According to the the movie "Demlition man" the house of the future will be Linux (or some other unix) powered - you have to use the three shells. I wonder why they don't have an X-Windows compliant butt wiper though?
Another great example - many households would have two PCs now right? or be considering getting a second for Linux? Demonstrate how well Linux runs over a home network, using VNC so they can have their windows/mac *AND* play with Linux - using VNC on Windows etc to look at the Linux box. Better yet, they don't need a second monitor/keyboard/mouse, so less hardware to buy for those looking at a cheap way to experiment with it without risking somehow trashing their existing system with a dual boot setup etc. Of course of they have several computers at home, everyone can "play" with Linux *at once* from their various PCs through several VNC sessions.
Actually I doubt that if the car were to have a tyre blow that it could still be driven safely for very far. Semi trailers have been known to catch fire after a tyre blowout. One particular incident comes to mind that occured in Australia at a transport company I was working at - a semi was on a long hill (about 1/2 mile if I recall) and had one of the two pairs of rear tyres blow. Since it was on a hill it had to keep going to get to the top, as it wouldn't have been possible to change the tyre on the hill. However, the shredded tyre built up so much heat from rubbing against the road, chassis or other tyre of the vehicle that it caught fire and the whole trailer went up. Fortunately the driver was able to get the prime mover detatched so it wasn't a total writeoff - but this is what can happen when continuing to drive on a blown tyre.
Depends how tall you are. That'd be a little on the skinny side for a 6'4" guy (like me) - I weigh 85 kg - but I still have trouble keeping 36 inch waist pants up. My brother is 6Ft 6 and weights 115 kg - and he's one of the fittest people I know - plays loads of basketball and has arms & legs like a bloody tree.
I had a Nissan Skyline GTR 33 V spec that could do 180 Mph with a 280 bhp engine - and 0 - 60 Mph in 4.8 seconds. (albeit I did have the thing with a speed delimiter to remove the voluntary speed limit Japanese cars come with as shipped that usually limits them to about 120 Mph) now that was a 2 door Coupe with plenty of room in the back for 2 passengers too - I have sat in the back & had loads of room, and I am 6ft 4 (193 cm) tall. The car has a 2560 cc engine with twin ceramic turbos and a torque splitter that delivers power to each of the four wheels independantly which with the traction control system means you are getting maximum power delivered to the road through teh 245/24/17 inch tyres. It weighs about 1500 kg. So you don't need 1000 bhp to reach those speeds at all.
I reckon it's definitely worth posting. This has finally brought me out of 3 years of lurking on Slashdot. After having a go at writing a genetic algorithm in perl that could pump out sort functions, I quickly became dissilusiond that relatively simply Genetic algorithms could be used for anything of interest besides generating functions to fit curves etc - or at least was beyond my immediate skills. (I usually develop boring back office/corporate stuff for a living involving databases etc.)
This has definitely piqued my interest & the idea of parameterising IFS fractals & mutating them is a winner. Question: If you were using something like this as an extension to the Gimp, once you have a shape pretty close to what you want, could you stretch it a bit/modify part of it and have the "genetic" code adapt those changes before going on to new and more interesting mutations? giving evolution a push in a particular direction with relatively untalented artwork?
So I draw, say a rough looking beastie for my lastest game, (having almost zero talent at such) have it mutate into something genuinely interesting and original, then touch it up and repeat as required? That truly would be software worth having/working on!
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According to the the movie "Demlition man" the house of the future will be Linux (or some other unix) powered - you have to use the three shells. I wonder why they don't have an X-Windows compliant butt wiper though?
Another great example - many households would have two PCs now right? or be considering getting a second for Linux? Demonstrate how well Linux runs over a home network, using VNC so they can have their windows/mac *AND* play with Linux - using VNC on Windows etc to look at the Linux box. Better yet, they don't need a second monitor/keyboard/mouse, so less hardware to buy for those looking at a cheap way to experiment with it without risking somehow trashing their existing system with a dual boot setup etc. Of course of they have several computers at home, everyone can "play" with Linux *at once* from their various PCs through several VNC sessions.
Actually I doubt that if the car were to have a tyre blow that it could still be driven safely for very far. Semi trailers have been known to catch fire after a tyre blowout. One particular incident comes to mind that occured in Australia at a transport company I was working at - a semi was on a long hill (about 1/2 mile if I recall) and had one of the two pairs of rear tyres blow. Since it was on a hill it had to keep going to get to the top, as it wouldn't have been possible to change the tyre on the hill. However, the shredded tyre built up so much heat from rubbing against the road, chassis or other tyre of the vehicle that it caught fire and the whole trailer went up. Fortunately the driver was able to get the prime mover detatched so it wasn't a total writeoff - but this is what can happen when continuing to drive on a blown tyre.
Depends how tall you are. That'd be a little on the skinny side for a 6'4" guy (like me) - I weigh 85 kg - but I still have trouble keeping 36 inch waist pants up. My brother is 6Ft 6 and weights 115 kg - and he's one of the fittest people I know - plays loads of basketball and has arms & legs like a bloody tree.
I had a Nissan Skyline GTR 33 V spec that could do 180 Mph with a 280 bhp engine - and 0 - 60 Mph in 4.8 seconds. (albeit I did have the thing with a speed delimiter to remove the voluntary speed limit Japanese cars come with as shipped that usually limits them to about 120 Mph) now that was a 2 door Coupe with plenty of room in the back for 2 passengers too - I have sat in the back & had loads of room, and I am 6ft 4 (193 cm) tall. The car has a 2560 cc engine with twin ceramic turbos and a torque splitter that delivers power to each of the four wheels independantly which with the traction control system means you are getting maximum power delivered to the road through teh 245/24/17 inch tyres. It weighs about 1500 kg. So you don't need 1000 bhp to reach those speeds at all.
I reckon it's definitely worth posting.
This has finally brought me out of 3 years of lurking on Slashdot. After having a go at writing a genetic algorithm in perl that could pump out sort functions, I quickly became dissilusiond that relatively simply Genetic algorithms could be used for anything of interest besides generating functions to fit curves etc - or at least was beyond my immediate skills. (I usually develop boring back office/corporate stuff for a living involving databases etc.)
This has definitely piqued my interest & the idea of parameterising IFS fractals & mutating them is a winner. Question: If you were using something like this as an extension to the Gimp, once you have a shape pretty close to what you want, could you stretch it a bit/modify part of it and have the "genetic" code adapt those changes before going on to new and more interesting mutations? giving evolution a push in a particular direction with relatively untalented artwork?
So I draw, say a rough looking beastie for my lastest game, (having almost zero talent at such) have it mutate into something genuinely interesting and original, then touch it up and repeat as required? That truly would be software worth having/working on!