Hmmm...now there's a novel idea. While I never like the idea of "fuel-free" anything (there's always a catch), I could see this working well, especially for stationary applications (floating power plants, floating positioning "satellites" that aren't actually satellites since they aren't in orbit). I wonder though where and at what altitude you'd have to go to get decent return from this.
Yeah maybe I should have called blasphemy on him for implying that Linux and/or Firefox was somehow messed up, let alone doing so on/.
I never thought I'd do OS X, but after years of having "fun" with Windows getting it to work with "supported" hardware and with Linux getting it to work with "unsupported" hardware, it's nice having something that just works. Sure, it's pricey and the eye-candy isn't really adding anything technically, but for all around user experience, it rocks. And as someone very interested in user experience and interface, it's nice to immerse myself in what could arguably be the best (in those regards...I still need a PC for Counter-Strike).
Blasphemy! How dare you insult me with such vile accusations! I challenge you, sir, to a Core Duel!
Actually, I'm primarily Mac/Firefox (gave up on Safari - kept slowing down on my PowerBook G4 for some reason, and I don't like that it won't let you style inputs). I do use Mac/Safari, Windows/Firefox, Windows/IE, and others on occasion (or when at work) but just to check CSS quirks.
The biggest problem with my country, India, is that an early warning system won't make much of a difference because there is no way to inform most of the thousands of villages and settlements on the coastlines.
That pretty goes for every country in the 2004 tsunami zone. As others have said, a bit more regional and local cooperation is what is really needed - our (U.S.) best seismologists and such knowing that a tsunami is coming is nice, but for those that don't have CNN/BBC/whatever piped into their homes, the news will be late. Your comment is true, but a little too narrow-focused - and typical of the kinds of challenges faced in these situations.
And only on Slashdot could someone make such a worthless comment.
Solar wind, gravitational plots, and air winds all represent very subtle and dynamic forces that can't be directly controlled (unlike aerodynamic forces and engine thrust, for instance). If these guys are able to accurately navigate through winds and do it all more efficiently (and faster, hopefully) than currently available, the navigational community could apply their methods to a lot of different methods of navigation. It's like finding a better turbine blade - jets, powerplants, and watercraft could all benefit.
If you thought I was serious, please know that my favorite television programs are currently "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", "The Colbert Report", "Family Guy", and "South Park"
The point was simply that if people want to blame video games for their effects on children, they should blame everything. As "The Daily Show" pointed out beautifully (and rather sneakily - if you weren't paying attention you missed the PBS watermark on the war footage) in Stewart's recent rant on Congressional hearings over violent video games, watching the news exposes children to more real violence than most video games. What about 30-40 years ago, when American (and other) children had toy guns, little green army men, and stories about the evil communists? That didn't have any effect? Sure, video games may bring things more and more realistically and with more and more user control, but if we go after them, we might as well go after all toys and entertainment (thus the point of my satire...that and the fact that its an election year, so I could totally see someone liking the idea of proposing a bill to tie the punishment for violent games and such to beefing up law enforcement.)
Amusing, but in all seriousness, I'd love to see how well this stuff can plot courses through winds. This kind of thing could also be great for space travel - both for plotting through solar winds and gravitational assists (or both at once). If it's that much better at plotting through winds than whatever else we've had up until now, maybe it's also better than whatever orbital navigation plotting we have rigth now.
The sound of a large switch being thrown was overhead near the Mountain View, CA, headquarters of search giant Google this afternoon. A local robed old guy was quoted as saying, "It's as if millions of miles of dark fiber suddenly came online, and then telcos everywhere were suddenly silenced."
"Now if this is overturned, I think you'll see the legislature address it again in the next session," he noted. "We can't legislate morality but certainly we can stop these games from being sold in Louisiana, getting into the hands of our children. It's the least we could do."
I dunno, I kinda agree with them on that one. But I think my version of the law might read a little differently then theirs:
All parents allowing the purchase of video games, movies, or other entertainment devices or media shall be fined an amount no more than $5000 and no less then $1000 per violation, with said fine being used to defray the cost of added law enforcement and criminal court personnel as a result of their inability to parent properly.
You better get modded Insightful. This is why FPS tend to be the best online multiplayer games - the game works much better if everyone is working together, laying down cover fire, etc., but if that fails, you can still be the one guy who lets all the noobs be fodder, grabs an AK, and picks off the opposing team from well-covered positions.
