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http://vimeo.com/105855767

Gender studies, diversity etc, are made up pseudoscience that do far more harm than good.

Brainwash 1:7 - The Gender Equality Paradox

Glad to see the potential for a new revolution in electronics. Assembling precise crystalline structures is the best way to harness properties of any material. For the most part we have been in the first generation of materials innovation, just one step removed from alchemy, where chemicals' properties are known in a general sense. Elements are combined and set into clumps of useful stuff.

The two prevalent forms of stuff-clumps used in electronics have been the cowpie, a dollop of stuff placed into container in which electrodes or plates are suspended to yield useful properties of storage or electron transfer, perhaps selectively doped to generallly control the dance of the little electrons in their shells... and the turd, an extruded mass of stuff in which its length or composition determines the property, and electrodes are fixed to either end.

1. harness the properties of useful stuff as cowpies and turds
2. fine-tune the diet to maximize useful properties in turds (present level of technology)
3. flocculate the turd juice into tiny turdlets (the innovation described in TA)
4. assemble lattices of turdlets via electrostatic or acoustic means (think phi and eye of dragonfly)
5. bit by bit assembly, such art as has been mastered by the Steelypips,

"Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter -- for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had -- first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine ..."
~~Stanislaw Lem

Of course, a few of the folks here are going to go on to suggest that this process will some day become giant disposable batteries the size of skyscrapers that are built and lovingly installed like 2001: Monoliths, for the express purpose of storing a year's worth of solar and wind grid energy so that if the clouds roll over and the wind dies down, it will power our modern civilization for ten minutes. At which point I will lose my temper.

I thought it was a mass revolt because of privacy issues. Silly me, no one cares about that.

Just me and Kasabian...

Ijburg is a relatively new speculative development that's having trouble breaking even because of the crisis and it's pumping some cash into marketing creatives to prop up its appeal.

You should check out "Creativity And The Capitalist City" http://vimeo.com/49254956 it paints a fairly credible picture (although you Americans will start screaming "soclalism" before the title screen fades out...) Smart City my ass... go check Eindhoven if you want to see some potential in a de-gentrified area; Amsterdam is mostly Sales, Marketing and Advertisement.

Ah, the Trouw - one of the best Clubs in Europe - has just shuttered its doors to make space for a "Student Hotel"... pathetic

Anybody have any better music suggestions appropriate for this story?

I tend to reference Dylan's Everthing is Broken for most software projects, seems apropos for Bitcoin in general.

what creates randomness? it happens to a controlled situation, that isn't entirely random, but is the effect of the universe, and physics, physics are absolutely absolute but humans cannot perceive that everything is working under order of a law, and effect of the environment. the environment, happens to include microwaves, electromagnetism, signals from other particles, so I highly doubt they were able to conclude that the environment doesn't play a much greater role.

they might be saying that their own researchers could not link it to an environmental thing, but I am sure they didn't even have the ability to tell what was really happening in peoples environments, and they probably don't even comprehend what the environment is.

many people continue to deny that microwaves cause cancer for example, but the studies show otherwise, and we know that microwaves have a whole slew of biological health effects that the mass scientific/government community tends to ignore and overlook. cancer is one side effect. tumors are one side effect. alterations in DNA, and cellular function is another side effect. we coat ourselves in microwaves all day long today, from wifi, to cellphones, to radar signals, to wireless signals, it's proven not to be harmless, but most doctors and researchers don't include anything about it in their studies.

they also don't look at the effects of magnetic or electromagnetism at all on people, cells, or DNA. but it's there. causing randomness, causing things to happen that humans don't track.

obamasweapon.com

I recommend you review some of the whitepapers, ie Professor Emeritus Martin Pall, Dr. Paul Dart's, etc's on biological health effects of microwaves for example, to see an area of science where this article falls short. particle physics is another realm that needs to be taken into consideration and molecular biology. oregonstatehospital.net/d/story.html#links

A cool documentary to watch is Resonance: Beings of Frequency.

