From TFA: When Robert Moran drove back to his law offices in Rome, N.Y., after a plane trip to Arizona in July 2003, he had no idea that a silent stowaway was aboard his vehicle: a secret GPS bug implanted without a court order by state police.
I'd prefer that ANYTHING placed by the police in a private vehicle require a court order...
There is also the factor of the tax laws which encourage outsourcing, and the lobbyist cabal which curry our legislators, and the legislators themselves... it's all one big circle of money.
But I'm more interested in the effect of inhuman pressure on economic engines.
In the eighties, our raised floor had a TB of storage - 48 six-foot by 4-foot cabinets with the power, cooling, and connectivity that implies, as well as thousands of dollars in maintenance fees.
>I'd like to see how they plan on monitoring my mage as it talks to your cleric in some obscure, nearly impossible to reach (unless you're level 50) corner of our favorite MUD.
I once conceptualized a 1D file browser which was a thread with files strung along like beads... but that's only 1d the way you consider the current interface 2d if you ignore stacking and controls which are 3D.
In view of the problems we've had with the shuttle, I think the more countries that can send people into orbit and retrieve them, the better. We should make available to India and China our docking adapter plans and technical assistance, so all spacecraft can dock to a common interface.
(To save poor Ronald's site from being cash, er slashdotted)
Meeting Your Professor in Ancient Sicily
Tele-immersion is a technology which allows cooperative interaction between groups of distant people working in the same virtual environment. At the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley, interdisciplinary teams are deploying this technology. It involves three real-time steps: taking images of a subject with 48 cameras, transmitting the images over a network, and implanting them in a virtual world. For example, it will allow students and professors on different campuses to meet -- virtually -- and discuss -- lively -- while being in ancient sites of Greece or Italy. The technology offers more promises than academics discussions. Imagine a nurse telling a diabetic how to make an insulin injection while being far away from him. Of course, this technology is facing some hurdles, such as the cost involved to model you with so many cameras. But read more...
Here is the inroduction of the Daily Californian article, which really is a news release from the University of California.
UC Berkeley students may soon be able to meet professors at UC Davis in ancient Sicily for lively intellectual discussions.
Recent visual computer science advances by Ruzena Bajcsy, director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley, may make such interactions possible.
Bajcsy's technology takes pictures of a subject in her laboratory from 48 different cameras and combines them into a 3-D image. The image can then be placed into historical Sicily, one of the three cyberspace environments created so far.
But how does this work?
Here is an illustration of the three-step process of the project: real-time image processing, followed by real-time data transmission and finally real-time image rendering. (Credit: CITRIS)
You'll find more details about this process at the CITRIS Tele-Immersion Project home page, which adds this about the above image.
First, a three dimensional structure and appearance of the scene is captured by processing image data from multiple viewpoints using stereo algorithm. Second, the acquired scene information is then transmitted to remote sites through high-bandwidth networks, where lastly it is combined with the interactions of the user and displayed dichoptically to reproduce realistic scene rendering.
And what can we expect from such a technology?
"Bajcsy has been really visionary with all of this. We've imagined these things and she's been working with us to make them real," said David Goldberg, director of the UC system Center of Humanities, a collaborator on the project. Art historians, anthropologists and archeologists working with Goldberg have imagined a virtual museum using Bajcsy's technology where both experts and the public could virtually pick up objects and study them.
The new insights could be far-reaching. Bajcsy aims to impact common people, by studying how people behave and trust each other in cyber environments. Specifically, one could study the difference between cyberspace interaction and a face-to-face interaction, or between interactions where the whole body or just the face or hands are visualized.
However, this technolgy faces several hurdles, such as confusing colors between the user's clothes and the virtual environment. But there are others, such as the fact that this technology is not -- currently -- wireless, and that this huge number of cameras invoves a hefty pricetag.
Currently, a cable is required to transmit the large amount of information from the two sites to the digital environment. The cable is expensive and can only be used between the two sites, but Bajcsy hopes to make the technology available to many social scientists who have only meager funding.
"Digitizing (approximately) 50 cameras into the computer is not easy," said Professor Takeo Kanade, a Carnegie Mellon professor who has performed similar research. "Dealing with such large amounts of data is an enormous task -- just to start the cameras you must press 50 start buttons," he said.
Sources: Erica Rosenberg, The Daily Californian, October 27, 2004; and various websites
Slashdot Mirror
Would that make slashdot "dolphin-safe" tuna, or is anything in a can - spam?
Been there, done that, bought the quantum singularity.
>You just came out against the entire Civil Rights movement, Henry David Thereaux, and most of the Founding Fathers of the US of A.
Who's that French guy Thereaux?
I think you've got your rocks in a (Walden) pond .
"contemporizing"
Blecch.
If you're going to rape a word, apologize afterwards.
From TFA:
When Robert Moran drove back to his law offices in Rome, N.Y., after a plane trip to Arizona in July 2003, he had no idea that a silent stowaway was aboard his vehicle: a secret GPS bug implanted without a court order by state police.
I'd prefer that ANYTHING placed by the police in a private vehicle require a court order...
Great public relations coup, Mr. Jobs.
