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To the casual observer the doors do appear to close simply like a car door, but it's not the case. If you watch carefully when the doors move you will see the complex hinge system swings the door to the interior of the aircraft then pushes is outward against the body. When the aircraft is pressurized the door is sealed by the outward pressure. To start opening these doors you must first pull on them, to close them you end up pushing on them. For reasons I can only imagine I am unable to locate any on-line video or diagrams of how this works but in this image you can just barely make out the instructions to pull the door open then push it out.

Jumping from 37,000 feet and hundreds of MPH requires training and equipment. At that altitude the ambient air temperature is -70 fahrenheit. If the average terminal velocity of a person skydiving is 250 ft/s then you'll take about 2m30s to get to the ground without a 'chute. At 250 ft/s the wind chill is really, really significant. You've then got a choice to make (any perhaps the airline would instruct you about the best action): open the 'chute immediately after exiting the plane or wait until you are nearer the ground.
Opening the parachute early means you are certain to hit the ground slowly but maximized your exposure to very low temperatures and low oxygen with all those inherent injuries.
Opening the parachute later means more wind chill and possibly more tissue damage. Your betting that you'll be conscious to pull the rip cord. You also have much less time to perform an maneuvering to get to a "good" landing spot.

That said, given the choice of almost certain death on a severely disabled airliner or possible death by parachute I'd probably choose the parachute.

Interestingly enough, the development of the Data General mini was written into a book, "The Soul of a New Machine" which was one of the first attempts to capture the group dynamics of a high-technology R&D effort in the world of computers. Good read.

I was thinking more along the lines that if you painted the suit black, and then plated the helmet with some kind of shiny metal, you'd look kind of like Daft Punk....

You know, Resource Description Framework, Web Ontology Language, RDFa for putting RDF right into (X)HTML pages, the semantic wiki for expressing relationships and not just knowledge, Friend of a Friend (FOAF).

Following that, you have Web 4.0...

A coworker went to a conference where they had this: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/224/466336460_c9765 d262e.jpg. It's not his picture, but it's the same graph.

The drink may taste horrible, but the cans are crazy. I think they are made out of reinforced steel, have you tried smashing one?

Someone created a Flickr pool of the more interesting ones: http://flickr.com/groups/galaxyzoo/pool/

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I managed to get a 20M/2M connex, and I believe the last time we received a note about our "upgraded speed" we were rated around 6M/768k. I'd trade it for my 6M/768k and Comcast not capping my damn connection when I'm downloading a lot of torrents. Bastards.

-bZj

14 shots does certainly fit in a standard 20oz venti cup.
A single shot is typically 1oz (although, baristas usually aren't that exact, and I came up with the '14' figure to allot for up to 1.5oz per shot).
It's a little harder to fit in an 24oz iced venti cup, since some of that space is already used up by ice, so lately, I've just usually asked for ice on the side instead.

And the other posts in this thread have already gone over the toxicity of caffiene.
I'm certainly still alive. I think. I don't know if it's contributed to my heart problems or not though. ;-)

I've got receipts to back it up, but, if you don't believe that I actually drink the thing, (which isn't that hard, since I just basically sip on the thing over the course of an entire day), I don't think there's any way I can prove it to you, without me actually drinking the thing in front of you.

Oh, and here's a photo for shits and giggles.

A picture is worth a thousand words
From: How to survive a robot uprising

improvements in areal density

Somehow, I don't think I'll be camping outside my local Apple store anytime soon...

A friend of mine was working with the GA Tech Small (soccer-playing) robot division, but we're out of town right now (until Friday). Here are lots of pictures and a schedule though, for those in the Atlanta area or looking for updates. We'll post some "before" GA Tech pictures to that gallery sometime soon, too.

This one doesn't seem to have a problem stocking others, though.

Several photos available here: http://flickr.com/photos/rdr07/sets/72157600590001 691/with/686842536/

As has already been mentioned, the purpose of these laws is to generate revenue for the city and keep the sidewalk / pavement clear. The article mentions that two or more people who linger in a spot more than 30 minutes are subject to the new rules.

That doesn't sound terribly onerous - I recently took hundreds of photos in New York City and never once had a problem. I toted around an old Yashicamat 124G as well as a Hexar AF. Every so often someone would strike up a conversation about that "cool old camera", but I photographed traffic cops, people in the street, quietly inside shops, throughout museums without a fuss. The cameras are both fairly low-key and quiet.

I reckon if both my girlfriend and myself had lingered outside for more than 30 minutes and I was typically snapping photographs of strangers, THEN I would be in violation - but I think she'd smack me upside the head before the 30-minute mark would pass.

