SOX, CISP, GLBA, HIPPA as the most expensive for corporations. I can speak to CISP and HIPPA from a professional standpoint. The others I cannot.
CISP compliance has a serious impact in that test environments cannot use raw customer data for testing for banks. Sanitized data must be used in test environments normally. In the event of a product fix that needs to be testing back in a test environment offshore resources for instance cannot have access to those environments and the data must be documented and exist only for a limited time. Pulling 20,000 records for testing for instance may take 4-6 hours pre-CISP but post CISP the sanitization process may push that out to 5-10 hours. If you are attempting to do that process in the evening, with only a 6 to 8 hour window CISP meant that many had to beef up their systems to ensure the process was complete within the window. For smaller banks the costs must have been harsh. Updating software, policies and procedures can easily rack up a 6000 labor hours in the first year.
On average CISP complaince can double the turn around time of a production fix (say 20-60 hours of labor) into 40-80 hours for turn around. YOu have an entire chain of events that fire off and kicking out certain staff due to the existence of customer information takes time with SAPs, VPN connectivity, etc... Great for the customer, I cannot argue it, but expensive.
HIPPA I can speak to growing up in hospitals and clinics as well as painting in those locations part time. Part of the requirement that I see directly is, if I have to paint a clinic or office the clinic staff (not I the painter) has to go through and ensure that ANY AND ALL patient documentation is out of sight prior to me starting. HIPPA has too many "reasonable" language mistakes in it as who defines "reasonable"? The judge? Lawyers? JACO? Who? So paranoia is high with patient data (as it should be.) But getting staff to lock all that up prior to maintenance adds time.
Another hidden factor is space. A clinic now has to try and keep other patients out of ear shot pushing the lobby out farther.
Further segragation of roles and even something as simple as those privacy screens add up. In a typical hospital with 200 computers in it let us say, means at $10 bucks a screen you have $2000 in new expenses.
I've seen a few locations require the inter-office mail couriers to have locked boxes while moving around the facility. Those have to cost at least $350 bucks a box for those.
Now all those HIPPA forms are going to double if not triple the amount of paper you are ordering. Liability and insured communications also increase costs and add delays. More cerified mail goes out now as far as I can see since HIPPA also.
One thing to keep in mind is that ANY GOVERMENT COMPLIANCE that exists is disporotionally expensive to smaller organizations. SOX killed a lot of smaller corporations due to the cost of compliance. The smallest get exemptions, the largest can afford it, it's the mid-size businesses that get crushed.
The car is a reference to Fallout 3. When you shoot the 200+ year old nuclear powered car it starts on fire (it's all metal, what exactly is burning?!) then explodes into a mini-nuke.
All this and they still can't make a coffee pot that can brew an entire 12 cup pot in under 60 seconds without burning the coffee.
Seriously can we get some important technology invented to make our lives easier.
For instance can I get a roomba retrofitted to water my lawn for me? For under $200 bucks?
How about some color changing siding that doesn't bust every time a golf-ball sized piece of hail hits it for less then cement siding.
Self cleaning ceiling fan blades would be nice too...
Self milking cows?
A dog poop scooper that gets under the poop without ripping up the grass...
Yeah! super hard mini-rods. That will make my toast toast faster....
ZZzzz...
Where is my poorly done art-deco nuclear powered car that conspicuously blows up after being abandoned for over 200 years and subsequently shot. Oddly this car will also smoke and burst into flames before blowing up... What the hell is burning in it? After 200 years there isn't going to be any upolhstry left....
Where was I? Who the hell are you people and how did you get on my series of tubes!?!?
Why the hell would anyone in their right mind in business pursue #1? I have no idea what company you work for but normally compaines don't hire inexperienced programmers. Why would I waste money on somone who isn't experienced?
1. Experienced programmers are expensive.
2. The task at hand may not require an experienced programmer.
3. Once the inexperienced programmer gains experience, he may be less expensive than hiring an experienced programmer in the first place (if he's a sucker and sticks around. Remember that the larged salary increases usually happen by switching jobs).
