I love the idea that you can use an extra mic input as a center channel or something.
Does this mean u can place a mic where you sit and it can figure out if you've placed the speakers optimally and/or dynamically adjust the sound outputs from each speaker to make the listening location hear the optimal audio experience (presumably near the mic in most cases)?
One presumes the speakers can emit sounds and the microphone/computer can then figure out what to adjust based on the received sound pattern/interference.
I been looking for a cheap system that does this, and/or a system with a 3D? gui that can show me the optimal speaker placement for my room/apartment (at minimum based on my inputting the apt. size, layout, and obstacles).
The public, corporations, and FCC have been hanging out like vultures after ham radio operators for some time. Greedy for a tiny slice of spectrum. Yum.
First off, by the way most 419's work.. the 419'ers in Nigeria think they are taking advantage of people who are already willing to do criminal activity.
Please think about the design of the scam.
Second, these are people living depressing lives in a country that's pretty screwed up. From their perspective, every westerner is super rich (makes 100 times more than they do).
Why not just ignore the emails? Are you the law to know what's appropriate punishment? How would you like it if your picture was put up on the wbe and made fun of if all you did was speed?
Sure, they did more than just speed.. but I don't think it's right for people to be judging what punishment is appropriate for individuals without knowing the circumstances of the crime.
Every crime's punishment takes into account levels of premeditation, intent, etc. So please.. don't pleasure yourself over this. There are far worse and more evil criminals out there who take advantage of innocent people rather than those who don't mind helping some evil dictator get away with their money.
Well, I wonder if for every Einstein there are people who think "I could have done that, why didn't I get the chance?". And most of them would be wrong.
What's the matter with you? Feeling old, got passed over for something at work?
Einstein could have passed this exam at 3 had he been given the chance... but so what? Had I been trained in baseball since I was 3, I too could have been like Sammy fucking Sosa.
Sorry to inform you that this was a nice and encouraging achievement for this girl in Pakistan where many females are shunned, ridiculed, and persecuted for trying to learn to read.
You sound pretty bitter and cynical dude.
So get some effing damn therapy instead of trying to spread negativity around.
Why are they supposed to be funny? Why are there prison rape jokes? Is it supposed to be creative? What goes through the heads of these people? "Hmm, I'm a fool let me think of a prison rape joke". Write to your G damn senator instead.
If everyone knows prison rape is happening.. why doesnt anyone give a shit?
Maybe there are some monsters who "deserve" the treatment... but there is no way MOST people deserve it. Imagine if someone who did heinous acts with your loved ones gets to go to prison and "have fun". There is no way most VICTIMS of prison violence would inflict it's cruelty on anyone. On the other hand, the perpetrators.. they will benefit from it.. and enjoy their prison stay. When you consider that the justice system is screwed up and has very little safeguard to protect an innocent person of being convicted of crimes.
The founding fathers of this nation ensured that America would not become a cruel and evil state by writing it into the constitution that people be spared cruel and unusual punishment. Anyone who has even the slightest faith in God (creationists), or knowledge of history (evolutionists), should realize that cruelty will not and has never helped the survival of any state.
Most people sent to prison, such as theives are sent for reform not to extract vengeance upon them. When they come out.. society will be no better (although that matters little.. considering we'd be doomed to hell for allowing such cruelty to be perpetrated to the undeserving).
Have we become evil?
There are people who bitch about Gitmo.. What about our domestic prisons? That's the root cause.
Wonder if they made a concious decision.. As in.. it looks like they made invidual windows have massive borders/edges for some reason.. like a picture frame... a transparent picture frame. I cert
When his bowl is empty, he says "meow". Is that an understanding of zero?
I can understand and be amazed by the understanding of zero and negative numbers as a mathematical concept.. but being able to recognize that something is not there.. and have a reaction to it.. come on.
Sounds like Roland needs to pay some extra bills this month. We don't need his F'ing bird brained "overview" laden submissions.
In the future, the general purpose CPU may be in a card, and the graphics component may be the motherboard consisting of multiple GPUs.
From a financial logic standpoint, it is already that way today for the computer gamer teens want.
