We'll run out of natural oil. But it's entirely possible that the internal combustion engine design could undergo some slight changes in order to use some sort of human-synthesized liquid fuel.
There are a lot of people, myself included, that wouldn't really ever be interested in driving an electric car because of their very un-sexy sound (or lack of sound.)
the very existence of the USA PATRIOT act is legitimate
What exactly do you mean by that? That statement is pretty vague. Obviously, someone had a reason for the PATRIOT act to exist because, looky-loo, there it is.
To have a productive argument, you need a specific complaint.
Cadillac's system was actually a Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) module, developed by Raytheon. It required a thermal differential in the scene from frame-to-frame to be able to see anything, and thus a "chopper" wheel (a rotating slotted disc) had to run in front of the detector. The picture would smear and was generally low-quality. The module used by Cadillac was also rather low resolution (160x120, I believe).
The alternative to BST is microbolometer technology, developed by Lockheed Martin / BAE Systems and others. A microbolometer array consists of vanadium-oxide bridges that vary their resistance when exposed to thermal radiation. The scene will occasionally need to be "shuttered" (i.e., zero all the pixels against the back of a shutter mechanism to cancel the thermal drift that creeps in over time.)
Unlike light-amp, true thermal imaging allows you to see in complete darkness. And unlike projected-IR, it isn't limited in range by any kind of IR-transmitter. And unlike either of those technologies, it allows you to very quickly find humans (or other mammals) in a scene, and it allows you to see where things used to be by the heat-shadow that they've left.
many Slashdotters liked to take the position that the MPAA was trying to shut down P2P itself. This is what is known as a straw man fallacy.
I hope you're not suggesting that the MPAA wouldn't very much like to totally eliminate P2P. They would. They're merely going after specific sites because it's legally a more complex process to prohibit use of a particular protocol on the internet than it is to attack one particular web site.
Granted, if the strategy of the MPAA is simply to deceive lawmakers and the public to further their own goals, then they're not boneheaded. Because I believe people are stupid enough for them to get away with it.
I think the point is that these sites are unquestionably legal, even to boneheaded organizations like the MPAA. (It's necessary to make things very, very simple such that they can understand.)
On top of that, since when is being religious a bad thing?
Sigh. Here we go again:
Religion requires some spiritual belief. Belief in a god or gods is used as an example.
If there is a scientific test that could be performed to confirm the existence of god(s), that belief would no longer be spiritual, and so would not help religion/faith.
If there is no scientific test to confirm the existence of god(s), then their existence is completely undetectable.
A completely undetectable god or gods is exactly equivalent to no god(s) at all.
It shouldn't be surprising that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in a game if the best human player in the world can't beat the best computer player in the world. It's only a matter of time before a similar thing happens with Go, and then we can all move on to something important.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that there is not a sufficient number of 10^9-year-old-plus macroscopic fossils, representing enough prehistoric life to be presented as useful evidence in the argument for global warming. Fossils half as old as the earth itself are not exactly common.
Though I am sure you understand the underlying concepts much better than they do. It's a wonder that biologists don't come to you looking for answers.
Wow, it's really super that we can easily avoid discussion of the actual news story by talking about how dumb all Americans are! None of them have even heard of England! Tee hee!
I think the problem that most "fanboys" have is that this is now a hollywood movie, so it needs to be hollywoodized -- you don't have the same creative freedoms that you do when publishing a book because it's simply not economically OK if the movie only appears to a niche crowd.
Movies are produced to make a bunch of money, so the producers need to be sure that's going to actually happen.
Yes, I'm sure that food is kept from people for horrible, vindictive reasons, and not because of simple economics.
Food is kept from people because of simple economics. There is no world conspiracy to starve people. Only an idiot would think there was. There is almost nothing in the world that happens simply because of someone being evil, and for no other reason. It may suck that some people don't have the means to get enough food to survive, but the reason for that definitely does not have anything to do with ecnomics being "evil", which is just silly.
Now are you really going to insist that Google Maps only covering the US is equivalent to deliberately starving people? That seems to be where you're going.
Who is the retard now? No wait, you must be a crack monkey.
If you're going to insult me with a comparison to some animal, at least pick a different animal than I used.
I have an idea. I will repost your reply to me as a reply to yourself, dumbass.
"What in god's name are you talking about? You haven't logically demonstrated anything. All you've said is that economics itself is simple because US-only maps can be explained in economic terms."
That was probably supposed to be clever, but you didn't actually re-post my reply. You changed it. Good show.
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We'll run out of natural oil. But it's entirely possible that the internal combustion engine design could undergo some slight changes in order to use some sort of human-synthesized liquid fuel.
There are a lot of people, myself included, that wouldn't really ever be interested in driving an electric car because of their very un-sexy sound (or lack of sound.)
