First of all that is entirely hackable. How many movies have we seen where someone brakes into a building by switching video feed of a security camera?
Beyond that, I can't imagine this being cheap. It would take more than a $25 web cam to generate quality enough images, then substantial bandwidth to send that much video data back home. And if you're talking about tens of thousands of students, that's a LOT of bandwidth.
And an official network stack that actually worked. (And real multi-user capability)
No, I don't even want a multi-user environment. I think that is seriously over rated. I am the only one who uses my computer. Why do I need all the that extra load on my system? And I bet more than 90% of computers in the world only have one user. Or are used as a single user by multiple people.
And at that same time there were Apple bigots who raved about the power of... was it system 7 at that time? And someone else makes an OS for the hardware they already own that completely dominates their operating system in every single way. Most of them weren't even aware of the power they were missing out on.
I'd still take BeOS over OS X, if there were any decent apps for it, and current development.
The Portland International Airport's short term parking garage has overhead signs that tell you, at each turn, how many empty spaces there are on that row. Then above each spot is a red or green light. You can see the status of every space immediately when you turn on to the row. Very handy.
As far as hacking the sensors goes, we (society) have been using metal detectors to trip traffic lights for years, and an electric eye could check for size. It would require a large metal object to mark the space occupied. Then, the meter would require payment for the space. If it isn't paid for the meter maid shows up to discover a non-vehicle that isn't being paid for and removes it. The next vehicle to show up gets flagged in a database. If the same vehicle gets flagged repeatedly for showing up after a 'hacked' meter you send in the investigators.
As well, we once we start distancing ourselves from the middle east and their oil, they wont be pleased. We do not have the coordination, drive, or will-power to start a massive reorganization of what the united states runs on.
The price is also very good. At $99 for the base model it is cheap enough that you can pick one up just to play around with.
For most of the world, $100 is not something you can just spend on a whim. Then again, it might be for the people who buy iRobot products in the first place.
But if you own a house with gutters that need cleaning, you likely have more disposable income as well. Or you've gotten yourself into bigger trouble than needing your gutters cleaned.
My point precisely. Now how do (or perhaps, 'should') the intelligent members of our society tell the Fox News viewers that they are being delivered CRAP because the network thinks that's all their viewers are capable of comprehending?
Please warn us when linking to Fox News. Jesus those people are dumb.
It's not that THEY'RE dumb (which they are so very dumb) but rather they feel the need to dumb down everything for their audience.
I want to punch that Fox man in the face. And I feel so bad for Ken Christiansen (sp?). It seemed apparent he was not prepared to deal with such a moron.
I've sys admin'd for over a decade and can say that I've never intentionally spied on a colleague. However! I have stumbled onto quite a lot of unusual and interesting things. Some of these things I chose to ignore, some I reported, and some I think might have even been planted for me to find.
Also, I was never asked to spy on a colleague by an employer. Basically the rule was, as long as you're getting your job done and you're not breaking any laws or offending any coworkers, why should we stop you from doing as you please?
China? HA HA! Microsoft? BUHAH HA HAAA! China and Microsoft. This is seriously funny.
On a slightly more serious note, I think the people attacking Microsoft's "monopoly" position are out of line. Not only are there alternatives, like OS X, but there are FREE alternatives that clearly produce similar results, like the many flavors of Linux including Ubuntu. Furthermore, Microsoft products don't force you to use more Microsoft products, it's just generally more efficient if you do. But that's the case with any market, even kitchen appliances, car parts, and oral hygiene to name a few.
If everyone would just leave Microsoft alone they'll likely destroy themselves - look at Vista.
That really doesn't look like much fun. It looks awkward and uncomfortable. Alternate input devices should be more than just alternate, they should bring something to the experience. I'd rather just hit the left / right arrow keys.
It's pretty common for people to complain about what's being done, but pretty rare that anyone makes a valid suggestion as an alternative. And I find it even more frustrating that in the geek community people are quick to claim that any measures taken to restrict or alter computer activities can and will be circumvented.
