I took a class with Pranav where he presented TapuMa http://fluid.media.mit.edu/projects.php?action=details&id=53 as his final project. The idea seemed cool, put down a pair an object on the map and it showed you relevant locations. In fact, I think most of his projects had something or another to do with maps.
This new project of his incorporates pieces of tangible interfaces as well as fluid interaction (ambient interfaces) and smart agents
from the video "there is no reason in this day and age we should be conforming to a physical device"
The whole idea of Tangible Interfaces is to exploit our natural ability to manipulate physical objects. In fact the guy that developed the minority report stuff, John Underkoffler, was big in Tangible Interfaces when he was a student at mit media lab. In my opinion, physical objects aren't being used enough in interfaces. I do like the fact that touchscreen interfaces gets rid of the indirection than occurs when you use a mouse to move a cursor to manipulate some icon.
Anyone know if you work on a project in grad school if your school owns it? Is there anything that prevents a grad student from open sourcing their project code? What about patenting or starting a business based on things that come out of your project? What about side projects?
"Fortune.com writer David Kirkpatrick may indeed have set himself up as a prophet. In October of 2005, Kirkpatrick coined the term GEMAYA, an acronym representing a futuristic super-conglomerate consisting of Google, eBay, MSN, Amazon, Yahoo!, and AOL. It may be a safe bet that some form of that will one day be a reality, even if those exact players don't decided to follow the "can't beat'em, join'em" mantra."
-goog v everyone
ya they are really cool looking and have a nice feel, also good to set your laptop on when working. was hoping the more sylish tech people would see the post;)
25x compression for something repeated 25 times
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Yup, let me just add to others saying that 25x compression is impossible for arbitrary data. It's just an indexing problem, if you have a 2 kbyte files (2^12288 possible permutation) it is impossible to map all to the (2000/25=) 82 byte files (2^656 possible permutations). Good thing the article talks about what data this applies to...(sarcasm)
got my gf a foofbag (aka foofpod) case. They have some cool designs, use nice material, and are hand made. she's gotten lots of compliments on the case;0 they've gotten good reviews, made in australia
The electromagnetic properties of superconductors are explained in quantum theory by assuming that force-carrying particles, known as photons, gain mass.
Any physicists care to comment on this explanation? I thought supercoductors where explained by superfluidity...
In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure.
this guy at my company who works on information security found the key hard coded in the diebold source code. source code which he found online. for those that don't know about cryptography, this is bad.
He gave a talk about it last year and advocated a paper ballets and optical scanners as others have.
wondering what the british naturalist has to do with a kernel?
Darwin is used as the UNIX core of OS X. Darwin iteself is a version of the BSD UNIX operating system that offers advanced networking, services such as the Apache web server, and support for both Macintosh and UNIX file systems. It was originally released in March 1999. Darwin currently runs on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers, and is currently being ported to Intel processor-based computers and compatible systems by the Darwin community.
XNU is the name of the kernel that Apple developed for use in the Mac OS X operating system and released as open source as part of the Darwin operating system. It is a hybrid kernel combining the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from the FreeBSD kernel as well as a C++ API for writing drivers called IOKit. XNU is an acronym for X is Not Unix.[1]
1. ^ (2005). Porting UNIX/Linux Applications to Mac OS X: Glossary. Apple Computer. URL accessed on December 13, 2005.
-payment to coder only when the product meets requirements (why did anyone get paid if all you got were shiny toys!) -select coders who can self manage -peer review
Peer Review is very important! You could have college students doing it, as long as someone goes in there and checks that the code does what it says it should.
Was in process of moderating but removed my moderation to make this comment
one thing that bothered me about google maps is that it doesn't have poi like yahoo maps. would be nice if google maps showed locations of subway stops like yahoo maps does under "Travel & Transportation" just to see what metro stops are close by a restaurant...
Poor clippy got clipped
"And rejoice if you've raged for eight years against Clippy. The dorky paper-clip cartoon is really dead; Office Assistant suggestions will no longer glibly interrupt your tasks. Unlike the late Clippy, a ghostly text-formatting toolbar hovers near your cursor; it fades or darkens in response to your mouse movements. Right-clicking a mouse will reveal the same task-specific menu choices as offered in the masthead banner."
When Microsoft released office xp 2001 (with little change overall from it's predecessor office 2k), it expereienced much lower than expected sales. Essentially the couple of new featuers (collaboration tools and speech recognition) wasn't enough to convince users to upgrade.
The new UI and killer features is an attempt to rectify the situation... with totally new ui, users feel like they could get left behind if they don't upgrade.
to brad, i choose firefox so i wouldn't have to deal with your crappy programming skills so...i don't think i'll be installing your plugin
I see your real agenda is protecting me counterfeit software:
"The Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program is part of Microsoft's on-going effort to protect its customers and partners from counterfeit software, and increase customer awareness of the value of genuine Windows XP."
Thanks for the help but i can handle that on my own!
Did anyone address the issue of the narrow beam that lcd produce? This article says that lighting a living room with LED is still inefficient because of it.
From the article:
"All of the light from our LEDs is concentrated in a 20 degree beam, while the incandescent and compact fluorescent lights were tested without fixtures...and most of the light they produced was never measured in the test, since it sensed only light falling on the sensor. It's OK to compare different lights by how brightly they illuminate a certain size area...but put a reflector behind the compact fluorescent and incandescent bulbs in the test rig and the data would change significantly. Therefore, while the LED lights in this test may illuminate a small area as brightly as other lights, they are NOT significantly more efficient."
