If you're unfamiliar with the technique watch the drug film "a scanner darkly".
This would be completely appropriate for a live event like the republican debate; I don't think those guys make sense without being on "substance D" anymore. (note I used to be a hard core "R" before they went completely batshit insane a decade or so ago, so I'm allowed to talk about "us" using that kind of language)
Blue skying the toolset is not gonna work. What output do they want, then figure out what tools can generate that output. If the most important thing is inserting pretty graphs into newsletters, thats one thing. If the most important thing is hard core data warehousing analysis (for a library?) thats another thing.
The other thing is what answer do they want? They're just looking for data to back up an unpopular decision or glorify themselves demonstrating their amazing management talents. So figure out what that is (by asking them?) and help them get the data they want. Don't give them a graph of declining circulation if they're trying to emphasize their brilliant leadership. Don't give them a graph of increasing student help, if they're trying to justify downsizing.
So, the biotech place only sells R+D to megacorps and their customer experience is designed for PHDs in ChemEng, Chem, Bio, MDs, and of course, beancounters.
The Disney guy thinks he should own our culture in perpetuity and the government should enforce and extend failing business models, admittedly a widely held belief.
Who, if anyone in their leadership, cares about the general public actually buying their stuff?
I could see this resulting in a big push for "ItunesU", or tablet/phone electronic medical records, or maybe an even more draconian DRM setup. Any way this team could benefit the general public?
The best I can come up with is something like a real world highly integrated "medical tricoder" that is DRM locked down so you/your doc/your med insurance has to pay apple each time they want to look at your records, forever. Also the tricoder only works with Apple-approved MRI units, Apple-approved IV pumps, etc.
Once you're at that point, I'm sure it's somewhat trivial for the developers of XBMC, MythTV, etc to include support for it.
Yeah but VDPAU isn't at the "sure would be cool if the devs supported it someday at which point if it works it would theoretically be nice" but VDPAU is at the "even stable/old stuff supports it flawlessly outta da box"
And at least for myself, the first few times I saw the word "prefect" in Harry Potter, I thought it said "perfect" and kept wondering why they were so arrogant.
In ye olden days of 5 digit/. UIDs, that was "Ford Prefect" from HHGTTG.
This also begs the question, of like, um, why completely inappropriately used phrases drive some people bonkers and others don't care. My visual cortex knows that "begs the question" is almost certainly meaningless filler and its application 99.9% of the time has no relation to its actual meaning, so I do not process/see it. Ditto uh, um, like. Perhaps like people in the under 30 crowd process spoken language like in a similar way, explaining why they like have this absolutely desperate like need to fill all pauses with the word "like" whenever they speak, like especially in like public.
I'll be reading a book and then realise I've been on auto-pilot for the last 3 pages and actually have no recollection of what I just read.
That happens to me too, but what makes it especially annoying is that when I re-read, I recognize it and slowly start remembering what I read.
This happens all the time when my wife is talking at me, the buffer space fills up and lag starts hitting, especially if what I'm hearing is boring or repetitive or uninteresting "Why are you wasting all that time on/. blah blah and the garbage needs to be taken out and blah blah blah" and two minutes later I notice she mentioned taking the trash out so I stand up to do it, and she knows why there was a two minute tape delay and she gets more annoyed. Oh well.
Interesting. I was under the impression that this is common sense.
Some people read by shape and thats why they can be provoked into a killing rage by bad typography, horrible fonts, and awful visual noise like shiny computer/PDA/tablet screens. It stresses them out, like how peering into a fog or concentrating on radio static can be fatiguing.
Some people read by sounding it out, and they are incapable of noticing bad typography, fonts are lost in the noise of phonics or whatever goes on in there, and visual noise is artsy and cute and to be encouraged.
I have wondered if high speed reading would be a valid way to test precognition or some other ESP type ability, or maybe test for insanity? Just flashing my eyes across the screen shouldn't push enough bandwidth to actually OCR the page, so maybe unconsciously the brain runs on its own using ESP or pure mental craziness and the paper is just periodically keeping the brains made up story sorta on track?
...I really can't think of it as a currency. I think of it more like the stock market...
