"Videos must not include profanity, nudity, obscenity, pornography, depictions of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or any harmful or illegal activity.
Data has said "shit" in startrek before. There has been some nudity in a couple of episodes, bum shots. The entire crew of the enterprise got intoxicated on drugs in more than one occasion. Some startrek drinks contain alcohol. I'm sure there have been characters on the holodeck smoking tobacco before. And.. if you can't show any "harmful or illegal activity" then anyone being murdered is out. No spaceships blowing up and killing anyone, unless it was accidental.
"uniforms, accessories, toys and props must be official merchandise and not bootleg items or imitations of such commercially available products"
This also seems a bit problematic, official merch/toys is often inferior to fan made props
Time for someone to make and sell a 'USB Killer Killer'
Upon detecting that a USB killer has been inserted the USB Killer Killer quietly disconnects its protected USB link to the PC's USB port. It then flashes a rotating red LED, sounds a warning siren and declares thermonuclear war on the unsuspecting USB killer by way of its 1.21kV capacitor bank, which interestingly happens to be around the size of an overweight adult hedgehog.
Unexpectedly the USB killers plastic casing instantly explodes and showers the user in molten hot plastic and metal shrapnel. Hm.. i should probably rethink this idea. Actually no, if you're stupid enough to use a USB killer this is what you get.
Instead of panicking about drones above 120 meters give drone operators their own air corridor with permitted entry/exit points.
High enough for doing autonomous waypoint flying without the risks of hitting something and for flying in the clouds. That's all we really want, a safe piece of airspace to bring in the new age in drone technology and have fun.
eg, 700 - 800meters would be a good block
The great thing about the drones industry is we can rapidly build new technology for location monitoring and crash avoidance in models.. Give us the airspace and we will build the infrastructure for model flyers to use it safely:) Building a simple RC transponder that idents the models GPS co-ordinates to other nearby models for automatic crash avoidance is not hard. It's a $5 arduino, a $20 GPS receiver and a $2 433mhz transceiver.
The solution is simple, Build the compiler to handle many different syntax options based on settings and enforce standards that make all formats logically convertible. All possible syntax options MUST! be convertible between all other formats programmatically with no user interaction or checking required.
A programmer should be able to sit down, change some compiler settings and be editing existing coding in the format they prefer and still able to commit to the same repo as others use. Perhaps the compiler could generate a 'standard syntax' copy of the source code for the repo at compile time.
As long as the rules for each syntax option correlate 1:1 conversion is simple etc || or { begin tab intended should be convertible without issues return result
The only thing that would need to be handle carefully is preventing people using words that are keywords in other syntax options. etc, if you're using || you cant have a variable named and
So adding new syntax options to existing code would be tricky. But i believe the overall concept is a step in the right direction. Where syntax does not matter, only the logic
I wouldn't say most people eat meat. Current stats vary a bit due to how you define vegetarian but its somewhere between 20 and 50% of the entire world eat a vegetarian diet.
It might be a cultural difference in the meaning of the words, but here "missing out" implies a desire or intention to do something that never occurred. i.e. missing out on something is considered an unhappy event to the person missing out which isn't relevant here since vegetarians don't want to eat meat.
Agreed, but 'missing out' is not the correct way to describe it. Most people don't feel like they're 'missing out' on eating cat meat, even when there's probably a recipe for it that would taste nice if they had it.
The brain interprets happiness/enjoyment as quite relative to previous life experiences. It's not a static relationship.
Whenever you try something new and find it's the "best thing ever" the brain recalibrates, and your previous "best thing ever" loses a little of it's enjoyment.
It's the same with enjoying food, the amount of enjoyment a vegetarian gets from their favorite vegetarian food is the same as a omnivore gets from their favorite meat-based food. With the possible exception of someone who has just 'given up' meat, since they have the memory of enjoying things the can't have any more.
It's a complete myth that olive oil has a smoke point too low to fry with.
The smoke point of oils varies by oil type and by how refined it is Here's some examples of oils people use for deep frying.
- Canola oil 190 - 204C (375 - 475F)
- Sunflower oil 107 - 232C (225 - 450F)
- Peanut oil 232C (450F)
- Tallow 215C (420F)
And here is olive oils.. - Extra virgin olive oil 191C (375F) - Extra light olive oil 242C (468F)
Normally you deep fry stuff around 175C (350F) which is fine for all types of olive oil. It's best to use light olive oil if you're deep frying in a saucepan rather than a proper deep fryer because you have less temp control on a saucepan and light olive gives you more leeway.
