It is possible to improve Wikipedia by adding quality ground and aerial images to articles. And if not to an article itself, but to the Wikimedia category.
Often the photos in a category are outdated, made by digital cameras of 90s. Sometimes a Wikipedia article lacks a photo completely.
Click on the map and it shows geolocations of all the Wikipedia articles in the radius of 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) around the click. The default WIkipedia language is English, but you can change in to French by exchanging "en" on the page to "fr", or German "de", Russian "ru", etc. The map position, zoom, language of the last request are memorized by the application.
So on your vacations or business trip you can click on the map and see geolocations of Wikipedia articles are around, visit the location and upload an updated photo. As saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially if it is a quality image made by ta modern camera, using a tripod or an UAV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Psychological projection, also known as blame shifting, is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unpleasant impulses by denying their existence while attributing them to others. According to some research, the projection of one's negative qualities onto others is a common process in everyday life."
I think it is a classic psychological projection in action. The authority in the D.C. feels a guilt for using drones in military combat with an inevitable significant collateral damage. And it is shifting blame to the civil drone operators and RC hobbyists in the D.C. area.
The problem with chargers cables is that it seems they are designed by young designers, who have a perfect vision.
But after fifty years almost everyone experiences a deterioration of vision. It is so simple to make an explicit clear design of a plug, still I am to put on my glasses just to connect a smartphone to a charger.
It is not only with cables, it's with everything, an iron, a headphones, etc. About everything is designed by young cool people with perfect youthful vision.
Not only can you fly quads in the rain, and people do it all the time, but your camera platform returns to earth eventually. It may, in fact, wind up in water.
I usually make aerial images only in calm sunny weather, from 10 to 12 o'clock, magic hours, when the light is soft. Some water resistance against a light rain or 3-5 meters depth is OK, but probably not up to 10 meters.
GoPro4Session also has a microphone. But during a flight it can register only engines' humming. So no need for a mike and its electronics either. It is designed for skis and bikes mostly, not for UAVs.
My point is that there should be a special design of cameras to make them airworthy. But bike, ski, studio cameras shall not fly, especially above people.
I pilot multi-rotor and fixed-wing UAVs (RPAS) myself. The UAV, which has crashed, weighs at least 3 - 5 kg. In my opinion, to fly such a heavy aircraft above a gathering of people is reckless.
The problem is that UAV operators are to lift in the air the cameras which are not designed for a light aircraft. A camera on a drone in the air does not need a display, as there is nobody up there to look at it.
For example, the GoPro4Session camera weighs just 74 grams. It is better already. It could be lifted into the air by a drone which weighs just 500-600 grams. But still this camera is waterproof down to 10 meters water depth. No need for it in the air. So the camera could be still lighter. It has a WiFi. Again, it is not used in the air, as WiFi may jam control radio-signal. It has a built-in battery for filming for hours. But the flights last just 15 minutes. So light replaceable batteries of different capacity could be used. The mount is from a molded solid plastic, but could be much lighter from aluminum or a composite plastic.
If such camera producers as GoPro, Panasonic, Sony, etc. started to produce cameras designed specially for UAVs, it could make flying much safer. Each gram counts for a flight, and camera producers just do not think about it at all. It is so sad.
One more point, the camera should be frangible, if it comes to a collision with the speed more than 200 km/h (manned aircraft's speed or crash).
Instead of introducing buracratic obstacles and "windmills" databses, the agencies could concentrate of making flying safer. And a good starting point could be the design of airborn cameras.
To fly to the orbit the energy is needed. No way around it. But there is a lot of available energy to land. It is provided by the gravity.
Landing a rocket full of fuel is dangerous for the civilians on the ground, for the crew on board. Besides, it makes the whole flight even more damaging for the environment, because a rocket burns fuel (i.e. emits CO2) also while landing, not just at the take off.
A parachute could be further developed. It could also be reusable, ultralight, built from composite materials, etc. A descent with a parachute could as well be controled.
I guess it is just difficult to fly to a space in a vehicle, which principal concept (ascent in a rocket, descent with a parachute) was developed not in the USA, and not even in the Western Europe.
In my opinion such a landing add an unnecessary complexity. The Shuttle program showed that it is impractical.
I think it is just one more attempt to do it differently, not with a parachute, not as it was done originally in 1957 and 1961. Kind of its own, an US way.
