Speaking as this guy's former roommate, one of the draws for him was that the aerodynamics and mechanics of flapping wing flight was not fully understood.
The science here is understanding aerodynamics to the point that a human-scaled device can be built.
Let's all go replace all of our TVs then. But that's expensive and wasteful. If only someone would sell a little box I could plug into my current TV that does these things...
Oh yes, and I would like to disassociate my thanks from anything beyond the posting of the video. The extension to the posters arguments against Nixon's policies DO NOT extend from the science on display in the video.
THANK YOU for posting this on a weekend, where I actually had time to listen to the whole 90 minute argument. It's very convincing, and very informative. This professor really needs to do more to get his message out in public forums (write a book?). I'll be sharing this video with my friends.
I submit the following conspiracy theory to explain the antenna situation:
Apple, in its efforts to thwart unlockers, knowingly ships a defective baseband firmware in iOS4, fully expecting it to be unlocked quickly. Apple then releases iOS4.01 with a new firmware, fixing the horrible issue, as well as the unlocking vector.
Having worked connecting clients on the sell side of brokerage, I can assure you that we would frequently field requests to disable client trading limits (or balloon them astronomically) when a client's legitimate trade would hit them (maybe they've traded for 5 years and their favourite high-volume stock has gone up in price 10x).
Add in the fact that electronic trading software is often written with no thought to the UI, I'm surprised fat finger issues don't happen more frequently. Well, I guess they do, they just don't make the news very often as they don't cause this kind of a market swing...
In my experience, a lot of capital markets software is crap compared to the commercial stuff you use day-to-day, and a LOT clunkier than even the worst of the worst in open source UIs. When they say they're using the highest tech stuff out there, it doesn't mean it's actually good.
Having worked in an electronic trading operation (brokerage side) I can already say that security is of very little concern in this kind of operation. Of the three corners of business operations, these systems need to be fast and cheap; quality concerns are secondary as long as you're not completely breaking the clients' trades.
Arguably security isn't very important in high frequency trading. You're trying to get an order to market before it can react to something. Once the order is there, people already know (a lot) about it.
Since you typically make microchips one wafer at a time, and the cost to produce a wafer is roughly independent of what's actually on it given a certain production process (ie A masks, B layers, C coatings, etc), your cost per unit goes DOWN for smaller electronics these days.
As other posters have mentioned, the development costs clearly outweigh the manufacturing costs.
This is why SuperGenPass is your friend. Using one (or more) master password, you quickly generate a unique password for each domain you log in to, all through a handy bookmarklet. Also there's no password storage (except an optional hash for validation), so you don't have to worry about password product XYZ being hacked.
No, now we have 60 days of "ZOMG it's coming!!!" news to look forward to. Especially as everyone and their app-programming-mother shows off their NEW, on-the-iPad apps.
Apple will today announce a partnership with Taco Bell to deliver tacos wirelessly through the new iTablet. This will prove to be the final nail in OLPC's coffin as the west moves to end world hunger via electronic food distribution.
It probably comes down to some distinction between express lanes and a complete highway project. No one's claiming that this is the first completely electronic toll road, but the first completely electronic highway.
Some Roman roads in medieval Europe were heavily tolled during the Dark ages by local lords, the Church and other authorities, making travel prohibitively expensive for all but the elite. This hindrance to trade, along with unsafe conditions for traders, is seen as a reason why the European economy was so stagnant during this period. (Sorry, it's the weekend, I don't feel like citing sources:P)
This can be seen as the logic behind roads being a project funded from the public purse. If everyone has free/libre access to roadways as a result of the taxes they pay, then everyone is free/libre to use them to conduct trade.
Think of it as the Net neutrality issue of the last millenium.;)
I think the difference is that Toronto's 407 ETR has never had manned toll booths, but was originally built with support for number plate cameras and transponders.
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They had an official there witnessing the flight, so I'm sure the appropriate definition of powered flight will have been taken into consideration.
Speaking as this guy's former roommate, one of the draws for him was that the aerodynamics and mechanics of flapping wing flight was not fully understood.
The science here is understanding aerodynamics to the point that a human-scaled device can be built.
Let's all go replace all of our TVs then. But that's expensive and wasteful. If only someone would sell a little box I could plug into my current TV that does these things...
