I'd love to get a camera into an ISP or colo somewhere that you know ahead of time would crumble under severe slashdotting and then record the entire episode from pre-slashdot article posting to post catastrophe. Could be interesting.:)
Yeah, but I don't want to show six minutes worth of data (frames) in twelve minutes. I want to double the data (frames). If the video has had 99 out of every 100 frames deleted, there is nothing that will change that other than returning to the original video that had 100:100 and stripping out fewer frames.
Another cool route would be the one that Russian woman takes through the Chernobyl dead zone. I'd love to see video from the bike of that at semi-high speed.
Hell, just pre-record all the major trips a person could want to make and let peopel download them and watch in real time as they travel those same routes. Beats the hell out of a map!;)
I'd like to see someone do this with a more interesting route (yes, I'm a Portlander). This would be cool for, say, Route 66 - and possibly at 1/50th (or a selection of several speeds/frame rates).
Anyway, it's a pretty cool video and actually something I'd thought about years ago. Glad to see someone else had the same idea.:)
I'm only 27 (soon, at least), but I know plenty of people that make frequent or even weekly trips to the Saturday night RHPS. I love RHPS, but not enough to watch it repeatedly. I went with a girlfriend to a RHPS showing one Saturday night at the Clinton Street Theater and was unimpressed. Just a bunch of unattractive people dressed up like RHPS characters replicating what was being done on the screen. By the time my girlfriend and I left after the movie, she was down to her panties and a bra, but unfortunately there wasn't anyone else there that I'd have wanted to see stripped down to their underwear. Ick.
To each their own, I suppose, but I went once and never felt the need to go back again. It was interesting but been-there-done-that. Give me something new. Maybe people just need an excuse to get together and don't know how to say "hey lets all meet for dinner this weekend".
Then again, I also don't comprehend the fun of cosplay or LARP. And yes, I've attended events for both before solidifying my thoughts on them. It's just really bizarre to see grown adults dressed up like vampires - often half naked - talking about the Prince of Portland and treadore this and that. Or worse, D&D LARP types running around throwing spit wads at each other yelling "LIGHTING BOLT! LIGHTING BOLT!" and thwacking one another with cardboard tubes from rolls of giftwrap shouting "TWO DAMAGE! TWO DAMAGE!".
Look, I liked LOTR as much as the next guy, but I have more important things to do with my time than sit down and watch 6 hours of movies that I've already seen plus 3.5 hours of the 3rd movie all at once. And no, I didn't go to the theaters to see LOTR-3. The first time I saw LOTR-3 was this past weekend on DVD on my 65" widescreen (yes, part of the reason I don't bother with theaters anymore! heh).
It's like Star Wars. I don't quite understand the desire to watch it 500 times. I have watched four of the five StarWars movies in my life time and I know what happens in them. Why would I want to see them a second time? If I'm going to spend another 10 hours in front of the television, it's at least going to be with NEW movies.
Not to be a curmudgeon. I honestly have never understood people who claim to have seen a film 5, 10, 20, 50 times.
One would expect a company could easily design a "feeder" for the shirt press dummy that would let you place each shirt on a hanger (or a modified hanger). You could place multiple in a row and as the machine completed them, it could slip the current one off and back onto the hanger and the next one off from the hanger and back onto the dummy.
Not for the home user, of course - but for the industrial environment. Maybe they already have something like this but I am not at all familiar with dry cleaners.
But you know what? I like working because I like my job and I like my income and I like enjoying my money by doing and buying things that I otherwise would be unable to. I think it's grossly unfair to expect a man to bring home the bacon (as society generally does) but then for the woman he sets-up with to turn around and say that he works too much. Where do you think the money that both people enjoy comes from? It doesn't grow on trees.
We've all heard the stories of women who cheated on their hard working men with greasy mooching losers who have lots of free time because "he doesn't pay enough attention to me and is always working".
I would much rather be well-off (certainly not rich by any means) than poor, regardless of relationship status. Being poor or having a hard time making ends meet doesn't make for enjoyable relationships, even in the best of pairings. Especially if you ever want to have kids and afford to help them with college and give them a decent start in life.
As for hard working - you've got me there. I would like to be more social, but I can't manage to stay away from home (where I work) very long without feeling like I should be getting something done and like I'm wasting time. As it is, I have not left my home (as in, I have literally not gone outside the front door) since Christmas of 2003. I sleep a few feet from my work desk and only nap when I can't possibly keep my eyes open any longer to work.
