It is not reasonable and discriminatory to refuse to license IP. Either MS should stop trying to collect payments for use of its discontinued IP (Allow free exchange of win95 and other unsupported software), or continue to support it.
The Terms of purchase likely failed to include MS reserves the right to terminate the usefullness of this software at time of its choosing.
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okay, i'll back up a bit, and say that gyroscoping balancing is too expensive in terms of the balance assist that I personally need.
Therefore, I would appreciate an alternative system which provided balance assist through a 3rd wheel, because this system would be cheaper and sufficiently capable. I feel a sense of self worth and accomplishment by being able to balance myself through supreme coordination and athletic ability on wheeled devices.
I can see how others might favor the gyros.
How come you don't have a bike?
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Is there something about your situation that makes a bike impractical, where a ginger is suitable?
Physically impossible to have a top speed
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Either the unit goes faster when you lean forwards, or you fall flat onto your face.
Its applying a very cool concept into a very cool device.
But its a needlessly expensive solution to a problem more easily solved.... but maybe, just maybe, the solution needs to be cool in order to be adopted.
Tacking on a stairmaster is indeed good
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This thing could cost $200 if it was powered by a stairmaster type device/pistons, and had a 3rd wheel to keep it balanced.
auto-shifting bicyle gears?
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who manufactures that?
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no its not that tippable at all, as I consider it. My definition is the same easy balancing that ginger allows... If you want to fall off, ginger will let you as well.
All of your weight is easily kept within the stable portion of the device. The two large wheels already make it resistant to tipping sideways. A 3rd wheel in the back, even on a fairly narrow platfom such as 6 inches behind your heels is enough to not let you fall back easily, since your weight would not normally distributed outside the balance points.
Took my scooter to the supermarket yesterday
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I needed some sour cream for my baked potatoe. Dinner was going to be ready very soon, and my kid's scooter was the quickest form of transportation available (out of bike and car alternatives), because it did not require disembarking and locking up.
When I got into the market, a security guard chased me down and asked me to get off... while chuckling. I was in no way speeding or endangering any shoppers, but I complied. As I walked my scooter to the far end of the supermarket, I got back on, once I saw a deserted aisle. As I scooted back towards the crowded area of the market, I was annoyed to see the same security guard from the front of the store there looking at me in an annoyed manner, and threatening to ask me to leave, if I persisted. He'd obvisously followed me throughout the store.
The first moral of the story, if you want to commit armed robbery somewhere, bribe someone to ride a scooter into the back of the store.
The second moral of the story is that society expects you, once you are no longer a teenybopper, to keep your fat ass in a car where it belongs.
I claim that I received weirdo looks from far and wide because I brought my scooter to the supermarket. Social coercion will similarly impact others to keep their fat ass in cars, rather than gingers. I hope not, but if security guards allow middle aged ladies in gingers, how will they fulfill their lifelong dreams of stopping teenagers on skateboards?
Its called a trike, DA
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recumbent tricycles solve the balancing issue at low speed.
The way the gyro works is by balancing you forwrd/backward... on a recumbent bike, your balance issues are side to side, and gyro's wouldn't help since there is no way to move the bike sideways with a motor.
weird enough to follow those links
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those links are mesmerizing even if difficult to make out.
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Seated trikes have advantages and disadvantages over this.
But a standing platform that is simply 6 inches longer to accomodate a shopping cart wheel to balance it would not have insurmountable disadvantages considering the cost savings.
Knockoffs will kill it
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The only great things about this device is the form factor, and theft deterence.
I'm sure, however, that there will be services possible which make a stolen scooter useable for less than $3k. Further, rampant Ginger-Jackings will discourage consumption, and $3k untraceable transportation devices that can't outrun hoodlums in the dark of the night will lead to rampant Ginger-jackings.
Balance could be obtained by adding a 3rd shopping cart type wheel on the back, while still keeping a small platform...
Locomotion drive system could be achieved with a 2 or 4 piston driving crank shaft powered by each heel and toe.
Power assist is a nice option...
I hope the world promotes this as aggressively as it is apparently going to do so. But the evil that is unbounded self-servedness will unfortunately corrupt, unless many step forward to curtail evil.
I think the process will cost @home greatly. In Canada, Rogers is abandonning @home. Others will look for alternatives too.
The creditors though, will get the company... They just want it to be worth close to $750M. After that, for all they care, liquidating it is preferred if that can let them get their money 1 second sooner than otherwise.
Bond Holders are not interested in maximizing corporate value. They just want it high enough to get paid.
You will get a lot more useful information if you do social experiments with people instead.
I agree that group performance as well as individual reward should be rewarded, and in most large companies it is. Annual bonuses are often based on company performance multiplied by individual performance. Rewarding a small group/division is useful where its possible.
Soccer is individualistic. You will make more money (or receive more fame if amateur) as a striker than as a defender, so if you have the talent, that's the position you want. Economics also alow for people to realize that their talent level may be better suited to being a defender.
