He's a govt/NASA guy. Not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, there are many very smart people there, but you gotta figure whatever he says represents the gov't/Big Aerospace point of view.
yeah... 3D is cool but before they add features that eat up more bandwidth, they need to make voice actually work.
As in, make it less laggy and full duplex so we can actually hold a conversation. Right now if I'm talking, the other party needs to stay absolutely quiet or they're not gonna hear anything I'm saying.
but the machine may lead to religious experimenting with grave consequences.
Suppose this VR apparatus is extensively tested, and some of the test subjects having out-of-body experiences see things that would be impossible to see from the (real) body's location. What then?
Like, the subject is lying down in the left side of the room, there is a divider in the middle, and through the VR goggles he is tricked into thinking his body is in the right side of the room. Now place an object in the right side of the room in such a way that it's impossible for the body lying down in the left side of the room to see it. Can the subject accurately describe the object? This is kind of perception is what US Army/SRI's remote viewing program claims they were able to achieve. However they didn't have these goggles and had no way to repeatably and reliably achieve an OOB state, it all depended on individual ability.
Currently all of science and medicine consider OOB and religious experiences to be hallucinations and that all perception and thought exist in the brain exclusively. If repeatable experiments prove this false, it would open the floodgates.
In a head-on collision with another vehicle, yes weight makes a big difference. However you seem to think that headons are the only type of accidents that exist. into. But actually true headons are quite rare and make up a small percentage of accidents. (which is why NHTSA started testing offset headons and side impacts and so on because they're much more common).
Anyways there are accidents where weight hurts you rather than help you. Would you rather crash into the side of a mountain at 60mph in a M-1 Abrams tank, Humvee, or a Tesla S? How about a rollover?
That's true for hard sciences, but not climate science. Emotion and rhetoric play a huge part in that. And you can't repeat the experiment to see if it would have supported the conclusion, you just have to trust the original researcher's models.
Get out the pitchforks and torches, antisocialists.
It's not even that socialism is at fault here. Socialized medicine where the gov't pays for everything exists in most of Europe, Japan and S. Korea, and their healthcare is vastly more efficient than ours in pretty much all categories except wait time. Their medical care costs less and is better (surgical success rates, screw-up percentage, median longevity, etc).
Our problem is that gov't decided to meddle in healthcare but not take complete responsibility for it, and at the same time the gov't is directed by special interests wanting to make most money for their groups (big Pharma, doctors' groups etc).
Before the government started meddling in healthcare (prior to WW2), there is no evidence that healthcare in the U.S. was any more expensive than other countries. In fact it was quite affordable. Read books written in this period, such as Tom Sawyer... healthcare was not a huge deal, ordinary people could pay for doctors visits out of their own pocket. Doctors made house calls when your kid got sick, and it wasn't just rich people doing it either.
We need a single-payer system if we're ever gonna have any kind of sane pricing for healthcare, and having the consumer of healthcare pay for it is the most logical choice because that brings market forces into play. And free market is the most efficient distribution of goods and services known to man. However in the current political climate (read: dominated by LIBERALS) this is impossible. So the second best alternative is socialized medicine where the gov't pays for everything. It's gonna be inefficient compared to a free market, but still better than the insanity we have currently. And who can honestly say Sweden has worse healthcare than U.S.?
Did you read the report? It's got hard numbers and straight up accusations with defined conditions that can be checked. It's not like "I met a little girl who polished my iPhone." Instead it's like "A dorm room at Pegatron can accommodate 12 people. From Monday to Friday, residents have to clock-in within 24 hours or else they will be considered checked out of the dorm." or "The Pegatron factories had a list of discriminatory hiring practices, including refusing to hire people shorter than 4 foot 11 inches tall, pregnant women, those older than 35, people with tattoos, or people of the Hui, Tibetan, or Uighur ethnic groups."
Didn't read the report, but if that's the worst you can dig out of the report then it sounds like this China Labor Watch is trying really hard to attract attention to itself when there's not much there worthy of attention.
