If you lose the ability to procreate before(?) having done so and live you are eligible. But you are required to do it in an unusual way. Methods that become common are retired from eligibility.
A direct quote from this year's Darwin Awards: "Catholic priests take vows of celibacy. Since priests voluntarily remove themselves from the genepool, the entire group earns a mass Darwin Award." Priests aren't all that "unusual," and with respect to evolution they're no different from anybody else who chooses not to have children. (In fact, a priest may forsake his vows and procreate, unlike those of you who got vasectomies without first contributing to a sperm bank.) So congratulations to all you "winners" out there, you are clearly recipients of this year's group award. I guess something is either wrong with you, or with the Darwin Awards.
Huh? Helicopters are already in wide use in Afghanistan, in fact there's been quite a flap in the UK recently over the shortage of helicopters there.
IMHO whatever comes from this DARPA program will inevitably be a more roadworthy helicopter, which may or may not end up having enough advantages over existing helicopters. But to slam it simply because it won't be invisible is just silly.
I might be wrong, but I think any kind of film could benefit from 3d. Sure, it might be subdued; a drama or romantic comedy would be shot exactly as they are now, except with a binocular camera. To me it adds something - it's not just the relief (i.e. the distance between nearest and furthest visual elements), and not just motion in the depth field (that makes you duck when something flies at you), but also how 3d allows the director to put something near to you. When Avatar showed a closeup of somebody's face, it felt close, like you were standing near them, which seems different than looking at a huge closeup from far away.
Having wear the glasses is a bit of an issue. They fit fine over my prescription glasses, but I did notice them a few times. Also the ticket price was so high that I would only go for a special movie. But I think 3d is a much-needed differentiating feature for theaters. The home viewing experience is so good that I don't visit theaters much any more.
I saw it on a normal theater screen, not IMAX, but I found the 3d extremely impressive, definitely the #1 reason to pony up for a theater experience (and it is expensive, by far the most I ever paid for a ticket). I would be a little surprised if 3d doesn't become the norm (like color) because it is "just like being there."
I didn't think the story was bad, the story of principle over tribalism isn't new but I thought well done.
But the visuals, WOW, amazing. It was like seeing a movie for the first time again. This was the first 3d movie I've seen in a theater (well, in at least 20 years) and I'm glad it was, because the effect is amazing and this movie does it very well.
Oh brother. Any issue with rare earth elements is completely dwarfed by our billion dollar per day dependency on foreign oil. Refusing to see the vast difference in scale between the two is completely irrational.
Humbug. Advancing technology can give us all three at once. I'll take a $200 digital camera today over any camera that existed 10 years ago at any price.
And yes, I still have a Canon SLR from the 70s, and a Canon S100 Digital Elph (released May 2000), and they both still work, but it's a moot point because I haven't bothered with either in years.
Aside from that, I wish the operators would stick to simple pricing, it makes it difficult to compare costs.
I've realized complexity (a.k.a. "choice") is one of the main ways large businesses leverage their size advantage against individual consumers. Airline tickets, credit cards, hotels, cellphones, insurance, and your friendly local car dealer - all of them intentionally obscure their offerings so only a specialist can really understand them. The more they can hide the bottom line and make you focus on details, the less control you have.
You can fight this to some degree by preferring companies who don't play so many games. I like Southwest Airlines for this reason, and stick with a Visa from my Credit Union (somewhat higher interest rate but fewer tricks and lower fees). I stick with a straight life insurance plan, fixed-rate mortgage, low-load index funds for retirement, and finance cars through the Credit Union instead of the dealer.
But when it comes to cellphones, telephones, and internet, there isn't very much choice. I get by with a tracfone.
Could it be that engineering degrees are a dime-a-dozen in oil-rich countries where middle-eastern terrorists usually originate?
No, the article covered that specifically, and that isn't the case. The percentage of terrorists who are engineers is higher than the percentage of the general population who are engineers, even in their home countries.
At least they're cheaper than buying a real book though. Oh wait.
I see the book my wife gave me for Christmas is cheaper as an ebook: $9.99 vs $15.47. $9.99 doesn't seem like a bad price out of hand, although $6.99 or $0.01 would be even better:)
Now, I realize that's a sample size of one. I'd be interested from Kindle readers whether the books you actually buy tend to be cheaper than the hardcopies?
Searching for bombs, detaining luggage, banning liquids etc... helps nobody. Hijack and bombing attempts fail when another passenger beets the crap out of you.
