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Build Your Own Carnival Ride
SoCalChris writes "Check out these guys who are building their own dark ride similar to the ones found at carnivals and theme parks. The ride is complete with PLC's in each of the cars, and one more PLC for the entire ride. The ride also features a blocking system like professionally built rides."
Does it come with a free carnie person?
Arghhh, slashdotted, yet there is a Hope!
Google's Cach
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Their web server's in for one hell of a dark ride.
I'm really tired of people getting the plural form of every abbreviation wrong. It's PLCs. Not PLC's. The PLC doesn't own anything. You wouldn't say "programmable logic controller's". Uhg.
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Before any comments are up, this site is already slashdotted. Google's mirror. No pictures, but better than nothing.
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Does it come with an automated system that makes it break down every 15 minutes, so it truely simulates real carnivals?
In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
"Check out these guys who are building their own dark ride similar to the ones found at carnivals and theme parks."
I happen to speak a little Slashdotese. I think this translates as :
"Kickass! Let's see how fast we can get their website over its 30gb a month transfer limit!"
Also known as Roller-Coaster Tycoon, now availible for the Mac!
In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
Only 5 replies and the darn URLs been /.ed!
: www.phantasmechanics.com/darkride/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
I don't, but my friend Google does:
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:j8SrIlANLtUC
All I'm missing is the last file, drvplan.jpg, but here you go anyway: http://www.osuweb.net/~ahaning/www.phantasmechanic s.com/darkride/
*ahaning throws the URL at the rabid users and gets out of the way as quickly as possible... as if feeding starved dogs*
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
I grabbed what I could, but the site was in the middle of a meltdown.
.ZIP file, or the .BZ file.
Grab the
Jouster
From the second page of the article:
If you are going to do something like this, please invest in a decent tool. EMCO machine tools are the sorriest pieces of crap you can find. Look at a used machinery auction and buy a good Clausing-Colchester lathe and a Bridgeport or Lagun milling machine.As another alternative; if you're going to drop this much money on buying machine tools, just to build one ride, contact a local job shop and work with them on making the parts.
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..do it a little cheaper?
big box on pneumatics, big screen tv on the front, 20" CRT's on the sides, and a few days rendering up something on 3Dstudio?
would be a lot more bizarre, and cost a lot less.
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Even the professional rides are quite dangerous, I definately wouldn't want to ride on a homemade one.
I am your fath.. Oh, you said dark ride. My bad.
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I finally after many years just began trusting roller coasters ( including the cyclone http://www.astroland.com/cyclone.html, I live in Brooklyn, NY) and after reports like this one http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_071002_coast ers.html and a few others on news mags I have mustered up enough balls to get back on them and now I hear that your average joe shmoe is building caosters? Is this thing safe? Has it been tested? Is there an "Authority" that approves roller caosters at all?
You are in violation of copyright law. Cease and desist your wholesale theft of Mr. Ferguson's copyrighted material. Permission was neither granted nor implied to set up an illegal mirror of his work, and both you and your web site host will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
If you REALLY want to scare people, have a monitor in the foyer with a sign on it saying "Safety Monitoring System" and a Blue Screen of Death.
Muhahahahahaha.....
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And offtopic, well, mostly. But the way I figure it... /. has a ton of web serving capability, why don't they mirror sites before posting stories so that everyone could read them? They could even have a 'originally at http://...' frame on top like google does for it's cached pages. Sure would make reading /. stories a lot easier :)
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Will be popular with the ladies.
accetable in pluralizing acronyms, as well as for other "non word" elements.
It's a contraction. The apstrophe substitutes for the "e" in the suffix "es," which is an older, but still acceptable form.
The dropping of the apostrophe in pluralizing acronyms is a modern phemonemon that comes about because of the modern practice, unjustifiable by traditional usage, of treating acronyms as if they were actually words.
They are not. They are abbreviations.
KFG
My ride consisted of a grocery store shopping cart with a rope tied to it. I drove a large metal stake into the ground at the top of a ravine and tied the other end of the rope to it. Then I would place my younger sister and her friend into the cart and push it down into the ravine. The rope would stop the cart from going all the way down into the rocks and water at the bottom... but I did not think of putting seat belts on my ride so it didn't end up working that well.
Meh.
As I am merely reposting the content that appears on his site without deriving any benefit therefrom, no court in its right mind would prosecute me.