I think what you're looking for is something like the Drobo, but like me you would prefer it were a rack mountable 14+ drive enclosure. More like a cross between the Drobo and perhaps an Apple / Promise RAID unit.
Play around with the Drobo configurator on their website - it's interesting. Seems like four drives really don't open up the usefulness of their system. I'm sure the more drives there are the more effective it would be.
First off it's a concept vehicle. The point is to try new things, good or bad, to see how it works.
Moving forward, the skin of this car is almost purely for aerodynamic effect. There is a certain amount of visual additive, and it keeps the wind and dirt off the occupants. In reference to other mechanical value, there are plenty of cars which have no skin at all and are faster than pretty much any other production road going vehicle. Ariel's Atom, to name one. Cars don't need skins. Hell, look at motorcycles. The passengers aren't even contained in the vehicle!
I think it's an awesome idea. Of course, my current roadster is paint chipped all to hell and being able to replace body panels of fabric would be rather appealing, but think about washing your car. Strip it down like bed sheets and throw the skin in the washing machine. Want a new paint job? Maybe a thousand dollars of fabric, or perhaps even just a dye job. You could change your car's color in a matter of minutes.
That brings up a really interesting point. How do the police identify cars? Color and shape? Well those two are irrelevant with this vehicle. You can change the shape while you're moving and theoretically the color in about 10 minutes, I figure. It goes into a parking garage as a red roadster and comes out as a green pickup truck.
Most importantly, and realistically, I'm sure the weight savings are impressive. And saving weight improves performance both in the go fast and the save fuel sense of the term. Imagine this combined with the Tesla Roadster. Shazam!
so aerodynamics plays a lot less of a part then simply not mashing the gas pedal to the floor when taking off from every red light in town. And really, this is the single largest killer of fuel economy. People who drive like ass hats. Just after I made my post earlier I drove my big stinking gas guzzling 4 door Jeep Wrangler at probably less than 14 mpg to the dentist and back. While coasting up a hill approaching a red light (with no cars in my lane) I was passed by a pickup truck that was accelerating in its lane full of stationary cars. W-T-F!? At that moment I was making 100+ mpg and no wear on my brakes. But the truck was burning at probably less than 10 mpg and preparing to light up the brakes as well. Not to mention the additional wear on the tires.
Ass hats.
Oh, and because I was pleasantly coasting along, when I was withing 30 - 40 yards of the light it changed green and I stuck it in third and moseyed on my way, but the truck had come to a complete stop and had to start in first again. MOMENTUM is a powerful thing.
Kudos to you for maintaining efficiency in your truck. I acknowledge your sarcasm, but I also must say it's no miracle you get upwards of 20 mpg. It's just that you use your brain (:
People are still buying SUVs, and really, I still prefer the idea of an SUV than a minivan or station wagon to try and haul people/stuff around. Maybe I'd feel different if I had a few children to get in and out, but I don't see the SUV going away anytime soon. Plus why not just make a lighter SUV? I'd say far fewer people are buying them since all of the major manufacturers have dramatically reduced production, though they haven't stopped.
So what is it, for you personally, that makes the SUV more appealing than a sport wagon? Or minivan? I find the Honda Odyssey and the Subaru Outback to be better than most SUVs I've been in, and driven. SUVs tend to be cludgy and difficult to opperate, where sport wagons are nimble and still have significant space. And vans have dramatically more capacity than SUVs but with lower (un)loading levels and sliding doors that can open wider and in tighter spaces.
The only purpose I see for SUVs are their ability to drive offroad, and most of them never do that. And most sport wagons can go more places than most SUVs are taken.
All that said, I own a 4 door Wrangler, but at least I've gotten the thing dirty, and I use it to haul my dogs around. I would not be able to take an Odyssey where I DO take my Jeep, and I would not be able to put my dogs in their crates in the back end of an Outback. But I have friends who own large SUVs instead of minivans and the dirtiest those vehicles get is spilled Cheerios in the third row seat and baby vomit in the middle. If you're going to buy an SUV at least occationally use it for what it was built for.
