I mean on life, not on your joy-stick. This is just a sign that meaningful progress in video games has come to an end. Video games are out. Real life is in.
The question is not so much whether they are a monopoly, but what (and how much) illegal activity they have done. And even more importantly, in what way (and how much) will Microsoft be penalized. Since anti-trust laws vary from country to country, this must be determined individually by each country. In fact, the US and Japan have very different anti-trust laws. For instance, Japan allows businesses in the same industry to cooperate in ways that are illegal in the US (such as pooling R&D resources). The laws Microsoft violated in the US do not necessarily apply in Japan, and visa versa.
At some point in the movement the accelerations will be wrong. The trick is to study how the brain senses this and find a way to minimize the 'wrongness' of the accelerations. But like audio compression - I'm stretching for an analogy - there will be artifacts that get worse as you try to do more extreme and complex movements.
(Sarcasm Begin.)
Unless you use force fields like Star Trek! The force fields could cancel the artifacts! F=ma. Or put the whole thing in a spaceship in outer space and have your spaceship accelerate/decelerate to compensate for the artifacts!(Sarcasm End.)
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This parallax barrier is fairly binary. From any particular point, you either see left-field vision or you see right-field vision. There is no holograph-like continuity.
This won't work if you have only one eye.
This will give you eye strain if you have good eye sight.
You will need to sit (or stand) with your head centered in front of the screen. Move a couple inches, and it goes 2D on you.
No parallax from moving head up/down or left/right.
In summary, this is basicly like VR goggles for people who aren't excessively near-sighted. Openning this up to far-sighted people is nice, but its no 3D revolution. Note that you are also loosing the submersiveness of the VR glasses.
I predict that this will be more valuable for scientific/medical researchers than gamers. The eye-strain issues make using this too much work for gamers.
Lawyers aren't this smart. Its the actuaries. Actuaries are the ones who have to pass 8 math exams involving statistcs, calculus, probability theory, informatino theory, etc. to get and keep their jobs. Lawyers just have to pass the bar. And insurance companies pay actuaries to think of this sort of thing. They only pay lawyers to figure out how to make it legal.
It keeps the infrared out. It probably doesn't keep it in effectively as you describe because normal black body radiation still applies. Since the windows are about as hot as the house, they will still radiate infrared. The problem with greenhous gasses is that they absorb infrared AND they don't remit it quickly because the gasses are cooler than the ground. That, and the infrared typically must pass through several absorption/remittance cycles before escaping Earth's atmosphere (each one with cooler gasses than the previous). With these windows, it only has to go through one layer that is about the same temperature as the house.
I agree 100%. I'm preparying to become an actuary (read: business mathematician) because although I may never be respected for my mathematical and computational skills, at least I'll get paid better as an actuary than as an engineer, research scientists, or programmer.
ISS stands for International Space Station. The key word is 'International'. We (Americans) keep funding it for the same reason we fund the United Nations. Even though it has little direct value to us, it makes us look like world leaders. In other words, its about politics, not cost-effective scientific research nor long-term goals for infrastructure in space.
But I for one support repairs on the Hubble and manned missions to Mars, despite the costs and risks. (I also support more telescopes in space and on Earth, and I wish NASA and DOD would concentrate more on the national security issue of near-earth asteroids.)
Usually scientists aren't paid by the journals to write articles. They are compensated by being awarded grants for their research by other sources (such as the government). So what do the journals pay for? They pay for the peer reviewers, the editors, and the typesetting/printing process. So why doesn't the government just create their own journals with their own peer-reviewers (other government-funded scientists) and editors (again, pulled from existing government- funded researchers, with an occasional communications specialist), then the government can publish it on-line, which automatically makes it public domain.
Why force this regulation onto a private industry when the government can do journal publishing itself?
We're not even very good at detecting rocky bodies in our own solar system. We've lost track of several near-earth asteroids, despite the fact that they are serious threats to national and global security. Oustide the orbits of Neptune and Pluto we still keep finding 'asteroids' that almost qualify as planets. There is also very likely a brown dwarf star orbitting our sun (with a 26 million year orbittal period, almost the theoretical maximum for a stable orbit), but we haven't found it because we don't know which direction to look. We have only mapped a fraction of the sky for brown dwarfs - it could be decades before we say with certainty whether our solar system has one.
So if we haven't found Earth-sized planets, its probably because we can't see them yet, not because they aren't there.
Actually, the "how to practice the invention" for patents is published soon after the patent is approved. Nowdays you can get it on-line. There are still stealth patents lurking from the days when the USA had different patent rules than the rest of the world, but anything that's patented today will be public knowledge. This allows researchers, inventors, or (in theory) poor people to build their own stuff based on patented material, as long as they don't sell it or distribute it. It also assures that as soon as the patent expires, your competition will be ready to manufacture your invention.
Local governments subsidize the teams, not the federal government. If the local team folds, then all the tourist dollars associated with that team leaves the local area (whether the dollars originated locally or not). The local government doesn't care about the industry. They care about their jursitiction's market-share in the industry.
