"... Why doesn't it just work... "
Because colour TVs don't interpret chroma dots to display colour, they use three different signals for RGB. Engineers would have had to build chroma-dot interpretation into the colour TVs.
Things don't just work. They have to be made to work. Are you in middle management by any chance?. Do you use the phrase "Make it so Number One"?
I know enough to know this is wrong, PAL uses a colour difference signal. Fine patterns in the luminance signal do show up as colours, check patterns would often show as strobeing colour on older colour TVs.
All they really need to do is to give the prints to Turner.
I t6hink they are basically doing the same thing but extracting the original colour from vestigial chroma signals, rather than using what some artist thinks the colours were like..
I am sure this is a dumb question but why doesn't it just work? If the colour subcarrier is there then why doesn't it just show in colour when displayed on a colour TV? I thought this was why some patterned ties, shirts, etc. with fine monochrome lines would show as a glittering rainbow of colours.
My recent browser history includes searches for murder methods, WMDs, lines of succession, various types of weapons, schedules for public transport.
I've also be doing searches on cold fusion, neutrinos, FTL travel, space elevators, seed ships, other planets and breeds of chickens.
It means nothing. The first lot of searches makes me a terrorist no more than the second lot makes me a scientist or chicken farmer.
Oh my god you are part of the Iluminati plot to kill everyone in America then escape in a FTL ship to a planet where you will retire and breed chickens.
Absolutely. I can see this being used in defense cases in the future - Your honour I was not searching for ways to kill someone, just following a link it Timothy's slashdot post.
And this isn't just an academic point. If their predictions are of any value, they will be incorporated into major decisions made, and thus will be critical for the simulator to predict.
Fortunately, the solution is (relatively) simple: when using simulations in decision making, they run what-if -scenarios. The Earth Simulator can simply save the current state in a checkpoint, then run these what-if -scenarios.
Good luck with that. So far attempts to model the effect of computerised trading on the stock market (much simpler than everything) have failed miserably. Also you have the chaos problem, where small changes can cause divergent and difficult to predict behaviour. What would have happened if we had a clear unambiguous warning of the sub-prime crisis a year before it happened? Would it have happened much earlier, been avoided, or just mitigated to an extent? What if the model included a prediction of what effect the warning would have - and so on.
Somehow I doubt that all the computing machines in the word combined have the necessary processing power to computationally simulate *everything* that happens on the planet, even when if we try to limit the variables. So I'll just go ahead and assume the science team will compromise on a flawed model which produces equally flawed results.
The interesting bit comes when the simulation reaches the point that the computer simulation started. The computers then have to simulate themselves running the simulation.
Gather fifty smokers, shove them in a garage, and tell them to chain smoke for twenty minutes. In another garage, turn on a gasoline-powered car and leave it running for twenty minutes. Which would you rather enter?
Are the 50 smoker's French? If so I might opt for the carbon monoxide poisoning.
Domain names cost about 10$ a pop. A single spindoctoring TV commercial costs half a billion if you want anyone to see it. They can easily afford to buy out every domain that could possibly be created, and it wouldn't touch what they will have to spend if some seriously nasty info gets out.
No. Allowing for only alpha-numeric characters there are 37^63 -1 possible domain names (alpha-numbers and no character for 1 to 63 characters) this gives 626,193,587,911,053,268,732,827,767,099,982,579,610,904,461,501,866,669,014,246,836,899,225,819,910,774,694,322,888,478,540,551,852 possibilities. And this is just in the ".com" domain and does not allow for subdomains and other characters
Bin Laden family has taken a patent out on the concept of the USA winning a war against and Islamic state. The US troops have been instructed not to fight too hard in case they infringe this patent.
As exemplified by the summary, there's a pervasive misunderstanding on Slashdot on how patents work. Just because someone is able to patent one method in the field of X does *not* exclude others from practicing in the field of X.
Don't get me wrong - method patents like this stink worse than the NY Giant's defense in the 4th quarter, but they are generally pretty easy to avoid by simply doing one step differently. Rival companies do this all the time with ligit process patents.
Rival companies who have a lot of money to contest the patent and show that it does not apply if necessary. If you don't have deep pockets don't even try.
How about running a study where you give everyone obviously labelled placebos and then see whether people who know how biology and medicine work get the same treatment as the average slob.
I can see this having a dual affect. The ignorant being cured because they think the 'placebos' have an affect, and those knowledgeable about biology being cured because it reminds them that they have the mental ability to cure themselves if they believe they can!
I'm wondering if the best setup might be a hybrid, with a feeder system that has puts exactly two people at each register, on checking out and one on deck.
