I used FGFS to practice touch-n-goes during rainy days early in my flight training and also found the frame-of-reference to be a problem - I couldn't look out the window to see when I was abeam the numbers. So I modified my Extreme Pro joystick to use the 'twist' feature as turning the head instead of changing the rudder (since I have pedals) and find it much easier and almost natural to use now. The file I use is located on DropBox as mentioned on this thread:
http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=9635
This is simply a preview of the real world. As someone who has just gone through the agonizing process of filling in multiple, often horrifically-designed online job applications, I wonder how perfecting a 'Common Application' for colleges serves to prepare students for the future job market.
I thought I'd make a bundle coming up with the idea of giving cruise-control systems awareness of hills and allowing them to back off near the crest of a hill and accelerate a bit before the base a hill, but it's already been patented. The idea has been introduced, but I'm not aware of it ever catching on.
I suspect a major drawback to a company interested in promoting this system is that by design, it would introduce speed variances between equipped cars and non-equipped cars, which opens the door for accidents and litigation.
What I find interesting (and a little sad) is how quickly the/. community modded the GP's post as +5 Informative.
I understand that we're proud to run Linux, but that level of denial is slightly alarming.
I'm not sure what you're implying here... The news here is that the Linux servers are compromised. Being compromised to pass further damage onto another (Windows) client is still a compromise on the Linux server.
Re:The Subtle Jokes are Always the Best
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Hacking the XO Laptop
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I had the opportunity to get my hands on one of these last week and was very impressed. I wish the give-one-get-one deal was still available.
[joke spoiler] The laptop is silent in normal operation. They only chirp if you launch a specific classroom activity designed to use acoustic signals to measure the distance between two laptops. It's quite neat actually. I guess if you have a classroom of students who all launch this particular application at once, it'll be pretty noisy.
VMWare Player is broken in Gutsy. Here's the solution I found:
Click on System > Administration > Software Sources > Third-Party Software > Add the line from this post
Click on Applications > Add/Remove... > vm player
Put a checkmark in VMWare Player
I was tipped off about this deal just before last Christmas. The picture is slightly different from the one I received. This one is identical. There are two catches though:
It is currently out-of-stock (or unavailable - see catch #2)
Both keyboards that I received needed modification to work.
The defect is that the left SHIFT key prints a greater than or less than character. The easy solution is to pry off the left shift key and remove the contact bumper from the right-most contact hole. This restores the keyboard to full functionality. The solution is simple, but because both kbds had the same fault, it wouldn't surprise me if they pulled them from the shelves. Interestingly, the customer service manager said that out of the ~1500 they sold, I was the only customer who called to complain about this. Do most folks just put up with or discard malfunctioning devices? Or did I get the only two defective products?
Re:So let the flame wars begin!
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The Birth of vi
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Figured I'd jump into the flamewars myself. So the reference in the Parent post claims that:
Users FEEL like they are faster/more productive in Case A.
A stopwatch actually PROVES that they are faster/more productive in Case B.
In the above situation, I would argue that encouraging Case A will likely result in an overall more productive workforce. Maybe not for this particular facet of the operation, but allowing a worker to 'feel more productive' has greater benefits in the long run when considering moral, motivation, etc.
- on the PopSci.com website because they're encoded with proprietary codecs... When will web designers decide to publish using open formats?
I'm straying from the topic, but is there a favorite video format for us to rally around? Flash is nice, but also proprietary - has anyone used the Democracy Player http://www.getdemocracy.com/?
Sorry to do this, but I think that it is somewhat careless to assume that all new parents that might be reading Slashdot are in fact aware of the unique danger that honey presents to infants. Just in case someone comes across this and isn't aware, please look into the concerns related to infant botulism before getting the bright idea to feed your newborn some honey. Now go ahead and make the jokes - I just think that this needed to be said.
As phildog's map pointed out, the shootings in this case were widely dispersed. Statistically speaking, it could have made a timely difference in the investigation even if several cars were spotted in close proximity to a few of the shootings. I wouldn't discard the potential value of this resource just because no one has studied it yet.
