I'd say, once you do have the laser working, all you need is a fast enough tracking mirror to aim at an incoming missile. --and THIS would be a huge savings when compared to the current antimissile weapons, where each shot is @ 1 M$... H.
What I wish to underline is, of course the contents of a vaccine is somehow a shock to your organism. Indeed, that's even the purpose. And yes, among the various additives in it, some may bring additional wrongs as side-effects. Now, all the purpose of the physician decision, like for ALL medicine, is that the good this vaccination will do is obviously, vastly larger than the side-effect harm. My worry is that by painting a vaccine as full perfect -which it is not, we give an argument to the anti-vaccine guys. Of course anyone can find some guy catching a fever because of an injection of vaccine X. So what? Again, like for all medicine, the issue is a balance between strong good cure PLUS minor side effects. (of course, the lie on this autism thing is to present autism as an unexpected 'not-side' effect)
I was about to mention MDI. But there are two main differences:
- their cars are only concepts, and this for 10 years or more now. I live very close to their french factory, which has been operating, as far as I understand it, only from regional subsidies without selling a single car. They do have a demo model, which they show everywhere around, but definitely, I asked them many times how/where to buy: no way. So, I suspect there must be some flaw somewhere. Mind you, I was candidate to buy, and ready to pay. I understand what they say is, we only sell car factories themselves, not individual cars. I doubt this is the good strategy.
- their cars are air-powered only. This means you must get somehow a compressor at home, that will reload air in the car's tank at night. This is very different from Chrysler's hybrid concept, where a presumably smaller tank is filled by the (gasoline) motor either from gasoline energy or from braking. While I'm not sure Chrysler's device will be as efficient as its electric counterpart, it will work somehow for sure, and probably will lower the gasoline consumption in a measurable way. In comparison, from my experience with MDI, full air-powered vehicles just don't work. Apparently the end-to-end efficiency chain turns them into ultra-light, low-powered vehicles whose autonomy is just too low.
I think what TheLink meant was just this : if given a choice between the Good and the Naughty you don't vote, then you actively give me more efficiency in my own voting for the Naughty (of course;-) So, when the Naughty is elected, you are responsible (of not having barred him)...
I see many are underlying these strategies already were identified years ago. This is true, but indeed, what is important in the present information is that like many others at this time, it reflects an evolution in thinking.
Basically, we won't sit analyzing a problem before proposing a solution.
Maybe we consider we don't have time, maybe we are confident in superfast computing: we throw in some random algorithm (ants everywhere, and then the fastest are detected), and go. Such an approach indeed was described years ago, but at the time it got no consideration, be it for inefficiency or lack of wit. Today, it's of the essence.
Sincerely, I fear this is terribly telling about how science is considered today. There is no expectation that someone comes with an idea anymore. We expect, and accept, that some throwing ants at random is a fair way to solve issues. We don't expect anything better.
To me it's really a revolution happening.
Don't misunderstand me: there are real reasons for this approach to work today and not yesterday (computer power, better simulations, whatnot). I'm not saying this is Good and that Bad. But still, it means there is no special expectation (nor respect?) for Science anymore. Hope the same won't happen in medicine or philosophy:-/
I'd insist hypocrisy was obvious: after all, the minimum roaming rate was boosted by a factor 5 or 10. The fact is, Press didn't comment on this because one must remember at the time -at least in Europe, having a GSM was still a recent luxury to some extent, so those that in addition would regularly travel abroad... were let's say not your average multiple-phone-Joe...
I have been on GSM in Europe since the very beginning, a professional traveller.
I perfectly remember roaming rates were widely variable according to the carrier you chose abroad, and soon there were ordered lists that you would enter in your phone to indicate careful preference for carrier X vs Y then Z, for each country. It was somehow painful to enter in the phone, but once only and cool after that.
Then, I *even more perfectly* remember, one day the news unanimously announced, in order to simplify customer experience, all european carriers had agreed onto a clearer and common rate.
Absolutely no one reacted. The rate of course was among the highest (at least, five or ten time higher than the lowest before). No newspaper claimed this was an illegal arrangement, and neither did the Ms Kroes of the time.
Saying we discover it today is just a shame.
When it was done, it was fully in the open, and no one reacted.
Yes, the same can be said from iCab (which invented ad filtering more than 10 years before FF!) -its interface to this feature does exists, but is very poor... and that counts...
