Why should it matter it is "just one" (not quite...different gens, different memory sizes...even different colors!;p ) phone? Its manufacturer limits it that way...
Going further, one could say it's not that big of a deal how Android (for example) has 99% of the market - if it's uniformly distributed across 100 devices, while iPhone, with one model, has 1%.
PS. Could you point me to thesolution / software / etc. you've used? I'll be setting up a decent stop motion rig at some future point in time, maybe things I've found & will find aren't the most optimal ones.
Yeah, but it's not something readily done on a whim, as you yourself said. With traffic around; and possibly all the equipment... (especially considering Russia)
That's mostly a way to attract "no, x one!';) At least most of them are interesting in their own right.
Second from last gets quite a bit creepy; you can see an old woman in "present version" - it's not inconceivable that she's also present in the group of past kids; "looking" at herself.
Hm, js app, with a slider, to transition between two images & with some areas of each image (people for example) given early prominence during transition to "their" version of the photo? Sound like something a slashdotter could do...;)
Gets really quite eerie when the pictures are displayed in a software capable of switching to greyscale. Not "better" of course, the contrast was surely also the point...but interesting, more blended.
Though it does make the photos more distant, I guess - doesn't help with how, while being a small kid, I thought for some time that the world had to be so sad place in the past, without colors;) (I apparently missed the existence of color paintings/etc.; and, in retrospect, wasn't very wrong; in some twisted way...)
Well, TBH I don't expect GSM being phased out anytime soon; UMTS (which mostly turned out to be just an addition to GSM, not a replacement) much sooner, I guess, when practically everything for which it makes a difference will be on LTE. But GSM...that seems to be a case of "good enough", and handy when trying to provide pretty much total coverage.
Hey, maybe that was also the point, showing why people are ill-suited here and there; plus: teleoperating robots over many months/years, the way it will at most look like usually (when it comes to human presence), wouldn't look very inspiring. And hey, the whole thing was mostly highlights from a period of time spanning almost a decade;p
As long as it can be done sustainably, it will happen; not like those grand tours of course - but for some reason, people seem to not want to hear about sending human to some destination and..."leaving" them there; even though that's the way we colonized the Earth
At the same time they conveyed quite a bit of knowledge (and from time to time links to BBC science subpage), even if some things were out there (adding to previously mentioned - how after IO she would be dead in max few days, probably within hours (maybe minutes...) if she actually felt effects of radiation in such way; even high levels that we can't really feel are deadly; plus trash trajectories)
However if, for some reason, we were to make such a voyage...then it was a decent depiction of it. Some of it was even obviously tongue in cheek, for example part with loosing first step / words... (again @unsuitability of humans perhaps?) and nice enough to watch to not put off people, maybe, from such idead (dg might have done so...) It even had a cliffhanger which, while blatantly obvious & cheap...was at least cute; in the sense "not merely irritating"
In practise it sort of was - hardly anything actually acted in a way implied by their explanation; and no signs of procedures typical where powerful magnetic fields are present, in places where we can and do find such strong ones handy - look how MRI rooms function (what was that deal with the wrench?)
We won't be able to keep moving without new physics; certainly not without somebody else, somebody "free minded", stopping that at a whim (compare the complexity of launching large ship with launching one nuke at it, even long after it "set sail" - it will catch on, can be much faster given the same level of tech)
And you're buying into some myth; for most people, silent ones, life was damn harder than today in times with "reward & exhilaration"
FTL comms is plenty inconsistent - it means time travel, at least for information. Which would make most of their problems null & void; and indeed give quite different, quite interesting world.
Real comms would also allow immediate involvement with the ground crew...for a time. The delays getting longer, conversations weirder, finally resulting in misunderstandings or wrongly received intentions when trying to hold onto "conversation mode" of communication - would be quite interesting to show such progressing isolation, which could strenghten any possible mess with the Beta; and be even quite fitting with the idea of melodramatic soap, manufacturing relationship issues, among very isolated group of people. Still wouldn't excuse emo music breaks, though.
