I'm sure I'll be modded redundant, but it's obvious:
If I can make my own ringtones and zip 'em over to my cellphone using USB, why would I ever buy the phone company's $1.99 tones?
No USB due to revenue loss. "We wouldn't want ease of use or flexibility for the consumer, would we? No no, we need to stick it to our customers... Stick it until they die."
Mayhap this is why cellphone tech is lightyears ahead in Europe and Asia, because the greedy bastards in charge know the limit?
I know this solution doesn't take advantage of your existing 802.11 infrastructure, but it might be an easier way to get accuracy and not have to worry about LOS issues.
Imbed unique RFID tags in each of the tiles on the floor. When the fork lift drives over tag '1123' it will know what it's XY coordinate is.
Just need to keep an up-to-date database of what tags correspond to what tiles, so you can swap them out if they get damaged.
This strikes me as being much easier than magnetic paint or ultrasonic sensors, etc. SHould cost too much to retrofit the floor and the fork lifts. I don't know any specific numbers, however.
Seriously, is it an acronym or something? "Today we're going to apply a lot of science and maths to this problem." That sentence is incorrect, but I keep seeing `maths' with such usage.
I thought Richard Gere was in An Officer and a Gentleman... I also don't think tom cruise had the clout to demand "height adjustments" until at or around the time of Top Gun.
Apparently he is too short to qualify as a navy pilot and that he sat on phone books for all his cockpit scenes in top gun. I think that might be an exaggeration, though.
I think most CG effects people get shortchanged. When they are really doing there job, you won't ever know it. I think ILM does do amazing work, the reason it's so amazing is that so much of the work is never noticed by the audience.
For example, in Minority Report there was a scene of tom "the midget" cruise being chased down a rain-soaked alley by cops with jet packs. That alley was built in a studio. In the original footage you can see all the lights and electrical rigging, etc in the reflections in the puddles. ILM went in and removed all of that. That's a lot of work that they get no credit for. Plus, who knows how much time/money they spend making cruise look more than 4 feet tall.
Obviously, this argument holds for WETA and most other world-class effects houses. So I make no statement about the strengths of WETA vs. ILM.
What I hate is when they DON'T do the effects that need to be done. AvP (the abortion) features antarctica as a setting. Do you see the breath of anyone? No, because they filmed on some studio in england or something!!! It's easy to add CG vapor clouds but they didn't do it. The reason is that they suck. In that case, the LACK of cg is what ruined the setting (the movie was already ruined well before that point).
Interesting trivia: In minority report, whenever tom cruise is in the room with the fancy computer, the floor gently slopes up towards the center of the room, where he is standing, while other actors stand off to the side where the floor is lower. When the midget is on the run and others are using the computer, the floor is completely flat! Most cruise movies feature these kinds of tricks, it's probably in his contract to make him look tall. It's a fun game to find them whenever he rolls out a film.
God I hate G4TV and their borg-like consumption of the greener pastures of the one and only techtv
I never watched the show, don't watch any TV and I don't need someone showing me how to plug in an ethernet cable, but the shows were still great fun.
Now I catch a couple minutes of G4 and I want to die (or kill them). How's that for media-induced violent tendencies? I hope the channel sinks like a rock!
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Why should they try if they're just "dweebs"
Negative reinforcement is a wonderful tool, despite pavlov and his fucking mutt. Blame yourself for the discouragement.
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why the F*CK is this on slashdot?
I mean, I still have nightmares about dodgeball in gym class... Is no place a safe refuge from the terror of sports?
I hope they do something REALLY cool and continue to use the body-as-button design they have going now, only instead of just clicking it rocks from side-to-side such that clicking on the left for button one and clicking on the right for button two. Will looking breathtakingly seamless.
I ALSO want apple to integrate a scroll wheel in a cool way. I propose blending a strip of laptop-style trackpad into the center of the mouse to serve as the wheel. Voila, perfectly smooth surface. It would be awesome.
I'd just like to point out, because I haven't seen it mentioned and some people seem to be getting it wrong, that the term 'graph' here is being used for a specific object.
Just wanted to point this out to anyone new to the area:
The graphs being discussed are NOT something you can make in excel, which should really be called plots or charts (in this context). These are not pie charts, or XY scatter plots, there is no least-squares fitting to a Graph.
What is meant by a graph (in this context) is a collection of nodes (aka vertices) and edges (aka links) connecting those nodes. An example graph could be a friendship network: People are represent as nodes and an edge falls between two nodes when those two people are on a first name basis.
So Graph Visualization is not trivial at all. Very complex relationships are modelled as graphs and good software is important. I for one use the graphviz port on OS X (that won an apple developers award) after becoming thoroughly sickened with Pajek in windows!
It uses math. Yet it operates on and around things to a pretty unprecedented degree. Hence the term statistician. Are there any probable-icians or graphicians?
Remember 90% of statistics are lies. It's too easy to be wrong with statistics because it involves interpreting something, unlike many other fields.
I would also like to point out that the arXiv http://www.arxiv.org/ usually contains the.tex source for any preprint published there. This makes it an excellent source for example latex code.
Also want to look into add-ons such as revtex and some of the mathematical societies' stuff. Very handy all around
The original author of LaTeX has a very great introduction book (it has a blue and yellow cartoon cover...). There are probably better reference manuals, but for teaching first-timers, it's great, IMO
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If I can make my own ringtones and zip 'em over to my cellphone using USB, why would I ever buy the phone company's $1.99 tones?
