Same way, your brain just has to have two mental images to compair. In the case of the former, it is compairing the correct visual image to the incorrect sensory image. In the latter, you form a mental image of an object by touch while looking at the object. Eventually the brain straightens things out and makes the visual image match the image produced by other senses.
I wonder if it would be possible to link smells or sounds with shapes using those techniques. According to recent research its possible to learn perfect pitch. Perhaps using some kind of dual sensory input would improve the training (ie, map sound frequencies to color to make recognizing particular sound frequencies easier).
if i lie down in the sun for a few minutes with my eyes closed enough red light gets through my eyelids so when i open my eyes things tend to be green..
That has to do mostly with color preception in the eye itself, not with the way the brain precieves the signals. Basicly the red receptors are depleted more if the light is mostly red, so then in white light the other receptors, operating at normal capacity, shift the apparent color to greenish.
easy, two words: Orbital Fireworks. Definately. Throw big balls of chemically doped junk into the atmosphere to make colorful artifical meteors. Bright, long lasting ones.
I've run into stuff like this a couple times, only its more annoying than the demos from the link page make it out to be. What I've seen are some kind of HTML layer or something (I'm a programmer, not a web designer, I dunno what its called, but its not a plugin), kind of like what pops up in site menu things that don't use java/activex. BUT, it covers almost the entire screen, blocking the view of the entire page until you hit its close button.
HIGHLY annoying, and it uses HTML features which are apparently standard (at least in IE), and used for menus and such, so if I filter it, I break lots of other stuff.
If I'm developing a program spec'ed to run under windows, developing it under linux is asking for trouble. When I'm testing, I really need to be testing on the same platform that the users will be using.
I could write code on linux and test and debug on windows, but I'm not that much of a linux zelot, I'd rather spend time coding than switching OS's
It doesn't have to be a MD5/SHA/whatever hash, it can be a signature based on a fuzzy match. The point is, whatever it is, it needs to be submitted by a number of unrelated sites before its accepted as valid data. Each site can set their own threshold for messages, depending on how much they want to filter.
Seems like it would be easier to set up a superserver or central server setup similar to Kazaa that requires multiple matching reports from many different sources. That would eliminate the difficulties with trust models (like having to pay certificate providers, and people that obtain certs specificly to poison the data).
Either way, you need some to have spam sigs verified from mulitple sources before accepting them.
The judge's commentary really irks me. Yes, for many, the net is not a necessity. But for people like me who rely on it for work and my wife who needs access for school, it is a utility on par with the phones and electricity
here, no DSL is available and the other alternatives (Sprint Broadband, satellite) are unreliable and unsuitable for games and conferencing
I take it games and confrencing are vital to you and your wifes use of the 'net?
My brother drives a truck for a living. He also has a collection of several hundred cds. Rather than buy a large CD changer or lug around racks of CDs, he uses the media player in XP (which is actually pretty darn cool, with the exception of some interface and codec issues) to carry all his CDs around on his laptop. Pick a type of music, or random CDs, whatever. Its far more efficent.
He isn't a 'pirate' of any sort, just an example one of those users for whom physical media really and truely is inconvienant.
Not to mention his truck has been burgled twice now, it would be even more of a pain in the ass to carry all the cds with anytime he leaves the truck.
Hmm, a giant parabolic mirror with the black hole at the focus (held beneath the dorsal guiding feathers)? All impinging radiation from the hole is redirected to provide thrust against the mirror?
Ok, I can see how that might work. Just position the non-orbiting mirror to balance the pull of gravity with the radiation pressure. Thrust is limited only by the amount of radiation you can generate. Interesting.
By unbelievable properties, I presume you mean that it doesn't expand with the universe? Otherwise the cable would expand at the same rate, resulting in no gain.
In essence stick a very large mirror in orbit round the black hole, and when the mirror is in the right position, dump some matter into the hole. When the matter gets swallowed, you get a burst of radiation which pushes the mirror in the desired direction. As the mirror is in orbit round the black hole, the hole gets pushed along as well
Wait, why would the hole move? seems like it might move toward the incoming matter a bit, due to mutual attraction (but not very much), and the burst of radiation presumably has an 'equal and opposite' push on the hole. The radiation pushes the mirror to a higher orbit. Seems like a way to move the mirror, but I don't see how it moves the hole. Its like a solar sail but you have to throw junk into the hole to get a push.
