IBM/Lenovo ran an ad a long time ago talking about his new Thinkpad stopping the drive when the laptop was falling. The other guy grabs the laptop drops it on the ground and says so the hard drive is fine.
The other guy says that's not my Thinkpad, hilarity ensues.
But if all you need is an accelerometer, somebody needs to tell this guy to write an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, my Droid, and probably a lot of other phones.
One idea I've seen suggested and I've repeated here before is a trust metric that gives higher credence to ratings from users that rate other people similarly to the way you rate them.
This makes it harder for individuals to game the system.
I have been toying with the idea of such a system but including the opposing concepts of an anonymous profile, and CA verified 'real person' with public/private keys.
Apparently Hitchcock used 3D in Vertigo to increase the Depth of Field and make the characters look more distant, isolated and alone.
Speed Racer was filmed in such a way as to give everything (foreground and background) an in-focus look, I don't know how they'd work that in 3D.
Also to get maximum effect I think you'd need to plan the shots better to really make the 3D effects play into the story, if no one had ever seen the Matrix, and they reshot the whole thing in 3D and bullet time hadn't become a horribly overused cliche, that would make a decent use of 3D. Wanted kind of did that.
Of course I also don't understand people who say "Babylon 5 has lousy acting"
Many of the actors in B5 were theatrical stage performers not TV actors, you get some things like Delenn's visual shorthand of biting her knuckle whenever she was concerned, worried, distressed because in the theater people can't see you make a concerned facial expression from the back row. In TV-land and the movies, cameramen will do closeups so you get that shot, but some of the B5 actors hadn't made that transition.
I expect the actress was better by the time 'Lost' came around, but I never watched.
Sinclair (can't remember the actor's name) is cut from the same Oak as Kevin Sorbo where wooden acting is concerned. On balance I'd put JaKar (Andres Katsulas) and Londo (Peter Jurassik) up against Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh for scenery chewing and watchability anyday.
And no, B5 (Casablanca in Space) was no worse off than Star Trek TOS with its two-fisted Captain and strong Western influenced (Wagon Train in Space) themes.
I've said this before, in order for this to work, interchangeable batteries need a standardized exchange like a 20 lb propane tank.
They need to be so dead simple that people who do not understand electronics and can't connect jumper cables now, won't mind unhooking and reattaching the connector to Multi-Hundred AmpHour batteries IN THE RAIN.
So, I'm reading an article one day about how to green coal plants.
One of the ideas mentioned was to pump pure oxygen into the furnaces instead of outside air because filtering out the Nitrogen compounds was the hardest part of scrubbing the exhaust.
So at what point does running an Oxygen Concentrator/Generator under the hood make sense because of the enhanced compression ratio? VW Jetta Diesel, Pickup/SUV, 18 Wheeler, Supertanker. Caveat on the supertanker a 90,000 HP Diesel engine on one of those burns 250 tons of fuel a day according to a recent Modern Marvels on Horsepower.
Intermountain Healthcare had electronic medical records in the 1980s, used the data gathered from the system to improve their medical practices, improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.
Their system was chosen as one of 5 to be studied by a Canadian Quality by Design process improvement team, and one of the 'few small exceptions' in the Congressional Budget Office report that eHealth records don't reduce healthcare costs. The others were the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo clinic.
What the report should have said is eHealth records by themselves don't reduce healthcare costs. If your system is a mess, taking it digital gives you a digital mess.
Intermountain was lucky that Dr. Brent James was also a computer geek, now he's pretty much the guru of healthcare improvement. The NYTimes did a couple of stories, one on him, others referencing his work.
In the Times article, Intermountain mentions they hurt themselves financially by improving their cardiac (or pulmonary?) practice to the tune of about $300k because the patients had fewer complications, they were leaving the hospital earlier costing them x number of days income per patient for the extra recovery time. They made the conscious decision that patient outcomes were more important.
I have no connection with these folks, just read a lot about them, and care enough to post about them even in an article that's about to fall off the front page.
I know you got the funny mod, but its true, and needs attention.
