No, I know where the quote comes from, it just wasn't applicable. Vader made a deal, Nvidea made no deal with Linux. Their only deals are with Microsoft, who are probably the Vader here (Darth Ballmer?).
Anaglyph was really shit though, it fucks your color vision (after using it for a hour your eyes or brain compensate, if you look away from the screen and close one eye, one eye sees in red and the other in blue! to this day my right eye seems to see in a warm tint and the left eye in a cold one)
That's not the Anaglyph driver, that's physics and biology and is an artifact of the red-blue method of "3d". You'll get the same effect watching an old 3d movie from the '50s with the red-blue (more like bluegreen than blue) 3d glasses.
Stare at a flag in bright light for two minutes, then look at a white wall. You'll see the flag in reversed colors; it's the same effect.
Although I would think that with shuttered glasses they wouldn't alter the color, but simply switch eyes as the frames change. Perhaps they're using color perspective to enhance the 3d illusion; warm colors tend to look like they're closer than cool colors. If you combine color perspective with lighting perspective you can fool the eyes completely; take a black surface with a large bright red square and a smaller, dimmer blue square and the red square will appear to hover above the surface while the blue will appear to sink behind it.
This is of course conjecture, as I haven't tried these glasses.
What deal? The only deal would be between Nvidea and Microsoft, who I'm sure paid a princely sum to hide one of Windows' various deficiencies.
MS must be sacred shitless of Linux, especially since Linux-Android is kicking its ass in the phone and tablet market. MS has a long way to go to match Linux's and Linux's distros' feature sets.
First, the study spoken of was done by the Cato institute, which is about as credible as oil industry studies on global warming or tobacco industry studies on the dangers of smoking.
It referenced that Clinton promised to "end welfare as we know it" and guess what? He did. Your "welfare" (PWORA, which replaced AFDC) is, unlike AFDC, not an entitlement, and benefits are limited to two years at a time with a five year lifetime limit. LINK (formerly food stamps) buys the average recipient around $5 a day. Try eating on that in New York or California. They added such things as WIC, which only affects families with children under 3 (I was one of the working poor when my kids were born and we got WIC for them). They don't mention that yeah, you get medicaid but try finding a doctor who will take medicaid. They would have included HUD as well, which is so damned limited very few poor actually get on it, and those who do are on waiting lists for years. What's worse, it drives up the price of rental housing for everyone; I've known both landlords and tenants on Section 8, one Section 8 landlord told me it was the best racket in town -- you buy a place that might fetch $250 a month on the open market, the recipient pays $200 and the landlord gets $600. And Cato would count that $600 as going to the welfare recipient.
In short, the study and article are both naively disingenuous.
I don't think kids today are much different than we were. I was never interested by history when I was a kid, either. I never saw the point; but that was a failure on my teachers' part. I was in college before I saw the value of history, when I took a general studies history class.
Math and science fascinated me from the get-go. I wanted to know how radios and TVs and everything else worked from as far back as I can remember until I learned to read.
I got a slide rule in about the 6th grade; I'd never memorized multiplication tables past 5, if I wanted to multiply 8x9 I'd subtract 16 from 100 before I got the slide rule. I never was any good at rote memorization, which history classes mostly were.
There are no boring subjects, only boring authors and boring teachers. A good writer or teacher can make the most mundane thing fascinating.
Indeed, even as far back as Plato and Socrates, and even before that -- there are some passages in the old testament of the bible bemoaning youth. Geezer cave men were probably bitching about "those damned pussified kids and their newfangled spears; real men use rocks and their bare hands!"
it is just a show to try to shame or scare the public into doing a unpleasant thing ( continue to bring on board an unpopular law
Unpopular with the right because they think poor people should just die, fuck 'em, and unpopular with the left who want the insurance industry's parasites completely OUT of the health care and want us to have something sane like Europe and Canada has. But Congress passed ACA, Republicans tried unsuccessfully to repeal it, the Republican candidate for President ran on a platform of "kill Obamacare" and lost, so the childish tea party shuts down the government because the majority won't go along with their looneyness.