The trouble I see in our OP's question (which I share), is somehow that most of the open source solutions will have a slow interface (compared to, say, OSX Spotlight). I currently use Powermail on OSX (so, two closed solutions) because it handles almost 20 years of mail, in Go, and is still Spotlight-compatible (raises results while you type the keyword). the guys at Powermail are a small company that indeed started as the kings of indexing, long before Spotlight. To my knowledge they are the only email app on OSX that maintains Spotlight compatibility. But, they are "proprietary". I think if Powermail is to die, I'll transfer all my archive to an IMAP server, the way it has been described various times above. This too may be tricky: not all email front-ends will handle 1 Gb of IMAP transfer properly, nor all IMAP servers. Do try before using. I tried with Powermail and the french postal free email service: this did well, but that's presently the only couple that indeed works for Gbytes.
Was there any product other than the german Wetab (of which... we hear less and less...) that would feature an open architecture? FWIW, and with all my wishes: http://wetab.mobi/en
And lets not forget the inherent question of free will in all this.
There is no such inherent question. "Free will" is a concept in law and philosophy, while determinism is a concept in fundamental physics. (...)
I rather disagree with this. I'd say free will could correctly relate to any material system whose complexity is high enough (ie whose set of driving equations involves more variables than the number of equations). Since the gravitation's problem of three bodies (in classical mechanics!), we just know, for certain, that some simple physical sets just are not predictable. No need for opposing physics and philosophy there.
Indeed, as your score demonstrates, there is also the magic of reading figures: "90% of people will believe much more in a statement containing actual figures"... like yours, or mine;-)
I have two replies to this: - roughly speaking, the laser used is very low power, and its light is scattered onto square Kms, so really the energy received by an human eye is extremely low - technically, studies have been made before the spacecraft design be decided (of course), and there are actual regulations for light received on ground from a satellite. I don't remember the values, but it's related to my first point: there is a maximum limit, with margins, that ensures you don't get harmed just by looking at this flying bird when the sat passes behind it. This limit is a design constraint on the satellite lidar size (telescope diameter and laser power).
:-D I remember, while MacPaint was black & white, there already were alternative print kits with colors (for the Apple ImageWriter printer, yes I'm 50 years old), and you could install a separate printer pilot that would translate fill-in patterns into colors on the printer. hum. It may well have been MacDraw patterns in fact:=/
Yes, a bit later I even saw a separate release of this monkey thing: you would launch your app, then launch the monkey, and thousands of clicks were hitting the screen. (seeing this the first time was atrocious;-)
When the worst that happened was that sooner or later a given serie of click would trigger a quit command, you were safe:-)
(and indeed, at that time, the UI was so simple, with ALL command accessible via single one-step menus, that from a quality insurance point of view, I think it did look a reasonable test...)
The original paper hardly discusses the hair-tracking aspect (concentrates on describing how different cities are indeed "separable"), but it refers to an earlier paper, http://www.pnas.org/content/105/8/2788.full , where actually there is a time diagram extracted from one single hair.
The diagram shows the isotopic signature along the hair, checked at 4-weeks intervals, for a guy which went from China to the US: there is a clear break in the curve at the time of the moving.
But the timescale is also clearly at least one month (below, you just stay within the noise).
So, if you cross the States one single day to kill him, and have a drink at the airport before flying back, this will definitely not be detected;-) OTOH this may help you proof you definitely came to visit me a full month last year...
... and the worst is, I do trust that this transfer is valid, and probably along with bacterias, on the million-year average. I would buy this rock-transfer-spawning-life theory for the solar system (while not at all for life coming from elsewhere, in which case the probability just turns so ridiculous it's just a way to refuse thinking about the origins of life). What really turns me sad, is how we can tear true points into pathetically wrong affirmations. I can readily see myself, juste a couple of years from now, announcing this yearly thing to a neighbor without blinking. And then feeling him think "so yes, he's a lunatic, but not dangerous yet"
You tell us that *every year*, we are impacted by meteoroids so gigantic that the blast sends tons of rock into space.
I'd find humiliating to even ask you where were last year's impacts.
Slashdot looks more and more like the worst sides of Wikipedia: this guy must be right, since he points to an existing url, even if its affirmation is pathetic. Let's mod him interesting.
"Every year". Convincing. I suppose now some guy will come telling me it's on the average, on a billion years, that was just a way to talk. Sure.
seconded. And if like me you're living in a place which is not flat, go for an electric bike. Flattens all climbs (if you choose >=400W), same effort when flat if you just flip a switch... and indeed you can commute with it for distances up to 15-20 Km.
Slashdot Mirror
ah, I didn't see IDK post below that merely says the same thing :(
I'd say, once you do have the laser working, all you need is a fast enough tracking mirror to aim at an incoming missile.
--and THIS would be a huge savings when compared to the current antimissile weapons, where each shot is @ 1 M$...
H.
What I wish to underline is, of course the contents of a vaccine is somehow a shock to your organism. Indeed, that's even the purpose. And yes, among the various additives in it, some may bring additional wrongs as side-effects.
