Has anyone with knowledge of actual power generation systems looked at this article?
The submitter is apparently the owner of the site where the article is posted--also of other "Free Energy" and survivalist supply sites.
The article gives no details about a technology which seems sketchy at best and pure BS at worst. This gap is covered by the ever-popular "U.S. companies had better hurry up, the Europeans and Asians are about to pay me BIG MONEY for my wonderful ideas!" Come on.
In the final analysis the idea sounds like a 7th-grade science fair project. Does he really think Slashdot readers will think that venture capitalists are lining up around the block to pay for this "idea?"
Sorry if I sound sarcastic, I must have gotten up on the non-gullible side of the bed this morning.
Yeah, that was Splashpower too. This article from 21 Jan 2005 mentioned that the company "has been promising to launch its SplashPad charger for the past three years," so it's probable that you're remembering earlier coverage of the same thing.
I wonder if they're working on 100:1 lossless compression as well...
Doesn't that linear object in the upper left of that image look like a mass driver of the type that we plan to put on our own moon someday? Perhaps someone's been there before...
<music="xfiles.mid"> Perhaps we've been there before! </music>
Just kidding, I'm sure it's just an image-processing artifact...
Headline news, 2062:
"In a related story, shares of BizLogix plummeted today on news that its wildly successful "Investment Apprentice" analysis software was based on a pirated copy of Donald Trump."
Makes you wonder who'll be making the BitTorrent rounds in fifty years.
Can anyone give me examples of jokes that are 'double reinforced' like the parent?
I'd suggest the oft-seen "This site is best viewed with a computer." Web literati would see this as a sarcastic comment the difficulty of rendering webpages on a PDA or cellphone screen, while most folks would just think, "Yeah, a computer sure helps!" There are plenty of other examples, but that's as far offtopic as I care to wander.
Speaking of wandering, I wonder if they've tried tactile feedback? It seems to me that it would be simple enough to install an array of rubber-tipped actuators around the cockroach pilot, then prod it when the robot hit an obstacle on that side or goes too far in that direction.
Actually, a RAID (Redundant Array of Insect Drivers) would make such a device much more reliable--as long as it wasn't implemented as JBOD (Just a Bunch of Dead ones).
Digital culture is potentially global culture. We find theatre productions from London, like "Les Miserables", becoming mega-hits on Broadway in New York City. Italian operas have been performed all over the world for centuries. What is different? Nothing.
The city scenes in the first Matrix film were shot in Sydney, the second in San Francisco, and yet on-screen they constituted an architecturally homogenous unidentifiable "global city." Modern skyscrapers are designed more for efficiency than uniqueness, and with few exceptions are not terribly distinctive. Just because my city can be photoshopped to look like another one does not make me more a "citizen of the world."
The increasing globalization of production creates a "global culture" that is cosmopolitan and robust in its diversity. What an asinine statement. My grandfather could walk into a store 50 years ago and buy a Japanese radio as easily as an American-made one. Did it make him more culturally aware?
Balancing this trend, however, we find a resurgence in international arts. Films like "Amelie" succeed because they inflect the emerging global culture with a local or regional cultural flavor. Films like "Amelie" succeed because they are well-made and entertaining despite the subtitles, not because of them.
In addition, Chow Yun-Fat is not only a successful Chinese actor, but more importantly a successful global actor. Mark Twain was an international star as well. So was Benjamin Franklin. Chow Yun-Fat is not a different species, just a different breed.
Each generation thinks that their time is the most important moment in history. It is the hubris of our species, and it leads us unfailingly to make bad decisions about the future, thinking we know more than our predecessors and as much as our successors. This is why each generation laughs at its ancestors and is laughed at by its descendants.
Come on, people; we have thousands of years of history to draw upon here. Can't we muster some perspective? Read Ecclesiastes--there is nothing new under the sun.
Seriously, this seems to be a pretty trivial, and almost useless, implementation of the ARToolkit. If you're going to have to wear goggles anyway to view part of the material, why not just put the whole book in memory and display it that way without having to go through the complicated and clunky "augmented-reality" step?
...one has to wonder whether airing such a controversial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thorough contemplation."
You have to wonder?!? Of COURSE it does! What Michael Moore and his supporters have to decide is, are their reasons for removing George Bush so unquestionably righteous and so critical for the country's survival that they justify any and all means, including short-circuiting the democratic process, to get him out?
Political differences aside, I'd rather take four years with almost anybody as president than accept this kind of overt political manipulation as the new standard of behavior in American society.
...The only thing worse than The Life of David Gale ever to make it out of the editing room.
All these movies beg the questions: At what point do they first realize it and say "It's too late to go back now?" Is it ever really too late? And if not, what's the most expensive movie ever made that didn't get distributed because it was Just That Bad?
They're taking images through blue, green, red and infrared filters. The color shift problem in the publicly released images is because they're blending in the infrared shot instead of the red shot, right?
Why don't they just release the RGB images as well as the iRGB? They have all the images after all--why waste press conferences explaining the differences or lack thereof when they could just give us the pictures?
