... except by the way that Virtual reality is "not real". However knowledge is developed internally by building up a mental model of something. This can be done through the use of a variety of modeling techniques, such as illustrations, scale mock ups (such as seen in architecture and military uses), etc. as well as VR.
The phenomena of mixing fantasy and reality is not a problem in virtual reality. It is an error in data processing. Which bits get the reality flag attached?
It actually sounds like incomplete education. People also tend to make things up when they have a lack of data on something, and then convince themselves that 'that's the way it is'. This is also not false memory.
Maybe these shrinks should have their heads examined.
Of course, there are some pics that I wouldn't mind a little more investigation on. I happen to be interested in something I call Gulliver's Golf Ball, something that looks like a perfect sphere, roughly 200 meters across.
"What we need is a cognitive approach with search material retreated and presented in some context relative to our current end-objectives at the time."
Sounds like he's had an overdose of techno babble. The bean counters are telling him that he needs to upgrade the humans, and he can't. You can only lay down so many lego blocks in a day. Humans are not Robots, upgradable, programmable, disposable. We do not yet have an underclass of robots serving the billions of human masters that exist today on Planet Earth, and we will probably never will.
I wonder how many people spend their entire working day browsing MySpace or Slashdot.;-)
This is an entirely different, tho relevant matter. And many people freak at the prospect of being slavishly productive all day long. Who's in charge here anyhow?
"We see evidence of pervasive fraud, but apparently calibrated to political conditions existing before recent developments shifted the political landscape," said attorney Jonathan Simon, co-founder of Election Defense Alliance, "so 'the fix' turned out not to be sufficient for the actual circumstances." Explained Simon, "When you set out to rig an election, you want to do just enough to win. The greater the shift from expectations, (from exit polling, pre-election polling, demographics) the greater the risk of exposure--of provoking investigation. What was plenty to win on October 1 fell short on November 7.
On June 1, 2006, Net2Phone (the Internet telephone unit of IDT Corp.) filed a lawsuit against eBay and Skype accusing the unit of infringing US Patent 6,108,704 which was granted in 2000. Maybe they should File against Microsoft as well....
I am quite sure that Wikipedia would accent an article on relativity written for them by Einstein or on Cosmology by Hawkings. So the fact of a theory article being written by the author of the theory as grounds for not being accepted is pure hogwash. Of course, I can imagine all of the first year physics student trying to correct Hawkings.
But this is typical of Wikipedia, since many political and religious beliefs, etc. are written and described by opponents and non-practitioners. Wikipedia is not the place for information about controversial subjects. Imagine a Wikipedia article on the character and morals of George Bush. 'nuff said?
The point is if the theory is accepted widely enough to merit unadulterated inclusion.
On the other hand, if the theory had been entered and written with disclaimers in front (not accepted, non-mainstream theory, at variance with mainstream research, etc) it probably would have remained. The main problem is that it did not proudly proclaim its lack of status, and it seemed vaguely reasonable to the inexpert in the field. Of course, you can still see it in the Goggle Cache for awhile.
The main problem is that personality is likely much more complex then what is proposed in the article, even if you accept the basic premise of a genetic basis for personality. The theory itself would likely be more appropriate to the early 20th century
I can imagine the judges reaction when he realises that he decision has just sabotaged his own personal email. and the reaction of his/her friends when they find out that he/she is to blame for all of the extra spam they are suddenly getting.
A technology designed to detect copyright material could give YouTube a needed dose of legal legitimacy and calm any concerns Google Inc. has about spending $1.65 billion on the Internet video site. But that same technology could hurt YouTube's edgy appeal.
While YouTube is known as the place to find almost any kind of video clip, recent agreements with high-profile content creators require YouTube to deploy an audio-signature technology that can spot a low-quality copy of a licensed music video or other content. YouTube would have to substitute an approved version of the clip or take the material down automatically.
Analysts said that stepped-up monitoring by entertainment companies raises the likelihood that YouTube fans won't find what they're used to getting -- and will go searching for the next online video rebel. [...]
Some analysts doubt the screening technology will be foolproof. For example, detecting someone singing a copyright song on a homemade video could be difficult because the sound would not exactly match the original recording.
etc. Nevermind Homeland Security, if you want to be paranoid.
I was merely trying to give examples of bugs which are probably cosmetic issues (fit and finish stuff) vs those which have slightly more destructive consequences. Old slow systems would expose race condition errors that were not visible on newer systems, for example.
The example of quicktime is relevant, since early versions (say, up to about v4) would create weird crashes and conflicts under windows with some software which were not present when later versions were installed. You could go nuts trying to track the bug down and duplicate it, unless you spotted this. The correct fix was a note in the readme to have Quicktime up to date, even if the product did not use it.
