In Susumu Tachi's cloaking system, a camera behind the wearer feeds background images through a computer to a projector, which paints them on a jacket as though it were a movie screen. The wearer appears mysteriously translucent - as long as observers are facing the projection head-on and the background isn't too bright.
To Achieve true invisibility, optical camouflage must capture the background from all angles and display it from all perspectives simultaneously. This requires a minimum of six stereoscopic camera pairs, allowing the computer to model the surroundings and synthesize the scene from every point of view. To display this imagery, the fabric is covered with hyperpixels, each consisting of a 180 x 180 LED array behind a hemispherical lens.
This is fantastic, although I'd rather drink a potion.
Exactly. A little restraint peoples! When the dual-core comes out, snap up a 939; when quadruple core is released, get the 939 dual core. Stay a step behind the bleeding edge and you can afford to upgrade more often.
I understand what you are saying, but in this guy's shoes I might feel that's your problem. English may be lingua franca, but there's a billion native speakers of Chinese (though different dialects) and Ebay serves the globe.
Yes, the world does revolve around the USA but not every merchant is obligated to revolve in lockstep. Those who choose not to may lose some sales, but isn't that entirely their problem? You act as if it was a deliberate offense to you,
This package is a steal at its price from what I'm reading, so maybe you should be kicking in with the international staff, since you are the one who feels put at risk.
The only good reason he'd have to get an English-speaking assistant is if it would improve the bidding. If he chooses not to do so, maybe it does hurt his bidding but why should you be so offended about it?
You, and whatever dinkwad came up with the idea that you are insightful, should ask yourselves, "who is it that grants this voting privilege?" The Skull and Bones Society?
Anyone who is governed has a right to a voice in that government, that is what the US revolution was about.
Many people in the US, however, have had a good deal of contact with people whose command of their second language is less than perfect wrt spelling, yet manage to communicate with them and trust them, even here in the US in southern Florida, or southwestern Texas.
Unless you are speaking from experience, which I doubt, you have no reason to tell either side of such business dealings that they are wrong.
Sorry, William, but that hurts this guy how? If the Ebay auction is stopped, he still has the email addresses of everybody who bid, so he's still better off than with no auction.
Now go breathe some life into your company's failing stock.
Either you've never spell-checked a document full of obscure brand names, or you have one hell of a spellchecker.
I can only hope the day will come when your debts oblige you to sell your only daughter on Chinese Ebay, and you must grope for the Cantonese phrase for "pleasingly plump."
I can't figure for the life of me how Americans, who generally have a limp hold on a single language, can be so critical of an Asian who isn't in perfect command of English.
If you used your imagination to determine what it might be like doing business in a second language you'd know:
1. translators will not keep your business interests in mind as well as you will.
2. Since it's difficult to determine where your own errors may be, it's even more difficult to spot errors made by a spellchecker. And what commonly used, unmodified spellchecker would have correct spellings for "Deramcast," Famicon, or the many other specialized words in this ad?
Police in many localities need to be better trained. Police in general need to be taught that there is a basic human dignity that everyone, even those who have committed the worst of crimes, must be granted, lest we lose our own (as in al gharib, where the prisoners seemed more dignified than their grinning, thumb-signaling guardians).
That said, we are quite accepting of the idea that people can be photographed upon arrest, and that these photos can be used to pursue suspects in unrelated crimes.
I understand the fears involved, but if our government would be more receptive to the concepts behind such words as "oversight" "transparency" and "accountability," a nationwide database of all citizens' dna could be of great benefit in many ways, the least of which may be crimefighting. Certainly it could provide a treasure trove of data for medical research.
Charging for plain old chat would send the business community scurrying to other options. That would kill their plans to make money on vidconferencing and domain name-space.
It's called a loss leader -- and why would they stop now when they've got enough critical mass among their captive market to launch a pay service within the free service?
Bruce Harrington, the lawyer pushing for his, is doing so because his brother and his sister-in-law were murdered in their homes a couple of decades ago.
The ACLU is doing what they can to slow or stop it.
Where did I say what kind of machine could or could not be designed? What we've been discussing is the LWV's reaction to proposals concerning presently in-production models that can be implemented this year.
Half the people in this thread are actualy thinking about the pressing matter of a coming election. The rest are blue-sky daydreaming about "what could be."
What could be designed is immaterial. We have to deal with what is available now.
Didn't you see the "Sun Java Desktop" demos? Imagine, not only can you flip windows so you can see their blank grey undersides, you will be able to see this blank grayness in 3 dimensions!
More seriously, Sun does seem to think that a 3D desktop will be useful. I doubt it but then, one would need some hands-on with the implementation to judge.
The point is, these machines will, according to some views, create a more unfair situation than currently exists for a specific minority, while adding the benefit of verification.
I realize verification is important, given what we know about electronic voting. And, as I've repeated many times, this is not my argument, but I believe it is a sound one.
Here's an analogy for you. Suppose a chemical was found that, if added to the water reserves, would prolong the average lifespan by 10 to 20 years; no other way of using the chemical will create any such benefit. However, exposure to this substance would produce an Ebola-like infection in all people of mixed Irish/German/Cherokee descent.
Should the very few people who are subject to this fate object?
The are handed a ballot, it is read to them, they are told to mark an X on their candidates, which they may do in provate. Not likely to work on a large ballot.
Of course there are many ways that circumstances infringe on the ability to vote privately. That does not excuse specifically adding a brand-new infringement to those that already exist. (Again, this is not my reasoning, but what I suspect the LWV is on about.)
If you don't vote, you're helping the side you don't want to win.
This is off-topic, but the subject is worth risking one's karma.
Unless Noam Chomsky is running, I can't figure which party is going to stop insuring that more wealth and power is invested into fewer hands.
