What's the difference if I record friends and watch it tomorrow, or if I forget to, and borrow my neighbor's recording of friends. The end result is the same. I could've recorded it myself. In the end, when I have a copy of my neighbors tape, how does NBC know if I recorded it on my own, or if I recorded my neighbors?
Unless there was too much smog when I was there...
From the top of Namsan you can see almost the entire city. Same can be said when I was at the viewing deck of the 63 tower.
I suppose you are right tho. I'm remembering driving down the olympic highway, and there being a steep cliff on one side of the highway. I guess I spent too much time in the subway to realize the hills. All the smog must have hidden the hills. Kinda like in LA. During heavy smog days, (which is like 70% of the time), you can't see the San Gabriel mountains even if you were practically at its base.....
I know what you mean about the driving. Only reason I was driving was because my cousin thought it would be "funny". (And I thought LA traffic was bad)... I suppose I was too busy trying to control my natural tendency for road rage, to take in the landscape:)
I think I'll be going there this spring anyways, so I'll pay closer attention this time;)
PS: When I flew to cheju with my uncle I could've sworn korea was flatter then it was. I guess I just had a crappy view out the window.
Seoul is in the "flat" part on the top of the country, and Pusan, in the "flat" part on the bottom. When I drove from Seoul to Pusan, I remember the toll highway being flat, so I"m guessing it cut through the mountain in a diagonal fashion. I remember there being two tunnels as well. We then drove west and then north. That could also help explain why from my memory I saw the country being more flat then it is. Others are listed in my other post.
I have been to s. korea numerous times. The last several times, I have even had the displeasure of driving there. I have only driven to Pusan from Seoul twice, but I have been taken around the southern peninsula. Granted, I may have been sleeping for much of that trip, but I do remember visiting many villages on the way.
2 points:
1.) My definition of flat is not literal. I mean flat as in compared to over here, where we have several 14,000 ft mountains nearby, with glaciors year round. Did I mention the tallest mountain in S. Korea is Hallasan? Its only 5850 ft high, and not even on the peninsula. I don't care how many rolling hills you have, that is still "flat" in my book. The coast range here is like 2 to 4 thousand feet high, and I don't consider that mountainous. The rockies, thats mountainous.
2.) When I said the country was mostly flat, I was also referring to where the majority of the population was.
If those passenger pilots are drunk, it won't matter much;)
Besides, we've all heard about those near-misses on the run-way because somebody wasnt paying attention, you wound up with a guy trying to taxi across a runway someone is trying to takeoff/land, etc... I'd want the FAA to hurry up and upgrade/replace those aging flight control computers, before they even THINK about having drones flying in our airspace...
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What's the cargo capacity on one of those drones? I don't think FedEx will replace its 747 with those anytime soon. Its like saying look, this miata is bunches cheaper then that cargo-bus... Lets get Greyhound to swap out their fleets of busses with these self-driving miatas:)
I don't think it was very haphazard at all. I think with most countries that have less "Urban sprawl" as compared to the US, wireless just makes since. One of my friends who lives in Kazakstan (sp?), said that wireless has high penetration there as well, but for different reasons. Because its easier/cheaper to set up cell towers than to run cables into every hut in the village. I would think Korea is the same. Its mostly a flat country with not many mountainous areas. I mean the highest mountain there is like only 6,000 ft high, at it isn't even in the peninsula, but on Cheju island. (if memory serves)... So I think cell towers make even more sense...
But the population of Pusan is roughly the same as chicago. Seoul's population is usually enough to place it in the top 5 most populous urban centers in the world.
A group here did useability testing of interfaces on cell phones. We found one of the primary reasons why the asian countries are leading the way, is for exactly the opposite of what you said...
Lets say, somebody wants to send a text message saying "I love you"...
With Chinese/HanJa/Kanji characters, that can be said with only two characters. Even one could suffice.
In english? Thats 10 characters you need to enter.
