The accelerometer gives the wiimote orientation relative to Earth's gravity in addition to any swinging or other accelerations. It is fairly obvious this is exploited in WiiSports, especially bowling.
I would urge anyone attempting significant data analysis to try a dedicated analysis software package such as ROOT. ROOT has much more support for data trees, histograms, functions, fitting, etc., and ROOT now also has a Python interface.
I'd like to know how long they were trying to determine the differences without considering wood density. Other than the shape and size, what other differences could there be?
"fire departments, roads, sewers, electric companies and all the other evil socialist practices America currently has"
Yes, there is no reason why these services could not be provided by private organizations, and in fact all of these services are and have been provided by private organizations. The only differences between the two situations (private, public) are:
1. The public services are funded through an unjustifiable rights violation.
2. Competition among private services gives private companies an incentive to provide the best possible service at the lowest price. Because there is only one provider for a public service (and no competing providers are permitted to exist), there is no incentive for public services to provide the best service or the cheapest service. Not true. Each citizen in the country maximizing his or her personal benefit, through capitalism, is totally different than the country maximizing
its benefit as a whole. Think
prisoner's dilemma. There is no way, for example, the US interstate system would've been built if everyone in the US acts in they're own best interest.
I'm 15 pounds "overweight", making me technically "fat". BZZZT! wrong! I'm 6'1" and have a lot of muscle build. My body mass index is actually indicated I only have about 5 pounds of excess fat BZZZT! Wrong! BMI only depends on weight and height and cannot distinguish weight from extra muscle mass from fat. You would need a caliper of density measurement to measure the latter.
5 pounds of excess fat:, which, if it showed at all, I could drop in about 3 days. 5 pounds of fat == 17500 calories, equivalent to running ~150 miles. Good luck with 150 mi in 3 days.
Besides, "fat" is an objective term that you totally fail to define. Arnold Schwarzenegger:
"If it jiggles, it's fat"
When dealing with RAM, for decades KB has meant 1024 and MB 1024^2 and so on. Creative Labs should not have to pay for decades-old abuses of SI prefixes.
Unlimited service is economically inefficient and should be abandoned for metered service. Why do power companies charge based on metered usage? Because people like this guy would crank the air conditioning to 60 F and then complain about rolling blackouts (I'm sure it maximizes profits as well). This customer would likely not be very happy with the price Comcast would charge for 300GB/month usage.
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The accelerometer gives the wiimote orientation relative to Earth's gravity in addition to any swinging or other accelerations. It is fairly obvious this is exploited in WiiSports, especially bowling.
I love the bit about baselining time at mean sea level. I am always amazed by how much complexity there is in the universe.
Is that present day mean sea level?
I would urge anyone attempting significant data analysis to try a dedicated analysis software package such as ROOT. ROOT has much more support for data trees, histograms, functions, fitting, etc., and ROOT now also has a Python interface.
I'd like to know how long they were trying to determine the differences without considering wood density. Other than the shape and size, what other differences could there be?
Craftmanship.
Who cares if humans get wiped out?
Me.
1GB = 10^9 bytes, by definition. It is ridiculous Creative Labs has to pay this settlement.
The journal article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078522
Presumably then I own the copyright to my own image. Would this imply I could sue police for taking mug shots?
Since posting his email address on /. should generate plenty more spam...
Unlimited service is economically inefficient and should be abandoned for metered service. Why do power companies charge based on metered usage? Because people like this guy would crank the air conditioning to 60 F and then complain about rolling blackouts (I'm sure it maximizes profits as well). This customer would likely not be very happy with the price Comcast would charge for 300GB/month usage.