Do Alberto Gonzales realize that equalizing IP voilation to terrorism funding he in fact making terrorism funding looking like a minor offence in public opinion ?
Reactive armour doesn't really have any weaknesses.
It does. Especially advanced 360 degree active defence sysetms, like in TFA and russian Arena. The problem is infantry. Modern combat is mostly urban combat, and in urban enviroment tanks often moving in the middle of freindly infantry. Which wouldn't appreciate being showered by anty-missile projectiles.
I completly agree. Businesses and governments better adopt sandals and ponytails faster if they don't wont to fall behind the leading edge of the technology. Their rigid dress code face formidable opposition form the hight tech community.
I thought it was delayed because of DirectX 10 and game\media\PVR issues. Now that 60% is being rewritten will hardware manufacturers like ATI have to ditch their millions of dollars of R&D and start their Vista drivers from scratch?
I don't think so. Remember DirectX 10 is only an API, there is no sgnificant code base behind it. So I don't think it casued delay, and don't think hardware manufacturers would be wasting significant efforts if there are changes in it. The only important thing is specification, that is a list of abilites which GPU should have, and that is not changed.
It's the results of the experiments that are sensational. If confirmed it would be first actual experimental result on Quantum Gravity - holy grail of modern theoretical physics. It is sure Nobel prize.
According to the article, all masses produce gravitomagnetic fields, so this artificial induction of one is no different from what anyone does when one moves mass around, right?
All moving mass and only moving mass produce gravitomagnetic effect. It's similar to moving electric charge produce magnetic field, that is why it's called gravymagnetic. Think about gravity as ectrostatic field, and gravimagnetic as magnetic field. Another analogy is "frame dragging". Moving mass drug refernece frame with it. That is as if mass not only curving the space, but actually dragging it while moving.
It's just in this instance, the amount was so great as to be measurable in experiment.
This is amazing, right? Isn't it that so much of gravity is known theoretically but not observationally?
No, while gravimagnetic effect itself is known theoretically, the result of exepriment thirty orders of magnitude large than predicted by General relativity. That is why expalnation of this experiment invoke quantum gravity. It happens that result of exepriment could be explained if gravitons behave in similar way to photons, which is essential quantum concept.
Discalmer: I'm not a physicist either.
You should read the article you are citing. That is the exact experiment, that mentioned in TFA - Martin Tajmar et al experiment, which show anomalous gravimagnetic effect in the superconductive niobium ring which can not be explained by General Relativity, but can be explained by analogy between gravitons and photons.
It's amazing, but people will wait months and months for products that are so complicated that no ordinary person can figure out how to use them.
Let me tell you big secret: Most people don't want to switch. They hate to have to learn a new system, new UI and new buttons. It's bad enough as it is. Think about 60 years old, who is struggling with office, e-mail and web, and calling his/her free tech-support(children) whenver he/she accidentally minimize window. Those people stay with XP as long as MS provide minimal support, that is fixing exploits. And may be even longer. So many people are actually happy of Vista delay, as long as it means longer support for XP. It would be even betted if Vista cancelled at all.
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My bet is...robots. Not those huge industrial installations with welding torches, but walking, talking, dish-washing and grocery visiting robots from 50's Sciense Fiction.
Russian AIRFRAMES are superb. Russian engines are pretty OK, but not as reliable, and much more labor intensive to maintain. Russian avionics are crap.
Isreal avionics are superb from the other hand. Isreal avionics used in the export version of the russian K-52 Alligator gunship. Israel also won several contracts on the upgrade of the old russian fighters around the world.
8% of overall CO2 emission is not a "small impact". Nuclear power is used only to produce electricity, and that is less than 50% of CO2 emission. If you talk only about CO2 emmission in energy generation, doubling nuclear power would reduce CO2 emission at 25%. Also take into account, that UK already importing considerable amount of energy from France, where it's produced by nuclear power. Also, if nuclear power used not only to replace existing fossil fuel power plants, but to increase overall electricity production it can be used to reduce fossil fuel burning in the consumer sector (heating) and transportation - like new cars which are not dependunt on fossil fuel, community transport. That can reduce CO2 emission far beyonds of ten percent.
Whoever is sitting on the near-earth passing asteroid is in fact in command of weapon similar to clean nuke. And having transportation to earth orbit is equivalent to having long range ballistic missile. So space property will probaly be supervised by some international body, like International Atomic Energy Agency. It would be logical if the same agency take care of registration and distribution of space property rights.
