When has this EVER been the case? Back in the days of the reel/reel tape drive? I have used magnets (powerful, unshielded speakers) very close to computers since I started using computers (15 yrs ago with a commodore C64) and have never had the misfortune of a failure due to magnetic interference. Now I did have more than one monitor get a little fuzzy due to the polarization of the screen, but that was back in the CRT days (before they had degaussers, which is actually another interesting hole in the magnetic interference argument.)
So, where is the kernel of truth in the magnetic mayhem myth? Or, do I have to wait for this to appear on Mythbusters?
That's more likely than you think. The equity lost by those dumping the stock automatically (for a loss) will be tragic for those involved. On the other hand, the sharp traders who noticed what happened and bought at the discounted price had turned a tidy profit by the end of the day. All in all, a day later the stock is right back to riding the whim of the indexes and no one other than those who traded in that window are affected.
You conduct overheard conversations all the time and have no issue with considering them "secure": namely via SSL/TLS encryption. All that's necessary to create an RFID that can't be completely duplicated is for the chip to hold on to more information than it broadcasts, and then only reveal that information in a clever way (asymmetric encryption). A well coded challenge-response handshake can allow the reader and chip to conduct a conversation that is 'unique' and cannot be easily duplicated later on. Sure, there is the potential for it to be improperly coded, or downright misrepresented. However, don't count it as a failure before it's even seen the light of day.
How is that again? iPod is a popular brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. and launched on 23 October 2001.
2001-1988=? I get something closer to 13 years. And a different country. The issue here (if there even is an issue) is not that this guy had a patent on a similar device, it's that he knew a bunch about early portable music players.
Wasn't that borderline illegal and entirely ineffective? Come on, that's not a nerd's signature.
This election needs Nerd help the old fashioned way. LEARN! Learn about your candidate, everything there is to know, learn his strengths and weaknesses. The next step is outside the Nerd repertoire, but I think we should give it a try anyway...
Evangelize! Get out and talk about your candidate, defend their position when you are challenged by a detractor. Avoid hyperbole (hard in politics, I know) and don't be afraid to make someone look dumb if their argument is flawed.
This is how election tides are turned. Enough strong-willed people out there converting the unwashed masses of lackadaisical voters. The Nerd challenge should be to convince the other 50% of eligible voters to get off their butts and show up at the polls in November.
That's contrary to the article abstract. They describe using the difference between a diffuse lit scene (no shadows) and a flash lit scene (shadows only due to deviation of flash angle) where the brightness delta is used to fudge a distance/reflectivity calculation. Shadow detection is not a part of it, at least in this particular paper.
First an image of a surface is captured with flash. The problem is that the different colors of a surface also reflect light differently, making it difficult to determine if the brightness difference is a function of depth or color. By taking a second photo without flash, however, the accurate colors of all visible portions of the surface can be captured.
This is reversed, the flash-lit image will show you the reflectance (and possibly some depth) information, whereas the non flash-lit image will show you the bare color map for the scene (provided the scene is properly lit to begin with.) FTFY!
You know what they say about assuming. I don't believe, unless they are sandbagging the performance of the IE plugin, that their $100 box will be any better at up-scaling or even preserving quality for that matter. Some of their movies are just really poorly encoded.
Spot on. I like to think of Nuclear power as this generation's Nuclear power, it's an issue that has not gone away since the 70's and at this moment in history may be one of the most relevant to our Nation (behind the war). Put a nuclear plant in my back yard. Hell, put two there. Having actually lived close to a plant before, I can add that the people of the community surrounding the plant actually receive very generous benefits if the tax revenues are properly negotiated. Waste disposal is a formidable, but conquerable problem and the benefits do not in any way outweigh the risks.
You still don't have me convinced. The fact is that batteries have to get a whole whole whole WHOLE lot better before they are reliable and compact enough to compare to the energy density and ease of use of gasoline. Charging has to get a lot faster, size has to drop, and lifetime has to get a lot longer. If you have to replace 1000lbs of batteries every 3 years (more often if you live anywhere it happens to get above 80F or below 40F) then you aren't saving the environment, or money. Wake me up when batteries bought for a given price are 10x smaller and longer lasting, maybe then they will be practical.