I agree that this is a good suggestion. I would add an optimisation to this in that the second person gets called from the main queue when the previous person reaches the payment phase. This should be easy enough to do with modern tills, and would avoid the situation where you are behind someone with two huge trolleys full of produce that needs to be weighed, items missing the label, and things with security tags that the cashier can't remove without management assistance.
This racket is starting to collapse under it's own weight. Before too long the large companies will see that its in their own best interest to lobby for patent reforms and abolish the software patents - if for no other reason than lobbying for such a law will save them money from being constantly trolled.
Enough already indeed. It's time for the public to get its grammar straight. Sieg heil!
I think all you grammar Nazis should get together and fund a patent "reversal of semantics of grammatical constructs". Cite a lode of natural language papers and the patent office is sure to think its something clever and accept it. Then when someone uses "its" for "it's" or vice versa you can sue them for patent infringement.
I don't know why I am telling you this, if you get the patent its likely that I would be one of it's first victims!
Those companies themselves have more than enough patents to fence off possibile competitors (coincedently they are competitors of eachother;)). So I wouldn't be too sure about them getting sick of patents. Especially since they also have the means to defend themselves from patent trolls and can afford an army of lawyers to get the best out of these lawsuits.
Exactly. The worst (but very likely) scenario is a cartel of software giants all holding patents and having agreements with others but meaning that no small developer or new company could develop anything without being attacked with thousands of general patents they could not afford to contest,
There's a balance between what's secure (a bunch of random characters with no relationship to anything in the real world) and what can realistically be memorized by the average person... times twenty or thirty variations to account for all the different sites you visit.
For most people, it seems that balance lies somewhere near "have 2 or 3 shitty, easily guessed passwords and reuse them across all my online accounts."
I use a variation on that. Just in case someone from one site has access to my password and guesses its used in other sites I append an "easy" password to the end... meaning that they would go and try someone else's account for example a root Guess24This76is76Hard : would be
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This will be sorted by the new "tea Party" representatives....... "Duh what's email ..... where's my scribe".
" ... Why doesn't it just work ... "
Because colour TVs don't interpret chroma dots to display colour, they use three different signals for RGB. Engineers would have had to build chroma-dot interpretation into the colour TVs.
Things don't just work. They have to be made to work. Are you in middle management by any chance?. Do you use the phrase "Make it so Number One"?
I know enough to know this is wrong, PAL uses a colour difference signal. Fine patterns in the luminance signal do show up as colours, check patterns would often show as strobeing colour on older colour TVs.
All they really need to do is to give the prints to Turner.
I t6hink they are basically doing the same thing but extracting the original colour from vestigial chroma signals, rather than using what some artist thinks the colours were like..
"the guy had green hair. I don't entirely understand your post, but it does verify that my mom was not crazy,..."
No, she was colorblind, it was a redhead.
At least she was polite enough not to comment on his transparent trousers. You were really naive to think she was laughing at his green hair.
I am sure this is a dumb question but why doesn't it just work? If the colour subcarrier is there then why doesn't it just show in colour when displayed on a colour TV? I thought this was why some patterned ties, shirts, etc. with fine monochrome lines would show as a glittering rainbow of colours.
My recent browser history includes searches for murder methods, WMDs, lines of succession, various types of weapons, schedules for public transport.
I've also be doing searches on cold fusion, neutrinos, FTL travel, space elevators, seed ships, other planets and breeds of chickens.
It means nothing. The first lot of searches makes me a terrorist no more than the second lot makes me a scientist or chicken farmer.
Oh my god you are part of the Iluminati plot to kill everyone in America then escape in a FTL ship to a planet where you will retire and breed chickens.
Absolutely. I can see this being used in defense cases in the future - Your honour I was not searching for ways to kill someone, just following a link it Timothy's slashdot post.
Fortunately, the solution is (relatively) simple: when using simulations in decision making, they run what-if -scenarios. The Earth Simulator can simply save the current state in a checkpoint, then run these what-if -scenarios.
Good luck with that. So far attempts to model the effect of computerised trading on the stock market (much simpler than everything) have failed miserably. Also you have the chaos problem, where small changes can cause divergent and difficult to predict behaviour. What would have happened if we had a clear unambiguous warning of the sub-prime crisis a year before it happened? Would it have happened much earlier, been avoided, or just mitigated to an extent? What if the model included a prediction of what effect the warning would have - and so on.
Somehow I doubt that all the computing machines in the word combined have the necessary processing power to computationally simulate *everything* that happens on the planet, even when if we try to limit the variables. So I'll just go ahead and assume the science team will compromise on a flawed model which produces equally flawed results.
The interesting bit comes when the simulation reaches the point that the computer simulation started. The computers then have to simulate themselves running the simulation.
simulating everything?
Yes. You only think you posted that. You are really part of the simulation.
I don't want any flavor of tablet, I wish people would stop trying to sell me one.
