You'd shine the laser at the rescue aircraft just as often as you shoot the flare gun at the rescue aircraft (i.e. never). Aim as close to straight up for both cases as possible so you're easy to locate.
I think a lot of the woes of America could be cured by establishing a two-year national service requirement for all youth
No, you don't save America by enslaving every young adult because you think you know what's better for them than everybody else does. That's not 'America'. Perhaps an interesting social engineering hypothesis, but that's not what freedom and liberty are about.
A realistic plant scenario is 30 years (or more) from that point.
What do you see as the constraints that yield a 30-year timeframe? I ask because that's exactly the estimate I heard when I toured the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in 1989. I'm interested to know the odds that I'll hear the same prediction in 2033.
I've heard that it's because every fusion research estimate ever made assumed level funding and it's been in decline for 60 years.
I fully agree. I (being a physicist) can not imagine any purpose for this laser outside a firmly mounted case inside a lab or workshop.
Seems a green 1W laser would be pretty nice to have in a liferaft or if stranded on a mountain top. Signal flares are very time limited and heavy to transport ammo for.
That's just the first thing that came to mind though, though, there are probably many uses.
Also, it's best not to shoot a friend in the face with a signal flare. He a) won't be your friends anymore, and b) will probably be blinded.
Yup - worse, by reckoning of the Geneva Conventions. Weapons designed to blind are banned, whereas machines guns are totally ok.
I guess a dead solider only costs $5K to bury but a blinded soldier will rack up millions of dollars of costs over his lifetime. I can't think of another reason to prefer killing.
So, a laser pointer is like a BB gun, and this is like a.308.
The fact that we let the average Joe with no training go wild with it is just irresponsible, and sadly it is more likely the people around this person who will pay for it.
Evidence doesn't point to people being that dumb. Vermont has essentially no gun laws, and there aren't accidental shootings in the news every day.
I'd be shocked if Wicked Lasers didn't include a 52-page warning manual with these units. I'll stop before I make a car analogy.
Being able to control an avatar is a great step, but it's not too hard to imagine coupling this with one of Kamen's iBOT vehicles to allow these people to regain some mobility. Throw some grappling arms on there and the person might even gain a bit of independence.
I'm guessing when she hits 18 the technology might finally be ready for her to replicate my accomplishment.
Surely you recognize that people still go to on-campus programs because they have advantages over online programs, right?
I don't mean to diminish your degree, but the intent of my message was to convey the idea that the gap will have closed in the next decade enough that the online degree is the preferential mode of the College student.
"Good," I say. Bringing education online will reduce the costs and increase the availability. Of course there will still be costs associated, Stanford shouldn't expect to offer these for free, but the current rate of cost increase is unsustainable. So, perhaps this will align interests better.
I realize that chart compares the rise to CPI-U, which is rigged for political convenience, but even still the cost rises are too much to continue unabated for decades to come. There will be downstream consequences for the economy to having millions of college graduates starting life under a heavy debt burden. When the 18-35 year old demographic no longer has much disposable income, many changes will have to occur. Instead of buying new washers and dryers for that new house, they'll be paying interest to bankers. Some people don't even know that the student load industry was recently nationalized to hasten this transition.
My daughter has 10 more years until College and I really doubt a traditional live-away 4-year program will be the prevailing model by then. People tell me that's too soon until I point out that we just celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first web browser. 10 years ago, lots of people thought AOL on dialup was pretty neat, then we throw in Moore's Law for the next ten years, along with those slopes, and I think it's more likely we'll see online education with live-away intervals for labs and such.
I'm curious what sorts of books you're reading on it. It seems perfect for 'pulp fiction' that will only be read once. Reference books you might want to keep around for 30 years, books with detailed illustrations, books of photography, out of print books - it still seems like the technology isn't yet ready for these.
That's an interesting problem - most open source licenses depend on copyright for enforcement. If there is no copyright, those licenses can't be used. Is there a way to incorporate?
Yah, me too. I score 95 wpm on the online tests, but it's rarely useful for me to type at that speed. My home position is (usually):
SHIFT A E T SPACE SPACE J 0 [ ENTER
What? I learned to type on a C=64. Turns out having the middle finger right next to $ was handy for both directory listings (LOAD "$",8) and perl scalars. Shift under the left pinkie was pretty crucial for shift-arrowing back then too.
I find myself migrating keys between hands or fingers as needed. I think I pulled that in from piano playing. Looking at my hands on the keyboard they're in a pretty ergo/natural position, not pinned down across a straight line. I've been typing on the things for 30 years and never had any RSI. Causal?
Wow, neat. I was working on a project once to automate fitting of endographic stents and in my CG book there was a section on Catmull-Rom splines, which fit the bill (and the blood vessel) perfectly. I hadn't realized there was so much to the back story.
Too bad about fast flip, I found a number of interesting stories that I would never have seen otherwise.
Same here - I wonder how it chose which stories to show. I didn't like its interface, and being in Flash was just unnecessary, but an HTML5 equivalent would be handy.
Slashdot Mirror
That raises an interesting question - now that a CA has faltered, has Mozilla's lock icon lost all respect by the public?
If not, the rationale for excluding CA Cert no longer stands, even accepting the false premise that they'd be less secure than a for-profit CA.
You'd shine the laser at the rescue aircraft just as often as you shoot the flare gun at the rescue aircraft (i.e. never). Aim as close to straight up for both cases as possible so you're easy to locate.
I think a lot of the woes of America could be cured by establishing a two-year national service requirement for all youth
No, you don't save America by enslaving every young adult because you think you know what's better for them than everybody else does. That's not 'America'. Perhaps an interesting social engineering hypothesis, but that's not what freedom and liberty are about.
A realistic plant scenario is 30 years (or more) from that point.
