The short answer is I expect no, but here's the long answer why.
A Cat5/6 cable has multiple twisted pairs. To reduce inter-signal interference, the pairs are made with different twist rates per foot. This results in slight distance differences between pairs resulting in up to 50 foot length difference internally per 1000 feet. Now, since standard video such as VGA or component video is usually separated into RBG and (maybe) sync lines, the cable length differences result in delay of one or more of the analog video signals relative to each other and this shows up as actual and visible color fringing with a normal cable. (I've seen it.) The solution is that conventional video over Cat5/6 requires active electronics (some vendors use delay lines but those are hard to time-adjust and it locks you to a known cable vendor/mfg spec) to support clean video. This raises the cost. My basis for this is that I'm involved in video conferencing systems, some using long-run video cable in a building as well as packet-based video for external destinations. If HDBaseT involves manufacturers shifting to packet-based video, it's going to be a very interesting different world, because this will require devices on each end to use codecs and video to/from packets, raising costs for consumer electronics.
Only if the gross gains in closing juncture exceed the long-term sustainability goals of the viability imperative for all mass interoperability. We at Mega Industries believe this will move us forward to our cloud-based monetization of the human-media dynamic which is strategically important in an ever-evolving mobile continuum. We have directed our customer experience champions to ensure consumers realize this when they call in with emphatic expressions of dissatisfaction.
And here's another one along similar lines. Some time ago, someone's network went down regularly at the same time every evening. In the end, it was found that the bank on the floors below was turning on a microwave-based motion detector after closing. Perhaps in this WiFi case, something industrial or commercial is being activated nightly nearby? 8:30 to 10 seems a lot like cleaning staff hours. Maybe a floor polisher motor or vacuum with bad brushes putting out a lot of EMI.
Those times when I dream I'm coding Wolfram Alpha in Visual Basic, I know it's a dream. Also when some guy in a red and green shirt and floppy hat shows up ready to claw me to death, and when he gets closer I see it's Bill Gates. And when I'm in a helicopter with a woman who's shooting penguins, and then Sarah Palin turns to me with a weird look and asks "Don't you have Linux on your laptop?"
Of course the comment that AI is simply pattern matching is either a troll or horribly naive.
I feel that the Bayesian approach has areas of application but is flawed in important ways. If you feed a probabilistic reasoning system a set of encycolopedias but also a set of fantasy novels, then ask it whether demons exist, it may well say, yes, they might. The system cannot reason logically about cause and effect from rigorous models, but only probabilistically from models derived from sample data. Unless I fail to understand Goodman's Church-based implementation. So the system places a burden on the system manager to be a gatekeeper for truth in source data. But then the system is vulnerable to their mistakes in choice, and I would think it requires the human manager to do a lot of analytic work.
I completely agree with the Swiss; we have to stop such morally repugnant games. There's a horrible, violent game that involves killing your opponent's players with the goal of utterly crushing him. A good way to win it is by brutally murdering his key female player. This game engenders the spirit of war in children and teaches them to think carefully how to destroy others.
That's why this terrible game called chess has to be banned.
You can't fool me! They got Stanley Kubrick to spray-paint a potato silver and photograph it against a black background. We never went to Mars, it's all Industrial Light and Magic sworn to secrecy. Damn you, George Lucas!
I agree. A lot of today's 'science fiction' movies or TV media don't understand the critical difference between science fiction and science fantasy. True science fiction is substantially logical and derives from established truths together with a few key core assumptions that are believable extrapolations. But science fantasy often instead merely overlays the vocabulary of science/technology as a sugary coating over the rotten filling of bad soft science coupled with illogical and unfounded jumps over cause and effect and logic. It's generally not easy for anyone technical to suspend disbelief over some of the whoppers commonly in this kind of thing. The British Dr Who under the noncredible Russell T Davies was pretty cringeworthy in this way, for example. The Docter getting a hand get cut off only to immediately regenerate a new one in 30 seconds. Egad. Even a 12 year old won't buy that.
