Oh and I guess I'll also preemptively post the cliche slashdot comment "but the solar system is cruising through the galaxy at xxx KM/s so it's actually xxx + 16KM/s"
If I'm not mistaken, we can't accelerate a rocket-powered device to that speed that close to Earth. It'd take more time/distance, and actually better technology because the current record holder for the fastest man made object is the New Horizons probe, which left earth orbit at 16 km/s. The asteroid was cruising at 17km/s. For something bigger, well the ISS is at about 7.6 km/s for example. That doesn't mean it can't go faster, it just doesn't need to to stay in orbit but they probably didn't prep it to go faster than it needs to either.
I guess they never anticipated that a contactless magic wireless super lazy marketing gimmick receiver system could potentially have a similar device built to do the exact same thing the exact same way. I know, I'm sure they're just SHOCKED over there to find out someone did it.
Pretty much all PC software, tablet app, or other piece of software has a EULA that says "if this breaks your OS or PC or anything, you can't sue us." With software embedded in medical products, it's FDA law that you can't do that. So, write the equivilant of a Toyota Prius acceleration glitch into your pacemaker and it's lawsuit time and you're going to lose. Maybe they should take some of that 1000%+ profit margin on medical equipment and put it into hiring programmers who actually know what they're doing.
The only reason I'd turn down a "good" job as they put it, with good wages, is if I could already tell it was mismanaged, the technology was awful, there were undesirable employees like people with bad attitudes or people completely lacking in basic computer or office work skills or excessively lazy people. If you pay enough attention to the small things during a tour and/or interview, you can pick up on those types of things. No amount of money would make me work at a "bad" place so I 100% agree that it's actually the employer's fault. In fact, how can even say it's some sort of skill gap when they interview 5 people and offer the job to the top one who turns it down so they call the 2nd person and they turn it down too. That seems pretty obvious to me. It'd only a skill gap if they interview 5 people and offer the job to 0 of them because they all sucked.
It's also worth mentioning that Tek Systems, my old IT placement and long term project contracting company, was desperate for COBOL and RPG programmers and had dozens of listings for them at insanely high wages. Well guess what, upgrade your technology and you'll find plenty of workers to fill your jobs! It's not the college's fault that your system is 25 years old.
Such a theoretical mass swap, particle replacement system would logically not result in more mass in our universe and less in another. It's a mirror, not a funhouse mirror.
Let's say they do oscillate at 10 times per second and both particles exist together at some point because of an unevenness. Then with 10 particles, 5 would be unbalanced one way and one towards the other universe, as it is a cycle.
So let's say it's a perfectly even system like two moons orbiting a planet. They're always offsetting the other so they're in perfectly even balance, which would not cause an inbalance of mass.
There's a really old theory that I like better. Instead of neutron swaps with a parallel universe, there's an antimatter/event horizon theory that says "virtual" exotic particles that are basically matter and antimatter pairs are being created together in empty space all the times. They have mass so they collide and destroy each other very quickly, creating a net mass of zero and positive energy. But in theory, it isn't a natural effect, it's mass derived from energy. I think the basis of the theory was some sort of small scale energy to mass conversion thing where light and heat and other energy transition into "fake" matter that does actually have mass then back into energy when they collide. So at the edge of a black hole, one particle could get sucked in while another escapes, creating dark matter. It was a stupid theory since there's a 50/50 chance that a + particle would get sucked in instead of a - one basically, causing no creation of antimatter along an event horizon.
Of course that explains dark matter but makes "dark energy" worse because some of the univers's energy would me MIA for a bit at all times.
I have an alternative theory. How often do you see a story saying "astronomers find out ____ is actually much bigger/smaller than they thought" or "____ actually has more planets orbiting it than we thought." So they're supposed to be counting all mass in the universe AND they're using almost exclusively reflected radiation to do it?! Dark matter is a math error, if you can even call it that when the error itself is thinking you can even estimate something that complicated with our crappy technology. Creating all these theories about it are just idiotic. It's right up there with lightning....hmm, must = Zeus. Dark matter is 100% made up with almost no basis in reality.
