The researchers drew their algorithm from neural circuits attuned to side-to-side yaw, but O’Carroll said the same types of equations are probably used in computing other optical flows, such as those produced by moving forward and backwards through three-dimensional space.
I vaguely remember seeing a study that examined how bees travel without hitting anything but using very few neurons. Something about the relative size change of objects between eyes. They tested this by putting bees in a clear tunne with patterns on belts on the right and left walls. By changing the speed of the belts, the bees would ram into the walls, but as long as the belts were moving at the same speed, the bees were fine. Is this ringing a bell for anyone else?
There once was a man who was given a small box by a woman. The was entirely closed except for a hand-sized hole at one end which was covered with a black cloth so no one could see inside.
"Put your hand inside," said the woman.
The man put his hand inside and immediately felt a sharp pain. He removed his hand.
"Put it inside again," said the woman.
"It will hurt," said the man.
"That must have been a fluke. Trust me."
The man did as he was told and was met by a sharp pain. He again removed his hand.
"Put it inside again," said the woman.
"No," said the man. "The last two times it has hurt my had. You lied. I will not do it."
The woman took her box and walked off.
Perhaps, oh Marin Spammer, the one who needs to learn the lesson is NOT the one with the problem. Give a user a PC and you will fix the PC for life. Beat the user to death with a PC and you will never be bothered again.
From the folds of her gown, she lifted a green metal cube about fifteen centimeters on a side. She turned it and Paul saw that one side was open - black and oddly frightening. Paul slowly put his hand into the box. He first felt a sense of cold as the blackness closed around his hand, then slick metal against his fingers and a prickling as though his hand were asleep...
"What's in the box?"
"Pain." He felt increased tingling in his hand, pressed his lips tightly together. How could this be a test? he wondered. The tingling became an itch... The itch became the faintest burning... It mounted slowly: heat upon heat upon heat... . The burning! The burning! He thought he could feel skin curling black on that agonized hand, the flesh crisping and dropping away until only charred bones remained.
Remind me again what Muad'Dib has to do with a family's computer problems?
The problem with the analogy is that these butterflies are too lazy and uninterested to emerge from their cocoon. (Not an insult; they feel they have more important things to focus on than learning about computers)
The advantage of Twitter is that it can offer raw data when there are quickly developing events. One of the problems with that is that it hasn't been vetted. Questions like "How trustworthy is the source?" or "Do these reports together indicate a trend?" haven't been asked. That's the job of CNN's reporters. And that's what news articles are for. But I don't think you can complain about having access to the raw data feed. So there are people whose intelligence rivals inanimate objects with the ability to upload their observations and thoughts; if you don't want that, don't use Twitter.
Military Intelligence is the same way. The data can be phone calls from informants or reconnaissance photos, but it still needs vetting. As long as leadership remembers they're looking at unprocessed data, there's nothing wrong with them accessing the raw feed. Of course, getting them to remember that can be tricky, but that's another issue.
Maybe you don't realise, but the price of "gas" is factored in in pretty much everything else you buy... That video game, how do you reckon it's transported to the store? That dinner, how do you think its ingredients are harvested, and possible, with what it is cooked?
Price of oil/gas rises --> price of all manufactured goods & services rises --> cost of living rises... This effect is far, far bigger than the "very small part of your recurring bills" that is you directly buying gas...
$60 new video game + $1.99 shipping might turn into $60 new video game + $5.99 shipping, true. And the extra cost of the potato will also increase the cost of the meal at restaurants that cook with potatoes. But we're missing a very important factor that's needed before any conclusions can be drawn: how much of the price of item X is transportation, and how much of that transportation cost is fuel?
I stick by my original sentiment: as long as consumers and businesses don't bury their heads in the sand when oil prices rise, the effects are marginal. And the actual cost to society is far outweighed by attention that oil prices get in media and (I would bet) around dinner tables.
Maybe I'm the exception, but gas is a very small part of my recurring bills. If gas prices double or triple, maybe I'll skip a new video game or dinner out every month. Whoop-de-do. And the price of shipping goods will increase. So I'll pay $0.79 instead of $0.59 for a potato. I'm just not quaking in my boots. The biggest overlooked fact of peak oil is that it will be a gradual decline as more oil recovery methods become economically feasible. So over the rest of my life, I suspect there will eventually be a cheaper mode of transportation than gas-powered cars. But for now, I'll stick with the convenience of 400 miles/fill-up, gas stations everywhere, and transportation costs (including car payment) below 15% of my income.
Yep, 120 Hz. I used the nVidia driver for a while. Though it worked, I'd really recommend trying the iz3d one, too. The nVidia one didn't let you change the depth and separation like I wanted. Check out Meant to be Seen.
