Who cares if it's purple? You've completely blown out that portion of the picture anyway. If you think that you've got an award winning photo otherwise (because you've been off your antipsychotic meds for a week), you can just desaturate that color locally in GIMP / Photoshop / Paint.Net or whatever and pretend you did it all on purpose.
I'm pretty sure he meant This article. The problem here is you can move any of the cameras a couple of degrees and change the pretty color from white to purple to perhaps blue or red. It's called a prism.
And if anybody thinks that a silly cell phone camera is going to deal with shooting into the sun with any degree of success, you're nuts. "Real" photographers understand that shooting into the sun works only sometimes - depends critically on the angle, the specific lens and camera and the brightness. I would hazard a guess that if the upset iPhone 5 user would simple twist the camera a few degrees, the purple haze would disappear and he would be free to win the Pulitzer Price as well as the National Geographic picture of the year. Or not.
They keep throwing around this phrase "within 20 feet", but what does it actually mean? Were they a short walk away from touching the nuclear material, or were they separated from it by 20 feet of steel walls and blast doors? You can fit a lot of security into twenty feet.
The logical answer is yes, there is a significant mechanical barrier that needs to be penetrated before you can get your paws on the uranium. However, given the DOE's approach to security, it's possible that the stuff is held an a metal sided shack in 55 gallon drums. Of course, it's going to be difficult for the nun, et. al. to do anything with it. It's not like they're going to pick up the stuff and run very far so I'm not so worried.
It really is all theater, but I haven't figured out if this is a comedy or a tragedy.
The United States has a huge military, is overtly increasing it's capabilities and has obvious aspirations to regional (ie, Pacific Ocean) military hegemony.
There are many concerns about Chinese companies' safety records, as well as the issues of foreign ownership of companies which exploit local natural resources....
Substitute 'Great Britain' for 'Chinese' in your sentence and you have an interesting counterpoint.
I would agree that the Weather Balloon Fraternity is less economically and politically advantaged as the GPS community, but ground based radio balloon stations could be upgraded with better antennas / receivers and it might well be a better fit than trying to upgrade millions on tiny little GPS receivers stuck in everyone and everything.
Again, it would be important not to take Lightsquared's take on this without some due diligence. They haven't shown much of a grasp of radio frequency physics in the past.
Although I don't have much respect for Lightsquared, they do bring up an interesting issue - making sure that the available radio frequency spectrum is being used for the 'best' purposes. Of course, 'best' as defined by Lightsquared is what makes money for them, but it could be argued that given advancements in radiotechnology and lessening importance of weather balloons, this switch might be advantageous to society at large.
I'd feel better in the FCC agreed and auctioned the spectrum rather that give it to the ol squeaky wheel.
Not necessarily. While a bad home environment is the cause of many of societies recursive ills, there is quite a bit of research on de novo human psychological pathology. Some kids are just bad.
I recall watching a couple of videos on 5 year olds that talk about starting fires, knifing siblings and torturing animals. The families, as best as can be reconstructed (and notice that is a significant caveat, but there are lots of examples of this sort of thing) aren't in any way malignant. It's just something in their neurological development that went astray.
These kids appear to have been born that way and they are friggin scary.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Sociopathy isn't a black / white thing. Most people have sociopathic tendencies at times. Some people are really, really bad sociopaths. The latter often end up in prison or politics, or both. Most leaders in business have more sociopathic tendencies than say, most rank and file.
So, for our pet sociopath in this discussion, it's a little premature to suggest he be placed on an ice flow with a hungry polar bear (although this imagery is comforting when thinking about most members of Congress). But he does need some close evaluation.
As Raven64 noted somewhere above, you can create situations where the sociopathic tendencies can be controlled. Probation is one - most people don't want to go to jail. If they're smart enough and not too fucked up, you can rig it so the big hammer stays over their head for long periods of time. He might just change enough of his behavior to get by in society and become, say, a member of Parliament.
Regardless, one thing that most people don't know is that Ahmadinejad has very little actual power. He's just a figurehead who blathers on for the media. Iran might look like a democracy on paper, but the real power is held by the Iranian clergy.
