First of all, he could have achieved all of those with only 1-degree of freedom (plus time). Pong is one degree, obviously. Channel up and down is one, then holding up or holding down could be volume, etc etc....
Anyway, "degrees of freedom" is not a measure of the power of the interface with the brain. There are many more parameters. For example, take a single degree of freedom. There is resolution on this degree of freedom (if its speed, how many different speeds can he control). There is the responsiveness (how long does it take for the computer to interpret his thoughts). Accuracy, and probably a lot more of things I can't think of.
I'm afraid you are entirely incorrect: http://www.segway.com/segway/. The "Segway HT" (Human Transporter) is the real name. The media started calling it just "it" to try to emphasize its uniqueness and indescribability. I bet Segway had a hand in that.
I'd like to add something to the list of grievances against the CPD, they used a typewriter to write the Memorandum of Understanding posted in the article. How riduclous is that?
Does anyone else get the feeling that they are watching porn when they watch those videos with the guy wriggling the pen in the keyhole and then trying to pull the lock open? There is something inherently dirty in that...
Yeah, as a student preparing to go to college in a year, I'm rather unhappy about all the "freebies", too. No student should be looking at such things when choosing a college because it should be blatantly obvious that these "freebies" are coming straight out of your own tuition. People don't want to buy a bundle including things like free music when they pay for college, they want education.
Incidentally, I think this is a really good example of how a few colleges, like Duke, are really riding on, what I would say is, irrational demand. In the last few years, Duke has really gotten a surge in interest from students and it definitley doesn't correspond to some sort of surge in Duke's educational record. Duke sees that its making money off just being "cool" and its trying to keep this wave going a bit longer with scams like this.
I have always found it ridiculous how hard it is to get modern scientific papers online (without all sorts of subscriptions and memberships and such). I mean the interent was created partially for, and originally used mostly by researchers. I think it won't be long before movements like this and others will really change the situation.
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Also, there is a limit to just how slow a parachute (at least any current design) can go. At very slow speeds, the parachute can be come less stable with parts of it collapsing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't tabbing through links part of the DOM or HTML specification? At least for filling out forms, there is an HTML parameter specifying what order form objects get tabbed through.
That's a bad definition. That would mean every single residence has its own neigborhood (imagine millions of circles, one centered on each house/apartement/etc).
I don't know what my neighborhood is. There is my town, which has maybe a little less than 10k households, but there are neighboring towns also. And yes, I think a lot of the point of making it a geographically local thing is so you can easily turn online relationships (I'm not just talking about dating) into "real" relationships.
As other posters pointed out, there are few neighborhoods registered so far. One of the reasons this is so is that i-neighbors has, in my opinion, a ridiculous policy for what a neighborhood is: "An area of fewer than 500 households, or a single apartment complex." If they get even 5% participation across the US, an incredible feat by website standards, they would have on the average, less than 25 households in a neighborhood. That's a pretty minimal selection of people. I don't see what the point of making neighborhoods so small is; I can easily get to at least 10,000 households by foot in my average, suburban town. If this think wants any chance of survival, they better change that rule.
See, If you had read my post carefully, you'd have seen that it is a shameful attempt at some funny mod points, thereby making the post itself an example of how pimple-faced teens hurt the community.
Seriously though, it really was mostly in jest. I'm sure many quality posts come from "young people", hell, even some of my posts aren't too terrible. And I definitley am not ashamed, either. I thought the sarcasm was evident.
...for not seeing this coming when that last story was posted. If I had put down 250 and bought 5, I'd i have a cool $1300+ profit for a few hours work... 'Course it wouldn't even come close to making up for the other hundreds of hours wasted on slashdot...
We all know that there are millions of pimple-faced teens lurking about/. but most of the time, they stay out of sight with their GNAA posts getting quietly modded down to -1. No need to bring them to the fore with an article like this.
Incidentally, I am a pimple-faced teen, but I am not proud!
