Handheld GPS units probably have much better battery life than an Android. The GPS device is only made to do only one thing, while an Android is a portable computer and uses a lot more juice accordingly.
This is just the Canary Trap, which is nothing new. It's in fact been around long before Tom Clancy gave it that name. Why do they get to patent it if it's demonstrably older than that?
A couple of concerns with this suit. If it increases the strength of the human user 10x, the biggest limitation is going to be hand strength. Your arms may now be able to lift 500 kg, but if your hand muscles (and hand and arm bones) cannot handle 500 kg, then the strength enhancement is pretty useless.
Similarly, if you're thinking of using it in combat (a la Ripley in Aliens), you can't punch any harder than your hand can, nor can you swing or carry a weapon any heavier than your hand can. So it needs either some kind of powered glove at the end, or some kind of simple waldoed hand at the end that you can control with your hands.
No matter how unethical the common public decries it as, as soon as the technology becomes available there will be people trying to genetically engineer a 'super soldier'. The sheer amount of money put into professional sports and military technology is an indicator that if the technology exists, there will be people willing to take the chance. You just have to genetically engineer a zygote, implant it into a surrogate mother from a 3rd world country who is willing to do such things for money, and have the baby brought to gestation at a facility in a 'country of convenience' (somewhere in eastern europe, SE asia, etc.). You now have your genetic superbaby.
Similarly as soon as the technology to target and trigger genes for increased intelligence, beauty, immune system, etc. is found, there will be rich parents from all over the world willing to pay top dollar to ensure their child is a perfect beautiful genius, no matter what laws may be in place to stop such genetic tampering. Even if you pass laws in the U.S. and other 1st-world nations, once the technology exists there will be clinics in India, Bulgaria, Georgia, and such places where the genetic treatment can be done.
I realize this technology has great potential to help cure all sorts of genetic and other health problems, but it really is a Pandora's box. Professor Hanson's statement:
"Right now, this is impossible to do - putting a gene into muscle. It's unethical. And I don't think you'd want to do this. These animals are rather aggressive, we've noticed."
seems incredibly naive to me. This is classic Pandora: he has too narrow of an idea of where and how his technology may be used or abused, and that others - even those with similar technical ability - may not share his sense of morality.
The social aspects of this study will never be meaningful. The kind of people that will qualify for something as demanding and monumental as a manned mission to Mars are not the same kind of people that are willing and able to drop their lives for 17 months stuck in a metal box 5 other people (i.e. the kind of losers that are on Big Brother and other 'reality' TV shows).
Pretty much any engineering discipline is good. You use math and science to solve practical problems, and you are paid well for it. One engineering field that has a shortage right now is Nuclear Engineering. The main core of nuclear engineers is retiring this decade, and there aren't many in the ranks to replace them. Add to that the US now building the first new nuclear power plants in decades, it should be a good market for nuclear engineers to find employment.
Exactly. Or instead of all the obvious and stupid destruction of property, instead clip a wire or something in it so flipping the 'on' switch doesn't do anything. It won't work, and he can't tell the difference.
You can't mention Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) without also mentioning Sean Davidson (David Bradley)! They could both be contenders!
Favorite line from American Ninja: Black Star Ninja: He posess great skills!
Favorite line from American Ninja 2: Curtis Jackson: Ninjas. We've seen this problem before.
Seriously though, Steven Hayes is certainly the most well-known student of Hatsumi's, although I don't know enough about Bujinkan to know who there other high-ranking disciples are, etc. It will be interesting to see what happens when he passes away. Other Japanese masters are in a similar situation, such as Taika Seiyu Oyata, who will almost certainly have an American successor.
My bad. You're right, ePSXe isn't open source. I simply assumed it was since it was 1)free and 2)available for Linux. But there's no download for the sourcecode, and no mention of any open source on the site. But I got it all working fine in just a few hours, and am no playing Bushido Blade 1 and 2 (my favorites on the PSX) and Xenogears, which I have never played but heard good things about and so I'm giving it a try.
Who cares if the actual PS one is no longer being sold? There are good emulators for the PSX out there, ePSXe being the best. Everything is freely downloadable and open-source, except for the actual BIOS files. (Which you'll probably end up getting via P2P) Once you're all set up, you can play any PSX game right on your computer, and it even supports linked play via inter/intranet.
I agree. That article was nothing more than empty marketing lingo and hot air. I would say that the time has already come and gone for Eidos to bury the Tomb Raider franchise. This is the same crap we heard before the launch of Angel of Darkness, and that was one of the crappiest games I've ever played. Gameplay, story, mechanics, all were crap. I'll wait a couple of months after Legends has come out, and if people are still saying that it's a decent game, then I might take a look at it.
