Maybe average eyes only see 20-25 fps, but my perihiperal vision easily picks up flicker at up to 60Hz (70Hz is just a hair beyond my perception), particularly in bright white fields. This is why I dislike going to movies unless they are dark movies. Movies with any kind of daylight scenes while definately watchable, I find very annoying to watch because of the flicker (and the annoying film grain, but thats probably just because I'm used to the 'grain' of a Trinitron or shadowmask display).
Will I like digital compression artifacts better? I don't know, but I'd rather see a bit of that than distracting flicker.
Well, cool. One of my parents disabled the screen name at one point and I had to go turn it back on because I couldn't log in via AIM. I guess disabling the account must be different.
My story is the same as his, except the screen name I used back in that GEOWorks AOL version is active to this day. My parents use the account, and I use the screen name with my Trillian messenger. If they ever shut down the account I loose my screen name.
compare the quality of copyrighted Windows to copylefted Linux.
The GPL, and Linux, depend on copyright and exist partially as a response to the existence of copyright. If copyrights did not exist the world would probably be a much different place (maybe better, maybe not).
They found that rats' bodies produced high levels of ozone when exposed to strong electrical fields
Did anybody else get a mental image of a rat standing between high voltage insulator stand-offs, with an evil genious in a lab coat throwing one of those Frankinsteinian knife switches, sending a 13kV electrical discharge through the rat, resuting in a **poof** of ozone-charged rat plasma?
The problem with high acceleration and humans is that to accelerate a body you must push against it from somewhere outside the body, transfering the force applied to the inner tissues via the outer tissues.
If you were to instead use a very strong magnetic field to accelerate all the tissues (using diamagnetic repulsion) at the same time, at the same (or 1g less) rate as the surrounding ship, there would be no excessive force applied, and everything would continue to function normally.
Evidently static fields on the order of 10T are not a problem, but I don't know if fields 10 or 100 times that would be safe or not.
The problem is, you want us to do it on PC hardware where it isn't feasible[...]
How long are we talking here?
Can we process, say, 10 messages a day? Bayesian knocks out 99.5% of my spam effortlessly and snags nearly all the ham as well. The problem is the 0.1% it can't classify. I'd have no problem waiting on those to be classified using heavier duty methods if they can get to me within a few hours.
My only issue with POPFile is that it doesn't have an option to add the POPFile web interface link to the message to the message body (it just goes in an X- header). Its nice that its in header, but mozilla mail won't let me display just that one header, its all or nothing, so if a message is misclassified, I have to go looking for the link to get into popfile to reclassify it. Its a pain in the butt, and the author's solution is basicly a justifed 'too bad, thats an email client problem, bug your vendor'. Sure, but in the meantime, how about a friggin patch?
Fortunately its perl, so I hacked the URL into the message body. It works most of the time, except under some encodings.
Other than that, POPFile is great, it consistantly peforms much better than Mozillas built in filters.
Bose has some of the crappiest drivers around actually. The magic is in their ability to make speakers that sound as good as they do (not bad at all), then charge half again what another brand delivering the same sound quality would cost.
I'm not a pro sound engineer or anything, but from what I understand re-surrounding a Bose driver is likely to shift the driver parameters and break the magic. You are better off getting an approved replacement driver from the factory.
First, there's a biophysical upper bound on acceleration: the body cannot concievably withstand much more than several g's for long. This limits your Lorentz factor.
If we can levitate frogs using diamagnetic repulsion, effectivly reducing acceleration by 1g throughout their tissues, could we not build similar containers for humans allowing very high acceleration? As long as the magnetic field kept the acceleration down to Earth-like levels, it should be possible to accelerate at any desired rate for as long as we can tolerate the magnetic fields (which, as far as we know, is indefinate).
It probably wouldn't be practical to do the whole ship, but perhaps sleeping areas could be equiped with mega-Tesla field generators or something, to allow high acceleration for 1/3 of the mission time.
While I agree that at some point we will need to 'adjust' other planets to suit us (and, more importantly, IMO, ourselves to suit them), I think that the few decades it would take to do at least some preliminary studies about the native environment are also very important. The delay is low risk, the chances that the delay will cause us to fail are low, and the potential benefits could be very high.
There is also no reason we can't do these two things together, colonists would be equiped with research capabilities and would be on-site to do the research. They would be contaminating the place by their presence, but should have ample time to extract useful information.
How sad it is that in modern western society we've elevated the individual human life to such an extent that we cannot see this
Very true. A while back when we were hearing more about the 'right to life' issues, I usually refered to it as the 'obligation to life'.
I'm sure there are thousands of people (at least) who would prefer to die young exploring another planet than sit around decaying and collecting social security here on Earth. And eventually, they will probably have a realistic option to make that choice, but probably not in our lifetimes.
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I would expect that deliberately setting a domain that you knew was under attack to point at anyone would make you just as guilty of the attack as whomever set it up to begin with.
If someone's going to rent something at home, it needs to be totally intangible, like a pay-per-view movie on cable or a rented tape. It comes and goes, and leaves nothing behind.
You mean like MovieLink? (note, site states that it requires IE5.0+, maybe it just wants flash or something, YMMV).
