The triangle shapes are probably an artifact of the sensors. Similar to the lines you see eminating from stars in other telescopes, caused by the hardware of the scope.
I think it's a pretty far leap to compare something liket his which you don't understand to the problems hubble had, which I also bet you didn't understand (they were not "systemic")
I know it's pathetic, the file create date or something else should tell me the date, but I find naming folders and files with the first 8 digits being YYYYMMDD helps me alot. They always sort in date order. It's not a solution only a step I think helps.
I think this technology is different than the stuff they've been doing with Palms for a decade now.
The Palm stuff has all been Accelerometers, which are cheap becuase you need them to control airbags. They can detect change in orientation, but don't really know the orientation of the device, so you tilt and come back to level and have to tell the device it is level again. It might be able to do an OKAY job of knowing it's tilt at a given time, but the sampling rate will eventually make it necessary to hit that button telling it where straight and level is.
The Gyroscope stuff is different, I assume it always knows which way is up, like avionics do. It's probably got a much higher degree of accuracy as well. Maybe it could do navigation? Maybe some games would be really fun? Maybe you could invent some new way of input (i.e. phyical graffitti)?
But bottom line, I have yet to hear of a great application for this technology either. Any ideas I have would be solved by an electric compas.
The Apod showed this Mars mountain a month or so back, and one of my ski discussion boards noticed that there's a nice little bowl in the upper right. I'd like a better photo to pick some lines for my first interPlanetary ski trip.
(We have solutions for the whole:Co2 != Snow problem)
In other news the gross national usage of cellophane went through the roof this week as thousands of geeks tried to test it's light altering abilities.
I just threw away a bunch of celophane after tring to get it to polarize or block light from my laptop. Can someone who got this to work a little send me the "oh yeah" clue I'm missing?
The palm platform is good for reading. I've been reading books (mostly Gutenburg, but a fire pirated) for about 3 years, and love it. Use Peanut Reader and go to options to turn the screen upside down so you can hold the palm upside down. This lets you rest your thumb on the up/down switch and page easily.
When I read tree-books in bed I get a crick in my neck and am constaly turning over when I go from left page to right page... palm reading is ideal. I wish people could get over the nostalgia and give up the "my book never crashes" argument. I read A LOT. I read A LOT before I started reading on the palm and I read MORE now, and the choice of what I read is far better.
Doll: Guess who, Fat boy!! Homer: [blinded, bumping around, with the doll strapped to his head]
Marge! Marge! Look! Marge: [from the kitchen] Oh, my God! Homer: [staggering into the kitchen] The doll's trying to kill me and the
toaster's been laughin' at me!
Homer and the Killer Doll roll about the floor and Homer has his face dunked in the dog dish (``Eeeew! Dog water!'') Marge calls the number on the Krusty doll box (1-900-DON'T-SUE).
Marge: Your doll is trying to kill my husband! [pause] Yes, I'll hold.
Marge lets the Krusty Co. repairman into the kitchen, to see Homer on the floor, the doll yanking at his tongue. Picking up the doll, the repairman identifies the problem.
Repairman: [pointing to a Good/Evil switch on the back of the doll]
Yup, here's your problem. Someone set this thing to ``Evil''.
Story goes the Thomas Edison proposed to his second wife over morse code. He thought the telegraph was the best way to communicate with his wife, and taught her morse code.
And in more recent related news, in Kuala Lupur, it's possible to get a divroce with a mobile phone text message.
I'll push this technology again: It lets you program your remote. It's a sort of universal remote control protocol. You can reprogram any button to almost anything. Combined with a IR reciever for your X10 light controller and you can turn lights or anything off/on from the couch.
Bottom line; You gotta build your own cable, and the tools to manage the key codes ain't that great. Better yet, write your own, but if you're reading this chances are you can get by. You only end up using the software when you get a new device, which ain't TOO often.
I've got a radio shack 15-1995, and I can control everything from the back yard. I don't know why I would want to do that, but it's nice to get the telescope setup and then turn ALL the lites in the house off with one button.
I was also beeten to it I guess, but when I looked for the article link it was rated too low at the time. Someone got it posted about 20 min before me, hence my current REDUNDANT rating.
Computers have already "dis-employed" thousands of accountants. Should we have prevented this? Clearly NOT. These accountants can now do more worthwhile and rewarding work.
This is what would happen if robots dis-employed all the McJobbers out there. They would be free to get more rewarding jobs.
The phrase, "The world needs ditch-diggers too" has been deprecated. The world has cranes and back-hoes now. It doesn't need ditch diggers. The world needs programmers.
Any argument proputing that robots dis-employing people can be squashed with the comparison of farm machines, or almost ANY machine dis-employing what ever McJobber had to do that non-rewarding work before.
Pilots don't use instinct in an emergency, they fall back on training, and that's a good thing. When the plane stalls, you don't want the pilot thinking, you want him reacting according to training.
Computers do this better than people.
Autopilots solves the whole using airplanes as weapons problem too.
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The triangle shapes are probably an artifact of the sensors. Similar to the lines you see eminating from stars in other telescopes, caused by the hardware of the scope.
I think it's a pretty far leap to compare something liket his which you don't understand to the problems hubble had, which I also bet you didn't understand (they were not "systemic")
Maybe we shouldn't be trying to "made it financially" and maybe we should be trying to save the human race and get another planet colonized ASAP.
M@
I know it's pathetic, the file create date or something else should tell me the date, but I find naming folders and files with the first 8 digits being YYYYMMDD helps me alot. They always sort in date order. It's not a solution only a step I think helps.
I think this technology is different than the stuff they've been doing with Palms for a decade now.
