Very cool! Seems like this might be used to help spot Photoshop modifications -- for example, in a group picture, just compare the reflections in each person's eyes.
I did just hear about a technology to do just that. This tech can be used for any photo - not just ones that have people's eyes in them. Apparently it looks for the tell tale distortion that comes from resizing pictures and checks to see if the telltale resize 'fingerprints' are the same for the entire picture. Most of the time inserted elements need to be resized to fit into the photo.
As the article mentions, all previous versions of eye trackers required some active energy (usually infrared light) being directed at the eye in question. This is (supposedly) the first that was entirely passive. Do you recall how the one you saw on TV worked?
So if Ted Bundy murdered Jeffrey Dahmer (assuming they were still both alive), would that also be terrible? Sorry, I wouldn't shed a tear. It's like violence between organized crime groups or gangs. It's only a problem when it hurts someone else. Otherwise, good riddance.
So you never use any sites that are made possible by ad revenue? Or you think all sites that depend on ad revenue are evil?
... besides, you can't do reliable voice over wireless (latency issues) and certainly not video which we provide as well, more than 5ms of latency and your video stream is toast...
Are you sure about that? I'm not sure about you, but my cell phone works fine (wireless digital audio) and there are many devices that send audio over WiFi (like the Airport Express). Also I must say watching broadcast HDTV works just great and I've watched many streaming videos over a WiFi connection.
How about they just give all the children a shot of sugar water and then say that they are "vaccinated"? Then they'd never try drugs because there'd be no point (or so they'd think).
Not any more. Thanks for ruining the study, you and your big mouth.
In fact, this is a cheap recipe for protecting plants from caterpillars: get some leaf chewing tobacco, and add some cayenne pepper and soak it in water for awhile. Maybe add something to help emulsify the capsaicin [sp] in the water, because it's oil-soluable. Spray it on the plant. Bye-bye aphids and caterpillars.
Probably want to use alcohol as capsaicin is also alcohol soluble and oil is not so hot at mixing with water. You could use an emulsifier but that would be a real pain in the ass and probably not be all that spray-able.
Yes, I did read it, that is why I pointed it out. It went to backing up the points raised, but was not directly mentioned (The Apples were brought up as an example but the actual suits were not mentioned)
Hello! We are talking Omnipotent Being here. It created day, night, and photosynthesizing plants before it created the Sun. It flooded and then drained the entire Earth with more water than is available on Earth. Surely it could diddle with carbon dating a little.
Well, if "it could diddle with cabon dating" then that means it sure wanted us to believe cabon dating works. By not believing in carbon dating you are not beleviing what God wanted you to believe.
Did it occur to you that 1920x1080i is really the same amount of information as 960x540p.
540p and 1080i are basically equivalent (at least as far as joe sixpack is concerned).
Umm, no they are not. Interlacing only affects the verticle resoultion. Assuming 60Hrz for both, 1920x1080i and 1920x540p would have the same datarate but would not look the same. 960x540p would be half the datarate. There have been some studies to what apaprent verticle resolution 1080i has and most point to something in the 600's, more when there is little motion, less with more motion; that is what the end user cares about.
As a side note, most 1080i HDTV cameras cannot get the full 1920 horizontal resution, most are around 1200-1300. My personal favortite is 720p, looks nice and hase no interlacing artifacts. ABC, ESPN and Fox (or will IIRC) use that, everyone else uses 1080i.
I find that I spend far too much time watching television, and listening to music. With the pain in the ass regulations that are going up, I can finally dump my satellite dish, DVD player, television, and TiVo. Without all that crap, I can finally get some programming done.
Don't worry, you'll still have Slashdot to distract you from your work.
[Alias] car chase in Switzerland invovled two Ford Focus Hatchbacks... ...and while I wouldn't be caught dead in a Ford...
To be fair, the European Ford Focus is quite the nice car, not like the version that they make for the US market, I wold not mind driving a Euro Ford Focus RS at all. That car platform does really well at the WRC rally races.
Nice thing about the iPod is you CAN rip it yourself and are not required to buy it. The popularity of the iPod could also derail the future of other nasty restrictive DRMed CDs too and preserve your ability to rip new music.
It doesn't even have to be 18mbit - WMV has been shown to provide the same level of quality somewhere between 6 and 8mbit as HDTV streams provide at 18.
Do you have any info on that? I find the 18mbit MPEG2 way over-compressed and would be interested in what a better method could do in the same bandwidth...
The great news is that 2004 Alpine Ai-NET head units are equipped with a proprietary technology which enhances sound quality and restores lost detail to compressed digital media.
What magic are they working here? Just some goofy equalizer presets? Use tachyon fields to make out the quantum temporal disturbances to restore previously lost detail?
I agree with you about the "cassette" receptacle, though. It would be much neater. Perhaps they went with this design because it is less dependent on iPod form factors...future iPods may be smaller, wider, whatever, and the system will presumably continue to work with them.
Another advantage to hiding the iPod away is to make it harder see and therefore less likely to get stolen. Having a normal looking head unit also supports this. As you might have guessed I've had easy to remove items, an iPod and a laptop, stolen from my car - even when they were *very* hard to see. I am much more likely to buy an interface that lets me mount the iPod somewhere that is totally hidden.
