Polling youths can tell us some valuable things about the coming perceptions of society. It is doing the world a disservice to exclude them from voicing their opinions and participating in debate. In this case, kids aren't identifying with scientists, and perhaps that is something worth examining.
I don't get why they don't try to farm out some new tests to high school science classes. I mean come on alot of things are try this and test for a few things and repeat as many times as we can afford. I remember being sick to death of nearly all "science" classes into college. Why? Because we didn't do any thing to push the field. We just did the same experiments that some folks 200-300 years ago did and are repeating it. I know part of that is to just introduce concepts to people, but come on can't we atleast rig up "new" tests or experiments to break new ground with instead of just repeating whats been done before?
What's really bad is we are rarely told why anything is really important. It just magically is for some reason. I have a math minor and really enjoyed math. Now, I don't use 90% of it and wonder what was the point sometimes. High school kids are not stupid and can be the cheap grad labor of the future.
Does any one else work in the public saftey field? We've been attempting to submit NIBRs data to the state for the last oh, 3 years or so. NIBRs is the replacement for UCR crime stats. There are 3 optional fields that I've always thought were funny. Were drugged used, were alcohol used, and were computer equipment used. I've always figured that was for some acdemics to query the FBI and find out how many crimes computer equipment were invovled with. There is a tiny problem with that though... I've not seen any our guys actually use those fields in the software, which if others don't use them, make the numbers off. ;
(We've been trying to submit to the state. The state is responsible for submitting to the FBI.) I didn't read the article just the summary, but it looked like the FBI was just surveying businesses and not using the data it already has.
The link to your specific page didn't work, but I was able to browse http://www.dedicatedmicrosus.com./ I wouldn't say that it is off topic.;) Other than security cameras what the heck are you going to use 11 video feeds for? I liked the devices listed, but I don't have any money;( to spend on these nifty toys. Have you ever seen the movie I think the name was Sliver (1993) about a rich guy putting video cameras in all the apartments and hallways of the apartment building that he owned? After seeing that, I always dreamed of wiring my own home and yard up like that. Call it peeping on the visitors. Nah, that wouldn't work cause the only person that visits us is my mother-in-law and I don't want to look at her. But the idea of recording everything that happens on and around my property and being "in control" is just so alluring.
Heck, I've also always wanted a castle with secret passages. I'm just not going to ever afford to play with any of these neat toys!
O.K. Although, I agree with the folks that state that this just didn't seem well thought out, I have an app that could make use of more than 11+ video capture streams. Home security. During Christmas, I signed up for some "home automation" catalogs. I don't buy any of the stuff because its way out of my price range, but I was startled to find some cool things listed. Apparently several companies are selling a 4 camera setup, with 80 GB HD PVR for I think somewhere $1500-2000 for home security. They said that it would record 4 weeks of video. (I'm not sure if that is 4 weeks with 4 camera or 4 weeks with one camera though.) I keep thinking to myself that it seemed like a cool product, but I'd want alot more than 4 cameras, but I wouldn't want to just buy multiple systems. I'd want a HD solution that had several TB in RAID5 and designed to record as many camera feeds as possible. I'd want to have security camera feeds storaged into a nice very lockable cabinet that should survive a burglary.
All this can and WILL create a profile of you which Google easily can use for 2 things. 1) Direct their marketing at you with almost lethal accuracy and 2) Sell your information to the highest bidder...wether this is the government that make a "sweet trade-deal" with them...or the sinister business corporate that want to make sure that they only get "pure and clean" employees that fit the "corporate profile". This kind of information is worth more than Gold these days.
All that I am saying guys...is...Honestly, if you didnt see this coming then youre simply to plain naive. Remember - Knowledge is YOUR power too.
If you think that is bad, think of how it would be when we figure out how to extend our age to double or triple or current life spans. Then they'd have even more time to build a profile on you.
The real story here is that flash is trouncing disk in improvements in Megs per $ and will one day catch up to and overtake disk. And it will be sooner than mmost people expect.
I don't see that. I think that we will see 2-4 TB HD when in the next 10 years. I'd be happy if flash caught up, but I'd think that flash would say get to be affordable on in the 500 GB range unless some prices were lowered to make the product very attractive. I think that both techs have a place. I could easily see a system with lets say 16-32 GB of RAM with a 100 GB flash drive and several 1 TB setup with RAID storing next gen. HD TV or DVD. The humans shouldn't really decide which storage medium needs to be used at any given moment, Windox X or Linux should automatically take care of that for the users so that it just works.
and 100's of gigs into a device the size of a 3.5" drive. The problem is that these devices would cost astronomical ammounts.
