It's a gun free zone for all legal practical purposes because you're not allowed to carry in most circumstances. Outside of hunting (with hunting rifles only), your guns can be either in your home, at the shooting range, or on your person, bagged, and only if you're on or reasonably near a direct path between your home and the shooting range. Many types of guns are restricted to only your home, and many cannot be possessed at all.
Gun deaths are still not about guns; they're about culture. Switzerland is proof. Few countries have more guns per capita, yet gun violence is rare there. Why? Proper training of a citizen militia is a factor, but not a sufficient one. Its cultural differences with the US has everything to do with it, not gun ownership levels, which are comparable.
Mod parent down for lying. Soldiers are only legitimate targets for other soldiers or organized, uniformed (or at least "having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance") militia members controlled by a responsible commanding officer. I suggest you check Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention for the requirements of being a lawful combatant (there are many others beyond the couple I referenced). And let's not even go into the fact that the person in question is a citizen of the same country the soldier is of and there is not a state of civil war.
Actually, he's only PM because he got the most votes. I promise you most of us who voted Conservative in the lsat three federal elections voted for Harper and not just his party. It's the same phenomenon that resulted in Liberal seats in Parliament getting decimated last time--it's not because of Liberal party policy, but the perceived arrogance of their past actions that Ignatieff conveniently came to personify so well by his demeanor. It's also the same in the case of the NDP's surge--it was all Layton, something that Mulcair can't hope to duplicate.
Your post is wrong on several levels. The Queen is both relevant and wanted. Polls continue to show the majority of Canadians are pro-monarchy. Recent legal challenges objecting to having to swear allegiance to the Queen when an immigrant goes through a citizenship ceremony were rejected by the courts with prejudice. Beyond being a personification of the state, the Queen's direct representative, the governor general, does in fact carry power in practical terms, even if it is rarely used. When Harper advised the governor general to prorogue parliament, or when Trudeau advised him to invoke the War Measures Act during the October Crisis, the governor generals had the constitutional power to refuse, even though in any given instance it's unlikely due to custom.
He knows, and he's doing it on purpose. i kan reed is a well known pathological liar on slashdot. The best approach is the same one as with trolls: don't feed it.
i kan reed apparently assumes others can't read, because he consistently gets busted lying and yet keeps deploying that same doomed tactic. He already got called out on it more than once in this discussion alone. As the approach is clearly failing, yet he persists, one must suspect a pathological origin of the urge.
The variable focal depth issue was solved long, long ago by microlens arrays. Current ultra-high resolution displays make this approach very practical, as you can have 8x8 patches behind each microlens and still have decent overall 2D resolution. As for the variable opacity, just use DLP tech, as was (is?) fashionable in some projectors.
A watch remains the only jewelry socially acceptable for a straight man to wear in all possible contexts of style of dress, from the most casual to the most formal.
Your post started off good, noting the issue of focus (the actual depth cue related to focus, though, is not focus itself, but accommodation--the response of the eye to defocus) which is often ignored and people commonly only address stereopsis and motion parallax. However, it then took a couple of wrong turns. First is the issue of color reproduction. Humans are trichromats. We have three types of cone cells in our retinas, and a variant of RGB (read: color space based on only three primaries) can reproduce the full CIE perceptual color gamut. Prototype display systems that do just that exist, and I've seen more than one demoed at SIGGRAPH over the past decade. Perhaps your confusion stems from the very different situation with lighting, where the full spectral response of the luminaire matters because the resultant perceived colors are the product of the light spectrum and the lit surface spectral reflectance, convolved with the retinal cone cell response curves, and so two lights with the same whitepoint but different spectra can result in a situation where two surfaces are perceived to have the same color under one of the lights, but different colors under the other. However, this does not apply to emissive displays, where three primaries is all you need, as long as the choice in primaries is right and the maximum saturation achievable is sufficient. The second wrong turn is in regards to contrast. High dynamic range displays exceeding the dynamic range of the human eye have been around for quite a few years--just search for BrightSide technologies. I still remember the initial prototype at the graphics lab at UBC (where I did my masters). So all the issues have been individually resolved; it's just a matter of putting it all together.