I'm not sure if supposed "momentum of technological development they had in the Space Race of the 50s and 60s" was actually ever present; in a way which would quickly lead, in few short decades, to the state of affairs in 2001. More of a natural consequence of few technologies becoming usable, allowing for all those quick impressive achievements...but without much potential to scale as was imagined.
It's like with those aircraft from "our" times, imagined at the end of XIX century. Not realising the practical boundaries + carrying over experiences from some other field which just came to fruition... (and we can even build them - take Harrier, remove wings and canopy)
BTW, simulating visibly lower g, even for a movie stage, would be fairly easy via harnesses, etc. I suspect hardly anybody properly realised how different humans move then. Alternatively - it could be explained by parts of clothing & specesuits having integrated weights of depleted uranium;) (it's not like they would mind much, in a world of 2001, such small addition to launch mass)
Yup, though I wouldn't be surprised if GSM is here to stay for a long, long time - even when many of networks throughout the world, which are now purely GSM, will go to LTE (mostly skipping UMTS, because it will simply make sense regarding infrastructure / new phones will have LTE); or even when UMTS starts to get neglected and switched off at some point. GSM just seems like a "good enough" tech, to assure wide coverage.
GSM part of the story is fine, not exactly with UMTS and beyond - while it was meant to & can smoothly interoperate with GSM infrastructure (and is indeed standardised by basically the same association), it doesn't depend on it. There are places with, essentially, UMTS networks which never had "classic" GSM (certainly where "GSM" phones can roam...only if they are also UMTS though, only on that access method). And it is from the beginning CDMA, WCDMA to be exact; extensions giving more bandwith didn't add that. LTE is more than them - while it will certainly coexist with UMTS networks in most cases, it also doesn't have to; down the line it can bring quite a lot of changes, of "everything is just data" kind.
Plus, something like this actually blurs the line between the CPU and GPU; yeah, something which Larabee was supposed to give and failed...but without all the baggage.
You believe you are guilty of brutally slaughtering your deity. Depending on your flavor, you also believe (and most flavors do) that quite notable sin has passed on you by the very act of your conception (a sin which started because the only woman in existence was receptive to a persuasive snake-orator, surely something the uberdeity knew in advance...but that's a side issue), accidentally quite sexual in nature. If that's not guilt ridden, I don't know what is. If you don't believe that (1st), then I'm sorry but you are not a Christian.
Which brings us to - "stop lumping"? So suddenly they are not the TRUE ones, huh? (Catholicism does represent, by far, the majority of Christianity, so I'd say it is quite good as a case scenario)
As a basic tenet, Christianity puts on you the blame for murdering its deity FFS... (who was curiously also surely the one who surely knew how it would all unravel since before the beginning...)
Judaism? The one that puts a nice line between those chosen (who nonetheless absolutely must to do the bidding of a deity, or else) and, well, those in not so much of a favor? Likewise Islam.
It might go even deeper than you present (not really "on purpose" of course, just how such social structures end up being good at survival)
For the given, stark example - sexual desires are obviously a very powerful force in us; and it just so happens that when at their peak...they are expected to be supressed. Not merely by some external influence - it's essential to find a way of truly & honestly internalising such inhibitions, to avoid going crazy. To really value them. Once somebody manages that, escaping later in life is not likely; if only because it would make so many past struggles worthless, for starters. And of course passing it to the next generation is a good thing, helps with valuing one's essentially dysfunctional past even more; I even heard a direct "so they won't have it better than us."
More like: you'll thin your ranks there slightly to settle more in the neighborhood / feel more at home in the general area (seriously, that's what happening now here - a country one hop east from DE, now with few US units permanently stationed, at least some of them & their equipment moved from Rammstein)
You really think it's about trust by now with Germany?
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Why should it matter it is "just one" (not quite...different gens, different memory sizes...even different colors! ;p ) phone? Its manufacturer limits it that way...
Going further, one could say it's not that big of a deal how Android (for example) has 99% of the market - if it's uniformly distributed across 100 devices, while iPhone, with one model, has 1%.