Methane would build up in the tubes, causing the potential for an explosion and whatever system "deals" with it can break down.
It'd have to be piston driven from behind because no velocity of air can dislodge certain viscosity materials and no reasonable air pressure can move heavy metals.
Certain animals would easily take refuge in the tubes and catch ridiculous amounts of diseases. With thousands of entrances and exits, that's a bad idea not to mention that it'd be a route directly into a building or house (potentially).
Then someone could break into the system anywhere and drop in poisonous gas that can get past methane and disease focusing blocking techniques and spread it to every building.
And best of all, Mr Fusion that some CA university is working on can fuse any garbage material and create a positive net energy:-D wohoo! I vote for Mr Fusion over a Futurama tube system lol.
I think that Iran should declare war on the US over it. That'd be good for some lolz. You know, like every youtube video where a little fluffy kitteh picks a fight with a doberman:-P But honestly, what are they going to do? Threaten us and Israel, build weapons, launch test missiles? Seriously, I can't think of anything they can or would do about it and if they formally attacked us, that'd be about it for them. This is going to embarrass the hell out of them when they basically are forced to do nothing about it.
I've always believed in the tried and true method of if the person's a lazy, half asleep, do-nothing moron at their job, they get fired. That does sort of leapfrop the whole drug test thing. Oh and if they're unstable, shaky, and can't concentrate as well. That does sort of cover the majority of illegal or pending-illegal drugs.
I'm sure while they're rushing, they'll use the best possible construction methods and safety. You know, like Extreme Home Makeover where they rush the utility installs and use cement hardeners then there's a followup crew there fixing cracks and leaks for the next month.
I can type around 100 WPM on a standard keyboard so me + touchscreen keyboard = very impatient and frustrated me. So to finally have some sort of physical keyboard is really nice. It sure beats Apple and they're all about useability...wait no, that other thing; style. So now this has an actual serious chance of taking a bite out of the ipad market.
If a user walks into a store and buys the prettiest device, they're too stupid to use a Windows-based device anyway. If you think about it, the average consumer walks into a store and asks about it and hears it's really fast, it's an OS similar to what they're used to, and you can type quickly on it. Sold!
The alternating frame system drops it to like 12FPS in a normal 3D movie. Something rushing across the screen really fast looks sooooo bad to me! I'm one of those people that can see the rainbow in even a high end DLP projector, probably from gaming and good nerves, but I've heard complaints from older and slower people as well. This is definitely a much needed step in the right direction. I've personally stopped paying extra for 3D movies and watched 2D versions to save money and get what I see as a better product. That's not good from an income standpoint for the movie or the theater.
So instead of a password to get in, you can use a password OR a facial recognition system. What improved security!
But, the question is, can it recognize black people? (see HP's awesome facial recognition "oversight")
I'm about 99% sure that thus far there have never been 2 spacecraft vehicles in the "air" at the same time in all of human history. But hey, go decide who has the right of way at a cosmic 4 way stop lol. Okay, it probably focuses more on realistic stuff like leaving behind space junk but still, kinda funny.
I think it's a lot simpler than that. Stuff in space that can do stuff is rare and expensive so you don't remove it when it's up there. If it doesn't "have to" come down, it won't until the reasons to land exceed the reasons not to. Experimental devices often are used for actual useful work while being tested if they're tested long enough anyway.
Can nobody else figure this out?! Oregon + cat + rare centuries old plague = witch. That's just clear as day lol. Obviously it was a black cat as well. Time to start up the Salem witch trials again! What? I have the wrong Salem? It's Salem Massachusetts, not Salem Oregon? Shut up, lol.
Okay, theory 2: apparently icanhascheezburger.com wasn't kidding. Cats really are trying to kill everyone and take over the world.
Oh, and major correction to the bajillion above posts. This is NOT evolutionary Darwinism. This dumbass who basically tried to wrestle a rat away from a stray cat is doing something immensely stupid that will get everyone else killed. That's sort of the opposite.