1: So is failure. 2: Then it is cheaper to outsource the task to an external vendor. 3: With programming costs these days that investment in US labor rarely has a return on it. With 3% inflation and only 5% productivity improvements per year on average I'm only coming out head 2% on my labor. That is a pretty crappy return on investment in labor. Add in health care and annual 3-5% raises I lose. A lot. There is no incentive. Even if a can clear someone at 10% under market rate they're a liability after 3 years. I'd have to get someone at least 50% off market rate to make it even worth considering and the costs involved with missing deadlines... an inexperienced programmer would never clear the risk analysts.
Production can use UP to 950 MIPS. With 5% reserved for system overhead.
Lets Say out of that 950 production is using only 100 MIPS at the moment. That leaves 850 left.
VM2 must, in contrast to VM3 and VM4 must have access to 213 MIPS roughly. (25% of the 850 remaining.)
VM3 and VM4 cannot steal any of those 213 MIPS as they are earmarked for VM2. But per their own configuration can borrow from the remaning 637 that are now remaining that are not earmarked except when they are capped.
Now for most processors you can run a quick MIPS benchmark and get a rough % to MIP conversion (You'll never get an true measure as some instructions are SIMD and MIMD) so CPU cycle level accounting isn't always an option.
The reason for this scenario varies from industry to industry. But when contracts get written that says "My system environment that I am paying X dollars for will always have X MIPS allocated to it", you have to be able to provide those hard targets to meet the contract requirements.
Hence for instance a hosting company running both web service and say a counter strike server they could set hard targets for the web VM and soft borrow options for the Counter-strike server (or vise versa since the CS server is time sensitive).
This also in larger clustered fabrics allow for controlling\protecting against a slashdot like effect in CPU usage rather then bandwidth.
Going into distributed cloud computing this would come in handy for commoditizing distributed CPU usage as a utility (you give us a VM with X SLA and we pay you 1 cent per MIP hour we get from that VM.)
First off free dating sight have very very POOR success at long term relationships. Even match.com which charges has terrible success. Getting laid isn't the measure of success of a dating service. Nor is finding a match. Long term relationships are the measure of success and few free internet dating sites can show success at a 5 year mark.
A lawyer making $215,00 a year can go to a dating service that charges $100 a month for a membership.
What it does is blocks out ever broke scrub out there that can't afford $100 a month.
Somone willing to pay $200 a month is far more serious about finding a long term match thne hottie0091 is on yahoo personals.
You seem bitter and angry. Calling people who use dating services desparate is insulting and just plain arrogant. Some people are just too busy to to hang out in places to meet people.
You are a disgrace; although the character you have show, tells me you care little of the example you set.
Pair programming is the most effective in the circumstance that makes the best use of it - two circumstances to be exact :
1. Pair an experienced programmer with an inexperienced programmer.
Why the hell would anyone in their right mind in business pursue #1? I have no idea what company you work for but normally compaines don't hire inexperienced programmers. Why would I waste money on somone who isn't experienced? The whole point of interviews, resumes, and searching for canidates is to get the best, qualified person for the dollar amount. I get a project specification on Jan 3rd and it needs to be in production in 13 weeks. I don't go out and hire inexperienced programmers for 13 weeks. Not 1. 13 weeks gives me at most 6 builds for integration testing and another 4 for user acceptance and business line testing. Where ever you work, enjoy it, the rest of us don't have the luxury of having someone with experience wasting time mentoring on the company and project's dime. You suggestion of #2 is far more acceptable but #1? We fire poor performers, we do not waste time and money on them. This may work in public education and the public sector but businesses can't afford bad staff.
I am old enough where every AC\DC song sounds the same. Do you honestly think studying tuning theory is going to correct my musical bias?:) Hell at the rate I am going John Tesh and Ozzie will sound the same in a few years:)
Anyways I am too old and cranky to become a music major at this age...
No religion that I have found actually has an end of the world. None. Of course at closer inspection I haven't found a true polytheistic religion either unless we go to the expired ones that have slipped into Mythology. Even from what I know of mezoamerican mythology and ancient religions an actual end of existience doesn't come up as best I can remember. I could be wrong but true "end of the world"'s are rare.
I see just fine and lived through all of them. Since Honest Abe the deomcrats and republicans have held tight control ever since.
