I'll be 100 in 2060. May I ask that this "invention" waits until then to hit the shops.
I really don't see the problem. As the article talks about, there are tons of manufactured foods that can be high-quality and tasty: beer, wine, bread, cheese, tofu, soy milk, almond milk, gelatin, and many more. All of these can be found in high-quality versions that taste great, at least to those people who enjoy that particular food item!;-)
Sure these technologies can be used to make bad quality food as well as good quality food but that doesn't mean that it won't be worthwhile. The same thing can be said about "natural" food production methods such as farming. You can get some pretty awful meat from a farm, as well as some of the tastiest steaks.
I welcome the development of manufactured meat. I'm sure there will be some amazingly tasty and inexpensive products since it provides solutions to many of the more difficult problems in food production: climate, transportation, disease, animal rights, genetics, and so on.
Most importantly, even if it becomes a viable method of producing food it will be years before it becomes a sizable fraction of our food supply. I expect there will always be "natural" sources of food even after that point so you'll be able to make your own choices of "natural" vs manufactured meat.
"... [I] really want... I want... I want... I don't want... I don't want... I'd at least like... I'd like... I'll give them a try... I still want... I expect... I guess... "
Then you shall have.
Maybe, maybe not. It never hurts to talk about how you feel an interface could be improved, right?
I certainly don't expect the folks at Slashdot to cater to my every whim, although it'd be great for me if they did!
And usually that's the admins. Most admins gone bad would be smart enough to bone the backups if they were going to do deliberate damage
The best bet is several admins. One manages the backups, another manages the "live" data, then you can have admin who oversees them (or more than one if you have the staff). If you maintain a few versions of backup data then you can minimize a rogue admin trashing your data.
Of course a determined person can still mess up your live data and all of the backups if they act over a long enough time. Hopefully the overseer can catch a long-term problem before it corrupts even your backups.
Oh and make sure everything is extensively logged in such a way that is as protected from overwriting as possible. That way a rogue admin is deterred by the fact that there will be legal proof of his bad actions and he'll get a black mark on his record for future employment.
Ahh, I wasn't aware that the cadaveric valves didn't require immunosuppressants. How do they achieve that? I imagine they can somehow strip off the markers which would trigger an immune response.
That definitely makes a great case for using a cadaveric valve, I wonder why they didn't go that route.
There are cadaveric (organ-donor) valves and porcine (pig-heart) valves available. They don't last as long as the mechanical ones, but they don't need anticoagulation.
But they do need immunosuppressants. That's still a heck of a trade-off!
I guess that anticoagulants might be worse than immunosuppressants but they both introduce plenty of complications.
I've toyed with the idea of a slashdot - nntp interface. Then you could use any newsreader you like.
Yeah, this is exactly along the lines of what I'd like. It'd give me the ability to just take the raw data and use it in any manner I prefer.
I know you can use the RSS to view the stories but it's the comments that are the problem. There needs to be a way to also get a feed of the comments to an article. I don't know if there is anything like that built-in to Slashdot. I guess you could do some webpage scraping to get that but that's definitely not optimal.
Hmm, maybe I'll muck about with the HTML and see how the JavaScript handles loading comments. I'm still not sure if I care enough to waste my time on it though, I might just stop posting here rather than go through all the effort.
Man, slashdot really screwed the pooch on this one, updating their website and not preserving the old version for us. That's what every website does except slashdot. I hate new things.
Change is not inherently good or bad. There certainly have been many positive changes on Slashdot over the years as well as changes that were deemed positive by some and negative by others.
In this case what really want is an extremely stripped-down interface that is basically a completely static site. I want a text list of stories with a small summary and some minimal styling to make it readable and then I want to be able to click on a link and read the story in more depth and read and write comments. I don't want things to autoupdate, that's why my browser has a refresh button. I don't want Slashdot to emulate windows inside the browser to simulate modal dialog boxes for login or preferences.
Failing that I'd at least like to keep the interface that I've figured out ways to get around the dynamic annoyances and interface clutter. That's why I'd like a versioning system. When new versions of Slashdot come out I'll give them a try but I still want the option to fall back. Yes, most websites don't provide that functionality but this is a a website that touts it is "news for nerds", I expect a bit more from Slashdot. I guess those expectations might be misplaced.
