As other people have pointed out, you cant pick it up on satellite. Fortunately, some nice fellows have gone out there on boat and looked around. A quick search on youtube will get you a lot of videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUjTHB1lvM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxNqzAHGXvs&feature=related for example. Some dude went out from Hawaii on a raft made out of recycled plastic bottles, and kept a blog, there's some nice photos of what they found. http://junkraft.blogspot.com They pulled some water samples out of the water, and frankly, they look like utter shit.
About video editting on PCs... the most annoying part is that Final Cut Pro actually IS so good. I started doing video on Premiere Pro, and then worked on Vegas a bit. After going nuts at Premiere one too many times, I gave Final Cut a try. And yeah, it is better. Everything just works.. better!
That being said, Premiere Pro works fine. It has its quirks (ok, sometimes really annoying quirks), but it'll get the job done. Unfortunately, the whole world seems to be running on the "FCP Experienced Required!". Stupidly annoying.
They used them for psyops in Afghanistan. Had some Taliban holed up in a valley, some spec ops team called for fire support. So the B-1s fly through the valley supersonic while dropping bombs... and hitting everything with its sonic boom. The spec ops dudes said 'I knew that was coming, and I still shit my pants' or something to that affect.
Anyhow, the B1's bombbays are probably too small in one dimension to fit the MOP.
Shit man. The article (or summary) doesn't imply that crap at all. The article doesn't cast any judgment, other than the current situation is not optimal, and that things can be done, and things are being done. You guys are shifting more production to domestic, which is bound to fix some shit. Don't need to get super defensive whenever real problems are pointed out about your favourite technology. They aren't crippling problems, and the article never implies it. But they are problems that should be faced nonetheless. Especially as there's potential for cost saving in the process of overcoming these problems.
Well, aside from just putting your OS and most commonly used apps on an SSD, what you're describing is a hybrid drive. You CAN buy these. I think Samsung makes a bunch. But apparently, you can emulate that in software (any HDD + SSD), at the cost of some processor overhead I guess. Microsoft has their implementation called ReadyBoost thats integrated into Vista and 7. No idea how well it works though.
Yeah. I'm from Canada, and while I'm proud of my country, I wince everytime I read some halfassed newspaper editorial talking about how America has to act and ratify the Kyoto, like ever country ESPECIALLY CANADA *chest thump* has done, while ignoring that we've failed epicly. Suppose to have a 6% reduction, instead we have a 20% increase. Whoops. So now we're moving the goal posts.
Yeah, you guys have to get your act together (and we do too). But frankly, Kyoto at this point is a joke, even ignoring China and the US not signing. Shit sucks.
Well, now that I got my serious post out of the way. Did anyone else think that/. was linking to an article from COSMO? I did a double take while the page failed to load.
The Cassini site has a bunch of nice high resolution photos. http://ciclops.org/view_event/110/Towering_Edge_Waves_Pop_Into_View Go take a look. They're great!
I think it was cause the virus initially killed an abnormally high amount of young adults (the strongest immune systems). It led to speculation that H1N1 killed via cytokine storms (like the Spanish Flu is thought to have), but we haven't quite gotten around to proving that. Also, in the earlier stages, there was this conflict between the official story, and all the stuff we were hearing from the ground. Mexican doctors and nurses saying that infection rate was like 4 times higher or something.
We basically talked a lot about it, and blew it all out of proportions. Now, regardless... there's still a chance of this blowing in our faces when fall/winter rolls around (same thing happened with Spanish Flu). So... it's not time to start laughing at this thing and calling it all a joke. It's certainly time to seriously question what our media is doing. But... well. Shooting the messenger won't make problems go away.
There's a bunch of fun things you could do with rockets or fuel rod guns in Halo2. A lot of the instant death zones were fall timers that killed you after x time spent in freefall. If you were falling down a cliff and fired just right, the splash back would reset your fall timer, and let you finish the fall.
Except, then you needed the melee to charge shields skull on to get the damn overshield so you could survive the fall when you landed.
H3 is made a lot tighter. You can still have lots of fun with skulls, but there's definitely less to do than in H1.
For what it's worth, all the new cast saws in hospitals are like they. They'll happily saw through plaster or fiber glass, but when it hits your skin, it just turns into this weird buzzing/massage sensation. No skin break or bruising or anything.
