I'd imagine that Mr. Loud Guy wouldn't want such a phone. For some silly/misunderstood reasoning such that "the darn thing keep yelling my own voice back in my ear so loud I have to hold it away from my ear, and can't hear the other person", or other features/indications that are there to help improve voice levels and clarity, but without realizing why they are there, and how it works, just annoyes the user...
Looking at his signature, I guess he's from Norway, which also has plenty of cold weather in winter. But instead of starting the car early/remotely (which wouldn't work with manual gearboxes unless you left it in neutral), people install electric heating elements in the engine. A timer turns it on at such a time that it's warm and ready for when you're leaving for work. Granted, you have to remember to plug it in at night, and unplug it before you drive, but it's avoid the engine warming up on idle, or getting full throttle on cold.
For some kind of film, the russians flew a fighter jet without the glass roof at supersonic speeds! (The pilot mostly complained about it being cold and windy...)
I have a Garmin Nuvi [...] It also tells me the current speed limit, which is a feature I have yet to see elsewhere.
I used to run TomTom on my PocketPC, and that would tell me the current speed limit, but on several major roads in my area they were outdated (roads were upgraded) so it was fairly useless. Now I have a Nuvi, and it doesn't tell me the speed limit.
It's relatively trivial to replay the capture, [...] synchronize the two streams
That "synchronize" bit might seem simple in theory, but frame-accurate playback-sync of two streams on consumer-priced equipment (that stays in sync for a whole movie) seems a bit too complicated for the average consumer of pirated entertainment... (And having even a single projector probably isn't nearly as common in PRC as in slashdotters domiciles...)
The motor doesn't have to go faster than 15mph, because if you're going faster it would be a waste of battery-power, better used for when reaching a steep and/or long hill. It is not meant to drive you around, just assist you, which is why it shouldn't help you increase you actual speed at any given time or location, just your stamina to keep it up for longer.
Unless number of each kind of bike sold/used is taken into account, this would be obvious and expected. Seems to me that there are way more "male" bikes sold than "female" ones. And the "female" designs tend to be made for more "gentle" usage, while all high-speed or off-roading bikes tend to be of the "male" designs, where injuries more easily become large enough to register...
That's way dumb. Call a local tow operator. Any Earthside tow operator will want to be paid for the mileage. You're paying them to drive 60 million miles each way. At $3 per mile, that's a lot of dough.
360 million dollars to put a man on mars seems much cheaper than anything NASA could come up with. Why didn't someone think about this before?
I assumed that one typically wanted the GPS to show him the route to follow, not the other way around;-)
My Garmin has built in bluetooth handsfree and MP3 player. On familiar routes that is my primary use for the unit, with the safety camera warnings and trip-data as nice secondary features. It is quite annoying to have the GPS tell me to turn around so I can make a turn that would take me 15 minutes extra. (My arrival estimate actually drops when it gives up and eventually agrees with my route). I actually see no reason why (higher end) offline units can't do the same. However, with an online unit gathering *anonymous* user-tracks, it could improve the accuracy of the routing for when you actually need it to tell you how to get to somewhere you've never been before.
Jar Jar wouldn't have been so bad, if he had gotten way less screen time. Sure he's a "breakthrough in technology"...hmmm... actually that seems to summarize everything wrong with that movie... It's there because it's possible (and/or have never been done before), not because the story needs it to be there...
FYI the last day of this decade is December 31, 2010
Just like there is a difference between the 20th century (which ended 2000-12-31) and the 1900s (ended 1999-12-31), when talking about decades most people seem to refer to the decade of the 80s as 1980-89, rather than the 199th decade 1981-1990.
So you consider it totally impossible to make the pilots fly somewhere else by killing passengers and communicating by voice, possibly in front of any CCTV might be onboard? (Sure, they wouldn't fly into buildings, but that's only a tiny fraction of hi-jacking scenarios historically...) There seems to be no difference between a securely locked door and no door at all as far as security is concerned.
I tried doing something similar with my HTPC connected to a 40" 720p display two years ago. Installed Ubuntu (7.10 probably), everything looking nice. Then I enabled the nvidia driver, and suddenly DPI-awareness or something adjusted all fonts down to 3-4px size. After all, 5mm letters should be readable, right? (On a 40dpi display, the answer is obviously "no"...)
There you are then. The MPAA pays for the hardware and the software subscription. The cost to the MPAA and its members is readily offset by the potential millions upon millions of profits that could be lost from illegal downloads from this small town's one-block-radius municipal's WiFi connection. Everybody wins!
You're not thinking big enough. Given their "lost revenue" due to piracy, installing this equipment in every single home would clearly be in their interest. A small price to pay for the sudden increase of several thousands in sales per household a year by eliminating piracy. (According to their own numbers.) They should be given the choice to either do that, or stop whining about piracy...
