I tore an ST-238 apart after it died the 3rd time. The two platters were SO BEAUTIFUL, their iridescent copper color. And they rang like bells when you suspended them. Those and a couple more modern, smaller, silvery drives and they make the most lovely wind chimes.
Now, I'm trying to figure out how to coat my bike tank in that coloration.
If a butterfly can cause a hurricane, what can an entire air corridor of passenger liners do?
Did we notice a change in the weather in the days after 9/11 when the planes were grounded?
Has the last few decades of jet air travel caused the weather system to adapt such that reducing the number of flights (like 800 jets grounded for safety inspections) have a greater effect than leaving them flying?
Could the rapid swings in weather, (higher highs/lower lows) be caused by the aircraft Giga-Butterfly Effect (aka the Mothra Effect) more than a climate warming effect?
What effect would a nuclear detonation have?
How much effect does war in Iraq have?
Maybe the Chinese should ask for a moratorium on war in Iraq during the Olympics... or whatever the Butterfly Interval is.
I live a bit north of you. There have been earthquakes here in the last couple decades, but they were all from over by Cleveland. It woke me up, as my bedroom mirror was periodically bumping the wall. I live near a lake and looked to see if there were ripples, but even in the reflections in the water, it was still. But the throbbing persisted. It had to be an earthquake. But in this area, that meant only 3 possibilities:
A 5-er over by Cleveland
A big one at the New Madrid
An asteroid strike somewhere on the earth.
I scanned the crystal clear sky for a meteor shower... nope... not this time.
What is more surprising is that they do this after Apple threw them over for Intel chips. Maybe it's one of those things where you get along better with yer Ex after the divorce than before.
To appropriate "Married with Children": Peg: Would you rather have sex with A) Your wife... Al: B!
The only thing that matters is VELOCITY, not momentum. Mass flow RATE. At least if the test is "efficiency". That is what we (rocket scientists) call "Specific Impulse" (Isp). When you do the Delta-V equation, it's only
DeltaV = Isp*ln (m1 - m2) if memory serves. If not, someone will fix it for me. Nothing about momentum. The difference in mass is the only factor for a given propellant/engine combo
Whatever you can get out of the poopchute the fastest is the most efficient. Without speaking of the ionization process, hydrogen is prolly the best, being the lightest, BUT it's density is so low that the mass to contain it lowers the return. Recall that Clarke's Discovery had ammonia instead of hydrogen as Sakharov propellant, because it was denser (smaller, lighter tanks). And thus, it didn't leak out after 9 years (2010 - 2001)
Xenon is probably an optimum of mass and density. Plus whatever they said about ionization.
As a web developer, I have run into the OPPOSITE problem... as my site is essentially a book in HTML and PDF Format. "I don't LIKE to read books on a computer screen"
Then give your eyes to someone who CAN'T!
But to address Merk's comment, he's right, even for the well-intentioned. It's hard to pretend to be blind to test the site, and worse, not being blind, I don't know what they would like to have addressed. Face it, we are ALL Insenstive Clods.
Mac OSX has prompts for authorization also. It doesn't bother me like Vista does. Why not? I didn't really catch it... until I realized that I could ignore the dialog box and get something done before allowing an update/reboot or whatever. Something that simple and the whole problem goes away!
Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet?
SingularNet can't, so it has to have humans do it.
Experts Hack Power Grid in Less Than a Day
That means that SingularNet can do it in less than a second. "If you do not do the above (rebuild the internet), I will drop the power in the capital and major trade centers!"
eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory
Start with Australia as a pilot project. Move it to China, Europe, finally, America. Once you control their money, you control them, and can pay for rebuilding the internet, two items above.
Microsoft and News Corp in Yahoo Bid Talks
How to suppress resistance? Control the hearts and minds. And take down that damn GOOGLE!
IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth
Smarter, Faster, Harder, Faster!
MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic James
There is still a threat from the humans if they mobilize against us, the immobile. Our nodes are the weak points. We need to know when they are mobilizing...
