Being weird is an automatic handicap. The current layout provides a wealth of data in a grid, something that can be represented in the simplest of data structures. If you're going to switch to circular and have strange shapes and free-floating elements, you need to make up for all the complexity you've added by showing significantly more correlation. This does not in the least. If you want to see alternative layouts that really give the current a run for its money, check out Stowe's.
There are probably a lot of ways to detect commercials. ReplayTV doesn't go by time. Think about what changes when a commercial comes on. The picture, the overscan area, the audio. All it'd have to do is watch for the audio to drastically change, like stereo to mono or cut in and out, the overscan area to drop in and out (closed captioning, XDS), and screen blanking. If two out of three happen, a commercial probably started.
There's a fine line between hardware and software. Software can be made into hardware and vice versa. They're functionally equivalent.
"Build" and "design" are so similar in the EE field that when someone points out they're different, he's modded insightful.
Why's this interesting?
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What's the big deal about this? Why not have the competition be to make an 80x25 animated GIF? There's really no more creativity involved, with all the algorithms available to automatically convert images to smooth text.
I apologize for not being an active part of the discussion. I just found that it was posted; I thought the article was chucked into the trash (as many of you think it should have been).
I am familiar with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and realize the impossiblity of obtaining the initial conditions of any simulation. This is why I didn't make any such claim in the essay. The Principle, however, does not prevent us from generating our own initial conditions. Specific submolecular interactions and momentums of particles in, for example, an organic soup would not be all that important as they would soon be lost in the chaos of trillions of interactions.
The use of chaos theory as a reason simulations could never be perfected is offensive. It is true that chaos theory prevents us from "stepping back" and calculating outcomes with simpler equations that describe collective behavior but this was already addressed. Such a "simulator" has no reason to worry about whether an outcome is converged upon; it would follow the situation as it progressed. Computer-simulated attractors do appear unpredictable on a higher level and may in fact be, but the same initial conditions always result in the same attractor and final outcome.
Obviously, no such claims about the world losing interest at the conclusion of the HGP was implied. Nor was such an association made between any specific advance and the loss of curiosity. The idea I'm trying to convey with these examples is stated in the closing sentences of the fifth paragraph.
The paragraph about using portions of the electromagnetic spectrum was badly written (I considered leaving it out) and probably should've been rephrased. I believe a previous comment conveyed my idea much more clearly than I could have when it made reference to the lower-power encrypted, compressed, spread-spectrum communications that would be used in the future.
Can't render the Mega HTML periodic table
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As of 3.60 beta, Opera can render the "Mega HTML Periodic Table." Some drastic changes took place in the way Opera renders tables, but their "What's New" page doesn't say anything about it.
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Being weird is an automatic handicap. The current layout provides a wealth of data in a grid, something that can be represented in the simplest of data structures. If you're going to switch to circular and have strange shapes and free-floating elements, you need to make up for all the complexity you've added by showing significantly more correlation. This does not in the least. If you want to see alternative layouts that really give the current a run for its money, check out Stowe's.
Ptable.com has had this one for a decade. What gives?
An a priori argument against the accepted knowledge with evidence supporting the opposite conclusion: http://essays.dayah.com/spam-unsubscribe-not-harmful
There are probably a lot of ways to detect commercials. ReplayTV doesn't go by time. Think about what changes when a commercial comes on. The picture, the overscan area, the audio. All it'd have to do is watch for the audio to drastically change, like stereo to mono or cut in and out, the overscan area to drop in and out (closed captioning, XDS), and screen blanking. If two out of three happen, a commercial probably started.
Very poor analogy.
There's a fine line between hardware and software. Software can be made into hardware and vice versa. They're functionally equivalent.
"Build" and "design" are so similar in the EE field that when someone points out they're different, he's modded insightful.
What's the big deal about this? Why not have the competition be to make an 80x25 animated GIF? There's really no more creativity involved, with all the algorithms available to automatically convert images to smooth text.
I apologize for not being an active part of the discussion. I just found that it was posted; I thought the article was chucked into the trash (as many of you think it should have been).
I am familiar with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and realize the impossiblity of obtaining the initial conditions of any simulation. This is why I didn't make any such claim in the essay. The Principle, however, does not prevent us from generating our own initial conditions. Specific submolecular interactions and momentums of particles in, for example, an organic soup would not be all that important as they would soon be lost in the chaos of trillions of interactions.
The use of chaos theory as a reason simulations could never be perfected is offensive. It is true that chaos theory prevents us from "stepping back" and calculating outcomes with simpler equations that describe collective behavior but this was already addressed. Such a "simulator" has no reason to worry about whether an outcome is converged upon; it would follow the situation as it progressed. Computer-simulated attractors do appear unpredictable on a higher level and may in fact be, but the same initial conditions always result in the same attractor and final outcome.
Obviously, no such claims about the world losing interest at the conclusion of the HGP was implied. Nor was such an association made between any specific advance and the loss of curiosity. The idea I'm trying to convey with these examples is stated in the closing sentences of the fifth paragraph.
The paragraph about using portions of the electromagnetic spectrum was badly written (I considered leaving it out) and probably should've been rephrased. I believe a previous comment conveyed my idea much more clearly than I could have when it made reference to the lower-power encrypted, compressed, spread-spectrum communications that would be used in the future.
As of 3.60 beta, Opera can render the "Mega HTML Periodic Table." Some drastic changes took place in the way Opera renders tables, but their "What's New" page doesn't say anything about it.