Mythbusters did an interesting piece on saving gas by drafting.
I actually don't think the greatest gas savings would come from drafting, but from being able to travel at a constant speed rather than fluxuating all the time. And higher speeds saves time (and thus money if driving as part of work) as well.
Without even looking at the rest of the site, the color scheme tells me that this list is compiled by nut jobs.
So, simply disagreeing with you about abortion automatically makes people a nut job? Would it be less of a nut-job by switching the green and red color-scheme to match your preferance? The site isn't exactly hiding its allignment.
How would you prefer to color-code that chart? Apart from avoiding color altogether, there aren't that many other primary/secondary colors to choose from that makes a chart readable when you remove green, yellow, orange and red. Black and white can hold bias. And purple/magenta is a bit too close to red... That pretty much leaves blue, and using only shades of blue brings us back to the issues with black and white...
Have you ever used satellite internet/phones? I have at sea. And disregarding the much lower speeds, the lag makes it highly unsuitable for some usages. We had VOIP phones on our connection. With geostationary satellites the signal take about 200ms just to get from your local point on earth and back down to the other ground-based point. That's very noticable when talking with someone on the phone. Especially when adding a bit more delays at the VOIP-stage and PSTN side too... On the other hand, you can get to pretty much anywhere on the planet within 50ms with a cable. (In theory, disregarding delay at routing, and non-direct routes.)
If you've got a halfway modern Garmin GPS, you have already been collecting the very data that this project is working for.
How many people drive with the GPS on their daily commute? And how do you convert the hidden garmin log to some useful format? (I've tried on mine, but so far no luck...)
Do they think viewers would get bored if they had to spend more than a couple of minutes on one subject?
They might have proven gold-fish to have more than a 3-second memory, but they clearly either think their viewers don't, or expect that they are channel-surfing at a rate that they will get the coverage of exactly one of the myths and not the others... (now, if there would just be someone with enough time on their hands (and an acceptable minimum of editing-skills) to post Mythbusters Recut to some torrent-site, at a regular basis...)
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I'd imagine that Mr. Loud Guy wouldn't want such a phone. For some silly/misunderstood reasoning such that "the darn thing keep yelling my own voice back in my ear so loud I have to hold it away from my ear, and can't hear the other person", or other features/indications that are there to help improve voice levels and clarity, but without realizing why they are there, and how it works, just annoyes the user...
Looking at his signature, I guess he's from Norway, which also has plenty of cold weather in winter. But instead of starting the car early/remotely (which wouldn't work with manual gearboxes unless you left it in neutral), people install electric heating elements in the engine. A timer turns it on at such a time that it's warm and ready for when you're leaving for work. Granted, you have to remember to plug it in at night, and unplug it before you drive, but it's avoid the engine warming up on idle, or getting full throttle on cold.
For some kind of film, the russians flew a fighter jet without the glass roof at supersonic speeds! (The pilot mostly complained about it being cold and windy...)
But the original poster asked for navigation, not specifically satellite photos, so vector will do just fine when leavign coverage.
I have a Garmin Nuvi [...] It also tells me the current speed limit, which is a feature I have yet to see elsewhere.
I used to run TomTom on my PocketPC, and that would tell me the current speed limit, but on several major roads in my area they were outdated (roads were upgraded) so it was fairly useless. Now I have a Nuvi, and it doesn't tell me the speed limit.
It's relatively trivial to replay the capture, [...] synchronize the two streams
That "synchronize" bit might seem simple in theory, but frame-accurate playback-sync of two streams on consumer-priced equipment (that stays in sync for a whole movie) seems a bit too complicated for the average consumer of pirated entertainment... (And having even a single projector probably isn't nearly as common in PRC as in slashdotters domiciles...)
The motor doesn't have to go faster than 15mph, because if you're going faster it would be a waste of battery-power, better used for when reaching a steep and/or long hill. It is not meant to drive you around, just assist you, which is why it shouldn't help you increase you actual speed at any given time or location, just your stamina to keep it up for longer.
Unless number of each kind of bike sold/used is taken into account, this would be obvious and expected. Seems to me that there are way more "male" bikes sold than "female" ones. And the "female" designs tend to be made for more "gentle" usage, while all high-speed or off-roading bikes tend to be of the "male" designs, where injuries more easily become large enough to register...
That's way dumb. Call a local tow operator. Any Earthside tow operator will want to be paid for the mileage. You're paying them to drive 60 million miles each way. At $3 per mile, that's a lot of dough.
360 million dollars to put a man on mars seems much cheaper than anything NASA could come up with. Why didn't someone think about this before?
And how good the actor acting the actor is acting. Otherwise it would be like a tone-deaf Elvis-clone in a wheelchair...
Obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/676/
Can you recommend any implementation of cut & paste that works over the phone? Preferably open source of course.
I assumed that one typically wanted the GPS to show him the route to follow, not the other way around ;-)
My Garmin has built in bluetooth handsfree and MP3 player. On familiar routes that is my primary use for the unit, with the safety camera warnings and trip-data as nice secondary features. It is quite annoying to have the GPS tell me to turn around so I can make a turn that would take me 15 minutes extra. (My arrival estimate actually drops when it gives up and eventually agrees with my route). I actually see no reason why (higher end) offline units can't do the same. However, with an online unit gathering *anonymous* user-tracks, it could improve the accuracy of the routing for when you actually need it to tell you how to get to somewhere you've never been before.
Jar Jar wouldn't have been so bad, if he had gotten way less screen time. Sure he's a "breakthrough in technology"...hmmm... actually that seems to summarize everything wrong with that movie... It's there because it's possible (and/or have never been done before), not because the story needs it to be there...
FYI the last day of this decade is December 31, 2010
Just like there is a difference between the 20th century (which ended 2000-12-31) and the 1900s (ended 1999-12-31), when talking about decades most people seem to refer to the decade of the 80s as 1980-89, rather than the 199th decade 1981-1990.
So you consider it totally impossible to make the pilots fly somewhere else by killing passengers and communicating by voice, possibly in front of any CCTV might be onboard? (Sure, they wouldn't fly into buildings, but that's only a tiny fraction of hi-jacking scenarios historically...) There seems to be no difference between a securely locked door and no door at all as far as security is concerned.
I tried doing something similar with my HTPC connected to a 40" 720p display two years ago. Installed Ubuntu (7.10 probably), everything looking nice. Then I enabled the nvidia driver, and suddenly DPI-awareness or something adjusted all fonts down to 3-4px size. After all, 5mm letters should be readable, right? (On a 40dpi display, the answer is obviously "no"...)
Three, transcode for portable devices. Watch on while travelling.
There you are then. The MPAA pays for the hardware and the software subscription. The cost to the MPAA and its members is readily offset by the potential millions upon millions of profits that could be lost from illegal downloads from this small town's one-block-radius municipal's WiFi connection. Everybody wins!
You're not thinking big enough. Given their "lost revenue" due to piracy, installing this equipment in every single home would clearly be in their interest. A small price to pay for the sudden increase of several thousands in sales per household a year by eliminating piracy. (According to their own numbers.) They should be given the choice to either do that, or stop whining about piracy...
Hollywood wouldn't give the rights to any movie actually worth seeing unless you pay the expensive royalties.
Hollywood owns rights for movies worth seeing??
Mythbusters did an interesting piece on saving gas by drafting.
I actually don't think the greatest gas savings would come from drafting, but from being able to travel at a constant speed rather than fluxuating all the time. And higher speeds saves time (and thus money if driving as part of work) as well.
Without even looking at the rest of the site, the color scheme tells me that this list is compiled by nut jobs.
So, simply disagreeing with you about abortion automatically makes people a nut job? Would it be less of a nut-job by switching the green and red color-scheme to match your preferance? The site isn't exactly hiding its allignment.
How would you prefer to color-code that chart? Apart from avoiding color altogether, there aren't that many other primary/secondary colors to choose from that makes a chart readable when you remove green, yellow, orange and red. Black and white can hold bias. And purple/magenta is a bit too close to red... That pretty much leaves blue, and using only shades of blue brings us back to the issues with black and white...
with satellites being a distant second.
Have you ever used satellite internet/phones? I have at sea. And disregarding the much lower speeds, the lag makes it highly unsuitable for some usages. We had VOIP phones on our connection. With geostationary satellites the signal take about 200ms just to get from your local point on earth and back down to the other ground-based point. That's very noticable when talking with someone on the phone. Especially when adding a bit more delays at the VOIP-stage and PSTN side too... On the other hand, you can get to pretty much anywhere on the planet within 50ms with a cable. (In theory, disregarding delay at routing, and non-direct routes.)
If you've got a halfway modern Garmin GPS, you have already been collecting the very data that this project is working for.
How many people drive with the GPS on their daily commute? And how do you convert the hidden garmin log to some useful format? (I've tried on mine, but so far no luck...)
Do they think viewers would get bored if they had to spend more than a couple of minutes on one subject?
They might have proven gold-fish to have more than a 3-second memory, but they clearly either think their viewers don't, or expect that they are channel-surfing at a rate that they will get the coverage of exactly one of the myths and not the others... (now, if there would just be someone with enough time on their hands (and an acceptable minimum of editing-skills) to post Mythbusters Recut to some torrent-site, at a regular basis...)