0 dimensions = point (e.g. single dot) 1 dimension = line (e.g. line of LEDs) 2 dimensions = plane (e.g. a screen of pixels) 3 dimensions = space (e.g. holographic projection)
In all cases, for information to be transferred to a viewer, the display must be capable of changing over time, so there is an implicit extra dimension (time) that is usually just assumed to exist, unless you're specifically talking about motion blur, MPEG encoding, or some other interaction between space and time on the display.
Also note that displays have properties like quantization (discrete pixels) and boundaries (edge of the screen) that are not normally assumed in the context of mathematical/physical dimensions. Further, the notion that there is a "color depth" to the display is a poor choice of words and doesn't correspond to an actual dimension.
something you are (biometrics)
I find this part kind of scary. There are a lot of people out there who just would not hesistate to cut off your finger to get your fingerprint or cut out your eye to get the retina if that meant they could authenticate somewhere and get money for it. The last thing I want to do is participate in any authorization scheme that financially rewards criminals for mutilation.
Like everyone else, I've had to put up with a couple of real hardcore asinine bosses over the years. They were annoying, but after a while you get used to their rants and having to explain things to then three times before it sinks in. It's okay, I can deal with that.
The ones I can't stand are managers on ant-depressants. They are just ass-kissing zombies who do not accept any feedback from anyone except their supervisor. It's like they're toddlers again and they hate everyone but they love themself and their "mommy" figure, usually their immediate supervisor. If their supervisor is insecure and has a preference for yes-men there is just a total blockage of information transfer up the management chain and all pointful work ceases.
I know that some people really need AD's to get through life, nothing wrong with that, but these people should not be in the chain of command at a tech company where complex decisions that balance competing interests need to be made.
I suspect I'll join you as an ex-Sony employee soon. I am on a project to fix one of the above three, but it is being destroyed by management egos who have no concept of what consumers actually want.
News flash for ya--it ain't just sony. Pretty much every company works like that.
dd just reads sequentially and will probably just return the same garbage each time.
Spinrite tries reading stuff in different order each time so that the head momentum, and thus positioning, is a bit different on each read attempt. It then analyzes the data that it read and tries to figure out the whole thing (incl. parity, likelyhood of real world ascii data, etc) not just averaging the bits.
"also, h2 has a nice habit of dissipating once released from storage, whilst gasoline has this nasty habit of pooling..."
Propane is kind of sneaky too...it's heavier than air so it won't just harmlessly float up and away (like hydrogen does) plus since it's a gas it mixes well with air plus it isn't as picky about stochiometric ratio as gasoline is.
The enforcers...misunderstand the scope of the problem which they confront, believing it to be a plant rather than a system of production which may adapt at any stage.
That is a somewhat cynical view, but I think you missed the most cynical part: the US agencies responsible for executing the war on drugs are run by pragmatic people who don't want to lose their jobs. The worst case scenario for them is that they actually win the war on drugs and they're out of a job. So instead, they're mostly in the public relations business, making the public think that we are well on the way to winning the war but we just need more time and more funding.
There's one at South Coast Plaza (costa mesa, CA) and it's kind of cool to wander around and see all the gadgets. Once.
Since they only sell the one brand, there aren't a lot of new products to draw people in. Plus it's retail prices for everything so you'd never buy there, just look and go home and order online.
Comparing it to apple stores... * apple has a genius bar staffed with people who can often fix your problem right there. sony had some sales vultures trying to sell me a plasma. * apple has 3rd party software available for purchase * apple stores (some of them) have a closeout/discount bin for cheapskate shoppers to check out * apple's products are just better designed than sony * everything in the store is compatible with everything else * grassy knowl and start button on every monitor makes the sony store look a lot like best buy or compusa
Here's my combo idea. Instead of camera + phone, do camera + GPS.
It stamps each photo with the GPS co-ordinates plus compass heading the camera is pointed at. When you get home and download the photos, some software looks up the location and direction the camera was pointing at and gives a reasonable name to the picture. Not always going to be exact, but should be able to at least title things like "GrandCynNorthRim05.jpg" or "ElCapitanSunset03.tiff".
