Apparently you are not informed that without a method of making a hole large enough for a man or car to fit through, rapidly i might add, to the side of the plane, it will NOT explosively depressurize. Go look it up, google is your best friend my uninformed fellow slashdotter. If you would like food for thought, if you don't believe me, then how could the ISS leak O2 from the cabin and not explosively depressurize? Sure the hole MIGHT be a lot smaller, but at the same time, im DEAD CERTAIN the pressure difference (which is what matters) is significantly greater.
I for one would support a manditory "no child left behind without a gun" rule. Get them 18, give them a gun, train them, and set them on their way. In the case of deranged lunatics (people like to cite this as a problem) (terrorists are also deranged lunatics) losing their cool and trying to shoot people, everyone else will take them down first. It's not like someone mentally unstable would actually be able to get off more than a round before being nullified. (People like to say "but what if the idiot starts shooting?" the response is "SHOOT BACK!")
By the way Locutus, for your own edification, it is "a university" rather than "an university." The requirements for "a" and "an" have to do with the sound of the initial letter. Since the 'U' in University is not a vowel sound, "a" is accepted. However, since I don't mean this to be a derogatory post, I would like to add that it was refreshing reading someone who had proper grammar and spelling besides the aforementioned, minor nitpick. Slashdot is rife with posts that are painful to read, especially when they are obviously trying very hard at being proper.
This rig would be awesome to take to the local Rock Climbing gym, or even outdoors, to capture the motions involved in rock climbing. Finally something that can capture it in 3D, compared to the current 2D methods used (video cameras arent enough to fully visualize the moves 100% of the time).
Who the fuck is Giselle Bundchen? Google turned up some pictures of a model, but like all other models she is extraordinarily thin. Is there anything specific that makes this model unique?
There's a better way of looking at it... optimism is the defect.
As a pessimist, I personally am happier than every optimist I know. Here's why I'm always happy:
1) If I expect the worst, and someone excellent happens, then awesome!
And now the good part:
2) If i expect the worst, and it actually does happen, then at least I was right!
it is totally opposite for optimists, if someone goes wrong then not only are the wrong, but they are also unhappy, my way you always win
When you look at it on the higher-resolution image, there is fading around it, and if they were "bubbles" then that could be a pile of debris stacked inside it?
If you look closely at what they describe as "Inky Stains" on Iapetus, they look more like burst bubbles. If you consider a consistent direction for the sun's light, and look at the pictures that overlap with different shades of shadow, it looks like the surface of the satellite was covered by air pockets and they happened to either cave in or break. The edges seem slightly too jagged and defined for them to be "stains."
Compare "Inky stains on a frozen moon" to "Iapetus Flyby Raw Preview #13" and you can see what I'm talking about. I don't think those are discolorations, they look like caverns.
Seeing as how I was a competitive swimmer in highschool and college, we would often do 100 meters in around 1:30 for warmup. Consequently, 300 meters would take 4 minutes and 30 seconds; basic swimming, not even getting out of breath. We could go THOUSANDS of meters at that pace (which is still faster than what this contraption does). So technically, this really isnt all that fast.
To obtain default in a court situation means that you assert some facts to be true, and the other side has to requit the claims. In this case, the court said "you have the files on your harddrive; give them to use to prove or disprove guilt." She defaulted by destroying the proof of her innocence/guilt. She turned over tampered evidence and therefore destroyed her own credibility.
I recently started playing Settlers of Catan with some friends. It is a very engaging game that can last 5 minutes or a few hours. It makes room for more social interaction than most other games. If they had a non XBOX 360 version of this, one for the computer, in other words, then I would definitely get in on it online.
The faster the chip cycles, the higher the communication frequency can be. It is difficult to do noise-reduction calculations on ultra-high frequency communications without chips that cycle at the rate of data transmission.
If only they truly had the technology they claim, they would have quickly been bought up by the GE's or Microsoft's of today. Does anyone here have any idea of the worth of an alogrithm that would automatically segment the entire human body for virtual exploratory surgery within reasonable timeframes?
I hate to burst your bubble, but HD is hardly "hardcore." Until you get into decoding signals of greater than 5 megapixels, you don't run into much trouble on current hardware. Encoding is a different beast because much of the pattern-matching used is slow; decoding modern codecs is usually a very fast and straight-forward operation that cannot always be split up into multiple cores (the patterns might overlap more regions than that core should render, therefore each core would have to have the complete dataset because of data propagation [unless, of course, you don't do incremental updates, but if you don't then you run into the bandwidth issues you originally tried to bypass]).
