Done before - at the New York Experience Theatre
on
Giant Sub-Woofer
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· Score: 5, Interesting
This has been done before- The "New York Experience" Theatre in New York City had a 26 foot horn Sub-woofer built beneath the floor of the audience.
It no longer exists, but was on 5th avenue in the basement of the office building for a book publisher. In the 70's I was given a tour by the operators. The theatre was housed in space that had been built to be used as a small planetarium, but had not been completed. A seating floor was built at the base of the dome, and the speaker was built in the space below. The show was a multi-screen multi-media production giving a virtual tour of NY, with physical props included.
The speaker was an exponential horn, 26 foot in length, and used twice during the show (once was during a subway station scene, I forget the other). The cones of the drivers would only last for about 4 hours of operation, so would have to be reconed every few so many shows. The was built of wood, and curved so that the opening pointed up towards the feet of the attendees.
Having attended the show many times, (early geek destination in NY), I can attest that it was an intense experience, sitting in the opening of such a speaker.
But only for one half of the process- it may perfect the 'Yin' role, but what of the 'Yang'? Would it initiate in a way that would generate true interaction? The moment it relied on programming, it is not in the moment, and not Tai Chi. It would not only have to balance itself, but it would need to be able to detect imbalance in the opponent, and respond appropriately. A hanging rope is great Yin, but will never initiate. Can this robot do so?
I couldn't afford an Apple II, so I bought the little spiral bound manual. It thoughtfully included a full schematic (with part numbers), and the full Boot and Bios Rom listings! I think it was the Rom code that tipped me over the edge into the project of building my own.
I wire wrapped the circuits, and hand programmed byte by byte the 5 Roms (2705s, if I recall). One for Bios, and 4 for Apple Basic. Memory chips were the most expensive components at the time.
And it worked! Noisy circuitry, I almost had to position my hands like I was playing a therimin to get it to have a clean display.
Super of Apple to do 'open source' before it was cool!
The site will not load with Mozilla, it is built entirely of Flash content. The only email address I could find, using IE (ugh!) was sales@alexispark.com.
The contact page was simply a scan of a brouchure map cutout.
We have several older Compaq servers (1600s), and every time we have called for tech support, we got a tech within a minute or two. Each time the first line tech was first rate, and knew how to fix the problem with patience.
One tech knew Linux well enough to guide us through adding additional parameters to LILO boot to fix the problem, without having to consult a knowledge base (he had installed and played with linux on a 1600 in his office previously!).
If you want great tech support, buy a used (or new) compaq server!
I spoke with Gene Colan 2 weeks ago, and asked him about the movies. He has not gotten a dime from either one. He said that he "let it go", but that Marv Wolfman had been trying (unsuccessfully) to sue for royalties. Gene has a website where some of his original art is available for sale.
Gene and Marv are also credited at the end of Blade II, as original creators.
There are active search-bots, hunting for instances of formmail.pl on random domains, and testing them for open relays. Check your serverlogs, and you will find that the test request has the URL being tested repeated within the subject, so the email discovering a vulnerable script delivers the URL for further exploits.
Renaming formmail.pl to anything else, such as formsender.pl, will thwart most of these
search-and-exploit processes.
Re:Need for product durability and stability
on
Cringely's Bank Shot
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· Score: 1
We did a successful test of a 14.75 mile link
using stock BreezeCom equipment. I hiked up an
800' hill with the Transmitter, antenna, laptop, and
an APC 600 UPS in my backpack!
These people at http://www.srl.org/ have
been building massive destructive machines
since 1978, staging large outdoor events
generally involving shows akin to "let's shake them in a jar, and see if they'll fight".
Flames, jet engines, crushers, all the things this new program would want.
You are blending together in one lump
executable code, and source code.
GPL is to protect the distribution of
source code, which is not required for
others to use your software. Releasing to
the world executable software is a gift,
but the source is greater, and what others
could build on.
The constant scanning of public web servers is real. Several times I have rigorously backtracked sources of significant scanning over a few days, and most of the originating IPs were overseas. Many from Korea.
How does this legal structure help reduce scanning from overseas?
People (clients) most often have to learn the
hard way. No matter how many times you say the
stove is hot, the real learning occurs when the
finger gets burned.
I run a small SP shop in Vermont, and we had a
sleazy developer roll into town. After
encountering him, I did a little background
checking, and found that he was buying up the
domain names of all the local businesses.
I started to put out the word, to warn locals
that had been flirting with getting websites, but
had not committed yet.
