The computer monitor alternately displays complete left-eye and right-eye images in time (temporally), each time the monitor refreshes. X3D glasses have high-speed electronic shutters (made with Liquid Crystal material), which open and close at the same refresh rate as the monitor, in sync with the page flipped images.
When the left image is on the screen, the left shutter is open and the right shutter is closed, so that the image is viewed only by your left eye. When the right image is on the screen, the right shutter is open and the left shutter is closed, so that the image is viewed only by your right eye. This happens so quickly that the brain perceives 3D depth.
Something as intense as calculations for chess really much push the brain to its "limits." The X3D technology fools the brain into seeing 3D.
I wonder how much this 50% lack of visual stimuli changes the way the chessmaster's brain works here.
I don't know if this would help or hurt the human mind trying to perform these calculations... however, I think it can be said that this is not exactly like playing a person face-to-face.
Our brains do such amazing things... I just wish I could remember where I placed my keys...
Personal webspace is wonderful if for just one thing only--freedom of speech!
Your sig, for example, points to a site that is analogous to other sites that try to prove that man has never walked on the moon.
Knowing some of the doctors that first discovered the HIV virus and seeing the mircle of antiretrovirals work--I, of course, do not agree with your site in the least little bit.
However, I agree that you have a right to write those things. The web and personally owned pages allow you to stay such things... and gives me the right to disagree.
Automated or not -- personal websites support freedom of speech... and that's a good thing.
Steadicopter CEO Tuvia Scgl told "Globes" today that he had no doubt that industrial espionage was behind the theft. "We're convinced that the thief was working for our competitors, because he went directly to the helicopter's location, and broke only the guardrails to that room.
No, not too wierd. One company stealing from another.
Of course, it would be a great insurance fraud as well. Here in the US we just light fire to the build when the business isn't working. Maybe they had somebody steal the device because the project was dying.
but not its computer software or the money in the office
The shmucks stole the device but not the software?
Whatever country tries to reverse engineer this thing is going to have a bitch trying to control it.
In some closed office in a secret country somewhere, some geeks are reading slashdot. The hardware guys are jumping around with the new toy they've got to play with. The software guys are pissed as hell the they've got to write code for this thing.
The SCO seems to be able to put a thorn in the side of the linux community right now.
The fact that SCO has a peripheral investment in the project is important.
It probably decreases the risk of SCO hitting the company with a lawsuit over the use of linux. Plus, some people are so livid over SCO that they may wish not to use anything that is even remotely associated with SCO.
Who is slashdot handing out mod points to these days? I'll see you in metamod.
Phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, computer games, medical equipment, industrial controllers, and other systems need graphical user interface software that is smaller, smarter, faster: and that runs on multiple platforms: including desktop and server platforms.
What worries me about this wonderful Swiss-Army phone is the software. If it ran Palm OS, I could easily continue to use all my current favorite software.
Where do I find software for this beast?
If it runs pure linux stuff, yeah! But if it runs some hybrid, I'll wait a couple of versions down the line until the software is commonplace.
Will anybody affected ever buy TurboTax Again? You think anybody will buy Belkin after this act of stupidity?
These companies just need a couple dozen average slashdot-type geeks to filter their ideas through. We would weed a lot of this stupid crap out. Hell, they could have just posted the idea in the newsgroup and watched the flames pour in.
If I'm going to have some stupid something sitting my windows toolbar section, it might as well do some useful stuff--search google, block pop-ups, and give me pagerank.
Since USA is just a dominate force in the UN, would this really affect us? Yes... it may decrease our freedom of press!
Defenders of the status quo say handing over power to governments could threaten the untrammelled flow of information and ideas that many see as the very essence of the borderless internet.
The internet is based on the ability to put up a web page and shout out my message to whoever wishes to wander by. It's even more powerful than dead-tree press because it reaches more people in a quicker fashion.
UN control is just that--control.
Not only do I not want UN control... I want as little government control as possible! Inforce the laws of your own country on the people in your own country... and leave the rest of us alone.
