Does anyone else think that for handling liquid nitrogen and liquid fucking helium that these "experts" seem to be throwing caution to the wind? Seems more like a rave than a science experiment.
And Eric Graham (maker of the juggler animation) beat them all to it. He was making raytraced 3d graphics in the mid 1960s on teletype output. Actually, I find this whole video's claims of being the first time it was digitized a hard to believe. I've seen clips from this video before and for as important as this video is, it would have been digitized in the last 20 years instead of just left on a shelf to chance be picked up by someone's son like a family home movie.
*Stop port scanning me *Stop sending me spam *Stop trying to hack my servers *Stop firewalling the Internet *Stop polluting so much *Stop allowing human trafficking *Stop oppressing your people *On and on...
If you can't get a handle on these things, have you any hope on controlling an asteroid?
Since such a thing would be put the entire planet at risk, the world governments should tell China that they MUST share the resources for free if we all share the risk. Even in doing so, I think its not a good idea. Far too risky to be talking about it with our current under-developed space program. If we had the capability to launch vehicles on a day's notice and tow large objects around with ease, then that would be different. Better to either mine it where it is, or make it orbit Mars or something. 24 trillion per asteroid? I would think that would quite easily pay for a nice setup on Mars. They have to go to space anyways.
Of course at the same time, there is risk in them altering any asteroid trajectory at all.
Actually, I usually do a little investigating on images on my own just for fun. I don't doubt that NASA did these things, but it is interesting that the image has a photoshop signature and a timestamp of just 3 hours prior to the article being published. So it wasn't just the raw image from NASA? I also pulled it into GIMP and was interested that the background was so uniform a color. In fact, its all exactly the same color everywhere except for the dots. Take it in yourself and adjust the brightness and contrast, then you can use the magic select with a threshold of zero. It selects everything except the dots, which tells me that the background color is completely uniform, as if created by a fill. I know photography in space is weird, but I would think with any photograph you'd have a few off color artifacts in the image.
On the other hand, there are artifacts around the dots themselves and the color of the dots isn't uniformly white. Still, somewhat suspicious.
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What scares me about all the hype is not that we'll end up using tablets, its that I won't be able to use my computer they way I want to as easily. I've owned several smart phones (including an iPhone), I've used a iPad, I have laptops and I get the usefulness of all of them. But the people who like to think that eventually the computer will have no keyboard scare me. Not because its a good thing to not have a keyboard, but because the alternatives suck. I can type fast and I need to be able to type fast and accurately for what I like to do. So I prefer using a desktop most of the time. What I don't want is for the rest of the population to decide for me that keyboards don't need to exist anymore because a touch keyboard on a small display is good enough for them. Because what would happen in that case is that you'll end up not seeing them on the shelves at stores, keyboard designs will get worse and their prices will increase because less of them will be made. On top of that applications will not be designed around use of the keyboard as much anymore. And then you have designer/coder hipsters who get off on making keyboards without what they would call "geek keys".
Steve Jobs came back to Apple officially in September 1997. Slashdot was founded in Septemer 1997. Steve Jobs quits in August 2011. Rob Malda quits in August 2011.
Ah ok. I've seen this happen maybe twice before. Honestly, I don't think its really necessary. Is it really ever that slow of a news day for geeks? (rhetorical question)
Speaking of hacking, you posted over an hour before the article release time? How did you do this? I know you have a subscription, but so do I and I've always had to wait to comment until the article publish time. Hacked Slashdot lately?
Maybe you did. That doesn't mean that you didn't get ripped off. I had a server with 160MB of RAM in June of 1999, that would have cost $16,000 at those prices, which it didn't:
I know I didn't pay $16,000 for the ram, or even $1600. Maybe $1000. I simply couldn't have afforded that back then. So ram must have been down to $10/MB or less by 1999.
I remember 8MB of RAM costing $300 back in 1996 or so and an article came out in PC Magazine or something called "Why RAM prices won't go down", then a month or two later, they dropped through the floor.
that this article doesn't touch on at all is does this affect Solid State Drives (SSDs)? Probably not because they don't use magnets. So this will just speed up the jump to SSDs. You could be the cynic and think that somehow China decided to raise rare earth prices to drive SSDs, but I kinda doubt that Hard drives in general make up a significant part of that decision.
It is a bad thing that in 2011 we're still trying to use non-renewable resources to power transportation for everyone. Even with the US having 400000 tons of thorium, I figure that's enough to power 150 billion cars. Sound like a lot, not really. In 100 years we'll be back to the same spot we are now and be guilty of pushing the problem off to our descendants.
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Does anyone else think that for handling liquid nitrogen and liquid fucking helium that these "experts" seem to be throwing caution to the wind? Seems more like a rave than a science experiment.
I guess Cyrillic doesn't work on Slashdot though. *sighs*
. Yep, Google Translate just proved that irony exists in Russian too.
