After watching the demonstration in the YouTube video shown in the article, it definitely looks that way — the wobble gif technology was re-purposed; then declared as a promising new way to make 3D images. However, what would happen if a way could be devised to take (arbitrary values of) 100 depths per frame and run it at 24 fps? Is that the direction they're trying to go?
Although I didn't get the feeling from the article it was in their plans, most likely someone somewhere has consider the idea or a variation of it and determined if the extra effort would or wouldn't achieve something more than a cheesy gimmick.
The Guardian link in my previous comment was posted a few minutes before there were any links in the summary. RedHackTea also posted a link before the summary was corrected, choosing wisely to pick an alternative resource. Much to my surprise (not), slashdotitors are able to update a summary after it's been made public — in turn, that correction changed the original meaning to both of our comments; in my case, negatively.
If the editors had linked to a third resource, such as The Indedendent (which I intentionally avoided due to the adverts), it would have turned out differently for my comment.
Why not spend the time you have teaching them some practical information they can use? How are they going to benefit from hearing someone's social agenda? Are the students there for your benefit, for you to use to advance your societal goals? Or are you there for their benefit, to help them learn things and improve their future lives?
My suggestion: skip these "society" lessons and use the time to teach them how to search text with regular expressions.
Are there any humanities or social science topics that aren't a useless liberal plot?
Not sure myself. Social and Political Studies were never considered a science. Although some of it is responsibly rigorous enough to give it the appearance of being science, it still falls into being observational best practices determined by a committee occasionally subject to group-think. The educational community made the change in the late nineteen sixties for personal gain. Unfortunately, although it probably was an unexpected side effect, by eliminating from the vocabulary studies and transferring the fields into a science, the definition of science has been diluted, confusing some people as to what it actually means and has allowed for personal agendas to increase the politicization of all science.
Although my preferences and priorities are deeply involved with all of the aspects of the sciences and its philosophy, I'm also aware of how the Sciences originated from the Humanities, its importance in life and how it can make life livable, even if it had failed to achieve science. However, subsidiary "relevancy" classes are a trap. It attracts laziness and is a time wasting distraction that's a disservice to the concrete skills the class should be learning (in an "Introduction to Computer Science"). If the student's societal awareness of technical subjects is that important to the educational institution, such as one focused on the original idea of Liberal Arts, then an interdepartmental arrangement with the syllabus seems more appropriate.
It probably shouldn't be called a liberal plot, but.... why did the definition get simplified? It was done so that people in these fields would be taken seriously by the government, getting the same respect science originally got when it came to public funding and getting a draft deferment to avoid visiting Vietnam. The local draft boards gave little leeway with exemption requests by students taking classes the board considered to be easier than the practical arts.
I'm still trying to decide which was the real motivator — lack of money or the fear of death.
Keeping in mind; temporarily banned. Synopsis from another article by the Guardian:
The University of Birmingham's Flavio Garcia, British computer scientist, cracked the security system by discovering the unique algorithm that allows the car (Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis — leaves me out) to verify the identity of the ignition key.
Is this meant to be a temporary injunction until these auto companies resolve their problem, which seems to be the right thing to do? However, if it isn't temporary and turns out to be kind of permanent because they think these companies will save a lot of money by not having to deal with the problem, then they're deluding themselves. Someone into stealing cars already knows or now knows a solution exists and will soon know the algorithm in one way or another.
It would be nice if the method used to find the solution was eventually made public. Then someone might be able to create a defense to variations on the discovery and prevent this from being applied to other vehicles; a breach that may already exist, if not now, perhaps at a later time?
Passengers on a manned flight at 1g acceleration/deceleration would experience it as only 6.2 years according to this.
AC's get no respect, especially when gamers can game their replies for mod points by trumping the original post about an an idea above your comment. If you're into moderation rep, then guessing the right comment to reply to is a gamble. Better luck next time.
