I thought the videos were very well done.
The only thing stopping me from going Linux are the games. We desperately need the game industry to start porting the games. I honestly believe that is the only thing really standing in the way.
What are the odds that MS is somehow involved in that?
It would be a cool way to get from one end of campus to another.
Just imagine the convenience of having a two wheeled, compact and light weight form of transportation that you could lock up on your way into class.
It is a misconception that three wheels are more unstable than four wheels. One example of this is well demonstrated by a forklift.
With a forklift what keeps it stable is the center of balance being inside a certain dimension, generally found by making a pyramid that runs on the base from the center of the back of the lift truck to the center and outside of the front axle, the peak of the pyramid extends to the top of the mast - so it will vary depending on how high the load is. This makes sense if you are looking at a three wheeled forklift.
Amazingly they calculate the pyramid the same way with a four wheeled forklift.
Someone with engineering experience could probably have explained this a little easier, or at least more coherently, but hopefully this adds something.
Of course this may not apply to something with the solitary wheel being in the front when you are trying to navigate a corner at higher speeds.
It doesn't tell us anything about what they actually did, or how the resultant program functions.
It simply regurgitates things that we think we already know, with a video.
There aren't many, but it's far safer than the bicycles and scooters that many Nano buyers will be trading up from. Tata's engineers are working on a series of upgrades, including airbags, anti-lock brakes, power steering, more powerful three-cylinder petrol and diesel engines and five-speed and automatic gearboxes which will allow the Nano to go on sale beyond its home market, and capitalise on the colossal potential created by its base price.
I think we might be seeing this over here, sooner than some of you think. It would be insufficient for freeways and highways, but it's more than adequate for running around town, well, once the safety features that we expect are in place.
Thanks AC, I wasn't sure if it was per capita or not, I wanted to be safe on that one.\
Thanks also for the link about property being a respondent Xenographic. I just learned something new today.
Is beta testing not considered part of the development process?
True, most end users aren't interested in running beta tests. However MS always seems to manage to leak their software early, I'm assuming it's to get more testing done by the public.
But it almost sounds to me like the users are supposed to run this and then report their findings.
Do the people that run it get a paycheck? Or is that the part that's open source?
Aren't there other programs that also do this? If so(I really can't imagine that MS are the first to release something like this), then how is this news?
I run Windoze Vista, and I'm not at all dissatisfied. Yes, it does somethings in ways that I'm still adjusting to, some of the buttons aren't in the exact same spot they were in before - but I'll adjust.
However it doesn't take anywhere 15 minutes to load.
I'm running a Toshiba laptop, and Vista loads in under 2 minutes - that's from cold boot to me being on the internet. That includes the sidebar starting up, that funky eye candy thing called Aero, my AV software, and Ad-Aware.
No, Vista is not perfect, but I haven't had to reboot my laptop since I got it three weeks ago.
Actually I wasn't kidding, I'm dead serious.
That is a cool feature for the iPhone, but again it burns through batteries fast when it's used for that.
It will take a lot more than what they have now to convince me that I need one.
Why do people keep calling them smartphones? They aren't going to know that I'm having a stroke and phone 911 for me.
What happened to a phone being a phone? (I think I just might be showing my age there.) Why do we need all these reasons to have dead batteries so that when there is an important call-or we need to make an important, we can't.
In British Columbia Canada they had a similar problem a while back.
The courts declared that it wasn't illegal to posses child porn. There was no crime in owning it.
I looked at it this way - I should then be able to own the judges stolen television. However it wasn't my opinion that got them to reverse that decision.
I'm just glad that they did reverse it.
I would like to see where you get your facts from. Could you perhaps shed some more light on your claims?
No one can know the law or how it will be applied.
There are quite a few excellent lawyers out there, they do know the law and how to apply it.
you have no property rights, since they are suing the cash itself, not you.
I don't think that it's possible to sue a stack of cash, no matter how big it is.
The ability to travel is no longer a right but a privilege contingent on showing your government-issued papers and not being on the "terrorist watch list", which is really just an alleged enemies list.
Travel is a right, within certain guidelines. True it has gotten worse lately, for some people at least, I know many people that travel without a problem at all.
No other countries except Russia and China imprison more people.
Check your figures again, I'm pretty sure that the U.S.A. imprisons more people per capita than any other country.
Your posts continually reveal further depths of moral bankruptcy and abject toadying to the lowest forms of parasitic usurping political scum. You have no place in this country, this world, this life. Your ugly idiocy befouls all that is good in mankind. I loathe your very essence and wish your evil spirit complete and eternal annihilation.
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I actually do pay for software, both commercial and shareware.
As far as cheating goes in a game, is that really all that fun?
I thought the videos were very well done.
The only thing stopping me from going Linux are the games. We desperately need the game industry to start porting the games. I honestly believe that is the only thing really standing in the way.
What are the odds that MS is somehow involved in that?
It would be a cool way to get from one end of campus to another.
Just imagine the convenience of having a two wheeled, compact and light weight form of transportation that you could lock up on your way into class.
