Some reasons Blu-Ray is failing (or not quickly succeeding): Unreasonably higher price of disks, unreasonably higher rental cost, not available via (most) redbox locations. If this is a change the movie industry actually wants, they should push for pricing this format the same as DVDs, instead of as an improvement over DVDs. If the industry is not actually interested in 'switching' over, and this Blu-Ray segment is just a profitable small consumer demand segment wanting higher quality, then they will probably be fine for now sticking with their current strategy.
I guess we'll have to go back to passing around cds and dvds...!
Hey, it could make a new/existing industry thrive - Download-to-dvd! That is, assuming business-to-business file transfer doesn't receive the same taxation.
Keep in mind, there are different rates of time. The rate of time may just be faster or slower near the edge of the universe. I don't know much about this stuff, but perhaps that things are moving the same speed, but just observationally moving faster as they get further away?
Can someone explain why Vista has always been considered terrible, while everyone loves Windows 7?
Is it just me, or did everyone despise Vista due to someone saying vista was bad, followed by tons of media sources copying this claim? It seems like the exact same thing is occurring this time, but with someone saying Windows 7 is amazing.
From my perspective, Windows 7 seems almost exactly like Vista from the end user's perspective, so what other explanation is there for the vastly changed views of this edition?
So perhaps my 3.88 gpa could have been a 4.0? Who cares! I'd rather have the ability to be somewhat social... Also, in my experience, the only people who didn't have facebook by the end of my college experience where those who were anti-social and/or very odd people.
Is it really possible for a dream to be in color or b/w? I mean we are just going through various ideas in our brain. The ideas can have colors associated with them, but how does our brain reproduce the color when provoking the thought? I find it moderately difficult to even close my eyes and think of concepts in color. I can do it more easily with my eyes open, and think of colors relative to the colors that I see in front of me and a current time. Perhaps colors are stored in our brain relative to one another, therefore accessing a thought in in b/w or in color would simply be the same - it would be a range of relative values.
...most atheists are either religious... Noun S: (n) atheist (someone who denies the existence of god)
Adjective S: (adj) religious (having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity) "a religious man"; "religious attitude"
Noun S: (n) religion, faith, religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) "he lost his faith but not his morality"
Where the hell is my word for not believing in a god damn religious, supernatural, destiny or faith-related thing?
As population continues to increase, the hectares of land devoted per person for food production will continue to shrink. This will mean that traditional diets will need to change - meat requires a lot of land to produce, and wastes a lot of energy in its production. People will have to eat lower in the food chain to prevent as much energy loss as possible. Limits to genetic/Green Revolution style crop improvements will be hit. Eventually humanity will reach its carrying capacity (no more resources available to allocate to additional survival) on earth. This actual limit is unknown, but suffice to say that we will probably expand greatly upwards, into towering buildings. There probably won't be much in regards to a 'back yard' existing on soil. Earth could possibly be described as a giant feedlot for humans. Climate changes could cause human migrations which we are not prepared for - even more so with modern infrastructure. Furthermore, continued population growth will lead to reduced agricultural and wildlife biodiversity, further use of pesticides to sustain the population for as long as possible, and numerous water-related issues.
From the Neo-Malthusianism perspective there is a limit to the amount of resources available, and that population can increase faster than food production can increase. From the opposite perspective (Cornucopian), the supply of resources is infinite. We can exploit outer-space, or use as resources things we can't imagine now.
I've always wondered how long it would take, after the introduction of smart cars (which follow signals), for malicious people to create false signals, driving cars off of roads... or cliffs.
Derived from the psychological theory of the same name, in computer science, reinforcement learning is a sub-area of machine learning concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of long-term reward.
Reinforcement learning differs from the supervised learning problem in that correct input/output pairs are never presented, nor sub-optimal actions explicitly corrected. Further, there is a focus on on-line performance, which involves finding a balance between exploration (of uncharted territory) and exploitation (of current knowledge).
However, I'm not sure whether the rewards relating to the reinforced learning would be extrinsic or intrinsic motivation. I'm just throwing out ideas here, but perhaps it could be related to endorphins (or some like that) being released when a baby sees something it recognizes(correctly predicts).
[Note that I don't really know a lot about AI or biology, and am just forming various hypothesis.]
Yesterday I was in a computer lab at my college when I overheard two people talking. They were complaining about how confusing windows vista was, how lost they were, etc. "This new operating system is really hard to use. I'll have to spend a solid weekend getting use to it." I then realized that the snowball effect of people bashing vista had gotten to the point that even these two [normal people] hated vista... yet the computers in the lab were not even running Vista!!! In fact, they were talking about the new version of office, which I admit, does have a very unique UI. I just find it interesting that people do not even know what vista IS, yet they then continue to spread the word about how bad and hard to use it is.