So we charge the consultant, send him through the legal system, etc. Are we also going to do something to prevent this from happening again, like educating agents not to give out their username/password or allowing the kind of access this guy was able to get?
Well said. Too many PHP apps are developed from the perspective that "Well I wrote the data to look like $X, so it will always come in as $X" - and as someone without any formal CS/programming training beyond an introductory C++ course, I really wish those PHP "experts" would protect against such easy vulnerabilities. Just because your machine makes square pegs, and the hole is square, doesn't mean I'm not going to try to shove a slightly smaller triangular peg in it.
One could argue this either way - I personally find that spelling and grammar are useful when they help us communicate with one another, not useful in and of themselves. Who cares how something "should" be spelled or said/written if no one else knows why?
Idiots, in my book, are those that get too caught up in the semantics of a language to realize what the language is saying. Spelling errors are just fun to pick on.:)
FTW indeed. Couple that with that ridiculous story yesterday about Sony suggesting game prices could go up even further from $59, and you're right on the money (thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week!)
Case in point - me. Last weekend, after contemplating a Xbox 360 purchase for months, I decided instead to just buy an Xbox 360 controller and hook it up to the Mac Mini already sitting next to my HDTV (gaming on a Mac - I know, blasphemy). Add Halo for Mac and some emulators, and I've got a pretty nice retro gaming system. And chances are, there'll be a Wii sitting next to it this time next year. $249 or less for a system, plus free or cheap retro games and one or two new games and I'll probably still spend less than the purchase price of one PS3 - without games, accessories, etc.
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Hmmm...now there's a novel idea. While I never like the idea of "fuel-free" anything (there's always a catch), I could see this working well, especially for stationary applications (floating power plants, floating positioning "satellites" that aren't actually satellites since they aren't in orbit). I wonder though where and at what altitude you'd have to go to get decent return from this.
Yeah maybe I should have called blasphemy on him for implying that Linux and/or Firefox was somehow messed up, let alone doing so on /.
I never thought I'd do OS X, but after years of having "fun" with Windows getting it to work with "supported" hardware and with Linux getting it to work with "unsupported" hardware, it's nice having something that just works. Sure, it's pricey and the eye-candy isn't really adding anything technically, but for all around user experience, it rocks. And as someone very interested in user experience and interface, it's nice to immerse myself in what could arguably be the best (in those regards...I still need a PC for Counter-Strike).
Blasphemy! How dare you insult me with such vile accusations! I challenge you, sir, to a Core Duel! Actually, I'm primarily Mac/Firefox (gave up on Safari - kept slowing down on my PowerBook G4 for some reason, and I don't like that it won't let you style inputs). I do use Mac/Safari, Windows/Firefox, Windows/IE, and others on occasion (or when at work) but just to check CSS quirks.
The biggest problem with my country, India, is that an early warning system won't make much of a difference because there is no way to inform most of the thousands of villages and settlements on the coastlines.
That pretty goes for every country in the 2004 tsunami zone. As others have said, a bit more regional and local cooperation is what is really needed - our (U.S.) best seismologists and such knowing that a tsunami is coming is nice, but for those that don't have CNN/BBC/whatever piped into their homes, the news will be late. Your comment is true, but a little too narrow-focused - and typical of the kinds of challenges faced in these situations.
You'll see, when SkyN^H^H^H^H Google takes over the FAA.
And only on Slashdot could someone make such a worthless comment.
Solar wind, gravitational plots, and air winds all represent very subtle and dynamic forces that can't be directly controlled (unlike aerodynamic forces and engine thrust, for instance). If these guys are able to accurately navigate through winds and do it all more efficiently (and faster, hopefully) than currently available, the navigational community could apply their methods to a lot of different methods of navigation. It's like finding a better turbine blade - jets, powerplants, and watercraft could all benefit.
If you thought I was serious, please know that my favorite television programs are currently "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", "The Colbert Report", "Family Guy", and "South Park"
The point was simply that if people want to blame video games for their effects on children, they should blame everything. As "The Daily Show" pointed out beautifully (and rather sneakily - if you weren't paying attention you missed the PBS watermark on the war footage) in Stewart's recent rant on Congressional hearings over violent video games, watching the news exposes children to more real violence than most video games. What about 30-40 years ago, when American (and other) children had toy guns, little green army men, and stories about the evil communists? That didn't have any effect? Sure, video games may bring things more and more realistically and with more and more user control, but if we go after them, we might as well go after all toys and entertainment (thus the point of my satire...that and the fact that its an election year, so I could totally see someone liking the idea of proposing a bill to tie the punishment for violent games and such to beefing up law enforcement.)