Every policy I have seen come down in my lifetime has never been about the good of the country as a whole. Just merely getting more of their own party in power at the expense of the whole.
Criticise Obama, your a racist. Criticise Bush, your a commie or socialist. Criticise Clinton, your a neocon. Criticise Carter, your a facist.
I've heard it all and the tools you proclaim are long gone. You cannot get an journalism out of the news anymore, just political nonsense. They hammer out 2000 page legislation that you can't even read in time before it goes to vote, most represenatives not even bothering to read it going to the party leaders for how they should vote rather then their constiuency.
You cannot field a 3rd party canidate due to financial contraints.
I studied history my whole life. Nothing in the last 10 years has been a suprise, nothing in the next 10 I doubt will either.
The tools no longer exist for political discourse and change. You are more then welcome to define these tools but I doubt they hold up to scrutiny. Welcome to the new feudal age.
If that were the case congress wouldn't have 20% approval ratings and we wouldn't be nearing a second civil war. The nation is at staggering speeds heading to another split but that is a whole new discussion there...
and a new way for your pets to play with you and play with it themselves.
My cats already play with a DVD of nothing but butterflies on the screen. An interactive version could keep my cats happy for hours while I am at work.
Precision can be increased with reflective dots integrated for high degree of control. A simple set of elastic\velcro bands with a reflective dot (if their tech supports it) can increase a system like this to 1/4 inch resolution. By integrating more dots beyond just say ankles and wrists the software can inprove resolution by using more reference dots on the individual and measuring changes between all the dots against one another (swarm detection).
Same tech that is used for MoCap. More dots (be they reflectors, emitters, etc..) means better resolution.
As far as digital art, most artists I see use pressure sensitive touchpads\touchscreens not mice. I can only assume you are talking about CAD and enginneering type tasks.
My rough guess (to the best of my understanding about mocap tech), at 1080p, to meet your precision requirement would take a dot (transmitter or reflector) about 1/2 inch at a distance from the TV about 3 feet with no more then 12 dots total.
Another option would be to put a pair of reference dots behind the participant that the software can use for Z depth calibration to improve tracking the dots or tracking the player's extremities.
It's a damn good start with only better resolution to come. The point though, due to a wide variety of body types and physical condition is to not have too high of a resolution, face it some of us aren't that flexible.
While many are missing the practical application of this in gaming is not so much just full body games.
As several readers pointed out Minority Report gives us an excellent idea of how it can be used. In addition for those that remember Black and White's gestures a wide variety of discrete tools come along with this.
Flipping through button bars, resizing things, and a wide variety of gesture controls will have a major impact in an area many of you are missing.
Carpel Tunnel and other Repetitive Stress injuries.
By distributing the "interface" or "input" beyond just the hands the stress could be much lower over all.
In addition by integrating minor physical activity you are adding additional burned calories (even if it is just 1 or 2 additional a day) you are improving health and using the human body the way it was mean to be used, as a multi functional device.
Many have pointed out my weird typos, the fact it I use voice dication mostly at home now (hands aren't so good anymore) and the Wii was a nice break since the thumb\analog stick that most consoles use now can give me stabbing pain after about 30 minutes now. Imagine Punch Out redone with the full body detection!
But even taking sport games out of it (why typecast an inteface) top down shooters for instance and Space Harrier\Top Gun behind the ship type games can be piloted by your hand (who hasn't done that as a kid?!)
Unlike the Wii controller, by removing the physical controller you are also reducing the risk fo damage to the controller.
This also opens up a wide variety of aids for people learning martial arts (practicing a kata for instance), learning to dance, and the applications for hospitals for physical therapy (which is tearfully boring) would aid in what is usually called Occupational Therapy (doing things).
The innovation is actually more then I think even the developers realize.
Think of an MMO + Gesture Controls
It opens up games to people that also may not even have hands! Athritic people may have better access to games (spefic to hands). I see this alot in retirement homes. The Wii controller + an elastic band glove gives some arthritic people the ability to play several of the games, bowling is popular.
This is gesture control without having to have a touch screen people.
Sonny Bono, Hatch, both parties? There is only one party.
They are Legion, they are many.
