Kinda makes a $4K scooter look pretty sensible, eh?
99.9999999% of the people in the world will never buy one of these - but I'll buy a Segway when it gets down to the price of a very very good bicycle or a low-end mini-cruiser (GS 250 / Virago 250) i.e. under $2900...
pros: - my seimens phone is now so small I can't reliably grasp it and press keys.. need somethign else to control now (or just return the phones to hand sized) - it could standardize some controls (think t9) as opposed to a new set of buttons to think about on every brand
cons: - we have enough gesturing while driving
- you can't reliably track something that's in motion (try reading a book thaqt you're waving back and forth, then try reading when the book ist still and your head is moving - big difference)
- i don't want the gyroscopic effect when i'l trying to wrestle with the phone (ok, they'll likely be small) or the dam thing precessing while on my driver's seat...
we had an open relay when our (very small) mail server was set up (still no clear consensus on how to batten down appleshare ip - so in goes the PO for server x...) , apparently osirusoft was a default check in a lot of systems, never actually toggled on in many of them until ashcroft warned everyone to do blacklist checking for open relays that terrosists could use to do something... a lot of mail servers suddenly refused our traffic based on a listing with osirusoft that was nearly a year old and never came up in any significant way - and it took a lot of finagling to get retested and off the list(s). from this perspective there has to be a better way. sorry for jared's troubles, let's hope something springs from this...
I'd rather hear this than the shuffling of piles of legal papers in Utah. McBride (lose the sneering bio photo - it's surprising it's taken this long for someone to verbally try and smack that smirk off his face btw...) has been using the legal system to drive a tank through a problem that could have been solved in a long weekend by a handful of reasonable people. Eric is simply being honest and refusing to turn the other cheek now that McBride has slapped him, Linus, and the entire community repeatedly. It's the equivalent of fighting words, and someone's calling him on it. I envision McBride up to this point a little surprised that so far no one has thrown the punch this apparent bully seems to deserve.
Do I like ESR playing Marty McFLy to Darl's Biff? You bet.
I don't get the nigerian scams since making a mail.app rule that simply trashes anything from a2000.nl - are they really such a one-note operation? I kinda miss them just a teenie tiny bit - screwing with their minds was a little bit of joy (suggest they call the DOJ phone number), but from the looks of things they were a bit like "Happy Fun Ball - do not taunt.
It's a bit more complicated than the Cape is typically environmentalists and they say no to windmills.
Cape residents are often environmentalists because of past history with "simple" solutions - like practicing fuel dump belly landings at the Air Force base (oh, the aircraft fuel just 'goes away'), unexploded ordnance in backyards located on the downsized mil res, and dumping decades of high volume darkroom chemicals into the sole fresh water source on the cape - result in billions of dollars in later solutions, cancer rates (besides melanoma) that defy explanation... the list goes on.
And it's also likely because no one can ensure that the power will improve things nor that it will necesssarily save ratepayers any money - but the developers stand to make a ton of money supplying what is historically a public utility.
It's not much different than most people - who don't want it in their view either. I bet you don't, as well.
If you've spent any time on the cape - six miles is not exactly very far away over open water - there are scenarios that are getting greater support than the publicized ones. And in reality, the farm will be less than 5 miles from shore, and visible for 20 miles. The developers had to re-do their visual mockups after a few others sharpened their pencils and showed how things would truly look.
I consider myself an environmentalist, not for sentimental reasons, but because as a biologist, you see time and time again just how short-sighted most quick fixes are. Go research the history of the salt marshes in New England to see just how destructive well-meaning solutions can be. Hell, I used to sled down sand dunes when I was a kid. I learned first hand what happens when you accelerate dune erosion.
The cape is still as well-preserved as it is today largely because a great deal of it was protected from commercial development in the creation of the national seashore. Imagine the lower cape, unprotected, looking pretty much like the Rt 28 South Yarmouth stretch. Now do that same sort of thing to the water - where there is no established regulation for this thing, and see what happens next. This is not a solution for cape power (there is no shortage on the cape) it's an investment opportunity, the generated power will mostly flow off-cape most of the time, and the typical ratepayer will see less than a dollar's reduction in their monthly bill, while the developers pay no leases and hang 50K gallons of hazardous waste 400 ft in the air, just waiting for a toppling force (and it takes less than you think to dump one of these mills - less than a hurricane).
