I agree... Although I never had a set, too expensive for the parents to justify for a 'toy', that same reason results in it having very little to do with how kids play...
in fact, i'm guessing most of the mindstorms were purchased by adults who had the interest but lacked the skills to go out and get a basic stamp with some servos...
I would LOVE to get my hands on one, but in addition to ford not importing it or producing one here, they are also far from conforming with US pollution standards. (for anyone wondering what the RS is, it is basically the rally sport version of the focus. light car, lots of horsepower with a high strung engine. the ford escort, in either the regular european version, or the much coveted cosworth edition, is also one of those. great car, but for some reason wastegates on the turbo don't exactly pass emissions...
Been done, for years... I've (and many others) have flown both digital cameras and also x10 and the like wireless video cameras on planes and helis... take a look at
http://www.ryankramer.com/planes/avistar.shtml
(near the bottom I've got some arial pics)
almost all cpu's (including video proc's) are emulated first, but remember the emulators are lucky to run at 1mhz at full throttle! they are to verify design, nothing more, nothing less...
neither... Models run off nitromethane, from 0% up to about 30%. (higher also, but those are the common ones.) also toss in 10%-20% oil, either synthetic or castor, and the rest is methyl alcohol.
about $5 to $7/month in my area at least. My electricity bill is consistent enough I can see exactly if a computer was running for a particular month. (no monitor, AMD machines with one or two hard drives)
I am sure there will be legal battles about who can claim ownership of the lagrange points similar to the legal battles of Antarctica
SShhhhh.... No one tell SCO about this, they probably have claims to it already anyway! No government can own property in space, but that hasn't stopped private corporations from selling...
It's illegal for telemarketers to call your cell phone
No, it's merely against a DMA (Direct Marketing Association) rule, violate the rule and I presume the DMA can take action against you if you're a member. There's no requirement to be a member, of course, but as with most industry associations there are advantages, mainly in the lobbying and legal arenas I suspect.
Sort of... It is illegal for them to use recorded messages &/or autodialers to get your cell phone. As long as it is a person who actually dialed your cell phone it is legal.
get rid of your amp first, then complain to the FCC. They WILL do something about it, like fine anyone with an amp $100,000. Most people don't know that you are quite restricted as to what you do with 802.11. Adding a pringles can antenna in most cases is even illegal.
Almost as amazing as the hybrid 4 stroke engine using crankcase blowby for valve lubrication. This has existed for 20+ years already, with probably a million of these engines are in existance. (model RC 4 stroke engines ALL use this technology) Yet they claim it is one of the best inventions of 2003???
The best part... This technology isn't very useful for large engines (chainsaw size and up) It tends to destroy them quite quickly compared to a regular 4 stroke or 2 stroke.
Heart defibrillating equipment has been mentioned - what would happen if the heart defibrillation monitor, trying to trigger the impulse with the charging equipment, is instead redirected to a Belkin advertisement? You know, telesurgery exists and does depend on a reliable Internet infrastructure, consisting of such boxes as yours.
ANYONE stupid enough to do telesurgery over the common internet shouldn't be allowed to operate anyway. Think about the consequences of this for a second... Yes, the whole hijacking a connection is a bad idea, but this device is used almost exclusively by home users/very small businesses. Anyone thinking they are buying the equivilent of a cisco catalyst router with this $40 POS needs their head examined (preferrably through telesurgery over the common internet!)
i've tried both, ipcop is a fork, but the members that did the fork left under bad terms, and were only junior members. none of the major smoothwall personalities went to ipcop.
check out the capabilities, smoothwall is FAR ahead of ipcop, which has stagnated. (last major release in april?? with nothing but security packages since then... Also, that version of smoothwall was released in january 2003, it took until april for the ipcop team to 'release' the same one...)
I've got smoothwall running on a pentium 200, it previously replaced a linksys 4 port router, which was NOT able to keep up with my cable line when I had 7 computers all running. (8 meg cable download)
This site found out about the lesser known cross site script problem, the a href= tag, in particular, the a href tag that happens to be posted on slashdot! another victim to the effect.
I'm not exactly impressed by Linux on a regular basis.
hmm, I bet you don't have a single day go by without being thankful for linux, and open source software in particular. (hint, think slashdot, and 2/3's of the websites you visit. now if ignoring all those isn't enough, get rid of the multitude of routers/switches/other net devices that are running some sort of linux. i'm fairly sure you couldn't have a single day without linux if you tried!
for anyone interested, the aurora from this recent blast is starting now, go out and observe it if you happen to have relatively dark skies...
for the current 'weather' conditions, check the NASA POES satellite
and better yet, just go to some recent aurora pics to see what this one probably will look like...
VMWare is considered a new startup? They have been around since 1998, andn actually have a very solid product at a reasonable price to offer... nope, can't be a dotcom2 startup!
luckily the internet isn't much of a web design like envisioned... there are only a couple of major backbones that would need to be tapped to capture the vast majority of traffic.
Slashdot Mirror
in fact, i'm guessing most of the mindstorms were purchased by adults who had the interest but lacked the skills to go out and get a basic stamp with some servos...
Replays actually need at least 10 minutes of data ahead of time before the CA (commercial advance) works. less and it just plows on through...
Been done, for years... I've (and many others) have flown both digital cameras and also x10 and the like wireless video cameras on planes and helis... take a look at http://www.ryankramer.com/planes/avistar.shtml (near the bottom I've got some arial pics)
they are running on VM's, not booting. technically he isn't running the OS, but the VM, hence warranties are safely intact...
almost all cpu's (including video proc's) are emulated first, but remember the emulators are lucky to run at 1mhz at full throttle! they are to verify design, nothing more, nothing less...
neither... Models run off nitromethane, from 0% up to about 30%. (higher also, but those are the common ones.) also toss in 10%-20% oil, either synthetic or castor, and the rest is methyl alcohol.
about $5 to $7/month in my area at least. My electricity bill is consistent enough I can see exactly if a computer was running for a particular month. (no monitor, AMD machines with one or two hard drives)
Ryan
Observingthesky.org
http://www.observingthesky.org
Great site, seems to have a fair amount of information regarding the recent solar flares also.
The best part... This technology isn't very useful for large engines (chainsaw size and up) It tends to destroy them quite quickly compared to a regular 4 stroke or 2 stroke.
i've tried both, ipcop is a fork, but the members that did the fork left under bad terms, and were only junior members. none of the major smoothwall personalities went to ipcop. check out the capabilities, smoothwall is FAR ahead of ipcop, which has stagnated. (last major release in april?? with nothing but security packages since then... Also, that version of smoothwall was released in january 2003, it took until april for the ipcop team to 'release' the same one...)
I've got smoothwall running on a pentium 200, it previously replaced a linksys 4 port router, which was NOT able to keep up with my cable line when I had 7 computers all running. (8 meg cable download)
This site found out about the lesser known cross site script problem, the a href= tag, in particular, the a href tag that happens to be posted on slashdot! another victim to the effect.
and better yet, just go to some recent aurora pics to see what this one probably will look like...
DOOOHHHH!!! I meant IR, some head units use IR, some use rf...
wait till you are the poor guy that gets the ticket for using your RF control for the radio while this happens...
VMWare is considered a new startup? They have been around since 1998, andn actually have a very solid product at a reasonable price to offer... nope, can't be a dotcom2 startup!
luckily the internet isn't much of a web design like envisioned... there are only a couple of major backbones that would need to be tapped to capture the vast majority of traffic.
way too expensive? what is it up to, $4.95 /year at godaddy?