Strange that you'd find a TV show prop in a real aircraft salvage yard.
Not really. I saw one of the mocked up rotorcraft from "The Sixth Day" sitting in a hangar at the aviation museum in Santa Monica a few years back (9/11 insurance rates forced the museum to move a year or so later, BTW.) They were done with it. They didn't want to pay the storage fees. They threw it away.
I don't know about the parent poster, but for me it isn't the claustrophobia - it's the neckaches/backaches from holding position for an hour, and the headaches from the scanner noise (even with earplugs in, an hour's worth of scanning gets to be unpleasant.)
Someone else mentioned that russia hasnt had a fatality since 1971, but all the soyuz missions do is launch people (or supplies), they dont launch both, with a nice big arm, and a huge bay for storing large things that simply will not fit anywhere else
Could it be they're doing something right, that we aren't? Is it absolutely necessary to have a man-rated launch AND reentry vehicle, with live astronauts on board, just to deliver supplies, and bring back garbage? Couldn't we just double the number of Soyuz craft docked at the station, and maintain a larger crew, and just send up supplies using multiple big dumb boosters? That way, if we lose a supply run, big deal, just light up the next one. Right now, we have problems with the shuttle, and the astronauts stuck on the ISS have to start counting calories and oxygen generators...
In my defense, it didn't say that when I posted the link, which unfortunately, is a weakness of the wiki (it can be altered, by anyone.) If you look at the history of the article, there have been 28 edits today, one of which mentions "removing insults", and another "remove vandalism". On the plus side, many of the 28 edits mentioned making factual and grammatical corrections, which hopefully stayed, and improved the article.
I'd imagine the instant resale value on eBay would be several times the cost of the laptop. It's almost like getting something for free... and where there's a free giveaway, you should expect craziness.
It makes me wonder why we as the most advanced and technologically superior country, have failed to capture Osama bin Laden yet yet continues to direct operations against us 4 years later and US$350 billion spent and counting.
You can blame part of that on the idiots who leaked to the press that we were tracking Osama and listening to his satphone calls. Osama's no idiot - as soon as that hit the press, guess what? No more satphone calls.
It used to be in California that you could charge, for free, at any of the public charging stations for electric cars. Of course, now many of those charging stations are broken down and unuseable...
The interesting thing about the new article is that there evidently now a company that will take your Prius, plus $12,000, and convert it into an all-electric car.
The book is Simulacron-3, by Daniel F. Galouye. I have the original pulp paperback (falling apart), and it is an excellent book if you're into old pulpy sci-fi. The premise (I haven't seen the 13th Floor, but I imagine from the trailers that it deviated quite a bit from the book) is that in a world where ad men and pollsters are everywhere, butting into peoples' lives and asking all sorts of questions on everything, these guys decide that there's a better way, and build a simulation of the world (complete with versions of themselves) to collect polling data.
SPOILERS FOLLOW: (although you can get much of this information from the back cover of the book)
Problem is, somebody doesn't want them to succeed - and as it turns out, that someone are the people managing THEIR world, which just happens to be a simulation created to solve the exact same problem (hence all the ad men, which don't exist in the "real" world.) Why do they not want the sim-in-a-sim to succeed? Why, it would intefere with the accuracy of data in the ad simulation, of course!
What encoding would you need? I was under the impression that DV encoding happens in the camera, and all you're doing is substituting a hard drive to record the DV stream, instead of uncompressed video. You'd have to add a DV decoder to do playback, but that's it. You'd definitely need to beef up the battery (or have some provision for accepting outside power) if you wanted longer recording/playback times.
It would be nice if Apple could incorporate DV firmware into the Video iPod, so you could record DV video onto the unit (replacing a tape deck, for instance), and have it playback DV codec video to a TV without the need for a converter. Of course, it would kill several third party products (at least at the consumer level), and would require that Apple use better engineering to deal with the heat created by continually spinning the iPod's HD.
Interestingly enough, the idea of using transporters to deploy photon torpedos was explored in one of the many Star Trek books (The Kobayashi Maru). I wondered why they didn't use nukes to screen the enemy's movements in the season opener of Atlantis - set the nukes on timed, or remote detonation, use the Asgard beam technology to drop nukes in front of each of the Wraith ships, and time detonation simultaneously. Especially given that there were 12 enemy ships vs. Daedaleus. Either that, or use multiple nukes on a single ship to overwhelm their shields - get it inside their point defense network, but outside the influence of whatever tech they're using to block the Asgard transport beam.
