Perhaps we should vote on stone tablets or bricks to make that especially hard?
Oy... as if we didn't already have enough problems with senior citizens who can't seem to push a pin through a piece of paper!
Google tries to rely on fair use, but fails because the court considered a "consumptive use" because google's ad service renders furnishing the image a commercial use, and since the reproduction is essentially identical to the image (though smaller), and the smaller image is actual for sale on the site. It's pretty much a slam-dunk for P10.
The question is, how is Google to know if a particular image is being sold in thumbnail form? These images weren't even taken off of Perfect 10's website. I could, perhaps, a list of "blacklisted" images based on some kind of heuristics of the image, but to do it right would be computationally intense and to do it simply would either result in too many false positives or too many false negatives.
Personally, I think a watermark of some sort added by Google would work fairly well. Nothing actually mentioning their name, so as to avoid the appearance of attribution, but the word "THUMBNAIL" written across it, or somesuch.
If I recall correctly there was something that we do instinctively which is inhibited by the alcohol which causes much more danger. This is why the sober driver is less likely to survive.
Well, tensing up for one. If you're relaxed, you're less likely to be hurt from a general impact as from a fall or a car crash. Supposedly, just from the action of locking your legs to slam the brakes, you're irreversibly scarring the tendons and the like involved if there's impact, not to mentiuon microfractures in the bone. Used to be this was balanced out by drunk people getting whiplash or having their head smash into the dash or steering wheel, but nowadays people have air bags.
If clicking on the thumbnail simply sent people to Perfect 10 there would be no complaint.
Have you ever even USED google image search? Because that's pretty much what it does.
{facepalms} Except that Google Image isn't getting the pictures from Perfect10. They're getting them from copycat sites that have these images. Quite honestly, since there's nothing identifying these photos as being by Perfect 10, I don't really see where the issue is with Google. If Perfect 10 wasnts their photos not displayed, they need to be protecting their copyright by attacking these copycat sites, not Google, who simply does a machine-based search that happens to give Perfect 10 a chance to actually find these copycats to prosecute them.
Of course, Google has more money, so who do you think they're going to sue?
2) 24-hour computer labs with free printing. End the tyranny of labs that close at 10pm and/or charge for printing!
Eh... I worked in a lab with free printing for my freshman and sophomore years. Do you know how many people we had who came in and tried to print 40-page papers, and print 20 copies of them so that they could avoid photocopying costs? Add a small cost, maybe a 100-page printing allowance with 10 cents for each additional page, and people will act a little more sensibly.
This is true, but I would think that the drivers of the cars causing these accidents are the most likely to be killed.
Cars that are new enough to have TVs in their dash are probably also new enough to be tricked out with all the latest safety features. Go figure.
I have recently been hitting the library for some nice film classics, some film noir, some Hitchcock -- that was the golden age of cinema, none of this Ben Aflec and J. Lo crap.
You filthy communist pinko! Don't you know that this country was founded upon the American populace supporting businesses by being happy little consumers? People like you make me sick... I bet you listen to music on the radio without buying the CDs first too!
Perhaps some day ALL readable material will appear in this "book" you speak of!
Oh come now... I'm sure all of us geeks have read at least one Sci-Fi story written in the 60's, set in the year 2000, where kids poke at the pages of a book and say "It's not working. I keep trying to activate it, but it's not talking to me."
When I was younger, I was pretty dissatisfied with the insane food prices at my high school. Even worse was the fact that my parents were making me pay for my own food. So I threatened the school with the Freedom of Information Act and demanded to see all food related reciepts and documents including pay and taxes. They gave me two huge boxes full of crap and I spent one night sorting through everything. And, surprisingly enough, after I sorted through and found out how much they were paying Arrowmark or whoever the food service provider was--it just didn't make sense. The local grocery store had better prices.
I can't speak to your particular high school cafeteria experience, but my mother runs a local school cafeteria (my old elementary school, actually) and the purchasing process is more complicated than it might seem at first blush. There are very strict rules on what the dietary allowances for a meal are and the cafeteria manager is forced to buy certain amounts of surplus food off of the government if they want to be subsidized by the government free and discounted lunch program. Add that to the fun of having to get each and every receipt individually approved by administration, and I could easily see a cafeteria manager turning to a single company (and I suspect you mean Aramark) for their food supply needs rather than driving all over town to try to save 5 cents on the price of tuna. My mother manages it by shopping at Sam's Club and the patience of a saint (as well as years of experience in putting together meals for our family of 8). And admittedly, those who came before her were not as good at economizing. When she started working there, the funds for the cafeteria and the funds for the rest of the school were kept strictly seperate because the cafeteria consistently was in the red. Now, they're fighting to get the budgets merged again because my mother has the cafeteria in better financial straits than the school.
