You can't have it both ways - smoothed out at the atomic level and re-emerging at the neurological level...
Yes you can (sort of). Check out the MWI, sometimes called Many-Worlds or Many-Histories model of quantum mechanics (Deutsch, Everett, Dewitt, and many others). There is no Copenhagen-style collapse; all possible futures do exist physically. Provides a mathematical model for counterfactuals, free will, and probability. And no faster-than-light signaling.
On this topic, unfortunately, Penrose has missed the boat and Dennett and the others are on the right track.
Each format has its adherents. 1080i has smoother motion because of 60hz update (so sports people like it), but at the cost of flicker (depending on display phospor and processing). It also has higher total resolution so stills look much more detailed.
They both take the same bandwidth and transmit the same number of pixels/sec.
We don't want courts or legislation dictating how we provide our content. Just like we don't want courts and legislation dictating how we should consume our content.
I interpret that as suggesting that all laws regulating production and consumption of content should be struck down.
My point is that certain such laws are IMHO very useful (e.g. copyright, at least in its original pre-Disney incarnation, and Fair Use provisions which prevent abuse by content providers and thus protect consumers), while others are very bad both on their face and in how they can be misused (e.g. DMCA).
Similar arguments obtain for the consumer's right to reverse engineer DRM systems. Consumers need to understand they had explicit legal rights to decrypt the media they own(ed) under preexisting laws, and the DMCA removed those rights.
Not bad news at all for the video editing/effects and audio markets (After Effects, Avid, Discreet on Linux etc.). Most apps in that space are already multiprocessor ready, and hi def especially can soak up all the cycles you can throw at it.
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Doesn't run on Windows, perhaps. We've all migrated over to Thunderbird but are still using Outlook for calendar management.
Actually each machine runs the model with a varying set of parameters: different initial conditions, different responses to CO2 overload, etc. The idea is that nobody actually knows the values of most of these constants, so just try thousands of scenarios.
First they ran the parameter sets on known data (the 1800s); the ones that ran wild then don't model reality. The remaining ones are possible candidates, and are run using 1900s data. Then those are statistically analyzed (you can see the overlaid graphs of all the param sets on the climateprediction.net web site).
Spotlight indexed about 400 GB of files of a wide variety of types in about 20 minutes.
and then:
people with decent ideas just bolt additions on old, obsolete, fundamentally broken programs
I think I'm missing something. I can't wait 20 minutes to search my files! I can't even wait one minute during a build or whatever. I wouldn't mind adding an option to Spotlight to directly search (non-indexed, or index-as-it-searches-first-time) my files, essentially turning it into a fancier grep, but Searchlight is not open source. And I don't think Apple is going to listen to me if I suggest that.
(I believe I've heard Spotlight will be usable from the command line; if not then of course this whole discussion is moot. Whatever search I use needs to produce stdout so it works with build systems, source control, and other tools.)
Besides, it's a cross-platform world. I'd love to port Spotlight to IRIX, Linux and Windows (my other main OSes) so my tools are the same across platforms, but again I don't think Apple wants me to do that.
[Spotlight] Yah, very funny. I'll just wait overnight before grepping my new files so it can index them. Oh well, maybe I need to scratch my own itch and add that CR line ending option to grep. Shouldn't complain I suppose.
Not exactly. Try grep on a CR-only terminated OSX file sometime, like the CodeWarrior headers for example. Course that's CW's fault, not OSXs, but I sure do wish Apple or someone would add a grep option to treat CR as newline.
I can't migrate my users from Outlook to Tbird because (among other things) Outlook can tell you who you replied or forwarded the email to and when; Tbird/IMAP can only say "replied". Duh yeah, good audit trail.
Not quite ready for prime time business use yet.
And of course you import the mail and leave behind the calendar (linked to the mail), the notes (linked to the mail), the diary (linked to the mail)... hmm, I don't think they'll go for it.
I use it myself & love it, don't get me wrong. But for business use, it's not quite there yet.
Seems like the really hard part of any augmented-reality HMD is to keep the displayed image in place over the real image. Are they doing eye tracking or just head tracking? Need to do both to get the displayed image really stable and avoid swimming and the resulting motion sickness. (As the eye swivels in the socket, the displayed image needs to change slightly to overlap the same real object.) The article doesn't say anything about their tracking, but IMHO it should.