I know I can't live like this forever, but I'm only in my late 20's. I have another 15 years before I need to worry about settling down, by which time I sure hope to have enough saved up to spend all my time enjoying "life".
But I disagree with the assertion that anyone who is working 60 or 80 hours a week is "marrie to their job". Those are often the hours required to stay employed. There are always other people who are willing to work that much and will happily replace you.
I don't feel sorry that I am consumed by my job at all. I love my job. I'm lucky to have this career and I wake up and get to work every morning with a smile on my face, eager to confront challenges and puzzles and learn. I feel that it's when your job is terrible and you hate it and you don't want to be there but have to (for the money) that you're missing your life.
If someone enjoyed painting and spent most of their time painting, would you say they were wasting their life? What if about actors or authors? It's only a waste if it's not something you like doing. Hell, to me, being a car mechanic seems like a waste of life, to me. But I bet there are thousands of dedicated people who love cars and working on them that live for it.
And maybe I'll meet someone some day that makes me stop and say "I need to work 20 less hours per week so I can spend 20 more hours with them". And when I do, I'll probably know that's the right person.
The people I feel sorry for are those like my younger friends who are in their very early twenties and getting married and have a kid on the way, but have no education, career or money. They may have "love" and spend a lot of time together, but that doesn't make up for the hardships they and their child are going to have and the major relationship troubles that will result from never being able to take care of the bills.
What would really impress me is a washing machine that you could just through your clothes into and it would decide, based on the color and material of your clothing, what temperature and how much water to use as well as how long to run for and how much of what kind of soap to include.
That might only work if you used some sort of modified RFID tag that would transmit the details of the clothing, but it could still be cool.
This is like saying that people who don't upgrade to the newest versions of Microsoft's operating systems are stifling Microsoft's "innovation".
In fact, the reason a lot of us return to older, used or retro games is precisely because of the lack of creativity, originality and evolution in modern games.
Additionally, games are expensive. $50 is more than a handful of books, a couple DVDs or a few CDs. If I'm a young person watching my budget, I'm going to buy used rather than dish out $50 for something that may be buggy, boring or otherwise disapointing. Or, like Far Cry and some other games I've played recently - great but without any player base and (as such) completely useless.
Like any other business, if you want customers to buy your latest and greatest, you need to keep your focus not just on the "latest" part of your development, but the greatest part, too.
I make a good salary with my professional career. I don't need a second high income. I do need someone that can take care of the more domestic side of a household so I'm more likely to marry someone who would want to take on that responsibility than I am to someone who also makes a strong salary and has a professional career which keeps her very busy.
For one, we'd never see each other. And for another, what's chauvenist about each person doing their fair share of things? If one person is working 60 or 80 hours a week to make a six figure salary and the other spends a few hours a day dealing with household endeavors, that seems quite fair and proper to me.
On the other hand, if I find myself with a well-off professional wife, then clearly we could afford to just hire someone to take on our household chores for us.
And for what it's worth, my preference has always been the successful career woman but I've found them quite rare in this city.
if you live on the East Coast or in certain cities on Europe, or especially in Japan, this thing is gonna be worth its weight in gold to someone, most likely a dry-cleaning business.
Which is why I said this "is geared more toward the garment pressing industry than a home-user."
Anything short of a business suit doesn't really need to be pressed and ironed. Just buy wrinkle-free clothing. And you're right about the west coast thing. I've never worn a suit in my life and I can't recall the last time I saw someone in my company wearing one. Even our CEO is usually khaki slacks and a dress shirt or jeans and a sweater. Even when he's on television.
More or less, I'm your average geek. I telecommute, but my state of dress on any given day is not much different than when I worked in an office. That being said, how often do men really need to iron their clothes?
I don't recall ironing a single piece of clothing since my job interview more than four years ago and that is the only time I've used an iron in my twenty-seven years. Hell, I only even own an iron because an ex-girlfriend needed it for her clothes - and I needed it for an upcoming project which including using an applique.
Still, if you're a snazzy dresser and you wear clothing that tends to need ironing and you're a single person, I suppose this is a decent product. Especially if you have the money to burn.