One reason you don't hear about this is most of the information is classified for national security. So yes, they do deny the public knowledge on the health effects, and most doctors and researchers are clueless twats as a result on it.

If the ISPs want to ignore the ban, they've got good ammunition. The ban lists a bunch of "URLs", including things like "http://vimeo.com/" and "https://archive.org". Does it ban URLs like "http://vimeo.com/some-movie-here" or "https://archive.org/whatever"? Nope, just the front pages of the websites :-). Then there's also the problem that most ISPs don't serve URLs, they transmit IP packets and maybe also serve domain names and email mailboxes, so technically the ISP is just connecting you to 107.162.132.45 port 80, not to http://vimeo.com./

Does this incompetence mean that the government of India can't hassle ISPs that don't do what the censors wanted them to do, rather than what they asked them to? Sadly, probably not.

In measuring those imbalances they're measuring the filtering that greenhouse gases do to the infrared spectrum. The fact that some of the absorption spectrums overlap means there is some uncertainty in what gas causes what effect but those uncertainties are quantifiable. Cloud cover and ice albedo are also subject of research and they haven't found evidence for them being major factors.

To me it just looks like you're desperately searching for anything but CO2.

Here Richard Alley explains that carbon dioxide is the biggest control knob for Earth's climate going back as far as we can tell.

Already done....and then some.

Apple Strudels? anyone?
http://vimeo.com/29469155#t=75...

Don't know if you've seen it, but you should check out Century of the Self, then you've have the timeline and "hard data" your post is talking about. The whole mental manipulation is far worse than most can even imagine. I have actually used this film as the main reason I refuse to have cable TV installed...even if I'm not focusing the TV just the advertisements playing will affect me subconsciously. I refuse to allow myself to be influenced to buy a bunch of crap especially when I know I'm being manipulated to do it!

http://vimeo.com/84550345
After watching this, and having a giggle to myself, i wish they would spend that $500 on getting a driving license 1st. All i see is destruction derby.

Really wrong. Really.

Must.
Crush.
Capitalism.
http://vimeo.com/87962641

Reminds me of Silo, a neat little short film about a caretaker of an ICBM (who does a very poor job) and is forced to fix up the place... and well, any more and I'd be spoiling. You're best watching it...

There is a BBC documentary film maker named Adam Curtis who makes some fascinating and disturbing videos about society and control. He has access to the BBC film archives, and uses historical footage extensively. The assertions made are extensively documented and the interviews of powerful people are extremely interesting. I think that this video, The Engineering of Consent, is relevant to this discussion. It is one hour, and quite "stream of consciousness", but worth watching. It is the second episode in a series called The Century of the Self.

From the wikipedia summary:

"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." —Adam Curtis' introduction to the first episode.

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings. The series describes the propaganda that Western governments and corporations have utilized stemming from Freud's theories.

Freud himself and his nephew Edward Bernays, who was the first to use psychological techniques in public relations, are discussed. Freud's daughter Anna Freud, a pioneer of child psychology, is mentioned in the second part, as is one of the main opponents of Freud's theories, Wilhelm Reich, in the third part.

Along these general themes, The Century of the Self asks deeper questions about the roots and methods of modern consumerism, representative democracy, commodification and its implications. It also questions the modern way we see ourselves, the attitudes to fashion and superficiality.

The business and political world uses psychological techniques to read, create and fulfill the desires of the public, to make their products or speeches as pleasing as possible to consumers and citizens. Curtis raises the question of the intentions and roots of this fact. Where once the political process was about engaging people's rational, conscious minds, as well as facilitating their needs as a society, the documentary shows how by employing the tactics of psychoanalysis, politicians appeal to irrational, primitive impulses that have little apparent bearing on issues outside of the narrow self-interest of a consumer population.

Pshh, of course it's easy to make a winning dance about tornadoes. I think the dance of mayonnaise should have won hands-down. Clearly, the judges are Miracle-whip fanboys.

