There are issues with the sonic boom taking out wing/tail structures on improperly designed planes, but this "car" has neither. There might be some sort of sonic boom ground effect going on, in which case I'd really be interested to see your source info for some in-depth reading.
Let me run down to the ATM Machine and get you some money so you can buy some chill pills:) That's right, I just said ATM Machine, or Automatic Teller Machine Machine. Make sure you xerox the chill pills receipt on the copy machine for my records. Don't cry over language technicalities buddy, here's a kleenex from this tissue box.:)
Only in the 2000-2004 F1 series*. Each race in the series assigns points, so a 2nd place (2pts) is far superior to a DNF (fleet+1, or 9pts). You can recover from a 2nd, or even a 3rd place and still win the series, but after one DNF you're just racing due to your sponsorship contract, hoping another team has more DNF or DNS than you do by the end.
*2000-2004 is when Schumacher wiped the floor with the F1 series, pretty much running uncontested in 1st place with the Ferrari team, basically uncontested for five years.
I wonder how the conversation went after that race... "well, you completely destroyed the car, and broke every bone in your body, but at least we didn't lose the race!!"
Depends on if it's a fixed aero-surface vehicle or not. F1 cars had variable surface aero-parts for one or two years before they were outright banned. The idea was that you could increase the angle of attack to increase downpressure in the corners, but make the car aerodynamically neutral in the straightaways so you're spending more power on thrust rather than dividing it between thrust and downforce. Depending on how the rules for "world's fastest car" are written, how the aero is done determines how impressive this really is. If John Carmack can write a javascript to control thrust for a vertical takeoff rocket (Armadillo Aerospace), you can design a fast car with dynamic aerosurfaces. Building a fixed aero car that's neutral at 1000mph but won't fly into the air and flip when you hit a rock is a lot harder to do. Check out this hella sweet video of a Le Mans car doing exactly that at 220mph: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM4guvo6Ifo
I'll admit this post was an excuse to post that video, but damn if it isn't cool. And that's at a quarter of the speed at which they'll be attempting this. It's not as easy as it looks.
Here's another cool video of the same thing happening. It's relatively common, even though they design against this exact sort of thing from happening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y65oUlBMSUs
Some sort of forum system with separate threads (separate from the main page discussion) might be warranted, if that's what you're getting at. The journal system isn't really cutting it.
Any good search terms worth checking out? The "transcripts" available on cspan's site currently is only the first 100 chars or so, but it would appear the entire CC data does exist... In regards to the accuracy, a quick google yields all sorts of complaints about the quality of the CC transcription... better to have something than nothing i suppose. Do you know who I could contact at CSPAN that might actually listen to/execute my request? We're doing a scrape now (Stay tuned) but like I said, it's only the first 100 chars of each speech.
That looks like the actual bill text, I'm looking for the transcription of what was actually said on the house/senate floor. The procedural dialog, debates on bills, and speeches would be very interesting to have on tap and data mine.
Someone already found the transcripts on the cspan website and emailed me directly about it. Maybe someone else can jump in here too and we can scrape the site.
How do i write a wget script that access http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/ajax/ajax-transcript.php?progid=221083, except it starts at progid=000000 and goes to prodid=999999, and saves each page as progidxxxxxx.txt into directory Y? I'd love to run that script, tarball it up, and post the.torrent right here in this thread.
I'd love to run a word cloud for each legislative year; Imagine doing a word cloud for the Regan era, particularly the savings and loan crisis, and compare and contrast word clouds for the months of august-march of 2008-2009
The text of the bills is important, but from a history standpoint, you can put those bills into context if you have the voices behind them to read.
Can someone run a script to rip the transcripts to a series of text files, with a file name, URL, original record date and misc info in the "header"? I'd be happy to seed that torrent. Comon' Slashdot, we can do this!
Close captioning textfiles of every video might be more useful. Much easier to sift through data and refine your searches that way. The full record of CC files in.txt format can't run more than a gigabyte. Anybody got a link to that.torrent?
That's a really good point; I hadn't considered that. Another downside to HSR in the US is that you're likely to have to do an environmental study for each county the rail passes through, even though it's only a 50' wide stripe of land. Labor costs are definitely a major factor in first world countries.
It should be trivial if it gets flagged as spam, to do a character count and see if the letters "SHA" appear anywhere in the message, and then parse the message for any strings that are the same length as a 128/256/512 hash. If that fails, just write a rule "if message contains the word(s) SHA place in inbox".
I suppose in theory you could always issue all your friends webmail accounts, hosted on your server, hosting your domain. A better question might be, "does this apply only to email, or all electronic communications?" If it ONLY applies to email, your 4th ammendment rights could still be upheld by using say, private messages (PMs) on an internet forum, or any number of alternative "email" systems.
Does Gmail have native PGP support yet? Is there a Chrome plugin for that?
Both companies have (or are trying to exert) monopolies for products functioning inside their respective operating systems. Apple has as large of a consumer base today as Microsoft did when they were indicted for a monopoly oh so many years ago. Also, I'm not a Microsoft apologist, my last computer was a Powerbook, and I only boot into Windows to play video games -- I mostly run Ubuntu these days.
