Actually, NTSC TV doesn't use 30 frames per second, it uses 60 fields per second! This allows smoother movement as well as something revolutionary, color!;-)
Movies (at 24 fps) look like they stutter to me, especially any sweeping pan motion with the camera.
I used to do 3D animations in video production, and let me tell you, the difference between rendering an animation at 30 frames per second versus 60 fields per second is VERY noticeable (as you presumed) and interestingly, was noticeable for sub-pixel movements too. (Which someone earlier presumed wouldn't matter.)
Persistence of vision allows that rate to not appear to flicker, but nobody ever suggested 30 fps was enough for smooth fast motion.
That being said, market economics have dictated cartoons at 15 fps for broadcast...
Actually a GPSr could also determine heading a third way, from Doppler shift. That is how speed is calculated (and doesn't require an accurate fix).
However I know from experience both a Garmin eTrex and 60cs (with the sensors turned off) do it from positional changes.
The problem with your second suggestion of lining up two receivers is this quote, "A man with a a GPSr knows where he is, a man with two GPSrs is lost." Put the same make/model/software units side by side and they will read amazingly different locations. Here's a plot of dozens of GPSr readings of a National Geological Survey benchmark--and that was at a beach with clear skies and fabulous accuracy!
That the guy that I guess history will say started commercial space flight for real, owned a company that used to sell cassettes and records.
Ums... Burt Rutan has been famous in aerospace for decades, providing designs for homebuilt aircraft in the '70s, the Voyager aircraft, which was the first to circumnavigate the globe without refueling (in the '80s).
The first private astronauts (yes, they were given "wings" by the FAA) flew Rutan's SpaceShipOne to win the X Prize in 2004.
The prize was a fraction of the development costs, which Wikipedia says were funded by Paul Allen (but it's unsourced, yet confirmed on his page)--but I doubt Paul Allen will be credited with making commercial space flight available any more than the current company selling flights.
The solution is simple: vi/etc/hosts add: 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net ... etc.
Even easier, as I thankfully learned from Slashdot a long time ago, this downloadable MVPS hosts file instantly prevents connecting to ads, spyware as well as other "parasites" and is constantly updated.
Since adopting it, I no longer wait for ad servers and a side benefit is not even being exposed to the ads!
More importantly, how to replenish your good bacteria?
The same problem exists with antibacterial soap, after using it and making yourself more vulnerable to harmful bacteria, how do you replace the good defensive bacteria you had in the first place that keeps you healthy? (Since you've just created an environment ripe for harmful bacteria to flourish.)
Obviously this new process also affects viruses and fungi, although it makes no mention of any impact to fungal spores in TFA.
You are like me. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's concept of Flow should interest you and help you see which pursuit will bring you the most satisfaction.
You mention chess, I FAR more prefer to lose a game than win, as in the lost game I learned something and improve my game, whereas the games I easily win I learn nothing and come out the same as I was before.
The same is true in badminton, if our team can beat the others with our existing skills, we don't improve, but if we have to play better to overcome a larger challenge, that is really satisfying.
Sometimes when there's a mishit which results in a point, or similar unintentional gain that I get cheered for, I'll shrug those off as there was no particular skill nor challenge to achieving those.
One aspect of "Flow" is that the challenge has to equate to the reward for maximum pleasure.
If they aren't in accord, it's not worth pursuing. Being more aware of this and having an obvious metric has enabled me to more readily maximize my pleasurable pursuits.
"A man not improving himself, endlessly becomes himself."
PS: In terms of the article, it appears that those two types of players are challenged by different aspects, so the "Flow" is experienced differently, yet with the same expected results, when their challenge vs. reward is balanced they are happy, when it is not, they quit. However it fails to realize that the same person will seek different challenges in different circumstances, moods and environments. I fall into the "mastery" camp most frequently, but at a party with an audience the "performance" might matter more. (Hence why chess isn't a party game, and party games frequently aren't fun to master.)
So yes, don't keep the kids sterilized. But don't immerse them in crap either. That's just stupid.
Actually, there was a report a few years ago showing children raised on farms were less prone to allergies than those raised in fertilizer-less environs.
The idea is that people tend to be attracted to those who have immune system genes that are dissimilar from their own.
Which has been correlated to body odor, I remember from past studies (or a past study), and was referenced in TFA.
