Meh. The teaser was cool, but when the real trailer showed up with dumbass kids, I lost all interest. Gosh, I hope there's a plucky, impossibly intelligent dog along for the ride!
This is also really stretching the name "science fiction" in much the same way Warehouse 13 stretches the term "science fiction".
Oh, I dunno. The sport of boxing taken over by robots is a decent speculative idea involving technology.
I'm sure I'll see it, because I'm a sucker for this sort of film, even though it sounds completely unrelated to the science fiction genre. Unfortunately, we've also seen this movie 800 times. Do something new?
I've highlighted your problem with italics, and the cause of it in bold. I hope this helps.;-)
But seriously, I'd see that all the time on Ain't It Cool News. Guys would say "Wow, that looks horrible! Can't wait to see it!" and in the next paragraph say. "Why can't they make better films?"
Eh, it's just God setting us up for 2012. Just needed to tweek the axis a bit before he could start destroying us all. It's like tuning a set of rabbit ears on an old television.
How long before this guy is living in a shack in the woods and sending devices of a perilous nature to cell phone manufacturers?
What I really want to know is why there's a picture of Alan Moore attached to the article. o.O
Some people are defending him here and saying some just like to have control over their computing devices. That's fine. More power to ya. I still maintain a Linux machine as a network storage device. But then we get to this:
"It's an evil. And our aim is a world without that problem"
Aaaaaaand welcome to Religious Wackaloon Land! Maybe I'm a bit too stingy with worlds like "evil" (along with "genius" and other extreme adjectives), but it makes me question how he intends to get to that goal, and what about people who disagree with him? Is it techno-holywar time?
Ah, I tease.
But still... evil? Really? In this world closed source is evil? What does he think of the Libyan government bombing its own people?
"Decades old" might not mean squat to a space faring invasion fleet. It could be that long between updates, or they might just leave well enough alone.
It doesn't matter. Humanity will overreact as usual, and any failures of these old reactors will completely kill *any* public discussion of new nuclear tech for decades to come. Better hope there's some massive breakthrough in solar or wind or something else, because one door to energy independence was just slammed shut this week.
They actually had a good set up, but blew it. Remember, the military had been tinkering with their own crashed alien ship for decades. They could have worked out an interface between human and alien computers, had a pilot qualified to fly it, etc. Goldblum's character could have just provided some last critical puzzle piece. You could finagle some reason for Smith's character to come along.
Actually, my first filter class talked extensively about how you also have to design the reject band in addition to the passband because you only get so much rejection. In the strike radar example I mentioned, the main signal was tens of kilowatts, maybe higher. Even harmonics on side lobes can carry enough energy to damage the sensitive components at many receiver inputs.
True, but a wheelchair is a closed system. It doesn't require external I/O to function. Ports for charging the battery or downloading software updates (if it's a really fancy chair) can have shielded covers.
I know people who have done electromagnetic compatibility work. It's a specialization. It is *not* easy, especially in a signal rich environment like an aircraft. It takes a lot of work to keep a plane's systems from interfering with *themselves*. I hear it can be quite maddening at times, especially when they update older aircraft with systems that didn't exist when the plane was originally designed.
In any event, how is it that airplanes are not affected by things like tv broadcasts, amateur radio, satellites, etc. which are blasting radiowaves at similar frequencies (see: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.pdf)?
Those are known threats, I would guess. Wi-fi is still relatively new. Hey, so far there seems to only be this one example, but flight is a hypercautious industry. Personally, even if I'm flying for work, I see the flight as a time to relax. I never got these guys feverishly working away on their laptop throughout the flight.
Most things are designed that way, but you can get harmonics and intermod product that land smack in the middle of your window. Sometimes the interference is just a blob of wideband noise across your passband.
I can make a Tesla coil out of $50 of junk surplus parts and destroy a roomful of the highest end electronic equipment in the world. Hell, a simple spark gap in the right place can cause a world of hurt.
RF energy doesn't give a fuck where you bought something.
You cannot fully shield a device that is specifically designed to receive external signals. In aerospace there's guys who do nothing but electromagnetic compatibility engineering, and not all the threats are external. Sometimes the third side lobe of your strike radar reflects off a rib in the fuselage and the seventh harmonic frequency takes out your very sensitive radar altimeter during initial power up tests.