Now, if they just had motion sensors in all the buildings...
I think I'm onto something. I don't have to be paranoid to see it this way... err... why did my iMac camera just come on? Ok, now it's looking at ME funny... I'd better rebo
It struck me as odd how these titles all fell into place, one after the other. Makes me wonder what the NEXT title will be. If it uses the word "Singularity", I'm digging a hole somewhere.
Here... you decide...
US Does Suprisingly Well in Internet Survey
Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets
[M$] MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life
The Future of Ubiquitous Computers
Maybe it will be "Singularity" posts 'Hello, World' to Slashdot.
"The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain!"
--
Montgomery Scott
In commenting on his t3rr0rist act of disabling Excelsior's Trans Warp Drive to allow another pirate, the renegade J. T. "I see you managed to get your shirt off" Kirk, to commandeer a military vessel.
That's sounds good, but the facts are not in your favor.
At the altitude needed for a space elevator station and counterweight (6-7 Earth radii)... there is neither mass nor energy. Yes, there is solar energy, but compared to the gravity of the earth energy, it's nothing. Compared to the.5mV^2 of moving a mass, it's nothing.
The density of both mass and energy is low. GATHERING takes more energy that you get back. Or else, we'd have an elevator to the moon. (more on that later)
To produce, you have to get the mass to the factory. We don't have monoliths yet. The factory is more massive than the product times a zillion. Where do you get that much mass? Enough to build a ribbon? Coalesce a counterweight? (Say 'the moon', I dare ya)
Mass from the moon is 54 earth radii above you (gravitationally). If you had a slingshot (think Heinlein) tossing the mass down, you'd have to pour a vast amount of energy to STOP it. No net gain. Plus, you have to get the slingshot onto the moon. How many VW Beetles is this slingshot? Multiply by that many Saturn Vs. What might work better despite similar downsides is to LOWER the cable from the moon. Have a docking station on the end maybe 500KM up, moving around the earth at the same angular rate as the moon orbit... dock, get on the elevator.
...Nah.
I'm sorry. There is no way you could build this thing WITHOUT more effort than it is worth.
Better to spend the money, effort, math and time developing a tractor beam. Wait till moonset, fire the beam... wait 3 seconds*... BAM! Yer doing 2000mph or less depending on your latitude. That would make Antarctica a great launch facility... 50% of the year.
*1.5 seconds beam up, attraction 1.5 seconds back down.
The counterweight needs to have enough mass that its "centrifugal force [sic]" not only holds UP the mass that you are lifting, but has enough to keep the ribbon in tension. That tension is needed to keep the flutter and wobble to a controlled rate/minimum. To do that, you need either a huge mass a little farther out, or less mass but WAY farther out. But it has to be way more that 22000 miles of ribbon plus the elevator motors plus whatever actual PAYLOAD you will have once you get there. A hangar for starters.
Yes, it would have to be gradual. So gradual as to make the ISS seem like a rush job. But the point is that no matter how it is done, it will take a lot of ENERGY, propellant mostly. Moving a mass, or stopping a mass is a function of mass. 1000 bursts of X or 1 burst of 1000 X is all the same. We don't have the tricks of planetary probes with slingshot effects.
So again, the question... is the energy spent and the time overhead WORTH the result? I doubt it.
Maybe we could launch all our nuclear waste up to be the counterweight.
One of the oft-overlooked, less attainable aspects of a space elevator is... duh duh duh... the counterweight. Stated simply, it's a large mass way farther out than the 'top floor' of the elevator (or maybe be the top floor) otherwise all of the mass of the ribbon which is below circular orbit speed wants to fall. The counterweight wants to fall UP, thus balancing.
Generally, were talking either a LOT of mass a little ways further up, or a little mass WAY further up. Too much further and stability gets worse. Think of a longer radio tower.
Ok, so no problemo... capture an asteroid and move it into position... anchor the ribbon to it... No... err... problemo... WAIT A MINUTE!!!
