"For some reason, Republicans don't have as big of a problem blowing lots of money on space stuff, whereas Democrats always have to..."
Look at the states where the NASA space centers are located. You will find that many of them are located in electoral college delegate rich states that tend to lean republican or are swing states. Think of "blowing lots of money on space stuff" as a vote buying exercise.
Point well taken. However, DLP mirrors oscillated at frequencies much higher than the frame rate in order to produce gradation in the colors. If they only oscillated at the frame rate, you would only get black or white for each frame. From here...
The bit-streamed image code entering the semiconductor directs each mirror to switch on and off up to several thousand times per second. When a mirror is switched on more frequently than off, it reflects a light gray pixel; a mirror that's switched off more frequently reflects a darker gray pixel.
Anyone else notice the three sequential posts referencing the wikipedia absolute zero article that were posted right in a row and at the same time? Spooky.
If you are going to make that analogy, you forgot to mention the high price we (the US) pay, through taxes, to provide military security around the globe to protect our music interests. Unfortunately, this price is not included in the cost of music that we buy, but instead is buried in our tax bills, so we have no real clue how much this security is actually costing. Also, even those of us who wish to conserve music (Prius pumping out Bach) still pay the same protection price as others (Escalade pumping out Hip-Hop), on average, because of this method of financing music security. While I would not support a music tax that is simply paid straight to the RIAA to increase profits, I would say a music tax, used to cover the true costs of security, would be enlightening and fairer to those of us who chose to conserve.
Technically I would say both are bad off. However, I think the borrower is worse off. Simply ask a sub-prime borrower who has recently had a mortgage foreclosed. You end up with nothing AND bad credit, which keeps screwing you for years (if not decades) to come. And that is only on an individuals level. How this will work on an international scale, where the US government became insolvent, is anyones guess. But US citizens would feel the brunt of the impact. I suppose we could look at the collapse of the USSR as an indicator of the aftermath, and that would be brutal for the average US citizen.
Or the man behind the curtain running the sim could simply use a bolt of lightning/earthquake/flood/tornado/power outage/the gestapo/random stray bullet/etc... to stop the observations by the man/machine recording them. If it is a sim, "they" will already know what we are trying to do, and could inject something into the sim to stop us from making the observations.
We simply need to make one observation, look for the black cat that walks past twice.
In reality, this is interesting to think about, but feel the guy is off the mark.
I have found that if you roll each strand up, and place each strand in a separate plastic grocery bag (the type that they bag your food in at the store), then place the bagged strands into a box, they do not tangle. Makes it much easier on yourself the next year.
...tons of Midwest ice and snow is not what worries me. The 95 lb mom in the Hummer, Escalade, or Excursion who is riding your ass, while talking on the phone, while screaming at the kids in the back seat is what I would fear. While I would not mind driving one of these, there is no way you would find me driving one of these any time soon for the above mentioned reason.
1. Anyone stupid enough to launch a rocket at the US or other modern nation is toast. Missles can be tracked back to the origin, and the origin will shortly thereafter be reduced to some rather fundamental particles.
While I agree with this notion, do recall that we almost faced this situation back in 1962. Cuba, rather Fidel, wanted to launch. Fortunately, others did not. This illustrates that there are some really stupid people out there who would love to acquire and use long rage missile designs. And being able to copy a proven long range missile design (however overkill it may be) is simpler that trying to develop and test the required technology on ones own. I for one am not going to trust any of our present day nut jobs with this type of technology.
2. Anyone wanting to deliver a doomsday suicide nuclear payload or other payload would do MUCH better at MUCH cheaper prices to smuggle it into a port city or across the border. If they're capable of engineering such an attack they can figure that out - and we have no missle to trace back to the origin. Not to mention we can't shoot it down...
The other thing to consider, though, is that the "device" does not need to be nuclear. It in fact does not even need to be explosive with access to an Ares scale rocket. If you can get a large enough mass up in a high orbit, and send it down with decent accuracy, the place where it impacts is going to suffer some major damage. If one targets cities with this, it could be an effective kinetic energy weapon.