That said, if the gentleman wishes to contact me, he may do so at my phone number here, (540) 432-6166 x3666. I will happily take down any material that he feels I should not be providing.
Note that I blithely ignore the fact that you're a troll. Nice tactic, eh?
Jouster
Bearded lady sold separately.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
There was this one carnival attraction in my hometown where you crawl through a bunch of black boxes, cushions, and tubes in total darkness.
Teenage guys LOVED that one because they could grab girls every which way without ever getting caught.
Now *that* would be the one to build in your backyard.
Table-ized A.I.
As a Native New Orleanian I guess I should mention that the House of Shock where this ride is located is a Trent Reznor project.
I worked at the ISP that kicked him his bandwidth in the day and his group were a pretty nice bunch of guys. I remember one day when I was BOFHing some tech calls and someone calls to add a couple of pop boxes for a domain and reset a pass. In my best "fuck you asshole, stupid loser that you are" voice I asked for the customers last name. When I replied "Like uh Trent" guy said yeah and I pulled the account up. Felt like such an ass.
Course the ultimate scare would be to be the only guy in the ride with 4 300 lb female ex cons who just got outta stir and are looking for some strange. As the lights go out and the strains of the song Closer chime in.... oof gonna have nightmares about that one.
Puto
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
I'm not sure how long it will last, but here's a mirror...
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr1.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr2.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr3.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr4.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr5.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr6.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr7.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr8.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr9.htm
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/sd/dr10.htm
Can you use apostrophes in acronyms when pluralizing them? Some people say yes, some people say no. I say yes! Here's why:
Purdue University has a nice blurb on how to properly use apostrophes. One of the uses is "Forming plurals of letters, numbers, and symbols" to avoid confusion.
This page says you can us an apostrophe when the acronym ends in S to avoid confusion. Their example was if you said "The DHSSs of Europe are getting together next week" it would look strange so you can use "The DHSS's of Europe are getting together next week"
This says use an Apostrophe whenever there is punctuation in the acronym. Many other publications say you can't.
Since acronyms and codes are getting more popular they have to get more complex to be unique. You wouldn't want someone getting confused between multiple Non-Maskable Interrupts and a Navy Manpower Information System. Why not make it NMI's instead of NMIs so it doesn't get confused with a NMIS.
Many people seem to agree that you shouldn't use apostrophes to pluralize acronyms but I don't. I think the "ends in S" rule is good but what about the "could be confused with another acronym which is this one with an s on the end" rule. How do you know there isn't an acronym out there that is that one with an S on the end? How do you know there won't be one tomorrow?
You cant!
The bottom line is that the purpose of language is to communicate effectively. If I can do that using 31337 sp33ch then that's ok. It's like the whole stupid he/she vs they thing. (They has always been acceptable as a singular gender neutral pronoun despite many people's assertions otherwise).
To sum it up:
Language rules are here to help us communicate and any rule that restricts our ability to do so effectively is invalid by definition no matter how much some know-it-all wants to convince you otherwise. It's the way it always has been and the way it always will be.
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"On Friday, February 15, the Chinese -made Enco metal lathe arrived. It took about 4 hours to set it all up, as it had to be hoisted and mounted upon its pedistal. The whole rig probably weighs over 1,200 pounds. "
...which is why, in the meantime, we just sat it upon these two wooden house stools. LMAO
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This idea has been proposed before as well:
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Just invent a meta tag that specifically allows slashdot to cache the site. Put it into the FAQ under 'How do I allow Slashdot to cache my site?' and note that 'By including this Tag on your pages you specifically allow us to fetch your website and host a copy of it on our own servers in the event that a link to your site is posted to our front page.' (Maybe even make that a license agreement
That would at least allow caching for the webmasters who specifically want it.
Almost as fun as a backyard roller coaster!
-Dan
I'm sitting here in a room with about twenty (fifty if you count the ones in the cabinet) "PLCs" (actually, they're the grandchildren of the original "PLC"). This is at the company that invented the PLC; I'm testing the new stuff. At any rate, I think it'd be pretty cool if it was one of our products being used. Which PLCs were used?
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I'm ridin the Dot Com roller coaster..........
Goin down !!
The Google cache of the second page lists the machine as ENCO. I was pretty certain that $6k for a lathe with a DRO system seemed pretty cheap.
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Of the English language in the name of humor...
You are anal's
oops you are right! Sorry bout that. And of all things I went to the same high school with anselmo(clifton l ganus) though he was two years older than I.
My bad.
Puto
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised