Isn't this just taking standard MPEG4 object segmentation techniques, then exploiting those objects into raster-based shapes and then processing a second video stream into those boundaries (image subtraction methods, etc...)? If so, the TFA just sounds like a over-hyped, typical Stanford advertisement for technology available today.
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I'd be impressed if it wasn't a planar surface, or when the person walks through the background sub-video viewport that the lighting levels from the sub-video effects the lighting around the person walking in front of it instead of the obvious green screen look (look at the edges)as in the demo--that's why the current systems are expensive, they make it look like your really there (or it's there). I don't buy this as easier nor showing any wow-factor.
Actually, that's why they went underground: they found out all the ikea servers... though slick looking, functional, and high performance.... broke within one year and pretty much crap when it came to repairing.
"There's really nothing on the energy horizon big enough to replace oil."
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True, assuming there's nothing else in space.
Think bigger, think space. Plenty of energy there (solar/magnetic/heat), and other planets/moon too. Move the bulk of energy consuming processes to space and you'll likely see an efficiency increase and energy consumption decrease. And you can always ship energy back to Earth easily at that point.
"AFAIK, this is the first time any U.S. president has embraced IT and the world wide web to such an extent as a means of engaging the citizenry in public discourse."
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Don't make being 1st such a huge milestone in history--this was in fact, expected.
Expected? Clinton was there when the internet was being built. Bush term 1 had no idea how to use it since there was no data! (i.e. 1999-2003 saw a huge effort to get information digitized). And Bush term 2 finally got a sense of what the internet coud do as three tier architectures, and spiral development were well understood, broadband was cheap and the databases were populated with data. And 2/3's the population has tapped the internet in some form.
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For Obama to not recognize IT would have been news. Obama embracing IT is not, it was expected. If Bush ran a term 3, would he utilize the Internet the same way? Likely not, but he would likely use the Internet nonetheless.
Really, any president would have tapped the Internet too in their administration in the fashion Obama is managing. It's obvious: information is power and gov't power is through information, the Internet is a natural fit. Remember the eGov initiative?
Wouldn't be easiest to wait until Wednesday morning?
Instead of a $xxxx dollar HDTV, broadband, Mac Mini, laptop, XBox, cable subscription, etc... All you've need to spend is enough for a cheap $5 transistor radio turned to NPR at 9am Wednesday.
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I just saved you $1200 likely (and maybe 15% on car insurance).
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By then, you'll have all the information you need--and it will be condensed, summarized and optimized into a 30sec sound bite. It's not like you'll miss something in a 12hr time period (from 9pm EST Tues to 9am EST), well unless it's to paRtyee.
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(to the author) Just take your prozac, have a drink and relax until Wednesday morning. The world isn't going to change overnight and you'll get more precise information if you wait a little. (of course, unless it's to paRtyee)
How is this different from Apple, especially the iPhone framework/appstore?
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I mean I was running OSX 10.4 and spent more than $200 to get a iphone app to the store to make what? $10 in a week? Or forcing me to upgrade to all the new DRM features of Itunes 8 so I can run specific videos (I may or maynot have bought yet)?
If the NeoFreeRunner [does] gets it's port to Android in the next few weeks, then all the clones will adopt Android. I mean the FreeRunner is in the end, a cheap commodity hardware experiment, with an OSS design (CAD and electronics!), not like a optimized/disposable RIM or iPhone.. Just get the bill of materials, substitute a 3G chip and bigger battery and you can have better-than iPhone capability for
Worse case, is that if the Freerunner port comes out, I can see a bigger vendor than FIC turn out Neo-like phones for $50 with EDGE. If that happens, then the clones now have a platform to shoot for--which is what DOS did for PCs.
"more than a little inspiration from the Mac OS X Dock, "
Looking at the layout and behavior, the new taskbar and navigation are more of a openSuSE 11.1 flavor
I would not be surprised with the Novell-MS pact that we see some compiz/opensuse hints in Windows 7. IMO the openSuSE distro is taking off to be a really good enterprise desktop option--much better than a OSX in the long run.
Not being a rocket scientist here, I thought ejection velocity was a positive benefit of plasma rockets. Since you can get high ejection velocities, you can require less mass to achieve the same final velocity. Hence, mass is not as critical compared to tradition rockets. This is great for long term missions as we have plenty of time to get upto speed (and down to speed). But for maneuvering, I think chemical ejection would be more appropriate since less time is needed to make a maneuver.
Or for that matter, solar sails would have offered higher ejection velocities for long term missions and are more efficient. I'm surprised only the planetary society has stepped up to the plate on that technology.
are electronic voting machines giving you a receipt nowadays or do these 3 people have either:
a. hacking powers to see their vote in the machine after voting, mind that they would need the unique id to find their vote in the database. And even with optical scanners, I thought they just displayed a confirmation of the ballot, not who you voted for... OR
b. what? the gov't has allowed citizens to view the county voting database?
