Their wording is correct. With more data there is approximation 624 in 625 odds that the likelihood of impact will be reduced. I actually really liked his wording because it didn't try to sensationalize the problem by making it sound like we will find out if there is an impact 2013, which would push many people to think the problem is more of a 50/50 odds. The general media leverage this flaw in human thinking frequently.
One way to solve this that seems logical to me is if they can use gps tracking on me without a warrant then I should be able to do the same to them. I'm pretty sure I can't put tracking devices on cop cars so they shouldn't be allowed to do that to my car. The same rule applies to UAVs, alternate imaging techniques, and other new technologies. It is hard to keep laws up to date with the pace of technology so having a guiding principle like allowing law enforcement/government to do no more without a warrant than civilians can seems like a fair solution. I know there needs to be a few exceptions like detaining a person, but those few exceptions won't change with technology.
Everything I've read from people knowledgeable in this matter say helicopters are more difficult because they are naturally unstable where as most airplanes are naturally stable. This means the feedback control systems for helicopters is more difficult.
The forums on the diydrones website (same website that this slashdot questions linked) has all the answers to the questions asked. It might take a few hours to search through those forums and understand enough about what you're reading to find the answers, but a few hours on a project like this is chump change.
This is a great idea! I am so sure it will be successful that you should get started on the second phase right away. Everybody will want to come to your stores so you need to stop diluting your brand by selling it via other distribution methods. You should immediately stop bundling your software with prebuilt computers from manufacturers like Dell. Also immediately remove your product from online stores. Having people come into your stores will form a strong community.
I was just talking to some IT Admins yesterday and they were complaining how the 1000 licenses of Windows they just bought were just an electric piece of paper. They really wanted to go to a physical store with physical shopping cards and put a 1000 boxes in that cart. They thought that would be much more satisfying that just a number on a piece of paper.
Your profits are falling, you need to implement this strategy to maximize profits in these tough economic time. It's time to make this change. Do it now. Please!
These machines are not "switching votes". They're just not.
You sound pretty sure about this, but remember that according to your own belief you only think that you're right.
When asked if she is sure she touched the box for Rockefeller, she said, 'I'm absolutely positive.'" Yeah, just like a lot of users are "absolutely positive" that they did the right thing. No, they THINK they did the right thing. That's the only thing they are "absolutely positive" of.
You don't want to use and OpenGL ES 2.0 book to learn how to program in OpenGL ES 1.1. OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 are very different APIs. Desktop OpenGL has much more in common with ES 1.1 than ES 2.0. ES 2.0 replaced all the fixed function shading API in ES 1.1 with programmable shaders.
OpenGL ES 1.1 is most similar to something like desktop OpenGL 1.5. There are still significant differences, but those are the sorts of tutorials you want to look at if you can't find ES 1.1 specific tutorials.
Below people talk about using the spec to learn OpenGL. That might work if you know a lot about computer graphics, but its not the best way in my opinion. The OpenGL specs are written for hardware implementers and not for app programmers. Heck, I'm been implementing OpenGL for over 7 years and these specs still confuse me sometimes.
Processing.org is an open souce scripting language. It seems like it should be high performance since it's just a thin layer on top of gcc. One of the things it seems like it should do well is allow people to write image processing algorithms like those demonstrated in the video. Processing will do the ugly work of grabbing the framebuffer from a web cam and then gives you access to a good mix of image processsing helper functions. There also looks to be an active and helpful user base on their forum.
I haven't gotten around to actually trying it out yet, but it's pretty high on my priority list. I'm sure I could find some interesting uses for it if it turns out to be as easy to use as I think it is.
In my travels I've found that learning just a few phrases of a local language makes people more friendly towards you. In the extreme I learn only "hello", but usually I spend an hour a night for a few weeks learning enough to get basic parts of the language down. Am I fluent? Hell no. Can I communicate? Barely. Are people willing to try and help me more than if I just came and started babbling in English? Yes. Just a few words in their language transforms me from the stupid American into someone who respects their culture.
Somehow I think that I'd still be considered a stupid American if I talked into a box the did that translated basic phrases for me. Maybe part of being a modern soldier should be learning the local language so the locals are more accepting of you.