Just call and tell them you want to cancel your service. They'll give you another free month or so without asking any questions. I myself did this long enough to use AOL for a full 6 months without ever paying for it, and have heard of people stringing them on for much longer. When you finally have to ditch them, just say that you're moving to an apartment that has ethernet pre-installed. In my case, it was the truth.
Nah, nobody has done anything more at the ~30nm scale than simply creating interference patterns to create lines and spaces. But I'm attending that conference this week, so I'll be sure to check out thier keynote address.
RIT does have a good immersion tool, we (UT at Austin) went over to RIT to use thier tool to test some immersion fluids we were looking at. We put in our high-index fluid, and we had 32nm spaces and lines just like that!
But beyond that, getting an immersion fluid with an index of refraction significantly higher than water is full of problems. Adding ions to water won't work because it makes the fluid too highly absorbing at 193. Organic fluids are the only other available choice, but they have very low surface tension and high viscosity, which will make scanning speeds much lower and therefore the prices of devices made with them much more expensive.
I agree with the majority of the posters on this sub-topic, that only Hienlien's more 'juvenile' works could be adapted well into a movie format.
Red Planet - yes Farmer in the Sky - yes The Puppet Masters - yes (but already been done, albeit badly) Starman Jones - yes Double Star - YES (this could be a VERY good movie) Citizen of the Galaxy - yes Have Space Suit Will Travel - yes Starship Troopers - NO (Unfortunately, they tried to make this one. Never should have been done) Stranger in a Strange Land - no (For obvious reasons, mentioned in earlier posts) Podkayne of Mars - yes (I think this could work, although the screen adaptation would have to be careful about handling the nuclear bomb explosion) The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - no (Great book, but it just wouldn't sell as a movie unless they took out all the polyandry) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - NO (not a chance)
Those are all of Heinlein's books that I have read.
Hear hear! Exo Squad is about the last US cartoon that I remember watching and really enjoying. It could make a good movie. If they could do a decent job with the Neo-sapiens, there really isn't anything else they couldn't do special-effects wise these days. (Might have to make the Neo-sapiens normal human height instead of 8' tall, or they could pull the reverse of the LOTR perspective tricks.) But casting for Lt. Marsh, Marsala, and Governor-General Phaeton would be critical.
Hmm... Actually, if a major Western newspaper had a cartoon that depicted Vishnu eating beef or something, that very likely could spark protests and even violence in poor, ultra-conservative regions of India.
You probably are right about Jews not over-reacting like Muslims do if something like this happened to them, though I'm not sure what would really upset them so. Probably something that combined eating of pork with denying the holocaust or something... Anyway, the Jewish community is well-used and well-versed in dealing with any kind of perceived anti-semitism, and they are always very careful to do it from a position of moral superiority.
This position (or at least percieved position) of moral superiority is what I feel the Islamic world lacks in the eyes of the Western world. I think that as long as there are Muslims that are blowing themselves up in crowded areas in order to kill innocent bystanders, or are raiding embassies and killing people because of a cartoon published in a country thousands of kilometers away in a newpaper they can't even read, your average Westerner won't care how many disadavantaged Muslim youth there are in Western Europe or how much Middle-Easterners are slandered and discriminated against in the West, because we will continue to see them as a bunch of crazy, death-worshiping zealots.
We either need to learn not to view them as one homogenous culture (which they aren't of course, any more than all of Western Europe and North America are) or they need to learn more passive ways to protest against what they view as unforgivable offenses.
I personally think this is great, because now I and many other people will get to see places of great wonder and beauty that we would never be able to see otherwise.
I will never travel there to see any of them, because going there would violate one of the first rules of safe international travel for Americans: Never go anywhere on the entire continent of Africa. This rule is only second to an even more important rule: Never travel to a country whose name ends in -stan.
Considering how much worse the 2nd movie and then the series were from the 1st, and then admitting that the orinignal movie was pretty crappy to start with, I don't even want to know what this next movie is going to end up as.
Shakey's is a little different in Japan than it is in the U.S. They have an all you can eat pizza-by-the-slice buffet, but since they use super-thin crust on thier pizza, your average American can eat dozens of slices before they are seriously full. Many of the pizzas are generally not palatable to most Americans, but if you don't mind corn and tuna on your pizza you'll be fine. Eating tons of pizza does make the management unhappy with you though. (I almost got kicked out of one for eating too much, and have acquaintances that have...)
I'm an engineer and my wife is a veterinary nurse. So far, our first child is a girl. My wife wanted a girl, I'm pretty indifferent. Who knows what our second will be?