Incidentally, I'm wondering if you're in a private school or outside of the US, because here, the prices for cafeteria meals are standardized due to the aforementionned free and reduced lunch program.
I'd be interested to see this concept extended to the social networking sites like friendster, orkut, or God forbid, myspace. That way the whole concept of references wouldn't be so shady and difficult to verify like the way it is today. I suppose that concept would be ripe for abuse, though.
I problem I find with almost every social networking site from the beginning is that most people start looking at their "friends" or "contacts" list as a score and before you know it, all meaning is lost. People add a person to their list simply because that person has 200+ contacts and they get a boost on their FOAF list. They start listing casual acquaintences as bosom buddies so they can boast their list. When people on their subscription list get new accounts, they don't purge the old ones because it makes it look like their audience is larger. These referral sources now link references to money... how long will they hold up before they become prey to falsified friendship?
Nobody likes to bitch about HR more than I. I'll be nice, though. HR people couldn't possibly perform any other function in society, except for maybe insurance claims processing. They don't ever seem to grasp how flexible many of us geeks really are. If a position requires X ammount of blah experience, they don't know what that kind of experience it is, or what it entails, or even how it relates to the job. They get little check-off items from the hiring manager. "Do you have TCP/IP?" they ask me. "Uh, yeah," I tell them.
My favorite was a recent phone call from a supposed tech recruiting company. I was asked what kind of jobs I would like and I said I was looking for a programming job. She said that she was sorry, but they only handled software development jobs. I was flabberghasted.
I know we have a robot-arm CD duplicator here at work that clocked in at about $200 that holds about 40 discs at a time. Admittedly, you'd have to get into the drivers to figure out how to tell it to just load the CD, run the ripping, then move it to the next stack...
Or you could just do it a few CDs at a time. I've been ripping my CD collection onto my laptop over the last few months - you don't need to do it over a weekend, you know, and it's no great trouble to occasionally pop a CD in and rip it...
No need to be a slave to your computer. It's maybe a 30-second process each time the CD needs to be changed out. When I have a bunch to process (usually after a birthday or one of my clearance-rack sprees), I just grab a good book or movie and settle down with it. Pop a CD in, click Start, read, remove CD, and loop. I also find it forces me to get some reading done that I might otherwise replace with computer games.
It's not exactly fire and forget, but it has always worked well for me.
I put in a DVD and watched a movie. Sounds like most of the U.S. is watching other channels. I heard a report on NPR that said the coverage of the olympics came in 5th. Not even a bronze. We'd have to add two more medals...tin for 4th place, cardboard for 5th.
Quite frankly, the lack of coverage of the Olympics is one of the reasons I usually don't even bother watching anymore. Quite often, you can only get small fractions of the sports and the timeshifting involved is horrendous. Do you remember the brouhaha a few years ago where the BBC was streaming live coverage and American broadcast companies forced them to not transmit the data to IP addresses located in the US for fear that people might prefer watching the games as they happen rather than hours afterwards with commercials breaking the events up?
personally I like listening to whole albums sometimes, and the rest of the time I leave my media player on a random selection of allll of my music. There aren't many albums where I dont like the whole thing, or cant grow to like it
I'm much the same way. And if there are tracks that I just plain can't stand, they disappear off of my playlist.
Personally, I'm highly opposed to the RIAA's interpretation of the law because my only way of listening to music is via ripped copies of CDs that are sitting on my computer's harddrive. I go out to clearance racks and salvage stores and buy handfuls of CDs which look interesting at about $5 each and put the content on my computer. I then just let the mixture percolate on random and see what gems bubble up. *grumble* I wish one could tweak the iTunes model to change the frequency model for the "play higher rated tracks more often" setting, though.
The only thing I ever wanted to find in a CD case was some freaking LYRICS!
