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This is a fallacy. If you take a look at the kind of presentations you see at top-tier computer graphics conference (i.e. SIGGRAPH -- shameless plug [paywalled] and another one), you will see that using all the fancy features of today's presentation software really can help in delivering the content of the presentation in a nice and intuitive way. The problem is that most people aren't willing spend one week on a presentation (except for top-tier computer graphics conferences).

According to this scientific paper. Acid blows holes in your aura, man, ain't nothing but a quick buzz and they won't take no LSD.

Talks at Google has a great lecture by Alex Filippenko, called "Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe." There is a wonderful section talking about supernovae as a standard candle from about 17 minutes to 36 minutes, but I recommend the whole thing, as I find it fascinating. http://youtu.be/Guvv5olLxCQ

So, how long until Iron Man, now?

Not long.

Not long at all. At least, for something a bit less "sci-fi" (umm, "palm thrusters"?) but more practical for the real-world foot-soldier.

http://youtu.be/p2W23ysgWKI

But soon there will be very little need for large numbers of (human) infantry.

Atlas http://youtu.be/hFKVSLNyADk

Atlas rocky terrain and balance tests. http://youtu.be/S-WRjDsyL0s

Robot soldiers that won't question, lie, or disobey orders.

Every megalomaniacs' and oppressive police states' wet-dream.

What could possibly go wrong?

The only thing worse than a self-aware "Skynet" is a "Skynet" under human control. Machines don't enjoy needless cruelty and the deliberate infliction of pain & suffering for their own sakes.

Strat

So, how long until Iron Man, now?

Not long.

Not long at all. At least, for something a bit less "sci-fi" (umm, "palm thrusters"?) but more practical for the real-world foot-soldier.

http://youtu.be/p2W23ysgWKI

But soon there will be very little need for large numbers of (human) infantry.

Atlas http://youtu.be/hFKVSLNyADk

Atlas rocky terrain and balance tests. http://youtu.be/S-WRjDsyL0s

Robot soldiers that won't question, lie, or disobey orders.

Every megalomaniacs' and oppressive police states' wet-dream.

What could possibly go wrong?

The only thing worse than a self-aware "Skynet" is a "Skynet" under human control. Machines don't enjoy needless cruelty and the deliberate infliction of pain & suffering for their own sakes.

Strat

So, how long until Iron Man, now?

Not long.

Not long at all. At least, for something a bit less "sci-fi" (umm, "palm thrusters"?) but more practical for the real-world foot-soldier.

http://youtu.be/p2W23ysgWKI

But soon there will be very little need for large numbers of (human) infantry.

Atlas http://youtu.be/hFKVSLNyADk

Atlas rocky terrain and balance tests. http://youtu.be/S-WRjDsyL0s

Robot soldiers that won't question, lie, or disobey orders.

Every megalomaniacs' and oppressive police states' wet-dream.

What could possibly go wrong?

The only thing worse than a self-aware "Skynet" is a "Skynet" under human control. Machines don't enjoy needless cruelty and the deliberate infliction of pain & suffering for their own sakes.

Strat

Simon & Garfunkel?

HA-ha

If someone reading this knows Tim, please give him my regards.

Also, if he wants to talk about the whole world going off fossil fuels to a cheap form of solar, be happy to do so. If it can't make dollar a gallon gasoline, then the idea isn't ready for prime time.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/...

Talk I gave at Google.

http://youtu.be/qCiw99yRBo8

A laser 33 times larger than the propulsion laser I propose.

http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

For my '07 S80-V8 an iPod connector and in-dash stereo integration was a factory option (which I added).

I believe your '07 S80-V8 is running QNX. The option you purchased was a module for QNX that talks to iPhones/iPods. QNX/BlackBerry are partners with Apple and the reports I've read indicate that iOS for car will still be running the QNX kernel.

I wonder why Apple can't make AirPlay mirroring with touch to an in-dash display a standard. For makers, it would make it something Android could support with an additional protocol and it would eliminate the need for most of the horrible in-dash infotainment systems car makers come up with.

