The whole article is about the U.S. being interested in *testing* the theory. To do this, you build a big-ass torroid (6M) and get it spinning fast (> 700m/s) and then energize a big-ass magnetic field (>37 T) and measure to see if the effect occurs. The effect in this case measuring something like 3 newtons.
This sounds a whole lot like the weird Podkletnov Antigravity machine. Torroid... check, magnetic field... check, strange force... check! I'm no physicist, what do you think?
If one defines addiction as not being able to live without something then the military is definitely addicted to technology. A friend of mine during his military service took part in a joint training involving various of armies from NATO states. He always said the easiest thing to do was to secretly snitch the American's GPS devices. They were totally lost without them. Just his 2 cents.
And now Microsoft wants to take this one step further, and change menus and buttons based on what "tab" you are on too? Bad design decision, Microsoft. Very bad. This is like if your keyboard would rearrange itself depending on what you're typing, and which keys you use the most.
Actually I quite like the concept of the Optimus keyboard by the Art Lebedev design group. It uses OLED displays inside the keys and for example shows upper-case letters when Shift is pressed. Pretty nifty and totally uber-geeky.
There's this nifty program called Wink that I use all the time to create GUI animations. It supports making manual shots, input-driven mode (key/mouse actions trigger screenshot) and time-driven mode (makes n shots per second). After recording the scene one can edit the cursor position, add descriptions and insert buttons for play control. In the final animation the cursor moves automatically between its position on two shots. Generates Flash animations or EXE files and can export to HTML, PDF and PS. There's a version for Windows and Linux. I can highly suggest this tool.
There's this nifty program called Wink that I use all the time to create GUI animations. It supports making manual shots, input-driven mode (key/mouse actions trigger screenshot) and time-driven mode (makes n shots per second). After recording the scene one can edit the cursor position, add descriptions and insert buttons for play control. In the final animation the cursor moves automatically between its position on two shots. Generates Flash animations or EXE files and can export to HTML, PDF and PS. There's a version for Windows and Linux. I can highly suggest this tool.
I tried it out at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. It didn't work that well. You had to press the brush pretty hard against the object, the camera wasn't oriented correctly (probably from repeated misuse) and out of focus. I expected more from it but usage was rather tedious and not very intuitive.
Interestingly enough, my PC's temperature LCD's have always shown Linux not only to be cooler, but to run cooler then Windows...
If it's as fast as Windows, then this hints on Linux being more efficient. If on the other hand Linux is slower then you have a bottleneck in some other place (e.g. hard disk) and the CPU isn't fully utilized.
The TIE was running Windows.
So I guess we now know what really happened to the Death Star. A gaping security "hole" + a special download.
And once again the Apple users seem kind of alien to me. At least that's what was suggested by Independence Day. This once again proves that Macs aren't as secure as is always touted.
... it was reported that N. Korea had a missle that *might* reach the U.S.... concern that we might get nuked real soon... there's the Cascadia Subduction Zone just off the Washington coast just waiting to deliver a magnitude 9.0 quake to this region and these guys are worried about N. Korea. I don't get why people worry about remote possibilities when there are real threats just around the corner.
Perhaps because politicians want them to be scared in order to be able to better push their objectives? Scaring people is powerful and nothing works better than a life-threatening foreign enemy where nobody knows for sure what they are able to pull off. Rumors are easy to create and rightfully putting things into perspective might be considered unamerican. So you better get your missile shield up to date and by the way cash in some money through your ties to the weapons industry. Has worked before, will work again.
Rats con't have a mechanism for throwing up, so food poisoning is deadly to them. Hence the evolutionary response of approaching new kinds of food with great caution.
Makes me wonder why rat poison works at all. Must be damn tasty to them.
Isn't it that dogs can distinguish between dead people and the ones that are still alive? Does anybody know how they accomplish this feat? Hopefully the rats can do this as well.
Let me think for a moment... Hell yeah! If we had low power speech processors, the possibilities would be endless. For one, we'd finally have a Star Trek(TM) interface for our homes!
"Computer, lights!"
"Computer, make coffee!"
"Computer, Earl Grey, hot!"
A friend of mine is working at the research department of Audi. And guess what? They have fully functional speech recognition like the one you described.