A solid science story, and people are going off on tangents. First thing I though, yeah this is a brilliant plan: How long would you have to point an x-ray machine at someone before it would even cause radiation sickness? Several hours or something? Remember, all EM radiation falls off with the square of the distance, so if someone sits in a truck with an x-ray machine pointed at you from across a parking lot, it is losing a lot of potency. It would be much simpler to go stab the person with a broken bottle if you really don't like them that much.
Also, this thing is hardly going to be medical grade safety, so I give you 50/50 odds that the operator ends up dying of radiation poisoning before any of his 'victims'. Finally, you can generate EM radiation without nuclear material, but that would suck down quite a bit of power to create something as energetic as x-rays. This guy going to power that off his car's cigarette lighter ac adapter?
The unworkable ramifications of their idea you pointed out in your comment would mean they (hopefully you meant the possible morons, not the comment you replied to) hadn't thought it through. However, their technical backgrounds seem to indicate otherwise. From TFA:
... Crawford, an industrial mechanic for General Electric in Schenectady, knew Feight, an outside GE contractor with mechanical and engineering skills...
Although the qualifications aren't a guarantee against doing something stupid, my thinking was along the same lines as yours and that they would also be aware of the same problems. It's for those same reasons (which I didn't feel necessary to elaborate on and probably should have) that I'm inclined toward believing it's really a scam and should be handled by an organisation like the now defunct Bunco Squad that worked on stopping confidence games; the Brooklyn Bridge being one of the more historical/hysterical famous.
It would be interesting to see the plans or schematics --- if any.
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
Temporarily putting aside any discussion about cynicism or idealism and how one feels about the effectiveness of petitions, if you decide to sign into the preceding petition (and unconcerned about the negative aspects of possibly being added to a "watch list") you'll be given the ability to (/.ing it, in a sense) by resubmitting a formatted response in 3 different ways.
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Using the Patriot Act, the government has been secretly tracking the calls of millions of Americans. Yes, really. Act now.
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Mr. too-many-Ns: Smart people still need to eat. To put a roof over their heads. They may even hope to "get ahead" a bit, enjoy a life of reasonable comfort, and retire early with enough wealth to not end up a decrepit dependent of the state like most people.
Solving "important" problems doesn't accomplish those goals. Until you want to demonstrate the "importance" of your pet interests by paying me as much as industry does to work on inane, self-centric apps, GTFO.
That said - Come up with funding, and we can talk. Honestly, I believe virtually everyone would rather work on solving real problems than on building shoddy consumer crap to pad $CEO's bonus this quarter. But Einstein gots ta get paid, son.
Although I've met a few people in my time with Nnaemeka's somewhat strident self-righteous mindset, I'm only including this for accuracy's sake -- profiling isn't really my agenda.
About C.Z. Nnaemeka:
C.Z. Nnaemeka studied Philosophy at Wellesley; logically, she has spent most of her time in finance, beginning at Goldman Sachs. Born in Manhattan to Nigerian parents, she attended French schools, graduating from the Lycée Français de New York. Since then she has alternated between writing, banking, and consulting to startups in Europe, Latin America, and Australia. Previously, she lived in Paris where she founded a political discussion group and was a foreign affairs commentator for the conservative newspaper, Le Figaro. She graduated from MIT in 2010, focusing on Entrepreneurship + Innovation.
Assumptions, which may not even valid, spoken with good intentions meant for all, somehow exempts self appointed leaders from the criticism they speak about existing others.
You didn't search for it with Network Solutions did you?
You're right. However, there were some bothersome glitches worth mentioning that was the cause of my regrettable comment. After reading the published submission, I thought it would be interesting to see the whois.net record for the registrant accused by MSFT of being a squatter violating their trademark. On my way there, I got side-tracked and searched the availability of xboxwon.com (additionally xboxlost.com) at Godaddy. The resulting response page said "Congratulations, the xboxone.com was available for $12.99 a year" (including the less interesting xboxlost.com, done next). That's when I posted my first comment, before doing the other stuff already mentioned.
