Hi, I actually programmed the software that displays the brain. Let's make this clear -- this is a full blown scientific visualization software. We actually use this in our day to day research. It conveniently allows a layperson to view it on their browser, but that was not the original intention. You wouldn't run a nuclear power plant using your iphone, and we don't do our research using tablets.
Second of all, I am a graduate student making 30k a year. I programmed this in my spare time as a service to my lab. If you pay me to write it for android and ios, i'd gladly do so. But I'm not paid enough to listen to ugly flames like this:-p
Evidently, you missed the point of the car. This thing competes with BMW 7 series, Mercedes S-class vehicles, not your cheapo honda. Of course they're going to build in nifty features - ever seen S-class stuff? It's pretty insane by most standards. If you wanted a cheap electric car for the masses, get a G-Wiz
It's true, bandwidth is pretty sweet with portable drives. The other day I biked about 40 miles with a 1tb hard drive in my bag. I calculated that my bandwidth was about 110 mb/s. Latency was a bit rough though, at 2.5 hours...
Hah, sweet, I was just thinking, one of the profs in my department (Jack Gallant) was doing just this. This paper can only predict 10x10 contrast sensitive images, which sounds fairly doable. It's extremely irritating that the press picked this up as being able to predict dreams and crap. This is like a sophisticated version of measuring the electrical response of the eye to either dark or light.
For surgery devices like what you're suggesting, look at some current haptics research. I'm actually participating in some of this stuff, where you stick your fingers in two little armatures. These armatures use inverse kinematics to determine the location of your fingers in space, and allow you to manipulate a 3D world. It's really really convincing, because you can "feel" the objects. The armatures give you very real feedback on the boundaries, stiffness, and texture of the object you're manipulating.
A device like this would be much better for surgery because they don't rely on inaccurate gestures for input. In addition, they provide direct feedback, giving an extra level of immersion. The wiimote relies on gestures, and as such, the motion control adds very little beyond what a button or two can do.
Such a device wouldn't be exercising the right muscles. For one thing, there's no way you'd be able to work up a sweat waving your arms around like that. So, definitely not aerobic activity. For another thing, that's only likely to give you all sorts of odd repetitive stress problems.
I find the allure of making Minority Report devices rather... funny. The movie itself already shows one REALLY good reason why these interfaces are awful. When he tries to shake the guy's hand, the interface suddenly resets itself. You can't "snap out" of the interface like you can letting go of a mouse. It really only looks cool. After waving your arms in the air for 5 min without support, you'll wish you had the mouse and keyboard back...
Your change of proper nouns doesn't hurt anything. Microsoft does have an app marketplace like thing for their stuff, I remember seeing it being advertised on windows installs. Nobody bought into it.
Let's change proper nouns again:
"Debian's not locking you out of your hardware, unlike apple. If they remove an app from stable, they're hurting their own service."
Do people take offense with debian's marking of stable? Probably. Debian's servers are just as vulnerable as google's. Somebody could break into debian's servers tomorrow, remove glibc, and everyone running debian after that would be pretty screwed. The core devs don't exactly let people fiddle around with debian stable repos either, so they're effectively moderating what gets added and removed. Is it the wrong model? The number of people using debian and its derivatives would suggest otherwise. You're making this out to be a much bigger deal than it is.
Another likely option if you don't like the marketplace is to do something like windows. Forgo a centralized model of software distribution like having a software repository, and instead go for a distributed system, like you would with most windows applications. That's free to do on Android, and nobody holds the kill switch to that. If everyone decides this is better, Android marketplace will shrivel up and die just like Windows marketplace. The fact is, Android doesn't PREVENT this, unlike apple.
Google's not locking you out of your hardware, unlike Apple. If they use the kill switch, they are using it on their own service. A service which you bought into, if you decide to add your app to the Android Marketplace. Personally, I think they implemented the system very well. It's almost like having a "stable" apt repository.
