At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, we are implementing something we call the HI-Space table, which uses a camera to track hand motions as well. Ours doesn't need special gloves, though. You can walk up to the table and move your hands around and it watches any number of hands, doing any number of poses. It detects objects that are placed in the space and recognizes them if they are in the database. We have voice recognition, too, so it can respond to spoken commands.
One of the best things about our system is that it is completely untethered and intuitive. There is no training period, and no device to put on. You are interacting with the digital world by manipulating in the physical world.
I write applications for the table. There are a lot of issues that come up that you wouldn't normally think about. For example, with many hands in the space, it's easy to have people doing conflicting things. Actions are not so clearly defined, either. For example, when selecting a button, do you point to it? For how long? What if your finger moves a little?
We are currently conducting user studies to see in what ways the HI-Space table is better than the desktop and cave environments, and we're looking for other applications and organizations interested in using this technology.
I just recently graduated from college, started an internship, moved away from my home, and left everything that I knew with no idea what my future would be like.
Since then I have developed an ulcer, suffer frequent tightness of the throat, and am more scared, lonely, and depressed than I have ever been.
The odd part is that I love my job. Tomorrow I'm going back to see my girlfriend. Maybe my time with her will help me relax.
We use a program at my work called autoclave that is DoD compliant. It boots linux on a single floppy and erases the entire hard drive. Works on very old machines, too.
The pictures may be misleading, but there aren't exactly offramps into the town. So:
1.) There is less traffic going through the town, less of a need to stop in the town, and it is harder to stop in town.
2.) It has never been about tourism for Millau. the town is in the way, and the bridge serves to get people from one big city to the coast, circumventing Millau.
In a nutshell "We're Millau. We built a huge freaking bridge that goes around our city so people don't have to drive through here any more. Come visit us!"
From the project site: "As a truly emblematic signature of the town whose name it carries, it will, just by its very existence, lead to economic and cultural growth."
Is it just me, or does completely bypassing a town actually hurt its economic and cultural growth?
The GRE is the standard test for admission to graduate school. There is a lot of pressure surrounding this test, as well. But rather than having to wait to get our results, we know exactly what we got at the very end for two of the three sections (the third section is writing, and it takes a few weeks before we find out).
It seems to me that this method is way better than having to distribute based on some centralized service.
Also, competition for graduate school is just as bad as in India. I applied to two schools only to find out that over 3000 had applied to a school that was only accepting 100. If you don't have the numbers, they won't even look at the application.
But how do they get the other side to stick?
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I love velcro and its ability to stick two things together, but my problem is usually in getting the velcro to stick to the material on the other side. How will this fabulous metal stuff be stuck to whatever surface it will be on?
So now, when I install windows, I have to run windows update a few times because sasser keeps forcing my computer to shut down. At one point, I was getting an infection in less than ten seconds. I had to disconnect from the network while it booted, then connect and get the update in less than ten seconds. And thanks, microsoft, for making the fix bigger than a floppy. Welchia infected most of our new installs, too.
You can't be liable if you're robbed when the door isn't even hung yet.
Don't think that the only unpatched machines are unpatched out of ignorance. Getting a worm or virus before you even get a chance to patch the machine is a pain in the a$$.
One of the reasons P&F were discounted was the way that they did their measurement. They used open calorimetry, which basically includes measuring the change in temperature of a water bath around the beaker (IIRC). The whole calibration of it is very touchy, and the results are open to a lot of error. When other people were trying to duplicate their results, P&F often claimed that their failures were because of calorimetry problems. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy, who is an electrical engineer, didn't get his calorimetry right either.
That's why PCs are benchmarked with a variety of tests, though. You can't just run photoshop as your only test and say that it must be a better chip because it beats the competition. And you can't say you are better than Einstein because you beat him in the motor skills tests. And no, you can't do all of those things at once because your head isn't running fast enough. That's my point. If you sat down for a while with the formulas to solve quadratic optimization problems, you could do it, but it would take a long time. It doesn't mean you aren't intelligent, just not as fast.
And if you want to get into creativity, consider the stereotypes of Germans, Japanese, and Americans as an example(just stereotypes, so don't beat me over the head for being a prick or having my facts all screwed up). Germans are typed to have good knowledge of stuff, Japanese can use equations like none other, and Americans can be creative and develop solutions. I wouldn't say that any group is more intelligent than the other, just that they do better on different benchmarks.