Some company needs to play with the idea and try to get it to work. At current costs it is unworkable, but if the manufacturer had to ramp up flash output by 100X to stick enough chips in a drive their cost might come down, and if could get 300 GB internal flashdrive for a laptop some people would buy even if it was expensive.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Also known as the 4th amendment.
I got a smart homes junk mail catalog the other day. They had a product $1,500 for an 80GB DVR with 4 video cameras, said it would record 4 weeks of video. Alot of their products were webenabled as well. Just wait until those products come down in price and the average household has 4-8 cameras storing video on a webenabled 160-300 GB DVR. I can promise you that there will be an effort by groups in the government to covertly download that video.
Even on vehicles that have throttle controls (like planes and boats), the throttle is a separate input device, has a large range of motion, and the vehicle being controlled usually experiences INFREQUENT velocity changes.
You know that would be different driving around in a vechile that has a boat throttle rather than a gas peddle. Boats force you to think ahead as well. There isn't a brake at all in a boat. You have to coast to stop every time. For all those that want to take out safety aids and put in a big spike in the car, why not lets just remove the brakes and stick in a boat throttles?
The house Un-American Activities Committe was an organization that got out of control and was reigned in by the very government you equate to China's and Nazi Germany's.
It is actually a very good US org. to compare to those 2 states. If anything, you could say it was a successful org that stamped out socialism and communism in the US at the mere expess of some civil liberties of those kicked out of the US. Kicked out of the country, or deported to a known communist's country, compared to disappearing people into work/death camps. In the US everyone knew that the Jap-Americans were being sent off somewhere and it was pretty much an approved of measure by the public. The German public also approved of "sending off" the Jews. Note, neither the US public nor the German public cared about them after that. The Jap-Americans were very lucky. Worse things could have easily happened to them. The US did have our moments of genocide. There is nothing else to call the forced relocation of the Native American population and their slow massacre by US armed forces.
And said before, those grievances were righted. Comparing the US internment camps with Nazi death camps is the worst kind of moronic hyperbole. It isn't hyperbole. It's a comparison. The Jap-Americans came out alive but with a public dislike of and mistrust of them. The Jews only came out because of Allied forces freeing them. The US was different from Nazi Germany but only in degree. The US did the same things, but not to the same level. It's a very important difference. People like to pretend that the US is perfect and that we've never gone through those sorts of phases. The US isn't prefect. We were lucky that's all.
It must be nice for you to mold history to your delusions. I wish I could ignore the truth for stupid political reasons like you do, but I'm not an imbecile, so you have what it takes and I don't.
I'm sad that you could easily ignore all the dark spots in US history because you want the US to be the shining beacon of justice to the world. You seem to be just like the Un-American Activities Committe. If I don't agree with your opinion, let's call me names and try to mold public opinion against me.
The Un-American Activities Committee didn't kill people, but that is about the best thing that can be said for the organization and the org that became the FBI of that time. Hoover was the US Hilter. He didn't go in for death camps. IF Hoover didn't like you, or your group or politics, he'd blacklist you so that you couldn't get a job, have FBI agents tail you everywhere, and try to get you deported to Russia at the drop of the hat. IF Hoover was alive and running the FBI today, all Greens, Libertains, any political group "left" of center and politics groups in the "far right", and most of Hollywood would be under FBI watch with files ready for a witch hunt and for them to deported out of the US.
Hoover was the most Un-American US citizen to ever be in the Federal government. Almost anything that Bush & Ashcroft have done now a days is almost small potatoes to what Hoover did then. I'm only grateful that we live a somewhat more free life now. With the internet, I can throw up a website and build a global community/political party; The internet doesn't mean that any one else would follow my B.S. unless they believed in it themselves. Hoover was against freedom of political thought. He railroaded the Socialist and Communists political parties out of the US, which if is really un_American. (I don't really care for either of the 2 platforms, but having a US government agency push any political party out should be very against our laws on so many levels.) If I want follow or spread the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Mons terism as a religion or political party, the FBI or other US governments shouldn't have the right to pick up anyone else that follows the FSM asks for all of our members and tries to get us fired from our jobs and removed from the country. Look at the US history; we weren't that much better than the Germans. We had camps of Japanese-Americans. Ours just weren't "death" camps. They could have easily turned that way though.
There is no freedom in China. There is no happiness in China.