No USB due to revenue loss. "We wouldn't want ease of use or flexibility for the consumer, would we? No no, we need to stick it to our customers... Stick it until they die."
Mayhap this is why cellphone tech is lightyears ahead in Europe and Asia, because the greedy bastards in charge know the limit?
All your technical mumbo jumbo is leaving me bamboozilified. Could ya tone it down a tad?
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Riemann-zeta what.....
I know this solution doesn't take advantage of your existing 802.11 infrastructure, but it might be an easier way to get accuracy and not have to worry about LOS issues.
Just need to keep an up-to-date database of what tags correspond to what tiles, so you can swap them out if they get damaged.
This strikes me as being much easier than magnetic paint or ultrasonic sensors, etc. SHould cost too much to retrofit the floor and the fork lifts. I don't know any specific numbers, however.
Seriously, is it an acronym or something? "Today we're going to apply a lot of science and maths to this problem." That sentence is incorrect, but I keep seeing `maths' with such usage.
What is going on? Am I senile?
We don't cure shit.
Apparently he is too short to qualify as a navy pilot and that he sat on phone books for all his cockpit scenes in top gun. I think that might be an exaggeration, though.
I think most CG effects people get shortchanged. When they are really doing there job, you won't ever know it. I think ILM does do amazing work, the reason it's so amazing is that so much of the work is never noticed by the audience. For example, in Minority Report there was a scene of tom "the midget" cruise being chased down a rain-soaked alley by cops with jet packs. That alley was built in a studio. In the original footage you can see all the lights and electrical rigging, etc in the reflections in the puddles. ILM went in and removed all of that. That's a lot of work that they get no credit for. Plus, who knows how much time/money they spend making cruise look more than 4 feet tall.
Obviously, this argument holds for WETA and most other world-class effects houses. So I make no statement about the strengths of WETA vs. ILM.
What I hate is when they DON'T do the effects that need to be done. AvP (the abortion) features antarctica as a setting. Do you see the breath of anyone? No, because they filmed on some studio in england or something!!! It's easy to add CG vapor clouds but they didn't do it. The reason is that they suck. In that case, the LACK of cg is what ruined the setting (the movie was already ruined well before that point).
Interesting trivia: In minority report, whenever tom cruise is in the room with the fancy computer, the floor gently slopes up towards the center of the room, where he is standing, while other actors stand off to the side where the floor is lower. When the midget is on the run and others are using the computer, the floor is completely flat! Most cruise movies feature these kinds of tricks, it's probably in his contract to make him look tall. It's a fun game to find them whenever he rolls out a film.
The only thing students do at University is hump each other.
I never watched the show, don't watch any TV and I don't need someone showing me how to plug in an ethernet cable, but the shows were still great fun.
Now I catch a couple minutes of G4 and I want to die (or kill them). How's that for media-induced violent tendencies? I hope the channel sinks like a rock!
Negative reinforcement is a wonderful tool, despite pavlov and his fucking mutt. Blame yourself for the discouragement.
I mean, I still have nightmares about dodgeball in gym class... Is no place a safe refuge from the terror of sports?
Fuck baseball
Wait, social networking....
Which is certainly where this fuckstick was scrapped off the floor
I ALSO want apple to integrate a scroll wheel in a cool way. I propose blending a strip of laptop-style trackpad into the center of the mouse to serve as the wheel. Voila, perfectly smooth surface. It would be awesome.
What do you guys think?
Just wanted to point this out to anyone new to the area: The graphs being discussed are NOT something you can make in excel, which should really be called plots or charts (in this context). These are not pie charts, or XY scatter plots, there is no least-squares fitting to a Graph.
What is meant by a graph (in this context) is a collection of nodes (aka vertices) and edges (aka links) connecting those nodes. An example graph could be a friendship network: People are represent as nodes and an edge falls between two nodes when those two people are on a first name basis.
So Graph Visualization is not trivial at all. Very complex relationships are modelled as graphs and good software is important. I for one use the graphviz port on OS X (that won an apple developers award) after becoming thoroughly sickened with Pajek in windows!
Seriously, without antibiotics, has there been ANY medical advance in the past 50+ years? The adoption of plastic to improve hygiene?
It will be like the civil war, "He's got a scratch, get my bone saw." Only this time it will be a very *clean* bonesaw...
Good luck to Sony, cuz they got no shot in hell, at least not for a while....
I've seen engineering majors do serious heat flow FEA calculations in excel and it pisses me off so much. God damn Microsoft, BLAR!
Ax=b where A,b are nxn matrices and x is an nx1 vector of unknowns. The goal is to solve for x.
Matlab: x=A\b
I can't imagine a simpler way AT ALL.... In fact, that is easier to do than just clicking on what you need to get to in excel....
It uses math. Yet it operates on and around things to a pretty unprecedented degree. Hence the term statistician. Are there any probable-icians or graphicians?
Remember 90% of statistics are lies. It's too easy to be wrong with statistics because it involves interpreting something, unlike many other fields.
and that is why your very good friend is an engineer
Ouch, that was harsh... sorry bout that!
I would also like to point out that the arXiv http://www.arxiv.org/ usually contains the .tex source for any preprint published there. This makes it an excellent source for example latex code.
Also want to look into add-ons such as revtex and some of the mathematical societies' stuff. Very handy all around
The original author of LaTeX has a very great introduction book (it has a blue and yellow cartoon cover...). There are probably better reference manuals, but for teaching first-timers, it's great, IMO