Long story short, access to cheap wormhole camera technology becomes ubiquitous. Everyone can see (and thanks to lip-reading software and the like, hear) anything happening anywhere. Among all the other societal upheavals, there's a passing mention of a couple of teenagers playing hide the sausage on a sidewalk bench in the middle of the day and no-one (by that point) caring.
Anyone who still cares for their privacy in this society wears a light-blocking cloak and communicates by touch in light-tight rooms.
By the end, they manage to send wormcams back in time, discovering (among other things) that the "first" single-celled organisms where in fact left behind by a race of intelligent crustaceans that evolved billions of years ago and were later wiped out by some kind of environmental disaster, IIRC. And yes, they did get a look at the crucifixion, but there were so many wormcams swallowing light in the sky that day that the sky grew dark and at the moment of Jesus's death, interference was too great to get a clear view.
There are another two selection rounds to go before the lucky few get a one way trip to Mars. Starting in 2018, four astronauts will leave for Mars every two years to begin a human settlement partly funded by crowdsourcing and a reality TV show.
You say that like it's actually going to happen. It's not.
JSON is fine for sending a single record, but fails hard when you want to send 1,000s of records, since it sends the contract with every single record.
Can't you include the field names once, followed by the records as arrays?
Nimtz stated that the frequency modulated (FM) carrier wave transported the 40th symphony of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4.7 times faster than light due to the effect of quantum tunneling." So it appears that he did, in fact, state that he transmit[ted] information faster than c.
FTFY. Still plenty of contention surrounding the experiment and the many possible interpretations of it, by the looks of things.
The earth orbits, where the Sun appears to be; as the Sun appears to move, the gravitational field changes.
The Sun is where it appears to be - we're orbiting it, not the other way around, so if you received a photon from the Sun and sent one back in the same direction, it would hit the Sun - it wouldn't miss it.
In other words, because we orbit the sun and not vice versa, the sun is pretty much still in the same place as it was eight minutes ago, and will be in the same place eight minutes from now?
When we look up and see the sun, we're only seeing it how it looked eight minutes ago, but it's in the same apparent position in the sky that it would be whatever the speed of light was.
Slashdot Mirror
1984 - if only so that you'll know that 90% of people who reference it have never read it.
But you just told me that, so do I still have to read the book?
Wait... have you read it?
Hop on Pop.
It was so sad, the way they hopped on Pop.
basically it takes images so fast it can snap 2 images at the same time
You can do it with one image if you've got access to the raw (more than 8-bit depth) data from the camera.
To you.
You are not everyone else, nor vice versa. Thankfully.
It opened Firefox for me. Maybe Opera is your default for HTTP, but for some reason IE is your default for local .html files.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zr3H8inpNw
This one, at least, still has the right words.
you can just run your own server and configure it with the roots. there is absolutely no
performance reason not to
Yeah! Let's all do that!
Standard Slashdot operating procedure would seem to dictate that this story shouldn't be posted for at least another 4 weeks.
A presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress explains how X11 Server security with being 'worse than it looks.'
Still, at least you didn't just copy and paste, so points for that.
America is confronted by its absence in matters of competence, courage, integrity and enterprise.
America can get much better pictures back from 600x further away, though.
I took this with my Google Glass.
Once it gets into the hands of the pubescents out there, any social norms may be thrown out the window.
This reminds me of what happens in Baxter and Clarke's The Light of Other Days.
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Long story short, access to cheap wormhole camera technology becomes ubiquitous. Everyone can see (and thanks to lip-reading software and the like, hear) anything happening anywhere. Among all the other societal upheavals, there's a passing mention of a couple of teenagers playing hide the sausage on a sidewalk bench in the middle of the day and no-one (by that point) caring.
Anyone who still cares for their privacy in this society wears a light-blocking cloak and communicates by touch in light-tight rooms.
By the end, they manage to send wormcams back in time, discovering (among other things) that the "first" single-celled organisms where in fact left behind by a race of intelligent crustaceans that evolved billions of years ago and were later wiped out by some kind of environmental disaster, IIRC. And yes, they did get a look at the crucifixion, but there were so many wormcams swallowing light in the sky that day that the sky grew dark and at the moment of Jesus's death, interference was too great to get a clear view.
Good book.
But are now mostly for special medical "punch in the face" insurance.
Thank you for actually explaining it, since the article didn't care to.
but it's what my AI prof claimed was an axiom back in the 80s.
And people believe evolution isn't true because their pastor/parent tells them so...
He looks a bit stringy to me.
And what would be wrong with that?
There are another two selection rounds to go before the lucky few get a one way trip to Mars. Starting in 2018, four astronauts will leave for Mars every two years to begin a human settlement partly funded by crowdsourcing and a reality TV show.
You say that like it's actually going to happen. It's not.
It's Hacker time!
JSON is fine for sending a single record, but fails hard when you want to send 1,000s of records, since it sends the contract with every single record.
Can't you include the field names once, followed by the records as arrays?
{
"fields" : [ "CustomerId", "AllowExtendedConfiguration", "IsMaximumLengthRequired" ]
"records" : [
[ "ABCDEF012938487432112424242322426", "true", "true" ],
[ "GHIJKLMN3458745092349837469089845", "false", "true" ]
]
}
Then rebuild your object on the other side.
From the link:
The Earth does in fact orbit the sun.
Nimtz stated that the frequency modulated (FM) carrier wave transported the 40th symphony of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4.7 times faster than light due to the effect of quantum tunneling." So it appears that he did, in fact, state that he transmit[ted] information faster than c.
FTFY. Still plenty of contention surrounding the experiment and the many possible interpretations of it, by the looks of things.
For example, isn't it generally understood among graphic artists that Gimp doesn't measure up to Photoshop?
Yes, but you get a lot more bang for your buck.
The earth orbits, where the Sun appears to be; as the Sun appears to move, the gravitational field changes.
The Sun is where it appears to be - we're orbiting it, not the other way around, so if you received a photon from the Sun and sent one back in the same direction, it would hit the Sun - it wouldn't miss it.
Right?
In other words, because we orbit the sun and not vice versa, the sun is pretty much still in the same place as it was eight minutes ago, and will be in the same place eight minutes from now?
When we look up and see the sun, we're only seeing it how it looked eight minutes ago, but it's in the same apparent position in the sky that it would be whatever the speed of light was.
Is that right?