QNX supports Miracast and Mirrorlink so if it is enabled by the manufacturer any device with those technologies will be able to just what you are asking for. In fact QNX demoed the tech at CES 2014 (Jump to 7:00)

This clip from The West Wing sums up map projection issues nicely: http://youtu.be/n8zBC2dvERM

So is there a video of the press conference anywhere? I've only seen clips, such as Mark Karpeles bowing and apologizing (in Japanese), and answering a few misc questions.

So is there a video of the press conference anywhere? I've only seen clips, such as Mark Karpeles bowing and apologizing (in Japanese), and answering a few misc questions.

That definition is not academically precise. Money that a bank holds on reserved is not considered part of the money supply unless it actually enters into the economy. You have to understand that retails banks are just extensions of the public monetary system. Money supply increase if and only if these banks with increased reserved actually end up issuing more loans.

In practice this has not happened because QE policy assumes the Loanable Funds Framework which is not an accurate representation of how banks are run today. Today retail banks "create" money via demand deposits with the Fed. Banks are not constrained by the amounts of Reserve they have to issue a loan, contrary to what is shown in the movie, "It's a wonderful life."

Here is a very good video that very clearly explains it if you're a macroeconomic buff:
http://youtu.be/Kw3uXAQ4DwE

>literally be a bomb on wheels

No it is neither literally, nor figuratively a bomb on wheels. It will catch fire though, with plenty of warning and safety features, if punctured. As I understand if you were in the Tesla when it caught fire in the battery packs, you probably wouldn't burn to death.

But the comment you're replying to wasn't talking about the Tesla. It was talking about a hypothetical electric car powered by lithium polymer batteries, of the same chemistry that an iPhone uses. One of those may very well be a bomb on wheels.

rock on /. http://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

'nothing to kill or die for.....' something about religion.... http://youtu.be/RwUGSYDKUxU

slashdot only alows....

Every day, hot and sunny... ;-)

we unchosens (pretend you're not one of us if it suits you) have been here numerous times Ihttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unrepentant&sm=3? so http://youtu.be/RnOXkedBmRs here we are again...

Slashdot only allows anonymous users to post 10 times per day (more or less, depending on moderation). A user from your IP has already shared his or her thoughts with us that many times almost

Oh no. The government of the United States, how untrustworthy compared to an anonymous stranger on the internet.

With the US government's track record for truthfulness and "transparency", particularly over the last 20 years, I'd be far more inclined to trust Joe Isuzu over the US the government.

http://youtu.be/nJMq_7alQpU

Strat

You keep using that word (cyborg). I do not think it means what you think it means... :P http://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk

One of the best SNL skits EVAR!

http://youtu.be/BpyUmVFYrp4

That photo is from a much older version of the system, and the pack is mostly empty space. The system components are not "much larger" and are shown at the start of the video: http://youtu.be/DUEAz_naHHg

Because no-one ever said it better.....

http://youtu.be/hTekDcdtVcg?t=... - almost prophetic ;)

No joke. Total biscuit gives you a quick look in this video.
http://youtu.be/6DJmS7prcmE?t=...

If this is the future of gaming according to EA they can shove it up their arse.

see: http://youtu.be/ceFyF9px20Y?t=... ... in this case we're talking the food industry, and in an example a few minutes prior to where this is tagged to begin, Lustig describes how it was the food industry got away with not admitting to people what they were putting in our food (i.e., because it was proprietary information that their competitors could duplicate.) But the point is, some science MUST rely on causal inference. You can't go around infecting thousands of people with HIV to run a study. You can't make someone smoke for 70 straight years to see what happens. You can't spike their food with high fructose corn syrup and trans fat, en masse, and be doing ethical science... and so you must instead examine the statistics that came FROM the fact that industries have already subjected us to these things and make a strong inference. And yet, because of the methods we're limited to, the food industry keeps getting to set the goal line back. 'We need better data,' 'more research to be sure...' and as long as they're 'never sure' we can never say, with any authority, 'okay, this explicative deleted is bad stuff.' I actually kinda LIKE the idea of complete transparency... but if they're going to force it on the EPA, FDA, CDC, etc, they must ACCEPT it upon themselves as well. No product can be sold to the public before it is ABSOLUTELY PROVEN TO BE SAFE. Let's see how they like that one?

