there is a small problem with the current aproach: until "every" car gets the system installed, it's nearly useless.
I don't think so. I mean, even if a single car had this, and then there were roadside sensors, that single car could benefit from the sensor network. Now replace roadside sensors with just a few percent of the cars having sensors, and benefits should be pretty clear.
And once something like half of the cars would have the system, the behaviour of the other half could be predicted quite nicely within certain limits. After all, a car driving between two cars will normally (ie. until it overtakes or turns) stay between those two cars and behave very predictably.
It's odd though - I don't really like the taste of them, but they are appealing for some reason. Maybe just the picture on the box:D
Oh, I think that's just all the MSG telling your subconscious that it's got protein in it, so you'd better eat it no matter the taste, or you'll end up too weak to hunt and will starve alone and childless in the bottom of some lonely damp cave. It's all natural, nothing to worry about...
You're quite the optimist. I bet you're the kind of person that would win the lotto then click your tongue, and complain about the taxes on the money. Cleaning the animals is a step above leaving them in the water or wherever to die. Always better to try, then to just shrug and say "Oh well, this is what god would have wanted..."
Always better to try, unless you consider what else you could do instead of washing almost certainly doomed animals... How about cleaning the shore to maybe save some animals from getting poisoned by the oil?
Why is BP or some other interested party with deep pockets unable to do the same here?
Because with the military, thats OUR money. With BP, thats THEIR money.....
Yeah, but there's a risk it will become "our" money through fines, increased future taxes and fees etc, unless BP at least fakes an all-out effort to contain and clean up the spill. Things like what the article is about are pocket change for companies like BP, it's more a matter of weeding through all the crazy suggestions and ideas and proposed technologies and choosing the right ones.
The fact that you can taste the plastic container in the food is something
Based on the fact that most people don't notice the bad taste of the frozen food itself in the plastic container that they cook in the microwave, I doubt they notice the taste of the plastic...
...or perhaps it's you who doesn't notice the good taste of microwave meals? Yes, actually, even without knowing you, I'm pretty sure you don't notice that good taste at all...;-)
I love it when the description actually explains why something it good or bad.
No! That's bad when that happens! The ability to comment and moderate are meant for us to demonstrate our superior intellectual capabilities by correcting the glaring factual errors and omissions of TFS and TFA. No,/. depends on bad summaries and articles.
But it's weird since the singularity is an infinitesimal point, its angular velocity would be infinite wouldn't it?
Singularity of a rotating black hole might be a ring. At least the event horizon of a rotating black hole isn't a sphere. I think. Didn't check, may remember wrong...
More importantly, it was the sort of computer that could instill fear in a man's heart. Today we hold all of this power in our hands like it's nothing, and the poor programmer has lost his mad scientist cred.
Imagine an iPhone... with enough processing power to do full real-time voice recognition... which electrocutes the user if he uses an expletive that's offensive to Jobs, as well as bleeps the expletive... except if followed by the name of a competitor, in which case it retroactively removes the bleep and induces a feeling of pleasure in the user... extra strong one if it was a public place and user was yelling expletives about a competitor very loudly.
If it kills then before they can propagate, then no, it won't.
It could be like saying if the sun exploded, evolution would make it so people didn't need the sun.
Well, yeah, but the bees aren't all being killed, are they? Are there entire areas where you can no longer get local honey, even though some years ago you could still get it? And if you bring new bees to these areas, they just die off and still no honey?
I don't think this is that bad, and therefore it will not kill off the bees completely, and therefore evolution has a chance to fix it, and will fix it given enough time (which in this case is provided indefinitely by humans who bring more bees to the area after old ones have died).
BTW: it is NOT cell phone radiation. I just want to be clear. This 'study' is crap.
So, since most people adhere to evolutionary theories - isn't killing off of species by other species part of evolution?
Not as such. Killing off a species is end of evolution (for that genetic lineage). But killing off species by others is part of history of life on our planet, as shown for example by ongoing extinctions, and massive amounts of fossils of now extinct animals. These extinctions have really nothing to do with evolution in that sense.
Evolution enters the picture only after you start to consider how the new species appeared after old ones went extinct, and why practically all current species look different from fossils.
