It's not that it would but that it could. We just don't know. If we want to come closer to knowing then we have to be very careful about the broad statements we make. Certainty when hypothesizing about the results of genetic engineering is absurd.
There are many things to be concerned about. What you have expressed is one of those concerns. There are also worries that we don't know enough yet about genetic selection to start tinkering on humans. For instance, what if shutting off one trait ends up turning on another in a way we don't yet understand? The foxes that were bred for a good disposition is an example. As these foxes were bred for their personality traits, their physical traits seemed to change as well. Their snouts became longer and they looked more dog-like. I found that fascinating because at least superficially it seemed that coaxing specific traits to become more dominant can result in other unexpected changes elsewhere.
I don't think genetic engineering on humans should be excluded as a possibility for the future, however we need to take a slow and cautious route getting there.
You really think that is a compelling argument? You seriously believe what you are saying?
1. Game controllers will work great with it. I even have a bluetooth contoller hooked up to my android tablet and it works beautifully.
2. Many of the Windows 8 tablets are convertibles and come with a keyboard dock for office type work and a pressure sensitive stylus for creative endeavors.
3. For applications like photoshop, Maya, Zbrush, etc. a stylus will work beautifully. Try out a Wacom tablet for a bit. It's a great way to work.
4. I'm actually less interested in Surface than I am in the Asus Transformer Book. It will have discrete graphics, a full qwerty keyboard dock, a Wacom pressure sensitive stylus, 16x9 ratio, and various size offerings between 11 and 14 inches. I'm an artist and a 14 inch screen I can draw directly on with pressure sensitivity is a huge plus.
I'll even give you some legitimate arguments for the future you can use against this, however I feel the advantages far outweigh the limited and resolvable issues.
1. Most x86 Slates are top heavy when connected to the keyboard dock. Even many ARM-based Android convertibles are.
2. Battery life will be poor when pushing the system with games and DCC apps.
3. Heat could become a problem when cramming so much high powered stuff in such a little space. However, that remains to be seen.
4. 2 or 4gb of memory is pretty slim for a Windows tablet. Windows 8 is very efficient with memory usage but the problem lies in memory hungry programs like the ones listed above. An 8 gb model really is neccessary for a professional device.
The pro version should cost much more than 200. They will include Intel processors, fully fledged windows 8 and be capable of running desktop software. including modern games. A good reference for the pro Surface tablets is the Samsung Series 7 Slate. It starts around 1000 dollars. I don't expect the Surface equivalents to be below 600 to 800.
Being a 3D artist this does interest me. I use Modo, Maya, Zbrush, and Mudbox frequently and subd standard is very useful. Does your intended implementation share subdivision order Pixar's spec? Does UV smoothing result in identical UV borders? Currently this is a pretty big problem with multi-app workflows. For instance, a multiresolution mesh that has been smoothed in Zbrush results in different smoothing than a mesh that is smoothed with Pixar Psub subdivision surfaces in Modo. Even more confusing is that this difference also appears when comparing Mudbox to Modo. They both use the Catmull Clark subdivision standard however do not share identical UV smoothing. This can be overcome with linear UV's but that in itself causes problems for 2d texture painting. They do however seem to share point order from tests that I've done. Open-source subdivision technology originating from Pixar sounds like a wonderful thing that could alleviate some of the problems I mentioned. After all it's coming from the source of subdivision technology. Catmull Clark subdivision was created by Ed Catmull of Pixar and Jim Clark, co-founder of Silicon Graphics.
Many of the custom implementations of subdivison surfaces I have seen cause a lot of problems on exchange. Modo's custom implementation of subd's prior to incorporation of Pixar Psub was pretty slick actually. It was fast, allowed for N-gons and supported some very dirty edge creasing. So it had big drawbacks when exchanging with other apps like Maya before they added Psub's.
I guess my point in mentioning all this is that I hope what you are working on is capable of accommodating these kinds of needs, otherwise I and many other artists may not be able to use it due to workflow additions. Although it's very cool and I'd love to hear more about what you are doing.