You can't say that speed determines intelligence. That's like putting a 3GHz processor in a wristwatch and calling it intelligent. It's not intelligent if it can only count time. No, intelligence is measured in capabilities. A P4 is more intelligent than an 8086 because it can do more. It seems to me that people vary in intelligence and speed, so while some can solve very complicated problems in a long time, others can't solve them at all, and some can solve them in a short time.
A true measure would include both the capabilities of the brain AND the speed of it. Increased cache size only increases speed.
Yet another hasty response by someone who didn't rtfa. If you read the technology behind QRIO on Sony's website, you'll see that it can walk on uneven and slanted ground, walk with it's center of balance not always over its feet, recognize its location, get up after falling (which it only does when pushed, and even then it recognizes that it is falling and takes measures to protect itself), and then it gets cool. QRIO has voice recognition, face recognition, can carry on conversations and learn new words, and carry stuff.
This guy is more capable than your average aging grandfather, and probably more able to read an article than your average aging slashdotter.
Based on the article yesterday about too many choices, and based on my own frustrations with figuring out how to install stuff in linux, I think that Windows has Linux beat hands down in the installation department. All I need to do is download the setup program, run it, and it'll put the program into a new folder in Program Files. Sometimes it asks if I want shortcuts on the desktop. That's it. I don't have to worry about optimization features, I don't have to worry about it not compiling. I don't even have to worry about putting the program in a weird place. It does it the same way every time. Now tell me Linux will let you do that with any program you want to download and install. Grandma doesn't know how to use a console, and she's certainly not going to know all the commands you need in order to install the program.
Then think about it in terms of a company. The result of your work is a product or a service. The result of their work is a marketing department. What they do does have some value. After all, isn't it important to know that red and yellow make you hungry (score 1 for McDonalds). The colors of walls have a drastic effect on mood. These are the kinds of things sociologists come up with, and they are valuable.
It's the self-help stuff that really bugs me. It all seems too hokey. And the lack of a good ruler makes measuring way harder.
Why is it, then, that when a math/physics scientist tries to explain their work to average joe, it blows their mind, but when a sociologist does it, they totally understand? I'm not saying that sociology isn't valid science, just that it doesn't require a totally different mindset than the social one people usually use.
Another thing that bothers me is the Myer's-Briggs personality test. I mean, you take this test and find out you are Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging, but what do you do with it? The test is bipolar; you're either Thinking or Feeling. Well, isn't the goal then to have qualities on both sides of the fence? And doesn't that mean that the healthiest people get the vaguest results? And what is the person going to find out something from this test that they didn't already know? "Huh, I didn't realize I use logic instead of my heart." No, that's not going to happen. They'll take the test, be like, I wasted 20 minutes of my life finding out what I already know. Seems kindof useless to me.
So I can't check my mail to find out why my connection has been cut off, I can't download a virus scanner or remover, and I HAVE to call them to get anything done.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier and efficient for them to put you on a redirect list so that every page you visit takes you to the same comcast page that explains what is happening? It could restrict the IPs you can visit to only some limited ones and block all other traffic. It would drastically reduce calls, make patching far easier, and solve the spamming problem.
Ok, it's practically impossible to take high quality photos at really short range of really small shiny objects with an older digital camera. No matter how you light it, it's gonna reflect odd light, and to get in really close, you have to put the camera closer than the focal length of the lens, which will blur it.
We were very successful with connectors from http://www.ddkconnectors.com/mcdd50.htm.I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to build a board with this connector on one side and a standard connector on the other side. Although, you probably want a female connector for the small side, and I don't know where you could get that.
As for the pinouts, Mike, one of the other group members, could tell you exactly what you want. His email is listed on our group web page.
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At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, we are implementing something we call the HI-Space table, which uses a camera to track hand motions as well. Ours doesn't need special gloves, though. You can walk up to the table and move your hands around and it watches any number of hands, doing any number of poses. It detects objects that are placed in the space and recognizes them if they are in the database. We have voice recognition, too, so it can respond to spoken commands.