Which happens at most doppler sites with or without buildings coming down. This is the doppler at Brookhaven (Upton NY). If there's nothing else (emerging cloud tops, big storms) to look at, radar is usually aimed pretty low and this looks like ground clutter - moisture is a typical culprit. This one was about 6 AM local, the artifact is centered over the doppler location, not the WTC, you can see one like it on most unremarkable weather days. Here's a FAQ image from AccuWx - http://www.accuweather.com/iwxpage/paws/ex2.htm
On balance (sic) look at the cost of retrofitting a house to accommodate a typical wheelchair- stair elevators, ramps and decks, standard electric wheelchair... it's better and not much more expensive, and now it'll get paid for too.
Just spend the hours since waking with my bank, a fresh load of unauthorized cc activity as of this morning. It's a big bank, and it's brand new crapola, and I use the card only with reputable vendors. Joy. Not compromised my ass.
print it out 4x, put each in an envelope, no retutn address, send it to the provost, the IT head and the CEO and chief engineer of the company that makes this thing. demand nothing and tell them it's simply fyi. hard for four peop[le to keep a secret - you'll get action somewhere. keep a copy in case nothing happens. no harm, no foul. it's just doing the right thing for no gain.
"Many customers are concerned about using Linux since they have become aware of the allegations that Linux is an unauthorized derivative work of the UNIX(R) operating system. These customers unknowingly received illegal copies of SCO property and many are running critical business applications on Linux."
Well, what is it, son - alleged or illegal? Alleged is alleged - illegal demands proof. Wait - I've heard this before somewhere...
"Now, what's it gonna be young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? 'Cause if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion."
If I were Darl, I'd just phone up the Coen brothers and negotiate them the keys to the screenplay now. They stand to make more money that way.
Relevant - goes to state of mind. This guy has an amatuerish sense of politics - he does what LOOKS expedient. Look, if you're pecked to death by ravens, and you worst enemy makes his first public appearance cradling a raven - HELLO? A little insensitve at best and a real slap at worst?
Who, after his political opponent Paul Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash, gave his first televised interview posing against a small private plane in a hangar?
it takes ten minutes on a credit card. It's well worth it. Why? The scale of PB repairs is tiered - it starts at about twice the AppleCare price and goes up dramatically depending on the severity of the repair.
...my phone number exists in a pattern of numbers somewhere in the SCO contested code, so I can countersue the telemarketers for distibuting unauthorized/unlicensed IP!
Or do like Billy Joel(TM) and just trademark my name... and phone number...
I don't know this guy, but sounds like there's a considerable chip attached somewhere south of neck. Invoking the word 'stupid' towards your critics in a technical article isn't going to go over too well.
Look. Flying to space is hard. People are going to die doing it, just like people are going to die driving across the state or flying across the country or running around the water on a jet ski.
As long as we do it only a few times a year, the fatal mistakes are going to look horrific. If a million people a day flew through space and a few dozen died, why is that any more astounding than what happens on the roads?
Of course I'm not proposing flying lots of people into space to make the accidents look good. But realize the carnage we DO put up with to get to the movies or visit some tourist trap.
Now, if it were simpler, it'd be safer. If it were truly reusable it'd be cheaper. If it were less vulnerable to chaos (water landings, wind shear, parachutes) it'd be easier to swallow the alternatives.
As for climbing cables to orbit, a bunch of smart people on a shuttle had a real tough time wrangling a few hundred meters of cable - but 200 km? I want a few more proof-of-concepts and sims before I grab the business end of one of those.
Part and parcel in this whole thing is the time to market - the shuttle took too long to get to the pad - if it had flown with current at the time avionics and computers, it'd been in much better shape. Tony Englund tells the story of being in the shuttle simulator when they shut it down one day and said sorry guys - we need the cue-ball - a mechanical cue-ball - becasue the last working one one a flying shuttle had gone bad and they aren't making them any more. That sort of thing has stopped, but could be repeated with obsolete tech if they don't dev faster...
