Somewhat off topic, I know. But if we're going to have auto-driving/piloting, then wouldn't self-navigating ships be more important, from a practical perspective? (Though I can see the fun and technological offshoots in designing self-driving cars.)
Self navigating cargo ships might need to be be piloted manually when leaving and entering docks (at least to start with), but in the open oceans they could auto-navigate and be centrally monitored.
Open water piracy would take a dent as there would be no crew to kidnap, and there would be no incentive for ship owners to follow pirates' demands to reroute ships. After all, if you're going to lose a ship and its cargo either way, then might as well do it by not appeasing pirates.
It would also mean that ships would not be piloted by crews who try to navigate tricky waters to cut corners.
I believe in reincarnation. Although that reduces my fear of death, as I belienve that I have many lives yet to live, it also gives me good reason to care about the future beyond my current life span, as don't want to be reborn into a world worse than what we have now. I want to be reborn into a better world. Also, I believe that at some deep level we recognise those whom we have known in earlier lives, giving me good reason to be nicer to those I know in this life.
A long day for me is about 6 hours. Any longer than 6.5 hours of straight programming and I'm stuffed.
However, a few years ago I was working at another place where the work kept on switching between programming, meetings, code walkthroughs, etc. and a 9 hour day felt eeaasy.
Not if it's an hour a week. That can be a real time saver when colleagues of different areas come up with solutions for each others problems, when ordinarily they wouldn't think of asking each other.
Looking at the hill beyond the shadow, and slighty to the right, that hill seems to have layers to it. I'm not a geologist, so keeping in mind that I'm quite clueless...
I assume that different layers are caused by different climates, and given the lifeless rock that Mars is, that would mean different levels of humidity, probably caused by different temperatures. If so, can we work out how long ago those periods were? Could those periods be matched with what we have on Earth, such as ice ages? Or are my questions completely off the the planet?
Games are only one use. I can imagine that this sort of tech could be used for many other things besides games.
I think that after some further body motion research (probably undertaken using motion capture tech) in conjuction with psychology we might see body motion cameras augment security cameras.
Rather than using dots for motion capture for movies and games, perhaps kinect like tech could be used instead. Not just for humans, but for all sorts of animals, or other things.
It may help robots with close range spacial vision.
...and so on. I think that with time, as people adjust to the idea, we will see it adopted in all sorts of uses that we wouldn't even consider today.
Also known as long pig because it tastes similar to spam (or so I'm told;) . Rumour has it that in some places that recently (past couple of centuries) had cannibalism, spam is popular for exactly that reason.
Not everyone considers it a pointless fad. Although for some people stereoscopy doesn't work well or at all, and for others it is uncomfortable or "looking fake" (as my gf puts it), some of us actually enjoy the effect.
And though for movies 3D is nice, for games 3D is great! I can estimate attack ranges better and mottled bitmaps have proper shape instead of blending together, etc.
I would very much like to have a lenticular full HD monitor, though I wouldn't shell out the very high prices they charge for a glasses-TV. And to me, if there is a scam, then it's the exorbitant prices they charge. Oh, and of course it's annoying when cinemas show 3D but not 2D.
Anyway, my point is that some people actually like stereoscopic screens. So, why so much negativity?
The hope is that aliens who find Voyager won't know about it being copyrighted, and so will excitedly copy their proof of alien life (ie. us) a billion times over by the time we finally meet them.
The plan is to then sue the aliens to the High Heavens when we meet them. (So much for space wars.)
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Then listen for the click. Space is so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
you know something went wrong when the Canaries are both alive and dead.
Zombie canaries?!?
Is it really a good idea to put computers and hydrocarbons that closely together?
What if there's a fire?
You get a firewall. ;)
Somewhat off topic, I know. But if we're going to have auto-driving/piloting, then wouldn't self-navigating ships be more important, from a practical perspective? (Though I can see the fun and technological offshoots in designing self-driving cars.)
Self navigating cargo ships might need to be be piloted manually when leaving and entering docks (at least to start with), but in the open oceans they could auto-navigate and be centrally monitored.
Open water piracy would take a dent as there would be no crew to kidnap, and there would be no incentive for ship owners to follow pirates' demands to reroute ships. After all, if you're going to lose a ship and its cargo either way, then might as well do it by not appeasing pirates.