Lets say you want to say, "Lets go meet at the beach"
Again, in Chinese/HanJa/Kanji, that can be accomplished with 2 or 3 characters. In english? 25 characters.
This is one of the main reasons why the "clunky" interface is acceptable in asian countries, but not in the US.
Besides, I've actually typed on a Chinese/HanJa/Kanji keyboard before, its actually not too bad. There is usually a setting for romanized, where you type phonetically, and it comes up with a list of characters that make that sound. The better programs will even examine multiple words/syllabals, and figure out the correct word based on context, etc. Its not like you have a keyboard with 50,000 keys on it.
When I took EE courses at USC, my professor actually told us to NOT take notes, because he said that if we are busy writing, we aren't paying attention. So he gave all of us a 3" binder that contained all the course notes and diagrams. Attendence was required, and 3 absences was an automatic failure. At first, I was like OMFG. But the reason was the class was very interactive. I actually really liked the way he taught the curriculum, and I was always energetic and interested in the material. It really helped that he liked to use humor in explaining the pros/cons of different theories.
All this in contrast to my physics class, where the prof looked at me and said, "I understand that my lectures may be boring, but if you could please refrain from snoring as others may be trying to pay attention..."
Whole class (that was awake), started laughing at me. The next day, I was paying attention with my eyes bugging out. Some people around me were chuckling saying, "Dude, you're actually awake today...."
I don't know about this particular patent, because I really didn't care, I was responding to someone else...
Anyways, in the patents that I filed, usually the specific means is listed as an example of ONE WAY that the means can be achieved. Our patent lawyer drew them up in such a way, that it will still be covered if somebody else comes up with a different way to achieve the same.
But then again the stuff I write patents on deals more with applications of ideas rather then implementations of the same.
Even if it was accurate, how do they prove you were the one driving? What if you were the passenger? What if you were riding the bus, taxi, etc etc....
what about those hypercolor shirts they used to have 10 years ago? Remember those? They changed color....
In fact lots of things these days are temp sensitive...
Mercedes and a few other car makes, have an option for electronic tint in the rear window, so when the car is off and the alarm is armed, the windows turn opaque.
I have an electochromatic rear view mirror that automatically darkens, etc.... Surely these things can be considered prior art.
Or what about the "mystic" paint, that Ford Mustangs used to offer back in the mid 90's... That changed color as well....
Heck, I even remember some phones at LA cellular about 10 years ago that was just an LCD panel, so that the UI for the phone changed dynamically. No keys or anything.. Just one rectangular touch screen. That could be considered dynamically changing, since the phone was just an LCD screen with a microphone and speaker.
In Quantum Mechanics, Heisenburg Theory says you can ONLY know the direction or location of a subatomic particle, but NOT both. This is why the teleporters in Star Trek have "Heisenburg Compensators", so they can beam and reassemble those subatomic particles. They mentioned this in one of the NextGeneration episodes as well, when the transporters were on the fritz.
My 30 year old Chevy 396SS uses premium leaded gas.... I had to install steel valve seats in order to use "today's" gas.... And even then its not optimum, because I think the manual recommended 96 octane or something like that. (I'd check, but the manual has faded so bad, you can barely read it) Some of the later model SS's actually called for 102 octane if I remember... (The 496SS variety) Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.)
That 20 year old television probably won't work, when the FCC mandates digital HD TV broadcasts in the future... (was it 2007?)
Where an I buy a betamax tape again? I've also had a VCR go out a while back, and the VCR repair places are pretty much all belly up, because they said its cheaper to just buy a new VCR.
And that 50 yearold smith and wesson better have been taken apart and cleaned once in a while, or good luck pulling the trigger without it jamming, etc.
Not sure about how 802.11x works, but I know how UWB in general works.
You send your data across a wide spectrum. On each individual frequency, your transmission is actually LESS then ambient background noise, and hence almost impossible to detect. But if you average the entire spectrum, you'll see the average move up and down. This is how UWB sends/receives its signals.
However the range is incredibly small, on the order of 6 feet or so. But the bandwidth is supposedly huge.