I own a Canon DSLR, I've bought a battery charger for the camera from Amazon, and it keeps recommending me more batteries, that's fine. It recommends me new lenses, and filters, that's fine. I add some of the filters and lensea to my "Wish List" and now it wants to sell me a Nikon. That's not Ok.
I'd like it not to offer me competing/slightly different goods for goods I already own, I have Dragon Age:Origins, Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic I & II as well as Jade Empire all for the PC. In addition to strategy guides, Mass Effect 2 and the upcoming expansion to Dragon Age, which are reasonable, it also wants to sell me the Xbox and PS3 versions of the games I already own, as well as the collector's/game of the year editions of games I already own. That's not Ok.
I'd really like an option to be "Not Interested" in a whole series, like 24 or Lost, if I tell it I don't want Season 3, don't offer me Seasons 1, 2, 4, and 5.
Unless the batteries are the size of Blue Rhino 20# Propane tank with the same kind of standardization and reconditioning, no thanks.
Until the batteries get that power dense, better order up a Japanese powersuit for every service station to change the batteries.
And unless its full service at every station everywhere, it has to be something my wife can change out by herself on her own car, and not just something environmentalists and gadget geeks feel comfortable with. Like people who don't feel comfortable using jumper cables suddenly being ok disconnecting/reconnecting the leads on a 220v electrical system in the rain.
Seems like you would want a surge protector (firewall) that would cutout and NOT measure the power difference if the measurement data they sent said someone sent you too much power and measuring it would fry the system.
I remember reading something about the first transatlantic cable being fried by someone on one end sending too much power.
NIST isn't a new entity, they are the US Government's standards body, they are part of the Dept of Commerce, and write all kinds of standards the government has to use.
So when the government directs their standards body to take part in standards negotiations on their behalf, there is no conspiracy there.
One of my favorites is SCAP, its like an XML for Security products that helps to standardize vulnerability reports and security settings so you can check using an array of SCAP compatible tools if your thousands of machines are all patched and up to date as well as running your enterprise security config.
I'd be concerned if some new bill made someone ELSE without some of the worlds best test labs, scientists and engineers negotiate standards for the US.
I worked with an Indian guy that had to give the eulogy when his father passed away.
He talked about his father's life, and his father's position on Ghandi's staff when he was a younger man.
After the funeral the guy's kids asked him why he never told them Grandpa worked with Ghandi, when they still could have asked their Grandpa questions about it.
Yes, the mainstream is trying to take things (formerly pejorative things) away from you. Maybe you're one of those guys who still holds onto Hacker/Cracker as a meaningful distinction.
I played Football in Little League and High School, played D&D on the weekends with a some of my teammates, and later went on to throw telephone poles with men in plaid skirts.
These 'childish' games CAN be fun, your body is wired for many types of stimulation, not just deeply cerebral activties.
We're also not all social misfits living in our Mom's basements. Once you break one stereotype, you realize how bogus the other are too.
Back to the topic of the article though, my team got knocked out in week two of the playoffs, so I'll probably be playing WoW/Dragon Age/ME2 on Sunday.
Some analysis at the NYT (IIRC) suggested that with the partnering deal they have with Mercedes, that if the S class doesn't pan out, Tesla might stop producing cars altogether, and just license their drivetrain technology to other companies.
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What is with the Mac hate?
IBM/Lenovo ran an ad a long time ago talking about his new Thinkpad stopping the drive when the laptop was falling. The other guy grabs the laptop drops it on the ground and says so the hard drive is fine.
The other guy says that's not my Thinkpad, hilarity ensues.
But if all you need is an accelerometer, somebody needs to tell this guy to write an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, my Droid, and probably a lot of other phones.
I've heard, used to work for a Travel Market research firm as the IT guy.
That it is not legal in Clark County (Las Vegas) because the Casinos don't like the competition.
Nope,
Still Will Alone that you set your thoughts in motion, still the Blood of Sapho, Diet Coke or Mountain Dew that the thoughts aquire speed.
One idea I've seen suggested and I've repeated here before is a trust metric that gives higher credence to ratings from users that rate other people similarly to the way you rate them.
This makes it harder for individuals to game the system.