As a Memphis resident and Nashville hater, I have to say that this doesn't surprise me.
Then I suppose that it WOULD surprise you that the bill's Senate sponsor is your own Senator Curtis Person. I'll give you a moment to recompose yourself.
I have a copy of that CD. Fortunately, the track to which you're referring is of hip-hop silence, which contains a two-second sample of Cage's original 4'33" repeated many times.
Listen to it again and you'll agree that the first two seconds sound exactly the same as the next two seconds, and so on. Actually, I'm surprised you didn't notice it before!
"Electronic Frontiers Australia (www.efa.org.au) claims that the raids organized by the music industry on mp3s4free.com have come up with nothing."
How much nothing did they find? No matter--whether it was 4 minutes 33 seconds or only a minute, nothing is still a copyright violation, and John Cage's publishers will have something to say about the nothing that was found!
Was anyone else put off by the comment that they might market this substitute as a fertility aid (due to a study showing it increased fertility in rats)? Somehow I think there are a lot more women in the world who don't want to get pregnant than women trying to get pregnant.
I hope you've never had to deal with the pain of wanting a child and not being able to have one. I've known more people of that ilk than those who wished the other way after having them. Many of these folks have paid tens of thousands of dollars for any number of treatments, surgical procedures, counseling, etc. to try to have kids. Do you think they'd balk at switching to a lo-cal sweetener that might increase their fertility by five percent?
The key word here is market. Someone developing a fertility aid doesn't care if five billion people don't want more kids. It's the hundreds of millions that do who will make it worthwhile. The plan is to sell it, after all--not add it to the municipal water supply.
Yes, in a free market people vote with their money, but remember that the voting options aren't Yes and No, but Yes and Abstain.
...but a beowulf cluster of these could reduce all of Britain to hot grits!
As a serious aside, does the pusher robot balloon shove people down the rope ladder? To protect them from the terrible secret of British aviation?
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- The submitter is apparently the owner of the site where the article is posted--also of other "Free Energy" and survivalist supply sites.
- The article gives no details about a technology which seems sketchy at best and pure BS at worst. This gap is covered by the ever-popular "U.S. companies had better hurry up, the Europeans and Asians are about to pay me BIG MONEY for my wonderful ideas!" Come on.
- The only Dr. Thomas L. Lee I could find is an MD in Texas, and the only Stanbury Resources I found sells real estate in Montana.
- In the final analysis the idea sounds like a 7th-grade science fair project. Does he really think Slashdot readers will think that venture capitalists are lining up around the block to pay for this "idea?"
Sorry if I sound sarcastic, I must have gotten up on the non-gullible side of the bed this morning.Yeah, that was Splashpower too. This article from 21 Jan 2005 mentioned that the company "has been promising to launch its SplashPad charger for the past three years," so it's probable that you're remembering earlier coverage of the same thing.
I wonder if they're working on 100:1 lossless compression as well...
Doesn't that linear object in the upper left of that image look like a mass driver of the type that we plan to put on our own moon someday? Perhaps someone's been there before...
<music="xfiles.mid">
Perhaps we've been there before!
</music>
Just kidding, I'm sure it's just an image-processing artifact...
<music="twi_zone.mid">
maybe...
</music>
- In Soviet Russia... The spam filter kills YOU!
- Imagine a beowulf cluster of these murders!
- The weapon was most likely a clue bat.
Any others equally bad?Headline news, 2062: "In a related story, shares of BizLogix plummeted today on news that its wildly successful "Investment Apprentice" analysis software was based on a pirated copy of Donald Trump." Makes you wonder who'll be making the BitTorrent rounds in fifty years.
Can anyone give me examples of jokes that are 'double reinforced' like the parent?
I'd suggest the oft-seen "This site is best viewed with a computer." Web literati would see this as a sarcastic comment the difficulty of rendering webpages on a PDA or cellphone screen, while most folks would just think, "Yeah, a computer sure helps!" There are plenty of other examples, but that's as far offtopic as I care to wander.
Speaking of wandering, I wonder if they've tried tactile feedback? It seems to me that it would be simple enough to install an array of rubber-tipped actuators around the cockroach pilot, then prod it when the robot hit an obstacle on that side or goes too far in that direction.
Actually, a RAID (Redundant Array of Insect Drivers) would make such a device much more reliable--as long as it wasn't implemented as JBOD (Just a Bunch of Dead ones).
And yet ignored my Standard for the Transmission of Coherent Logical Unitary Elements.
- Digital culture is potentially global culture. We find theatre productions from London, like "Les Miserables", becoming mega-hits on Broadway in New York City.
- The city scenes in the first Matrix film were shot in Sydney, the second in San Francisco, and yet on-screen they constituted an architecturally homogenous unidentifiable "global city."
- The increasing globalization of production creates a "global culture" that is cosmopolitan and robust in its diversity.
- Balancing this trend, however, we find a resurgence in international arts. Films like "Amelie" succeed because they inflect the emerging global culture with a local or regional cultural flavor.