You've always been able to play MP3s on all digital music players. That's a key bullet point in the PPT presentation on how you even get funding to design and a digital music player. I'm not even going to argue about that.
Apple has had absolute control of their standards (Quicktime, proprietary audio formats/encryption, device lockin (itunes only works with ipod, and will update itunes to break compatibility with any other device)... Apple has always been very aggressive about vendor lockin, and only uses "open" standards when it serves their purpose to break into a market, and quickly lose interest once they have a substancial market share (see also: embrace, extend, extinguish).
I'm not trying to say Apple is completely evil, but they act more like Microsoft than most people realize, and only use open technologies enough to ease the paranoia of the technical community, knowing that their acceptance of products/technology is crucial to widespread consumer uptake (see also: Vista Failure).
I like the idea of organ donation because a) you get to be like a zombie (cool!) and b) you get to cheat death, and help someone else cheat death too:) hell yeah!
The other bonus, globally, is that this is going to halve the cost of high speed rail (if you buy Chinese) for the rest of the world. China is already #1 in green energy production technology (and particularly! capacity) and just catapulted themselves to #1 in high speed rail technology, and they'll soon have more (2x) experience building high speed rail than all other countries and companies combined.
This is actually one of the best uses for their money. It should help get the development (and population) away from the coast. Brazil had the same problem, but their solution was to move the capitol 600 miles inland.
Not only is it a walled garden, but everybody seems to forget that Apple is doing exactly what the slashdot community rallied against Microsoft for doing, i.e. the digital wallet, multiple music stores, music players (at least they opened it up to other vendors besides themselves), etc, all crying out that this would be bad for the consumer. Well, Apple has done exactly what Microsoft was doing 10 years ago, it's just that since it was Apple, it was ok (don't mod me down, I'm not trying to troll here). There's some traction in the tech media about Apple doing to developers what slashdotites claimed MS would do, but since Apple isn't the (or wasn't) 800 lb gorilla most people let it slide. Well now Apple owns the market segment (or at least a good portion of it) and ceding Poland to Apple is showing it's downside. Google's approach is definitely better, but right now the fact of the matter is that Apple's DRM system is just as bad as Mircosoft's has been in the past.
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There are issues with the sonic boom taking out wing/tail structures on improperly designed planes, but this "car" has neither. There might be some sort of sonic boom ground effect going on, in which case I'd really be interested to see your source info for some in-depth reading.
Let me run down to the ATM Machine and get you some money so you can buy some chill pills :) That's right, I just said ATM Machine, or Automatic Teller Machine Machine. Make sure you xerox the chill pills receipt on the copy machine for my records. Don't cry over language technicalities buddy, here's a kleenex from this tissue box. :)
Only in the 2000-2004 F1 series*. Each race in the series assigns points, so a 2nd place (2pts) is far superior to a DNF (fleet+1, or 9pts). You can recover from a 2nd, or even a 3rd place and still win the series, but after one DNF you're just racing due to your sponsorship contract, hoping another team has more DNF or DNS than you do by the end.
*2000-2004 is when Schumacher wiped the floor with the F1 series, pretty much running uncontested in 1st place with the Ferrari team, basically uncontested for five years.
I wonder how the conversation went after that race... "well, you completely destroyed the car, and broke every bone in your body, but at least we didn't lose the race!!"
Depends on if it's a fixed aero-surface vehicle or not. F1 cars had variable surface aero-parts for one or two years before they were outright banned. The idea was that you could increase the angle of attack to increase downpressure in the corners, but make the car aerodynamically neutral in the straightaways so you're spending more power on thrust rather than dividing it between thrust and downforce. Depending on how the rules for "world's fastest car" are written, how the aero is done determines how impressive this really is. If John Carmack can write a javascript to control thrust for a vertical takeoff rocket (Armadillo Aerospace), you can design a fast car with dynamic aerosurfaces. Building a fixed aero car that's neutral at 1000mph but won't fly into the air and flip when you hit a rock is a lot harder to do. Check out this hella sweet video of a Le Mans car doing exactly that at 220mph: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM4guvo6Ifo
I'll admit this post was an excuse to post that video, but damn if it isn't cool. And that's at a quarter of the speed at which they'll be attempting this. It's not as easy as it looks.
Here's another cool video of the same thing happening. It's relatively common, even though they design against this exact sort of thing from happening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y65oUlBMSUs
Some sort of forum system with separate threads (separate from the main page discussion) might be warranted, if that's what you're getting at. The journal system isn't really cutting it.
Thanks!
Any good search terms worth checking out? The "transcripts" available on cspan's site currently is only the first 100 chars or so, but it would appear the entire CC data does exist... In regards to the accuracy, a quick google yields all sorts of complaints about the quality of the CC transcription... better to have something than nothing i suppose. Do you know who I could contact at CSPAN that might actually listen to/execute my request? We're doing a scrape now (Stay tuned) but like I said, it's only the first 100 chars of each speech.