But it's a well balanced article, they poke holes in it and share the 'just a money making ploy' contrary side of researchers who found happily married couples with similar immune systems instead of complementary.
In similar news, I'm starting a match making service based upon environmental chemical exposures.
Presuming there even was truly intended recovery for the aircraft launched from these subs.
I was fortunate enough to see one of those aircraft at the Paul E. Garber restoration facility of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum back when it was open. It was one of the many craft that astounded me. I've toured subs and seen the limited room, squeezing a couple planes in there too seems unimaginable, yet there was the perfectly viable plane sitting in front of me.
However I was also "fortunate" enough to see one of the "planes" (I use the term loosely) flown by kamikaze pilots. I had previously imagined a normal plane loaded with ordinance in my mind. Those aircraft were nothing of the sort (later in the war). Picture a missile in your mind, long tube, pointed nose, tiny fins. Now add extra space to barely house a human and a bit of glass for him to see out of.
There is NO way you were getting into one of those things without knowing it was a one-way trip and your sole purpose was keeping it on course.
I once wanted to make an account at a new website, only my rather unique account name was used, I tried logging in with my "password system" based on the site name and sure enough, I don't know how many years ago I setup an account (long enough to not remember the place) but unbeknownst to me, I was golden.
The advantages is you never write them down, you never have to seek a resource to decrypt anything, you have unique passwords for everyplace.
I have since modified this so it's just as easy to enter the password on a mobile phone keyboard (my old system even *I* didn't know my passwords, only the physical manifestation of them via a qwerty keyboard which was a pita when driving and trying to check an appointment time or to do or whatever).
The other system that makes sense to me is a phrase password, combined with site name and other elements. If your phrase is "Best Tool For Remembering Passwords", then "Sd8Btfrp" could be your pw for Slashdot, while it would be "Go6Btfrp" for Google and you only remember one thing.
I have circumstantial evidence of someone trying to hack into an account of mine--they were unsuccessful.
this means that at some point in the intervening distance, the kid must have been going significantly more than 45 mph.
...the officer's "400 feet west of South McDowell Boulevard" seems to be ~200' farther beyond the GPS tracker's "30 seconds later going 45 mph 2,040 feet farther down the road" (from being stopped at Frate's Rd.)
Or said another way, 2040 feet from Frate's is about 200' shy of 400' from S. McDowell.
Were I deciding, it would seem to me the math based upon the GPS tracker indicates he exceeded the limit to get 2040 feet in 30 seconds (or fewer given he had to wait for the light to turn green), as well as radar clocking him faster later. Could he have sped up from the point he was shown going 45 mph? No evidence shows otherwise and the radar gun indicates he was going faster then.
They two technologies aren't going head-to-head since they sampled measurements in different locations (albeit nearby).
Worse, he seems to have missed his shift to 4th gear between the two measurments, and dropped down to 45 mph, so obviously should be penalized.
How the court can even consider comparing stationary technology that operates up to a few hundred meters with something that is 20,000 kilometers away traveling at 14,000 km/h is beyond me. GPS accuracy is effected by builings, mountains, etc.
How can you consider your vision accurate based on signals reflected from a sun 149,476,000 km away?
GPSr LOCATION accuracy is affected by satellite constellation, reflected signals, signal blockage and atmospheric conditions.
However SPEED is known by doppler shift of the signal right at the antenna, which is not particularly impacted by any of those things.
But don't take my word for it, Dr. Stephen Heppe, the expert in the case, with a doctorate in electrical engineering and communications points out, "accurate......to within 1 mph on speed. Dr. Heppe also pointed out that the GPS device released instantaneous data, and not data averaged over a distance."
PS: There was a great article from Goddard on knowing Earth location and GPS satellite locations from distant quasars (which appear fixed from us), let me dig it up from my Twitter account last week... Here you go: Celestial Map Gives Directions for GPS
It would be unusual for a GPS receiver to provide average speed (over what period of time?), since receivers calculate it from doppler shift of the signal.
The expert in the case, with a doctorate in electrical engineering and communications, is quoted, "Dr. Heppe also pointed out that the GPS device released instantaneous data, and not data averaged over a distance."
What I would like is a phone system that I could sync to my computer so I could update the phone book over all the units (if not sync with Address Book or Outlook), keep a log of caller IDs, or even forward me new voicemail notifications. Does anyone know if such a system exists?
