Almost all bees (except parasitic bees ?) are important contributors to pollination, though. This would mean they have an indirect economical benefit to the society as a whole... which may or may not be taken into account by the bee venom farmers.
All right, calling the rocket launch a "weapon test" was not totally uncalled for, because we all know that space rocket technology is dual use by nature, and can result in the development of ballistic missiles.
But this...
The satellite is just a small spacecraft on a polar low earth orbit. It seems its attitude control system has failed, this is why it tumbles around. It's not the first example of a failed satellite on low earth orbit... and it's not because it is tumbling that its trajectory has become unpredictable. It will just decay in the atmosphere and burn before reaching the ground, as most low earth orbit satellites do at the end of their life. Controlled re-entries are rare, except for massive objects such as the Mir space station.
The games lineup is a strong one, with games such as New Super Mario Bros U, Arkham City Armoured Edition, Assassins Creed 3, Call of Duty Black Ops 2, Sonic AllStars Racing, Nintendo Land, Tank Tank Tank, ScribbleNauts Unlimited, Epic Mickey 2 The Power of Two, ESPN Sports Connection, DarkSiders 2, Rabbids Land, Mass Effect 3, Ninja Gaiden 3 Razors Edge, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Wipeout 3 and Just Dance 4 all available on launch day.
Yet, you need to have a facebook account. Unlike gmail/gtalk or other jabber services, it is not possible to send messages from facebook chat to other XMPP networks.
All right, instant sharing from the phone or the camera can be practical. I can see a few uses of it, for party pictures or for lucky shots of your favorite movie star. Still, I can't help but think this is a niche for a digital camera, because it does not really fit in what I see as usual workflow with this device.
Notice that it is rather the same for DSLRs or point and shoots, for semi-pro photographers or families on holidays:
1- Take your camera
2- Go to an interesting place
3- Take many pictures (often too many pictures)
4- Spend time to sort the pictures and keep the best. Optionally crop and modify color balance.
5- Upload them to flickr/picasa/etc (or keep them for yourself)
6- Add titles/comments/captions to the uploaded pictures
Of course, the 4th step takes the longest time of the bunch. The problem is that it would be a pain to perform it from the camera. Even if Android improves the basic tools already available on point and shoots, the screen is still too small, and you cannot do side by side comparisons... So at the end of the day, I can see myself sorting/editing a few pictures from the camera, but not the tens or hundreds of pictures that usually quickly end up on my SD card. The ability to share directly from the camera would do little to help me.
On the contrary, the other prospect that is addressed in TFA is more interesting: using Android to access lower level control of the camera. But I doubt that we will see this feature on consumer point and shoots.
I also find GPS tagging to be an interesting feature, because it helps with the 6th step. But you do not need Android for this, and it still kills battery life.
Can we stop already with these Apple/Samsung trial stories ?
It's not that I'm not interested in the subject: I believe its outcome will have profound implications on the smartphone/tablet landscape (hopefully for the best).
However, I am totally uninterested in every trivial aspect and "twist" of the trial, especially when I'm sure that slashdot editors/firehose cherry pick these stories, and fail to give us the greater picture of the process. Can't we just wait for the court ruling, and have a GOOD summary of it, for once ?
While gmail used to be the storage space king, it has been unseated by other services which offer "unlimited" space (such as yahoo). Of course, it remains to be seen how unlimited these services really are in practice... but what I know is that I am already struggling with space with my current e-mail provider which offers me 10GB, and that does not incite me to move to gmail. Wasn't it space the main factor that made people adopt gmail in the first place ?
Actually, a lot of people choose to play at lower quality to have higher framerates. But the main reason for this is that in games, higher framerate = more precise control. So I am not so sure the videogame trends directly translates to the movie experience.
I am not sure this effect is that irrational. Modern TVs are interpolating content at a very high framerate, but like upscaling, this is just an interpolation on a fixed amount of information. The end result looks... sometimes kind of weird. Rather than being related to a high framerate, this weirdness might be caused by the unnatural interpolation between the frames. We'll see if there is a significant difference when the source is shot with a higher framerate (like the hobbit).
In Prometheus, the interesting scene was the one with the silica storm. In this scene, I found that 3D really added something: you get the impression that these silica particles are all around the actors.
You need to go back to the goals of the EU common agricultural policy. It was created out of a very simple observation: on the whole, the EU did not product enough food for its own needs, and was therefore dependent on the external market. The CAP was made to make farming more attractive, and thus increase production. France has a large agricultural sector, so it effectively leeches more funds than other states, just as Spain or Portugal. Development of the industrial sector is quite irrelevant.
From a radiation engineering point of view, outer space is not the most stringent environment. It is actually significantly more forgiving than a lot of useful earth orbits or the radiation belts of the gas giants (but of course, you can hardly replace a failed transistor in space...).
These "vacum tube like" diamond field emission devices have shown radiation tolerance from 10 to 100 Mrad (1 MGy in SI units), so we are more talking about the levels required for operation in nuclear reactors or close to the beam of particle accelerators.
