there have been at least 4 separate replies so far, all of which are pointing out that same "mistake" due to misreading 74 as 47, and it's getting rather tiresome
the idea is prety obvious but it takes a mind not encoumbered by "life experience", to think "why isn't there a shelf here? maybe I should put a shelf here."
And I’m not sure whether to blame Tetris or my engineering degree for the idea “hey, why not just set my phone on top of the charger itself?”
If there's any sort of vicious greed in this story, it lies with the father. How many 8 year-olds even understand patents?
Oh, I agree. It’s rather atrocious that he’s already seeing moneybags, but I’d blame his dad before I blamed him.
Also, 8-year-olds are smarter than you perhaps realise... plenty intelligent enough, at least, to be taught that own patents = get rich = buy lots of stuff.
He didn't come up with this design to save the freaking world, he recognized his father's problem
I had the same problem and solved it with much less fan-fare. I just set the phone atop the charger, like this.
Do I get a patent?
and then realized he could make money for solving it
No, he realised he could make money by preventing anyone else from solving it in the same way that he thought of. Now if they want to use a little shelf, they have to buy it from him.
At least my solution doesn’t infringe on his patent, so he can’t sue me...
For native Veitnamese, sure. However, English speakers refer to it as Vietnam.
English speakers can refer to it as just about anything they damn well want to refer to it as, as long as it resembles Viet Nam and everyone knows what they mean, and I’ve seen plenty of people call it Viet Nam. My personal theory is that a lot of the older folks call it “Viet Nam” because they actually spent time in Vietnam and that’s what the locals called it. But it’s really still irrelevant.
Also, you misspelled Vietnamese by nearly any explanation. Ah, delicious irony.
And either way, that's not the main argument of my post.
Again with the delicious irony. You’re complaining that I didn’t address the main argument of your post... after you completely ignored the main argument of davev2.0’s post.
Actually it’s Viêt Nam (with an extra little dot under the e which Slashdot won’t display). But don’t let that stop you from telling people they’re wrong.
cover is still as important as ever... The important new features for the XM-25... its airburst capability
Yes, which makes cover obsolete. Some guy shoots at you and then ducks behind a wall, you fire a grenade in the air and it explodes directly over or next to him. Everything in a 5-10 metre area is obliterated. Are you not following this?
However, there are and there will be countermeasures deployed: the device needs its laser rangefinder, so expect the use of particulate smoke to make ranging difficult.
Particulate smoke? We’re talking about a guy firing an AK from behind a wall. If he’s hiding in a cloud of smoke, it just makes it that much harder for him to see, too. And you can always guesstimate the distance or dial in a few extra metres to compensate for the false front of the smoke.
Like in all warfare conditions, the best defence is offence so if I expect my forces to go against XM-25 armed troops I'll have snipers deployed to take out soldiers carrying it - hopefully eliminating the weapon as well.
Reminds me of when I had to build my base to defend myself from the zombies on 4chan. Need some reinforced steel? Gray paintbrush tool.
Your hypothetical forces who are armed to the teeth and prepared to withstand zombie onslaughts notwithstanding... in real life, our enemies aren’t as organized or prepared as they’d like to be.
It's a nice advantage to have but only the Nazi elite believed in miracle weapons to win the war, and watch where it has led them.
VelY=210*sin(45) 148.5 [m/s] Time to apogee=ln(150)/ln(10) 2.176 [s]
Look at those again. That makes absolutely no practical sense and anyone should know it’s wrong immediately just from those numbers. There is no way in hell that G = –9.81 m/s^2 will take an initial velocity of +148.5 m/s and reduce it to zero in 2.176 seconds, unless you’re on some other planet where G = –68.24 m/s^2!
You don’t need to remember formulas. You just need G and some calculus. Integrating polynomials isn’t that hard.
| Vo | = 210 m/s theta = 45 deg So = <1, 0>
A = G = <–9.80665, 0> V = <–9.80665t + Vo cos(theta), Vo sin(theta)> S = <–4.90333t^2 + Vo t cos(theta) + So_x, Vo t sin(theta) + So_y>
–4.90333t^2 + 210 t cos(45) + 1 = 0 t ~= 30.2907 s S(t) = <0, 4497.94369> m V(t) = <–148.558, 148.4924> m/s | V(t) | = 210.046 m/s
Fired at 210 m/sec at a 45 degree angle from a height of 1 metre and disregarding air resistance, I calculate a maximum range of approximately 4500 metres (4.5 km) and a flight time of around 30 seconds. I have no idea where your formulas came from.