Choose your movie, download it (stream it if you like so you can start watching right away), store it for up to 30 days, during which time you can choose any one 24 hour period to watch the movie.
I presume you have to have windows to use it, and you have to use their movie-manager software (at least thats what they imply), but this is a big step in the right direction.
Movie prices vary, from under a buck for classic stuff to about 5 bucks for new releases.
If they'd bump it to 3 days to watch they'd be better than the video store.
Unprofessional would have been something like "Blow me."
I'd have had some letterhead made up with something to that effect micro-printed around the edges....SCOGROUPSUCKSBLOWMESCOGROUPSUCKSBLOWMESCOGROUPS UCKSBLOWME...
I agree that that is their interpretation, but I think they are wrong. I would certainly be contributing, but it's the people doing the downloaded that are pushing the button, as it were, to make the copy.
Same situation as a library with copy machines, the library provides everything you need, but they are not liable for copyright infringment if you copy a book illegally.
A neat concept for a p2p app would be a distributed library. Members put up their materials for download, along with a key that identfies who owns that particular copy of the item and acts as a decryption key for the actual data. Anyone who wants to use an item queries the network for a key that is not in use and downloads it, marking the original as 'checked out'. They use the item, then release it again for someone else to use. If no copy of the item is available for use, the user is offered an option to purchase a copy from the copyright owner, which he can then release to the public pool if he wishes. Keys would expire after some time period, reverting to the orginal owner.
Sounds like a trust-based system with the copyright owner for a given work at the root.
Of course users could copy stuff without authorization, but then other users could verify legitimate copies by checking back with the root for that item. They would then have the choice to use it illegally or not.
Copyright owners could provide a limited number of free copies that eventually expire as a method of generating initial interest in a particular work.
I think a system with concepts similar to these would work quite well for those of us who believe in compensating content creators for their effort, and also believe in the concept of a library and sharing of material.
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I dunno about unprofessional, but it sure makes them look human.
Your eyes are only capable of seeing 20-25 fps.
Maybe average eyes only see 20-25 fps, but my perihiperal vision easily picks up flicker at up to 60Hz (70Hz is just a hair beyond my perception), particularly in bright white fields. This is why I dislike going to movies unless they are dark movies. Movies with any kind of daylight scenes while definately watchable, I find very annoying to watch because of the flicker (and the annoying film grain, but thats probably just because I'm used to the 'grain' of a Trinitron or shadowmask display).
Will I like digital compression artifacts better? I don't know, but I'd rather see a bit of that than distracting flicker.
Well, cool. One of my parents disabled the screen name at one point and I had to go turn it back on because I couldn't log in via AIM. I guess disabling the account must be different.
why the heck do you have to create and instantiate an object just to write a simple procedure with no inputs and no outputs?
Well, what else are you going to do with a 5GHz 64bit processor?
Besides using it as a space heater that is.
All nuts are the same.
You've obviously never worked with my coworkers.
My story is the same as his, except the screen name I used back in that GEOWorks AOL version is active to this day. My parents use the account, and I use the screen name with my Trillian messenger. If they ever shut down the account I loose my screen name.
compare the quality of copyrighted Windows to copylefted Linux.
The GPL, and Linux, depend on copyright and exist partially as a response to the existence of copyright. If copyrights did not exist the world would probably be a much different place (maybe better, maybe not).
All those cars racing over millions of little generators all day long should produce a pretty goo amount of electricity,
Probably so, but the energy produced would never even come close to offsetting the price of the generators.
Instead lets put windmills on top of all the cars, that way they can charge themselves while they drive down the highway! (*)
(* Yes, I know, its a joke.)
Those glow sticks are popular items on E-bay.
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They found that rats' bodies produced high levels of ozone when exposed to strong electrical fields
Did anybody else get a mental image of a rat standing between high voltage insulator stand-offs, with an evil genious in a lab coat throwing one of those Frankinsteinian knife switches, sending a 13kV electrical discharge through the rat, resuting in a **poof** of ozone-charged rat plasma?
The problem with high acceleration and humans is that to accelerate a body you must push against it from somewhere outside the body, transfering the force applied to the inner tissues via the outer tissues.
If you were to instead use a very strong magnetic field to accelerate all the tissues (using diamagnetic repulsion) at the same time, at the same (or 1g less) rate as the surrounding ship, there would be no excessive force applied, and everything would continue to function normally.
Evidently static fields on the order of 10T are not a problem, but I don't know if fields 10 or 100 times that would be safe or not.
If my computer is off
You allow your computer to turn off?
Weirdo.
The problem is, you want us to do it on PC hardware where it isn't feasible[...]
How long are we talking here?
Can we process, say, 10 messages a day? Bayesian knocks out 99.5% of my spam effortlessly and snags nearly all the ham as well. The problem is the 0.1% it can't classify. I'd have no problem waiting on those to be classified using heavier duty methods if they can get to me within a few hours.
