I promise not to send iPods to people who enter at my Network Challenge website http://red40k.com/ unless we win, and that's how someone wants their $3000.
You are always responsible for reporting income on your taxes, even gambling winnings and gifts. I just said that I would send it. I do believe that on my end the payouts could be considered a business expense.
If you are actually interested in the money, submit your found balloon to Red40k.com to get $3000 for a single balloon if we win.
It's easier to remember Red40k.com
I'm starting one too. Red40k.com
If you see a red balloon on December 5th, submit it there for a chance to win $3000 if we win. It'll even be open to the operators of the other balloon search sites.
So if you find out where a balloon might be, go to Red40k.com ok?
So what will you do if you happen to be driving along on December 5th, and see one of these balloons?
Will you actually drive past it without stopping, or will you whip out your [insert connected device] and try to get $3,000 from Red40k.com?
yes, I will get $10k from DARPA if we win.
One balloon has NO value to an individual without what I (or someone else) offers.
but perhaps you could find a single red balloon and win $3000...
Red40k.com will be setup to take balloon location submissions and paypal $3000 to the first email address associated with a correct balloon location, if we win the $40k.
So I just registered a website, and will set it up in a few days... if you are the first person to submit a correct balloon location, and if we get the 40k, I will paypal $3,000 to the first email address on the submission.
As far as I can tell, it has existed at least since 1938 when patent #2138974 describes electromagnetic "jamming" for the purposes of making a foot mold using a "magnetic box". Pneumatic "jamming" has existed since at least 1949 where patent #2472754 describes the effect... also for the purpose of making a foot mold.
To anyone still interested in this, it has become an epic failure...
Millions of people played, cheaters took over, they reset the game, and it still sucks. The rents were increasing more than exponentialy, now they dropped the rents and pissed everyone off. It will be quite interesting to see what happens.
The blog is loaded with complaints.
This reminds me of a story I read once about a programmer who challenges the devil to a programming contest. they battle it out on archaic machines, the heroic programmer using every available bit of memory and hardware... even stores some bits in a temporary buffer in the air between the speaker and microphone in order to get the most out of it... has anyone here read that story?
My guess is that they flash the lights behind the screen at a high frequency and use a high frequency liquid crystal to block all the rays they don't want...
This display probably gets very hot, because much of the light would be blocked. BUT... it would truly display a 3D image!! Amazing.
In looking through these pictures I am struck by some thoughts.
What an amazing collection of averageness.
This data is invaluable.
I hope I'm in there somewhere.
What would aliens think if they saw this?
I should invest in storage technology.
Is that my friend there?
This will make a great screensaver!
1 Gather intelligent people with many viewpoints to debate important topics to help me steer the country.
2 Demand open borders, and an offer citizenship to any person anywhere who wants to become a citizen.
3 Push for a more modern penal system that promotes rehabilitation rather than punishment.
4 Guarantee transparency in all other decision making process by making all meetings with advisors public.
No other specific items that I can think of right now, but overall a platform that promotes competition, advancement, and long term thinking so that we can move one step closer to a legal and technological utopia.
I don't understand this move at all. Did they decide that music is no longer a product, but only a means to sell other products? I suppose this has been the strategy in regular radio forever.
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds very similar to a game that was described in The Peace War by Vernor Vinge.
I hear ya, and I'm with ya.
I'm not changing my screen name.
Of course I hope people will send me balloon entries at http://red40k.com/ but there is a wiki that lists many other teams.
it is at http://redballoon.wikispaces.com/Groups.
I promise not to send iPods to people who enter at my Network Challenge website http://red40k.com/ unless we win, and that's how someone wants their $3000.
Actually the book "The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest" used an OS/machine similar to this.
You are always responsible for reporting income on your taxes, even gambling winnings and gifts. I just said that I would send it. I do believe that on my end the payouts could be considered a business expense.
Go Red40k.com
Red40k.com is the only domain you need to remember remember the 5th of December!
$3000 for the first submission of each of the 10 balloons if we win!
Go Red40k.com!
If you are actually interested in the money, submit your found balloon to Red40k.com to get $3000 for a single balloon if we win.
It's easier to remember Red40k.com
I'm starting one too. Red40k.com
If you see a red balloon on December 5th, submit it there for a chance to win $3000 if we win.
It'll even be open to the operators of the other balloon search sites.
So if you find out where a balloon might be, go to Red40k.com ok?
So what will you do if you happen to be driving along on December 5th, and see one of these balloons?
Will you actually drive past it without stopping, or will you whip out your [insert connected device] and try to get $3,000 from Red40k.com?
yes, I will get $10k from DARPA if we win.
One balloon has NO value to an individual without what I (or someone else) offers.
Go Red40k.com!
but perhaps you could find a single red balloon and win $3000...
Red40k.com will be setup to take balloon location submissions and paypal $3000 to the first email address associated with a correct balloon location, if we win the $40k.
So I just registered a website, and will set it up in a few days... if you are the first person to submit a correct balloon location, and if we get the 40k, I will paypal $3,000 to the first email address on the submission.
Patent #3608961
As far as I can tell, it has existed at least since 1938 when patent #2138974 describes electromagnetic "jamming" for the purposes of making a foot mold using a "magnetic box". Pneumatic "jamming" has existed since at least 1949 where patent #2472754 describes the effect... also for the purpose of making a foot mold.
To anyone still interested in this, it has become an epic failure...
Millions of people played, cheaters took over, they reset the game, and it still sucks. The rents were increasing more than exponentialy, now they dropped the rents and pissed everyone off. It will be quite interesting to see what happens.
The blog is loaded with complaints.
It seems that the game has been recently reset... maybe about an hour ago... Land grab time!
found it: The Devil and David Webster
This reminds me of a story I read once about a programmer who challenges the devil to a programming contest. they battle it out on archaic machines, the heroic programmer using every available bit of memory and hardware... even stores some bits in a temporary buffer in the air between the speaker and microphone in order to get the most out of it... has anyone here read that story?
waterproof
It is a true 3d screen.
http://www.coherentproject.org/news_files/136_143.pdf
My first impression... another head tracker....
My second impression... a really nifty way to actually get a screen to shine what you want in any direction.
Each pixel acts as a projector! this file explains how!
http://www.coherentproject.org/news_files/136_143.pdf
My guess is that they flash the lights behind the screen at a high frequency and use a high frequency liquid crystal to block all the rays they don't want...
This display probably gets very hot, because much of the light would be blocked. BUT... it would truly display a 3D image!! Amazing.
In looking through these pictures I am struck by some thoughts. What an amazing collection of averageness.
This data is invaluable.
I hope I'm in there somewhere.
What would aliens think if they saw this?
I should invest in storage technology.
Is that my friend there?
This will make a great screensaver!
1 Gather intelligent people with many viewpoints to debate important topics to help me steer the country.
2 Demand open borders, and an offer citizenship to any person anywhere who wants to become a citizen.
3 Push for a more modern penal system that promotes rehabilitation rather than punishment.
4 Guarantee transparency in all other decision making process by making all meetings with advisors public.
No other specific items that I can think of right now, but overall a platform that promotes competition, advancement, and long term thinking so that we can move one step closer to a legal and technological utopia.
I don't understand this move at all. Did they decide that music is no longer a product, but only a means to sell other products? I suppose this has been the strategy in regular radio forever.