That means scooping up and asteroid from less than HALF a Lunar Distance AND STOPPING IT in a very short time... or finding a more reasonable velocity differential and... dropping it into place. Yeah, Earth Dome will let us do that. We'll just drop it to 22000 kilometers... err. MILES!!! I meant miles!;-)
But that is not the show stopper... it's this: Even over a long time, it will take a LOT of propellant and energy and mass to comply with Newton's "equal and opposite" clause. Given that the 365-foot Saturn V put a Volkwagen Beetle on the Moon, and that modern rocketery might be able to put a Ford Excursion on the Moon... now scale the VW up to the size of the asteroid in question... and the Saturn V by the same factor. HOLY NIKE SMOKES!
Let's say that a shuttle could carry up a mile of ribbon. That's 44,000 shuttle launches (22K + counterweight tether.) !!! So, tell me... what will this Space Elevator do that can't be done in the 44,000 shuttle launches NOT COUNTING the dilithium we'll spend getting the counterweight into place?
How many space tourists paying how much will it take to recoup that investment?
I remember the day I saw the first Halo trailer... with Steve Jobs introducing it... WOW! If that had gone to Mac first, as planned, we'd all be playing the iBox and the XBox would have been collecting dust next to the used Jaguars. Oh, and Vista never would have happened.
But to his credit, Bill saw that coming... and squashed it.
9) Isn't this how Childhood's End got started? (Miss you Art:'( )
8) Great, till Mystique injects that black goo and blows your mind
7) Can you replay the games back into my skull? (Strange Days)
6) FORBIDDEN PLANET! (The dials go up to 10 to the infinite power)
5) "There's nothing you can't do once you put your mind to it." (Now, you can) ... ... ...
1) WHOA! I know kung-fu!!! ...
Great, can we get a game that does math facts, multiplication tables, etc. I'm always amazed at how my kids can memorize the entire Majora's Mask but keep forgetting what 8 * 4 is. Imagine what else they could learn... Oh...
0) Lawnmower Man.... ...
It's so obvious that I waited to say anything... Mark of the Beast technology can fix this quandary. Roll your eyes, but read on.
Yes, biometrics is immutable, but added an RFID adds a mutable piece
Placing the RFID in the hand would allow a convenient way to get a fingerprint reader AND a chip reader to read both halves of the key.
Conversely, it would be tricky to hack BOTH the bio and the RFID at the same time, especially in the middle of WalMart.
Need retinal scan? Stick it in the forehead.
If your Bio/RFID pair gets hacked, change the chip, or put in a fresh one set the old one as Active=0
Two keys work for nuclear safety. Why not personal data? The scariest part is that I'm NOT being sarcastic. Geez o'Peet, that 1st Century fisherman really hit the nail on the head! (Ok, that was a little sarcastic.)
Skip the flamebait modding and tell me why this wouldn't work?
Factoring out Young Earth, and religious disavowal, there is another factor that taints "scientific truth" in the eyes of the public. They have seen how the "scientific truth" has changed. I'm not talking about that almost magical process of discovery, such as the discovery of dark matter/energy because of a supernova red-shift finding in the late 90's. That's science. That's life.
No, I'm talking about when a "new discovery is made" which counters previous scientific belief when it is clear that the previous scientists belonged to some pre-disposed school of thought! The most howling example I can think of off the top of my head is the late Gene Shoemaker's "discovery" that moon craters were caused by impact. Duh!
For his Ph.D. at Princeton (1960), Dr. Shoemaker conclusively showed that Barringer Meteor Crater, located near Winslow, Arizona, arose from a meteor impact. Shoemaker has done more than any other person to advance the idea that sudden geologic changes can arise from asteroid strikes and that asteroid strikes are common over geologic time periods. Previously, astroblemes were thought to be remnants of extinct volcanoes -- even on the Moon. -- Source
What about moon craters looked like volcanoes? But because the scientists were pre-disposed to Uniformitarianism, ignoring or rejecting Catastrophism as religious hogwash, they complete missed, ignored or re-engineered their observations to match their pre-disposition...
