If you have a recording, the orchestra can't adjust for a mistake or improvisation on the stage. A computer can be programmed to listen for certain cues, but still doesn't have the necessary skill to make the minute adjustments necessary to keep everyone in sync. With a live synth controlled by a conductor, there's still someone there who can adapt to less-than-ideal circumstances.
Replace the actors with robots, though, and there's not much of a difference.
I agree that trackballs are the way to go, but I have to put in a plug for the Microsoft Trackball Explorer. It's far more comfortable (for me, anyway) to use my index or middle finger on the ball, and the five buttons are all quite easy to reach.
Why is Indiana using facial recognition software? Is there now a database of faces that police are searching every time a crime is committed???
To combat identity theft. At least that's what the local NPR news said this morning.
Apparently the BMV plans to compare your new picture when you get a license to all your previous license pictures. If it looks significantly different, they'll take extra steps to ensure that you are, in fact, who you say you are.
Or perhaps they spent slightly more on Republicans because there were a few more Republicans in Congress. We'll have to see if anything changes over the next two years, now that we'll have a few more Democrats.
You might check out the Sheet Music Consortium. This is an effort by music libraries at UC Los Angeles, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University to digitize much of their public domain sheet music. Also includes links to other on-line sheet music.
I don't want to turn Slashdot into an investing forum, but I should point out that Google right now has a price to earnings ratio around 30, while Amazon's P/E is currently around 42. There's much to be said for the latter number, but one certainly can't call it cheap compared to 30.
Simple: Google isn't distributing any books. It's just allowing the user to find what books contain certain keywords, and view small excerpts around those keywords. That seems to be further within the bounds of fair use than what a library regularly does. (Though, I should point out that section 108 of the copyright code does allow libraries special privelidges not afforded to mere citizens or corporations.)
Not to worry. You'd be hard pressed to find anything played by a symphonic orchestra in their database. No Tchaikovsky, no Beethoven, no Rimsky-Korsakov... Once again, we fans of dead white guys get left out in the cold.
So when does the library see the money, if the book is returned on time and in good condition? People pay to use libraries through their taxes; it's not a free service. If you can get these cards and have all transactions be free, then there is no money going to the library to pay for staffing, purchasing the books, etc.
One could, perhaps, work out a system where you are refunded the cost of the book, minus a small processing fee for each transaction. Since people usually don't realize that they are paying to use the library already, this would probably be widely unpopular; but it would be necessary to keep the library afloat.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much was spent to create this robot? Or, how big is it (the pictures make it look small, but they can be deceiving)? I'm just curious about the likelihood of devices like this going to Mars any time soon.
The point of the Semantic Web lies not in making information readily available to people browsing the internet but in providing semantic context with which computers can work. A person reading a document in a browser is not expected to follow links attached to every word. Rather, a computer program is expected to be able to use this information to learn the meaning behind the sting of characters.
Actually, you can even be an Air Force pilot (as of around 2002; I don't know about other branches) if your resulting vision is good enough. I don't have any good links to give you, (so I might as well just mod myself down now); I'm just basing this on reports from my father (Air Force major).
As I look at the chart to which you linked, I can not help but notice a line stating that 43% of CPB revenue is tax based. You might notice such income providers as public colleges, state colleges, federal grants and contracts, and , most importantly, CPB appropriation, all provided at tax-payer expense. And yet the FCC only asks that three words be removed in exchange for 43% of the total funding. That seems fair to me.
A government-funded station is currenctly experienceing a chilling effect because
government regulations that have been in place for
years prevent said government-funded station from
broadcasting certain words over airwaves allocated
to it by the government.
Most of these questions are very political, usually leaning toward big government and socialism. e.g., David Lykken's proposal, involving the government in the most personal aspects of our lives: One promising example of such legislation would be a program of parental licensure requiring persons, wishing to birth and rear a baby, to demonstrate at least what we should minimally require of persons wishing to adopt someone else's baby.
or David Buss's proposal to infiltrate our minds to stop murder: We are endangered from the outside by our avowed enemies. We are threatened from within by killers among us. An urgent need for the nation to establish a deep scientific understanding of psychological circuits dedicated to murder and the causal processes that create, activate, and deactivate those circuits.
Other suggestions involve the complete rejection of ethical standards in research, in the manner of Nazi Germany, using Ian Wilmut's argument that "This research cannot be carried out in any other way."
What we need scientist to do is act like scientists and not politicians. We need them to abide by the ethical standards that have kept scientific development going at an increasing pace for the past several centuries. We need scientists to do their jobs well and not waste their time philosophizing about what the current administrations foreign policy should be.
You make quite and assumption when you call the rats "intelligent beings." Just because they can find food in a maze, it doesn't mean I will be sitting down and discussing philosophy with them. Rats are just creatures that unthinkingly respond to the stimuli presented to them. If we give them some new stimuli, I don't think it much affects the rats' way of life. And for the record, I don't see any problem with controlling "cute, cuddly puppies or kittens."
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If you have a recording, the orchestra can't adjust for a mistake or improvisation on the stage. A computer can be programmed to listen for certain cues, but still doesn't have the necessary skill to make the minute adjustments necessary to keep everyone in sync. With a live synth controlled by a conductor, there's still someone there who can adapt to less-than-ideal circumstances. Replace the actors with robots, though, and there's not much of a difference.
