Well yes, the technology certainly exists (both in the US and in China), but I think you're wrong when you say NASA has the experience.
NASA had the experience 30 years ago, but pretty much everyone involved in those days are gone now (not necesarily dead, but gone from active duty so to speak). NASA might have been able to use its prior experience in the 80's, but I think it's too late now, they'd have to start over from scratch.
There certainly exists a lot of documents and plans and reports from the Apollo project, but the hands-on experience is gone.
I'm not saying NASA wouldn't be able to do it, just that they'd have to start from scratch, just like China.
The US didnt do anything useful on the moon except for some geology research. NASA would have to start from the same place China is now if they decided to go to the moon again.
Does that mean they would be plagiarizing (sp?) themselves?
I didnt "hear" it I know it is true because it's been in several news reports.
I didnt mean they should be shot (i'm against the death penalty on principle), I just meant they should be treated like criminals and not as pranksters.
What most people fail to understand is that most of the organized spammers are criminals and I mean real criminals like the mob or whathaveyou. Many people seem to think that the spammers are relatively harmless, but people have actually been killed by getting involved in the Nigerian thing for example.
Of course it matters! If they aren't given access to the code they'll
a) Write the software themselves
or
b) Use an open-source solution
You imply they'll get whatever source they want wether the owner likes it or not, and that is just not true.
They (NSA) are not above the law. The only way for them to get the code against the owners' will would be to steal it. That would be incredibly stupid since that means people would get fired if the theft was ever discovered, and the agency would be fined ridiculous sums in a court of law.
since the human eye has on the order of 100 million rods/cones, it should have a maximum resolution of about 10 000*10 000 pixels if the object you are looking at fills your entire field of view.
True, the majority of rods/cones (cant remember which is which) only see shades of gray, but when you combine this ability with the color-sensing of the central 6 million or so, you get a nice synergistic effect which lets you enjoy the full resolution... (only in well-lit environments though)
and even though the "no need for more than 24 fps"-argument should be dead by now:
24 fps is the MINIMUM fps required for the eye to percieve "natural" motion from static images.. not the maximum needed.
I know I'm late but I just have to respond to the above.
Galileo (if built as planned) can not be destroyed at will by the US military. No chance. Why?
1: The US has no working anti-sat weapon. Period.
2: Galielo will use several frequencies, and by chance (not) some of them are very close to or are even surrounding frequencies the US military are using for critical encrypted communications. Jamming Galileo would be jamming these as well.
Sure (2) might be solved by changing the frequencies the US uses, but that would be very costly and take a long time. (1) might also be solvable if you throw a lot of money on it (more then has already been thrown, which is alot). But physically destroying the sats would be an act of open war, and both France, Russia, China and Brittain has nukes...
It's always a pisser calling people 14 year-olds (I always love the "live at home" extension to that scathing epithet) while completely missing such an obvious homonym.
another thing typical of 14-year-olds on slashdot is that they feel the need to point out their superior grasp of english...
Q: did my language mistakes make it difficult for you to understand my post?
I'd like to see you try to write something in my language..
what the hell is wrong with 90% of the posters here? Are you really so f***ing arrogant or are you just 14-year-olds who have no other ability besides beeing able to use a computer? Wait.. this is slashdot... forget I asked.
Do you honestly think that a person who clicks on these adds is stupid? How the hell do you excpect someone with no computer skills to spot the difference between the add and a genuine warning?
Do you honestly think it requires intelligence to use a computer? The only thing you need is memory silly people! Experience is what lets you be aware of these things, nothing else.
I assume all the geniuses here are instantly able to spot the difference between an true arabic fullblood (a great horse) and the nordic coldblood (another, very different, horse) the horsedealer over there is trying to sell you...? Oh wait, you need to have seen them before you say? Good golly, I thought you could spot the difference through your amazing intelligence?
and no, I have never clicked on these adds, not because I'm intelligent, but because I have experience with computers.
You are entitled to your opinion of course, but most revievers (and people I know that has played it) agree the Myth 2 was a great game, even if its installer was crappy,
and if you call Oni bad you must be on crack.. for its time it was a great game... try reading a few game revievs of newer 3rd person fighting/sneaking games and you'll often see statements in the style of "gameplay, camera and controls are not as good as Oni"
Man did they try to sneak this one on us! (I'm swedish and only heard of it yesterday)
I've just read the bill and the illegal downloading part isn't that bad (downloading copyrighted content is already illegal in some ways, this only makes the law stronger), however it is possible to interpret it as making P2P software illegal! what the fuck? Fortunately that is what will stop this bill from passing... at least without a re-write.
hm.. I'm not trolling but the impression one gets as a foreigner of the US legal system is that it could use some 'chilling'...:-)
I can see you might not want to make them pay ALL the time, but it should be MOST of the time I think.. that way people wouldn't sue unless they where pretty sure they'd win.