One of the best things about our system is that it is completely untethered and intuitive. There is no training period, and no device to put on. You are interacting with the digital world by manipulating in the physical world.
I write applications for the table. There are a lot of issues that come up that you wouldn't normally think about. For example, with many hands in the space, it's easy to have people doing conflicting things. Actions are not so clearly defined, either. For example, when selecting a button, do you point to it? For how long? What if your finger moves a little?
We are currently conducting user studies to see in what ways the HI-Space table is better than the desktop and cave environments, and we're looking for other applications and organizations interested in using this technology.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/hispace//
http://www.pnl.gov/infoviz/hces//
contact me at bob [dot] baddeley [at] pnl [dot] gov
Let's put expensive software on expensive hardware!
I just recently graduated from college, started an internship, moved away from my home, and left everything that I knew with no idea what my future would be like.
Since then I have developed an ulcer, suffer frequent tightness of the throat, and am more scared, lonely, and depressed than I have ever been.
The odd part is that I love my job. Tomorrow I'm going back to see my girlfriend. Maybe my time with her will help me relax.
We use a program at my work called autoclave that is DoD compliant. It boots linux on a single floppy and erases the entire hard drive. Works on very old machines, too.
http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/
Am I the only one that thinks of Root Mean Square when I see RMS? I mean, math is way less confusing than Stallman can be.
We've found the answer to step 2, finally!
1.) Announce fantastic unbelievable product
2.) Retract announcement (formerly ???)
3.) Profit from the 2 days of free publicity
wooooo!
The pictures may be misleading, but there aren't exactly offramps into the town. So:
1.) There is less traffic going through the town, less of a need to stop in the town, and it is harder to stop in town.
2.) It has never been about tourism for Millau. the town is in the way, and the bridge serves to get people from one big city to the coast, circumventing Millau.
In a nutshell "We're Millau. We built a huge freaking bridge that goes around our city so people don't have to drive through here any more. Come visit us!"
From the project site: "As a truly emblematic signature of the town whose name it carries, it will, just by its very existence, lead to economic and cultural growth."
Is it just me, or does completely bypassing a town actually hurt its economic and cultural growth?
The GRE is the standard test for admission to graduate school. There is a lot of pressure surrounding this test, as well. But rather than having to wait to get our results, we know exactly what we got at the very end for two of the three sections (the third section is writing, and it takes a few weeks before we find out).
It seems to me that this method is way better than having to distribute based on some centralized service.
Also, competition for graduate school is just as bad as in India. I applied to two schools only to find out that over 3000 had applied to a school that was only accepting 100. If you don't have the numbers, they won't even look at the application.
I love velcro and its ability to stick two things together, but my problem is usually in getting the velcro to stick to the material on the other side. How will this fabulous metal stuff be stuck to whatever surface it will be on?
So now, when I install windows, I have to run windows update a few times because sasser keeps forcing my computer to shut down. At one point, I was getting an infection in less than ten seconds. I had to disconnect from the network while it booted, then connect and get the update in less than ten seconds. And thanks, microsoft, for making the fix bigger than a floppy. Welchia infected most of our new installs, too.
You can't be liable if you're robbed when the door isn't even hung yet.
Don't think that the only unpatched machines are unpatched out of ignorance. Getting a worm or virus before you even get a chance to patch the machine is a pain in the a$$.
I'm doing research into the traffic patterns of large hairy animals named Bigfoot. I'm calling it YETI@home.
My hypothesis is that Yeti is really CowboyNeal.
One of the reasons P&F were discounted was the way that they did their measurement. They used open calorimetry, which basically includes measuring the change in temperature of a water bath around the beaker (IIRC). The whole calibration of it is very touchy, and the results are open to a lot of error. When other people were trying to duplicate their results, P&F often claimed that their failures were because of calorimetry problems. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy, who is an electrical engineer, didn't get his calorimetry right either.
That's why PCs are benchmarked with a variety of tests, though. You can't just run photoshop as your only test and say that it must be a better chip because it beats the competition. And you can't say you are better than Einstein because you beat him in the motor skills tests. And no, you can't do all of those things at once because your head isn't running fast enough. That's my point. If you sat down for a while with the formulas to solve quadratic optimization problems, you could do it, but it would take a long time. It doesn't mean you aren't intelligent, just not as fast.
