Why do most people here seem to concentrate not on the fact that something very cool was accomplished, but rather on the fact that it was accomplished using technology from a vendor they don't like? </rhetorical>
How about commenting on the project itself rather than posing conspiracy theories? The article itself even mentions that the team had gotten previous awards from Microsoft.
Men, on the other hand have the opposite problem. They fall asleep immediately after sex. Interesting women fall asleep before sex, men fall asleep after sex. How was it we evolved again?
Because, technically, the woman does not need to be awake.
Maybe they update the page every 10 years or something. In 2008 they'll have coverage up through 2000 perhaps?
If they can cover up through 2004, probably one of the most important developments is software-based synthesizers, which either use totally new methods of synthesis (example: Antares Kantos) or emulate many of the older models on that list.
So there have been improvements in electronic music and synthesis in recent years, but nowadays everything is so electronic anyway that we don't hear anything and think "oh that's groundbreaking."
An analogy can be made with computer special FX. It's kind of like how the dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movie blew everybody away and were revolutionary back then. Now, over 10 years later, CG effects are 100 times better, but everybody is so used to CG effects by now that not a lot of it is revolutionary any more.
Re:Geocache on mars . . .Difficulty rating 5?
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I want to be the first to plant a geocache on Mars. I'll make it easy and leave it right out in the open, it'll be a 5,1. Tought to get there, but easy to find when you do arrive. And I'd put a travel bug that is trying to get to Ursala Major . .
Don't forget to bring a big log, or some branches, to hide the cache under. I mean, you don't want to make it too obvious.
The evolution that is described in this article is anything but unguided. Researchers took existing carefully developed code. They selectively combined parts of this code. They studied the resulting effects to produce better code. This looks much more like Intelligent Design [discovery.org] than anything Chuck Darwin ever dreamed up.
No, if it were truly following the "intelligent design" theory, there wouldn't be any trial and error to begin with. The code would be written once, from the ground up, and it would work just as well as any code possibly could, without ever needing to selectively combine anything.
Also, your textbooks had Evolution wrongly defined. It is not random, unguided change. The mutations themselves may be random, but the environment (including predators) is what guides the changes, by causing favorable mutations to progress through the gene pool while unfavorable mutations die out quickly.
In recent months, most of Atlanta's big traffic tie-ups (even worse traffic than usual) are caused by people threatening to jump off of overpasses.
So now for this traffic prediction to work, it basically has to predict bridge jumpers. Fortunately, as the government profiles us more and more and tracks us via RFID tags or whatever, it may be possible not only to predict when a person gets suicidal, but possibly also to predict the most likely date/time and even the correct overpass they will use.
One of the main reasons it gets such a high "city" rating is the CAGS (1-4 skip shift). And what's the first thing you disable when getting a new vette? The CAGS! Hey at least we have that option, and still don't have to pay the gas guzzler tax.
I have a 2002 Z06 and it gets much better mileage on the highway than my Ford Ranger (not that trucks are supposed to get good mileage in the first place).
As far as EPA mileage ratings go, a Z06 is comparable to a Toyota Camry V6. I love telling people that.:)
are you suggesting that the photos are taken with the antenna?
No, and I don't see how you read that in my post. The images are transmitted back to earth via the antenna, so hopefully the antenna itself won't be damaged during the ring plane crossing.
yea but isnt the probe supposed to fly through a gap in the rings? it'd be great to get a photo taken "at level".
It is flying through a visible gap, and it's an area that seems to be clear of debris according to all the analysis done so far. But it could just be that the debris is so sparse that it's not visible. The entry point is actually well outside the visible rings, but there is another very faint ring (G ring) even farther out.
NASA realized this during the design phase, which is why they are rotating the spacecraft around so that the dish of its high gain antenna will provide some protection against small rocks while it passes through the ring plane. Seems like if the high gain antenna is damaged, then they have other problems though! I'm thinking it was designed with this purpose in mind, at least for protection against particles under a certain size.
Yeah but it's directional signal coming from the probe. 0.5 kilowatts of narrow-beam signal goes a lot farther than 10 kilowatts broadcasted from an omnidirectional antenna. But you need dishes at both ends, and they have to be aligned correctly.
