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The answer, of course, would have been an Aptera 2h.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_2_Series

An electric that went 100 miles or so, and later a hybrid that has the same batteries but when it ran down, a tiny gasoline motor would kick in recharging them. It's the exact same principle as diesel-electric trains that has been around since the 30s. The plus side is you can still have power (electric DC motors are potent) but you don't need a huge gasoline engine whose size is only used to 100% effect at hard acceleration (and wasting gas otherwise) and instead gear towards the lowest possible gasoline motor (smaller is much more mpg friendly) whose maximum output will roughly match the average depletion of the batteries during normal driving. Maybe a tiny fraction more.

Hell, even the really advanced big motored cars are trying to save gas by turning of cylinders (some Mercedes and Cadillacs, maybe others), why not bypass all that mechanical complexity and go with a tried and true system that worked the last 70 years for big ass trains?

Jay Leno testing the all electric Aptera just to prove it's not 100% vaporware:
http://vimeo.com/5285448

It doesn't need to be aptera only, but I think the only thing holding up the system are the weenies that think it's better to reach Utopia first (no gas instead of, say 100+ mpg) forgetting their little envirobiles will be made of plenty of lightweight plastic (petroleum).

I mean, if you really have a hard on for an electric car but need range from time to time, the only other real solution is to buy some electric car and rent a gas car when you need it.

I looked at all the videos available for the flight. It is obvious that the flapping is maintaining flight - if he just started gliding at the release point, there is no way the flight would have been as long. This is probably the best view, and it also lets you hear what this thing sounds like when it flaps.

I'm not an aerospace engineer but from that video it looks like he's not getting any lift from the flapping. The center of mass of bird/ornithopter/thing seems to be falling to the ground at a roughly constant rate, with the flapping just moving the cockpit/wings up/down.

I looked at all the videos available for the flight. It is obvious that the flapping is maintaining flight - if he just started gliding at the release point, there is no way the flight would have been as long. This is probably the best view, and it also lets you hear what this thing sounds like when it flaps.

"article doesn't make it clear that the aircraft still needs to be pulled for it to glide into the air (you can see this in the attached video)."

Doesn't look like your video attached so here's the link to a car pulling the aircraft so it can take flight.

Sorry but I'm not impressed, all they did was build a glider with flapping wings. It can not take flight by itself, it requires a car to pull it until it is airborne.

How disappointing

http://vimeo.com/5285448

A car that could have long been in production if the government actually funded innovation and wasn't simply looking out for unions.

The video is here. Thanks goes to the guy who copy/pasted TFA in anticipation of a /. .

C&P from the linked page (assuming a /.'ing imminent)

HDR demo @ http://vimeo.com/14821961

Press Release:

HDR Video A Reality

Soviet Montage Productions releases information on the first true High Dynamic Range (HDR) video using DSLRs

San Francisco, CA, September 9, 2010: Soviet Montage Productions demonstrated today the first true HDR video sourced from multiple exposures. Unlike HDR timelapse videos that only capture a few frames per minute, true HDR video can capture 24 or more frames per second of multiple exposure footage. Using common DSLRs, the team was able to composite multiple HD video streams into a single video with an exposure gamut much greater than any on the market today. They are currently using this technology to produce an upcoming film.

Benefits of Motion HDR
HDR imaging is an effect achieved by taking multiple disparate exposures of a subject and combining them to create images of a higher exposure range. It is an increasingly popular technique for still photography, so much so that it has recently been deployed as a native application on Apple’s iPhone. Until now, however, the technique was too intensive and complex for motion. Soviet Montage Productions believes they have solved the issue with a method that produces stunning–and affordable–true HDR for film and video.

The merits of true HDR video are various. The most obvious benefit is having an exposure variation in a scene that more closely matches the human eye–think of filming your friend with a sunset at his or her back, your friend’s face being as perfectly captured as the landscape behind them. HDR video also has the advantage of reduced lighting needs. Finally, the creative control of multiple exposures, including multiple focus points and color control, is unparalleled with true HDR video.