I would still sit on the shuttle flight deck tomorrow to orbit. Knowing the risks and using the process. NASA ain't perfect. But they're not malicious or stupid.
If Freenet thinks its main role is going to be making nice things happen in China, and saving pregnant teens, he's either the most naive technologist who ever stepped into the sun, or he wins the Eddie Haskell award.
If the RIAA thinks they can find everyone, they're just as naive. They do have the law on their side on the face of it - and I would rather they find a way to pay-and-get in a modern fashion than bullying the world out of bad habits.
The videotape/VCR analogy loses here because you have to ship tapes around and make them in real time - it is economically obnoxious to do so, so everyone has a vcr, everyone tapes off the air / time shift views and virtually nobody ships tapes around to from their homes to anyone who wants it. The rental system does what we need in that regard.
So far, Apple's got it about as right as anyone has - we'll see if people actually will support it though - in this way the whole how-do-i-get-digital-music thing is rather like 'the prisoners' dilemma' - cooperate/gain a little and everyone gets someting - default, steal, cheat, or get greedy, and everyon gets screwed.
Peace in the Middle East doesn't cost millions of dollars? OK - so how much has it cost so far? Tens? Hundreds? Thousands? I'd shade closer to billions.
Hacking peace is otherwise known as sucicide bombing and rogue settlements. It's well documented.
Ozzy trying to voice control the BMW radio... he resorted to gestures. Didn't work. Of course you have to be able to speak actual words and use more than one gesture to do any of this, so he and his two kids are out...
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Kinda makes a $4K scooter look pretty sensible, eh?
99.9999999% of the people in the world will never buy one of these - but I'll buy a Segway when it gets down to the price of a very very good bicycle or a low-end mini-cruiser (GS 250 / Virago 250) i.e. under $2900...
pros:
- my seimens phone is now so small I can't reliably grasp it and press keys.. need somethign else to control now (or just return the phones to hand sized)
- it could standardize some controls (think t9) as opposed to a new set of buttons to think about on every brand
cons:
- we have enough gesturing while driving
- you can't reliably track something that's in motion (try reading a book thaqt you're waving back and forth, then try reading when the book ist still and your head is moving - big difference)
- i don't want the gyroscopic effect when i'l trying to wrestle with the phone (ok, they'll likely be small) or the dam thing precessing while on my driver's seat...
we had an open relay when our (very small) mail server was set up (still no clear consensus on how to batten down appleshare ip - so in goes the PO for server x...) , apparently osirusoft was a default check in a lot of systems, never actually toggled on in many of them until ashcroft warned everyone to do blacklist checking for open relays that terrosists could use to do something... a lot of mail servers suddenly refused our traffic based on a listing with osirusoft that was nearly a year old and never came up in any significant way - and it took a lot of finagling to get retested and off the list(s). from this perspective there has to be a better way. sorry for jared's troubles, let's hope something springs from this...
I'd rather hear this than the shuffling of piles of legal papers in Utah. McBride (lose the sneering bio photo - it's surprising it's taken this long for someone to verbally try and smack that smirk off his face btw...) has been using the legal system to drive a tank through a problem that could have been solved in a long weekend by a handful of reasonable people. Eric is simply being honest and refusing to turn the other cheek now that McBride has slapped him, Linus, and the entire community repeatedly. It's the equivalent of fighting words, and someone's calling him on it. I envision McBride up to this point a little surprised that so far no one has thrown the punch this apparent bully seems to deserve.
Do I like ESR playing Marty McFLy to Darl's Biff? You bet.
I don't get the nigerian scams since making a mail.app rule that simply trashes anything from a2000.nl - are they really such a one-note operation? I kinda miss them just a teenie tiny bit - screwing with their minds was a little bit of joy (suggest they call the DOJ phone number), but from the looks of things they were a bit like "Happy Fun Ball - do not taunt.
How about "Haddad Claims 'Apple's School Days are Numbered'" It's not like the title line was running out of pixels.
At least then we'd know it's an opinion piece not a fait accompli.
We'd also factor in Haddad's cred.