As another poster pointed out an M-16 can approach 30k as it is.
That’s because selling or buying a new, factory-fresh M-16 is illegal (unless it’s the government buying it). Existing civilian-owned M-16s are now “collector’s items”, there are relatively few of them, and they are naturally very expensive.
If it was illegal to build or sell new cars, consider what would happen to used car prices. Same thing.
Isn't it a very bad idea to be shooting at things you can't see?
That isn’t quite what you’re doing. You’re shooting at something you can see (the muzzle flash in the window over there) and hoping to hit something you can’t (the guy firing it). Hitting what you can see would either be too difficult or not very useful in such a case.
I already know there’s a lot of myth and lore surrounding it. There was also a bit of truth to it.
So, did it happen like in the movies? I’d say the correct answer is, occasionally. Maybe even rarely. But definitely not just “no”.
But that’s just the difference between cinema and reality. Reality is, for the most part, really boring. In general, any given 24-hour day is going to be exactly the opposite of “24”.
The Head of State (Emir) is the supreme commander of the State, controlling the executive branch though his ministers.... The Emir of Kuwait is immune and inviolable: any criticism against him is not tolerated and punishable by law. He can dissolve the National Assembly and call a national election, or in cases of national emergency can dismiss the National Assembly outright and assume supreme authority over the country.
... There have been several conflicts between the Emir, the government and the National Assembly over various policies. The National Assembly was suspended from 1976 to 1981, from 1986 to 1991 and from May 1999 to July 1999... The Assembly was dissolved again in May 2009 by the Emir leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Sheik Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah and the rest of the Cabinet.
That’s not a constitutional monarchy, it’s a dictatorship... and, when he’s feeling particularly benevolent, the Emir lets you pretend you’re a constitutional monarchy.
I’m glad you enjoy your make-believe constitutional monarchy.
My observation skills told me that a month ago, Kuwait was banning DSLR cameras, and now they claim they never did any such thing. Not my problem if Kuwait can’t get their story straight.
Your point is about free merchandise. Guess what, I'm not giving away free merchandise with my server.
You most definitely are. When I request a page from my server and you send it to me, you just gave me a free sample. It cost you bandwidth and I gave you nothing for it. Whether you are trying to pay for that in advertising or by selling products or subscriptions is irrelevant (the grocery store would be analogous to selling products or subscriptions after they taste the sample).
Your store is giving away free samples. A bunch of griefers come into your store, take a free sample, and leave. To add insult to injury, they just deposit the samples in your waste bin on their way out. There are so many of them that you can’t give samples to your customers, not to mention your waste bins are full. What’s more, you don’t really have any good way of determining who’s a customer and who’s not until it’s already too late. As a result, you are actually forced to close your doors, costing you a lot of money both in lost samples and in loss of customers while your doors are closed.
I fail to see any violence. In fact, I fail to see anything the griefers did that you can legitimately call wrong. They played within the rules you set forth. Your rules just sucked.
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I've heard rumors that the next leak is ...
A major U.S. banking firm.
Not to be confused with U.S. Bancorp (a.k.a. US Bank).
Just “a major US banking firm”.
there have been at least 4 separate replies so far, all of which are pointing out that same "mistake" due to misreading 74 as 47, and it's getting rather tiresome
This is Slashdot... what did you expect?
If you refer to my post
The one where you said the M16 is more reliable than the AK-74?
The caliber of AK-74 is smaller than that of M16, but the latter has looser tolerances, and is generally more reliable as a result.
So he read you wrong. Cut him some slack... you screwed up pretty good there yourself.
the idea is prety obvious but it takes a mind not encoumbered by "life experience", to think "why isn't there a shelf here? maybe I should put a shelf here."
And I’m not sure whether to blame Tetris or my engineering degree for the idea “hey, why not just set my phone on top of the charger itself?”
