Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 162
My interpretation of what they've done is essentially a scheduling algorithm.....
These 3D whizmos, like for example LEAP motion (incredibly cool), all work great.... for about 20 minutes. Then you put them in the drawer because they require too much muscle coordination and energy to operate. in contrast when you REST your finger on a scroll wheel or REST your hand on a mouse it is not merely not moving, it is at rest in 3 dimensions. it only takes a small effort to move it, but you are not having to run a whole lot of muscles in coordination to keep the hand or finger in a constant position. it's hard to poise your hand in empty space. In the old days, good typists could do this with hands poised over the KB and fingers hovering above the keys. Most people now days use palm rests or put pressure on the keys. those old time secretarial pool typists had to sit up straight and brace their feet on the floor to pull that off. Girdles probably helped!
the first successful mouse replacement will have that feature. Perhaps something with haptic feedback to support your finger a little till you really want to move it.
personally I suspect the some sort of eye motion or maybe a joystick like thing will be the first 3D controller that people can use for long periods.
why not just reduce the window area to half it's current size. If the savings is really significant then that would be significant too. Then compensate with the video system. the remaining window would be the failsafe.
Dogs sniffing for hidden electronics is not a commonly accepted practice, and I suspect that this is probably part of a campaign to make it one.
Who doesn't accept it?
Back in my time, we called what they have done now "an expert system". I fail to see why that designation should be suddenly inadequate.
Part of building an expert system is getting expert input, but that doesn't mean that everything with expert input is "an expert system." Hopefully everything you build gets input from experts (that is, from the ones who know what the system should do; that could be you or the users).
I would question the likelihood of this being anywhere near the most effective means of finding this material,
OK, what do you think is more effective?
and combined with the recent news that being interested in TAILS sends up a red flag with the NSA and the honored tradition of child porn and terrorism being the two most popular methods of getting a government practice to be accepted.
Police don't need to get dogs 'accepted.' They're already accepted. I don't even know what you're thinking here.
Well, it would also be to prove you right. Remember, it was you who brought up the issue of looking "into any data that might support (or discount) it."
And I'm the only one who even brought data to this discussion.
Talking with you is pointless because you haven't gotten over the issue of "finding out who is right rather than what is right." Fix that problem and we might have a good conversation.
Any Memory?? what judge will go on just that? hidden four layers deep why that for a USB stick? doing that will make them want to look at the data. Just shipping them unhidden is more likely to just pass though
No judge will go on that......in this case, the police had been following the guy compiling evidence for seven months before getting a warrant. The guy was abusing a 7 year old girl and taking pictures of her. They brought the dog in after the search warrant was obtained, because a lot of times child-molesters hide the pictures on small SD cards in ceiling tiles or something. At least read the article before getting outraged. Even if it's not as fun.
I can't buy a Ferrari for $100, by the same logic, that means there *must* be a Ferrari shortage! Something must be done!!!
I can agree to that!
Either way I wish hardware companies would stop pretending they have some proprietary advantage in their deradfully crappy software and stick to making good hardware.
Agreed.
I wonder about this. Sure a C++ parser is monumentally harder to write than a C parser, no questions. However, writing a C/C++ (one of the few time I believe this combo is justified) worth a damn is far, far harder than writing even a C++ front end. The optimizer on the best compilers is vast amounts of deep magic.
Well, I'd much rather write a C backend than a C++ frontend. Look how long the specification is, and it is full of ambiguities (some of them purposeful!). It would take me a long time to write a compiler I felt confident matched the specification, whereas C is small enough I think I could write a good compiler in a reasonable timeframe.
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