In that context... the nurse/doctor had every reason to show me that it worked. I was fucking scared shitless till she casually attempted to split her arm into two. After that, I just really wanted to play with it.
I don't know how you think radioisotope therapy, radioisotope tagging, smoke detectors, and such work. But they all involving 'stockpiling' nuclear materials.
That's not what I meant. I meant that despite the lack of clear agreed upon limits for where a country's airspace ends, since objects flying at 85 000 feet have been fired upon, we can safely assume that countries will interpret anything flying below 85 000 feet at the very least as intruding on their airspace. It has nothing to do being safe or not.
There is no widely agreed upon vertical limit for airspace. Anything from 50km to 160km has been suggested. That being said, 50km is roughly 165 000 feet, so there's absolutely no confusion about the blimp's status. However, you can hang one of these suckers right outside of their airspace and blast side scanning radar. You can also hang it over countries you have already invaded (for obvious reasons). Or you can hang it over your own borders (as someone above as stated). But anyhow, if you're curious, the SR-71 flew at like 85 000 feet and the Soviet's (and everyone else it overflew) tried to shoot it down. So there's your benchmark.
As for all the people going nuts over 'this thing can get shot down', the answer is 'duh'. You're clearly not going to try to use a goddamn blimp against China or Iran or North Korea or w/e. You're clearly going to use it in countries like Iraq or Afghanistan. We already have a crap load of UAVs hanging around at 65 000 feet there. This is just presumably a cheaper alternative. And there already exists systems that can blow stuff out of the air at 65 000 feet (the Russian SA-11 for example, and the F-15 and SU-27 both have service ceilings pretty damn close to 65 000 feet). That does not make developing this a waste of money. Not just because we won't be deploying in situations where the threat is high, but it's also just poor logic. Why do we continue to develop better armor for light and medium vehicles when there are anti-tank rounds that can penetrate a meter of solid steel?
For all it's worth, Amtrak is owned by your federal government. Amtrak having a police force is is really just the federal government operating another specialized police force. Nearly all major transit systems employ some form of transit police. To not do so is simply irresponsible (there are real safety concerns on a transit system, just like how there are real safety concerns out on a street). Sometimes, if the system is local, its just a specialized unit of the local police force, other times the system has its own force composed of officers who are sworn in with local police forces (so really just a difference in bureaucracy and funding). In nearly all cases, its kind of moot cause many transit systems are government own, or heavily funded by the government.
In Amtrak's case of being a nation-wide system, you really can't expect anything other than Amtrak employ its own police forces. The FBI won't just create a Amtrak unit, and dealing with multiple police forces (crime occurs on a train moving between jurisdictions?) is just silly.
Going out of a limb here, but maybe it's like this. You shine your laser, it reflects, it interferes with itself. And now the interfered laser reflects back and so on and so forth. Maybe its possible to track it through the first few given the exact starting conditions, but it would be impossible to look at a few samples in the middle and work back to the initial start condition (thus chaotic).
Well, point number 2 is true of any storage solution. From what I remember, very large flywheels rank fairly high in terms of efficiency, especially compared to battery solutions. In a stationary mount, you don't have to worry about gyroscopic affects, and presumably you could build them within enclosures strong enough to contain explosions. Also, apparently the new composites being used upon 'exploding' completely disintegrate, so instead of a supersonic steel shrapnel, you get a crap load of superhot sand. Much easier to contain.
They still need to try. As stupid as this is, it's to be expected. Psion realistically does not have any chance of reclaiming exclusive use of the term netbook in regards to computers, and they know it. They're just doing it to go through the stupid steps of trademark law. Why the hell do you think they haven't sent C&Ds at Intel or Asus or any 'big' blog (Ars?). I mean, ASUS actively markets eeepcs as 'Netbooks' (see linky at the bottom). Psion is probably just throwing out some random C&Ds so when some greedy idiot shareholder or something complains about the trademark being violated, they can go 'well, we TRIED to protect it, but the courts ruled against us' at point at a couple random C&Ds.
That's basically exactly what eating one's own dogfood means... a company that uses its own product. Like many English idioms, its not exactly transparent... but whatever. This is slashdot. It's too much to ask people to RTFA or any other links that might complete the summary.
