I wasn't going to watch it but when I did I was amazed at how everyone just treated him as their next news object. I didn't see all the video but you'd think someone would have been kneeling down next to him reassuring him instead of standing over him taking pictures or standing with their hands in their pockets as he was splayed out on the hot parking lot.
This is the second or third time I've seen where people (geeks) can view satellite photos and help locate a person. Each time I thought there must be some sort of automated search application that spots a straight edge or a debris pattern, wouldn't it be obvious to detect a non-natural shape in a wide open area without any man made structures around?
I was thinking of some sort of diff application for photos but you'd need a before and after, and the app itself needs to be written.
An intact airplane should be easy to find compared to a boat since an airplane has a distinct shape when looking down on it from above, a boat wouldn't stand out as much.
Anyway Slashdot being technology oriented website I just thought it would make more sense to use computers and applications rather than eyeballs, if it worked better that is and not just for the sake of using a computer.
Pretty soon the US government will sue DARPA the creators of ARPANET, since it's the Internet and that all this stuff (torrent,p2p) needs to exist. Making the Internet available let all this happen;)
I find it unusual that people claim they are being harmed by the transmissions from cell phone towers and it doesn't matter where they are from.
In Europe where it's primarily (or only?) GSM and in North America where it's primarily CDMA people are convinced it's harming them. It's seems odd that people are harmed by a broad spectrum of the radio spectrum specifically from 900MHz to 1800MHz and not by microwave ovens, wifi or other common sources.
It always seems that a 300 foot tall tower a couple of miles away gets more attention than a cell phone transceiver mounted to the top of an office building. You'd think the latter would cause more of an outrage but it's always the tower in the middle of nowhere that gets people riled up. If they can't see it they won't complain, ignorance really is bliss.
If it's done "randomly and briefly (to (sic) quick to see, really, but caught on camera)" what's the problem? If you can't see it you won't know about it.
"If you put $1 in the machine and got a $10 credit, I should think that the user would figure out that there's more going on than them just being "lucky". "
I'm a slot tech.
No I'd say most wouldn't realize they got $10 after putting in $1 or even $1 when they put in $10. Some machines are multi denom and nearly all show your money in credits not in dollars. Just the other day a man put $5 in a quarter machine, it showed 20 credits and he called us over because it showed on a smaller screen he had $5, he said he put in $20. After nearly an hour of trying to explain why (20 quarters = $5) and even opening the cash box on a live floor to show him the last bill put in was a $5 bill he called us all a bunch of assholes and crooks, gave us the finger and walked away leaving his $5 still on the game. We just had to stand there and smile.
Also most people are idiots, I swear I can't figure out how mankind made it this far. Everyday people amaze me at how stupid they can be like when I had a slot machine torn apart, powered off and me there trying to fix it and a woman asks me straight faced "Can I play that now?" It must have been her favourite machine. She walked away angry. I had to just stand there and smile.
I've had people sit on my arm as I worked beneath a machine (the "aux" and "drop" are beneath the games).
I am also convinced people are attracted to machines that don't work, not to cheat but just out of sheer dumb luck. It can be a game with a bad button that I just went to get a spare for and before I get back to it someone plays that machine. Then they say the button doesn't work but won't stop playing so I can fix it even though there are dozens of other perfectly good games to play!
I don't think megaditto knows Canada exports more oil than it can use and most of that goes to the US. There are billions of barrels of oil in Alberta not to mention gas off Newfoundland. 10% of the oil leaving Canada goes to the US.
I think they're just being coy, if they start to use the LHC the experiments won't work since all this quantum particle mumbo jumbo freaks out when you look at it, the only way to get it to work is to ignore it or pretend not to notice it. It was their plan all along.
Forget Wifi, with all the junk inside a CRT display and most of us over the years with our nose twelve inches away I'm surprised nobody thought about the dangers of CRT displays. They even had a high pitched whine when they worked normally, it was worse when the flyback transformer was about to go kaput.
That's what I think too, why use discs? Sure the disc is a common form these days but something better must exist such as a cube or cylinder or maybe interlocking puzzle shapes that could be easily stacked for storage or the actual physical media. Credit card size is not too bad either (Constellation3D had FMD credit card shaped storage). Just design it so the same amount of information could be written to it as a disc, or more.
Who says bigger is better anyway? Maybe Holographic storage on small types of media such as USB sized storage devices will be more appealing due to it's stability compared to magnetic type storage.
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I wasn't going to watch it but when I did I was amazed at how everyone just treated him as their next news object. I didn't see all the video but you'd think someone would have been kneeling down next to him reassuring him instead of standing over him taking pictures or standing with their hands in their pockets as he was splayed out on the hot parking lot.
This article is a good reference: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008884.html
A Parrot is a bird, a Penguin is a bird, the mascot of Linux is Tux the Penguin. See? Totally relevant.
This is the second or third time I've seen where people (geeks) can view satellite photos and help locate a person. Each time I thought there must be some sort of automated search application that spots a straight edge or a debris pattern, wouldn't it be obvious to detect a non-natural shape in a wide open area without any man made structures around?
I was thinking of some sort of diff application for photos but you'd need a before and after, and the app itself needs to be written.
