Last but not least, the german Hase Pino semi-recumbent bike. The captain sit in the rear in an upright position, the stoker is seated in a comfy recumbent seat in the front. The bike is selling quite well in Germany. It's used like normal tandem bikes for couples going on vacation and errands together, but also for transportation of kids and people with various disabilities - the bike is very adaptable to various capabilities of the riders.
http://hasebikes.com/84-1-Tand...
Price? About 3000 Euro for the Pino. Probably out of range for people considering bikes a toy or something to hang on the rear of your RV / SUV. But quite OK for a vehicle that can meet a lot of your mobility needs. Bicycles can pretty successfully do much of the same city transportation done by cars (40-50% of all trips in Copenhagen and Netherlands are made by bike), and if you save on gas (or even more - many people don't bother getting a motor vehicle at all, actually) you can afford much better bikes than the walmart bike-like objects (yes, we have that in Europe too).
Only lack of water-proofness made me stop using my N900. In a very concrete fashion, alas.
I actually miss the software, too. What you could find in the repos (some 10,000:s of packages?) was imho way better than the 500,000+ packages availible for Android. For example the "mappero" map app beat what you could find on android (which probably would be orux), at least back in the days. And most of it was free-as-in-speech software. No ads, no spying, much less risk trusting the software. And quite well inviting you to participate hacking too...
Congratulations on your relatively better energy independance. But alas, I have to correct the article : Fossil fuel *production* (which as far as we know is a biological / geological process) is probably just a few barrels each day (given current reserves and the time it needed to form; conditions favoring formation probably varies with geological epochs). Fossil fuel *extraction* is what the article talks about, and is at an all time high.
You usually don't celebrate that much that your rate of withdrawing funds from your bank account is at record high. Maybe quitting using this euphemism would help a tiny bit getting away from the damaging fossil fuel dependency...
You could give the robot a socket to plug in a "motivation" chip that filter what events make it "happy". Then you could of course pull out a small piece of wire from you towel, short the chip and make the robot always happy whatever happends...
Write a personal mail to your MP:s/senators etc instead. A few polite sentences, asking for restoring copyright to premium creativity instead of greed. If you can, send a paper mail. Some perhaps even answer their office phone. Just remember being nice albeit firm.
30 million unique mails can probably make some impact. At least far more than the original proposal.
Maybe that it doesn't need external power or control. IIRC, the auto-dim welding helmets I know of need an external power source (small solar panel + battery I presume), and dims by applying a current to the glass.
I was also going to ask if this could be used for a simpler welding mask, but 30 ms is perhaps too slow for protecting against the lots of UV arc welding produces.
Ignoring the wishful thinking even for the occupants, there is still quite a risk being killed *by* that Volvo. Cars are quite a brutal way of travelling; tons of speeding steel that can make any object or person on the outsite flat by merely a moment of distracted driver.
Keeping human-guided vehicles at a speed safe for everyone (30 km/h perhaps?) and leaving high-speed to rail would be far better (also, the vehicles could be *far* lighter, cheaper and non-energi-guzzling). Yes, current society is quite car-centric, but that doesn't mean motor-cars everywhere is the most optimal choice. Compare this to a microsoft-centric computer market, and what it ought to be...
So true. We assume everyone is driving, and make society harder to use with other kinds of locomotion (like, riding a bike or taking public transport). That means a preassure to give a driving license to everyone, regardsless of suitability as a driver, and far too lenient with revoking licenses. And the motor-normative circle goes on...
Cars are heavy machinery with a big killing potential. Travelling (by *some* means, it could even be by foot) is a right. Driving is a privillege.
Yes, and still they fail. We had a somwhat interesting event at one of our sites in Sweden, Forsmark: When a fault in the outbound net triggered a shutdown in a similiar way, a power spike at the internal system forced all of the backup generators down, stopping power to the pumps. Fortunately, they were able to be restarted manually.
There is some debate about whether we had a risk of meltdown (our reactors *do* have some shielding if that would happend), but still the lack of safety culture was heavily critizised, and the event was classed as INES-2, and is regarded the most serious in Sweden.
The Forsmark plant was seen as a "flagship" plant for modernity and safety; hosting many demonstration tours and such. Stil there seem to be some "Oops" event beacuse of complexity...