Books like this are now using this out of control snowball effect as a MARKETING strategy (note the book's title). Very interesting.
Nope. I've never had a problem with staircases. Things are typically NEVER completely evenly lit. Even with moderately consistent lighting, if you can see some of the edges, or you can see where the drop-off is against a wall, then figuring out how far to step is never a problem. -- Perhaps it was the fact that you were used to relying on depth perception.
If I cut paper, I just look straight on to where I want to be cutting. This is similar with drawing a picture. If I draw a picture while viewing it from an odd angle(like 45 degrees), it can look a bit skewed or elongated in one direction when I finally straighten myself out. I tend to look straight on to the paper while drawing for this reason. I'm assuming this is less of a problem with normal depth perception.
I believe that the need for true depth perception is overrated.
When I was very young, surgery was performed on one of my eyes's muscles in an attept to improve my Strabismus (screwed up eye muscles). This actually resulted in me having zero depth perception. I can still use both eyes to look out of, but I actually can pick which eye controls the overlapping region (typically used for depth perception). In other words I can see out of mostly one eye or the other, but not completely using both.
Long story short, the lack of depth perception gives me excuses for sucking at sports, but it does not affect my ability to walk around buildings, drive a car, pick things up, catch a ball in front of me, etc. Things get bigger as they get closer, so you can estimate distance. Furthermore, there are a lot of hints which can be used to determine depth, such as shading from lights, color, vertical/horiz. size, and z-index (is something in front of or behind another object).
Basically one's ability to navigate whilelacking depth perception (or using only one camera) is equivalent to navigating in a game using your typical monitor.
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Fine... I'll be in the control group
Some reasons Blu-Ray is failing (or not quickly succeeding): Unreasonably higher price of disks, unreasonably higher rental cost, not available via (most) redbox locations. If this is a change the movie industry actually wants, they should push for pricing this format the same as DVDs, instead of as an improvement over DVDs. If the industry is not actually interested in 'switching' over, and this Blu-Ray segment is just a profitable small consumer demand segment wanting higher quality, then they will probably be fine for now sticking with their current strategy.
I guess we'll have to go back to passing around cds and dvds...! Hey, it could make a new/existing industry thrive - Download-to-dvd! That is, assuming business-to-business file transfer doesn't receive the same taxation.
See! Japanese isn't SUPPORTED on Slashdot, thus it isn't used! So if everybody stops SUPPORTING IE 6....
Keep in mind, there are different rates of time. The rate of time may just be faster or slower near the edge of the universe. I don't know much about this stuff, but perhaps that things are moving the same speed, but just observationally moving faster as they get further away?
Can someone explain why Vista has always been considered terrible, while everyone loves Windows 7? Is it just me, or did everyone despise Vista due to someone saying vista was bad, followed by tons of media sources copying this claim? It seems like the exact same thing is occurring this time, but with someone saying Windows 7 is amazing. From my perspective, Windows 7 seems almost exactly like Vista from the end user's perspective, so what other explanation is there for the vastly changed views of this edition?
So perhaps my 3.88 gpa could have been a 4.0? Who cares! I'd rather have the ability to be somewhat social... Also, in my experience, the only people who didn't have facebook by the end of my college experience where those who were anti-social and/or very odd people.
"Congratulations, you did it! Thanks for participating,
and happy holidays."
#6 item for "How to" -> How to hack
... or never went away.
It looks like script-kiddies are on the rise!
The common man proves that if man can make it, man can break it.
thus we need Skynet to build the next generation of DRM... to keep us mere humans from penetrating it!
typo: "in front of me and a current time" should read "in front of me at a current time"
Is it really possible for a dream to be in color or b/w? I mean we are just going through various ideas in our brain. The ideas can have colors associated with them, but how does our brain reproduce the color when provoking the thought? I find it moderately difficult to even close my eyes and think of concepts in color. I can do it more easily with my eyes open, and think of colors relative to the colors that I see in front of me and a current time. Perhaps colors are stored in our brain relative to one another, therefore accessing a thought in in b/w or in color would simply be the same - it would be a range of relative values.
Yes, but just think of how many more crazy religions it would spawn...
The player doesn't look like it supports seeking (or it wasn't working), and the audio is out of sync.
What TV stations will this be on? Will it be streaming anywhere online?
cool. So a search for "the", which has about 16,570,000,000 results, only needs to loop 16 billion times.
