This is my computer, you can not bother me on it unless I allow you to. If I visit your website, spam all the pop-ups you want. If I give you my email for the purposes of marketing, spam me all you want. But if I am just sitting here and you spam me with pop-ups through some spyware program or send me unsolicited emails, then you should be punished (assuming laws are in place to make such acts illegal).
You can compare the situation to your property. People are not allowed to just walk on your property and put a lawn-sign in your yard. Nor can they can come up and talk to you if you've told them to stop trespassing (or through a restraining order, etc).
Why should the two venues be considered any differently? They're both my property and I decide who can come, who can go, and what happens on my property. Simple as that.
A guy at my local flying club where I used to live had built a flying mower, although it was red, not green. Really, the thing is just very lightweight and the thrust from the prop-engine is capable of supporting the weight of the craft (ie, it could fly in a vertical position like a helicopter just fine). You'll notice that during most of the flight, the thing has a fairly high angle of attack in order to provide the lift necessary.
Actually, there was another guy (not sure if this was at the same flying club or some other place) that built a plane that looked exactly like Snoopy sitting on the top of his dog house like the Red Baron. Except, you could not tell what the lifting surface was (except for the bottom of the dog house). There were no wings sticking out or anything. It just looked like Snoopy sitting on his dog house. Pretty cool stuff.
I knew a guy with some sort of degenerative disease where his hips failed early on in life. He just needed to get new hips when he stopped growing (without a doubt, so he waited until he was 25 or so). He lives in India already though, and the operation cost him either $4000 total or $4000 per hip, can't remember exactly. I'd imagine the same operation here could run up to $100,000 easily. And he is doing just fine now, had the operation a few years ago.
"Just give me a freaking engine with fuel injectors and spark plugs controlled by a small amount of hardware..."
And actually, I appreciate these controllers because they optimize fuel injection and spark timing parameters to keep the engine running smoothly and efficiently. And it's kind of fun to be able to gain access to these controllers to change your engine running characteristics for different environments (hauling, off-roading, cross-country driving, etc).
Well, I do appreciate the added efficiency that precisely-timed spark plugs and fuel injectors can give me. You can't get the same precision with a mechanically-timed spark or fuel distribution system that you can with the modern electronic systems.
I also need a heating system, but they were perfected a long time ago and a purely analog one will work just fine for me (ie no digital controlling of the temperature, etc - just a simple analog temperature switch).
And, a radio is usable quite often for checking weather and traffic conditions. But again, what is wrong with an analog radio? I don't need a digital one that will likely fail 10x as often as a reliable old analog one.
Seriously though, this may be nice and all to have as an OPTION, but I dread the day when almost all cars have a cental computer that is still in its infancy (within the next 5 to 10 years) and it is difficult to find one without a computer. Until another 20 or 30 years roll by and we have a 100% reliable (through heritage, testing, and otherwise) system, I don't want it. Just give me a freaking engine with fuel injectors and spark plugs controlled by a small amount of hardware, strapped to a frame and I am all set. I don't want on-board this, automatic that, computer-aided crap. I know how to drive, I know where I want to go, and I know how to get there.
Until I can get in the car, tell it where I want to go, and go to sleep for the ride, I don't want computers invading my car and bothering me. A vehicle is for getting from point A to point B and maybe hauling some crap from point A to point B, that's all.
I don't know about chicks digging it, but imagine if you had the game for this weekend. You could load it up for a Friday evening or Saturday afternoon/evening jam session. Invite all your buds over for some beer and snacks, hang out and watch some TV, shoot the breeze, and waste some hookers on GTA:SA. You could burn a few copies of it and have half the people playing it either on PCs or PS2s (or even a projector if you've got one). It would be awesome to have a party and play a game like that before it is even available to buy.
Similarly, I wonder how many people go to some major retailer like Walmart, buy the game, copy it, then return it for store credit (since the game is already open). Or has Walmart, etc, changed their policies on open software? I haven't been in places like that for a while. If you just keep doing this over and over then all you will have invested is the highest cost of any one of the games (say $50) as you keep buying-copying-returning-buy_another-copy-return... etc.
And I'm sure you haven't touched the lawn since either, with all that rabbit doo all over the place. We did a somewhat similar thing with guinea pigs, but we always stayed away from the 'cage area' of the lawn...
Actually, if you walk all day then you are burning energy stores that you had before you ate the apple. If you ate only 1 apple a day for the rest of your life (and some glasses of water), you would die within a year or two (perhaps much earlier). An average apple is only about 75 calories. Walking all day could easily burn 2000 calories. Your ingested water contains (for our purposes) 0 calories. Since your net calorie change is -1925, you will be burning up extra fat stores until they are all gone. Once all the fat stores are gone, you will no longer have enough energy to sustain all of your bodily functions and various muscles and organs will begin failing. The next thing you know, you're in a heap on the ground decomposing.
