But who would ever think of using word to typeset a 2000 page document build from multiple sources. All my experiences with MS Word tell me that this is going to be a nightmare how ever you try to do it and what ever the content of the document is.
If it's what it needs to grow me back a new heart, lung, kidney, liver or leg when I need one, I'd gladly give a tooth or two for it. And technically, if that works, maybe they can grow the tooth back afterward...
The nice things about plant cells or structure is that you can grow them. In this case I can only guess that it would probably even be more efficient than to "mine" forest. Also you wouldn't need so much of it because you don't use it for its energy content, but for its energy conversion capacity. That's huge difference.
... the application was turned down by the FCC for undisclosed reasons, but following the application of many complaints by the competitors. mmmm. This sounds about as bad as something our good friends at the CRTC would do.
The argument that it went against the bold national broadband plan is really unsettling. Maybe we should somehow remind them that it's not because broadband should be available to everyone that everyone wants to (or can) pay its price.
There are a lot of ancient evidence of indirect antibiotic use, usually through moulds grown on specific substrates (e.g. specific type of bread). The ancient use of penicillin is another good example of this. Of course, they didn't known what compound was responsible for this, but they nevertheless found efficient way to produce it and found out when it was good to used it to cure specific illnesses.
What's particularly interesting about TFA, is that this research seems to suggest that the use of antibiotics was very common and systematic.
One important thing to point out, is that when the aircraft attitude is so messed up that the sat link is no longer reliable, the crucial events that lead to the crash already occurred. We don't really need to now how the plane crashed into the ground, we need to know why and what lead to it. Nevertheless, on board recoding should not be replaced by telemetry.
As for the value of such a system, if its only used for analysis in the event of a crash, I think its a waste of money. But if its used for more than that, It may become a damned good way to further improve air safety.
A direct telemetry feed to ground stations or via satellite could be a very interesting way to monitor the airplanes and give crucial information in the even of a crash, but could not replace an on-board logging device. In the even of catastrophic malfunction, on-board recorders are most likely more reliable than networked data. But in the even the on-board recorder is lost, the telemetry feed could give most of the required information on the systems leading and the events leading to the malfunction.
To some extent, these systems already exist and are used by maintenance crew to schedule maintenance and get early warnings on possible problems with the airplane.
Having a global system that is not company-based, but centralized and international could give not only make incident reconstitution easier, but might also improve transparency on aircraft maintenance on less "serious" airlines and provide real time information (wetter radar feed, wind shear data, turbulence, etc.) to air traffic control and weather forecasters to improve safety overall.
The major technical issue that this would bring is a problem of bandwidth. There are a lot of aircraft in the air and it would generate huge amounts of data. Transmission, storage and analysis would all be challenge.
In the series "what could possibly go wrong", long before greenhouse gases, I'll worry about the people behind these operations. China sending people into the deep of the ocean for mining operations; considering how "stable" and "safe" surface mining operations are in China, I can only ask myself this question: "what could possibly go wrong"? And the answers comes naturally: Possibly a lot...
I didn't follow the original story back then, but I find somewhat surprising what I read here. USB drives allowed on a sensitive system containing sensitive informations seems like a bad idea how ever you present it. But having one universal port for everything is a problem for sensituve application. You can only block its use for data link on the software level, which will eventually be bypassed.
It will always be possible to retrieve information from the system, sometimes with considerable amount of work. But allowing USB drives just make it too easy and too likely to happen...
Although I agree with you on the state of the gaming industry and the link with console gaming, I don't think this is what caused the downfall of BFG. It might have accelerated it, but I feel it was more a series of bad business decisions and choice of distributors that nailed the coffin for BFG.
If you read TFA, you would notice that they do not really compare the functionality, but rather design, packaging, interfacing, etc. I believe it is more a comparison of Apple 1979 vs Apple 2010 than AGT vs iPad.
And interesting device comparison to do both for the aspects compared here and for functionality aspects would be the Apple Newton Message Pad 2000 series against the iPad. It has been compared to the iPhone quite a few times, and probably already to the iPad to. (I think that an iPad comparison is more fair to the MP2000 than to the iPhone).
That would be true if evolution was a purely individual thing. But the evolution of social behavior, living in society where people specialized their skills to be more efficient and trade their skills against skills of other is also part of the evolution of mankind. That's why you'll always find someone to put up that tablet for you...