But good past media science fiction even in the crude 1950s was fairly credible. Take Forbidden Planet for example. For me, even as old as it is now, it's still more enjoyable than STNG which made me wince, too often.
Gimme the best of the good old days and enough of these callow soft-sci pretenders, time for some pros instead of amateurs.
I have to defend them. I've been over to Willow Garage and seen their machines. These are serious platforms capable of tooling around a building on their own, solid hardware. Not some Lego Mindstorms. While yes one can develop some robotics in a virtual space, eventually you do have to send these things out into the real world to do things. Willow Garage has put a lot of effort into these. Note that they support the OpenCV vision software and these robots can tool around analyzing things in the space around them. And they have arms and hands. I can see where they could operate on the floors in a hospital delivering things, maybe even towing a wheelchair, take parts from place to place, do things 24/7 where a person couldn't. Legs aren't needed for all robotics.
Wasn't it the Vikings who first attempted brain dissection? I believe it was Doctor Thor "Berserker Dougie" Houser who pioneered this in a remote fishing village. With sad results, as the patient was not only still alive but clinging to his leg. Never tell a Viking doctor you lied about having health insurance coverage, and do not have money hidden in your hut.
Of course, in this historic event, after the buffer overflow at the SRI end, another Internet first occurred: the Sys Admin's pager went off at 3 AM, awakening him with a demand he rush over and fix things. This was the beginning of a glorious future for Sys Admins everywhere.
While I appreciate the effort people went through to develop this thing, when I got a chance to interact with a Pleo I found it pretty much useless. It was slow and sluggish, and its behavior was light years away from usable or realistic or entertaining. It didn't behave in any engaging way, it didn't DO anything worth a darn. In direct comparison with a Cybie, which was way cheaper, the Cybie performed in more interesting ways yet was a less sophisticated device. I remember waving the Pleo's leaf toy in front of the Pleo, and the dino did not respond to the (simulated) food item. It was a prop and not good for anything at all. Pleo was dumber than a normal pet and was bland and offered no reason to interact with it past five minutes of experiments.
And the remaining people were VBA programmers working on creating MS Office Assistants named "Microsoft Ron" and "Clippy Xenu". The company was soon sold to Adobe for $1.4 billion, after which the assigned product manager committed suicide and the products were never seen again.
Yes, I read about that in Off-Road Rolls-Royce Magazine years ago. It carried articles about "Four-wheel Drive and Your Rolls", "Shooting Quail from Your Rolls", "Cooking Potatoes in Aluminium Foil on Your Engine", and "What to Do If Your Driver Is Eaten by a Bear".
Mr. A. Dumbledore, of Little Tweeting, England, writes to say "I fail to see why magnetic fields are necessary to levitate mice. I personally make them fly using a hand wave and the incantation 'sudo rodentus soarus'. Befuddling the owls sometimes, of course."
This why I, Senator John W. Dismal of the State of Confusion, am sponsoring the Amish Computing Initiative Bill which seeks to establish funding for non-electronic computing using bovine technology. I've been told we can achieve 100 Mega cow-flops per second with massive parallel-processing grain-fed logic mechanisms, called 'herds'. Those crazy wonderful inventive Amish in my district. In addition, the computers can provide some mighty fine ice cream. America does not have to be dependent on a grid that may go down. We are also anticipating funding MIT to research hamster-powered PDAs. Some of the faculty have expressed unusual interest in gerbils, too. I say let them, but don't come crying to me if you end up in the emergency room with duct tape, professors. That's all the time I have to spare, I have to go pick up a bribe. Oops. I mean see a lobbyist.
Careful analysis tells me it is absolutely necessary for the survival of the human race to investigate photon emission from women. Since cloth would interfere with measurements, experiments will have to be clothing-free, and in a dark room. Volunteers are needed, apply now. Scientific requirements show a need for women between 18 and 40 with large busts. No pay, but refreshments will be served in sufficient quantities to achieve experimental results.
