Dobsonian-style telescopes are generally not capable of proper astrophotography. Withouth significant work to put this thing on a barn-door-style tracking motor drive, as well as a setup that rotates the camera in the "eyepiece" holder to account for field rotation, this wont work well to capture images.
Given the way DeBeers does its business I wonder if there will be some violence involved if anyone attempts to commercialize cultured diamonds...
Gemstones fascinate me...I buy jewlery for my wife just because I like buying cool looking rocks...Well...thats not the only reason but its sure a motivating factor to get me to buy something that serves to actual purpose...
The small amount of tritium in the battery would quickly float to the ceiling, or out into the atmosphere. The beta radiation released from the tritium is of such low energy it literally would be stopped by your outer skin cells. No damage could result from this...
At the company I work for 'politeness' has necessarly fallen by the wayside, at least at doorways. Since this is a highly secured place, most people arent allowed through most doors. "Tailgating" is looked down upon and generally only permitted when you *know* the person coming in with you belongs there.
So the culture around here has evolved to having people slam doors in people's faces. Security needs dictate that its quite proper to close the door behind you by pulling it shut despite the fact that someone is immediatly behind you. They can badge themselves into the room....
Could you imagine the stink it would create the first time someone says "Your Honor...its not my fault that I groped her, I didnt know where my hands were at the time because I couldnt see them!"
I attempted this experiment. I tied a piece of buttered toast to my cat's back and dropped him off the side of the table. The cat landed on his feat and the toast slid around his body under the string and hung, butter side down, on his belly. It then slipped out of the string and fell butter side down on the floor.
Granted my experiment might have been more sound with better method of toast attachment, I do believe this proves that neither law can be violated. Were I to more securely attach the toast some other method of getting both the toast butter side down on the ground and the cat on its feet would present itself;)
I am going to make a few conjectures as to why "more of these accidents" didnt happen. So nobody jump down my throat here.
My guess is that there is probably only room in each planet for one intelligent species. Eventually one intelligent species likely will wipe out any other before it gets going. Note that there is some chance that dolphins or whales are alot more intelligent than we know. However since they live in the water they dont occupy the same effective planet-space we do.
As for why it hasent happened more often, well, how do we know? The universe is a huge place - just because we cant see planets with life on them in our immediate stellar neighborhood doesnt mean they arent out there...
Even if we are the result of one big coincidence, then it stands to reason that that coincidence has happened elsewhere in the universe, we just dont know it.
I know a guy with the serious misfortune to have had 7 of his credit cards stolen, at different times. The poor guy spent nearly 5 years cleaning up the mess. He didnt do anything wrong, was just bad luck and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
10 times wouldnt be infeasible...unlikely...but it can happen nonetheless.
Even worse, we could feed icecream...lots of it...to enemy combatants and wait for them to get a brain freeze. We could then use the momentary lapse of physical ability to strike! The real meaning of ICBM is Ice Cream Ballistic Missle! They had them all along!
Quick someone call the papers its definatly a conspiracy!!!
OK so now I am putting this together, no thanks to you. The movie was filmed full-matte and the filmmaker wanted to in widescreen, and thus cut off the extraneous stuff. When it was formatted for a 4:3 TV they simply used the whole matte (or part of the whole matte that wasnt in the widescreen version). If this is the case, how can a simple cutting decision turn into a class action lawsuit and actually get anywhere?
Dude, dont patronize me. I was mearly going from the description in the article above. The blurb on the front page of/. says we are getting pan-n-scan movies chopped to widescreen. The website talking about the settlement offers no clues at all as to whats going on.
Instead of being so damn condecending about the whole thing you *could* have simply explained the problem.
I am well aware and educated as to what widescreen is. According to the article posted here, to produce a "widescreen" DVD, they took the pan-n-scan version and chopped off the top and bottom. If this is not what this class action suit is about than I do not understand.
