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Only if we're at war.

A recent talk by Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed this out.

Watch this: http://youtu.be/lkswXVmG4xM If their claims are true, we might already have advanced space travel tech and clean, even free energy tech. I'm not saying their claims are true, but it looks like something that needs to be investigated. There is a lot of evidence, not just from these people, of large scale coverups.

Again, only time will tell. But what if...?

:-) http://youtu.be/_yJBhzMWJCc

So you're saying a vending machine that dispenses used women's panties creepy? What is this world coming to?

That is why you have multiple train sets. In Japan the bullet trains run essentially what amount to locals, rapids, and super-rapids. The local like ones stop at every station on the route, the rapids skip the smallest but still stop at larger ones, and the super-rapids like the Nozomi on the Sanyo line stop only at the largest cities. Smaller stations are built with turn out lines for the platforms, allowing the faster trains to bypass them while they sit in the station.

Also, the length of time a bullet train in Japan is in station is very short, often around 90 seconds. The N700 series also can accelerate very quickly, often being back up to their top speed within a few minutes.

Watch this video of a tunnel entrance on the Sanyo line in Japan and make sure to watch the clock in the lower corner: http://youtu.be/YlPjo9RIQNE

Hopefully with HSR the small towns along the route will grow much larger as well. People keep looking at the negatives and at none of the positives here, they see the immediate cost and none of the long term benefits of more people (and more tax paying residents and businesses) that infrastructure like HSR and other rail projects bring. Its time that we stop looking at the car as the solution for everything and start looking to other countries and how they have done well with rail, because we could ultimately do it better.

Well, duh. MegaUpload hired well-known artists, and paid them, to produce an original music video, and was planning to release more original songs as legal downloads. (YouTube)

Incidentally, the RIAA responded by taking the video down, using YouTube's DMCA take-down system, and when MegaUpload sued them for abusing the DMCA system, they RIAA defended themselves by claiming that they never made a formal DMCA take-down reqeust; they just pushed the button that YouTube gave them to take down videos.

Perhaps because MegaUpload had started to hire artists and was planning to release original music downloads, thus putting them into direct competition with the traditional music companies.

That would also explain why the music companies abused the DMCA system to remove MegaUpload's ad from YouTube, even though it contained no infringing material. (YouTube)

The original patents on multi-touch belonged to a company founded back in 1998 called Fingerworks

That's interesting, since actual multitouch systems predate Fingerworks by almost 2 decades.

Here's an example of the pinch gesture being used in 1988: http://youtu.be/dmmxVA5xhuo?t=4m32s

Why isn't Apple suing every phone manufacturer in existence? I'm quite sure Apple doesn't want its acquired patents to face their day in court.

Cause no one else would fail to see that using multi-touch on an 84" screen means waving both arms around.

Yeah, I'm failing to see that, especially since I'm watching it in use and don't see the guy waving around both arms. With your use of the word "waving" you're trying to convey this wild flailing motion, but the actual interaction with the device seems as natural as what I would do on a chalk board.

well i just found out it was done several hundred times! http://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY

Are they allowed to have a sense of rhythm?

Like in this video of a police beating? http://youtu.be/7KTnLVzI2q4

If Apple is willing to take all old devices for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling (and I believe they are), then the EPEAT certification is of no great value to the environment in the case of Apple's devices.

Yeah right, like it's not gonna end up in one of those third world giant computer wastelands.

Most of the videos are of a large, panoramic view and grossly overexposed, so you can't see much. This one is a much, much better picture. http://youtu.be/4ifn8LJl5n0

Watch for yourself

http://youtu.be/lrPCEubDZ9A?hd=1

http://youtu.be/lkswXVmG4xM

If what these people say is true--many of whom have been among the most trusted individuals in the world, even working with nuclear launch authorization codes--then SETI is truly a tragic waste of time and money.

Even though Steve was a fierce competitor, he actually drew the line at taking advantage of competitors’ demo woes. I remember one time during the “think different” years when Bill Gates suffered a terrible failure demoing a new Microsoft technology. We at the agency thought it would make a very funny commercial for Apple. It seemed like an idea being handed to us on a silver platter. We would simply show Gates failing and end the ad with a clever line about Apple.

Steve laughed — but he rejected it immediately. He said that demo crashes are an unavoidable part of the business, and that his own demos could fail as easily as Gates’.