The issue here is that lyrics and the actual performance of the song are two entirely different copyrights and are covered under different laws. I can legally do a cover of any song I want, so long as I pay a per-copy fee on discs pressed or downloads granted. I can't print the lyrics without express permission of the lyricist or whoever currently holds copyright over the lyrics. This is one of the reasons karaoke selection can be so limitted... it's perfectly legal to record the cover version, even without vocals, but the minute you start displaying lyrics on the screen, you must have express permission.
Slashdot had an article on this a few months ago, where the MPAA (Music Publishers Association of America) was closing down lyrics sites. Similarly, people got confused there over the two seperate copyrights and who handled them.
But yeah, I'm a big one for lyrics too. My hearing isn't great when it comes to picking out signal to noise, so I have a hard time making out words on songs and, like you, I have the fragments I do know playing nonstop in my head, often with obviously distorted lyrics as my mind makes "best guesses" at the lyrics.
A giant firball called "Wookie" is pretty much as stupid as "Jar Jar", it's just that we were kids so it became a part of our mind that this was okay.
I would disagree with you. While Chewbacca had his comic moments, for the most part he was not only big and furry, but also could visibly kick ass. Jar-Jar... fell a lot. And, bizarrely enough, kept succeeding through his mastery of Sna Fu. Which, of course, leads one to the conclusion that Jar-Jar may be high in the force and therefore the real Jedi master of the series.
But that made liars out of both Yoda and Obi-Wan. "Yeah, we knew he was your dad, but we decided to bullshit you."
Well, you have to remember that the Jedi are essentially heavily-armed religious fanatics in service as military. Yoda and Ben knew that if Luke knew the truth, he may not fight fully against Vader from the beginning and would therefore die. So, judging the needs of the Jedi over the needs of the few (Luke), they withheld the information, but left him with enough cryptic equivocation that he wouldn't immediately respond with "You're Bantha poo-dooing me, man!" when Vader made his proclamation.
Palpatine strongly implies in Ep3 that he was Plaguis' apprentice.
If you're willing to believe Extended Universe sources, "Dark Lord: The Rise of Lord Vader" has Palpatine musing voer the lessons he learned while he was Darth Plaguis's apprentice. I'd Amazon link it, but I don't know how to get a clean link so as to avoid people accusing me of trying to milk referrals.
I like the other theory I've run into, explaining most bad sequels to brilliant films. When the first movie comes out, the producer has to fight tooth and nail to get any budget at all. The tight-fisted financiers can bully him into relying on tight scripting and good dialogue for his movies. After that movie becomes a blockbuster success, the director can request just about anything for the "blockbuster sequel" and are therefore free to ruin the movie by adding everything their heart desires.
Gibson also stated that the movie was never intended to be a big budget action movie. It was meant to be a dark satire/black comedy, with futuristic elements. Sony went back and re-shot or re-edited or re-scored the whole movie, turning into a vehicle for Keanu Reeves instead of what it was originally conceived as.
I'd say you've never read the actual screen play, based on your silly comments that are totally at odds with Gibson's own statements. Try again.
Unless Gibson posted his original screen play at the same time he made those remarks, I would wonder how much of his remarks are more based on his memories and intent for the screen play than the actual reality. Sure, he would have created a blockbuster screen play; what else was he going to say?
Unless you don't return your books...Then they'll keep it for fifty years.
There's an older one, from one of the Harvard libraries, which was overdue by a little over 230 years. As for general library fines, I know our local library refers your case to a creditor if you're over $50, which isn't too hard to do if you lose an item. *wry grin* Or, for that matter, not being careful with videos. Videos go out for a week, there's a $1 fine per day, and there's no grace period. The maximum you can check out is 20 (NetFlix look out...), so being overdue by a week could easily take you up to $140. I had a co-worker who managed a slightly smaller scale fine ($73) and recently, I was in line behind of someone who'd racked up $232 in fines with his World War II videos. That said, a lot of small town libraries will work with you to resolve such fines. Like the banks, they're really not out to screw you over when it comes to debt repayment.
It may sound Freudian, but this time the mechanism for "repressing memories" is backed up by evidence.