The result is also of keen interest to those who study artificial intelligence and try to teach computer systems or robots to learn through reward and punishment. Some such systems already work by playing back a sequence of moves so that the computer can identify at which point it made the trial or error.
It's called back propagation learning
The algortihm is based on the error propagation backwards from the output nodes to the inner nodes of neural net.
But is this infinite number countable -- or is it continuous?;-) Big difference, you know...
it's a finite number, some researchers estimated it around 10^^240
Contrast this with Symbian, who provides free documentation and software development kits for all of its mobile phone platforms, encouraging third-party developers.
Don't worry, that is not the case any more. From the version 9.1 Symbian with introduction of Symbian Signed Symbiam is not encouraging small/freeware/opensource developers any more. For small commertial developer sitaution worst - they have to pay for every binary release (good buy patches/expansions) around 400USD to testing house(and that is taking into account that symbian applications is not a big market). For freeware/opensource situation is little better - they don't have to pay for testing (if symbiansigned deside that application deserve to be freeware of cause - that is symbian to deside)but still, to test/debug application on the real phone they have to get developer certificate. For access nontrivial capabilities (freeware/opensource too), like multimedia drivers, they have to pay around 350usd/year and get phone manufacturer approval - taht is only to be able to test/debug applicatopn on the phone.
Proper modelling of turbulence has baffled the best minds for hundreds of years, and still we're not really any closer.
We are considerably closer. The conceptual mechanism of turbulence is more understood now - it seems that turbulence is caused by finite-dimentional strange attractors in phase space (good news because navier-stocks equations phase-space is infinetly-dimentional). The bad news is that strange attractors inherintly unstable in numeric simulations and amount of calculation grow exponentially with simulation time.
Gmail is invite only to make it very difficult, if not impossible, for spammers to create a large volume of accounts to spam with.
So how does it happen that big part of spam I'm getting (and most of what coming through my filters) coming from gmail?
The/. editorial doesn't mention elemental composition of the particles. From TFA:
45.4% quartz (!)
49.5% carbonate calcium
Doesn't look like life or organic at all. Another case of wishful thinking.
However if you are depending on a high contrast glove then that is the same effect as a marker. You are containing the environment and nothing else in the scene can be the same colour as the glove.
Not exactly. There shouldn't be object with projection topologically connected to glove - like the shirt of the same color or wall. Separte obect can have the same color. About size you are correct. Of cause it is constrained scene - but we don't want general computer vision algorithm with arbitrary object recognition - only glove recognition...
This approach does not easily extend to a general scene with unknown targets such as would be required for boxing.
Actually I think it would be somehow more simple for boxing, because we don't have to track orientation of the glove, only it's position. For high-contrast glove (like bright red) it would be easy to extract contour from semi-known background, and after that take the geometric center and average radius of the contour for rough approach. And if to put contrast marker(s) on the glove more precise position and orientation could be taken. Even without markers feature points could be extracted from glove.
like 1-5 fps on decent hardware - think it would be more like 10-20 fps
So how exactly are you getting 3D information from a single camera? Are you assuming a known size of the marker or are you comparing successive frames? what is the accuracy of your depth resolution?
I'm using more complex algorithm, more simple mobile versions could be found here :
http://studierstube.org/handheld_ar/artoolkitplus. php
or here
http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~andhe/UMAR/
PC version
http://artoolkit.sourceforge.net/
My version vill be avaliable for download probably in month or two.
Depth resolution actually is a sore question. For now it's like around.1 (if we take 1 as focus distance), but I'm working on it. Lateral resolution is less then one pixel after projection (for my algorithm:)), for standatrt AR toolkit it could be somehow worse.
The article claims that the android can dodge punches. I say that it can't. It takes a fist less than a quarter of a second to travel from the ready position to the opponent's face. The microprocessor needs to do image processing to realize that the fist is moving towards a specific area, which will require many image frames before it can actually determine the fist movements.
I have some expirience in 3d tracking and I don't agree. My Nokia 6600 phone with 15 frame/sec camera and 109mhz CPU (without FPU) can detect 3d position of rectangular marker relativly to camera and make some 3d rendering with 8 frame/sec speed. With human hand it's more complex, but with better CPU(like 500mhz) and faster camera (30+ frame/sec) you can probaly make processing less in 1/20th second. You can be right about motors though.
I don't understand the market for these sort of laptops.
Such laptops are good for contractors dealing with CPU/graphics intensive applications and in need of mobility. I'm doing dome 3d graphics contract job, and product mostly for mid-high end machines,so for me is very important to be able to bring my machine into the office, for installations, configurations, and then problem arise with different hardware - I able to run my laptop side-by side with problematic desktop. Some other users of such systems are students and gamers who are moving around.