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There should be forests, rivers, meadows, birds, etc. around us, but what we have are agriculture fields, power-lines, motorways, and now also batteries of solar panels.
Just dry clothing outdoors on dry warm days, use economy lamps, heat (air-condition) a reasonable size house, and half of the existing electric generators could be stopped. Production energy by its economy is a cheap, clean, and reliable approach.
Dumbed down software and hardware produced in the USA with official back-doors (unofficial ones seems to be already in existence) would give a chance to producers from other countries. The same as happened with bureaucratic limitations on civil commercial UAV usage in the USA.
One of the leaders in civil UAV is the DJI, and it is not an US company.
As far as I know the Facebook is behind the HHVM. This alone makes me suspicious of perspectives. Will not HHVM start showing ads in future? Or offer a full version of the HHVM for a great price?
Some PHP 5 functions do not work correctly with UTF-8 encoding of Cyrillic alphabets. There is usually a work-around. Still I am curious if there will be some updates of Unicode support in PHP 7?
"Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force needed (to accelerate the object). Or F=MA or FORCE = MASS times ACCELERATION."http://teachertech.rice.edu/Pa...
So if an SUV is two times heavier than a light sedan it requires two times more force (energy, fuel) to accelerate (to drive). I mean if two cars are of approximately the same technological level the heavier one burns more fuel, and consequently emits more CO2. No way around Newton's second law of motion, no filters, no electronics, nothing, absolutely nothing can remove the mass M, i.e. the weight from the formula F=MA.
... there is no reason to believe they would be a macroscopic phenomenon...
I would not agree. It is absolutely unknown yet of what 95% of the universe consists. There is a word for it though a dark matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , but no one actually understands at all what it is.
And without understanding there is not possibility to use anything, there same as it was impossible to use the electricity in Middle Ages. But as soon as there is a complete understanding people found ingenious ways to use it. I cannot see how it differs.
all is needed to be done is to change plus + to minus - in the formula.
And that is as impossible as it is to change the charge of an electron from -1 to +1.
The nature of gravitation is not understood yet. The same was with electricity. For example, It seemed to people, that a lightening was a wrath of gods. But as soon as it was understood, we can not only change an electrical polarity of a circuit, but also use an alternate current, and do many other unimaginable things with it.
Your comments are hysterical, especially the part where you seem to believe what you're saying.
Next month there will be a major scientific symposium: http://www.sbfisica.org.br/anu... where Gravitation, Modified Gravity, Gravitational Lensing, Gravitational waves and other related topics will be discussed. So my comments may seem to you hysterical, because you were just not aware that the gravity is the major subject of scientific research nowadays.
Yeah we've never even detected gravitons or gravitational waves,...
This is the point. As soon as gravitons or gravitational waves are detected (the gravity is real after all, it definitly exists, no one just tried seriously and systematically) all is needed to be done is to change plus + to minus - in the formula.
Anti-gravity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is more promising. Why would we need so much energy if it will be possible to move all over the universe in ultralight vehicles.
But this is not only the WHO. It is a major scientific discovery of recent years. I was recently at the conference about violence against women. This is what people talk about.
It seems that the level of violence against women is almost the same all over the world, if measured not by existing reports, but by an independent research. The idea now is that it is the nature of the Homo Sapience.
And violence against women is a major health issue and not only of women, of men too. Read this documentary book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Please explain. Sexual assault among students is almost unheard of in my country..
Sexual assault is evenly distributed around the globe. About 33% of women were sexually assaulted at least one time. These figures are readily available at the WHO website.
In some countries it is 29% in some 32%, but it is an issue of reporting. This figure seems to be geographically independent, and corresponds to Homo Sapiens in general.
I think the women should also take some part of responsibility. They should be stronger. For example, it is close to impossibe to assault these women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . It just would be suicidal.
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It is possible to improve Wikipedia by adding quality ground and aerial images to articles. And if not to an article itself, but to the Wikimedia category.
Often the photos in a category are outdated, made by digital cameras of 90s. Sometimes a Wikipedia article lacks a photo completely.
Here is the web-application which I use to plan my Wikimedia&Wikipedia photography expeditions: http://www.ausleuchtung.ch/geo...
