Actually, looking at http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm - they put the average 2013 ticket price at $8.16 - this means that if you want to compare apples to apples, then the $800mm in sales is equal to $108.8mm - which doesn't even get to HALF the #200 all time box office movie, adjusted for inflation.
For comparison, the last Twilight movie made $292mm. Just under triple what GTA V pulled in, if you want to compare apples to apples.
If you want a worldwide comparison, and ignore controlling for cost of ticket/cost of game, GTA V is in 39th place overall (http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/) - not bad, but if you adjust for ticket price, it's not even in the top 500 worldwide overall.
What would a 5 foot drop create but a surplus of torque?
By my basic reading, the drop is converted into rotational energy, which is used to charge (kinetic ally) a capacitor which would provide roughly 4 hours of power for a 10 LED array. There may have been liberties taken with the output, but not to the extreme that everyone else is talking here. 1/160th of 4 hours is 1.5 minutes - which seems to be the consensus of how much energy would be created by a 5 foot drop of 50 lbs.
Thinking of a crank powered light, a 48 inch drop, a 160:1 gear ratio (7680 inches traveled), and assuming a 6 inch diameter cranking apparatus (circumference = 18.85 inches) , this would have the functional equivalent of cranking the light by hand 407 times.
I seem to remember old incandescent lights, and they lasted a lot longer than 1.5 minutes when I turned them 50-60 times. With the improved efficiency of LEDs, and gravity not tiring out like a kid's arm - I could see this as feasible in the future. Maybe not 4 hours, but I would say closer to 4 hours than 2 minutes, like all the naysayers here claim.
Why is it that the fastest runner in the world cannot hold a candle to the fastest cyclist? This concept shows, if you would bother to read it, a gear in the base with a 1:160 ratio. Thus, at perfect efficiency, the weight is not falling 48-54 inches, rather the motion would be transferred 160-fold - thus 7680-8640 inches (640-720 foot equivalent)
This seems to be in line with what you are all arguing. Change your math(s) from a drop of 48" to 7680" - I'll bet it becomes more feasible.
I'm not saying that this is possible today, or should be rushed into mass production. But don't blindly hate on it, or dismiss it simply because you do not bother to read all about it first.
Wait a minute - this is Slashdot. Flame away, since you did not think of it first.
True - and those that don't - deserve anything listed above in the original essay. Follow the rules, and you can't be sued. Don't follow the rules, and you should be surprised when someone eventually calls you on it.
NO, this is America's first COMMERCIAL inland Spaceport. This is where the first commercial space flight took off and landed from - hence the soon to be renamed Mojave Spaceport.
Well, if you can get a degree in 'computer programming' then yes - this should be a 'computer programming' AP exam.
As such - I went to school for a 'Computer science' degree, and my programming classes were 'computer science' classes - thus the AP exam is rightly 'Computer Science' - if you score well enough on the test - you should get CS credits.
Just out of curiosity, did you happen to read the text of the bill you quoted?
AN APPLICANT SHALL ALSO SUBMIT TO THE SHERIFF A PERMIT
FEE NOT TO EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR PROCESSING THE PERMIT APPLICATION. THE SHERIFF SHALL SET THE AMOUNT OF THE PERMIT FEE AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (5) OF THIS SECTION. IN ADDITION, THE APPLICANT SHALL SUBMIT AN AMOUNT SPECIFIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU, PURSUANT TO SECTION 24-72-306, C.R.S., FOR PROCESSING THE APPLICANT'S FINGERPRINTS THROUGH THE BUREAU AND THROUGH THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.THE APPLICANT SHALL PAY THE AMOUNT FOR PROCESSING FINGERPRINTS IN THE FORM OF A MONEY ORDER OR A CASHIER'S CHECK MADE PAYABLE TO THE BUREAU. NEITHER THE PERMIT FEE NOR THE FINGERPRINT PROCESSING FEE SHALL BE REFUNDABLE IN THE EVENT THE SHERIFF DENIES THE APPLICANT'S PERMIT APPLICATION OR SUSPENDS OR REVOKES THE PERMIT SUBSEQUENT TO ISSUANCE.
