I loved that scene in Robocop where the sportscaster was talking about the final two teams in the world series: The Tokyo Samurai, and the Toronto Blue Jays. Americans kicked out of their own sport. - It was great!
A friend of mine recently came back from a trip to New Zealand. Their currency is made of a plastic film instead of paper. It cannot be torn. It has areas that are transparent. I don't recall any texture features, but it probably had them. The main point was that the material was easy to recognize, and very difficult to fake.
My current browser doesn't render sarcasm tags, so I'm not sure if your post is meant to be serious or humerous. However, I've never seen, or even heard about someone copying the Microsoft Hologram.
People can't do anything by hand anymore. Lego and Meccanno have both gone to pre-designed models (if you can even *find* Meccanno). Radio Shack doesn't sell Electronics Kits, or electronic components anymore. "Do-It-Yourself" somehow got left behind in the dim mists of the 20th century.
What happens when the globe warms?
Women wear less clothing?
Which means?
More Porn.
What we have here is a positive feedback loop. The planet is doomed.
I'm going to guess that you're an american. Americans tend to have this blind spot that extends from their borders and works outward. Most of them tend to ignore (and be ignorant of)the rest of the world. For example, in the movie Outbreak a plague is sweeping across the States. There is a scene where they extrapolate the spread of the disease. Curiously, it never crosses the borders.
The idea of taxing email, or having a government sender verification site, contains the assumtion that the internet is somehow contained in a single country. When a Pakistani is sending an email to a Turk, who's government website is the Turk supposed to check? What is the tax to be paid in? What happens with a country that decides that it will not comply, how do you check the key?
Spam is an international problem. It cannot be fixed by a national solution. Legislation will not work, because there will always be countries which do not comply. If there is going to be a solution to spam, it is going to be a technical solution, not a legal one.
What's winning the battle, phone booths or cell phones? I've been to many places where phone booths have been removed because "everyone" carries cell phones these days.
This device will suffer the same fate. The whole idea of a PDA is portability. You can look up addresses, phone numbers, play games, etc. anywhere with a PDA. However, with one of these devices, you are limited to wherever they put a kiosk.
"Sorry I forgot the bread, Honey. I had the grocery list on my personal server, but the lineup at the kiosk was too long, so I just got what I could remember".
"Sure, I can beam you my address. There's a kiosk three blocks from here."
It is not difficult at all, and he is using off the shelf technology. This will give him straight, level flight regardless of wind, or minor design imbalances. GPS units are relatively cheap. The only other thing you need is a microcomputer to glue it all together. A PIC microcontroller can do the job for less than $20.
As a matter of fact, check out this site. GPS navigation of model airplanes has been around for at least seven years already.
Before a flight, Montgomery programs into a laptop computer the path that he wants the aircraft to follow. This information then is downloaded into the airplane's onboard computer. After placing the plane on the runway and starting the engine, he pushes a single button, the aircraft takes off, flies the preprogrammed course and then lands all by itself.
Averaged over a kilometer course, the deviation in the aircraft's position from the programmed course was typically less than 0.5 meter horizontally, 0.25 meter vertically and 0.25 meters per second in air speed, Montgomery reported.
"Carrier differential GPS is accurate enough for most purposes, so you don't need a lot of expensive equipment," he said.
The only difference I see is that this guy is using a jet powered craft, and is calling it a cruise missile. Other than that, it is the same thing.
Oh, and by the way, the FAA has no jurisdiction in New Zealand.
Using the software is different than being provided the binaries for the software. If you are given the binaries, you must be granted access to the source as well. If your bank uses GPL-d code inside their ATM they would not be obligated to provide you with the source, because you are not getting the binaries.
Let's say there is a GPL-d web server called Appa_chi. Does my connecting to a website driven by Appa_chi, grant me the right to the source for Appa_chi? I don't think so. I don't have the binaries, so the website is under no obligation to provide the source.
Well that's easy. Give Billy cancer, and give George aids. Suddenly cancer research funding will go through the roof, and the government will release its "top secret" aids antidote.:-)
While finding cures for diseases is a noble goal, it requires equipment that is beyond the reach of most hobbyists.
