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KennEnder

Very cool! (But is the "This why we fight..." on purpose?)

KennEnder

wow. I would love to submit something for this too! I better stop looking at this forum or I'll end up using too many idea of others.... wait... that's Card's whole objection to Fan Fiction to begin with... I guess I could rest on my laurels and be happy with my part in "Ender's Epic" (poem done wit...

KennEnder

Holy moley, Kenn, great to see you!!! How have you been? My two kids who used to post here grew up and moved away while you were off the forum. ;) haha. yes. a LOT has happened while I was off the forum, apparently! But it reminds me of "a watched pot never boils" ... I looked away and NOW it's boi...

KennEnder

Congrats, Dave! All hail the revived Modship!

KennEnder

cool. looks interesting... I'll give it a read and hope it holds up.

KennEnder

Dave!

It's amazing, isn't it? So much has happened. Even an EG movie in the works. Seems impossible to believe

KennEnder

Hi EL ...

It's so amazing to see everyone here (and to see that we weren't just waiting in vain)... I'm still pinching myself to be sure it's real...

KennEnder

Art by Nick Greenwood? OMG. If Nick is from Utah (and he seems to be at least LDS, so there is some chance), I think I know him! Incredible what a small world this is!

KennEnder

Yup, that's exactly what my reaction was about a month ago when someone told me they were making an "Ender's Game" movie. " Yeah, right. I'll believe it when they actually start filming." And then as soon as I got online, I found out they WERE filming. In many ways I'm still in shock, although the c...

KennEnder

I'm not sure if you were joking or not, TG. But by "got" I don't mean I captured or bought any birds. I mean that I got pictures of new (for me) birds, in the wild. I'm a birder, aka, bird nerd. So really, you're not the "Lizard Lady" that you purport to be, but rather a "Bird Lady" / "Bird Nerd" (...

KennEnder

What she said.

Yeah, she was always pretty good with words

It's fun to see so many "old" faces around here still / again.

KennEnder

Hi Naomi

I feel like such a noob what with being a "soldier" again and with only 300 posts to my credit, but I'll be hanging out here a bit more now I'm sure... it was fun to see that at least my flying dragon has survived the hibernation

KennEnder

Wow... not only is this place still here... there's a MOVIE in the works! I never thought I'd see the day...

KennEnder

Com'on Ollie, that's only if you go SOUTH of the equator. Everyone knows that! (Geesh!)

KennEnder

I met a lot of the "old school" Pwebbers (Dave & Ollie, among others) at a book signing in Greensboro... followed by dinner and ice cream with Scott!

Oh, and I've met Ami, too (but not at the same place/time)...!

KennEnder

I know I enjoyed another co-authored book he worked on: Lovelock (which I also hear has a sequel finally coming out, although I don't know if Scott had a hand in that at all).

KennEnder

SNR = Signal to Noise Ratio. And when the SNR is 0 db (decibels), half the signal is noise and half is the audio signal you want... that would be 50%. And from what I have been able to glean, 50% is not really a problem for us to understand (although, like you said, the actual signal is still there,...

KennEnder

I'm going to keep digging, but this is my initial attempt at looking for an answer.

A student with normal hearing needs an SNR of only about 10 dB for good comprehension.

I got that from here.

It doesn't really answer the question, but it is a starting point.

KennEnder

Sorry - what I meant to say was static noise would not often get rid of 50% of the message and us still be able to understand it - more than about 40% radio interference and you give up and switch it off That may be true enough... I have no idea at what point, scientifically, it becomes incomprehen...

KennEnder

I know this isn't the same thing, but if you haven't seen it before, it's pretty incredible! The human brain can make sense of pretty random things; read this for example: (I've read this before, but got this copy from here ) Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in wa...

KennEnder

I guess i should rephrase my question to ask what "switch" flipped in the human mind to allow humanity to devise something as complicated as a language. Language and "thought" are two very different things. Language is a learned ability to communicate your thoughts to others, whereas I'd say "thoug...

KennEnder

I would venture to say that the *original* thought (ie, the lightbulb) is never [/b] in a language of any kind... only the after-thoughts, the ponderings of the original thought, might be in some language or another. By the way, when you "think to yourself" in words, that's called "subvocalizing" .....

KennEnder

that'd let you send an e-mail at some time in the future.

That would be pretty handy for birthdays and holidays, too! I'm always thinking.. "it's a little too early to send that still" but then suddenly forget until it's basically late!

KennEnder

The human brain is pretty smart and can likely figure out what is going on. I would agree with that. I remember watching a lot of "snowy" TV as a kid, and even though the signal was really bad, we could just make out enough to know what it was and even enjoy it! There were times when you would only...

KennEnder

True enough... I guess I wasn't thinking of the "targeted" attack as such.

KennEnder

Because you've said *ANY* 50% could be obscured, I think the only way to insure success would be to make the image 50% symmetrical. True, it's a special case, but the image would be recoverable each and every time. If not... highly doubtful.

KennEnder

Or if you happen to know when "Mardi Gras" (Fat Tuesday) is, that's the last day BEFORE Lent!

KennEnder

That's embarrassing: I haven't read ANY of them... and I've only HEARD of about five!

KennEnder

Wasn't there a pwebber at one point who actually did make the dragon pic complete with encoded message? I seem to recall this. Yes, I believe so. And the Dragon I modified to be my avatar was that dragon, as far as I know (although I didn't make it). But the encoded message was a bit more "blatant"...

KennEnder

Not All Protestants Believe That Holy Communion Is Merely Symbolic or Representative. Lutherans, Episcopalians, (USA) Presbyterians for example. Although, I know Lutheran doctrine best so I'm going to base the next couple of paragraphs on that. Sorry... and I actually knew that! My uncle is Episcop...

KennEnder

Only once a month. And it only represents his body. Otherwise, it'd be canabilism. Actually, exactly what the bread is when you eat it is a matter of debate and depends on what denomination you belong to. DP... as far as I know Bean had it right: Catholics (for one) celebrate communion almost every...

KennEnder

It is a "phantom" that results from reducing an image (digitally). A compression artifact (or artefact) is the result of an aggressive data compression scheme applied to an image, audio, or video that discards some data that may be too complex to store in the available data-rate, or may have been in...

KennEnder

The other interesting (misunderstood) fact about fasting, even when it IS food, is that it doesn't necessarily mean going WITHOUT food at all. Catholics eat fish on Fridays as part of a fast (ie, not being allowed to eat "meat" on Fridays), but they're allowed to eat everything else. Muslims fast du...

KennEnder

I think what you're referring to is the message in the image that was designed for Bean to find... right? So there was the dragon, the "clever poem" and the encoded message once Bean knew to look for it. Unfortunately, I don't have the books here to quote or anything, but essentially, the dragon and...

KennEnder

Actually, technically, it's just what you "hear" when you read silently to yourself. It doesn't necessarily involve moving your mouth (although there are involuntary reflexes which can be detected by sensors when attached). Naturally, moving your lips as you read is ALSO a form of sub-vocalization, ...

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