Remember when you and the Woz were just kids in a garage?
Apparently not...
Man holding teacup: "Nigel, what's that sudden whirring noise?"
Psychotic Pacific Penumbra Apexed Concretions?
>"and I say to myself... what a wonderful world" Pirated from Louis Armstrong... You have the right to remain silent...
Now we can fill up our jails with even more people who are as dangerous as marijuana smokers...
Monica Lewinsky?
There is also the factor of the tax laws which encourage outsourcing, and the lobbyist cabal which curry our legislators, and the legislators themselves... it's all one big circle of money. But I'm more interested in the effect of inhuman pressure on economic engines.
Let's see if we can have this discussion without descending to racial stereotyping or xenophobia.
That said, it is interesting that some business institutions can survive under enormous stress.
London during the Blitz provided a few examples.
In the eighties, our raised floor had a TB of storage - 48 six-foot by 4-foot cabinets with the power, cooling, and connectivity that implies, as well as thousands of dollars in maintenance fees.
Now I can hold a TB in one hand...
I like this decade better.
I worked my A$$ off to fix or replace elderly government systems... and all during 2000-2001 heard how "useless" my work was.
:}
Next time maybe we'll just let you all freeze in the dark.
I've got dibs on Montecore!
New worm, Santy.A, using Google to spread
He sees you when you're posting, he knows when you write spam, he hates it when you flame users, so be good for goodness' sake!
Where's my 'Spirited Away' First-Person-Shooter?
packets... filters... lossy algorithms...
*wakes up*
Gawd for a moment I dreamt I was the NSA...
I once conceptualized a 1D file browser which was a thread with files strung along like beads... but that's only 1d the way you consider the current interface 2d if you ignore stacking and controls which are 3D.
Horseshoes almost competitive with Hand Grenades
In view of the problems we've had with the shuttle, I think the more countries that can send people into orbit and retrieve them, the better. We should make available to India and China our docking adapter plans and technical assistance, so all spacecraft can dock to a common interface.
(To save poor Ronald's site from being cash, er slashdotted)
Meeting Your Professor in Ancient Sicily
Tele-immersion is a technology which allows cooperative interaction between groups of distant people working in the same virtual environment.
At the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley, interdisciplinary teams are deploying this technology. It involves three real-time steps: taking images of a subject with 48 cameras, transmitting the images over a network, and implanting them in a virtual world. For example, it will allow students and professors on different campuses to meet -- virtually -- and discuss -- lively -- while being in ancient sites of Greece or Italy.
The technology offers more promises than academics discussions. Imagine a nurse telling a diabetic how to make an insulin injection while being far away from him. Of course, this technology is facing some hurdles, such as the cost involved to model you with so many cameras. But read more...
Here is the inroduction of the Daily Californian article, which really is a news release from the University of California.
UC Berkeley students may soon be able to meet professors at UC Davis in ancient Sicily for lively intellectual discussions. Recent visual computer science advances by Ruzena Bajcsy, director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley, may make such interactions possible.
Bajcsy's technology takes pictures of a subject in her laboratory from 48 different cameras and combines them into a 3-D image. The image can then be placed into historical Sicily, one of the three cyberspace environments created so far. But how does this work?
Here is an illustration of the three-step process of the project: real-time image processing, followed by real-time data transmission and finally real-time image rendering. (Credit: CITRIS)
You'll find more details about this process at the CITRIS Tele-Immersion Project home page, which adds this about the above image.
First, a three dimensional structure and appearance of the scene is captured by processing image data from multiple viewpoints using stereo algorithm. Second, the acquired scene information is then transmitted to remote sites through high-bandwidth networks, where lastly it is combined with the interactions of the user and displayed dichoptically to reproduce realistic scene rendering.
And what can we expect from such a technology?
"Bajcsy has been really visionary with all of this. We've imagined these things and she's been working with us to make them real," said David Goldberg, director of the UC system Center of Humanities, a collaborator on the project. Art historians, anthropologists and archeologists working with Goldberg have imagined a virtual museum using Bajcsy's technology where both experts and the public could virtually pick up objects and study them.
The new insights could be far-reaching. Bajcsy aims to impact common people, by studying how people behave and trust each other in cyber environments. Specifically, one could study the difference between cyberspace interaction and a face-to-face interaction, or between interactions where the whole body or just the face or hands are visualized.
However, this technolgy faces several hurdles, such as confusing colors between the user's clothes and the virtual environment. But there are others, such as the fact that this technology is not -- currently -- wireless, and that this huge number of cameras invoves a hefty pricetag.
Currently, a cable is required to transmit the large amount of information from the two sites to the digital environment. The cable is expensive and can only be used between the two sites, but Bajcsy hopes to make the technology available to many social scientists who have only meager funding.
"Digitizing (approximately) 50 cameras into the computer is not easy," said Professor Takeo Kanade, a Carnegie Mellon professor who has performed similar research. "Dealing with such large amounts of data is an enormous task -- just to start the cameras you must press 50 start buttons," he said.
Sources: Erica Rosenberg, The Daily Californian, October 27, 2004; and various websites
...or Green Tennis Balls ...
We still need .porn for good and evil filtering...