Isn't the old saying: "Any publicity is good publicity?". The fact that they are the subject of any articles will help push them up to the top of the heap of google search results.
To be honest, my first reaction to watching the video was "wait, the headline said "human powered", but they are clearly pulling this with a car....
The wing flapping motion is quite striking to watch, I'll admit, and it is very cool that they have constructed something on this scale, but I was somehow expecting more based on the description in the article.
While I'm still skeptical of the widespread practical use of this mode of flight, I applaud the creativity and technical genius that must have gone into the conception, design, and execution of this project.
Besides the "gee-whiz" factor, why is time being spent on this sort of research? Will any flapping-wing aircraft ever be as efficient as a modern jumbo-jet for transporting large loads of cargo and people? I'm no aerospace engineer, and I'm not saying that a jet is the model of efficiency, but I don't see how a flappy wing mode of transport would be better.
The author seems shocked to read a news article that did not receive enough research from the reporter before being published. Why is he upset about this? It happens all the time.
Maybe I'm just jaded, but I always approach news stories as only containing a grain of truth, with a heavy slant towards the agenda of the reporter / reporting agency.
"Furthermore, I would assume that there is a large turnover of ticketing agency employees in 4 years – can every single employee since then up until now have gained access to this data? What about passwords – were they even changed during this time period? And a very important question – who has access to the data. Did every employee have access rights to the sensitive data?" Shulman added.
Fear!
Uncertainty!
Doubt!
While I think the media does all they can to sensationalize everything maybe in this case it is warranted?
Fresh out of school with my CS degree I went to work on a project for my employer that involved partnering and working directly with folks from NG. The original deadline for shipping the solution was something like 6 months after I started. The complete and utter incompetence of the NG side of things wound up stretching this out more than 18 MONTHS longer, and the final delivery lacked a lot of the original stated requirements.
Being the newbie to the whole corporate culture, I was shocked that people were not bothered at all by blown deadlines, missed estimates, and huge cost overruns. Shortly after the project finally delivered, I bailed to work for a much smaller company (fewer than 10 employees) where I discovered that I really love the smaller, more dynamic environment that only small companies can provide.
Perhaps it has more to do with the hacker mentality that seems to be prevalent (or was when I was earning my CS degree) amongst first year cs students. Aren't they just gaming the system for maximum benefit with minimum work?
The only issue is that the cs depts are able to detect this more easily....
Not only should they be taking careful notes, they should be making a lot more public noise about the huge success of this project. I fear the general perception amongst Americans is that NASA is a bunch of brainiacs with too much money and little to show for it. Seems like they don't tout their successes well enough.
I'm not much of a gamer, but I can appreciate how gaming tends to push new technology to the forefront that can be useful in other applications.
Is there a chance that the various game developers will settle on a standard for the exchange of real-time xplat data?
If so, I can see all kinds of other uses for something like that - in hospitals in particular... imagine if all the staff at a hospital had real-time access to what each other were doing and who they were treating?
Pagers and such do pretty well, but a nurse and I delivered my most recent child because nobody knew for sure what the doctor was up to....and he was not responding to pages. Would have simplified things a great deal if the nurses were able to tell "oh, he's in room 114 busy suturing another patient. We'll have to find someone else."
Course, such a system has obvious big-brother potential for abuse.
I think that much more often than not most folks just use the default settings on their stuff, and at this point nearly all encryption is not something that is set up by default.
While the learning curve for using encryption in email, http, ftp, etc is not all that high, there is enough of one there for most people to just say "meh", even if they understand why they should be using encryption in the first place.
It's like personal home protection for many people - they don't want a gun in the house until after they've been robbed the first time. I'd wager that many people using encryption are doing so because they've been bitten by a lack of encryption in the past.
I had a physics professor who's wife was concerned about the EMF coming off the power lines that ran near the plot of land upon which they were contemplating building (through a common area behind their back yard). His solution? During the construction of his house he installed wire mesh in all his walls, ceiling, doors and floors. While he left his windows as standard windows, he said that he got no cell phone, radio, or TV over the air reception in the house.
The worst part was that he freely admitted that his wife was a loon.
Personally, I'm glad that someone is finally getting around to dealing with the proper education of our grids. Just yesterday I was hearing all about education cuts in my state due to budget shortfalls, and how student achievement in my state was going to suffer as a result.
It is heartening to hear that though some facets of our educational system will have to tighten their belts, the dumb grids will still pop out the other side of their educational experience so much smarter (and deployed!) than before.
On the Green Touch website from the synopsis, I read that one of their goals is: "Nothing less than the reinvention of today’s communications networks". Does this mean that the member organizations of Green Touch will hold the exclusive rights to the manufacture of the technology that they dream up?
And, briefly setting aside the notion that energy consumption of our networks is an actual problem, why do we need to reinvent today's communication networks? What's really wrong with them?
I think it's less that people are willing to sacrifice privacy for self-aggrandizement, but rather that they do not stop to analyze the implications to their privacy of what they are about to post.
Joe sixpack does not wonder about how posting pictures of naked portions of his anatomy may affect his ability to find a job in 5 years time.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't the old saying: "Any publicity is good publicity?". The fact that they are the subject of any articles will help push them up to the top of the heap of google search results.
Now we just have to find a bunch of mini humans to try these out on ... I mean, we have to have clinical trials, right?
To be honest, my first reaction to watching the video was "wait, the headline said "human powered", but they are clearly pulling this with a car....
The wing flapping motion is quite striking to watch, I'll admit, and it is very cool that they have constructed something on this scale, but I was somehow expecting more based on the description in the article.