Now the issue about unflattering photographs of city police - that sounds more like something that requires clarification. It should never be illegal to expose abuse of power or malfeasance. And citizen journalism has provided vivid pictures of breaking news before the big news organisations can scramble their photographers.

There are rumblings of similar laws been enacted in Britain ... which always strikes me as a wicked irony when you consider the vast amount of CCTV cameras there are.

followed by 3 homeland security helicopter as he took pictures from the rooftops of several buildings in the area

stopped and prevented by a NYC park employee from taking a picture of a building *belonging* to his employer (he just happened to be standing just off the sidewalk on a patch of grass that's technically a park)

approached by security countless times for taking pictures of buildings from public areas

Ok, I'm sorry for the venting, but there's an obvious anti-amateur photographer bent in this city. I've shot both with (for actual production projects) and without (personal). If you have a permit, you're gold. Cops let you go wherever you want. Federal marshals protecting government buildings become friendly. If you don't, you're treated worse then dirt. (end rant)

And it is wrong because?.. I'm anxious...

It is wrong because the list only has your name, like the no-fly list, the no-buy list, the no-employ list, and no doubt a host of other lists. It is wrong because the government is composed of a bunch of incompetents that don't have to be right, because they don't suffer when they are wrong by either punishment or loss of profit. It is wrong because 1 in 6 jury convictions is wrong. You don't want to get your nose in the gears, much less what you amusingly refer to as your "fat ass."

Uprisings are by far more abusive, than anything an elected government can do. If you try something stupid like an uprising, I promise, I'll get my fat ass off the couch, call my police, and proceed to whack some sense into your little head until they arrive...

I'd love to have seen you try to tell that to the founding fathers. Uprisings clearly have their place. Your threatening rhetoric notwithstanding.

This country has been this way for a long time -- Roosevelt knowingly authorized illegal eavesdropping of suspected German saboteurs in 1940, for example. Yet any predictions of the "police state" arriving next year have remained just that -- predictions...

No, that was the police state. The same police state that captured and unjustly imprisoned all the innocent citizens of Japanese descent. The same police state that shot (though I prefer to be forthright and just say "murdered") the students at Kent State. The same police state that creates and imposes constitutionally forbidden ex post facto laws. The same police state that enforced prohibition. The same police state that tells citizens they can't display banners. The same police state that tells citizens they can't speak within X feet of privileged events and locales. The same police state that restricts what can be said on the radio, and restricts access to broadcasts to the monied and the government. The same police state that determines what is, and what isn't, a "valid" religion. The same police state that tells citizens what they can and cannot do with their own bodies and with consenting adults. The same police state that forbids assisted suicide. The same police state that did illegal eavesdropping then, and now. The same police state that has held citizens prisoner for years without access to counsel, much less a hearing. The same police state that sterilized people based on "fitness." The same police state that disseminates vile propaganda about sexuality, drugs and more. Predictions of imminent arrival are wrong, but only because they're been in power for quite a few decades now.

Look, maybe you should just grab your bag of chips and sit back down on your couch if this stuff is over your head. Unless you are really serious about threatening me, in which case, you are cordially invited to my martial arts school, where I will be happy to tie you into a knot even a sailor couldn't untie — without even hurting you. It's no trouble really, just a standard ju do and chin na demo I use on street toughs of all sizes to ensure I have their attention when they get mouthy. Sounds like you could use a little lesson in humility anyway.

I agree with you on this. Been testing Windows Home Server which also offers remote access to files. With the availability of high speed Internet service (I have FIOS at home...blazes) I really don't see why someone (novice or average user) would want to maintain a home server or even a NAS device. Just use Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, whomever for remote file storage. Flickr already does something similar but just limited to photos. They provide an easy to use upload location, tools to manage the photos, and tons of space.

Hey guys, I live in Shanghai now, and this city keeps reminding me of the Los Angeles portrayed in Blade Runner... Especially if It rains! It even has talking screens on boats and zeppelins and stuff... Look at that picture and you might agree: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=537350642& size=l Just thought I should share that...

Efficiency hardly matters, lad, since you can always just shovel more fuzzy-wuzzies into the boiler, eh wot?

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this was at the menlo park unveiling, a few months ago, for employees and press.

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this was at the menlo park unveiling, a few months ago, for employees and press.

The Wild Stallions would be proud..

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Read your straw man definition next time before accusing someone of doing it.

I didn't post something base on a fallacy. people do just what I described today. You can easily find blogs and websites by perusing the fark 'foobies.com' page that do just this. You can easily find copyrighted images on flickr that have been used in published works, or put on the front of a Porno DVD.

Right now the only way the powers that be think they can do this is DRM, and the tech community going out and helping people 'break' the DRM isn't the best use either.

