I'll never switch to IPv6 with its cold, digital precision rendering of data. The lower resolution of IPv4 just provides a better rendition of old favorites like slashdot, to my eyes anyway. Sure, there's some noise, some clicks and pops, but nothing matches wikipedia seen through a nice tube monitor.
" Other concerns that occur to me are in the fact that light does get in through the body even if is is just a little. What problems could that cause?"
It's just blue light. A UV filter might be good, but it's not strong enough to burn or anything, and is going to be directed via fiber optics to the cells that are sensitized.
I mean, the laser light is kind of a small matter when you're talking about injecting a virus to cause cells to express new genes and become sensitive to light.
In theory, the CGI content of the prequels could be re-rendered for genuine 3D, with the two camera viewpoints. Scenes that are entirely CGI ought to look great.
Then the 2D elements like the actors, and the 1D elements, like Hayden Christensen, could be composited in and, if necessary, plumped up with faux-3D.
Which might have a somewhat better result than if the completed, final frames of the films are used as input to the simulated 3D process. Which is pretty much what I think will have to be done with the original three films.
The "25 items" thing sounds like they're assuming a trip to the grocery store, where people tend to buy a lot of items at once.
The things I buy online aren't like that. If I were buying them in the real world, chances are I'd be driving out to find a couple of specific items, then driving home, possibly visiting multiple stores in the process, trying to find what I want.
I suspect if you compared online orders to the emissions load of a single person, driving alone, to multiple stores, to find one item, then online orders look a lot better.
Of course it's a valid question. The point is, with no other cars is there even a possibility of "pay back" because they're just a depreciating expense...
(Well, I suppose some rare investment-quality appreciating cars might count, but those aren't common so beside the point.)
"They still need massive data and power lines coming from the grid, and because servers need to be connected to the internet without even the slightest interruption, a floating server rack cannot be mobile."
One would assume they'd be able to generate the power themselves. Data lines are still an issue, though an optical or microwave link to shore might be feasible.
It'd probably make more sense as a big render farm or compute farm, where the machines can chew on the task for a day and then the result is pooped back out, rather than a bunch of servers constantly being hit by requests.
And if they want to take advantage of water temperatures to cool the systems, they probably ought to consider moving to Vancouver or even Alaska.
You'll only be able to see these at night, but I should think the main times when air quality is a problem is during the day, especially morning and evening rush hours (and afterward).
Ugh. Just tried to use a USB NIDAQ card with OS X, for a neurobiology experiment rig. In the past we've used much more expensive, and more robust, ITC-18 units from HEKA, but we tried to transition to the cheaper NI units.
If you're not using Windows, STAY AWAY from National Instruments.
"This reminds me of Xerox PARC - great R & D output, poor commercialization of these results. People wonder if their lab was a toy-of-Bill or a tax write-off."
I suspect the idea is mainly to keep the people from going elsewhere.
"The issue is that people who aren't even informed second-hand are continually taking one side or the other because of political, religious, or other rationales."
You get TV weathermen and creationists and eccentric British aristocrats opining about climate science. It's like a TV morning news host who occasionally gets a demo of a new technological gadget critiquing quantum physics papers.
"The funny thing about this community, though, is that the 'heretics' are ejected from it"
I expect consistently-wrong heretics are also ejected from plenty of fields.
Try proposing something daft about silicon chip fabrication and see how much respect you get. "We can get error-free silicon if we intentionally place a single malformed bit in with the molten silicon, then take a tiny amount of that molten solution and add it to another pool of molten silicon, then take a tiny drop of that molten solution and mix it with another pool of molten pure silicon, and repeat that 100 times before forming a silicon crystal for wafer production. Homeopathic silicon chip fabrication, in other words."
Well, no, because the tide coming in isn't going to be accelerated or worsened by our actions.
If the climate is warming naturally, that only makes it more important to not continue to do stupid things that would further exacerbate the warming.
It's like your house is on fire due to an unknown cause, and you're arguing that there's no reason to stop pouring gasoline on the roof since the house is already on fire.
"I worry though. Give Joe Sixpack a single mode fiber optic connector with a warning "do not look down connector with remaining eye", and he probably will need Braille to do his next computer stuff."
TOSLINK optical sockets have little cover flaps. I suppose they could figure out a way to have such auto-retracting flaps on both socket and cable.
Um, in fact, it's starting to sound downright anatomical.
I work in a neurobiology lab that is almost all Mac. The experiment rigs have Mac Pros. PCs are used where they are required to run some piece of specialized equipment, like an IR video gaze tracker, or a neural interface.
We have one Mac Pro kitted out with 32 GB of RAM, running Matlab on large neural datasets. Not a 12-core, though.
"How is this incentive any different than at a state run school?"
I don't think a state-run school would be allowed to use the same deceptive practices. At least not for very long. There's more accountability to taxpayers and state legislators.
"The University of Phoenix is actually accredited, by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, which in turn is recognized by the Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation."
Big deal. Their incentive is to rope in as many students as possible, in order to get the federal loan money. This year they became the first university to collect $1 billion in Pell Grant money in a single year.
See, once they get the students and their money, it doesn't matter if the students actually graduate. Some students might actually get an adequate education, but they probably won't get their money's worth.
Overall, they're a pernicious influence in society.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they think they can turn it into a Minecraft clone.
Why would they do that? I dunno. I desperate grab for relevance?
I doubt the rumor is true.
That ought to scare people into compliance.
I'll never switch to IPv6 with its cold, digital precision rendering of data. The lower resolution of IPv4 just provides a better rendition of old favorites like slashdot, to my eyes anyway. Sure, there's some noise, some clicks and pops, but nothing matches wikipedia seen through a nice tube monitor.
