One ride on that puppy and my wife's credit cards should be wiped out. It may not be much but the two week breather my account will get while the companies replace them will be a real treat! Now if I can just get her to ride it two weeks before Christmas.....
" He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper containing "the basic accumulated scientific knowledge of humanity."
Isn't it high time Playboy came on archival paper? If we are going to preserve the best that civilization has to offer shouldn't we start at the top?
Anyone know what sort of performance hit there is running the current Firefox release under Rosetta? I mean, do the Flash ads stutter or anything?
I hear the companies using spyware are up in arms and threatening a boycott if they don't improve spyware support in Firefox under Rosetta. The upload performance is so poor it just isn't worth infecting Intel Macs. They're hoping the final release of the Intel Mac Firefox will resolve this issue.
You could always go for the pannick attack and say, "Hi, you just triggered a system worm that should currupt every file on your machine within fifteen seconds. Please enjoy the last ten seconds of your Mac operating system. Have a nice day and might we recommend Windows?"
I'll take a million windmills over one nuke plant. You can build all of them you want if you can answer realistically how do we store millions of tons of waste that will be created in the short term? Let's say we get 50% of our power from nuclear sources for the next thousand years. We're talking billions of tons of waste and that's assuming no growth. Are you calling that sustainable? Nuclear power is a short term solution with long term consequences. You get tire of anti nuke attitudes. Well I get tired of the "hey it won't be a problem in my lifetime" attitude. Most of our current problems are caused by this mindset. The people in power will be dead before the piper has to be paid so what's the problem? We can't keep building bigger trash dumps to keep waste in and nuclear waste doesn't magically go away when you stick it in a hole. Even if it did you still have to keep it safe until you crammed it into a hole. There's a vast amount of nuclear material that isn't accounted for. Radiological attacks aren't an if but when situation. Now you want to up production ten to twenty times to make up for oil and coal? Hey we just keep it safe. Ever considered if we are going to cram it all in Yucca mountain how it gets there? It gets there through major cities. Whether it's by truck or train it has to pass through a major city to get there. We're talking hundreds and probably thousands of truck loads a year just so you can get easy power. It's not cheap, that's a myth but it's easy. There's some cheap land around Three Mile Island if you really don't mind nuclear plants. Never happen again? When I was growing up the claims were something like one accident in a thousand years. Well if that average is right we should be safe for quite a few thousand years because there's been quite a few accidents and I don't mean Chernobly. There was an accident with the first prototype reactor. There have been quite a few "small" leaks and those are the ones that are admitted to. Did you know at one point in Washington State they were storing an old reactor core in a ditch? The foolish assumption is the technology would be handled responsibly. If it is handled responsibly it would be a first. The people in power are chimpanzees playing with bazookas. Personally I'd rather see them play with windmills.
How about the importance of afordable power? I'm far less worried about land speculators hoping to get rich than people that very soon aren't going to be able to aford to heat their homes in the winter. We're freezing our asses off but boy is it pretty. I'm a fanatic about land preservation but people need to be practical. It's easy to say put it somewhere else but it needs to be done. You're worried about eye polution. Well I used to live in LA and I'll a tiny amount of eye polution over air polution any day. You want unspoiled? Get in a time machine. It may look pretty but the land and ground water is poluted from cars and heavy metals from burning coal. Wind and solar in the short term are the cleanest and safest technologies we have and can be deployed now not in fifty or a hundred years. Find areas that are as isolated as possible to avoid annoying people but if they can take people's land to put up a Walmart I think it's rediculous that people would be prevented from putting up windmills on their own property.
How anyone can claim health problems from windmills is beyond me. People are calling them an eyesore but would they be happier with a coal burning plant next door? More of that anywhere but here BS. Tell you what. Communities that say yes to them get their power for half and your power bills are going to double. Not fair? Wait'll oil starts running out and everyone is paying 4X the current rate. I don't get the eyesore part myself. I lived in Wellington NZ where there was a massive one and it was a tourist attraction and I can't remember anyone complaining about it. Personally I love the ones between LA and Phoenix. The drive is boring and they are a lot more interesting to look at than desert scrub. The placement may not have been ideal but what birds are dying pale to what encrochment and polution cause. Not a perfect solution? Welcome to the real woirld where there are none. It's simply one of the best solutions. Third world countries are embracing the technology. It's sad that we in the oil whoring US of A are whining about asthetics.
