They're using the DIYDronesArduPilot, the image in the article shows the ArduPilot Mission Planner software. For a few hundred dollars you can turn an RC aircraft into an autonomous craft, it's a very nifty project.
Homeworld was a space-based RTS, not a flight sim. It was fun though.
Freespace 2 has a lot of community work going into it to update the models and effects. There are also several total conversion projects including a Babylon 5 conversion and a Wing Commander conversion. (Oh, how I miss Wing Commander...
Unless you can develop a backlight that can switch polarizations easily and quickly (or a filter over the TV that can switch back and forth), how would the TV produce alternating polarized images? It's easy at a movie theater, you just have two projectors, each with their own polarizer. It could be done with a projection type TV (such as with a polarized color wheel for DLPs), but I'm not sure how it would be accomplished with a direct-view LCD or plasma TV.
My brain/eyes are incompatible with 3D TV/movies
on
Hot Or Not — 3D TV
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
When watching 3D movies, I tend to go cross-eyed and get a headache very quickly. I think it's because everything I'm seeing is on the same focal plane, but my eyes attempt to adjust for parallax based on different apparent distances of objects. I had to walk out of Avatar 3D after about 10 minutes, I just could not watch it like that. Does anyone else experience this?
In California, home of the rolling stop, we also have many double right turn lanes at the end of freeway offramps, where the the two rightmost lanes are for right turns. Californians have come to behave (erroneously) as if a right on red is legal from either lane. Rather than educate the drivers, cities have begun installing NO RIGHT ON RED signage at these intersections.
Where is such a turn prohibited in the vehicle code?
21453(b): Except when a sign is in place prohibiting a turn, a driver, after stopping as required by subdivision (a), facing a steady circular red signal, may turn right, or turn left from a one-way street onto a one-way street. A driver making that turn shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to any vehicle that has approached or is approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard to the driver, and shall continue to yield the right-of-way to that vehicle until the driver can proceed with reasonable safety.
22100(a)(3): Upon a highway having an additional lane or lanes marked for a right turn by appropriate signs or markings, the driver of a vehicle may turn right from any lane designated and marked for that turning movement.
You come to the light at either of the right-turn lanes, you stop, and if it is safe to do so you may make a right turn.
Plastic raceway. http://cableorganizer.com/surface-raceways/latching.html I use something similar to run speaker wire to my rear speakers. I have it run up the side and across the top of a doorframe to the corner of the room, then it goes up to the ceiling, and along the ceiling/wall edge to the speakers. It blends in fairly well.
You can also pull up the edge of your carpeting and stuff cable under it (along the walls works well, but I wouldn't do that across a hallway or doorway), or remove your baseboards, cut a cable path into the drywall, run cable through it, and replace the baseboards.
I had XM radio for several months, and liked it quite a bit. Then Sirius and XM started working on their merge, and XM ditched several channels in favor of Sirius programming. The channels I listened to on XM had real DJs, playing music that I liked about 95% of the time. Afterwards, all the channels I listened to were gone and had been replaced with automated playlist channels playing music I liked about 5% of the time. Whoever was building those playlists had nowhere near the ability to tie together a long stream of songs, it does take some skill and knowledge of the music to be able to make a cohesive playlist. I tried for about a month to like the new format, but I just couldn't get into it and cancelled my subscription. For me, it was Sirius's programming that killed XM.
There are two California Polytechnic State Universities, one in San Luis Obispo and one in Pomona. Dr. Raul Cano is at CalPoly SLO. I guess their new slogan can be "Learn by brewing"...
The National Weather Service has a data downlink on AMC4 with about 6mbit/sec of weather data...NEXRAD radar data, satellite imagery, surface observations, and more. Requires a C-band dish, an LNB (about $35 for a decent one), and PCI DVB-S card ($50ish on eBay). Search for NOAAport.
If you're pissed about this like I am, then give them a call. Explain to them that you find this feature extremely useful (or even necessary for your continued use of their service) and the removal of the feature will likely result in you leaving their service. I called last night, and the CSR I spoke to said that she was upset about the removal of the feature as well, it was something she used. 1-888-638-3549 The FAQ entry about this is at http://www.netflix.com/Help?p_faqid=3962 If you hit that link while logged into your Netflix account, it will show your customer ID, which you can enter while calling.
