Unfortunately I can't agree with your last statement. There isn't much a joe-schmoe like me can do. Gone are the days when us citizens could walk up to the white house and talk to our president. Today, the president gives his hello's-and-how-are-ya's to money. Who has money? Not me, but those corporations do. Sure the public is partly to blame. We want immediate results and we want to feel like we are winning. Its easier to go after those who we call "the others". I can go on and on over my rant. Mr. Ashcroft lost an election to a corpse, is there anything more we need to say?
I give you that it may be easier than a heli "8 years ago", but that isn't what I am saying or arguing. The FMA CoP was already out before this machine was. This isn't anything new to me. I've seen the builders at the local club do all sorts of weird projects. I guess my point was why spend $700+ for this piece of crap that is being marketed as an RC Heli when you can get yourself a.30 size machine for much cheaper. Sure Heli's might be complicated, but its no more complicated than any other airborne R/C sport (except maybe blimps).
Crashing is a part of the learning experience. What many of us did is we take two long dowel and make an "X" out of them and attach it to the bottom of the heli. THis gives in a big footprint so if one was to come down the wrong way, the heli won't tip.
Given the FMA co-pilot and heading hold gyro, the heli can fly on its owwn almost.
link to FMA co-pilot: https://www.fmadirect.com/site/fma.htm?body=Produc ts&cat=20
I'll probably burn more money in fuel than you'll pay me. On a clear day, with no wind I can hover my machine without any input for the entire tank of gas. Furthermore, my piezo gyro is a heading hold gyro so it'll maintain its heading while in the air. Don't make bets on stuff that you'll lose money on.
I have been flying r/c gas-powered, gyro-stabilized helicopters for 8 years now. This is nothing new. Most people can buy a full fledged heli setup for $700 or so. Back about 5 years ago, solid state gyros (piezo gyros) came out and have made the old mechanical gyros seem slow and imprecise. For more info on "real" r/c helicopters here are some links:
I fly an X-Cell Graphite 60 size helicopter with a futaba 9zhs (9 channel) computer radio controller, futaba gy601 piezo gyro, OS.61 SX-H engine. Any questions, feel free to ask.
For those asking about rolling in changes to Wine
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I e-mailed Mr. White a while back when Office 1.0 was released. He told me that they will be rolling all the changes back into the wine tree. For the money you pay, you get support plus the nifty installer. I am very pleased with their work and have purchased a copy. In the desktoplinux.com interview, Mr. White says they have gone past the 10,000 mark. People say that you can't make money of open-source but Crossover is doing a decent job. They are rolling changes back and offering a product that people want.
One thing I want to know is how soon the specific Quicken patches will the rolled back into the Wine main tree. Any ideas?
With the lastest advances in comptuer, e-mail, and e-whatever use on campuses has prompted the computer-age equivalent of "my dog ate it" excuses. All I hear from people is:
"oh my e-mail isn't working" "my computer crashed" "my printer doesn't have ink" "the network is down"
The problem is that these things happen frequently as well so they cannot be just passed off as an excuse. Sure, with the load on school websites around midterm and final time, it is plausible the server might have been inaccessible. So what do you do? Hold it against the student? You can't because of circumstance. Now with this entire e-book thing which I can't stand. I've done a lot of research and sure using an online database to help search the card catalog is nice but reading books online is a drag. Let's face it, staring at a computer screen is far more fatiguing than staring at a book. I want access to both the e-book and the hardcopy. Lastly, I am not shelling out a couple hundred bucks for an iPaq nor am I carrying my laptop on campus. I already have enough to carry and a laptop + charger doesn't help anything. The iPaq is just too much money and I don't see much use for it since I can do everything on my laptop. I bought a Palm pilot when they first came out many years ago. Other than checking for an occassional phone number, I never use the thing. Its a waste of money for me. Sure I see my friends trying to make good use of theirs by sitting their and struggling with the stylus on the same stuff that would take me 1/3 the time.