" Other concerns that occur to me are in the fact that light does get in through the body even if is is just a little. What problems could that cause?"
It's just blue light. A UV filter might be good, but it's not strong enough to burn or anything, and is going to be directed via fiber optics to the cells that are sensitized.
I mean, the laser light is kind of a small matter when you're talking about injecting a virus to cause cells to express new genes and become sensitive to light.
In theory, the CGI content of the prequels could be re-rendered for genuine 3D, with the two camera viewpoints. Scenes that are entirely CGI ought to look great.
Then the 2D elements like the actors, and the 1D elements, like Hayden Christensen, could be composited in and, if necessary, plumped up with faux-3D.
Which might have a somewhat better result than if the completed, final frames of the films are used as input to the simulated 3D process. Which is pretty much what I think will have to be done with the original three films.
Back in 2002, Slashdot linked to a guy who experimented with scanning a record and reconstructing the audio.
I wonder if this would work even better using structured light, or maybe illumination with different wavelengths from different directions.
This seems like an odd model.
The "25 items" thing sounds like they're assuming a trip to the grocery store, where people tend to buy a lot of items at once.
The things I buy online aren't like that. If I were buying them in the real world, chances are I'd be driving out to find a couple of specific items, then driving home, possibly visiting multiple stores in the process, trying to find what I want.
I suspect if you compared online orders to the emissions load of a single person, driving alone, to multiple stores, to find one item, then online orders look a lot better.
"While prescribing drugs to keep them 'under control' aka ADHD."
Yes, youth obesity is due to the prescribing of appetite-suppressing stimulant drugs for ADHD.
Your logic is flawless.
Of course it's a valid question. The point is, with no other cars is there even a possibility of "pay back" because they're just a depreciating expense...
(Well, I suppose some rare investment-quality appreciating cars might count, but those aren't common so beside the point.)
Or a sportscar?
"They still need massive data and power lines coming from the grid, and because servers need to be connected to the internet without even the slightest interruption, a floating server rack cannot be mobile."
One would assume they'd be able to generate the power themselves. Data lines are still an issue, though an optical or microwave link to shore might be feasible.
It'd probably make more sense as a big render farm or compute farm, where the machines can chew on the task for a day and then the result is pooped back out, rather than a bunch of servers constantly being hit by requests.
And if they want to take advantage of water temperatures to cool the systems, they probably ought to consider moving to Vancouver or even Alaska.
You'll only be able to see these at night, but I should think the main times when air quality is a problem is during the day, especially morning and evening rush hours (and afterward).
Bye Google!
Ugh. Just tried to use a USB NIDAQ card with OS X, for a neurobiology experiment rig. In the past we've used much more expensive, and more robust, ITC-18 units from HEKA, but we tried to transition to the cheaper NI units.
If you're not using Windows, STAY AWAY from National Instruments.
"This reminds me of Xerox PARC - great R & D output, poor commercialization of these results. People wonder if their lab was a toy-of-Bill or a tax write-off."
I suspect the idea is mainly to keep the people from going elsewhere.
"The issue is that people who aren't even informed second-hand are continually taking one side or the other because of political, religious, or other rationales."
You get TV weathermen and creationists and eccentric British aristocrats opining about climate science. It's like a TV morning news host who occasionally gets a demo of a new technological gadget critiquing quantum physics papers.
"The funny thing about this community, though, is that the 'heretics' are ejected from it"
I expect consistently-wrong heretics are also ejected from plenty of fields.
Try proposing something daft about silicon chip fabrication and see how much respect you get. "We can get error-free silicon if we intentionally place a single malformed bit in with the molten silicon, then take a tiny amount of that molten solution and add it to another pool of molten silicon, then take a tiny drop of that molten solution and mix it with another pool of molten pure silicon, and repeat that 100 times before forming a silicon crystal for wafer production. Homeopathic silicon chip fabrication, in other words."
Well, no, because the tide coming in isn't going to be accelerated or worsened by our actions.
If the climate is warming naturally, that only makes it more important to not continue to do stupid things that would further exacerbate the warming.
It's like your house is on fire due to an unknown cause, and you're arguing that there's no reason to stop pouring gasoline on the roof since the house is already on fire.
The Daily Mail?
Seriously? You get your science information from a friggin British tabloid?
This is just an impulse towards hoarding.
"I worry though. Give Joe Sixpack a single mode fiber optic connector with a warning "do not look down connector with remaining eye", and he probably will need Braille to do his next computer stuff."
TOSLINK optical sockets have little cover flaps. I suppose they could figure out a way to have such auto-retracting flaps on both socket and cable.
Um, in fact, it's starting to sound downright anatomical.
I work in a neurobiology lab that is almost all Mac. The experiment rigs have Mac Pros. PCs are used where they are required to run some piece of specialized equipment, like an IR video gaze tracker, or a neural interface.
We have one Mac Pro kitted out with 32 GB of RAM, running Matlab on large neural datasets. Not a 12-core, though.
"How is this incentive any different than at a state run school?"
I don't think a state-run school would be allowed to use the same deceptive practices. At least not for very long. There's more accountability to taxpayers and state legislators.
the targets/victims kept falling on their buttered side.
"The University of Phoenix is actually accredited, by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, which in turn is recognized by the Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation."
Big deal. Their incentive is to rope in as many students as possible, in order to get the federal loan money. This year they became the first university to collect $1 billion in Pell Grant money in a single year.
See, once they get the students and their money, it doesn't matter if the students actually graduate. Some students might actually get an adequate education, but they probably won't get their money's worth.
Overall, they're a pernicious influence in society.