How exactly can you make a motorized rotating turret without doing all of the things you just suggested were difficult. Read my other posts on this subject to see that I am already aware of these kinds of problems.
You forget, they have had to create axels and wheels anyway, these don't sprout from buds and need to be fabricated and poked through holes in the body, then they need to STILL create a rotating blade on the top and power it and position it where it wants to go.
This isn't going to be easy whichever way they look at it, MEMs movement would be easier using legs and levers - essentially building your device like origami from a single sheet. We have the tools to do this now (chip fab techniques) and can build up resonating levers which already move when current is applied, get the timing right and you have a centipede.
I can't personally see wheeled MEMs devices as being feasible anytime soon, macro scaled building principles just don't work at the scales required.
Look here for a better alternative to this stupid idea.
They talk about making Mems machines using this kind of device. My question is still WHY?
If they have the technological knowhow to create a micro machine with axels and rotating portions, why not just use direct drive on the simplest round wheel approach?
"The shifting weight sequentially drives each wheel that is under the weight to sit flat on the ground, thus moving the other wheels in a rotational manner, and the car in a linear direction; reversing the direction of the rotating weight, reverses the direction of the car. There are also several methods for steering the car that are under development" says Steven Winckler, President of Global Composites.
This thing has a rotating hammer around its roof and just moves around based on the shifting weight.
Thats should be fun on the motorway in a morning
Why are folks so obsessed with literally reinventing the wheel?
Theres a lot of good in wikipedia, and a lot of trolling. Whether it is anonymous or authenticated users, they are all the same. There is no editing skillset.
How about take a look at the edit history of a user? At present a new user with no edit history has essentially the same rights as a seasoned wiki editor. Why is this?
Edits SHOULD be verified first by another user with >edits than yourself. It could be implimented like slashdots' moderation, showing you a few edited blocks and grading them.
Thank you for participating, we would like you to look at the following edit contributions. Please rate them accordingly.
blah blah
[Constructive] [Good] [OK] [Crap] [Troll] [Spam]
Another alternative would be to treat wiki edits like spam:) use heuristics and bayesian filters, spot the common trolls and apart from a few pages block them entirely.
The sad part is that even with all this 1 simple fact remains:
A well laid out none POV factual error is still wrong.
In the case of the article listing, the information may be plainly wrong, but could be taken as true if you read around the general web.
Plenty of people do stupid shit in their garden sheds, thats what they are there for! I have read about a kid building a reactor from smoke detectors, and the NZ guy who built his own cruise missile.
I sense a business opportunity for lead lined garden housing:)
Also, didn't Young Einstein manage to split the beer atom in his? (and with a hammer and chisel if I remember rightly)
Take a pot of scalding water, remove all the oxygen, mix in a bit of poisonous carbon monoxide, and add a pinch of hydrogen gas. It sounds like a recipe for a witch's brew. It may be, but it is also the preferred environment for a microbe known as Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans.
If you remove the oxygen, won't you be left with Hydrogen anyway?
Isn't most of Linux and other projects licensed under v2?
I thought you had to contact all the developers who submitted code under that license to confirm they are OK with changing the terms of that agreement?
You are not describing a quantum bit. What you are describing is the principle behind all memory and hard drive bit storage currently available. However small you get it, having multiple particles banded together in the hopes that they can each converge on a correct answer is not what quantum theory is all about.
From boingboing (where I saw this initially) comes the following:
He said the band consented to making audience recordings available for download again, although live recordings made directly from concert soundboards, which are the legal property of the Grateful Dead, should only be made available for listening from now on.
They are not reopening it back up fully. They are removing something which was granted to them earlier.
Doesn't Quantum theory say you cannot read the state without disturbing the state? The act of finding the state of a quantum bit collapses the quantum wave and obtains a result, ie you can find out what the value is now, but that may disturb what the value was going to be leading to possibly incorrect answers.
Qubits as described by modern phsyical science do not sound like true theoretical quantum bits and just sound more like tiny transistors.
Wasn't there some news recently that the so called quantum bits could be read without disturbing their state. Which would either break quantum theory, or would mean they are just fabricated bits of information and not quantum bits at all.
The GPL is a license to ensure that your code and other code built using it remains open and usable by others.
Just giving the code away for free would allow an evil company to take somebodies hard work and lock it up in an exe shell with a squad of lawyers protecting the source.
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How exactly can you make a motorized rotating turret without doing all of the things you just suggested were difficult.
Read my other posts on this subject to see that I am already aware of these kinds of problems.
You forget, they have had to create axels and wheels anyway, these don't sprout from buds and need to be fabricated and poked through holes in the body, then they need to STILL create a rotating blade on the top and power it and position it where it wants to go.
This isn't going to be easy whichever way they look at it, MEMs movement would be easier using legs and levers - essentially building your device like origami from a single sheet.
We have the tools to do this now (chip fab techniques) and can build up resonating levers which already move when current is applied, get the timing right and you have a centipede.
I can't personally see wheeled MEMs devices as being feasible anytime soon, macro scaled building principles just don't work at the scales required.
