IDIOT. Please do NOT encourage any more people to move here. The traffic is worse than LA, and all the beutiful forests are now tract housing. That and the RAIN is never ending!
I moved around a bit when I was young. Once was attacked as a child by a mob of 1st and second graders because in their language (it wasn't english!) it was portrayed to them that it was O.K. to kick and hit me. This was done by a small group of kids my age. They were even told that I would not fight back.
Imagine a ton of little kids swarming you. You can't hurt a child (even if you are one, you know that hitting a little kid is NOT O.K.) I was pinned on a fence and punched, and kicked repeatedly, and laughed at while getting a few jabs from the older kids, it was really quite scary.
Suddenly when I moved on to 7th grade, I had a HUGE growth spurt. One of the kids who used to pick on me all the time punched me in the face on the first day of school. I laughed at him, and said I wouldn't do that again if I were you. He didn't bother me from then on, but incited his friends to. I felt bad about it, but I beat the crap out of anyone who challenged me, soon, everyone left me alone. Then I moved to WA and the whole thing started over. Kids are just mean to kids they don't know.
I was horribly anti-social. I didn't want anything to do with people who were so cruel, and just assumed that everyone was like that. I didn't get over my anti-social behaviors until I started drinking/ smoking pot ~'95. I was 17 or so. I graduated Highschool because of a few good teachers who encouraged me when they saw I was failing. (luckily I didn't have them against me). By some stroke of luck I managed to get out of that circle where EVERY one of my friends ended up braindead, stupid, poor, or some combination of the above.
I have thought of that, but honestly it's something I don't want to do. I really hate doing it. The olny reason I don't charge more is because I get all my clients by word of mouth, and many of them are repeat customers who refer me out. It's easier to just tell them, uh... Let's backup what you need, then sing camptown races... You know the tune
I am sick and tired of paying for my cable modem and router to recieve crap packets, and making my router discard them. It's like junkmail on a HUGE scale. (except that the bits are tiny....)
Seriously though, I have a few clients who REFUSE to get a router / firewall. They insist that since it (the internet)works, they don't need it. Even after telling them that benefits for them (and me), even w/ charging them $0.00 to install the damned thing. People have wierd mentalities sometimes.
I generally refuse to do spyware removal more than one time per client, and then only if it's a stellar fast machine. It's too expensive even if I charge 1/2 my rate. It takes too long, and isn't usually worth it for me or them. ($75/hr Oly, WA)
Efficiency is directly related to cost. Your not buying electricity, your buying a system to make your electricity. For example. It's like investing in a cow vs. investing in milk.
If your pannels become signifigantly more efficient, and the cost stays the same or slightly increases, or even increases w/ the % of efficiancy gain, you have several advantages.
1. more w/$ 2. less space needed/w 3. potential for higher total capacity
So if the it becomes maybe 10% more efficient, but the cost goes up 10% per panel, it's still better in the long term.
Think of it this way.
Say you have a 200 hp car that cost $20,000 USD.
would you pay $2000 for 50 extra horses? what about an extra 1500? 1000? 400? Many people who know & are concerned about performance would pay whatever it costs to gain that extra bit of oomph. 2000 for a constant 50hp gain isn't that bad, and is GREAT if it's only 1000. You get that extra 50 hp every time you put your foot to the floor. That's why turbo's on imports are so popular (yes I know the scale is diferant, just making an example). For about 5-7000 you get a 40-60% boost in power! 50 hp is a sig. dif in feel and hp/weight ratio. Also, it's a gain that will be there for the life of the car.
The life of the cell is what your banking on, not it's initial cost.
Another good example is a mortgage. Actually it is better. Would you refinance your 30yr mortgage to a lower rate if you could? What if it cost you 5K? what if it cost you 10K? if you have a 300000 dollar mtg., and can shave a % pt for 10k your doing alright in the long term. If you can do that for 5k, your doing really well.
I have a AirHogs Reflex that I am going to try this effect with! I had the greatest Idea of putting the top of a frappaccino cup. It's a Dome shapped piece of thin plastic that would fit under the rotors. I'll let you know more when I get it together!
I see by some links of a later poster, that some of my questions were answered.
