Seriously, used to rock a 45 ms ping in Quake back when most players were still on dialup. Boring compared to flying a FPV racing quad via goggles. Check out multicopter on reddit, you'll only use your computer for sim time and 3D printing upgrades.
The iphone/android makes a better remote, in that it's always in your pocket or nearby to start with, but it's basically the same idea as a tablet remote. I've actually started watching more TV in the last few years despite not having a TV, because it's so easy to find a show I'd like to watch and then watch it, when I want to watch it. The Mobile Mouse app on my phone lets me use the laptop/projector combo in our living room from anywhere, and anyone with a phone can do it to. It's too bad that it's still fairly difficult to get specific content on a computer these days though - it's still much easier to just pirate shows than it is to find a legitimate site to download or stream it - THAT is the epic fail in my opinion.
I use my Iphone for reading most books these days. Back in the day, I used to travel a lot for work, and usually had a stack of books on my crusty old palm pilot, which was nice for carrying around, especially since I used it for a lot of other things as well.
These days, I don't go anywhere without my phone, and I find the screen just fine for reading books. A lot better than the old palm pilot. Since I'm already carrying the phone, the e-reader is basically free.
A friend of mine tracks whales in Hawaii via their songs and sonar clicks; she really enjoys it.
I used to travel to various tropical islands setting up nuke detectors for the UN; that was a blast! Google "dream job IEEE", they do an article each year about 10 really cool engneering jobs.
Dude, have some fun! I can hardly walk today I had so much exercise this weekend, and what little fat there is on my abs is noticeably smaller than it was on Friday. Despite drinking most of a liter of tequila with a little help on Friday night!
Find something that's fun, and it won't be exercise; it'll be entertainment. I kitesurfed all weekend out in frigid Canadian waters, and I had a blast! Launching 20 foot high jumps, crashing hard, crashing my kite, swimming after it, chasing sailboats, rescuing complete strangers.
For all you geeks out there, check out kiting - it's great for working on physics and whatnot. You go really, really fast, then pull the trigger and jump, converting all that speed directly into height - and then eventually you come down again. Maybe right side up, maybe not. Too much fun! Pulled off a smooth backflip yesterday. It's like having rocket boots - you can turn off gravity, temporarily, but whenever you want. Some guy hit 45 mph on the water a few weeks ago at the speed trials in France - that's 5 mph faster than that silly Camaro that was on Slashdot a few weeks ago, and that's with pretty minimal equipment.
So yeah, exercise can be fun. And don't give me any crap about being too old or fat - you won't be for for long; I saw a 69 year old guy down in Mexico ripping great big deadmans, 15 feet in the air. And he's not the only old guy doing it; they had a 60 year old demonstrating back loops in one of the better instructional videos.
Get out there and enjoy life - you're gonna be dead soon enough, might as well have some fun while you still can!
I've been riding around with a full set of tools anyway, fixing hybrid locomotives, so a torch would be an easy addition. Everything can be changed, some things just take a little more work. That's not to say I'll ever buy a Volvo though...
I'd buy a tablet tomorrow if I could fire up Mathcad, and start scribbling complex math formulae all over it, having it neaten it up, and then run all sorts of neat analysis on it - ever try to write a big formula on a computer? I usually give up and go to a peice of paper. A mathcad program that could take scrawled formulae as input would be a killer ap. Incidentally, my Palm already does this, but only for extremely simple formula.
For example, 1 gram of space junk, travelling at a relative speed of 22 km/s (minimum orbital velocity * 2) has 242 kJ of energy. Smack that into a 30 cm by 30 cm window, say 10 cm thick, and you get an average force of 2.4*10^6 N, or 26,000 kPa (or 3900 psi for our Imperially challenged friends). Now, compare that to onatmosphere of pressure, 101 kPa. Which number is higher?
I think it will clearly implode first. Then, once everything inside has been showered with supersonic flying glass fragments and the window is now open to space, then, yes, the air will rush out.
I don't use it much for the intended purposes - I still tend to be terminally late for almost everything.
But, I use my m500 daily. Keeping track of things that pique my interest, ebooks (got over 50 full books on a MMC card, currently struggling through The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon), news (Avantgo), and lots of obscure stuff; I'm also studying for my HAGAR exam - a flight rating for hang glider and paraglider pilots - using Adobe's PDF reader. I even keep my flight log in the PDA - my last flight log was stolen along with my truck and glider; now even if this one gets stolen (or crushed), I'll still have a backup on my computer.
