12 marbles, 1 balance scale, 3 chances to use the scale. One marble is different in weight (lighter or heavier). How do you find which one?
(more clues to answer below)
3 places to put the marbles, Balance Scale [left side, right side] , and on the table.
3 states for the balance Scale: left side goes up, left side goes down, no movement.
The full answer is very elegant. Very fun to write down. Then more questions come up, like: how many trials are necessary for 13 balls? 16? 30? any random number?
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Is it noise cancelling? It seems that it just adds sampled sound to mask conversations.
"sound processor and several speakers that multiply and scramble voices that come within its range"
Horrible article. No details on how the product works or what it does.
And for the map thingy... It's been done some time ago (2002). Here's a movie (25 MB) from Sony research (Jun Rekimoto, SmartSkin: An Infrastructure for Freehand Manipulation on Interactive Surfaces):
Ahh, Ok!
For navigation and selection of visually complex and cluttered options, the eyes might the best way to go. I still doubt the quality and speed of that interface for text entry. The software needs to be really well designed so that you're not selecting individual letters most of the time.
I think that using the body's nervous system offers more variables.
I understand that the eyes are very fast, but they can only do one thing at a time. Probably a system that combines excellent nervous system translation and eye movement captation will be incredible. I'm all for giving everyone their favorite input system. Some people prefer to play the violin, others the tuba. There is no reason for computer interfaces to be standardized, and we shouldn't be scared of interfaces that have a very long and slow learning curve. Usually, when something is hard to learn, you can do more complex things with it when you know how it works, compared to something easy that becomes troublesome because complex actions require too many simple actions.
Just like benchmarking computers, there should be people benchmarking interfaces.
Programming languages are visual and depend on the computer screen or whatever the computer outputs. Changing the way it is disposed on the screen is just trying to make it cute.
The major restraint right now on programming is INPUT.
The mouse dates back 50 years, the keyboard's even older than that, and it's designed to slow down users! (both cause +RSI and other crap, and are very slow and innacurate)
For example, where are dual cursors? There needs to be more OS implementations and design to have superinterfaces. Make the long, tedious, well planned out programming that will accelerate future programming. And think out of the box: Future programming will not be done with a keyboard and a mouse.
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.htm l
Why can Stephen Hawkings write speeches, scientific texts and do tons of complex things with a single thumb clic?
Where are the standards for new interface developpement? The OS developpements to support the hardware?
Screens are getting bigger, why do I have to rely on a menu in the top left of the screen if i'm working in the bottom right of a 2nd screen?
Design and manufacture of new technology is slowed down by the limited ways we have to transfer, collect, manage and create the complex data we have to deal with. F*ck Moore's law! With the keyboard and mouse, the bottleneck is between us and it. The idle time prooves it.
Computer's are an instrument. Instruments are allways hard to master. They evolve. They're not supposed to only get cuter.
Imagine a computer using 50% of it's processing power to know what you want/to say/it to do.../rant
Games are starting to be profitable, so Eidos wants to be bought? They sell, but just "change the flag" and the group stays the same? Why would News Corp buy them? What else to they own?
It isn't clear or well explained in the article. Can someone please explain the situation?
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"The Pentagon asked us to think about abrupt climate change and what its geopolitical implications might be. We weren't saying this is what will happen, only that it plausibly could happen."
Pentagon scenario hmmm?...
"The Pentagon asked us to think about abrupt Iraki Attack and what its geopolitical implications might be. We weren't saying this is what will happen, only that it plausibly could happen.
Now, we looked at the worst-case realistic scenario: what would happen if the abrupt Iraqi Attack was as extreme as is plausible, if it hit the most vulnerable regions the hardest, and if it all happened at once. There are no intelligence agencies we've run into who say that the abrupt Iraqi Attack will unfold exactly as we've outlined, but there are also very few intelligence agencies who say that something like this is implausible.
In terms of daily life, food prices would go up, and certain foods would be harder to get. Fuel prices would go up."
It started with the finder bar. The battery and airport icons turned sort of transparent, displaying documents from my desktop (which are never that high up) over a black background.
It was the first time I saw OS X make my background image go black.
