When the Wright brothers were kids, they received a helicopter-like toy as a present... They decided to duplicate it by building a larger scale replica. The thing failed to take off and was very dissappointing. They learned from their mistake (power needed to scale up more than in a linear fashion for the higher payload), and they went on to contribute to the field anyway.:-)
No schedule / timer feature is listed. However, they have infrared remote control, so a bit of hackery with a PC and an IR emitter should do the trick if so desired.
There's a film titled, "The Uranus Experiment, part II" that deals with the effects of microgravity on various biological processes, and was filmed with the Vomit Comet. It explores some very promising applications of microgravity.
I'd like to say that I will be boycotting them, and not supporting their industry. But looking at the top 100 films in the past 2 years, I've seen all but two. So whether or not we like their business, we do like their product.
I declared Kanli on the RIAA a while back, and I feel good about it. I stopped buying CDs except directly from small-time artists and used CD stores, and I try to convince others to do the same. Easy enough boycott. The one thing they want to sell is either crap, or easily obtained in a more convenient format for zero cost and zero hassle, at their detriment.
The movie / TV industry, however, is a much harder beast to fight.
They sometimes produce a quality product
They provide more than a media product; they provide an entertaining service (big screen, see it before hearing inevitable spoilers, something fun to do with friends)
DVDs are often exactly what I want... I want the deleted scenes, the cute boxed set, the sense of getting a good value
It's so much easier to boycott and declare war on the music industry... they don't offer what we want for a reasonable price. The movie and TV industries are just as evil when it comes to lobbying against the public in the copyright law arena, and screwing up the tech with DRM, region codes, etc.., but they provide something most of us are still willing to pay for.
I've rambled about the problem... I wish I had a solution. (and even if I could be convinced to stop giving them $$, most people don't have the same hatred for the above practices as I do, and won't be swayed)
During the Sasser outbreak, a few of us IT types in a building full of sales people went desk to desk with patches and virus list updates on our personal USB thumb drives. If our company had an anti-user-data-device policy, they would've lost some serious money that day.
I wanted to set up a 2.5" disk for my Libretto by using an adapter and plugging it into one of my regular PCs. I had done it before on another machine, so no big deal... I got complacent.
Most of my machines have removable 5.25" drive bays, so it was a plug-n-play affair. I opened that drive in Windows explorer, put a bunch of stuff on it, and dropped it back in the Libretto... everything was fine.
However, upon going back to that particular PC, which was my VCR box at the time, I noticed that my "Video" drive content was exactly the same as what I placed on the Libretto's 2.5" drive. It was then that I realized that the 2.5" drive insisted on being Master, and although things "magically" worked, they worked by writing to both "master" drives.
I still haven't been able to find the Adult Swim Halloween special Scooby Doo again.:-(
Every time I fly Delta and check baggage, they strive to lose my luggage both ways, but they're guaranteed to lose the luggage on at least one leg of the trip. If they do *anything* differently, it will probably break their existing Service Level!!
And I also wonder how many people will actually heed the call and switch their browser.
This is anecdotal, but hopefully representative of many other cases:
I'm the Mozilla evangelist type in my department. One of my coworker friends did try Firefox a while back and she loves it and uses only it for any personal browsing. Another techie type friend resisted trying it, as she was happy with IE. The Google toolbar even blocks pop-ups making it less annoying than before, so I can understand her reluctance somewhat.
After she got her machine horribly infected by this garbage recently, she came to us and asked where to get The Good Browser. After using it for an hour, she IMed me with, "I LOVE FIREFOX"
I hope this happens across the world. Oh, and:
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
The scum of the earth will use every piece of open infrastructure that exists in the world. This is no different.
Bank robbers walk right into banks without being somehow stopped at the door. Muggers walk along the sidewalk without somehow being prevented from doing so.
Why? Because to implement safeguards that "stop" the scum require a level of inconvenient intrusions into the 9x% "good" people's privacy and efficiency.
Further, pedophiles getting pictures is the last thing to worry about on that topic... I think the authorities would worry more about pedophiles uploading pictures via an anonymous connection... and the evil deeds done to make the pictures. Which is something they currently have to deal with anyway on the Internet at large... one more anonymous entry point doesn't really change the picture... and in fact, helps the situation. Picture this scenario:
FBI pinpoints the initial upload of some child porn to an anonymous connection at AP xyz on an open wifi network. They have a date-time value and a physical location! The sense of anonymity aforded by open APs can also be a foil, as the authorities proceed to request local surveilance footage from any cams in that area. It turns out being less anonymous than whatever obfuscation methods pedo posters use now. This is a good thing.
Do not buy this album. If I want to hear it, download it instead.
Their instruction is just crystal clear. Yes; it sucks that Windows auto-installs crap off CDs, and yes, there's easy ways around that. But to arrive at that is to miss the point. The point is that if you don't want their DRM, don't buy the product... you can get the music for a nice $0.00, without rewarding their vile practice.