And Eric Graham (maker of the juggler animation) beat them all to it. He was making raytraced 3d graphics in the mid 1960s on teletype output. Actually, I find this whole video's claims of being the first time it was digitized a hard to believe. I've seen clips from this video before and for as important as this video is, it would have been digitized in the last 20 years instead of just left on a shelf to chance be picked up by someone's son like a family home movie.
And it has Linux on it? Crap, at least get Win XP.
That's right, if you want crap, get Win XP. That was too easy.
*Stop port scanning me
*Stop sending me spam
*Stop trying to hack my servers
*Stop firewalling the Internet
*Stop polluting so much
*Stop allowing human trafficking
*Stop oppressing your people
*On and on...
If you can't get a handle on these things, have you any hope on controlling an asteroid?
Since such a thing would be put the entire planet at risk, the world governments should tell China that they MUST share the resources for free if we all share the risk. Even in doing so, I think its not a good idea. Far too risky to be talking about it with our current under-developed space program. If we had the capability to launch vehicles on a day's notice and tow large objects around with ease, then that would be different. Better to either mine it where it is, or make it orbit Mars or something. 24 trillion per asteroid? I would think that would quite easily pay for a nice setup on Mars. They have to go to space anyways.
Of course at the same time, there is risk in them altering any asteroid trajectory at all.
Actually, I usually do a little investigating on images on my own just for fun. I don't doubt that NASA did these things, but it is interesting that the image has a photoshop signature and a timestamp of just 3 hours prior to the article being published. So it wasn't just the raw image from NASA? I also pulled it into GIMP and was interested that the background was so uniform a color. In fact, its all exactly the same color everywhere except for the dots. Take it in yourself and adjust the brightness and contrast, then you can use the magic select with a threshold of zero. It selects everything except the dots, which tells me that the background color is completely uniform, as if created by a fill. I know photography in space is weird, but I would think with any photograph you'd have a few off color artifacts in the image.
On the other hand, there are artifacts around the dots themselves and the color of the dots isn't uniformly white. Still, somewhat suspicious.
Nobody is using rot13 or rot26 anymore. You should be using rot533.
So your take on it then is that Windows is ONLY for moms?
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What scares me about all the hype is not that we'll end up using tablets, its that I won't be able to use my computer they way I want to as easily. I've owned several smart phones (including an iPhone), I've used a iPad, I have laptops and I get the usefulness of all of them. But the people who like to think that eventually the computer will have no keyboard scare me. Not because its a good thing to not have a keyboard, but because the alternatives suck. I can type fast and I need to be able to type fast and accurately for what I like to do. So I prefer using a desktop most of the time. What I don't want is for the rest of the population to decide for me that keyboards don't need to exist anymore because a touch keyboard on a small display is good enough for them. Because what would happen in that case is that you'll end up not seeing them on the shelves at stores, keyboard designs will get worse and their prices will increase because less of them will be made. On top of that applications will not be designed around use of the keyboard as much anymore. And then you have designer/coder hipsters who get off on making keyboards without what they would call "geek keys".
Not if you jump in and help. Think I'm joking?
Steve Jobs came back to Apple officially in September 1997.
Slashdot was founded in Septemer 1997.
Steve Jobs quits in August 2011.
Rob Malda quits in August 2011.
Ah ok. I've seen this happen maybe twice before. Honestly, I don't think its really necessary. Is it really ever that slow of a news day for geeks? (rhetorical question)
Speaking of hacking, you posted over an hour before the article release time? How did you do this? I know you have a subscription, but so do I and I've always had to wait to comment until the article publish time. Hacked Slashdot lately?
Maybe you did. That doesn't mean that you didn't get ripped off. I had a server with 160MB of RAM in June of 1999, that would have cost $16,000 at those prices, which it didn't:
and I even have proof, read the entry for June 9th
I know I didn't pay $16,000 for the ram, or even $1600. Maybe $1000. I simply couldn't have afforded that back then. So ram must have been down to $10/MB or less by 1999.
I remember 8MB of RAM costing $300 back in 1996 or so and an article came out in PC Magazine or something called "Why RAM prices won't go down", then a month or two later, they dropped through the floor.
that this article doesn't touch on at all is does this affect Solid State Drives (SSDs)? Probably not because they don't use magnets. So this will just speed up the jump to SSDs. You could be the cynic and think that somehow China decided to raise rare earth prices to drive SSDs, but I kinda doubt that Hard drives in general make up a significant part of that decision.
but a third of people surveyed admit that they do not check ATMs for tampering before withdrawing cash.
A person checking an ATM for tampering may look like they are tampering with an ATM. Now get back in line.
Oh dear god our economy is a whole lot more fragile than I ever imagined. Brings a new meaning to "emerge world".
Haha, that's actually really funny. And sadly true.
Then Doug Engelbart would have sued him.
How about the lifetime of a star.
It is a bad thing that in 2011 we're still trying to use non-renewable resources to power transportation for everyone. Even with the US having 400000 tons of thorium, I figure that's enough to power 150 billion cars. Sound like a lot, not really. In 100 years we'll be back to the same spot we are now and be guilty of pushing the problem off to our descendants.