Are you in the US so Google Voice is available to you?
Do you have computers or mobile web access near your four phones? Contacts happily live there and can serve both your landline as well as mobile phones.
It keeps a log of caller IDs. It keeps a log of Voicemails, SMS, recorded, placed, received and missed separately from the history off all of those.
It forwards not just notifications, but the voicemails themselves, as well as transcribing them to text (sometimes poorly, sometimes amazingly).
There are additional great features beyond what you asked for as well. (It's free, it permits free calls in the CONUS.)
To make an outgoing call, I can simply click call a contact. On my mobile, select a contact and call. I can choose if I want to connect via landline or my cellphone. In a moment, whichever will ring for me, I pickup and hear the ringing until they answer.
So yeah, the flu vaccine you get may not necessarily protect you. Indeed, in any given year there's a significant chance (something like 30%) that they'll guess wrong and put the wrong strain in the vaccine, and it won't protect anybody. But 70% of the time it does protect, and that's worth the 30% of the time when it doesn't.
Actually, that's one of the points in the article, did you know that in the years they've guessed wrong that there's been no increase/decrease in the severity of that flu season?
Your 70% seems rather moot given that information, and the rest of the article's info about lack of proven efficacy.
(Meanwhile, 100% of the time there is minor discomfort, minimal risk and some cost.)
That's one of the points of the article, as you say, the flu season comes every year despite flu shots. There has been no measurable impact from seasonal flu shots. When the seasonal flu vaccine "miss" their targeted strain, the flu season hasn't been better nor worse (according to the article).
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That sounds like a great game idea!
Oh wait...
(and similarly TV uses ~30fps)
Actually, NTSC TV doesn't use 30 frames per second, it uses 60 fields per second! This allows smoother movement as well as something revolutionary, color! ;-)
Movies (at 24 fps) look like they stutter to me, especially any sweeping pan motion with the camera.
I used to do 3D animations in video production, and let me tell you, the difference between rendering an animation at 30 frames per second versus 60 fields per second is VERY noticeable (as you presumed) and interestingly, was noticeable for sub-pixel movements too. (Which someone earlier presumed wouldn't matter.)
Persistence of vision allows that rate to not appear to flicker, but nobody ever suggested 30 fps was enough for smooth fast motion.
That being said, market economics have dictated cartoons at 15 fps for broadcast...
As the expression goes, money talks.
How about tie, suspenders and stockings?
I suppose for the males too, or you'd have gender discrimination issues...
GPS can determine heading in two ways.
Actually a GPSr could also determine heading a third way, from Doppler shift. That is how speed is calculated (and doesn't require an accurate fix).
However I know from experience both a Garmin eTrex and 60cs (with the sensors turned off) do it from positional changes.
The problem with your second suggestion of lining up two receivers is this quote, "A man with a a GPSr knows where he is, a man with two GPSrs is lost." Put the same make/model/software units side by side and they will read amazingly different locations. Here's a plot of dozens of GPSr readings of a National Geological Survey benchmark--and that was at a beach with clear skies and fabulous accuracy!
Cause:
I really boobies don't know boobies what you are boobies talking about. boobies
Effect:
....accidents in cars cause people :-D
Please stop crying wolf and making warnings meaningless!
How about we celebrate when we reach a round number, like 131,072. Shouldn't a binary milestone count for more here?
That the guy that I guess history will say started commercial space flight for real, owned a company that used to sell cassettes and records.
Ums... Burt Rutan has been famous in aerospace for decades, providing designs for homebuilt aircraft in the '70s, the Voyager aircraft, which was the first to circumnavigate the globe without refueling (in the '80s).
The first private astronauts (yes, they were given "wings" by the FAA) flew Rutan's SpaceShipOne to win the X Prize in 2004.
The prize was a fraction of the development costs, which Wikipedia says were funded by Paul Allen (but it's unsourced, yet confirmed on his page)--but I doubt Paul Allen will be credited with making commercial space flight available any more than the current company selling flights.
...in the Sirens.
The solution is simple: /etc/hosts
...
vi
add:
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
etc.
Even easier, as I thankfully learned from Slashdot a long time ago, this downloadable MVPS hosts file instantly prevents connecting to ads, spyware as well as other "parasites" and is constantly updated.
Since adopting it, I no longer wait for ad servers and a side benefit is not even being exposed to the ads!