PS. Could you point me to thesolution / software / etc. you've used? I'll be setting up a decent stop motion rig at some future point in time, maybe things I've found & will find aren't the most optimal ones.
Yeah, but it's not something readily done on a whim, as you yourself said. With traffic around; and possibly all the equipment... (especially considering Russia)
That's mostly a way to attract "no, x one!' ;) At least most of them are interesting in their own right.
Second from last gets quite a bit creepy; you can see an old woman in "present version" - it's not inconceivable that she's also present in the group of past kids; "looking" at herself.
Hm, js app, with a slider, to transition between two images & with some areas of each image (people for example) given early prominence during transition to "their" version of the photo? Sound like something a slashdotter could do... ;)
A little more than that, also as close as possible (after taking into account differences in frame size) focal lenght.
Gets really quite eerie when the pictures are displayed in a software capable of switching to greyscale. Not "better" of course, the contrast was surely also the point...but interesting, more blended.
Though it does make the photos more distant, I guess - doesn't help with how, while being a small kid, I thought for some time that the world had to be so sad place in the past, without colors ;) (I apparently missed the existence of color paintings/etc.; and, in retrospect, wasn't very wrong; in some twisted way...)
Why we can't include them? It's all industry standards. Also from, basically, non-US oil company...
Well, TBH I don't expect GSM being phased out anytime soon; UMTS (which mostly turned out to be just an addition to GSM, not a replacement) much sooner, I guess, when practically everything for which it makes a difference will be on LTE. But GSM...that seems to be a case of "good enough", and handy when trying to provide pretty much total coverage.
Hey, maybe that was also the point, showing why people are ill-suited here and there; plus: teleoperating robots over many months/years, the way it will at most look like usually (when it comes to human presence), wouldn't look very inspiring. And hey, the whole thing was mostly highlights from a period of time spanning almost a decade ;p
As long as it can be done sustainably, it will happen; not like those grand tours of course - but for some reason, people seem to not want to hear about sending human to some destination and..."leaving" them there; even though that's the way we colonized the Earth
At the same time they conveyed quite a bit of knowledge (and from time to time links to BBC science subpage), even if some things were out there (adding to previously mentioned - how after IO she would be dead in max few days, probably within hours (maybe minutes...) if she actually felt effects of radiation in such way; even high levels that we can't really feel are deadly; plus trash trajectories)
However if, for some reason, we were to make such a voyage...then it was a decent depiction of it. Some of it was even obviously tongue in cheek, for example part with loosing first step / words... (again @unsuitability of humans perhaps?) and nice enough to watch to not put off people, maybe, from such idead (dg might have done so...) It even had a cliffhanger which, while blatantly obvious & cheap...was at least cute; in the sense "not merely irritating"
In practise it sort of was - hardly anything actually acted in a way implied by their explanation; and no signs of procedures typical where powerful magnetic fields are present, in places where we can and do find such strong ones handy - look how MRI rooms function (what was that deal with the wrench?)
We won't be able to keep moving without new physics; certainly not without somebody else, somebody "free minded", stopping that at a whim (compare the complexity of launching large ship with launching one nuke at it, even long after it "set sail" - it will catch on, can be much faster given the same level of tech)
And you're buying into some myth; for most people, silent ones, life was damn harder than today in times with "reward & exhilaration"
It's funny, isn't it? Almost like many of them don't realise how their wishes come true would result in tyranny... (well, or wishing to be at the top)
FTL comms is plenty inconsistent - it means time travel, at least for information. Which would make most of their problems null & void; and indeed give quite different, quite interesting world.
Real comms would also allow immediate involvement with the ground crew...for a time. The delays getting longer, conversations weirder, finally resulting in misunderstandings or wrongly received intentions when trying to hold onto "conversation mode" of communication - would be quite interesting to show such progressing isolation, which could strenghten any possible mess with the Beta; and be even quite fitting with the idea of melodramatic soap, manufacturing relationship issues, among very isolated group of people. Still wouldn't excuse emo music breaks, though.