The 'reply to this' button doesn't render properly on Vista/IE for the idle pages (I didn't have a sound card on my Ubuntu box).
Also, this comment text box that I am typing in now appears to be about 30 characters wide.
...most atheists are either religious... Noun S: (n) atheist (someone who denies the existence of god)Adjective S: (adj) religious (having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity) "a religious man"; "religious attitude"
Noun S: (n) religion , faith, religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) "he lost his faith but not his morality"
Where the hell is my word for not believing in a god damn religious, supernatural, destiny or faith-related thing?
As population continues to increase, the hectares of land devoted per person for food production will continue to shrink. This will mean that traditional diets will need to change - meat requires a lot of land to produce, and wastes a lot of energy in its production. People will have to eat lower in the food chain to prevent as much energy loss as possible. Limits to genetic/Green Revolution style crop improvements will be hit. Eventually humanity will reach its carrying capacity (no more resources available to allocate to additional survival) on earth. This actual limit is unknown, but suffice to say that we will probably expand greatly upwards, into towering buildings. There probably won't be much in regards to a 'back yard' existing on soil. Earth could possibly be described as a giant feedlot for humans. Climate changes could cause human migrations which we are not prepared for - even more so with modern infrastructure. Furthermore, continued population growth will lead to reduced agricultural and wildlife biodiversity, further use of pesticides to sustain the population for as long as possible, and numerous water-related issues.
From the Neo-Malthusianism perspective there is a limit to the amount of resources available, and that population can increase faster than food production can increase. From the opposite perspective (Cornucopian), the supply of resources is infinite. We can exploit outer-space, or use as resources things we can't imagine now.
Which viewpoint is humanity's future? You decide.
I've always wondered how long it would take, after the introduction of smart cars (which follow signals), for malicious people to create false signals, driving cars off of roads... or cliffs.
This sounds a lot like the computer science concept of Reinforcement learning.
From Wikipedia:
However, I'm not sure whether the rewards relating to the reinforced learning would be extrinsic or intrinsic motivation. I'm just throwing out ideas here, but perhaps it could be related to endorphins (or some like that) being released when a baby sees something it recognizes(correctly predicts).
[Note that I don't really know a lot about AI or biology, and am just forming various hypothesis.]
Yesterday I was in a computer lab at my college when I overheard two people talking. They were complaining about how confusing windows vista was, how lost they were, etc. "This new operating system is really hard to use. I'll have to spend a solid weekend getting use to it." I then realized that the snowball effect of people bashing vista had gotten to the point that even these two [normal people] hated vista... yet the computers in the lab were not even running Vista!!! In fact, they were talking about the new version of office, which I admit, does have a very unique UI. I just find it interesting that people do not even know what vista IS, yet they then continue to spread the word about how bad and hard to use it is.
Books like this are now using this out of control snowball effect as a MARKETING strategy (note the book's title). Very interesting.
Nope. I've never had a problem with staircases. Things are typically NEVER completely evenly lit. Even with moderately consistent lighting, if you can see some of the edges, or you can see where the drop-off is against a wall, then figuring out how far to step is never a problem. -- Perhaps it was the fact that you were used to relying on depth perception.
If I cut paper, I just look straight on to where I want to be cutting. This is similar with drawing a picture. If I draw a picture while viewing it from an odd angle(like 45 degrees), it can look a bit skewed or elongated in one direction when I finally straighten myself out. I tend to look straight on to the paper while drawing for this reason. I'm assuming this is less of a problem with normal depth perception.
I believe that the need for true depth perception is overrated.
When I was very young, surgery was performed on one of my eyes's muscles in an attept to improve my Strabismus (screwed up eye muscles). This actually resulted in me having zero depth perception. I can still use both eyes to look out of, but I actually can pick which eye controls the overlapping region (typically used for depth perception). In other words I can see out of mostly one eye or the other, but not completely using both.
Long story short, the lack of depth perception gives me excuses for sucking at sports, but it does not affect my ability to walk around buildings, drive a car, pick things up, catch a ball in front of me, etc. Things get bigger as they get closer, so you can estimate distance. Furthermore, there are a lot of hints which can be used to determine depth, such as shading from lights, color, vertical/horiz. size, and z-index (is something in front of or behind another object).
Basically one's ability to navigate whilelacking depth perception (or using only one camera) is equivalent to navigating in a game using your typical monitor.
The problem is, the dating always exits with an error, leaving no chance for anything else to run, ultimately resulting in sleep deprivation.