And amazingly, when anyone brings up conservation and alternative energy, people scoff, deride, and make fun of it or try to claim it's too expensive. Global warming and climate change are expensive. Nuclear accidents are expensive. Using less energy is cheap by any rational or reasonable measure.
This message *is not* brought to you by the American Petroleum Institute.
Old news... Mary Poppins had this all figured out back in 1964...
In every job that must be done,
There is an element of fun.
You find the fun, and snap!
The job's a game.
And every task you undertake
Becomes a piece of cake
A lark, a spree it's very clear to see
That a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way...
That you have to try to explain all that reveals the problem. Anyone reading your original comment would take "light" to mean little red LED - not the light in the viewfinder of a reverse image that also would be tiny and not especially visible.
When the Google Glass is on and displaying something to the wearer, there will also be a "light" in the eyepiece. How is someone to know without getting in your face and eavesdropping on what you are doing? See the issue? Someone has to get in your face to tell if you are surreptitiously recording them or not.
It is a recipe for fights and altercations. Google Glass wearers should understand that just wearing them is going to piss some people off in quite a few situations. Add alcohol to the mix and they ought to be prepared for whatever happens.
Someone pointing a phone at someone is at least a bit more obvious and if you do it to the wrong person the same thing is going to happen. It's easy to understand why people would react this way for most people. Apparently not for "glassholes", though.
"There is no tiny red LED light flashing when Glass is in recording mode. However, the Glass display is on when recording, and people in close proximity on the other side of the lens can see the tiny reverse image of what's on the display. But the act of recording video or picture taking may not be that obvious from a distance or to the uninitiated. It's clearly less obvious than someone pointing a phone in your direction."
And only the wearer knows if it is recording or not.
Sadly, the law in most areas says no expectation of privacy in public places which includes at a bar. Most bars have security cameras in them anyway and the management has full access to strategically-placed video feeds.
But the expectation is that bar management won't go posting video of tipsy patrons behaving comically on web sites for all the world to see.
I think people running around with video cameras on their heads that may or may not be filming everyone else is just going too far.
While diode lasers can have fairly polarized output beams, whatever the polarization, all it takes is rotating the laser pointer 90 degrees to turn vertical polarization into horizontal. I have yet to see a laser pointer with the output polarization marked on the body and there is no restriction on how the perp holds it. Even with rotatable polarizers on the glasses pilots could wear, they still have to catch the light in their eye and rotate the polarizer - with a 50/50 chance of turning it initially to let more light through - to minimize the laser light.
The only solution is to start punishing the idiots who do this. Some of the laser pointers available are well over output power limits for the class rating they carry and can cause temporary blindness in a pilot who has dark-adjusted eyes. This generally happens on approach when the nose is low and is the most critical time for a pilot to have every bit of sight available to him or her. People who aim lasers at planes are risking (if not intentionally trying to cause) a crash with very high chances for major loss of life for those both in the plane and on the ground.
Fine the hell out of them. Put them in jail. Ruin their lives. And do it before they kill, injure, and maim innocent people.
Why only the EPA? The EPA is front and center for research and legislation concerning climate change. Big oil, coal, and gas want that shut down. So do people like the Koch brothers who make fortunes on chemicals derived from oil, coal, and natural gas.
There is huge money riding on even the smallest and least consequential EPA rulings and laws.
I'm sure if the win with muzzling and neutering the EPA, any other agency that gets in their way will suffer a similar fate. The EPA is just closer to costing them big money now.
Not only has the creation never been reproduced, we have no witnesses or witness accounts, yet the creationists want to teach it as scientific fact and discount evolution and natural selection - both of which have mountains of evidence and can even be observed easily in species with short reproductive cycles.
I would say it's not quite that easy to find scientists that can be paid to produce results that favor the payee. Unfortunately it can be done and cigarette companies are a great example. So are a number - but not all - of the scientists working on behalf of polluters. Half of the scientists out there graduated in the bottom half of their class.
The way to tell is if they publish and are respected in their fields. At least for now most of the scientists in government do publish and are respected in their fields. The republicans are working hard to change that though. It won't be that long before their funding cuts, gag orders, and outright attacks from well placed political minions force many or most of the good ones out.
Then these kinds of laws won't be necessary. Agencies like the EPA will be where tobacco company "scientists" can aspire to go. They can simply be told to research how industrial waste is actually good for you.
But this law is probably being sold one way when the real target is different. The EPA is also working on climate change and big oil, coal, and gas all want to stop any and all research and legislation that will get in their way.
Sadly the EPA is square in the crosshairs of all the big money in this country that want to increase profits by polluting this country. That is where the republicans come in with their pockets open wide for contributions in a quid pro quo deal that rapes the citizens of this country.
That's why we should overlook this complete idiocy and attempt to pull the rug out from under the EPA and the laws that protect this country? Have you seen what China looks like? Do you know they have contaminated most of their farmland? Do you really want that here?
The republicans are either scientifically illiterate, stupid, or looking for any excuse to let industry wreck the water, air, and soil for all the money they get in campaign contributions.
All anyone needs to do is look at West Virginia's water supply to see what lack of regulation gets you.
Anyone that knows anything about measurements knows that there is uncertainty in a number. If you measure to where there is no uncertainty, you frequently won't be sensitive enough to see the contaminant. Not reproducible implies no uncertainty in a measurement.
The reactions occur regardless of critical mass or not. A critical mass just says you have enough material to have one fission trigger others such that the chain doesn't terminate.
This is why I will buy only DVDs, Blu-Rays, and non-DRM downloaded digital media as long as they are available and not build a "digital library" hosted on anyone else's servers. We've already seen too many companies go belly up and take the content with them, or where digital content gets revoked like this.
People need to take this as a wake-up call and go back to physical media or non-DRM downloads.
It's actually not. All the Joulies do is act like a thermal mass that takes "excess" heat from the coffee to heat them up (cooling the coffee) and then just make the cooldown process slower due to the extra heat capacity provided by the Joulies.
As noted in the summary and on the Kickstarter page, these mugs use a phase change material to absorb the extra heat and basically play it back as the coffee would otherwise cool.
Another very common phase change material is ice and the behavior is very similar but in reverse. Ice absorbs heat to melt but does so at a fairly constant temperature (and also dilutes the drink). The drink holds temperature at "around" 32 degrees until the ice melts and then it warms up.
The mugs use the excess heat to melt the phase change material and then as the coffee/tea cools, the phase change material gives up that heat as it re-solidifies.
Joulies at room temperature will cool drinks already at perfect temperature even though you might not want them to. The phase change material simply won't melt or won't melt much. While you will still lose some heat to it, presumably the thermal mass is much lower than that of the Joulies. Or hopefully it is. If so, then the phase change material will really only substantially cool drinks above the melting temperature while not cooling drinks below that temperature (with the caveats above).
And if Renault goes out of business? What happens to the owners of cars and renters of batteries then? What about hackers?
I translated the original article and they don't seem to mention whether it is a deadman/watchdog kind of kill switch that needs to periodically hear from Renault that it is OK to continue to operate, or if it is a specific signal to stop operating that is only issued when that situation is deemed necessary.
If it is a "one-time" signal, then that is possibly open to spoofing/hacking and potentially very disrupting for legitimate owners in good standing if someone figures out how to remotely shut them down. That would be quite the coup for hackers if they could stop the entire fleet.
If it is a deadman kind of thing, one hopes that the company would continue to support sending that signal for as long as even a single car was still on the road and the owner was in good standing.
Either way, I don't think I would buy one of these.
Totally different. Anyone using the CastAR has to hang up or lay down a reflective screen for it to work. Different markets and different applications.
I have to agree. They will be competitors and it looks like right now, taken at face value, Avegant could win.
Oculus (at least in public) keeps pushing away from consoles while Avegant is wanting to be neutral and work on any media source. They were demonstrating it on a PS3. That's a huge product volume right there.
With projecting on the retina, people who need glasses don't need them. Oculus has to accommodate and allow space for them in their design.
Oculus is directly dependent on available screen resolutions and form factors to be able to take their product to production. It looks like Avegant is only dependent on a multimirror chip which is already available at 1920x1080 resolution (if they use the TI chips). (http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/analog/dlp/overview.page)
Oculus has been selling development kits to the community which will no doubt make some think twice about ordering the actual production unit, increased resolution or no.
And as you and others noted, the Avegant technology can go wide FOV with no fill factor / screen door issues, presumably a lighter display because no thick and heavy highly-curved optics, and no (relatively speaking) big glass displays and illuminators / fiber optic sheets out in front.
Much of this could change if Oculus is developing curved OLED panels that minimize the weight, optics, remove extra illumination, etc, but it still won't help with fill factor, screen door, etc.
Lots of other unknowns though, but the Avegant sounds very, very enticing and poised to be a game changer.
Drawing images directly on the retina. That's very cool.
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And amazingly, when anyone brings up conservation and alternative energy, people scoff, deride, and make fun of it or try to claim it's too expensive. Global warming and climate change are expensive. Nuclear accidents are expensive. Using less energy is cheap by any rational or reasonable measure.
This message *is not* brought to you by the American Petroleum Institute.
Old news... Mary Poppins had this all figured out back in 1964...
In every job that must be done,
There is an element of fun.
You find the fun, and snap!
The job's a game.
And every task you undertake
Becomes a piece of cake
A lark, a spree it's very clear to see
That a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way...
That you have to try to explain all that reveals the problem. Anyone reading your original comment would take "light" to mean little red LED - not the light in the viewfinder of a reverse image that also would be tiny and not especially visible.
When the Google Glass is on and displaying something to the wearer, there will also be a "light" in the eyepiece. How is someone to know without getting in your face and eavesdropping on what you are doing? See the issue? Someone has to get in your face to tell if you are surreptitiously recording them or not.
It is a recipe for fights and altercations. Google Glass wearers should understand that just wearing them is going to piss some people off in quite a few situations. Add alcohol to the mix and they ought to be prepared for whatever happens.
Someone pointing a phone at someone is at least a bit more obvious and if you do it to the wrong person the same thing is going to happen. It's easy to understand why people would react this way for most people. Apparently not for "glassholes", though.
No light. Here - see for yourself: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...
"There is no tiny red LED light flashing when Glass is in recording mode. However, the Glass display is on when recording, and people in close proximity on the other side of the lens can see the tiny reverse image of what's on the display. But the act of recording video or picture taking may not be that obvious from a distance or to the uninitiated. It's clearly less obvious than someone pointing a phone in your direction."
And only the wearer knows if it is recording or not.
Sadly, the law in most areas says no expectation of privacy in public places which includes at a bar. Most bars have security cameras in them anyway and the management has full access to strategically-placed video feeds.
But the expectation is that bar management won't go posting video of tipsy patrons behaving comically on web sites for all the world to see.
I think people running around with video cameras on their heads that may or may not be filming everyone else is just going too far.
Glassholes indeed.
While diode lasers can have fairly polarized output beams, whatever the polarization, all it takes is rotating the laser pointer 90 degrees to turn vertical polarization into horizontal. I have yet to see a laser pointer with the output polarization marked on the body and there is no restriction on how the perp holds it. Even with rotatable polarizers on the glasses pilots could wear, they still have to catch the light in their eye and rotate the polarizer - with a 50/50 chance of turning it initially to let more light through - to minimize the laser light.
The only solution is to start punishing the idiots who do this. Some of the laser pointers available are well over output power limits for the class rating they carry and can cause temporary blindness in a pilot who has dark-adjusted eyes. This generally happens on approach when the nose is low and is the most critical time for a pilot to have every bit of sight available to him or her. People who aim lasers at planes are risking (if not intentionally trying to cause) a crash with very high chances for major loss of life for those both in the plane and on the ground.
Fine the hell out of them. Put them in jail. Ruin their lives. And do it before they kill, injure, and maim innocent people.
Why only the EPA? The EPA is front and center for research and legislation concerning climate change. Big oil, coal, and gas want that shut down. So do people like the Koch brothers who make fortunes on chemicals derived from oil, coal, and natural gas.
There is huge money riding on even the smallest and least consequential EPA rulings and laws.
I'm sure if the win with muzzling and neutering the EPA, any other agency that gets in their way will suffer a similar fate. The EPA is just closer to costing them big money now.
Not only has the creation never been reproduced, we have no witnesses or witness accounts, yet the creationists want to teach it as scientific fact and discount evolution and natural selection - both of which have mountains of evidence and can even be observed easily in species with short reproductive cycles.
I would say it's not quite that easy to find scientists that can be paid to produce results that favor the payee. Unfortunately it can be done and cigarette companies are a great example. So are a number - but not all - of the scientists working on behalf of polluters. Half of the scientists out there graduated in the bottom half of their class.
The way to tell is if they publish and are respected in their fields. At least for now most of the scientists in government do publish and are respected in their fields. The republicans are working hard to change that though. It won't be that long before their funding cuts, gag orders, and outright attacks from well placed political minions force many or most of the good ones out.
Then these kinds of laws won't be necessary. Agencies like the EPA will be where tobacco company "scientists" can aspire to go. They can simply be told to research how industrial waste is actually good for you.
But this law is probably being sold one way when the real target is different. The EPA is also working on climate change and big oil, coal, and gas all want to stop any and all research and legislation that will get in their way.
Sadly the EPA is square in the crosshairs of all the big money in this country that want to increase profits by polluting this country. That is where the republicans come in with their pockets open wide for contributions in a quid pro quo deal that rapes the citizens of this country.
Oh, you know... How women were created from a man's rib, how cavemen rode dinosaurs, how the earth is 5,000 years old, etc. that kind of science...
That's why we should overlook this complete idiocy and attempt to pull the rug out from under the EPA and the laws that protect this country? Have you seen what China looks like? Do you know they have contaminated most of their farmland? Do you really want that here?
The republicans are either scientifically illiterate, stupid, or looking for any excuse to let industry wreck the water, air, and soil for all the money they get in campaign contributions.
All anyone needs to do is look at West Virginia's water supply to see what lack of regulation gets you.
Anyone that knows anything about measurements knows that there is uncertainty in a number. If you measure to where there is no uncertainty, you frequently won't be sensitive enough to see the contaminant. Not reproducible implies no uncertainty in a measurement.
Stupid freaking republicans.
Put two of these back to back and you do have 360 x 360 degrees. ZOMG!
The reactions occur regardless of critical mass or not. A critical mass just says you have enough material to have one fission trigger others such that the chain doesn't terminate.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of them?
Your levity is good, it relieves tension and the fear of death.
This is why I will buy only DVDs, Blu-Rays, and non-DRM downloaded digital media as long as they are available and not build a "digital library" hosted on anyone else's servers. We've already seen too many companies go belly up and take the content with them, or where digital content gets revoked like this.
People need to take this as a wake-up call and go back to physical media or non-DRM downloads.
It's actually not. All the Joulies do is act like a thermal mass that takes "excess" heat from the coffee to heat them up (cooling the coffee) and then just make the cooldown process slower due to the extra heat capacity provided by the Joulies.
As noted in the summary and on the Kickstarter page, these mugs use a phase change material to absorb the extra heat and basically play it back as the coffee would otherwise cool.
Another very common phase change material is ice and the behavior is very similar but in reverse. Ice absorbs heat to melt but does so at a fairly constant temperature (and also dilutes the drink). The drink holds temperature at "around" 32 degrees until the ice melts and then it warms up.
The mugs use the excess heat to melt the phase change material and then as the coffee/tea cools, the phase change material gives up that heat as it re-solidifies.
Joulies at room temperature will cool drinks already at perfect temperature even though you might not want them to. The phase change material simply won't melt or won't melt much. While you will still lose some heat to it, presumably the thermal mass is much lower than that of the Joulies. Or hopefully it is. If so, then the phase change material will really only substantially cool drinks above the melting temperature while not cooling drinks below that temperature (with the caveats above).
Not the same approach at all.
It would also be a case study in how many things can interfere and derail science - religious, economic, or governmental interests.
Unfortunately the history of science is full of these kinds of things. It really slows down progress and always hurts those who choose to do it.
Ask Galileo.
I wonder why they want a return to the days before the French Revolution.
What did that society get them? The French Revolution.
And if Renault goes out of business? What happens to the owners of cars and renters of batteries then? What about hackers?
I translated the original article and they don't seem to mention whether it is a deadman/watchdog kind of kill switch that needs to periodically hear from Renault that it is OK to continue to operate, or if it is a specific signal to stop operating that is only issued when that situation is deemed necessary.
If it is a "one-time" signal, then that is possibly open to spoofing/hacking and potentially very disrupting for legitimate owners in good standing if someone figures out how to remotely shut them down. That would be quite the coup for hackers if they could stop the entire fleet.
If it is a deadman kind of thing, one hopes that the company would continue to support sending that signal for as long as even a single car was still on the road and the owner was in good standing.
Either way, I don't think I would buy one of these.
I suppose that depends on their nebulous definition of "rare"...
No screen, bucky. The image gets drawn on your retina.
Totally different. Anyone using the CastAR has to hang up or lay down a reflective screen for it to work. Different markets and different applications.
I have to agree. They will be competitors and it looks like right now, taken at face value, Avegant could win.
Oculus (at least in public) keeps pushing away from consoles while Avegant is wanting to be neutral and work on any media source. They were demonstrating it on a PS3. That's a huge product volume right there.
With projecting on the retina, people who need glasses don't need them. Oculus has to accommodate and allow space for them in their design.
Oculus is directly dependent on available screen resolutions and form factors to be able to take their product to production. It looks like Avegant is only dependent on a multimirror chip which is already available at 1920x1080 resolution (if they use the TI chips). (http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/analog/dlp/overview.page)
Oculus has been selling development kits to the community which will no doubt make some think twice about ordering the actual production unit, increased resolution or no.
And as you and others noted, the Avegant technology can go wide FOV with no fill factor / screen door issues, presumably a lighter display because no thick and heavy highly-curved optics, and no (relatively speaking) big glass displays and illuminators / fiber optic sheets out in front.
Much of this could change if Oculus is developing curved OLED panels that minimize the weight, optics, remove extra illumination, etc, but it still won't help with fill factor, screen door, etc.
Lots of other unknowns though, but the Avegant sounds very, very enticing and poised to be a game changer.
Drawing images directly on the retina. That's very cool.