In the Clinton age, internet tax hikes were unthinkable. Now suddenly we have extremely positive articles about internet taxation. Opinions have changed dramatically, proving with enough effort, persistence, and money, people can be made to think anything.
Last time this was on slashdot, they mentioned it was a very very very slow model. The intriguing thing is, eventually it's going to be possible to transfer the complete memory of a living brain to a computer. A machine like this would then be able to perpetuate the life of the person indefinitely. To the person being simulated, the outside world would appear to go by very fast but time to that person would pass at the same rate as it did in their biological brain. 25 seconds would feel like 25 seconds regardless of the world spinning by super fate.
The question is, after the memory transfer, would the human begin experiencing what the silicon copy was experiencing after death in some kind of seemless transfer? Would the human just die forever and the silicon brain follow an entirely different path, like a twin? Although the knowledge gained by the human was perpetuated, is the human hopelessly destined to end their personal experience at death?
The Sony/Pioneer player supported networking. Streaming 30Mbit 1080p 60fps video from a server to a BD player was the killer feature that pushed it over the top. Since BDP-HD1, there hasn't been a reason to hack set-top boxes because the set-top box now does everything people hacked them for.
Seem to recall the Hirise sensors have 256 cells for every column. Each cell samples the same point of light. The 256 samples are averaged to give a final result. Motion of the camera repeats the process for the next row. If 4 cells in a column die, you should get a 2% reduction in dynamic range, but far better than any consumer camera.
Deciphering the scant information, it sounds like if we could see the defects, they would have the same type of ghosting you used to have with old SVGA cables. It's probably restricted to columns and looks like a double image in certain columns.
Back in the 80's, there was a graph showing percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere vs. year starting in the 1800's and ending at some point before 1980. It was level until 1880, then suddenly shut up until the end of the graph. They never said how they deduced the CO2 quantity and the graph was scaled between 2 rediculously small percentages.
Now wouldn't it be neat if we had a graph of annual CO2 percentage up to today? Such graphs are nowhere to be seen. Google searches don't find them. The media doesn't show them. There are lots of references to CO2 levels but not a single graph of CO2 level vs. year.
Back in the 80's, there were graphs showing percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere vs. year starting in the 1800's. They never said how they deduced the CO2 quantity and the graph was scaled between 2 rediculously small percentages. Now such graphs are nowhere to be seen. Google searches don't find them. The media doesn't show them. There are lots of references to CO2 levels but not a single graph of CO2 level vs. year.
It's not what you know but who you know that gets you ahead in NASA. That's always going to be the problem, no matter how many insanely great gadgets they import from China.
They can't perfectly know what's going on inside their astronaut's heads because that information is private. We're never going to know why Diaper Astronaut did it or what mental state she was in. We're never going to know the results of her post breakdown examination. We may someday know the contents of the love letter, but it's more likely the media is going to forget this story long before the love letter appears in court.
If it was 2 men who fought each other for the same heroine, there would be no mercy from the media, he would have gotten the death penalty, and NASA would have been sold to China.
Funny after all the complaining and ranting about US being a bunch of sick bastards for not wanting to surrender the internet, the complainers ended up being none other than more politicians who wanted the power for themselves. What power hungry leader is a US hater to idolize?
Ogg/Vorbis always sounded compressed and tinny, like FM radio. It's hard to believe there have been no quality improvements in the last 7 years. AAC has always provided the fullest, spacious sound.
Maybe it really isn't government's job anymore, just like the post office. Most of the stuff being put into orbit certainly isn't government anymore. It's private satellites launched on Russian ICBM's which are now managed by private managers.
The solution is going to be higher orbits. There aren't many things that can't be done in higher orbits, if you have enough money. The countries with enough money just aren't US. China is putting their GPS system in geostationary orbit for a reason.
Corot sounds like another space based IR telescope with an incrementally better mechanism to reject glare. The output is going to be an intensity graph over time, with small dips from planetary transits, the same thing we've been doing for many years.
The real breakthrough is when we finally have enough magnification and resolving power to see living things on other planets. The great barrier reef is a living thing that can be resolved from beyond Mars orbit with today's technology. The first extrasolar life we see is going to be something like a great barrier reef.
The trick is going to be making a telescope the size of the solar system. The mission is probably going to use 2 Hubble size telescopes on opposite sides of Mars orbit, with incredible magnification well beyond the diffraction limit of each telescope, and the highly diffracted images from both telescopes being combined in software to produce a corrected image with a virtual aperture the size of Mars orbit. Only with that kind of mission are you going to "detect" habitable, extrasolar planets.
For every 10 users who feel neglected by a free software producer, there's 1 who wants to be compensated. nVidia doesn't charge money for their drivers. It was once ludicrous to sue over something you didn't have to pay for. Now people are suing over free stuff. It's now OK because although the software didn't cost money, it didn't have source code and was in support of a piece of hardware which cost money. The envelope of what is considered a fair lawsuit has expanded one more step.
