I know that they were demonstrating a weapons system, but it just seemed like a really bad hollywood movie where they keep playing the same SFX explosion over and over again because they thought it was cool (plus they don't have any budget for doing something different and they need to fill some dead time)
On the other hand what is really novel about this? They attached a weapons system to a robot and manually drove the robot to the optimum location to fire the weapon. Am I missing something or is this just a slashvertisment targeted at DOD buyers?
The funny thing is that I submitted this partly on the basis of seeing how fast an iStory would be accepted. My previous submissions have always seemed to languish around for a significant amount of time before being accepted or rejected (especially rejected), yet this one was accepted within 12 hours of submission.
Pretty sure I saw that second one on/. I think the main problem is the Slashdot search feature sucks funky monkey balls.
You're right I just found it - under idle. I take it all back, slashdot is wonderful. But I know I tried to search for anything to do with Volvo before submitting and didn't come up with anything. Now I also see how my search failed - epic UI failure IMHO
You know I have no problem with/. rejecting my original submissions.. until you get to things like this dupe which happened within the last week. That really pisses me off.
I remember reading it is like twelve years old. That might not be true, but even if it is, who the fuck is the USA to tell Japan what constitutes child pornography?
If kids can make porn legally in Japan, who's fucking business is it really other than the Japanese?
I don't know if you have noticed this but the US has been known to tell all sorts of sovereign states what they should and shouldn't do on quite a number of topics. Its the type of action that causes all sorts of people to yell and complain about imperialism by the US.
From TFA Apple could reproduce the described serious issue and believes to understand why this can happen but cannot provide timing or further details on the release of a fix.
It's never been a big deal. The big deal at the time was the USA waging an unnecessary war against Irak, not what some people wanted to call their fried bits of potato.
This is getting OT but.... I'm not American but am living in the US. The level of anti-French sentiment at the time was pretty high - renaming food stuffs and pouring wine down drains. But even now I get the feeling that a lot of people in the US still carry anti-French sentiment
If I was French I'd be really insulted by the US for that, especially as they helped them break the yoke of the oppressor and then gave them that statue of the tall lady that hangs out near NYC.
Replying to my own comment.. I just realized that both comments are in the same article. So I'l change my statement to be that there are some elements of journalism that I don't understand.
Except that I get the feeling that the damn ink evaporates before I get a chance to use it. I am not printing very much and I am always having to replace cartridges. At the moment I am doing high speed, grey scale draft printing on most things because one or of the colour inks have gone - although that is probably how I should be printing in general.
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What should have happened was all their experiences on the island transformed and reshaped their real lives in a positive way
Why??? Life is not all ponies and lollipops, so why should you constrain a TV show to fit into such a narrow requirement.
Lost: Seinfield for the [*] generation
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I never watched Lost (or seinfield for that matter - bunch of whinging idiots), but from what I read about Lost, it had ended up being a show about nothing.
[*] - I have no idea what clever adjective should be inserted here. Perhaps someone with actual knowledge of Lost can suggest a valid desciption
Perhaps you'd prefer lengths in Smoots, or cubits?
But seriously, you're free to continue using 19th Centrury units if you want, just don't expect everyone else to put effort into enabling you.
Actually.. I use 18th century units like km, m, cm and mm
Here we are on slashdot.. an American site (as I keep being told) and the summary is correctly using metric units without translating them to Imperial miles for the consumption of the locals [/sarcasm]
What the hell is going on, and who replaced slashdot with this site?
Talk to AT&T about that - in the rest of the world,........
One day the US consumers will wake up and relize that they they do not have the best phone system in the world or even a decent one. However I am pretty sure that the required dose of reality that will bring about such an epiphany is much greater than the FDA approved daily dosage for American citizens
any three-letter-agency without a magic quantum computer stolen from the Greys isn't going to be able to do much about it.
I call you a liar.. CSI is a 3 letter agency and they surely won't need some imaginary computer stolen from some imaginary space peoples in order to recover the photo that the victim took of their attacker just moments before they died.
I think you're exactly right. The invention seems to take a fixed-speed motor and a variable-speed motor of identical power and combine them into a variable-speed motor of identical power.
I noticed the problem with that little "show" - the back side has some things that are being kept hidden. Whats on the back side? Variable speed electric motors that are being used to spin those two shafts.
If you managed to stay awake for the complete video they show the backside of the unit. All it contains is the secondary electric motor which is used to spin the secondary shaft - which is the whole point of the mechanical setup.
Of course you could surmise that the thick plastic mounting blocks are also hiding some exotic battery and motor system that really powers the whole device - but then again he is not offering up perpetual motion, so you don't need to go that far
I doubt the idler shaft requires a lot of energy, and so it shouldn't hurt efficiency that much. The gains you get by using this transmission are probably greater than the losses, assuming you don't let your car idle a lot, which you shouldn't anyway.
Sucks to be in stop and go traffic which is where the highest idler speed is required as opposed to constant speed freeway driving at top gear - where the idler speed is zero.
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I know that they were demonstrating a weapons system, but it just seemed like a really bad hollywood movie where they keep playing the same SFX explosion over and over again because they thought it was cool (plus they don't have any budget for doing something different and they need to fill some dead time)
On the other hand what is really novel about this? They attached a weapons system to a robot and manually drove the robot to the optimum location to fire the weapon. Am I missing something or is this just a slashvertisment targeted at DOD buyers?
seriously enough with the tampon stories.
