We've already have the tech to preserve food safely for months at a time using ionizing radiation, it's called food irradiation. Sadly, the anti-nuke kooks have blocked it and people have needlessly died as a result. I'm thinking this will go the same way..... although people are less scared of microwave radiation so I hope I'm wrong.
Wire the shit out of the place.... you can never have too many power outlets, ethernet jacks, speaker ports, or coaxial cable outlets. Run everything you can through conduit so you can future-proof the place and run additional wire when needed. Don't daisy-chain the outlets if you can help it. Run everything to a central utility room that's large and well ventilated enough to hold all of your backend computer shit. Don't just shove it into a closet, give yourself some room to move.
Put in recessed lights and speakers in the ceiling for all the rooms and put in multiple zones for different zoom designs and activity patterns.
Think about where you'll spend most of your time and put the house's thermostat there so you'll be most comfortable. If your furnace/AC can handle zones make sure you think hard about the best placement of the other temperature units.
Buy an LCD and place it behind two-way glass in the bathroom so you can get a pop-up display of the weather or watch local news in the morning while you brush your teeth or pee.
Hide speakers and video cameras in the walls/floors and connect them to a hidden computer that broadcasts out to the world on a concealed SSID. Then, when you move prank the new owners and make them think the place is haunted. Don't do anything overt, let subtlety be your friend. Creaking floorboards, a door closing, quiet footsteps that follow along and move from speaker to speaker, and ultrasonics for the pets. Record everything if you are feeling really illegal about it and then stitch it all together and post your movie on YouTube.
Companies offering Open APIs are not hindering open-source developers.... Open APIs remove barriers for all software developers and allows them to make interesting products. What hinders open-source developers is other developers keeping their source code closed.
Third would be reigning in the cost of an education. There shouldn't be any excuse for tuition to be skyrocketing like it has for as long as it has. It's a classic sign of a bubble.
Educational costs have been rising for the same reason housing price rose.... easy access to credit. Get rid of educational loans and tuition will drop.
I prefer to take notes with my laptop but totally agree that too many students lack the self-control not to check email, Facebook or IM their friends while in class. If you allow the professors the ability to kill the room's WiFi the educational experience will be enhanced (lining the rooms with lead to block cell phones would also be heaven).
The experiment runs from October 20 to November 18, 2010.... who's idea was that? They could have easily increased their pool of qualified applicants by running the experiment in the summer. I know a gaggle of grad students who would have loved to sign up.
FTA: He thinks only a catastrophic event would now persuade humanity to take the threat of climate change seriously enough, such as the collapse of a giant glacier in Antarctica, such as the Pine Island glacier, which would immediately push up sea level.
So.... how difficult and expensive would it be for someone to force the collapse of the Pine Island glacier? Is there anything we can do to covertly accelerate its collapse within say.... the next five years?
The problem is lazy engineers who just changed the bulbs used instead of taking into consideration what that change would do to the total design of the traffic light. A good engineer would understand that without the extra heat produced by the old incandescent bulbs the design of the traffic light would need to be changed to prevent snow buildup.
The team drew inspiration from screening techniques in molecular biology, where a multitude of candidate organisms or compounds are screened in parallel to find those that have a particular property of interest. Rather than building a single model and seeing how well it could recognize visual objects, the team constructed thousands of candidate models, and screened for those that performed best on an object recognition task.
Without reading the article, because that would be silly, this sounds a lot like using genetic algorithms. Not actually a new technique.
Go ahead. The stalkers of the world will always have the upper hand as long as we try and keep this genie in the bottle. We need to make the technology a two-way street and get rid of the myth of privacy. I don't have a problem giving away my personal infomation as long as I know who has access to it and I'm able to get the same back in kind. Point a camera at my house, if you wish.... just as so long as I get to watch the live feed from yours.
Imagine if this catches on and everyone starts wearing one and uploading their "lives" online. If people freaked about Google Streetview invading their "privacy" that will be nothing compared to what will happen when this tsunami hits. If each photo or video stream is encoded with the date, time and GPS coordinates and you combine it with some good facial recognition software we can finally bring back the ancestral "village" where everyone knows what everyone else is doing, all the time, everywhere. Sunlight is the best disinfectant and these little devices can help shine it everywhere.
What's better than having a program on your desktop that can search through your files, how about an online database of your files that you can access from any internet connected computer in the world (www.refbase.net).
Ain't it Cool News? Please.... these are the same people who raved about Daredevil. Personally, if the people at Ain't it Cool News hate it I'm sure I'm going to love it.
My TiVo HD recorded NBC's Medium without incident. Can the networks selectively block certain DVRs with the broadcast flag but not others? I always assumed it was an all or nothing kind of thing.
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We've already have the tech to preserve food safely for months at a time using ionizing radiation, it's called food irradiation. Sadly, the anti-nuke kooks have blocked it and people have needlessly died as a result. I'm thinking this will go the same way..... although people are less scared of microwave radiation so I hope I'm wrong.