Gradually, every application window started to turn completely white. I had to exposé to identify which program I was shutting down. Movements remained coherent.
Then the airport icon appeared in the central area of the screen, and was attached to the left upper corner of a document. It moved around when I moved the document.
Rectangles of white owned the screen. Couldn't kill them. Resorted to logging out.
It's a great idea. However it probably only works well with "laserlike" frequencies, high frequencies that bounce off materials in a straight way, like the pool ball.
Lower frequencies aren't so directional, they diffuse alot. When they will be replayed from the noise location, they are going to go everywhere. It's going to be muddied even more, and everybody is going to hear it.
That's why the time reversal technique seems to be working for medical uses, because it works great with ultrasound. It allows energy to concentrate on one area.
As for the market domination, well, time reversal (on it's own) doesn't allow for sound to be heard in a directional way (the beam is sometimes a good thing).
It probably needs methods for mapping the obstacles at which you need to reshoot the sounds. It's not a "take it out of the box and it will work" technology. And most importantly, it needs obstacles...
It doesn't mean that this "white" virus doesn't cause damage.
When the original welchia worm came out, it crashed most of air canada's computer system, leaving many passengers stranded, and lots of employees trying to remember the pencil and paper way of booking a flight.
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12 marbles, 1 balance scale, 3 chances to use the scale.
One marble is different in weight (lighter or heavier).
How do you find which one?
(more clues to answer below)
3 places to put the marbles,
Balance Scale [left side, right side] , and on the table.
3 states for the balance Scale: left side goes up, left side goes down, no movement.
The full answer is very elegant.
Very fun to write down.
Then more questions come up, like: how many trials are necessary for 13 balls? 16? 30? any random number?
Is it noise cancelling? It seems that it just adds sampled sound to mask conversations.
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"sound processor and several speakers that multiply and scramble voices that come within its range"
Horrible article. No details on how the product works or what it does.
And for the map thingy... It's been done some time ago (2002).
Here's a movie (25 MB) from Sony research (Jun Rekimoto, SmartSkin: An Infrastructure for Freehand Manipulation on Interactive Surfaces):
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/movies/
Use VLC to view the movie.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Movie taken from
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/smartsk
For navigation and selection of visually complex and cluttered options, the eyes might the best way to go. I still doubt the quality and speed of that interface for text entry. The software needs to be really well designed so that you're not selecting individual letters most of the time.
I think that using the body's nervous system offers more variables. I understand that the eyes are very fast, but they can only do one thing at a time. Probably a system that combines excellent nervous system translation and eye movement captation will be incredible. I'm all for giving everyone their favorite input system. Some people prefer to play the violin, others the tuba. There is no reason for computer interfaces to be standardized, and we shouldn't be scared of interfaces that have a very long and slow learning curve. Usually, when something is hard to learn, you can do more complex things with it when you know how it works, compared to something easy that becomes troublesome because complex actions require too many simple actions.
Just like benchmarking computers, there should be people benchmarking interfaces.
Brain link!
Not necessarily...
Think of a pianist. He/she doesn't look at every key played. Using the eyes would slow things down.
Computer interfaces suck.
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/to say/it to do... /rant
Programming languages are visual and depend on the computer screen or whatever the computer outputs. Changing the way it is disposed on the screen is just trying to make it cute.
The major restraint right now on programming is INPUT.
The mouse dates back 50 years,
the keyboard's even older than that, and it's designed to slow down users! (both cause +RSI and other crap, and are very slow and innacurate)
For example, where are dual cursors?
There needs to be more OS implementations and design to have superinterfaces. Make the long, tedious, well planned out programming that will accelerate future programming. And think out of the box: Future programming will not be done with a keyboard and a mouse.
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.ht
Why can Stephen Hawkings write speeches, scientific texts and do tons of complex things with a single thumb clic?
Where are the standards for new interface developpement?
The OS developpements to support the hardware?
Screens are getting bigger, why do I have to rely on a menu in the top left of the screen if i'm working in the bottom right of a 2nd screen?