I think pretty much every update Slashdot gets more unusable. All I want out of this site is a clean way to browse stories and read and write comments. I don't want "web 2.0", tags, autoupdating pages, and all that other clutter.
Can we please at least get a versioning system that allows us to freeze our interface at a certain point?
I guess the next step is we'll just have to scrape the RSS feed or whatever and build our own interface. Not that I really want to re-invent the wheel or anything.
You mean like previewing a comment before submitting it?
Yeah, if you read further I already replied to someone about this. I always do preview but sometimes things still slip through. Mistakes happen, it's be nice to have a better system for handling mistakes that slip through.
Preview works great for stuff like missed html tags and other stuff that jumps out at you. It doesn't work as well for subtle mistakes you make because a lot of times your mind replaces the version you have on the page with the version that's in your head. That's why mistakes like a double "the" are easily missed in copyediting.
Or you could just re-read your post before submitting it.
Did that, still missed it. Totally my fault, sure, but it's a common enough thing here that there probably should be some kind of edit feature. The bandaid of replying to your own post to correct it just isn't a great solution.
Yeah, or an edit which has a diff-like functionality so you can see what was done in the edit. There has to be some reasonable solution that would let you correct stupid mistakes without being too revisionist.
Ahh well, someday Slashdot will catch up with modern technology! lol...
I'm pretty skeptical that these pieces could really have led to a stealth fighter. Stealth tech isn't that tough to figure out and I'm sure the most you can gain from these pieces is what materials were used.
There's actually quite a bit of complicated technology to stealth fighters or everyone would have had them by now.
First of all there's the chemistry of the ablative coatings used on the equipment. They have to absorb wavelengths, prevent infrared emissions from the aircraft, scatter radar in a certain manner, and still be light, adhere well, provide corrosion resistance, and so on.
There's also specific angles for stuff like air intakes, exhaust nozzles, instrumentation, etc. so you have as little backscatter on radar as possible. Some of the concepts are simple but tricky to implement in an vehicle that still needs to be aerodynamic and efficient in flight. These aircraft also use special alloys for various purposes and pieces of the aircraft would be great for reverse engineering those alloys.
All this stuff still has to be able to fly and there's a lot of engineering involved in designing the control surfaces, not to mention the computerized and fly-by-wire systems needed to stabilize a craft which is not as easy to control as a non-stealth aircraft.
So yeah, there's a lot of technology for someone to capture.
There's also plenty of ignorant people seeing it as a 'socialist takeover' and intelligent people seeing it as a 'corporate takeover'. Ignorance and intelligence are on both sides of the issue because it's a complex issue. In fact you can even have both takeovers at the same time, they don't need to be mutually exclusive.
Blergh messed that one up, I meant to flip socialist and corporate in my first paragraph to contrast the grandparent's statement. My main point is that both sides have their bright and dim people, to say that only one view is the view of intelligent people is to commit a type of ad hominum attack on the issues.
Although I'm sure it would be abused there's some times that I wish Slashdot had an edit post feature!
Isn't it weird how intelligent and skeptical people see it as "corporate takeover", and ignorant people believe corporations telling them that its a 'socialist takeover'.
There's also plenty of ignorant people seeing it as a 'socialist takeover' and intelligent people seeing it as a 'corporate takeover'. Ignorance and intelligence are on both sides of the issue because it's a complex issue. In fact you can even have both takeovers at the same time, they don't need to be mutually exclusive.
I personally think that the best take on it is to protect the ability of people to think for themselves and decide their own fates. If they want to band together into collectives then let them, if they want to trust corporations then let them. It's all good as long as they aren't allowed to oppress other people too much by forcing others into their "club".
I don't know what site you're visiting, but posters on Slashdot have been vehemently trashing Apple for the last 12 months.
There's plenty of people on all sides of the issues. Open source, free software, DMCA, DRM, Apple, Linux, Microsoft, BSD, USA, Europe, China, Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian, vi, emacs, blah blah blah.
