Waitaminute, exactly what type of screens were used in the experiment? CRT? LCD? plasma? DLP? OLED?
Getting answers to that question would go some way to determining wether it's the differing refresh rate of the image on the screens the octopi are seeing, or the actual framerate of the footage.
Everyone seems to be hung up with the framerate of the footage but forget that CRT & single chip DLP displays can have a noticable flicker whereas LCD (TFT), plasma (to some extent) & OLED are practically flicker free when a static image is being dispayed.
LED traffic lights are popping up here in the UK, too. I have to agree they do not always make a good substitute for the old incandescent bulbs.
Usually with LED traffic lights unless you're looking at them dead-on they don't shine very bright, and when you get in the line of sight of some they're almost blindingly bright even from a long distance away, day or night.
Didn't anyone actually do any real world tests of these things, or at least get some opinions of regular drivers? Unbelievable!
Splendid idea. For the past couple of weeks I've been watching all episodes of Andromeda and I'm about 3 episodes away from the end of the 5th season. I'm going to get TOSsed next.
Over the weekend I'm going to dig out Trekkies and Trekkies 2 to watch to get myself 'immersed' back into the world of Trek.
That's the sound of rejoicing from all the people who make their living from selling anti spyware/malware/spam software/hardware...
(I was going to write "solutions" instead of software/hardware but they haven't actually solved anything, people are still and will forever be infected/bombarded)
If UKers are looking for similar ideas, http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/ has a myriad of sciency toys, and stupid stuff you know is completely stupid but you still want it anyway.
I only discovered MST3k from the internet and people talking about it, so I did some searching, downloaded a couple of shows and was instantly hooked...then downloaded [i]everything[/i] I could and thoroughly enjoyed most of it.
Probably what's more funny is that I own some of the VHS's of the sci-fi films they ripped into so it was a delight to watch them with the SOL crew.
Two of my favourite episodes are "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" and "Space Mutiny" (I have the original VHS, they cut the MST3k version, no boobies!)
What are people's reccomendations of episodes to introduce friends to?
"Most people, including highly educated people DO NOT know how to use a computer. They can barely operate them."
That's so true, people who have trouble using computers almost always have this preconception that because it's innards are complicated (really, how many people know how to build a chip from scratch?) that it must be complicated to use - this preconception hinders their ability to explore the OS/machine and see exactly what they can get out of it just by trying things.
The downside to this phonomenon is that if you happen to be ok/fairly good on a computer then all your friends who know nothing about them think you're some sort of genius and can do anything with them. I couldn't begin to count the number of times I've had that head-on-desk feeling when someone asks "you're good on computers, can you....".
You end up being unpaid tech help to all the 'luddites' out there:(
For example, this Asus Eee uses around 15-23 watts when in use, and around 4 watts in standby. The area on the lid is enough to produce up to 6 watts of power from high efficiency solar cells in ideal sun conditions, but those conditiions would mean you couldn't see the screen because you'd need to angle it towards the sun and it would get extremely hot - have you ever touched a solar panel when it's sat in the summer sun for a length of time? you can almost burn yourself.
I'm suprised nobody's come up with a 'solar umbrella', something that's large enough to capture enough sunlight to power an average laptop and completely cover the user+machine from the glare+heat of the sunlight, yet folds away into an easily carryable bag.
This could spell bad news for the action figure collectors if it's possible to easily open the packaging without any damage - how will traders & buyers know the figure genuinely has never been removed from it's packaging?
*nonchalantly whistles whilst trying to hide his extensive ReBoot collection* (where do you think my user ID came from)
Has the kid sold the film rights yet? I've got this great idea for using his story, basically a 'hacker' kid gets blamed for a crime bigger than just breaking into a computer system, it could involve a bunch of his hacker friends pissing off "the man" responsible for the kid's arrest, like signing him up to online dating services and changing medical records to show he's dead. Maybe we could get an a-lister in the cast like Angelina Jolie & some other well knowns like Jonny Lee Miller & Matthew Lillard.
Only when they can do a bit more than be basic web/email interfaces.
I dunno about anyone else but I have something that looks like a tricorder and serves a real, useful function; a Metrix MTX-3282 multimeter. And just like the looks, the prices are astronomical...
10 PERSON has good idea and sets up internet COMPANY
20 PEOPLE eventually flock to COMPANY and use their services
30 TIME passes
40 COMPANY bosses get itchy and need to scratch, read: they feel they need to be 'innovative' and/or they feel they aren't making enough money
50 CHANGES happen to site which affects users ability to conduct their business (buying/selling/communicating etc.)
60 PEOPLE are fucked off with CHANGES and complain bitterly
70 COMPANY ignores PEOPLE
80 GOTO 30
"I would love to see for just once, an article that states that the mentioned technology is being produced en masse and possibly a website from where I can order it, wherever I may be at a reasonable price. I am asking too much, eh?"
