This is the fundamental design mistake that Microsoft has made which is what went wrong with Windows 8. A touchscreen and a touchpad are quite different and incompatible and one does not replace the other. One is suitable for tablet mode where you are interacting with the whole screen and picking it up, moving it into the correct ergonomic position for direct control. The other, which allows relative motion, is suitable for office / desk working situations where you want to manipulate a screen that should be some distance from you.
All touchscreen computers should have a second input device such as a mouse. In a laptop that means a touchpad equivalent.
The Microsoft Surface RT comes with a cover/keypad that includes a touchpad; they offer both inputs. And with the USB port, I use a mouse all the time.
I'm sure people asked why we would need a mouse when a keyboard was completely sufficient for all current computer tasks. The best reasons for why we would want a Kinect for Windows have yet to be thought of. Might it all fall flat? Of course, but we should be enthusiastic to see such a big player pushing such an expansion in UI technology.
We also have yet to see what Microsoft does with the technology it acquired in purchasing Canesta. That technology promises an order of magnitude better precision on the 3D depth sensing, as well as no limit on how close it will work--ie, it could even be used for touchscreen+
Mathematics already has a use for the word "complex".
Actually, mathematics has many uses for the word "complex," not all of them even having to do with imaginary numbers. Don't even get me started on "normal." The trick is, you have to interpret the meaning based on context (which is really the case for any word with multiple meanings, mathematical or not), and in this case I think the context makes it obvious that "complex" should be interpreted as "complicated." Sorry for the waste of space here; I suppose my only point is that it ain't necessary to correct what don't need correcting (and I'm probably at least half-way to being a hypocrite here).
How do they get less than a 50% average that you'd get by just guessing?
(yes, assuming a normal distribution of 'concepts' in the pictures, etc)
I hate to be a hater. . . but firstly, I doubt any sort of Gaussian or even mixture of Gaussians will work well to describe the distribution of picture labels. And secondly, you get a 50% average by making guesses about an even Bernoulli distribution, like a coin flip.
1) I don't get it about the vibration thingy. Did y'all really like that?
Yup. It was one more output from the system to let me know what was going on in my video game world. I suppose the best example I could give is that it was a great way to know I was being attacked by an enemy outside my field of view. So it's a trade-off: I get three more degrees of input to the system, but I lose one output to me. That might have been helpful back in the day when I needed Mario to jump that little extra bit, but I'm pretty sure there are already enough buttons on a PS2 control to do anything I need.
Uh, the consumer pays the California Redemption Value of 2.5 cents per can at the time of purchase.
In practice, I get charged a full nickel for each can; and I think this has been the case in all the CA counties I have lived in.
And further, I bought a TV last year (cheap CRT) and paid an additional $10 to the $90 cost for a pre-recycling fee. I swear to god I'm going to punch somebody if I have to pay that fee for a second time when the TV breaks next year.
What you're forgetting is that Halliburton will act the same way whether you invest in them or not.
Sure, and Hitler's Germany would have acted the same way whether one particular Joe Nazi willingly acted as a soldier. My point being, of course, that an individual is always responsible for her/his actions, and that includes investing.
The hope here is to assist couples who are having difficulties with conception.
And I'm sure there's lots of money coming from these couples to fund this research, because that's the ultimate goal of this research, to help these couples. I think we can all rest comfortably assuming that nobody is exploring the possiblity of growing human beings from genetically engineered gametes. That would be silly, just silly.
I'm sure we're really not that far off from having every desk come standard with an embedded system built right into its top. Maybe with some sort of holographic projection instead of those old-school LCD flatscreens.
My only real point: it's a total no-brainer that desktop computing systems, as we know them now, are going to disappear. Computer technology gets old, and it gets there fast.
From the topic post: "but people haven't caught up in terms of their dress."
I am offended that the tech leaders of the late 90's and double-oughts need to catch their dress code up to the 80's and before. I think it should be safe to assume that if people can dress their webpages up enough to catch costomers' approval, then dress-code really doesn't matter. If you need your web/tech employees to dress well enough to do a good job, then you have hired the wrong employees. Sheesh.
It doesn't seem to say in the article, but I would imagine that the air could be compressed using the electric engine while the car wasn't in use (or perhaps even while going downhill). Electric engines have the disadvantage of having little power, so a bit of that compressed air can come in handy when you need that extra boost.
I doubt that this will be the next big thing, but it's always encouraging to see another alternative to gasoline engines.
It's pretty disappointing that more bands didn't follow suit with the Pumpkins. I think bands and fans alike would be quite happy to break away from the Big 6; we just need more of the big bands to start the trend.
Personally, I'm pissed that we still let Ticketmaster rape us like they do. . . . would it really be that difficult to start up another ticket retailer online?
Seeing as this form of matter only exists at billionth of a degree C above absolute zero, I can see this as being useful only for New York trains in the winter. . .
