Judging from video : I'd say the distance is about 2 meters (comparing to reflection of the man in the glass), and the time is certainly more than.2 seconds, which gives less than 10 meters per second, or 36 km/h. That is on the order of ten times less than advertised.
I'd say it is more or less the same as with any other demo version - the final product will be much improved (or we'll be broke).
While it is certainly possible,
I seriously doubt that you want to do it, giving the 'cleaning' company
full acces to it, coz they are really going to clean it,
grab the passwords, accounts, etc. It is called phishing.
Are you seriously considering giving some Indian full remote access to your computer to 'clean' it?
In most cases they will all agree that the most important thing to do is to find who seems to be directly responsible and fire them, and once that is done, come up with an "Action Plan" to avoid it happening again
So this is really 'Anger management' through the device of 'Blame assigment'. First react with anger and mindless retaliation, then calm down and think about what to do. This seems a good description of our Western culture. Smells like Iraq.
OTOH, the Japanese way seems to be to first chop off a limb or two of your own, then act. Find your ex-associates and kill them all.
The Chinese way is more like to burn a village or two, search for the anti-emperor, or anti-regime dissidents and publicly stick them on poles.
The good old European way is to find the heretics and burn them. Simple&clean.
Seems that you understand this stuff.. tell me why firing her saves their asses? If I were the owner I'd fire them regardless.. I really do not understand this 'scape goat' thing. How does firing her make up for the money loss, or the potentially dangerour system in place?
We'd better start learning Q++; or better yet
preparing the port to.quant platform.
Start to code those void Byte2Qbyte(QBYTE* pOut, const BYTE *pIn) NOW!!
We should start building an open source STL extension around template class QAlgo<..>, QBit<..>,..
It's going to be too late when they hit us with US patent #1.232.322.999..
OR when they start outsorcing the Q++ development to India once more..
This time, we gotta be ready!!!
Hmm, maybe in a society where college is free?
Maybe in a society where software is reusable?
Maybe there really is no need for large masses of programmers.. they (we) are reinventing the wheel most of the time anyway.
Maybe in a society like this people could go out more instead of clicking away in cubicles all day..
Ah, I just like to dream.
The other camp is the average user who just wants fast respons time and to play Doom 3 at 100+ fps.
Don't forget the even more average user : IE and 16 worms.
Maybe I'll get a little less calls like 'the pages are loading slower and slower'.
I think we should try to make the machines more user friendly.
1. There are too many keys for the average user - we should get rid of those Fsomething, Ctrl-Alt-Shifr-Home business.
2. Still too many keys, we should skip the numerical part, numbers scare non-techies anyway.
3. The ultimate consumer electronics product must have three buttons : power on, power off, and play. With an extra panel of six to ten buttons for those more technically inclined (stop, pause, repeat, mark, skip,..).
4. We should get rid of those funny characters, the ghastly @\/*. , do not forget the dreaded;):) and 8o sequences.
5. And remember : a button on a mouse is a button too many. The wheel is OK though, kind of sexy.
6. Too many choices will only confuse a user : make the pages more readable, enlarge fonts, remove superfluous links.
7. What do you mean by 'computers are not only for Web browsing'?
8. Multimedia content, now we're getting somewhere. The future of computers is Multimedia!! Of course!!
9. Dialup/ADSL is too confusing for the user. Cable is best.
10. Put everything in one box. now why the hell do we need the 'Monitor' and the 'Printer' when we already bought the 'Computer'???
11. Label it not Computer, because computing is frustrating. Label it something sweeter, shorter..... maybe TV?
THAT kind of humor, my dear papa, is only relieving fear of your pipi being too small, and your belly getting too big.
Getting pleasure out of other people 'not getting it' is one, a most perverse, thing, but ad hominem is a brutality that is not tolerated in civilised parts of the world.
Well, you aren't exactly worth your money if you can't disable spyware on your computer.. We spy on employee's internet usage and fire anybody we catch on sensitive stuff because of their incompetence.
The only use of windows hooks is to make a nice remote control key translator.
And it's comments like yours that demonstrate that the sarcasm gene is not evenly distributed.
I really wanted to slap you in the face because of that, but I don't have anything funny to say now.