Example, a recently built computer for my cousin.. the motherboard, cpu, and RAM came in TOTAL under 400.. but the graphics card was around $450. If you draw a conceptual diagram showing the size/area of the components as representative of cost.. the graphics card is much larger than the motherboard.
In the future, an entire silicon wafer may be a mutiple core (polycore?) CPU or GPU with hundreds or thousands of processors or functionality cores working in parallel. In fact the "cores" may not all be identical. Some may specialize in certain functionality such as physics, stream decompression.
The cooling requirements may end up being immense though.. imagine a noisy refrigerator on top of the thing. Strangely enough the refrigerator / cooling unit may cost more than the wafer.
Otherwise..you're a real idiot who can't use his brain. It's pretty clear that the submission's author's we refers to the chinese or world population in general.
How can people be so paranoid and suspicious of everything? Wait a second.. you work for microsoft dont you??
Gosh, why don't people think a bit critically and analyze evidence carefully without immediate bias?
Who were the idiots that modded you up?
Moderators, PLEASE mod the parent post down, dont waste a mod pushing this one up.
In case there's no prior art..there probbably is since it's so damn obvious.. here's how I'd implement it.. have a netwrok of electromagnets under the tablet.. and a magent inside the pen (or vice versa or even an electromagnet in both). The electromagnets can attract repel in order to provide the necessary force feedback to duplicate texture and other stuff. Actually the device can be used for more than just art and writing it can perhaps be used for games. So make that "writing/input instrument" rather than pen.
Ways to improve this? Make the pen respond or provide input to the computer or tablet control system in certain ways based on the grip or grip pressure and also downward pressure?
I saw a request for phpmyadmin/index.php in one of my web server logs on July 1st around 4 AM EDT..
About 2 and a half hours ago i saw a request for phpmyadmin/index.php in my web server logs as well.
I dont have PHP or any forums installed..and in the couple years my web server has been up (somewhat aporadically though) i havent seen this request (just grepped the logs).
So my opinion is that this attack is in the wild. Can someone confirm?
We need broad public, and congressional pressure.. not judicial rulings. Remember judicial rulings can be overruled by constitutional amendments and other means such as judge replacements etc.
A long term, permanent solution requires informing and winning the public.
On April 19, 2005, Limbaugh mentioned Wikipedia in the final minutes of his show, calling it "... some kind of left wing Internet encyclopedia," in response to the viewing of Pope Benedict XVI Wikipedia Article (most likely dated April 19, 2005 at 2:52 PM EST). During his radio program on April 22, 2005, Rush retracted the assertion after a Wikipedian called in and explained the site's mission and protocols, stating that he had received incorrect information from one of his staff members.
On June 21, 2005, while discussing the Los Angeles Times attempt to create Wiki-based editorials on their website, Rush tangentially claimed that Wikipedia was inaccurate about details of his life and career.
It's a legitimate complaint, but why didn't he correct it? Sheesh, why didn't he update it to make it accurate?
It's already proven that wikipedia has more accuracies than Brittanica. How often does the right wing or left wing (depending on point of view) media get things right?
Finally, we get to extract vengeance upon the comets for killing off our dinosaur cousins. Comets gotta learn that for every action there's a reaction. Halley, you're next! And to all the planets out there.. you're either with us or against us.
Anyway, about Electric universe folks..their theory is interesting.. I dont think they are whacko..science thrives because of diversity in thought.. However, if you read their predictions, nothing short of a massive water splash of water folllowed be an ice tsunami on the asteroid would cause them to change their mind. I wish they'd put some numbers (if the crater is larger than "100 feet" then we are wrong. "If the ice detected in the debris is greater than X percent, we are wrong" etc.
Non of that is done.. if they genuinely wish to be taken seriously they should find out the sensitivit of the instruments (publicly available) and make solid predictions.
The problem is that EVERYONE is involved
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Who do you not blame? HR for hiring "incompetents"?
I would have fired her too. I would fire anyone who's not able to use a keyboard, or doesn't check their input twice, especially when they are responsible for huge amounts of money.
