I read ArsTechnica's article about the Canvas-for-MSIE plugin and they mentioned the problems Google Maps faces with this; Basically excanvas mostly-works but it's too slow for non-slideshow interactivity.
This short-circuits the "But it only works with fringe browsers" bullshit. If it works with all standards-compliant browsers and there are plugins to make poor broken MSIE comply, what other excuse is there?
Eh, it wasn't much of my time. And leaving it unanswered opens up the possibility of someone else reading it and believing it's correct. I view troofers and other conspiracy loons as one of a. the kind who blame the someone else for everything because they refuse to face up to their failures, b. the kind who are there to scam you into buying their troofer book, or c. people who have schizophrenia or other some other disorder that impairs one's ability to correctly discern reality.
Outside "I Exist," nothing else can be absolutely proven and we have to accept certain axioms to function - troofers either refuse to accept them or they use "wrong" axioms, in which case anything can be proven, since all statements can be proven true given contadictory axioms.
And while we're on troofer theories, here's mine: the neocons knowingly let it happen because pnac wanted their new Pearl Harbor. Half of bushco are sociopaths IMO... If not sociopaths, severely delusional.
Well for one, it's spelled "thermite" not "thermate." And while it does indeed burn quite hot, it doesn't even remotely approach the temperature at the core of the sun. Not by a factor of more than a thousand. Also, it takes an enormous amount of heat to initiate the thermite reaction - burning jet fuel won't cut it.
The buildings coming down at freefall speed? Well duh, they're 90% air. Once the tops, which weighed half a million tons, got moving, nothing was going to stop them due to intertia.
People coming out with injuries due to explosives? Not suprising, since the planes impacting the buildings caused GIANT EXPLOSIONS that set multiple entire floors on fire.
Seriously, Bushco is guilty of plenty enough crimes that they actually committed to deserve the deaths of traitors - no need to make shit up.
Wut? Using doubles gives you more than twice as many digits of precision as floats (~15.6 vs ~6.9), and for high-accuracy astronomical calculations even that's frankly on the lower end of what'd be nice thanks to roundoff error.
The first problem with your cunning plan: The tractor is supposed to hover 150 meters from the asteroid, but single-precision epsilon is about 10 kilometers out to Saturn orbit - no algorithm can defeat that.
Modern machines support long double which gives a machine epsilon of 1e-19 or so. Since this would only be run for a few orbits rather than millions, using a software 128-bit FP library isn't out of the question either. I also believe that some IBM mainframe architectures have 128 bit FP hardware, which is plenty enough accuracy IMO no matter what you're trying to do.
I've worked on a bit of orbit-simulation stuff - the guys who keep coming up with better symplectic algorithms are frickin geniuses. They've got 4th order integrators like Chin's Algorithm C whose error can compete with 6th to 8th Forrest-Ruth... Neat. Stuff.
Making a new version means that they did it ALL by computer...
Well duh; They originally spent something like $25 million, now equal to 50 million, to make Tron. And that was after they gave up and outsourced the job of "manually composite up to 30 layers into every frame" to a southeast Asian shop about halfway through.
But yeah, I'm really worried that they'll fuck it up. They were smart enough to bring back Wendy Carlos and a lot of the original actors to do Tron 2.0's music & vocals. Not smart enough to make it sound like everyone wasn't standing alone in front of the mic reading the words, but none the less. If they don't do that this time, I'll be first in line to lynch 'em after I glue a saw blade to a frisbee...
Please, guys, don't rape one of my favorite movies...
The distance between planets in our solar system are almost unmeasurably miniscule compared to the distances between stars. Earth is already brighter than the Sun in the radio bands due to our chatter (not sure if that's still true due to increasing use of fiber & wired communication).
If the sun were shrunk to be a meter in diameter, Earth would be a dot 200 meters away, Pluto would be a decent 5 mile bike ride away, and the nearest stars would be on the other side of Earth. And the fastest probe we've ever launched, New Horizons, plods along at a bit over 500 meters per year.
Putting lots of people somewhere not earth is insurance in the event we screw up too badly on earth. Putting all your eggs in this single, fragile basket is a bad idea.
If the magnets are superconducting, why would they need a good thermal conductor? It's not as if superconductors generate any heat in operation.
And are they really going to push the magnetic fields up to the point where they truly need to cool high-temp superconductors down to the edge of absolute zero? TFA says they're using enormous currents, but doesn't this leave an awful small margin?
If I might come in with a computing/neural perspective...
I think that baboons counting 1/2/many is an indicator of the difficulties with bioneural networks: As fundamentally analog systems, they can't subdivide values finely and retain accuracy for any length of time. Thus, they can store 0/2, 1/2 and 2/2 over time, but for more than that they just set an "overflow bit:" there's a lot of 'em.
