From the Popular Science article: The engine produces a thundering 8.5 horsepower and weighs only 57 pounds.
I think my lawn mower has more power. Hell, my bicycle has more horse power.(with me pedeling) There is no way a 8.5 horse power engine could power a road worthy vehicle. You shouldnt be able to call it a car if you cant drive it on a highway.
These are extremely specialized examples. The resolution of the CMU cam is 80x143. It offers very little but tracking simple bright objects and is not extensible. It could not for example recognize a beer can. The same is true with most embedded systems. They offer only soulutions to very simple problems. The laptop can easily be reprogrammed and updated.
Yes, you do. Computer vision is extremely expensive computationally. It is absolutley necessary to have the laptop if you want to do anything usefull.
Also if you want to do programming on your own, haveing a laptop makes it so that you dont have to do any porting of code if you are already developing on windows x86. I imagine though that most of the people willing to shell out the cash for one of these things are probably running *nix somewhere and would have appreciated a *nix version of their software. And it wouldnt have been much to ask.
Stereo vision is only noticeable to about 30 feet out. This isnt very impressive when using a pair of 3d glasses looking at objects that are typically farther out, so I would assume that makers of 3d glasses would exaggerate the effect.
What this means is that disparity of two correlated points in the two images is greater than it should be. Your brain determines the distance more based on other cues than stereo disparity. So when it gets confliciting signals about the distance of an object your eyes have a hard time adjusting their inward tilt(to increase the overlapping visual area), this is sometimes called "eyeball lock in".
The conflicting messages of inward tilt(Brain: "Somthing is close to you Eyes!"), outward tilt (Brain: "Something is farther away Eyes!") make the eye muscles try and do the same thing at once and cause strain. Its the same strain of when you put your finger really close to the bridge of your nose and try to concentrate on it. I think this is what causes the headaches.
Actually he correctly used it. His wording was just weird.
More clearly what he said was:
If you want to accept a theory, you must first eliminate the possiblilty that all simpler possible explanations are correct. If you dont eliminate all simpler explanations then by Occams Razor, one of those simpler explanations is the correct explanation
He's offering that his explanation is simpler and has not been eliminated as possible, so therefor by Occams must be correct. Earn your title Mathness.
I have heard some theories that the majority of cancers not already known to be caused by other agents (radiation, smoking etc) are caused by viruses. The fact is that most viruses go undetected because generally you have to develop a test specifically for a particular virus to detect it easily. So its somewhat difficult to prove one way or the other.
The chances that all or most cancers are viral [is] small; I think the current estimate is something like 1/6 If I may, this is a bit of an odd stastic: "The chances that all or most are caused by a virus". I am curious as to how that would be determined, and as to whether you are mistaken.
Some quick reading reveals that quite a few famous cancers are virus related. Leukemia for example is caused by a virus.
some googleing brings up some interesting pages http://archive.mail-list.com/hbv_research/m sg01745.html http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/jpitocch/gen bio/mit osisnot.html
There was article a little while ago about how they had created a new tungston crystal configuration that would adsorb radiation in a certain spectrum and re-emitt at another. In that case they were adsorbing infrared and re-emitting at visible to wildly increase the efficency of incandencent lights, but IIRC the article said that it could be tuned to a wide range of spectra.
What is keeping them from using this to adsorb the visible spectrum and re-emit at an effecient spectrum from converting to electricity ?
3. Some - perhaps all - bacteria can incorporate genetic material from other species. One could imagine a bacterium take genes from a plant or animal host and eventually passing it on to - who knows?
Please dont sneeze on me, I dont want my children to have blue eyes !!!
Most of the sensible complaints I hear about it seem to be coming from people who want features that aren't there yet, or who feel the performance isn't up to snuff.
But seriously, with the exceptoin of bugs, there arn't any other complaints you can have about any piece of software.
Cell phones emit microwave radiation if I recall correctly (non ionizing radation regardless), aluminum will stop that. But thats not the point, the radiation if coming from the antenna. If you block that you cant transmit (or receive for that matter.
If you are really that woried, just wear your tin foil helmet. It will "protect" you.
Plugger is a piece of crap. It has no intuition what-so-ever, and almost every time mozilla crashes for me im pretty sure its because of plugger: It doesnt crash when plugger isnt loaded, and when it does crash there are normaly 10 instances of plugger running. I wish someone would rewrite it. Hell I'd rewrite it myself if I had any idea how to.
