250 yards is not particularly far away with a fast/flat cartridge like 5.56 NATO. My ballistic calculator says that given the torso is, on average, 18" across, this system could aim dead center/upper chest (zeroed for 100 yds) and with no correction at all, hit its target correcting for elevation and windage for +/- 17mph wind with M855.
I am actually fairly unimpressed by this. Any dope can make a 300 yard shot with an AR on a head sized target and telescopic sights. If this was able to make those shots at 500+ yds, that would really be something.
Well, screwing stuff over really isn't Oracle's modus operandi. Sitting on cash cows is. They have managed to do that just fine... to the detriment of developers who want the language improved.
In an area where land can be purchased for $6k/acre, real estate developers partition quarter acre lots at $200k/lot, and then put a $400k 3k sq foot cheap pine and vinyl cookie cutter on top.
But you can buy a 10 year old house with 15 acres, for $375k right down the road.
People snap or flip up the mcmansioncrappers and real estate developers make beaucoup money.
Call of Duty and Halo don't make an impressive library. What the other two consoles have is diehard brand loyalty(fanboism), which cause cause sales of their consoles despite having an unimpressive game library.
You forgot the part, when regarding stripping rights, of a full on assault by the media and propaganda campaign to fuel a moral panic to push otherwise outrageous demands into law.
That followed by many years of conditioning into modes of thinking that make those laws seem sane.
Lawyers are not necessary to maintain law and order. They are useful only when law is written by and presided over by other lawyers, for lawyers.
That is, they are a solution to a problem they create.
You can look back at just about every functionjng society for most of human history and neither find mob rule nor lawyers. You also find law that is comprehensible to a lay person.
Not saying our legal system is better or worse than old legal systems, just that the point you made about mob rule is certainly not necessarily true.
I mean, shit, American Football is a game about running forward and sometimes catching a large ball. And you want to talk about slow pacing, they cover a field 2/3rds the size of a soccer field about 1/10th as many times, and most of the game is standing around waiting to play. Even the "exciting" bits only move a few yards.
Your post and mine have roughly the same amount of truth to them.
I guess to boil it down to a shorter point, it is this:
Any other apex predator species given the same capability and opportunity would do the same as we did. We know this, because they do (that's why we have problems with invasive species).
For us to single ourselves out as 'special' or 'remarkable' is flawed. Possibly, so is the idea that this is even a bad thing. I mean, one of the tenants of punctuated equilibrium is that species evolve fastest when under high pressure and presented with new opportunities. And while we might be the cause of other species going extinct, we aren't the cause of *all* species going extinct, just the ones in niches that prevent them from adapting easily. In their niche-vaccuum is opportunity for the successful species to expand/adapt on their own, and potentially become new, interesting things once we are gone or have reached our own equilibrium with the environment.
Nature is not something that peacefully coexists with things to begin with. The only reason why it can appear that species are coexisting is that they are at an equillibrium left behind from driving the other 99.99..% of species extinct. To pick out humanity as a "problem" takes remarkable hubris.
We might wipe out 99% of current species including ourselves, but as far as the earth or nature is concerned, or grander, the universe, it doesn't make one shitpile of difference.
The only thing we should be concerned with is self preservation. Beyond that, any notion that we should be ashamed of how we have treated other species, destroyed habitats and whatever seems asinine.
They are marginally adapted lifeforms that struggled to adapt just like every other extinct species in the past. They aren't sacred. Nature doesn't have that concept. I mean, hell, as advanced as we imagine we are, we've only managed what fireants do..., breed a lot, adapt to new areas or cause new areas to adapt to us, outcompete everything that was there and take the resources we need. Totally unoriginal.
Our time is limited. If we want to raise species diversity for... whatever reason, aesthetics maybe, we need to get off this planet and go elsewhere. That has the benefit of extending our own survival beyond the next time there is a mass extinction (probably inevitable) that we didn't cause.
Seems kind of small. I would have expected a space port to be high hundreds to thousands of acres to buffer in case there was some disaster... not a measely 57 acres... A lot of high schoolers could run across it diagonally in about two minutes.
But I don't know much about the requirements for spaceports.
Quality wise, I think there are minor gains. The biggest gains come from being able to drive nice/high quality headphones at the correct power levels so they sound as they should. Some motherboards can't supply enough power and the headphones sound... gross... because of it.
Also, you can gain a few FPS in some games by offloading the audio magic onto a card rather than do it on the CPU.
