Okay, I'll admit: I only played the MusicVR demo, and no, you wouldn't actually be missing much playing it with the volume down. A shame, really. Still, I wasn't going to pass up a setup like that with someone who would actually catch the reference.:)
True, but not too relevant. I was referring to SMB3, the NES game. Chances are parent was too, and just had a mental slip regarding the name of the appropriate emulator (or conversely, was thinking of SMW for the SNES). I noticed this and made a comment with the intention that it might be funny. Apparently my humour was too high-brow for some people.;)
That's on the imperial scale, which runs from boatload to assload to shitload to fuckload to mighty fuckload, with some other more esoteric units in between. The metric scale uses the base unit of the shitload with the usual prefixes - the microshitload, the kiloshitload, etc.
Everything a computer does is fundamentally described with binary numbers and logic gates - all math.
"...could you then simply enter that mathematical formula into a computer and have it function in the same way..."
Sure. But it probably wouldn't be the type of equation you'd recognize - we're not talking about some three-line polynomial here. We're talking however many thousands of lines of equation which mathematically describe the automata taking in all the input you describe and giving the desired output.
Haha. As soon as I read the summary, I thought to myself: "You made a video? And linked it on Slashdot? What in the name of Satan's fiery dickhole is wrong with you?"
Exactly - by applying sensations straight to the skin, you're whitewashing a huge number of nerves with the same sensation. With such inefficient input to the nervous system, you'd have pads and stuff all the way up your arm just to transmit the kind of data this skin could generate. It can't be used efficiently until we can more accurately send signals to just a small number of nerves at once.
It could work, but other technology needs to catch up first. Fairly detailed sensors could be installed in current prosthetics, I'm sure, but the machine-nerve interface just doesn't carry enough data yet. It doesn't matter whether we know what that data means, since the brain can probably learn to interpret it on its own, but we just don't have the fine control over the interface that we would need. In related news, an article in this month's Discover (full text viewable to subscribers) discusses a lot of these limitations, although it comes at it from the angle of whether mind-reading (or controlling) computer chips are possible.
Wow, what province do you live in? I'm a 21 year old male driving a 13 year old car. I have a perfect safety record for the few years I've been driving, but that isn't long. I just got my renewal notice the other day, and I'm on the hook for $1176 for next year. This is in BC, where we have government-run insurance with no competition...
Funny you should say that, one of my university's SysAdmins could easily shave his head and pass as Kingpin. If you're reading this, Rob... I kid because I love. And because you don't know my real name.
I could be mistaken, but I thought it was the other way around - the iPod is a loss leader for iTunes. In that case, this makes perfect sense - Real is taking advantage of Apple's legwork to compete with them in the more profitable market (with Harmony).
You know, on one hand, I can recognize and respect that. On the other hand, for some reason I have trouble thinking of VB as anything but the Duplo of programming languages.
Heh. When my 13 yr old brother went to see Return of the King, it was the early evening show. Thus, when he got picked up afterwards, there was a big lineup for the late show. As they drive by, he leans out the window and yells out "FRODO DIES!" The kid's a complete fruit loop, but at least he's good for a laugh.
And here I thought I'd have to go out of town if I ever wanted to go past a Masters (if I make it that far, of course). Even if a "higher-quality" program catches my eye... you said it yourself, you really can't argue with $FREE.
BTW, are you a UNBC Masters student yourself? I'm not quite, but chances are I know you anyways.
The spreadsheet only has no real-life corollary because Visicalc made doing it by hand completely and utterly obsolete. Writing a letter isn't really sped up a whole lot by using a computer (as compared to writing it by hand, or on a typewriter). Spreadsheets are a whole different story. They were done by hand at one point, but changing some numbers and carrying forward all the calculations used to be a full time job for some people. Now it's 10 seconds with Excel. Think on that for a bit.:)
I'm sure a lot of people here could derive many of the more famous theorems of math on their own. This is, of course, after they've been educated with hundreds of years of development on those theorems. Euclid didn't have a textbook that fed him all the necessary conditions for his proof and then posed it as a sample problem.
Look at it this way: People have theorized about flying machines for hundreds of years (DaVinci, etc). Any reasonably smart person today can build themselves one, given the proper tools and materials. Does that make the Wright brothers a couple of schmoes who don't deserve any recognition? No, because they were the first to prove that it really could be done, without the benefit of previous research.
And if you'd rather mod me funny than insightful... hell, any reasonably intelligent person today can discover North America without a whole lot of trouble. Doesn't make Columbo's feat any less impressive.
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It is a sweet, sweet sound, but I've never heard a guitar playing though a tube amp to compare it to.
Okay, I'll admit: I only played the MusicVR demo, and no, you wouldn't actually be missing much playing it with the volume down. A shame, really. Still, I wasn't going to pass up a setup like that with someone who would actually catch the reference. :)
I bet you had a hard time with MusicVR and Maestro, then.
