Well, the body radiates heat. Even if your suit could bend those, its going to end up heating up to skin temperature. Once that happens, its all over. It can bend IR where ever it wants, but since IR from a human body is relativity uniform to begin with (and you don't need detail to see a human figure heat blur on a IR sensor), you're still going to get a human shaped object on your IR sensors.
One day isn't that bad. I wouldn't call it old. Also, previous developments on meta materials (see the Microwave ones), have pretty much been accepted as a possible first step towards cloaks. The Scientific America article has one of the researchers saying:
"We are not actually cloaking anything," Valentine said in a telephone interview. "I don't think we have to worry about invisible people walking around any time soon. To be honest, we are just at the beginning of doing anything like that."
So, while they aren't saying 'this will become an invisibility cloak', to say that there is no active speculation about applying visible light metamaterials as a cloak is wrong. Article also ends with comment on how these would make superior lens for microscopes.
All they're doing is cloud seeding. It makes clouds drop their precipitation earlier than normal. So they try to make as many clouds as possible drop their rain around Beijing, not on Beijing. Same amount of rain/water falling to earth.
As for cost of their opening ceremony. It's their money. They spend it how they want.
Something along the lines of, when you make the balloon strong enough to contain vacuum without collapsing, you've made it too heavy. The average density of the entire balloon including the surface and whatever reinforcements you have is now greater than that of the atmosphere.
Such a balloon could work given a thin enough atmosphere though.
You can't promote a light gamer atmosphere when real people are on the line. It's not just a matter of abstracting away the enemy , the freindlies on the ground are depending on you.
The amount of ice in the Arctic is still inconsistent. They have years with really early and complete melts, but then you have other years where the water is solid through to June or July. There seems to be an overall trend towards earlier melting, but at this point its still not consistent enough to rely on the open waters for a multi year commercial operation.
Then don't observe 'jocks'. Observe athletic people, or at least try to find some smart people who exercise. Jocks and 'athletic' are not the same. In any case, if improving your brain is the only reason you would exercise, you probably wouldn't enjoy it that much anyways.
That's the most BS definition of a sport ever. You take the group of commonly held to be sports activities. Basketball, football (both of them), baseball. With the exception of basketball, the majority of points scored in the three other sports could easily be called objective. The remainder is ridiculously subjective. A baseball umpire calling the safe or out at home is a really subjective thing. You might not have the best angle, there's dust in the air, and crap is moving fast. Until the rise of instant replay, and slow motion, it was completely impossible for borderline cases to be 'objective'.
Basketball players exaggerate fouls to make the fouls clear. 90% of the time they fall or whatever, its because they've actually been fouled and want to make sure they get the call. The other 9% they're being dicks. The last 1% they're actually injured.
Life wasn't a competition in the past? We don't NEED to watch competitions in our leisure time, but we certainly can. Maybe you shouldn't care, but other people who follow or appreciate that field care. The Olympics as a whole might be kind of screwed up now, but don't use it to paint a brush over all competitive sports. You may not hold them as a role model, but many people do. The level of focus and determination that competitive athletes (professional and amateur) is truly incredible. And they're not all brainless jocks either. Some combat sports are among the most cerebral activities you can do. They're 3d real time chess that hurts when you lose.
Yeah, except at the speed that fights can reach, it becomes far less hard than people (including the judges) would like. Which is why they have a panel of judges anyways. Some people in Australia are working on a electronic scoring system, but I figure it might be a bit before its widely adopted. You have to wear a vest right now, and there's going to be some resistance to that.
Seriously. Get some of the oil and grim off the your face. Most common place is the sides of your nose. Just rub your fingers into it really hard, and then wipe onto the scratches. Might want to a light wipe with a clean cloth right after. It works on fairly minor scratches. Other than that, you can try Brasso. If your face is too clean, go find some highschoolers.
Well, the DRM is on the files isn't it? Your allowed to load whatever files you want (so DRM free pdfs, txts, rtfs or whatever), its just that the stuff you buy from Amazon has DRM on it. If such is the case, a Kindle Hack to remove the DRM components on the reader itself doesn't make sense.
