With IPv6 we could all have fixed IP addresses (or blocks of them) at home. Is this likely to happen? What do you see as the pros and cons from the ISP point of view for doing this? I think the reasons I want it are the reasons they don't, but I'd like to know how someone with your perspective sees it.
Bullet time requires sync within millisecond or less. 60FPS video is one frame per 16.66ms. Also, if you want to slow things down by say 10x, you'd need frames shot 1.6ms apart. Since "Align in movie editor software" supposes 16.6ms time between frames at best, it won't work. Also, if you want to freeze the action and spin the camera around the subject, you need simultaneous images capture from all cameras, probably to within 1ms.
Hopefully this leads to people being able to have their DNA modified so that we no longer have to deal with mental diseases like Alzheimer's.
That's not a technical problem, it's a social problem. For instance, I'd recommend China make exception to their one-child policy for couples with 4 healthy grandparents beyond a certain age. That way the long-healthy-life genes will become more common over time, without people having to figure out which genes and combinations of them are "good" which will have significant bias. Contrast that with the concept in "idiocracy" and that recent survey that found unemployed people most likely to list a desire for "casual sex" on their profiles. See. We just need a system that encourages the people with good genes to reproduce, rather than the opposite.
I have always been interested in how the overwhelming mass of US Americans manage to completely block out the obvious fact that Native Americans were there when Columbus arrived and they were also already there when Leif Ericsson arrived.
You have to make those people insignificant in the story, otherwise you can't downplay the subsequent invasion and killing. I really don't know why people can't accept that and just tell it like it was.
I was thinking of buying from Makerbot and had realized my kid would probably like it more than me. Then I started to wonder what they'll do with that $10M investment - probably make a better thing-o-matic. So it seems I should wait a year or two and now there is yet another player to watch.
On another note, has anyone tried doing this using a delta-bot instead of an xyz system?
IIRC out of focus is harder to do automatically. However, I've been waiting for motion deblurring in PS and GIMP for some time. It's something I would have done eventually given enough time and lack of anyone else implementing it - fortunately I don't have to now.
On a related note, when are cameras going to use motion estimation (already there for video compression) to prevent motion blur when using longer exposures in low light? It seems obvious enough - you've got the motion vectors, why not sum multiple short exposures into a final long exposure with motion compensation?
Yes, a rotary needs to spin faster for the same power output. In fact, that's why they have a better power/weight ratio. The perfect balance allows higher speed, so a smaller engine can produce the same power. Electric machines also tend toward better efficiency at higher speeds so it may seem like a good match. However, the rotary is probably so inefficient that it outweighs the savings. Now if it turns out that the PEAK efficiency can be made higher than the peak for a piston engine, then it will get its place in hybrids (since they try to operate at the peak efficiency or not at all). But that seems unlikely.
It turns out that the power to weight ratio on a rotary is high because they can increase the RPM quite a bit higher. That is possible due to the perfect balance that can be achieved with the pure rotary design. Some of the imbalance of a piston engine can be eliminated by using laterally opposed cylinders, but IIRC there is still some imbalance.
Thermal efficiency is best when you have a spherical combustion chamber which expands radially (maximum volume to surface area ration). But since that is not physically possible the next best seems to be a piston in a circular chamber. The triangle in a peanut as some call it has a larger surface area. Mazda was stupid and showed off a new rotary in 2007 (I have pics from the auto show) and that killed demand for the existing engine and car. Why would you buy it when they were planning a new one with better efficiency and more power?
Don't just explain a new observation with a few quips. I can do that too: Cold air more dense than hot - should cause thermals which will cause more mixing, leading to a more uniform distribution of heat in the atmosphere - not increased stratification. There. Now remember, it's not fair to say my hypothesis is less valid than yours because they are both pulled out of someones ass. They shouldn't make such claims without a reasonably validated mathematical model.
If he's trying with this article to pitch reason and science to his fellow conservatives, by suggesting to them that it's consistent with their core values, best of luck to him.
He's not speaking to his own party - they get their own votes. He's trying to claim that republicans ideas are better than democrats because they're rooted in facts. This is not meant to influence people who read slashdot, or anyone else who actually thinks for more than 2 seconds about anything. For the masses - should they read his statement - the republicans now claim to have policy based on facts, and that *sounds* like a good thing. Never mind that it's not true, and can in many cases be shown false.
They're right about one thing... You can't make an app that works on MY property. These are MY GPS coordinates, you can't trigger shit on them.... Oh man, somebody patent suing people over that so it can't happen.
I dream of world where even the most impoverished person can own a cell-phone, can own a laptop, can afford nourishing food every day. And you know what? We're very nearly living in that world, thanks to improvements in agricultural and manufacturing technology.
