and won't commence shooting The Hobbit for some time.
Your nerd privileges are hereby revoked.
Fine. We'll call you The Real Napster.
Probably because Lucas didn't direct Empire
You might find some insight here. Or you might find a bunch of bullshit.
Brakes, no brakes. Helmet, no helmet. The other day I saw a guy weaving through traffic on a brakeless fix sans helmet, sans shirt, listening to an iPod. One man's deathwish is another man's zen, I suppose.
Disclaimer: I ride with a front brake. Not so much for stopping, but rather to save my knees going down hills. Anyway off to a Tib loop...
Didn't you hear? Omitting cranks, shoes, and just sticking your toes in the chainring lets you save 7-800 grams easy! :)
The drivetrain on my "commuter" is comprised of one (1) NJS-approved ring, one EAI machined cog, and one Izumi track chain. Oh, and one lockring.
:)
We don't need no stinkin' derraileurs.
UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale, the international bicycle racing governing body) has a number of controversial (depending on who you ask) rules regarding bicycle weight and design.
Besides the 6.8kg weight minimum, there's the "double diamond" frame design restriction, that effectively bans all non-traditional frame designs from upper level racing. Trek, Softride, Kestrel, and a number of other companies have designed some very novel wind-cheating non-traditional frame designs--ostly revolving around eliminating the seatpost. Due to UCI regulations, you'll never see anyone ride one of these in a road race.
Triathalons (Ironman, etc) are regulated by a different body, so the rules are different there, with more emphasis on "aero" designs, time-trial bikes, mainly because drafting is disallowed. This is where you see some of the more interesting frame designs.
I take issue with your "one gear" metaphor. Singlespeed, fixed gear and track bikes are hardly slow.
On the contrary, a track bike is the purest form of the machine--simple, elegant, pared down to the bare minimum. Rather like (insert favorite *nix here).
Wilson is an innovator, but he has a healthy respect for current designs along with a good deal of skepticism for passing fads such as that for ultralight components.
Hardly a passing fad. People have been drilling their chainrings (and everything else) for as long as there have been hills to climb.
Every day I ride home to the top of my hill I'm glad to be hauling 17 pounds of bike versus 25.
version 1.0B7
- ULTIMA RATIO REGUMGatling-type 3-mm hypervelocity railgun system
Ng Security Industries, Inc.
PRERELEASE VERSION - NOT FOR FIELD USE
DO NOT TEST IN A POPULATED AREA
Intel didn't own the plants producing IBM's BIOS chips, nor does Sharman own the computers that make up the Kazaa network.
So your analogy does hold up to an extent, but maybe not the way you intended.
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OBJ is a disaster. There are something like 30-odd vendor-specific flavors, each with their own quirks.
3DS isn't great either. It's binary and doesn't support vertex normals, which is a pretty big strike against it.
The most decent vendor formats in use today are ASE (3D Studio ASCII Scene Export) and Lightwave LWO[B].
PicoModel my BSD-licensed model reading library. </plug>
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Humor is humor, morbid or not.
If you disagree with his joke, reply--don't mod him down.
Fuck.
The town I grew up in had a stoplight that changed when cars approaching it exceeded the 25-mph speed limit.
Incidentally, the city is Alexandria, Virginia and the street is King Street between Janney's Lane and Upland Place. See map here.
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Xbox is a closed platform, and every Xbox is the same as every other Xbox. PC development is a rats nest of compatibility, bugs, drivers, lowest-common-denominator hardware.
Until recently, console games were virtually* bug free compared to PC games, due to rigorous QA that's only possible when you have a single hardware platform.
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* Notable exceptions include patching recent console games for online exploits, and hardware-related snafus with USB steering wheels on Gran Turismo 3, etc. Whether the former counts as a bug is debatable.
Actually, Microsoft will make more money off each purchase of an Xbox game played on a PC, Windows or otherwise, as the per-game royalty/license fee won't have to cover the loss on the console.
And then there's the indescribable David Belle. (Warning: annoying ads)