I say paint a swirl pattern on the blades of the windmills so they look like the old hyponosis wheels. The birds will be too dizzy to fly near the windmills. If the birds are forced to walk they can't hit the blades. Better to have staggering birds with bad headaches than dead ones.
It's fast food film making. It's kind of like saying why doesn't MacDonald's food taste better? Better to eat one good meal a day than three really bad ones. Well you spend most of the day hungry. Advertisers don't want to hear they're making one decent film a month instead of four cheesy ones. Even cheap films can be good but that requires talent and as many have noticed most of the talent has been run out of Hollywood. It's nearly impossible to get a script read and most can't tell the difference between a good one and a bad one. I've produced a few films but I just recently after fifteen years of trying sold a script. Well the first thing out of the producers mouth was how much they loved it and the second thing was all the things they were going to change. By the time he was done I had decided to use a alias. A talented person might write the script but then the talentless hacks get to put their two cents in and what's left generally is pretty godawful. You've heard of the saying that a camel is a horse by commitee? Well that's how films get made. It's really amazing when a good one sneaks through the minefield. It's far more about egoes and justifying jobs than making good movies.
You don't want to go to jail don't do it. Deleting files isn't exactly a harmless prank and it isn't entirely the fault of the vitim for not being better protected. If you really don't see the harm go in to work Monday and for a laugh format the hard drive on the server. If everyone laughes it off I guess I'm wrong but I'll bet the owners don't see the humor. The amount was inflated to avoid splitting hairs. If they claimed six grand in looses the attorney probably could have agrued it down to a lesser crime. The point wasn't so much to punish him but to avoid it becoming a fad to trash accounts when you get fired. One person could do tremedous damage in a short amount of time without physically destroying anything. They were stupid to not remove his priviledges but it doesn't excuse his actions.
There a kind of symetry involved that birds once considered us fast food and now we eat deep fried birds as fast food. I wonder if we gave them high cholesterol?
There's other uses than computers for large flash drives. I'm getting ready to pick up a Panasonic HVX200. They use a P2 memory cards as their primary recording medium. For 1080 your only other option is external hard drives. It's about 1 gig a minute at 1080/60. That translates out at 8 minutes for the largest card availible the 8 gig P2 which uses 4 2gig cards. Right now the cards are running around $2,000 but they'll drop fast as capacity goes up. They really start getting interesting when you can get a 32 gig card for $500. Even in today's market it isn't a competitive price for a hard drive but for video use given the advantges it would be very attractive. Cameras will help get capacity up and prices down so may be one day they'll make sense for computer hard drives. Everytime some one says we don't need more memory another use is found and need goes up. Terrabytes will start maxing out need for most traditional uses though. The problem will start to be organizing files since in the terrabytes most people wouldn't need to delete files. Video and graphics people are the only ones that may never be happy. Storing a single full res feature would still take quite a few terrabytes to store so if you do it professionally or are simply a serious film fanatic there's no practical limit to the storage that could be used.
Sorry. I've swapped power supplies and my notebook does the same thing. I've never had a Windows computer that was a 100% stable with graphics software other than Photoshop and it's crashed a few times over the years. If you want to run word processing in general it works fine but graphics are a lot more challenging and memory intensive. The problems in part seem to be memory related. Even Macs and Linux machines crash but Windows machines do it far too often. Video editing software is especially bad about crashing on Windows systems and it's a well known problem. I know a lot of people that work with windows editing software and the all have the same problems.
Sorry, Open Office is the only free or open source I use. I have a small fortune in licensed software. I'm slowly switching to Mac and eventually Linux for rendering. I'd jump ship almost entirely but there's still some Mac support issues for hardware rendering and video cards in Maya. That'll get resolved later this year and I can start switching the render farm over once I sort out the driver issues to get it on Linux. I loose far too much time to WIndows crashes and it just hasn't gotten better. I use good motherboards and video cards so it keeps coming back to Windows. I've even tried different brands of ram with no effect. It's easy for the vendors and Microsoft to point fingers at each other but at the end of the day crashing multiple times a day let alone multiple times an hour is simply unacceptable.