Bottom line, computer equipment needs to be more reliable, the networks need to be able to take the strain, and PDAs need to come down in price.
Technically speaking, if the law passes in the US, it would make hacking legal for the companies. Since most corporations have to be sued as an entity but not the individual, I doubt this will work on studio executives. I could imagine that if a studio hacked an Austrialian computer system, then the studio would be help liable and could be technically sued for infringing upon the rights of Austrailians. I fail to see how you could implicate a studio executive unless they specifically authorized it themselves, then they might be held liable. I guess complicated laws are why we lawyers, right?
I guess they are using two 128-bit buses to maximize memory bandwidth. I don't see what is so revolutionary about this. Unfortunately, if the graphics processor itself is slow and can't utilize the bandwidth, what's the point?
Case in point... the new Parhelia by Matrox has seen some overclocking and they have found that performance percentage gain is linear to core clock speed percentage gain. It's still a slow card relative to the current FPS kings.
On a side note, I am a Matrox fan and have owned a G200, G400max, and will be getting my Parhelia soon. I don't game as much and can use three monitors. =)
Pinball is not dying off. What I see is that kids think that pinball is too easy and not challenging enough. That really isn't the case, I see that people want to do the cool thing and play those hefty 3d packed video games. I've also realized that a lot of arcades don't keep pinball machines since there is no competition with other players and games can last a long time. If pinball is dying, it is at the hands of the arcade owners, not the customers.
I helped my roommate out on this project. The cars roll around the track following sensors. I helped him design some of the stuff. It can be difficult since the car has to interpret the signal into steering and speed control. I wish that UCLA had a specific class for this competition because other schools get the leg up on us because of this.
Lynx won't render them correctly due to its weird colors. Ascii art back in the day was great since it could be seen anywhere.
People have entirely too much time on their hands.
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Sure I think its cool that someone figured out you could do this. But, lets just say that I think that people have too much time on their hands. Back in the BBS days, people would make some awesome ascii art. In all honesty, this is nice but it doesn't comapre to some of the stuff I have seen back in the day.
With all of the Sept 11th "security measures" I would recommend that you have your laptop ready to turn on just in case at the airport terminal. Also, they will ask you take your machine out of its case and then they'll pass it through their x-ray machines. Make sure you don't have it stuffed at the bottom of your carry-ons. I don't know how good your battery life is, or what class you will be flying but if you are going in economy make sure you bring at least two batteries. If you are in first or business class, you can always buy their on-board power cords that hook up into the plane (depending on airline). As for games, I would suggest the old simcity, tetris, pinball, etc. You don't want some massively 3d game sucking up your battery power. Also, I don't know what kind of rechargers come with your laptop but be ready for an inevitable bump in line voltage in europe (220v). And, you can save your on-board modem some trouble by buying a line testing kit/adapter. This saved me from frying my modem on a trip to Saudi many years ago (their teleco line voltage is much more than it is here).
I somehow don't understand why microsoft needed to do this. First of all, can't the keys be regained using the same technique the MIT student used the first time? If I remember correctly, he used an unencrypted part of the bus to watch as data flew by. Quite stupid on microsoft's part, but brilliant on the student behalf. As for nVidia, I don't think they had anything to worry about when it came to microsoft. I would have told microsft to deal with its problems until the manufactured chips ran out. oh, and one more thing, the student never gave out the codes, so why does microsoft need to change the keys?
I find it so funny that in this day and age, getting a password is so easy. I've had friends posing as campus computer specialists get passwords into the most "holy grail" of computer systems. I can't get into much detail here but what people don't understand is that your password is more than your house key. It has your life behind it. Especially when these days people use online stock trading, medical record databases, personal e-mail, financial accounts, bills, etc. I routinely have to go to my parents house to make sure that they aren't saving passwords on their home computer to extremely sensitive sites. I have to make sure there system's drives are encrypted for that just-in-case scenerio. People I guess just don't understand.
As for these small devices that people use to "hack", I largely doubt there is much to worry about.
