Well yeah, but there's a difference between not listening to everyone and not listening at all.
Plus, I don't think it's impossible to read all the messages: I take FAR less than 15 seconds for news replies, so depending on the size of the feedbacks, 15 seconds is enough.
Also, consider that you can hire people to do that for you?
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Well, unfortunately, that goes for a lot of books.
However, I indeed expected a bit more, reading the book's title. But I guess you can't really tell someone to become a geek, just like you can't just tell a scientist to become a christian/muslim/pastafarian.
what bothers me most is that these RAM disks aren't even much faster than intel's SSD. considering the price, i think that's quite a shame. long live competition.
This is, however, not gestural input. "If there's a lot of noise three times in a row, a triangle has been drawn" is different from "noise moves from (0,0) to (0,1) to (1,1) back to (0,0)". So maybe a set of figures can be distinguished, but once you move beyond that (limited) set, forget about it. Sure, what these guys have done is pretty complex too, but it's not "gestural".
The article says this researches has accomplished "gestural finger input". Although this would be very cool, it is not the case. The only thing this researcher has done is listening for sound, and if there's sound, do stuff. Compare it to the microphone input of the DS: if there's noise, you can do stuff, if there's no noise, do nothing. What the researcher added was a bit of complexity: a short noise changes mode, and a long noise activates the mode. That's nowhere near gestural input.
In fact, even if they had used 3 microphones (which would allow for random gestural input), the precision with realistic hardware on, for example, plastics, would be about an inch, or a couple of centimeters best case scenario. Forget about gestures on concrete walls.
hak.5 was one of the shows i followed. whether or not their topics are described in-depth depends on your definitions, i stopped watching it because i found them not to provide any in-depth information. however, they do show you how to set everything up and do stuff, so it's certainly not a useless surface show.
What I am trying to say is that your question is irrelevant. There is no global "stuff of thought". You can't say for your entire brain what a certain "bit" indicates, how it is used, or even if it is used. How, when and if they're used depends on too many factors, and it all comes down to the fact that the actual thoughts (which stretch over millions of neurons) don't have a common "syntax" or anything like that.
indeed. "thinking in language" is not really true, the language part is only a small part of your brain you can actually think without, even if you "think in language" (as opposed to in images and stuff). and even "thinking in images" is not really true. so the net result is that it's oversimplified by some inscientific people. your brain looks a lot like a PC: you can distinguish certain elements, but none of them work with the exact same type of data
For backbones and TV channels, it might be interesting to deploy this once or twice. But what's next? Where is this going to be used? Why do we need the bandwidth? I'm personally content with my 2000 kbit down/600 kbit up.
The phone rang here. A guy called me (internationally) to discuss stuff about how I would help his project. Now that motivated me quite a bit (please note I'm not yet finished with what we discussed, but at least it's still in my mind!).
I can surely recommend calling the guys who're helping you for a few minutes.
oh, like that. see, in the netherlands, we (well, actually primarily the prime minister himself) often abbreviate prime minister ("minister president" in dutch) as MP. so that's why i wondered.
First of all, ask yourself these two questions: 1. Are we missing a feature in our platform? 2. Does our platform have a bug that cannot be fixed because of lack of maintainers? If either can be responded with a yes, then you should indeed look for a new platform. If no solid yes can be given on either, stick to what you have.
That aside, I doubt this has to do with the platform you're using. You said it took quite some time to find someone with sufficient skills. But what kind of skills are those? If those skills are all about using a certain API, you are looking for the wrong coders. It's not hard to learn using a new API. Hell, it's not hard to learn a totally new language. As long as you've programmed before and the corresponding documentation is available. Just look for a good coder, not a coder who has dealt with this certain platform before.
Let me guess: you only dream one or two dreams a day, right? Well, let me tell you this: everyone dreams at least 3 or 4 dreams - a night. It's just that you forget most of them. Go train yourself to remember them all, and be really really precise in what's a happy dream and what's an angry or scary dream. Make notes of them and then argue the same as you just did.
Read my whole post before you make any conclusions, I DID mention the practical limit;)
But the bigger the black hole, the smaller the hawking radiation, right? So as long as you simply keep increasing the temperature, this is not a problem.
So there is a maximum speed of any object at c. Though, when approaching c, your mass increases and theoretically, your mass will eventually become infinite, which also means the amount of energy goes to infinite. Infinite energy means infinite temperature.
All this, of course, is purely theoretical and can never be accomplished because it's hard to accelerate any particle infinitely. But according to relativistic physics, an infinite temperature can exist.
Now, I'm not proficient with QED or M-theories, but I have read a little bit about it. According to the M-theory, there are points at which the world formed like we know it, but this was, afaik, purely the chemical world and not physics itself. Physics are always true, according to laws of physics. So if physics are coherent and complete, the laws of physics can't be stopped by simply a high temperature. Please recall that temperature consists of moving and bouncing particles, nothing more. I don't see how a moving particle would demolish physical laws.
