But nobody here is saying that we don't understand why they would do it. We just think it's a bad thing for a company to limit it's liability in the cases where liability is warranted. Yes, our legal system sucks, that's why we discuss legal issues on the internet. Is it all making sense now?
Windows ME! Oh, I haven't heard that name in a while. Did anyone ever try to release/renew an IP address with WinME? It was basically a more complicated way of doing Start -> Shut Down -> Restart. Ah the bad times we shared....
Building a 'full' sized fiberglass mockup with made up instrument panels, and then flying an RC model around that's shaped like the full sized one, doesn't in any way shape or form get you any closer to having a real fighter jet. This is still just a farce, regardless of whether mockups are sometimes made of real planes or not.
But you can't control where the airbag lump ends up, which means it can get stuck on a rock. Plus, if the capsule malfunctions after landing properly you've got the rover trapped inside.
Given that this is occurring after a record breaking year of profits (due mainly to limiting users ability to add DVDs to their queue to only on the main website), you know this is nothing but a greedy attempt to keep profits rising. But with prices this much higher for the same service, they will open the door wide open to competition now. They may think they can charge us whatever they want because they are such a monopoly, but when you get this greedy, that can change in a heartbeat.
You could literally make this argument about ANY new technology that you've decided to hate. Telling people who don't hate it that they should hate it is just pure bigotry. Get a life, and meditate or something sheesh.
I'm pissed off. I don't care if it only records 1 coordinate per day. I should have every right not to have my location recorded in an unencrypted file without my knowledge, period.
Ok people, the reason this is cool is because he replicated a specific type of factory robot called a 'pick and place delta robot', not because he couldn't think of any other way to sort the blocks. This type of robot is the fastest way to sort and place objects that are coming down a conveyor belt at random intervals and placements.
The fact that the submitter made it sound like you were going to be watching a manufacturing robot does not make this less impressive.
Check out a video of how a real delta robot looks in action, and you can see how cool it is that he was able to achieve this with only legos:
Bosch Paloma-D2 Packaging Robot
Since when is this a place to so drastically misrepresent something that the readers only think it's cool because they don't understand it?
This happens all the time now. Sensationalism is growing threat to society's collective scientific comprehension.
I'm pretty sure it mostly consumes the sodium hydroxide. At any rate, the aluminum is not the 'fuel source' so the way it's written is definitely wrong. As one of the posters down below said, this is as accurate as saying that my car runs on oxygen.
the expanding population of humans and finite supply of oil, along with the exponential increase in our ability to transport information without transporting ourselves. Given these factors, it seems obvious in hindsight that commonplace Mach 2 commercial travel was way too optimistic.
This isn't a concern at all. All you have to do is attach some infrared LED's to your tinfoil hat, and you'll be safe from CCD based cameras along with malicious electromagnetic signals.
But seriously, the 'tech infrastructure' (a bunch of cameras?) needed to watch the whole sky would be completely different than what would be needed to watch the whole country. One camera pointed upwards with a wide angle lens would effectively cover many, many square miles of sky area if all you need to do is make out streaks of light. And they would all be spaced out evenly across the country, meaning the vast majority of them would be located in the middle of nowhere. Not even the most evil government regime in history would have any desire for this.
Aerial tramways are a different beast though. They don't go around in circles, just back and forth, so you're limited to having one car make the trip at a time. If they replaced that with a gondola system, I imagine a lot more people would use it. They are more of a novelty than a means of transportation. The longer the trip is, the less efficient a tram system would be. Whereas gondola or chairlift systems have the same throughput regardless of how long they are.
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But nobody here is saying that we don't understand why they would do it. We just think it's a bad thing for a company to limit it's liability in the cases where liability is warranted. Yes, our legal system sucks, that's why we discuss legal issues on the internet. Is it all making sense now?
Well, if there ever was a better time to plug Niel De Grass Tyson's "Penny 4 NASA" campaign, I can't think of one. http://www.penny4nasa.org/
Windows ME! Oh, I haven't heard that name in a while. Did anyone ever try to release/renew an IP address with WinME? It was basically a more complicated way of doing Start -> Shut Down -> Restart. Ah the bad times we shared....
