These are only first impressions, but it looks ridiculously easy to solve automatically.
First of all the warp angle jumps significantly more before and after the "correct" image than between other images, so a fairly simple block tracking algorithm would have a very good chance of identifying the correct image:
You don't have to get exactly the right image - one or two either side and you're okay.
Secondly, the warped images are significantly less sharp than the correct image - in a purely mathematical sense, too, which means it'd be simple for a computer to identify the correct image (confirmed with high pass filters and histograms).
But it's actually a lot simpler than that, as plover has posted here.
What you've got there is CAPTCHA through obscurity, nothing more.
Well, each to their own, but I really can't see it being a boon to usability (I saw your screenshot in your other reply and thought "yikes"), and I think if it really had such wide possibility of appeal and merit it would have been reinvented by now.
Doctor Who is all about the doctor and his companions... they always choose pretty damn well
*ahem* Bonnie Langford *ahem*;)
Okay, she was given a bloody awful character, but I can't help thinking that anyone else would have been better at the time.
That said, both the character and the actress have greatly redeemed themselves in the Big Finish audios. Much less squeaky and actually gets to show some intelligence.
They didn't need to go older for older's sake, but I am really glad they are making a choice other than "twelve year old girls won't watch if we don't make it a semi-cute barely pubescent actor".
As Solphie Aldred pointed out, it's the companion(s) who is the viewer's window into the Doctor's world. Twelve year olds weren't watching it for Christopher Eccleston rugged looks in 2005 - they were watching because Billie Piper was there for them to share her adventure (and for the boys, to gawk at her norks).
It's just a parameter called ref_ - it's exactly the same URL I get if I go to IMDB and search for Peter Capaldi. The parameter appears to simply enumerates the search results - the next search result's URL is http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1393341/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2, and the next is...?ref_=fn_al_nm_3. Title matches end with..._tt_[x].
Amazon owns IMDB, but it could as easily be a coincidence as a sharing of underlying code.
researchers found that at least a few non-avian dinosaurs had brains as large or larger than Archaeopteryx, one of the earliest known birds, indicating that some dinosaurs already suspected of flight capability would have had the neurological tools to do so.
So if something has a brain bigger than something that we know can fly, it could probably learn to fly too if you stuck wings on it? T. Rex brains were larger than humans', but I wouldn't fancy one's chances at beating me at Streetfighter II.
In the interests of balance and reason, I should say that I'm going to assume we're missing out on some key facts thanks to some dumbed-down reporting, not because the researchers aren't doing proper science.
*sigh* Not this again. It was his life long quest to be the Doctor, not to be the Doctor for 10 years and run the show into the ground. He had the best interests of the show in mind. The only reason Doctor Who has lasted this long is because of its continual reinvention, the re-casting of the lead being the most obvious (but no means only) change.
Patrick Troughton advised Peter Davison to only do four years. Peter Davison then passed this same advice on to his then-future-son-in-law David Tennant.
His last line as the Doctor was "I don't want to go," which was exactly how he felt about it. Some people just aren't entirely selfish.
That doesn't sound very useful to me. You said AOL bought it and "killed the tech" but if it was really such an amazing interface someone else could have replicated it.
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What ways are there except for uppy-downy and lefty-righty?;)
it is superior to tabs in every way. you could for instance load a porn site in a 10x480 pixel frame and drag and resize when the coast was clear
How is that any difference from switching between tabs? Or switching a separate browser window?
Slashdot Mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5PtSJEfajw
You mean liiiike through their website?
Do we? I don't know anyone who's got an Oculus VR or anything similar, but Android phones are ubiquitous.
Actually, my mistake; what you've got is a company selling adverts through your site that users are forced to look at.
These are only first impressions, but it looks ridiculously easy to solve automatically.
First of all the warp angle jumps significantly more before and after the "correct" image than between other images, so a fairly simple block tracking algorithm would have a very good chance of identifying the correct image:
[image]
You don't have to get exactly the right image - one or two either side and you're okay.
Secondly, the warped images are significantly less sharp than the correct image - in a purely mathematical sense, too, which means it'd be simple for a computer to identify the correct image (confirmed with high pass filters and histograms).
But it's actually a lot simpler than that, as plover has posted here.