Seemed appropriate given I'm trying to edit something on a windows system right now and it crashes four to five times an hour. About the only graphics app that I have that doesn't crash is Photoshop. I have four different machines and they all crash and the only thing they have in common is Windows. I'm running everything from Win 2000 to XP and they all crash.
If the process could be adapted to work on developing cells and attach only to cancer cells it could help speed detection and make it easier to see cancerous cells during surgery. The obvious benefit would be with melonomia. If after a treatment cancerous moles would change color it'd make detection possible without biopsies and help see if it was spreading.
I'll be more interested when either the results are confirmed or one of them gets radiation poisoning. Although potentially safe by nuclear standards fusion should result in a lot more radiation than any of the cold fusion tests have so far. Good ole Mr Fusion is still going to require some serious lead shielding. There have been some intriguing results but by science standards until it can reliably be reproduced it doesn't exist. The problem is it could be a whole new effect they are seeing and not actual fusion. Even if it is if it can't be scaled up it'll wind up a laboratory curiousity and not the savor if civilization.
It's sad to see human cloning turn into the new Cold Fusion. I'm not for actual human cloning for the purpose of reproducing a human but I am strongly for it for health and medical reasons. It's not an ethical object the problem is purely technical. At best the clone is a retroactive twin and not a duplicate of the person. There's simply far too many risks with the state of current technology. From everything I've read on the subject the risk of health problems and birth defects is huge. One child with birth defects could set the science back twenty years let alone the obvious misery for the child. The technology is in it's infancy and needs time to develope. Some dramatic failures will only fuel the anti cloning crowd. Let animal and tissue cloning become a part of everyday life before the giant step of cloning a human happens. I think if the word cloning wasn't even used in that context it might help. Like I say it's not the person it's a twin and not that much different in a physical sense than any embryo produced in a lab today. I'd rather see the effort put into tissue cloning. Producing a heart or a kidney through the process and having it fail won't do the damage that a failed embryo would.
Well of course it won't be direct to jail, there will have to be a trial to determine if you are actually guilty, unless the executive branch has some sort of magical power to just throw people into jails without due process.
Nuclear power has only been used in a very limited way for say fifty years and we already have a massive disposal problem. If the solution is to replace fossil fuels with nuclear power we're talking 100X the waste in the next fifty years. Dealing with the waste is insanely expensive so there's a great myth about how cheap it is. Ask our great grandkids how cheap it is? It's simple is why people and companies like it. Put up a handful of plants and you get a lot of power, and a lot of waste by products not just the fuel cores. Decomissioning a plant largely involves walling them up and forgetting about them. Have we all forgotten "National Sacrific Zones"? Probably the single stupidest idea to ever come out of the government. This plot of land gave it's life for it's country. There are many places that won't be safe to enter in our children's lifetimes. The worst mess oil or coal ever caused people can walk on. Now we want this times 100? Just how much land needs to be declared uninhabitable before we percieve this as the madness that it is? Oh gee one day it'll be safe. Not entirely true. Ever hear of the baby teeth studies? Nuclear material doesn't cycle out of the environment. Plutonium even dead cold is still toxic. Our recent battlefields have been contaminated because some genius decided depleated uranium would make neato shells. It leachs into the ground water and causes health problems. Ask the people in Bosnia. There's less rainfall in Iraq but the ground water will eventually be contaminated there as well. Just because it's high tech doesn't mean it's a good idea. In fifty years there's never been a way found to safely store or dispose of nuclear waste. Even chemical weapons can be incenerated and reduced to carbon but not nuclear waste. There is a simple solution to storage. Everyone that is pronuclear power gets to store a drum in their back yard. Just remember it's perfectly safe and you'll be just find. And on the brightside if the cat goes missing you can track them with a gieger counter. Ain't technology grand!
Seems a lot of the features are trying to turn an Ipod into a PDA. If some one would just make a PDA with a proper hard drive that has an Ipod style menuing system there wouldn't seem much of a fight for functionality. Ipods are still largely a single use device. I use my PDA all day long and would be lost without it. I'm guessing cost is the big factor holding it up. Personally I'm pretty happy with the 1 gig card on my PDA. I store a lot of stuff on it and have yet to use up 10% of the memory. If it breaks I can pull out the card and drop it into a new one and be up and running in minutes.
