We wrote our own custom plugin. It has the ability to dynamically control the frame rate. There's also a pre-generated animation format (though I didn't work on that). People have been using Matlab to generate patterns, then we load them and display them on the floor (for example, the expanding wave and spotlight patterns)
Yes, superbright LEDs (got a great bulk rate deal). I didn't work with the hardware, so I don't know about the part numbers. Give us some time, we should be adding some more info to the website. Or email the list.
I can't claim that I was a major player, but I did help with the driver and some visualizations for this thing. Just to clarify:
The emails you send do not get displayed on the floor, in case you were wondering. Ddf is just the email list.
The people dancing in the video are not at a party, but members of a theater group that were recuited after their performance to shoot the video. At parties it's much groovier.
The tiles on the floor can be controlled in real time, and by either a standalone program or an XMMS plugin (a spectrum analyzer is working as of recently) And yes, it should be relatively trivial to program tetris for it, though it hasn't been done yet.
Check out the Fair Tax Plan. Their proposed solution is similar to what you describe, including the tax credit (though it's based on estimated living expenses, not reciepts).
The problem here is that Time Warner doesn't have enough competition because it's already large enough to circumvent regulations that hinder starting companies. A good chunk of the work in starting a company is dealing with the tangle of laws in place that benefit huge corporations who have pull in congress.
Why should libraries be public? They can charge very low fines / membership and still make a profit.
I don't know about the public libraries where you are, but the ones I've been to had a computer book section that averaged 10-15 years outdated.
The problem with guaranteeing a monopoly is that this third party will have no incentive to improve its services to compete with other vendors. Though the rates may be the same, the service won't.
It's not harder to get real, unbiased information. It's just that now we're starting to have more sources that can easily be compared, and we're realizing how biased most sources are.
People do not have a collective will. Just look at you and me. If we cannot agree on where to spend "public" money, how can an entire nation? "Collective will" works fine when there are a few people living together who agree to each put in a few dollars to buy groceries that they all eat, but even that breaks down if one person regularly eats out, and therefore wouldn't benefit from a collective refrigerator.
You speak of "the public" as a single person. It is composed of millions of individuals. Does your argument also apply to the entire world? Is it "the world"'s place to decide what's done with "the world's money"?
"The sponsor, Rep. Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge, said allowing taxpayers to decide is better than barring local governments from competing with utilities."
No, it's not. They're letting people to decide whether or not to take other people's money to subsidize this. Would it be fair to allow a company to compete that could take money from people at will? Even people who don't buy the product?
I'd say that an 8:1 actual:expected cost ratio seems pretty good for a federal agency, don't you? Cmon, give'em a break, they haven't had to deal with competition like a normal business.
I'm pro-science and pro-geek. What I'm not is pro-taking-your-tax-money-to-fund-my-special-inter ests. Donate money to a university lab, just stay out of my pocket.
It's not your place to decide what's sexy. Other people's tax money get's spent on this too. And there are certainly people with money who think space exploration is sexy.
I vote to cancel NASA completely. Anything they do could be done "Faster, better, cheaper" by a private company. Sell the probes/programs to the highest bidder.
Just remember, for people whose job is government, the solution to every problem is more government.
According to the article, it doesn't prevent all mutations, only the ones that put the plant under stress. Bad mutations stress the plant and trigger the restoration of the backup copy.
You've hit the nail on the head here. This "well intentioned" government regulations purports to increase choice for consumers, when consumers should really just be choosing with their wallet. If people want this service, they can choose an ISP that has it or boycott ones that don't.
Instead, everyone is forced to pay more for a service that some people don't give a crap about.
You know, everyone's focusing on consumers here. The government is not taking away consumers' freedoms directly - it's taking away ISP's freedoms. If I'm running an ISP and I want to provide cheap, simple service with no frills (and no optional blocking service), this bill prevents me from doing so.
The way it removes consumer freedom is it prevents one from choosing an ISP without this blocking service in order to save money. The choice that's being limited is the choice of cheaper internet service, not porn vs. blocking.
My uncle is part of a small group of people who are experimenting a "new" form of agriculture, wherein you let nature do its job. You basically make it hard on the plants, by spreading diseased ones all over the field rather than removing them. Some plants die, but some survive.
The end result is a crop that may not produce the best yield under perfect conditions, but it is so resistant to disease and weather that it ALWAYS produces something. It's basically the opposite of these engineered, single-strain crops that are used in many places.
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Actually, there's one pixel that periodically gets a bit flakey. Grant jumps on it to make it work again.
