No, it is better.
"I used the wrong Greek-derived word" is a lot better than "I think that the movement of planets influences my destiny". One denotes ignorance of language, one denotes ignorance of basic scientific principles; give me the first any day.
It works in the sense that Newtonian celestial mechanics work.
They're good enough to land someone on the Moon, but when you need GPS satellites to be accurate, you need Relativity, and to do the extra math.
So let's say that 99% of the time gender is accurately represented by a bit value. The rest of the time you need, say, a byte.
In 2014, would you set up a server or a database that failed 1% of the time to save 7 bits per record?
and their Cellbots project -- I scooped them by around six months, and even offer to share my code with them. What I got was a project manager telling me that I was just a hobbyist and my product didn't exist. What he got was me giving him one of my PCBs to him, then closing his hand around it, and asking him if this doesn't exist why is it causing you pain?
When they started giving out the Google ADK board at Maker Faire 2011, I made the rounds to give my board to people half an hour before... including to the Google guys. If anyone was at the Bay Area Maker Faire, they probably will remember how the Robots Everywhere Antbot worked, and the Google Cellbot sat there victim of wifi overload.
If something's bigger than you, and you want to win, bite the shins and punch the nuts. Only way.
Not really -- the B52 did duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, while most newer planes couldn't because they were too fragile vs. sand or had too short a range. The Iraq war is the reason why the A-10 was not retired, for the same reasons.
The B52 is a case of "it's not broken, so do not fix it". Wish they had used the same logic with Saturn Vs, really.
I couldn't comment on Beta in the proper link because it's down, so I'd like to go offtopic for a moment, and note that the Beta interface is unwieldy and takes longer to load (which makes a difference on 2G/3G tethering). Therefore, I'd like to vote against it. Thank you.
and the bureaucracy for getting reimbursed for anything is crazy enough that sometimes I just take the loss (getting parts from Digikey, etc).
And this is where the money goes?!? I dig doing my little bit to help the space program, but this is frustrating.
He is the best-documented human that ever lived, by his own decision. If they can get something out of his Chronofile, as a proof of concept, then it's interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/t...
I have nothing particularly smart to add, other than, if you want to make free-floating plasma balls, you can do so by lighting a match, blowing on it, and dropping it in the microwave while the carbonized part is still smoldering. Try it. It is safe (although running the microwave for more than half a minute isn't recommended).
OK, if this is the case, why in 2010 when we built an open source Android robot, the folks at Google literally told us that since they were trying to do the same thing, they would try to pretend we didn't exist? (They failed: It is hard to pretend something doesn't exist when it's humiliating you at Maker Faire, or making your hand bleed)
Not a bad idea, except:
* A physical book, once printed, needs no further infrastructure to exist. I can read "Steam Plant Operation" by candlelight after I've been thrown back in time to 1300 with an undead army out for my blood.
* DRM will be implemented in some way, so the ebook readers will depend on an external server, which may go down or be inaccessible for a number of physical or financial reasons.
* It is too easy to retcon books or newspaper articles that way. If I go retrieve an NY Times about Snowden, where he is called a whistleblower, who is to say that six years from now Steven Harper won't be President and mandate retroactive editing "whistleblower" to "traitor"? Stereotypically Orwellian, yes, but a lot easier to implement with ebooks. Start innocuous, say by replacing "nigger" with "zombie" in Huckleberry Finn, and...
The right way to do this? Do everything in pdf or similar format, with the ereaders connected to a local file server and the ability to use the ereader's memory as cache. I doubt they will be doing that.
I spent my adult life trying to make people's life better through technology -- I have saved lives when it wasn't my job to. I got people off destructive drugs and taught them a skill. I did security at planned parenthood and soup kitchen, and helped people stay in school. And yes, I did all this to feed my hero complex. Now someone who is roughly my age gives away less % of his wealth than I have, and it's front page news. Where's my goddamn slashdot article?
www.f3.to
I have an early 2008 17" Macbook Pro that still does everything I need -- just max out the RAM and swap in a SSD, and it will keep up with modern-day work. The battery is still swappable, and batteries can still be bought for cheap. The display is crisp and very bright, which is handy when using it outdoors. Adding a right mouse button to the touchpad is a very simple mod: http://www.instructables.com/id/Adding-a-right-mouse-button-to-a-Macbook/
The whole thing cost around $500, plus half that in two broken laptops for spares.
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It's already unofficially available, look for KASA Asteroids (I helped a tiny bit with the deal!)
No, it is better. "I used the wrong Greek-derived word" is a lot better than "I think that the movement of planets influences my destiny". One denotes ignorance of language, one denotes ignorance of basic scientific principles; give me the first any day.