I see little difference between Clinton, Bush, Obama, Carter, etc.
I see 1 party. The "Goverment as a Business" party whom we shall now refer to as the GAAB party comprising two idealogies:
Left: The Goverment Controls Business Right: Business Control the Goverment
but either way THEY CONTROL YOU.
Seriously this partisan nonsense has to end, neither party has shown any credibitity in over 80 years and have done nothing for the nation as a whole, rather they have done plenty for themselves.
When the USA stopped making real things and moved to a service economy the only thing we have left is our imaginary property that was long ago only supposed to be protected for 7 years has turned into a generation spanning con game with society at large losing in the end.
Now as that society rebels watch carefully as the GAABs show their true colors.
It is modern Feudalism with Goverment as the King and the large corporations as the fiefs. It's employees are the pesants\cattle and we can see the bloodlines clear as day now in both the Corporate spheres as well as in the media.
I will coin a term if it hasn't already:
The United States form of goverment is "Corporate Feudalism"
But they are different physical phenomenons, in the nova, only hydrogen burns, in a type Ia supernova, carbon burns (type Ia, Ic and II doesn't come from whote dwarves). So it makes sense to distinguish between powerful novae and weak supernovae, even if they can have the same luminosity.
I disagree with your statement. A Supernova is the violent death of a star, a Nova is the sudden brightness of a star caused by a sudden temperature rise, the star itself doesn't die. At one point in history, Supernovas were thought to be brighter Novas (which is why it was name SuperNova), but that was proven to be wrong.
As the discussions have rolled on the SuperNova is gone when complete, Nova still remain and may repeatedly go Nova again.
I haven't watched TV in years (as in like 6 years) but I think I follow you. When people don't see a clear path to get to a particular lifestyle from your explaination they are effectively tempted through apathy, media distortion, etc into crime as a short cut.
I'd ask this: If they was a clear path on how to go from A to B lifestyle would that cut down (as we agree you can never eliminate) crime?
In short: by assessing the perception of inequalitty and showing a clear path how to attain that equality would that reduce crime?
As far as addictions and drugs go, I'd ask this: of a joint (oh got I am going to date myself here) run $20 bucks and you are stealing for food, the fact you had $20 bucks for a joint meant you had $20 for food. Thus you feed that addiction at the expense of food in this scenario.
By no means is the motivations for criminal behavior simple but going back to the original conversation: Social Scientists do exactly what you and I are doing, researching the root causes of crime and human behavior and out of that research find solutions to the problems..
Agreed on all counts, I argue that we simply are not at the point where studying the really weird ones are needed yet.
We need to re-focus our space programs on generating some real useful results. We are drifting far too much into theoretical pursuits rather then more concrete pursuits. We risk losing more and more funding from people who can't make ends meet. They want a space program and scientists to tell them there is a point to all this that will help, perhaps not them, but their children.
Mars: Lefts get up there pronto and find if there is life or not. If not let us hustle quick to get space travel inexpensive enough so we can store nuclear waste in a really deep mine shaft on Mars. Get private industry strip mining the planet for resources and reduce mining needs here on Earth. Thank kind of pursuit.
Studying Jupiter I would find is far more likely to result in insights that are more useful then studying a gas giant in the next galaxy over.
The Ivory tower is getting a tad off course in why we pursue the sciences.
I feel we are over reaching in our study of astronomy. We need to step back and get some mastery of our back yard before we can turn our attention beyond our own solar system.
I'll make you a deal, once we have a manned outpost on Pluto we can stare at far off galaxies all we want!;) We'll be waiting at least 10-40 years at that point for out sub-light probes and rovers to reach the next nearest solar system.
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SOX, CISP, GLBA, HIPPA as the most expensive for corporations. I can speak to CISP and HIPPA from a professional standpoint. The others I cannot.
CISP compliance has a serious impact in that test environments cannot use raw customer data for testing for banks. Sanitized data must be used in test environments normally. In the event of a product fix that needs to be testing back in a test environment offshore resources for instance cannot have access to those environments and the data must be documented and exist only for a limited time. Pulling 20,000 records for testing for instance may take 4-6 hours pre-CISP but post CISP the sanitization process may push that out to 5-10 hours. If you are attempting to do that process in the evening, with only a 6 to 8 hour window CISP meant that many had to beef up their systems to ensure the process was complete within the window. For smaller banks the costs must have been harsh. Updating software, policies and procedures can easily rack up a 6000 labor hours in the first year.
