It surely can't. Moreover, they plan to use memory shape alloys to pop out the keys, which is a very bad idea since these alloys are very energy hungry. In fact, I'd avoid putting any memory shape alloy on a small battery-powered device because it would eat the battery in seconds. I bet this device won't happen in years with those specs.
Personnally I'd like to use the gmail interface while offline because I think no mail client has a better interface than Gmail's one.
The conversation mode is not just a thread mode : if you archive a thread but receives an answers related to this archived thread, the whole thread will come accompanied with the received message, which gives you the context of the message while facilitating the management of your inbox. If such a feature was implemented in a mail client, I would use the mail client.
We do have bike paths where the snow is cleared all year long. And since all the snow is cleared from the streets after a storm, there's not much snow in Montreal during Winter.
And what if what they mean is a better integration with the other software, like say, use the OS MIME definitions to open the right program instead of redefine it in their usual non-working way ? There's a lot of place to a better system integration without needing to fiddle with the OS arcanes.
The only component of those measurements that could actually be used for real-time game control is the EMG, that is, measuring the activation of muscles. That may make for interesting games, but it has nothing to do with "mind reading".
You're right on that point. EEG response is very fast but it's too much sensitive to electromagnetic interference and artifacts like blinking, talking, etc.
They also say they could rely on NIRS. I don't beleive they could (I've done my master thesis on that field). NIRS signal have a response time of 5 to 20 seconds. So for it to work, that would be a sloooooooow and boring game !
I teach in an engineering school and I must say that 6 weeks to design, build and program that kind of robot is really short. They must be very, very good because this is a great challenge.
I wonder who is the owner of this tune:
1-1-4-1-5-4-1-5
Three chords that are the base, in that very same order, of at least one third of every rock'n'roll and blues tunes known by human.
Guitar tabs are not the tune. The tune is the combination of the melody, the lyrics, the chords, the arrangements and the feeling of the band. Finally, this story is all again a try to patent the wheel.
But still, it's a great solution for the inefficiency of our cars actually. From the article : the efficiency of a hydrogen-powered vehicle is around 70%, compared to 25% with our actual gasoline system.
Maybe it's not the "solution for all problems (tm)" but in my opinion it's very interesting. I'm eager to hear more on these researches.
You're right. But still, the higher sampling frequency, the better it sounds, even when it's over 40kHz. It's because two near frequencies form a beat frequency that is the difference between these two frequencies. So even if you reproduce two frequencies that are not audible by humans, their beat frequency often can be eared.
But you have to have a very high fidelity sound system to reproduce these frequencies, so for most consumers, the sampling frequency of a CD is Okay.
It is also true that for most people, the problem with CDs is more with the quantization level. Actually we have to induce white noise at the encoding step, to be sure to reduce the quantization noise that is very, very disturbing for the ear. Analog doesn't have this quantization noise, but still, it has to be played in a very high fidelity system to be superior to CD quality.
Hemoglobin has a different absorption spectrum when it's oxygenated (oxyhemoglobin) or not (desoxyhemoglobin). An interesting characteristic of this spectrum is observed in the near-infrared part or light (700-850nm): http://omlc.ogi.edu/spectra/hemoglobin/index.html
In the infrared part, oxyhemoglobin absorbs less light than desoxyhemoglobin ; it's the contrary in the red part. So if we shoot these near-infrared wavelengths (and some more, to get a good idea of the absorption spectrum) in the head and detect it somewhere else (around 5-6cm from the source), we can get information on the concentration and oxygen level of the hemoglobin in the middle of the emitter and the detector. If the hemoglobin is more present than somewhere else in the head, and it's less oxygenated than usually, we get a good idea that there's something wrong there.
Other advantages : infrared light is non-ionizing, so it's absolutely no dangerous to use that kind of instrument continuously on a person until we are sure there's no problem.
It's brilliant and I'm glad to see that kind of instrument emerging.
I don't feel that computer designers should really have to think about some peripheral device sucking 50 watts out of a connection on the motherboard
The motherboard doesn't have to be changed. Your power supply already generates 5V and 12V for all the peripherals in your computer. So you can have the USB part of the connector soldered on the motherboard, with a connector going directly to the power supply. That's really not a big deal.