I'm sure I'm not using the correct terminology (in case HAM radio experts are reading this) but that is the gist of it.
It seems that this very issue is one of the reasons that we have DNS in the first place.
I don't get it. I can't think of a reason why you would want to keep your IP address after switching ISP's, except maybe you're too lazy to change firewall rules for your WAN.
What were this person's reasons for keeping the IP address? I didn't see it when I skimmed through linked article.
3) DirecTivo units record and playback Dolby Digital 5.1 content (though this relates to #2 that you mentioned-- because Tivo doesn't modify the original stream). DirecTivo units have optical digital output, standalones do not.
4) DirecTivo units are available that support HDTV. They are expensive, and they have 250GB drives, but there are no standalone high-definition Tivo units yet. Also, the HD DirecTivo units have FOUR tuners... two satellite, and two antenna inputs for local HD channels. I'm not sure if it's capable of recording on all 4 simultaneously-- that's a lot of hard drive bandwidth!
I don't think the vette is the best example to use when talking about gas guzzlers. Newer vettes get considerably better mileage than any gas-powered SUV. In fact, a 350 horsepower V8 powered vette gets about the same mileage (city and highway) as a Honda Accord V6. And slightly BETTER mileage than a plain old Camry Solara.
It's easy enough to disable this on your own system, even if you have IE, just add the following line to your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 itxt.vibrantmedia.com
That will disable the in-line advertising. The larger issue, of course, is that other people read the things you create. You have no way of controlling the browser THEY use, and whether THEY disable it. So a clueless user who happens to use IE, and reads your post on some site that uses IntelliTXT, it will have ads embedded in it. And they might as well believe YOU put them there. But you won't even be able to see them on your own browser. So a 3rd party has altered YOUR content that YOU created, without your permission, if it's read by an IE user... and there are a lot of IE users.
You can get cars today with as much horsepower as ever. The main difference is that they produce far less pollution and get considerably better fuel economy as 60s muscle cars of similar proportions. They are also much safer, more reliable, easier to start, require less regular maintenence, and they automatically keep themselves in tune.
As an example of how far we've come since the 60's:
2004 Z06 Corvette makes 405 horsepower (that's NET horsepower, which can't be compared to the much more inflated gross horsepower ratings of the 60's)
It does 0-60 in 4 seconds flat. It doesn't overheat even on hot summer days in Arizona. It purrs like a kitten around town. It can leave a hundred feet of tread on the pavement if you really want it to. It gets 28 MPG on the highway which is better than most 6-cylinder grocery getters. It carries a federal LEV rating (Low Emission Vehicle) It is reprogrammable with 3rd party software (LS1Edit for example) if you want to tune it The manufacturer recommended oil change interval is 15,000 miles! Longer oil change intervals means less used oil going into the environment.
And this is still the good ol' pushrod V8 design with a single cam. Fewer moving parts, lighter weight, but the computer technology is what makes all the difference in the world.
Now, in the 60's, if you had a car with that kind of power you had to do constant tuning to keep it running well, and it would probably overheat just from sitting and idling in a parking lot.
It's just that all the newfangled technology and gizmos makes these things much harder to work on than just getting in there with a wrench.
Anyone who's watched the "time remaining" during a Windows installation or a large file copy ("...but it's been 3 minutes remaining for the past half hour!") knows that Microsoft uses their own, superior standards for time measurement, rather than slavishly adhering to those obsolete SI units.
Hotmail was only down for 10 MS-minutes.
Once again demonstrating that Microsoft can't ever come up with an original idea. They stole their "MS-minutes" from the NFL.
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Why do most people here seem to concentrate not on the fact that something very cool was accomplished, but rather on the fact that it was accomplished using technology from a vendor they don't like?
</rhetorical>
How about commenting on the project itself rather than posing conspiracy theories? The article itself even mentions that the team had gotten previous awards from Microsoft.
on opposite sides of the disc?
Why, so that one laser can read the label?
Dual-layer is not the same thing as dual-sided.
Men, on the other hand have the opposite problem. They fall asleep immediately after sex. Interesting women fall asleep before sex, men fall asleep after sex. How was it we evolved again?
Because, technically, the woman does not need to be awake.
Use this handy conversion chart.