It's a bit more complicated than the Cape is typically environmentalists and they say no to windmills.
Cape residents are often environmentalists because of past history with "simple" solutions - like practicing fuel dump belly landings at the Air Force base (oh, the aircraft fuel just 'goes away'), unexploded ordnance in backyards located on the downsized mil res, and dumping decades of high volume darkroom chemicals into the sole fresh water source on the cape - result in billions of dollars in later solutions, cancer rates (besides melanoma) that defy explanation... the list goes on.
And it's also likely because no one can ensure that the power will improve things nor that it will necesssarily save ratepayers any money - but the developers stand to make a ton of money supplying what is historically a public utility.
It's not much different than most people - who don't want it in their view either. I bet you don't, as well.
If you've spent any time on the cape - six miles is not exactly very far away over open water - there are scenarios that are getting greater support than the publicized ones. And in reality, the farm will be less than 5 miles from shore, and visible for 20 miles. The developers had to re-do their visual mockups after a few others sharpened their pencils and showed how things would truly look.
I consider myself an environmentalist, not for sentimental reasons, but because as a biologist, you see time and time again just how short-sighted most quick fixes are. Go research the history of the salt marshes in New England to see just how destructive well-meaning solutions can be. Hell, I used to sled down sand dunes when I was a kid. I learned first hand what happens when you accelerate dune erosion.
The cape is still as well-preserved as it is today largely because a great deal of it was protected from commercial development in the creation of the national seashore. Imagine the lower cape, unprotected, looking pretty much like the Rt 28 South Yarmouth stretch. Now do that same sort of thing to the water - where there is no established regulation for this thing, and see what happens next. This is not a solution for cape power (there is no shortage on the cape) it's an investment opportunity, the generated power will mostly flow off-cape most of the time, and the typical ratepayer will see less than a dollar's reduction in their monthly bill, while the developers pay no leases and hang 50K gallons of hazardous waste 400 ft in the air, just waiting for a toppling force (and it takes less than you think to dump one of these mills - less than a hurricane).
It's not knee-jerk stuff - it's learning.
Which happens at most doppler sites with or without buildings coming down. This is the doppler at Brookhaven (Upton NY). If there's nothing else (emerging cloud tops, big storms) to look at, radar is usually aimed pretty low and this looks like ground clutter - moisture is a typical culprit. This one was about 6 AM local, the artifact is centered over the doppler location, not the WTC, you can see one like it on most unremarkable weather days. Here's a FAQ image from AccuWx -m
http://www.accuweather.com/iwxpage/paws/ex2.ht
was the Fiat 128. They apparently used them for anchors on the way over from Italy.
On balance (sic) look at the cost of retrofitting a house to accommodate a typical wheelchair- stair elevators, ramps and decks, standard electric wheelchair... it's better and not much more expensive, and now it'll get paid for too.
or is this poetic license - someone actually holds this title? i thought it was a verb, not a noun...
Just spend the hours since waking with my bank, a fresh load of unauthorized cc activity as of this morning. It's a big bank, and it's brand new crapola, and I use the card only with reputable vendors. Joy. Not compromised my ass.
print it out 4x, put each in an envelope, no retutn address, send it to the provost, the IT head and the CEO and chief engineer of the company that makes this thing. demand nothing and tell them it's simply fyi. hard for four peop[le to keep a secret - you'll get action somewhere. keep a copy in case nothing happens. no harm, no foul. it's just doing the right thing for no gain.
Well, what is it, son - alleged or illegal? Alleged is alleged - illegal demands proof. Wait - I've heard this before somewhere...
"Now, what's it gonna be young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? 'Cause if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion."
If I were Darl, I'd just phone up the Coen brothers and negotiate them the keys to the screenplay now. They stand to make more money that way.
Relevant - goes to state of mind. This guy has an amatuerish sense of politics - he does what LOOKS expedient. Look, if you're pecked to death by ravens, and you worst enemy makes his first public appearance cradling a raven - HELLO? A little insensitve at best and a real slap at worst?
Who, after his political opponent Paul Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash, gave his first televised interview posing against a small private plane in a hangar?
Put the hit numbers in another column so you could - oh idunno - see the pattern?
