Yes, the main widespread professional application is diagnostic imaging. Even though most modern diagnostic imaging systems are digital, film is still the preferred print medium for anything big (say, larger than an ultrasound or dental x-ray) because it's cheaper than moving around uncompressed files, easy to archive, and everyone in the medicine business knows how to use it.
My prediction for the next 10 years is that increased bandwidth, storage, and high(er) dynamic-range displays may make film less common, but it will still be the most practical option in many places in the world.
If I was there and I had a gun, I would have stopped this after 6 people died. That's the magic number where I flip to Rambo mode and start randomly spraying bullets in a futile effort to stop the shooter. I think we need to execute Mr Stephen Paddock.
To successfully meacon a GPS signal, you need a very powerful transmitter, and an antenna which transmits circularly-polarised photons. That bumps the cost up a bit. We're talking a few thousand dollars rather than hundreds, but still, it's not quite as simple as you make out.
The end of the Cold War is part of it, but to be honest the seeds were planted before that and the ball started rolling in the aftermath of Watergate. It was somewhere around the 1970s that a phase change happened.
Between the end of WW2 and the 70s, society was optimistic. The leader who got elected was the one who could give us the greatest vision. Science, technology, and the new economy would make everyone's lives better. Everyone would get a piece of the pie.
After that, society became pessimistic. Science was no longer the solution, it was now the great problem. It could actually destroy the world thanks to nuclear fallout or ecological disaster. No longer was the would-be leader's job to create a better and more equal society, it was to protect us from disaster (be it terrorists, illegal immigrants, cancer, or what have you). The leader who gets elected today is the one who can manufacture the worst nightmare that they will save you from.
When we gave up on utopia, dystopia became rampant.
Adam Curtis has done a number of documentaries exploring the idea that many of the thinkers and technocrats on all sides who were responsible for getting us to now (and, of course, those who were influenced by them) have constructed a world based on theories and frameworks which only work up to a point and fail to take into account the real world in all its complexity. The upshot is that most of our leaders are living in an elaborate constructed fantasy world populated not by people, but by over-simplified models of people like "conservatives" and "liberals", "good guys" and "bad guys", "Islam" and "the West", and homo economicus.
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it actually isn't. Conspiracy theorists believe that the shadowy forces are running the show. Curtis' point is that nobody is in charge, and we are actually governed by a tangled web of self-reinforcing fantasy, incompetence, wilful blindness, and sheer bloody-mindedness.
The Trap probably lays the argument out the best, although The Power of Nightmares may be worth watching first. HyperNormalization brings it up to the "fake news" era.
I want to stress that this is just one strand of thought, and it's not even close to the whole story. But it has a lot of explanatory power.
I'm not the AC you're responding to, and I'm not going to defend what they said, but I couldn't make head nor tail of it.
What is the cryptic reference to the year of 1871, a year in which a lot of things happened, about? The creation of the government of DC? The impeachment of the Governor of NC? The deposing of William "Boss" Tweed? The Civil Rights Act? The first Major League Baseball game, perhaps?
Only the author and presumably the "some circles" in which they move (and everyone else doesn't) has any idea what the hell this is about.
The first step in critical thinking is that we must understand the claims being made on their best terms, assuming the person making the claims is rational, and interpreting any statements in their most charitable light. If we can't do that, we can't address the claims.
What part of the Constitution says the government can't retain records after you gain citizenship?
Indeed. One would presume that the government can't acquire new information due to the Fourth Amendment, so one key problem is then that the information retained is stale, and any mistakes are not corrected.
That doesn't necessarily follow from the word "prayers" alone. Some people pray to ancestors, saints, or some other non-fundamentalist entity which doesn't satisfy the properties of a classical deity with the three "omnis".
Besides, the main effect of prayer is probably to change the person praying and that alone can be valuable.
A computer language is either strongly typed, or not.
Not really. There's no consensus on what the term "strongly typed" actually means.
But that's beside the point. Both Java and Haskell are "strongly typed", but it's much easier to bend Haskell's type system to the programmer's will so that the compiler will check domain-level constraints.
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Yes, the main widespread professional application is diagnostic imaging. Even though most modern diagnostic imaging systems are digital, film is still the preferred print medium for anything big (say, larger than an ultrasound or dental x-ray) because it's cheaper than moving around uncompressed files, easy to archive, and everyone in the medicine business knows how to use it.
My prediction for the next 10 years is that increased bandwidth, storage, and high(er) dynamic-range displays may make film less common, but it will still be the most practical option in many places in the world.
Just kidding. Lobbying will be a growth industry for the next decade at least.
What I meant to imply is we drove out the middle ground and just kept the fringes.