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People slandering each other on the internet! What is the world coming too!
First of all that is entirely hackable. How many movies have we seen where someone brakes into a building by switching video feed of a security camera?
Beyond that, I can't imagine this being cheap. It would take more than a $25 web cam to generate quality enough images, then substantial bandwidth to send that much video data back home. And if you're talking about tens of thousands of students, that's a LOT of bandwidth.
.. people [/] could really benefit from having to be more involved in the production and usage of the energy they consume.
Every time I read that it becomes more profound.
Call me old-fashioned, but I think parents should try to raise their kids to, you know, not be a colossal fuckup.
~Philly
Ah, you old fuddy duddy. Get back in your rocker and watch CSPAN. This is our world now. ;)
And an official network stack that actually worked. (And real multi-user capability)
No, I don't even want a multi-user environment. I think that is seriously over rated. I am the only one who uses my computer. Why do I need all the that extra load on my system? And I bet more than 90% of computers in the world only have one user. Or are used as a single user by multiple people.
I've found hibernation to be good on all modern OSes, and quick as well. Oddly enough, the less RAM the system has, the quicker it starts up ;)
And at that same time there were Apple bigots who raved about the power of ... was it system 7 at that time? And someone else makes an OS for the hardware they already own that completely dominates their operating system in every single way. Most of them weren't even aware of the power they were missing out on.
I'd still take BeOS over OS X, if there were any decent apps for it, and current development.
The Portland International Airport's short term parking garage has overhead signs that tell you, at each turn, how many empty spaces there are on that row. Then above each spot is a red or green light. You can see the status of every space immediately when you turn on to the row. Very handy.
As far as hacking the sensors goes, we (society) have been using metal detectors to trip traffic lights for years, and an electric eye could check for size. It would require a large metal object to mark the space occupied. Then, the meter would require payment for the space. If it isn't paid for the meter maid shows up to discover a non-vehicle that isn't being paid for and removes it. The next vehicle to show up gets flagged in a database. If the same vehicle gets flagged repeatedly for showing up after a 'hacked' meter you send in the investigators.
As well, we once we start distancing ourselves from the middle east and their oil, they wont be pleased. We do not have the coordination, drive, or will-power to start a massive reorganization of what the united states runs on.
Apparently we run on doubt and a weak backbone.
It's really simple. Build windmill farms. Build solar collecting power plants. Build the variety of hydro electric generators.
Run everything from electricity including water heaters, building heaters, and cars.
Stop sending money to the other side of the world.
The huge boom in internet video has led to doomsday scenarios of the internet running out of capacity.
So ... run QoS on the routers on each end?
Who would have thought an anonymous submission would be not entirely accurate.
For most of the world, $100 is not something you can just spend on a whim. Then again, it might be for the people who buy iRobot products in the first place.
But if you own a house with gutters that need cleaning, you likely have more disposable income as well. Or you've gotten yourself into bigger trouble than needing your gutters cleaned.
My point precisely. Now how do (or perhaps, 'should') the intelligent members of our society tell the Fox News viewers that they are being delivered CRAP because the network thinks that's all their viewers are capable of comprehending?
Please warn us when linking to Fox News. Jesus those people are dumb.
It's not that THEY'RE dumb (which they are so very dumb) but rather they feel the need to dumb down everything for their audience.
I want to punch that Fox man in the face. And I feel so bad for Ken Christiansen (sp?). It seemed apparent he was not prepared to deal with such a moron.
I've sys admin'd for over a decade and can say that I've never intentionally spied on a colleague. However! I have stumbled onto quite a lot of unusual and interesting things. Some of these things I chose to ignore, some I reported, and some I think might have even been planted for me to find.
Also, I was never asked to spy on a colleague by an employer. Basically the rule was, as long as you're getting your job done and you're not breaking any laws or offending any coworkers, why should we stop you from doing as you please?
China? HA HA! Microsoft? BUHAH HA HAAA! China and Microsoft. This is seriously funny.