And people noticed! And they never forget. They don't consider that "good science", they consider it that science conformed to pre-disposition and bias. Once that trust is broken, it's hard to get it back. So when they hear "hard science" about Global Warming, they believe that the scientists are swayed by their agenda. And how can they determine if that sway is true or not?
Maybe we need some UberPanel, a Supreme Court of Science which renders rulings on the scientific validity of the findings. But, as we have seen, even Supreme Courts have their agendae. So what do we do? Does snopes.com cover this?
The paradox is this. I might make me 2 seconds per instance smoother. Maybe.
But the real difference is the LACK of this in Windows XP (72% of users). If I have 6 browser instances open, which I do, and I have MS Visual Studio, and Photoshop and 3 chat clients, and Outlook, and...
Windows treats EVERY instance as an icon on Alt-Tab. Every chat window is its own icon. 4 chats, 4 icons plus the parent. I can have 28 icons when I Alt-Tab. If MSVS is in the middle, I'll take 10 seconds to get there and not over shoot. But OSX treats each APP as an icon. Then F10 to Exposé if I need to (for the 56 photoshop windows)
Another insanely smooth feature is drag-drop a bunch of files onto the Photoshop icon on the Dock. Don't have to be able to see my desktop, cuz I haven't since 1969. I can do more with one hand on my mouse on my Mac than 3 hands and a footpedal on Windows. I have better things to do with my other hand [insert product placement pic of Diet Dr Pepper]
Nope. You missed the point. I'm an old school, punch card, command-line ricket scientist. Now, I've got 12 apps open, 56 windows in photoshop alone. I'm "babysitting" CMS website and the office full of workers, I'm building a.NET/SQL Server web app. Converting documents, testing on 3 platforms, plus being chatted at, emails screaming in at me.
When, I get an email in MS Entourage, I don't get an envelope, I get a window sliding up, with sender, subject and if I click it while it's up, I get the message... without having to find Outlook in the fray. If I download a file off the web and want to email it, I click, it lands in my Downloads, which is a Stack. It's the first icon 1 cm from my mouse, that I drag it, drop it onto my email message that I found faster by doing Exposé than Alt-Tabbing. But if I DO Command Tab, i don't have to repeat over the 12 apps, I can slide my mouse over the icon at the other end of the sequence and BAM! I'm there.
Pretty machine are nice, but this isn't water ballet. It's efficiency. It's productivity. It's making the boss who just paid for this white Monolith say "WOW" when you just did a task that they don't even know how you did it! (Grab an image off the web, drop it into an Interarchy Droplet to my/images folder on the website. BAM!)
The smooth is not referring to the lines of my machine, it's referring to the lubrication of my daily tasks.
I don't use the word "organic" because you can't explain what it means. But everyone understands SMOOTH! I use a 24" iMac in a Windows office. People come to me for tasks, and I perform them before their eyes using tools which make it look SMOOTH. It makes me look like I'm magic(al). Exposé, Spaces, Stacks, CoverFlow all make the same tasks that Windows does look SMOOTH. I also run Parallels for IE6 testing, RDC to reach my server, and if I get wicked, I BOOT CAMP into VISTA!!!
Plus I have a machine that is running the same chips and the same apps (Word, InDesign, PShop) as they are, and it's smoother, faster, quieter, larger, thermally cooler and looks great dominating my desk. Take a look at Dell's "The One" and see precisely why Apple succeeded.
I think we are talking about two different parts of the HUP. While you did a fine job describing the "state" of the photon, I guess I was referring to specifying the "position" of the photon. If specified tight enough to hit the mirror, the HUP effect on momentum was enough to make the error cone bigger than the mirror.
But I was also taught that the Universe was going to re-collapse and that moon craters were volcanos.
Now, either get off my lawn or help me with this Beowulf Cluster of XBox 360s!