The "bomb" did go off. The reason nobody was hurt was because airport security prevented him from bringing on a bomb big enough to hurt anybody but himself. So I say, job well done in this case.
NTFS will NOT work as a home directory for linux, I found, since symlinks are not supported, and certain filename characters are not supported (I think it was colons that really drove it up the wall). I also get horrendous CPU utilization for writing NTFS under linux, and I'm not the only one.
Also, we're talking external drives here. It's very easy to corrupt a USB drive just by bumping the connector.
For these reasons, the NAS suggestions above may be the best bet. Network shares are designed to handle all the bothersome considerations of different character sets, case-insensitivity (or not), and flaky connections, and so on.
Well, I'm still sticking with my old Trinitron, and my digital converter box offers a "zoom" mode so I don't waste any scanlines on black bars.
I did get finally upgrade my computer monitor recently, a 21.5" 1920x1080 for a little under $100 from staples.com on Black Friday, so I can watch full-res HDTV on that using a USB ATSC receiver.
I am a huge fan of the digital TV conversion, since the picture is so good (better than cable or satellite digital), and not encrypted. I didn't pay much above the coupon price for my analog converter boxes, either.
I am very curious, though, has anybody brought out services on the freed-up analog TV bandwidth? Are these 3g services using that?
Well, the bar for nonlinear video editing on Linux is pretty low, so they have that in their favor. (Cinelerra, for one, should be renamed "Bamboo Shoots Under Your Fingernails," not due to the crappy UI, but due to the fact that it crashes constantly of most of what it tries to do doesn't actually work). For what it's worth, Avidemux (though simplistic) is currently the best of the field (but as always, expect A/V desynchronization - the bain of all audiovideo applications). Perhaps the zoo of codecs and containers is simply so large and unmanageable that nobody can handle it. But the VLC team is evidently more qualified to tackle this huge task than 99% of the contenders out there. Good luck, I sincerely wish you a wild success.
Your hands are also controlled by your brain and you don't have any trouble controlling those during work... do you?
Ultimately this is just disintermediation - replacing nerves, muscles, and keyboard with a different type of transducer. Arguably the computer then becomes part of your body, though there is little point debating definitions.
The vast majority of BB users are business users and many people are already on Christmas vacation, so I'd say the 23rd of Dec. is a very lucky time to have such a severe outage. Unless you're a BB engineer who must work around the clock until it's fixed.
I think the reason we think apes are cute is because we are apes. We're the smartest ones, but the others are smart enough that it's reasonable to assume their emotional capacity is significant - subhuman, no doubt, but certainly greater than dogs, horses, and rats.
my point--which I guess I didn't make sufficiently clear--is that I'm talking about seeing bomb-carrying (and drug-carrying) UAVs in the hands of non-governmental forces.
It is odd that we haven't, given how cheaply it could be done
I've been surprised we don't see autonomous drone aircraft being used for this purpose. It just isn't that hard. And of course, it's also a good way to get nuclear weapons over cities before detonating them, which is really where you want them to be for maximum damage
Maybe we could call them buzzbombs or cruise missiles or intercontinental ballistic missiles or something.
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A direct quote from this year's Darwin Awards: "Catholic priests take vows of celibacy. Since priests voluntarily remove themselves from the genepool, the entire group earns a mass Darwin Award." Priests aren't all that "unusual," and with respect to evolution they're no different from anybody else who chooses not to have children. (In fact, a priest may forsake his vows and procreate, unlike those of you who got vasectomies without first contributing to a sperm bank.) So congratulations to all you "winners" out there, you are clearly recipients of this year's group award. I guess something is either wrong with you, or with the Darwin Awards.
IMHO whatever comes from this DARPA program will inevitably be a more roadworthy helicopter, which may or may not end up having enough advantages over existing helicopters. But to slam it simply because it won't be invisible is just silly.
Having wear the glasses is a bit of an issue. They fit fine over my prescription glasses, but I did notice them a few times. Also the ticket price was so high that I would only go for a special movie. But I think 3d is a much-needed differentiating feature for theaters. The home viewing experience is so good that I don't visit theaters much any more.
I saw it on a normal theater screen, not IMAX, but I found the 3d extremely impressive, definitely the #1 reason to pony up for a theater experience (and it is expensive, by far the most I ever paid for a ticket). I would be a little surprised if 3d doesn't become the norm (like color) because it is "just like being there."
But the visuals, WOW, amazing. It was like seeing a movie for the first time again. This was the first 3d movie I've seen in a theater (well, in at least 20 years) and I'm glad it was, because the effect is amazing and this movie does it very well.
