You didn't pay attention Johnny. Please wait for the entire question before answering...legway's owner said that the problem is how to right it, if it falls on it's side....with the device on it's side, one wheel will be in the air.
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Read the article, then this thread, then take a breath and try again:)
no, but if you sling a few bars
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Lower the water...don't raise the bridge.
Wherever there is an intersection, replace the cross with a circle (diameter same or less than path-mark width), and program in a delay that allows the device to continue straight whenever it sees a circle, still looking for an unbroken path that will override the temporary step.
Another method is to mount the sensors front to rear, scanning for the path itself (inside edge)...not left to right, looking for the outside edge of the path as the legway does.
no kickstand on segway
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A third leg, however minor, makes it a different device. Try again:)
Re:And I can't get up!!!
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This assumes both wheels have firm contact...not so when laying on it's side....front or back, maybe.
You lost that bet. It hit just under 1600 before it caved.
And I can't get up!!!
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"Another idea is to make LegWay stand up (from a lying position) on it's own. It can't do that right now, because the center of mass is below the axle when it on it's side."
Until or unless it's articulated, this will always be true. Segway can't right itself from this position either...?
Asia now provides near unlimited opportunity for someone in this position, especially when they are multi-lingual.
China, while stacked to the ceiling with skilled workers, needs middle and upper level managers for all sectors that have decent experience.
Korea needs project managers to act as liasons with overseas factories.
The list goes on. Start with the major job boards and build a list of jobs you find interesting and you suspect you can fill. Salary packages are always negotiable, and can be very profitable. Keep an open mind and be patient.
Tokyo to Hakata/Fukuoka is 4hrs 53 minutes by Shinkansen, not seven hours. There are 12 HS trains daily out of Osaka.
747 HD seating is a recent development in terms of supply demand. Cultural changes that see less working time and more domestic tourism have pushed the limits of all systems. Just because one seems impacted doesn't mean the others have failed.
You're also ignoring the fact that the Shinkansen depot is in the center of Toyko. The nearest air terminal is Narita...another 1.5 hrs away by Shinjuko Express. Your reference to a 180 minute commute being the only commute making sense ignores the fact that air terminals are not downtown. Try calculating door-to-door for a realistic picture.
At 300kph, and stops inside the city limits, high speed trains in Japan have been, and will remain, the foundation of Japan's domestic distance traveler.
Finally, the high-speed rail travel is only moderately successful even in its ideal arenas of rail-crazy Europe and Japan
Shinkansens have been racing from one end of Japan to the other since 1964. One train can carry more than 1000 passengers. Business men use it as a fully equipped mobile office while they move around the country in comfort. How anyone can trivialize this as a 'moderate success' amazes me. Lucky for us, the Japanese have happily ignored this kind of short-sighted objectivity and gone about their lives while others wait for traffic to clear and hope the next offramp isn't under construction...
High speed rail in Japan has reduced the need for airports and the infrastructure that goes along with that mode of public transportation. This may be an easy point to miss, since it seems to not be conspicuous in it's absence.
Go to Japan and ride one of these for yourself...it's an 'E' ticket (more fun than you can imagine...).
Ok, I'll help you out....every large corporation (non 'small business') spends heavily on PR and marketing. It's the nature of the breed. MS simply doesn't have any other weapon....after all, how much does it cost to produce another copy of the same thing, over and over. The packaging costs more than the content. And we know how much MS relies on image...what did they pay the Stones for that tag line a few years back?
You know those tens of thousands of copies of software MS offered to give away to schools in an effort to get off light for being busted by the Governement? Marketing expense. You know that software Bill promised China? Marketing expense.
Do you recall all those handhelds they gave away at that developer workshop held just for Palm devotees? Marketing expense. Need more? I didn't think so.
I took the easy side of the debate, and simply pointed out the obvious. Since you can't prove otherwise (and you know it), you elected to challange me on the slim hope I'd crack and back off.
Nice try to get me to argue down, but I'm not biting. Try again. This time try page 6 in your shill handbook, where it says 'maximize the opportunity to engage sympathy from the audience by characterizing the accused as being decent and honorable...avoid statements that may be disputed, and work to earn debate points by endearing yourself to the panel instead.'
Remember though...the panel here is a hard sell. Not like those preppies you grilled when you got your MBA in marketing. And this time what you say goes into the public record.
My reference was to something that didn't previously exist, and only later became an industry standard.
You, then, proceeded to change the subject...
Your's was to compare expensive auto's with less costly means of transportation (don't get what you pay for, etc.), and then to proceed to trash Macs. Since I didn't make that analogy, your argument was with yourself.
PC owner: anti-mac and cheap... I get it. I wonder how many are just cheap.
