Smoke does work very well for that. Common in sci-fi is a type of smoke grenade to specifically mess with lasers, but that might not be totally fictional anymore. One of the old things I saw listed on a Darpa list of tech they were wanting to look into was something like that. It was a long time ago, so maybe somebody has already created one that works better than the usual smoke grenade when it comes to blocking lasers.
Black increases it's absorption, and thus heats up, which isn't good for the human underneath. Also, much like a diamond, RCC is a rather special material, it's not just a layer of carbonized material.
We do have several ablative materials that have been tested for use against lasers, but I don't have any details on those. However, the better armors and their inserts can alread protect reasonably well (or better) against a low power laser weapon like that, as well as defend against conventional weapons.
Sorry about being so geeky on this subject. I've been poking around with it for decades;)
Of course those deposits absorb the laser energy, which causes them to heat up, and a sudden spot with a high temperature difference on most materials that high reflectivity mirrors are made of will break under those conditions. Also, a low quality mirror doesn't work so well with higher power lasers. I talked to the guys at the local university who were demonstrating a laser that has a loud pop noise when fired (the beam is enough to instantly ionize the air and cause a mini thunderclap), and they told me about trying to use a regular hand mirror with that laser. Let's just say it didn't work and they needed a new hand mirror.
In this case he was very polite and was disagreeing on her statement that you can't make compelling characters for MMOs, and he was obviously trying to open a dialog, but she replied by a verbal attack, which included an emoticon the above blurb didn't include. He then simply stated that he was trying to open a dialog, apologized, and politely bowed out. Of course, that wasn't good enough for her, so she put him on blast and escalated even more and making sexist attacks accusing him of "mansplaining". That wasn't even her last post attacking him. Mind you, this is the same dev that said something pretty unconscionable about the death of Total Biscuit. It's odd how she also implies that Deroir is a "rando asshat". The truth is that Deroir is a well known youtuber in the GW2 community, works with the company a lot, and even has an NPC in GW2 named after him!
Deroir was nothing but professional and polite in his limited part of the entire exchange. Jessica was vitriolic and toxic in the extreme. Then Peter jumped in both feet right into Jessicas pile of shit to defend her extremely inappropriate actions.
Mind you that many other posters were seriously pissed off at both of them, but I in no way think Reddit is why she got fired, rather I suspect that may be why her bosses got wind of this brewing shitstorm. Her actions are totally in line with policy violations that result in firings. Peter trying to defend this garbage is most likely why he got swept away as well. It's very possible that after the ruckus about her celebrating the death the Total Biscuit, she was already on a watch list for F-ups.
As to the extremely weak excuse that this was a "private" account, Peter obviously doesn't understand the difference between private and personal. Jessica tweeted this whole mess on the same account that allows everyone to see it. She started this by talking about being a developer on GW2 and her viewpoints on it. Whether she'll admit it or not, she was acting as a company representative to the public when she went ballistic in full view of everyone, which is something you NEVER do if you want to keep your job.
I find it rather strange how some of those reporting this kerfuffle seem to be leaving out many of her negative actions, and even leave out important parts of the few posts by Deroir. It seems as if they are either not very good at editing, or are trying to make him seem like the bad guy by having a polite and respectful opinion as well as refusing to get involved in an online spat in public. It makes me wonder if somebody has a deceitful agenda of some kind. Of course, you don't have to believe me, or those writers, just look up the relevant records, but you'll need to check some archives because some of the ex-employees of Areanet later deleted some of their relevant posts.
It's not like the company hasn't historically billed people for plenty of bogus things before that even AT&T couldn't explain to anyone, not even the federal inspectors questioning them on those, err, discrepancies.
Not "unfavourable reviews", but rather any review. If they sign that paper, they are enslaved to Nvidia and can only do a favorable review. That NDA is more of an Usurp your Independence Agreement. Nvidia deserves to get raked over the coals for this one
You are seriously delusional. Any time the entire worlds scientists in any field have more than a 90% consensus on it, there is literally tons of proof (as in published peer reviewed papers on the subject supporting it printed in the old dead tree format so it can be weighed.)
