Now engineer a fruit fly the size of a dog and run the test again. I bet response time goes way up.
Geez, quit giving Michael Crichton ideas for his next "OMG Technology Bad!!!" novel.
Now, engineer a dog the size of a fruit fly and the whole "pooper scooper" paradigm goes away. No need for specialized dog parks; heck, no need to walk your dog any farther than around the dining room table! I, for one, welcome our new micro-sized Man's Best Friends!
Well, this leads directly to the heart of the Open Source movement. Compare with Firefox: some nice guys at tenfourfox put out PPC versions of every FF update. If the Skype source were available, the same could be done here (at least in theory, if Skype didn't choose to block it at their end).
Granted, I'm just another/.-er who never RTFAs, but I do have some experience w/ FO comms and free-air transmitters (of one wavelength or another).
So consider: the channeling lasers may disperse, but they carry no information beyond the existence of the channel and possibly the source and destination. The transmitted data packets do not disperse, so what you've got is the equivalent of a phased-array transmitter with zero sidelobes.
A few years back, before Obama, one of my black friends said when we have the first black president they are gonna paint the White House black, and call it the "Black House."
In fact, the political comedian Dick Gregory said that about his own satirical run for president back around 1968 or so. When I'm president (c'mon, you guys gotta start campaigning for me!), I think I'll do the exterior in Jackson Pollock.
Well, to be fair, Kissinger inside a Doonesbury strip said, "I'm sick and tired of people asking about human rights. What do you want: human rights or world peace?"
It's kinda like cable tv: 500 channels, of which 450 are QVC, 40 are rerun channels, and 10 are worth watching.
Similarly, gutenberg.org plus its "affiliates" claim 100k books, but rather a lot of them are of extremely limited interest to anyone other than historians.
Amazon has roughly 33 million listings; even allowing for overlap between kindle, paperback, and hardcover (and audio), 600k is a rather small fraction of what's out there.
Meanwhile,today, if you can afford a $90,000 car, I doubt there are any real impediments to your making that purchase.
That's all very nice and snarky, but Tesla's got a Model E in design with a target sticker price of around $30k US. Wouldn't it be nice to fix the problem now, so in a couple years we don't have to order our Tesla-E via Amazon Prime?
If I could only get a 7 or 8-inch tablet with a screen that could be unrolled (and maybe unfolded) to say 16 by 10 inches, I'd be in techietoy heaven. No more squinting at tiny webpage displays, no more squinting at 6-point font displays of books,... you get the idea.
The military application is that it is rumoured to be able to detect stealth aircraft.
No rumor that. Dunno about cell towers, but it was shown pretty conclusively in the '90s that the "hole in the sky" caused when a stealth aircraft blocks FM radio signals can be seen. Depends of course on having a good FM sensor and a solid transmitter or two in the area.
I don't see a problem showing a device is working as intended. If it can prevent even one bomb from going on a plane it's well worth it. I don't see why people are getting bent out of shape about this. Take a chill pill people.
Dunno why I'm responding to a subhuman troll, but hey it's Monday, so:
First of all, it won't prevent any bombs from being brought onboard. How difficult do you think it is to show a working laptop which happens to have 500g of C4 wedged inside? Second, it's an absurd abuse of reality, since as everyone and his brother already said, any device w/ dead battery -- or heaven forbid, some toy that only runs on AC and you didn't bring the adapter-- gets tagged as "dangerous terrorist thingie." Third, it'll be cheaper to pay $10 million per person injured, let alone killed, by your fictional device-bomb than the direct and indirect cost of this screening program.
Finally, it'll take approximately negative 5 seconds for any potential bomber (of which there aren't any in the first place) to use some other gizmo to carry a bomb. Like a fake tin of sardines. Ooops, apologies to everyone who was going to bring a snack on board.
But what if a galaxy formed, then after a few billion years collapsed entirely into the central black hole, which then caused a new galaxy,... (leading vaguely to a Yo Dawg meme here)
Robotron? Classic? When *I* was in high school (and college), 95% of any arcade was pins. Bally, Williams, Gottlieb, Chicago Coin; some wedgeheads thrown in. That was the good old days.
I was looking at this issue before thinking something similar to the ways that ships have bars of iron fixed to them so that the bars decay before the hull. Its not an apple or apples comparison but the end goal is the same, save the ship/crew by sacrificing a small part
So you're saying we should wrap the spaceship in a layer of crew members to save the remaining crew from radiation? Maybe that explains the Reavers' actual reasons for their ship accoutrements.
Slashdot Mirror
"Thud," in the Discworld series. Just sayin...
(basically I'm saying quit calling these asshats trolls. It gives trolls a bad name)
That is a false statement.
No, *this* is a false statement.
I guess if you want to study un-particles, you have to be un-interested.
And quite possibly un-paid .
Thanks, folks, try the veal.
a Triceratops riding John Wilkes Boothe.
I can't decide whether this is funnier with or without a hyphen between "Triceratops" and "riding."
Now engineer a fruit fly the size of a dog and run the test again. I bet response time goes way up.
Geez, quit giving Michael Crichton ideas for his next "OMG Technology Bad!!!" novel.
