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+ - High-speed camera grabs first 3D shots of untouched snowflakes->

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes "Researchers have developed a camera system that shoots untouched flakes "in the wild" as they fall from the sky. By grabbing a series of images of the tumbling crystals—its exposure time is one-40,000th of a second, compared with about one-200th in normal photography—the camera is revealing the true shape diversity of snowflakes. Besides providing beautiful real-time 3D snowflake photographs from a ski resort in Utah, the goal is to improve weather modeling. More accurate data on how fast snowflakes fall and how their shapes interacts with radar will improve predictions of when and where storms will dump snow and how much."
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Comment: Re:Not putting in DRM isn't going to eliminate DRM (Score 1) 351

by La Gris (#43233563) Attached to: Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards

Yay, free cars.

But until the star-trek utopia arrives the people that used to make those cars now need a new job...

  1. Give or sell cars for free or at a loss
  2. Then sell tuned fuel in tiny sealed tanks witn embeded engine njectors, brand and model specific fittings,
  3. Ensure the fuel gauge scream empty and engine shut down half tank capacity or decrease even if parked all night,
  4. Profit

Comment: Re:Non-bullshit non-jargon translation please... (Score 1) 202

by La Gris (#42394689) Attached to: Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013

Geek translation:

Focusing on tablets = You will get more of the Unity crapbloat
redesign Unity for mobile = We tried to sell it on desktop and...
push deeper into the cloud = there are kids reading you know.
faster and cost effective to scale out modern infrastructure on the cloud of your choice = we are going cheap on giving you a choice between clouds and clouds or clouds...
create clouds for your own consumption and commerce = You know who will consume and who will do commerce.

Comment: Re:Reversion to mean? (Score 2) 170

by La Gris (#40050507) Attached to: Wozniak's Original System Description of the Apple ][

And one trick he missed that could have been done cheaply... if the video vertical sync pulse had been made available someplace in the I/O space as a bit you could test, then it would have been trivial to know when you were in the vertical blanking interval so that you could flip video buffers cleanly.

$C019 ;RDVBL bit 7 Apple IIe IIgs Vertical Blanking
$C041 ;RDVBLMSK bit 7 Apple //c Read VBL Interrupt

Entertainment

HDTV Expert Alfred Poor Tells You What to Buy and What Not to Buy (Video) 324 Screenshot-sm

Posted by Roblimo
from the there's-no-such-thing-as-a-TV-that's-too-big dept.
Alfred Poor's website is called HDTV Almanac. That's where he talks about the latest HDTV industry news and changes. He also writes about HDTVs and monitors for a variety of industry publications and does some marketing consulting for manufacturers in the field. In this 17 minute video, Alfred tells us what features we should look for in our next TV buy and which ones aren't worth spending extra money on. He also says that for a variety of non-technical reasons, you might want to consider buying your next TV between now and June -- and says you should think about getting a 3D TV even if there aren't many 3D TV shows you want to watch right now.

Comment: Re:Fuck GizMag (Score 1) 185

Not only de-duping but:
- Sorting and grouping,
- Compressing patterns by combining and diffing matches,
- Replaying known scenarios (sequence patterns) that will help the sorting and classification,
- Playing challenging scenarios (as dreams) to help reveal relevance of the information itself as well as en-light unconsciously captured information (unprocessed details.

As a result, after a good night, you awake with freed short term memory and processed long term memory.

Comment: Re:Fuck GizMag (Score 4, Interesting) 185

The memorization job during night is more like a reprocessing of the short term pattern matching, or optimization.

Let imagine you saw a calico cat during the day:
Your short term memory barely stored the information patterns nearly as :
1 - Surrounding environment (time, location, current occupation)
2 - Encounter with a wandering animal.
3 - The known cat of your neighbor.
4 - An uncommon variety calico.

During the night you reprocess optimize/compress the following pattern information as:
1 - related and share the same pattern memory as: your usual work commute
2 - related and share common animal encounters,
3 - share the already memorized recognition pattern of your neighbor's cat.
4 - share your already memorized recognition pattern of calico cats.

If you sleep/dream good enough, your brain will iterate and further optimize/reduce these patterns by walking across which materialize as dreams.

Your awake activity will bring new data as patterns that will help optimize and compress older memory patterns. In the long run, it may even produce lighter or more optimized memory, merging each duplicate information with "related to". Commonly used relations will wire faster actual synaptic links.

 

The Internet

+ - Invitation to Slashdot Readers into Clipboard.com beta->

Submitted by
gary.flake
gary.flake writes "Slashot reviewed my book over a decade ago and fanned some flames when I changed jobs. So I thought that the least that I could do would be to give you a sneak peak at what I am up to now.

Clipboard.com is my new web service that allows you to save just about anything from the Web (text, images, embeds, or whole elements from the DOM with style and functionality preserved). You can keep your clips private, publish them in several different ways, or individually (and privately) share them with other users. For some great examples, see the programming category.

Until our servers start to spew smoke, I'd like to welcome Slashdot readers into our limited beta. Please let us know what you think."

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Google

Google Heads Up Display Coming By the End of the Year 177

Posted by Soulskill
from the paging-manfred-macx dept.
kodiaktau writes "Google is working to deliver a heads-up display allowing users access to email, maps and other tools through a wearable interface. According to the NY Times' sources, the device will be available later this year, and sell for prices comparable to smartphones. 'The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would be Android-based, and will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye. They will also have a 3G or 4G data connection and a number of sensors including motion and GPS. ... The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby, according to the Google employees. The glasses are not designed to be worn constantly — although Google expects some of the nerdiest users will wear them a lot — but will be more like smartphones, used when needed.'"

Comment: Transactions with real electronic cash (Score 1) 141

by La Gris (#38916759) Attached to: Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses

What we need is exchange transactions made with electronic signed cash species. Actually, transactions revolves around pure arithmetic and thus permit this type of frauds by creating more virtual fictional money with no real value.
If we could have signed species objects made of {{serial#,amount,emitter},emitter-signature},owner},owner-signature}, transactions made by signed clusters of species objects. No one except countries, central banks authorities would be able to electronically sign the species with the same process as printed money is done. Fictional fraudulent species would be much identifiable by their invalid signature. Each transaction would require a signed transfer from current owner and next owner of the currency/cluster, not the fictional arithmetic operation +/- we are used to.

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