So many fanboys mad with power and modpoints!
I just find it sad when people use the moderation system to disagree with posters rather than reward people for adding to the discussion. An open and rewarding debate is good for everyone. Yeah I like Apple's stuff but I also cheer for Linux, Microsoft, and other competition. Without competition people get lazy and everyone suffers. I welcome debate and challenges, it keeps us nimble and free of getting old, crusty, and set in our ways.
Of course this isn't a popular thought here on Slashdot but hey, who needs karma anyway?
Apparently you do, because your karma whine got the +5, as it usually does on Slashdot.
Lol nah, I was doing it to razz someone who has been following my posts lately and downmodding me whenever they get mod points. I find it pretty amusing to have someone waste their mod points in that manner so I figured I'd give them a wink-and-a-nod at their little game. I actually never expected to get modded up to 5 on this fairly simple post.
Anyways, once you have enough karma to post at 2 the rest doesn't matter. Even posting at 2 isn't that big of a deal, it's just a silly web forum after all...
When they abandoned Classic they made it so that a tremendous amount of software is no longer useable and will die out.
You can still run a lot of those Classic Mac OS X apps, here's some links for you:
Mac OS X Hints
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
E-Maculation
Classic Macintosh emulation website
SheepShaver
MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux
So install the CODECS, not some crappy media player that nobody uses anymore.
QuickTime is far more than just a media player program, it provides a lot of behind-the-scenes functionality to other programs. I don't have a copy of Windows around to test it but will everything in iTunes work if you uninstall QuickTime? As a Mac programmer I know that many programs depend on QuickTime to handle media creation, manipulation, and playback. I would assume the same is true of iTunes and Safari on Windows.
I suppose they could have split it into 3 installs: iTunes, the QuickTime frameworks, and the QuickTime media player. I don't know if there's a technical reason they didn't do that, perhaps there's so little to the actual media player that they thought it wasn't worth making it a separate install.
I miss the Apple that made great hardware (although a little bit overpriced), and a nice OS to go with it
They still make great hardware and a nice OS to go with it. It may not be directly targeted at the geek crowd that browses Slashdot (although it can work great for those people too) but to the average person on the street it matches pretty well with what they are looking for in a computer/phone/browsing device.
Of course this isn't a popular thought here on Slashdot but hey, who needs karma anyway? I've been karma capped for years and it's all-too-easy to make up the few mod points I'll get hit for posting something against the "mainstream" here.
I totally agree with everything you have said here, the lasers are obviously dangerous to pilots. I just had a small nit to pick with one detail:
At 1000 feet and 135 knots, a standard 3 degree glideslope requires a descent rate of 715fpm. That's under a second and a half to impact.
Did you mean to say minute and a half? It looked that way to me since it was 1000 feet and descending at at 715 feet per minute. Even with the unit being minute as opposed to second it's still a pretty short time to deal with being dazzled and partially blinded.
Somehow I think people who can afford a $700 laser have better things to do than shine it at aircraft.
That's a silly idea, that someone with more money is less likely to do something idiotic. There are plenty of examples throughout history of the idle rich messing around with people just for fun, just like there are plenty of examples of poor people doing the same.
I don't think you can draw any reasonable conclusions about the likelihood of someone with more disposable income being less irresponsible than someone with less, at least not without a ton of data to back up those claims.
They have, essentially, a very large number of buttons on the Magic Mouse because the entire surface is multitouch. It can take gestures and provide many virtual buttons. This new patent adds a display so that the surface can reflect state and button images, adding to how the multitouch works.
Certainly a mouse with physical buttons does provide some advantages over one with virtual buttons, such as better tactile feedback, but it's also not as flexible. There's tradeoffs in everything.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll be 100 in 2060. May I ask that this "invention" waits until then to hit the shops.
I really don't see the problem. As the article talks about, there are tons of manufactured foods that can be high-quality and tasty: beer, wine, bread, cheese, tofu, soy milk, almond milk, gelatin, and many more. All of these can be found in high-quality versions that taste great, at least to those people who enjoy that particular food item! ;-)
Sure these technologies can be used to make bad quality food as well as good quality food but that doesn't mean that it won't be worthwhile. The same thing can be said about "natural" food production methods such as farming. You can get some pretty awful meat from a farm, as well as some of the tastiest steaks.
