It seems to me a camera like that would be useful for viewing things that happen very quickly, for instance, particle collisions in an atom smasher.
Or... the period during which a new politician is still honest and competent. the attention span of the average teenager. the length of time a non-staff member can use Beta before losing all faith in humanity. the length of time DRM prevents a non-crippled version appearing on TPB. a flash of lightning.
At 4.4 trillions fps played back at 24 fps, the average lightning bolt would take 1.5 hours. I'm not sure the camera is fast enough to capture any of the others.
Dunno, it seems to be part of a larger trend: Discovery Channel -- full of fiction and unscientific crap History Channel -- full of fiction and unscientific crap Science Fiction Channel -- full of fiction about unscientific crap (its supposed to be fiction about scientifically plausible stuff -- if they want magic even that would be acceptable if only they would invent a name for it instead of pretending electromagnetism is magical) Politicians -- full of fiction and unscientific crap
You aren't a whistleblower if you kind of want to speak up but are too chicken to deal with the consequences of doing so. Most people, it seems, don't want to risk speaking up even anonymously. Worse, most people aren't willing to demand the NSA go to prison for all their illegal activities (and no "my boss told me to" is not an excuse).
Don't clueless people WANT the functionality that these PUA install?
Not anymore -- now lots of installers come with "Yes, I want to install random malware" checkbox pre-checked. Used to be you could just mash the "next" button when installing, now if you do that your computer will get p0wned.
Neither. It's a kilo-exaggeration (what happens when you exaggerate by a factor of 1000). Also, the individual bots are called Kilobots, because the creators like confusing names.
Alone, the simple little robot can't do much, but working with 1,000 or more like-minded fellow bots, it becomes part of a swarm that can self-assemble into any two-dimensional shape.
I'm pretty sure this means that working with 1,000 or more like-minded fellow bots, it still can't do much.
But think of it like this: it is possible to coax cells to go backward in development; to create stem cells from differentiated cells. And it is possible to create any cell type (including adult stem cells) from embryonic stem cells. Combined, this would allow doctors to take whatever cells are convenient, convert them into whatever stem cell they need, and produce a treatment for you from your own cells. Even if not currently useful, embryonic stem cell research could end up very useful.
That, and many people are annoyed at the reasoning given for opposing embryonic stem cell research, and support it as a counterbalance to this opposition. (Many people think "humanity" is a set of characteristics rather than a set of DNA and protein.)
Have every menu command give it's keyboard shortcut, either next to the item name or as a tooltip. This is superior to a giant list of keyboard shortcuts. Wherever you can eliminate documentation by improving the user interface or integrating the documentation with the user interface, do so. However, there are some things that simply belong in separate documentation.
but it really rubbed me the wrong way to see him refer to layoffs as an act of courage.
It really rubs me the wrong way when people refer to number of jobs as if it were a good thing. Just because some people benefit from low productivity, doesn't mean low productivity is a worthwhile goal. Even hiring foreigners would be an excellent thing for our country (a net export for us, since you only hire someone if what they produce is worth more than what they cost), if it weren't for our own high rate of unemployment.
Uhh... it was the criminal Showden who screwed them if that's the route [r] you're gonna take
Yes, because the criminal is the one who points out that a crime has occurred and most definitely not the one that did it. Let me guess, you also propose jailing anyone who calls the police to report a crime.
Taxes should be flat across the spectrum. You shouldn't get a break because you are extremely rich or poor. Besides, a flat tax is naturally progressive. If you make more, you pay more.
I used to think that too, but it is simply a fact that it is easier to make money when you have more money -- you are proposing a feedback loop that would promote the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. At the very least you have to deduct the cost of necessities. Compare this to a business -- imagine what would happen if you taxed businesses based on revenue, rather than profit. Yet, people see no problem proposing the same for individuals.
Poor people also pay a disproportionate part of their income on food, clothing, energy, housing and transportation. Should all of those things be cheaper for poor people as well?
Why not? We already removed the sales tax on food, why not a similar thing for other necessities? I suppose it would be harder to distinguish where necessity stops and luxury starts.