Ipod, shrink a boom box and add some headphones. Porsche, take a wagon and add an engine. Aircraft carrier, put a small village on a boat and add some guns.
I doubt it's the tobacco industry if that's what you're implying. It's quite clear to me the deliver method would not be carcinogen laced tobacco and that any message tobacco companies put out saying that smoking is good for you would result in lawsuits.
I'm not all that surprised that nicotine has these sorts of benefits. I've read elsewhere that many stimulants, like nicotine, have a wide area of health benefits. The issue is that long term use of stimulants can cause more heath problems than they solve.
Best physics
Best scoring system
Best audio
Best gameplay
Very possibly the best game ever! I think my entire floor in the dorms got addicted to this game (yes, it was an all male floor at an engineering school). I never would have guessed that senseless exaggerated violence with a buggy rubber band physics system could have been so much fun.
in most courts their word is taken as gospel over a civilian
I just finished jury duty on a criminal case involving an alleged rape of a child. In this case I can tell you that the jury gave no preference to the cops' word over other witnesses. Before the case even started jurors were asked if we would give preference to someone's word just because they're a cop, and if you answered yes you were dismissed. In the case I was in we tended to not believe the testimony from the cops since they made it quite clear they assumed the defendant was guilty.
While a sample of one isn't nearly enough to determine how the word of police is usually treated in court, I am curious where you get this fact that it's usually treated as gospel in court. I hope it doesn't come from TV or something. I was surprised by how logical most other jurors were in my case. It certainly improved my view of our court system.
I've got 3 macintosh computers sitting in front of me. They represent more than 4 thousand dollars total of hardware that I use for income. When I put Doom 3 into them - the game is wholly unplayable.
I've got a 486 dx sitting in front of me. It represents more than 3 thousand dollars. When I put Doom 3 into it - wait the cd doesn't even fit into the floppy drive...
I would agree that's likely the reason that Google won't release their algorithm, but my question was why many people outside of Google insist that Google should keep their algorithm secret. If Google in a moment of financial insanity released their search algorithms to their competition it wouldn't decrease the quality of my search results, actually that might improve my results if someone takes Google's algorithm and improves on it.
Why do so many people so strongly believe that Google needs to keep their page ranking algorithm secret? Couldn't the argument be made that keeping their algorithm secret is analogues to encryption by obfuscation? I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, and maybe I'm missing some simple reason that invalidates this comparison. Perhaps people just feel that it's impossible to come up with a ranking algorithm that can't be cheated without using obfuscation?
I just checked and it seems the average lifespan of humans has gone from about 45 to 80 over the past 150 years. I know a lot of that is because of modern medicine, but I'm curious if anyone has an educated guess at how much of this increase is attributed to medicine (as opposed to diet, safer lifestyle,...).
The moves are expected to reduce Circuit City's expenses by $110 million next year and $140 million in 2009.
Circuit City pays about $10 to $11 an hour on average, Rick Weinhart, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets in New York, told Bloomberg News.
So they will be replacing 3400 jobs averaging $62K with jobs averaging $21K.
I'm holding back my rant on livable wages and what I think about moves like this by corporations.
I don't know why the summary of this article said this points to genetics or diet that is causing towards child obesity. I think the article points towards diet and says nothing about genetics. I highly doubt that the epidemic of child obesity is being caused by some rapid change in our child's genes over the past 50 years; however, our diets have changed dramatically over the past 50 years.
I'm a huge proponent of eating nutritious foods. I've convinced some of my obese friends to try my diet high in vegetables, whole grains, fruits, and a few low fat proteins; specifically avoiding oils, fats, and processed sugars. Everyone I've convinced to try this diet has lost weight without being hungry. Unfortunately I'm the only one I know who's stayed on this diet. In the modern world it's hard to eat healthy because most restaurant food or processed foods have oils/sugars added. Many Americans get 30% of their totally calories from added sugars. That's 30% of their calories are completely void of any nutritional value.