Now, all the purpose of the physician decision, like for ALL medicine, is that the good this vaccination will do is obviously, vastly larger than the side-effect harm.
My worry is that by painting a vaccine as full perfect -which it is not, we give an argument to the anti-vaccine guys. Of course anyone can find some guy catching a fever because of an injection of vaccine X. So what? Again, like for all medicine, the issue is a balance between strong good cure PLUS minor side effects.
(of course, the lie on this autism thing is to present autism as an unexpected 'not-side' effect)
This is because you don't understand they pronounce it the french way, without rolling the r ;-)
I was about to mention MDI. But there are two main differences:
- their cars are only concepts, and this for 10 years or more now. I live very close to their french factory, which has been operating, as far as I understand it, only from regional subsidies without selling a single car. They do have a demo model, which they show everywhere around, but definitely, I asked them many times how/where to buy: no way. So, I suspect there must be some flaw somewhere. Mind you, I was candidate to buy, and ready to pay. I understand what they say is, we only sell car factories themselves, not individual cars. I doubt this is the good strategy.
- their cars are air-powered only. This means you must get somehow a compressor at home, that will reload air in the car's tank at night. This is very different from Chrysler's hybrid concept, where a presumably smaller tank is filled by the (gasoline) motor either from gasoline energy or from braking. While I'm not sure Chrysler's device will be as efficient as its electric counterpart, it will work somehow for sure, and probably will lower the gasoline consumption in a measurable way. In comparison, from my experience with MDI, full air-powered vehicles just don't work. Apparently the end-to-end efficiency chain turns them into ultra-light, low-powered vehicles whose autonomy is just too low.
I think what TheLink meant was just this : if given a choice between the Good and the Naughty you don't vote, then you actively give me more efficiency in my own voting for the Naughty (of course ;-)
So, when the Naughty is elected, you are responsible (of not having barred him)...
I see many are underlying these strategies already were identified years ago.
This is true, but indeed, what is important in the present information is that like many others at this time, it reflects an evolution in thinking.
Basically, we won't sit analyzing a problem before proposing a solution.
Maybe we consider we don't have time, maybe we are confident in superfast computing: we throw in some random algorithm (ants everywhere, and then the fastest are detected), and go.
Such an approach indeed was described years ago, but at the time it got no consideration, be it for inefficiency or lack of wit.
Today, it's of the essence.
Sincerely, I fear this is terribly telling about how science is considered today. There is no expectation that someone comes with an idea anymore. We expect, and accept, that some throwing ants at random is a fair way to solve issues. We don't expect anything better.
To me it's really a revolution happening.
Don't misunderstand me: there are real reasons for this approach to work today and not yesterday (computer power, better simulations, whatnot). I'm not saying this is Good and that Bad. :-/
But still, it means there is no special expectation (nor respect?) for Science anymore.
Hope the same won't happen in medicine or philosophy
I'd insist hypocrisy was obvious: after all, the minimum roaming rate was boosted by a factor 5 or 10.
The fact is, Press didn't comment on this because one must remember at the time -at least in Europe, having a GSM was still a recent luxury to some extent, so those that in addition would regularly travel abroad... were let's say not your average multiple-phone-Joe...
I have been on GSM in Europe since the very beginning, a professional traveller.
I perfectly remember roaming rates were widely variable according to the carrier you chose abroad, and soon there were ordered lists that you would enter in your phone to indicate careful preference for carrier X vs Y then Z, for each country. It was somehow painful to enter in the phone, but once only and cool after that.
Then, I *even more perfectly* remember, one day the news unanimously announced, in order to simplify customer experience, all european carriers had agreed onto a clearer and common rate.
Absolutely no one reacted. The rate of course was among the highest (at least, five or ten time higher than the lowest before).
No newspaper claimed this was an illegal arrangement, and neither did the Ms Kroes of the time.
Saying we discover it today is just a shame.
When it was done, it was fully in the open, and no one reacted.
Yes, the same can be said from iCab (which invented ad filtering more than 10 years before FF!) -its interface to this feature does exists, but is very poor... and that counts...
Will this allow you to copy-paste bits from the acro doct to your session?
The trouble I see in our OP's question (which I share), is somehow that most of the open source solutions will have a slow interface (compared to, say, OSX Spotlight).
I currently use Powermail on OSX (so, two closed solutions) because it handles almost 20 years of mail, in Go, and is still Spotlight-compatible (raises results while you type the keyword).
the guys at Powermail are a small company that indeed started as the kings of indexing, long before Spotlight. To my knowledge they are the only email app on OSX that maintains Spotlight compatibility. But, they are "proprietary".