Actually,.NET is NOT interpreted. It is compiled at runtime. And can even be compiled at development time.
Even though Java has JITs that allow compiling all the byte code, from what I've read and heard, the JVM itself still has interpreted code in it. The.NET runtime does not. In fact I read that's what MS's main goal was....
In my experience, in all the projects that I've had to dual develop in Java and.Net, the C# was always faster than the Java version... But it was all good. The only thing that was irritating was that the Sun JDK on Windows has different behavior then the same version of the Sun JDK on linux... But thats a whole nother thread;)
So you can some awesome performance. What's the point? Lets say the guy does some UT testing and gets dick hardening results. But isn't that useless if when you're playing the game, and:
1.) The frost/condensation shorts out the board 2.) You run out of liquid nitrogen, and the board fries itself, locking up the game.
There is nothing like playing UT while worrying about filling up the liquid nitrogen. With my luck, I'd end up accidently pouring the liquid nitrogen directly on the board, causing it to fiercly boil, and I'd drop the dewar flask and get the shit all over my hands.
Besides, the blazing speed of the graphics will probably do nothing for me, so long as I have to deal with flaky lag on my broadband connection.
Even though everything is "behind glass", you are still seeing 3D. Afterall, the glass is transparent, it's not like the glass is "producing" the images...
Besides, driving down the street, you will want some *depth* perception. What's funky are those prescription windshields... Try being a passenger in one those cars. You almost need to be stoned/drunk to survive that without a migrain.
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The cold water faucet dispelled hot water. And the hot water dispelled hotter water...
Facilities people investigated, and determined in the "remodel", the hot water pipes should not have been run in parallel to the cold water pipes...
What's the difference if I record friends and watch it tomorrow, or if I forget to, and borrow my neighbor's recording of friends. The end result is the same. I could've recorded it myself. In the end, when I have a copy of my neighbors tape, how does NBC know if I recorded it on my own, or if I recorded my neighbors?
Unless there was too much smog when I was there...
:)
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From the top of Namsan you can see almost the entire city. Same can be said when I was at the viewing deck of the 63 tower.
I suppose you are right tho. I'm remembering driving down the olympic highway, and there being a steep cliff on one side of the highway. I guess I spent too much time in the subway to realize the hills. All the smog must have hidden the hills. Kinda like in LA. During heavy smog days, (which is like 70% of the time), you can't see the San Gabriel mountains even if you were practically at its base.....
I know what you mean about the driving. Only reason I was driving was because my cousin thought it would be "funny". (And I thought LA traffic was bad)... I suppose I was too busy trying to control my natural tendency for road rage, to take in the landscape
I think I'll be going there this spring anyways, so I'll pay closer attention this time
PS: When I flew to cheju with my uncle I could've sworn korea was flatter then it was. I guess I just had a crappy view out the window.
Oh Really ?
Looking at that map:
Seoul is in the "flat" part on the top of the country, and Pusan, in the "flat" part on the bottom. When I drove from Seoul to Pusan, I remember the toll highway being flat, so I"m guessing it cut through the mountain in a diagonal fashion. I remember there being two tunnels as well. We then drove west and then north. That could also help explain why from my memory I saw the country being more flat then it is. Others are listed in my other post.
I have been to s. korea numerous times. The last several times, I have even had the displeasure of driving there. I have only driven to Pusan from Seoul twice, but I have been taken around the southern peninsula. Granted, I may have been sleeping for much of that trip, but I do remember visiting many villages on the way.
2 points:
1.) My definition of flat is not literal. I mean flat as in compared to over here, where we have several 14,000 ft mountains nearby, with glaciors year round. Did I mention the tallest mountain in S. Korea is Hallasan ? Its only 5850 ft high, and not even on the peninsula. I don't care how many rolling hills you have, that is still "flat" in my book. The coast range here is like 2 to 4 thousand feet high, and I don't consider that mountainous. The rockies, thats mountainous.