Isn't it standard procedure to let the looser in a court case in the US pay the legal fees for the winner?
if that's the case then it shouldn't be a problem right?
and if it isnt standard procedure, wont that let anybody with money do anything they want to (spare me the cynism please)?
The closest equivalent to what the patent is actually claiming are RealPlayer's "channel" functionality, which I personally never used anyway. I don't know if QuickTime has something similar or not.
If you've never used it, how do you know what it's like? And what does it matter if people has used a thing or not when we're talking about patents anyway?
Even then, I wouldn't call the collection of channels "scrolling at a selected rate" or "continually updating", both of which are criteria for this patent.
"continually updating" would be the QT variant, and "scrolling at a selected rate" could be using your mousewheel to choose..
Hrm... would "RTFP" apply here?
no.. maybe "use QT or RealPlayer Channels before talking about them"
i'm pretty sure both RealPlayer and Apples QT in online mode would fit the description of the 'available programs list'..
And they where both doing it looong befor MS started trying.. the software patents are becoming more and more ridiculous.. cant somebody with som time and money to spend just sue MS for 'deliberately sabotaging market' or something ?
for their own sake I hope none of these kids or teachers has any family from, ever visited or bought a ticket to, ever browsed a website from, ever borrowed a book about, ever read an unofficial news article about or ever in any way whatsoever has had any connection to, the middle east (except for israel of course).
ESA / EU isnt doing much at all in space at the moment.. launching a probe now and then and small work on the ISS is about it... and the Ariane of course.
Biggest reason is money. Historically the EU hasnt thought space very important, only France has spent any money worth mentioning on space (and it is still nothing compared to what the US has spent)... mostly because of their US-envy, and no matter what you Yanks think, France isnt very popular in the rest of EU who tends to think the Frence government a bunch of pathetic has-beens:-)
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Well yes, the technology certainly exists (both in the US and in China), but I think you're wrong when you say NASA has the experience.
NASA had the experience 30 years ago, but pretty much everyone involved in those days are gone now (not necesarily dead, but gone from active duty so to speak). NASA might have been able to use its prior experience in the 80's, but I think it's too late now, they'd have to start over from scratch.
There certainly exists a lot of documents and plans and reports from the Apollo project, but the hands-on experience is gone.
I'm not saying NASA wouldn't be able to do it, just that they'd have to start from scratch, just like China.
You mean that NASA had a lot of experience before
1) orbiting the moon
and then
2) putting a man on the moon.
?
All they had done was put some men in LEO. Same as china today.
So what?
The US didnt do anything useful on the moon except for some geology research. NASA would have to start from the same place China is now if they decided to go to the moon again.
Does that mean they would be plagiarizing (sp?) themselves?
I didnt "hear" it I know it is true because it's been in several news reports. I didnt mean they should be shot (i'm against the death penalty on principle), I just meant they should be treated like criminals and not as pranksters.
What most people fail to understand is that most of the organized spammers are criminals and I mean real criminals like the mob or whathaveyou. Many people seem to think that the spammers are relatively harmless, but people have actually been killed by getting involved in the Nigerian thing for example.
Of course it matters! If they aren't given access to the code they'll
a) Write the software themselves
or
b) Use an open-source solution
You imply they'll get whatever source they want wether the owner likes it or not, and that is just not true.
They (NSA) are not above the law. The only way for them to get the code against the owners' will would be to steal it. That would be incredibly stupid since that means people would get fired if the theft was ever discovered, and the agency would be fined ridiculous sums in a court of law.
I know the parent was a joke, but just some info:
since the human eye has on the order of 100 million rods/cones, it should have a maximum resolution of about 10 000*10 000 pixels if the object you are looking at fills your entire field of view.
True, the majority of rods/cones (cant remember which is which) only see shades of gray, but when you combine this ability with the color-sensing of the central 6 million or so, you get a nice synergistic effect which lets you enjoy the full resolution... (only in well-lit environments though)
and even though the "no need for more than 24 fps"-argument should be dead by now:
24 fps is the MINIMUM fps required for the eye to percieve "natural" motion from static images.. not the maximum needed.
I know I'm late but I just have to respond to the above.
Galileo (if built as planned) can not be destroyed at will by the US military. No chance. Why?
1: The US has no working anti-sat weapon. Period.
2: Galielo will use several frequencies, and by chance (not) some of them are very close to or are even surrounding frequencies the US military are using for critical encrypted communications. Jamming Galileo would be jamming these as well.
