Signals between Earth and Mars Express will be disrupted by the sun so for three days the VMC camera can be freely pointed at almost any target in its orbit.
It's likely to be a year or more before the regulations are in place — good news for companies operating outside the U.S. and looking to build a business around drones.
Is that good news, really? I'm not sure I see why - if drones are unregulated enough in your country for you to start your business, what difference does it make what the US does?
In fact, is it possibly even bad news? Might potential investors see the US as "leading the way" by regulating/dithering against drones, and that might put them off investing in companies in countries where there is currently little/no regulation?
It's likely to be a year or more before the regulations are in place
So what's the current situtation? Is it unregulated, or is commercial drone flying blanket banned?
some of the worst fears of the developers are becoming reality.
i.e., that they can't market their game as "1080p!" even though most people probably wouldn't notice if they were playing a decent game at 720p instead of 1080p. It's not like it makes your eyes bleed. Sure, 1080p looks sharper, but if I'm after pretty pictures I'll watch a movie. I play games to play a decent game, whether it runs at 1080p, 720p, 480p, or 224p.
...that he's apparently unwilling to share with the rest of us. Thanks!
Searching YouTube
Searching YouTube? How about acting like a professional news site instead, and providing a simple, clickable, link?
Did Tim Berners-Lee die in vain?!
I expect a news story, not homework and a test. Yes, I'm lazy. That's why I visit news sites in the first place instead of roaming the world to see things first hand.
Jeez. Do you have to be so belligerent about being smarter than me?
No, it remains the case that causality works forward.
I don't remember saying it didn't...
It remains the case that things existing means evidence for models of how they could get that way.
Models like evolution?
Nobody, ever, thought that a direct intervention of a god was needed for fire to cook their food, for water to roll downhill, or for a knife to cut something.
Again, not something I recall saying. Anyway, weren't some ancients pretty hot on the idea of direct intervention being required for all manner of other things, like the sun coming up in the morning, or the end of winter?
Try recognizing historical reality rather than parroting your Dawkins paperback.
Never read him.
Why don't you try not being such a condescending dick to people just because you think you know better than they do?
Or is just that Americans are simultaneously so angry at their government for spying on everyone, but also so proud of being top dog that they can't imagine the Spanish being able to do the same without US help?;)
What makes you think that? What makes the US the more likely suspect over, say, the Spanish? What what it happening in Spain, and the Spanish text on the device...
Slashdot Mirror
Signals between Earth and Mars Express will be disrupted by the sun so for three days the VMC camera can be freely pointed at almost any target in its orbit.
What would it be being used for otherwise?
It's likely to be a year or more before the regulations are in place — good news for companies operating outside the U.S. and looking to build a business around drones.
Is that good news, really? I'm not sure I see why - if drones are unregulated enough in your country for you to start your business, what difference does it make what the US does?
In fact, is it possibly even bad news? Might potential investors see the US as "leading the way" by regulating/dithering against drones, and that might put them off investing in companies in countries where there is currently little/no regulation?
It's likely to be a year or more before the regulations are in place
So what's the current situtation? Is it unregulated, or is commercial drone flying blanket banned?
How would a cargo of lithium batteries cause a plane to drastically alter course (towards the pilot's home island, no less)?
What it should have said was:
some of the worst fears of the developers are becoming reality.
i.e., that they can't market their game as "1080p!" even though most people probably wouldn't notice if they were playing a decent game at 720p instead of 1080p. It's not like it makes your eyes bleed. Sure, 1080p looks sharper, but if I'm after pretty pictures I'll watch a movie. I play games to play a decent game, whether it runs at 1080p, 720p, 480p, or 224p.
http://img.pandawhale.com/4653...
Tor Project Aims To Eclipse US Government Funding
That's quite an aim, considering how much funding the US Government gets.
Now there's marketing-speak for you - putting something on a table in a funny way is now a "mode."
I'm not sitting down, I'm in "chair mode"!
but the most washbots right now can only complete about half of them in a sequence.
The most what washbots?
Thank you for doing what Slashdot apparently couldn't (be arsed to).
An anonymous reader writes with a link
...that he's apparently unwilling to share with the rest of us. Thanks!
Searching YouTube
Searching YouTube? How about acting like a professional news site instead, and providing a simple, clickable, link?
Did Tim Berners-Lee die in vain?!
I expect a news story, not homework and a test. Yes, I'm lazy. That's why I visit news sites in the first place instead of roaming the world to see things first hand.
Jeez. Do you have to be so belligerent about being smarter than me?
No, it remains the case that causality works forward.
I don't remember saying it didn't...
It remains the case that things existing means evidence for models of how they could get that way.
Models like evolution?
Nobody, ever, thought that a direct intervention of a god was needed for fire to cook their food, for water to roll downhill, or for a knife to cut something.
Again, not something I recall saying. Anyway, weren't some ancients pretty hot on the idea of direct intervention being required for all manner of other things, like the sun coming up in the morning, or the end of winter?
Try recognizing historical reality rather than parroting your Dawkins paperback.
Never read him.
Why don't you try not being such a condescending dick to people just because you think you know better than they do?
Go R, Young Man
But it's not International Talk Like A Pirate Day for months!
They deal with crops.
Right. And crops care what time we call it when the sun comes up, right?
Why must the US be involved?
Or is just that Americans are simultaneously so angry at their government for spying on everyone, but also so proud of being top dog that they can't imagine the Spanish being able to do the same without US help? ;)
One of the great puzzles of biology is how the molecular machinery of life is so finely coordinated.
Is it? Surely the answer is that if it wasn't so "finely coordinated," it wouldn't work and you'd have a lump of goo, not a hamster.
Sounds like the sort of "puzzle" the creationist types like to invent to give their god a gap to live in.
extraordinarily detailed complexity.
By whose standards?
You don't need laser surgery to do a Bowie. You just need a good punch in the face to blow your pupil.
Given that these people being to
the community fighting censorship and surveillance
it's not entirely implausible that they do check their wheel wells every now and again.
Of course, it's also not too unlikely that one of them did it for attention/publicity stunt.
My first guess is they're from some U.S. unit.
What makes you think that? What makes the US the more likely suspect over, say, the Spanish? What what it happening in Spain, and the Spanish text on the device...
Image Engine took the concept artwork created by Blomkamp and WETA and rendered it in three dimensions
You don't say. These pioneers sure are blazing a trail.
It's Gap Day on Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Of course, sometimes putting something in a gap just creates two new gaps either side, leaving you +1 on gaps.
Gap gappity gap-gap-gap.
Harrison Ford's plane didn't crash. HE crashed it!
The two are not mutually exclusive. His plane did crash. He crashed it.
(Read on below for the rest.)
Umm, yes. That's how reading works.
(Read on below for the rest.)
So what was the point of that?
If its just the fluids on the ears, people should be able to get accustomed to the change. Astronauts do.
Uh huh. So, how many hours, days, or weeks of continuous uninterrupted VR usage is required to acclimatise?
n/c
And then what happened? I need closure on that anecdote!