It really seems that this device (which reminds me of those punching-bag exercisers I've seen on television a couple times) is geared more toward the garment pressing industry than a home-user.
Personally, the only robot I'm interested in is a sex-slave android and I don't think we'll be seeing any of those in my lifetime.
This is absolutely true. I have never had problems in my own city or any other that I've been in. The key is to carry yourself with confidence and as if you know where you are, where you are going and own the place you're walking through. Unfortunately, a lot of geeks are more likely to stare at the ground or look unprepared and lacking confidence.
I don't dress to be scary or change my appearance for this reason at all, but I'm sure that my stature has something to do with this. I'm a tall and large person who spent many years training both in wrestling and judo. Based on my size alone, people would probably defer to me rather than confront me - so the effectiveness of the "walk around confidence and like you own everything" might vary from person to person.
I shave my head and have a goatee and usually wear all black. That, combined with my size - I walk down the street and other people excuse themselves from my way. I hope that this isn't out of fear but out of courtesy or respect that being large and confident may get you. When I'm at a bus stop or standing in line someone, I try to appear friendly and offer the occasional small-talk or make frequent eye contact with a pleasant nod or "how's it goin" when I pass people on the street, specifically because I am a bit self-concious about not wanting to come across as unfriendly and imposing to people - even strangers.
As far as knowing your neighborhood... I have no idea where you live, but in my city, you don't really know your neighbors. I have lived in the same apartment complex for five years and I don't know any of my neighbors event hough they're about 18 inches away. Previously, I grew up in this same neighborhood for 20 years in my parents' house and only knew one neighbor out of everyone. I couldn't tell you people's names let alone anything about them. I know some places in this country are still friendly and close-knit, but I've never seen that first hand.
: If you want to have this much worth of equipment, not just in photography but in anything, all you have to do is focus only on that area and find every way possible to become as good at it as you can, and then to improve the field in every creative way you can imagine.
Our many Slashdot trolls have the same work ethic.
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So your third choice should be to get a girlfriend who likes to be tied-up and hitch your ride to her. Then tell here ther'es a Dove bar at the end of the streeet.
This sounds like Galloping Girdy that was in Tacoma Washington. You've seen video of it before (and it's the bridge in Kuro5hin.org's logo). It's the bridge that wobbled in the wind like a long piece of paper and finally collapsed.
Yeah, you're right. I haven't been over it in years but for some reason I remembered it as a suspension bridge. If I recall, Suicide-Bridge is Saint Johns, right?
The Hawthorne bridge is trippy, too. When I was 17, I went down there to watch fireworks with my girlfriend and I had to muster everything I had not to instinctually freeze as I walked and stood over the mesh-steel road beneath my feet. With the river rolling past beneath it really screws with your head and your balance. I couldn't get off that damn bridge quick enough.
I'm a South Easter, but as bad as driving is around here and downtown, nothing in the metro-area beats the crappy driving of the Beaverton area. There's always a handfull of assholes who has to keep going across the intersection even though traffic on the other side isn't moving, so they end up blocking the entire intersection through other people's green lights. Jackasses...
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I'd love to get a camera into an ISP or colo somewhere that you know ahead of time would crumble under severe slashdotting and then record the entire episode from pre-slashdot article posting to post catastrophe. Could be interesting. :)
Yeah, but I don't want to show six minutes worth of data (frames) in twelve minutes. I want to double the data (frames). If the video has had 99 out of every 100 frames deleted, there is nothing that will change that other than returning to the original video that had 100:100 and stripping out fewer frames.
Another cool route would be the one that Russian woman takes through the Chernobyl dead zone. I'd love to see video from the bike of that at semi-high speed.
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Hell, just pre-record all the major trips a person could want to make and let peopel download them and watch in real time as they travel those same routes. Beats the hell out of a map!
I'd like to see someone do this with a more interesting route (yes, I'm a Portlander). This would be cool for, say, Route 66 - and possibly at 1/50th (or a selection of several speeds/frame rates).
:)
Anyway, it's a pretty cool video and actually something I'd thought about years ago. Glad to see someone else had the same idea.