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A Cat5/6 cable has multiple twisted pairs. To reduce inter-signal interference, the pairs are made with different twist rates per foot. This results in slight distance differences between pairs resulting in up to 50 foot length difference internally per 1000 feet. Now, since standard video such as VGA or component video is usually separated into RBG and (maybe) sync lines, the cable length differences result in delay of one or more of the analog video signals relative to each other and this shows up as actual and visible color fringing with a normal cable. (I've seen it.) The solution is that conventional video over Cat5/6 requires active electronics (some vendors use delay lines but those are hard to time-adjust and it locks you to a known cable vendor/mfg spec) to support clean video. This raises the cost. My basis for this is that I'm involved in video conferencing systems, some using long-run video cable in a building as well as packet-based video for external destinations. If HDBaseT involves manufacturers shifting to packet-based video, it's going to be a very interesting different world, because this will require devices on each end to use codecs and video to/from packets, raising costs for consumer electronics.
Only if the gross gains in closing juncture exceed the long-term sustainability goals of the viability imperative for all mass interoperability. We at Mega Industries believe this will move us forward to our cloud-based monetization of the human-media dynamic which is strategically important in an ever-evolving mobile continuum. We have directed our customer experience champions to ensure consumers realize this when they call in with emphatic expressions of dissatisfaction.
2.4GHz wireless phones could do this, and other devices including Bluetooth. Reference this past Slashdot post: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/15/1833245.shtml
And here's another one along similar lines. Some time ago, someone's network went down regularly at the same time every evening. In the end, it was found that the bank on the floors below was turning on a microwave-based motion detector after closing. Perhaps in this WiFi case, something industrial or commercial is being activated nightly nearby? 8:30 to 10 seems a lot like cleaning staff hours. Maybe a floor polisher motor or vacuum with bad brushes putting out a lot of EMI.
I believe the whales call this the 'crap and trade' program, and write it off their corporate taxes.
Those times when I dream I'm coding Wolfram Alpha in Visual Basic, I know it's a dream. Also when some guy in a red and green shirt and floppy hat shows up ready to claw me to death, and when he gets closer I see it's Bill Gates. And when I'm in a helicopter with a woman who's shooting penguins, and then Sarah Palin turns to me with a weird look and asks "Don't you have Linux on your laptop?"
Astronomers first detected this when an analysis found Jupiter was wearing suspenders and a bra and singing the Lumberjack Song.
I'll be damned if I'll have sex with something that has a small compressor powering it. Oh nuts - I hit return before I edited this.
I feel that the Bayesian approach has areas of application but is flawed in important ways. If you feed a probabilistic reasoning system a set of encycolopedias but also a set of fantasy novels, then ask it whether demons exist, it may well say, yes, they might. The system cannot reason logically about cause and effect from rigorous models, but only probabilistically from models derived from sample data. Unless I fail to understand Goodman's Church-based implementation. So the system places a burden on the system manager to be a gatekeeper for truth in source data. But then the system is vulnerable to their mistakes in choice, and I would think it requires the human manager to do a lot of analytic work.
-- Brain
That's why this terrible game called chess has to be banned.
You can't fool me! They got Stanley Kubrick to spray-paint a potato silver and photograph it against a black background. We never went to Mars, it's all Industrial Light and Magic sworn to secrecy. Damn you, George Lucas!
I agree. A lot of today's 'science fiction' movies or TV media don't understand the critical difference between science fiction and science fantasy. True science fiction is substantially logical and derives from established truths together with a few key core assumptions that are believable extrapolations. But science fantasy often instead merely overlays the vocabulary of science/technology as a sugary coating over the rotten filling of bad soft science coupled with illogical and unfounded jumps over cause and effect and logic. It's generally not easy for anyone technical to suspend disbelief over some of the whoppers commonly in this kind of thing. The British Dr Who under the noncredible Russell T Davies was pretty cringeworthy in this way, for example. The Docter getting a hand get cut off only to immediately regenerate a new one in 30 seconds. Egad. Even a 12 year old won't buy that. But good past media science fiction even in the crude 1950s was fairly credible. Take Forbidden Planet for example. For me, even as old as it is now, it's still more enjoyable than STNG which made me wince, too often. Gimme the best of the good old days and enough of these callow soft-sci pretenders, time for some pros instead of amateurs.
