And in other news, Richard Stallman has announced that the FSF will be bringing out their own superhero Captain Copyleft. Featuring a goatee beard, horns, and a reverse C with a green circle and bar. Cartoon magazines featuring this character will be given away for free.
The FFT is used to analyze a continuous signal and break it up into an equivalent set of sine waves, each with its own amplitude and phase. The signal can be anything; audio, height of sea level, wind direction, or even just your favourite MP3 track.
Once you have a set of frequencies and amplitudes, you can do all sorts of useful things like determine the most dominant frequency (highest amplitude), filter out pops and hisses (set selected amplitudes to zero), identification (find nearest match between two sets of data) or just run a funky jumping bar animation when you play your favourite tune.
The FFT can be extended to 2D (and even 3D), then you can do things like image processing, where problems like scratches, speckles and banding can be fixed.
The only problem is that doing all of this requires a lot of floating-point performance coupled with high bandwidth. In the past, this used to be done with Cray supercomputers (vector processors), then dedicated accelerator boards (TMS320's) before being done by desktop CPU's, and now GPU's.
The FFT is used to analyze a continuous signal and break it up into an equivalent set of sine waves, each with its own amplitude and phase. The signal can be anything; undersea microphones, height of sea level, wind direction, or even just your favourite MP3 track.
Once you have a set of frequencies and amplitudes, you can do all sorts of useful things like determine the most dominant frequency (highest amplitude), filter out pops and hisses (set selected amplitudes to zero), or just run a funky jumping bar animation when you play your favourite tune.
Yes, but Silicon Glen concentrated on manufacturing rather than design. They took the chip fabrication plants that Silicon Valley didn't want (due to fears about carcinogens). Many of those products are now being manufactured in the far East.
Silicon Valley also had the 401K plan which gives workers freedom to move between companies, and there's the dual career path option (management vs. technical).
Compare that to the UK where most companies attempt to lock their employees for life in with company pension schemes (and if the company goes bust, so does the employee pension scheme). With the dual career path option, any startup in Silicon Valley has the ability to recruit experienced software and hardware architects within weeks. In many British companies, the attitude has always been "everyone gets pushed up from the interesting work to managment", with the side effect that experienced veteran staff would leave to set up their own companies.
You would have to do considerable research to make sure that the conveyer belt was mde of materials that would not catch fire, become brittle, or give off fumes that would contaminate the product being cooked. You would need to do the same for the rollers and bearings, and any oil that was needed to keep the system running smoothly.
From my experience of elementary and high school, the qualifications to become a principal were to demonstrate leadership skills through sport (ie. being a jock), with the consequence that they don't really understand the concept of open debate or freedom of speech. It's more "I'm bigger than you, so do what I say".
The soldiers may develop a strong attachment to a device that can save their life and lives of others, but it's not a bond because the robot can't return the emotion.
But every machine will have its own quirks - maybe the brake/steering system on one machine is slower than other machines, so it tends to bump into things and behave like an excited puppy. Or maybe it is slightly slower and appears more mellow.
Those are purely mechanical effects, but they do give each machine a unique personality. Car reviewers and test pilots report that different models of cars and aeroplanes have their own "personalities" due to the level of responsiveness.
Knowing how to fix basic problems with a computer. In some computer labs, the students would "reserve" desktop systems for themselves by turning the brightness all the way down or by loosening the video cable. Other students would just assume the machine was broken and send a fault notice to the helpdesk.
Basic filesystem knowledge - how to create/delete directories, move and copy files. Being able to use CD-ROM/DVD burners, USB keys
Basic keyboarding skills - being able to write punctuated text in a notepad style text editor.
Basic computer communication skills - knowing how to receive, send, forward and edit E-mail. Understanding of mailing list etiquette. For large corporations, people would blindly use reply-to-all when they have received an E-mail from a mailing list that they were added to by default and tried to unsubscribe.
Basic workdprocessing/spreadsheet skills - being able to load, edit, print and save files, and export these in a variety of file formats.
Basic webpage authoring - how to create webpages with images, hyperlinks and text.
Having opened up a broken LCD screen and repaired it myself (had to resolder a new mini fluorescent tube to the power connector), I've always wanted to see a way of improving the lifetime of the LCD screen.
