'AnonymousIRC' Twitter handle that it has 1GB of material from NATO but said that most would not be published because it would be 'irresponsible.'"
I often wonder if the real reason they don't post these documents is that they are simply not interesting. Lulzsec and Anonymous are both quick to say that they've hacked into servers, and as they've shown, they've been very good at exploiting holes. However, they seem to be finding holes into low level information, and the "scandal" they find is generally nothing more than mundane information. Do you recall Chinga La Migra? They released tons of personal emails against the Arizona police department, and the only thing that these emails showed is that they were a pretty normal operation, including the fact that this department, too, hires idiots who like to send chain mail through email. So in the end, they found a few gigs of unprotected email, bragged about it, and never bothered to realize that this wonderful treasure trove of information was essentially trash. At best, they created harassment for the officers who, as far as the documents show, weren't involved in anything illegal. The most damaging release of information so far has been usernames and passwords of a porn site, which only exposed the dangers of having the same log in and password information for multiple sites.
To be fair, NPR did post the breakdown of this cost and explanation in the article, near the top. It's also a quote from Steven Anderson, who is "a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. David Patreaus' chief logistician in Iraq." I would argue that man knows what he's talking about, and more importantly, it's his words, not NPR's.
That's one purpose of a window. Thanks to modern building techniques, we have the option to create much larger openings in the facade, and thus you get your typical glass and steel skyscraper. Ever notice that they all have a reflective, metallic tint to them? This is to keep much of the light out, because in a large office building, your interior temperature suffers heavily from the amount of light let in. You also have an issue with glare, which tinting can help with as well.
If your solar system reduces the amount of solar gain and the amount of light into the building while still allowing some light/vision/heat in, you can forgo the window tinting, and make the windows even more useful.
Before damning this idea, let's look at the other side. STEM majors will make much more money during their career than a liberal arts major likely will. That way, spending a little more on an education is a better return on investment. This also allows students (hopefully) to see a direct return on their investment in the quality of their education. If you are expected to pay more for your major, hopefully, this will be reflected in the facilities and instructors offered. On the flip side, it could also bring in more people who were turned off by high prices for majors that will not result in high paying jobs. I'm currently working on funding for a masters in architecture, a job that pays less than, say, engineering, and costs just as much tuition wise. Allowing variable rates lets them maximize their profit while allowing students the opportunity to pursue whatever major they choose.
This is, however, highly dependent on the rates chosen and how the money is ultimately spent. As always, if your product costs more than it's worth, then you'll end up losing buyers.
Exactly! This is a common problem with anything from Inhabitat. They repost content without any details backing up claims such as "X is 10 times stronger than Y, this is a huge breakthrough!" Beyond this, the facts they post are often out of context, and occasionally flat out wrong (view most anything they post about space). I do admit that sometimes the articles they link to have the same levels of actual content, but why should we post a blog that's never anything more than a poor repost of another blog?
This pains me to say as I used to be a big fan of Inhabitat when they first started. I even won a contest of theirs years back. As it stands, though, their content has no purpose here on slashdot.
Not quite. I should preface this by saying it's been many years since I've talked with this particular person, but when I was in high school, a friend of mine joined the military in a Psy Ops role. His training had him driving around in a hummer with speakers in the back, with the intention of blasting whatever sort of psychologically damaging message out on the battlefield. Apparently, one of their most common sound tracks was the sound of a baby crying. According to my friend, this was supposed to be a very difficult sound for people to hear over long periods of time, and would be used to stress out and demoralize the troops. My guess is that, in this case, they are using other methods of persuasion that are less blatant, but still designed to be exceptionally persuasive. I wouldn't imagine, however, that this is anything further than what a normal lobbyist could do.
Actually, singles sales are way up, given that people can now buy the songs they want off albums instead of having to buy the entire album. From this article (first one i could find):
Album sales have dropped for four of the last five years, and while sales of digital singles are booming, that has not yet been enough to offset the drop. Music companies sold more than 350 million singles last year, a jump of 150 percent over the previous year's total.
I'd also argue that inception was impressive because several of the special effects rely on physical techniques. The spinning hallway really was spinning during filming, which might not seem that important, but it means that we have a real system in place for rules. Gravity is never lost during that shot, which often happens in pure CG special effects. everyone's movements happen as naturally as we'd expect them to in that situation. When you replace with CG, you're likely to forget to add small details that the audience will notice consciously or subconsciously, breaking the experience.
The reason why the origin of the star is so important is that it came with a planet. This means that we are not the only galaxy to contain planets. This isn't that surprising, but now we have at least one example to prove we're not just a strange one-off galaxy. So yes, it's a part of our galaxy now, and aside from it's odd orbit, it's a pretty standard star. However, its taught us we're not special, which is a very good thing.
