Nobody is saying that a Wii fit is a replacement for cardio, or weight training. But it may well be a perfectly legitimate to compliment yoga/ pilates/ and stretching exercises.
I'm looking forward to the inevitable development and marketing of the Wii Treadmill.
So while Wii fit may not melt fat off, at least its not part of the problem.
Amen to that. The Wii has done more than any other game since DDR to get people to exercise in their homes.
Free speech, and all that. Do they have the right to expect it, is the question. And, yeah, I kinda think they do.
Fully Flash-based websites are obnoxious no matter how you look at them. (MyCokeRewards.com comes immediately to mind, but only because it's so slow to run on my 6-year-old desktop computer.) There's all sorts of reasons to have some sort of text-only access to any website, and screen readers are only one of them.
Fact is, this is just another facet of the persistent "IE-only" problem the Web has had for years. Developers, or more likely their managers or marketing departments, either don't know about the other 10% of the web, or don't care. But we have laws requiring stores to be accessible to wheelchairs, and employers to buy reasonable equipment for disabled employees; I think it's only a matter of time before laws exist requiring commercial websites to better accommodate blind visitors.
You can't tell if that snake of moving lights is one person or more than one (i.e., someone piggybacks on a legitimate user's door swipe and is effectively invisible as long as they're close enough) I think a security guard at the front door would be enough to eliminate this as a problem.
So, you still have video cameras around and constantly capturing - this just narrows when you'd be looking at them. That seems to be the idea. The motion sensors, taken as a whole, provide a "god's eye" view of the entire floor/building, essentially reducing all the cameras on the floor to a single "camera" watching the entire floor.
Since the human brain can only focus on one image at a time, this makes it easy to spot anomalies anywhere on the floor. When an anomaly is found, video cameras can be trained on it.
Think about it: if you were the night watchman, would you rather be responsible for picking out one black-clad intruder on any of a dozen cameras, or one bright yellow light on an over-map of the entire building?
TFA doesn't claim this is an alternative to cameras, but a vital complement to them. I'm inclined to agree, at least until intruders figure out how to camouflage themselves to the sensors.
Forget 3D. I'd like Disney to revive its traditional 2D hand-drawn animation. Even if that means they produce only one movie every 3-4 years, I'd still like to see it revived. Regrettably, Disney is in the business of selling movies, not art, and so it's in their best interest to make films that (a) are technically superior to what's available on DVD or television, and (b) can be completed relatively quickly.
You can say it's okay to spend twice as long for them to make the movie, but I doubt you're willing to buy twice as many tickets or DVDs to make up their lost profits.
While I'm not going to agree or disagree on your perspective on beauty, I myself am of the opinion that good storytelling trumps pretty pictures any day of the week, and shop accordingly.
When Beowulf came out locally, the theaters offered either 2D only or 2D and 3D. I imagine Disney would emphasize the same thing, if only because 2D shows are cheaper. There's no good reason not to offer both.
Unless I'm missing something, TFA said the typically-used plastic on these printers is PLA, polylactose acid, which is made from lactose, an ingredient in milk, human muscles, and various other biological sources, not petroleum. Well, that clinches it. The Matrix is about to come true, only it won't be using our body heat and bio-electricity the machines are harvesting humans for....
It would be the key to untold riches, with the only limitation the supply of cheap and plentiful... petroleum products.
The human body can generate fifteen pounds of organic oil a year, and over twenty-seven gallons of greasy sweat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the raw materials they would ever need....
Interesting, why is base-3 more efficient than base-2? I seem to recall that the dropoff was base-4 but I don't recall any real net advantages to base-3. It's called ternary logic, and it's been widely researched if rarely implemented. It seems to be built on the notion that a thing can be true, false, or unknown/irrelevant.
Think of an SQL database, where a field can be TRUE or FALSE; however, if you didn't set up default values, it can also be NULL, neither true nor false. Or in mathematics, where a value can be GREATER THAN, LESS THAN, or EQUAL TO -- three mutually exclusive states. These aren't circuit-based examples, but it does illustrate how ternary logic can be routinely applied.
the Casino and it's practice... the casino's have already "gamed" the system against it's customers... Not according to the Casino's,... Dude. Please. Quit abusing that apostrophe already. The possessive pronoun is spelled "its", and unless you're a British greengrocer, you're not allowed to use one when pluralizing nouns.
suppose you own property next to mine and I have legal right-of-way. Now, you're not allowed to build a gate and not give me the key, since I have the right to pass over your property to mine.
If course I can, if the gate's on my own property. You're confusing "right" with "entitlement."