What do you see as the constraints that yield a 30-year timeframe? I ask because that's exactly the estimate I heard when I toured the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in 1989. I'm interested to know the odds that I'll hear the same prediction in 2033.
I've heard that it's because every fusion research estimate ever made assumed level funding and it's been in decline for 60 years.
Somehow this wound up in tech., not idle.
It's bad enough that somebody is wrong on the Internet, now we have to worry that somebody was wrong 80 years ago?
I fully agree. I (being a physicist) can not imagine any purpose for this laser outside a firmly mounted case inside a lab or workshop.
Seems a green 1W laser would be pretty nice to have in a liferaft or if stranded on a mountain top. Signal flares are very time limited and heavy to transport ammo for.
That's just the first thing that came to mind though, though, there are probably many uses.
Also, it's best not to shoot a friend in the face with a signal flare. He a) won't be your friends anymore, and b) will probably be blinded.
Yup - worse, by reckoning of the Geneva Conventions. Weapons designed to blind are banned, whereas machines guns are totally ok.
I guess a dead solider only costs $5K to bury but a blinded soldier will rack up millions of dollars of costs over his lifetime. I can't think of another reason to prefer killing.
the average Joe views a laser pointer as a toy.
So, a laser pointer is like a BB gun, and this is like a .308.
The fact that we let the average Joe with no training go wild with it is just irresponsible, and sadly it is more likely the people around this person who will pay for it.
Evidence doesn't point to people being that dumb. Vermont has essentially no gun laws, and there aren't accidental shootings in the news every day.
I'd be shocked if Wicked Lasers didn't include a 52-page warning manual with these units. I'll stop before I make a car analogy.
A sixty foot image of slave girl Princess Lea in the middle of the park?
TFTFY
Being able to control an avatar is a great step, but it's not too hard to imagine coupling this with one of Kamen's iBOT vehicles to allow these people to regain some mobility. Throw some grappling arms on there and the person might even gain a bit of independence.
Awesome. Good insight.
I'm guessing when she hits 18 the technology might finally be ready for her to replicate my accomplishment.
Surely you recognize that people still go to on-campus programs because they have advantages over online programs, right?
I don't mean to diminish your degree, but the intent of my message was to convey the idea that the gap will have closed in the next decade enough that the online degree is the preferential mode of the College student.
And Mozilla gave these jokers a pass while raking CACert across the coals.
That distinction is very instructive as to the real motivations of the PKI industry.
Nah, sounds more like this one.
"Good," I say. Bringing education online will reduce the costs and increase the availability. Of course there will still be costs associated, Stanford shouldn't expect to offer these for free, but the current rate of cost increase is unsustainable. So, perhaps this will align interests better.
I realize that chart compares the rise to CPI-U, which is rigged for political convenience, but even still the cost rises are too much to continue unabated for decades to come. There will be downstream consequences for the economy to having millions of college graduates starting life under a heavy debt burden. When the 18-35 year old demographic no longer has much disposable income, many changes will have to occur. Instead of buying new washers and dryers for that new house, they'll be paying interest to bankers. Some people don't even know that the student load industry was recently nationalized to hasten this transition.
My daughter has 10 more years until College and I really doubt a traditional live-away 4-year program will be the prevailing model by then. People tell me that's too soon until I point out that we just celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first web browser. 10 years ago, lots of people thought AOL on dialup was pretty neat, then we throw in Moore's Law for the next ten years, along with those slopes, and I think it's more likely we'll see online education with live-away intervals for labs and such.
Hair is all about vanity and insecurity ... So grasp the nettle shave off all or most of it and get on with living your life.
Isn't shaving it all off a way to hide male pattern baldness, and thus a sign of vanity and insecurity?
Then I got a kindle and I'm converted.
I'm curious what sorts of books you're reading on it. It seems perfect for 'pulp fiction' that will only be read once. Reference books you might want to keep around for 30 years, books with detailed illustrations, books of photography, out of print books - it still seems like the technology isn't yet ready for these.
Being 'converted' seems to be tied to use cases.
It can't be bad as all that. If it really were, people would just stop using that supplier and go with a competing service.
Monopolies are prohibited, right?
This seems like an eminently appropriate architectural allusion for the 'late-Lucas' period of Lucasfilms' work...
It's telling that the inspiration for this building is an idea over 35 years old. And it came from the mind of Ralph McQuarrie, not Lucas.
That's an interesting problem - most open source licenses depend on copyright for enforcement. If there is no copyright, those licenses can't be used. Is there a way to incorporate?
Yah, me too. I score 95 wpm on the online tests, but it's rarely useful for me to type at that speed. My home position is (usually):
SHIFT A E T SPACE SPACE J 0 [ ENTER
What? I learned to type on a C=64. Turns out having the middle finger right next to $ was handy for both directory listings (LOAD "$",8) and perl scalars. Shift under the left pinkie was pretty crucial for shift-arrowing back then too.
I find myself migrating keys between hands or fingers as needed. I think I pulled that in from piano playing. Looking at my hands on the keyboard they're in a pretty ergo/natural position, not pinned down across a straight line. I've been typing on the things for 30 years and never had any RSI. Causal?
Wow, neat. I was working on a project once to automate fitting of endographic stents and in my CG book there was a section on Catmull-Rom splines, which fit the bill (and the blood vessel) perfectly. I hadn't realized there was so much to the back story.
Too bad about fast flip, I found a number of interesting stories that I would never have seen otherwise.
Same here - I wonder how it chose which stories to show. I didn't like its interface, and being in Flash was just unnecessary, but an HTML5 equivalent would be handy.
It was only the password on the Guardian's file. Unfortunately that file got distributed. See the Der Speigel article.
Here's an Amazon book review critical of the disclosure of the password in the book. I registered my support for the critique with a 'helpful' click.