Well, why didn't they just say that? With the benefit of hindsight I say that it couldn't possibly be a worse PR fiasco, but they have people paid several times what I make in a year every month to think of these things for them.
One is implied and the other is explicit. It's the difference between notoriously possessing apples and running around screaming, " I have apples. take some!"
Well, the issue really is that apple advertises their monitors are being, "superior", but I just checked and all the laptops I've encountered who's model numbers I still recall off the top of my head support 24bpp just fine. Perhaps this would have been a teacup storm a few years ago, but a few years is eternity in this industry.
The figure I had quoted to me was that you have a 50% chance of seeing a single photon in an otherwise completely dark room, unfortunately the guy who said it was a grad student and can't be cited. Here's a link, though.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vision_background.html paragraph ten.
Actually, I think this software might be very useful to quite a few people after a large quantity of beer. Just port it to your camera phone and suddenly you've got a portable second opinion of who you should leave with.
Actually, teaching the program to have an opinion of who it thinks is hot is a far cooler concept in my mind than training a program to analyze picture files to determine which one a group of about thirty people would be more likely to prefer. Though I suppose this would be very useful for a computer dating service.
From what I've read you'd only need about a 10% increase in mass. Nanotubes being what they are I should think you could reinforce the tether enough to carry that small addition in weight without completely obviating the whole project.
Sure you would. What do you think we'd do with them after they'd been harvested? Heck, you could have them fight over a grate and some sluices and collect the sweat that way...
If someone creates a cookie recipe that happens to, in several dozen years time, be interpretable as a Grand Unified Theory then there might be some gray area. If they vehemently decry any attempt at such a theory as an egregious misapplication of culinary knowledge even though they have yet to create a single edible confection, I should think it at least requires a historical footnote with any recognition they receive.
More importantly, though; "Thomas Alva Edison" is so much easier to write than, "Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville". Think of all the trees and ink we'd save!
Trey n' Matt don't strike me as the suicidal type. There are far too many people in the world who will dedicate their lives to ending yours unpleasantly if you do something like that, and more of them than you might think own computers.
I'd rather pay $2 on iTunes, get to keep it and have no commercials.. That's the price of the American conscience, right there. Two dollars less than the value of an episode of, "The Office"'s fourth season.
It should also be noted that the intention of, "this Frenchman" was not to play back his recordings, but to develop an automatic method of transcribing speech. TFA states:
In a self-published memoir in 1878, [Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville] railed against Edison for "appropriating" his methods and misconstruing the purpose of recording technology. The goal, Scott argued, was not sound reproduction, but "writing speech, which is what the word phonograph means."
The needs of 0.1% of the population usually must submit to the needs of the nation.
I've heard stories that there was a time it wasn't unheard for whole Chinese communities to simply evaporate overnight. Granted I've seen no evidence (and would really appreciate it if someone could steer me towards some hint hint) but, this sounds like an acceptable alternative.
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Creative didn't seem so miffed about the donations. Pretty much the last line of TFA says that Mr. Kawakami is still allowed to receive them.
Well, why didn't they just say that? With the benefit of hindsight I say that it couldn't possibly be a worse PR fiasco, but they have people paid several times what I make in a year every month to think of these things for them.
One is implied and the other is explicit. It's the difference between notoriously possessing apples and running around screaming, " I have apples. take some!"
Well, the issue really is that apple advertises their monitors are being, "superior", but I just checked and all the laptops I've encountered who's model numbers I still recall off the top of my head support 24bpp just fine. Perhaps this would have been a teacup storm a few years ago, but a few years is eternity in this industry.
The figure I had quoted to me was that you have a 50% chance of seeing a single photon in an otherwise completely dark room, unfortunately the guy who said it was a grad student and can't be cited. Here's a link, though. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vision_background.html paragraph ten.
Just what makes you think the person writing the blog wouldn't be an individual?
At least it will help with global warming.
Actually, I think this software might be very useful to quite a few people after a large quantity of beer. Just port it to your camera phone and suddenly you've got a portable second opinion of who you should leave with.
Actually, teaching the program to have an opinion of who it thinks is hot is a far cooler concept in my mind than training a program to analyze picture files to determine which one a group of about thirty people would be more likely to prefer. Though I suppose this would be very useful for a computer dating service.
That's halloween you're thinking of.
Wouldn't they be labeled 1,10,100 then?
From what I've read you'd only need about a 10% increase in mass. Nanotubes being what they are I should think you could reinforce the tether enough to carry that small addition in weight without completely obviating the whole project.
Well, we sort of have a, "Market of Freedom". It's called the, "Legal System": In general, the more money you spend in it, the more free you are.
Yeah, but think of what all that CO2 would do to the global climate.
Couldn't we just hook up adjustable tuned mass dampers every few hundred meters? It works for cars and skyscrapers.
It should be noted that Roman Catholics aren't supposed to worship the Pope. He's just supposed to be a spiritual guide.
The whole point of a religion is that whatever's at the top isn't a person.
Sure you would. What do you think we'd do with them after they'd been harvested? Heck, you could have them fight over a grate and some sluices and collect the sweat that way...
More importantly, though; "Thomas Alva Edison" is so much easier to write than, "Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville". Think of all the trees and ink we'd save!
Trey n' Matt don't strike me as the suicidal type. There are far too many people in the world who will dedicate their lives to ending yours unpleasantly if you do something like that, and more of them than you might think own computers.
Wait wait wait... isn't there a relatively harmless dance one could do to make it rain?
I've heard stories that there was a time it wasn't unheard for whole Chinese communities to simply evaporate overnight. Granted I've seen no evidence (and would really appreciate it if someone could steer me towards some hint hint) but, this sounds like an acceptable alternative.