# 3. they have self powered models.
2. it appears to fall flat, w/ the flaps extending
1. Square, Circle, Rectangle. Shape matters little. 1.a No one has a model w/ the stabilizer flaps moving (that I saw) 1.a.2 There is a proposal to use flapless by using some kind of plasma fluid. That looks interesting indeed!
I was thinking the same thing. It's like, Damn, I could have thought of that...
But my curiosity is in energy efficiancy vs. a heli style machine. Yeah, it might be an order of magnitude safer, but if it costs twice as much to run, how much of a help can it be?
I was looking at the video and for secret surveilence I think this wouldn't work. It's WAY too loud. It would be good for commercial arial shots though.
I saw many things in that video alone that made me wonder...
1. Why square (ish?) why not use a circular design? Stering could be done by changing the small stabilizing flaps on the sides, instead of big flaps on the bottom.
2. What happens during freefall? In the event of a motor failure, Aerodynamically speaking (from my weak physics perspective ), it looks as if it will tip upside down.
3. What are the wires from the bottom supplying? Input or power? (my guess is both..)
INDUSTRY, not a city block of dwelling humans (though we use way more than we should!) For instance: Consider the now extinct "Arcade". This mythical place had 2 bills. 1. Rent, 2. POWER everything else was nominal compared to those two bills. Power being almost as much as rent. If you took all the neighbors on my block, and totalled their power bill in the sumer it would be about the same as 1 Arcade. An arcade is a MINIMAL power user compared to industries such as STEEL and Aluminum.
Granted the use of grid power would go down. Hopefully though, the E- Co. can adapt by having less generators, and selling back home power to industries that need it
Thats hillarious, I should have thought of that too! (when I was looking into booby traping, it was for rocksalt to explode from my car when My alarm went off for more than 40 seconds.)
I think if we were to do an expirement, we could show that one platform is better than the other for certain games. For instance, lets pit 10 servers of 10 random PC UT3 players on the same team as 10 Random console players. But if we were to do the same w/ a driving game I think we would get opposite results.
Show me someone who can out circle strafe a pc player on x-box, and I'll show you someone who is using a mouse. (or one who doesn't know how!)
Then show me someone who can play a game at 2048x1536 on a console. (Just kidding, I know there are some limitations. Resolution for consoles, Screen size for PC's)
Yeah, I am a fanboi for PC. I admit it, but I CAME FROM CONSOLES. I started not w/ MUD's but w/ NES/Super NES, TurboGFX 16, Sega genesis, then I saw Quake, and Descent. I have never seen a reason to go back, despite trying (a console is about the cost of ram/video card, and I'd prefer to spend $ than I have to) I just can't do it. And I am happy to admit, it might just be me, however I still can't do 3D spherical motion on a console.
Now, in all honesty, I won't play a sports game on a keyboard/mouse. I won't play a driving game either. Consoles controlers are far superior for that genre. I sometimes wish I had a console to play some Zelda, or Madden, but that is where I draw the line. A P.C. w/ a good pad is a great platform for gaming, but development for PC sucks right now and choice is limited.
Seriously, with a little more detail, why do you feel FPS, MMORPG's, etc.. could be better on a console. I just don't see it, and would love to be enlightened.
Well, I don't think you are alone, but I did use the net recently on my phone with good results. I bought tickets online using Fandango mobile. It was fast, easy, and I didn't have to raise my voice in a crowded restuarant! (dinner date wanted to make SURE we had tickets)
Great position. I, personally, am in favor of that. However, it should be noted that I think it will need an individual selection of chimps in the first place.
Hell, if nothing else, it'd be one of the finer expieriments for intelligence to date.
As for treating them like children, I think it would be good if they had to go to school. Teach them sign language so that they can teach other chimps signlanguage like my prior post. Then we have a propagated language, and method to interact with them. Also signlanguage is a service that is pretty common.
An individual basis would be required at first. Similarly to how we dealt with the slavery issue. Yes it was wrong, yes it shouldn't have ever happened, but because it did:
You can't just flip a switch. You need to make a rapid, but determined progression to freeing the chimps. I for one, welco...