Being curious, I decided it would be interesting to recheck the availability of xboxwon again. As suspected, there wasn't any surprise it was no longer available; however, being already on auction, starting at 5 grand with no link to the whois record, seemed a little strange. That led to looking at the whois.net record which showed it being registered at GoDaddy without the usual details -- except to say more info could be found at GoDaddy by using an unanchored text link. The copy/paste link worked and after doing the capthca hoops it showed it had been registered a couple of days ago.
If I didn't make a mistake, which is always a possibility, hopefully it was a technical error; otherwise, it would mean the alternative, being a cynical paranoid thinking Registrars are into shady tactics.
Are they're looking for life on planets not warmed by a star?
Or just hoping to find an alien Moonbase Alpha?
From what I understand, the geothermal core is essential for our survival; without it, the heat derived from the Sun isn't capable of being able to appropriately compensate in recreating the conditions for our type of life forms. However, there is speculation those conditions may work for the reverse. (Otoh, an alien Moonbase or Death Star would be an interesting bonus.)
Meteorologists cannot predict the weather very well WITH the satellite in orbit. So now, all of a sudden, with no satellite, they are going to predict the weather even more poorly?
Perhaps they should invest in a weather rock instead.
What will they do? They might try to do what was done up until about 30 or so years ago before GOES. Presently, it appears to be just a lot more data with about the same time frame when it comes to predictability. (Would Katrina have been any different without its use?)
Then again, since IANAM[eterologist], the idea may be full of hot air.
No, its the pastel glop served at the restaurant during the restaurant in the 1985 Terry Gilliam film _Brazil_.
Will the cartridge's "glop" of powder and oils in its raw state have any digestible nutritional value? If not, until electrical power becomes ubiquitous and its corresponding failures guaranteed to be a thing of the distant past (it wasn't in Gilliam's Brazil) and one doesn't have access to a backup generator with a full tank, then it would be a good idea to keep some "real" food around, if it's still around. If it isn't, watching the neighbors might be necessary priority, especially if one doesn't have any "pets" to offer.
A fwiw comment about the original song: I knew it had come out decades ago, but was surprised to discover (after checking Wikipedia) it was Bowie's breakthrough and first commercial success, hitting the top 5 in the U.K. when it was released on July 11th, 1969 -- for myself, a date close enough to the Apollo 11's moon landing to making it interestingly appropriate.
The citizenry had to break into the armory to become armed, so it wasn't an armed citizenry.
Although the comment in the film didn't feel right when I heard it--due to being under the impression that just about every guy in Tennessee during the 1940's owned some type of firearm--I shrugged it off as having something to do with the story pointing out some of the guys in this situation were returning veterans from the second World War and perhaps were connected to the National Guard (which is usually--based on my own experience--a part of the mustering out process [at their time called the "Mustering-out Payment Act"]) .
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see the film from beginning to end and don't know the connection with the armory. For now, I'll have to assume, and shouldn't have any reason to think otherwise, the production company making the film either doesn't have an agenda to alter the story for political reasons or didn't fail somewhere in the back story to accurately elaborate that this was an additional way to back up their own fire power to insure a winning result. If that was the case, then I probably should concede you're correct. However, perhaps fudging on the definition in the original post's question on how the citizenry became armed, they did become armed and succeeded in stopping the rogue elements.
A couple questions: When in US history has the government been taken over by rogue elements? In these cases did an Armed Citizenry actually stop said rogue elements?
Find a so-called "angel investor". They'll want an equity share, which is good at this point: their pay is tied to their performance. They should come with business background, a big network, and hopefully a couple of battle scars.
Or... learn how to Kickstart your product? However, using it to "sell" a completed product makes it more of a project; marketing it might make it an issuue.
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After watching the demonstration in the YouTube video shown in the article, it definitely looks that way — the wobble gif technology was re-purposed; then declared as a promising new way to make 3D images. However, what would happen if a way could be devised to take (arbitrary values of) 100 depths per frame and run it at 24 fps? Is that the direction they're trying to go?