What happened? I was threatened with harm by the sleazoid, and the locals
were not much interested in hearing my warnings. So I shut up, and let others learn on their own. Basically, the warnings were useless, and
eventually the sleazoid left town (with the
FBI investigating him).
After that, our qualities were better appreciated,
and we gained from the contrast. We gained new
clients from those who had been burned by the
sleazoid, but NOT from any businesses we had
warned!
For us, it was better to just do our jobs, take
effort to point out in our sales/bids what we
do better, and wait out any inferior challengers.
Some clients buy by price, and will always choose
the lowest bid, no matter the downside. Others
are interested in relations, and choose who they
get along with or like. And some will actually
evaluate apples with apples, and choose you due
to your quality and expertise.
Over the years, I have later gotten jobs that I
had earlier lost to other shops, largely due
to how graciously we dealt with them, and having said nothing but positive things to them about
their project and choices.
As covered in other posts, pointing out
peoples mistakes will never get you their
business in the future. The potential for
you to be an "I told you so" will keep them
away.
Will the FBI investigate the book,
"101 uses for a dead cat"? It was a book
of cartoons, all centered around imaginative
uses for deceased felines. I am a cat lover,
but found the book a hoot (as I do bonsaikitten)
I fell into the same scenario a few weeks ago. Netsol told me it arose due to the domain of interest being tagged for 'deletion', but not yet deleted. Since it was deleted, no active invoice existed to be paid. But since it had not been deleted, it could not be registered to a new applicant.
CineFX magazine is the best resource for 'how was it done' articles. Each issue highlights 3 movies and covers all effects, with production photos and interviews with the techs. It is a trade magazine, for the effects industry. It is hard to find copies. It is an odd-size magazine, about half the size of a regular one but bound on the short side.
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This has been done before- The "New York Experience" Theatre in New York City had a 26 foot horn Sub-woofer built beneath the floor of the audience.
It no longer exists, but was on 5th avenue in the basement of the office building for a book publisher. In the 70's I was given a tour by the operators. The theatre was housed in space that had been built to be used as a small planetarium, but had not been completed. A seating floor was built at the base of the dome, and the speaker was built in the space below. The show was a multi-screen multi-media production giving a virtual tour of NY, with physical props included.
The speaker was an exponential horn, 26 foot in length, and used twice during the show (once was during a subway station scene, I forget the other). The cones of the drivers would only last for about 4 hours of operation, so would have to be reconed every few so many shows. The was built of wood, and curved so that the opening pointed up towards the feet of the attendees.
Having attended the show many times, (early geek destination in NY), I can attest that it was an intense experience, sitting in the opening of such a speaker.
The point in the article was the lack of notification to attendees of the data collection.
In addition, no privacy policy was provided when requested.
But only for one half of the process- it may perfect the 'Yin' role, but what of the 'Yang'? Would it initiate in a way that would generate true interaction? The moment it relied on programming, it is not in the moment, and not Tai Chi. It would not only have to balance itself, but it would need to be able to detect imbalance in the opponent, and respond appropriately. A hanging rope is great Yin, but will never initiate. Can this robot do so?
The article says:
"Chinese scientists have built a 1.58-metre and 76 kilogram robot which can play tai chi, the traditional Chinese form of shadow boxing"
Shadow boxing is another name for "push hands", which is the engaging of contact with a partner.
While the sentence seems to equate all of Tai Chi with shadow boxing, it also impies that the robot can interact via push hands style.
However, what would this be like? With no psyche, and no consciousness, it might be like working with a piece of hanging rope.
I couldn't afford an Apple II, so I bought the
little spiral bound manual. It thoughtfully
included a full schematic (with part numbers),
and the full Boot and Bios Rom listings! I think
it was the Rom code that tipped me over the edge
into the project of building my own.
I wire wrapped the circuits, and hand programmed
byte by byte the 5 Roms (2705s, if I recall). One
for Bios, and 4 for Apple Basic. Memory chips
were the most expensive components at the time.
And it worked! Noisy circuitry, I almost had to
position my hands like I was playing a therimin
to get it to have a clean display.
Super of Apple to do 'open source' before it was cool!
The site will not load with Mozilla, it is built entirely of Flash content. The only email address I could find, using IE (ugh!) was
sales@alexispark.com.
The contact page was simply a scan of a brouchure map cutout.
When a clueless reporter asked Mallory why he would climb MT Everest, as if it were the most non-sensical thing imaginable, Mallory answered:
"Because it is there".
We have several older Compaq servers (1600s), and every time we have called for tech support, we got a tech within a minute or two. Each time the first line tech was first rate, and knew how to fix the problem with patience.
