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Welcome!
By: Create A Forum Date: October 9, 2013, 8:30 am
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Re: Welcome!
By: AGelbert Date: October 9, 2013, 10:55 pm
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Hello everyone. I have arrived here by the good graces of RE
from the Doomstead Diner and hope to provide stimulating
information on topics such as energy, innovations, truth and
consequences.
I, A. G. Gelbert, will be the administrator.
I hope all who come can argue about everything under the sun and
anything else they think of but I just ask you to keep it
rational.
Here are the rules for those who didn't read them well when they
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Frame Rate Perception
By: AGelbert Date: October 10, 2013, 12:57 am
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Bees can find the most efficient route between flowers faster
than a supercomputer can.
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Bees navigate by recognizing patterns and symmetry, and although
they have very small brains, they are one of the most efficient
species in terms of navigation, scientists have found. In fact,
research shows that bees are better than even supercomputers at
finding the shortest route between many flowers without visiting
the same flower twice.
The problem-solving abilityof bees is thought to be because of
the bees’ need to preserve as much
energy as possible to find food and make their way home.
More about bees:
Honey bees might fly as far as 6 miles (9.7 km) away from their
hives to find food.
Other than humans, bees are thought to be the only species that
communicates with symbolic language or about things that are not
present at the time. Bees use “dances” to communicate with one
another.
Bees have three sets of eyes and are able to sense movements
that are one-300th of a second apart, or the equivalent of
individual a single frame of film during a movie.
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Re: Bees are Smart
By: RE Date: October 10, 2013, 1:03 am
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[quote author=AGelbert link=topic=7.msg8#msg8 date=1381384627]
Bees have three sets of eyes and are able to sense movements
that are one-300th of a second apart, or the equivalent of
individual a single frame of film during a movie.
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A standard Movie goes at 30 FPS not 300. So Bees are either an
order of magnitude faster, or you dropped an extra Zero in by
accident.
RE
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Re: Welcome!
By: Surly1 Date: October 10, 2013, 4:32 am
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Hi AG,
In re this-
[quote]You also agree not to post any copyrighted material
unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from
the owner of the copyrighted material.[/quote]
This would seem to preclude cross-posting articles from most
other websites unless they expressly post a Creative Commons
license, yes? Am I understanding your intent correctly?
Nice forum.
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Re: Bees are Smart
By: Surly1 Date: October 10, 2013, 4:44 am
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Film has traditionally played at 24 frames per second (fps); it
is video which plays out at 30 fps.
When they started showing films on TV the difference in frame
rates was a problem. The obvious solution is to simply speed up
the film to match the television frame rates, but this, at least
in the case of NTSC (the American TV standard), is rather
obvious to the eye and ear. This problem is not difficult to
fix, however; the solution being to periodically play a selected
frame twice. For NTSC, the difference in frame rates can be
corrected by showing every fourth frame of film twice, although
this does require the sound to be handled separately to avoid
"skipping" effects. A more convincing technique is to use "2:3
pulldown", discussed below, which turns every second frame of
the film into three fields of video, which results in a much
smoother display.
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine
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Re: Welcome!
By: AGelbert Date: October 10, 2013, 3:12 pm
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[quote]Hi AG,
In re this-
Quote
You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you
own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of
the copyrighted material.
This would seem to preclude cross-posting articles from most
other websites unless they expressly post a Creative Commons
license, yes? Am I understanding your intent correctly?
Nice forum. [/quote]
Yes, I read that bit of boilerplate from the registration and
was uncomfortable with it as well. Consequently I placed large
bold font on the part I am mainly concerned with... ;D
According to something I learned long ago in a course in law as
part of a business administration course of study back in the
1970s, in the USA, laws are challenged by testing them. ;D
I asked our prof. Do you mean to say I just can't claim a law is
unconstitutional or wrong somehow? He said, "Not unless you are
a legislator writing to change the law. In order for a common
citizen to get a law changed, they must "test" (break) the law,
be taken to court and have the courts rule in your favor. That
forms Stari Decicis (case law) that is then used as a precedent
to ignore the law legally." ;D
The bottom line [I]Vox Populi, Vox Dei [/I](the voice of the
people is the voice of God for the courts) is that certain laws
are not enforceable... ;D
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Re: Welcome!
By: Surly1 Date: October 10, 2013, 6:33 pm
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I'm with you on that. Your forum, your rules.
RE outdid himself with this one. I like it...
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Re: Bees are Smart
By: Surly1 Date: October 10, 2013, 6:35 pm
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And you definitely would not want bees in your telecine.
I would kick me in the ass just for hijacking this thread. This
is what you get when you're online at 5AM before coffee is
brewed...
HAH!
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Re: Bees are Smart
By: RE Date: October 10, 2013, 11:19 pm
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[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=7.msg11#msg11 date=1381398244]
Film has traditionally played at 24 frames per second (fps); it
is video which plays out at 30 fps. [/quote]
I knew about this difference, I just always forget which was
which.
RE
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