On a slightly more serious note, I think the people attacking Microsoft's "monopoly" position are out of line. Not only are there alternatives, like OS X, but there are FREE alternatives that clearly produce similar results, like the many flavors of Linux including Ubuntu. Furthermore, Microsoft products don't force you to use more Microsoft products, it's just generally more efficient if you do. But that's the case with any market, even kitchen appliances, car parts, and oral hygiene to name a few.
If everyone would just leave Microsoft alone they'll likely destroy themselves - look at Vista.
That really doesn't look like much fun. It looks awkward and uncomfortable. Alternate input devices should be more than just alternate, they should bring something to the experience. I'd rather just hit the left / right arrow keys.
It's pretty common for people to complain about what's being done, but pretty rare that anyone makes a valid suggestion as an alternative. And I find it even more frustrating that in the geek community people are quick to claim that any measures taken to restrict or alter computer activities can and will be circumvented.
I seem to remember a certain revolutionary war where blue seemed to fair a bit better than red.
I think what you're looking for is something like the Drobo, but like me you would prefer it were a rack mountable 14+ drive enclosure. More like a cross between the Drobo and perhaps an Apple / Promise RAID unit.
Play around with the Drobo configurator on their website - it's interesting. Seems like four drives really don't open up the usefulness of their system. I'm sure the more drives there are the more effective it would be.
Just blanket the whole thing in foam. It will keep it on the ground, or send it to the ground and act as a cushion to the impact.
First off it's a concept vehicle. The point is to try new things, good or bad, to see how it works.
Moving forward, the skin of this car is almost purely for aerodynamic effect. There is a certain amount of visual additive, and it keeps the wind and dirt off the occupants. In reference to other mechanical value, there are plenty of cars which have no skin at all and are faster than pretty much any other production road going vehicle. Ariel's Atom, to name one. Cars don't need skins. Hell, look at motorcycles. The passengers aren't even contained in the vehicle!
I think it's an awesome idea. Of course, my current roadster is paint chipped all to hell and being able to replace body panels of fabric would be rather appealing, but think about washing your car. Strip it down like bed sheets and throw the skin in the washing machine. Want a new paint job? Maybe a thousand dollars of fabric, or perhaps even just a dye job. You could change your car's color in a matter of minutes.
That brings up a really interesting point. How do the police identify cars? Color and shape? Well those two are irrelevant with this vehicle. You can change the shape while you're moving and theoretically the color in about 10 minutes, I figure. It goes into a parking garage as a red roadster and comes out as a green pickup truck.
Most importantly, and realistically, I'm sure the weight savings are impressive. And saving weight improves performance both in the go fast and the save fuel sense of the term. Imagine this combined with the Tesla Roadster. Shazam!
Ass hats.
Oh, and because I was pleasantly coasting along, when I was withing 30 - 40 yards of the light it changed green and I stuck it in third and moseyed on my way, but the truck had come to a complete stop and had to start in first again. MOMENTUM is a powerful thing.
Kudos to you for maintaining efficiency in your truck. I acknowledge your sarcasm, but I also must say it's no miracle you get upwards of 20 mpg. It's just that you use your brain (:
So what is it, for you personally, that makes the SUV more appealing than a sport wagon? Or minivan? I find the Honda Odyssey and the Subaru Outback to be better than most SUVs I've been in, and driven. SUVs tend to be cludgy and difficult to opperate, where sport wagons are nimble and still have significant space. And vans have dramatically more capacity than SUVs but with lower (un)loading levels and sliding doors that can open wider and in tighter spaces.
The only purpose I see for SUVs are their ability to drive offroad, and most of them never do that. And most sport wagons can go more places than most SUVs are taken.
All that said, I own a 4 door Wrangler, but at least I've gotten the thing dirty, and I use it to haul my dogs around. I would not be able to take an Odyssey where I DO take my Jeep, and I would not be able to put my dogs in their crates in the back end of an Outback. But I have friends who own large SUVs instead of minivans and the dirtiest those vehicles get is spilled Cheerios in the third row seat and baby vomit in the middle. If you're going to buy an SUV at least occationally use it for what it was built for.