I added some emphasis to your text. Basically, they can charge $100 for the permit. Then the CBI can charge you an extra fee to run your fingerprints.
If you don't like it, don't apply for a CCW. If the CCW is that important to you, then pay the fees. It doesn't seem that outrageous to me. The fingerprint fees are no higher then here in CA.
If the fucking traffic has increased 10% then that is just that much more money that you are making. Don't feed me this bullshit that I have to pay to get rid of them. The god damn subscription fee best be $1/yr or else you are full of shit.
Do you have any understanding of the nature of business? Sure, page hits have increased 10%, but advertsing rates have dropped 50-75% - hence LESS MONEY MADE. I know it can't be easy to have a site strong enough to withstand the ungodly amount of hits that the/. servers withstood on 9-11 - but it's going to take some money to keep this up.
Deal with it people. If/. is worth it to you, pay for it. If not, bugger off. That will kill off most of the AC's - if they have to pay, no one will be an AC, and/. will increase its signal/noise considerably. A small price to pay for a bit more intelligent/.
It makes no sense - they guy SAYS that it can be broken - but it is meant to deter "casual copying". A bit like wrapping a chain around a bike without really locking it - to deter the "casual bike thief". But they bring up the DMCA - so until that gets thrown out, they have a good legal loophole with which they can go after anyone who manages to rip their CD's.
And their big explanation is that the song title and artist don't show up, so therefore people can't copy them? Hell, I was copying CD's long before programs had internet lookup of CD's - I would rip the track - then label it...what a novel concept...
1. Security - You have some important numbers that you need to know, but you don't want others to know you have - say the HR dept. of a company you are looking at working for, a mistress, etc. You can hide those names from even appearing unless you have the correct password.
2. Sharing - Say you meet a new group of people, and you want to get their phone numbers. Just link the 2 IR ports, hit 1 button, wait about 20 seconds - all the people in the phonebook are transferred to your PDA. No worries about spelling, illegible numbers - nothing.
3. Phone/internet capabilities - I know this is worthless to someone who would actually consider paper over a PDA, but since this is still a tech forum (I think...) being able to access multiple devices without having to find your computer, or drive onsite to fix a small thing that could be done byu issuing a command (to reboot a hung server, etc.) these things are perfect for such use. And now, couple it with the fact that you could get a base model Visor for $129 - and a free phone module, you are now hitting the price point of base model cell phones, with so much more to offer. Even the top of the line color Visor is like $350 - still $150 below the Kyocera phone/PDA - and you get a full size Visor screen - with 16 bit color.
Now if they could only up the resolution to 320x320 - then they would have the ultimate device - until they come out with a PDA that you can roll up and kill a fly with. Unitl then, paper has the nod in that category.
it is on the front page at http://www.handspring.com - free phone with purchase of any new Visor - and 1 year activation of the phone. The Wireless internet access is an extra $5 per month, as well as $ 0.15 per minute of internet access. And AFAIK, the system does connect with TCP/IP, so you can connect to the 'net, then with the proper programs, telnet into any box and run remote commands from it. Plus the phone works at 56K (I know it maxes out at 53K in the US) - but for web surfing, it works well, plus you can also adjust the cache that it uses for web pages, so if you are careful, you can keep about 6 MB worth of web pages for reference, so you can still look up the info without actually having to get online to view it.
I've got one, and they aren't perfect, but all in all, its not a bad device. I get my Visor functionality, and by adding a very small module, I can ditch my old cellphone, and get similar, if not better reception. And I can use the internet. Not the WAP internet, the full internet. I can pull up slashdot. The Blazer software is just a giant proxy server that strips out the useless code that the Visor can't run anyway (Java, Flash, etc.) But all in all, it is a solid product that was probably ahead of its time, proven by the fact that they are making smaller hybrid devices. But these "big and old" VisorPhones will definately go down in history as the first useful convergent device. If what I remember is correct, the Visor line was created with the VisorPhone in mind. (Hence the hardwired microphone that is useless to any non-springboard device.)