I have a $2500 3D setup at home. 2 720p projectors, each going through polarized lenses, onto a silver screen that maintains polarization of reflected light. I took my gaming computer (cost not included), installed the iz3d drivers, and now every game I play is in full 3D. Yeah, I have to wear glasses, but so what? I wear glasses when it's bright outside, too. Other 3D gamers use 2 monitors, polarized sheets, and a teleprompter's mirror. If you have something with a high refresh-rate, you can also use shutter glasses. And there are some monitors that allow 3D without glasses as long as you keep your head in the right position.
Anyways, the gaming experience is unreal. This setup has an unrivaled level of immersion. Horror games are truly terrifying. Racing is a serious adrenaline rush. And even MMORPG's are a little more fun when you're experiencing depth. I just played through Mirrors Edge last month and I'm still grinning about how fun it was.
So, now there is a small but growing group of homes that have 3D gaming rigs; those are the true 3D cinema customers. Right now, they got nothing aside from a few documentaries and dirty movies. While I sympathize a little with the apparent need of consumers for everything to be extremely simple, plug-and-play, and universally compatible, I wish someone would step up and fill the market for those of us who aren't afraid to do something a little more complicated.
Of course these are legitimate searches, but you won't get clicks on your article unless you take them out of context. This is especially appealing to the reader because it's subconsciously telling them "look at all these people dumber than you!"
Fair, although I've never seen much value in music videos anyways. And I've been especially confounded by the need to spend millions of dollars on them.
"It has also banned movies, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching soccer in the areas under it control."
do we really need to fight them then? Sounds like the people will eventually rebel or leave.
You forget the power of social pressue on humanity. Forgive the Goodwin, but you'd think that the conditions in WWII ghettos were bad enough where the Jews and undesirables would rebel of their own accord. Not so. It's difficult to build support for cultural change when most of your peers are happy under the current society. It's even more difficult when those peers will kill you for minor infractions.
Imagine an ideal world where artists make their own music; they pay for their own recording and mixing. If they want to make a million dollar music video, they get a loan from a financial institution. Music distributors like MTV and radio stations go out and find music rather than contractually accepting whatever the large recording companies decide will be popular. Whenever I pay $10 for an album, it all goes to the band.
And, since we're talking about hypothetical ideal worlds, I'd wave a magic wand so that modern music wouldn't suck.
Though you're right, Comcast will argue that it's only pirates that they're trying to limit. And since the people making the laws don't understand how computers work, they stand a good chance of winning. It will be interesting to see if the FCC's new net neutrality regulations will be applied here.
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The researchers drew their algorithm from neural circuits attuned to side-to-side yaw, but O’Carroll said the same types of equations are probably used in computing other optical flows, such as those produced by moving forward and backwards through three-dimensional space.
I vaguely remember seeing a study that examined how bees travel without hitting anything but using very few neurons. Something about the relative size change of objects between eyes. They tested this by putting bees in a clear tunne with patterns on belts on the right and left walls. By changing the speed of the belts, the bees would ram into the walls, but as long as the belts were moving at the same speed, the bees were fine. Is this ringing a bell for anyone else?
There once was a man who was given a small box by a woman. The was entirely closed except for a hand-sized hole at one end which was covered with a black cloth so no one could see inside. "Put your hand inside," said the woman. The man put his hand inside and immediately felt a sharp pain. He removed his hand. "Put it inside again," said the woman. "It will hurt," said the man. "That must have been a fluke. Trust me." The man did as he was told and was met by a sharp pain. He again removed his hand. "Put it inside again," said the woman. "No," said the man. "The last two times it has hurt my had. You lied. I will not do it." The woman took her box and walked off.
Perhaps, oh Marin Spammer, the one who needs to learn the lesson is NOT the one with the problem. Give a user a PC and you will fix the PC for life. Beat the user to death with a PC and you will never be bothered again.
From the folds of her gown, she lifted a green metal cube about fifteen centimeters on a side. She turned it and Paul saw that one side was open - black and oddly frightening. Paul slowly put his hand into the box. He first felt a sense of cold as the blackness closed around his hand, then slick metal against his fingers and a prickling as though his hand were asleep...
"What's in the box?"
"Pain." He felt increased tingling in his hand, pressed his lips tightly together. How could this be a test? he wondered. The tingling became an itch... The itch became the faintest burning... It mounted slowly: heat upon heat upon heat... . The burning! The burning! He thought he could feel skin curling black on that agonized hand, the flesh crisping and dropping away until only charred bones remained.
Remind me again what Muad'Dib has to do with a family's computer problems?
The problem with the analogy is that these butterflies are too lazy and uninterested to emerge from their cocoon. (Not an insult; they feel they have more important things to focus on than learning about computers)
The advantage of Twitter is that it can offer raw data when there are quickly developing events. One of the problems with that is that it hasn't been vetted. Questions like "How trustworthy is the source?" or "Do these reports together indicate a trend?" haven't been asked. That's the job of CNN's reporters. And that's what news articles are for. But I don't think you can complain about having access to the raw data feed. So there are people whose intelligence rivals inanimate objects with the ability to upload their observations and thoughts; if you don't want that, don't use Twitter.