Exactly. I just finish Dead Space 2 on the XBox. Stunning looking game even blown up on a 65" screen. I need to spend another $1000 so I can get some extra lighting effects?
The only upgradability I can see for a console is things that would not stop any game from running on any console regardless of the upgrades installed. For example, maybe buying more RAM for the system or graphics card. The game could take advantage of the extra RAM if it's there, otherwise just default to the base level.
Eh... even typing it out there makes it sound like a hassle. I think bigger hard drives will be the extent of things as they are now.
That's why I went console gaming. My PC gaming is now booting a Mac Mini into XP and catching up on older stuff I missed with the help of Steam and GOG. Finally played KOTOR late last year (it was... OK), and this month it's Baldur's Gate and maybe Syberia because I'm in the mood for a Myst-like puzzler for some reason.
Eh, it was OK. I finished it, but by the end I wanted to hunt the developers down and punch them in the balls. I think I beat it just so I could say I did. They're saying the sequel will be even harder. Meh... I like a challenge, but stuff like this is like some sort of "super hard gaming" fetish.
Bullcrap. I had an old sign transformer when I was in college and we built a Tesla coil with it. The manufacturer's own data stated that the conditions at the output terminals are sufficient to cause fibrillation.
It can be worse. I'm an EE, and people I know think I can automagically fix *any* electronic device ever created.
One guy wanted me to fix his neon beer sign. I know just enough about neon signs to know I don't want to mess around with voltages like that.
Sometimes I get lucky. One friend called me and said the ceiling fan he installed is working oddly, and wondered if I knew what was wrong. From 10 miles away.:-/ A sudden brain wave made me ask if he had connected it to a dimmer switch. Sure enough, he had.
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Okay, the trailer for this actually looks good.
Meh. The teaser was cool, but when the real trailer showed up with dumbass kids, I lost all interest. Gosh, I hope there's a plucky, impossibly intelligent dog along for the ride!
This is also really stretching the name "science fiction" in much the same way Warehouse 13 stretches the term "science fiction".
Oh, I dunno. The sport of boxing taken over by robots is a decent speculative idea involving technology.
I'm sure I'll see it, because I'm a sucker for this sort of film, even though it sounds completely unrelated to the science fiction genre. Unfortunately, we've also seen this movie 800 times. Do something new?
I've highlighted your problem with italics, and the cause of it in bold. I hope this helps. ;-)
But seriously, I'd see that all the time on Ain't It Cool News. Guys would say "Wow, that looks horrible! Can't wait to see it!" and in the next paragraph say. "Why can't they make better films?"
Did you notice almost every one was described as "$PREVIOUS_WORK_1 meets $PREVIOUS_WORK_2"?
The only one of remote interest is Real Steel because, heck, big fightin' robots will at least be some eye candy.
Is it worth reading past Apollo 18?
Eh, it's just God setting us up for 2012. Just needed to tweek the axis a bit before he could start destroying us all. It's like tuning a set of rabbit ears on an old television.
Luddism has given way to Stallmanism.
How long before this guy is living in a shack in the woods and sending devices of a perilous nature to cell phone manufacturers?
What I really want to know is why there's a picture of Alan Moore attached to the article. o.O
Some people are defending him here and saying some just like to have control over their computing devices. That's fine. More power to ya. I still maintain a Linux machine as a network storage device. But then we get to this:
"It's an evil. And our aim is a world without that problem"
Aaaaaaand welcome to Religious Wackaloon Land! Maybe I'm a bit too stingy with worlds like "evil" (along with "genius" and other extreme adjectives), but it makes me question how he intends to get to that goal, and what about people who disagree with him? Is it techno-holywar time?
Ah, I tease.
But still... evil? Really? In this world closed source is evil? What does he think of the Libyan government bombing its own people?
One of the complaints was Smith's character being able to fly an alien craft with no experience. Give him a crash course and send him as a backup.
"Decades old" might not mean squat to a space faring invasion fleet. It could be that long between updates, or they might just leave well enough alone.
Yes, like I said, they blew it.
The cake is a pi.
It doesn't matter. Humanity will overreact as usual, and any failures of these old reactors will completely kill *any* public discussion of new nuclear tech for decades to come. Better hope there's some massive breakthrough in solar or wind or something else, because one door to energy independence was just slammed shut this week.