Although I didn't get the feeling from the article it was in their plans, most likely someone somewhere has consider the idea or a variation of it and determined if the extra effort would or wouldn't achieve something more than a cheesy gimmick.
What's next? Will the mountain side he owns in West Texas for the eternal clock being built by the Long Now Foundation also include a castle?
no article?
Here's an one about Kirobo, from the Guardian.
Someone didn't follow the link in the summery...
The Guardian link in my previous comment was posted a few minutes before there were any links in the summary. RedHackTea also posted a link before the summary was corrected, choosing wisely to pick an alternative resource. Much to my surprise (not), slashdotitors are able to update a summary after it's been made public — in turn, that correction changed the original meaning to both of our comments; in my case, negatively.
If the editors had linked to a third resource, such as The Indedendent (which I intentionally avoided due to the adverts), it would have turned out differently for my comment.
no article?
Here's an one about Kirobo, from the Guardian.
Why not spend the time you have teaching them some practical information they can use? How are they going to benefit from hearing someone's social agenda? Are the students there for your benefit, for you to use to advance your societal goals? Or are you there for their benefit, to help them learn things and improve their future lives?
My suggestion: skip these "society" lessons and use the time to teach them how to search text with regular expressions.
Are there any humanities or social science topics that aren't a useless liberal plot?
Not sure myself. Social and Political Studies were never considered a science. Although some of it is responsibly rigorous enough to give it the appearance of being science, it still falls into being observational best practices determined by a committee occasionally subject to group-think. The educational community made the change in the late nineteen sixties for personal gain. Unfortunately, although it probably was an unexpected side effect, by eliminating from the vocabulary studies and transferring the fields into a science, the definition of science has been diluted, confusing some people as to what it actually means and has allowed for personal agendas to increase the politicization of all science.
Although my preferences and priorities are deeply involved with all of the aspects of the sciences and its philosophy, I'm also aware of how the Sciences originated from the Humanities, its importance in life and how it can make life livable, even if it had failed to achieve science. However, subsidiary "relevancy" classes are a trap. It attracts laziness and is a time wasting distraction that's a disservice to the concrete skills the class should be learning (in an "Introduction to Computer Science"). If the student's societal awareness of technical subjects is that important to the educational institution, such as one focused on the original idea of Liberal Arts, then an interdepartmental arrangement with the syllabus seems more appropriate.
It probably shouldn't be called a liberal plot, but .... why did the definition get simplified? It was done so that people in these fields would be taken seriously by the government, getting the same respect science originally got when it came to public funding and getting a draft deferment to avoid visiting Vietnam. The local draft boards gave little leeway with exemption requests by students taking classes the board considered to be easier than the practical arts.
I'm still trying to decide which was the real motivator — lack of money or the fear of death.
Keeping in mind; temporarily banned. Synopsis from another article by the Guardian:
Is this meant to be a temporary injunction until these auto companies resolve their problem, which seems to be the right thing to do? However, if it isn't temporary and turns out to be kind of permanent because they think these companies will save a lot of money by not having to deal with the problem, then they're deluding themselves. Someone into stealing cars already knows or now knows a solution exists and will soon know the algorithm in one way or another.
It would be nice if the method used to find the solution was eventually made public. Then someone might be able to create a defense to variations on the discovery and prevent this from being applied to other vehicles; a breach that may already exist, if not now, perhaps at a later time?
"Whenever I cut someone, I call it fun." — Jack Ripper
I gave up during the third Ad. Maybe later.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
Is this really for the people, or is it designed to mostly be used to protect our glorious leaders from constructive criticism
Passengers on a manned flight at 1g acceleration/deceleration would experience it as only 6.2 years according to this.
AC's get no respect, especially when gamers can game their replies for mod points by trumping the original post about an an idea above your comment. If you're into moderation rep, then guessing the right comment to reply to is a gamble. Better luck next time.
