historically one of the earliest widespread uses of a successful new media has always been in disseminating porn; paintings, books, film, video cassettes, cable, bbs, dvd, internet, websites, streaming, torrents, etc etc, it is even true in ancient pottery. so one has to ask why VR and AR are not widely used in porn ? there has been efforts, but does not seem to have led to widespread adaption by either users or distributors.
maybe there are inherent factors in VR that preclude it from being successful media.
why is the temperature record significant? are the specific causes known and how exactly? if the causes are known was the temperature with accuracy predicted by models when those causes were included? why not?
It really is private and market driven. Contracts are determined by price and efficiency. Do you think the world exists in some sort of vacuum? You an economics major or something? There's a little something you should look into called "risk" and another called "political stability". Both of these are huge, huge factors in pricing. Namely, being priced out of the market. Want to open a factory in a cheap area that's not stable? There's an excellent chance the locals will look at you like a lion looks at a sick gazelle. You can put numbers on these factors and they'll tell you to build somewhere cheaper, i.e. less risky. Texas is an excellent place to do business, they don't look at companies as the enemy - which is not the case in many states in America.
if it is "really is private and market driven"as you say , why not let companies decide on "huge, huge factors in pricing" unassisted by government ? why not let foreigners have legal right to fight for same business? why not let foreign spaceports right to launch for usa based businesses? then if your prejudices about "risks", "political stability", local hungry "lions", etc are correct about all the eligible cheap areas outside usa, they will stay inside usa (even texas). why does usa( and texas ) hide behind laws that cramp private companies and market ? answer that! politics? corruption? answer!
in usa, decisions in this business are made for political reasons and are government subsidy driven. when those protections coddling the inefficient businesses, like spacex, are down and removed, you can make your case. but currently your argument can be made only by an ignorant person. btw all can see what happened to most usa companies where those protections are not available. lol
your ignorant prejudice do not amount to facts; on highways in particular, and where there is presence and absence of corruption(vague term anyway, even subsidies are form of corruption) in general, among others, specific location was mere speculation on my part anyway, point was locating in usa was not the market driven. btw if not central/south america, there is africa , former ussr central asia, etc, there is already esa's (somewhat subsidy driven) french guiana space center.
"building rocket engines is incredibly difficult... takes years of experience for engineers" are you saying only old government agencies can do it? if so called private space companies in usa can do it, so can others elsewhere. if market driven, they can hire same engineers as usa ones, if necessary.
so called private space companies are not really market driven, but depend mainly on subsidies from various levels and agencies of government. wonder if they would have chosen this site(which seems to be the main cause of delay) if not for subsidies and benefits offered by texas.
btw if this was really private and market driven, and contracts determined by price and efficiency, spaceports will be situated in some other more suitable and cheaper country(central/south america?), most manufacturing will be done in asia, and most of the companies will be subsidiaries of asian industrial giants. perhaps some designing will be left in usa. however there are some talk about private south koreans entering the market, so may be i am wrong about dependence of subsidies , but will admit that when it actually happens.
if delivery is to ordinary people, ease of accessing goods delivered will triumph over security. and as far as i know, only part of reward of any stealing/hacking reside in value of the things stolen.
apple is planning its sales, marketing, production, design, and even recycling, based on replacement of majority of iphones every three years. some of these things require investing money and time well in advance. given all that, there is no much difference between "assuming" and "expecting", since in this case thought and opinion is and necessarily needs to be backed by action.
it also means they would be in trouble if their assumptions/expectations backed with action/money are wrong.
what is "real" ? if you are not ignorant, you would know that objective existence of what most people call "reality", "world'", etc, cannot be demonstrated rationally. we merely believe there is a reality preceptive to our senses. but it is all in our mind. it is impossible to rationally prove there is anything is outside our mind. if you are rational you have to accept that. and even our mind is a constant flow of thoughts. or at least our mind, at one point in time, merely believes it had/will have other thoughts at other points of time. so even mind does not "objectively" exist in time. in other words, there is no reality.
as such only irrational ignorant persons would look down their noses at religious and write nonsense like "Objectively, no religion is real", because nothing is "objectively" "real" rationally. religious believers believe in god and moral codes, intellectually dishonest self styled atheists believe in noses and moral codes (which they use to look down on and condemn religious). but god, moral codes, noses , etc are all mere beliefs.