Unless you happen to be in that top 1-5%. How is that much different from the US in the 1920s? I think that the Chinese will grow out of it or have another peasant rebellion. Of course if they have a peasant rebellion then most of the rest of the world would help them put it down so we could have cheap Chinese labor.
There are billions of jpegs out there, and unlike human language, they are documented unambiguously and in source code. And JPEG is used globally, unlike risky region-specific encodings such as English, Chinese, and Spanish (I'm only half kidding).
ASCII is safe. JPEG is safe. Basic HTML is safe. The only problem a thousand years from now will be finding the good stuff among all the boring crap our descendents will wish we'd deleted. (Then again search engines may be smarter than we are by 2106).
Personnally, I tend to agree with you, but there is always the chance that.png or some other nifty graphics format comes along in 10-15 years and its file format is modifiable in a way that will keep it around for another 50-100 years. I'd think that.jpg viewers would be around "forever" as there are alot of "pre-existing".jpgs that the future folks would like to view. I think that we'll be surprised shortly by common idiots with cameras... Well, I'm thinking of folks like my mom and some co-workers that would take pictures on the highest graphic setting or RAW just because it is the "best" way to keep images and end up with massive files. I guess that's the way my mom would fill up a 300 GB HD rather than home video. Compression might be thrown out the window for home image use. I'd hate to download those future 20-50 MB images that could just as easily have been 200K.
How much family history have people lost already due to dead hard disks, and not realising the need to continuously back up and format shift? Even if a DLTtape cartridge is still intact and readable in 75 years time, will there be anything to read it? Will JPEG decoders come with everyone's device to view photos?
I'll play it right back to you, How much family history was lost because only grandmama had the only copy of the pictures and there wasn't any way to easily copy them? Do you have "a" family photo ablum? How many pictures do you have in it? Is it the thousands that you have in your digital album? I barely look at normal photos except the first glance that someone show me. Now, digital phots? I look at everytime I do a major backup or inventory of CDs. Let's see I have a copy and several other family members have copies. I'll agree that the.jpg format may be replaced at somepoint, but how long would it take an automated tool to batch convert a few million.jpgs? Ok, quite awhile.
There is a reason why information about Area 51 has been kept secretive. It may very well be for the wrong reasons, but there is no proof of that. I for one will just sit back and be comforted that if there are facilities in this government that I cannot learn about, it must be pretty hard for other governments to learn about them too.
I like the theory that Area51 is just a decoy. I think that Area 51 needs to offically exist and all the proper paper work for the employees needs to be done. Part of me has a sweet spot for ultra high tech government toys, but I'd rathter the workers at the facility have an expection of decent health after working there rather than all dieing form long lingering diseases and the entire place is classified as not existant. If the "government" needs "black" offices and employess then it should have an entire accounting/health care structure to make sure those employees/citizens are very well looked after. I'm thinking of it from just the labor/health issues. If we were fighting a war with evil Nazis or communists then I could see working in a plant that could have long term health effects if it helped the US win the war. In a time of peace with no danger of being taken over, there is no reason for those classified workers to have to work in a facility that endangers their long term health.
There are numerous reasons why the general public has to be kept in the dark about certain issues. It could be so that your average uneducated person does not form irrational beliefs that could cause civil disorder.
I've got one word for you. Nuclear. I have nothing against nuclear devices either bombs, power planets, or medical equipment. I do have issues with improper storage of nuclear wastes and byproducts, but that's something else. I can envision things much, much worse than nuclear war. I'd fear a biological or nanotech war research plant far more than a mere aircraft testing field. We have thousandds of airfields that could do those same tests. Or maybe they'd just experiment on aircraft carriers in the future.
Anybody else think that the only reason the government still denies the existance of area 51 is to keep people looking at it? Makes you wonder why, doesn't it?/conspiracy theory
I always thought that a super secret government base would be like one of GI Joe's Cobra: you know in a mountain side with a big door that opens up only when craft are entering/exiting and only some local homes around the area where base employees live. I find that Area 51 is boring that it is viewable from space at all. I'd hope that our government has spent a few billion actually stealthing the entire airfield rather than "securing" an area where the general public and foreign intel keeps its eyes on.
I prefer html to PDF, but really, it's undeniably the standard format for stuff like this.
Nope, PDFs are a standard, but not THE standard. The big standard is just acsii text files, next html & pdf are tied, then rtf, & last is lit. (I hate lit with a passion. That damn MS lit reader wastes a ton of screen space trying to make your displayed page look like a freaking book. I'd love to easily convert alot of books in that format to something else.) Oh, I also forgot.pdb files. (I think that is a text file for plam pilot. is pretty popular as well.)
