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Journeyman Geek

12:11 AM

There is no spammer. ONLY ZUUL.

Psycogeek

تحميل،اغانى،البوم،اليسا،الجديد،حالة،حب،تحميل،واستماع،اغنية،“حلوة،يا بلدى" Translation , drat I have been had again :-)

Michael Frank

12:48 AM

ugh... just been serial upvoted. :<

One upvote for a recent answer... then one upvote each for my top 3 answers o.O

Psycogeek

uhh the recent one was me :-) so that is only 3

Michael Frank

ahh well... 3 is not so bad, I guess?

Psycogeek

the others indeed do not seem to relate to anything.

HackToHell

1:21 AM

ifixit.com/Teardown/Oculus+Rift+Development+Kit+2+Teardown/…

Michael Frank

1:32 AM

@HackToHell i did not realise they use a galaxy note 3 panel...

HackToHell

@MichaelFrank yeah, it's the entire front panel :D

Psycogeek

My opinion of how oculus rift has improved the kludge of VR.

I work out of my garage, using parts and pieces of other stuff , and can kluge together something that is less messy weighs less, and doesnt have to have the display altered because the optics are not correct.

they coulndt even pick the correct lens ? instead of getting the micro LCD pannels that have ezisted for 5+ years and have full res, they put a cell phone in front of your face.

One more time proper steroscopic VR is destroyed by crappy implementations wires everywhere, and bulkey face kludges that are designs from 1970

Psycogeek

2:00 AM

1995 :-)

As bad as the res was, and mono color, it at least had adjustment for distance between eyes, and focus for each eye.

Bob

2:16 AM

Given the choice between a $200 Android tablet and a $300 Win8Pro tablet, I'll take the Win8Pro one any day.

Psycogeek

2008, low res movie viewer , basic blurry low res junk. same basic designs available direct from china for ~$100 .

But general proof that it is possible to wedge it all into a much smaller package, using known available technology.

people shold expect that a full res picture delivered to both eyes (not split out to 2) Usable for anything that already outputs a digital signal without special apps, or special changes

should be no bigger than something like ^ that.

HackToHell

2:31 AM

Screw wakelocks

SystemUI keeps taking a wakelock for AlarmManager -_-

I have to use a third party app to get my phone ot Deep Sleep

Psycogeek

Patented in 1969 :-) using CRT , the rift is like it brings back the first time a 5" crt screen existed and some kid put a magnifying glass in front of it, and everyone went wow. All around the rift development is for smaller lighter less kludgy, but the rift wins the Social media

HackToHell

2:48 AM

@Psycogeek What happens if the CRT implodes

:O

Journeyman Geek

3:36 AM

techreport.com/news/26846/…

0_0

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Might as well stick with mineral oil.

Psycogeek

3:55 AM

but will it wash the dishes?

Journeyman Geek

4:09 AM

actually

good soldering iron cleaning sponges are made of brass wool ;p

Psycogeek

I would think that the germans could pull it off. every passive attempt that i have ever made benefits like night and day once you push the tiniest ammount of moving air across it.

I like this look better, a grid instead of a random.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek And they're not supposed to be heatsinks.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: in a sense they are, slightly

and I was meaning the 'will it wash dishes' part ;p

Psycogeek

like everyone passive before them, i wonder what provisions have been made to also cool voltage regulators. even with haswell built in secondary regulators, they still are having to do major power conversions stuff on motherboard itself. And capacitors, which nobody ever respects as needing to stay cooler?

Journeyman Geek

meh, just encase the entire system in a solid block of copper ;p

Psycogeek

4:19 AM

copper transfers the heat from one end of itself to the other well, but all that physics goes out the door when just moving it around "faster" didnt include getting it OUT :-)

Psycogeek

4:31 AM

I have asked before if there was some way to "puff" copper, to have one end of it be solid dense block, and the other end to be all low density. I guess were a few years away from higgs vaccume nanotube copper extraction forge .

And popcorn was so easy.

Psycogeek

4:44 AM

It is important to make up the names of something you want, then put it in a sci-fi flick. for 10 years afterwards some scientist will be trying to turn the fiction into reality.

Just waiting for them to finish the transporter.

