Aviation: Craft may reach 5,000 mph on May flight. L.A. to N.Y. would take 30 minutes, but cargo, military more likely uses
Yes.. Unfortunately, slightly short of the miraculous 30 min NY to LA, all of the cargo fell into the ocean. 15 seconds into the flight in fact...
How many G's is this thing expected to pull in accelerating to Mach 7?
Also, wasn't the big problem with anything that is trying to go this fast within the atmosphere friction? They haven't found anything that won't melt at the temperatures that would be generated by speeds that fast. With the exception of missiles or maybe some type of millitary aircraft with consumable heat shields, wouldn't this be silly?
While I don't really agree with the shaky basis of the opinion that hardware sales will go UP next year (cases get yellow?), it seems apparent that a fair amount of consolidation is taking place among online companies. With consolidation, we have increased viability, naturally...
It also seems pretty obvious that there is a lot of thinning of the herd going on right now, but that is because there was a new market for growth, and people saw other people getting rich no matter how stupid the idea was. Anyone who has looked at the Nasdaq anytime in the last 8 months can see that hemmoraging money is not a viable business model. Which brings me to the idea of viability. Is anyone surprised that companies like you mentioned, J.C. Penneys et al. are doing well and www.buyyourfreakingnecktiesonline.com is tanking? People that know how to run catalog operations are seeing this as a great opportunity to get their same customers without having to send out dead trees... It is not surprising that people with no experience and hence no name recognition or established customer base will have troubles.
As for venture capital - of course businesses started with personal savings are more likely to succeed... Your ass is on the line!
Market cycles dictate that there will be high and low points in our economy, but the rationale presented for a date of 2002 for a recovery seems unconvincing.
This type of diatribe seems to come from people who have been in love with Japan for years, then go there and see exactly what they were looking for without noting anything that would interfere with their schoolgirl crush on the country.
Yes, this is the country in which every girl has to have a portable phone, the newest CD single by a shitty boy band (ok, so that's not different), and the newest fashion trend the moment that they are announced in the magazines...
But this is also the country in which there are no full access ATMs, no Birth control (until last year) and no law against denying somone a promotion because they are a woman... (well, also not until last year)... The contradiction of the techno idolatry and the hedgemonc morality of the society amazes me.
Granted their fad driven economy is full of high tech gadgetry the likes of which would make any japanophilic geek drool, but the shortsightedness of the culture as a whole scares me... Ever seen how much trash is piled in the woods by their mountain expressways? Or stacks of ten year old cars that were crushed for being too old... (A friend of mine had a 1990 Honda CRX crushed because the road tax would have been too much. He had to pay $200 to get them to take it and it had 60K on the odometer). It seems like the technological climate in Japan is due mostly to high pressure advertising, high pressure to conform, and a lack of visible available alternatives.
Yes, and once you do this, any number of sites stop working for you and all of your users, depending on how the site is coded.
I wish there a nice, free way to block ads that is transparent to end users and doesn't break everything. I used to use junkbuster, but it broke so many sites that people who use my computer (roommates) that I just stopped using it. Steve Gibson at GRC had a registry patch that added a bunck of web buggers to the "hostile" zone of internet explorer which worked pretty well, but then I don't use IE either.
The free download version of "You don't know jack" had ads between the rounds that were part of the reason that it was free.
Not to mention the "find the no-thanks button" style advertising on AOL and other cheap internet services (Juno?).
This seems like a case of spin and hype trying to draw advertsers maybe - advertisers that have become disenchanted with banners as nearly everyone has learned to tune them out. It seems that netaddress is having problems as well - they have more and more ads every time I go there, including pop-ups for online mugging^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgambling sites.
Just another sign of the bottom falling out of things - correct me if I'm wrong here.
I am pretty sure that this is all still current - if you have a package that has been built as relocatable, you can specify a different database so that you can install stuff under/home/foo/bin...
Read up about it here among other pages. (This is the first one that I was able to find.)
The idea of using induced electic field repulsion for metal forming is being investigated by one of the professors in my department at the Ohio State University.
He is working on using this same effect to imrove the formability of alloys that are problematic - namely he is interested in Aluminum for use in automobile bodies. You can get more ductility and formability out of some materials if oyu form them at very high strain rates, and the idea here is that you form the rough shape with conventional techniques and then you zap the metal with electromagnetic field in the areas with detail or sharp features in order to "fill out" the mold.
There's a copy of some of the pictures from the quarter shrinker taped up on his door.
For people that have been wondering how the coin gets smaller and retains its features without breaking the laws of physics - it is getting thicker. Look at the site - one of the quarters is balooned into a sphere. It de-laminated at the silver-copper layer!
