...through my brain?
I use to think about this type of argument when people were "stealing" DirectTV. All the signals companies are broadcasting onto my property and waves going through my body doing who knows what. Radio, TV, cell phones companies, satellite companies, etc. All sending signals to me with out my permission. Can I "opt out"?
If you are going to blast the signal to me I have every right to listen/decode/see what you are bombarding my property with 24/7.
If you don't want people to listen/decode/see your signal then don't broadcast it into my property or into public spaces that I have a right to be in/pay taxes to have.
An antenna doesn't "REACH" out into your property or into the sky. It's sits there and you are choosing to broadcast and hit it with your signal.
Would it make more sense to go to the Moon first? There would be no need for a one way trip with the moon. It's so close that it could act more like the space station does now. It takes 3 days to get to the moon? So even shorts stays of a month aren't too unreasonable.
I don't know all the other differences of a Mars vs the Moon debate. I don't know what the night day cycle on Mars is, the Moon I think it's 28 days. (14 days of light 14 days of dark). There are no dust storms to worry about on the Moon.
In addition to there being shorter stays on the moon and quick travel, there is the added psychological benefit of always being able to see the Earth.
A replicator would change the world economy as we know it. People essentially wouldn't need to work. All there needs food, clothing, shelter, entertainment could simply be replicated. Larger replicator could make you a car, boat, etc. Other than power (which essentially seems to not be a real problem in the Star Trek world) you have no needs.
A 3D printer is not nearly as advanced of course, but it's definitely a big enough leap that that it may change certain parts of our lives drastically.
Assuming the price to "print" in 3D drops cheaply enough and the technology advances enough we may find our selves replicating our own items and killing 1000s of industries.
Look at just the kitchen: Forks, Spoons, chopsticks, plates, cups, Spatulas, Colendars, ladles, tongs, whisks, etc. I saw a TV show with Jay Leno and he has a 3D printer in his shop which he uses to make car parts for his rare cars that are basically impossible to get other than fabricating your own.
I imagine there will be much resistance to this type of thing by large corporations that stand to become obsolete.
Well, it wouldn't be infinitely many things. Whether it be 8x4 1bit or 1920x1080 24bit, it's a finite amount of combinations.
Like I said, it's the theory that one could make a "time viewer". Now, you could generate random images and increase chances of seeing something novel as opposed to working through the combinations in order.
But I suppose the likely hood of that is less than a monkey throwing poo on a wall where it lands in such a way that it creates a document spelling out the secrets of cold fusion.
I posted the idea on Slashdot years ago about writing a program that setup up a 256×128 view port in 1bit mode (b&w) and then going through every combination of black and white pixels.
The idea being that you would be able to watch everything that has ever and will ever happen.
Somebody did the calculation though and said at 30fps it would take longer than the Universe has yet existed to go through all the frames.
I still think it is an interesting idea, at least as a thought experiment, as it would have the potential to predict/show everything that ever happens in the future. (And everything that doesn't)
Yeah, it has nothing to do with stereoscopy or "video output of the cameras, in real time, but with the human actors digitally altered to look like the alien creatures whom they were playing. "
That later was what I was hoping to see when I read the article.
Yeah, I modeled in wire frame, but even that took a long time to update. But when the scene was together you'd want to render a frame or 2 to see what the hell it was going to look like before you started a 3 week render of a 5 second animation.
No. This summary is horrible. The article and the technology it references has nothing to do with real-time skinning of character models onto real humans.
What they show is basically 2 Wii remotes at the same time for more accurate movement in a video game.
I guess I am confused with the article and the posts here. Isn't that what the Walk button is suppose to do? Make the Walk light, light up? If no one pushed the button the all the Walk signs stay red, always. If you push the button, then the next time the Green light in your direction changes, the walk like will also light up informing you that you can cross. I believe the light is so cars are alerted to the fact that there is a pedestrian in the roadway. I've personally have never been anywhere where this didn't work.
Where I live, if you pressed the button and the Walk light stays red I'm sure there would be 100+ people calling the city complaining about how the light doesn't work and writing to the newspaper about how are tax dollars are not being used to fix safety issues and children could die!
