Anyone who has seriously practiced an internal / soft martial art knows that one can sense the movements of another before the other makes those motions. Mostly, this practice is taught around a metaphor of quieting one's mind/self to "hear" the other person
There's a methodology being tested in the Arts, Media and Engineering program at Arizona State University. It involves using cameras to motion-track the person's movements and associate them with gradiented acoustics (rising / falling tones). It works pretty well, andhelps to retrain the stroke patient's coordination - but it requires some fancy code, a space monitored by a few cameras (iSight's), a computer to process it all, and some speakers...... and the project is still in-process, so it's about as far from public consumption as one gets. I thought I'd mention it in case your a talented hacker or a good negotiator - and 'cause the AME is a nifty interdisciplinary program.
Not to mention that the 15 tax would go to music companies, meaning that the msuic companies are not getting 5 cents on a song, they're also getting the tax money.... something I don't see in the above comments much....
So a 5 cent song will break before a 99 cent song?
Well, probably (sorta)..... Most of the songs likely to sell in volumes making the $0.05 price worthwhile are recut pop crap. It's not as 'dense' or quality of a musical style as other forms, and will require the listenet to buy more of it in order to get sufficient variation to suit the appetite.
Even if one wanted to argue against my personal tastes, if nothing else pop music is generally consumed by a young and transitory generation that quickly out grows their tastes, leading to a higher purchase volume.
That's probably because your neighbors buy crappy metal tinklers, instead of a quality crafter, hand-tuned chimes. You'd probably be amazed at how many compliments I've received from neighbors et al.
. -shpoffo
ps: I support your ninja actions against non-harmonic tinkler 'chimes'
When did you first realize that you were "clinically depressed"? Feel free to answer via direct email. I've honestly never met anyone who claimed such level of depression - and I've dated a person what was clinical Borderline Personality Disorder. My conversations with her alluded to the fact that she was aware of her mechanisms for the way she was/acted, but avoided the overwhelming nature of addressing them. Heavily masked - carefully layered, but aware of a hairline route to take. I'm not saying you are the same way, I"m just being honest about my experience because I'd like to know better what it is that you feel.
Am I the only one who hasn't heard of "The O.C."? I'm not really upset by my own ignorance of it as I am at CNN for printing the acronym O.C. without evena parenthetical reference to what it stands for.
I used to get depressed.... then I took a tough step to ruthlessly go over every aspect of my life & thought that touched me emotionally - and have had to get *really* honest with myself as well. The result: I'm much more functional today than I ever was because I came to understand the nature of where my depression came from and DEAL WITH IT HEAD ON. So many depressives I've met all have characteristic personality traits that indicate to me that they are in avoidance of being aware of certain aspects of themselves. You don't need drugs, people! You need to allow youselves to open up emotionally and challenge yourself. It's a hard road - you have to do it every day - at any instant you feel that internal twang try to pull you aside.
His appoointment could easily be more along the line sof CIA/Microsoft collaboration. Consider the position of a company that supports software piracy; who si going to use it? "Criminals"!! If you have an interest in tracking criminal-types, including potential dissidents & terrorist then, gee, do you think they're going to cough up bucks to buy their software from the commercial vendor? No - they're going to download it via a P2P or other sharing network. Regardless of whether you can think of reasons why a 'criminal' wouldn't - the above line of logic is still quite reasonable from the game-theoretical perspective.
I'll punctuate it by sharing that 'terrorists' have already used various forms of spam to communicate. If one controls the biggest spyware house then it may be akin to owning the land that foxholes are built in.
....or I'm reading ahead of the time, and he's just been appointed as a Black-hat.
But to say it again - one can control the illegal trafficking venues by becoming the "Master Criminal." The CIA did this with heroin / cocaine in the earlier half of the 20th century just as the British did it with tobacco.
We have clearly found the galaxy that the Romulan home-world resides within. Now if we can detect traces of ion trails that would reveal the cloaking......
Is this becuase the gamma rays that would be given off by a entra-terrestrial storm are of lower energy (or something) than the gama and other cosmic rays that come to our planet from space?