Design and manufacture of new technology is slowed down by the limited ways we have to transfer, collect, manage and create the complex data we have to deal with. F*ck Moore's law! With the keyboard and mouse, the bottleneck is between us and it. The idle time prooves it.
Computer's are an instrument. Instruments are allways hard to master. They evolve. They're not supposed to only get cuter.
Imagine a computer using 50% of it's processing power to know what you want
They are, just not in the same country...
Microsoft needs more money?
Someone's got a very big plan.
Blog about the non-blog!
Call it: Blog "news", fair and un-blogged
America is f*ked if smart people dont stand up for their country.
Very stupid people are calling the shots
Cole Porter
Birds do it, bees do it
Games are starting to be profitable, so Eidos wants to be bought?
They sell, but just "change the flag" and the group stays the same?
Why would News Corp buy them? What else to they own?
It isn't clear or well explained in the article.
Can someone please explain the situation?
the iMic seems cute and all, but it's not a recording capable iPod!
All the hardware is allready here!
Apple just doesn't let that feature fly.
I dont understand the logic.
As a musician, I would buy one right now if it allowed me to record.
I'm waiting.
wtf? "a music player, not a recorder"
It's a bundle of electronics with software running on it!
It can record, as the linux boot demonstrates. Apple decides to "cripple" that feature.
The accessories suck and dont allow high quality recording.
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whoah!
Isn't every laptop a recording device?
PDA's do it.
iRiver's do it.
iPod's running linux seem to be able to do it.
Stupid hardware crippling! It's pathetic!
If the chinese government thinks that wikipedia is a menace to their power, I wish them good luck in the years to come.
"The Pentagon asked us to think about abrupt climate change and what its geopolitical implications might be. We weren't saying this is what will happen, only that it plausibly could happen."
Pentagon scenario hmmm?...
"The Pentagon asked us to think about abrupt Iraki Attack and what its geopolitical implications might be. We weren't saying this is what will happen, only that it plausibly could happen.
Now, we looked at the worst-case realistic scenario: what would happen if the abrupt Iraqi Attack was as extreme as is plausible, if it hit the most vulnerable regions the hardest, and if it all happened at once. There are no intelligence agencies we've run into who say that the abrupt Iraqi Attack will unfold exactly as we've outlined, but there are also very few intelligence agencies who say that something like this is implausible.
In terms of daily life, food prices would go up, and certain foods would be harder to get. Fuel prices would go up."
My system softly crashed in a very strange way...
It started with the finder bar. The battery and airport icons turned sort of transparent, displaying documents from my desktop (which are never that high up) over a black background.
It was the first time I saw OS X make my background image go black.
Gradually, every application window started to turn completely white. I had to exposé to identify which program I was shutting down. Movements remained coherent.
Then the airport icon appeared in the central area of the screen, and was attached to the left upper corner of a document. It moved around when I moved the document.
Rectangles of white owned the screen. Couldn't kill them.
Resorted to logging out.
damn
It's a great idea. However it probably only works well with "laserlike" frequencies, high frequencies that bounce off materials in a straight way, like the pool ball.
Lower frequencies aren't so directional, they diffuse alot. When they will be replayed from the noise location, they are going to go everywhere. It's going to be muddied even more, and everybody is going to hear it.
That's why the time reversal technique seems to be working for medical uses, because it works great with ultrasound. It allows energy to concentrate on one area.
As for the market domination, well, time reversal (on it's own) doesn't allow for sound to be heard in a directional way (the beam is sometimes a good thing).
It probably needs methods for mapping the obstacles at which you need to reshoot the sounds. It's not a "take it out of the box and it will work" technology. And most importantly, it needs obstacles...
Try using it outside!!
sorry...
Google Answers
The great thing about this service is the fact that all the answers are public, and there are some mighty good answers!
Why the MSN article gets choosed for /., with it's lame analysis of subject titles and physical attributes of the contestants, is beyond me.
It doesn't mean that this "white" virus doesn't cause damage.
When the original welchia worm came out, it crashed most of air canada's computer system, leaving many passengers stranded, and lots of employees trying to remember the pencil and paper way of booking a flight.
DARN, SCO with a cent sign doesn't come out right.