Just like the flip-flopping between THIN CLIENTS ARE THE SOLUTION! and ALL POWER TO THE WORKSTATIONS! every few years - at the moment, we're in a thin-clients + remote server phase ('the cloud') - there's a general flip-flopping between localised caching when the content served grows larger than the available bandwidth (the current case with streaming video) and once more bandwidth comes online the content servers become centralised again.
They did both. Many bodies were cremated, but there were certainly mass graves, and probably open mass graves (I'm sure after the first few times you uncover the body pit you just give up on covering it until it fills up).
Yeah, sure. And encoding standards for domestic DVDs and BDs aren't going down the shitter because most customers think that youtube-quality video (i.e. something that would look at home on a cheap laserdisc, but with worse audio) is acceptable. This is the thing that pisses me off about QuickSync: sure, it's fast. But it's fast at the expense of quality, and if you turn off all the quality enhancing bits of a decent software encoder (e.g. x.264) to get a similarly poor-looking encode, it's not all that much faster anyway. But unlike the software encoder, you can't choose to encode at lower speeds for better quality, making it pretty much useless.
Wait, they expect a set of dry electrodes positioned vaguely near the back of a persons head trying to record and distinguish brainwaves to be MORE reliable than the camera system? It's hard enough to get a reliable and accurate read with wet-contact electrodes through hair!
Entirely dependant on the material. On the Moon, a ground-based slingshot launcher can feasibly get you out of the gravity well, whereas on earth you need to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps using chemical rockets.
Plus, you have the advantage of megatons of metals lying about, large flat areas for placing solar panels, and metres (or kilometres) of natural radiation shielding. The Moon is the natural shipyard for Earth-orbit and beyond.
Can you say: Shipstone? Though until battery technology allows for larger storage capacities and faster charging (without the rapid battery degradation high-current charging currently causes), putting one in a car seems like a good idea.
I'm more worried that nowhere seems to mention how the hell this system is supposed to work, beyond 'thermal pulses' and some nonsense about 'massive density increases'. Is it a travelling wave reactor? Regular natural Thorium reactor (though one of the articles specifically mentions that only beta shielding is needed, whereas a reactor would require neutron shielding)? Magical vapourware device? Much as I'd like it to work, even their website contain NO information WHATSOEVER as to how their device is meant to work. Looks like bullshit to me.
Those spliced in existing genetic code. This involves code containing amino acids that are not found in nature. Car analogy: Swapping the suspension from another car onto your own vs. machining your own suspension from scratch to a design not used on any other car.
Grey Goo is both an incredible difficult thing to make, and a very pointless thing to make. You'd be much better off with a very efficient nanodevice for performing a specific task paired with a very efficient nanodevice for making those nanodevices (but not itself). Easier and simpler.
Firefox will use however much ram you give it. While in the past, Firefox had the occasional (and quickly fixed) memory leak issue, most of the complaining seems to come from people who have installed 4gb of ram into their box and then complain if any programs ever actually use any of it.
No, they don't use the raw point cloud models, they perform some processing first. And I doubt these guys use unprocessed point clouds for their engine either, so it's a ludicrous claim.
Yep. As a static voxel engine (and I can only assume it to be, as they don't appear to have demonstrated anything else), it's impressively fast at that high a resolution, but not particularly useful for a game engine. A dynamic voxel engine however...
Observations by who? Measurements published by NISA and the IAEA (and freely available), or from 'independent' observers. Observers who often don't know the first thing about taking accurate measurements, haven't calibrated their equipment (or more commonly, don't even know it needs to be calibrated), have built their own detectors by blindly following plans on the internet, or all three. I'm all for community monitoring from competent amateurs, but I'd take any aggregate data from them with several metric tons of salt.
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While I'm sceptical about content above 1080 lines (I can't tell the difference between 4k and 8k in a reference cinema, so 4k is probably the limit of my visual acuity), but a display of higher resolution? HELL YES. Let me explain: scaling is massive pain in the ass. Whatever content you play back (or other things like fixed-resolution consoles or older PC games), you'll inevitable have to scale it. This sucks. There are many very expensive single-purpose devices designed only to make an image larger, and a lot of them aren't just scams for suckers. These devices do make a difference. Now, scaling at anything other than exact multiples is bad, and scaling by only a little bit is really bad. Scaling a lot, while not quite perfect, is reasonably so. The larger your display resolution is, the less of an impact scaling content up to it will have. Get a really high resolution, and you can even start to deal reasonable well with non-square pixels (i.e. every DVD you own, everything connected via component, s-video or composite).