That study does have that huge flaw, but I wonder what the terminal velocity of a cat is? If it is low enough then it could survive from any 'reasonable' height (where reasonable means we do not need heat shields for reentry).
I doubt we could convince the ASPCA to give us unadopted cats for the required experiments.
My problem with digital cable and VOD is the low picture quality. My HDTV picture delivered via comcast is great (ok, it is over compressed but still leaps and bounds better than the alternatives) but normal digital cable leaves much to be desired. If they could get the quality of digital cable and VOD up to even DVD I would be much more likely to utilize the service, as it is I would much rather go through the trouble to rent the DVD to get the DTS sound and widescreen picture.
As my parent poster said it goes back to the problem of bandwidth, I have a feeling the current VOD system pushes their networks envelope. HDTV is roughly 18MBit/sec, not likely going to see that delivered on demand anytime soon but some sort of caching as my parent poster was describing could alleviate some of it.
I only walk and ride my bicycle. In the last 4 years (since I gave up driving) I haven't used any gasoline (hydrogen, natural gas, or electricity) while going from point A to point B.
When I can buy a car with that kind of effencieny I'll look into it, but until then, a walkin' I a' go.
Must be a bitch to take that shiny new 21 inch monitor home from the store.
there is nothing a nuclear bomb can do, that enough conventional bombs can't do as well. With little fallout.
Two things: the psychological impact of a nuclear bomb is much greater and the short term risk to the attacker is less (only one plane risked to take out a city).
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How long until they have WiFi and IP addresses so the tech can VPN or SSH in? Lets just hope they have a good firewall and no built in accounts.
I did just hear about a technology to do just that. This tech can be used for any photo - not just ones that have people's eyes in them. Apparently it looks for the tell tale distortion that comes from resizing pictures and checks to see if the telltale resize 'fingerprints' are the same for the entire picture. Most of the time inserted elements need to be resized to fit into the photo.
As the article mentions, all previous versions of eye trackers required some active energy (usually infrared light) being directed at the eye in question. This is (supposedly) the first that was entirely passive. Do you recall how the one you saw on TV worked?
So you never use any sites that are made possible by ad revenue? Or you think all sites that depend on ad revenue are evil?
Are you sure about that? I'm not sure about you, but my cell phone works fine (wireless digital audio) and there are many devices that send audio over WiFi (like the Airport Express). Also I must say watching broadcast HDTV works just great and I've watched many streaming videos over a WiFi connection.
Not any more. Thanks for ruining the study, you and your big mouth.
Probably want to use alcohol as capsaicin is also alcohol soluble and oil is not so hot at mixing with water. You could use an emulsifier but that would be a real pain in the ass and probably not be all that spray-able.
Maybe a bit too informative.
-Sosumi
Funny you bring them up: Apple Records did sue Apple Computers, first in 1989 and then again last year.
-Sosumi
Well, if "it could diddle with cabon dating" then that means it sure wanted us to believe cabon dating works. By not believing in carbon dating you are not beleviing what God wanted you to believe.
540p and 1080i are basically equivalent (at least as far as joe sixpack is concerned).
Umm, no they are not. Interlacing only affects the verticle resoultion. Assuming 60Hrz for both, 1920x1080i and 1920x540p would have the same datarate but would not look the same. 960x540p would be half the datarate. There have been some studies to what apaprent verticle resolution 1080i has and most point to something in the 600's, more when there is little motion, less with more motion; that is what the end user cares about.
As a side note, most 1080i HDTV cameras cannot get the full 1920 horizontal resution, most are around 1200-1300. My personal favortite is 720p, looks nice and hase no interlacing artifacts. ABC, ESPN and Fox (or will IIRC) use that, everyone else uses 1080i.
Don't worry, you'll still have Slashdot to distract you from your work.
Now how long until my 6 digit account number garners that type of respect? Probably around the same time we detect aliens.
To be fair, the European Ford Focus is quite the nice car, not like the version that they make for the US market, I wold not mind driving a Euro Ford Focus RS at all. That car platform does really well at the WRC rally races.
Nice thing about the iPod is you CAN rip it yourself and are not required to buy it. The popularity of the iPod could also derail the future of other nasty restrictive DRMed CDs too and preserve your ability to rip new music.
Do you have any info on that? I find the 18mbit MPEG2 way over-compressed and would be interested in what a better method could do in the same bandwidth...
Another advantage to hiding the iPod away is to make it harder see and therefore less likely to get stolen. Having a normal looking head unit also supports this. As you might have guessed I've had easy to remove items, an iPod and a laptop, stolen from my car - even when they were *very* hard to see. I am much more likely to buy an interface that lets me mount the iPod somewhere that is totally hidden.
That would be why he mentioned their trademark (or, as he put it, 'mark') and not copyrights or patents.
I doubt we could convince the ASPCA to give us unadopted cats for the required experiments.
As my parent poster said it goes back to the problem of bandwidth, I have a feeling the current VOD system pushes their networks envelope. HDTV is roughly 18MBit/sec, not likely going to see that delivered on demand anytime soon but some sort of caching as my parent poster was describing could alleviate some of it.
When I can buy a car with that kind of effencieny I'll look into it, but until then, a walkin' I a' go.
Must be a bitch to take that shiny new 21 inch monitor home from the store.
Two things: the psychological impact of a nuclear bomb is much greater and the short term risk to the attacker is less (only one plane risked to take out a city).