I Googled 10 pages deep but I cannot find any references to this: After the sniper was caught, I distinctly remember hearing a news report stating that the sniper's license plates were run by police at two separate locations after a shooting. The reporter was insightful enough to comment that if a database system existed that could compare license plates in common to a serial crime like this it would be a very powerful tool.
IANAS, but from what I remember from science class, the scientific method includes applying a stimuli to a subject, as well as not applying that same stimuli to other subjects (the control portion of the experiment) and observing the differences. Adjusting the intensity of the Sun makes changes to the entire ecosystem of Earth all at once which removes any possibility of observing the control portion of the experiment.
I have not seen Al Gore's latest film, but I am still a bit skeptical about how much change we have caused the planet. I do not think that I am in denial; evidence exists that the temperature of the planet has fluctuated quite a bit in the past without any help from us. The fact that it is on a warming trend as we complete our Industrial Revolution is interesting, and could use some further examination.
Don't get me wrong - I think it is good that we are examining the byproducts of our manufacturing and energy-producing methods and how they may affect our environment - but I don't think we should make global efforts to artificially cool the planet because, as the grandparent of this thread suggests, we are still quite ignorant about the biosphere that we call Home.
This is humor, right? Do you really think we should use a non scientific method to find out what might happen to our habitat by making significant changes to our solar system? Isn't this like wondering if you could speed up your hard drive by applying house current and carrying out that experiment on your personal data? Without a backup?
...will act like an insurance policy if the world one day faces a crisis of...
is assuming that the world is in any sort of danger and that we need to save it. The world is not in crisis - if anything, humans may be approaching one. The above language reminds me of the type of thinking that assumed the Earth was the center of the universe.
Phil Agre's article entitled "How to Help Someone Use a Computer" http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.ht ml explains very clearly why such 'dumb' users may make the mistakes that they do. I was fortunate enough to come across this before my job at the Helpdesk and it has helped me realize how many problems are the user and how many are the system they find themselves entangled in.
Slashdot Mirror
Have to put in my two cents for this very entertaining Linux-centric podcast out of the UK. Nicely produced and always topical.
I used FGFS to practice touch-n-goes during rainy days early in my flight training and also found the frame-of-reference to be a problem - I couldn't look out the window to see when I was abeam the numbers. So I modified my Extreme Pro joystick to use the 'twist' feature as turning the head instead of changing the rudder (since I have pedals) and find it much easier and almost natural to use now. The file I use is located on DropBox as mentioned on this thread: http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=9635
This is simply a preview of the real world. As someone who has just gone through the agonizing process of filling in multiple, often horrifically-designed online job applications, I wonder how perfecting a 'Common Application' for colleges serves to prepare students for the future job market.
I've found Phil Agre's tips http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.html to be extremely useful. I re-read it every 6 months just to be sure I'm headed in the right direction.
I thought I'd make a bundle coming up with the idea of giving cruise-control systems awareness of hills and allowing them to back off near the crest of a hill and accelerate a bit before the base a hill, but it's already been patented. The idea has been introduced, but I'm not aware of it ever catching on.
I suspect a major drawback to a company interested in promoting this system is that by design, it would introduce speed variances between equipped cars and non-equipped cars, which opens the door for accidents and litigation.
What I find interesting (and a little sad) is how quickly the /. community modded the GP's post as +5 Informative.
I understand that we're proud to run Linux, but that level of denial is slightly alarming.
I'm not sure what you're implying here... The news here is that the Linux servers are compromised. Being compromised to pass further damage onto another (Windows) client is still a compromise on the Linux server.
I had the opportunity to get my hands on one of these last week and was very impressed. I wish the give-one-get-one deal was still available.
[joke spoiler] The laptop is silent in normal operation. They only chirp if you launch a specific classroom activity designed to use acoustic signals to measure the distance between two laptops. It's quite neat actually. I guess if you have a classroom of students who all launch this particular application at once, it'll be pretty noisy.
lameness filter workaround
The performance seems much faster than before.
