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It is actually considered a "major world city" by this UK data center. And this list from a Japanese site. And even this GitHub project.

A few links could of course have helped this article... I think contourcrafting.org seems to be more or less the right page for the California project. The videos and animations are quite worth seeing.

For the Loughborough one, the closest I could come up with was Dr Soar's website...

how much more power do games really need? Many games are perfectly enjoyable on systems like the Mega Drive already. The hardware capabilities of the game consoles of today are very close to just how much you need, because the human eye has it's own, physiological, treshold.

We are nowhere near our physical thresholds - the human eye can respond to a difference in line alignment of a few seconds of arc - the width of a pencil at 300 meters (look up hyperacuity). The eye can detect the presence of a single photon. But we're far, far away from that level of realism.

Consider it this way - if your gaming system can't render, say, The Incredibles (or any modern CG film) in real time, then it still has room for improvement. Until you literally cannot tell the difference between a console-rendered shot and a photograph, there is a use for more power. Sure, gameplay is important too, and games with bad graphics can be fun, but better graphics do improve the experience, and we have a long way to go before full photorealism.

It's not even close. This makes Milkdrop look like a joke; the video's awesome

furthermore, his previous work is basically the foundation for much of modern audio visualization programs (iTunes; WinAmp, WinMediaPlayer, various xmmc plugins). this software is likely to further influence the field, given it's unique qualities. there has been some experimentation with 3d visualizations and various filters and effects, but this is pretty much state of the art. it's running in HD, and quite fluidly. it's realtime interactive, and it should be pretty accessible being in ROM and using a wireless analouge controller. 4 people can control the thing simultaneously using a variety of control inputs (buttons, sticks,.. I don't know the exact mappings). impressively, this thing is under a half meg of code. check out the video's, which are compressed, low resolution, low framerate relative to the actual realtime xbox360 HD output...

For the people wondering what the fuss is about watch this: http://continuity.lboro.ac.uk:8080/

Err. Somewhere. The paper I saw was by ... rummages on desk ... Dr A Kay of Loughbrough University, UK His web page isn't terribly up to date, though.

With two weeks to go until the deadline of my dissertation, finally I find proof that weblogs actually do have a use for professional organisations. The last place I thought I'd find it was from Microsoft!

Some links (click the 1's). Some are for dylexics but still relevent for all since pretty much all of us are capable of visual thought...:

Some links (click the 1's). Some are for dylexics but still relevent for all since pretty much all of us are capable of visual thought...:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/CIFS/cifs.html

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Yes I am replying to myself.

You might want to look at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/el/teachingzone /cae/coursework/reports/apostrophe.html where they specifically use "CDs" as an example of a plural that "NEVER EVER" needs an apostrophe. The confusion arises because plurals of letters and numbers do take apostrophes as in "Missippi has two p's." "Use an apostrophe and s to form the plural of letters, numbers, and signs, and for words referred to as words." (Punctuation Rules)

CD is either an abbreviation of cd-rom that doesn't use periods period or it is an acronym for Compact Disc. In either case, cd has become a word in its own right in the same way that scuba has. The confusion arises because we pronounce the word as if it were just the letters and letters do take the apostrophe.

A more interesting report from overseas can be found here.

this is the only simputer a gnu/linux user needs!

I'm wary of all these new 82-button controllers with orgasm mode. And here's why.

The article mentions Ellula Sounds Ltd. (not to be confused with EULA). A quick google search gives an article with a picture. See also Ellula's corporate page.

--Ben

PR stuff on the retail version:Inflatable sound system blows the opposition away

The Loughborough University HUSAT lab

You might want to email them, either to get some information, or to point them to the discussion board here and get them to participate (which would be my preferred option :-)

Enjoy,
Ralf M

A few caveats about interpreting this study:

1) Extra activation != increased brainpower
A variety of conditions, such as seizures, frontal lobe damage, and schizophrenia can all produce increased neurological activity. Now, I'm not saying that what we see here is of this pathological variety. The release states that sleep-deprived subjects who showed more abnormal activation did better than those with less -- but not better than those who showed none at all as a result of having adequate sleep. As Gillin suggests, it seems to be some sort of compensatory mechanism, rather than an overall advantage.

2) Extra activation is not necessarily healthy
More neurological activity is not necessarily sustainable or healthy. In extreme cases, brain cells can even be killed by overexcitation, although personally I'm only aware of drug models for this phenomenon.

3) Take Gillin's general comments on sleep deprivation with a grain of salt
The author of the study editorializes a bit towards the end of the release. There's no doubt that sleep deprivation impairs concentration and mental ability, or that many people do suffer from the condition. But her suggestion that sleep deprivation is endemic and terribly costly to society is not yet an established fact. Here are a few articles that challenge her stance, without disagreeing on the basic nature of sleep deprivation.

- Michael Cohn