So, they're pretty much trying to create a copy of MojoPac (wikipedia entry) and call it their own? MojoPac does the same thing for Windows, but it's not tied to a single physical device. The good part about this is that when I upgraded from an iPod to an external HD, I was able to take the entire setup with me without a problem. Unfortunately for MS, they are teaming up with a flash disk manufacturer rather than an HD maker. I found that trying to run any real app such as Office off a flash drive was impossibly slow. The reason I upgraded from my iPod to an custom external 7200rpm drive was for the sake of speed. The iPod was faster than running off a flash disk, but was still too slow for most things. Now, I can run all the important applications (e.g. GIMP, and WoW) without any noticeable performance hit off my external drive via MojoPac. It will be interesting to see how MS/Sandisk compare in terms of performance speed to MojoPac. Given how bad U3 was, I would be surprised if they can get it fast enough to run any games off of the device.
Unless they can get enough performance off the flash disk to run Office, I don't see them as being a real competitor to MojoPac.
However, it's done passively (e.g. without electronics) in system using a single mic with two openings (pretty flash demo of the tech at: http://www.theboom.com/technology.html ). It was actually designed for voice recognition on the Wall Street trading floor but is now used in Black Hawk helicopters. List the to demo sound files: http://www.theboom.com/theboomO.html
How good are bone conduction mics compared to regular ones? I found one that is listed as having 70dB S/N ratio. I'm not sure what the average noise cancelation for normal headsets, but the one I have from that company has a X dB S/N. That's about an order of magnitude better than regular headsets based on my experience. They have some cool demos (check the Blackhawk demo) on their site (annoying popup and quicktime warning). Given that the standard models are only $150, I expect the bone conduction one to be much better to be worth it.
The EFF won't have useful serial number information since that would require every person with a printer to send them a test page. They will only have information on which printers (as in model number instead of serial number) are tainted. And that information should be public knowledge if you support the EFF's stance. Sure, they will have the serial numbers of the test printers, but that won't do that much damage unless someone wants to use those particular ones for anonymity.
if you decide to use them. Given GTA's open ended gameplay and physics engine, you can use tactics if you so choose. If the objective is to kill someone, you can either go the normal way with guns, or you can steal a car before hand, park it near the mission's start point, steal the car onces the mission starts, and run the person over without risking getting shot. Likewise, you can legally win street races, or you can get out of the car while the race is on, shoot the wheels of the other cars, and win without much trouble. Sure, some might consider this cheating (nothing wrong with that in a game where you murder prostitutes for fun and profit) since it goes against the normal way of winning, but given the complexity of the game it tends to be more fun than the normal approach.
This kind of behavior might be looked down upon in multiplayer, but it's not a problem in single player when the point is for you to have fun.
but empiricism. Scientists have done it in the past (even if they had to scrap an entire framework or two) and if they use the same methods, it's safe to assume that they will do it in the future too. Kind of like assuming that the gravity will exist tomorrow because it has risen in the past. Unlike religion which is based on blind faith when there is no evidence like John 20:29.
because the sex scene is the primary point of debate over the rating. Prior to the patch, children could only violently murder people. After the patch, they could see a nipple. Apparently, the latter will do more harm to people than the former. Think of all the babies who have been mentally scared from having their eyes open while breast feeding.
From TFA: In a national survey of 1,000 DVR users divided equally by sex, 48 percent of married women say the decision to purchase a DVR was their own, while 55 percent of the wives claim they understood how to interface with their unit's myriad features better than their husbands."
My guess at what the men said: "48 percent of married men say the decision to purchase a DVR was their own, while 55 percent of the husbands claim they understood how to interface with their unit's myriad features better than their wives."
Why don't the numbers add up to 100%? Because the husbands and wives don't always agree on what exactly happened in any given situation.
In a short period of time, we will switch to laser and other directed communications for long range and mesh systems for short range. The only major signals going out will be the ones we intentionally send out. Likewise, SETI will probably never detect a stray signal if our civilization is any indication. The time period that an alien civilization would be smart enough to use powerfull radio, but dumb enough not to use something better is on the order of centuries which is a blink in a galactic timescale. SETI will most likely detect directed radio (or maybe laser) transmissions that would have been designed to act as pings from aliens. These directed signals would be targets at stars that the aliens know would be able to support life (as they define it) rather than just being very loud and undirected.