You can use scanning tunneling microscopy or atomic force microscopy... or many number of similar/related technologies. They have resolutions of 1nm or lower, so you could see this machine in action. A crude summary of the two techniques (for those too lazy for wiki) is that STM brings a probe super close to the sample and detects rates of electrons quantum tunneling from the sample to the probe, while AFM is basically a giant (or tiny...) cantilever the moves along a surface. When it touches something, it deflects causing a change in voltage on the other arm of the lever which then allows them to reconstruct an image.
In principle it's not that hard. That being said, desktop searching is incredibly helpful. You organized your mp3s by genre, band, album... Now you don't feel like clicking through a bunch of folders to get to your music. Sure, the bands you listen to often, you might have down with muscle memory. But when you try to look for something you haven't listened to in a while, it gets frustrating to sit around reading through band name after band name. Desktop search and you're done.
Desktop search has its place. Organizing yourself is form of self restraint and discipline that is absolutely vital to getting stuff done. On the other hand, the reason we have all this technology is to make life easier.
Or you can make it even more insane and transmit not just to an earpiece but to a cochlear implants. And not just any cochlear implants, but one of those newer experimental ones which are totally internal. No external pieces at all. Upon a casual examination, it really would seem like telepathy.
On another note, does anyone know if the speech production areas of the brain overlap with those with sub vocalization, or mouthing words? Just curious.
When the person next to you, or behind you sees you holding up your cellphone pointed at the screen for 20 straight minutes. Seriously, use some common sense. The people running theatres aren't all dumbasses. They'll put up some rules about cellphone use, and since they won't want to piss off their customers, they'll make the rules reasonable, and in return, they'll ask people to report other people who have their damn cell out for 30 minutes at a time.
It's not just that. It's something to focus on. I've recently spent 6 weeks in a below knee cast (broken ankle). When the itch just got unbearable, I would go play the piano, or whip out my cellphone and go play Tetris. Just by doing something that required my focus and attention let me ignore the itch long enough till it went away. Similarly (ironically in a way?) you can have the same approach to dealing with really cold stuff (like ice bathing your ankle). If you have something that you're familiar with and can get your mind into, getting over the initial painful stage (before the numbing kicks in) of an ice bath (or just general icing) becomes so much easier.
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As other people have pointed out, you cant pick it up on satellite.
Fortunately, some nice fellows have gone out there on boat and looked around. A quick search on youtube will get you a lot of videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUjTHB1lvM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxNqzAHGXvs&feature=related
for example.
Some dude went out from Hawaii on a raft made out of recycled plastic bottles, and kept a blog, there's some nice photos of what they found. http://junkraft.blogspot.com
They pulled some water samples out of the water, and frankly, they look like utter shit.
About video editting on PCs... the most annoying part is that Final Cut Pro actually IS so good. I started doing video on Premiere Pro, and then worked on Vegas a bit. After going nuts at Premiere one too many times, I gave Final Cut a try. And yeah, it is better. Everything just works.. better!
That being said, Premiere Pro works fine. It has its quirks (ok, sometimes really annoying quirks), but it'll get the job done. Unfortunately, the whole world seems to be running on the "FCP Experienced Required!". Stupidly annoying.
They used them for psyops in Afghanistan. Had some Taliban holed up in a valley, some spec ops team called for fire support. So the B-1s fly through the valley supersonic while dropping bombs... and hitting everything with its sonic boom. The spec ops dudes said 'I knew that was coming, and I still shit my pants' or something to that affect.
Anyhow, the B1's bombbays are probably too small in one dimension to fit the MOP.
Shit man. The article (or summary) doesn't imply that crap at all. The article doesn't cast any judgment, other than the current situation is not optimal, and that things can be done, and things are being done. You guys are shifting more production to domestic, which is bound to fix some shit. Don't need to get super defensive whenever real problems are pointed out about your favourite technology. They aren't crippling problems, and the article never implies it. But they are problems that should be faced nonetheless. Especially as there's potential for cost saving in the process of overcoming these problems.
Well, aside from just putting your OS and most commonly used apps on an SSD, what you're describing is a hybrid drive. You CAN buy these. I think Samsung makes a bunch. But apparently, you can emulate that in software (any HDD + SSD), at the cost of some processor overhead I guess. Microsoft has their implementation called ReadyBoost thats integrated into Vista and 7. No idea how well it works though.