For those in the San Luis Obispo market, here's some contact information:
SLO County and unincorporated cities: (805) 781-4357 San Luis Obispo, Bridgitte Elke, Principal Administrative Analyst: (805) 781-7151
These are general city contact numbers, I wasn't able to quickly find the contact info for the departments/persons directly involved with cable franchising: Morro Bay: (805) 772-6200 x5 (administration) Atascadero: (805) 461-5000 Arroyo Grande: (805) 473-5414 (administration) Paso Robles: (805) 227-7276 (city hall) Grover Beach: (805) 473-4550 (administration)
Feel free to call the appropriate city or county contact for your service area and let them know that Charter's inspection of all web traffic going through their network is NOT acceptable to you, and that you prefer your web browsing to remain unmonitored and unaltered by Charter. When calling, make sure you speak to someone responsible for cable franchising agreements.
Solar panels have a finite lifetime. Last I checked a few years ago that was about 20 years, may have improved since then. Also, the sun only shines a certain amount each day...for LA, you get an average of 5.6 sun hours per day (per http://www.solarexpert.com/Pvinsolation.html). So, let's do some math, assuming a 100-watt panel that costs $100. 100 watts * 5.6 = 560 watt-hours per day. 560 watt-hours * 365 = 204 kWh/year. 204 kWh/year * 20 years = 4080kWh over the lifetime of the panel. $100/4080 kWh = $.0245/kWh.
Add in the cost of inverters, if you want power 24 hours a day you'd need batteries (which have about a 5-year life before needing replacement), and the costs do add up (I don't have inverter/battery prices in front of me, nor do I have the time to work up a full PV system plan right now, but the info is out there and just takes some basic math to figure out the total cost per kWh of a system over its expected lifetime).
TIGER data is insufficient for route planning. It lacks road directionality (to indicate one-way streets) and Z-axis separation (overpasses appear as intersections).
My Chaintech VNF4/Ultra has a BIOS updater within the BIOS itself that can load images from a CD.
So, burn the new image to a CD, reboot the PC, stick the CD in, go into the BIOS updater during POST, and tell it to use the file on the CD.
'03 Honda Civic 4-door, manual, claims 32 city, 37 highway. I seem to average about 33 in normal driving (70/30 city/highway split) and can get slightly above 40 on 100% freeway road trips.
Slashdot Mirror
I found them in about two minutes: http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Hardware http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/IMUHardware Scroll to the bottom of each page, you'll find schematics and Eagle files.
They're using the DIYDrones ArduPilot, the image in the article shows the ArduPilot Mission Planner software. For a few hundred dollars you can turn an RC aircraft into an autonomous craft, it's a very nifty project.
Homeworld was a space-based RTS, not a flight sim. It was fun though. Freespace 2 has a lot of community work going into it to update the models and effects. There are also several total conversion projects including a Babylon 5 conversion and a Wing Commander conversion. (Oh, how I miss Wing Commander...
What about something like Robocode, that requires programming to compete in the game?
http://robocode.sourceforge.net/
Unless you can develop a backlight that can switch polarizations easily and quickly (or a filter over the TV that can switch back and forth), how would the TV produce alternating polarized images? It's easy at a movie theater, you just have two projectors, each with their own polarizer. It could be done with a projection type TV (such as with a polarized color wheel for DLPs), but I'm not sure how it would be accomplished with a direct-view LCD or plasma TV.
When watching 3D movies, I tend to go cross-eyed and get a headache very quickly. I think it's because everything I'm seeing is on the same focal plane, but my eyes attempt to adjust for parallax based on different apparent distances of objects. I had to walk out of Avatar 3D after about 10 minutes, I just could not watch it like that. Does anyone else experience this?
In California, home of the rolling stop, we also have many double right turn lanes at the end of freeway offramps, where the the two rightmost lanes are for right turns. Californians have come to behave (erroneously) as if a right on red is legal from either lane. Rather than educate the drivers, cities have begun installing NO RIGHT ON RED signage at these intersections.
Where is such a turn prohibited in the vehicle code?
You come to the light at either of the right-turn lanes, you stop, and if it is safe to do so you may make a right turn.
Plastic raceway.
http://cableorganizer.com/surface-raceways/latching.html
I use something similar to run speaker wire to my rear speakers. I have it run up the side and across the top of a doorframe to the corner of the room, then it goes up to the ceiling, and along the ceiling/wall edge to the speakers. It blends in fairly well.
You can also pull up the edge of your carpeting and stuff cable under it (along the walls works well, but I wouldn't do that across a hallway or doorway), or remove your baseboards, cut a cable path into the drywall, run cable through it, and replace the baseboards.
I had XM radio for several months, and liked it quite a bit. Then Sirius and XM started working on their merge, and XM ditched several channels in favor of Sirius programming. The channels I listened to on XM had real DJs, playing music that I liked about 95% of the time. Afterwards, all the channels I listened to were gone and had been replaced with automated playlist channels playing music I liked about 5% of the time. Whoever was building those playlists had nowhere near the ability to tie together a long stream of songs, it does take some skill and knowledge of the music to be able to make a cohesive playlist. I tried for about a month to like the new format, but I just couldn't get into it and cancelled my subscription. For me, it was Sirius's programming that killed XM.