I've been very happy with CM9 on my Touchpad. You chose a good time to flash it. Early in the year I was paying close attention to their progress. It was very exciting when custom kernels and user performance improvements were frequently being released but that stuff has slowed quite a bit. I just updated my CM9 install after about 3 or 4 months and the latest releases are pretty awesome. I also have installed cm9 on my Droid 3 but that project seems to have died.
And they put outdated hardware in it. What was nice about it was the slide out controller. Everything else was substandard. I couldn't help but feel the motivation was to not cannibalize anticipated sales of their upcoming Vita. As a result they have a variety of devices all trying not to compete with one another at the sacrifice of functionality and/or performance.
So does the next phone and/or tablet I buy which will have more computing power, more memory, and provide greater access to the "potential" of the device. They should have just made an android-based phone with a really slick controller case. They could have even had an exclusive store like the amazon marketplace to sell their exclusive "Vita" games while still providing access to the Play store and all it's existing content.
Sorry but it was doomed for failure the moment they announced it...
Has their been any significant progress toward Breeder reactors? Reactors that use existing spent fuel and can tap energy from our rotting nuclear arsenal always sounded lucrative to me but progress towards reactors of this sort has been slow. What are the challenges of producing reactors like this?
Or Enceladus or a rover-y thing to Titan. Seriously though it seems like we've discovered all this amazing stuff about our solar system and right when we're on a solid path to explore these discoveries in depth, poof! there goes the funding...
I don't care what it costs, I want a drill sent to Europa...
Remember, all American's can have an impact on that decision. I was all for a reduction in manned space travel expenditures and ending the money pit that was the shuttle program "Thanks Nixon!" However, I was under the impression that they surely would not impose cuts to NASA and JPL's hugely successful unmanned missions. The things Nasa has accomplished over the past 15 years with rover's, probes, and telescopes is astonishing.
But the moon is still one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the late heavy bombardment. They did form in very different environments but wouldn't they have a similar concentration of water if the water on earth arrived at the same time as our moon got heavily cratered? Earth certainly didn't get this water prior to the moon getting knocked of the earth. It was a swirling ball of magma that would not have held on to any water for quite a while after that event.
I think the idea is that the water was always there. That is to say ever since the supernova that seeded us happened. In the case of the asteroids, just like their rocky material, the water would have been part of the mix that coalesced into asteroids. Asteroids are failed planets that didn't attain enough mass to become a planet. They are also relatively small so not much heat would have resulted from their forming. They never got hot enough to boil it off. It's such a strange thing to think of water as a rock-like material but as long as it isn't heated to it's melting point it seems to behave a lot like rock which we are seeing evidence of on Titan.
If this is true then how much water does the moon have? It seems like that should be estimable and relevant to the future if space travel if we assume all the earths water came during the late heavy bombardment. It also could be a good way to test this theory. If concentrations of water on the moon don't correlate wouldn't that poke some holes in the theory?
Robin has been around since 1940. He's actually a very important part of the Batman story. Unfortunately, unlike Batman he never got a good face lift for the films. Jason Todd would probably change your opinion of Robin. That is to say, as long as Batman could keep him from almost killing you.
Dark path of 8? Metro tiles dominate your destiny? Have you tried 8? I found it very comfortable and following an afternoon of use, more functional than 7 for my daily work.
I think I'm going to wait until Windows 9 or 10 before I start yelling at kids to get off my lawn...
Actually that just changed this week. They aren't saying that Macs can get viruses but they are no longer claiming that Macs don't get PC viruses, which is a pretty weird statement to begin with.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/mac_viruses/
I take it you didn't read the article? It is Intended to be worn inside the ship in case there is a loss of pressure or life support... The ship provides whatever radiation shielding is possible, which still isn't much.
The article addresses this. The suit is not intended to be worn outside of the vehicle. It will be worn in case there is a loss of pressure or life support. The vehicle is what will provide the necessary "or best possible" shielding from radiation.
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You misspelled Mormon...
More like this person has heard of quantum entanglement and how it could potentially be exploited for remote missions.
It's not that it would but that it could. We just don't know. If we want to come closer to knowing then we have to be very careful about the broad statements we make. Certainty when hypothesizing about the results of genetic engineering is absurd.