Now, engineer a dog the size of a fruit fly and the whole "pooper scooper" paradigm goes away. No need for specialized dog parks; heck, no need to walk your dog any farther than around the dining room table! I, for one, welcome our new micro-sized Man's Best Friends!
Well, this leads directly to the heart of the Open Source movement. Compare with Firefox: some nice guys at tenfourfox put out PPC versions of every FF update. If the Skype source were available, the same could be done here (at least in theory, if Skype didn't choose to block it at their end).
Granted, I'm just another /.-er who never RTFAs, but I do have some experience w/ FO comms and free-air transmitters (of one wavelength or another).
So consider: the channeling lasers may disperse, but they carry no information beyond the existence of the channel and possibly the source and destination. The transmitted data packets do not disperse, so what you've got is the equivalent of a phased-array transmitter with zero sidelobes.
That's good, now tell me about your mother Dave...
My mother's name wasn't Dave.
Says the boy named "Sue."
A few years back, before Obama, one of my black friends said when we have the first black president they are gonna paint the White House black, and call it the "Black House."
In fact, the political comedian Dick Gregory said that about his own satirical run for president back around 1968 or so. When I'm president (c'mon, you guys gotta start campaigning for me!), I think I'll do the exterior in Jackson Pollock.
Strictly speaking, there is only "unique" and "non unique", but there's no "more unique."
True, but sadly, due to rampant misuse, there's no more "unique." :-)
And Doonesbury is a "who."
Oh, so now not only corporations but also comic strips are people?
Whoosh. Do you know what Doonesbury is?
Well, to be fair, Kissinger inside a Doonesbury strip said, "I'm sick and tired of people asking about human rights. What do you want: human rights or world peace?"
harrumph
It's kinda like cable tv: 500 channels, of which 450 are QVC, 40 are rerun channels, and 10 are worth watching.
Similarly, gutenberg.org plus its "affiliates" claim 100k books, but rather a lot of them are of extremely limited interest to anyone other than historians.
Amazon has roughly 33 million listings; even allowing for overlap between kindle, paperback, and hardcover (and audio), 600k is a rather small fraction of what's out there.
Meanwhile,today, if you can afford a $90,000 car, I doubt there are any real impediments to your making that purchase.
That's all very nice and snarky, but Tesla's got a Model E in design with a target sticker price of around $30k US. Wouldn't it be nice to fix the problem now, so in a couple years we don't have to order our Tesla-E via Amazon Prime?
If I could only get a 7 or 8-inch tablet with a screen that could be unrolled (and maybe unfolded) to say 16 by 10 inches, I'd be in techietoy heaven. No more squinting at tiny webpage displays, no more squinting at 6-point font displays of books,... you get the idea.
The military application is that it is rumoured to be able to detect stealth aircraft.
No rumor that. Dunno about cell towers, but it was shown pretty conclusively in the '90s that the "hole in the sky" caused when a stealth aircraft blocks FM radio signals can be seen. Depends of course on having a good FM sensor and a solid transmitter or two in the area.
Shit, reading these comments, you'd think Slashdot would take Tesla over Chuck Norris in a fight
Probably not a good idea, as here are
the results of said competition.
But with the usual mess in government records, quite a number of dead souls.
Mr. Gogol, is that you?
The whole point of issuing certs is to be a trusted third party. No one is going accept a cert from them again.
Sounds like what we need is a cert-issuing protocol based on Bitcoin security. Everyone (plus or minus epsilon) trusts that Bitcoins can't be forged.
I don't see a problem showing a device is working as intended. If it can prevent even one bomb from going on a plane it's well worth it.
I don't see why people are getting bent out of shape about this. Take a chill pill people.
Dunno why I'm responding to a subhuman troll, but hey it's Monday, so:
First of all, it won't prevent any bombs from being brought onboard. How difficult do you think it is to show a working laptop which happens to have 500g of C4 wedged inside?
Second, it's an absurd abuse of reality, since as everyone and his brother already said, any device w/ dead battery -- or heaven forbid, some toy that only runs on AC and you didn't bring the adapter-- gets tagged as "dangerous terrorist thingie."
Third, it'll be cheaper to pay $10 million per person injured, let alone killed, by your fictional device-bomb than the direct and indirect cost of this screening program.
Finally, it'll take approximately negative 5 seconds for any potential bomber (of which there aren't any in the first place) to use some other gizmo to carry a bomb. Like a fake tin of sardines. Ooops, apologies to everyone who was going to bring a snack on board.
But what if a galaxy formed, then after a few billion years collapsed entirely into the central black hole, which then caused a new galaxy,...
(leading vaguely to a Yo Dawg meme here)
"What's the reason for closing down my place?"
"I'm shocked, shocked to find there's gambling going on here."
"Your winnings, sir."
Robotron? Classic?
When *I* was in high school (and college), 95% of any arcade was pins. Bally, Williams, Gottlieb, Chicago Coin; some wedgeheads thrown in. That was the good old days.
Now get offa my lawn.
I was looking at this issue before thinking something similar to the ways that ships have bars of iron fixed to them so that the bars decay before the hull. Its not an apple or apples comparison but the end goal is the same, save the ship/crew by sacrificing a small part
So you're saying we should wrap the spaceship in a layer of crew members to save the remaining crew from radiation? Maybe that explains the Reavers' actual reasons for their ship accoutrements.