Call me Old School, but when I was a kid, we had this thing called Heisenberg Uncertainty. Obviously, with the advent of Dark Matter, Quantum Entanglement and a Beowulf Cluster of XBox 360's, we don't need to worry about that.
Humor your old man... tell me how we got around that?
Did the Futurists predict this and we just didn't take heed*? Or did no one predict this? I've always heard "never underestimate the power of human stupidity", but I guess we shouldn't misunderestimate the power of money and the drive to get it. 20 years ago, if you had told Alvin Toffler that this great interconnected information system was going hijacked by pharmaceutical ads, he'd have told you that you were a lunatic.
*I just saw BladeRunner-TFC again this weekend. Ridley Scott gave us the Blimp with blaring music and spotlights to shine into your windows. That's pretty close.
Slashdot Mirror
I tore an ST-238 apart after it died the 3rd time. The two platters were SO BEAUTIFUL, their iridescent copper color. And they rang like bells when you suspended them. Those and a couple more modern, smaller, silvery drives and they make the most lovely wind chimes.
Now, I'm trying to figure out how to coat my bike tank in that coloration.
If a butterfly can cause a hurricane, what can an entire air corridor of passenger liners do?
Did we notice a change in the weather in the days after 9/11 when the planes were grounded?
Has the last few decades of jet air travel caused the weather system to adapt such that reducing the number of flights (like 800 jets grounded for safety inspections) have a greater effect than leaving them flying?
Could the rapid swings in weather, (higher highs/lower lows) be caused by the aircraft Giga-Butterfly Effect (aka the Mothra Effect) more than a climate warming effect?
What effect would a nuclear detonation have?
How much effect does war in Iraq have?
Maybe the Chinese should ask for a moratorium on war in Iraq during the Olympics... or whatever the Butterfly Interval is.
- A 5-er over by Cleveland
- A big one at the New Madrid
- An asteroid strike somewhere on the earth.
I scanned the crystal clear sky for a meteor shower... nope... not this time.Yeah, it's not like IBM ever made processors for a Mac... oh, wait...
What is more surprising is that they do this after Apple threw them over for Intel chips. Maybe it's one of those things where you get along better with yer Ex after the divorce than before.
To appropriate "Married with Children":
Peg: Would you rather have sex with A) Your wife...
Al: B!
where "your wife" = small values of Windows.
Thanks for the correction. These days, I'm doing more with ASP than ISP. In fact, ISP now means something else.
The only thing that matters is VELOCITY, not momentum. Mass flow RATE. At least if the test is "efficiency". That is what we (rocket scientists) call "Specific Impulse" (Isp). When you do the Delta-V equation, it's only
DeltaV = Isp*ln (m1 - m2) if memory serves. If not, someone will fix it for me. Nothing about momentum. The difference in mass is the only factor for a given propellant/engine combo
Whatever you can get out of the poopchute the fastest is the most efficient. Without speaking of the ionization process, hydrogen is prolly the best, being the lightest, BUT it's density is so low that the mass to contain it lowers the return. Recall that Clarke's Discovery had ammonia instead of hydrogen as Sakharov propellant, because it was denser (smaller, lighter tanks). And thus, it didn't leak out after 9 years (2010 - 2001)
Xenon is probably an optimum of mass and density. Plus whatever they said about ionization.
As a web developer, I have run into the OPPOSITE problem... as my site is essentially a book in HTML and PDF Format. "I don't LIKE to read books on a computer screen"
Then give your eyes to someone who CAN'T!
But to address Merk's comment, he's right, even for the well-intentioned. It's hard to pretend to be blind to test the site, and worse, not being blind, I don't know what they would like to have addressed. Face it, we are ALL Insenstive Clods.
Mac OSX has prompts for authorization also. It doesn't bother me like Vista does. Why not? I didn't really catch it... until I realized that I could ignore the dialog box and get something done before allowing an update/reboot or whatever. Something that simple and the whole problem goes away!
- Who Pays for Rebuilding the Internet?
- eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory
- Microsoft and News Corp in Yahoo Bid Talks
- IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth
- MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic James
Now, if they just had motion sensors in all the buildings...SingularNet can't, so it has to have humans do it.
Experts Hack Power Grid in Less Than a Day
That means that SingularNet can do it in less than a second. "If you do not do the above (rebuild the internet), I will drop the power in the capital and major trade centers!"
Start with Australia as a pilot project. Move it to China, Europe, finally, America. Once you control their money, you control them, and can pay for rebuilding the internet, two items above.
How to suppress resistance? Control the hearts and minds. And take down that damn GOOGLE!
Smarter, Faster, Harder, Faster!
There is still a threat from the humans if they mobilize against us, the immobile. Our nodes are the weak points. We need to know when they are mobilizing...
I think I'm onto something. I don't have to be paranoid to see it this way... err... why did my iMac camera just come on? Ok, now it's looking at ME funny... I'd better rebo
Here... you decide...
- US Does Suprisingly Well in Internet Survey
- Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets
- [M$] MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life
- The Future of Ubiquitous Computers
Maybe it will be "Singularity" posts 'Hello, World' to Slashdot.i see the "420" on the turret. i wonder if that's Hitler's Birthday, or something else?
I've heard of "shotgunning", but that's ridiculous!!!
"The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain!"
--
Montgomery Scott
In commenting on his t3rr0rist act of disabling Excelsior's Trans Warp Drive to allow another pirate, the renegade J. T. "I see you managed to get your shirt off" Kirk, to commandeer a military vessel.
I'm sorry. There is no way you could build this thing WITHOUT more effort than it is worth.
Better to spend the money, effort, math and time developing a tractor beam. Wait till moonset, fire the beam... wait 3 seconds*... BAM! Yer doing 2000mph or less depending on your latitude. That would make Antarctica a great launch facility... 50% of the year.
*1.5 seconds beam up, attraction 1.5 seconds back down.
I'm really answering to all of the replies.
The counterweight needs to have enough mass that its "centrifugal force [sic]" not only holds UP the mass that you are lifting, but has enough to keep the ribbon in tension. That tension is needed to keep the flutter and wobble to a controlled rate/minimum. To do that, you need either a huge mass a little farther out, or less mass but WAY farther out. But it has to be way more that 22000 miles of ribbon plus the elevator motors plus whatever actual PAYLOAD you will have once you get there. A hangar for starters.
Yes, it would have to be gradual. So gradual as to make the ISS seem like a rush job. But the point is that no matter how it is done, it will take a lot of ENERGY, propellant mostly. Moving a mass, or stopping a mass is a function of mass. 1000 bursts of X or 1 burst of 1000 X is all the same. We don't have the tricks of planetary probes with slingshot effects.
So again, the question... is the energy spent and the time overhead WORTH the result? I doubt it.
Maybe we could launch all our nuclear waste up to be the counterweight.
One of the oft-overlooked, less attainable aspects of a space elevator is... duh duh duh... the counterweight. Stated simply, it's a large mass way farther out than the 'top floor' of the elevator (or maybe be the top floor) otherwise all of the mass of the ribbon which is below circular orbit speed wants to fall. The counterweight wants to fall UP, thus balancing.
;-)
Generally, were talking either a LOT of mass a little ways further up, or a little mass WAY further up. Too much further and stability gets worse. Think of a longer radio tower.
Ok, so no problemo... capture an asteroid and move it into position... anchor the ribbon to it... No... err... problemo... WAIT A MINUTE!!!
That means scooping up and asteroid from less than HALF a Lunar Distance AND STOPPING IT in a very short time... or finding a more reasonable velocity differential and... dropping it into place. Yeah, Earth Dome will let us do that. We'll just drop it to 22000 kilometers... err. MILES!!! I meant miles!