My only issue with POPFile is that it doesn't have an option to add the POPFile web interface link to the message to the message body (it just goes in an X- header). Its nice that its in header, but mozilla mail won't let me display just that one header, its all or nothing, so if a message is misclassified, I have to go looking for the link to get into popfile to reclassify it. Its a pain in the butt, and the author's solution is basicly a justifed 'too bad, thats an email client problem, bug your vendor'. Sure, but in the meantime, how about a friggin patch?
Fortunately its perl, so I hacked the URL into the message body. It works most of the time, except under some encodings.
Other than that, POPFile is great, it consistantly peforms much better than Mozillas built in filters.
If the drivers are good, like Bose
Bose has some of the crappiest drivers around actually. The magic is in their ability to make speakers that sound as good as they do (not bad at all), then charge half again what another brand delivering the same sound quality would cost.
I'm not a pro sound engineer or anything, but from what I understand re-surrounding a Bose driver is likely to shift the driver parameters and break the magic. You are better off getting an approved replacement driver from the factory.
First, there's a biophysical upper bound on acceleration: the body cannot concievably withstand much more than several g's for long. This limits your Lorentz factor.
If we can levitate frogs using diamagnetic repulsion, effectivly reducing acceleration by 1g throughout their tissues, could we not build similar containers for humans allowing very high acceleration? As long as the magnetic field kept the acceleration down to Earth-like levels, it should be possible to accelerate at any desired rate for as long as we can tolerate the magnetic fields (which, as far as we know, is indefinate).
It probably wouldn't be practical to do the whole ship, but perhaps sleeping areas could be equiped with mega-Tesla field generators or something, to allow high acceleration for 1/3 of the mission time.
While I agree that at some point we will need to 'adjust' other planets to suit us (and, more importantly, IMO, ourselves to suit them), I think that the few decades it would take to do at least some preliminary studies about the native environment are also very important. The delay is low risk, the chances that the delay will cause us to fail are low, and the potential benefits could be very high.
There is also no reason we can't do these two things together, colonists would be equiped with research capabilities and would be on-site to do the research. They would be contaminating the place by their presence, but should have ample time to extract useful information.
How sad it is that in modern western society we've elevated the individual human life to such an extent that we cannot see this
Very true. A while back when we were hearing more about the 'right to life' issues, I usually refered to it as the 'obligation to life'.
I'm sure there are thousands of people (at least) who would prefer to die young exploring another planet than sit around decaying and collecting social security here on Earth. And eventually, they will probably have a realistic option to make that choice, but probably not in our lifetimes.
I would expect that deliberately setting a domain that you knew was under attack to point at anyone would make you just as guilty of the attack as whomever set it up to begin with.
If someone's going to rent something at home, it needs to be totally intangible, like a pay-per-view movie on cable or a rented tape. It comes and goes, and leaves nothing behind.
You mean like MovieLink? (note, site states that it requires IE5.0+, maybe it just wants flash or something, YMMV).
Choose your movie, download it (stream it if you like so you can start watching right away), store it for up to 30 days, during which time you can choose any one 24 hour period to watch the movie.
I presume you have to have windows to use it, and you have to use their movie-manager software (at least thats what they imply), but this is a big step in the right direction.
Movie prices vary, from under a buck for classic stuff to about 5 bucks for new releases.
If they'd bump it to 3 days to watch they'd be better than the video store.
I'm sure there are plenty of users who would give a spammer a free email account in exchange for access to images.
That is to say, even if they had a good idea of what was going on, they are getting paid for their services, so they won't care.
are judges paid per case or per hour?
Salaried usually, to help remove incentive to run cases to fast or too slow.
Unprofessional would have been something like "Blow me."
...SCOGROUPSUCKSBLOWMESCOGROUPSUCKSBLOWMESCOGROUPS UCKSBLOWME...
I'd have had some letterhead made up with something to that effect micro-printed around the edges.
Political correctness and indirect language is only necessary when you don't want to offend someone who would take direct language as offense.
In this case the author was civil and direct, if not particularly polite (which is certainly not required).
I agree that that is their interpretation, but I think they are wrong. I would certainly be contributing, but it's the people doing the downloaded that are pushing the button, as it were, to make the copy.
Same situation as a library with copy machines, the library provides everything you need, but they are not liable for copyright infringment if you copy a book illegally.
A neat concept for a p2p app would be a distributed library. Members put up their materials for download, along with a key that identfies who owns that particular copy of the item and acts as a decryption key for the actual data. Anyone who wants to use an item queries the network for a key that is not in use and downloads it, marking the original as 'checked out'. They use the item, then release it again for someone else to use. If no copy of the item is available for use, the user is offered an option to purchase a copy from the copyright owner, which he can then release to the public pool if he wishes. Keys would expire after some time period, reverting to the orginal owner.
Sounds like a trust-based system with the copyright owner for a given work at the root.
Of course users could copy stuff without authorization, but then other users could verify legitimate copies by checking back with the root for that item. They would then have the choice to use it illegally or not.
Copyright owners could provide a limited number of free copies that eventually expire as a method of generating initial interest in a particular work.
I think a system with concepts similar to these would work quite well for those of us who believe in compensating content creators for their effort, and also believe in the concept of a library and sharing of material.
Has anyone set up a system like this?