I agree. I saw the "developers site" last spring, and it wasn't new then. The PR-site, and their renewed interest in Machine Vision are new though. I got a mail the other week suggesting that they were looking for more Computer Vision competence. A pity my PhD is still some years off, it sounds like a really cool project to work in!
I played with the Gimp under windows (my graphics card seems to be unsupported in any version of REdhat through 6.2) and honestly, I can't seem to figure out how to SAVE a document.
Try right-clicking in the image, and choose "Save" or "Save as" in the file menu...
I guess most of you guys know this, but here is a short paste from www.linux.co.uk:
Linux is a flavour of UNIX, an operating system (underlying software that provides and interface between a computer's hardware and its applications) developed at Bell Laboratories as a private research project by a small group of people starting in 1969. Linux was originally developed in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Regarding the knowledge in the garden of Eden. If one examines carefully it was a test to see if the mankind would be obedient to Creator or not.
This statement nicely pinpoints what I wanted to show. Obedience is not part of the highest of morals to me. I, and many others today prefer democracy and freedom of speech. If I ever would have children, I would not feel that there would be a point in them being obedient to me just because they were mine. Obedience should not be blind IMHO. Our morals have improved a lot sice the time of the writing of the Old Testament, but at that time it probably was divine to keep your children in ignorance.
As you've probably noticed I don't really see the point in believing the Bible literally. After all the Book is obviously a collection of stories written by people, and their morals have obviously coloured the contents. In fact the Bible was voted holy in the Council of Nicaea in the fourth century. This should really be an asset to Christianity, ie. the freedom to reinterpret the Word in the light of the current society.
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I think all of these posts would be referring to the Abrahamic tradition of God (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity).
I'd say the God described in the Old Testament is far from a "perfect being". The book is loaded with examples of His cruelties. For instance: collective punishment (wiping out the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah), denying people the right to knowledge (in the garden of Eden), telling Abraham to kill his son etc. That's not perfect to me...
I would not call this supportive. You wrote the code and the rules which it follows in it's evolution. Therefore, there is intelligent design in the evolution of your code.
I'm afraid you've got it all wrong. If you compare this guy's simulation to our world, the code and the rules correspond to the laws of physics. Whether the laws of physics are intelligently designed or not does not really matter. Even if they were, this would not mean that the results of evolution are intelligently designed.
Which means that at some point they'll start changing the definition of XML to close out competitors. They've always taken this approach, why do you think they won't this time?
Perhaps because XML is a meta language?
Agreed they might try to mess with standards that use XML (like Math ML, and Music ML etc.)
While half a million apps can parse HTML, no two of them seem to display it in quite the same way.
Why should they? HTML was never aimed at being WYSIWYG (Although admittedly many people use it as if it was). If you are true to the spririt of HTML (ie. don't use explicit fontsizes etc), it should be up to the application how to render the page.
Actually I didn't feel that bad about Tron, I even put in some references to it into a GPL:ed implementation of ETFTP some time ago. But just like the old Star Trek episodes it's main asset is that it uses old fashioned effects:-)
Also please note that I didn't say anything about Signal 11, I only mentioned Tron. (FYI I find the flames boring too.) When I saw his post I just thought "Oh not another one raving about Tron": Most of my friends really like the film, and personally I find it mediocre. I put in the "end of line" just to see if anyone would get the reference... the Master Control Program always ended his messages that way:)
Try looking at something colorful on the edge of your field of vision next time you are outside at night. You'll see you won't be able to distinguish color as well.
Try looking at anything at night for that matter. The rods handle most of your vision at night (scotopic vision), the cones most of your vision in daylight (photopic vision). Besides, colour perception involves much more than just the retina. For instance, if you know that trees are dark green, you can easily perceive them as slightly greenish at night. Otherwise I liked your post.
Anonymity fears no Karma.
Maybe it should. Nowadays, if you get to many negative moderations your IP will be temporarily blocked...
With simulation of adaptive optics in combination with pupil enlargement you get a picture that gets aliased (like in computer graphics), ie the cones and rods are to large to resolve the image and hence the brain might create an image that is pixelated (or is Brain GTS(tm) equipped with full screen anti-aliasing?).
I recently read an article where they used the aliasing in a video recording to increase the resolution of the individual frames in the video (Do a search on super resolution to find out more). If this can be done in software I wouldn't be surprised if the human visual system can make use of aliasing in moving scenery as well.