4 foot 11, really? So they don't hire midgets that can't grab parts off a shelf... discriminatory and evil! Well my grandpa at 5 foot 11 was not allowed to fly fighter planes because the Air Corps said he was too tall. Where's the outrage? My poor grandpa was discriminated!
Dorm room that can accommodate 12 people, but not saying how big that dorm room is. Is it the size of a closet, or is it a big dorm room? Because our servicemen sleep in dorm rooms with hundreds of beds, and I don't hear much whining from the press.
Not hiring pregnant women. I'm guessing if they DID hire pregnant women, we would be seeing in this report much outrage about the exploitation of pregnant women in sweatshop factories that jeopardize their health.
No Tibetans or Uighurs. Is it because Pegatron hates Tibetans, or is it because there aren't any Tibetans showing up at Job Fair? Shanghai is pretty damn far from Tibet and there aren't that many Tibetans in existence to begin with.
Are any of these things illegal in China? Would the average Chinese bat an eye hearing these accusations? I'm no expert on Chinese labor laws or Chinese culture but I'm guessing No, and that these are pretty typical in the Chinese workplace.
terrorists could do this, terrorists could do that, they can KILL YOU in so many ways! Run for your lives! Or better yet, submit to your federal overlords via TSA DHS who will keep you safe!
Actually no, fuck the terrorists, they're third world noobs living in mud huts and the best they could do in 12 years of trying realyl hard is to hijack a few planes with knives. You have more to fear from your own government than any terrorist.
But damn... Radagast the rabbit sledding superhero?... At some point during production someone had to think "wtf is this?"
That right there is the problem. Peter Jackson has become too powerful and there isn't anyone around him who can say, "No Peter, that's shit! Drop that scene."
nobody flies fighter jets in the Air Force and then goes on to fly for regional carriers for $25k a year. Those regional carrier jobs are filled by entry level pilots that graduated Bob's Flying School who are looking to build up their flight hours and beef up their resume in hopes of eventually flying for the majors.
Air Force pilots leaving the military are in high demand at the majors as they have thousands of hours in jets and typically have exceptional flying skills compared to Bob's Flying School graduates.
Did you even click on any of the links? The top result is the Wikipedia page on Canonical.
I will summarize for you: Their business model: selling services. They wanna be like: Red Hat. Profits: none yet, but Shuttleworth says they are getting close to break-even.
"In a Guardian interview in May 2008, Mark Shuttleworth said that the Canonical business model was service provision and explained that Canonical was not yet close to profitability. Canonical also claimed it will wait for the business to turn into a profitable one within another 3 to 5 years. He regarded Canonical as positioning itself as demand for services related to free software rose.[14] This strategy has been compared to Red Hat's business strategies in the 1990s.[15] However, in an early 2009 New York Times article, Shuttleworth said that Canonical's revenue was "creeping" towards $30 million, the company's break-even point.[16]
In 2007, Canonical launched an International online shop selling support services and Ubuntu branded goods; later in 2008 it expanded that with a United States-specific shop designed to reduce shipment times.[17] At the same time, the word Ubuntu was trademarked in connection with clothing and accessories.[18]"
It says Gigabyte not gigabyte... so it must mean the network features customizable voltages and clock speeds for easy-to-use overclocking and a good warranty policy.
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scientists only seek the truth and cannot be corrupted or have other agendas. Climate scientists have proven this!
He's a govt/NASA guy. Not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, there are many very smart people there, but you gotta figure whatever he says represents the gov't/Big Aerospace point of view.
yeah... 3D is cool but before they add features that eat up more bandwidth, they need to make voice actually work.
As in, make it less laggy and full duplex so we can actually hold a conversation. Right now if I'm talking, the other party needs to stay absolutely quiet or they're not gonna hear anything I'm saying.
if the attacker has physical access to your machine, you're already toast.
why would he need a legal defense fund? He's safely in the protection of Comrade Putin now.