1) I have a full tower case that is completely full of CD-RW, DVD-ROM, ZIP, a couple HD's. So I have no room.
and...
2) I like to see the display on my PDA when I do certain tasks.
Sure this mod might clear up some desk clutter but think about, is the disadvantage of losing a slot and/or buying a bigger case worth not having a PDA on your desk? I find that my PDA tucks in nicely between the monitor and speakers.
* DemoLinux - http://www.demolinux.org/ Dedicated to bootable Linux CD distributions.
* LNX-BBC - http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ Business Card Sized Open-Source Bootable CD.
* Mondo Restore/Rescue Utility - http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ Use a live bootable Linux CD for your system backups and recovery.
* Linux - Live on CD - http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier/ Linux - Live on CD. Hard disk not required
* Dyne Bolic - http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic/ Complete GNU/Linux operating system working without the need for any hard-disk.
* Diskless Nodes - http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO-3.htm l Includes information on creating your own live CD.
* Virtual Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual-linux Bootable Mandrake Linux distribution with 1.6 gigs worth of tools and toys on a single CD.
I just had to be a lamer just once. As for web comics, I am a huge fan. Not having access to dead-tree newspapers is often a problem in college. I regularly download and save such comics for adding to my collection. I'll be the buying myself the hardcopy version as soon as funds allow it.
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This happened a long time ago and I think Salon covered it. Maybe I read it on another website.
Unfortunately I can't agree with your last statement. There isn't much a joe-schmoe like me can do. Gone are the days when us citizens could walk up to the white house and talk to our president. Today, the president gives his hello's-and-how-are-ya's to money. Who has money? Not me, but those corporations do. Sure the public is partly to blame. We want immediate results and we want to feel like we are winning. Its easier to go after those who we call "the others". I can go on and on over my rant. Mr. Ashcroft lost an election to a corpse, is there anything more we need to say?
I give you that it may be easier than a heli "8 years ago", but that isn't what I am saying or arguing. The FMA CoP was already out before this machine was. This isn't anything new to me. I've seen the builders at the local club do all sorts of weird projects. I guess my point was why spend $700+ for this piece of crap that is being marketed as an RC Heli when you can get yourself a .30 size machine for much cheaper. Sure Heli's might be complicated, but its no more complicated than any other airborne R/C sport (except maybe blimps).
I'll hand you my controls with wind and all. I'll run my heading hold gyro and an FMA Co-P. You can let the sticks go and it works great. Want a link?
d uc ts&cat=20
https://www.fmadirect.com/site/fma.htm?body=Pro
Sorry buddy, the DragonFly is nothing new.
on which we can learn.
Its not that hard: http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index.html
*Weight: 11 lbs
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*Flight time: 10-15 minutes on each tank of gas. No recharging, just fill it and your off again.
*Cameras: Sure can put them on...
http://gewurtz.mit.edu/research/heli.htm#pics
http://runryder.com/gallery/00830/pic_of_camera
http://runryder.com/gallery/01683/RaptorCam3_la
http://runryder.com/gallery/01683/RaptorCam3_02
there are tons more if you want to see.
Crashing is a part of the learning experience. What many of us did is we take two long dowel and make an "X" out of them and attach it to the bottom of the heli. THis gives in a big footprint so if one was to come down the wrong way, the heli won't tip.
c ts&cat=20
Given the FMA co-pilot and heading hold gyro, the heli can fly on its owwn almost.
link to FMA co-pilot: https://www.fmadirect.com/site/fma.htm?body=Produ
I'll probably burn more money in fuel than you'll pay me. On a clear day, with no wind I can hover my machine without any input for the entire tank of gas. Furthermore, my piezo gyro is a heading hold gyro so it'll maintain its heading while in the air. Don't make bets on stuff that you'll lose money on.