Amusing, but in all seriousness, I'd love to see how well this stuff can plot courses through winds. This kind of thing could also be great for space travel - both for plotting through solar winds and gravitational assists (or both at once). If it's that much better at plotting through winds than whatever else we've had up until now, maybe it's also better than whatever orbital navigation plotting we have rigth now.
Political grandstanding?! In an election year?! My god man!
Think of the Children! (tm)
The sound of a large switch being thrown was overhead near the Mountain View, CA, headquarters of search giant Google this afternoon. A local robed old guy was quoted as saying, "It's as if millions of miles of dark fiber suddenly came online, and then telcos everywhere were suddenly silenced."
"Now if this is overturned, I think you'll see the legislature address it again in the next session," he noted. "We can't legislate morality but certainly we can stop these games from being sold in Louisiana, getting into the hands of our children. It's the least we could do."
I dunno, I kinda agree with them on that one. But I think my version of the law might read a little differently then theirs:
All parents allowing the purchase of video games, movies, or other entertainment devices or media shall be fined an amount no more than $5000 and no less then $1000 per violation, with said fine being used to defray the cost of added law enforcement and criminal court personnel as a result of their inability to parent properly.
This is one of the few posts I would like to see a "+10 Best of Slashdot" for...so long as there's a corresponding "-10 FP!11!".
You better get modded Insightful. This is why FPS tend to be the best online multiplayer games - the game works much better if everyone is working together, laying down cover fire, etc., but if that fails, you can still be the one guy who lets all the noobs be fodder, grabs an AK, and picks off the opposing team from well-covered positions.
So we charge the consultant, send him through the legal system, etc. Are we also going to do something to prevent this from happening again, like educating agents not to give out their username/password or allowing the kind of access this guy was able to get?
You know, after posting, I knew SOMEONE was going to say that...lol
Well said. Too many PHP apps are developed from the perspective that "Well I wrote the data to look like $X, so it will always come in as $X" - and as someone without any formal CS/programming training beyond an introductory C++ course, I really wish those PHP "experts" would protect against such easy vulnerabilities. Just because your machine makes square pegs, and the hole is square, doesn't mean I'm not going to try to shove a slightly smaller triangular peg in it.
One could argue this either way - I personally find that spelling and grammar are useful when they help us communicate with one another, not useful in and of themselves. Who cares how something "should" be spelled or said/written if no one else knows why? Idiots, in my book, are those that get too caught up in the semantics of a language to realize what the language is saying. Spelling errors are just fun to pick on. :)
Did you hear that? It sounded like a Runabout zooming over your head, "Dax"ster.
Had to.
Must have been a slip - that sort of clever humor has no place in /.
I believe you meant the "Actually" and "saddest thing," Mr. Black Pot.
Obi-wan: "Use the force Luke"
Luke: "Really? Cause I was just gonna.."
Obi-wan: "Use..use the force. Just use the force."
Luke: "Well alright."
Lady sitting in chair with lightsaber sticking through her head: "AAAAAHHHHH!"
FTW indeed. Couple that with that ridiculous story yesterday about Sony suggesting game prices could go up even further from $59, and you're right on the money (thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week!)
Case in point - me. Last weekend, after contemplating a Xbox 360 purchase for months, I decided instead to just buy an Xbox 360 controller and hook it up to the Mac Mini already sitting next to my HDTV (gaming on a Mac - I know, blasphemy). Add Halo for Mac and some emulators, and I've got a pretty nice retro gaming system. And chances are, there'll be a Wii sitting next to it this time next year. $249 or less for a system, plus free or cheap retro games and one or two new games and I'll probably still spend less than the purchase price of one PS3 - without games, accessories, etc.
Don't worry, Battlefield 2042 will be out on time, so all hope is not lost for year names.
I tried viewing this comment in IE, and all I got was a "BUZZWORD OVERRUN ERROR"
Well done.
Ruby - Really User-friendly Buzzword Yeah!
I dunno. Maybe that's why so many use redundant acronyms - one less word to think of.