I would also argue that copying a long range, heavy lift missile design, and using it as a kinetic energy weapon, is probably easier than developing a nuke and detonating it in a port. Although, the latter would be easier if we open-sourced nuke designs as well.
The problem with that logic comes with things that are related to military tech. It has never been in the best interest of a nations public to aid an enemies military development. Rocket technology that can achieve lunar orbit, is also capable of sending (nuclear or conventional) ballistic warheads anywhere on the globe. Publishing those designs in the open, so that rouge nations could literally copy the design, would likely get us all killed. In these cases, and others, it is in the best interest of the public that these technologies stay out of the public domain.
What is interesting is if you consider the file structure for NTFS, the location of the file in the directory structure is determined by what is essentially metadata stored in the Master File Table (MTF). You can change the location of the mp3 file within the directory structure, without changing any portion of the mp3 file itself, by simply changing the metadata in the MTF. So in essence, the RIAA is arguing they have legal authority over BOTH the mp3 file AND the metadata contained in the MTF on your computer (which determines the location of the file in the directory structure). While I would consider that metadata private information, I can see why RIAA lawyers would have a hard-on for this case. This case seems to have the possibility to expand their power over individuals private information somewhat significantly... "your MTF is ours"
Speaking of photographs of craters, this is a neat one.
Development of the Mars global surveyor: $148 million Launching it into space: $52.6 million Getting it into orbit: $46.4 million
Seeing what the martins really think of us: Priceless.
If the current administration has its way, the state secrets designation that is being pushed will supersede any lawsuits seeking remedies over the use of warrantless wiretapping (see this).
Well, if you find you've connected to someone else's access point, and are worried that the cops may throw you in the poky as a hacker for using someone else's bandwidth, you could always do yourself a favor to make sure you don't violate the law again in the future... Log into the access point (http://192.168.1.1, likely login:admin, likely password:password), turn off Broadcast SSID, enable encryption, change the key to some obscure number by just hacking at the keyboard while your eyes are closed, save the settings, log off. Problem solved. You don't have to worry about being labeled a hacker because your system used their bandwidth without permission. Finally, if they reset the device, and still leave it open... wash, rinse, and repeat.
Not only that, but relegating a message from an old friend or business contact that I do not speak to very often to some obscure place in my in-box just because your algorithm "thinks" they are not important to me will not endear me to your system.
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"For some reason, Republicans don't have as big of a problem blowing lots of money on space stuff, whereas Democrats always have to..."
Look at the states where the NASA space centers are located. You will find that many of them are located in electoral college delegate rich states that tend to lean republican or are swing states. Think of "blowing lots of money on space stuff" as a vote buying exercise.
Point well taken. However, DLP mirrors oscillated at frequencies much higher than the frame rate in order to produce gradation in the colors. If they only oscillated at the frame rate, you would only get black or white for each frame. From here...
The bit-streamed image code entering the semiconductor directs each mirror to switch on and off up to several thousand times per second. When a mirror is switched on more frequently than off, it reflects a light gray pixel; a mirror that's switched off more frequently reflects a darker gray pixel.
Anyone else notice the three sequential posts referencing the wikipedia absolute zero article that were posted right in a row and at the same time? Spooky.
If you are going to make that analogy, you forgot to mention the high price we (the US) pay, through taxes, to provide military security around the globe to protect our music interests. Unfortunately, this price is not included in the cost of music that we buy, but instead is buried in our tax bills, so we have no real clue how much this security is actually costing. Also, even those of us who wish to conserve music (Prius pumping out Bach) still pay the same protection price as others (Escalade pumping out Hip-Hop), on average, because of this method of financing music security. While I would not support a music tax that is simply paid straight to the RIAA to increase profits, I would say a music tax, used to cover the true costs of security, would be enlightening and fairer to those of us who chose to conserve.
