I agree this is a worthy goal, but I can imagine others that may come more naturally. For instance we get better and smaller computers: cell phone, then mind-extending implants always connected to the cloud. Then we can back up our own brains. Then why try to build new brains ? Simply run them in the cloud in whatever simulation or reality-extension you see fit. Then colonize space by sending small Von Neumann ships with a lot of 'brains' backed up. At this point you may not even care about bringing sperm and eggs to grow 'real' be antiquated humans. And all this without even needing artificial intelligence or singularity.
I don't know why my question got modded down to oblivion. I know FAT32 is limited to 32Gb and I don't understand why you can't implement an SD format with an ext3/4 format. I can certainly format mine this way. Having it recognized by android is another matter. It would certainly be more satisfying for HTC, Google & Co to distribute an ext3/4 driver for Windows than to pay MS for something that is not necessary.
Lack of SD-Cards (I get it, MS want's their cut, but what's the price? If it's 5bucks a device, I'm happy to pay that extra)
What ?!? Why does the presence of a SD slot requires a payout to MS ? Is it the potential presence of a card with FAT32 on it ? In that case use ext3 (it's Linux after all), problem solved. Or am I missing something here ?
The problem with protecting the pilot, as many here have suggested the use of polarizing filter on goggles or the windows, is that it absorbs 50 or 75% of the light, making it unsuitable for night flights. Narrow-bandwidth selective filters are probably not possible because there are many different wavelengths available for lasers nowadays. Maybe reactive goggles (a liquid crystal shuts down when a polarized beam is detected).
Anyway we talk about this for pilots, but I've had a laser shown at me while driving at night. Annoying but fortunately it wasn't one of those 1W killers.
That's about a million times easier to say than do, and do well, of course but that's basically the only technical solution.
There are plenty of possible technical solutions. Since lasers are very directive, you could build a system that does several things:
- get the direction and angle of the incoming beam, get the GPS position and direction of the vehicle, estimate the position of the culprit, send an automated message to authorities with some priority for cops (or the fucking TSA so they get off their lazy ass for once).
- Also take a low light zoom picture (with a polarizing filter so the laser doesn't ruin it) so you can tell if it was a 3rd floor window or whatever.
- Also (or instead of sending the cops), beam a powerful laser in the exact same direction (maybe use reverse phase mirrors ?) so that the guy knows he did something stupid. For some people it may be enough "oh shit!" to keep them from doing it again, while for some others it maybe more like "we got it, let's do it again", I don't know.
You could probably build something like this from a cell phone and 1000$ worth of optics.
it worries me how much mental energy they were putting into something as simple as getting dressed or what to have for breakfast. sounds like an anxiety disorder to me.
Never seen teenage girls spending 2 hours daily to chose how they're gonna dress in the morning ? "But I have NOTHING to wear!" said to a 4ft high pile of discarded clothes on the bed... That's anxiety disorder for you. Although from an evolutionary viewpoint, it can pay: my sister eventually got a 5 star guy...
I had a similar clash of habits: I always take the morning T-shirt from the bottom of the pile and put the clean ones on top after laundry. My wife puts the clean ones at the bottom, so for a while I was always wearing the same subset until I noticed.
I get scam phone calls or SMS every once in a while. Why can't you just report their phone number to your own phone provider, and after a few complaints they get automatically disconnected if they are on the same phone network, banned if they are on a different one and reported to the authorities and fined whenever possible ? It's much easier to fight than spam since you have their phone number in most cases, like the SMS 'You have a message - call back this insanely overtaxed number'
Never heard of her, and I don't care enough to google her. But I find it fucked up that singers, people who run after a ball and people who shuffle money between Excel cells are paid more than people who try to design fusion reactors or malaria vaccines. That is all.
Australia has mandatory helmets, and very low levels of cycling to go with it.
Well, in all honesty it could also be due to: regularly rolling on snakes, hitting so many flies that you can't pick up speed, biking on the highway (yes, it's allowed !), summer heat that melts your tires and would require watering holes every mile (of which there aren't any), and yes, spiderwebs so thick you get stuck in them !
If you fall by yourself off a bike (losing grip too fast in a curve, hitting the side of a sidewalk), you are more likely to injure your wrists or scrape your legs. There won't be much difference for the head. But if you get hit by a car, a cm of Styrofoam is not going to make much of a difference. And I say this as someone who wears a helmet mountain biking and takes it off on the bike lanes.
The US is absurd: you don't have to wear a helmet on a motorbike, but you need one on a pedal bike ?!?
Move your company to Europe, do not trade with the USA, instead only trade with the mysterious entity know as the "rest of the world" which has a very large, diverse and robust economy and slightly less powerful corporations, laugh all the way to the bank...