As much as people want to hack these sort of boxes, I wonder why more people don't put together their own.
On the windows side I've found ShowShifter, which does pretty much everything, provided you have a supported card (which is stupid, the whole point of having drivers is so you don't have to worry about what the specific hardware is). Even supports the use of an IR remote control.
I've tried ShowShifter and its pretty slick, although it has difficult with my Matrox G200TV, as the closest model it supports is the G400TV. Still, very nice to see a commercial product that runs on standard hardware and doesn't require a subscription.
The biggest complaints against using regular PCs for this that I've run across are the noise of the fan and the look of the case. Noise is easily addressed with high quality fans, insulation and placement. Look? Well, hide it, or customize it I guess.
The other drawback is lack of a directory service. I'd be suprised if some scripting work and an internet connection couldn't take care of that tho.
So, what are some more options for the DIYer? ShowShifter is pretty complete, but windows and propritary. Any GPL solutions that are reasonably complete and don't require excessive hacking to get a setup similar to the commercial products?
True, this shows me one of the useful functions of not requiring the topmost window to be the focused window. Nothing should ever move the mouse either.
Microsoft has made it much more difficult to pop to the top and take focus though, so they are trying to address this problem. AIM still does it for new windows tho.
What is the correct plural of 'Walkman'. 'Walkmans' or 'Walkmen'. Or, is it simply 'personal stereo' and 'personal stereos', ala Xerox and photocopier?
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Facinating, I'd like to read mroe about that, and how it relates to the way vision systems function and evolved. Have any sources?
Not sure that would apply to vision, however.
Same way, your brain just has to have two mental images to compair. In the case of the former, it is compairing the correct visual image to the incorrect sensory image. In the latter, you form a mental image of an object by touch while looking at the object. Eventually the brain straightens things out and makes the visual image match the image produced by other senses.
I wonder if it would be possible to link smells or sounds with shapes using those techniques. According to recent research its possible to learn perfect pitch. Perhaps using some kind of dual sensory input would improve the training (ie, map sound frequencies to color to make recognizing particular sound frequencies easier).
if i lie down in the sun for a few minutes with my eyes closed enough red light gets through my eyelids so when i open my eyes things tend to be green..
That has to do mostly with color preception in the eye itself, not with the way the brain precieves the signals. Basicly the red receptors are depleted more if the light is mostly red, so then in white light the other receptors, operating at normal capacity, shift the apparent color to greenish.
At least, thats what I've read.
Facinating, thanks for the refrence.
easy, two words: Orbital Fireworks. Definately. Throw big balls of chemically doped junk into the atmosphere to make colorful artifical meteors. Bright, long lasting ones.
ooo, ooo, and unattended system, quick, somebody figure out some shell code and root the universe!
I've run into stuff like this a couple times, only its more annoying than the demos from the link page make it out to be. What I've seen are some kind of HTML layer or something (I'm a programmer, not a web designer, I dunno what its called, but its not a plugin), kind of like what pops up in site menu things that don't use java/activex. BUT, it covers almost the entire screen, blocking the view of the entire page until you hit its close button.
HIGHLY annoying, and it uses HTML features which are apparently standard (at least in IE), and used for menus and such, so if I filter it, I break lots of other stuff.
If I'm developing a program spec'ed to run under windows, developing it under linux is asking for trouble. When I'm testing, I really need to be testing on the same platform that the users will be using.
I could write code on linux and test and debug on windows, but I'm not that much of a linux zelot, I'd rather spend time coding than switching OS's
It doesn't have to be a MD5/SHA/whatever hash, it can be a signature based on a fuzzy match. The point is, whatever it is, it needs to be submitted by a number of unrelated sites before its accepted as valid data. Each site can set their own threshold for messages, depending on how much they want to filter.
Seems like it would be easier to set up a superserver or central server setup similar to Kazaa that requires multiple matching reports from many different sources. That would eliminate the difficulties with trust models (like having to pay certificate providers, and people that obtain certs specificly to poison the data).