Do you realize that the average American spends about 60 cents/mile paying for the car, maintenance, license fees, etc. and only about 13 cents/mile in putting gas in the tank?
I would argue that most people stand to gain a lot more by buying a car that costs less up front and less to maintain than they would ever gain in buying just because it's more fuel-efficient. If it's about cost, that's where you can start.
Don't give me this nonsense that people can't afford gas, the fact is they can't afford expensive cars (and they buy them anyway) and gasoline is a minor player in the 'highway economy' of the United States.
I have had mixed experience with third party setups, that has incrementally gotten better over the years. The Intel offerings never really had great appeal to me outside the server area. So, is vendor lock-in (and lack of competition) going to be any good for the PC builders out there? I myself would rather see healthy competition...
CSI Wolfe: "We were able to lift half a fingerprint from the edge of the pencil the killer used to stab the victim in the eye..."
Lt. Caine: "Did you do a DESI test?"
CSI Wolfe: Yes, it indicated that the killer just got done eating a ham sandwich at the sub shop across the street before driving over here in his blue Toyota Corolla"
Lt. Caine: "License plate number?"
CSI Wolfe: "There wasn't quite enough on the print to get a complete number, we are having the computer analyze it to fill in the blanks."
Lt. Caine: "I guess you could say, [fill in useless plot device here]"
You are right. The management software you want is Virtual Center (included as part of ESXi). The only thing you lack is the advanced management features such as automated high availability.
But he had a sense of humor so he should have used it, 'cause there was that lunar module there - a fixed camera, just fixed, not panning left or right, just stationary. So he could've been there saying, "Hi, people on the Moon. As you can see, the Sea of Tranquility here, there's the mountains in the distance, there's the Earth! There, you're looking back up at yourselves there. Over to my right, I can see a fucking monster! There's a monster behind me! ( screaming ) Oh no, help! Get off my leg!" Buzz Aldrin in a monster outfit ( growling ) Neil doing a close-up with... "He's got me, Houston. The monster's got me! He wants cash! He's got my hand up behind my back. I think he knows jiu-jitsu! He wants cash for the release of my life. Send a million... - two million dollars, leave it in a bag by the Sea of Tranquility. I don't know, the North Shore! What the fucking 'ell...?" Oh, it would have worked, wouldn't it?
If you get cellphone spam I truly feel sorry for your personal information, it must be on every bathroom wall in the US.
I have been using a personal cellphone as my primary contact number for the better part of a decade, and to date have only received two spam texts (when I was with Nextel, 6 years ago) and not a single unsolicited sales phonecall. About twice a year, someone dials a wrong number and gets me, to which I politely tell them that no, there is little chance that Joe Bob Jackson Seefus Jr. lives even NEAR me.
The article knows this and many other astonishing things!
When a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark are pulled together by the strong force, they form a quark âoeatomâ-much like an electron and a proton come together under the electromagnetic force to create a hydrogen atom.
Anti-quarks don't behave like anti-matter, despite sharing that awesome prefix.
Yes, of course. Have all your email sent to Google in the first place! You don't have to switch everything over to the Google app tool, you can just set MX records for your domain pointing to them, and collect it all (or forward it inside or outside Google.) It's free (with a paid version available.) Check it out here http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html
Is it me or is avast just slow as snot compared to other scanners? I don't have an objective way to compare scanners (since i don't have multiple computers loaded with malware and viruses) but in my experience with relatively similar hardware and workloads, avast moved very very VERY slowly when disk scanning or processing realtime object requests.
Perhaps because the DOE has a dedicated Office of Science, of which the Office of Biological & Environmental Research is a member? Gosh, that was hard to pick out of the very first link you posted.
Or, in a more snide retort:
(And this is sponsored by the Department of Energy for what reason?)
Because the US Department of Fucked Up Eyeballs was out to lunch the day of the planning meeting.
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When has this EVER been the case? Back in the days of the reel/reel tape drive? I have used magnets (powerful, unshielded speakers) very close to computers since I started using computers (15 yrs ago with a commodore C64) and have never had the misfortune of a failure due to magnetic interference. Now I did have more than one monitor get a little fuzzy due to the polarization of the screen, but that was back in the CRT days (before they had degaussers, which is actually another interesting hole in the magnetic interference argument.)