As always, the biggest threat comes through unintentional, or intentional compromise of the system. If these chips are all numbered that mens that when you walk through the door, the casino knows if you have a chip that is not in their database. (guards with guns) So the clear break point is the system that stores the IDs, or the guy that runs it. Since the system will probably be closed circuit, that's out without movie-tactics. Bribe the guy who runs the system to add a few IDs.... that's another loop. Then you and your good friends can go collect money when you like.
The only other option is to read people's chips when they leave the casino (if chips can leave the casino?) Then you dupe a bunch of chips from distributed readers you have snuck in public places and collect money.
if the chips can't leave the casino then it probably has to be an inside job, barring some clever hack(?).
Are RFID tags Tempest standard 'compliant'? Isn't there some movie-technology possibility to have surrepitously small readers? Anyone technically know why a door-sized antenna and decoder cannot operate in a person-sized unit?
Steve can still give a better demo. I think Bill is strating to come out of his mansion cave to the public because computers are becoming social enough that they need spokes-heads, and Steve is a better public speaker than Bill. My gosh, listen even to the line quoted in the/. post: "The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else"
More competition?? I, as a user, can assure all you leads of the computer world that when I am using your computers I do not think of how much competition that there is among application developers. Try this one on for size: I don't even care that there are applications! I just want to do things with data!
The universe is NOT going to end! It cyclically inverts, probably having several dimensions to each axis of inversion. Sorry for the casual reference - I'm doing the best I can to communicate this all more clearly. The above poster humously said it clearly - go outside! Relax! Only stress will bring about the end of the universe.
Problem? When people go into space, and stay in their hotel rooms, what do you think they'll do? HAVE SEX!! Only the foolish will not consider this when designing their space industry at this point in history. I predict that psace tourism won't be too popular unless peopel have access to zero-gravity sex.
They tried, but the learning curve for dealing with spam and spyware was too much for them. They're considering Apple's new mac, but are still nursing old wounds and so are slow to do it.
What I don't understand is that if our day is short because the Earth is spinning faster on its axis then what does that ahve to do with how fast it spins around the sun? Did some of the Earth's mass shift closer to the inside of our solar orbit as well, causing us to move into a faster solar orbit?
I've heard suggestions like this many times. My main arguement is that we should consider how tapping energy from the atmospheric layers above the Earth may impact our global ecology. Would it pull more dust from space, creating heavier Coronal Mass Ejection saturation? Would it have any impact on the geodynamo? As wonderful as were the ideas of Nikola Tesla (who was among the first to consider tapping the atmosphere for electrical power) it is important to give these ideas thorough review.
Turning the model around seems like a good first step. So in order to develop a model for the collision frequency's lower bounds we would need:
1). Quoaoar's gravitation 2). Quoaoar's surface area 3). Water-ice physics in the Kuiper Belt
It seems reasonable that we may have a rough sense of surface area already. We know the surface temperture (50K), so perhaps an "astro-geo-physicist" could help put some brackets on the range of gravitation that Quoaoar may exhibit. Detailed water-ice physics for the Kuiper Belt is obviously a bit trickier, but the original article had stated that 14 mil. years was the estimated decay period for water ice crystals.
Unknowns in the physics seem to be:
- Energy needed to form water ice crystals at low temperatures (as wel know of amorphous ice, it seems like we already know this) -.... others?
Given this energy threshold then we can intersect a size/velocity energy plot with angles of impact (all of which likely have models for already)
Is there anything missing? Do we already have reasonable enough ranges of this information to make an estimate?
I've said it before (and before that too), and I'll say it again: The traffic lights go in the cars, not on the street. Trains already do this.
As soon as the assessed risk of malicious-hacker-induced auto accidents falls below that of our present streetlight system then this new system will manifest.
What are the impediments to this process? What data would be needed to model the risk of both systems?
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Whoe-heartedly. I wish I could moderate it simultaneously.
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-shpoffo
Anyone who has seriously practiced an internal / soft martial art knows that one can sense the movements of another before the other makes those motions. Mostly, this practice is taught around a metaphor of quieting one's mind/self to "hear" the other person
.
-shpoffo
There's a methodology being tested in the Arts, Media and Engineering program at Arizona State University. It involves using cameras to motion-track the person's movements and associate them with gradiented acoustics (rising / falling tones). It works pretty well, andhelps to retrain the stroke patient's coordination - but it requires some fancy code, a space monitored by a few cameras (iSight's), a computer to process it all, and some speakers...... and the project is still in-process, so it's about as far from public consumption as one gets. I thought I'd mention it in case your a talented hacker or a good negotiator - and 'cause the AME is a nifty interdisciplinary program.