The robot social system may also evolve into letting better robots be the strikers, but its incidental. The motivations of individual fame and wealth are not being accounted for, but is what causes teams and players to stabilize into their positions.
since there is no primusreallysucks.com precedent, this domain should be allowed by a 3rd party.
... or perhaps, since even non english speakers know what fuck means, vivendifuckspigs.com is also not taken, and would satisfy the WIPO's requirements for a protest site.
Aside from having to fear being tracked/targeted for not voting for the FBI's favorite party, or getting caught doing something embarassing, there are additional problems with concentrating all that power into a few geeks at the FBI: CORRUPTION.
If one person is allowed to clandestinely read your business strategies and ideas, then potential everyone you most want to keep them secret from has a way to read them clandestinely as well.
Beyond simply comparing financial outlays between the MS and open source alternatives, a highly relevant factor for governements is WHERE that money is spent.
Each $ spent locally has say 25cents recuperated in taxes, of the remaining 75 cents, it is likely spent on something else that generates 25% taxes and so on, and so on. Some of the money leaks out of the govt controlled economy, but most of it doesn't. A $ spent on imports is gone foreever.
For international governments, each $ they spend on MS licenses is probably worth $3-$5 spent locally.
I expect Germany to go through with the linux conversion.
I'm using socialism as a non-pejorative term. Government regulation for the public's presumed benefit is left of the right wing laisser-faire free market approach.
Its not government dispossessing shareholders of their monopolies, but calling it a socialist solution still seems accurate.
Is there a better word? maybe just anti-capitalist?
I feel its unfortunate that the cold war made that word so loaded. Its often used to dismiss out of hand any government economic program.
The same for cable modems - there is only one owner of the coax to your house. Pretending there can be more than one provider of cable modem service is not the answer - regulating the cable company is.
Regulation -- that socialist solution -- is indeed the proper solution for monopolies... or at least getting them to get off their butt and inovate, instead of trying to impede everyone else's effort.
In Canada, we've seen regulatory agency take a significant leadership role in deploying broadband.
Its affordable, intensively advertised, mostly reliable. FCC needs to take the same leadership. I'm growing more left wing in my old age...
As I understand it though, Excite@home's business model is as a portal. They pay local utilities (including my isp) for subscribers, and hope those subscribers give a flying fuck about their home page. I'm not sure if its a one time payment (probably is if TV Cable network model is followed), but if it is, then it going OOB won't affect my isp in the slightest. Similarly if it has to fire sale the portal.
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New MS security measures include blocking any access to its servers by any computer that may have ever come into contact with Linux.
It is not reasonable and discriminatory to refuse to license IP. Either MS should stop trying to collect payments for use of its discontinued IP (Allow free exchange of win95 and other unsupported software), or continue to support it.
The Terms of purchase likely failed to include MS reserves the right to terminate the usefullness of this software at time of its choosing.
okay, i'll back up a bit, and say that gyroscoping balancing is too expensive in terms of the balance assist that I personally need.
Therefore, I would appreciate an alternative system which provided balance assist through a 3rd wheel, because this system would be cheaper and sufficiently capable. I feel a sense of self worth and accomplishment by being able to balance myself through supreme coordination and athletic ability on wheeled devices.
I can see how others might favor the gyros.
Is there something about your situation that makes a bike impractical, where a ginger is suitable?
Either the unit goes faster when you lean forwards, or you fall flat onto your face.
absolutely its hype.
Its applying a very cool concept into a very cool device.
But its a needlessly expensive solution to a problem more easily solved.... but maybe, just maybe, the solution needs to be cool in order to be adopted.
This thing could cost $200 if it was powered by a stairmaster type device/pistons, and had a 3rd wheel to keep it balanced.
who manufactures that?
no its not that tippable at all, as I consider it. My definition is the same easy balancing that ginger allows... If you want to fall off, ginger will let you as well.
All of your weight is easily kept within the stable portion of the device. The two large wheels already make it resistant to tipping sideways. A 3rd wheel in the back, even on a fairly narrow platfom such as 6 inches behind your heels is enough to not let you fall back easily, since your weight would not normally distributed outside the balance points.
I needed some sour cream for my baked potatoe. Dinner was going to be ready very soon, and my kid's scooter was the quickest form of transportation available (out of bike and car alternatives), because it did not require disembarking and locking up.
When I got into the market, a security guard chased me down and asked me to get off... while chuckling. I was in no way speeding or endangering any shoppers, but I complied. As I walked my scooter to the far end of the supermarket, I got back on, once I saw a deserted aisle. As I scooted back towards the crowded area of the market, I was annoyed to see the same security guard from the front of the store there looking at me in an annoyed manner, and threatening to ask me to leave, if I persisted. He'd obvisously followed me throughout the store.
The first moral of the story, if you want to commit armed robbery somewhere, bribe someone to ride a scooter into the back of the store.
The second moral of the story is that society expects you, once you are no longer a teenybopper, to keep your fat ass in a car where it belongs.