... make it connect to a fake tower instead?

It isn't the cell tower. It is the camera/mic.

Scenario: Cops are abusing people, violently.

A cop calls headquarters and says, "Report of a phone stolen at Trucker and 4th; shut down everything in the neighborhood!"

Suddenly, any witnesses to the police abuse find they cannot record either video or audio.

Abuse gets verbally reported, but without any 'evidence', is dismissed and quickly forgotten.

This seems to be the standard way to make inconvenient records disappear. http://youtu.be/hZEvA8BCoBw

Better link here.

Typical Slashdot. An accurate and technically correct comment about sloppy reporting gets modded "troll".

Looks like I offended somebody's religion again.

Watching you try to debate these /. worshippers at the Altar of The Algore and Masters of Low Information and Reality Distortion reminds me of this clip from Family Guy.

http://youtu.be/Cg_8knBHEyw

You're being attacked because you're speaking Heresy before True Believers, not because of factual errors. As with all fanatics, debate or negotiation is useless. They simply must be defeated and relegated to the trash heap of history with all the other failed ideologies like progressivism/collectivism/authoritarianism.

Strat

The problem is one of planning not of vehicles. Where I live, snow is a common occurrence every winter, certainly during the warmer days of winter.

The city does have a fleet of snowplows, but when a heavy snow falls, it's not the city's snowplows that handle the load but the graders and other earthmoving equipment of the local contractors. While graders are better with additional pusher attachments, just the basic blade will do wonders.

The main thing is getting organized so that the city can mobilize quickly the equipment of the local contractors in times of need. While it is always costly to hire those guys, it's certainly less costly to do it this way than purchasing your own fleet of vehicles that will rarely get used. Graders get used all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://youtu.be/dw9dVWpcAIE?t=...

If they can send all of the "settlers" there, instead of into Palestine.

(Why am I imagine a mash up between Gil Scott Heron and Mel Brooks?

You have 15 seconds to comply. You are in direct violation of penal code 113, section 9...

http://youtu.be/wEb5a-I0kyg

It appears that The Telegraph is just making this stuff up. They often do this to increase the anti-EU crowd in the UK.

The biggest fact that this story is false is the fact there are no secret EU bodies at work here.

http://europa.eu/about-eu/inst...

Journalist are also known to make up stories.

http://www.theguardian.com/med...
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US...
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

Here are some EU myths busted.

http://youtu.be/oqVJEZnYiZo

Give it an android body and you've got a Cherry 2000!

It was never meant to actually work.

It was meant to fail spectacularly in order to clear the way for British-NIH-style single-payer healthcare.

"Jacob Hacker, The Architect of ObamaCare and the Public Option in making his case, admits that this idea is a covert route to a Single Payer System."

http://youtu.be/3sTfZJBYo1I

Just watch. After sufficient public frustration, desperation, & outrage have developed, single-payer will be rolled out as the "fix".

There's a "fix" alright, just that it was "in" before this crapfest was even passed.

Of course, those in Congress and friends of the administration like labor unions won't have to deal with any of this. It's good to be the king, eh?

Strat

Your misquoting of the source is amazing. He says nothing like what you attribute to him.

People - watch the video for yourself and ignore the poster's nonsense.

It was never meant to actually work.

It was meant to fail spectacularly in order to clear the way for British-NIH-style single-payer healthcare.

"Jacob Hacker, The Architect of ObamaCare and the Public Option in making his case, admits that this idea is a covert route to a Single Payer System."

http://youtu.be/3sTfZJBYo1I

Just watch. After sufficient public frustration, desperation, & outrage have developed, single-payer will be rolled out as the "fix".