They did keep use of colour. They got some 'angry emails' from some fans during the development of Halo 3 about the lack of 'realism' (aka, make it look like GoW. subtle shades of brown). Bungie basically told them to suck it, this is the Bungie way, and people are going to like it. I kind of enjoy it. Probably why I hate the Flood so much. Everything becomes shades of brown really quickly.
To be fair, graphics build atmosphere and 'feel'. His criticism felt like he found find the new atmosphere and feel disappointing compared to D2. I think that's a fair point. Really, its going to be the same with SC2. Some people are going to be turned off by the new 'feel' to it. Part of that will be gameplay changes, others will be the result of new graphics.
Graphics do more than 'look pretty'. They can effect gameplay, immersion, and feel. All this stuff about 'put gameplay/AI/story/characters before graphics' may be legit, but that doesn't mean that graphics are no longer a fair point of contention.
Its hard to say with Starcraft. In game graphics in Starcraft were such that... well, really, you can't tell much. From what you can tell, I -would- say that it was cartoony. Bright colors everywhere, massive shoulderpads, big bright explosions and splatter. The FMV cut scenes on the other hand were somewhat darker, more realistic. But then again, have you seen the announcement trailer for SC2?
Really, when I was watching the gameplay vid, I really didn't notice the Barb being somewhat cartoony. As long as every set of armor doesn't turn into HUGE PAULDRONS and massive boots, then really, its ok.
99% of 'real troll' is copy and paste and catching whoever wasn't paying attention last time. The last 1% is an artform. And hey, if you don't like the NYT calling anyone being a massive asshole on the internet a troll, get the rest of the internet from doing that first. It doesn't have to be incorrect information. It can just be a post made to enrage.
Like going on a holocaust survivors forum and posting 'I've been to Treblinka. Doesn't seem too hard.'
If you read TFA, you'll find that one college actually had to ban water pong too (which they had 'replaced' beer pong with). Because of water intoxication. Go figure.
So there are no people shaped holes in the images.
Personally, I would have liked all the people switched into anons. Fox could have a field day. 'Google spreading the Internet hacker terrorist message!'
Well, still the question is, so what? What does the presence of water on Mars tell us. Not asking for what it can do, or what it will let us do, but what does it tell us? What can we learn from what, what new questions does it raise.
Also, I want to meet this legendary Joe Public. Wanting to invest in things that probably will have more immediate or more significant payoffs seems to be incredibly human. You're turning the 'non sciency' people into a large monolithic blocks. Since they believe that there are better investments that don't involve Space Exploration, they are totally egotistic? Since they believe that given the state of the World right now, this news isn't THAT important to them, they suffer from 'adolescent self obsession'?
I personally support Space Exploration. I know how small the NASA budget is, and the unlikelihood of anything else significant coming out of reassigning all of it to other areas, especially when you look at your ballooning military budget. I know that a good segment of the public appears to be apathetic to space exploration, or even basic science. But the misconceptions the public has of NASA budget isn't because their stupid or 'anti science'. It means their ignorant and should be informed. They don't believe that some random discovery about quantum effects is 'amazing'? That's ok. The whole friggin world probably went 'heh' when the laser was first created. Didn't stop it from being used in next to everything.
Sorry, rant over. I just grinds on my nerves whenever a science article comes out, and people start talking about us, those who appreciate science, and the dirty stupid majority who is too dumb to understand the beauty/importance.
Most weapons (bombs and missiles) aren't really 'stealthy' to begin with. The bulk of bombs and missiles currently in wide spread use are based on physical designs that are decades old. They may have been upgraded (new warheads, new motors, new seekers, new guidance, whatever), but the physical setup is the same. As a result, they were never designed with stealth in mind. Making them chrome isn't really going to hurt.
Stealthy weapons (actually stealthy weapons) shouldn't be tracked in the first place.
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Well, insulation will rapidly cause the person wearing it to pass out. and possibly die.