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One ride on that puppy and my wife's credit cards should be wiped out. It may not be much but the two week breather my account will get while the companies replace them will be a real treat! Now if I can just get her to ride it two weeks before Christmas.....
Isn't it high time Playboy came on archival paper? If we are going to preserve the best that civilization has to offer shouldn't we start at the top?
I hear the companies using spyware are up in arms and threatening a boycott if they don't improve spyware support in Firefox under Rosetta. The upload performance is so poor it just isn't worth infecting Intel Macs. They're hoping the final release of the Intel Mac Firefox will resolve this issue.
You could always go for the pannick attack and say, "Hi, you just triggered a system worm that should currupt every file on your machine within fifteen seconds. Please enjoy the last ten seconds of your Mac operating system. Have a nice day and might we recommend Windows?"
I'll take a million windmills over one nuke plant. You can build all of them you want if you can answer realistically how do we store millions of tons of waste that will be created in the short term? Let's say we get 50% of our power from nuclear sources for the next thousand years. We're talking billions of tons of waste and that's assuming no growth. Are you calling that sustainable? Nuclear power is a short term solution with long term consequences. You get tire of anti nuke attitudes. Well I get tired of the "hey it won't be a problem in my lifetime" attitude. Most of our current problems are caused by this mindset. The people in power will be dead before the piper has to be paid so what's the problem? We can't keep building bigger trash dumps to keep waste in and nuclear waste doesn't magically go away when you stick it in a hole. Even if it did you still have to keep it safe until you crammed it into a hole. There's a vast amount of nuclear material that isn't accounted for. Radiological attacks aren't an if but when situation. Now you want to up production ten to twenty times to make up for oil and coal? Hey we just keep it safe. Ever considered if we are going to cram it all in Yucca mountain how it gets there? It gets there through major cities. Whether it's by truck or train it has to pass through a major city to get there. We're talking hundreds and probably thousands of truck loads a year just so you can get easy power. It's not cheap, that's a myth but it's easy. There's some cheap land around Three Mile Island if you really don't mind nuclear plants. Never happen again? When I was growing up the claims were something like one accident in a thousand years. Well if that average is right we should be safe for quite a few thousand years because there's been quite a few accidents and I don't mean Chernobly. There was an accident with the first prototype reactor. There have been quite a few "small" leaks and those are the ones that are admitted to. Did you know at one point in Washington State they were storing an old reactor core in a ditch? The foolish assumption is the technology would be handled responsibly. If it is handled responsibly it would be a first. The people in power are chimpanzees playing with bazookas. Personally I'd rather see them play with windmills.
How about the importance of afordable power? I'm far less worried about land speculators hoping to get rich than people that very soon aren't going to be able to aford to heat their homes in the winter. We're freezing our asses off but boy is it pretty. I'm a fanatic about land preservation but people need to be practical. It's easy to say put it somewhere else but it needs to be done. You're worried about eye polution. Well I used to live in LA and I'll a tiny amount of eye polution over air polution any day. You want unspoiled? Get in a time machine. It may look pretty but the land and ground water is poluted from cars and heavy metals from burning coal. Wind and solar in the short term are the cleanest and safest technologies we have and can be deployed now not in fifty or a hundred years. Find areas that are as isolated as possible to avoid annoying people but if they can take people's land to put up a Walmart I think it's rediculous that people would be prevented from putting up windmills on their own property.
How anyone can claim health problems from windmills is beyond me. People are calling them an eyesore but would they be happier with a coal burning plant next door? More of that anywhere but here BS. Tell you what. Communities that say yes to them get their power for half and your power bills are going to double. Not fair? Wait'll oil starts running out and everyone is paying 4X the current rate. I don't get the eyesore part myself. I lived in Wellington NZ where there was a massive one and it was a tourist attraction and I can't remember anyone complaining about it. Personally I love the ones between LA and Phoenix. The drive is boring and they are a lot more interesting to look at than desert scrub. The placement may not have been ideal but what birds are dying pale to what encrochment and polution cause. Not a perfect solution? Welcome to the real woirld where there are none. It's simply one of the best solutions. Third world countries are embracing the technology. It's sad that we in the oil whoring US of A are whining about asthetics.