I've seen multiple studies that seem to indicate that eating the average America diet is actually more likely to kill you than smoking. This is something the food industries are trying to hide. I strongly recommend getting a good book on nutrition and reading more on this subject. If you have the discipline to follow fairly rigorous diets there are studies with lab animals that show you should be able to extend your maximum age by 50%. Diet is the only known way to improve your maximum age (exercise improves your average age). If you're interested in this subject start by looking for some books by Roy Walford.
"Honey? I'll be right back. Steve needs $1.5B so I'm going to go to the ATM across the street. He's waiting outs--I think that's him honking. Can you order the chocolate cake for me for dessert?"
Assuming that ATM distributed $20 bills Bill just carried 82 tons of cash from the ATM to Steve's car. I guess he's spent some his of change under his sofa on cybernetic enhancements.
I think the music industry and their lawyers should invest in one of these gene patents. The average human has 100 trillion cells. Let assume there lawyers sue for only $1000 per use of their patented gene. Then every human using this gene would owe them $100,000,000,000,000,000. It's much more profitable that this whole music thing.
I'm only an amateur photographer, but I have sold some of my images. All of those images I've sold with identifiable people/places I was asked for a model or property release. To the best of my knowledge there are numerous cases that uphold the need for these releases. One example would be: Faloona v Hustler Magazine, Inc., 607 F Supp 1341, (1985, ND Tex).
I'm not sure if you were nit picking about my use of the word "law" instead of "court precedents", or if were disagreeing with me on the meaning of what I said. Whatever you meant was communicated poorly. It's ironic that your post serves as a great example of a baseless post which is very close to the very issue you're concerned.
They are completely in their rights to take a photo of my house, me, or anything else they can see from the street. However I don't think it's legal to make a profit from that photo (except for some edge cases like art and journalism). There are different laws governing commercial photography and amateur photography. With commercial photography you need model and property releases. I'm not sure how they plan to get around needing a property release from every home owner since it seems these would be classified as commercial photos.
broadcasting in the same frequencies as our own society
I think the real issue isn't frequency, but technology. Personally I believe there must be a practical way to transmit data at faster than light speeds. We've been using the EM spectrum for transmitting for just over 100 years. If there are better methods of transmitting data, not only will our search area be limited, but we'll be searching for is possibly a short lived technology.
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Their wording is correct. With more data there is approximation 624 in 625 odds that the likelihood of impact will be reduced. I actually really liked his wording because it didn't try to sensationalize the problem by making it sound like we will find out if there is an impact 2013, which would push many people to think the problem is more of a 50/50 odds. The general media leverage this flaw in human thinking frequently.
One way to solve this that seems logical to me is if they can use gps tracking on me without a warrant then I should be able to do the same to them. I'm pretty sure I can't put tracking devices on cop cars so they shouldn't be allowed to do that to my car. The same rule applies to UAVs, alternate imaging techniques, and other new technologies. It is hard to keep laws up to date with the pace of technology so having a guiding principle like allowing law enforcement/government to do no more without a warrant than civilians can seems like a fair solution. I know there needs to be a few exceptions like detaining a person, but those few exceptions won't change with technology.
Everything I've read from people knowledgeable in this matter say helicopters are more difficult because they are naturally unstable where as most airplanes are naturally stable. This means the feedback control systems for helicopters is more difficult.
The forums on the diydrones website (same website that this slashdot questions linked) has all the answers to the questions asked. It might take a few hours to search through those forums and understand enough about what you're reading to find the answers, but a few hours on a project like this is chump change.
Dear Microsoft,
This is a great idea! I am so sure it will be successful that you should get started on the second phase right away. Everybody will want to come to your stores so you need to stop diluting your brand by selling it via other distribution methods. You should immediately stop bundling your software with prebuilt computers from manufacturers like Dell. Also immediately remove your product from online stores. Having people come into your stores will form a strong community.
I was just talking to some IT Admins yesterday and they were complaining how the 1000 licenses of Windows they just bought were just an electric piece of paper. They really wanted to go to a physical store with physical shopping cards and put a 1000 boxes in that cart. They thought that would be much more satisfying that just a number on a piece of paper.
Your profits are falling, you need to implement this strategy to maximize profits in these tough economic time. It's time to make this change. Do it now. Please!