I have been flying r/c gas-powered, gyro-stabilized helicopters for 8 years now. This is nothing new. Most people can buy a full fledged heli setup for $700 or so. Back about 5 years ago, solid state gyros (piezo gyros) came out and have made the old mechanical gyros seem slow and imprecise. For more info on "real" r/c helicopters here are some links:
. century.comh eli-world.comt aba-rc.com
.61 SX-H engine. Any questions, feel free to ask.
http://www.miniatureaircraftusa.com
http://www
http://www.heliproz.com
http://www.
http://runryder.com
http://www.fu
http://www.osengines.com
I fly an X-Cell Graphite 60 size helicopter with a futaba 9zhs (9 channel) computer radio controller, futaba gy601 piezo gyro, OS
Awesome support!
Thanks for the info.
I e-mailed Mr. White a while back when Office 1.0 was released. He told me that they will be rolling all the changes back into the wine tree. For the money you pay, you get support plus the nifty installer. I am very pleased with their work and have purchased a copy. In the desktoplinux.com interview, Mr. White says they have gone past the 10,000 mark. People say that you can't make money of open-source but Crossover is doing a decent job. They are rolling changes back and offering a product that people want.
One thing I want to know is how soon the specific Quicken patches will the rolled back into the Wine main tree. Any ideas?
With the lastest advances in comptuer, e-mail, and e-whatever use on campuses has prompted the computer-age equivalent of "my dog ate it" excuses. All I hear from people is:
"oh my e-mail isn't working"
"my computer crashed"
"my printer doesn't have ink"
"the network is down"
The problem is that these things happen frequently as well so they cannot be just passed off as an excuse. Sure, with the load on school websites around midterm and final time, it is plausible the server might have been inaccessible. So what do you do? Hold it against the student? You can't because of circumstance. Now with this entire e-book thing which I can't stand. I've done a lot of research and sure using an online database to help search the card catalog is nice but reading books online is a drag. Let's face it, staring at a computer screen is far more fatiguing than staring at a book. I want access to both the e-book and the hardcopy. Lastly, I am not shelling out a couple hundred bucks for an iPaq nor am I carrying my laptop on campus. I already have enough to carry and a laptop + charger doesn't help anything. The iPaq is just too much money and I don't see much use for it since I can do everything on my laptop. I bought a Palm pilot when they first came out many years ago. Other than checking for an occassional phone number, I never use the thing. Its a waste of money for me. Sure I see my friends trying to make good use of theirs by sitting their and struggling with the stylus on the same stuff that would take me 1/3 the time.
Bottom line, computer equipment needs to be more reliable, the networks need to be able to take the strain, and PDAs need to come down in price.
Technically speaking, if the law passes in the US, it would make hacking legal for the companies. Since most corporations have to be sued as an entity but not the individual, I doubt this will work on studio executives. I could imagine that if a studio hacked an Austrialian computer system, then the studio would be help liable and could be technically sued for infringing upon the rights of Austrailians. I fail to see how you could implicate a studio executive unless they specifically authorized it themselves, then they might be held liable. I guess complicated laws are why we lawyers, right?
I guess they are using two 128-bit buses to maximize memory bandwidth. I don't see what is so revolutionary about this. Unfortunately, if the graphics processor itself is slow and can't utilize the bandwidth, what's the point?
Case in point... the new Parhelia by Matrox has seen some overclocking and they have found that performance percentage gain is linear to core clock speed percentage gain. It's still a slow card relative to the current FPS kings.
On a side note, I am a Matrox fan and have owned a G200, G400max, and will be getting my Parhelia soon. I don't game as much and can use three monitors. =)
Pinball is not dying off. What I see is that kids think that pinball is too easy and not challenging enough. That really isn't the case, I see that people want to do the cool thing and play those hefty 3d packed video games. I've also realized that a lot of arcades don't keep pinball machines since there is no competition with other players and games can last a long time. If pinball is dying, it is at the hands of the arcade owners, not the customers.
