How often do you seem someone wash their hands before leaving the restroom ? How often do you seem someone wash their hands before they use a touchscreen?
(Also an optical gesture control system means you don't have to modify your existing glazing to accomodate a touchscreen, but not getting Mr. I Was Just Pissing's dick germs on my hands is reason enough.)
The target here isn't "consumers", it's "stores". It's been developed so it can be sold to stores who will hope it can help advertise their wares. It has not - as you seem to have misconstrued - been developed to meet some demand from consumers. That demand does not exist.
Yeah, about the only way I can consume content in the bathroom is as audio, and even that's a stretch. All I want is a half-decent bluetooth waterproof speaker for my podcasts.
Why? The quantities of heavy atoms made in the original big bang nucleosynthesis are widely accepted to have been miniscule. Non-trivial quantities of elements heavier than beryllium didn't exist until stellar nucleosynthesis started. And beryllium itself was produced in such hilariously tiny amounts that it's usually forgotten.
Congratulations on the trifecta: you lack the facts, perspective and humanity needed to understand the story, yet you've posted anyway. Let's do the blow by blow:
"What ever happened to the regular ones..."
They're on the market now. 4" models are now ubiquitous in cellphones, and Samsung has announced a mainstream, competitively-priced tablet with a 7-inch 720p OLED display.
"It's like all these cures for cancer that work in a petri dish..."
There can be no cure for cancer. Cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of conditions which cause the unwanted growth and proliferation of tissues in the body with deleterious effects. As such there are a wide variety of cures. They start at the petri dish, and they're gradually whittled down to the ones that actually work. As a consequence many "fail in the real world" but an astounding number succeed. Thanks to these treatments, the survival rate for many cancers - not enough, never enough, but many - would make a doctor from the 1970s fall to his knees in awe.
"All this is, is a funding lure..."
So your conclusion, based on facts that are wrong and a perspective on them that could not be more misguided, is that these people must be crooks.
You're an imbecile in two different ways, and you're a dick.
Actually genetic and functional homologies are some of the most important pieces of evidence in modern taxonomy, so yes, we do classify something based on sharing of protein synonymous sites.
I'm not convinced that Eastlund's account is all that credible. That he took his presented about applying microwave technology to the military is undeniable, but the connection to HAARP amounts to "I had these ideas, I think HAARP is somehow doing them".
If it's in Nature, it's probably not going to be commercialised any time soon. Think of the article as engineering shop talk and not a sales pitch from your cable company.
What you're talking about isn't a hypothetical. As a high-profile example Microsoft uses telemetry from Windows users to drive UI design, although by all accounts the process of turning user info into better products is, uh, inefficient. Whenever something crashes on your iPhone, it phones home a bug report.
They're talking about possibly using the credibility afforded to authors by other authors as a search signal. And they're currently using G+ profiles as author identifiers.
It reads to me more like "join G+ or your author rank has no effect".
Google's been using us to improve its index from the beginning - the whole idea of PageRank is that the linking patterns of web sites given an indication as to their importance and value.
It's a research project into how useful this metric would be. The article makes it clear that they haven't made any plans to actually implement it until they know how well it works. At this stage, blackhat activity would lead that project to a negative conclusion, and the feature wouldn't be implemented, and it couldn't be manipulated.
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How often do you seem someone wash their hands before leaving the restroom ? How often do you seem someone wash their hands before they use a touchscreen?
(Also an optical gesture control system means you don't have to modify your existing glazing to accomodate a touchscreen, but not getting Mr. I Was Just Pissing's dick germs on my hands is reason enough.)
The target here isn't "consumers", it's "stores". It's been developed so it can be sold to stores who will hope it can help advertise their wares. It has not - as you seem to have misconstrued - been developed to meet some demand from consumers. That demand does not exist.
Yeah, about the only way I can consume content in the bathroom is as audio, and even that's a stretch. All I want is a half-decent bluetooth waterproof speaker for my podcasts.
Fusable nuclei go in, heavy nuclei and radiation come out. Never a miscommunication.
Why? The quantities of heavy atoms made in the original big bang nucleosynthesis are widely accepted to have been miniscule. Non-trivial quantities of elements heavier than beryllium didn't exist until stellar nucleosynthesis started. And beryllium itself was produced in such hilariously tiny amounts that it's usually forgotten.
Slashdot aren't the ones lodging the lawsuit, you know.
Congratulations on the trifecta: you lack the facts, perspective and humanity needed to understand the story, yet you've posted anyway. Let's do the blow by blow:
"What ever happened to the regular ones..."
They're on the market now. 4" models are now ubiquitous in cellphones, and Samsung has announced a mainstream, competitively-priced tablet with a 7-inch 720p OLED display.
"It's like all these cures for cancer that work in a petri dish..."
There can be no cure for cancer. Cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of conditions which cause the unwanted growth and proliferation of tissues in the body with deleterious effects. As such there are a wide variety of cures. They start at the petri dish, and they're gradually whittled down to the ones that actually work. As a consequence many "fail in the real world" but an astounding number succeed. Thanks to these treatments, the survival rate for many cancers - not enough, never enough, but many - would make a doctor from the 1970s fall to his knees in awe.
"All this is, is a funding lure..."
So your conclusion, based on facts that are wrong and a perspective on them that could not be more misguided, is that these people must be crooks.
You're an imbecile in two different ways, and you're a dick.
"New"?
Actually genetic and functional homologies are some of the most important pieces of evidence in modern taxonomy, so yes, we do classify something based on sharing of protein synonymous sites.
Right, you still have to deal with dicking with the nitrogen cycle, but at least the pH of the rain will be normal.
I'm not convinced that Eastlund's account is all that credible. That he took his presented about applying microwave technology to the military is undeniable, but the connection to HAARP amounts to "I had these ideas, I think HAARP is somehow doing them".
Normal HDMI. For 3D you'll need to have a card that supports 3D HDMI output of course.
You might want to read the quotes from the actual research cited there. And I won't hear a thing said against Philip Plait.
In what the hell kind of marketing language does "Z" stand for "Display"?
Compounds like nitric acid act as nucleation sites for rain already. It'd be no more acidic than natural precipitation.
Wrong.
Your version of the story is not getting much press because it's not true.
Right. Given that HAARP has nothing to do with weather control, nobody has made that comparison.
They really should start putting a tee-totaller clause in the field test section of the NDA, though.
I appear to have totally missed the intended parent for that reply, I'm sorry.
Maybe the GNU project should be called "Linux/GNU".
If it's in Nature, it's probably not going to be commercialised any time soon. Think of the article as engineering shop talk and not a sales pitch from your cable company.
What you're talking about isn't a hypothetical. As a high-profile example Microsoft uses telemetry from Windows users to drive UI design, although by all accounts the process of turning user info into better products is, uh, inefficient. Whenever something crashes on your iPhone, it phones home a bug report.
They're talking about possibly using the credibility afforded to authors by other authors as a search signal. And they're currently using G+ profiles as author identifiers.
It reads to me more like "join G+ or your author rank has no effect".
Google's been using us to improve its index from the beginning - the whole idea of PageRank is that the linking patterns of web sites given an indication as to their importance and value.
It's a research project into how useful this metric would be. The article makes it clear that they haven't made any plans to actually implement it until they know how well it works. At this stage, blackhat activity would lead that project to a negative conclusion, and the feature wouldn't be implemented, and it couldn't be manipulated.