You know, for a university with supposedly the best engineering and CS programs in Canada, their actual use of technology is pretty crazy. You'd think they'd understand it well enough to realize that bit torrent is a great delivery method.
I remember when I applied to go there, I didn't get the email stating my acceptance until weeks and weeks after I got the physical package. Ha!
can you say that those products have made Google a substantial amount of cash? In comparison to their ad business, I don't think so
It doesn't matter if they make any money off the users of the products, as long as they have a lot of them. Their money comes from the ad space they sell.
There's also 7) Burglar's wet dream. Watch a building, figure out exactly what the cameras can see, then watch for when everyone has left, and then in you go, fleece the joint.
It would actually be easier than two humans trying to synch. The robot can just pick a fairly low speed within the human's maximum, and run that fast. Then leave it up to the human to synch up, and gradually increase speed until the human can't do it properly anymore.
You can only clearly see a couple degrees in each eye, where your fovea is. This is where almost all of the color receptors (cones) in your eyes are, and they aren't grouped together so much as the rods (black and white, dark vision) are. This lets you see with high acuity, at the cost of not being able to see very clearly in the dark. Your brain basically fakes color in your peripheral vision, based on the few cones that are in the rest of the eye, and the tiny unnoticable movements, or "saccades" that your eyes are always doing.
It's very difficult to read without these tiny eye movements, as your eye jumps around to previous words and sentences without your notice to help determine the meaning of what you're reading. So the camera would have to be mounted on some fake eye that would be implanted, which you could control eventaully, as another poster mentioned.
Most of the visual processing in the brain is also devoted to what happens in the fovea, so that is a factor as well.
The visual system is really neat. The eye and brain eventually filters anything that doesn't move, which is why you don't see any nerves or blood vessels all the time. It's also why people tend not to notice how dirty their glasses get. And it is also why, if you hold your eye perfectly still for long enough (like with your finger, though I wouldn't suggest trying it, it probably wouldn't be still enough anyway), things start to dissapear. Ooooo.
Yeah, that's always how I find songs. I hear a song and remember a bit of the lyrics, but can never remember the name. So you just google the a few lines you remember, and bam, there's the artist and title off of a lyrics site.
Compelling applications? Sounds to me like this could be used to make sythetic skin for prothetics and such. And with the artificial neruon they were talking about a while back, you could hook it up to the old nerves that used to go down the arm, and potentially make it feel like you had a real arm again.
What this tells me is that most folks will not go to the trouble of calling, and that means Cisco wins.
To me, it means Cisco loses. I've had nothing but trouble with rebates in the past. So now I when I see a price that's listed as $xxx with rebate, I just say fuck it and ignore product all together. Rebates are highly annoying, and buying the product without any intent to send it in just shows them that the rebate worked. I want real sales.
The point is, before 9/11, if your plane was hijacked, it was for the hostages, and the best thing to do was sit there and wait to be freed. No point in risking your life if they're probably going to release you anyway, right? Now, the passengers are irrelevant and it's all about the plane itself. It's a suicide attack and everyone is going to die if the terrorists aren't stopped.
I can't tell from the article and can't see the video (stupid firewall), but looking at the pictures it appears that the design only allows it to catch if the object is thrown straight at it, since it's just a hand. What would really be cool is if it was attached to a robotic arm that will move the hand to the right position to catch the ball.
All in good time. Having the arm without a hand capable of catching it once it's in position wouldn't be very helpful. One step at a time.
I think the point is that he needs to record the whole thing so he can edit it down later. The more stock footage the better. And you don't want to miss a key moment while you're switching tapes.
Does anyone else have an sleeper Interplay games that they thought was pretty decent?
Planescape: Torment. Best... RPG... Ever. If you haven't experienced the awesomness that is this game, run, don't walk, to the nearest store you can find that has a copy of this, and buy it. It can now often be found in the $10 vaue game section. You won't regret it.
The definition above also describes rebellion, civil war, wars of independence, etc. By the definition above, the US was created through a reprehensible act of terrorism.
You know what the difference is between that and terrorism? Which side wins.
that's why i like online music stores where you can get singles for $1. something like this could really kick of in russia,
$1 out of an average of $260/month income is still HUGE. The problem is it's way too expensive for them in general. Of course, if they lowered the prices for Russia, then we could just buy music and software there for peanuts, and the publishers would be fucked.
I was in the same boat in the summer. I did a lot of looking around, and ended up going with a AMD64 3000+. It's pretty cheap, and the only difference between that at the AMD64 3200+ is that the 3000+ has half the L2 cache, which doesn't really effect the performance that much. And it's way faster than the XPs. It's really the on-die memory contronller in the 64 bit processors which makes them better than the XPs, and it seems to give them quite a considerable advantage.
he provided a $49.95 (roughly $345 in current dollars!)