Look here for a better alternative to this stupid idea.
They talk about making Mems machines using this kind of device.
My question is still WHY?
If they have the technological knowhow to create a micro machine with axels and rotating portions, why not just use direct drive on the simplest round wheel approach?
This is just a stupid idea looking for a purpose.
OMG
"The shifting weight sequentially drives each wheel that is under the weight to sit flat on the ground, thus moving the other wheels in a rotational manner, and the car in a linear direction; reversing the direction of the rotating weight, reverses the direction of the car. There are also several methods for steering the car that are under development" says Steven Winckler, President of Global Composites.
This thing has a rotating hammer around its roof and just moves around based on the shifting weight.
Thats should be fun on the motorway in a morning
Why are folks so obsessed with literally reinventing the wheel?
Theres a lot of good in wikipedia, and a lot of trolling.
:) use heuristics and bayesian filters, spot the common trolls and apart from a few pages block them entirely.
Whether it is anonymous or authenticated users, they are all the same.
There is no editing skillset.
How about take a look at the edit history of a user?
At present a new user with no edit history has essentially the same rights as a seasoned wiki editor. Why is this?
Edits SHOULD be verified first by another user with >edits than yourself.
It could be implimented like slashdots' moderation, showing you a few edited blocks and grading them.
Thank you for participating, we would like you to look at the following edit contributions.
Please rate them accordingly.
blah blah
[Constructive] [Good] [OK] [Crap] [Troll] [Spam]
Another alternative would be to treat wiki edits like spam
The sad part is that even with all this 1 simple fact remains:
A well laid out none POV factual error is still wrong.
In the case of the article listing, the information may be plainly wrong, but could be taken as true if you read around the general web.
Nahhhhhhhh surely your just trolling
Surely Google wouldn't consider that an uplift.
Most sites and pages have it (even slash).
Holy $^&"£^& shit!
Thos guys sell uranium ore.
Are they legit and for real?
Plenty of people do stupid shit in their garden sheds, thats what they are there for!
:)
I have read about a kid building a reactor from smoke detectors, and the NZ guy who built his own cruise missile.
I sense a business opportunity for lead lined garden housing
Also, didn't Young Einstein manage to split the beer atom in his? (and with a hammer and chisel if I remember rightly)
From the opening of the article:
Take a pot of scalding water, remove all the oxygen, mix in a bit of poisonous carbon monoxide, and add a pinch of hydrogen gas. It sounds like a recipe for a witch's brew. It may be, but it is also the preferred environment for a microbe known as Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans.
If you remove the oxygen, won't you be left with Hydrogen anyway?
Don't Americans have the CIA, the IRS, the Military, MiB and others to deal with?
Yes, there is a covert agency who get jiggy with it whilst protecting the earth from the scum of the universe.
I noticed that as well after reading further, I think I jumped the gun a little.
When the other browsers do impliment this, I still think having it totally as a flashblock type option would be good:
Active Content:
[ ] Block ALL Active Control until I click (FlashBlock style)
[ ] Show Active Content (Still requires click to activate)
This solution sounds like flashblock.
:)
I personally hope it is like that, because then content won't be doing dodgy stuff without consent.
Thank you Eolas
Punch the monkey to claim your lawsuit!
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Doesn't this dilute the skills pot though.
If I see some GPL code, I cannot just use it. I will have to check if its the correct version of GPL before I can bring it in.
This will end in tears.
Isn't most of Linux and other projects licensed under v2?
I thought you had to contact all the developers who submitted code under that license to confirm they are OK with changing the terms of that agreement?
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Even closer, soundboard recordings are to be available, but in streaming format only.
You are not describing a quantum bit.
What you are describing is the principle behind all memory and hard drive bit storage currently available.
However small you get it, having multiple particles banded together in the hopes that they can each converge on a correct answer is not what quantum theory is all about.
From boingboing (where I saw this initially) comes the following:
He said the band consented to making audience recordings available for download again, although live recordings made directly from concert soundboards, which are the legal property of the Grateful Dead, should only be made available for listening from now on.
They are not reopening it back up fully. They are removing something which was granted to them earlier.
You can't.
Hence my suggestion that if they say they can we still have not reached quantum bit technology.
That is exactly my point...
if The article is correct, then we aren't yet using quantum bits, just tiny transistors.
Doesn't Quantum theory say you cannot read the state without disturbing the state?
The act of finding the state of a quantum bit collapses the quantum wave and obtains a result, ie you can find out what the value is now, but that may disturb what the value was going to be leading to possibly incorrect answers.
Qubits as described by modern phsyical science do not sound like true theoretical quantum bits and just sound more like tiny transistors.
Wasn't there some news recently that the so called quantum bits could be read without disturbing their state.
Which would either break quantum theory, or would mean they are just fabricated bits of information and not quantum bits at all.
The article was here
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The GPL is not giving your code away for free.
The GPL is a license to ensure that your code and other code built using it remains open and usable by others.
Just giving the code away for free would allow an evil company to take somebodies hard work and lock it up in an exe shell with a squad of lawyers protecting the source.
Public Domain is noble but not wise.