All the accounts of fraud sounds unbelievble since there's no way one can check audit their vote unless one has access to the central database or some lookup tool--which I haven't seen [or offered] yet. And having access would be shocking, as it implies republicans or democrats can alter votes--it cuts both ways at that point.
Companies can promise validation, but authentication is another problem.
Voting in the US is pretty sad, there is no sure way to audit votes--either the machines cheat or the humans managing the process do (that's been a problem since the birth of this country). We're asking a informal group of people (US citizens) to do something that was designed to be formal (vote).
Blaming computers and code? In this case, don't blame the game, blame the players. If they are truly the smartest guys in the rules, they would have known the practices (not tech) put in place were just plain wrong, or at least high risk involved. They saw tech as something to apply their new theories, without acknowledging the risk. Just because I bent the nail doesn't mean it was the hammer's fault!
If they are not the smartest guys in the room, then the emperor is without his clothes and these guys, along with all of Wall Street, do not deserve the rich payouts they're going to get in the next year, seriously...they are going to ask for more cash to put in their pockets.
I've run qtopia/QtExtend, 2008.2 and debian (dual booted) on my Freerunner and aside from the hassles of not having full h/w functionality and 3G (working on USB 3G integration), open source phones are looking real exciting for 2009.
Remember the pre-order was for t-mobile existing customers only for over a month. And most hardcore users already ordered. Apple doesn't do that as the marketing hype is lost when those that are willing to wait in line preorder their phone. Sort of like saying Apple users are willing to wait in a line. And Google users expect more than that (why wait?). Also, the Gphone is not an 'exclusive' device as what Apple wants the iPhone to be.
The pre-order strategy set the tone for the rest of the consumer market--which instead of spending huge amounts of money marketing upfront on how their device 'just works' or how cool their device is, they are going the grassroots approach, it shows the strength of Google's marketing machine--that strategy has worked for them before.
I'm willing to bet Google will generate better profits than Apple year-over-year because they'll spend less marketing/ad cash than Apple. Also, this type of roll out allows Google to have longer dev cycles, vs. having the public pressuring Apple to release a better [OS] version every 3-4 months.
"Of course, that would require you to vote for someone on other grounds then the one promising you a tax cut or who seems to a be a likeable guy."
In most cases, who the F* cares about voting? Ok, I dare question voting...
Why? Just uphold accountability with the people in power (i.e. do something about it).
It doesn't matter who you vote for, just that people in power must be held accountable for their decisions. It's all about accountability, instead of just screwing things up, unbelievable networking, and getting a $1million a year consulting gig/book deal after you leave office.
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It's history repeating itself, once Apple is popular again, the viruses will follow.
"As long as the UDP doesn't reach 176 degrees, the PVC tubes should hold up."
Yes, and not only on planar surfaces.
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I'd be impressed if it wasn't a planar surface, or when the person walks through the background sub-video viewport that the lighting levels from the sub-video effects the lighting around the person walking in front of it instead of the obvious green screen look (look at the edges)as in the demo--that's why the current systems are expensive, they make it look like your really there (or it's there). I don't buy this as easier nor showing any wow-factor.
Actually, that's why they went underground: they found out all the ikea servers... though slick looking, functional, and high performance.... broke within one year and pretty much crap when it came to repairing.
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True, assuming there's nothing else in space.
Think bigger, think space. Plenty of energy there (solar/magnetic/heat), and other planets/moon too. Move the bulk of energy consuming processes to space and you'll likely see an efficiency increase and energy consumption decrease. And you can always ship energy back to Earth easily at that point.
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Space is the final frontier.
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People stare at their iPhones.
Or at least use them at their desk since it's only useful with a WiFi connection.
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Don't make being 1st such a huge milestone in history--this was in fact, expected.
Expected? Clinton was there when the internet was being built. Bush term 1 had no idea how to use it since there was no data! (i.e. 1999-2003 saw a huge effort to get information digitized). And Bush term 2 finally got a sense of what the internet coud do as three tier architectures, and spiral development were well understood, broadband was cheap and the databases were populated with data. And 2/3's the population has tapped the internet in some form.
For Obama to not recognize IT would have been news. Obama embracing IT is not, it was expected. If Bush ran a term 3, would he utilize the Internet the same way? Likely not, but he would likely use the Internet nonetheless.
Really, any president would have tapped the Internet too in their administration in the fashion Obama is managing. It's obvious: information is power and gov't power is through information, the Internet is a natural fit. Remember the eGov initiative?
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I figured vi would be the North and emacs the South, since vi needs to free the textedit folks.
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And we know who won the US civil war...