.
-shpoffo
Not to mention that the 15 tax would go to music companies, meaning that the msuic companies are not getting 5 cents on a song, they're also getting the tax money.... something I don't see in the above comments much....
.
-shpoffo
So a 5 cent song will break before a 99 cent song?
Well, probably (sorta)..... Most of the songs likely to sell in volumes making the $0.05 price worthwhile are recut pop crap. It's not as 'dense' or quality of a musical style as other forms, and will require the listenet to buy more of it in order to get sufficient variation to suit the appetite.
Even if one wanted to argue against my personal tastes, if nothing else pop music is generally consumed by a young and transitory generation that quickly out grows their tastes, leading to a higher purchase volume.
.
-shpoffo
That's probably because your neighbors buy crappy metal tinklers, instead of a quality crafter, hand-tuned chimes. You'd probably be amazed at how many compliments I've received from neighbors et al.
.
-shpoffo
ps: I support your ninja actions against non-harmonic tinkler 'chimes'
When did you first realize that you were "clinically depressed"? Feel free to answer via direct email. I've honestly never met anyone who claimed such level of depression - and I've dated a person what was clinical Borderline Personality Disorder. My conversations with her alluded to the fact that she was aware of her mechanisms for the way she was/acted, but avoided the overwhelming nature of addressing them. Heavily masked - carefully layered, but aware of a hairline route to take. I'm not saying you are the same way, I"m just being honest about my experience because I'd like to know better what it is that you feel.
.
-shpoffo
Am I the only one who hasn't heard of "The O.C."? I'm not really upset by my own ignorance of it as I am at CNN for printing the acronym O.C. without evena parenthetical reference to what it stands for.
and I don't care enough to look it up....
.
-shpoffo
I used to get depressed.... then I took a tough step to ruthlessly go over every aspect of my life & thought that touched me emotionally - and have had to get *really* honest with myself as well. The result: I'm much more functional today than I ever was because I came to understand the nature of where my depression came from and DEAL WITH IT HEAD ON. So many depressives I've met all have characteristic personality traits that indicate to me that they are in avoidance of being aware of certain aspects of themselves. You don't need drugs, people! You need to allow youselves to open up emotionally and challenge yourself. It's a hard road - you have to do it every day - at any instant you feel that internal twang try to pull you aside.
Good luck
.
-shpoffo
His appoointment could easily be more along the line sof CIA/Microsoft collaboration. Consider the position of a company that supports software piracy; who si going to use it? "Criminals"!! If you have an interest in tracking criminal-types, including potential dissidents & terrorist then, gee, do you think they're going to cough up bucks to buy their software from the commercial vendor? No - they're going to download it via a P2P or other sharing network. Regardless of whether you can think of reasons why a 'criminal' wouldn't - the above line of logic is still quite reasonable from the game-theoretical perspective.
I'll punctuate it by sharing that 'terrorists' have already used various forms of spam to communicate. If one controls the biggest spyware house then it may be akin to owning the land that foxholes are built in.
....or I'm reading ahead of the time, and he's just been appointed as a Black-hat.
But to say it again - one can control the illegal trafficking venues by becoming the "Master Criminal." The CIA did this with heroin / cocaine in the earlier half of the 20th century just as the British did it with tobacco.
Really - it's not even a quiet pattern.
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-shpoffo
This is just the first stage of tag searches, as per Technorati's development of a 'Folksonomy' semantic structure.
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-shpoffo
..... do you hear it?.......
We have clearly found the galaxy that the Romulan home-world resides within. Now if we can detect traces of ion trails that would reveal the cloaking......
.
-shpoffo
Is this becuase the gamma rays that would be given off by a entra-terrestrial storm are of lower energy (or something) than the gama and other cosmic rays that come to our planet from space?
thanks
-shpoffo
As always, the biggest threat comes through unintentional, or intentional compromise of the system. If these chips are all numbered that mens that when you walk through the door, the casino knows if you have a chip that is not in their database. (guards with guns) So the clear break point is the system that stores the IDs, or the guy that runs it. Since the system will probably be closed circuit, that's out without movie-tactics. Bribe the guy who runs the system to add a few IDs.... that's another loop. Then you and your good friends can go collect money when you like.