He gives a couple reasons why it would be impractical and then states, that it would "Not work anyway." (i.e. detailed list of reason "C" )
Besides, my post (which quoted what I was replying to) was only in response to the how the parent thought it was funny that someone that wasn't an engineer would even bother to try and have an idea.
Einstein being the first to pop into my head.
He wrote "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields" during the time he dropped out of school by using a doctors note.
His father wanted him to go to an electrical engineering school, which he applied to but since he hadn't graduated and didn't have a certificate they had him take an entrance exam instead, which he failed.
(btw, he had an MD, not a Ph.D. as you oh-so-subtly imply)
So he had an MD, we can then assume he had made it through high school (which is what I was oh so subtly replying to)
One notes that after 1940, the real scientists disappear from your list,
The list is not mine, but stolen off the internet. However, it would only make sense as we get closer to the present there are fewer notable quotes as what "scientist" laugh at haven't been invented yet. But 100 years from now I'm sure we will have plenty of quotes from 1940 to present with "experts" telling us about the "impossible".
If a scientist was quoted today as saying, "We will never be able to create artificial gravity in space." Well, that wouldn't be on the list would it? Not until artificial gravity had been invented.
Look around for what "scientists" say are impossible today.
-Cold Fusion
-Anti-Gravity device
-Electronic Telepathy Device
-The Cloudbuster/Weather control
-A method for transmutation of elements
-System for sending power wirelessly
A lot of these sound like science fiction, much like a flying hunk of steel did 150 years ago. Or a human man walking on the moon. Fun to write about, but clearly impossible to the educated mind. A mind that could tell you 100 reasons why neither would not work and give some great laws and equations to back up their claims.
There are plenty of scientists that still scoff at the idea that sending power wirelessly will ever be "practical" or widely used. Yet small advances are made all the time. Just about every electronic retailer carries a "wireless" charging system today.
Anyone that has had a Sonicare Toothbrush knows that wireless charging using "wireless" inductive coupling has been around a long time now.
I find it funny that every Tom, Dick, and Harry without a high school education thinks that they're a brilliant engineer whenever they read about some problem that hundreds of experienced engineers couldn't solve. Seriously, take ten seconds and go google your idea BEFORE touting it as the magical solution that all of these foolish NASA engineers didn't think of.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
— Arthur C(harles) Clarke
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. "
— Simon Newcomb
"Radio has no future."
- Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist.
"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming."
- Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer, 1926.
"Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."
- Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865
"This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. "
- Western Union internal memo, 1878
"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches? "
- The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)
"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
- Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859)
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch
"It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers."
- American Railroad Congress, 1913
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943
"There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the Moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the Earth's gravity."
- Dr. Forest Ray Moulton, University of
Chicago astronomer, 1932.
"Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction."
- Pierre Pachet
Professor Physiology, Toulouse, 1872
"‘With regard to the electric light, much has been said for and against it, but I think I may say without contradiction that when the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it, and no more will be heard of it.’"
- Erasmus Wilson
Oxford University professor, 1878
"The so-called theories of Einstein are merely the ravings of a mind polluted with liberal, democratic nonsense which is utterly unacceptable to German men of science."
- Dr. Walter Gross, 1940
On Nuclear Power, "any one who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine... "
- Ernest Rutherford (1933)
Henry Wu: You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed? Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
Henry Wu: You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed? Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
Slashdot Mirror
A news story about an announcement that itself is an announcement basically announcing they will be announcing the release of FF4 in a month?
wow
...through my brain? I use to think about this type of argument when people were "stealing" DirectTV. All the signals companies are broadcasting onto my property and waves going through my body doing who knows what. Radio, TV, cell phones companies, satellite companies, etc. All sending signals to me with out my permission. Can I "opt out"?
If you are going to blast the signal to me I have every right to listen/decode/see what you are bombarding my property with 24/7.
If you don't want people to listen/decode/see your signal then don't broadcast it into my property or into public spaces that I have a right to be in/pay taxes to have.
An antenna doesn't "REACH" out into your property or into the sky. It's sits there and you are choosing to broadcast and hit it with your signal.