Really depends on how you use it. My 32gb is filled with music, and it acts as my primary music player/portal (since it can stream from the network). Also, the screen keyboard is surprisingly fast and accurate, so there really is no point for a dedicated keyboard. Running linux is such a huge advantage, because I can ssh or vnc into it to manipulate, and it's very very easy to use with typical linux tools.
Ever hear of the Nokia N810? Same form factor, 200mhz ARM proc, microsd slot for expansion, wifi and linux. If you want *cheap*, look for N800's. Same processor minus the keyboard, but two SD slots for 32 gb of memory (or more!), and sells for around $200 now.
Wow, I'm surprised you haven't gone over 40. It's quite an experience - I have yet to break 50, but I'm very close. It's more fun going down mountains, where twists and turns could kill you at any turn:-D
I would love to do a flying run in one of these faired recumbants. I doubt I'd make it even near 50, but it would be fun nontheless
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That's the energy of a single atom. The overall energy of the entire beam is actually quite surprising. I've heard the beam has the same energy as a carrier at 5 knots.
Obviously, this is not a dangerous amount of energy. The ohmygod particle had a much higher single-particle energy, for example.
So... what exactly stops you from writing some sort of a program that will throttle your network to download 5 mb, wait a second, download another 5 mb, and continue? Your overall average speed will be much higher. It really depends on the "falloff" rate, how quickly you can download again, at the full speed.
These techniques that farmers use have completely screwed up many breeds. For example, a lot of purebreed dogs have very bad problems with their knees, which is mostly due to "setting" traits by mating siblings done hundreds of years ago.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. "Minor changes" in chemistry create MAJOR changes in use. Something at silly as creating an enantiomerically pure solution instead of a racemic mixture could mean the difference between morning sickness medication, and thalidomide babies. A trivial chemical change turns salicylic acid into aspirin. A few molecules off from one Cox-2 inhibitor means the difference between heart disease and a safe medication. Hell, something that I've personally worked on - if you add a single atom to a drug that would normally rival heroine in addiction, you get a powerful drug for depression.
Research on these "minor changes" occur because they are safe. Very few compounds are actually safe inside the body. If you were tasked to write a new program from either existing code modules, or write a brand new package, which one would you pick? What if the price of failure was death, not just of a single person, but of thousands, even millions? I find it very annoying that many people rant on about "trivial changes" in drugs, when they don't realize that these "trivial" changes are in fact revolutionary.
Tell me again when you live in an apartment building. I can currently see 43 wireless networks in iwlist. I actually see two outside the normal range (it's full of tech-savvy college students anyways). Wireless is useless here, I even bought a signal-boosting router, but it still only works reliably within 20 feet of it. All my computers have ethernet hookups, my friends have to deal with the wireless shit all the time because they're lazy and don't want to string wires.
I'm currently designing a webmail system similar to squirrelmail (because it's ancient and I hate the second login, separate from my site). I would love to use salted hashes in my database, but unfortunately doing so would require that the user enter their password again when they go into the email portion of the site, or even worse, force me to store their password in plaintext in cookies on their computer. Is there a good way around this? I know that the php imap functions require the plaintext password for the email account to work...
You have essentially the right idea, but unfortunately it probably won't work the way you think it will. If NIH begins developing royalty-free drugs, the industry will collapse overnight. NIH is supported by public money - if they can make a drug that "competes" with an pharma-industry drug, it will be almost literally free. Again, the manufacture of the drugs costs nearly nothing - it's always the research that's the money sinkhole.
Unfortunately, this will never happen. The NIH's budget is a drop in the bucket compared to what the pharma industry spends. Unless the US government can reroute even just 10% of its military budget to the NIH and NIST, so many things would work so much better. Brain drain from NIH supported academia to industry would stop. NIH would have money to fund actual drug research. The US might even move ahead in science and technology for once!