Technically I would say both are bad off. However, I think the borrower is worse off. Simply ask a sub-prime borrower who has recently had a mortgage foreclosed. You end up with nothing AND bad credit, which keeps screwing you for years (if not decades) to come. And that is only on an individuals level. How this will work on an international scale, where the US government became insolvent, is anyones guess. But US citizens would feel the brunt of the impact. I suppose we could look at the collapse of the USSR as an indicator of the aftermath, and that would be brutal for the average US citizen.
Or the man behind the curtain running the sim could simply use a bolt of lightning/earthquake/flood/tornado/power outage/the gestapo/random stray bullet/etc... to stop the observations by the man/machine recording them. If it is a sim, "they" will already know what we are trying to do, and could inject something into the sim to stop us from making the observations.
We simply need to make one observation, look for the black cat that walks past twice.
In reality, this is interesting to think about, but feel the guy is off the mark.
Yet another reason to be thankful that CompUSA is going under.
I have found that if you roll each strand up, and place each strand in a separate plastic grocery bag (the type that they bag your food in at the store), then place the bagged strands into a box, they do not tangle. Makes it much easier on yourself the next year.
...tons of Midwest ice and snow is not what worries me. The 95 lb mom in the Hummer, Escalade, or Excursion who is riding your ass, while talking on the phone, while screaming at the kids in the back seat is what I would fear. While I would not mind driving one of these, there is no way you would find me driving one of these any time soon for the above mentioned reason.
I would also argue that copying a long range, heavy lift missile design, and using it as a kinetic energy weapon, is probably easier than developing a nuke and detonating it in a port. Although, the latter would be easier if we open-sourced nuke designs as well.
The problem with that logic comes with things that are related to military tech. It has never been in the best interest of a nations public to aid an enemies military development. Rocket technology that can achieve lunar orbit, is also capable of sending (nuclear or conventional) ballistic warheads anywhere on the globe. Publishing those designs in the open, so that rouge nations could literally copy the design, would likely get us all killed. In these cases, and others, it is in the best interest of the public that these technologies stay out of the public domain.
Please correct me if I am wrong but...
What is interesting is if you consider the file structure for NTFS, the location of the file in the directory structure is determined by what is essentially metadata stored in the Master File Table (MTF). You can change the location of the mp3 file within the directory structure, without changing any portion of the mp3 file itself, by simply changing the metadata in the MTF. So in essence, the RIAA is arguing they have legal authority over BOTH the mp3 file AND the metadata contained in the MTF on your computer (which determines the location of the file in the directory structure). While I would consider that metadata private information, I can see why RIAA lawyers would have a hard-on for this case. This case seems to have the possibility to expand their power over individuals private information somewhat significantly... "your MTF is ours"
I never implied that it was faked.
Speaking of photographs of craters, this is a neat one.
Development of the Mars global surveyor: $148 million
Launching it into space: $52.6 million
Getting it into orbit: $46.4 million
Seeing what the martins really think of us: Priceless.
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I do admit, I am mixing my British parodies a bit.
Sorry.
A large wooden rabbit.
Well, if you find you've connected to someone else's access point, and are worried that the cops may throw you in the poky as a hacker for using someone else's bandwidth, you could always do yourself a favor to make sure you don't violate the law again in the future... Log into the access point (http://192.168.1.1, likely login:admin, likely password:password), turn off Broadcast SSID, enable encryption, change the key to some obscure number by just hacking at the keyboard while your eyes are closed, save the settings, log off. Problem solved. You don't have to worry about being labeled a hacker because your system used their bandwidth without permission. Finally, if they reset the device, and still leave it open... wash, rinse, and repeat.
Not only that, but relegating a message from an old friend or business contact that I do not speak to very often to some obscure place in my in-box just because your algorithm "thinks" they are not important to me will not endear me to your system.
There are religious maniacs out there that hate our culture...
What, like this one?
Isn't it wonderful that we got China into the WTO in the 90s, so we could buy all their cheap goods?
Anyone reminded of Happy Fun Ball?
Then shouldn't that be "make love and war".