No, that's not actually technically possible with SIM Services. It's a very restricted platform, technically. For one thing it doesn't know shit about the handset it's in, much less have an ability to interrogate the GPS hardware on that handset.
Well-understood thanks to all the X-ray imaging work which depends on those. I've got no idea how practical they are for this application but I would've thought reflection was a good, simple option.
I think you mean "solar system" and not "galaxy". The nearest galaxies are millions of light years away, meaning even with the best possible technology (travelling at approximately the speed of light, in other words) we would take millions of years to get there.
There's two types of ionising radiation to worry about: ions and photons.
Ions are hugely damaging but poorly penetrating. A helium nucleus won't get past a piece of paper, for example, while a proton is stopped by a modest thickness of aluminium. They're charged, so a magnetic field will divert them. If the Earth's magnetic field wasn't there, they wouldn't get past the atmosphere anyway, but they would start to erode it. It'd be similar on a spacecraft. You don't need a magnetic field to protect the occupants, but you'd be exposing the ship's hull and outboard systems to (perhaps non-trivial) radiation damage.
Photons are not as damaging but are much more penetrating. Your old-fashioned X-ray is the classic demonstration. Our atmosphere protects us from those by absorption. You can use a kilometer of gas, or a foot of lead. Either way that means carrying a lot of mass which can be a problem for a space mission. A poster above observed that colonists would be carrying resources like water that they could use as a shield though.
The arrogance is not present in the original source: they present their hypothesis, outline how it can be tested, and explain its potential impact on cancer research. The hyperbole and hubris comes from the author of the summary and the article, not the scientists. They only write of "new reasons for optimism".
That web scam's putative mechanism for DCA activity is that cancer cells have completely inactive mitochondria? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you even know what a mitochondrion does?
I assumed it was because they're going to be scaling back their new online output to save money, and want to reduce how bad that looks. Either they have a sparse site where there's a bare minimum of content, or they have the same sparse site alongside a huge sprawling matrix of brilliant ideas to constantly remind people of the kind of incredible projects the BBC used to spearhead online.
It's more about bringing their existing walled garden to a different space. That's probably how they expect to succeed where so very many others haven't: they can bring along the existing iOS developer support and public awareness from the iPhone and iPad.
(I recall Sega and Pace teaming up for a Dreamcast-based gaming satellite box to play casual games. It unsurprisingly floundered. That said there was a pretty decent lunar lander game on Sky Digital when it first appeared.)
You underestimate what I mean by "low-end". The Pixi is currently going for about £100 off contract in the UK recently. The X10 Mini, about £150-£200. Both are free on a £20/month outlay, or less. That's the sort of market we'll see the Veer in.
We don't, that's why we have to critically evaluate new information in light of its purported origins, its content, and the interested parties' reactions to it.
Veer's not a competitor for the iPhone 5, high-end Android etc., it's a competitor for the Xperia X10 Mini I keep seeing all over the place. Since Nokia fucked their transition to touchscreens, there's not been too many low-end, cheap, small smartphones, so it's a market HP could really make a killing in.
While that's certainly "doing journalism" it doesn't mean it's good journalism or immune from criticism. If I bake a cake out of shit, sure, I'm cooking something, but it's still a cake made out of shit.
As you say, the research is ambiguous. That's not what the article says. The article says that, according to the research, video games make you rape people.
Not quite. For the 0.1% of applications that support the phone, you can get an app on each screen, and only one active app at a time. For the 99.9% of other apps, you get no dual-screen feature at all - the app spreads itself over both screens as though they were one large one. Android doesn't have a windowing system at all, remember, it doesn't understand the idea of two apps running in the foreground.
"A few months after we started working together, Pajitnov came up with the Tetris idea. Before we met he had a computer game called Genetic Engineering. In that game the player had to move the 4-square pieces (tetramino) around the screen using cursor keys. The player could assemble various shapes. I don't remember the exact objective of that game, but it seemed rather dull.
At one of our meetings Pajitnov told Pavlovsky and me about his new idea of tetramino falling into a rectangular glass and piling up at the bottom. He believed the game might be successful. Shortly after discussing the idea Pajitnov made a prototype for Electronica 60, then I ported it to the PC using our development system. Pajitnov and I kept adding features to the program for a couple of years.
A couple of years later Pajitnov and I also developed a 2-player version of Tetris"
According to Gerasimov's article Pavlovsky has no involvement in the development of Tetris at all. They both certainly got done over financially by Pajitnov's opportunism, and Gerasimov's role in getting the game from text-mode prototype to actual game is heanously overlooked, but that doesn't mean you can go around making things up.
I think you are drawing the wrong conclusion from the study. They did not intend to show that Stanford graduates are sociopaths. That is an interesting alternative interpretation however and one that merits future study. Given the number of repeat Stanford-esque experiments at other institutions, it should be easy to perform a meta-analysis and find out which university is attracting/creating future supervillains most efficiently.
Snopes has an updated article on "The real McCoy"'s origins right now, actually. It seems it's a distortion of an old advertising slogan for McKay's whisky. McCoy and his oiling machine existed but that seems to be about it.
Did we read the same article? Gerasimov states pretty unambiguiously that Pajitnov created the game, he (Gerasimov) ported it, the two collaborated on it for some time, and then Pajitnov left to create the Tetris Company commercialising it. The ill will is about Pajitnov cashing in on the idea and not paying him their fair share, but not authorship. The third collaborator is sore that Pajitnov abandoned the other projects they were working on, not Pajitnov stole the idea or something.
LG and Sony are both members of the coalition that created the Blu-Ray standard, though. It's kind of perverse that LG would then turn around and start suing members of that coalition for patent infringement for using a technology they helped develop and promote. Perhaps next time somebody forms such a coalition they should put a nonagression clause in the agreement alongside the trademark licencing for the logo.
There are many, many great shape-dropping games that bring a lot to the world of game design. Columns, Puyo Puyo, Drop7, and the rest. Direct Tetris clones, as a class, typically bring absolutely nothing to the table.
I'm sure there'll be a wifi model that undercuts the iPad, but not before they send the powerful message that Android tablets are the more expensive option. By bowing to the data network's demands Motorola have really fucked the marketing.
(I should say anything above the limb of the sun to one satellite is above the limb to the other satellite as well, and can be viewed stereoscopically. They're only mutually exclusive for the sun itself.)
STEREO, as the name suggests, has been broadcasting 3D images of the sun since it launched many, many years ago. the satellites had slightly (and increasingly) different viewpoints, which could then be combined to give a binocular view of the sun. The long-term mission was to put the satellites at opposite sides of the sun for continuous coverage of the surface, a position in which they cannot generate 3D images of it because their perspectives are completely exclusive. That is what has been achieved.
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No, that's not actually technically possible with SIM Services. It's a very restricted platform, technically. For one thing it doesn't know shit about the handset it's in, much less have an ability to interrogate the GPS hardware on that handset.
Well-understood thanks to all the X-ray imaging work which depends on those. I've got no idea how practical they are for this application but I would've thought reflection was a good, simple option.
I think you mean "solar system" and not "galaxy". The nearest galaxies are millions of light years away, meaning even with the best possible technology (travelling at approximately the speed of light, in other words) we would take millions of years to get there.
There's two types of ionising radiation to worry about: ions and photons.
Ions are hugely damaging but poorly penetrating. A helium nucleus won't get past a piece of paper, for example, while a proton is stopped by a modest thickness of aluminium. They're charged, so a magnetic field will divert them. If the Earth's magnetic field wasn't there, they wouldn't get past the atmosphere anyway, but they would start to erode it. It'd be similar on a spacecraft. You don't need a magnetic field to protect the occupants, but you'd be exposing the ship's hull and outboard systems to (perhaps non-trivial) radiation damage.
Photons are not as damaging but are much more penetrating. Your old-fashioned X-ray is the classic demonstration. Our atmosphere protects us from those by absorption. You can use a kilometer of gas, or a foot of lead. Either way that means carrying a lot of mass which can be a problem for a space mission. A poster above observed that colonists would be carrying resources like water that they could use as a shield though.
I was referring to the article's tone with regard to their hypothesis' relevance to cancer treatment.
The arrogance is not present in the original source: they present their hypothesis, outline how it can be tested, and explain its potential impact on cancer research. The hyperbole and hubris comes from the author of the summary and the article, not the scientists. They only write of "new reasons for optimism".
That web scam's putative mechanism for DCA activity is that cancer cells have completely inactive mitochondria? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you even know what a mitochondrion does?
I assumed it was because they're going to be scaling back their new online output to save money, and want to reduce how bad that looks. Either they have a sparse site where there's a bare minimum of content, or they have the same sparse site alongside a huge sprawling matrix of brilliant ideas to constantly remind people of the kind of incredible projects the BBC used to spearhead online.
It's more about bringing their existing walled garden to a different space. That's probably how they expect to succeed where so very many others haven't: they can bring along the existing iOS developer support and public awareness from the iPhone and iPad.