I don't even know what they do. Do they search... the web? ...your LAN? ...your desktop?
In short: yes.
I agree that trackballs are the way to go, but I have to put in a plug for the Microsoft Trackball Explorer. It's far more comfortable (for me, anyway) to use my index or middle finger on the ball, and the five buttons are all quite easy to reach.
If only they still made them...
Why is Indiana using facial recognition software? Is there now a database of faces that police are searching every time a crime is committed???
To combat identity theft. At least that's what the local NPR news said this morning.
Apparently the BMV plans to compare your new picture when you get a license to all your previous license pictures. If it looks significantly different, they'll take extra steps to ensure that you are, in fact, who you say you are.
Not to mention that the United States is now the largest sponsor of Manchester United.
Or perhaps they spent slightly more on Republicans because there were a few more Republicans in Congress. We'll have to see if anything changes over the next two years, now that we'll have a few more Democrats.
You might check out the Sheet Music Consortium. This is an effort by music libraries at UC Los Angeles, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University to digitize much of their public domain sheet music. Also includes links to other on-line sheet music.
I don't want to turn Slashdot into an investing forum, but I should point out that Google right now has a price to earnings ratio around 30, while Amazon's P/E is currently around 42. There's much to be said for the latter number, but one certainly can't call it cheap compared to 30.
how is Google any different
Simple: Google isn't distributing any books. It's just allowing the user to find what books contain certain keywords, and view small excerpts around those keywords. That seems to be further within the bounds of fair use than what a library regularly does. (Though, I should point out that section 108 of the copyright code does allow libraries special privelidges not afforded to mere citizens or corporations.)
Not to worry. You'd be hard pressed to find anything played by a symphonic orchestra in their database. No Tchaikovsky, no Beethoven, no Rimsky-Korsakov... Once again, we fans of dead white guys get left out in the cold.
Rather than complain, why not buy stock?
So when does the library see the money, if the book is returned on time and in good condition? People pay to use libraries through their taxes; it's not a free service. If you can get these cards and have all transactions be free, then there is no money going to the library to pay for staffing, purchasing the books, etc.
One could, perhaps, work out a system where you are refunded the cost of the book, minus a small processing fee for each transaction. Since people usually don't realize that they are paying to use the library already, this would probably be widely unpopular; but it would be necessary to keep the library afloat.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much was spent to create this robot? Or, how big is it (the pictures make it look small, but they can be deceiving)? I'm just curious about the likelihood of devices like this going to Mars any time soon.
Of course, what we'll all really be wishing is that we had a time machine to go back to 2005 so we could buy a few shares of GOOG.
The point of the Semantic Web lies not in making information readily available to people browsing the internet but in providing semantic context with which computers can work. A person reading a document in a browser is not expected to follow links attached to every word. Rather, a computer program is expected to be able to use this information to learn the meaning behind the sting of characters.
Actually, you can even be an Air Force pilot (as of around 2002; I don't know about other branches) if your resulting vision is good enough. I don't have any good links to give you, (so I might as well just mod myself down now); I'm just basing this on reports from my father (Air Force major).
As I look at the chart to which you linked, I can not help but notice a line stating that 43% of CPB revenue is tax based. You might notice such income providers as public colleges, state colleges, federal grants and contracts, and , most importantly, CPB appropriation, all provided at tax-payer expense. And yet the FCC only asks that three words be removed in exchange for 43% of the total funding. That seems fair to me.
Let me get this straight:
A government-funded station is currenctly experienceing a chilling effect because government regulations that have been in place for years prevent said government-funded station from broadcasting certain words over airwaves allocated to it by the government.
Egads!
Most of these questions are very political, usually leaning toward big government and socialism.
e.g., David Lykken's proposal, involving the government in the most personal aspects of our lives: One promising example of such legislation would be a program of parental licensure requiring persons, wishing to birth and rear a baby, to demonstrate at least what we should minimally require of persons wishing to adopt someone else's baby.
or David Buss's proposal to infiltrate our minds to stop murder: We are endangered from the outside by our avowed enemies. We are threatened from within by killers among us. An urgent need for the nation to establish a deep scientific understanding of psychological circuits dedicated to murder and the causal processes that create, activate, and deactivate those circuits.
Other suggestions involve the complete rejection of ethical standards in research, in the manner of Nazi Germany, using Ian Wilmut's argument that "This research cannot be carried out in any other way."
What we need scientist to do is act like scientists and not politicians. We need them to abide by the ethical standards that have kept scientific development going at an increasing pace for the past several centuries. We need scientists to do their jobs well and not waste their time philosophizing about what the current administrations foreign policy should be.
You make quite and assumption when you call the rats "intelligent beings." Just because they can find food in a maze, it doesn't mean I will be sitting down and discussing philosophy with them. Rats are just creatures that unthinkingly respond to the stimuli presented to them. If we give them some new stimuli, I don't think it much affects the rats' way of life. And for the record, I don't see any problem with controlling "cute, cuddly puppies or kittens."