These Efficieon processors better be pretty reliable, or this system better be able to fall back to SMP with a lower number of proccesors or downtime from dead CPUs would be a big problem with a 96 CPU one. If an Efficieon lasts 10 years on average (an overestimate, I'm sure), that means one will break every month.
This may be a non-issue. Take a look at some example files. It's not like every single matrix element is wrapped in a 562.567.... There is a significant overhead because its using ASCII, but it is less than 2x. Parsing ASCII vectors to floats really should be pretty minimal.
That's a dumb explanation for why it will not be released as such a huge breakthrough. The reason it won't be released with such an amazing difference between the current technology and it is because there are never any huge leaps in any field of science or technology. Everything is always a progression with stuff being built on older stuff.
As for the guy saying its impossible to store data with molecules, that's dumb, too. Do you realize that nanotubes can be up to 1 micron long, far larger than the smallest elements used in any modern data storage. Proteins can weigh 100,000s of amu (atmoic mass units) which puts them near the mass of affected material in the highest density magneic storage devices.
Yeah? How fast is the internet, anyway? Regardless, you are probably right, its unlikely that more than 11 mbps of traffic happens anywhere in the internet.
You know, I thought the same thing, at first. But then I realized that I think these guys are smart, and not just in computer science. One speculation I have is that they are trying to compensate for the predicted over-pricing of the stock that the auction-style IPO will create. Google doesn't want their stock dropping immediately after the IPO, so why not devalue it a bit prior the IPO.I don't think these kinds of tactics are smart in the long run, but I'm pretty confident there are some good reasons behind their seemingly strange actions.
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...with a story from experience. Not even an AC would admit to having fallen for one of these scams.
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First of all, he could have achieved all of those with only 1-degree of freedom (plus time). Pong is one degree, obviously. Channel up and down is one, then holding up or holding down could be volume, etc etc.... Anyway, "degrees of freedom" is not a measure of the power of the interface with the brain. There are many more parameters. For example, take a single degree of freedom. There is resolution on this degree of freedom (if its speed, how many different speeds can he control). There is the responsiveness (how long does it take for the computer to interpret his thoughts). Accuracy, and probably a lot more of things I can't think of.
I'm afraid you are entirely incorrect: http://www.segway.com/segway/. The "Segway HT" (Human Transporter) is the real name. The media started calling it just "it" to try to emphasize its uniqueness and indescribability. I bet Segway had a hand in that.
Ever since the media buzz died down, I don't think anyone calls it the "IT". Segway, two-wheeled scooter thingy maybe, but "IT"?
I'd like to add something to the list of grievances against the CPD, they used a typewriter to write the Memorandum of Understanding posted in the article. How riduclous is that?
Does anyone else get the feeling that they are watching porn when they watch those videos with the guy wriggling the pen in the keyhole and then trying to pull the lock open? There is something inherently dirty in that...
Yeah, as a student preparing to go to college in a year, I'm rather unhappy about all the "freebies", too. No student should be looking at such things when choosing a college because it should be blatantly obvious that these "freebies" are coming straight out of your own tuition. People don't want to buy a bundle including things like free music when they pay for college, they want education.
Incidentally, I think this is a really good example of how a few colleges, like Duke, are really riding on, what I would say is, irrational demand. In the last few years, Duke has really gotten a surge in interest from students and it definitley doesn't correspond to some sort of surge in Duke's educational record. Duke sees that its making money off just being "cool" and its trying to keep this wave going a bit longer with scams like this.
I have always found it ridiculous how hard it is to get modern scientific papers online (without all sorts of subscriptions and memberships and such). I mean the interent was created partially for, and originally used mostly by researchers. I think it won't be long before movements like this and others will really change the situation.
Also, there is a limit to just how slow a parachute (at least any current design) can go. At very slow speeds, the parachute can be come less stable with parts of it collapsing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't tabbing through links part of the DOM or HTML specification? At least for filling out forms, there is an HTML parameter specifying what order form objects get tabbed through.