Second step is there is a web site you can upload your pix to that organizes geographically and readers can vote on which is clearest, most artistic, funniest, etc picture of a given site.
okay, after reading scribblej and odin53's comments, have some more semi-random thoughts that might find tune the idea.
The form submissions do the following:
1. give names on the agree form that a human would
interpret as disagreement, for example disagree_with_your_eula@notavalidcontract.com
but which the web site still auto-accepts. If they aren't
reading the logs and doing minimal sanity checking
that would apply to real-world contracts, it isn't (as) enforceable.
2. Name, address, age, etc information is completely random and
bogus. 99 year old woman with an annual income of 100000 and
14 kids and her name has no vowels. Technically she is
still my agent, but she doesn't even exist and better yet they don't have my real name so it would take actual work on their part to find me.
3. Reset the cookies each time so they get their acceptance
database filled with crapola. Submit many fake accepts
that aren't subsequently used. This calls into question
a company's diligence and record keeping.
4. All the click-to-agree traffic goes through some anon proxies
so they can't track you by IP address. The proxies re-use cookies that had previously been accepted by someone else, so you haven't even had the EULA sent to your browser.
bugmenot.com is an example of cookie re-use.
5. Enough people use the agree to disagree monkey that it
calls into question that validity of radio button agreements
and they become unenforceable.
6. Translate the URL into a reference to google's cache and you might be able to see the document w/o agreeing to anything.
Here's my thought. Design a click through thing that just blindly accepts any legal agreement without showing it to the user. The name of the program is something like "agree to disagree". This calls into question the validity of any agreement that (a) you weren't shown and (b) did not have direct control over and (c) which you installed something to avoid dealing with.
While the company that presented the agreement will have a record of a URL hit by you with a form with a certain radio button set, when it comes time to deal with a lawsuit it won't stand up in court because the form submission was automated. To make a bizarre metaphor, if I hand a screaming monkey a rubber stamp with my name on it, I am not bound by any contracts the screaming rubber-stamp-wielding monkey accidentally stamps.
Second idea is to publish your personal conditions and email them to the company or include the URL in some form submission. Once you have a situation where your conditions conflict with theirs and the only "signatures" are form submission records, they are going to have a difficult time proving that there was an actual agreement in the legal sense of the word.
In a word, Google's goal is to do important stuff that matters to a lot of people. In pursuit of that goal, we've developed a set of values that drive our work, including one of our most cherished core values: "Don't be evil."
I wish there was a legal requirement that "abandonware" be automatically converted to open source. There's no cost to the company really, just stick a tarball on an ftp site.
In cases like this, it allows customers to fix and upgrade to meet their own needs and preserves their investment. Over time, this could shift some of the balance in purchasing decisions away from big companies that are seen as stable and supporting their products for the long term over to more bleeding edge risky companies. Some customers demand source escrow in their contracts for their own protection, but I think it's time that this became the default for all contracts and that the source go public.
Same thing should apply to music and book copyrights. If you can't purchase a copy of an out of print book from a publisher or get a CD of a treasured old recording, you should have the right to just make a copy yourself, since the publisher has effectively waived his interest by ceasing to publish.
amateurs have freedom from interference
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· Score: 2, Insightful
The advantage that amateurs have is that they don't have managers in their face 8 hours a day telling them what to do; they don't need to brown nose or participate in other corporate-specific games; they are free to take more experiemental risks since there is no capital wasted on marketing, advertising, stock options, etc; amateurs are free to focus their time on interesting projects, not just what the focus group says they will pay for.
In the end, the talent the professional has isn't what pays the bills--it's simply his willingness to practice his craft in a corporate environment that adds value.
* There should be a radio link between cars front to back that
communicates braking or other sudden moves, and the communication
should span several cars so you get a lot more advance warning than
you get from watching the brake lights of only the one car
in front of you.
* Each car transmits and receives at very lower power on
a small antenna. It notes the signal strength of
each transmission and assigns likely distances. Each
car identifies itself with semi-random code (set on startup
or after reaching 0 mph each time) so it's at least
a little difficult to track people for the wrong reason.
