For some reason the parent post was moderated down.
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> Mirror (Score:0) > by elnerdoricardo (637672) on Thu 02 Jan 09:26AM (#4997447) > > Here, I put up a temporary mirror in case this site melts... > > Coyote Gulch Mirror > > Be gentle! I'm sure my server is meltable, too!;)
I just tested it, and it appears to be goatse.cx free.
Due to this excellent program I have now just purchased an e-book that I had otherwise avoided because I could not view it on my Palm V. Now thanks to clit.exe and Plucker, I can.
Thanks to everyone involved!
I don't pretend to be the general case - but programs like this seem to encourage me to buy more copyrighted works - I bought a lot more CDs when Napster was still with us as well...
The price they're quoting includes VAT (Value Added Tax), which currently runs at 17.5% in the UK. Take off the VAT and you're down to about $153. But stuff in the UK always costs more than in the US anyway.
It may well be possible to create reccommendations for new books, if you're already selling a load of books. The idea that you can tell what kind of clothes people will like from their book buying habits without any previous purchasing information obviously not going to work.
You're making something out of nothing. How the hell did this get to the front page?
The one I have has single Nimh cell, a tiny motor (probably similar to those used in pagers and mobile phones for vibration) a couple of coils and a tiny magnet. In mine there is no proportional control. One of the cool things is that a bunch of people have started using these as the basis of tiny indoor remote controlled planes - in fact I bought mine specifically to rip apart for that purpose. Unfortunately the car itself was so much fun that I haven't had the heart so far to do anything with it;-)
Anyway, There's a very interesting thread at www.rcgroups.com about converting these things into aeroplanes - definitely worth a look. There are also some guys trying to make them into helicopters, although I think they may need rather more more modification than the planes do...
This isn't your Grandad's 'virtual rollercoaster'. Firstly, it doesn't have any Computer Graphics - it's basically a huge robot arm with a couple of seats attatched. It looks like it could move you in any direction it felt like, and fast too. This isn't just a small movie screen on a motion base...
"Most best selling author�s are over forty"
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Never use an apostrophe in front of an 's' when you are creating the plural of a singluar noun.
Well, he's written so little that in the report that it's not clear what he means.
Perhaps, for instance, he simply meant that it was a feature request rather than a bug.
My point is that you can't really tell what his position is on it from such a small amount of information. It might just be a spur of the moment thing for him - "Ahh - M$ users - I can't be bothered - I have enough on my plate", which is certainly something that might be changed by a well reasoned email.
As for the nick - no I've never lived in the States - I just made it up when I first chose my hotmail address.
I don't believe that's actually always the case. I have a friend who works for the Surrey Space Centre on very small satellites - I was chatting to him down the pub about it one day and I was quite surprised to find out that it ran on an ordinary StrongArm Chip running at something like 133Mhz (Sorry - I don't recall the exact speed).
However, I suppose it's possible that the nanosatellite they built was sufficiently close to the earth to be sheilded from the radiation you speak of...
The thing to note here is that your shotgun will still be just as useful in twenty years time. A 60bg hard drive will be next to useless by then as it probably won't even be big enough to hold the new demo of Quake XVII.
That's almost a defining point of gadgets - they'll be obselete in a couple of years time. Obviously there are things (like portable CD players) which could have quite a long useful life, but they don't tend to be so durable largely because their lightness and compactness tends to be one of their big selling points. I'm sure you could make a cast-iron portable CD player, but I don't think anyone would buy it!
I'm not worried about my choice of camera - I didn't actually buy it specifically for taking HDR photos - it's just a good example of the kind of way in which you might want to customise the firmware. I was tempted by the Nikon 4500, but I wanted a longer zoom. The Fuji may only have 3 bracketing shots, but otherwise it does seem very flexible.
Yeah, sorry - bracketing - I only just got the camera, but as on the Fuji you can set the amount by which it changes the exposure each way, it should be possible to use it for generating the HDR images that we normally by setting the exposure by hand for each shot. Normally we use a higher end SLR digital, but if you adjust the exposure by hand you can sometimes jog the camera on its tripod, that results in the images being slightly offset. With cameras like the Nikon D1 you control them from an attached laptop, but it's easier if you can get the camera to do them itself.
I've recently bought a Fuji S602Z - lovely camera, but there are a few little features it'd be nice to have that it doesn't have at present. I'm sure many of them wouldn't be too hard to code, but currently I just have to hope that Fuji will make the changes in any firmware update that they do.
An example is exposure gating. Currently my camera will take a series of three pictures, one normal, and two with slightly higher and lower exposure levels than the current setting. I'd like to be able to set this to five or more levels as it would be very useful for taking high dynamic range pictures. (You take a series of pictures at different exposures and combine them to produce a pictures that that a might higher range than a standard picture) Unfortunately, it's a bit of a niche need (useful largely only in post-production) and it seems unlikely that Fuji will implement it.
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So you say that MS couldn't handle more than 5000 developers... How exactly would they all be handled with Linux? You'd have thought if there was some magic pixie dust that you could sprinkle on Linux development that would make it cope with that kind of developer input, they'd have tried it at Microsoft...
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For some reason the parent post was moderated down.
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> Mirror (Score:0)
> by elnerdoricardo (637672) on Thu 02 Jan 09:26AM (#4997447)
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> Here, I put up a temporary mirror in case this site melts...
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> Coyote Gulch Mirror
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> Be gentle! I'm sure my server is meltable, too!
I just tested it, and it appears to be goatse.cx free.
