As these technologies sense and and react to changes in your environment, there are obvious parallels to computer operating systems, which receive input and return output.
I wouldn't say that "receiving input and returning output" is one of the defining qualities of an operating system.
You've heard of dark energy before, and you know that it causes the expansion of our Universe to be accelerating.
How do you know? Maybe I haven't, and maybe I don't.
This article explains [...] how no information gets lost
I'll admit I only skimmed the article - it is medium.com after all, and contains a ridiculous seven exclamation marks (plus an interrobang and a double exclamation mark in an image note, for pity's sake) - but I didn't see where this got explained.
As the AC's have said, gravity and other forces between particles completely swamp the "force" of expansion - for now. Imagine putting sheets of paper on a rubber sheet, and stretching the sheet. To an approximation, the centers of the pieces of paper would remain on the same spot on the sheet, while the rest of the paper would have the rubber sheet sliding out from under it, but the piece of paper would resist this "pull" on its edges easily.
If the expansion of space is expanding, though, there will come at a time when this "force" (if it is a force, I'm the wrong person to ask) becomes more significant. First, gravity won't be able to hold galactic clusters together, then galaxies, then solar systems, then the forces between and within atoms won't be enough to keep them together.
Don't have to worry about a company telling you you can't listen to the music you already purchased.
There were plenty of attempts at analog DRM.. I mean RM.
No ridiculous black bars down the side of a picture when the camera is held vertically.
That's nothing to do with analog or digital. That's to do with phones, which are usually held and operated in portrait mode, having their camera in the same orientation as the screen, for obvious reasons.
Typewriters never lose your documents.
They also remain resolutely silent when asked to search for that thing you typed 18 months ago, though.
A compass never needs a satellite to tell you which way is North.
What do you think those funny little rectangles of material we all carry around with us all the time to exchange for goods and services are inherently worth?
There's nothing subjective about the fact that you could, as some particular time not specified by the summary, exchange those 650,000 bitcoins (not "bit coins" as the summary would have it) for $370m.
Nobody should have lost any money unless you were dumb enough to buy Bitcoins.
Yeah, yeah, we're all bitter about not getting in on the ground floor too. Let it go.
WikiLeaks Claims Employee's Google Mail, Metadata Seized By US Government
C'mon, it's the 21st century. Even newspapers have started not to write headlines like that any more.
There's this great new word going around. It's called "and." Sometimes it's really good at replacing commas in headlines and makes them easier to parse and less ambiguous. Other useful words include "that" and "were."
WikiLeaks Claims That Employee's Google Mail And Metadata Were Seized By US Government
If the government has the burden of proving reasonable suspicion, should the court treat the absence of information in the record on this point as not changing its otherwise-reached view that there is reasonable suspicion (as it does), or should that be treated as a potentially serious deficiency in getting to reasonable suspicion that the government has to overcome? I’m not sure of the answer.
He's doing better than me then. I'm not sure of the question.
Have you ever tried to record an aircraft from your cell phone? It really doesn't work.
What, are planes completely invisible on cell phone cameras? Did not know that. You can still capture something. An F-117 (not a big aircraft, really) at 10000 feet would (rough calc) cover 15 pixels on my 5mp non-zoom cell phone camera - possibly enough to identify shape. Certainly it would be enough to capture position and motion relative to landmarks and other useful information that could be used to clarify a UFO sighting.
Also I didn't specify cell phone* - I just said video recording device. 10x zoom and up is more or less a basic feature of digital cameras these days. And a cell phone should be just fine for a lot of sightings - at least, if they really happened the way they end up being described. If something is so large and close that it can be reliably described as a "gigantic triangular craft" - good description of an F-117 rather than a U-2, by the way - and not a small triangular craft close-up, then that suggests something you might easily capture on a cellphone.
Poor video evidence is better than none - and at the very least, video taken by multiple people from multiple angles would have great corroborative power for a sighting.
