Uhh...it would only be able to find something harmfull after it was turned on. If it was extremely high power, it would be too late by then. Also, when they did detect something, they would have to get someone to run over, find it, and take it away and destroy/disarm it. I guess it's doable.
I would rather see them not allow anything electronic...that way, they woludn't have to worry about it. BUT, this would be controlled by the people at baggage claim, which everyone mostly consists of idiots. They could just force the people to put them in the non carry on luggage, which could then be put in a metal box or something.
Your right...it wouldn't be hard to mess one up. They would hopefully find something like that in the XRAY machine or something. Still...they could easily disguise it as something else. But on the same note, what keeps some guy from wearing a nuke into a city.
Like the other guy said, you change focus and zoom...and since lense shape is static...you moving lenses away or to the detector/film. So I gues it does directly have to do with distance.
Huh? Graph paper would do a MUCH better job at finding the lenses flaws, and make it fairly simple to correct them...that picture you have would barely do any good at all...just on the parts where there was detail. Even then, that would be insanely hard to implement in software compared to a grid. It might be better at finding focus or something...but thats not the point. The graph paper would show you exactly how the lense was deformed at practically every point on the lense (depending on density of the lines of course). All you would have to do to fix it would be straighten out the lines. I don't really see how that picture you posted could be used to find lense distortion...it just doesn't have enough detail. What is it specifically for?
damn...I only weigh 140...that means about 64cm^2! One of my hands has about 60cm^2 of surface area...so with both my hands covered, and maybe some on my feet...I could easily crawl around on walls...I don't know how I would release my hand from the wall...pulling woould get tiresome. They need to find a way to "deactivate" them or something...maybe make them with small amounts of iron or something, so that when a strong magnetic field is applied to them...they will all bend or deform to release whatever they are holding...or something like that.
I saw this sometime last year on Oprah or something. It worked by making them sound like chipmunks to themselves. Some of the guys couldn't even say a complete sentence (which I consider very disabling), and when they put it on, they could talk fluently, almost without any sign of studdering. They were VERY happy people. In bad cases like that. I see no problem with insurance companies paying for it. It is a cure for a very bad disability (unlike breast implants, which are just for fun). It really doesn't cost that much either. Every time I've gone to the doctor or emergency room, it's cost well over $1500. The cost per happiness for the rest of their lives ratio is very high, which I consider worth it.
I don't know about you, but being anonymouse has it's uses. It allows people to say things that could be controversial without having to be afraid of someone comming to their door with a baseball bat, say bits of information that may not be legal, but need to be said, etc. It will be a sad day when people have to cower behind their egos, or image, or whatever. I know that's a personal problem for them, but still...it allows people to express themselves like they wouldn't normally.
Why not just use a fairly dormant valcanoe. You could probably access the molten by drilling a fairly small hole. And you wouldn't have the upwards moving magma that would rule out an active valcanoe.
I'm curriouse as to what determines the location of the store. What if it is a purely online store, with the server based in Alaska or something? Would it just go by the location of the storage area? if so, what if there was no storage area, and everything was ordered by the online store owner directly from a company out of state?
By "process it all", he probably means being able to address the area on the disk (think extremes).
By go over into negative integers, integers are an allocated space in memory that holds a number...if the number is bigger than the allocated space, what does it do!? 11111111 + 1 = 00000000 (keeping 8 bits of data). Look up signed integers. Since it's just binary...how can you represent a negative number? Well, you can't directly, you do it with little tricks that everyone agrees on. Look it up...you obviously need to.
I doubt it will continue to increase that fast. They will start hitting some of the limitations. Like, small amounts of heat destroying the magnetic "charge" sirce they are so small/weak.
The physical drive passes by the head at a certain rate, depending on the speed of rotation of the platter and the distance the head is from the center of the platter.
Lets say 1 inch from the center, going 7200 rpm. This means that the disk will be passing under the head at about 2 * pi * 7200 = inches per minute
/ 60 = inches per second
/ 12 = feet per second ((2 * pi * 7200) / 60) / 12 = about 62.8 feet per second 1 inch from the center of the platter.
Now, lets pretend that there is some amount of data in this 6.28 inch circle that the head travels. Lets say 1,000 bytes. This means that 62800 bytes pass under the head in one second. Now, lets make the data more dense, which is how hard drives hold more data. Lets say there is 1,000,000 bytes. This means that there are 62,800,000 bytes passing under the head in one second. So really, the data has gotten faster. That's why you don't really need a high RPM drive that has extremely high data density (like 150gig drives), cause that won't be the limiting factor.
So actually, hard drives have gotten faster. At least the data passing by has gotten faster.
I used to get bad pains in my arms and hands...but I don't anymore because you aren't moving nearly as much. I find a normal Dvorak keyboard MUCH more comfortable than an ergonomic keyboard with Qwerty (which is what I used for years before Dvorak). I know that's hard to imagine, but for me, it's true.