It's up to the dissenters to provide proof to overturn the plethora of evidence we already have. So far you deniers have provided squat if we don't bother to count all the hot air you've been spewing. By the way, your breath stinks of corruption.
And you failed the next class. You start working on the new product before you need the new product, which means before the current products sales go to hell in a handbasket. Otherwise you'll have this huge lag where you aren't selling much, and you don't have a new product to launch to recover the sales. The advantage of having a longer possible development time means you can do more quality testing and performance tweaks. You can add new features that would take longer to develop. And here's a biggie, you can work for and wait for the manufacturing prices to go down so when you do launch your improved product, it's has either a lower price to draw in more customers, or a higher profit margin to... well... you know what higher profit is about, that was covered in the business 10 class. (If you don't know, the Business 10 class is the one just before they show you the Looney Toons cartoon on Business.)
DeBeers already holds back the majority of the supply of diamonds to artificially inflate the cost. They do plenty of other things to do that as well. The other lab grown diamond manufacturers have gotten in the business and sold so high because the costs of mined diamonds is so high it's like honey to a bear.
Yes, they are all just as real and special, and often the lab diamonds have less inclusions than the mined diamonds, which is considered a better diamond. Of course DeBeers is fighting that because they control the bulk of mined diamonds and don't want to lose their ultra premium profits.
Unless you have an imperfect mined diamond, or recognize the serial number markings, even a jeweler can't tell mined from lab diamonds because the only thing different from them is age and origin.
You know, having the consistency of lab diamonds is considered a big boon for anyone making jewelry needing matched stones.
DeBeers is just freaking out because they are slowly (maybe not so slowly now) losing control over a market they've had a near monopoly on for over a century.
LoL, it's called "uninstall". Of course, if you're still afraid they left some kind of spyware, then just Nuke & Pave.
Tossing the hardware because you can't figure out how to use an uninstall something is only a solution for a rich moron that's a complete computer illiterate. Sure a bunch of the higher ups more or less fit that category, but it's not like they're the ones that'll be doing any of it in the first place.
For that matter, even if they buy new hardware, it'll still have to be configured and have the appropriate software installed on it, so it's no more work for IT than doing a nuke & pave. Besides, it'll take more time and a lot more money to get that unneeded replacement hardware.
However, if they do go full moron and buy new hardware, please send the old ones to me.:)
It all hinges on how someone defines "Sophisticated".
You could mean snobby blingware stuff. Or extremely well written programming that just doesn't fail. Something that is super user friendly and easy to use. Perhaps it skillfully employs new techniques or is just a more efficient use of techniques that others tend to fail at.
As to Stuxnet, in the field of sabotaging an enemy, it qualifies. In the field of malware, it's just moderately successful. For software in general, not really.
It's a joke about censorship, and it is rather ironic that someone decided to censor it. It's not even offensive, unless you actually work at trying to be offended. It's not about aborting a pregnancy, it's about aborting a program. You people do know that words, especially verbs and adjectives (Or nouns based on such verbs and adjectives) are not exclusively used with one single thing in the universe don't you?
Besides, if independent, or at least non-commercial devs can't have a sense of humor, they should just put on a monkey suit and go work for IBM. Or a bank.
Stop trying to take the humor out of life and stop trying to turn it into an Orwellian nightmare. Realize that not everything is an insult. Think of the uncompiled software, do you want to run them in this environment? (Yes, that was a weak attempt at a programming joke.)
Pluto and it's moons are a pretty significant set of objects, and they cross Neptunes orbit, so does that mean Neptune is no longer a planet since it sure as heck hasn't "cleared it's zone" ?
Even if you paid them, I doubt they'd actually do it. Think about how often they change your settings without notifying you. Sometimes they change my feed from my choice of Newest First, to Most Popular First over a half dozen times a day. To be fair, sometimes they'll leave it alone for a bit over a week. Either way, they should stay the F out of my settings!
Shatner isn't dead, though his career is in the critical care ward. As to Stallone, he didn't die in 2016, he actually died back in the 90s, and it's just his zombie corpse that's been keeping his career alive. Unfortunately it can't pronounce "brains" properly so a lot of people in Hollywood didn't even realize it.