"... very single beetle with a slightly different coloration OBVIOUSLY counts as a new species..."
Why obviously? The only definition of a species is that two organisms that cannot mate are, by definition, different species.
I think you mean "mate" as "can produce viable offspring", not as "can try to produce offspring" here...;-)
Anyway, better definition is, populations that won't interbreed even when brought together are different species. There are always individual organisms of same species that can't produce offspring together due to genetic incompatibilities.
It’s designed in such a way, yeah, but it seems to me that it could have just as easily been designed to lower the pen and draw line art.
I don't think so. With Lego motors, I'm pretty sure it's effectively restricted to drawing straight lines in 8 directions. Lines drawn in any other direction would be very choppy, worse than produced by current raster printing method, so there's kind of no point in doing that.
Which definition of "vectors" excludes straight lines? The gadget converts a raster image to drawing instructions; then executes the instructions with a pen. It's a plotter.
This Lego printer compares to a real plotter, as a regular CRT-TV compares to a vector-based CRT. Yes, both draw lines, yet CRT-TV isn't a vector display.
Or to put it another way, definition of vector (in the plotter context) doesn't exclude straight lines, but it does include lines in any direction. I'm pretty sure this Lego printer can't do that...
HTML6 will have <application> tag, which will allow streaming any native software inside a web page, of course provided that the application is encoded with a compatible operating system codec. HTML6 working group is currently thinking to put just VMS into the standard to provide a baseline codec for streaming native applications over the web, but of course a browser is free to support other codecs.
So to answer your question, we can be pretty confident that Google will provide WindowsNT-family codecs in Chrome by the time HTML6 standard is ready and web pages start supporting it in... 2020'ies, then yes, it will run current version of Crysis without problems, even over wireless connection, just like current mobile devices run software from 1990'ies.
Unless this messes the bees up in a very fundamental level, it shouldn't take many generations for evolution to take care of the problem, if there's as strong an effect as this study claims. Wild bees might have a real problem, getting replaced by some other, less sensitive insect, and not being able to reclaim their place even after adapting to cell phone radiation. But "domesticated" bees have the advantage that no other insect can take their place, and once adaptation to cell phone radiation happens, that particular strain of bees will be spread by humans who want the honey.
Of course if it's not just bees but many other insects, then there might be far-reaching problems first for plants requiring insects for pollination, and as a consequence for pretty much everything, since everything depends on these plants, or something that depends on these plants, or something that depends on something that depends on these plants, or... you get the picture.
Based on the reproductive responsibility I've seen in the US, we might want to start getting this into the domestic food supply first.
Yeah, except then use of real contraceptives would go down because a certain... let's call them optimistic instead of stupid... part of the population would think the real contraceptives aren't so important any more. So overall effect might be not only total increase in birth rate, but more STD cases as well.
This is the classic "...then nature comes up with a better idiot" situation.
The idea that an individual company breaks out significantly from a massively synchronized economy is beyond ridicule. What you want is the world to get larger again, not to get news from halfway around it in milliseconds in front of your eyes, and generally just turn the big wheel of time back to the golden times of bliss and ignorance.
Newsflash: The world's become a small village, and every gossip and whisper is heard by many, many people. There's good and bad sides to this. But unless you're in possession of a time machine, you better get used to the idea and get on living.
No, that's precisely (part of) the issue. The world and technology has moved on. The fundamentals of stock market have not kept up. What worked before computers and global communication no longer works for the original purpose. Currently it's just new layers of manipulation on downright fraud being built on top of each others.
But how to fix it, now that's the question...:-) One suggestion would be to require two humans (seller and buyer) to review and physically sign each trade (a fingerprint reader or something would probably be ok to avoid repetitive stress injuries). If that doesn't slow things down, add requirement to physically exchange hand-to-hand something, like paper prints with the fingerprint reader signature, or just some kind of physical stock market token.
Exactly. I was just thinking "wow! My Nokia and Samsung phones do just the same".
I'm pretty sure at least Nokia phones won't allow USB access if the phone is locked (with the phone locking code, not the SIM PIN).
I didn't RTFM, so I'd like to know, if iPhone (the phone UI) is locked, it will still allow USB access? Ie. there's no way to block USB access to personal data? If that's true, then that's bad, a real WTF.