A one-handed chorded keyboard, of course.
The Creative Zen Vision:M player used the same connector, but with a different pinout.
There are two California Polytechnic State Universities, one in San Luis Obispo and one in Pomona. Dr. Raul Cano is at CalPoly SLO. I guess their new slogan can be "Learn by brewing"...
The National Weather Service has a data downlink on AMC4 with about 6mbit/sec of weather data...NEXRAD radar data, satellite imagery, surface observations, and more. Requires a C-band dish, an LNB (about $35 for a decent one), and PCI DVB-S card ($50ish on eBay).
Search for NOAAport.
Ingest software: http://www.noaaport.net/
One year with NOAAport: http://www.geo-web.org.uk/noaaport.pdf
Receiving with a PCI DVB-S card: http://www.hwic.net/projects/weather/noaaport/twinhan_1020/
There are a number of 7" VGA LCD displays with touchscreens in use in the car computer hobbyist community. The low-end ones are around USD $250-$300.
http://store.mp3car.com/category_s/27.htm
http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/lcd_displays
http://digitalww.com/store/products.asp?cat=8
Take a look around there and I'm sure you'll find something that will work quite well.
If you're pissed about this like I am, then give them a call. Explain to them that you find this feature extremely useful (or even necessary for your continued use of their service) and the removal of the feature will likely result in you leaving their service. I called last night, and the CSR I spoke to said that she was upset about the removal of the feature as well, it was something she used.
1-888-638-3549
The FAQ entry about this is at http://www.netflix.com/Help?p_faqid=3962
If you hit that link while logged into your Netflix account, it will show your customer ID, which you can enter while calling.
For those in the San Luis Obispo market, here's some contact information:
SLO County and unincorporated cities: (805) 781-4357
San Luis Obispo, Bridgitte Elke, Principal Administrative Analyst: (805) 781-7151
These are general city contact numbers, I wasn't able to quickly find the contact info for the departments/persons directly involved with cable franchising:
Morro Bay: (805) 772-6200 x5 (administration)
Atascadero: (805) 461-5000
Arroyo Grande: (805) 473-5414 (administration)
Paso Robles: (805) 227-7276 (city hall)
Grover Beach: (805) 473-4550 (administration)
California Public Utilities Commission: http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/puc/
Feel free to call the appropriate city or county contact for your service area and let them know that Charter's inspection of all web traffic going through their network is NOT acceptable to you, and that you prefer your web browsing to remain unmonitored and unaltered by Charter.
When calling, make sure you speak to someone responsible for cable franchising agreements.
Solar panels have a finite lifetime. Last I checked a few years ago that was about 20 years, may have improved since then. Also, the sun only shines a certain amount each day...for LA, you get an average of 5.6 sun hours per day (per http://www.solarexpert.com/Pvinsolation.html). So, let's do some math, assuming a 100-watt panel that costs $100.
100 watts * 5.6 = 560 watt-hours per day.
560 watt-hours * 365 = 204 kWh/year.
204 kWh/year * 20 years = 4080kWh over the lifetime of the panel.
$100/4080 kWh = $.0245/kWh.
Add in the cost of inverters, if you want power 24 hours a day you'd need batteries (which have about a 5-year life before needing replacement), and the costs do add up (I don't have inverter/battery prices in front of me, nor do I have the time to work up a full PV system plan right now, but the info is out there and just takes some basic math to figure out the total cost per kWh of a system over its expected lifetime).
How much is that in Libraries of Congress?
Dunno about the rest of you, but the Hypercone immediately reminded me of a rolled-up condom.
I wonder when that idea...uh...arose?
Here's the quake info: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Qu akes/ustqab.php
If you go to the Maps tab it gives you this Google Maps link (tinyURLized): http://tinyurl.com/ghvuy
Take a look about 4-5 miles north of the estimated epicenter, there's a large complex of buildings there. Wonder what those are?
There's KnoppMyth.
TIGER data is insufficient for route planning. It lacks road directionality (to indicate one-way streets) and Z-axis separation (overpasses appear as intersections).
My Chaintech VNF4/Ultra has a BIOS updater within the BIOS itself that can load images from a CD. So, burn the new image to a CD, reboot the PC, stick the CD in, go into the BIOS updater during POST, and tell it to use the file on the CD.
'03 Honda Civic 4-door, manual, claims 32 city, 37 highway. I seem to average about 33 in normal driving (70/30 city/highway split) and can get slightly above 40 on 100% freeway road trips.
Or you can get a similar plugin set for free that will give you all the directory attributes you need: http://www.padl.com/download/MKSADPlugins.msi