One tech knew Linux well enough to guide us through adding additional parameters to LILO boot to fix the problem, without having to consult a knowledge base (he had installed and played with linux on a 1600 in his office previously!).
If you want great tech support, buy a used (or new) compaq server!
I spoke with Gene Colan 2 weeks ago, and asked
him about the movies. He has not gotten a dime
from either one. He said that he "let it go", but
that Marv Wolfman had been trying (unsuccessfully)
to sue for royalties. Gene has a website where
some of his original art is available for sale.
Gene and Marv are also credited at the end of
Blade II, as original creators.
There are active search-bots, hunting for instances of formmail.pl on random domains, and testing them for open relays. Check your serverlogs, and you will find that the test request has the URL being tested repeated within the subject, so the email discovering a vulnerable script delivers the URL for further exploits.
Renaming formmail.pl to anything else, such as formsender.pl, will thwart most of these
search-and-exploit processes.
We did a successful test of a 14.75 mile link
using stock BreezeCom equipment. I hiked up an
800' hill with the Transmitter, antenna, laptop, and
an APC 600 UPS in my backpack!
These people at http://www.srl.org/ have
been building massive destructive machines
since 1978, staging large outdoor events
generally involving shows akin to "let's shake them in a jar, and see if they'll fight".
Flames, jet engines, crushers, all the things this new program would want.
Since Aug 1st, My class C block has
experienced 109,666 code red
infection attempts.
83,499 are version II attempts.
Of all attempts,
30,388 are from 61.74.162.3
14,550 are from 61.74.162.16
13,111 are from 61.74.162.10
The remaining source IPs are all sourcing
less than 100 attempts each (most single attempts).
You are blending together in one lump
executable code, and source code.
GPL is to protect the distribution of
source code, which is not required for
others to use your software. Releasing to
the world executable software is a gift,
but the source is greater, and what others
could build on.
The constant scanning of public web servers is real. Several times I have rigorously backtracked sources of significant scanning over a few days, and most of the originating IPs were overseas. Many from Korea.
How does this legal structure help reduce scanning from overseas?
> So if we leave it at GND then when the fan breaks we get GND being pulled up to 12v???
No, because Ground is tied to Earth (hence 'ground'), and has such a resevoir of current capacity that it does not shift- 12v will move towards 0.
With two voltages other than ground, both are 'flimsy', and will shift towards each other.
People (clients) most often have to learn the hard way. No matter how many times you say the stove is hot, the real learning occurs when the finger gets burned.
I run a small SP shop in Vermont, and we had a sleazy developer roll into town. After encountering him, I did a little background checking, and found that he was buying up the domain names of all the local businesses. I started to put out the word, to warn locals that had been flirting with getting websites, but had not committed yet.
What happened? I was threatened with harm by the sleazoid, and the locals were not much interested in hearing my warnings. So I shut up, and let others learn on their own. Basically, the warnings were useless, and eventually the sleazoid left town (with the FBI investigating him).
After that, our qualities were better appreciated, and we gained from the contrast. We gained new clients from those who had been burned by the sleazoid, but NOT from any businesses we had warned!
For us, it was better to just do our jobs, take effort to point out in our sales/bids what we do better, and wait out any inferior challengers.
Some clients buy by price, and will always choose the lowest bid, no matter the downside. Others are interested in relations, and choose who they get along with or like. And some will actually evaluate apples with apples, and choose you due to your quality and expertise.
Over the years, I have later gotten jobs that I had earlier lost to other shops, largely due to how graciously we dealt with them, and having said nothing but positive things to them about their project and choices.
As covered in other posts, pointing out peoples mistakes will never get you their business in the future. The potential for you to be an "I told you so" will keep them away.
Will the FBI investigate the book,
"101 uses for a dead cat"? It was a book
of cartoons, all centered around imaginative
uses for deceased felines. I am a cat lover,
but found the book a hoot (as I do bonsaikitten)
I fell into the same scenario a few weeks ago.
Netsol told me it arose due to the domain of interest being tagged for 'deletion', but not
yet deleted. Since it was deleted, no active invoice existed to be paid. But since it had not
been deleted, it could not be registered to a new
applicant.
oops- Name of the magazine is Cinefex- their website is www.cinefex.com
CineFX magazine is the best resource for 'how was it done' articles. Each issue highlights 3 movies and covers all effects, with production photos and interviews with the techs. It is a trade magazine, for the effects industry. It is hard to find copies. It is an odd-size magazine, about half the size of a regular one but bound on the short side.