They actually had a good set up, but blew it. Remember, the military had been tinkering with their own crashed alien ship for decades. They could have worked out an interface between human and alien computers, had a pilot qualified to fly it, etc. Goldblum's character could have just provided some last critical puzzle piece. You could finagle some reason for Smith's character to come along.
How much for just the spider?
The guy isn't going to solve boo with his little rant, so why not at least attack the real culprits. Savvy?
Actually, my first filter class talked extensively about how you also have to design the reject band in addition to the passband because you only get so much rejection. In the strike radar example I mentioned, the main signal was tens of kilowatts, maybe higher. Even harmonics on side lobes can carry enough energy to damage the sensitive components at many receiver inputs.
True, but a wheelchair is a closed system. It doesn't require external I/O to function. Ports for charging the battery or downloading software updates (if it's a really fancy chair) can have shielded covers.
I know people who have done electromagnetic compatibility work. It's a specialization. It is *not* easy, especially in a signal rich environment like an aircraft. It takes a lot of work to keep a plane's systems from interfering with *themselves*. I hear it can be quite maddening at times, especially when they update older aircraft with systems that didn't exist when the plane was originally designed.
In any event, how is it that airplanes are not affected by things like tv broadcasts, amateur radio, satellites, etc. which are blasting radiowaves at similar frequencies (see: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.pdf)?
Those are known threats, I would guess. Wi-fi is still relatively new. Hey, so far there seems to only be this one example, but flight is a hypercautious industry. Personally, even if I'm flying for work, I see the flight as a time to relax. I never got these guys feverishly working away on their laptop throughout the flight.
We built one in high school that took out the two televisions in our lab.
Most things are designed that way, but you can get harmonics and intermod product that land smack in the middle of your window. Sometimes the interference is just a blob of wideband noise across your passband.
Oh, c'mon. The antics of the Slashdot Brain Trust are priceless.
I can make a Tesla coil out of $50 of junk surplus parts and destroy a roomful of the highest end electronic equipment in the world. Hell, a simple spark gap in the right place can cause a world of hurt.
RF energy doesn't give a fuck where you bought something.
You cannot fully shield a device that is specifically designed to receive external signals. In aerospace there's guys who do nothing but electromagnetic compatibility engineering, and not all the threats are external. Sometimes the third side lobe of your strike radar reflects off a rib in the fuselage and the seventh harmonic frequency takes out your very sensitive radar altimeter during initial power up tests.
That's easy for you to say.
Exactly. I just finish Dead Space 2 on the XBox. Stunning looking game even blown up on a 65" screen. I need to spend another $1000 so I can get some extra lighting effects?
The only upgradability I can see for a console is things that would not stop any game from running on any console regardless of the upgrades installed. For example, maybe buying more RAM for the system or graphics card. The game could take advantage of the extra RAM if it's there, otherwise just default to the base level.
Eh... even typing it out there makes it sound like a hassle. I think bigger hard drives will be the extent of things as they are now.
That's why I went console gaming. My PC gaming is now booting a Mac Mini into XP and catching up on older stuff I missed with the help of Steam and GOG. Finally played KOTOR late last year (it was... OK), and this month it's Baldur's Gate and maybe Syberia because I'm in the mood for a Myst-like puzzler for some reason.
Eh, it was OK. I finished it, but by the end I wanted to hunt the developers down and punch them in the balls. I think I beat it just so I could say I did. They're saying the sequel will be even harder. Meh... I like a challenge, but stuff like this is like some sort of "super hard gaming" fetish.
Bullcrap. I had an old sign transformer when I was in college and we built a Tesla coil with it. The manufacturer's own data stated that the conditions at the output terminals are sufficient to cause fibrillation.
I dunno... sounds pretty ragey to me. :-P
It can be worse. I'm an EE, and people I know think I can automagically fix *any* electronic device ever created.
One guy wanted me to fix his neon beer sign. I know just enough about neon signs to know I don't want to mess around with voltages like that.
Sometimes I get lucky. One friend called me and said the ceiling fan he installed is working oddly, and wondered if I knew what was wrong. From 10 miles away. :-/ A sudden brain wave made me ask if he had connected it to a dimmer switch. Sure enough, he had.