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As long as you could line the perimeter, would it make more sense to line the walls w/ signal reflective rather than absorbative materials? Signals originating inside, stay inside and those from outside get deflected.
Mod to oblivion if that doesn't mesh with physics.
Now if he could catch up with all of the existing locations, then he could start taking pictures of the future locations before they are Stackbuckized. That would probably be of more historical and societal importance.
He could also take a few pictures of the local coffee shops before they go out of business when the Starbucks moves in.
If it really is ***estimated lost sales***, then I wonder if every time someone dumps Windows for Linux that it becomes an estimated lost sale of a new version of Windows?
Makes me wonder what the relationship is between movie ticket prices (plus a 5 dollar pepsi and popcorn) and the cost of movie production.
If the cost of a movie ticket when up say double tomorrow, what would happen? Would we instantly get better quality movies?
Or, as what I would think would be more likely, we would get movies like Gigli, Waterworld, etc that cost twice as much to make?
On a somewhat related note, I would really like to see these "top grossing" movies expressed not in how much they make per weekend, but how many people actually see the movie itself. Given that ticket prices are always rising, next years movie always has a great possibility of being a "top grossing" movie even if it really isn't that good.
I find the methodology of their research much more interesting than their results. I've done quite a bit of work in this area, including my dissertation, and from the very high level description of the tasks involved their results need to be interpreted in a much more limited sense than they are being presented.
The task that you are given for a specified stimulus is going to very much influence your performance on later tasks. If you are presented a slide and asked to count the number of dots, then later asked whether or not the number of dots on a particular slide was even / odd, then you are likely to do fairly well. But what if you are presented a slide and asked if there was a blue dot on the slide or not, how is your performance going to be on the even / odd task later on? What kind of curve are you going to get for each task when you vary the number of dots and can you really then imply a limit to the theory of memory?
Obviously, you need more details than is presented in the shorter article. The last paragraph below is particularly interesting, since such generalizations don't seem to follow very well from the methods described.
I also would wish people would stop making analogies between the mind and the computer. It is a useful analogy for teaching undergrads and for articles in pop psych magazines, but is very restricting in terms of actual research directions.
Included below is additional text related to the story:
"Visual short-term memory is a key component of many perceptual and cognitive functions and is supported by a broad neural network, but it has a very limited storage capacity," Marois said. "Though we have the impression we are taking in a great deal of information from a visual scene, we are actually very poor at describing its contents in detail once it is gone from our sight."
Previous findings have determined that an extensive network of brain regions supports visual short-term memory. In their study, Todd and Marois showed that the severely limited storage capacity of visual short-term memory is primarily associated with just one of these regions, the posterior parietal cortex.
Todd and Marois used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a technique that reveals the brain regions active in a given mental task by registering changes in blood flow and oxygenation in these regions, to identify where the capacity limit of visual short-term memory occurs.
The brains of research participants were scanned with fMRI while they were shown scenes containing one to eight colored objects. After a delay of just over a second, the subjects were queried about the scene they had just viewed.
While the subjects were good at remembering all of the objects in scenes containing four or fewer objects, they frequently made mistakes describing displays containing a larger number of objects, indicating that the storage capacity of visual short-term memory is about four.
It seems that the per track scheme of selling really exposes a major weakness in the current music industry. A flat rate doesn't really fit very well since all tracks are really not the same, especially with the "popular" artists where they make all of their money (one / two hits drive the rest of the cd).
Does a painter price all of their canvases the same? Some are definitely worth more than others and are priced accordingly.
The truth here is that most tracks on a cd are worth much, much less if they were priced this way.
I do buy more cd's now than ever, although almost all are not the major marketed groups.
Been joking about this for a while, but soon we will indeed have a "Patriot Quotient" whether it is red/yellow/green or some other system. Eventually, it will show up on your credit records. What bank would want to give a loan to a red-terrorist, right?.
If you find you are yellow or red, then you will have to work with Homeland Security to resolve any issues. They will likely give you a set of Patriot Quotient Remediation tasks to perform in order to raise your score back up:
* write letters to the local paper praising your govt's effectiveness in fighting terrorism. * tell on 3 friends who have perpetrated an unpatriotic act * convert * send a contribution to a re-election campaign
I can't tell yet since the site seems to be down or crawling, but wouldn't the software companies get involved if your blatently advertising code / keys for download?
