Right. "Instead of using acrylic for the passenger compartment, they plan to use thick common glass shaped into a sphere.". An incredibly dumb idea due to brittleness, but, its their lives... Total brain freeze while posting because I had acrylic on my mind. Anyway glass insulators are traditional on ham radio antennas. Outdoor survivability is poor because they're brittle, but they are RF transparent and non RF reactive (think of how many ultra high power transmitter glass vacuum tubes have been used over the decades)
It was the crystalline structure of the glass I was thinking of, there is a quote form some (I assume) non scientist at the end saying that these properties of glass are not well understood. I wouldn't want to be the one testing it either.
Relatively few plastics adsorb microwave radiation, and your comm signals are probably at wifi or lower levels. Ask some ham radio guys about radar domes and antenna insulators. Plexi is actually tolerably useful for antenna insulators, long term outdoor survivability is not good but it has the virtue of not creeping much and is cheap.
So I'm astonished that (they claim) they'll be able to make a FULL SPHERE of glass as opposed to some puny porthole.
Some questions:
A part (half?) of the sphere will have to be removed to allow people/things in and out (unlike "ecospheres") it can't be seamlessly sealed. Isn't that the most likely place of failure?
I assume there will have to be holes to allow power, cooling/heating, communications right? Another point of failure?
(Actually I read a story where some grad student had figured out a way of transmitting powe/communications THROUGH a submarine's metal hull using sonic waves.)
Where in the world will they test this thing to one and a quarter times the max. pressure? (And I thought engineering standards were to one and a half max.)
Agreed on the entry, one would assume a perfect half sphere(oid). You could easily contain power and air inside the sphere for controls and control the engines and accessories wirelessly. Transmitting power through the sphere using magnetic inductance would be simple as well, you don't have to resort to sonic/micro waves which could damage the glass. You would have a CO2 scrubber and oxygen like on a space station.
It's so exciting, Corporations now have the unrestricted ability to rape vast and uncharted regions of the earth, completely hidden away from watchful eyes while we sleep peacefully in our beds.
It's only in the west that they enjoy a good rep. My wife, who is Japanese sees them as utter crap. Much better stuff to be had in Akihabara. A few friends think that too. (and I think 5 people sum up a nation, so there)
I've been to Akihabara, and I'd sure like to go there again some day soon. It should be a pilgrimage destination for every hardware geek.
Awesome the stuff you can get in Japan, even in a hardware store.
MPEG is an ISO working group (the Motion Picture Experts Group), which oversees the creation of standards for encoding digital video. MPEG LA is an industry consortium that collects royalties on MPEG standards, after they are official ISO standards. There are some common members, but MPEG LA is not in any way affiliated with MPEG.
I understand that, I still don't see the conflict, but maybe I'm missing something?
I never said that MPEG == MPEG LA, I just mentioned them both. There is a relationship there and using mpeg standards implies MPEG LA licensing. We know that one is the group that creates the standards, and the registered file extension, the other is the group that enforces the patents on said standards.
So, am I missing something? Or is this some kind of a petty distraction?
You can use MPEG in your software for a low annual fee. They promise (MPEG LA) that for the next few years that fee will be capped at $5,000,000.00. A drop in the bucket for any gigantic corporation. Firefox isn't paying. I sure can't afford it.
No, they wouldn't sue me if I used it, but they could.
MPEG does not belong in HTML5, as it is heavily encumbered.
from here
"The data for the study came from the PsycINFO database, which provides more than 3 million references to the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters or essays, and books."
Something's wrong, I think. 3 million references is a lot!
Three million references to what? It doesn't say that the three million references were to anything related to violence, just that there are three million references.
Wikipedia has over 9 million articles. Not sure how any references the average article has, let's guess low, say 20. So that's 180 million references.
So Wikipedia has 180 million plus references that are irrelevant to the issue at hand, a clear winner.
