"Sure, there is always a concern of piracy; there's always the concern of people illegally transferring things. But we feel the best way to combat that is by giving people a legitimate alternative, and this is a test to make that alternative available to them," Grady said.
He says it right there. They want to try what we've been bitching for. Let's all drop a buck and support this kind of behavior. (She's not half bad, btw)
My grandma always told me you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. If this is what we want, then we should support it. end of story. Time to vote with your wallet, even if for the purposes of this experiment, you've never heard of the lady.
So maybe this isn't directly aplicable to blackmail activities, but the courts have held that any information percieved emanating from a house is inadmissiable if it requires the aid of a machine to detect. IE, if a human or dog police officer smells drugs wafting out of your house, thats admissable in court.
If an officer points and infrared camera at your house and detects large quantities of heat coming from your attic, in such a manner that suggests you've growing weed there, and starts an investigation- well, that crosses the line into unreasonable search.
"Explanation: Many people have heard a sonic boom, but few have seen one. When an airplane travels at a speed faster than sound, density waves of sound emitted by the plane cannot precede the plane, and so accumulate in a cone behind the plane. When this shock wave passes, a listener hears all at once the sound emitted over a longer period: a sonic boom. As a plane accelerates to just break the sound barrier, however, an unusual cloud might form. The origin of this cloud is still debated. A leading theory is that a drop in air pressure at the plane described by the Prandtl-Glauert Singularity occurs so that moist air condenses there to form water droplets. Above, an F/A-18 Hornet was photographed just as it broke the sound barrier. Large meteors and the space shuttle frequently produce audible sonic booms before they are slowed below sound speed by the Earth's atmosphere."
So why does a bullet make less noise? well, if a sonic boom is the release of built up acoustic energy, then the bullet has two sources of noise to contribute to this: the explosive discharge, and the noise caused by displacing air along it's path.
A jet, on the other hand, has two different sources of noise to build up and then release: A huge, noisy jet engine, and a far greater surface area for air to move over, causing a much louder rumble. This basically means that there is far more energy to turn into a 'boom' than a bullet has. Bigger bullets have a larger explosive charge, and a greater surface area to build up noise to be released on a sonic boom.
So, to state the obvious, a large object creates a large sonic boom, and a small object creates a small sonic boom.
I have to second this comment. Moreover, the point is that filmakers need to be very careful about the application of CG, and to make sure it's ultra-high quality. I also have to disagree about the original poster's comment about the titanic movie- I think they used CG very tastefully, and as a compliment to models and other more traditional methods.
I guess the point is, in SW episode one, and the remakes of the originals, Lucas was doing a lot of the CG stuff from a "Gee-whiz, look what I can do" Where as in Terminator 2 and Titanic, the CG was used to supplement other methods of trickery, and whose purpose was to advance the story, not to show off ILM.
"They love it because it takes the cash out of the hands of 18-year-old clerks," Nickerson said.
Okay, I'm all for new conviences, but I think this is quite a bit unfair. I ran a cash register for Marshall's starting when I was 16, and ending when I was 19. My highest drawer variance was 13 cents, and the most expensive thing i took home was a pen from a register.
During my time there, 13 people where fired for dishonesty, and there was no trend in the age- people of all generations got canned for theft, including a 63 year old lady.
Really, I'm 23 now, but is there that much a problem with the youth being dishonest nowadays, moreso then anyone else? Please, do tell me.
Yeah, you're a genius.You're probably still in high school, aren't you? You ignore the fact that 12.5 MPH is the top speed, not the only speed, and your omission of this simple observation negates the rest of your post. In crowded conditions most likely prone to collisions, you cannot go 12.5 MPH, or anywhere close. You're probably going to be going walking speed, in fact. Which makes me wonder why you wouldn't just walk, but thats another topic.
Also, the 75 lbs of luggage only applies to the post office version, not the one morons like you will be riding around the street, assuming McDonalds pays enough for you to buy one after paying your mom rent.
But if you reallly wanted to get techincal about impacts, then you'd want to concern yourself with the kinetic energy a loaded segway has at 12.5 mph, which you alluded to, but mistakenly called "force". Force, if you remember from high school physics, is mass times acceleration. It's relation to velocity is tangental, in that it takes force applied on a mass over time to reach any kind of velocity.
For a constant 12.5 MPH, the force produced by the segway is negligible, only enough to counteract the friction and wind resistance.