2.) When I said the country was mostly flat, I was also referring to where the majority of the population was.
If those passenger pilots are drunk, it won't matter much ;)
Besides, we've all heard about those near-misses on the run-way because somebody wasnt paying attention, you wound up with a guy trying to taxi across a runway someone is trying to takeoff/land, etc... I'd want the FAA to hurry up and upgrade/replace those aging flight control computers, before they even THINK about having drones flying in our airspace...
What's the cargo capacity on one of those drones? I don't think FedEx will replace its 747 with those anytime soon. Its like saying look, this miata is bunches cheaper then that cargo-bus... Lets get Greyhound to swap out their fleets of busses with these self-driving miatas :)
That thing only has 3816 keys on it :p
But, jeeeeeez, that thing should come with a tylenol dispenser built into it. I get a migraine just thinking about using that thing....
I don't think it was very haphazard at all. I think with most countries that have less "Urban sprawl" as compared to the US, wireless just makes since. One of my friends who lives in Kazakstan (sp?), said that wireless has high penetration there as well, but for different reasons. Because its easier/cheaper to set up cell towers than to run cables into every hut in the village. I would think Korea is the same. Its mostly a flat country with not many mountainous areas. I mean the highest mountain there is like only 6,000 ft high, at it isn't even in the peninsula, but on Cheju island. (if memory serves)... So I think cell towers make even more sense...
But the population of Pusan is roughly the same as chicago. Seoul's population is usually enough to place it in the top 5 most populous urban centers in the world.
Look here
See Seoul at number 3, and pusan and 78?
A group here did useability testing of interfaces on cell phones. We found one of the primary reasons why the asian countries are leading the way, is for exactly the opposite of what you said...
Lets say, somebody wants to send a text message saying "I love you"...
With Chinese/HanJa/Kanji characters, that can be said with only two characters. Even one could suffice.
In english? Thats 10 characters you need to enter.
Lets say you want to say, "Lets go meet at the beach"
Again, in Chinese/HanJa/Kanji, that can be accomplished with 2 or 3 characters. In english? 25 characters.
This is one of the main reasons why the "clunky" interface is acceptable in asian countries, but not in the US.
Besides, I've actually typed on a Chinese/HanJa/Kanji keyboard before, its actually not too bad. There is usually a setting for romanized, where you type phonetically, and it comes up with a list of characters that make that sound. The better programs will even examine multiple words/syllabals, and figure out the correct word based on context, etc. Its not like you have a keyboard with 50,000 keys on it.
When I took EE courses at USC, my professor actually told us to NOT take notes, because he said that if we are busy writing, we aren't paying attention. So he gave all of us a 3" binder that contained all the course notes and diagrams. Attendence was required, and 3 absences was an automatic failure. At first, I was like OMFG. But the reason was the class was very interactive. I actually really liked the way he taught the curriculum, and I was always energetic and interested in the material. It really helped that he liked to use humor in explaining the pros/cons of different theories.
All this in contrast to my physics class, where the prof looked at me and said, "I understand that my lectures may be boring, but if you could please refrain from snoring as others may be trying to pay attention..."
Whole class (that was awake), started laughing at me. The next day, I was paying attention with my eyes bugging out. Some people around me were chuckling saying, "Dude, you're actually awake today...."
I don't know about this particular patent, because I really didn't care, I was responding to someone else...
Anyways, in the patents that I filed, usually the specific means is listed as an example of ONE WAY that the means can be achieved. Our patent lawyer drew them up in such a way, that it will still be covered if somebody else comes up with a different way to achieve the same.
But then again the stuff I write patents on deals more with applications of ideas rather then implementations of the same.
Even if it was accurate, how do they prove you were the one driving? What if you were the passenger? What if you were riding the bus, taxi, etc etc....
what about those hypercolor shirts they used to have 10 years ago? Remember those? They changed color....
In fact lots of things these days are temp sensitive...