As for all the timing/positions/diet/etc. to affect the sex of your child? I'll believe it when I see something definate published in Nature. Good luck doing a double-blind scientific test! (Sounds a little kinky. You'd need hundreds of clones on identical menstrual cycles, or something impossible like that.)
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Handheld GPS units probably have much better battery life than an Android. The GPS device is only made to do only one thing, while an Android is a portable computer and uses a lot more juice accordingly.
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Paraphrase of TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As Free Energy.
Amen.
This is just the Canary Trap, which is nothing new. It's in fact been around long before Tom Clancy gave it that name. Why do they get to patent it if it's demonstrably older than that?
With Windows 7 due to be released in 2010, and Redmond apparently eager to move on from XP, perhaps this is not really a 'goof' at all?
Never blame on a conspiracy what you can blame on incompetence.
I'm not sure what it says for my taste in movies that I instantly recognized this quote, but none of the earlier ones.
A couple of concerns with this suit. If it increases the strength of the human user 10x, the biggest limitation is going to be hand strength. Your arms may now be able to lift 500 kg, but if your hand muscles (and hand and arm bones) cannot handle 500 kg, then the strength enhancement is pretty useless.
Similarly, if you're thinking of using it in combat (a la Ripley in Aliens), you can't punch any harder than your hand can, nor can you swing or carry a weapon any heavier than your hand can. So it needs either some kind of powered glove at the end, or some kind of simple waldoed hand at the end that you can control with your hands.
Similarly as soon as the technology to target and trigger genes for increased intelligence, beauty, immune system, etc. is found, there will be rich parents from all over the world willing to pay top dollar to ensure their child is a perfect beautiful genius, no matter what laws may be in place to stop such genetic tampering. Even if you pass laws in the U.S. and other 1st-world nations, once the technology exists there will be clinics in India, Bulgaria, Georgia, and such places where the genetic treatment can be done.
I realize this technology has great potential to help cure all sorts of genetic and other health problems, but it really is a Pandora's box. Professor Hanson's statement: seems incredibly naive to me. This is classic Pandora: he has too narrow of an idea of where and how his technology may be used or abused, and that others - even those with similar technical ability - may not share his sense of morality.
The social aspects of this study will never be meaningful. The kind of people that will qualify for something as demanding and monumental as a manned mission to Mars are not the same kind of people that are willing and able to drop their lives for 17 months stuck in a metal box 5 other people (i.e. the kind of losers that are on Big Brother and other 'reality' TV shows).
Pretty much any engineering discipline is good. You use math and science to solve practical problems, and you are paid well for it. One engineering field that has a shortage right now is Nuclear Engineering. The main core of nuclear engineers is retiring this decade, and there aren't many in the ranks to replace them. Add to that the US now building the first new nuclear power plants in decades, it should be a good market for nuclear engineers to find employment.
Exactly. Or instead of all the obvious and stupid destruction of property, instead clip a wire or something in it so flipping the 'on' switch doesn't do anything. It won't work, and he can't tell the difference.
You can't mention Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) without also mentioning Sean Davidson (David Bradley)! They could both be contenders!
Favorite line from American Ninja:
Black Star Ninja: He posess great skills!
Favorite line from American Ninja 2:
Curtis Jackson: Ninjas. We've seen this problem before.
Seriously though, Steven Hayes is certainly the most well-known student of Hatsumi's, although I don't know enough about Bujinkan to know who there other high-ranking disciples are, etc. It will be interesting to see what happens when he passes away. Other Japanese masters are in a similar situation, such as Taika Seiyu Oyata, who will almost certainly have an American successor.
My bad. You're right, ePSXe isn't open source. I simply assumed it was since it was 1)free and 2)available for Linux. But there's no download for the sourcecode, and no mention of any open source on the site. But I got it all working fine in just a few hours, and am no playing Bushido Blade 1 and 2 (my favorites on the PSX) and Xenogears, which I have never played but heard good things about and so I'm giving it a try.
Who cares if the actual PS one is no longer being sold? There are good emulators for the PSX out there, ePSXe being the best. Everything is freely downloadable and open-source, except for the actual BIOS files. (Which you'll probably end up getting via P2P) Once you're all set up, you can play any PSX game right on your computer, and it even supports linked play via inter/intranet.
I agree. That article was nothing more than empty marketing lingo and hot air. I would say that the time has already come and gone for Eidos to bury the Tomb Raider franchise. This is the same crap we heard before the launch of Angel of Darkness, and that was one of the crappiest games I've ever played. Gameplay, story, mechanics, all were crap. I'll wait a couple of months after Legends has come out, and if people are still saying that it's a decent game, then I might take a look at it.