Now if you are talking about "e-book readers" then I'm sorry, there isn't a standard in that freaking field. Each maker wants you to use their format and only their format on their "e-book reader".
The first company that makes a nice reader that supports txt, html, rtf, pdf, and lit and has either a USB or compact flash to transfer files could make alot of money. They'd want to sell the damn thing for more than a laptop though, and it won't sell for that much.
Why is a global free market for goods considered good, but that for labor bad by so many inhabitants of "developed" nations?
Oh, come on, do you want the truth? We like being the "developed" nations and getting goods for cheap or near free. We like our wages/benefits high. We don't mind taking advantage of India's and China's vast horde's of workers to make throw away McDonald's toys. We don't want them to progress and do things like IT, engineering, lawyering, doctoring, or management jobs. In short, we want our cake and to eat it too.
It irks folks because maybe the "min. wage" should be 5 Chinese dollars a day for a task rather than 5.25 US dollars an hour for a task with alot less labour protection laws. (I don't see that one happening; do you?)
(I'm sure some one could point out a better link for MS history.) MS just hasn't been around a long time. For a computer company, they have and are large enough to survive anything except global war. Nintendo & Sony have both survived a WW. (Actually Nintendo made it through both WWI & WWII.)
As to what other things you can test with such a rig, I'm not sure, but I think this is really something that's worth spending this amount of money on just to make sure it does or doesn't work.
For a million? The government might as well do it for fundamental bluesky research. It may or may not work, but atleast we attempt to test it out. I'm curious what else they'd find just playing with it once setup though. O.k. Most of science progress is made because new instruments collect new data. We may have find some holes in our current theories with new wierd instruments.
Switching from Linux to Windows is like switching from girlfriend to wife.
Nah, that's bullshit. Windows goes down on me all the time.
Wouldn't be that Windows is the girlfriend that goes down on you all the time, but you end up marrying that Linux, which only goes down on you once a decade?
And all that without even going on about the badly chosen name. To someone in Japan, "X" means failure, and is pronounced "batsu", which is a penalty you have to take after a failure. And the kanji for bad luck (kyou) is an "X" in a box. Yeah, let's slap a 360 on it, to make it sound like "failure comes around again". And release it with weak software support so that it really is the "penalty box".
I didn't know that. I learned something new today! That one comment was worth reading the whole thread for. I don't have any thing for or against MS and the XBox line. I went with a PS2 because I had purchased an N64 before and was burned on the RPG front. N64 had like 2-3 good RPGs through its entire life. I watched PS1 get all those FF games. I bought the PS2 mainly to play all those older PS1 FF games. I picked up all the older FF games really cheap as well. I'm thinking about picking up a Revolution if it is backwards compatiable with the GameCube. (I'm not made out of money, and I'd like to get the most band for my buck.) I'm not into FPS, or racing games or sports games. I've got 2 elementary age kids so Nintendo will almost have to be my next 2 console purchases. My kids have been having alot of fun playing Zelda for N64 so I may hold off on getting anything newer though and just stick with PC stuff for myself.
Basically, you are saying that he isn't being punished for badmouthing a professor. He was being punished for doing it in an "unprofessional" manner that makes him look like a highschool drop out and not a dentist. He could have written pages and pages of actual critical faults of the professor and never have been found at fault. He could have had a virtual flame war about the professor as long as it was written "professionally" and abstracts it that the professor could have been any of his professors, then he couldn't have been found at found?
The whole article is about the U.S. being interested in *testing* the theory. To do this, you build a big-ass torroid (6M) and get it spinning fast (> 700m/s) and then energize a big-ass magnetic field (>37 T) and measure to see if the effect occurs. The effect in this case measuring something like 3 newtons.
If it's there, then HURRAY AND HUZZAH, Heim was a genius who goes down in the history books with Einstein and we have warp drive within 100 years.
If it doesn't work, then the theory is proven wrong, and Heim wasted 19 years of his life doing some really obnoxiously hard math.
The thing is, this is just a physics experiment, no different than when Michelson and Morley set up their twin mirror experiment. And although it's a deceptively simple experiment, it could have just as big of repercussions as M&M's.
O.k. Here is the "small" question. "How much would it cost to test?" Are we talking thousands, millions, or billions here? And also what other things can you test with a rig like this?
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Polling youths can tell us some valuable things about the coming perceptions of society. It is doing the world a disservice to exclude them from voicing their opinions and participating in debate. In this case, kids aren't identifying with scientists, and perhaps that is something worth examining.