- In addition, Chow Yun-Fat is not only a successful Chinese actor, but more importantly a successful global actor.
Each generation thinks that their time is the most important moment in history. It is the hubris of our species, and it leads us unfailingly to make bad decisions about the future, thinking we know more than our predecessors and as much as our successors. This is why each generation laughs at its ancestors and is laughed at by its descendants.Italian operas have been performed all over the world for centuries. What is different? Nothing.
Modern skyscrapers are designed more for efficiency than uniqueness, and with few exceptions are not terribly distinctive. Just because my city can be photoshopped to look like another one does not make me more a "citizen of the world."
What an asinine statement. My grandfather could walk into a store 50 years ago and buy a Japanese radio as easily as an American-made one. Did it make him more culturally aware?
Films like "Amelie" succeed because they are well-made and entertaining despite the subtitles, not because of them.
Mark Twain was an international star as well. So was Benjamin Franklin. Chow Yun-Fat is not a different species, just a different breed.
Come on, people; we have thousands of years of history to draw upon here. Can't we muster some perspective? Read Ecclesiastes--there is nothing new under the sun.
...It's called a "pop-up book."
Seriously, this seems to be a pretty trivial, and almost useless, implementation of the ARToolkit. If you're going to have to wear goggles anyway to view part of the material, why not just put the whole book in memory and display it that way without having to go through the complicated and clunky "augmented-reality" step?
...one has to wonder whether airing such a controversial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thorough contemplation."
You have to wonder?!? Of COURSE it does! What Michael Moore and his supporters have to decide is, are their reasons for removing George Bush so unquestionably righteous and so critical for the country's survival that they justify any and all means, including short-circuiting the democratic process, to get him out?
Political differences aside, I'd rather take four years with almost anybody as president than accept this kind of overt political manipulation as the new standard of behavior in American society.
...The only thing worse than The Life of David Gale ever to make it out of the editing room. All these movies beg the questions: At what point do they first realize it and say "It's too late to go back now?" Is it ever really too late? And if not, what's the most expensive movie ever made that didn't get distributed because it was Just That Bad?
They're taking images through blue, green, red and infrared filters. The color shift problem in the publicly released images is because they're blending in the infrared shot instead of the red shot, right? Why don't they just release the RGB images as well as the iRGB? They have all the images after all--why waste press conferences explaining the differences or lack thereof when they could just give us the pictures?
As a Memphis resident and Nashville hater, I have to say that this doesn't surprise me.
Then I suppose that it WOULD surprise you that the bill's Senate sponsor is your own Senator Curtis Person. I'll give you a moment to recompose yourself.
I have a copy of that CD. Fortunately, the track to which you're referring is of hip-hop silence, which contains a two-second sample of Cage's original 4'33" repeated many times.
Listen to it again and you'll agree that the first two seconds sound exactly the same as the next two seconds, and so on. Actually, I'm surprised you didn't notice it before!
"Electronic Frontiers Australia (www.efa.org.au) claims that the raids organized by the music industry on mp3s4free.com have come up with nothing."
How much nothing did they find? No matter--whether it was 4 minutes 33 seconds or only a minute, nothing is still a copyright violation, and John Cage's publishers will have something to say about the nothing that was found!
The question is, how do you remove it?
Was anyone else put off by the comment that they might market this substitute as a fertility aid (due to a study showing it increased fertility in rats)? Somehow I think there are a lot more women in the world who don't want to get pregnant than women trying to get pregnant.
I hope you've never had to deal with the pain of wanting a child and not being able to have one. I've known more people of that ilk than those who wished the other way after having them. Many of these folks have paid tens of thousands of dollars for any number of treatments, surgical procedures, counseling, etc. to try to have kids. Do you think they'd balk at switching to a lo-cal sweetener that might increase their fertility by five percent?
The key word here is market. Someone developing a fertility aid doesn't care if five billion people don't want more kids. It's the hundreds of millions that do who will make it worthwhile. The plan is to sell it, after all--not add it to the municipal water supply.
Yes, in a free market people vote with their money, but remember that the voting options aren't Yes and No, but Yes and Abstain.
"SCO now says there are over a million lines of offending code in Linux..."
They might be referring to the commented code. You know, RMS can get pretty ribald with his comment blocks when he's got a few cans of Jolt in him...
But somebody should mod that idiot down.
...but a beowulf cluster of these could reduce all of Britain to hot grits! As a serious aside, does the pusher robot balloon shove people down the rope ladder? To protect them from the terrible secret of British aviation?
When I read about this project, I thought, "He's establishing a perpetual Con!" Then I saw the irony, and I was Enlightened.
...but refused my excellent comparative review of Powerbook G4 versus Hummer?
My heart still isn't warm. Did I miss something?
Now, if the kids had wired up a Beowulf cluster of these... then I think the ol' ticker would simmer a bit.
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!"
Still, this might leave some folks short on cache.
A policeman pulls Werner Heisenberg over on the autobahn for speeding.
Policeman: Sir, do you know how fast you were going?
Heisenberg: No, but I know exactly where I am.