Comment Re:They should mesure it in miles. (Score 1) 182
I thought the plural of Smoot was Smeet!
I thought the plural of Smoot was Smeet!
Enough energy to send a DeLorean back to 1985 over 400,000 times.
... Or, 100 million times the power to fill a house with popcorn from a military satellite.
Well, then, don't kick them out. I got my CS degree in the US under a scholarship that forced me to return to my home country. I am now working for a US company, but live in Latin America, and paid a lower salary than a comparable US citizen. If I had stayed in the States, I'd have probably started my own startup by now and be employing US citizens.
Its basic psychology, if given larger containers, people consume more.
Cornell University did a study in a Philadelphia movie theater with stale popcorn. Given the larger containers, people still ate more of it, even though it was like eating styrofoam.
You must mean Bishop Diego de Landa...a contradictory man, he ended up being our best source of ethnographic research on the Maya. Not all friars were so cruel though, for instance Bartolomé de las Casas, but he was Dominican, not Franciscan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomé_de_las_Casas
The cruelty of the Europeans against the native peoples of America, Africa and Asia is unconscionable, and its remnants persist in the xenophobia of their descendants in the US, Europe, and in the oppressed nations themselves.
Are there any cases of technologically advanced civilizations being friendly with less advanced civilizations?
As an ex-conservative turned agnostic, I can say that what's really happening with conservatives is that among them, science is now perceived as fabricated to suit liberal political leanings or the interests of mega-corporations.
This has a kernel of truth...but since their faith makes them biased against science anyway, it is too tempting for politicians to use their bias to get themselves elected.
oops, typo: I meant SEO, not CEO.
I think this is why they're insisting on real names for Google+.
When every user is a person, it is more difficult for spam CEO hackers to skew Google results. I suppose they could still try to harvest millions of Google accounts to use as +1 slaves but that's a lot harder than setting up a content farm. Spammers will have to create fake personas or steal real ones in the millions to be able to cheat now.
I'm hoping this was sarcasm
Don't forget the laser between the eyes too.
This is fine unless you or your loved ones are the ones who are starving. Remember Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal?
The price will determine its sucess. Consumers don't care about the tech aspect, only the price, convenience and how they are introduced to the idea.
That said, the technology is similar to insect compound eyes. It uses multiple tiny lenses directly in front of the sensor to create many tiny copies of the main image. It then uses software to determine the vectors of the light hitting it to correct lens aberration, defocus, noise, and uses parallax to determine depth (it has 3D capability). Because it captures more light, it also requires a much shorter shutter time, by using a much greater aperture, without the blurriness.
The downside: it uses many pixels on the sensor to determine a single pixel in the final image. Each microlens becomes a single pixel.
The dissertation by the CEO is not too difficult to follow. I would recommend anyone who likes CS and Photography to read it on the lytro website: http://www.lytro.com/science_inside (see page 4)
A massive flood...don't get me started.
John said:
I'm far less bothered by this article (it's the Guardian, for heaven's sake, what would you expect?) than I am by the fact that SlashDot's editors included it. If they had read this with any perception of the source, or any sense of critical examination of what the writer was saying, they would have concluded that TFA failed the "news for nerds, stuff that matters" test. TFA simply doesn't matter--it's red-meat propaganda for a Brit paper that still proudly waves a red flag.
I agree. Readers should be on their guard against the Guardian, and reach for the salt shaker whenever its name pops up as a source. Add to this the lovely way they sneer at Christians in the southern US as backward hillbillies, and you have flame-bait fiesta.
There is no law specifically against VoIP in Honduras yet...A law proposal exists, but hasn't been ratified, that deals with this issue.
But, that didn't stop the government monopoly Hondutel from using the district attorney's office to dismantle perfectly legal VoIP companies, accusing them of contraband international VoIP. Local VoIP calls are OK, but Hondutel alleged that since the law didn't say anything about VoIP, and specifically, international VoIP, it was illegal.
Several of the victimized companies sued the government, and after more than a year and millions of dollars in losses, won the cases.
The current government is very protectionist and corrupt. Caveat emptor.
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