Interesting. So mankind has been accumulating genetic defects for some time now. Wonder how long it will take until nature catches up on modern healthcare...
Scary, and not much to do about it either... nothing thats morally acceptable at least. OTOH I guess it will take a few hundred years before any effect is noticeable.
Personally, I'm going to hold out until the X-ray surgery becomes available.
I think you mean something else, cause there are big troubles constructing lenses and mirrors for X-rays. The best X-ray mirrors of today have a reflectance of around 10%, the rest goes right through. Imagine what a constant flow of X-rays could do to your brain;)
Besides, there are not much to see in X-ray frequencies unless you emit X-rays youself... that's how they do it at the dentist's; X-ray emission on one side of your tooth, and a film on the other side.
plasma tech probably wouldn't be feasible for ground launches...
The name of NASA:s plasma rocket is VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket). According to the Scientific American link posted here earlier, the system "...bridges the gap between high- and low-thrust systems." It's supposed to have two gears, one for take-off, and one for space-flight.
Selection sort doesn't need a target buffer either, and the number of swaps in selection sort is proportional to N while it is proportional to N^2 in BS. Both have N^2 complexity though...
There IS a good reason to teach bubble sort. Bubble sort is a good sort to use (much better than quicksort even) if your data set is close to sorted already.
I recall hearing that argument, but it's not convincing. There are other, non-recursive sorting algorithms that also work fine on almost sorted lists. It would be interesting to know where almost sorted lists occur in real life. The closest I've come is merging a large, and a small sorted list, and there are better ways to deal with that.
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So Honda's got a walking robot (Honda Germany, I'll note)
Where did you get that from? The German site is just promo. From what I've heard the original development was done in Japan.
I agree. I saw the "developers site" last spring, and it wasn't new then. The PR-site, and their renewed interest in Machine Vision are new though. I got a mail the other week suggesting that they were looking for more Computer Vision competence. A pity my PhD is still some years off, it sounds like a really cool project to work in!
Sounds almost as if you've bought PS and refuse to admit you've made a mistake :-)
I played with the Gimp under windows (my graphics card seems to be unsupported in any version of REdhat through 6.2) and honestly, I can't seem to figure out how to SAVE a document.
Try right-clicking in the image, and choose "Save" or "Save as" in the file menu...
Was that a bad joke or what?!
I guess most of you guys know this, but here is a short paste from www.linux.co.uk:
Linux is a flavour of UNIX, an operating system (underlying software that provides and interface between a computer's hardware and its applications) developed at Bell Laboratories as a private research project by a small group of people starting in 1969. Linux was originally developed in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Regarding the knowledge in the garden of Eden. If one examines carefully it was a test to see if the mankind would be obedient to Creator or not.
This statement nicely pinpoints what I wanted to show. Obedience is not part of the highest of morals to me. I, and many others today prefer democracy and freedom of speech. If I ever would have children, I would not feel that there would be a point in them being obedient to me just because they were mine. Obedience should not be blind IMHO. Our morals have improved a lot sice the time of the writing of the Old Testament, but at that time it probably was divine to keep your children in ignorance.
As you've probably noticed I don't really see the point in believing the Bible literally. After all the Book is obviously a collection of stories written by people, and their morals have obviously coloured the contents. In fact the Bible was voted holy in the Council of Nicaea in the fourth century. This should really be an asset to Christianity, ie. the freedom to reinterpret the Word in the light of the current society.
I think all of these posts would be referring to the Abrahamic tradition of God (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity).
I'd say the God described in the Old Testament is far from a "perfect being". The book is loaded with examples of His cruelties. For instance: collective punishment (wiping out the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah), denying people the right to knowledge (in the garden of Eden), telling Abraham to kill his son etc. That's not perfect to me...
I would not call this supportive. You wrote the code and the rules which it follows in it's evolution. Therefore, there is intelligent design in the evolution of your code.
I'm afraid you've got it all wrong. If you compare this guy's simulation to our world, the code and the rules correspond to the laws of physics. Whether the laws of physics are intelligently designed or not does not really matter. Even if they were, this would not mean that the results of evolution are intelligently designed.
Older versions of Office open this files just fine, but non MSFT software inserts a bunch of crap into the document.
