Most raytraced images are 100% in focus, which is very different from what we expect from a traditional image. So it appears that the image is fake. It is the same effect that a lot of people have upon seeing high definition movies on a good TV. The enhanced framerate and better contrast displays make the image different from what was expected, so the viewer ends up with a negative reaction to what are meant to be positive enhancements.
It had a high initial equipment investment, was slow (painfully slow), didn't look all that good compared to actual TV, had hourly charges, and very limited content. Users couldn't make their own content. The service was only for consumption.
By the time the internet really took off, in the mid 90's, speeds were faster, the images were good, and there was a lot more content to peruse. What really let the internet take off was the fact that people could easily create their own content.
If they aren't paying attention their mirrors and turning round to look in their blind spots - what makes you think that they will pay attention to a screen on their dash?
We're talking about Americans, most of whom have been conditioned since childhood to pay close attention to television screens for hours on end. I know that I find that on screen display in my prius naggingly annoying. I have to disable it for long drives.
Slow burn is where to raise and lower a weight very slowly (about one rep every 20-30 seconds), while maintaining proper form. The idea is that you can't unconsciously use momentum and leverage to help you lift the weight, hence you will reach full fatigue faster than the standard quick rep method. Since you'll theoretically get a full workout in about 2/3rds the time, you spend less time in the workout overall.
Operating Procedure:
Get you to love and depend on them
Gain your devotion to the faith
Teach you the rest of the rules
Threaten you with abandonment if you step out of line (in a nice way)
How would a business (or anyone) truly sell my work in a world without copyrights? Even if a business did take my creation and try to resell it as their own, their first customer would turn around and put it up on the internet for all to have freely.
I am looking for a setup such as this. Do you have more information on the specific parts and mountings that you used? Perhaps I could.. subscribe to your newsletter?
Currently this tech can only measure horizontal eye movements, which makes it limited for replacing a mouse. However, if they can approach the speed and accuracy of even a laptop's touchpad, then it may usher in a new era of interaction with a computer. We wont even have to touch our tablets to interact with them.
Considering that the commercial eye-tracking devices my quick search found were all several thousands of dollars, this could be a huge step forward. I'm mightily impressed!
"pay a kid for every A and B he gets in class" No, not this. Don't pay for results, pay for the behaviour that brings the results.
I recall a study a few year back where schools in several areas did pay students for achievements. One school paid 3rd graders money if they got A's and B's on their tests. Another school paid their 1st graders for every book that they read. The result: The 3rd graders showed no improvement in their scores, but the 1st graders did. Why? Because the 3rd graders didn't know how to get the A's and B's. However, the 1st graders had their education improved by reading the extra books, so they got better grades.
So the key is to reward the behavior that leads to success, not merely the success itself.
Being able to remove every last trace of an unused part of windows would be a great boon. I am currently rocking a 64GB SSD drive with windows 7. 18GB of that is taken up by the Windows directory.
If I could cut that down by half, that'd be enough room for 2-3 extra games. As it is, I am constantly uninstalling and reinstalling to make use of my SSD for fast loading.
Since I make use of, well, basically none of the features like tablet support, speech recognition, gadgets, or.. IE, it'd be nice if I could free up some extra space by completely wiping them off the drive. Or, at least put those install files on to my data hard disk.
Laws like what you describe are very common. Most counties have enacted similar ones. Unfortunately, by pushing people further and further away from normal society, they're making rehabilitation and reintegration more difficult than normal.
This is especially troubling, given the useless nature of the sex offender list in most states. Public urination? Sex offender. Take a photo of your own teenage body? Sex offender. Now the NIMBYs in villages like yours are pushing these people out of society.
It is getting to the point in America where a sex offense should just result in deportation or execution. Life on the list is brutal.
The people who made those loans didn't lose the money. They packaged the loans and sold them as securities to investment firms. The private loan-makers made their money on those bad loans.
If you mean the thousands of bankers who were forced to make bad loans by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, then why? You can't punish people for doing something they would never normally do until the govt steps in and makes them.
Ok then, we wont go after those thousands of bankers. Instead we'll go after the tens of thousands of other, private bankers who weren't forced to make fraudulent loans, but made them anyway out of greed. Is that ok?
This might not be as terrible an idea as it seems. His articles were sometimes dubious, but the comments that they generated were often very interesting and insightful. Since I read Slashdot primarily for the comments, as I assume most of us do, any good hook for discussions is welcome.
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Most raytraced images are 100% in focus, which is very different from what we expect from a traditional image. So it appears that the image is fake. It is the same effect that a lot of people have upon seeing high definition movies on a good TV. The enhanced framerate and better contrast displays make the image different from what was expected, so the viewer ends up with a negative reaction to what are meant to be positive enhancements.
Sqrt(-1) is not irrational. Its not even real. :(
But the return trip to drop him back off certainly wasn't an emergency..
