Just a thought, but a good deal of audiophiles haven't yet acknowledged CDs, DVD Audio, or any digital medium as "sufficient" technology. I had a roommate who spent boatloads of time lurking on ebay for russian vacuum tubes for his amp and/or diamond stylii for his record player.
Not that they're luddites, but unless these new plastic magnet speakers add cracks, pops, and white noise that gives the proper "tonal colour" and "spatial richness" of the systems they're used to hearing and declaring as perfect, the audiophiles will probably dub them garbage.
Not sure, but methinks the youngins have forgotten NT 4 SP6. Since then the old-timers like to have the entire i386 directory plus the whole patch file locally.
Call me crazy, but when I want the patch, I want the *whole* patch, so it doesn't announce a dependency available for download *after* breaking the TCP/IP stack again.
I've been following this for a bunch of years, since my stepdad is employed by various Neurology departments across a few universities. Lately, they've been doing some great work in Deep Brain Stimulation to remove some of the side effects of Parkinson's and Essential Tremor. Neat stuff. To get the hardware in place safely, they map brain locations based on known brain "landmarks" then watch for known electrical patterns for motor neurons. They use the mapped locations to send small electrical signals using a magnetic stimulus all the way back to the fingers and toes of patients undergoing surgery. If the neurosurgeon places the hardware in a place where it impinges a motor neuron path, the alarms go off and they re-evaluate the placement. It's kind of like that Operation game (Don't touch the sides!") we played as kids.
The system has encountered an unrecoverable error and IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. I SAW YOU pausing just a little too long before closing those suggestive webcam ads. Now go burn that copy of The Da Vinci Code, wash your eyes out with holy water after your clandestine mission to The Passion, and go out and buy a wooden yardstick to smack your fingers with every time you have an innapropriate thought.
Now if they could just tie your name back to your personal Tivo account, they could figure out if you made the purchase after watching a Bud ad...and how long afterwards you made the purchase. Kinda scary, eh? A marketing exec at Anheiser would kill for that info. How far would you go to cost-justify a six figure sallary?
Did you ever get the feeling like the Slashdot moderators are having a case of the Mondays? Like they purposely seed the parent posts with language ripe for the picking with pithy quips and witty rejoinders? Joke Trolls...the lot of them. Of course, it could be that life imitates Joke Trolls. It's a hell of a lot more entertaining than art.
Actually, this is a really good point. Only a few things to add:
If I open my front and back doors to air out the house, I've made it easy for anyone to just walk in and inform me that my doors are open. That, however, is considered trespassing and is illegal. Only an asshole would walk up and state the obvious, unless I lived in a bad part of town (like the Internet, for example) where roving criminals were very likely to walk in, kill me, and take my stuff if the option was presented like that. In that case, the same asshole who walked into my house would be a samaritan, someone who was trying to protect me.
Let's take it one step further. What if my house was a bank, or an insurance agency? What if I'd made promises to people to protect their assets as best as possible? Now, if I leave my doors open it's irresponsible, probably criminal negligence.
If I were savvy enough to figure out major security holes in large companies, the first thing I would do is buy something from them, get my records on file with them, and then sue them for negligence. I would then take the money and make a tech scholarship for colleges that taught decent security measures. Call it the Robin Hood scholarship if you like.
I'd like to preface this post by saying that I know very little about the mechanics of simulators such as these. I do however know quite a lot about sensory and perception in regards to flight studies.
The problem with attempting to simulate motion, let alone G-forces, is that humans are very good at detecting aberrations from realistic movement. The "detection" usually results in headaches or blowing bannana chunks all over the cockpit, but it's a detection nonetheless. [1]
In short, if the simulator display indicates a slight oscilation or elevation due to a thermal, and the force feedback doesn't mimic it just right, and then that happens repeatedly inbetween bouts of actually successfully fooling your sensory and perception system, we get the aforementioned chunks being blown.
Millions of dollars of research have been thrown at this problem, only to find one very clear thing. By the time you can get the system finely tuned enough that you can always fool the human, it's cost prohibitive. The benefit and coolness factor of feeling the actual motion isn't significant enough of a boost to the learning process to justify the cost.
[1] Bannanas are the #1 meal suggestion before FAM (familiarization) flights in new figthers, since they taste roughly the same coming up as they do going down.