In the end, I feel that this social evolution is much more cracked up than the biological evolution.
Going to a coffee shop to find every place being used all evening by single persons with their laptop and a cup of coffee (that's most likely cold by then) is really frustrating. It's probably even more frustrating to the owner who sees is investment monopolized by clients that bring only little income to the place.
But I think the summary went totally off track by associating wireless network access in coffee shops with global city-wide wireless network access. Once you have global wireless networks, the need for local public networks is obviously much reduced. Furthermore, having a global city-wide network may even limit the problem forcing coffee shops to removed their local wireless network. On the other hand, it may then affect establishments the willingly refused to have wireless network access. In the end, it's really difficult to state that one is a counter-trend to the other.
The day the acronym was accepted in the English dictionary as a word, it stopped being capitalized as an acronym. The word maser has also been introduced into the English vocabulary, thus not requiring it to be treated as a acronym.
Maybe you cannot lose hear through convection but, in space, you can certainly loose heat by radiation. Deep space background is around 3K and a deep space radiative cooler is a very good and efficient way to cool something in space.
You cannot do any thermal analysis of an object in space without taking the radiative part into account.
Currently, the jailbreak process install only this front end to install other applications. For obvious reasons, it does not install terminal access or sshd by default. There were other package manager front ends before, but my understanding is that they are currently deprecated and unstable.
If you create your jailbreak payload manually with pwnage tools in expert mode (mac os), you can include packages to be installed at that time and maybe even remove cydia from the payload. If you add the terminal and command line tools at that time, you may never even have to use cydia.
There is a lot of stuff of questionable quality available but a few very useful tools or modifications not available otherwise. Add to that the carrier unlock possibility, I think you strongly under evaluate the importance of this procedure. You may also want to be more restrictive on the modification you install. If you start installing all the available modifications that look interesting on any OS, you will have stability issues.
If you want to play outside of Apple's "Eden", you'll have to treat and understand your device as a computer running a Unix based OS... not a cellphone on which you install apps.
Also, Cydia is mostly a graphical front end for the Debian package manager with a repository browser. You can install your packages yourself using command line. You can also add your own sources to Cydia. Not sure I understand where the problem lies regarding the jailbreak process installing Cydia. What other mechanism do you expect to install packages once the device is jailbroken?
And blaming your poor user experience on open source or open devices, that's just wrong.
Is running a red light a criminal offense? I only know little about the American justice system, but my understanding was that the presumption of innocence only applies in criminal court of justice. And I'd be very very very surprised if running red lights or speeding stands as a criminal offense. Most likely a civil offense (or traffic violation), for which, in my understanding, the burden of proof does not lie on the plaintiff. Furthermore, my understanding was that the concept of reasonable doubt also only applies in criminal cases.
This question of fun vs immersion or fun vs realism has always been on the table. As a former developer for a game aiming for what a gamer would call extreme realism, I've asked myself these question all the time. One thing I found is that it's extremely something to simulate something you never lived. I fired rifles, but I've never been into combat. I can only assume that it can sometimes be a real pain. How can one simulate this in a game, while still making it enjoyable.
The pistol example you bring up is a good one. Why are pistol mostly useless in games if they don't act like super rifles? Why are they so useless if they have real-life like limitations? On reasons is that the implementation of limitations in games is very selective, mostly in order to maximize the fun factor. Really few people enjoy playing a game where you have difficulty moving around in thigh spaces because your weapon is too bulky. But unless you model real-life limitations like these, the pistols will remain mostly useless. In the end it is a question of balance... you always chose which effects and limitations you implement as, obviously, you can't implement them all.
Aiming for greater realism implies adding harder and more limitations and most gamers don't enjoy limitations. They want to control their environment and not be controlled by it.
In the end, I agree that games are not getting it wrong. They are doing it wrong and that on purpose. Just like movies, game developers understood that real life is not only boring for the masses, but is also often perceived as "unrealistic" by the layman.
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But who would ever think of using word to typeset a 2000 page document build from multiple sources. All my experiences with MS Word tell me that this is going to be a nightmare how ever you try to do it and what ever the content of the document is.
A mini-tooth is better than no tooth at all.