* Once a car has heard the same code multiple times
it knows it's probably a real car from the same pack, not a spurious
signal from oncoming traffic or random noise. Nearby
cars co-operate to triangulate the sources and orient
themselves (cheap) or have GPS units on board (not as cheap).
dGPS isn't as important since relative positions are
sufficient and they'll all be degraded by the same
vector (I think).
* When one of the cars notes that it is in a likely
accident scenario (fast steering input, heavy
braking, accelerometer detected collision, turn signal
against neighboring car, cell signal detected, too much
time fiddling with radio) the situation is broadcast
to nearby cars with the semi-random code (member of your
pack) + hard-coded-on-a-chip VIN or other unique id
(so spoofers/tweakers aren't anonymous). Neighbor
cars can maybe snap a picture to get a plate number too.
* Anyway, one the emergency signal goes out, other cars
evaluate last known positions and signal to the driver
in a manner that reduces accident likelihood. For the
most part, the safest thing to do is brake steadily for a collision
unfolding ahead of you, so maybe a pseudo-brake light
projected HUD-like onto the windshield would be sufficient
for most scenarios, plus an indication of how hard you'll
have to brake to avoid the eventual collision w/o
causing a new collision with the guy tailing you.
* some cameras so that non-participating
cars get monitored also, plus they can see the lane
markers, curbs, bridges, etc.
* packs heading toward a same-level intersection
can communicate a little to make sure at least one
of the packs is slowing down for the red light.
Someone breaking from the pack to run the light
can be yelled at, and drivers in danger from
the side street can be cautioned.
Anyway, the idea is not to take over control from the
driver, but to provide advance warning of things that
aren't immediately visible but which probably require some
input very soon, and to prep the driver of what
course of action might be appropriate once they
buy into the urgency of the situation.
Slashdot Mirror
0 dimensions = point (e.g. single dot)
1 dimension = line (e.g. line of LEDs)
2 dimensions = plane (e.g. a screen of pixels)
3 dimensions = space (e.g. holographic projection)
In all cases, for information to be transferred to a viewer, the display must be capable of changing over time, so there is an implicit extra dimension (time) that is usually just assumed to exist, unless you're specifically talking about motion blur, MPEG encoding, or some other interaction between space and time on the display.
Also note that displays have properties like quantization (discrete pixels) and boundaries (edge of the screen) that are not normally assumed in the context of mathematical/physical dimensions. Further, the notion that there is a "color depth" to the display is a poor choice of words and doesn't correspond to an actual dimension.
depends on what web site you're accessing...
something you are (biometrics)
I find this part kind of scary. There are a lot of people out there who just would not hesistate to cut off your finger to get your fingerprint or cut out your eye to get the retina if that meant they could authenticate somewhere and get money for it. The last thing I want to do is participate in any authorization scheme that financially rewards criminals for mutilation.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the job that you will want when you graduate will be offshored long before then.
...if you want to piss off your underlings.
Like everyone else, I've had to put up with a couple of real hardcore asinine bosses over the years. They were annoying, but after a while you get used to their rants and having to explain things to then three times before it sinks in. It's okay, I can deal with that.
The ones I can't stand are managers on ant-depressants. They are just ass-kissing zombies who do not accept any feedback from anyone except their supervisor. It's like they're toddlers again and they hate everyone but they love themself and their "mommy" figure, usually their immediate supervisor. If their supervisor is insecure and has a preference for yes-men there is just a total blockage of information transfer up the management chain and all pointful work ceases.
I know that some people really need AD's to get through life, nothing wrong with that, but these people should not be in the chain of command at a tech company where complex decisions that balance competing interests need to be made.
Just my opinion.
Okay, we all know that VCR stands for "Video Cassette Recorder",
but do you know what VHS stands for?
News flash for ya--it ain't just sony. Pretty much every company works like that.
Would it kill them to run it on port 80?
Made my day.
dd just reads sequentially and will probably just return the same garbage each time.