If a candidate proposed doing half of what I think should be done for the poor, the uneducated, the unpropertied, he would be killed or arrested before he ever got as far as a vote.
Sorry, but the electoral process just isn't relevant to me. The misery index just moves a few points higher under a Republican.
Of course it is reasonable for anyone to get assistance.
I repeat: I am only pointing out the basis on which the LWV may see it as discriminating against the disabled.
I personally think the best way for the government to realize the extent to which they have failed us is a massive boycott of the electoral process, so I really don't care whether any individuals vote or do not vote.
No doubt there are any number of devices that could be scrobbled together to allow the disabled to verify their votes with privacy, but none of the existing machine options offer these features.
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In Susumu Tachi's cloaking system, a camera behind the wearer feeds background images through a computer to a projector, which paints them on a jacket as though it were a movie screen. The wearer appears mysteriously translucent - as long as observers are facing the projection head-on and the background isn't too bright.
To Achieve true invisibility, optical camouflage must capture the background from all angles and display it from all perspectives simultaneously. This requires a minimum of six stereoscopic camera pairs, allowing the computer to model the surroundings and synthesize the scene from every point of view. To display this imagery, the fabric is covered with hyperpixels, each consisting of a 180 x 180 LED array behind a hemispherical lens. This is fantastic, although I'd rather drink a potion.
http://www.kevinrewatts.com/filter/archives/2003_0 7.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/01/amd_939/
Yes, the world does revolve around the USA but not every merchant is obligated to revolve in lockstep. Those who choose not to may lose some sales, but isn't that entirely their problem? You act as if it was a deliberate offense to you,
This package is a steal at its price from what I'm reading, so maybe you should be kicking in with the international staff, since you are the one who feels put at risk.
The only good reason he'd have to get an English-speaking assistant is if it would improve the bidding. If he chooses not to do so, maybe it does hurt his bidding but why should you be so offended about it?
Winning Bid: $122
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=62054&item=8107675670&rd=1
Anyone who is governed has a right to a voice in that government, that is what the US revolution was about.
Many people in the US, however, have had a good deal of contact with people whose command of their second language is less than perfect wrt spelling, yet manage to communicate with them and trust them, even here in the US in southern Florida, or southwestern Texas.
Unless you are speaking from experience, which I doubt, you have no reason to tell either side of such business dealings that they are wrong.
Now go breathe some life into your company's failing stock.
I can only hope the day will come when your debts oblige you to sell your only daughter on Chinese Ebay, and you must grope for the Cantonese phrase for "pleasingly plump."
If you used your imagination to determine what it might be like doing business in a second language you'd know:
1. translators will not keep your business interests in mind as well as you will.
2. Since it's difficult to determine where your own errors may be, it's even more difficult to spot errors made by a spellchecker. And what commonly used, unmodified spellchecker would have correct spellings for "Deramcast," Famicon, or the many other specialized words in this ad?
That said, we are quite accepting of the idea that people can be photographed upon arrest, and that these photos can be used to pursue suspects in unrelated crimes.
I understand the fears involved, but if our government would be more receptive to the concepts behind such words as "oversight" "transparency" and "accountability," a nationwide database of all citizens' dna could be of great benefit in many ways, the least of which may be crimefighting. Certainly it could provide a treasure trove of data for medical research.
It's called a loss leader -- and why would they stop now when they've got enough critical mass among their captive market to launch a pay service within the free service?
The ACLU is doing what they can to slow or stop it.
Here's some informative blog entries:
http://www.jefallbright.net/node/view/1780
http://www.socallawblog.com/archives/001186.html
Half the people in this thread are actualy thinking about the pressing matter of a coming election. The rest are blue-sky daydreaming about "what could be."
What could be designed is immaterial. We have to deal with what is available now.
More seriously, Sun does seem to think that a 3D desktop will be useful. I doubt it but then, one would need some hands-on with the implementation to judge.
But then, I'm impressed with myself just for knowing what "php" is an acronym for.
I realize verification is important, given what we know about electronic voting. And, as I've repeated many times, this is not my argument, but I believe it is a sound one.
Here's an analogy for you. Suppose a chemical was found that, if added to the water reserves, would prolong the average lifespan by 10 to 20 years; no other way of using the chemical will create any such benefit. However, exposure to this substance would produce an Ebola-like infection in all people of mixed Irish/German/Cherokee descent.
Should the very few people who are subject to this fate object?
However, a "few" systems won't do. All polling places are supposed to be equipped for the sight-impaired.
Most of the blind that I've known did read braille, but that was years and years ago, and not a large sample. I'm sure you are correct.
Of course there are many ways that circumstances infringe on the ability to vote privately. That does not excuse specifically adding a brand-new infringement to those that already exist. (Again, this is not my reasoning, but what I suspect the LWV is on about.)
This is off-topic, but the subject is worth risking one's karma.
Unless Noam Chomsky is running, I can't figure which party is going to stop insuring that more wealth and power is invested into fewer hands.
If a candidate proposed doing half of what I think should be done for the poor, the uneducated, the unpropertied, he would be killed or arrested before he ever got as far as a vote.
Sorry, but the electoral process just isn't relevant to me. The misery index just moves a few points higher under a Republican.
I repeat: I am only pointing out the basis on which the LWV may see it as discriminating against the disabled.
I personally think the best way for the government to realize the extent to which they have failed us is a massive boycott of the electoral process, so I really don't care whether any individuals vote or do not vote.
No doubt there are any number of devices that could be scrobbled together to allow the disabled to verify their votes with privacy, but none of the existing machine options offer these features.
The other 50% of the advertised allotment are being used to hold my pants up. Believe me, you don;t want 'em.