I saw a comment from him in the paper today that his inevitable sequel to Avatar won't cost him as much as the first one, because he's already developed a lot of the 3D assets he'll be using.
All that said, and acknowledged, I wish I could "zone out" at will. I enjoy my life a hell of a lot more when I'm being productive.
I get "zone" times, but find it hard to do at will. I think that's linked to my opinion of the general quality of the project I'm working on ; I'm much more likely to zone out when I'm motivated or enthusiastic about things. Much less so when I think the project is a... tasered sheep on meth.
Regardless of the efficiency of this method, the hydrogen economy is still vaporware.
Hydrogen remains an energy transport, or store, not a source. You can't yet store enough practically to make a useful road vehicle. You lose energy manufacturing it electrically. You lose energy converting it back to electricity.
The current largest source of hydrogen? Oil. I'm sure you can wring it out of coal as well. The fossil fuel lobby love hydrogen technologies because they are the biggest source of hydrogen.
Solve the energy crisis? A practical fusion reactor and better electricity storage. Then we can get working on the molecular manufacturing and fix the environment back up.
I have the same to a lesser extent ; my right eye gets lazy (or overstimulated... focussing away requires you to relax the lens muscle) when I read too much and starts getting short sighted.
The first polarized 3D movie I saw was the iMax presentation of "Space Station" at a museum, which was awe-inspiring. It's a documentary of 3D footage from the ISS narrated by Tom Cruise, and the spectacle of being suspended in orbit, looking down at ISS with the Earth in the background was truly magnificent.
The next one was Beowulf. Which was dreadful. They pushed the depth separation too far and the glasses had a lot of bleed between the fields producing ghosts from the other eye. I left the theatre with a headache.
The most recent was "How To Train Your Dragon", which I really enjoyed. I had a few moments when I found myself forcing my right eye to focus properly, but after a while it seemed to get the message and "click" into the right focus. It might even be good therapy for the condition to practice seeing 3D figures correctly ; usually I suspect I'm just content for my left eye to take up the slack on distant objects.
The film pitches the 3D just right, there was no perceptible bleeding of visual feeds or overstrained depth of field. And it helps that the material was intrinsically enhanced by a 3D presentation. I found myself more immersed in what is basically a boyhood fantasy for many of us with a bent for scifi/fantasy novels, flying on a dragon.
I think it's a mixed bag ; if you direct your film for 3D I think you might be missing something in the 2D presentation. Someone in the office commented that Clash of the Titans would easily have stood on it's own without 3D - and by all accounts it was just "Photoshopped" in after filming.
I'll certainly be going to see 3D features again but I'm not going to go mad for it. I wonder if they'll be filming the Harry Potter films in 3D from now? I would have loved to see the Dumbledore / Voldemort duel from "Order of the Phoenix" in 3D.
It's not inconceivable that such a civilization would split periodically ; they're obviously in love with the idea of unsustainable growth, or they would presumably just get ahold of their birth rate and settle down on some world or even an artificial habitat.
Of course, it could just be a different hostile alien civilization. It would be nice to explore different dynamics of trying to take over the earth. Of course, this is Roland Emmerich we're talking about. Lots of Boom Boom Pow for sure...
Yeah, something about duty and honour really chokes me up these days... it must be the "guy" equivalent of whatever romance means to girls.
This predidential speech and the one in Armageddon both have me close to tears, as does the moment when Bruce Willis pushes the button to blow up the asteroid, and the bit where Robert Duvall flies the spaceship into the comet in Deep Impact.
I used to work for SCAN and they have an enormous warehouse and don't sell JIT. I still buy from them because I live within a 15 minute drive, they sell things cheap, and I know the owner.
They stock PATA drives up to 500MB ; the prices for the capacities are a joke compared to modern drives but they are available.
I wish the open-source world had something as good as Outlook.
Not that Outlook is perfect. Outlook + Exchange annoy me a lot. Outlook is a bloaty crashy piece of rubbish (mostly down to the third party plugins we have to be fair - but it should sandbox them better). Exchange server is so comically vulnerable to hacking that we can't expose the IMAP port to the internet... which means using the dreadful web client on anything other than Windows with Outlook.
On the other hand, nothing else I've used has the same set of features. So when I say "something as good as Outlook", I mean something as good as Thunderbird, with all of the features of Outlook rolled in, and a server that supports it, or preferably a standard interop protocol that can run out of any server.
Google has the most muscle, but you still can't use their Tasks + their Calendar + their email in the same rich client (not the browser).
Which is a total joke in the digital era ; apply a digital signature to something, and it's far more secure and assured than any ink scrawl on a piece of paper.
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Your supply is high. In the UK we have 1.5 doctors per 1,000 people, in the USA, 2.4. Of course, we treat our doctors like crap.
The USA spends more per head on medical care than the rest of the world but gets poorer service. Either your efficiency is really low, or too much is getting creamed off the top as profit.
Part of the efficiency problem is that due to your liability culture you throw too many tests and treatments at things.
Part of the profit problem is that your medical system is run like a business that considers 15% a low profit margin.