Combined with human greed and the desire for publicity, the expansion of software lawsuits is inevitable. First free software without sourcecode in support of hardware is fair game, then free software without sourcecode is fair game, then free software with sourcecode is fair game.
Developers aren't sticking to Linux development past 30. With no experience being retained and every 4 years a new set of developers starting over from the same point, it's still solving the same problems it was in 1997.
The American philosophy: if everyone can't be rich, everyone has to be poor. Thus you have almost everyone renting dumpy apartments. There's no incentive for landlords to install anything but the cheapest, least efficient appliances in their dumpy apartments. There's no incentive for renters to install fluorescent bulbs because they don't own the property. You end up with almost every progressive decision being forced by the government.
These flash video players may be the rage of 2007, but the tiny pictures are barely visible and users can't resize them or slow down the playback like they could in the past.
The liquefying character demo looks like it would be interesting if it could be slowed down.
The news conspicuously avoided any mention of China and the cloud of junk China sent shooting through space right before all these satellites failed.
MSNBC said the ACS was the primary producer of data since 2002 and it could not be replaced in a single repair mission. MSNBC also said it failed 2 months short of its 5 year mission. People like MSNBC. They like Keith Olbermann. They trust Keith Olbermann more than their own eyes. MSNBC gave quite a bleaker picture than the funded astronomer.
The real fear is they'll cancel the next repair mission because it's a lost cause. Not good if you're living on Hubble grants.
If you don't have the time and the resources to fully support what you put on the internet, don't do it, or plan on a huge legal bill. You will be sued for negligence. You will lose your job. You're obligated to support what you put on the internet, whether or not the GPL says "no warranty".
Assuming the space shuttle is retired after 2010, which seriously looks unlikely, how would they keep it alive? Soyuz and Shenzou are the only vehicles with air locks.
It looks like the space shuttle is going to be around long after 2010 and Hubble repairs may continue indefinitely. The appropriations for replacing the shuttle were finally canceled and there's too much voter pressure to fund low Earth orbit science.
These stories are always amusing, since the protestors are always the same ones who voted for higher taxes in the first place. Isn't it equality for everyone that you voted for? And if you can't get wealth for everyone, you'll just have to let no-one become wealthy.
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In the Clinton age, internet tax hikes were unthinkable. Now suddenly we have extremely positive articles about internet taxation. Opinions have changed dramatically, proving with enough effort, persistence, and money, people can be made to think anything.
Last time this was on slashdot, they mentioned it was a very very very slow model. The intriguing thing is, eventually it's going to be possible to transfer the complete memory of a living brain to a computer. A machine like this would then be able to perpetuate the life of the person indefinitely. To the person being simulated, the outside world would appear to go by very fast but time to that person would pass at the same rate as it did in their biological brain. 25 seconds would feel like 25 seconds regardless of the world spinning by super fate.
The question is, after the memory transfer, would the human begin experiencing what the silicon copy was experiencing after death in some kind of seemless transfer? Would the human just die forever and the silicon brain follow an entirely different path, like a twin? Although the knowledge gained by the human was perpetuated, is the human hopelessly destined to end their personal experience at death?
Now that you don't need a $2000 player and $10,000 plasma to play these things, it's time to say goodbye to DVD and splurge on BD.
The Sony/Pioneer player supported networking. Streaming 30Mbit 1080p 60fps video from a server to a BD player was the killer feature that pushed it over the top. Since BDP-HD1, there hasn't been a reason to hack set-top boxes because the set-top box now does everything people hacked them for.
Seem to recall the Hirise sensors have 256 cells for every column. Each cell samples the same point of light. The 256 samples are averaged to give a final result. Motion of the camera repeats the process for the next row. If 4 cells in a column die, you should get a 2% reduction in dynamic range, but far better than any consumer camera.
Deciphering the scant information, it sounds like if we could see the defects, they would have the same type of ghosting you used to have with old SVGA cables. It's probably restricted to columns and looks like a double image in certain columns.
This is probably the first time not a single story about a defect in an image sensor had pictures showing the effects of the defect.
Back in the 80's, there was a graph showing percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere vs. year starting in the 1800's and ending at some point before 1980. It was level until 1880, then suddenly shut up until the end of the graph. They never said how they deduced the CO2 quantity and the graph was scaled between 2 rediculously small percentages.
Now wouldn't it be neat if we had a graph of annual CO2 percentage up to today? Such graphs are nowhere to be seen. Google searches don't find them. The media doesn't show them. There are lots of references to CO2 levels but not a single graph of CO2 level vs. year.
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Back in the 80's, there were graphs showing percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere vs. year starting in the 1800's. They never said how they deduced the CO2 quantity and the graph was scaled between 2 rediculously small percentages. Now such graphs are nowhere to be seen. Google searches don't find them. The media doesn't show them. There are lots of references to CO2 levels but not a single graph of CO2 level vs. year.
It's not what you know but who you know that gets you ahead in NASA. That's always going to be the problem, no matter how many insanely great gadgets they import from China.