Due to this excellent program I have now just purchased an e-book that I had otherwise avoided because I could not view it on my Palm V. Now thanks to clit.exe and Plucker, I can.
Thanks to everyone involved!
I don't pretend to be the general case - but programs like this seem to encourage me to buy more copyrighted works - I bought a lot more CDs when Napster was still with us as well...
The price they're quoting includes VAT (Value Added Tax), which currently runs at 17.5% in the UK. Take off the VAT and you're down to about $153. But stuff in the UK always costs more than in the US anyway.
It may well be possible to create reccommendations for new books, if you're already selling a load of books. The idea that you can tell what kind of clothes people will like from their book buying habits without any previous purchasing information obviously not going to work.
You're making something out of nothing. How the hell did this get to the front page?
The one I have has single Nimh cell, a tiny motor (probably similar to those used in pagers and mobile phones for vibration) a couple of coils and a tiny magnet. In mine there is no proportional control. One of the cool things is that a bunch of people have started using these as the basis of tiny indoor remote controlled planes - in fact I bought mine specifically to rip apart for that purpose. Unfortunately the car itself was so much fun that I haven't had the heart so far to do anything with it ;-)
Anyway, There's a very interesting thread at www.rcgroups.com about converting these things into aeroplanes - definitely worth a look. There are also some guys trying to make them into helicopters, although I think they may need rather more more modification than the planes do...
Space Moose says so! (Search for 'gay couple')...
It's always important for any Grammar Nazi post to have a subtle error in it.
This isn't your Grandad's 'virtual rollercoaster'. Firstly, it doesn't have any Computer Graphics - it's basically a huge robot arm with a couple of seats attatched. It looks like it could move you in any direction it felt like, and fast too. This isn't just a small movie screen on a motion base...
Never use an apostrophe in front of an 's' when you are creating the plural of a singluar noun.
follow my .sig...
Moderator, I love you!
... it's called 'Slashdot'. You should read it sometime.
Thank you - it's always a pleasure to learn something new.
Yes.
Well, he's written so little that in the report that it's not clear what he means.
Perhaps, for instance, he simply meant that it was a feature request rather than a bug.
My point is that you can't really tell what his position is on it from such a small amount of information. It might just be a spur of the moment thing for him - "Ahh - M$ users - I can't be bothered - I have enough on my plate", which is certainly something that might be changed by a well reasoned email.
As for the nick - no I've never lived in the States - I just made it up when I first chose my hotmail address.
I don't believe that's actually always the case. I have a friend who works for the Surrey Space Centre on very small satellites - I was chatting to him down the pub about it one day and I was quite surprised to find out that it ran on an ordinary StrongArm Chip running at something like 133Mhz (Sorry - I don't recall the exact speed).
However, I suppose it's possible that the nanosatellite they built was sufficiently close to the earth to be sheilded from the radiation you speak of...
I'm sure that you can get almost anything you like as sturdy as Pioneer 10 if you're prepared to spend $300 million on getting it built...
(Pioneer 10 cost $75 million in the 1970s - which corresponds to something like $300 million today.)
Have you spoken to CmdrTaco about this? He can be quite good at responding to polite emails...
It's certainly likely to get your further than another offtopic Slashdot rant will.
cheers,
Tim
This is an opensource forum with pro-free software people
No it's not. It's just 'News for Nerds'.
Yes, it has a pro-free pro-open-source software bent, but not to the exclusion of everything else. Don't assume that everybody here is a Linuxhead.
The thing to note here is that your shotgun will still be just as useful in twenty years time. A 60bg hard drive will be next to useless by then as it probably won't even be big enough to hold the new demo of Quake XVII.
That's almost a defining point of gadgets - they'll be obselete in a couple of years time. Obviously there are things (like portable CD players) which could have quite a long useful life, but they don't tend to be so durable largely because their lightness and compactness tends to be one of their big selling points. I'm sure you could make a cast-iron portable CD player, but I don't think anyone would buy it!
I'm not worried about my choice of camera - I didn't actually buy it specifically for taking HDR photos - it's just a good example of the kind of way in which you might want to customise the firmware. I was tempted by the Nikon 4500, but I wanted a longer zoom. The Fuji may only have 3 bracketing shots, but otherwise it does seem very flexible.
Yeah, sorry - bracketing - I only just got the camera, but as on the Fuji you can set the amount by which it changes the exposure each way, it should be possible to use it for generating the HDR images that we normally by setting the exposure by hand for each shot. Normally we use a higher end SLR digital, but if you adjust the exposure by hand you can sometimes jog the camera on its tripod, that results in the images being slightly offset. With cameras like the Nikon D1 you control them from an attached laptop, but it's easier if you can get the camera to do them itself.
I've recently bought a Fuji S602Z - lovely camera, but there are a few little features it'd be nice to have that it doesn't have at present. I'm sure many of them wouldn't be too hard to code, but currently I just have to hope that Fuji will make the changes in any firmware update that they do.
An example is exposure gating. Currently my camera will take a series of three pictures, one normal, and two with slightly higher and lower exposure levels than the current setting. I'd like to be able to set this to five or more levels as it would be very useful for taking high dynamic range pictures. (You take a series of pictures at different exposures and combine them to produce a pictures that that a might higher range than a standard picture) Unfortunately, it's a bit of a niche need (useful largely only in post-production) and it seems unlikely that Fuji will implement it.
So you say that MS couldn't handle more than 5000 developers... How exactly would they all be handled with Linux? You'd have thought if there was some magic pixie dust that you could sprinkle on Linux development that would make it cope with that kind of developer input, they'd have tried it at Microsoft...
I thought it was an honest question... Ah well!