Second this ; if you avoid risky behaviour and keep your computer behind a firewall, you can keep Windows infection free without installing software.
Alas, "risky behaviour" includes the use of several of the most popular bits of Windows software - to whit, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and also includes "letting a noob use your computer".
My wife actually thought she'd infected my daughters netbook(*) with a bunch of trojans because a webpage showed her mocked up bitmaps from the Windows security dialogs alongside some ominous exclamation points and a "trojan counter". At least she asked. Many people would have installed the software that the page automatically downloaded which no doubt contained a trojan itself.
My wife also wonders why I don't tell her admin passwords.
(*) Not likely, because it's running Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
Signed hashes only assure you of the source of the files. They don't in themselves provide any assurance of trust.
In the majority of these cases, the only thing it would achieve would be that you can state with some confidence that it's definitely the fault of a particular asshat.
I have a medical degree, and an understanding of molecular biology. I therefore understand the potential consequences of the treatment.
What I don't understand, and what no-one can until extensive trials have occurred, are the risks, which are not quantifiable without statistical data. Since the risks are the only information accessible by those people without an understanding of molecular biology and medicine, there can be no informed consent by the layman.
You don't upload the stream though ; consumer IP networks were designed for people to be consumer cows, sending out very small requests for data and downloading larger amounts (music, video, etc). This is why your bandwidth is asymmetric.
The infrastructure wasn't designed for the routing overhead of BitTorrent either - each peer is connecting to many other peers. The main problem with a lot of setups is that this rapidly fills the routing tables and consumes the CPU capacity of the routers.
They didn't anticipate that every Joe Sixpack on the network would be putting up a near 100% utilization content server.
The first-world practice of using clean drinking water to flush their waste away is incredibly wasteful and stupid. In the USA, it accounts for 40% of domestic water use. A slimline toilet cistern is about 4.5L, a litre of treated water costs about a fifth of a cent, so we're already paying nearly as much as one of these bags costs to take a crap, but we're not getting the benefit of the fertilizer.
Composting toilets for the win ; you paid for all that matter, why not get the benefits from it?
This isn't an issue with the charger presenting itself to the OS as a USB mass storage device ; this is an issue with the management software that comes with the device (or you can download it) and presents a graphical charge level monitor.
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Why do you think we yanks rose to world power status so quickly, relatively speaking?
A clean-slate advantage, vast tracts of relatively unpopulated land and natural resources, coupled with a rapidly advancing technology base?
I saw a comment from him in the paper today that his inevitable sequel to Avatar won't cost him as much as the first one, because he's already developed a lot of the 3D assets he'll be using.
It's a game which requires you to log into PSN to buy it. I don't think anyone's going to be caught out by that one.
All that said, and acknowledged, I wish I could "zone out" at will. I enjoy my life a hell of a lot more when I'm being productive.
I get "zone" times, but find it hard to do at will. I think that's linked to my opinion of the general quality of the project I'm working on ; I'm much more likely to zone out when I'm motivated or enthusiastic about things. Much less so when I think the project is a ... tasered sheep on meth.
Regardless of the efficiency of this method, the hydrogen economy is still vaporware.
Hydrogen remains an energy transport, or store, not a source. You can't yet store enough practically to make a useful road vehicle. You lose energy manufacturing it electrically. You lose energy converting it back to electricity.
The current largest source of hydrogen? Oil. I'm sure you can wring it out of coal as well. The fossil fuel lobby love hydrogen technologies because they are the biggest source of hydrogen.
Solve the energy crisis? A practical fusion reactor and better electricity storage. Then we can get working on the molecular manufacturing and fix the environment back up.
I have the same to a lesser extent ; my right eye gets lazy (or overstimulated... focussing away requires you to relax the lens muscle) when I read too much and starts getting short sighted.
The first polarized 3D movie I saw was the iMax presentation of "Space Station" at a museum, which was awe-inspiring. It's a documentary of 3D footage from the ISS narrated by Tom Cruise, and the spectacle of being suspended in orbit, looking down at ISS with the Earth in the background was truly magnificent.
The next one was Beowulf. Which was dreadful. They pushed the depth separation too far and the glasses had a lot of bleed between the fields producing ghosts from the other eye. I left the theatre with a headache.
The most recent was "How To Train Your Dragon", which I really enjoyed. I had a few moments when I found myself forcing my right eye to focus properly, but after a while it seemed to get the message and "click" into the right focus. It might even be good therapy for the condition to practice seeing 3D figures correctly ; usually I suspect I'm just content for my left eye to take up the slack on distant objects.
The film pitches the 3D just right, there was no perceptible bleeding of visual feeds or overstrained depth of field. And it helps that the material was intrinsically enhanced by a 3D presentation. I found myself more immersed in what is basically a boyhood fantasy for many of us with a bent for scifi/fantasy novels, flying on a dragon.
I think it's a mixed bag ; if you direct your film for 3D I think you might be missing something in the 2D presentation. Someone in the office commented that Clash of the Titans would easily have stood on it's own without 3D - and by all accounts it was just "Photoshopped" in after filming.