Alexa, shoot that guy.
If I was there and I had a gun, I would have stopped this after 6 people died. That's the magic number where I flip to Rambo mode and start randomly spraying bullets in a futile effort to stop the shooter. I think we need to execute Mr Stephen Paddock.
- Ben Carson
Slashdot is an equal opportunity partisan forum though.
The flowchart is never wrong.
To successfully meacon a GPS signal, you need a very powerful transmitter, and an antenna which transmits circularly-polarised photons. That bumps the cost up a bit. We're talking a few thousand dollars rather than hundreds, but still, it's not quite as simple as you make out.
Or Perl.
The end of the Cold War is part of it, but to be honest the seeds were planted before that and the ball started rolling in the aftermath of Watergate. It was somewhere around the 1970s that a phase change happened.
Between the end of WW2 and the 70s, society was optimistic. The leader who got elected was the one who could give us the greatest vision. Science, technology, and the new economy would make everyone's lives better. Everyone would get a piece of the pie.
After that, society became pessimistic. Science was no longer the solution, it was now the great problem. It could actually destroy the world thanks to nuclear fallout or ecological disaster. No longer was the would-be leader's job to create a better and more equal society, it was to protect us from disaster (be it terrorists, illegal immigrants, cancer, or what have you). The leader who gets elected today is the one who can manufacture the worst nightmare that they will save you from.
When we gave up on utopia, dystopia became rampant.
Adam Curtis has done a number of documentaries exploring the idea that many of the thinkers and technocrats on all sides who were responsible for getting us to now (and, of course, those who were influenced by them) have constructed a world based on theories and frameworks which only work up to a point and fail to take into account the real world in all its complexity. The upshot is that most of our leaders are living in an elaborate constructed fantasy world populated not by people, but by over-simplified models of people like "conservatives" and "liberals", "good guys" and "bad guys", "Islam" and "the West", and homo economicus.
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it actually isn't. Conspiracy theorists believe that the shadowy forces are running the show. Curtis' point is that nobody is in charge, and we are actually governed by a tangled web of self-reinforcing fantasy, incompetence, wilful blindness, and sheer bloody-mindedness.
The Trap probably lays the argument out the best, although The Power of Nightmares may be worth watching first. HyperNormalization brings it up to the "fake news" era.
I want to stress that this is just one strand of thought, and it's not even close to the whole story. But it has a lot of explanatory power.
Depending on the law's reading, this could be most of the USA and a fair number of everyone who has ever known a person who moved there.
Kevin Bacon's file must be huge.
The depressing part is I don't know if you made that up or it already happened.
I would assume that "search results" are not as carefully curated as birth certificates.
You missed SVR5 because it was made by SCO.
This is the start-up music.
I'm not the AC you're responding to, and I'm not going to defend what they said, but I couldn't make head nor tail of it.
What is the cryptic reference to the year of 1871, a year in which a lot of things happened, about? The creation of the government of DC? The impeachment of the Governor of NC? The deposing of William "Boss" Tweed? The Civil Rights Act? The first Major League Baseball game, perhaps?
Only the author and presumably the "some circles" in which they move (and everyone else doesn't) has any idea what the hell this is about.
The first step in critical thinking is that we must understand the claims being made on their best terms, assuming the person making the claims is rational, and interpreting any statements in their most charitable light. If we can't do that, we can't address the claims.
What part of the Constitution says the government can't retain records after you gain citizenship?
Indeed. One would presume that the government can't acquire new information due to the Fourth Amendment, so one key problem is then that the information retained is stale, and any mistakes are not corrected.
I work at a very large university. Around these parts, 64GB is a very typical VM size.
And yes, "server" means VM in 2017.
Offer a slab ("case" if you prefer) of beer to an undergrad and I give it a fortnight.
It's the new Beowulf cluster.
And just look at that progressive media in the US, the ones not reporting on the mass murder by Emanuel Samson.
As far as I can tell, everyone reported on that. The reporting tends to cool off a bit if (as in this case) the guy has been caught.
WICEN could teach them a thing or two, mate.
That doesn't necessarily follow from the word "prayers" alone. Some people pray to ancestors, saints, or some other non-fundamentalist entity which doesn't satisfy the properties of a classical deity with the three "omnis".
Besides, the main effect of prayer is probably to change the person praying and that alone can be valuable.
Maybe you should consider organising.
A computer language is either strongly typed, or not.
Not really. There's no consensus on what the term "strongly typed" actually means.
But that's beside the point. Both Java and Haskell are "strongly typed", but it's much easier to bend Haskell's type system to the programmer's will so that the compiler will check domain-level constraints.