Moments of inspiration are not evenly distributed in time, space, or unfortunalety slashdot for that matter.
Do not make a mistake by thinking sarcasm is a variant of humor, it is a mix of SAdism, naRCissism and spASM.
In its own words, sarcasm is like a thick rubber sole; all the sh.t in the world will stick to it over time.
I believe we cannot say we are overloaded by information, only maybe with data.
AFAIK, information is that piece of data that is actually useful. Therefore I think we only have SPAM overload. At least I do.
This post is identical in informational content to some 10.000.000 other pieces of English text everywhere on the net; it says nothing new.
This goes to show that people generally like to talk, but don't like to listen. Just go to any elementary school (or Slashdot article..) and you'll see what I mean.
You may be right, maybe they are granting so many patents lately because their attention is fully cunsumed with the new TOE(theory of everything) they've been working on for the last 10 years.
In this case things could balance out in the end.. .
How much does it cost to apply for a patent? Or to get them to even read the application? Maybe small companies could launch a DDOS attack on USPTO by applying for vast amounts of 'patent X as an object' patents?
First they ran out of supply line(2003), then they ran out of food(2004), and now they are running out of oxygen. What will the next thing be? Will they run out of orbit?
Who needs Tabs, when we have Alt-Tabs? For me personally, Tabs (multiple windows inside one shell window) are out of the question, since it is much easier to switch with Alt-Tab(multiple shell windows) then it is to switch with Ctrl-Tab (multiple tabs inside one shell window), because my thumb hurts less.
Besides, what's next? Are they going to stuff all office apps inside tabs of a single master app? Running IE along with Mozilla in the same window?? LETTING WEB PAGES CHOOSE THEIR OWN BROWSER??? Like Flash/Quicktime/etc. ???? Will there be a REVOLUTION in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY and the INTERNET ?????
Nope. Sadly, it's just plain old tabs, that's all there is.
No it can't. The light source must scan the target, not just illuminate it.
Well that is not exactly true; this holds for photography without a camera (one pixel only) (the principle used is that of a flatbed scanner, or light pen).
If using a camera (a pixel grid), the locations of camera and light source can be switched . This is the RAYTRACING principle used to render 3d graphics (autocad et al); send a light ray back from camera at the scene and trace where it will arrive (if it hits a light source).
It saves a lot of raytracing compared to inverse (trace all rays from all light sources to the camera).
Now imagine Ben and Luke hired Han and Chewie to take them to Alderaan in their flying Ford Pinto. Would you say to yourself, "It's ok. Its science fiction. I accept that." Or would you say, "What the fuck is that? That's stupid!"
I agree and applaud, but this, I think, is the distinction between analytical thinking, and the usual common sense the average guy applies along with the beer to a star trek episode.
The tree of speculation that grows from a single "what if", sharing space with other plants and not throwing too much shadow, is replaced with a simple "It's all a fiction" disillusion.
I remember once asking a friend of mine what he would do if it turned out that our world is just an illusion.He replied he'd go naked chasing women, throwing himself out of windows and all, - "If it's all an illusion, that wouldn't mean anything, would it?".
I'll watch it on DVD which I'll rent from a rental shop near my house for 1$.
This way I get to enjoy it twice : the first time when it comes out, with all the talks and other people's excitement and all, and then after a year or so when I've completely forgotten about it, I'll see an advertisement for it at the rental shop and I'll go "Hey! it's that fabolous movie everybody liked! Yuppie!" or "Bah! Stupid commercial stuff for a bad film..".
Then I'll probably need another 200$ for sub replacement...
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Judging from video : I'd say the distance is about 2 meters (comparing to reflection of the man in the glass), and the time is certainly more than .2 seconds, which gives less than 10 meters per second, or 36 km/h. That is on the order of ten times less than advertised.
I'd say it is more or less the same as with any other demo version - the final product will be much improved (or we'll be broke).
While it is certainly possible,
I seriously doubt that you want to do it,
giving the 'cleaning' company
full acces to it, coz they are really going to clean it,
grab the passwords, accounts, etc.
It is called phishing.
Are you seriously considering giving some Indian full remote access to your computer to 'clean' it?
Bah, I could find an overseas resource to do the same thing for $12.