Source - The Joy of Demo Crashes

http://youtu.be/lkswXVmG4xM

I'm not saying it's true. But what if it is? What are the implications? What if these petroleum corporations would put their billions of dollars into researching and developing technology that's just waiting to be used?

These people who claim to be witnesses were trusted to the utmost, including some who were trusted with nuclear launch authorization codes. No nuts would be given a job like that.

"How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt?"

Because solar panels are not cost-effective, not yet anyway, and the massive government subsidies are being poured into "production facilities" not basic research.

It reminds me of the bee in "The Bee Movie" that kept slamming into the glass because he didn't understand the concept of glass "Maybe this time," "Maybe this time," "this time," this time..."

Solyndra was the quintesential example of this stupidity - in an effort to wrestle the solar panel industry from the grips of the Chinese Government, we (the US of A) invested in a company that used a more expensive process, baked on to more fragile panels that were made in a factory in the country with one of the highest labor costs in the world in a plant built on some of the most expensive land in the country (Silicon Valley). Surprisingly, one the production rate for solar cells at Solyndra was known, and the discount off the cost of manufacturing each solar panel sold for, it was a trivial exercise to calculate how long the money would last - so trivial even the government analysts were able to do it.

And to add insult to injury, the money used to finance the production facility was borrowed, most likley from the Chinese.

There is one use case where solar panels are very cost-effective - on space ships...

Couldn't let the comment slide without a little musical accompaniment.

http://youtu.be/wUrqFkR7QlI

So I watched google's video introduction of the Q. http://youtu.be/s1Y5dDQW4TY

I have absolutely no clue what this thing does or is or anything really. Except that apparently it will let people come to your house and play music from their phone. The video feels like dot com boom marketing. It's like zombo.com.

Damn that evil hip hop, it's all bad I tell you.

I don't think you understand Libertarian philosophy. Here's a primer for you. HTH!

In a nutshell, it's "I'll leave you alone; you leave me alone." In practice, there is no way that I can exist without affecting those around me. Therefore, to implement Libertarian philosophy, we have to make some judgments upon when one person's rights trump another's, and that's where the difficulty arises. For example, I am an amateur musician, living on 2 1/2 acres of land. Ideally, if I want to play my electric guitar at 2:00 am with the amp turned up to 11, then I should be able to do so. However, even on 2 1/2 acres of land, I have neighbors who live close enough that my amp at full throttle at 2:00 am would probably keep them awake. Therefore, the city in which I live has enacted a noise ordinance that says I must be mindful of my neighbors' need for rest between 11:00 pm and 6:00 am. That's an infringement of my liberty, but I would argue that such a law is nevertheless a good thing. The point becomes even more obvious when you consider laws about things like murder or theft rather than noise ordinances: sure, laws preventing me from randomly killing someone else restrict my liberty, but -- excepting edge cases like self-defense -- isn't it more important that someone else be allowed to live than I be allowed to kill someone just for the lulz?

So, yeah, it's actually exactly like that -- one company using out-of-context numbers and scare tactics to besmirch another company with a competing product despite the allegations being rather overblown.

Exactly nothing like that - did Honda's have a problem with the gas tank blowing up in rear-end collisions at low speeds? No. Did Ford? Yes. Also from Wikipedia:

According to a 1977 Mother Jones article by Mark Dowie, Ford allegedly was aware of the design flaw, refused to pay for a redesign, and decided it would be cheaper to pay off possible lawsuits. The magazine obtained a cost-benefit analysis that it said Ford had used to compare the cost of $11 repairs against the cost of settlements for deaths, injuries, and vehicle burnouts. The document became known as the Ford Pinto Memo.[14][17][18] This document was, technically, not a memo regarding the Pinto specifically, but a general memo Ford submitted to the NHTSA in an effort to gain an exemption from safety standards; it was also primarily focused on the cost of reducing deaths from fires resulting from rollovers, rather than the rear-end collision fires that plagued the Pinto. It was nonetheless submitted in court in an effort to show the "callousness" of Ford's corporate culture.[6]

An example of a Pinto rear-end accident that led to a lawsuit was the 1972 accident that killed Lilly Gray and severely burned 13-year-old Richard Grimshaw. The accident resulted in the court case Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co.,[19] in which the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District upheld compensatory damages of $2.5 million and punitive damages of $3.5 million against Ford, partially because Ford had been aware of the design defects before production but had decided against changing the design.

