I had far less trouble getting a tourist visa for China than US. And their border control was far less invasive. The only unusual step was getting checked via remote IR thermometer, due to the swine flu epidemic.
At the Olympics which did happen to be hosted in USA, in Atlanta, after all the nasty border control security the one terrorist act that actually occured was performed by a domestic terrorist.
Your phrase "used to educate them" strikes a chord. This is such a hopeless situation where we have this enfattened, entitled and apathetic beast called "the public" that must be "educated" against its will. But it occurs to me that at various points in history this "public" was not always anti-intellectual, perhaps when progress meant that a kingdom/tribe/nation would have bigger catapults to crush their enemy or cures to prevent double-digit percentages of the population dying off in plagues. Maybe that's what it will take to get today's population's ass in the scientific gear.
Heh. Any full blooded Croatian will tell you that Croatia is 1300 years old. Or, if you wanted to split hairs, 1100-- the first king was crowned in 925.
Good points. The GPS example is good, as it shows what can be done given enough data collection time. I had similar experience with WiFi localization based on RSSI measurements.
The submitter seems to have a method based on interferometry, which makes sense. Some sensor networking people had success with it in static cases. But I am afraid that a real working prototype (outside of a chamber, in a real environment with clutter and mounted on a subject) will encounter all sorts of noise sources--which can't be calibrated away--that will make the accuracy suffer.
Maybe it's doable with enough (a lot) of development effort. But I don't believe the claim as it is in the article:D
To be honest 1mm accuracy from RF localization sounds waaaaaay unrealistic. Yes I believe it is possible to get it in a clean setup but I don't see how it could work in practice. I really hope he has a silver bullet because otherwise he is wasting his time.
There seems to be plenty of ways to assign the blame and criticize people, but how about some ways out? Force people to get educated, start a land war...
Well, with so much of mundane stuff being done electronically, I now find that when I do use a pen, I can take the time to do it better. I like to use a nice thin or caligraphic dipping pen with some awesome pigment inks.
The nuclear reactor could be damaged too, especially in transit. It would suck if it got to the moon and the astronauts found out it won't start. Someone tough would have to walk into the hot zone, lift the cover and start the reactor manually:D
I hate to say it but this is the crap that happens with executable content. Microsoft learned it the hard way and now the Web is about to learn it. I have a quad-core machine with gobs of RAM yet I dread surfing the web and watching the CPU utilization spike.
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I had far less trouble getting a tourist visa for China than US. And their border control was far less invasive. The only unusual step was getting checked via remote IR thermometer, due to the swine flu epidemic.
At the Olympics which did happen to be hosted in USA, in Atlanta, after all the nasty border control security the one terrorist act that actually occured was performed by a domestic terrorist.
yeah srsly, citing a Ph.D GPA? u r doing it wrong
Your phrase "used to educate them" strikes a chord. This is such a hopeless situation where we have this enfattened, entitled and apathetic beast called "the public" that must be "educated" against its will. But it occurs to me that at various points in history this "public" was not always anti-intellectual, perhaps when progress meant that a kingdom/tribe/nation would have bigger catapults to crush their enemy or cures to prevent double-digit percentages of the population dying off in plagues. Maybe that's what it will take to get today's population's ass in the scientific gear.
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Heh. Any full blooded Croatian will tell you that Croatia is 1300 years old. Or, if you wanted to split hairs, 1100-- the first king was crowned in 925.
Good points. The GPS example is good, as it shows what can be done given enough data collection time. I had similar experience with WiFi localization based on RSSI measurements.
The submitter seems to have a method based on interferometry, which makes sense. Some sensor networking people had success with it in static cases. But I am afraid that a real working prototype (outside of a chamber, in a real environment with clutter and mounted on a subject) will encounter all sorts of noise sources--which can't be calibrated away--that will make the accuracy suffer.
Maybe it's doable with enough (a lot) of development effort. But I don't believe the claim as it is in the article :D
To be honest 1mm accuracy from RF localization sounds waaaaaay unrealistic. Yes I believe it is possible to get it in a clean setup but I don't see how it could work in practice. I really hope he has a silver bullet because otherwise he is wasting his time.
It is my understanding that small airplanes are extremely popular in Alaska, where the road infrastructure is not very dense.
For all we know he is on some uncharted Caribbean island sipping pina coladas, sitting on a pile of off-shore cash he didn't want the IRS to find :D
An executive's heaven one way or another, I guess.
Now we just need a supply of newborn humans to take heart cells from, and we'll be able to apply the same technique :D
Magic beats your cardboard tubes any day!
There seems to be plenty of ways to assign the blame and criticize people, but how about some ways out? Force people to get educated, start a land war...
Well, with so much of mundane stuff being done electronically, I now find that when I do use a pen, I can take the time to do it better. I like to use a nice thin or caligraphic dipping pen with some awesome pigment inks.
My favorite nibs are Hunt nibs
My favorite ink is Winsor&Newton
The nuclear reactor could be damaged too, especially in transit. It would suck if it got to the moon and the astronauts found out it won't start. Someone tough would have to walk into the hot zone, lift the cover and start the reactor manually :D
69 might be recognizable but would definitely be unknown!
I usually put a big aftermarket cooler on the CPU and disconnect its fan. It still barely gets warm and is 100% silent.
If you modify their code and try to distribute it you will be forced to release the source--and they will take it back! :D
I thought you said iodine! Doh
Of course not, he is pro Bono.
I concur with the parent, I was involved with the Challenger project but all I did was make some simple gaskets so no problems with rehiring.
Nightfall (Isaac Asimov, 1941, and Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg, 1990)
Not only that, this car will need patches all the time.
I hate to say it but this is the crap that happens with executable content. Microsoft learned it the hard way and now the Web is about to learn it. I have a quad-core machine with gobs of RAM yet I dread surfing the web and watching the CPU utilization spike.
Russian Orthodox phone: It answers *you*!
the third world countries can use the awesome money they now make from fuel crop to buy the expensive corn from USA farmers! win-win.