You might want to try something like the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series. It's not a perfect world that people live in, but i wouldn't consider it your standard dystopian future.
The obvious answer is testing. Calculators were easier to check for cheating, and had a somewhat singular purpose. the TI-programming ability pushed this a bit, but even then, it wasn't hard to limit what it could be used for.
The long answer is that I had (still have) a TI-83 that fell out of my locker every day from 6th grade until 12th grade, and it never broke. It was built like a tank. It fit in my pocket, it never had a dead battery that couldn't be replaced for cheap, it never needed any cords. I think the price is obscene these days, but honestly, it's lasted so long that the cost per day of use is around 1 penny. That thing was quality.
Flaw in your easy solution-
1. set up massive fines for post-fire payment
2. set up fires at houses where people haven't pre-paid the service
3. profit
You've given one example, which is a building by Frank Gehry. He's an architect who made his millions by converting software made to develop jet fighters into "architecture". Is it any wonder his buildings attack people?
I am a practicing architect, so please, let me fill you in. Architects take classes on sun angles and reflected light. Understanding how to make use of and control natural sunlight is a major part of modern architecture. I counter your example with a modern building designed by Steven Holl (a much more impressive architect IMHO). If you note on one of the diagrams, the building has been designed to strategicly filter light into different areas of the school based on certain landmark days. No death rays here.
You'll be waiting for a very long time for a Linux client. There will never be a native client until Linux's market share on home boxes reaches a level comparable with either the mac or windows OS. It's simple economics and the reason why, until now, that apple's gaming scene has been anemic. No point in spending money if you won't make it back.
Well, if we want to get into this, the trilogy was released as a book. From what I hear, that's the only format that's been able to faithfully capture the story so far.
I should have added that it's up to the writer/director to choose what's appropriate for the story. What I'm trying to say is that the bad artist blames his medium, because if the medium doesn't work for their work, then they chose the wrong medium.
On a side note, I would like to point out that the lord of the rings has been put out in a film form that was (at least according to IMDB) well recieved. It just took a few films.
Feature film is too limiting of a medium? For the love of god... that's a baseless statement. A feature film is a format. It's usually between 90 and 150 minutes. Even then, they don't have to be. There are films that take far less than 90 minutes, and others that take much longer. It's up to the writer and the director to figure out how to use those minutes wisely. You could argue that the film industry is too restrictive, and I would agree that many major companies aren't willing to take the risks required to allow for freedom. However, this is a problem in television (HBO included) as well.
They're able to drop crossing guards on railroad tracks and tollbooths
They wouldn't do this on roads because it would slow traffic at stops down significantly. You don't think the few extra seconds would cause much of an issue, but it'd add up to days lost sitting at traffic stops waiting for the arm to raise. You could raise the arm while the other side has a yellow to avoid this, but then you'd have people jumping the gun going under the arm as soon as it's out of their way. The biggest issues remains - people think they are faster than red lights _and_ trains. The arms don't stop people from trying to beat trains, and as we all know, not everyone who tries wins.
here's some good talk out there about adding a breath test to the steering columns of every vehicle, but how about in-car interference of the cellphone frequency?
I have no issue against the breath test, aside from it being iffy (if you've ever used a private breathalyzer, you'll know). But should passengers in your car be stopped from talking on phones, texting, or using the internet on their phones? It's not an easy problem to solve. I'm not even sure how they can prove you were texting while driving without direct visual evidence. How can they prove that it wasn't your passenger using your phone?
Yes, let's call a spade a spade. China, one of the worst human rights violators on Earth, if not the worst, is our enemy. Just because we trade with them does not make them our friend, nor our frienemy.
In terms of human rights violations, are we that much better when we fund the horrible working conditions to get our electronics at a cheap price?
And mods - with all the wonderful, colorful buzzwords up there, how has the parent avoided a troll modifier?
I rarely, if ever, get eye strain reading text on a Mac or iPod but chunky Windows fonts will do it to me
you have the Reality Distortion Field (TM) increased to the proper levels then. This feature, admittedly, is broken on all Windows machines, but hey, some see this as a feature.
This is just the next line of food additives that attempt to make food into something that it's not. Nothing new here really. We've had diet food before, we'll have more of it in the future. The taste might actually improve too. Some might be a welcome addition (the alteration to milk has made skim milk taste creamier, which is nice) or there might be missteps (think olestra). Why don't we focus on improving our diets so that they actually include healthy foods? There's a lot of food out there that's healthy for us that doesn't taste like cardboard.
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'AnonymousIRC' Twitter handle that it has 1GB of material from NATO but said that most would not be published because it would be 'irresponsible.'"