And if you want to get into creativity, consider the stereotypes of Germans, Japanese, and Americans as an example(just stereotypes, so don't beat me over the head for being a prick or having my facts all screwed up). Germans are typed to have good knowledge of stuff, Japanese can use equations like none other, and Americans can be creative and develop solutions. I wouldn't say that any group is more intelligent than the other, just that they do better on different benchmarks.
You can't say that speed determines intelligence. That's like putting a 3GHz processor in a wristwatch and calling it intelligent. It's not intelligent if it can only count time. No, intelligence is measured in capabilities. A P4 is more intelligent than an 8086 because it can do more. It seems to me that people vary in intelligence and speed, so while some can solve very complicated problems in a long time, others can't solve them at all, and some can solve them in a short time.
A true measure would include both the capabilities of the brain AND the speed of it. Increased cache size only increases speed.
amazoncom is 9 letters, maybe something related to that.
Yet another hasty response by someone who didn't rtfa. If you read the technology behind QRIO on Sony's website, you'll see that it can walk on uneven and slanted ground, walk with it's center of balance not always over its feet, recognize its location, get up after falling (which it only does when pushed, and even then it recognizes that it is falling and takes measures to protect itself), and then it gets cool. QRIO has voice recognition, face recognition, can carry on conversations and learn new words, and carry stuff.
This guy is more capable than your average aging grandfather, and probably more able to read an article than your average aging slashdotter.
I think you meant fowl crime.
Based on the article yesterday about too many choices, and based on my own frustrations with figuring out how to install stuff in linux, I think that Windows has Linux beat hands down in the installation department. All I need to do is download the setup program, run it, and it'll put the program into a new folder in Program Files. Sometimes it asks if I want shortcuts on the desktop. That's it. I don't have to worry about optimization features, I don't have to worry about it not compiling. I don't even have to worry about putting the program in a weird place. It does it the same way every time. Now tell me Linux will let you do that with any program you want to download and install. Grandma doesn't know how to use a console, and she's certainly not going to know all the commands you need in order to install the program.
Then think about it in terms of a company. The result of your work is a product or a service. The result of their work is a marketing department. What they do does have some value. After all, isn't it important to know that red and yellow make you hungry (score 1 for McDonalds). The colors of walls have a drastic effect on mood. These are the kinds of things sociologists come up with, and they are valuable.
It's the self-help stuff that really bugs me. It all seems too hokey. And the lack of a good ruler makes measuring way harder.
Why is it, then, that when a math/physics scientist tries to explain their work to average joe, it blows their mind, but when a sociologist does it, they totally understand? I'm not saying that sociology isn't valid science, just that it doesn't require a totally different mindset than the social one people usually use.
Another thing that bothers me is the Myer's-Briggs personality test. I mean, you take this test and find out you are Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging, but what do you do with it? The test is bipolar; you're either Thinking or Feeling. Well, isn't the goal then to have qualities on both sides of the fence? And doesn't that mean that the healthiest people get the vaguest results? And what is the person going to find out something from this test that they didn't already know? "Huh, I didn't realize I use logic instead of my heart." No, that's not going to happen. They'll take the test, be like, I wasted 20 minutes of my life finding out what I already know. Seems kindof useless to me.
So I can't check my mail to find out why my connection has been cut off, I can't download a virus scanner or remover, and I HAVE to call them to get anything done.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier and efficient for them to put you on a redirect list so that every page you visit takes you to the same comcast page that explains what is happening? It could restrict the IPs you can visit to only some limited ones and block all other traffic. It would drastically reduce calls, make patching far easier, and solve the spamming problem.
Ok, it's practically impossible to take high quality photos at really short range of really small shiny objects with an older digital camera. No matter how you light it, it's gonna reflect odd light, and to get in really close, you have to put the camera closer than the focal length of the lens, which will blur it.
cirix? why does that name sound so familiar? do I know you? wait, did you work for RCN?
We were very successful with connectors from http://www.ddkconnectors.com/mcdd50.htm .I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to build a board with this connector on one side and a standard connector on the other side. Although, you probably want a female connector for the small side, and I don't know where you could get that.
As for the pinouts, Mike, one of the other group members, could tell you exactly what you want. His email is listed on our group web page.
bob