“I believe HDR will give filmmakers greater flexibility not only in the effects they can create but also in the environments they can shoot in” said Alaric Cole, one of the members of the production team, “undoubtedly, it will become a commonplace technique in the near future. ”

Contact:
Michael Safai
Soviet Montage
201 Spear Street #1100
San Francisco, CA 94105
1 415 489 0437
mike@sovietmontage.com

... I know that you're out there, watching over us like some kind of lyrical nerdcore angels.

Time to autotune Snoop Dogg talking about this project...

"Bringin' the attention level up"
'Sho nuff!

"A lot of people don't even realize this is happening"
What about George? He chronicles tech problems he's havening.

"We come together and join forces to fight this"
Are you going to go to Russia and dump crackers in an abyss?

"When my team come after you we're gonna git you"
Get all up ins your binary code, and zero you out, foo !

"To see what it takes to be Snoop Dogg"
I'll know if I can see it through this Chronically hazy fog!

"To put them in the circle with my people"
Are we playing duck duck goose, or ring around the steeple?

"Hopefully it'll rub off on them"
Just as long as no charges stick of possessing illegal chem!

"The secret to longevity is fun"
What about those SPAMers who just want to supersize your Love Gun?

"I love being a leader"
Well, I'll bet that part is true...

"I love owning"
Fo' processor sizzle, Snoop, yeah, me too!

http://www.vimeo.com/siai/videos/sort:oldest
http://singinst.org/media/interviews
http://www.youtube.com/user/singularityu

Well, lack of searching is not a lack of material, you can find several hours of Ray's talks on video at Singularity Summit 2007, 2008, 2009, TED.com, Singularity University and just plain independent YouTube videos. He also has two movies out (I haven't seen either), the Transcendent Man criticisng his esoteric side and The Singularity Is Near (based on his book) supporting his ideas.

All of this talk about his figures being wrong is quite far from the point. To say we'll have conversations with virtual humans in 2030 or that we may have to cope with an AI superintelligence by 2050 is quite far from noting that either of these situations are entirely possible extrapolated from trends and the discussion should be had.

As a computer scientist, I can say that it will be hard to do. As a scientist, it's pretty foolish to say that because something is hard that it will never happen (we did and building a human is pretty hard).

You're right. That's like comparing a Canon 7D to a Barbie Video Girl.

You could use this technology with a different green screen set.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9anuy_virtualization-gate-siggraph-2009-e_tech

Or even just paint the environment like a level and use augmented reality to add the weapons and effects similar to this:
http://vimeo.com/6885648

Perhaps a combination of the two where the real world (green screened) acts as the game's "physics",
and a few stock physical objects (like Nerf balls / guns) are modified digitally to become various weapons and items?

Hmm, who would look for a conversation on ChatRoulette? But I can attest it's not all penises and bald guys, there are also vaginas and bare girls (both recorded and live).

It helps if you go on as a couple, or if you are female, as this guy found out: explanation video

This is sad, funny, and true.

http://vimeo.com/13252563

...Stop making shit up.

Did you read the article? Do you understand the ramification of "horizontal transfer of transgenes to other organisms"? Eating GM food once could permanently damage you for life. Your own intestinal bacteria could be modified to produce pesticides or other adverse functions. Due to the large adoption of GM foods, I stand by the statement they are likely to be the most dangerous foods based on the number of people affected and that you can not recover or reverse the affects. The occurrence of improperly stored foods having adverse impacts would be insignificant in comparison if the concerns of some researches over GM dangers are verified. My observation is simply stating what some researches are calling into question. This presentation provides even more detailed analysis on the subject of GMO foods http://vimeo.com/6575475

As for the Brazil nut soybean, it should go without saying that you can use genetic engineering to make things like that. A known allergen in something else, it's not too surprising that it turned out that way. You might as well point out that you can put anthrax in an apple if you wanted. You can put arsenic in a cake, doesn't make baking bad. A better way to put that would be no commercially approved GMOs have been shown to be spontaneously harmful. The only example I know of where GMOs were potentially harmful was detected and discontinued long before it was put into use. I've seen the 'smoking gun' studies, they come and go every now and again, but no one has ever been able to find a reason for the alleged harm, no causative agent, no chemical pathways producing that agent, no genetic reasoning for it.