Chimps can learn & understand sign language. Fact right?
Why don't we tell the chimps that if they want equal rights, they have to comunicate to other chimps, teach them sign language, and have them teach their offspring. This way, they can have a propagated way to comunicate across the species barrier with complexity that has never been seen before. Then they can become productive members of society. I think it would be great if we could have the chimps teach us about their society, while we teach them to teach themselves.
It's not fair to say that they are almost human though. Chimps will have to follow our laws or be recognized as a tribe / tribal laws? Do chimps have their own laws? It seems as if they are close enough to consider it, then it's allready good enough to treat them like people. It'll be interesting for sure, but I definately see no reason to be against it.
Don't forget. If we give them rights, they will have a say in what happens with society. Because if we give them rights, they will be allowed to vote too. Make way for the greener candidates, CAGW (chimps against global warming) will be a new party, and countries will have to stop clear cutting, or set up reservations (which they should be doing anyway.)!
Except that you can layer plastics easily, create meshes like cloth, and for instance your horizontil strands could be electrical while your vertical fibers could be of a non conducting polymer, like POLYESTER or something.
The real benefit is things renewed potential for things like sensors, and smart clothing.
Maybe it will make short but wide networks possible, who knows.
I think mostly though, that it could be used to replace the small electronic devices that get used everyday that you don't think of from a techies perspective. Automotive pieces certain types of switches, small controllers, toys, medical devices, spoilage detectors for food/ food processing etc. These would be the key industries I can think of off the bat
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IDIOT.
Please do NOT encourage any more people to move here. The traffic is worse than LA, and all the beutiful forests are now tract housing. That and the RAIN is never ending!
Wow.. Sorry for your rough life!
I can identify, though not "know" how you felt.
I moved around a bit when I was young. Once was attacked as a child by a mob of 1st and second graders because in their language (it wasn't english!) it was portrayed to them that it was O.K. to kick and hit me. This was done by a small group of kids my age. They were even told that I would not fight back.
Imagine a ton of little kids swarming you. You can't hurt a child (even if you are one, you know that hitting a little kid is NOT O.K.) I was pinned on a fence and punched, and kicked repeatedly, and laughed at while getting a few jabs from the older kids, it was really quite scary.
Suddenly when I moved on to 7th grade, I had a HUGE growth spurt. One of the kids who used to pick on me all the time punched me in the face on the first day of school. I laughed at him, and said I wouldn't do that again if I were you. He didn't bother me from then on, but incited his friends to. I felt bad about it, but I beat the crap out of anyone who challenged me, soon, everyone left me alone. Then I moved to WA and the whole thing started over. Kids are just mean to kids they don't know.
I was horribly anti-social. I didn't want anything to do with people who were so cruel, and just assumed that everyone was like that. I didn't get over my anti-social behaviors until I started drinking/ smoking pot ~'95. I was 17 or so. I graduated Highschool because of a few good teachers who encouraged me when they saw I was failing. (luckily I didn't have them against me). By some stroke of luck I managed to get out of that circle where EVERY one of my friends ended up braindead, stupid, poor, or some combination of the above.
I have thought of that, but honestly it's something I don't want to do. I really hate doing it. The olny reason I don't charge more is because I get all my clients by word of mouth, and many of them are repeat customers who refer me out. It's easier to just tell them, uh... Let's backup what you need, then sing camptown races... You know the tune
Ctrl-Alt-Delete-Format-Reinstall Dooh Dahh Dooh Dahh
then even think about removing all the crazy crap they may have collected.
HERE HERE!
I am sick and tired of paying for my cable modem and router to recieve crap packets, and making my router discard them. It's like junkmail on a HUGE scale. (except that the bits are tiny....)
Seriously though, I have a few clients who REFUSE to get a router / firewall. They insist that since it (the internet)works, they don't need it. Even after telling them that benefits for them (and me), even w/ charging them $0.00 to install the damned thing. People have wierd mentalities sometimes.
I generally refuse to do spyware removal more than one time per client, and then only if it's a stellar fast machine. It's too expensive even if I charge 1/2 my rate. It takes too long, and isn't usually worth it for me or them.
