seems that oldies == music from baby boomer youth era
I have heard at least one classic rock station that played at least a bit of Metallica from time to time. Very surprising, but logical. Don't remember the station or even what part of the country -- probably either Boston area (unlikely, as radio there suck pretty hard) or SF Bay, but could have been anywhere on one of my cross-country treks.
The decay in radiated power is actually slightly faster than an inverse-square fall-off. In empty space, radiated power falls as the inverse square of distance. On earth, due to interactions with the ground and trees, buildings, etc, the power falls off slightly faster.
In fact, if the power did fall off with the theoretical inverse square, the cell networks would not work. In that case, the amount of interference from distant cells would grow too quickly and the system would basically disable itself. Ground interactions increase the fall-off enough to keep the interference from distant cells low enough.
Actually, I'm not 100% sure that is still true with the current cell technologies, but I expect it probably is.
A juror in a case against Fuhrman for tampering should not infer _Fuhrman's_ guilt or innocence from his assertion of 5th amendment rights. However, Fuhrman's 5th amendment assertion really has no special status as to _Simpson's_ guilt or innocence.
If Fuhrman refuses to claim, under penalty of perjury, that the evidence is untainted in Simpson's case, a juror should rightly question whether it is legitimate evidence. The value of that evidence is predicated on the police's claim that it was collected as advertised and handled correctly. If the police witness refuses to make that claim, it seriously weakens the value of that evidence, regardless of why he chose not to make the claim.
Go to your nearest outdoor store and if you're lucky you can find the wondrous eating implement that is the Titanium Spork! I never leave home without mine...
why the heck didn't they put vehicle damage into the game? That really disappointed me... that and I couldn't learn to drive with the analog sticks, but didn't want to shell out for a wheel... oh well.
I have had the same thing happen on top of a mountain in the Smokies -- 4 bars of signal strength but calls are impossible. I think it's due to being nicely in range of multiple towers. The cell network was set up on the assumption that you'd only be visible to one tower, so when you are visible to several, your phone can't decide which one to talk to.
actually, the zapper was much less sophisticated.. when you pulled the trigger, the NES switched the image to be a different color on different regions of the screen -- black except where "active." So you pull the trigger, first it puts a hot spot over duck #1 and reads the gun, then it puts a hot spot over duck #2 and reads the gun, etc. That's why the screen always had to flash when you pulled the trigger.
As you've pointed out, every palindromic natural is a natural therefore set of all palindromic naturals is smaller or equal in size to the set of all naturals.
For any natural, reverse its digits and concatenate into a palindromic natural. This doesn't give you every palindromic natural, but it shows that the set of all palindromic naturals is larger or equal in size to the set of naturals.
Thus, the set of palindromic naturals is either smaller or equal in size to the set of all naturals and it's either larger or equal in size to the set of all naturals. It follows that it's equal in size.
the article intro kind of implies that, but that's not what the system does. I first read it thinking this is what they'd claimed to have found, but if that had been the case there'd have to be assumptions about *how* people lie.
as it is, this is just pointing out that if you add noise with a known distribution to data with an unknown distribution, you can remove the known distribution from an aggregation of data points but not from any single data point.
this doesn't fix the garbage-in garbage-out problem.
don't be so sure that there won't ever be other uses for the technology... in a sense, precisely because of these patents a new technique has been developed. sometimes short-term development may be slowed by "unnecessary" work, but the bet is that in the long term, having different groups competing to find alternative solutions will better benefit society.
not that I don't agree with you that things are out of control, but I don't think this is a great argument for that. this development provides better ammunition for supporters of the current system, imo...
I do like your last paragraph and agree wholeheartedly. (the one before "Just a thought," though I guess I can't disagree with that one either...)
dude if you've got the Jedi skillz the rules change... you can safely spin because you can see far enough ahead that you're not worried about the present, like chess, you're thinking about what happens 8 moves down the road and you can see that a spin puts you in a better position later on...
and jumping is normally stupid in RL, no shit, but Yoda doesn't jump, he floats, dude
The article was not clear, but the way you would get the effect they are describing is not by pointing the sound *at* the different listeners. Instead, you point the spotlight at the point on the stage where you want the sound to come from and let the reflected sounds be heard by the audience.
I used to work at the Media Lab and have seen the audio spotlight around. A few times at catered functions at the lab, the audio spotlight was used to mess with the caterers. By pointing the spotlight near their feet and playing a breaking glass sound, for example, they could be made to freak and look for what they'd dropped. I must confess only to hearing about this second hand so I can't personally vouch for how well it worked, but that is the principle that would be used for the concert scenario and from what I hear it worked well.
What you could try, though, is taking a number of photos without moving the camera (obviously, you'll need a tripod and ideally a cable release). Then, afterwards, use photoshop or the gimp and add channels from the multiple exposures. This should have the same effect as a single longer exposure. For best results, store images as uncompressed to avoid interference from compression artifacts.