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I took a class with Pranav where he presented TapuMa http://fluid.media.mit.edu/projects.php?action=details&id=53 as his final project. The idea seemed cool, put down a pair an object on the map and it showed you relevant locations. In fact, I think most of his projects had something or another to do with maps. This new project of his incorporates pieces of tangible interfaces as well as fluid interaction (ambient interfaces) and smart agents
from the video "there is no reason in this day and age we should be conforming to a physical device" The whole idea of Tangible Interfaces is to exploit our natural ability to manipulate physical objects. In fact the guy that developed the minority report stuff, John Underkoffler, was big in Tangible Interfaces when he was a student at mit media lab. In my opinion, physical objects aren't being used enough in interfaces. I do like the fact that touchscreen interfaces gets rid of the indirection than occurs when you use a mouse to move a cursor to manipulate some icon.
Anyone know if you work on a project in grad school if your school owns it? Is there anything that prevents a grad student from open sourcing their project code? What about patenting or starting a business based on things that come out of your project? What about side projects?
"Fortune.com writer David Kirkpatrick may indeed have set himself up as a prophet. In October of 2005, Kirkpatrick coined the term GEMAYA, an acronym representing a futuristic super-conglomerate consisting of Google, eBay, MSN, Amazon, Yahoo!, and AOL. It may be a safe bet that some form of that will one day be a reality, even if those exact players don't decided to follow the "can't beat'em, join'em" mantra."
-goog v everyone
ya they are really cool looking and have a nice feel, also good to set your laptop on when working. was hoping the more sylish tech people would see the post ;)
Yup, let me just add to others saying that 25x compression is impossible for arbitrary data. It's just an indexing problem, if you have a 2 kbyte files (2^12288 possible permutation) it is impossible to map all to the (2000/25=) 82 byte files (2^656 possible permutations). Good thing the article talks about what data this applies to...(sarcasm)
got my gf a foofbag (aka foofpod) case. They have some cool designs, use nice material, and are hand made. she's gotten lots of compliments on the case ;0 they've gotten good reviews, made in australia
The overwhelming consensus among physicists is photons are massless.
Light is composed of photons so we could ask if the photon has mass. The answer is then definitely "no": The photon is a massless particle.
Any physicists care to comment on this explanation? I thought supercoductors where explained by superfluidity...
what about quantum computing mr. vp?
lol i don't know what i was talking about. i thought the whole story was made up for some reason.
Stop Propogating Myths
That's a common misconception of what XML is. XML typically refers to XML and related technologies
this guy at my company who works on information security found the key hard coded in the diebold source code. source code which he found online. for those that don't know about cryptography, this is bad.
He gave a talk about it last year and advocated a paper ballets and optical scanners as others have.
wondering what the british naturalist has to do with a kernel?
Darwin is used as the UNIX core of OS X. Darwin iteself is a version of the BSD UNIX operating system that offers advanced networking, services such as the Apache web server, and support for both Macintosh and UNIX file systems. It was originally released in March 1999. Darwin currently runs on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers, and is currently being ported to Intel processor-based computers and compatible systems by the Darwin community.
XNU is the name of the kernel that Apple developed for use in the Mac OS X operating system and released as open source as part of the Darwin operating system. It is a hybrid kernel combining the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from the FreeBSD kernel as well as a C++ API for writing drivers called IOKit. XNU is an acronym for X is Not Unix.[1]
1. ^ (2005). Porting UNIX/Linux Applications to Mac OS X: Glossary. Apple Computer. URL accessed on December 13, 2005.
what we need is not management BUT
-payment to coder only when the product meets requirements
(why did anyone get paid if all you got were shiny toys!)
-select coders who can self manage
-peer review
Peer Review is very important! You could have college students doing it, as long as someone goes in there and checks that the code does what it says it should.
Was in process of moderating but removed my moderation to make this comment
i can see people using this to play twister
Right foot blue! (Right foot green!)
when is the kit coming out for marketing on slashdot? what's with these adverts?
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one thing that bothered me about google maps is that it doesn't have poi like yahoo maps. would be nice if google maps showed locations of subway stops like yahoo maps does under "Travel & Transportation" just to see what metro stops are close by a restaurant...
"... He's accused of threatening to slit the throats of trading standards ..."
Tha's what a 24 should be doing, not spamming
Poor clippy got clipped "And rejoice if you've raged for eight years against Clippy. The dorky paper-clip cartoon is really dead; Office Assistant suggestions will no longer glibly interrupt your tasks. Unlike the late Clippy, a ghostly text-formatting toolbar hovers near your cursor; it fades or darkens in response to your mouse movements. Right-clicking a mouse will reveal the same task-specific menu choices as offered in the masthead banner."
The new UI and killer features is an attempt to rectify the situation... with totally new ui, users feel like they could get left behind if they don't upgrade.
to brad, i choose firefox so i wouldn't have to deal with your crappy programming skills so...i don't think i'll be installing your plugin
I see your real agenda is protecting me counterfeit software: "The Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program is part of Microsoft's on-going effort to protect its customers and partners from counterfeit software, and increase customer awareness of the value of genuine Windows XP."
Thanks for the help but i can handle that on my own!
From the article: