In that scenario the trigger is nothing more than a dead mans switch. You hold the trigger down, hold the reticle on target (ish) and the gun fires at the right moment. It may only happen in milliseconds, but the ultimate decision to fire isn't made by the human, the human just authorises it.
You've got to accept that FOSS etc can be used for good and bad. Internet? Great boon to humanity, also allows for research of home-made explosives and distribution of CP. Linux? Allows people to be in charge of their computers, for free, as used by North Korea and arms manufacturers. Personally I'm pro-gun-control, but you can't deny that this isn't quite an elegant bit of engineering, and they have every right to develop it.
I'm still using Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Unity style GUI) and it's great for smaller screens. No, no way would I prefer Unity over a traditional desktop if I'm working on a traditional desktop, but it works for me on small screens where space is at a premium (and you can always switch to a traditional GNOME/KDE/etc interface if you wish). For a phone Unity or similar does actually make sense.
Got to love ImageMagick, there's nothing funnier than confusing a "creative" with their MacbookAir by batch editing a folder full of images via SSH on a mobile phone, they just can't grasp what's going on.
If it ends up anything like the UK's system of National Insurance and the NHS then you pay a trivial amount (~$5/month) for reasonably comprehensive healthcare, plus unemployment benefit, state pension etc. It's a better deal than I could find with any private company by a long way.
Bravo that Anonymous Coward. We have to get off this little wet rock at some point, either that or sit here until we eat ourselves into stagnation or (more likely) destruction. The longer we leave it the less likely it will be to happen. We started in the 50s but we've been stalled ever since Challenger. (I say "we" as "humanity".)
Also, remember we're working on big temporal scales here. The Goldilocks zone alone moves around a lot during a star's evolution. Titan may be habitable for a period when the Sun goes red giant, a million planets could have seen and lost life already, and yet we could still be the only ones at the moment.
1950's- Colonise it with men in nuclear rockets!
1990's - Colonise it with ion engined star probes!
2013 - This all sounds a bit expensive, when's the next talent show?
(If there's life out there replace "colonise" with "invade" and "talent show" with "invasion".)
Well that's the big question. We already know the chances of life developing in the universe, it's 1, it's happened, we exist. This study (cool as it is) actually adds no new information in the question of whether life exists elsewhere, what it does is give us an idea of how many potential habitats like ours there are. We could find evidence of extrasolar life tomorrow, or never. It's still entirely possible (some would say probably) that the Sol system is the only one harbouring life in the universe despite a plethora of suitable environments.
All this actually does is narrow down one of the variables in the Drake Equation, which is a bit of a napkin based Fermi Problem idea anyway. We need to answer the Fermi Paradox first.
I'm no JavaScript expert, but I can't help but wonder if it's not really designed for 40k line projects anyway? If you're taking advantage of it being run client side then you probably don't want to rely on the client having the resources for something big?
Animals are exposed to a whole wide range of bacteria and virii. Cultured cells (if you do it properly), are not. The immune system can also make the animal tolerant of bacteria rather than eradicating them, so if you're bothered about bacteria the cultured cells are a better bet. It's all pretty redundant if you're heating your food to 83C though.
Scaring Americans with their own toothbrushes in fact. Imagine if they hadn't killed them? He'd be releasing fear-inducing gas into the American homes via the media by now. Then unveiling a giant laser on the moon.
I don't think anyone wants to see a monopoly of any kind when it comes to operating systems and interoperability, but my experience of working with APIs is that Facebook, Twitter and many others have easy to use integration that has been a part of their success via third party apps. The one MS service I use, however, XBox Live, is crying out for an API. I'd love to be able to set up a small script on my phone which alerts me when certain friends are online, but this isn't possible without screenscraping which is against the T&C and could see my account banned.
I really can't develop any sympathy for MS over this. If they opened their systems up a little I might (and hey, they might even find it profitable, look at the amount of development work that's gone on with the Kinect), but they're intentionally making third party integration difficult or impossible. No sympathy.
It's the oblivious mistake that's inserted into all/. headlines and/or summaries. 15% of all/. posts are regarding these mistakes, so it's important to make sure they're included in each and every article to keep the comment levels up.
That's the entire point. It's not that the device isn't designed to run GNU/Linux/Android, it's specifically designed not to. You want to see a geek actually do something? Tell them they can't do it.
These days satellites are often programmed (or simply put into a suitably decaying orbit) so that they burn up and don't leave stuff hanging around in orbit at the equivalent of Mach 25. I don't know if it's the case with these ones, but causing a satellite to re-enter at the end of its design life is considered "best practice" these days. (Except the Chinese, who have a habit of generating a lot of orbital debris.)
Disagree entirely. A little cross-training is generally good for the brain as a whole - look at the classic Feynman story where he decided to do a biology class to expand his horizons (he went to the library and asked for a "map of a cat").
Many mathematicians use drugs to get a different perspective on a problem if they're stuck. Marcus du Sautoy freely admits to the odd joint (and I know of at least two other from personal experience, and xkcd's Balmer Peak isn't entirely fictional.
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In that scenario the trigger is nothing more than a dead mans switch. You hold the trigger down, hold the reticle on target (ish) and the gun fires at the right moment. It may only happen in milliseconds, but the ultimate decision to fire isn't made by the human, the human just authorises it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a Linux is a good guy with a Linux. (Which, ironically, makes quite a lot of sense.)
