People don't try on cloths to see what the cloths look like. They can do that by just looking at them. People try cloths on to see how they fit - ie, how big their boobs/asses look.
ya, sure. but what about when you're shopping for your wife/gf and don't want to drag them along to see how clothes will fit her? wouldn't it be handy to just have a model of her body that you could take to a store with you?
also, some people don't like trying on clothes that ten other sweaty people tried on before you. there's a reason most stores don't let you try on underwear.
it seems like pretty soon we're going to run into a practical imaging limit for earth-based telescopes, with atmospheric interference limiting what we can see. if it weren't for the huge expense involved in it, it would benefit us so much more to have something like this up in space. maybe in orbit, or on the other side of the moon or something.
of course, having it up in space means you can't go hang out at the observatory scanning the heavens.
i have to say though, this thing puts my telescope to shame:)
isn't the Soyuez the escape capsule of the space station? doesn't seem like a very good plan to leave the astronauts/cosmonauts without a re-renty vehicle just to save money.
hopefully this will cut down on the number of easily infected web servers. don't want to see another run of iis worms spewing bogus access requests at my apache server.
it goes without saying that this is pretty sleazy, but unless they are idiots, whoever wrote this is probably sitting somewhere overseas. so, unfortunately we can bitch all we want about it being illegal, because noone is going to do anything about it.
time to continue using spamassasin. it works pretty much 100% for me. it's not really the most ideal solution (the ideal solution being saving the bandwith used by spam by not allowing delivery), but it does same the man-time in trashing spam.
aside from the geek value of all this research, it should provide a good basis to help solve some robotics problems in the future. lots of problems robots have with walking could probably be rationalized similarly to the problems huge, clumsy, unbalanced dinosaurs had. problems of large-object boyancy and maneuverability as well, although i don't imagine that these things were very maneuverable in water either.
of course, i grew up playing with plastic dinosaurs and erektor sets, so i might be biased.
Sauropods probably travelled in herds, and were wandering vegetarians. Being able to float might have helped to find food, or to survive the occasional flooding caused by monsoon rains, says Dr. Henderson.
life is easy when you're a vegetarian, you can just float along with your mouth open, and eventually you get a full meal;)
down by the Flash/custom tags/CSS/ECMAScript crap that pollutes the Information Superhighway these days.
you're either missing the point of CSS, or you've never really seen what it can do. CSS is great for trimming _down_ the size of a page. instead of having font tags everywhere, you can easily assign blocks of text that behave according to the specification. color, font, style, alignment, etc. instead of having tons of nested tables to make sure everything fits, you can do it all with a few blocks of css.
now if only IE supported css correctly, we could actually see some cool uses of it that aren't broken to be compatible with IE.
while i'm probably going to get my head chewed off for saying this, flash has the same value. when you really need to have a multimedia presentation up, it sure beats having to write a java app. you don't necessarily need to make your whole site out of flash, or having stupid flash ads. doing things like 3d-models of cell phones or is perfect for flash. it used to be that you used quicktime vr for that, but why have a bizillion different plugins for doing tons of stuff that one flash plugin can do?
not to put down their achievement, but how is this any functionally different than running said applications in vmware/bochs/plex86? share a network drive, and you still have access to your filesystem(s). it's not like you need huge hardware accelerated performance (ie, running directx) to run flash authoring tools.
that said, this is pretty cool. my design windows using buddies all think flashmx is the de-facto standard app to know for getting hired as a designer these days. yes, it's lame, but it's hard to be elitist when it comes to getting paid.
Furthermore, you could automate the process by writing a script to do things like randomising white space, replacing variable names, and even rewriting simple flow control constructs.
this won't get you anywhere. i had a class on pattern matching software to pick out plagiarism in student submited code at my university, and the guys developing it aren't exactly idiots. things like changing lines around, changing variable names, changing spacing and indentation style didn't do anything. the software caught everything.
i don't know the exact heuristics they use to determine how related two pieces of code are, but it definetly looked more at the underlying pattern than at the surface level code. it always sort of worried me that if you had the same line of thinking as someone else, or you both talked about a way of implementing something and then went off and worked on it separately that the software would catch your code as being related, but it never did. they might have a human scan any positive matches for false negatives though.
see also ESR's comparator that was mentioned here a few months ago. it is supposedly also not fooled by style changes.
