A problem with conventional instruments is that pilots, particularly inexperienced ones, sometimes fixate on one gauge and ignore others.
Colburn said he suspects that was a factor when a single-engine Piper Saratoga piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashed into the water south of Martha's Vineyard in July 1999. Kennedy, his wife and his sister-in-law perished in the crash.
"I think if he was flying with a display like this, the OZ display, there's no way that he would have gotten in the position that he was," Colburn said.
The arrogance...geez. So Colburn suspects that the Kennedy accident was due to the pilot fixating on a single gauge. He thinks that if there was a new display there's no way that there would have been a problem.
Good grief. This is just a bunch of guesswork without any evidence or even any sound reasoning whatsoever. This guy can't make a good pitch for his new technology so he'll claim that some famous accident wouldn't have happened if they had used his technology. It really sickens me when people try to use public tragedies to make money.
Can someone explain to me why webmasters feel the need to embed their movies within their own webpages? Why not just let us download it to our harddrives with a simple right-click? That way (a) people can watch it over and over without added strain on the server and (b) people can distribute the file through other means (p2p, etc.) again saving the webserver. I just don't understand why webmasters make it so difficult to download a movie directly to disk.
Phyllis Schlafley commenting on the information age? What's next? Childcare tips from Michael Jackson? Gourmet vegetarian cooking recipes from Idi Amin?
I really couldn't understand what you are asking. We understand your motivation but little else. Are you asking how to distribute large video files on the internet? Are you asking about how to deal with the legal issues of using copyrighted characters? Are you asking for advice on video equipment? Are you asking how to make a movie?
I'm not sure any of us are going to be able to help you since it's not clear what skills you have, how much money you're willing to spend and what, specifically, you are having a problem with. And it's not at all clear to me what that sentence about Survivor has to do with anything. Why did you throw that in?
Editors: why are you accepting submissions like this? This Ask Slashdot question isn't even well posed!
So, the conclusion is that you were right to be mighty suspicious of that spam you keep getting.
Really? My God! I always thought that unrequested advertisements featuring fantastical claims sent to me via an anonymous email source were very reliable! Damn! I guess I learned something today!
Sounds like a perfect case for small claims court. You can submit a claim yourself and do not need a lawyer.
Please do all of us here at Slashdot a favor and don't just go to any small claims court -- go to The People's Court! Or any one of those televised court shows. And, for God's sake Man, wear a medevial costume in court! You're trying to impress the judge how badly you need to see this film! Nothing would say that better than dressing up like your favorite LotR character! Plus, it will make it more likely that your People's Court appearance will actually get aired!
What's the difference between star trek and star wars?
In Star Trek, the heros are multiracial genetically typical individuals like you and me who have worked hard to make themselves the best they can be. People work to better themselves and equality of all races, sexes and creeds is stressed. In Star Wars, the heros are white males who have been given incredible genetic gifts that they then use to rule over the lower class. It's hard to tell exactly what they are working towards and they can't even keep large numbers of their ranks from defecting and joining the opposing faction (Sith Lords).
The fact that Da Vinci was a "...gay, vegetarian..." really helps drive home the point that he was a pacifist. Thanks for the wonderful insight.
I assume you're being sarcastic here. Yeah, I had to chuckle when I read the post too. Being gay or vegetarian really has nothing to do with being a pacifist. It's just to poster slipping his personal stereotypes into a slashdot article. People become vegetarian for a variety of reasons, mostly independent of whether they agree with whether wars are a necessary part of humanity or not. As for being gay, well, I'd like to see some stats that prove that gays are more likely to be pacifists than heteros. You'd think that with all the hub-bub about Trent Lott these days that people would be a bit more careful to let slips of the tongue (or keys, in this matter) say more than they really should but, oh well...
I submitted this yesterday but it got rejected for god knows what reason. Anyhow, the winner of the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology proved the Poset Game Periodicity Theorem of discrete mathematics which has stumped mathematicians for decades. He won $100,000! The winning team entry was two students who worked on rice genetics. They also won $100,000. The press release is here (warning: PDF).
Personally, I think this story is much more important than some kids building a rocket in the hopes of winning a competition. These students won a competition, and a prestigous one at that! Mods, as Obi-Wan would say: you must do what you feel is right, of course.
I always wondered why Honduras was such a violent place. Guess it was all those videogames, huh? Well, now that the problem has been solved, I guess I'll take the Misses to that now-peaceful paradise for a second honeymoon...