As far as starting a fire goes, It's more risky to deep fry using canola or sunflower oil rather than olive. The main reasons not to deep fry with olive is - It's expensive - It can sometimes leave an aftertaste on the food.
If the body is supplied with all the carbs it could ever want then it doesn't need to burn fat. After many many years of this (depending on the person) the bodies ability to burn fat starts to suffer (Basically the body gets lazy and stops burning fat as well as it should). Burning fat is required to keep your body weight correct so with that system not working properly the body ends up storing more fat than it's burning. Result = People get fat Solution = Eat less carbs and eat more good fats
Also, what most people consider begin "Hungry" is just a sugar craving, hunger is a slight pain in the stomach area and not.. "mmm.... want food"
You could build a small tester using one of the ultra small arduino boards. Maybe a coin cell, switch and phototransistor plus some leds for output.
Code it to show on the LEDs what the pulsing light frequency is. Under 100Hz, 200Hz, 1000Hz etc.
Then if you see a product you like you can easily check what the PWM frequency is before you buy it. Remember to do the check with the brightness set to min. Max brightness is often 100% duty and will have zero flicker.
It would be a good thing to keep people from clicking on this sort of thing by accident ("accident?")
I'm not too sure about that part. Consider a world where child porn exists but is totally hidden from everyone else's eyes. If people don't know that something is going on, or how prevalent it is, then they're less likely to take or support any action to stop it.
Don't get me wrong, i not saying everyone should be exposed to CP, all i'm saying is that hiding it away may make the problem worse.
USB3 has charging standards which allow for much more power. I don't think any manufactures have added support for it yet though.
Profile 1 - 5V @ 2A Profile 2 - 5V @ 2A or 12V@1.5A Profile 3 - 5V @ 2A or 12V@3A Profile 4 - 20V@3A Profile 5 - 12V or 20V at 5A (100W).
I believe the idea around profile 5 is so laptops can drop the custom power connector and use a USB3 port instead. It makes things interesting if all laptop USB ports support all power profiles. You could charge one laptop from another and even make a figurative 'energy black hole' by looping the charge back again with another cable.
There is an important difference between - People who have no motivation and don't want to be a programmer so never find out if they're any good at it. - People who believe they're not smart enough to do programming. - People who don't not have the mental capacity necessary to follow logic.
I reckon if you took a random sample of say 1000 people and put them through a decent 2 year programming course with the legit promise of 1 million dollars at the end if they pass you would find a pretty large percentage of them would be able to code reasonably by the end and get the money. After they got the money however, most of them would go back to their normal jobs since they wouldn't actually enjoy or want to do computer program as a career.
Start with Voyager and see what their response is.
It's the easiest to watch for non-treks and doesn't seem horribly old fashioned like TOS and TNG do.
The problem is that you can divide what people enjoy about a show/series into many different categories.
Hardcore fans tend to require them to be perfect, or at least even, in all categories.
The general public only care about one or two of the categories (random distribution) and couldn't care less if the others are crap.
Also, in a country where a new game costs about the fourth of minimum wage (which is not enough to live on anyway), people are not going to simply become paying customers.
They will be if the price drops to what they consider reasonable.
And that's the point, a better marketing approach is needed.
If it can be expressed digitally then it costs next to nothing to copy it. So no matter how much money they get from someone, even 10cents, they are making a profit on the sale.
Yes, care must be taken with everything in life. I fail to see any reason to repeat this fact in every conversation.
I don't really want to live in a world where everything includes a reference to 'the need to being careful' while doing things. Its a given that we should be careful and do things the right way.
...including Abbott Nutrition, CoroWise, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, McNeil Nutritionals, Pepsico, SOYJOY, Truvia and Unilever. In addition, the ADA lists Aramark, The CocaCola Company, The National Dairy Council and the Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition as partners.
Yeah, that's true, but its only around 10% of their funding. I think their reasoning for doing it are acceptable, considering the degree of funding.
It’s important for ADA to be at the same table with food companies because of the positive influence that we can have on them. For ADA, relationships with outside organizations are not about promoting companies’ products; they are about creating nutrition messages that people can understand and act upon to improve their health and that of their families.
The scientific research says that vegetarian and vegan diets adequately meet nutritional needs and are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including infancy and early childhood (American Dietetic Association)
No it doesn't. It *can*, if you are careful about it, but as a blanket statement, it's not true in practice
Omnivores, on the other hand, rarely have to worry about malnutrition. Red meat is embarrassingly nutrient-dense.