Who keeps Linux on a shelf? I'd say "off the internet" or "off the hard drive" Linux lol. By the way, there's no nice way to say this, but they could perhaps assign 5% of the computing resources to "help UK researchers stay on the forefront of observational cosmotology"
I think the folks over at The Onion have figured out the pattern to a hit pop song. I present as evidence, K'Ronikka with Booty Wave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCjJ0VBjjU
Or they could use those new 400 sq mm (or whatever) dies from Thailand that were just posted about on slashdot so I can also use my tablet to cook on. Just throwing it out there as a feature option lol.
"Oh no, my poor insurance company shouldn't have to pay $3000 for this device. It's too high! I will not buy it!" You don't hear that all that often (no pun intended) so that's why the cost is so high. Econ basics, people. Cost goes up, sales go down. When you factor in "I don't give a crap what it costs, I'm not the one paying for it" that does tend to throw cost off a bit. I know hearing aids aren't as covered as other medical devices, treatments, and prescriptions but they're not 100% out of pocket very often either.
Oh and the million dollars or more in testing to get FDA approval plays a factor. I have a feeling Microsoft didn't even put a million into testing the Xbox 360 lol.
I disagree. You can't screw up too many times before you fail. They BARELY survived Vista and now Apple has around double the market share since pre-vista. Just ask Myspace and AOL and AVG and GM what screwing up repeatedly and in major ways did to their customer base. And CC what they say it to Paypal, Comcast, and AT&T.
By the way, as detrimental as this is in the end to Microsoft, at least it's a more level playing field. I run a small shop and OEM Win7 Home Premium copies cost me $99 so closing up the gap a bit on those asshole OEMs is kind of nice. Yeah, I won't be using RT obviously and they'll get Win8 for like $50 but still. I'm so sick of HP using garbage parts, getting Windows for half the price, and undercutting my prices on low end systems. MS makes it so I can't even compete.
I also don't think this will "kill" tablets for them. If the tablet can basically run any windows app (that remains to be determined) then anyone like me would pick it over an iOS or Android device that can only (safely) run preapproved stuff from their walled garden.
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Oh and I guess I'll also preemptively post the cliche slashdot comment "but the solar system is cruising through the galaxy at xxx KM/s so it's actually xxx + 16KM/s"
If I'm not mistaken, we can't accelerate a rocket-powered device to that speed that close to Earth. It'd take more time/distance, and actually better technology because the current record holder for the fastest man made object is the New Horizons probe, which left earth orbit at 16 km/s. The asteroid was cruising at 17km/s. For something bigger, well the ISS is at about 7.6 km/s for example. That doesn't mean it can't go faster, it just doesn't need to to stay in orbit but they probably didn't prep it to go faster than it needs to either.
I guess they never anticipated that a contactless magic wireless super lazy marketing gimmick receiver system could potentially have a similar device built to do the exact same thing the exact same way. I know, I'm sure they're just SHOCKED over there to find out someone did it.
Pretty much all PC software, tablet app, or other piece of software has a EULA that says "if this breaks your OS or PC or anything, you can't sue us." With software embedded in medical products, it's FDA law that you can't do that. So, write the equivilant of a Toyota Prius acceleration glitch into your pacemaker and it's lawsuit time and you're going to lose. Maybe they should take some of that 1000%+ profit margin on medical equipment and put it into hiring programmers who actually know what they're doing.
The only reason I'd turn down a "good" job as they put it, with good wages, is if I could already tell it was mismanaged, the technology was awful, there were undesirable employees like people with bad attitudes or people completely lacking in basic computer or office work skills or excessively lazy people.
If you pay enough attention to the small things during a tour and/or interview, you can pick up on those types of things. No amount of money would make me work at a "bad" place so I 100% agree that it's actually the employer's fault.
In fact, how can even say it's some sort of skill gap when they interview 5 people and offer the job to the top one who turns it down so they call the 2nd person and they turn it down too. That seems pretty obvious to me. It'd only a skill gap if they interview 5 people and offer the job to 0 of them because they all sucked.
It's also worth mentioning that Tek Systems, my old IT placement and long term project contracting company, was desperate for COBOL and RPG programmers and had dozens of listings for them at insanely high wages. Well guess what, upgrade your technology and you'll find plenty of workers to fill your jobs! It's not the college's fault that your system is 25 years old.