If I have a business selling - for example - bicycle pedals, being well listed at www.bike-pedal-finder.com, or by users of some yellow pages could certainly help my business. If the search engines could use information like below, it will probably help:
Jokes about IBM aside (they rightly are about IBM management): Don't they have their salary regulated in contract? Or is it accept-or-be-fired (article doesn't tell)? I am not really familiar with US labour market. Is this legal? In many countries, you can only be fired for misconduct or lack of availible work. (The discussion about race-to-the-bottom and trying or not take part in it will probably take place somewhere else in the threads...)
"Self-desctructing Palm" And guess what I thought about? Annoying DRM-laden *phones that brick themself upon command, self-destructing movie files, or perhaps Exploding Lithium-powered Portable Computing(TM)...
I hope my old trustworthy Palm V is loaded with neither defective-by-design nor the old common pyrotechnical defective-by-mistake:-)
AFAIK they are not completely interconnected, ie A if and only if B. You can have black hole formation without Hawking radiation evaporating them. We don't know which is true of the four combinations, but we'd better getting to know that before risking out planet.
After all, we don't have any backups (ISS is just a peripheral), and methaphorically trying this kind of "crashme"-program with full root-access on our one and only live planet is just a bad idea.
The large Hadron Collider is a moby piece of equipment. Built in the former LEP tunnel at CERN, it will be operational in May 2008. For the first time in history, we may be able to reach energy levels enough to produce particle-mass black holes (60% probability according to some, CERN just report it as "possible"). The safety analysis concludes that this is not supposed to be a problem because of fast evaporation by Hawking radiation. Alas, Hawkling radiation has never been observed in practice. It fits nicely with the standard model, but so does also models without it...
This could be a cruel experiment indeed, if we happen to falsify Hawking and create a stable black hole with velocity below earth escape (which LHC, contrary to cosmic rays do nicely by head-on collisions, thereby eliminating momentum). Sadly, I predict a lack of people being able to sumbit this to the Darwin awards page, even less any web (or planet) at all...
I wish this was just a joke, now this is more of black humour. While it's just a small probability of things going boom in the wrong way; given the hazard, the risk is quite large anyway. Also, sadly, the risk evalutation is highly unserious compared to, for example, nuclear power plant regulation. One good place for further reading is http://risk-evaluation-forum.org/
Hmm... technically advanced, US-made, breaking often, lots of crew and cargo compartment where in most cases a smaller vehicle would do. Not very modular or elegant, and huge running costs: sound quite like driving a SUV to a just few blocks, instead of riding your bike:-).
(OK, I like the shuttle far better than cars - you cant bike or take the train into space...)
There is a juridical difference (at least in Sweden, and many other places in Europe) between moral (artistic) and economical rights. If someone is using your picture in the above context, you could easily claim that your moral rights are being violated. You dont need to have the same set of restrictions for the economical "monopoly" and the moral rights, because they serve different needs. Actually, according to law you can't even transfer (sell) your artistic rights to someone else./Per Eric
Think Linus said: "real hackers don't do backups, they upload their stuff on FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it". Well, quite a good strategy:-)
Distributed online backup (with unison, for example) is a very convinient way for me to protect against hardware failure. It doesn't, however, protect against introducing errors into the file collection. "bit-rot" can be accounted for if you know if you actually changed some files (timestamps are good), but if you happend to zero a file which is the distibuted over the other backups, it is very good to have some rotating system, too, for the most valueable stuff. (and using CVS of course).
Well, your points are certainly valid, but I'll give an other view nevertheless: My Sony P70 (Cybershot-something), a compact camera about two years old, can't do manual focus except in specific distances from a menu. Neither can it do completely manual exposures. Would have been nice being able to fix. Also, it would have been nice adding some feature allowing it to act as an USB webcam, or whatever.
I think there are as many reasons for programmability on digital cameras as on PDA:s and ordinary computers. However, maybe the hardware-specific (like CCD control) and standard (like JPEG compression, if you content with the buit-in) software could be left in ROM, and accessed via some more-or-less standard API?
Completly open firmware some day would certainly be nice, but the first step is to be able to run some software of my own choice on it at all. Ideally you could write applications that would run on all ARM cameras (or maybe more, if the cameras had a Java interpreter), using the API for manipulating hardware. The manufacturer could limit syscall parameters to such ones that was within limits of safe operation.
Many people probably don't want to change the motor controls (but it would be nice to be able to iff you want to), but merely fix some annoyace in the UI or play tetris on it...