I helped my roommate out on this project. The cars roll around the track following sensors. I helped him design some of the stuff. It can be difficult since the car has to interpret the signal into steering and speed control. I wish that UCLA had a specific class for this competition because other schools get the leg up on us because of this.
Lynx won't render them correctly due to its weird colors. Ascii art back in the day was great since it could be seen anywhere.
Sure I think its cool that someone figured out you could do this. But, lets just say that I think that people have too much time on their hands. Back in the BBS days, people would make some awesome ascii art. In all honesty, this is nice but it doesn't comapre to some of the stuff I have seen back in the day.
With all of the Sept 11th "security measures" I would recommend that you have your laptop ready to turn on just in case at the airport terminal. Also, they will ask you take your machine out of its case and then they'll pass it through their x-ray machines. Make sure you don't have it stuffed at the bottom of your carry-ons. I don't know how good your battery life is, or what class you will be flying but if you are going in economy make sure you bring at least two batteries. If you are in first or business class, you can always buy their on-board power cords that hook up into the plane (depending on airline). As for games, I would suggest the old simcity, tetris, pinball, etc. You don't want some massively 3d game sucking up your battery power. Also, I don't know what kind of rechargers come with your laptop but be ready for an inevitable bump in line voltage in europe (220v). And, you can save your on-board modem some trouble by buying a line testing kit/adapter. This saved me from frying my modem on a trip to Saudi many years ago (their teleco line voltage is much more than it is here).
I somehow don't understand why microsoft needed to do this. First of all, can't the keys be regained using the same technique the MIT student used the first time? If I remember correctly, he used an unencrypted part of the bus to watch as data flew by. Quite stupid on microsoft's part, but brilliant on the student behalf. As for nVidia, I don't think they had anything to worry about when it came to microsoft. I would have told microsft to deal with its problems until the manufactured chips ran out. oh, and one more thing, the student never gave out the codes, so why does microsoft need to change the keys?
I find it so funny that in this day and age, getting a password is so easy. I've had friends posing as campus computer specialists get passwords into the most "holy grail" of computer systems. I can't get into much detail here but what people don't understand is that your password is more than your house key. It has your life behind it. Especially when these days people use online stock trading, medical record databases, personal e-mail, financial accounts, bills, etc. I routinely have to go to my parents house to make sure that they aren't saving passwords on their home computer to extremely sensitive sites. I have to make sure there system's drives are encrypted for that just-in-case scenerio. People I guess just don't understand.
As for these small devices that people use to "hack", I largely doubt there is much to worry about.
There are two problems with this mod:
1) I have a full tower case that is completely full of CD-RW, DVD-ROM, ZIP, a couple HD's. So I have no room.
and...
2) I like to see the display on my PDA when I do certain tasks.
Sure this mod might clear up some desk clutter but think about, is the disadvantage of losing a slot and/or buying a bigger case worth not having a PDA on your desk? I find that my PDA tucks in nicely between the monitor and speakers.
Some more linux live cd distros:
m l
* DemoLinux - http://www.demolinux.org/
Dedicated to bootable Linux CD distributions.
* LNX-BBC - http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
Business Card Sized Open-Source Bootable CD.
* Mondo Restore/Rescue Utility - http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
Use a live bootable Linux CD for your system backups and recovery.
* Linux - Live on CD - http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier/
Linux - Live on CD. Hard disk not required
* Dyne Bolic - http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic/
Complete GNU/Linux operating system working without the need for any hard-disk.
* Diskless Nodes - http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO-3.ht
Includes information on creating your own live CD.
* Virtual Linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual-linux
Bootable Mandrake Linux distribution with 1.6 gigs worth of tools and toys on a single CD.
FreeBSD LiveCD -- http://livecd.sourceforge.net/
NetBSD LiveCD -- http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#live-cd
I just had to be a lamer just once. As for web comics, I am a huge fan. Not having access to dead-tree newspapers is often a problem in college. I regularly download and save such comics for adding to my collection. I'll be the buying myself the hardcopy version as soon as funds allow it.
First P0st!!!!