C'mon people! What is this "25 million" and "$25,000,000.00" stuff I'm seeing here? This is News for Nerds for chrissake! Mel's salary will be $2.5e7. Get it right.:)
Most of the posts I've read seem to miss the point...No one is going to pretend that the kids have access to the 'net at large -- that's not what they want. They just want a guaranteed 'safe' way to expose their kids to some educational resources.
Now, I think that you're the one missing the point of the others. Yes, I think we all understand that this isn't meant to be an ideal solution but I would argue that it's not a solution at all. Worse, it's a non-solution pretending to be a solution. I would argue there is no "guaranteed safe way" to provide information to children since there will never be a concensus on what is "safe". Invariably there will be some stuff on kids.us that someone will decide is inappropriate and we'll be right back where we started from. I think it's best to force parents to realize that there will never be a "guaranteed safe" way to surf the web and not to use this kids.us to give them a warm, fuzzy feeling.
You have to realize that a lot of us here also get goosebumps whenever the government is given the job of "approving" any information source, even if it's in the name of the children. The whole idea of government-approved information sources (consciously or not) stirs up bad images of communist and totalitarian regimes.
GMD
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They are going to have to be a lot more convincing and specific than that to turn the tide of belief in Bigfoot. We need actual photographic proof that this guy is Bigfoot or maybe a diary or something where he wrote "June 13. Dressed up as large ape-like creature. Was spotted by hunters."
I doubt anything is going to convince the Bigfoot believers that it was a hoax. People seem to have the desperate need to believe in fantastical things. I'm not sure exactly why (although I could come up with some ideas). It's nice that these guys came clean about their involvement with the Bigfoot legend but, realistically, I don't see anything coming of this.
As an example of this kind of thing, remember crop circles. No one seriously believes that those guys pulled this hoax because the geometric shapes are too perfect, plus the wheat stems show no signs of cracking. There is clearly more here than meets the eye.
Hmmm. Now you've lost me. Actually, most people DO believe that crop circles are hoaxes. I'm not sure where you get this "no one believes..." stuff. And you can certainly place me in the category of non-believers. I don't want to get into a crop-circle argument with you, PhysicsGenius, but I'll only ask one question. Which do you think is more likely: that some guys went out with wooden planks and played a trick or that aliens from a far away planet spent valuable resources to visit our world and, when they got there, all they did was make a few crazy patterns in the local vegetation and left? If you say that latter, then you and I are so far apart that it wouldn't make sense for us to discuss this, Bigfoot, healing crystals, psychic phenomenon, LockNess, Yeti, and all the other pseudo-scientific stories out there.
Actually, I was thinking that SETI@Home should not only "revisit its 100 most promising signal candidates" but burn them onto a CD-ROM set and make a deal with the record company whose name is synonomous with compilations, K-Tel, to sell them. The perfect gift for the geek who has everything...
I personally think a totally transparent world were everything was known about everyone would be a better one.
Either you haven't given this much thought or you've had the remarkably good fortune to have not met any bigoted jerks in your life. A lot of stuff that is (currently) private is private for a good reason. What if you were gay and your boss really disliked homosexuals? Unless he was a remarkably logical and self-aware person, it's quite likely that his disapproval of your private life would taint the professional relationship you have with him/her. Suppose your boss knew that your family has a history of heart disease and s/he found out that your last few health checkups were looking like you might be in for troubles down the road, too. Again, this kind of info could (consciously or subconsciously) influence important decisions when it comes time to lay some people off.
I could go on and on with examples, but I think the message is clear. People want their privacy because they simply don't trust their fellow man. And looking at the history of our species (and even current events!), I certainly don't blame them. I think your comment that a totally transparent society being a better one is really naive.
You really need to learn more about the MagLev train and what advantages it would offer over "200 year old technology" before you post (and someone mods you as Insightful???). Here's a very brief primer on MagLev that will hopefully help you realize the importance of MagLev. You should do a google search and find out more.
What would you trust more, a well developped and well researched almost 200 year old technology (the first steam train ran in 1804 [schoolnet.co.uk]), or a new, extremely complex technology that has yet to carry it's first passenger???
How come there aren't any of these in the U.S? I would have thought that U.S being ahead in technology (or atleast money), they would have one of these running somewhere by now.