Well, the body radiates heat. Even if your suit could bend those, its going to end up heating up to skin temperature. Once that happens, its all over. It can bend IR where ever it wants, but since IR from a human body is relativity uniform to begin with (and you don't need detail to see a human figure heat blur on a IR sensor), you're still going to get a human shaped object on your IR sensors.
"We are not actually cloaking anything," Valentine said in a telephone interview. "I don't think we have to worry about invisible people walking around any time soon. To be honest, we are just at the beginning of doing anything like that."
So, while they aren't saying 'this will become an invisibility cloak', to say that there is no active speculation about applying visible light metamaterials as a cloak is wrong. Article also ends with comment on how these would make superior lens for microscopes.
All they're doing is cloud seeding. It makes clouds drop their precipitation earlier than normal. So they try to make as many clouds as possible drop their rain around Beijing, not on Beijing. Same amount of rain/water falling to earth.
As for cost of their opening ceremony. It's their money. They spend it how they want.
The credit card just raises the tumblers. You still need a torsion wrench (a screw driver will do) to turn the lock.
Something along the lines of, when you make the balloon strong enough to contain vacuum without collapsing, you've made it too heavy. The average density of the entire balloon including the surface and whatever reinforcements you have is now greater than that of the atmosphere.
Such a balloon could work given a thin enough atmosphere though.
You can't promote a light gamer atmosphere when real people are on the line. It's not just a matter of abstracting away the enemy , the freindlies on the ground are depending on you.
The amount of ice in the Arctic is still inconsistent. They have years with really early and complete melts, but then you have other years where the water is solid through to June or July. There seems to be an overall trend towards earlier melting, but at this point its still not consistent enough to rely on the open waters for a multi year commercial operation.
Looks fine for me. FF3 with noscript on.
Then don't observe 'jocks'. Observe athletic people, or at least try to find some smart people who exercise. Jocks and 'athletic' are not the same. In any case, if improving your brain is the only reason you would exercise, you probably wouldn't enjoy it that much anyways.
That's the most BS definition of a sport ever. You take the group of commonly held to be sports activities. Basketball, football (both of them), baseball. With the exception of basketball, the majority of points scored in the three other sports could easily be called objective. The remainder is ridiculously subjective. A baseball umpire calling the safe or out at home is a really subjective thing. You might not have the best angle, there's dust in the air, and crap is moving fast. Until the rise of instant replay, and slow motion, it was completely impossible for borderline cases to be 'objective'.
Basketball players exaggerate fouls to make the fouls clear. 90% of the time they fall or whatever, its because they've actually been fouled and want to make sure they get the call. The other 9% they're being dicks. The last 1% they're actually injured.
Life wasn't a competition in the past? We don't NEED to watch competitions in our leisure time, but we certainly can. Maybe you shouldn't care, but other people who follow or appreciate that field care. The Olympics as a whole might be kind of screwed up now, but don't use it to paint a brush over all competitive sports. You may not hold them as a role model, but many people do. The level of focus and determination that competitive athletes (professional and amateur) is truly incredible. And they're not all brainless jocks either. Some combat sports are among the most cerebral activities you can do. They're 3d real time chess that hurts when you lose.
Yeah, except at the speed that fights can reach, it becomes far less hard than people (including the judges) would like. Which is why they have a panel of judges anyways. Some people in Australia are working on a electronic scoring system, but I figure it might be a bit before its widely adopted. You have to wear a vest right now, and there's going to be some resistance to that.
Seriously. Get some of the oil and grim off the your face. Most common place is the sides of your nose. Just rub your fingers into it really hard, and then wipe onto the scratches. Might want to a light wipe with a clean cloth right after. It works on fairly minor scratches. Other than that, you can try Brasso. If your face is too clean, go find some highschoolers.
Well, the DRM is on the files isn't it? Your allowed to load whatever files you want (so DRM free pdfs, txts, rtfs or whatever), its just that the stuff you buy from Amazon has DRM on it. If such is the case, a Kindle Hack to remove the DRM components on the reader itself doesn't make sense.