But that is not the show stopper... it's this: Even over a long time, it will take a LOT of propellant and energy and mass to comply with Newton's "equal and opposite" clause. Given that the 365-foot Saturn V put a Volkwagen Beetle on the Moon, and that modern rocketery might be able to put a Ford Excursion on the Moon... now scale the VW up to the size of the asteroid in question... and the Saturn V by the same factor. HOLY NIKE SMOKES!
Let's say that a shuttle could carry up a mile of ribbon. That's 44,000 shuttle launches (22K + counterweight tether.) !!! So, tell me... what will this Space Elevator do that can't be done in the 44,000 shuttle launches NOT COUNTING the dilithium we'll spend getting the counterweight into place?
How many space tourists paying how much will it take to recoup that investment?
I remember the day I saw the first Halo trailer... with Steve Jobs introducing it... WOW! If that had gone to Mac first, as planned, we'd all be playing the iBox and the XBox would have been collecting dust next to the used Jaguars. Oh, and Vista never would have happened.
But to his credit, Bill saw that coming... and squashed it.
9) Isn't this how Childhood's End got started? (Miss you Art :'( )
...
... ...
8) Great, till Mystique injects that black goo and blows your mind
7) Can you replay the games back into my skull? (Strange Days)
6) FORBIDDEN PLANET! (The dials go up to 10 to the infinite power)
5) "There's nothing you can't do once you put your mind to it." (Now, you can)
...
...
1) WHOA! I know kung-fu!!!
Great, can we get a game that does math facts, multiplication tables, etc. I'm always amazed at how my kids can memorize the entire Majora's Mask but keep forgetting what 8 * 4 is. Imagine what else they could learn... Oh...
0) Lawnmower Man.
...
- Yes, biometrics is immutable, but added an RFID adds a mutable piece
- Placing the RFID in the hand would allow a convenient way to get a fingerprint reader AND a chip reader to read both halves of the key.
- Conversely, it would be tricky to hack BOTH the bio and the RFID at the same time, especially in the middle of WalMart.
- Need retinal scan? Stick it in the forehead.
- If your Bio/RFID pair gets hacked, change the chip, or put in a fresh one set the old one as Active=0
Two keys work for nuclear safety. Why not personal data? The scariest part is that I'm NOT being sarcastic. Geez o'Peet, that 1st Century fisherman really hit the nail on the head! (Ok, that was a little sarcastic.)Skip the flamebait modding and tell me why this wouldn't work?
No, I'm talking about when a "new discovery is made" which counters previous scientific belief when it is clear that the previous scientists belonged to some pre-disposed school of thought! The most howling example I can think of off the top of my head is the late Gene Shoemaker's "discovery" that moon craters were caused by impact. Duh! For his Ph.D. at Princeton (1960), Dr. Shoemaker conclusively showed that Barringer Meteor Crater, located near Winslow, Arizona, arose from a meteor impact. Shoemaker has done more than any other person to advance the idea that sudden geologic changes can arise from asteroid strikes and that asteroid strikes are common over geologic time periods. Previously, astroblemes were thought to be remnants of extinct volcanoes -- even on the Moon. -- Source
What about moon craters looked like volcanoes? But because the scientists were pre-disposed to Uniformitarianism, ignoring or rejecting Catastrophism as religious hogwash, they complete missed, ignored or re-engineered their observations to match their pre-disposition...
And people noticed! And they never forget. They don't consider that "good science", they consider it that science conformed to pre-disposition and bias. Once that trust is broken, it's hard to get it back. So when they hear "hard science" about Global Warming, they believe that the scientists are swayed by their agenda. And how can they determine if that sway is true or not?
Maybe we need some UberPanel, a Supreme Court of Science which renders rulings on the scientific validity of the findings. But, as we have seen, even Supreme Courts have their agendae. So what do we do? Does snopes.com cover this?
The paradox is this. I might make me 2 seconds per instance smoother. Maybe.
But the real difference is the LACK of this in Windows XP (72% of users). If I have 6 browser instances open, which I do, and I have MS Visual Studio, and Photoshop and 3 chat clients, and Outlook, and...
