The problem was that it was very difficult to get incapacitated people into the basket and down to the safety of the bunker. With the new egress system, healthy workers can just put the wounded in seats and let them ride down to safety.
Well, that's not difficult at all! So, as long as you have "healthy workers," the problem is mitigated. There's no chance that they will all be incapacitated simultaneously. And all they have to do is pull the wounded to the escape seats, buckle them in, light up their last cigarette, then smash the big red button to begin the speedy 4 minute decent back to the bunker
Are they serious? I believe the article's author did a poor job of construing some facts, but it still sounds like this thing is a death trap.
This is getting ridiculous. That a crime could take place by the mere proliferation of an artist's work is absolutely ridiculous!
Music is a form of art, and I believe that the artists should expect no more from their hobby than personal enjoyment. If they're doing it for any other reason, then they are hacks. Sure they should be able to accept money for what they do; But if they get on the stage or in the recording studio with something other than fun on their minds, they aren't being true to themselves. Having a special talent and an adoring fanbase is all that anybody could ask for.
Obviously some grandmothers and children don't see a moral problem in downloading music from the Internet. Other than it being illegal, do you really have an issue with it? To put it into the context of the article: Do you feel like you owe the artist something when you listen to his song on your friend's CD? Why not? What's the difference? You benefited from his work, but you didn't compensate him.
To me, availability of music is akin to the Right to Read. Mod me down if you like. I'm just saying what everybody has been feeling but have been too reluctant to say.
Artist to consumer: "I want to express myself with music, but only if you're willing to pay."
Again, I'm not suggesting that an artist shouldn't receive compensation. I would just like to see music-related copyright-infringement de-criminalized (or the civil-equivalent).
What's this "we" business? DX10 is only available with Vista, and Vista sales are abysmal. And with this being a *nix-oriented site, it's falling on deaf ears.
The summary states that DirectX 10 was "introduced" to by the hardware manufacturers and Windows adopted it. I have always understood it to be the other way around. If it is the hardware makers, then why are they actively supporting two different 3D APIs (DX, OpenGL)? Does this mean that DirectX could be adopted by another OS, say Linux? Only for a fee?
I urge everyone to vote with their wallet and try games that support OpenGL and Linux. Sure, you may never get to play Halo 3 in Linux, but if the game developers see the market growing there, I'm sure we'll start to see more big names soon. It will be to their ultimate benefit, too, since they can take advantage of the advanced technologies that Linux has to offer (mostly for free). Can you imagine games or applications that worked with Beryl to create actual 3D desktop objects instead of just 2D windows. Or how about a Linux LiveCD that did nothing but boot a kernel with drivers and ran a dedicated game; every single CPU cycle would be dedicated to giving you frames per second.
Personally, I've been addicted to this great 3D bridge-building game, Bridge Construction Set. Of course, it supports Linux
So how would you design a seamless interface between sensors and actuators to the high-level code?
If you have to ask, then I believe you are getting in way over your head. We're talking about some extreme concepts here: real-time determinism, advanced data-capture algorithms, "artificial-intelligence".
If you're not already at least proficient in all these areas (and then some), I don't think you will be bringing any serious competition to this event.
are business needs trumping consumer and technological interests?
YES. Where have you been?
At least in the US, it has become so painfully obvious that our government's number one priority is Big Business. Watch the bills that are drawn and enacted in this country and you will quickly see that almost all of them are catering to business interests and, most likely, trampling on individuals' rights.
As a designer of SCADA and control systems, I like to tell people that "if you can see it or do it, then I can measure and control it."
Of course, that's not entirely correct. The concept of building machines or robots that exceed our capabilities is something that interests me. It reminds me of this previous article, and I wonder what kinds of things future machines will be able to "sense" and "do" if they themselves are built from machines with enhanced capabilities.
For now, though, it's nice to know that they are inherently limited to our own capabilities as humans.
I know this is off topic WRT the submission, but...
I'm so surprised I don't see more mentions of the Neo1973 running OpenMoko.
It looks to be a powerhouse of a phone that resembles the iPhone in features (minus a camera), and runs the OpenEmbedded stack of open/free software. The consumer version is about to roll out the door any day now, and I'm eager to say the least.
I realize this sounds like an ad, but this phone screams Open and Free! The developer version even comes with a guitar pick to open the case without scratching it. How cool is that!?
So, poor network design caused the network to become saturated. QoS rules were applied to UDP, as they should have been, and the problem has gone away.