Yes, I called you a loon. Whether left or right wing, ideologues are loonie tunes and should be ignored.
The Boomers got old, they liked voting in the people that promised them the most at the expense of the Gen-Xers, and blamed the Gen-Xers for being whiners when they found they inherited a country fundamentally broken and deep in debt.
"The older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it on to us," wrote one of them (John F. Carter in the Atlantic Monthly, September, 1920), expressing accurately the sentiments of innumerable contemporaries. "They give us this thing, knocked to pieces, leaky, red-hot, threatening to blow up; and then they are surprised that we don't accept it with the same attitude of pretty, decorous enthusiasm with which they received it, way back in the 'eighties."
Yes, because there were so many clear and excellent choices that it is mind boggling that the US citizens didn't pick them!
In the last Presidential election there were five candidates on enough ballots to win, had the corporate-controled media not convinced you (as evidenced by your comment) that you only had two choices, both of whom are for jailing your friends and relatives who smoke pot, are for insanely long copyright laws, are for insanely high penalties for sharing a half-century old work of art, are for the DMCA... honestly, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans represent my interests. Why would I vote for a man who wants me in prison?? That's just insane!
If you think "both" candidates are scumbags, vote for someone else. At least you will not have been marked as someone who thinks either Obama or Romney are good candidates. Sure, your candidate will lose, so what? If a vote for a Green or Libertarian is a wasted vote, than all of you who voted for Romney wasted your votes. Have none of you any logic whatever? Stop voting against your own interests and for those who want to fuck you over.
He's a freak but he's no troll, and I can't for the life of me figure out why you think he's trolling. Maybe you're only 20 and have never seen pollution? I grew up two miles south of a Monsanto plant. This was back before the EPA and car AC. Even if it was 100 degrees F you had to roll your windows up when driving past because the air would literally burn your lungs; breathing was painful. Rivers and streams caught fire.
Even after the Clean Air Act, Los Angeles had smog alerts where people with any kind of breathing problem at all were warned to stay indoors, which is why, as drinkypoo says, California has and has had the highest pollution standards in the country.
I could never support Ron Paul. The young may not know better, but someone as elderly as he should know how utterly nasty things were before the EPA, and that pollution doesn't respect state borders.
Wow, and I thought I was old! Haven't heard the term "slipstick" in decades; I had one in high school, it made math a breeze. It was 1970 before I saw a calculator (and today's $2 calculator was about $50 back then).
But in more realistically intended space movies, Iâ(TM)m a bit more. ..sensitive. Watching Gravity, I found myself cycling between appreciation and cringing, almost in time with the action.
My first take was to itemize the errors. The vehicles are in impossible orbitsâ"wrong altitudes, wrong inclinations. (The communications satellites that create the debris field that wreaks all the havoc are actually 21,700 miles [35,000 km] higher than the Shuttleâ(TM)s orbit.) The backpack maneuvering unit has a nearly infinite amount of fuel and comes superchargedâ"but only until the plot requires it suddenly to run out. The astronauts slam their bodies into structure repeatedly and never even ding the suit or the helmet, much less injure any body parts that in real life would be ringing inside of the suit. Space stations seem to retain pressure in their various modules despite coming apart at the seams. You can apparently close an outward opening hatch against exiting pressure with one hand. And with only six months of training (Shuttle astronauts trained one to two years for a mission, especially one as complicated as a Hubble repair mission, and Space Station astronauts train for three to four years), Sandra Bullockâ(TM)s character can find the hatches on the International Space Station and the Chinese station, and fly all of the necessary capsules. Well, who would not want these things in real space flight?
