If you move a thousand miles and the source is a thousand light years away, the angular deviation is almost precisely zero.
But if you move a thousand miles and the source is ten miles away, you're basically moving out of the source's way.
So wouldn't you expect the signal to go away for a man-made satellite, and stay for an alien signal? That's the precise opposite of what they're saying.
Side lobes. Radio transmitter antennas typically do not radiate in a perfectly spherical, cow shaped arrangement. There are strong lobes and weak (side lobes). If you track the signal through space, you should get a pretty good idea what the shape really is. You can compare that to the generalized, known shapes of the antenna radiation patterns are on various spacecrafts and get a pretty good idea if it's either a satellite or the most godawful giant radio transmitter the universe has ever seen.
Ah, the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia... Powerful stuff. Why not another Industrial Revolution? Or how about another WWII?
Space race is cheap. Environmentally friendly (compared to the Industrial Revolution or a major war). Not so many deaths. If the US isn't secretly bankrolling the Chinese space effort, it should be.
No, they have better things to do than stare at an empty space station - like the Middle East for example.
Hard to imagine that the USA doesn't already have a purpose-build spy satellite in geostationary orbit above the Middle East.
Or a dozen.
The interesting thing about the XB-37 compared with, say, the Keyhole, is that it can launch with a mission specific imaging package instead of a generalized set of sensors that may not be in an optimal condition for what you want to look at. Want to use a newly developed multispectral camera to tease out Iranian suicide boats? Rack it up and boost it.
Hell, you can launch it completely empty to amaze and confuse your enemies.
That's interesting. You need a girlfriend. Or a hobby.
But lots of companies are bulking up on cash these days, not much else to do. Nobody seems to want to spend it - they can't figure out how to actually use it. So they keep it for a while until the economy starts to move again.
You'd have a lot of fun reading your typical LCD screen with polarized contact lenses. Not to mention your watch, car gauges and any aircraft window would be pretty wonky.
Even so, I wasn't terribly impressed with Avatar 3D vs 2D. It really didn't change my appreciation for the movie. And that is, so far, industry's best case.
I liked Avatar, but when I saw it in a IMAX theatre, center row, newish system - I was underwhelmed. I kept flipping the glasses on and off. I could tell it was 3D but it really didn't change my emotional (or intellectual, limited as it may be) enjoyment of the movie. Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans and Thor even less so.
What's "freedom of speech" worth if you cannot get heard? What's "freedom to information" worth if you cannot access any information but the one that you are "supposed" to get? What's freedom of conscience worth if you only get to hear the indoctrinations of the state-sanctioned church?
Technology might not be a right. But without it, some rights are quite meaningless.
So you have a government protected, nay, supported, right to sit in front of my house at 2:00 AM with a loudspeaker truck?
You have the right to talk, you have no right to be heard.
Exactly this. There is nothing wrong with government making a mandate that everyone have access to the Internet - just as it mandated that everyone had access to telephone lines (and pretty much electricity), schooling and postal service. But it is just a government mandate that can be changed at the whim of the populace^Hlobbyists, it isn't a fundamental issue of life or liberty.
The Internet shouldn't be a right, but it is tempting to declare it one as without it many peoples would be stuck under misinformation/oppression they would not have other ways of fighting.
I see the the Internet as kind of the 21st century's "right to bare arms". You do not need a gun to live your life well. You can trust your government to protect you. You can feed yourself through farming, fishing, trapping, etc. Both can enable rights and be used to remove them.
Nobody is arguing that you can't wear tank tops.
That aside, if you want to expand the second amendment to include anything that might help an individual overthrow the Federal government, then more power to you. I'd like my electricity, water, cell phone, Internet access, food and hunting licenses provided for me.
The whole point about TFArgument is that fundamental rights, those enshrined in the Constitution, are those needed to live in a just society (as we define it). Those rights are inalienable and given to us by The Flying Spaghetti Monster (bless his righteous noodlies), Chiltula, God or whatever. [And here is where his argument gets a bit thin - who created God or whatever - man did]. Civil rights**, those given by the government are more variable and are bestowed upon the populace as a measurement of government's largess - Universal telephone access is the canonical example in the US.
** Note that Cerf uses "civil rights' in a somewhat different fashion than in typical. What most Americans would call 'civil rights' (basically non discrimination) really ought to be fundamental rights - but that again goes back to man (government) really makes all of this up. Back in 1770's, women and blacks were essentially chattel, that's what God wanted....