This reminds me a little of the film Brainstorm where they invent a device to record & playback sensations (audio/video/taste/touch/smell), but like any new & wonderful invention the military see what use they can use it for and develop recordings to torture people with.
I have four different sets of LCD glasses, but each of them suffer from a stumbling block that will always hold them back from mainstream gaming - cabling.
Setting up my Sony Glasstron PLM-S700E takes more than a few minutes because of the cabling needed to hook it into a console or a computer. You've got the main power pack, VGA + audio for a PC hookup & composite/s-video & audio for a basic console setup, then on top of that the cable between the controller unit and the glasses.
During use the most annoying cable is the one plugged into the glasses, firstly because it's too short and secondly because it exists. I know the eMagin have reduced the annoyance of the spaghetti cabling you end up with but have you seen their asking price? bloody dispicable, I was considering getting some but right when I was considering it they virtually TRIPLED the price overnight.
The first company to get Wii compatable wireless 3D LCD glasses at 640x480 (or higher) resolution and perfectly complimentary games for it could well make a killing, especially if the glasses had head tracking.
On the subject of head tracking, has anyone taken Johnny Lee's simply inspired head tracking hack any further? Use that with a projected screen to get a very wide viewing angle and you'd start forgetting you're actually looking at a 2D screen because of the feeling of immersion.
You're right about the phone companies not letting you know the cost-per-minute of the call beforehand is because your call times will be shorter (and/or call less often) and the odd $20,000 call charge dispute is nothing compared to what they make from people jabbering on like there's no tomorrow.
So the phone companies aren't going to do this, but why not the end user? with the ever increasing number of "smart" phones on the market, why can't someone write an application for them that will give you an accurate or estimate at what the call will cost before pressing the dial button?
Why can't mobile phones (& GPRS modem software for that matter) have the ability to pre-warn you how much the call is going to cost per minute before you press the dial button?
When you buy a product from a bricks'n'mortar or online store you're told up-front how much it's going to cost before you get out your cash/credit card/PayPal password
But not with mobile phones, usually you're either told just after the call ends how much credit you have left on your pay-as-you-go account or at the end of the month when your contract bill arrives in the post.
Slashdot Mirror
Waitaminute, exactly what type of screens were used in the experiment? CRT? LCD? plasma? DLP? OLED?
Getting answers to that question would go some way to determining wether it's the differing refresh rate of the image on the screens the octopi are seeing, or the actual framerate of the footage.
Everyone seems to be hung up with the framerate of the footage but forget that CRT & single chip DLP displays can have a noticable flicker whereas LCD (TFT), plasma (to some extent) & OLED are practically flicker free when a static image is being dispayed.
LED traffic lights are popping up here in the UK, too. I have to agree they do not always make a good substitute for the old incandescent bulbs.
Usually with LED traffic lights unless you're looking at them dead-on they don't shine very bright, and when you get in the line of sight of some they're almost blindingly bright even from a long distance away, day or night.
Didn't anyone actually do any real world tests of these things, or at least get some opinions of regular drivers? Unbelievable!
Splendid idea. For the past couple of weeks I've been watching all episodes of Andromeda and I'm about 3 episodes away from the end of the 5th season. I'm going to get TOSsed next.
Over the weekend I'm going to dig out Trekkies and Trekkies 2 to watch to get myself 'immersed' back into the world of Trek.
God I love sci-fi.
Windscreen wipers.
These two chairs walked into a bar ....
*shrug* I got nothing.
That's the sound of rejoicing from all the people who make their living from selling anti spyware/malware/spam software/hardware...
(I was going to write "solutions" instead of software/hardware but they haven't actually solved anything, people are still and will forever be infected/bombarded)
Have they finally developed real-life Zeroids?
If UKers are looking for similar ideas, http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/ has a myriad of sciency toys, and stupid stuff you know is completely stupid but you still want it anyway.
I only discovered MST3k from the internet and people talking about it, so I did some searching, downloaded a couple of shows and was instantly hooked...then downloaded [i]everything[/i] I could and thoroughly enjoyed most of it.
Probably what's more funny is that I own some of the VHS's of the sci-fi films they ripped into so it was a delight to watch them with the SOL crew.
Two of my favourite episodes are "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" and "Space Mutiny" (I have the original VHS, they cut the MST3k version, no boobies!)
What are people's reccomendations of episodes to introduce friends to?
"Most people, including highly educated people DO NOT know how to use a computer. They can barely operate them."
....". :(
That's so true, people who have trouble using computers almost always have this preconception that because it's innards are complicated (really, how many people know how to build a chip from scratch?) that it must be complicated to use - this preconception hinders their ability to explore the OS/machine and see exactly what they can get out of it just by trying things.
The downside to this phonomenon is that if you happen to be ok/fairly good on a computer then all your friends who know nothing about them think you're some sort of genius and can do anything with them. I couldn't begin to count the number of times I've had that head-on-desk feeling when someone asks "you're good on computers, can you
You end up being unpaid tech help to all the 'luddites' out there
Not feasable by any means.