I welcome the development of manufactured meat. I'm sure there will be some amazingly tasty and inexpensive products since it provides solutions to many of the more difficult problems in food production: climate, transportation, disease, animal rights, genetics, and so on.
Most importantly, even if it becomes a viable method of producing food it will be years before it becomes a sizable fraction of our food supply. I expect there will always be "natural" sources of food even after that point so you'll be able to make your own choices of "natural" vs manufactured meat.
" ... [I] really want ... I want ... I want ... I don't want ... I don't want ... I'd at least like ... I'd like ... I'll give them a try ... I still want ... I expect ... I guess ... "
Then you shall have.
Maybe, maybe not. It never hurts to talk about how you feel an interface could be improved, right?
I certainly don't expect the folks at Slashdot to cater to my every whim, although it'd be great for me if they did!
And usually that's the admins. Most admins gone bad would be smart enough to bone the backups if they were going to do deliberate damage
The best bet is several admins. One manages the backups, another manages the "live" data, then you can have admin who oversees them (or more than one if you have the staff). If you maintain a few versions of backup data then you can minimize a rogue admin trashing your data.
Of course a determined person can still mess up your live data and all of the backups if they act over a long enough time. Hopefully the overseer can catch a long-term problem before it corrupts even your backups.
Oh and make sure everything is extensively logged in such a way that is as protected from overwriting as possible. That way a rogue admin is deterred by the fact that there will be legal proof of his bad actions and he'll get a black mark on his record for future employment.
Organs, yes. Cadaveric valves, no. Porcine, yes.
Ahh, I wasn't aware that the cadaveric valves didn't require immunosuppressants. How do they achieve that? I imagine they can somehow strip off the markers which would trigger an immune response.
That definitely makes a great case for using a cadaveric valve, I wonder why they didn't go that route.
There are cadaveric (organ-donor) valves and porcine (pig-heart) valves available. They don't last as long as the mechanical ones, but they don't need anticoagulation.
But they do need immunosuppressants. That's still a heck of a trade-off!
I guess that anticoagulants might be worse than immunosuppressants but they both introduce plenty of complications.
Barley registers on my machine.
Perhops it's a Slashdot bug!
(lol, sorry for poking fun - "barley" is a grain used in beermaking, I think you meant "barely")
I've toyed with the idea of a slashdot - nntp interface. Then you could use any newsreader you like.
Yeah, this is exactly along the lines of what I'd like. It'd give me the ability to just take the raw data and use it in any manner I prefer.
I know you can use the RSS to view the stories but it's the comments that are the problem. There needs to be a way to also get a feed of the comments to an article. I don't know if there is anything like that built-in to Slashdot. I guess you could do some webpage scraping to get that but that's definitely not optimal.
Hmm, maybe I'll muck about with the HTML and see how the JavaScript handles loading comments. I'm still not sure if I care enough to waste my time on it though, I might just stop posting here rather than go through all the effort.
Man, slashdot really screwed the pooch on this one, updating their website and not preserving the old version for us. That's what every website does except slashdot. I hate new things.
Change is not inherently good or bad. There certainly have been many positive changes on Slashdot over the years as well as changes that were deemed positive by some and negative by others.
In this case what really want is an extremely stripped-down interface that is basically a completely static site. I want a text list of stories with a small summary and some minimal styling to make it readable and then I want to be able to click on a link and read the story in more depth and read and write comments. I don't want things to autoupdate, that's why my browser has a refresh button. I don't want Slashdot to emulate windows inside the browser to simulate modal dialog boxes for login or preferences.
Failing that I'd at least like to keep the interface that I've figured out ways to get around the dynamic annoyances and interface clutter. That's why I'd like a versioning system. When new versions of Slashdot come out I'll give them a try but I still want the option to fall back. Yes, most websites don't provide that functionality but this is a a website that touts it is "news for nerds", I expect a bit more from Slashdot. I guess those expectations might be misplaced.
