This article talks about a new system that calls/emails your cell phone when there is a break-in, fire or other emergency in your home. Selecting the link displays webcam images of inside your house.
Sure, with a lot of hacking you could set up a similar system here but nobody's put together the full package yet. (AFAIK)
There are no shortage of precedents for Eames "Powers of 10" which was made in 1977.
The earliest is the other poster's mention of the Dutch teacher Kees Boeke's book from the 50's.
Every time I went to the Ontario Science Center starting when it opened in 1969 my favourite exhibition was a powers of 10 film that started at a man sleeping in a park beside an airport (plane on the right) and zoomed out to the universe then stopped and did an accelerated zoom back down (vertigo anyone?) until it reached the man and then did the slow zoom down to the "unimaginably dense nucleus of a a carbon atom".
The Markham Skate Park only existed for two short years between 1978 and 1980. It was in one of a group of barns on the edge of the old fairgrounds at highway 7 and 48 east of the old arena. The barns were torn down many years ago, right after the skatepark died.
This was before the area became a high-tech mecca and all the fields were covered in monster houses. At that time the closest mall was the Scarborough Center at McCowan and the 401. The only pool was the outdoor one just off Main road. The library was still across the stret from the station.
And it was dead.
I remember taking long bike rides through the farms and fields to Buttonville airport, a small airstrip on a quiet country road in the middle of nowhere. Look at it now.
When seeing this movie you got to look beyond just what these individuals did, but the effect on their culture beyond the empty pools of California.
What happened with skateboarding in the late 70's set the stage for the current hacker/boarder culture where grass-toking teens can be Olympic champions.
Skateboarders of the late 70's were outcasts, not just in Venice (CA) but just about everywhere. This included a particularly dead suburb of Toronto, CA called Markham, now the home of many tech firms like ATI. Many things changed when an old barn that used to house cows at the annual country fair was transformed into the first indoor skateboard park in Ontario. Geeks from all over congregated to this, our church of rebellion. For the first time I had a real peer group. No-one cared if you knew how to program the school's IBM 1130. No-one cared if you were one of only two out of 2,100 students who knew how to work the brand new Apple ][ and Commodore PET. But being able to axle grind around the gnarly lip of the pathetically tiny pool was enough to elicit whoops of approval from compatrates who KNEW and UNDERSTOOD. It kept some of us alive, some who otherwise would have been another teen suicide statistic.
We knew who our heroes were. We looked to the West, to Venice, to what we saw as a sun-drenched paradise of perfectly-formed concrete playgrounds. We never saw the grungy side of the culture as we eagerly flipped through the pages of Skateboarder magazine.
Then it all went wrong.
Boarding stopped being about the tricks, it became commercial, followed by the inevitable backlash, and being punk-fuelled it was a complete backlash. It became all about destruction, physically tearing down walls as well as physically wrecking yourself in as many ways as possible.
This is why some of the once-heroes in this film are so shattered now. But at least they survived.
This is not a film about skateboarding. This is about how a far-reaching culture change happens. The hip-hop-blasted half-pipe events of the Olympics trace back to here. The graffiti-covered walls of what were once pristeen communities trace back to here. The overall cynicism of the 80's and 90's that the world was a shitty place and getting worse goes back to here.
But it was also the beginning of the age where geeks made a difference. Denizens of this site marvel at the latest cool tech and wonder about what Great Things lie ahead. You feel as if you have a future, that there WILL BE a future and generally it will be a Really Cool place to be.
Growing up in the 70's, technology was not going to give you a cool future. It wasn't a ticket to a high-paying job. You had to find something to make you want to keep going.
This film is about what gave some of us that hope.
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This article talks about a new system that calls/emails your cell phone when there is a break-in, fire or other emergency in your home. Selecting the link displays webcam images of inside your house.
Sure, with a lot of hacking you could set up a similar system here but nobody's put together the full package yet. (AFAIK)
Bzzztt. WRONG!
The "flip tips" are winglets that reduce drag and generally improve the aerodynamics of the wing.
Nothing to do with space as you'll see them on many modern aircraft no matter what size.
This must have been said by people watching Orville and Wilbur.
Your friend is probably unique in that respect. South Park the Movie was obviously pointing out what moronic idiots Americans are.
That Americans ACTUALLY think that most Canadians say "aboot" is adequate proof.
Sorry, wrong.
Read the history of the simplification of Chinese characters here.
"In 1955 1,053 variant characters were eliminated."
Traditional characters are making a comeback though, as they are easier to recognize for meaning and pronunciation than the simplfified equivalent.
Granted my source is "In Search of" on TLC...
Listen VERY carefully to the disclaimer at the beginning:
"....parts of this program are based on conjecture" (i.e. we're guessing) "and are not necessarily the only solutions to the problems we will examine"
No shit, Sherlock.
Forget about the cost of the player (which will always be around C$500). The proposed new tariffs in MP3 players will add $21,000 to the cost!
Fundamental mistake being made here by the CPCC: You can't base a fixed tariff on something that is as dynamic as Moore's law.