The first way would be to have a fluorescent tube in a cartridge that could be slotted out of the base of the display. Alternatively, having more but smaller tubes could also be an option. Or even have the display completely detachable so that it could be used as a LCD monitor even if the rest of the laptop became unusable.
I get it now - Sony's computer division make laptop computer. Sony's memory division want to sell MemoryStick cards, so they get the computer division to bundle a MemoryStick read er in every computer, instead of maybe a FlashCard which everyone else seems to use.
They're one of the major conspiracy theory websites out there, and they do reference all their sources.
The two major conspiracy theories over 9/11 are that it was either "Let it happen" or "Make it happen". In both cases the desired outcome was that a major terrorist event would give the government freedom to settle old scores.
"Let it happen" was that the terrorists planned their actions on their own, but that any intelligence to suggest something big was going to happen was deliberately ignored.
"Make it happen" was that the terrorists were actually assisted by the government, and that Bin Laden is actually some sort of strawman to allow the "War on Terrorism" to continue.
Perhaps a better idea for a school based game would be to have 'sim high-school' where the player could act as principal and make the decisions that affect the entire school. (Focus school funding on one peer group and the others get pissed off, fail to stop overcrowding and watch the place turn into a pressure cooker. Have a zero tolerance policy towards fighting only, and watch the kids try and push each other over the edge instead. Enforce contra-flow systems to solve overcrowded corridors, and watch the ensuing traffic chaos).
UK buses already have CCTV cameras in place - mainly to discourage kids from vandalising the chairs. The fun part is that some buses actually have a LCD display at the front of the top deck so that everyone else can see what the cameras are seeing. For a double-decker bus, the cameras are strategically placed to capture all the action on the back row of seats on the top deck, the staircase and to a lesser extent, an overall view of all the seats from the front row.
Usually this means that the occupants of the first couple of rows can see the mating habits of the local teenage population in the early evening.
Although it can get a bit confusing at night when you can see both the reflection of the inside of the bus from the front windscreen, and from the LCD display. A couple of goths came up to the top deck and I could see them sit behind me on the LCD display. I looked at the reflection on the front windscreen, and there was nobody there!
Reminds me of that April Fools announcement "The film and music associations announced today they are going to merge. The new organisations will be known as the Music And Film Industry Association".
Read the article: "Much of Poland's abundant interest in coding contests can be traced to Tomasz Czajka, who as a multiple TopCoder champion has won more than $100,000 in prize money since the competition began. That has made him something of a national hero back home, and other students have been eager to follow suit."
Having the chance to win $100,000 would be a fairly good incentive for anyone to want enter a programming competition.
Tactile vision substitution systems (TVSS) deliver visual information to the brain through an array of electrodes in contact with the skin in areas of the body such as the abdomen or fingertip. Points of the visual image are mapped onto individual electrodes within the array as vibration or electrical stimulation. With training, subjects learn to interpret tactile images as visual information, i.e. they experience images in space, rather than on the skin.
The tongue-placed tactile output device is an improved TVSS that uses the tongue as a stimulation site. Electrotactile stimuli are delivered to the top of the tongue when it contacts a flexible electrode array placed in the mouth. A tongue display unit (TDU), connected to the array by a cable passing out of the mouth, excites individual electrodes on the array according to a spatially-encoded signal from an input source, such as a TV camera. In principle, any input that can be converted into a two-dimensional display by the TDU can reach the brain and become part of a new sensory system.
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How do you simulate the experience of driving through blazing, radiated, panic-stricken streets to emergency bunker sites miles away?
Try driving home at rush-hour on the night before a Summer bank holiday weekend.
Or even on the following day when everyone is in their camper vans trying to head for the trees.
And in other news, Richard Stallman has announced that the FSF will be bringing out their own superhero Captain Copyleft. Featuring a goatee beard, horns, and a reverse C with a green circle and bar.
Cartoon magazines featuring this character will be given away for free.
You did edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to add in the correct "Monitor" and "Screen" fields?
^switch writes "Aussies at NICTA have developed a para-virtualized Linux called Wombat that they claim outperforms native Linux.