The only way to stop this is to make a fair trade agreement - for all local governments to agree to stop subsidizing professional athletics. This would allow market forces to work freely without government interference, so no one would loose tourist dollars because somebody else in another jurisdiction is getting a large subsidy.
(tongue-in-cheek)
Actually, many of the myths about vampires come from an ancient civilization with advanced technology who achieved hugely increased life spans by use of cybernetics as well as organ and blood harvesting from less advanced humans. Because their hearts were mechanical, not organic, the only way to stop the heart from beating was to physically damage the heart itself. Even if you fatally wounded a vampire, its heart would not stop pumping. Hence the myth that the only way to kill a vampire is to steak it in the heart.
But if you use continuous flow, then the arteries gain one more similarity to veins, and so arteries may start suffering from the problems you mention, which normally only occur in veins.
A slightly more advanced civilization would have quantum computer. In order to network quantum computers (quantumly, rather than classicly), they would find some way of sending coherent quantum signals over long distances (maybe just something like fiber optics). The same type of channels can then be used for communication. If these aliens value personal privacy, they would prefer to use quantum channels that use quantum cryptography. (Quantum cryptography signals can not be intercepted without one or both parties realizing it, but they require a quantum channel.) They would therefore adopt these hardwired quantum channels for private communications. Then only intentionally public signals would use radio signals. Most of these radio waves would be phased out eventually because all the aliens will have "cable" (or quantum channels, rather).
Maybe they will still have some wireless devices. But they will be streamlined to take advantage of closely spaced hard-wired devices, like cell-phone towers. It will be very difficult for us to decipher these signals light-years away.
And they could conclude that radio waves are an interstellar security risk, and stealthily abandon them altogether.
But its not an extra bit. An extra bit would give 32 states, not 17. You could use it as an error indicator. Divide by zero and get 17 for the output. That sort of thing. But not parity.
Of course, this all presupposes that I understood the article correctly, and that this will actually be used in a real computer... Otherwise its could be a moot point.
They might mean that it can vary between -8 and +8 inclusive, which gives 17 states, {-8,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}. You need 16 states for 4 bits, so that would do it. Or maybe you could take advantage of the 17th state by storing data in base-17 rather than hexadecimal - but thats just weird and would require processing to convert. Unfortunately, this will liekly lead to multiple formats depending on how the 17 possible states are mapped to the 16 hexadecimal digits, or whether all 17 states are in fact used to achieve maximum data compression.
So they aren't going to issue a press release and inform the general public. But if any of these companies are publicly traded, I wonder whether they will admit to this in any reports to their stock holders... which are public record... in which case they will be publicly disclosing it.
The difference here is that the first 'i' of the double 'i' is in the root word, so only one 'i' is added. The first 'i' in 'radii' is also in 'radius'. The first 'i' of the double 'i' in 'virii' is not in the word 'virus'. There is no double 'i' in any Latin declention suffixes (well, at least not 1st, 2nd, or 3rd declentions, which are the only ones I remember), so unless the root ends in an 'i' it's probably not proper Latin. But there are exceptions to most rules.
Or, to make it simpler, look-up 'virus' in the dictionary to find its plural form in Enlgish.
That works OK in the short term. But in the long term, as people get used to having robots protect them, it breaks down.
It breaks down in two steps.
First, some people who value safety more and freedom less, compared with the general population, will choose to buy robots (or program settings for robots) that will protect them more, even at the expense of personal liberty.
Next, after several generations, people who do not do this will be viewed as exhibitting aberant behavior posing a danger to themselves and society. They will be considered negligent, insane, or criminal. Then they will have their liberties taken away, whether by robots or by other people.
Seat belts were once a voluntary safety measure. Now it is illegal in some places not to wear these restrictive appliances. Why did it become mandatory?
It will not happen like in the movie "I, Robot". It will be a gradual transition aided by complacency and natural selection, not a revolution. It could take a thousand years.
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So I can buy more drugs, so I can make money, so I can work harder...
... Ergonomics researchers have discovered that people are more productive and efficient when they enjoy their work.
I mean on life, not on your joy-stick. This is just a sign that meaningful progress in video games has come to an end. Video games are out. Real life is in.
The question is not so much whether they are a monopoly, but what (and how much) illegal activity they have done. And even more importantly, in what way (and how much) will Microsoft be penalized. Since anti-trust laws vary from country to country, this must be determined individually by each country. In fact, the US and Japan have very different anti-trust laws. For instance, Japan allows businesses in the same industry to cooperate in ways that are illegal in the US (such as pooling R&D resources). The laws Microsoft violated in the US do not necessarily apply in Japan, and visa versa.
(Sarcasm Begin.) Unless you use force fields like Star Trek! The force fields could cancel the artifacts! F=ma. Or put the whole thing in a spaceship in outer space and have your spaceship accelerate/decelerate to compensate for the artifacts!(Sarcasm End.)
This parallax barrier is fairly binary. From any particular point, you either see left-field vision or you see right-field vision. There is no holograph-like continuity.
This won't work if you have only one eye.
This will give you eye strain if you have good eye sight.