Sure (2) might be solved by changing the frequencies the US uses, but that would be very costly and take a long time. (1) might also be solvable if you throw a lot of money on it (more then has already been thrown, which is alot). But physically destroying the sats would be an act of open war, and both France, Russia, China and Brittain has nukes...
another thing typical of 14-year-olds on slashdot is that they feel the need to point out their superior grasp of english...
Q: did my language mistakes make it difficult for you to understand my post?
I'd like to see you try to write something in my language..
After browsing 50+ of these posts I must ask:
what the hell is wrong with 90% of the posters here? Are you really so f***ing arrogant or are you just 14-year-olds who have no other ability besides beeing able to use a computer? Wait.. this is slashdot... forget I asked.
Do you honestly think that a person who clicks on these adds is stupid? How the hell do you excpect someone with no computer skills to spot the difference between the add and a genuine warning?
Do you honestly think it requires intelligence to use a computer? The only thing you need is memory silly people! Experience is what lets you be aware of these things, nothing else.
I assume all the geniuses here are instantly able to spot the difference between an true arabic fullblood (a great horse) and the nordic coldblood (another, very different, horse) the horsedealer over there is trying to sell you...?
Oh wait, you need to have seen them before you say? Good golly, I thought you could spot the difference through your amazing intelligence?
and no, I have never clicked on these adds, not because I'm intelligent, but because I have experience with computers.
You are entitled to your opinion of course, but most revievers (and people I know that has played it) agree the Myth 2 was a great game, even if its installer was crappy,
and if you call Oni bad you must be on crack.. for its time it was a great game... try reading a few game revievs of newer 3rd person fighting/sneaking games and you'll often see statements in the style of "gameplay, camera and controls are not as good as Oni"
And that is one of the reasons Blizzard doesn't hold the rights to the RTS genre... like I said.
yeah.. I saw the screens just now.. (couldn't get in when i first posted)
:-)
They are a bit too similar, Blizzard/Vivendi might have a point
why not just change the name?
Blizzard doesn't hold the rights to the whole RTS genre, if that was the case then C&C and AoE and lots of others would be in trouble..
Man did they try to sneak this one on us! (I'm swedish and only heard of it yesterday)
I've just read the bill and the illegal downloading part isn't that bad (downloading copyrighted content is already illegal in some ways, this only makes the law stronger), however it is possible to interpret it as making P2P software illegal! what the fuck? Fortunately that is what will stop this bill from passing... at least without a re-write.
hm.. I'm not trolling but the impression one gets as a foreigner of the US legal system is that it could use some 'chilling'...:-) I can see you might not want to make them pay ALL the time, but it should be MOST of the time I think.. that way people wouldn't sue unless they where pretty sure they'd win.
Enlighten me please..
Isn't it standard procedure to let the looser in a court case in the US pay the legal fees for the winner? if that's the case then it shouldn't be a problem right?
and if it isnt standard procedure, wont that let anybody with money do anything they want to (spare me the cynism please)?
why the hell did he settle when it is obvious he'd won in court? and then he could countersue the shit out of them for compensation...
but then again.. 100 bucks might be worth not needing to..
this brings a whole new meaning to:
... or was it 'waves'?
"Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the sea!"
anyone read 'supremacy' by Arthur C. Clarke (i think) ?
:-)
its about a technologically superior army/civilisation (cant remember) makeing war on a totally out-teched army/civilisation.
Some people should read it before talking about fielding this kind of stuff in 8 years..
i'm pretty sure both RealPlayer and Apples QT in online mode would fit the description of the 'available programs list'..
And they where both doing it looong befor MS started trying.. the software patents are becoming more and more ridiculous.. cant somebody with som time and money to spend just sue MS for 'deliberately sabotaging market' or something ?
for their own sake I hope none of these kids or teachers has any family from, ever visited or bought a ticket to, ever browsed a website from, ever borrowed a book about, ever read an unofficial news article about or ever in any way whatsoever has had any connection to, the middle east (except for israel of course).
:-)
was a while ago i looked at PDA prices, but wasnt Handsprings much cheaper than Palms?
If so then this must be bad, right?
ESA / EU isnt doing much at all in space at the moment.. launching a probe now and then and small work on the ISS is about it... and the Ariane of course.
:-)
Biggest reason is money. Historically the EU hasnt thought space very important, only France has spent any money worth mentioning on space (and it is still nothing compared to what the US has spent)... mostly because of their US-envy, and no matter what you Yanks think, France isnt very popular in the rest of EU who tends to think the Frence government a bunch of pathetic has-beens