Instead of a $xxxx dollar HDTV, broadband, Mac Mini, laptop, XBox, cable subscription, etc... All you've need to spend is enough for a cheap $5 transistor radio turned to NPR at 9am Wednesday.
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I just saved you $1200 likely (and maybe 15% on car insurance).
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By then, you'll have all the information you need--and it will be condensed, summarized and optimized into a 30sec sound bite. It's not like you'll miss something in a 12hr time period (from 9pm EST Tues to 9am EST), well unless it's to paRtyee.
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(to the author) Just take your prozac, have a drink and relax until Wednesday morning. The world isn't going to change overnight and you'll get more precise information if you wait a little. (of course, unless it's to paRtyee)
Obviously someone's hard drive was silenced.
SoC?
Apple?
Handheld?
I'm seeing visions of PalmOS again (and Graffiti).
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I mean I was running OSX 10.4 and spent more than $200 to get a iphone app to the store to make what? $10 in a week? Or forcing me to upgrade to all the new DRM features of Itunes 8 so I can run specific videos (I may or maynot have bought yet)?
Yes, MS is thinking differently, like Apple.
Worse case, is that if the Freerunner port comes out, I can see a bigger vendor than FIC turn out Neo-like phones for $50 with EDGE. If that happens, then the clones now have a platform to shoot for--which is what DOS did for PCs.
Because of the viral nature of the 'Net explains evolution is taking place, not a Tower of Babel scenario.
According to 50% of the USA, they wish we did lose our current culture. That's aside from sages wanting us to not repeat history.
Guess which side it is? Trick question.
Looking at the layout and behavior, the new taskbar and navigation are more of a openSuSE 11.1 flavor
I would not be surprised with the Novell-MS pact that we see some compiz/opensuse hints in Windows 7. IMO the openSuSE distro is taking off to be a really good enterprise desktop option--much better than a OSX in the long run.
Or for that matter, solar sails would have offered higher ejection velocities for long term missions and are more efficient. I'm surprised only the planetary society has stepped up to the plate on that technology.
a. hacking powers to see their vote in the machine after voting, mind that they would need the unique id to find their vote in the database. And even with optical scanners, I thought they just displayed a confirmation of the ballot, not who you voted for... OR
b. what? the gov't has allowed citizens to view the county voting database?
All the accounts of fraud sounds unbelievble since there's no way one can check audit their vote unless one has access to the central database or some lookup tool--which I haven't seen [or offered] yet. And having access would be shocking, as it implies republicans or democrats can alter votes--it cuts both ways at that point.
Companies can promise validation, but authentication is another problem. Voting in the US is pretty sad, there is no sure way to audit votes--either the machines cheat or the humans managing the process do (that's been a problem since the birth of this country). We're asking a informal group of people (US citizens) to do something that was designed to be formal (vote).
Blaming computers and code? In this case, don't blame the game, blame the players. If they are truly the smartest guys in the rules, they would have known the practices (not tech) put in place were just plain wrong, or at least high risk involved. They saw tech as something to apply their new theories, without acknowledging the risk. Just because I bent the nail doesn't mean it was the hammer's fault!
If they are not the smartest guys in the room, then the emperor is without his clothes and these guys, along with all of Wall Street, do not deserve the rich payouts they're going to get in the next year, seriously...they are going to ask for more cash to put in their pockets.
Just get a 8GB miniSD.
And when the Freerunner folks get the s/w patch in, which will likely get rolled into Android, you'll be able to use a 32GB card.
I've run qtopia/QtExtend, 2008.2 and debian (dual booted) on my Freerunner and aside from the hassles of not having full h/w functionality and 3G (working on USB 3G integration), open source phones are looking real exciting for 2009.
Remember the pre-order was for t-mobile existing customers only for over a month. And most hardcore users already ordered. Apple doesn't do that as the marketing hype is lost when those that are willing to wait in line preorder their phone. Sort of like saying Apple users are willing to wait in a line. And Google users expect more than that (why wait?). Also, the Gphone is not an 'exclusive' device as what Apple wants the iPhone to be.
The pre-order strategy set the tone for the rest of the consumer market--which instead of spending huge amounts of money marketing upfront on how their device 'just works' or how cool their device is, they are going the grassroots approach, it shows the strength of Google's marketing machine--that strategy has worked for them before.
I'm willing to bet Google will generate better profits than Apple year-over-year because they'll spend less marketing/ad cash than Apple. Also, this type of roll out allows Google to have longer dev cycles, vs. having the public pressuring Apple to release a better [OS] version every 3-4 months.
In most cases, who the F* cares about voting? Ok, I dare question voting...
Why? Just uphold accountability with the people in power (i.e. do something about it).
It doesn't matter who you vote for, just that people in power must be held accountable for their decisions. It's all about accountability, instead of just screwing things up, unbelievable networking, and getting a $1million a year consulting gig/book deal after you leave office.