This will really take off when they can do it cheaply (and with sturdy enough equipment) to play a game of "paintball" where you overlay powerups and the like over real terrain.
Imagine running through a pintball arena to the "rocket launcher" powerup. You hit it, and the gun you're holding turns into a rocket launcher. You leap over a barricade where 3 of your opponents are crouched, and you blow them away with a rocket. All this while, in reality, you're holding a plastic gun with two triggers (primary and secondary) and some buttons (Next weapon, previous weapon, favorite weapons).
I'd pay $20/hour for an hour of that once a month.
The current solution to the problem you outlined is to shoot the thing with a laser (a big frickin' laser) on the ground. Keep the laser trained on the elevator car, and on the car convert that light to the electricity you need to crawl up the line.
I wouldn't be surprised if some day some smart engineer figures out a way to use the potential energy of a down-moving car to supply some of the energy to an up-moving car (Not all, of course, gotta pay mister Entropy).
You can't make it thicker just to make people feel better about it. Let's say you can make it half the thickness of a piece of paper and still have the strength you require. If you make it paper-thin instead (or, to increase the fuzzie-wuzzies, more), you increase the mass and weight of the thing by 2 (or more). More to lift in the first place, more to hold up, more mass whipping around the globe should it snap (Minor point), etc.
The satellite is "over" the equator, but where you anchor the cable on the surface of the Earth doesn't have to be on a straight line between the satellite and the center of the Earth.
*Don't space elevators have to be built along the equator?
I thought this as well, but no, they don't. A rough diagram of a space elevator would be: O-------- Where the "O" is the Earth. Imagine, right before "tying down" the base of your elevator, you drag i "up" a few dozen degrees to New York. The farther North you go, the more of an angle it will have, but it's not unstable so long as it's anchored. The first thousand miles of the climb would be like a very steep gondola ride.
I/still/ diagonal run in every FPS I play. I have no idea if it helps or not, but Doom taught me that it was the "right" way to do it, so I always will.
By the way, is this not the fluffiest fluff piece we've ever seen? 3 examples of cheating and he's done?
In other news, the Google Evil Index went down 3.2 points today, and is currently at 13.8, the lowest it's been since right before the beta rollout of Google Web Accelerator.
*So where are all these great up and coming artists bypassing the cartel and making their works available for free?*
garageband.com
None of the music there is up to the high quality of Brittney Spears or Janet Jackson, but with a little browsing, you'd be shocked what you could find.
If Bittorrent had been around for 40 years instead of 4, maybe all those lost episodes of Dr. Who that vanished when someone threw them away would be recoverable off of someone's hard drive.
I like this idea, assuming it will work. I hate it when I'm looking for drivers for something and all I can find are webites trying to sell me the item. But, I think those websties are putting keywords in there so my search will find them, what's to stop them from doing that so Yahoo's slider bar finds them when I slide it all the way to 'informational'?
What they should do is allow any site who's had a.com (or whatever, really) site up since before.xxx is available to migrate over for free. You don't have to abandon hotsluts.com and shell out $60 for hotsluts.xxx, you just suddenly become hotsluts.xxx and it's "free" until your lease on hotsluts.com (now transferred) runs out.
If people think they're gettting something fro nothing, they're more likely to do what you want.
Seriously, Batteries have been the limiting factor in toys since I was a kid, and that's a/long time/. Remote control cars were and still are a joke, and handhelds are just as bad. "Good" mp3 players measure their battery life in hours, not days and even my cell phone can't hold a charge for the entire weekend, and all it is is a battery with a phone attached.
I'd be concerned about the quality of an outsourced PSP, but conisdering the reported problems with the Sony-Produced ones (I don't have one myself, mostly due to the fact that I have trouble droping $250 on something that will break if I sit on it yet will fit in my back pocket), maybe 3rd party PSPs will be better.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope they strike and the video game houses hire "scabs" who've been trying to get voice acting jobs for decent wages.
Thanks, Marvel. I really appreciate it.
This will really take off when they can do it cheaply (and with sturdy enough equipment) to play a game of "paintball" where you overlay powerups and the like over real terrain.
Imagine running through a pintball arena to the "rocket launcher" powerup. You hit it, and the gun you're holding turns into a rocket launcher. You leap over a barricade where 3 of your opponents are crouched, and you blow them away with a rocket. All this while, in reality, you're holding a plastic gun with two triggers (primary and secondary) and some buttons (Next weapon, previous weapon, favorite weapons).
I'd pay $20/hour for an hour of that once a month.