Okay, no thing like boiling coffee, but a/c and lights control, entering destinations for the navigation system, and controlling the radio and CD player are working perfectly. You even have to start a command with a phrase like "Computer" to attract the computer's attention.
I'm not sure about Austrian toilets, but I'm afraid they may resemble German toilets.
In Austria you can find both types of toilets. The german kind is preferred in homes whereas the "normal" one is often found in public places (restaurants etc.).
From personal experience I have to say that I like the german toilets better because you don't have to throw loads of toilet paper into the water to dampen the fall in order to prevent splashing yourself.
When water pressure is low you can use the toilet brush which you should do anyway. By the way, when bestriding the toilet facing the plumbing you don't have to direct the stream vertically down into the hole at the front of the shelf. Just pee on the horizontal shelf you mentioned. That's even possible when peeing through the fly.
.. he is trying to defend the core addressing system from outside threats, including an attempt last year by a private search engine to grab Web surfers who mistype addresses.
We had the problem of concurrent users locking up a tape drive. ...
We used a really cheesy Mardi Gras necklace. Who ever had the necklace in their possession was allowed to access the tape drive. We never had a problem after that. ...
This also works great when trying to manage a discussion in a group of 10 to 20 people. If things start get out of hand and people cut each other off just take a random token (perhaps a small ball) and throw it to someone who wants to speak. After speaking the person passes/throws it to someone else.
Nobody will need an explanation and you can be pretty sure people who don't have the token keep their mouth shut. As a bonus you take out the tension of a heated discussion by putting in some fun. Helps to keep objective and forces people to keep their thoughts for some time, possibly reflecting again about what to say.
Actually there's a booming organ black market where poor people from all over the world donate organs for money to those who can afford it. The Christian Science Monitor has a really interesting article dealing with this hot topic. A fascinating, yet disturbing read.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't you guys see "V for Vendetta" over the weekend ?
:-)
Sure. Also noticed the phones? And as always, Slashdot has it first when the end of the world is nigh
"Bill Newsome, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA...
If this works, he should be calling himself Bill Awesome from now on.
The whole article is about the U.S. being interested in *testing* the theory. To do this, you build a big-ass torroid (6M) and get it spinning fast (> 700m/s) and then energize a big-ass magnetic field (>37 T) and measure to see if the effect occurs. The effect in this case measuring something like 3 newtons.
... check, magnetic field ... check, strange force ... check! I'm no physicist, what do you think?
This sounds a whole lot like the weird Podkletnov Antigravity machine. Torroid
If one defines addiction as not being able to live without something then the military is definitely addicted to technology. A friend of mine during his military service took part in a joint training involving various of armies from NATO states. He always said the easiest thing to do was to secretly snitch the American's GPS devices. They were totally lost without them. Just his 2 cents.
And now Microsoft wants to take this one step further, and change menus and buttons based on what "tab" you are on too? Bad design decision, Microsoft. Very bad. This is like if your keyboard would rearrange itself depending on what you're typing, and which keys you use the most.
Actually I quite like the concept of the Optimus keyboard by the Art Lebedev design group. It uses OLED displays inside the keys and for example shows upper-case letters when Shift is pressed. Pretty nifty and totally uber-geeky.
There's this nifty program called Wink that I use all the time to create GUI animations. It supports making manual shots, input-driven mode (key/mouse actions trigger screenshot) and time-driven mode (makes n shots per second). After recording the scene one can edit the cursor position, add descriptions and insert buttons for play control. In the final animation the cursor moves automatically between its position on two shots. Generates Flash animations or EXE files and can export to HTML, PDF and PS. There's a version for Windows and Linux. I can highly suggest this tool.
There's this nifty program called Wink that I use all the time to create GUI animations. It supports making manual shots, input-driven mode (key/mouse actions trigger screenshot) and time-driven mode (makes n shots per second). After recording the scene one can edit the cursor position, add descriptions and insert buttons for play control. In the final animation the cursor moves automatically between its position on two shots. Generates Flash animations or EXE files and can export to HTML, PDF and PS. There's a version for Windows and Linux. I can highly suggest this tool.
Sorry for giving the brush a bad review. I will try out the version in the Media Lab, thanks for the hint.
