Okay, I just can't resist. Now you're saying that you send yourself an encrypted message to your other account for the express reason of doing what? Dude, I think you need to crawl out of that same cave that you live in and shoot yourself because even though you're not trying to decrypt the message, you're the moron that sent yourself a fake email in the first place! man, you need to get out more often if you think someone really wants to go to the trouble to read your email that badly.
Okay, I just can't resist. Now you're saying that you send yourself an encrypted message to you other account for the express reason of doing what? Dude, I think you need to crawl out of that same cave that you live in and shoot yourself because even though you're not trying to decrypt the message, you're the moron that sent yourself a fake email in the first place! man, you need to get out more often if you think someone really wants to go to the trouble to read your email that badly.
Great point about the Amish. To add to your comment, I think you should describe just how a new technology gets incorporated into their society and the selection process of what is kept and what is banned.
Unlike our society, every new technology that someone in the society is interested in is brought in for a trial period in whcih every angle of the technology is discussed. Not just the function of the technology, but how it will affect the user and everyone else.
A funny example is telephones. I've heard of amish communities where you can use a phone, but the phone is next to the public outhouse. Or communities where lightbulbs are only permitted in study rooms where a fireplace is too inconvenient or dangerous to have one... or even communities that allow computers, but only if they're related to business and save time calculating which could be better spent on something else.
That's another problem with our society in that we keep on taking in more and more little gadgets and technologies without ever really evaluating the changes they bring about until way after the fact.
I totally agree. There's so much out there, and we just filter through it the same way as we used to. So we now have 500 channels... great, I still watch only about 10 of them. So I'm filter 98% of the input my tv is capable of... and even then I'm not paying attention half of the time.
Same thing with the cell phone. When I'm working, I'll answer it. When I'm bored, I'll answer it. When I go to spend time with my girlfriend, the cell phone and the pager get left behind or turned off.
Filtering is one of the things that the human brain is great at. Ever seen a newbie the first time they walk onto the street in NYC? They're heads and eyes are all over the place... they're craining their heads to view the sky scrapers, they're looking at all the strangely dressed people and the huge billboards... and then they get headaches and neckaches and get tired real quick. Then you see the normal new yorkers that walk with a purpse and hardly ever budge to look at ANYTHING weird. It's kind of funny... but it's all neural filtering. And if we're to survive in this constantly connected world with all of the information, that's what we're going to have to learn to do.
Besides the ' being represented as ? all the time which got fairly annoying, Katz, I think you're extremely guilty of over-simplifying reality to prove a point. Yes, you're correct in that the further technology takes us, the longer and more hectic our work week becomes. Yes, traditional hunters and gatherers spent around 4 to 5 hours a day to survive in relative complacency which didn't involve little gadgets flushing toilets for them and reading them the funnies while they did their business. And yes, we're mapping the human genone without even curing the common cold. But you know what? You don't have to live the 24 hour workday and you can committ youself to daily down time where you're not connected to the internet (or hypernet as you called it). There are books and studies on how to keep yourself sane in this fast and ever faster paced society that we're creating for ourselves. Read the latest copy of Fast Company. There are about 40 pgs of stories, resources, and discussions on this phenomena of the 24/7 cyber community.
We used to live exclusively in our own time zones, working from 9 to 5, but all of the sudden it seems like we realized that the rest of the world is away and working while we're sleeping in relative bliss. let it be that way I say. Technology isn't doing this to us, we're doing it to ourselves. All of the sudden we're seeing how much is going on out of our site and how much information we can see and we're becoming addicted and greedy and it's going to ruin us through sleep deprivation.
Don't blame technology, blame the ones that use it and how they use it.
I respect McCain because he's one of the few politicians that will go to any end to get a bill he favors passed... even if it means kicking a few people in the testicles. Okay, so I didn't particularly like his stance on the impeachment, but so what. His stance on campaign finance as well as pork barreling is more than commendable. And if actions speak louder than words, than his campaign for Prez is doing great. He's not out there seriously campaigning like Bush, Forbes, Buchanan, Gore, and Bradley, but is instead in the Senate doing his job and doing what he does best... stepping on toes and doing what's right for the country and the economy and net-freaks everywhere that need to get their prOn without a tax on it!
What I would like to see next from him is an online consumer rights bill to help protect people against online wire fraud and security foul-ups.