Morons on slashdot constantly make that assertion but never actually say why or how things would work without it.
Copyright was originally the domain of the booksellers in England who would purchase the rights to books and sell them at high prices to people who could afford them. Basically the entire wealth of knowledge that was contained in books was owned by private individuals and only available to the wealthy.
It was determined that it was not in the public interest for the sum total of the knowledge of mankind that was embodied in books to not be available to the public, i.e., it was determined that it was not in the public interest to keep everyone ignorant.
Thus the birth of copyright terms, public libraries, and education for the masses.
Another troll modded insightful and interesting, I'm getting so sick of this shit. I could understand "funny" but really Slashdot, WTF ?
I suppose if you're an AC you don't see that it's actually the people who read these comments that moderate them, since you don't get the chance to do that.
"the first ever scalable, non-invasive psychological and brainwave measurement technology
The concept is invasive. The ultimate in propaganda. We now control your kids so thoroughly, that unless you invest a minimum $1000 a month on our toys, candy and fast food, we will have them murder you in your sleep.
Perhaps, but did you notice that the first octet of the IP address is also 214? "websense214..." might just be a reference to the IP addy it lives on...or there might be at least 214 of them...or both:)
LOL!
Yeah, I noticed, it only SEEMS like there are 214 of them. That's how in your face they are.
Odd that they're both doing something so similar. Wonder if they use the same base DHCP code.
LOL!
Right, that was my problem, Web(non)sense, MY companies nanny. If Princeton keeps tweaking things, they may block everyone, which should have the effect of freeing up some of those blocked IP's.:)
would it really hurt -- would you really lose so much integrity -- to slap this thing with a flashier moniker than "G.I.M.P."?
Considering the splash for GIMP 2.7 is the mascot locked in a cage with a dominatrix standing beside it I'm thinking that they decided to embrace the (bad) name and run with it.
You Lie!
But I'm disappointed, I sure looked:)
I was impressed that the first link Google returned was this page though. They're right on top of SlashDot.
Because 2011 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!!!
ROFL!
Who cares really? I'ts been my desktop for almost 20 years, and my sole home desktop for 10. I advocate it to people who have an open mind, but, I don't care if it ever supplants Windows.
Photoshop IS better than the Gimp, but It costs a fortune, the Gimp does everything I need, and I LIKE the way it works. It's not a contest.
With InkScape and the Gimp you can do most anything graphics wise, if you need to do more, then it's probably worth it to you to sell your soul and first born to buy the CS suite and a Windows box.
I have a windows box at work to run OutLook (to forward everything to a Linux Box), and another to run AutoCAD (To send all the data to a Linux box). Sometimes you have to deal with the devil.
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Right. "Instead of using acrylic for the passenger compartment, they plan to use thick common glass shaped into a sphere.". An incredibly dumb idea due to brittleness, but, its their lives... Total brain freeze while posting because I had acrylic on my mind. Anyway glass insulators are traditional on ham radio antennas. Outdoor survivability is poor because they're brittle, but they are RF transparent and non RF reactive (think of how many ultra high power transmitter glass vacuum tubes have been used over the decades)
It was the crystalline structure of the glass I was thinking of, there is a quote form some (I assume) non scientist at the end saying that these properties of glass are not well understood. I wouldn't want to be the one testing it either.
micro waves which could damage the glass
Relatively few plastics adsorb microwave radiation, and your comm signals are probably at wifi or lower levels. Ask some ham radio guys about radar domes and antenna insulators. Plexi is actually tolerably useful for antenna insulators, long term outdoor survivability is not good but it has the virtue of not creeping much and is cheap.
You obviously didn't read the article.
Wow... that is just... wow. I hope you were being sarcastic or ironic or something like that and I just missed the joke.
It's an exaggeration, but it's no joke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
So I'm astonished that (they claim) they'll be able to make a FULL SPHERE of glass as opposed to some puny porthole.
