What if they pick a the astroid and send out the deflection but the test fails and it actually knocks the astroid in the Earth's direction? I hope they have a plan B...
If I take a picture of the Ford instructions on how to build the new Mustang and build my own Mustang from those instructions to give to my friend who wants one, Ford may have lost some money. Especially if I make 10,000 cars from these instructions and give them to 10,000 friends or random people I don't know. That isn't perfectly legal and neither is stealing music.
I think the prices are too high and very few people would steal if the prices were about $2.00 per CD or less... Kinda like this site is selling them at.
This shouldn't be marked off-topic... wtf? Space exploration is space exploaration people. Anyway, I was referring to our space crafts not so good record, but good point about the Mars rovers.
I can't wait to see what movie theatres do with this technology. Maybe not our typical theatres, but yenno... like the one's at theme parks or something. I'm sure can make a pretty cool short movie with this.
They couldn't all out bash Nintendo and call the controller stupid because that would show they have a weakness and Nintendo might actually have something here. They also couldn't say it was an awesome innovation for the same reason.
MS is playing their cards right and took the middle road... They weren't obvious about being condenscending at all, since you can read into the "attempt" word in any way you like.
Truth is MS responded, and that Nintendo does have something here or else MS would have just completely ignored the controller.
I wonder how long it will take for one of these elevators to reach their destination. If the elevators are going to take a long time they need to be big enough to hold some food and other supplies. I'm sure they will be big enough to send up large equipment though...
This is like saying let's tell people not to race cars around the track and show them how fun it can be just driving around the streets to apply driving usefully.
Yes, programming can be fun in real situations, but for someone just starting out, playing games is a great idea to get them to notice how fun programming can be.
I think it would be hard to emulate running from a stop since you'd have to get the sphere moving up to speed. Or even the reverse... running fast then coming to a quick stop would be hard since the sphere would be spinning quickly.
I'm just wondering if anyone has the same problem as I'm having... In Firefox I click TOOLS->OPTIONS->ADVANCED. Then I click on software updates and click "Check Now" but it doesn't see the new Firefox version... Anyone know what is going on with this?
Well if you work 8 hours a day for 15 days it comes out to be about $83/hour... Not bad assuming one person would be able to do this in that amount of time (I doubt it!).
Now I don't know much about cameras or how fast this new infrared detector is, but my idea isn't impossible. Say you have a camera with a reflective material covering the front of the lens. This reflective material will be set to bounce light in different directions so it's very hard to detect. Pretty simple, right?
But what happens when we want to take a picture? Well... once the person presses the button to start the picture taking process this reflective material snaps up (or opens up in some way) to let light in through the lens and captures the image before the detection system has a chance to recognize what is going on and shine the light in that direction. To get this to work it must be faster than the detection unit.
Try not to be so closed minded to new ideas. Maybe this idea isn't the greatest (as there is probably an easier way), but you never know what you'll miss out on if you shoot things down so quickly.
I did read the article! I was confused on what was going on though. I thought the infrared light was actually being shot into the camera causing the blur, but the infrared light is just used for detection.
So in this case I guess we wouldn't need infrared filters, but something that obsorbs infrared light so it doesn't get reflected easily. Or even maybe something that bounces incoming light in another direction.
hen an intense retroreflection indicates the presence of a digital camera lens, the device then fires a localized beam of light directly at that point.
It doesn't really say what kind of light... hmm.. But in either case glasses don't have the same reflectivity as camera lenses, so there would be no 'detection' and a beam of light would not be shot into someone's eyes.
I did read the article, and think it would be woderful to retore someone's face who had been in an accident or had some other problem that ruined the way they looked.
But do you actually want me to believe this won't be used by people out there to look the way they want? Please... People would pay tons of money for this who haven't been hurt in an accident or anything like that. Sad but true.
Hehe... I love that term! But seriously, people should just live with what they've got. We all eventually get old; we all eventually pass on. Wear what you've got with a smile and you'll do just fine.
If everyone got this face-off thing done we'd all start looking the same and get bored of each other!
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What if they pick a the astroid and send out the deflection but the test fails and it actually knocks the astroid in the Earth's direction? I hope they have a plan B...
If I take a picture of the Ford instructions on how to build the new Mustang and build my own Mustang from those instructions to give to my friend who wants one, Ford may have lost some money. Especially if I make 10,000 cars from these instructions and give them to 10,000 friends or random people I don't know. That isn't perfectly legal and neither is stealing music.