Whether they are the files that they say they are is another story (let the downloader beware, I guess). But you would think that companies would go after them (even if they claim to be good guys) with the same rigor that they are going after others?
a) outsource the lawyers, or b) get a law firm to sue another law firm for using Linux for their database / accounting systems...step back and watch the whole thing blow up in an tangled infinite loop of lawsuits.
How can this be any form of long term business model? I can't imagine that the cost of filing each of these suits is less than the license fees that they are bringing in. The base cost of the lawyers needed to research and produce the suit is much greater than what people have speculated that EV1 paid in fees.
This model only becomes effective if they can gain some sort of cost efficiency of mass suits and quick rollover rates.
Anyway, are any of these customers going to become long term SCO customers? No way....
You know, $67M would go a long way towards a nice trust or law fund to help people fight these law suits. Not that they would not continue to sue to get "their" money back, but at least to put up a good fight.
"When you encounter a saleswoman, her handheld computer brings up your tastes, buying history, vital statistics and personalized suggestions from in-stock and coming inventory..."
"Mr Oppenheim also said the RIAA was immume from rules on unreasonable searches on the internet, because it did not have links with law enforcement agencies."
By that logic, everyone is open to whatever searches of other people's systems they want. Why is the US gov't going after people for "hacking", if the intent is just to look around then all is fine according to them.
Consider providing old / limited cell phones to the homeless which would be useful for tracking purposes. Also, one of the main problems often cited for not getting a job is the lack of a consistent phone / mail contact information.
Not that I am for this 'tagging' program since it seems very much a way to experiment on how well this can be done and work out the bugs.
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As long as you could line the perimeter, would it make more sense to line the walls w/ signal reflective rather than absorbative materials? Signals originating inside, stay inside and those from outside get deflected.
Mod to oblivion if that doesn't mesh with physics.
Glad it is Friday, as I just can get the picture out of my head of people sitting outside your house, downloading porn, and "coating your front wall".
That is some expensive "stuff"....
In that case, wouldn't you just buy Yahoo stock at $30/share right now instead?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=yhoo
How about supporting that syntax directly in a browser? It would be nice to drop http://porn.com/image{1..300}.jpg right into the location bar.
Agreed...I hope to never see the day when we can mod to "heretical"...
Now if he could catch up with all of the existing locations, then he could start taking pictures of the future locations before they are Stackbuckized. That would probably be of more historical and societal importance.
He could also take a few pictures of the local coffee shops before they go out of business when the Starbucks moves in.
If it really is ***estimated lost sales***, then I wonder if every time someone dumps Windows for Linux that it becomes an estimated lost sale of a new version of Windows?
Same thing for Office to OpenOffice? etc.
Makes me wonder what the relationship is between movie ticket prices (plus a 5 dollar pepsi and popcorn) and the cost of movie production.
If the cost of a movie ticket when up say double tomorrow, what would happen? Would we instantly get better quality movies?
Or, as what I would think would be more likely, we would get movies like Gigli, Waterworld, etc that cost twice as much to make?
On a somewhat related note, I would really like to see these "top grossing" movies expressed not in how much they make per weekend, but how many people actually see the movie itself. Given that ticket prices are always rising, next years movie always has a great possibility of being a "top grossing" movie even if it really isn't that good.
I find the methodology of their research much more interesting than their results. I've done quite a bit of work in this area, including my dissertation, and from the very high level description of the tasks involved their results need to be interpreted in a much more limited sense than they are being presented.
The task that you are given for a specified stimulus is going to very much influence your performance on later tasks. If you are presented a slide and asked to count the number of dots, then later asked whether or not the number of dots on a particular slide was even / odd, then you are likely to do fairly well. But what if you are presented a slide and asked if there was a blue dot on the slide or not, how is your performance going to be on the even / odd task later on? What kind of curve are you going to get for each task when you vary the number of dots and can you really then imply a limit to the theory of memory?
Obviously, you need more details than is presented in the shorter article. The last paragraph below is particularly interesting, since such generalizations don't seem to follow very well from the methods described.
I also would wish people would stop making analogies between the mind and the computer. It is a useful analogy for teaching undergrads and for articles in pop psych magazines, but is very restricting in terms of actual research directions.
