people must see that just about anything is programmable in some sort of way given a sufficiently clever programmer. Computing and computability arises in any aspect of nature that produces any discrete form of organisation. Once you have discrete organisation, you have the basis for primative forms of arithmetic, and from that you may build whatever you like.
And just how do you make the resulting application remotely interactive? This approach harks back to the outline/preview modes of early vector drawing programs. H&J should be done on the fly, and this can't be managed by farming out work to an external program that gives output that must then be processed to get the desired information. Besides, what do you do with uneven column sizes between pages and irregular text wrapping?
The big problem, from a marke point of view, with pay per view, is that too many people will simply look at the cost and decide to do without it. Market forces will force things to be more and more fine grained as to how they charge: now its pay per house with TV plus pay per premium sky channel in the UK plus pay per premium pay pre view event. Eventually people will demand pay per view events and dump everything else. This will cause a collapse in everything but football and movies (and news if legislation still forces satellite carries to carry it). This is surely bad in the long run.
One of the real boons of properly learned touch typing is how instinctive and intuitive it is. Having got to a good speed with 2-4 fingured typing when I left for university, I decided to try out a touch typing tutor and see how it helped things.
The real difference now is that I don't have to look at the keyboard or worry in any other way about where keys are. I think the words I want, and my hands know where they're going without me having to think about it. Rarely now, and really only when typing in obscure passwords, do I actually look at the keyboard and think about what I'm typing one keypress at a time.
Somehow what's needed is an assessment of typing ability so that those students that cannot type are given the required training. Maybe have various sets for computer skills, as you do with say maths in many schools.
I took the trouble to google to see if these were known scams. That's always a good idea in practice. Besides, the legitimate sites will never give you a link _and_ instruct you do do something with your details at that link.
There's only one right place to sit with two speakers to have any chance of getting the proper stereo experience. The point of the new 3D sound is that the entire audience in an auditorium can got proper 3D sound. There are lots of pairs of ears in different places, and two speakers alone are certainly not enough to take account of that. Also, two speakers are not enough for proper surround sound unless you are not only sitting equidistant from the two speakers (both pointing straight at you) but also keep your head still: the stereo effect doesn't work properly for surround sound if you turn your head.
That sort of calculation is only really relevant when the rider is time trialling (i.e. going flat out over a known distance) in some form or another. Most of the race is tactical, using drafts from other riders, watching known threats and reacting to them, etc. In any case, there is a minimum bike weight, and bikes need to have lead weight added to them to make this weight. GPS receivers could be part of that added weight.
If you watch the TV transmissions, you will note that, with time trials, they already have a split screen thing view with a live update of the gap in seconds, in terms of overall classification, between leading riders. However they do this will be enough for a rider to know within a second or two anyhow, so satellite tracking will add little there, except for the ability for everybody to do this sort of thing between any riders they choose.
They'd probably require the receivers to be of a standard shape with removable modules. It would then be the rider's responsibility to ensure that they stuck their transponder-thingy into whichever bike they are riding.
Alternatively, and this is the more obvious solution: strap the receiver to the cyclist! (They already have heart rate monitors attached to them, one more piece of kit shouldn't be too bad.)
Except that these days, what the studio is capable of is that much greater than before. Your artist with the right image can't sing in tune? No problem, just fix the pitch in the studio. etc. etc. Studios in Crosby's day weren't able to make up for lack of ability in the artist in the way that the modern high tech studios can.
What he means by '833 pixels in the horizontal plane' is that there are 833 pixels going ACROSS the display. OK. You do have a little point with the aspect ratio: one must assume that pixels are square before his calculation of horizontal resolution makes sense. But that's all.
Either the entire screen is not used, or some akward scaling will be going on to get the image to fill the entire screen, and this will make for a more blurry image.
The problem is that whatever is writing to the disk needs to understand the current version of NTFS, or else a partition of the HD needs to be reserved for PVR purposes and the Windows software modified to make use of it. It may well have been possible with FAT32, but that's obsolete and limited to smaller partitions.
These patents could prevent the uptake of RFID in many places (increasing the cost of them) which could decrease the possibilities of everybody being RFID tracked by their supermarket purchases.