For many years I've tested my connection on comcast. If it's a popular or well publicized test site, comcast gives back great numbers. On the other hand, if you use any of the various ways to obfuscate the address, or just use one comcast doesn't have on it's script yet, then you'll see MUCH lower speeds. Yes, there are ways to verify that the obfuscation isn't causing the slowdown.
Short version, comcast slows you down unless they know they're being tested, then they give you a higher bandwidth. I've tested them for close to 10 years now, and it's always the same.
Especially since I doubt they can capture even 1% of the mind. They may be able to copy the entire neural connections, but that's like copying the physical structure of an SDRAM and expecting it to have the same files stored on it. Heck, there's even been brain research that seems to indicate that each of our neurons (or one of those types of brain cells) is not just effectively a qbit, but possible a dozen or more! Older research has even indicated that memory by be holographic in structure. They used an experiment where a rat was heavily trained to run a particular maze, and then they put a tiny portion of that rats brain into a new rat that has no idea about that maze. Unlike new rats that didn't have the brain fragment, this one could run it expertly, almost as if it could remember the training the brain donor rat had done. That's something that their scanning technique can't capture either.
Essentially future paleontologists will enjoy the preserved ancient human specimens, but will probable be annoyed that the idiots destroyed the brain but left a crude digitization of the basic structure instead of the actual brain to study. There is not resurrection or even pseudo-resurrection from this technique.
I agree completely with that. Company got lazy, screwed up, tried half assed damage control, pissed off fans. And to top it all off, the company says it's mad too... "We are as upset as you are, and had hoped to have this demo available for everyone today." The company should be apologizing, not implying there is someone else for them to blame. Companies are never "mad" at themselves after all.
Actually it is illegal in both the USA and many other countries as well. As to the sony rootkit, it was in a gray area of the law, so it would take somebody with more lawyers they can throw than sony can to win that kind of lawsuit.
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Smoke does work very well for that. Common in sci-fi is a type of smoke grenade to specifically mess with lasers, but that might not be totally fictional anymore. One of the old things I saw listed on a Darpa list of tech they were wanting to look into was something like that. It was a long time ago, so maybe somebody has already created one that works better than the usual smoke grenade when it comes to blocking lasers.
Black increases it's absorption, and thus heats up, which isn't good for the human underneath.
;)
Also, much like a diamond, RCC is a rather special material, it's not just a layer of carbonized material.
We do have several ablative materials that have been tested for use against lasers, but I don't have any details on those.
However, the better armors and their inserts can alread protect reasonably well (or better) against a low power laser weapon like that, as well as defend against conventional weapons.
Sorry about being so geeky on this subject. I've been poking around with it for decades
Of course those deposits absorb the laser energy, which causes them to heat up, and a sudden spot with a high temperature difference on most materials that high reflectivity mirrors are made of will break under those conditions.
Also, a low quality mirror doesn't work so well with higher power lasers. I talked to the guys at the local university who were demonstrating a laser that has a loud pop noise when fired (the beam is enough to instantly ionize the air and cause a mini thunderclap), and they told me about trying to use a regular hand mirror with that laser. Let's just say it didn't work and they needed a new hand mirror.
In this case he was very polite and was disagreeing on her statement that you can't make compelling characters for MMOs, and he was obviously trying to open a dialog, but she replied by a verbal attack, which included an emoticon the above blurb didn't include. He then simply stated that he was trying to open a dialog, apologized, and politely bowed out. Of course, that wasn't good enough for her, so she put him on blast and escalated even more and making sexist attacks accusing him of "mansplaining".
That wasn't even her last post attacking him. Mind you, this is the same dev that said something pretty unconscionable about the death of Total Biscuit.
It's odd how she also implies that Deroir is a "rando asshat". The truth is that Deroir is a well known youtuber in the GW2 community, works with the company a lot, and even has an NPC in GW2 named after him!
Deroir was nothing but professional and polite in his limited part of the entire exchange.
Jessica was vitriolic and toxic in the extreme.
Then Peter jumped in both feet right into Jessicas pile of shit to defend her extremely inappropriate actions.
