The tail would be the same length plus a constant (for the tailing person, assuming they're not walking alongside and keeping up a conversation). Since a person moving at different speeds will produce tails of different lengths, this may not be easily discernible.
1.) You can't tell activity without a paired set of video cameras (i.e., legitimate night access by staff versus corporate sabotage). From TFA:
Users can select a certain path on the map - for example from the office drinks machine to the front door - to call up motion and video data from the path at a particular time and reveal who used the route. [emphasis mine]
So, you still have video cameras around and constantly capturing - this just narrows when you'd be looking at them.
2.) You can't tell if that snake of moving lights is one person or more than one (i.e., someone piggybacks on a legitimate user's door swipe and is effectively invisible as long as they're close enough). So, you can't tell if you should be looking at that video or not. Maybe human heat signature detectors instead?
It's a nice concept in general, and I support it, but I wouldn't call it an "alternative to CCTV".
Depends on if you count the Harappans (~5500 B.C.E.) as Hindus, or maybe just the Classical Era populations (~1500 B.C.E.), or if you think it all starts with the Rig Veda (~1700 B.C.E.). It's tricky to say when what we call Hinduism today actually arose from earlier regional faiths.
By the way, we're on the 5109th year of the Hindu calendar, but that's debatable due to local variations.
Who is this for? Those with Alzheimer's or amnesia?
Actually, that's a pretty intense area of research right now. We cohosted a related workshop last year with (you got it) Microsoft, and will likely do so again in the near future. The lab homepage is a bit rudimentary at present, but it should give you some idea of what exactly is going on.
With the Baby Boomers approaching the "elderly" stage, is it surprising that there is a demand?
Only Flickr premium users will be able to upload videos to the service, which limits video upload on Flickr to the service's most active users.
Here is a Pro account (that I randomly ran across - apologies to the owner for unwanted attention). Note that there isn't a special link for videos, so my guess is that they'll pop up in the same collections as normal pics. Also from TFA:
[G]ood luck trying to search videos only on Flickr. It's not easy or convenient.
Understatement?
... still looking for someone who's actually used it....
One question...
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There's the Panasonic Viera P905i,
the Raon Everun UMPC,
the Samsung 'Soul' SGH U900,
the NEC ValueStar W,
the Toshiba ApriPoko Robot,
the Sony VAIO G2,
the Fujitsu F705i,
the Aigo USB Dongle,
the NEC LUI,
and the Face Bank
(links provided only to direct sale points or official corporate pages)
And (as I'm sure someone else will point out) "not here" only holds for certain values of "here".
Yeah, I know you were being funny (and linking to Maddox which, for the record, is a practice I wholly support), but there's truth to what you're saying.
When you can see the news any moment, you expect the news every moment. When people read newspapers primarily, it was considered acceptable to not be up-to-date until the next day. Then came radio, then TV news, then internet news sites (with full-length articles), then blogs. Now, microblog services like Twitter are pushing the boundaries of what we consider "up-to-date". When 9-11 happened, I knew people who didn't found out until late afternoon. If the same happened today, it would be a shock if someone hadn't heard within the hour.
I'm not surprised that it's exhausting to be a news blogger; it's hard enough just being a paper reporter. But, then again: those who love to do it will continue to do it.
Starting with the Shift, the dual mode long battery life aspect is wonderful and it is also the most affordable of the three. The Lenovo is the most practical, usable and comprehensive product and the Apple is one of the most beautiful notebooks that is currently available. In addition, the perfect product needs the battery life and wireless capabilities shared by the Lenovo and HTC products and, were you to wrap all of this up in a bow, I think you'd have a laptop that a lot of us would favor over anything else.
So... long battery life and strong wireless, plus "usable", "comprehensive" and "beautiful". How is this a blend again?
I wouldn't trash the article entirely for this (hell, the insight into keyboard size on the HTC makes it at least mildly useful already), but it's a bit bare.
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True story: two of my high school's math teachers used to make sure that we got French Silk pie on Pi Day and 2^10 Day (October 24th, of course), with a bit of extra math fun (games, etc.) unrelated to the topic at hand. Sure, it's a bit of a corny idea, but we appreciated that little "extra step" they took to make math more approachable, beyond their excellent guidance.
If you're reading this: thank you, Mr. Petersen and Mr. Morse. You inspired me (and many of my friends) to go on to a career indulged in math (and chocolate!).
You're referring to Polybot, which has Generation I listed at 1997. Polybot is a bit more flexible (har har) due to the fact that each module is entirely self-sufficient (aside from power, which they can channel from module to module as needed), although I haven't seen a demo of it handling water....