When MS screwed up earlier this month with Hotmail, the users of Hotmail had no rights and basically it was a matter of touch shit for you that we let everyone potentially see your personal mail. Or how about all of those fly-by-night e-commerce shops that when you get a product 30 days after placing an order for it, only to realize it's the wrong product so you send it back and they never credit your account... stuff like this should not happen. And when it does, the consumer should have certain unalienable rights about service. That's what I'd like to see McCain yell about next.
I agree, but I think you might have missed what I was saying. I don't think the NAACP should register domain names just so nobody else can use them, but should register them and then USE THEM as educational pieces about the word and use it against the people that use the word.
That way it's not censorship of the word, and some good actually comes of having the word have its own URL.
If you think about it, one of the main points of the PC movement has been to reclaim words and use them as powerful words in the positive sense. You have gays reclaiming "gay", "queer", and "homo", and the same could be said of "nigger", "chink", etc. The NAACP is doing something remarkable here by reclaiming these words on the internet, and if they're smart, they should post informational resources and use these sites as educational tools for the history of the struggle, where the word came from, and misconceptions. I think that would be a great usage of these URL's by the NAACP.
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oops, sorry, I was assuming network protocol through java in which I'm pretty sure you'd need an IP for each device/object. oopsies.
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well, if you're going to network your toaster, microwave and dishwasher, you're going to need an IP addy, aren't you? Lets say we're becoming the jetsons and you want to be able to turn on the over and have your chicken roasting in the oven before you get home so it's nice and cooked when you step in the door... how would you do that remotely? With radio or infrared? Would be so much easier if you could use your palm or visor, connect through your house's LAN, access the terminal app that controls the oven, and turn it on to the correct temp. To do this, you'll need a network address... so that's why every object in your house will need an IP address:)
Every home will be a LAN and have it's own "domain"... kinda kewl actually... now if only we can find out how to get a toaster not to burn the toast and start a fire while we're still in the shower...
This is a truly brilliant post. End software patents. Beautiful. You know something, not everyone wants to be open source. Some people actually want to create something and own the intellectual rights to it.
I more informed post would be "could someone please fix the US Patent Office" because it's becoming apparent that they have no clue what they're allowing to become copyrighted.
Another question, how are they damaging the community? Yes, I'm afraid to let my children out at night because Adobe still wants to retain a patent on one of their many technologies used in photoshop. Or lets say that you actually meant to say the software development community... no, software patents give a developer a choice in whether or not to go open source or to protect his or her intellectual property.
except steal ideas from Apple by mimicing their design, and creating another cheap PC (read piece of crap). A company that's based on stolen ideas and inferior hardware and technology (could also appy to M$) deserves what they get. I'm actually suprised they lasted this long. Now the company that I actually like that's into making cheap PC's is iToaster... but that's because they're not stealing any ideas from Apple...
see, I think barcodes are now outdated and passe. Why would you have a barcode to designate who you are instead of just having an retina scan? the signature of your eye or bio-rythem would be much more difficult to forge, plus it wouldn't involve getting some stupid tattoo burned into your skin that would change when you put on 50 lbs or could get manipulated or put on poorly. And I believe that the mark of the beast is to be put on your forehead or the back of your hand... strange that the two places that are used for ID are the eyes (located next to the forehead) and the finger prints (next to the back of the hand)... but that's just me making weird connections due to the caffeine in me.
So somebody patented barcode tattoos. And microsoft tried to patent the word processor. And Al Gore tried to say he invented the internet. woopdeedoodah. so when the antichrist comes (assuming he's not here already), do you really think he's going to go up to this dude/dudette and say I need to have a right to use your patent so I can brand everyone and take over the world and lead the world into the Apocalypse and so that the forces of Gog and Magog can have at each other on the Plains of Apocalypse? hmmmm, would be so much easier just to give out those American Express cards that came out the other day and are dumbed-down smartcards. Geez.
I remember searching EPA's web site a year or two ago, and seeing descriptions of gadgets that they were building that do the same thing as this bioanalyzer and more. They had gadgets that you could put a small amount of pond water in it and it would list all the known contaminants that were in the sample, they had ones that could test a few drops of blood for known diseases as well as do white blood cell counts, and tons of other little kewl gadgets.