I can't tell if you're just name dropping, but Conrad isn't exactly known for his character development. His character's dialogues, especially, are often the subject of criticism. Conrad's strengths lie elsewhere, much of that being the artistic, and specifically, impressionist approach to being a novelist (consistent with his own claims in the preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus). For a contemporaneous author of the same caliber who excels in bringing to life elaborate characters and delves into their psyches in a way complementary to Conrad, I look to Henry James.
There is one simple and crucial difference between the cover photo you reference and the leaked private ones: consent to publish. This is a quintessential aspect of privacy of any kind, so I'm surprised so few acknowledge it.
Ah, a deliciously nerdy reference to the famous IRC quote, one of the top-rated ones on the quote database:
<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<Zybl0re>get up
<Zybl0re>get on up
<phxl|paper>and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances:D-<
* nmp3bot dances:D|-<
* nmp3bot dances:D/-<
<[SA]HatfulOfHollow>i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
Idiotic summary. Sapphire is a crystal, which by definition is the opposite of an amorphous substance such as a glass. Note that the press release from GT doesn't use the word "glass" even once--it would be like an appliance company calling their refrigerator an oven. They're both appliances, after all, right? (I'm pre-empting the "sapphire and glass are both usually transparent solids, right?" here.)
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Everest death rate per summit is a mere 1.5% in the period 2000-2012. But sure, let's fear monger--this is Slashdot after all!
The idea that there might be some human tetrachromats has been entirely discredited.
It's a gun free zone for all legal practical purposes because you're not allowed to carry in most circumstances. Outside of hunting (with hunting rifles only), your guns can be either in your home, at the shooting range, or on your person, bagged, and only if you're on or reasonably near a direct path between your home and the shooting range. Many types of guns are restricted to only your home, and many cannot be possessed at all.
Gun deaths are still not about guns; they're about culture. Switzerland is proof. Few countries have more guns per capita, yet gun violence is rare there. Why? Proper training of a citizen militia is a factor, but not a sufficient one. Its cultural differences with the US has everything to do with it, not gun ownership levels, which are comparable.
Mod parent down for lying. Soldiers are only legitimate targets for other soldiers or organized, uniformed (or at least "having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance") militia members controlled by a responsible commanding officer. I suggest you check Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention for the requirements of being a lawful combatant (there are many others beyond the couple I referenced). And let's not even go into the fact that the person in question is a citizen of the same country the soldier is of and there is not a state of civil war.
Actually, he's only PM because he got the most votes. I promise you most of us who voted Conservative in the lsat three federal elections voted for Harper and not just his party. It's the same phenomenon that resulted in Liberal seats in Parliament getting decimated last time--it's not because of Liberal party policy, but the perceived arrogance of their past actions that Ignatieff conveniently came to personify so well by his demeanor. It's also the same in the case of the NDP's surge--it was all Layton, something that Mulcair can't hope to duplicate.
Your post is wrong on several levels. The Queen is both relevant and wanted. Polls continue to show the majority of Canadians are pro-monarchy. Recent legal challenges objecting to having to swear allegiance to the Queen when an immigrant goes through a citizenship ceremony were rejected by the courts with prejudice. Beyond being a personification of the state, the Queen's direct representative, the governor general, does in fact carry power in practical terms, even if it is rarely used. When Harper advised the governor general to prorogue parliament, or when Trudeau advised him to invoke the War Measures Act during the October Crisis, the governor generals had the constitutional power to refuse, even though in any given instance it's unlikely due to custom.
He knows, and he's doing it on purpose. i kan reed is a well known pathological liar on slashdot. The best approach is the same one as with trolls: don't feed it.
