So get it licensed as an experimental helicopter and stick some N-numbers on the side. You can legally carry more than 5 gallons at that point. Once you've flown off the required number of hours you can then fly at night and over populated areas.
I like the fast food reference. Reading the description reminded me of the totally degrading hamburger hats that the fast-food workers at "Burger Shot" in Grand Theft Auto are forced to wear. Why a T-shirt? Why not go all the way with a hat that looks like an open laptop? "Jenkins?, where's your mini-tower hat? Come see me in my office!"
It shows that management values conformity, rules-following and teamwork over creativity, individualism and the ability to think outside the box. It could be argued that some or all of those are desired but the group would need a mixture of these to be successful.
Otherwise you risk becoming a mindless Burger Shot droid like in GTA San Andreas.
Today I saw a video presentation of a new product called Firefly by ActiveState (The folks that publish a popular Win32 perl). Not FOSS, in fact, they host the whole thing on their server. At least there's nothing to install. You can get a free account and set up projects but if you want to set up a private project (i.e. one that's only accessible to your group) you'll need to pay. They cater to many development methodologies. Also they allow you to use a couple of choices for version control--Mercurial and Subversion. It includes a ticketing system and a feature that allows you to see what code changes were done in the fixing of an issue. http://www.activestate.com/ I think it's usable.
Wow, that's pretty strong stuff. What kind of yeast strain can withstand that level of alchohol? The Ninja yeast that Sam Adams uses is good to about 25% or so. Is the yeast open source?
I can't see how this would solve much. Sure, you could easily port Flash Apps to the iphone, but I don't think this addresses Flash that's embedded in web pages. For example, I've built several websites that have embedded flash. There's no way I'm going to go to all of the trouble to make an iPhone-compatible website which presumably would involve compiling flash for the iphone and editing the HTML.
Even still, it seems improbable that there'd be a mechanism to execute iphone apps imbedded in web pages. Although I guess an extension to Safari could be developed that could handle it.
Yep, I agree with the folks that have mentioned business plans. One of the neat things about a business plan is you get to look at all of the possibilities of how your idea, as a product or service, will earn you money. Part of this process is an attempt at assessing exactly how big the market is, which would lead in to a guess at how many units you will sell. Then when you get to decide what the price will be, you can start to get a ballpark for what the idea is worth. Now granted, these are all rough guesses and, but it gets you started. (Ideally, these would be things you'd start thinking about before you embark on a project of this magnitude. and if you have, already then great, write it down in your business plan.)
When so-called scientists stop trumpeting 30 years of data as "all of recorded history" (which, when referring to the Arctic Ice, they regularly do), they can begin to be taken seriously. Until then, their data only makes sense, as with all conspiracy theories, when kept apart from the necessary (though inconvenient) context of opposing data.
Yeah, you've got a lot of people agreeing with you: 20% of all scientists and a whopping 3% of all climatologists.
The challenge with this plan is how are they going to transmit the energy from 30,000 feet? How much does 40,000 feet of cable weigh? That's about 7 miles. Perhaps they could use lightweight tether and beam the energy using microwave like the space energy proposal but that adds complexity. BTW, The design referred to in the article uses a series of helicopter-like blades to sustain lift and generate electricity.
Yeah, I like your attitude. My commute is relatively short and simple--8 minutes by car, but on a bike it's about 15 minutes. So when my car broke down in January I decided not to fix it and have been bike commuting ever since and have been feeling really good ever since. If you do this try to ease into it otherwise you'll be apt to feeling achy. Try to keep from burning out by always giving yourself permission to take it slow. At the end of a long day when you don't really feel like riding, just get on the bike and take it slow. You may find after 5-10 minutes of riding that your energy will pick up and you are back at your normal pace but don't push it.
Why would DARPA want this? Maybe they want a AI that can navigate aircraft or gound vehicles? BTW, I think it's ironic that autonomous operation seems easier to develop for aircraft than for ground vehicles when you consider that pilots get way more respect than the average municipal bus driver.