There's a huge trend to take all the giant machines that scientists and doctors need for analysis and shrink them down into handhelds... this one by HP is nothing more than just another one that's hitting the market... except that it's backed by HP and has a small flash animation on its site.
when politicians see their stock price tanking and start buying their own stock back to increase the price thereby making themselves look like more solid candidates than they really are? You'll have Donald Trump and Steve Forbes neck and neck because they'll probably own 92% of their own stock and/or offer you a hell of a dividend for holding onto their stock. Then you'll have people buying on rumor and selling on news... which means that politicians will keep on having to grace us with their presence on tv, and then you'll have people making outrageous claims like they came up with the idea of the internet... oh man, it would be such a mess.
I have a problem. I'm addicted to trying to underbid people in the antique pocket watch section as well as the cheap PC system section (I want me a linux box). Have I tried going cold-turkey? Of course I have. Went cold-ebay for approximately 3 months... but you know what brought me back? trying to find a specific poster for my girlfriend. So instead of my girlfriend trying to save me from my addiction, because of her, I'm doomed to clicking the reload button until 2 am. EST because for some dumb reason, people on the West Coast always seem to set up their auctions at midnight west coast time which is 2 or 3 am east coast time (more of a reason to switch to a standard internet time).
But there is hope. There is a use for ebay that will allow you to surf around ebay and get stuff for free without having to bid. I've found, being a graphic designer, that I can find stock photographs for tons of weird stuff that NO STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY CD will carry. Looking for a picture of a shag rug? doubt you'll find it in Photodisc, but I guarantee you'll find a photo in ebay. looking for crazy pair of sunglasses? same thing. TONS OF IMAGES!!! YIPPEE!!!
That's how I got over my addiction, by chanelling my need to find junk at ebay with the ability to get all the stock photographs I could ever use.
that is seems people are taking offense at being labelled a geek, mild autism, and possibly ADD. Does is really make a difference to any of you that you're labelled these things? Personally, I think most of us should be proud of it. Hell, it could be worse; we could be starving artists (what I was almost doomed to be), paralegals or even lawyers (blood-suckers), or maybe just trashmen. Now, who cares that we're being labelled by the media or misunderstood by the so-called specialists on the human psyche? Hmmm, in Victorian England, having a sex drive was considered a psychological disorder, and even being left-handed in the middle ages was considered an original form of brain damage. So we're misunderstood and labelled. Chances are, most people that label geeks are jealous that thse geeks are able to understand things that are beyond the scope of the majority of the population. Laugh at it and see it for what it is. Utter nonsense.
This isn't a token mention of Linux. IBM has been supporting Linux for quite some time now. Going back to August 11, Lotus (a subsidiary of IBM) jumped on the Linux bandwagon by making Notes run on Linux, on August 10, IBM joined the effort to make sure that Linux runs on Intel's Merced processor, on July 30 IBM released a new version of its DB2 database software for Linux at the same time as for other operating systems, and on July 23, IBM added Linux technical support for their server line.
Obviously, this is not a new decision on the part of IBM. They committed fairly early in the game to supporting Linux and are doing what they can to promote it on their server line and with their industrial strength solutions.
Some companies actually back up what they're saying with their actions, and IBM doesn't just name drop for the sake of a press release. They've been working to promote the Linux operating system as much as they've been working to promote their sever solutions.
considering the lawsuits that Apple is putting to emachines and related companies concerning the "look" of a computer, i don't think they can do the stealth look. See, this look is already taken by IBM with their Netfinity Servers. They're big, flat black, and look like something straight out of the Death Star. You can almost imagine james earl jones's synthesized voice booming out of the server when it gives you an alert message. Actually, that'd be kind of a kewl idea for marketting the Netfinity servers... screw that e-commerce bullshit, market the look of it as futuristic, radar invisible, and capable of destroying worlds. Now that would be kewl advertising.
being an artist myself, I know how wrong you are in this assumption. Ever watched an artist's eyes while they're drawing from life? do you think they have a far-away look or do you think they're analyzing details point by point? yes, artists take a step back to get the "whole picture", but are continuously getting up close and personal to get the details write and to make sure things add up.
Actually, it would be interesting to study how artists look at items when they're drawing. Most good artists don't look at features, but look at features in how they relate to other features. You don't just draw a nose, an ear, or a mouth, but you draw them a little at a time, a line here, a line there, some shading here, some shading there, in relation to each other to build the face. Now, would that not characterize working in parallel?