A solid science story, and people are going off on tangents. First thing I though, yeah this is a brilliant plan: How long would you have to point an x-ray machine at someone before it would even cause radiation sickness? Several hours or something? Remember, all EM radiation falls off with the square of the distance, so if someone sits in a truck with an x-ray machine pointed at you from across a parking lot, it is losing a lot of potency. It would be much simpler to go stab the person with a broken bottle if you really don't like them that much.
Also, this thing is hardly going to be medical grade safety, so I give you 50/50 odds that the operator ends up dying of radiation poisoning before any of his 'victims'. Finally, you can generate EM radiation without nuclear material, but that would suck down quite a bit of power to create something as energetic as x-rays. This guy going to power that off his car's cigarette lighter ac adapter?
The unworkable ramifications of their idea you pointed out in your comment would mean they (hopefully you meant the possible morons, not the comment you replied to) hadn't thought it through. However, their technical backgrounds seem to indicate otherwise. From TFA:
Although the qualifications aren't a guarantee against doing something stupid, my thinking was along the same lines as yours and that they would also be aware of the same problems. It's for those same reasons (which I didn't feel necessary to elaborate on and probably should have) that I'm inclined toward believing it's really a scam and should be handled by an organisation like the now defunct Bunco Squad that worked on stopping confidence games; the Brooklyn Bridge being one of the more historical/hysterical famous.
It would be interesting to see the plans or schematics --- if any.
... I can see right thru it.
It reads more like a modern day version of someone trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge. However, IANAR[aygun engineer].
....from last paragraph:
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
Temporarily putting aside any discussion about cynicism or idealism and how one feels about the effectiveness of petitions, if you decide to sign into the preceding petition (and unconcerned about the negative aspects of possibly being added to a "watch list") you'll be given the ability to (/.ing it, in a sense) by resubmitting a formatted response in 3 different ways.
Via Twitter:
Facebook:
and your Email:
Mr. too-many-Ns: Smart people still need to eat. To put a roof over their heads. They may even hope to "get ahead" a bit, enjoy a life of reasonable comfort, and retire early with enough wealth to not end up a decrepit dependent of the state like most people. Solving "important" problems doesn't accomplish those goals. Until you want to demonstrate the "importance" of your pet interests by paying me as much as industry does to work on inane, self-centric apps, GTFO. That said - Come up with funding, and we can talk. Honestly, I believe virtually everyone would rather work on solving real problems than on building shoddy consumer crap to pad $CEO's bonus this quarter. But Einstein gots ta get paid, son.
Although I've met a few people in my time with Nnaemeka's somewhat strident self-righteous mindset, I'm only including this for accuracy's sake -- profiling isn't really my agenda.
About C.Z. Nnaemeka:
Assumptions, which may not even valid, spoken with good intentions meant for all, somehow exempts self appointed leaders from the criticism they speak about existing others.
You didn't search for it with Network Solutions did you?
You're right. However, there were some bothersome glitches worth mentioning that was the cause of my regrettable comment. After reading the published submission, I thought it would be interesting to see the whois.net record for the registrant accused by MSFT of being a squatter violating their trademark. On my way there, I got side-tracked and searched the availability of xboxwon.com (additionally xboxlost.com) at Godaddy. The resulting response page said "Congratulations, the xboxone.com was available for $12.99 a year" (including the less interesting xboxlost.com, done next). That's when I posted my first comment, before doing the other stuff already mentioned.
Being curious, I decided it would be interesting to recheck the availability of xboxwon again. As suspected, there wasn't any surprise it was no longer available; however, being already on auction, starting at 5 grand with no link to the whois record, seemed a little strange. That led to looking at the whois.net record which showed it being registered at GoDaddy without the usual details -- except to say more info could be found at GoDaddy by using an unanchored text link. The copy/paste link worked and after doing the capthca hoops it showed it had been registered a couple of days ago.
If I didn't make a mistake, which is always a possibility, hopefully it was a technical error; otherwise, it would mean the alternative, being a cynical paranoid thinking Registrars are into shady tactics.