What it actually works the best at is a replacement for intermediaries. The intermediaries are very pissed off about this, BTW.
When I bought a Debian themed (engraved) swiss army knife some weeks ago, I had to transfer money from my CC in USD to paypal in USD at some loss to the parasites. Then from paypal in USD to this european online IBAN provider in EUR at some loss to the parasites, both transactionally and currency conversion loss. Then from the IBAN provider in EUR to the swiss Debian club in CHR (how the heck does "swiss franc" abbreviate to CHF anyway?) again at some substantial loss. I ended up funding the parasites more than I funded the swiss Debian club. At least I get a cool looking engraved swiss army knife out of it, or at least I supposedly will. It took "about a week" for my money to make it to them, admittedly I could have done it somewhat faster if I had worked harder or paid more in fees.
Yesterday I BTC'd the cost of a soda to a friend of mine at, for all intents and purposes, zero loss. It wasn't instantaneous, but it was "fast enough".
The intermediaries are nothing but financial parasites and the world will be better off without them.
If the same rate of price reduction could be applied to 4004, then without inflation in today's money 4004 would have cost literally 0. With inflation it's less than 0, but that makes no sense
I think you need to work on your compound interest.... if year 1 is 26 and year 2 = year1*0.71, then year 40 is four thousandths of a cent.
Which is probably a fair price, compared to the cost/performance ratio of something like a pic 10f220 series chip.
One thing economists are remarkably poor at understanding, is something that cannot go on forever, eventually stops.
Not sure what the state of that chipset being supported in Linux is, though.
Also not "just" linux but the unique intersection of the driver, the kernel, the OS install, the mythtv distribution...
I donno if "VX900.... ChromotionHD 2.0 video engine" is old and common enough that even Debian Stable works with it, or if you're going to be compiling.
There is a wide range from "install stable and it just works" to "welcome to kernel level debugging" although both are theoretically "linux supported"
It would be nice to see the legacy ports ditched... VGA) and focus on current connectors.
Why? My less than a month old new 1080p high def monitor only has VGA input. No displayport or mini-displayport or DVI input. Well I guess I could try the HDMI input...
Oh I forgot a step, ssh in remotely and "alsamixer" to turn the volume up on the PCM and main / front / whatever audio output. I'm using SPDIF optical out and outta the box that was muted. No problemo, turn it on in alsamixer, and configure mythtv I think in the "general" menu to output sound out the spdif.
I found if I enable "upconversion" to 5.1 sound the upconverter gets wildly freaked out probably for about 5 seconds every hour, just enough to really annoy me, so I don't upconvert.
What chipset problems have already been identified? What else is likely to go wrong?
I keep thinking of building a "media center[sic]" computer with TV card but there always seems to be some horrible flaw in any setup I consider. Is there an exception yet?
I'm guessing the VIA failmode is it doesn't support VDPAU. VDPAU offloads video codec decoding to the video card, so probably a pentium-75 could play 1080p as long as its got a good enough card.
Get a zotac zbox with nvidia onboard card. Talk about a boring install, compared to ye olden days. Open the box, stick in a small silent SSD (I'm using less than 4 gigs at this time). I believe I stuck 2 gigs ram in there too. Set up for Debian netboot, which in my case was enable ethernet boot on the zbox, add it's mac to DHCP and friends, boot and install plain vanilla Debian. Reconfigure the zbox to stop netbooting and boot off its internal drive. Install NVIDIA drivers, add the debian multimedia repository, apt-get install the stuff you need for a mythtv FE, modify the files necessary to auto-log-you-in-and-dump-you-into-mythtv and you're done. Configure mythtv in "config" "setup" "tv" and have it use vdpau for all playback. I believe I burned about two hours on it from cutting the cardboard box open to watching TV recordings. It helps that I've automated all the system-wide config work in Puppet, I had to manually install the nvidia drivers but stuff like my ratpoison and autologin and all that was all handled by the Puppet. This was circa 6 months ago times may have changed.
Yes a good indication of measurement failure is poor correlation in predictive studies. Except that doesn't happen. If it were not so effective, it wouldn't be used so much, wouldn't be so interesting...