But suppose if NSA had him in custody at Langley, he would be toast and no amount of bitcoins in his defense fund will save him.
but the machine may lead to religious experimenting with grave consequences.
Suppose this VR apparatus is extensively tested, and some of the test subjects having out-of-body experiences see things that would be impossible to see from the (real) body's location. What then?
Like, the subject is lying down in the left side of the room, there is a divider in the middle, and through the VR goggles he is tricked into thinking his body is in the right side of the room. Now place an object in the right side of the room in such a way that it's impossible for the body lying down in the left side of the room to see it. Can the subject accurately describe the object? This is kind of perception is what US Army/SRI's remote viewing program claims they were able to achieve. However they didn't have these goggles and had no way to repeatably and reliably achieve an OOB state, it all depended on individual ability.
Currently all of science and medicine consider OOB and religious experiences to be hallucinations and that all perception and thought exist in the brain exclusively. If repeatable experiments prove this false, it would open the floodgates.
at Burning Man, you're a fucking poser and really shouldn't even be there.
MS should hire Elon Musk as CEO?
In a head-on collision with another vehicle, yes weight makes a big difference. However you seem to think that headons are the only type of accidents that exist. into. But actually true headons are quite rare and make up a small percentage of accidents. (which is why NHTSA started testing offset headons and side impacts and so on because they're much more common).
Anyways there are accidents where weight hurts you rather than help you. Would you rather crash into the side of a mountain at 60mph in a M-1 Abrams tank, Humvee, or a Tesla S? How about a rollover?
That's true for hard sciences, but not climate science. Emotion and rhetoric play a huge part in that. And you can't repeat the experiment to see if it would have supported the conclusion, you just have to trust the original researcher's models.
He said he's doing it as a HOBBY, so sure why not, do it on the phone.
You could say I do video production as a hobby. Just last week I made some high quality video of my dog chasing a ball with an iphone 5!
So, more violence in hot drought-prone areas.
Less suicide in cold places.
Sounds like a wash.
Get out the pitchforks and torches, antisocialists.
It's not even that socialism is at fault here. Socialized medicine where the gov't pays for everything exists in most of Europe, Japan and S. Korea, and their healthcare is vastly more efficient than ours in pretty much all categories except wait time. Their medical care costs less and is better (surgical success rates, screw-up percentage, median longevity, etc).
Our problem is that gov't decided to meddle in healthcare but not take complete responsibility for it, and at the same time the gov't is directed by special interests wanting to make most money for their groups (big Pharma, doctors' groups etc).
Before the government started meddling in healthcare (prior to WW2), there is no evidence that healthcare in the U.S. was any more expensive than other countries. In fact it was quite affordable. Read books written in this period, such as Tom Sawyer... healthcare was not a huge deal, ordinary people could pay for doctors visits out of their own pocket. Doctors made house calls when your kid got sick, and it wasn't just rich people doing it either.
We need a single-payer system if we're ever gonna have any kind of sane pricing for healthcare, and having the consumer of healthcare pay for it is the most logical choice because that brings market forces into play. And free market is the most efficient distribution of goods and services known to man. However in the current political climate (read: dominated by LIBERALS) this is impossible. So the second best alternative is socialized medicine where the gov't pays for everything. It's gonna be inefficient compared to a free market, but still better than the insanity we have currently. And who can honestly say Sweden has worse healthcare than U.S.?
kinda like how the Asiana pilots should've learned basic flying skills and not rely on auto-throttle all the time.
Or like how our school districts want to buy an iPad for every student even though they can't read or memorize a basic multiplication table.
Did you read the report? It's got hard numbers and straight up accusations with defined conditions that can be checked. It's not like "I met a little girl who polished my iPhone." Instead it's like "A dorm room at Pegatron can accommodate 12 people. From Monday to Friday, residents have to clock-in within 24 hours or else they will be considered checked out of the dorm." or "The Pegatron factories had a list of discriminatory hiring practices, including refusing to hire people shorter than 4 foot 11 inches tall, pregnant women, those older than 35, people with tattoos, or people of the Hui, Tibetan, or Uighur ethnic groups."
