Not sure about your mouse, but mine is pretty simple.
The best windows touch screen I've used worked something like this:
click - quick tap
double click - two quick taps
move mouse - move finger around the screen
drag - click hold
The only time I miss the mouse is with high precision clicking, like text selection or grabbing small sliders. Most everyday apps, getting within 5 pixels or so is completely acceptable.
With a rich mixture, the flame from ignition moves slower so the pressures after TDC (top dead center) are lower. With a lean mixture, they move so quickly that the pressure and heat from it can be sufficient to detonate the fuel. Running leaner gives better fuel efficiency (nice graph), but also increases your chance of detonation under power (high cylinder pressures).
I *think* that by using a laser system, you don't have a spark plug sticking in the cylinder with sharp edges that would usually get very hot and kick off the detonation, meaning you can run leaner while applying power since you'd have only the smooth cylinder walls, cylinder top, and laser window...all with coolant flower nearby.
If it could easily do VGA (without heavy interpolation) then that would suggest it can detect depth with a point resolution at or even near the infrared sensor resolution. This can't be the case since there can only depth information in each projected point. Since there *must* be black space between the projected points to be able to detect a point (zero black would be a white image!), this means you could never be more than some fraction of the sensor resolution. Even if you're doing sub-pixel detection, you're still stuck with the Nyquist limit, meaning you're limited to somewhere around half the sensor resolution. Anything beyond that is extrapolation.
Now...maybe the infrared camera is very high resolution...but looking at the videos of the projected points taken with infrared cameras, the point count doesn't seem like 30,000 needed for VGA...more like 10,000 or so (which would be about right for vga sensor).
I see your point. Growing up, my nickname was XAOECBTU...nothing at all pronounceable or related to english. I assume a street smart guy would give his friends similar nicknames so the cops wouldn't be able to pronounce them without looking like fools!
I found some images of the insides of the museum (also from google) that I'm printing on my home printer right now that I plan to paste on my walls. It only took me a few minutes to make a full resolution tile downloader, so all that's left is to get Costco to make me some poster prints and invite some rude strangers into my house!
I'm waiting for someone to install an inconspicuous, low divide ratio, beam splitter in front of the projection window, all aimed into a cheapish hd camcorder. If people can build replica atm front panels...I doubt installing a nice looking box under the window would be a problem.
Worse yet...have a set of friends, each with a tape recorder near each speaker...use some shitty time delay noise cancellation algorithm...3d with surround sound! BAM! With movie staff using night vision, the only thing that remains is to find someone with a glass eye to stick the camcorders in...
Unless you have an HDR screen, this would require an automatic tone mapping. The thing about automatic tone mapping is that you have to decide what intensity information to throw out since you only have 256 values that you can display. For instance, using a 14 bits per color channel canon DSLR sensor, if you want to look at the image on your screen, this means you'll have to thrown out 98.4% of your intensity values. It is extremely important which values you decide to throw out, especially considering there's usually a subject or subjects in a photo that you want to keep visible.
By the way, this 14bits gets you about +/- 2 stops...the camera they're talking about gives you 20 stops...that's an *incredible* amount of intensity information (giving the file size). Really this is more of a solution for filming a scene once and not having to worry about if you camera exposure is set correctly, which *is* extremely valuable.
Now, viewing HDR movies? Not in theaters with any sort of current projection technology with reasonable ticket prices. The projection bulbs would have to go up probably 20 times in brightness, keeping similar crappy projection theater black levels. And, how do you deal with the ambient light coming off of your now incredibly bright white screen and bouncing off of the audience? At home, do you really want a tv that bright? From this bit-tech review, "The light from the box was so bright, or indeed, was of such great contrast with the surrounding area, that it almost hurt to look at.".
It's because it's not pleasing to the eye. 60fps movies look very strange...like home videos. The 24 fps is what gives them that "movie look". If you look at some example vids from some of the newer consumer cameras that can do 24 and 60fps...you'll see the huge difference it makes.