Absolutely the best. Maha charger with Powerex batteries, from Thomas. Accept no substitutes. I use them for everything (except low-drain things like clocks and remotes, as Leomania says).
Note that the super-hi capacity 2200s self-discharge a lot faster than the 1800s, so if you want some shelf life, go with the 1800s.
I don't think it makes the whole map worthless, although sometimes when I get somewhere and the road's not where the map says it is, I wonder whether it's deliberate or just an error or change since the map was made.
You only need one duck on a given map, and one assumes they'd be dead ends, tiny roads, or just real roads modified subtly enough to detect (even a misspelled name would work). I guess it's like watermarking in a way...
Maps have had these for years; they call them 'ducks.' Bogus small roads that don't exist for instance. If they show up on a competitor's map, they're poaching.
Strangely, couldn't find a reference to this on google. I wonder if google themselves practice this kind of thing...
I just got a brand-new NX80v
the other day
and it is sweet. Its one big problem so far for me is MP3s: first, it can't play VBR mp3s, so my entire ripped album collection (lame --alt-preset standard) is useless. It can play up to 320k CBR, so it's not a quality issue, just space and time and software.
Second, you'd think with the top-of-the-line Clie and a top-of-the-line Memory Stick Pro, you could at least play back sony's proprietary ATRAC3 files -- no such luck. MS Pro doesn't support them. (Of course you couldn't play them from the CF card anyway, so who really cares, unless you want to fit a lot of songs on the device.)
Third, Sony's audio API is completely proprietary, so the chances of seeing a VBR MP3 or OGG Vorbis player are slim-to-none, until someone reverse engineers it or they publish the API.
If the DSP in this UX50 can handle VBR MP3s and OGGs, I would be very tempted to return my Clie NX80 today and wait for it! (Of course who knows how long that could be -- September, probably.)
By the way, for anyone who cares, the major differences are:
NX80 has 1.3mp camera, UX50 has 300kp.
NX80 supports memory and Sony WiFi CF cards; UX50 has WiFi, but no CF support.
sideways form factor
new CPU of some kind, as yet unknown
larger keyboard
jog wheel on top front instead of jog dial on side
We switched away from Make a few years ago. I looked at jam and other make replacements before settling on Cons, the perl-based precursor of SCons. We are now in the process of switching over from Cons to SCons (slowly), and so far it is working very well.
We are using it on Windows (MSVC and Intel compilers), Linux, IRIX, and Mac OS X (gcc and two versions of CodeWarrior). Handles all of those with ease. It can do things like properly handle dependencies on auto-generated source and header files, which would be a nightmare in make.
Some things like error handling and documentation need some work, but overall it is very solid. Automatic dependency checking, parallel build support, autoconf-like stuff, switchable tools, and easy to extend.
Yes, it requires python, but will run on just about any version back to 1.5.2, and doesn't require any python add-ons, so it's not too onerous a requirement really.
So far I am very happy with it; I'd suggest checking it out if make is making you crazy.
Actually on OSX most applications started by double-click (or open) just bring the current window to the front if an instance of that app is already running. It is moderately difficult to get more than one instance running. (The OS does this, not the app.)
Same reason everyone has to pay a surcharge for VHS and cassette tapes, even if they never record copyrighted material. Because it's way easier than charging per use, and the fee is not so onerous as to drive people away (in your case the ones not trading music/videos).
The argument for "Level IV" universes is highly speculative ("equations describe so much of reality so well, why shouldn't different equations represent something just as real?"), and in any case these universes have no communication paths with ours, unlike the interference phenomena which connect us with other universes which obey the Schroedinger wave equation, so it's really hard to say much of anything sensible about them.
And further, I know of no set of proposed physical laws for a given universe which could *prohibit* all the other universes (with same or different laws) from existing. There aren't even any universes where tautologies such as 2+2=4 or 1=1 are false (tautologies are true by definition everywhere -- you can only deny them by changing the symbols' meanings), much less universes containing the kind of restrictive laws you propose.
