Those statements seem accurate to me. You can't really knock a news outlet for reporting facts, even if the facts might lead to an erroneous conclusion.
Heh, do you remember the "Help on Help on Help" (I think it was) in VCL?
Basically, "Help on Help" told you how to navigate the Help system. "Help on Help on Help", was a very funny rant, detailing how to buy a gun and kill yourself.:)
It's not called voyerism is the party knows they are being watched. There's another name for watching people that know one is watching, but it escapes me now. I know the watched person is said to be exhibitionist, but there's a name for the watcher too.
Would you be happy knowing you were the one that causes MS to have record sales of their Windows du jour, because all the Win9X people were suddenly forced to upgrade?
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Push one into one end and one pops out the other instantly
Well, that's sorta how electromagnetic signal propagation already happens.:)
AOL didn't advertise it really, but they had a gopher client in 1996 built into the service. That was where I did gophering.
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simply because I've had no need to for years.
And that's the key.
We no longer teach people how to preserve their own food, or field dress an animal, or any number of things that are important things to know, if it weren't for our technology.
So why the hold-out in math? Why should kids need to be proficient at long division? Understanding the concept, and memorizing (and practicing) the algorithm to do it by hand are two different things.
It's the same with writing in cursive. There's absolutely no reason children should learn to write anything in cursive other than their signature, except maybe as part of an art class, or a quick lesson to be good enough to read it. Writing it isn't very important.
I envision a future where the only people that need to know higher math are "math specialists"... everyone else should only go as far as algebra, and basic geometry, such as you'd get in high school, or a college liberal arts degree, but no one other than engineers, math or physics majors should take anything like calculus.
And further, often capacitors are added to the lines to do power factor correction (you might see white boxes on poles). Those capacitors will likely gum things up with data transmission too, though I'm not sure how much.
I see... I use a flightstick with analog throttle... But the thing is, I usually keep the throttle at 100%, unless I'm landing.
You might try that sometime. Basically you can circle and bank and maintain an altitide above a certain point. I'm to the point now where I can take flags by circling above them in the air at 100% throttle, keeping the nose down so I can see approaching enemies.
The goal is to keep the nose pointed at a fixed location, if you fight to keep the nose pointed in the same place on the ground, the necessary banking and yawing will keep your altitude at the same place too.
That is correct. You can't just send data through the transformer and expect it to work well..... The transformer acts like a low pass filter (a good thing), and it weakens the higher frequency signals. This is good because you generally don't want a bunch of HF/VHF noise on your power lines, you want a nice clean 60 Hz.
It's easy to oversteer with the joystick, the key is to get one with a good twist function that has a large enough range of twist, and then learn to develop the light touch needed for stable flight.
I usually just leave the power at full unless I'm landing. A hover is pretty useless in an attack heli, since when you are hovering level, your weapons aren't pointed at the ground, so I've practiced flying around a target with the nose staying more or less pointed at the same spot on the ground.
Once you can take flags just by circling over them, that's game over for the other team.:)
One realism point I do want to see fixed is the negative thrust thing. A plane can't just spin the propellor the opposite direction and go backward, that part is highly unrealistic, and it does carry to helis too it seems.
It looks like they could fix that, after all, with the harrier jet, the negative thrust operates the VTOL function, which is pretty cool. I like hovering around and getting people wondering why that plane is hovering across the map.:)
There are many flaws with that idea that would have to be overcome. One major flaw is that you'd have to have communications... communications requires lots of power and the antenna and transmitter have a certain minimum size.
On the other hand, I think they sorta are already doing this, I remember hearing about smaller bots piggybacking on one of these main bots.
The net effect of your proposal is that IP lawyers get a huge taxpayer funded subsidy. It also means that the USPTO has less money to hire people to review patent applications, creating a snowball effect.
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Those statements seem accurate to me. You can't really knock a news outlet for reporting facts, even if the facts might lead to an erroneous conclusion.
Heh, do you remember the "Help on Help on Help" (I think it was) in VCL?
:)
Basically, "Help on Help" told you how to navigate the Help system. "Help on Help on Help", was a very funny rant, detailing how to buy a gun and kill yourself.
It's not called voyerism is the party knows they are being watched. There's another name for watching people that know one is watching, but it escapes me now. I know the watched person is said to be exhibitionist, but there's a name for the watcher too.
Wait, you are actually suggesting that a non-geek figured out the user interface of Slashdot?? :)
This story is kinda fishy.