The only reason for an absolute temperature as far as I know is the practical limit.
I'll get shot for this, maybe get banned. I'll get a -1 "troll" score for my opinion. So what? I'll just give you a situation.
This message is written by a 15 year old boy (btw, i'm looking for paedophiles. Any friends of Jack around?). Obviously, I'm getting asked by old men to come by daily. And obviously, I have the time and freedom of my parents to do so. I'm watching porn daily, and show random people on the internet my dick. My parents are at work 24/7. They do care about my life, so they installed a spy program on my own PC. Thus, I'm writing this message via my dad's. That'll give me access to his credit cards as well. I'm looking for certain sexy friends, please respond if you're interested in my service.
Obviously, this story is fake. But imagine it being true. How would banning people from social websites evade this? Using techniques like tor, proxies etc, one would be able to get on those sites no matter what.
I'm using communities since I was 10 years old. If I would have been banned from those back then, I would have not been interested in PC's at all (that wasn't a question). If my parents would spy me like hell, I just wouldn't dare to go on the internet.
In fact, my parents don't spy me at all (believe me, a kid knows). I try to be open, so that they won't continuously ask me about what I am doing at the moment. If I show them that I am doing "useful" stuff (read: stuff for school), they won't bother asking. If they would spy me, they would get the very same results as just asking what I am doing. Spying is useless.
Now, the banning kids from the internet idea: nonsense. Yes, some moderation could be useful. But... this form, like mentioned earlier, can be evaded. Maybe kids can't easily figure out. But once one of them can, they'll tell the rest. It'll only slow things down. Need contacts? There'll be a site made outside of the system. Kids will find it.
The system won't do what it's supposed to do. Sites within it can only suffer from it and will try to stay outside of it. I personally won't join a system for which I have to verify my age. Ever. Ok, unless it's for things like, applying for a job. But that's not the thing we're talking about.
Good parenting is not about making the government do stuff for you. The whole point of parenting is that it is individual. Bringing children to a day nursery is not parenting. In the best case scenario, it's putting off parenting. Letting children having to verify parental supervision means closing the internet for those who are the future.
From what I've heard, you will be investing hours to get Torque working on linux. And forget about updating it (which is pretty useful for added features like the shader functionality).
I am, though, not sure if this is still true.
Ogre3D is slow. That's just not what you want. If speed is all you want, and don't care about the interface, Irrlicht is nice. If you want both, crystalspace is really nice, but there's not a lot of documentation about it.
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Well yeah, but there's a difference between not listening to everyone and not listening at all.
Plus, I don't think it's impossible to read all the messages: I take FAR less than 15 seconds for news replies, so depending on the size of the feedbacks, 15 seconds is enough.
Also, consider that you can hire people to do that for you?
Well, unfortunately, that goes for a lot of books.
However, I indeed expected a bit more, reading the book's title. But I guess you can't really tell someone to become a geek, just like you can't just tell a scientist to become a christian/muslim/pastafarian.
I kind of have the same feeling I had when I first heard about Eee: wow, finally, someone pulled it off!
Now, the question is when this will *really* be sold (they say march, but I guess it'll be june). And then everyone will suddenly have one.
what bothers me most is that these RAM disks aren't even much faster than intel's SSD. considering the price, i think that's quite a shame. long live competition.
This is, however, not gestural input. "If there's a lot of noise three times in a row, a triangle has been drawn" is different from "noise moves from (0,0) to (0,1) to (1,1) back to (0,0)". So maybe a set of figures can be distinguished, but once you move beyond that (limited) set, forget about it. Sure, what these guys have done is pretty complex too, but it's not "gestural".
The article says this researches has accomplished "gestural finger input". Although this would be very cool, it is not the case. The only thing this researcher has done is listening for sound, and if there's sound, do stuff. Compare it to the microphone input of the DS: if there's noise, you can do stuff, if there's no noise, do nothing. What the researcher added was a bit of complexity: a short noise changes mode, and a long noise activates the mode. That's nowhere near gestural input.
In fact, even if they had used 3 microphones (which would allow for random gestural input), the precision with realistic hardware on, for example, plastics, would be about an inch, or a couple of centimeters best case scenario. Forget about gestures on concrete walls.
hak.5 was one of the shows i followed. whether or not their topics are described in-depth depends on your definitions, i stopped watching it because i found them not to provide any in-depth information. however, they do show you how to set everything up and do stuff, so it's certainly not a useless surface show.
What I am trying to say is that your question is irrelevant. There is no global "stuff of thought". You can't say for your entire brain what a certain "bit" indicates, how it is used, or even if it is used. How, when and if they're used depends on too many factors, and it all comes down to the fact that the actual thoughts (which stretch over millions of neurons) don't have a common "syntax" or anything like that.
indeed. "thinking in language" is not really true, the language part is only a small part of your brain you can actually think without, even if you "think in language" (as opposed to in images and stuff). and even "thinking in images" is not really true. so the net result is that it's oversimplified by some inscientific people. your brain looks a lot like a PC: you can distinguish certain elements, but none of them work with the exact same type of data
For backbones and TV channels, it might be interesting to deploy this once or twice. But what's next? Where is this going to be used? Why do we need the bandwidth? I'm personally content with my 2000 kbit down/600 kbit up.