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Hi, I actually programmed the software that displays the brain. Let's make this clear -- this is a full blown scientific visualization software. We actually use this in our day to day research. It conveniently allows a layperson to view it on their browser, but that was not the original intention. You wouldn't run a nuclear power plant using your iphone, and we don't do our research using tablets. :-p
Second of all, I am a graduate student making 30k a year. I programmed this in my spare time as a service to my lab. If you pay me to write it for android and ios, i'd gladly do so. But I'm not paid enough to listen to ugly flames like this
I am VERY entertained by how they used 256mb of ram as a "ridiculous" amount.... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187054 hehehe
Evidently, you missed the point of the car. This thing competes with BMW 7 series, Mercedes S-class vehicles, not your cheapo honda. Of course they're going to build in nifty features - ever seen S-class stuff? It's pretty insane by most standards. If you wanted a cheap electric car for the masses, get a G-Wiz
It's true, bandwidth is pretty sweet with portable drives. The other day I biked about 40 miles with a 1tb hard drive in my bag. I calculated that my bandwidth was about 110 mb/s. Latency was a bit rough though, at 2.5 hours...
Clearly, someone hasn't discovered firebug yet... I think I would shoot someone if I had to develop a full AJAX app ONLY on IE...
Hah, sweet, I was just thinking, one of the profs in my department (Jack Gallant) was doing just this. This paper can only predict 10x10 contrast sensitive images, which sounds fairly doable. It's extremely irritating that the press picked this up as being able to predict dreams and crap. This is like a sophisticated version of measuring the electrical response of the eye to either dark or light.
Sorry, took me a while to find this picture, but this is what the device looks like: http://bankslab.berkeley.edu/Projects/visualHapticSchematic.html
For surgery devices like what you're suggesting, look at some current haptics research. I'm actually participating in some of this stuff, where you stick your fingers in two little armatures. These armatures use inverse kinematics to determine the location of your fingers in space, and allow you to manipulate a 3D world. It's really really convincing, because you can "feel" the objects. The armatures give you very real feedback on the boundaries, stiffness, and texture of the object you're manipulating.
A device like this would be much better for surgery because they don't rely on inaccurate gestures for input. In addition, they provide direct feedback, giving an extra level of immersion. The wiimote relies on gestures, and as such, the motion control adds very little beyond what a button or two can do.
Such a device wouldn't be exercising the right muscles. For one thing, there's no way you'd be able to work up a sweat waving your arms around like that. So, definitely not aerobic activity. For another thing, that's only likely to give you all sorts of odd repetitive stress problems.
I find the allure of making Minority Report devices rather... funny. The movie itself already shows one REALLY good reason why these interfaces are awful. When he tries to shake the guy's hand, the interface suddenly resets itself. You can't "snap out" of the interface like you can letting go of a mouse. It really only looks cool. After waving your arms in the air for 5 min without support, you'll wish you had the mouse and keyboard back...
Wow, I think this town would contain a supercritical mass of Ego. One argument, and we're looking at catastrophic runaway fission...
Have you ever been in a room with more than 5 scientists? The arguments get pretty heated even with low numbers, lol...
Your change of proper nouns doesn't hurt anything. Microsoft does have an app marketplace like thing for their stuff, I remember seeing it being advertised on windows installs. Nobody bought into it.
Let's change proper nouns again:
"Debian's not locking you out of your hardware, unlike apple. If they remove an app from stable, they're hurting their own service."
Do people take offense with debian's marking of stable? Probably. Debian's servers are just as vulnerable as google's. Somebody could break into debian's servers tomorrow, remove glibc, and everyone running debian after that would be pretty screwed. The core devs don't exactly let people fiddle around with debian stable repos either, so they're effectively moderating what gets added and removed. Is it the wrong model? The number of people using debian and its derivatives would suggest otherwise. You're making this out to be a much bigger deal than it is.
Another likely option if you don't like the marketplace is to do something like windows. Forgo a centralized model of software distribution like having a software repository, and instead go for a distributed system, like you would with most windows applications. That's free to do on Android, and nobody holds the kill switch to that. If everyone decides this is better, Android marketplace will shrivel up and die just like Windows marketplace. The fact is, Android doesn't PREVENT this, unlike apple.
Google's not locking you out of your hardware, unlike Apple. If they use the kill switch, they are using it on their own service. A service which you bought into, if you decide to add your app to the Android Marketplace. Personally, I think they implemented the system very well. It's almost like having a "stable" apt repository.