Example: I have the right to photograph celebrities doing stupid stuff in public. This does not entitle me to do so. If the celebrity in question wants to wear large sunglasses, hooded sweatshirts, prosthetic ears and nose, etc. in order to make it harder to photograph him or her successfully, that's the celebrity's right. He or she is under no legal obligation to make it easy to exercise my rights.
No need to worry about failing memory or intelligence either. The intelligence pill is another 21st century commodity. Slow learners or people struck with forgetful-ness are given pills which increase the production of enzymes controlling production of the chemicals known to control learning and memory. Everyone is able to use his full mental potential.
Well, we haven't got pills for intelligence, but we do have them for attention-deficit, depression, insomnia, schizophrenia, and just about every other mental imbalance you can think of.
So, yeah, everyone is able to use his or her full mental potential, but we haven't yet invented a way to make them want to do so.
Me, I'd go with a real live mule instead for all applications you'd use this in. Same payload capacity, not much bigger, totally silent, self-refuelling
On the other hand, a mule can't be steered by remote control (well, not humanely) or be programmed to reach a pre-designated GPS coordinate and return after a certain time.
I frankly don't see the actual use in war, besides transporting things
"Things" including, but not limited to, guns, bombs, dying soldiers, mounted remote-targetable weaponry, decoys, etc.....
But I imagine the idea is simply to have a machine that can carry 300+ lbs. of payload uphill in adverse conditions instead of forcing soldiers to do it, freeing them to be ready to duck and shoot back at any surprise threat instead. I haven't yet seen a video of this thing climbing a sand dune, but I'm certain that's on their to-do list.
If you see a book with two names on it (one of them being a famous person you recognize), IMMEDIATELY assume that the book was written by the other, unknown author with the name in small print.
Which is why it was such a puzzlement for me when "Good Omens" had both Pratchett's and Gaiman's names on the cover: I was already a fan of both their work.
If you're building an AI, you might as well accelerate it as much as you can.
On the contrary, the best way for a computer to learn to reason intelligently is to interact with intelligent humans. The advantage, of course, is that the computer doesn't need to sleep or dream half the day away (although, come to think of it, perhaps that's part of the problem....)
the iPhone isn't powerful enough to run flash properly. Too bad.
My five-year-old 533MHz PowerMac isn't powerful enough to run Flash properly, either. It used to be, back in versions 7 and 8. Then when Flash v.9 hit the web and I foolishly immediately upgraded, all of a sudden I'm dog-slow visiting websites with full-screen Flash animations and stuttering YouTube videos. Adobe didn't even leave v.8 online for me to downgrade, either.
If Flash is too processor-intensive for the iPhone, that's just Apple's way of saying something everyone with a more-than-three-year-old computer has been saying all along.
The controller, which Hollis said will cost "much less" than $50,000, could enable a would-be surgeon to operate on a virtual human organ and sense the texture of tissue
Let's get a bunch of complaints out of the way right now and point out the obvious: that such virtual surgery would only be an educational tool and would, for obvious reasons, be completely unsuitable as a "telecommuting surgeon" solution.
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Free speech, and all that. Do they have the right to expect it, is the question. And, yeah, I kinda think they do.
Fully Flash-based websites are obnoxious no matter how you look at them. (MyCokeRewards.com comes immediately to mind, but only because it's so slow to run on my 6-year-old desktop computer.) There's all sorts of reasons to have some sort of text-only access to any website, and screen readers are only one of them.
Fact is, this is just another facet of the persistent "IE-only" problem the Web has had for years. Developers, or more likely their managers or marketing departments, either don't know about the other 10% of the web, or don't care. But we have laws requiring stores to be accessible to wheelchairs, and employers to buy reasonable equipment for disabled employees; I think it's only a matter of time before laws exist requiring commercial websites to better accommodate blind visitors.
Since the human brain can only focus on one image at a time, this makes it easy to spot anomalies anywhere on the floor. When an anomaly is found, video cameras can be trained on it.
Think about it: if you were the night watchman, would you rather be responsible for picking out one black-clad intruder on any of a dozen cameras, or one bright yellow light on an over-map of the entire building?
TFA doesn't claim this is an alternative to cameras, but a vital complement to them. I'm inclined to agree, at least until intruders figure out how to camouflage themselves to the sensors.
You can say it's okay to spend twice as long for them to make the movie, but I doubt you're willing to buy twice as many tickets or DVDs to make up their lost profits.
While I'm not going to agree or disagree on your perspective on beauty, I myself am of the opinion that good storytelling trumps pretty pictures any day of the week, and shop accordingly.