I have always wanted a bit of code that would replicate in my system and could randomly try to perform natural windows functions.
If it didn't do anything --> it would die If I didn't like it --> it would die
However, it would randomly change and replicate until it did something I liked. Maybe it would even grab programs that I use a lot and try to borrow functions from them.
Things like this are nice experiments for virus-type structures. The virus that works well I would let live and continue to "mutate" and change. The ones that don't... I kill off.
Search code could be this way as well. Randomly change the code and have an external program measure the speed of the searches. If the searches are improving, the external program supports that virus line... if it's get slower, then it would kill it off.
The cool parts of the biology of viruses should be brought to the computer world...... too bad we just focus on the damage that they do.
The IBM representative acknowledged that Microsoft is looking at the company's PowerPC technology, the underlying architecture behind the chips in Apple computers. PowerPC concepts will also be the basis of the Cell processor, which will contain multiple chip cores that handle a variety of tasks.
Microsoft absorbs good ideas from multiple places... Here they are considering powerpc concepts!
As I have said many time... Microsoft is very borg-like! I use and enjoy Microsoft everyday... but their ability to "borrow" technology and ideas is slightly disturbing.
In the last provincial election, for example, only about 55 per cent of the Ontario voters turned out to the polls.
The article really plays up out bad voter turnout is... however, US voter turnout is also right around 50%.
I hate when an article stresses facts that are the normal to push for some radical changes. I agree that non-traditional voting will be a welcomed change. However, don't suggest that Ontario needs it because their turnout is so horrible.
There's an opportunity for desktop Linux in "running a fixed-function machine like a kiosk or ATM, a transactional workstation like a bank teller's station, or a basic office workstation that runs applications that drive business processes," the IBM agenda information said.
Bravo! Use it in places that you want to be able to lock down. I'm so tired of people trying to lock down windows boxes! Sure anybody can install anything on a win box... that's why it's bad for public access.
Our hospital records program runs on the web. Linux and any ole browser would save our computer guys tons of time.
Slashdot Mirror
The computer monitor alternately displays complete left-eye and right-eye images in time (temporally), each time the monitor refreshes. X3D glasses have high-speed electronic shutters (made with Liquid Crystal material), which open and close at the same refresh rate as the monitor, in sync with the page flipped images.
When the left image is on the screen, the left shutter is open and the right shutter is closed, so that the image is viewed only by your left eye. When the right image is on the screen, the right shutter is open and the left shutter is closed, so that the image is viewed only by your right eye. This happens so quickly that the brain perceives 3D depth.
Something as intense as calculations for chess really much push the brain to its "limits." The X3D technology fools the brain into seeing 3D.
I wonder how much this 50% lack of visual stimuli changes the way the chessmaster's brain works here.
I don't know if this would help or hurt the human mind trying to perform these calculations... however, I think it can be said that this is not exactly like playing a person face-to-face.
Our brains do such amazing things... I just wish I could remember where I placed my keys...
Davak
[Event "Man-Machine World Championship"]
[Site "New York"]
[Date "2003.11.16"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "X3D Fritz"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "2830"]
[Annotator "Greengard,M"]
[PlyCount "89"]
{61MB, DELL8200} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. d4 c6 5. e3 a6 {
Diverging from game one.} 6. c5 Nbd7 7. b4 a5 8. b5 e5 9. Qa4 Qc7 10. Ba3 e4
11. Nd2 Be7 12. b6 Qd8 13. h3 O-O 14. Nb3 Bd6 15. Rb1 Be7 16. Nxa5 Nb8 17. Bb4
Qd7 18. Rb2 Qe6 19. Qd1 Nfd7 20. a3 Qh6 21. Nb3 Bh4 22. Qd2 Nf6 23. Kd1 Be6 24.
