Key part of the article that is not in the small summary...
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt have now discovered a single neuron in the brain of locusts that enables the adaptive regulation of sparseness in olfactory codes
Waay back when I was in school I used to work with VR, and CAVE systems quite a bit. And in giving tons of open house tours I've noticed that the amount of disorientation varies quite a bit from person to person.
Most common are:
- Motion Sickness
- Vertical Motion Sickness (players of FPSs tended to be better as handling the strain X/Y/Z motions but not pitching and rolling)
- Eyestrain (lots of people tend not to blink when using shutter glasses for some reason, I never bothered to research why)
- Focus strain (Generally as your focus is fixed by the camera, so some peoples brains can't handle not being able to focus on arbitrary objects in their field of vision. Also generally in computer generated 3D the entire field of vision may be in focus, and this can disorient people too. This may also have to do with the involuntary eye-wobble that your brain does to obtain more eye parallax information, since this is not compensated for with 3D gear it may cause disorientation or strain)
Usually however I've found that the more exposure people have the more adaptive they get to just ignoring these sensations. Since spending so much time with them all disorientation fades after 5 mins.
The court may as well just give Veloz every asset that Beas has. After all, Beas basically committed a murder and should be put away for life at a minimum. No need for any assets.
Well considering that Veloz was killed those assets are not going to do him much good
Anyone in congress who blanket refuses to look at matters that a Chairman of an government agency recommends is not doing their job. Yes I understand that their opposition is just a letter from a committee saying they do not like the FCC's approach to Net Neutrality. But the fact is they are objecting before the FCC has even discussed the matter yet. The real thing to do is wait till the FCC has a proposal and then the committee should discuss and provide a detailed critique of the individual rules in the plan that they need revisited. Representatives and Committees are defying the oath of their position every time they stick their fingers in their ears and shout 'La La La I am not listening to this branch of government La La La'.
Actually he did give about 50% of his net worth to charity via a number of foundations. That's what moved him from being the richest person in the US to the 2nd richest behind gates. Over the long term he has pledged that 99% of his wealth will go to philanthropic causes.
When I used to for the John D and Cathrine T MacArthur foundation I found it surprisingly does take a lot of time, and man-power to give away that much money (assuming you limit it to programs that actually help people and not get wasted, stolen, mis-used). Usually the amount of research, financial tracking, charitable tax paperwork, legal department, IT department, international relations, government relations, etc people is very much like a 200-300 employee endeavor right there. And all the time your doing all this work to ensure that the money goes to people who really need it you are making more money.
On top of that Buffet is going to all his Billionaire buddies and saying "do you really need to have a net worth of 20 Billion? Why not give away 10 billion, cause you have the ability to make that back over a decade or two anyway".
Yes same company, they are a chemical giant. Monsanto has had a long history with environmental issues. I remember the Illinois plants being still pretty bad in the 80's too..
Before regulation (and actually right as recently as 2000 ) their common practice was to dump industrial waste/PCBs/etc in fields, rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes surrounding their plants.
Basically it started in Beverages in early 1900 (specifically a chief supplier of Coca-Cola flavorings/preservatives). They moved on to sweeteners (they own NutraSweet) They moved to industrial chemicals, electrical components, and eventually plastics and polymers. They also were one of the first LED makers (still are damn big in LEDs/LCDs etc). They moved to weed killers/fertilizers (they own Roundup). They also were one of the top Agent Orange Producers. Then finally they became one of the first companies to push to Genetically altering crops, and stop the practice of farmers producing seed crops.
Its a ROADM (Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexor) doing DWDM. In otherwords high speed re-tunable lasers that can be configured for different wavelengths on the fly.
Now all these "colors" are all infrared...at intervals between 1500-1600nm. Its basically been in use on a wide scale for the past 5-7 years.