It's jsut like switching to the metric system...sure it's easier...but everyone is just too set in their ways and too lazy to switch.
One more time, based on my own research, Dvorak - about 70% of all keys you will ever press are on the home row. Qwerty - About 35% of all keys you will press are on the home row.
Conclusion,
You won't be moving as much. It is so much more comfortable for me to use Dvorak. The only way I can describe it, it feels like your fingers are flowing over the keys. It looks strange to watch someone with a Qwerty keyboard type because you see how much more movement and funny hand positions that they have to make.
It's not THAT much faster, but it is noticable.
Two disadvantage that I have to admit that I've found from my experience are: 1. On cold nights, your hands tend to stiffen more *because* of the lack of movement. 2. It's harder to type with one hand. Since the keys are placed so that the hands alternate for most keystrokes. Oh no!
For me, it's more about comfort. When I use the Qwerty keyboard, and watch other people use it, I'm amazed how the fingers flail about to try and reach the keys. You just don't have to move as much and make awkward finger movements to hit the keys that you use most. I did a little calculation, and about 70% of all the letters you will type (based on most common) are on the home row in Dvorak...only about 35% for Qwerty.
If you look, the keyboard looks earily like Dvorak.
I wouldn't want to use that layout, even though it may be a *little* better because it cannot be found anywhere. Dvorak can be easily switched on in any windows and linux machine in a matter of 10's of seconds. This is one case where I agree with the "but noone uses it" argument.
For a very long time, because of the speed decrease while I was learning, I used Dvorak only at home, and Qwerty at work. My qwerty typing speeds, at work, didn't change. Once I was sufficiently fast in Dvorak, I switched my keyboard at work to Dvorak too (everyone looked at me funny when all my keys were laying on my desk).
So, effectively, the speed of my typing at work never changed, it only increased.
I do it every day at work and school and, well, anywhere else away from my home. I have no problems at all switching between the two. After about 10 minutes of using a QWERTY keyboard, I'm back to my old touchtyping speed.
I believe the benefits outweigh the inconvenience of having to remember two keyboard layouts in your head. You never forget qwerty and from all people I talk to, they can use it just fine...but when you do use qwerty after switching, you will just hate using it:)
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Uhh...it would only be able to find something harmfull after it was turned on. If it was extremely high power, it would be too late by then. Also, when they did detect something, they would have to get someone to run over, find it, and take it away and destroy/disarm it. I guess it's doable.
I would rather see them not allow anything electronic...that way, they woludn't have to worry about it. BUT, this would be controlled by the people at baggage claim, which everyone mostly consists of idiots. They could just force the people to put them in the non carry on luggage, which could then be put in a metal box or something.
Your right...it wouldn't be hard to mess one up. They would hopefully find something like that in the XRAY machine or something. Still...they could easily disguise it as something else. But on the same note, what keeps some guy from wearing a nuke into a city.
Like the other guy said, you change focus and zoom...and since lense shape is static...you moving lenses away or to the detector/film. So I gues it does directly have to do with distance.
Huh? Graph paper would do a MUCH better job at finding the lenses flaws, and make it fairly simple to correct them...that picture you have would barely do any good at all...just on the parts where there was detail. Even then, that would be insanely hard to implement in software compared to a grid. It might be better at finding focus or something...but thats not the point. The graph paper would show you exactly how the lense was deformed at practically every point on the lense (depending on density of the lines of course). All you would have to do to fix it would be straighten out the lines. I don't really see how that picture you posted could be used to find lense distortion...it just doesn't have enough detail. What is it specifically for?
damn...I only weigh 140...that means about 64cm^2! One of my hands has about 60cm^2 of surface area...so with both my hands covered, and maybe some on my feet...I could easily crawl around on walls...I don't know how I would release my hand from the wall...pulling woould get tiresome. They need to find a way to "deactivate" them or something...maybe make them with small amounts of iron or something, so that when a strong magnetic field is applied to them...they will all bend or deform to release whatever they are holding...or something like that.
you won't be able to jump up!
"...a pair of Microsoft researchers..."
"They advocate building cheap Linux-based Beowulf clusters..."
come on guys...June 2nd, not April 1st.
I saw this sometime last year on Oprah or something. It worked by making them sound like chipmunks to themselves. Some of the guys couldn't even say a complete sentence (which I consider very disabling), and when they put it on, they could talk fluently, almost without any sign of studdering. They were VERY happy people. In bad cases like that. I see no problem with insurance companies paying for it. It is a cure for a very bad disability (unlike breast implants, which are just for fun). It really doesn't cost that much either. Every time I've gone to the doctor or emergency room, it's cost well over $1500. The cost per happiness for the rest of their lives ratio is very high, which I consider worth it.
what is the layout called that your using?
I don't know about you, but being anonymouse has it's uses. It allows people to say things that could be controversial without having to be afraid of someone comming to their door with a baseball bat, say bits of information that may not be legal, but need to be said, etc. It will be a sad day when people have to cower behind their egos, or image, or whatever. I know that's a personal problem for them, but still...it allows people to express themselves like they wouldn't normally.