It's simply sophistry to pretend there's any equivalency between Windows and Mac when it comes to malware. Mac users have to worry about it as much as you have to worry about getting struck by a meteor if you step outside your house. Is it possible? Sure. Does that mean it's likely to happen or something you have to worry about? Not unless you make Terry Collins look like a calm, well adjusted individual.

It's saying that, but in such a way that it's strongly implying "we don't have that problem" when they actually do.

Actually, they don't.

Who here has NOT seen a Windows PC loaded up with malware? (looks at Slashdot audience and sees no hands raised). Okay, anyone seen A mac loaded up with malware? (looks at Slashdot audience and sees no hands raised)

Don't confuse existence with likelihood. Do meteors fall to earth? Sure do. Would it be pretty bad if one hit your car or your house? Sure would. How much time do yous spend a day worrying about meteor strikes?

None. Because the chances of it happening are so remote that not even uber-hypocondriac Terry Collins would have to worry about it.

Just like Mac users and viruses.

As seen on Youtube.

and not just Samsung Galaxy S3, but any phone with Android 4.0 (ICS) with face unlock active. My EVO 4g LTE can be fooled the same way, but what is the odds that some random person just happens to have a picture of me? It's more likely they could guess my pin/pattern.

Awesome analogy! I really want to learn that soliloquy from Devil Wears Prada..

For those who don't get it, http://youtu.be/1LVptO7o4L8#t=1m25s

Bad analogy with Australia - Australia already had a population for many thousands of years when the British came along on and used a small corner of the place as a penal colony. Probably will probably upset a few Aussies who can trace their ancestors back more than a few hundred years on the continent.

Perhaps itwbennett either has a 1970s history book on Australia or is one of those crazy ultra-right wing white Australians who really still believe nobody was on that continent before the British turned up with a flag?

http://youtu.be/oojzmjJ3ugE

In the event of getting screwed over I always saw my departure as being more like this http://youtu.be/bhAcPUzsgXQ

Oblig.

As it says "Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.

Here's a video of one of their conferences. It's pretty harsh.
How to put out fake ads, how to find ways to disqualify qualified americans.

Quote" The goal is not to find a qualified and interested worker"

http://youtu.be/TCbFEgFajGU

The goal is to be able to continue employing a productive employee, rather than being forced to hire some other, perhaps equally qualified but untested employee just because he happens to have US citizenship... Here are all the libertarians on slahdot complaining that the government is not effective enough in tying up companies' hiring decisions in bureaucracy!

As it says "Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.

Here's a video of one of their conferences. It's pretty harsh.
How to put out fake ads, how to find ways to disqualify qualified americans.

Quote" The goal is not to find a qualified and interested worker"

http://youtu.be/TCbFEgFajGU

Never do it for free.

http://youtu.be/uYMnAUGFuG0

Sage words.

Hmm,
No no no, you have the lyrics wrong, listen again :)

Can't help thinking of Wooldoor's suicide note from that episode of Drawn Together :D

...is it's primary hitting power is not the claw itself, but the inertial cavitation shockwave.

The creature lashes out so fast and powerful, that the impact generates a cavitation bubble on the forward surface of the claw. So not only does the claw hammer in, but there's a nasty blast of energy as the cavitation bubble collapse at the speed of sound. Its so powerful, it even generates light!

Calling Einstein religious is like calling Al Gore a climatologist.

The great scientific thinkers did not compromise their rationality with religion. It was the best hypothesis at the time for explaining human thought, where the universe came from. It was really the only game in town. Descartes even thought we had souls.

Today, there is no excuse, the god hypothesis is failed. We know how the Universe formed and we know how our thoughts occur. The danger is when people, and even scientists, reject evidence when it does not align with their beliefs. There's a great example of this walking around the creation museum.

http://youtu.be/z1xUiuZvUuw

Or just your run-of-the-mill world domination seeking fan... yes, that kind of fan.

the mouse has more surface area than the horse, giving it more air resistance, so it ends up with a softer landing.

It's also fluffy! And adorable!

Tell it to Tech. Sgt. Chen.

You may have suffered through traditional "higher education," but a new generation is learning a different way. Some of them are learning it better. We have made tremendous progress in many fields, why do we not study the process of academic instruction just as intensely as, say, nuclear physics?

