This guy is making chips that can "talk" to the brain in signals the brain can understand, even if he doesn't know what the signals mean. Pure mimicry.
Oddly enough, the people mentioned in Hacking Our Five Senses (Apr-03-2007) are using similarly arbitrary but mechanical means to also send signals to the brain (admitedly using existing pathways).
Would it be possible to combine these two techniques, as well as a few miniturization techniques (and perhaps standard "ports") to enable people to not just replace storage capacity but indeed "add" senses?
Instead of using a belt to buzz "north", use implants to send one of a set of predetermined signals. It won't matter what the signals would originally mean (if anything) - because if Hacking Our Five Senses is any indication, the brain is capable of creating maps for the the new signals anyway.
I suspect they are all computer monitored and the geologists, being rather bright, have so arranged matters that they are warm and comfy in bed.
The monitor the computer uses is a satellite, that being a convenient way to monitor stuff almost anywhere on the globe. To reduce communication problems between the monitoring equipment and the computer, they decided to put a chunk of it on the satellite too.
You invalidate your own arguments I think.
Perhaps it's as intelligent as some lower order animal. Ants possibly can't be accused of setting goals either.
It's need to observe things and what it deems to be "interesting" are entirely instinctual (programmed). But guess what? This thing DID decide by itself that the volcano was interesting and decided to observe it, without being told.
When you say "resolution", I'm guessing you mean the lay definition of "the smallest object that can be resolved". Having never seen a license plate in my life, I'm guessing the letters in them must be about 1m wide? After all, to read it you need to be able to resolve the letters. I guess this means your standard license plate must be about 12m to 15m wide.
The article suggests that one of the reasons women tend not to play video games is because the games boxes feature scantily clad women. (The quote was something like erect nipples and engorged red lips).
Let's compare Games to Magazines.
Men's Magazines....women on the cover with erect nipples and engorged red lips. Women's Magazines....women on the cover with erect nipples and engorged red lips.
Ok, so... maybe the women on the cover of women's magazines aren't portrayed in quite as sexual a light as on men's magazines, but the theme is consistent. Attractive women on the cover. Perhaps more women would play mores games if the girls on the cover had better shoes.
(Anecdotally, my wife who is scared of heights took up snowboarding because of the [u]clothes[/u])
Way to go Editors, the study did not make any sort of claims about the people skills of those that are good at math.
But it seems that making poor headlines is endemic. Even the article gets it wrong.
Compare the headline: Confident students do worse in math
To what you find in the article directly contradicts the headline:
The 10 nations whose students enjoyed math the most all scored below average. The bottom 10 nations on the enjoyment scale all excelled.
Within a given nation, the high-confidence kids did better than their peers. But that changed when students were compared with a different peer group. Even the least confident students in Singapore outscored the most confident Americans.
It should have been: Students Who Enjoy Math Do Worse.
Of course, since almost all scientific disciplines can be viewed as math to some degree or another, the maxim that you can take away from this is probably: "If you enjoy what you're doing, you're quite possibly incompetant". Or perhaps: "Employ Masochists"
It only takes enough light to change the balance of the scene and "wash out" a picture.
This is very easy to do. Being able to get a good white balance is one of the things that make the difference between a good photographer and a bad one .
You can expect digital cameras to start coming out that detect this and counter for it. The same thing has been worked on for years to take pictures of object close the sun and other bright light sources.
I know one senior IT executive - one of the "pause and thinkers" whose plan for doing a wireless roll-out for their corporate network was "wait 2 years and hire a guy who did a successful wireless deployment for a company larger than us." Not only will the technology be more sorted-out by then, it'll be much, much cheaper. What an utterly brilliant strategy!
If everyone used this strategy, there would be NO guys who ever did any sort of deployments of anything, because the largest company would always be waiting for someone to have done it.
I'm not sure this would be a bad thing. What you are saying is that they will try to sell us stuff we want.
Shock horror. What a problem.
Frankly, I'm sick of seeing advertisements for stuff I don't want and couldn't use. I watch the history channel sometimes, but I don't need insurance for someone over 55. I'm not over 55. I don't need to buy aluminium siding, I live in an apartment. etc etc.