The Palm stuff has all been Accelerometers, which are cheap becuase you need them to control airbags. They can detect change in orientation, but don't really know the orientation of the device, so you tilt and come back to level and have to tell the device it is level again. It might be able to do an OKAY job of knowing it's tilt at a given time, but the sampling rate will eventually make it necessary to hit that button telling it where straight and level is.
The Gyroscope stuff is different, I assume it always knows which way is up, like avionics do. It's probably got a much higher degree of accuracy as well. Maybe it could do navigation? Maybe some games would be really fun? Maybe you could invent some new way of input (i.e. phyical graffitti)?
But bottom line, I have yet to hear of a great application for this technology either. Any ideas I have would be solved by an electric compas.
M@
The kids ability to deselect their parents is greatly increased.
[galaga ringtone]
M@
COM was a pain in C++. COM was easy as pie in VB. .NET components work equally easy in C# or VB.NET
M@
Another site collecting this sort of stuff is Bad Astronomy
M@
Just point a TV remote control out the sunroof whenever you speed, you'll be fine.
M@
The Apod showed this Mars mountain a month or so back, and one of my ski discussion boards noticed that there's a nice little bowl in the upper right. I'd like a better photo to pick some lines for my first interPlanetary ski trip.
:Co2 != Snow problem)
(We have solutions for the whole
M@
I saw keep it running as long as possible, then send a shuttle up to bring it back to the Smithsonian.
M@
This product is available from thinkgeek.com - a company owned by the same company that owns slashdot I believe.
Excellent product, I thought of buying it. Might still, my daughter's clunker is boring as anything.
But should slashdot be pushing product like this?
M@
In other news the gross national usage of cellophane went through the roof this week as thousands of geeks tried to test it's light altering abilities.
I just threw away a bunch of celophane after tring to get it to polarize or block light from my laptop. Can someone who got this to work a little send me the "oh yeah" clue I'm missing?
M@
The palm platform is good for reading. I've been reading books (mostly Gutenburg, but a fire pirated) for about 3 years, and love it. Use Peanut Reader and go to options to turn the screen upside down so you can hold the palm upside down. This lets you rest your thumb on the up/down switch and page easily.
When I read tree-books in bed I get a crick in my neck and am constaly turning over when I go from left page to right page... palm reading is ideal. I wish people could get over the nostalgia and give up the "my book never crashes" argument. I read A LOT. I read A LOT before I started reading on the palm and I read MORE now, and the choice of what I read is far better.
M@
From [9F04]
Doll: Guess who, Fat boy!!
Homer: [blinded, bumping around, with the doll strapped to his head]
Marge! Marge! Look!
Marge: [from the kitchen] Oh, my God!
Homer: [staggering into the kitchen] The doll's trying to kill me and the
toaster's been laughin' at me!
Homer and the Killer Doll roll about the floor and Homer has his face dunked
in the dog dish (``Eeeew! Dog water!'') Marge calls the number on the
Krusty doll box (1-900-DON'T-SUE).
Marge: Your doll is trying to kill my husband! [pause] Yes, I'll hold.
Marge lets the Krusty Co. repairman into the kitchen, to see Homer on the
floor, the doll yanking at his tongue. Picking up the doll, the repairman
identifies the problem.
Repairman: [pointing to a Good/Evil switch on the back of the doll]
Yup, here's your problem. Someone set this thing to ``Evil''.
M@
Story goes the Thomas Edison proposed to his second wife over morse code. He thought the telegraph was the best way to communicate with his wife, and taught her morse code.
And in more recent related news, in Kuala Lupur, it's possible to get a divroce with a mobile phone text message.
M@
Or is it redundant?
M@
Thanks everyone, you just slashdotted my BEER.
For the love of God, is NOTHING sacred?
M@
I'll push this technology again: It lets you program your remote. It's a sort of universal remote control protocol. You can reprogram any button to almost anything. Combined with a IR reciever for your X10 light controller and you can turn lights or anything off/on from the couch.
Best spot for info on it is this Yahoo Jp1 Group
Bottom line; You gotta build your own cable, and the tools to manage the key codes ain't that great. Better yet, write your own, but if you're reading this chances are you can get by. You only end up using the software when you get a new device, which ain't TOO often.
I've got a radio shack 15-1995, and I can control everything from the back yard. I don't know why I would want to do that, but it's nice to get the telescope setup and then turn ALL the lites in the house off with one button.
M@
I was also beeten to it I guess, but when I looked for the article link it was rated too low at the time. Someone got it posted about 20 min before me, hence my current REDUNDANT rating.
M@
Here's some cubans in there amphibian.
M@
Computers have already "dis-employed" thousands of accountants. Should we have prevented this? Clearly NOT. These accountants can now do more worthwhile and rewarding work.
This is what would happen if robots dis-employed all the McJobbers out there. They would be free to get more rewarding jobs.
The phrase, "The world needs ditch-diggers too" has been deprecated. The world has cranes and back-hoes now. It doesn't need ditch diggers. The world needs programmers.
Any argument proputing that robots dis-employing people can be squashed with the comparison of farm machines, or almost ANY machine dis-employing what ever McJobber had to do that non-rewarding work before.
M@
Pilots don't use instinct in an emergency, they fall back on training, and that's a good thing. When the plane stalls, you don't want the pilot thinking, you want him reacting according to training.
Computers do this better than people.
Autopilots solves the whole using airplanes as weapons problem too.
M@
The Hacker's Diet
This was posted a few months ago, and I started it and yesterday I hit my goal of 180pnds (from 212pnds).
It works. It's free. It's scientific. And it's called the Hacker's Diet.
Just do it.
M@
It is usually easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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It is hard to write any software without passion I think. The stuff I write for myself is much better than the stuff I write for the man.
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