It'd be a lot less work to just label the posts that are "Not Clueless".
the very existence of the USA PATRIOT act is legitimate
What exactly do you mean by that? That statement is pretty vague. Obviously, someone had a reason for the PATRIOT act to exist because, looky-loo, there it is.
To have a productive argument, you need a specific complaint.
Parent should be modded 'Insightful', not 'Funny'.
Parent should be modded "Insightful", not "Funny".
Cadillac's system was actually a Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) module, developed by Raytheon. It required a thermal differential in the scene from frame-to-frame to be able to see anything, and thus a "chopper" wheel (a rotating slotted disc) had to run in front of the detector. The picture would smear and was generally low-quality. The module used by Cadillac was also rather low resolution (160x120, I believe).
The alternative to BST is microbolometer technology, developed by Lockheed Martin / BAE Systems and others. A microbolometer array consists of vanadium-oxide bridges that vary their resistance when exposed to thermal radiation. The scene will occasionally need to be "shuttered" (i.e., zero all the pixels against the back of a shutter mechanism to cancel the thermal drift that creeps in over time.)
Unlike light-amp, true thermal imaging allows you to see in complete darkness. And unlike projected-IR, it isn't limited in range by any kind of IR-transmitter. And unlike either of those technologies, it allows you to very quickly find humans (or other mammals) in a scene, and it allows you to see where things used to be by the heat-shadow that they've left.
many Slashdotters liked to take the position that the MPAA was trying to shut down P2P itself. This is what is known as a straw man fallacy.
I hope you're not suggesting that the MPAA wouldn't very much like to totally eliminate P2P. They would. They're merely going after specific sites because it's legally a more complex process to prohibit use of a particular protocol on the internet than it is to attack one particular web site.
No matter who you are, Google is better than you. So hush up.
Granted, if the strategy of the MPAA is simply to deceive lawmakers and the public to further their own goals, then they're not boneheaded. Because I believe people are stupid enough for them to get away with it.
And I think they know this.
I think the point is that these sites are unquestionably legal, even to boneheaded organizations like the MPAA. (It's necessary to make things very, very simple such that they can understand.)
Sigh. Here we go again:
Religion requires some spiritual belief. Belief in a god or gods is used as an example.
If there is a scientific test that could be performed to confirm the existence of god(s), that belief would no longer be spiritual, and so would not help religion/faith.
If there is no scientific test to confirm the existence of god(s), then their existence is completely undetectable.
A completely undetectable god or gods is exactly equivalent to no god(s) at all.
It shouldn't be surprising that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in a game if the best human player in the world can't beat the best computer player in the world. It's only a matter of time before a similar thing happens with Go, and then we can all move on to something important.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that there is not a sufficient number of 10^9-year-old-plus macroscopic fossils, representing enough prehistoric life to be presented as useful evidence in the argument for global warming. Fossils half as old as the earth itself are not exactly common.
Though I am sure you understand the underlying concepts much better than they do. It's a wonder that biologists don't come to you looking for answers.
I think I probably do, yes.
Wrong! There are no fossils "billions of years" old.
You're confusing fantasy with reality.
Wow, it's really super that we can easily avoid discussion of the actual news story by talking about how dumb all Americans are! None of them have even heard of England! Tee hee!
It's also not infrequent for any given slashdot story to be used to bitch about Americans for no good reason.
You must go through life awfully confused if you can't understand that.
Did Microsoft simply forget to mention that they deliberately broke interoperability with a competing product?
Do you suppose it's alright for them to be conniving and deceitful as well as monopolistic?
Yet another innocent Slashdot story hijacked by political comments. Take it elsewhere, please.
I think the problem that most "fanboys" have is that this is now a hollywood movie, so it needs to be hollywoodized -- you don't have the same creative freedoms that you do when publishing a book because it's simply not economically OK if the movie only appears to a niche crowd.
Movies are produced to make a bunch of money, so the producers need to be sure that's going to actually happen.
Not feasible. 42 is the Answer because DNA, after much discussion, came to the conclusion that 42 is the funniest number.
Yes, I'm sure that food is kept from people for horrible, vindictive reasons, and not because of simple economics.
Food is kept from people because of simple economics. There is no world conspiracy to starve people. Only an idiot would think there was. There is almost nothing in the world that happens simply because of someone being evil, and for no other reason. It may suck that some people don't have the means to get enough food to survive, but the reason for that definitely does not have anything to do with ecnomics being "evil", which is just silly.
Now are you really going to insist that Google Maps only covering the US is equivalent to deliberately starving people? That seems to be where you're going.
Who is the retard now? No wait, you must be a crack monkey.
If you're going to insult me with a comparison to some animal, at least pick a different animal than I used.
I have an idea. I will repost your reply to me as a reply to yourself, dumbass.
"What in god's name are you talking about? You haven't logically demonstrated anything. All you've said is that economics itself is simple because US-only maps can be explained in economic terms."
That was probably supposed to be clever, but you didn't actually re-post my reply. You changed it. Good show.