No hack are available for one simple reason. The two leads for the speaker are hard wired directly to the module pins. The only hacks would be springboard modules, since they are the only things that could access said hard-wired leads. The only other option would be a springboard voice recorder (which I do believe exist.)
Here's the synopsis of the article -
The article doesn't say much more than the link doesn't say much more than that the appeals court denied the delay.
Don't forget - if you really want to be an up-and coming dot-bomber, you have to order a couple hundred of those $700 chairs, ao that there is a little something to auction off when the bankruptcy becomes finalized.
This is quite simple - apparently they are "requiring" at the very least a trademark of the name on the domain. In your case "McDonald's Heating & Air" could take that domain, but only if they trademarked the quoted name. I have no right to it, but from what I see here, I would simply have to claim that I own a trademark, or represent someone who owns a trademark (which doesn't exist) and I could fradulently acquire a very high priced domain. But who's to say that it is right or wrong? The company registering the domains. They paid for the right to sell the domains, so they should be held accountable for all violations of the rules regarding them. If it is $300 to challenge a domain, you should get it all back if you are correct. That fee should only be used to deter bogus claims - not deter legitimate claims. But welcome to the internet - your stinking laws don't apply here...
exactly - I have a small website that I run (and pay for) all by myself. I make a point NOT to have advertising on my page, or links that take you anywhere outside my site. Now I know that my target audience is a bit on the young side, ones that would probably install a file-sharing software, not knowing what all is being installed. Next thing I know, a few words on my page now have links, and when the kids click on the links, they are taken to sites that have nothing to do with my site, and they either give up on my site, thinking it is just too confusing to navigate through, or they write me letters saying that I have broken links, when I KNOW that there are no borken links on my pages, and not even a single link that I have put to an outside site. Thus, a 3rd party is modifying my content without my permission, and I'll be damned if I am just going to sit here and take it. If there is going to be advertising on my site, you can bet that I will be the one profitting from it, not some sleazy advertising company that found a way to add on a program to some kids computer and bombard them with ads for stuff they can't legally buy anyway....
That's insane, especially since they said that it (their storage) was amlost always full. that, and something like 98,000 processor-days of computational power. Damn, that just makes the end product all the better. Maybe we'll see a FF Movie style game in a few decades ( or when we all have 10TB drives in our 256 processor boxen...
Right, however, M$ would never do this in a corporate environment, becuase there is too much money to lose in scaring companies into buying too many licenses. I know the stats on "business piracy", but does anyone have any hard numbers on mow many places that have been scared by these tactics that have between 25-50% MORE licenses than they need? Just handing M$ money when they already have more than enough useless pieces of paper that says that they can install Office XP or Win2K? I notice those numbers are kept tightly under wraps...
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Actually, looking at http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm - they put the average 2013 ticket price at $8.16 - this means that if you want to compare apples to apples, then the $800mm in sales is equal to $108.8mm - which doesn't even get to HALF the #200 all time box office movie, adjusted for inflation.
For comparison, the last Twilight movie made $292mm. Just under triple what GTA V pulled in, if you want to compare apples to apples.
If you want a worldwide comparison, and ignore controlling for cost of ticket/cost of game, GTA V is in 39th place overall (http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/) - not bad, but if you adjust for ticket price, it's not even in the top 500 worldwide overall.
Now if there was only a way for one to gain this experience. Maybe we could call such a thing, life...
Experience is something you don't have until just after you needed it.
What would a 5 foot drop create but a surplus of torque?
By my basic reading, the drop is converted into rotational energy, which is used to charge (kinetic ally) a capacitor which would provide roughly 4 hours of power for a 10 LED array. There may have been liberties taken with the output, but not to the extreme that everyone else is talking here. 1/160th of 4 hours is 1.5 minutes - which seems to be the consensus of how much energy would be created by a 5 foot drop of 50 lbs.
Thinking of a crank powered light, a 48 inch drop, a 160:1 gear ratio (7680 inches traveled), and assuming a 6 inch diameter cranking apparatus (circumference = 18.85 inches) , this would have the functional equivalent of cranking the light by hand 407 times.