"A Reader" writes... A reader of Slashdot that doesn't know what a geek wants as a gift, Okkaaay.
This whole thing seems like a big shill story to get people to post links to ThinkGeek, which is of course owned by the same company as Slashdot.
Hey, I found exactly this question addressed.
Well, I think if it were really perfectly rigid, you wouldn't be able to push it at all.
:)
I'm no physicist, but that seems to be the logical conclusion. Since no perfectly rigid objects exist, I guess we can't test the theory.
Even if it were perfectly rigid, if you push one end, the other end can't start moving faster than light could travel the length of the wire.
Would you be happy knowing you were the one that causes MS to have record sales of their Windows du jour, because all the Win9X people were suddenly forced to upgrade?
Push one into one end and one pops out the other instantly
:)
Well, that's sorta how electromagnetic signal propagation already happens.
AOL didn't advertise it really, but they had a gopher client in 1996 built into the service. That was where I did gophering.
simply because I've had no need to for years.
And that's the key.
We no longer teach people how to preserve their own food, or field dress an animal, or any number of things that are important things to know, if it weren't for our technology.
So why the hold-out in math? Why should kids need to be proficient at long division? Understanding the concept, and memorizing (and practicing) the algorithm to do it by hand are two different things.
It's the same with writing in cursive. There's absolutely no reason children should learn to write anything in cursive other than their signature, except maybe as part of an art class, or a quick lesson to be good enough to read it. Writing it isn't very important.
I envision a future where the only people that need to know higher math are "math specialists"... everyone else should only go as far as algebra, and basic geometry, such as you'd get in high school, or a college liberal arts degree, but no one other than engineers, math or physics majors should take anything like calculus.
And further, often capacitors are added to the lines to do power factor correction (you might see white boxes on poles). Those capacitors will likely gum things up with data transmission too, though I'm not sure how much.
I see... I use a flightstick with analog throttle... But the thing is, I usually keep the throttle at 100%, unless I'm landing.
You might try that sometime. Basically you can circle and bank and maintain an altitide above a certain point. I'm to the point now where I can take flags by circling above them in the air at 100% throttle, keeping the nose down so I can see approaching enemies.
The goal is to keep the nose pointed at a fixed location, if you fight to keep the nose pointed in the same place on the ground, the necessary banking and yawing will keep your altitude at the same place too.
That is correct. You can't just send data through the transformer and expect it to work well..... The transformer acts like a low pass filter (a good thing), and it weakens the higher frequency signals. This is good because you generally don't want a bunch of HF/VHF noise on your power lines, you want a nice clean 60 Hz.
Yeah, I get spam from your "friend" all the fucking time. Tell him to go to hell. I hope he goes out of business.
Taking into account the lack of analogue for torque
What do you mean?
It's easy to oversteer with the joystick, the key is to get one with a good twist function that has a large enough range of twist, and then learn to develop the light touch needed for stable flight.
:)
:)
I usually just leave the power at full unless I'm landing. A hover is pretty useless in an attack heli, since when you are hovering level, your weapons aren't pointed at the ground, so I've practiced flying around a target with the nose staying more or less pointed at the same spot on the ground.
Once you can take flags just by circling over them, that's game over for the other team.
One realism point I do want to see fixed is the negative thrust thing. A plane can't just spin the propellor the opposite direction and go backward, that part is highly unrealistic, and it does carry to helis too it seems.
It looks like they could fix that, after all, with the harrier jet, the negative thrust operates the VTOL function, which is pretty cool. I like hovering around and getting people wondering why that plane is hovering across the map.
More realistic? I already thought they were pretty damn realistic.
They kick ass, once you learn how to fly them and get a good flightstick with twist yaw.
If you compile it for windows yourself, you can always disable the annoying reminder. :)
Holy crap. Did you go to law school for that, or is there some book I can buy?
There are many flaws with that idea that would have to be overcome. One major flaw is that you'd have to have communications... communications requires lots of power and the antenna and transmitter have a certain minimum size.
On the other hand, I think they sorta are already doing this, I remember hearing about smaller bots piggybacking on one of these main bots.
It varies a lot. From less than 4 minutes to 22 minutes.
I agree with your sentiment, but not your remedy.
The net effect of your proposal is that IP lawyers get a huge taxpayer funded subsidy. It also means that the USPTO has less money to hire people to review patent applications, creating a snowball effect.
Thanks, I'll file your website.