True, but not too relevant. I was referring to SMB3, the NES game. Chances are parent was too, and just had a mental slip regarding the name of the appropriate emulator (or conversely, was thinking of SMW for the SNES). I noticed this and made a comment with the intention that it might be funny. Apparently my humour was too high-brow for some people. ;)
Here, hold on, I'll come back and describe my experience getting SMB3 to run under SNES9x on a 2GHz Win2k box...
Actually, if you really have managed to get an NES rom running in a SNES emulator, I'd like to hear about it.
That's on the imperial scale, which runs from boatload to assload to shitload to fuckload to mighty fuckload, with some other more esoteric units in between. The metric scale uses the base unit of the shitload with the usual prefixes - the microshitload, the kiloshitload, etc.
Everything a computer does is fundamentally described with binary numbers and logic gates - all math.
"...could you then simply enter that mathematical formula into a computer and have it function in the same way..."
Sure. But it probably wouldn't be the type of equation you'd recognize - we're not talking about some three-line polynomial here. We're talking however many thousands of lines of equation which mathematically describe the automata taking in all the input you describe and giving the desired output.
Haha. As soon as I read the summary, I thought to myself: "You made a video? And linked it on Slashdot? What in the name of Satan's fiery dickhole is wrong with you?"
Exactly - by applying sensations straight to the skin, you're whitewashing a huge number of nerves with the same sensation. With such inefficient input to the nervous system, you'd have pads and stuff all the way up your arm just to transmit the kind of data this skin could generate. It can't be used efficiently until we can more accurately send signals to just a small number of nerves at once.
It could work, but other technology needs to catch up first. Fairly detailed sensors could be installed in current prosthetics, I'm sure, but the machine-nerve interface just doesn't carry enough data yet. It doesn't matter whether we know what that data means, since the brain can probably learn to interpret it on its own, but we just don't have the fine control over the interface that we would need. In related news, an article in this month's Discover (full text viewable to subscribers) discusses a lot of these limitations, although it comes at it from the angle of whether mind-reading (or controlling) computer chips are possible.
It's a Starcraft reference, made particularly funny because Starcraft is like the national sport of S. Korea.
"Do you like my hat? It's made of MONEY!"
Wow, what province do you live in? I'm a 21 year old male driving a 13 year old car. I have a perfect safety record for the few years I've been driving, but that isn't long. I just got my renewal notice the other day, and I'm on the hook for $1176 for next year. This is in BC, where we have government-run insurance with no competition...
I was about to reply saying "Boyfriend? This is Slashdot, remember..." but then I thought to myself, "Oh yeah... San Francisco." ;)
Funny you should say that, one of my university's SysAdmins could easily shave his head and pass as Kingpin. If you're reading this, Rob... I kid because I love. And because you don't know my real name.
I could be mistaken, but I thought it was the other way around - the iPod is a loss leader for iTunes. In that case, this makes perfect sense - Real is taking advantage of Apple's legwork to compete with them in the more profitable market (with Harmony).
You know, on one hand, I can recognize and respect that. On the other hand, for some reason I have trouble thinking of VB as anything but the Duplo of programming languages.
Heh. When my 13 yr old brother went to see Return of the King, it was the early evening show. Thus, when he got picked up afterwards, there was a big lineup for the late show. As they drive by, he leans out the window and yells out "FRODO DIES!" The kid's a complete fruit loop, but at least he's good for a laugh.
Is it just me, or did whoever formatted the article forget to close an iTag?
I think fire is the solution.
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
A little Robert Frost for you there.
Some of us don't live in LA.
See, the man of steel has some finite strength. It would be more correct to say that everyone here is undefinably strong.
And here I thought I'd have to go out of town if I ever wanted to go past a Masters (if I make it that far, of course). Even if a "higher-quality" program catches my eye... you said it yourself, you really can't argue with $FREE.
BTW, are you a UNBC Masters student yourself? I'm not quite, but chances are I know you anyways.
The spreadsheet only has no real-life corollary because Visicalc made doing it by hand completely and utterly obsolete. Writing a letter isn't really sped up a whole lot by using a computer (as compared to writing it by hand, or on a typewriter). Spreadsheets are a whole different story. They were done by hand at one point, but changing some numbers and carrying forward all the calculations used to be a full time job for some people. Now it's 10 seconds with Excel. Think on that for a bit. :)
I'm sure a lot of people here could derive many of the more famous theorems of math on their own. This is, of course, after they've been educated with hundreds of years of development on those theorems. Euclid didn't have a textbook that fed him all the necessary conditions for his proof and then posed it as a sample problem.
Look at it this way: People have theorized about flying machines for hundreds of years (DaVinci, etc). Any reasonably smart person today can build themselves one, given the proper tools and materials. Does that make the Wright brothers a couple of schmoes who don't deserve any recognition? No, because they were the first to prove that it really could be done, without the benefit of previous research.
And if you'd rather mod me funny than insightful... hell, any reasonably intelligent person today can discover North America without a whole lot of trouble. Doesn't make Columbo's feat any less impressive.