You want to help Pakistani kids you should work with NGOs. Work with the generals and the bastards will just give the laptops to their own kids.
Which could actually be a good thing. Whichever children get laptops is good. The only bad thing generals can do with laptops is bury them somewhere. Which would cause them political problems.
Then again, I dont really like the ramifications of a corporate funded police force that had the full backing and authority of the state.
However coprporates already running prisons in US and some other contries in the world.
The private prison industry in the United States is in the hands of four huge companies that make billions in profits every year ($2.3 billion in 2004 alone) and is in a state of constant growth. The living conditions in those prisons, such as population density, health and the severity of punishment, are disgraceful. Guards with low levels of training are employed by manpower agencies at starvation wages, with a high turnover rate in employment. The violence in those prisons is on a constant rise, as are escapes and drug abuse. Experts who examined the privatized prisons over long periods of time even argue that handing over the prisons to private hands did not make it any cheaper for the state, and that it is difficult, if not impossible, to guarantee proper supervision of such institutions. All this is dwarfed by the most worrisome fact of all: The companies who own the prisons spend millions of dollars every year lobbying for stricter legislation. They say that some 2,000 legislators around the country "work" for them, and make sure to initiate harsher minimum sentences, define new crimes and monstrous punishments (such as the "three strikes and you're out" law in California that sends a person to life in prison if they are convicted of three crimes, even if they are light), promote the appointment of tough prosecutors and cancel state-run rehabilitation plans. They do everything they can to guarantee more profits for the franchise holders.
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Do Alberto Gonzales realize that equalizing IP voilation to terrorism funding he in fact making terrorism funding looking like a minor offence in public opinion ?
It was "solved" by reducing dangerous area to 20-30 meteres. You don't have often 20 meters in urban combat.
I completly agree. Businesses and governments better adopt sandals and ponytails faster if they don't wont to fall behind the leading edge of the technology. Their rigid dress code face formidable opposition form the hight tech community.
I don't think so. Remember DirectX 10 is only an API, there is no sgnificant code base behind it. So I don't think it casued delay, and don't think hardware manufacturers would be wasting significant efforts if there are changes in it. The only important thing is specification, that is a list of abilites which GPU should have, and that is not changed.
It's the results of the experiments that are sensational. If confirmed it would be first actual experimental result on Quantum Gravity - holy grail of modern theoretical physics. It is sure Nobel prize.
All moving mass and only moving mass produce gravitomagnetic effect. It's similar to moving electric charge produce magnetic field, that is why it's called gravymagnetic. Think about gravity as ectrostatic field, and gravimagnetic as magnetic field. Another analogy is "frame dragging". Moving mass drug refernece frame with it. That is as if mass not only curving the space, but actually dragging it while moving.
No, while gravimagnetic effect itself is known theoretically, the result of exepriment thirty orders of magnitude large than predicted by General relativity. That is why expalnation of this experiment invoke quantum gravity. It happens that result of exepriment could be explained if gravitons behave in similar way to photons, which is essential quantum concept. Discalmer: I'm not a physicist either.
Let me tell you big secret: Most people don't want to switch. They hate to have to learn a new system, new UI and new buttons. It's bad enough as it is. Think about 60 years old, who is struggling with office, e-mail and web, and calling his/her free tech-support(children) whenver he/she accidentally minimize window. Those people stay with XP as long as MS provide minimal support, that is fixing exploits. And may be even longer. So many people are actually happy of Vista delay, as long as it means longer support for XP. It would be even betted if Vista cancelled at all.
My bet is...robots. Not those huge industrial installations with welding torches, but walking, talking, dish-washing and grocery visiting robots from 50's Sciense Fiction.
8% of overall CO2 emission is not a "small impact". Nuclear power is used only to produce electricity, and that is less than 50% of CO2 emission. If you talk only about CO2 emmission in energy generation, doubling nuclear power would reduce CO2 emission at 25%. Also take into account, that UK already importing considerable amount of energy from France, where it's produced by nuclear power. Also, if nuclear power used not only to replace existing fossil fuel power plants, but to increase overall electricity production it can be used to reduce fossil fuel burning in the consumer sector (heating) and transportation - like new cars which are not dependunt on fossil fuel, community transport. That can reduce CO2 emission far beyonds of ten percent.
Whoever is sitting on the near-earth passing asteroid is in fact in command of weapon similar to clean nuke. And having transportation to earth orbit is equivalent to having long range ballistic missile. So space property will probaly be supervised by some international body, like International Atomic Energy Agency. It would be logical if the same agency take care of registration and distribution of space property rights.