These machines are not "switching votes". They're just not.
You sound pretty sure about this, but remember that according to your own belief you only think that you're right.
When asked if she is sure she touched the box for Rockefeller, she said, 'I'm absolutely positive.'" Yeah, just like a lot of users are "absolutely positive" that they did the right thing. No, they THINK they did the right thing. That's the only thing they are "absolutely positive" of.
You don't want to use and OpenGL ES 2.0 book to learn how to program in OpenGL ES 1.1. OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 are very different APIs. Desktop OpenGL has much more in common with ES 1.1 than ES 2.0. ES 2.0 replaced all the fixed function shading API in ES 1.1 with programmable shaders.
OpenGL ES 1.1 is most similar to something like desktop OpenGL 1.5. There are still significant differences, but those are the sorts of tutorials you want to look at if you can't find ES 1.1 specific tutorials.
Below people talk about using the spec to learn OpenGL. That might work if you know a lot about computer graphics, but its not the best way in my opinion. The OpenGL specs are written for hardware implementers and not for app programmers. Heck, I'm been implementing OpenGL for over 7 years and these specs still confuse me sometimes.
Processing.org is an open souce scripting language. It seems like it should be high performance since it's just a thin layer on top of gcc. One of the things it seems like it should do well is allow people to write image processing algorithms like those demonstrated in the video. Processing will do the ugly work of grabbing the framebuffer from a web cam and then gives you access to a good mix of image processsing helper functions. There also looks to be an active and helpful user base on their forum. I haven't gotten around to actually trying it out yet, but it's pretty high on my priority list. I'm sure I could find some interesting uses for it if it turns out to be as easy to use as I think it is.
I wonder if this affects cloning in the same way? Maybe cloned food isn't really exactly the same...
In my travels I've found that learning just a few phrases of a local language makes people more friendly towards you. In the extreme I learn only "hello", but usually I spend an hour a night for a few weeks learning enough to get basic parts of the language down. Am I fluent? Hell no. Can I communicate? Barely. Are people willing to try and help me more than if I just came and started babbling in English? Yes. Just a few words in their language transforms me from the stupid American into someone who respects their culture.
Somehow I think that I'd still be considered a stupid American if I talked into a box the did that translated basic phrases for me. Maybe part of being a modern soldier should be learning the local language so the locals are more accepting of you.
Let me try...
Ipod, shrink a boom box and add some headphones. Porsche, take a wagon and add an engine. Aircraft carrier, put a small village on a boat and add some guns.
I doubt it's the tobacco industry if that's what you're implying. It's quite clear to me the deliver method would not be carcinogen laced tobacco and that any message tobacco companies put out saying that smoking is good for you would result in lawsuits.
I'm not all that surprised that nicotine has these sorts of benefits. I've read elsewhere that many stimulants, like nicotine, have a wide area of health benefits. The issue is that long term use of stimulants can cause more heath problems than they solve.
Best physics
Best scoring system
Best audio
Best gameplay
Very possibly the best game ever! I think my entire floor in the dorms got addicted to this game (yes, it was an all male floor at an engineering school). I never would have guessed that senseless exaggerated violence with a buggy rubber band physics system could have been so much fun.
I just finished jury duty on a criminal case involving an alleged rape of a child. In this case I can tell you that the jury gave no preference to the cops' word over other witnesses. Before the case even started jurors were asked if we would give preference to someone's word just because they're a cop, and if you answered yes you were dismissed. In the case I was in we tended to not believe the testimony from the cops since they made it quite clear they assumed the defendant was guilty.
While a sample of one isn't nearly enough to determine how the word of police is usually treated in court, I am curious where you get this fact that it's usually treated as gospel in court. I hope it doesn't come from TV or something. I was surprised by how logical most other jurors were in my case. It certainly improved my view of our court system.
I've got a 486 dx sitting in front of me. It represents more than 3 thousand dollars. When I put Doom 3 into it - wait the cd doesn't even fit into the floppy drive...
I would agree that's likely the reason that Google won't release their algorithm, but my question was why many people outside of Google insist that Google should keep their algorithm secret. If Google in a moment of financial insanity released their search algorithms to their competition it wouldn't decrease the quality of my search results, actually that might improve my results if someone takes Google's algorithm and improves on it.