Why didn't you just come out and say that in the first place:)
I guess as a beleagured PC user, you felt diminished and needed a bit of prodding, which is normal, and completely understandable, so don't feel too bad. If you would have just come out and said how you felt at the beginning, I wouldn't have gone this long before I elected to ignore the Honorable Dunce from PC Ville...heheheh.
You're awfully hard on yourself, arguing against an analogy you brought into the conversation. Might that PC you're using be causing a bit of stress?...heheheh...choke...sorry.
Macs came with SCSI originally...and everyone knows that IDE is the low-cost replacement for SCSI. So what does that have to do with Mac vs. PC and commoditized componentry...
...what was your point, again? C'mon...make a point...any point..I know you can do it.
Was Firewire a commodity item when it showed up on Yosemite? Was the crush zone car body a commodity when Mercedes introduced it to the world?
Just because these items eventually show up everywhere, doesn't mean that at one time they weren't exclusive to one manufacturer...and costly as well. That's the way it works. If you want the best when it first comes out, you have to pay for it. Ask anyone with a 60" LCD TV...or a home elevator, etc. Expensive now...commodity later.
The lawyers are in-house...already on the payroll. Not exactly an 'expense' (budget item), perhaps. But you're correct...legal fees are no where near trivial.
But in terms of cost, I'd say upper management first, then counsel, then PR, then operating expense.
So, you'd also buy a Mercedes bulletproof limo and Gulfstream personal jet if they were closer to your budget as well?
What kind of logic is that? We would be crazy to argue with that. It's a debater's tactic that puts the respondent in a no-win position, regardless of their answer. Would you do drugs if there was no risk? Would you stop ageing if you could? Would you fly if someone gave you wings?
Microsoft spends big when it comes to it's PR and marekting firms. More than on any other single item in the budget.
These firms have a mandate from MS to spread out and hit hard. They lurk here and on ZDNet, as an example, just waiting for opportunities to impersonate Joe/Jane Average user.
They pump out hourly press releases that all have the same theme..."MS is best and who can fault a leader?...Join us in the fun and we will do all the thinking for you."
It is all too clear what they think of their customers...brain-dead sheep, begging to be sheared.
To understand the mechanics, it may help to first study a long standing 'marketing' ploy known as 'the big lie'. I don't normally use references like this, but the best manual I know is titled 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'.
You can stealth grab a phone book off a Bluetooth phone, and/or dial out thru someone else's device, thus impersonating them. In terms of security spoiled, I think that's pretty real.
Or do mean like plugging an iPod into a store computer and grabbing Office, PhotoShop, Illustrator and Appleworks? There's $2k worth of risk right there...for you if you get caught.
Copying all the files you want takes time and as you said, requires you to have physical access & control over I/O in the least...if you have access, what's the big deal with one type of portable storage over another...nothing unique about Bluetooth in that regard. If I have access, I can email it out or hit an FTP drop box, then wipe the logs.
All of these 'risks' are real. How real depends on who gets or loses or uses what. None of them are standouts and none of them are trivial.
Many Bluetooth consumer products now shipping are at risk due to scanning (near-field RTR connections) being enabled by default. Bluetooth phones are a prime example.
Retailers are going to need to examine these types of things rapidly, or there will be a backlash to the technology and it will go back on the shelf.
I don't want to change the music...I want to see an upgrade of the technical aspect of the audio in general. I love the OST myself, and I find no fault with the original audio. It was done well for the time.
Audio technology continues to improve and I'd like to see what can be done by today's standards. I see no reason to alter it other than technically.
As a fan, wouldn't you like to see a THX logo associated w/it? Right now it's DTS....how old is that?
A movie has both video and audio. I imagine that while the visuals will hard to improve on, we can look forward to an otherwise stimulating (more modern) soundtrack.
While my kids interest grew to every platform in the catalog, I gradually got away from games altogether, except to check in on what I determined was the bleeding edge....I would try my hand once or twice a year just to see how the graphics, as an example, were advancing.
Later, I decided that editing tech docs for a living was limiting my scope. I felt I was locked into one way of using a computer (or console) and that could not be good. I bought my own PS1 and several car racing titles just to do something different with a processor and display and how my mind was relating. I figure as long as this is how I earn my living, it doesn't hurt to exercise hand-to-eye coordination in the interest of keeping things (mentally) limber.
Yes, I remember spending hours playing PONG and Parsec. Things have come a long way, and my kids are much more into it than I am, but I still find GT3 a great way to waste an afternoon.
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You didn't pay attention Johnny. Please wait for the entire question before answering...legway's owner said that the problem is how to right it, if it falls on it's side....with the device on it's side, one wheel will be in the air.
