Space is full of other things, like gas molecules.
Luckily, most of them are being emitted by the sun, and at great speed, so this sail will use them to accelerate to their average speed and direction.
After that, any additional speed gained from bouncing photons off the sail will have to contend with drag from the particles the vessel will then be overtaking.
Supporting that sort of relocation is what makes the graphics suck.
But because they're cheap and have that relocatability nobody wants to make the effort to un-suck them, so they continue to suck once they're implemented.
Though you're right. Portability is nice.
But, again, it's the sort of thing sought after by the cheap, and induces cheapness in what is written to use it.
Sure. But what cool technology ever hits the big time on its first birthday?
PCs were around for 15 years before the web sold them to your grandma's friends.
Tablet PCs before the iPad were clunky and slow computers with weird connectivity and someone trying to pump you up for balky character recognition as their greatest feature.
Now they're big-screen smartphones, and everyone wants one.
Down in the fovea it may be up at this guy's numbers, but much less everywhere else.
The only place you really care about acuity is in the fovea. Try reading something more than one degree off center some time. Your eye will fight to put it in the center.
That's why the old NTSC standard
Comparing something unfavorably to NTSC is going to get you marked as a nutter.
The iPhone, and every other LCD screen, has three color elements per pixel, while the eye has like 1/3. That's a NINE TIMES difference that this guy is glossing over.
Not really. You can see those pixels, so they're relevant.
We don't spend our lives inspecting individual pixels-- we let our brain process the images into coherent high-level objects, such as "letters" and "faces".
And "grainy pictures" and "pixellated pictures" and "grids overlaid on pictures" and "crummy resolution LCD screens I wish I had a nice tight OLED like blair's nexus one has".
The main thing to take away from this submission is that Steve Jobs got waxed by the Android handsets from HTC and ran scared into the hands of the "retinal" hypeword. He's cornered on the hardware, the software, and the network, and he's paddling as fast as he can because the water's rising. One good miss and his bloated stock price is going tank, and lop billions off his company's value.
They said this guy did the math, but I don't see the math.
His email jumps from a benchmark metric in seconds of arc to data in dots per inch without giving either a conversion factor between dpi and arc, or a benchmark metric in dpi.
Airplanes are already automated enough to fly commercial passenger routes, from gate to gate, with no pilot intervention.
In the nominal case.
But once the flight goes off-nominal, the computer will have no means of intuiting a solution. You can build in some handling for exceptions to the flight plan, but not for what happens if Godzilla rises out of the sea in front of the runway, or the destination airport is taken over by the opposition Junta while you're airborne, or one of the engines throws a fan blade through the landing-gear hydraulics.
Until you can show me a fully validated software system that can do what Chesley Sullenberger did without having seen it done before (put a fully loaded aircraft with enormous scoop-shaped engine pods into a heavily-travelled body of water and wink at the camera on the dock), I'm not going to support putting planes full of people or large quantities of cargo into the air without trained pilots and a big, red manual override button.
It's reasonable to believe that stem cells have healing properties, since that's exactly what your own body uses its own stem cells for.
It's reasonable to investigate stem cells as a treatment, and to experiment to determine under what conditions they have an effect, and what unwanted side-effects the therapy may have.
It's not reasonable to write them off as quackery just because quacks have jumped past the investigation and into using them as therapy.
You're not treated like an asshole because you're full. You're treated like an asshole because you obliviously ordered more food than you wanted to eat. And you get treated like an asshole again because you've become defensive and indignant about it, regardless of whether you're oblivious or disingenuous about your obliviousness to your wastefulness.
So, to be consistent, you should now leave/. and not come back.
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They don't use markers any more. Too prone to bleed-through of shading allowing the words to be read anyway.
They redact with scissors now.
Um...2010-25 = 1985.
Roswell was declassified decades ago.
No, it's a single doctor, and therefore very rare in urban settings.
Conspiracy theorists, start your engines!
Quite the contrary. Conspiracy theorists, run for the hills!
You're all going to look interminably foolish when it comes out you were borked by transparently simplistic CIA misinformation campaigns.
They'd better define it as this side of the oort cloud, because getting through that without powered guidance is a crap-shoot.
Eff stellar photons.
Space is full of other things, like gas molecules.
Luckily, most of them are being emitted by the sun, and at great speed, so this sail will use them to accelerate to their average speed and direction.
After that, any additional speed gained from bouncing photons off the sail will have to contend with drag from the particles the vessel will then be overtaking.
...no drag in space...amateurs...
No, I'm saying that character recognition persistently failed to make tablets marketable to a wide audience.
