The eye has only about about 7 million cones (the detail receptors in the eye)... since each cone only sees one color, that yields 233k "pixels" (ok ok, i know the cones aren't split evenly amoung RG and B)... or an image of about 1500 x 1500 pixels.
The reason we perceive a higher resolution than that has to do with the rate at which our brain samples these photoreceptors compared to the frame rate at which we see... i.e. the frame rate of the human eye might be somewhere in the 30-60 FPS range, but our brain gets info from our eye (or at least some receptors in our) more often than that. Read about sub-pixel interpolation in the other posts in this thread.
Also, check out this site: http://webvision.med.utah.edu/temporal.html
This is an argument for making those cards smart card where the value is _on_ the card. Recovery of the value of a lost card would become impossible, but optional PIN #s could provide theft deterance ("Mr. Jones, the balance remaining on your card is $36.74. If you like you can enter a PIN on the pad in front of you to protect your card from theft").
I recently dropped a self owned startup for a "corporate" job working for the DoD...for the most part security restrictions make it dificult (i.e. a hassle) to take work home...needless to say, I'm loving it. When I'm at work, I get more done, when I'm at home I get more R&R...
Could it be that they are in such a position for air flow reasons? Apple's website has a nice little pic of cool are going in the bottom and coming out a slit in the top. This cornrow arangement of capacitors looks like it is conducive to air cooling, even if they are too close to other hot components.
Of course, if someone flys and blows up a plane during this test period, there would be an investigation. That investigation would show that the pasanger had been flagged, but not stopped. The system's implementors would loose credability and an even more draconian system would take its place.
might slightly be construed that way...but just so we all know where we stand i'll point out that there is a big difference between "evil dictator bad" and "us foreign policy good".
I assumed that the reason Iraq was doing well had to do with the fact that they don't face torture if the return home in defeat. Policy like that has tended to drive the big stars away over the past years.
Replace the homepage with tubgirl (if you don't know what tubgirl is, don't try to find out. if you know someone who knows, don't ask them to tell you about it. its that gross.)
The 2nd amendment isn't about self defence or hunting, it's about being able to overthrow our government should it become corrupt or to defend our homeland should our armed forces become lame.
Therefor, I declare, that we should all start stockpiling these homemade cruise misles in our basements and backyard sheds.
Oh I'm sure they will always sell up the latest and greatest to everyone. But a couple of months ago as I walked out of the store clutching my new Radeon card, I sure wasn't thinking "man, MS word is going to kick ass with this...and the spreadsheets, imagine the spreadsheets"...
Ooops...forgot to escape the "<" as <... I meant to write that as (<32")... I've alsways seen 32" as the midpoint between "big screen" and "small screen" according to national retailers. My TV is 32" and I consider it a big screen.
They claim that a single unit can project a "TV Sized Image". Assuming they meen a small screen TV (32") you would probably want at least four of these to start giving you a big screen image. I somehow don't think that would be cheaper than buying a single unit, and you're multiplying your points of failure by four (any one of four units dies, and your image is pretty much useless).
Now if this tech could be scaled up to make larger brighter projectors that are still small and low on power consumption, then we might be talkin'
Obviously this would hinge on cost, but I seems to me that this would make it much more practical to integrate projected images through a living or work space. A lot of futuristic concepts include projectors in their design, but these units are always large and ugly. Having projectors conveniently displaying information and entertainment (TV, artwork, notifications, etc.) on surfaces throughout the house would be "really neat"
and then the sytem decides what you are based on your capabilities and treats you accordingly.
This assumes that the system already knows about all possible capabilities and that it knows how to talk to everyone else.
I think the idea is that devices teach each other of their existence. It would be like if I bought a USB device (say a camera) that Windows didn't support, the camera would be able to bootstrap Windows with some drivers from its own firmware. The only thing that has to be prearanged is a protocol for this transaction. I don't need to maintain an extensive driver library for this to work.
A key touches the tumblers from outside in, but it doesn't set them until its all the way into the lock. If there were an electric interlock that detected pin activity, it wouldn't be that hard to defeat with a pick...just scrub down the pins before you start trying to set them, from the inside out.
In the states, SMS is generally more expensive than voice. The cariers are starting to come around, but for me anyway, I have to pay more for SMS while I have free nights, free weekends, free incoming calls and free long distance (and by free I meen, unmetered).
Loss of Privacy: Bad Non Nielson Family Gets Counted: Good
I kind of like the idea that what little TV a watch get counted and aggregated. Since you can't effectively vote for your programming preferences with your $$$, I like the idea of voting with my viewing habbits.
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... since each cone only sees one color, that yields 233k "pixels" (ok ok, i know the cones aren't split evenly amoung RG and B) ... or an image of about 1500 x 1500 pixels.
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The eye has only about about 7 million cones (the detail receptors in the eye)
The reason we perceive a higher resolution than that has to do with the rate at which our brain samples these photoreceptors compared to the frame rate at which we see... i.e. the frame rate of the human eye might be somewhere in the 30-60 FPS range, but our brain gets info from our eye (or at least some receptors in our) more often than that. Read about sub-pixel interpolation in the other posts in this thread.