There are way too many uncertainties of what will be technologically possible by 2045 to be worrying about that right now. I'd wait until we actually had some idea of how to make a machine intelligence, and work the kinks out in a closed environment enough that it might actually be given control of something rather than the role of Ask Jeeves.
...Hobby Lobby didn't tell employees they couldn't use contraceptives. Hobby Lobby said they wouldn't pay for pills that cause the abortion of an embryo.
As I pointed out elsewhere, it is common knowledge to traditional music makers that a vibrating bridge makes the banjo sound. That is why there are instruments like this:
Does it need to be written down? It wasn't like the banjo was accidentally made... it was designed that way. That is why there are all sorts of hybrid instruments, like the Dulcijo (dulcimer banjo), where the whole body is designed to be just like a normal dulcimer except for the bridge, which sits atop a tiny drum head like a banjo does.
Bridge+vibrating support for the bridge + vibrating strings = banjo sound has been no big secret for a long time.
It is neat he did math behind it, but the summary makes claims about how mysterious it was, and that sounds pretty ridiculous.
You start with the presumption that he suggested men are being chosen over women and that women are competing.
He was actually suggesting that there are not women to compete with in many positions, and that without offering a handicap to positions they are competing in, diversity is a pipe dream.
I.e. if 70% of engineering jobs have 10% female applicants and the rest have 50%, all other things being equal, the mix may be 78% male, 22% female, from a completely non discriminatory hiring practice.
Not the fault of the company (driven by profit motives) for doing anything discriminatory or nefarious.
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250m is about the end of extreme range for a .22 LR carbine.
M4s/M16s are towards the end of their legs at 600m. DMRs like the SPR go out to about 800m. Military bolt guns reach out to 1100m and beyond.
250 yards is not particularly far away with a fast/flat cartridge like 5.56 NATO.
My ballistic calculator says that given the torso is, on average, 18" across, this system could aim dead center/upper chest (zeroed for 100 yds) and with no correction at all, hit its target correcting for elevation and windage for +/- 17mph wind with M855.
I am actually fairly unimpressed by this. Any dope can make a 300 yard shot with an AR on a head sized target and telescopic sights. If this was able to make those shots at 500+ yds, that would really be something.
Well, screwing stuff over really isn't Oracle's modus operandi. Sitting on cash cows is. They have managed to do that just fine... to the detriment of developers who want the language improved.
The difference is, before the leaks, people who made that claim were dismissed and ostracized as conspiracy nuts.
Now that it is fact, the public is a whole lot more paranoid.
The Patriot Act was Al Qaeda's greatest achievement.
Wait... that isn't a parody religion too?
Patriarchy bogeyman. How convenient.
In an area where land can be purchased for $6k/acre, real estate developers partition quarter acre lots at $200k/lot, and then put a $400k 3k sq foot cheap pine and vinyl cookie cutter on top.
But you can buy a 10 year old house with 15 acres, for $375k right down the road.
People snap or flip up the mcmansioncrappers and real estate developers make beaucoup money.
Boggles my mind.
Yelp, just like the BBB and others, is a pay-for-performance rating site.
Call of Duty and Halo don't make an impressive library. What the other two consoles have is diehard brand loyalty(fanboism), which cause cause sales of their consoles despite having an unimpressive game library.
You forgot the part, when regarding stripping rights, of a full on assault by the media and propaganda campaign to fuel a moral panic to push otherwise outrageous demands into law.
That followed by many years of conditioning into modes of thinking that make those laws seem sane.
Classic U.K. strategy.
Lawyers are not necessary to maintain law and order. They are useful only when law is written by and presided over by other lawyers, for lawyers.
That is, they are a solution to a problem they create.
You can look back at just about every functionjng society for most of human history and neither find mob rule nor lawyers. You also find law that is comprehensible to a lay person.
Not saying our legal system is better or worse than old legal systems, just that the point you made about mob rule is certainly not necessarily true.
Everything sounds dumb when you oversimplify it.
I mean, shit, American Football is a game about running forward and sometimes catching a large ball. And you want to talk about slow pacing, they cover a field 2/3rds the size of a soccer field about 1/10th as many times, and most of the game is standing around waiting to play. Even the "exciting" bits only move a few yards.
Your post and mine have roughly the same amount of truth to them.
I guess to boil it down to a shorter point, it is this:
Any other apex predator species given the same capability and opportunity would do the same as we did. We know this, because they do (that's why we have problems with invasive species).