What you've got there is CAPTCHA through obscurity, nothing more.
That said, I'm very sure the people in charge of this know way better than I do.
Careful now. That's close to subversive on Slashdot.
Well, each to their own, but I really can't see it being a boon to usability (I saw your screenshot in your other reply and thought "yikes"), and I think if it really had such wide possibility of appeal and merit it would have been reinvented by now.
Or perhaps it has - have you tried Tile Tabs?
TImey-wimey would be interesting. Hook it in to archive.org and you have the world's 3D web browser!
Doctor Who is all about the doctor and his companions... they always choose pretty damn well
*ahem* Bonnie Langford *ahem* ;)
Okay, she was given a bloody awful character, but I can't help thinking that anyone else would have been better at the time.
That said, both the character and the actress have greatly redeemed themselves in the Big Finish audios. Much less squeaky and actually gets to show some intelligence.
They didn't need to go older for older's sake, but I am really glad they are making a choice other than "twelve year old girls won't watch if we don't make it a semi-cute barely pubescent actor".
As Solphie Aldred pointed out, it's the companion(s) who is the viewer's window into the Doctor's world. Twelve year olds weren't watching it for Christopher Eccleston rugged looks in 2005 - they were watching because Billie Piper was there for them to share her adventure (and for the boys, to gawk at her norks).
Also that he (AC) sucks.
Of course there will. We just need to wait for the announcement of who's playing the new Malcolm Tucker. I reckon it'll be a woman!
It's just a parameter called ref_ - it's exactly the same URL I get if I go to IMDB and search for Peter Capaldi. The parameter appears to simply enumerates the search results - the next search result's URL is http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1393341/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2, and the next is ...?ref_=fn_al_nm_3. Title matches end with ..._tt_[x].
Amazon owns IMDB, but it could as easily be a coincidence as a sharing of underlying code.
Bugger.
If not, I'll just edit it and no-one will be any the wiser...
researchers found that at least a few non-avian dinosaurs had brains as large or larger than Archaeopteryx, one of the earliest known birds, indicating that some dinosaurs already suspected of flight capability would have had the neurological tools to do so.
So if something has a brain bigger than something that we know can fly, it could probably learn to fly too if you stuck wings on it? T. Rex brains were larger than humans', but I wouldn't fancy one's chances at beating me at Streetfighter II.
In the interests of balance and reason, I should say that I'm going to assume we're missing out on some key facts thanks to some dumbed-down reporting, not because the researchers aren't doing proper science.
But he also has a doctorate that would be recognised on earth - honorary, but sufficient to get the title. Thus he may be addressed as 'Dr Doctor.'
Don't forget his knighthood. Dr Sir Doctor?
I was under the impression that the browser couldn't know whether a plugin (i.e., Flash) is making noise.
It might continue or stop, because these are two mutually exclusive outcomes which cover 100% of eventualities.
FTFY, pedantically.
Oh, and also, the actor is not in charge of the show, so he would have got his marching orders sooner or later.
*sigh* Not this again. It was his life long quest to be the Doctor, not to be the Doctor for 10 years and run the show into the ground. He had the best interests of the show in mind. The only reason Doctor Who has lasted this long is because of its continual reinvention, the re-casting of the lead being the most obvious (but no means only) change.
Patrick Troughton advised Peter Davison to only do four years. Peter Davison then passed this same advice on to his then-future-son-in-law David Tennant.
His last line as the Doctor was "I don't want to go," which was exactly how he felt about it. Some people just aren't entirely selfish.
scroll content in interesting ways
What ways are there except for uppy-downy and lefty-righty? ;)
it is superior to tabs in every way. you could for instance load a porn site in a 10x480 pixel frame and drag and resize when the coast was clear
How is that any difference from switching between tabs? Or switching a separate browser window?
Now we have a Doctor Who, who has been a real Doctor Fan for a long time!
What, David Tennant doesn't count? Getting into acting was practically an accidental by-product of his life-long quest to be the Doctor.
He's an extraordinarily versatile actor. I think he might actually be able to pull off not shouting as well.
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Beautiful :)
Was there any screaming when Reagan overturned a ban?
I don't know. Did he overturn any bans? Was there any screaming, if he did?
Hmmmmm....