So if a para-virtualised microkernel runs a para-virtualised microkernel running Linux, then there should be an even greater speedup?
The FFT is used to analyze a continuous signal and break it up into an equivalent set of sine waves, each with its own amplitude and phase. The signal can be anything; audio, height of sea level, wind direction, or even just your favourite MP3 track.
Once you have a set of frequencies and amplitudes, you can do all sorts of useful things like determine the most dominant frequency (highest amplitude), filter out pops and hisses (set selected amplitudes to zero), identification (find nearest match between two sets of data) or just run a funky jumping bar animation when you play your favourite tune.
The FFT can be extended to 2D (and even 3D), then you can do things like image processing, where problems like scratches, speckles and banding can be fixed.
The only problem is that doing all of this requires a lot of floating-point performance coupled with high bandwidth. In the past, this used to be done with Cray supercomputers (vector processors), then dedicated accelerator boards (TMS320's) before being done by desktop CPU's, and now GPU's.
The FFT is used to analyze a continuous signal and break it up into an equivalent set of sine waves, each with its own amplitude and phase. The signal can be anything; undersea microphones, height of sea level, wind direction, or even just your favourite MP3 track.
Once you have a set of frequencies and amplitudes, you can do all sorts of useful things like determine the most dominant frequency (highest amplitude), filter out pops and hisses (set selected amplitudes to zero), or just run a funky jumping bar animation when you play your favourite tune.
Yes, but Silicon Glen concentrated on manufacturing rather than design. They took the chip fabrication plants that Silicon Valley didn't want (due to fears about carcinogens). Many of those products are now being manufactured in the far East.
Silicon Valley also had the 401K plan which gives workers freedom to move between companies, and there's the dual career path option (management vs. technical).
Compare that to the UK where most companies attempt to lock their employees for life in with company pension schemes (and if the company goes bust, so does the employee pension scheme). With the dual career path option, any startup in Silicon Valley has the ability to recruit experienced software and hardware architects within weeks. In many British companies, the attitude has always been "everyone gets pushed up from the interesting work to managment", with the side effect that experienced veteran staff would leave to set up their own companies.
(conveyor belt+oven=patent. obvious, no?).
You would have to do considerable research to make sure that the conveyer belt was mde of materials that would not catch fire, become brittle, or give off fumes that would contaminate the product being cooked. You would need to do the same for the rollers and bearings, and any oil that was needed to keep the system running smoothly.
From my experience of elementary and high school, the qualifications to become a principal were to demonstrate leadership skills through sport (ie. being a jock), with
the consequence that they don't really understand the concept of open debate or freedom of speech. It's more "I'm bigger than you, so do what I say".
The soldiers may develop a strong attachment to a device that can save their life and lives of others, but it's not a bond because the robot can't return the emotion.
But every machine will have its own quirks - maybe the brake/steering system on one machine is slower than other machines, so it tends to bump into things and behave like an excited puppy. Or maybe it is slightly slower and appears more mellow.
Those are purely mechanical effects, but they do give each machine a unique personality. Car reviewers and test pilots report that different models of cars and aeroplanes have their own "personalities" due to the level of responsiveness.
The basic computer skills include:
Basic computer hardware knowledge
Knowing how to fix basic problems with a computer. In some computer labs, the students would "reserve" desktop systems for themselves by turning the brightness all the way down or by loosening the video cable. Other students would just assume the machine was broken and send a fault notice to the helpdesk.
Basic filesystem knowledge - how to create/delete directories, move and copy files. Being able to use CD-ROM/DVD burners, USB keys
Basic keyboarding skills - being able to write punctuated text in a notepad style
text editor.
Basic computer communication skills - knowing how to receive, send, forward and edit E-mail. Understanding of mailing list etiquette. For large corporations, people would blindly use reply-to-all when they have received an E-mail from a mailing list that they were added to by default and tried to unsubscribe.
Basic workdprocessing/spreadsheet skills - being able to load, edit, print and save files, and export these in a variety of file formats.
Basic webpage authoring - how to create webpages with images, hyperlinks and text.
Having opened up a broken LCD screen and repaired it myself (had to resolder a new mini fluorescent tube to the power connector), I've always wanted to see a way of improving the lifetime of the LCD screen.
