The Big difference with 3D today and 3D in the past, today half the TVs being sold are equipped with 3D. Whether you use the 3D feature or not, it's there, and people will want the option to view their favorite film in 3D if they choose.
Won't last. As people experience what 3D TV is like for real, most will just turn it off and refuse to pay the extra money for it on their next set.
You think Hollywood gives a fuck about what a few pretentious nerds think?
If they catered you the nerds here whining about 3D and other shit they'd be out of work.
Their job is to entertain us and millions of other people who also see 3D as (a cheap gimmick / uncomfortable viewing experience / otherwise unwatchable) and if they don't start doing it better they WILL be out of work.
No, it is different. Technicolor looks like real-world color. It makes the illusion of cinema much better than black and white. It doesn't cause eye strain and it doesn't require each viewer to use special eyewear just to see the movie.
But I get your point. Peter Jackson just spent a buttload of money making The Hobbit in 3D. All wasted. He should have spent more hiring actors and makeup artists to create believable orcs, choreographers to make credible combat scenes and editors who knew the difference between dramatic tension and implausible spectacle.
Not saying something for fear of some group of asshats using it as an excuse to kill people is being a coward. These people would have killed even if the film hadn't been made. It was nothing but a convenient excuse.
Please explain the circumstances that make it morally acceptable to engage in asshattery that is likely to incite other asshats to violence.
Also, please explain why defending the first sort of asshattery isn't another sort of asshattery.
In a way, price gauging of the launchers has resulted in the reactive price gauging of the payload. But if one can cheaply transport materials to the ISS, some stuff can be actually built and assembled right there - instead of creating the stuff on surface up to the very high standards, required for it to survive the lift off.
I don't see it. Manufacturing equipment is usually much heavier and often more delicate than the items manufactured.
In a world where you know that there are people ready to kill over an insult, slinging out insults (or helping someone else do it) becomes an irresponsible and antisocial act.
This should not be a big deal for the FDA. It's clearly a safe food product, although I would be a little put off by a "THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS GENETICALLY MODIFIED FISH" label that I think should be mandated.
The FDA isn't really even competent to judge whether the animals are safe to introduce into the environment. It's not their area of expertise. All they can tell us is if it's safe for people to eat them. It's the EPA that should be concerned about people making frankenfish. And since if they get loose they'd be in international waters, it's a subject for the whole world to decide, or at least every country that fishes in waters where these modified salmon can survive and reproduce.
What happens if they get released and hybridize with wild salmon? Will hybrid fish be off limits to fishermen? Will the fast-growth genes be weeded out in the wild, or will they spread across the whole wild population? (The former is more likely. If it were advantageous to the species to grow faster, they probably would grow faster.) Is this company going to come after salmon fishers the way Monsanto comes after farmers?
you failed to grasp the meaning of TFAFalcon's sarcastic comment. Consider Mel Gibson's "The Passion." Goriest, most horrifying move I've seen in a long time. A real sickfest if you ask me. It's one thing to commemorate the death of Jesus. It's quite another thing to make dwell on every sick, sadistic detail of his crucifixion. But it's considered art and it should be. If we were banning 'art' on the basis of how horrific it is, we'd have to ban that movie and countless others, along with crucifixes and many other kinds of religious art and that would be a loss.
I see a disconnect here. With regard to the boy who made the drawings, you are applying a presumption of innocence and that is fine. With regard to the police you are applying a presumption of guilt and incompetence and that is not fine. Where are your facts that back up your implied claim that the police did not follow proper procedure and get a warrant based on evidence? I don't know whether they did or didn't. Do you?
You are also making an assumption that if one police force steps out of line that everyone's rights are hopelessly compromised, even if the courts eventually throw out the evidence and slap them down, which has happened in many cases in the past.
What about that "unreasonable search and seizure" thing?
TFA doesn't say whether they obtained a warrant and had probable cause. If you prejudge the case based on press reports, you may miss a lot of real facts.
