From a layman's perspective, I'm confused as to why it takes so long to get to LEO? How fast does this compare with the space shuttle? Why does it take so long to dock?
It's not McDonald's. You don't just drive up to it. Like a beautiful woman, you have to chase it... No, I didn't really say that.
Basically, they're taking their time checking systems out. They are doing a close approach pass to ensure that the communications and control links work before taking it in close. A Soyuz capsule has already crash-parked into the ISS with much consternation and concern. They're just being really, really careful.
That still uses a photograph as the source material. The suggestion here is that CGI will replace the source material with some type of super AI editing tools or database of easily modified scenes/models/objects.
Again, for relatively simple things like Ikea furniture (just boxes), this works well. Especially since the designers likely used a 3D program to design the thing. Then it's a simple matter to put the little in a generic room and fiddle with the lights. I can think of few things more generic looking than an Ikea furniture catalog - nothing wrong with that but it's hardly the leading edge of GCI realism.
Complicated things, not so much (at least cheaply).
It's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison (same with TFA). You hire the photographer to 1) set up the shoot 2) do the shoot and 3) display the shoot. You give him (her) a idea and direction and you get a product.
The $2/hr 3D artist might be a great 3D guy but does he know rigging / lighting / shader and all of the other disciplines needed to get a shot going? Perhaps if your goal is to have photorealistic nuts standing up on a ground plane, perhaps less so for your product shoot with a local landmark in the background.
It's really going to depend on the desired end result. Want nuts and bolts - get somebody on Blender. Want a generic picture of somebody who looks vaguely industrial staring off into space, well Shutterstock is your friend. Want something detailed with local, specialized information or oddball output requirements, call in the pros.
Now, a lot of photographic pros made generic pictures of nuts / bolts / people as a significant part of their business in the past - that's changed. But the upper end is still there and will be so for a while.
Photography's saving grace has always been that it is fairly easy to tell the real from the fake for all but the highest quality forgeries, and then an expert can usually uncover it.
Read up on your history of photography a bit. Like the Crimean War pictures. Photographs have always been altered. And people have argued whether or not a particular photograph has been altered since the beginning of photography. Photoshop only made things easier and lowered the bar.
Now we can be better stalked and assaulted by miscellaneous anonymous government bureaucrats.
FTFA:
The upgrade will include 1800 high-definition cameras, facial recognition systems, and digital archiving to replace the analog tape system in use since the 1980s
Calm down, will you? All it looks like they did was buy iPhones for the airport staff to replace their old Sony Cybershot cameras and Nokia Cellphones
Honestly, I think this whole business is more of a fetish, or compulsive fascination with file sharing on the part of the old guard, than a solution to any actual problem.
Sticks and stones may break my bones - But protocol poisoning excites me.
The cop forced him to make that choice in the first place, and things may well have gone poorly for him had he tried to enforce his rights. Police have a somewhat dangerous job, and deal with that by acting as total control freaks; they respond to the word "no" with tasers and pepper-spray.
Stop watching so much TV. In fact, turn the thing off and go on a shift with a couple of policemen. You might learn something on how to deal with human beings.
Yes, there are asshole cops. There are asshole programmers. There are asshole baristas. Yes, there are incidents of policemen doing things they should not. Pretty bad incidents. Yes, you can be tossed in jail for all the wrong reasons (or no reasons whatsoever). But it usually doesn't end up like that. Life in the US isn't nearly the hard edged good vs. evil, libertarian vs. totalitarian than you seem to be trying to make it.
In this particular case, you would not even have to let the officer search your car. You could show him the note from the doctor, he could have accepted it and all go about their lives. Yes, the cop could have called in the Hazmat people, the SWAT team and the big truck from 'Men In Black', but he didn't.
Detectability of action does not equal illegality of action. Being "detectable" should not be a reason for law enforcement to violate your right of moving freely.
They didn't 'violate his right' to move freely. He wasn't detained, molested, interrogated, fined, threatened, cajoled or forced to log in to Facebook.