There's a "fix" alright, just that it was "in" before this crapfest was even passed.

Of course, those in Congress and friends of the administration like labor unions won't have to deal with any of this. It's good to be the king, eh?

Strat

Virtualization is great, but compared to containerization it is a real pig. I'm in a similar situation to the OP, and I generally shut down my development VMs before doing graphics work, video editing, or relinquishing the workstation to my sons to play games. This includes idle VMs, which still chew up a fair amount of RAM and CPU. With containers, unless there is a busy process running, I can leave them running without notice.

Most operations on containers, with the exception of downloading the first image, are fast, like sub-second fast. Operations on VMs are painfully slow by comparison, easily a minute or more. The fact that containers are so lightweight opens up all kinds of uses that would be impossible with VMs, like deploying 40 containers to simulate a large environment, all on a ho-hum workstation. Even if you just use containers like VMs, it means you spend less time waiting and more time working.

I could mention more advantages, but I already sound like a new Christian.

For a decent implementation of containers you'll need Linux (LXC, perhaps under Docker) or FreeBSD (jails). And since a container uses the host kernel, you can't run Windows or FreeBSD inside a container on a Linux host. That is still the realm of virtualization.

To put containers in perspective, here is a good talk.

I have it on good authority that Kanye West is a genius.

Bravo! http://youtu.be/TAryFIuRxmQ

Check this out on youtube. Six parts, but very well done with a good answer.

http://youtu.be/R18yDjc2lKE

Because if you miss and don't kill them instantly, than you're back in torture/cruel-and-unusual land. Imagine shooting someone in the eye but not killing them and then having to take a second shot. Or a third shot. Or a forth shot.

If you shoot someone in the eye with any decent expansive rifle round (say, .30-06 and up), they're dead, no ifs or buts. The kinetic energy of the bullet that's released on impact is such that it will turn the entirety of brain tissue to mush, and explode the skull from the inside. Here is what it looks like in a deer. Human skull won't fare any better.

Dr. Robert Duncan, went on Conspiracy Theory with Governor Jesse Ventura in the Brain Invaders episode. Duncan says he is afraid for his life, because two of his comrads were killed, and he's one of the last ones who developed this to know. He thinks they abused his work and research, using it for evil purposes, to hurt and sabotage people. The technology is all based on Malech's patent from 1974, which uses radio signals to read and alter brain waves using conventional radar systems. US Patent # 3,951,134, Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves (this is on my site, previously linked).

The videos of Robert Duncan saying that are on my website. And here specifically:

Video which includes the clips of Robert Duncan's confessions (starts at 41 minutes in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfqxN5DHFvU#t=2460
Brain Invaders episode of Conspiracy Theory: http://youtu.be/18PtOXrzDVE

Don't You Believe It

Too good to be true.

Not at all:

Using a very small but powerful micro compressor, it compresses oxygen and stores the extracted oxygen in storage tank. The micro compressor operates through micro battery.

Considering that the "micro compressor" and "micro battery" only exist as nondescript blocks in one CAD rendering, I'd say that it is too good to be true. A "microbattery" not much larger than a CR2032 that's "a next-generation technology with a size 30 times smaller than current battery that can quickly charge 1,000 times faster" no less? I'm suuuuure that I can pick one of those up any day now, just like in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drug store. A micro compressor with the volume of a 9-V battery that can handle oxygen at breathable rates? Yup, I installed one of those in my free energy harvester just yesterday.

Better than 4 handed typing on the same keyboard. http://youtu.be/1Y2zo0JN2HE

Is it wrong that I instantly channel this when I read the story?

God_Bless_America-Theatre Scene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_America_(film)

I've used Radioactivity Counter and it works quite well. With a Galaxy Nexus phone, it's about as sensitive to gamma as my GammaScout. Watch review, or see it in action on a Chernobyl fuel fragment. But I wouldn't make a habit of exposing a CCD camera to ionizing radiation, because it will damage it.