So... what? Do you just chug it? Massage it into the affected areas? Inject it? Process it to extract the relevant chemical? Place it in a small shrine to Yog-Sothoth?
Great in theory. How do you deal with bathroom breaks, and any sort of sensitive information (e.g. viewing case records, either on a computer or physical documents) that whoever may be viewing the video should not have access to, talking with at-risk witnesses (who may feel threatened and not give information at all if they feel their identities may become known), or even just talking to the general public in the comfort of their own homes (i.e. 'neighbourhood policing')?
I'm all for issuing every police officer with a camera, and the technology is easily there to do so with an almost cast-iron signing chain to ensure the footage is demonstrably tamper-free, but the logistics of doing so is not quite as easy as "hand 'em out, never turn 'em off".
Yes. And additionally, he's looking to use a paltry 10-channel EEG to do it. That may be enough for someone with good (and conscious) concentration to move one axis back and wards, and maybe even switch between axes. But moving the arm unconsciously and naturally? No way. Not even close. For that, you need some sort of nerve reinnervation, direct patch-clamping of the motor neurons, or an intercranial BMI (Brain Machine Interface) right in the motor cortex. Or you could sit inside a noninvasive MEG (Magnetoenchphalogram) machine, but those aren't exactly portable.
An straight-up Space Elevator is still way beyond us, even if we could pump out molecularly perfect nanotubes of indefinite length. But smaller tether systems are totally possible; 'stationary' and hypersonic Bolos and Skyhooks, depending on the orbital velocity and tip velocity (itself depending on tether length and rotation rate). You don't need a massive anchor site, you could fly some of the smaller ones in a single launch, and we could make some of the smaller ones with materials we already manufacture in bulk (e.g. Spectra and other tensile Aramids).
Then there are just fun things you can do, like conductive tether generators and propulsion inside a magnetosphere, or linear tether launchers.
You get your exoskeleton as soon as battery density increases, or generator+turbine volume decreases. If you;re happy with a tether, the XOS2 (and countless other research devices) work just fine right now.
What is the killer feature of Windows 8, the one everyone wants?
Smaller memory footprint, generally faster, many CPU optimisations to take into account newer silicon (e.g. being able to switch off unused cores predictably, assigning threads in a sane manner, etc), much better file copy and task manager interface, removing aero in favour of a cleaner UI style, etc.
There's no single big flashy feature added, but there are a lot of nice improvements to Win7. Any for anyone other than those who hunt around the start menu with a mouse rather than using the type-to-run function that's been there since Vista, it takes all of 10 minutes to get used to (or to install a start-menu replacement for the luddites).
Waving my hands about with NO HAPTIC FEEDBACK is not in any way immersive for me. It doesn't matter how many tracking points you have, how fast the update rate is, or how wide a range of motions you can track. Whole-body non-haptic tracking will lose out to the most basic two-point haptic setup when it comes to actually experiencing an environment.
This was the plot of a Golgo 13 episode. Walk into a stadium with a 'toy' pistol robust enough to fire a single shot, then attach it to a large balloon to get rid of the evidence.
My suspicion is the drones designers wrote in a fallback to allow use of C/A if it somehow lost P(Y). I'm sure somebody though this was a wonderful idea and failed to think through exactly why this was stupid. Or maybe it initially used C/A until they were given the key necessary for P(Y), but never got around to commenting out the fallback section of the code. The rest of the attack is obvious: use a high power (relative to a signal from a satellite) jammer, a higher power spoofing signal, and guide the drone to wherever you want it to be while telling it that it is flying back to base.
The ever-reliable (and highly cryptic) CBOAT hints that the 'self published' code will be limited to the 'Windows 8 app store' mode, along with the 3gb of memory set aside for the Win8 mode.
Using it as a development system potentially allows you to bypass much of the DRM to do your own thing
Taking bets now on whether 'registering with Microsoft' to turn your console into a devkit entails regular (or continuous) sign-ins when running unsigned code. Couldn't let people run what they wanted on consumer devices without some way to limit it, because piracy might somehow spontaneously occur!
May appeal to the geek, but Mom ain't ever going to figure this one out.
Other way around. It won't be much good for locally stored media (without the likely rapid proliferation of workarounds and possibly modified firmwares), but it is aimed squarely at The Youtubes and similar streaming services.
Try flipping back to an earlier part of an eBook, and then returning to your original place.
If you can't do that, then the issue is with your software, not the format. Being able to flick back between two (or more) bookmarked positions instantly is one of the really useful features of ebooks. One example I use almost every day is in laptop disassembly manuals: to get to one part (say, the HSF assembly) there are certain other parts that need to be removed in order. The location for that specific part will have a section listing links to the parts that need to be removed to access that part. Clicking one of these links, stepping through that sub-process, then hitting the 'return to last position' shortcut is far faster than flicking through a printed manual.