They's better change that ridiculous name instead.
And strangely, nobody has yet to register the xboxwon.com domain -- their advertising's double entendre for the XBox One.
Nevermind. It's gone.
They's better change that ridiculous name instead.
And strangely, nobody has yet to register the xboxwon.com domain -- their advertising's double entendre for the XBox One.
Are they're looking for life on planets not warmed by a star? Or just hoping to find an alien Moonbase Alpha?
From what I understand, the geothermal core is essential for our survival; without it, the heat derived from the Sun isn't capable of being able to appropriately compensate in recreating the conditions for our type of life forms. However, there is speculation those conditions may work for the reverse. (Otoh, an alien Moonbase or Death Star would be an interesting bonus.)
Meteorologists cannot predict the weather very well WITH the satellite in orbit. So now, all of a sudden, with no satellite, they are going to predict the weather even more poorly?
Perhaps they should invest in a weather rock instead.
What will they do? They might try to do what was done up until about 30 or so years ago before GOES. Presently, it appears to be just a lot more data with about the same time frame when it comes to predictability. (Would Katrina have been any different without its use?)
Then again, since IANAM[eterologist], the idea may be full of hot air.
No, its the pastel glop served at the restaurant during the restaurant in the 1985 Terry Gilliam film _Brazil_.
Will the cartridge's "glop" of powder and oils in its raw state have any digestible nutritional value? If not, until electrical power becomes ubiquitous and its corresponding failures guaranteed to be a thing of the distant past (it wasn't in Gilliam's Brazil) and one doesn't have access to a backup generator with a full tank, then it would be a good idea to keep some "real" food around, if it's still around. If it isn't, watching the neighbors might be necessary priority, especially if one doesn't have any "pets" to offer.
That seems like such a weird song to sing up there sitting in a tin can.
Bowie sorta updated the matter on Scary Monsters anyway.
ashes to ashes funk to funky we know major tom's a junky strung out on heaven's high hitting an all time low
A fwiw comment about the original song: I knew it had come out decades ago, but was surprised to discover (after checking Wikipedia) it was Bowie's breakthrough and first commercial success, hitting the top 5 in the U.K. when it was released on July 11th, 1969 -- for myself, a date close enough to the Apollo 11's moon landing to making it interestingly appropriate.
The citizenry had to break into the armory to become armed, so it wasn't an armed citizenry.
Although the comment in the film didn't feel right when I heard it--due to being under the impression that just about every guy in Tennessee during the 1940's owned some type of firearm--I shrugged it off as having something to do with the story pointing out some of the guys in this situation were returning veterans from the second World War and perhaps were connected to the National Guard (which is usually--based on my own experience--a part of the mustering out process [at their time called the "Mustering-out Payment Act"]) .
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see the film from beginning to end and don't know the connection with the armory. For now, I'll have to assume, and shouldn't have any reason to think otherwise, the production company making the film either doesn't have an agenda to alter the story for political reasons or didn't fail somewhere in the back story to accurately elaborate that this was an additional way to back up their own fire power to insure a winning result. If that was the case, then I probably should concede you're correct. However, perhaps fudging on the definition in the original post's question on how the citizenry became armed, they did become armed and succeeded in stopping the rogue elements.
A couple questions: When in US history has the government been taken over by rogue elements? In these cases did an Armed Citizenry actually stop said rogue elements?
The Battle of Athens (10:01)
Matewan: The Problem (5:40)
Matewan: The Setup (3:40)
Matewan: The Shootout (6:40)
Give the problem to Google, Microsoft and Mozilla--the constant one-upmanship in this recreation could turn out to be interesting.
Find a so-called "angel investor". They'll want an equity share, which is good at this point: their pay is tied to their performance. They should come with business background, a big network, and hopefully a couple of battle scars.
Or ... learn how to Kickstart your product? However, using it to "sell" a completed product makes it more of a project; marketing it might make it an issuue.