Can You Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These?
Wire the shit out of the place.... you can never have too many power outlets, ethernet jacks, speaker ports, or coaxial cable outlets. Run everything you can through conduit so you can future-proof the place and run additional wire when needed. Don't daisy-chain the outlets if you can help it. Run everything to a central utility room that's large and well ventilated enough to hold all of your backend computer shit. Don't just shove it into a closet, give yourself some room to move.
Put in recessed lights and speakers in the ceiling for all the rooms and put in multiple zones for different zoom designs and activity patterns.
Think about where you'll spend most of your time and put the house's thermostat there so you'll be most comfortable. If your furnace/AC can handle zones make sure you think hard about the best placement of the other temperature units.
Buy an LCD and place it behind two-way glass in the bathroom so you can get a pop-up display of the weather or watch local news in the morning while you brush your teeth or pee.
Hide speakers and video cameras in the walls/floors and connect them to a hidden computer that broadcasts out to the world on a concealed SSID. Then, when you move prank the new owners and make them think the place is haunted. Don't do anything overt, let subtlety be your friend. Creaking floorboards, a door closing, quiet footsteps that follow along and move from speaker to speaker, and ultrasonics for the pets. Record everything if you are feeling really illegal about it and then stitch it all together and post your movie on YouTube.
Just run the program multiple times and take the mode.
Companies offering Open APIs are not hindering open-source developers.... Open APIs remove barriers for all software developers and allows them to make interesting products. What hinders open-source developers is other developers keeping their source code closed.
Third would be reigning in the cost of an education. There shouldn't be any excuse for tuition to be skyrocketing like it has for as long as it has. It's a classic sign of a bubble.
Educational costs have been rising for the same reason housing price rose.... easy access to credit. Get rid of educational loans and tuition will drop.
How about a bunch of her favorite books? Her eyesight is fine and its interface is one she is familiar with.
I prefer to take notes with my laptop but totally agree that too many students lack the self-control not to check email, Facebook or IM their friends while in class. If you allow the professors the ability to kill the room's WiFi the educational experience will be enhanced (lining the rooms with lead to block cell phones would also be heaven).
What to prevent a third party from buying these resources and then selling them to Japan or US?
I'm going to sue!
Your daughters and grandchildren will find more value in your wife's diaries than all the HD video you could record.
It's not that sex helps the brain grow, it's that sex helps prevent stress, which has been found to cause the brain to shrink.
The experiment runs from October 20 to November 18, 2010.... who's idea was that? They could have easily increased their pool of qualified applicants by running the experiment in the summer. I know a gaggle of grad students who would have loved to sign up.
So.... how difficult and expensive would it be for someone to force the collapse of the Pine Island glacier? Is there anything we can do to covertly accelerate its collapse within say.... the next five years?
I bought a mac mini just to run Plex, it's just that nice.
Everyone abuses their power, that's the point in acquiring power in the first place.
If we block them they block us and soon we'll be traveling to Alaska via Russia (which I've heard you can see via some of the houses on the coast)
The problem is lazy engineers who just changed the bulbs used instead of taking into consideration what that change would do to the total design of the traffic light. A good engineer would understand that without the extra heat produced by the old incandescent bulbs the design of the traffic light would need to be changed to prevent snow buildup.
The team drew inspiration from screening techniques in molecular biology, where a multitude of candidate organisms or compounds are screened in parallel to find those that have a particular property of interest. Rather than building a single model and seeing how well it could recognize visual objects, the team constructed thousands of candidate models, and screened for those that performed best on an object recognition task.
Without reading the article, because that would be silly, this sounds a lot like using genetic algorithms. Not actually a new technique.
Go ahead. The stalkers of the world will always have the upper hand as long as we try and keep this genie in the bottle. We need to make the technology a two-way street and get rid of the myth of privacy. I don't have a problem giving away my personal infomation as long as I know who has access to it and I'm able to get the same back in kind. Point a camera at my house, if you wish.... just as so long as I get to watch the live feed from yours.
Imagine if this catches on and everyone starts wearing one and uploading their "lives" online. If people freaked about Google Streetview invading their "privacy" that will be nothing compared to what will happen when this tsunami hits. If each photo or video stream is encoded with the date, time and GPS coordinates and you combine it with some good facial recognition software we can finally bring back the ancestral "village" where everyone knows what everyone else is doing, all the time, everywhere. Sunlight is the best disinfectant and these little devices can help shine it everywhere.
What's better than having a program on your desktop that can search through your files, how about an online database of your files that you can access from any internet connected computer in the world (www.refbase.net).
An iPhone with shell access seems the perfect match.
Ain't it Cool News? Please.... these are the same people who raved about Daredevil. Personally, if the people at Ain't it Cool News hate it I'm sure I'm going to love it.
My TiVo HD recorded NBC's Medium without incident. Can the networks selectively block certain DVRs with the broadcast flag but not others? I always assumed it was an all or nothing kind of thing.