Exactly. It never actually flew. From the article - However, the robot could not actually fly because it was too heavy for its electrical motor.
It merely succeeded in figuring out the best series of motions to get maximum lift. In any case, that's all the robot had to do - try to fly. It didn't have to worry about predator avoidance, finding food, defending a territory, or mating.
The article made the Bhutanese people seem, to me, like America's children. But in a few years, hopefully the novelty will wear off, and Bhutan won't lose its rich culture to Sex in the City and MTV.
By the time you stop watching, it's already too late. TV has had its effect on you during your formative years, and your adult life will be forever shaped by it.
The editors waited until the dead of the night (in the US) to post this story. They did this because it will mitigate the slashdot effect to some degree.
Frankly, unless you have some mind-reading skill that the rest of us don't, it's just as likely that the story was posted at that time by pure chance. It's also worth noting that as it is summer, there is a midnight sun effect which leaves some portions of the state without a sunset for months on end. Click on a webcam for a place like Barrow (no, don't click on it and/. it now, folks), and you'll likely see full blown daylight, which would make that cam useful to a pilot.
Considering Micro$oft sells your address with nanoseconds of signing up, who is surprised? There are numerous mentions of this in previous comments to/. stories involving Hotmail. The most telling of these are the ones that claim the address was never given out, and still had SPAM within minutes.
Not intended to be a flame, but how many folks actually access their site? Quite a few people condemn their actions, but when was the last time you clicked your way to www.riaa.com ?
Hell, I screw off at work just as much as the next guy on slashdot, but I don't have the week it takes to read this and attempt to digest the doublespeak doublespoken here.
What's the point? The story earlier this week suggested that the "holiday" was created by a SysAdmin. If that's the case, I should just create "Quality Analyst Day."
I guess I can at least be thankful that SysAdmin Day isn't Hallmark-ized yet. Christmas in July sales are on right now, and I fear the day that they merge with an extended shopping season.
I'd consider buying a Dell over an HP if they could make better drivers. I've been fighting a LaserJet 4050 and a DesignJet2 since I walked in the door at my current job. Each of them has known, well-documented issues that have never been corrected.
Simply put, kids are brought up in a fast track environment. Our culture as a whole craves instant gratification, which is something you can't get from a construction set. Kids can still create and invent, but the elements are much more structured now.
Lots of posts talk about LEGOs- complaints of the "juniorization" or dumbing-down of kits are commonplace in the LEGO building community. In the "good old days", a basic set of blocks was plenty, and your imagination was the tool for buidling. Now the tool is the instructions that come with the kit. How many children do you see play with the elements of the set in their own way, and not the stock finished product?
Angband... been playing it every day in my cube after I finish lunch. Even though I've been through countless characters, and never been down past 2000', it never really gets old.
For those of you who have never tried Angband, check out Thangorodrim.
If only the seller had put a hit counter on his auction page.... He'd be sitting around trying to figure out why his page got 20k hits in the last hour, but no bids.;-)
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Exactly. It never actually flew. From the article -
However, the robot could not actually fly because it was too heavy for its electrical motor.
It merely succeeded in figuring out the best series of motions to get maximum lift. In any case, that's all the robot had to do - try to fly. It didn't have to worry about predator avoidance, finding food, defending a territory, or mating.
The article made the Bhutanese people seem, to me, like America's children. But in a few years, hopefully the novelty will wear off, and Bhutan won't lose its rich culture to Sex in the City and MTV.
By the time you stop watching, it's already too late. TV has had its effect on you during your formative years, and your adult life will be forever shaped by it.
The editors waited until the dead of the night (in the US) to post this story. They did this because it will mitigate the slashdot effect to some degree.
/. it now, folks), and you'll likely see full blown daylight, which would make that cam useful to a pilot.
Frankly, unless you have some mind-reading skill that the rest of us don't, it's just as likely that the story was posted at that time by pure chance. It's also worth noting that as it is summer, there is a midnight sun effect which leaves some portions of the state without a sunset for months on end. Click on a webcam for a place like Barrow (no, don't click on it and
Considering Micro$oft sells your address with nanoseconds of signing up, who is surprised? There are numerous mentions of this in previous comments to /. stories involving Hotmail. The most telling of these are the ones that claim the address was never given out, and still had SPAM within minutes.
No little sidekick to holler out "Da Kirk, Bahss, da Kirk!"
Sadly, nic.cx's whois query won't retun that information.
No Amazing Fantasy #15 :(
Not intended to be a flame, but how many folks actually access their site? Quite a few people condemn their actions, but when was the last time you clicked your way to www.riaa.com ?
Hell, I screw off at work just as much as the next guy on slashdot, but I don't have the week it takes to read this and attempt to digest the doublespeak doublespoken here.
Gotcha. I'm across from the one at Jefferson / East Henrietta.
Puts on asbestos undies.. damn these things itch
What's the point? The story earlier this week suggested that the "holiday" was created by a SysAdmin. If that's the case, I should just create "Quality Analyst Day."
I guess I can at least be thankful that SysAdmin Day isn't Hallmark-ized yet. Christmas in July sales are on right now, and I fear the day that they merge with an extended shopping season.
Just out of curiosity, which SB was it? If I walk to the front of the building, I can see one of the eight from here.
#1 monopoly.
I'd consider buying a Dell over an HP if they could make better drivers. I've been fighting a LaserJet 4050 and a DesignJet2 since I walked in the door at my current job. Each of them has known, well-documented issues that have never been corrected.
Hello, operator? Give me the number for nine one one!"
They're doing an unfamiliar procedure by video. Any kind of "oops" prolly wouldn't look to good to the viewing public ;-)
Simply put, kids are brought up in a fast track environment. Our culture as a whole craves instant gratification, which is something you can't get from a construction set. Kids can still create and invent, but the elements are much more structured now.
Lots of posts talk about LEGOs- complaints of the "juniorization" or dumbing-down of kits are commonplace in the LEGO building community. In the "good old days", a basic set of blocks was plenty, and your imagination was the tool for buidling. Now the tool is the instructions that come with the kit. How many children do you see play with the elements of the set in their own way, and not the stock finished product?
Igpay atinlay. 'Uffnay aidsay.
Angband... been playing it every day in my cube after I finish lunch. Even though I've been through countless characters, and never been down past 2000', it never really gets old.
For those of you who have never tried Angband, check out Thangorodrim.
That's everywhere I don't want to be.
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These should go quite nicely with my Rodents of Unusual Size >:-)
Larry, Damian, and Dan
;-)
I've always preferred Larry, his borther Darryl, and his other brother Darryl.
Or more to the point- if this was posted at the beginning of the four day weekend, and not when it is already half over for those of us who have it.
If only the seller had put a hit counter on his auction page.... He'd be sitting around trying to figure out why his page got 20k hits in the last hour, but no bids. ;-)