Either way, you need some to have spam sigs verified from mulitple sources before accepting them.
The judge's commentary really irks me. Yes, for many, the net is not a necessity. But for people like me who rely on it for work and my wife who needs access for school, it is a utility on par with the phones and electricity
here, no DSL is available and the other alternatives (Sprint Broadband, satellite) are unreliable and unsuitable for games and conferencing
I take it games and confrencing are vital to you and your wifes use of the 'net?
If you are interested, go ahead and send your share to my palpal account...
My brother drives a truck for a living. He also has a collection of several hundred cds. Rather than buy a large CD changer or lug around racks of CDs, he uses the media player in XP (which is actually pretty darn cool, with the exception of some interface and codec issues) to carry all his CDs around on his laptop. Pick a type of music, or random CDs, whatever. Its far more efficent.
He isn't a 'pirate' of any sort, just an example one of those users for whom physical media really and truely is inconvienant.
Not to mention his truck has been burgled twice now, it would be even more of a pain in the ass to carry all the cds with anytime he leaves the truck.
Once my Toshiba cable modem reads the MAC on my NIC, it won't talk to any other MAC's. I have to cycle the power on it to make it work.
Hmm, a giant parabolic mirror with the black hole at the focus (held beneath the dorsal guiding feathers)? All impinging radiation from the hole is redirected to provide thrust against the mirror?
Ok, I can see how that might work. Just position the non-orbiting mirror to balance the pull of gravity with the radiation pressure. Thrust is limited only by the amount of radiation you can generate. Interesting.
How do you determine the angular velocity of a black hole? Frame dragging maybe?
um, I think the Schwarzschild radius of the mass of the earth is said to be closer to the size of a pea.
By unbelievable properties, I presume you mean that it doesn't expand with the universe? Otherwise the cable would expand at the same rate, resulting in no gain.
In essence stick a very large mirror in orbit round the black hole, and when the mirror is in the right position, dump some matter into the hole. When the matter gets swallowed, you get a burst of radiation which pushes the mirror in the desired direction. As the mirror is in orbit round the black hole, the hole gets pushed along as well
Wait, why would the hole move? seems like it might move toward the incoming matter a bit, due to mutual attraction (but not very much), and the burst of radiation presumably has an 'equal and opposite' push on the hole. The radiation pushes the mirror to a higher orbit. Seems like a way to move the mirror, but I don't see how it moves the hole. Its like a solar sail but you have to throw junk into the hole to get a push.
Gah! Who wrote that? It reads like a list of facts, looks like somone just forgot the <ul> tags.
As much as people want to hack these sort of boxes, I wonder why more people don't put together their own.
On the windows side I've found ShowShifter, which does pretty much everything, provided you have a supported card (which is stupid, the whole point of having drivers is so you don't have to worry about what the specific hardware is). Even supports the use of an IR remote control.
I've tried ShowShifter and its pretty slick, although it has difficult with my Matrox G200TV, as the closest model it supports is the G400TV. Still, very nice to see a commercial product that runs on standard hardware and doesn't require a subscription.
The biggest complaints against using regular PCs for this that I've run across are the noise of the fan and the look of the case. Noise is easily addressed with high quality fans, insulation and placement. Look? Well, hide it, or customize it I guess.
The other drawback is lack of a directory service. I'd be suprised if some scripting work and an internet connection couldn't take care of that tho.
So, what are some more options for the DIYer? ShowShifter is pretty complete, but windows and propritary. Any GPL solutions that are reasonably complete and don't require excessive hacking to get a setup similar to the commercial products?
True, this shows me one of the useful functions of not requiring the topmost window to be the focused window. Nothing should ever move the mouse either.
Microsoft has made it much more difficult to pop to the top and take focus though, so they are trying to address this problem. AIM still does it for new windows tho.
Hook me up with their manufacture, I can't find anybody selling light switches with a MTBF that even come close to that!
What is the correct plural of 'Walkman'. 'Walkmans' or 'Walkmen'. Or, is it simply 'personal stereo' and 'personal stereos', ala Xerox and photocopier?