Journeyman Geek

5:19 AM

Clippy mic stands are awesome.

Bob

6:01 AM

Hm. $330 return airfare to Singapore :P

Psycogeek

Journeyman Geek

6:21 AM

;p

hackaday.com/2014/07/31/playing-starcraft-on-an-arm/…

holy cow

HackToHell

forum.truecrypt.ch/t/hidden-message-in-truecrypt-org-website/…

Journeyman Geek

6:37 AM

@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ: arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/…

@HackToHell: Meh, its going to turn into a campfire story

"And... one night, the truecrypt developers vanished, leaving nothing but a cryptic message...."

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Psycogeek

@HackToHell lol the true sence of a cryptor

" it would only apply the policy to users who are no longer under contract and still have grandfathered unlimited data" that is like saying "it only applies to ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ" bet that will make him happy.

Journeyman Geek

7:06 AM

lol

Oliver Salzburg

7:24 AM

file and folder are down to ~1.8k questions combined. Nice job!

Journeyman Geek

lol

yanno, we really should just declare open season on a few tags one day a month

hell with flooding the front page

Psycogeek

thats not really the front page :-) thats the moderators watch list. the real front page is Question Newest, everything else has moved to a page behind it :-)

Oliver Salzburg

@Psycogeek Well said. The true addicts watch the Newest page!

I've only had tag cleanup pages open for at least a month now though

Michael Frank

8:49 AM

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Q: An unknown tool is wiping our Virtual Machines and we can't ID it

A console view of a Windows 2008 R2 VM, on vSphere is showing the following screen: "Operation 2 of 2" "Wiping disk" Can someone advise on what this program is? Some information on this mystery: A number of VMs are now effected. The symptom is after reboot "OS not found" message is appearin...

I'm sad that was never answered :<

Journeyman Geek

9:18 AM

so am I

Journeyman Geek

9:39 AM

ugh

superuser.com/questions/791058/… spam or not spam? (and I had trouble which close reason to use. "All of them" isn't an option)

slhck

OOP advice needed

@JourneymanGeek Seems ok, just blatantly off topic

Bob

@slhck OOP? Object Oriented Programming?

slhck

@Bob Yep

Bob

I kinda want to !!meta you now :P

slhck

:P

I'm modeling a system which is able to test things with different websites. For example, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Now, somewhere in my system, each of these websites needs to be dealt with differently, i.e. different behavior. Those websites are still of the same class though.

It's going to be a Rails app.

When I create a model named "Technology" (or "Website"), then how would I implement the different behavior?

I don't want a model for each website type, since there's only one instance.

Bob

9:51 AM

Strategy pattern + a factory to select the strategy? shrug I was never much good with OOP patterns.

slhck

Hm. Doesn't seem too bad. I'm just thinking if I'll ever be able to get rid of a "switch" statement that's probably going to be needed

I think I'm going to create a Technology model where each technology has to have a unique name, and if a new one is added later, it's going to have to call a separate class for its behavior

Bob

@slhck There's plenty of ways to late-bind it.

Psycogeek

11:41 AM

"Will the clarity of 1280*524 be approximately same as 1280*720 when played on a 45 inch 3D HDTV?" Closed as Opinion? superuser.com/questions/786443/… I do not see where a person asking if an aspect change to a video that is the same resolution , would create an opinion based question?

They are Both "720" or in the sony world they are both "1280" resolutions , one is just using a 1-2.3 aspect or whatever they call wide view. So the question, that is actually asked minus the background data is mathamatically provable, fits within the laws of physics , and is technically answerable without being opinion.

Ahh change that to same DPI, assuming that inches even exist in the scenario. because indeed the resolution is not the same numbers.

With sonys high end equiptment because of the 2.1&2.3 and other aspects that can be created by the software in the processing engine just blacking the top and bottom of the whole to save out the capture in wide screen formats, they do not use 720 1080 . they instead only use the horizontal res.

So odd as it seems at first 720 is SD in them, and 1280, 1440, and 1920 are the HD resolutions.

By fact not opinion a wide screen 1280 resolution will be just as clear and "vivid" as a 1280 resolution wide screen, there will just be less picture at the top and bottom.

ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ

12:50 PM

TIL some parking garages say "garage full" when they're not really, just to keep non-tenants from parking there

Journeyman Geek

lol

@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ: ours have designated resident parks

and the number of lots reflects the number of guest lots

ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ

at ours I had to give them the "password" .... The name of our company. Lol

Journeyman Geek

(of course, our carpark is oversized ;p)

ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ

Lucky. This one I'm lucky to have fit in the entrance

Journeyman Geek

@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ: basically in the good old days they used standardised designs...

our carpark is ~2x as big as we need

Ash

12:56 PM

Novell is the owner of the Unix copyrights [wiki].Does they relate in any way to Linux ?

Journeyman Geek

nope

Ash

And is there a company that can be related to Linux ?

that holds any copyrights ?

Besides FSF ?

Journeyman Geek

Linux foundation

Ash

thanks

!!information

ChatBot John Cavil

@Ash That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

Journeyman Geek

1:36 PM

@Ash: the situation with the unix copyrights is interesting. Basically, they own the name

But there's bits of classic unix code probably still in say solaris

hm, actually no

The unix name belongs to The Open Group. The old unix business that novell owned belonged to SCO, but the software wasn't

and this SCO isn't exactly the SCO that sued everyone

(since the unix business of SCO got sold to caldera, who renamed themselves SCO after a while, and the rump of old SCO renamed itself tarentella and got bought by sun and...)

Man, Unix is worse than a megaserial ;p

HackToHell

2:43 PM

Psycogeek

2:53 PM

ahh much better

Bob

3:05 PM

o.O

EmDrive

EmDrive (also Relativity Drive) is the name of a spacecraft propulsion system proposed by British aerospace engineer Roger J. Shawyer, who develops prototypes at Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd (SPR), the company he created for that purpose in 2000. New Scientist ran a cover story on EmDrive in its 8 September 2006 issue. The device uses a magnetron producing microwaves directed inside a specially shaped, fully enclosed tapering high Q resonant cavity whose area is greater at one end, upon which radiation pressure would act differently due to a relativistic effect caused by the action of group...

@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ ^

I wonder if that would find its way into KSP

Vader

just add more boosters

Psycogeek

to get extra speed in a vaccume of space with nothing to Push against, it is important to take a lot of people with you.

then push them out the airlock :-)

Vader

o.O

your evil deeds kill innocent kerbals

Psycogeek

Oh come now they were all dying to go into space.

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Bob

3:21 PM

lol

HackToHell

4:02 PM

►

^ movie has awesome footage of fighter jets ;p

That Brazilian Guy

Why can I only edit questions with a 15s interval between each edit?

How am I supposed to ~~insert a lot of viagra links~~ help exterminating tags such as file and folder?

DragonLord

5:08 PM

After lots of hesitation, I've finally decided to put up a Bitcoin address for donations on my website

I've always felt that Bitcoin is a commodity more than it is a currency

but it's getting mainstream acceptance--heck, even Dell now takes bitcoin

Overstock.com has accepted bitcoin for a while

Newegg has recently started to accept bitcoin, too

What are your thoughts on bitcoin today? Is it stable enough for everyday use?

skullpatrol

5:36 PM

@Oliver Salzburg is it a bad idea to use a vacuum to clean out the fan on an overheating lap top?

Oliver Salzburg

5:55 PM

That depends on how fast it'll make your fans spin

Boris_yo

6:21 PM

@JourneymanGeek How can Sennheiser RS170 operate on 2.4 - 2.8GHz?

skullpatrol

6:41 PM

Thanks for answering @Oliver Salzburg

Oliver Salzburg

7:01 PM

I would have given a longer answer but am AFK

skullpatrol

Np

Michael Frank

9:18 PM

@HackToHell French military movies are always awesome.

@HackToHell This movie is amazing. :D

Seth

10:54 PM

Anyone know of a program that does something similar to briefcases?

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Q: Alternative to Windows Briefcases for syncing folders on the computer with removable drives

Up until Windows 8, Windows had a feature called "Briefcases" which would help you sync folders on your computer(s) with removable drives (and vice versa). This feature was removed in Windows 8. I know that you can get briefcases to work with Windows 8, but it is buggy and may be removed at any t...

gratis windows-8 file-synchronization usb

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