But if it works like the other "smart phones", and protects your data if you've set up phone locking and the phone lock is on, and it can be set to switch on automatically after a time, then there's no issue.
I don't think the PIN has anything to do with this. The PIN probably just locks the UI in the phone.
Which "PIN"? In GSM or 3G phones, PIN usually refers to the PIN of the SIM card, which is a "smart card" and doesn't allow access at all without the PIN. It doesn't lock the phone, it locks the SIM, so a phone can't access it without giving it the PIN first. The rest is up to the phone. Many plain phones won't boot up without a SIM card and correct SIM PIN, while most smart phones will work in "offline" mode even without SIM.
Whatever other locking codes there might be for phone UI or for USB access or whatever, calling them PIN codes is probably a bad idea when "PIN" has an established meaning as the SIM card PIN.
But seriously, DRM technology will eventually be tightly integrated with display technology itself, the display surface itself. And Sony will be leading the way.
Well, I can give an opposite example. Java makes it easy to forget closing files, while windows makes deleting open files hard:
doStuff(foo, new FileOutputStream("log.log"));... new File("log.log").remove();
This works on osx, but fails on windows.
Of course depending on your definition of "works"... In UNIXes (which I believe OSX is), the file isn't actually deleted, only the directory entry is removed. File will really disappear only after there are no directory entries pointing to it and it's not open in any process. Now usually this doesn't matter, but sometimes it's does, like in long-running server processes or with files that keep on being written to a lot after the directory entry was deleted.
In Windows, the file itself and not just the particular directory entry gets actually removed, which obviously leads to problems if file is open somewhere... Which Windows chooses to solve by preventing file deletion if it's open.
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there is a small problem with the current aproach: until "every" car gets the system installed, it's nearly useless.
I don't think so. I mean, even if a single car had this, and then there were roadside sensors, that single car could benefit from the sensor network. Now replace roadside sensors with just a few percent of the cars having sensors, and benefits should be pretty clear.
And once something like half of the cars would have the system, the behaviour of the other half could be predicted quite nicely within certain limits. After all, a car driving between two cars will normally (ie. until it overtakes or turns) stay between those two cars and behave very predictably.
oh and they just invented multitasking.
To be fair, the "multitasking" that iPhone OS 4 offers to apps is, let's be charitable and say different from what you'd expect from a modern OS...
It's odd though - I don't really like the taste of them, but they are appealing for some reason. Maybe just the picture on the box :D
Oh, I think that's just all the MSG telling your subconscious that it's got protein in it, so you'd better eat it no matter the taste, or you'll end up too weak to hunt and will starve alone and childless in the bottom of some lonely damp cave. It's all natural, nothing to worry about...
You're quite the optimist. I bet you're the kind of person that would win the lotto then click your tongue, and complain about the taxes on the money.
Cleaning the animals is a step above leaving them in the water or wherever to die. Always better to try, then to just shrug and say "Oh well, this is what god would have wanted..."
Always better to try, unless you consider what else you could do instead of washing almost certainly doomed animals... How about cleaning the shore to maybe save some animals from getting poisoned by the oil?
Why is BP or some other interested party with deep pockets unable to do the same here?
Because with the military, thats OUR money. With BP, thats THEIR money.....
Yeah, but there's a risk it will become "our" money through fines, increased future taxes and fees etc, unless BP at least fakes an all-out effort to contain and clean up the spill. Things like what the article is about are pocket change for companies like BP, it's more a matter of weeding through all the crazy suggestions and ideas and proposed technologies and choosing the right ones.
The fact that you can taste the plastic container in the food is something
Based on the fact that most people don't notice the bad taste of the frozen food itself in the plastic container that they cook in the microwave, I doubt they notice the taste of the plastic...
...or perhaps it's you who doesn't notice the good taste of microwave meals? Yes, actually, even without knowing you, I'm pretty sure you don't notice that good taste at all... ;-)
I love it when the description actually explains why something it good or bad.
No! That's bad when that happens! The ability to comment and moderate are meant for us to demonstrate our superior intellectual capabilities by correcting the glaring factual errors and omissions of TFS and TFA. No, /. depends on bad summaries and articles.