She was convicted of obstructing justice rather than actual stock fraud. This court order gives AMD another thing to choke Intel & co. with since people now have to start worrying everytime they hit the delete key. There might even be a chance that they could get blackmail material on Intel if they find out that someone did shred something. E.g. we won't go after you for violating a court order and send you to prison if you help us take out your company"
He gets grouped in with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc. He killed his own people to control them rather than to achieve political gains with another country.
From a different page on that site: "But as astronauts now prepare to ride another shuttle into space, few Americans are aware of the most critical issue raised by the Columbia disaster. Did a super-bolt of lightning--called "megalightning"--strike Columbia, causing the breakup of the craft?"
Sounds somewhat plausable until you get to "But NASA officials seized both the camera and the photograph itself, prohibiting the San Francisco Chronicle from publishing it after the newspaper had received the picture."
That's one step away from saying that we never went into space and that Columbia was done with ILM SFX and fireworks.
What people fail to understand is how strangely complicated the world is. Putting a man on the moon is a matter of figuring out the proper nonlinear dynamic control equations which is pretty much classical physics and (really hard) math. Something like the thermodynamic properties of matter at a molecular level requires a lot more research due to how freaky the universe gets at that small of a scale. Similarly, figuring out how the human body works (modern medical science is akin to fixing a car with a sledgehammer, chainsaw, and sulfuric acid) is also hard due to the complexity of physics on the molecular scale. That's why we can put a man on the moon, but can't cure cancer or even the common cold.
Contrary to the fear of grey goo, the main danger of nanotech comes from the fact that particles are smaller than the natural filters that organisms have evolved to protect sensitive cells. According to the article, the nanopant tech is just buzzword hype since the stain protection material is just another chemical. However, the article does mention the studies showing that carbon nanotubes and buckyballs do cause damage to cell membranes in humans and in other parts of the food chain. -- Get a free flat screen monitor. Or a free $500 PC. Proof it works.
The rovers were supposed to run for 90 days, but they have been running for over almost 18 months. No one is sure when they're going to break down from dust and other long term problems, so it's a good idea to get as much info out of them as possible.
At least this (in the video) robot actually replicates itself based on building blocks. The RepRap isn't in the working stages yet. Now that I found the right article, I'll just replicate my comment from the previous article:
While the idea of a 3D printer cheap enough for personal use/is/ going to revolutionize the world by making certain real items as cheap as software, the part about it being a von Neumann machine is overrated. The article just mentions it in passing and there is no evidence that he's actually figured out how to do that. That's been one of the holy grails of engineering since it was proposed. The article doesn't mention whether the materials used will be recyclable. Since everyone and their grandmother will start spitting out objects if they have this and since it would probably be cheaper to build a new object rather than repairing an old one, mass use of UCs will produce tons of waste. Imagine if you could never delete any file on your computer but could create more easily. You would run out of space very quickly.
BTW, for a good book on the social implications of cheap universal constructors, I suggest the Stephenson's book Diamond Age.
Most discussions about solar sails tend to discuss things like interplanetary or interstellar travel. While this is cool, it is a rather long term goal. The more interesting uses would be orbital stationkeeping. Currently, if you want a geostationary orbit, you either have to set the satellite at 41,000km orbit. If you want it at a different altitude (this is a 200ms round trip lag for light signals) you have to constantly burn fuel to remain geostationary. Once we have viable solar sails, they would be useful to maintain geostationary orbits at various altitudes without burning extra fuel. You just have to make sure that the satellite doesn't fall down in the night. You could also use solar sails for other stationkeeping like the L1,L2, & L3 Lagrange points which is needed for certain telescopes.
When the 1976 Viking experiments detected possible signs of life, one of the suspects was bacteria from Earth. Since it was believed that life wouldn't surive the trip to Mars, the validity of this hypothesis compared to the idea that the bacteria is Martian (or the idea that it was a false positive due to nonliving sources) has been the debate of scientists for a while. We'll have to wait until someone recovers the Viking probes to know the true source of that possible signature.
This is somewhat offtopic, but has anyone used any of the anonmyous cash cards mentioned in the blurb? The closest I've seen are gift certificates that can be paid with cash, but they're only good at one store. I've seen online gift certificates that provide a temp debit card (backed by Mastercard) but this requires a credit card to add funds so it's not anonymous. Are there places where I can buy a temp debit card using cash or money orders?