On average CISP complaince can double the turn around time of a production fix (say 20-60 hours of labor) into 40-80 hours for turn around. YOu have an entire chain of events that fire off and kicking out certain staff due to the existence of customer information takes time with SAPs, VPN connectivity, etc... Great for the customer, I cannot argue it, but expensive.
HIPPA I can speak to growing up in hospitals and clinics as well as painting in those locations part time. Part of the requirement that I see directly is, if I have to paint a clinic or office the clinic staff (not I the painter) has to go through and ensure that ANY AND ALL patient documentation is out of sight prior to me starting. HIPPA has too many "reasonable" language mistakes in it as who defines "reasonable"? The judge? Lawyers? JACO? Who? So paranoia is high with patient data (as it should be.) But getting staff to lock all that up prior to maintenance adds time.
Another hidden factor is space. A clinic now has to try and keep other patients out of ear shot pushing the lobby out farther.
Further segragation of roles and even something as simple as those privacy screens add up. In a typical hospital with 200 computers in it let us say, means at $10 bucks a screen you have $2000 in new expenses.
I've seen a few locations require the inter-office mail couriers to have locked boxes while moving around the facility. Those have to cost at least $350 bucks a box for those.
Now all those HIPPA forms are going to double if not triple the amount of paper you are ordering. Liability and insured communications also increase costs and add delays. More cerified mail goes out now as far as I can see since HIPPA also.
One thing to keep in mind is that ANY GOVERMENT COMPLIANCE that exists is disporotionally expensive to smaller organizations. SOX killed a lot of smaller corporations due to the cost of compliance. The smallest get exemptions, the largest can afford it, it's the mid-size businesses that get crushed.
The car is a reference to Fallout 3. When you shoot the 200+ year old nuclear powered car it starts on fire (it's all metal, what exactly is burning?!) then explodes into a mini-nuke.
All this and they still can't make a coffee pot that can brew an entire 12 cup pot in under 60 seconds without burning the coffee.
Seriously can we get some important technology invented to make our lives easier.
For instance can I get a roomba retrofitted to water my lawn for me? For under $200 bucks?
How about some color changing siding that doesn't bust every time a golf-ball sized piece of hail hits it for less then cement siding.
Self cleaning ceiling fan blades would be nice too...
Self milking cows?
A dog poop scooper that gets under the poop without ripping up the grass...
Yeah! super hard mini-rods. That will make my toast toast faster....
ZZzzz...
Where is my poorly done art-deco nuclear powered car that conspicuously blows up after being abandoned for over 200 years and subsequently shot. Oddly this car will also smoke and burst into flames before blowing up... What the hell is burning in it? After 200 years there isn't going to be any upolhstry left....
Where was I? Who the hell are you people and how did you get on my series of tubes!?!?
Deborah where are my pills?!
Why the hell would anyone in their right mind in business pursue #1? I have no idea what company you work for but normally compaines don't hire inexperienced programmers. Why would I waste money on somone who isn't experienced?
1. Experienced programmers are expensive.
2. The task at hand may not require an experienced programmer.
3. Once the inexperienced programmer gains experience, he may be less expensive than hiring an experienced programmer in the first place (if he's a sucker and sticks around. Remember that the larged salary increases usually happen by switching jobs).
1: So is failure.
2: Then it is cheaper to outsource the task to an external vendor.
3: With programming costs these days that investment in US labor rarely has a return on it. With 3% inflation and only 5% productivity improvements per year on average I'm only coming out head 2% on my labor. That is a pretty crappy return on investment in labor. Add in health care and annual 3-5% raises I lose. A lot. There is no incentive. Even if a can clear someone at 10% under market rate they're a liability after 3 years. I'd have to get someone at least 50% off market rate to make it even worth considering and the costs involved with missing deadlines... an inexperienced programmer would never clear the risk analysts.