Kc1 Rd8 25. Rc2 Nbd7 26. Kb2 Nf8 27. a4 Ng6 28. a5 Ne7 29. a6 bxa6 30. Na5 Rdb8
31. g3 Bg5 32. Bg2 Qg6 33. Ka1 Kh8 34. Na2 Bd7 35. Bc3 Ne8 36. Nb4 Kg8 37. Rb1
Bc8 38. Ra2 Bh6 39. Bf1 Qe6 40. Qd1 Nf6 41. Qa4 Bb7 42. Nxb7 Rxb7 43. Nxa6 Qd7
44. Qc2 Kh8 45. Rb3 *
Personal webspace is wonderful if for just one thing only--freedom of speech!
Your sig, for example, points to a site that is analogous to other sites that try to prove that man has never walked on the moon.
Knowing some of the doctors that first discovered the HIV virus and seeing the mircle of antiretrovirals work--I, of course, do not agree with your site in the least little bit.
However, I agree that you have a right to write those things. The web and personally owned pages allow you to stay such things... and gives me the right to disagree.
Automated or not -- personal websites support freedom of speech... and that's a good thing.
Steadicopter CEO Tuvia Scgl told "Globes" today that he had no doubt that industrial espionage was behind the theft. "We're convinced that the thief was working for our competitors, because he went directly to the helicopter's location, and broke only the guardrails to that room.
No, not too wierd. One company stealing from another.
Of course, it would be a great insurance fraud as well. Here in the US we just light fire to the build when the business isn't working. Maybe they had somebody steal the device because the project was dying.
Remind me to sell my TEIC stocks.
but not its computer software or the money in the office
The shmucks stole the device but not the software?
Whatever country tries to reverse engineer this thing is going to have a bitch trying to control it.
In some closed office in a secret country somewhere, some geeks are reading slashdot. The hardware guys are jumping around with the new toy they've got to play with. The software guys are pissed as hell the they've got to write code for this thing.
Stolen? There are only a few superpowers in the world that have the technology to maintain and use such a device.
Possible reasons:
- Ransom
- One time suicide mission
- To cause Israel to lose face (and 5 mil)
- Sale (blah, blah... profit)
It's going to take a very impressive effort to get something like this out of the country without being noticed.
How in the hell is this a troll?
The SCO seems to be able to put a thorn in the side of the linux community right now.
The fact that SCO has a peripheral investment in the project is important.
It probably decreases the risk of SCO hitting the company with a lawsuit over the use of linux. Plus, some people are so livid over SCO that they may wish not to use anything that is even remotely associated with SCO.
Who is slashdot handing out mod points to these days? I'll see you in metamod.
Davak
Trolltech's shares are currently owned by employees, the Trolltech Foundation and investors, with the following distribution:
Employees 64.7%
Borland 8.3%
Trolltech Foundation 5.2%
Orkla ASA 4.3%
Northzone Ventures 4.3%
Teknoinvest 4.3%
Canopy Group 4.1%
Previous employees 3.4%
SCO Group 1.6%
What do you think?
Source
Davak
Hey, we should trade phones!
I want a phone into which I can dictate... then just sync it into my computer and let dragon dictate transcribe it for me.
Palm, page, phone, and dictaphone... my belt makes me look like BATMAN these days.
Davak
Phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, computer games, medical equipment, industrial controllers, and other systems need graphical user interface software that is smaller, smarter, faster: and that runs on multiple platforms: including desktop and server platforms.
What worries me about this wonderful Swiss-Army phone is the software. If it ran Palm OS, I could easily continue to use all my current favorite software.
Where do I find software for this beast?
If it runs pure linux stuff, yeah! But if it runs some hybrid, I'll wait a couple of versions down the line until the software is commonplace.
The same thing is keeping me from switching to VoIP that keeps me switching to cell phone only... 911 access.
When I can pick up my VoIP phone and the cops know where I am, that'll be when I switch.
I just feel better knowing my family can pick up the phone and get immediate help...
Davak
Honestly, this is the most stupid thing since TurboTax decided to write to the boot sector.
Will anybody affected ever buy TurboTax Again?
You think anybody will buy Belkin after this act of stupidity?
These companies just need a couple dozen average slashdot-type geeks to filter their ideas through. We would weed a lot of this stupid crap out. Hell, they could have just posted the idea in the newsgroup and watched the flames pour in.