The only other option is to read people's chips when they leave the casino (if chips can leave the casino?) Then you dupe a bunch of chips from distributed readers you have snuck in public places and collect money.
if the chips can't leave the casino then it probably has to be an inside job, barring some clever hack(?).
Are RFID tags Tempest standard 'compliant'? Isn't there some movie-technology possibility to have surrepitously small readers? Anyone technically know why a door-sized antenna and decoder cannot operate in a person-sized unit?
.
-shpoffo
Steve can still give a better demo. I think Bill is strating to come out of his mansion cave to the public because computers are becoming social enough that they need spokes-heads, and Steve is a better public speaker than Bill. My gosh, listen even to the line quoted in the /. post: "The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else"
More competition?? I, as a user, can assure all you leads of the computer world that when I am using your computers I do not think of how much competition that there is among application developers. Try this one on for size: I don't even care that there are applications! I just want to do things with data!
.
-shpoffo
Excellent reference - I wish I had Mod points for you. But I don't so thus I reply in hopes that others see and listen.
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-shpoffo
(Science classes are most expensive, math and literiture following close behind due to calculators and additional books).
Perhaps they should have spent a little more on "literiture" (and the Arts!)
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-shpoffo
The universe is NOT going to end! It cyclically inverts, probably having several dimensions to each axis of inversion. Sorry for the casual reference - I'm doing the best I can to communicate this all more clearly. The above poster humously said it clearly - go outside! Relax! Only stress will bring about the end of the universe.
.
-shpoffo
Problem? When people go into space, and stay in their hotel rooms, what do you think they'll do? HAVE SEX!! Only the foolish will not consider this when designing their space industry at this point in history. I predict that psace tourism won't be too popular unless peopel have access to zero-gravity sex.
.
-shpoffo
Total agreement. Thank you. Associating MS to Nintendo gives them a lot more credit in the gaming field then they've earned.
'sides, not many good games have been made since the DOS days....
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-shpoffo
They tried, but the learning curve for dealing with spam and spyware was too much for them. They're considering Apple's new mac, but are still nursing old wounds and so are slow to do it.
.
-shpoffo
What I don't understand is that if our day is short because the Earth is spinning faster on its axis then what does that ahve to do with how fast it spins around the sun? Did some of the Earth's mass shift closer to the inside of our solar orbit as well, causing us to move into a faster solar orbit?
.
-shpoffo
I've heard suggestions like this many times. My main arguement is that we should consider how tapping energy from the atmospheric layers above the Earth may impact our global ecology. Would it pull more dust from space, creating heavier Coronal Mass Ejection saturation? Would it have any impact on the geodynamo? As wonderful as were the ideas of Nikola Tesla (who was among the first to consider tapping the atmosphere for electrical power) it is important to give these ideas thorough review.
.
-shpoffo
Turning the model around seems like a good first step. So in order to develop a model for the collision frequency's lower bounds we would need:
.... others?
1). Quoaoar's gravitation
2). Quoaoar's surface area
3). Water-ice physics in the Kuiper Belt
It seems reasonable that we may have a rough sense of surface area already. We know the surface temperture (50K), so perhaps an "astro-geo-physicist" could help put some brackets on the range of gravitation that Quoaoar may exhibit. Detailed water-ice physics for the Kuiper Belt is obviously a bit trickier, but the original article had stated that 14 mil. years was the estimated decay period for water ice crystals.
Unknowns in the physics seem to be:
- Energy needed to form water ice crystals at low temperatures (as wel know of amorphous ice, it seems like we already know this)
-
Given this energy threshold then we can intersect a size/velocity energy plot with angles of impact (all of which likely have models for already)
Is there anything missing? Do we already have reasonable enough ranges of this information to make an estimate?
.
-shpoffo
I've said it before (and before that too), and I'll say it again: The traffic lights go in the cars, not on the street. Trains already do this.
As soon as the assessed risk of malicious-hacker-induced auto accidents falls below that of our present streetlight system then this new system will manifest.
What are the impediments to this process? What data would be needed to model the risk of both systems?
.
-shpoffo