I wrote about this in a previous article (see the final paragraph). One of the problems (in addition to those already listed by others) is that the US Government wasn't willing to put up any research dollars to fund development of the MagLev train -- the idea for which was actually created at MIT (there's even an old videotape of the minature prototype experiment somewhere). Other governments were more than willing to fund the research even though it was going to benefit private companies. Needless to say, the combination of government money and private companies that look beyond the next fiscal reporting period to determine the allocation of their R&D budgets resulted in the US quickly being left in the dust.
every time I see a book that's supposed to make you think better,act smarter, etc- I wonder... does the book really do that?
I agree. I've often wondered about the various structured problem solving methods out there like TRIZ, QFD, Taguchi, TQM, etc. and wondered if anyone has done an objective study to see if these methods really do work and maybe even comparing them. Does anyone know if there have been any studies like this? I'd be interested in seeing them. Until then, I'm not likely to take testimonials as an acceptable reason to invest time and effort learning and implementing these approaches.
And for all of you out there who are tempted to reply "Just try it!" I'll just say that I'm looking for studies of the effectiveness of these approaches on a study group of larger than one person. If you try a new method and it works well for the first problem you try it on, that doesn't mean "Hey, it works!" You need to try it on multiple problems. And, really, you should compare the results you get following the new approach with your old approach before claiming the new technique is an improvement. Hence the need for controlled studies.
C'mon, this is not news anymore. This topic has already been addressed here on slashdot numerous times in the past. The fact that Amnesty International has a new report on the subject doesn't make it worth repeating. They're going to need to create a China icon pretty soon if they keep reposting this same old tired story.
A lot of people will think I'm being insensitive by yawning at this serious problem. I dunno, maybe you're right. But just reposting this topic over and over doesn't really strike me as serving any important purpose. It's not informing us of something we don't already know and, since most of us aren't in positions of power, it won't result in any policy change at high-tech companies.
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The arrogance...geez. So Colburn suspects that the Kennedy accident was due to the pilot fixating on a single gauge. He thinks that if there was a new display there's no way that there would have been a problem.
Good grief. This is just a bunch of guesswork without any evidence or even any sound reasoning whatsoever. This guy can't make a good pitch for his new technology so he'll claim that some famous accident wouldn't have happened if they had used his technology. It really sickens me when people try to use public tragedies to make money.
GMD
Can someone explain to me why webmasters feel the need to embed their movies within their own webpages? Why not just let us download it to our harddrives with a simple right-click? That way (a) people can watch it over and over without added strain on the server and (b) people can distribute the file through other means (p2p, etc.) again saving the webserver. I just don't understand why webmasters make it so difficult to download a movie directly to disk.
GMD
JonKatz must be back.
No, if it was a Katz article it would have been named "Total Commercialization Awareness And Globalism In a Post 9/11, Post Columbine World"
GMD
Phyllis Schlafley commenting on the information age? What's next? Childcare tips from Michael Jackson? Gourmet vegetarian cooking recipes from Idi Amin?
GMD
I really couldn't understand what you are asking. We understand your motivation but little else. Are you asking how to distribute large video files on the internet? Are you asking about how to deal with the legal issues of using copyrighted characters? Are you asking for advice on video equipment? Are you asking how to make a movie?
I'm not sure any of us are going to be able to help you since it's not clear what skills you have, how much money you're willing to spend and what, specifically, you are having a problem with. And it's not at all clear to me what that sentence about Survivor has to do with anything. Why did you throw that in?
Editors: why are you accepting submissions like this? This Ask Slashdot question isn't even well posed!
GMD
So, the conclusion is that you were right to be mighty suspicious of that spam you keep getting.
Really? My God! I always thought that unrequested advertisements featuring fantastical claims sent to me via an anonymous email source were very reliable! Damn! I guess I learned something today!
GMD
Sounds like a perfect case for small claims court. You can submit a claim yourself and do not need a lawyer.
Please do all of us here at Slashdot a favor and don't just go to any small claims court -- go to The People's Court! Or any one of those televised court shows. And, for God's sake Man, wear a medevial costume in court! You're trying to impress the judge how badly you need to see this film! Nothing would say that better than dressing up like your favorite LotR character! Plus, it will make it more likely that your People's Court appearance will actually get aired!
Go for it! We're all counting on you!
GMD
Before Nemesis, I had never seen an actual Star Trek movie.
And you dare to call yourself a nerd?!? Hang your head in shame, young man!
