"Expectations should be realistic," the machine's FAQ page reads. "You will not be able to, for example, scan a hamburger and then eat the digital design."
I'm not saying those with gender identity issues don't also suffer a disproportionate amount of mental illness, only that the gender issue is not, in and of itself, automatically (if ever) a mental illness (whatever one of those actually is, to have a finger put on it).
That's clearly untrue. There was just an AMA on reddit recently by someone who changed their sex and then desperately regretted it.
That one anecdote (count it!) still doesn't indicate that his gender identity issue was a mental illness. I certainly didn't mean to suggest that anyone who feels they're the wrong physical gender only has to have the op to put everything right.
[Keck] still really struggles make an observation in 20 minutes that Hubble can do in 5 minutes
doesn't really sound like a scientifically solid statement from which to be doing calculations. That you might lose 99% of the signal from atmospheric effects and the like (despite AO) doesn't sound too unreasonable, but losing a large percentage of the light was what I was really questioning.
Are you assuming Keck and Hubble both collected the same number of photons in that time?
Yes, because photons are energy and all you care about is receiving most of it (actually transform it into a digital signal).
I still don't get why you'd assume Keck is only detecting the same number of photons in 30 (or 20) minutes as Hubble does in 5.
It's relevant because it's happening to Manning, who, whether he likes it or not, is a figure in the public eye, and I'd guess that more than a few people here are actually interested in what's happening with him personally.
Good friend of mine is transgender, this should never even make the news. Transgender is a mental disease
It's a dysphoria - it's not even considered a disorder any more, so it's not a disease or a mental illness, and if I was your friend I wouldn't want you thinking it was. There's a mismatch between his physical sex and his gender identity, but that doesn't mean it's his brain is at fault.
It's just that the correction is achieved by sufficient optical contortions that only a small fraction of the original light actually makes it to the detector.
Got any numbers on that "small fraction"? Is most of it lost through the atmosphere, or inside the optics?
No, it's caused by "a few things" (there's an inexhaustive list of nine in one of the articles). It's not caused by earthquakes, or feathers, or sunspots, or Mars coming into alignment with Uranus. The author has severely underestimated the number of things that exist.
Slashdot Mirror
and ones that will break if it senses you are going to hit something in front of you.
That's a pretty drastic way to avoid an accident.
"Expectations should be realistic," the machine's FAQ page reads. "You will not be able to, for example, scan a hamburger and then eat the digital design."
I'm sure that like their printers, Makerbot just took the work of the FOSS/OSH community, prettied it up a bit,
So you wouldn't have a problem linking to said FOSS/OSH project, then.
and decided to overcharge for it.
Who's overcharging? It's worth what people will pay for it, like most things.
That's clearly untrue. There was just an AMA on reddit recently by someone who changed their sex and then desperately regretted it.
That one anecdote (count it!) still doesn't indicate that his gender identity issue was a mental illness. I certainly didn't mean to suggest that anyone who feels they're the wrong physical gender only has to have the op to put everything right.
[Keck] still really struggles make an observation in 20 minutes that Hubble can do in 5 minutes
doesn't really sound like a scientifically solid statement from which to be doing calculations. That you might lose 99% of the signal from atmospheric effects and the like (despite AO) doesn't sound too unreasonable, but losing a large percentage of the light was what I was really questioning.
Are you assuming Keck and Hubble both collected the same number of photons in that time?
Yes, because photons are energy and all you care about is receiving most of it (actually transform it into a digital signal).
I still don't get why you'd assume Keck is only detecting the same number of photons in 30 (or 20) minutes as Hubble does in 5.
What are you blathering on about?
I don't get it...
Are you assuming Keck and Hubble both collected the same number of photons in that time? If so, why? And where did those numbers come from?
It's relevant because it's happening to Manning, who, whether he likes it or not, is a figure in the public eye, and I'd guess that more than a few people here are actually interested in what's happening with him personally.
Good friend of mine is transgender, this should never even make the news. Transgender is a mental disease
It's a dysphoria - it's not even considered a disorder any more, so it's not a disease or a mental illness, and if I was your friend I wouldn't want you thinking it was. There's a mismatch between his physical sex and his gender identity, but that doesn't mean it's his brain is at fault.
Sex is biologically determined.
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
This is the consequence of basing psychological treatment not on objective science, but on people's feelings.
You're right. Why should we treat all these people who say they're suicidal or hear voices telling them to kill everyone?
He will always be a he no matter what psychological issues he has to deal with...
Genetics is only one indicator of sex, and not even a good one when it comes to physiology, let alone psychology.
Yes.
No.
Actually, to be fair there's no actual source there, and it's followed up with a vaseline joke *rolleyes*
Where is all those billions going?
Obviously not on better automatic grammar correction.
It's just that the correction is achieved by sufficient optical contortions that only a small fraction of the original light actually makes it to the detector.
Got any numbers on that "small fraction"? Is most of it lost through the atmosphere, or inside the optics?
the Magellan II 6.5-meter telescope... [w]ith its 21-foot diameter mirror
Oh, for... one or the other, c'mon.
You're not getting Duncan Idaho here
He was a ghola and you know it. Totally different ;)
you'll see the most cynical, jaded bastard imaginable -- "fine, I'll wear the glasses and do the accent, just give me my appearance fee".
That has already been done ;)
Will the clone still enjoy John's favourite chocolate beverage?
People fantasizing about a Beatles comeback tour might yet see their dream come true
Only if they're morons and don't understand that cloning isn't miraculous resurrection of an individual.
there is no reason why the same technological advances could not be used to resurrect rock legends.
*facepalm*
Stone age-bronze age-iron age was never intended to imply exclusivity
Are you sure?.
*facepalm* No, mod parent (now grandparent) up. Duh.
...they want their joke back.
they are very rarely probed.
Sounds like my ex. Hiyo!
What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything.
No, it's caused by "a few things" (there's an inexhaustive list of nine in one of the articles). It's not caused by earthquakes, or feathers, or sunspots, or Mars coming into alignment with Uranus. The author has severely underestimated the number of things that exist.
If the government has nothing to hide, as they've repeatedly claimed
Have they? All I keep seeing is them repeating that they do have to hide things because otherwise the terrorists will win. Or something.