On the other hand, there's firm evidence that it's possible to induce false memories in the process or recovering "repressed memories." I wonder if perhaps the people able to "repress memories" aren't actually just inducing false memories which are more bland to replace it. You know, kind of like the opposite of where your childhood spelling bee memories go from spelling nickel correctly to a titantic clash of the champions from which to emerged victorious.
that should be left visual field not left eye. See here for why this is so. The short version is that a single eye is connected to both hemispheres of the brain. But anything viewed to the left of center of vision will be sent only to the right hemisphere and anything viewed to the right of center will be sent to the left hemisphere.
You know, that's one of those things that always confused me. In the older psychology books, they state that it's per eye and have tests to prove it. Now, they state visual fields and have tests to prove it. Were the earlier tests incorrectly done? Or has the field of psychology affected how it all works? I could see early research subjects "knowing" how the model worked so that they blocked out out the right visual field of their left eye when the right eye was covered. *shrug* It just always struck me as kind of funny.
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Perhaps we should vote on stone tablets or bricks to make that especially hard?
Oy... as if we didn't already have enough problems with senior citizens who can't seem to push a pin through a piece of paper!
The question is, how is Google to know if a particular image is being sold in thumbnail form? These images weren't even taken off of Perfect 10's website. I could, perhaps, a list of "blacklisted" images based on some kind of heuristics of the image, but to do it right would be computationally intense and to do it simply would either result in too many false positives or too many false negatives.
Personally, I think a watermark of some sort added by Google would work fairly well. Nothing actually mentioning their name, so as to avoid the appearance of attribution, but the word "THUMBNAIL" written across it, or somesuch.
If I recall correctly there was something that we do instinctively which is inhibited by the alcohol which causes much more danger. This is why the sober driver is less likely to survive.
Well, tensing up for one. If you're relaxed, you're less likely to be hurt from a general impact as from a fall or a car crash. Supposedly, just from the action of locking your legs to slam the brakes, you're irreversibly scarring the tendons and the like involved if there's impact, not to mentiuon microfractures in the bone. Used to be this was balanced out by drunk people getting whiplash or having their head smash into the dash or steering wheel, but nowadays people have air bags.
Have you ever even USED google image search? Because that's pretty much what it does.
{facepalms} Except that Google Image isn't getting the pictures from Perfect10. They're getting them from copycat sites that have these images. Quite honestly, since there's nothing identifying these photos as being by Perfect 10, I don't really see where the issue is with Google. If Perfect 10 wasnts their photos not displayed, they need to be protecting their copyright by attacking these copycat sites, not Google, who simply does a machine-based search that happens to give Perfect 10 a chance to actually find these copycats to prosecute them.
Of course, Google has more money, so who do you think they're going to sue?
2) 24-hour computer labs with free printing. End the tyranny of labs that close at 10pm and/or charge for printing!
Eh... I worked in a lab with free printing for my freshman and sophomore years. Do you know how many people we had who came in and tried to print 40-page papers, and print 20 copies of them so that they could avoid photocopying costs? Add a small cost, maybe a 100-page printing allowance with 10 cents for each additional page, and people will act a little more sensibly.
This is true, but I would think that the drivers of the cars causing these accidents are the most likely to be killed.
Cars that are new enough to have TVs in their dash are probably also new enough to be tricked out with all the latest safety features. Go figure.
I have recently been hitting the library for some nice film classics, some film noir, some Hitchcock -- that was the golden age of cinema, none of this Ben Aflec and J. Lo crap.
You filthy communist pinko! Don't you know that this country was founded upon the American populace supporting businesses by being happy little consumers? People like you make me sick... I bet you listen to music on the radio without buying the CDs first too!
Perhaps some day ALL readable material will appear in this "book" you speak of!
Oh come now... I'm sure all of us geeks have read at least one Sci-Fi story written in the 60's, set in the year 2000, where kids poke at the pages of a book and say "It's not working. I keep trying to activate it, but it's not talking to me."
Incidentally, in French it's Le Bûcheron Chanson . ^_^ Just goes to show that the French aren't entirely humorless.
I can't speak to your particular high school cafeteria experience, but my mother runs a local school cafeteria (my old elementary school, actually) and the purchasing process is more complicated than it might seem at first blush. There are very strict rules on what the dietary allowances for a meal are and the cafeteria manager is forced to buy certain amounts of surplus food off of the government if they want to be subsidized by the government free and discounted lunch program. Add that to the fun of having to get each and every receipt individually approved by administration, and I could easily see a cafeteria manager turning to a single company (and I suspect you mean Aramark) for their food supply needs rather than driving all over town to try to save 5 cents on the price of tuna. My mother manages it by shopping at Sam's Club and the patience of a saint (as well as years of experience in putting together meals for our family of 8). And admittedly, those who came before her were not as good at economizing. When she started working there, the funds for the cafeteria and the funds for the rest of the school were kept strictly seperate because the cafeteria consistently was in the red. Now, they're fighting to get the budgets merged again because my mother has the cafeteria in better financial straits than the school.