If there's any sort of vicious greed in this story, it lies with the father. How many 8 year-olds even understand patents?
Oh, I agree. It’s rather atrocious that he’s already seeing moneybags, but I’d blame his dad before I blamed him.
Also, 8-year-olds are smarter than you perhaps realise... plenty intelligent enough, at least, to be taught that own patents = get rich = buy lots of stuff.
He didn't come up with this design to save the freaking world, he recognized his father's problem
I had the same problem and solved it with much less fan-fare. I just set the phone atop the charger, like this.
Do I get a patent?
and then realized he could make money for solving it
No, he realised he could make money by preventing anyone else from solving it in the same way that he thought of. Now if they want to use a little shelf, they have to buy it from him.
At least my solution doesn’t infringe on his patent, so he can’t sue me...
For native Veitnamese, sure. However, English speakers refer to it as Vietnam.
English speakers can refer to it as just about anything they damn well want to refer to it as, as long as it resembles Viet Nam and everyone knows what they mean, and I’ve seen plenty of people call it Viet Nam. My personal theory is that a lot of the older folks call it “Viet Nam” because they actually spent time in Vietnam and that’s what the locals called it. But it’s really still irrelevant.
Also, you misspelled Vietnamese by nearly any explanation. Ah, delicious irony.
And either way, that's not the main argument of my post.
Again with the delicious irony. You’re complaining that I didn’t address the main argument of your post... after you completely ignored the main argument of davev2.0’s post.
By the way, Vietnam is one word.
Actually it’s Viêt Nam (with an extra little dot under the e which Slashdot won’t display). But don’t let that stop you from telling people they’re wrong.
ORLY?
Well, I invented this:
http://ompldr.org/vNmQ5ZA/bilde.jpg
I doubt it’s patentable, though. It makes too much sense and you don’t need a silly shelf.
cover is still as important as ever ... The important new features for the XM-25 ... its airburst capability
Yes, which makes cover obsolete. Some guy shoots at you and then ducks behind a wall, you fire a grenade in the air and it explodes directly over or next to him. Everything in a 5-10 metre area is obliterated. Are you not following this?
However, there are and there will be countermeasures deployed: the device needs its laser rangefinder, so expect the use of particulate smoke to make ranging difficult.
Particulate smoke? We’re talking about a guy firing an AK from behind a wall. If he’s hiding in a cloud of smoke, it just makes it that much harder for him to see, too. And you can always guesstimate the distance or dial in a few extra metres to compensate for the false front of the smoke.
Like in all warfare conditions, the best defence is offence so if I expect my forces to go against XM-25 armed troops I'll have snipers deployed to take out soldiers carrying it - hopefully eliminating the weapon as well.
Reminds me of when I had to build my base to defend myself from the zombies on 4chan. Need some reinforced steel? Gray paintbrush tool.
Your hypothetical forces who are armed to the teeth and prepared to withstand zombie onslaughts notwithstanding... in real life, our enemies aren’t as organized or prepared as they’d like to be.
It's a nice advantage to have but only the Nazi elite believed in miracle weapons to win the war, and watch where it has led them.
Aaaaaaannnnd, Godwin’d. That’s all, folks.
VelY=210*sin(45) 148.5 [m/s]
Time to apogee=ln(150)/ln(10) 2.176 [s]
Look at those again. That makes absolutely no practical sense and anyone should know it’s wrong immediately just from those numbers. There is no way in hell that G = –9.81 m/s^2 will take an initial velocity of +148.5 m/s and reduce it to zero in 2.176 seconds, unless you’re on some other planet where G = –68.24 m/s^2!
You don’t need to remember formulas. You just need G and some calculus. Integrating polynomials isn’t that hard.
| Vo | = 210 m/s
theta = 45 deg
So = <1, 0>
A = G = <–9.80665, 0>
V = <–9.80665t + Vo cos(theta), Vo sin(theta)>
S = <–4.90333t^2 + Vo t cos(theta) + So_x, Vo t sin(theta) + So_y>
–4.90333t^2 + 210 t cos(45) + 1 = 0
t ~= 30.2907 s
S(t) = <0, 4497.94369> m
V(t) = <–148.558, 148.4924> m/s
| V(t) | = 210.046 m/s
Fired at 210 m/sec at a 45 degree angle from a height of 1 metre and disregarding air resistance, I calculate a maximum range of approximately 4500 metres (4.5 km) and a flight time of around 30 seconds. I have no idea where your formulas came from.