It all depends on circumstances not stated in TFA. The police went in on what amounted to a tip that a juvenile might be planning a crime or might have already committed one. They appear to have had probable cause. Now whether that probable cause was based on a teacher jumping to conclusions we don't know. We haven't seen the "sketches of weapons" which for all we know might have been pictures of knives or guns -- which wouldn't be cause for any kind of suspicion. Or they could have included sketches or design notes for a bomb or a detonator.
When they went in, they might have found only the innocent stuff you have in your house that you could make explosives out of if you were enterprising, all in its proper places. Or they could have found it on a workbench all ready to make homemade explosives. The article doesn't say that either. But it does suggest that there was more than what they would have expected to find in anybody's house.
No it doesn't. A small laser pointer fits. Think the cat-toy size. Nobody does this because the spot size of a laser at the ground from 200 miles up is real small and it's hard to point the satellite that accurately.
That would not be allowed. The government reviews your payload to make sure you're not just launching space junk. Also, slots on the cubesat launchers are highly coveted and there would be mobs of university students who would skin you alive and feed you to the rats over in the biology lab.
You can slowly kill the spin by loading the satellite with magnetic torque rods. The rods cause the satellite to orient to the Earth's magnetic field. There are active and passive systems.
For coms that are effective in a spin, a couple of omni whips at right angles should do it. The basic unit is called a 1U Cubesat and it's 10cm x 10cm x 10cm container, but they can have mechanisms to pop out antennas as soon as they get out of the container. Some of the designs I've seen have pop-out arrangements of solar cells so they can have up to 500 cm2 of solar cell area and are made to orbit with them pointed away from the Earth. Cubesats can be stacked several in a launch container. (Like a six-pack.) There are 1U, 2U and 3U designs.
This year's Smallsat Conference is at Utah State University - Logan Utah, August 10 – 15, 2013
Shavano,
Thanks for the science about the lifetime of Tau Ceti. The article in the first link in the original post said 2x. Who's Counting? So if we colonized it in the next few thousand years, we wouldn't have to look for a new place for another 12 billion years.
The thing is, though, if intelligent life developed at the same time from planet formation, using your number for the age of Tau Ceti, life has been on the fourth planet for maybe ~1.8 billion. A pretty long time, something like 1,000 times as long as intelligent life here on earth.
PS: We have a mountain in Colorado named Mount Shavano, 14,232 feet, in the Sawatch range not far from Salida, CO.
Stanford and Cal Poly has been involved from early on and has a lot of experience with cubesat launches. UNM also has a program and I think UM and U of Utah Logan. Probably lots of others. Basically schools with a strong Aerospace program are likely to be involved and help with getting in contact with good people. You may, if you have interesting tech knowledge, be able to advise a group of students on a project they are already doing.
Also the air force schools do projects (AFA and AFIT) but they might be harder to work with.
It is not the law's job to "keep up with technology" which will always be a moving target. It is the responsibility of people to be cognizant of the law and obey it.
keep licking those boots, citizen.
also, pick up that can.
In time, Grasshopper will appreciate that pissing into the wind only makes one smell bad.
Grasshopper may also come to appreciate that mentioning insider information at a cocktail party, texting it to your buddies and posting it on a blog are all the same thing. The laws regarding insider trading need not distinguish between them.
You could use the same algorithm to derive credibility indicators for any language and region and use multiple verified events and facts to train the system.
But what if its results leak, and bird song adapts to meet expectation, but without actually being more reliable?
Just a guess:
Update mail handling code for some unrelated reason.
Broken ability to manage self-signed certs discovered in regression testing.
Severity of the problem judged not worth fixing.
The listing I saw said Tau Ceti is about 5.8 billion years old and about 0.78 solar masses. Lifetime of main-sequence stars goes like 1/M^3, so Tau Ceti's lifetime is about twice as long as our sun's. It will be still be looking pretty healthy when our sun has got all bloated and ugly.
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The Big difference with 3D today and 3D in the past, today half the TVs being sold are equipped with 3D. Whether you use the 3D feature or not, it's there, and people will want the option to view their favorite film in 3D if they choose.