I agree, but in the article, they sought to prove their serial theory by using examples of visual images. So they were justifying their serial theory by using serial input. See my comment/posting on the mono VCR.
well, then it's actually parallel for the simple reason of while we're processing the information that our eyes are bringing in, we're simultaneously telling our eyes where to get the next bit of information from. If we were serial, then we're bring the info in, process it, then tell the eye where to go next, process it, ad infinitum. If that's the case, then our reality would be staggered instead of fluid because our brain would have to get input, process input, execute the move eye function, get input, etc.
"We are the first research group to show definitively that the human brain processes images serially-paying attention to only one object at a time and shifting rapidly from object to object"
now my question is, might this not have to do with the human's eyes and focusing on one object at a time and switching between multiple images quickly to try to bring them into focus as simultaneously and seamlessly as possible?
"It was important that we knew the order in which they paid attention to the colored objects, because the N2PC works by correlating the brain waves coming from each side of the brain over many statistical trials, so we had to always have them search in the same order"
He acknowledges that the brain is paying attention to certain objects based on color in a certain order, but attributes this to the brain and not to the input device. I'm going to make a crude analogy which will probably get shot down, but if you can think of a better one, please post it. It's like taking a mono VCR hooked up to mono speakers VS a mono VCR hooked up to a surround sound speakers. You know it's able to process the info better, but it can't because of the input device's shortcomings.
After his stint with Lucas, Liam Neeson, who played Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace, announced (and quickly retracted) his retirement from acting. He said he "felt like a puppet."
The way he and the rest of the cast acted, they could have been puppets or computer generated characters. I think some of the computer characters did a better job of acting than the humans in the movie.
the fact that Obi-Wan really hated being there, or the fact that such poor grammar was used in a professional web site...
"royally pissed of"...the word is "off" "And even the Force can't keep him quiet."... fragments? "Guinness also regales the magazine with a very un-mentor-like story his treatment of a 12-year-old fan."... um, is this english?
Anyway, I'm glad that someone that has been involved with the Star Wars projects is speaking up against the blantant and excessive merchandising that Lucas is getting away with. The Phantom Menace was awful, yet it raked in a boatload of cash only because of the hype and devoted following of the fans. Clearly an inferior product cashing in on the history of the trilogy.
It's just a shame that we'll all go to see the next movie as well... hopefully jar-jar won't be in that one.
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Okay, I just can't resist. Now you're saying that you send yourself an encrypted message to your other account for the express reason of doing what? Dude, I think you need to crawl out of that same cave that you live in and shoot yourself because even though you're not trying to decrypt the message, you're the moron that sent yourself a fake email in the first place! man, you need to get out more often if you think someone really wants to go to the trouble to read your email that badly.
Okay, I just can't resist. Now you're saying that you send yourself an encrypted message to you other account for the express reason of doing what? Dude, I think you need to crawl out of that same cave that you live in and shoot yourself because even though you're not trying to decrypt the message, you're the moron that sent yourself a fake email in the first place! man, you need to get out more often if you think someone really wants to go to the trouble to read your email that badly.
Great point about the Amish. To add to your comment, I think you should describe just how a new technology gets incorporated into their society and the selection process of what is kept and what is banned.
Unlike our society, every new technology that someone in the society is interested in is brought in for a trial period in whcih every angle of the technology is discussed. Not just the function of the technology, but how it will affect the user and everyone else.
A funny example is telephones. I've heard of amish communities where you can use a phone, but the phone is next to the public outhouse. Or communities where lightbulbs are only permitted in study rooms where a fireplace is too inconvenient or dangerous to have one... or even communities that allow computers, but only if they're related to business and save time calculating which could be better spent on something else.
That's another problem with our society in that we keep on taking in more and more little gadgets and technologies without ever really evaluating the changes they bring about until way after the fact.
I totally agree. There's so much out there, and we just filter through it the same way as we used to. So we now have 500 channels... great, I still watch only about 10 of them. So I'm filter 98% of the input my tv is capable of... and even then I'm not paying attention half of the time.
Same thing with the cell phone. When I'm working, I'll answer it. When I'm bored, I'll answer it. When I go to spend time with my girlfriend, the cell phone and the pager get left behind or turned off.
Filtering is one of the things that the human brain is great at. Ever seen a newbie the first time they walk onto the street in NYC? They're heads and eyes are all over the place... they're craining their heads to view the sky scrapers, they're looking at all the strangely dressed people and the huge billboards... and then they get headaches and neckaches and get tired real quick. Then you see the normal new yorkers that walk with a purpse and hardly ever budge to look at ANYTHING weird. It's kind of funny... but it's all neural filtering. And if we're to survive in this constantly connected world with all of the information, that's what we're going to have to learn to do.