They can't perfectly know what's going on inside their astronaut's heads because that information is private. We're never going to know why Diaper Astronaut did it or what mental state she was in. We're never going to know the results of her post breakdown examination. We may someday know the contents of the love letter, but it's more likely the media is going to forget this story long before the love letter appears in court.
If it was 2 men who fought each other for the same heroine, there would be no mercy from the media, he would have gotten the death penalty, and NASA would have been sold to China.
The problem is bittorrent requiring you to surrender your privacy. This flaw has never been fixed and probably never will be.
Funny after all the complaining and ranting about US being a bunch of sick bastards for not wanting to surrender the internet, the complainers ended up being none other than more politicians who wanted the power for themselves. What power hungry leader is a US hater to idolize?
Ogg/Vorbis always sounded compressed and tinny, like FM radio. It's hard to believe there have been no quality improvements in the last 7 years. AAC has always provided the fullest, spacious sound.
Maybe it really isn't government's job anymore, just like the post office. Most of the stuff being put into orbit certainly isn't government anymore. It's private satellites launched on Russian ICBM's which are now managed by private managers.
The solution is going to be higher orbits. There aren't many things that can't be done in higher orbits, if you have enough money. The countries with enough money just aren't US. China is putting their GPS system in geostationary orbit for a reason.
Corot sounds like another space based IR telescope with an incrementally better mechanism to reject glare. The output is going to be an intensity graph over time, with small dips from planetary transits, the same thing we've been doing for many years.
The real breakthrough is when we finally have enough magnification and resolving power to see living things on other planets. The great barrier reef is a living thing that can be resolved from beyond Mars orbit with today's technology. The first extrasolar life we see is going to be something like a great barrier reef.
The trick is going to be making a telescope the size of the solar system. The mission is probably going to use 2 Hubble size telescopes on opposite sides of Mars orbit, with incredible magnification well beyond the diffraction limit of each telescope, and the highly diffracted images from both telescopes being combined in software to produce a corrected image with a virtual aperture the size of Mars orbit. Only with that kind of mission are you going to "detect" habitable, extrasolar planets.
For every 10 users who feel neglected by a free software producer, there's 1 who wants to be compensated. nVidia doesn't charge money for their drivers. It was once ludicrous to sue over something you didn't have to pay for. Now people are suing over free stuff. It's now OK because although the software didn't cost money, it didn't have source code and was in support of a piece of hardware which cost money. The envelope of what is considered a fair lawsuit has expanded one more step.
Combined with human greed and the desire for publicity, the expansion of software lawsuits is inevitable. First free software without sourcecode in support of hardware is fair game, then free software without sourcecode is fair game, then free software with sourcecode is fair game.
It's more like the Digg vs. Slashdot war, with most Digg stories reporting dismal PS3 sales and most slashdot stories reporting good BD sales.
One thing is certain. Only one device can play 30Mbit H.264 HD files from a network and it's a BD player.
Developers aren't sticking to Linux development past 30. With no experience being retained and every 4 years a new set of developers starting over from the same point, it's still solving the same problems it was in 1997.
The American philosophy: if everyone can't be rich, everyone has to be poor. Thus you have almost everyone renting dumpy apartments. There's no incentive for landlords to install anything but the cheapest, least efficient appliances in their dumpy apartments. There's no incentive for renters to install fluorescent bulbs because they don't own the property. You end up with almost every progressive decision being forced by the government.
These flash video players may be the rage of 2007, but the tiny pictures are barely visible and users can't resize them or slow down the playback like they could in the past.
The liquefying character demo looks like it would be interesting if it could be slowed down.
The news conspicuously avoided any mention of China and the cloud of junk China sent shooting through space right before all these satellites failed.
MSNBC said the ACS was the primary producer of data since 2002 and it could not be replaced in a single repair mission. MSNBC also said it failed 2 months short of its 5 year mission. People like MSNBC. They like Keith Olbermann. They trust Keith Olbermann more than their own eyes. MSNBC gave quite a bleaker picture than the funded astronomer.
The real fear is they'll cancel the next repair mission because it's a lost cause. Not good if you're living on Hubble grants.
If you don't have the time and the resources to fully support what you put on the internet, don't do it, or plan on a huge legal bill. You will be sued for negligence. You will lose your job. You're obligated to support what you put on the internet, whether or not the GPL says "no warranty".
Assuming the space shuttle is retired after 2010, which seriously looks unlikely, how would they keep it alive? Soyuz and Shenzou are the only vehicles with air locks.
It looks like the space shuttle is going to be around long after 2010 and Hubble repairs may continue indefinitely. The appropriations for replacing the shuttle were finally canceled and there's too much voter pressure to fund low Earth orbit science.
These stories are always amusing, since the protestors are always the same ones who voted for higher taxes in the first place. Isn't it equality for everyone that you voted for? And if you can't get wealth for everyone, you'll just have to let no-one become wealthy.