The first way would be to have a fluorescent tube in a cartridge that could be slotted out of the base of the display. Alternatively, having more but smaller tubes could also be an option. Or even have the display completely detachable so that it could be used as a LCD monitor even if the rest of the laptop became unusable.
I get it now - Sony's computer division make laptop computer. Sony's memory division want to sell MemoryStick cards, so they get the computer division to bundle a MemoryStick read er in every computer, instead of maybe a FlashCard which everyone else seems to use.
You might try a visit to PrisonPlanet
They're one of the major conspiracy theory websites out there, and they do reference
all their sources.
The two major conspiracy theories over 9/11 are that it was either "Let it happen" or "Make it happen". In both cases the desired outcome was that a major terrorist event would give the government freedom to settle old scores.
"Let it happen" was that the terrorists planned their actions on their own, but that any intelligence to suggest something big was going to happen was deliberately ignored.
"Make it happen" was that the terrorists were actually assisted by the government, and that Bin Laden is actually some sort of strawman to allow the "War on Terrorism" to continue.
Perhaps a better idea for a school based game would be to have 'sim high-school' where
the player could act as principal and make the decisions that affect the entire school.
(Focus school funding on one peer group and the others get pissed off, fail to stop overcrowding and watch the place turn into a pressure cooker. Have a zero tolerance policy towards fighting only, and watch the kids try and push each other over the edge instead. Enforce contra-flow systems to solve overcrowded corridors, and watch the ensuing traffic chaos).
For one thing, every division of Sony is clearly at odds with every other division.
Is that any different from having outside competitors? If anything, that should give them extra flexibilty for changing market conditions.
I've just been loboptimized ...
UK buses already have CCTV cameras in place - mainly to discourage kids from vandalising the chairs. The fun part is that some buses actually have a LCD display at the front of the top deck so that everyone else can see what the cameras are seeing. For a double-decker bus, the cameras are strategically placed to capture all the action on the back row of seats on the top deck, the staircase and to a lesser extent, an overall view of all the seats from the front row.
Usually this means that the occupants of the first couple of rows can see the mating habits of the local teenage population in the early evening.
Although it can get a bit confusing at night when you can see both the reflection of the inside of the bus from the front windscreen, and from the LCD display. A couple of goths came up to the top deck and I could see them sit behind me on the LCD display. I looked at the reflection on the front windscreen, and there was nobody there!
You can do a google search for "Great lakes" "nuclear event",
TERRESTRIAL EVIDENCE OF A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE IN PALEOINDIAN TIMES
There seems to be a supernova event that actually managed to heat the atmosphere to 1000C, melt glaciers and possibly cook large mammals as well.
Reminds me of that April Fools announcement "The film and music associations announced today they are going to merge. The new organisations will be known as the Music And Film Industry Association".
Read the article:
"Much of Poland's abundant interest in coding contests can be traced to Tomasz Czajka, who as a multiple TopCoder champion has won more than $100,000 in prize money since the competition began. That has made him something of a national hero back home, and other students have been eager to follow suit."
Having the chance to win $100,000 would be a fairly good incentive for anyone to want enter a programming competition.
Of course I've always though aural/braille would be cool to give my eyes a break.
Obviously, you need the Tongue placed Tactile Output Device
Tactile vision substitution systems (TVSS) deliver visual information to the brain through an array of electrodes in contact with the skin in areas of the body such as the abdomen or fingertip. Points of the visual image are mapped onto individual electrodes within the array as vibration or electrical stimulation. With training, subjects learn to interpret tactile images as visual information, i.e. they experience images in space, rather than on the skin.
The tongue-placed tactile output device is an improved TVSS that uses the tongue as a stimulation site. Electrotactile stimuli are delivered to the top of the tongue when it contacts a flexible electrode array placed in the mouth. A tongue display unit (TDU), connected to the array by a cable passing out of the mouth, excites individual electrodes on the array according to a spatially-encoded signal from an input source, such as a TV camera. In principle, any input that can be converted into a two-dimensional display by the TDU can reach the brain and become part of a new sensory system.
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There is something similar that goes around the road in Europe. It has the same length as the width of a SUV.
SMART car