So, where is the kernel of truth in the magnetic mayhem myth? Or, do I have to wait for this to appear on Mythbusters?
That's more likely than you think. The equity lost by those dumping the stock automatically (for a loss) will be tragic for those involved. On the other hand, the sharp traders who noticed what happened and bought at the discounted price had turned a tidy profit by the end of the day. All in all, a day later the stock is right back to riding the whim of the indexes and no one other than those who traded in that window are affected.
You conduct overheard conversations all the time and have no issue with considering them "secure": namely via SSL/TLS encryption. All that's necessary to create an RFID that can't be completely duplicated is for the chip to hold on to more information than it broadcasts, and then only reveal that information in a clever way (asymmetric encryption). A well coded challenge-response handshake can allow the reader and chip to conduct a conversation that is 'unique' and cannot be easily duplicated later on. Sure, there is the potential for it to be improperly coded, or downright misrepresented. However, don't count it as a failure before it's even seen the light of day.
How is that again? iPod is a popular brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. and launched on 23 October 2001.
2001-1988=? I get something closer to 13 years. And a different country. The issue here (if there even is an issue) is not that this guy had a patent on a similar device, it's that he knew a bunch about early portable music players.
Wasn't that borderline illegal and entirely ineffective? Come on, that's not a nerd's signature.
This election needs Nerd help the old fashioned way. LEARN! Learn about your candidate, everything there is to know, learn his strengths and weaknesses. The next step is outside the Nerd repertoire, but I think we should give it a try anyway...
Evangelize! Get out and talk about your candidate, defend their position when you are challenged by a detractor. Avoid hyperbole (hard in politics, I know) and don't be afraid to make someone look dumb if their argument is flawed.
This is how election tides are turned. Enough strong-willed people out there converting the unwashed masses of lackadaisical voters. The Nerd challenge should be to convince the other 50% of eligible voters to get off their butts and show up at the polls in November.
Now where did I put my soapbox...
That's contrary to the article abstract. They describe using the difference between a diffuse lit scene (no shadows) and a flash lit scene (shadows only due to deviation of flash angle) where the brightness delta is used to fudge a distance/reflectivity calculation. Shadow detection is not a part of it, at least in this particular paper.
First an image of a surface is captured with flash. The problem is that the different colors of a surface also reflect light differently, making it difficult to determine if the brightness difference is a function of depth or color. By taking a second photo without flash, however, the accurate colors of all visible portions of the surface can be captured.
This is reversed, the flash-lit image will show you the reflectance (and possibly some depth) information, whereas the non flash-lit image will show you the bare color map for the scene (provided the scene is properly lit to begin with.) FTFY!
So what you're complaining about is that something like "WTFV" isn't in our parlance? Well OK, here you go.
Why don't you WTFV before posting!!!
I'm assuming
You know what they say about assuming. I don't believe, unless they are sandbagging the performance of the IE plugin, that their $100 box will be any better at up-scaling or even preserving quality for that matter. Some of their movies are just really poorly encoded.
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Spot on. I like to think of Nuclear power as this generation's Nuclear power, it's an issue that has not gone away since the 70's and at this moment in history may be one of the most relevant to our Nation (behind the war). Put a nuclear plant in my back yard. Hell, put two there. Having actually lived close to a plant before, I can add that the people of the community surrounding the plant actually receive very generous benefits if the tax revenues are properly negotiated. Waste disposal is a formidable, but conquerable problem and the benefits do not in any way outweigh the risks.
If he wanted to watch Netflix on-demand he could use the PC he already has hooked up to his tv!
You still don't have me convinced. The fact is that batteries have to get a whole whole whole WHOLE lot better before they are reliable and compact enough to compare to the energy density and ease of use of gasoline. Charging has to get a lot faster, size has to drop, and lifetime has to get a lot longer. If you have to replace 1000lbs of batteries every 3 years (more often if you live anywhere it happens to get above 80F or below 40F) then you aren't saving the environment, or money. Wake me up when batteries bought for a given price are 10x smaller and longer lasting, maybe then they will be practical.