There is an incredible push in Europe to pass software patents as well. It's been cancelled twice by a hair. But the European Patent Office has already hired people to take care of software patents. I know, I was one of the heads hunted.
There's also a simple command line app that can switch between X11 configurations easily. You set up the different configurations you want (laptop on the go, projector, multi monitor, etc, memorize them and then recall them when you need). I won't be much more informative that that because I don't remember the name of the app !
...does that mean that you can install Linux in the time it takes for a cement block to go through a Windows(tm) ? Guerrilla advertisement is getting worse and worse.
There used to be an Italian supermarket in Nth Carlton that sold leg bacon which was the size of a small dinner plate. I don't know if it's still available. We get short cut rindless bacon as a general rule. It doesn't tend to crisp up in the same way, thicker and with less fat, but it gets nicely caramelized.
In Italy they use a lot something called Guanciale, which is pig cheek, cured like bacon. It if fatter (!) and even more tasty. It's the secret to many pasta dishes but it doesn't sound like what you describe.
Knee jerk anti-Americanism is pretty popular on the Internet these days. Much easier to look at the US as one big country rather than a union of fifty states, thousands of counties, and tens of thousands of towns and cities. Only in Europe can two towns five hundred miles away from each other be different and unique. Contrast that with the US where Hoboken is identical to Raleigh is identical to Chicago in the mind of a non-American..
Well, Americans invented the restaurant chains for a reason, no ?
Exactly what kind of mucking foron does it take to summarily claim that US food is uniformly bad?
I've heard a very good excuse for that: immigrants who came to the US couldn't find the basic ingredients they were used to, so they improvised with whatever was available, usually with much less success. And in many cases it stuck, impoverishing the recipes in the process.
PS: a more direct answer to your question whould be: "one who has lived there".
Weird opinion - the US is near the tops in terms of food quality in the world, based on my experience.
He, have you really stepped out of the US ?!?
Try eating your way around New York
Every time I mention food being bad in the US, americans always go "but you have to try it in NY!". Why ? NY is only a tiny subset of the US and also variety != quality. And for your information I've been in NY and the crappy 25$ burgers were just as bad as ANY other burger. If you go to a random unassuming restaurant in Italy [for instance], chances are you'll find the antipasti and the pizza and the pasta delicious. And for less than 20$/Euro. If you do the same anywhere in the US, chances are you'll shit that fast food in your pants if you can't find a toilet fast enough. Travel, and see for yourself.
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I agree this is a worthy goal, but I can imagine others that may come more naturally. For instance we get better and smaller computers: cell phone, then mind-extending implants always connected to the cloud. Then we can back up our own brains. Then why try to build new brains ? Simply run them in the cloud in whatever simulation or reality-extension you see fit. Then colonize space by sending small Von Neumann ships with a lot of 'brains' backed up. At this point you may not even care about bringing sperm and eggs to grow 'real' be antiquated humans. And all this without even needing artificial intelligence or singularity.
I don't know why my question got modded down to oblivion. I know FAT32 is limited to 32Gb and I don't understand why you can't implement an SD format with an ext3/4 format. I can certainly format mine this way. Having it recognized by android is another matter. It would certainly be more satisfying for HTC, Google & Co to distribute an ext3/4 driver for Windows than to pay MS for something that is not necessary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
Woah... Mind blown. I learnt something today.
Lack of SD-Cards (I get it, MS want's their cut, but what's the price? If it's 5bucks a device, I'm happy to pay that extra)
What ?!? Why does the presence of a SD slot requires a payout to MS ? Is it the potential presence of a card with FAT32 on it ? In that case use ext3 (it's Linux after all), problem solved. Or am I missing something here ?
People are willing to do a lot of meaningless things to feel good but they won't do anything real.
It's called 'prayer'.
Anyway we talk about this for pilots, but I've had a laser shown at me while driving at night. Annoying but fortunately it wasn't one of those 1W killers.
That's about a million times easier to say than do, and do well, of course but that's basically the only technical solution.
There are plenty of possible technical solutions. Since lasers are very directive, you could build a system that does several things:
- get the direction and angle of the incoming beam, get the GPS position and direction of the vehicle, estimate the position of the culprit, send an automated message to authorities with some priority for cops (or the fucking TSA so they get off their lazy ass for once).
- Also take a low light zoom picture (with a polarizing filter so the laser doesn't ruin it) so you can tell if it was a 3rd floor window or whatever.
- Also (or instead of sending the cops), beam a powerful laser in the exact same direction (maybe use reverse phase mirrors ?) so that the guy knows he did something stupid. For some people it may be enough "oh shit!" to keep them from doing it again, while for some others it maybe more like "we got it, let's do it again", I don't know.
You could probably build something like this from a cell phone and 1000$ worth of optics.