It would also mean that ships would not be piloted by crews who try to navigate tricky waters to cut corners.
"...or steal your children."
I guess we'll need some field trials to see how that works.
I think it was already tried in Hameiln in the middle ages. ;)
I believe in reincarnation. Although that reduces my fear of death, as I belienve that I have many lives yet to live, it also gives me good reason to care about the future beyond my current life span, as don't want to be reborn into a world worse than what we have now. I want to be reborn into a better world. Also, I believe that at some deep level we recognise those whom we have known in earlier lives, giving me good reason to be nicer to those I know in this life.
Why print receivers? There are lots of potential bullet receivers wandering about schools and shopping centres. No need to print even more, is there?
Ooh... Laser shows are pretty. It might be even prettier with some flashing lights to top it off. Blue is a nice colour. =)
A long day for me is about 6 hours. Any longer than 6.5 hours of straight programming and I'm stuffed.
However, a few years ago I was working at another place where the work kept on switching between programming, meetings, code walkthroughs, etc. and a 9 hour day felt eeaasy.
It's true that change is as good as a holiday.
Not if it's an hour a week. That can be a real time saver when colleagues of different areas come up with solutions for each others problems, when ordinarily they wouldn't think of asking each other.
True. That said, I can't think of a single example of a state that's both democratic and communist (functionally, not just in name). Why is that?
How will that affect the calibration? I can imagine that bamboo would need to be calibrated annoyingly often.
Do dead parts work? (I'm not very kood at keeping indoor plants alive.)
Looking at the hill beyond the shadow, and slighty to the right, that hill seems to have layers to it. I'm not a geologist, so keeping in mind that I'm quite clueless...
I assume that different layers are caused by different climates, and given the lifeless rock that Mars is, that would mean different levels of humidity, probably caused by different temperatures. If so, can we work out how long ago those periods were? Could those periods be matched with what we have on Earth, such as ice ages? Or are my questions completely off the the planet?
Flamebait?!? Humour impaired modders, I say!
Games are only one use. I can imagine that this sort of tech could be used for many other things besides games.
I think that after some further body motion research (probably undertaken using motion capture tech) in conjuction with psychology we might see body motion cameras augment security cameras.
Rather than using dots for motion capture for movies and games, perhaps kinect like tech could be used instead. Not just for humans, but for all sorts of animals, or other things.
It may help robots with close range spacial vision.
...and so on. I think that with time, as people adjust to the idea, we will see it adopted in all sorts of uses that we wouldn't even consider today.
Also known as long pig because it tastes similar to spam (or so I'm told ;) . Rumour has it that in some places that recently (past couple of centuries) had cannibalism, spam is popular for exactly that reason.
I'm more then qualified to talk about vowels.
Was I just whooshed...or was that unintentional?
It should be either treatwoment or treatpeoplet.
There's something I don't understand about this...
You'd think with all the talent and hard employee filtering processes, they would be pretty skilled and able developers.
So how come so many businesses have such extremely disappointing experiences with outsourcing to India?
Not everyone considers it a pointless fad. Although for some people stereoscopy doesn't work well or at all, and for others it is uncomfortable or "looking fake" (as my gf puts it), some of us actually enjoy the effect.
And though for movies 3D is nice, for games 3D is great! I can estimate attack ranges better and mottled bitmaps have proper shape instead of blending together, etc.
I would very much like to have a lenticular full HD monitor, though I wouldn't shell out the very high prices they charge for a glasses-TV. And to me, if there is a scam, then it's the exorbitant prices they charge. Oh, and of course it's annoying when cinemas show 3D but not 2D.
Anyway, my point is that some people actually like stereoscopic screens. So, why so much negativity?
Simple as that!
Obviously...
The hope is that aliens who find Voyager won't know about it being copyrighted, and so will excitedly copy their proof of alien life (ie. us) a billion times over by the time we finally meet them.
The plan is to then sue the aliens to the High Heavens when we meet them. (So much for space wars.)
This is a relief... http://www.neowin.net/news/classic-shell-brings-classic-start-menu-to-windows-8
Classic Start Menu and Classic Shell are about the 1st things I install after making a clean install.
It just depends on how tablets are used. Tablets are fairly new on the scene, so we haven't really figured out how to use them to best effect yet.
Lab technicians in bunny suits...?