But I can almost forgive the liberal use of artistic license in violating the laws of physics because they got some things very right. The views of the Earth and the sunrise, the lighting on Sandra Bullockâ(TM)s face (light in space is so different from light in the atmosphere)â"perfect. Her body positions inside the spacecraft, the astronautsâ(TM) tether protocol during the space walks, the breathing in the helmet, even the real life, excruciatingly slow movement of the Soyuz undocking from the Space Stationâ"spot on. These things made me happy.
The massive, fatal, horrific, total destruction of every single spacecraft? Not so much. I guess I take spacecraft destruction personally, movie or not. For me, itâ(TM)s just too hard to watch.
The best thing about the movie Apollo 13 was the attention to every detail; the old cabinet TV with Walter Cronkite, the clothes, the music... As to the movie "Gravity" I submitted this, which linked Ms. Ivin's full review of the movie. If you see it in the firehose, don't vote it up as it would be a dupe at this point.
Ivin is a self professed sci-fi fan and "one of the original Trekkies".* An engineer and a Trekkie? I'll bet she's lurking here now, probably has a 3 digit UID. A snippet of her review:
My first take was to itemize the errors. The vehicles are in impossible orbits -- wrong altitudes, wrong inclinations. The backpack maneuvering unit has a nearly infinite amount of fuel and comes superchargedâ"but only until the plot requires it suddenly to run out. Space stations seem to retain pressure in their various modules despite coming apart at the seams. You can apparently close an outward opening hatch against exiting pressure with one hand.
She did have a lot of good things to say about it.
If you have a GF this is most likely a movie you can take her to since it's Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
* Sometimes it's great being a geezer, I got to see TOS when it was brand new and flat screen monitors, "communicators", self-opening doors, etc were just fantasies. A young friend envied me when I described hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time, as John Bonham was dead before he was born.
I live in a science fiction fantasy, except it's all real now. You guys grew up with computers, computers grew up with me.
You guys will see things even science fiction writers haven't thought of.
and more specifically in the Christian Tradition this is what the Christ wrestled with on the cross when he cried out "Why have you forsaken me?"
He was quoting Psalm 22, not wrestling with his conscience. Psalm 22:1 says "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?" It continues, in Psalm 22:14-21
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax;it is melted within my breast; 15 my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. 16 For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet 17 I can count all my bonesâ" they stare and gloat over me; 18 they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. 19 But you, O Lord, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid! 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog! 21 Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!
He was begging God to end the pain of this life and take him to the paradise he had just promised the thief who had just converted -- crucifixion is the most horrible form of torture ever invented.
Looking at the photo, I can't see any other way it would work. But I'd rather see a generator powered by a Stirling engine. I don't know why they're not on the market. Maybe this is more dependable because there are no moving parts?
Third... fire + water + electronics generally end badly.
Well, fire and water usually results only in wet unlit fuel (depending on the fuel), and it looks like there's only maybe a cup of water in the thing, and your device is nowhere near the fire or water. TFS makes it sound like you heat this thing with your campfire, but the picture in TFA looks like that would be impossible. It's fueled by some sort of bottle with fire at the top.
Just buy a solar panel like a normal person
Well, this looks far more compact than a solar panel, it will work at night, and may possible be less expensive to buy.
Don't risk it tipping over and killing your (likely) only means of communication in the wilderness.
It isn't going to ruin your phone by tipping over. If it tips over, it just stops charging the phone. Just right it, refill the spilled cup of water, and relight your bottle.
And while you're at it... buy a shortwave radio.
+1 for being nerdy, but ham radios have a couple of problems. First, you have to get a license. Not hard these days since you no longer have to know Morse code (that's the only thing that kept me from getting one as a teenager, I could never memorize) but impossible for a non-nerd, impossible even for some slashdotters. The second problem is that you can only talk to people with other ham radios unless you have a third party intermediary. I can call almost anybody with a cell phone.