I played the freely available single-player demo; for the hour or so of gameplay it gave it was amazingly interesting. The portal technology (gimmick) really makes me want to play Valve's Portal to see what kind of player-made content (read: puzzles) we can get out of it. I agree 100% with everything said about this game in the review; the rock discussed was even in the demo. Go check it out.
If you look at the levels in the video, the levels/texturing was extremely simple. This means that the engine could render each view into a texture (some tricks are involved if it is nested) relatively easily. If there were 257 views (from 16 portals looking at 16 other portals), but each one was just a plain box, then rendering it would still be relatively fast on today's hardware.
Clearly "in everyone's best interest" means "in Microsoft's interest." See, if 90% of the vulnerabilities found are part of Microsoft products, and they don't have time to patch them before they get exploited, then too many people will get burned for using the insecure software with the vulnerabilities. This in turn will pull those same users to the places that they find less threatening to their well being.
The only way I can see something like public disclosure helping Microsoft would be to find vulnerabilities in the competition and disclose THEM publicly, all in order to discredit said competition. The hard part with that way of doing things involves the fact that the competition will probably have the code fixed within hours or days (without creating more vulnerabilities) compared to Microsoft's own lengthy patch procedure.
Apparently you never played Tyrian, Conquest of the New World, Settlers 2, High-Octane or any other game written for DOS that barely ran correctly in windows 98. These games won't run without some sort of workaround, let alone natively, in any operating system newer than Windows 98 SE. Sometimes I like to whip out the virtual machine and play a few oldschool games (the fun ones where there is more interesting things to do and the graphics don't matter). Sometimes, the sound doesn't work correctly in the VM, so having an oldschool pentium laying around with win98 on it can be useful.
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Wow, that was a good laugh, accentuated only by the fact that I thought the same thing!
BTW, it's "Bimmer" but you had the pronunciation correct.
Apparently you are not informed that without a method of making a hole large enough for a man or car to fit through, rapidly i might add, to the side of the plane, it will NOT explosively depressurize. Go look it up, google is your best friend my uninformed fellow slashdotter. If you would like food for thought, if you don't believe me, then how could the ISS leak O2 from the cabin and not explosively depressurize? Sure the hole MIGHT be a lot smaller, but at the same time, im DEAD CERTAIN the pressure difference (which is what matters) is significantly greater. I for one would support a manditory "no child left behind without a gun" rule. Get them 18, give them a gun, train them, and set them on their way. In the case of deranged lunatics (people like to cite this as a problem) (terrorists are also deranged lunatics) losing their cool and trying to shoot people, everyone else will take them down first. It's not like someone mentally unstable would actually be able to get off more than a round before being nullified. (People like to say "but what if the idiot starts shooting?" the response is "SHOOT BACK!")
By the way Locutus, for your own edification, it is "a university" rather than "an university." The requirements for "a" and "an" have to do with the sound of the initial letter. Since the 'U' in University is not a vowel sound, "a" is accepted. However, since I don't mean this to be a derogatory post, I would like to add that it was refreshing reading someone who had proper grammar and spelling besides the aforementioned, minor nitpick. Slashdot is rife with posts that are painful to read, especially when they are obviously trying very hard at being proper.
Yes, and I personally found it to be much much better than the BOINC system they use now.
This rig would be awesome to take to the local Rock Climbing gym, or even outdoors, to capture the motions involved in rock climbing. Finally something that can capture it in 3D, compared to the current 2D methods used (video cameras arent enough to fully visualize the moves 100% of the time).
Who the fuck is Giselle Bundchen? Google turned up some pictures of a model, but like all other models she is extraordinarily thin. Is there anything specific that makes this model unique?
There's a better way of looking at it... optimism is the defect.
As a pessimist, I personally am happier than every optimist I know. Here's why I'm always happy:
1) If I expect the worst, and someone excellent happens, then awesome!
And now the good part:
2) If i expect the worst, and it actually does happen, then at least I was right!
it is totally opposite for optimists, if someone goes wrong then not only are the wrong, but they are also unhappy, my way you always win
It's called NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard).