So what every one is supposed to lock up their toys and go home? give me a break.

Actually, from the looks of that picture Jobs is actually targeting classic arcade gamers. Perhaps this is his solution for bringing more games to the Mac? Safari - now with Asteroids and Donkey Kong.

So you're not Apple's target audience for Safari on Windows anyway.
what part of this picture and this picture is everyone having such a hard time comprehending? Apple's target audience, is all the users that don't use IE. Steve Jobs has clearly shown this.

Here's what I'm referencing. Jobs says: "Well we dream big. We would love for Safari's marketshare to grow substantially. That's what we'd love." Steve Jobs doesn't just want Safari available so people can test their websites quickly at their same Windows box, he want's all of the market share from Opera/Firefox/etc. If his graph would've shown market share eaten up from IE there wouldn't even be these discussions going on, but instead what we see is an inside look into Steve's view on how he wants the market to change.

So you're not Apple's target audience for Safari on Windows anyway.
what part of this picture and this picture is everyone having such a hard time comprehending? Apple's target audience, is all the users that don't use IE. Steve Jobs has clearly shown this.

Here's what I'm referencing. Jobs says: "Well we dream big. We would love for Safari's marketshare to grow substantially. That's what we'd love." Steve Jobs doesn't just want Safari available so people can test their websites quickly at their same Windows box, he want's all of the market share from Opera/Firefox/etc. If his graph would've shown market share eaten up from IE there wouldn't even be these discussions going on, but instead what we see is an inside look into Steve's view on how he wants the market to change.

See, the difference between my post and yours is that I'm actually right. I suppose that's what's bothered you into turning my post into a canned troll, you're a fanboy and you felt personally insulted. I'm glad. I intend to insult you further, in fact. Only because you've made it so easy for me.

Being that you're obviously uneducated and malicious, I'll do my best to try and inform others, as I doubt you have the cognitive capacity to make sense of factual information:

1) Your claim is that Python is a primitive and feature-incomplete language, which is -true- of Ruby. Perl might be feature-complete if 6 ever comes out...keep holding the faith, eh? I'm guessing we'll be replacing the Linux kernel with HURD before that happens. Great OOP and functional programming features, libraries for everything from advanced math functions to graphics display (many of which are included in the standard library, as opposed to having to pull it down from CPAN).

2) easy_install doesn't come with Perl. That's certainly true, it's a python program. Perl has CPAN, which pretty much does the same thing. Not so much of a lie as pointing out the obviousness of your canned troll.

3) Yes, many of the points that I made about Python can also be made about Perl. But some of them can't, and that's where your argument falls apart again. Example: Turbogears (www.turbogears.org), a project similar to Rails that brings together a number of mature, web-development related projects together as one product. Cell phones that are capable of running Python are technically capable of executing a web-server on said cell phone if they wished.

Can the same be said for perl? Maybe. Search for "perl embedded cell phone" on Google. You'll get a few million results, but none of them will be a cell phone that runs perl as an embedded language. What do you get when you do a similar search for python? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread= 148064 (which for those of you who don't care to read, is an author reviewing Python as used on a Nokia cellphone).

4) The statement that Python has difficulty with internationalization support is patently false, anyone who cares to point their browsers at www.python.net may verify that for themselves. This is the process involved in creating a unicode string in python:

unicode_string = u"Test."

What does the Ruby on Rails wiki have to say about internationalization support (which is fully offered in Turbogears by the way)?

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Internatio nalization

First paragraph of the page: "Rails currently doesn't offer any explicit support for internalization."

Well, there you have it. You're obviously wrong, you obviously attempted a canned troll, and you obviously failed. Not that I expected a great deal from a pale and overweight man who lives a secret life from his children trolling on Slashdot. If you can really call that a life. I wonder what they'd all think of you if they knew you were acting like an angry pre-teen online? Think they would still respect their father with that knowledge? Do they even respect you now?

I don't intend to reply to your messages any further, as it's obvious that's exactly what you want...attention. Maybe because you don't get enough of it in real life -- the frustration brings you here to troll like a little boy having a temper tantrum. Well guess what? You're not a little boy, you're a man...or at least you would be if you weren't acting like such a dipshit. Grow up.

See, the difference between my post and yours is that I'm actually right. You're hanging onto the antiquated turd called Perl, which acts as a sort of poor crazy-glue that holds projects together. Its days of significance are long over; the majority of work opportunities for Perl programmers involves maintaining systems that were written years before.