For us to single ourselves out as 'special' or 'remarkable' is flawed. Possibly, so is the idea that this is even a bad thing. I mean, one of the tenants of punctuated equilibrium is that species evolve fastest when under high pressure and presented with new opportunities. And while we might be the cause of other species going extinct, we aren't the cause of *all* species going extinct, just the ones in niches that prevent them from adapting easily. In their niche-vaccuum is opportunity for the successful species to expand/adapt on their own, and potentially become new, interesting things once we are gone or have reached our own equilibrium with the environment.
Nature is not something that peacefully coexists with things to begin with. The only reason why it can appear that species are coexisting is that they are at an equillibrium left behind from driving the other 99.99..% of species extinct. To pick out humanity as a "problem" takes remarkable hubris.
We might wipe out 99% of current species including ourselves, but as far as the earth or nature is concerned, or grander, the universe, it doesn't make one shitpile of difference.
The only thing we should be concerned with is self preservation. Beyond that, any notion that we should be ashamed of how we have treated other species, destroyed habitats and whatever seems asinine.
They are marginally adapted lifeforms that struggled to adapt just like every other extinct species in the past. They aren't sacred. Nature doesn't have that concept. I mean, hell, as advanced as we imagine we are, we've only managed what fireants do..., breed a lot, adapt to new areas or cause new areas to adapt to us, outcompete everything that was there and take the resources we need. Totally unoriginal.
Our time is limited. If we want to raise species diversity for... whatever reason, aesthetics maybe, we need to get off this planet and go elsewhere. That has the benefit of extending our own survival beyond the next time there is a mass extinction (probably inevitable) that we didn't cause.
Being a condescending twat. That is how I *know* your evidence is valid. Thanks for convincing me and proving your claim.
It all makes sense now.
The layers of disinformation and conspiracy run deep with you.
Seems kind of small. I would have expected a space port to be high hundreds to thousands of acres to buffer in case there was some disaster... not a measely 57 acres... A lot of high schoolers could run across it diagonally in about two minutes.
But I don't know much about the requirements for spaceports.
Quality wise, I think there are minor gains. The biggest gains come from being able to drive nice/high quality headphones at the correct power levels so they sound as they should. Some motherboards can't supply enough power and the headphones sound... gross... because of it.
Also, you can gain a few FPS in some games by offloading the audio magic onto a card rather than do it on the CPU.
Yea. Their first step is flying cars.
There are way too many uncertainties of what will be technologically possible by 2045 to be worrying about that right now. I'd wait until we actually had some idea of how to make a machine intelligence, and work the kinks out in a closed environment enough that it might actually be given control of something rather than the role of Ask Jeeves.
...Hobby Lobby didn't tell employees they couldn't use contraceptives. Hobby Lobby said they wouldn't pay for pills that cause the abortion of an embryo.
I think Slashdot has officially become a pump and dump vehicle for BTC manipulators.
Yea, but an ISP isn't going to classify itself as a cyber security threat to itself and then throttle itself.
As I pointed out elsewhere, it is common knowledge to traditional music makers that a vibrating bridge makes the banjo sound. That is why there are instruments like this:
http://www.gardnersdulcimer.com/data/Images_Additional/dulcijo3.jpg
Designed just like this:
http://gibsondulcimers.com/In%20Stock/Baritone%20Dulcimer%2047609/Baritone%20Dulcimer%2047609%20Front.jpg
Except, big surprise, they put a tiny drum head only under the bridge so that the bridge could vibrate and make a more banjo-ey sound.
Does it need to be written down? It wasn't like the banjo was accidentally made... it was designed that way. That is why there are all sorts of hybrid instruments, like the Dulcijo (dulcimer banjo), where the whole body is designed to be just like a normal dulcimer except for the bridge, which sits atop a tiny drum head like a banjo does.
Bridge+vibrating support for the bridge + vibrating strings = banjo sound has been no big secret for a long time.
It is neat he did math behind it, but the summary makes claims about how mysterious it was, and that sounds pretty ridiculous.
You start with the presumption that he suggested men are being chosen over women and that women are competing.
He was actually suggesting that there are not women to compete with in many positions, and that without offering a handicap to positions they are competing in, diversity is a pipe dream.
I.e. if 70% of engineering jobs have 10% female applicants and the rest have 50%, all other things being equal, the mix may be 78% male, 22% female, from a completely non discriminatory hiring practice.
Not the fault of the company (driven by profit motives) for doing anything discriminatory or nefarious.