That looks like the actual bill text, I'm looking for the transcription of what was actually said on the house/senate floor. The procedural dialog, debates on bills, and speeches would be very interesting to have on tap and data mine.
.torrent right here in this thread.
Someone already found the transcripts on the cspan website and emailed me directly about it. Maybe someone else can jump in here too and we can scrape the site.
How do i write a wget script that access http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/ajax/ajax-transcript.php?progid=221083, except it starts at progid=000000 and goes to prodid=999999, and saves each page as progidxxxxxx.txt into directory Y? I'd love to run that script, tarball it up, and post the
I'd love to run a word cloud for each legislative year; Imagine doing a word cloud for the Regan era, particularly the savings and loan crisis, and compare and contrast word clouds for the months of august-march of 2008-2009
The text of the bills is important, but from a history standpoint, you can put those bills into context if you have the voices behind them to read.
I would imagine encryption also cripples search functionality, which is a huge reason to use gmail in the first place.
Can someone run a script to rip the transcripts to a series of text files, with a file name, URL, original record date and misc info in the "header"? I'd be happy to seed that torrent. Comon' Slashdot, we can do this!
Close captioning textfiles of every video might be more useful. Much easier to sift through data and refine your searches that way. The full record of CC files in .txt format can't run more than a gigabyte. Anybody got a link to that .torrent?
Thanks, you made me spit coffee all over my keyboard.
That's a really good point; I hadn't considered that. Another downside to HSR in the US is that you're likely to have to do an environmental study for each county the rail passes through, even though it's only a 50' wide stripe of land. Labor costs are definitely a major factor in first world countries.
Indeed. Just got my moderation report and the original post was listed as +5, insightful. Everybody wins indeed! :)
It should be trivial if it gets flagged as spam, to do a character count and see if the letters "SHA" appear anywhere in the message, and then parse the message for any strings that are the same length as a 128/256/512 hash. If that fails, just write a rule "if message contains the word(s) SHA place in inbox".
I suppose in theory you could always issue all your friends webmail accounts, hosted on your server, hosting your domain. A better question might be, "does this apply only to email, or all electronic communications?" If it ONLY applies to email, your 4th ammendment rights could still be upheld by using say, private messages (PMs) on an internet forum, or any number of alternative "email" systems.
Does Gmail have native PGP support yet? Is there a Chrome plugin for that?
Both companies have (or are trying to exert) monopolies for products functioning inside their respective operating systems. Apple has as large of a consumer base today as Microsoft did when they were indicted for a monopoly oh so many years ago. Also, I'm not a Microsoft apologist, my last computer was a Powerbook, and I only boot into Windows to play video games -- I mostly run Ubuntu these days.
I think you're right. Let's wait and see if I get up or down modded(!)
You've always been able to play MP3s on all digital music players. That's a key bullet point in the PPT presentation on how you even get funding to design and a digital music player. I'm not even going to argue about that.
Apple has had absolute control of their standards (Quicktime, proprietary audio formats/encryption, device lockin (itunes only works with ipod, and will update itunes to break compatibility with any other device)... Apple has always been very aggressive about vendor lockin, and only uses "open" standards when it serves their purpose to break into a market, and quickly lose interest once they have a substancial market share (see also: embrace, extend, extinguish).
I'm not trying to say Apple is completely evil, but they act more like Microsoft than most people realize, and only use open technologies enough to ease the paranoia of the technical community, knowing that their acceptance of products/technology is crucial to widespread consumer uptake (see also: Vista Failure).
Oops sorry. But you got my lightly veiled reference that Apple = Hitler, so I'm still ahead :)
Here's the wikipedia link for those interested.
I like the idea of organ donation because a) you get to be like a zombie (cool!) and b) you get to cheat death, and help someone else cheat death too :) hell yeah!
Still waiting on a way to avoid taxes...
The other bonus, globally, is that this is going to halve the cost of high speed rail (if you buy Chinese) for the rest of the world. China is already #1 in green energy production technology (and particularly! capacity) and just catapulted themselves to #1 in high speed rail technology, and they'll soon have more (2x) experience building high speed rail than all other countries and companies combined.
This is actually one of the best uses for their money. It should help get the development (and population) away from the coast. Brazil had the same problem, but their solution was to move the capitol 600 miles inland.
Not only is it a walled garden, but everybody seems to forget that Apple is doing exactly what the slashdot community rallied against Microsoft for doing, i.e. the digital wallet, multiple music stores, music players (at least they opened it up to other vendors besides themselves), etc, all crying out that this would be bad for the consumer. Well, Apple has done exactly what Microsoft was doing 10 years ago, it's just that since it was Apple, it was ok (don't mod me down, I'm not trying to troll here). There's some traction in the tech media about Apple doing to developers what slashdotites claimed MS would do, but since Apple isn't the (or wasn't) 800 lb gorilla most people let it slide. Well now Apple owns the market segment (or at least a good portion of it) and ceding Poland to Apple is showing it's downside. Google's approach is definitely better, but right now the fact of the matter is that Apple's DRM system is just as bad as Mircosoft's has been in the past.