Amasing how a species that lacks "Real-time Inteligence" and thus cannot think before acting, managed to create a freaking fMRI machine. I guess it's just like those million monkeys with a million typewriters.
Might need to go back to the drawing board on your theories....
also consider the optimum viewing distance of 2.5 screen heights. if Jobs were still here, he'd stop at 2k and call it "retina television". unless you're doing it well wrong, you're not going to get much benefit. even the jump from SD to HD was marginal - most of the gains were in compression quality (a macroblock is harder to see when it's 1/4 the size, and in h.264 it's impossible to see as it's filtered out by design).
I thought the jump from SD to HD was great....for a while. Lately most of the free to air TV channels in Australia have been going terribly downhill with overly compressed or badly up-scaled video sources. It's rare now to get HD content that looks like HD - the best thing I've watched lately was a 3 year old doco I had saved on hard drive.
Which then begs the question, why go to 4K when we cant even get 1080p right consistently?
I thionk you're forgetting the huge number of batch grown foods that we are already consuming. We seem to cope fine with sterile production and subsequent testing.
As an easy example, beer and cheese will both be terribly spoiled if the wrong organisms are allowed to develop during processing. Both start out sterile though heat, care is taken to only indroduce good organisms, and by the end it either contains natural preservatives or is pasturised.
There's no reason to think that the same cant be done with in-vitro meat.
I have an LG Smart TV, and it has USB ports, but it wont accept a USB keyboard. As far as I can tell you have to buy some proprietary air mouse thing.
If the keyboard worked I'd be using it for youtube and web browsing regularly, but unfortunately they have made it too painful to use. My XBMC box plays media far better and I can use a regular keyboard if I want, so the SmartTV features rarely get used.
A poorly printed model can have limited stength across the grain, but that can be improved with a few tweaks to print speed and heater control. They are surprisingly strong in line with their filaments, and the slicing software can cross hatch these to give better strength in multiple directions.
I have no problem using my Solidoodle ABS prints for structural applications, but like anything you have to understand there are some some limitations.
I didnt even see the email in my gmail account, though searching now it does show up. Quite possibly google collapsed it under another message from facebook as part of it's conversation mode, but however it happened it was easy enough to miss.
If poeple maintained the correct stopping distance, there would be no issue with braking suddenly. The fault is entirely the follwoing driver who is not paying attention or following too close.
Because the engineers that service it dont want to have to be in the middle of no-where to get access, nor do the operating companies want to have to pay for engineers to be on site all of the time.
An air gap is a great defense but it's expensive and inconvenient.
Bullshit. The tax law allows for genuine business expenses to be deduced.
Google and others are creating shell companies that charge licence/service/hardware costs to each other that are not genuine, realistic or competitive. They are gaming the system and laughing all the way to the bank (in another country).
Compliant or not, creatively making up shell companies that shuffle money to tax havens and invent virtual losses is against both the spirit of the law, and is detrimental to society.
Google and others make heavy use of public infrastructure that was provided though taxes (my taxes!!!!), all whilst raking in massive profits. To use those and then skip out on paying their fair share is selfish and immoral, so the sooner these loopholes are closed the better.
This ties in well with the previous article about corporate sociopaths. Fuckers.
Psychopaths / Sociopaths run at about 2% of the community. The thing that makes them psychopaths (as opposed to other criminal and anti-social behaviour) is that they have no problem fitting in and seeming like normal poeple.
Psychopaths / Sociopaths are very good chamelions and know what to say and when. You can be sure however that when they make a decision, it will be in their interest and the rest of the world be dammed.
Anyway, this leads to a significant over-representation in positions of power.
Wow, that's amasing!!! All we have to do is wait for someone to figure out how to send substantial amounts of power down an optical fibre!!!
Most of these copper thefts are electrical wiring, not communications. Yes you can use aluminium wire as an alternative but there are problems with that too. Least of which is that until they cut the cable they dont know, so you'll still get a lot of vandal related damage.
A engineer mate of mine was working in Ghana and had a 2km fibre line installed to his house from the nearby gold plant so that he could get reliable remote access.....well he thought it was going to be reliable.