Mercedes and a few other car makes, have an option for electronic tint in the rear window, so when the car is off and the alarm is armed, the windows turn opaque.
I have an electochromatic rear view mirror that automatically darkens, etc.... Surely these things can be considered prior art.
Or what about the "mystic" paint, that Ford Mustangs used to offer back in the mid 90's... That changed color as well....
Heck, I even remember some phones at LA cellular about 10 years ago that was just an LCD panel, so that the UI for the phone changed dynamically. No keys or anything.. Just one rectangular touch screen. That could be considered dynamically changing, since the phone was just an LCD screen with a microphone and speaker.
the thing has a heisenburg compensator on it.
For those that are scratching their heads:
In Quantum Mechanics, Heisenburg Theory says you can ONLY know the direction or location of a subatomic particle, but NOT both. This is why the teleporters in Star Trek have "Heisenburg Compensators", so they can beam and reassemble those subatomic particles. They mentioned this in one of the NextGeneration episodes as well, when the transporters were on the fritz.
My 30 year old Chevy 396SS uses premium leaded gas.... I had to install steel valve seats in order to use "today's" gas.... And even then its not optimum, because I think the manual recommended 96 octane or something like that. (I'd check, but the manual has faded so bad, you can barely read it) Some of the later model SS's actually called for 102 octane if I remember... (The 496SS variety) Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.)
That 20 year old television probably won't work, when the FCC mandates digital HD TV broadcasts in the future... (was it 2007?)
Where an I buy a betamax tape again? I've also had a VCR go out a while back, and the VCR repair places are pretty much all belly up, because they said its cheaper to just buy a new VCR.
And that 50 yearold smith and wesson better have been taken apart and cleaned once in a while, or good luck pulling the trigger without it jamming, etc.
Not sure about how 802.11x works, but I know how UWB in general works.
You send your data across a wide spectrum. On each individual frequency, your transmission is actually LESS then ambient background noise, and hence almost impossible to detect. But if you average the entire spectrum, you'll see the average move up and down. This is how UWB sends/receives its signals.
However the range is incredibly small, on the order of 6 feet or so. But the bandwidth is supposedly huge.
If they must.....
Cap my bandwidth OR cap my downloads. Don't frieking do both!!!
That's my email address! No wonder I keep getting spam, you keep giving my email address out! :)
Actually, .NET is NOT interpreted. It is compiled at runtime. And can even be compiled at development time.
.NET runtime does not. In fact I read that's what MS's main goal was....
.Net, the C# was always faster than the Java version... But it was all good. The only thing that was irritating was that the Sun JDK on Windows has different behavior then the same version of the Sun JDK on linux... But thats a whole nother thread ;)
Even though Java has JITs that allow compiling all the byte code, from what I've read and heard, the JVM itself still has interpreted code in it. The
In my experience, in all the projects that I've had to dual develop in Java and
YMMV
So you can some awesome performance. What's the point? Lets say the guy does some UT testing and gets dick hardening results. But isn't that useless if when you're playing the game, and:
1.) The frost/condensation shorts out the board
2.) You run out of liquid nitrogen, and the board fries itself, locking up the game.
There is nothing like playing UT while worrying about filling up the liquid nitrogen. With my luck, I'd end up accidently pouring the liquid nitrogen directly on the board, causing it to fiercly boil, and I'd drop the dewar flask and get the shit all over my hands.
Besides, the blazing speed of the graphics will probably do nothing for me, so long as I have to deal with flaky lag on my broadband connection.
Seems like staring into the business end of a laser, even a not "at all" bright one isn't a very retina-friendly activity.
I don't think staring into the "business end" of ANYTHING is a very bright thing to do... However, I suppose it can be a *VERY* friendly activity....
Even though everything is "behind glass", you are still seeing 3D. Afterall, the glass is transparent, it's not like the glass is "producing" the images...
Besides, driving down the street, you will want some *depth* perception. What's funky are those prescription windshields... Try being a passenger in one those cars. You almost need to be stoned/drunk to survive that without a migrain.