We do. Some physics department, like the one from which I got my PhD, offers research in physics education as a PhD program. Student do research and gather data in classroom and apply the same statistical analysis techniques to asset the effectiveness of certain teaching techniques. Unfortunately, they usually do not get the same respect in the department as more traditional thesis topics. Usually there are a few (<5) faculties out of the whole department who actually care about physics education that they accept student in these topics. The APS is starting to recognize it as a specialty, but only treats it as a "special topic". We are getting there.

Khan Academy is good, a lot of people use those videos!

--cej102937

When I was TA-ing to pay my way through my degree, I recommend KA to many intro physics students. Then after talking to a lot of them, I find the result to be kind of mixed. Some find it helpful, other not and it somewhat surprised me that it did not correlated with grade. The worst case is that some thinks it's helpful when in fact it did not (and you can tell by asking conceptual questions that is only a twist of the problems covered in the video). Totally anecdotal. However, fellow students who actually engaged in physics educations research tents to agree that a one way dictation, abet using video, do not help student who lacks a good conceptual foundation to begin with. And this guy, who also did a PhD in physics education, also agree. I do think the world is better with those video than without though.

Specifically, look into the Spring Framework and Spring Roo.

Here's where you start: http://www.springsource.org/get-started

Spring Roo is a shell that does code generation and scaffolding for Java web applications. You're basically 5 minutes from a basic CRUD app with a couple of entities (the typical Rails hello-world-I-made-a-blog stuff). It puts together a really nice stack based on Spring MVC, Maven, JPA and your choice of ORM and view technology. It makes heavy use of AspectJ to keep its boilerplate out of your actual code, so if you decide to stop using Roo in the future, you can - there's no hard dependency on it, it just generates code.. If you decide to do something fancy like use GWT for your UI, Roo can help with that as well.

Quick Roo demo: http://youtu.be/K78vL72XDqw

Spring is a *huge* set of frameworks based around an excellent IoC container. Roo makes getting started simple, and lets you see how everything is supposed to fit together, which is usually the hardest part in the Java world. Just keep in mind that Spring is not web-focused - it has modules for web stuff, MVC, templating, etc., but also a ton of other stuff you probably don't need.

Recommend you grab the Spring Tool Suite from http://www.springsource.org/springsource-tool-suite-download (no need to reg, just agree to terms). It's just Eclipse done up nicely with all the extensions you'll need, Roo, and Maven all ready to go. Don't waste time trying to set up vanilla Eclipse.

One more thing: Ignore all the Java hate. All the PHP/Ruby/Python hobbyists are missing out on the joys of proper typing and top-notch tooling. Duck typing doesn't just *sound* dumb.

Good luck.

LOL! I Lived in Venezuela for a year and I don't believe that this is to prevent street crime. When I lived there, it was dangerous to ride a nice bike in certain areas because street criminals would stab you and take your bike. They wouldn't ask, they would just take it before you had the chance to do anything. Was that common? No. But it happened. I think this has more to do with keeping Hugo in command, especially with his failing health. Most people there can't afford guns, or ammo. They have armed security guards at Wendy's. They give them a shotgun with a couple of shells, or an old beat-up revolver with just a couple of bullets. Why? Because they don't want the guards selling the guns/ammo for cash.

I was there for the infamous 11 de Abril, in 2002 when Hugo was temporarily replaced in a military coup. I don't think he has forgotten that day, and never will.

Ol Hugo has plans to do away with the shotguns. He built the first plant in South America in 2008 to produce the AK47 model 103.

The AK-103 is the most recent model of the original AK-47.

Unfortunately there was a horrible accident in 2011. Hugo's AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifle factory in Venezuela mysteriously blew up and burned down, can you believe Hugo's bad luck?

He is a link to three minutes of a video of that fire and massive explosions,
http://youtu.be/tjg2uyWEfT8

Hugo's rebuilt Kalashnikov Assault Rifle AK 103 factory should be operational now or in the near future.

Then there will be plenty of the improved AK 103 to export for use in Mexico and the USA.

Naturally Hugo would not want these rugged high powered and efficient assault weapons in the hands of his own people unless they were military or police.

Here's the pony: http://youtu.be/qAxeOBomNME The guy who did it has done many of them.

Larry David shares your pain.

... It's called a band saw :-P

It's been a while so I don't remember in particular. I'll have to check it out again.

But what I was referencing is SMBC Theater.

http://youtu.be/qXbXFJxltyo

Nuff Said...

Many Nokia phones are assembled in Finland. Including my own E52 and others like N9. It seems it's perfectly possible to build phones in a highly taxed socialist country.

Tormenting telemarketers