(I recall Sega and Pace teaming up for a Dreamcast-based gaming satellite box to play casual games. It unsurprisingly floundered. That said there was a pretty decent lunar lander game on Sky Digital when it first appeared.)
You underestimate what I mean by "low-end". The Pixi is currently going for about £100 off contract in the UK recently. The X10 Mini, about £150-£200. Both are free on a £20/month outlay, or less. That's the sort of market we'll see the Veer in.
Ha ha! Precisely.
We don't, that's why we have to critically evaluate new information in light of its purported origins, its content, and the interested parties' reactions to it.
Veer's not a competitor for the iPhone 5, high-end Android etc., it's a competitor for the Xperia X10 Mini I keep seeing all over the place. Since Nokia fucked their transition to touchscreens, there's not been too many low-end, cheap, small smartphones, so it's a market HP could really make a killing in.
While that's certainly "doing journalism" it doesn't mean it's good journalism or immune from criticism. If I bake a cake out of shit, sure, I'm cooking something, but it's still a cake made out of shit.
As you say, the research is ambiguous. That's not what the article says. The article says that, according to the research, video games make you rape people.
Not quite. For the 0.1% of applications that support the phone, you can get an app on each screen, and only one active app at a time. For the 99.9% of other apps, you get no dual-screen feature at all - the app spreads itself over both screens as though they were one large one. Android doesn't have a windowing system at all, remember, it doesn't understand the idea of two apps running in the foreground.
"A few months after we started working together, Pajitnov came up with the Tetris idea. Before we met he had a computer game called Genetic Engineering. In that game the player had to move the 4-square pieces (tetramino) around the screen using cursor keys. The player could assemble various shapes. I don't remember the exact objective of that game, but it seemed rather dull.
At one of our meetings Pajitnov told Pavlovsky and me about his new idea of tetramino falling into a rectangular glass and piling up at the bottom. He believed the game might be successful. Shortly after discussing the idea Pajitnov made a prototype for Electronica 60, then I ported it to the PC using our development system. Pajitnov and I kept adding features to the program for a couple of years.
A couple of years later Pajitnov and I also developed a 2-player version of Tetris "
According to Gerasimov's article Pavlovsky has no involvement in the development of Tetris at all. They both certainly got done over financially by Pajitnov's opportunism, and Gerasimov's role in getting the game from text-mode prototype to actual game is heanously overlooked, but that doesn't mean you can go around making things up.
If there's anything the Republican party will align behind, it's putting overreaching socially invasive powers in the hands of a Supreme Leader.
I think you are drawing the wrong conclusion from the study. They did not intend to show that Stanford graduates are sociopaths. That is an interesting alternative interpretation however and one that merits future study. Given the number of repeat Stanford-esque experiments at other institutions, it should be easy to perform a meta-analysis and find out which university is attracting/creating future supervillains most efficiently.
Snopes has an updated article on "The real McCoy"'s origins right now, actually. It seems it's a distortion of an old advertising slogan for McKay's whisky. McCoy and his oiling machine existed but that seems to be about it.
Did we read the same article? Gerasimov states pretty unambiguiously that Pajitnov created the game, he (Gerasimov) ported it, the two collaborated on it for some time, and then Pajitnov left to create the Tetris Company commercialising it. The ill will is about Pajitnov cashing in on the idea and not paying him their fair share, but not authorship. The third collaborator is sore that Pajitnov abandoned the other projects they were working on, not Pajitnov stole the idea or something.
LG and Sony are both members of the coalition that created the Blu-Ray standard, though. It's kind of perverse that LG would then turn around and start suing members of that coalition for patent infringement for using a technology they helped develop and promote. Perhaps next time somebody forms such a coalition they should put a nonagression clause in the agreement alongside the trademark licencing for the logo.
There are many, many great shape-dropping games that bring a lot to the world of game design. Columns, Puyo Puyo, Drop7, and the rest. Direct Tetris clones, as a class, typically bring absolutely nothing to the table.
I'm sure there'll be a wifi model that undercuts the iPad, but not before they send the powerful message that Android tablets are the more expensive option. By bowing to the data network's demands Motorola have really fucked the marketing.
(I should say anything above the limb of the sun to one satellite is above the limb to the other satellite as well, and can be viewed stereoscopically. They're only mutually exclusive for the sun itself.)
STEREO, as the name suggests, has been broadcasting 3D images of the sun since it launched many, many years ago. the satellites had slightly (and increasingly) different viewpoints, which could then be combined to give a binocular view of the sun. The long-term mission was to put the satellites at opposite sides of the sun for continuous coverage of the surface, a position in which they cannot generate 3D images of it because their perspectives are completely exclusive. That is what has been achieved.