I haven't tried this but it ought to work. You may have to adjust levels after summing to keep your blacks black. Also, if the photos are not in rapid succession, expect the star trails to turn into multiple distinct stars... Stars move surprisingly rapidly across the sky. It does not take a very long exposure before stars start trailing (visible on exposures shorter than a minute, actual effect depends on your focal length).
With a webcam, just try storing images for a long time and then averaging over different periods to see what you come up with.
This may not work at all depending on the low-light behavior of the ccd. You'll probably get nowhere near the performance as you would out of good old film, but it should be fun to try! I'd be interested to know how it works out.
You know, I agree with you but for one extremely surprising exception. At the Fry's (of all places) in Sunnyvale in the car audio department, there was one guy who was genuinely helpful above and beyond the call of duty. I went in with the goal of looking at some stereos they had and I plainly told him that I was just there to compare models. I asked a question about the depth of one in particular and his data sheets couldn't answer it. Rather than just blowing me off (hell, I was shocked that he was even around to be asked questions -- usually you have to fight the Fry's workers to even sell you something), he proceeded to pull a box out of the rack and unpack it, pull a measuring tape out of a drawer, and answer my question first hand. That is awesome.
(and rei rocks, too, shop there... they also have good deals on equipment rentals)
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Baseball stars... the finest baseball video game *ever* to grace a television. My hat is off...
What's the alternative? Is anyone seriously suggesting that I must publish all code I write? If so, why are programmers different from, oh, lawyers? (They must represent anyone who demands their services, without compensation.) Or doctors and dentists? Or taxi drivers. Or anyone else in the service sector?
You're totally off on this point -- GNU says you must give source to those to whom you give your program and give them the redistribution rights. If you've written the program for hire, then you've BEEN paid. The RMS position, right or wrong, is that it is unjust for you to then hold back on the source code as a means of forcing your customer to come back to you when he wants something modified. This really has no bearing whatsoever on whether you can be paid for performing your trade, it's a question of whether your payment can justly be founded on an artificially induced scarcity of copies of your output.
The company would have the incentive to lower the price long enough to drive his competitors out of business, then be free to raise prices again. Of course, another competitor may arise and try to compete again, but if it takes much effort to design and/or produce the product in question, the larger company with the pre-existing production line is at a pretty clear advantage.
Face the fundamental truth, though: the guy with more money wins, regardless of the political/economic system.
I think the best part is that, thanks to my company's caching proxy, the next person to use google after me inherits my language setting unless they do an explicit page refresh... so people get pig latin and don't know why!
A good human typist working quickly probably has in the neighborhood of 99.5% accuracy (my estimate, seems reasonable). You're never going to get 100% accuracy out of anything. An argument for lower accuracy makes no sense at all. Any time you type or dictate something, expect to proof read it-- there's no way around that, and you'll still miss some of the mistakes.
Gee, rather than using voice recognition software, I just sit on the keyboard and rock back and forth. Sure it's inaccurate, but I just expect to fix up the errors. I'm sure glad it doesn't get most of the words right or I might miss some of the mistakes.
... Interesting, too how the arcade videogames that informed the first film are now underpowered compared to my PS2...
dude, your PS2 is more powerful than the computers that did the movies, not just the arcade games. Your GameBoy is probably more powerful than the arcade games.;-)
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seems that oldies == music from baby boomer youth era
I have heard at least one classic rock station that played at least a bit of Metallica from time to time. Very surprising, but logical. Don't remember the station or even what part of the country -- probably either Boston area (unlikely, as radio there suck pretty hard) or SF Bay, but could have been anywhere on one of my cross-country treks.
The decay in radiated power is actually slightly faster than an inverse-square fall-off. In empty space, radiated power falls as the inverse square of distance. On earth, due to interactions with the ground and trees, buildings, etc, the power falls off slightly faster.
In fact, if the power did fall off with the theoretical inverse square, the cell networks would not work. In that case, the amount of interference from distant cells would grow too quickly and the system would basically disable itself. Ground interactions increase the fall-off enough to keep the interference from distant cells low enough.
Actually, I'm not 100% sure that is still true with the current cell technologies, but I expect it probably is.
80135 is BOIES in leet-speak.
Your logic is flawed.
A juror in a case against Fuhrman for tampering should not infer _Fuhrman's_ guilt or innocence from his assertion of 5th amendment rights. However, Fuhrman's 5th amendment assertion really has no special status as to _Simpson's_ guilt or innocence.
If Fuhrman refuses to claim, under penalty of perjury, that the evidence is untainted in Simpson's case, a juror should rightly question whether it is legitimate evidence. The value of that evidence is predicated on the police's claim that it was collected as advertised and handled correctly. If the police witness refuses to make that claim, it seriously weakens the value of that evidence, regardless of why he chose not to make the claim.
funny? wtf?? This should be modded +5 Insightful.