Oh yes, and I would like to disassociate my thanks from anything beyond the posting of the video. The extension to the posters arguments against Nixon's policies DO NOT extend from the science on display in the video.
THANK YOU for posting this on a weekend, where I actually had time to listen to the whole 90 minute argument. It's very convincing, and very informative. This professor really needs to do more to get his message out in public forums (write a book?). I'll be sharing this video with my friends.
Oh my yes.
(Hey mods, go watch the newest Futurama episode. Highly relevant.)
Ditto Canada.
I submit the following conspiracy theory to explain the antenna situation:
Apple, in its efforts to thwart unlockers, knowingly ships a defective baseband firmware in iOS4, fully expecting it to be unlocked quickly. Apple then releases iOS4.01 with a new firmware, fixing the horrible issue, as well as the unlocking vector.
Sound possible?
For very limited definitions of "for all".
According to your mom I'm more of a legend...
The current Chrome beta (5.0.375.38) still leaks like a sieve, so they must have *just* fixed it.
Having worked connecting clients on the sell side of brokerage, I can assure you that we would frequently field requests to disable client trading limits (or balloon them astronomically) when a client's legitimate trade would hit them (maybe they've traded for 5 years and their favourite high-volume stock has gone up in price 10x).
Add in the fact that electronic trading software is often written with no thought to the UI, I'm surprised fat finger issues don't happen more frequently. Well, I guess they do, they just don't make the news very often as they don't cause this kind of a market swing...
In my experience, a lot of capital markets software is crap compared to the commercial stuff you use day-to-day, and a LOT clunkier than even the worst of the worst in open source UIs. When they say they're using the highest tech stuff out there, it doesn't mean it's actually good.
Having worked in an electronic trading operation (brokerage side) I can already say that security is of very little concern in this kind of operation. Of the three corners of business operations, these systems need to be fast and cheap; quality concerns are secondary as long as you're not completely breaking the clients' trades.
Arguably security isn't very important in high frequency trading. You're trying to get an order to market before it can react to something. Once the order is there, people already know (a lot) about it.
Since you typically make microchips one wafer at a time, and the cost to produce a wafer is roughly independent of what's actually on it given a certain production process (ie A masks, B layers, C coatings, etc), your cost per unit goes DOWN for smaller electronics these days.
As other posters have mentioned, the development costs clearly outweigh the manufacturing costs.
This is why SuperGenPass is your friend. Using one (or more) master password, you quickly generate a unique password for each domain you log in to, all through a handy bookmarklet. Also there's no password storage (except an optional hash for validation), so you don't have to worry about password product XYZ being hacked.
Do all reasonable people have Saturday evening plans this weekend?
Bring them to Canada please!
No, now we have 60 days of "ZOMG it's coming!!!" news to look forward to. Especially as everyone and their app-programming-mother shows off their NEW, on-the-iPad apps.
Hey, my eyes are so burnt from using my laptop in the dark that they PREFER a backlight!
Apple will today announce a partnership with Taco Bell to deliver tacos wirelessly through the new iTablet. This will prove to be the final nail in OLPC's coffin as the west moves to end world hunger via electronic food distribution.
Also it will wash the dishes.
I was wondering about this. I wonder if it's going to be more of that trusted platform end-to-end encryption junk. Jailbreaking's last stand?
I felt they really glossed over this new feature.
It probably comes down to some distinction between express lanes and a complete highway project. No one's claiming that this is the first completely electronic toll road, but the first completely electronic highway.
Some Roman roads in medieval Europe were heavily tolled during the Dark ages by local lords, the Church and other authorities, making travel prohibitively expensive for all but the elite. This hindrance to trade, along with unsafe conditions for traders, is seen as a reason why the European economy was so stagnant during this period. (Sorry, it's the weekend, I don't feel like citing sources :P)
This can be seen as the logic behind roads being a project funded from the public purse. If everyone has free/libre access to roadways as a result of the taxes they pay, then everyone is free/libre to use them to conduct trade.
Think of it as the Net neutrality issue of the last millenium. ;)
I think the difference is that Toronto's 407 ETR has never had manned toll booths, but was originally built with support for number plate cameras and transponders.
It was the world's first highway to feature this system throughout.