Does this mean that the fat kid who lives at the arcade and plays 3+ hours of DDR every day yet never loses weight isn't going to be able to play DDD, because his silhouette can't possibly match up with the figures on the screen? I think that's unfair. Give sweaty headband kid a chance!
Nope, electromagnetic radiation moves in a straight line (at least here on earth). That's why this is new technology. If light bended normally, the world would be a very different place, and it's likely that we would have a very different vision system (if we used EM waves at all. More likely we would have feelers and souped up hearing.)
Bottom line: bending waves is hard, but not impossible. It will probably be many many years before this becomes seamless for the visual spectrum, but RADAR/SONAR are much more feasable, because it doesn't have to be flawless. Noise in RADAR is ignored. Noise in the visual spectrum is seen immediately and focused on. There are some great applications for this technology, but don't go putting a down payment on an invisable force field just yet.
Sure, because there isn't a paper trail for any credit card or check purchase you've ever made. I don't think homeland security's gonna come knocking on your door because you exceeded your pepsi quota for the week, but if this technology is expanded to other things (which it will be), this is a nice convenient way of payment that may actually cut down on fraud. It's harder to steal someone's face and fingerprint than their credit card. (read: harder, not impossible) And if you're buying something you shouldn't be, you're not going to be paying with fingerprint, photo id, credit card, or check. You're going to go to the ATM, insert your credit card/fingerprint/whatever, and then take your nice pile of 20's and score that next eighth of afghani bud.
...Thank you! It's people like you who jump on new technology and bitch about all the things that are wrong with it that make everyone else's lives easier. When I finally break the bank for a MacBook, I won't have to worry about any of this stuff:)
By freeze-drying your blood and removing the water crystals, all you need to put back in is the water. Everything else stays in the bag (all the salts, proteins, cells, etc). That's why they call it freeze-dried...
Granted, you have to add the correct amount of water. But I'm sure they've thought of that, and instead of running around w/ pints of blood, they'll have pint bags with the right amount of water in them, and all you have to do is dump your dry blood in the top.
Again with people jumping to conclusions. The trojan is loaded when you open an.exe attached to an e-mail from "Wal-mart". Lesson to be learned: never open random.exe attachments. Ever. Problem solved.
For those of you screaming that "numberedlinks" should be removed from the mozilla site, that wouldn't fix the problem. The original extension is perfectly safe and NOT a trojan. This one is just spoofing it by installing itself with the same name.
A little more careful reading and some common sense go a long way
Perhaps, although they still have one huge advantage over Vista - they've both been released. Microsoft is settling into the role of Sisyphus, and every time they get close to the release date, their giant stone goes rolling back down the hill for months of additional changes.
Either MS is really taking their time and putting out a stable, low bug system (for a change), or this is just a sign of trouble to come once the install is available on your Dell custom PC...
We certainly don't want a surgeon to loose a scalpel inside of us. Just imagine a scalpel wandering around, wreaking havoc wherever it pleases.
Also, people need to RTFA, as well as the previous comments. It's like you read a headline and go right to the "reply" button. For shame,/., for shame.
FTA:
But don't plan on locking in sunny weather for that planned family picnic in July 2036. These forecasts are only general trends.
The system is being used to look for trouble spots that are likely to experience some kind of disaster (typhoon, flood, draught, etc), and give people a heads-up so that FEMA doesn't drop the ball again.
Granted, I probably could have told you that a town on the coast below sea-level was at risk (here comes the flame war), but hey, why let Joe Scientist do it when you can spend a lot of money on really cool computer technology?
Great idea in theory, but very hard to put into practice. First of all, there are a lot of immunological compatability issues when transferring blood or serum from one organism to another. The human (and mouse) body has an amazing system to recognize foreign material and destroy it, and the bood wouldn't last very long.
The second issue is cost. It would be very hard to get a large enough quantity of infant blood to "bathe" an injured area (short of pushing the limits of ethics, which our country seems unwilling to do as of late).
"Why not use synthetic materials?" Basically the same two reasons. Synthetic proteins are "copies" of what is naturally produced. However, there are a lot of modifications and interactions that occur in the body that synthetic materials don't undergo, and therefore don't work as well as the natural anologue. Also, making synthetic serum would be very expensive, since there are a lot of elements interacting, and we have no idea what's actually making the difference.
That having been said, studying these interactions and coming up with strategies (like introducing specialized bacteria, certain blocker molecules, or even *gasp* stem cells to the mix) is a very promising field, and is being worked on in labs all over the world.
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Does this mean that the fat kid who lives at the arcade and plays 3+ hours of DDR every day yet never loses weight isn't going to be able to play DDD, because his silhouette can't possibly match up with the figures on the screen? I think that's unfair. Give sweaty headband kid a chance!