I don't get why they don't try to farm out some new tests to high school science classes. I mean come on alot of things are try this and test for a few things and repeat as many times as we can afford. I remember being sick to death of nearly all "science" classes into college. Why? Because we didn't do any thing to push the field. We just did the same experiments that some folks 200-300 years ago did and are repeating it. I know part of that is to just introduce concepts to people, but come on can't we atleast rig up "new" tests or experiments to break new ground with instead of just repeating whats been done before?
What's really bad is we are rarely told why anything is really important. It just magically is for some reason. I have a math minor and really enjoyed math. Now, I don't use 90% of it and wonder what was the point sometimes. High school kids are not stupid and can be the cheap grad labor of the future.
Does any one else work in the public saftey field? We've been attempting to submit NIBRs data to the state for the last oh, 3 years or so. NIBRs is the replacement for UCR crime stats. There are 3 optional fields that I've always thought were funny. Were drugged used, were alcohol used, and were computer equipment used. I've always figured that was for some acdemics to query the FBI and find out how many crimes computer equipment were invovled with. There is a tiny problem with that though... I've not seen any our guys actually use those fields in the software, which if others don't use them, make the numbers off. ;
(We've been trying to submit to the state. The state is responsible for submitting to the FBI.) I didn't read the article just the summary, but it looked like the FBI was just surveying businesses and not using the data it already has.
The link to your specific page didn't work, but I was able to browse http://www.dedicatedmicrosus.com./ ;) Other than security cameras what the heck are you going to use 11 video feeds for? I liked the devices listed, but I don't have any money ;( to spend on these nifty toys. Have you ever seen the movie I think the name was Sliver (1993) about a rich guy putting video cameras in all the apartments and hallways of the apartment building that he owned? After seeing that, I always dreamed of wiring my own home and yard up like that. Call it peeping on the visitors. Nah, that wouldn't work cause the only person that visits us is my mother-in-law and I don't want to look at her. But the idea of recording everything that happens on and around my property and being "in control" is just so alluring.
I wouldn't say that it is off topic.
Heck, I've also always wanted a castle with secret passages. I'm just not going to ever afford to play with any of these neat toys!
O.K. Although, I agree with the folks that state that this just didn't seem well thought out, I have an app that could make use of more than 11+ video capture streams. Home security. During Christmas, I signed up for some "home automation" catalogs. I don't buy any of the stuff because its way out of my price range, but I was startled to find some cool things listed. Apparently several companies are selling a 4 camera setup, with 80 GB HD PVR for I think somewhere $1500-2000 for home security. They said that it would record 4 weeks of video. (I'm not sure if that is 4 weeks with 4 camera or 4 weeks with one camera though.) I keep thinking to myself that it seemed like a cool product, but I'd want alot more than 4 cameras, but I wouldn't want to just buy multiple systems. I'd want a HD solution that had several TB in RAID5 and designed to record as many camera feeds as possible. I'd want to have security camera feeds storaged into a nice very lockable cabinet that should survive a burglary.
All this can and WILL create a profile of you which Google easily can use for 2 things. 1) Direct their marketing at you with almost lethal accuracy and 2) Sell your information to the highest bidder...wether this is the government that make a "sweet trade-deal" with them...or the sinister business corporate that want to make sure that they only get "pure and clean" employees that fit the "corporate profile". This kind of information is worth more than Gold these days.
All that I am saying guys...is...Honestly, if you didnt see this coming then youre simply to plain naive. Remember - Knowledge is YOUR power too.
If you think that is bad, think of how it would be when we figure out how to extend our age to double or triple or current life spans. Then they'd have even more time to build a profile on you.
The real story here is that flash is trouncing disk in improvements in Megs per $ and will one day catch up to and overtake disk. And it will be sooner than mmost people expect.
I don't see that. I think that we will see 2-4 TB HD when in the next 10 years. I'd be happy if flash caught up, but I'd think that flash would say get to be affordable on in the 500 GB range unless some prices were lowered to make the product very attractive. I think that both techs have a place. I could easily see a system with lets say 16-32 GB of RAM with a 100 GB flash drive and several 1 TB setup with RAID storing next gen. HD TV or DVD. The humans shouldn't really decide which storage medium needs to be used at any given moment, Windox X or Linux should automatically take care of that for the users so that it just works.
and 100's of gigs into a device the size of a 3.5" drive. The problem is that these devices would cost astronomical ammounts.
