People who are going to skip class will either way, and they'll eventually get a copy regardless of your counter measures. Why make the "good" students jump through hoops or make the job overly difficult for yourself?
Applying this system to business (especially pharmaceuticals) is a horrible idea
Not necessarily. Allowing Joe Q. Public to partake in the market would be a bad idea. Allowing the designers, testers, etc. to (anonymously?) participate is a great idea. Check out The Wisdom of Crowds for a great read.
I remember that the DoD tried something like this with terrorism but cancelled it because of public outrage.
Cancelled before it was ever used. It probably would have worked, too.
There is nothing this room can do that a decent set of VR goggles can achieve.
Except create a display with high resolution.
I mean, this thing has to produce a spherical projection for every single point in the viewers space, its got to be crunching far too much data.
Data crunching is realivly easy. The real bottleneck comes when you need to dispaly all the points.
I personally don't see the benefits of this virtual magic carpet ride for the outlay required.
Me either, and I'm working with (only) a 4-sided VR cave at my uni.
Can you tell me one logical reason why anyone might think that people with stiff, cold fingers would not make more typing errors than people with normal fingers? That's the point of the whole thing: only an idiot would need to test that hypothesis. That's like testing to decide if people who read non-fiction often like non-fiction.
I can imagine that there are certain situations where the working environment should be kept (or simply is by nature) very cold. It might be interesting (or vital) for those in said situation to know what their expected error rates or potentials are.
>once lost a Mars spacecraft because engineers mixed up metric and imperial units.
I'm getting pretty tired of this sound (text?) bite the media throws out. It wasn't mixed up units; it was error accumulation from switching back and forth between the units.
> I mean what are the odds one of the 3 people
> have made me their friend has the same birthday
> as me and mentions it in a place I'd see.....
Well, in a random group of only 23 people the odds of two people having the same birth day is better than a coin flip.
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Well, of course, how else would you do it? It's so simple.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mung
> Google earth in a browser
They have that: http://code.google.com/apis/earth/
And here's a picture of the keyboard: http://www.thedoteaters.com/images/photos/DLthayers_kbd.jpg
Great game, by the way.
6 ** log_6(3) = 3.
No 6 in that resulting number!
Linky to a very appropriate Toothpaste For Dinner comic. I suspect most people here are dicks.
I thought this would have come from the preaching-to-the-choir dept.
Seeing as sysadmins are the ones reading slashdot, I foresee a tonne of self nominations.
Tracking images/graphics while developing a web site?
Would you choose an ad-supported online version of Microsoft Office over other free options like OpenOffice or Google Apps for Your Domain?
Of course we wouldn't. But then again, this is slashdot you're trying to troll.
Could this be a next-generation Power Glove? If so, Nintendo for the win!
People who are going to skip class will either way, and they'll eventually get a copy regardless of your counter measures. Why make the "good" students jump through hoops or make the job overly difficult for yourself?
Not necessarily. Allowing Joe Q. Public to partake in the market would be a bad idea. Allowing the designers, testers, etc. to (anonymously?) participate is a great idea. Check out The Wisdom of Crowds for a great read.
I remember that the DoD tried something like this with terrorism but cancelled it because of public outrage.Cancelled before it was ever used. It probably would have worked, too.
Here's what I use:
a2ps -o output.ps --prologue=color SOURCECODE.c
lpr output.ps
I love it.
There is nothing this room can do that a decent set of VR goggles can achieve.
Except create a display with high resolution.
I mean, this thing has to produce a spherical projection for every single point in the viewers space, its got to be crunching far too much data.
Data crunching is realivly easy. The real bottleneck comes when you need to dispaly all the points.
I personally don't see the benefits of this virtual magic carpet ride for the outlay required.
Me either, and I'm working with (only) a 4-sided VR cave at my uni.
Double the battery time, quadruple the memory, and sell for $500. Profit!
Can you tell me one logical reason why anyone might think that people with stiff, cold fingers would not make more typing errors than people with normal fingers? That's the point of the whole thing: only an idiot would need to test that hypothesis. That's like testing to decide if people who read non-fiction often like non-fiction.
I can imagine that there are certain situations where the working environment should be kept (or simply is by nature) very cold. It might be interesting (or vital) for those in said situation to know what their expected error rates or potentials are.
I was all excited, until I saw the price for the SPA-3000 was $149.95 Maybe I'll wait a bit...
Is there an extension for firefox that adds a dictionary search field (like it has the google search field)?
My version of Firefox had it right out of the box. Just click on the "G" in your search field and select "Dictionary.com". Done.
Anyway, all that's mute.
mute != moot
>once lost a Mars spacecraft because engineers mixed up metric and imperial units.
I'm getting pretty tired of this sound (text?) bite the media throws out. It wasn't mixed up units; it was error accumulation from switching back and forth between the units.
Jesus, that got mangled. Let's try again...
> I mean what are the odds one of the 3 people
> have made me their friend has the same birthday
> as me and mentions it in a place I'd see.....
Well, in a random group of only 23 people the odds of two people having the same birth day is better than a coin flip.
> I mean what are the odds one of the 3 people > have made me their friend has the same birthday > as me and mentions it in a place I'd see..... Well, in a random group of only 23 people the odds of two people having the same birth day is better than a coin flip.
Nope. I just got my free ones (I pulled two of three possible) last week. Both were done online as quickly as I could validate myself.