If this caught on, I can imagine that it might be possible that people would tend to depend on it. It seems that information would become stagnate and new information ignored since nowone would have exited to it initally. Then again, maybe not. Just a thought.
Just keep hugging that imaginary teddy-bear and voting republican - you're Mr. Ashcroft's wet dream...
Oh, trust me, I read your post. I even noticed the spelling mistakes....
You must be a weak Democrat, since you did not qualify your comment......I don't want to waste points on mindless flames from republican shills.
Please offer me another speech about how it is "not I who flames" You actually were not my intended audience, so dont flatter yourself that I would plead with you.
The recent election demonstrates that moderate republicans do not hold those "sacred rights" very highly.
If you'll notice in the recent elections, many democrats were campaigning the very same issues. Furthermore despite the fact that the largest political party in the US is Democratic Party, the elections ended up as they did; this shows that many people are scared, not just republicans. There are alot of people makeing bad decisions dont try to blame a single party for the problems in our country. In a democracy we all take responsability.
Please dont equate far right wing religious conservatives with republicans in general.
With the exception of those on the fringe, the republican philosophy includes holding sacred the rights put forth in the consitution, and especially the freedom of speech. Unfortunately it is people like you that flame half the popultion for your assumption of their values that cause some would be moderate republicans to become less moderate and to ignore the valid opinions of moderate democrats.
I want to offer moderate democrats (this obviously does not include yourself) hope on behalf of my political party that a large number of us are extremely displeased with John Ashcroft, and would not be dissappointed if he was struck by a large bulder. (I am a moderate Republican)
Id every article was cached slashdot would probably slashdot itself, but if you are only casheing one or two frond page posts links (ie only cache the links to small sites that cant handel the load) then it shouldnt be a problem. Remember September 11th when alot of other sites were in deadlock because of the mass of traffic. Slashdot was handeling the load just fine. I think Slashdot has a pretty meaty back end.
Yes, Ive read the FAQ, but as the parent noticed its getting rediculous.
Regarding the issues in the FAQ, most of the news isnt time critical, especially if its a link to a small site. So waiting 6 hours isnt a big deal. Despite the FAQ response I think it would still be a good idea.
In response to worrying about if the content changed: First of all it wouldnt be a big deal and second of all, how much harder would it be to recache it every 5-10 min ?
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
I think its time someone went ahead, thought it though and implemented it.
Slashdot Mirror
Google: IDC microsoft
and you will see taht IDC has a history of tooting the MS horn.
From the Popular Science article:
The engine produces a thundering 8.5 horsepower and weighs only 57 pounds.
I think my lawn mower has more power.
Hell, my bicycle has more horse power.(with me pedeling)
There is no way a 8.5 horse power engine could power a road worthy vehicle.
You shouldnt be able to call it a car if you cant drive it on a highway.
What are the Units on Better? Or is it one of those unitless measures like radians ?
These are extremely specialized examples. The resolution of the CMU cam is 80x143. It offers very little but tracking simple bright objects and is not extensible. It could not for example recognize a beer can. The same is true with most embedded systems. They offer only soulutions to very simple problems. The laptop can easily be reprogrammed and updated.
Yes, you do. Computer vision is extremely expensive computationally. It is absolutley necessary to have the laptop if you want to do anything usefull.
Also if you want to do programming on your own, haveing a laptop makes it so that you dont have to do any porting of code if you are already developing on windows x86. I imagine though that most of the people willing to shell out the cash for one of these things are probably running *nix somewhere and would have appreciated a *nix version of their software. And it wouldnt have been much to ask.
Stereo vision is only noticeable to about 30 feet out. This isnt very impressive when using a pair of 3d glasses looking at objects that are typically farther out, so I would assume that makers of 3d glasses would exaggerate the effect.
What this means is that disparity of two correlated points in the two images is greater than it should be. Your brain determines the distance more based on other cues than stereo disparity. So when it gets confliciting signals about the distance of an object your eyes have a hard time adjusting their inward tilt(to increase the overlapping visual area), this is sometimes called "eyeball lock in".
The conflicting messages of inward tilt(Brain: "Somthing is close to you Eyes!"), outward tilt (Brain: "Something is farther away Eyes!") make the eye muscles try and do the same thing at once and cause strain. Its the same strain of when you put your finger really close to the bridge of your nose and try to concentrate on it. I think this is what causes the headaches.
More clearly what he said was:
He's offering that his explanation is simpler and has not been eliminated as possible, so therefor by Occams must be correct.
Earn your title Mathness.