I seem to remember old incandescent lights, and they lasted a lot longer than 1.5 minutes when I turned them 50-60 times. With the improved efficiency of LEDs, and gravity not tiring out like a kid's arm - I could see this as feasible in the future. Maybe not 4 hours, but I would say closer to 4 hours than 2 minutes, like all the naysayers here claim.
Why is it that the fastest runner in the world cannot hold a candle to the fastest cyclist? This concept shows, if you would bother to read it, a gear in the base with a 1:160 ratio. Thus, at perfect efficiency, the weight is not falling 48-54 inches, rather the motion would be transferred 160-fold - thus 7680-8640 inches (640-720 foot equivalent)
This seems to be in line with what you are all arguing. Change your math(s) from a drop of 48" to 7680" - I'll bet it becomes more feasible.
I'm not saying that this is possible today, or should be rushed into mass production. But don't blindly hate on it, or dismiss it simply because you do not bother to read all about it first.
Wait a minute - this is Slashdot. Flame away, since you did not think of it first.
True - and those that don't - deserve anything listed above in the original essay. Follow the rules, and you can't be sued. Don't follow the rules, and you should be surprised when someone eventually calls you on it.
Please remember - most political groups are EXEMPT from the DNC registry - the DNC list is for business only.
AGP only, it seems. No love for us PCI-E types.
From the press release:
10m - 3,600 yen
20m - 6,000 yen
30m - 8,400 yen
100m - 24,000 yen
Window Kit - 2,400 yen
So, if you buy in bulk (100m) - it comes down to around $.70 per foot.
Not cheap, but for the niche application, not obscenely expensive.
NO, this is America's first COMMERCIAL inland Spaceport. This is where the first commercial space flight took off and landed from - hence the soon to be renamed Mojave Spaceport.
Hell yeah...
Well, if you can get a degree in 'computer programming' then yes - this should be a 'computer programming' AP exam.
As such - I went to school for a 'Computer science' degree, and my programming classes were 'computer science' classes - thus the AP exam is rightly 'Computer Science' - if you score well enough on the test - you should get CS credits.
I added some emphasis to your text. Basically, they can charge $100 for the permit. Then the CBI can charge you an extra fee to run your fingerprints.
If you don't like it, don't apply for a CCW. If the CCW is that important to you, then pay the fees. It doesn't seem that outrageous to me. The fingerprint fees are no higher then here in CA.
Deal with it people. If
It makes no sense - they guy SAYS that it can be broken - but it is meant to deter "casual copying". A bit like wrapping a chain around a bike without really locking it - to deter the "casual bike thief". But they bring up the DMCA - so until that gets thrown out, they have a good legal loophole with which they can go after anyone who manages to rip their CD's.
And their big explanation is that the song title and artist don't show up, so therefore people can't copy them? Hell, I was copying CD's long before programs had internet lookup of CD's - I would rip the track - then label it...what a novel concept...
Don't forget these things...
1. Security - You have some important numbers that you need to know, but you don't want others to know you have - say the HR dept. of a company you are looking at working for, a mistress, etc. You can hide those names from even appearing unless you have the correct password.
2. Sharing - Say you meet a new group of people, and you want to get their phone numbers. Just link the 2 IR ports, hit 1 button, wait about 20 seconds - all the people in the phonebook are transferred to your PDA. No worries about spelling, illegible numbers - nothing.
3. Phone/internet capabilities - I know this is worthless to someone who would actually consider paper over a PDA, but since this is still a tech forum (I think...) being able to access multiple devices without having to find your computer, or drive onsite to fix a small thing that could be done byu issuing a command (to reboot a hung server, etc.) these things are perfect for such use. And now, couple it with the fact that you could get a base model Visor for $129 - and a free phone module, you are now hitting the price point of base model cell phones, with so much more to offer. Even the top of the line color Visor is like $350 - still $150 below the Kyocera phone/PDA - and you get a full size Visor screen - with 16 bit color.