I will credit you that my Flynn effect theory was pretty lame. The alternative is even more bizarre. Instead of getting smarter, people are magically getting better at tests... hmmm. Whatever it is the tests are measuring, people are getting better at it at a rate not seen in other non-IQ tests and doesn't seem to logically correlate with anything, especially the supposed failure modes of IQ tests (cultural bias, etc)
and the era of "the internet user interface is like a drug trip" has kind of passed out of style since '98 or so.
Hmm let me rephrase that, even trying to convince people they will interact on the internet using the Second Life interface has gone out of style. Not just the interface itself, but even trying to convince people its an area worthy of consideration.
I'll be the first to say that IQ is pretty meaningless for anything except taking an IQ test.
Why all the hating on symbolic manipulation, logical reasoning, and pattern recognition? That seems to be the backbone of trash talking the concept of IQ tests, I've always wondered why. I find symbolic manipulation, logical reasoning, and pattern recognition very useful, profitable even. I would predict that the loss of those skills would be a pretty severe blow to my lifestyle and intellect. I know there are many more categories in Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory but those three are usually by far the least controversial parts of IQ tests.
Even the Flynn effect makes sense, if you assume in our society the folks at the bottom don't survive to reproduce (cannon fodder, literally, etc)
Finally the benefit of a scientific theory is the ability to make predictions, is there not overwhelming data that IQ tests "work" at making predictions about large enough groups?
ps - Did anything of Stephenson's make it to the screen?
Fiction? No, or, not yet. Nothing even close. I don't mind, I don't really want to see crytonomicon turned into a hollywood action movie. I'm not sure if Snow Crash could even be turned into an action movie, and the era of "the internet user interface is like a drug trip" has kind of passed out of style since '98 or so.
Non-fiction, well, yeah, if you count closely derivative works, or basically ripoffs of his stories. No, if you are strict about requiring him listed by name in the credits or him having written the screenplay.
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Even worse, I'm sure this is not going to show up as a bell curve with the median being a 100 score.
So, rather than testing intelligence, its testing trivia, and rather than being a bell curved test its basically a "top 50 list" or whatever.
I would assume, not being to load the quiz, that its not going to be actual geeky questions, its going to be all about mass media references to geeks, which is a population that generally doesn't care very much about the mass media or its vapid opinions.
It would be interesting to design our own, REAL, "geek IQ test". Sample some extra-class ham radio exams, some CCNP cert BGP questions, some organic chemistry questions, some "end of chapter" questions from Knuth and Feynman's Lectures, mostly selected because I'd ace those, but they're not a bad start.
If you must insert "trivia" into an "intelligence" test at least make it relevant to the subject, like "what color is RMS's beard?" not some TV show.
The only valid use I can think of this is for goatse.xxx to return (actually it was a.cx, but whatever). Whats the QR code for that, anyway?
In a way its a good idea... the over-controlling nutcases can think they are actually doing something by blocking the entire domain, while all the actual pr0n, not wanting to be blocked, remains in the.com domain.
In a way its a bad idea, because most of the money will be generated by giant corporations buying the domain so pranksters/whatever can't abuse their name. Expect to see ibm.xxx purchased by ibm solely to keep other people from messing with it.
The second "outside" photo looks a heck of a lot like a urinal. I suppose with aggressive enough bees drunk guys will only make the mistake once. The phrase "in the closet" has been replaced by certain morally superior republican lawmakers with "in the bathroom" so to a certain red state constituency this probably is extremely sexy.
Now if you remember the "milk bar" scene from Clockwork Orange then something similar outputting honey would be kind of cool, but this is not it.
The final possibility is something like "gerbiling" exists for stinging bees, but this is way outside any area I know of.
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"allowing them to achieve advances that will, for lack of a better term, revolutionize the animation process."
Maybe he's hinting at live realtime rotoscoping?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
If you're unfamiliar with the technique watch the drug film "a scanner darkly".
This would be completely appropriate for a live event like the republican debate; I don't think those guys make sense without being on "substance D" anymore. (note I used to be a hard core "R" before they went completely batshit insane a decade or so ago, so I'm allowed to talk about "us" using that kind of language)
Blue skying the toolset is not gonna work. What output do they want, then figure out what tools can generate that output.
