Thanks for your much-more-informed advice! I had no idea the pros did so many jumps these days (the 'couple of hundred jumps makes you a veteran' thing came from a skydiving school I was saving to attend at one point before I got distracted by other things:P )
And don't take what I'm saying as "skydiving is very dangerous" - that was specifically in relation to base jumping, where you've got a very limited time to open your chute before it's floor-pie time. (Can you enlighten us further just how dangerous it is compared to normal high-altitude drops?) I'd love to try these strap-on wing thingies too, they look fantastic.:)
Some tools ordered high-power (up to a Watt or two, I think) lasers off some website and then pointed them at planes because planes are big and far away and going "yay I can make a dot on a plane" is fun. The pilots, however, thought variations of either "oh shit the world just went bright green and now I can't see" or "we have incoming at two o'clock, prepare evasive maneuvers".
And in its usual hysterical-nanny way, the government decided to ban ALL laser pointers because apparently it's easier to do that than to try and outlaw 'stupid'.
Um... yeah, and base jumping is widely acknowledged to be about the most dangerous thing you can do for fun, bar jumping off office buildings WITHOUT a parachute. Parachutes, rectilinear or otherwise, aren't "quite safe", they're "safer than not having one". There
Certainly, you're a dozen times more likely to die in a car accident than you are from a chute malfunction. That's because you travel in a car every single day whereas a couple of dozen jumps makes you a seasoned skydiver. If you parachuted your way to and from work every morning, I think you just might possibly find that parachuting is higher risk than driving.
This is true. Apple is perfectly willing to break backwards compatibility, which causes massive problems to all four of their major developers, because Apple's market strength is its massive, koolaid-drinking fanbase. They can afford to screw their developers because it only strengthens their elitist image. People don't choose Apple to save money or to improve their business's bottom line or stock value. They choose Apple to make a statement.
Microsoft has built a massive empire on being the cheapest way to do things. Their way of doing business is to make a solid business case for people buying their products, and if you can convince a big corporation that by spending $50k on your product they can save $60k, you have yourself a sale. And it's far easier to convince big corporations that they'll save money if they know that all the in-house software that they just spent half a million dollars developing will work on your operating system in 10 years time.
Assuming you were choosing a particularly one-man-circle-jerk way of saying "no-one gives a shit" rather than 'consider shitting in every shithole on the planet, but decline' (which is what your code would appear to do)...
If you don't think doubling petrol prices every few years is an issue, you must live within walking distance of work/shops/everything you need, not have a family, and never need to work onsite. Or, I guess, you live in a city like London or Tokyo, with a good enough public transport system to actually use as primary transport. Most Australian cities, and from what I've heard, US cities too, are planned with private transport as a given. It's impossible to get around in any decent amount of time on public transport - if your time is worth nothing, it's fine, but if that extra two hours it takes you to travel 15kms is two billable hours you've lost, public transport becomes veeeery expensive.
Then again, the way things are going (especially once you go out of your government-subsidized-fuel United States), that $50 will get you 100kms or less in 5 years time.
Dunno about you but for me and pretty much everyone I know, "to work, home again, to the shops, to the movies" covers like 98% of all the driving done. Sure, every now and then I'll have to take a longer trip, maybe 4-5 times a year I'll need something that I can drive 300-400kms without stopping. For those few times, a fuel-powered range extender would be more than adequate.
I can't see a sports car capable of going 0-100km/h in 4 seconds lasting much longer than 160k kms before it needs an engine rebuild, if it's driven hard. How much will that engine rebuild cost? On a hi-po engine you could be looking at over $10k.
I can't help thinking that using gaze tracking as a primary cursor is (with the exception of physically disabled users who *can't* use a traditional pointing device) somewhat missing the main potential.
Gaze tracking seems to me to be perfect for a secondary 'information' cursor. Wonder what the date is? Look at the clock on your taskbar and the calendar will pop up. Curious what guild that undead priest over there is in? Simply looking will give you some transparent overlay text detailing guild, current health/mana, and what spell he's casting. Cast your eyes to a person's name on your IM list and it'll tell you when they were last at their computer and what their status message is.
Another interesting thing I remember reading about was using eye tracking for security. The whole screen is a ramble of random characters, except the precise area of interest being focussed on, which is unscrambled. The viewer's brain assembles what they see into an unscrambled screen, and any onlooker just sees junk.