In short, no. There are more outcomes of chess then there are particles in the known universe. see the other reply for the previous discussion on chess.
i did this as well, and it worked out great. i got my folks to use linux/kde for about 8 months, and then when it came time for hardware upgrades, they decided running unix at home was a great idea, but they bought an iMac instead of upgrading the PC.
can't say I blame them, while PC Unix was great because they didn't get viruses and I could do software upgrades and minor fixes remotely (they have DSL), it meant that they were entitled to pester me about it as much as they wanted. I got pestered a lot with questions like "How do I do X like I used to in Windows?", and lots of times the answer was "well... you don't"
it's particularly bad with more savvy users because they have their pet software titles, and often the open-source equivalents have very different interfaces, or just different enough for them to shun it.
sure, this can happen. you can get infected and start spewing out email and whatnot. but if you configure wine correctly, it's pretty brainless to fix. i run wine with no access to network drives or my home directory. it just has access to/tmp and it's own fake_windows/ directory under.wine/
purge fake_windows and you just took care of the problem. granted this isn't such a great solution if you want to keep persistant data around, but it works great for 1-time applications where you just want to fuddle with it and never see it again.
my university has been testing out replacing NT/2k/2003 machines with Samba boxes, and they've hit a lot of speed bumps. It's nice to see that someone is actually documenting all the necessary steps so that doing the conversion doesn't end up being a huge beast of a project.
afaik, Samba supports even the more advanced domain controller features, but it's not all very straight-forward or intuitive. this should make the PHBs with anti-commercial-solution tin-foil hats breath a little easier. documentation goes a long ways in a managed environment.
Moller International have been doing some serious test flights of their M400 skycar since early this year.
The thing can hover untethered now, although they still require a tether for insurance. you can read here about how their reworking some of the design concepts while they wait for new engines to be built, and see some hover test pictures here
A factor hampering progress, the pair say, is the sheer pliability of their strip-like connector devices, which are proving difficult to handle owing to the extreme flimsiness of their first prototypes.
have they considered that if the elastic is reasonably heat resistant, they can fix tears in the conductors by heating up the gold (gold has a low melting point, right?) when not fully stretched and then letting it cool back into a single strip?
it seems like this would make this type of skin pretty reasonably tough. if may break easily, but it can pretty much fix itself. just add some kind of heating mechanism to the robot.
It's pretty cool that astronomy is pretty much the only field where amateur work is not only accepted but also encouraged. if it wasn't for the thousands of people gazing up at the stars with their home telescopes, most of this stuff would get missed.
it's pretty cool some of the things you can capture with a nice 4.5" scope and a modified webcam.
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a question to those who've built their own newtonians:
how is this fundamentally different?
(to me, the picture looks basically like a standard newtonian)
People don't try on cloths to see what the cloths look like. They can do that by just looking at them. People try cloths on to see how they fit - ie, how big their boobs/asses look.
ya, sure. but what about when you're shopping for your wife/gf and don't want to drag them along to see how clothes will fit her? wouldn't it be handy to just have a model of her body that you could take to a store with you?
also, some people don't like trying on clothes that ten other sweaty people tried on before you.
there's a reason most stores don't let you try on underwear.
50 _kilometer_ range? wow. that's more than enough to connect 2 people in nearby cities.
this should be pretty sweet for rural networking. i foresee a flood of long range domestic and roaming wireless plans coming up circa 2005.
it seems like pretty soon we're going to run into a practical imaging limit for earth-based telescopes, with atmospheric interference limiting what we can see. if it weren't for the huge expense involved in it, it would benefit us so much more to have something like this up in space. maybe in orbit, or on the other side of the moon or something.
:)
of course, having it up in space means you can't go hang out at the observatory scanning the heavens.
i have to say though, this thing puts my telescope to shame
this was called Internet2
isn't the Soyuez the escape capsule of the space station? doesn't seem like a very good plan to leave the astronauts/cosmonauts without a re-renty vehicle just to save money.
hopefully this will cut down on the number of easily infected web servers. don't want to see another run of iis worms spewing bogus access requests at my apache server.
it goes without saying that this is pretty sleazy, but unless they are idiots, whoever wrote this is probably sitting somewhere overseas. so, unfortunately we can bitch all we want about it being illegal, because noone is going to do anything about it.
time to continue using spamassasin. it works pretty much 100% for me. it's not really the most ideal solution (the ideal solution being saving the bandwith used by spam by not allowing delivery), but it does same the man-time in trashing spam.
aside from the geek value of all this research, it should provide a good basis to help solve some robotics problems in the future. lots of problems robots have with walking could probably be rationalized similarly to the problems huge, clumsy, unbalanced dinosaurs had. problems of large-object boyancy and maneuverability as well, although i don't imagine that these things were very maneuverable in water either.
of course, i grew up playing with plastic dinosaurs and erektor sets, so i might be biased.
Sauropods probably travelled in herds, and were wandering vegetarians. Being able to float might have helped to find food, or to survive the occasional flooding caused by monsoon rains, says Dr. Henderson.