Now, the kinetic energy you alluded to- you seem unable to calculate it, so let me do it for you: 2.71 BTU's, or in SI, 2868 Joules. (405 lbs at 12.5 MPH) You would have to absorb this much energy to bring the fully loaded industrial segway to a stop. You could do this any number of ways, but let's assume the energy is used to knock you flat on your ass.
Certainly its enough to knock the wind out of you, but it probably wouldn't hurt you. Most people running or riding bicycles don't run into people, I assume seqway users would have the same kind of common sense. Though they should aim for you.
I agree with you, in that I'd much rather ride a bike, because it's faster, can go over much worse terrain, and is a great way to get in shape. The rest of my comment stands, however.
As you can vary the speed of a bike, you can vary the speed of a segway. and a segway is alot more manuvarable than a bike, and doesn't have the minimum speed problem a bike does (I can ride as slow as most people walk, but not terribly stable).
Yes, getting hit by a fat guy, or someone on a bike, at 14 MPH would hurt. Most of the time, though, you don't get hit by people and bikes at 14 MPH, because the person/rider uses their judgement and limits their speed in crowded or uncertain situations.
I'm a Mech-E student at the University of New Hampshire, just 40 minutes from Segway's and DEKA's headquarters, and we just had a demo here the other day by some of the engineers who work on it.
I must say, I was impressed.
First, if you're riding a segway at it's top speed of about 14 MPH, you can stop in about 15 feet- a runner going that fast takes about 20 feet to stop.
Second, the junior engineer there, a year out of UNH, made a point of running over the senior engineers toes many times. No injury, he was walking around fine.
Third, he also made a point of running into the senior engineer a number of times. Getting hit by one of those things is no worse then getting hit by someone who weighs 75 pounds more then you do.
It turns on a dime, stops and starts quick, is highly manuevarable, and very easy to use- they let a couple of my proffessors check it out. I wouldn't have any problem sharing a sidewalk with it. It has a number of stopping, size, and manuvering advantages over roller skates and bicycles, wich aren't allowed on most sidewalks.
That being said, it looks like an amusing toy with some very good aplications, but I don't think it's going to revolutionize transportation outside of a few circles.
They have a great paint program that's maybe one version behind photoshop, for a fraction of the price. They let you download a fully functional (for 60 days) evaluation version of their software. I used their paint shop pro for the full 60 days for incidental work i had to do- and when the day came I really needed Photo software, I found the evaluation had expired.
I'm sure I could have found a hack, but by that time I had decided it was worth the money, so I went down to staples and bought the well-documented retail box version. Had they implented any "features" along the way that had interefered with a good, long eval period, I probably would have looked elsewhere.
SO here's jascs formula: 1. Make good software. 2. Make a fully featured but Generously time limited evaluation version available for No-Hassle download. 3. Wait and get the money from hooked & happy customers.
By the way, the boxed set was cheaper to buy at $80 (Staples) than to download from Jasc ($99) or order from jasc ($109)
"There is no chance to sue them in the U.S. You are really allowed to put anything on the Internet there," Schreyer said.
This is from the country that prides itself in producing- and hosting on the internet- videos of people shitting on each other?
I think they're the ones with problems about what their citizenry puts on the internet. Sure, shit videos are protected speech here, but 99% of our porn is just licking, sucking, and fucking.
Maybe thats what happens when you repress free speech like Germany does, cause it might hurt someone's feelings- you get shit videos.
Blah, give me railroad destruction instructions any day.
Especially when you can say- 'yeah, I bought this CD-ROM drive on one side of your store, and this CD on the other side of your store. They don't work together, so you have to take one of them back.'
I think any manager with half a wit would take the CD back, instead of facing a cd-rom drive being bought and returned numerous times. just a thought.
Is the director of "Blade" making it 'more accessible.'
Pardon me, but Blade was an entertaining but pointless and trite movie. It was not something to be considered an artistic acheivement, in terms of films.
And this guy is going to remake Akira? Right. It'll be shiny, and ready for the lowest common denominator audience, I'll give him that. But He'll probably toss out everything that seperates "Akira" from a well drawn saturday morning cartoon.
I'm sure your job pisses someone off. Keep that in mind.
Telemarketers get more than enough positive answers to make the activity profitable, so even if it pisses you off, the next person is just waiting for a call about our wonderful point-back credit card, or whatever it is.
The means and the end of behaving civily are the same. If you take 30 seconds to be polite and ask to be put on the do not call list, YOU WILL ULTIMATELY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF INTERUPTS in your 'pleasent evening.'