I think if Powermail is to die, I'll transfer all my archive to an IMAP server, the way it has been described various times above. This too may be tricky: not all email front-ends will handle 1 Gb of IMAP transfer properly, nor all IMAP servers. Do try before using. I tried with Powermail and the french postal free email service: this did well, but that's presently the only couple that indeed works for Gbytes.
Was there any product other than the german Wetab (of which... we hear less and less...) that would feature an open architecture?
FWIW, and with all my wishes: http://wetab.mobi/en
indeed some already started thinking about it in Nasa and ESA: http://www.space.com/news/international-space-station-room-recycled-asteroid-mission-100811.html
(... but it is a very small part of the ISS)
There is no such inherent question. "Free will" is a concept in law and philosophy, while determinism is a concept in fundamental physics. (...)
I rather disagree with this. I'd say free will could correctly relate to any material system whose complexity is high enough (ie whose set of driving equations involves more variables than the number of equations).
Since the gravitation's problem of three bodies (in classical mechanics!), we just know, for certain, that some simple physical sets just are not predictable.
No need for opposing physics and philosophy there.
Indeed, as your score demonstrates, there is also the magic of reading figures: ... like yours, or mine ;-)
"90% of people will believe much more in a statement containing actual figures"
I have two replies to this:
- roughly speaking, the laser used is very low power, and its light is scattered onto square Kms, so really the energy received by an human eye is extremely low
- technically, studies have been made before the spacecraft design be decided (of course), and there are actual regulations for light received on ground from a satellite.
I don't remember the values, but it's related to my first point: there is a maximum limit, with margins, that ensures you don't get harmed just by looking at this flying bird when the sat passes behind it.
This limit is a design constraint on the satellite lidar size (telescope diameter and laser power).
:-D :=/
I remember, while MacPaint was black & white, there already were alternative print kits with colors (for the Apple ImageWriter printer, yes I'm 50 years old), and you could install a separate printer pilot that would translate fill-in patterns into colors on the printer.
hum. It may well have been MacDraw patterns in fact
P. S. of course, you would never silently launch this on your office neighbor's mac. Never.
Yes, a bit later I even saw a separate release of this monkey thing: you would launch your app, then launch the monkey, and thousands of clicks were hitting the screen. (seeing this the first time was atrocious ;-)
When the worst that happened was that sooner or later a given serie of click would trigger a quit command, you were safe :-)
(and indeed, at that time, the UI was so simple, with ALL command accessible via single one-step menus, that from a quality insurance point of view, I think it did look a reasonable test...)
The original paper hardly discusses the hair-tracking aspect (concentrates on describing how different cities are indeed "separable"), but it refers to an earlier paper, http://www.pnas.org/content/105/8/2788.full , where actually there is a time diagram extracted from one single hair.
The diagram shows the isotopic signature along the hair, checked at 4-weeks intervals, for a guy which went from China to the US: there is a clear break in the curve at the time of the moving.
But the timescale is also clearly at least one month (below, you just stay within the noise).
So, if you cross the States one single day to kill him, and have a drink at the airport before flying back, this will definitely not be detected ;-)
OTOH this may help you proof you definitely came to visit me a full month last year...
GOCE is a mission from theEuropean Space Agency: get the images on an ESA site, not on the BBC:
http://earth.esa.int/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=7029
and more precisely, this specific image is on slide 7 (rescalable ;-) ) of the pdf at http://earth.esa.int/pub/ESA_DOC/GOCE/GOCE%20Science%20Data%20Processing%20System%20Status%20and%20Plans.pdf
... and the worst is, I do trust that this transfer is valid, and probably along with bacterias, on the million-year average.
I would buy this rock-transfer-spawning-life theory for the solar system (while not at all for life coming from elsewhere, in which case the probability just turns so ridiculous it's just a way to refuse thinking about the origins of life).
What really turns me sad, is how we can tear true points into pathetically wrong affirmations.
I can readily see myself, juste a couple of years from now, announcing this yearly thing to a neighbor without blinking.
And then feeling him think "so yes, he's a lunatic, but not dangerous yet"
Do you realize what you are writing?
You tell us that *every year*, we are impacted by meteoroids so gigantic that the blast sends tons of rock into space.
I'd find humiliating to even ask you where were last year's impacts.
Slashdot looks more and more like the worst sides of Wikipedia: this guy must be right, since he points to an existing url, even if its affirmation is pathetic. Let's mod him interesting.
"Every year".
Convincing.
I suppose now some guy will come telling me it's on the average, on a billion years, that was just a way to talk. Sure.
seconded.
And if like me you're living in a place which is not flat, go for an electric bike.
Flattens all climbs (if you choose >=400W), same effort when flat if you just flip a switch... and indeed you can commute with it for distances up to 15-20 Km.