Some questions: A part (half?) of the sphere will have to be removed to allow people/things in and out (unlike "ecospheres") it can't be seamlessly sealed. Isn't that the most likely place of failure?
I assume there will have to be holes to allow power, cooling/heating, communications right? Another point of failure? (Actually I read a story where some grad student had figured out a way of transmitting powe/communications THROUGH a submarine's metal hull using sonic waves.)
Where in the world will they test this thing to one and a quarter times the max. pressure? (And I thought engineering standards were to one and a half max.)
Agreed on the entry, one would assume a perfect half sphere(oid). You could easily contain power and air inside the sphere for controls and control the engines and accessories wirelessly. Transmitting power through the sphere using magnetic inductance would be simple as well, you don't have to resort to sonic/micro waves which could damage the glass. You would have a CO2 scrubber and oxygen like on a space station.
It's so exciting, Corporations now have the unrestricted ability to rape vast and uncharted regions of the earth, completely hidden away from watchful eyes while we sleep peacefully in our beds.
It's only in the west that they enjoy a good rep. My wife, who is Japanese sees them as utter crap. Much better stuff to be had in Akihabara. A few friends think that too. (and I think 5 people sum up a nation, so there)
I've been to Akihabara, and I'd sure like to go there again some day soon. It should be a pilgrimage destination for every hardware geek.
Awesome the stuff you can get in Japan, even in a hardware store.
I hope they make it through this crisis OK.
MPEG is an ISO working group (the Motion Picture Experts Group), which oversees the creation of standards for encoding digital video. MPEG LA is an industry consortium that collects royalties on MPEG standards, after they are official ISO standards. There are some common members, but MPEG LA is not in any way affiliated with MPEG.
I understand that, I still don't see the conflict, but maybe I'm missing something?
I never said that MPEG == MPEG LA, I just mentioned them both. There is a relationship there and using mpeg standards implies MPEG LA licensing. We know that one is the group that creates the standards, and the registered file extension, the other is the group that enforces the patents on said standards.
So, am I missing something? Or is this some kind of a petty distraction?
No thanks to Sony products as far as I'm concerned.
It's too bad, they make good products. But I'm with you on that, no more Sony for me either.
Far too often they are asshats to their clientèle.
You can use MPEG in your software for a low annual fee. They promise (MPEG LA) that for the next few years that fee will be capped at $5,000,000.00. A drop in the bucket for any gigantic corporation. Firefox isn't paying. I sure can't afford it.
No, they wouldn't sue me if I used it, but they could.
MPEG does not belong in HTML5, as it is heavily encumbered.
When it happens, we won't be able to say that we weren't warned.
(Oh, but where's the trust!)
'cos you'd get a LOT more fat from rendering down the average American kid than you would from a chicken.
Only in terms of individual output. When you look at the net gain, it takes too long to grow the kid, and it costs an absurd amount to overfeed him.
Yes, think of all the chickens that kid would eat, chickens that could have been rendered directly into jet fuel. Not a very green solution.
I shudder to think that soon the whole world will smell like the alley behind Kentucky Duck.
from here "The data for the study came from the PsycINFO database, which provides more than 3 million references to the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters or essays, and books."
Something's wrong, I think. 3 million references is a lot!
Three million references to what? It doesn't say that the three million references were to anything related to violence, just that there are three million references.
Wikipedia has over 9 million articles. Not sure how any references the average article has, let's guess low, say 20. So that's 180 million references.
So Wikipedia has 180 million plus references that are irrelevant to the issue at hand, a clear winner.
Copyright is an outdated mechanism.
Morons on slashdot constantly make that assertion but never actually say why or how things would work without it.
Copyright was originally the domain of the booksellers in England who would purchase the rights to books and sell them at high prices to people who could afford them. Basically the entire wealth of knowledge that was contained in books was owned by private individuals and only available to the wealthy.