If the most important thing is inserting pretty graphs into newsletters, thats one thing.
If the most important thing is hard core data warehousing analysis (for a library?) thats another thing.
The other thing is what answer do they want? They're just looking for data to back up an unpopular decision or glorify themselves demonstrating their amazing management talents. So figure out what that is (by asking them?) and help them get the data they want. Don't give them a graph of declining circulation if they're trying to emphasize their brilliant leadership. Don't give them a graph of increasing student help, if they're trying to justify downsizing.
Electrodes attached to the person's arm allow the robot to make the elbow and hand move to perform tasks.
Pr0n opportunities for cam-girls, I think.
So, the biotech place only sells R+D to megacorps and their customer experience is designed for PHDs in ChemEng, Chem, Bio, MDs, and of course, beancounters.
The Disney guy thinks he should own our culture in perpetuity and the government should enforce and extend failing business models, admittedly a widely held belief.
Who, if anyone in their leadership, cares about the general public actually buying their stuff?
I could see this resulting in a big push for "ItunesU", or tablet/phone electronic medical records, or maybe an even more draconian DRM setup. Any way this team could benefit the general public?
The best I can come up with is something like a real world highly integrated "medical tricoder" that is DRM locked down so you/your doc/your med insurance has to pay apple each time they want to look at your records, forever. Also the tricoder only works with Apple-approved MRI units, Apple-approved IV pumps, etc.
How am I going to use this computer without a screen and keyboard?
I demand a credit card sized keyboard and screen!
Thats called a "cell phone"
Once you're at that point, I'm sure it's somewhat trivial for the developers of XBMC, MythTV, etc to include support for it.
Yeah but VDPAU isn't at the "sure would be cool if the devs supported it someday at which point if it works it would theoretically be nice" but VDPAU is at the "even stable/old stuff supports it flawlessly outta da box"
And at least for myself, the first few times I saw the word "prefect" in Harry Potter, I thought it said "perfect" and kept wondering why they were so arrogant.
In ye olden days of 5 digit /. UIDs, that was "Ford Prefect" from HHGTTG.
This also begs the question, of like, um, why completely inappropriately used phrases drive some people bonkers and others don't care. My visual cortex knows that "begs the question" is almost certainly meaningless filler and its application 99.9% of the time has no relation to its actual meaning, so I do not process/see it. Ditto uh, um, like. Perhaps like people in the under 30 crowd process spoken language like in a similar way, explaining why they like have this absolutely desperate like need to fill all pauses with the word "like" whenever they speak, like especially in like public.
I'll be reading a book and then realise I've been on auto-pilot for the last 3 pages and actually have no recollection of what I just read.
That happens to me too, but what makes it especially annoying is that when I re-read, I recognize it and slowly start remembering what I read.
This happens all the time when my wife is talking at me, the buffer space fills up and lag starts hitting, especially if what I'm hearing is boring or repetitive or uninteresting "Why are you wasting all that time on /. blah blah and the garbage needs to be taken out and blah blah blah" and two minutes later I notice she mentioned taking the trash out so I stand up to do it, and she knows why there was a two minute tape delay and she gets more annoyed. Oh well.
Interesting. I was under the impression that this is common sense.
Some people read by shape and thats why they can be provoked into a killing rage by bad typography, horrible fonts, and awful visual noise like shiny computer/PDA/tablet screens. It stresses them out, like how peering into a fog or concentrating on radio static can be fatiguing.
Some people read by sounding it out, and they are incapable of noticing bad typography, fonts are lost in the noise of phonics or whatever goes on in there, and visual noise is artsy and cute and to be encouraged.
I have wondered if high speed reading would be a valid way to test precognition or some other ESP type ability, or maybe test for insanity? Just flashing my eyes across the screen shouldn't push enough bandwidth to actually OCR the page, so maybe unconsciously the brain runs on its own using ESP or pure mental craziness and the paper is just periodically keeping the brains made up story sorta on track?
...I really can't think of it as a currency. I think of it more like the stock market...
What it actually works the best at is a replacement for intermediaries. The intermediaries are very pissed off about this, BTW.
