Minor nit- REYES is not a "shading method" on the same level as rasterization/scanline or ray tracing. I believe it's a specific 3D graphics program. What you describe here is adaptive subdivision surfaces, which are a common high-end technique but not fundamentally different from simple polygon rasterization.
It would probably become very confused, but I don't think it would constantly spasm in attempts to right itself like you seem to suggest. A cat's reflex is based on acceleration, which would not be happening. It might assume the "skydiver" position that it would at terminal velocity in a normal fall, as other posts have mentioned.
It's not really a fair question, as aircraft are so very different from cars. Their handling and common behaviors are different, as are the tasks to which they are put- An airliner may be less efficient than a car on paper, but if you try to move 300 people across the US with both of them, the plane may still come out on top.
Also, planes can use propulsion systems much more exotic than a reciprocating mechanical engine.
There are already diesel cars that do something similar- If you brake to a halt (i.e. at a traffic light), the engine shuts off; it restarts once you hit the gas again.
A contest for speedrunning Halo for Xbox has just concluded, with a total time of 2:15:15. It's probably possible to do better, this was the first real attempt at it.
It doesn't support GPU-accelerated Core Image. CI has a fallback path for hardware that doesn't support fragment programs, which almost certainly involves AltiVec.
Things like Final Cut Pro can already do real-time image and video effects on the CPU, CI is just exposing it as a system library alongside all the traditional bitmap manipulation libraries.
There are 2 ways for an application to "support" Spotlight:
Use the Spotlight SDK to write a plugin that parses the app's file format and metadata. This allows the global Spotlight feature to index and search the contents of files created by that app.
Use the Spotlight API to integrate Spotlight into its own interface, letting the user search from the app directly.
As to how many apps will support this, I'd guess that plugins will be far more common that built-in searching, since they are not an integral part of the app and could even conceivably be written by third parties if the original developer doesn't bother to.
It wouldn't be that hard. Since there would be only a small number of sheets, you could make a permanent physical connection between them and the retractor motor(s). And a similar problem was solved a very long time ago in the computer industry- the paper feed mechanism in a laser printer.
It's most likely a question of diminishing returns. An RTG would provide a larger amount of power, but is the increased cost of that over solar worth it? Also remember that the rover will only last as long as its weakest link; it doesn't matter if the RTG keeps working after the rest of the rover breaks down (if the computer or transmitter failed it would be completely useless) and the extra money represented by the years of unused power being generated would be wasted in that case. I wouldn't be surprised if the expected life of the solar panels was pretty close to the expected life of the rover's other major components, or if it is forced to shut down due to unrelated failure while the solar panels are still working.
The rover has already accomplished its primary mission and met every goal NASA had in mind when they began designing it; everything from here on out is just icing on the cake.
If spaceship launches are taking place from corporations "around the globe", NASA wouldn't be too useful as it only has jurisdiction in the US. However, I could easily see NASA becoming the US body charged with negotiating international space regulations and treaties (if it isn't already), or the UN starting up a space division.
That's not really a good example- The comic webs are different from the movie webs. He originally shot webs via gadgets he invented and wore on his wrists.
You can't get r00ted through that, you can only get "usered". Losing your account is by no means a good thing, but owning the entire computer would require a restricted operation, and that unavoidably pops up a dialog box which the user would hopefully be smart enough to cancel.
(Of course, if it turns out in the future that OS X has any privilege elevation bugs, all bets are off.)
A lot of recent titles would not hold a candle to the best of 8/16 bit gaming.
Obviously. But what about the best recent titles?
I think that Sturgeon's Law has always been in full effect, past and present, and the only reason there appear to be more good games in the past is that the bad ones have been so well forgotten they're hard to find even with research.
Finding life was not the objective of this mission, or the Mars missions. This is simply a result of the execution of a more general "investigate Mars|Saturn" mission.
Those who say that we should not disturb the "natural course of life" ignore the fact that the natural course of life is to multiply and expand into its environment. If any Earth animals other than humans found themselves somehow on another planet and in a hospitable environment, they would not hesitate to "colonize" it to the best of their ability. It's what life does. The human being is simply the first organism capable of transplanting members of itself over such long distances.
No, it's more a grudging acceptance that since the company hasn't folded or been exposed as a scam yet, that they may actually be willing and able to bring this thing to market. Many people still expect them to crash and burn soon afterwards.
I didn't say it would solve the problem; what I meant was that a disclaimer or license would be at least a minimum effort to pretend that the owners of this site are not trying to simply facilitate owning *nix boxes.
This seems pretty irresponsible... There's not even a disclaimer or click-through license that tells you to submit only a shadow file you are authorized to manipulate. People who have legitimately lost their passwords are going to be a tiny, tiny minority of users of this site.
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The best part about those stories was seeing Steve Jobs using the "one more thing" gag in 1981.
Minor nit- REYES is not a "shading method" on the same level as rasterization/scanline or ray tracing. I believe it's a specific 3D graphics program. What you describe here is adaptive subdivision surfaces, which are a common high-end technique but not fundamentally different from simple polygon rasterization.