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So, they're pretty much trying to create a copy of MojoPac (wikipedia entry) and call it their own? MojoPac does the same thing for Windows, but it's not tied to a single physical device. The good part about this is that when I upgraded from an iPod to an external HD, I was able to take the entire setup with me without a problem. Unfortunately for MS, they are teaming up with a flash disk manufacturer rather than an HD maker. I found that trying to run any real app such as Office off a flash drive was impossibly slow. The reason I upgraded from my iPod to an custom external 7200rpm drive was for the sake of speed. The iPod was faster than running off a flash disk, but was still too slow for most things. Now, I can run all the important applications (e.g. GIMP, and WoW) without any noticeable performance hit off my external drive via MojoPac. It will be interesting to see how MS/Sandisk compare in terms of performance speed to MojoPac. Given how bad U3 was, I would be surprised if they can get it fast enough to run any games off of the device. Unless they can get enough performance off the flash disk to run Office, I don't see them as being a real competitor to MojoPac.
However, it's done passively (e.g. without electronics) in system using a single mic with two openings (pretty flash demo of the tech at: http://www.theboom.com/technology.html ). It was actually designed for voice recognition on the Wall Street trading floor but is now used in Black Hawk helicopters. List the to demo sound files: http://www.theboom.com/theboomO.html
Try this: http://www.technovelgy.com/ The site lists sci-fi stuff and real world instances of that tech.
I also suggest Orion's Arm. It's a "reference" for a pretty in depth sci-fi universe and has a nice encyclopedia of tech and social ideas.
http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg/index.html
How good are bone conduction mics compared to regular ones? I found one that is listed as having 70dB S/N ratio. I'm not sure what the average noise cancelation for normal headsets, but the one I have from that company has a X dB S/N. That's about an order of magnitude better than regular headsets based on my experience. They have some cool demos (check the Blackhawk demo) on their site (annoying popup and quicktime warning). Given that the standard models are only $150, I expect the bone conduction one to be much better to be worth it.
The EFF won't have useful serial number information since that would require every person with a printer to send them a test page. They will only have information on which printers (as in model number instead of serial number) are tainted. And that information should be public knowledge if you support the EFF's stance. Sure, they will have the serial numbers of the test printers, but that won't do that much damage unless someone wants to use those particular ones for anonymity.
if you decide to use them. Given GTA's open ended gameplay and physics engine, you can use tactics if you so choose. If the objective is to kill someone, you can either go the normal way with guns, or you can steal a car before hand, park it near the mission's start point, steal the car onces the mission starts, and run the person over without risking getting shot. Likewise, you can legally win street races, or you can get out of the car while the race is on, shoot the wheels of the other cars, and win without much trouble. Sure, some might consider this cheating (nothing wrong with that in a game where you murder prostitutes for fun and profit) since it goes against the normal way of winning, but given the complexity of the game it tends to be more fun than the normal approach.
This kind of behavior might be looked down upon in multiplayer, but it's not a problem in single player when the point is for you to have fun.
but empiricism. Scientists have done it in the past (even if they had to scrap an entire framework or two) and if they use the same methods, it's safe to assume that they will do it in the future too. Kind of like assuming that the gravity will exist tomorrow because it has risen in the past. Unlike religion which is based on blind faith when there is no evidence like John 20:29.
because the sex scene is the primary point of debate over the rating. Prior to the patch, children could only violently murder people. After the patch, they could see a nipple. Apparently, the latter will do more harm to people than the former. Think of all the babies who have been mentally scared from having their eyes open while breast feeding.
From TFA: In a national survey of 1,000 DVR users divided equally by sex, 48 percent of married women say the decision to purchase a DVR was their own, while 55 percent of the wives claim they understood how to interface with their unit's myriad features better than their husbands."
My guess at what the men said: "48 percent of married men say the decision to purchase a DVR was their own, while 55 percent of the husbands claim they understood how to interface with their unit's myriad features better than their wives."
Why don't the numbers add up to 100%? Because the husbands and wives don't always agree on what exactly happened in any given situation.
In a short period of time, we will switch to laser and other directed communications for long range and mesh systems for short range. The only major signals going out will be the ones we intentionally send out. Likewise, SETI will probably never detect a stray signal if our civilization is any indication. The time period that an alien civilization would be smart enough to use powerfull radio, but dumb enough not to use something better is on the order of centuries which is a blink in a galactic timescale. SETI will most likely detect directed radio (or maybe laser) transmissions that would have been designed to act as pings from aliens. These directed signals would be targets at stars that the aliens know would be able to support life (as they define it) rather than just being very loud and undirected.