Besides the ' being represented as ? all the time which got fairly annoying, Katz, I think you're extremely guilty of over-simplifying reality to prove a point. Yes, you're correct in that the further technology takes us, the longer and more hectic our work week becomes. Yes, traditional hunters and gatherers spent around 4 to 5 hours a day to survive in relative complacency which didn't involve little gadgets flushing toilets for them and reading them the funnies while they did their business. And yes, we're mapping the human genone without even curing the common cold. But you know what? You don't have to live the 24 hour workday and you can committ youself to daily down time where you're not connected to the internet (or hypernet as you called it). There are books and studies on how to keep yourself sane in this fast and ever faster paced society that we're creating for ourselves. Read the latest copy of Fast Company. There are about 40 pgs of stories, resources, and discussions on this phenomena of the 24/7 cyber community.
We used to live exclusively in our own time zones, working from 9 to 5, but all of the sudden it seems like we realized that the rest of the world is away and working while we're sleeping in relative bliss. let it be that way I say. Technology isn't doing this to us, we're doing it to ourselves. All of the sudden we're seeing how much is going on out of our site and how much information we can see and we're becoming addicted and greedy and it's going to ruin us through sleep deprivation.
Don't blame technology, blame the ones that use it and how they use it.
I respect McCain because he's one of the few politicians that will go to any end to get a bill he favors passed... even if it means kicking a few people in the testicles. Okay, so I didn't particularly like his stance on the impeachment, but so what. His stance on campaign finance as well as pork barreling is more than commendable. And if actions speak louder than words, than his campaign for Prez is doing great. He's not out there seriously campaigning like Bush, Forbes, Buchanan, Gore, and Bradley, but is instead in the Senate doing his job and doing what he does best... stepping on toes and doing what's right for the country and the economy and net-freaks everywhere that need to get their prOn without a tax on it!
What I would like to see next from him is an online consumer rights bill to help protect people against online wire fraud and security foul-ups.
When MS screwed up earlier this month with Hotmail, the users of Hotmail had no rights and basically it was a matter of touch shit for you that we let everyone potentially see your personal mail. Or how about all of those fly-by-night e-commerce shops that when you get a product 30 days after placing an order for it, only to realize it's the wrong product so you send it back and they never credit your account... stuff like this should not happen. And when it does, the consumer should have certain unalienable rights about service. That's what I'd like to see McCain yell about next.
I agree, but I think you might have missed what I was saying. I don't think the NAACP should register domain names just so nobody else can use them, but should register them and then USE THEM as educational pieces about the word and use it against the people that use the word.
That way it's not censorship of the word, and some good actually comes of having the word have its own URL.
If you think about it, one of the main points of the PC movement has been to reclaim words and use them as powerful words in the positive sense. You have gays reclaiming "gay", "queer", and "homo", and the same could be said of "nigger", "chink", etc. The NAACP is doing something remarkable here by reclaiming these words on the internet, and if they're smart, they should post informational resources and use these sites as educational tools for the history of the struggle, where the word came from, and misconceptions. I think that would be a great usage of these URL's by the NAACP.
oops, sorry, I was assuming network protocol through java in which I'm pretty sure you'd need an IP for each device/object. oopsies.
well, if you're going to network your toaster, microwave and dishwasher, you're going to need an IP addy, aren't you? Lets say we're becoming the jetsons and you want to be able to turn on the over and have your chicken roasting in the oven before you get home so it's nice and cooked when you step in the door... how would you do that remotely? With radio or infrared? Would be so much easier if you could use your palm or visor, connect through your house's LAN, access the terminal app that controls the oven, and turn it on to the correct temp. To do this, you'll need a network address... so that's why every object in your house will need an IP address :)
Every home will be a LAN and have it's own "domain"... kinda kewl actually... now if only we can find out how to get a toaster not to burn the toast and start a fire while we're still in the shower...
This is a truly brilliant post. End software patents. Beautiful. You know something, not everyone wants to be open source. Some people actually want to create something and own the intellectual rights to it.
I more informed post would be "could someone please fix the US Patent Office" because it's becoming apparent that they have no clue what they're allowing to become copyrighted.
