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Just a couple of short comments:

* Hypersphere is not a blimp, balloon, airplane or rocket. it is a rigid airship. difference matters.

* yes, remote sensing can be done with RC toys. But those toys do not ensure quality and continuity of the RS service, let alone cost-effectiveness.

* why is Hypersphere different? Look at the first two pages of the brochure from the webpage, or at the end of the animation for the keypoints (again from the web: http://www.hipersfera.hr). In short - the most cost-effective Remote Sensing system in the world, offering 24/7 continuous REAL TIME covering of large ground areas.

* applications: ppl at ycomb cannot see apps for a real time high res online remote sensing database? i usually expect this from people without the "vision capability". think about smartphone market 20 years ago. nuff said.

* Skylifter is another type of vehicle, designed for transport, and Hypersphere is designed for loitering. Might look similar, but the similarity stops there.

* "proprietary" issue. no code has been patented. we have the PCT patent granted on the overall airship design, proving that we're "novel, innovative, and relevant for the industry". that is the point of "proprietary".

* privacy: cell phone penetration is around 100% or more in most of the developed world. hence, there are technical means for govmnts and corporations to know exactly where you are, what are you doing, what are you saying, etc, at any given time, regardless if ur phone is turned on or off. hence, the point is in efficient regulation of the technology.

* linked article title says the project is worth 7.5Bn$. what I actually said is that the RS market is valued at 7.5Bn$ today, and that Hypersphere, with a right strategic partner, has the potential to become the market-multiplier, coz it enables a complete change of the Remote Sensing Business model, because of 2-order-magnitude image price drop.

* there is a flight tested scaled prototype, which confirmed innovative flight concept.

Bojan Pecnik, founder and CTO
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I am a teacher. You are OUT OF Your DAMN MIND if you think I’m arming myself
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Thanks a lot, this is very useful information. As far as I can see they have never actually used the domain in any way.
"However, whenever I used to install Linux along with Windows, it'd always mess up my Windows installation a few days later"

That's the confusing part, it's certainly possible to wipe out a partition by accident during install but to have it magically overwrite data at a later date is very odd.
Right now I'm running multiple OSes on a system with hybrid graphics, but I'd love to have a laptop designed/tweaked for Linux. Either a System76 or "bunny" Huang's latest design.
> "I’ve always preached that a director or photographer should INCLUDE elements in a frame or shots that add to the story, and EXCLUDE elements or shots that detract from it."

The genius of Tolkien is in the detail of his world, a detail no author I have read is yet to emulate.
Wouldn't they get that information anyways by tapping my phone or internet connection? The NSA probably has my known IP addresses linked together, who knows.

I've not experienced Facebook used as a form of oppression against me and my friends. If I did, I would immediately alert them... on Facebook.
This is discussing strawmen though.

If you look at the original article its clear that there are CPAs who are out of jobs.

Given just the collapse of the bubble along with the addition of new people into the market; there are now many people who aren't holding a job, while people are holding jobs they are overqualified for while crowding out others.

The article may focus on the homeless, but as has been mentioned its part of a larger problem in America, which consists of cold macroeconomic factors that care little if your dream was to do finance, be a lawyer or write a novel.
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??? who's got time to worry about shit like this? Work out your issues and start loving yourself before you do a startup.
The article presents a good point, but it is so overloaded with anger that I found it a little annoying to read.
I just looked it up on Wolfram Alpha, apparently the speed of Voyager is 17km/s, or ~1/18000th the speed of light? So it would take Voyager 216000 years to make the journey? Bummer :-( We probably couldn't even build a probe that would last long enough?
I'm somewhat confused. If $500 million in shares are donated by Zuckerberg, does that mean a tax write-off of that amount? Also, to verify, the foundation would have to liquidize the shares, right? That kind of instant sell-off would cause massive drops in price... I really hate to ask this (as I honestly don't have anything against Zuckerberg, and really don't feel that "rich people" or "all companies" are evil or anything, as I know some people do), but is this not a massive tax arbitrage? Especially so, given that many people feel that Facebook's stock is overvalued (trading at almost $30 when it "should" trade for less than $10)? Even without any possible benefits to Zuckerberg (which I don't particularly really care about, and which brianpam had an interesting explanation for in his comment elsewhere on this post), doesn't that make this number sound much larger than it would ever really mean to the foundation's bottom line, making this insanely large number somewhat for show? (Seriously: please tell me I'm wrong; I just want to better understand these things.) (Although, thinking more, maybe the "show" is also in the benefit of the foundation, as having a massive donation, the largest in the foundation's history, also looks very good for it, even if the money deflates quite a bit in the process of turning it into cash.)