Spinrite tries reading stuff in different order each time so that the head momentum, and thus positioning, is a bit different on each read attempt. It then analyzes the data that it read and tries to figure out the whole thing (incl. parity, likelyhood of real world ascii data, etc) not just averaging the bits.
"also, h2 has a nice habit of dissipating once released from storage, whilst gasoline has this nasty habit of pooling..."
Propane is kind of sneaky too...it's heavier than air so it won't just harmlessly float up and away (like hydrogen does) plus since it's a gas it mixes well with air plus it isn't as picky about stochiometric ratio as gasoline is.
Sounds interesting. Do you have a good recipe?
That is a somewhat cynical view, but I think you missed the most cynical part: the US agencies responsible for executing the war on drugs are run by pragmatic people who don't want to lose their jobs. The worst case scenario for them is that they actually win the war on drugs and they're out of a job. So instead, they're mostly in the public relations business, making the public think that we are well on the way to winning the war but we just need more time and more funding.
Here's my favorite internet time machine... www.archive.org.
There's one at South Coast Plaza (costa mesa, CA) and it's kind of cool to wander around and see all the gadgets. Once.
Since they only sell the one brand, there aren't a lot of new products to draw people in. Plus it's retail prices for everything so you'd never buy there, just look and go home and order online.
Comparing it to apple stores...
* apple has a genius bar staffed with people who can often fix your problem right there. sony had some sales vultures trying to sell me a plasma.
* apple has 3rd party software available for purchase
* apple stores (some of them) have a closeout/discount bin for cheapskate shoppers to check out
* apple's products are just better designed than sony
* everything in the store is compatible with everything else
* grassy knowl and start button on every monitor makes the sony store look a lot like best buy or compusa
Here's my combo idea.
Instead of camera + phone, do camera + GPS.
It stamps each photo with the GPS co-ordinates plus compass heading the camera is pointed at. When you get home and download the photos, some software looks up the location and direction the camera was pointing at and gives a reasonable name to the picture. Not always going to be exact, but should be able to at least title things like "GrandCynNorthRim05.jpg" or "ElCapitanSunset03.tiff".
Second step is there is a web site you can upload your pix to that organizes geographically and readers can vote on which is clearest, most artistic, funniest, etc picture of a given site.
The form submissions do the following:
1. give names on the agree form that a human would interpret as disagreement, for example disagree_with_your_eula@notavalidcontract.com but which the web site still auto-accepts. If they aren't reading the logs and doing minimal sanity checking that would apply to real-world contracts, it isn't (as) enforceable.
2. Name, address, age, etc information is completely random and bogus. 99 year old woman with an annual income of 100000 and 14 kids and her name has no vowels. Technically she is still my agent, but she doesn't even exist and better yet they don't have my real name so it would take actual work on their part to find me.
3. Reset the cookies each time so they get their acceptance database filled with crapola. Submit many fake accepts that aren't subsequently used. This calls into question a company's diligence and record keeping.
4. All the click-to-agree traffic goes through some anon proxies so they can't track you by IP address. The proxies re-use cookies that had previously been accepted by someone else, so you haven't even had the EULA sent to your browser. bugmenot.com is an example of cookie re-use.
5. Enough people use the agree to disagree monkey that it calls into question that validity of radio button agreements and they become unenforceable.
6. Translate the URL into a reference to google's cache and you might be able to see the document w/o agreeing to anything.
Here's my thought. Design a click through thing that just blindly accepts any legal agreement without showing it to the user. The name of the program is something like "agree to disagree". This calls into question the validity of any agreement that (a) you weren't shown and (b) did not have direct control over and (c) which you installed something to avoid dealing with.
While the company that presented the agreement will have a record of a URL hit by you with a form with a certain radio button set, when it comes time to deal with a lawsuit it won't stand up in court because the form submission was automated. To make a bizarre metaphor, if I hand a screaming monkey a rubber stamp with my name on it, I am not bound by any contracts the screaming rubber-stamp-wielding monkey accidentally stamps.