You have to be 'careful' about doing everything in life. It's a given that if you do something without being 'careful' that bad things may happen.
For example-
If you fail to cook some meat properly you may get sick.
If you eat lots of fatty meat you may die an early death.
Care must be taken with everything.
<p>And as we all know, anecdotal evidence always trumps scientific research.</p></quote>
The scientific research says that vegetarian and vegan diets adequately meet nutritional needs and are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including infancy and early childhood (American Dietetic Association)
And before someone suggests that the American Dietetic Association is not qualified to make that determination. The association has 72,000 members and ~72% are registered dietitians and ~50% of those hold advanced degrees.
On the other side of the coin, what I DO hate is when new agers or wiccans attempt to use known science -really badly I might add- to try to support their beliefs. Currently there is no such support whatsoever, and instead of authoritatively, pompously citing electromagnetism or dark energy as the source of their power, or blather on about "frequencies" when they clearly have no idea that a frequency is just a unit of measure, not an energy or substance- they should simply acknowledge that there is no empirical evidence for it, only anecdotal, and leave it at that. </quote>
True, but frequency is a bad example, as matter can be considered vibrating energy at frequency. So someone could talk about 'frequency' in relation to energy/substance in fringe science without too much of a leap.
There does seem to be quite a bit of reuse / patterns in the universe. eg fractals, fibonacci sequence. So maybe it isn't so bad to try and explain concepts that are currently unexplainable by using incorrect but similar modern concepts.
But i do agree with you, it's annoying when science is twisted and things are considered to be scientifically proven when they're not
Lots of people go about their lives with absolutely no understanding of how things work. Even things they might use on a daily basis. And if you try and explain how these things work they just cannot comprehend it. So for them, in some respects, these things are magic.
In general it's important to show which definition of magic people are using when they talking about the subject.
-) Something that can't be explained with current scientific knowledge (but maybe explainable in the future) -) Something that, by its very nature, can never be explained scientifically -) Something that the specific person cannot understand or comprehend.
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Some odd things in their guidelines
"Videos must not include profanity, nudity, obscenity, pornography, depictions of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or any harmful or illegal activity.
Data has said "shit" in startrek before.
There has been some nudity in a couple of episodes, bum shots.
The entire crew of the enterprise got intoxicated on drugs in more than one occasion.
Some startrek drinks contain alcohol.
I'm sure there have been characters on the holodeck smoking tobacco before.
And.. if you can't show any "harmful or illegal activity" then anyone being murdered is out. No spaceships blowing up and killing anyone, unless it was accidental.
"uniforms, accessories, toys and props must be official merchandise and not bootleg items or imitations of such commercially available products"
This also seems a bit problematic, official merch/toys is often inferior to fan made props
Time for someone to make and sell a 'USB Killer Killer'
Upon detecting that a USB killer has been inserted the USB Killer Killer quietly disconnects its protected USB link to the PC's USB port.
It then flashes a rotating red LED, sounds a warning siren and declares thermonuclear war on the unsuspecting USB killer by way of its 1.21kV capacitor bank, which interestingly happens to be around the size of an overweight adult hedgehog.
Unexpectedly the USB killers plastic casing instantly explodes and showers the user in molten hot plastic and metal shrapnel.
Hm.. i should probably rethink this idea.
Actually no, if you're stupid enough to use a USB killer this is what you get.
Instead of panicking about drones above 120 meters give drone operators their own air corridor with permitted entry/exit points.
High enough for doing autonomous waypoint flying without the risks of hitting something and for flying in the clouds.
That's all we really want, a safe piece of airspace to bring in the new age in drone technology and have fun.
eg, 700 - 800meters would be a good block
The great thing about the drones industry is we can rapidly build new technology for location monitoring and crash avoidance in models.. :)
Give us the airspace and we will build the infrastructure for model flyers to use it safely
Building a simple RC transponder that idents the models GPS co-ordinates to other nearby models for automatic crash avoidance is not hard.
It's a $5 arduino, a $20 GPS receiver and a $2 433mhz transceiver.
The solution is simple,
Build the compiler to handle many different syntax options based on settings and enforce standards that make all formats logically convertible.
All possible syntax options MUST! be convertible between all other formats programmatically with no user interaction or checking required.
A programmer should be able to sit down, change some compiler settings and be editing existing coding in the format they prefer and still able to commit to the same repo as others use.
Perhaps the compiler could generate a 'standard syntax' copy of the source code for the repo at compile time.
