How small can we make an accurate gaze detector? When you need to type the watch, it would display the tiny keyboard while looking into your dominant eye and by way of feedback displays a little spot where it sees your point of regard as being. To "commit" a virtual keystroke you would tap a side button on the device. It may sound clumsy but I think a trained user could achieve better speed of entry this way than any other physical way of hitting eensy keys.
This would be especially powerful if voice were the main input to the device. You would use gaze typing in situations where talking to your watch is not practical.
Whereupon the pissed-off guy next to him yells "ISIS METH SWITZERLAND GOLD BARELY-LEGAL OVERTHROW WASHINGTON!" and Mr. Google Voice fanboy is never seen again.
Wanna hijack this thread for politics? Okay, I'll bite. Verifying phenomena like volcanism on an exoplanet is the kind of thing we would be able to do if astronomers only had larger telescopes. Which now we will never have unless China (which doesn't have any really good terrestrial sites of its own) puts one into space for us.
The mobile implementation of Slashdot itself is bad enough. Don't blame the limited screen space on your phone, either, because the tablet experience is even worse: slow, jerky and you have to re-enter your login every pea-pickin' time.
Is a person under 40 who you can get cheap. After the age limit and salary bar have been passed, the same person finds himself on the other side of the U.
A fission reactor in space could actually be used to shield a crew from solar storms during a long voyage. You would hide behind the fuel load to use it as shielding from the Sun. This might require a temporary change of course so that the ship could be suitably repositioned, but would lessen the need for dead shielding mass like lead blocks to form a 'safe room'.
But do I count as a digital native? RAM did not exist in those days. Internal memory consisted of iron rings strung on wires by hand. It was so costly that to have as much as 64K of it, you had to be an insurance company. Unlike you young whippersnappers, we had to code for economy of resources. That's a performance measure that's no longer in required skillsets, though.
If Goldman Sachs were gambling, that wouldn't be so bad. They could and often do lose. What high-frequency trading is all about is arbitrage, buying low in one market and simultaneously selling higher in another. Traditional arbitrage is basically a good thing: it's the natural mechanism by which prices in two widely separated trading markets are pulled into line. HFT is arbitraging the tiny price differentials that develop in close-by markets when any small differential between the price of a Microsoft share on one exchange vs. the price on another exchange. The moral problem with HFT is that it is a totally nonproductive financial activity. No industries are being evaluated, no company finances are being vetted and no investments are being made, while a great deal of computer power is getting wasted trying to find infinitesimally faster ways of comparing prices in different markets.
Meanwhile, our own data protection laws protect pharma companies from the threat of competition, even by individual patients shopping around for better prices.
My insurance company requires buying meds through their contracted online pharmacy. So while any hacker might be able to access my prescription history with just a birthdate, I have to go on vacation with half my prescribed supply of pills because the system makes me wait "until it's time" before I can order a refill.
I've been there too. What most people don't appreciate about Mauna Kea is its staggeringly large size. As a shield volcano made of lava that came out with the consistency of oatmeal, its spread exceeds its height far more than any other mountain. And since that height had to reach 19,000' just to break the ocean surface, at its present height above water this single peak is larger than the whole Rocky Mountain range.
What this means is that of all the world's high mountains, Mauna Kea is the easiest to access. On this gentle slope, a simple graded road is all it takes to get the largest assemblies up there. The smooth dome in an island location not in any storm belt makes for better weather, and more cloud-free nights, than anywhere else in the world. And it's roomy: the University of Hawaii administers an 11,000-acre nature preserve at the summit, with 52 acres in the middle dedicated to astronomy. Seen from above, everything we can put up there just disappears into the landscape.
"The reason why these whackjobs's opinions matter is the US is an invading and occupying colonial power"
And if the Sandwich Islands had remained in the British Empire, or had become part of China or Japan, would the status of Native claims have been handled differently? How would one say, "F*cking haole" in Chinese?
Seriously, I know this whole campaign is a scam whipped up by the Greens. How do I know this? Because not that many years ago they engineered an identical campaign here in Arizona, when University of Arizona, which is a powerhouse in astronomy, first proposed siting large telescopes on Mt Graham in the southeastern corner of the state.
First they tried the endangered species ploy, claiming that the pine, or red, squirrel populating the peak would be endangered by the presence of astronomers. This fell flat on two grounds: the pine squirrel is common throughout the northern hemisphere, and it is a robust species that thrives in contact with humanity to such an extent that campgrounds often consider it a pest. Then they found someone to claim Native American sacredness for the peak. This proved even less credible than the squirrel argument, because none of our numerous tribes had ever claimed sacred status for Mt Graham when the hunting lodge, state campground and federal prison were all built on the mountain.
The story of Mt Graham ended happily for science. Though the flat-earth lobby actually used the argument "Send the scopes to Mauna Kea, where there is no opposition and where a 50-acre dedicated astronomy reserve has existed since 1960," several of the world's most prestigious instruments were completed on Mt Graham, and the sky did not fall. In fact, as with all other large observatories, astronomical use has extended a huge umbrella of environmental protection over the region. If the air isn't kept clean, astronomy can't function. Smelter smoke that used to be commonplace is now banned.