It works in the sense that Newtonian celestial mechanics work. They're good enough to land someone on the Moon, but when you need GPS satellites to be accurate, you need Relativity, and to do the extra math. So let's say that 99% of the time gender is accurately represented by a bit value. The rest of the time you need, say, a byte. In 2014, would you set up a server or a database that failed 1% of the time to save 7 bits per record?
and their Cellbots project -- I scooped them by around six months, and even offer to share my code with them. What I got was a project manager telling me that I was just a hobbyist and my product didn't exist. What he got was me giving him one of my PCBs to him, then closing his hand around it, and asking him if this doesn't exist why is it causing you pain? When they started giving out the Google ADK board at Maker Faire 2011, I made the rounds to give my board to people half an hour before... including to the Google guys. If anyone was at the Bay Area Maker Faire, they probably will remember how the Robots Everywhere Antbot worked, and the Google Cellbot sat there victim of wifi overload. If something's bigger than you, and you want to win, bite the shins and punch the nuts. Only way.
Thanks, I didn't know that! No mod points today, though. Do you have a link to this I can show some friends?
Not really -- the B52 did duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, while most newer planes couldn't because they were too fragile vs. sand or had too short a range. The Iraq war is the reason why the A-10 was not retired, for the same reasons. The B52 is a case of "it's not broken, so do not fix it". Wish they had used the same logic with Saturn Vs, really.
My main issue is that it takes a lot longer to come in on 2G/3G streaming, and using the various speedup options make the site's layout break.
I couldn't comment on Beta in the proper link because it's down, so I'd like to go offtopic for a moment, and note that the Beta interface is unwieldy and takes longer to load (which makes a difference on 2G/3G tethering). Therefore, I'd like to vote against it. Thank you.
and the bureaucracy for getting reimbursed for anything is crazy enough that sometimes I just take the loss (getting parts from Digikey, etc). And this is where the money goes?!? I dig doing my little bit to help the space program, but this is frustrating.
He is the best-documented human that ever lived, by his own decision. If they can get something out of his Chronofile, as a proof of concept, then it's interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Maybe Lockheed should take a look at this: http://obex.parallax.com/objec... Or ask DYIDrones.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/t... I have nothing particularly smart to add, other than, if you want to make free-floating plasma balls, you can do so by lighting a match, blowing on it, and dropping it in the microwave while the carbonized part is still smoldering. Try it. It is safe (although running the microwave for more than half a minute isn't recommended).
If we each get one and scan it... I'd be game, so would my significant other.
But if they don't drive, then you will have older drivers who are still inexperienced.
Okay, but Dvorak doesn't require installing anything. It exists as part of the OS settings. It even came with windows 98 for crying out loud.
OK, if this is the case, why in 2010 when we built an open source Android robot, the folks at Google literally told us that since they were trying to do the same thing, they would try to pretend we didn't exist? (They failed: It is hard to pretend something doesn't exist when it's humiliating you at Maker Faire, or making your hand bleed)
Not a bad idea, except: * A physical book, once printed, needs no further infrastructure to exist. I can read "Steam Plant Operation" by candlelight after I've been thrown back in time to 1300 with an undead army out for my blood. * DRM will be implemented in some way, so the ebook readers will depend on an external server, which may go down or be inaccessible for a number of physical or financial reasons. * It is too easy to retcon books or newspaper articles that way. If I go retrieve an NY Times about Snowden, where he is called a whistleblower, who is to say that six years from now Steven Harper won't be President and mandate retroactive editing "whistleblower" to "traitor"? Stereotypically Orwellian, yes, but a lot easier to implement with ebooks. Start innocuous, say by replacing "nigger" with "zombie" in Huckleberry Finn, and... The right way to do this? Do everything in pdf or similar format, with the ereaders connected to a local file server and the ability to use the ereader's memory as cache. I doubt they will be doing that.
And then do what, go to the police? What'll they do? Put it on youtube? Who'll see it?
I spent my adult life trying to make people's life better through technology -- I have saved lives when it wasn't my job to. I got people off destructive drugs and taught them a skill. I did security at planned parenthood and soup kitchen, and helped people stay in school. And yes, I did all this to feed my hero complex. Now someone who is roughly my age gives away less % of his wealth than I have, and it's front page news. Where's my goddamn slashdot article? www.f3.to
I have an early 2008 17" Macbook Pro that still does everything I need -- just max out the RAM and swap in a SSD, and it will keep up with modern-day work. The battery is still swappable, and batteries can still be bought for cheap. The display is crisp and very bright, which is handy when using it outdoors. Adding a right mouse button to the touchpad is a very simple mod: http://www.instructables.com/id/Adding-a-right-mouse-button-to-a-Macbook/ The whole thing cost around $500, plus half that in two broken laptops for spares.
Yes, we ship worldwide. We make everything either in the US or in Italy.
I listen politely, then try to sell them my products ( www.f3.to if you want to take a look). I actually sold an Antbot this way once. It does work.
How did they delete them from archive.org? Did they hack it?
AIG and all those people "bet" that the government would rescue them if they messed up too badly.... which it did.