Stupid local thieves trying to find copper dug down to the fibre line, cut it, and and then realised it wasn't copper. Now in a normal country, you might have a chance of pulling a bit of slack and resplicing, but not in Ghana. The thieves then continued to move down the line another ten metres or so and tried again. And again. Multiple cuts only to find that the same damn cable was still not copper. Farking Genius!
Electric fences are designed in a very specific way, essentially they charge up a storage mechanism (coil?), then deliver a pulse of several joules (5% of the energy of a baseball pitch) to the fence. This happens every second or so.
If the fence is well insulated, current only flows due to the capacitance of the fence and a high potential is developed - if you have a high impedance meter you can measure this as several thousand volts.
As soon as you have something else enter the circuit - eg a person - current flows preferentially through them and the voltage is drastically reduced. The small amount of energy is dissipated very fast and you're left with a very suprised person and no lasting harm.
Propper fatal electrocution generally requires a much higher energy delivery (burns, nerve damage etc) or a more sustained shock that interferes with your heart.
In addition, I'm seeing a lot of adverts in my news feed (not the side bar) being promoted because my friends "liked" them, and when I talk to my friends they claim they never did. It's quite annoying.
Maybe he inherited that $1M salary and is completely farking useless, snorts coke and is a blight on society. Income is no guarantee of productivity or value.
My opinions of Amercians has gone sharply downhill since reading this thread.
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Just autoclave the whole thing and then use food grade lube on the chains. Easy as.
Because people are stupid, ignorant, misinformed and/or biased??
Amasing how a species that lacks "Real-time Inteligence" and thus cannot think before acting, managed to create a freaking fMRI machine. I guess it's just like those million monkeys with a million typewriters.
Might need to go back to the drawing board on your theories....
All horses are mad. Batshit freaking crazy. Followed closely by their riders.
Australian free to air digital TV has gone down the same path. Gotta fit more flavourstone advertising!
also consider the optimum viewing distance of 2.5 screen heights. if Jobs were still here, he'd stop at 2k and call it "retina television". unless you're doing it well wrong, you're not going to get much benefit. even the jump from SD to HD was marginal - most of the gains were in compression quality (a macroblock is harder to see when it's 1/4 the size, and in h.264 it's impossible to see as it's filtered out by design).
I thought the jump from SD to HD was great....for a while. Lately most of the free to air TV channels in Australia have been going terribly downhill with overly compressed or badly up-scaled video sources. It's rare now to get HD content that looks like HD - the best thing I've watched lately was a 3 year old doco I had saved on hard drive.
Which then begs the question, why go to 4K when we cant even get 1080p right consistently?
I thionk you're forgetting the huge number of batch grown foods that we are already consuming. We seem to cope fine with sterile production and subsequent testing.
As an easy example, beer and cheese will both be terribly spoiled if the wrong organisms are allowed to develop during processing. Both start out sterile though heat, care is taken to only indroduce good organisms, and by the end it either contains natural preservatives or is pasturised.
There's no reason to think that the same cant be done with in-vitro meat.
They are often great with a stylus, it's just that they have poor sensitivity when used with fingers.
So keep both - capacative for low accuracy sensitive finger control, and a resistive screen for accurate stylus control. It's not rocket science.
I have an LG Smart TV, and it has USB ports, but it wont accept a USB keyboard. As far as I can tell you have to buy some proprietary air mouse thing.
If the keyboard worked I'd be using it for youtube and web browsing regularly, but unfortunately they have made it too painful to use. My XBMC box plays media far better and I can use a regular keyboard if I want, so the SmartTV features rarely get used.
Have you used one before?
A poorly printed model can have limited stength across the grain, but that can be improved with a few tweaks to print speed and heater control. They are surprisingly strong in line with their filaments, and the slicing software can cross hatch these to give better strength in multiple directions.
I have no problem using my Solidoodle ABS prints for structural applications, but like anything you have to understand there are some some limitations.