1 eternity = 10 eons
1 eon = 2 eras
1 era = 4 ages
1 age = forever + 1 day
forever = 1 / blue moon
The largest unit of geological time is actually a "DNFDC" (Duke Nukem Forever Development Cycle).
Maybe they update the page every 10 years or something. In 2008 they'll have coverage up through 2000 perhaps?
If they can cover up through 2004, probably one of the most important developments is software-based synthesizers, which either use totally new methods of synthesis (example: Antares Kantos) or emulate many of the older models on that list.
So there have been improvements in electronic music and synthesis in recent years, but nowadays everything is so electronic anyway that we don't hear anything and think "oh that's groundbreaking."
An analogy can be made with computer special FX. It's kind of like how the dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movie blew everybody away and were revolutionary back then. Now, over 10 years later, CG effects are 100 times better, but everybody is so used to CG effects by now that not a lot of it is revolutionary any more.
I want to be the first to plant a geocache on Mars. I'll make it easy and leave it right out in the open, it'll be a 5,1. Tought to get there, but easy to find when you do arrive. And I'd put a travel bug that is trying to get to Ursala Major . .
Don't forget to bring a big log, or some branches, to hide the cache under. I mean, you don't want to make it too obvious.
The evolution that is described in this article is anything but unguided. Researchers took existing carefully developed code. They selectively combined parts of this code. They studied the resulting effects to produce better code. This looks much more like Intelligent Design [discovery.org] than anything Chuck Darwin ever dreamed up.
No, if it were truly following the "intelligent design" theory, there wouldn't be any trial and error to begin with. The code would be written once, from the ground up, and it would work just as well as any code possibly could, without ever needing to selectively combine anything.
Also, your textbooks had Evolution wrongly defined. It is not random, unguided change. The mutations themselves may be random, but the environment (including predators) is what guides the changes, by causing favorable mutations to progress through the gene pool while unfavorable mutations die out quickly.
In recent months, most of Atlanta's big traffic tie-ups (even worse traffic than usual) are caused by people threatening to jump off of overpasses.
So now for this traffic prediction to work, it basically has to predict bridge jumpers. Fortunately, as the government profiles us more and more and tracks us via RFID tags or whatever, it may be possible not only to predict when a person gets suicidal, but possibly also to predict the most likely date/time and even the correct overpass they will use.
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One of the main reasons it gets such a high "city" rating is the CAGS (1-4 skip shift).
:)
And what's the first thing you disable when getting a new vette? The CAGS! Hey at least we have that option, and still don't have to pay the gas guzzler tax.
I have a 2002 Z06 and it gets much better mileage on the highway than my Ford Ranger (not that trucks are supposed to get good mileage in the first place).
As far as EPA mileage ratings go, a Z06 is comparable to a Toyota Camry V6. I love telling people that.
are you suggesting that the photos are taken with the antenna?
No, and I don't see how you read that in my post.
The images are transmitted back to earth via the antenna, so hopefully the antenna itself won't be damaged during the ring plane crossing.
Well that's the DC implementation, and the amperage is dependent upon your bandwidth.
Anybody know what the AC spec looks like?
yea but isnt the probe supposed to fly through a gap in the rings? it'd be great to get a photo taken "at level".
It is flying through a visible gap, and it's an area that seems to be clear of debris according to all the analysis done so far. But it could just be that the debris is so sparse that it's not visible.
The entry point is actually well outside the visible rings, but there is another very faint ring (G ring) even farther out.
NASA realized this during the design phase, which is why they are rotating the spacecraft around so that the dish of its high gain antenna will provide some protection against small rocks while it passes through the ring plane. Seems like if the high gain antenna is damaged, then they have other problems though! I'm thinking it was designed with this purpose in mind, at least for protection against particles under a certain size.
Yeah but it's directional signal coming from the probe. 0.5 kilowatts of narrow-beam signal goes a lot farther than 10 kilowatts broadcasted from an omnidirectional antenna. But you need dishes at both ends, and they have to be aligned correctly.
I'm sure I'm not using the correct terminology (in case HAM radio experts are reading this) but that is the gist of it.
It seems that this very issue is one of the reasons that we have DNS in the first place.
I don't get it. I can't think of a reason why you would want to keep your IP address after switching ISP's, except maybe you're too lazy to change firewall rules for your WAN.