The Apple logo, a shiny metal back, and access to the app store, on the other hand, has sold about a million of them.
Supporting that sort of relocation is what makes the graphics suck.
But because they're cheap and have that relocatability nobody wants to make the effort to un-suck them, so they continue to suck once they're implemented.
Though you're right. Portability is nice.
But, again, it's the sort of thing sought after by the cheap, and induces cheapness in what is written to use it.
he didn't say X11 graphics wouldn't be fast
he said they'd still suck, like they always have
FIRST of all, tablet PC's are over 10 years old.
Sure. But what cool technology ever hits the big time on its first birthday?
PCs were around for 15 years before the web sold them to your grandma's friends.
Tablet PCs before the iPad were clunky and slow computers with weird connectivity and someone trying to pump you up for balky character recognition as their greatest feature.
Now they're big-screen smartphones, and everyone wants one.
The Linux Kernel is a kernel.
Linux is a family of operating systems that are based on one of the Linux kernels or a kernel derived from one.
Down in the fovea it may be up at this guy's numbers, but much less everywhere else.
The only place you really care about acuity is in the fovea. Try reading something more than one degree off center some time. Your eye will fight to put it in the center.
That's why the old NTSC standard
Comparing something unfavorably to NTSC is going to get you marked as a nutter.
The iPhone, and every other LCD screen, has three color elements per pixel, while the eye has like 1/3. That's a NINE TIMES difference that this guy is glossing over.
Not really. You can see those pixels, so they're relevant.
We don't spend our lives inspecting individual pixels-- we let our brain process the images into coherent high-level objects, such as "letters" and "faces".
And "grainy pictures" and "pixellated pictures" and "grids overlaid on pictures" and "crummy resolution LCD screens I wish I had a nice tight OLED like blair's nexus one has".
The main thing to take away from this submission is that Steve Jobs got waxed by the Android handsets from HTC and ran scared into the hands of the "retinal" hypeword. He's cornered on the hardware, the software, and the network, and he's paddling as fast as he can because the water's rising. One good miss and his bloated stock price is going tank, and lop billions off his company's value.
Doesn't take the Hubble Telescope to see that.
They said this guy did the math, but I don't see the math.
His email jumps from a benchmark metric in seconds of arc to data in dots per inch without giving either a conversion factor between dpi and arc, or a benchmark metric in dpi.
That's the opposite of doing the math.
I still don't know if he's right or wrong.
I want drones taking packages directly from the nearest depot to my doorstep.
I bet you won't say that when the stork shows up unexpectedly...
Airplanes are already automated enough to fly commercial passenger routes, from gate to gate, with no pilot intervention.
In the nominal case.
But once the flight goes off-nominal, the computer will have no means of intuiting a solution. You can build in some handling for exceptions to the flight plan, but not for what happens if Godzilla rises out of the sea in front of the runway, or the destination airport is taken over by the opposition Junta while you're airborne, or one of the engines throws a fan blade through the landing-gear hydraulics.
Until you can show me a fully validated software system that can do what Chesley Sullenberger did without having seen it done before (put a fully loaded aircraft with enormous scoop-shaped engine pods into a heavily-travelled body of water and wink at the camera on the dock), I'm not going to support putting planes full of people or large quantities of cargo into the air without trained pilots and a big, red manual override button.
Dude, you're missing out.
http://i39.tinypic.com/2hnmfzn.jpg
It's reasonable to believe that stem cells have healing properties, since that's exactly what your own body uses its own stem cells for.
It's reasonable to investigate stem cells as a treatment, and to experiment to determine under what conditions they have an effect, and what unwanted side-effects the therapy may have.
It's not reasonable to write them off as quackery just because quacks have jumped past the investigation and into using them as therapy.
No serious country does that.
If by B you mean Basil, then, uh, no.
Paying to be wasteful absolutely does not make it non-wasteful.
It's justice for a nutter pretending the law doesn't apply to him.
That's funny. That's just what they said about you.
Blaming the victim isn't justice.
Jailing the criminal is.
remember Ashcroft spending federal funds to cover up the Justice statue?
Yes. And what happened to him when people with Photoshop realized he was sensitive to juxtaposition.
You're not treated like an asshole because you're full. You're treated like an asshole because you obliviously ordered more food than you wanted to eat. And you get treated like an asshole again because you've become defensive and indignant about it, regardless of whether you're oblivious or disingenuous about your obliviousness to your wastefulness.
So, to be consistent, you should now leave /. and not come back.
I'm leaning towards RIAA
The RIAA is making a pro-forma claim based on a law they paid to have constructed.
China is making a pro-forma claim based on a law they killed to have constructed.
China FTW.