Are you a freaking asshole or something? A jerk?
wtf? Did you get similarly mistreated or something, now you want to fuck up others' lives?
It was a mistake, nobody died, people didnt starve. It already happened. The company should deal with it.
It was an honest mistake.
How far up does the blame chain go? What about the person who hired her? Should he/she be fired for hiring someone who "can't use a keyboard"? What about the person who hired the person who hired her?
What about the person who sat an untrained employee in front of this system?
What about the software designers who didnt put fail safes against this? Or the people who designed the business process?
People make mistakes without malicious intent, effing deal with it!
What kind of a hair brained scheme is this??? What happens when global warming ends because we haven't any more money for cars having spent it all on this ring?
Of the 6 trillion, why not spend the$ 3 trillion on environmentally safe energy (fusion plants, geothermal, solar panels in the deserts) and spend $3 trillion to buy off all the oil megacorporations.
Besides, moving the earth further away from the Sun is a much more hair brained idea, so why not do that?
I couldnt find many books important to geeks on Gutenberg site.
Actually.. what are the "geek classics"?..who wants to attempt compiling a list of say top 100.
To be a classic it has to be published before.. err.. 1927.
I'm reckoning Euclid's Elements be in there.. and Newton's principia.. and don't forget some of the arabic texts too (of Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Al Haitham) and chinese ones etc. That is, the least doesnt have to be "western geek classics".
I don't see magnetic or optical drive technology having withstood the test of time./me whips out sumerian cuneiform tablets and reads the epic of gilgamesh.. still around after a few millenia.
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I love the idea that you can use an extra mic input as a center channel or something.
Does this mean u can place a mic where you sit and it can figure out if you've placed the speakers optimally and/or dynamically adjust the sound outputs from each speaker to make the listening location hear the optimal audio experience (presumably near the mic in most cases)?
One presumes the speakers can emit sounds and the microphone/computer can then figure out what to adjust based on the received sound pattern/interference.
I been looking for a cheap system that does this, and/or a system with a 3D? gui that can show me the optimal speaker placement for my room/apartment (at minimum based on my inputting the apt. size, layout, and obstacles).
When we tell kids about a time when it used to be possible for people "own" things.
Savage times, those were.
The public, corporations, and FCC have been hanging out like vultures after ham radio operators for some time. Greedy for a tiny slice of spectrum. Yum.
First off, by the way most 419's work .. the 419'ers in Nigeria think they are taking advantage of people who are already willing to do criminal activity.
.. but I don't think it's right for people to be judging what punishment is appropriate for individuals without knowing the circumstances of the crime.
.. don't pleasure yourself over this. There are far worse and more evil criminals out there who take advantage of innocent people rather than those who don't mind helping some evil dictator get away with their money.
Please think about the design of the scam.
Second, these are people living depressing lives in a country that's pretty screwed up. From their perspective, every westerner is super rich (makes 100 times more than they do).
Why not just ignore the emails? Are you the law to know what's appropriate punishment? How would you like it if your picture was put up on the wbe and made fun of if all you did was speed?
Sure, they did more than just speed
Every crime's punishment takes into account levels of premeditation, intent, etc. So please
How about using this "paper" as the top of the keys on the optimus keyboard rather than OLED?
Remember the link/story from yesterday?
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus
Well, I wonder if for every Einstein there are people who think "I could have done that, why didn't I get the chance?". And most of them would be wrong.
... but so what? Had I been trained in baseball since I was 3, I too could have been like Sammy fucking Sosa.
What's the matter with you? Feeling old, got passed over for something at work?
Einstein could have passed this exam at 3 had he been given the chance
Sorry to inform you that this was a nice and encouraging achievement for this girl in Pakistan where many females are shunned, ridiculed, and persecuted for trying to learn to read.
You sound pretty bitter and cynical dude.
So get some effing damn therapy instead of trying to spread negativity around.
Why are they supposed to be funny? Why are there prison rape jokes? Is it supposed to be creative? What goes through the heads of these people? "Hmm, I'm a fool let me think of a prison rape joke". Write to your G damn senator instead.
.. why doesnt anyone give a shit?