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Ah, nice to learn :-)
There are several home-built tandems with individual handlebars, like this one I saw in Amsterdam : https://rosnix.net/~per/album/...
Also this child seat for the Brompton folding bike works quite like the original post : http://documentally.com/2011/0...
Last but not least, the german Hase Pino semi-recumbent bike. The captain sit in the rear in an upright position, the stoker is seated in a comfy recumbent seat in the front. The bike is selling quite well in Germany. It's used like normal tandem bikes for couples going on vacation and errands together, but also for transportation of kids and people with various disabilities - the bike is very adaptable to various capabilities of the riders. http://hasebikes.com/84-1-Tand...
Price? About 3000 Euro for the Pino. Probably out of range for people considering bikes a toy or something to hang on the rear of your RV / SUV. But quite OK for a vehicle that can meet a lot of your mobility needs. Bicycles can pretty successfully do much of the same city transportation done by cars (40-50% of all trips in Copenhagen and Netherlands are made by bike), and if you save on gas (or even more - many people don't bother getting a motor vehicle at all, actually) you can afford much better bikes than the walmart bike-like objects (yes, we have that in Europe too).
Only lack of water-proofness made me stop using my N900. In a very concrete fashion, alas. I actually miss the software, too. What you could find in the repos (some 10,000:s of packages?) was imho way better than the 500,000+ packages availible for Android. For example the "mappero" map app beat what you could find on android (which probably would be orux), at least back in the days. And most of it was free-as-in-speech software. No ads, no spying, much less risk trusting the software. And quite well inviting you to participate hacking too ...
You usually don't celebrate that much that your rate of withdrawing funds from your bank account is at record high. Maybe quitting using this euphemism would help a tiny bit getting away from the damaging fossil fuel dependency ...
Can you really predict if it will halt?
You could give the robot a socket to plug in a "motivation" chip that filter what events make it "happy". Then you could of course pull out a small piece of wire from you towel, short the chip and make the robot always happy whatever happends ...
You don't need leaving the one true editor. I think emacs itself actually includes a couple of web browsers ... (granted, as third-party modules)
Obligatory and good overview of all perve^H^Hmutations of [Kk] and [Bb] and friends: http://xkcd.com/394/ :-)
Write a personal mail to your MP:s/senators etc instead. A few polite sentences, asking for restoring copyright to premium creativity instead of greed. If you can, send a paper mail. Some perhaps even answer their office phone. Just remember being nice albeit firm. 30 million unique mails can probably make some impact. At least far more than the original proposal.
Maybe that it doesn't need external power or control. IIRC, the auto-dim welding helmets I know of need an external power source (small solar panel + battery I presume), and dims by applying a current to the glass. I was also going to ask if this could be used for a simpler welding mask, but 30 ms is perhaps too slow for protecting against the lots of UV arc welding produces.
Ignoring the wishful thinking even for the occupants, there is still quite a risk being killed *by* that Volvo. Cars are quite a brutal way of travelling; tons of speeding steel that can make any object or person on the outsite flat by merely a moment of distracted driver.
Keeping human-guided vehicles at a speed safe for everyone (30 km/h perhaps?) and leaving high-speed to rail would be far better (also, the vehicles could be *far* lighter, cheaper and non-energi-guzzling). Yes, current society is quite car-centric, but that doesn't mean motor-cars everywhere is the most optimal choice. Compare this to a microsoft-centric computer market, and what it ought to be ...
... i read it as "the sound of *falling* hard drives". ...
*bonk* *smash* ouch
Maybe they use the free wifi from across the street?
Cars are heavy machinery with a big killing potential. Travelling (by *some* means, it could even be by foot) is a right. Driving is a privillege.
Yes, and still they fail. We had a somwhat interesting event at one of our sites in Sweden, Forsmark: When a fault in the outbound net triggered a shutdown in a similiar way, a power spike at the internal system forced all of the backup generators down, stopping power to the pumps. Fortunately, they were able to be restarted manually.
There is some debate about whether we had a risk of meltdown (our reactors *do* have some shielding if that would happend), but still the lack of safety culture was heavily critizised, and the event was classed as INES-2, and is regarded the most serious in Sweden.
The Forsmark plant was seen as a "flagship" plant for modernity and safety; hosting many demonstration tours and such. Stil there seem to be some "Oops" event beacuse of complexity ...