The problem is that there are different types of Bugs. things like a typo in a help file, or American spelling vs British spelling, vs a bug were the app crashes the system when installed on a system with an early version of Quicktime are clasdsified differently.
The summary just says all bugs, which is not fair if the proprietary has 5 times the number of critical or super-critical bugs.
1) Education is inherently a problem in communication
2) Some Data is NOT intuitive, and needs to be broken down into appropriate byte size pieces. Different humans have different byte sizes.
Add to this the concept of missing fundamentals. Sometimes the data you need is included in earlier study/work that was not completely of fully digested. You need to make sure you cover this.
Sometimes the data is new, and you will need to work it out with sufficient practice so that you can develp observation on how it actually works. Then you can put it together. Application to real world situations is useful as well.
This shows up every year or two. There is a russian furniture company that does exquisite work, for example. and there are several others. For example:
Wooden Computer Accessories On March 23rd, 2004 with 467 comments
polyp2000 writes "It's always interesting to read about case-mods, but
this company has a novel twist, for nature loving geeks. Maybe even the
perfect...
Wooden-Cased Computers, Small and Extra-Large On March 21st, 2005 with 282 comments
DCPete writes "Some guy made a pretty nice mahogany computer table;
apparently he does this as a hobby. I've seen lots of stuff like this
before, but this one...
Ask Slashdot: Wooden Chasis and EMF?a>
On June 16th, 1999 with 196 comments
Red Leader asks: "Hi. I'm writing in the hope that some electrical
people will be able to help me out with the nitty gritty
aspects of shielding a computer...
Actually, I recall there was some fund raising to help him out, as he had retired on a typical soviet pension, which is next to useless. If I hit the lottery, I 'll probably send him a nice chunk of change as a special thank you. He at least desrves to live in moderate comfort. and to spread his genes around a bit. Don't wait for the UN to kick anything in.....
Now this would be worth it, to see just how good those data recover people are, if you ever really need to recover something from a fried laptop. Folks should chip in for the project.
note that different display options are different dates, so it depends on which you use. - Also NASA World Wind has the moon, mars, jupiter, and more for display options... kinda cool
This doesn't show up in Nasa's World Wind program, so either it's an accident of smoke, etc from a fire or something, or else NASA didn't get a chance to manipulate all of the photos
What strikes me about the pictures from the Mars Express is how weird they look - they look kind of artificial - like they've been hand-drawn/painted by a 1950's space artist. They don't look like a picture if you nkow what I'm trying to say. The colours are very "rich" and unreal looking - difficult to explain - it might be a result of the processing they've gone through.
Now you've done it. You've given the tin foil hat crowd an excuse to say the NASA or ESA or whomever has altered the photos to erase evidence of civilizations on Mars. When in fact they probably import all of the data into a 3d model and manipulate them there to produce similar results;-)
what about figuring what's causing my laptop hard drive to go constantly? the memory settings look ok...
In general, this is cause by too many processes running for the amount of ram you are running. Things like AOL have all kinds of secondary processes. A typical lean system will be running 25 to 35 processes. Some systems ship now running 70 plus processes out of the box. Also, some people run things like Norton Internet Security, or the McAfee Security Center all in paranoid mode. These can also slow a system way down. Especially if you have low ram (less than 512)
The other solution is to go out and install at least a gig more memory. Or else buy a computer that will accept and allow for more than a gig of memory as a maximum.
There is probably a dll that is tied into explorer or something to repopulate when you clean.
Also, use Spybot Search and Destroy in safe mode with all of the updates, but use all of the immunize functions first. It can spot some zombie process that "look" normal, but which sure as heck aren't. and then kill them.
I make a decent living doing nothing but cleaning things like this up. I can't give you a ten page How-to, but the links will put you on the right trail.
Well, if they self publish, and they run their band as an actual busines vs a bunch of blokes having a really good time, it is far more practical and reachable than trying to be a megastar. Being the toast of Belgium is easier than cracking the top of the USA market. It is the concept of a respectable earning vs going for national fame status right away.
Slashdot Mirror
Now you do have people who get into trouble by mixing reality and fantasy. Take the 4 year old who scared aware theives by surprising them in his red Power Ranger suit.
The phenomena of mixing fantasy and reality is not a problem in virtual reality. It is an error in data processing. Which bits get the reality flag attached?
It actually sounds like incomplete education. People also tend to make things up when they have a lack of data on something, and then convince themselves that 'that's the way it is'. This is also not false memory.
Maybe these shrinks should have their heads examined.
a divine jokester, no?
This has also been picked up by the major media.