(edit: Someone, in person, points out they could hold onto the stock and sell it off slowly, or keep it for dividends; I don't think this stock has dividends, and maybe it is actually maintaining its value well--my comment was based somewhat on the premise that the various "overvalued" comments from a few months ago would continue into ever-decreasing prices, but in fact the stock went up at some point from its low-point, so maybe that's where I'm wrong?)
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This is a much better link (also authored by a teacher, who does use firearms for recreation) explaining why arming teachers may not be a good idea: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/14w806/be_wary_of_...

Less ranting, more measured/substantive discussion plz.
This topic is always such a tiring minefield to navigate.

Expanding on point 2 -
It should be noted that several students and workers in hitherto "hard" areas, such as finance and law, are also struggling today. Finance is yet to, recover its pre collapse heights.

So these industries are dealing with a glut of candidates to pick from, AND at the same time, many of the routine low mindfulness tasks, are open to outsourcing.

So even in the non Liberal Arts world, the landscape is fundamentally changed.

As someone said on the NYT boards - there will be no more isolated islands of prosperity.
It's not a normal charitable foundation, but it's more like a fund that donors house their donations, and that then act as a sort of clearing house to match up these donations with grant applicants, where the donor keep a directorial role. The SVCF doesn't seem to have much in the way of limits on the kind of charitable projects they support - from what I can see, the money might go to malaria prevention in the Congo or it might go to funding prestigious professorial chairs.

I guess Zuckerberg likes the kind of projects the SVCF has funded in the past and the way the donor-applicant matching works.

Recall that Zuckerberg has already pledged half his wealth to charity: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/seventeen-of-wealth...
Then again, it could help with more problems than just mass shootings. Pointing a gun at the students might do wonders for discipline. Also it might be a useful skill to practice problem solving at gun point. According to movies those situations seem to arrive surprisingly often where you have to make complicated decisions while in mortal danger. Just because you can calculate 6*7 in your head doesn't mean you can still do it with the barrel of a gun pushed to your forehead.
Stock can be used as collateral to get a bank loan (the uber rich use this to avoid capital gains taxes). I would imagine that is what they'll do to generate cash for disbursements from the foundation (they have to pay out at least 5% per year).

I would be shocked to find they sold the shares. I'm sure them keeping them for a long period of time (possibly forever) and Zuck retaining voting power over them was a key part of this transaction.
Did you submit a patch for the documentation to make this particular more clear?
I had a go with it fairly recently and I was generally really impressed. Some odd naming conventions but you can't half get some great data out of it.
as someone outside the usa can i (1) thank you for selling outside and (2) ask what we can do to help avoid fraud / re-assure sellers when we are legitimate buyers?

i recently bought something and first emailed the shop asking if it was ok, pointing them to my online existence (blog etc). i don't really know if it helped (but they shipped - according to fedex the box arrived in santiago at 3am this morning - may be here today :o).

i don't use a shipping service, but was wondering about doing so (because they have clearer fees - dhl at least, in my experience, adds random extra "customs charges"). i guess i should not bother trying that.

i use a "virtual credit card" (a one-off for internet use, generated by my bank's web page, with an upper limit that matches the price, short expiration date, and valid only for single use). i feel pretty safe using that, but i guess that just protects me, not the seller (although if you can tell someone is using one then i guess it is not a stolen card). recently i have started adding my postcode to shipping details (they exist in chile, but most people don't use them and it doesn't appear on my credit card bill). i do always ship to my billing address.

i don't know what else i can do. i really appreciate companies that do ship - the internal market here in chile is limited, so this is pretty much the only way to indulge when i want something unusual.

[one positive note - a chinese company called audiogd that makes electronics (hifi dac) gave really excellent service, letting me disassemble their hardware and return only a single logic board that was faulty, rather than the entire (heavy, expensive to ship) product. i wish there were some way to reward companies like that. http://www.audio-gd.com/En%20audio-gd.htm ]
from reading the "bad" parts in the article, man, what a pain in the butt. I guess i'm glad to be on Google app engine and not have to worry about this stuff.
But really you don't kid. You're only afraid of being labeled a crackpot in a tinfoil hat. This is what western media has done, subtle propaganda has made certain words like conspiracy sound crazy. When our history books teach us that conspiracies have been part of humanity for as long back as we can find documents for it. Most likely before.

I kid, I kid...
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At the risk of drawing this thread off-topic, I saw it in 24FPS and didn't think much of it. No amount of HD or FPS can make up for a mediocre film, in the same way that fantastic graphics don't make a good game.

