And that is all MUCH harder to fake than a signature. (Practice a signature for a few hours...no one who isn't an expert would be able to tell if you have any talent...and I have doubts as to whether an expert could be sure.)
I mean there are going to be a LOT of subtle patterns in the way someone writes, especially as the text gets longer and longer. With a signature, you can see all the nuances right in front of you, with writing, you could miss a lot.
I think that is an interesting possiblity you raise, about defrauding by claiming something was faked, but unless someone is a linguist, I doubt they'd be able to mask themselves well enough.
I wonder, though, if software sophisticated enough to detect a particular author, or even to fake a particular author (or provide all the information...ALL of it...neccesary to do so) has yet been written...
You've already spent significant amounts of money on WiFi. If your equipment gets outlawed (and that can actually be enforced), They (being whoever Sirius is acting on the behalf of in this lawsuit...either themselves or some big wireless networking company who might benefit) would have an easier time selling a competing standard, since the incumbent technology would be out, and the manufacturers of that equipment would not be ready with replacements.
I don't see any concrete information on what it does to summarize stories...is it using something like Cyc? Does it just have some heuristics for picking out the important parts of paragraphs?
Also, who else thought "neuro-linguistic programming" for at least a moment when they saw "nlp"?
I seem to recall some TV show...within the last 2 years, at least, about this clock and the efforts that led to it. Was it based on the book? I think it was on PBS.
Well, 3D graphics has barely ever even qualified as a hobby for me.
And by not getting anywhere, I mean EVERYTHING seemed totally opaque. With every other modeller I've seen, all the information you could want, and all the basic tools are right there in front of you...the learning curve between installation and figuring out how to stick primitives exactly where you want them is exactly as long it takes to figure out what icon means what.
Blender...is...completely...unintuitive. (Or was...I should speak past tense because it was...98? 99?...last time I tried it.) Maybe it got better, but I'm sure they made a lot of bad impressions before it did.
And you know, if that wasn't the case, they wouldn't be discontinuing it.
Well, if the lawyers believe that this sort of hardware is going to become commonplace, one loss in a lawsuit like this could force them to reconsider at least when it comes to dealing with cyborgs. (or anyone who could suffer tangible damage from a search) I mean, it wouldn't be a favorable precedent.
The wall will be covered with powerful electro magnets. One for every pin, ideally, or for groups of pins
A few inches away from that is a huge pin-board thingy...like those boxes with the pins on it that you can press your hand against and get a metallic outline of your hand. The inside ends of these pins should probably be rounded.
Better yet, a dumbell shaped thing would allow fewer pins to cover a larger area.
Now either use some sort of computer-controlled arm or whatnot to press the pins outwards, or control them individually by having a natural magnet on each one, and forcing them out with the electromagnets.
In either case, the electromagnets would be used to retract them.
You might illuminate the heads of these pins fiberoptically.
If this isn't already patented, I guess it can't be now.
Of course a curtain of some sort of mail would have a nifty effect, too.
Yah, and Dvorak is faster than Qwerty. Big deal. If the learning curve is too steep, it doesn't make any difference, it won't catch on. Except that Blender isn't just trying to win over people already used to something else, it IS genuinely less intuitive.
It took me virtually no time at all to get used to the traditional 3 or 4 port view in other modellers. I tried poking around with blender for at least an hour without getting anywhere.
With the traditional interface, you don't have to learn much to get started. This was apparantly not the case at least with early versions of Blender. And you only get one chance to make a first impression.
No joke. I tried one of the early windows versions, and couldn't figure out how to even get started with it. I'm looking for primitives and different views, and all I've got is one frickin window and few if any tools I can recognize.
I'm sure back in the days when little was available to compete with it on Linux, it could have won some fans, but those days didn't last terribly long, did they?
Umm...I can think of one person that doesn't. Uematsu. (Not EVERYTHING he produces is excellent, IMO)
And I don't think you understand what I'm talking about. The only forum I've ever seen with regular discussion of game music where 3/4 of the people weren't totally fixated on Final Fantasy (or Chrono Trigger) has been remix.overclocked.org. It's diminished a bit, as Megaman and Castlevania music becomes more popular. (That's probably just due to musicians realizing there's more that they can do with it)
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There are many, many exceptions. Mainly because almost no game music is actually done like a movie score...almost all of it, including most from Square, is just loops, and anything used to punctuate on screen events tends to be little short pieces. (this has been true since at LEAST the NES days)
There are some instances of companies trying to make the music dynamic, with varying degrees of success. (Some of lucasarts star wars games, for example) But that's not very common.
Apart from that, the only games which can fit the music to the action well enough that they can do more than just set an overall mood are ones which are so rigidly linear, with timing fixed no matter what the player does, that they can score it like a movie. Most of Panzer Dragoon 2, for example. Here, your listenability/mood dichotomy actually DOES exist and is vividly illustrated. The most listenable tracks from that game were mainly just the loops.