You can observe the same thing in humans. Look at your mouse cursor, right now - is it on the left or right half of the screen? Obvious. Which third? Easy enough. Which fourth? A little harder. You couldn't really tell me which tenth it's on without measuring. It gets really difficult because your brain's analog systems have difficulty accurately dividing something up that finely.
From that perspective, I think that counting (which implies an increasingly accurate absolute reference for "one" as the max rises) was something born of necessity, because brains are bad at absolute comparisons. They're really good at comparing short-term differentials (there's an edge here, this texture is different, there are more hunters now than immediately before), but they drift almost without bound over time - thus the baboon's arithmetic fudges that "many - many = zero." It's great for adaptability, but bad for being able to hold more than a few single-digit numbers in your head.
Goddamnit, there were no fucking "precious tools" that would be denied without this bill. If you can't get the rubber stamp of the FISA court to approve your warrant, you've got less than nothing.
This is 100% about covering up the most massive, vicious, and egregious violation of the fourth amendment in the history of this nation. It has absolutely fucking nothing to do with surveilling terrorists.
Like:
What exactly do you mean by scratch?
How does it switch?
What wavelengths and materials does it work best with?
How long to market?
If this is a "photonic IC" how long until we can buy photonic logic units?
Will this work with SOS (Silicon On Sapphire) technologies?
But the insightful article cleared them all up. Psyche! No it didn't. I learned that apparently a scratch can act as a waveguide of some kind that switches very rapidly. I know that the average reader doesn't have a PhD in photonics, but come on!
The paper will probably show up on their publications page soon. I don't think that the top link is about this new photonic switch, because 160Gbps isn't exactly 100x the speed of exiting 10Gbps fiber systems, but I'm not sure.
D'ya know what? Screw it. This car is careening towards the edge of the grand canyon, and the Republicans are fighting all attempts to apply the brakes or turn the wheel.
I vote we jump into the brush and let them fucking destroy themselves.
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I read ArsTechnica's article about the Canvas-for-MSIE plugin and they mentioned the problems Google Maps faces with this; Basically excanvas mostly-works but it's too slow for non-slideshow interactivity.
This short-circuits the "But it only works with fringe browsers" bullshit. If it works with all standards-compliant browsers and there are plugins to make poor broken MSIE comply, what other excuse is there?
Eh, it wasn't much of my time. And leaving it unanswered opens up the possibility of someone else reading it and believing it's correct. I view troofers and other conspiracy loons as one of a. the kind who blame the someone else for everything because they refuse to face up to their failures, b. the kind who are there to scam you into buying their troofer book, or c. people who have schizophrenia or other some other disorder that impairs one's ability to correctly discern reality.
Outside "I Exist," nothing else can be absolutely proven and we have to accept certain axioms to function - troofers either refuse to accept them or they use "wrong" axioms, in which case anything can be proven, since all statements can be proven true given contadictory axioms.
And while we're on troofer theories, here's mine: the neocons knowingly let it happen because pnac wanted their new Pearl Harbor. Half of bushco are sociopaths IMO... If not sociopaths, severely delusional.
Where to start?
Well for one, it's spelled "thermite" not "thermate." And while it does indeed burn quite hot, it doesn't even remotely approach the temperature at the core of the sun. Not by a factor of more than a thousand. Also, it takes an enormous amount of heat to initiate the thermite reaction - burning jet fuel won't cut it.
The buildings coming down at freefall speed? Well duh, they're 90% air. Once the tops, which weighed half a million tons, got moving, nothing was going to stop them due to intertia.
People coming out with injuries due to explosives? Not suprising, since the planes impacting the buildings caused GIANT EXPLOSIONS that set multiple entire floors on fire.
Seriously, Bushco is guilty of plenty enough crimes that they actually committed to deserve the deaths of traitors - no need to make shit up.
Behold, the future of War!
Hell, I'd take what he depicts there to the usual government-sanctioned mass-murder type of war...
Your government hates things that it can't control or plausibly threaten to control.
Wut? Using doubles gives you more than twice as many digits of precision as floats (~15.6 vs ~6.9), and for high-accuracy astronomical calculations even that's frankly on the lower end of what'd be nice thanks to roundoff error.
The first problem with your cunning plan: The tractor is supposed to hover 150 meters from the asteroid, but single-precision epsilon is about 10 kilometers out to Saturn orbit - no algorithm can defeat that.
Modern machines support long double which gives a machine epsilon of 1e-19 or so. Since this would only be run for a few orbits rather than millions, using a software 128-bit FP library isn't out of the question either. I also believe that some IBM mainframe architectures have 128 bit FP hardware, which is plenty enough accuracy IMO no matter what you're trying to do.
I've worked on a bit of orbit-simulation stuff - the guys who keep coming up with better symplectic algorithms are frickin geniuses. They've got 4th order integrators like Chin's Algorithm C whose error can compete with 6th to 8th Forrest-Ruth... Neat. Stuff.