I'm not sure if supposed "momentum of technological development they had in the Space Race of the 50s and 60s" was actually ever present; in a way which would quickly lead, in few short decades, to the state of affairs in 2001. More of a natural consequence of few technologies becoming usable, allowing for all those quick impressive achievements...but without much potential to scale as was imagined.
It's like with those aircraft from "our" times, imagined at the end of XIX century. Not realising the practical boundaries + carrying over experiences from some other field which just came to fruition... (and we can even build them - take Harrier, remove wings and canopy)
BTW, simulating visibly lower g, even for a movie stage, would be fairly easy via harnesses, etc. I suspect hardly anybody properly realised how different humans move then. Alternatively - it could be explained by parts of clothing & specesuits having integrated weights of depleted uranium ;) (it's not like they would mind much, in a world of 2001, such small addition to launch mass)
Yup, though I wouldn't be surprised if GSM is here to stay for a long, long time - even when many of networks throughout the world, which are now purely GSM, will go to LTE (mostly skipping UMTS, because it will simply make sense regarding infrastructure / new phones will have LTE); or even when UMTS starts to get neglected and switched off at some point. GSM just seems like a "good enough" tech, to assure wide coverage.
Talk about confusion...
GSM part of the story is fine, not exactly with UMTS and beyond - while it was meant to & can smoothly interoperate with GSM infrastructure (and is indeed standardised by basically the same association), it doesn't depend on it. There are places with, essentially, UMTS networks which never had "classic" GSM (certainly where "GSM" phones can roam...only if they are also UMTS though, only on that access method). And it is from the beginning CDMA, WCDMA to be exact; extensions giving more bandwith didn't add that. LTE is more than them - while it will certainly coexist with UMTS networks in most cases, it also doesn't have to; down the line it can bring quite a lot of changes, of "everything is just data" kind.
Was it for any other reason than the damn dog? ;)
Plus, something like this actually blurs the line between the CPU and GPU; yeah, something which Larabee was supposed to give and failed...but without all the baggage.
Well...turtles were the most notable of first large biological beings which travelled beyond LEO, around the Moon, and returned safely.
Officially. Who knows what might have become of the turtles that "didn't make it"...
You believe you are guilty of brutally slaughtering your deity. Depending on your flavor, you also believe (and most flavors do) that quite notable sin has passed on you by the very act of your conception (a sin which started because the only woman in existence was receptive to a persuasive snake-orator, surely something the uberdeity knew in advance...but that's a side issue), accidentally quite sexual in nature. If that's not guilt ridden, I don't know what is. If you don't believe that (1st), then I'm sorry but you are not a Christian.
Which brings us to - "stop lumping"? So suddenly they are not the TRUE ones, huh? (Catholicism does represent, by far, the majority of Christianity, so I'd say it is quite good as a case scenario)
As a basic tenet, Christianity puts on you the blame for murdering its deity FFS... (who was curiously also surely the one who surely knew how it would all unravel since before the beginning...)
Judaism? The one that puts a nice line between those chosen (who nonetheless absolutely must to do the bidding of a deity, or else) and, well, those in not so much of a favor? Likewise Islam.
It might go even deeper than you present (not really "on purpose" of course, just how such social structures end up being good at survival)
For the given, stark example - sexual desires are obviously a very powerful force in us; and it just so happens that when at their peak...they are expected to be supressed. Not merely by some external influence - it's essential to find a way of truly & honestly internalising such inhibitions, to avoid going crazy. To really value them. Once somebody manages that, escaping later in life is not likely; if only because it would make so many past struggles worthless, for starters. And of course passing it to the next generation is a good thing, helps with valuing one's essentially dysfunctional past even more; I even heard a direct "so they won't have it better than us."
More like: you'll thin your ranks there slightly to settle more in the neighborhood / feel more at home in the general area (seriously, that's what happening now here - a country one hop east from DE, now with few US units permanently stationed, at least some of them & their equipment moved from Rammstein)
You really think it's about trust by now with Germany?