Anyhow, to my knowledge, Uematsu falls squarely in the "loops" category, without even having many of those musical exclaimation points.
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I can see why they hold onto him....what I can't see is why people are so slavishly devoted to his work.
Has there been a single one yet which hasn't created an enormous gulf between the lowest price point and free which just doesn't seem worth crossing?
I mean, 9 users, and it's 1000 bucks a year? I thought the article said they were worried about BIG businesses using them.
Every time a free service starts charging, it seems, they charge way too much for way too little, often while still leaving the free services there, which sometimes are good enough anyway. (Yahoo mail, for example)
Is there an example of a service which charges small increments in price for small increments in service?
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IIRC, Hitachi and NEC had products in this general form (looking like the Rapeway model, not the IMac), 18 months ago.
So are americans discovering the joys of having empty space to move around in?
That last bit about our shadowy overlords, though, that's interesting, and probably the only insightful bit. Although I wouldn't mind a better explaination of why they must use an alta-vista-ish approach.
This, or some kind of digital-paper technology would massively improve the usefulness of pen-tablets. They'd be easier to get used to (and you'd get more thorougly used to them) if you could see what you were drawing where you were drawing it. having a little notebook-sized white board that keeps track of what I'm drawing would be almost as good as having a screen I could draw directly on.
Factual evidence of something extraordinary would be extraordinary. You wouldn't think finding say, remains of a thousand foot long wooden ship to be extraordinary? I know I would.
Jeez, what do you think I (or sagan) would be looking for? God's big bearded, scowling, yellow-eyed, badly-animated face appearing in the clouds?
Apparantly the world is still waiting on the extraordinary evidence (and that would be why 85 percent of those Royal Geographic Society people are planning to show up).
This guy is talking about THOUSAND FOOT WOODEN SHIPS. This would have to be a first, and beat the largest known rival almost 3fold. That alone is making me think "this guy is 3 weeks early."
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And that is all MUCH harder to fake than a signature. (Practice a signature for a few hours...no one who isn't an expert would be able to tell if you have any talent...and I have doubts as to whether an expert could be sure.)
I mean there are going to be a LOT of subtle patterns in the way someone writes, especially as the text gets longer and longer. With a signature, you can see all the nuances right in front of you, with writing, you could miss a lot.
I think that is an interesting possiblity you raise, about defrauding by claiming something was faked, but unless someone is a linguist, I doubt they'd be able to mask themselves well enough.
I wonder, though, if software sophisticated enough to detect a particular author, or even to fake a particular author (or provide all the information...ALL of it...neccesary to do so) has yet been written...
You've already spent significant amounts of money on WiFi. If your equipment gets outlawed (and that can actually be enforced), They (being whoever Sirius is acting on the behalf of in this lawsuit...either themselves or some big wireless networking company who might benefit) would have an easier time selling a competing standard, since the incumbent technology would be out, and the manufacturers of that equipment would not be ready with replacements.
And Freemasons run the country.
Put an old-style "intel inside" sticker on it.
Make sure that any model numbers on it somehow suggest that it is a 386, and that its screen is either black and white, or passive-matrix.
Cover all non-legacy ports with a plate having dummy serial ports or somesuch.
The CDROM drive should be made to look like a 5.25 inch floppy drive. (I don't know if notebooks ever had those, but hey, nothing wrong with overkill)
Is anyone gonna steal this thing?
Thank you. I don't know why I didn't think it was Nova. Anyhow...
What problem...you can finish them in record time.
I'm not worried about that any more than I am about a meaty editor's objectivity.
I'm more interested in whether the thing makes any humorous errors. That and whether it can eventually out-rotten Daily Rotten.
I don't see any concrete information on what it does to summarize stories...is it using something like Cyc? Does it just have some heuristics for picking out the important parts of paragraphs?
Also, who else thought "neuro-linguistic programming" for at least a moment when they saw "nlp"?
I seem to recall some TV show...within the last 2 years, at least, about this clock and the efforts that led to it. Was it based on the book? I think it was on PBS.
Anyone remember this?
Well, 3D graphics has barely ever even qualified as a hobby for me.
And by not getting anywhere, I mean EVERYTHING seemed totally opaque. With every other modeller I've seen, all the information you could want, and all the basic tools are right there in front of you...the learning curve between installation and figuring out how to stick primitives exactly where you want them is exactly as long it takes to figure out what icon means what.
Blender...is...completely...unintuitive. (Or was...I should speak past tense because it was...98? 99?...last time I tried it.) Maybe it got better, but I'm sure they made a lot of bad impressions before it did.
And you know, if that wasn't the case, they wouldn't be discontinuing it.
Well, if the lawyers believe that this sort of hardware is going to become commonplace, one loss in a lawsuit like this could force them to reconsider at least when it comes to dealing with cyborgs. (or anyone who could suffer tangible damage from a search) I mean, it wouldn't be a favorable precedent.