I have been toying with the idea of such a system but including the opposing concepts of an anonymous profile, and CA verified 'real person' with public/private keys.
So after the movie you kept the theater right?
Apparently Hitchcock used 3D in Vertigo to increase the Depth of Field and make the characters look more distant, isolated and alone.
Speed Racer was filmed in such a way as to give everything (foreground and background) an in-focus look, I don't know how they'd work that in 3D.
Also to get maximum effect I think you'd need to plan the shots better to really make the 3D effects play into the story, if no one had ever seen the Matrix, and they reshot the whole thing in 3D and bullet time hadn't become a horribly overused cliche, that would make a decent use of 3D. Wanted kind of did that.
Of course I also don't understand people who say "Babylon 5 has lousy acting"
Many of the actors in B5 were theatrical stage performers not TV actors, you get some things like Delenn's visual shorthand of biting her knuckle whenever she was concerned, worried, distressed because in the theater people can't see you make a concerned facial expression from the back row. In TV-land and the movies, cameramen will do closeups so you get that shot, but some of the B5 actors hadn't made that transition.
I expect the actress was better by the time 'Lost' came around, but I never watched.
Sinclair (can't remember the actor's name) is cut from the same Oak as Kevin Sorbo where wooden acting is concerned. On balance I'd put JaKar (Andres Katsulas) and Londo (Peter Jurassik) up against Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh for scenery chewing and watchability anyday.
And no, B5 (Casablanca in Space) was no worse off than Star Trek TOS with its two-fisted Captain and strong Western influenced (Wagon Train in Space) themes.
I've said this before, in order for this to work, interchangeable batteries need a standardized exchange like a 20 lb propane tank.
They need to be so dead simple that people who do not understand electronics and can't connect jumper cables now, won't mind unhooking and reattaching the connector to Multi-Hundred AmpHour batteries IN THE RAIN.
So, I'm reading an article one day about how to green coal plants.
One of the ideas mentioned was to pump pure oxygen into the furnaces instead of outside air because filtering out the Nitrogen compounds was the hardest part of scrubbing the exhaust.
So at what point does running an Oxygen Concentrator/Generator under the hood make sense because of the enhanced compression ratio? VW Jetta Diesel, Pickup/SUV, 18 Wheeler, Supertanker. Caveat on the supertanker a 90,000 HP Diesel engine on one of those burns 250 tons of fuel a day according to a recent Modern Marvels on Horsepower.
Intermountain Healthcare had electronic medical records in the 1980s, used the data gathered from the system to improve their medical practices, improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.
http://www.longwoods.com/product.php?productid=20146&cat=571&page=1
Their system was chosen as one of 5 to be studied by a Canadian Quality by Design process improvement team, and one of the 'few small exceptions' in the Congressional Budget Office report that eHealth records don't reduce healthcare costs. The others were the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo clinic.
What the report should have said is eHealth records by themselves don't reduce healthcare costs. If your system is a mess, taking it digital gives you a digital mess.
Intermountain was lucky that Dr. Brent James was also a computer geek, now he's pretty much the guru of healthcare improvement. The NYTimes did a couple of stories, one on him, others referencing his work.
In the Times article, Intermountain mentions they hurt themselves financially by improving their cardiac (or pulmonary?) practice to the tune of about $300k because the patients had fewer complications, they were leaving the hospital earlier costing them x number of days income per patient for the extra recovery time. They made the conscious decision that patient outcomes were more important.
I have no connection with these folks, just read a lot about them, and care enough to post about them even in an article that's about to fall off the front page.
Ok, replying to Parent instead of myself.
MythTV has a feature called Timestretch that does this
Supposedly VLC can also do this.
As well as WinAmp, Media Player classic with external filters, gomplayer, the list goes on and on.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/236916-49-timestretching-more-stretching-time-times
I'm kind of hoping Tivo adds something like this eventually.
MythTV is supposed to have this capability
I know you got the funny mod, but its true, and needs attention.