On a side note, the HiRISE team is now posting new large images on the HiRISE Website every week on Wednesday. (A file size and format warning is needed. The full super high resolution photo of the Opportunity landing site is 677 MBytes in JP2 format)
Of course, there are some pics that I wouldn't mind a little more investigation on. I happen to be interested in something I call Gulliver's Golf Ball, something that looks like a perfect sphere, roughly 200 meters across.
"What we need is a cognitive approach with search material retreated and presented in some context relative to our current end-objectives at the time."
;-)
....
Sounds like he's had an overdose of techno babble. The bean counters are telling him that he needs to upgrade the humans, and he can't. You can only lay down so many lego blocks in a day. Humans are not Robots, upgradable, programmable, disposable. We do not yet have an underclass of robots serving the billions of human masters that exist today on Planet Earth, and we will probably never will.
I wonder how many people spend their entire working day browsing MySpace or Slashdot.
This is an entirely different, tho relevant matter. And many people freak at the prospect of being slavishly productive all day long. Who's in charge here anyhow?
I, for one, welcome our
working at someone's kitchen table on laptops
don't get the telecom mutter and home orifice people upset with you now
As seen here:
Clear Evidence 2006 Congressional Elections Hacked
"We see evidence of pervasive fraud, but apparently calibrated to political conditions existing before recent developments shifted the political landscape," said attorney Jonathan Simon, co-founder of Election Defense Alliance, "so 'the fix' turned out not to be sufficient for the actual circumstances." Explained Simon, "When you set out to rig an election, you want to do just enough to win. The greater the shift from expectations, (from exit polling, pre-election polling, demographics) the greater the risk of exposure--of provoking investigation. What was plenty to win on October 1 fell short on November 7.
On June 1, 2006, Net2Phone (the Internet telephone unit of IDT Corp.) filed a lawsuit against eBay and Skype accusing the unit of infringing US Patent 6,108,704 which was granted in 2000. Maybe they should File against Microsoft as well....
There are two points
I am quite sure that Wikipedia would accent an article on relativity written for them by Einstein or on Cosmology by Hawkings. So the fact of a theory article being written by the author of the theory as grounds for not being accepted is pure hogwash. Of course, I can imagine all of the first year physics student trying to correct Hawkings.
But this is typical of Wikipedia, since many political and religious beliefs, etc. are written and described by opponents and non-practitioners. Wikipedia is not the place for information about controversial subjects. Imagine a Wikipedia article on the character and morals of George Bush. 'nuff said?
The point is if the theory is accepted widely enough to merit unadulterated inclusion.
On the other hand, if the theory had been entered and written with disclaimers in front (not accepted, non-mainstream theory, at variance with mainstream research, etc) it probably would have remained. The main problem is that it did not proudly proclaim its lack of status, and it seemed vaguely reasonable to the inexpert in the field. Of course, you can still see it in the Goggle Cache for awhile.
The main problem is that personality is likely much more complex then what is proposed in the article, even if you accept the basic premise of a genetic basis for personality. The theory itself would likely be more appropriate to the early 20th century
original story via this journal entry
I can imagine the judges reaction when he realises that he decision has just sabotaged his own personal email. and the reaction of his/her friends when they find out that he/she is to blame for all of the extra spam they are suddenly getting.
Also there is the forthcoming YouTube AntiPiracy system. or as one wit put it: YouTube is preparing to implement new technology necessary to make it suck
A technology designed to detect copyright material could give YouTube a needed dose of legal legitimacy and calm any concerns Google Inc. has about spending $1.65 billion on the Internet video site. But that same technology could hurt YouTube's edgy appeal.
While YouTube is known as the place to find almost any kind of video clip, recent agreements with high-profile content creators require YouTube to deploy an audio-signature technology that can spot a low-quality copy of a licensed music video or other content. YouTube would have to substitute an approved version of the clip or take the material down automatically.
Analysts said that stepped-up monitoring by entertainment companies raises the likelihood that YouTube fans won't find what they're used to getting -- and will go searching for the next online video rebel. [...]
Some analysts doubt the screening technology will be foolproof. For example, detecting someone singing a copyright song on a homemade video could be difficult because the sound would not exactly match the original recording.
etc. Nevermind Homeland Security, if you want to be paranoid.
I was merely trying to give examples of bugs which are probably cosmetic issues (fit and finish stuff) vs those which have slightly more destructive consequences. Old slow systems would expose race condition errors that were not visible on newer systems, for example.
The example of quicktime is relevant, since early versions (say, up to about v4) would create weird crashes and conflicts under windows with some software which were not present when later versions were installed. You could go nuts trying to track the bug down and duplicate it, unless you spotted this. The correct fix was a note in the readme to have Quicktime up to date, even if the product did not use it.