Incidentally, I'm wondering if you're in a private school or outside of the US, because here, the prices for cafeteria meals are standardized due to the aforementionned free and reduced lunch program.
I'd be interested to see this concept extended to the social networking sites like friendster, orkut, or God forbid, myspace. That way the whole concept of references wouldn't be so shady and difficult to verify like the way it is today. I suppose that concept would be ripe for abuse, though.
I problem I find with almost every social networking site from the beginning is that most people start looking at their "friends" or "contacts" list as a score and before you know it, all meaning is lost. People add a person to their list simply because that person has 200+ contacts and they get a boost on their FOAF list. They start listing casual acquaintences as bosom buddies so they can boast their list. When people on their subscription list get new accounts, they don't purge the old ones because it makes it look like their audience is larger. These referral sources now link references to money... how long will they hold up before they become prey to falsified friendship?
Nobody likes to bitch about HR more than I. I'll be nice, though. HR people couldn't possibly perform any other function in society, except for maybe insurance claims processing. They don't ever seem to grasp how flexible many of us geeks really are. If a position requires X ammount of blah experience, they don't know what that kind of experience it is, or what it entails, or even how it relates to the job. They get little check-off items from the hiring manager. "Do you have TCP/IP?" they ask me. "Uh, yeah," I tell them.
My favorite was a recent phone call from a supposed tech recruiting company. I was asked what kind of jobs I would like and I said I was looking for a programming job. She said that she was sorry, but they only handled software development jobs. I was flabberghasted.
I know we have a robot-arm CD duplicator here at work that clocked in at about $200 that holds about 40 discs at a time. Admittedly, you'd have to get into the drivers to figure out how to tell it to just load the CD, run the ripping, then move it to the next stack...
No need to be a slave to your computer. It's maybe a 30-second process each time the CD needs to be changed out. When I have a bunch to process (usually after a birthday or one of my clearance-rack sprees), I just grab a good book or movie and settle down with it. Pop a CD in, click Start, read, remove CD, and loop. I also find it forces me to get some reading done that I might otherwise replace with computer games.
It's not exactly fire and forget, but it has always worked well for me.
I put in a DVD and watched a movie. Sounds like most of the U.S. is watching other channels. I heard a report on NPR that said the coverage of the olympics came in 5th. Not even a bronze. We'd have to add two more medals...tin for 4th place, cardboard for 5th.
Quite frankly, the lack of coverage of the Olympics is one of the reasons I usually don't even bother watching anymore. Quite often, you can only get small fractions of the sports and the timeshifting involved is horrendous. Do you remember the brouhaha a few years ago where the BBC was streaming live coverage and American broadcast companies forced them to not transmit the data to IP addresses located in the US for fear that people might prefer watching the games as they happen rather than hours afterwards with commercials breaking the events up?
I'm much the same way. And if there are tracks that I just plain can't stand, they disappear off of my playlist.
Personally, I'm highly opposed to the RIAA's interpretation of the law because my only way of listening to music is via ripped copies of CDs that are sitting on my computer's harddrive. I go out to clearance racks and salvage stores and buy handfuls of CDs which look interesting at about $5 each and put the content on my computer. I then just let the mixture percolate on random and see what gems bubble up. *grumble* I wish one could tweak the iTunes model to change the frequency model for the "play higher rated tracks more often" setting, though.
The issue here is that lyrics and the actual performance of the song are two entirely different copyrights and are covered under different laws. I can legally do a cover of any song I want, so long as I pay a per-copy fee on discs pressed or downloads granted. I can't print the lyrics without express permission of the lyricist or whoever currently holds copyright over the lyrics. This is one of the reasons karaoke selection can be so limitted... it's perfectly legal to record the cover version, even without vocals, but the minute you start displaying lyrics on the screen, you must have express permission.