When you look at it on the higher-resolution image, there is fading around it, and if they were "bubbles" then that could be a pile of debris stacked inside it?
If you look closely at what they describe as "Inky Stains" on Iapetus, they look more like burst bubbles. If you consider a consistent direction for the sun's light, and look at the pictures that overlap with different shades of shadow, it looks like the surface of the satellite was covered by air pockets and they happened to either cave in or break. The edges seem slightly too jagged and defined for them to be "stains." Compare "Inky stains on a frozen moon" to "Iapetus Flyby Raw Preview #13" and you can see what I'm talking about. I don't think those are discolorations, they look like caverns.
Seeing as how I was a competitive swimmer in highschool and college, we would often do 100 meters in around 1:30 for warmup. Consequently, 300 meters would take 4 minutes and 30 seconds; basic swimming, not even getting out of breath. We could go THOUSANDS of meters at that pace (which is still faster than what this contraption does). So technically, this really isnt all that fast.
It's Valentine Michael Smith, hence, VMS, not MVS. If you are going to quote Heinlein you might as well do it correctly.
To obtain default in a court situation means that you assert some facts to be true, and the other side has to requit the claims. In this case, the court said "you have the files on your harddrive; give them to use to prove or disprove guilt." She defaulted by destroying the proof of her innocence/guilt. She turned over tampered evidence and therefore destroyed her own credibility.
I recently started playing Settlers of Catan with some friends. It is a very engaging game that can last 5 minutes or a few hours. It makes room for more social interaction than most other games. If they had a non XBOX 360 version of this, one for the computer, in other words, then I would definitely get in on it online.
The faster the chip cycles, the higher the communication frequency can be. It is difficult to do noise-reduction calculations on ultra-high frequency communications without chips that cycle at the rate of data transmission.
What happens when our religion is our IT work? Then when we practice it, wouldn't it become a viscious spiral into hell?
If only they truly had the technology they claim, they would have quickly been bought up by the GE's or Microsoft's of today. Does anyone here have any idea of the worth of an alogrithm that would automatically segment the entire human body for virtual exploratory surgery within reasonable timeframes?
I hate to burst your bubble, but HD is hardly "hardcore." Until you get into decoding signals of greater than 5 megapixels, you don't run into much trouble on current hardware. Encoding is a different beast because much of the pattern-matching used is slow; decoding modern codecs is usually a very fast and straight-forward operation that cannot always be split up into multiple cores (the patterns might overlap more regions than that core should render, therefore each core would have to have the complete dataset because of data propagation [unless, of course, you don't do incremental updates, but if you don't then you run into the bandwidth issues you originally tried to bypass]).
I played the freely available single-player demo; for the hour or so of gameplay it gave it was amazingly interesting. The portal technology (gimmick) really makes me want to play Valve's Portal to see what kind of player-made content (read: puzzles) we can get out of it. I agree 100% with everything said about this game in the review; the rock discussed was even in the demo. Go check it out.
This is clearly a slashvertizement.
If you look at the levels in the video, the levels/texturing was extremely simple. This means that the engine could render each view into a texture (some tricks are involved if it is nested) relatively easily. If there were 257 views (from 16 portals looking at 16 other portals), but each one was just a plain box, then rendering it would still be relatively fast on today's hardware.
Clearly "in everyone's best interest" means "in Microsoft's interest." See, if 90% of the vulnerabilities found are part of Microsoft products, and they don't have time to patch them before they get exploited, then too many people will get burned for using the insecure software with the vulnerabilities. This in turn will pull those same users to the places that they find less threatening to their well being.
The only way I can see something like public disclosure helping Microsoft would be to find vulnerabilities in the competition and disclose THEM publicly, all in order to discredit said competition. The hard part with that way of doing things involves the fact that the competition will probably have the code fixed within hours or days (without creating more vulnerabilities) compared to Microsoft's own lengthy patch procedure.
Strafe jumping is bunny hopping...
Apparently you never played Tyrian, Conquest of the New World, Settlers 2, High-Octane or any other game written for DOS that barely ran correctly in windows 98. These games won't run without some sort of workaround, let alone natively, in any operating system newer than Windows 98 SE. Sometimes I like to whip out the virtual machine and play a few oldschool games (the fun ones where there is more interesting things to do and the graphics don't matter). Sometimes, the sound doesn't work correctly in the VM, so having an oldschool pentium laying around with win98 on it can be useful.