What, do you suggest, is a proper provisioning of the network? How is this "bullshit?" If you provision for data, then you're left with a very small number of allowable voice calls. If you provision for voice (it's a phone, why would you do that), then you'll get slow data since all of the channels are occupied with data. Why not upgrade all the towers! Make them able to handle anything! With one tower within three miles of the next, in any direction, that's a pretty massive infrastructure to upgrade, even if a single city, for a very small percentage of people that use massive amounts of data compared to an "average" user. Unless the average masses, the ones bringing in the money, complain, what's the point? It would literally be throwing away money, throwing it right into the hole where the peak user resides. Why not keep the masses happy and punish those ruining the experience for everyone else?
They'll upgrade when the average person starts approaching the data cap, regularly, causing customers to leave, giving economic intensive to upgrade. It's business..it's about making maximal amounts of money for maximal growth to achieve maximal profits...it's why they exist. If you don't like the model, then try out a different one, like metropcs...which is also oversubscribed, but at least it's flat fee month to month, and they seem to be using their money to expand and provide better service (first 4g provider in my area).
I have a feeling that their claims of "unlimited" would fail in courts, somewhat like the Leonard vs Pepsico case. The judge would probably decide that a reasonable person wouldn't think that unlimited actually means without end, as an "all you can eat" buffet doesn't meaning you can sit there and eat for 8 hours, with the "unlimited" being "within reason".
With their infrastructure problems, give them a little credit though. How could they have predicted that enabling internet access on cell phones would cause people to transfer data? How could they have known that increasing the access speeds to this internet would cause more demand on the towers? This is the real world, not "we have an intelligent business roadmap that lets us predict and plan for future requirements" land.
This is why I only support companies that provide an unlimited month to month plan (like MetroPCS). The price of their plans, the extent of their coverage (pretty decent nation wide now), and the fact that they have "4G" where I live before anyone else is proof that the other companies are completely reaming their customers.
Agreed, especially considering the feature sets and straight execution efficiency that are added to the new chips. I have a 4 year old windows mobile smartphone overclocked from 500MHz to 700MHz. Sure, launching an app is fractions of a second faster..barely noticeable, but compared to a *modern* 650MHz, it's not really even marginally usable, especially graphics performance, which will be the case in this example too.
You just can't compete with advances in technology...get the newer model and overclock THAT.
Well, he's not the one going out and finding the information...the information comes from people *giving* it to him. He does seem anti USA, but maybe it's just that the other governments and organizations are doing a better job at keeping their secrets secret.
From the first page of TFA, "Under a high wavelength of ultraviolet light, the gold nanoparticles were able to produce a blue-violet fluorescence to trigger a red emission in the surrounding chlorophyll."
So, the only time they'll glow "naturally" is if they're in the ultraviolet rays of the sun.
Because they already have laser scanners on board, also seen on the us versions, and video related ways of making 3D data...and I can only assume they have a lower resolution video to go with those pictures.
You think they'd shovel in the truckloads of cash it takes to map practically every street in the world and *not* take 3d data!?
Read the article. The trees don't just glow...they glow because a UV light is shining on it, converting the UV to visible, similar to a standard fluorescent light...except with a standard light, you get nearly all of the UV interacting with the fluorescing particles...and it doesn't have to go through glass, which isn't so good/cheap at transmitting UV.
Agreed. A very very small portion of the UV light will end up actually causing fluorescence. At least with standard fluorescent bulbs, almost all of the UV light will be converted. This is more more like using a spotlight pointed up at the sky that's shining on confetti to light the surroundings.
If you want energy conversion efficiency in the low teens, the yes...hybrid engine/generator it does make sense.
Using a 30 something percent efficient gasoline engine running a 50 something percent alternator to charge a battery with 80 something percent efficiency to run an electric motor with probably 90 something percent efficiency is terrible idea unless you're going for huge amounts of torque (a train with its need for extremely high torques at very very low speeds or a semi that needs to power up a hill). It's much more efficient to put the pressure from gas combustion geared straight to the wheels in cruising (or anything the engine can handle on its own) situations.
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Maybe it's something similar to this code that crashes firefox
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=148963
Bug report I posted about it in 2004.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239840
Funny thing is, it used to just hang back it 2004, now it's a hard crash with firefox 4.
>Turns out doing something productive on a tablet is borderline impossible.
And this has never been the target audience...which is why you probably don't have one ;-)
Not sure about your mouse, but mine is pretty simple.