rationally there is only two intellectually honest choices; a complete amoral nihilistic solipsist atheism(which by definition would not go around posting moralistic comments on believers) , or possibility of an outside reality based on beliefs acknowledged as beliefs, with further possibility that others may have other (perhaps contradictory )beliefs about that reality, with equally valid rational justifications (though with possibility of other justifications such as use of violence).
iphones make the money, rest just eat it up. once iphones sales stop growing (which is starting to happen), and there is real competition in a saturated market for so called smartphones,(with apple no longer able to fool buyers in to paying extra for its over hyped, but in reality rather average, phones) apple would be in trouble. its unused cash-pile will not cushion it for long either. then we will see true money grubbing colors of apple . this story is just the start.
this method is not the best way to take images, or find and test airflow over an airplane, with too much atmospheric distortions, and with inability to recreate the same images and tests, and other inherent disabilities in the method .
oh, how the mighty have fallen! once there was technological breakthroughs/innovations that benefited everyone, and made money for the company. usually by simplifying things(others have made overly complicated and inefficient ) and by sticking to core. then the benefits were so obvious there was no need for much fanfare. now things that others can do better with more expertise, are made more complicated and expensive than needs be , and then hyped as if they are the greatest innovations.
this makes great copy with images (which seems to be required thing for so called technology and science news stories regardless of substance ) but to design aircraft based on way they are photographed under particular conditions seems not to be the correct or safe way go about it.
degeneration of media can be measured when they parrots the company press release like the intentions(merely alleged ones at that) instead of achievements. no caveats, not doubts, no questions.
only ad hominem? a good example of that in fact. you do not argue against what i said, but questioning my personal motivation for saying it. you are free to engage in absurd speculations about my motivation (btw even though you use word 'several', "all" of your "*"s are the same), but that wont invalidate my argument.
information be it text, audio, video , etc, are not worth much by themselves. everyone of us have feeds of them constantly bombarding our brains naturally. to be valuable information need to be edited and focused.
a movie is worth watching only when all the tedious stuff is edited out. truly honest reality show would be boring(without effort). novel that records everything would not be a novel, authors focus(even when they do stream of consciousness). poem or symphony wont be worth much without structure even when some of them impossibly claim to be without structure. etc.
eyes( and ears, other senses, etc ) have evolved to precisely to enable us to extract useful information by focusing within a limited field.
studies have shown very act of editing and structuring information make it useful. for instance taking actual notes of a lecture, help us remember it(even if we do not read notes again ), more than watching a video of the lecture many times.
while expansion of technology is good and should not be curbed, we must be aware that creating streams of information without conscious editing, without focus, will only create ever more worthless useless information.
people who think they know what others really want & need, better than those same others, have an unjustifiably high opinion of themselves and equally unjustifiable low opinion of most of others. logically, only way such people can even think like that is by reducing others to simplified fixed and limited objects, instead of complex dynamic unlimited individuals they, and all human beings, are. its always a good rule to distrust people who think what others really want. if they ever get to choose for others, they do it badly, inevitably, as history and all socialistic experiments have demonstrated.
expect amazon and bezos to do what the entrenched, "too-big-to-fail-finance, warmongering, "liberal", secular, usa establishment wants. eg he/it did just that to wikileaks. -- even though trump is sort of part of establishment, because he is acting all populist and perhaps even act on some of what he says if elected , amazon will do what establishment wants. i suspect this petition is a handy excuse . and i suspect they will wait to check if he gets the nomination. then go all out to undermine trump to get hillary elected.
some things are valued because of their difficult to make uniqueness, usually expensive. and such unique things are usually connected with personal relationships esp romantic ones. esp weddings. hence hand embroidered personally designed wedding dresses etc, idea is (ideally)one couple one person forever and ever. so why connect an easy to make easy to copy things with such events? that is cheap (i am not meaning just money).
while 1st ever 3d printed wedding dress is unique, next ones aren't . hand crafted ring shaped like a face/sound waves is unique , easily mass produced 3d printed ones aren't.
yes . 1st hand. do you? btw why is it that soldiers with best armor are losing wars. they will lose even more if they had to wear gas masks all the time..
but seriously, what does "Gangnam Style moves", have to do with so called AI? such physical dexterity is mainly a feat of mechanical engineering , and can be ( and are) performed by robots without "AI".
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"NASA Gives Solar Ionic Propulsion A Monster Boost " !?
how much energy does "monster" metabolism create ? how much horse power? more than 1 horse?
and what do they eat? flesh? blood? hay? oats?
historically one of the earliest widespread uses of a successful new media has always been in disseminating porn; paintings, books, film, video cassettes, cable, bbs, dvd, internet, websites, streaming, torrents, etc etc, it is even true in ancient pottery.
so one has to ask why VR and AR are not widely used in porn ?
there has been efforts, but does not seem to have led to widespread adaption by either users or distributors.
maybe there are inherent factors in VR that preclude it from being successful media.
