WTF are you on about? Not everyone on the planet is psychotic warmonger!
No they are not. But that does not mean you let them be the only one in control of important infrastructure. Its not like the US wouldn't do the same. Turning selective availability back on is not really a act of war... but rather a powerful negotiation tool if such a extreme situation comes up. With all the doom gloom and war that everyone here on/. predicts will result from AGW, then i think its prudent to have a backup.
Current mining operations on earth are already using highly automated earth moving machines. ie ones that have no driver and no tele operation for most of there operational envelope. There is little need to insist on tele operation on the moon for 99% of the work and operations.
When this happens it will probably be when we have fusion of some sort (there has always been steady gains, we don't need a break through), which solves the 15 day nights on the moon and gives much higher energy density. Solar is overrated.
We will colonize space when the economics of it no longer matter, or matter so little that its 100% tourism.
There are a lot of materials already in space, why do we need to bring them all from earth?
When we get DD fusion working, there is enough energy in the worlds water to produce more output than the earth receives from the sun for 10000 years. ie you could get serious warming from the waste heat. There will be plenty of energy to move a few billion people around. Then there is all this water ice throughout the solar system.....
A hogel is different from a voxel in that it contains information that is specific to displaying it in a hologram. In particular diffraction patterns that holograms are composed of. This eases the computational burden of working out the diffraction fringe pattern you need in order to display it.
Mainstream games that have a linux port, i buy. I don't even need the port to be supported, i'm a linux user, we can do the support thing in a forum or on our own most of the time. It is however a pretty small list of games that do this. Pity really, i just don't boot to windows anymore, and hence don't play many games.
You should try at least Frozen Synapse. Its a great game really. Wish i thought of it. But yea its a time hole, played for 4 hours strait in the weekend. The last time i did that was when q3 came out.
The only way to get them to stop taking money from my Credit Card was to cancel it. No matter what proof i presented that the money should never have been deducted.
My daughter loves iPads and iPhones or anything i, yet does not know who he is. Same with all her friends. In fact the same with a lot of people. They like the products and have no idea about the company.
You know what my daughter said when told about Steve Jobs death? "Who is Steve Jobs?". Lets face reality, there was a few segments here and there about "wow this guy died and he invented technology man"*, admittedly by the odd "famous" person. But most people don't know and don't care who he was or what he did./. is not really a typical slice of the general public in this regard.
Now if Justin Bieber gets run over by a concrete mixer, you bet your ass you the media will get "WAY WAY WAY" out of hand.
The nice thing about the media is that it is opt in. You don't have to watch/read crap.
* sure the is a lot of buzz on tech based web sites etc, but that is hardly mainstream.
That would be awful. First you are not as smart as you think you are. Secondly we have different skill sets. I am in science, and by god/. is just as ignorant about science as the other 99% of the web. Sure/. collectively thinks they are smarter, but it just not true. So do these people get kicked because they don't know science. What what about IT? What about communications etc... Then we need to start with Star Trek trivia (which i would totally fail) or Firefly... in short no one should pass.
There is nothing wrong with people from different "non geek" backgrounds joining the discussion.
Of course you may be making some, "hand in your geek card" joke that I missed.
The statement "You should learn how light and optics work before you post about the topic." Is clearly trolling. Its a personal attack that has *nothing* to do with his/her point or the topic at hand. Also its overly pedantic. It would not be so hard to set it up so its not out of focus or too dark. Esp considering that this will most likely be like a web cam with a short focal length with the focus set to infinity. If GP knows their optics they would also know this.
In NZ there was/is a law preventing just that, we even applied for a exemption since the accelerator was getting decommissioned in just a few years anyway. It was denied. You can BS all you like. It was the law. Oh you do realize there is more than one country in the world right... with different laws and use the metric system, as in 3 metric tons.
And if you in fact checked why, it has nothing to do with the ozone layer hole. It has to do with the fact that we have about the same latitude as Spain, and are 1000 miles away from anywhere so there is a *lot* less particulate matter (dust) and other aerosols to scatter things. I assure you there is plenty of other places where an hour outside gets you a really bad sunburn. I have personally seen it in southern and Central France, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Japan hell even Austria.
Also Sunburn is not a measure of UV. If you look at actual UV data, NZ and Aussie do not look any different to other places with similar Meteorology/Climatology.
By the way the Universities in NZ have quite (or at lest had when i was) big group working on this with yearly trips to Antarctica to study it. I have seen the data but missed out on a trip:/
Well we have band CFCs. But the way they where band had nothing to do with the environment and more to do will felling "green". Take the small particle accelerator at my old physics institute. It used 3 tons of CFC for cooling. By law they had to no longer use this 3 tons. So we asked what do we do with these 3 tons of CFCs? "Just release it into the atmosphere" we were told. In the end that was what was done since nothing else was legal.
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WTF are you on about? Not everyone on the planet is psychotic warmonger!
No they are not. But that does not mean you let them be the only one in control of important infrastructure. Its not like the US wouldn't do the same. Turning selective availability back on is not really a act of war... but rather a powerful negotiation tool if such a extreme situation comes up. With all the doom gloom and war that everyone here on /. predicts will result from AGW, then i think its prudent to have a backup.
Allies in one war are often enemies in the next.
Current mining operations on earth are already using highly automated earth moving machines. ie ones that have no driver and no tele operation for most of there operational envelope. There is little need to insist on tele operation on the moon for 99% of the work and operations.