Another question, how are they damaging the community? Yes, I'm afraid to let my children out at night because Adobe still wants to retain a patent on one of their many technologies used in photoshop. Or lets say that you actually meant to say the software development community... no, software patents give a developer a choice in whether or not to go open source or to protect his or her intellectual property.
except steal ideas from Apple by mimicing their design, and creating another cheap PC (read piece of crap). A company that's based on stolen ideas and inferior hardware and technology (could also appy to M$) deserves what they get. I'm actually suprised they lasted this long. Now the company that I actually like that's into making cheap PC's is iToaster... but that's because they're not stealing any ideas from Apple...
see, I think barcodes are now outdated and passe. Why would you have a barcode to designate who you are instead of just having an retina scan? the signature of your eye or bio-rythem would be much more difficult to forge, plus it wouldn't involve getting some stupid tattoo burned into your skin that would change when you put on 50 lbs or could get manipulated or put on poorly. And I believe that the mark of the beast is to be put on your forehead or the back of your hand... strange that the two places that are used for ID are the eyes (located next to the forehead) and the finger prints (next to the back of the hand)... but that's just me making weird connections due to the caffeine in me.
So somebody patented barcode tattoos. And microsoft tried to patent the word processor. And Al Gore tried to say he invented the internet. woopdeedoodah. so when the antichrist comes (assuming he's not here already), do you really think he's going to go up to this dude/dudette and say I need to have a right to use your patent so I can brand everyone and take over the world and lead the world into the Apocalypse and so that the forces of Gog and Magog can have at each other on the Plains of Apocalypse? hmmmm, would be so much easier just to give out those American Express cards that came out the other day and are dumbed-down smartcards. Geez.
I remember searching EPA's web site a year or two ago, and seeing descriptions of gadgets that they were building that do the same thing as this bioanalyzer and more. They had gadgets that you could put a small amount of pond water in it and it would list all the known contaminants that were in the sample, they had ones that could test a few drops of blood for known diseases as well as do white blood cell counts, and tons of other little kewl gadgets.
There's a huge trend to take all the giant machines that scientists and doctors need for analysis and shrink them down into handhelds... this one by HP is nothing more than just another one that's hitting the market... except that it's backed by HP and has a small flash animation on its site.
Oh well.
when politicians see their stock price tanking and start buying their own stock back to increase the price thereby making themselves look like more solid candidates than they really are? You'll have Donald Trump and Steve Forbes neck and neck because they'll probably own 92% of their own stock and/or offer you a hell of a dividend for holding onto their stock. Then you'll have people buying on rumor and selling on news... which means that politicians will keep on having to grace us with their presence on tv, and then you'll have people making outrageous claims like they came up with the idea of the internet... oh man, it would be such a mess.
but it would be fun as hell to play!
"YES! Bribe me! Bribe me!"
I have a problem. I'm addicted to trying to underbid people in the antique pocket watch section as well as the cheap PC system section (I want me a linux box). Have I tried going cold-turkey? Of course I have. Went cold-ebay for approximately 3 months... but you know what brought me back? trying to find a specific poster for my girlfriend. So instead of my girlfriend trying to save me from my addiction, because of her, I'm doomed to clicking the reload button until 2 am. EST because for some dumb reason, people on the West Coast always seem to set up their auctions at midnight west coast time which is 2 or 3 am east coast time (more of a reason to switch to a standard internet time).
But there is hope. There is a use for ebay that will allow you to surf around ebay and get stuff for free without having to bid. I've found, being a graphic designer, that I can find stock photographs for tons of weird stuff that NO STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY CD will carry. Looking for a picture of a shag rug? doubt you'll find it in Photodisc, but I guarantee you'll find a photo in ebay. looking for crazy pair of sunglasses? same thing. TONS OF IMAGES!!! YIPPEE!!!
That's how I got over my addiction, by chanelling my need to find junk at ebay with the ability to get all the stock photographs I could ever use.
that is seems people are taking offense at being labelled a geek, mild autism, and possibly ADD. Does is really make a difference to any of you that you're labelled these things? Personally, I think most of us should be proud of it. Hell, it could be worse; we could be starving artists (what I was almost doomed to be), paralegals or even lawyers (blood-suckers), or maybe just trashmen. Now, who cares that we're being labelled by the media or misunderstood by the so-called specialists on the human psyche? Hmmm, in Victorian England, having a sex drive was considered a psychological disorder, and even being left-handed in the middle ages was considered an original form of brain damage. So we're misunderstood and labelled. Chances are, most people that label geeks are jealous that thse geeks are able to understand things that are beyond the scope of the majority of the population. Laugh at it and see it for what it is. Utter nonsense.