That's a bad definition. That would mean every single residence has its own neigborhood (imagine millions of circles, one centered on each house/apartement/etc).
I don't know what my neighborhood is. There is my town, which has maybe a little less than 10k households, but there are neighboring towns also. And yes, I think a lot of the point of making it a geographically local thing is so you can easily turn online relationships (I'm not just talking about dating) into "real" relationships.
As other posters pointed out, there are few neighborhoods registered so far. One of the reasons this is so is that i-neighbors has, in my opinion, a ridiculous policy for what a neighborhood is: "An area of fewer than 500 households, or a single apartment complex." If they get even 5% participation across the US, an incredible feat by website standards, they would have on the average, less than 25 households in a neighborhood. That's a pretty minimal selection of people. I don't see what the point of making neighborhoods so small is; I can easily get to at least 10,000 households by foot in my average, suburban town. If this think wants any chance of survival, they better change that rule.
See, If you had read my post carefully, you'd have seen that it is a shameful attempt at some funny mod points, thereby making the post itself an example of how pimple-faced teens hurt the community. Seriously though, it really was mostly in jest. I'm sure many quality posts come from "young people", hell, even some of my posts aren't too terrible. And I definitley am not ashamed, either. I thought the sarcasm was evident.
...for not seeing this coming when that last story was posted. If I had put down 250 and bought 5, I'd i have a cool $1300+ profit for a few hours work... 'Course it wouldn't even come close to making up for the other hundreds of hours wasted on slashdot...
We all know that there are millions of pimple-faced teens lurking about /. but most of the time, they stay out of sight with their GNAA posts getting quietly modded down to -1. No need to bring them to the fore with an article like this.
Incidentally, I am a pimple-faced teen, but I am not proud!
It looks just like a very small average laptop. Nothing stunning about it.
Very old news that's been spreading around the web for a week, eh?
These Efficieon processors better be pretty reliable, or this system better be able to fall back to SMP with a lower number of proccesors or downtime from dead CPUs would be a big problem with a 96 CPU one. If an Efficieon lasts 10 years on average (an overestimate, I'm sure), that means one will break every month.
This may be a non-issue. Take a look at some example files. It's not like every single matrix element is wrapped in a 562.567.... There is a significant overhead because its using ASCII, but it is less than 2x. Parsing ASCII vectors to floats really should be pretty minimal.
Seriously. Us poor script kiddies are crying, "need more b0xen!" and this guy is wasting all this money on some damn non-volatile plastics.
That's a dumb explanation for why it will not be released as such a huge breakthrough. The reason it won't be released with such an amazing difference between the current technology and it is because there are never any huge leaps in any field of science or technology. Everything is always a progression with stuff being built on older stuff.
As for the guy saying its impossible to store data with molecules, that's dumb, too. Do you realize that nanotubes can be up to 1 micron long, far larger than the smallest elements used in any modern data storage. Proteins can weigh 100,000s of amu (atmoic mass units) which puts them near the mass of affected material in the highest density magneic storage devices.
Yeah? How fast is the internet, anyway? Regardless, you are probably right, its unlikely that more than 11 mbps of traffic happens anywhere in the internet.
You know, I thought the same thing, at first. But then I realized that I think these guys are smart, and not just in computer science. One speculation I have is that they are trying to compensate for the predicted over-pricing of the stock that the auction-style IPO will create. Google doesn't want their stock dropping immediately after the IPO, so why not devalue it a bit prior the IPO.I don't think these kinds of tactics are smart in the long run, but I'm pretty confident there are some good reasons behind their seemingly strange actions.
...with a story from experience. Not even an AC would admit to having fallen for one of these scams.
Holy fucking shit: http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=U TF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=266MB+*+100%2C000%2C000&b tnG=Search