There are many things to be concerned about. What you have expressed is one of those concerns. There are also worries that we don't know enough yet about genetic selection to start tinkering on humans. For instance, what if shutting off one trait ends up turning on another in a way we don't yet understand? The foxes that were bred for a good disposition is an example. As these foxes were bred for their personality traits, their physical traits seemed to change as well. Their snouts became longer and they looked more dog-like. I found that fascinating because at least superficially it seemed that coaxing specific traits to become more dominant can result in other unexpected changes elsewhere.
I don't think genetic engineering on humans should be excluded as a possibility for the future, however we need to take a slow and cautious route getting there.
You really think that is a compelling argument? You seriously believe what you are saying?
1. Game controllers will work great with it. I even have a bluetooth contoller hooked up to my android tablet and it works beautifully.
2. Many of the Windows 8 tablets are convertibles and come with a keyboard dock for office type work and a pressure sensitive stylus for creative endeavors.
3. For applications like photoshop, Maya, Zbrush, etc. a stylus will work beautifully. Try out a Wacom tablet for a bit. It's a great way to work.
4. I'm actually less interested in Surface than I am in the Asus Transformer Book. It will have discrete graphics, a full qwerty keyboard dock, a Wacom pressure sensitive stylus, 16x9 ratio, and various size offerings between 11 and 14 inches. I'm an artist and a 14 inch screen I can draw directly on with pressure sensitivity is a huge plus.
I'll even give you some legitimate arguments for the future you can use against this, however I feel the advantages far outweigh the limited and resolvable issues.
1. Most x86 Slates are top heavy when connected to the keyboard dock. Even many ARM-based Android convertibles are.
2. Battery life will be poor when pushing the system with games and DCC apps.
3. Heat could become a problem when cramming so much high powered stuff in such a little space. However, that remains to be seen.
4. 2 or 4gb of memory is pretty slim for a Windows tablet. Windows 8 is very efficient with memory usage but the problem lies in memory hungry programs like the ones listed above. An 8 gb model really is neccessary for a professional device.
The pro version should cost much more than 200. They will include Intel processors, fully fledged windows 8 and be capable of running desktop software. including modern games. A good reference for the pro Surface tablets is the Samsung Series 7 Slate. It starts around 1000 dollars. I don't expect the Surface equivalents to be below 600 to 800.
Being a 3D artist this does interest me. I use Modo, Maya, Zbrush, and Mudbox frequently and subd standard is very useful. Does your intended implementation share subdivision order Pixar's spec? Does UV smoothing result in identical UV borders? Currently this is a pretty big problem with multi-app workflows. For instance, a multiresolution mesh that has been smoothed in Zbrush results in different smoothing than a mesh that is smoothed with Pixar Psub subdivision surfaces in Modo. Even more confusing is that this difference also appears when comparing Mudbox to Modo. They both use the Catmull Clark subdivision standard however do not share identical UV smoothing. This can be overcome with linear UV's but that in itself causes problems for 2d texture painting. They do however seem to share point order from tests that I've done. Open-source subdivision technology originating from Pixar sounds like a wonderful thing that could alleviate some of the problems I mentioned. After all it's coming from the source of subdivision technology. Catmull Clark subdivision was created by Ed Catmull of Pixar and Jim Clark, co-founder of Silicon Graphics. Many of the custom implementations of subdivison surfaces I have seen cause a lot of problems on exchange. Modo's custom implementation of subd's prior to incorporation of Pixar Psub was pretty slick actually. It was fast, allowed for N-gons and supported some very dirty edge creasing. So it had big drawbacks when exchanging with other apps like Maya before they added Psub's. I guess my point in mentioning all this is that I hope what you are working on is capable of accommodating these kinds of needs, otherwise I and many other artists may not be able to use it due to workflow additions. Although it's very cool and I'd love to hear more about what you are doing.
I've been very happy with CM9 on my Touchpad. You chose a good time to flash it. Early in the year I was paying close attention to their progress. It was very exciting when custom kernels and user performance improvements were frequently being released but that stuff has slowed quite a bit. I just updated my CM9 install after about 3 or 4 months and the latest releases are pretty awesome. I also have installed cm9 on my Droid 3 but that project seems to have died.
And they put outdated hardware in it. What was nice about it was the slide out controller. Everything else was substandard. I couldn't help but feel the motivation was to not cannibalize anticipated sales of their upcoming Vita. As a result they have a variety of devices all trying not to compete with one another at the sacrifice of functionality and/or performance.
So does the next phone and/or tablet I buy which will have more computing power, more memory, and provide greater access to the "potential" of the device. They should have just made an android-based phone with a really slick controller case. They could have even had an exclusive store like the amazon marketplace to sell their exclusive "Vita" games while still providing access to the Play store and all it's existing content.
Sorry but it was doomed for failure the moment they announced it...
Yeah, an administration that approves arctic drilling sure is towing the left-wing agenda...
Has their been any significant progress toward Breeder reactors? Reactors that use existing spent fuel and can tap energy from our rotting nuclear arsenal always sounded lucrative to me but progress towards reactors of this sort has been slow. What are the challenges of producing reactors like this?
NASA totally shouldn't have rejected your application for employment, you could have saved us millions with your technological foresight...
Decades of traveling and decades of beaming. Just saying... ;)
+1 :)
Or Enceladus or a rover-y thing to Titan. Seriously though it seems like we've discovered all this amazing stuff about our solar system and right when we're on a solid path to explore these discoveries in depth, poof! there goes the funding...
I don't care what it costs, I want a drill sent to Europa...
Remember, all American's can have an impact on that decision. I was all for a reduction in manned space travel expenditures and ending the money pit that was the shuttle program "Thanks Nixon!" However, I was under the impression that they surely would not impose cuts to NASA and JPL's hugely successful unmanned missions. The things Nasa has accomplished over the past 15 years with rover's, probes, and telescopes is astonishing.
Nope, you're not alone...
Oh no, please don't give anyone that idea. All the people in Hummers are gonna start thinking "Maybe I should upgrade to and Embraer now."
But the moon is still one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the late heavy bombardment. They did form in very different environments but wouldn't they have a similar concentration of water if the water on earth arrived at the same time as our moon got heavily cratered? Earth certainly didn't get this water prior to the moon getting knocked of the earth. It was a swirling ball of magma that would not have held on to any water for quite a while after that event.
I think the idea is that the water was always there. That is to say ever since the supernova that seeded us happened. In the case of the asteroids, just like their rocky material, the water would have been part of the mix that coalesced into asteroids. Asteroids are failed planets that didn't attain enough mass to become a planet. They are also relatively small so not much heat would have resulted from their forming. They never got hot enough to boil it off. It's such a strange thing to think of water as a rock-like material but as long as it isn't heated to it's melting point it seems to behave a lot like rock which we are seeing evidence of on Titan.
If this is true then how much water does the moon have? It seems like that should be estimable and relevant to the future if space travel if we assume all the earths water came during the late heavy bombardment. It also could be a good way to test this theory. If concentrations of water on the moon don't correlate wouldn't that poke some holes in the theory?
Robin has been around since 1940. He's actually a very important part of the Batman story. Unfortunately, unlike Batman he never got a good face lift for the films. Jason Todd would probably change your opinion of Robin. That is to say, as long as Batman could keep him from almost killing you.
Dark path of 8? Metro tiles dominate your destiny? Have you tried 8? I found it very comfortable and following an afternoon of use, more functional than 7 for my daily work.
I think I'm going to wait until Windows 9 or 10 before I start yelling at kids to get off my lawn...
Actually that just changed this week. They aren't saying that Macs can get viruses but they are no longer claiming that Macs don't get PC viruses, which is a pretty weird statement to begin with. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/mac_viruses/
I take it you didn't read the article? It is Intended to be worn inside the ship in case there is a loss of pressure or life support... The ship provides whatever radiation shielding is possible, which still isn't much.
The article addresses this. The suit is not intended to be worn outside of the vehicle. It will be worn in case there is a loss of pressure or life support. The vehicle is what will provide the necessary "or best possible" shielding from radiation.
Is it going by the name V GER yet?