An intact airplane should be easy to find compared to a boat since an airplane has a distinct shape when looking down on it from above, a boat wouldn't stand out as much.
Anyway Slashdot being technology oriented website I just thought it would make more sense to use computers and applications rather than eyeballs, if it worked better that is and not just for the sake of using a computer.
Pretty soon the US government will sue DARPA the creators of ARPANET, since it's the Internet and that all this stuff (torrent,p2p) needs to exist. Making the Internet available let all this happen ;)
So this is the real OLED, an Oleo (oil) Display, or should that be OLEOD?
I find it unusual that people claim they are being harmed by the transmissions from cell phone towers and it doesn't matter where they are from.
In Europe where it's primarily (or only?) GSM and in North America where it's primarily CDMA people are convinced it's harming them. It's seems odd that people are harmed by a broad spectrum of the radio spectrum specifically from 900MHz to 1800MHz and not by microwave ovens, wifi or other common sources.
It always seems that a 300 foot tall tower a couple of miles away gets more attention than a cell phone transceiver mounted to the top of an office building. You'd think the latter would cause more of an outrage but it's always the tower in the middle of nowhere that gets people riled up. If they can't see it they won't complain, ignorance really is bliss.
If it's done "randomly and briefly (to (sic) quick to see, really, but caught on camera)" what's the problem? If you can't see it you won't know about it.
Considering the Creationist versus Science debate that would be be quite a hoot! Irony at it's best, Science discovers God.
Nah it's just, spooky article submission at a distance.
The other article appeared because it knew this one would be submitted later in the future.
Yeah that's why I was confused they had a big B but if you're talking network speed it's usually described in Gigabits, small b.
"In total, the four experiments will generate petabytes of data."
Divide at least 1 PB by four and you get 256 TB, I was close with 328 TB, so it must be Gigabits.
2,629,743 seconds in a month, so... 2,629,743 GB or 328,717 GB?
It's too late to do math.
"If you put $1 in the machine and got a $10 credit, I should think that the user would figure out that there's more going on than them just being "lucky". "
I'm a slot tech.
No I'd say most wouldn't realize they got $10 after putting in $1 or even $1 when they put in $10. Some machines are multi denom and nearly all show your money in credits not in dollars. Just the other day a man put $5 in a quarter machine, it showed 20 credits and he called us over because it showed on a smaller screen he had $5, he said he put in $20. After nearly an hour of trying to explain why (20 quarters = $5) and even opening the cash box on a live floor to show him the last bill put in was a $5 bill he called us all a bunch of assholes and crooks, gave us the finger and walked away leaving his $5 still on the game. We just had to stand there and smile.
Also most people are idiots, I swear I can't figure out how mankind made it this far. Everyday people amaze me at how stupid they can be like when I had a slot machine torn apart, powered off and me there trying to fix it and a woman asks me straight faced "Can I play that now?" It must have been her favourite machine. She walked away angry. I had to just stand there and smile.
I've had people sit on my arm as I worked beneath a machine (the "aux" and "drop" are beneath the games).
I am also convinced people are attracted to machines that don't work, not to cheat but just out of sheer dumb luck. It can be a game with a bad button that I just went to get a spare for and before I get back to it someone plays that machine. Then they say the button doesn't work but won't stop playing so I can fix it even though there are dozens of other perfectly good games to play!
I could go on and on!
Khartoum Holiday Inn July 2008, family reunion.
Bring some potato salad, drinks and your own chair.
Getting a wedgie while floating in Space just doesn't seem right.
I wonder how well these new suits would work during a Canadian winter.
This is a subtle way the Chinese are using to undermine Canadian sovereignty by going through the Northwest Passage without our permission!
I don't think megaditto knows Canada exports more oil than it can use and most of that goes to the US. There are billions of barrels of oil in Alberta not to mention gas off Newfoundland. 10% of the oil leaving Canada goes to the US.
At least the Russians try to make it valid, the US says they can sail through Canadian waters in the Arctic just because they can.
I think they're just being coy, if they start to use the LHC the experiments won't work since all this quantum particle mumbo jumbo freaks out when you look at it, the only way to get it to work is to ignore it or pretend not to notice it. It was their plan all along.
Forget Wifi, with all the junk inside a CRT display and most of us over the years with our nose twelve inches away I'm surprised nobody thought about the dangers of CRT displays. They even had a high pitched whine when they worked normally, it was worse when the flyback transformer was about to go kaput.
Meanwhile beer and wine are still being drunk by the bucket-full by both right-wingers and hippies.
I'm going to listen to downloaded music while downloading movies and dance a copyrighted dance all at the same time!
That's what I think too, why use discs? Sure the disc is a common form these days but something better must exist such as a cube or cylinder or maybe interlocking puzzle shapes that could be easily stacked for storage or the actual physical media. Credit card size is not too bad either (Constellation3D had FMD credit card shaped storage). Just design it so the same amount of information could be written to it as a disc, or more.
Who says bigger is better anyway? Maybe Holographic storage on small types of media such as USB sized storage devices will be more appealing due to it's stability compared to magnetic type storage.
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Maybe we should make more Mountie Horse Quarters to defend against the spy quarters.
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OK really I just wanted to comment to make sure I was part of Slashdot history