Yeah. I'm from Canada, and while I'm proud of my country, I wince everytime I read some halfassed newspaper editorial talking about how America has to act and ratify the Kyoto, like ever country ESPECIALLY CANADA *chest thump* has done, while ignoring that we've failed epicly. Suppose to have a 6% reduction, instead we have a 20% increase. Whoops. So now we're moving the goal posts.
Yeah, you guys have to get your act together (and we do too). But frankly, Kyoto at this point is a joke, even ignoring China and the US not signing. Shit sucks.
Well, now that I got my serious post out of the way. Did anyone else think that /. was linking to an article from COSMO? I did a double take while the page failed to load.
The Cassini site has a bunch of nice high resolution photos.
http://ciclops.org/view_event/110/Towering_Edge_Waves_Pop_Into_View
Go take a look. They're great!
I think it was cause the virus initially killed an abnormally high amount of young adults (the strongest immune systems). It led to speculation that H1N1 killed via cytokine storms (like the Spanish Flu is thought to have), but we haven't quite gotten around to proving that. Also, in the earlier stages, there was this conflict between the official story, and all the stuff we were hearing from the ground. Mexican doctors and nurses saying that infection rate was like 4 times higher or something.
We basically talked a lot about it, and blew it all out of proportions. Now, regardless... there's still a chance of this blowing in our faces when fall/winter rolls around (same thing happened with Spanish Flu). So... it's not time to start laughing at this thing and calling it all a joke. It's certainly time to seriously question what our media is doing. But... well. Shooting the messenger won't make problems go away.
There's a bunch of fun things you could do with rockets or fuel rod guns in Halo2. A lot of the instant death zones were fall timers that killed you after x time spent in freefall. If you were falling down a cliff and fired just right, the splash back would reset your fall timer, and let you finish the fall.
Except, then you needed the melee to charge shields skull on to get the damn overshield so you could survive the fall when you landed.
H3 is made a lot tighter. You can still have lots of fun with skulls, but there's definitely less to do than in H1.
For what it's worth, all the new cast saws in hospitals are like they. They'll happily saw through plaster or fiber glass, but when it hits your skin, it just turns into this weird buzzing/massage sensation. No skin break or bruising or anything.
In that context... the nurse/doctor had every reason to show me that it worked. I was fucking scared shitless till she casually attempted to split her arm into two. After that, I just really wanted to play with it.
I don't know how you think radioisotope therapy, radioisotope tagging, smoke detectors, and such work. But they all involving 'stockpiling' nuclear materials.
That's not what I meant. I meant that despite the lack of clear agreed upon limits for where a country's airspace ends, since objects flying at 85 000 feet have been fired upon, we can safely assume that countries will interpret anything flying below 85 000 feet at the very least as intruding on their airspace. It has nothing to do being safe or not.
There is no widely agreed upon vertical limit for airspace. Anything from 50km to 160km has been suggested. That being said, 50km is roughly 165 000 feet, so there's absolutely no confusion about the blimp's status. However, you can hang one of these suckers right outside of their airspace and blast side scanning radar. You can also hang it over countries you have already invaded (for obvious reasons). Or you can hang it over your own borders (as someone above as stated). But anyhow, if you're curious, the SR-71 flew at like 85 000 feet and the Soviet's (and everyone else it overflew) tried to shoot it down. So there's your benchmark.
As for all the people going nuts over 'this thing can get shot down', the answer is 'duh'. You're clearly not going to try to use a goddamn blimp against China or Iran or North Korea or w/e. You're clearly going to use it in countries like Iraq or Afghanistan. We already have a crap load of UAVs hanging around at 65 000 feet there. This is just presumably a cheaper alternative. And there already exists systems that can blow stuff out of the air at 65 000 feet (the Russian SA-11 for example, and the F-15 and SU-27 both have service ceilings pretty damn close to 65 000 feet). That does not make developing this a waste of money. Not just because we won't be deploying in situations where the threat is high, but it's also just poor logic. Why do we continue to develop better armor for light and medium vehicles when there are anti-tank rounds that can penetrate a meter of solid steel?
For all it's worth, Amtrak is owned by your federal government. Amtrak having a police force is is really just the federal government operating another specialized police force. Nearly all major transit systems employ some form of transit police. To not do so is simply irresponsible (there are real safety concerns on a transit system, just like how there are real safety concerns out on a street). Sometimes, if the system is local, its just a specialized unit of the local police force, other times the system has its own force composed of officers who are sworn in with local police forces (so really just a difference in bureaucracy and funding). In nearly all cases, its kind of moot cause many transit systems are government own, or heavily funded by the government.