Does anybody know if a similar result happens to Zipf's result when we allow repeated phrases to be treated similarly to words in his analysis? e.g. in 'a a b a b a b c a b c a b a' we would have frequences of a:7, b:5, c:2, 'a b':5, 'a b c':2 'c a':2 'c a b':2 etc.
Consider the following 'text' where I'll use single letters rather than distinct words.
a a a a a b b b b c c c d d e
Here a will have rank 1, b will have rank 2, c will have rank 3, etc.
Now consider this 'text'
a a a a a a a a a a b b b b b c c c d d e
The absolute and relative frequencies are markedly different for a and b, yet their ranks will be the same.
For an arbitrary string of words, there need be no direct relation between the frequency of a word and its rank (by 'direct relation' I mean some kind of proportionality, thus discounting the obvious preservation/reversion of order between rank and frequency.) The observation of Zipf is that for 'natural' texts (i.e. real human written text for the purpose of communication) there is a proportionality going on between ranks and frequencies.
Basically, a formula 1 race is a glorified Ferrari victory parade. BAR, Williams, Renault are there to make it look competitive and battle it out for the minor places, occasionally fluking a win; McLaren are there to see if they can actually finish; the rest are (very expensive) mobile advertising boards, first and foremost.
Literally, the minor teams are more concerned with wheeling out their 'star' drivers at corporate events than in their drivers preparations for the race: they expect it to make so little difference to their teams standing that the business aspects take precedence.
Ferrari shaving 88/100th of a second of their lap times won't change anything. The second tier teams need more than that to break Ferrari's dominance. The remaining teams are more bothered about parading for their sponsors.
Formula 1 has long since become very boring.
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I remember being suprised with a clever demonstration at an ice rink on BBC's Tomorrows World (may it RIP). Don't know exactly how similar this is to that, but this isn't the first time it's been talked about.
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people must see that just about anything is programmable in some sort of way given a sufficiently clever programmer. Computing
and computability arises in any aspect of nature that produces any discrete form of organisation. Once you have discrete organisation, you have the basis for primative forms of arithmetic, and from that you may build whatever you like.
And just how do you make the resulting application remotely interactive? This approach harks back to the outline/preview modes of early vector drawing programs. H&J should be done on the fly, and this can't be managed by farming out work to an external program that gives output that must then be processed to get the desired information. Besides, what do you do with uneven column sizes between pages and irregular text wrapping?
The big problem, from a marke point of view, with pay per view, is that too many people will simply look at the cost and decide to do without it. Market forces will force things to be more and more fine grained as to how they charge: now its pay per house with TV plus pay per premium sky channel in the UK plus pay per premium pay pre view event. Eventually people will demand pay per view events and dump everything else. This will cause a collapse in everything but football and movies (and news if legislation still forces satellite carries to carry it). This is surely bad in the long run.
One of the real boons of properly learned touch typing is how instinctive and intuitive it is. Having got to a good speed with 2-4 fingured typing when I left for university, I decided to try out a touch typing tutor and see how it helped things.
The real difference now is that I don't have to look at the keyboard or worry in any other way about where keys are. I think the words I want, and my hands know where they're going without me having to think about it. Rarely now, and really only when typing in obscure passwords, do I actually look at the keyboard and think about what I'm typing one keypress at a time.
Somehow what's needed is an assessment of typing ability so that those students that cannot type are given the required training. Maybe have various sets for computer skills, as you do with say maths in many schools.
I took the trouble to google to see if these were known scams. That's always a good idea in practice. Besides, the legitimate sites will never give you a link _and_ instruct you do do something with your details at that link.
There's only one right place to sit with two speakers to have any chance of getting the proper stereo experience. The point of the new 3D sound is that the entire audience in an auditorium can got proper 3D sound. There are lots of pairs of ears in different places, and two speakers alone are certainly not enough to take account of that. Also, two speakers are not enough for proper surround sound unless you are not only sitting equidistant from the two speakers (both pointing straight at you) but also keep your head still: the stereo effect doesn't work properly for surround sound if you turn your head.