If people in the biz are reading this, please take note: DRM offends and insults and disrespects those who you're trying to sell to. You're only getting sales from the ignorant, and I'm working to reduce their numbers by telling as many friends / family members as I can to stop buying big label music. Flat out stop. Download, buy used, or go with small, respectable labels. (I do still buy, generally direct from small artists; the rest... fuck 'em. Not a dime to the RIAA from me.)
If you agree, you can help... simply assist as many people as you can to find alternatives to buying big label music. If people really want the latest Beastie / other-pop album, there's torrents, k-lite, etc... and the price is better. Is it wrong? Is killing in a war wrong? I'm working to destroy my enemy or change their stance here; that is the nature of war. You gotta fight... It may be company policy, but you're still sell-out bitches, Beastie Boys (and I love some of your work... oh, well).
What went wrong: "On-off switch located on side of vehicle. Bumped into a wall on way out of start area. Turned self off."
Lesson learned: "Put the on-off switch somewhere else."
I get to see this almost weekly in real life: My Roomba, which I'm very happy with otherwise, occasionally turns itself off by bumping its switch against those springy door-stopper things. Maybe the newer ones have the switch located on top or something.:-)
"After seeing Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks pitch a perfect game (coverage here), I searched Slashdot in the hopes of reading more about what the Slashdot readers thought of this feat of athleticism...
Whenever I'm curious about sports, I head straight to Slashdot too.:-)
Probably stating the obvious here, but once this gets dependable and easy to form to different needs, "BioBricks" might spell the end of people dying due to lack of suitable organ donors. I think we will rather see that before we see any horror scenarios like "Blade Runner like replicant slaves".
Unfortunately, due to the "Blade Runner like replicant slaves" image that resides in the mass population's minds regarding anything that has to do with genetics, the religious types and the unknowledgable eco types will scream and spew ignorance at lawmakers until the research and resulting technology is banned.
If I was reading this on a day other than Monday, perhaps I'd be less pessimistic / realistic.:-/
With the doors open, it's about 6.5 feet tall. I have a normal apartment garage and it fits fine... However, if a guy has to duck his head to fit in your garage, you'll have problems with a D.
... just skip the bloody humans! I'd like to see the early days of Vulcan, or even better, the origin of the Borg...
...it started with this news commenting service that people spent a lot of time communicating on, but eventually, the only sentiments issued from it were a uniform set of thoughts.;-)
Slashdot Mirror
When the Wright brothers were kids, they received a helicopter-like toy as a present... They decided to duplicate it by building a larger scale replica. The thing failed to take off and was very dissappointing. They learned from their mistake (power needed to scale up more than in a linear fashion for the higher payload), and they went on to contribute to the field anyway. :-)
No schedule / timer feature is listed. However, they have infrared remote control, so a bit of hackery with a PC and an IR emitter should do the trick if so desired.
There's a film titled, "The Uranus Experiment, part II" that deals with the effects of microgravity on various biological processes, and was filmed with the Vomit Comet. It explores some very promising applications of microgravity.
200 mile high club?
Wish I had mod points at the moment... that's Insightful, not merely Funny!
I declared Kanli on the RIAA a while back, and I feel good about it. I stopped buying CDs except directly from small-time artists and used CD stores, and I try to convince others to do the same. Easy enough boycott. The one thing they want to sell is either crap, or easily obtained in a more convenient format for zero cost and zero hassle, at their detriment.
The movie / TV industry, however, is a much harder beast to fight.
It's so much easier to boycott and declare war on the music industry... they don't offer what we want for a reasonable price. The movie and TV industries are just as evil when it comes to lobbying against the public in the copyright law arena, and screwing up the tech with DRM, region codes, etc.., but they provide something most of us are still willing to pay for.
I've rambled about the problem... I wish I had a solution. (and even if I could be convinced to stop giving them $$, most people don't have the same hatred for the above practices as I do, and won't be swayed)
During the Sasser outbreak, a few of us IT types in a building full of sales people went desk to desk with patches and virus list updates on our personal USB thumb drives. If our company had an anti-user-data-device policy, they would've lost some serious money that day.
I wanted to set up a 2.5" disk for my Libretto by using an adapter and plugging it into one of my regular PCs. I had done it before on another machine, so no big deal... I got complacent.
:-(
Most of my machines have removable 5.25" drive bays, so it was a plug-n-play affair. I opened that drive in Windows explorer, put a bunch of stuff on it, and dropped it back in the Libretto... everything was fine.
However, upon going back to that particular PC, which was my VCR box at the time, I noticed that my "Video" drive content was exactly the same as what I placed on the Libretto's 2.5" drive. It was then that I realized that the 2.5" drive insisted on being Master, and although things "magically" worked, they worked by writing to both "master" drives.
I still haven't been able to find the Adult Swim Halloween special Scooby Doo again.
Wasn't "e-choupal" the rude comment made by a silver protocol droid to C-3PO on Bespin?
:-)
No offense intended to my Indian friends, but it just sounds real familiar...
Every time I fly Delta and check baggage, they strive to lose my luggage both ways, but they're guaranteed to lose the luggage on at least one leg of the trip. If they do *anything* differently, it will probably break their existing Service Level!!