That's how they've done it--by hijacking the browser whenever you enter an unknown website in the address bar. What I had to do is edit my hosts file, setting 127.0.0.1 bing.com 127.0.0.1 www.bing.com
If you do that, test it out because there are a few other hikack websites that may show up. Just add those sites to your hosts file as well and test until you get a real "unable to access website" error message.
You wouldn't legally be able to use this in the U.S. because it would be a HIPAA violation to transmit health information over an unsecured channel. It does allow for SSL-level encryption, however.
Suppose science is able to clone a healthy baby from wart tissue. (Bear with me here) The cells are undeniably human and since it would then be shown that a live human can be derived from it, would you then conclude that to discard removed warts is murder?
Embryos can't live outside of a uteris or other life-sustaining environment. Neither can removed warts.
1. Use algae to generate it 2. Direct solar conversion of water to hydrogen using photoelectrochemical semiconductor panels. 3. Using high temperatures from a nuclear energy plant to heat and crack water into hydrogen and oxygen
This may open the possibility of cheaper PET scans. Currently, the limitation of PET scans is the answer to this question: "How far away is the nearest Cyclotron?" The half life of the radioactive material used in Positron Emission Tomography, typically Flourine-18, is ~110 minutes. With a laser that can generate positrons, you could have a mobile PET scan unit that would only need to rely on being able to connect to the grid.
When I was younger, I think I did a lot more pleasure reading than my peers. I'd give any budding geek a subscription to Make Magazine. It's a quarterly, but there's a lot of neat info packed into each issue that run through a spectrum if interests. http://makezine.com/
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So get it licensed as an experimental helicopter and stick some N-numbers on the side. You can legally carry more than 5 gallons at that point. Once you've flown off the required number of hours you can then fly at night and over populated areas.
I like the fast food reference. Reading the description reminded me of the totally degrading hamburger hats that the fast-food workers at "Burger Shot" in Grand Theft Auto are forced to wear. Why a T-shirt? Why not go all the way with a hat that looks like an open laptop? "Jenkins?, where's your mini-tower hat? Come see me in my office!"
It shows that management values conformity, rules-following and teamwork over creativity, individualism and the ability to think outside the box. It could be argued that some or all of those are desired but the group would need a mixture of these to be successful.
Otherwise you risk becoming a mindless Burger Shot droid like in GTA San Andreas.
BTM
Today I saw a video presentation of a new product called Firefly by ActiveState (The folks that publish a popular Win32 perl). Not FOSS, in fact, they host the whole thing on their server. At least there's nothing to install. You can get a free account and set up projects but if you want to set up a private project (i.e. one that's only accessible to your group) you'll need to pay. They cater to many development methodologies. Also they allow you to use a couple of choices for version control--Mercurial and Subversion. It includes a ticketing system and a feature that allows you to see what code changes were done in the fixing of an issue. http://www.activestate.com/ I think it's usable.
I think the main hindrance is that air vehicles, while relatively easy to control, are still harder to control than cars.
If that is the case then why is it that planes such as UAVs routinely fly themselves, but cars are no where near that level of capability?
Wow, that's pretty strong stuff. What kind of yeast strain can withstand that level of alchohol? The Ninja yeast that Sam Adams uses is good to about 25% or so. Is the yeast open source?
I can't see how this would solve much. Sure, you could easily port Flash Apps to the iphone, but I don't think this addresses Flash that's embedded in web pages. For example, I've built several websites that have embedded flash. There's no way I'm going to go to all of the trouble to make an iPhone-compatible website which presumably would involve compiling flash for the iphone and editing the HTML.
Even still, it seems improbable that there'd be a mechanism to execute iphone apps imbedded in web pages. Although I guess an extension to Safari could be developed that could handle it.
Yep, I agree with the folks that have mentioned business plans. One of the neat things about a business plan is you get to look at all of the possibilities of how your idea, as a product or service, will earn you money. Part of this process is an attempt at assessing exactly how big the market is, which would lead in to a guess at how many units you will sell. Then when you get to decide what the price will be, you can start to get a ballpark for what the idea is worth. Now granted, these are all rough guesses and, but it gets you started. (Ideally, these would be things you'd start thinking about before you embark on a project of this magnitude. and if you have, already then great, write it down in your business plan.)