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Well, that's not difficult at all! So, as long as you have "healthy workers," the problem is mitigated. There's no chance that they will all be incapacitated simultaneously. And all they have to do is pull the wounded to the escape seats, buckle them in, light up their last cigarette, then smash the big red button to begin the speedy 4 minute decent back to the bunker
Are they serious? I believe the article's author did a poor job of construing some facts, but it still sounds like this thing is a death trap.
Alright, I'm just going to say it.
MUSIC SHOULD BE FREE
This is getting ridiculous. That a crime could take place by the mere proliferation of an artist's work is absolutely ridiculous!
Music is a form of art, and I believe that the artists should expect no more from their hobby than personal enjoyment. If they're doing it for any other reason, then they are hacks. Sure they should be able to accept money for what they do; But if they get on the stage or in the recording studio with something other than fun on their minds, they aren't being true to themselves. Having a special talent and an adoring fanbase is all that anybody could ask for.
Obviously some grandmothers and children don't see a moral problem in downloading music from the Internet. Other than it being illegal, do you really have an issue with it? To put it into the context of the article: Do you feel like you owe the artist something when you listen to his song on your friend's CD? Why not? What's the difference? You benefited from his work, but you didn't compensate him.
To me, availability of music is akin to the Right to Read. Mod me down if you like. I'm just saying what everybody has been feeling but have been too reluctant to say.
Artist to consumer: "I want to express myself with music, but only if you're willing to pay."
Again, I'm not suggesting that an artist shouldn't receive compensation. I would just like to see music-related copyright-infringement de-criminalized (or the civil-equivalent).
The purpose of the appendix is to flip out and kill people.
Obscure reference, but couldn't resist.
What's this "we" business? DX10 is only available with Vista, and Vista sales are abysmal. And with this being a *nix-oriented site, it's falling on deaf ears.
The summary states that DirectX 10 was "introduced" to by the hardware manufacturers and Windows adopted it. I have always understood it to be the other way around. If it is the hardware makers, then why are they actively supporting two different 3D APIs (DX, OpenGL)? Does this mean that DirectX could be adopted by another OS, say Linux? Only for a fee?
I urge everyone to vote with their wallet and try games that support OpenGL and Linux. Sure, you may never get to play Halo 3 in Linux, but if the game developers see the market growing there, I'm sure we'll start to see more big names soon. It will be to their ultimate benefit, too, since they can take advantage of the advanced technologies that Linux has to offer (mostly for free). Can you imagine games or applications that worked with Beryl to create actual 3D desktop objects instead of just 2D windows. Or how about a Linux LiveCD that did nothing but boot a kernel with drivers and ran a dedicated game; every single CPU cycle would be dedicated to giving you frames per second.
Personally, I've been addicted to this great 3D bridge-building game, Bridge Construction Set. Of course, it supports Linux
If you have to ask, then I believe you are getting in way over your head. We're talking about some extreme concepts here: real-time determinism, advanced data-capture algorithms, "artificial-intelligence".
If you're not already at least proficient in all these areas (and then some), I don't think you will be bringing any serious competition to this event.
So there's a risk of radioactivity leaking from the batteries?
Still sounds safer than Lithium-Ion laptop batteries supplied by Sony! Ba-duh, bum!
YES. Where have you been?
At least in the US, it has become so painfully obvious that our government's number one priority is Big Business. Watch the bills that are drawn and enacted in this country and you will quickly see that almost all of them are catering to business interests and, most likely, trampling on individuals' rights.
Yeah, they have no need to pull a "fast one."
Anyway, using the hover-over mask feature of the linked demo would have been much easier, not to mention more fun and dramatic. :P
As a designer of SCADA and control systems, I like to tell people that "if you can see it or do it, then I can measure and control it."
Of course, that's not entirely correct. The concept of building machines or robots that exceed our capabilities is something that interests me. It reminds me of this previous article, and I wonder what kinds of things future machines will be able to "sense" and "do" if they themselves are built from machines with enhanced capabilities.
For now, though, it's nice to know that they are inherently limited to our own capabilities as humans.
I know this is off topic WRT the submission, but ...
I'm so surprised I don't see more mentions of the Neo1973 running OpenMoko.
It looks to be a powerhouse of a phone that resembles the iPhone in features (minus a camera), and runs the OpenEmbedded stack of open/free software. The consumer version is about to roll out the door any day now, and I'm eager to say the least.
I realize this sounds like an ad, but this phone screams Open and Free! The developer version even comes with a guitar pick to open the case without scratching it. How cool is that!?
So, poor network design caused the network to become saturated. QoS rules were applied to UDP, as they should have been, and the problem has gone away.
Where's the story?
You mean you haven't seen anybody complaining about it, right?