The funny thing is that I submitted this partly on the basis of seeing how fast an iStory would be accepted. My previous submissions have always seemed to languish around for a significant amount of time before being accepted or rejected (especially rejected), yet this one was accepted within 12 hours of submission.
Pretty sure I saw that second one on /. I think the main problem is the Slashdot search feature sucks funky monkey balls.
You're right I just found it - under idle. I take it all back, slashdot is wonderful. But I know I tried to search for anything to do with Volvo before submitting and didn't come up with anything. Now I also see how my search failed - epic UI failure IMHO
Thin doesn't really matter.
It does once you get out of your mom's basement
You know I have no problem with /. rejecting my original submissions .. until you get to things like this dupe which happened within the last week. That really pisses me off.
Gratuitous rejected submission links
I remember reading it is like twelve years old. That might not be true, but even if it is, who the fuck is the USA to tell Japan what constitutes child pornography?
If kids can make porn legally in Japan, who's fucking business is it really other than the Japanese?
I don't know if you have noticed this but the US has been known to tell all sorts of sovereign states what they should and shouldn't do on quite a number of topics. Its the type of action that causes all sorts of people to yell and complain about imperialism by the US.
From TFA Apple could reproduce the described serious issue and believes to understand why this can happen but cannot provide timing or further details on the release of a fix.
About that other Mach 6 plane that was already developed The Aurora
It's never been a big deal. The big deal at the time was the USA waging an unnecessary war against Irak, not what some people wanted to call their fried bits of potato.
This is getting OT but .... I'm not American but am living in the US. The level of anti-French sentiment at the time was pretty high - renaming food stuffs and pouring wine down drains. But even now I get the feeling that a lot of people in the US still carry anti-French sentiment
Yes... chips are what they call french fries.
Two nations separated by a common language...
You mean "Freedom Fries" don't you?
If I was French I'd be really insulted by the US for that, especially as they helped them break the yoke of the oppressor and then gave them that statue of the tall lady that hangs out near NYC.
at least Natali promised 'No Keanu'.
EXCELLENT!!! *Air Guitar plays in the background*
Wyld Stallyns!!!!!!! totally awesome man!
Replying to my own comment .. I just realized that both comments are in the same article. So I'l change my statement to be that there are some elements of journalism that I don't understand.
from TFA
But even the modern record-holder for size dwindles in comparison to airships back in their heyday, such as the 804-foot (245 m) Hindenberg.
There must be some strange use of the word "largest" that I don't understand
Except that I get the feeling that the damn ink evaporates before I get a chance to use it. I am not printing very much and I am always having to replace cartridges. At the moment I am doing high speed, grey scale draft printing on most things because one or of the colour inks have gone - although that is probably how I should be printing in general.
What should have happened was all their experiences on the island transformed and reshaped their real lives in a positive way
Why??? Life is not all ponies and lollipops, so why should you constrain a TV show to fit into such a narrow requirement.
I never watched Lost (or seinfield for that matter - bunch of whinging idiots), but from what I read about Lost, it had ended up being a show about nothing.
[*] - I have no idea what clever adjective should be inserted here. Perhaps someone with actual knowledge of Lost can suggest a valid desciption
Perhaps you'd prefer lengths in Smoots, or cubits? But seriously, you're free to continue using 19th Centrury units if you want, just don't expect everyone else to put effort into enabling you.
Actually .. I use 18th century units like km, m, cm and mm
Here we are on slashdot .. an American site (as I keep being told) and the summary is correctly using metric units without translating them to Imperial miles for the consumption of the locals [/sarcasm]
What the hell is going on, and who replaced slashdot with this site?
And then realized that there was really no more to the linked article than what was in the summary. Are there any better links?
The Day of the Dolphin Now git off my lawn or patch of seaweed or what ever is appropriate for you to git off
Talk to AT&T about that - in the rest of the world, ........
One day the US consumers will wake up and relize that they they do not have the best phone system in the world or even a decent one. However I am pretty sure that the required dose of reality that will bring about such an epiphany is much greater than the FDA approved daily dosage for American citizens
any three-letter-agency without a magic quantum computer stolen from the Greys isn't going to be able to do much about it.
I call you a liar .. CSI is a 3 letter agency and they surely won't need some imaginary computer stolen from some imaginary space peoples in order to recover the photo that the victim took of their attacker just moments before they died.
I think you're exactly right. The invention seems to take a fixed-speed motor and a variable-speed motor of identical power and combine them into a variable-speed motor of identical power.
However this comment below suggests that I am totally wrong
I noticed the problem with that little "show" - the back side has some things that are being kept hidden. Whats on the back side? Variable speed electric motors that are being used to spin those two shafts.
If you managed to stay awake for the complete video they show the backside of the unit. All it contains is the secondary electric motor which is used to spin the secondary shaft - which is the whole point of the mechanical setup.
Of course you could surmise that the thick plastic mounting blocks are also hiding some exotic battery and motor system that really powers the whole device - but then again he is not offering up perpetual motion, so you don't need to go that far
I doubt the idler shaft requires a lot of energy, and so it shouldn't hurt efficiency that much. The gains you get by using this transmission are probably greater than the losses, assuming you don't let your car idle a lot, which you shouldn't anyway.
Sucks to be in stop and go traffic which is where the highest idler speed is required as opposed to constant speed freeway driving at top gear - where the idler speed is zero.