He was on a public road. You know, the kind that explicitly allows police to enforce rules and regulations.
He was doing something that was potentially dangerous. Of course, it turned out to be a big meh and both the 'victim' and the police didn't seem to get excited. You don't get a free pass on the freeway to do whatever the hell you want. There is always going to be a balance between public safety and potential police intrusion of privacy and freedom, but this really isn't a good test case for same.
Well, I'm going to blow some credibility and suggest that they are the baryonic flux detectors that help Bweryang and Bob keep track of all the resident aliens in Connecticut.
Very good explanation, on Rt 84 they have those white boxes over the road right before the weigh station. When the weigh station is open there are usually one or two state police vehicles hovering around.
Funny, I always thought those were doughnut dispensers.
Other than the 'terror' aspect of it, most medical grade material would make a bad dirty bomb because of the short half life. You could simply ignore the problem and it would go away. To be truly effective, cleanup should be difficult and expensive, ala Fukashima. Further, most medical isotopes are made in small quantities so getting enough to be able to 'do something' would not be trivial.
Of course, it's not quite so simple, radioactive iodine or cesium would make a particularly nasty dirty bomb because of it's rapid takeup in tissues which would tend to cause thyroid or bone cancers. Anything that is an alpha emitter would tend to cause cancers down the line if quantities were high.
However, anything that lights off a Geiger counter would get you on the OMG news and therefore create enough fear and consternation to allow you to print up a big 'Mission Accomplished' banner.
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Awesome and this is how a democracy should work. Can anyone just remind me why we don't like the French?
"What are you doing in England, then?"
"Mind your own business."
From a layman's perspective, I'm confused as to why it takes so long to get to LEO? How fast does this compare with the space shuttle? Why does it take so long to dock?
It's not McDonald's. You don't just drive up to it. Like a beautiful woman, you have to chase it... No, I didn't really say that.
Basically, they're taking their time checking systems out. They are doing a close approach pass to ensure that the communications and control links work before taking it in close. A Soyuz capsule has already crash-parked into the ISS with much consternation and concern. They're just being really, really careful.
The power of the Lord compels you to use Dropbox.
May Saint Steven smite you dead with a Thunderbolt from the iCloud.
Clueless heathens....
Steve Jobs of course, for inventing alternating current (to be copied later by Tesla).
And, apparently, Time Travel.
That must be what Time Capsules are for.
We could start by replacing the /. "editors" by very small shell scripts...
We did.
Last week.
Hasn't helped so far.
That still uses a photograph as the source material. The suggestion here is that CGI will replace the source material with some type of super AI editing tools or database of easily modified scenes/models/objects.
Like this?
Again, for relatively simple things like Ikea furniture (just boxes), this works well. Especially since the designers likely used a 3D program to design the thing. Then it's a simple matter to put the little in a generic room and fiddle with the lights. I can think of few things more generic looking than an Ikea furniture catalog - nothing wrong with that but it's hardly the leading edge of GCI realism.
Complicated things, not so much (at least cheaply).
It's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison (same with TFA). You hire the photographer to 1) set up the shoot 2) do the shoot and 3) display the shoot. You give him (her) a idea and direction and you get a product.
The $2/hr 3D artist might be a great 3D guy but does he know rigging / lighting / shader and all of the other disciplines needed to get a shot going? Perhaps if your goal is to have photorealistic nuts standing up on a ground plane, perhaps less so for your product shoot with a local landmark in the background.
It's really going to depend on the desired end result. Want nuts and bolts - get somebody on Blender. Want a generic picture of somebody who looks vaguely industrial staring off into space, well Shutterstock is your friend. Want something detailed with local, specialized information or oddball output requirements, call in the pros.
Now, a lot of photographic pros made generic pictures of nuts / bolts / people as a significant part of their business in the past - that's changed. But the upper end is still there and will be so for a while.
Photography's saving grace has always been that it is fairly easy to tell the real from the fake for all but the highest quality forgeries, and then an expert can usually uncover it.