Just call and tell them you want to cancel your service. They'll give you another free month or so without asking any questions. I myself did this long enough to use AOL for a full 6 months without ever paying for it, and have heard of people stringing them on for much longer. When you finally have to ditch them, just say that you're moving to an apartment that has ethernet pre-installed. In my case, it was the truth.
Nah, nobody has done anything more at the ~30nm scale than simply creating interference patterns to create lines and spaces. But I'm attending that conference this week, so I'll be sure to check out thier keynote address.
RIT does have a good immersion tool, we (UT at Austin) went over to RIT to use thier tool to test some immersion fluids we were looking at. We put in our high-index fluid, and we had 32nm spaces and lines just like that!
But beyond that, getting an immersion fluid with an index of refraction significantly higher than water is full of problems. Adding ions to water won't work because it makes the fluid too highly absorbing at 193. Organic fluids are the only other available choice, but they have very low surface tension and high viscosity, which will make scanning speeds much lower and therefore the prices of devices made with them much more expensive.
I agree with the majority of the posters on this sub-topic, that only Hienlien's more 'juvenile' works could be adapted well into a movie format.
Red Planet - yes
Farmer in the Sky - yes
The Puppet Masters - yes (but already been done, albeit badly)
Starman Jones - yes
Double Star - YES (this could be a VERY good movie)
Citizen of the Galaxy - yes
Have Space Suit Will Travel - yes
Starship Troopers - NO (Unfortunately, they tried to make this one. Never should have been done)
Stranger in a Strange Land - no (For obvious reasons, mentioned in earlier posts)
Podkayne of Mars - yes (I think this could work, although the screen adaptation would have to be careful about handling the nuclear bomb explosion)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - no (Great book, but it just wouldn't sell as a movie unless they took out all the polyandry)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - NO (not a chance)
Those are all of Heinlein's books that I have read.
Hear hear! Exo Squad is about the last US cartoon that I remember watching and really enjoying. It could make a good movie. If they could do a decent job with the Neo-sapiens, there really isn't anything else they couldn't do special-effects wise these days. (Might have to make the Neo-sapiens normal human height instead of 8' tall, or they could pull the reverse of the LOTR perspective tricks.) But casting for Lt. Marsh, Marsala, and Governor-General Phaeton would be critical.
Hmm... Actually, if a major Western newspaper had a cartoon that depicted Vishnu eating beef or something, that very likely could spark protests and even violence in poor, ultra-conservative regions of India.
You probably are right about Jews not over-reacting like Muslims do if something like this happened to them, though I'm not sure what would really upset them so. Probably something that combined eating of pork with denying the holocaust or something... Anyway, the Jewish community is well-used and well-versed in dealing with any kind of perceived anti-semitism, and they are always very careful to do it from a position of moral superiority.
This position (or at least percieved position) of moral superiority is what I feel the Islamic world lacks in the eyes of the Western world. I think that as long as there are Muslims that are blowing themselves up in crowded areas in order to kill innocent bystanders, or are raiding embassies and killing people because of a cartoon published in a country thousands of kilometers away in a newpaper they can't even read, your average Westerner won't care how many disadavantaged Muslim youth there are in Western Europe or how much Middle-Easterners are slandered and discriminated against in the West, because we will continue to see them as a bunch of crazy, death-worshiping zealots.
We either need to learn not to view them as one homogenous culture (which they aren't of course, any more than all of Western Europe and North America are) or they need to learn more passive ways to protest against what they view as unforgivable offenses.
I personally think this is great, because now I and many other people will get to see places of great wonder and beauty that we would never be able to see otherwise.
I will never travel there to see any of them, because going there would violate one of the first rules of safe international travel for Americans: Never go anywhere on the entire continent of Africa. This rule is only second to an even more important rule: Never travel to a country whose name ends in -stan.
Considering how much worse the 2nd movie and then the series were from the 1st, and then admitting that the orinignal movie was pretty crappy to start with, I don't even want to know what this next movie is going to end up as.
Shakey's is a little different in Japan than it is in the U.S. They have an all you can eat pizza-by-the-slice buffet, but since they use super-thin crust on thier pizza, your average American can eat dozens of slices before they are seriously full. Many of the pizzas are generally not palatable to most Americans, but if you don't mind corn and tuna on your pizza you'll be fine. Eating tons of pizza does make the management unhappy with you though. (I almost got kicked out of one for eating too much, and have acquaintances that have...)
I'm an engineer and my wife is a veterinary nurse. So far, our first child is a girl. My wife wanted a girl, I'm pretty indifferent. Who knows what our second will be?
As for all the timing/positions/diet/etc. to affect the sex of your child? I'll believe it when I see something definate published in Nature. Good luck doing a double-blind scientific test! (Sounds a little kinky. You'd need hundreds of clones on identical menstrual cycles, or something impossible like that.)