(Spoilers ahead.)

Bilbo and the dwarves were caricatures - overdoing their roles as a surprised hobbit and a fat, funny disney character with a single personality. (Seriously - there's a fat one, a stupid one, an Irish one, an old one etc...)

That would be ok, since The Hobbit is a children's book, but this is certainly not a children's film. I did not like the mixture of comedy and seriousness that was attempted. Whereas LOTR (which I really enjoyed) had moments of Merry and Pippin being funny, these dwarves never seemed to stop taking everything as a joke (obviously apart from Mr. Serious Dwarf). Some bits were genuinely funny (dwarves with Elrond), but they're in obviously safe environments.

If the overarching plot is to kill a dragon, there are some difficulties when trying to stretch it out into 9 hours of films. Sauron had a command structure and it was perfectly possible to kill mini-bosses (Saruman) and get some feel that you're doing something useful. A dragon has no such web of power, so the various evils they vanquish in the film appear disconnected and irrelevant to the main plot.

Gandalf has seemingly random amounts of power at any given time. I guess this also cropped up in LOTR, but it was much more obvious here.

Graphics for graphics sake. Rock battles?

Gollum was good.
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That's exactly the approach that Douglas Trumbull wanted to use in Brainstorm where the replayed experiences of others would have been displayed using his 60fps Showscan techbology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_%281983_film%29
Using 1960s engineering (and many, many nuclear bombs), an Orion-powered starship could make it there in less than 150 years, one-way. And no slowing down; it would be a flyby.

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First of all in academia you will often find subjects that may very well prove to be irrelevant to practical activities, not just in Philosophy, but also in Mathematics, Physics or Political Science.
However, I do think that a great deal of these theoretical questions can be of great help also for practical activities.
Philosophy of Science deals with, among other things, questions such as "is there a particular method with which we can find the truth or is it just anything goes? Is there even truth, and if so, what constitutes truth?" If you are an academic and you are doing research I would say this is a fairly relevant question since the theoretical paradigm you follow directly influences the way you are going to conduct research.
Another example could be AI, where frequently philosophers work together with scientists. IBM or Google are working on remodelling the human brain, but this task is highly difficult since intelligence is not just based on computational power (which explains why advances in technology do not directly correlate with advances in AI), but there are fundamental differences. So philosophers, together with neuroscientists, try to find an understanding of what constitutes the human consciousness, which is a very wide but fascinating field.
Last but not least Ethics also constitutes an important subject in philosophy that has direct influences on the way we deal with future advances in technology and there are too many examples to think of.
Philosophy can be a frustrating subject since there is almost never a satisfying moment where you reach a final conclusion and hence many people dismiss the discipline as a group of people who never tend to shower sit on the couch and talk about the universe. There are many schools of thought, not just postmodern feminism. In fact, there are also an abundance of philosophers that have a true passion for science as well as renowned scientists who also shared a great enthusiasm for this academic discipline. Philosophy helps you to precisize your thoughts and sharpens the theoretical framework of your investigations. How can this not be supporting practical research?
Living in Spain at the age of 19 with no college degree, no matter how sharp your skills are, is truly a pain in the ass.
It sounds like your parents were able to support you, did you never consider to move back with them then figure out your job prospects in the UK? I'm just imagining you're the son of one of the many British expats that live on the Canary Islands/Andalusian/Valencia coast. There aren't many tech jobs around there but I saw a few companies started by people in these typical expat areas that might be willing to take people like you (given you like Spain enough to stay in).
Did you ever consider to stay with your family in Spain and try to get a college degree in there? In any case, glad to see it's working out so far. The best thing when you're in a hole is there's a lot of room for improvement.
Any insight from a native?
Unsure if anyone will still read this, but I had another thought on this matter.

It occurs to me that you actually see highly-skilled jerks quite a lot. They piss and moan and kick and often aren't very successful, even if they're highly skilled.

Even if someone's highly skilled in some area, if they're being a jerk we're going to value that skill lower, anyway. Even though, if you'd stop and think about it, social skills are usually not related to being extremely highly skilled in some other area.

Being successful is usually a matter of luck and/or social skills. If you're extremely highly skilled and successful, you're going to be known as one of the positive examples of highly skilled people in this thread. If you're skilled, but either unlucky and/or a jerk, your skill won't be valued for what it really is capable of (unless, again, you're lucky), and you won't be noticed. Confirmation bias does the rest.
> Unless, of course, you're a AAA game, in which case you're fine tuning at the individual instruction and cache line levels for your most inner loops.