Many that live deserve death; and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them Frodo? Do not be too quick to deal out death in judgment. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
As much as I may disagree with their influence in the world, assasinating people who you don't like, or who's political views you do not agree with, does not make the world a better place. It makes it a worse place.
1)How many/. users own a fully working train set that they currently USE.
2)How many/. users also own a PDA.
I don't know about 1, but I imagine quite a large percentage of slashdot users own pdas. (Furthermore, I would imagine that among the slashdot users who do own a fully working train set, the percentage also owning a PDA would be even higher.)
The idea of using a PDA to control a model train fits in VERY well with the theme of slashdot. It is a cool hack. There needs to be more of this kind of story posted here. It is a story of individual initiative and inventiveness, rather than corporate greed and legal entanglements. It is a story that inspires people. How much more constructive and good for the world do you want?
No. Bullets kill people. All bullets should have a serial number and you should need a licence to buy, make, import, etc these obviously deadly things. Think of all the crimes you could solve by digging the slug out of the corpse, scanning the barcode on it, and arresting the purchaser.
No, he (or she) never mentioned anything about the lip. It was mutually assumed that there would be a lip, because without one, the cover would always fall through the hole - regardless of its shape.
The reason I mentioned a lip originally was that if you were to follow the directions in my first counter-example, you would wind up with the manhole cover standing on one vertex on the lip of the hole. That vertex would need to be pushed off of the lip in order to fall.
That casual mentioning has lead us through the whole size-of-the-lip debate, and taken us away from the shapes-that-can-fall-through-their-holes debate, which was the point of my original post.
However, that casual mentioning has also led to the longest Slashdot thread/conversation I have ever been a part of. It's been great!
"I'm not impatient, I just hate waiting!" - My Dad
We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions submitted here by Slashdot readers to Robertson tomorrow, and run his answers, unedited, as soon as he gets them back to us.
Umm... It may just me, but I never see any posts get rated higher than 5. Presumably, there will be more than ten questions rated at 5. How will you determine which ten of these you will send?
Fine, we agree. Now if there is a small lip, a trivial lip, say one or two cms on a meter sized hole. Is an equilateral triangle immune from falling through such a hole?
The problem that Microsoft faces with Linux is that it is impossible to undercut the price... unless they're willing to pay people to run Windows.
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Don't forget the ever popular "Imagine a beowolf cluster..." Hey, that might not be such a bad idea. At a rough guess, eighteen of these fit in the same space as a mid sized tower.
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I loved that scene in Robocop where the sportscaster was talking about the final two teams in the world series: The Tokyo Samurai, and the Toronto Blue Jays. Americans kicked out of their own sport. - It was great!
A friend of mine recently came back from a trip to New Zealand. Their currency is made of a plastic film instead of paper. It cannot be torn. It has areas that are transparent. I don't recall any texture features, but it probably had them. The main point was that the material was easy to recognize, and very difficult to fake.
My current browser doesn't render sarcasm tags, so I'm not sure if your post is meant to be serious or humerous. However, I've never seen, or even heard about someone copying the Microsoft Hologram.
People can't do anything by hand anymore. Lego and Meccanno have both gone to pre-designed models (if you can even *find* Meccanno). Radio Shack doesn't sell Electronics Kits, or electronic components anymore. "Do-It-Yourself" somehow got left behind in the dim mists of the 20th century.
What happens when the globe warms? Women wear less clothing? Which means? More Porn. What we have here is a positive feedback loop. The planet is doomed.
Why, "Windows" of course.
No, see, the beauty of this system is we all get to fly around in blimps.
"Hey, there, Blimpy-Boy" - H. Simpson
I thought lasers were measured in "Gilettes": ie how many razor blades it can burn through.
First post is passe. There are 10-30 new topics on slashdot every day. Every one of these has a first post. It's common. It's cheap.
The really "in" thing is getting +5 insightful posts.
I'm going to guess that you're an american. Americans tend to have this blind spot that extends from their borders and works outward. Most of them tend to ignore (and be ignorant of)the rest of the world. For example, in the movie Outbreak a plague is sweeping across the States. There is a scene where they extrapolate the spread of the disease. Curiously, it never crosses the borders.