Mind you that many other posters were seriously pissed off at both of them, but I in no way think Reddit is why she got fired, rather I suspect that may be why her bosses got wind of this brewing shitstorm. Her actions are totally in line with policy violations that result in firings. Peter trying to defend this garbage is most likely why he got swept away as well. It's very possible that after the ruckus about her celebrating the death the Total Biscuit, she was already on a watch list for F-ups.
As to the extremely weak excuse that this was a "private" account, Peter obviously doesn't understand the difference between private and personal. Jessica tweeted this whole mess on the same account that allows everyone to see it. She started this by talking about being a developer on GW2 and her viewpoints on it. Whether she'll admit it or not, she was acting as a company representative to the public when she went ballistic in full view of everyone, which is something you NEVER do if you want to keep your job.
I find it rather strange how some of those reporting this kerfuffle seem to be leaving out many of her negative actions, and even leave out important parts of the few posts by Deroir. It seems as if they are either not very good at editing, or are trying to make him seem like the bad guy by having a polite and respectful opinion as well as refusing to get involved in an online spat in public. It makes me wonder if somebody has a deceitful agenda of some kind.
Of course, you don't have to believe me, or those writers, just look up the relevant records, but you'll need to check some archives because some of the ex-employees of Areanet later deleted some of their relevant posts.
It's not like the company hasn't historically billed people for plenty of bogus things before that even AT&T couldn't explain to anyone, not even the federal inspectors questioning them on those, err, discrepancies.
Not "unfavourable reviews", but rather any review.
If they sign that paper, they are enslaved to Nvidia and can only do a favorable review. That NDA is more of an Usurp your Independence Agreement.
Nvidia deserves to get raked over the coals for this one
Either you're being sarcastic, or you are very ignorant of what the FoIA is.
You are seriously delusional.
Any time the entire worlds scientists in any field have more than a 90% consensus on it, there is literally tons of proof (as in published peer reviewed papers on the subject supporting it printed in the old dead tree format so it can be weighed.)
It's up to the dissenters to provide proof to overturn the plethora of evidence we already have. So far you deniers have provided squat if we don't bother to count all the hot air you've been spewing. By the way, your breath stinks of corruption.
And you failed the next class.
You start working on the new product before you need the new product, which means before the current products sales go to hell in a handbasket.
Otherwise you'll have this huge lag where you aren't selling much, and you don't have a new product to launch to recover the sales.
The advantage of having a longer possible development time means you can do more quality testing and performance tweaks. You can add new features that would take longer to develop. And here's a biggie, you can work for and wait for the manufacturing prices to go down so when you do launch your improved product, it's has either a lower price to draw in more customers, or a higher profit margin to... well... you know what higher profit is about, that was covered in the business 10 class. (If you don't know, the Business 10 class is the one just before they show you the Looney Toons cartoon on Business.)
DeBeers already holds back the majority of the supply of diamonds to artificially inflate the cost. They do plenty of other things to do that as well.
The other lab grown diamond manufacturers have gotten in the business and sold so high because the costs of mined diamonds is so high it's like honey to a bear.
Yes, they are all just as real and special, and often the lab diamonds have less inclusions than the mined diamonds, which is considered a better diamond. Of course DeBeers is fighting that because they control the bulk of mined diamonds and don't want to lose their ultra premium profits.
Unless you have an imperfect mined diamond, or recognize the serial number markings, even a jeweler can't tell mined from lab diamonds because the only thing different from them is age and origin.
You know, having the consistency of lab diamonds is considered a big boon for anyone making jewelry needing matched stones.
DeBeers is just freaking out because they are slowly (maybe not so slowly now) losing control over a market they've had a near monopoly on for over a century.
[Insert laugh track and applause here]
LoL, it's called "uninstall".
:)
Of course, if you're still afraid they left some kind of spyware, then just Nuke & Pave.
Tossing the hardware because you can't figure out how to use an uninstall something is only a solution for a rich moron that's a complete computer illiterate.
Sure a bunch of the higher ups more or less fit that category, but it's not like they're the ones that'll be doing any of it in the first place.
For that matter, even if they buy new hardware, it'll still have to be configured and have the appropriate software installed on it, so it's no more work for IT than doing a nuke & pave. Besides, it'll take more time and a lot more money to get that unneeded replacement hardware.
However, if they do go full moron and buy new hardware, please send the old ones to me.