Really depends on how you use it. My 32gb is filled with music, and it acts as my primary music player/portal (since it can stream from the network). Also, the screen keyboard is surprisingly fast and accurate, so there really is no point for a dedicated keyboard. Running linux is such a huge advantage, because I can ssh or vnc into it to manipulate, and it's very very easy to use with typical linux tools.
Ever hear of the Nokia N810? Same form factor, 200mhz ARM proc, microsd slot for expansion, wifi and linux. If you want *cheap*, look for N800's. Same processor minus the keyboard, but two SD slots for 32 gb of memory (or more!), and sells for around $200 now.
Wow, I'm surprised you haven't gone over 40. It's quite an experience - I have yet to break 50, but I'm very close. It's more fun going down mountains, where twists and turns could kill you at any turn :-D
I would love to do a flying run in one of these faired recumbants. I doubt I'd make it even near 50, but it would be fun nontheless
That's the energy of a single atom. The overall energy of the entire beam is actually quite surprising. I've heard the beam has the same energy as a carrier at 5 knots. Obviously, this is not a dangerous amount of energy. The ohmygod particle had a much higher single-particle energy, for example.
So... what exactly stops you from writing some sort of a program that will throttle your network to download 5 mb, wait a second, download another 5 mb, and continue? Your overall average speed will be much higher. It really depends on the "falloff" rate, how quickly you can download again, at the full speed.
These techniques that farmers use have completely screwed up many breeds. For example, a lot of purebreed dogs have very bad problems with their knees, which is mostly due to "setting" traits by mating siblings done hundreds of years ago.
I'm aware of that, but I couldn't think of a better example off the top of my head...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. "Minor changes" in chemistry create MAJOR changes in use. Something at silly as creating an enantiomerically pure solution instead of a racemic mixture could mean the difference between morning sickness medication, and thalidomide babies. A trivial chemical change turns salicylic acid into aspirin. A few molecules off from one Cox-2 inhibitor means the difference between heart disease and a safe medication. Hell, something that I've personally worked on - if you add a single atom to a drug that would normally rival heroine in addiction, you get a powerful drug for depression.
Research on these "minor changes" occur because they are safe. Very few compounds are actually safe inside the body. If you were tasked to write a new program from either existing code modules, or write a brand new package, which one would you pick? What if the price of failure was death, not just of a single person, but of thousands, even millions? I find it very annoying that many people rant on about "trivial changes" in drugs, when they don't realize that these "trivial" changes are in fact revolutionary.
Thermoelectric cooling - it's how peltiers work. The effect has been known for a century... don't need to worry about classification! :-p
Tell me again when you live in an apartment building. I can currently see 43 wireless networks in iwlist. I actually see two outside the normal range (it's full of tech-savvy college students anyways). Wireless is useless here, I even bought a signal-boosting router, but it still only works reliably within 20 feet of it. All my computers have ethernet hookups, my friends have to deal with the wireless shit all the time because they're lazy and don't want to string wires.
I'm currently designing a webmail system similar to squirrelmail (because it's ancient and I hate the second login, separate from my site). I would love to use salted hashes in my database, but unfortunately doing so would require that the user enter their password again when they go into the email portion of the site, or even worse, force me to store their password in plaintext in cookies on their computer. Is there a good way around this? I know that the php imap functions require the plaintext password for the email account to work...
You have essentially the right idea, but unfortunately it probably won't work the way you think it will. If NIH begins developing royalty-free drugs, the industry will collapse overnight. NIH is supported by public money - if they can make a drug that "competes" with an pharma-industry drug, it will be almost literally free. Again, the manufacture of the drugs costs nearly nothing - it's always the research that's the money sinkhole.
Unfortunately, this will never happen. The NIH's budget is a drop in the bucket compared to what the pharma industry spends. Unless the US government can reroute even just 10% of its military budget to the NIH and NIST, so many things would work so much better. Brain drain from NIH supported academia to industry would stop. NIH would have money to fund actual drug research. The US might even move ahead in science and technology for once!