There's some really cool stuff too - Planetarium let me find the moons of Jupiter the other night while checking out the Leonids, and I've got a special program to run diagnostics on my AWD Eagle Talon - it'll even plot engine parameters in realtime so I can see if I've got my boost turned up too high.
I specifically stayed away from the color PDA's because of battery life problems; forget the bloated WinCE devices. Although my PDA has survived several crashes so far, paragliding and otherwise, I'm still thinking about an Ubercase - solar powered and waterproof would be just about perfect.
That's the ticket for me. I can look at germs with a microscope. I can fly to another continent if I really want to. Hell, I can even fly my paraglider any old time the wind is good - how many religions can make you fly?
I haven't seen atoms, but neither has anyone else - however that model makes some accurate predictions that actually work.
There's the key - science makes predictions that are testable, and work. Religious predictions are generally untestable (life after death and whatnot) or don't really work (buddha works in mysterious ways, etc).
So basically, science does stuff that works. Religion does stuff that doesn't work. Therefore, I think religion is full of crap.
Well, say 1 Nm at the proximal end - my index finger is (pulls out digital caliper) is about 90 mm from first joint to fingertip, so that's around 1 Nm/(0.09m)= 11.1 N, or about 1.1 kg worth of force (2.5 lbs) at the fingertip, if the finger was kept straight. Not very much, in other words.
His latest paper came out last August - no more spinning superconductors, now he's playing with huge voltages on a fixed superconductor. It sounds interesting; I can't tell you if it's real or not, but maybe Boeing can figure something out. Here's a link to the more recent paper:
What's the point? MS is talking about how they're doing all this stuff to guarantee your privacy, but in the same breath they've just violated your privacy by sending you spam.
Of what value is a trustworthy system controlled by a company who is clearly untrustworthy? Not much.
Your air conditioner runs on freon, or perhaps r-22. It's a gas, and it's not so apparent when it springs a leak, it just doesn't work as well (or not at all) anymore.
Cars are mostly watercooled though, and I don't think I've had a car that didn't leak antifreeze at one time or another. They are a bit more complicated though.
That brings up another point - is there antifreeze in this laptop? That'd suck if I left it in the car by accident on one of those -56 deg C days we occasionally get.:) I imagine the tank would burst, just like a beer left in the freezer. Fun!
Actually, the differance would be that Microsoft chooses which parts you could instal; regardless of whether or not they were stolen. Most likely they will be looking out for their bottom line, not yours. Sure, it won't run l33t haxor's virus, but it will gladly run Microsoft's viral marketing software, unbeknownst to you.
They're not looking to help you, they're looking to help themselves.
Fast, and expensive. I've done models that were less than 2 inches across that cost $500 usd each. It's good for testing out a plastic design before you commit to a $30,000 steel mold, but not much use for exploring design options. Unless you've got bags of cash, or an SLA machine in your back room.:)
Hey, been reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - and came across some interesting parallels. Apparently, during the reign of Commodus, if a wealthy criminal was accused of a crime, he could buy his innocence, and even go so far as to imprision his accuser, all with cash.
Frightenly similar to things these days, no? At least the good guys are making a little headway...
This is awesome! I've got ProE running on my wintel box right now, and ProE was the 1 thing keeping me from moving to Linux for my work computer; now there's no reason at all for me to be running Windows. Nice.
Well, look at it this way. The Rocky Mountains where I live are made up of limestone. Limestone is the accumulation of decayed shells of organisms, most of em microscopic diatoms - where I live, the layers visible to the naked eye are kilometers deep; I'm sure they extend a lot farther down than the cliff faces I can see. So, if there were enough shells produced in the oceans (which cover 75% of the earth, don't forget) to build mountains kilometers thick, I'm not terribly surprised that there was enough dead organic matter there as well to make a small amount (compared to a mountain) of oil.
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Seriously, used to rock a 45 ms ping in Quake back when most players were still on dialup. Boring compared to flying a FPV racing quad via goggles. Check out multicopter on reddit, you'll only use your computer for sim time and 3D printing upgrades.
My respect for the NYTimes just went way down, and I look forward to the day I can afford a Tesla.