I claim that I received weirdo looks from far and wide because I brought my scooter to the supermarket. Social coercion will similarly impact others to keep their fat ass in cars, rather than gingers. I hope not, but if security guards allow middle aged ladies in gingers, how will they fulfill their lifelong dreams of stopping teenagers on skateboards?
recumbent tricycles solve the balancing issue at low speed.
The way the gyro works is by balancing you forwrd/backward... on a recumbent bike, your balance issues are side to side, and gyro's wouldn't help since there is no way to move the bike sideways with a motor.
those links are mesmerizing even if difficult to make out.
Seated trikes have advantages and disadvantages over this.
But a standing platform that is simply 6 inches longer to accomodate a shopping cart wheel to balance it would not have insurmountable disadvantages considering the cost savings.
The only great things about this device is the form factor, and theft deterence.
I'm sure, however, that there will be services possible which make a stolen scooter useable for less than $3k. Further, rampant Ginger-Jackings will discourage consumption, and $3k untraceable transportation devices that can't outrun hoodlums in the dark of the night will lead to rampant Ginger-jackings.
Balance could be obtained by adding a 3rd shopping cart type wheel on the back, while still keeping a small platform...
Locomotion drive system could be achieved with a 2 or 4 piston driving crank shaft powered by each heel and toe.
Power assist is a nice option...
I hope the world promotes this as aggressively as it is apparently going to do so. But the evil that is unbounded self-servedness will unfortunately corrupt, unless many step forward to curtail evil.
I think the process will cost @home greatly. In Canada, Rogers is abandonning @home. Others will look for alternatives too.
The creditors though, will get the company... They just want it to be worth close to $750M. After that, for all they care, liquidating it is preferred if that can let them get their money 1 second sooner than otherwise.
Bond Holders are not interested in maximizing corporate value. They just want it high enough to get paid.
You will get a lot more useful information if you do social experiments with people instead.
I agree that group performance as well as individual reward should be rewarded, and in most large companies it is. Annual bonuses are often based on company performance multiplied by individual performance. Rewarding a small group/division is useful where its possible.
Soccer is individualistic. You will make more money (or receive more fame if amateur) as a striker than as a defender, so if you have the talent, that's the position you want. Economics also alow for people to realize that their talent level may be better suited to being a defender.
The robot social system may also evolve into letting better robots be the strikers, but its incidental. The motivations of individual fame and wealth are not being accounted for, but is what causes teams and players to stabilize into their positions.
since there is no primusreallysucks.com precedent, this domain should be allowed by a 3rd party.
... or perhaps, since even non english speakers know what fuck means, vivendifuckspigs.com is also not taken, and would satisfy the WIPO's requirements for a protest site.
Aside from having to fear being tracked/targeted for not voting for the FBI's favorite party, or getting caught doing something embarassing, there are additional problems with concentrating all that power into a few geeks at the FBI: CORRUPTION.
If one person is allowed to clandestinely read your business strategies and ideas, then potential everyone you most want to keep them secret from has a way to read them clandestinely as well.
Beyond simply comparing financial outlays between the MS and open source alternatives, a highly relevant factor for governements is WHERE that money is spent.
Each $ spent locally has say 25cents recuperated in taxes, of the remaining 75 cents, it is likely spent on something else that generates 25% taxes and so on, and so on. Some of the money leaks out of the govt controlled economy, but most of it doesn't. A $ spent on imports is gone foreever.
For international governments, each $ they spend on MS licenses is probably worth $3-$5 spent locally.
I expect Germany to go through with the linux conversion.
The previous article was a piezoelectric design for the sole of the shoe... this uses two charged plates being moved through a magnetic field...
That happens to be how piezo electrics work.
Its just a way to store the energy generated by the motor.
You might charge normal batteries by connecting them to the shoe to transfer power from the onboard battery.
I'm using socialism as a non-pejorative term. Government regulation for the public's presumed benefit is left of the right wing laisser-faire free market approach.
Its not government dispossessing shareholders of their monopolies, but calling it a socialist solution still seems accurate.
Is there a better word? maybe just anti-capitalist?
I feel its unfortunate that the cold war made that word so loaded. Its often used to dismiss out of hand any government economic program.
The same for cable modems - there is only one owner of the coax to your house. Pretending there can be more than one provider of cable modem service is not the answer - regulating the cable company is.
Regulation -- that socialist solution -- is indeed the proper solution for monopolies... or at least getting them to get off their butt and inovate, instead of trying to impede everyone else's effort.
The sphere is probably used to get more torque rather than pure RPMs that they would have if the disc was connected directly to a thin shaft.
My next question though, is why is the disk, sphere, and shaft not a single unified (welded?) part?
In Canada, we've seen regulatory agency take a significant leadership role in deploying broadband.
Its affordable, intensively advertised, mostly reliable. FCC needs to take the same leadership. I'm growing more left wing in my old age...
As I understand it though, Excite@home's business model is as a portal. They pay local utilities (including my isp) for subscribers, and hope those subscribers give a flying fuck about their home page. I'm not sure if its a one time payment (probably is if TV Cable network model is followed), but if it is, then it going OOB won't affect my isp in the slightest. Similarly if it has to fire sale the portal.