I often wonder if the real reason they don't post these documents is that they are simply not interesting. Lulzsec and Anonymous are both quick to say that they've hacked into servers, and as they've shown, they've been very good at exploiting holes. However, they seem to be finding holes into low level information, and the "scandal" they find is generally nothing more than mundane information. Do you recall Chinga La Migra? They released tons of personal emails against the Arizona police department, and the only thing that these emails showed is that they were a pretty normal operation, including the fact that this department, too, hires idiots who like to send chain mail through email. So in the end, they found a few gigs of unprotected email, bragged about it, and never bothered to realize that this wonderful treasure trove of information was essentially trash. At best, they created harassment for the officers who, as far as the documents show, weren't involved in anything illegal. The most damaging release of information so far has been usernames and passwords of a porn site, which only exposed the dangers of having the same log in and password information for multiple sites.
To be fair, NPR did post the breakdown of this cost and explanation in the article, near the top. It's also a quote from Steven Anderson, who is "a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. David Patreaus' chief logistician in Iraq." I would argue that man knows what he's talking about, and more importantly, it's his words, not NPR's.
That's one purpose of a window. Thanks to modern building techniques, we have the option to create much larger openings in the facade, and thus you get your typical glass and steel skyscraper. Ever notice that they all have a reflective, metallic tint to them? This is to keep much of the light out, because in a large office building, your interior temperature suffers heavily from the amount of light let in. You also have an issue with glare, which tinting can help with as well. If your solar system reduces the amount of solar gain and the amount of light into the building while still allowing some light/vision/heat in, you can forgo the window tinting, and make the windows even more useful.
Why restrict this to office buildings?
Surface area. Most (if not all) homes lack the sq.ft. of glazing required to make a transparent PV array viable.
Before damning this idea, let's look at the other side. STEM majors will make much more money during their career than a liberal arts major likely will. That way, spending a little more on an education is a better return on investment. This also allows students (hopefully) to see a direct return on their investment in the quality of their education. If you are expected to pay more for your major, hopefully, this will be reflected in the facilities and instructors offered. On the flip side, it could also bring in more people who were turned off by high prices for majors that will not result in high paying jobs. I'm currently working on funding for a masters in architecture, a job that pays less than, say, engineering, and costs just as much tuition wise. Allowing variable rates lets them maximize their profit while allowing students the opportunity to pursue whatever major they choose.
This is, however, highly dependent on the rates chosen and how the money is ultimately spent. As always, if your product costs more than it's worth, then you'll end up losing buyers.
Exactly! This is a common problem with anything from Inhabitat. They repost content without any details backing up claims such as "X is 10 times stronger than Y, this is a huge breakthrough!" Beyond this, the facts they post are often out of context, and occasionally flat out wrong (view most anything they post about space). I do admit that sometimes the articles they link to have the same levels of actual content, but why should we post a blog that's never anything more than a poor repost of another blog?
This pains me to say as I used to be a big fan of Inhabitat when they first started. I even won a contest of theirs years back. As it stands, though, their content has no purpose here on slashdot.
Not quite. I should preface this by saying it's been many years since I've talked with this particular person, but when I was in high school, a friend of mine joined the military in a Psy Ops role. His training had him driving around in a hummer with speakers in the back, with the intention of blasting whatever sort of psychologically damaging message out on the battlefield. Apparently, one of their most common sound tracks was the sound of a baby crying. According to my friend, this was supposed to be a very difficult sound for people to hear over long periods of time, and would be used to stress out and demoralize the troops. My guess is that, in this case, they are using other methods of persuasion that are less blatant, but still designed to be exceptionally persuasive. I wouldn't imagine, however, that this is anything further than what a normal lobbyist could do.
TL:DR version: Less psychic, more psychology.
how long did this take to show a difference? I'm interested, just not sure it's worth the time and effort
Album sales have dropped for four of the last five years, and while sales of digital singles are booming, that has not yet been enough to offset the drop. Music companies sold more than 350 million singles last year, a jump of 150 percent over the previous year's total.
I'd also argue that inception was impressive because several of the special effects rely on physical techniques. The spinning hallway really was spinning during filming, which might not seem that important, but it means that we have a real system in place for rules. Gravity is never lost during that shot, which often happens in pure CG special effects. everyone's movements happen as naturally as we'd expect them to in that situation. When you replace with CG, you're likely to forget to add small details that the audience will notice consciously or subconsciously, breaking the experience.
The reason why the origin of the star is so important is that it came with a planet. This means that we are not the only galaxy to contain planets. This isn't that surprising, but now we have at least one example to prove we're not just a strange one-off galaxy. So yes, it's a part of our galaxy now, and aside from it's odd orbit, it's a pretty standard star. However, its taught us we're not special, which is a very good thing.
You might want to try something like the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series. It's not a perfect world that people live in, but i wouldn't consider it your standard dystopian future.