I'm only 27 (soon, at least), but I know plenty of people that make frequent or even weekly trips to the Saturday night RHPS. I love RHPS, but not enough to watch it repeatedly. I went with a girlfriend to a RHPS showing one Saturday night at the Clinton Street Theater and was unimpressed. Just a bunch of unattractive people dressed up like RHPS characters replicating what was being done on the screen. By the time my girlfriend and I left after the movie, she was down to her panties and a bra, but unfortunately there wasn't anyone else there that I'd have wanted to see stripped down to their underwear. Ick.
To each their own, I suppose, but I went once and never felt the need to go back again. It was interesting but been-there-done-that. Give me something new. Maybe people just need an excuse to get together and don't know how to say "hey lets all meet for dinner this weekend".
Then again, I also don't comprehend the fun of cosplay or LARP. And yes, I've attended events for both before solidifying my thoughts on them. It's just really bizarre to see grown adults dressed up like vampires - often half naked - talking about the Prince of Portland and treadore this and that. Or worse, D&D LARP types running around throwing spit wads at each other yelling "LIGHTING BOLT! LIGHTING BOLT!" and thwacking one another with cardboard tubes from rolls of giftwrap shouting "TWO DAMAGE! TWO DAMAGE!".
Look, I liked LOTR as much as the next guy, but I have more important things to do with my time than sit down and watch 6 hours of movies that I've already seen plus 3.5 hours of the 3rd movie all at once. And no, I didn't go to the theaters to see LOTR-3. The first time I saw LOTR-3 was this past weekend on DVD on my 65" widescreen (yes, part of the reason I don't bother with theaters anymore! heh).
It's like Star Wars. I don't quite understand the desire to watch it 500 times. I have watched four of the five StarWars movies in my life time and I know what happens in them. Why would I want to see them a second time? If I'm going to spend another 10 hours in front of the television, it's at least going to be with NEW movies.
Not to be a curmudgeon. I honestly have never understood people who claim to have seen a film 5, 10, 20, 50 times.
Phew. For a moment, I thought they were talking about this Colossus.
An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own
I'm more than happy just using Spamassassin+Procmail. I might try DSPAM out, but not until it's available as a Debian package.
.deb, I'll gladly test that out and see for myself.
I can't imagine it would be more accurate than Spamassassin, but when there's a
One would expect a company could easily design a "feeder" for the shirt press dummy that would let you place each shirt on a hanger (or a modified hanger). You could place multiple in a row and as the machine completed them, it could slip the current one off and back onto the hanger and the next one off from the hanger and back onto the dummy.
Not for the home user, of course - but for the industrial environment. Maybe they already have something like this but I am not at all familiar with dry cleaners.
But you know what? I like working because I like my job and I like my income and I like enjoying my money by doing and buying things that I otherwise would be unable to. I think it's grossly unfair to expect a man to bring home the bacon (as society generally does) but then for the woman he sets-up with to turn around and say that he works too much. Where do you think the money that both people enjoy comes from? It doesn't grow on trees.
We've all heard the stories of women who cheated on their hard working men with greasy mooching losers who have lots of free time because "he doesn't pay enough attention to me and is always working".
I would much rather be well-off (certainly not rich by any means) than poor, regardless of relationship status. Being poor or having a hard time making ends meet doesn't make for enjoyable relationships, even in the best of pairings. Especially if you ever want to have kids and afford to help them with college and give them a decent start in life.
As for hard working - you've got me there. I would like to be more social, but I can't manage to stay away from home (where I work) very long without feeling like I should be getting something done and like I'm wasting time. As it is, I have not left my home (as in, I have literally not gone outside the front door) since Christmas of 2003. I sleep a few feet from my work desk and only nap when I can't possibly keep my eyes open any longer to work.
I know I can't live like this forever, but I'm only in my late 20's. I have another 15 years before I need to worry about settling down, by which time I sure hope to have enough saved up to spend all my time enjoying "life".
But I disagree with the assertion that anyone who is working 60 or 80 hours a week is "marrie to their job". Those are often the hours required to stay employed. There are always other people who are willing to work that much and will happily replace you.
I don't feel sorry that I am consumed by my job at all. I love my job. I'm lucky to have this career and I wake up and get to work every morning with a smile on my face, eager to confront challenges and puzzles and learn. I feel that it's when your job is terrible and you hate it and you don't want to be there but have to (for the money) that you're missing your life.