We're here on the West Australian coast, which is now the deadliest coast in the world
Yes, the deadliest coast in the world. 16 attacks (not all fatal) in... a decade. And how many millions swim off the coast every year? Even if you take Australia as a whole, on average the number of people killed by sharks per year is: one If you want to avoid being attacked by a shark, I'd like to sell you this tiger^h^h^h^h^h shark repelling rock. It's much cheaper than a brand new wetsuit, and statistically equally as effective!
The problem was that my wife is a "power user" for the web, with dozens of web pages open, and Firefox was caching so much stuff that just the Firefox memory usage was well over 4 GB of RAM.
I have the opposite issue: My current firefox session has over 360 open tabs (a bad habit of using them in leiu of bookmarks), but uses less than 1gb of RAM, of which I have 16gb available.
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I prefer the no-DRM system: I pay £1 for a song, and I can download it on anything that can handle http, and play it on anything that can handle a standard audio format. I can convert it to anything that can't. I can play it on as many devices as I want simultaneously. I can play it whenever and wherever I want. I can filter it, EQ it, upmix it, downmix it, or chop it into samples and annoy people with it on a keyboard as a soundfont. I can upload it, download it, back it up ad infinitum (online and offline), and it doesn't matter if the company that sold it to me goes bust. And if they're still in business, they can offer me a pittance of bandwidth for free and let me re-download in order to get me to return to their store and maybe buy another track.
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Unfortunately, you're one someone-else's-poor-business-decision from adding one more "no more" to your list: "no more music".
There is a strange obsession among many that the only good RAM is empty RAM. Don;t shunt stuff out of memory until you need to, and it'll still be in memory next time you need it. Unless you want to page everything (rather than saving the important parts on sleep and assuming whatever is left in RAM might not be there again at wake but probably will), then there's no reason to turf anything out of RAM until you need that space for something else.
Or even the Atrix. Much maligned due to Motorola dropping support for it like a hot potato, it was really nice to have the lock button and fingerprint canner combined so you could unlock the phone in one hand without weird thumb contortions.
And value of companies tend to have something to do with their earnings and dividends
So, they're based on how many people want to buy these companies products/services, and for what price? Because Bitcoin's price is determined by how many people want to buy Bitcoins, and for what price. Bitcoin also has an additional inherent service value in easy and cheap international transactions.
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So... what? Do you just chug it? Massage it into the affected areas? Inject it? Process it to extract the relevant chemical? Place it in a small shrine to Yog-Sothoth?
Great in theory. How do you deal with bathroom breaks, and any sort of sensitive information (e.g. viewing case records, either on a computer or physical documents) that whoever may be viewing the video should not have access to, talking with at-risk witnesses (who may feel threatened and not give information at all if they feel their identities may become known), or even just talking to the general public in the comfort of their own homes (i.e. 'neighbourhood policing')?
I'm all for issuing every police officer with a camera, and the technology is easily there to do so with an almost cast-iron signing chain to ensure the footage is demonstrably tamper-free, but the logistics of doing so is not quite as easy as "hand 'em out, never turn 'em off".
back and wards
Back and forewards.
Yes. And additionally, he's looking to use a paltry 10-channel EEG to do it. That may be enough for someone with good (and conscious) concentration to move one axis back and wards, and maybe even switch between axes. But moving the arm unconsciously and naturally? No way. Not even close. For that, you need some sort of nerve reinnervation, direct patch-clamping of the motor neurons, or an intercranial BMI (Brain Machine Interface) right in the motor cortex. Or you could sit inside a noninvasive MEG (Magnetoenchphalogram) machine, but those aren't exactly portable.
An straight-up Space Elevator is still way beyond us, even if we could pump out molecularly perfect nanotubes of indefinite length. But smaller tether systems are totally possible; 'stationary' and hypersonic Bolos and Skyhooks, depending on the orbital velocity and tip velocity (itself depending on tether length and rotation rate). You don't need a massive anchor site, you could fly some of the smaller ones in a single launch, and we could make some of the smaller ones with materials we already manufacture in bulk (e.g. Spectra and other tensile Aramids).
Then there are just fun things you can do, like conductive tether generators and propulsion inside a magnetosphere, or linear tether launchers.
You get your exoskeleton as soon as battery density increases, or generator+turbine volume decreases. If you;re happy with a tether, the XOS2 (and countless other research devices) work just fine right now.
Specifically, the EURion Constellation.
What is the killer feature of Windows 8, the one everyone wants?
Smaller memory footprint, generally faster, many CPU optimisations to take into account newer silicon (e.g. being able to switch off unused cores predictably, assigning threads in a sane manner, etc), much better file copy and task manager interface, removing aero in favour of a cleaner UI style, etc.
There's no single big flashy feature added, but there are a lot of nice improvements to Win7. Any for anyone other than those who hunt around the start menu with a mouse rather than using the type-to-run function that's been there since Vista, it takes all of 10 minutes to get used to (or to install a start-menu replacement for the luddites).