($75/hr Oly, WA)
It's not linear.
/w
Efficiency is directly related to cost. Your not buying electricity, your buying a system to make your electricity.
For example. It's like investing in a cow vs. investing in milk.
If your pannels become signifigantly more efficient, and the cost stays the same or slightly increases, or even increases w/ the % of efficiancy gain, you have several advantages.
1. more w/$
2. less space needed
3. potential for higher total capacity
So if the it becomes maybe 10% more efficient, but the cost goes up 10% per panel, it's still better in the long term.
Think of it this way.
Say you have a 200 hp car that cost $20,000 USD.
would you pay $2000 for 50 extra horses? what about an extra 1500? 1000? 400? Many people who know & are concerned about performance would pay whatever it costs to gain that extra bit of oomph. 2000 for a constant 50hp gain isn't that bad, and is GREAT if it's only 1000. You get that extra 50 hp every time you put your foot to the floor. That's why turbo's on imports are so popular (yes I know the scale is diferant, just making an example). For about 5-7000 you get a 40-60% boost in power! 50 hp is a sig. dif in feel and hp/weight ratio. Also, it's a gain that will be there for the life of the car.
The life of the cell is what your banking on, not it's initial cost.
Another good example is a mortgage. Actually it is better. Would you refinance your 30yr mortgage to a lower rate if you could? What if it cost you 5K? what if it cost you 10K? if you have a 300000 dollar mtg., and can shave a % pt for 10k your doing alright in the long term. If you can do that for 5k, your doing really well.
OMG my brain is spinning like a UFO!
I have a AirHogs Reflex that I am going to try this effect with! I had the greatest Idea of putting the top of a frappaccino cup. It's a Dome shapped piece of thin plastic that would fit under the rotors. I'll let you know more when I get it together!
I see by some links of a later poster, that some of my questions were answered.
# 3. they have self powered models.
2. it appears to fall flat, w/ the flaps extending
1. Square, Circle, Rectangle. Shape matters little. 1.a No one has a model w/ the stabilizer flaps moving (that I saw) 1.a.2 There is a proposal to use flapless by using some kind of plasma fluid. That looks interesting indeed!
I was thinking the same thing. It's like, Damn, I could have thought of that...
But my curiosity is in energy efficiancy vs. a heli style machine. Yeah, it might be an order of magnitude safer, but if it costs twice as much to run, how much of a help can it be?
I was looking at the video and for secret surveilence I think this wouldn't work. It's WAY too loud. It would be good for commercial arial shots though.
I saw many things in that video alone that made me wonder...
1. Why square (ish?) why not use a circular design? Stering could be done by changing the small stabilizing flaps on the sides, instead of big flaps on the bottom.
2. What happens during freefall? In the event of a motor failure, Aerodynamically speaking (from my weak physics perspective ), it looks as if it will tip upside down.
3. What are the wires from the bottom supplying? Input or power? (my guess is both..)
home row, and the other on a mouse.
Old enough to circle strafe? Old enough to Frag.
-My bloodline will propagate the next generation of super gamers!
INDUSTRY, not a city block of dwelling humans (though we use way more than we should!) For instance: Consider the now extinct "Arcade". This mythical place had 2 bills. 1. Rent, 2. POWER everything else was nominal compared to those two bills. Power being almost as much as rent. If you took all the neighbors on my block, and totalled their power bill in the sumer it would be about the same as 1 Arcade. An arcade is a MINIMAL power user compared to industries such as STEEL and Aluminum.
Granted the use of grid power would go down. Hopefully though, the E- Co. can adapt by having less generators, and selling back home power to industries that need it
Thats hillarious, I should have thought of that too! (when I was looking into booby traping, it was for rocksalt to explode from my car when My alarm went off for more than 40 seconds.)
I think if we were to do an expirement, we could show that one platform is better than the other for certain games. For instance, lets pit 10 servers of 10 random PC UT3 players on the same team as 10 Random console players. But if we were to do the same w/ a driving game I think we would get opposite results.
Show me someone who can out circle strafe a pc player on x-box, and I'll show you someone who is using a mouse. (or one who doesn't know how!)