For example, this Asus Eee uses around 15-23 watts when in use, and around 4 watts in standby. The area on the lid is enough to produce up to 6 watts of power from high efficiency solar cells in ideal sun conditions, but those conditiions would mean you couldn't see the screen because you'd need to angle it towards the sun and it would get extremely hot - have you ever touched a solar panel when it's sat in the summer sun for a length of time? you can almost burn yourself.
I'm suprised nobody's come up with a 'solar umbrella', something that's large enough to capture enough sunlight to power an average laptop and completely cover the user+machine from the glare+heat of the sunlight, yet folds away into an easily carryable bag.
This could spell bad news for the action figure collectors if it's possible to easily open the packaging without any damage - how will traders & buyers know the figure genuinely has never been removed from it's packaging?
*nonchalantly whistles whilst trying to hide his extensive ReBoot collection* (where do you think my user ID came from)
When this refrigerator sized chunk hits the ground and finally stops rolling, will it open and Indiana Jones falls out?
Has the kid sold the film rights yet? I've got this great idea for using his story, basically a 'hacker' kid gets blamed for a crime bigger than just breaking into a computer system, it could involve a bunch of his hacker friends pissing off "the man" responsible for the kid's arrest, like signing him up to online dating services and changing medical records to show he's dead. Maybe we could get an a-lister in the cast like Angelina Jolie & some other well knowns like Jonny Lee Miller & Matthew Lillard.
Oh, wait, too late...
Shh!! Skynet's probably reading this.
"A picture of your first pet."
"Dad! where's the shovel?"
Only when they can do a bit more than be basic web/email interfaces.
I dunno about anyone else but I have something that looks like a tricorder and serves a real, useful function; a Metrix MTX-3282 multimeter. And just like the looks, the prices are astronomical...
10 PERSON has good idea and sets up internet COMPANY
20 PEOPLE eventually flock to COMPANY and use their services
30 TIME passes
40 COMPANY bosses get itchy and need to scratch, read: they feel they need to be 'innovative' and/or they feel they aren't making enough money
50 CHANGES happen to site which affects users ability to conduct their business (buying/selling/communicating etc.)
60 PEOPLE are fucked off with CHANGES and complain bitterly
70 COMPANY ignores PEOPLE
80 GOTO 30
If they delete an app you paid for, will they reimburse you?
"I would love to see for just once, an article that states that the mentioned technology is being produced en masse and possibly a website from where I can order it, wherever I may be at a reasonable price. I am asking too much, eh?"
So you want an advertisment?
This reminds me a little of the film Brainstorm where they invent a device to record & playback sensations (audio/video/taste/touch/smell), but like any new & wonderful invention the military see what use they can use it for and develop recordings to torture people with.
I have four different sets of LCD glasses, but each of them suffer from a stumbling block that will always hold them back from mainstream gaming - cabling.
Setting up my Sony Glasstron PLM-S700E takes more than a few minutes because of the cabling needed to hook it into a console or a computer. You've got the main power pack, VGA + audio for a PC hookup & composite/s-video & audio for a basic console setup, then on top of that the cable between the controller unit and the glasses.
During use the most annoying cable is the one plugged into the glasses, firstly because it's too short and secondly because it exists. I know the eMagin have reduced the annoyance of the spaghetti cabling you end up with but have you seen their asking price? bloody dispicable, I was considering getting some but right when I was considering it they virtually TRIPLED the price overnight.
The first company to get Wii compatable wireless 3D LCD glasses at 640x480 (or higher) resolution and perfectly complimentary games for it could well make a killing, especially if the glasses had head tracking.
On the subject of head tracking, has anyone taken Johnny Lee's simply inspired head tracking hack any further? Use that with a projected screen to get a very wide viewing angle and you'd start forgetting you're actually looking at a 2D screen because of the feeling of immersion.
...4x20 was the screensize of your LAPTOP!
I got a working one of those kicking about in my shed, any ideas what I could do with it? besides trying to find replacement rechargable batteries.
You're right about the phone companies not letting you know the cost-per-minute of the call beforehand is because your call times will be shorter (and/or call less often) and the odd $20,000 call charge dispute is nothing compared to what they make from people jabbering on like there's no tomorrow.
So the phone companies aren't going to do this, but why not the end user? with the ever increasing number of "smart" phones on the market, why can't someone write an application for them that will give you an accurate or estimate at what the call will cost before pressing the dial button?
Why can't mobile phones (& GPRS modem software for that matter) have the ability to pre-warn you how much the call is going to cost per minute before you press the dial button?
When you buy a product from a bricks'n'mortar or online store you're told up-front how much it's going to cost before you get out your cash/credit card/PayPal password
But not with mobile phones, usually you're either told just after the call ends how much credit you have left on your pay-as-you-go account or at the end of the month when your contract bill arrives in the post.