The problem is, as mentioned in the article, that the voltages on the Powered-USB plug are not normalized. Personally I would think it's easy to just put both 5V and 12V, in fact because the suggested plug has 4 pins (you get 2 ground returns).
A little bit of standardization and I really feel that this is a good way to go.
Caffeine is not a source of energy, it's a stimulant. It only helps the body to consume energy you already have in reserve. So you cannot build a caffeine battery.
What are those rumors about Google who would be closing their search API ? Are we talking about the boxes we can put on our sites to make a search in Google ? I thought the add shown besides the results were their main revenue : Why the hell would they close it ?
I think it would take a whole lot longer to train the system to respond to the hundreds of thousands of words you might want to use, instead of the few dozen characters to spell everything out.
Moreover, this system surely use some type of neural network to identify a character from the actual voltage signals. As these signal are very noisy and have a relatively high frequency range, it must take a quite big network to obtain something good from it.
Now, if you want to discriminate hundreds of thousands of words instead of some characters, you need a much bigger network ; and the time needed to learn is exponential to the size of the network. So I don't think it could be feasible at this time to get a system that could learn how to read words : it would need years to learn !
Yeah, but for everybody here, the first thing to do with a new shiny Dell will be to wipe out the pre-installed OS and install your favorite distribution. So at least for us, there's no concern about the distribution and softwares Dell installs by default. All we want to have is a 100% certified Linux-compatible laptop.
PDF used to be the sole means to have a document look exactly the same across any platform. That is no longer the case, and even Microsoft has opened the standard (mostly) on their new Office data files.
No, I disagree. Even when open office formats, the document won't look exactly the same on one an other platform. Example : the open document format (.odt) renders somewhat differently when opened in OpenOffice for Windows and OpenOffice for Linux. And it may be completely different when opened with koffice.
The content is the same, though.
What I believe is the.pdf excels in porting the exactly same layout of a page between platforms and softwares, while Office files excel in porting the exact editable content. Their goals are simply not the same.
I was watching the video when suddenly Firefox did something strange (constant reloading) until the video transformed to A Chinese City's Boom, Part 1. I thing I witnessed the link being broken live:-)
I'm a university teacher and I think there's nothing most annoying than a powerpoint presentation that doesn't work on a particular setup. So even if I did use Windows, I wouldn't use Powerpoint. I exclusively use PDF like you do. It always worked on any setup I used to find (Mac, Windows, Linux, even our old outdated Solaris on the Sun machines).
No, it doesn't move, you can't do animation at all, nor any cool transition. But I personaly think it's a plus side.
That could be right, actually. But there was a time where a palm pilot was THE thing. Besides, Windows CE was a joke. But now 50% of handheld computers are running Windows.
I can't find a better analogy, and I fear that this thing is gonna work.
I know but there's a lot more incitatives for me to go with this bank, like the fact that it's situated near my house. I don't like to be radical like you said because the first person to suffer is always me...
To be honest, I'm happy about this move. Not all sites work yet with Firefox, my bank included. But when I called last time to complain, they said more and more people are using Firefox and they are studying seriously to make their site compatible.
If I follow my logical vision of that, then if people continue to install it (and that by any mean, I don't care), the internet should be eventually more free.
I can't complain. Anyway it doesn't force anyone to install Firefox if he doesn't want, nor RealPlayer.
However, there's a flip side to it also.
"Science can be used and abused. Making large amounts of information so portable on high-capacity removable storage devices will make it easier for information to fall into the wrong hands. Information can be stolen very quickly. One has to have some safeguards there," he added.
It's funny, it reminds me the answer I gave to the interviewer at my first interview:
- Now that you tell me your qualities, I will ask you at least a drawback
- Mmmh, I think I'm too perfectionnist, I can sometimes take too much time to do something perfectly well...
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It surely can't. Moreover, they plan to use memory shape alloys to pop out the keys, which is a very bad idea since these alloys are very energy hungry. In fact, I'd avoid putting any memory shape alloy on a small battery-powered device because it would eat the battery in seconds. I bet this device won't happen in years with those specs.