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Read the article, then this thread, then take a breath and try again
Lower the water...don't raise the bridge.
Wherever there is an intersection, replace the cross with a circle (diameter same or less than path-mark width), and program in a delay that allows the device to continue straight whenever it sees a circle, still looking for an unbroken path that will override the temporary step.
Another method is to mount the sensors front to rear, scanning for the path itself (inside edge)...not left to right, looking for the outside edge of the path as the legway does.
A third leg, however minor, makes it a different device. Try again :)
This assumes both wheels have firm contact...not so when laying on it's side....front or back, maybe.
You lost that bet. It hit just under 1600 before it caved.
"Another idea is to make LegWay stand up (from a lying position) on it's own. It can't do that right now, because the center of mass is below the axle when it on it's side."
Until or unless it's articulated, this will always be true. Segway can't right itself from this position either...?
Ok more than one.
Asia now provides near unlimited opportunity for someone in this position, especially when they are multi-lingual.
China, while stacked to the ceiling with skilled workers, needs middle and upper level managers for all sectors that have decent experience.
Korea needs project managers to act as liasons with overseas factories.
The list goes on. Start with the major job boards and build a list of jobs you find interesting and you suspect you can fill. Salary packages are always negotiable, and can be very profitable. Keep an open mind and be patient.
Good luck
....Asia
Tokyo to Hakata/Fukuoka is 4hrs 53 minutes by Shinkansen, not seven hours. There are 12 HS trains daily out of Osaka.
747 HD seating is a recent development in terms of supply demand. Cultural changes that see less working time and more domestic tourism have pushed the limits of all systems. Just because one seems impacted doesn't mean the others have failed.
You're also ignoring the fact that the Shinkansen depot is in the center of Toyko. The nearest air terminal is Narita...another 1.5 hrs away by Shinjuko Express. Your reference to a 180 minute commute being the only commute making sense ignores the fact that air terminals are not downtown. Try calculating door-to-door for a realistic picture.
At 300kph, and stops inside the city limits, high speed trains in Japan have been, and will remain, the foundation of Japan's domestic distance traveler.
Finally, the high-speed rail travel is only moderately successful even in its ideal arenas of rail-crazy Europe and Japan
Shinkansens have been racing from one end of Japan to the other since 1964. One train can carry more than 1000 passengers. Business men use it as a fully equipped mobile office while they move around the country in comfort. How anyone can trivialize this as a 'moderate success' amazes me. Lucky for us, the Japanese have happily ignored this kind of short-sighted objectivity and gone about their lives while others wait for traffic to clear and hope the next offramp isn't under construction...
High speed rail in Japan has reduced the need for airports and the infrastructure that goes along with that mode of public transportation. This may be an easy point to miss, since it seems to not be conspicuous in it's absence.
Go to Japan and ride one of these for yourself...it's an 'E' ticket (more fun than you can imagine...).
You're the one that works for MS...you tell me
Ok, I'll help you out....every large corporation (non 'small business') spends heavily on PR and marketing. It's the nature of the breed. MS simply doesn't have any other weapon....after all, how much does it cost to produce another copy of the same thing, over and over. The packaging costs more than the content. And we know how much MS relies on image...what did they pay the Stones for that tag line a few years back?
You know those tens of thousands of copies of software MS offered to give away to schools in an effort to get off light for being busted by the Governement? Marketing expense. You know that software Bill promised China? Marketing expense. Do you recall all those handhelds they gave away at that developer workshop held just for Palm devotees? Marketing expense. Need more? I didn't think so.
I took the easy side of the debate, and simply pointed out the obvious. Since you can't prove otherwise (and you know it), you elected to challange me on the slim hope I'd crack and back off.
Nice try to get me to argue down, but I'm not biting. Try again. This time try page 6 in your shill handbook, where it says 'maximize the opportunity to engage sympathy from the audience by characterizing the accused as being decent and honorable...avoid statements that may be disputed, and work to earn debate points by endearing yourself to the panel instead.'
Remember though...the panel here is a hard sell. Not like those preppies you grilled when you got your MBA in marketing. And this time what you say goes into the public record.
My reference was to something that didn't previously exist, and only later became an industry standard.
You, then, proceeded to change the subject...
Your's was to compare expensive auto's with less costly means of transportation (don't get what you pay for, etc.), and then to proceed to trash Macs. Since I didn't make that analogy, your argument was with yourself.
PC owner: anti-mac and cheap... I get it. I wonder how many are just cheap.
Would you own a Mac is someone gave it to you?
Why didn't you just come out and say that in the first place :)
...heheheh...choke...sorry.