"Ciufolini's team analyzed millions of laser signals bounced off two satellites, called LAGEOS and LAGEOS 2. Both are highly reflective spheres not designed to do any work of their own. They look like 2-foot-diameter (0.6m) golf balls and contain no batteries or electronics."
As well, he is a submission whore. So far this year, he has had 103 stories show up on SlashDot. So how many has he submitted? Let's say 1 out of every 4 gets accepted (at most). That's 412 submissions (at least) in the past 305 days. I wonder how much he makes off the advertising on his site and if it's a business I should try to get in on...
lmao. There's a difference between some dinky 80 kg 2' x 2' x 2' cube designed to be launched into SSO at 668km and a ~9000 kg beast designed to propel itself out of HEO and into an orbit around the icy moons of Jupiter to study their formation and composition with a vast instrument suite.
I'm not knocking their efforts, and I admire the work they have done; but this team of students has only designed a small, light satellite that performs a couple of on-board experiments and relays the information back to Earth. There is practically 0 innovation in this project because everything they use is COTS technology. The only innovative part will be the data collected from the experiment, but even the experiment uses COTS technology.
I'm as ticked off about the crap that Lockheed (and others) have failed on, but they're nowhere near being replaced in the next decade.
That was my point, sheesh. The fund raising statements and such made me wonder a bit, so I checked it out. Everything looked legit, that's all. People interpret this as trolling? Geez...
Not really, I had seen the single player being run before, I just didn't get around to playing it myself until later. Nothing seemed especially interesting about the single player part even when I saw other playing it.
I think the HL2 development leak was a good thing anyhow. It gave the development team a breather and it allowed the management to blame their tardiness on something else. Otherwise, we would have had Valve saying every month or two "Sorry, we're pushing the release back." And then we would have had a release sometime in June or July, but it would have been buggy still since they would have craved into management's demands to get it out anyhow.
You know what's funny? When I originally bought HL, it was to play TFC. I never even tried out the single player until a few years later when someone mentioned to me that they were playing single player. I loaded it up, found it to be alright, but the numerous multiplayer mods were a million times more fun. So I dropped the single player part after a few days and just kept on having a blast with multiplayer.
TFC, Firearms, DOD, Natural Selection, The Specialists - you name it - I can't wait for these mods to come out for HL2. I'm a bit excited for the single player (I will check that out this time around), but the real frosting on the cake are the mods.
I agree with your comments about the parent poster extensively. The parent poster obviously has never seen Jon in action.
If anyone wants simple proof that Jon is not a fake and he deserves 100% of the respect he gets, just check out his appearance on BookTV. The entire thing was freaking hilarious, all the while he made many good points about politics, and the whole thing was entirely ad-lib. No script, nothing, he made it up on the fly. And in fact, if anyone has watched The Daily Show at all, it's easy to tell when Jon is reading the script and when he is pulling stuff out of his ass. And to tell you the truth, I find the stuff he makes up on the fly a lot funnier and more poignant than the stuff the script writers came up with.
If Jon ran for president and didn't give in to all the bullshit of the system, I would vote for him.
As with almost all (if not all) satellites, probes, etc - they are turned off during the launch and are not turned on until after the launch has completed.
Nope, that's not the case. If you check out the movies on their website, you can see that the time from launch until you see the parachute (it disappears for a second inbetween) is only 5 or 10 seconds. For that amount of time, 1 km sounds about right - 50km would be impossible to shoot up to, and then fall back down.
Judging from the pictures on the same website, the rocket looks fairly simple except, perhaps, for the liquid fuel system. With the low cost of materials and labor in Asia, I wonder why this rocket costs so much? I would imagine they could build the whole thing (excluding labor of the students) for a grand or two.
To me, the most interesting thing this group did was their winged version of this rocket. The rocket launches normally with a highly-swept wing structure attached, then uses that to glide back down and make a (relatively) smooth crash-landing.
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Exactly. Here's how I see it:
This is my computer, you can not bother me on it unless I allow you to. If I visit your website, spam all the pop-ups you want. If I give you my email for the purposes of marketing, spam me all you want. But if I am just sitting here and you spam me with pop-ups through some spyware program or send me unsolicited emails, then you should be punished (assuming laws are in place to make such acts illegal).
You can compare the situation to your property. People are not allowed to just walk on your property and put a lawn-sign in your yard. Nor can they can come up and talk to you if you've told them to stop trespassing (or through a restraining order, etc).