When this happens it will probably be when we have fusion of some sort (there has always been steady gains, we don't need a break through), which solves the 15 day nights on the moon and gives much higher energy density. Solar is overrated.
We will colonize space when the economics of it no longer matter, or matter so little that its 100% tourism.
There are a lot of materials already in space, why do we need to bring them all from earth?
When we get DD fusion working, there is enough energy in the worlds water to produce more output than the earth receives from the sun for 10000 years. ie you could get serious warming from the waste heat. There will be plenty of energy to move a few billion people around. Then there is all this water ice throughout the solar system.....
Kids know the difference between real and make believe...
There are a few studies that disagree with you on that. Kids as old as 8 and even 10 have problems separating real and imagined events.
A hogel is different from a voxel in that it contains information that is specific to displaying it in a hologram. In particular diffraction patterns that holograms are composed of. This eases the computational burden of working out the diffraction fringe pattern you need in order to display it.
This is because its not 3d. Its stereo for eyes and all that it implies.
I don't go to movies that are in 3d anymore. I wait for the DVD/BluRay.
Yea i was thinking Frozen Synapse would be a great pure 2D game. With just a little more tactical info. I ignore the story.
Mainstream games that have a linux port, i buy. I don't even need the port to be supported, i'm a linux user, we can do the support thing in a forum or on our own most of the time. It is however a pretty small list of games that do this. Pity really, i just don't boot to windows anymore, and hence don't play many games.
You should try at least Frozen Synapse. Its a great game really. Wish i thought of it. But yea its a time hole, played for 4 hours strait in the weekend. The last time i did that was when q3 came out.
The only way to get them to stop taking money from my Credit Card was to cancel it. No matter what proof i presented that the money should never have been deducted.
She has one and an iPhone, as do a lot of her friends. Not one of them knew who he was.
My daughter loves iPads and iPhones or anything i, yet does not know who he is. Same with all her friends. In fact the same with a lot of people. They like the products and have no idea about the company.
You know what my daughter said when told about Steve Jobs death? "Who is Steve Jobs?". Lets face reality, there was a few segments here and there about "wow this guy died and he invented technology man"*, admittedly by the odd "famous" person. But most people don't know and don't care who he was or what he did. /. is not really a typical slice of the general public in this regard.
Now if Justin Bieber gets run over by a concrete mixer, you bet your ass you the media will get "WAY WAY WAY" out of hand.
The nice thing about the media is that it is opt in. You don't have to watch/read crap.
* sure the is a lot of buzz on tech based web sites etc, but that is hardly mainstream.
You should reply to say *why* it is wrong... Or more accurately why *you* think its wrong.
That would be awful. First you are not as smart as you think you are. Secondly we have different skill sets. I am in science, and by god /. is just as ignorant about science as the other 99% of the web. Sure /. collectively thinks they are smarter, but it just not true. So do these people get kicked because they don't know science. What what about IT? What about communications etc... Then we need to start with Star Trek trivia (which i would totally fail) or Firefly... in short no one should pass.
There is nothing wrong with people from different "non geek" backgrounds joining the discussion.
Of course you may be making some, "hand in your geek card" joke that I missed.
Browse at -1. I do, its a totally different /.
Nickel is in fact quite rare. It is more rare than copper and costs more too.
I don't see how this is flamebait..
The statement "You should learn how light and optics work before you post about the topic." Is clearly trolling. Its a personal attack that has *nothing* to do with his/her point or the topic at hand. Also its overly pedantic. It would not be so hard to set it up so its not out of focus or too dark. Esp considering that this will most likely be like a web cam with a short focal length with the focus set to infinity. If GP knows their optics they would also know this.
Also this post is OT.
In NZ there was/is a law preventing just that, we even applied for a exemption since the accelerator was getting decommissioned in just a few years anyway. It was denied. You can BS all you like. It was the law. Oh you do realize there is more than one country in the world right... with different laws and use the metric system, as in 3 metric tons.
It was the law. NZ law. We could not sell, give it away or otherwise.
Yea, But CFCs is the best band in the world...
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And if you in fact checked why, it has nothing to do with the ozone layer hole. It has to do with the fact that we have about the same latitude as Spain, and are 1000 miles away from anywhere so there is a *lot* less particulate matter (dust) and other aerosols to scatter things. I assure you there is plenty of other places where an hour outside gets you a really bad sunburn. I have personally seen it in southern and Central France, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Japan hell even Austria.
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Also Sunburn is not a measure of UV. If you look at actual UV data, NZ and Aussie do not look any different to other places with similar Meteorology/Climatology.
By the way the Universities in NZ have quite (or at lest had when i was) big group working on this with yearly trips to Antarctica to study it. I have seen the data but missed out on a trip
The Ozone hole has never got close to NZ or Australia. In fact it has never been within a 1000 miles.
Well we have band CFCs. But the way they where band had nothing to do with the environment and more to do will felling "green". Take the small particle accelerator at my old physics institute. It used 3 tons of CFC for cooling. By law they had to no longer use this 3 tons. So we asked what do we do with these 3 tons of CFCs? "Just release it into the atmosphere" we were told. In the end that was what was done since nothing else was legal.
A political party that is so inept that they call themselves the Pirate party is not going to make a lick of difference.