I wonder what kind of Oreo you get with #ricomicconfail2014.

http://vimeo.com/m/66125779

I just typed it. But Slashdot simply "disappears" thorn characters, which is annoying.

Bárðarbunga is full of eye candy. I can point to abundant examples including no shortage of videos on Youtube / Vimeo.

As for pronunciation: Á is said "ow". BOWR-dthar-BOON-ka. The R is an alveolar tap or trill. If that's too hard for you, you can also call it Holuhraun (HOLE-ih-HROYN), Nornahraun (NORDN-uh-HROYN), THorbjargarhraun (THOR-Byardg-ar-HROYN), or a bunch of other names (the TH should really be a thorn, but again, Slashdot silently eats thorns). Among the many proposals for names was Holuhraunshraunshraunshraun, which was suggested because it would be fun watching foreigners try to pronounce it ;) It was never actually a serious contender, but I wrote an article poking fun at the concept on Uncyclopedia at one point ;)

I remember back at the turn of the millenium - you'd buy the best computer around, and barely had time to get it out the box before a new one came along with a faster processor and twice the memory.

Obligatory clip from The Onion movie.

bon appetit!

well no, I bet a dollar there was a tear in his suit. Simplest explanation is always right.

Be prepared to lose a dollar. The protocol for donning and removing the protective gear is very complex, and very hard to get perfect. When putting the suit on, it's possible to get gaps between the goggles and suit without even knowing it.

Goggles?! - Proper biohazard suits are full-body and pressurized, with a full-head hood and absolutely
no openings in the vicinity of the head. Or any place on the front side of the body for that matter.

And when taking it off, a tiny flap of the contaminated suit brushing against a clean surface is almost impossible to detect.

Eh, again? - There's a multi-step decontamination procedure before taking off the suit.

Taking off a still-contaminated suit would be a major fuckup, and a (potentially) contaminated suit should never
be in an environment where any "un-suited" contact can happen.

Have a look at how this works at the BSL-4 level (skip to about minute 13).

What kind of amateurs are running this place?

Using the gopro with 240 fps on the gopro app on a Galaxy S4 is a nightmare and I envision that it will be the same on the iPhone.

Seems to be okay to me.

And they also released the "Hollywood loves open source?" teaser of an upcoming documentary. https://vimeo.com/106452874

You see those cameras on the freeway? yeah. Anyone you hang out with got a smart phone? Use plastic anywhere?

Instead of railing against the inevitable, spend that time and energy for protection on what, when, who, why, where and how it can be used?

I want a spy car, but that's probably not what you meant. :)

Phelps was burning a lot more calories than that on an active day, actually. His BASAL metabolic rate was probably 4-5k. (I think I read that his peak was something like 12k kcals a day?)

There's a great little video about Shane Perkins on vimeo--he was a velodrome sprinter. He was at about 5k resting. On really active days, he literally couldn't digest enough food to fulfil his nutritional requirements. http://vimeo.com/26494905

No what she actually said was "I'm not a fan of video games". http://vimeo.com/13216819#t=12...

Posting as AC to avoid having my karma ruined by the PC police.

No, she doesn't say anything about "first person shooters". She says "video games". As in video games in general, and not a specific genre.

Anyway, here you go:
http://vimeo.com/13216819#t=12...

This clip gives plenty of context too.

You mean the game jam where they wanted you to work for free and own your work?

She tweeted a few times about it openly and had a few twitter discussions with people about it. Plus she was speaking from a good professional point of view.

Fuck you pay me.

Obligatory Bill Gates/Simpsons reference... http://vimeo.com/70498601

Put those videos up on Youtube or Vimeo, perhaps even annotate them with links to the official docs (such as they may be), with notes about features not demonstrated in that video, or with links to related training videos.

YouTube maybe, Vimeo no. Its policy forbids "Product demos and tutorials."

This looks pretty cool, but I have a lot of questions.