Ok we'll use MIPS.
There are 1000 MIPS on the system.
Production can use UP to 950 MIPS. With 5% reserved for system overhead.
Lets Say out of that 950 production is using only 100 MIPS at the moment. That leaves 850 left.
VM2 must, in contrast to VM3 and VM4 must have access to 213 MIPS roughly. (25% of the 850 remaining.)
VM3 and VM4 cannot steal any of those 213 MIPS as they are earmarked for VM2. But per their own configuration can borrow from the remaning 637 that are now remaining that are not earmarked except when they are capped.
Now for most processors you can run a quick MIPS benchmark and get a rough % to MIP conversion (You'll never get an true measure as some instructions are SIMD and MIMD) so CPU cycle level accounting isn't always an option.
The reason for this scenario varies from industry to industry. But when contracts get written that says "My system environment that I am paying X dollars for will always have X MIPS allocated to it", you have to be able to provide those hard targets to meet the contract requirements.
Hence for instance a hosting company running both web service and say a counter strike server they could set hard targets for the web VM and soft borrow options for the Counter-strike server (or vise versa since the CS server is time sensitive).
This also in larger clustered fabrics allow for controlling\protecting against a slashdot like effect in CPU usage rather then bandwidth.
Going into distributed cloud computing this would come in handy for commoditizing distributed CPU usage as a utility (you give us a VM with X SLA and we pay you 1 cent per MIP hour we get from that VM.)
No contract work. Quarterly release schedules. Roughly 13 weeks from development to production.
First off free dating sight have very very POOR success at long term relationships. Even match.com which charges has terrible success. Getting laid isn't the measure of success of a dating service. Nor is finding a match. Long term relationships are the measure of success and few free internet dating sites can show success at a 5 year mark.
A lawyer making $215,00 a year can go to a dating service that charges $100 a month for a membership.
What it does is blocks out ever broke scrub out there that can't afford $100 a month.
Somone willing to pay $200 a month is far more serious about finding a long term match thne hottie0091 is on yahoo personals.
You seem bitter and angry. Calling people who use dating services desparate is insulting and just plain arrogant. Some people are just too busy to to hang out in places to meet people.
You are a disgrace; although the character you have show, tells me you care little of the example you set.
They are not conflicting (But misnumbered that should have gone vm1,2,3,4).
Pair programming is the most effective in the circumstance that makes the best use of it - two circumstances to be exact : 1. Pair an experienced programmer with an inexperienced programmer.
Why the hell would anyone in their right mind in business pursue #1? I have no idea what company you work for but normally compaines don't hire inexperienced programmers. Why would I waste money on somone who isn't experienced? The whole point of interviews, resumes, and searching for canidates is to get the best, qualified person for the dollar amount. I get a project specification on Jan 3rd and it needs to be in production in 13 weeks. I don't go out and hire inexperienced programmers for 13 weeks. Not 1. 13 weeks gives me at most 6 builds for integration testing and another 4 for user acceptance and business line testing. Where ever you work, enjoy it, the rest of us don't have the luxury of having someone with experience wasting time mentoring on the company and project's dime. You suggestion of #2 is far more acceptable but #1? We fire poor performers, we do not waste time and money on them. This may work in public education and the public sector but businesses can't afford bad staff.
I am old enough where every AC\DC song sounds the same. Do you honestly think studying tuning theory is going to correct my musical bias? :) Hell at the rate I am going John Tesh and Ozzie will sound the same in a few years :)
Anyways I am too old and cranky to become a music major at this age...
No religion that I have found actually has an end of the world. None. Of course at closer inspection I haven't found a true polytheistic religion either unless we go to the expired ones that have slipped into Mythology. Even from what I know of mezoamerican mythology and ancient religions an actual end of existience doesn't come up as best I can remember. I could be wrong but true "end of the world"'s are rare.
As Mr. Smith said, "Kata's build disciple and control. Throw 5lbs wrist and ankle weights and Kata's burn fat and tone muscle."
I can see it now: "Mr. Wushu's Kata Challenge" where players must master 23 Katas to earn an audience with Mr. Wushu.
I see just fine and lived through all of them. Since Honest Abe the deomcrats and republicans have held tight control ever since.