Building a 'full' sized fiberglass mockup with made up instrument panels, and then flying an RC model around that's shaped like the full sized one, doesn't in any way shape or form get you any closer to having a real fighter jet. This is still just a farce, regardless of whether mockups are sometimes made of real planes or not.
It's a giant floating Apple store. Very creative...
I don't think there are any liability differences between transporting people 300+ mph and transporting people 4000 mph...
But you can't control where the airbag lump ends up, which means it can get stuck on a rock. Plus, if the capsule malfunctions after landing properly you've got the rover trapped inside.
Given that this is occurring after a record breaking year of profits (due mainly to limiting users ability to add DVDs to their queue to only on the main website), you know this is nothing but a greedy attempt to keep profits rising. But with prices this much higher for the same service, they will open the door wide open to competition now. They may think they can charge us whatever they want because they are such a monopoly, but when you get this greedy, that can change in a heartbeat.
Yep, maybe now the government will give oil companies subsidies. Imagine that!
cmon I know you're still out there...
I find this photo very easy to masturbate to.
to manage to /. your own blog.
"and can be used in conjunction with Wii controllers, the company said"
Hold your horses people, they aren't saying you have to use this mammoth just to play wii bowling.
You could literally make this argument about ANY new technology that you've decided to hate. Telling people who don't hate it that they should hate it is just pure bigotry. Get a life, and meditate or something sheesh.
And do the carriers log this information unencrypted on my computer where any bit of malicious code can access it?
I'm pissed off. I don't care if it only records 1 coordinate per day. I should have every right not to have my location recorded in an unencrypted file without my knowledge, period.
Ok people, the reason this is cool is because he replicated a specific type of factory robot called a 'pick and place delta robot', not because he couldn't think of any other way to sort the blocks. This type of robot is the fastest way to sort and place objects that are coming down a conveyor belt at random intervals and placements.
The fact that the submitter made it sound like you were going to be watching a manufacturing robot does not make this less impressive.
Check out a video of how a real delta robot looks in action, and you can see how cool it is that he was able to achieve this with only legos: Bosch Paloma-D2 Packaging Robot
"2 Al + 2 NaOH + 2 H2O 2 NaAlO2 + 3 H2"
Ohhh, so it actually runs on water! This will change the world for sure!
Since when is this a place to so drastically misrepresent something that the readers only think it's cool because they don't understand it? This happens all the time now. Sensationalism is growing threat to society's collective scientific comprehension.
I'm pretty sure it mostly consumes the sodium hydroxide. At any rate, the aluminum is not the 'fuel source' so the way it's written is definitely wrong. As one of the posters down below said, this is as accurate as saying that my car runs on oxygen.
Chuck Norris can do with with 1 pixel too. But he can also tell you what they had for lunch.
the expanding population of humans and finite supply of oil, along with the exponential increase in our ability to transport information without transporting ourselves. Given these factors, it seems obvious in hindsight that commonplace Mach 2 commercial travel was way too optimistic.
This isn't a concern at all. All you have to do is attach some infrared LED's to your tinfoil hat, and you'll be safe from CCD based cameras along with malicious electromagnetic signals. But seriously, the 'tech infrastructure' (a bunch of cameras?) needed to watch the whole sky would be completely different than what would be needed to watch the whole country. One camera pointed upwards with a wide angle lens would effectively cover many, many square miles of sky area if all you need to do is make out streaks of light. And they would all be spaced out evenly across the country, meaning the vast majority of them would be located in the middle of nowhere. Not even the most evil government regime in history would have any desire for this.
Aerial tramways are a different beast though. They don't go around in circles, just back and forth, so you're limited to having one car make the trip at a time. If they replaced that with a gondola system, I imagine a lot more people would use it. They are more of a novelty than a means of transportation. The longer the trip is, the less efficient a tram system would be. Whereas gondola or chairlift systems have the same throughput regardless of how long they are.
No, they are too small to carry a significant payload or people, and are designed to operate right at the edge of the atmosphere in a very low orbit.