In Amtrak's case of being a nation-wide system, you really can't expect anything other than Amtrak employ its own police forces. The FBI won't just create a Amtrak unit, and dealing with multiple police forces (crime occurs on a train moving between jurisdictions?) is just silly.
You're over reacting.
I don't disagree with your post. But it should be noted that Saddam did deploy chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds.
Going out of a limb here, but maybe it's like this.
You shine your laser, it reflects, it interferes with itself. And now the interfered laser reflects back and so on and so forth. Maybe its possible to track it through the first few given the exact starting conditions, but it would be impossible to look at a few samples in the middle and work back to the initial start condition (thus chaotic).
Well, point number 2 is true of any storage solution. From what I remember, very large flywheels rank fairly high in terms of efficiency, especially compared to battery solutions. In a stationary mount, you don't have to worry about gyroscopic affects, and presumably you could build them within enclosures strong enough to contain explosions. Also, apparently the new composites being used upon 'exploding' completely disintegrate, so instead of a supersonic steel shrapnel, you get a crap load of superhot sand. Much easier to contain.
They still need to try. As stupid as this is, it's to be expected. Psion realistically does not have any chance of reclaiming exclusive use of the term netbook in regards to computers, and they know it. They're just doing it to go through the stupid steps of trademark law. Why the hell do you think they haven't sent C&Ds at Intel or Asus or any 'big' blog (Ars?). I mean, ASUS actively markets eeepcs as 'Netbooks' (see linky at the bottom). Psion is probably just throwing out some random C&Ds so when some greedy idiot shareholder or something complains about the trademark being violated, they can go 'well, we TRIED to protect it, but the courts ruled against us' at point at a couple random C&Ds.
http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product1002ha.html
That's basically exactly what eating one's own dogfood means... a company that uses its own product. Like many English idioms, its not exactly transparent... but whatever. This is slashdot. It's too much to ask people to RTFA or any other links that might complete the summary.
You can use scanning tunneling microscopy or atomic force microscopy... or many number of similar/related technologies. They have resolutions of 1nm or lower, so you could see this machine in action. A crude summary of the two techniques (for those too lazy for wiki) is that STM brings a probe super close to the sample and detects rates of electrons quantum tunneling from the sample to the probe, while AFM is basically a giant (or tiny...) cantilever the moves along a surface. When it touches something, it deflects causing a change in voltage on the other arm of the lever which then allows them to reconstruct an image.
In principle it's not that hard. That being said, desktop searching is incredibly helpful. You organized your mp3s by genre, band, album... Now you don't feel like clicking through a bunch of folders to get to your music. Sure, the bands you listen to often, you might have down with muscle memory. But when you try to look for something you haven't listened to in a while, it gets frustrating to sit around reading through band name after band name. Desktop search and you're done.
Desktop search has its place. Organizing yourself is form of self restraint and discipline that is absolutely vital to getting stuff done. On the other hand, the reason we have all this technology is to make life easier.
Or you can make it even more insane and transmit not just to an earpiece but to a cochlear implants. And not just any cochlear implants, but one of those newer experimental ones which are totally internal. No external pieces at all. Upon a casual examination, it really would seem like telepathy.
On another note, does anyone know if the speech production areas of the brain overlap with those with sub vocalization, or mouthing words? Just curious.
When the person next to you, or behind you sees you holding up your cellphone pointed at the screen for 20 straight minutes. Seriously, use some common sense. The people running theatres aren't all dumbasses. They'll put up some rules about cellphone use, and since they won't want to piss off their customers, they'll make the rules reasonable, and in return, they'll ask people to report other people who have their damn cell out for 30 minutes at a time.
It's not just that. It's something to focus on. I've recently spent 6 weeks in a below knee cast (broken ankle). When the itch just got unbearable, I would go play the piano, or whip out my cellphone and go play Tetris. Just by doing something that required my focus and attention let me ignore the itch long enough till it went away. Similarly (ironically in a way?) you can have the same approach to dealing with really cold stuff (like ice bathing your ankle). If you have something that you're familiar with and can get your mind into, getting over the initial painful stage (before the numbing kicks in) of an ice bath (or just general icing) becomes so much easier.