Won't last. As people experience what 3D TV is like for real, most will just turn it off and refuse to pay the extra money for it on their next set.
You think Hollywood gives a fuck about what a few pretentious nerds think?
If they catered you the nerds here whining about 3D and other shit they'd be out of work.
Their job is to entertain us and millions of other people who also see 3D as (a cheap gimmick / uncomfortable viewing experience / otherwise unwatchable) and if they don't start doing it better they WILL be out of work.
No, it is different. Technicolor looks like real-world color. It makes the illusion of cinema much better than black and white. It doesn't cause eye strain and it doesn't require each viewer to use special eyewear just to see the movie.
But I get your point. Peter Jackson just spent a buttload of money making The Hobbit in 3D. All wasted. He should have spent more hiring actors and makeup artists to create believable orcs, choreographers to make credible combat scenes and editors who knew the difference between dramatic tension and implausible spectacle.
Not saying something for fear of some group of asshats using it as an excuse to kill people is being a coward. These people would have killed even if the film hadn't been made. It was nothing but a convenient excuse.
Please explain the circumstances that make it morally acceptable to engage in asshattery that is likely to incite other asshats to violence.
Also, please explain why defending the first sort of asshattery isn't another sort of asshattery.
In a way, price gauging of the launchers has resulted in the reactive price gauging of the payload. But if one can cheaply transport materials to the ISS, some stuff can be actually built and assembled right there - instead of creating the stuff on surface up to the very high standards, required for it to survive the lift off.
I don't see it. Manufacturing equipment is usually much heavier and often more delicate than the items manufactured.
In a world where you know that there are people ready to kill over an insult, slinging out insults (or helping someone else do it) becomes an irresponsible and antisocial act.
Not if theyluvzfuzzykittehs.
This should not be a big deal for the FDA. It's clearly a safe food product, although I would be a little put off by a "THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS GENETICALLY MODIFIED FISH" label that I think should be mandated.
The FDA isn't really even competent to judge whether the animals are safe to introduce into the environment. It's not their area of expertise. All they can tell us is if it's safe for people to eat them. It's the EPA that should be concerned about people making frankenfish. And since if they get loose they'd be in international waters, it's a subject for the whole world to decide, or at least every country that fishes in waters where these modified salmon can survive and reproduce.
What happens if they get released and hybridize with wild salmon? Will hybrid fish be off limits to fishermen? Will the fast-growth genes be weeded out in the wild, or will they spread across the whole wild population? (The former is more likely. If it were advantageous to the species to grow faster, they probably would grow faster.) Is this company going to come after salmon fishers the way Monsanto comes after farmers?
Wouldn't his rights be the same if he called his site "weluvzfluffykittehs.com?"
you failed to grasp the meaning of TFAFalcon's sarcastic comment. Consider Mel Gibson's "The Passion." Goriest, most horrifying move I've seen in a long time. A real sickfest if you ask me. It's one thing to commemorate the death of Jesus. It's quite another thing to make dwell on every sick, sadistic detail of his crucifixion. But it's considered art and it should be. If we were banning 'art' on the basis of how horrific it is, we'd have to ban that movie and countless others, along with crucifixes and many other kinds of religious art and that would be a loss.
I see a disconnect here. With regard to the boy who made the drawings, you are applying a presumption of innocence and that is fine. With regard to the police you are applying a presumption of guilt and incompetence and that is not fine. Where are your facts that back up your implied claim that the police did not follow proper procedure and get a warrant based on evidence? I don't know whether they did or didn't. Do you?
You are also making an assumption that if one police force steps out of line that everyone's rights are hopelessly compromised, even if the courts eventually throw out the evidence and slap them down, which has happened in many cases in the past.
What about that "unreasonable search and seizure" thing?
TFA doesn't say whether they obtained a warrant and had probable cause. If you prejudge the case based on press reports, you may miss a lot of real facts.
Why did you link geekwire instead of The Patent?