Wow. What struck me most about that article is how much inflation there's been in 50 years. Thats 700%! I don't know about you, but to me that's just insane.
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You know, for a university with supposedly the best engineering and CS programs in Canada, their actual use of technology is pretty crazy. You'd think they'd understand it well enough to realize that bit torrent is a great delivery method.
I remember when I applied to go there, I didn't get the email stating my acceptance until weeks and weeks after I got the physical package. Ha!
What next... a backdoor in Windows. MacOSX, Linux?
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You don't need a back door if the front door is wiiiiiiide open.
Yeah, they've been having some problems...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/08/28
It doesn't matter if they make any money off the users of the products, as long as they have a lot of them. Their money comes from the ad space they sell.
I dunno... Coast guard?
However killing the premium module program makes no sense.
It does kinda makes sense. They want more exciting things to be avaliable for NWN2 only, I imagine.
There's also 7) Burglar's wet dream. Watch a building, figure out exactly what the cameras can see, then watch for when everyone has left, and then in you go, fleece the joint.
Soooo... How many mHz does it run at?
It would actually be easier than two humans trying to synch. The robot can just pick a fairly low speed within the human's maximum, and run that fast. Then leave it up to the human to synch up, and gradually increase speed until the human can't do it properly anymore.
You can only clearly see a couple degrees in each eye, where your fovea is. This is where almost all of the color receptors (cones) in your eyes are, and they aren't grouped together so much as the rods (black and white, dark vision) are. This lets you see with high acuity, at the cost of not being able to see very clearly in the dark. Your brain basically fakes color in your peripheral vision, based on the few cones that are in the rest of the eye, and the tiny unnoticable movements, or "saccades" that your eyes are always doing.
It's very difficult to read without these tiny eye movements, as your eye jumps around to previous words and sentences without your notice to help determine the meaning of what you're reading. So the camera would have to be mounted on some fake eye that would be implanted, which you could control eventaully, as another poster mentioned.
Most of the visual processing in the brain is also devoted to what happens in the fovea, so that is a factor as well.
The visual system is really neat. The eye and brain eventually filters anything that doesn't move, which is why you don't see any nerves or blood vessels all the time. It's also why people tend not to notice how dirty their glasses get. And it is also why, if you hold your eye perfectly still for long enough (like with your finger, though I wouldn't suggest trying it, it probably wouldn't be still enough anyway), things start to dissapear. Ooooo.
I like kitties^h^h^h^h^h^h^h Linux!
Yeah, that's always how I find songs. I hear a song and remember a bit of the lyrics, but can never remember the name. So you just google the a few lines you remember, and bam, there's the artist and title off of a lyrics site.
Compelling applications? Sounds to me like this could be used to make sythetic skin for prothetics and such. And with the artificial neruon they were talking about a while back, you could hook it up to the old nerves that used to go down the arm, and potentially make it feel like you had a real arm again.
Facinating stuff.
The point is, before 9/11, if your plane was hijacked, it was for the hostages, and the best thing to do was sit there and wait to be freed. No point in risking your life if they're probably going to release you anyway, right? Now, the passengers are irrelevant and it's all about the plane itself. It's a suicide attack and everyone is going to die if the terrorists aren't stopped.
I think the point is that he needs to record the whole thing so he can edit it down later. The more stock footage the better. And you don't want to miss a key moment while you're switching tapes.
Planescape: Torment. Best... RPG... Ever. If you haven't experienced the awesomness that is this game, run, don't walk, to the nearest store you can find that has a copy of this, and buy it. It can now often be found in the $10 vaue game section. You won't regret it.
You know what the difference is between that and terrorism? Which side wins.
I wonder if this could be used with those LCD monitors that have a smaller bit depth in order to hit a low response time.
Perhaps they could decrese the bit depth even further and design them specifically for this card in order to get REALLY low times.
$1 out of an average of $260/month income is still HUGE. The problem is it's way too expensive for them in general. Of course, if they lowered the prices for Russia, then we could just buy music and software there for peanuts, and the publishers would be fucked.
I was in the same boat in the summer. I did a lot of looking around, and ended up going with a AMD64 3000+. It's pretty cheap, and the only difference between that at the AMD64 3200+ is that the 3000+ has half the L2 cache, which doesn't really effect the performance that much. And it's way faster than the XPs. It's really the on-die memory contronller in the 64 bit processors which makes them better than the XPs, and it seems to give them quite a considerable advantage.
Bottem line, I'd go 64 bit.
Wow. What struck me most about that article is how much inflation there's been in 50 years. Thats 700%! I don't know about you, but to me that's just insane.
What "going gold" means is that the gold master disk has been created and sent out for large scale duplication.
Columbine comes to mind...