There is a problem when they use the psychological information to sell junk, but that's got far less to do do with having a profile than being unethical in the first place.
This would be great for members of the general public who are looking for an alternative to Windows, don't want to pay for Mac, but are looking for a platform where installing and running software is as easy as on the platform they are used to.
This is the operative sentence. Yes, it would be great for the general public. Unfortunately, a commercial entity wants to be able to differentiate itself from every other entity doing the same thing, otherwise there is no reason to pay them. They want to be in a position where all the other vendors are forced to implement their [defacto] standard.
As for the geeks that a doing it for fun, discussing and/or implementing a standard generally does not fall into the category of "fun things to do". (Sort of like documentation).
Sure, but the developers know that. No reason at all why that can't be taken into account. Simply penalise people who statistically stand out as killing more than their share of 'greys'.
Eventually the statistics will reflect the "background noise" that represents the unavoidable killings.
Because repairing it would cost more than putting a new one up there. Not to mention the fact that the technology the thing uses is a number of years old.
Yes, it's an awesome telescope, but we can build better for less than it would cost to repair it.
Too bad no-one is suggesting (in any manner that gets press) that we do that.
* If you want to get the correct site, you need to use the correct name. Unless of course, you like the possibility that you could sued because your web site, regardless of TLD used, is phoenetically the same as some business somewhere.
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Uhm, maybe because pain is the body's way of telling you that something you're doing to it is causing damage?
Without a pain analog, you get robots that are unable to respond to damage that they did not detect with whatever other senses they have available.
i.e. Just because you didn't feel yourself get shot in the back, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
This guy is making chips that can "talk" to the brain in signals the brain can understand, even if he doesn't know what the signals mean. Pure mimicry.
Oddly enough, the people mentioned in Hacking Our Five Senses (Apr-03-2007) are using similarly arbitrary but mechanical means to also send signals to the brain (admitedly using existing pathways).
Would it be possible to combine these two techniques, as well as a few miniturization techniques (and perhaps standard "ports") to enable people to not just replace storage capacity but indeed "add" senses?
Instead of using a belt to buzz "north", use implants to send one of a set of predetermined signals. It won't matter what the signals would originally mean (if anything) - because if Hacking Our Five Senses is any indication, the brain is capable of creating maps for the the new signals anyway.
Borg indeed.
Irony: A web page hosting an article about how bad graphics can contribute to "Web Rage" that has blinking advertisements on it.
I've lived in San Francisco and about the only movement that occured when a shake happened was:
Bookmarks -> Entertainment -> Recent Earthquakes - Map for SanFrancisco"
Perhaps it's as intelligent as some lower order animal. Ants possibly can't be accused of setting goals either.
It's need to observe things and what it deems to be "interesting" are entirely instinctual (programmed). But guess what? This thing DID decide by itself that the volcano was interesting and decided to observe it, without being told.
When you say "resolution", I'm guessing you mean the lay definition of "the smallest object that can be resolved". Having never seen a license plate in my life, I'm guessing the letters in them must be about 1m wide? After all, to read it you need to be able to resolve the letters. I guess this means your standard license plate must be about 12m to 15m wide.
A couple of guys are fairly sure they worked out how to make these things 7 or 8 years ago.
Here's an article
The article suggests that one of the reasons women tend not to play video games is because the games boxes feature scantily clad women. (The quote was something like erect nipples and engorged red lips).
... maybe the women on the cover of women's magazines aren't portrayed in quite as sexual a light as on men's magazines, but the theme is consistent. Attractive women on the cover. Perhaps more women would play mores games if the girls on the cover had better shoes.
Let's compare Games to Magazines.
Men's Magazines....women on the cover with erect nipples and engorged red lips.
Women's Magazines....women on the cover with erect nipples and engorged red lips.
Ok, so
(Anecdotally, my wife who is scared of heights took up snowboarding because of the [u]clothes[/u])
But it seems that making poor headlines is endemic. Even the article gets it wrong.
Compare the headline: Confident students do worse in math
To what you find in the article directly contradicts the headline:
It should have been: Students Who Enjoy Math Do Worse.