Hawaiians, don't fall for this scam! Now that Greens have clubbed major infrastructure projects to a halt all over the US and Europe, they are moving beyond opposing the applications of science and are starting on science itself. This movement needs to be exposed for what it is before we lose what's left of civilization.
There's nothing wrong with testing geoengineering techniques so long as there is no possible runaway state. We might spread nutrients to seed blooms of alga and seaweed that will pull carbon from the air and, after incorporating it into their own growth, sink to abyssal depths and then stay out of circulation for long periods of time. Such a process would run only in the presence of the added nutrient.
And nothing requires geoengineering to occupy the whole planet. There are all sorts of local processes that could be exploited, such as spraying seawater into the air off a dry coast to produce a cloud street blowing over land. You would get increased precipitation for the dry area as son as the could hit mountains, at the same time as having a cloud that raises the local albedo ("makes that part of the Earth white"). Again, this is not a runaway process; turn off the spraying, and the cloud street disappears.
The long-run difference is that China does not give up on technology after a failure occurs. They learn by it and press on. Lately, we have been giving up even when the failure is totally imaginary (No GMOs because Jenny McCarthy!). That's why they have a functioning network of bullet trains while we don't.
Although everybody appreciates the amateur service's value in disasters, ham is slowly dying in the US because it is perceived by the public as falling behind compared to the more popular commercial communications technologies. What I would like to see is for ham to be assigned a legal commercial niche that it can occupy as an incentive to buy gear and revive the experimental edge that the service has long been renowned for.
How about Internet service in rural areas? Allow hams to offer commercial interconnect from fiber and other wired broadband to the scattered users who have difficulty getting ISP service any other way. HF radio would be a candidate technology. Let innovation romp and others may emerge and have unexpected applications.
The connectivity we would get from this type of commercialization is, furthermore, exactly what would help the most in time of disaster.
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How small can we make an accurate gaze detector? When you need to type the watch, it would display the tiny keyboard while looking into your dominant eye and by way of feedback displays a little spot where it sees your point of regard as being. To "commit" a virtual keystroke you would tap a side button on the device. It may sound clumsy but I think a trained user could achieve better speed of entry this way than any other physical way of hitting eensy keys.
This would be especially powerful if voice were the main input to the device. You would use gaze typing in situations where talking to your watch is not practical.
We haven't achieved total unemployment yet, but wait till the next downturn.
Whereupon the pissed-off guy next to him yells "ISIS METH SWITZERLAND GOLD BARELY-LEGAL OVERTHROW WASHINGTON!" and Mr. Google Voice fanboy is never seen again.
Wanna hijack this thread for politics? Okay, I'll bite. Verifying phenomena like volcanism on an exoplanet is the kind of thing we would be able to do if astronomers only had larger telescopes. Which now we will never have unless China (which doesn't have any really good terrestrial sites of its own) puts one into space for us.
The mobile implementation of Slashdot itself is bad enough. Don't blame the limited screen space on your phone, either, because the tablet experience is even worse: slow, jerky and you have to re-enter your login every pea-pickin' time.
Is a person under 40 who you can get cheap. After the age limit and salary bar have been passed, the same person finds himself on the other side of the U.
A fission reactor in space could actually be used to shield a crew from solar storms during a long voyage. You would hide behind the fuel load to use it as shielding from the Sun. This might require a temporary change of course so that the ship could be suitably repositioned, but would lessen the need for dead shielding mass like lead blocks to form a 'safe room'.
But do I count as a digital native? RAM did not exist in those days. Internal memory consisted of iron rings strung on wires by hand. It was so costly that to have as much as 64K of it, you had to be an insurance company. Unlike you young whippersnappers, we had to code for economy of resources. That's a performance measure that's no longer in required skillsets, though.
Because the terrorists didn't actually get inside. Had they done so, they would have been even more thoroughly ventilated.
"So they didn't let the L and Q join in?"
Because if they did, then the asterisk would protest exclusion ("Special characters are not good enough for you now, breeders?")
She's going to take this country away from the engineers and give it to the clueless executives who care about nothing beyond next quarter's numbers.
But wait - this already happened!
You're posting on the wrong site, buddy. You were looking for is http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/...
IYou could run for office there. I think the post of He-who-waves-torch-at-bears-at-mouth-of-cave is open.
If Goldman Sachs were gambling, that wouldn't be so bad. They could and often do lose. What high-frequency trading is all about is arbitrage, buying low in one market and simultaneously selling higher in another. Traditional arbitrage is basically a good thing: it's the natural mechanism by which prices in two widely separated trading markets are pulled into line. HFT is arbitraging the tiny price differentials that develop in close-by markets when any small differential between the price of a Microsoft share on one exchange vs. the price on another exchange. The moral problem with HFT is that it is a totally nonproductive financial activity. No industries are being evaluated, no company finances are being vetted and no investments are being made, while a great deal of computer power is getting wasted trying to find infinitesimally faster ways of comparing prices in different markets.