Personnally I'd like to use the gmail interface while offline because I think no mail client has a better interface than Gmail's one.
The conversation mode is not just a thread mode : if you archive a thread but receives an answers related to this archived thread, the whole thread will come accompanied with the received message, which gives you the context of the message while facilitating the management of your inbox. If such a feature was implemented in a mail client, I would use the mail client.
We do have bike paths where the snow is cleared all year long. And since all the snow is cleared from the streets after a storm, there's not much snow in Montreal during Winter.
For engineering, the language is not FORTRAN anymore, I can affirm that we use Matlab a lot more. It think it classifies as a programming language.
And what if what they mean is a better integration with the other software, like say, use the OS MIME definitions to open the right program instead of redefine it in their usual non-working way ? There's a lot of place to a better system integration without needing to fiddle with the OS arcanes.
You're right on that point. EEG response is very fast but it's too much sensitive to electromagnetic interference and artifacts like blinking, talking, etc.
They also say they could rely on NIRS. I don't beleive they could (I've done my master thesis on that field). NIRS signal have a response time of 5 to 20 seconds. So for it to work, that would be a sloooooooow and boring game !
And three-thousand bucks just for that is a waste
I think you mean 899$. 3000$ was the cost of the other guitar that was made before this one, and that could tune itself faster.
I teach in an engineering school and I must say that 6 weeks to design, build and program that kind of robot is really short. They must be very, very good because this is a great challenge.
:-)
Congratulations to all of you guys !
I wonder who is the owner of this tune :
1-1-4-1-5-4-1-5
Three chords that are the base, in that very same order, of at least one third of every rock'n'roll and blues tunes known by human.
Guitar tabs are not the tune. The tune is the combination of the melody, the lyrics, the chords, the arrangements and the feeling of the band. Finally, this story is all again a try to patent the wheel.
But still, it's a great solution for the inefficiency of our cars actually. From the article : the efficiency of a hydrogen-powered vehicle is around 70%, compared to 25% with our actual gasoline system.
Maybe it's not the "solution for all problems (tm)" but in my opinion it's very interesting. I'm eager to hear more on these researches.
You're right. But still, the higher sampling frequency, the better it sounds, even when it's over 40kHz. It's because two near frequencies form a beat frequency that is the difference between these two frequencies. So even if you reproduce two frequencies that are not audible by humans, their beat frequency often can be eared.
But you have to have a very high fidelity sound system to reproduce these frequencies, so for most consumers, the sampling frequency of a CD is Okay.
It is also true that for most people, the problem with CDs is more with the quantization level. Actually we have to induce white noise at the encoding step, to be sure to reduce the quantization noise that is very, very disturbing for the ear. Analog doesn't have this quantization noise, but still, it has to be played in a very high fidelity system to be superior to CD quality.
Anyway, sound is personal, hey ?
Hemoglobin has a different absorption spectrum when it's oxygenated (oxyhemoglobin) or not (desoxyhemoglobin). An interesting characteristic of this spectrum is observed in the near-infrared part or light (700-850nm): http://omlc.ogi.edu/spectra/hemoglobin/index.html
In the infrared part, oxyhemoglobin absorbs less light than desoxyhemoglobin ; it's the contrary in the red part. So if we shoot these near-infrared wavelengths (and some more, to get a good idea of the absorption spectrum) in the head and detect it somewhere else (around 5-6cm from the source), we can get information on the concentration and oxygen level of the hemoglobin in the middle of the emitter and the detector. If the hemoglobin is more present than somewhere else in the head, and it's less oxygenated than usually, we get a good idea that there's something wrong there.
Other advantages : infrared light is non-ionizing, so it's absolutely no dangerous to use that kind of instrument continuously on a person until we are sure there's no problem.
It's brilliant and I'm glad to see that kind of instrument emerging.
I don't feel that computer designers should really have to think about some peripheral device sucking 50 watts out of a connection on the motherboard
The motherboard doesn't have to be changed. Your power supply already generates 5V and 12V for all the peripherals in your computer. So you can have the USB part of the connector soldered on the motherboard, with a connector going directly to the power supply. That's really not a big deal.