To have another scapegoat that you can blame stuff on too :)
It is a misconception that three wheels are more unstable than four wheels. One example of this is well demonstrated by a forklift.
With a forklift what keeps it stable is the center of balance being inside a certain dimension, generally found by making a pyramid that runs on the base from the center of the back of the lift truck to the center and outside of the front axle, the peak of the pyramid extends to the top of the mast - so it will vary depending on how high the load is. This makes sense if you are looking at a three wheeled forklift.
Amazingly they calculate the pyramid the same way with a four wheeled forklift.
Someone with engineering experience could probably have explained this a little easier, or at least more coherently, but hopefully this adds something.
Of course this may not apply to something with the solitary wheel being in the front when you are trying to navigate a corner at higher speeds.
It doesn't tell us anything about what they actually did, or how the resultant program functions.
It simply regurgitates things that we think we already know, with a video.
So if you hold your breath for a loooong time?
Oh wait, just got it.
Would this affect only Intel, or is this entirely unrelated to this previous article?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/19/179228
There aren't many, but it's far safer than the bicycles and scooters that many Nano buyers will be trading up from. Tata's engineers are working on a series of upgrades, including airbags, anti-lock brakes, power steering, more powerful three-cylinder petrol and diesel engines and five-speed and automatic gearboxes which will allow the Nano to go on sale beyond its home market, and capitalise on the colossal potential created by its base price.
I think we might be seeing this over here, sooner than some of you think. It would be insufficient for freeways and highways, but it's more than adequate for running around town, well, once the safety features that we expect are in place.
That's a mothers job, well, they think it is anyway.
Thanks a lot for all the information guys.
Thanks AC, I wasn't sure if it was per capita or not, I wanted to be safe on that one.\
Thanks also for the link about property being a respondent Xenographic. I just learned something new today.
Is beta testing not considered part of the development process?
True, most end users aren't interested in running beta tests. However MS always seems to manage to leak their software early, I'm assuming it's to get more testing done by the public.
My son was involved with a Boy Scout bottle drive once. I'm positive that it might help....
*tips head to the left to listen to the voices...*
But it almost sounds to me like the users are supposed to run this and then report their findings.
Do the people that run it get a paycheck? Or is that the part that's open source?
Aren't there other programs that also do this? If so(I really can't imagine that MS are the first to release something like this), then how is this news?
I'm not even sure where to begin.
So what happens if someone hacks your player account and takes out a mortgage on your house?
I run Windoze Vista, and I'm not at all dissatisfied. Yes, it does somethings in ways that I'm still adjusting to, some of the buttons aren't in the exact same spot they were in before - but I'll adjust.
However it doesn't take anywhere 15 minutes to load.
I'm running a Toshiba laptop, and Vista loads in under 2 minutes - that's from cold boot to me being on the internet. That includes the sidebar starting up, that funky eye candy thing called Aero, my AV software, and Ad-Aware.
No, Vista is not perfect, but I haven't had to reboot my laptop since I got it three weeks ago.
Actually I wasn't kidding, I'm dead serious.
That is a cool feature for the iPhone, but again it burns through batteries fast when it's used for that.
It will take a lot more than what they have now to convince me that I need one.
There are a lot of people out there that don't care what they click, they just want their damn porn. It happens all the time.
I resent that remark.
I'm quite happy with Windoze. The "worm-of-the-week' is like the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
Why do people keep calling them smartphones? They aren't going to know that I'm having a stroke and phone 911 for me.
What happened to a phone being a phone? (I think I just might be showing my age there.) Why do we need all these reasons to have dead batteries so that when there is an important call-or we need to make an important, we can't.
In British Columbia Canada they had a similar problem a while back.
The courts declared that it wasn't illegal to posses child porn. There was no crime in owning it.
I looked at it this way - I should then be able to own the judges stolen television. However it wasn't my opinion that got them to reverse that decision.
I'm just glad that they did reverse it.
No one can know the law or how it will be applied.
There are quite a few excellent lawyers out there, they do know the law and how to apply it.
you have no property rights, since they are suing the cash itself, not you.
I don't think that it's possible to sue a stack of cash, no matter how big it is.
The ability to travel is no longer a right but a privilege contingent on showing your government-issued papers and not being on the "terrorist watch list", which is really just an alleged enemies list.
Travel is a right, within certain guidelines. True it has gotten worse lately, for some people at least, I know many people that travel without a problem at all.
No other countries except Russia and China imprison more people.
Check your figures again, I'm pretty sure that the U.S.A. imprisons more people per capita than any other country.
Your posts continually reveal further depths of moral bankruptcy and abject toadying to the lowest forms of parasitic usurping political scum. You have no place in this country, this world, this life. Your ugly idiocy befouls all that is good in mankind. I loathe your very essence and wish your evil spirit complete and eternal annihilation.
Finally, stop talking to yourself :)
I just put in cement and painted that green. :)
I don't have to mow, and there's no mud when it rains
I think I remember that, didn't it just get a new camo paint job?