Now if they could only up the resolution to 320x320 - then they would have the ultimate device - until they come out with a PDA that you can roll up and kill a fly with. Unitl then, paper has the nod in that category.
it is on the front page at http://www.handspring.com - free phone with purchase of any new Visor - and 1 year activation of the phone. The Wireless internet access is an extra $5 per month, as well as $ 0.15 per minute of internet access. And AFAIK, the system does connect with TCP/IP, so you can connect to the 'net, then with the proper programs, telnet into any box and run remote commands from it. Plus the phone works at 56K (I know it maxes out at 53K in the US) - but for web surfing, it works well, plus you can also adjust the cache that it uses for web pages, so if you are careful, you can keep about 6 MB worth of web pages for reference, so you can still look up the info without actually having to get online to view it.
I've got one, and they aren't perfect, but all in all, its not a bad device. I get my Visor functionality, and by adding a very small module, I can ditch my old cellphone, and get similar, if not better reception. And I can use the internet. Not the WAP internet, the full internet. I can pull up slashdot. The Blazer software is just a giant proxy server that strips out the useless code that the Visor can't run anyway (Java, Flash, etc.) But all in all, it is a solid product that was probably ahead of its time, proven by the fact that they are making smaller hybrid devices. But these "big and old" VisorPhones will definately go down in history as the first useful convergent device. If what I remember is correct, the Visor line was created with the VisorPhone in mind. (Hence the hardwired microphone that is useless to any non-springboard device.)
No hack are available for one simple reason. The two leads for the speaker are hard wired directly to the module pins. The only hacks would be springboard modules, since they are the only things that could access said hard-wired leads. The only other option would be a springboard voice recorder (which I do believe exist.)
Here's the synopsis of the article - The article doesn't say much more than the link doesn't say much more than that the appeals court denied the delay.
Don't forget - if you really want to be an up-and coming dot-bomber, you have to order a couple hundred of those $700 chairs, ao that there is a little something to auction off when the bankruptcy becomes finalized.
This is quite simple - apparently they are "requiring" at the very least a trademark of the name on the domain. In your case "McDonald's Heating & Air" could take that domain, but only if they trademarked the quoted name. I have no right to it, but from what I see here, I would simply have to claim that I own a trademark, or represent someone who owns a trademark (which doesn't exist) and I could fradulently acquire a very high priced domain. But who's to say that it is right or wrong? The company registering the domains. They paid for the right to sell the domains, so they should be held accountable for all violations of the rules regarding them. If it is $300 to challenge a domain, you should get it all back if you are correct. That fee should only be used to deter bogus claims - not deter legitimate claims. But welcome to the internet - your stinking laws don't apply here...
exactly - I have a small website that I run (and pay for) all by myself. I make a point NOT to have advertising on my page, or links that take you anywhere outside my site. Now I know that my target audience is a bit on the young side, ones that would probably install a file-sharing software, not knowing what all is being installed. Next thing I know, a few words on my page now have links, and when the kids click on the links, they are taken to sites that have nothing to do with my site, and they either give up on my site, thinking it is just too confusing to navigate through, or they write me letters saying that I have broken links, when I KNOW that there are no borken links on my pages, and not even a single link that I have put to an outside site. Thus, a 3rd party is modifying my content without my permission, and I'll be damned if I am just going to sit here and take it. If there is going to be advertising on my site, you can bet that I will be the one profitting from it, not some sleazy advertising company that found a way to add on a program to some kids computer and bombard them with ads for stuff they can't legally buy anyway....
That's insane, especially since they said that it (their storage) was amlost always full. that, and something like 98,000 processor-days of computational power. Damn, that just makes the end product all the better. Maybe we'll see a FF Movie style game in a few decades ( or when we all have 10TB drives in our 256 processor boxen...
Right, however, M$ would never do this in a corporate environment, becuase there is too much money to lose in scaring companies into buying too many licenses. I know the stats on "business piracy", but does anyone have any hard numbers on mow many places that have been scared by these tactics that have between 25-50% MORE licenses than they need? Just handing M$ money when they already have more than enough useless pieces of paper that says that they can install Office XP or Win2K? I notice those numbers are kept tightly under wraps...
Since when are the Boy Scouts of America so worried about software piracy? I thought they just ran around tying knots and playing with fire...
Does anoyone out there have a copy of said letter, so we can see just how "threatening" it really is?