Yes, a feature (or bug depending on how you view it) of any restriction... is that it is restrictive.
I could see giving Tesla a pass on environmental regulation bureaucracy -- if they mess up, it will bite them hard because they are in the public eye and their customers are eco-conscious.
Which is why we don't actually have a democracy, we have a republic, in which all of us have the wonderful freedom to choose between corrupt representative 1, or corrupt representative 2.
What we have in the US is a democracy functioning under the technical structuring of a republic. That is, for a presidential election at least, we technically vote for a representative who then votes for president. But now we have it such that instead of saying "I trust you to study the issue carefully and pick a good president" we're saying "You are going to cast a vote on my behalf for [candidate] because I thought his ad was funny". Worse, in most states all the electoral college must vote for a single candidate even if the voters were almost equally split, disregarding the opinion of about half the voters. Worse, the way it is set up it is quite possible to win the election when about 83% of the voters voted for the other guy (if the 17% who voted for you are in the exactly correct voting districts) using the technique called gerrymandering.
Perhaps if democracy could be implemented without the polarizing effect of the 2 party system, or in a way that allowed more direct voting on actual issues instead of arbitrarily grouped policies it would be more functional - but then again maybe not.
The 2 party system is a natural result of our voting system called "winner takes all" or "first past the post". There's a bunch of alternative voting systems, each imperfect in their own way, and each at least a little more complex than what we have now. However, it seems to me it would be worth the extra hassle when voting to avoid the hassle on the other 364 days of the year.
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But not yet, maybe by next month we'll figure out how quickly we want you to tell us.
It seems to me a camera like that would be useful for viewing things that happen very quickly, for instance, particle collisions in an atom smasher.
Or...
the period during which a new politician is still honest and competent.
the attention span of the average teenager.
the length of time a non-staff member can use Beta before losing all faith in humanity.
the length of time DRM prevents a non-crippled version appearing on TPB.
a flash of lightning.
At 4.4 trillions fps played back at 24 fps, the average lightning bolt would take 1.5 hours. I'm not sure the camera is fast enough to capture any of the others.
But budget cuts nearly ended the Bureau's unmanned machinations in 2010
Because using a small, cheap, high-velocity, can-move-in-3D, expendable drone is more expensive than using more agents?
Dunno, it seems to be part of a larger trend:
Discovery Channel -- full of fiction and unscientific crap
History Channel -- full of fiction and unscientific crap
Science Fiction Channel -- full of fiction about unscientific crap (its supposed to be fiction about scientifically plausible stuff -- if they want magic even that would be acceptable if only they would invent a name for it instead of pretending electromagnetism is magical)
Politicians -- full of fiction and unscientific crap
You aren't a whistleblower if you kind of want to speak up but are too chicken to deal with the consequences of doing so. Most people, it seems, don't want to risk speaking up even anonymously. Worse, most people aren't willing to demand the NSA go to prison for all their illegal activities (and no "my boss told me to" is not an excuse).
Practical, yes. Joke, no.
Don't clueless people WANT the functionality that these PUA install?
Not anymore -- now lots of installers come with "Yes, I want to install random malware" checkbox pre-checked. Used to be you could just mash the "next" button when installing, now if you do that your computer will get p0wned.
A supercapacitor is not superconducting; it just stores a lot of charge.
But, can it be converted into a bong?
Neither. It's a kilo-exaggeration (what happens when you exaggerate by a factor of 1000). Also, the individual bots are called Kilobots, because the creators like confusing names.
Alone, the simple little robot can't do much, but working with 1,000 or more like-minded fellow bots, it becomes part of a swarm that can self-assemble into any two-dimensional shape.
I'm pretty sure this means that working with 1,000 or more like-minded fellow bots, it still can't do much.
To clarify: the purpose of embryonic stem cells is to produce adult stem cells.