I think the prices are too high and very few people would steal if the prices were about $2.00 per CD or less... Kinda like this site is selling them at.
This shouldn't be marked off-topic... wtf? Space exploration is space exploaration people. Anyway, I was referring to our space crafts not so good record, but good point about the Mars rovers.
I'm amazed this thing has been out for so long and still sending back data useful to us.
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I can't wait to see what movie theatres do with this technology. Maybe not our typical theatres, but yenno... like the one's at theme parks or something. I'm sure can make a pretty cool short movie with this.
I wish they would add a calendar to Gmail like they have in the Yahoo accounts. That would be very, very handy!
They couldn't all out bash Nintendo and call the controller stupid because that would show they have a weakness and Nintendo might actually have something here. They also couldn't say it was an awesome innovation for the same reason.
MS is playing their cards right and took the middle road... They weren't obvious about being condenscending at all, since you can read into the "attempt" word in any way you like.
Truth is MS responded, and that Nintendo does have something here or else MS would have just completely ignored the controller.
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I wonder how long it will take for one of these elevators to reach their destination. If the elevators are going to take a long time they need to be big enough to hold some food and other supplies. I'm sure they will be big enough to send up large equipment though...
This is like saying let's tell people not to race cars around the track and show them how fun it can be just driving around the streets to apply driving usefully.
Yes, programming can be fun in real situations, but for someone just starting out, playing games is a great idea to get them to notice how fun programming can be.
I think it would be hard to emulate running from a stop since you'd have to get the sphere moving up to speed. Or even the reverse... running fast then coming to a quick stop would be hard since the sphere would be spinning quickly.
I'm just wondering if anyone has the same problem as I'm having... In Firefox I click TOOLS->OPTIONS->ADVANCED. Then I click on software updates and click "Check Now" but it doesn't see the new Firefox version... Anyone know what is going on with this?
For now I'll get it here...
Well if you work 8 hours a day for 15 days it comes out to be about $83/hour... Not bad assuming one person would be able to do this in that amount of time (I doubt it!).
I totally agree... They should always keep a base iPod that just plays music.
I also think that they should allow for attachments (such as a camera) that people can add on if they want to complicate their device.
As for me, I keep things separate and simple.
Someone is going to make some crazy gadget and create some moon damage. The face on the moon will never look the same again...
Now I don't know much about cameras or how fast this new infrared detector is, but my idea isn't impossible. Say you have a camera with a reflective material covering the front of the lens. This reflective material will be set to bounce light in different directions so it's very hard to detect. Pretty simple, right?
But what happens when we want to take a picture? Well... once the person presses the button to start the picture taking process this reflective material snaps up (or opens up in some way) to let light in through the lens and captures the image before the detection system has a chance to recognize what is going on and shine the light in that direction. To get this to work it must be faster than the detection unit.
Try not to be so closed minded to new ideas. Maybe this idea isn't the greatest (as there is probably an easier way), but you never know what you'll miss out on if you shoot things down so quickly.
I did read the article! I was confused on what was going on though. I thought the infrared light was actually being shot into the camera causing the blur, but the infrared light is just used for detection.
So in this case I guess we wouldn't need infrared filters, but something that obsorbs infrared light so it doesn't get reflected easily. Or even maybe something that bounces incoming light in another direction.
hen an intense retroreflection indicates the presence of a digital camera lens, the device then fires a localized beam of light directly at that point.
It doesn't really say what kind of light... hmm.. But in either case glasses don't have the same reflectivity as camera lenses, so there would be no 'detection' and a beam of light would not be shot into someone's eyes.
You can't see infrared light, so you'd be just fine.
In this system, a device bathes the region in front of it with infrared light.
In this system, a device bathes the region in front of it with infrared light.
Are there any infrared filters that can be made easily? If so, I see a counter to this!
I did read the article, and think it would be woderful to retore someone's face who had been in an accident or had some other problem that ruined the way they looked.
But do you actually want me to believe this won't be used by people out there to look the way they want? Please... People would pay tons of money for this who haven't been hurt in an accident or anything like that. Sad but true.
Hehe... I love that term! But seriously, people should just live with what they've got. We all eventually get old; we all eventually pass on. Wear what you've got with a smile and you'll do just fine.
If everyone got this face-off thing done we'd all start looking the same and get bored of each other!
Here are some more pics of the controllers incase you are interested:l
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/tgs2005/gallery.htm