;)
life is easy when you're a vegetarian, you can just float along with your mouth open, and eventually you get a full meal
down by the Flash/custom tags/CSS/ECMAScript crap that pollutes the Information Superhighway these days.
you're either missing the point of CSS, or you've never really seen what it can do. CSS is great for trimming _down_ the size of a page. instead of having font tags everywhere, you can easily assign blocks of text that behave according to the specification. color, font, style, alignment, etc. instead of having tons of nested tables to make sure everything fits, you can do it all with a few blocks of css.
now if only IE supported css correctly, we could actually see some cool uses of it that aren't broken to be compatible with IE.
while i'm probably going to get my head chewed off for saying this, flash has the same value. when you really need to have a multimedia presentation up, it sure beats having to write a java app. you don't necessarily need to make your whole site out of flash, or having stupid flash ads. doing things like 3d-models of cell phones or is perfect for flash. it used to be that you used quicktime vr for that, but why have a bizillion different plugins for doing tons of stuff that one flash plugin can do?
not to put down their achievement, but how is this any functionally different than running said applications in vmware/bochs/plex86? share a network drive, and you still have access to your filesystem(s). it's not like you need huge hardware accelerated performance (ie, running directx) to run flash authoring tools.
that said, this is pretty cool. my design windows using buddies all think flashmx is the de-facto standard app to know for getting hired as a designer these days. yes, it's lame, but it's hard to be elitist when it comes to getting paid.
Furthermore, you could automate the process by writing a script to do things like randomising white space, replacing variable names, and even rewriting simple flow control constructs.
this won't get you anywhere. i had a class on pattern matching software to pick out plagiarism in student submited code at my university, and the guys developing it aren't exactly idiots. things like changing lines around, changing variable names, changing spacing and indentation style didn't do anything. the software caught everything.
i don't know the exact heuristics they use to determine how related two pieces of code are, but it definetly looked more at the underlying pattern than at the surface level code. it always sort of worried me that if you had the same line of thinking as someone else, or you both talked about a way of implementing something and then went off and worked on it separately that the software would catch your code as being related, but it never did. they might have a human scan any positive matches for false negatives though.
see also ESR's comparator that was mentioned here a few months ago. it is supposedly also not fooled by style changes.
In short, no. There are more outcomes of chess then there are particles in the known universe. see the other reply for the previous discussion on chess.
i did this as well, and it worked out great. i got my folks to use linux/kde for about 8 months, and then when it came time for hardware upgrades, they decided running unix at home was a great idea, but they bought an iMac instead of upgrading the PC.
can't say I blame them, while PC Unix was great because they didn't get viruses and I could do software upgrades and minor fixes remotely (they have DSL), it meant that they were entitled to pester me about it as much as they wanted. I got pestered a lot with questions like "How do I do X like I used to in Windows?", and lots of times the answer was "well... you don't"
it's particularly bad with more savvy users because they have their pet software titles, and often the open-source equivalents have very different interfaces, or just different enough for them to shun it.
sure, this can happen. you can get infected and start spewing out email and whatnot. but if you configure wine correctly, it's pretty brainless to fix. i run wine with no access to network drives or my home directory. it just has access to /tmp and it's own fake_windows/ directory under .wine/
purge fake_windows and you just took care of the problem. granted this isn't such a great solution if you want to keep persistant data around, but it works great for 1-time applications where you just want to fuddle with it and never see it again.
my university has been testing out replacing NT/2k/2003 machines with Samba boxes, and they've hit a lot of speed bumps. It's nice to see that someone is actually documenting all the necessary steps so that doing the conversion doesn't end up being a huge beast of a project.
afaik, Samba supports even the more advanced domain controller features, but it's not all very straight-forward or intuitive. this should make the PHBs with anti-commercial-solution tin-foil hats breath a little easier. documentation goes a long ways in a managed environment.
Moller International have been doing some serious test flights of their M400 skycar since early this year.
The thing can hover untethered now, although they still require a tether for insurance. you can read here about how their reworking some of the design concepts while they wait for new engines to be built, and see some hover test pictures here
A factor hampering progress, the pair say, is the sheer pliability of their strip-like connector devices, which are proving difficult to handle owing to the extreme flimsiness of their first prototypes.
have they considered that if the elastic is reasonably heat resistant, they can fix tears in the conductors by heating up the gold (gold has a low melting point, right?) when not fully stretched and then letting it cool back into a single strip?
it seems like this would make this type of skin pretty reasonably tough. if may break easily, but it can pretty much fix itself. just add some kind of heating mechanism to the robot.
jiggy with it, is that forbidden by the EULA?
It's pretty cool that astronomy is pretty much the only field where amateur work is not only accepted but also encouraged. if it wasn't for the thousands of people gazing up at the stars with their home telescopes, most of this stuff would get missed.
it's pretty cool some of the things you can capture with a nice 4.5" scope and a modified webcam.
the answer being: Nothing. Absolutely nothing!
Yet, I'm sure this will inspire another load of tin-foil hats.
sweet, I'm heading to Red Lobster.
don't forget skylab
iirc that thing survive reentry in a big enough piece to land on something in the australian outback, a jackrabbit i think
didn't a big piece of Mir land in the pacific?