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This is the fundamental design mistake that Microsoft has made which is what went wrong with Windows 8. A touchscreen and a touchpad are quite different and incompatible and one does not replace the other. One is suitable for tablet mode where you are interacting with the whole screen and picking it up, moving it into the correct ergonomic position for direct control. The other, which allows relative motion, is suitable for office / desk working situations where you want to manipulate a screen that should be some distance from you.
All touchscreen computers should have a second input device such as a mouse. In a laptop that means a touchpad equivalent.
The Microsoft Surface RT comes with a cover/keypad that includes a touchpad; they offer both inputs. And with the USB port, I use a mouse all the time.
I'm sure people asked why we would need a mouse when a keyboard was completely sufficient for all current computer tasks. The best reasons for why we would want a Kinect for Windows have yet to be thought of. Might it all fall flat? Of course, but we should be enthusiastic to see such a big player pushing such an expansion in UI technology. We also have yet to see what Microsoft does with the technology it acquired in purchasing Canesta. That technology promises an order of magnitude better precision on the 3D depth sensing, as well as no limit on how close it will work--ie, it could even be used for touchscreen+
This does not even matter, but Milwaukee is not the #11 metro area in the states. Not even top 25.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_metropolitan_area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee,_Wisconsin
That is, according to wikipedia, so keep the NaCl handy. . .
Yeah, for a hundred bucks a year for 1Gig of storage, I'd say there'd better not be any ads.
How exactly does one "create" a bandwidth shortage?
Try something like Enron's approach.
1) Buy up controlling shares of "bandwidth commodity"
2) Temporarily disable bandwidth to create artificial shortage
3) Go to jail (or die)
Hmm, something went wrong somewhere. . .
Mathematics already has a use for the word "complex".
Actually, mathematics has many uses for the word "complex," not all of them even having to do with imaginary numbers. Don't even get me started on "normal." The trick is, you have to interpret the meaning based on context (which is really the case for any word with multiple meanings, mathematical or not), and in this case I think the context makes it obvious that "complex" should be interpreted as "complicated."
Sorry for the waste of space here; I suppose my only point is that it ain't necessary to correct what don't need correcting (and I'm probably at least half-way to being a hypocrite here).
How do they get less than a 50% average that you'd get by just guessing? (yes, assuming a normal distribution of 'concepts' in the pictures, etc)
I hate to be a hater. . . but firstly, I doubt any sort of Gaussian or even mixture of Gaussians will work well to describe the distribution of picture labels. And secondly, you get a 50% average by making guesses about an even Bernoulli distribution, like a coin flip.
1) I don't get it about the vibration thingy. Did y'all really like that?
Yup. It was one more output from the system to let me know what was going on in my video game world. I suppose the best example I could give is that it was a great way to know I was being attacked by an enemy outside my field of view. So it's a trade-off: I get three more degrees of input to the system, but I lose one output to me. That might have been helpful back in the day when I needed Mario to jump that little extra bit, but I'm pretty sure there are already enough buttons on a PS2 control to do anything I need.
Uh, the consumer pays the California Redemption Value of 2.5 cents per can at the time of purchase. In practice, I get charged a full nickel for each can; and I think this has been the case in all the CA counties I have lived in. And further, I bought a TV last year (cheap CRT) and paid an additional $10 to the $90 cost for a pre-recycling fee. I swear to god I'm going to punch somebody if I have to pay that fee for a second time when the TV breaks next year.
What you're forgetting is that Halliburton will act the same way whether you invest in them or not. Sure, and Hitler's Germany would have acted the same way whether one particular Joe Nazi willingly acted as a soldier. My point being, of course, that an individual is always responsible for her/his actions, and that includes investing.
And I'm sure there's lots of money coming from these couples to fund this research, because that's the ultimate goal of this research, to help these couples. I think we can all rest comfortably assuming that nobody is exploring the possiblity of growing human beings from genetically engineered gametes. That would be silly, just silly.
I'm sure we're really not that far off from having every desk come standard with an embedded system built right into its top. Maybe with some sort of holographic projection instead of those old-school LCD flatscreens.
My only real point: it's a total no-brainer that desktop computing systems, as we know them now, are going to disappear. Computer technology gets old, and it gets there fast.
From the topic post: "but people haven't caught up in terms of their dress."
I am offended that the tech leaders of the late 90's and double-oughts need to catch their dress code up to the 80's and before. I think it should be safe to assume that if people can dress their webpages up enough to catch costomers' approval, then dress-code really doesn't matter. If you need your web/tech employees to dress well enough to do a good job, then you have hired the wrong employees. Sheesh.
It doesn't seem to say in the article, but I would imagine that the air could be compressed using the electric engine while the car wasn't in use (or perhaps even while going downhill). Electric engines have the disadvantage of having little power, so a bit of that compressed air can come in handy when you need that extra boost. I doubt that this will be the next big thing, but it's always encouraging to see another alternative to gasoline engines.
Personally, I'm pissed that we still let Ticketmaster rape us like they do. . . . would it really be that difficult to start up another ticket retailer online?
Seeing as this form of matter only exists at billionth of a degree C above absolute zero, I can see this as being useful only for New York trains in the winter. . .