Why not just use a fairly dormant valcanoe. You could probably access the molten by drilling a fairly small hole. And you wouldn't have the upwards moving magma that would rule out an active valcanoe.
I do, but most are next to crappy gas stations and whatnot. I'm guessing they aren't going to aim for those :)
I'm trying it tonight!
I'm curriouse as to what determines the location of the store. What if it is a purely online store, with the server based in Alaska or something? Would it just go by the location of the storage area? if so, what if there was no storage area, and everything was ordered by the online store owner directly from a company out of state?
I doubt it would be much worse than looking at the reflection of the sun on the water during a day on the beach.
By "process it all", he probably means being able to address the area on the disk (think extremes).
By go over into negative integers, integers are an allocated space in memory that holds a number...if the number is bigger than the allocated space, what does it do!? 11111111 + 1 = 00000000 (keeping 8 bits of data). Look up signed integers. Since it's just binary...how can you represent a negative number? Well, you can't directly, you do it with little tricks that everyone agrees on. Look it up...you obviously need to.
I doubt it will continue to increase that fast. They will start hitting some of the limitations. Like, small amounts of heat destroying the magnetic "charge" sirce they are so small/weak.
I don't agree.
The physical drive passes by the head at a certain rate, depending on the speed of rotation of the platter and the distance the head is from the center of the platter.
Lets say 1 inch from the center, going 7200 rpm.
This means that the disk will be passing under the head at about
2 * pi * 7200 = inches per minute
/ 60 = inches per second
/ 12 = feet per second
((2 * pi * 7200) / 60) / 12 = about 62.8 feet per second 1 inch from the center of the platter.
Now, lets pretend that there is some amount of data in this 6.28 inch circle that the head travels. Lets say 1,000 bytes. This means that 62800 bytes pass under the head in one second. Now, lets make the data more dense, which is how hard drives hold more data. Lets say there is 1,000,000 bytes. This means that there are 62,800,000 bytes passing under the head in one second. So really, the data has gotten faster. That's why you don't really need a high RPM drive that has extremely high data density (like 150gig drives), cause that won't be the limiting factor.
So actually, hard drives have gotten faster. At least the data passing by has gotten faster.
It sure did reduce it on me!
I used to get bad pains in my arms and hands...but I don't anymore because you aren't moving nearly as much. I find a normal Dvorak keyboard MUCH more comfortable than an ergonomic keyboard with Qwerty (which is what I used for years before Dvorak). I know that's hard to imagine, but for me, it's true.
It's jsut like switching to the metric system...sure it's easier...but everyone is just too set in their ways and too lazy to switch.
One more time, based on my own research,
Dvorak - about 70% of all keys you will ever press are on the home row.
Qwerty - About 35% of all keys you will press are on the home row.
Conclusion,
You won't be moving as much. It is so much more comfortable for me to use Dvorak. The only way I can describe it, it feels like your fingers are flowing over the keys. It looks strange to watch someone with a Qwerty keyboard type because you see how much more movement and funny hand positions that they have to make.
It's not THAT much faster, but it is noticable.
Two disadvantage that I have to admit that I've found from my experience are:
1. On cold nights, your hands tend to stiffen more *because* of the lack of movement.
2. It's harder to type with one hand. Since the keys are placed so that the hands alternate for most keystrokes. Oh no!
For me, it's more about comfort. When I use the Qwerty keyboard, and watch other people use it, I'm amazed how the fingers flail about to try and reach the keys. You just don't have to move as much and make awkward finger movements to hit the keys that you use most. I did a little calculation, and about 70% of all the letters you will type (based on most common) are on the home row in Dvorak...only about 35% for Qwerty.
If you look, the keyboard looks earily like Dvorak.
I wouldn't want to use that layout, even though it may be a *little* better because it cannot be found anywhere. Dvorak can be easily switched on in any windows and linux machine in a matter of 10's of seconds. This is one case where I agree with the "but noone uses it" argument.
Your thinking in a very short term sense.
For a very long time, because of the speed decrease while I was learning, I used Dvorak only at home, and Qwerty at work. My qwerty typing speeds, at work, didn't change. Once I was sufficiently fast in Dvorak, I switched my keyboard at work to Dvorak too (everyone looked at me funny when all my keys were laying on my desk).
So, effectively, the speed of my typing at work never changed, it only increased.
I do it every day at work and school and, well, anywhere else away from my home. I have no problems at all switching between the two. After about 10 minutes of using a QWERTY keyboard, I'm back to my old touchtyping speed.
:)
I believe the benefits outweigh the inconvenience of having to remember two keyboard layouts in your head. You never forget qwerty and from all people I talk to, they can use it just fine...but when you do use qwerty after switching, you will just hate using it
also, I don't know who would want to touch that nasty keyboard.
and, just watch the waiting time to get into the restroom tripple.
I sincerely hope they use a pron filter...please oh please use a pron filter!