Click on the map and it shows geolocations of all the Wikipedia articles in the radius of 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) around the click. The default WIkipedia language is English, but you can change in to French by exchanging "en" on the page to "fr", or German "de", Russian "ru", etc. The map position, zoom, language of the last request are memorized by the application.
So on your vacations or business trip you can click on the map and see geolocations of Wikipedia articles are around, visit the location and upload an updated photo. As saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially if it is a quality image made by ta modern camera, using a tripod or an UAV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "Psychological projection, also known as blame shifting, is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unpleasant impulses by denying their existence while attributing them to others. According to some research, the projection of one's negative qualities onto others is a common process in everyday life."
I think it is a classic psychological projection in action. The authority in the D.C. feels a guilt for using drones in military combat with an inevitable significant collateral damage. And it is shifting blame to the civil drone operators and RC hobbyists in the D.C. area.
...You are old, that is sad. ...
I heard on the radio a philosopher's advice to think about it this way: '"it's better be old and alive, than young and dead".
The problem with chargers cables is that it seems they are designed by young designers, who have a perfect vision.
But after fifty years almost everyone experiences a deterioration of vision. It is so simple to make an explicit clear design of a plug, still I am to put on my glasses just to connect a smartphone to a charger.
It is not only with cables, it's with everything, an iron, a headphones, etc. About everything is designed by young cool people with perfect youthful vision.
Not only can you fly quads in the rain, and people do it all the time, but your camera platform returns to earth eventually. It may, in fact, wind up in water.
I usually make aerial images only in calm sunny weather, from 10 to 12 o'clock, magic hours, when the light is soft. Some water resistance against a light rain or 3-5 meters depth is OK, but probably not up to 10 meters.
GoPro4Session also has a microphone. But during a flight it can register only engines' humming. So no need for a mike and its electronics either. It is designed for skis and bikes mostly, not for UAVs.
My point is that there should be a special design of cameras to make them airworthy. But bike, ski, studio cameras shall not fly, especially above people.
I pilot multi-rotor and fixed-wing UAVs (RPAS) myself. The UAV, which has crashed, weighs at least 3 - 5 kg. In my opinion, to fly such a heavy aircraft above a gathering of people is reckless.
The problem is that UAV operators are to lift in the air the cameras which are not designed for a light aircraft. A camera on a drone in the air does not need a display, as there is nobody up there to look at it.
For example, the GoPro4Session camera weighs just 74 grams. It is better already. It could be lifted into the air by a drone which weighs just 500-600 grams. But still this camera is waterproof down to 10 meters water depth. No need for it in the air. So the camera could be still lighter. It has a WiFi. Again, it is not used in the air, as WiFi may jam control radio-signal. It has a built-in battery for filming for hours. But the flights last just 15 minutes. So light replaceable batteries of different capacity could be used. The mount is from a molded solid plastic, but could be much lighter from aluminum or a composite plastic.
If such camera producers as GoPro, Panasonic, Sony, etc. started to produce cameras designed specially for UAVs, it could make flying much safer. Each gram counts for a flight, and camera producers just do not think about it at all. It is so sad.
One more point, the camera should be frangible, if it comes to a collision with the speed more than 200 km/h (manned aircraft's speed or crash).
Instead of introducing buracratic obstacles and "windmills" databses, the agencies could concentrate of making flying safer. And a good starting point could be the design of airborn cameras.
To fly to the orbit the energy is needed. No way around it. But there is a lot of available energy to land. It is provided by the gravity.
Landing a rocket full of fuel is dangerous for the civilians on the ground, for the crew on board. Besides, it makes the whole flight even more damaging for the environment, because a rocket burns fuel (i.e. emits CO2) also while landing, not just at the take off.
A parachute could be further developed. It could also be reusable, ultralight, built from composite materials, etc. A descent with a parachute could as well be controled.
I guess it is just difficult to fly to a space in a vehicle, which principal concept (ascent in a rocket, descent with a parachute) was developed not in the USA, and not even in the Western Europe.
In my opinion such a landing add an unnecessary complexity. The Shuttle program showed that it is impractical.
I think it is just one more attempt to do it differently, not with a parachute, not as it was done originally in 1957 and 1961. Kind of its own, an US way. .
I remember in my parts in 90s it was obligatory to carry a kind of radio license for a mobile phone.
There should be forests, rivers, meadows, birds, etc. around us, but what we have are agriculture fields, power-lines, motorways, and now also batteries of solar panels.