Slashdot had an article on this a few months ago, where the MPAA (Music Publishers Association of America) was closing down lyrics sites. Similarly, people got confused there over the two seperate copyrights and who handled them.
But yeah, I'm a big one for lyrics too. My hearing isn't great when it comes to picking out signal to noise, so I have a hard time making out words on songs and, like you, I have the fragments I do know playing nonstop in my head, often with obviously distorted lyrics as my mind makes "best guesses" at the lyrics.
A giant firball called "Wookie" is pretty much as stupid as "Jar Jar", it's just that we were kids so it became a part of our mind that this was okay.
I would disagree with you. While Chewbacca had his comic moments, for the most part he was not only big and furry, but also could visibly kick ass. Jar-Jar... fell a lot. And, bizarrely enough, kept succeeding through his mastery of Sna Fu. Which, of course, leads one to the conclusion that Jar-Jar may be high in the force and therefore the real Jedi master of the series.
But that made liars out of both Yoda and Obi-Wan. "Yeah, we knew he was your dad, but we decided to bullshit you."
Well, you have to remember that the Jedi are essentially heavily-armed religious fanatics in service as military. Yoda and Ben knew that if Luke knew the truth, he may not fight fully against Vader from the beginning and would therefore die. So, judging the needs of the Jedi over the needs of the few (Luke), they withheld the information, but left him with enough cryptic equivocation that he wouldn't immediately respond with "You're Bantha poo-dooing me, man!" when Vader made his proclamation.
Palpatine strongly implies in Ep3 that he was Plaguis' apprentice.
If you're willing to believe Extended Universe sources, "Dark Lord: The Rise of Lord Vader" has Palpatine musing voer the lessons he learned while he was Darth Plaguis's apprentice. I'd Amazon link it, but I don't know how to get a clean link so as to avoid people accusing me of trying to milk referrals.
I like the other theory I've run into, explaining most bad sequels to brilliant films. When the first movie comes out, the producer has to fight tooth and nail to get any budget at all. The tight-fisted financiers can bully him into relying on tight scripting and good dialogue for his movies. After that movie becomes a blockbuster success, the director can request just about anything for the "blockbuster sequel" and are therefore free to ruin the movie by adding everything their heart desires.
I'd say you've never read the actual screen play, based on your silly comments that are totally at odds with Gibson's own statements. Try again.
Unless Gibson posted his original screen play at the same time he made those remarks, I would wonder how much of his remarks are more based on his memories and intent for the screen play than the actual reality. Sure, he would have created a blockbuster screen play; what else was he going to say?
Unless you don't return your books...Then they'll keep it for fifty years.
There's an older one, from one of the Harvard libraries, which was overdue by a little over 230 years. As for general library fines, I know our local library refers your case to a creditor if you're over $50, which isn't too hard to do if you lose an item. *wry grin* Or, for that matter, not being careful with videos. Videos go out for a week, there's a $1 fine per day, and there's no grace period. The maximum you can check out is 20 (NetFlix look out...), so being overdue by a week could easily take you up to $140. I had a co-worker who managed a slightly smaller scale fine ($73) and recently, I was in line behind of someone who'd racked up $232 in fines with his World War II videos. That said, a lot of small town libraries will work with you to resolve such fines. Like the banks, they're really not out to screw you over when it comes to debt repayment.
It may sound Freudian, but this time the mechanism for "repressing memories" is backed up by evidence.
On the other hand, there's firm evidence that it's possible to induce false memories in the process or recovering "repressed memories." I wonder if perhaps the people able to "repress memories" aren't actually just inducing false memories which are more bland to replace it. You know, kind of like the opposite of where your childhood spelling bee memories go from spelling nickel correctly to a titantic clash of the champions from which to emerged victorious.
that should be left visual field not left eye. See here for why this is so. The short version is that a single eye is connected to both hemispheres of the brain. But anything viewed to the left of center of vision will be sent only to the right hemisphere and anything viewed to the right of center will be sent to the left hemisphere.
You know, that's one of those things that always confused me. In the older psychology books, they state that it's per eye and have tests to prove it. Now, they state visual fields and have tests to prove it. Were the earlier tests incorrectly done? Or has the field of psychology affected how it all works? I could see early research subjects "knowing" how the model worked so that they blocked out out the right visual field of their left eye when the right eye was covered. *shrug* It just always struck me as kind of funny.