When I bought a Debian themed (engraved) swiss army knife some weeks ago, I had to transfer money from my CC in USD to paypal in USD at some loss to the parasites. Then from paypal in USD to this european online IBAN provider in EUR at some loss to the parasites, both transactionally and currency conversion loss. Then from the IBAN provider in EUR to the swiss Debian club in CHR (how the heck does "swiss franc" abbreviate to CHF anyway?) again at some substantial loss. I ended up funding the parasites more than I funded the swiss Debian club. At least I get a cool looking engraved swiss army knife out of it, or at least I supposedly will. It took "about a week" for my money to make it to them, admittedly I could have done it somewhat faster if I had worked harder or paid more in fees.
Yesterday I BTC'd the cost of a soda to a friend of mine at, for all intents and purposes, zero loss. It wasn't instantaneous, but it was "fast enough".
The intermediaries are nothing but financial parasites and the world will be better off without them.
If the same rate of price reduction could be applied to 4004, then without inflation in today's money 4004 would have cost literally 0. With inflation it's less than 0, but that makes no sense
I think you need to work on your compound interest.... if year 1 is 26 and year 2 = year1*0.71, then year 40 is four thousandths of a cent.
Which is probably a fair price, compared to the cost/performance ratio of something like a pic 10f220 series chip.
One thing economists are remarkably poor at understanding, is something that cannot go on forever, eventually stops.
Not sure what the state of that chipset being supported in Linux is, though.
Also not "just" linux but the unique intersection of the driver, the kernel, the OS install, the mythtv distribution...
I donno if "VX900 .... ChromotionHD 2.0 video engine" is old and common enough that even Debian Stable works with it, or if you're going to be compiling.
There is a wide range from "install stable and it just works" to "welcome to kernel level debugging" although both are theoretically "linux supported"
It would be nice to see the legacy ports ditched ... VGA) and focus on current connectors.
Why? My less than a month old new 1080p high def monitor only has VGA input. No displayport or mini-displayport or DVI input. Well I guess I could try the HDMI input...
Oh I forgot a step, ssh in remotely and "alsamixer" to turn the volume up on the PCM and main / front / whatever audio output. I'm using SPDIF optical out and outta the box that was muted. No problemo, turn it on in alsamixer, and configure mythtv I think in the "general" menu to output sound out the spdif.
I found if I enable "upconversion" to 5.1 sound the upconverter gets wildly freaked out probably for about 5 seconds every hour, just enough to really annoy me, so I don't upconvert.
What chipset problems have already been identified? What else is likely to go wrong?
I keep thinking of building a "media center[sic]" computer with TV card but there always seems to be some horrible flaw in any setup I consider. Is there an exception yet?
I'm guessing the VIA failmode is it doesn't support VDPAU. VDPAU offloads video codec decoding to the video card, so probably a pentium-75 could play 1080p as long as its got a good enough card.
Get a zotac zbox with nvidia onboard card. Talk about a boring install, compared to ye olden days. Open the box, stick in a small silent SSD (I'm using less than 4 gigs at this time). I believe I stuck 2 gigs ram in there too. Set up for Debian netboot, which in my case was enable ethernet boot on the zbox, add it's mac to DHCP and friends, boot and install plain vanilla Debian. Reconfigure the zbox to stop netbooting and boot off its internal drive. Install NVIDIA drivers, add the debian multimedia repository, apt-get install the stuff you need for a mythtv FE, modify the files necessary to auto-log-you-in-and-dump-you-into-mythtv and you're done. Configure mythtv in "config" "setup" "tv" and have it use vdpau for all playback. I believe I burned about two hours on it from cutting the cardboard box open to watching TV recordings. It helps that I've automated all the system-wide config work in Puppet, I had to manually install the nvidia drivers but stuff like my ratpoison and autologin and all that was all handled by the Puppet. This was circa 6 months ago times may have changed.
It's just being measured badly.
Yes a good indication of measurement failure is poor correlation in predictive studies. Except that doesn't happen. If it were not so effective, it wouldn't be used so much, wouldn't be so interesting...
