There's an old story posted in a comment on The Register once - someone posted about having an old storage rack with so many hard drives in it that when the power was applied and all spun up together, conservation of angular momentum would make the whole rack rotate slightly in the opposite direction. Solved by configuring them for a staggered spin-up.
Christianity was around before 300AD, but the record is poor because they were just another weird cult - and there were plenty of those around. It may well have started in exactly the manner Christians claim: As a cult of personality built around one charismatic individual in the vicinity of Jerusalem in the first century. That information has been lost to history. The Council of Nicaea wasn't the birth of Christianity, but the point at which the previously-pagan Roman empire began to adopt it - a process that required first wading through the mess left by the many competing sects with in Christianity and the establishment of a formal management system. It took some decades after that before it was ready to become an official state religion.
Contrary to a very popular belief though, the council did not establish a canon. They condemned a lot of views as heretical, yes. But they didn't pick a canonical set of documents. That came later, in a process that took many centuries, and there are still ongoing disputes.
I still don't know what the bishop who included Revelation was thinking. It reads like the ramblings of someone high as a kite on 'shrooms, and probably was.
Half true. Copyright isn't intended as a tool of censorship - it isn't to stop people getting access to information, but to make sure they pay for it. Generally if a copyright holder is trying to stop you downloading a movie off the internet, they really do want you to see it - but through their own approved channel.
That said, it can certainly be abused for censorship, and frequently is. But that isn't the purpose of it. Just an incidental effect.
The problem though is that those UI ideas fail dismally on small-screen touch devices. What MS is trying to do is create an interface that is applicable to conventional mouse-keyboard, tablets and phones. What they actually did was make an interface that tries to be usable on everything, but is pleasant to use on nothing.
From a business perspective, it's about maintaining consistent brand identity across platforms.
Bioshock games are story-driven. You fight to bring a sense of immersion and interaction, but a fight on which the player can be stuck for hours would become a barrier to the story rather than a way to draw them in.
That's because up until a couple of years ago, game budgets were getting bigger and bigger. They hit the same problem as hollywood: When your next release is going to cost many millions of dollars to make, you can't risk that kind of money on something new and untested. You have to go for something with a history of market success, like a sequel or a franchise installment. That's not so much of a limit in games now because of the rise of mobile games and electronic distribution (Thank you, Steam), both of which provide an area in which lower-budget and independent games can achieve exposure and thus success that were denied to them back when buying a game meant you were limited to what the local shops stocked.
Invest in the research. They can keep essential services and even small communities operating for days in isolation - plenty of time to get things repaired and reset. They are lower maintenance than generators, so you can put them everywhere.
This could go badly. Remeber Iris, the Siri-clone that assimilated too many religious sites into it's machine learning system and began to berate users for looking up information on abortion?
The movie changed it to the more modern cliche of rampant-AI-enslaving-the-world. In the original short story, a group of scientists uncovered an AI conspiracy towards world domination and discuss how to stop it - but then realise that these AIs are infallable, have no desire for power, money, sex or fame, and are incapable by design of acting against the best interests of mankind. So they decide to let the robots win.
There is conflict taking place in Gaza, Iraq, Ukraine and Syria (The civil war never ened, just dropped out of headlines) right now. There's only enough public attention for one war at a time.
I also wonder will they prosecute any of the newspapers that showed images from the video? I don't know of any news channels that broadcast the clip, but there might be one of those somewhere too.
It's perfectly fine to have non-realistic physics in science fiction. It just needs some justification or explanation. Future super-tech that hasn't been invented, or a revolution in our understanding of the universe. This is a good thing: It lets you introduce a 'magic box' like a perfect lie detector or an artificial intelligence and then examine the impact it would have. Or it can just serve as the backdrop to a more conventional story, like a space opera - just throw in some vague mumbling about the hyperdrive, it doesn't matter how the thing is supposed to work so long as it gets the characters where they need to go.
But Gravity doesn't have that excuse. It's supposed to be realistic. It's supposed to be near-future. That sets certain constraints. For a layperson it might be acceptable for an astronaut to jump out the ISS and achieve an orbital intersection and velocity match by eye with a distant station - but for anyone who knows the slightest thing about space travel, or has played Kerbal Space Program, this as as glaring a violation of the established rules of the setting as if she'd cobbled together a teleporter from the wreckage.
How about decomposing it in a solar furnace? Use the oxygen to help with life support and the iron to construct radiation shields or cast into structural elements to expand your base.
In the case of music, it's rare for the artists to hold copyright in their own work. Usually the label holds it, and just pays them a fractional royalty.
Not at all. It was reintroduced to the US by a load of idiots who believed that it would save males from the terrible evils of masturbation - something that medical knowledge of the time still claimed lead to insanity, epilepsy and distrophy. That's why it's still comparatively rare in Europe.
The second-most populous religion in the world has a tradition of chopping off foreskins. They inherited it from an older religion. Before the discovery that sterilising the blade really matters, infection was a serious issue. They still did it.
Those filters already exist. Mains power is already full of noise from many sources - one of the functions of a power supply is to block it, usually with a big capacitor.
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There's an old story posted in a comment on The Register once - someone posted about having an old storage rack with so many hard drives in it that when the power was applied and all spun up together, conservation of angular momentum would make the whole rack rotate slightly in the opposite direction. Solved by configuring them for a staggered spin-up.