I think this is the most important part:

Those micro-optimizations have exactly one place: the most inner loops. Nowhere else! In the larger scale, better algorithms and code readability provide more performance than micro-optimizations ever could.
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I have a MacBook Air running Ubuntu in a virtual machine. All the hardware stuff is handled by OSX, but I get the power and flexibility of Linux. With 8 GB of RAM, memory is not much of an issue.
A quantum leap is (on the order of, if you skip a level) the smallest possible increment. We're going to need much bigger leaps than that to do it in four or five leaps. :)
>It may be hard for people to imagine now, but back in 1996/1997, selling browser software was like selling spreadsheet or word processing software. People paid $50+/copy for their browser. It was a threat to Microsoft (potential alternative application platform) - so they eliminated it (Cut off Netscape's Air supply) - by giving the browser away for free with their operating system - and, because everyone (for most reasonable definitions of everyone) was running Microsoft's operating system on their desktop, there was no longer any need to buy it from Netscape.

And that in turn lead to further addinng fuel to the internet by lowering the barrier to entry for users leading to a feedback loop. $50+ was more than a months salary in many countries.

I am sure many divisions in RIM and Nokia were cut because of Google "dumping" Android for free by leveraging profits from their search(not to mention bundling Chrome with Flash and Java updates leading to the charts in the article). But Android does lead to more people accessing the internet through smartphones and that is a huge net gain to all of us regardless of a few companies getting hurt short term.
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As the first couple of comments on that page says, it's a high chance that this is due to problems with power management in the open-source Radeon driver.

I've been running Debian and Ubuntu on lots of different laptops the last fifteen years, and only ever had problems with overheating on laptops with AMD/ATI graphics and the Radeon driver. If the graphics chip is current enough, installing the proprietary Catalyst driver should fix the problem.
GT5 is definitely not a better example, because it suffers huge framerate drops in some situations, which completely defeats the immersion effect. Try a race in cockpit view and multiple cars in front of you, when one goes off track creating some sand clouds, the framerate often dips far below 30 fps.

What makes Forza 2 and 3 so impressive is that it keeps up 60 fps all the time. If you a game can't keep up with that, I'd much rather have a constant 30 fps than an erratic 60 fps.
50 km/s is a speed I think we could reach (by clever gravitational maneuvers for example). Even then the trip would take 72000 years. Better wait another few hundred years until we hopefully can launch a probe at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
I am afraid you are simplifying the scientific progress quite a bit with "we have a model, then we look for empiric data and if there is conclusive evidence we can conclude that the model matches reality".
It has been shown by many historians (e.g. Thomas Kuhn) that in reality scientists do not just follow these guidelines and in many cases scientific models use assumptions that cannot be verified or falsified, nor would it make sense to adhere to such strict rules.

If you are interested in this topic I also recommend the discussion of Karl Popper and Paul Feyerabend, which has been a very important contribution to how we now think about scientific progress.

Hence I tend to disagree with you and in fact you could probably say that many of the theoretical discussions you find in Physics (such as Quantum Mechanics) can be seen as being actually closer to Philosophical debate.
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Most likely he can fix the problems by installing proprietary drivers.

However, since he still needs to install the OS first (and as I understand it, it crashes during install), so my suggestion is to put the computer inside the refridgerator whilst installing. Low-tech but it will cool the GPU significantly, and thus allow installation to finish.
> nobody will ever foresee all eventualities

Not quite. It means that just because you can't imagine how your nuclear reactor might go into catastrophic failure, you still need to have a bullet proof, well rehearsed, properly funded response plan in place.

It means that just because you don't think there can be a simultaneous collapse of all your major banks, you still need to have robust capitalisation requirements, diversification of your financial institutions risk profiles, a plan on how to deal with the failure of institutions that are 'too big to fail', etc.

It means that heavily optimising for current stable conditions is a mistake, no matter how sure you are they will remain stable indefinitely.
We call this phenomenon "black elephants."

You have an elephant in the room. After it explodes, everyone will say it was a black swan.
Additionally, if the entities receiving the shares happen to be C corporations (which I believe can have 501(c)(3) status), they can deduct the lesser of: (i) 70% of dividends received on the stock; or (ii) 70% of the corporation's taxable income. As such, the implied tax rate on any dividends received from the shares would only be 11.88% (30% * 39.6%), assuming the corporation is in the 35% ordinary income bracket. This is important for 501(c)(3)'s, too, because there are plenty of exceptions to the general notion of "tax exemption" associated with that code section (See, e.g., 26 USC §§ 507-09, 511-15, and 527).

EDIT: of course, this only applies if the company issues a dividend