So if my 6 year old grandson plays the game and shows a distinct penchant for flying poorly to anyone watching him IRL, will he be mistaken for a terrorist practicing crashing planes?
Look, if the TSA can start pulling off underpants from 95 year old women in wheelchairs, then the least the FBI can do is to workup every uncoordinated preadolescent for terrorist proclivities.
When I decided to upgrade my MacBook Pro's HD, I made a copy of the drive using SuperDuper (stupid name, good product) on a firewire drive, pulled the HD, replaced it, booted onto the firewire drive, copied the drive, unhooked the external drive, rebooted and started running along. Start to finish, perhaps 45 minutes.
Everything, except for some primitive DRM schemes (nice work there National Geographic TOPO maps) - including Adobe Creative suite (finally, after, what a decade of screwups, you finally fix things), all the programs, all the tweaks, all the data is happily sitting there.
You're flying in the wrong places then. I have a copy of X on a laptop that I drag out for friends who are visiting (I live in Alaska) and I show them some of the routes we might be flying over. It's fun to get people airsick before they set foot on the plane...
... since 2001, since it could supposedly possibly be used to train terrorists.
Just a few minor details citizen,
You have to be connected to the Internet to play the game. When you're connected to the Internet, we can see every keystroke, every mouse movement, every location.
Do have fun, citizen.
(from your God Fearing friends in a concrete bunker near a AT&T trunk line near you)
I remember support. It's what we used to have back in the days before public betas of supposedly finished products, where users get to find the bugs and report them on a cheap internet forum.
Yep.
"Please reinstall the operating system and reboot a few times."
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If you move a thousand miles and the source is a thousand light years away, the angular deviation is almost precisely zero.
But if you move a thousand miles and the source is ten miles away, you're basically moving out of the source's way.
So wouldn't you expect the signal to go away for a man-made satellite, and stay for an alien signal? That's the precise opposite of what they're saying.
Side lobes. Radio transmitter antennas typically do not radiate in a perfectly spherical, cow shaped arrangement. There are strong lobes and weak (side lobes). If you track the signal through space, you should get a pretty good idea what the shape really is. You can compare that to the generalized, known shapes of the antenna radiation patterns are on various spacecrafts and get a pretty good idea if it's either a satellite or the most godawful giant radio transmitter the universe has ever seen.
Ah, the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia... Powerful stuff. Why not another Industrial Revolution? Or how about another WWII?
Space race is cheap. Environmentally friendly (compared to the Industrial Revolution or a major war). Not so many deaths. If the US isn't secretly bankrolling the Chinese space effort, it should be.
No, they have better things to do than stare at an empty space station - like the Middle East for example.
Hard to imagine that the USA doesn't already have a purpose-build spy satellite in geostationary orbit above the Middle East.
Or a dozen.
The interesting thing about the XB-37 compared with, say, the Keyhole, is that it can launch with a mission specific imaging package instead of a generalized set of sensors that may not be in an optimal condition for what you want to look at. Want to use a newly developed multispectral camera to tease out Iranian suicide boats? Rack it up and boost it.
Hell, you can launch it completely empty to amaze and confuse your enemies.
The world we live in is dominated by people who love power. We would all enjoy a better life if they loved people instead. http://youronline.biz/
Great. The sixties are coming back. What's next? Nixon? Bellbottoms?
That's interesting. You need a girlfriend. Or a hobby.
But lots of companies are bulking up on cash these days, not much else to do. Nobody seems to want to spend it - they can't figure out how to actually use it. So they keep it for a while until the economy starts to move again.
Another good source of info - rather less overwhelming than DPR is Sansmirror.
You'd have a lot of fun reading your typical LCD screen with polarized contact lenses. Not to mention your watch, car gauges and any aircraft window would be pretty wonky.
Even so, I wasn't terribly impressed with Avatar 3D vs 2D. It really didn't change my appreciation for the movie. And that is, so far, industry's best case.
I liked Avatar, but when I saw it in a IMAX theatre, center row, newish system - I was underwhelmed. I kept flipping the glasses on and off. I could tell it was 3D but it really didn't change my emotional (or intellectual, limited as it may be) enjoyment of the movie. Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans and Thor even less so.
"tiny' 52 inch television?
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
aren't arms a technology?
Doubt it. I've got two of them. Got them entirely from meatspace. No technology there.