This isn't a token mention of Linux. IBM has been supporting Linux for quite some time now. Going back to August 11, Lotus (a subsidiary of IBM) jumped on the Linux bandwagon by making Notes run on Linux, on August 10, IBM joined the effort to make sure that Linux runs on Intel's Merced processor, on July 30 IBM released a new version of its DB2 database software for Linux at the same time as for other operating systems, and on July 23, IBM added Linux technical support for their server line.
Obviously, this is not a new decision on the part of IBM. They committed fairly early in the game to supporting Linux and are doing what they can to promote it on their server line and with their industrial strength solutions.
Some companies actually back up what they're saying with their actions, and IBM doesn't just name drop for the sake of a press release. They've been working to promote the Linux operating system as much as they've been working to promote their sever solutions.
considering the lawsuits that Apple is putting to emachines and related companies concerning the "look" of a computer, i don't think they can do the stealth look. See, this look is already taken by IBM with their Netfinity Servers. They're big, flat black, and look like something straight out of the Death Star. You can almost imagine james earl jones's synthesized voice booming out of the server when it gives you an alert message. Actually, that'd be kind of a kewl idea for marketting the Netfinity servers... screw that e-commerce bullshit, market the look of it as futuristic, radar invisible, and capable of destroying worlds. Now that would be kewl advertising.
being an artist myself, I know how wrong you are in this assumption. Ever watched an artist's eyes while they're drawing from life? do you think they have a far-away look or do you think they're analyzing details point by point? yes, artists take a step back to get the "whole picture", but are continuously getting up close and personal to get the details write and to make sure things add up.
Actually, it would be interesting to study how artists look at items when they're drawing. Most good artists don't look at features, but look at features in how they relate to other features. You don't just draw a nose, an ear, or a mouth, but you draw them a little at a time, a line here, a line there, some shading here, some shading there, in relation to each other to build the face. Now, would that not characterize working in parallel?
I agree, but in the article, they sought to prove their serial theory by using examples of visual images. So they were justifying their serial theory by using serial input. See my comment/posting on the mono VCR.
well, then it's actually parallel for the simple reason of while we're processing the information that our eyes are bringing in, we're simultaneously telling our eyes where to get the next bit of information from. If we were serial, then we're bring the info in, process it, then tell the eye where to go next, process it, ad infinitum. If that's the case, then our reality would be staggered instead of fluid because our brain would have to get input, process input, execute the move eye function, get input, etc.
"We are the first research group to show definitively that the human brain processes images serially-paying attention to only one object at a time and shifting rapidly from object to object"
now my question is, might this not have to do with the human's eyes and focusing on one object at a time and switching between multiple images quickly to try to bring them into focus as simultaneously and seamlessly as possible?
"It was important that we knew the order in which they paid attention to the colored objects, because the N2PC works by correlating the brain waves coming from each side of the brain over many statistical trials, so we had to always have them search in the same order"
He acknowledges that the brain is paying attention to certain objects based on color in a certain order, but attributes this to the brain and not to the input device. I'm going to make a crude analogy which will probably get shot down, but if you can think of a better one, please post it. It's like taking a mono VCR hooked up to mono speakers VS a mono VCR hooked up to a surround sound speakers. You know it's able to process the info better, but it can't because of the input device's shortcomings.
and one more addition...
After his stint with Lucas, Liam Neeson, who played Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace, announced (and quickly retracted) his retirement from acting. He said he "felt like a puppet."
The way he and the rest of the cast acted, they could have been puppets or computer generated characters. I think some of the computer characters did a better job of acting than the humans in the movie.
the fact that Obi-Wan really hated being there, or the fact that such poor grammar was used in a professional web site...
"royally pissed of"...the word is "off"
"And even the Force can't keep him quiet."... fragments?
"Guinness also regales the magazine with a very un-mentor-like story his treatment of a 12-year-old fan."... um, is this english?
Anyway, I'm glad that someone that has been involved with the Star Wars projects is speaking up against the blantant and excessive merchandising that Lucas is getting away with. The Phantom Menace was awful, yet it raked in a boatload of cash only because of the hype and devoted following of the fans. Clearly an inferior product cashing in on the history of the trilogy.
It's just a shame that we'll all go to see the next movie as well... hopefully jar-jar won't be in that one.