Just dry clothing outdoors on dry warm days, use economy lamps, heat (air-condition) a reasonable size house, and half of the existing electric generators could be stopped. Production energy by its economy is a cheap, clean, and reliable approach.
Lunokhod automatic vehicle was the actual victor of the Luna race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This approach was copied for Mars exploration, and will be used in many other expeditions. Not an Apollo type approach.
Dumbed down software and hardware produced in the USA with official back-doors (unofficial ones seems to be already in existence) would give a chance to producers from other countries. The same as happened with bureaucratic limitations on civil commercial UAV usage in the USA.
One of the leaders in civil UAV is the DJI, and it is not an US company.
As far as I know the Facebook is behind the HHVM. This alone makes me suspicious of perspectives. Will not HHVM start showing ads in future? Or offer a full version of the HHVM for a great price?
Do you have an example of a particular function?
For example, ctype_upper() http://php.net/manual/en/funct...
There is no mb_ctype_upper. I wrote a workaround, for about 5 - 7 lines, but it would be nice to have this function for Cyrillic letters too.
Some PHP 5 functions do not work correctly with UTF-8 encoding of Cyrillic alphabets. There is usually a work-around. Still I am curious if there will be some updates of Unicode support in PHP 7?
"Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force needed (to accelerate the object). Or F=MA or FORCE = MASS times ACCELERATION." http://teachertech.rice.edu/Pa...
So if an SUV is two times heavier than a light sedan it requires two times more force (energy, fuel) to accelerate (to drive). I mean if two cars are of approximately the same technological level the heavier one burns more fuel, and consequently emits more CO2. No way around Newton's second law of motion, no filters, no electronics, nothing, absolutely nothing can remove the mass M, i.e. the weight from the formula F=MA.
Unless the humanity solves anti-graviti scientific problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... what will not arrive soon.
... there is no reason to believe they would be a macroscopic phenomenon...
I would not agree. It is absolutely unknown yet of what 95% of the universe consists. There is a word for it though a dark matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , but no one actually understands at all what it is.
And without understanding there is not possibility to use anything, there same as it was impossible to use the electricity in Middle Ages. But as soon as there is a complete understanding people found ingenious ways to use it. I cannot see how it differs.
we can not only change an electrical polarity of a circuit What ever that is supposed to mean. .
Electrical polarity (positive and negative) is present in every electrical circuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
all is needed to be done is to change plus + to minus - in the formula. And that is as impossible as it is to change the charge of an electron from -1 to +1.
The nature of gravitation is not understood yet. The same was with electricity. For example, It seemed to people, that a lightening was a wrath of gods. But as soon as it was understood, we can not only change an electrical polarity of a circuit, but also use an alternate current, and do many other unimaginable things with it.
Your comments are hysterical, especially the part where you seem to believe what you're saying.
Next month there will be a major scientific symposium: http://www.sbfisica.org.br/anu... where Gravitation, Modified Gravity, Gravitational Lensing, Gravitational waves and other related topics will be discussed. So my comments may seem to you hysterical, because you were just not aware that the gravity is the major subject of scientific research nowadays.
Yeah we've never even detected gravitons or gravitational waves, ...
This is the point. As soon as gravitons or gravitational waves are detected (the gravity is real after all, it definitly exists, no one just tried seriously and systematically) all is needed to be done is to change plus + to minus - in the formula.
Anti-gravity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is more promising. Why would we need so much energy if it will be possible to move all over the universe in ultralight vehicles.
But this is not only the WHO. It is a major scientific discovery of recent years. I was recently at the conference about violence against women. This is what people talk about.
It seems that the level of violence against women is almost the same all over the world, if measured not by existing reports, but by an independent research. The idea now is that it is the nature of the Homo Sapience.
And violence against women is a major health issue and not only of women, of men too. Read this documentary book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Here, for example: http://www.who.int/reproductiv...
Please explain. Sexual assault among students is almost unheard of in my country..
Sexual assault is evenly distributed around the globe. About 33% of women were sexually assaulted at least one time. These figures are readily available at the WHO website.
In some countries it is 29% in some 32%, but it is an issue of reporting. This figure seems to be geographically independent, and corresponds to Homo Sapiens in general.
I think the women should also take some part of responsibility. They should be stronger. For example, it is close to impossibe to assault these women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . It just would be suicidal.