That sort of calculation is only really relevant when the rider is time trialling (i.e. going flat out over a known distance) in some form or another. Most of the race is tactical, using drafts from other riders, watching known threats and reacting to them, etc. In any case, there is a minimum bike weight, and bikes need to have lead weight added to them to make this weight. GPS receivers could be part of that added weight.
If you watch the TV transmissions, you will note that, with time trials, they already have a split screen thing view with a live update of the gap in seconds, in terms of overall classification, between leading riders. However they do this will be enough for a rider to know within a second or two anyhow, so satellite tracking will add little there, except for the ability for everybody to do this sort of thing between any riders they choose.
They'd probably require the receivers to be of a standard shape with removable modules. It would then be the rider's responsibility to ensure that they stuck their transponder-thingy into whichever bike they are riding.
Alternatively, and this is the more obvious solution: strap the receiver to the cyclist! (They already have heart rate monitors attached to them, one more piece of kit shouldn't be too bad.)
Don't be silly. James Earl Jones did Vader's voice: Prowse just did the body movements.
Except that these days, what the studio is capable of is that much greater than before. Your artist with the right image can't sing in tune? No problem, just fix the pitch in the studio. etc. etc. Studios in Crosby's day weren't able to make up for lack of ability in the artist in the way that the modern high tech studios can.
And by the time the image gets to an LCD display, it certainly does have a number of discrete pixels going across the screen.
What he means by '833 pixels in the horizontal plane' is that there are 833 pixels going ACROSS the display. OK. You do have a little point with the aspect ratio: one must assume that pixels are square before his calculation of horizontal resolution makes sense. But that's all.
Either the entire screen is not used, or some akward scaling will be going on to get the image to fill the entire screen, and this will make for a more blurry image.
The problem is that whatever is writing to the disk needs to understand the current version of NTFS, or else a partition of the HD needs to be reserved for PVR purposes and the Windows software modified to make use of it. It may well have been possible with FAT32, but that's obsolete and limited to smaller partitions.
These patents could prevent the uptake of RFID in many places (increasing the cost of them) which could decrease the possibilities of everybody being RFID tracked by their supermarket purchases.
Take a look at this article at support.microsoft.com.
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Does anybody know if a similar result happens to Zipf's result when we allow repeated phrases to be treated similarly to words in his analysis?
e.g. in 'a a b a b a b c a b c a b a' we would have frequences of a:7, b:5, c:2, 'a b':5, 'a b c':2 'c a':2 'c a b':2 etc.
Just curious...
Consider the following 'text' where I'll use single letters rather than distinct words.
Here a will have rank 1, b will have rank 2, c will have rank 3, etc.Now consider this 'text'
The absolute and relative frequencies are markedly different for a and b, yet their ranks will be the same.For an arbitrary string of words, there need be no direct relation between the frequency of a word and its rank (by 'direct relation' I mean some kind of proportionality, thus discounting the obvious preservation/reversion of order between rank and frequency.) The observation of Zipf is that for 'natural' texts (i.e. real human written text for the purpose of communication) there is a proportionality going on between ranks and frequencies.
Vry nfrmtv chptr n lssy cmprsn?
Thr shld b n 'n' n th wrd 'on'
Basically, a formula 1 race is a glorified Ferrari victory parade. BAR, Williams, Renault are there to make it look competitive and battle it out for the minor places, occasionally fluking a win; McLaren are there to see if they can actually finish; the rest are (very expensive) mobile advertising boards, first and foremost.
Literally, the minor teams are more concerned with wheeling out their 'star' drivers at corporate events than in their drivers preparations for the race: they expect it to make so little difference to their teams standing that the business aspects take precedence.
Ferrari shaving 88/100th of a second of their lap times won't change anything. The second tier teams need more than that to break Ferrari's dominance. The remaining teams are more bothered about parading for their sponsors.
Formula 1 has long since become very boring.
I remember being suprised with a clever demonstration at an ice rink on BBC's Tomorrows World (may it RIP). Don't know exactly how similar this is to that, but this isn't the first time it's been talked about.
In order to play with this X server, what hardware does one need (i.e. what hardware does the current CVS version support?)