This pisses me off as I have a huge collection of DVDs and many are MGMs. All widescreen. Are they trying to tell me I can give up the DVD I bought in exchange for some other movie that is also not fixed? WHy dont they fix the DVDs they screwed up and promise to exchanged the messed up ones for the good ones? SUre thats expensive, but dammit I paid for a wide-screen DVD and I want to get what I paid for. Not some pan-n-scan crap.
I see spaceballs is on the list and now I realize why I always thought it looked funny when I watched it. I must not have been paying close attention to my other MGM DVDs....
I wonder if they will sometime in the future fix the movies, and then try to make us pay for them when we want to exhange the crappy DVDs for the real ones.
I can definately hear that one and it bothers me to no end. Its a very penetrating sound, I can usually tell if someone in the house has left a TV on upstairs when I walk in the front door and the house is otherwise quiet. Its on the border line between 'hearing' and 'feeling' since I can feel the pressure on my eardrums at the same time as I hear a very high pitched whine. IIRC its closer to 17khz isnt it? In any case its above many people's threshold of hearing.
Actually I noticed I can sense frequencies outside of the audible range. Not with my ears, rather I can 'feel' them. Ive been able to detect powerful low frequency sounds. EVer hear the lowest notes of a pipe organ? Notice that feeling in your gut? Well ultra low frequency sound has that same feeling. Perhaps all the 'furry creatures' out there have a better ability to detect low-level low-frequency sounds than we can.
I have also 'heard' some 22+khz tones. Not that I could describe what they sounded like, but I knew of their presence by a feeling of pressure on my eardrums. Not unlike the feeling you get when descending in an airplane. After mentioning the feeling to someone in the lab, they told me they had some sort of generator running that was doing something at 22khz and he was surprised I could tell.
I am pretty sure we outnumber many other mammels. Maybe thats because they are endangered though (killed off by our actions). Elephants, and giant Pandas come to mind. As far as mammals we havent overhunted, I would hazard a good guess that we outnumber many big cats. There isnt (and never was) room for billions of Lions on this planet. A pride of lions (10, perhaps) takes up many square kms of land, and the amount of land-space in the Lion's habitat is rather small. However in many cities you can have hundreds of people within a few square meters (stacked on top of each other in high rises) and humans pretty much cover the whole planet.
In all seriousness this actually might be problematic for a couple of reasons I can quickly think up. First I know that when I am typing other words appear in my head that dont make it through my fingers onto the screen. I wonder if it would be possible to train out the auxiliary words and such that pop in yourhead as you type. The other problem I forsee is for people who's minds wander (even just a little). You could be sitting at your desk plugging code into an editor with your little brain wave thingy and all of a sudden a hundred porn windows pop up cause you had a breif lecherous thought about the hot chick you saw earlier that day that caused you to think about a particular porn site and wham, there it is...
So anyhoo, enough rambling...the question I am getting at is how is this thing supposed to filter out unwanted thoughts?
Dont think of them as moral issues. Think of them as infringments on someone else's rights. The declaration of independance states everyone (well, just men, but lets not get into that one) has the right to life, liberty and happiness. Your freedom to do something ends when it infringes one of my rights. Your right to swing a sword around stops at my neck. You cant take away my life since I have the right to it. You are not permitted to steal from me since that would be taking away my happiness (in reality 'happiness' in the declaration of independance was originally 'property').
If you dont look at rape/murder/etc as moral issues and instead issues of rights-infringment then the government is no longer legislating morality.
The thing about embryonic stem cells is that they havent become differentiated yet. Its easier to tell an embryonic stem cell to become a liver cell or a stomach cell or a brain cell or a spinal cord neuron or whatever. Adult stem cells are easy to obtain but they dont as readily become whatever you want them to become.
The umbilical cord blood appears to contain stem cells that are somewhat half way between embryonic and adult. They arent as easy to coax into doing your wishes as pure embryonic cells are but they are also not as stubborn as adult cells.
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Dobsonian-style telescopes are generally not capable of proper astrophotography. Withouth significant work to put this thing on a barn-door-style tracking motor drive, as well as a setup that rotates the camera in the "eyepiece" holder to account for field rotation, this wont work well to capture images.