I say paint a swirl pattern on the blades of the windmills so they look like the old hyponosis wheels. The birds will be too dizzy to fly near the windmills. If the birds are forced to walk they can't hit the blades. Better to have staggering birds with bad headaches than dead ones.
It's fast food film making. It's kind of like saying why doesn't MacDonald's food taste better? Better to eat one good meal a day than three really bad ones. Well you spend most of the day hungry. Advertisers don't want to hear they're making one decent film a month instead of four cheesy ones. Even cheap films can be good but that requires talent and as many have noticed most of the talent has been run out of Hollywood. It's nearly impossible to get a script read and most can't tell the difference between a good one and a bad one. I've produced a few films but I just recently after fifteen years of trying sold a script. Well the first thing out of the producers mouth was how much they loved it and the second thing was all the things they were going to change. By the time he was done I had decided to use a alias. A talented person might write the script but then the talentless hacks get to put their two cents in and what's left generally is pretty godawful. You've heard of the saying that a camel is a horse by commitee? Well that's how films get made. It's really amazing when a good one sneaks through the minefield. It's far more about egoes and justifying jobs than making good movies.
You don't want to go to jail don't do it. Deleting files isn't exactly a harmless prank and it isn't entirely the fault of the vitim for not being better protected. If you really don't see the harm go in to work Monday and for a laugh format the hard drive on the server. If everyone laughes it off I guess I'm wrong but I'll bet the owners don't see the humor. The amount was inflated to avoid splitting hairs. If they claimed six grand in looses the attorney probably could have agrued it down to a lesser crime. The point wasn't so much to punish him but to avoid it becoming a fad to trash accounts when you get fired. One person could do tremedous damage in a short amount of time without physically destroying anything. They were stupid to not remove his priviledges but it doesn't excuse his actions.
There a kind of symetry involved that birds once considered us fast food and now we eat deep fried birds as fast food. I wonder if we gave them high cholesterol?
There's other uses than computers for large flash drives. I'm getting ready to pick up a Panasonic HVX200. They use a P2 memory cards as their primary recording medium. For 1080 your only other option is external hard drives. It's about 1 gig a minute at 1080/60. That translates out at 8 minutes for the largest card availible the 8 gig P2 which uses 4 2gig cards. Right now the cards are running around $2,000 but they'll drop fast as capacity goes up. They really start getting interesting when you can get a 32 gig card for $500. Even in today's market it isn't a competitive price for a hard drive but for video use given the advantges it would be very attractive. Cameras will help get capacity up and prices down so may be one day they'll make sense for computer hard drives. Everytime some one says we don't need more memory another use is found and need goes up. Terrabytes will start maxing out need for most traditional uses though. The problem will start to be organizing files since in the terrabytes most people wouldn't need to delete files. Video and graphics people are the only ones that may never be happy. Storing a single full res feature would still take quite a few terrabytes to store so if you do it professionally or are simply a serious film fanatic there's no practical limit to the storage that could be used.
Sorry. I've swapped power supplies and my notebook does the same thing. I've never had a Windows computer that was a 100% stable with graphics software other than Photoshop and it's crashed a few times over the years. If you want to run word processing in general it works fine but graphics are a lot more challenging and memory intensive. The problems in part seem to be memory related. Even Macs and Linux machines crash but Windows machines do it far too often. Video editing software is especially bad about crashing on Windows systems and it's a well known problem. I know a lot of people that work with windows editing software and the all have the same problems.
Sorry, Open Office is the only free or open source I use. I have a small fortune in licensed software. I'm slowly switching to Mac and eventually Linux for rendering. I'd jump ship almost entirely but there's still some Mac support issues for hardware rendering and video cards in Maya. That'll get resolved later this year and I can start switching the render farm over once I sort out the driver issues to get it on Linux. I loose far too much time to WIndows crashes and it just hasn't gotten better. I use good motherboards and video cards so it keeps coming back to Windows. I've even tried different brands of ram with no effect. It's easy for the vendors and Microsoft to point fingers at each other but at the end of the day crashing multiple times a day let alone multiple times an hour is simply unacceptable.
Seemed appropriate given I'm trying to edit something on a windows system right now and it crashes four to five times an hour. About the only graphics app that I have that doesn't crash is Photoshop. I have four different machines and they all crash and the only thing they have in common is Windows. I'm running everything from Win 2000 to XP and they all crash.