If it's what it needs to grow me back a new heart, lung, kidney, liver or leg when I need one, I'd gladly give a tooth or two for it. And technically, if that works, maybe they can grow the tooth back afterward...
The nice things about plant cells or structure is that you can grow them. In this case I can only guess that it would probably even be more efficient than to "mine" forest. Also you wouldn't need so much of it because you don't use it for its energy content, but for its energy conversion capacity. That's huge difference.
... the application was turned down by the FCC for undisclosed reasons, but following the application of many complaints by the competitors. mmmm.
This sounds about as bad as something our good friends at the CRTC would do.
The argument that it went against the bold national broadband plan is really unsettling. Maybe we should somehow remind them that it's not because broadband should be available to everyone that everyone wants to (or can) pay its price.
I tend to go with "hey, it's a movie, not a documentary"...
There are a lot of ancient evidence of indirect antibiotic use, usually through moulds grown on specific substrates (e.g. specific type of bread). The ancient use of penicillin is another good example of this. Of course, they didn't known what compound was responsible for this, but they nevertheless found efficient way to produce it and found out when it was good to used it to cure specific illnesses.
What's particularly interesting about TFA, is that this research seems to suggest that the use of antibiotics was very common and systematic.
One important thing to point out, is that when the aircraft attitude is so messed up that the sat link is no longer reliable, the crucial events that lead to the crash already occurred. We don't really need to now how the plane crashed into the ground, we need to know why and what lead to it. Nevertheless, on board recoding should not be replaced by telemetry.
As for the value of such a system, if its only used for analysis in the event of a crash, I think its a waste of money. But if its used for more than that, It may become a damned good way to further improve air safety.
A direct telemetry feed to ground stations or via satellite could be a very interesting way to monitor the airplanes and give crucial information in the even of a crash, but could not replace an on-board logging device. In the even of catastrophic malfunction, on-board recorders are most likely more reliable than networked data. But in the even the on-board recorder is lost, the telemetry feed could give most of the required information on the systems leading and the events leading to the malfunction.
To some extent, these systems already exist and are used by maintenance crew to schedule maintenance and get early warnings on possible problems with the airplane.
Having a global system that is not company-based, but centralized and international could give not only make incident reconstitution easier, but might also improve transparency on aircraft maintenance on less "serious" airlines and provide real time information (wetter radar feed, wind shear data, turbulence, etc.) to air traffic control and weather forecasters to improve safety overall.
The major technical issue that this would bring is a problem of bandwidth. There are a lot of aircraft in the air and it would generate huge amounts of data. Transmission, storage and analysis would all be challenge.
In the series "what could possibly go wrong", long before greenhouse gases, I'll worry about the people behind these operations. China sending people into the deep of the ocean for mining operations; considering how "stable" and "safe" surface mining operations are in China, I can only ask myself this question: "what could possibly go wrong"? And the answers comes naturally: Possibly a lot...
..."Google X-ray backscatter view". Germans are really going to love that one!
I didn't follow the original story back then, but I find somewhat surprising what I read here. USB drives allowed on a sensitive system containing sensitive informations seems like a bad idea how ever you present it. But having one universal port for everything is a problem for sensituve application. You can only block its use for data link on the software level, which will eventually be bypassed.
It will always be possible to retrieve information from the system, sometimes with considerable amount of work. But allowing USB drives just make it too easy and too likely to happen...
Although I agree with you on the state of the gaming industry and the link with console gaming, I don't think this is what caused the downfall of BFG. It might have accelerated it, but I feel it was more a series of bad business decisions and choice of distributors that nailed the coffin for BFG.
If you read TFA, you would notice that they do not really compare the functionality, but rather design, packaging, interfacing, etc. I believe it is more a comparison of Apple 1979 vs Apple 2010 than AGT vs iPad.
And interesting device comparison to do both for the aspects compared here and for functionality aspects would be the Apple Newton Message Pad 2000 series against the iPad. It has been compared to the iPhone quite a few times, and probably already to the iPad to. (I think that an iPad comparison is more fair to the MP2000 than to the iPhone).
That would be true if evolution was a purely individual thing. But the evolution of social behavior, living in society where people specialized their skills to be more efficient and trade their skills against skills of other is also part of the evolution of mankind. That's why you'll always find someone to put up that tablet for you...
