Not only that, but whatever crappy player they're using doesn't seem to want to let you seek. No matter where you move the marker, the whole presentation just starts over from the beginning -- complete with the audience jabbering right over the speaker.
"Why do I hear my voice?" during a video conference.
Makes me feel hella smart.:D
I was surprised to hear my voice during a video conference, because I was hot speaking! Somebody in the audience had started playing a video clip he had recorded a few minutes before.
@gandhi re added value of avatar on virtual stage: this is an online talk with a participative audience in realtime telepresence. The second half of the video shows a very lively Q/A session and discussion, with a lot of people asking a lot of questions.
It is a race against time. Old resources are depleted, and new resources are developed. Technology is the driver of both these trends - the question is whether we will develop new sustainable energy resources before exhausting oil. Nuclear energy is available already, solar - wind - other alternative energies are already available as technologies, but not yet fully deployed. It is a race between two trends, we will see which one wins.
Transhumanists bet on technology's capability to improve our lives and solve many of the current problems of the world, and on our own capability to develop such technologies in time.
Probably it is a me-too demonstration that India is also there. But perhaps the Indian administration sees that space will be important for the nation and its people someday. Also dont forget that space activities can motivate young persons to become engineers (engineers is what the country needs to uplift from poverty).
Space motivated a lot of people in the US in the 60s to become engineers.
Then the moon, then the planets, then the stars as the name Virgin Galactic says.
I still think that investing in space is mainly for the public sector at this time, but this will restimulate the interest of people in space and make it easier for space agencies to get the fund they need.
I understand your reaction, but you should not see this as an insult to America. In most European countries nearly everyone thinks that the 2000 presidentials were not clean as these things should be, and that this had a big, negative impact on the rest of the world. This feeling would probably not be so widespread if in 2000 there had been independent observers to certify that no fraud took place.
Yes, this is the right reaction to this announcement. Sense of wonder a la Sir Arthur Clarke, and let's go for the stars. I will start saving today.
And Branson is a clever businessman to say the least, he would not have invested if he did not see a market.
Since 1972 we have been waiting for governments to go back to the moon, perhaps Virgin galactic will get there first.
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These crooks from D-Wave just won't give up. 128 qubits quantum computer!? pics or it didn't happen.
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems
Picture in http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/suzanne-gildert-on-quantum-computing-in-teleplace-september-4/ Watch the talk before saying crooks?
Not only that, but whatever crappy player they're using doesn't seem to want to let you seek. No matter where you move the marker, the whole presentation just starts over from the beginning -- complete with the audience jabbering right over the speaker.
Go to the source http://telexlr8.blip.tv/file/4083093/ open the Files and Links box in the right column and download the original .mp4 video file.
"Why do I hear my voice?" during a video conference.
Makes me feel hella smart. :D
I was surprised to hear my voice during a video conference, because I was hot speaking! Somebody in the audience had started playing a video clip he had recorded a few minutes before.
@mcgrew - here is Suzanne's blog: http://physicsandcake.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/online-seminar-on-quantum-computing/#comments in the comments she says she will post the slides of the presentation.
@gandhi re added value of avatar on virtual stage: this is an online talk with a participative audience in realtime telepresence. The second half of the video shows a very lively Q/A session and discussion, with a lot of people asking a lot of questions.
It is a race against time. Old resources are depleted, and new resources are developed. Technology is the driver of both these trends - the question is whether we will develop new sustainable energy resources before exhausting oil. Nuclear energy is available already, solar - wind - other alternative energies are already available as technologies, but not yet fully deployed. It is a race between two trends, we will see which one wins. Transhumanists bet on technology's capability to improve our lives and solve many of the current problems of the world, and on our own capability to develop such technologies in time.
Probably it is a me-too demonstration that India is also there. But perhaps the Indian administration sees that space will be important for the nation and its people someday. Also dont forget that space activities can motivate young persons to become engineers (engineers is what the country needs to uplift from poverty). Space motivated a lot of people in the US in the 60s to become engineers.
Then the moon, then the planets, then the stars as the name Virgin Galactic says. I still think that investing in space is mainly for the public sector at this time, but this will restimulate the interest of people in space and make it easier for space agencies to get the fund they need.
I understand your reaction, but you should not see this as an insult to America. In most European countries nearly everyone thinks that the 2000 presidentials were not clean as these things should be, and that this had a big, negative impact on the rest of the world. This feeling would probably not be so widespread if in 2000 there had been independent observers to certify that no fraud took place.
Yes, this is the right reaction to this announcement. Sense of wonder a la Sir Arthur Clarke, and let's go for the stars. I will start saving today. And Branson is a clever businessman to say the least, he would not have invested if he did not see a market. Since 1972 we have been waiting for governments to go back to the moon, perhaps Virgin galactic will get there first.