When every single task is automated, we can all relax and let the robots provide for us. The problem is that there is necessarily a point between here and there where half of all the jobs are automated and we have 50 percent unemployment with nothing for half the population to do. When I was younger it was all kids running the local fast food places. There is an increasing number of adults doing those jobs. Why? Because there aren't enough "good" jobs any more. Wait until Taco Bell creates an automated food maker (all their stuff is made from the same 12 ingredients) and all those people will also be out of work. The poor will not be able to afford even the cheapest of products when every last low-end job has been eliminated. It's already happening with almost all production going overseas, all advertising and media distribution going online (Borders anyone?). Even super cheap toy production which is already overseas is threatened by the impending move of rapid prototyping equipment into the home (rep-rap, fab-at-home, and makerbot all aiming for this). All this tech stuff is great, but we can't all be MBAs and Engineers until the last job has been automated.
I really enjoyed his book, but it's clear that if you ask him, he hardly ever hurt anyone. It's hard to believe a lot of what he says, since it comes from someone who achieved most of his goals by nonstop lying.
Name someone that got hurt? I'd have to agree with the second part of what you say though.
His goal now is to make money - witness the plug for his new book in the answers. Why else would he even do a slashdot interview now?
As RMS and others have stated repeatedly. There is NO legal definition of "Intellectual Property" it is a recent umbrella term that covers copyrights, trademarks, and patents. In this case we are talking about copyright. I like the point made by Smallpond and have considered it's applicability to old software I own. It's a really interesting question. If you've got the last remaining instance of something, then you should be able to register your own copyright on it - how can someone else claim to own something they can not show you? It's a question of practical vs legal. It also show what the "legal owner" thought the value of said item is - zero.
I have family members who lived through *major* historical events. Being there didn't tell them why they were there nor why it was so important nor what was happening a few miles away and how that impacted them. They didn't really understand the big picture until I shared some of that old fashioned college book learning with them.
Most people today don't understand why the US is in recession. Why the housing bubble happened, or what may fix it. This is confirmation of your statement, we are in the middle of what may be a historical economic event and people don't have a clue. BTW, I successfully predicted the top of the housing market in 2002 based on very simple logic - housing prices vary inversely to interest rates, which had been declining for 20 years and were near zero - and I didn't need a computer to reach that conclusion.
Maybe I'm wrong, but explorer.exe has been user space for a while now.
I did touch-screen interface on an industrial PC running windows back in '96. We wanted to prevent guys on the line from playing games, so we told it to load our full-screen app instead of explorer.exe. I don't recall what we did ourselves to run other things;-)
The position for vendors of the many android phones you see as direct imports is basically simple - there is never source available.
really? so they're putting software in without any license at all? Or do they know it's GPL and they figure they don't need to provide source because they weren't given any?
According to TFA, the FSF gets what they consider credible reports of violations and false or misguided claims of violations. That suggests that they do look into the claims. The author then complains that the FSF won't talk about specific claims. The problem with that is the FSF doesn't normally run around talking in public about violations - they negotiate with the violators to get them to comply. Part of negotiation is not to piss off the other party by airing their dirty laundry. It does not surprise me at all that the FSF isn't giving some blogger a story.
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With IPv6 we could all have fixed IP addresses (or blocks of them) at home. Is this likely to happen? What do you see as the pros and cons from the ISP point of view for doing this? I think the reasons I want it are the reasons they don't, but I'd like to know how someone with your perspective sees it.
Bullet time requires sync within millisecond or less. 60FPS video is one frame per 16.66ms. Also, if you want to slow things down by say 10x, you'd need frames shot 1.6ms apart. Since "Align in movie editor software" supposes 16.6ms time between frames at best, it won't work. Also, if you want to freeze the action and spin the camera around the subject, you need simultaneous images capture from all cameras, probably to within 1ms.
And tell all your cousins to get busy too. We need to replicate those genes regardless of weather we can figure out which ones caused it.
That's not a technical problem, it's a social problem. For instance, I'd recommend China make exception to their one-child policy for couples with 4 healthy grandparents beyond a certain age. That way the long-healthy-life genes will become more common over time, without people having to figure out which genes and combinations of them are "good" which will have significant bias. Contrast that with the concept in "idiocracy" and that recent survey that found unemployed people most likely to list a desire for "casual sex" on their profiles. See. We just need a system that encourages the people with good genes to reproduce, rather than the opposite.
But how do you sync the image capture of all the cameras?
What are the "obvious scientific facts" exactly? No really, I'm asking for sources that aren't controversial or debunked.
You have to make those people insignificant in the story, otherwise you can't downplay the subsequent invasion and killing. I really don't know why people can't accept that and just tell it like it was.
I was thinking of buying from Makerbot and had realized my kid would probably like it more than me. Then I started to wonder what they'll do with that $10M investment - probably make a better thing-o-matic. So it seems I should wait a year or two and now there is yet another player to watch.
On another note, has anyone tried doing this using a delta-bot instead of an xyz system?
IIRC out of focus is harder to do automatically. However, I've been waiting for motion deblurring in PS and GIMP for some time. It's something I would have done eventually given enough time and lack of anyone else implementing it - fortunately I don't have to now.
On a related note, when are cameras going to use motion estimation (already there for video compression) to prevent motion blur when using longer exposures in low light? It seems obvious enough - you've got the motion vectors, why not sum multiple short exposures into a final long exposure with motion compensation?