The iphone/android makes a better remote, in that it's always in your pocket or nearby to start with, but it's basically the same idea as a tablet remote. I've actually started watching more TV in the last few years despite not having a TV, because it's so easy to find a show I'd like to watch and then watch it, when I want to watch it. The Mobile Mouse app on my phone lets me use the laptop/projector combo in our living room from anywhere, and anyone with a phone can do it to. It's too bad that it's still fairly difficult to get specific content on a computer these days though - it's still much easier to just pirate shows than it is to find a legitimate site to download or stream it - THAT is the epic fail in my opinion.
This excellent collection of pages on Space Warfare on the Atomic Rocket website goes into exhaustive detail on just that topic:
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/spacewarintro.php
I especially love their section on thermodynamics - it's right on. :)
I use my Iphone for reading most books these days. Back in the day, I used to travel a lot for work, and usually had a stack of books on my crusty old palm pilot, which was nice for carrying around, especially since I used it for a lot of other things as well.
These days, I don't go anywhere without my phone, and I find the screen just fine for reading books. A lot better than the old palm pilot. Since I'm already carrying the phone, the e-reader is basically free.
A friend of mine tracks whales in Hawaii via their songs and sonar clicks; she really enjoys it.
I used to travel to various tropical islands setting up nuke detectors for the UN; that was a blast! Google "dream job IEEE", they do an article each year about 10 really cool engneering jobs.
you can buy a brand new surfboard. :)
Off topic, I know, but you folks should have a look outside occasionally. Sometimes it's nice out here.
Dude, have some fun! I can hardly walk today I had so much exercise this weekend, and what little fat there is on my abs is noticeably smaller than it was on Friday. Despite drinking most of a liter of tequila with a little help on Friday night!
Find something that's fun, and it won't be exercise; it'll be entertainment. I kitesurfed all weekend out in frigid Canadian waters, and I had a blast! Launching 20 foot high jumps, crashing hard, crashing my kite, swimming after it, chasing sailboats, rescuing complete strangers.
For all you geeks out there, check out kiting - it's great for working on physics and whatnot. You go really, really fast, then pull the trigger and jump, converting all that speed directly into height - and then eventually you come down again. Maybe right side up, maybe not. Too much fun! Pulled off a smooth backflip yesterday. It's like having rocket boots - you can turn off gravity, temporarily, but whenever you want. Some guy hit 45 mph on the water a few weeks ago at the speed trials in France - that's 5 mph faster than that silly Camaro that was on Slashdot a few weeks ago, and that's with pretty minimal equipment.
So yeah, exercise can be fun. And don't give me any crap about being too old or fat - you won't be for for long; I saw a 69 year old guy down in Mexico ripping great big deadmans, 15 feet in the air. And he's not the only old guy doing it; they had a 60 year old demonstrating back loops in one of the better instructional videos.
Get out there and enjoy life - you're gonna be dead soon enough, might as well have some fun while you still can!
I've been riding around with a full set of tools anyway, fixing hybrid locomotives, so a torch would be an easy addition. Everything can be changed, some things just take a little more work. That's not to say I'll ever buy a Volvo though...
:)
boxy but good doesn't cut it for me.
I'd buy a tablet tomorrow if I could fire up Mathcad, and start scribbling complex math formulae all over it, having it neaten it up, and then run all sorts of neat analysis on it - ever try to write a big formula on a computer? I usually give up and go to a peice of paper. A mathcad program that could take scrawled formulae as input would be a killer ap. Incidentally, my Palm already does this, but only for extremely simple formula.
Sheesh yourself.
For example, 1 gram of space junk, travelling at a relative speed of 22 km/s (minimum orbital velocity * 2) has 242 kJ of energy. Smack that into a 30 cm by 30 cm window, say 10 cm thick, and you get an average force of 2.4*10^6 N, or 26,000 kPa (or 3900 psi for our Imperially challenged friends). Now, compare that to onatmosphere of pressure, 101 kPa. Which number is higher?
I think it will clearly implode first. Then, once everything inside has been showered with supersonic flying glass fragments and the window is now open to space, then, yes, the air will rush out.
Either way, it would suck.
No, actually it's just the USA that's that fucked up. When are you guys going to get your heads out of your lawyers asses?
I don't use it much for the intended purposes - I still tend to be terminally late for almost everything.