They did keep use of colour. They got some 'angry emails' from some fans during the development of Halo 3 about the lack of 'realism' (aka, make it look like GoW. subtle shades of brown). Bungie basically told them to suck it, this is the Bungie way, and people are going to like it. I kind of enjoy it. Probably why I hate the Flood so much. Everything becomes shades of brown really quickly.
To be fair, graphics build atmosphere and 'feel'. His criticism felt like he found find the new atmosphere and feel disappointing compared to D2. I think that's a fair point. Really, its going to be the same with SC2. Some people are going to be turned off by the new 'feel' to it. Part of that will be gameplay changes, others will be the result of new graphics.
Graphics do more than 'look pretty'. They can effect gameplay, immersion, and feel. All this stuff about 'put gameplay/AI/story/characters before graphics' may be legit, but that doesn't mean that graphics are no longer a fair point of contention.
Its hard to say with Starcraft. In game graphics in Starcraft were such that... well, really, you can't tell much. From what you can tell, I -would- say that it was cartoony. Bright colors everywhere, massive shoulderpads, big bright explosions and splatter. The FMV cut scenes on the other hand were somewhat darker, more realistic. But then again, have you seen the announcement trailer for SC2?
Really, when I was watching the gameplay vid, I really didn't notice the Barb being somewhat cartoony. As long as every set of armor doesn't turn into HUGE PAULDRONS and massive boots, then really, its ok.
99% of 'real troll' is copy and paste and catching whoever wasn't paying attention last time. The last 1% is an artform. And hey, if you don't like the NYT calling anyone being a massive asshole on the internet a troll, get the rest of the internet from doing that first. It doesn't have to be incorrect information. It can just be a post made to enrage.
Like going on a holocaust survivors forum and posting 'I've been to Treblinka. Doesn't seem too hard.'
If you read TFA, you'll find that one college actually had to ban water pong too (which they had 'replaced' beer pong with). Because of water intoxication. Go figure.
So there are no people shaped holes in the images.
Personally, I would have liked all the people switched into anons. Fox could have a field day. 'Google spreading the Internet hacker terrorist message!'
Well, still the question is, so what? What does the presence of water on Mars tell us. Not asking for what it can do, or what it will let us do, but what does it tell us? What can we learn from what, what new questions does it raise.
Also, I want to meet this legendary Joe Public. Wanting to invest in things that probably will have more immediate or more significant payoffs seems to be incredibly human. You're turning the 'non sciency' people into a large monolithic blocks. Since they believe that there are better investments that don't involve Space Exploration, they are totally egotistic? Since they believe that given the state of the World right now, this news isn't THAT important to them, they suffer from 'adolescent self obsession'?
I personally support Space Exploration. I know how small the NASA budget is, and the unlikelihood of anything else significant coming out of reassigning all of it to other areas, especially when you look at your ballooning military budget. I know that a good segment of the public appears to be apathetic to space exploration, or even basic science. But the misconceptions the public has of NASA budget isn't because their stupid or 'anti science'. It means their ignorant and should be informed. They don't believe that some random discovery about quantum effects is 'amazing'? That's ok. The whole friggin world probably went 'heh' when the laser was first created. Didn't stop it from being used in next to everything.
Sorry, rant over. I just grinds on my nerves whenever a science article comes out, and people start talking about us, those who appreciate science, and the dirty stupid majority who is too dumb to understand the beauty/importance.
'Theora' is greek for watcher isn't it? Kind of makes sense.
Most weapons (bombs and missiles) aren't really 'stealthy' to begin with. The bulk of bombs and missiles currently in wide spread use are based on physical designs that are decades old. They may have been upgraded (new warheads, new motors, new seekers, new guidance, whatever), but the physical setup is the same. As a result, they were never designed with stealth in mind. Making them chrome isn't really going to hurt.
Stealthy weapons (actually stealthy weapons) shouldn't be tracked in the first place.