Real-time is okay, which is mainly why most of the big dragon medical based systems run back-end speech rec, which runs at about a 1:2, 1:3 ratio (dictation time to CPU time). Then are finally QAed by medical transcriptionists for medical accuracy. On back-end systems you can also look at completed & corrected historical information, look at the contextual information of the entire document, etc. Not to say that the real-time system is bad, its just more limited it what it can look at on the local PC (it cannot reprocess models off hours, it cannot store gigs of historical data, etc).
Of course you also tend to find a lot of systems that are using engines 4-5 years out of date too (which does tend to impact things).
IBM closed many of their speech research offices 1-2 years ago and transferred most of the research/data to Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking research.
Everyone should select other and either enter: - Enter N/A - Make up your own race name, in fact recruit all your friends to - Enter your favorite Sci-Fi reference (Mon Calamari, Klingon, Peacekeeper, Replicator, Troll, Kobold, Half-Elf, Member of the MacLeod cloud, Freman, etc.)
Yep DCU is a great credit union...although I've only deposited 3-4 random checks by scanning over the past 2 years. But yes they've accepted scans for quite some time now.
D-Link, Netgear, etc all make a multimedia over coax converter, they typically allow you to hit 100mbps using existing lines via frequencies boosted way over the TV range (essentially the same way networking via powerlines work).
It really sounds like he doesn't want to pay any money, he just wants to fiddle some connectors together and connect from a UTP equipment to coax. I've seen people to really ad-hoc things over short distances and be able to get buy with high amounts of loss and very slow speeds. To do anything decent you really to deal with signal processing hardware...your never going to get the appropriate voltages, line conditioning, noise handling, etc unless you make your own layer 1 & 2 hardware.
Now you might have luck with playing with something that runs on a more forgiving medium...possibly modifying the antenna controller in a set of older single antenna (non-MIMO ) wireless routers and use the coax between them. But its probably not going to work without a lot of tweaking which puts you back in with dealing with signaling, plus the wireless would have worked over the air; and also this would cost you just as much as replacing the coax, or buying a proper media converter.
My company has a pretty simple setup. On Call Primary - $300/wk, On Call Secondary - $150/wk. Flat fee. 1. If you are forced to work more then 24 hours straight the secondary takes over for 12 hours. 2. If you have work more then an additional 40 hours per week, you get equal 'comp. time' (Ext Paid Vacation time) 3. If you were not on call and have to fill in for a last min change/emergency you get whatever time in 'comp. time' 4. During Scheduled Maintenance (min 1 week advanced warning) the primary and secondary are expected to be logged in and monitoring 5. You get comp time working more then 2 hours of maintenance per week while not on-call.
Assuming they weigh about as much as a penny that's only 340,219.541 lbs (154,320.988 kg) per watt and every 87.4 days the energy level halves. Luckily its all beta radiation so its pretty harmless unless you eat it, inhale it, etc. and you don't need any shielding unless you deal with a sizable amount.
orders of magnitude of charge is a very wide term here. The Sulfur -35 isotope has a half-life of only 87 days. Also looking at the other work that the micro-nano lab works with, they seem to generally work in terms of microwatt-seconds. So yes it might be a great leap in smaller radioactive decay batteries...
So for those looking to power their future car or home, I hope you like dealing with things in N Scale
You would have a problem with doppler shift...the energy of the light is not constant with reflection, the momentum imparted by the laser on the reflective surface lowers the energy level of the laser.
IPs are a finite resource and when there are no longer any left to allocate they will grow dramatically in value. So companies that can segment their networks and sell off chunks of their space will buy and sell them like commodities for awhile. Of course smaller companies will start hopping on the free bandwagon to keep costs down and will demand IPv6. Then like everything else larger and larger business will cut costs by moving to IPv6 spaces and selling off their IPv4 networks. Then as retail and consumers start moving, so will everything else. The costs of IPv4 addresses will plummet as almost everyone has replaced all their antiquated equipment and has the 6 & 4 routing tables. Sure lots of people will be running v6 on the edge and translating to v4 on the inside for some time...but after a decade or so it'll be cheaper to eliminate all v4 infrastructure.