On it's surface, it looks like a lot of the results they're getting wouldn't currently be outside of the realm of student level work, such as the simple practice of projecting and baking textures into materials from photographs, the innovation seems to be that they're quickly automating a lot of that stuff into a UI with a fast lighting solution. One of the things I find most rewarding about 3d is that you sometimes get this huge burst of increased productivity, as long as you're not too bummed out about things you've spent time and energy learning how to do becoming obsolete. This isn't that different, fundamentally, than setting your viewport background in Maya, 3ds Max, etc. to be a photograph after properly matting your foreground objects and projecting textures with adjusted reflectivity, just without all of the manual tediousness. Also, there's also been other, similar work done on the subject, that I've heard of, but this still looks pretty neat if it's something you can use right now without a billion dollar computer.

One of the big things this tech might be doing is streamlining the process of match lighting. I personally can't wait till the major software packages have integrated solutions for easy lighting from photo sources. Currently the setup for photo matting is a pain, it requires stitching together panoramic photos of reflective chrome spheres - on location - or carefully using observation skills to recreate the lighting by hand (which can be very difficult for glossy surfaces). It would appear, however, that we're on the brink of not needing those things anymore. That being said, this software still has a bit to go, however.

For example, the lighting information baked into the diffuse textures of the objects, in these examples, does not appear to be dynamic - if you watch the taxi-spinning segment you'll notice that the specular highlights on the hood of the car do not properly update as the orientation of the model changes in relationship to the light sources, making the taxi appear to have white paint streaks once rotated out of alignment with the light source. The car falling off the cliff example is probably the most apparent in final results, as the strong baked lighting makes the coloring look off. The way we 3d artists get around this problem is to eliminate the lighting information in our diffuse textures as much as possible before reapplying them as flat color, and then let our lighting rigs take care of the reflections, shadows, and such. As they mention this software doesn't support transparency, and I would guess is rendering everything as matte objects, meaning the renderer probably isn't robust enough to handle anything coming close to complicated reflections/refractions and so on, making this software's usefulness very situational, currently. It would be a great way to quickly populate photos with hordes of smaller objects, for example. However, with a more powerful renderer, feature wise, this tech could be really useful for the Photoshop crowd. I wish Autodesk/Mental Ray would focus on stuff like this instead of the boring crap updates we usually get (Maya's new fluids are pretty cool though, tbh...).

Dave

Not a new idea. Only they didn't use Kinect or electrical stimulators, so they just relied on the partners' willingness to mirror each other's movements.

I just want to be your friend.

Roll out Ipads... this is all I could think of:
http://vimeo.com/11480457

This is a great debate between Glenn Greenwald and GWB's drug czar and in it, reference to Portugal and studies related to that are made. From there, you can do your own searching:

http://vimeo.com/32110912

Okay. Remember in all of this... NO PRESSURE!

OOPS... a link to a youtube-censored video. Try this one: NO PRESSURE!
Bad taste should never be flagged 'inappropriate' for kids of any age.
How else would they learn what it is?

At the bottom of the article is a linked video to the robot manufacturer. The robots do indeed lift the cars by the wheels. This video is much more interesting than the animated one from the article.

Read this. Yes,the take down notice is under penalty of perjury..

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(emphasis mine)

Those guidelines seem pretty fucking clear. That you or other Youtube users don't necessarily LIKE them is a secondary matter.

http://vimeo.com/help/guidelin...

• The uploader must not only have permission from the video's copyright owner but also be an author of the video. I can see how a bunch of edge cases would arise from this, such as minor authors, authors living in an area with a slow or capped Internet connection, etc.
• Vimeo doesn't appear to allow the use of footage from a video game in a review of that video game.
• I'm not sure how Vimeo determines whether an uploader qualifies as "an independent production company, artist, or non-profit".
• "No videos that depict or promote unlawful acts" would rule out using Vimeo to rule out whistleblowing and other forms of documentary that depict unlawful acts without glorifying them.