The problem is, as mentioned in the article, that the voltages on the Powered-USB plug are not normalized. Personally I would think it's easy to just put both 5V and 12V, in fact because the suggested plug has 4 pins (you get 2 ground returns).
A little bit of standardization and I really feel that this is a good way to go.
Caffeine is not a source of energy, it's a stimulant. It only helps the body to consume energy you already have in reserve. So you cannot build a caffeine battery.
What are those rumors about Google who would be closing their search API ? Are we talking about the boxes we can put on our sites to make a search in Google ? I thought the add shown besides the results were their main revenue : Why the hell would they close it ?
I think it would take a whole lot longer to train the system to respond to the hundreds of thousands of words you might want to use, instead of the few dozen characters to spell everything out.
Moreover, this system surely use some type of neural network to identify a character from the actual voltage signals. As these signal are very noisy and have a relatively high frequency range, it must take a quite big network to obtain something good from it.
Now, if you want to discriminate hundreds of thousands of words instead of some characters, you need a much bigger network ; and the time needed to learn is exponential to the size of the network. So I don't think it could be feasible at this time to get a system that could learn how to read words : it would need years to learn !
Yeah, but for everybody here, the first thing to do with a new shiny Dell will be to wipe out the pre-installed OS and install your favorite distribution. So at least for us, there's no concern about the distribution and softwares Dell installs by default. All we want to have is a 100% certified Linux-compatible laptop.
Anyway Linux is so easy to install these days...
PDF used to be the sole means to have a document look exactly the same across any platform. That is no longer the case, and even Microsoft has opened the standard (mostly) on their new Office data files.
.pdf excels in porting the exactly same layout of a page between platforms and softwares, while Office files excel in porting the exact editable content. Their goals are simply not the same.
No, I disagree. Even when open office formats, the document won't look exactly the same on one an other platform. Example : the open document format (.odt) renders somewhat differently when opened in OpenOffice for Windows and OpenOffice for Linux. And it may be completely different when opened with koffice.
The content is the same, though.
What I believe is the
I was watching the video when suddenly Firefox did something strange (constant reloading) until the video transformed to A Chinese City's Boom, Part 1. I thing I witnessed the link being broken live :-)
I'm a university teacher and I think there's nothing most annoying than a powerpoint presentation that doesn't work on a particular setup. So even if I did use Windows, I wouldn't use Powerpoint. I exclusively use PDF like you do. It always worked on any setup I used to find (Mac, Windows, Linux, even our old outdated Solaris on the Sun machines).
No, it doesn't move, you can't do animation at all, nor any cool transition. But I personaly think it's a plus side.
I use that :
echo -e "First line\nSecond line\nThird line\netc.etc." > name.of.file
That could be right, actually. But there was a time where a palm pilot was THE thing. Besides, Windows CE was a joke. But now 50% of handheld computers are running Windows.
I can't find a better analogy, and I fear that this thing is gonna work.
I know but there's a lot more incitatives for me to go with this bank, like the fact that it's situated near my house. I don't like to be radical like you said because the first person to suffer is always me...
To be honest, I'm happy about this move. Not all sites work yet with Firefox, my bank included. But when I called last time to complain, they said more and more people are using Firefox and they are studying seriously to make their site compatible.
If I follow my logical vision of that, then if people continue to install it (and that by any mean, I don't care), the internet should be eventually more free.
I can't complain. Anyway it doesn't force anyone to install Firefox if he doesn't want, nor RealPlayer.
I say good move.
FTA :
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However, there's a flip side to it also.
"Science can be used and abused. Making large amounts of information so portable on high-capacity removable storage devices will make it easier for information to fall into the wrong hands. Information can be stolen very quickly. One has to have some safeguards there," he added.
It's funny, it reminds me the answer I gave to the interviewer at my first interview
- Now that you tell me your qualities, I will ask you at least a drawback
- Mmmh, I think I'm too perfectionnist, I can sometimes take too much time to do something perfectly well...