If the problem is control characters, it should only block control/non-printable characters. Since Unicode already offers a classification of characters, why not use that instead of making an arbitrarily restricted whitelist? The only other restriction I can understand is banning code points above U+FFFF because that might trigger browser bugs because it's rarely used, and possibly restricting to an older version of Unicode.
Movies were originally in Black and White. That was also contrary to millions of years of evolution.
No, it wasn't. Indeed, most of the image processing in our eyes/brain is done on a b/w representation of the image (it is, of course, not a simple b/w pixel representation, but the point is that color information is completely missing in those parts). That's the reason why we need brightness contrast to easily read text, or to get the impression of depth from perspective drawings. Just having color contrast at constant brightness just doesn't work too well. Basically color is processed "aside" and only mixed in back later in the process.
Moreover, at night the light is too dim for our color receptors to work, therefore we have special b/w receptors in our eyes that work also at night. That is, if it is dark enough, we see naturally b/w.
And finally, a black and white image is nothing but a color image where the colors are restricted to shades of grey. So even a visual system optimized for full color should have no problems with b/w images.
The old movies being b/w is more like the movies being 2D. The natural environment we live in is 3D. But 2D is just a subset of 3D, and we naturally see structures surfaces. Moreover, each eye by itself gets only a 2D image, and moreover for things sufficiently far away, we don't get 3D information through parallax anyway. If our brain were not adapted to seeing 2D images, we'd be in deep trouble.
However the problem with 3D movies, as the article (and even the summary) describes, is the strong link between focus and convergence in "natural 3D". This link still works for 2D movies (your eyes both have to focus and converge at the screen), however it doesn't work for 3D movies (you have to converge on the apparent position in space, but you still have to focus at the screen). This is different because it means you have conflicting information (part of your "eye control system" gives the information "it's close to you" while another part gives "it's at the screen depth" - two bits of information which cannot be unified, so the system is constantly running "out of spec" - note that what reaches your consciousness doesn't contain the focus data, it's all going on at low level).
Yes, the format can be improved upon - provided we figure out how to make true holographic projections for movies.
Interesting. So a sure way to get many facebook passwords would be to write something about facebook, have some login form on that page (which doesn't need to claim it logs into facebook, maybe have a login to comment the story) and get it to the top on Google, and wait for confused users to try to log in and thus give you their credentials. Moreover, it will be the most stupid ones, i.e. those whose login credentials are most easily misused.
I think that is the key point. Facebook needs to be able to turn a decent profit to survive, and they are the ones providing the users for these games. If the developers don't like the 30% policy, they're free to go elsewhere.. and have no players.
Or maybe take their current players with them to a new platform? If enough games move from facebook to the same new platform (which could be created by the game developers themselves), I guess it would gain enough popularity to stand on its own.
Also, the factor getting larger doesn't necessarily mean those with a degree now get more. It can also mean those without a degree get less. Indeed, it can even mean both get less but those with degree decline slower than those without.
The universal memory would have the speed of SRAM, the density of Flash, would write directly into the non-volatile memory (i.e. no extra nonvolatile storage step, and certainly no need to refresh), and would have the same price per bit as hard disks. That way you could it use in cache (SRAM speed), as DRAM replacement (beats DRAM in any category) and as hard disk replacement (nonvolatile, cheap).
This "universal" memory would be unsuitable for cache memory, thus it isn't universal.
Actually rebooting just would need to zero/replace a few crucial data structures, just as a normal file system format doesn't overwrite all data, but only replaces the superblock (or whatever central data structure the file system in question uses) to mark the rest of the covered space as free and usable.
Wow, they deleted the moon landing itself? Up to now I always thought they only deleted the recordings. So all those who say there was no moon landing are right after all?
It's all just tests, with "The Matrix" equating to a MMO version of "Global Thermonuclear War", and the oracle essentially a giant, infinitely more complex WOPR.
Would you like to play a game?
What a strange movie. The only winning move is not to watch.
The dinosaurs come into play when they find parts of the code of a jurassic simulation, fill the missing bits with Matrix code and start the simulation. The main problem in escaping is that they have to build a jurassic phone, because you need a phone to leave the world.
It doesn't say 60% of the customers are misinformed, it says 60% of AOL's profits come from misinformed customers. I guess that means 40% of their profits come from advertising companies for showing their ads to those misinformed customers.
That's clearly a heresy. Of course we know that any real CS bible would start with:
1 In the beginning, God created the computer. 2 And the computer was without operating system and void; and darkness was on the screen. And the Spirit of God moved upon the keys of the keyboard. 3 And God said, Let there be an operating system: and there was an operating system. 4 And God saw the operating system, that it was good: and God divided the operating system from the wannabe. 5 And God called the operating system Unix, and the wannabe he called DOS. And the shutdown and the reboot were the first day.
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If the problem is control characters, it should only block control/non-printable characters. Since Unicode already offers a classification of characters, why not use that instead of making an arbitrarily restricted whitelist? The only other restriction I can understand is banning code points above U+FFFF because that might trigger browser bugs because it's rarely used, and possibly restricting to an older version of Unicode.
No, you don't. You focus on the screen, and you converge on the screen.
IMAX 2D is nice - the quality projection and sound equipment give a much better entertainment experience than the typical theater.