BTM
When so-called scientists stop trumpeting 30 years of data as "all of recorded history" (which, when referring to the Arctic Ice, they regularly do), they can begin to be taken seriously. Until then, their data only makes sense, as with all conspiracy theories, when kept apart from the necessary (though inconvenient) context of opposing data.
Yeah, you've got a lot of people agreeing with you: 20% of all scientists and a whopping 3% of all climatologists.
BTM
Yep and it will feature a new scripting language called LavaScript.
I wonder if there were any bucky balls or carbon nanotubes in that soot?
The challenge with this plan is how are they going to transmit the energy from 30,000 feet? How much does 40,000 feet of cable weigh? That's about 7 miles. Perhaps they could use lightweight tether and beam the energy using microwave like the space energy proposal but that adds complexity. BTW, The design referred to in the article uses a series of helicopter-like blades to sustain lift and generate electricity.
BTM
Why don't they add in an analogue television signal?
BTM
Yeah, I like your attitude. My commute is relatively short and simple--8 minutes by car, but on a bike it's about 15 minutes. So when my car broke down in January I decided not to fix it and have been bike commuting ever since and have been feeling really good ever since. If you do this try to ease into it otherwise you'll be apt to feeling achy. Try to keep from burning out by always giving yourself permission to take it slow. At the end of a long day when you don't really feel like riding, just get on the bike and take it slow. You may find after 5-10 minutes of riding that your energy will pick up and you are back at your normal pace but don't push it.
BTM
Why would DARPA want this? Maybe they want a AI that can navigate aircraft or gound vehicles? BTW, I think it's ironic that autonomous operation seems easier to develop for aircraft than for ground vehicles when you consider that pilots get way more respect than the average municipal bus driver.
BTM
That's how they've done it--by hijacking the browser whenever you enter an unknown website in the address bar. What I had to do is edit my hosts file, setting 127.0.0.1 bing.com
127.0.0.1 www.bing.com
If you do that, test it out because there are a few other hikack websites that may show up. Just add those sites to your hosts file as well and test until you get a real "unable to access website" error message.
BTM
Yeah, I guess the OP would just have to convert his C++ project over to Java which is pretty much trivial! (since they both use C-based syntax)
Can't you just drag the window wide so it fills all the screens?
BTM
FireStormZ, Dude!, That's some nice trolling! Clever statistical anomally juggling there too--got 'em all riled up!
You wouldn't legally be able to use this in the U.S. because it would be a HIPAA violation to transmit health information over an unsecured channel. It does allow for SSL-level encryption, however.
BTM
Now for the really tough choice:
Suppose science is able to clone a healthy baby from wart tissue. (Bear with me here) The cells are undeniably human and since it would then be shown that a live human can be derived from it, would you then conclude that to discard removed warts is murder?
Embryos can't live outside of a uteris or other life-sustaining environment. Neither can removed warts.
BTM
Now that's where you are wrong! Gasoline is 100% efficient at being gasoline.
BTM
Let's see, ways to make Hydrogen:
1. Use algae to generate it
2. Direct solar conversion of water to hydrogen using photoelectrochemical semiconductor panels.
3. Using high temperatures from a nuclear energy plant to heat and crack water into hydrogen and oxygen
4. Oh yeah! Neanderthal-style electrolysis.
BTM
The thrust of this test is appoximately equivalent to the gross weight of a 747. So you could use it to make a 747 hover like a Harrier!
This may open the possibility of cheaper PET scans. Currently, the limitation of PET scans is the answer to this question: "How far away is the nearest Cyclotron?" The half life of the radioactive material used in Positron Emission Tomography, typically Flourine-18, is ~110 minutes. With a laser that can generate positrons, you could have a mobile PET scan unit that would only need to rely on being able to connect to the grid.
BTM
When I was younger, I think I did a lot more pleasure reading than my peers. I'd give any budding geek a subscription to Make Magazine. It's a quarterly, but there's a lot of neat info packed into each issue that run through a spectrum if interests. http://makezine.com/
BTM