Not even strawberry?
Gather fifty smokers, shove them in a garage, and tell them to chain smoke for twenty minutes. In another garage, turn on a gasoline-powered car and leave it running for twenty minutes. Which would you rather enter?
Are the 50 smoker's French? If so I might opt for the carbon monoxide poisoning.
There will always be someone how hasn't owned some particular thing, yet that thing can be popular.
I have to agree. I've never owned a sex slave.
Domain names cost about 10$ a pop. A single spindoctoring TV commercial costs half a billion if you want anyone to see it. They can easily afford to buy out every domain that could possibly be created, and it wouldn't touch what they will have to spend if some seriously nasty info gets out.
No. Allowing for only alpha-numeric characters there are 37^63 -1 possible domain names (alpha-numbers and no character for 1 to 63 characters) this gives 626,193,587,911,053,268,732,827,767,099,982,579,610,904,461,501,866,669,014,246,836,899,225,819,910,774,694,322,888,478,540,551,852 possibilities. And this is just in the ".com" domain and does not allow for subdomains and other characters
Lots of buying to do there... I don't see how such defensive strategies can work... Am I missing something?
One of the people in their war room is on the sales team at MarkMonitor?
Yes you are missing something, the only "buying" that is needed comes in the buying of the really cheap whores in Washington D C.
Leave my mom out of this you insensitive clod.
Yes, you are missing the point that they don't use their brain, they use their money.
Or possibly our money. If only they'd taken our brains!
This could be their next plan. I must check whether they have brought bankersarezombies.com.
Bin Laden family has taken a patent out on the concept of the USA winning a war against and Islamic state. The US troops have been instructed not to fight too hard in case they infringe this patent.
As exemplified by the summary, there's a pervasive misunderstanding on Slashdot on how patents work. Just because someone is able to patent one method in the field of X does *not* exclude others from practicing in the field of X. Don't get me wrong - method patents like this stink worse than the NY Giant's defense in the 4th quarter, but they are generally pretty easy to avoid by simply doing one step differently. Rival companies do this all the time with ligit process patents.
Rival companies who have a lot of money to contest the patent and show that it does not apply if necessary. If you don't have deep pockets don't even try.
Isn't it lucky that the guy has got the patents system to enable him to innovate on how to organise playoffs
This study seems stupid, just like most people.
How about running a study where you give everyone obviously labelled placebos and then see whether people who know how biology and medicine work get the same treatment as the average slob.
I can see this having a dual affect. The ignorant being cured because they think the 'placebos' have an affect, and those knowledgeable about biology being cured because it reminds them that they have the mental ability to cure themselves if they believe they can!
I'm wondering if the best setup might be a hybrid, with a feeder system that has puts exactly two people at each register, on checking out and one on deck.
I agree that this is a good suggestion. I would add an optimisation to this in that the second person gets called from the main queue when the previous person reaches the payment phase. This should be easy enough to do with modern tills, and would avoid the situation where you are behind someone with two huge trolleys full of produce that needs to be weighed, items missing the label, and things with security tags that the cashier can't remove without management assistance.
This racket is starting to collapse under it's own weight. Before too long the large companies will see that its in their own best interest to lobby for patent reforms and abolish the software patents - if for no other reason than lobbying for such a law will save them money from being constantly trolled.
Enough already indeed. It's time for the public to get its grammar straight. Sieg heil!
I think all you grammar Nazis should get together and fund a patent "reversal of semantics of grammatical constructs". Cite a lode of natural language papers and the patent office is sure to think its something clever and accept it. Then when someone uses "its" for "it's" or vice versa you can sue them for patent infringement.
I don't know why I am telling you this, if you get the patent its likely that I would be one of it's first victims!
Those companies themselves have more than enough patents to fence off possibile competitors (coincedently they are competitors of eachother ;)). So I wouldn't be too sure about them getting sick of patents. Especially since they also have the means to defend themselves from patent trolls and can afford an army of lawyers to get the best out of these lawsuits.
Exactly. The worst (but very likely) scenario is a cartel of software giants all holding patents and having agreements with others but meaning that no small developer or new company could develop anything without being attacked with thousands of general patents they could not afford to contest,
lback in 2003.
Sigh .... back in 2003. It must be nice top be young
There's a balance between what's secure (a bunch of random characters with no relationship to anything in the real world) and what can realistically be memorized by the average person ... times twenty or thirty variations to account for all the different sites you visit.
For most people, it seems that balance lies somewhere near "have 2 or 3 shitty, easily guessed passwords and reuse them across all my online accounts."
I use a variation on that. Just in case someone from one site has access to my password and guesses its used in other sites I append an "easy" password to the end ... meaning that they would go and try someone else's account for example a root Guess24This76is76Hard : would be
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