The problem is that there are different types of Bugs. things like a typo in a help file, or American spelling vs British spelling, vs a bug were the app crashes the system when installed on a system with an early version of Quicktime are clasdsified differently.
The summary just says all bugs, which is not fair if the proprietary has 5 times the number of critical or super-critical bugs.
There are several elements to this
1) Education is inherently a problem in communication
2) Some Data is NOT intuitive, and needs to be broken down into appropriate byte size pieces. Different humans have different byte sizes.
Add to this the concept of missing fundamentals. Sometimes the data you need is included in earlier study/work that was not completely of fully digested. You need to make sure you cover this.
Sometimes the data is new, and you will need to work it out with sufficient practice so that you can develp observation on how it actually works. Then you can put it together. Application to real world situations is useful as well.
This shows up every year or two. There is a russian furniture company that does exquisite work, for example. and there are several others. For example:
Wooden Computer Accessories
On March 23rd, 2004 with 467 comments
polyp2000 writes "It's always interesting to read about case-mods, but this company has a novel twist, for nature loving geeks. Maybe even the perfect...
Wooden-Cased Computers, Small and Extra-Large
On March 21st, 2005 with 282 comments
DCPete writes "Some guy made a pretty nice mahogany computer table; apparently he does this as a hobby. I've seen lots of stuff like this before, but this one...
Ask Slashdot: Wooden Chasis and EMF?a>
On June 16th, 1999 with 196 comments
Red Leader asks: "Hi. I'm writing in the hope that some electrical people will be able to help me out with the nitty gritty aspects of shielding a computer...
Actually, I recall there was some fund raising to help him out, as he had retired on a typical soviet pension, which is next to useless. If I hit the lottery, I 'll probably send him a nice chunk of change as a special thank you. He at least desrves to live in moderate comfort. and to spread his genes around a bit. Don't wait for the UN to kick anything in.....
Now this would be worth it, to see just how good those data recover people are, if you ever really need to recover something from a fried laptop. Folks should chip in for the project.
note that different display options are different dates, so it depends on which you use. - Also NASA World Wind has the moon, mars, jupiter, and more for display options... kinda cool
see this one in Peru:
This doesn't show up in Nasa's World Wind program, so either it's an accident of smoke, etc from a fire or something, or else NASA didn't get a chance to manipulate all of the photos
What strikes me about the pictures from the Mars Express is how weird they look - they look kind of artificial - like they've been hand-drawn/painted by a 1950's space artist. They don't look like a picture if you nkow what I'm trying to say. The colours are very "rich" and unreal looking - difficult to explain - it might be a result of the processing they've gone through.
;-)
Now you've done it. You've given the tin foil hat crowd an excuse to say the NASA or ESA or whomever has altered the photos to erase evidence of civilizations on Mars. When in fact they probably import all of the data into a 3d model and manipulate them there to produce similar results
I think some of us would like the 10 page how-to. Some of us might be willing to PAY for the how-to. Why reinvent the wheel?
It tends to get outdated quickly, plus Spywarewarrior has forums that come with extra handholding free.
Plus they have the equivalent of the 10 page How-To here:
spywarewarrior.com/sww-help.htm.
Like I said, the links I provided are enough to get you pointed in the right direction.
what about figuring what's causing my laptop hard drive to go constantly? the memory settings look ok...
In general, this is cause by too many processes running for the amount of ram you are running. Things like AOL have all kinds of secondary processes. A typical lean system will be running 25 to 35 processes. Some systems ship now running 70 plus processes out of the box. Also, some people run things like Norton Internet Security, or the McAfee Security Center all in paranoid mode. These can also slow a system way down. Especially if you have low ram (less than 512)
The other solution is to go out and install at least a gig more memory. Or else buy a computer that will accept and allow for more than a gig of memory as a maximum.
Available at robotgenius.net
Spyberus is free of charge. Check out the tutorial
There is probably a dll that is tied into explorer or something to repopulate when you clean.
Also, use Spybot Search and Destroy in safe mode with all of the updates, but use all of the immunize functions first. It can spot some zombie process that "look" normal, but which sure as heck aren't. and then kill them.
Do a maximum amount of cleaning in safe mode.
Check out Spywarewarrior.com for a comperhensive list of bogus cleaners that are really infectors. For an example, see this illustration.
I make a decent living doing nothing but cleaning things like this up. I can't give you a ten page How-to, but the links will put you on the right trail.
with a chewy center, not a hard center inside.
probably not much of a rocky core
Well, if they self publish, and they run their band as an actual busines vs a bunch of blokes having a really good time, it is far more practical and reachable than trying to be a megastar. Being the toast of Belgium is easier than cracking the top of the USA market. It is the concept of a respectable earning vs going for national fame status right away.