IIRC the resolution of the eye is approxmately 0.3x10^-3 radians (in both directions), based on the optics of the eye lens. The resolution of the rods and cones themselves may be lower.
Would be pretty nice to have a a simply point and touch in a real space
Nice, but probably also very tiring and difficult, without point of reference. Besides, what would all these 3D gui's be suitable for? 3D-modeling, mechanical CAD and the likes are obviously a good candidates. But apart from those? I never felt the need for either a 3D pointing device or display. Can you give some more examples of applications where such devices would have an added value?
Why do they use a vacuum instead of pressure? I can imagine that due to the round shape it is better to have a higher outside pressure instead of a low one (to distribute the force), but this should not be a technological problem (use stronger glass, reinforce...). Creating a vacuum sounds more difficult to me than creating pressure. On top of this, pressure can lift any load, while vacuum is restricted to the atmospheric pressure times the surface area of the floor.
Um, you do realize that to run software, you need an OS?
Are you sure about that? Microcontrollers run software, usually without an OS. "Summer Games" ran (was) software on a PC without an OS. I guess an OS is only needed when you want to run software (on a general purpose machine) you _don't know_ in advance. The car would not necessarily need additional functions (like 'fly' or so), so in theory you could get away without an OS. An OS may simplify the design, but is not essential.
I think the issue more is that these people feel like they built this community into something that *can* make money, and now they're basically being told "hey thanks for all your hard work in creating something we can make money off of, now please pay to keep up that hard work."
Admittedly, it is not very fair to first reap the fruits of the community contributions and then make tham pay, but do the community members have any rights at _all_?
If/. stopped existing tomorrow, we'd go somewhere else. If this forum mentioned asks a ridiculous amount of $$$, why don't they go somewhere else? Sounds harsh, but the forum owners owe them nothing. As an aside: probably they will shoot themselves in the foot by charging, but that's their choice.
Oh get off your high horse. This is exactly the sort of black-and-white thinking I'm talking about. There are degrees of crime you know, and simply labelling all "sex offenders" as evil is completely unhelpful
Not intended: I wrote that post _before_ I knew that in the U.S. apparently you can be a sex offender for peeing in the streets when drunk. Of course I don't care about those. Yes, I was talking about rape (which did not occur to me, but someone dear). The ones jailed for 25 years or so
And by the way, your comment is EXACTLY what people said about witches in the 17th century, so you make my point admirably
I am so glad I could help you win an argument. Hope you feel great now.
Hope no-one in your immediate environment will ever be the victim of a sex-offender, especially at a young age. These people are scarred for life. Rape is (together with murder) about the WORST you can ever do to an other.
We've only had about 5 years of this wacko-fundamentalist crap here - it's only been 5 years since the end of the "Clinton Era". Give it some time....
Meanwhile, back in Europe, you guys were burning people at the stake for HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
Assuming you are right, your argument makes no sense: we stopped burning people at the stake, you are beginning to while you should know better. It's not like every nation has the right to have their Middle Ages at some point in history.
So let me get this straight. You have never met your great great grandma, but the pictures of her in her younger years show that she was one hot babe. You decide to go back in time and do her?
Hey, this is/. For some this may be the most likely way to do _anyone_.
Well if you think that it is impossible to change the past, then you have to conclude that it is impossible to change the future too because your future is somebody else's past. Which means the way your life turns out has already been determined and cannot be changed. How do you fit free will into that?
That's no contradiction because you have the free will to determine what this guy's past will look like.
You couldn't go back in time and shoot Hilter before he got into power for the very simple reason that it didn't happen. Say you setup a sniper rifle on a building. You could try to fire but you'd either miss, the gun would jam, you'd get arrested, have a heart-attack etc. etc.
That logic makes little sense, because in your Hitler case, an attempted murder would have been reported. It find the way it works in BTTF more logical: going back alters the future.
I once ran into a similar situation helping in the editing of a magazine. One of the peer reviewers sent in a pdf document, obviously without including his own name (reviews should be anonymous). However it turned out this was encoded somewhere in the pdf document itself (generated in windows). We took it out by editing the binary.pdf file manually. So better use text format if you want to be on the safe side.
WTF? How is e a better choice? It is also a transcendental number, just like pi
Right on! I would even say that their 'equal merit' is (intuitively) indicated by the fact that e^pi=-1. (unless the power function would be a 'random-compressor')...
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Is it just me or is it a strange idea that corporations get to devise their own taxes which go directly to them?
BTW, I could have just modded you down for trolling, but I don't want people in other counties to think that most of America are as screwed up as you. It seemed more important to let people know that most Americans think you are an asshat.
Which was a good idea. I cannot speak for my whole country (Belgium, which has problems of its own, btw), let alone _all_ other countries of course. But the US are seen as ignorant navel-gazers who are surprised that terrorist attack them, and go and reinforce what THEY (U.S.) think is right, as a 'police of the world'. Attacking other countries under false pretences, holding prisoners without trial for years, not caring about treaties, not caring about shooting former hostages (Guiliana), just because that is part of their policital agenda. And then the US is surprised that nobody loves them.
So it is nice to see some Americans remember what democracy and freedom it was all about...
Apart from possible advertising this is not new at all. Radio amateurs (yep, those again) have been doing this for years, and it is called APRS (automatic packet reporting system). At regular intervals or at the end of each voice transmission, a packet is sent to a special station collecting the data from all users and posting it on the web. Position should be supplied manually (boring) or with GPS.
Though I do respect your opinion, I fail to see any logic in your reasoning.