But think of it like this: it is possible to coax cells to go backward in development; to create stem cells from differentiated cells. And it is possible to create any cell type (including adult stem cells) from embryonic stem cells. Combined, this would allow doctors to take whatever cells are convenient, convert them into whatever stem cell they need, and produce a treatment for you from your own cells. Even if not currently useful, embryonic stem cell research could end up very useful.
That, and many people are annoyed at the reasoning given for opposing embryonic stem cell research, and support it as a counterbalance to this opposition. (Many people think "humanity" is a set of characteristics rather than a set of DNA and protein.)
Have every menu command give it's keyboard shortcut, either next to the item name or as a tooltip. This is superior to a giant list of keyboard shortcuts. Wherever you can eliminate documentation by improving the user interface or integrating the documentation with the user interface, do so. However, there are some things that simply belong in separate documentation.
Internet of Things Has Reached Hype Peak
If it reached peak hype, then it can finally start dying. Good riddance.
but it really rubbed me the wrong way to see him refer to layoffs as an act of courage.
It really rubs me the wrong way when people refer to number of jobs as if it were a good thing. Just because some people benefit from low productivity, doesn't mean low productivity is a worthwhile goal. Even hiring foreigners would be an excellent thing for our country (a net export for us, since you only hire someone if what they produce is worth more than what they cost), if it weren't for our own high rate of unemployment.
If we had a million Snowdens, we'd be the only country anyone would buy security-related stuff from.
Uhh... it was the criminal Showden who screwed them if that's the route [r] you're gonna take
Yes, because the criminal is the one who points out that a crime has occurred and most definitely not the one that did it. Let me guess, you also propose jailing anyone who calls the police to report a crime.
Taxes should be flat across the spectrum. You shouldn't get a break because you are extremely rich or poor. Besides, a flat tax is naturally progressive. If you make more, you pay more.
I used to think that too, but it is simply a fact that it is easier to make money when you have more money -- you are proposing a feedback loop that would promote the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. At the very least you have to deduct the cost of necessities. Compare this to a business -- imagine what would happen if you taxed businesses based on revenue, rather than profit. Yet, people see no problem proposing the same for individuals.
Poor people also pay a disproportionate part of their income on food, clothing, energy, housing and transportation. Should all of those things be cheaper for poor people as well?
Why not? We already removed the sales tax on food, why not a similar thing for other necessities? I suppose it would be harder to distinguish where necessity stops and luxury starts.
Or, it could be that researchers specifically made zebrafish more transparent[pdf] to make it even easier to study them.
Isn't this like saying that it is worthless to study the precursor of a medicine, because only the final medicine is useful for treatment?
Yes, a feature (or bug depending on how you view it) of any restriction... is that it is restrictive.
I could see giving Tesla a pass on environmental regulation bureaucracy -- if they mess up, it will bite them hard because they are in the public eye and their customers are eco-conscious.
Which is why we don't actually have a democracy, we have a republic, in which all of us have the wonderful freedom to choose between corrupt representative 1, or corrupt representative 2.
What we have in the US is a democracy functioning under the technical structuring of a republic. That is, for a presidential election at least, we technically vote for a representative who then votes for president. But now we have it such that instead of saying "I trust you to study the issue carefully and pick a good president" we're saying "You are going to cast a vote on my behalf for [candidate] because I thought his ad was funny". Worse, in most states all the electoral college must vote for a single candidate even if the voters were almost equally split, disregarding the opinion of about half the voters. Worse, the way it is set up it is quite possible to win the election when about 83% of the voters voted for the other guy (if the 17% who voted for you are in the exactly correct voting districts) using the technique called gerrymandering.
Perhaps if democracy could be implemented without the polarizing effect of the 2 party system, or in a way that allowed more direct voting on actual issues instead of arbitrarily grouped policies it would be more functional - but then again maybe not.
The 2 party system is a natural result of our voting system called "winner takes all" or "first past the post". There's a bunch of alternative voting systems, each imperfect in their own way, and each at least a little more complex than what we have now. However, it seems to me it would be worth the extra hassle when voting to avoid the hassle on the other 364 days of the year.
...just the manned part.
Well, the womanned part.