GMD
What's the difference between star trek and star wars?
In Star Trek, the heros are multiracial genetically typical individuals like you and me who have worked hard to make themselves the best they can be. People work to better themselves and equality of all races, sexes and creeds is stressed. In Star Wars, the heros are white males who have been given incredible genetic gifts that they then use to rule over the lower class. It's hard to tell exactly what they are working towards and they can't even keep large numbers of their ranks from defecting and joining the opposing faction (Sith Lords).
You can read a fuller explanation here
GMD
The fact that Da Vinci was a "...gay, vegetarian..." really helps drive home the point that he was a pacifist. Thanks for the wonderful insight.
I assume you're being sarcastic here. Yeah, I had to chuckle when I read the post too. Being gay or vegetarian really has nothing to do with being a pacifist. It's just to poster slipping his personal stereotypes into a slashdot article. People become vegetarian for a variety of reasons, mostly independent of whether they agree with whether wars are a necessary part of humanity or not. As for being gay, well, I'd like to see some stats that prove that gays are more likely to be pacifists than heteros. You'd think that with all the hub-bub about Trent Lott these days that people would be a bit more careful to let slips of the tongue (or keys, in this matter) say more than they really should but, oh well...
GMD
I submitted this yesterday but it got rejected for god knows what reason. Anyhow, the winner of the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology proved the Poset Game Periodicity Theorem of discrete mathematics which has stumped mathematicians for decades. He won $100,000! The winning team entry was two students who worked on rice genetics. They also won $100,000. The press release is here (warning: PDF).
Personally, I think this story is much more important than some kids building a rocket in the hopes of winning a competition. These students won a competition, and a prestigous one at that! Mods, as Obi-Wan would say: you must do what you feel is right, of course.
GMD
I always wondered why Honduras was such a violent place. Guess it was all those videogames, huh? Well, now that the problem has been solved, I guess I'll take the Misses to that now-peaceful paradise for a second honeymoon...
GMD
C'mon people! What is this "25 million" and "$25,000,000.00" stuff I'm seeing here? This is News for Nerds for chrissake! Mel's salary will be $2.5e7. Get it right. :)
GMD
Most of the posts I've read seem to miss the point...No one is going to pretend that the kids have access to the 'net at large -- that's not what they want. They just want a guaranteed 'safe' way to expose their kids to some educational resources.
Now, I think that you're the one missing the point of the others. Yes, I think we all understand that this isn't meant to be an ideal solution but I would argue that it's not a solution at all. Worse, it's a non-solution pretending to be a solution. I would argue there is no "guaranteed safe way" to provide information to children since there will never be a concensus on what is "safe". Invariably there will be some stuff on kids.us that someone will decide is inappropriate and we'll be right back where we started from. I think it's best to force parents to realize that there will never be a "guaranteed safe" way to surf the web and not to use this kids.us to give them a warm, fuzzy feeling.
You have to realize that a lot of us here also get goosebumps whenever the government is given the job of "approving" any information source, even if it's in the name of the children. The whole idea of government-approved information sources (consciously or not) stirs up bad images of communist and totalitarian regimes.
GMD
They are going to have to be a lot more convincing and specific than that to turn the tide of belief in Bigfoot. We need actual photographic proof that this guy is Bigfoot or maybe a diary or something where he wrote "June 13. Dressed up as large ape-like creature. Was spotted by hunters."
I doubt anything is going to convince the Bigfoot believers that it was a hoax. People seem to have the desperate need to believe in fantastical things. I'm not sure exactly why (although I could come up with some ideas). It's nice that these guys came clean about their involvement with the Bigfoot legend but, realistically, I don't see anything coming of this.
As an example of this kind of thing, remember crop circles. No one seriously believes that those guys pulled this hoax because the geometric shapes are too perfect, plus the wheat stems show no signs of cracking. There is clearly more here than meets the eye.
Hmmm. Now you've lost me. Actually, most people DO believe that crop circles are hoaxes. I'm not sure where you get this "no one believes..." stuff. And you can certainly place me in the category of non-believers. I don't want to get into a crop-circle argument with you, PhysicsGenius, but I'll only ask one question. Which do you think is more likely: that some guys went out with wooden planks and played a trick or that aliens from a far away planet spent valuable resources to visit our world and, when they got there, all they did was make a few crazy patterns in the local vegetation and left? If you say that latter, then you and I are so far apart that it wouldn't make sense for us to discuss this, Bigfoot, healing crystals, psychic phenomenon, LockNess, Yeti, and all the other pseudo-scientific stories out there.