And yeah, the principles of genetic engineering are a lot like breeding. I didn't say it's the same thing, nor should they always be treated the same, but in both cases, you're still changing the genes. One is just a lot more precise with a wider range of options, and it doesn't really matter that it is less natural, what matters is the end result. Does it matter if you insert a gene from a fish or breed it for a million years for the plant to produce it itself?

And Monsanto, they're not your friends, that's fair to say, but saying that because they're bad GMOs are bad is like saying that because the RIAA are pricks you shouldn't listen to music. What the Monsanto does says nothing of the worth of the product, and it certainty says nothing about unrelated people, just like what the RIAA does says nothing of the actual pieces of music, and absolutely nothing about, say, indie bands.

Do we need GMOs? Do we really need agricultural improvements? We could get by without a lot of things, but that's no reason not to use them, and no small amount of people in relevant fields seem to think biotech will be pretty significant.

I don't think it's like that at all. Very, very, very few people walk up escalators, even if they have nothing in their hands. People are lazy. And if you try to pass them (even if the escalator is pretty wide), they get pissed and offended, just like they get pissed and offended if you pass them while driving.

Maybe it's different in other countries/societies, but here in the USA, most of the people don't want anyone to go any faster than they choose to go.

You should visit our nation's capital and use the metro. The escalators out of the subway are pretty long, and the locals mostly walk up them and know to stay to the right if they're not. Nobody has a problem asking a pesky tourist to get out the way.

The system even works when a rush of people unload from a train. That said if you get a crowd of tourists you can jam things up, but I'd like to think that people eventually would pick up on it.

Since we're talking about escalators I have to toss in my favorite escalator joke

http://vimeo.com/12864890
 
They duplicated *that* on a first generation model? Citation Needed.

The parent is not a troll, and frankly, you are flaming people more than him. I suggest you take a look at this video, which shows the problem clearly isn't one which affects every cell phone (or even every iPhone 4).

http://vimeo.com/12864890

Yes, and it's not a refutation of the fact that every single radio device the size of a cell phone will have signal attenuation when a human hand covers the antenna. This is physics.

No other cell phone will be quickly loading a page using data, and then suddenly stop when touched lightly on just one part of the frame. I defy you to come up with evidence to the contrary. Show us a similar video for another phone. Bonus points for including physics.

This is not a demo of grabbing the phone (which could cause similar issues on any phone), it's lightly touching one part of the side of the phone, joining two antennae. I think it shows the problem clearly (or a problem). Apple's explanation does not fit at all with this video, given the speed of the initial load, and then the complete pause in loading.

For what it's worth, I think the problem displayed in the video is not a general one affecting all phones, it does not happen to all units in all conditions - I've tried it here on an iPhone 4 and cannot reproduce that result at all, can't even reproduce a noticeable slowdown. But that's on another network with another iPhone 4.

There might be some other unrelated issue with the bar formula being completely wrong and thus exaggerating signal on AT&T(I wonder if this is supplied by the carrier?). Apple's announcement certainly reads like a dig at some third party - 'we were astounded to find it was wrong'.

It may well be that Apple have been unable to reproduce the more serious problem, and can only see a huge perceived degradation rather than the real slight degradation, and think this is the only issue. I imagine they'll get all this sorted out as they get more evidence in from users, but it might require coating the antennae with some sort of sealant if it is to do with interference caused by joining the antennae (see above video). They do have those rubber bars down the side dividing the antennae for a reason after all : ).

The signal degradation that you see with other phones is *not* the same issue that the iPhone has (although it also has that issue). What we're seeing is entirely new and unique to the iPhone 4. Watch this video for a clear demonstration that it is a completely different issue: http://vimeo.com/12864890

If only there was a way that you could listen to a song before buying it, or read someone else's opinion about a movie before watching it. And if only there were free sources of music and movies to watch...