Even if it didn't violate standards and cause a complete rewrite of IP protocols, MAC addresses would make internet routing tables impossible to manage. Move a single public router, server, etc and you would need to push routes out to hundreds if not millions of network providers.
Then of course you could something like prefix the MAC with a network address to make it routeable based on network topology...but I dunno maybe a 64 bit network ID, the 48-bit MAC, and a bit of padding to round it up to a nice manageable 128-bits address. That would be a great idea...you know something like IPv6 does.
Depends on the software. If your data is distributed in redundant copies scattered across multiple chassis off-lining a handful of entire chassis or a few hours would just create a temporary performance decrease. Also this company is in the backup storage business, which usually means in-frequent requests for data. So at any given moment having 90% of your clients total backups online is usually considered acceptable in a disaster situation (as long as the chances that the same client's data being in the 10% from failure to failure are small). And since its all HTTP based redirecting and forwarding requests from offline sites to online ones is pretty trivial.
Its better at what they need it for. Based on the services and software they describe on their site, it looks like they store data in the classic redundant chunks distributed over multiple 'disposable' storage systems. In this situation most of the added redundancy that vendors put in their products doesn't add much value to their storage application. Thus having racks and racks of basic RAIDs on cheap disks and paying a few on-site monkeys to replace parts is more cost effective then going to a more stable/tested enterprise storage vendor.
Dude what do you expect humans are still in an alpha release...If you want to know how it works your just going to have to read the code. They run pretty crappie because they are mainly a few hacks wrapped around bits and pieces cobbled together from other projects. The betas and the QA lab are still billions of years away. But trust me the new interface that's coming out is going to be sweet.
Unfortunately at the next major release they wipe the dev systems to clean out any faulty data. Sorry.
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Key part of the article that is not in the small summary...
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt have now discovered a single neuron in the brain of locusts that enables the adaptive regulation of sparseness in olfactory codes
Time for Jamie to bring Blendo out of retirement...bring that ratio back down.
Mr. President, we can't afford to have a killer robot-elevator ratio gap.
Tons killing machines and none for Fukushima. Well done.
Thats twisted. You want to send killing machines to Fukushima!
Or are you trying to make a Robot Civilization in SimEarth?
Waay back when I was in school I used to work with VR, and CAVE systems quite a bit. And in giving tons of open house tours I've noticed that the amount of disorientation varies quite a bit from person to person.
Most common are:
- Motion Sickness
- Vertical Motion Sickness (players of FPSs tended to be better as handling the strain X/Y/Z motions but not pitching and rolling)
- Eyestrain (lots of people tend not to blink when using shutter glasses for some reason, I never bothered to research why)
- Focus strain (Generally as your focus is fixed by the camera, so some peoples brains can't handle not being able to focus on arbitrary objects in their field of vision. Also generally in computer generated 3D the entire field of vision may be in focus, and this can disorient people too. This may also have to do with the involuntary eye-wobble that your brain does to obtain more eye parallax information, since this is not compensated for with 3D gear it may cause disorientation or strain)
Usually however I've found that the more exposure people have the more adaptive they get to just ignoring these sensations. Since spending so much time with them all disorientation fades after 5 mins.
The court may as well just give Veloz every asset that Beas has. After all, Beas basically committed a murder and should be put away for life at a minimum. No need for any assets.
Well considering that Veloz was killed those assets are not going to do him much good
Anyone in congress who blanket refuses to look at matters that a Chairman of an government agency recommends is not doing their job. Yes I understand that their opposition is just a letter from a committee saying they do not like the FCC's approach to Net Neutrality. But the fact is they are objecting before the FCC has even discussed the matter yet. The real thing to do is wait till the FCC has a proposal and then the committee should discuss and provide a detailed critique of the individual rules in the plan that they need revisited. Representatives and Committees are defying the oath of their position every time they stick their fingers in their ears and shout 'La La La I am not listening to this branch of government La La La'.
Actually he did give about 50% of his net worth to charity via a number of foundations. That's what moved him from being the richest person in the US to the 2nd richest behind gates. Over the long term he has pledged that 99% of his wealth will go to philanthropic causes.
When I used to for the John D and Cathrine T MacArthur foundation I found it surprisingly does take a lot of time, and man-power to give away that much money (assuming you limit it to programs that actually help people and not get wasted, stolen, mis-used). Usually the amount of research, financial tracking, charitable tax paperwork, legal department, IT department, international relations, government relations, etc people is very much like a 200-300 employee endeavor right there. And all the time your doing all this work to ensure that the money goes to people who really need it you are making more money.
On top of that Buffet is going to all his Billionaire buddies and saying "do you really need to have a net worth of 20 Billion? Why not give away 10 billion, cause you have the ability to make that back over a decade or two anyway".
Yes same company, they are a chemical giant. Monsanto has had a long history with environmental issues. I remember the Illinois plants being still pretty bad in the 80's too..
Before regulation (and actually right as recently as 2000 ) their common practice was to dump industrial waste/PCBs/etc in fields, rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes surrounding their plants.
Basically it started in Beverages in early 1900 (specifically a chief supplier of Coca-Cola flavorings/preservatives).
They moved on to sweeteners (they own NutraSweet)
They moved to industrial chemicals, electrical components, and eventually plastics and polymers. They also were one of the first LED makers (still are damn big in LEDs/LCDs etc).
They moved to weed killers/fertilizers (they own Roundup). They also were one of the top Agent Orange Producers.
Then finally they became one of the first companies to push to Genetically altering crops, and stop the practice of farmers producing seed crops.
Its a ROADM (Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexor) doing DWDM. In otherwords high speed re-tunable lasers that can be configured for different wavelengths on the fly.
Now all these "colors" are all infrared...at intervals between 1500-1600nm. Its basically been in use on a wide scale for the past 5-7 years.
Real-time is okay, which is mainly why most of the big dragon medical based systems run back-end speech rec, which runs at about a 1:2, 1:3 ratio (dictation time to CPU time). Then are finally QAed by medical transcriptionists for medical accuracy. On back-end systems you can also look at completed & corrected historical information, look at the contextual information of the entire document, etc. Not to say that the real-time system is bad, its just more limited it what it can look at on the local PC (it cannot reprocess models off hours, it cannot store gigs of historical data, etc).
Of course you also tend to find a lot of systems that are using engines 4-5 years out of date too (which does tend to impact things).
IBM closed many of their speech research offices 1-2 years ago and transferred most of the research/data to Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking research.
Full Disclosure: I work for Nuance
Cory Doctorow: Little Brother
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Cory_Doctorow_novel)
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
Everyone should select other and either enter:
- Enter N/A
- Make up your own race name, in fact recruit all your friends to
- Enter your favorite Sci-Fi reference (Mon Calamari, Klingon, Peacekeeper, Replicator, Troll, Kobold, Half-Elf, Member of the MacLeod cloud, Freman, etc.)
Yep DCU is a great credit union...although I've only deposited 3-4 random checks by scanning over the past 2 years. But yes they've accepted scans for quite some time now.
D-Link, Netgear, etc all make a multimedia over coax converter, they typically allow you to hit 100mbps using existing lines via frequencies boosted way over the TV range (essentially the same way networking via powerlines work).
It really sounds like he doesn't want to pay any money, he just wants to fiddle some connectors together and connect from a UTP equipment to coax. I've seen people to really ad-hoc things over short distances and be able to get buy with high amounts of loss and very slow speeds. To do anything decent you really to deal with signal processing hardware...your never going to get the appropriate voltages, line conditioning, noise handling, etc unless you make your own layer 1 & 2 hardware.
Now you might have luck with playing with something that runs on a more forgiving medium...possibly modifying the antenna controller in a set of older single antenna (non-MIMO ) wireless routers and use the coax between them. But its probably not going to work without a lot of tweaking which puts you back in with dealing with signaling, plus the wireless would have worked over the air; and also this would cost you just as much as replacing the coax, or buying a proper media converter.