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Alright....picture this:
The wall will be covered with powerful electro magnets. One for every pin, ideally, or for groups of pins
A few inches away from that is a huge pin-board thingy...like those boxes with the pins on it that you can press your hand against and get a metallic outline of your hand. The inside ends of these pins should probably be rounded.
Better yet, a dumbell shaped thing would allow fewer pins to cover a larger area.
Now either use some sort of computer-controlled arm or whatnot to press the pins outwards, or control them individually by having a natural magnet on each one, and forcing them out with the electromagnets.
In either case, the electromagnets would be used to retract them.
You might illuminate the heads of these pins fiberoptically.
If this isn't already patented, I guess it can't be now.
Of course a curtain of some sort of mail would have a nifty effect, too.
Yeah, but an artificial one could have higher density and be harder, and would no doubt withstand longer-duration beating.
Yah, and Dvorak is faster than Qwerty. Big deal. If the learning curve is too steep, it doesn't make any difference, it won't catch on. Except that Blender isn't just trying to win over people already used to something else, it IS genuinely less intuitive.
It took me virtually no time at all to get used to the traditional 3 or 4 port view in other modellers. I tried poking around with blender for at least an hour without getting anywhere.
With the traditional interface, you don't have to learn much to get started. This was apparantly not the case at least with early versions of Blender. And you only get one chance to make a first impression.
This is more like "the walls have mouths." Although it could give new meaning to the phrase "surround sound"
Now if this was turning any flat surface into a MICROPHONE.
No joke. I tried one of the early windows versions, and couldn't figure out how to even get started with it. I'm looking for primitives and different views, and all I've got is one frickin window and few if any tools I can recognize.
I'm sure back in the days when little was available to compete with it on Linux, it could have won some fans, but those days didn't last terribly long, did they?
Umm...I can think of one person that doesn't. Uematsu. (Not EVERYTHING he produces is excellent, IMO)
And I don't think you understand what I'm talking about. The only forum I've ever seen with regular discussion of game music where 3/4 of the people weren't totally fixated on Final Fantasy (or Chrono Trigger) has been remix.overclocked.org. It's diminished a bit, as Megaman and Castlevania music becomes more popular. (That's probably just due to musicians realizing there's more that they can do with it)
There are many, many exceptions. Mainly because almost no game music is actually done like a movie score...almost all of it, including most from Square, is just loops, and anything used to punctuate on screen events tends to be little short pieces. (this has been true since at LEAST the NES days)
There are some instances of companies trying to make the music dynamic, with varying degrees of success. (Some of lucasarts star wars games, for example) But that's not very common.
Apart from that, the only games which can fit the music to the action well enough that they can do more than just set an overall mood are ones which are so rigidly linear, with timing fixed no matter what the player does, that they can score it like a movie. Most of Panzer Dragoon 2, for example. Here, your listenability/mood dichotomy actually DOES exist and is vividly illustrated. The most listenable tracks from that game were mainly just the loops.
Anyhow, to my knowledge, Uematsu falls squarely in the "loops" category, without even having many of those musical exclaimation points.
I can see why they hold onto him....what I can't see is why people are so slavishly devoted to his work.
Good, but generally pretty dull.
Has there been a single one yet which hasn't created an enormous gulf between the lowest price point and free which just doesn't seem worth crossing?
I mean, 9 users, and it's 1000 bucks a year? I thought the article said they were worried about BIG businesses using them.
Every time a free service starts charging, it seems, they charge way too much for way too little, often while still leaving the free services there, which sometimes are good enough anyway. (Yahoo mail, for example)
Is there an example of a service which charges small increments in price for small increments in service?
IIRC, Hitachi and NEC had products in this general form (looking like the Rapeway model, not the IMac), 18 months ago.
So are americans discovering the joys of having empty space to move around in?
Most of the article is just stating the obvious.
That last bit about our shadowy overlords, though, that's interesting, and probably the only insightful bit. Although I wouldn't mind a better explaination of why they must use an alta-vista-ish approach.
This, or some kind of digital-paper technology would massively improve the usefulness of pen-tablets. They'd be easier to get used to (and you'd get more thorougly used to them) if you could see what you were drawing where you were drawing it. having a little notebook-sized white board that keeps track of what I'm drawing would be almost as good as having a screen I could draw directly on.
Factual evidence of something extraordinary would be extraordinary. You wouldn't think finding say, remains of a thousand foot long wooden ship to be extraordinary? I know I would.
Jeez, what do you think I (or sagan) would be looking for? God's big bearded, scowling, yellow-eyed, badly-animated face appearing in the clouds?
So far that's what we've got.
Apparantly the world is still waiting on the extraordinary evidence (and that would be why 85 percent of those Royal Geographic Society people are planning to show up).
This guy is talking about THOUSAND FOOT WOODEN SHIPS. This would have to be a first, and beat the largest known rival almost 3fold. That alone is making me think "this guy is 3 weeks early."