I guess as a beleagured PC user, you felt diminished and needed a bit of prodding, which is normal, and completely understandable, so don't feel too bad. If you would have just come out and said how you felt at the beginning, I wouldn't have gone this long before I elected to ignore the Honorable Dunce from PC Ville...heheheh.
You're awfully hard on yourself, arguing against an analogy you brought into the conversation. Might that PC you're using be causing a bit of stress?
LOL...you've actually made my day, thanks!
IDE...now that's an interesting spin.
...what was your point, again? C'mon...make a point...any point..I know you can do it.
Macs came with SCSI originally...and everyone knows that IDE is the low-cost replacement for SCSI. So what does that have to do with Mac vs. PC and commoditized componentry...
Was Firewire a commodity item when it showed up on Yosemite? Was the crush zone car body a commodity when Mercedes introduced it to the world?
Just because these items eventually show up everywhere, doesn't mean that at one time they weren't exclusive to one manufacturer...and costly as well. That's the way it works. If you want the best when it first comes out, you have to pay for it. Ask anyone with a 60" LCD TV...or a home elevator, etc. Expensive now...commodity later.
The lawyers are in-house...already on the payroll. Not exactly an 'expense' (budget item), perhaps. But you're correct...legal fees are no where near trivial.
But in terms of cost, I'd say upper management first, then counsel, then PR, then operating expense.
So, you'd also buy a Mercedes bulletproof limo and Gulfstream personal jet if they were closer to your budget as well?
What kind of logic is that? We would be crazy to argue with that. It's a debater's tactic that puts the respondent in a no-win position, regardless of their answer. Would you do drugs if there was no risk? Would you stop ageing if you could? Would you fly if someone gave you wings?
Microsoft spends big when it comes to it's PR and marekting firms. More than on any other single item in the budget.
These firms have a mandate from MS to spread out and hit hard. They lurk here and on ZDNet, as an example, just waiting for opportunities to impersonate Joe/Jane Average user.
They pump out hourly press releases that all have the same theme..."MS is best and who can fault a leader?...Join us in the fun and we will do all the thinking for you."
It is all too clear what they think of their customers...brain-dead sheep, begging to be sheared.
To understand the mechanics, it may help to first study a long standing 'marketing' ploy known as 'the big lie'. I don't normally use references like this, but the best manual I know is titled 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'.
This page serves up a product comparision of hard drive based MP4 players...comprehensive data and errata. Also iPod news, links, etc.
You can stealth grab a phone book off a Bluetooth phone, and/or dial out thru someone else's device, thus impersonating them. In terms of security spoiled, I think that's pretty real.
Or do mean like plugging an iPod into a store computer and grabbing Office, PhotoShop, Illustrator and Appleworks? There's $2k worth of risk right there...for you if you get caught.
Copying all the files you want takes time and as you said, requires you to have physical access & control over I/O in the least...if you have access, what's the big deal with one type of portable storage over another...nothing unique about Bluetooth in that regard. If I have access, I can email it out or hit an FTP drop box, then wipe the logs.
All of these 'risks' are real. How real depends on who gets or loses or uses what. None of them are standouts and none of them are trivial.
Many Bluetooth consumer products now shipping are at risk due to scanning (near-field RTR connections) being enabled by default. Bluetooth phones are a prime example.
Retailers are going to need to examine these types of things rapidly, or there will be a backlash to the technology and it will go back on the shelf.
I don't want to change the music...I want to see an upgrade of the technical aspect of the audio in general. I love the OST myself, and I find no fault with the original audio. It was done well for the time.
Audio technology continues to improve and I'd like to see what can be done by today's standards. I see no reason to alter it other than technically.
As a fan, wouldn't you like to see a THX logo associated w/it? Right now it's DTS....how old is that?
A movie has both video and audio. I imagine that while the visuals will hard to improve on, we can look forward to an otherwise stimulating (more modern) soundtrack.
While my kids interest grew to every platform in the catalog, I gradually got away from games altogether, except to check in on what I determined was the bleeding edge....I would try my hand once or twice a year just to see how the graphics, as an example, were advancing.
Later, I decided that editing tech docs for a living was limiting my scope. I felt I was locked into one way of using a computer (or console) and that could not be good. I bought my own PS1 and several car racing titles just to do something different with a processor and display and how my mind was relating. I figure as long as this is how I earn my living, it doesn't hurt to exercise hand-to-eye coordination in the interest of keeping things (mentally) limber.
Yes, I remember spending hours playing PONG and Parsec. Things have come a long way, and my kids are much more into it than I am, but I still find GT3 a great way to waste an afternoon.
QT streaming from OS X only takes a few minutes to set up, BTW.
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