I will credit you that my Flynn effect theory was pretty lame. The alternative is even more bizarre. Instead of getting smarter, people are magically getting better at tests... hmmm. Whatever it is the tests are measuring, people are getting better at it at a rate not seen in other non-IQ tests and doesn't seem to logically correlate with anything, especially the supposed failure modes of IQ tests (cultural bias, etc)
and the era of "the internet user interface is like a drug trip" has kind of passed out of style since '98 or so.
Hmm let me rephrase that, even trying to convince people they will interact on the internet using the Second Life interface has gone out of style. Not just the interface itself, but even trying to convince people its an area worthy of consideration.
I'll be the first to say that IQ is pretty meaningless for anything except taking an IQ test.
Why all the hating on symbolic manipulation, logical reasoning, and pattern recognition? That seems to be the backbone of trash talking the concept of IQ tests, I've always wondered why. I find symbolic manipulation, logical reasoning, and pattern recognition very useful, profitable even. I would predict that the loss of those skills would be a pretty severe blow to my lifestyle and intellect. I know there are many more categories in Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory but those three are usually by far the least controversial parts of IQ tests.
Even the Flynn effect makes sense, if you assume in our society the folks at the bottom don't survive to reproduce (cannon fodder, literally, etc)
Finally the benefit of a scientific theory is the ability to make predictions, is there not overwhelming data that IQ tests "work" at making predictions about large enough groups?
ps - Did anything of Stephenson's make it to the screen?
Fiction? No, or, not yet. Nothing even close. I don't mind, I don't really want to see crytonomicon turned into a hollywood action movie. I'm not sure if Snow Crash could even be turned into an action movie, and the era of "the internet user interface is like a drug trip" has kind of passed out of style since '98 or so.
Non-fiction, well, yeah, if you count closely derivative works, or basically ripoffs of his stories. No, if you are strict about requiring him listed by name in the credits or him having written the screenplay.
Even worse, I'm sure this is not going to show up as a bell curve with the median being a 100 score.
So, rather than testing intelligence, its testing trivia, and rather than being a bell curved test its basically a "top 50 list" or whatever.
I would assume, not being to load the quiz, that its not going to be actual geeky questions, its going to be all about mass media references to geeks, which is a population that generally doesn't care very much about the mass media or its vapid opinions.
It would be interesting to design our own, REAL, "geek IQ test". Sample some extra-class ham radio exams, some CCNP cert BGP questions, some organic chemistry questions, some "end of chapter" questions from Knuth and Feynman's Lectures, mostly selected because I'd ace those, but they're not a bad start.
If you must insert "trivia" into an "intelligence" test at least make it relevant to the subject, like "what color is RMS's beard?" not some TV show.
Contraceptive compatible?
more than ten times the 100 million hours spent creating Wikipedia over the entire life span of the online encyclopedia
Well, there were 200 million hours spent, but they were deleted as not-noteworthy
not being directly connectable (ie., behind NAT)
WRONG.
on ipv4 NAT is generally implemented as a stateful firewall that also rewrites addresses.
There is absolutely nothing preventing a firewall on ipv6 that is stateful, that leaves addresses alone.
The security gain comes from the stateful firewall, not the rewriting addresses.
The only valid use I can think of this is for goatse.xxx to return (actually it was a .cx, but whatever). Whats the QR code for that, anyway?
In a way its a good idea... the over-controlling nutcases can think they are actually doing something by blocking the entire domain, while all the actual pr0n, not wanting to be blocked, remains in the .com domain.
In a way its a bad idea, because most of the money will be generated by giant corporations buying the domain so pranksters/whatever can't abuse their name. Expect to see ibm.xxx purchased by ibm solely to keep other people from messing with it.
The second "outside" photo looks a heck of a lot like a urinal. I suppose with aggressive enough bees drunk guys will only make the mistake once. The phrase "in the closet" has been replaced by certain morally superior republican lawmakers with "in the bathroom" so to a certain red state constituency this probably is extremely sexy.
Now if you remember the "milk bar" scene from Clockwork Orange then something similar outputting honey would be kind of cool, but this is not it.
The final possibility is something like "gerbiling" exists for stinging bees, but this is way outside any area I know of.