If you've got someone who'll sell you oil for under $120/bbl, buy it... The NYMEX is listing crude at $123.50 at the moment.
Well duh; They originally spent something like $25 million, now equal to 50 million, to make Tron. And that was after they gave up and outsourced the job of "manually composite up to 30 layers into every frame" to a southeast Asian shop about halfway through.
But yeah, I'm really worried that they'll fuck it up. They were smart enough to bring back Wendy Carlos and a lot of the original actors to do Tron 2.0's music & vocals. Not smart enough to make it sound like everyone wasn't standing alone in front of the mic reading the words, but none the less. If they don't do that this time, I'll be first in line to lynch 'em after I glue a saw blade to a frisbee...
Please, guys, don't rape one of my favorite movies...
The distance between planets in our solar system are almost unmeasurably miniscule compared to the distances between stars. Earth is already brighter than the Sun in the radio bands due to our chatter (not sure if that's still true due to increasing use of fiber & wired communication).
If the sun were shrunk to be a meter in diameter, Earth would be a dot 200 meters away, Pluto would be a decent 5 mile bike ride away, and the nearest stars would be on the other side of Earth. And the fastest probe we've ever launched, New Horizons, plods along at a bit over 500 meters per year.
Putting lots of people somewhere not earth is insurance in the event we screw up too badly on earth. Putting all your eggs in this single, fragile basket is a bad idea.
Can we please have a "-1, Stupid" mod?
I'm glad I refreshed this page before posting that I managed to find out the categories before it succumbed. That would've been a self-own.
If the magnets are superconducting, why would they need a good thermal conductor? It's not as if superconductors generate any heat in operation.
And are they really going to push the magnetic fields up to the point where they truly need to cool high-temp superconductors down to the edge of absolute zero? TFA says they're using enormous currents, but doesn't this leave an awful small margin?
If I might come in with a computing/neural perspective...
I think that baboons counting 1/2/many is an indicator of the difficulties with bioneural networks: As fundamentally analog systems, they can't subdivide values finely and retain accuracy for any length of time. Thus, they can store 0/2, 1/2 and 2/2 over time, but for more than that they just set an "overflow bit:" there's a lot of 'em.
You can observe the same thing in humans. Look at your mouse cursor, right now - is it on the left or right half of the screen? Obvious. Which third? Easy enough. Which fourth? A little harder. You couldn't really tell me which tenth it's on without measuring. It gets really difficult because your brain's analog systems have difficulty accurately dividing something up that finely.
From that perspective, I think that counting (which implies an increasingly accurate absolute reference for "one" as the max rises) was something born of necessity, because brains are bad at absolute comparisons. They're really good at comparing short-term differentials (there's an edge here, this texture is different, there are more hunters now than immediately before), but they drift almost without bound over time - thus the baboon's arithmetic fudges that "many - many = zero." It's great for adaptability, but bad for being able to hold more than a few single-digit numbers in your head.
If you want, you can go buy InPhase Technology's holographic disk drive and do that now... Though I think the first disks are only 320GB.
Goddamnit, there were no fucking "precious tools" that would be denied without this bill. If you can't get the rubber stamp of the FISA court to approve your warrant, you've got less than nothing.
This is 100% about covering up the most massive, vicious, and egregious violation of the fourth amendment in the history of this nation. It has absolutely fucking nothing to do with surveilling terrorists.
So what you're saying is, this invention drinks my milkshake? It drinks it up?
Like:
What exactly do you mean by scratch?
How does it switch?
What wavelengths and materials does it work best with?
How long to market?
If this is a "photonic IC" how long until we can buy photonic logic units?
Will this work with SOS (Silicon On Sapphire) technologies?
But the insightful article cleared them all up. Psyche! No it didn't. I learned that apparently a scratch can act as a waveguide of some kind that switches very rapidly. I know that the average reader doesn't have a PhD in photonics, but come on!
The paper will probably show up on their publications page soon. I don't think that the top link is about this new photonic switch, because 160Gbps isn't exactly 100x the speed of exiting 10Gbps fiber systems, but I'm not sure.
You rock.
Dear RIAA:
Haha. Self-pwnt.
D'ya know what? Screw it. This car is careening towards the edge of the grand canyon, and the Republicans are fighting all attempts to apply the brakes or turn the wheel.
I vote we jump into the brush and let them fucking destroy themselves.
And people wonder where the stereotype of Democrats being spineless cunts comes from.
If geeks are going to buy an operating system, it's not going to be the one whose official sites offer about a thousand mirrors and torrents.
Have a script loop over your directories, adding them to the archive before firing the Are-Em Star at them.
/The power to destroy an entire filesystem is insignificant next to the power of the Farce