The best windows touch screen I've used worked something like this:
click - quick tap
double click - two quick taps
move mouse - move finger around the screen
drag - click hold
The only time I miss the mouse is with high precision clicking, like text selection or grabbing small sliders. Most everyday apps, getting within 5 pixels or so is completely acceptable.
With a rich mixture, the flame from ignition moves slower so the pressures after TDC (top dead center) are lower. With a lean mixture, they move so quickly that the pressure and heat from it can be sufficient to detonate the fuel. Running leaner gives better fuel efficiency (nice graph), but also increases your chance of detonation under power (high cylinder pressures).
I *think* that by using a laser system, you don't have a spark plug sticking in the cylinder with sharp edges that would usually get very hot and kick off the detonation, meaning you can run leaner while applying power since you'd have only the smooth cylinder walls, cylinder top, and laser window...all with coolant flower nearby.
???
Finally, as predicted by an insightful DeathKoil 4 years ago.
I've been waiting FOUR YEARS to post this damn message.
If it could easily do VGA (without heavy interpolation) then that would suggest it can detect depth with a point resolution at or even near the infrared sensor resolution. This can't be the case since there can only depth information in each projected point. Since there *must* be black space between the projected points to be able to detect a point (zero black would be a white image!), this means you could never be more than some fraction of the sensor resolution. Even if you're doing sub-pixel detection, you're still stuck with the Nyquist limit, meaning you're limited to somewhere around half the sensor resolution. Anything beyond that is extrapolation.
Now...maybe the infrared camera is very high resolution...but looking at the videos of the projected points taken with infrared cameras, the point count doesn't seem like 30,000 needed for VGA...more like 10,000 or so (which would be about right for vga sensor).
Here is a clear shot of the edge points....count and multiply :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvvQJxgykcU
I see your point. Growing up, my nickname was XAOECBTU...nothing at all pronounceable or related to english. I assume a street smart guy would give his friends similar nicknames so the cops wouldn't be able to pronounce them without looking like fools!
No problem!
I found some images of the insides of the museum (also from google) that I'm printing on my home printer right now that I plan to paste on my walls. It only took me a few minutes to make a full resolution tile downloader, so all that's left is to get Costco to make me some poster prints and invite some rude strangers into my house!
Real life experience, here I come! :D
I'm waiting for someone to install an inconspicuous, low divide ratio, beam splitter in front of the projection window, all aimed into a cheapish hd camcorder. If people can build replica atm front panels...I doubt installing a nice looking box under the window would be a problem.
Worse yet...have a set of friends, each with a tape recorder near each speaker...use some shitty time delay noise cancellation algorithm...3d with surround sound! BAM! With movie staff using night vision, the only thing that remains is to find someone with a glass eye to stick the camcorders in...
Unless you have an HDR screen, this would require an automatic tone mapping. The thing about automatic tone mapping is that you have to decide what intensity information to throw out since you only have 256 values that you can display. For instance, using a 14 bits per color channel canon DSLR sensor, if you want to look at the image on your screen, this means you'll have to thrown out 98.4% of your intensity values. It is extremely important which values you decide to throw out, especially considering there's usually a subject or subjects in a photo that you want to keep visible.
By the way, this 14bits gets you about +/- 2 stops...the camera they're talking about gives you 20 stops...that's an *incredible* amount of intensity information (giving the file size). Really this is more of a solution for filming a scene once and not having to worry about if you camera exposure is set correctly, which *is* extremely valuable.
Now, viewing HDR movies? Not in theaters with any sort of current projection technology with reasonable ticket prices. The projection bulbs would have to go up probably 20 times in brightness, keeping similar crappy projection theater black levels. And, how do you deal with the ambient light coming off of your now incredibly bright white screen and bouncing off of the audience? At home, do you really want a tv that bright? From this bit-tech review, "The light from the box was so bright, or indeed, was of such great contrast with the surrounding area, that it almost hurt to look at.".
It's because it's not pleasing to the eye. 60fps movies look very strange...like home videos. The 24 fps is what gives them that "movie look". If you look at some example vids from some of the newer consumer cameras that can do 24 and 60fps...you'll see the huge difference it makes.
If my site ever started giving "overloaded" errors, "Fail" is the last thing I'd be thinking!