Really true hackers order the pizza via the pizza place's web site.
...by using telnet as a web browser, even when ordering requires ssl, and the pizza place's web site requires flash.
But it's weird since the singularity is an infinitesimal point, its angular velocity would be infinite wouldn't it?
Singularity of a rotating black hole might be a ring. At least the event horizon of a rotating black hole isn't a sphere. I think. Didn't check, may remember wrong...
More importantly, it was the sort of computer that could instill fear in a man's heart. Today we hold all of this power in our hands like it's nothing, and the poor programmer has lost his mad scientist cred.
Imagine an iPhone... with enough processing power to do full real-time voice recognition... which electrocutes the user if he uses an expletive that's offensive to Jobs, as well as bleeps the expletive... except if followed by the name of a competitor, in which case it retroactively removes the bleep and induces a feeling of pleasure in the user... extra strong one if it was a public place and user was yelling expletives about a competitor very loudly.
And that's just the beginning.
If it kills then before they can propagate, then no, it won't.
It could be like saying if the sun exploded, evolution would make it so people didn't need the sun.
Well, yeah, but the bees aren't all being killed, are they? Are there entire areas where you can no longer get local honey, even though some years ago you could still get it? And if you bring new bees to these areas, they just die off and still no honey?
I don't think this is that bad, and therefore it will not kill off the bees completely, and therefore evolution has a chance to fix it, and will fix it given enough time (which in this case is provided indefinitely by humans who bring more bees to the area after old ones have died).
BTW: it is NOT cell phone radiation. I just want to be clear. This 'study' is crap.
Yeah, most likely.
So, since most people adhere to evolutionary theories - isn't killing off of species by other species part of evolution?
Not as such. Killing off a species is end of evolution (for that genetic lineage). But killing off species by others is part of history of life on our planet, as shown for example by ongoing extinctions, and massive amounts of fossils of now extinct animals. These extinctions have really nothing to do with evolution in that sense.
Evolution enters the picture only after you start to consider how the new species appeared after old ones went extinct, and why practically all current species look different from fossils.
"... very single beetle with a slightly different coloration OBVIOUSLY counts as a new species ..."
Why obviously? The only definition of a species is that two organisms that cannot mate are, by definition, different species.
I think you mean "mate" as "can produce viable offspring", not as "can try to produce offspring" here... ;-)
Anyway, better definition is, populations that won't interbreed even when brought together are different species. There are always individual organisms of same species that can't produce offspring together due to genetic incompatibilities.
I would certainly like to know how we'd end up with a fraction of a species
By choosing an annoying species and decimating it.
It’s designed in such a way, yeah, but it seems to me that it could have just as easily been designed to lower the pen and draw line art.
I don't think so. With Lego motors, I'm pretty sure it's effectively restricted to drawing straight lines in 8 directions. Lines drawn in any other direction would be very choppy, worse than produced by current raster printing method, so there's kind of no point in doing that.
Plotters draw vectors.
Which definition of "vectors" excludes straight lines? The gadget converts a raster image to drawing instructions; then executes the instructions with a pen. It's a plotter.
This Lego printer compares to a real plotter, as a regular CRT-TV compares to a vector-based CRT. Yes, both draw lines, yet CRT-TV isn't a vector display.
Or to put it another way, definition of vector (in the plotter context) doesn't exclude straight lines, but it does include lines in any direction. I'm pretty sure this Lego printer can't do that...
Gamers won't use it.
Why not? Having one next to your gaming PC will allow doing all the other stuff more easily and efficiently and in a less distracting way.
By which I mean, the gamer could take the Chrome OS netbook/tablet with them on toilet and fridge trips, thus improving overall gaming efficiency.
Probably by asking "But will it run Crysis?"
HTML6 will have <application> tag, which will allow streaming any native software inside a web page, of course provided that the application is encoded with a compatible operating system codec. HTML6 working group is currently thinking to put just VMS into the standard to provide a baseline codec for streaming native applications over the web, but of course a browser is free to support other codecs.
So to answer your question, we can be pretty confident that Google will provide WindowsNT-family codecs in Chrome by the time HTML6 standard is ready and web pages start supporting it in... 2020'ies, then yes, it will run current version of Crysis without problems, even over wireless connection, just like current mobile devices run software from 1990'ies.