... but there is no way MOST people deserve it. Imagine if someone who did heinous acts with your loved ones gets to go to prison and "have fun". There is no way most VICTIMS of prison violence would inflict it's cruelty on anyone. On the other hand, the perpetrators .. they will benefit from it .. and enjoy their prison stay. When you consider that the justice system is screwed up and has very little safeguard to protect an innocent person of being convicted of crimes.
.. society will be no better (although that matters little .. considering we'd be doomed to hell for allowing such cruelty to be perpetrated to the undeserving).
.. What about our domestic prisons? That's the root cause.
If everyone knows prison rape is happening
Maybe there are some monsters who "deserve" the treatment
The founding fathers of this nation ensured that America would not become a cruel and evil state by writing it into the constitution that people be spared cruel and unusual punishment. Anyone who has even the slightest faith in God (creationists), or knowledge of history (evolutionists), should realize that cruelty will not and has never helped the survival of any state.
Most people sent to prison, such as theives are sent for reform not to extract vengeance upon them. When they come out
Have we become evil?
There are people who bitch about Gitmo
Wonder if they made a concious decision .. As in .. it looks like they made invidual windows have massive borders/edges for some reason .. like a picture frame... a transparent picture frame. I cert
When his bowl is empty, he says "meow". Is that an understanding of zero?
I can understand and be amazed by the understanding of zero and negative numbers as a mathematical concept
Sounds like Roland needs to pay some extra bills this month. We don't need his F'ing bird brained "overview" laden submissions.
In the future, the general purpose CPU may be in a card, and the graphics component may be the motherboard consisting of multiple GPUs.
.. the motherboard, cpu, and RAM came in TOTAL under 400 .. but the graphics card was around $450. If you draw a conceptual diagram showing the size/area of the components as representative of cost .. the graphics card is much larger than the motherboard.
.. imagine a noisy refrigerator on top of the thing. Strangely enough the refrigerator / cooling unit may cost more than the wafer.
From a financial logic standpoint, it is already that way today for the computer gamer teens want.
Example, a recently built computer for my cousin
In the future, an entire silicon wafer may be a mutiple core (polycore?) CPU or GPU with hundreds or thousands of processors or functionality cores working in parallel. In fact the "cores" may not all be identical. Some may specialize in certain functionality such as physics, stream decompression.
The cooling requirements may end up being immense though
I hope someone buys them .. they've got good engineers. They introduced an affordable high quality LCD monitor before anyone else.
.. but Microsoft and others jacked some ideas from them like the login screen having users images etc.
SGI is responsible for evanglelizing visualization. (For example coming up with Open inventor and sponsoring Open GL etc)
Hope they stick around. Irix wasn't the best OS
Cause if so, you're excused.
..you're a real idiot who can't use his brain. It's pretty clear that the submission's author's we refers to the chinese or world population in general.
.. you work for microsoft dont you??
Otherwise
How can people be so paranoid and suspicious of everything? Wait a second
Gosh, why don't people think a bit critically and analyze evidence carefully without immediate bias?
Who were the idiots that modded you up?
Moderators, PLEASE mod the parent post down, dont waste a mod pushing this one up.
In case there's no prior art ..there probbably is since it's so damn obvious .. here's how I'd implement it .. have a netwrok of electromagnets under the tablet .. and a magent inside the pen (or vice versa or even an electromagnet in both). The electromagnets can attract repel in order to provide the necessary force feedback to duplicate texture and other stuff. Actually the device can be used for more than just art and writing it can perhaps be used for games. So make that "writing/input instrument" rather than pen.
Ways to improve this? Make the pen respond or provide input to the computer or tablet control system in certain ways based on the grip or grip pressure and also downward pressure?
I saw a request for phpmyadmin/index.php in one of my web server logs on July 1st around 4 AM EDT ..
..and in the couple years my web server has been up (somewhat aporadically though) i havent seen this request (just grepped the logs).
About 2 and a half hours ago i saw a request for phpmyadmin/index.php in my web server logs as well.
I dont have PHP or any forums installed
So my opinion is that this attack is in the wild. Can someone confirm?