Your point being that if there were more of you... then we could REAAAALLY discriminate against you? Like so: http://vimeo.com/11219730

The Popular Sciene magazine on the ipad only about 25MB. Downloading 500 megs is just crazy, specially if they are doing in app sales for future issues. The PS magazine does the in app sales. I'm pretty sure that the Time magazine also does the in app sales too. The problem with those magazines and several newspapers is that they have very high prices. $5 for an issue is insane.
I think the PS magazine is very close to the Wired one, except for videos and so many ads:
Video of PS mag (fast forward to the 1 min mark).

Actually your meme is more of a meme than a fact. According to the April 2010 Symantec Internet Security Report ( http://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/wl?tu_id=Lfsd1271711507050126203 ) the number 2 attacked vulnerability in 2009 was in Adobe products. ... You sure did misrepresent that report, didn't you?

I don't think accurately quoting statistics straight out of a core part of the report is "misrepresenting" it. You're now citing statistics that measure something different, and it's reasonable to disagree about which figures imply what, however.

Which I do: you could argue that number of vulnerabilities is a function of the quality of the product, while the popularity of exploiting any given vulnerability is more a function of the ubiquity of the product. So while Safari had about 6x more vulnerabilities than Flash in 2009, it also had only 5% market share vs. 99% for Flash. Which is the more attractive target?

Another quote from the report was "Browser security features and add-ons should be employed wherever possible to disable JavaScript(TM), Adobe Flash Player . . . ".

So if you disable both JavaScript and Flash, as they recommend... what are you proposing as an alternative? Do you think the HTML video tag can replace everything DHTML/JS and Flash do today?

And regarding buggy, I'll take Microsoft and Apple's word on Adobe Flash's effect on their browser/OS.

I don't know what MS has said about this (link?), but Apple has said a lot of disingenuous and/or outright false things about Flash lately, so I'm not inclined to trust their word, especially when no one else has access to the data to back it up.

It's been 3 years since the iPhone intro and Adobe still does not have a Flash runtime to show that runs fast, doesn't drain batter, etc.

Actually, yes they do. It is fast enough to outperform HTML 5, especially on mobile, and the unoptimized beta only drains the battery 5-15% faster than equivalent HTML content (while delivering up to 4x the framerate).

This one has three violins: http://vimeo.com/5388813

I completely agree. Our society has been infected with a diseases. http://vimeo.com/10707453

Not going well? The latest achievement was launching the crew module 0-600 mph in under 2 seconds to get away from any potential failure, not to mention the sucessfuly test launch about 2 months ago.

High quality video here

History of the Internet from 1957 to present:

http://vimeo.com/2696386?pg=embed&sec=2696386

Quite educational, even if you think you know all about it.

I once made an experiment: the assignment was to write a program that downloads a file via HTTP. Prior to that, they had another assignment which illustrated how one can send and receive stuff via a TCP socket (see Lab#1 and Lab#2 on this page http://info.railean.net/index.php?title=List_of_SIPC_labs%2C_2010).

Assuming that people are lazy and they don't like to read, I decided to make a video tutorial that explains how HTTP downloads a file. The difference between the first assignment and the last one was very small - it is the same "send and receive stuff via TCP sockets", but this time what you send is a string specified by the protocol. I told them about the RFC, of course, but again - I assumed they wouldn't look at it.

The video tells one everything they need to know to download a file and implement resume support. Unfortunately, there were quite a few of those who didn't add that feature, even though it was an easy thing to do (especially that I explained everything in class, in much more detail).

My conclusion is that it is not a matter of lazyness (I can understand not reading a 200 page RFC, but watching a 10min video is easy), it is a matter of making the right choice when going to a university. Most people simply don't belong here. They should have taken another course in another field, one they would be genuinely interested in.

An alternative explanation is that people are afraid to ask questions; I invest a lot of efforts in reducing the distance between us, to make them feel free and express their curiosity. Sometimes I make lists of FUQs - "Frequantly Unasked Questions", where I offer responses to questions they didn't ask, but which I did ask myself when I was in their shoes. Sometimes I also ask them to write anonymous feedback about the classes, an example can be seen here: http://railean.net/index.php/2010/04/18/metafeedback_on_education

A feature that I use is a special grading policy (you can see it in the description of those assignments). One has to do X to get 80%, and the extra effort needed to get to 90% is usually very small. And the delta between 90% and 100% is also trivial.