It all hinges on how someone defines "Sophisticated".
You could mean snobby blingware stuff. Or extremely well written programming that just doesn't fail. Something that is super user friendly and easy to use. Perhaps it skillfully employs new techniques or is just a more efficient use of techniques that others tend to fail at.
As to Stuxnet, in the field of sabotaging an enemy, it qualifies. In the field of malware, it's just moderately successful. For software in general, not really.
It's a joke about censorship, and it is rather ironic that someone decided to censor it.
It's not even offensive, unless you actually work at trying to be offended.
It's not about aborting a pregnancy, it's about aborting a program.
You people do know that words, especially verbs and adjectives (Or nouns based on such verbs and adjectives) are not exclusively used with one single thing in the universe don't you?
Besides, if independent, or at least non-commercial devs can't have a sense of humor, they should just put on a monkey suit and go work for IBM.
Or a bank.
Stop trying to take the humor out of life and stop trying to turn it into an Orwellian nightmare.
Realize that not everything is an insult.
Think of the uncompiled software, do you want to run them in this environment?
(Yes, that was a weak attempt at a programming joke.)
Pluto and it's moons are a pretty significant set of objects, and they cross Neptunes orbit, so does that mean Neptune is no longer a planet since it sure as heck hasn't "cleared it's zone" ?
Then again, maybe they list George Orwell as one of their consultants on this decision.
IF this gets rid of scalping, Great!
If this just allows the source to charge scalping prices, I know where they can shove some explosive devices
Even if you paid them, I doubt they'd actually do it.
Think about how often they change your settings without notifying you.
Sometimes they change my feed from my choice of Newest First, to Most Popular First over a half dozen times a day.
To be fair, sometimes they'll leave it alone for a bit over a week.
Either way, they should stay the F out of my settings!
Shatner isn't dead, though his career is in the critical care ward.
As to Stallone, he didn't die in 2016, he actually died back in the 90s, and it's just his zombie corpse that's been keeping his career alive. Unfortunately it can't pronounce "brains" properly so a lot of people in Hollywood didn't even realize it.
For many years I've tested my connection on comcast.
If it's a popular or well publicized test site, comcast gives back great numbers.
On the other hand, if you use any of the various ways to obfuscate the address, or just use one comcast doesn't have on it's script yet, then you'll see MUCH lower speeds.
Yes, there are ways to verify that the obfuscation isn't causing the slowdown.
Short version, comcast slows you down unless they know they're being tested, then they give you a higher bandwidth. I've tested them for close to 10 years now, and it's always the same.
It's about as much of a "mind uploading service" as making a clay model of your computers is "backing up your files".
Especially since I doubt they can capture even 1% of the mind.
They may be able to copy the entire neural connections, but that's like copying the physical structure of an SDRAM and expecting it to have the same files stored on it. Heck, there's even been brain research that seems to indicate that each of our neurons (or one of those types of brain cells) is not just effectively a qbit, but possible a dozen or more!
Older research has even indicated that memory by be holographic in structure. They used an experiment where a rat was heavily trained to run a particular maze, and then they put a tiny portion of that rats brain into a new rat that has no idea about that maze. Unlike new rats that didn't have the brain fragment, this one could run it expertly, almost as if it could remember the training the brain donor rat had done.
That's something that their scanning technique can't capture either.
Essentially future paleontologists will enjoy the preserved ancient human specimens, but will probable be annoyed that the idiots destroyed the brain but left a crude digitization of the basic structure instead of the actual brain to study. There is not resurrection or even pseudo-resurrection from this technique.
Ignoring (or otherwise eliminating) the experts and science is pretty much standard operating procedure for this administration.
I agree completely with that.
Company got lazy, screwed up, tried half assed damage control, pissed off fans.
And to top it all off, the company says it's mad too...
"We are as upset as you are, and had hoped to have this demo available for everyone today."
The company should be apologizing, not implying there is someone else for them to blame. Companies are never "mad" at themselves after all.
Actually it is illegal in both the USA and many other countries as well.
As to the sony rootkit, it was in a gray area of the law, so it would take somebody with more lawyers they can throw than sony can to win that kind of lawsuit.
Or make their clone so it doesn't require that in the first place.