MS is afraid to deprecate bad ways in favor of keeping some minor share of customers happy. This is true, but remember that when you sum up the minor share of customers that's made happy by each of these legacy APIs, you end up with a large number of developers. A very large number.
Ratzinger has been a priest, devoted to serving God, for over a half century. If this doesn't prove his non-Nazi creds, nothing will. Um... no, being a "priest, devoted to serving God" does not prove non-Nazi creds. Item 24 in the National Socialist Program:
We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our nation can only succeed from within on the framework: The good of the state before the good of the individual. The Nazi platform was explicitly anti-Jewish and nominally pro-Christian.
Who do you want to perform your GABG, a mediocre altruist or an egocentric professional who is confident because he/she really is that good? I'd prefer the guy who is good enough that he's not trying to prove something. You sound like a cowboy, and cowboys CAN perform miracles... but usually they end up falling down due to hubris and lack of planning. I want a professional who can make sure the whole process is done properly, not just some guy who may or may not do an excellent job depending on how many drinks he had the night before or how much his girlfriend is putting out or whatever decides whether he's feeling on form.
Pardon my ignorance, but as I understand your post, the design yield was 100MT and half of that came from fission of the casing... but they built the bomb with an inert casing for the test. This would seem to imply that virtually all of the 50MT observed output was from fusion, regardless of the design characteristics. No?
No... when you can teach these things to assemble into 2500 Mars Rovers, trundle across the desert, then have the lot of them reconfigure themselves into 50 Hubble Telescopes, THAT is when it will be something to yell about. No... when you can teach these things to assemble into 6 Mars Rovers, trundle across the desert, then have the lot of them reconfigure themselves into Devastator, THAT is when it will be something to yell about.
The works of William Shakespeare have been in the public domain for centuries. What about the works of Joseph Heller? Catch-22 was first published in 1961, and Heller died in 1999. I'm not an authority on American copyright law by any stretch, but as I understand it (correct me please if I'm mistaken) Catch-22 should still be in copyright.
There is no need to go 0-60 in under ten seconds if most cars on the road do it in fifteen seconds. Yes, there is. It's fun. Also, it's not enjoyable driving a car that you have to wring the neck of to get it moving. If a car can comfortably accelerate to 60 in 15 seconds without pushing it, then at full throttle it'll do it a lot quicker.
And there ARE situations in which strong acceleration is the safest course. Example: on the freeway at peak hour, I had to brake sharply for traffic with a truck following me, which promptly locked its wheels and would have hit me if I hadn't been able to accelerate out of the way.
People routine drive through tough conditions and you don't see them filing "drive plans" before they set out. Actually, most of my friends and family will send an "arrived safe" txt back to their point of departure after a long journey, just for peace of mind. It's not a necessity thing, just a courtesy.
I see what you mean about flying being about freedom, though. It all comes down to priorities, and I'd argue that if he's flying a light plane as a recreational activity then he places more value in freedom than in safety in the first place.
I work nights, but I don't whine that most grocery stores aren't open at 2A.M. when I want to shop; because I understand that just about everyone else finds it more convenient to have them open during the daytime. Why is this, exactly? I mean, all shops being open during the day when anyone who's got money to spend is at work earning it? Why do banks bother opening between 9:30am and 4:30pm, when like 99% of the other people who actually earn enough for it to be worth putting in the bank, I'm at work during that time? It all seems very stupid to me.
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Thanks for your much-more-informed advice! I had no idea the pros did so many jumps these days (the 'couple of hundred jumps makes you a veteran' thing came from a skydiving school I was saving to attend at one point before I got distracted by other things :P )
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And don't take what I'm saying as "skydiving is very dangerous" - that was specifically in relation to base jumping, where you've got a very limited time to open your chute before it's floor-pie time. (Can you enlighten us further just how dangerous it is compared to normal high-altitude drops?) I'd love to try these strap-on wing thingies too, they look fantastic.
If I knew that would I be sitting here POSTING ON SLASHDOT? Seriously... :P
Some tools ordered high-power (up to a Watt or two, I think) lasers off some website and then pointed them at planes because planes are big and far away and going "yay I can make a dot on a plane" is fun. The pilots, however, thought variations of either "oh shit the world just went bright green and now I can't see" or "we have incoming at two o'clock, prepare evasive maneuvers".