"Hello, Video Professor? Hi yes, I'd like you to please send me the CD on how to setup and operate computer oriented scams please."
"What? You don't have that title? Could you please double-check? I'd swear I heard you has something like that... Yes, I'll hold thanks."
More importantly, how to replenish your good bacteria?
The same problem exists with antibacterial soap, after using it and making yourself more vulnerable to harmful bacteria, how do you replace the good defensive bacteria you had in the first place that keeps you healthy? (Since you've just created an environment ripe for harmful bacteria to flourish.)
Obviously this new process also affects viruses and fungi, although it makes no mention of any impact to fungal spores in TFA.
You are like me. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's concept of Flow should interest you and help you see which pursuit will bring you the most satisfaction.
You mention chess, I FAR more prefer to lose a game than win, as in the lost game I learned something and improve my game, whereas the games I easily win I learn nothing and come out the same as I was before.
The same is true in badminton, if our team can beat the others with our existing skills, we don't improve, but if we have to play better to overcome a larger challenge, that is really satisfying.
Sometimes when there's a mishit which results in a point, or similar unintentional gain that I get cheered for, I'll shrug those off as there was no particular skill nor challenge to achieving those.
One aspect of "Flow" is that the challenge has to equate to the reward for maximum pleasure.
If they aren't in accord, it's not worth pursuing. Being more aware of this and having an obvious metric has enabled me to more readily maximize my pleasurable pursuits.
"A man not improving himself, endlessly becomes himself."
PS: In terms of the article, it appears that those two types of players are challenged by different aspects, so the "Flow" is experienced differently, yet with the same expected results, when their challenge vs. reward is balanced they are happy, when it is not, they quit. However it fails to realize that the same person will seek different challenges in different circumstances, moods and environments. I fall into the "mastery" camp most frequently, but at a party with an audience the "performance" might matter more. (Hence why chess isn't a party game, and party games frequently aren't fun to master.)
So yes, don't keep the kids sterilized. But don't immerse them in crap either. That's just stupid.
Actually, there was a report a few years ago showing children raised on farms were less prone to allergies than those raised in fertilizer-less environs.
Bring on the crap.
Sage is still at the version that is reported to have the insecurity (1.4.3).
I just checked, thankfully I'm still using the 1.4.2 version of Sage, so no worries here!
From TFA...
The idea is that people tend to be attracted to those who have immune system genes that are dissimilar from their own.
Which has been correlated to body odor, I remember from past studies (or a past study), and was referenced in TFA.
But it's a well balanced article, they poke holes in it and share the 'just a money making ploy' contrary side of researchers who found happily married couples with similar immune systems instead of complementary.
In similar news, I'm starting a match making service based upon environmental chemical exposures.
Presuming there even was truly intended recovery for the aircraft launched from these subs.
I was fortunate enough to see one of those aircraft at the Paul E. Garber restoration facility of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum back when it was open. It was one of the many craft that astounded me. I've toured subs and seen the limited room, squeezing a couple planes in there too seems unimaginable, yet there was the perfectly viable plane sitting in front of me.
However I was also "fortunate" enough to see one of the "planes" (I use the term loosely) flown by kamikaze pilots. I had previously imagined a normal plane loaded with ordinance in my mind. Those aircraft were nothing of the sort (later in the war). Picture a missile in your mind, long tube, pointed nose, tiny fins. Now add extra space to barely house a human and a bit of glass for him to see out of.
There is NO way you were getting into one of those things without knowing it was a one-way trip and your sole purpose was keeping it on course.
Mod parent up.
I once wanted to make an account at a new website, only my rather unique account name was used, I tried logging in with my "password system" based on the site name and sure enough, I don't know how many years ago I setup an account (long enough to not remember the place) but unbeknownst to me, I was golden.
The advantages is you never write them down, you never have to seek a resource to decrypt anything, you have unique passwords for everyplace.
I have since modified this so it's just as easy to enter the password on a mobile phone keyboard (my old system even *I* didn't know my passwords, only the physical manifestation of them via a qwerty keyboard which was a pita when driving and trying to check an appointment time or to do or whatever).
The other system that makes sense to me is a phrase password, combined with site name and other elements. If your phrase is "Best Tool For Remembering Passwords", then "Sd8Btfrp" could be your pw for Slashdot, while it would be "Go6Btfrp" for Google and you only remember one thing.