To anyone who thinks this research has triggered their "bullshit detector" I say "you are so full of bullshit your detector is broken".

Watch this BBC/Horizon documentary http://vimeo.com/54089463

In this video they take before/after blood samples and show at least SOME actual physiological changes, change of things in ways which we currently consider to be "good for your health".

There really (no, really really) DOES appear to be at least some valid science behind this.

That + the currently ongoing university research project in Netherlands that these people are apparently aping. Unlike "give us one million" guys, those people have actual bike and pedestrian roads already laid somewhere in North Holland. The costs are astronomical even without the "modular" and "fiberglass pattern than can carry trucks and yet provide decent grip" which are the main differential between these two projects as far as I can tell.

Here's the video of the Dutch project with english subtitles: http://vimeo.com/91641192

He is referring to this south park episode "HumanCentipad"
http://vimeo.com/24782590 fast forward to 7:00 and watch for 2 minutes and you will get the gist.

Here's a link to where she talks about the Commodore 64, check at 1:45. She also mentioned that she liked Carmen Sandiego.

Thanks for pointing this out (article submitter here). People make points in other comments about MetaFilter's business strategy, varied content, or grousing about the moderation. Your comment instead emphasizes the positive about how how MetaFIlter is one of the longest running online communities and it is trying to sustain itself. One comment I saw on MetaFilter compared these donations to the end of the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".
http://metatalk.metafilter.com...

I've never been a MetaFilter member. Nor have I paid much attention to it anytime recently other than seeing stories on it now and then found by whatever random process. But a couple months ago I added it to my list of interesting news sites. Every day it has some interesting and generally pleasant (non-trollish) discussions linked to on the main page as the best of the discussions. I can see the value in that and the work that goes into it. As I wrote to someone just before hearing this news, Slashdot is like the discussions I had in college around the computer center and the engineering buildings; MetaFilter is like the more randomly varied discussions I had in the dorm hallways, dining halls, and maybe the social science buildings.

Having recently "discovered" this jewel that reminds me of the better part of what the internet was in the late 1990s, it is sad to see it struggling. Slashdot is a community I have long enjoyed and participated in, and itself may itself be facing some of the same general issues. It's a bit surprising to me to see in some of the comment here a lack of acknowledgement of the parallels. Why do they think "Beta" is being pushed? People may say MetaFilter is not "original" content like a news articles. Nonetheless, I feel discussions about new articles are themselves important content. I read Slashdot not so much for the articles but for the discussions which often point out how the articles are wrong or misleading, or add lots of details to the articles, or put the articles into a broader context. Discussion has its own value, both for participants and for lurkers. I don't know if it is true, but I did find interesting the speculative comment by someone that the fall in traffic could reflect that maybe Google does not want competition with its own Google+?

Another story has a link to a video where Matt Haughey, the founder of Metafilter, explains the size of the site and the moderation infrastructure and its history:
http://newstorystudio.com/why-...
http://vimeo.com/21043675

Matt sounds like someone who really cares about his community, sort of like a town mayor (and a founder who never "sold off" from the early internet days, unlike Slashdot getting sold off to various new owners). Guestimating from their staff size and their revenue loss and member base (on the order of 10,000 active members), it must be take at least US$20K - US$40K a month to keep that community humming along for staffing costs (mostly for moderation I would think)? Or guessing on the order of about US$2 to US$5 per active member per month? Computers and bandwidth for hosting used to cost something significant, but nowadays for a text-mostly site I would not think those matter much?

It seems to me that the financing of all this has been for the past few years mostly that people not in the community (non-posters) drive by via Google and generate ad revenue, and that revenue then supports the community. The people who actively participate in the community must be a much smaller percentage of views. It looks like with MetaFilter, the people who funded the community were not the people who actually inhabited the social process of it.

That reminds me a bit of where I live in the Adirondack Park. Much of the money coming into the community is from summer tourists or summer residents when the population swells

Naked 3D body scans are already a thing.