And unlike a cell phone... many models are made to be waterproof
My Kyocera Edge Android phone is waterproof; submersible in a meter of water for half an hour. That's one reason I bought it, two previous phones were killed by water, one falling in a toilet and one being caught in a downpour at a George Thorogood concert. After that concert I always kept a baggie in my pocket for emergencies, I no longer have to. I'm sure it's not the only waterproof phone on the market.
the simplicity of the design means they likely could even survive an EMP from a nuclear weapon.
I think if an EMP kills your phone you have bigger problems than a nonfunctioning phone.
But the other thing is... why? You won't be carrying this thing on a horse or motorcycle, and if your car's anywhere nearby you can charge your phone from it. That's how I kept my phone charged when a tornado completely destroyed my neighborhood's electrical infrastructure in 2006 (cell phones were the only phones that worked; the utility poles and cables and wires were all blown away).
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No, I know where the quote comes from, it just wasn't applicable. Vader made a deal, Nvidea made no deal with Linux. Their only deals are with Microsoft, who are probably the Vader here (Darth Ballmer?).
Anaglyph was really shit though, it fucks your color vision (after using it for a hour your eyes or brain compensate, if you look away from the screen and close one eye, one eye sees in red and the other in blue! to this day my right eye seems to see in a warm tint and the left eye in a cold one)
That's not the Anaglyph driver, that's physics and biology and is an artifact of the red-blue method of "3d". You'll get the same effect watching an old 3d movie from the '50s with the red-blue (more like bluegreen than blue) 3d glasses.
Stare at a flag in bright light for two minutes, then look at a white wall. You'll see the flag in reversed colors; it's the same effect.
Although I would think that with shuttered glasses they wouldn't alter the color, but simply switch eyes as the frames change. Perhaps they're using color perspective to enhance the 3d illusion; warm colors tend to look like they're closer than cool colors. If you combine color perspective with lighting perspective you can fool the eyes completely; take a black surface with a large bright red square and a smaller, dimmer blue square and the red square will appear to hover above the surface while the blue will appear to sink behind it.
This is of course conjecture, as I haven't tried these glasses.
What deal? The only deal would be between Nvidea and Microsoft, who I'm sure paid a princely sum to hide one of Windows' various deficiencies.
MS must be sacred shitless of Linux, especially since Linux-Android is kicking its ass in the phone and tablet market. MS has a long way to go to match Linux's and Linux's distros' feature sets.
I read your link; quite a few problems with it.
First, the study spoken of was done by the Cato institute, which is about as credible as oil industry studies on global warming or tobacco industry studies on the dangers of smoking.
It referenced that Clinton promised to "end welfare as we know it" and guess what? He did. Your "welfare" (PWORA, which replaced AFDC) is, unlike AFDC, not an entitlement, and benefits are limited to two years at a time with a five year lifetime limit. LINK (formerly food stamps) buys the average recipient around $5 a day. Try eating on that in New York or California. They added such things as WIC, which only affects families with children under 3 (I was one of the working poor when my kids were born and we got WIC for them). They don't mention that yeah, you get medicaid but try finding a doctor who will take medicaid. They would have included HUD as well, which is so damned limited very few poor actually get on it, and those who do are on waiting lists for years. What's worse, it drives up the price of rental housing for everyone; I've known both landlords and tenants on Section 8, one Section 8 landlord told me it was the best racket in town -- you buy a place that might fetch $250 a month on the open market, the recipient pays $200 and the landlord gets $600. And Cato would count that $600 as going to the welfare recipient.
In short, the study and article are both naively disingenuous.
I don't think kids today are much different than we were. I was never interested by history when I was a kid, either. I never saw the point; but that was a failure on my teachers' part. I was in college before I saw the value of history, when I took a general studies history class.
Math and science fascinated me from the get-go. I wanted to know how radios and TVs and everything else worked from as far back as I can remember until I learned to read.
