Some posters above had recomended that the elevator shaft itself be a vacuum. This has been somewhat discredited for many reasons, among which were "The shaft is simply too big."
Something the size and shape of an elevator car, however, should prove to be easy to seal and provide a perfect environment for a vacuum. If the speed is increased in future iterations, people won't have to hold their breath for nearly as long.
My own personal favorite method for a quiet elevator ride is to expell some gas at begining of the ride. That or lock eyes with them, smiling goofilly. After a few moments, claim "I've got cheese in my pocket."
Nice! I've worked in buildings with 75+ floors, and I would have loved to ride one of those!
Perhaps this would be accepted more easilly if there were seats. At least along the side, for the sick, weak or elderly. At best, there could be two rows of eight seats with an aisle down the middle for entering or exiting.
The parent (to you) poster explained that there was a counterweight, likely approximately the same weight as the elevator car, perhaps taking the cable weight into account. So if the car were empty it would go neight up nor down.
Add in the weight of passengers and then the elevator will go down and your formula applies.
I think that you're correct in your reference to/. readers, but when the article itself refers to both Gb and Gb for the same product, people want to know which it is before they get excited about it.
"Two, you usually do not get a trial run at these places."
With the vendors setting everything up the night before AND being able to get to their display the next morning at 06:00, there is plenty of opportunity to test (a DVD player) before the public arrives at 08:00.
I'm not saying that Murphy won't visit at the most inopportune time. I'm just saying that there was time to test, and maybe even time to rehearse.
"Make it idiot proof, and someone will build a better idiot"
It doesn't apply in this case, due to the affiliation of the manager with the product.
I still can't believe that they didn't have the manager chatting up the audience, with a techie in the background running things. That seems to be how everyone else does it.
While won't be able to attend this year, it's a free show done annually. Oh, and there's the um, AVN to attend during the same time frame. If you're interested in that sort of thing. (what geek wouldn't be?)
"The same thing would have happened in your atheistic paradise."
While I'm an agnostic and not an athiest, I partly agree with you in that the crusades would have still happened. The post I responded to, though, claimed that "Religions form important social systems that have KEPT BAD THINGS FROM HAPPENING (emphasis mine) over the centuries." I maintain that the statement is false, at least in this example.
My post was responding to the claim that "Religions form important social systems that have kept bad things from happening over the centuries" I felt was a false claim. It's my position that they did NOT do that, and in some cases made things worse.
The company will be going public in a couple/few months, so I'll know more then. Assuming (yeah, I know that it makes an ass blahblahblah) the product works, the impact will be absolutely huge.
So if you hear of any major power-related break-throughs, think of me.:)
"1. (January 2001) "If I take out a second mortgage on my house and buy one of these 'new economy' stocks like pets.com I can double my money in just a few months. I'll pay off my house and still have money to burn.""
That made me laugh, because I'll be doing exactly that in a few months. That hit too, too close to home.
Interesting. My experience is just the opposite. I hold the phone to my right ear, and can hear it just fine. But when circumstances force me to switch the phone to my left ear, I can't hear nearly as well.
I commute to work on a motorcycle, and I can speak to it affecting my hearing. I'd heard of folks wearing earplugs while riding, which seemed somewhat counter-intuitive to me, as riders need to be even more vigilant than drivers when it comes to sounds.
Anyway, I wore one earplug on my 45 minute commute, two months ago, and it essentially tuned out the higher frequencies. I could still hear normal noise just fine. I haven't ridden without earplugs since then. I'd suggest you wear them in your truck, to be honest.
Not really a 'brown' note, so to speak as the poster above mentions, but the comment about a subwoofer in the chair made me think of the Buttkicker. I saw it for the first time at CES (cesweb.org) last year, and they rule.
There are two version (three if you count the one for the car) and one sits in the center support for your rolling office chair. The other, which I have, sits under a leg of your couch. While pricey (~$100 for the computer chair version and ~$450 for the couch version) they are both quite worth it. At the demo, I placed my hand on the carpet next to the couch version and couldn't feel a thing. But once I sat on the couch, the movie came to life.
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Some posters above had recomended that the elevator shaft itself be a vacuum. This has been somewhat discredited for many reasons, among which were "The shaft is simply too big."
Something the size and shape of an elevator car, however, should prove to be easy to seal and provide a perfect environment for a vacuum. If the speed is increased in future iterations, people won't have to hold their breath for nearly as long.
My own personal favorite method for a quiet elevator ride is to expell some gas at begining of the ride. That or lock eyes with them, smiling goofilly. After a few moments, claim "I've got cheese in my pocket."
Nice! I've worked in buildings with 75+ floors, and I would have loved to ride one of those!
Perhaps this would be accepted more easilly if there were seats. At least along the side, for the sick, weak or elderly. At best, there could be two rows of eight seats with an aisle down the middle for entering or exiting.