In the end, I feel that this social evolution is much more cracked up than the biological evolution.
...then we've been using tool even before earth, the sky and whatnot were created! What a mind blowing revelation.
The Police has been over since 1984...
Going to a coffee shop to find every place being used all evening by single persons with their laptop and a cup of coffee (that's most likely cold by then) is really frustrating. It's probably even more frustrating to the owner who sees is investment monopolized by clients that bring only little income to the place.
But I think the summary went totally off track by associating wireless network access in coffee shops with global city-wide wireless network access. Once you have global wireless networks, the need for local public networks is obviously much reduced. Furthermore, having a global city-wide network may even limit the problem forcing coffee shops to removed their local wireless network. On the other hand, it may then affect establishments the willingly refused to have wireless network access. In the end, it's really difficult to state that one is a counter-trend to the other.
The day the acronym was accepted in the English dictionary as a word, it stopped being capitalized as an acronym. The word maser has also been introduced into the English vocabulary, thus not requiring it to be treated as a acronym.
Dear troller troll...
Reads almost as 'Dear tololololo'. Scary.
You cannot loose heat in the vacuum.
Maybe you cannot lose hear through convection but, in space, you can certainly loose heat by radiation. Deep space background is around 3K and a deep space radiative cooler is a very good and efficient way to cool something in space.
You cannot do any thermal analysis of an object in space without taking the radiative part into account.
Currently, the jailbreak process install only this front end to install other applications. For obvious reasons, it does not install terminal access or sshd by default. There were other package manager front ends before, but my understanding is that they are currently deprecated and unstable.
If you create your jailbreak payload manually with pwnage tools in expert mode (mac os), you can include packages to be installed at that time and maybe even remove cydia from the payload. If you add the terminal and command line tools at that time, you may never even have to use cydia.
There is a lot of stuff of questionable quality available but a few very useful tools or modifications not available otherwise. Add to that the carrier unlock possibility, I think you strongly under evaluate the importance of this procedure. You may also want to be more restrictive on the modification you install. If you start installing all the available modifications that look interesting on any OS, you will have stability issues.
If you want to play outside of Apple's "Eden", you'll have to treat and understand your device as a computer running a Unix based OS... not a cellphone on which you install apps.
Also, Cydia is mostly a graphical front end for the Debian package manager with a repository browser. You can install your packages yourself using command line. You can also add your own sources to Cydia. Not sure I understand where the problem lies regarding the jailbreak process installing Cydia. What other mechanism do you expect to install packages once the device is jailbroken?
And blaming your poor user experience on open source or open devices, that's just wrong.
2182 is the new 2012...
Is running a red light a criminal offense? I only know little about the American justice system, but my understanding was that the presumption of innocence only applies in criminal court of justice. And I'd be very very very surprised if running red lights or speeding stands as a criminal offense. Most likely a civil offense (or traffic violation), for which, in my understanding, the burden of proof does not lie on the plaintiff. Furthermore, my understanding was that the concept of reasonable doubt also only applies in criminal cases.
Please, enlighten me if I misunderstood.
This question of fun vs immersion or fun vs realism has always been on the table. As a former developer for a game aiming for what a gamer would call extreme realism, I've asked myself these question all the time. One thing I found is that it's extremely something to simulate something you never lived. I fired rifles, but I've never been into combat. I can only assume that it can sometimes be a real pain. How can one simulate this in a game, while still making it enjoyable.
The pistol example you bring up is a good one. Why are pistol mostly useless in games if they don't act like super rifles? Why are they so useless if they have real-life like limitations? On reasons is that the implementation of limitations in games is very selective, mostly in order to maximize the fun factor. Really few people enjoy playing a game where you have difficulty moving around in thigh spaces because your weapon is too bulky. But unless you model real-life limitations like these, the pistols will remain mostly useless. In the end it is a question of balance... you always chose which effects and limitations you implement as, obviously, you can't implement them all.
Aiming for greater realism implies adding harder and more limitations and most gamers don't enjoy limitations. They want to control their environment and not be controlled by it.
In the end, I agree that games are not getting it wrong. They are doing it wrong and that on purpose. Just like movies, game developers understood that real life is not only boring for the masses, but is also often perceived as "unrealistic" by the layman.