One thing those of us out here won't find is the truth.
I see you were scored zero...shouldn't be. My observation was just the same. Why not let their site get whacked...it is not like they have business to do right?
The frightening part is the degree he insulates himself from dissenting thought. If he had some idea that we could get unlimited hydro-electric power by legistlating rivers flow up hill in every other state they would haul some "expert" in from the army corp of engineers that would tell him they could do in it in 6 months for $10 billion. Someone bold enough to tell him this is ridiculous would be closed minded, an extremist environmentalist or my favorite "devisive". My concern as a citizen is not with style BELIEVE ME!
I find the reverse of your observations to be true. Digital is better suited for "art" photography actually as control over color is much better with high end camera and Epson photo printing. The sentimental out there are holding on, but many pros and even art galleries are coming around to digital acceptance.
With the shutter latency of affordable digital cameras, they take some time to get used to, and even then I couldn't count how many priceless expressions that changed between when I press the shutter and capture an image.
The digital camera that cracks that nut in the $300-500 range will sell big time!
Actually one outcome of the Florida mess in 2000 was frustration expressed as apathy in the 2002 mid-term elections. The statement from one person interviewed that was a first time voter in 2000 that chose not to vote in 2002 says it all:
Why should I vote? They're going to do whatever they want anyway.
This is scary. Picking up on the latest flak about something Dean said about the caucus system...which was really a statement of the obvious....someone is going to have to have some degree of passion on particular issues to mess around spending hours at a precinct caucus to elect delegates (who in turn have to invest a day or more at a district caucus). If voting is a repeated debacle in areas with a low tax base (read poor/minority areas) it is clear the less passionate average Jose' will over time tune out.
Wheels on the ends of articulated arms would enable smooth and potentially fast motion on a smooth surface such as a road or sidewalk. Then if an obstruction larger than the wheel radius presented itself, the arm would lift and step up onto or over the obstruction.
The concept of a "dog" is interesting. In nature there is only one example of a full rotary mechanism (some microscopic organisms have a helical tail that spins). Since we have had man made mechanisms with wheels for quite some time now, why eliminate them?
Learn from nature, steal from it liberally, but don't be constrained by it.
A little larger form factor (12"x10"x1.5") will get you a multi-media playback machine with a 13" screen that also has a 30G hard drive, DVD/CD drive, keyboard, network capability and much much more...an older one goes for about $250 on e-bay. Hardly something I would take with me for a jog, but I have mine with me all day! (my laptop)
Somewhere between a small FM radio w/headphones and a surround sound home entertainment center with a 72" plasma screen lies the optimum media experience. For each person that optimum is something different. This product may go after a niche in that spectrum...but hardly the same one as an iPod.
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From what I have seen in general being an executive sucks. For the most part your life becomes one dimensionally work oriented. Sure the jerk CEO's that get "fired" for millions piss us all off, but those that hit the glass ceiling and "miss-out" on the fast track to the top because of kids/family/a life/etc are the smart/lucky ones in my opinion.
Regarding feminism, the word has been hijacked like "liberal" by the common tactic of highlighting (and distorting) the causes at the extremes that have been taken up under teh "feminist" or "liberal" banner. If you come back with the following simple definition it deflates many of the calls of heresy smearing a point of view as extreme, destructive, un-natural etc:
feminism The radical notion that women are people.
My thoughts exactly!
As the executive branch is hell bent on removing the checks and balances our founding fathers intended and pursuing a martial/fascist agenda it is strangely comforting that they may have a soft white underbelly should they go too far.
Capitalism does not always factor in ALL costs and ALL benefits. Libraries make difficult decisions deciding what to keep and what to surplus. Some books become "obsolete". They have finite resource to store and inventory them etc. The danger of a pure financially motivated decision is that a rare book will more likely end up in the hands of a collector (and thus inaccessible to other readers and researchers). If a high school student is inspired to future studies in literature by a beautiful Longfellow first edition in some small town New England libraries rare book section, how would a capitalist system measure that value? Is that more or less valuable to society than 5 years of Chilton's guides for Ford Sport utility vehicles?
The good news is the libraries are getting more return on the books they surplus through access to a larger customer base. Let's hope it doesn't lead to loss of the libraries mission however.
Congressman Otter happens to represent a district in Idaho rather than Iowa as the article states. Although I am a democrat in practice and spirit I appreciate that there are some statesmen that will break ranks and speak out against this nonsense:
"In our fight for our nation to make the world a safe place, we must not turn our backs on our own freedoms," Otter said. "Expanding the use of administrative subpoenas and threatening our system of checks and balances is a step in the wrong direction."
Too bad this was moderated down...that is the perenial problem with XML and other technologies.
A universalist technology compromises a little bit of everything for everybody.
Possibly moderator didn't catch the SNL reference.
Maybe those concerned with ownership can take a page from GNU...Space is a free for all...but anything you contribute has to stay there. For the ambitious the sky is literally the limit!
Boot-strap yourself into a galactic empire, just don't plan on bringing your mess home with you.
A more important observation is that we have managed to cob up our planet without a significant exchange of matter between our planet and other celestial bodies. In total a couple tons (a very optimistic estimate) has truly left the Earth's gravitational pool (the stuff in near Earth orbit doesn't count...in the cosmic scale its mass is at Earth).
The altruism of open source is very noble. What will put the fire in the belly of Linux's white knights if they win their crusade and Microsoft does crumble?
Conceptually a better analogy may be balancing a circuit panel in your home. One doing this you want to put appliances and other circuits on opposite phases. This can be generalized to multi-phased systems as well. In principle the load from one phase "balances" the load on another phase so the current to neutral (which goes to ground at the main panel) is minimal.