The problem was more fundamental than the cockpit crew not being able to see what the pilot flying was doing. The problem was that it seems that nobody knew what were the right inputs to make. As the summary of the investigators interim report puts it:
- Neither of the pilots made any reference to the stall warning
- Neither of the pilots formally identified the stall situation
All right, just for you I looked up the total duration of dual inputs in the reports.:)
- from 2h 13min 17s to 2h 13min 24s (7 seconds)
- from 2h 13min 40s to 2h 14min 7s (27 seconds)
For the record, the stall warning first sounded at 2h 10min 10s. The plane crashed at 2h 14min 28s.
The BEA interim report will show you clearly when "dual input" situations happened. It's quite easy to follow, because there is an audible alarm each time that happens (the synthetic voice says "dual input"). You will see that even if there were a few moments of dual input, especially at the end of the stall when the pilots were panicking, overall this was quit short. The critical problem behind that crash is that nobody in the cockpit identified that the plane was stalling. In fact, nobody said the word "stall" (or its french equivalent "décrochage") during the whole event, except the computer synthetic voice.
Indeed, the article is surprising, or more accurately, void of new information But there is another, worrying implication that the Telegraph can disclose for the first time: that the errors committed by the pilot doing the flying were not corrected by his more experienced colleagues because they did not know he was behaving in a manner bound to induce a stall. And the reason for that fatal lack of awareness lies partly in the design of the control stick – the “side stick” – used in all Airbus cockpits.
For the first time ? As you said, this has been beaten to death in various reports. There has already been an almost full transcript of the cockpit voice recorder leaked in a book months before. The last and final report from the investigators is scheduled to come out in June. They have put in place a special panel composed of pilots to try to understand the reactions of the crew (including seemingly ignoring the stall warnings, the apparent lack of confidence in the instruments, etc), and have dug into the history of flights during which pitots tube froze at high altitude. I think their conclusions might be slightly more revealing than the Telegraph copying-and-pasting other websites.
There were also Blinkenlights in Berlin (2001) and more to the point, ARCADE in Paris (2002). Both were made by Chaos Computer Club.
Anyway, whatever the prior art was, it is always a very thrilling development.
You might want to learn about nonlinear optics and second harmonic generation (what we usually call frequency doubling). But this is just out of curiosity. As you said, the human lens is known to act as an UV filter.
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It seems that preying mantis cannibalism during sex happens much less frequently in the wild than in captivity.
Almost all bees (except parasitic bees ?) are important contributors to pollination, though. This would mean they have an indirect economical benefit to the society as a whole... which may or may not be taken into account by the bee venom farmers.
All right, calling the rocket launch a "weapon test" was not totally uncalled for, because we all know that space rocket technology is dual use by nature, and can result in the development of ballistic missiles.
But this...
The satellite is just a small spacecraft on a polar low earth orbit. It seems its attitude control system has failed, this is why it tumbles around. It's not the first example of a failed satellite on low earth orbit... and it's not because it is tumbling that its trajectory has become unpredictable. It will just decay in the atmosphere and burn before reaching the ground, as most low earth orbit satellites do at the end of their life. Controlled re-entries are rare, except for massive objects such as the Mir space station.
Ceres: smaller than Pluto, but much closer, completely surrounded by other hazardous rocks
Being completely surrounded by hazardous rocks does not seem to be an issue for the Dawn mission so far...
The games lineup is a strong one, with games such as New Super Mario Bros U, Arkham City Armoured Edition, Assassins Creed 3, Call of Duty Black Ops 2, Sonic AllStars Racing, Nintendo Land, Tank Tank Tank, ScribbleNauts Unlimited, Epic Mickey 2 The Power of Two, ESPN Sports Connection, DarkSiders 2, Rabbids Land, Mass Effect 3, Ninja Gaiden 3 Razors Edge, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Wipeout 3 and Just Dance 4 all available on launch day.
This is NOT the Wipeout you are looking for. What a pity.
Yet, you need to have a facebook account. Unlike gmail/gtalk or other jabber services, it is not possible to send messages from facebook chat to other XMPP networks.
Ah, finally ! :)
Thanks for showing us what a real Troll is.
It has been done to death for snoozing alarm clocks. I fail to see what is new in this idea. Has this really never been implemented in mobile phones ?
All right, instant sharing from the phone or the camera can be practical. I can see a few uses of it, for party pictures or for lucky shots of your favorite movie star. Still, I can't help but think this is a niche for a digital camera, because it does not really fit in what I see as usual workflow with this device.
Notice that it is rather the same for DSLRs or point and shoots, for semi-pro photographers or families on holidays:
1- Take your camera
2- Go to an interesting place
3- Take many pictures (often too many pictures)
4- Spend time to sort the pictures and keep the best. Optionally crop and modify color balance. 5- Upload them to flickr/picasa/etc (or keep them for yourself)
6- Add titles/comments/captions to the uploaded pictures
Of course, the 4th step takes the longest time of the bunch. The problem is that it would be a pain to perform it from the camera. Even if Android improves the basic tools already available on point and shoots, the screen is still too small, and you cannot do side by side comparisons... So at the end of the day, I can see myself sorting/editing a few pictures from the camera, but not the tens or hundreds of pictures that usually quickly end up on my SD card. The ability to share directly from the camera would do little to help me.