I own a Canon DSLR, I've bought a battery charger for the camera from Amazon, and it keeps recommending me more batteries, that's fine. It recommends me new lenses, and filters, that's fine. I add some of the filters and lensea to my "Wish List" and now it wants to sell me a Nikon. That's not Ok.
I'd like it not to offer me competing/slightly different goods for goods I already own, I have Dragon Age:Origins, Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic I & II as well as Jade Empire all for the PC. In addition to strategy guides, Mass Effect 2 and the upcoming expansion to Dragon Age, which are reasonable, it also wants to sell me the Xbox and PS3 versions of the games I already own, as well as the collector's/game of the year editions of games I already own. That's not Ok.
I'd really like an option to be "Not Interested" in a whole series, like 24 or Lost, if I tell it I don't want Season 3, don't offer me Seasons 1, 2, 4, and 5.
You misspelled Wagner and a whole lot of other composers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_music
Unless the batteries are the size of Blue Rhino 20# Propane tank with the same kind of standardization and reconditioning, no thanks.
Until the batteries get that power dense, better order up a Japanese powersuit for every service station to change the batteries.
And unless its full service at every station everywhere, it has to be something my wife can change out by herself on her own car, and not just something environmentalists and gadget geeks feel comfortable with. Like people who don't feel comfortable using jumper cables suddenly being ok disconnecting/reconnecting the leads on a 220v electrical system in the rain.
Is there any reason they can't send 110 volts at a speed equal to 60 Hertz, and my machine check for 110 volts every appropriate interval?
IANAP so I'm sure there is a perfectly good explanation. If someone can send in layperson speak it I'd appreciate it.
Hmmm,
Seems like you would want a surge protector (firewall) that would cutout and NOT measure the power difference if the measurement data they sent said someone sent you too much power and measuring it would fry the system.
I remember reading something about the first transatlantic cable being fried by someone on one end sending too much power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
Electric Car? No charging stations.
If they can make it small enough, no more Cell Phone/Laptop batteries.
Just 1?
I remember 3, but I just can't remember that blonde guy's name...
The Director if NIST a confirmed presidential appointee.
Appointees get chosen by the president and grilled by the Senate, all of whom are elected and in theory responsible to their electorate.
NIST isn't a new entity, they are the US Government's standards body, they are part of the Dept of Commerce, and write all kinds of standards the government has to use.
So when the government directs their standards body to take part in standards negotiations on their behalf, there is no conspiracy there.
Take a look at some of what NIST does
http://www.nist.gov/index.html
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/orgchart.htm
Also note that like IEEE all of their Technology Special Publications go through public comment periods.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html
One of my favorites is SCAP, its like an XML for Security products that helps to standardize vulnerability reports and security settings so you can check using an array of SCAP compatible tools if your thousands of machines are all patched and up to date as well as running your enterprise security config.
http://scap.nist.gov/
I'd be concerned if some new bill made someone ELSE without some of the worlds best test labs, scientists and engineers negotiate standards for the US.
I worked with an Indian guy that had to give the eulogy when his father passed away.
He talked about his father's life, and his father's position on Ghandi's staff when he was a younger man.
After the funeral the guy's kids asked him why he never told them Grandpa worked with Ghandi, when they still could have asked their Grandpa questions about it.
It just never came up.
Watching/Witnessing YOUR team Win, beats the alternative.
Yes, the mainstream is trying to take things (formerly pejorative things) away from you. Maybe you're one of those guys who still holds onto Hacker/Cracker as a meaningful distinction.
I played Football in Little League and High School, played D&D on the weekends with a some of my teammates, and later went on to throw telephone poles with men in plaid skirts.
These 'childish' games CAN be fun, your body is wired for many types of stimulation, not just deeply cerebral activties.
We're also not all social misfits living in our Mom's basements. Once you break one stereotype, you realize how bogus the other are too.
Back to the topic of the article though, my team got knocked out in week two of the playoffs, so I'll probably be playing WoW/Dragon Age/ME2 on Sunday.
Some analysis at the NYT (IIRC) suggested that with the partnering deal they have with Mercedes, that if the S class doesn't pan out, Tesla might stop producing cars altogether, and just license their drivetrain technology to other companies.