Tor? Why? How about in Firefox or IE8 or 9 hit ctrl-shift-P. Tada, temporarily no more non-session cookies are preserved (among other privacy perks).
Such a theoretical mass swap, particle replacement system would logically not result in more mass in our universe and less in another. It's a mirror, not a funhouse mirror.
Let's say they do oscillate at 10 times per second and both particles exist together at some point because of an unevenness. Then with 10 particles, 5 would be unbalanced one way and one towards the other universe, as it is a cycle.
So let's say it's a perfectly even system like two moons orbiting a planet. They're always offsetting the other so they're in perfectly even balance, which would not cause an inbalance of mass.
There's a really old theory that I like better. Instead of neutron swaps with a parallel universe, there's an antimatter/event horizon theory that says "virtual" exotic particles that are basically matter and antimatter pairs are being created together in empty space all the times. They have mass so they collide and destroy each other very quickly, creating a net mass of zero and positive energy. But in theory, it isn't a natural effect, it's mass derived from energy. I think the basis of the theory was some sort of small scale energy to mass conversion thing where light and heat and other energy transition into "fake" matter that does actually have mass then back into energy when they collide. So at the edge of a black hole, one particle could get sucked in while another escapes, creating dark matter. It was a stupid theory since there's a 50/50 chance that a + particle would get sucked in instead of a - one basically, causing no creation of antimatter along an event horizon.
Of course that explains dark matter but makes "dark energy" worse because some of the univers's energy would me MIA for a bit at all times.
I have an alternative theory. How often do you see a story saying "astronomers find out ____ is actually much bigger/smaller than they thought" or "____ actually has more planets orbiting it than we thought." So they're supposed to be counting all mass in the universe AND they're using almost exclusively reflected radiation to do it?! Dark matter is a math error, if you can even call it that when the error itself is thinking you can even estimate something that complicated with our crappy technology. Creating all these theories about it are just idiotic. It's right up there with lightning....hmm, must = Zeus. Dark matter is 100% made up with almost no basis in reality.
Methane would build up in the tubes, causing the potential for an explosion and whatever system "deals" with it can break down.
:-D wohoo! I vote for Mr Fusion over a Futurama tube system lol.
It'd have to be piston driven from behind because no velocity of air can dislodge certain viscosity materials and no reasonable air pressure can move heavy metals.
Certain animals would easily take refuge in the tubes and catch ridiculous amounts of diseases. With thousands of entrances and exits, that's a bad idea not to mention that it'd be a route directly into a building or house (potentially).
Then someone could break into the system anywhere and drop in poisonous gas that can get past methane and disease focusing blocking techniques and spread it to every building.
And best of all, Mr Fusion that some CA university is working on can fuse any garbage material and create a positive net energy
I think that Iran should declare war on the US over it. That'd be good for some lolz. You know, like every youtube video where a little fluffy kitteh picks a fight with a doberman :-P But honestly, what are they going to do? Threaten us and Israel, build weapons, launch test missiles? Seriously, I can't think of anything they can or would do about it and if they formally attacked us, that'd be about it for them. This is going to embarrass the hell out of them when they basically are forced to do nothing about it.
Um, most Russians and Chinese and they're both in closer proximity.
I've always believed in the tried and true method of if the person's a lazy, half asleep, do-nothing moron at their job, they get fired. That does sort of leapfrop the whole drug test thing. Oh and if they're unstable, shaky, and can't concentrate as well. That does sort of cover the majority of illegal or pending-illegal drugs.
I'm sure while they're rushing, they'll use the best possible construction methods and safety. You know, like Extreme Home Makeover where they rush the utility installs and use cement hardeners then there's a followup crew there fixing cracks and leaks for the next month.
I can type around 100 WPM on a standard keyboard so me + touchscreen keyboard = very impatient and frustrated me. So to finally have some sort of physical keyboard is really nice. It sure beats Apple and they're all about useability...wait no, that other thing; style. So now this has an actual serious chance of taking a bite out of the ipad market.