Second idea is to publish your personal conditions and email them to the company or include the URL in some form submission. Once you have a situation where your conditions conflict with theirs and the only "signatures" are form submission records, they are going to have a difficult time proving that there was an actual agreement in the legal sense of the word.
North Korea can have all the trade secrets they want. They're so messed up that they wouldn't be able to capitalize on any information they do obtain.
I'm pretty confident that if they had the complete plans and tooling for a lowly item like a dishwasher they still couldn't produce one.
Incorrect.
Liquid helium also has the ability to climb, though not for the same reasons.
Makes me wonder why oracle hasn't already invented an SQL replacement with better join facilities, or at least some SQL+ syntax to help with this.
In a word, Google's goal is to do important stuff that matters to a lot of people. In pursuit of that goal, we've developed a set of values that drive our work, including one of our most cherished core values: "Don't be evil."
I wish there was a legal requirement that "abandonware" be automatically converted to open source. There's no cost to the company really, just stick a tarball on an ftp site.
In cases like this, it allows customers to fix and upgrade to meet their own needs and preserves their investment. Over time, this could shift some of the balance in purchasing decisions away from big companies that are seen as stable and supporting their products for the long term over to more bleeding edge risky companies. Some customers demand source escrow in their contracts for their own protection, but I think it's time that this became the default for all contracts and that the source go public.
Same thing should apply to music and book copyrights. If you can't purchase a copy of an out of print book from a publisher or get a CD of a treasured old recording, you should have the right to just make a copy yourself, since the publisher has effectively waived his interest by ceasing to publish.
The advantage that amateurs have is that they don't have managers in their face 8 hours a day telling them what to do; they don't need to brown nose or participate in other corporate-specific games; they are free to take more experiemental risks since there is no capital wasted on marketing, advertising, stock options, etc; amateurs are free to focus their time on interesting projects, not just what the focus group says they will pay for.
In the end, the talent the professional has isn't what pays the bills--it's simply his willingness to practice his craft in a corporate environment that adds value.
The basic concepts:
* There should be a radio link between cars front to back that communicates braking or other sudden moves, and the communication should span several cars so you get a lot more advance warning than you get from watching the brake lights of only the one car in front of you.
* Each car transmits and receives at very lower power on a small antenna. It notes the signal strength of each transmission and assigns likely distances. Each car identifies itself with semi-random code (set on startup or after reaching 0 mph each time) so it's at least a little difficult to track people for the wrong reason.
* Once a car has heard the same code multiple times it knows it's probably a real car from the same pack, not a spurious signal from oncoming traffic or random noise. Nearby cars co-operate to triangulate the sources and orient themselves (cheap) or have GPS units on board (not as cheap). dGPS isn't as important since relative positions are sufficient and they'll all be degraded by the same vector (I think).
* When one of the cars notes that it is in a likely accident scenario (fast steering input, heavy braking, accelerometer detected collision, turn signal against neighboring car, cell signal detected, too much time fiddling with radio) the situation is broadcast to nearby cars with the semi-random code (member of your pack) + hard-coded-on-a-chip VIN or other unique id (so spoofers/tweakers aren't anonymous). Neighbor cars can maybe snap a picture to get a plate number too.
* Anyway, one the emergency signal goes out, other cars evaluate last known positions and signal to the driver in a manner that reduces accident likelihood. For the most part, the safest thing to do is brake steadily for a collision unfolding ahead of you, so maybe a pseudo-brake light projected HUD-like onto the windshield would be sufficient for most scenarios, plus an indication of how hard you'll have to brake to avoid the eventual collision w/o causing a new collision with the guy tailing you.
* some cameras so that non-participating cars get monitored also, plus they can see the lane markers, curbs, bridges, etc.
* packs heading toward a same-level intersection can communicate a little to make sure at least one of the packs is slowing down for the red light. Someone breaking from the pack to run the light can be yelled at, and drivers in danger from the side street can be cautioned.
Anyway, the idea is not to take over control from the driver, but to provide advance warning of things that aren't immediately visible but which probably require some input very soon, and to prep the driver of what course of action might be appropriate once they buy into the urgency of the situation.