And I also wonder how many people will actually heed the call and switch their browser.
This is anecdotal, but hopefully representative of many other cases:
I'm the Mozilla evangelist type in my department. One of my coworker friends did try Firefox a while back and she loves it and uses only it for any personal browsing. Another techie type friend resisted trying it, as she was happy with IE. The Google toolbar even blocks pop-ups making it less annoying than before, so I can understand her reluctance somewhat.
After she got her machine horribly infected by this garbage recently, she came to us and asked where to get The Good Browser. After using it for an hour, she IMed me with, "I LOVE FIREFOX"
I hope this happens across the world. Oh, and:
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
The scum of the earth will use every piece of open infrastructure that exists in the world. This is no different.
Bank robbers walk right into banks without being somehow stopped at the door. Muggers walk along the sidewalk without somehow being prevented from doing so.
Why? Because to implement safeguards that "stop" the scum require a level of inconvenient intrusions into the 9x% "good" people's privacy and efficiency.
Further, pedophiles getting pictures is the last thing to worry about on that topic... I think the authorities would worry more about pedophiles uploading pictures via an anonymous connection... and the evil deeds done to make the pictures. Which is something they currently have to deal with anyway on the Internet at large... one more anonymous entry point doesn't really change the picture... and in fact, helps the situation. Picture this scenario:
FBI pinpoints the initial upload of some child porn to an anonymous connection at AP xyz on an open wifi network. They have a date-time value and a physical location! The sense of anonymity aforded by open APs can also be a foil, as the authorities proceed to request local surveilance footage from any cams in that area. It turns out being less anonymous than whatever obfuscation methods pedo posters use now. This is a good thing.
And the message I get from this is:
Do not buy this album. If I want to hear it, download it instead.
Their instruction is just crystal clear. Yes; it sucks that Windows auto-installs crap off CDs, and yes, there's easy ways around that. But to arrive at that is to miss the point. The point is that if you don't want their DRM, don't buy the product... you can get the music for a nice $0.00, without rewarding their vile practice.
If people in the biz are reading this, please take note: DRM offends and insults and disrespects those who you're trying to sell to. You're only getting sales from the ignorant, and I'm working to reduce their numbers by telling as many friends / family members as I can to stop buying big label music. Flat out stop. Download, buy used, or go with small, respectable labels. (I do still buy, generally direct from small artists; the rest... fuck 'em. Not a dime to the RIAA from me.)
If you agree, you can help... simply assist as many people as you can to find alternatives to buying big label music. If people really want the latest Beastie / other-pop album, there's torrents, k-lite, etc... and the price is better. Is it wrong? Is killing in a war wrong? I'm working to destroy my enemy or change their stance here; that is the nature of war. You gotta fight... It may be company policy, but you're still sell-out bitches, Beastie Boys (and I love some of your work... oh, well).
What went wrong: "On-off switch located on side of vehicle. Bumped into a wall on way out of start area. Turned self off."
:-)
Lesson learned: "Put the on-off switch somewhere else."
I get to see this almost weekly in real life: My Roomba, which I'm very happy with otherwise, occasionally turns itself off by bumping its switch against those springy door-stopper things. Maybe the newer ones have the switch located on top or something.
Does anyone need 2GB of memory for their PDA?"
Yes.
Friday's A Softer World strip was about this very topic!
Read the rest from their homepage.
- In that everyone who enjoyed episodes 4-7, hates episodes 1-3?
:-)
Episode 7... Was that Ewoks: The Battle for Endor?
"After seeing Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks pitch a perfect game (coverage here), I searched Slashdot in the hopes of reading more about what the Slashdot readers thought of this feat of athleticism...
:-)
Whenever I'm curious about sports, I head straight to Slashdot too.
Sadly, I would pay to see this film.
Probably stating the obvious here, but once this gets dependable and easy to form to different needs, "BioBricks" might spell the end of people dying due to lack of suitable organ donors.
I think we will rather see that before we see any horror scenarios like "Blade Runner like replicant slaves".
Unfortunately, due to the "Blade Runner like replicant slaves" image that resides in the mass population's minds regarding anything that has to do with genetics, the religious types and the unknowledgable eco types will scream and spew ignorance at lawmakers until the research and resulting technology is banned.
If I was reading this on a day other than Monday, perhaps I'd be less pessimistic / realistic.
With the doors open, it's about 6.5 feet tall. I have a normal apartment garage and it fits fine... However, if a guy has to duck his head to fit in your garage, you'll have problems with a D.
... just skip the bloody humans! I'd like to see the early days of Vulcan, or even better, the origin of the Borg...
...it started with this news commenting service that people spent a lot of time communicating on, but eventually, the only sentiments issued from it were a uniform set of thoughts. ;-)
Doors incompatible with 75% of parking spaces
No. The Delorean doors require about 13" of clearance to open. That is generally less than most side-swinging doors.
I guess they'll have to deliberate over this one first.
You forgot:
some nails and broken glass $1
... because the Y10K bug will destroy everything after that point.