/. loves (and use) porn.
even more than they love agw, sjw, musk, etc., or hate outsourcing, trump, m$, etc.
why is the temperature record significant?
are the specific causes known and how exactly?
if the causes are known was the temperature with accuracy predicted by models when those causes were included? why not?
It really is private and market driven. Contracts are determined by price and efficiency. Do you think the world exists in some sort of vacuum? You an economics major or something? There's a little something you should look into called "risk" and another called "political stability". Both of these are huge, huge factors in pricing. Namely, being priced out of the market. Want to open a factory in a cheap area that's not stable? There's an excellent chance the locals will look at you like a lion looks at a sick gazelle. You can put numbers on these factors and they'll tell you to build somewhere cheaper, i.e. less risky. Texas is an excellent place to do business, they don't look at companies as the enemy - which is not the case in many states in America.
if it is "really is private and market driven"as you say , why not let companies decide on "huge, huge factors in pricing" unassisted by government ? why not let foreigners have legal right to fight for same business? why not let foreign spaceports right to launch for usa based businesses?
then if your prejudices about "risks", "political stability", local hungry "lions", etc are correct about all the eligible cheap areas outside usa, they will stay inside usa (even texas).
why does usa( and texas ) hide behind laws that cramp private companies and market ? answer that! politics? corruption? answer!
in usa, decisions in this business are made for political reasons and are government subsidy driven.
when those protections coddling the inefficient businesses, like spacex, are down and removed, you can make your case. but currently your argument can be made only by an ignorant person.
btw all can see what happened to most usa companies where those protections are not available. lol
your ignorant prejudice do not amount to facts; on highways in particular, and where there is presence and absence of corruption(vague term anyway, even subsidies are form of corruption) in general, among others,
specific location was mere speculation on my part anyway, point was locating in usa was not the market driven. btw if not central/south america, there is africa , former ussr central asia, etc, there is already esa's (somewhat subsidy driven) french guiana space center.
"building rocket engines is incredibly difficult ... takes years of experience for engineers"
are you saying only old government agencies can do it?
if so called private space companies in usa can do it, so can others elsewhere. if market driven, they can hire same engineers as usa ones, if necessary.
so called private space companies are not really market driven, but depend mainly on subsidies from various levels and agencies of government.
wonder if they would have chosen this site(which seems to be the main cause of delay) if not for subsidies and benefits offered by texas.
btw if this was really private and market driven, and contracts determined by price and efficiency, spaceports will be situated in some other more suitable and cheaper country(central/south america?), most manufacturing will be done in asia, and most of the companies will be subsidiaries of asian industrial giants. perhaps some designing will be left in usa.
however there are some talk about private south koreans entering the market, so may be i am wrong about dependence of subsidies , but will admit that when it actually happens.
in /. sarcasm needs to be captioned.
since not only so called AI but even human intelligence fails here.
if delivery is to ordinary people, ease of accessing goods delivered will triumph over security.
and as far as i know, only part of reward of any stealing/hacking reside in value of the things stolen.
apple is planning its sales, marketing, production, design, and even recycling, based on replacement of majority of iphones every three years. some of these things require investing money and time well in advance. given all that, there is no much difference between "assuming" and "expecting", since in this case thought and opinion is and necessarily needs to be backed by action.
it also means they would be in trouble if their assumptions/expectations backed with action/money are wrong.
what is "real" ?
if you are not ignorant, you would know that objective existence of what most people call "reality", "world'", etc, cannot be demonstrated rationally.
we merely believe there is a reality preceptive to our senses. but it is all in our mind. it is impossible to rationally prove there is anything is outside our mind. if you are rational you have to accept that.
and even our mind is a constant flow of thoughts. or at least our mind, at one point in time, merely believes it had/will have other thoughts at other points of time.
so even mind does not "objectively" exist in time.
in other words, there is no reality.
as such only irrational ignorant persons would look down their noses at religious and write nonsense like "Objectively, no religion is real", because nothing is "objectively" "real" rationally.
religious believers believe in god and moral codes, intellectually dishonest self styled atheists believe in noses and moral codes (which they use to look down on and condemn religious). but god, moral codes, noses , etc are all mere beliefs.