Completely justified, I misunderstood GP and tought he meant the meaning of life was reproduction, while (as you say) it is rather 'advancement and reproduction'. Please reread my short post bearing this in mind and you'll see it makes more sense.
d'OH. You are right. I interpreted 'further' as 'continuation of the species', while this obviously should have been 'advance the species', which I can live with:-). Gave you a chance to elaborate your statement.
Not that I want to hide behind this translation mistake, but bearing my mistake in mind, the rest of my comment makes little sense indeed: I wanted to show that the race sharing all its efforts with another (selfish) race will die out eventually. Which I still think is a valid point, but another discussion. sorry.
Remember, the meaning of life is not "get as much as possible, enjoy as much as possible, and do as little as possible", it is to further the SPECIES. You further the species by contributing to it.
1) Says who?
2) How is writing code furthering the species?
3) thinking along this logic, what race of the species will survive: the one sharing its work with others or the one making $$$?
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IIRC the resolution of the eye is approxmately 0.3x10^-3 radians (in both directions), based on the optics of the eye lens. The resolution of the rods and cones themselves may be lower.
Nice, but probably also very tiring and difficult, without point of reference. Besides, what would all these 3D gui's be suitable for? 3D-modeling, mechanical CAD and the likes are obviously a good candidates. But apart from those? I never felt the need for either a 3D pointing device or display. Can you give some more examples of applications where such devices would have an added value?
Why do they use a vacuum instead of pressure? I can imagine that due to the round shape it is better to have a higher outside pressure instead of a low one (to distribute the force), but this should not be a technological problem (use stronger glass, reinforce...). Creating a vacuum sounds more difficult to me than creating pressure. On top of this, pressure can lift any load, while vacuum is restricted to the atmospheric pressure times the surface area of the floor.
Are you sure about that? Microcontrollers run software, usually without an OS. "Summer Games" ran (was) software on a PC without an OS. I guess an OS is only needed when you want to run software (on a general purpose machine) you _don't know_ in advance. The car would not necessarily need additional functions (like 'fly' or so), so in theory you could get away without an OS. An OS may simplify the design, but is not essential.
Admittedly, it is not very fair to first reap the fruits of the community contributions and then make tham pay, but do the community members have any rights at _all_?
If /. stopped existing tomorrow, we'd go somewhere else. If this forum mentioned asks a ridiculous amount of $$$, why don't they go somewhere else? Sounds harsh, but the forum owners owe them nothing. As an aside: probably they will shoot themselves in the foot by charging, but that's their choice.
Not intended: I wrote that post _before_ I knew that in the U.S. apparently you can be a sex offender for peeing in the streets when drunk. Of course I don't care about those. Yes, I was talking about rape (which did not occur to me, but someone dear). The ones jailed for 25 years or so
And by the way, your comment is EXACTLY what people said about witches in the 17th century, so you make my point admirably
I am so glad I could help you win an argument. Hope you feel great now.
So former child molesters are the safest persons to leave your kids around with? Do you really believe this yourself???
Hope no-one in your immediate environment will ever be the victim of a sex-offender, especially at a young age. These people are scarred for life. Rape is (together with murder) about the WORST you can ever do to an other.
Meanwhile, back in Europe, you guys were burning people at the stake for HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
Assuming you are right, your argument makes no sense: we stopped burning people at the stake, you are beginning to while you should know better. It's not like every nation has the right to have their Middle Ages at some point in history.
Hey, this is /. For some this may be the most likely way to do _anyone_.
You mean like birds? No-one ever tought birds were 'impossible'.
That's no contradiction because you have the free will to determine what this guy's past will look like.
That logic makes little sense, because in your Hitler case, an attempted murder would have been reported. It find the way it works in BTTF more logical: going back alters the future.
I once ran into a similar situation helping in the editing of a magazine. One of the peer reviewers sent in a pdf document, obviously without including his own name (reviews should be anonymous). However it turned out this was encoded somewhere in the pdf document itself (generated in windows). We took it out by editing the binary .pdf file manually. So better use text format if you want to be on the safe side.
...the generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Right on! I would even say that their 'equal merit' is (intuitively) indicated by the fact that e^pi=-1. (unless the power function would be a 'random-compressor')...
yes, this is called profit.
Which was a good idea. I cannot speak for my whole country (Belgium, which has problems of its own, btw), let alone _all_ other countries of course. But the US are seen as ignorant navel-gazers who are surprised that terrorist attack them, and go and reinforce what THEY (U.S.) think is right, as a 'police of the world'. Attacking other countries under false pretences, holding prisoners without trial for years, not caring about treaties, not caring about shooting former hostages (Guiliana), just because that is part of their policital agenda. And then the US is surprised that nobody loves them.
So it is nice to see some Americans remember what democracy and freedom it was all about...
Apart from possible advertising this is not new at all. Radio amateurs (yep, those again) have been doing this for years, and it is called APRS (automatic packet reporting system). At regular intervals or at the end of each voice transmission, a packet is sent to a special station collecting the data from all users and posting it on the web. Position should be supplied manually (boring) or with GPS.
Completely justified, I misunderstood GP and tought he meant the meaning of life was reproduction, while (as you say) it is rather 'advancement and reproduction'. Please reread my short post bearing this in mind and you'll see it makes more sense.
Not that I want to hide behind this translation mistake, but bearing my mistake in mind, the rest of my comment makes little sense indeed: I wanted to show that the race sharing all its efforts with another (selfish) race will die out eventually. Which I still think is a valid point, but another discussion. sorry.
And of course all of this should look like an accident...
1) Says who?
2) How is writing code furthering the species?
3) thinking along this logic, what race of the species will survive: the one sharing its work with others or the one making $$$?
Size doesn't matter, but 60 mm isn't going to attract a lot of fans...
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