"Already done" notwithstanding, it's nice to see a robot succeed so well in such varied scenarios.
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The tail would be the same length plus a constant (for the tailing person, assuming they're not walking alongside and keeping up a conversation). Since a person moving at different speeds will produce tails of different lengths, this may not be easily discernible.
2.) You can't tell if that snake of moving lights is one person or more than one (i.e., someone piggybacks on a legitimate user's door swipe and is effectively invisible as long as they're close enough). So, you can't tell if you should be looking at that video or not. Maybe human heat signature detectors instead?
It's a nice concept in general, and I support it, but I wouldn't call it an "alternative to CCTV".
Depends on if you count the Harappans (~5500 B.C.E.) as Hindus, or maybe just the Classical Era populations (~1500 B.C.E.), or if you think it all starts with the Rig Veda (~1700 B.C.E.). It's tricky to say when what we call Hinduism today actually arose from earlier regional faiths.
By the way, we're on the 5109th year of the Hindu calendar, but that's debatable due to local variations.
Here you go.
Surprising finding, actually (assuming we take 1998's results as fairly representative of what today's should be).
I'd say the breakdown of scientists that I've known is more like 50-50.
With the Baby Boomers approaching the "elderly" stage, is it surprising that there is a demand?
We've already got a name for that....
You're off by three years....
After reading through the FAQ, here's the GP's answer:
Go to "Advanced Search", then set "Search by media type" to "Only videos"
???
Where do you get those specs? I couldn't find anything in the FAQ....
(hate replying to self, but...)
Here you go:
Flickr Videos in use
Understatement?
... will you be my research advisor?
There's the Panasonic Viera P905i,
the Raon Everun UMPC,
the Samsung 'Soul' SGH U900,
the NEC ValueStar W,
the Toshiba ApriPoko Robot,
the Sony VAIO G2,
the Fujitsu F705i,
the Aigo USB Dongle,
the NEC LUI,
and the Face Bank
(links provided only to direct sale points or official corporate pages)
And (as I'm sure someone else will point out) "not here" only holds for certain values of "here".
Fixed that for you. It was the good ol' US of A vs. the damn dirty Commies (and don't you forget it!).
Yeah, I know you were being funny (and linking to Maddox which, for the record, is a practice I wholly support), but there's truth to what you're saying.
When you can see the news any moment, you expect the news every moment. When people read newspapers primarily, it was considered acceptable to not be up-to-date until the next day. Then came radio, then TV news, then internet news sites (with full-length articles), then blogs. Now, microblog services like Twitter are pushing the boundaries of what we consider "up-to-date". When 9-11 happened, I knew people who didn't found out until late afternoon. If the same happened today, it would be a shock if someone hadn't heard within the hour.
I'm not surprised that it's exhausting to be a news blogger; it's hard enough just being a paper reporter. But, then again: those who love to do it will continue to do it.
Actually, such technology exists. Here's C|Net's shorter-nicer writeup. LG doesn't have any info on their US pages yet, but it's coming.
> get life
You see no life here.
Aha! It's you!
Do you believe that my being wittier or more sarcastic has anything to do with my sobriety in this place? You think that's beer you're drinking now?
</morpheus>
... Suicide Bomber Edition.
Putting the "death" back in BSOD.
::shivers::
So... long battery life and strong wireless, plus "usable", "comprehensive" and "beautiful". How is this a blend again?
I wouldn't trash the article entirely for this (hell, the insight into keyboard size on the HTC makes it at least mildly useful already), but it's a bit bare.
Sadly, I used to live in a state where every day in March was nearly Pi Day....
I'd rather have French Silk pie....
True story: two of my high school's math teachers used to make sure that we got French Silk pie on Pi Day and 2^10 Day (October 24th, of course), with a bit of extra math fun (games, etc.) unrelated to the topic at hand. Sure, it's a bit of a corny idea, but we appreciated that little "extra step" they took to make math more approachable, beyond their excellent guidance.
If you're reading this: thank you, Mr. Petersen and Mr. Morse. You inspired me (and many of my friends) to go on to a career indulged in math (and chocolate!).
You're referring to Polybot, which has Generation I listed at 1997. Polybot is a bit more flexible (har har) due to the fact that each module is entirely self-sufficient (aside from power, which they can channel from module to module as needed), although I haven't seen a demo of it handling water....
"Already done" notwithstanding, it's nice to see a robot succeed so well in such varied scenarios.