*highest-altitude takeoff and landing*
:D
You mean highest-altitude landing and takeoff, of course.
Google for 'interactive fiction' and play all the free, immersive, good text-adventure games you could ever possibly want.
If I give them my opinion, and they use it, can I get royalties for it?
Sorry, but you're wrong.
The current solution to the problem you outlined is to shoot the thing with a laser (a big frickin' laser) on the ground. Keep the laser trained on the elevator car, and on the car convert that light to the electricity you need to crawl up the line.
I wouldn't be surprised if some day some smart engineer figures out a way to use the potential energy of a down-moving car to supply some of the energy to an up-moving car (Not all, of course, gotta pay mister Entropy).
You can't make it thicker just to make people feel better about it. Let's say you can make it half the thickness of a piece of paper and still have the strength you require. If you make it paper-thin instead (or, to increase the fuzzie-wuzzies, more), you increase the mass and weight of the thing by 2 (or more). More to lift in the first place, more to hold up, more mass whipping around the globe should it snap (Minor point), etc.
The satellite is "over" the equator, but where you anchor the cable on the surface of the Earth doesn't have to be on a straight line between the satellite and the center of the Earth.
*Don't space elevators have to be built along the equator?
I thought this as well, but no, they don't. A rough diagram of a space elevator would be:
O--------
Where the "O" is the Earth. Imagine, right before "tying down" the base of your elevator, you drag i "up" a few dozen degrees to New York. The farther North you go, the more of an angle it will have, but it's not unstable so long as it's anchored.
The first thousand miles of the climb would be like a very steep gondola ride.
I /still/ diagonal run in every FPS I play. I have no idea if it helps or not, but Doom taught me that it was the "right" way to do it, so I always will.
By the way, is this not the fluffiest fluff piece we've ever seen? 3 examples of cheating and he's done?
*Exactly how many pixels does it take to increase productivity substantially?*
Apparently, about a million. I'd say round it to a million, maybe make 1,000,000 pixels == 1 substantial productivity increase, call it 1Mipx=1spi
At least for practical puposes. 100,000,000^(1/3) = about 465 pixels on an edge. That's about on-par with 640x480 on a regular monitor.
I'll stick with my "crappy" 2-dimensional monitor for the time being.
In other news, the Google Evil Index went down 3.2 points today, and is currently at 13.8, the lowest it's been since right before the beta rollout of Google Web Accelerator.
So, if you tweak the simulation to produce the results you want it to produce, this is better how?
*So where are all these great up and coming artists bypassing the cartel and making their works available for free?*
garageband.com
None of the music there is up to the high quality of Brittney Spears or Janet Jackson, but with a little browsing, you'd be shocked what you could find.
*established centuries-old petroleum-based energy industry*
I think you have a different definition than the rest of us for 'centuries'
No, not that survival show.
If Bittorrent had been around for 40 years instead of 4, maybe all those lost episodes of Dr. Who that vanished when someone threw them away would be recoverable off of someone's hard drive.
I like this idea, assuming it will work. I hate it when I'm looking for drivers for something and all I can find are webites trying to sell me the item. But, I think those websties are putting keywords in there so my search will find them, what's to stop them from doing that so Yahoo's slider bar finds them when I slide it all the way to 'informational'?
Wake me when they've got it so it's as easy as Blender.
What they should do is allow any site who's had a .com (or whatever, really) site up since before .xxx is available to migrate over for free. You don't have to abandon hotsluts.com and shell out $60 for hotsluts.xxx, you just suddenly become hotsluts.xxx and it's "free" until your lease on hotsluts.com (now transferred) runs out.
If people think they're gettting something fro nothing, they're more likely to do what you want.
*are you thinking what i'm thinking?*
I think so, Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants at this hour?
Seriously... No, I'm not thinking what you're thinking, unless you're thinking "What is brickballs thinking?"
Don't take a picture of yourself in the mirror, or anybody who sees it can get your credit card number!
Seriously, Batteries have been the limiting factor in toys since I was a kid, and that's a /long time/. Remote control cars were and still are a joke, and handhelds are just as bad. "Good" mp3 players measure their battery life in hours, not days and even my cell phone can't hold a charge for the entire weekend, and all it is is a battery with a phone attached.
"Becoming?"
I'd be concerned about the quality of an outsourced PSP, but conisdering the reported problems with the Sony-Produced ones (I don't have one myself, mostly due to the fact that I have trouble droping $250 on something that will break if I sit on it yet will fit in my back pocket), maybe 3rd party PSPs will be better.