His grad students are in the room next to ours and ever time they discharge their capacitor bank it makes the monitors on the wall adjacent to their room shudder... and it makes a hell of a bang.
WHY I can't tell you, but for those of you non hippie-music fans out there, cowboy neal is probably a Grateful Dead reference from the song That's it for the Other One first published on the album "Anthem of the Sun" (1968).
"...there was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land."
It seems that people think that this is a neal cassidy/ken kesey furthur acid bus reference.
But yes, why this name is still a decent question.
I had a little compact system like one of these and I ended up scavanging it for parts. It was cool, I liked it, and it was portable (It was a monorail - like this only with a 10.4" flat panel on the frone and a floppy drive), but the power supply on the damn thing blew and they wanted to sell me one for over $200.
I know - anything that is optimized for weight or whatever is bound to have proprietary parts, but I'd like to see what chipset and some reputation from a company that sells something like this before I would think about buying one again.
As far as the LRP is concerned, they are using a floppy because:
They want to have a filesystem that is immutable by setting the write protection on the floppy disc - get r00ted, just reboot.
They want to be cheap. (this won't be)
They run from a ramdisk for speed - just how much ram do you want to throw at this box that you are unwilling to put a HD in?
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to buy a disk-on-chip for the same or less money, and thus eliminate both moving parts and a flimsy, unreliable boot drive? Hell, for the same money you could put in a boot CD and drive - pull the "ejectable" jumper on a drive so equipped and voilla!
This sounds like it will be as reliable in practice as say... 56K modems or some other such nasty kludge.
Yes, I know that you can't buy this one anymore, but you might be able to buy one of the numerous clones. The build quality is not the greatest, and the player has some "stuttering" issues out of the box, but if you are not afraid to invalidate your warranty the thing has firmware upgrades to fix the stuttering and make it have a loophole menu like the apex (Macrovision and Region checking disable).
Try www.egroups.com under the egroup "Raite-dvd" for information about this beauty. It'll play damn near any disc you put in it (CD, DVD, MP3CD on CD-R & CD-RW, VCD and some others) and it can be had for cheap to boot (I got it for under $200)
Saying that combat was a revolutionary multiplayer game is ignoring all of its influences - like perhaps Computer Space - the first arcade machine EVER (1971 I think).
If you REALLY wnat to have fun, the only atari cart that you need is 4 player warlords with two double paddle controllers.
There has got to be a linux geek there somewhere. I remember back in the day they had a geek purity test that would give you crazy bonus points if you were running linux.
that's apples and oranges, unless you have a much different pico than I have. Seems akin to "You may use your 'typewriter' but I'll stick with my stone tablet". Of course, in that example even vi would be a nice word processor.
That doesn't change how cool it is that I can run office on a stable OS. Anyone know about the stability of office under WINE?
What are the advantages of office under WINE over office on Windows under VMware other than not paying for a license for the OS?
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This was the company that made the displays for the virtual boy. (1994-5?) I saw a circular from them which described color versions of these displays as well. Since the VB's had two of these in them and they were selling for $9 or so at the ned of their clearence, I am surprised that there haven't been more people hacking these.
For all of the people who never type with more than one finger at a time to begin with...
No more qwerty hunting and pecking - now hunting and pecking will be optimized for entry with a single finger or pen!
From the title I was thinking that this was an input device though, not just a new "efficient" layout. I hope this discussion doesn't degenerate in to QWERTY vs. DVORJAK flame wars.
Makes me wonder how long it will be until states are going to try to track personal sales on sites like ebay and throw taxes on that. I know that I've made quite a bit re-selling stuff.
Ohio seems to be pretty good about sneaking up on you with taxes on items that they can track, notably vehicles. I remember being ticked off when I was 14 and had to pay a tax and penalty for buying my moped without handing over the sales tax. Even though it didn't have a title, they got me when I registered it.
Realisticly though, it seems like there is too much commerce going on over the internet for it not to get a tax slapped on it at some point.
I believe that you meant to say the SR-71 (aka. blackburd) and well, that was not a cargo plane and if I remember correctly it did somewhere between Mach3 and Mach5.
The X-15 was pushing it to break mach 1, and was incapable of taking off by itself - wasn't it just a bigass engine on a cockpit??
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Anyone heard the Ska-ish Zelda music covers by Mr. Bungle? If not - find them. they are freaking great.
Not meaning to start any flamewars, but if you ask me, the metroid series was more fun.
Yes.. Unfortunately, slightly short of the miraculous 30 min NY to LA, all of the cargo fell into the ocean. 15 seconds into the flight in fact...
How many G's is this thing expected to pull in accelerating to Mach 7?