Nope, electromagnetic radiation moves in a straight line (at least here on earth). That's why this is new technology. If light bended normally, the world would be a very different place, and it's likely that we would have a very different vision system (if we used EM waves at all. More likely we would have feelers and souped up hearing.)
Bottom line: bending waves is hard, but not impossible. It will probably be many many years before this becomes seamless for the visual spectrum, but RADAR/SONAR are much more feasable, because it doesn't have to be flawless. Noise in RADAR is ignored. Noise in the visual spectrum is seen immediately and focused on. There are some great applications for this technology, but don't go putting a down payment on an invisable force field just yet.
it's another way for big brother to watch you.
Sure, because there isn't a paper trail for any credit card or check purchase you've ever made. I don't think homeland security's gonna come knocking on your door because you exceeded your pepsi quota for the week, but if this technology is expanded to other things (which it will be), this is a nice convenient way of payment that may actually cut down on fraud. It's harder to steal someone's face and fingerprint than their credit card. (read: harder, not impossible) And if you're buying something you shouldn't be, you're not going to be paying with fingerprint, photo id, credit card, or check. You're going to go to the ATM, insert your credit card/fingerprint/whatever, and then take your nice pile of 20's and score that next eighth of afghani bud.
...but no word yet on an exact release date.
Maybe it's being bundled with Vista. *snigger*
...Thank you! It's people like you who jump on new technology and bitch about all the things that are wrong with it that make everyone else's lives easier. When I finally break the bank for a MacBook, I won't have to worry about any of this stuff :)
...and remember, to vote for your favorite candidate, text "vote" and their number to USVOTES (8786837)
-Seacrest, out-
Can we have Simon Cowell rip apart the candidates, too?
By freeze-drying your blood and removing the water crystals, all you need to put back in is the water. Everything else stays in the bag (all the salts, proteins, cells, etc). That's why they call it freeze-dried...
Granted, you have to add the correct amount of water. But I'm sure they've thought of that, and instead of running around w/ pints of blood, they'll have pint bags with the right amount of water in them, and all you have to do is dump your dry blood in the top.
Again with people jumping to conclusions. The trojan is loaded when you open an .exe attached to an e-mail from "Wal-mart". Lesson to be learned: never open random .exe attachments. Ever. Problem solved.
For those of you screaming that "numberedlinks" should be removed from the mozilla site, that wouldn't fix the problem. The original extension is perfectly safe and NOT a trojan. This one is just spoofing it by installing itself with the same name.
A little more careful reading and some common sense go a long way
Perhaps, although they still have one huge advantage over Vista - they've both been released. Microsoft is settling into the role of Sisyphus, and every time they get close to the release date, their giant stone goes rolling back down the hill for months of additional changes.
Either MS is really taking their time and putting out a stable, low bug system (for a change), or this is just a sign of trouble to come once the install is available on your Dell custom PC...
We certainly don't want a surgeon to loose a scalpel inside of us. Just imagine a scalpel wandering around, wreaking havoc wherever it pleases.
/., for shame.
Also, people need to RTFA, as well as the previous comments. It's like you read a headline and go right to the "reply" button. For shame,
I didn't spend 6 years in evil medical school to be called "Mr.", thank you very much.
now, has anyone seen my "laser" tweezers?
Where's the video? Remember: a picture/video is worth 1000 mis-informed comments...
FTA: But don't plan on locking in sunny weather for that planned family picnic in July 2036. These forecasts are only general trends. The system is being used to look for trouble spots that are likely to experience some kind of disaster (typhoon, flood, draught, etc), and give people a heads-up so that FEMA doesn't drop the ball again. Granted, I probably could have told you that a town on the coast below sea-level was at risk (here comes the flame war), but hey, why let Joe Scientist do it when you can spend a lot of money on really cool computer technology?
Great idea in theory, but very hard to put into practice. First of all, there are a lot of immunological compatability issues when transferring blood or serum from one organism to another. The human (and mouse) body has an amazing system to recognize foreign material and destroy it, and the bood wouldn't last very long. The second issue is cost. It would be very hard to get a large enough quantity of infant blood to "bathe" an injured area (short of pushing the limits of ethics, which our country seems unwilling to do as of late). "Why not use synthetic materials?" Basically the same two reasons. Synthetic proteins are "copies" of what is naturally produced. However, there are a lot of modifications and interactions that occur in the body that synthetic materials don't undergo, and therefore don't work as well as the natural anologue. Also, making synthetic serum would be very expensive, since there are a lot of elements interacting, and we have no idea what's actually making the difference. That having been said, studying these interactions and coming up with strategies (like introducing specialized bacteria, certain blocker molecules, or even *gasp* stem cells to the mix) is a very promising field, and is being worked on in labs all over the world.