You've got to accept that FOSS etc can be used for good and bad. Internet? Great boon to humanity, also allows for research of home-made explosives and distribution of CP. Linux? Allows people to be in charge of their computers, for free, as used by North Korea and arms manufacturers. Personally I'm pro-gun-control, but you can't deny that this isn't quite an elegant bit of engineering, and they have every right to develop it.
I'm still using Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Unity style GUI) and it's great for smaller screens. No, no way would I prefer Unity over a traditional desktop if I'm working on a traditional desktop, but it works for me on small screens where space is at a premium (and you can always switch to a traditional GNOME/KDE/etc interface if you wish). For a phone Unity or similar does actually make sense.
Much of GIMP is a GUI for ImageMagick anyway.
Got to love ImageMagick, there's nothing funnier than confusing a "creative" with their MacbookAir by batch editing a folder full of images via SSH on a mobile phone, they just can't grasp what's going on.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
If it ends up anything like the UK's system of National Insurance and the NHS then you pay a trivial amount (~$5/month) for reasonably comprehensive healthcare, plus unemployment benefit, state pension etc. It's a better deal than I could find with any private company by a long way.
In the 50's "men" was synonymous with "humans". Touche ;)
Bravo that Anonymous Coward. We have to get off this little wet rock at some point, either that or sit here until we eat ourselves into stagnation or (more likely) destruction. The longer we leave it the less likely it will be to happen. We started in the 50s but we've been stalled ever since Challenger. (I say "we" as "humanity".)
Also, remember we're working on big temporal scales here. The Goldilocks zone alone moves around a lot during a star's evolution. Titan may be habitable for a period when the Sun goes red giant, a million planets could have seen and lost life already, and yet we could still be the only ones at the moment.
If we'd had this result in the:
1950's- Colonise it with men in nuclear rockets!
1990's - Colonise it with ion engined star probes!
2013 - This all sounds a bit expensive, when's the next talent show?
(If there's life out there replace "colonise" with "invade" and "talent show" with "invasion".)
Well that's the big question. We already know the chances of life developing in the universe, it's 1, it's happened, we exist. This study (cool as it is) actually adds no new information in the question of whether life exists elsewhere, what it does is give us an idea of how many potential habitats like ours there are. We could find evidence of extrasolar life tomorrow, or never. It's still entirely possible (some would say probably) that the Sol system is the only one harbouring life in the universe despite a plethora of suitable environments.
All this actually does is narrow down one of the variables in the Drake Equation, which is a bit of a napkin based Fermi Problem idea anyway. We need to answer the Fermi Paradox first.
I'm no JavaScript expert, but I can't help but wonder if it's not really designed for 40k line projects anyway? If you're taking advantage of it being run client side then you probably don't want to rely on the client having the resources for something big?
Animals are exposed to a whole wide range of bacteria and virii. Cultured cells (if you do it properly), are not. The immune system can also make the animal tolerant of bacteria rather than eradicating them, so if you're bothered about bacteria the cultured cells are a better bet. It's all pretty redundant if you're heating your food to 83C though.
You're aware that Swift's original was a work of satire? Just checking...
Scaring Americans with their own toothbrushes in fact. Imagine if they hadn't killed them? He'd be releasing fear-inducing gas into the American homes via the media by now. Then unveiling a giant laser on the moon.
I don't think anyone wants to see a monopoly of any kind when it comes to operating systems and interoperability, but my experience of working with APIs is that Facebook, Twitter and many others have easy to use integration that has been a part of their success via third party apps. The one MS service I use, however, XBox Live, is crying out for an API. I'd love to be able to set up a small script on my phone which alerts me when certain friends are online, but this isn't possible without screenscraping which is against the T&C and could see my account banned.
I really can't develop any sympathy for MS over this. If they opened their systems up a little I might (and hey, they might even find it profitable, look at the amount of development work that's gone on with the Kinect), but they're intentionally making third party integration difficult or impossible. No sympathy.
Nice to know the conservative's kids have brains of their own, however.
See "whoosh", above ;)
It's the oblivious mistake that's inserted into all /. headlines and/or summaries. 15% of all /. posts are regarding these mistakes, so it's important to make sure they're included in each and every article to keep the comment levels up.
That's the entire point. It's not that the device isn't designed to run GNU/Linux/Android, it's specifically designed not to. You want to see a geek actually do something? Tell them they can't do it.
These days satellites are often programmed (or simply put into a suitably decaying orbit) so that they burn up and don't leave stuff hanging around in orbit at the equivalent of Mach 25. I don't know if it's the case with these ones, but causing a satellite to re-enter at the end of its design life is considered "best practice" these days. (Except the Chinese, who have a habit of generating a lot of orbital debris.)
Yes indeed, I stand corrected, that'll teach me to overuse Ctrl-V!
Disagree entirely. A little cross-training is generally good for the brain as a whole - look at the classic Feynman story where he decided to do a biology class to expand his horizons (he went to the library and asked for a "map of a cat").
Many mathematicians use drugs to get a different perspective on a problem if they're stuck. Marcus du Sautoy freely admits to the odd joint (and I know of at least two other from personal experience, and xkcd's Balmer Peak isn't entirely fictional.