But, I use my m500 daily. Keeping track of things that pique my interest, ebooks (got over 50 full books on a MMC card, currently struggling through The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon), news (Avantgo), and lots of obscure stuff; I'm also studying for my HAGAR exam - a flight rating for hang glider and paraglider pilots - using Adobe's PDF reader. I even keep my flight log in the PDA - my last flight log was stolen along with my truck and glider; now even if this one gets stolen (or crushed), I'll still have a backup on my computer.
There's some really cool stuff too - Planetarium let me find the moons of Jupiter the other night while checking out the Leonids, and I've got a special program to run diagnostics on my AWD Eagle Talon - it'll even plot engine parameters in realtime so I can see if I've got my boost turned up too high.
I specifically stayed away from the color PDA's because of battery life problems; forget the bloated WinCE devices. Although my PDA has survived several crashes so far, paragliding and otherwise, I'm still thinking about an Ubercase - solar powered and waterproof would be just about perfect.
Yeah, heard about a turbo'd Hayabusa that would wheelie at 120 mph - frightening! Or fun, depending on your point of view!
That's the ticket for me. I can look at germs with a microscope. I can fly to another continent if I really want to. Hell, I can even fly my paraglider any old time the wind is good - how many religions can make you fly?
I haven't seen atoms, but neither has anyone else - however that model makes some accurate predictions that actually work.
There's the key - science makes predictions that are testable, and work. Religious predictions are generally untestable (life after death and whatnot) or don't really work (buddha works in mysterious ways, etc).
So basically, science does stuff that works. Religion does stuff that doesn't work. Therefore, I think religion is full of crap.
Actually, the airlines already stock extra fuel - apparently a lot of these vaporware fuel cells could run fine on vodka.
Well, say 1 Nm at the proximal end - my index finger is (pulls out digital caliper) is about 90 mm from first joint to fingertip, so that's around 1 Nm/(0.09m)= 11.1 N, or about 1.1 kg worth of force (2.5 lbs) at the fingertip, if the finger was kept straight. Not very much, in other words.
His latest paper came out last August - no more spinning superconductors, now he's playing with huge voltages on a fixed superconductor. It sounds interesting; I can't tell you if it's real or not, but maybe Boeing can figure something out. Here's a link to the more recent paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0108005
What's the point? MS is talking about how they're doing all this stuff to guarantee your privacy, but in the same breath they've just violated your privacy by sending you spam.
Of what value is a trustworthy system controlled by a company who is clearly untrustworthy? Not much.
Your air conditioner runs on freon, or perhaps r-22. It's a gas, and it's not so apparent when it springs a leak, it just doesn't work as well (or not at all) anymore.
:) I imagine the tank would burst, just like a beer left in the freezer. Fun!
Cars are mostly watercooled though, and I don't think I've had a car that didn't leak antifreeze at one time or another. They are a bit more complicated though.
That brings up another point - is there antifreeze in this laptop? That'd suck if I left it in the car by accident on one of those -56 deg C days we occasionally get.
But still, water cooling is pretty powerful.
Actually, the differance would be that Microsoft chooses which parts you could instal; regardless of whether or not they were stolen. Most likely they will be looking out for their bottom line, not yours. Sure, it won't run l33t haxor's virus, but it will gladly run Microsoft's viral marketing software, unbeknownst to you.
They're not looking to help you, they're looking to help themselves.
Fast, and expensive. I've done models that were less than 2 inches across that cost $500 usd each. It's good for testing out a plastic design before you commit to a $30,000 steel mold, but not much use for exploring design options. Unless you've got bags of cash, or an SLA machine in your back room. :)
Hey, been reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - and came across some interesting parallels. Apparently, during the reign of Commodus, if a wealthy criminal was accused of a crime, he could buy his innocence, and even go so far as to imprision his accuser, all with cash.
Frightenly similar to things these days, no? At least the good guys are making a little headway...
This is awesome! I've got ProE running on my wintel box right now, and ProE was the 1 thing keeping me from moving to Linux for my work computer; now there's no reason at all for me to be running Windows. Nice.
Well, look at it this way. The Rocky Mountains where I live are made up of limestone. Limestone is the accumulation of decayed shells of organisms, most of em microscopic diatoms - where I live, the layers visible to the naked eye are kilometers deep; I'm sure they extend a lot farther down than the cliff faces I can see. So, if there were enough shells produced in the oceans (which cover 75% of the earth, don't forget) to build mountains kilometers thick, I'm not terribly surprised that there was enough dead organic matter there as well to make a small amount (compared to a mountain) of oil.