If you enjoy being an ass to a complete stranger more than you enjoy an uninterupted plesant evening, by all means, go ahead with your infantile behavoir. Otherwise, behave like an adult, and you'll curtail the calls you get.
If you participate in that kind of infantile behavoir, telemarketers will put you down as 'not home' and you'll be called again and again and again until you bother to act like an adult.
Okay, I've been a telemarketer, and let me tell you that the job sucked enough as it was, without clowns like you thinking they where being cute by attempting to screw with us. (There where plenty of people who tried to screw with us, by the way, so the telemarketer you talk to has probably heard it all already.)
Look, for a while, working as a telemarketer paid the bills pretty well, compared to other jobs you can get as an undergrad student. If you don't want telemarketing calls, just ask to be put on the company's do not call list, which every company must have by law. And be nice to the HUMAN on the other side of the phone. They're just trying to make a living.
I wouldn't be suprised if they did. They're in the same business, and have the same concerns- Moreover, they have far more vast resources to fight any such request, without help from the ACLU or any bookseller's association.
Their fax machine is screwed now. There's sure to be a decade long queue on Digital Consumer's side, and I wouldn't want to see the paper mess on the senators side.
Slashdot causes a fire hazard! Interns drown in a flood of faxes! News at 11.
The Adobe PDF format seems to be widely accepted by the legal community- many of the rulings that have been posted on slashdot were available in only.pdf format.
Considering that adobe offers a free PDF reader for every relevant operating system- including linux- your point is moot. No purchase is required, anyone with the connection to receive email can download a reader
How do these things interact with sea life? Often, various species of fish and invertabrate type creates cling to relatively stationary type things in the ocean- often intentional, such as when an obsolete ship is sunk for an artificial reef.
So if sea life starts to make a home out of these things, will it interfere with their operation? I could probably figure it out from their PDF's but I've left work and my brain has shut down for the day.
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That being that Natalie Portman may be being inserted into Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
If I where lucas, I'd do any kind of inserting with Portman that she'd let me.
"Sure, there is always a concern of piracy; there's always the concern of people illegally transferring things. But we feel the best way to combat that is by giving people a legitimate alternative, and this is a test to make that alternative available to them," Grady said.
He says it right there. They want to try what we've been bitching for. Let's all drop a buck and support this kind of behavior. (She's not half bad, btw)
My grandma always told me you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. If this is what we want, then we should support it. end of story. Time to vote with your wallet, even if for the purposes of this experiment, you've never heard of the lady.
I'm buying my copy. Are you?
Cellphone Jammers are illegal, true.... but Faraday Cages are not.... something to think about in the future construction of theaters.
So maybe this isn't directly aplicable to blackmail activities, but the courts have held that any information percieved emanating from a house is inadmissiable if it requires the aid of a machine to detect. IE, if a human or dog police officer smells drugs wafting out of your house, thats admissable in court.
If an officer points and infrared camera at your house and detects large quantities of heat coming from your attic, in such a manner that suggests you've growing weed there, and starts an investigation- well, that crosses the line into unreasonable search.
from http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010221.html
(Go to the page to see a sonic boom)
"Explanation: Many people have heard a sonic boom, but few have seen one. When an airplane travels at a speed faster than sound, density waves of sound emitted by the plane cannot precede the plane, and so accumulate in a cone behind the plane. When this shock wave passes, a listener hears all at once the sound emitted over a longer period: a sonic boom. As a plane accelerates to just break the sound barrier, however, an unusual cloud might form. The origin of this cloud is still debated. A leading theory is that a drop in air pressure at the plane described by the Prandtl-Glauert Singularity occurs so that moist air condenses there to form water droplets. Above, an F/A-18 Hornet was photographed just as it broke the sound barrier. Large meteors and the space shuttle frequently produce audible sonic booms before they are slowed below sound speed by the Earth's atmosphere."
So why does a bullet make less noise? well, if a sonic boom is the release of built up acoustic energy, then the bullet has two sources of noise to contribute to this: the explosive discharge, and the noise caused by displacing air along it's path.
A jet, on the other hand, has two different sources of noise to build up and then release: A huge, noisy jet engine, and a far greater surface area for air to move over, causing a much louder rumble. This basically means that there is far more energy to turn into a 'boom' than a bullet has. Bigger bullets have a larger explosive charge, and a greater surface area to build up noise to be released on a sonic boom.
So, to state the obvious, a large object creates a large sonic boom, and a small object creates a small sonic boom.