Then show me someone who can play a game at 2048x1536 on a console. (Just kidding, I know there are some limitations. Resolution for consoles, Screen size for PC's)
Yeah, I am a fanboi for PC. I admit it, but I CAME FROM CONSOLES. I started not w/ MUD's but w/ NES/Super NES, TurboGFX 16, Sega genesis, then I saw Quake, and Descent. I have never seen a reason to go back, despite trying (a console is about the cost of ram/video card, and I'd prefer to spend $ than I have to) I just can't do it. And I am happy to admit, it might just be me, however I still can't do 3D spherical motion on a console.
Now, in all honesty, I won't play a sports game on a keyboard/mouse. I won't play a driving game either. Consoles controlers are far superior for that genre. I sometimes wish I had a console to play some Zelda, or Madden, but that is where I draw the line. A P.C. w/ a good pad is a great platform for gaming, but development for PC sucks right now and choice is limited.
Seriously, with a little more detail, why do you feel FPS, MMORPG's, etc.. could be better on a console. I just don't see it, and would love to be enlightened.
readers who actually can engage in a social relationship.
I'd show a picture, but fear my Karma hording would have someone hack my website... 0'8
Well, I don't think you are alone, but I did use the net recently on my phone with good results. I bought tickets online using Fandango mobile. It was fast, easy, and I didn't have to raise my voice in a crowded restuarant! (dinner date wanted to make SURE we had tickets)
I died laughing, and was resurected by a Holy paladin after I read your sig...
Great position. I, personally, am in favor of that. However, it should be noted that I think it will need an individual selection of chimps in the first place.
Hell, if nothing else, it'd be one of the finer expieriments for intelligence to date.
As for treating them like children, I think it would be good if they had to go to school. Teach them sign language so that they can teach other chimps signlanguage like my prior post. Then we have a propagated language, and method to interact with them. Also signlanguage is a service that is pretty common.
Why do you have that opinion after mentioning the greater good as you did?
An individual basis would be required at first. Similarly to how we dealt with the slavery issue. Yes it was wrong, yes it shouldn't have ever happened, but because it did:
You can't just flip a switch. You need to make a rapid, but determined progression to freeing the chimps. I for one, welco...
Chimps can learn & understand sign language. Fact right?
Why don't we tell the chimps that if they want equal rights, they have to comunicate to other chimps, teach them sign language, and have them teach their offspring. This way, they can have a propagated way to comunicate across the species barrier with complexity that has never been seen before. Then they can become productive members of society. I think it would be great if we could have the chimps teach us about their society, while we teach them to teach themselves.
It's not fair to say that they are almost human though. Chimps will have to follow our laws or be recognized as a tribe / tribal laws? Do chimps have their own laws? It seems as if they are close enough to consider it, then it's allready good enough to treat them like people. It'll be interesting for sure, but I definately see no reason to be against it.
Don't forget.
If we give them rights, they will have a say in what happens with society. Because if we give them rights, they will be allowed to vote too. Make way for the greener candidates, CAGW (chimps against global warming) will be a new party, and countries will have to stop clear cutting, or set up reservations (which they should be doing anyway.)!
PC gaming is terrible?
Well just see about that when UT3 comes out this summer. Oh, by the way, Blizzard would like to disagree w/ you.
Except that you can layer plastics easily, create meshes like cloth, and for instance your horizontil strands could be electrical while your vertical fibers could be of a non conducting polymer, like POLYESTER or something.
The real benefit is things renewed potential for things like sensors, and smart clothing.
Maybe it will make short but wide networks possible, who knows.
I think mostly though, that it could be used to replace the small electronic devices that get used everyday that you don't think of from a techies perspective. Automotive pieces certain types of switches, small controllers, toys, medical devices, spoilage detectors for food/ food processing etc. These would be the key industries I can think of off the bat
Offtopic, but I was at a party once, where this HOT HOT HOT blonde had this hat on that read " It ain't gonna lick itself..."
I almost died. Once from laughter, the second time from my wife.
It's called booby-trapping, and yes, it's illegal. (I know cause I wanted to do it once and looked it up)
If someone pokes them in the stomach 20 times, they might explode?