3D - I haven't seen anything yet that wowed me, and that includes Avatar 3D on IMAX.
Grand Canyon 3D at IMAX did it for me. Probably that's because it's something which quite naturally asks for 3D.
No, it wasn't. Indeed, most of the image processing in our eyes/brain is done on a b/w representation of the image (it is, of course, not a simple b/w pixel representation, but the point is that color information is completely missing in those parts). That's the reason why we need brightness contrast to easily read text, or to get the impression of depth from perspective drawings. Just having color contrast at constant brightness just doesn't work too well. Basically color is processed "aside" and only mixed in back later in the process.
Moreover, at night the light is too dim for our color receptors to work, therefore we have special b/w receptors in our eyes that work also at night. That is, if it is dark enough, we see naturally b/w.
And finally, a black and white image is nothing but a color image where the colors are restricted to shades of grey. So even a visual system optimized for full color should have no problems with b/w images.
The old movies being b/w is more like the movies being 2D. The natural environment we live in is 3D. But 2D is just a subset of 3D, and we naturally see structures surfaces. Moreover, each eye by itself gets only a 2D image, and moreover for things sufficiently far away, we don't get 3D information through parallax anyway. If our brain were not adapted to seeing 2D images, we'd be in deep trouble.
However the problem with 3D movies, as the article (and even the summary) describes, is the strong link between focus and convergence in "natural 3D". This link still works for 2D movies (your eyes both have to focus and converge at the screen), however it doesn't work for 3D movies (you have to converge on the apparent position in space, but you still have to focus at the screen). This is different because it means you have conflicting information (part of your "eye control system" gives the information "it's close to you" while another part gives "it's at the screen depth" - two bits of information which cannot be unified, so the system is constantly running "out of spec" - note that what reaches your consciousness doesn't contain the focus data, it's all going on at low level).
Yes, the format can be improved upon - provided we figure out how to make true holographic projections for movies.
And less space in the boxes on the right on the stories page.
Oh, and where's the floating box where I can adjust the comment expansion?
Interesting. So a sure way to get many facebook passwords would be to write something about facebook, have some login form on that page (which doesn't need to claim it logs into facebook, maybe have a login to comment the story) and get it to the top on Google, and wait for confused users to try to log in and thus give you their credentials. Moreover, it will be the most stupid ones, i.e. those whose login credentials are most easily misused.
Or maybe take their current players with them to a new platform? If enough games move from facebook to the same new platform (which could be created by the game developers themselves), I guess it would gain enough popularity to stand on its own.
Also, the factor getting larger doesn't necessarily mean those with a degree now get more. It can also mean those without a degree get less. Indeed, it can even mean both get less but those with degree decline slower than those without.
The universal memory would have the speed of SRAM, the density of Flash, would write directly into the non-volatile memory (i.e. no extra nonvolatile storage step, and certainly no need to refresh), and would have the same price per bit as hard disks. That way you could it use in cache (SRAM speed), as DRAM replacement (beats DRAM in any category) and as hard disk replacement (nonvolatile, cheap).
This "universal" memory would be unsuitable for cache memory, thus it isn't universal.
No. But it might store it.
Actually rebooting just would need to zero/replace a few crucial data structures, just as a normal file system format doesn't overwrite all data, but only replaces the superblock (or whatever central data structure the file system in question uses) to mark the rest of the covered space as free and usable.
Wow, they deleted the moon landing itself? Up to now I always thought they only deleted the recordings.
So all those who say there was no moon landing are right after all?
What a strange movie. The only winning move is not to watch.
Why would Trinity be there when she was KILLED?!?
They had a backup copy of her.
But unlike the usual Directors Cut, this one will not have extra scenes. Instead it will have the worst scenes removed.
He can't have seen the last two, because they are not yet produced.
Actually the last movie will end as follows:
Neo wakes up, recognizes that it was all nothing but an extended drug trip, and gets fired from his job because he didn't show up for a whole week. :-)
The dinosaurs come into play when they find parts of the code of a jurassic simulation, fill the missing bits with Matrix code and start the simulation. The main problem in escaping is that they have to build a jurassic phone, because you need a phone to leave the world.
Exactly what I thought, too.
Of course that's a receipt for arbitrary many sequels, because there is no real world, it's simulations all the way down. :-)
You missed the "unless the officer should have had reason to reject the order" bit.
And the ordered thing being illegal isn't enough reason to reject the order?
If you think one cannot calculate an illusion, maybe you should ask the people at Pixar. :-)
It doesn't say 60% of the customers are misinformed, it says 60% of AOL's profits come from misinformed customers. I guess that means 40% of their profits come from advertising companies for showing their ads to those misinformed customers.
As opposed to a well uneducated man?
That's clearly a heresy. Of course we know that any real CS bible would start with:
1 In the beginning, God created the computer.
2 And the computer was without operating system and void; and darkness was on the screen. And the Spirit of God moved upon the keys of the keyboard.
3 And God said, Let there be an operating system: and there was an operating system.
4 And God saw the operating system, that it was good: and God divided the operating system from the wannabe.
5 And God called the operating system Unix, and the wannabe he called DOS. And the shutdown and the reboot were the first day.
Can't you at least make an exception for the second law?