By your logic, if cell phone recording was the only way to establish something's reality...
By your logic, all I need to do is add my own invented clause to the phrase "by your logic", and show that any point you're trying to make is also ridiculous!
I never said cell phone recording is the only way to establish something's reality. My point was that despite the existence of cell phones, we don't seem to have any more video evidence from UFO sightings than we did 20 years ago.
Last time I checked, a U2 spyplane was not really capable of hovering motionless and then accelerating to the horizon in a moment. Nor were they gigantic triangular craft.
Last time I checked, people were incredibly bad at objectively reporting what they see, and other people were incredibly bad at relating what the first people said they saw, and then other people get what they heard from the second people confused with something they saw on TV, and then yet more people read books by Erich Von Daniken
What I find weird is that the kajillion-fold increase in personal video recording devices over the past few decades seems to have scared away all the UFOs. Why, a week hardly went by in the 1980s without a flap, but now...
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if this guy is a meativore or a plantivore.
They made a 25 year old space telescope
That's quite a feat of temporal engineering in itself.
Mercedes-Benz's Self-Driving Concept Car Is Here
When are concept cars every really "here," in any practical sense of the term?
Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30
It's not an extra leap second, it's just a leap second. They're already "extra" by definition.
Yours sincerely,
Captain Pedantic
there is zero market for this.
Have you done more market research and held more focus groups than Sony, then?
Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program?
You've obviously already made up your mind, so why not just state so outright instead of prevaricating with a question?
As these technologies sense and and react to changes in your environment, there are obvious parallels to computer operating systems, which receive input and return output.
I wouldn't say that "receiving input and returning output" is one of the defining qualities of an operating system.
The rate of dark-energy expansion is not actually changing
Isn't it? I thought we still didn't know.
You've heard of dark energy before, and you know that it causes the expansion of our Universe to be accelerating.
How do you know? Maybe I haven't, and maybe I don't.
This article explains [...] how no information gets lost
I'll admit I only skimmed the article - it is medium.com after all, and contains a ridiculous seven exclamation marks (plus an interrobang and a double exclamation mark in an image note, for pity's sake) - but I didn't see where this got explained.
As the AC's have said, gravity and other forces between particles completely swamp the "force" of expansion - for now. Imagine putting sheets of paper on a rubber sheet, and stretching the sheet. To an approximation, the centers of the pieces of paper would remain on the same spot on the sheet, while the rest of the paper would have the rubber sheet sliding out from under it, but the piece of paper would resist this "pull" on its edges easily.
If the expansion of space is expanding, though, there will come at a time when this "force" (if it is a force, I'm the wrong person to ask) becomes more significant. First, gravity won't be able to hold galactic clusters together, then galaxies, then solar systems, then the forces between and within atoms won't be enough to keep them together.
Sorry, bit of a downer to end on.
used by people precisely because it's not mainstream.
"Subdural haematoma" isn't mainstream either, but doctors don't just use it because they're hipsters.
How much greenhouse gas would be emitted if everybody drove their car, or took a boat vs. flying? Me thinks much more.
That may be what you thinks, but have you checked?
http://environment.about.com/o...
That says no, cars would be worse. I'd expect boats would be too, if everyone took their own.
Don't have to worry about a company telling you you can't listen to the music you already purchased.
There were plenty of attempts at analog DRM.. I mean RM.
No ridiculous black bars down the side of a picture when the camera is held vertically.
That's nothing to do with analog or digital. That's to do with phones, which are usually held and operated in portrait mode, having their camera in the same orientation as the screen, for obvious reasons.
Typewriters never lose your documents.
They also remain resolutely silent when asked to search for that thing you typed 18 months ago, though.
A compass never needs a satellite to tell you which way is North.
Neither does my phone.
TAKE
THEM
OFF
Coincidentally, the same eye chart as seen in Naughty Optometrists 4.
What do you think those funny little rectangles of material we all carry around with us all the time to exchange for goods and services are inherently worth?