You will need to sit (or stand) with your head centered in front of the screen. Move a couple inches, and it goes 2D on you.
No parallax from moving head up/down or left/right.
In summary, this is basicly like VR goggles for people who aren't excessively near-sighted. Openning this up to far-sighted people is nice, but its no 3D revolution. Note that you are also loosing the submersiveness of the VR glasses.
I predict that this will be more valuable for scientific/medical researchers than gamers. The eye-strain issues make using this too much work for gamers.
It's called a tiny wireless video camera. Haven't you seen the pop-up ads?
Lawyers aren't this smart. Its the actuaries. Actuaries are the ones who have to pass 8 math exams involving statistcs, calculus, probability theory, informatino theory, etc. to get and keep their jobs. Lawyers just have to pass the bar. And insurance companies pay actuaries to think of this sort of thing. They only pay lawyers to figure out how to make it legal.
It keeps the infrared out. It probably doesn't keep it in effectively as you describe because normal black body radiation still applies. Since the windows are about as hot as the house, they will still radiate infrared. The problem with greenhous gasses is that they absorb infrared AND they don't remit it quickly because the gasses are cooler than the ground. That, and the infrared typically must pass through several absorption/remittance cycles before escaping Earth's atmosphere (each one with cooler gasses than the previous). With these windows, it only has to go through one layer that is about the same temperature as the house.
I agree 100%. I'm preparying to become an actuary (read: business mathematician) because although I may never be respected for my mathematical and computational skills, at least I'll get paid better as an actuary than as an engineer, research scientists, or programmer.
But I for one support repairs on the Hubble and manned missions to Mars, despite the costs and risks. (I also support more telescopes in space and on Earth, and I wish NASA and DOD would concentrate more on the national security issue of near-earth asteroids.)
enjoy calculus and statistics more than video-games and recently found out how much actuaries get paid.
Why force this regulation onto a private industry when the government can do journal publishing itself?
So if we haven't found Earth-sized planets, its probably because we can't see them yet, not because they aren't there.
Actually, the "how to practice the invention" for patents is published soon after the patent is approved. Nowdays you can get it on-line. There are still stealth patents lurking from the days when the USA had different patent rules than the rest of the world, but anything that's patented today will be public knowledge. This allows researchers, inventors, or (in theory) poor people to build their own stuff based on patented material, as long as they don't sell it or distribute it. It also assures that as soon as the patent expires, your competition will be ready to manufacture your invention.
The only way to stop this is to make a fair trade agreement - for all local governments to agree to stop subsidizing professional athletics. This would allow market forces to work freely without government interference, so no one would loose tourist dollars because somebody else in another jurisdiction is getting a large subsidy.
(tongue-in-cheek) Actually, many of the myths about vampires come from an ancient civilization with advanced technology who achieved hugely increased life spans by use of cybernetics as well as organ and blood harvesting from less advanced humans. Because their hearts were mechanical, not organic, the only way to stop the heart from beating was to physically damage the heart itself. Even if you fatally wounded a vampire, its heart would not stop pumping. Hence the myth that the only way to kill a vampire is to steak it in the heart.
But if you use continuous flow, then the arteries gain one more similarity to veins, and so arteries may start suffering from the problems you mention, which normally only occur in veins.
Which may explain why he wanted to watch a DVD... er... I mean listen to music. The traffic wasn't sufficiently engaging.
Maybe they will still have some wireless devices. But they will be streamlined to take advantage of closely spaced hard-wired devices, like cell-phone towers. It will be very difficult for us to decipher these signals light-years away.
And they could conclude that radio waves are an interstellar security risk, and stealthily abandon them altogether.
Of course, this all presupposes that I understood the article correctly, and that this will actually be used in a real computer... Otherwise its could be a moot point.
They might mean that it can vary between -8 and +8 inclusive, which gives 17 states, {-8,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}. You need 16 states for 4 bits, so that would do it. Or maybe you could take advantage of the 17th state by storing data in base-17 rather than hexadecimal - but thats just weird and would require processing to convert. Unfortunately, this will liekly lead to multiple formats depending on how the 17 possible states are mapped to the 16 hexadecimal digits, or whether all 17 states are in fact used to achieve maximum data compression.
So they aren't going to issue a press release and inform the general public. But if any of these companies are publicly traded, I wonder whether they will admit to this in any reports to their stock holders... which are public record... in which case they will be publicly disclosing it.
Or, to make it simpler, look-up 'virus' in the dictionary to find its plural form in Enlgish.
It breaks down in two steps.
First, some people who value safety more and freedom less, compared with the general population, will choose to buy robots (or program settings for robots) that will protect them more, even at the expense of personal liberty.
Next, after several generations, people who do not do this will be viewed as exhibitting aberant behavior posing a danger to themselves and society. They will be considered negligent, insane, or criminal. Then they will have their liberties taken away, whether by robots or by other people.
Seat belts were once a voluntary safety measure. Now it is illegal in some places not to wear these restrictive appliances. Why did it become mandatory?
It will not happen like in the movie "I, Robot". It will be a gradual transition aided by complacency and natural selection, not a revolution. It could take a thousand years.