The result is also of keen interest to those who study artificial intelligence and try to teach computer systems or robots to learn through reward and punishment. Some such systems already work by playing back a sequence of moves so that the computer can identify at which point it made the trial or error.
It's called back propagation learning The algortihm is based on the error propagation backwards from the output nodes to the inner nodes of neural net.
But is this infinite number countable -- or is it continuous? ;-) Big difference, you know...
it's a finite number, some researchers estimated it around 10^^240
Don't worry, that is not the case any more. From the version 9.1 Symbian with introduction of Symbian Signed Symbiam is not encouraging small/freeware/opensource developers any more. For small commertial developer sitaution worst - they have to pay for every binary release (good buy patches/expansions) around 400USD to testing house(and that is taking into account that symbian applications is not a big market). For freeware/opensource situation is little better - they don't have to pay for testing (if symbiansigned deside that application deserve to be freeware of cause - that is symbian to deside)but still, to test/debug application on the real phone they have to get developer certificate. For access nontrivial capabilities (freeware/opensource too), like multimedia drivers, they have to pay around 350usd/year and get phone manufacturer approval - taht is only to be able to test/debug applicatopn on the phone.
Proper modelling of turbulence has baffled the best minds for hundreds of years, and still we're not really any closer.
We are considerably closer. The conceptual mechanism of turbulence is more understood now - it seems that turbulence is caused by finite-dimentional strange attractors in phase space (good news because navier-stocks equations phase-space is infinetly-dimentional). The bad news is that strange attractors inherintly unstable in numeric simulations and amount of calculation grow exponentially with simulation time.
Gmail is invite only to make it very difficult, if not impossible, for spammers to create a large volume of accounts to spam with.
So how does it happen that big part of spam I'm getting (and most of what coming through my filters) coming from gmail?
The /. editorial doesn't mention elemental composition of the particles. From TFA:
45.4% quartz (!) 49.5% carbonate calcium
Doesn't look like life or organic at all. Another case of wishful thinking.
Not exactly. There shouldn't be object with projection topologically connected to glove - like the shirt of the same color or wall. Separte obect can have the same color. About size you are correct. Of cause it is constrained scene - but we don't want general computer vision algorithm with arbitrary object recognition - only glove recognition...
This approach does not easily extend to a general scene with unknown targets such as would be required for boxing.
Actually I think it would be somehow more simple for boxing, because we don't have to track orientation of the glove, only it's position. For high-contrast glove (like bright red) it would be easy to extract contour from semi-known background, and after that take the geometric center and average radius of the contour for rough approach. And if to put contrast marker(s) on the glove more precise position and orientation could be taken. Even without markers feature points could be extracted from glove.
like 1-5 fps on decent hardware - think it would be more like 10-20 fps
I'm using more complex algorithm, more simple mobile versions could be found here :
http://studierstube.org/handheld_ar/artoolkitplus
or here
http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~andhe/UMAR/
PC version
http://artoolkit.sourceforge.net/
My version vill be avaliable for download probably in month or two. Depth resolution actually is a sore question. For now it's like around
The article claims that the android can dodge punches. I say that it can't. It takes a fist less than a quarter of a second to travel from the ready position to the opponent's face. The microprocessor needs to do image processing to realize that the fist is moving towards a specific area, which will require many image frames before it can actually determine the fist movements.
I have some expirience in 3d tracking and I don't agree. My Nokia 6600 phone with 15 frame/sec camera and 109mhz CPU (without FPU) can detect 3d position of rectangular marker relativly to camera and make some 3d rendering with 8 frame/sec speed. With human hand it's more complex, but with better CPU(like 500mhz) and faster camera (30+ frame/sec) you can probaly make processing less in 1/20th second. You can be right about motors though.
I don't understand the market for these sort of laptops.
Such laptops are good for contractors dealing with CPU/graphics intensive applications and in need of mobility. I'm doing dome 3d graphics contract job, and product mostly for mid-high end machines,so for me is very important to be able to bring my machine into the office, for installations, configurations, and then problem arise with different hardware - I able to run my laptop side-by side with problematic desktop. Some other users of such systems are students and gamers who are moving around.
You want to help Pakistani kids you should work with NGOs. Work with the generals and the bastards will just give the laptops to their own kids. Which could actually be a good thing. Whichever children get laptops is good. The only bad thing generals can do with laptops is bury them somewhere. Which would cause them political problems.
However coprporates already running prisons in US and some other contries in the world.
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