Most multiverse theories (e.g. Deutsch, Everett, Dewitt, unsure about Tegmark) only presume the existence of all universes with the same physical laws and constants as ours, i.e. ones which can have interference effects on ours. Other universes may or may not exist (some call this larger collection the plenitude), but since there's no interaction between ours and those, we can't say much about them except philosophically.
The point is, according to this model all universes obey the same laws and thus all of them allow for the multiverse, so the above argument does not apply. It's a bit like saying since there are infinitely many numbers (or mathematical statements) that there is one which does not allow for any other numbers.
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Yes you can (sort of). Check out the MWI, sometimes called Many-Worlds or Many-Histories model of quantum mechanics (Deutsch, Everett, Dewitt, and many others). There is no Copenhagen-style collapse; all possible futures do exist physically. Provides a mathematical model for counterfactuals, free will, and probability. And no faster-than-light signaling.
On this topic, unfortunately, Penrose has missed the boat and Dennett and the others are on the right track.
Each format has its adherents. 1080i has smoother motion because of 60hz update (so sports people like it), but at the cost of flicker (depending on display phospor and processing). It also has higher total resolution so stills look much more detailed.
They both take the same bandwidth and transmit the same number of pixels/sec.
-- Gary
Similar arguments obtain for the consumer's right to reverse engineer DRM systems. Consumers need to understand they had explicit legal rights to decrypt the media they own(ed) under preexisting laws, and the DMCA removed those rights.
Wrong. This is exactly why laws are good. The people *do* need protection from corporations. Would you abolish copyright and patents, too?
Don't throw out the baby (intellectual property rights, on both sides) with the bathwater (the DMCA).
Not bad news at all for the video editing/effects and audio markets (After Effects, Avid, Discreet on Linux etc.). Most apps in that space are already multiprocessor ready, and hi def especially can soak up all the cycles you can throw at it.
Doesn't run on Windows, perhaps. We've all migrated over to Thunderbird but are still using Outlook for calendar management.
Actually each machine runs the model with a varying set of parameters: different initial conditions, different responses to CO2 overload, etc. The idea is that nobody actually knows the values of most of these constants, so just try thousands of scenarios.
First they ran the parameter sets on known data (the 1800s); the ones that ran wild then don't model reality. The remaining ones are possible candidates, and are run using 1900s data. Then those are statistically analyzed (you can see the overlaid graphs of all the param sets on the climateprediction.net web site).
(I believe I've heard Spotlight will be usable from the command line; if not then of course this whole discussion is moot. Whatever search I use needs to produce stdout so it works with build systems, source control, and other tools.)
Besides, it's a cross-platform world. I'd love to port Spotlight to IRIX, Linux and Windows (my other main OSes) so my tools are the same across platforms, but again I don't think Apple wants me to do that.
[Spotlight]
Yah, very funny. I'll just wait overnight before grepping my new files so it can index them. Oh well, maybe I need to scratch my own itch and add that CR line ending option to grep. Shouldn't complain I suppose.
Is there a Cocoa-based grep (or grep replacement)? I must have missed it. Please let me know.
Not exactly. Try grep on a CR-only terminated OSX file sometime, like the CodeWarrior headers for example. Course that's CW's fault, not OSXs, but I sure do wish Apple or someone would add a grep option to treat CR as newline.
I can't migrate my users from Outlook to Tbird because (among other things) Outlook can tell you who you replied or forwarded the email to and when; Tbird/IMAP can only say "replied". Duh yeah, good audit trail.
Not quite ready for prime time business use yet.
And of course you import the mail and leave behind the calendar (linked to the mail), the notes (linked to the mail), the diary (linked to the mail)... hmm, I don't think they'll go for it.
I use it myself & love it, don't get me wrong. But for business use, it's not quite there yet.
-- ST
Seems like the really hard part of any augmented-reality HMD is to keep the displayed image in place over the real image. Are they doing eye tracking or just head tracking? Need to do both to get the displayed image really stable and avoid swimming and the resulting motion sickness. (As the eye swivels in the socket, the displayed image needs to change slightly to overlap the same real object.) The article doesn't say anything about their tracking, but IMHO it should.
Yeah, fast searching and factoring and numerical optimization are pretty much only used by crackers anyway.
-- ST
-- Tristero
Absolutely the best. Maha charger with Powerex batteries, from Thomas. Accept no substitutes. I use them for everything (except low-drain things like clocks and remotes, as Leomania says).