Why should the two venues be considered any differently? They're both my property and I decide who can come, who can go, and what happens on my property. Simple as that.
I did a search for hovermow and hover mow on Google, came up with nothing. Have a link for any additional information on this topic? It sounds neat.
A guy at my local flying club where I used to live had built a flying mower, although it was red, not green. Really, the thing is just very lightweight and the thrust from the prop-engine is capable of supporting the weight of the craft (ie, it could fly in a vertical position like a helicopter just fine). You'll notice that during most of the flight, the thing has a fairly high angle of attack in order to provide the lift necessary.
Actually, there was another guy (not sure if this was at the same flying club or some other place) that built a plane that looked exactly like Snoopy sitting on the top of his dog house like the Red Baron. Except, you could not tell what the lifting surface was (except for the bottom of the dog house). There were no wings sticking out or anything. It just looked like Snoopy sitting on his dog house. Pretty cool stuff.
I knew a guy with some sort of degenerative disease where his hips failed early on in life. He just needed to get new hips when he stopped growing (without a doubt, so he waited until he was 25 or so). He lives in India already though, and the operation cost him either $4000 total or $4000 per hip, can't remember exactly. I'd imagine the same operation here could run up to $100,000 easily. And he is doing just fine now, had the operation a few years ago.
That's what I meant by:
"Just give me a freaking engine with fuel injectors and spark plugs controlled by a small amount of hardware..."
And actually, I appreciate these controllers because they optimize fuel injection and spark timing parameters to keep the engine running smoothly and efficiently. And it's kind of fun to be able to gain access to these controllers to change your engine running characteristics for different environments (hauling, off-roading, cross-country driving, etc).
Well, I do appreciate the added efficiency that precisely-timed spark plugs and fuel injectors can give me. You can't get the same precision with a mechanically-timed spark or fuel distribution system that you can with the modern electronic systems. I also need a heating system, but they were perfected a long time ago and a purely analog one will work just fine for me (ie no digital controlling of the temperature, etc - just a simple analog temperature switch). And, a radio is usable quite often for checking weather and traffic conditions. But again, what is wrong with an analog radio? I don't need a digital one that will likely fail 10x as often as a reliable old analog one.
Seriously though, this may be nice and all to have as an OPTION, but I dread the day when almost all cars have a cental computer that is still in its infancy (within the next 5 to 10 years) and it is difficult to find one without a computer. Until another 20 or 30 years roll by and we have a 100% reliable (through heritage, testing, and otherwise) system, I don't want it. Just give me a freaking engine with fuel injectors and spark plugs controlled by a small amount of hardware, strapped to a frame and I am all set. I don't want on-board this, automatic that, computer-aided crap. I know how to drive, I know where I want to go, and I know how to get there.
Until I can get in the car, tell it where I want to go, and go to sleep for the ride, I don't want computers invading my car and bothering me. A vehicle is for getting from point A to point B and maybe hauling some crap from point A to point B, that's all.
I don't know about chicks digging it, but imagine if you had the game for this weekend. You could load it up for a Friday evening or Saturday afternoon/evening jam session. Invite all your buds over for some beer and snacks, hang out and watch some TV, shoot the breeze, and waste some hookers on GTA:SA. You could burn a few copies of it and have half the people playing it either on PCs or PS2s (or even a projector if you've got one). It would be awesome to have a party and play a game like that before it is even available to buy.
Similarly, I wonder how many people go to some major retailer like Walmart, buy the game, copy it, then return it for store credit (since the game is already open). Or has Walmart, etc, changed their policies on open software? I haven't been in places like that for a while. If you just keep doing this over and over then all you will have invested is the highest cost of any one of the games (say $50) as you keep buying-copying-returning-buy_another-copy-return ... etc.
And I'm sure you haven't touched the lawn since either, with all that rabbit doo all over the place. We did a somewhat similar thing with guinea pigs, but we always stayed away from the 'cage area' of the lawn ...
Actually, if you walk all day then you are burning energy stores that you had before you ate the apple. If you ate only 1 apple a day for the rest of your life (and some glasses of water), you would die within a year or two (perhaps much earlier). An average apple is only about 75 calories. Walking all day could easily burn 2000 calories. Your ingested water contains (for our purposes) 0 calories. Since your net calorie change is -1925, you will be burning up extra fat stores until they are all gone. Once all the fat stores are gone, you will no longer have enough energy to sustain all of your bodily functions and various muscles and organs will begin failing. The next thing you know, you're in a heap on the ground decomposing.