The obvious answer is testing. Calculators were easier to check for cheating, and had a somewhat singular purpose. the TI-programming ability pushed this a bit, but even then, it wasn't hard to limit what it could be used for.
The long answer is that I had (still have) a TI-83 that fell out of my locker every day from 6th grade until 12th grade, and it never broke. It was built like a tank. It fit in my pocket, it never had a dead battery that couldn't be replaced for cheap, it never needed any cords. I think the price is obscene these days, but honestly, it's lasted so long that the cost per day of use is around 1 penny. That thing was quality.
Flaw in your easy solution- 1. set up massive fines for post-fire payment 2. set up fires at houses where people haven't pre-paid the service 3. profit
You've given one example, which is a building by Frank Gehry. He's an architect who made his millions by converting software made to develop jet fighters into "architecture". Is it any wonder his buildings attack people?
I am a practicing architect, so please, let me fill you in. Architects take classes on sun angles and reflected light. Understanding how to make use of and control natural sunlight is a major part of modern architecture. I counter your example with a modern building designed by Steven Holl (a much more impressive architect IMHO). If you note on one of the diagrams, the building has been designed to strategicly filter light into different areas of the school based on certain landmark days. No death rays here.
You'll be waiting for a very long time for a Linux client. There will never be a native client until Linux's market share on home boxes reaches a level comparable with either the mac or windows OS. It's simple economics and the reason why, until now, that apple's gaming scene has been anemic. No point in spending money if you won't make it back.
Well, if we want to get into this, the trilogy was released as a book. From what I hear, that's the only format that's been able to faithfully capture the story so far.
I should have added that it's up to the writer/director to choose what's appropriate for the story. What I'm trying to say is that the bad artist blames his medium, because if the medium doesn't work for their work, then they chose the wrong medium.
On a side note, I would like to point out that the lord of the rings has been put out in a film form that was (at least according to IMDB) well recieved. It just took a few films.
And how many cinemas are going to show films that fall outside of the typical lengths?
Do you really have to ask?
And the limitations on length mean that too many writers for features lazily fall back on formulaic story structures.
Until you provide examples, I have no way to refute this. But I would love to, so please indulge me.
They are showing things that would never have been approved as cinematic releases.
Please indulge me on this. I highly doubt HBO has come close to the limits of what has been shown on screen.
Feature film is too limiting of a medium? For the love of god... that's a baseless statement. A feature film is a format. It's usually between 90 and 150 minutes. Even then, they don't have to be. There are films that take far less than 90 minutes, and others that take much longer. It's up to the writer and the director to figure out how to use those minutes wisely. You could argue that the film industry is too restrictive, and I would agree that many major companies aren't willing to take the risks required to allow for freedom. However, this is a problem in television (HBO included) as well.
So many reasons, where to begin...
They're able to drop crossing guards on railroad tracks and tollbooths
They wouldn't do this on roads because it would slow traffic at stops down significantly. You don't think the few extra seconds would cause much of an issue, but it'd add up to days lost sitting at traffic stops waiting for the arm to raise. You could raise the arm while the other side has a yellow to avoid this, but then you'd have people jumping the gun going under the arm as soon as it's out of their way. The biggest issues remains - people think they are faster than red lights _and_ trains. The arms don't stop people from trying to beat trains, and as we all know, not everyone who tries wins.
here's some good talk out there about adding a breath test to the steering columns of every vehicle, but how about in-car interference of the cellphone frequency?
I have no issue against the breath test, aside from it being iffy (if you've ever used a private breathalyzer, you'll know). But should passengers in your car be stopped from talking on phones, texting, or using the internet on their phones? It's not an easy problem to solve. I'm not even sure how they can prove you were texting while driving without direct visual evidence. How can they prove that it wasn't your passenger using your phone?
Yes, let's call a spade a spade. China, one of the worst human rights violators on Earth, if not the worst, is our enemy. Just because we trade with them does not make them our friend, nor our frienemy.
In terms of human rights violations, are we that much better when we fund the horrible working conditions to get our electronics at a cheap price?
And mods - with all the wonderful, colorful buzzwords up there, how has the parent avoided a troll modifier?
I rarely, if ever, get eye strain reading text on a Mac or iPod but chunky Windows fonts will do it to me
you have the Reality Distortion Field (TM) increased to the proper levels then. This feature, admittedly, is broken on all Windows machines, but hey, some see this as a feature.
I fail to see how this is an issue
This is just the next line of food additives that attempt to make food into something that it's not. Nothing new here really. We've had diet food before, we'll have more of it in the future. The taste might actually improve too. Some might be a welcome addition (the alteration to milk has made skim milk taste creamier, which is nice) or there might be missteps (think olestra). Why don't we focus on improving our diets so that they actually include healthy foods? There's a lot of food out there that's healthy for us that doesn't taste like cardboard.