It would probably become very confused, but I don't think it would constantly spasm in attempts to right itself like you seem to suggest. A cat's reflex is based on acceleration, which would not be happening. It might assume the "skydiver" position that it would at terminal velocity in a normal fall, as other posts have mentioned.
It's not really a fair question, as aircraft are so very different from cars. Their handling and common behaviors are different, as are the tasks to which they are put- An airliner may be less efficient than a car on paper, but if you try to move 300 people across the US with both of them, the plane may still come out on top.
Also, planes can use propulsion systems much more exotic than a reciprocating mechanical engine.
There are already diesel cars that do something similar- If you brake to a halt (i.e. at a traffic light), the engine shuts off; it restarts once you hit the gas again.
Flying hijacked airplanes into buildings will also only work once, but look what it's done to the world so far.
A contest for speedrunning Halo for Xbox has just concluded, with a total time of 2:15:15. It's probably possible to do better, this was the first real attempt at it.
It doesn't support GPU-accelerated Core Image. CI has a fallback path for hardware that doesn't support fragment programs, which almost certainly involves AltiVec.
Things like Final Cut Pro can already do real-time image and video effects on the CPU, CI is just exposing it as a system library alongside all the traditional bitmap manipulation libraries.
- Use the Spotlight SDK to write a plugin that parses the app's file format and metadata. This allows the global Spotlight feature to index and search the contents of files created by that app.
- Use the Spotlight API to integrate Spotlight into its own interface, letting the user search from the app directly.
As to how many apps will support this, I'd guess that plugins will be far more common that built-in searching, since they are not an integral part of the app and could even conceivably be written by third parties if the original developer doesn't bother to.It wouldn't be that hard. Since there would be only a small number of sheets, you could make a permanent physical connection between them and the retractor motor(s). And a similar problem was solved a very long time ago in the computer industry- the paper feed mechanism in a laser printer.
It's most likely a question of diminishing returns. An RTG would provide a larger amount of power, but is the increased cost of that over solar worth it? Also remember that the rover will only last as long as its weakest link; it doesn't matter if the RTG keeps working after the rest of the rover breaks down (if the computer or transmitter failed it would be completely useless) and the extra money represented by the years of unused power being generated would be wasted in that case. I wouldn't be surprised if the expected life of the solar panels was pretty close to the expected life of the rover's other major components, or if it is forced to shut down due to unrelated failure while the solar panels are still working.
The rover has already accomplished its primary mission and met every goal NASA had in mind when they began designing it; everything from here on out is just icing on the cake.
If spaceship launches are taking place from corporations "around the globe", NASA wouldn't be too useful as it only has jurisdiction in the US. However, I could easily see NASA becoming the US body charged with negotiating international space regulations and treaties (if it isn't already), or the UN starting up a space division.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
banning guns, knives and toenail clippers from airplanes has done little to discourage hijacking.
Got statistics? It does a body good.
More importantly, Ock was standing on a moving (possibly even accelerating, I don't remember exactly how the sequence went) subway train.
That's not really a good example- The comic webs are different from the movie webs. He originally shot webs via gadgets he invented and wore on his wrists.
No, the truly unrealistic aspect of that scene is that she managed to find an available taxi in New York City in about 3 seconds.
You can't get r00ted through that, you can only get "usered". Losing your account is by no means a good thing, but owning the entire computer would require a restricted operation, and that unavoidably pops up a dialog box which the user would hopefully be smart enough to cancel.
(Of course, if it turns out in the future that OS X has any privilege elevation bugs, all bets are off.)
A lot of recent titles would not hold a candle to the best of 8/16 bit gaming.
Obviously. But what about the best recent titles?
I think that Sturgeon's Law has always been in full effect, past and present, and the only reason there appear to be more good games in the past is that the bad ones have been so well forgotten they're hard to find even with research.
Finding life was not the objective of this mission, or the Mars missions. This is simply a result of the execution of a more general "investigate Mars|Saturn" mission.
Those who say that we should not disturb the "natural course of life" ignore the fact that the natural course of life is to multiply and expand into its environment. If any Earth animals other than humans found themselves somehow on another planet and in a hospitable environment, they would not hesitate to "colonize" it to the best of their ability. It's what life does. The human being is simply the first organism capable of transplanting members of itself over such long distances.
No, it's more a grudging acceptance that since the company hasn't folded or been exposed as a scam yet, that they may actually be willing and able to bring this thing to market. Many people still expect them to crash and burn soon afterwards.
I didn't say it would solve the problem; what I meant was that a disclaimer or license would be at least a minimum effort to pretend that the owners of this site are not trying to simply facilitate owning *nix boxes.
"The window was unlocked, so it's not really burglary."
This seems pretty irresponsible... There's not even a disclaimer or click-through license that tells you to submit only a shadow file you are authorized to manipulate. People who have legitimately lost their passwords are going to be a tiny, tiny minority of users of this site.