World War 2, simply because the majority decided they did not like the minority who looked different (i.e. asian).
Dude, Krauts hate it when you call them Asians.
At first I thought you were joking when you said you were testing it with Chrome 9.x I didn't even know Chrome 8.x was out.
Am I just getting old or are these releases abnormally fast?
Apple users prefer the term "Cougar" ;)
Alright, someone call the MythBusters and have them cancel the "Apple Tax" episode.
Would it make more sense to go to the Moon first? There would be no need for a one way trip with the moon. It's so close that it could act more like the space station does now. It takes 3 days to get to the moon? So even shorts stays of a month aren't too unreasonable.
I don't know all the other differences of a Mars vs the Moon debate. I don't know what the night day cycle on Mars is, the Moon I think it's 28 days. (14 days of light 14 days of dark). There are no dust storms to worry about on the Moon.
In addition to there being shorter stays on the moon and quick travel, there is the added psychological benefit of always being able to see the Earth.
A replicator would change the world economy as we know it. People essentially wouldn't need to work. All there needs food, clothing, shelter, entertainment could simply be replicated. Larger replicator could make you a car, boat, etc. Other than power (which essentially seems to not be a real problem in the Star Trek world) you have no needs.
A 3D printer is not nearly as advanced of course, but it's definitely a big enough leap that that it may change certain parts of our lives drastically.
Assuming the price to "print" in 3D drops cheaply enough and the technology advances enough we may find our selves replicating our own items and killing 1000s of industries.
Look at just the kitchen: Forks, Spoons, chopsticks, plates, cups, Spatulas, Colendars, ladles, tongs, whisks, etc. I saw a TV show with Jay Leno and he has a 3D printer in his shop which he uses to make car parts for his rare cars that are basically impossible to get other than fabricating your own.
I imagine there will be much resistance to this type of thing by large corporations that stand to become obsolete.
Well, it wouldn't be infinitely many things. Whether it be 8x4 1bit or 1920x1080 24bit, it's a finite amount of combinations.
Like I said, it's the theory that one could make a "time viewer". Now, you could generate random images and increase chances of seeing something novel as opposed to working through the combinations in order.
But I suppose the likely hood of that is less than a monkey throwing poo on a wall where it lands in such a way that it creates a document spelling out the secrets of cold fusion.
Maybe he thought they were "real" agents because of the badges they wear. :)
I posted the idea on Slashdot years ago about writing a program that setup up a 256×128 view port in 1bit mode (b&w) and then going through every combination of black and white pixels.
The idea being that you would be able to watch everything that has ever and will ever happen.
Somebody did the calculation though and said at 30fps it would take longer than the Universe has yet existed to go through all the frames.
I still think it is an interesting idea, at least as a thought experiment, as it would have the potential to predict/show everything that ever happens in the future. (And everything that doesn't)
Guessing Adam and Jamie found something do with all that leftover Mentos, Salami, Thermite, and Coffee Creamer.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with stereoscopy or "video output of the cameras, in real time, but with the human actors digitally altered to look like the alien creatures whom they were playing. "
That later was what I was hoping to see when I read the article.
Yeah, I modeled in wire frame, but even that took a long time to update. But when the scene was together you'd want to render a frame or 2 to see what the hell it was going to look like before you started a 3 week render of a 5 second animation.
I thought so at the time. I had 1.5 megabytes of memory, so I pretty much dominated everyone I knew.
No. This summary is horrible. The article and the technology it references has nothing to do with real-time skinning of character models onto real humans.
What they show is basically 2 Wii remotes at the same time for more accurate movement in a video game.
My computer ran at 7mhz at the time.
This looks similar to what Lightwave 10's, Virtual Cinematography.
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJauu_vB2A
Pretty amazing stuff. Though not as exciting as the old days of waiting 24 hours to see what a single frame turned out like.
I guess I am confused with the article and the posts here. Isn't that what the Walk button is suppose to do? Make the Walk light, light up? If no one pushed the button the all the Walk signs stay red, always. If you push the button, then the next time the Green light in your direction changes, the walk like will also light up informing you that you can cross. I believe the light is so cars are alerted to the fact that there is a pedestrian in the roadway. I've personally have never been anywhere where this didn't work.