Yes, a rotary needs to spin faster for the same power output. In fact, that's why they have a better power/weight ratio. The perfect balance allows higher speed, so a smaller engine can produce the same power. Electric machines also tend toward better efficiency at higher speeds so it may seem like a good match. However, the rotary is probably so inefficient that it outweighs the savings. Now if it turns out that the PEAK efficiency can be made higher than the peak for a piston engine, then it will get its place in hybrids (since they try to operate at the peak efficiency or not at all). But that seems unlikely.
It turns out that the power to weight ratio on a rotary is high because they can increase the RPM quite a bit higher. That is possible due to the perfect balance that can be achieved with the pure rotary design. Some of the imbalance of a piston engine can be eliminated by using laterally opposed cylinders, but IIRC there is still some imbalance.
Thermal efficiency is best when you have a spherical combustion chamber which expands radially (maximum volume to surface area ration). But since that is not physically possible the next best seems to be a piston in a circular chamber. The triangle in a peanut as some call it has a larger surface area. Mazda was stupid and showed off a new rotary in 2007 (I have pics from the auto show) and that killed demand for the existing engine and car. Why would you buy it when they were planning a new one with better efficiency and more power?
Don't just explain a new observation with a few quips. I can do that too: Cold air more dense than hot - should cause thermals which will cause more mixing, leading to a more uniform distribution of heat in the atmosphere - not increased stratification. There. Now remember, it's not fair to say my hypothesis is less valid than yours because they are both pulled out of someones ass. They shouldn't make such claims without a reasonably validated mathematical model.
He's not speaking to his own party - they get their own votes. He's trying to claim that republicans ideas are better than democrats because they're rooted in facts. This is not meant to influence people who read slashdot, or anyone else who actually thinks for more than 2 seconds about anything. For the masses - should they read his statement - the republicans now claim to have policy based on facts, and that *sounds* like a good thing. Never mind that it's not true, and can in many cases be shown false.
They're right about one thing... You can't make an app that works on MY property. These are MY GPS coordinates, you can't trigger shit on them.... Oh man, somebody patent suing people over that so it can't happen.
If your GPU sucks, try to get people to buy 8 CPU cores and do graphics on those. Seriously, doesn't WebGL allow use of the GPU? If not, fix that.
I can ray trace that at about 1FPS per core. Why do they need 256 cores? And who can play anything rendered in the cloud?
When every single task is automated, we can all relax and let the robots provide for us. The problem is that there is necessarily a point between here and there where half of all the jobs are automated and we have 50 percent unemployment with nothing for half the population to do. When I was younger it was all kids running the local fast food places. There is an increasing number of adults doing those jobs. Why? Because there aren't enough "good" jobs any more. Wait until Taco Bell creates an automated food maker (all their stuff is made from the same 12 ingredients) and all those people will also be out of work. The poor will not be able to afford even the cheapest of products when every last low-end job has been eliminated. It's already happening with almost all production going overseas, all advertising and media distribution going online (Borders anyone?). Even super cheap toy production which is already overseas is threatened by the impending move of rapid prototyping equipment into the home (rep-rap, fab-at-home, and makerbot all aiming for this). All this tech stuff is great, but we can't all be MBAs and Engineers until the last job has been automated.
I bet you use a credit card regularly? or even a debit card? If so, stop supporting the financial companies you despise.
Name someone that got hurt? I'd have to agree with the second part of what you say though.
His goal now is to make money - witness the plug for his new book in the answers. Why else would he even do a slashdot interview now?
As RMS and others have stated repeatedly. There is NO legal definition of "Intellectual Property" it is a recent umbrella term that covers copyrights, trademarks, and patents. In this case we are talking about copyright. I like the point made by Smallpond and have considered it's applicability to old software I own. It's a really interesting question. If you've got the last remaining instance of something, then you should be able to register your own copyright on it - how can someone else claim to own something they can not show you? It's a question of practical vs legal. It also show what the "legal owner" thought the value of said item is - zero.
Most people today don't understand why the US is in recession. Why the housing bubble happened, or what may fix it. This is confirmation of your statement, we are in the middle of what may be a historical economic event and people don't have a clue. BTW, I successfully predicted the top of the housing market in 2002 based on very simple logic - housing prices vary inversely to interest rates, which had been declining for 20 years and were near zero - and I didn't need a computer to reach that conclusion.
I did touch-screen interface on an industrial PC running windows back in '96. We wanted to prevent guys on the line from playing games, so we told it to load our full-screen app instead of explorer.exe. I don't recall what we did ourselves to run other things ;-)
Facebook has helped the police get dirt on people in many cases. Don't be surprised when it works the other way too.
really? so they're putting software in without any license at all? Or do they know it's GPL and they figure they don't need to provide source because they weren't given any?
According to TFA, the FSF gets what they consider credible reports of violations and false or misguided claims of violations. That suggests that they do look into the claims. The author then complains that the FSF won't talk about specific claims. The problem with that is the FSF doesn't normally run around talking in public about violations - they negotiate with the violators to get them to comply. Part of negotiation is not to piss off the other party by airing their dirty laundry. It does not surprise me at all that the FSF isn't giving some blogger a story.