From the CNN article:
"Ciufolini's team analyzed millions of laser signals bounced off two satellites, called LAGEOS and LAGEOS 2. Both are highly reflective spheres not designed to do any work of their own. They look like 2-foot-diameter (0.6m) golf balls and contain no batteries or electronics."
Space Balls?
As well, he is a submission whore. So far this year, he has had 103 stories show up on SlashDot. So how many has he submitted? Let's say 1 out of every 4 gets accepted (at most). That's 412 submissions (at least) in the past 305 days. I wonder how much he makes off the advertising on his site and if it's a business I should try to get in on ...
lmao. There's a difference between some dinky 80 kg 2' x 2' x 2' cube designed to be launched into SSO at 668km and a ~9000 kg beast designed to propel itself out of HEO and into an orbit around the icy moons of Jupiter to study their formation and composition with a vast instrument suite.
I'm not knocking their efforts, and I admire the work they have done; but this team of students has only designed a small, light satellite that performs a couple of on-board experiments and relays the information back to Earth. There is practically 0 innovation in this project because everything they use is COTS technology. The only innovative part will be the data collected from the experiment, but even the experiment uses COTS technology.
I'm as ticked off about the crap that Lockheed (and others) have failed on, but they're nowhere near being replaced in the next decade.
Favorite quote from the Wired article:
[...one player even braved Florida's Hurricane Ivan to answer a call at a pay phone that was destroyed shortly afterward.
"Dude," said Puppetmaster 2, "it's a hurricane. Put the phone down."]
That was my point, sheesh. The fund raising statements and such made me wonder a bit, so I checked it out. Everything looked legit, that's all. People interpret this as trolling? Geez...
This made me wonder if spreadfirefox.com was just some guy looking to make a quick buck off the community.
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Creation Date........ 2004-07-22
Registration Date.... 2004-07-22
Expiry Date.......... 2006-07-22
Organisation Name.... Mozilla Foundation
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Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Stanford
Organisation Address. 94309
Organisation Address. CA
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... Blake Ross
Admin Address........ P.O. Box 13616
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Admin Phone.......... (999)9999999
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Not really, I had seen the single player being run before, I just didn't get around to playing it myself until later. Nothing seemed especially interesting about the single player part even when I saw other playing it.
I think the HL2 development leak was a good thing anyhow. It gave the development team a breather and it allowed the management to blame their tardiness on something else. Otherwise, we would have had Valve saying every month or two "Sorry, we're pushing the release back." And then we would have had a release sometime in June or July, but it would have been buggy still since they would have craved into management's demands to get it out anyhow.
You know what's funny? When I originally bought HL, it was to play TFC. I never even tried out the single player until a few years later when someone mentioned to me that they were playing single player. I loaded it up, found it to be alright, but the numerous multiplayer mods were a million times more fun. So I dropped the single player part after a few days and just kept on having a blast with multiplayer.
TFC, Firearms, DOD, Natural Selection, The Specialists - you name it - I can't wait for these mods to come out for HL2. I'm a bit excited for the single player (I will check that out this time around), but the real frosting on the cake are the mods.
How long until it's on bittorrent though? 1 week? 2 weeks?
I agree with your comments about the parent poster extensively. The parent poster obviously has never seen Jon in action.
If anyone wants simple proof that Jon is not a fake and he deserves 100% of the respect he gets, just check out his appearance on BookTV. The entire thing was freaking hilarious, all the while he made many good points about politics, and the whole thing was entirely ad-lib. No script, nothing, he made it up on the fly. And in fact, if anyone has watched The Daily Show at all, it's easy to tell when Jon is reading the script and when he is pulling stuff out of his ass. And to tell you the truth, I find the stuff he makes up on the fly a lot funnier and more poignant than the stuff the script writers came up with.
If Jon ran for president and didn't give in to all the bullshit of the system, I would vote for him.
Except that the movie looks like the intro to some kinky-weird pr0n flick.
As with almost all (if not all) satellites, probes, etc - they are turned off during the launch and are not turned on until after the launch has completed.
Nope, that's not the case. If you check out the movies on their website, you can see that the time from launch until you see the parachute (it disappears for a second inbetween) is only 5 or 10 seconds. For that amount of time, 1 km sounds about right - 50km would be impossible to shoot up to, and then fall back down.
Judging from the pictures on the same website, the rocket looks fairly simple except, perhaps, for the liquid fuel system. With the low cost of materials and labor in Asia, I wonder why this rocket costs so much? I would imagine they could build the whole thing (excluding labor of the students) for a grand or two.
To me, the most interesting thing this group did was their winged version of this rocket. The rocket launches normally with a highly-swept wing structure attached, then uses that to glide back down and make a (relatively) smooth crash-landing.