Its not that unusual. It happens all the time in startrek
Given the way DeBeers does its business I wonder if there will be some violence involved if anyone attempts to commercialize cultured diamonds...
Gemstones fascinate me...I buy jewlery for my wife just because I like buying cool looking rocks...Well...thats not the only reason but its sure a motivating factor to get me to buy something that serves to actual purpose...
The small amount of tritium in the battery would quickly float to the ceiling, or out into the atmosphere. The beta radiation released from the tritium is of such low energy it literally would be stopped by your outer skin cells. No damage could result from this...
and they're not an improvement over silicon for everything
:)
But they might if they figure out a way to make quantum breast implants...
Sometimes I think im the only fan....
:)
Comments like this let me know I am not the only loon in the universe
At the company I work for 'politeness' has necessarly fallen by the wayside, at least at doorways. Since this is a highly secured place, most people arent allowed through most doors. "Tailgating" is looked down upon and generally only permitted when you *know* the person coming in with you belongs there.
So the culture around here has evolved to having people slam doors in people's faces. Security needs dictate that its quite proper to close the door behind you by pulling it shut despite the fact that someone is immediatly behind you. They can badge themselves into the room....
And 50% of all doctors in the whole world graduated in the bottom half of their class! ;)
Could you imagine the stink it would create the first time someone says "Your Honor...its not my fault that I groped her, I didnt know where my hands were at the time because I couldnt see them!"
I attempted this experiment. I tied a piece of buttered toast to my cat's back and dropped him off the side of the table. The cat landed on his feat and the toast slid around his body under the string and hung, butter side down, on his belly. It then slipped out of the string and fell butter side down on the floor.
;)
Granted my experiment might have been more sound with better method of toast attachment, I do believe this proves that neither law can be violated. Were I to more securely attach the toast some other method of getting both the toast butter side down on the ground and the cat on its feet would present itself
I am going to make a few conjectures as to why "more of these accidents" didnt happen. So nobody jump down my throat here.
My guess is that there is probably only room in each planet for one intelligent species. Eventually one intelligent species likely will wipe out any other before it gets going. Note that there is some chance that dolphins or whales are alot more intelligent than we know. However since they live in the water they dont occupy the same effective planet-space we do.
As for why it hasent happened more often, well, how do we know? The universe is a huge place - just because we cant see planets with life on them in our immediate stellar neighborhood doesnt mean they arent out there...
Even if we are the result of one big coincidence, then it stands to reason that that coincidence has happened elsewhere in the universe, we just dont know it.
Absolutly incredible that the first post did reference Total Recall :)
In fact I am surprised to see the first mention of it this far down!
I know a guy with the serious misfortune to have had 7 of his credit cards stolen, at different times. The poor guy spent nearly 5 years cleaning up the mess. He didnt do anything wrong, was just bad luck and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
10 times wouldnt be infeasible...unlikely...but it can happen nonetheless.
Even worse, we could feed icecream...lots of it...to enemy combatants and wait for them to get a brain freeze. We could then use the momentary lapse of physical ability to strike! The real meaning of ICBM is Ice Cream Ballistic Missle! They had them all along!
Quick someone call the papers its definatly a conspiracy!!!
*twich* *sudder* *twich*
OK so now I am putting this together, no thanks to you. The movie was filmed full-matte and the filmmaker wanted to in widescreen, and thus cut off the extraneous stuff. When it was formatted for a 4:3 TV they simply used the whole matte (or part of the whole matte that wasnt in the widescreen version). If this is the case, how can a simple cutting decision turn into a class action lawsuit and actually get anywhere?
Dude, dont patronize me. I was mearly going from the description in the article above. The blurb on the front page of /. says we are getting pan-n-scan movies chopped to widescreen. The website talking about the settlement offers no clues at all as to whats going on.
Instead of being so damn condecending about the whole thing you *could* have simply explained the problem.
I am well aware and educated as to what widescreen is. According to the article posted here, to produce a "widescreen" DVD, they took the pan-n-scan version and chopped off the top and bottom. If this is not what this class action suit is about than I do not understand.