GMD
Actually, I was thinking that SETI@Home should not only "revisit its 100 most promising signal candidates" but burn them onto a CD-ROM set and make a deal with the record company whose name is synonomous with compilations, K-Tel, to sell them. The perfect gift for the geek who has everything...
GMD
Results show striking similarities between human and mouse DNA and scientists are now working on side-beside mapping of the two genomes
And the project is called "Of Mice and Men", right?
GMD
I personally think a totally transparent world were everything was known about everyone would be a better one.
Either you haven't given this much thought or you've had the remarkably good fortune to have not met any bigoted jerks in your life. A lot of stuff that is (currently) private is private for a good reason. What if you were gay and your boss really disliked homosexuals? Unless he was a remarkably logical and self-aware person, it's quite likely that his disapproval of your private life would taint the professional relationship you have with him/her. Suppose your boss knew that your family has a history of heart disease and s/he found out that your last few health checkups were looking like you might be in for troubles down the road, too. Again, this kind of info could (consciously or subconsciously) influence important decisions when it comes time to lay some people off.
I could go on and on with examples, but I think the message is clear. People want their privacy because they simply don't trust their fellow man. And looking at the history of our species (and even current events!), I certainly don't blame them. I think your comment that a totally transparent society being a better one is really naive.
Just my 0.02
GMD
You really need to learn more about the MagLev train and what advantages it would offer over "200 year old technology" before you post (and someone mods you as Insightful???). Here's a very brief primer on MagLev that will hopefully help you realize the importance of MagLev. You should do a google search and find out more.
What would you trust more, a well developped and well researched almost 200 year old technology (the first steam train ran in 1804 [schoolnet.co.uk]), or a new, extremely complex technology that has yet to carry it's first passenger???
Who the hell modded this as Insightful? Sheesh!
GMD
Sorry, I forgot to include this link in my previous post.
GMD
How come there aren't any of these in the U.S? I would have thought that U.S being ahead in technology (or atleast money), they would have one of these running somewhere by now.
I wrote about this in a previous article (see the final paragraph). One of the problems (in addition to those already listed by others) is that the US Government wasn't willing to put up any research dollars to fund development of the MagLev train -- the idea for which was actually created at MIT (there's even an old videotape of the minature prototype experiment somewhere). Other governments were more than willing to fund the research even though it was going to benefit private companies. Needless to say, the combination of government money and private companies that look beyond the next fiscal reporting period to determine the allocation of their R&D budgets resulted in the US quickly being left in the dust.
GMD
Hello Kitty cellphone/vibrator combo. Hey, it's definitely not out of the question when we're talking about all things Hello Kitty.
Actually, Helly Kitty vibrators already exist.
GMD
every time I see a book that's supposed to make you think better,act smarter, etc- I wonder... does the book really do that?
I agree. I've often wondered about the various structured problem solving methods out there like TRIZ, QFD, Taguchi, TQM, etc. and wondered if anyone has done an objective study to see if these methods really do work and maybe even comparing them. Does anyone know if there have been any studies like this? I'd be interested in seeing them. Until then, I'm not likely to take testimonials as an acceptable reason to invest time and effort learning and implementing these approaches.
And for all of you out there who are tempted to reply "Just try it!" I'll just say that I'm looking for studies of the effectiveness of these approaches on a study group of larger than one person. If you try a new method and it works well for the first problem you try it on, that doesn't mean "Hey, it works!" You need to try it on multiple problems. And, really, you should compare the results you get following the new approach with your old approach before claiming the new technique is an improvement. Hence the need for controlled studies.
GMD
This is a duplicate from a day or two ago.
Deja vu is usually a glitch in The Matrix. It happens when they change something in the program. Be on your guard...
GMD
C'mon, this is not news anymore. This topic has already been addressed here on slashdot numerous times in the past. The fact that Amnesty International has a new report on the subject doesn't make it worth repeating. They're going to need to create a China icon pretty soon if they keep reposting this same old tired story.
A lot of people will think I'm being insensitive by yawning at this serious problem. I dunno, maybe you're right. But just reposting this topic over and over doesn't really strike me as serving any important purpose. It's not informing us of something we don't already know and, since most of us aren't in positions of power, it won't result in any policy change at high-tech companies.
GMD