There's nothing subjective about the fact that you could, as some particular time not specified by the summary, exchange those 650,000 bitcoins (not "bit coins" as the summary would have it) for $370m.
Nobody should have lost any money unless you were dumb enough to buy Bitcoins.
Yeah, yeah, we're all bitter about not getting in on the ground floor too. Let it go.
wasn't detained obviously because he's underage
Yes, very obvious, as we're all so familiar with the Finnish legal system.
The Indian government has banned websites under the pretext that ISIS is using them for anti-Indian purposes.
A pretext is a fake reason, not simply a reason you take issue with.
Also, from the article:
Websites like Pastebin don't host any content but are a platform for users to paste text.
How does Pastebin not host content? That's exactly what it exists to do, isn't it? In pretty much the purest possible form.
WikiLeaks Claims Employee's Google Mail, Metadata Seized By US Government
C'mon, it's the 21st century. Even newspapers have started not to write headlines like that any more.
There's this great new word going around. It's called "and." Sometimes it's really good at replacing commas in headlines and makes them easier to parse and less ambiguous. Other useful words include "that" and "were."
WikiLeaks Claims That Employee's Google Mail And Metadata Were Seized By US Government
Capitalising Every Word Is Stupid Too.
If the government has the burden of proving reasonable suspicion, should the court treat the absence of information in the record on this point as not changing its otherwise-reached view that there is reasonable suspicion (as it does), or should that be treated as a potentially serious deficiency in getting to reasonable suspicion that the government has to overcome? I’m not sure of the answer.
He's doing better than me then. I'm not sure of the question.
Have you ever tried to record an aircraft from your cell phone? It really doesn't work.
What, are planes completely invisible on cell phone cameras? Did not know that. You can still capture something. An F-117 (not a big aircraft, really) at 10000 feet would (rough calc) cover 15 pixels on my 5mp non-zoom cell phone camera - possibly enough to identify shape. Certainly it would be enough to capture position and motion relative to landmarks and other useful information that could be used to clarify a UFO sighting.
Also I didn't specify cell phone* - I just said video recording device. 10x zoom and up is more or less a basic feature of digital cameras these days. And a cell phone should be just fine for a lot of sightings - at least, if they really happened the way they end up being described. If something is so large and close that it can be reliably described as a "gigantic triangular craft" - good description of an F-117 rather than a U-2, by the way - and not a small triangular craft close-up, then that suggests something you might easily capture on a cellphone.
Poor video evidence is better than none - and at the very least, video taken by multiple people from multiple angles would have great corroborative power for a sighting.
By your logic, if cell phone recording was the only way to establish something's reality...
By your logic, all I need to do is add my own invented clause to the phrase "by your logic", and show that any point you're trying to make is also ridiculous!
I never said cell phone recording is the only way to establish something's reality. My point was that despite the existence of cell phones, we don't seem to have any more video evidence from UFO sightings than we did 20 years ago.
Last time I checked, a U2 spyplane was not really capable of hovering motionless and then accelerating to the horizon in a moment. Nor were they gigantic triangular craft.
Last time I checked, people were incredibly bad at objectively reporting what they see, and other people were incredibly bad at relating what the first people said they saw, and then other people get what they heard from the second people confused with something they saw on TV, and then yet more people read books by Erich Von Daniken
What I find weird is that the kajillion-fold increase in personal video recording devices over the past few decades seems to have scared away all the UFOs. Why, a week hardly went by in the 1980s without a flap, but now...
Well, it's probably cheaper than going to the doctor.
I'm CIO by the way.
Yeah, right. First of all, a real spy wouldn't tell everyone they were a spy, and secondly, you spelt it wrong!
Whadya take me for, some kinda maroon?
NVIDIA has reportedly been breached in the first week of December
Bit of a mixed up tense there. Makes it sound like time travellers did (are doing) it.
What next, gentile dvda?
Oy.
What next, gentle dvda?
Here you go