WHat exactly is the problem then?
This pisses me off as I have a huge collection of DVDs and many are MGMs. All widescreen. Are they trying to tell me I can give up the DVD I bought in exchange for some other movie that is also not fixed? WHy dont they fix the DVDs they screwed up and promise to exchanged the messed up ones for the good ones? SUre thats expensive, but dammit I paid for a wide-screen DVD and I want to get what I paid for. Not some pan-n-scan crap.
I see spaceballs is on the list and now I realize why I always thought it looked funny when I watched it. I must not have been paying close attention to my other MGM DVDs....
I wonder if they will sometime in the future fix the movies, and then try to make us pay for them when we want to exhange the crappy DVDs for the real ones.
Its days like this I am happy to keep this sig around :)
I can definately hear that one and it bothers me to no end. Its a very penetrating sound, I can usually tell if someone in the house has left a TV on upstairs when I walk in the front door and the house is otherwise quiet. Its on the border line between 'hearing' and 'feeling' since I can feel the pressure on my eardrums at the same time as I hear a very high pitched whine. IIRC its closer to 17khz isnt it? In any case its above many people's threshold of hearing.
Actually I noticed I can sense frequencies outside of the audible range. Not with my ears, rather I can 'feel' them. Ive been able to detect powerful low frequency sounds. EVer hear the lowest notes of a pipe organ? Notice that feeling in your gut? Well ultra low frequency sound has that same feeling. Perhaps all the 'furry creatures' out there have a better ability to detect low-level low-frequency sounds than we can.
I have also 'heard' some 22+khz tones. Not that I could describe what they sounded like, but I knew of their presence by a feeling of pressure on my eardrums. Not unlike the feeling you get when descending in an airplane. After mentioning the feeling to someone in the lab, they told me they had some sort of generator running that was doing something at 22khz and he was surprised I could tell.
I am pretty sure we outnumber many other mammels. Maybe thats because they are endangered though (killed off by our actions). Elephants, and giant Pandas come to mind. As far as mammals we havent overhunted, I would hazard a good guess that we outnumber many big cats. There isnt (and never was) room for billions of Lions on this planet. A pride of lions (10, perhaps) takes up many square kms of land, and the amount of land-space in the Lion's habitat is rather small. However in many cities you can have hundreds of people within a few square meters (stacked on top of each other in high rises) and humans pretty much cover the whole planet.
In all seriousness this actually might be problematic for a couple of reasons I can quickly think up. First I know that when I am typing other words appear in my head that dont make it through my fingers onto the screen. I wonder if it would be possible to train out the auxiliary words and such that pop in yourhead as you type. The other problem I forsee is for people who's minds wander (even just a little). You could be sitting at your desk plugging code into an editor with your little brain wave thingy and all of a sudden a hundred porn windows pop up cause you had a breif lecherous thought about the hot chick you saw earlier that day that caused you to think about a particular porn site and wham, there it is...
So anyhoo, enough rambling...the question I am getting at is how is this thing supposed to filter out unwanted thoughts?
Dont think of them as moral issues. Think of them as infringments on someone else's rights. The declaration of independance states everyone (well, just men, but lets not get into that one) has the right to life, liberty and happiness. Your freedom to do something ends when it infringes one of my rights. Your right to swing a sword around stops at my neck. You cant take away my life since I have the right to it. You are not permitted to steal from me since that would be taking away my happiness (in reality 'happiness' in the declaration of independance was originally 'property').
If you dont look at rape/murder/etc as moral issues and instead issues of rights-infringment then the government is no longer legislating morality.
The thing about embryonic stem cells is that they havent become differentiated yet. Its easier to tell an embryonic stem cell to become a liver cell or a stomach cell or a brain cell or a spinal cord neuron or whatever. Adult stem cells are easy to obtain but they dont as readily become whatever you want them to become.
The umbilical cord blood appears to contain stem cells that are somewhat half way between embryonic and adult. They arent as easy to coax into doing your wishes as pure embryonic cells are but they are also not as stubborn as adult cells.