It was determined that it was not in the public interest for the sum total of the knowledge of mankind that was embodied in books to not be available to the public, i.e., it was determined that it was not in the public interest to keep everyone ignorant.
Thus the birth of copyright terms, public libraries, and education for the masses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law_copyright
3 kittens were harmed in making this post?
3 of Schroedinger's kittens died, 3 lived. Who knew his cat was pregnant? Or was it?
(No peeking)
Another troll modded insightful and interesting, I'm getting so sick of this shit. I could understand "funny" but really Slashdot, WTF ?
I suppose if you're an AC you don't see that it's actually the people who read these comments that moderate them, since you don't get the chance to do that.
No one thinks he's a troll but you. So, he isn't.
"the first ever scalable, non-invasive psychological and brainwave measurement technology
The concept is invasive. The ultimate in propaganda. We now control your kids so thoroughly, that unless you invest a minimum $1000 a month on our toys, candy and fast food, we will have them murder you in your sleep.
You have been warned.
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/plain/data/images/gimp-splash.png?id=GIMP_2_7_2 No lies:P
Wahahahaha!
The dominatrix is a goat in a leather bustier, not what I had hoped for.
Nevertheless, thanks for posting it Alexia.
Perhaps, but did you notice that the first octet of the IP address is also 214? "websense214..." might just be a reference to the IP addy it lives on...or there might be at least 214 of them...or both :)
LOL!
Yeah, I noticed, it only SEEMS like there are 214 of them. That's how in your face they are.
Odd that they're both doing something so similar. Wonder if they use the same base DHCP code.
LOL!
Right, that was my problem, Web(non)sense, MY companies nanny. If Princeton keeps tweaking things, they may block everyone, which should have the effect of freeing up some of those blocked IP's. :)
I couldn't comment as it seems that Websense has it blocked under the category "Proxy Avoidance".
Odd page indeed.
As I have discovered, I'll know next time, thanks.
I didn't see anything.
You probably have malicious software running on your machine that is hooked into your browser. Lemme guess, you run Windows?
<Tsingi hands the AC some soap> No, I don't run Windows.
I have no problems on this, my dev box, other than no script complaining about that link.
nslookup on the error IP gives me:
214.97.20.172.in-addr.arpa name = websense214.corp.<our company network>.
So there it is my companies IM filter box, webnonsense (apparently there are at least 214 of them) being an ass yet again.
apologies to anyone who might require it, and for being (as it turns out) entirely off-topic.
# Prevent Internet sites from requesting LAN resources. Site LOCAL Accept from LOCAL Deny
Anyone care to comment on what that is all about?
Depends on the size of his garage.
True enough, but as in 'Bigger than a bread box' these analogies presume a standard size.
But they could be real tiny monitors. :)
would it really hurt -- would you really lose so much integrity -- to slap this thing with a flashier moniker than "G.I.M.P."?
Considering the splash for GIMP 2.7 is the mascot locked in a cage with a dominatrix standing beside it I'm thinking that they decided to embrace the (bad) name and run with it.
You Lie!
But I'm disappointed, I sure looked:)
I was impressed that the first link Google returned was this page though. They're right on top of SlashDot.
Because 2011 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!!!
ROFL!
Who cares really? I'ts been my desktop for almost 20 years, and my sole home desktop for 10. I advocate it to people who have an open mind, but, I don't care if it ever supplants Windows.
Photoshop IS better than the Gimp, but It costs a fortune, the Gimp does everything I need, and I LIKE the way it works. It's not a contest.
With InkScape and the Gimp you can do most anything graphics wise, if you need to do more, then it's probably worth it to you to sell your soul and first born to buy the CS suite and a Windows box.
I have a windows box at work to run OutLook (to forward everything to a Linux Box), and another to run AutoCAD (To send all the data to a Linux box). Sometimes you have to deal with the devil.
The number of atoms in the universe would conveniently fit into your garage as well. It only has about 80 digits.
But, not if they each had six monitors.