Disclaimer: I would not want to pedal that sh!t uphill under any circumstances.
But it's simply great. How many of you would have thought such speed was possible in such an unefficient way? Sure: he could be three times as fast with an everyday ( "run-off-the-mill"? ) bike, but that's only better by a factor of 3.
Add a big helium-filled balloon to the thing and next thing you see he's flying (don't try this at home kids, you're not coming down the way you think you would). Or build something similar for a glider plane (for braking, of course =))
Under certain circumstances, a personal carrier like this can prove to be the most efficient way of transportation. Where drag-force exceeds gravitational force by some constant. So: moon-buggy - no, underwater-vehicle - maybe, somethingcompletelydifferent - yes.
Persistent people, these Jehova's witnesses, eh? But seriously: Did you tell them to leave? It can do wonders. Or else! I mean even the grass is greener at the neighbour's place.
My personal experience on this: a friend and I discussed mp3 compression and he insisted, that he would never downsample music to 22050 (like I do on my portable MP3-player) because the difference can be heard. I proposed an experiment: took a downsampled version of a good quality sound clip as well as the original, and had him listen to both versions several times to check if he could tell the difference. To my surprise: 1. I could clearly hear the difference on some average quality speakers (I was counting on them!) 2. he could clearly differentiate between the two without a single mistake 3. and he perceived the downsampled version to be the better one =) (without any doubt!) 4. profit! (wanna bet?)
""" - Er, that's to the beach at Calais? - Well, no, no, provided I get a good lift off and maybe a gust of breeze over the French coast, I shall be jumping into the centre of Calais itself. [ Brief shot of group of Frenchmen with banner. 'Fin de Cross-Channel jump'. ] """
I'm getting confused here. vi, copy, paste. polish, print - so far so good. Read, notice sg, need to add a paragraph or two, what's the next step? Back to vi, cp, paste, polish, print? If not, you end up doing exactly the same thing everybody else does and have to deal with office, which is slow/incompatible/etc. Something like the html and css separation should be "the right way to do it", any long-term positive experience with that, anyone?
Well, it can be seen from another perspective too: they were enjoying their last years of freedom, while you were wasting your first years of being a money-earning young man who should start a family and raise children instead of wasting valuable time with computer games between girlfriends. Not necessarily my POV, just another one that I can understand, too.
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Think Bagdad (Louisiana) and Baghdad (Iraq) sound the same. I think they (them Louisianians and them Iraqians or Iroquis or whatnot) are both frenchlike languages (they speak French in Louisiana don't they? It sounds just like that. It's like the Quebec of Texas, right?)
What, you dare not believe me? You should, for I am a professor of geography at the ELTE, Budapest and a respected linguist and a%@2+gist at the Uni. of Bucharest, too.
I changed my monitor, and unfortunately the "new" one did not support refresh frequencies as high as the old one's. Linux: Ctrl+Alt+2, vim, lower some values, gdm restart and I was done. In windows, it was like three restarts (normal mode, safe mode, change settings, normal mode, no-it-didn't-change, safe mode again, remove-hardware, add-new-hardware, normal mode). Having to do the restarts blindly after each failed setting. (Dont't get me wrong: it wasn't me who told BS to windows, it was the os who thought it knew better and did not.) So yes, I do feel kinda "flamey" by just recalling the event and reading your lines. (And yes, probably should've RTFM, but just couldn'f find my reading glasses, grandson.)
"it would take many days to compile even SuperTuxKart and probably months when it came to X11, glibc or even the Linux kernel."
Imagine there would be a compiler running highly optimised for multiple processors! Holy sh*t, that would be the Holy Grail of parallel computing! Just imagine...
I wonder though how long it would take for this thing to compile itself or how many days/months/years its debugging would require.
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Guess I'll have to vote for this Barack tonight: https://www.weinquelle.com/fotos/s719.jpg
Disclaimer: I would not want to pedal that sh!t uphill under any circumstances.
But it's simply great. How many of you would have thought such speed was possible in such an unefficient way? Sure: he could be three times as fast with an everyday ( "run-off-the-mill"? ) bike, but that's only better by a factor of 3.