Yeah, it goes like
SPECIAL OFFER! Virus cleaning service,
we remove all pest inside&outside of Your computer
just for 12$ ! Click here and Order NOW!
A few pages later:
You ordered:
1 Cleaning of viruses 12$
1 Antispyware free
1 Shipping and handling 281$
--
TOTAL 293$
Delivery via Feed-me-express
Expected delivery : 3 business weeks
SpyCrackCo , 23 Buddha street,
Bangalore, India
In most cases they will all agree that the most important thing to do is to find who seems to be directly responsible and fire them, and once that is done, come up with an "Action Plan" to avoid it happening again
So this is really 'Anger management' through the device of 'Blame assigment'. First react with anger and mindless retaliation, then calm down and think about what to do. This seems a good description of our Western culture. Smells like Iraq.
OTOH, the Japanese way seems to be to first chop off a limb or two of your own, then act. Find your ex-associates and kill them all.
The Chinese way is more like to burn a village or two, search for the anti-emperor, or anti-regime dissidents and publicly stick them on poles.
The good old European way is to find the heretics and burn them. Simple&clean.
I think I LIKE the modern Western way the most...
Seems that you understand this stuff .. tell me why firing her saves their asses? If I were the owner I'd fire them regardless.. I really do not understand this 'scape goat' thing. How does firing her make up for the money loss, or the potentially dangerour system in place?
We'd better start learning Q++; or better yet preparing the port to .quant platform.
..
..
Start to code those void Byte2Qbyte(QBYTE* pOut, const BYTE *pIn) NOW!!
We should start building an open source STL extension around template class QAlgo<..>, QBit<..>,
It's going to be too late when they hit us with US patent #1.232.322.999
OR when they start outsorcing the Q++ development to India once more..
This time, we gotta be ready!!!
In waht cosiety are teh peopl giwing away stuff?
.. they (we) are reinventing the wheel most of the time anyway.
Hmm, maybe in a society where college is free?
Maybe in a society where software is reusable?
Maybe there really is no need for large masses of programmers
Maybe in a society like this people could go out more instead of clicking away in cubicles all day..
Ah, I just like to dream.
The other camp is the average user who just wants fast respons time and to play Doom 3 at 100+ fps.
Don't forget the even more average user : IE and 16 worms.
Maybe I'll get a little less calls like 'the pages are loading slower and slower'.
I think we should try to make the machines more user friendly. ;) :) and 8o sequences.
..... maybe TV?
1. There are too many keys for the average user - we should get rid of those Fsomething, Ctrl-Alt-Shifr-Home business.
2. Still too many keys, we should skip the numerical part, numbers scare non-techies anyway.
3. The ultimate consumer electronics product must have three buttons : power on, power off, and play. With an extra panel of six to ten buttons for those more technically inclined (stop, pause, repeat, mark, skip,..).
4. We should get rid of those funny characters, the ghastly @\/*. , do not forget the dreaded
5. And remember : a button on a mouse is a button too many. The wheel is OK though, kind of sexy.
6. Too many choices will only confuse a user : make the pages more readable, enlarge fonts, remove superfluous links.
7. What do you mean by 'computers are not only for Web browsing'?
8. Multimedia content, now we're getting somewhere. The future of computers is Multimedia!! Of course!!
9. Dialup/ADSL is too confusing for the user. Cable is best.
10. Put everything in one box. now why the hell do we need the 'Monitor' and the 'Printer' when we already bought the 'Computer'???
11. Label it not Computer, because computing is frustrating. Label it something sweeter, shorter
We could go on until Slashdot's thread depth is overrun and still not say anything substantial. I quit.
THAT kind of humor, my dear papa, is only relieving fear of your pipi being too small, and your belly getting too big.
Getting pleasure out of other people 'not getting it' is one, a most perverse, thing, but ad hominem is a brutality that is not tolerated in civilised parts of the world.
Gimme a snapshot of a (wo)man's mind and I will understand him/her. Until then, (s)he'll have to explain things.
Well, you aren't exactly worth your money if you can't disable spyware on your computer.. We spy on employee's internet usage and fire anybody we catch on sensitive stuff because of their incompetence.
The only use of windows hooks is to make a nice remote control key translator.
And it's comments like yours that demonstrate that the sarcasm gene is not evenly distributed.
I really wanted to slap you in the face because of that, but I don't have anything funny to say now.
Moments of inspiration are not evenly distributed in time, space, or unfortunalety slashdot for that matter.
Do not make a mistake by thinking sarcasm is a variant of humor, it is a mix of SAdism, naRCissism and spASM.
In its own words, sarcasm is like a thick rubber sole; all the sh.t in the world will stick to it over time.
I believe we cannot say we are overloaded by information, only maybe with data.
AFAIK, information is that piece of data that is actually useful. Therefore I think we only have SPAM overload. At least I do.
This post is identical in informational content to some 10.000.000 other pieces of English text everywhere on the net; it says nothing new.
This goes to show that people generally like to talk, but don't like to listen. Just go to any elementary school (or Slashdot article..) and you'll see what I mean.
over 2 billion people. about 1/3 of the world population is in China.
o stpopulous.htm
Ahem, you meant in China and India combined, didn't you? Both have about 1 billion populaion.
http://geography.about.com/cs/worldpopulation/a/m
You may be right, maybe they are granting so many patents lately because their attention is fully cunsumed with the new TOE(theory of everything) they've been working on for the last 10 years.
In this case things could balance out in the end.. .
How much does it cost to apply for a patent? Or to get them to even read the application? Maybe small companies could launch a DDOS attack on USPTO by applying for vast amounts of 'patent X as an object' patents?
This just goes to show that the times when patent officers were Einsteins are long gone.
First they ran out of supply line(2003), then they ran out of food(2004), and now they are running out of oxygen. What will the next thing be? Will they run out of orbit?
Who needs Tabs, when we have Alt-Tabs? For me personally, Tabs (multiple windows inside one shell window) are out of the question, since it is much easier to switch with Alt-Tab(multiple shell windows) then it is to switch with Ctrl-Tab (multiple tabs inside one shell window), because my thumb hurts less.
Besides, what's next? Are they going to stuff all office apps inside tabs of a single master app? Running IE along with Mozilla in the same window?? LETTING WEB PAGES CHOOSE THEIR OWN BROWSER??? Like Flash/Quicktime/etc. ???? Will there be a REVOLUTION in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY and the INTERNET ?????
Nope. Sadly, it's just plain old tabs, that's all there is.
No it can't. The light source must scan the target, not just illuminate it.
Well that is not exactly true; this holds for photography without a camera (one pixel only) (the principle used is that of a flatbed scanner, or light pen).
If using a camera (a pixel grid), the locations of camera and light source can be switched . This is the RAYTRACING principle used to render 3d graphics (autocad et al); send a light ray back from camera at the scene and trace where it will arrive (if it hits a light source). It saves a lot of raytracing compared to inverse (trace all rays from all light sources to the camera).
So I think in principle nothing very new..
Now imagine Ben and Luke hired Han and Chewie to take them to Alderaan in their flying Ford Pinto. Would you say to yourself, "It's ok. Its science fiction. I accept that." Or would you say, "What the fuck is that? That's stupid!"
I agree and applaud, but this, I think, is the distinction between analytical thinking, and the usual common sense the average guy applies along with the beer to a star trek episode.
The tree of speculation that grows from a single "what if", sharing space with other plants and not throwing too much shadow, is replaced with a simple "It's all a fiction" disillusion.
I remember once asking a friend of mine what he would do if it turned out that our world is just an illusion.He replied he'd go naked chasing women, throwing himself out of windows and all, - "If it's all an illusion, that wouldn't mean anything, would it?".
I'll watch it on DVD which I'll rent from a rental shop near my house for 1$.
This way I get to enjoy it twice : the first time when it comes out, with all the talks and other people's excitement and all, and then after a year or so when I've completely forgotten about it, I'll see an advertisement for it at the rental shop and I'll go "Hey! it's that fabolous movie everybody liked! Yuppie!" or "Bah! Stupid commercial stuff for a bad film..".
Then I'll probably need another 200$ for sub replacement...
but the article said if you ever get bored with water cooling
What could me more fun than proven technology - LN2 cooling, that has been used for supercomputers for decades.
The beast : http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031230/