I got a slide rule in about the 6th grade; I'd never memorized multiplication tables past 5, if I wanted to multiply 8x9 I'd subtract 16 from 100 before I got the slide rule. I never was any good at rote memorization, which history classes mostly were.
There are no boring subjects, only boring authors and boring teachers. A good writer or teacher can make the most mundane thing fascinating.
I think you'll appreciate this.
I've never claimed to be normal.
Indeed, even as far back as Plato and Socrates, and even before that -- there are some passages in the old testament of the bible bemoaning youth. Geezer cave men were probably bitching about "those damned pussified kids and their newfangled spears; real men use rocks and their bare hands!"
it is just a show to try to shame or scare the public into doing a unpleasant thing ( continue to bring on board an unpopular law
Unpopular with the right because they think poor people should just die, fuck 'em, and unpopular with the left who want the insurance industry's parasites completely OUT of the health care and want us to have something sane like Europe and Canada has. But Congress passed ACA, Republicans tried unsuccessfully to repeal it, the Republican candidate for President ran on a platform of "kill Obamacare" and lost, so the childish tea party shuts down the government because the majority won't go along with their looneyness.
Yes, I called you a loon. Whether left or right wing, ideologues are loonie tunes and should be ignored.
The Boomers got old, they liked voting in the people that promised them the most at the expense of the Gen-Xers, and blamed the Gen-Xers for being whiners when they found they inherited a country fundamentally broken and deep in debt.
-- FL Allen, Only Yesterday (1931)
Yes, because there were so many clear and excellent choices that it is mind boggling that the US citizens didn't pick them!
In the last Presidential election there were five candidates on enough ballots to win, had the corporate-controled media not convinced you (as evidenced by your comment) that you only had two choices, both of whom are for jailing your friends and relatives who smoke pot, are for insanely long copyright laws, are for insanely high penalties for sharing a half-century old work of art, are for the DMCA... honestly, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans represent my interests. Why would I vote for a man who wants me in prison?? That's just insane!
If you think "both" candidates are scumbags, vote for someone else. At least you will not have been marked as someone who thinks either Obama or Romney are good candidates. Sure, your candidate will lose, so what? If a vote for a Green or Libertarian is a wasted vote, than all of you who voted for Romney wasted your votes. Have none of you any logic whatever? Stop voting against your own interests and for those who want to fuck you over.
Can't tell if troll.
He's a freak but he's no troll, and I can't for the life of me figure out why you think he's trolling. Maybe you're only 20 and have never seen pollution? I grew up two miles south of a Monsanto plant. This was back before the EPA and car AC. Even if it was 100 degrees F you had to roll your windows up when driving past because the air would literally burn your lungs; breathing was painful. Rivers and streams caught fire.
Even after the Clean Air Act, Los Angeles had smog alerts where people with any kind of breathing problem at all were warned to stay indoors, which is why, as drinkypoo says, California has and has had the highest pollution standards in the country.
I could never support Ron Paul. The young may not know better, but someone as elderly as he should know how utterly nasty things were before the EPA, and that pollution doesn't respect state borders.
Yes, but it doesn't fix anything.
Women rocket scientists love Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, AND science fiction. You'll get laid for sure!
Just paint the comet's walls green like they do when an actor is running from an explosion; those shots are filmed inside a sound stage.
I don't remember where I saw that, but I'll take wikipedia's word for it, it's a lot more reliable than my memory.
That fact makes Apollo 13 even more awesome.
Wow, and I thought I was old! Haven't heard the term "slipstick" in decades; I had one in high school, it made math a breeze. It was 1970 before I saw a calculator (and today's $2 calculator was about $50 back then).
But they are doing science in the ISS. The Vomit Comet just won't do to study how flies fly or plants grow or fish swim in a weightless environment.
I don't believe any science is worthless. What they're studying up there won't pay off short term, but certainly will in the long run.
There are MINUTE LONG takes going through space stations in zero gravity, have fun trying to cobble that together in a vomit comet.