I'll certainly be going to see 3D features again but I'm not going to go mad for it. I wonder if they'll be filming the Harry Potter films in 3D from now? I would have loved to see the Dumbledore / Voldemort duel from "Order of the Phoenix" in 3D.
Well, until they start blocking the website for the iPad user-agent string.
If it's the Bernard Cribbens version, his geek credibility is intact.
If it's the dodgy pop group.... not so much.
It's not inconceivable that such a civilization would split periodically ; they're obviously in love with the idea of unsustainable growth, or they would presumably just get ahold of their birth rate and settle down on some world or even an artificial habitat.
Of course, it could just be a different hostile alien civilization. It would be nice to explore different dynamics of trying to take over the earth. Of course, this is Roland Emmerich we're talking about. Lots of Boom Boom Pow for sure...
Yeah, something about duty and honour really chokes me up these days... it must be the "guy" equivalent of whatever romance means to girls.
This predidential speech and the one in Armageddon both have me close to tears, as does the moment when Bruce Willis pushes the button to blow up the asteroid, and the bit where Robert Duvall flies the spaceship into the comet in Deep Impact.
I used to work for SCAN and they have an enormous warehouse and don't sell JIT. I still buy from them because I live within a 15 minute drive, they sell things cheap, and I know the owner.
They stock PATA drives up to 500MB ; the prices for the capacities are a joke compared to modern drives but they are available.
I wish the open-source world had something as good as Outlook.
Not that Outlook is perfect. Outlook + Exchange annoy me a lot. Outlook is a bloaty crashy piece of rubbish (mostly down to the third party plugins we have to be fair - but it should sandbox them better). Exchange server is so comically vulnerable to hacking that we can't expose the IMAP port to the internet... which means using the dreadful web client on anything other than Windows with Outlook.
On the other hand, nothing else I've used has the same set of features. So when I say "something as good as Outlook", I mean something as good as Thunderbird, with all of the features of Outlook rolled in, and a server that supports it, or preferably a standard interop protocol that can run out of any server.
Google has the most muscle, but you still can't use their Tasks + their Calendar + their email in the same rich client (not the browser).
Which is a total joke in the digital era ; apply a digital signature to something, and it's far more secure and assured than any ink scrawl on a piece of paper.
Your supply is high. In the UK we have 1.5 doctors per 1,000 people, in the USA, 2.4. Of course, we treat our doctors like crap.
The USA spends more per head on medical care than the rest of the world but gets poorer service. Either your efficiency is really low, or too much is getting creamed off the top as profit.
Part of the efficiency problem is that due to your liability culture you throw too many tests and treatments at things.
Part of the profit problem is that your medical system is run like a business that considers 15% a low profit margin.
The energy is powering their wristwatches already.
Second this ; if you avoid risky behaviour and keep your computer behind a firewall, you can keep Windows infection free without installing software.
Alas, "risky behaviour" includes the use of several of the most popular bits of Windows software - to whit, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and also includes "letting a noob use your computer".
My wife actually thought she'd infected my daughters netbook(*) with a bunch of trojans because a webpage showed her mocked up bitmaps from the Windows security dialogs alongside some ominous exclamation points and a "trojan counter". At least she asked. Many people would have installed the software that the page automatically downloaded which no doubt contained a trojan itself.
My wife also wonders why I don't tell her admin passwords.
(*) Not likely, because it's running Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
"Please present the affected body part to your webcam."
http://www.votewatch.eu/
Data isn't up yet though.
Signed hashes only assure you of the source of the files. They don't in themselves provide any assurance of trust.
In the majority of these cases, the only thing it would achieve would be that you can state with some confidence that it's definitely the fault of a particular asshat.
The problem is the matter of informed consent.
I have a medical degree, and an understanding of molecular biology. I therefore understand the potential consequences of the treatment.
What I don't understand, and what no-one can until extensive trials have occurred, are the risks, which are not quantifiable without statistical data. Since the risks are the only information accessible by those people without an understanding of molecular biology and medicine, there can be no informed consent by the layman.
You don't upload the stream though ; consumer IP networks were designed for people to be consumer cows, sending out very small requests for data and downloading larger amounts (music, video, etc). This is why your bandwidth is asymmetric.
The infrastructure wasn't designed for the routing overhead of BitTorrent either - each peer is connecting to many other peers. The main problem with a lot of setups is that this rapidly fills the routing tables and consumes the CPU capacity of the routers.
They didn't anticipate that every Joe Sixpack on the network would be putting up a near 100% utilization content server.
The first-world practice of using clean drinking water to flush their waste away is incredibly wasteful and stupid. In the USA, it accounts for 40% of domestic water use. A slimline toilet cistern is about 4.5L, a litre of treated water costs about a fifth of a cent, so we're already paying nearly as much as one of these bags costs to take a crap, but we're not getting the benefit of the fertilizer.
Composting toilets for the win ; you paid for all that matter, why not get the benefits from it?
As noted above, because they suck in terms of capacity.
The DUO is a small battery charger anyway.
This isn't an issue with the charger presenting itself to the OS as a USB mass storage device ; this is an issue with the management software that comes with the device (or you can download it) and presents a graphical charge level monitor.
Happily you can't patent software here either (yet).