She was convicted of obstructing justice rather than actual stock fraud. This court order gives AMD another thing to choke Intel & co. with since people now have to start worrying everytime they hit the delete key. There might even be a chance that they could get blackmail material on Intel if they find out that someone did shred something. E.g. we won't go after you for violating a court order and send you to prison if you help us take out your company"
He gets grouped in with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc. He killed his own people to control them rather than to achieve political gains with another country.
A modified table is here. I wonder if I can sue newspapers for discrimination because they don't include my starsign in their predictions.
From a different page on that site: "But as astronauts now prepare to ride another shuttle into space, few Americans are aware of the most critical issue raised by the Columbia disaster. Did a super-bolt of lightning--called "megalightning"--strike Columbia, causing the breakup of the craft?"
Sounds somewhat plausable until you get to "But NASA officials seized both the camera and the photograph itself, prohibiting the San Francisco Chronicle from publishing it after the newspaper had received the picture."
That's one step away from saying that we never went into space and that Columbia was done with ILM SFX and fireworks.
What people fail to understand is how strangely complicated the world is. Putting a man on the moon is a matter of figuring out the proper nonlinear dynamic control equations which is pretty much classical physics and (really hard) math. Something like the thermodynamic properties of matter at a molecular level requires a lot more research due to how freaky the universe gets at that small of a scale. Similarly, figuring out how the human body works (modern medical science is akin to fixing a car with a sledgehammer, chainsaw, and sulfuric acid) is also hard due to the complexity of physics on the molecular scale. That's why we can put a man on the moon, but can't cure cancer or even the common cold.
Does this count?
Here(NSFW)
Contrary to the fear of grey goo, the main danger of nanotech comes from the fact that particles are smaller than the natural filters that organisms have evolved to protect sensitive cells. According to the article, the nanopant tech is just buzzword hype since the stain protection material is just another chemical. However, the article does mention the studies showing that carbon nanotubes and buckyballs do cause damage to cell membranes in humans and in other parts of the food chain.
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Get a free flat screen monitor.
Or a free $500 PC.
Proof it works.
The rovers were supposed to run for 90 days, but they have been running for over almost 18 months. No one is sure when they're going to break down from dust and other long term problems, so it's a good idea to get as much info out of them as possible.
is that they were so busy looking at the rear hazcam that they didn't see the giant water trap right in front of them.
At least this (in the video) robot actually replicates itself based on building blocks. The RepRap isn't in the working stages yet. Now that I found the right article, I'll just replicate my comment from the previous article:
/is/ going to revolutionize the world by making certain real items as cheap as software, the part about it being a von Neumann machine is overrated. The article just mentions it in passing and there is no evidence that he's actually figured out how to do that. That's been one of the holy grails of engineering since it was proposed. The article doesn't mention whether the materials used will be recyclable. Since everyone and their grandmother will start spitting out objects if they have this and since it would probably be cheaper to build a new object rather than repairing an old one, mass use of UCs will produce tons of waste. Imagine if you could never delete any file on your computer but could create more easily. You would run out of space very quickly.
BTW, for a good book on the social implications of cheap universal constructors, I suggest the Stephenson's book Diamond Age.
While the idea of a 3D printer cheap enough for personal use
Instead of posting the obvious joke about dupes, here's a link to the movie form the previous story. (Coral link)
Most discussions about solar sails tend to discuss things like interplanetary or interstellar travel. While this is cool, it is a rather long term goal. The more interesting uses would be orbital stationkeeping. Currently, if you want a geostationary orbit, you either have to set the satellite at 41,000km orbit. If you want it at a different altitude (this is a 200ms round trip lag for light signals) you have to constantly burn fuel to remain geostationary. Once we have viable solar sails, they would be useful to maintain geostationary orbits at various altitudes without burning extra fuel. You just have to make sure that the satellite doesn't fall down in the night.
You could also use solar sails for other stationkeeping like the L1,L2, & L3 Lagrange points which is needed for certain telescopes.
When the 1976 Viking experiments detected possible signs of life, one of the suspects was bacteria from Earth. Since it was believed that life wouldn't surive the trip to Mars, the validity of this hypothesis compared to the idea that the bacteria is Martian (or the idea that it was a false positive due to nonliving sources) has been the debate of scientists for a while. We'll have to wait until someone recovers the Viking probes to know the true source of that possible signature.
This is somewhat offtopic, but has anyone used any of the anonmyous cash cards mentioned in the blurb? The closest I've seen are gift certificates that can be paid with cash, but they're only good at one store. I've seen online gift certificates that provide a temp debit card (backed by Mastercard) but this requires a credit card to add funds so it's not anonymous. Are there places where I can buy a temp debit card using cash or money orders?