While I'm still skeptical of the widespread practical use of this mode of flight, I applaud the creativity and technical genius that must have gone into the conception, design, and execution of this project.
Besides the "gee-whiz" factor, why is time being spent on this sort of research? Will any flapping-wing aircraft ever be as efficient as a modern jumbo-jet for transporting large loads of cargo and people? I'm no aerospace engineer, and I'm not saying that a jet is the model of efficiency, but I don't see how a flappy wing mode of transport would be better.
The author seems shocked to read a news article that did not receive enough research from the reporter before being published. Why is he upset about this? It happens all the time.
Maybe I'm just jaded, but I always approach news stories as only containing a grain of truth, with a heavy slant towards the agenda of the reporter / reporting agency.
This is brilliant.
And, it will never, ever happen.
Fear!
Uncertainty!
Doubt!
While I think the media does all they can to sensationalize everything maybe in this case it is warranted?
Now I have to be suspicious when my bread pops up that maybe my toaster is trying to trick me into eating a slightly under-done breakfast!
Fresh out of school with my CS degree I went to work on a project for my employer that involved partnering and working directly with folks from NG. The original deadline for shipping the solution was something like 6 months after I started. The complete and utter incompetence of the NG side of things wound up stretching this out more than 18 MONTHS longer, and the final delivery lacked a lot of the original stated requirements.
Being the newbie to the whole corporate culture, I was shocked that people were not bothered at all by blown deadlines, missed estimates, and huge cost overruns. Shortly after the project finally delivered, I bailed to work for a much smaller company (fewer than 10 employees) where I discovered that I really love the smaller, more dynamic environment that only small companies can provide.
Working for huge corporations just sucks.
I thought John Mayer was the go-to artist to show up at Apple events....
Perhaps it has more to do with the hacker mentality that seems to be prevalent (or was when I was earning my CS degree) amongst first year cs students. Aren't they just gaming the system for maximum benefit with minimum work?
The only issue is that the cs depts are able to detect this more easily....
Not only should they be taking careful notes, they should be making a lot more public noise about the huge success of this project. I fear the general perception amongst Americans is that NASA is a bunch of brainiacs with too much money and little to show for it. Seems like they don't tout their successes well enough.
http://pics.livejournal.com/ashen_rus/gallery/0000gyzd
I'm not much of a gamer, but I can appreciate how gaming tends to push new technology to the forefront that can be useful in other applications.
Is there a chance that the various game developers will settle on a standard for the exchange of real-time xplat data?
If so, I can see all kinds of other uses for something like that - in hospitals in particular... imagine if all the staff at a hospital had real-time access to what each other were doing and who they were treating?
Pagers and such do pretty well, but a nurse and I delivered my most recent child because nobody knew for sure what the doctor was up to....and he was not responding to pages. Would have simplified things a great deal if the nurses were able to tell "oh, he's in room 114 busy suturing another patient. We'll have to find someone else."
Course, such a system has obvious big-brother potential for abuse.
Interesting idea, though.
Parties?
Please surrender your Geek card....
So a stinkin' probe buzzing the sun is able to get torrents more than 10 times faster than I can at home?
I suppose they need this to be able to upgrade the kernel quickly when stuff starts to melt.
Seems to me that if they are going to drop the FAST searching they should continue to support the SLOW search that we all know and love.
You must be new here....
Why would someone keep this private and/or secret for so long?
It's not a huge step backwards. But it's not a giant leap forward, either.
Mostly it just made me yawn: http://www.kimballlarsen.com/2010/01/27/new-apple-tablet-is-announced-and-the-world-yawns/
-- Kimball
I think that much more often than not most folks just use the default settings on their stuff, and at this point nearly all encryption is not something that is set up by default.
While the learning curve for using encryption in email, http, ftp, etc is not all that high, there is enough of one there for most people to just say "meh", even if they understand why they should be using encryption in the first place.
It's like personal home protection for many people - they don't want a gun in the house until after they've been robbed the first time. I'd wager that many people using encryption are doing so because they've been bitten by a lack of encryption in the past.
I had a physics professor who's wife was concerned about the EMF coming off the power lines that ran near the plot of land upon which they were contemplating building (through a common area behind their back yard). His solution? During the construction of his house he installed wire mesh in all his walls, ceiling, doors and floors. While he left his windows as standard windows, he said that he got no cell phone, radio, or TV over the air reception in the house.
The worst part was that he freely admitted that his wife was a loon.
Personally, I'm glad that someone is finally getting around to dealing with the proper education of our grids. Just yesterday I was hearing all about education cuts in my state due to budget shortfalls, and how student achievement in my state was going to suffer as a result.
It is heartening to hear that though some facets of our educational system will have to tighten their belts, the dumb grids will still pop out the other side of their educational experience so much smarter (and deployed!) than before.
On the Green Touch website from the synopsis, I read that one of their goals is: "Nothing less than the reinvention of today’s communications networks". Does this mean that the member organizations of Green Touch will hold the exclusive rights to the manufacture of the technology that they dream up?
And, briefly setting aside the notion that energy consumption of our networks is an actual problem, why do we need to reinvent today's communication networks? What's really wrong with them?
Begin ipv4 vs ipv6 flame war in 3....2...1...
I think it's less that people are willing to sacrifice privacy for self-aggrandizement, but rather that they do not stop to analyze the implications to their privacy of what they are about to post.
Joe sixpack does not wonder about how posting pictures of naked portions of his anatomy may affect his ability to find a job in 5 years time.