We need broad public, and congressional pressure .. not judicial rulings. Remember judicial rulings can be overruled by constitutional amendments and other means such as judge replacements etc.
A long term, permanent solution requires informing and winning the public.
Just wish to add that the italics text in the parent was quoted from wikipedia.
On April 19, 2005, Limbaugh mentioned Wikipedia in the final minutes of his show, calling it "... some kind of left wing Internet encyclopedia," in response to the viewing of Pope Benedict XVI Wikipedia Article (most likely dated April 19, 2005 at 2:52 PM EST). During his radio program on April 22, 2005, Rush retracted the assertion after a Wikipedian called in and explained the site's mission and protocols, stating that he had received incorrect information from one of his staff members.
On June 21, 2005, while discussing the Los Angeles Times attempt to create Wiki-based editorials on their website, Rush tangentially claimed that Wikipedia was inaccurate about details of his life and career.
It's a legitimate complaint, but why didn't he correct it? Sheesh, why didn't he update it to make it accurate?
It's already proven that wikipedia has more accuracies than Brittanica. How often does the right wing or left wing (depending on point of view) media get things right?
Finally, we get to extract vengeance upon the comets for killing off our dinosaur cousins. Comets gotta learn that for every action there's a reaction. Halley, you're next! And to all the planets out there .. you're either with us or against us.
..their theory is interesting .. I dont think they are whacko ..science thrives because of diversity in thought .. However, if you read their predictions, nothing short of a massive water splash of water folllowed be an ice tsunami on the asteroid would cause them to change their mind. I wish they'd put some numbers (if the crater is larger than "100 feet" then we are wrong. "If the ice detected in the debris is greater than X percent, we are wrong" etc.
.. if they genuinely wish to be taken seriously they should find out the sensitivit of the instruments (publicly available) and make solid predictions.
Anyway, about Electric universe folks
Non of that is done
Who do you not blame? HR for hiring "incompetents"?
I would have fired her too. I would fire anyone who's not able to use a keyboard, or doesn't check their input twice, especially when they are responsible for huge amounts of money.
Are you a freaking asshole or something? A jerk?
wtf? Did you get similarly mistreated or something, now you want to fuck up others' lives?
It was a mistake, nobody died, people didnt starve. It already happened. The company should deal with it.
It was an honest mistake.
How far up does the blame chain go? What about the person who hired her? Should he/she be fired for hiring someone who "can't use a keyboard"? What about the person who hired the person who hired her?
What about the person who sat an untrained employee in front of this system?
What about the software designers who didnt put fail safes against this? Or the people who designed the business process?
People make mistakes without malicious intent, effing deal with it!
ESR, shut the fuck up, you've done your good deeds, now don't start destroying it all just because you're not in the spotlight anymore.
...When people have ideas I want to know them.
Why tell anyone to shut up? If their statements have merit then people will absorb the idea.
Maybe you don't, but I do. What are your acheivements that you can go around telling people to shut up?
After all, by your own admission, ESR has done a good deed in the past.
I agree .. at the cost of a negative mod .. I will say that this guy Roland is a real jerk.
wonder if he's giving kickbacks to samzenpus for posting his stuff.
What kind of a hair brained scheme is this??? What happens when global warming ends because we haven't any more money for cars having spent it all on this ring?
Of the 6 trillion, why not spend the$ 3 trillion on environmentally safe energy (fusion plants, geothermal, solar panels in the deserts) and spend $3 trillion to buy off all the oil megacorporations.
Besides, moving the earth further away from the Sun is a much more hair brained idea, so why not do that?
I couldnt find many books important to geeks on Gutenberg site.
.. what are the "geek classics"? ..who wants to attempt compiling a list of say top 100.
.. err.. 1927.
.. and Newton's principia .. and don't forget some of the arabic texts too (of Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Al Haitham) and chinese ones etc. That is, the least doesnt have to be "western geek classics".
Actually
To be a classic it has to be published before
I'm reckoning Euclid's Elements be in there
is stone tablets of course..
/me whips out sumerian cuneiform tablets and reads the epic of gilgamesh .. still around after a few millenia.
I don't see magnetic or optical drive technology having withstood the test of time.