It had a high initial equipment investment, was slow (painfully slow), didn't look all that good compared to actual TV, had hourly charges, and very limited content. Users couldn't make their own content. The service was only for consumption. By the time the internet really took off, in the mid 90's, speeds were faster, the images were good, and there was a lot more content to peruse. What really let the internet take off was the fact that people could easily create their own content.
If they aren't paying attention their mirrors and turning round to look in their blind spots - what makes you think that they will pay attention to a screen on their dash?
We're talking about Americans, most of whom have been conditioned since childhood to pay close attention to television screens for hours on end. I know that I find that on screen display in my prius naggingly annoying. I have to disable it for long drives.
Slow burn is where to raise and lower a weight very slowly (about one rep every 20-30 seconds), while maintaining proper form. The idea is that you can't unconsciously use momentum and leverage to help you lift the weight, hence you will reach full fatigue faster than the standard quick rep method. Since you'll theoretically get a full workout in about 2/3rds the time, you spend less time in the workout overall.
Operating Procedure:
Get you to love and depend on them
Gain your devotion to the faith
Teach you the rest of the rules
Threaten you with abandonment if you step out of line (in a nice way)
That sounds an awful lot like my marriage...
I figure A+B has to be greater than A (for non-negative values of B, in case someone is thinking about being a jackass).
0 is a non-negative value, and A+0 = A, which is not greater than A. (Sorry, just finished my topology work.)
How would a business (or anyone) truly sell my work in a world without copyrights? Even if a business did take my creation and try to resell it as their own, their first customer would turn around and put it up on the internet for all to have freely.
No. The sounds you're hearing are the whooshes over the heads of everyone who replied with Harrison Bergeron.
I am looking for a setup such as this. Do you have more information on the specific parts and mountings that you used? Perhaps I could.. subscribe to your newsletter?
What is fun?
Then it is unfortunate that we haven't learned anything from our history.
Funny, the same thing could be said about Isaac Newton, or Karl Gauss, or just about any of the big names in mathematics.
Currently this tech can only measure horizontal eye movements, which makes it limited for replacing a mouse. However, if they can approach the speed and accuracy of even a laptop's touchpad, then it may usher in a new era of interaction with a computer. We wont even have to touch our tablets to interact with them.
Considering that the commercial eye-tracking devices my quick search found were all several thousands of dollars, this could be a huge step forward. I'm mightily impressed!
"pay a kid for every A and B he gets in class" No, not this. Don't pay for results, pay for the behaviour that brings the results.
I recall a study a few year back where schools in several areas did pay students for achievements. One school paid 3rd graders money if they got A's and B's on their tests. Another school paid their 1st graders for every book that they read. The result: The 3rd graders showed no improvement in their scores, but the 1st graders did. Why? Because the 3rd graders didn't know how to get the A's and B's. However, the 1st graders had their education improved by reading the extra books, so they got better grades.
So the key is to reward the behavior that leads to success, not merely the success itself.
Who, aside from businesses, pays retail prices for their equipment?
/me strokes evil white pussy.
Note to self: Always read the title of the thread first. Now I am off to clear this terrible mental image.
Being able to remove every last trace of an unused part of windows would be a great boon. I am currently rocking a 64GB SSD drive with windows 7. 18GB of that is taken up by the Windows directory.
If I could cut that down by half, that'd be enough room for 2-3 extra games. As it is, I am constantly uninstalling and reinstalling to make use of my SSD for fast loading.
Since I make use of, well, basically none of the features like tablet support, speech recognition, gadgets, or.. IE, it'd be nice if I could free up some extra space by completely wiping them off the drive. Or, at least put those install files on to my data hard disk.
Laws like what you describe are very common. Most counties have enacted similar ones. Unfortunately, by pushing people further and further away from normal society, they're making rehabilitation and reintegration more difficult than normal.
This is especially troubling, given the useless nature of the sex offender list in most states. Public urination? Sex offender. Take a photo of your own teenage body? Sex offender. Now the NIMBYs in villages like yours are pushing these people out of society.
It is getting to the point in America where a sex offense should just result in deportation or execution. Life on the list is brutal.
That is a terrible way to deal with the problem.
Clearly, we should develop robots to do the consumption for us!
Just multiply by 2.
The people who made those loans didn't lose the money. They packaged the loans and sold them as securities to investment firms. The private loan-makers made their money on those bad loans.
If you mean the thousands of bankers who were forced to make bad loans by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, then why? You can't punish people for doing something they would never normally do until the govt steps in and makes them.
Ok then, we wont go after those thousands of bankers. Instead we'll go after the tens of thousands of other, private bankers who weren't forced to make fraudulent loans, but made them anyway out of greed. Is that ok?
This might not be as terrible an idea as it seems. His articles were sometimes dubious, but the comments that they generated were often very interesting and insightful. Since I read Slashdot primarily for the comments, as I assume most of us do, any good hook for discussions is welcome.