If only NASA consulted with Admiral Ackbar before choosing the route last May...
My company has a pretty simple setup. On Call Primary - $300/wk, On Call Secondary - $150/wk. Flat fee.
1. If you are forced to work more then 24 hours straight the secondary takes over for 12 hours.
2. If you have work more then an additional 40 hours per week, you get equal 'comp. time' (Ext Paid Vacation time)
3. If you were not on call and have to fill in for a last min change/emergency you get whatever time in 'comp. time'
4. During Scheduled Maintenance (min 1 week advanced warning) the primary and secondary are expected to be logged in and monitoring
5. You get comp time working more then 2 hours of maintenance per week while not on-call.
Assuming they weigh about as much as a penny that's only 340,219.541 lbs (154,320.988 kg) per watt and every 87.4 days the energy level halves. Luckily its all beta radiation so its pretty harmless unless you eat it, inhale it, etc. and you don't need any shielding unless you deal with a sizable amount.
orders of magnitude of charge is a very wide term here. The Sulfur -35 isotope has a half-life of only 87 days. Also looking at the other work that the micro-nano lab works with, they seem to generally work in terms of microwatt-seconds. So yes it might be a great leap in smaller radioactive decay batteries...
So for those looking to power their future car or home, I hope you like dealing with things in N Scale
You would have a problem with doppler shift...the energy of the light is not constant with reflection, the momentum imparted by the laser on the reflective surface lowers the energy level of the laser.
IPs are a finite resource and when there are no longer any left to allocate they will grow dramatically in value. So companies that can segment their networks and sell off chunks of their space will buy and sell them like commodities for awhile. Of course smaller companies will start hopping on the free bandwagon to keep costs down and will demand IPv6. Then like everything else larger and larger business will cut costs by moving to IPv6 spaces and selling off their IPv4 networks. Then as retail and consumers start moving, so will everything else. The costs of IPv4 addresses will plummet as almost everyone has replaced all their antiquated equipment and has the 6 & 4 routing tables. Sure lots of people will be running v6 on the edge and translating to v4 on the inside for some time...but after a decade or so it'll be cheaper to eliminate all v4 infrastructure.
Even if it didn't violate standards and cause a complete rewrite of IP protocols, MAC addresses would make internet routing tables impossible to manage. Move a single public router, server, etc and you would need to push routes out to hundreds if not millions of network providers. Then of course you could something like prefix the MAC with a network address to make it routeable based on network topology...but I dunno maybe a 64 bit network ID, the 48-bit MAC, and a bit of padding to round it up to a nice manageable 128-bits address. That would be a great idea...you know something like IPv6 does.
Depends on the software. If your data is distributed in redundant copies scattered across multiple chassis off-lining a handful of entire chassis or a few hours would just create a temporary performance decrease. Also this company is in the backup storage business, which usually means in-frequent requests for data. So at any given moment having 90% of your clients total backups online is usually considered acceptable in a disaster situation (as long as the chances that the same client's data being in the 10% from failure to failure are small). And since its all HTTP based redirecting and forwarding requests from offline sites to online ones is pretty trivial.
Its better at what they need it for. Based on the services and software they describe on their site, it looks like they store data in the classic redundant chunks distributed over multiple 'disposable' storage systems. In this situation most of the added redundancy that vendors put in their products doesn't add much value to their storage application. Thus having racks and racks of basic RAIDs on cheap disks and paying a few on-site monkeys to replace parts is more cost effective then going to a more stable/tested enterprise storage vendor.
Dude what do you expect humans are still in an alpha release...If you want to know how it works your just going to have to read the code. They run pretty crappie because they are mainly a few hacks wrapped around bits and pieces cobbled together from other projects. The betas and the QA lab are still billions of years away. But trust me the new interface that's coming out is going to be sweet.
Unfortunately at the next major release they wipe the dev systems to clean out any faulty data. Sorry.