I have to second this comment. Moreover, the point is that filmakers need to be very careful about the application of CG, and to make sure it's ultra-high quality. I also have to disagree about the original poster's comment about the titanic movie- I think they used CG very tastefully, and as a compliment to models and other more traditional methods.
I guess the point is, in SW episode one, and the remakes of the originals, Lucas was doing a lot of the CG stuff from a "Gee-whiz, look what I can do" Where as in Terminator 2 and Titanic, the CG was used to supplement other methods of trickery, and whose purpose was to advance the story, not to show off ILM.
"They love it because it takes the cash out of the hands of 18-year-old clerks," Nickerson said.
Okay, I'm all for new conviences, but I think this is quite a bit unfair. I ran a cash register for Marshall's starting when I was 16, and ending when I was 19. My highest drawer variance was 13 cents, and the most expensive thing i took home was a pen from a register.
During my time there, 13 people where fired for dishonesty, and there was no trend in the age- people of all generations got canned for theft, including a 63 year old lady.
Really, I'm 23 now, but is there that much a problem with the youth being dishonest nowadays, moreso then anyone else? Please, do tell me.
Yeah, you're a genius.You're probably still in high school, aren't you? You ignore the fact that 12.5 MPH is the top speed, not the only speed, and your omission of this simple observation negates the rest of your post. In crowded conditions most likely prone to collisions, you cannot go 12.5 MPH, or anywhere close. You're probably going to be going walking speed, in fact. Which makes me wonder why you wouldn't just walk, but thats another topic.
Also, the 75 lbs of luggage only applies to the post office version, not the one morons like you will be riding around the street, assuming McDonalds pays enough for you to buy one after paying your mom rent.
But if you reallly wanted to get techincal about impacts, then you'd want to concern yourself with the kinetic energy a loaded segway has at 12.5 mph, which you alluded to, but mistakenly called "force". Force, if you remember from high school physics, is mass times acceleration. It's relation to velocity is tangental, in that it takes force applied on a mass over time to reach any kind of velocity.
For a constant 12.5 MPH, the force produced by the segway is negligible, only enough to counteract the friction and wind resistance.
Now, the kinetic energy you alluded to- you seem unable to calculate it, so let me do it for you: 2.71 BTU's, or in SI, 2868 Joules. (405 lbs at 12.5 MPH) You would have to absorb this much energy to bring the fully loaded industrial segway to a stop. You could do this any number of ways, but let's assume the energy is used to knock you flat on your ass.
Certainly its enough to knock the wind out of you, but it probably wouldn't hurt you. Most people running or riding bicycles don't run into people, I assume seqway users would have the same kind of common sense. Though they should aim for you.
I agree with you, in that I'd much rather ride a bike, because it's faster, can go over much worse terrain, and is a great way to get in shape. The rest of my comment stands, however.
As you can vary the speed of a bike, you can vary the speed of a segway. and a segway is alot more manuvarable than a bike, and doesn't have the minimum speed problem a bike does (I can ride as slow as most people walk, but not terribly stable).
Yes, getting hit by a fat guy, or someone on a bike, at 14 MPH would hurt. Most of the time, though, you don't get hit by people and bikes at 14 MPH, because the person/rider uses their judgement and limits their speed in crowded or uncertain situations.
Actually, in DEKA's and Segways Testing labs, they've done just that. and plenty of other things, too.
I'm a Mech-E student at the University of New Hampshire, just 40 minutes from Segway's and DEKA's headquarters, and we just had a demo here the other day by some of the engineers who work on it.
I must say, I was impressed.
First, if you're riding a segway at it's top speed of about 14 MPH, you can stop in about 15 feet- a runner going that fast takes about 20 feet to stop.
Second, the junior engineer there, a year out of UNH, made a point of running over the senior engineers toes many times. No injury, he was walking around fine.
Third, he also made a point of running into the senior engineer a number of times. Getting hit by one of those things is no worse then getting hit by someone who weighs 75 pounds more then you do.
It turns on a dime, stops and starts quick, is highly manuevarable, and very easy to use- they let a couple of my proffessors check it out. I wouldn't have any problem sharing a sidewalk with it. It has a number of stopping, size, and manuvering advantages over roller skates and bicycles, wich aren't allowed on most sidewalks.
That being said, it looks like an amusing toy with some very good aplications, but I don't think it's going to revolutionize transportation outside of a few circles.
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This guy, with a PB&J fetish. (.swf file)
They have a great paint program that's maybe one version behind photoshop, for a fraction of the price. They let you download a fully functional (for 60 days) evaluation version of their software.