Also, wasn't the big problem with anything that is trying to go this fast within the atmosphere friction? They haven't found anything that won't melt at the temperatures that would be generated by speeds that fast. With the exception of missiles or maybe some type of millitary aircraft with consumable heat shields, wouldn't this be silly?
While I don't really agree with the shaky basis of the opinion that hardware sales will go UP next year (cases get yellow?), it seems apparent that a fair amount of consolidation is taking place among online companies. With consolidation, we have increased viability, naturally...
It also seems pretty obvious that there is a lot of thinning of the herd going on right now, but that is because there was a new market for growth, and people saw other people getting rich no matter how stupid the idea was. Anyone who has looked at the Nasdaq anytime in the last 8 months can see that hemmoraging money is not a viable business model. Which brings me to the idea of viability. Is anyone surprised that companies like you mentioned, J.C. Penneys et al. are doing well and www.buyyourfreakingnecktiesonline.com is tanking? People that know how to run catalog operations are seeing this as a great opportunity to get their same customers without having to send out dead trees... It is not surprising that people with no experience and hence no name recognition or established customer base will have troubles.
As for venture capital - of course businesses started with personal savings are more likely to succeed... Your ass is on the line!
Market cycles dictate that there will be high and low points in our economy, but the rationale presented for a date of 2002 for a recovery seems unconvincing.
This type of diatribe seems to come from people who have been in love with Japan for years, then go there and see exactly what they were looking for without noting anything that would interfere with their schoolgirl crush on the country.
Yes, this is the country in which every girl has to have a portable phone, the newest CD single by a shitty boy band (ok, so that's not different), and the newest fashion trend the moment that they are announced in the magazines...
But this is also the country in which there are no full access ATMs, no Birth control (until last year) and no law against denying somone a promotion because they are a woman... (well, also not until last year)... The contradiction of the techno idolatry and the hedgemonc morality of the society amazes me.
Granted their fad driven economy is full of high tech gadgetry the likes of which would make any japanophilic geek drool, but the shortsightedness of the culture as a whole scares me... Ever seen how much trash is piled in the woods by their mountain expressways? Or stacks of ten year old cars that were crushed for being too old... (A friend of mine had a 1990 Honda CRX crushed because the road tax would have been too much. He had to pay $200 to get them to take it and it had 60K on the odometer). It seems like the technological climate in Japan is due mostly to high pressure advertising, high pressure to conform, and a lack of visible available alternatives.
Different, yes,
But THE future? I hope not.
Yes, and once you do this, any number of sites stop working for you and all of your users, depending on how the site is coded.
I wish there a nice, free way to block ads that is transparent to end users and doesn't break everything. I used to use junkbuster, but it broke so many sites that people who use my computer (roommates) that I just stopped using it. Steve Gibson at GRC had a registry patch that added a bunck of web buggers to the "hostile" zone of internet explorer which worked pretty well, but then I don't use IE either.
Wishful thinking...
The free download version of "You don't know jack" had ads between the rounds that were part of the reason that it was free.
Not to mention the "find the no-thanks button" style advertising on AOL and other cheap internet services (Juno?).
This seems like a case of spin and hype trying to draw advertsers maybe - advertisers that have become disenchanted with banners as nearly everyone has learned to tune them out. It seems that netaddress is having problems as well - they have more and more ads every time I go there, including pop-ups for online mugging^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgambling sites.
Just another sign of the bottom falling out of things - correct me if I'm wrong here.
Unfortunately, the washington law was overturned in court.
Read about it here among other places.
Damn shame too.
I am pretty sure that this is all still current - if you have a package that has been built as relocatable, you can specify a different database so that you can install stuff under /home/foo/bin...
Read up about it here among other pages. (This is the first one that I was able to find.)
You can also just go to maakies.com.
Tony Millionaire's comics are all there and you can buy the originals too.
The idea of using induced electic field repulsion for metal forming is being investigated by one of the professors in my department at the Ohio State University.
He is working on using this same effect to imrove the formability of alloys that are problematic - namely he is interested in Aluminum for use in automobile bodies. You can get more ductility and formability out of some materials if oyu form them at very high strain rates, and the idea here is that you form the rough shape with conventional techniques and then you zap the metal with electromagnetic field in the areas with detail or sharp features in order to "fill out" the mold.
There's a copy of some of the pictures from the quarter shrinker taped up on his door.
For people that have been wondering how the coin gets smaller and retains its features without breaking the laws of physics - it is getting thicker. Look at the site - one of the quarters is balooned into a sphere. It de-laminated at the silver-copper layer!
His grad students are in the room next to ours and ever time they discharge their capacitor bank it makes the monitors on the wall adjacent to their room shudder... and it makes a hell of a bang.