No kiddin'. Just look at the buckets of BS he spilled in the comments on gun violence statistics above.
i kan reed apparently assumes others can't read, because he consistently gets busted lying and yet keeps deploying that same doomed tactic. He already got called out on it more than once in this discussion alone. As the approach is clearly failing, yet he persists, one must suspect a pathological origin of the urge.
In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean anything at all.
Since meaning is as subjective a thing as can be, consciousness actually tops the list, for it provides the very substrate for meaning.
Thanks for posting that, as well as the other link later in the thread. Wish I had mod points right now.
The variable focal depth issue was solved long, long ago by microlens arrays. Current ultra-high resolution displays make this approach very practical, as you can have 8x8 patches behind each microlens and still have decent overall 2D resolution. As for the variable opacity, just use DLP tech, as was (is?) fashionable in some projectors.
A watch remains the only jewelry socially acceptable for a straight man to wear in all possible contexts of style of dress, from the most casual to the most formal.
Your post started off good, noting the issue of focus (the actual depth cue related to focus, though, is not focus itself, but accommodation--the response of the eye to defocus) which is often ignored and people commonly only address stereopsis and motion parallax. However, it then took a couple of wrong turns. First is the issue of color reproduction. Humans are trichromats. We have three types of cone cells in our retinas, and a variant of RGB (read: color space based on only three primaries) can reproduce the full CIE perceptual color gamut. Prototype display systems that do just that exist, and I've seen more than one demoed at SIGGRAPH over the past decade. Perhaps your confusion stems from the very different situation with lighting, where the full spectral response of the luminaire matters because the resultant perceived colors are the product of the light spectrum and the lit surface spectral reflectance, convolved with the retinal cone cell response curves, and so two lights with the same whitepoint but different spectra can result in a situation where two surfaces are perceived to have the same color under one of the lights, but different colors under the other. However, this does not apply to emissive displays, where three primaries is all you need, as long as the choice in primaries is right and the maximum saturation achievable is sufficient. The second wrong turn is in regards to contrast. High dynamic range displays exceeding the dynamic range of the human eye have been around for quite a few years--just search for BrightSide technologies. I still remember the initial prototype at the graphics lab at UBC (where I did my masters). So all the issues have been individually resolved; it's just a matter of putting it all together.
Even among the circles of psychonauts, McKenna is oft regarded as kooky at best. I guess it is possible to use DMT too much after all.
Bell Labs is not representative.
Mod parent up for being absolutely fabulous. Those Dos Equis ad references never get old.
I can't tell if you're just name dropping, but Conrad isn't exactly known for his character development. His character's dialogues, especially, are often the subject of criticism. Conrad's strengths lie elsewhere, much of that being the artistic, and specifically, impressionist approach to being a novelist (consistent with his own claims in the preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus). For a contemporaneous author of the same caliber who excels in bringing to life elaborate characters and delves into their psyches in a way complementary to Conrad, I look to Henry James.
There is one simple and crucial difference between the cover photo you reference and the leaked private ones: consent to publish. This is a quintessential aspect of privacy of any kind, so I'm surprised so few acknowledge it.
Ah, a deliciously nerdy reference to the famous IRC quote, one of the top-rated ones on the quote database:
:D-< :D|-< :D/-<
<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<Zybl0re>get up
<Zybl0re>get on up
<phxl|paper>and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances
* nmp3bot dances
* nmp3bot dances
<[SA]HatfulOfHollow>i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
Idiotic summary. Sapphire is a crystal, which by definition is the opposite of an amorphous substance such as a glass. Note that the press release from GT doesn't use the word "glass" even once--it would be like an appliance company calling their refrigerator an oven. They're both appliances, after all, right? (I'm pre-empting the "sapphire and glass are both usually transparent solids, right?" here.)
"look up acquaintances who have it worse off, and feel a bit better"
I for one welcome our Schadenfreuding overlords!
Mod parent up.
iggymanz posting as AC so he doesn't lose more /. karma. Sad.