I didnt even see the email in my gmail account, though searching now it does show up. Quite possibly google collapsed it under another message from facebook as part of it's conversation mode, but however it happened it was easy enough to miss.
2 days voting window is bollocks.
Bullshit.
If poeple maintained the correct stopping distance, there would be no issue with braking suddenly. The fault is entirely the follwoing driver who is not paying attention or following too close.
Because the engineers that service it dont want to have to be in the middle of no-where to get access, nor do the operating companies want to have to pay for engineers to be on site all of the time.
An air gap is a great defense but it's expensive and inconvenient.
Gee, I wonder why people play them then...
Maybe it's because sandboxes, lego and dollshouses have emergent gameplay which can be really fun!
Bullshit. The tax law allows for genuine business expenses to be deduced.
Google and others are creating shell companies that charge licence/service/hardware costs to each other that are not genuine, realistic or competitive. They are gaming the system and laughing all the way to the bank (in another country).
Compliant or not, creatively making up shell companies that shuffle money to tax havens and invent virtual losses is against both the spirit of the law, and is detrimental to society.
Google and others make heavy use of public infrastructure that was provided though taxes (my taxes!!!!), all whilst raking in massive profits. To use those and then skip out on paying their fair share is selfish and immoral, so the sooner these loopholes are closed the better.
This ties in well with the previous article about corporate sociopaths. Fuckers.
Psychopaths / Sociopaths run at about 2% of the community. The thing that makes them psychopaths (as opposed to other criminal and anti-social behaviour) is that they have no problem fitting in and seeming like normal poeple.
Psychopaths / Sociopaths are very good chamelions and know what to say and when. You can be sure however that when they make a decision, it will be in their interest and the rest of the world be dammed.
Anyway, this leads to a significant over-representation in positions of power.
Wow, that's amasing!!! All we have to do is wait for someone to figure out how to send substantial amounts of power down an optical fibre!!!
Most of these copper thefts are electrical wiring, not communications. Yes you can use aluminium wire as an alternative but there are problems with that too. Least of which is that until they cut the cable they dont know, so you'll still get a lot of vandal related damage.
A engineer mate of mine was working in Ghana and had a 2km fibre line installed to his house from the nearby gold plant so that he could get reliable remote access.....well he thought it was going to be reliable.
Stupid local thieves trying to find copper dug down to the fibre line, cut it, and and then realised it wasn't copper. Now in a normal country, you might have a chance of pulling a bit of slack and resplicing, but not in Ghana. The thieves then continued to move down the line another ten metres or so and tried again. And again. Multiple cuts only to find that the same damn cable was still not copper. Farking Genius!
The more electric fences the better I think.
Electric fences are designed in a very specific way, essentially they charge up a storage mechanism (coil?), then deliver a pulse of several joules (5% of the energy of a baseball pitch) to the fence. This happens every second or so.
If the fence is well insulated, current only flows due to the capacitance of the fence and a high potential is developed - if you have a high impedance meter you can measure this as several thousand volts.
As soon as you have something else enter the circuit - eg a person - current flows preferentially through them and the voltage is drastically reduced. The small amount of energy is dissipated very fast and you're left with a very suprised person and no lasting harm.
Propper fatal electrocution generally requires a much higher energy delivery (burns, nerve damage etc) or a more sustained shock that interferes with your heart.
Why the hell does diversity = race in a tech conference.
I would assume diversity to mean things like:
Skill level
Technical background & Formal qualifications
Job Role (developer vs project manager)
Methinks thou dost protest too much. Making this a race issue is in itself racist.
It's clearly not true. Some of us are android-fanbois.
That's because it's usually the head of the accounting department that gets to approve it. Farking ridiculous.
In addition, I'm seeing a lot of adverts in my news feed (not the side bar) being promoted because my friends "liked" them, and when I talk to my friends they claim they never did. It's quite annoying.
Something quite bogus is going on.
Maybe he inherited that $1M salary and is completely farking useless, snorts coke and is a blight on society. Income is no guarantee of productivity or value.
My opinions of Amercians has gone sharply downhill since reading this thread.