In other words, if you really worked on the assignment, you'd figure out that if X if "effort points" got you to 80%, X+eps will get you to 90%.

So I know that if someone went just for the 80% result, they most likely cheated, because if they didn't - they'd obviously go for the 90%, and eventually 100%.

For instance, the only difference between "downloading a file via HTTP" and "downloading a file via HTTP with resume support" is a "Range: offset-length" string in your GET request. If a student doesn't realize that, I sincerely doubt the fact that they implemented the "usual download" themselves.
Here's the video I'm talking about, if you're patient enough, you will see how the part about "Range" is explained: http://www.vimeo.com/10011691

So - if people fail to write a nice program after getting so many hints, they don't deserve any credit.

My final "feature" is that they can only get their grade after I interview them - they have to walk me through their code and answer various questions I ask them about their implementation.

This approach takes a lot of time and it doesn't scale well (my group is made of 20 students, so I can afford to dedicate a lot of time to each of them), but it allows me to make sure that those who really know what they are doing will be rewarded, and that those who don't will get a chance to improve.

Hitler was behind the ban all along.

They should have added this pic in the article too:
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu328/marshall663/iPadvsRock.jpg

I wonder if the rock or the Jupiter can do any of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw
http://vimeo.com/10630568

I'm not trying to say that other devices couldn't do those things, say an Android based tablet, but that these comparisons are kinda lame and childish. Usually, they are made by those that don't like the iPad. Here's a novel idea: Don't buy one! Or, compare the ipad with Android tablets. Then we can have a good article and hopefully some a good discussion about the topics at hand. If the courier was in production or very close to it, it would be another good item to compare to. Till then, I'm pretty sure apple and some consumers (maybe the apple fanatics) are very happy with the ipad.

Check out "Social Pathology" by Peter Joseph. http://vimeo.com/10707453

Well I would prefer open-standards based web experience. Unfortunately Flash has settled among the web as a rich-content media platform used for a lot more than video streaming. If video streaming was the only thing Flash does then it would be rather easy to replace it. Furthermore often Flash performs a lot better than HTML5 in terms of speed. To give you an idea about its performance compared to HTML5 on Nexus One including HTML5 performance on iPhone 3GS, I suggest u watch this: http://vimeo.com/10553088 . Basically for all those reasons you do want to have Flash on any device which is to present rich media content.

http://goo.gl/nJvN - identifying the negative symptoms of a capitalistic/monetary society.

Followed by: http://vimeo.com/7857584
and http://vimeo.com/7938805
for possible future developments of a better system than the current one.

The way I see it. There isn't much incentive to change from the current system. Just like
there are better keyboard layouts than Qwerty out there.. however just because another layout is 10% better
than the current one isn't good enough.
So far capitalism hasn't failed on a grand/massive scale for changes to occur... alas.

http://goo.gl/nJvN - identifying the negative symptoms of a capitalistic/monetary society.

Followed by: http://vimeo.com/7857584
and http://vimeo.com/7938805
for possible future developments of a better system than the current one.

The way I see it. There isn't much incentive to change from the current system. Just like
there are better keyboard layouts than Qwerty out there.. however just because another layout is 10% better
than the current one isn't good enough.
So far capitalism hasn't failed on a grand/massive scale for changes to occur... alas.

I predict that most HTML5 based video will be primarily produced by people who are new to video and have no prior Flash experience, There may be a small number of people who try to switch from Flash to HTML5 for video only, but I think a large portion of them will eventually switch back to what they know better - which is Flash. This is small potatoes compared to the number of Flash developers on the market, and Flash-based websites.

What, you mean small operators like YouTube and Vimeo?

Watch this. You'll get it... Duck.

Check out 1:28 in the video here for an illustration of the difference between Seam Carving and PatchMatch, which I believe is what the content aware fill demo is based on.