Christianity was around before 300AD, but the record is poor because they were just another weird cult - and there were plenty of those around. It may well have started in exactly the manner Christians claim: As a cult of personality built around one charismatic individual in the vicinity of Jerusalem in the first century. That information has been lost to history. The Council of Nicaea wasn't the birth of Christianity, but the point at which the previously-pagan Roman empire began to adopt it - a process that required first wading through the mess left by the many competing sects with in Christianity and the establishment of a formal management system. It took some decades after that before it was ready to become an official state religion.
Contrary to a very popular belief though, the council did not establish a canon. They condemned a lot of views as heretical, yes. But they didn't pick a canonical set of documents. That came later, in a process that took many centuries, and there are still ongoing disputes.
I still don't know what the bishop who included Revelation was thinking. It reads like the ramblings of someone high as a kite on 'shrooms, and probably was.
Half true. Copyright isn't intended as a tool of censorship - it isn't to stop people getting access to information, but to make sure they pay for it. Generally if a copyright holder is trying to stop you downloading a movie off the internet, they really do want you to see it - but through their own approved channel.
That said, it can certainly be abused for censorship, and frequently is. But that isn't the purpose of it. Just an incidental effect.
The problem though is that those UI ideas fail dismally on small-screen touch devices. What MS is trying to do is create an interface that is applicable to conventional mouse-keyboard, tablets and phones. What they actually did was make an interface that tries to be usable on everything, but is pleasant to use on nothing.
From a business perspective, it's about maintaining consistent brand identity across platforms.
Is Windows 8 bombing so hard they have to rush the successor that quickly?
Bioshock games are story-driven. You fight to bring a sense of immersion and interaction, but a fight on which the player can be stuck for hours would become a barrier to the story rather than a way to draw them in.
That's because up until a couple of years ago, game budgets were getting bigger and bigger. They hit the same problem as hollywood: When your next release is going to cost many millions of dollars to make, you can't risk that kind of money on something new and untested. You have to go for something with a history of market success, like a sequel or a franchise installment. That's not so much of a limit in games now because of the rise of mobile games and electronic distribution (Thank you, Steam), both of which provide an area in which lower-budget and independent games can achieve exposure and thus success that were denied to them back when buying a game meant you were limited to what the local shops stocked.
Invest in the research. They can keep essential services and even small communities operating for days in isolation - plenty of time to get things repaired and reset. They are lower maintenance than generators, so you can put them everywhere.
This could go badly. Remeber Iris, the Siri-clone that assimilated too many religious sites into it's machine learning system and began to berate users for looking up information on abortion?
If they can use the approach to identify what sex looks like, they'd have an instant commercial application in web filter systems.
The original ending of I, Robot.
The movie changed it to the more modern cliche of rampant-AI-enslaving-the-world. In the original short story, a group of scientists uncovered an AI conspiracy towards world domination and discuss how to stop it - but then realise that these AIs are infallable, have no desire for power, money, sex or fame, and are incapable by design of acting against the best interests of mankind. So they decide to let the robots win.
There is conflict taking place in Gaza, Iraq, Ukraine and Syria (The civil war never ened, just dropped out of headlines) right now. There's only enough public attention for one war at a time.
I also wonder will they prosecute any of the newspapers that showed images from the video? I don't know of any news channels that broadcast the clip, but there might be one of those somewhere too.
The director set terms: The terms are near-future, realistic setting. Then those terms were violated. From there comes the problem.
It's soft sci-fi pretending to be hard sci-fi.
It's perfectly fine to have non-realistic physics in science fiction. It just needs some justification or explanation. Future super-tech that hasn't been invented, or a revolution in our understanding of the universe. This is a good thing: It lets you introduce a 'magic box' like a perfect lie detector or an artificial intelligence and then examine the impact it would have. Or it can just serve as the backdrop to a more conventional story, like a space opera - just throw in some vague mumbling about the hyperdrive, it doesn't matter how the thing is supposed to work so long as it gets the characters where they need to go.
But Gravity doesn't have that excuse. It's supposed to be realistic. It's supposed to be near-future. That sets certain constraints. For a layperson it might be acceptable for an astronaut to jump out the ISS and achieve an orbital intersection and velocity match by eye with a distant station - but for anyone who knows the slightest thing about space travel, or has played Kerbal Space Program, this as as glaring a violation of the established rules of the setting as if she'd cobbled together a teleporter from the wreckage.
Not so much 3 any more. They lost that job to traps and poison.
Because cats are 1. Cute. 2. Domesticated long enough that no-one pays attention any more.
How hard would it be to fit a safety cage? It's a small focal point, making a wire-mesh sphere a few meters in radius doesn't sound too difficult.
How about decomposing it in a solar furnace? Use the oxygen to help with life support and the iron to construct radiation shields or cast into structural elements to expand your base.
If that gets to be a problem they can always just block all traffic except for the payment site.
I go further: I own a piratebox that occasionally makes an appearance in a public place.
In the case of music, it's rare for the artists to hold copyright in their own work. Usually the label holds it, and just pays them a fractional royalty.
Not at all. It was reintroduced to the US by a load of idiots who believed that it would save males from the terrible evils of masturbation - something that medical knowledge of the time still claimed lead to insanity, epilepsy and distrophy. That's why it's still comparatively rare in Europe.
The second-most populous religion in the world has a tradition of chopping off foreskins. They inherited it from an older religion. Before the discovery that sterilising the blade really matters, infection was a serious issue. They still did it.
People are stupid.
Those filters already exist. Mains power is already full of noise from many sources - one of the functions of a power supply is to block it, usually with a big capacitor.