People have climbed Mount Everest without oxygen so I don't see why you would lose consciousness due to lack of oxygen if you fall from just a little bit higher? Is it because it's hard to breath at that speed? Wouldn't it be possible to stop the air enough with your body and clothes to breath it?
Anyway, falling without a parachute from a plane is one of those disasters I almost want to happen to me (as in I would like to see if I could make it. Same thing applies to being stranded on some island.), so it would be a shame to lose consciousness and ruin the possible fun.
...and if we assume you don't hit the tail or wings, and have enough clothes not to become unconscious before getting to the ground, you should probably aim for a steep slope (preferably with soft snow!) or tree with quite weak branches, such as a spruce. Anything that makes the deceleration phase last longer works (not water though!). If you manage to hit a steep slope in a good way you actually have a decent chance of surviving.
That particular Facebook app is getting blocked the instant it shows up. I don't care what you're trying to alert me to.
Do you really think Facebook will let you do that? It would after all be "jeopardizing national safety", not to mention that the government could offer some pretty nice tax incentives to Zuckerberg who, given his amazing track record, is unlikely to reject that offer.
Considering that a PC processor overclocked to ~6 GHz would eat a cellphone battery in seconds (not to mention melt the entire thing) I sure would love to see a 20 GHz cellphone, even if the battery "only" lasted 20 minutes.
DISCLAIMER: I've worked with Tobii before but I am not affiliated with them.
I've worked with this company and their technology before, and believe me when I say there are more applications than simply controlling the mouse pointer. However, just like a touch screen eye control is something that works best if the interface is designed for it. As such mostly specialized applications benefit from it, and most of them are aimed at people who have a hard time using a normal computer interface.
That being said, there are programs for the rest of us as well (although this is mostly a work in progress) that benefit greatly from eye control. You can probably imagine a few times when hands-free operation of a computer would be beneficial.
Alternatively, the scientist could just publish the original work at arxiv.org, which would make sure it would stay there in its original form, and make a short writeup on wikipedia with a link to the full article. Hmm, I recognize that from somewhere. *coughslashdotcough*
It would be very good if they did allow original research, but would require some sort of peer review system.
Exactly! The problem is that the editors often know a lot less about the area than the academic who wrote about it.
It could also be too detailed, as #35672214 said.
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People have climbed Mount Everest without oxygen so I don't see why you would lose consciousness due to lack of oxygen if you fall from just a little bit higher? Is it because it's hard to breath at that speed? Wouldn't it be possible to stop the air enough with your body and clothes to breath it?
Anyway, falling without a parachute from a plane is one of those disasters I almost want to happen to me (as in I would like to see if I could make it. Same thing applies to being stranded on some island.), so it would be a shame to lose consciousness and ruin the possible fun.
...and if we assume you don't hit the tail or wings, and have enough clothes not to become unconscious before getting to the ground, you should probably aim for a steep slope (preferably with soft snow!) or tree with quite weak branches, such as a spruce. Anything that makes the deceleration phase last longer works (not water though!). If you manage to hit a steep slope in a good way you actually have a decent chance of surviving.
In several languages, the word for "tax haven" means "tax heaven".
Ok, ignore the "interestingly". --> Score:5, Interesting
Oh the irony. Anyway, the swedish word is "skatteparadis", which translates to "tax heaven" as well, so it's obviously not an isolated phenomenon.
That particular Facebook app is getting blocked the instant it shows up. I don't care what you're trying to alert me to.
Do you really think Facebook will let you do that? It would after all be "jeopardizing national safety", not to mention that the government could offer some pretty nice tax incentives to Zuckerberg who, given his amazing track record, is unlikely to reject that offer.
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Considering that a PC processor overclocked to ~6 GHz would eat a cellphone battery in seconds (not to mention melt the entire thing) I sure would love to see a 20 GHz cellphone, even if the battery "only" lasted 20 minutes.
DISCLAIMER: I've worked with Tobii before but I am not affiliated with them.
I've worked with this company and their technology before, and believe me when I say there are more applications than simply controlling the mouse pointer. However, just like a touch screen eye control is something that works best if the interface is designed for it. As such mostly specialized applications benefit from it, and most of them are aimed at people who have a hard time using a normal computer interface.
That being said, there are programs for the rest of us as well (although this is mostly a work in progress) that benefit greatly from eye control. You can probably imagine a few times when hands-free operation of a computer would be beneficial.
you accidentally words there.
Alternatively, the scientist could just publish the original work at arxiv.org, which would make sure it would stay there in its original form, and make a short writeup on wikipedia with a link to the full article. Hmm, I recognize that from somewhere. *coughslashdotcough*
It would be very good if they did allow original research, but would require some sort of peer review system.
Exactly! The problem is that the editors often know a lot less about the area than the academic who wrote about it. It could also be too detailed, as #35672214 said.
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