Of course, since almost all scientific disciplines can be viewed as math to some degree or another, the maxim that you can take away from this is probably: "If you enjoy what you're doing, you're quite possibly incompetant". Or perhaps: "Employ Masochists"
Isn't the ISS actually in a really bad orbit to participate in any sort of earth moon transfers?
Anyone?
Let me get this straight. A bunch of countries that can't mine the moon said that they wouldn't?
... Am I a country now?
1) Refuse to mine the moon
2) ???
3) Profit!
Cool.
I also refuse to mine the moon!
You are failing to read between the lines.
If you spend eternity with 72 virgins then you never get to have sex with any of them, or they would not be virgins.
You also need to wonder how the hell they got to heaven and remained virgins? Those would have to be some severely unattractive people.
So, there you are in "heaven" with 72 ugly and/or obnoxious women who you are never ever going to have sex with.
You need to ask yourself: Whose heaven is this? Perhaps you shouldn't have gone around killing people/violating software licenses
It only takes enough light to change the balance of the scene and "wash out" a picture.
This is very easy to do. Being able to get a good white balance is one of the things that make the difference between a good photographer and a bad one .
You can expect digital cameras to start coming out that detect this and counter for it. The same thing has been worked on for years to take pictures of object close the sun and other bright light sources.
Er, no.
Even if speed cameras were using visible light, they are usually way more than 33 feet away.
And for those that use radar (or indeed any sort of recording device that does not involve a lens [with standard coating]), this invention is useless.
If everyone used this strategy, there would be NO guys who ever did any sort of deployments of anything, because the largest company would always be waiting for someone to have done it.
Not in Javascript!
1 + 1 = 11
Today's Irony Award goes to your signature.
I'm not sure this would be a bad thing. What you are saying is that they will try to sell us stuff we want.
Shock horror. What a problem.
Frankly, I'm sick of seeing advertisements for stuff I don't want and couldn't use. I watch the history channel sometimes, but I don't need insurance for someone over 55. I'm not over 55. I don't need to buy aluminium siding, I live in an apartment. etc etc.
There is a problem when they use the psychological information to sell junk, but that's got far less to do do with having a profile than being unethical in the first place.
This would be great for members of the general public who are looking for an alternative to Windows, don't want to pay for Mac, but are looking for a platform where installing and running software is as easy as on the platform they are used to.
This is the operative sentence. Yes, it would be great for the general public. Unfortunately, a commercial entity wants to be able to differentiate itself from every other entity doing the same thing, otherwise there is no reason to pay them. They want to be in a position where all the other vendors are forced to implement their [defacto] standard.
As for the geeks that a doing it for fun, discussing and/or implementing a standard generally does not fall into the category of "fun things to do". (Sort of like documentation).
It's no surprise that no-one's doing this.
Looks like it did change.
Went and messed about last night on a PvP server with a 60 and lo and behold, Blizzard has implemented a dishonor system.
Huge packs of rabid gankers running around fighting at 10:1 odds, corpse camping, causing lag and getting rewarded for it.
Not to say that didn't already happen, but from what I saw it's far far worse now.
Sure, but the developers know that. No reason at all why that can't be taken into account. Simply penalise people who statistically stand out as killing more than their share of 'greys'.
Eventually the statistics will reflect the "background noise" that represents the unavoidable killings.
Because repairing it would cost more than putting a new one up there. Not to mention the fact that the technology the thing uses is a number of years old.
Yes, it's an awesome telescope, but we can build better for less than it would cost to repair it.
Too bad no-one is suggesting (in any manner that gets press) that we do that.
What is so difficult about "Google or AOL Keyword: Frankincense And Murr"
<seriously>Spelling it*</seriously>
<ironically>Spelling it.</ironically>
* If you want to get the correct site, you need to use the correct name. Unless of course, you like the possibility that you could sued because your web site, regardless of TLD used, is phoenetically the same as some business somewhere.
it's the Web Developers for not using the
standards
This is a wonderfully inane/idealistic comment.
What, exactly, are the developers going to do when they need to check that they code they have created displays correctly?
Or, perhaps, they should include yet another browser detection code path for a browser that doesn't exist to which they can emit a "correct" page?