If it runs Windows does that mean it can be both in a crashed state and an uncrashed state?
If the process could be adapted to work on developing cells and attach only to cancer cells it could help speed detection and make it easier to see cancerous cells during surgery. The obvious benefit would be with melonomia. If after a treatment cancerous moles would change color it'd make detection possible without biopsies and help see if it was spreading.
I'll be more interested when either the results are confirmed or one of them gets radiation poisoning. Although potentially safe by nuclear standards fusion should result in a lot more radiation than any of the cold fusion tests have so far. Good ole Mr Fusion is still going to require some serious lead shielding. There have been some intriguing results but by science standards until it can reliably be reproduced it doesn't exist. The problem is it could be a whole new effect they are seeing and not actual fusion. Even if it is if it can't be scaled up it'll wind up a laboratory curiousity and not the savor if civilization.
It's sad to see human cloning turn into the new Cold Fusion. I'm not for actual human cloning for the purpose of reproducing a human but I am strongly for it for health and medical reasons. It's not an ethical object the problem is purely technical. At best the clone is a retroactive twin and not a duplicate of the person. There's simply far too many risks with the state of current technology. From everything I've read on the subject the risk of health problems and birth defects is huge. One child with birth defects could set the science back twenty years let alone the obvious misery for the child. The technology is in it's infancy and needs time to develope. Some dramatic failures will only fuel the anti cloning crowd. Let animal and tissue cloning become a part of everyday life before the giant step of cloning a human happens. I think if the word cloning wasn't even used in that context it might help. Like I say it's not the person it's a twin and not that much different in a physical sense than any embryo produced in a lab today. I'd rather see the effort put into tissue cloning. Producing a heart or a kidney through the process and having it fail won't do the damage that a failed embryo would.
We call it the Patroit Act.
Two guys cross america on Segways. Trust me, the gene pool is safe. Even if they are straight their odds of reproducing are slim.
Nuclear power has only been used in a very limited way for say fifty years and we already have a massive disposal problem. If the solution is to replace fossil fuels with nuclear power we're talking 100X the waste in the next fifty years. Dealing with the waste is insanely expensive so there's a great myth about how cheap it is. Ask our great grandkids how cheap it is? It's simple is why people and companies like it. Put up a handful of plants and you get a lot of power, and a lot of waste by products not just the fuel cores. Decomissioning a plant largely involves walling them up and forgetting about them. Have we all forgotten "National Sacrific Zones"? Probably the single stupidest idea to ever come out of the government. This plot of land gave it's life for it's country. There are many places that won't be safe to enter in our children's lifetimes. The worst mess oil or coal ever caused people can walk on. Now we want this times 100? Just how much land needs to be declared uninhabitable before we percieve this as the madness that it is? Oh gee one day it'll be safe. Not entirely true. Ever hear of the baby teeth studies? Nuclear material doesn't cycle out of the environment. Plutonium even dead cold is still toxic. Our recent battlefields have been contaminated because some genius decided depleated uranium would make neato shells. It leachs into the ground water and causes health problems. Ask the people in Bosnia. There's less rainfall in Iraq but the ground water will eventually be contaminated there as well. Just because it's high tech doesn't mean it's a good idea. In fifty years there's never been a way found to safely store or dispose of nuclear waste. Even chemical weapons can be incenerated and reduced to carbon but not nuclear waste. There is a simple solution to storage. Everyone that is pronuclear power gets to store a drum in their back yard. Just remember it's perfectly safe and you'll be just find. And on the brightside if the cat goes missing you can track them with a gieger counter. Ain't technology grand!
Seems a lot of the features are trying to turn an Ipod into a PDA. If some one would just make a PDA with a proper hard drive that has an Ipod style menuing system there wouldn't seem much of a fight for functionality. Ipods are still largely a single use device. I use my PDA all day long and would be lost without it. I'm guessing cost is the big factor holding it up. Personally I'm pretty happy with the 1 gig card on my PDA. I store a lot of stuff on it and have yet to use up 10% of the memory. If it breaks I can pull out the card and drop it into a new one and be up and running in minutes.
In related news Morgan Spurlock has decided to do a new documentary where he will eat nothing but MacDonalds employees for 30 days.