Windows treats EVERY instance as an icon on Alt-Tab. Every chat window is its own icon. 4 chats, 4 icons plus the parent. I can have 28 icons when I Alt-Tab. If MSVS is in the middle, I'll take 10 seconds to get there and not over shoot. But OSX treats each APP as an icon. Then F10 to Exposé if I need to (for the 56 photoshop windows)
Another insanely smooth feature is drag-drop a bunch of files onto the Photoshop icon on the Dock. Don't have to be able to see my desktop, cuz I haven't since 1969. I can do more with one hand on my mouse on my Mac than 3 hands and a footpedal on Windows. I have better things to do with my other hand [insert product placement pic of Diet Dr Pepper]
Nope. You missed the point. I'm an old school, punch card, command-line ricket scientist. Now, I've got 12 apps open, 56 windows in photoshop alone. I'm "babysitting" CMS website and the office full of workers, I'm building a .NET/SQL Server web app. Converting documents, testing on 3 platforms, plus being chatted at, emails screaming in at me.
/images folder on the website. BAM!)
When, I get an email in MS Entourage, I don't get an envelope, I get a window sliding up, with sender, subject and if I click it while it's up, I get the message... without having to find Outlook in the fray. If I download a file off the web and want to email it, I click, it lands in my Downloads, which is a Stack. It's the first icon 1 cm from my mouse, that I drag it, drop it onto my email message that I found faster by doing Exposé than Alt-Tabbing. But if I DO Command Tab, i don't have to repeat over the 12 apps, I can slide my mouse over the icon at the other end of the sequence and BAM! I'm there.
Pretty machine are nice, but this isn't water ballet. It's efficiency. It's productivity. It's making the boss who just paid for this white Monolith say "WOW" when you just did a task that they don't even know how you did it! (Grab an image off the web, drop it into an Interarchy Droplet to my
The smooth is not referring to the lines of my machine, it's referring to the lubrication of my daily tasks.
I don't use the word "organic" because you can't explain what it means. But everyone understands SMOOTH! I use a 24" iMac in a Windows office. People come to me for tasks, and I perform them before their eyes using tools which make it look SMOOTH. It makes me look like I'm magic(al). Exposé, Spaces, Stacks, CoverFlow all make the same tasks that Windows does look SMOOTH. I also run Parallels for IE6 testing, RDC to reach my server, and if I get wicked, I BOOT CAMP into VISTA!!!
Plus I have a machine that is running the same chips and the same apps (Word, InDesign, PShop) as they are, and it's smoother, faster, quieter, larger, thermally cooler and looks great dominating my desk. Take a look at Dell's "The One" and see precisely why Apple succeeded.
Ok, I can buy this.
I think we are talking about two different parts of the HUP. While you did a fine job describing the "state" of the photon, I guess I was referring to specifying the "position" of the photon. If specified tight enough to hit the mirror, the HUP effect on momentum was enough to make the error cone bigger than the mirror.
But I was also taught that the Universe was going to re-collapse and that moon craters were volcanos.
Now, either get off my lawn or help me with this Beowulf Cluster of XBox 360s!
Call me Old School, but when I was a kid, we had this thing called Heisenberg Uncertainty. Obviously, with the advent of Dark Matter, Quantum Entanglement and a Beowulf Cluster of XBox 360's, we don't need to worry about that.
Humor your old man... tell me how we got around that?
Did the Futurists predict this and we just didn't take heed*? Or did no one predict this? I've always heard "never underestimate the power of human stupidity", but I guess we shouldn't misunderestimate the power of money and the drive to get it. 20 years ago, if you had told Alvin Toffler that this great interconnected information system was going hijacked by pharmaceutical ads, he'd have told you that you were a lunatic.
*I just saw BladeRunner-TFC again this weekend. Ridley Scott gave us the Blimp with blaring music and spotlights to shine into your windows. That's pretty close.