WordPad (the app that is bundled with Windows, and can do most useful things Word does) also fails to open newer RTF-files.
Actually the RTF business upsets me much more than most evils in Word, because RTF is actually claimed to be a format for compatibility.
Which means that at some point they'll start changing the definition of XML to close out competitors. They've always taken this approach, why do you think they won't this time?
Perhaps because XML is a meta language?
Agreed they might try to mess with standards that use XML (like Math ML, and Music ML etc.)
While half a million apps can parse HTML, no two of them seem to display it in quite the same way.
Why should they? HTML was never aimed at being WYSIWYG (Although admittedly many people use it as if it was). If you are true to the spririt of HTML (ie. don't use explicit fontsizes etc), it should be up to the application how to render the page.
Actually I didn't feel that bad about Tron, I even put in some references to it into a GPL:ed implementation of ETFTP some time ago. But just like the old Star Trek episodes it's main asset is that it uses old fashioned effects :-)
Also please note that I didn't say anything about Signal 11, I only mentioned Tron. (FYI I find the flames boring too.) When I saw his post I just thought "Oh not another one raving about Tron": Most of my friends really like the film, and personally I find it mediocre. I put in the "end of line" just to see if anyone would get the reference... the Master Control Program always ended his messages that way :)
See you at the I/O tower...
TRON is overrated...
END OF LINE. :-)
I agree, but I wonder if AvatarMe, or the functionality of Quake 3 is to blame for the poor mapping, and the blur?
Try looking at something colorful on the edge of your field of vision next time you are outside at night. You'll see you won't be able to distinguish color as well.
Try looking at anything at night for that matter. The rods handle most of your vision at night (scotopic vision), the cones most of your vision in daylight (photopic vision). Besides, colour perception involves much more than just the retina. For instance, if you know that trees are dark green, you can easily perceive them as slightly greenish at night. Otherwise I liked your post.
Anonymity fears no Karma.
Maybe it should. Nowadays, if you get to many negative moderations your IP will be temporarily blocked...
With simulation of adaptive optics in combination with pupil enlargement you get a picture that gets aliased (like in computer graphics), ie the cones and rods are to large to resolve the image and hence the brain might create an image that is pixelated (or is Brain GTS(tm) equipped with full screen anti-aliasing?).
I recently read an article where they used the aliasing in a video recording to increase the resolution of the individual frames in the video (Do a search on super resolution to find out more). If this can be done in software I wouldn't be surprised if the human visual system can make use of aliasing in moving scenery as well.
Interesting. So mankind has been accumulating genetic defects for some time now. Wonder how long it will take until nature catches up on modern healthcare...
Scary, and not much to do about it either... nothing thats morally acceptable at least. OTOH I guess it will take a few hundred years before any effect is noticeable.
Yeah, a beach full of skeletons! That would be something :-)
Personally, I'm going to hold out until the X-ray surgery becomes available.
I think you mean something else, cause there are big troubles constructing lenses and mirrors for X-rays. The best X-ray mirrors of today have a reflectance of around 10%, the rest goes right through. Imagine what a constant flow of X-rays could do to your brain ;)
Besides, there are not much to see in X-ray frequencies unless you emit X-rays youself... that's how they do it at the dentist's; X-ray emission on one side of your tooth, and a film on the other side.
Yeah, imagine all holy books they could read with those ;)
plasma tech probably wouldn't be feasible for ground launches...
The name of NASA:s plasma rocket is VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket). According to the Scientific American link posted here earlier, the system "...bridges the gap between high- and low-thrust systems." It's supposed to have two gears, one for take-off, and one for space-flight.
Old iMacDonald had a... :-)
I've heard that instruction name before... I think they borrowed the name from some ancient architecture.
Selection sort doesn't need a target buffer either, and the number of swaps in selection sort is proportional to N while it is proportional to N^2 in BS. Both have N^2 complexity though...
The operating system is not the kernel
Perhaps you should tell Dell as well, cause that's where he got it from :-)
There IS a good reason to teach bubble sort. Bubble sort is a good sort to use (much better than quicksort even) if your data set is close to sorted already.
I recall hearing that argument, but it's not convincing. There are other, non-recursive sorting algorithms that also work fine on almost sorted lists. It would be interesting to know where almost sorted lists occur in real life. The closest I've come is merging a large, and a small sorted list, and there are better ways to deal with that.