You must be thinking about Forgent, who basically abandoned their scheduling product line in favor of buying up patent portfolios, and suing everyone in sight that might be violating them. Unlike SCO, Forgent has actually succeeded in ripping off millions of dollars in licenses for such things like JPEG, and are moving into suing PVR manufacturers.
I didn't print with it very often, but whenever I did, it took an hour to clear the print nozzels.
Not to mention, by the time the print head got cleared, you'd used so much ink in the cleaning process, the damn printer starts spitting low-ink messages at you.
Not the whole legislature (although I'm sure Yee's backers will spread the word to make this an issue). Frankly, I'm disgusted. Yee is being a total asshole - he's speaker pro tem of a state with SERIOUS budgetary issues, and all he can do is grandstand in order to try and advance his bill, which has been killed dead several times, only to be brought back to life, to give state bureaucrats the ability to extend their claws into the games industry, further depleting funds and creating another arm of government that will need tax money to feed it. Never mind that we have businesses and industrial jobs fleeing the state. Never mind that there is a budget shortfall for education. What's that the top of his list? The fact that children might be exposed to "sex" in a game that's already rated as mature, and not appropriate for children.
The only reason why I can think of Yee trying to maintain such high visibility in the media, is because the state Democrats will try running him for Senator at some point in the future. If he does, be afraid, be very, very afraid.
I actually have run into this problem, where I know where a utility is, and have downloaded it, only now it doesn't exist/has been replaced, and I can't get it anymore. This is starting to happen a lot with old Mac shareware/freeware (I still have a bunch of 68k and old PPC macs) and I wish I had made archive dumps of the old Info-mac mirrors.
Slashdot Mirror
That quote seems to come from an essay about school officials in Australia regulating lunchboxes...
Strange that you'd find a TV show prop in a real aircraft salvage yard.
Not really. I saw one of the mocked up rotorcraft from "The Sixth Day" sitting in a hangar at the aviation museum in Santa Monica a few years back (9/11 insurance rates forced the museum to move a year or so later, BTW.) They were done with it. They didn't want to pay the storage fees. They threw it away.
I don't know about the parent poster, but for me it isn't the claustrophobia - it's the neckaches/backaches from holding position for an hour, and the headaches from the scanner noise (even with earplugs in, an hour's worth of scanning gets to be unpleasant.)
You end up in a moving bubble. That would be cool.
Depends on how airtight the slats are. I wouldn't want to run out of oxygen before I got to where I was going...
Someone else mentioned that russia hasnt had a fatality since 1971, but all the soyuz missions do is launch people (or supplies), they dont launch both, with a nice big arm, and a huge bay for storing large things that simply will not fit anywhere else
Could it be they're doing something right, that we aren't? Is it absolutely necessary to have a man-rated launch AND reentry vehicle, with live astronauts on board, just to deliver supplies, and bring back garbage? Couldn't we just double the number of Soyuz craft docked at the station, and maintain a larger crew, and just send up supplies using multiple big dumb boosters? That way, if we lose a supply run, big deal, just light up the next one. Right now, we have problems with the shuttle, and the astronauts stuck on the ISS have to start counting calories and oxygen generators...
In my defense, it didn't say that when I posted the link, which unfortunately, is a weakness of the wiki (it can be altered, by anyone.) If you look at the history of the article, there have been 28 edits today, one of which mentions "removing insults", and another "remove vandalism". On the plus side, many of the 28 edits mentioned making factual and grammatical corrections, which hopefully stayed, and improved the article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_DiDio
That says it all.
Yes, I was about to say, isn't she the "analyst" who was pimping for SCO for a while, before they got too hot to handle?
I'd imagine the instant resale value on eBay would be several times the cost of the laptop. It's almost like getting something for free... and where there's a free giveaway, you should expect craziness.
It makes me wonder why we as the most advanced and technologically superior country, have failed to capture Osama bin Laden yet yet continues to direct operations against us 4 years later and US$350 billion spent and counting.
You can blame part of that on the idiots who leaked to the press that we were tracking Osama and listening to his satphone calls. Osama's no idiot - as soon as that hit the press, guess what? No more satphone calls.
It used to be in California that you could charge, for free, at any of the public charging stations for electric cars. Of course, now many of those charging stations are broken down and unuseable...
Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon
The interesting thing about the new article is that there evidently now a company that will take your Prius, plus $12,000, and convert it into an all-electric car.
Let me head this off at the pass:
Slashdot article on the ElectriClerk
Enjoy.
Dangit, I told Bill not to outsource this project to those workers from that alternate universe!
They're coming for porn and video games, too, but I'm not sure why.
Because if you can demonize something, you can get people to vote to give up more of their essential freedoms in exchange for "fighting" these things?
The book is Simulacron-3, by Daniel F. Galouye. I have the original pulp paperback (falling apart), and it is an excellent book if you're into old pulpy sci-fi. The premise (I haven't seen the 13th Floor, but I imagine from the trailers that it deviated quite a bit from the book) is that in a world where ad men and pollsters are everywhere, butting into peoples' lives and asking all sorts of questions on everything, these guys decide that there's a better way, and build a simulation of the world (complete with versions of themselves) to collect polling data.
SPOILERS FOLLOW: (although you can get much of this information from the back cover of the book)
Problem is, somebody doesn't want them to succeed - and as it turns out, that someone are the people managing THEIR world, which just happens to be a simulation created to solve the exact same problem (hence all the ad men, which don't exist in the "real" world.) Why do they not want the sim-in-a-sim to succeed? Why, it would intefere with the accuracy of data in the ad simulation, of course!
What encoding would you need? I was under the impression that DV encoding happens in the camera, and all you're doing is substituting a hard drive to record the DV stream, instead of uncompressed video. You'd have to add a DV decoder to do playback, but that's it. You'd definitely need to beef up the battery (or have some provision for accepting outside power) if you wanted longer recording/playback times.
It would be nice if Apple could incorporate DV firmware into the Video iPod, so you could record DV video onto the unit (replacing a tape deck, for instance), and have it playback DV codec video to a TV without the need for a converter. Of course, it would kill several third party products (at least at the consumer level), and would require that Apple use better engineering to deal with the heat created by continually spinning the iPod's HD.
Interestingly enough, the idea of using transporters to deploy photon torpedos was explored in one of the many Star Trek books (The Kobayashi Maru). I wondered why they didn't use nukes to screen the enemy's movements in the season opener of Atlantis - set the nukes on timed, or remote detonation, use the Asgard beam technology to drop nukes in front of each of the Wraith ships, and time detonation simultaneously. Especially given that there were 12 enemy ships vs. Daedaleus. Either that, or use multiple nukes on a single ship to overwhelm their shields - get it inside their point defense network, but outside the influence of whatever tech they're using to block the Asgard transport beam.
You must be thinking about Forgent, who basically abandoned their scheduling product line in favor of buying up patent portfolios, and suing everyone in sight that might be violating them. Unlike SCO, Forgent has actually succeeded in ripping off millions of dollars in licenses for such things like JPEG, and are moving into suing PVR manufacturers.
I didn't print with it very often, but whenever I did, it took an hour to clear the print nozzels.
Not to mention, by the time the print head got cleared, you'd used so much ink in the cleaning process, the damn printer starts spitting low-ink messages at you.
Not the whole legislature (although I'm sure Yee's backers will spread the word to make this an issue). Frankly, I'm disgusted. Yee is being a total asshole - he's speaker pro tem of a state with SERIOUS budgetary issues, and all he can do is grandstand in order to try and advance his bill, which has been killed dead several times, only to be brought back to life, to give state bureaucrats the ability to extend their claws into the games industry, further depleting funds and creating another arm of government that will need tax money to feed it. Never mind that we have businesses and industrial jobs fleeing the state. Never mind that there is a budget shortfall for education. What's that the top of his list? The fact that children might be exposed to "sex" in a game that's already rated as mature, and not appropriate for children.
The only reason why I can think of Yee trying to maintain such high visibility in the media, is because the state Democrats will try running him for Senator at some point in the future. If he does, be afraid, be very, very afraid.
Hey, what if I need that program some day?
I actually have run into this problem, where I know where a utility is, and have downloaded it, only now it doesn't exist/has been replaced, and I can't get it anymore. This is starting to happen a lot with old Mac shareware/freeware (I still have a bunch of 68k and old PPC macs) and I wish I had made archive dumps of the old Info-mac mirrors.
I wonder if you could stockpile diesel though? Probably cheaper (and less hazardous) just to buy a forward contract though.
Whoops, knew I missed an "i" in there. For that matter, it should have said "24 hours" instead of just "24".