Once upon a midnight dreary, while I p0rn-surfed, weak and weary, Over many a strange and spurious p0rn-site of "hot XXX galore", While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, "Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!" Quote the server, "404."
That type of 3D exploits an optical illusion. With the glasses on, one eye sees a darker image than the other eye, although both eyes are receiving a full colour image.
Because one eye is receiving less light, it takes longer for your brain to process the information coming from it. By the time it has, it is combined with the information being processed from the other eye. Because of the disparity in processing times, the two images combined are a short amount of time apart.
Thus can be exploited by rotating the camera around an object. By the time one eye has processed it's image, the camera has moved slightly, and the other eye processes its image quicker. This, the disparity in angles created a 3D image.
It only works when the camera is moving around an object in the right direction. As soon as it stops, the scene will look flat again, although you may think you are still perceiving depth because you brain remembers the previous depth information.
I host my e-mail at Fastmail. They use SpamAssassin to filter spam, but do it in a really cool way. For example, any mail scoring greater than 4.0 is dropped into my spam folder, but mail scoring greater than 10.0 is just deleted automatically, server-side. It's pretty cool, and the thresholds are user configurable.
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
"Jitter" is one of the more annoying audiophile myths floating around.
If you are recording from one digital device to another; as long as the data stays in the digital domain, jitter is not recorded. The only thing actually captured is a sequence of amplitude values; digital media simply have no provisions for storing information about individual sample timing. The timing is based implicitly on the sampling rate and is freshly re-created by the digital-to-analog converter's clock every time the audio is played back.
Even digital-audio tape systems don't play audio directly from the tape. Instead, they pass the data through a RAM buffer from which a clock pulls individual samples and sends them to the outputs. As a result, variations in tape speed or data spacing aren't reflected in the output data.
Although jitter causes distortion on playback -- and can certainly generate unalterable distortion during the A/D process when recording from an analog source -- it is not recorded when making a digital dub or when recording between digital devices.
The technology for this is already in place in central London, UK. The centre of London is now a "Congestion Charge" zone, which means you have to pay a toll if you want to drive there. Cameras snapshot your license plate as you enter and leave the zone, and if you haven't pre-payed, you get a bill in the post.
DV tapes don't have error correction, because they're designed to store DV data, which does. DV video is also designed to degrade gracefully with missing bits.
Here in the UK there is a service called Shazam. Basically you dial 2580 from your mobile phone, and hold the handset up to some music being played. After 30 seconds it hangs up, and within 10 seconds, you get a text message back telling you the title, artist, and which album the music was from.
You can then go to the above web site and buy the music you played down the phone. It's stunningly and sometimes disturbingly accurate. It's recognised every piece of music I've played at it, even the theme tune from "The A-Team". I don't know where they get their database from, but it's massive.
Actually, they work in the open-air stations that aren't actually underground. In these stations, which are mostly outside of central London, the doors do not open automatically and wait for you to push the button, in case it is raining.
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That's not the source, this is
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I p0rn-surfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious p0rn-site of "hot XXX galore",
While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
"Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"
Quote the server, "404."
That type of 3D exploits an optical illusion. With the glasses on, one eye sees a darker image than the other eye, although both eyes are receiving a full colour image.
Because one eye is receiving less light, it takes longer for your brain to process the information coming from it. By the time it has, it is combined with the information being processed from the other eye. Because of the disparity in processing times, the two images combined are a short amount of time apart.
Thus can be exploited by rotating the camera around an object. By the time one eye has processed it's image, the camera has moved slightly, and the other eye processes its image quicker. This, the disparity in angles created a 3D image.
It only works when the camera is moving around an object in the right direction. As soon as it stops, the scene will look flat again, although you may think you are still perceiving depth because you brain remembers the previous depth information.
I host my e-mail at Fastmail. They use SpamAssassin to filter spam, but do it in a really cool way. For example, any mail scoring greater than 4.0 is dropped into my spam folder, but mail scoring greater than 10.0 is just deleted automatically, server-side. It's pretty cool, and the thresholds are user configurable.
Google have already done this - that link has been there for ages.
From that page:
What's a Google?
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
Hah, thanks for the support, but you must be new to SlashDot. Moderating based on post quality? Bahaha.
Web log
Project log.
$400?!
Plenty of coverage still on the BBC.
So this begs the questions
No it doesn't.
"Jitter" is one of the more annoying audiophile myths floating around.
If you are recording from one digital device to another; as long as the data stays in the digital domain, jitter is not recorded. The only thing actually captured is a sequence of amplitude values; digital media simply have no provisions for storing information about individual sample timing. The timing is based implicitly on the sampling rate and is freshly re-created by the digital-to-analog converter's clock every time the audio is played back.
Even digital-audio tape systems don't play audio directly from the tape. Instead, they pass the data through a RAM buffer from which a clock pulls individual samples and sends them to the outputs. As a result, variations in tape speed or data spacing aren't reflected in the output data.
Although jitter causes distortion on playback -- and can certainly generate unalterable distortion during the A/D process when recording from an analog source -- it is not recorded when making a digital dub or when recording between digital devices.
Gapless playback has been available for a while, but it's not very obvious.
Turn on "Crossfade playback", and drag the seconds slider to zero.
Queueing and gapless playback are both available.
Queueing: Drop the track you want to queue onto the "Party Shuffle" icon.
Gapless playback: Turn on "Crossfade playback", and drag the seconds slider to zero.
You can do this already! Hurrah!
Your quote is out of context
Yes he does
The technology for this is already in place in central London, UK. The centre of London is now a "Congestion Charge" zone, which means you have to pay a toll if you want to drive there. Cameras snapshot your license plate as you enter and leave the zone, and if you haven't pre-payed, you get a bill in the post.
Something pretty much like this already exists, it's just not made by Apple. Check out the Sony Clie PEG-UX50
DV tapes don't have error correction, because they're designed to store DV data, which does. DV video is also designed to degrade gracefully with missing bits.
You can then go to the above web site and buy the music you played down the phone. It's stunningly and sometimes disturbingly accurate. It's recognised every piece of music I've played at it, even the theme tune from "The A-Team". I don't know where they get their database from, but it's massive.
Actually, they work in the open-air stations that aren't actually underground. In these stations, which are mostly outside of central London, the doors do not open automatically and wait for you to push the button, in case it is raining.
Because it might not be text?
Or you could try reading the article. Partial gravity is not the same as a weightless environment.