Unless this messes the bees up in a very fundamental level, it shouldn't take many generations for evolution to take care of the problem, if there's as strong an effect as this study claims. Wild bees might have a real problem, getting replaced by some other, less sensitive insect, and not being able to reclaim their place even after adapting to cell phone radiation. But "domesticated" bees have the advantage that no other insect can take their place, and once adaptation to cell phone radiation happens, that particular strain of bees will be spread by humans who want the honey.
Of course if it's not just bees but many other insects, then there might be far-reaching problems first for plants requiring insects for pollination, and as a consequence for pretty much everything, since everything depends on these plants, or something that depends on these plants, or something that depends on something that depends on these plants, or... you get the picture.
Based on the reproductive responsibility I've seen in the US, we might want to start getting this into the domestic food supply first.
Yeah, except then use of real contraceptives would go down because a certain... let's call them optimistic instead of stupid... part of the population would think the real contraceptives aren't so important any more. So overall effect might be not only total increase in birth rate, but more STD cases as well.
This is the classic "...then nature comes up with a better idiot" situation.
The idea that an individual company breaks out significantly from a massively synchronized economy is beyond ridicule. What you want is the world to get larger again, not to get news from halfway around it in milliseconds in front of your eyes, and generally just turn the big wheel of time back to the golden times of bliss and ignorance.
Newsflash: The world's become a small village, and every gossip and whisper is heard by many, many people. There's good and bad sides to this. But unless you're in possession of a time machine, you better get used to the idea and get on living.
No, that's precisely (part of) the issue. The world and technology has moved on. The fundamentals of stock market have not kept up. What worked before computers and global communication no longer works for the original purpose. Currently it's just new layers of manipulation on downright fraud being built on top of each others.
But how to fix it, now that's the question... :-) One suggestion would be to require two humans (seller and buyer) to review and physically sign each trade (a fingerprint reader or something would probably be ok to avoid repetitive stress injuries). If that doesn't slow things down, add requirement to physically exchange hand-to-hand something, like paper prints with the fingerprint reader signature, or just some kind of physical stock market token.
Exactly. I was just thinking "wow! My Nokia and Samsung phones do just the same".
I'm pretty sure at least Nokia phones won't allow USB access if the phone is locked (with the phone locking code, not the SIM PIN).
I didn't RTFM, so I'd like to know, if iPhone (the phone UI) is locked, it will still allow USB access? Ie. there's no way to block USB access to personal data? If that's true, then that's bad, a real WTF.
But if it works like the other "smart phones", and protects your data if you've set up phone locking and the phone lock is on, and it can be set to switch on automatically after a time, then there's no issue.
I don't think the PIN has anything to do with this. The PIN probably just locks the UI in the phone.
Which "PIN"? In GSM or 3G phones, PIN usually refers to the PIN of the SIM card, which is a "smart card" and doesn't allow access at all without the PIN. It doesn't lock the phone, it locks the SIM, so a phone can't access it without giving it the PIN first. The rest is up to the phone. Many plain phones won't boot up without a SIM card and correct SIM PIN, while most smart phones will work in "offline" mode even without SIM.
Whatever other locking codes there might be for phone UI or for USB access or whatever, calling them PIN codes is probably a bad idea when "PIN" has an established meaning as the SIM card PIN.
Why not? Do you think they rootkitted the OLED?
Maybe not yet, but it's just a matter of time...
But seriously, DRM technology will eventually be tightly integrated with display technology itself, the display surface itself. And Sony will be leading the way.
Well, I can give an opposite example. Java makes it easy to forget closing files, while windows makes deleting open files hard:
This works on osx, but fails on windows.
Of course depending on your definition of "works"... In UNIXes (which I believe OSX is), the file isn't actually deleted, only the directory entry is removed. File will really disappear only after there are no directory entries pointing to it and it's not open in any process. Now usually this doesn't matter, but sometimes it's does, like in long-running server processes or with files that keep on being written to a lot after the directory entry was deleted.
In Windows, the file itself and not just the particular directory entry gets actually removed, which obviously leads to problems if file is open somewhere... Which Windows chooses to solve by preventing file deletion if it's open.