Client-sever computing is now relying heavier on the client.
Additional emphasis on "sever".
I know it probably was a misspelling but it makes so much more sense in this context than the usual "client-server"!
I think pretty much every update Slashdot gets more unusable. All I want out of this site is a clean way to browse stories and read and write comments. I don't want "web 2.0", tags, autoupdating pages, and all that other clutter.
Can we please at least get a versioning system that allows us to freeze our interface at a certain point?
I guess the next step is we'll just have to scrape the RSS feed or whatever and build our own interface. Not that I really want to re-invent the wheel or anything.
You mean like previewing a comment before submitting it?
Yeah, if you read further I already replied to someone about this. I always do preview but sometimes things still slip through. Mistakes happen, it's be nice to have a better system for handling mistakes that slip through.
Preview works great for stuff like missed html tags and other stuff that jumps out at you. It doesn't work as well for subtle mistakes you make because a lot of times your mind replaces the version you have on the page with the version that's in your head. That's why mistakes like a double "the" are easily missed in copyediting.
Or you could just re-read your post before submitting it.
Did that, still missed it. Totally my fault, sure, but it's a common enough thing here that there probably should be some kind of edit feature. The bandaid of replying to your own post to correct it just isn't a great solution.
Yeah, or an edit which has a diff-like functionality so you can see what was done in the edit. There has to be some reasonable solution that would let you correct stupid mistakes without being too revisionist.
Ahh well, someday Slashdot will catch up with modern technology! lol...
I'm pretty skeptical that these pieces could really have led to a stealth fighter. Stealth tech isn't that tough to figure out and I'm sure the most you can gain from these pieces is what materials were used.
There's actually quite a bit of complicated technology to stealth fighters or everyone would have had them by now.
First of all there's the chemistry of the ablative coatings used on the equipment. They have to absorb wavelengths, prevent infrared emissions from the aircraft, scatter radar in a certain manner, and still be light, adhere well, provide corrosion resistance, and so on.
There's also specific angles for stuff like air intakes, exhaust nozzles, instrumentation, etc. so you have as little backscatter on radar as possible. Some of the concepts are simple but tricky to implement in an vehicle that still needs to be aerodynamic and efficient in flight. These aircraft also use special alloys for various purposes and pieces of the aircraft would be great for reverse engineering those alloys.
All this stuff still has to be able to fly and there's a lot of engineering involved in designing the control surfaces, not to mention the computerized and fly-by-wire systems needed to stabilize a craft which is not as easy to control as a non-stealth aircraft.
So yeah, there's a lot of technology for someone to capture.
There's also plenty of ignorant people seeing it as a 'socialist takeover' and intelligent people seeing it as a 'corporate takeover'. Ignorance and intelligence are on both sides of the issue because it's a complex issue. In fact you can even have both takeovers at the same time, they don't need to be mutually exclusive.
Blergh messed that one up, I meant to flip socialist and corporate in my first paragraph to contrast the grandparent's statement. My main point is that both sides have their bright and dim people, to say that only one view is the view of intelligent people is to commit a type of ad hominum attack on the issues.
Although I'm sure it would be abused there's some times that I wish Slashdot had an edit post feature!
Isn't it weird how intelligent and skeptical people see it as "corporate takeover", and ignorant people believe corporations telling them that its a 'socialist takeover'.
There's also plenty of ignorant people seeing it as a 'socialist takeover' and intelligent people seeing it as a 'corporate takeover'. Ignorance and intelligence are on both sides of the issue because it's a complex issue. In fact you can even have both takeovers at the same time, they don't need to be mutually exclusive.
I personally think that the best take on it is to protect the ability of people to think for themselves and decide their own fates. If they want to band together into collectives then let them, if they want to trust corporations then let them. It's all good as long as they aren't allowed to oppress other people too much by forcing others into their "club".
I don't know what site you're visiting, but posters on Slashdot have been vehemently trashing Apple for the last 12 months.