Being that you're obviously uneducated and malicious, I'll do my best to try and inform others and embarrass you at the same time:

1) Your claim is that Python is a primitive and feature-incomplete language, which is -true- of Ruby. Perl might be feature-complete if 6 ever comes out...keep holding the faith, eh? I'm guessing we'll be replacing the Linux kernel with HURD before that happens. Great OOP and functional programming features, libraries for everything from advanced math functions to graphics display (many of which are included in the standard library, as opposed to having to pull it down from CPAN).

2) easy_install doesn't come with Perl. That's certainly true, it's a python program. Perl has CPAN, which pretty much does the same thing. Not so much of a lie as pointing out the obviousness of your canned troll.

3) Yes, many of the points that I made about Python can also be made about Perl. But some of them can't, and that's where your argument falls apart again. Example: Turbogears (www.turbogears.org), a project similar to Rails that brings together a number of mature, web-development related projects together as one product. Cell phones that are capable of running Python are technically capable of executing a web-server on said cell phone if they wished.

Can the same be said for perl? Maybe. Search for "perl embedded cell phone" on Google. You'll get a few million results, but none of them will be a cell phone that runs perl as an embedded language. What do you get when you do a similar search for python as a first result? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread= 148064 (which for those of you who don't care to read, is an author reviewing Python as used on a Nokia cellphone).

4) The statement that Python has difficulty with internationalization support is patently false, anyone who cares to point their browsers at www.python.net may verify that for themselves. This is the process involved in creating a unicode string in python:

unicode_string = u"Test."

What does the Ruby on Rails wiki have to say about internationalization support (which is fully offered in Turbogears by the way)?

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Internatio nalization

First paragraph of the page: "Rails currently doesn't offer any explicit support for internalization."

Well, there you have it. You're obviously wrong, you obviously attempted a canned troll, and you obviously failed. Not that I expected a great deal from a pale and overweight man who lives a secret life from his three children trolling on Slashdot. If you can really call that a life. I wonder what they'd all think of you if they knew you were acting like an angry pre-teen online? Think they would still respect their father with that knowledge? Do they even respect you now?

You're a sad, sad excuse for a man, and I pity your children for having to acknowledge being related to you.

Look again. http://www.flickr.com/photos/koenkooi/412593301/

Now, if you want a piece of me

True, the K800 will never replace a full-size camera, but you'd be surprised at the picture quality. It's easily better than a 3MP camera from only a couple of years ago, costing roughly the same price.

My only wish was that there was an option for more manual control. But you can still pull off shots
like this

It shows a lack of definition; the lens is just too damn small. But even in a low light situation like this, it managed a pretty accurate colour reproduction.

BTW, she looks like she just smoked a big ol' rock doesn't she?

Here's what you might find when you get them up and running.

What you say is quite true. I've been living in a developing country where there's little or no technology in the rural areas, and I too would be dead already if not for modern medicine. It's amazing what a little infection can do when it goes untreated.

That said, a tech-free lifestyle is extremely healthy, if you can survive it. As evidence, here is a photo of a man in his late fifties or early sixties, who has lived his entire life without any automation whatsoever. While I'm sure most of us want a physique like that, I don't know how many would be willing to pay the price....

does anyone else get the completely-unusable-font-version of Safari after they install? I had this problem with 3 and now with 3.0.1.

To use a Guest Pass that gives you immediate UNCENSORED ACCESS to all the photos in this set, just click here. Note: People in Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea will not be able to see all photos due to Yahoos new censorship policies in those countries. Sorry.

Bill? Is that you?

Flickr itself is hardly free from censorship problems either...

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Wow, I feel bad for the developers who spent time incorporating Traditional Chinese into flickr. now no one who speaks it will see the site. Terrible timing!

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This is very strange, because I have a completely standard XP Home system and it can barely render a page for me (it renders the start-page from apple fine though). Here is Google and here is Wikipedia. I have no idea why it would work for you and not for me (though only major difference between my system and the average system is that I dual-boot Ubuntu, but I can't imagine that that would have any effect).

This is a beta product, after all. If it renders correctly for most people, I guess that means that the engine itself is fine, it's just that it has a few kinks on some systems. Maybe I was a little harsh. Still, that is some really bad rendering going on.

This is very strange, because I have a completely standard XP Home system and it can barely render a page for me (it renders the start-page from apple fine though). Here is Google and here is Wikipedia. I have no idea why it would work for you and not for me (though only major difference between my system and the average system is that I dual-boot Ubuntu, but I can't imagine that that would have any effect).

This is a beta product, after all. If it renders correctly for most people, I guess that means that the engine itself is fine, it's just that it has a few kinks on some systems. Maybe I was a little harsh. Still, that is some really bad rendering going on.

Safari 3 supports SVG! While the SVG compatibility is not that great, it's more than nothing.
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