Military Intelligence is the same way. The data can be phone calls from informants or reconnaissance photos, but it still needs vetting. As long as leadership remembers they're looking at unprocessed data, there's nothing wrong with them accessing the raw feed. Of course, getting them to remember that can be tricky, but that's another issue.
Maybe you don't realise, but the price of "gas" is factored in in pretty much everything else you buy... That video game, how do you reckon it's transported to the store? That dinner, how do you think its ingredients are harvested, and possible, with what it is cooked?
Price of oil/gas rises --> price of all manufactured goods & services rises --> cost of living rises... This effect is far, far bigger than the "very small part of your recurring bills" that is you directly buying gas...
$60 new video game + $1.99 shipping might turn into $60 new video game + $5.99 shipping, true. And the extra cost of the potato will also increase the cost of the meal at restaurants that cook with potatoes. But we're missing a very important factor that's needed before any conclusions can be drawn: how much of the price of item X is transportation, and how much of that transportation cost is fuel?
I stick by my original sentiment: as long as consumers and businesses don't bury their heads in the sand when oil prices rise, the effects are marginal. And the actual cost to society is far outweighed by attention that oil prices get in media and (I would bet) around dinner tables.
Maybe I'm the exception, but gas is a very small part of my recurring bills. If gas prices double or triple, maybe I'll skip a new video game or dinner out every month. Whoop-de-do. And the price of shipping goods will increase. So I'll pay $0.79 instead of $0.59 for a potato. I'm just not quaking in my boots. The biggest overlooked fact of peak oil is that it will be a gradual decline as more oil recovery methods become economically feasible. So over the rest of my life, I suspect there will eventually be a cheaper mode of transportation than gas-powered cars. But for now, I'll stick with the convenience of 400 miles/fill-up, gas stations everywhere, and transportation costs (including car payment) below 15% of my income.
Pranav Mistry is already dead.
Yep, 120 Hz. I used the nVidia driver for a while. Though it worked, I'd really recommend trying the iz3d one, too. The nVidia one didn't let you change the depth and separation like I wanted. Check out Meant to be Seen.
I have a $2500 3D setup at home. 2 720p projectors, each going through polarized lenses, onto a silver screen that maintains polarization of reflected light. I took my gaming computer (cost not included), installed the iz3d drivers, and now every game I play is in full 3D. Yeah, I have to wear glasses, but so what? I wear glasses when it's bright outside, too. Other 3D gamers use 2 monitors, polarized sheets, and a teleprompter's mirror. If you have something with a high refresh-rate, you can also use shutter glasses. And there are some monitors that allow 3D without glasses as long as you keep your head in the right position.
Anyways, the gaming experience is unreal. This setup has an unrivaled level of immersion. Horror games are truly terrifying. Racing is a serious adrenaline rush. And even MMORPG's are a little more fun when you're experiencing depth. I just played through Mirrors Edge last month and I'm still grinning about how fun it was.
So, now there is a small but growing group of homes that have 3D gaming rigs; those are the true 3D cinema customers. Right now, they got nothing aside from a few documentaries and dirty movies. While I sympathize a little with the apparent need of consumers for everything to be extremely simple, plug-and-play, and universally compatible, I wish someone would step up and fill the market for those of us who aren't afraid to do something a little more complicated.
Of course these are legitimate searches, but you won't get clicks on your article unless you take them out of context. This is especially appealing to the reader because it's subconsciously telling them "look at all these people dumber than you!"
Fair, although I've never seen much value in music videos anyways. And I've been especially confounded by the need to spend millions of dollars on them.
"It has also banned movies, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching soccer in the areas under it control."
do we really need to fight them then? Sounds like the people will eventually rebel or leave.
You forget the power of social pressue on humanity. Forgive the Goodwin, but you'd think that the conditions in WWII ghettos were bad enough where the Jews and undesirables would rebel of their own accord. Not so. It's difficult to build support for cultural change when most of your peers are happy under the current society. It's even more difficult when those peers will kill you for minor infractions.
Imagine an ideal world where artists make their own music; they pay for their own recording and mixing. If they want to make a million dollar music video, they get a loan from a financial institution. Music distributors like MTV and radio stations go out and find music rather than contractually accepting whatever the large recording companies decide will be popular. Whenever I pay $10 for an album, it all goes to the band. And, since we're talking about hypothetical ideal worlds, I'd wave a magic wand so that modern music wouldn't suck.
Though you're right, Comcast will argue that it's only pirates that they're trying to limit. And since the people making the laws don't understand how computers work, they stand a good chance of winning. It will be interesting to see if the FCC's new net neutrality regulations will be applied here.
You're right. We should pass laws based on anecdotal evidence. "I am truely sorry for your lots" but there were bad drivers before cell phones.