I have circumstantial evidence of someone trying to hack into an account of mine--they were unsuccessful.
Yet glancing at a map...
this means that at some point in the intervening distance, the kid must have been going significantly more than 45 mph.
...the officer's "400 feet west of South McDowell Boulevard" seems to be ~200' farther beyond the GPS tracker's "30 seconds later going 45 mph 2,040 feet farther down the road" (from being stopped at Frate's Rd.)
Or said another way, 2040 feet from Frate's is about 200' shy of 400' from S. McDowell.
Were I deciding, it would seem to me the math based upon the GPS tracker indicates he exceeded the limit to get 2040 feet in 30 seconds (or fewer given he had to wait for the light to turn green), as well as radar clocking him faster later. Could he have sped up from the point he was shown going 45 mph? No evidence shows otherwise and the radar gun indicates he was going faster then.
They two technologies aren't going head-to-head since they sampled measurements in different locations (albeit nearby).
Worse, he seems to have missed his shift to 4th gear between the two measurments, and dropped down to 45 mph, so obviously should be penalized.
How the court can even consider comparing stationary technology that operates up to a few hundred meters with something that is 20,000 kilometers away traveling at 14,000 km/h is beyond me. GPS accuracy is effected by builings, mountains, etc.
How can you consider your vision accurate based on signals reflected from a sun 149,476,000 km away?
GPSr LOCATION accuracy is affected by satellite constellation, reflected signals, signal blockage and atmospheric conditions.
However SPEED is known by doppler shift of the signal right at the antenna, which is not particularly impacted by any of those things.
But don't take my word for it, Dr. Stephen Heppe, the expert in the case, with a doctorate in electrical engineering and communications points out, "accurate... ...to within 1 mph on speed. Dr. Heppe also pointed out that the GPS device released instantaneous data, and not data averaged over a distance."
PS: There was a great article from Goddard on knowing Earth location and GPS satellite locations from distant quasars (which appear fixed from us), let me dig it up from my Twitter account last week... Here you go: Celestial Map Gives Directions for GPS
It would be unusual for a GPS receiver to provide average speed (over what period of time?), since receivers calculate it from doppler shift of the signal.
The expert in the case, with a doctorate in electrical engineering and communications, is quoted, "Dr. Heppe also pointed out that the GPS device released instantaneous data, and not data averaged over a distance."
What I would like is a phone system that I could sync to my computer so I could update the phone book over all the units (if not sync with Address Book or Outlook), keep a log of caller IDs, or even forward me new voicemail notifications. Does anyone know if such a system exists?
Are you in the US so Google Voice is available to you?
Do you have computers or mobile web access near your four phones? Contacts happily live there and can serve both your landline as well as mobile phones.
It keeps a log of caller IDs. It keeps a log of Voicemails, SMS, recorded, placed, received and missed separately from the history off all of those.
It forwards not just notifications, but the voicemails themselves, as well as transcribing them to text (sometimes poorly, sometimes amazingly).
There are additional great features beyond what you asked for as well. (It's free, it permits free calls in the CONUS.)
To make an outgoing call, I can simply click call a contact. On my mobile, select a contact and call. I can choose if I want to connect via landline or my cellphone. In a moment, whichever will ring for me, I pickup and hear the ringing until they answer.
Dang, I just noticed. I wasted post number 30 million on a bad pun. Sorry about that, folks.
Pfft, that's 1110010011100001110000000 in binary, hardly a round number. Quick, get ready for post 33,554,432!
So yeah, the flu vaccine you get may not necessarily protect you. Indeed, in any given year there's a significant chance (something like 30%) that they'll guess wrong and put the wrong strain in the vaccine, and it won't protect anybody. But 70% of the time it does protect, and that's worth the 30% of the time when it doesn't.
Actually, that's one of the points in the article, did you know that in the years they've guessed wrong that there's been no increase/decrease in the severity of that flu season?
Your 70% seems rather moot given that information, and the rest of the article's info about lack of proven efficacy.
(Meanwhile, 100% of the time there is minor discomfort, minimal risk and some cost.)
That's one of the points of the article, as you say, the flu season comes every year despite flu shots. There has been no measurable impact from seasonal flu shots. When the seasonal flu vaccine "miss" their targeted strain, the flu season hasn't been better nor worse (according to the article).