It all depends on circumstances not stated in TFA. The police went in on what amounted to a tip that a juvenile might be planning a crime or might have already committed one. They appear to have had probable cause. Now whether that probable cause was based on a teacher jumping to conclusions we don't know. We haven't seen the "sketches of weapons" which for all we know might have been pictures of knives or guns -- which wouldn't be cause for any kind of suspicion. Or they could have included sketches or design notes for a bomb or a detonator.
When they went in, they might have found only the innocent stuff you have in your house that you could make explosives out of if you were enterprising, all in its proper places. Or they could have found it on a workbench all ready to make homemade explosives. The article doesn't say that either. But it does suggest that there was more than what they would have expected to find in anybody's house.
This is beyond wrong. It's an obscenity.
I don't think so. If this never gets to court or if he's acquitted, the constitution is fine.
No it doesn't. A small laser pointer fits. Think the cat-toy size. Nobody does this because the spot size of a laser at the ground from 200 miles up is real small and it's hard to point the satellite that accurately.
That would not be allowed. The government reviews your payload to make sure you're not just launching space junk. Also, slots on the cubesat launchers are highly coveted and there would be mobs of university students who would skin you alive and feed you to the rats over in the biology lab.
You can slowly kill the spin by loading the satellite with magnetic torque rods. The rods cause the satellite to orient to the Earth's magnetic field. There are active and passive systems.
For coms that are effective in a spin, a couple of omni whips at right angles should do it. The basic unit is called a 1U Cubesat and it's 10cm x 10cm x 10cm container, but they can have mechanisms to pop out antennas as soon as they get out of the container. Some of the designs I've seen have pop-out arrangements of solar cells so they can have up to 500 cm2 of solar cell area and are made to orbit with them pointed away from the Earth. Cubesats can be stacked several in a launch container. (Like a six-pack.) There are 1U, 2U and 3U designs.
This year's Smallsat Conference is at Utah State University - Logan Utah, August 10 – 15, 2013
Smallsat
Shavano, Thanks for the science about the lifetime of Tau Ceti. The article in the first link in the original post said 2x. Who's Counting? So if we colonized it in the next few thousand years, we wouldn't have to look for a new place for another 12 billion years. The thing is, though, if intelligent life developed at the same time from planet formation, using your number for the age of Tau Ceti, life has been on the fourth planet for maybe ~1.8 billion. A pretty long time, something like 1,000 times as long as intelligent life here on earth. PS: We have a mountain in Colorado named Mount Shavano, 14,232 feet, in the Sawatch range not far from Salida, CO.
It's named after me because it's so pretty.
Stanford and Cal Poly has been involved from early on and has a lot of experience with cubesat launches. UNM also has a program and I think UM and U of Utah Logan. Probably lots of others. Basically schools with a strong Aerospace program are likely to be involved and help with getting in contact with good people. You may, if you have interesting tech knowledge, be able to advise a group of students on a project they are already doing.
Also the air force schools do projects (AFA and AFIT) but they might be harder to work with.
It is not the law's job to "keep up with technology" which will always be a moving target. It is the responsibility of people to be cognizant of the law and obey it. keep licking those boots, citizen. also, pick up that can.
In time, Grasshopper will appreciate that pissing into the wind only makes one smell bad.
Grasshopper may also come to appreciate that mentioning insider information at a cocktail party, texting it to your buddies and posting it on a blog are all the same thing. The laws regarding insider trading need not distinguish between them.
Also, Grasshopper can pick up his own damn cans.
You could use the same algorithm to derive credibility indicators for any language and region and use multiple verified events and facts to train the system.
But what if its results leak, and bird song adapts to meet expectation, but without actually being more reliable?
Arms race.
Just a guess:
Update mail handling code for some unrelated reason.
Broken ability to manage self-signed certs discovered in regression testing.
Severity of the problem judged not worth fixing.
The listing I saw said Tau Ceti is about 5.8 billion years old and about 0.78 solar masses. Lifetime of main-sequence stars goes like 1/M^3, so Tau Ceti's lifetime is about twice as long as our sun's. It will be still be looking pretty healthy when our sun has got all bloated and ugly.