Oh brother. Any issue with rare earth elements is completely dwarfed by our billion dollar per day dependency on foreign oil. Refusing to see the vast difference in scale between the two is completely irrational.
Humbug. Advancing technology can give us all three at once. I'll take a $200 digital camera today over any camera that existed 10 years ago at any price.
And yes, I still have a Canon SLR from the 70s, and a Canon S100 Digital Elph (released May 2000), and they both still work, but it's a moot point because I haven't bothered with either in years.
I've realized complexity (a.k.a. "choice") is one of the main ways large businesses leverage their size advantage against individual consumers. Airline tickets, credit cards, hotels, cellphones, insurance, and your friendly local car dealer - all of them intentionally obscure their offerings so only a specialist can really understand them. The more they can hide the bottom line and make you focus on details, the less control you have.
You can fight this to some degree by preferring companies who don't play so many games. I like Southwest Airlines for this reason, and stick with a Visa from my Credit Union (somewhat higher interest rate but fewer tricks and lower fees). I stick with a straight life insurance plan, fixed-rate mortgage, low-load index funds for retirement, and finance cars through the Credit Union instead of the dealer.
But when it comes to cellphones, telephones, and internet, there isn't very much choice. I get by with a tracfone.
No, the article covered that specifically, and that isn't the case. The percentage of terrorists who are engineers is higher than the percentage of the general population who are engineers, even in their home countries.
I see the book my wife gave me for Christmas is cheaper as an ebook: $9.99 vs $15.47. $9.99 doesn't seem like a bad price out of hand, although $6.99 or $0.01 would be even better :)
Now, I realize that's a sample size of one. I'd be interested from Kindle readers whether the books you actually buy tend to be cheaper than the hardcopies?
The "bomb" did go off. The reason nobody was hurt was because airport security prevented him from bringing on a bomb big enough to hurt anybody but himself. So I say, job well done in this case.
I'll see your battery anecdote and raise you "about 43,700,000" for gasoline - google images car fire.
Also, we're talking external drives here. It's very easy to corrupt a USB drive just by bumping the connector.
For these reasons, the NAS suggestions above may be the best bet. Network shares are designed to handle all the bothersome considerations of different character sets, case-insensitivity (or not), and flaky connections, and so on.
I did get finally upgrade my computer monitor recently, a 21.5" 1920x1080 for a little under $100 from staples.com on Black Friday, so I can watch full-res HDTV on that using a USB ATSC receiver.
I certainly can't condone price-fixing though.
I am very curious, though, has anybody brought out services on the freed-up analog TV bandwidth? Are these 3g services using that?
Well, the bar for nonlinear video editing on Linux is pretty low, so they have that in their favor. (Cinelerra, for one, should be renamed "Bamboo Shoots Under Your Fingernails," not due to the crappy UI, but due to the fact that it crashes constantly of most of what it tries to do doesn't actually work). For what it's worth, Avidemux (though simplistic) is currently the best of the field (but as always, expect A/V desynchronization - the bain of all audiovideo applications). Perhaps the zoo of codecs and containers is simply so large and unmanageable that nobody can handle it. But the VLC team is evidently more qualified to tackle this huge task than 99% of the contenders out there. Good luck, I sincerely wish you a wild success.
Ultimately this is just disintermediation - replacing nerves, muscles, and keyboard with a different type of transducer. Arguably the computer then becomes part of your body, though there is little point debating definitions.
Not even a wristwatch? Some run 10 years on a button battery.
The vast majority of BB users are business users and many people are already on Christmas vacation, so I'd say the 23rd of Dec. is a very lucky time to have such a severe outage. Unless you're a BB engineer who must work around the clock until it's fixed.
"Risk" is only intolerable when it comes to terrorism. When it comes to climate change, we require certainty. (Why, I don't know).
I think the reason we think apes are cute is because we are apes. We're the smartest ones, but the others are smart enough that it's reasonable to assume their emotional capacity is significant - subhuman, no doubt, but certainly greater than dogs, horses, and rats.
Oh, they're certainly working on it.
And ICBMs do have sophisticated guidance systems.
Maybe we could call them buzzbombs or cruise missiles or intercontinental ballistic missiles or something.
The couter-argument is that opening the bank would make it less competitive, and so less likely to repay its debt to us. Is it true? I don't know.
That wouldn't work, the banks are all interconnected through loans and insurance policies, if some start to fail they all fail.