The biggest difference between now and then is the individual consumer. Windows was never a big money maker in the home market and, objectively, was never very successful. Viruses, malware, borked installations, the constant jokes about the technically declined. What Apple has managed to pull off is the gizmo-as-appliance. Don't know what a file is? No problem. Can't handle control sequences? No problem.
The walled-garden approach is brilliant for these people. They NEED the curated experience. They don't want to mess with the stupid things and don't want to put a lot of effort into understanding the gizmo.
Microsoft took over the Enterprise space (and makes tons of money doing so) by being flexible and working well enough while giving developers a more-or-less standard application platform. We tend to bitch and whine about it but when you go into your local bank branch you don't see Linux and you don't see OS X.
So the whole world is a bit different. Consumers are buying gizmos at an unprecedented pace and it's not the gizmo that Microsoft has been selling. They'd love to get that space back. As usual, they are going about it in their confusing and uncoordinated dazed-rhinocerous fashion. Perhaps when the ketamine wears off....
Exactly this. Anyone who thinks war will be fought by humans in planes/spacecraft in the future is deluding themselves. In fact this is going to become a big societal problem going forward. How do you discourage world war 3 when there is almost no risk of your soldiers being hurt in the fighting?
Cost. All wars are resource wars.
We're getting trounced in Afghanistan, not because we're losing people (we lose more people in car wrecks), but because we're spending way too much money on it. That's how we beat the Ruskies. That's likely how the Chinese will beat us.
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Yes, but is the flare purple?
Who cares if it's purple? You've completely blown out that portion of the picture anyway. If you think that you've got an award winning photo otherwise (because you've been off your antipsychotic meds for a week), you can just desaturate that color locally in GIMP / Photoshop / Paint.Net or whatever and pretend you did it all on purpose.
Your basing this on one picture. Others would disagree.
Calm down.
No more caffeine for all of you for at least 30 minutes.
I'm pretty sure he meant This article. The problem here is you can move any of the cameras a couple of degrees and change the pretty color from white to purple to perhaps blue or red. It's called a prism.
And if anybody thinks that a silly cell phone camera is going to deal with shooting into the sun with any degree of success, you're nuts. "Real" photographers understand that shooting into the sun works only sometimes - depends critically on the angle, the specific lens and camera and the brightness. I would hazard a guess that if the upset iPhone 5 user would simple twist the camera a few degrees, the purple haze would disappear and he would be free to win the Pulitzer Price as well as the National Geographic picture of the year. Or not.
See, this is a feature, not a bug. You spent hundreds of dollars to modify your camera for IR shooting. iPhone 5 users get this for free!
Apple is so ahead of the curve.
I'm looking forward to it. Just think of the flame wars-to-be!
(Gets comfy couch, popcorn)
And MS doesn't give a shit. License costs are license costs no matter what the OS is doing.
Not much of the world is particularly 'creative' - but as long as they have a checkbook, then Ballmer is a happy camper.
Your forgetting the rounded rectangles. It's always the rounded rectangles.
In fact, for a while, it seemed like it was rounded rectangles all the way down.
They keep throwing around this phrase "within 20 feet", but what does it actually mean? Were they a short walk away from touching the nuclear material, or were they separated from it by 20 feet of steel walls and blast doors? You can fit a lot of security into twenty feet.
The logical answer is yes, there is a significant mechanical barrier that needs to be penetrated before you can get your paws on the uranium. However, given the DOE's approach to security, it's possible that the stuff is held an a metal sided shack in 55 gallon drums. Of course, it's going to be difficult for the nun, et. al. to do anything with it. It's not like they're going to pick up the stuff and run very far so I'm not so worried.
It really is all theater, but I haven't figured out if this is a comedy or a tragedy.
Two Scientists enter!
Eight Scientists leave!
(This might not work out they way you had planned it ... )
The United States has a huge military, is overtly increasing it's capabilities and has obvious aspirations to regional (ie, Pacific Ocean) military hegemony.
Funny, seems to work this way as well.
There are many concerns about Chinese companies' safety records, as well as the issues of foreign ownership of companies which exploit local natural resources ... .
Substitute 'Great Britain' for 'Chinese' in your sentence and you have an interesting counterpoint.
I would agree that the Weather Balloon Fraternity is less economically and politically advantaged as the GPS community, but ground based radio balloon stations could be upgraded with better antennas / receivers and it might well be a better fit than trying to upgrade millions on tiny little GPS receivers stuck in everyone and everything.