There's plenty of people on all sides of the issues. Open source, free software, DMCA, DRM, Apple, Linux, Microsoft, BSD, USA, Europe, China, Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian, vi, emacs, blah blah blah.
So many fanboys mad with power and modpoints!
I just find it sad when people use the moderation system to disagree with posters rather than reward people for adding to the discussion. An open and rewarding debate is good for everyone. Yeah I like Apple's stuff but I also cheer for Linux, Microsoft, and other competition. Without competition people get lazy and everyone suffers. I welcome debate and challenges, it keeps us nimble and free of getting old, crusty, and set in our ways.
Of course this isn't a popular thought here on Slashdot but hey, who needs karma anyway?
Apparently you do, because your karma whine got the +5, as it usually does on Slashdot.
Lol nah, I was doing it to razz someone who has been following my posts lately and downmodding me whenever they get mod points. I find it pretty amusing to have someone waste their mod points in that manner so I figured I'd give them a wink-and-a-nod at their little game. I actually never expected to get modded up to 5 on this fairly simple post.
Anyways, once you have enough karma to post at 2 the rest doesn't matter. Even posting at 2 isn't that big of a deal, it's just a silly web forum after all...
When they abandoned Classic they made it so that a tremendous amount of software is no longer useable and will die out.
You can still run a lot of those Classic Mac OS X apps, here's some links for you:
Mac OS X Hints How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs E-Maculation Classic Macintosh emulation website SheepShaver MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and LinuxSo install the CODECS, not some crappy media player that nobody uses anymore.
QuickTime is far more than just a media player program, it provides a lot of behind-the-scenes functionality to other programs. I don't have a copy of Windows around to test it but will everything in iTunes work if you uninstall QuickTime? As a Mac programmer I know that many programs depend on QuickTime to handle media creation, manipulation, and playback. I would assume the same is true of iTunes and Safari on Windows.
I suppose they could have split it into 3 installs: iTunes, the QuickTime frameworks, and the QuickTime media player. I don't know if there's a technical reason they didn't do that, perhaps there's so little to the actual media player that they thought it wasn't worth making it a separate install.
I miss the Apple that made great hardware (although a little bit overpriced), and a nice OS to go with it
They still make great hardware and a nice OS to go with it. It may not be directly targeted at the geek crowd that browses Slashdot (although it can work great for those people too) but to the average person on the street it matches pretty well with what they are looking for in a computer/phone/browsing device.
Of course this isn't a popular thought here on Slashdot but hey, who needs karma anyway? I've been karma capped for years and it's all-too-easy to make up the few mod points I'll get hit for posting something against the "mainstream" here.
I totally agree with everything you have said here, the lasers are obviously dangerous to pilots. I just had a small nit to pick with one detail:
At 1000 feet and 135 knots, a standard 3 degree glideslope requires a descent rate of 715fpm. That's under a second and a half to impact.
Did you mean to say minute and a half? It looked that way to me since it was 1000 feet and descending at at 715 feet per minute. Even with the unit being minute as opposed to second it's still a pretty short time to deal with being dazzled and partially blinded.
Somehow I think people who can afford a $700 laser have better things to do than shine it at aircraft.
That's a silly idea, that someone with more money is less likely to do something idiotic. There are plenty of examples throughout history of the idle rich messing around with people just for fun, just like there are plenty of examples of poor people doing the same.
I don't think you can draw any reasonable conclusions about the likelihood of someone with more disposable income being less irresponsible than someone with less, at least not without a ton of data to back up those claims.
The only drawback is that Apple refuses to produce a wireless keyboard with a number pad.
Here's a kinda cool solution for that problem:
Cropmark LMP Bluetooth Keypad
Other than that I'd say just send in your suggestions to Apple. Believe it or not they have been known to listen to suggestions.
They have, essentially, a very large number of buttons on the Magic Mouse because the entire surface is multitouch. It can take gestures and provide many virtual buttons. This new patent adds a display so that the surface can reflect state and button images, adding to how the multitouch works.
Certainly a mouse with physical buttons does provide some advantages over one with virtual buttons, such as better tactile feedback, but it's also not as flexible. There's tradeoffs in everything.