As long as the rules for each syntax option correlate 1:1 conversion is simple
etc
|| or
{ begin
tab intended should be convertible without issues
return result
The only thing that would need to be handle carefully is preventing people using words that are keywords in other syntax options.
etc, if you're using || you cant have a variable named and
So adding new syntax options to existing code would be tricky.
But i believe the overall concept is a step in the right direction. Where syntax does not matter, only the logic
What you do is come up with a sentence that is really weird (weird is easy to remember).
eg, my cat turned out to be a dog last night
Then use the first letter from each word and add numbers where appropriate.
password = mcto2badln
..but DIAF is more appropriate.
I wouldn't say most people eat meat. Current stats vary a bit due to how you define vegetarian but its somewhere between 20 and 50% of the entire world eat a vegetarian diet.
It might be a cultural difference in the meaning of the words, but here "missing out" implies a desire or intention to do something that never occurred.
i.e. missing out on something is considered an unhappy event to the person missing out which isn't relevant here since vegetarians don't want to eat meat.
Agreed, but 'missing out' is not the correct way to describe it.
Most people don't feel like they're 'missing out' on eating cat meat, even when there's probably a recipe for it that would taste nice if they had it.
The brain interprets happiness/enjoyment as quite relative to previous life experiences. It's not a static relationship.
Whenever you try something new and find it's the "best thing ever" the brain recalibrates, and your previous "best thing ever" loses a little of it's enjoyment.
It's the same with enjoying food, the amount of enjoyment a vegetarian gets from their favorite vegetarian food is the same as a omnivore gets from their favorite meat-based food.
With the possible exception of someone who has just 'given up' meat, since they have the memory of enjoying things the can't have any more.
It's a complete myth that olive oil has a smoke point too low to fry with.
The smoke point of oils varies by oil type and by how refined it is
Here's some examples of oils people use for deep frying.
- Canola oil 190 - 204C (375 - 475F)
- Sunflower oil 107 - 232C (225 - 450F)
- Peanut oil 232C (450F)
- Tallow 215C (420F)
And here is olive oils..
- Extra virgin olive oil 191C (375F)
- Extra light olive oil 242C (468F)
Normally you deep fry stuff around 175C (350F) which is fine for all types of olive oil.
It's best to use light olive oil if you're deep frying in a saucepan rather than
a proper deep fryer because you have less temp control on a saucepan and light olive gives
you more leeway.
As far as starting a fire goes, It's more risky to deep fry using canola or sunflower oil rather than olive.
The main reasons not to deep fry with olive is
- It's expensive
- It can sometimes leave an aftertaste on the food.
It is however much healthyer
Exactly.
If the body is supplied with all the carbs it could ever want then it doesn't need to burn fat. After many many years of this (depending on the person) the bodies ability to burn fat starts to suffer (Basically the body gets lazy and stops burning fat as well as it should). Burning fat is required to keep your body weight correct so with that system not working properly the body ends up storing more fat than it's burning.
Result = People get fat
Solution = Eat less carbs and eat more good fats
Also, what most people consider begin "Hungry" is just a sugar craving, hunger is a slight pain in the stomach area and not.. "mmm.... want food"
You could build a small tester using one of the ultra small arduino boards.
Maybe a coin cell, switch and phototransistor plus some leds for output.
Code it to show on the LEDs what the pulsing light frequency is.
Under 100Hz, 200Hz, 1000Hz etc.
Then if you see a product you like you can easily check what the PWM frequency is before you buy it.
Remember to do the check with the brightness set to min. Max brightness is often 100% duty and will have zero flicker.
It would be a good thing to keep people from clicking on this sort of thing by accident ("accident?")
I'm not too sure about that part.
Consider a world where child porn exists but is totally hidden from everyone else's eyes.
If people don't know that something is going on, or how prevalent it is, then they're less likely to take or support any action to stop it.
Don't get me wrong, i not saying everyone should be exposed to CP, all i'm saying is that hiding it away may make the problem worse.
USB3 has charging standards which allow for much more power.
I don't think any manufactures have added support for it yet though.
Profile 1 - 5V @ 2A
Profile 2 - 5V @ 2A or 12V@1.5A
Profile 3 - 5V @ 2A or 12V@3A
Profile 4 - 20V@3A
Profile 5 - 12V or 20V at 5A (100W).
I believe the idea around profile 5 is so laptops can drop the custom power connector and use a USB3 port instead.
It makes things interesting if all laptop USB ports support all power profiles. You could charge one laptop from another and even make a figurative 'energy black hole' by looping the charge back again with another cable.