SurfaceScapes http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/surfacescapes/index.html http://vimeo.com/8211657 Then again, it uses Microsoft Surface, and considering the crowd...

ASCII art is one of these things that has been around since the dawn of telecommunications and just won't go away. There's always groups of people who think it's cool. Jason Scott (of textfiles fame) as a nice video (actually about porn in the computer age) that shows fine examples of early ASCII and typewriter art.

Here's her Vimeo demonstration.
http://vimeo.com/9928343 ...and another guy's demonstartion of the same thing, Sept 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB6vSHDDdhI

Even better, Harrison can couple Skinput with a pico projector so that you can see a graphic interface on your arm and use the acoustic signals to control it.

Something like this. :)

.. does not give you the right to use someone's property to express it. There are no protections in the Constitution that says a newspaper can't create rules for printing editorials, or YouTube can't determe what can and can't be displayed.

Don't like it .. start your own newspaper or video service. Or use Vimeo. I've stopped using YouTube for all my videos because of their copyright take down actions.

It's gone viral

Naw, the song that's currently breaking out is this abomination.

Interzone owns the Australia Tax Office (ATO) approximately $1m AUD and $500k in unpaid wages and superannuation. The owner changed the locks on the firm at 4am in the morning, locking all employees out from their work. Not even given a chance to collect their personal belongings. A new 'Interzone' called Big Collision is being setup in Dublin Ireland to complete development of their game Futebol in time for the World Cup, and without the debt they have accumulated in Australia. Originally Interzone was given a grant by the Western Australian goverment of $500k, so this has blown up very big on the news there, causing quite some political issues and questions of the chief Treasurer. They did not even lay off the staff, as that would of caused paper work, and the paying out of their due wages and redundancy money. They were simple locked out from their building.
The firm that provides the middleware (BigWorld) based in Sydney, provided a server engineer (contracted by Mike to clear out the IP assets from the server.)

The Interzone employees have been fantastic, in collecting evidence, and staying together to fight for what they are due.

This is not the first time this has occured in Australia, similar shit has happened in the last year with firms Transmission, and Fuzzyeyes. Video games, one of the last places for cow-boy businessmen.

For people who would like to read more on this, check these links:
http://www.tsumea.com/australasia/australia/news/120210/interzone-games-perth-closes-staff-locked-out
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/02/wa-dev-interzone-games-close-to-liquidation/
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/02/interzone-ceo-marty-brickey-responds/
And this video where the employees confront one of the directors http://vimeo.com/9574704

Ah, and one more, just because it's related to video contests and open source software: Open Video Contest entry.

BTW: If this isn't enough editing power to get you into the running for the contest, I'd say you are probably over-thinking your concept.

See also: Vimeo Cinelerra Group, Vimeo Blender 3D Group, KDEnlive, OpenShot Video Editor, Mencoder, Avidemux, Kino, etc.

BTW: If this isn't enough editing power to get you into the running for the contest, I'd say you are probably over-thinking your concept.

See also: Vimeo Cinelerra Group, Vimeo Blender 3D Group, KDEnlive, OpenShot Video Editor, Mencoder, Avidemux, Kino, etc.

BTW: If this isn't enough editing power to get you into the running for the contest, I'd say you are probably over-thinking your concept.

See also: Vimeo Cinelerra Group, Vimeo Blender 3D Group, KDEnlive, OpenShot Video Editor, Mencoder, Avidemux, Kino, etc.

There is over whelming evidence that GMO's are dangerous. "Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in your food may make you sick. Studies link GMOs with toxins, allergies, infertility, infant mortality, immune dysfunction, stunted growth, accelerated aging, and death. Whistleblowers were fired, threatened, and gagged. Warnings by FDA scientists were ignored. Expert Jeffrey M. Smith, author of the #1 GMO bestseller Seeds of Deception, and Genetic Roulette, presents SHOCKING evidence why these gene-spliced crops may lead to health and environmental catastrophes. Learn how to protect yourself and discover the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America—a brilliant plan to quickly end the genetic engineering of our food supply." Reference - http://vimeo.com/6575475

Here's a higher quality version:

http://vimeo.com/2619976