Plus whoever put this list together has questionable taste - just another thing the RIAA can be disnmissed for.
it takes ten minutes on a credit card. It's well worth it. Why? The scale of PB repairs is tiered - it starts at about twice the AppleCare price and goes up dramatically depending on the severity of the repair.
...my phone number exists in a pattern of numbers somewhere in the SCO contested code, so I can countersue the telemarketers for distibuting unauthorized/unlicensed IP!
Or do like Billy Joel(TM) and just trademark my name... and phone number...
(0) Cartman at a pie eating contest.
(1) Sumo Cartman really pissed off.
(2) Black Sumo Cartman doing a split.
(3) Wolverine Cartman blocking his ears.
(4) Cartman in the Olympic 200 m butterfly.
(5) Cartman 7 Anti-Cartman flying toward headlong mutual disintegration.
(6) Cartman butterflying a pork chop.
Password = "beefcake"!
"...traditional CGI (Computer Ganerated Imagery) techniques... productions can be dsitributed over the internet..."
Sadly, due to the mind-blowing resources needed to do this, we had to leave something out of our PCs. We 86'd the spel-chekur.
I don't know this guy, but sounds like there's a considerable chip attached somewhere south of neck. Invoking the word 'stupid' towards your critics in a technical article isn't going to go over too well.
Look. Flying to space is hard. People are going to die doing it, just like people are going to die driving across the state or flying across the country or running around the water on a jet ski.
As long as we do it only a few times a year, the fatal mistakes are going to look horrific. If a million people a day flew through space and a few dozen died, why is that any more astounding than what happens on the roads?
Of course I'm not proposing flying lots of people into space to make the accidents look good. But realize the carnage we DO put up with to get to the movies or visit some tourist trap.
Now, if it were simpler, it'd be safer.
If it were truly reusable it'd be cheaper.
If it were less vulnerable to chaos (water landings, wind shear, parachutes) it'd be easier to swallow the alternatives.
As for climbing cables to orbit, a bunch of smart people on a shuttle had a real tough time wrangling a few hundred meters of cable - but 200 km? I want a few more proof-of-concepts and sims before I grab the business end of one of those.
Part and parcel in this whole thing is the time to market - the shuttle took too long to get to the pad - if it had flown with current at the time avionics and computers, it'd been in much better shape. Tony Englund tells the story of being in the shuttle simulator when they shut it down one day and said sorry guys - we need the cue-ball - a mechanical cue-ball - becasue the last working one one a flying shuttle had gone bad and they aren't making them any more. That sort of thing has stopped, but could be repeated with obsolete tech if they don't dev faster...
I would still sit on the shuttle flight deck tomorrow to orbit. Knowing the risks and using the process. NASA ain't perfect. But they're not malicious or stupid.
There are holes in both sides' arguments.
If Freenet thinks its main role is going to be making nice things happen in China, and saving pregnant teens, he's either the most naive technologist who ever stepped into the sun, or he wins the Eddie Haskell award.
If the RIAA thinks they can find everyone, they're just as naive. They do have the law on their side on the face of it - and I would rather they find a way to pay-and-get in a modern fashion than bullying the world out of bad habits.
The videotape/VCR analogy loses here because you have to ship tapes around and make them in real time - it is economically obnoxious to do so, so everyone has a vcr, everyone tapes off the air / time shift views and virtually nobody ships tapes around to from their homes to anyone who wants it. The rental system does what we need in that regard.
So far, Apple's got it about as right as anyone has - we'll see if people actually will support it though - in this way the whole how-do-i-get-digital-music thing is rather like 'the prisoners' dilemma' - cooperate/gain a little and everyone gets someting - default, steal, cheat, or get greedy, and everyon gets screwed.
Peace in the Middle East doesn't cost millions of dollars? OK - so how much has it cost so far? Tens? Hundreds? Thousands? I'd shade closer to billions.
Hacking peace is otherwise known as sucicide bombing and rogue settlements. It's well documented.
Ozzy trying to voice control the BMW radio... he resorted to gestures. Didn't work. Of course you have to be able to speak actual words and use more than one gesture to do any of this, so he and his two kids are out...