Some company needs to play with the idea and try to get it to work. At current costs it is unworkable, but if the manufacturer had to ramp up flash output by 100X to stick enough chips in a drive their cost might come down, and if could get 300 GB internal flashdrive for a laptop some people would buy even if it was expensive.
Why do we humans keep trying to predict our technological future?
Because it's fun, and usually our best educated guesses are wrong a good chuck of the time.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Also known as the 4th amendment.
I got a smart homes junk mail catalog the other day. They had a product $1,500 for an 80GB DVR with 4 video cameras, said it would record 4 weeks of video. Alot of their products were webenabled as well. Just wait until those products come down in price and the average household has 4-8 cameras storing video on a webenabled 160-300 GB DVR. I can promise you that there will be an effort by groups in the government to covertly download that video.
Even on vehicles that have throttle controls (like planes and boats), the throttle is a separate input device, has a large range of motion, and the vehicle being controlled usually experiences INFREQUENT velocity changes.
You know that would be different driving around in a vechile that has a boat throttle rather than a gas peddle. Boats force you to think ahead as well. There isn't a brake at all in a boat. You have to coast to stop every time. For all those that want to take out safety aids and put in a big spike in the car, why not lets just remove the brakes and stick in a boat throttles?
The house Un-American Activities Committe was an organization that got out of control and was reigned in by the very government you equate to China's and Nazi Germany's.
It is actually a very good US org. to compare to those 2 states. If anything, you could say it was a successful org that stamped out socialism and communism in the US at the mere expess of some civil liberties of those kicked out of the US. Kicked out of the country, or deported to a known communist's country, compared to disappearing people into work/death camps. In the US everyone knew that the Jap-Americans were being sent off somewhere and it was pretty much an approved of measure by the public. The German public also approved of "sending off" the Jews. Note, neither the US public nor the German public cared about them after that. The Jap-Americans were very lucky. Worse things could have easily happened to them. The US did have our moments of genocide. There is nothing else to call the forced relocation of the Native American population and their slow massacre by US armed forces.
And said before, those grievances were righted. Comparing the US internment camps with Nazi death camps is the worst kind of moronic hyperbole.
It isn't hyperbole. It's a comparison. The Jap-Americans came out alive but with a public dislike of and mistrust of them. The Jews only came out because of Allied forces freeing them. The US was different from Nazi Germany but only in degree. The US did the same things, but not to the same level. It's a very important difference. People like to pretend that the US is perfect and that we've never gone through those sorts of phases. The US isn't prefect. We were lucky that's all.
It must be nice for you to mold history to your delusions. I wish I could ignore the truth for stupid political reasons like you do, but I'm not an imbecile, so you have what it takes and I don't.
I'm sad that you could easily ignore all the dark spots in US history because you want the US to be the shining beacon of justice to the world. You seem to be just like the Un-American Activities Committe. If I don't agree with your opinion, let's call me names and try to mold public opinion against me.
Do some research we weren't nearly as "free" then as you seem to think. Of course this was mainly abit later.t m
s terism as a religion or political party, the FBI or other US governments shouldn't have the right to pick up anyone else that follows the FSM asks for all of our members and tries to get us fired from our jobs and removed from the country. Look at the US history; we weren't that much better than the Germans. We had camps of Japanese-Americans. Ours just weren't "death" camps. They could have easily turned that way though.
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The Un-American Activities Committee didn't kill people, but that is about the best thing that can be said for the organization and the org that became the FBI of that time. Hoover was the US Hilter. He didn't go in for death camps. IF Hoover didn't like you, or your group or politics, he'd blacklist you so that you couldn't get a job, have FBI agents tail you everywhere, and try to get you deported to Russia at the drop of the hat. IF Hoover was alive and running the FBI today, all Greens, Libertains, any political group "left" of center and politics groups in the "far right", and most of Hollywood would be under FBI watch with files ready for a witch hunt and for them to deported out of the US.
Hoover was the most Un-American US citizen to ever be in the Federal government. Almost anything that Bush & Ashcroft have done now a days is almost small potatoes to what Hoover did then. I'm only grateful that we live a somewhat more free life now. With the internet, I can throw up a website and build a global community/political party; The internet doesn't mean that any one else would follow my B.S. unless they believed in it themselves. Hoover was against freedom of political thought. He railroaded the Socialist and Communists political parties out of the US, which if is really un_American. (I don't really care for either of the 2 platforms, but having a US government agency push any political party out should be very against our laws on so many levels.) If I want follow or spread the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Mon
There is no freedom in China. There is no happiness in China.