I used their paint shop pro for the full 60 days for incidental work i had to do- and when the day came I really needed Photo software, I found the evaluation had expired.
I'm sure I could have found a hack, but by that time I had decided it was worth the money, so I went down to staples and bought the well-documented retail box version. Had they implented any "features" along the way that had interefered with a good, long eval period, I probably would have looked elsewhere.
SO here's jascs formula:
1. Make good software.
2. Make a fully featured but Generously time limited evaluation version available for No-Hassle download.
3. Wait and get the money from hooked & happy customers.
By the way, the boxed set was cheaper to buy at $80 (Staples) than to download from Jasc ($99) or order from jasc ($109)
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Spanish language listing, but you can figure out what "Galeria de teens" translates to.
"There is no chance to sue them in the U.S. You are really allowed to put anything on the Internet there," Schreyer said.
This is from the country that prides itself in producing- and hosting on the internet- videos of people shitting on each other?
I think they're the ones with problems about what their citizenry puts on the internet. Sure, shit videos are protected speech here, but 99% of our porn is just licking, sucking, and fucking.
Maybe thats what happens when you repress free speech like Germany does, cause it might hurt someone's feelings- you get shit videos.
Blah, give me railroad destruction instructions any day.
Especially when you can say- 'yeah, I bought this CD-ROM drive on one side of your store, and this CD on the other side of your store.
They don't work together, so you have to take one of them back.'
I think any manager with half a wit would take the CD back, instead of facing a cd-rom drive being bought and returned numerous times. just a thought.
Is the director of "Blade" making it 'more accessible.'
Pardon me, but Blade was an entertaining but pointless and trite movie. It was not something to be considered an artistic acheivement, in terms of films.
And this guy is going to remake Akira?
Right. It'll be shiny, and ready for the lowest common denominator audience, I'll give him that. But He'll probably toss out everything that seperates "Akira" from a well drawn saturday morning cartoon.
I'm sure your job pisses someone off. Keep that in mind.
Telemarketers get more than enough positive answers to make the activity profitable, so even if it pisses you off, the next person is just waiting for a call about our wonderful point-back credit card, or whatever it is.
The means and the end of behaving civily are the same. If you take 30 seconds to be polite and ask to be put on the do not call list, YOU WILL ULTIMATELY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF INTERUPTS in your 'pleasent evening.'
If you enjoy being an ass to a complete stranger more than you enjoy an uninterupted plesant evening, by all means, go ahead with your infantile behavoir. Otherwise, behave like an adult, and you'll curtail the calls you get.
If you participate in that kind of infantile behavoir, telemarketers will put you down as 'not home' and you'll be called again and again and again until you bother to act like an adult.
Okay, I've been a telemarketer, and let me tell you that the job sucked enough as it was, without clowns like you thinking they where being cute by attempting to screw with us. (There where plenty of people who tried to screw with us, by the way, so the telemarketer you talk to has probably heard it all already.)
Look, for a while, working as a telemarketer paid the bills pretty well, compared to other jobs you can get as an undergrad student. If you don't want telemarketing calls, just ask to be put on the company's do not call list, which every company must have by law. And be nice to the HUMAN on the other side of the phone. They're just trying to make a living.
I wouldn't be suprised if they did. They're in the same business, and have the same concerns- Moreover, they have far more vast resources to fight any such request, without help from the ACLU or any bookseller's association.
Their fax machine is screwed now. There's sure to be a decade long queue on Digital Consumer's side, and I wouldn't want to see the paper mess on the senators side.
Slashdot causes a fire hazard! Interns drown in a flood of faxes! News at 11.
The Adobe PDF format seems to be widely accepted by the legal community- many of the rulings that have been posted on slashdot were available in only .pdf format.
Considering that adobe offers a free PDF reader for every relevant operating system- including linux- your point is moot. No purchase is required, anyone with the connection to receive email can download a reader
How do these things interact with sea life? Often, various species of fish and invertabrate type creates cling to relatively stationary type things in the ocean- often intentional, such as when an obsolete ship is sunk for an artificial reef.
So if sea life starts to make a home out of these things, will it interfere with their operation? I could probably figure it out from their PDF's but I've left work and my brain has shut down for the day.
Looks like a big model rocket to me, not an attempt at faking a moon landing.
Unless you think that the russians had 2000 model year mazda pickups in the 1970's, cause that's whats in the background.
You must be kidding, because no one is that dumb.