Note that the super-hi capacity 2200s self-discharge a lot faster than the 1800s, so if you want some shelf life, go with the 1800s.
I don't think it makes the whole map worthless, although sometimes when I get somewhere and the road's not where the map says it is, I wonder whether it's deliberate or just an error or change since the map was made.
You only need one duck on a given map, and one assumes they'd be dead ends, tiny roads, or just real roads modified subtly enough to detect (even a misspelled name would work). I guess it's like watermarking in a way...
-- Tristero
Maps have had these for years; they call them 'ducks.' Bogus small roads that don't exist for instance. If they show up on a competitor's map, they're poaching.
Strangely, couldn't find a reference to this on google. I wonder if google themselves practice this kind of thing...
-- Tristero
Second, you'd think with the top-of-the-line Clie and a top-of-the-line Memory Stick Pro, you could at least play back sony's proprietary ATRAC3 files -- no such luck. MS Pro doesn't support them. (Of course you couldn't play them from the CF card anyway, so who really cares, unless you want to fit a lot of songs on the device.)
Third, Sony's audio API is completely proprietary, so the chances of seeing a VBR MP3 or OGG Vorbis player are slim-to-none, until someone reverse engineers it or they publish the API.
If the DSP in this UX50 can handle VBR MP3s and OGGs, I would be very tempted to return my Clie NX80 today and wait for it! (Of course who knows how long that could be -- September, probably.)
By the way, for anyone who cares, the major differences are:
- NX80 has 1.3mp camera, UX50 has 300kp.
- NX80 supports memory and Sony WiFi CF cards; UX50 has WiFi, but no CF support.
- sideways form factor
- new CPU of some kind, as yet unknown
- larger keyboard
- jog wheel on top front instead of jog dial on side
-- TristeroWe switched away from Make a few years ago. I looked at jam and other make replacements before settling on Cons, the perl-based precursor of SCons. We are now in the process of switching over from Cons to SCons (slowly), and so far it is working very well.
We are using it on Windows (MSVC and Intel compilers), Linux, IRIX, and Mac OS X (gcc and two versions of CodeWarrior). Handles all of those with ease. It can do things like properly handle dependencies on auto-generated source and header files, which would be a nightmare in make.
Some things like error handling and documentation need some work, but overall it is very solid. Automatic dependency checking, parallel build support, autoconf-like stuff, switchable tools, and easy to extend.
Yes, it requires python, but will run on just about any version back to 1.5.2, and doesn't require any python add-ons, so it's not too onerous a requirement really.
So far I am very happy with it; I'd suggest checking it out if make is making you crazy.
-- Tristero
You're right of course. I meant moderately difficult for an average home or office Mac user -- power users can do pretty much anything on OSX.
-- ST
Actually on OSX most applications started by double-click (or open) just bring the current window to the front if an instance of that app is already running. It is moderately difficult to get more than one instance running. (The OS does this, not the app.)
-- Tristero
Same reason everyone has to pay a surcharge for VHS and cassette tapes, even if they never record copyrighted material. Because it's way easier than charging per use, and the fee is not so onerous as to drive people away (in your case the ones not trading music/videos).
-- Tristero
The argument for "Level IV" universes is highly speculative ("equations describe so much of reality so well, why shouldn't different equations represent something just as real?"), and in any case these universes have no communication paths with ours, unlike the interference phenomena which connect us with other universes which obey the Schroedinger wave equation, so it's really hard to say much of anything sensible about them.
And further, I know of no set of proposed physical laws for a given universe which could *prohibit* all the other universes (with same or different laws) from existing. There aren't even any universes where tautologies such as 2+2=4 or 1=1 are false (tautologies are true by definition everywhere -- you can only deny them by changing the symbols' meanings), much less universes containing the kind of restrictive laws you propose.
-- Tristero
The point is, according to this model all universes obey the same laws and thus all of them allow for the multiverse, so the above argument does not apply. It's a bit like saying since there are infinitely many numbers (or mathematical statements) that there is one which does not allow for any other numbers.
A couple of quick refs to read up on multiverse interpretations of QM: The Everett Interpretation, and David Deutsch's home page.
-- Tristero