Didn't read the report, but if that's the worst you can dig out of the report then it sounds like this China Labor Watch is trying really hard to attract attention to itself when there's not much there worthy of attention.
4 foot 11, really? So they don't hire midgets that can't grab parts off a shelf... discriminatory and evil! Well my grandpa at 5 foot 11 was not allowed to fly fighter planes because the Air Corps said he was too tall. Where's the outrage? My poor grandpa was discriminated!
Dorm room that can accommodate 12 people, but not saying how big that dorm room is. Is it the size of a closet, or is it a big dorm room? Because our servicemen sleep in dorm rooms with hundreds of beds, and I don't hear much whining from the press.
Not hiring pregnant women. I'm guessing if they DID hire pregnant women, we would be seeing in this report much outrage about the exploitation of pregnant women in sweatshop factories that jeopardize their health.
No Tibetans or Uighurs. Is it because Pegatron hates Tibetans, or is it because there aren't any Tibetans showing up at Job Fair? Shanghai is pretty damn far from Tibet and there aren't that many Tibetans in existence to begin with.
Are any of these things illegal in China? Would the average Chinese bat an eye hearing these accusations? I'm no expert on Chinese labor laws or Chinese culture but I'm guessing No, and that these are pretty typical in the Chinese workplace.
actually it is, Tim. The Chinese want cheaper phones, and they want phones you can put pirated warez on. Apple doesn't score well in either category.
terrorists could do this, terrorists could do that, they can KILL YOU in so many ways! Run for your lives! Or better yet, submit to your federal overlords via TSA DHS who will keep you safe!
Actually no, fuck the terrorists, they're third world noobs living in mud huts and the best they could do in 12 years of trying realyl hard is to hijack a few planes with knives. You have more to fear from your own government than any terrorist.
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It's about as big as the Mongolian navy.
human bipedal motions better than any other dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaYPWtNvJ-A
But damn... Radagast the rabbit sledding superhero? ... At some point during production someone had to think "wtf is this?"
That right there is the problem. Peter Jackson has become too powerful and there isn't anyone around him who can say, "No Peter, that's shit! Drop that scene."
George Lucas is the epitome of this malady.
nobody flies fighter jets in the Air Force and then goes on to fly for regional carriers for $25k a year. Those regional carrier jobs are filled by entry level pilots that graduated Bob's Flying School who are looking to build up their flight hours and beef up their resume in hopes of eventually flying for the majors.
Air Force pilots leaving the military are in high demand at the majors as they have thousands of hours in jets and typically have exceptional flying skills compared to Bob's Flying School graduates.
Did you even click on any of the links? The top result is the Wikipedia page on Canonical.
I will summarize for you: Their business model: selling services. They wanna be like: Red Hat. Profits: none yet, but Shuttleworth says they are getting close to break-even.
"In a Guardian interview in May 2008, Mark Shuttleworth said that the Canonical business model was service provision and explained that Canonical was not yet close to profitability. Canonical also claimed it will wait for the business to turn into a profitable one within another 3 to 5 years. He regarded Canonical as positioning itself as demand for services related to free software rose.[14] This strategy has been compared to Red Hat's business strategies in the 1990s.[15] However, in an early 2009 New York Times article, Shuttleworth said that Canonical's revenue was "creeping" towards $30 million, the company's break-even point.[16]
In 2007, Canonical launched an International online shop selling support services and Ubuntu branded goods; later in 2008 it expanded that with a United States-specific shop designed to reduce shipment times.[17] At the same time, the word Ubuntu was trademarked in connection with clothing and accessories.[18]"
it looks just like the ship camo the Navy used in WW2, but since it's applied to sharks instead of the Japanese, we deserve a patent!
It says Gigabyte not gigabyte... so it must mean the network features customizable voltages and clock speeds for easy-to-use overclocking and a good warranty policy.