Leave your reading comprehension in your other pair of pants? Or just your head? The GP makes no mention of Democrats or Republicans. If you are assuming Democrats are more technologically savvy, that is your own bias being expressed in your mind. I don't know the political break-down of engineers, but I'm sure most of them would rather not be part of either party exclusively.
You can usually pre-order a game for $5. So you get a 11 day trial for $5. Not free, but cheap if you are a serious MMO player.
Truly open betas are always horrible anyway. There are usually way too many players for server capacity. Servers are designed generally for less than 10k players, less or more for certain games. Open betas tend to trash the performance of the game and give you an incomplete feel for the game.
I recently looked at using MythTV to take care of my DVR needs, but the biggest issue was the "scrambled" signal from my cable provider. I understand this is what cable boxes do is decode or demodulate (or whatever) the cable signal. Has anyone ever heard of people attempting to hack their cable boxes so they could perform the same operations on a computer?
Please excuse my ignorance on how they alter their signals. I only spent a few hours researching the subject. How difficult a problem is this? Would each channel require a separate crack? Honestly I'm surprised I haven't heard about this anywhere, maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
Well our sissies are beating the pants off most nations (if you look at the medal count). Unless you're from China, I don't think you have much right saying anything about the American athletes' ability. When races are lost by several hundredths of a second, every little bit matters.
It doesn't make sense. If John Edwards were to run for any office again this would clearly come to light. Would this news about Edwards really sour Obama's position?/boggle
Presuming that this will be safe for use in humans, could this be one of the missing keys for space exploration? I'm imagining Joe Astronaut wakes from his month-long slumber on route to Planet X. His muscles have atrophied over this time, but by using these pills and doing some remedial exercise, he is ready to face the perils of the alien planet in days!
Transportation is a much simpler problem than dusting and cleaning the house. You have standards and easily quantifiable data all over the road. (not to mention GPS data in the sky) The most complicated problem with robotic cars is "swarm" computing. Research is being done to create a group of networked robots that collaborate to accomplish a common goal, the technology should be well understood within the next ten years. By that time, object recognition and sensor arrays should be sophisticated enough to produce a Robocar with six sigma performance in the field.
Technology will not be what holds back Robocars, but people. However I would say it's not unreasonable to think we could have such things in 50-75 years.
"On the third hand..." "I'd like to ponder it, but I ran out of hands."
So you didn't run out at two hands, but at three hands. You must be 50% more efficient than the rest of us with that third hand! Unless of course you just use that third hand for pondering, in which case you'd be 50% less efficient!
... if it had a console where you can hack the creature's DNA! Or at least try altering the DNA to give it mutant powers!
Really it would be a fun exercise and it and it could teach what can go horribly, horribly wrong with just a little nudge to the DNA here and there. 8)
One interesting theory in why the west out paced the rest of the world in technological advancement in the last thousand years was exactly that, population density. During medieval times in Europe, the population was crippled by plague several times. First by the bubonic plague, later small pox, etc. It gave the surviving people a wealth of natural resources relative to their populations. This wealth allows for people to specialize in trades, rather than just subsistence farming. Specialization leads to steady efficiency increases.
Now obviously this kind of organic technological advancement is practically impossible in Africa today. First, any of the basic resources worth a damn, ie coal, iron, ect. Are being used or bought by companies outside the country. Secondly, the basic resources that help people improve their quality of life are not abundant in Africa to begin with. Thirdly, because the wide availability of machine guns, it is very easy to oppress a lot of people with a very small number of thugs.
So we come to the question of how to fix the vast imbalance in the Africa. There is no silver bullet, at least none that anyone with respect for human life would endorse. In general, the only model we have for taking a third world nation and bringing it up to modern standards is by colonization. Colonization has been looked down upon for about the last fifty years, but if you take a step back at the big picture, it has been a catalyst for change which usually meant an improvement in the standard of living for those colonized. There are plenty of counter examples, but I believe there have been more success stories than not. The best examples being: India, China, and South Africa. While many human rights issues occurred because of colonization, other pro development things occurred. Mostly technology influx, but also increased nationalism and infrastructure build-out.