Clarification:
Sukoshi = small (amount)
Chisaii = small (size)
Read this then go look in the mirror and realize how much of a fool you just made of yourself.
Just because you post AC doesn't mean you're not a moron.
Better:
While(entire_world_watches)
The above table doesn't take into account the often HUGE overseas sales of the same movie.
Disney has NO worries.
I haven't had a virus since I was 15
6 months isn't very long is it?
The hit counters have been going nuts and the e-mail has suddenly taken a huge jump! I don't know what's happening yet..
"Shall we play a game?"
"How about G-l-o-b-a-l N-u-cl-e-a-r Sl-a-s-h-d-o-t-t-i-n-g."
Hear, hear.
If you don't know what we're talking about read this.
No kidding. Vic Morrow and two korean kids in "The Twilight Zone"
They ripped off a 1960's National Film Board of Canada presentation "Cosmic Zoom"
Starts with a boy on a rowboat.
Eames' "Powers of 10" - 1977
Ontario Science Center Black-and-White Powers of 10 - Showing since the center opened in 1969!
Not sure if they had it the last time I went (last summer) I had watch two kids madly runnning around doing what I did when I was their age.
Fantastic place!
There are no shortage of precedents for Eames "Powers of 10" which was made in 1977.
The earliest is the other poster's mention of the Dutch teacher Kees Boeke's book from the 50's.
Every time I went to the Ontario Science Center starting when it opened in 1969 my favourite exhibition was a powers of 10 film that started at a man sleeping in a park beside an airport (plane on the right) and zoomed out to the universe then stopped and did an accelerated zoom back down (vertigo anyone?) until it reached the man and then did the slow zoom down to the "unimaginably dense nucleus of a a carbon atom".
How well do you think you could do?
No doubt there would be much snickering and mentions of "Henna Nihongo!!"
It seems criminal elements of society always like getting something for nothing
Hmmm. Unfortunately you could say the same thing about just about everyone on the planet.
Barring a few monks.
Record yourself on tape.
Make a video of yourself speaking.
Play it back and see if, just for a moment, you think" "Shit! I sound like THAT???"
Ah, you show your age.
The Markham Skate Park only existed for two short years between 1978 and 1980. It was in one of a group of barns on the edge of the old fairgrounds at highway 7 and 48 east of the old arena. The barns were torn down many years ago, right after the skatepark died.
This was before the area became a high-tech mecca and all the fields were covered in monster houses. At that time the closest mall was the Scarborough Center at McCowan and the 401. The only pool was the outdoor one just off Main road. The library was still across the stret from the station.
And it was dead.
I remember taking long bike rides through the farms and fields to Buttonville airport, a small airstrip on a quiet country road in the middle of nowhere. Look at it now.
When seeing this movie you got to look beyond just what these individuals did, but the effect on their culture beyond the empty pools of California.
What happened with skateboarding in the late 70's set the stage for the current hacker/boarder culture where grass-toking teens can be Olympic champions.
Skateboarders of the late 70's were outcasts, not just in Venice (CA) but just about everywhere. This included a particularly dead suburb of Toronto, CA called Markham, now the home of many tech firms like ATI. Many things changed when an old barn that used to house cows at the annual country fair was transformed into the first indoor skateboard park in Ontario. Geeks from all over congregated to this, our church of rebellion. For the first time I had a real peer group. No-one cared if you knew how to program the school's IBM 1130. No-one cared if you were one of only two out of 2,100 students who knew how to work the brand new Apple ][ and Commodore PET. But being able to axle grind around the gnarly lip of the pathetically tiny pool was enough to elicit whoops of approval from compatrates who KNEW and UNDERSTOOD. It kept some of us alive, some who otherwise would have been another teen suicide statistic.
We knew who our heroes were. We looked to the West, to Venice, to what we saw as a sun-drenched paradise of perfectly-formed concrete playgrounds. We never saw the grungy side of the culture as we eagerly flipped through the pages of Skateboarder magazine.
Then it all went wrong.
Boarding stopped being about the tricks, it became commercial, followed by the inevitable backlash, and being punk-fuelled it was a complete backlash. It became all about destruction, physically tearing down walls as well as physically wrecking yourself in as many ways as possible.
This is why some of the once-heroes in this film are so shattered now. But at least they survived.
This is not a film about skateboarding. This is about how a far-reaching culture change happens. The hip-hop-blasted half-pipe events of the Olympics trace back to here. The graffiti-covered walls of what were once pristeen communities trace back to here. The overall cynicism of the 80's and 90's that the world was a shitty place and getting worse goes back to here.
But it was also the beginning of the age where geeks made a difference. Denizens of this site marvel at the latest cool tech and wonder about what Great Things lie ahead. You feel as if you have a future, that there WILL BE a future and generally it will be a Really Cool place to be.
Growing up in the 70's, technology was not going to give you a cool future. It wasn't a ticket to a high-paying job. You had to find something to make you want to keep going.
This film is about what gave some of us that hope.
Oh, you mean like this?
ThrustSSC.
Too bad the original ThrustSSc site seems to have died.