When Beowulf came out locally, the theaters offered either 2D only or 2D and 3D. I imagine Disney would emphasize the same thing, if only because 2D shows are cheaper. There's no good reason not to offer both.
It would be the key to untold riches, with the only limitation the supply of cheap and plentiful... petroleum products.
The human body can generate fifteen pounds of organic oil a year, and over twenty-seven gallons of greasy sweat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the raw materials they would ever need....
Think of an SQL database, where a field can be TRUE or FALSE; however, if you didn't set up default values, it can also be NULL, neither true nor false. Or in mathematics, where a value can be GREATER THAN, LESS THAN, or EQUAL TO -- three mutually exclusive states. These aren't circuit-based examples, but it does illustrate how ternary logic can be routinely applied.
suppose you own property next to mine and I have legal right-of-way. Now, you're not allowed to build a gate and not give me the key, since I have the right to pass over your property to mine.
If course I can, if the gate's on my own property. You're confusing "right" with "entitlement."
Example: I have the right to photograph celebrities doing stupid stuff in public. This does not entitle me to do so. If the celebrity in question wants to wear large sunglasses, hooded sweatshirts, prosthetic ears and nose, etc. in order to make it harder to photograph him or her successfully, that's the celebrity's right. He or she is under no legal obligation to make it easy to exercise my rights.
Apple will sell just about anything.
Oh yeah? Where's my iPod-enabled porn, then?
No need to worry about failing memory or intelligence either. The intelligence pill is another 21st century commodity. Slow learners or people struck with forgetful-ness are given pills which increase the production of enzymes controlling production of the chemicals known to control learning and memory. Everyone is able to use his full mental potential.
Well, we haven't got pills for intelligence, but we do have them for attention-deficit, depression, insomnia, schizophrenia, and just about every other mental imbalance you can think of.
So, yeah, everyone is able to use his or her full mental potential, but we haven't yet invented a way to make them want to do so.
Me, I'd go with a real live mule instead for all applications you'd use this in. Same payload capacity, not much bigger, totally silent, self-refuelling
On the other hand, a mule can't be steered by remote control (well, not humanely) or be programmed to reach a pre-designated GPS coordinate and return after a certain time.
I frankly don't see the actual use in war, besides transporting things
"Things" including, but not limited to, guns, bombs, dying soldiers, mounted remote-targetable weaponry, decoys, etc.....
But I imagine the idea is simply to have a machine that can carry 300+ lbs. of payload uphill in adverse conditions instead of forcing soldiers to do it, freeing them to be ready to duck and shoot back at any surprise threat instead. I haven't yet seen a video of this thing climbing a sand dune, but I'm certain that's on their to-do list.
The walking motion is much like a goat. A goat, see?
Goat.mechs?
If you see a book with two names on it (one of them being a famous person you recognize), IMMEDIATELY assume that the book was written by the other, unknown author with the name in small print.
Which is why it was such a puzzlement for me when "Good Omens" had both Pratchett's and Gaiman's names on the cover: I was already a fan of both their work.
If you're building an AI, you might as well accelerate it as much as you can.
On the contrary, the best way for a computer to learn to reason intelligently is to interact with intelligent humans. The advantage, of course, is that the computer doesn't need to sleep or dream half the day away (although, come to think of it, perhaps that's part of the problem....)
No, that was an article about the backup copy.
It's nice to see folks eschewing traditional Western culture and then 'discovering' things the same Western tradition developed over two millenia ago.
The Greeks two millennia ago had developed a theory of higher-dimensional space?
Or, as Gregory House much more succinctly puts it: "Everybody lies."
This post would have been funnier if the "i" in iPhone didn't stand for "internet".
the iPhone isn't powerful enough to run flash properly. Too bad.
My five-year-old 533MHz PowerMac isn't powerful enough to run Flash properly, either. It used to be, back in versions 7 and 8. Then when Flash v.9 hit the web and I foolishly immediately upgraded, all of a sudden I'm dog-slow visiting websites with full-screen Flash animations and stuttering YouTube videos. Adobe didn't even leave v.8 online for me to downgrade, either.
If Flash is too processor-intensive for the iPhone, that's just Apple's way of saying something everyone with a more-than-three-year-old computer has been saying all along.
The controller, which Hollis said will cost "much less" than $50,000, could enable a would-be surgeon to operate on a virtual human organ and sense the texture of tissue
Let's get a bunch of complaints out of the way right now and point out the obvious: that such virtual surgery would only be an educational tool and would, for obvious reasons, be completely unsuitable as a "telecommuting surgeon" solution.