What's next? A phone for the deaf?
meh, he's set a reserve indeed. check the auction page.
A high back support, not one of those low back support seats. Also, take a blue one.
The phone rang here. A guy called me (internationally) to discuss stuff about how I would help his project. Now that motivated me quite a bit (please note I'm not yet finished with what we discussed, but at least it's still in my mind!).
I can surely recommend calling the guys who're helping you for a few minutes.
I suggested this over a year ago. With all the competitors nowadays, Adobe can no longer maintain Flash as a closed-source product.
oh, like that. see, in the netherlands, we (well, actually primarily the prime minister himself) often abbreviate prime minister ("minister president" in dutch) as MP. so that's why i wondered.
MP as in prime minister? Luckily Geert Wilders isn't our prime minister!
This is what they call capitalism. Get over it.
First of all, ask yourself these two questions:
1. Are we missing a feature in our platform?
2. Does our platform have a bug that cannot be fixed because of lack of maintainers?
If either can be responded with a yes, then you should indeed look for a new platform. If no solid yes can be given on either, stick to what you have.
That aside, I doubt this has to do with the platform you're using. You said it took quite some time to find someone with sufficient skills. But what kind of skills are those? If those skills are all about using a certain API, you are looking for the wrong coders. It's not hard to learn using a new API. Hell, it's not hard to learn a totally new language. As long as you've programmed before and the corresponding documentation is available. Just look for a good coder, not a coder who has dealt with this certain platform before.
Let me guess: you only dream one or two dreams a day, right? Well, let me tell you this: everyone dreams at least 3 or 4 dreams - a night. It's just that you forget most of them.
Go train yourself to remember them all, and be really really precise in what's a happy dream and what's an angry or scary dream. Make notes of them and then argue the same as you just did.
We actually got a windows user as far as actually taking a look at a linux box.
Read my whole post before you make any conclusions, I DID mention the practical limit ;)
But the bigger the black hole, the smaller the hawking radiation, right? So as long as you simply keep increasing the temperature, this is not a problem.
So there is a maximum speed of any object at c. Though, when approaching c, your mass increases and theoretically, your mass will eventually become infinite, which also means the amount of energy goes to infinite. Infinite energy means infinite temperature.
All this, of course, is purely theoretical and can never be accomplished because it's hard to accelerate any particle infinitely. But according to relativistic physics, an infinite temperature can exist.
Now, I'm not proficient with QED or M-theories, but I have read a little bit about it. According to the M-theory, there are points at which the world formed like we know it, but this was, afaik, purely the chemical world and not physics itself. Physics are always true, according to laws of physics. So if physics are coherent and complete, the laws of physics can't be stopped by simply a high temperature. Please recall that temperature consists of moving and bouncing particles, nothing more. I don't see how a moving particle would demolish physical laws.
The only reason for an absolute temperature as far as I know is the practical limit.
Obviously, this story is fake. But imagine it being true. How would banning people from social websites evade this? Using techniques like tor, proxies etc, one would be able to get on those sites no matter what.
I'm using communities since I was 10 years old. If I would have been banned from those back then, I would have not been interested in PC's at all (that wasn't a question). If my parents would spy me like hell, I just wouldn't dare to go on the internet.
In fact, my parents don't spy me at all (believe me, a kid knows). I try to be open, so that they won't continuously ask me about what I am doing at the moment. If I show them that I am doing "useful" stuff (read: stuff for school), they won't bother asking. If they would spy me, they would get the very same results as just asking what I am doing. Spying is useless.
Now, the banning kids from the internet idea: nonsense. Yes, some moderation could be useful. But... this form, like mentioned earlier, can be evaded. Maybe kids can't easily figure out. But once one of them can, they'll tell the rest. It'll only slow things down. Need contacts? There'll be a site made outside of the system. Kids will find it.
The system won't do what it's supposed to do. Sites within it can only suffer from it and will try to stay outside of it. I personally won't join a system for which I have to verify my age. Ever. Ok, unless it's for things like, applying for a job. But that's not the thing we're talking about.
Good parenting is not about making the government do stuff for you. The whole point of parenting is that it is individual. Bringing children to a day nursery is not parenting. In the best case scenario, it's putting off parenting. Letting children having to verify parental supervision means closing the internet for those who are the future.
From what I've heard, you will be investing hours to get Torque working on linux. And forget about updating it (which is pretty useful for added features like the shader functionality). I am, though, not sure if this is still true. Ogre3D is slow. That's just not what you want. If speed is all you want, and don't care about the interface, Irrlicht is nice. If you want both, crystalspace is really nice, but there's not a lot of documentation about it.