rationally there is only two intellectually honest choices;
a complete amoral nihilistic solipsist atheism(which by definition would not go around posting moralistic comments on believers) ,
or
possibility of an outside reality based on beliefs acknowledged as beliefs, with further possibility that others may have other (perhaps contradictory )beliefs about that reality, with equally valid rational justifications (though with possibility of other justifications such as use of violence).
iphones make the money, rest just eat it up.
once iphones sales stop growing (which is starting to happen), and there is real competition in a saturated market for so called smartphones,(with apple no longer able to fool buyers in to paying extra for its over hyped, but in reality rather average, phones) apple would be in trouble.
its unused cash-pile will not cushion it for long either.
then we will see true money grubbing colors of apple . this story is just the start.
this method is not the best way to take images, or find and test airflow over an airplane, with too much atmospheric distortions, and with inability to recreate the same images and tests, and other inherent disabilities in the method .
oh, how the mighty have fallen!
once there was technological breakthroughs/innovations that benefited everyone, and made money for the company. usually by simplifying things(others have made overly complicated and inefficient ) and by sticking to core. then the benefits were so obvious there was no need for much fanfare.
now things that others can do better with more expertise, are made more complicated and expensive than needs be , and then hyped as if they are the greatest innovations.
this makes great copy with images (which seems to be required thing for so called technology and science news stories regardless of substance ) but to design aircraft based on way they are photographed under particular conditions seems not to be the correct or safe way go about it.
degeneration of media can be measured when they parrots the company press release like the intentions(merely alleged ones at that) instead of achievements. no caveats, not doubts, no questions.
only ad hominem?
a good example of that in fact.
you do not argue against what i said, but questioning my personal motivation for saying it. you are free to engage in absurd speculations about my motivation (btw even though you use word 'several', "all" of your "*"s are the same), but that wont invalidate my argument.
information be it text, audio, video , etc, are not worth much by themselves.
everyone of us have feeds of them constantly bombarding our brains naturally. to be valuable information need to be edited and focused.
a movie is worth watching only when all the tedious stuff is edited out. truly honest reality show would be boring(without effort). novel that records everything would not be a novel, authors focus(even when they do stream of consciousness). poem or symphony wont be worth much without structure even when some of them impossibly claim to be without structure. etc.
eyes( and ears, other senses, etc ) have evolved to precisely to enable us to extract useful information by focusing within a limited field.
studies have shown very act of editing and structuring information make it useful. for instance taking actual notes of a lecture, help us remember it(even if we do not read notes again ), more than watching a video of the lecture many times.
while expansion of technology is good and should not be curbed, we must be aware that creating streams of information without conscious editing, without focus, will only create ever more worthless useless information.
people who think they know what others really want & need, better than those same others, have an unjustifiably high opinion of themselves and equally unjustifiable low opinion of most of others.
logically, only way such people can even think like that is by reducing others to simplified fixed and limited objects, instead of complex dynamic unlimited individuals they, and all human beings, are.
its always a good rule to distrust people who think what others really want. if they ever get to choose for others, they do it badly, inevitably, as history and all socialistic experiments have demonstrated.
expect amazon and bezos to do what the entrenched, "too-big-to-fail-finance, warmongering, "liberal", secular, usa establishment wants. eg he/it did just that to wikileaks.
--
even though trump is sort of part of establishment, because he is acting all populist and perhaps even act on some of what he says if elected , amazon will do what establishment wants. i suspect this petition is a handy excuse . and i suspect they will wait to check if he gets the nomination. then go all out to undermine trump to get hillary elected.
some things are valued because of their difficult to make uniqueness, usually expensive. and such unique things are usually connected with personal relationships esp romantic ones. esp weddings. hence hand embroidered personally designed wedding dresses etc, idea is (ideally)one couple one person forever and ever.
so why connect an easy to make easy to copy things with such events? that is cheap (i am not meaning just money).
while 1st ever 3d printed wedding dress is unique, next ones aren't .
hand crafted ring shaped like a face/sound waves is unique , easily mass produced 3d printed ones aren't.
yes . 1st hand. do you?
btw why is it that soldiers with best armor are losing wars. they will lose even more if they had to wear gas masks all the time..
but seriously, what does "Gangnam Style moves", have to do with so called AI? such physical dexterity is mainly a feat of mechanical engineering , and can be ( and are) performed by robots without "AI".
so soldiers are going to wear gas masks? to protect against poisonous dust sent through exploding bullets?
but not in small bullets that needs strong armor or some such target to explode to affect a very small area.