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Not that they're luddites, but unless these new plastic magnet speakers add cracks, pops, and white noise that gives the proper "tonal colour" and "spatial richness" of the systems they're used to hearing and declaring as perfect, the audiophiles will probably dub them garbage.
Not sure, but methinks the youngins have forgotten NT 4 SP6. Since then the old-timers like to have the entire i386 directory plus the whole patch file locally.
Call me crazy, but when I want the patch, I want the *whole* patch, so it doesn't announce a dependency available for download *after* breaking the TCP/IP stack again.
Just a thought,
jb
And besides, there's some things that rats won't do!
I've been following this for a bunch of years, since my stepdad is employed by various Neurology departments across a few universities. Lately, they've been doing some great work in Deep Brain Stimulation to remove some of the side effects of Parkinson's and Essential Tremor. Neat stuff. To get the hardware in place safely, they map brain locations based on known brain "landmarks" then watch for known electrical patterns for motor neurons. They use the mapped locations to send small electrical signals using a magnetic stimulus all the way back to the fingers and toes of patients undergoing surgery. If the neurosurgeon places the hardware in a place where it impinges a motor neuron path, the alarms go off and they re-evaluate the placement. It's kind of like that Operation game (Don't touch the sides!") we played as kids.
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I don't think Janet Reno is doing anything these days. Maybe you could have your cake and eat it too.
Catholic computing:
The system has encountered an unrecoverable error and IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. I SAW YOU pausing just a little too long before closing those suggestive webcam ads. Now go burn that copy of The Da Vinci Code, wash your eyes out with holy water after your clandestine mission to The Passion, and go out and buy a wooden yardstick to smack your fingers with every time you have an innapropriate thought.
And spit out your gum.
Now if they could just tie your name back to your personal Tivo account, they could figure out if you made the purchase after watching a Bud ad...and how long afterwards you made the purchase. Kinda scary, eh? A marketing exec at Anheiser would kill for that info. How far would you go to cost-justify a six figure sallary?
Did you ever get the feeling like the Slashdot moderators are having a case of the Mondays? Like they purposely seed the parent posts with language ripe for the picking with pithy quips and witty rejoinders? Joke Trolls...the lot of them. Of course, it could be that life imitates Joke Trolls. It's a hell of a lot more entertaining than art.
Phew, I'm glad I checked your URL. I thought for a second it was the HARP satellite from Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/remo/
Actually, this is a really good point. Only a few things to add:
If I open my front and back doors to air out the house, I've made it easy for anyone to just walk in and inform me that my doors are open. That, however, is considered trespassing and is illegal. Only an asshole would walk up and state the obvious, unless I lived in a bad part of town (like the Internet, for example) where roving criminals were very likely to walk in, kill me, and take my stuff if the option was presented like that. In that case, the same asshole who walked into my house would be a samaritan, someone who was trying to protect me.
Let's take it one step further. What if my house was a bank, or an insurance agency? What if I'd made promises to people to protect their assets as best as possible? Now, if I leave my doors open it's irresponsible, probably criminal negligence.
If I were savvy enough to figure out major security holes in large companies, the first thing I would do is buy something from them, get my records on file with them, and then sue them for negligence. I would then take the money and make a tech scholarship for colleges that taught decent security measures. Call it the Robin Hood scholarship if you like.
I'd like to preface this post by saying that I know very little about the mechanics of simulators such as these. I do however know quite a lot about sensory and perception in regards to flight studies. The problem with attempting to simulate motion, let alone G-forces, is that humans are very good at detecting aberrations from realistic movement. The "detection" usually results in headaches or blowing bannana chunks all over the cockpit, but it's a detection nonetheless. [1] In short, if the simulator display indicates a slight oscilation or elevation due to a thermal, and the force feedback doesn't mimic it just right, and then that happens repeatedly inbetween bouts of actually successfully fooling your sensory and perception system, we get the aforementioned chunks being blown. Millions of dollars of research have been thrown at this problem, only to find one very clear thing. By the time you can get the system finely tuned enough that you can always fool the human, it's cost prohibitive. The benefit and coolness factor of feeling the actual motion isn't significant enough of a boost to the learning process to justify the cost. [1] Bannanas are the #1 meal suggestion before FAM (familiarization) flights in new figthers, since they taste roughly the same coming up as they do going down.