The idea of taxing email, or having a government sender verification site, contains the assumtion that the internet is somehow contained in a single country. When a Pakistani is sending an email to a Turk, who's government website is the Turk supposed to check? What is the tax to be paid in? What happens with a country that decides that it will not comply, how do you check the key?
Spam is an international problem. It cannot be fixed by a national solution. Legislation will not work, because there will always be countries which do not comply. If there is going to be a solution to spam, it is going to be a technical solution, not a legal one.
What's winning the battle, phone booths or cell phones? I've been to many places where phone booths have been removed because "everyone" carries cell phones these days.
This device will suffer the same fate. The whole idea of a PDA is portability. You can look up addresses, phone numbers, play games, etc. anywhere with a PDA. However, with one of these devices, you are limited to wherever they put a kiosk.
"Sorry I forgot the bread, Honey. I had the grocery list on my personal server, but the lineup at the kiosk was too long, so I just got what I could remember".
"Sure, I can beam you my address. There's a kiosk three blocks from here."
This is dead in the water technology, folks.
As a matter of fact, check out this site. GPS navigation of model airplanes has been around for at least seven years already. The only difference I see is that this guy is using a jet powered craft, and is calling it a cruise missile. Other than that, it is the same thing.
Oh, and by the way, the FAA has no jurisdiction in New Zealand.
Using the software is different than being provided the binaries for the software. If you are given the binaries, you must be granted access to the source as well. If your bank uses GPL-d code inside their ATM they would not be obligated to provide you with the source, because you are not getting the binaries.
Let's say there is a GPL-d web server called Appa_chi. Does my connecting to a website driven by Appa_chi, grant me the right to the source for Appa_chi? I don't think so. I don't have the binaries, so the website is under no obligation to provide the source.
No, it was a robot. The mission planners told it where to go, but not how to get there.
While finding cures for diseases is a noble goal, it requires equipment that is beyond the reach of most hobbyists.
As much as I may disagree with their influence in the world, assasinating people who you don't like, or who's political views you do not agree with, does not make the world a better place. It makes it a worse place.
I don't know about 1, but I imagine quite a large percentage of slashdot users own pdas. (Furthermore, I would imagine that among the slashdot users who do own a fully working train set, the percentage also owning a PDA would be even higher.)
The idea of using a PDA to control a model train fits in VERY well with the theme of slashdot. It is a cool hack. There needs to be more of this kind of story posted here. It is a story of individual initiative and inventiveness, rather than corporate greed and legal entanglements. It is a story that inspires people. How much more constructive and good for the world do you want?
Congratulations on your first post! Welcome to the online party called Slashdot. Grab yourself a nickname so you can really join in on the fun.
No. Bullets kill people. All bullets should have a serial number and you should need a licence to buy, make, import, etc these obviously deadly things. Think of all the crimes you could solve by digging the slug out of the corpse, scanning the barcode on it, and arresting the purchaser.
No, he (or she) never mentioned anything about the lip. It was mutually assumed that there would be a lip, because without one, the cover would always fall through the hole - regardless of its shape.
The reason I mentioned a lip originally was that if you were to follow the directions in my first counter-example, you would wind up with the manhole cover standing on one vertex on the lip of the hole. That vertex would need to be pushed off of the lip in order to fall.
That casual mentioning has lead us through the whole size-of-the-lip debate, and taken us away from the shapes-that-can-fall-through-their-holes debate, which was the point of my original post.
However, that casual mentioning has also led to the longest Slashdot thread/conversation I have ever been a part of. It's been great!
"I'm not impatient, I just hate waiting!" - My Dad
We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions submitted here by Slashdot readers to Robertson tomorrow, and run his answers, unedited, as soon as he gets them back to us.
Umm... It may just me, but I never see any posts get rated higher than 5. Presumably, there will be more than ten questions rated at 5. How will you determine which ten of these you will send?
This is how it is spelled in the books.
NerveGas did.
Fine, we agree. Now if there is a small lip, a trivial lip, say one or two cms on a meter sized hole. Is an equilateral triangle immune from falling through such a hole?
The problem that Microsoft faces with Linux is that it is impossible to undercut the price... unless they're willing to pay people to run Windows.
Don't forget the ever popular "Imagine a beowolf cluster..." Hey, that might not be such a bad idea. At a rough guess, eighteen of these fit in the same space as a mid sized tower.