If the US healthcare system were to embrace capitalism, it would be a big improvement over the fourteenth-century guild feudalism we have now.
Meanwhile, our own data protection laws protect pharma companies from the threat of competition, even by individual patients shopping around for better prices.
My insurance company requires buying meds through their contracted online pharmacy. So while any hacker might be able to access my prescription history with just a birthdate, I have to go on vacation with half my prescribed supply of pills because the system makes me wait "until it's time" before I can order a refill.
Says the helium-voiced AC at the top of his tiny lungs.
I've been there too. What most people don't appreciate about Mauna Kea is its staggeringly large size. As a shield volcano made of lava that came out with the consistency of oatmeal, its spread exceeds its height far more than any other mountain. And since that height had to reach 19,000' just to break the ocean surface, at its present height above water this single peak is larger than the whole Rocky Mountain range.
What this means is that of all the world's high mountains, Mauna Kea is the easiest to access. On this gentle slope, a simple graded road is all it takes to get the largest assemblies up there. The smooth dome in an island location not in any storm belt makes for better weather, and more cloud-free nights, than anywhere else in the world. And it's roomy: the University of Hawaii administers an 11,000-acre nature preserve at the summit, with 52 acres in the middle dedicated to astronomy. Seen from above, everything we can put up there just disappears into the landscape.
The "Empire 101" overview of Hawaii-British relations is here:
http://www.britishempire.co.uk...
After al, just look at the state flag.
For a much more detailed and personal view, I recommend "Captive Paradise" by James Haley.
"The reason why these whackjobs's opinions matter is the US is an invading and occupying colonial power"
And if the Sandwich Islands had remained in the British Empire, or had become part of China or Japan, would the status of Native claims have been handled differently? How would one say, "F*cking haole" in Chinese?
Legalize pot in Hawaii!
Seriously, I know this whole campaign is a scam whipped up by the Greens. How do I know this? Because not that many years ago they engineered an identical campaign here in Arizona, when University of Arizona, which is a powerhouse in astronomy, first proposed siting large telescopes on Mt Graham in the southeastern corner of the state.
First they tried the endangered species ploy, claiming that the pine, or red, squirrel populating the peak would be endangered by the presence of astronomers. This fell flat on two grounds: the pine squirrel is common throughout the northern hemisphere, and it is a robust species that thrives in contact with humanity to such an extent that campgrounds often consider it a pest. Then they found someone to claim Native American sacredness for the peak. This proved even less credible than the squirrel argument, because none of our numerous tribes had ever claimed sacred status for Mt Graham when the hunting lodge, state campground and federal prison were all built on the mountain.
The story of Mt Graham ended happily for science. Though the flat-earth lobby actually used the argument "Send the scopes to Mauna Kea, where there is no opposition and where a 50-acre dedicated astronomy reserve has existed since 1960," several of the world's most prestigious instruments were completed on Mt Graham, and the sky did not fall. In fact, as with all other large observatories, astronomical use has extended a huge umbrella of environmental protection over the region. If the air isn't kept clean, astronomy can't function. Smelter smoke that used to be commonplace is now banned.
Hawaiians, don't fall for this scam! Now that Greens have clubbed major infrastructure projects to a halt all over the US and Europe, they are moving beyond opposing the applications of science and are starting on science itself. This movement needs to be exposed for what it is before we lose what's left of civilization.
There's nothing wrong with testing geoengineering techniques so long as there is no possible runaway state. We might spread nutrients to seed blooms of alga and seaweed that will pull carbon from the air and, after incorporating it into their own growth, sink to abyssal depths and then stay out of circulation for long periods of time. Such a process would run only in the presence of the added nutrient.
And nothing requires geoengineering to occupy the whole planet. There are all sorts of local processes that could be exploited, such as spraying seawater into the air off a dry coast to produce a cloud street blowing over land. You would get increased precipitation for the dry area as son as the could hit mountains, at the same time as having a cloud that raises the local albedo ("makes that part of the Earth white"). Again, this is not a runaway process; turn off the spraying, and the cloud street disappears.
Feel free. Popcorn Time isn't in the US either.
...Why such a cold object would have a polar icecap? Surely Pluto is cold enough all over to freeze anything.
Unless it has an internal source of heat, like the Earth.
The long-run difference is that China does not give up on technology after a failure occurs. They learn by it and press on. Lately, we have been giving up even when the failure is totally imaginary (No GMOs because Jenny McCarthy!). That's why they have a functioning network of bullet trains while we don't.
Although everybody appreciates the amateur service's value in disasters, ham is slowly dying in the US because it is perceived by the public as falling behind compared to the more popular commercial communications technologies. What I would like to see is for ham to be assigned a legal commercial niche that it can occupy as an incentive to buy gear and revive the experimental edge that the service has long been renowned for.
How about Internet service in rural areas? Allow hams to offer commercial interconnect from fiber and other wired broadband to the scattered users who have difficulty getting ISP service any other way. HF radio would be a candidate technology. Let innovation romp and others may emerge and have unexpected applications.
The connectivity we would get from this type of commercialization is, furthermore, exactly what would help the most in time of disaster.