Go to your nearest outdoor store and if you're lucky you can find the wondrous eating implement that is the Titanium Spork! I never leave home without mine...
why the heck didn't they put vehicle damage into the game? That really disappointed me... that and I couldn't learn to drive with the analog sticks, but didn't want to shell out for a wheel... oh well.
nah 800x600 is too much.. 320x200 should be enough
I have had the same thing happen on top of a mountain in the Smokies -- 4 bars of signal strength but calls are impossible. I think it's due to being nicely in range of multiple towers. The cell network was set up on the assumption that you'd only be visible to one tower, so when you are visible to several, your phone can't decide which one to talk to.
I figured it was "this is boring" as in "this is a boring hello world program"... you know, a friendly little self-deprecating program
actually, the zapper was much less sophisticated.. when you pulled the trigger, the NES switched the image to be a different color on different regions of the screen -- black except where "active." So you pull the trigger, first it puts a hot spot over duck #1 and reads the gun, then it puts a hot spot over duck #2 and reads the gun, etc. That's why the screen always had to flash when you pulled the trigger.
As you've pointed out, every palindromic natural is a natural therefore set of all palindromic naturals is smaller or equal in size to the set of all naturals.
For any natural, reverse its digits and concatenate into a palindromic natural. This doesn't give you every palindromic natural, but it shows that the set of all palindromic naturals is larger or equal in size to the set of naturals.
Thus, the set of palindromic naturals is either smaller or equal in size to the set of all naturals and it's either larger or equal in size to the set of all naturals. It follows that it's equal in size.
no!
the article intro kind of implies that, but that's not what the system does. I first read it thinking this is what they'd claimed to have found, but if that had been the case there'd have to be assumptions about *how* people lie.
as it is, this is just pointing out that if you add noise with a known distribution to data with an unknown distribution, you can remove the known distribution from an aggregation of data points but not from any single data point.
this doesn't fix the garbage-in garbage-out problem.
don't be so sure that there won't ever be other uses for the technology... in a sense, precisely because of these patents a new technique has been developed. sometimes short-term development may be slowed by "unnecessary" work, but the bet is that in the long term, having different groups competing to find alternative solutions will better benefit society.
not that I don't agree with you that things are out of control, but I don't think this is a great argument for that. this development provides better ammunition for supporters of the current system, imo...
I do like your last paragraph and agree wholeheartedly. (the one before "Just a thought," though I guess I can't disagree with that one either...)
dude if you've got the Jedi skillz the rules change... you can safely spin because you can see far enough ahead that you're not worried about the present, like chess, you're thinking about what happens 8 moves down the road and you can see that a spin puts you in a better position later on...
and jumping is normally stupid in RL, no shit, but Yoda doesn't jump, he floats, dude
and... well, jumping makes a better movie scene
Lighten up, Francis!!
I used to work at the Media Lab and have seen the audio spotlight around. A few times at catered functions at the lab, the audio spotlight was used to mess with the caterers. By pointing the spotlight near their feet and playing a breaking glass sound, for example, they could be made to freak and look for what they'd dropped. I must confess only to hearing about this second hand so I can't personally vouch for how well it worked, but that is the principle that would be used for the concert scenario and from what I hear it worked well.
What you could try, though, is taking a number of photos without moving the camera (obviously, you'll need a tripod and ideally a cable release). Then, afterwards, use photoshop or the gimp and add channels from the multiple exposures. This should have the same effect as a single longer exposure. For best results, store images as uncompressed to avoid interference from compression artifacts.
I haven't tried this but it ought to work. You may have to adjust levels after summing to keep your blacks black. Also, if the photos are not in rapid succession, expect the star trails to turn into multiple distinct stars... Stars move surprisingly rapidly across the sky. It does not take a very long exposure before stars start trailing (visible on exposures shorter than a minute, actual effect depends on your focal length).
With a webcam, just try storing images for a long time and then averaging over different periods to see what you come up with.
This may not work at all depending on the low-light behavior of the ccd. You'll probably get nowhere near the performance as you would out of good old film, but it should be fun to try! I'd be interested to know how it works out.
(and rei rocks, too, shop there... they also have good deals on equipment rentals)
Baseball stars... the finest baseball video game *ever* to grace a television. My hat is off...
You're totally off on this point -- GNU says you must give source to those to whom you give your program and give them the redistribution rights. If you've written the program for hire, then you've BEEN paid. The RMS position, right or wrong, is that it is unjust for you to then hold back on the source code as a means of forcing your customer to come back to you when he wants something modified. This really has no bearing whatsoever on whether you can be paid for performing your trade, it's a question of whether your payment can justly be founded on an artificially induced scarcity of copies of your output.
Face the fundamental truth, though: the guy with more money wins, regardless of the political/economic system.
I think the best part is that, thanks to my company's caching proxy, the next person to use google after me inherits my language setting unless they do an explicit page refresh... so people get pig latin and don't know why!
Gee, rather than using voice recognition software, I just sit on the keyboard and rock back and forth. Sure it's inaccurate, but I just expect to fix up the errors. I'm sure glad it doesn't get most of the words right or I might miss some of the mistakes.
dude, your PS2 is more powerful than the computers that did the movies, not just the arcade games. Your GameBoy is probably more powerful than the arcade games. ;-)