Date: Sep 9, 2007 1:26 AM
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Subject: two images from Amazon Mechanical Turk
To: office@stevefossett.com
These are submissions from readers of the Slashdot article who say
they don't know how to contact you:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=291991&cid=20
38 3'24.02"N 119 14'56.55"W
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=291991&cid=20
38 29' 02.70" N, 119 24' 21.95" W
[screenshots attached]
- It is currently out-of-stock (or unavailable - see catch #2)
- Both keyboards that I received needed modification to work.
The defect is that the left SHIFT key prints a greater than or less than character. The easy solution is to pry off the left shift key and remove the contact bumper from the right-most contact hole. This restores the keyboard to full functionality. The solution is simple, but because both kbds had the same fault, it wouldn't surprise me if they pulled them from the shelves.Interestingly, the customer service manager said that out of the ~1500 they sold, I was the only customer who called to complain about this. Do most folks just put up with or discard malfunctioning devices? Or did I get the only two defective products?
- Users FEEL like they are faster/more productive in Case A.
- A stopwatch actually PROVES that they are faster/more productive in Case B.
In the above situation, I would argue that encouraging Case A will likely result in an overall more productive workforce. Maybe not for this particular facet of the operation, but allowing a worker to 'feel more productive' has greater benefits in the long run when considering moral, motivation, etc.- on the PopSci.com website because they're encoded with proprietary codecs... When will web designers decide to publish using open formats? I'm straying from the topic, but is there a favorite video format for us to rally around? Flash is nice, but also proprietary - has anyone used the Democracy Player http://www.getdemocracy.com/?
You must be new here. Please click Parent to see the relivance.
Sorry to do this, but I think that it is somewhat careless to assume that all new parents that might be reading Slashdot are in fact aware of the unique danger that honey presents to infants. Just in case someone comes across this and isn't aware, please look into the concerns related to infant botulism before getting the bright idea to feed your newborn some honey. Now go ahead and make the jokes - I just think that this needed to be said.
As phildog's map pointed out, the shootings in this case were widely dispersed. Statistically speaking, it could have made a timely difference in the investigation even if several cars were spotted in close proximity to a few of the shootings. I wouldn't discard the potential value of this resource just because no one has studied it yet.
I Googled 10 pages deep but I cannot find any references to this: After the sniper was caught, I distinctly remember hearing a news report stating that the sniper's license plates were run by police at two separate locations after a shooting. The reporter was insightful enough to comment that if a database system existed that could compare license plates in common to a serial crime like this it would be a very powerful tool.
IANAS, but from what I remember from science class, the scientific method includes applying a stimuli to a subject, as well as not applying that same stimuli to other subjects (the control portion of the experiment) and observing the differences. Adjusting the intensity of the Sun makes changes to the entire ecosystem of Earth all at once which removes any possibility of observing the control portion of the experiment.
I have not seen Al Gore's latest film, but I am still a bit skeptical about how much change we have caused the planet. I do not think that I am in denial; evidence exists that the temperature of the planet has fluctuated quite a bit in the past without any help from us. The fact that it is on a warming trend as we complete our Industrial Revolution is interesting, and could use some further examination.
Don't get me wrong - I think it is good that we are examining the byproducts of our manufacturing and energy-producing methods and how they may affect our environment - but I don't think we should make global efforts to artificially cool the planet because, as the grandparent of this thread suggests, we are still quite ignorant about the biosphere that we call Home.
This is humor, right? Do you really think we should use a non scientific method to find out what might happen to our habitat by making significant changes to our solar system? Isn't this like wondering if you could speed up your hard drive by applying house current and carrying out that experiment on your personal data? Without a backup?
That's just silly.
Phil Agre's article entitled "How to Help Someone Use a Computer" http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.ht ml explains very clearly why such 'dumb' users may make the mistakes that they do. I was fortunate enough to come across this before my job at the Helpdesk and it has helped me realize how many problems are the user and how many are the system they find themselves entangled in.
I'm probably walking into this, but just in case: Ubuntu is a version of Linux - a Unix-like OS which fully supports GUI's. Check it out at http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major