Why do so many people so strongly believe that Google needs to keep their page ranking algorithm secret? Couldn't the argument be made that keeping their algorithm secret is analogues to encryption by obfuscation? I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, and maybe I'm missing some simple reason that invalidates this comparison. Perhaps people just feel that it's impossible to come up with a ranking algorithm that can't be cheated without using obfuscation?
I just checked and it seems the average lifespan of humans has gone from about 45 to 80 over the past 150 years. I know a lot of that is because of modern medicine, but I'm curious if anyone has an educated guess at how much of this increase is attributed to medicine (as opposed to diet, safer lifestyle, ...).
So they will be replacing 3400 jobs averaging $62K with jobs averaging $21K.
I'm holding back my rant on livable wages and what I think about moves like this by corporations.
I don't know why the summary of this article said this points to genetics or diet that is causing towards child obesity. I think the article points towards diet and says nothing about genetics. I highly doubt that the epidemic of child obesity is being caused by some rapid change in our child's genes over the past 50 years; however, our diets have changed dramatically over the past 50 years.
I'm a huge proponent of eating nutritious foods. I've convinced some of my obese friends to try my diet high in vegetables, whole grains, fruits, and a few low fat proteins; specifically avoiding oils, fats, and processed sugars. Everyone I've convinced to try this diet has lost weight without being hungry. Unfortunately I'm the only one I know who's stayed on this diet. In the modern world it's hard to eat healthy because most restaurant food or processed foods have oils/sugars added. Many Americans get 30% of their totally calories from added sugars. That's 30% of their calories are completely void of any nutritional value.
I've seen multiple studies that seem to indicate that eating the average America diet is actually more likely to kill you than smoking. This is something the food industries are trying to hide. I strongly recommend getting a good book on nutrition and reading more on this subject. If you have the discipline to follow fairly rigorous diets there are studies with lab animals that show you should be able to extend your maximum age by 50%. Diet is the only known way to improve your maximum age (exercise improves your average age). If you're interested in this subject start by looking for some books by Roy Walford.
"Honey? I'll be right back. Steve needs $1.5B so I'm going to go to the ATM across the street. He's waiting outs--I think that's him honking. Can you order the chocolate cake for me for dessert?"
Assuming that ATM distributed $20 bills Bill just carried 82 tons of cash from the ATM to Steve's car. I guess he's spent some his of change under his sofa on cybernetic enhancements.
I think the music industry and their lawyers should invest in one of these gene patents. The average human has 100 trillion cells. Let assume there lawyers sue for only $1000 per use of their patented gene. Then every human using this gene would owe them $100,000,000,000,000,000. It's much more profitable that this whole music thing.
I'm only an amateur photographer, but I have sold some of my images. All of those images I've sold with identifiable people/places I was asked for a model or property release. To the best of my knowledge there are numerous cases that uphold the need for these releases. One example would be: Faloona v Hustler Magazine, Inc., 607 F Supp 1341, (1985, ND Tex).
I'm not sure if you were nit picking about my use of the word "law" instead of "court precedents", or if were disagreeing with me on the meaning of what I said. Whatever you meant was communicated poorly. It's ironic that your post serves as a great example of a baseless post which is very close to the very issue you're concerned.
They are completely in their rights to take a photo of my house, me, or anything else they can see from the street. However I don't think it's legal to make a profit from that photo (except for some edge cases like art and journalism). There are different laws governing commercial photography and amateur photography. With commercial photography you need model and property releases. I'm not sure how they plan to get around needing a property release from every home owner since it seems these would be classified as commercial photos.
1) Go get a job at Microsoft
2) Work some of my magic mojo on the next version of Windows
3) Quit my job at Microsoft
4) Profit!!!
broadcasting in the same frequencies as our own society
I think the real issue isn't frequency, but technology. Personally I believe there must be a practical way to transmit data at faster than light speeds. We've been using the EM spectrum for transmitting for just over 100 years. If there are better methods of transmitting data, not only will our search area be limited, but we'll be searching for is possibly a short lived technology.