What's "freedom of speech" worth if you cannot get heard? What's "freedom to information" worth if you cannot access any information but the one that you are "supposed" to get? What's freedom of conscience worth if you only get to hear the indoctrinations of the state-sanctioned church?
Technology might not be a right. But without it, some rights are quite meaningless.
So you have a government protected, nay, supported, right to sit in front of my house at 2:00 AM with a loudspeaker truck?
You have the right to talk, you have no right to be heard.
What about freedom to open your mouth? To Speak? To SAY something? Or even to NOT say anything at all? Is this a human right?
Short answer: YES.
Freedom is nothing, if you are unable to express it, as this medium "internet" still does it.
The medium isn't the message.
Exactly this. There is nothing wrong with government making a mandate that everyone have access to the Internet - just as it mandated that everyone had access to telephone lines (and pretty much electricity), schooling and postal service. But it is just a government mandate that can be changed at the whim of the populace^Hlobbyists, it isn't a fundamental issue of life or liberty.
The Internet shouldn't be a right, but it is tempting to declare it one as without it many peoples would be stuck under misinformation/oppression they would not have other ways of fighting.
I see the the Internet as kind of the 21st century's "right to bare arms". You do not need a gun to live your life well. You can trust your government to protect you. You can feed yourself through farming, fishing, trapping, etc. Both can enable rights and be used to remove them.
Nobody is arguing that you can't wear tank tops.
That aside, if you want to expand the second amendment to include anything that might help an individual overthrow the Federal government, then more power to you. I'd like my electricity, water, cell phone, Internet access, food and hunting licenses provided for me.
The whole point about TFArgument is that fundamental rights, those enshrined in the Constitution, are those needed to live in a just society (as we define it). Those rights are inalienable and given to us by The Flying Spaghetti Monster (bless his righteous noodlies), Chiltula, God or whatever. [And here is where his argument gets a bit thin - who created God or whatever - man did]. Civil rights**, those given by the government are more variable and are bestowed upon the populace as a measurement of government's largess - Universal telephone access is the canonical example in the US.
** Note that Cerf uses "civil rights' in a somewhat different fashion than in typical. What most Americans would call 'civil rights' (basically non discrimination) really ought to be fundamental rights - but that again goes back to man (government) really makes all of this up. Back in 1770's, women and blacks were essentially chattel, that's what God wanted....
So if my 6 year old grandson plays the game and shows a distinct penchant for flying poorly to anyone watching him IRL, will he be mistaken for a terrorist practicing crashing planes?
Look, if the TSA can start pulling off underpants from 95 year old women in wheelchairs, then the least the FBI can do is to workup every uncoordinated preadolescent for terrorist proclivities.
When I decided to upgrade my MacBook Pro's HD, I made a copy of the drive using SuperDuper (stupid name, good product) on a firewire drive, pulled the HD, replaced it, booted onto the firewire drive, copied the drive, unhooked the external drive, rebooted and started running along. Start to finish, perhaps 45 minutes.
Everything, except for some primitive DRM schemes (nice work there National Geographic TOPO maps) - including Adobe Creative suite (finally, after, what a decade of screwups, you finally fix things), all the programs, all the tweaks, all the data is happily sitting there.
Welcome, Microsoft, to the 21st Century.
You're flying in the wrong places then. I have a copy of X on a laptop that I drag out for friends who are visiting (I live in Alaska) and I show them some of the routes we might be flying over. It's fun to get people airsick before they set foot on the plane ...
Just a few minor details citizen,
You have to be connected to the Internet to play the game.
When you're connected to the Internet, we can see every keystroke, every mouse movement, every location.
Do have fun, citizen.
(from your God Fearing friends in a concrete bunker near a AT&T trunk line near you)
I remember support. It's what we used to have back in the days before public betas of supposedly finished products, where users get to find the bugs and report them on a cheap internet forum.
Yep.
"Please reinstall the operating system and reboot a few times."
Those were the days ...
No, no he has a point. A typical Slashdot poster can't go through two sentences without some grammatical faux paus.
Or, you could just miss (the admittedly weak) joke for free.
Your call....
Because it's been hours, an eternity to ./, since God-bashing and Atheist-hating and...
No, we were talking about Apple and Google (respectively) then.
This is different.
Knowledge is power. People in general don't want power evenly distributed - they want it for themselves.
Everybody having everything isn't going to happen outside StarTrek.
(What Would Kirk Do?)
We just got finished pillorying Pay Pal (again).
Now we can go after Pay Pal AND Yahoo!
2012 is looking up!