Unless you happen to be in that top 1-5%. How is that much different from the US in the 1920s? I think that the Chinese will grow out of it or have another peasant rebellion. Of course if they have a peasant rebellion then most of the rest of the world would help them put it down so we could have cheap Chinese labor.
There are billions of jpegs out there, and unlike human language, they are documented unambiguously and in source code. And JPEG is used globally, unlike risky region-specific encodings such as English, Chinese, and Spanish (I'm only half kidding).
.png or some other nifty graphics format comes along in 10-15 years and its file format is modifiable in a way that will keep it around for another 50-100 years. I'd think that .jpg viewers would be around "forever" as there are alot of "pre-existing" .jpgs that the future folks would like to view. I think that we'll be surprised shortly by common idiots with cameras... Well, I'm thinking of folks like my mom and some co-workers that would take pictures on the highest graphic setting or RAW just because it is the "best" way to keep images and end up with massive files. I guess that's the way my mom would fill up a 300 GB HD rather than home video. Compression might be thrown out the window for home image use. I'd hate to download those future 20-50 MB images that could just as easily have been 200K.
ASCII is safe. JPEG is safe. Basic HTML is safe. The only problem a thousand years from now will be finding the good stuff among all the boring crap our descendents will wish we'd deleted. (Then again search engines may be smarter than we are by 2106).
Personnally, I tend to agree with you, but there is always the chance that
How much family history have people lost already due to dead hard disks, and not realising the need to continuously back up and format shift? Even if a DLTtape cartridge is still intact and readable in 75 years time, will there be anything to read it? Will JPEG decoders come with everyone's device to view photos?
.jpg format may be replaced at somepoint, but how long would it take an automated tool to batch convert a few million .jpgs? Ok, quite awhile.
I'll play it right back to you, How much family history was lost because only grandmama had the only copy of the pictures and there wasn't any way to easily copy them? Do you have "a" family photo ablum? How many pictures do you have in it? Is it the thousands that you have in your digital album? I barely look at normal photos except the first glance that someone show me. Now, digital phots? I look at everytime I do a major backup or inventory of CDs. Let's see I have a copy and several other family members have copies. I'll agree that the
There is a reason why information about Area 51 has been kept secretive. It may very well be for the wrong reasons, but there is no proof of that. I for one will just sit back and be comforted that if there are facilities in this government that I cannot learn about, it must be pretty hard for other governments to learn about them too.
I like the theory that Area51 is just a decoy. I think that Area 51 needs to offically exist and all the proper paper work for the employees needs to be done. Part of me has a sweet spot for ultra high tech government toys, but I'd rathter the workers at the facility have an expection of decent health after working there rather than all dieing form long lingering diseases and the entire place is classified as not existant. If the "government" needs "black" offices and employess then it should have an entire accounting/health care structure to make sure those employees/citizens are very well looked after. I'm thinking of it from just the labor/health issues. If we were fighting a war with evil Nazis or communists then I could see working in a plant that could have long term health effects if it helped the US win the war. In a time of peace with no danger of being taken over, there is no reason for those classified workers to have to work in a facility that endangers their long term health.
There are numerous reasons why the general public has to be kept in the dark about certain issues. It could be so that your average uneducated person does not form irrational beliefs that could cause civil disorder.
I've got one word for you. Nuclear. I have nothing against nuclear devices either bombs, power planets, or medical equipment. I do have issues with improper storage of nuclear wastes and byproducts, but that's something else. I can envision things much, much worse than nuclear war. I'd fear a biological or nanotech war research plant far more than a mere aircraft testing field. We have thousandds of airfields that could do those same tests. Or maybe they'd just experiment on aircraft carriers in the future.
Anybody else think that the only reason the government still denies the existance of area 51 is to keep people looking at it? Makes you wonder why, doesn't it? /conspiracy theory
I always thought that a super secret government base would be like one of GI Joe's Cobra: you know in a mountain side with a big door that opens up only when craft are entering/exiting and only some local homes around the area where base employees live. I find that Area 51 is boring that it is viewable from space at all. I'd hope that our government has spent a few billion actually stealthing the entire airfield rather than "securing" an area where the general public and foreign intel keeps its eyes on.
I prefer html to PDF, but really, it's undeniably the standard format for stuff like this.
.pdb files. (I think that is a text file for plam pilot. is pretty popular as well.)