We wrote our own custom plugin. It has the ability to dynamically control the frame rate. There's also a pre-generated animation format (though I didn't work on that). People have been using Matlab to generate patterns, then we load them and display them on the floor (for example, the expanding wave and spotlight patterns)
Yes, superbright LEDs (got a great bulk rate deal). I didn't work with the hardware, so I don't know about the part numbers. Give us some time, we should be adding some more info to the website. Or email the list.
- The emails you send do not get displayed on the floor, in case you were wondering. Ddf is just the email list.
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The people dancing in the video are not at a party, but members of a theater group that were recuited after their performance to shoot the video. At parties it's much groovier.
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The tiles on the floor can be controlled in real time, and by either a standalone program or an XMMS plugin (a spectrum analyzer is working as of recently) And yes, it should be relatively trivial to program tetris for it, though it hasn't been done yet.
- Our inspirational song is "Work it" by Daft Punk.
Aaron S.Check out the Fair Tax Plan. Their proposed solution is similar to what you describe, including the tax credit (though it's based on estimated living expenses, not reciepts).
The problem here is that Time Warner doesn't have enough competition because it's already large enough to circumvent regulations that hinder starting companies. A good chunk of the work in starting a company is dealing with the tangle of laws in place that benefit huge corporations who have pull in congress.
Why should libraries be public? They can charge very low fines / membership and still make a profit. I don't know about the public libraries where you are, but the ones I've been to had a computer book section that averaged 10-15 years outdated.
Do you count major highways in roads? Toll roads are excludable.
The problem with guaranteeing a monopoly is that this third party will have no incentive to improve its services to compete with other vendors. Though the rates may be the same, the service won't.
It's not harder to get real, unbiased information. It's just that now we're starting to have more sources that can easily be compared, and we're realizing how biased most sources are.
People do not have a collective will. Just look at you and me. If we cannot agree on where to spend "public" money, how can an entire nation? "Collective will" works fine when there are a few people living together who agree to each put in a few dollars to buy groceries that they all eat, but even that breaks down if one person regularly eats out, and therefore wouldn't benefit from a collective refrigerator.
You speak of "the public" as a single person. It is composed of millions of individuals. Does your argument also apply to the entire world? Is it "the world"'s place to decide what's done with "the world's money"?
No, it's not. They're letting people to decide whether or not to take other people's money to subsidize this. Would it be fair to allow a company to compete that could take money from people at will? Even people who don't buy the product?
I'd say that an 8:1 actual:expected cost ratio seems pretty good for a federal agency, don't you? Cmon, give'em a break, they haven't had to deal with competition like a normal business.
I'm pro-science and pro-geek. What I'm not is pro-taking-your-tax-money-to-fund-my-special-inter ests. Donate money to a university lab, just stay out of my pocket.
It's not your place to decide what's sexy. Other people's tax money get's spent on this too. And there are certainly people with money who think space exploration is sexy.
I vote to cancel NASA completely. Anything they do could be done "Faster, better, cheaper" by a private company. Sell the probes/programs to the highest bidder. Just remember, for people whose job is government, the solution to every problem is more government.
According to the article, it doesn't prevent all mutations, only the ones that put the plant under stress. Bad mutations stress the plant and trigger the restoration of the backup copy.
Instead, everyone is forced to pay more for a service that some people don't give a crap about.
You know, everyone's focusing on consumers here. The government is not taking away consumers' freedoms directly - it's taking away ISP's freedoms. If I'm running an ISP and I want to provide cheap, simple service with no frills (and no optional blocking service), this bill prevents me from doing so.
The way it removes consumer freedom is it prevents one from choosing an ISP without this blocking service in order to save money. The choice that's being limited is the choice of cheaper internet service, not porn vs. blocking.
You forgot one thing that I can see - Hitler implemented complete gun-control laws so that there would be no armed resistance.
Are you talking about the US supreme court? Because they don't seem to remember that their job is to make decisions based on the constitution.
My uncle is part of a small group of people who are experimenting a "new" form of agriculture, wherein you let nature do its job. You basically make it hard on the plants, by spreading diseased ones all over the field rather than removing them. Some plants die, but some survive.
The end result is a crop that may not produce the best yield under perfect conditions, but it is so resistant to disease and weather that it ALWAYS produces something. It's basically the opposite of these engineered, single-strain crops that are used in many places.
And it takes perfect observation skills to notice that the person in the gorilla suit was actually a woman (Don't believe me? Look again!)
Or make the stylus continuously oscillate diagonally about the current position, so you could make calligraphy-style brush strokes.
They should add another motor that shakes it and connect that to a "reset" button.