What were this person's reasons for keeping the IP address? I didn't see it when I skimmed through linked article.
http://lynx.browser.org/
3) DirecTivo units record and playback Dolby Digital 5.1 content (though this relates to #2 that you mentioned-- because Tivo doesn't modify the original stream). DirecTivo units have optical digital output, standalones do not.
4) DirecTivo units are available that support HDTV. They are expensive, and they have 250GB drives, but there are no standalone high-definition Tivo units yet. Also, the HD DirecTivo units have FOUR tuners... two satellite, and two antenna inputs for local HD channels. I'm not sure if it's capable of recording on all 4 simultaneously-- that's a lot of hard drive bandwidth!
id software has also been doing tech demos for years.
The only difference is that other companies wind up making actual games with their licensed technology.
How big's the tank on that 'Vette, anyway?
I don't think the vette is the best example to use when talking about gas guzzlers. Newer vettes get considerably better mileage than any gas-powered SUV. In fact, a 350 horsepower V8 powered vette gets about the same mileage (city and highway) as a Honda Accord V6. And slightly BETTER mileage than a plain old Camry Solara.
V6 powered camry (fun yet sensible transportation)
350 horsepower corvette
In real life, even the 405hp Z06 model vette gets over 30mpg on the highway. That's only if you baby it though.
SUV's will guzzle gas whether you drive it like your grandma or not.
It just means that the load on slashdot will be higher than average for that week.
The advantages of driving:
Disadvantages:
(yes I do prefer biking over jogging, but now I have to actually start looking at bikes. I'm not sure what I want yet)
It's easy enough to disable this on your own system, even if you have IE, just add the following line to your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 itxt.vibrantmedia.com
That will disable the in-line advertising. The larger issue, of course, is that other people read the things you create. You have no way of controlling the browser THEY use, and whether THEY disable it. So a clueless user who happens to use IE, and reads your post on some site that uses IntelliTXT, it will have ads embedded in it. And they might as well believe YOU put them there. But you won't even be able to see them on your own browser.
So a 3rd party has altered YOUR content that YOU created, without your permission, if it's read by an IE user... and there are a lot of IE users.
Wow, that's a lot.
That's equivalent to every single person on the planet receiving over 3 trillion spams per second.
You can get cars today with as much horsepower as ever. The main difference is that they produce far less pollution and get considerably better fuel economy as 60s muscle cars of similar proportions. They are also much safer, more reliable, easier to start, require less regular maintenence, and they automatically keep themselves in tune.
As an example of how far we've come since the 60's:
2004 Z06 Corvette makes 405 horsepower (that's NET horsepower, which can't be compared to the much more inflated gross horsepower ratings of the 60's)
It does 0-60 in 4 seconds flat.
It doesn't overheat even on hot summer days in Arizona.
It purrs like a kitten around town.
It can leave a hundred feet of tread on the pavement if you really want it to.
It gets 28 MPG on the highway which is better than most 6-cylinder grocery getters.
It carries a federal LEV rating (Low Emission Vehicle)
It is reprogrammable with 3rd party software (LS1Edit for example) if you want to tune it
The manufacturer recommended oil change interval is 15,000 miles! Longer oil change intervals means less used oil going into the environment.
And this is still the good ol' pushrod V8 design with a single cam. Fewer moving parts, lighter weight, but the computer technology is what makes all the difference in the world.
Now, in the 60's, if you had a car with that kind of power you had to do constant tuning to keep it running well, and it would probably overheat just from sitting and idling in a parking lot.
It's just that all the newfangled technology and gizmos makes these things much harder to work on than just getting in there with a wrench.
Anyone who's watched the "time remaining" during a Windows installation or a large file copy ("...but it's been 3 minutes remaining for the past half hour!") knows that Microsoft uses their own, superior standards for time measurement, rather than slavishly adhering to those obsolete SI units.
Hotmail was only down for 10 MS-minutes.
Once again demonstrating that Microsoft can't ever come up with an original idea. They stole their "MS-minutes" from the NFL.
I don't recall the argument being that Republicans were rich. It was that they are the tools of the rich...
So basically you're saying that Republicans are the tools of the Democrats?
Brain... hurting! Must... vote... Libertarian!!