Sorry. 'neight' should be read as neither.
The parent (to you) poster explained that there was a counterweight, likely approximately the same weight as the elevator car, perhaps taking the cable weight into account. So if the car were empty it would go neight up nor down.
Add in the weight of passengers and then the elevator will go down and your formula applies.
I think that you're correct in your reference to /. readers, but when the article itself refers to both Gb and Gb for the same product, people want to know which it is before they get excited about it.
then it's time to give Facilities a call. It's too hot in the Data Center!
I don't want to know how you verified THAT tidbit of information.
"Ok, I'll just connect this jumper cable to ground on my spare car battery, and....ARGH!"
"Two, you usually do not get a trial run at these places."
With the vendors setting everything up the night before AND being able to get to their display the next morning at 06:00, there is plenty of opportunity to test (a DVD player) before the public arrives at 08:00.
I'm not saying that Murphy won't visit at the most inopportune time. I'm just saying that there was time to test, and maybe even time to rehearse.
I forget the author, or I would give credit:
"Make it idiot proof, and someone will build a better idiot"
It doesn't apply in this case, due to the affiliation of the manager with the product.
I still can't believe that they didn't have the manager chatting up the audience, with a techie in the background running things. That seems to be how everyone else does it.
This is Slashdot. Nobody here washes their hands unless they actually SEE stuff on them. And even then it's a...crapshoot.
Wha? New location? Meaning a new place in Vegas, or??
Fake? I can't speak for all the products, of course, but what I've seen have been working models.
Prototypes are certainly represented, but I didn't see anything like those plastic computers that you find in furniture stores.
If you're truly interested, go to cesweb.org.
While won't be able to attend this year, it's a free show done annually. Oh, and there's the um, AVN to attend during the same time frame. If you're interested in that sort of thing. (what geek wouldn't be?)
Well said!
So AIM has the capability to share files, but not on the massive level that Allpeers is claiming.
That said, this is currently vapourware.
"The same thing would have happened in your atheistic paradise."
While I'm an agnostic and not an athiest, I partly agree with you in that the crusades would have still happened. The post I responded to, though, claimed that "Religions form important social systems that have KEPT BAD THINGS FROM HAPPENING (emphasis mine) over the centuries." I maintain that the statement is false, at least in this example.
That's a good thought.
My post was responding to the claim that "Religions form important social systems that have kept bad things from happening over the centuries" I felt was a false claim. It's my position that they did NOT do that, and in some cases made things worse.
Thank you for explaining it better than I did.
The company will be going public in a couple/few months, so I'll know more then. Assuming (yeah, I know that it makes an ass blahblahblah) the product works, the impact will be absolutely huge.
:)
So if you hear of any major power-related break-throughs, think of me.
"1. (January 2001) "If I take out a second mortgage on my house and buy one of these 'new economy' stocks like pets.com I can double my money in just a few months. I'll pay off my house and still have money to burn.""
:)
That made me laugh, because I'll be doing exactly that in a few months. That hit too, too close to home.
If it works out, everyone will know.
"The only problem to this is that everyone believes in a religon."
Hm. No. I'm an agnostic, and believe in nothing. If there is a god, fine, if there isn't, whatever. I just don't care one way or the other.
This is NOT to be confused with atheism, which as you are likely aware a belief that there is NO god.
"Religions form important social systems that have kept bad things from happening over the centuries."
Yeah, like the Crusades! Religion reeeeealy helped out there.
Damn you and your superior intellect! :)
(By reading this you agree to my previous statement.)
Interesting. My experience is just the opposite. I hold the phone to my right ear, and can hear it just fine. But when circumstances force me to switch the phone to my left ear, I can't hear nearly as well.
I commute to work on a motorcycle, and I can speak to it affecting my hearing. I'd heard of folks wearing earplugs while riding, which seemed somewhat counter-intuitive to me, as riders need to be even more vigilant than drivers when it comes to sounds.
Anyway, I wore one earplug on my 45 minute commute, two months ago, and it essentially tuned out the higher frequencies. I could still hear normal noise just fine. I haven't ridden without earplugs since then. I'd suggest you wear them in your truck, to be honest.
Not really a 'brown' note, so to speak as the poster above mentions, but the comment about a subwoofer in the chair made me think of the Buttkicker. I saw it for the first time at CES (cesweb.org) last year, and they rule.
There are two version (three if you count the one for the car) and one sits in the center support for your rolling office chair. The other, which I have, sits under a leg of your couch. While pricey (~$100 for the computer chair version and ~$450 for the couch version) they are both quite worth it. At the demo, I placed my hand on the carpet next to the couch version and couldn't feel a thing. But once I sat on the couch, the movie came to life.
Find a demo if you can.