Somebody will get fired over this...
Davak
- Installing ads onto a router.
- Redirecting all non-existant domains to "sitefinder"
Is this the year for the most stupid marketing ideas on the planet?
lol.
If I only had mod points.
My favorite pop-up blocker is google's toolbar.,
If I'm going to have some stupid something sitting my windows toolbar section, it might as well do some useful stuff--search google, block pop-ups, and give me pagerank.
I love free software.
Davak
Soon pop-up ad companies will be hiring lawyers to attack Microsoft for blocking ads...
Who do we cheer for then? (grin)
Davak
Since USA is just a dominate force in the UN, would this really affect us? Yes... it may decrease our freedom of press!
Defenders of the status quo say handing over power to governments could threaten the untrammelled flow of information and ideas that many see as the very essence of the borderless internet.
The internet is based on the ability to put up a web page and shout out my message to whoever wishes to wander by. It's even more powerful than dead-tree press because it reaches more people in a quicker fashion.
UN control is just that--control.
Not only do I not want UN control... I want as little government control as possible! Inforce the laws of your own country on the people in your own country... and leave the rest of us alone.
Davak
I have always wanted a bit of code that would replicate in my system and could randomly try to perform natural windows functions.
... too bad we just focus on the damage that they do.
If it didn't do anything --> it would die
If I didn't like it --> it would die
However, it would randomly change and replicate until it did something I liked. Maybe it would even grab programs that I use a lot and try to borrow functions from them.
Things like this are nice experiments for virus-type structures. The virus that works well I would let live and continue to "mutate" and change. The ones that don't... I kill off.
Search code could be this way as well. Randomly change the code and have an external program measure the speed of the searches. If the searches are improving, the external program supports that virus line... if it's get slower, then it would kill it off.
The cool parts of the biology of viruses should be brought to the computer world...
Davak
IBM helps microsoft build chips -- boo!
IBM brings linux to the desktop -- yeah!
IBM develops evil patents -- boo!
I'm confused. Do we like or hate big blue this week?
Davak
The IBM representative acknowledged that Microsoft is looking at the company's PowerPC technology, the underlying architecture behind the chips in Apple computers. PowerPC concepts will also be the basis of the Cell processor, which will contain multiple chip cores that handle a variety of tasks.
Microsoft absorbs good ideas from multiple places... Here they are considering powerpc concepts!
As I have said many time... Microsoft is very borg-like! I use and enjoy Microsoft everyday... but their ability to "borrow" technology and ideas is slightly disturbing.
Davak
In the last provincial election, for example, only about 55 per cent of the Ontario voters turned out to the polls.
The article really plays up out bad voter turnout is... however, US voter turnout is also right around 50%.
I hate when an article stresses facts that are the normal to push for some radical changes. I agree that non-traditional voting will be a welcomed change. However, don't suggest that Ontario needs it because their turnout is so horrible.
Davak
Isn't too easy to buy votes here?
People could just sell their PIN numbers and large banks of people sit at phones all day voting by using these bought PINs.
Boo on the original posting!
This has nothing to do with open source on the home user's desktop.
The article "Red Hat: Stick with Windows at home" describes why home users should stick with windows (or macs or whatever open source.)
This article is dealing with linux on the desktop when a system needs to give its users a closed, locked-down interface!
Apples meet oranges.
Davak
There's an opportunity for desktop Linux in "running a fixed-function machine like a kiosk or ATM, a transactional workstation like a bank teller's station, or a basic office workstation that runs applications that drive business processes," the IBM agenda information said.
Bravo! Use it in places that you want to be able to lock down. I'm so tired of people trying to lock down windows boxes! Sure anybody can install anything on a win box... that's why it's bad for public access.
Our hospital records program runs on the web. Linux and any ole browser would save our computer guys tons of time.
Oh, well... Good luck.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2F srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220030159071%22.PGN R.&OS=DN/20030159071&RS=DN/20030159071
The supplied link goes to an error page. What's up with that? Anybody have a link to the correct page?