There is an important difference between
- People who have no motivation and don't want to be a programmer so never find out if they're any good at it.
- People who believe they're not smart enough to do programming.
- People who don't not have the mental capacity necessary to follow logic.
I reckon if you took a random sample of say 1000 people and put them through a decent 2 year programming course with the legit promise of 1 million dollars at the end if they pass you would find a pretty large percentage of them would be able to code reasonably by the end and get the money.
After they got the money however, most of them would go back to their normal jobs since they wouldn't actually enjoy or want to do computer program as a career.
Start with Voyager and see what their response is. It's the easiest to watch for non-treks and doesn't seem horribly old fashioned like TOS and TNG do.
The problem is that you can divide what people enjoy about a show/series into many different categories. Hardcore fans tend to require them to be perfect, or at least even, in all categories. The general public only care about one or two of the categories (random distribution) and couldn't care less if the others are crap.
Also, in a country where a new game costs about the fourth of minimum wage (which is not enough to live on anyway), people are not going to simply become paying customers.
They will be if the price drops to what they consider reasonable.
And that's the point, a better marketing approach is needed.
If it can be expressed digitally then it costs next to nothing to copy it. So no matter how much money they get from someone, even 10cents, they are making a profit on the sale.
Yes, care must be taken with everything in life. I fail to see any reason to repeat this fact in every conversation. I don't really want to live in a world where everything includes a reference to 'the need to being careful' while doing things. Its a given that we should be careful and do things the right way.
They are, in part, funded by food companies.
...including Abbott Nutrition, CoroWise, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, McNeil Nutritionals, Pepsico, SOYJOY, Truvia and Unilever. In addition, the ADA lists Aramark, The CocaCola Company, The National Dairy Council and the Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition as partners.
Yeah, that's true, but its only around 10% of their funding. I think their reasoning for doing it are acceptable, considering the degree of funding.
It’s important for ADA to be at the same table with food companies because of the positive influence that we can have on them. For ADA, relationships with outside organizations are not about promoting companies’ products; they are about creating nutrition messages that people can understand and act upon to improve their health and that of their families.
The scientific research says that vegetarian and vegan diets adequately meet nutritional needs and are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including infancy and early childhood (American Dietetic Association)
No it doesn't. It *can*, if you are careful about it, but as a blanket statement, it's not true in practice
Omnivores, on the other hand, rarely have to worry about malnutrition. Red meat is embarrassingly nutrient-dense.
You have to be 'careful' about doing everything in life. It's a given that if you do something without being 'careful' that bad things may happen. For example- If you fail to cook some meat properly you may get sick. If you eat lots of fatty meat you may die an early death. Care must be taken with everything.
<p>And as we all know, anecdotal evidence always trumps scientific research.</p></quote>
The scientific research says that vegetarian and vegan diets adequately meet nutritional needs and are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including infancy and early childhood (American Dietetic Association)
And before someone suggests that the American Dietetic Association is not qualified to make that determination.
The association has 72,000 members and ~72% are registered dietitians and ~50% of those hold advanced degrees.
On the other side of the coin, what I DO hate is when new agers or wiccans attempt to use known science -really badly I might add- to try to support their beliefs. Currently there is no such support whatsoever, and instead of authoritatively, pompously citing electromagnetism or dark energy as the source of their power, or blather on about "frequencies" when they clearly have no idea that a frequency is just a unit of measure, not an energy or substance- they should simply acknowledge that there is no empirical evidence for it, only anecdotal, and leave it at that.
</quote>
True, but frequency is a bad example, as matter can be considered vibrating energy at frequency.
So someone could talk about 'frequency' in relation to energy/substance in fringe science without too much of a leap.
There does seem to be quite a bit of reuse / patterns in the universe. eg fractals, fibonacci sequence. So maybe it isn't so bad to try and explain concepts that are currently unexplainable by using incorrect but similar modern concepts.
But i do agree with you, it's annoying when science is twisted and things are considered to be scientifically proven when they're not
That's not really the point he was making.
Lots of people go about their lives with absolutely no understanding of how things work. Even things they might use on a daily basis.
And if you try and explain how these things work they just cannot comprehend it. So for them, in some respects, these things are magic.
In general it's important to show which definition of magic people are using when they talking about the subject.
-) Something that can't be explained with current scientific knowledge (but maybe explainable in the future)
-) Something that, by its very nature, can never be explained scientifically
-) Something that the specific person cannot understand or comprehend.