Every policy I have seen come down in my lifetime has never been about the good of the country as a whole. Just merely getting more of their own party in power at the expense of the whole.
Criticise Obama, your a racist.
Criticise Bush, your a commie or socialist.
Criticise Clinton, your a neocon.
Criticise Carter, your a facist.
I've heard it all and the tools you proclaim are long gone. You cannot get an journalism out of the news anymore, just political nonsense. They hammer out 2000 page legislation that you can't even read in time before it goes to vote, most represenatives not even bothering to read it going to the party leaders for how they should vote rather then their constiuency.
You cannot field a 3rd party canidate due to financial contraints.
I studied history my whole life. Nothing in the last 10 years has been a suprise, nothing in the next 10 I doubt will either.
The tools no longer exist for political discourse and change. You are more then welcome to define these tools but I doubt they hold up to scrutiny. Welcome to the new feudal age.
If that were the case congress wouldn't have 20% approval ratings and we wouldn't be nearing a second civil war. The nation is at staggering speeds heading to another split but that is a whole new discussion there...
and a new way for your pets to play with you and play with it themselves.
My cats already play with a DVD of nothing but butterflies on the screen. An interactive version could keep my cats happy for hours while I am at work.
Games for Pets... theres a niche market there...
Precision can be increased with reflective dots integrated for high degree of control. A simple set of elastic\velcro bands with a reflective dot (if their tech supports it) can increase a system like this to 1/4 inch resolution. By integrating more dots beyond just say ankles and wrists the software can inprove resolution by using more reference dots on the individual and measuring changes between all the dots against one another (swarm detection).
Same tech that is used for MoCap. More dots (be they reflectors, emitters, etc..) means better resolution.
As far as digital art, most artists I see use pressure sensitive touchpads\touchscreens not mice. I can only assume you are talking about CAD and enginneering type tasks.
My rough guess (to the best of my understanding about mocap tech), at 1080p, to meet your precision requirement would take a dot (transmitter or reflector) about 1/2 inch at a distance from the TV about 3 feet with no more then 12 dots total.
Another option would be to put a pair of reference dots behind the participant that the software can use for Z depth calibration to improve tracking the dots or tracking the player's extremities.
It's a damn good start with only better resolution to come. The point though, due to a wide variety of body types and physical condition is to not have too high of a resolution, face it some of us aren't that flexible.
While many are missing the practical application of this in gaming is not so much just full body games.
As several readers pointed out Minority Report gives us an excellent idea of how it can be used. In addition for those that remember Black and White's gestures a wide variety of discrete tools come along with this.
Flipping through button bars, resizing things, and a wide variety of gesture controls will have a major impact in an area many of you are missing.
Carpel Tunnel and other Repetitive Stress injuries.
By distributing the "interface" or "input" beyond just the hands the stress could be much lower over all.
In addition by integrating minor physical activity you are adding additional burned calories (even if it is just 1 or 2 additional a day) you are improving health and using the human body the way it was mean to be used, as a multi functional device.
Many have pointed out my weird typos, the fact it I use voice dication mostly at home now (hands aren't so good anymore) and the Wii was a nice break since the thumb\analog stick that most consoles use now can give me stabbing pain after about 30 minutes now. Imagine Punch Out redone with the full body detection!
But even taking sport games out of it (why typecast an inteface) top down shooters for instance and Space Harrier\Top Gun behind the ship type games can be piloted by your hand (who hasn't done that as a kid?!)
Unlike the Wii controller, by removing the physical controller you are also reducing the risk fo damage to the controller.
This also opens up a wide variety of aids for people learning martial arts (practicing a kata for instance), learning to dance, and the applications for hospitals for physical therapy (which is tearfully boring) would aid in what is usually called Occupational Therapy (doing things).
The innovation is actually more then I think even the developers realize.
Think of an MMO + Gesture Controls
It opens up games to people that also may not even have hands! Athritic people may have better access to games (spefic to hands). I see this alot in retirement homes. The Wii controller + an elastic band glove gives some arthritic people the ability to play several of the games, bowling is popular.
This is gesture control without having to have a touch screen people.