IIRC you're weightless for about 3 minutes at a time in the comet. They managed very long weightlessness scenes in Apollo 13.
Astronaut Marsha Ivins disagrees (her review linked above).
Different astronaut. Maybe it wouldn't be a dupe?
The best thing about the movie Apollo 13 was the attention to every detail; the old cabinet TV with Walter Cronkite, the clothes, the music... As to the movie "Gravity" I submitted this, which linked Ms. Ivin's full review of the movie. If you see it in the firehose, don't vote it up as it would be a dupe at this point.
Ivin is a self professed sci-fi fan and "one of the original Trekkies".* An engineer and a Trekkie? I'll bet she's lurking here now, probably has a 3 digit UID. A snippet of her review:
She did have a lot of good things to say about it.
If you have a GF this is most likely a movie you can take her to since it's Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
* Sometimes it's great being a geezer, I got to see TOS when it was brand new and flat screen monitors, "communicators", self-opening doors, etc were just fantasies. A young friend envied me when I described hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time, as John Bonham was dead before he was born.
I live in a science fiction fantasy, except it's all real now. You guys grew up with computers, computers grew up with me.
You guys will see things even science fiction writers haven't thought of.
You're welcome :)
Quite possibly, I never met her.
and more specifically in the Christian Tradition this is what the Christ wrestled with on the cross when he cried out "Why have you forsaken me?"
He was quoting Psalm 22, not wrestling with his conscience. Psalm 22:1 says "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?" It continues, in Psalm 22:14-21
He was begging God to end the pain of this life and take him to the paradise he had just promised the thief who had just converted -- crucifixion is the most horrible form of torture ever invented.
Guessing it uses the peltier effect.
Looking at the photo, I can't see any other way it would work. But I'd rather see a generator powered by a Stirling engine. I don't know why they're not on the market. Maybe this is more dependable because there are no moving parts?
Third... fire + water + electronics generally end badly.
Well, fire and water usually results only in wet unlit fuel (depending on the fuel), and it looks like there's only maybe a cup of water in the thing, and your device is nowhere near the fire or water. TFS makes it sound like you heat this thing with your campfire, but the picture in TFA looks like that would be impossible. It's fueled by some sort of bottle with fire at the top.
Just buy a solar panel like a normal person
Well, this looks far more compact than a solar panel, it will work at night, and may possible be less expensive to buy.
Don't risk it tipping over and killing your (likely) only means of communication in the wilderness.
It isn't going to ruin your phone by tipping over. If it tips over, it just stops charging the phone. Just right it, refill the spilled cup of water, and relight your bottle.
And while you're at it... buy a shortwave radio.
+1 for being nerdy, but ham radios have a couple of problems. First, you have to get a license. Not hard these days since you no longer have to know Morse code (that's the only thing that kept me from getting one as a teenager, I could never memorize) but impossible for a non-nerd, impossible even for some slashdotters. The second problem is that you can only talk to people with other ham radios unless you have a third party intermediary. I can call almost anybody with a cell phone.
And unlike a cell phone... many models are made to be waterproof
My Kyocera Edge Android phone is waterproof; submersible in a meter of water for half an hour. That's one reason I bought it, two previous phones were killed by water, one falling in a toilet and one being caught in a downpour at a George Thorogood concert. After that concert I always kept a baggie in my pocket for emergencies, I no longer have to. I'm sure it's not the only waterproof phone on the market.
the simplicity of the design means they likely could even survive an EMP from a nuclear weapon.
I think if an EMP kills your phone you have bigger problems than a nonfunctioning phone.
But the other thing is... why? You won't be carrying this thing on a horse or motorcycle, and if your car's anywhere nearby you can charge your phone from it. That's how I kept my phone charged when a tornado completely destroyed my neighborhood's electrical infrastructure in 2006 (cell phones were the only phones that worked; the utility poles and cables and wires were all blown away).