On the contrary, the other prospect that is addressed in TFA is more interesting: using Android to access lower level control of the camera. But I doubt that we will see this feature on consumer point and shoots.
I also find GPS tagging to be an interesting feature, because it helps with the 6th step. But you do not need Android for this, and it still kills battery life.
Can we stop already with these Apple/Samsung trial stories ?
It's not that I'm not interested in the subject: I believe its outcome will have profound implications on the smartphone/tablet landscape (hopefully for the best).
However, I am totally uninterested in every trivial aspect and "twist" of the trial, especially when I'm sure that slashdot editors/firehose cherry pick these stories, and fail to give us the greater picture of the process. Can't we just wait for the court ruling, and have a GOOD summary of it, for once ?
While gmail used to be the storage space king, it has been unseated by other services which offer "unlimited" space (such as yahoo). Of course, it remains to be seen how unlimited these services really are in practice... but what I know is that I am already struggling with space with my current e-mail provider which offers me 10GB, and that does not incite me to move to gmail. Wasn't it space the main factor that made people adopt gmail in the first place ?
Actually, a lot of people choose to play at lower quality to have higher framerates. But the main reason for this is that in games, higher framerate = more precise control. So I am not so sure the videogame trends directly translates to the movie experience.
I am not sure this effect is that irrational. Modern TVs are interpolating content at a very high framerate, but like upscaling, this is just an interpolation on a fixed amount of information. The end result looks... sometimes kind of weird. Rather than being related to a high framerate, this weirdness might be caused by the unnatural interpolation between the frames. We'll see if there is a significant difference when the source is shot with a higher framerate (like the hobbit).
In Prometheus, the interesting scene was the one with the silica storm. In this scene, I found that 3D really added something: you get the impression that these silica particles are all around the actors.
You need to go back to the goals of the EU common agricultural policy. It was created out of a very simple observation: on the whole, the EU did not product enough food for its own needs, and was therefore dependent on the external market. The CAP was made to make farming more attractive, and thus increase production. France has a large agricultural sector, so it effectively leeches more funds than other states, just as Spain or Portugal. Development of the industrial sector is quite irrelevant.
From a radiation engineering point of view, outer space is not the most stringent environment. It is actually significantly more forgiving than a lot of useful earth orbits or the radiation belts of the gas giants (but of course, you can hardly replace a failed transistor in space...).
These "vacum tube like" diamond field emission devices have shown radiation tolerance from 10 to 100 Mrad (1 MGy in SI units), so we are more talking about the levels required for operation in nuclear reactors or close to the beam of particle accelerators.
The last Mac OS X version for PowerPC is 10.5.8, though.
It seems that a paper airplane, as proposed by the grand-parent poster, would be pretty stealthy.
The problem was more fundamental than the cockpit crew not being able to see what the pilot flying was doing. The problem was that it seems that nobody knew what were the right inputs to make. As the summary of the investigators interim report puts it:
- Neither of the pilots made any reference to the stall warning
- Neither of the pilots formally identified the stall situation
All right, just for you I looked up the total duration of dual inputs in the reports. :)
- from 2h 13min 17s to 2h 13min 24s (7 seconds)
- from 2h 13min 40s to 2h 14min 7s (27 seconds)
For the record, the stall warning first sounded at 2h 10min 10s. The plane crashed at 2h 14min 28s.
The BEA interim report will show you clearly when "dual input" situations happened. It's quite easy to follow, because there is an audible alarm each time that happens (the synthetic voice says "dual input"). You will see that even if there were a few moments of dual input, especially at the end of the stall when the pilots were panicking, overall this was quit short. The critical problem behind that crash is that nobody in the cockpit identified that the plane was stalling. In fact, nobody said the word "stall" (or its french equivalent "décrochage") during the whole event, except the computer synthetic voice.
Indeed, the article is surprising, or more accurately, void of new information
But there is another, worrying implication that the Telegraph can disclose for the first time: that the errors committed by the pilot doing the flying were not corrected by his more experienced colleagues because they did not know he was behaving in a manner bound to induce a stall. And the reason for that fatal lack of awareness lies partly in the design of the control stick – the “side stick” – used in all Airbus cockpits.
For the first time ? As you said, this has been beaten to death in various reports. There has already been an almost full transcript of the cockpit voice recorder leaked in a book months before. The last and final report from the investigators is scheduled to come out in June. They have put in place a special panel composed of pilots to try to understand the reactions of the crew (including seemingly ignoring the stall warnings, the apparent lack of confidence in the instruments, etc), and have dug into the history of flights during which pitots tube froze at high altitude. I think their conclusions might be slightly more revealing than the Telegraph copying-and-pasting other websites.
There were also Blinkenlights in Berlin (2001) and more to the point, ARCADE in Paris (2002). Both were made by Chaos Computer Club.
Anyway, whatever the prior art was, it is always a very thrilling development.
South Korea does not have a much better track record with their launch vehicles.
You might want to learn about nonlinear optics and second harmonic generation (what we usually call frequency doubling). But this is just out of curiosity. As you said, the human lens is known to act as an UV filter.