As another poster pointed out an M-16 can approach 30k as it is.
That’s because selling or buying a new, factory-fresh M-16 is illegal (unless it’s the government buying it). Existing civilian-owned M-16s are now “collector’s items”, there are relatively few of them, and they are naturally very expensive.
If it was illegal to build or sell new cars, consider what would happen to used car prices. Same thing.
Isn't it a very bad idea to be shooting at things you can't see?
That isn’t quite what you’re doing. You’re shooting at something you can see (the muzzle flash in the window over there) and hoping to hit something you can’t (the guy firing it). Hitting what you can see would either be too difficult or not very useful in such a case.
I already know there’s a lot of myth and lore surrounding it. There was also a bit of truth to it.
So, did it happen like in the movies? I’d say the correct answer is, occasionally. Maybe even rarely. But definitely not just “no”.
But that’s just the difference between cinema and reality. Reality is, for the most part, really boring. In general, any given 24-hour day is going to be exactly the opposite of “24”.
The Head of State (Emir) is the supreme commander of the State, controlling the executive branch though his ministers. ... The Emir of Kuwait is immune and inviolable: any criticism against him is not tolerated and punishable by law. He can dissolve the National Assembly and call a national election, or in cases of national emergency can dismiss the National Assembly outright and assume supreme authority over the country.
... There have been several conflicts between the Emir, the government and the National Assembly over various policies. The National Assembly was suspended from 1976 to 1981, from 1986 to 1991 and from May 1999 to July 1999... The Assembly was dissolved again in May 2009 by the Emir leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Sheik Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah and the rest of the Cabinet.
That’s not a constitutional monarchy, it’s a dictatorship... and, when he’s feeling particularly benevolent, the Emir lets you pretend you’re a constitutional monarchy.
I’m glad you enjoy your make-believe constitutional monarchy.
My observation skills told me that a month ago, Kuwait was banning DSLR cameras, and now they claim they never did any such thing. Not my problem if Kuwait can’t get their story straight.
As an expatriate both living and working in Kuwait, I can assure you it is NOTHING like a dictatorship.
As an outside observer living elsewhere in the world, you could’ve fooled me. Did, actually.
You’re both missing it. It’s a dictatorship.
Last month they had always been at war with eastasia and DSLR cameras were being banned.
Today they’ve always been at war with eurasia and they deny that they ever banned DSLR cameras.
When I request a page from my server and you send it to me, you just gave me a free sample.
*your server
Your point is about free merchandise. Guess what, I'm not giving away free merchandise with my server.
You most definitely are. When I request a page from my server and you send it to me, you just gave me a free sample. It cost you bandwidth and I gave you nothing for it. Whether you are trying to pay for that in advertising or by selling products or subscriptions is irrelevant (the grocery store would be analogous to selling products or subscriptions after they taste the sample).
Oh.
I was under the impression it was gross over-generalization day and nobody told me.
When I have as much right to be there as they do, and they can’t get in because I was there first, yes.
What rock were you hiding under on Black Friday?
Ok, fine. Let’s take your business analogy.
Your store is giving away free samples. A bunch of griefers come into your store, take a free sample, and leave. To add insult to injury, they just deposit the samples in your waste bin on their way out. There are so many of them that you can’t give samples to your customers, not to mention your waste bins are full. What’s more, you don’t really have any good way of determining who’s a customer and who’s not until it’s already too late. As a result, you are actually forced to close your doors, costing you a lot of money both in lost samples and in loss of customers while your doors are closed.
I fail to see any violence. In fact, I fail to see anything the griefers did that you can legitimately call wrong. They played within the rules you set forth. Your rules just sucked.
The Wild West never happened, Jesse James never lived, and the bullet holes in the stones at Kansas City’s Union Station were fake. Yup.
What gave you that idea anyway?
criminal use of force and intimidation
Indeed. Fight fire with fire.