Yes, I understand this social pyramid, but I fail to see why the people on top end up being singers or ball runners.
it worries me how much mental energy they were putting into something as simple as getting dressed or what to have for breakfast. sounds like an anxiety disorder to me.
Never seen teenage girls spending 2 hours daily to chose how they're gonna dress in the morning ? "But I have NOTHING to wear!" said to a 4ft high pile of discarded clothes on the bed... That's anxiety disorder for you. Although from an evolutionary viewpoint, it can pay: my sister eventually got a 5 star guy...
I had a similar clash of habits: I always take the morning T-shirt from the bottom of the pile and put the clean ones on top after laundry. My wife puts the clean ones at the bottom, so for a while I was always wearing the same subset until I noticed.
I get scam phone calls or SMS every once in a while. Why can't you just report their phone number to your own phone provider, and after a few complaints they get automatically disconnected if they are on the same phone network, banned if they are on a different one and reported to the authorities and fined whenever possible ? It's much easier to fight than spam since you have their phone number in most cases, like the SMS 'You have a message - call back this insanely overtaxed number'
Never heard of her, and I don't care enough to google her. But I find it fucked up that singers, people who run after a ball and people who shuffle money between Excel cells are paid more than people who try to design fusion reactors or malaria vaccines. That is all.
Australia has mandatory helmets, and very low levels of cycling to go with it.
Well, in all honesty it could also be due to: regularly rolling on snakes, hitting so many flies that you can't pick up speed, biking on the highway (yes, it's allowed !), summer heat that melts your tires and would require watering holes every mile (of which there aren't any), and yes, spiderwebs so thick you get stuck in them !
Statistically, space shuttle astronauts safer than automobile drivers - per km traveled, and pedestrians are the least safe of all.
Yeah, sometimes it would make more sense comparing time in use than distance covered.
The US is absurd: you don't have to wear a helmet on a motorbike, but you need one on a pedal bike ?!?
Move your company to Europe, do not trade with the USA, instead only trade with the mysterious entity know as the "rest of the world" which has a very large, diverse and robust economy and slightly less powerful corporations, laugh all the way to the bank ...
There is an incredible push in Europe to pass software patents as well. It's been cancelled twice by a hair. But the European Patent Office has already hired people to take care of software patents. I know, I was one of the heads hunted.
There's also a simple command line app that can switch between X11 configurations easily. You set up the different configurations you want (laptop on the go, projector, multi monitor, etc, memorize them and then recall them when you need). I won't be much more informative that that because I don't remember the name of the app !
Red Hat (2000, at work), Gentoo (2003, at home), Kubuntu (since 2007 at home and work), BuildRoot (is that even a distro ? since 2007 at work)
...does that mean that you can install Linux in the time it takes for a cement block to go through a Windows(tm) ? Guerrilla advertisement is getting worse and worse.
There used to be an Italian supermarket in Nth Carlton that sold leg bacon which was the size of a small dinner plate. I don't know if it's still available. We get short cut rindless bacon as a general rule. It doesn't tend to crisp up in the same way, thicker and with less fat, but it gets nicely caramelized.
In Italy they use a lot something called Guanciale, which is pig cheek, cured like bacon. It if fatter (!) and even more tasty. It's the secret to many pasta dishes but it doesn't sound like what you describe.
Knee jerk anti-Americanism is pretty popular on the Internet these days. Much easier to look at the US as one big country rather than a union of fifty states, thousands of counties, and tens of thousands of towns and cities. Only in Europe can two towns five hundred miles away from each other be different and unique. Contrast that with the US where Hoboken is identical to Raleigh is identical to Chicago in the mind of a non-American..
Well, Americans invented the restaurant chains for a reason, no ?
Exactly what kind of mucking foron does it take to summarily claim that US food is uniformly bad?
I've heard a very good excuse for that: immigrants who came to the US couldn't find the basic ingredients they were used to, so they improvised with whatever was available, usually with much less success. And in many cases it stuck, impoverishing the recipes in the process.
PS: a more direct answer to your question whould be: "one who has lived there".
Eh, I thought the hierophant used 'shrooms, not beer ! ;-)
Weird opinion - the US is near the tops in terms of food quality in the world, based on my experience.
He, have you really stepped out of the US ?!?
Try eating your way around New York
Every time I mention food being bad in the US, americans always go "but you have to try it in NY!". Why ? NY is only a tiny subset of the US and also variety != quality. And for your information I've been in NY and the crappy 25$ burgers were just as bad as ANY other burger. If you go to a random unassuming restaurant in Italy [for instance], chances are you'll find the antipasti and the pizza and the pasta delicious. And for less than 20$/Euro. If you do the same anywhere in the US, chances are you'll shit that fast food in your pants if you can't find a toilet fast enough. Travel, and see for yourself.