Add a big helium-filled balloon to the thing and next thing you see he's flying (don't try this at home kids, you're not coming down the way you think you would).
Or build something similar for a glider plane (for braking, of course =))
Under certain circumstances, a personal carrier like this can prove to be the most efficient way of transportation. Where drag-force exceeds gravitational force by some constant. So: moon-buggy - no, underwater-vehicle - maybe, somethingcompletelydifferent - yes.
Catch my drift?
I just read "primitive" instead of "private":
is this a primitive game, or can anyone join in?
Persistent people, these Jehova's witnesses, eh?
But seriously:
Did you tell them to leave? It can do wonders. Or else!
I mean even the grass is greener at the neighbour's place.
"Humans don't really care about sound fidelity."
My personal experience on this: a friend and I discussed mp3 compression and he insisted, that he would never downsample music to 22050 (like I do on my portable MP3-player) because the difference can be heard. I proposed an experiment: took a downsampled version of a good quality sound clip as well as the original, and had him listen to both versions several times to check if he could tell the difference.
To my surprise:
1. I could clearly hear the difference on some average quality speakers (I was counting on them!)
2. he could clearly differentiate between the two without a single mistake
3. and he perceived the downsampled version to be the better one =) (without any doubt!)
4. profit! (wanna bet?)
"""
- Er, that's to the beach at Calais?
- Well, no, no, provided I get a good lift off and maybe a gust of breeze over the French coast, I shall be jumping into the centre of Calais itself.
[ Brief shot of group of Frenchmen with banner. 'Fin de Cross-Channel jump'. ]
"""
(please excuse my pytonic syntax)
I'm getting confused here.
vi, copy, paste. polish, print - so far so good.
Read, notice sg, need to add a paragraph or two, what's the next step?
Back to vi, cp, paste, polish, print?
If not, you end up doing exactly the same thing everybody else does and have to deal with office, which is slow/incompatible/etc.
Something like the html and css separation should be "the right way to do it", any long-term positive experience with that, anyone?
I just read "defensive lawyers" instead of "defensive lasers". Does that count as thoughtcrime here on Slashdot? Or involuntarily insightful?
"Just putting a cute woman on screen is not enough." She's gotta have big boobs.
Yes, no, maybe.
Who cares? Does it matter?
Well, it can be seen from another perspective too:
they were enjoying their last years of freedom,
while you were wasting your first years of being a money-earning young man who should start a family and raise children instead of wasting valuable time with computer games between girlfriends.
Not necessarily my POV, just another one that I can understand, too.
Think Bagdad (Louisiana) and Baghdad (Iraq) sound the same. I think they (them Louisianians and them Iraqians or Iroquis or whatnot) are both frenchlike languages (they speak French in Louisiana don't they? It sounds just like that. It's like the Quebec of Texas, right?)
What, you dare not believe me? You should, for
I am a professor of geography at the ELTE, Budapest and a respected linguist and a%@2+gist at the Uni. of Bucharest, too.
Sincerely, Essjay
You meant "custom made costumes", right?
I changed my monitor, and unfortunately the "new" one did not support refresh frequencies as high as the old one's.
Linux: Ctrl+Alt+2, vim, lower some values, gdm restart and I was done.
In windows, it was like three restarts (normal mode, safe mode, change settings, normal mode, no-it-didn't-change, safe mode again, remove-hardware, add-new-hardware, normal mode). Having to do the restarts blindly after each failed setting. (Dont't get me wrong: it wasn't me who told BS to windows, it was the os who thought it knew better and did not.)
So yes, I do feel kinda "flamey" by just recalling the event and reading your lines.
(And yes, probably should've RTFM, but just couldn'f find my reading glasses, grandson.)
"it would take many days to compile even SuperTuxKart and probably months when it came to X11, glibc or even the Linux kernel."
Imagine there would be a compiler running highly optimised for multiple processors!
Holy sh*t, that would be the Holy Grail of parallel computing!
Just imagine...
I wonder though how long it would take for this thing to compile itself or how many days/months/years its debugging would require.