Again, it would be important not to take Lightsquared's take on this without some due diligence. They haven't shown much of a grasp of radio frequency physics in the past.
Although I don't have much respect for Lightsquared, they do bring up an interesting issue - making sure that the available radio frequency spectrum is being used for the 'best' purposes. Of course, 'best' as defined by Lightsquared is what makes money for them, but it could be argued that given advancements in radiotechnology and lessening importance of weather balloons, this switch might be advantageous to society at large.
I'd feel better in the FCC agreed and auctioned the spectrum rather that give it to the ol squeaky wheel.
Not necessarily. While a bad home environment is the cause of many of societies recursive ills, there is quite a bit of research on de novo human psychological pathology. Some kids are just bad.
I recall watching a couple of videos on 5 year olds that talk about starting fires, knifing siblings and torturing animals. The families, as best as can be reconstructed (and notice that is a significant caveat, but there are lots of examples of this sort of thing) aren't in any way malignant. It's just something in their neurological development that went astray.
These kids appear to have been born that way and they are friggin scary.
You got a bug because you didn't use a Trojan.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Sociopathy isn't a black / white thing. Most people have sociopathic tendencies at times. Some people are really, really bad sociopaths. The latter often end up in prison or politics, or both. Most leaders in business have more sociopathic tendencies than say, most rank and file.
So, for our pet sociopath in this discussion, it's a little premature to suggest he be placed on an ice flow with a hungry polar bear (although this imagery is comforting when thinking about most members of Congress). But he does need some close evaluation.
As Raven64 noted somewhere above, you can create situations where the sociopathic tendencies can be controlled. Probation is one - most people don't want to go to jail. If they're smart enough and not too fucked up, you can rig it so the big hammer stays over their head for long periods of time. He might just change enough of his behavior to get by in society and become, say, a member of Parliament.
immutable, bug-free software
Good luck with that. Hardware switches are the only thing I trust...
What's wrong with hammers?
The whole concept is called skeumorphism and it's really, really annoying. Especially the way Apple does it. (How's that for wandering off topic?)
TFTFY. By and large, "real" news organizations don't make mistakes like that.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.
Regardless, one thing that most people don't know is that Ahmadinejad has very little actual power. He's just a figurehead who blathers on for the media. Iran might look like a democracy on paper, but the real power is held by the Iranian clergy.
So, it's a lot like the US?
I think the problem is that you've only focused on the building. It's more effective to stop it before it even gets to the building.
Yes. You're doing it wrong.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=home+made+EMP+gun
Perhaps the reason that anti trust lawyers aren't beating up Microsoft this time is because this isn't a violation of the Sherman Act.
Maybe they know more than you do.
The biggest difference between now and then is the individual consumer. Windows was never a big money maker in the home market and, objectively, was never very successful. Viruses, malware, borked installations, the constant jokes about the technically declined. What Apple has managed to pull off is the gizmo-as-appliance. Don't know what a file is? No problem. Can't handle control sequences? No problem.
The walled-garden approach is brilliant for these people. They NEED the curated experience. They don't want to mess with the stupid things and don't want to put a lot of effort into understanding the gizmo.
Microsoft took over the Enterprise space (and makes tons of money doing so) by being flexible and working well enough while giving developers a more-or-less standard application platform. We tend to bitch and whine about it but when you go into your local bank branch you don't see Linux and you don't see OS X.
So the whole world is a bit different. Consumers are buying gizmos at an unprecedented pace and it's not the gizmo that Microsoft has been selling. They'd love to get that space back. As usual, they are going about it in their confusing and uncoordinated dazed-rhinocerous fashion. Perhaps when the ketamine wears off ....
Exactly this. Anyone who thinks war will be fought by humans in planes/spacecraft in the future is deluding themselves. In fact this is going to become a big societal problem going forward. How do you discourage world war 3 when there is almost no risk of your soldiers being hurt in the fighting?
Cost. All wars are resource wars.
We're getting trounced in Afghanistan, not because we're losing people (we lose more people in car wrecks), but because we're spending way too much money on it. That's how we beat the Ruskies. That's likely how the Chinese will beat us.
Try looking up.
At night.