I think the word you were looking for was trite . : )
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this post the first time someone posted it. Maybe someonw will go for THREE.
Wait,
Kevin Bacon is only six degrees away from Bin Laden ???
We better keep an eye on him.
I have heard some theories that the majority of cancers not already known to be caused by other agents (radiation, smoking etc) are caused by viruses. The fact is that most viruses go undetected because generally you have to develop a test specifically for a particular virus to detect it easily. So its somewhat difficult to prove one way or the other.
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The chances that all or most cancers are viral [is] small; I think the current estimate is something like 1/6
If I may, this is a bit of an odd stastic: "The chances that all or most are caused by a virus". I am curious as to how that would be determined, and as to whether you are mistaken.
Some quick reading reveals that quite a few famous cancers are virus related. Leukemia for example is caused by a virus.
Hepatitis B - liver
Hepatitis C - liver
HTLV-1 - leukimia
HPV - Uterine & cervix
Epstein-Barr - Burkitt's lymphoma, nasopharynx,
Hodgkin's disease
some googleing brings up some interesting pages
http://archive.mail-list.com/hbv_research/
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/jpitocch/ge
BTW this is downloadable, and not just a stream (which is unlike the asf).
http://anon.ifilm.speedera.net/anon.ifilm/qt/porta l/2446661_200.movq t-libwine-howto.txt
http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/
watch for speed bumps : "...qt/porta l/22..." (remove space)
There was article a little while ago about how they had created a new tungston crystal configuration that would adsorb radiation in a certain spectrum and re-emitt at another. In that case they were adsorbing infrared and re-emitting at visible to wildly increase the efficency of incandencent lights, but IIRC the article said that it could be tuned to a wide range of spectra.
What is keeping them from using this to adsorb the visible spectrum and re-emit at an effecient spectrum from converting to electricity ?
Please dont sneeze on me, I dont want my children to have blue eyes !!!
But seriously, with the exceptoin of bugs, there arn't any other complaints you can have about any piece of software.
Cell phones emit microwave radiation if I recall correctly (non ionizing radation regardless), aluminum will stop that. But thats not the point, the radiation if coming from the antenna. If you block that you cant transmit (or receive for that matter.
If you are really that woried, just wear your tin foil helmet. It will "protect" you.
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Plugger is a piece of crap.
It has no intuition what-so-ever, and almost every time mozilla crashes for me im pretty sure its because of plugger: It doesnt crash when plugger isnt loaded, and when it does crash there are normaly 10 instances of plugger running. I wish someone would rewrite it. Hell I'd rewrite it myself if I had any idea how to.
If this caught on, I can imagine that it might be possible that people would tend to depend on it. It seems that information would become stagnate and new information ignored since nowone would have exited to it initally. Then again, maybe not. Just a thought.
Please offer me another speech about how it is "not I who flames"
You actually were not my intended audience, so dont flatter yourself that I would plead with you.
If you'll notice in the recent elections, many democrats were campaigning the very same issues. Furthermore despite the fact that the largest political party in the US is Democratic Party, the elections ended up as they did; this shows that many people are scared, not just republicans. There are alot of people makeing bad decisions dont try to blame a single party for the problems in our country. In a democracy we all take responsability.
Please dont equate far right wing religious conservatives with republicans in general.
With the exception of those on the fringe, the republican philosophy includes holding sacred the rights put forth in the consitution, and especially the freedom of speech. Unfortunately it is people like you that flame half the popultion for your assumption of their values that cause some would be moderate republicans to become less moderate and to ignore the valid opinions of moderate democrats.
I want to offer moderate democrats (this obviously does not include yourself) hope on behalf of my political party that a large number of us are extremely displeased with John Ashcroft, and would not be dissappointed if he was struck by a large bulder. (I am a moderate Republican)
Id every article was cached slashdot would probably slashdot itself, but if you are only casheing one or two frond page posts links (ie only cache the links to small sites that cant handel the load) then it shouldnt be a problem. Remember September 11th when alot of other sites were in deadlock because of the mass of traffic. Slashdot was handeling the load just fine. I think Slashdot has a pretty meaty back end.
Regarding the issues in the FAQ, most of the news isnt time critical, especially if its a link to a small site. So waiting 6 hours isnt a big deal. Despite the FAQ response I think it would still be a good idea.
In response to worrying about if the content changed: First of all it wouldnt be a big deal and second of all, how much harder would it be to recache it every 5-10 min ?
I think its time someone went ahead, thought it though and implemented it.