And in its usual hysterical-nanny way, the government decided to ban ALL laser pointers because apparently it's easier to do that than to try and outlaw 'stupid'.
Count the ears and divide by two?
Um... yeah, and base jumping is widely acknowledged to be about the most dangerous thing you can do for fun, bar jumping off office buildings WITHOUT a parachute. Parachutes, rectilinear or otherwise, aren't "quite safe", they're "safer than not having one". There
Certainly, you're a dozen times more likely to die in a car accident than you are from a chute malfunction. That's because you travel in a car every single day whereas a couple of dozen jumps makes you a seasoned skydiver. If you parachuted your way to and from work every morning, I think you just might possibly find that parachuting is higher risk than driving.
This is true. Apple is perfectly willing to break backwards compatibility, which causes massive problems to all four of their major developers, because Apple's market strength is its massive, koolaid-drinking fanbase. They can afford to screw their developers because it only strengthens their elitist image. People don't choose Apple to save money or to improve their business's bottom line or stock value. They choose Apple to make a statement.
Microsoft has built a massive empire on being the cheapest way to do things. Their way of doing business is to make a solid business case for people buying their products, and if you can convince a big corporation that by spending $50k on your product they can save $60k, you have yourself a sale. And it's far easier to convince big corporations that they'll save money if they know that all the in-house software that they just spent half a million dollars developing will work on your operating system in 10 years time.
Assuming you were choosing a particularly one-man-circle-jerk way of saying "no-one gives a shit" rather than 'consider shitting in every shithole on the planet, but decline' (which is what your code would appear to do)...
If you don't think doubling petrol prices every few years is an issue, you must live within walking distance of work/shops/everything you need, not have a family, and never need to work onsite. Or, I guess, you live in a city like London or Tokyo, with a good enough public transport system to actually use as primary transport. Most Australian cities, and from what I've heard, US cities too, are planned with private transport as a given. It's impossible to get around in any decent amount of time on public transport - if your time is worth nothing, it's fine, but if that extra two hours it takes you to travel 15kms is two billable hours you've lost, public transport becomes veeeery expensive.
Then again, the way things are going (especially once you go out of your government-subsidized-fuel United States), that $50 will get you 100kms or less in 5 years time.
Bones of Unicron, I'd imagine.
Dunno about you but for me and pretty much everyone I know, "to work, home again, to the shops, to the movies" covers like 98% of all the driving done. Sure, every now and then I'll have to take a longer trip, maybe 4-5 times a year I'll need something that I can drive 300-400kms without stopping. For those few times, a fuel-powered range extender would be more than adequate.
I can't see a sports car capable of going 0-100km/h in 4 seconds lasting much longer than 160k kms before it needs an engine rebuild, if it's driven hard. How much will that engine rebuild cost? On a hi-po engine you could be looking at over $10k.
Because lithium batteries burn SO much hotter than 50 liters of petrol would.
I can't help thinking that using gaze tracking as a primary cursor is (with the exception of physically disabled users who *can't* use a traditional pointing device) somewhat missing the main potential.
Gaze tracking seems to me to be perfect for a secondary 'information' cursor. Wonder what the date is? Look at the clock on your taskbar and the calendar will pop up. Curious what guild that undead priest over there is in? Simply looking will give you some transparent overlay text detailing guild, current health/mana, and what spell he's casting. Cast your eyes to a person's name on your IM list and it'll tell you when they were last at their computer and what their status message is.
Another interesting thing I remember reading about was using eye tracking for security. The whole screen is a ramble of random characters, except the precise area of interest being focussed on, which is unscrambled. The viewer's brain assembles what they see into an unscrambled screen, and any onlooker just sees junk.
What makes you think the two are mutually exclusive? :D
You should go with it if you want to live.
Pardon my ignorance, but as I understand your post, the design yield was 100MT and half of that came from fission of the casing... but they built the bomb with an inert casing for the test. This would seem to imply that virtually all of the 50MT observed output was from fusion, regardless of the design characteristics. No?
Neither is the H-bomb.
And there ARE situations in which strong acceleration is the safest course. Example: on the freeway at peak hour, I had to brake sharply for traffic with a truck following me, which promptly locked its wheels and would have hit me if I hadn't been able to accelerate out of the way.
I see what you mean about flying being about freedom, though. It all comes down to priorities, and I'd argue that if he's flying a light plane as a recreational activity then he places more value in freedom than in safety in the first place.