Included below is additional text related to the story:
"Visual short-term memory is a key component of many perceptual and cognitive functions and is supported by a broad neural network, but it has a very limited storage capacity," Marois said. "Though we have the impression we are taking in a great deal of information from a visual scene, we are actually very poor at describing its contents in detail once it is gone from our sight."
Previous findings have determined that an extensive network of brain regions supports visual short-term memory. In their study, Todd and Marois showed that the severely limited storage capacity of visual short-term memory is primarily associated with just one of these regions, the posterior parietal cortex.
Todd and Marois used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a technique that reveals the brain regions active in a given mental task by registering changes in blood flow and oxygenation in these regions, to identify where the capacity limit of visual short-term memory occurs.
The brains of research participants were scanned with fMRI while they were shown scenes containing one to eight colored objects. After a delay of just over a second, the subjects were queried about the scene they had just viewed.
While the subjects were good at remembering all of the objects in scenes containing four or fewer objects, they frequently made mistakes describing displays containing a larger number of objects, indicating that the storage capacity of visual short-term memory is about four.
It seems that the per track scheme of selling really exposes a major weakness in the current music industry. A flat rate doesn't really fit very well since all tracks are really not the same, especially with the "popular" artists where they make all of their money (one / two hits drive the rest of the cd).
Does a painter price all of their canvases the same? Some are definitely worth more than others and are priced accordingly.
The truth here is that most tracks on a cd are worth much, much less if they were priced this way.
I do buy more cd's now than ever, although almost all are not the major marketed groups.
Been joking about this for a while, but soon we will indeed have a "Patriot Quotient" whether it is red/yellow/green or some other system. Eventually, it will show up on your credit records. What bank would want to give a loan to a red-terrorist, right?.
If you find you are yellow or red, then you will have to work with Homeland Security to resolve any issues. They will likely give you a set of Patriot Quotient Remediation tasks to perform in order to raise your score back up:
* write letters to the local paper praising your govt's effectiveness in fighting terrorism.
* tell on 3 friends who have perpetrated an unpatriotic act
* convert
* send a contribution to a re-election campaign
I can't tell yet since the site seems to be down or crawling, but wouldn't the software companies get involved if your blatently advertising code / keys for download?
Whether they are the files that they say they are is another story (let the downloader beware, I guess). But you would think that companies would go after them (even if they claim to be good guys) with the same rigor that they are going after others?
And Paula Jones as well...
"Santa, is that you in your new exoskeleton?"
Now if could either:
a) outsource the lawyers, or
b) get a law firm to sue another law firm for using Linux for their database / accounting systems...step back and watch the whole thing blow up in an tangled infinite loop of lawsuits.
How can this be any form of long term business model? I can't imagine that the cost of filing each of these suits is less than the license fees that they are bringing in. The base cost of the lawyers needed to research and produce the suit is much greater than what people have speculated that EV1 paid in fees.
This model only becomes effective if they can gain some sort of cost efficiency of mass suits and quick rollover rates.
Anyway, are any of these customers going to become long term SCO customers? No way....
Speaking of photographs linking political figures, I have yet to see the obligatory link to these pictures of Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein
You know, $67M would go a long way towards a nice trust or law fund to help people fight these law suits. Not that they would not continue to sue to get "their" money back, but at least to put up a good fight.
A bunch of small donations to EFF maybe?
"When you encounter a saleswoman, her handheld computer brings up your tastes, buying history, vital statistics and personalized suggestions from in-stock and coming inventory..."
So is there next line of products going to be a line of DMCA compliant keyboards -- minus shift-key of course.
"you will get my 'shift key' when you pry it from under my cold dead fingers"
What's next? Tracking Pringles cans? I hear that they make great antennas!
And if you do change professions, please choose something to improve the situation...like a lawyer, judge, or run for congress.
"Mr Oppenheim also said the RIAA was immume from rules on unreasonable searches on the internet, because it did not have links with law enforcement agencies."
By that logic, everyone is open to whatever searches of other people's systems they want. Why is the US gov't going after people for "hacking", if the intent is just to look around then all is fine according to them.
Consider providing old / limited cell phones to the homeless which would be useful for tracking purposes. Also, one of the main problems often cited for not getting a job is the lack of a consistent phone / mail contact information.
Not that I am for this 'tagging' program since it seems very much a way to experiment on how well this can be done and work out the bugs.
Now this is innovating thinking...place your bets on the validity or truthfulness of facts in State of the Union...fulfillment of campaign promises...