Nope, PDFs are a standard, but not THE standard. The big standard is just acsii text files, next html & pdf are tied, then rtf, & last is lit. (I hate lit with a passion. That damn MS lit reader wastes a ton of screen space trying to make your displayed page look like a freaking book. I'd love to easily convert alot of books in that format to something else.) Oh, I also forgot
Now if you are talking about "e-book readers" then I'm sorry, there isn't a standard in that freaking field. Each maker wants you to use their format and only their format on their "e-book reader".
The first company that makes a nice reader that supports txt, html, rtf, pdf, and lit and has either a USB or compact flash to transfer files could make alot of money. They'd want to sell the damn thing for more than a laptop though, and it won't sell for that much.
Why is a global free market for goods considered good, but that for labor bad by so many inhabitants of "developed" nations?
Oh, come on, do you want the truth? We like being the "developed" nations and getting goods for cheap or near free. We like our wages/benefits high. We don't mind taking advantage of India's and China's vast horde's of workers to make throw away McDonald's toys. We don't want them to progress and do things like IT, engineering, lawyering, doctoring, or management jobs. In short, we want our cake and to eat it too.
It irks folks because maybe the "min. wage" should be 5 Chinese dollars a day for a task rather than 5.25 US dollars an hour for a task with alot less labour protection laws. (I don't see that one happening; do you?)
For long term business survival, these links tell all.
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http://www.nintendo.com/corp/history.jsp
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/Histor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
(I'm sure some one could point out a better link for MS history.) MS just hasn't been around a long time. For a computer company, they have and are large enough to survive anything except global war. Nintendo & Sony have both survived a WW. (Actually Nintendo made it through both WWI & WWII.)
As to what other things you can test with such a rig, I'm not sure, but I think this is really something that's worth spending this amount of money on just to make sure it does or doesn't work.
For a million? The government might as well do it for fundamental bluesky research. It may or may not work, but atleast we attempt to test it out. I'm curious what else they'd find just playing with it once setup though. O.k. Most of science progress is made because new instruments collect new data. We may have find some holes in our current theories with new wierd instruments.
Switching from Linux to Windows is like switching from girlfriend to wife.
Nah, that's bullshit. Windows goes down on me all the time.
Wouldn't be that Windows is the girlfriend that goes down on you all the time, but you end up marrying that Linux, which only goes down on you once a decade?
And all that without even going on about the badly chosen name. To someone in Japan, "X" means failure, and is pronounced "batsu", which is a penalty you have to take after a failure. And the kanji for bad luck (kyou) is an "X" in a box. Yeah, let's slap a 360 on it, to make it sound like "failure comes around again". And release it with weak software support so that it really is the "penalty box".
I didn't know that. I learned something new today! That one comment was worth reading the whole thread for. I don't have any thing for or against MS and the XBox line. I went with a PS2 because I had purchased an N64 before and was burned on the RPG front. N64 had like 2-3 good RPGs through its entire life. I watched PS1 get all those FF games. I bought the PS2 mainly to play all those older PS1 FF games. I picked up all the older FF games really cheap as well. I'm thinking about picking up a Revolution if it is backwards compatiable with the GameCube. (I'm not made out of money, and I'd like to get the most band for my buck.) I'm not into FPS, or racing games or sports games. I've got 2 elementary age kids so Nintendo will almost have to be my next 2 console purchases. My kids have been having alot of fun playing Zelda for N64 so I may hold off on getting anything newer though and just stick with PC stuff for myself.
Basically, you are saying that he isn't being punished for badmouthing a professor. He was being punished for doing it in an "unprofessional" manner that makes him look like a highschool drop out and not a dentist. He could have written pages and pages of actual critical faults of the professor and never have been found at fault. He could have had a virtual flame war about the professor as long as it was written "professionally" and abstracts it that the professor could have been any of his professors, then he couldn't have been found at found?
The whole article is about the U.S. being interested in *testing* the theory. To do this, you build a big-ass torroid (6M) and get it spinning fast (> 700m/s) and then energize a big-ass magnetic field (>37 T) and measure to see if the effect occurs. The effect in this case measuring something like 3 newtons.
If it's there, then HURRAY AND HUZZAH, Heim was a genius who goes down in the history books with Einstein and we have warp drive within 100 years.
If it doesn't work, then the theory is proven wrong, and Heim wasted 19 years of his life doing some really obnoxiously hard math.
The thing is, this is just a physics experiment, no different than when Michelson and Morley set up their twin mirror experiment. And although it's a deceptively simple experiment, it could have just as big of repercussions as M&M's.
O.k. Here is the "small" question. "How much would it cost to test?" Are we talking thousands, millions, or billions here? And also what other things can you test with a rig like this?