Read up on your history of photography a bit. Like the Crimean War pictures. Photographs have always been altered. And people have argued whether or not a particular photograph has been altered since the beginning of photography. Photoshop only made things easier and lowered the bar.
Way lowered it.
Now we can be better stalked and assaulted by miscellaneous anonymous government bureaucrats.
FTFA:
The upgrade will include 1800 high-definition cameras, facial recognition systems, and digital archiving to replace the analog tape system in use since the 1980s
Calm down, will you? All it looks like they did was buy iPhones for the airport staff to replace their old Sony Cybershot cameras and Nokia Cellphones
The one thing that does bother me is the chromatic aberration - especially at higher magnifications, the overlap between the colors is very jarring.
I rather doubt the CA filters in Photoshop could handle this problem, but it would give you a more esthetic result.
Honestly, I think this whole business is more of a fetish, or compulsive fascination with file sharing on the part of the old guard, than a solution to any actual problem.
Sticks and stones may break my bones -
But protocol poisoning excites me.
Twisted fucks....
Burma Shave.
So it pays to think ahead.
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I would venture to bet that he was over-radiated and would not have hit the threshold otherwise.
I would venture to bet that you have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
The cop forced him to make that choice in the first place, and things may well have gone poorly for him had he tried to enforce his rights. Police have a somewhat dangerous job, and deal with that by acting as total control freaks; they respond to the word "no" with tasers and pepper-spray.
Stop watching so much TV. In fact, turn the thing off and go on a shift with a couple of policemen. You might learn something on how to deal with human beings.
Yes, there are asshole cops. There are asshole programmers. There are asshole baristas. Yes, there are incidents of policemen doing things they should not. Pretty bad incidents. Yes, you can be tossed in jail for all the wrong reasons (or no reasons whatsoever). But it usually doesn't end up like that. Life in the US isn't nearly the hard edged good vs. evil, libertarian vs. totalitarian than you seem to be trying to make it.
In this particular case, you would not even have to let the officer search your car. You could show him the note from the doctor, he could have accepted it and all go about their lives. Yes, the cop could have called in the Hazmat people, the SWAT team and the big truck from 'Men In Black', but he didn't.
Detectability of action does not equal illegality of action. Being "detectable" should not be a reason for law enforcement to violate your right of moving freely.
They didn't 'violate his right' to move freely. He wasn't detained, molested, interrogated, fined, threatened, cajoled or forced to log in to Facebook.
He was on a public road. You know, the kind that explicitly allows police to enforce rules and regulations.
He was doing something that was potentially dangerous. Of course, it turned out to be a big meh and both the 'victim' and the police didn't seem to get excited. You don't get a free pass on the freeway to do whatever the hell you want. There is always going to be a balance between public safety and potential police intrusion of privacy and freedom, but this really isn't a good test case for same.
Well, I'm going to blow some credibility and suggest that they are the baryonic flux detectors that help Bweryang and Bob keep track of all the resident aliens in Connecticut.
Very good explanation, on Rt 84 they have those white boxes over the road right before the weigh station. When the weigh station is open there are usually one or two state police vehicles hovering around.
Funny, I always thought those were doughnut dispensers.
Other than the 'terror' aspect of it, most medical grade material would make a bad dirty bomb because of the short half life. You could simply ignore the problem and it would go away. To be truly effective, cleanup should be difficult and expensive, ala Fukashima. Further, most medical isotopes are made in small quantities so getting enough to be able to 'do something' would not be trivial.
Of course, it's not quite so simple, radioactive iodine or cesium would make a particularly nasty dirty bomb because of it's rapid takeup in tissues which would tend to cause thyroid or bone cancers. Anything that is an alpha emitter would tend to cause cancers down the line if quantities were high.
However, anything that lights off a Geiger counter would get you on the OMG news and therefore create enough fear and consternation to allow you to print up a big 'Mission Accomplished' banner.
'Wiretap friendly'?
"Hey baby, wanna come over to my one time pad? I've gone some new insulated alligator clips that you ought to see."