Bigger then I think the developer realize...
I have a single policy: I don't vote for lawyers so that rules out both parties immediately...
Sonny Bono, Hatch, both parties? There is only one party.
They are Legion, they are many.
I see little difference between Clinton, Bush, Obama, Carter, etc.
I see 1 party. The "Goverment as a Business" party whom we shall now refer to as the GAAB party comprising two idealogies:
Left: The Goverment Controls Business
Right: Business Control the Goverment
but either way THEY CONTROL YOU.
Seriously this partisan nonsense has to end, neither party has shown any credibitity in over 80 years and have done nothing for the nation as a whole, rather they have done plenty for themselves.
When the USA stopped making real things and moved to a service economy the only thing we have left is our imaginary property that was long ago only supposed to be protected for 7 years has turned into a generation spanning con game with society at large losing in the end.
Now as that society rebels watch carefully as the GAABs show their true colors.
It is modern Feudalism with Goverment as the King and the large corporations as the fiefs. It's employees are the pesants\cattle and we can see the bloodlines clear as day now in both the Corporate spheres as well as in the media.
I will coin a term if it hasn't already:
The United States form of goverment is "Corporate Feudalism"
But they are different physical phenomenons, in the nova, only hydrogen burns, in a type Ia supernova, carbon burns (type Ia, Ic and II doesn't come from whote dwarves). So it makes sense to distinguish between powerful novae and weak supernovae, even if they can have the same luminosity.
fair enough
I disagree with your statement. A Supernova is the violent death of a star, a Nova is the sudden brightness of a star caused by a sudden temperature rise, the star itself doesn't die. At one point in history, Supernovas were thought to be brighter Novas (which is why it was name SuperNova), but that was proven to be wrong.
As the discussions have rolled on the SuperNova is gone when complete, Nova still remain and may repeatedly go Nova again.
I wonder where a magnatar falls into this mix...
I haven't watched TV in years (as in like 6 years) but I think I follow you. When people don't see a clear path to get to a particular lifestyle from your explaination they are effectively tempted through apathy, media distortion, etc into crime as a short cut.
I'd ask this: If they was a clear path on how to go from A to B lifestyle would that cut down (as we agree you can never eliminate) crime?
In short: by assessing the perception of inequalitty and showing a clear path how to attain that equality would that reduce crime?
As far as addictions and drugs go, I'd ask this: of a joint (oh got I am going to date myself here) run $20 bucks and you are stealing for food, the fact you had $20 bucks for a joint meant you had $20 for food. Thus you feed that addiction at the expense of food in this scenario.
By no means is the motivations for criminal behavior simple but going back to the original conversation: Social Scientists do exactly what you and I are doing, researching the root causes of crime and human behavior and out of that research find solutions to the problems..
Agreed on all counts, I argue that we simply are not at the point where studying the really weird ones are needed yet.
We need to re-focus our space programs on generating some real useful results. We are drifting far too much into theoretical pursuits rather then more concrete pursuits. We risk losing more and more funding from people who can't make ends meet. They want a space program and scientists to tell them there is a point to all this that will help, perhaps not them, but their children.
Mars: Lefts get up there pronto and find if there is life or not. If not let us hustle quick to get space travel inexpensive enough so we can store nuclear waste in a really deep mine shaft on Mars. Get private industry strip mining the planet for resources and reduce mining needs here on Earth. Thank kind of pursuit.
Studying Jupiter I would find is far more likely to result in insights that are more useful then studying a gas giant in the next galaxy over.
The Ivory tower is getting a tad off course in why we pursue the sciences.
I feel we are over reaching in our study of astronomy. We need to step back and get some mastery of our back yard before we can turn our attention beyond our own solar system.
I'll make you a deal, once we have a manned outpost on Pluto we can stare at far off galaxies all we want! ;) We'll be waiting at least 10-40 years at that point for out sub-light probes and rovers to reach the next nearest solar system.
Interesting, so what is the plural then of rasher? Rashers or just plain bacon?
Ok I have to ask, how do you do that quote thingiee? I've never figured that out!
P.S. Any suggestions on where to read up on those two cases?
wasn't the black plague an epidemic?