"I can even see color with it" ...is this supposed to be odd or something?
What, do you suggest, is a proper provisioning of the network? How is this "bullshit?" If you provision for data, then you're left with a very small number of allowable voice calls. If you provision for voice (it's a phone, why would you do that), then you'll get slow data since all of the channels are occupied with data. Why not upgrade all the towers! Make them able to handle anything! With one tower within three miles of the next, in any direction, that's a pretty massive infrastructure to upgrade, even if a single city, for a very small percentage of people that use massive amounts of data compared to an "average" user. Unless the average masses, the ones bringing in the money, complain, what's the point? It would literally be throwing away money, throwing it right into the hole where the peak user resides. Why not keep the masses happy and punish those ruining the experience for everyone else?
They'll upgrade when the average person starts approaching the data cap, regularly, causing customers to leave, giving economic intensive to upgrade. It's business..it's about making maximal amounts of money for maximal growth to achieve maximal profits...it's why they exist. If you don't like the model, then try out a different one, like metropcs...which is also oversubscribed, but at least it's flat fee month to month, and they seem to be using their money to expand and provide better service (first 4g provider in my area).
Woops, this was a reply to thijsh.
I have a feeling that their claims of "unlimited" would fail in courts, somewhat like the Leonard vs Pepsico case. The judge would probably decide that a reasonable person wouldn't think that unlimited actually means without end, as an "all you can eat" buffet doesn't meaning you can sit there and eat for 8 hours, with the "unlimited" being "within reason".
With their infrastructure problems, give them a little credit though. How could they have predicted that enabling internet access on cell phones would cause people to transfer data? How could they have known that increasing the access speeds to this internet would cause more demand on the towers? This is the real world, not "we have an intelligent business roadmap that lets us predict and plan for future requirements" land.
This is why I only support companies that provide an unlimited month to month plan (like MetroPCS). The price of their plans, the extent of their coverage (pretty decent nation wide now), and the fact that they have "4G" where I live before anyone else is proof that the other companies are completely reaming their customers.
Agreed, especially considering the feature sets and straight execution efficiency that are added to the new chips. I have a 4 year old windows mobile smartphone overclocked from 500MHz to 700MHz. Sure, launching an app is fractions of a second faster..barely noticeable, but compared to a *modern* 650MHz, it's not really even marginally usable, especially graphics performance, which will be the case in this example too.
You just can't compete with advances in technology...get the newer model and overclock THAT.
Well, he's not the one going out and finding the information...the information comes from people *giving* it to him. He does seem anti USA, but maybe it's just that the other governments and organizations are doing a better job at keeping their secrets secret.
Here, let me help:
From the first page of TFA,
"Under a high wavelength of ultraviolet light, the gold nanoparticles were able to produce a blue-violet fluorescence to trigger a red emission in the surrounding chlorophyll."
So, the only time they'll glow "naturally" is if they're in the ultraviolet rays of the sun.
Because they already have laser scanners on board, also seen on the us versions, and video related ways of making 3D data...and I can only assume they have a lower resolution video to go with those pictures.
You think they'd shovel in the truckloads of cash it takes to map practically every street in the world and *not* take 3d data!?
Read the article. The trees don't just glow...they glow because a UV light is shining on it, converting the UV to visible, similar to a standard fluorescent light...except with a standard light, you get nearly all of the UV interacting with the fluorescing particles...and it doesn't have to go through glass, which isn't so good/cheap at transmitting UV.
Agreed. A very very small portion of the UV light will end up actually causing fluorescence. At least with standard fluorescent bulbs, almost all of the UV light will be converted. This is more more like using a spotlight pointed up at the sky that's shining on confetti to light the surroundings.
If you want energy conversion efficiency in the low teens, the yes...hybrid engine/generator it does make sense.
Using a 30 something percent efficient gasoline engine running a 50 something percent alternator to charge a battery with 80 something percent efficiency to run an electric motor with probably 90 something percent efficiency is terrible idea unless you're going for huge amounts of torque (a train with its need for extremely high torques at very very low speeds or a semi that needs to power up a hill). It's much more efficient to put the pressure from gas combustion geared straight to the wheels in cruising (or anything the engine can handle on its own) situations.