Also, check out this site:
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/temporal.htm
Obligatory ST ref:
"Enhance...enhance...enhance...enhance"
This is an argument for making those cards smart card where the value is _on_ the card. Recovery of the value of a lost card would become impossible, but optional PIN #s could provide theft deterance ("Mr. Jones, the balance remaining on your card is $36.74. If you like you can enter a PIN on the pad in front of you to protect your card from theft").
I recently dropped a self owned startup for a "corporate" job working for the DoD...for the most part security restrictions make it dificult (i.e. a hassle) to take work home...needless to say, I'm loving it. When I'm at work, I get more done, when I'm at home I get more R&R...
Could it be that they are in such a position for air flow reasons? Apple's website has a nice little pic of cool are going in the bottom and coming out a slit in the top. This cornrow arangement of capacitors looks like it is conducive to air cooling, even if they are too close to other hot components.
I dunno.
Of course, if someone flys and blows up a plane during this test period, there would be an investigation. That investigation would show that the pasanger had been flagged, but not stopped. The system's implementors would loose credability and an even more draconian system would take its place.
might slightly be construed that way...but just so we all know where we stand i'll point out that there is a big difference between "evil dictator bad" and "us foreign policy good".
how much is a room in your sig going for?
I assumed that the reason Iraq was doing well had to do with the fact that they don't face torture if the return home in defeat. Policy like that has tended to drive the big stars away over the past years.
I think I know how to bring this thing to a head:
Replace the homepage with tubgirl
(if you don't know what tubgirl is, don't try to find out. if you know someone who knows, don't ask them to tell you about it. its that gross.)
~Adam
The 2nd amendment isn't about self defence or hunting, it's about being able to overthrow our government should it become corrupt or to defend our homeland should our armed forces become lame.
Therefor, I declare, that we should all start stockpiling these homemade cruise misles in our basements and backyard sheds.
what does this thread have to do with the kernel? I recall, from, ahem, the article, that the subject of the talk was the windows vs. linux kernels.
Thinkgeek should create a new shirt design.
Front:
i read your email.
Back:
legally.
Prices are only going up on more popular tracks.
Oh I'm sure they will always sell up the latest and greatest to everyone. But a couple of months ago as I walked out of the store clutching my new Radeon card, I sure wasn't thinking "man, MS word is going to kick ass with this...and the spreadsheets, imagine the spreadsheets"...
ha.
Is it possible that we've slashdotted the ad inventory for these AXA competitors thus effectively removing their ads from Google?
> Spreadsheets could offload all sorts of calculations
Yes. Faster spreadsheets. We must have faster spreadsheets.
"Near miss? It's a near hit! A collission is a near miss. BOOM! Look, they nearly missed"
-George Carlin
Ooops...forgot to escape the "<" as < ... I meant to write that as (<32") ... I've alsways seen 32" as the midpoint between "big screen" and "small screen" according to national retailers. My TV is 32" and I consider it a big screen.
They claim that a single unit can project a "TV Sized Image". Assuming they meen a small screen TV (32") you would probably want at least four of these to start giving you a big screen image. I somehow don't think that would be cheaper than buying a single unit, and you're multiplying your points of failure by four (any one of four units dies, and your image is pretty much useless).
Now if this tech could be scaled up to make larger brighter projectors that are still small and low on power consumption, then we might be talkin'
Obviously this would hinge on cost, but I seems to me that this would make it much more practical to integrate projected images through a living or work space. A lot of futuristic concepts include projectors in their design, but these units are always large and ugly. Having projectors conveniently displaying information and entertainment (TV, artwork, notifications, etc.) on surfaces throughout the house would be "really neat"
and then the sytem decides what you are based on your capabilities and treats you accordingly.
This assumes that the system already knows about all possible capabilities and that it knows how to talk to everyone else.
I think the idea is that devices teach each other of their existence. It would be like if I bought a USB device (say a camera) that Windows didn't support, the camera would be able to bootstrap Windows with some drivers from its own firmware. The only thing that has to be prearanged is a protocol for this transaction. I don't need to maintain an extensive driver library for this to work.
A key touches the tumblers from outside in, but it doesn't set them until its all the way into the lock. If there were an electric interlock that detected pin activity, it wouldn't be that hard to defeat with a pick...just scrub down the pins before you start trying to set them, from the inside out.
In the states, SMS is generally more expensive than voice. The cariers are starting to come around, but for me anyway, I have to pay more for SMS while I have free nights, free weekends, free incoming calls and free long distance (and by free I meen, unmetered).
Does anyone know the secret knock for www.portknocking.org:80 ?
Thanks.
Loss of Privacy: Bad
Non Nielson Family Gets Counted: Good
I kind of like the idea that what little TV a watch get counted and aggregated. Since you can't effectively vote for your programming preferences with your $$$, I like the idea of voting with my viewing habbits.