If a user walks into a store and buys the prettiest device, they're too stupid to use a Windows-based device anyway. If you think about it, the average consumer walks into a store and asks about it and hears it's really fast, it's an OS similar to what they're used to, and you can type quickly on it. Sold!
The alternating frame system drops it to like 12FPS in a normal 3D movie. Something rushing across the screen really fast looks sooooo bad to me! I'm one of those people that can see the rainbow in even a high end DLP projector, probably from gaming and good nerves, but I've heard complaints from older and slower people as well. This is definitely a much needed step in the right direction. I've personally stopped paying extra for 3D movies and watched 2D versions to save money and get what I see as a better product. That's not good from an income standpoint for the movie or the theater.
So instead of a password to get in, you can use a password OR a facial recognition system. What improved security!
But, the question is, can it recognize black people? (see HP's awesome facial recognition "oversight")
I'm about 99% sure that thus far there have never been 2 spacecraft vehicles in the "air" at the same time in all of human history. But hey, go decide who has the right of way at a cosmic 4 way stop lol. Okay, it probably focuses more on realistic stuff like leaving behind space junk but still, kinda funny.
I think it's a lot simpler than that. Stuff in space that can do stuff is rare and expensive so you don't remove it when it's up there. If it doesn't "have to" come down, it won't until the reasons to land exceed the reasons not to. Experimental devices often are used for actual useful work while being tested if they're tested long enough anyway.
And people intelligent enough to wash their hands before touching their mouth and nose after touching a shopping cart for example.
Can nobody else figure this out?! Oregon + cat + rare centuries old plague = witch. That's just clear as day lol. Obviously it was a black cat as well. Time to start up the Salem witch trials again! What? I have the wrong Salem? It's Salem Massachusetts, not Salem Oregon? Shut up, lol.
Okay, theory 2: apparently icanhascheezburger.com wasn't kidding. Cats really are trying to kill everyone and take over the world.
Oh, and major correction to the bajillion above posts. This is NOT evolutionary Darwinism. This dumbass who basically tried to wrestle a rat away from a stray cat is doing something immensely stupid that will get everyone else killed. That's sort of the opposite.
Who keeps Linux on a shelf? I'd say "off the internet" or "off the hard drive" Linux lol. By the way, there's no nice way to say this, but they could perhaps assign 5% of the computing resources to "help UK researchers stay on the forefront of observational cosmotology"
I think the folks over at The Onion have figured out the pattern to a hit pop song. I present as evidence, K'Ronikka with Booty Wave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCjJ0VBjjU
Or they could use those new 400 sq mm (or whatever) dies from Thailand that were just posted about on slashdot so I can also use my tablet to cook on. Just throwing it out there as a feature option lol.
"Oh no, my poor insurance company shouldn't have to pay $3000 for this device. It's too high! I will not buy it!" You don't hear that all that often (no pun intended) so that's why the cost is so high. Econ basics, people. Cost goes up, sales go down. When you factor in "I don't give a crap what it costs, I'm not the one paying for it" that does tend to throw cost off a bit. I know hearing aids aren't as covered as other medical devices, treatments, and prescriptions but they're not 100% out of pocket very often either.
Oh and the million dollars or more in testing to get FDA approval plays a factor. I have a feeling Microsoft didn't even put a million into testing the Xbox 360 lol.
I disagree. You can't screw up too many times before you fail. They BARELY survived Vista and now Apple has around double the market share since pre-vista. Just ask Myspace and AOL and AVG and GM what screwing up repeatedly and in major ways did to their customer base. And CC what they say it to Paypal, Comcast, and AT&T.
By the way, as detrimental as this is in the end to Microsoft, at least it's a more level playing field. I run a small shop and OEM Win7 Home Premium copies cost me $99 so closing up the gap a bit on those asshole OEMs is kind of nice. Yeah, I won't be using RT obviously and they'll get Win8 for like $50 but still. I'm so sick of HP using garbage parts, getting Windows for half the price, and undercutting my prices on low end systems. MS makes it so I can't even compete.
I also don't think this will "kill" tablets for them. If the tablet can basically run any windows app (that remains to be determined) then anyone like me would pick it over an iOS or Android device that can only (safely) run preapproved stuff from their walled garden.