Ideally, said ultra-high-resolution display would also have a very high addressable refresh rate (rather than current displays which just pulse the same image on and off at a high rate) so instead of clumsy and imperfect deinterlacing algorithms, a display could actually display interlaced content as interlaced lines, persistence of vision ('phosphor fade') and all. Then we'd be back to having almost imput-agnostic displays as CRTs were, without all the drawbacks that come with CRTs.
Pascal's wager? Really? If we're going that route, why not assume that global climate change is both more drastic than we assume (e.g. positive feedback processes like Methane Hydrate releases), and non-anthropogenic (i.e. if we suddenly stopped all CO2 emission RIGHT NOW then global temperature would continue to change as before), and conclude that we must instead put our effort into geoengineering efforts to artificially control the global climate?
It depends on whether you mean a geostationary orbit, or a geosynchronousorbit. Geostationary means you're limited to a circular orbit with a single inclination, geosynchronous can be any inclination and/or eccentricity, as long as a period is 24 hours.
MHD generators don't cool or separate anything. You pass high velocity plasma (or a conductive liquid metal in the cases of some designs) through a powerful static magnetic field, which causes an electric field to be set up at 90deg (left hand law, remember?) where two electrodes pick it up. Problems include electrode erosion, efficiency, and generation of high velocity plasma in the first place.
My secondary school had a generic internet filter on all school machines. It didn't take particularly long for everyone to figure out how to use free proxies to bypass it, and once those too began to be blocked, for a few of us to set up proxies on our home machines.
Yes, if school children set up remote proxies with ease to bypass filtering, your average consumer will have no trouble switching their DNS server if it becomes inconvenient not to do so.
They 'fixed' it by changing the default password, not by preventing the devices from sniffing and decrypting data from passers by. Break the new password, and the attack still works as before.
While I can't be 100% sure due to the slashdotting, this is probably just two clips taken from from two different episodes (11 for the CDX, and 21, the most recent, for the 360 disc changer) of The Ben Heck Show.
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Just like the flip-flopping between THIN CLIENTS ARE THE SOLUTION! and ALL POWER TO THE WORKSTATIONS! every few years - at the moment, we're in a thin-clients + remote server phase ('the cloud') - there's a general flip-flopping between localised caching when the content served grows larger than the available bandwidth (the current case with streaming video) and once more bandwidth comes online the content servers become centralised again.
Such is the circle of life!
They did both. Many bodies were cremated, but there were certainly mass graves, and probably open mass graves (I'm sure after the first few times you uncover the body pit you just give up on covering it until it fills up).
Quality is great
Yeah, sure. And encoding standards for domestic DVDs and BDs aren't going down the shitter because most customers think that youtube-quality video (i.e. something that would look at home on a cheap laserdisc, but with worse audio) is acceptable.
This is the thing that pisses me off about QuickSync: sure, it's fast. But it's fast at the expense of quality, and if you turn off all the quality enhancing bits of a decent software encoder (e.g. x.264) to get a similarly poor-looking encode, it's not all that much faster anyway. But unlike the software encoder, you can't choose to encode at lower speeds for better quality, making it pretty much useless.
Wait, they expect a set of dry electrodes positioned vaguely near the back of a persons head trying to record and distinguish brainwaves to be MORE reliable than the camera system? It's hard enough to get a reliable and accurate read with wet-contact electrodes through hair!
Entirely dependant on the material. On the Moon, a ground-based slingshot launcher can feasibly get you out of the gravity well, whereas on earth you need to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps using chemical rockets.
Plus, you have the advantage of megatons of metals lying about, large flat areas for placing solar panels, and metres (or kilometres) of natural radiation shielding. The Moon is the natural shipyard for Earth-orbit and beyond.
Branching out? My Prescott space-heater has been running for years!
I was thinking more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC97wdQOmfI
Can you say: Shipstone? Though until battery technology allows for larger storage capacities and faster charging (without the rapid battery degradation high-current charging currently causes), putting one in a car seems like a good idea.
I'm more worried that nowhere seems to mention how the hell this system is supposed to work, beyond 'thermal pulses' and some nonsense about 'massive density increases'. Is it a travelling wave reactor? Regular natural Thorium reactor (though one of the articles specifically mentions that only beta shielding is needed, whereas a reactor would require neutron shielding)? Magical vapourware device? Much as I'd like it to work, even their website contain NO information WHATSOEVER as to how their device is meant to work. Looks like bullshit to me.
As opposed to the other HOS , which results in rampaging construction machines due to malicious backdoor code.
Those spliced in existing genetic code. This involves code containing amino acids that are not found in nature.