Where I live, if you pressed the button and the Walk light stays red I'm sure there would be 100+ people calling the city complaining about how the light doesn't work and writing to the newspaper about how are tax dollars are not being used to fix safety issues and children could die!
Maybe re-read the parent.
He gives a couple reasons why it would be impractical and then states, that it would "Not work anyway." (i.e. detailed list of reason "C" )
Besides, my post (which quoted what I was replying to) was only in response to the how the parent thought it was funny that someone that wasn't an engineer would even bother to try and have an idea.
Einstein being the first to pop into my head.
He wrote "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields" during the time he dropped out of school by using a doctors note.
His father wanted him to go to an electrical engineering school, which he applied to but since he hadn't graduated and didn't have a certificate they had him take an entrance exam instead, which he failed.
Just funny how somethings never seem to change.
(btw, he had an MD, not a Ph.D. as you oh-so-subtly imply)
So he had an MD, we can then assume he had made it through high school (which is what I was oh so subtly replying to)
One notes that after 1940, the real scientists disappear from your list,
The list is not mine, but stolen off the internet. However, it would only make sense as we get closer to the present there are fewer notable quotes as what "scientist" laugh at haven't been invented yet. But 100 years from now I'm sure we will have plenty of quotes from 1940 to present with "experts" telling us about the "impossible".
If a scientist was quoted today as saying, "We will never be able to create artificial gravity in space." Well, that wouldn't be on the list would it? Not until artificial gravity had been invented.
Look around for what "scientists" say are impossible today.
-Cold Fusion
-Anti-Gravity device
-Electronic Telepathy Device
-The Cloudbuster/Weather control
-A method for transmutation of elements
-System for sending power wirelessly
A lot of these sound like science fiction, much like a flying hunk of steel did 150 years ago. Or a human man walking on the moon. Fun to write about, but clearly impossible to the educated mind. A mind that could tell you 100 reasons why neither would not work and give some great laws and equations to back up their claims.
There are plenty of scientists that still scoff at the idea that sending power wirelessly will ever be "practical" or widely used. Yet small advances are made all the time. Just about every electronic retailer carries a "wireless" charging system today.
Anyone that has had a Sonicare Toothbrush knows that wireless charging using "wireless" inductive coupling has been around a long time now.
I find it funny that every Tom, Dick, and Harry without a high school education thinks that they're a brilliant engineer whenever they read about some problem that hundreds of experienced engineers couldn't solve. Seriously, take ten seconds and go google your idea BEFORE touting it as the magical solution that all of these foolish NASA engineers didn't think of.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
— Arthur C(harles) Clarke
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. "
— Simon Newcomb
"Radio has no future."
- Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist.
"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming."
- Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer, 1926.
"Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."
- Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865
"This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. "
- Western Union internal memo, 1878
"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches? "
- The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)
"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
- Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859)
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch
"It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers."
- American Railroad Congress, 1913
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943
"There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the Moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the Earth's gravity."
- Dr. Forest Ray Moulton, University of Chicago astronomer, 1932.
"Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction."
- Pierre Pachet Professor Physiology, Toulouse, 1872
"‘With regard to the electric light, much has been said for and against it, but I think I may say without contradiction that when the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it, and no more will be heard of it.’"
- Erasmus Wilson Oxford University professor, 1878
"The so-called theories of Einstein are merely the ravings of a mind polluted with liberal, democratic nonsense which is utterly unacceptable to German men of science."
- Dr. Walter Gross, 1940
On Nuclear Power, "any one who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine... "
- Ernest Rutherford (1933)
"X-rays are a hoax. "
- Lord Kelvin, ca. 1900
Henry Wu: You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
Henry Wu: You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
Jesus people it was a joke as to the headline of the article, "US objects to Kilogram" and how we still insist on using the pound over the kilogram.
Obviously base16 would be retardedly hard for every day measure for most people.
How many pounds is FCA again grandma?