Jokes about IBM aside (they rightly are about IBM management): Don't they have their salary regulated in contract? Or is it accept-or-be-fired (article doesn't tell)? I am not really familiar with US labour market. Is this legal? In many countries, you can only be fired for misconduct or lack of availible work. (The discussion about race-to-the-bottom and trying or not take part in it will probably take place somewhere else in the threads ...)
"Self-desctructing Palm" And guess what I thought about? Annoying DRM-laden *phones that brick themself upon command, self-destructing movie files, or perhaps Exploding Lithium-powered Portable Computing(TM) ...
I hope my old trustworthy Palm V is loaded with neither defective-by-design nor the old common pyrotechnical defective-by-mistake :-)
After all, we don't have any backups (ISS is just a peripheral), and methaphorically trying this kind of "crashme"-program with full root-access on our one and only live planet is just a bad idea.
The large Hadron Collider is a moby piece of equipment. Built in the former LEP tunnel at CERN, it will be operational in May 2008. For the first time in history, we may be able to reach energy levels enough to produce particle-mass black holes (60% probability according to some, CERN just report it as "possible"). The safety analysis concludes that this is not supposed to be a problem because of fast evaporation by Hawking radiation. Alas, Hawkling radiation has never been observed in practice. It fits nicely with the standard model, but so does also models without it ...
This could be a cruel experiment indeed, if we happen to falsify Hawking and create a stable black hole with velocity below earth escape (which LHC, contrary to cosmic rays do nicely by head-on collisions, thereby eliminating momentum). Sadly, I predict a lack of people being able to sumbit this to the Darwin awards page, even less any web (or planet) at all ...
I wish this was just a joke, now this is more of black humour. While it's just a small probability of things going boom in the wrong way; given the hazard, the risk is quite large anyway. Also, sadly, the risk evalutation is highly unserious compared to, for example, nuclear power plant regulation. One good place for further reading is http://risk-evaluation-forum.org/
Hmm ... technically advanced, US-made, breaking often, lots of crew and cargo compartment where in most cases a smaller vehicle would do. Not very modular or elegant, and huge running costs: sound quite like driving a SUV to a just few blocks, instead of riding your bike :-).
...)
(OK, I like the shuttle far better than cars - you cant bike or take the train into space
There is a juridical difference (at least in Sweden, and many other places in Europe) between moral (artistic) and economical rights. If someone is using your picture in the above context, you could easily claim that your moral rights are being violated. You dont need to have the same set of restrictions for the economical "monopoly" and the moral rights, because they serve different needs. Actually, according to law you can't even transfer (sell) your artistic rights to someone else. /Per Eric
In addition, Kraft is owned by Philip Morris^H^H^H Altria, the worlds largest (?) and perhaps one of the most aggressive tobbaco companies.
Alas, they own quite a lot of food companies here in Sweden too, including the no 1 mainstream chocolates company, Marabo.
If you prefer not supporting tobbaco plugging (and bully corporatism in this case too), have a look at
http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/00pmbrands.html
Think Linus said: "real hackers don't do backups, they upload their stuff on FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it". Well, quite a good strategy :-)
Distributed online backup (with unison, for example) is a very convinient way for me to protect against hardware failure. It doesn't, however, protect against introducing errors into the file collection. "bit-rot" can be accounted for if you know if you actually changed some files (timestamps are good), but if you happend to zero a file which is the distibuted over the other backups, it is very good to have some rotating system, too, for the most valueable stuff. (and using CVS of course).
Well, your points are certainly valid, but I'll give an other view nevertheless: My Sony P70 (Cybershot-something), a compact camera about two years old, can't do manual focus except in specific distances from a menu. Neither can it do completely manual exposures. Would have been nice being able to fix. Also, it would have been nice adding some feature allowing it to act as an USB webcam, or whatever.
...
I think there are as many reasons for programmability on digital cameras as on PDA:s and ordinary computers. However, maybe the hardware-specific (like CCD control) and standard (like JPEG compression, if you content with the buit-in) software could be left in ROM, and accessed via some more-or-less standard API?
Completly open firmware some day would certainly be nice, but the first step is to be able to run some software of my own choice on it at all. Ideally you could write applications that would run on all ARM cameras (or maybe more, if the cameras had a Java interpreter), using the API for manipulating hardware. The manufacturer could limit syscall parameters to such ones that was within limits of safe operation.
Many people probably don't want to change the motor controls (but it would be nice to be able to iff you want to), but merely fix some annoyace in the UI or play tetris on it