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by Tloewald 12y ago
I'm pretty leery of faking depth of field since you can't blur in pixels that aren't there. What this really shows me is that sensor size is almost irrelevant when it comes to image quality now. Certainly a 1" sensor sho
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Right but the F15E variant satisfies the rest of the remarks.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
You're right. Got my wires crossed. State of the Art vs. one of the Culture novels set in a non-Earth middle ages (Transitions?)
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Random is his worst put down -- someone who is consistently wrong actually conveys information.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
You are aware that The Culture is explicitly not a descendant of humanity. Culture agents visit Earth in a short story set after Consider Phlebas and it's during the Middle Ages. As for your alleged empirical fact -- the implication
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Very true. Indeed several of the books are about the culture dealing with some kind of (generally not serious) crisis. Most enlightening: the Culture was created initially as a setting for Use of Weapons
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by Tloewald 12y ago
The question is moot -- Smalltalk isn't so good. Back in the 90s we were developing sales force automation software in VB3 (ugh!) which was by no means wonderful. Our stuff ran far faster on modest hardware than similar Smalltalk softw
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by Tloewald 12y ago
1) The technique you're describing is going to lead to very long journeys, so this makes manned flights impractical. Or am I wrong? 2) Getting something to a Lagrange point is only useful if it's at near zero velocity (relative
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Don't you need to decelerate into the Lagrange point? If so, why not just use conventional gravity assist to get it to Mars faster?
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Let's see: 1) the US contemplated using its mythical superweapon (a) against the Russians after WWII, (b) against the Chinese and North Koreans during the Korean war. By the time the Vietnam war was going badly, the Russians and Chines
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Even in the eyes of racist Europeans, the Japanese held a privileged place, having defeated the Russians -- a "white" race -- in a war in 1905. (Later, South African apartheid would also make a special exemption for the Japanese.)
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Given that the goal of a gravity assist is not to hit the source of the gravity well, how is using a lagrange point going to be more useful than using a planet? The usefulness of the technique for moving a satellite around earth seems clear
883.
by Tloewald 12y ago
How the Washington Post these days seems to have become random (in the excellent sense that Bill Gates uses the term).
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Brendan Eich is entitled to his opinion, and a large not for profit is entitled not to want someone with that opinion as a figurehead. As for who has done more for what — web browsers were going to have a scripting language. Is Javascript s
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by Tloewald 12y ago
There's nothing simpler than printing a hole. I just did one now using my powers of the mind.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I assume you're implying that their 2D printers suck. Even so, a 3D printer that was as reliable as a terrible 2D printer would be ridiculously awesome right now.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Circuit boards seem pretty straightforward — you need a substrate material and a conductive material. A lot of the other stuff seemed much more fanciful.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
MP4 video support is completely absent on Mac. And MP3 audio is also not supported.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Firefox's hopeless video and audio implementation (especially on Mac OS X) remains a deal breaker for me. It means resorting to Flash in a lot of cases, which means I use another browser. I'm glad to see strides being made in Java
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Disruption is by definition not Pareto optimal since it is bad for those disrupted. What's your point?
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Well it involves a generation loss
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Once your company has shares, you made $10,000 for 50% of your stock which you paid $500 for. But the investor merely has your shares. So you are up $9000, whoever got your $1000 is up $1000, and the investor is down $10,000. That adds up t
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I imagine that as the number of programmers is growing exponentially a lot of wheels will be reinvented unnecessarily, but this is a security product from a top-tier company selling products at premium prices .
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Perhaps the NSA hopes everyone else will use it (and not, say a stock Android phone or an iPhone).
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Most institutions rate articles by impact factor for purposes of determining tenure/promotion, which is derived from the journal, which in turn is derived from the number of citations (the idea is that if a paper got into journal X it
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Apparently. And, amazingly, a comparison by MIT professors that ranks MIT first.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Doomsday cults missing their deadlines never seem to suffer much harm.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Setting aside the trivial arithmetic error, I think a simpler attack approach comes from the first two farmers collectively having 26 chickens and making twice as much money as the third, giving you a simpler starting point.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I always find it amusing when someone snipes at someone else's writing and still comes off second best.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Thanks for the info. That's still more commercial than pot in Colorado!

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