Waving my hands about with NO HAPTIC FEEDBACK is not in any way immersive for me. It doesn't matter how many tracking points you have, how fast the update rate is, or how wide a range of motions you can track. Whole-body non-haptic tracking will lose out to the most basic two-point haptic setup when it comes to actually experiencing an environment.
Concise description: a map of the New York subway system drawn in the style of the London Tube system map.
This was the plot of a Golgo 13 episode. Walk into a stadium with a 'toy' pistol robust enough to fire a single shot, then attach it to a large balloon to get rid of the evidence.
My suspicion is the drones designers wrote in a fallback to allow use of C/A if it somehow lost P(Y). I'm sure somebody though this was a wonderful idea and failed to think through exactly why this was stupid. Or maybe it initially used C/A until they were given the key necessary for P(Y), but never got around to commenting out the fallback section of the code. The rest of the attack is obvious: use a high power (relative to a signal from a satellite) jammer, a higher power spoofing signal, and guide the drone to wherever you want it to be while telling it that it is flying back to base.
The ever-reliable (and highly cryptic) CBOAT hints that the 'self published' code will be limited to the 'Windows 8 app store' mode, along with the 3gb of memory set aside for the Win8 mode.
Using it as a development system potentially allows you to bypass much of the DRM to do your own thing
Taking bets now on whether 'registering with Microsoft' to turn your console into a devkit entails regular (or continuous) sign-ins when running unsigned code. Couldn't let people run what they wanted on consumer devices without some way to limit it, because piracy might somehow spontaneously occur!
May appeal to the geek, but Mom ain't ever going to figure this one out.
Other way around. It won't be much good for locally stored media (without the likely rapid proliferation of workarounds and possibly modified firmwares), but it is aimed squarely at The Youtubes and similar streaming services.
This is almost endemic among Nobel winners. E.g. Josephson: pioneer in the field of superconductivity, but thinks Homeopathy is real.
Try flipping back to an earlier part of an eBook, and then returning to your original place.
If you can't do that, then the issue is with your software, not the format. Being able to flick back between two (or more) bookmarked positions instantly is one of the really useful features of ebooks. One example I use almost every day is in laptop disassembly manuals: to get to one part (say, the HSF assembly) there are certain other parts that need to be removed in order. The location for that specific part will have a section listing links to the parts that need to be removed to access that part. Clicking one of these links, stepping through that sub-process, then hitting the 'return to last position' shortcut is far faster than flicking through a printed manual.
We're here on the West Australian coast, which is now the deadliest coast in the world
Yes, the deadliest coast in the world. 16 attacks (not all fatal) in... a decade. And how many millions swim off the coast every year? Even if you take Australia as a whole, on average the number of people killed by sharks per year is: one
If you want to avoid being attacked by a shark, I'd like to sell you this tiger^h^h^h^h^h shark repelling rock. It's much cheaper than a brand new wetsuit, and statistically equally as effective!
The problem was that my wife is a "power user" for the web, with dozens of web pages open, and Firefox was caching so much stuff that just the Firefox memory usage was well over 4 GB of RAM.
I have the opposite issue: My current firefox session has over 360 open tabs (a bad habit of using them in leiu of bookmarks), but uses less than 1gb of RAM, of which I have 16gb available.
I prefer the no-DRM system: I pay £1 for a song, and I can download it on anything that can handle http, and play it on anything that can handle a standard audio format. I can convert it to anything that can't. I can play it on as many devices as I want simultaneously. I can play it whenever and wherever I want. I can filter it, EQ it, upmix it, downmix it, or chop it into samples and annoy people with it on a keyboard as a soundfont. I can upload it, download it, back it up ad infinitum (online and offline), and it doesn't matter if the company that sold it to me goes bust. And if they're still in business, they can offer me a pittance of bandwidth for free and let me re-download in order to get me to return to their store and maybe buy another track.
Unfortunately, you're one someone-else's-poor-business-decision from adding one more "no more" to your list: "no more music".
There is a strange obsession among many that the only good RAM is empty RAM. Don;t shunt stuff out of memory until you need to, and it'll still be in memory next time you need it. Unless you want to page everything (rather than saving the important parts on sleep and assuming whatever is left in RAM might not be there again at wake but probably will), then there's no reason to turf anything out of RAM until you need that space for something else.
Here's the GCHQ risk analysis:
RISK: Cyber attack on Olympic Ceremony lighting system
MITIGATION: Do not connect Olypmic Ceremony lighting system to internet
Or even the Atrix. Much maligned due to Motorola dropping support for it like a hot potato, it was really nice to have the lock button and fingerprint canner combined so you could unlock the phone in one hand without weird thumb contortions.
And value of companies tend to have something to do with their earnings and dividends
So, they're based on how many people want to buy these companies products/services, and for what price? Because Bitcoin's price is determined by how many people want to buy Bitcoins, and for what price. Bitcoin also has an additional inherent service value in easy and cheap international transactions.