Do you realize that the average American spends about 60 cents/mile paying for the car, maintenance, license fees, etc. and only about 13 cents/mile in putting gas in the tank?
I would argue that most people stand to gain a lot more by buying a car that costs less up front and less to maintain than they would ever gain in buying just because it's more fuel-efficient. If it's about cost, that's where you can start.
Don't give me this nonsense that people can't afford gas, the fact is they can't afford expensive cars (and they buy them anyway) and gasoline is a minor player in the 'highway economy' of the United States.
I have had mixed experience with third party setups, that has incrementally gotten better over the years. The Intel offerings never really had great appeal to me outside the server area. So, is vendor lock-in (and lack of competition) going to be any good for the PC builders out there? I myself would rather see healthy competition...
On next week's episode of CSI: Miami
CSI Wolfe: "We were able to lift half a fingerprint from the edge of the pencil the killer used to stab the victim in the eye..."
Lt. Caine: "Did you do a DESI test?"
CSI Wolfe: Yes, it indicated that the killer just got done eating a ham sandwich at the sub shop across the street before driving over here in his blue Toyota Corolla"
Lt. Caine: "License plate number?"
CSI Wolfe: "There wasn't quite enough on the print to get a complete number, we are having the computer analyze it to fill in the blanks."
Lt. Caine: "I guess you could say, [fill in useless plot device here]"
Music: "YEEEEAAAAHHHH"
You are right. The management software you want is Virtual Center (included as part of ESXi). The only thing you lack is the advanced management features such as automated high availability.
It really makes you wish there was a (-1, Go Back To Fark.com) moderation, eh?
But he had a sense of humor so he should have used it, 'cause there was that lunar module there - a fixed camera, just fixed, not panning left or right, just stationary. So he could've been there saying, "Hi, people on the Moon. As you can see, the Sea of Tranquility here, there's the mountains in the distance, there's the Earth! There, you're looking back up at yourselves there. Over to my right, I can see a fucking monster! There's a monster behind me! ( screaming ) Oh no, help! Get off my leg!" Buzz Aldrin in a monster outfit ( growling ) Neil doing a close-up with... "He's got me, Houston. The monster's got me! He wants cash! He's got my hand up behind my back. I think he knows jiu-jitsu! He wants cash for the release of my life. Send a million... - two million dollars, leave it in a bag by the Sea of Tranquility. I don't know, the North Shore! What the fucking 'ell...?" Oh, it would have worked, wouldn't it?
Thank god for the preview button!
If you get cellphone spam I truly feel sorry for your personal information, it must be on every bathroom wall in the US.
I have been using a personal cellphone as my primary contact number for the better part of a decade, and to date have only received two spam texts (when I was with Nextel, 6 years ago) and not a single unsolicited sales phonecall. About twice a year, someone dials a wrong number and gets me, to which I politely tell them that no, there is little chance that Joe Bob Jackson Seefus Jr. lives even NEAR me.
When a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark are pulled together by the strong force, they form a quark âoeatomâ-much like an electron and a proton come together under the electromagnetic force to create a hydrogen atom.
Anti-quarks don't behave like anti-matter, despite sharing that awesome prefix.
Yes, of course. Have all your email sent to Google in the first place! You don't have to switch everything over to the Google app tool, you can just set MX records for your domain pointing to them, and collect it all (or forward it inside or outside Google.) It's free (with a paid version available.) Check it out here http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html
Is it me or is avast just slow as snot compared to other scanners? I don't have an objective way to compare scanners (since i don't have multiple computers loaded with malware and viruses) but in my experience with relatively similar hardware and workloads, avast moved very very VERY slowly when disk scanning or processing realtime object requests.
Remember Vista? Supporting legacy apps is already something MS has no interest in, apparently.
Perhaps because the DOE has a dedicated Office of Science, of which the Office of Biological & Environmental Research is a member? Gosh, that was hard to pick out of the very first link you posted.
Or, in a more snide retort: (And this is sponsored by the Department of Energy for what reason?)
Because the US Department of Fucked Up Eyeballs was out to lunch the day of the planning meeting.