I like the idea of choosing the least expensive 20 vehicles...but that should only be after an elimination run over a short course. A short time trial would cull the weak entries.
It would be a shame to have some turkeys get in on a shoestring only to break down 5% of the way into the race.
Time can be an amazing filter...just think of books and music over the last 50 years. What holds up and what gets discarded?
On another note, the victor is the one that writes stuff down. Suppose an artist in an aboriginal culture comes up with a whole wealth of music, but doesn't put black dots on paper. A genius par with Mozart. Even if that music is still being played generations later the credit is "lost". In western society at times we dwell too much on competition. Rather than stopping to smell the roses we have a contest to judge who grows the best roses.
Mark Heinrich
I think one thing that is being missed here is that these autonomous vehicles are going across the desert. Think of those Baja racers leaping over sand dunes....
Some degree of self preservation will need to be designed into these things.
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One thing those of us out here won't find is the truth. I see you were scored zero...shouldn't be. My observation was just the same. Why not let their site get whacked...it is not like they have business to do right?
The frightening part is the degree he insulates himself from dissenting thought. If he had some idea that we could get unlimited hydro-electric power by legistlating rivers flow up hill in every other state they would haul some "expert" in from the army corp of engineers that would tell him they could do in it in 6 months for $10 billion. Someone bold enough to tell him this is ridiculous would be closed minded, an extremist environmentalist or my favorite "devisive". My concern as a citizen is not with style BELIEVE ME!
It is far less embarassing to discretly hand someone a tissue than point at their face and yell "He's got a big green boogie hanging from his nose!"
With the shutter latency of affordable digital cameras, they take some time to get used to, and even then I couldn't count how many priceless expressions that changed between when I press the shutter and capture an image.
The digital camera that cracks that nut in the $300-500 range will sell big time!
If you put your nose 2" away from you monitor and stare for a few minutes you can see a sign that says "Reno 87 Miles"
Wheels on the ends of articulated arms would enable smooth and potentially fast motion on a smooth surface such as a road or sidewalk. Then if an obstruction larger than the wheel radius presented itself, the arm would lift and step up onto or over the obstruction.
The concept of a "dog" is interesting. In nature there is only one example of a full rotary mechanism (some microscopic organisms have a helical tail that spins). Since we have had man made mechanisms with wheels for quite some time now, why eliminate them?
Learn from nature, steal from it liberally, but don't be constrained by it.
Congratulations you are one of the 10% of people owning the book that have actually read it (I have too by the way).
Somewhere between a small FM radio w/headphones and a surround sound home entertainment center with a 72" plasma screen lies the optimum media experience. For each person that optimum is something different. This product may go after a niche in that spectrum...but hardly the same one as an iPod.
Regarding feminism, the word has been hijacked like "liberal" by the common tactic of highlighting (and distorting) the causes at the extremes that have been taken up under teh "feminist" or "liberal" banner. If you come back with the following simple definition it deflates many of the calls of heresy smearing a point of view as extreme, destructive, un-natural etc:
feminism The radical notion that women are people.
a) I respect your opinion
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b) I respect your right to hold an opinion
The zealots demand the former, while reason (and manners) only demand the later.
My thoughts exactly! As the executive branch is hell bent on removing the checks and balances our founding fathers intended and pursuing a martial/fascist agenda it is strangely comforting that they may have a soft white underbelly should they go too far.
...CRAP
... The bad guys get the same catalogs you do!
Capitalism does not always factor in ALL costs and ALL benefits. Libraries make difficult decisions deciding what to keep and what to surplus. Some books become "obsolete". They have finite resource to store and inventory them etc. The danger of a pure financially motivated decision is that a rare book will more likely end up in the hands of a collector (and thus inaccessible to other readers and researchers). If a high school student is inspired to future studies in literature by a beautiful Longfellow first edition in some small town New England libraries rare book section, how would a capitalist system measure that value? Is that more or less valuable to society than 5 years of Chilton's guides for Ford Sport utility vehicles?
The good news is the libraries are getting more return on the books they surplus through access to a larger customer base. Let's hope it doesn't lead to loss of the libraries mission however.
Too bad this was moderated down...that is the perenial problem with XML and other technologies. A universalist technology compromises a little bit of everything for everybody. Possibly moderator didn't catch the SNL reference.
Tongue firmly placed in cheek.
Boot-strap yourself into a galactic empire, just don't plan on bringing your mess home with you.
We are really frickin small.
A more important observation is that we have managed to cob up our planet without a significant exchange of matter between our planet and other celestial bodies. In total a couple tons (a very optimistic estimate) has truly left the Earth's gravitational pool (the stuff in near Earth orbit doesn't count...in the cosmic scale its mass is at Earth).
The altruism of open source is very noble. What will put the fire in the belly of Linux's white knights if they win their crusade and Microsoft does crumble?
Do a google on phase balancing or look at this URL that has a diagram: http://www.tpub.com/ceb/74.htm
If ignorance is bliss why are so many people in such a bad mood?
It would be a shame to have some turkeys get in on a shoestring only to break down 5% of the way into the race.
Time can be an amazing filter...just think of books and music over the last 50 years. What holds up and what gets discarded? On another note, the victor is the one that writes stuff down. Suppose an artist in an aboriginal culture comes up with a whole wealth of music, but doesn't put black dots on paper. A genius par with Mozart. Even if that music is still being played generations later the credit is "lost". In western society at times we dwell too much on competition. Rather than stopping to smell the roses we have a contest to judge who grows the best roses. Mark Heinrich
I think one thing that is being missed here is that these autonomous vehicles are going across the desert. Think of those Baja racers leaping over sand dunes.... Some degree of self preservation will need to be designed into these things.