In the case of South Africa and India, the colonists inspired mass uprisings and increased the sense of national identity. Not all "nations" have this. Many countries were simply created politically by western nations. By oppression, these colonists inspired nationalism in the oppressed. What is the value of a strong sense of nationalism? Nationalism inspires a sense of the greater good, it allows a people to undertake great public works projects, it allows them to have a strong federal government, and most of all it helps neighbors stop quarreling.
So in the end, we can't colonize Africa again. Western nations don't have motivation to anyway. However, a key step in helping developing nations is understanding how developed nations got there. Technology alone will not be sufficient. While these project are of course noble and good in their cause, they are only bandaids that do not treat the root problems. I saw a special on 60 Minutes the other day about malnourished children in Africa and this really great cheap solution they had found to fight malnutrition. Great, more children make it to adolescence. There is no correlation that a larger population will promote economic development. Will these children's children still be eating the same imported aid to survive?
Instead of doctors without borders or engineers without borders, we need ditch diggers without borders, or plumbers without borders. Giving a guy a bike that can make corn into flour is cool, but what's the point if you gave him the corn already?
Mirrors are used, but they come with a high upkeep cost. They need to be polished and maintained and repositioned throughout the day to maximize efficiency.
Slashdot Mirror
Too soon?
Leave your reading comprehension in your other pair of pants? Or just your head? The GP makes no mention of Democrats or Republicans. If you are assuming Democrats are more technologically savvy, that is your own bias being expressed in your mind. I don't know the political break-down of engineers, but I'm sure most of them would rather not be part of either party exclusively.
I can't even comprehend the mod that gave you +1.
Sure is a lot of mojo flying around today, glad I brought by umbrella!
One of the requirements is that this is wireless. So he wants to cut out the random interlopers leeching his bandwidth.
Please mod parent -5 Banned... Jeez
You can usually pre-order a game for $5. So you get a 11 day trial for $5. Not free, but cheap if you are a serious MMO player.
Truly open betas are always horrible anyway. There are usually way too many players for server capacity. Servers are designed generally for less than 10k players, less or more for certain games. Open betas tend to trash the performance of the game and give you an incomplete feel for the game.
I'm allergic to /. memes you insensitive, cliche clod!
*AHH-CHOO*
I recently looked at using MythTV to take care of my DVR needs, but the biggest issue was the "scrambled" signal from my cable provider. I understand this is what cable boxes do is decode or demodulate (or whatever) the cable signal. Has anyone ever heard of people attempting to hack their cable boxes so they could perform the same operations on a computer?
Please excuse my ignorance on how they alter their signals. I only spent a few hours researching the subject. How difficult a problem is this? Would each channel require a separate crack? Honestly I'm surprised I haven't heard about this anywhere, maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
Well our sissies are beating the pants off most nations (if you look at the medal count). Unless you're from China, I don't think you have much right saying anything about the American athletes' ability. When races are lost by several hundredths of a second, every little bit matters.
So you are telling me there are no real black hats at this convention?
Given 9000 people who may claim to be hackers, I'm sure there's one in there somewhere...
It's the same kind of spectacle as Alcatraz, its a network that "holds" some very 31337 h@xz0rz.
It doesn't make sense. If John Edwards were to run for any office again this would clearly come to light. Would this news about Edwards really sour Obama's position? /boggle
Would one or more nuclear explosions affect the orbit of a dinosaur-killer very much? Steering by explosion if you will.
Presuming that this will be safe for use in humans, could this be one of the missing keys for space exploration? I'm imagining Joe Astronaut wakes from his month-long slumber on route to Planet X. His muscles have atrophied over this time, but by using these pills and doing some remedial exercise, he is ready to face the perils of the alien planet in days!
I 3 the future.
Now that would spark some interest.
Or maybe: "NASA discovers naturally occurring beer on Mars!"
It's a trap!
Legal representation
Transportation is a much simpler problem than dusting and cleaning the house. You have standards and easily quantifiable data all over the road. (not to mention GPS data in the sky) The most complicated problem with robotic cars is "swarm" computing. Research is being done to create a group of networked robots that collaborate to accomplish a common goal, the technology should be well understood within the next ten years. By that time, object recognition and sensor arrays should be sophisticated enough to produce a Robocar with six sigma performance in the field.
Technology will not be what holds back Robocars, but people. However I would say it's not unreasonable to think we could have such things in 50-75 years.
"On the third hand..."
"I'd like to ponder it, but I ran out of hands."
So you didn't run out at two hands, but at three hands. You must be 50% more efficient than the rest of us with that third hand! Unless of course you just use that third hand for pondering, in which case you'd be 50% less efficient!
Think of the children! Won't anyone think of the children!?
"There is a lot more information in one pixel than meets the eye."
Pixels, unlike atoms have a well defined finite amount of information in them. Now a small group of pixels ...
... if it had a console where you can hack the creature's DNA! Or at least try altering the DNA to give it mutant powers!
Really it would be a fun exercise and it and it could teach what can go horribly, horribly wrong with just a little nudge to the DNA here and there. 8)
Coming soon to a tacky interweb near you!
One interesting theory in why the west out paced the rest of the world in technological advancement in the last thousand years was exactly that, population density. During medieval times in Europe, the population was crippled by plague several times. First by the bubonic plague, later small pox, etc. It gave the surviving people a wealth of natural resources relative to their populations. This wealth allows for people to specialize in trades, rather than just subsistence farming. Specialization leads to steady efficiency increases.
Now obviously this kind of organic technological advancement is practically impossible in Africa today. First, any of the basic resources worth a damn, ie coal, iron, ect. Are being used or bought by companies outside the country. Secondly, the basic resources that help people improve their quality of life are not abundant in Africa to begin with. Thirdly, because the wide availability of machine guns, it is very easy to oppress a lot of people with a very small number of thugs.
So we come to the question of how to fix the vast imbalance in the Africa. There is no silver bullet, at least none that anyone with respect for human life would endorse. In general, the only model we have for taking a third world nation and bringing it up to modern standards is by colonization. Colonization has been looked down upon for about the last fifty years, but if you take a step back at the big picture, it has been a catalyst for change which usually meant an improvement in the standard of living for those colonized. There are plenty of counter examples, but I believe there have been more success stories than not. The best examples being: India, China, and South Africa. While many human rights issues occurred because of colonization, other pro development things occurred. Mostly technology influx, but also increased nationalism and infrastructure build-out.
In the case of South Africa and India, the colonists inspired mass uprisings and increased the sense of national identity. Not all "nations" have this. Many countries were simply created politically by western nations. By oppression, these colonists inspired nationalism in the oppressed. What is the value of a strong sense of nationalism? Nationalism inspires a sense of the greater good, it allows a people to undertake great public works projects, it allows them to have a strong federal government, and most of all it helps neighbors stop quarreling.
So in the end, we can't colonize Africa again. Western nations don't have motivation to anyway. However, a key step in helping developing nations is understanding how developed nations got there. Technology alone will not be sufficient. While these project are of course noble and good in their cause, they are only bandaids that do not treat the root problems. I saw a special on 60 Minutes the other day about malnourished children in Africa and this really great cheap solution they had found to fight malnutrition. Great, more children make it to adolescence. There is no correlation that a larger population will promote economic development. Will these children's children still be eating the same imported aid to survive?
Instead of doctors without borders or engineers without borders, we need ditch diggers without borders, or plumbers without borders. Giving a guy a bike that can make corn into flour is cool, but what's the point if you gave him the corn already?
Mirrors are used, but they come with a high upkeep cost. They need to be polished and maintained and repositioned throughout the day to maximize efficiency.