T-Zone was the outfit that moved in.
I have to defend them. I've been over to Willow Garage and seen their machines. These are serious platforms capable of tooling around a building on their own, solid hardware. Not some Lego Mindstorms. While yes one can develop some robotics in a virtual space, eventually you do have to send these things out into the real world to do things. Willow Garage has put a lot of effort into these. Note that they support the OpenCV vision software and these robots can tool around analyzing things in the space around them. And they have arms and hands. I can see where they could operate on the floors in a hospital delivering things, maybe even towing a wheelchair, take parts from place to place, do things 24/7 where a person couldn't. Legs aren't needed for all robotics.
Wasn't it the Vikings who first attempted brain dissection? I believe it was Doctor Thor "Berserker Dougie" Houser who pioneered this in a remote fishing village. With sad results, as the patient was not only still alive but clinging to his leg. Never tell a Viking doctor you lied about having health insurance coverage, and do not have money hidden in your hut.
Obviously you're never experienced Braille subtitles. What are you, isolated?
Of course, in this historic event, after the buffer overflow at the SRI end, another Internet first occurred: the Sys Admin's pager went off at 3 AM, awakening him with a demand he rush over and fix things. This was the beginning of a glorious future for Sys Admins everywhere.
While I appreciate the effort people went through to develop this thing, when I got a chance to interact with a Pleo I found it pretty much useless. It was slow and sluggish, and its behavior was light years away from usable or realistic or entertaining. It didn't behave in any engaging way, it didn't DO anything worth a darn. In direct comparison with a Cybie, which was way cheaper, the Cybie performed in more interesting ways yet was a less sophisticated device. I remember waving the Pleo's leaf toy in front of the Pleo, and the dino did not respond to the (simulated) food item. It was a prop and not good for anything at all. Pleo was dumber than a normal pet and was bland and offered no reason to interact with it past five minutes of experiments.
Exterminate -- CATS! (followed by futile gesture with what looks like a Plunger of Death)
And the remaining people were VBA programmers working on creating MS Office Assistants named "Microsoft Ron" and "Clippy Xenu". The company was soon sold to Adobe for $1.4 billion, after which the assigned product manager committed suicide and the products were never seen again.
Yes, I read about that in Off-Road Rolls-Royce Magazine years ago. It carried articles about "Four-wheel Drive and Your Rolls", "Shooting Quail from Your Rolls", "Cooking Potatoes in Aluminium Foil on Your Engine", and "What to Do If Your Driver Is Eaten by a Bear".
Mr. A. Dumbledore, of Little Tweeting, England, writes to say "I fail to see why magnetic fields are necessary to levitate mice. I personally make them fly using a hand wave and the incantation 'sudo rodentus soarus'. Befuddling the owls sometimes, of course."
This why I, Senator John W. Dismal of the State of Confusion, am sponsoring the Amish Computing Initiative Bill which seeks to establish funding for non-electronic computing using bovine technology. I've been told we can achieve 100 Mega cow-flops per second with massive parallel-processing grain-fed logic mechanisms, called 'herds'. Those crazy wonderful inventive Amish in my district. In addition, the computers can provide some mighty fine ice cream. America does not have to be dependent on a grid that may go down. We are also anticipating funding MIT to research hamster-powered PDAs. Some of the faculty have expressed unusual interest in gerbils, too. I say let them, but don't come crying to me if you end up in the emergency room with duct tape, professors. That's all the time I have to spare, I have to go pick up a bribe. Oops. I mean see a lobbyist.
Careful analysis tells me it is absolutely necessary for the survival of the human race to investigate photon emission from women. Since cloth would interfere with measurements, experiments will have to be clothing-free, and in a dark room. Volunteers are needed, apply now. Scientific requirements show a need for women between 18 and 40 with large busts. No pay, but refreshments will be served in sufficient quantities to achieve experimental results.