Car analogy: Swapping the suspension from another car onto your own vs. machining your own suspension from scratch to a design not used on any other car.
Grey Goo is both an incredible difficult thing to make, and a very pointless thing to make. You'd be much better off with a very efficient nanodevice for performing a specific task paired with a very efficient nanodevice for making those nanodevices (but not itself). Easier and simpler.
Thunderbolt is only 4x PCIe 2.0, so you won't be using this to connect modern, desktop-class GPUs to your laptop
For multi-GPU systems in current desktops at least, there's little to no performance penalty going from 16x to 4x.
Firefox will use however much ram you give it.
While in the past, Firefox had the occasional (and quickly fixed) memory leak issue, most of the complaining seems to come from people who have installed 4gb of ram into their box and then complain if any programs ever actually use any of it.
lasting for decades
Or until someone busts out a hose. Whichever is sooner.
No, they don't use the raw point cloud models, they perform some processing first. And I doubt these guys use unprocessed point clouds for their engine either, so it's a ludicrous claim.
Yep. As a static voxel engine (and I can only assume it to be, as they don't appear to have demonstrated anything else), it's impressively fast at that high a resolution, but not particularly useful for a game engine. A dynamic voxel engine however...
that do not align with observations in the field
Observations by who? Measurements published by NISA and the IAEA (and freely available), or from 'independent' observers. Observers who often don't know the first thing about taking accurate measurements, haven't calibrated their equipment (or more commonly, don't even know it needs to be calibrated), have built their own detectors by blindly following plans on the internet, or all three. I'm all for community monitoring from competent amateurs, but I'd take any aggregate data from them with several metric tons of salt.
While I'm sceptical about content above 1080 lines (I can't tell the difference between 4k and 8k in a reference cinema, so 4k is probably the limit of my visual acuity), but a display of higher resolution? HELL YES.
Let me explain: scaling is massive pain in the ass. Whatever content you play back (or other things like fixed-resolution consoles or older PC games), you'll inevitable have to scale it. This sucks. There are many very expensive single-purpose devices designed only to make an image larger, and a lot of them aren't just scams for suckers. These devices do make a difference.
Now, scaling at anything other than exact multiples is bad, and scaling by only a little bit is really bad. Scaling a lot, while not quite perfect, is reasonably so. The larger your display resolution is, the less of an impact scaling content up to it will have. Get a really high resolution, and you can even start to deal reasonable well with non-square pixels (i.e. every DVD you own, everything connected via component, s-video or composite).
Ideally, said ultra-high-resolution display would also have a very high addressable refresh rate (rather than current displays which just pulse the same image on and off at a high rate) so instead of clumsy and imperfect deinterlacing algorithms, a display could actually display interlaced content as interlaced lines, persistence of vision ('phosphor fade') and all. Then we'd be back to having almost imput-agnostic displays as CRTs were, without all the drawbacks that come with CRTs.
Pascal's wager? Really? If we're going that route, why not assume that global climate change is both more drastic than we assume (e.g. positive feedback processes like Methane Hydrate releases), and non-anthropogenic (i.e. if we suddenly stopped all CO2 emission RIGHT NOW then global temperature would continue to change as before), and conclude that we must instead put our effort into geoengineering efforts to artificially control the global climate?
It depends on whether you mean a geostationary orbit, or a geosynchronousorbit. Geostationary means you're limited to a circular orbit with a single inclination, geosynchronous can be any inclination and/or eccentricity, as long as a period is 24 hours.
MHD generators don't cool or separate anything. You pass high velocity plasma (or a conductive liquid metal in the cases of some designs) through a powerful static magnetic field, which causes an electric field to be set up at 90deg (left hand law, remember?) where two electrodes pick it up. Problems include electrode erosion, efficiency, and generation of high velocity plasma in the first place.
My secondary school had a generic internet filter on all school machines. It didn't take particularly long for everyone to figure out how to use free proxies to bypass it, and once those too began to be blocked, for a few of us to set up proxies on our home machines.
Yes, if school children set up remote proxies with ease to bypass filtering, your average consumer will have no trouble switching their DNS server if it becomes inconvenient not to do so.
They 'fixed' it by changing the default password, not by preventing the devices from sniffing and decrypting data from passers by. Break the new password, and the attack still works as before.
While I can't be 100% sure due to the slashdotting, this is probably just two clips taken from from two different episodes (11 for the CDX, and 21, the most recent, for the 360 disc changer) of The Ben Heck Show.
For use as personal assistants in space, I was thinking Haro. Unfortunately, none of them are green.