I tried it out at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. It didn't work that well. You had to press the brush pretty hard against the object, the camera wasn't oriented correctly (probably from repeated misuse) and out of focus. I expected more from it but usage was rather tedious and not very intuitive.
Interestingly enough, my PC's temperature LCD's have always shown Linux not only to be cooler, but to run cooler then Windows...
If it's as fast as Windows, then this hints on Linux being more efficient. If on the other hand Linux is slower then you have a bottleneck in some other place (e.g. hard disk) and the CPU isn't fully utilized.
I only hope they didn't forget to hire Al Gore or else this won't work.
And once again the Apple users seem kind of alien to me. At least that's what was suggested by Independence Day. This once again proves that Macs aren't as secure as is always touted.
Perhaps because politicians want them to be scared in order to be able to better push their objectives? Scaring people is powerful and nothing works better than a life-threatening foreign enemy where nobody knows for sure what they are able to pull off. Rumors are easy to create and rightfully putting things into perspective might be considered unamerican. So you better get your missile shield up to date and by the way cash in some money through your ties to the weapons industry. Has worked before, will work again.
Chinese restaurant owners will be more than happy to have a new source of music which, if meat runs out, can be eaten as well.
Australian Police Given Power To Use Spyware
Feeling discriminated? Just run IE, and the power of spyware be with you.
Google will bundle an OS with their search engine
Emacs?
Rats con't have a mechanism for throwing up, so food poisoning is deadly to them. Hence the evolutionary response of approaching new kinds of food with great caution.
Makes me wonder why rat poison works at all. Must be damn tasty to them.
Isn't it that dogs can distinguish between dead people and the ones that are still alive? Does anybody know how they accomplish this feat? Hopefully the rats can do this as well.
Let me think for a moment... Hell yeah! If we had low power speech processors, the possibilities would be endless. For one, we'd finally have a Star Trek(TM) interface for our homes!
:-)
"Computer, lights!"
"Computer, make coffee!"
"Computer, Earl Grey, hot!"
A friend of mine is working at the research department of Audi. And guess what? They have fully functional speech recognition like the one you described.
Okay, no thing like boiling coffee, but a/c and lights control, entering destinations for the navigation system, and controlling the radio and CD player are working perfectly. You even have to start a command with a phrase like "Computer" to attract the computer's attention.
The future has already started
I'm not sure about Austrian toilets, but I'm afraid they may resemble German toilets.
In Austria you can find both types of toilets. The german kind is preferred in homes whereas the "normal" one is often found in public places (restaurants etc.).
From personal experience I have to say that I like the german toilets better because you don't have to throw loads of toilet paper into the water to dampen the fall in order to prevent splashing yourself.
When water pressure is low you can use the toilet brush which you should do anyway. By the way, when bestriding the toilet facing the plumbing you don't have to direct the stream vertically down into the hole at the front of the shelf. Just pee on the horizontal shelf you mentioned. That's even possible when peeing through the fly.
I know. I was just trying to karma whore for a "Funny" :-)
.. he is trying to defend the core addressing system from outside threats, including an attempt last year by a private search engine to grab Web surfers who mistype addresses.
Internet Explorer?
No, the most important thing is to only have one person talking. I don't think someone talking endlessly is a problem.
I have to agree though that the decision of who talks next will be biased. One could also agree on throwing the token back to the discussion leader.
We had the problem of concurrent users locking up a tape drive.
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We used a really cheesy Mardi Gras necklace. Who ever had the necklace in their possession was allowed to access the tape drive. We never had a problem after that.
This also works great when trying to manage a discussion in a group of 10 to 20 people. If things start get out of hand and people cut each other off just take a random token (perhaps a small ball) and throw it to someone who wants to speak. After speaking the person passes/throws it to someone else.
Nobody will need an explanation and you can be pretty sure people who don't have the token keep their mouth shut. As a bonus you take out the tension of a heated discussion by putting in some fun. Helps to keep objective and forces people to keep their thoughts for some time, possibly reflecting again about what to say.
Actually there's a booming organ black market where poor people from all over the world donate organs for money to those who can afford it. The Christian Science Monitor has a really interesting article dealing with this hot topic. A fascinating, yet disturbing read.