WHY I can't tell you, but for those of you non hippie-music fans out there, cowboy neal is probably a Grateful Dead reference from the song That's it for the Other One first published on the album "Anthem of the Sun" (1968).
"...there was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land."
It seems that people think that this is a neal cassidy/ken kesey furthur acid bus reference.
But yes, why this name is still a decent question.
I had a little compact system like one of these and I ended up scavanging it for parts. It was cool, I liked it, and it was portable (It was a monorail - like this only with a 10.4" flat panel on the frone and a floppy drive), but the power supply on the damn thing blew and they wanted to sell me one for over $200.
I know - anything that is optimized for weight or whatever is bound to have proprietary parts, but I'd like to see what chipset and some reputation from a company that sells something like this before I would think about buying one again.
oh yeah - and no PCMCIA slot?
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to buy a disk-on-chip for the same or less money, and thus eliminate both moving parts and a flimsy, unreliable boot drive? Hell, for the same money you could put in a boot CD and drive - pull the "ejectable" jumper on a drive so equipped and voilla!
This sounds like it will be as reliable in practice as say... 56K modems or some other such nasty kludge.
Please, don't buy this.. I beg you people
Yes, I know that you can't buy this one anymore, but you might be able to buy one of the numerous clones. The build quality is not the greatest, and the player has some "stuttering" issues out of the box, but if you are not afraid to invalidate your warranty the thing has firmware upgrades to fix the stuttering and make it have a loophole menu like the apex (Macrovision and Region checking disable).
:(
Try www.egroups.com under the egroup "Raite-dvd" for information about this beauty. It'll play damn near any disc you put in it (CD, DVD, MP3CD on CD-R & CD-RW, VCD and some others) and it can be had for cheap to boot (I got it for under $200)
But like I said: good luck finding one
Looks like an atari Jaguar controller. Ugly rectangular keypad in the center...
Am I supposed to type 50WPM with my thumbs, or is there some kind on chord keying method that you do with your fingers on the back?
Saying that combat was a revolutionary multiplayer game is ignoring all of its influences - like perhaps Computer Space - the first arcade machine EVER (1971 I think).
If you REALLY wnat to have fun, the only atari cart that you need is 4 player warlords with two double paddle controllers.
There has got to be a linux geek there somewhere.
I remember back in the day they had a geek purity test that would give you crazy bonus points if you were running linux.
What this is going to do to their insurance premiums...
- A good reason to stay with gnumeric and Emacs
- A good reason to stay with gnumeric and abiword
Maybe even:but PICO???
that's apples and oranges, unless you have a much different pico than I have. Seems akin to "You may use your 'typewriter' but I'll stick with my stone tablet". Of course, in that example even vi would be a nice word processor.
That doesn't change how cool it is that I can run office on a stable OS. Anyone know about the stability of office under WINE?
What are the advantages of office under WINE over office on Windows under VMware other than not paying for a license for the OS?
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A vote for no candidates is a silent approval of them all - vote!!
This was the company that made the displays for the virtual boy. (1994-5?) I saw a circular from them which described color versions of these displays as well. Since the VB's had two of these in them and they were selling for $9 or so at the ned of their clearence, I am surprised that there haven't been more people hacking these.
For all of the people who never type with more than one finger at a time to begin with...
No more qwerty hunting and pecking - now hunting and pecking will be optimized for entry with a single finger or pen!
From the title I was thinking that this was an input device though, not just a new "efficient" layout. I hope this discussion doesn't degenerate in to QWERTY vs. DVORJAK flame wars.
Makes me wonder how long it will be until states are going to try to track personal sales on sites like ebay and throw taxes on that. I know that I've made quite a bit re-selling stuff.
Ohio seems to be pretty good about sneaking up on you with taxes on items that they can track, notably vehicles. I remember being ticked off when I was 14 and had to pay a tax and penalty for buying my moped without handing over the sales tax. Even though it didn't have a title, they got me when I registered it.
Realisticly though, it seems like there is too much commerce going on over the internet for it not to get a tax slapped on it at some point.
Why should we be shocked should MS steal something? They have been caught at this sort of game before...
Anyone else remember when they lost the lawsuit over doublespace?
here ya go;
http://lorenzini.com/jlorenzi/encoder.ht ml
Hope that does it for you...
Found it in 1 minute with Google.
I believe that you meant to say the SR-71 (aka. blackburd) and well, that was not a cargo plane and if I remember correctly it did somewhere between Mach3 and Mach5.
The X-15 was pushing it to break mach 1, and was incapable of taking off by itself - wasn't it just a bigass engine on a cockpit??
I don't follow your logic.