If someone enjoyed painting and spent most of their time painting, would you say they were wasting their life? What if about actors or authors? It's only a waste if it's not something you like doing. Hell, to me, being a car mechanic seems like a waste of life, to me. But I bet there are thousands of dedicated people who love cars and working on them that live for it.
And maybe I'll meet someone some day that makes me stop and say "I need to work 20 less hours per week so I can spend 20 more hours with them". And when I do, I'll probably know that's the right person.
The people I feel sorry for are those like my younger friends who are in their very early twenties and getting married and have a kid on the way, but have no education, career or money. They may have "love" and spend a lot of time together, but that doesn't make up for the hardships they and their child are going to have and the major relationship troubles that will result from never being able to take care of the bills.
Um... eew?
I'm pretty sure there are some major distinctions between my penis and a cow's teat. At least, I sure as hell hope there are.
What would really impress me is a washing machine that you could just through your clothes into and it would decide, based on the color and material of your clothing, what temperature and how much water to use as well as how long to run for and how much of what kind of soap to include.
That might only work if you used some sort of modified RFID tag that would transmit the details of the clothing, but it could still be cool.
This is like saying that people who don't upgrade to the newest versions of Microsoft's operating systems are stifling Microsoft's "innovation".
In fact, the reason a lot of us return to older, used or retro games is precisely because of the lack of creativity, originality and evolution in modern games.
Additionally, games are expensive. $50 is more than a handful of books, a couple DVDs or a few CDs. If I'm a young person watching my budget, I'm going to buy used rather than dish out $50 for something that may be buggy, boring or otherwise disapointing. Or, like Far Cry and some other games I've played recently - great but without any player base and (as such) completely useless.
Like any other business, if you want customers to buy your latest and greatest, you need to keep your focus not just on the "latest" part of your development, but the greatest part, too.
It would be cheaper just to export the ironing jobs to India. :P
But by that logic, what excludes a regular household iron from being a "robot"?
I make a good salary with my professional career. I don't need a second high income. I do need someone that can take care of the more domestic side of a household so I'm more likely to marry someone who would want to take on that responsibility than I am to someone who also makes a strong salary and has a professional career which keeps her very busy.
For one, we'd never see each other. And for another, what's chauvenist about each person doing their fair share of things? If one person is working 60 or 80 hours a week to make a six figure salary and the other spends a few hours a day dealing with household endeavors, that seems quite fair and proper to me.
On the other hand, if I find myself with a well-off professional wife, then clearly we could afford to just hire someone to take on our household chores for us.
And for what it's worth, my preference has always been the successful career woman but I've found them quite rare in this city.
if you live on the East Coast or in certain cities on Europe, or especially in Japan, this thing is gonna be worth its weight in gold to someone, most likely a dry-cleaning business.
Which is why I said this "is geared more toward the garment pressing industry than a home-user."
Anything short of a business suit doesn't really need to be pressed and ironed. Just buy wrinkle-free clothing. And you're right about the west coast thing. I've never worn a suit in my life and I can't recall the last time I saw someone in my company wearing one. Even our CEO is usually khaki slacks and a dress shirt or jeans and a sweater. Even when he's on television.
More or less, I'm your average geek. I telecommute, but my state of dress on any given day is not much different than when I worked in an office. That being said, how often do men really need to iron their clothes?
I don't recall ironing a single piece of clothing since my job interview more than four years ago and that is the only time I've used an iron in my twenty-seven years. Hell, I only even own an iron because an ex-girlfriend needed it for her clothes - and I needed it for an upcoming project which including using an applique.
Still, if you're a snazzy dresser and you wear clothing that tends to need ironing and you're a single person, I suppose this is a decent product. Especially if you have the money to burn.
It really seems that this device (which reminds me of those punching-bag exercisers I've seen on television a couple times) is geared more toward the garment pressing industry than a home-user.
Personally, the only robot I'm interested in is a sex-slave android and I don't think we'll be seeing any of those in my lifetime.
This is absolutely true. I have never had problems in my own city or any other that I've been in. The key is to carry yourself with confidence and as if you know where you are, where you are going and own the place you're walking through. Unfortunately, a lot of geeks are more likely to stare at the ground or look unprepared and lacking confidence.
I don't dress to be scary or change my appearance for this reason at all, but I'm sure that my stature has something to do with this. I'm a tall and large person who spent many years training both in wrestling and judo. Based on my size alone, people would probably defer to me rather than confront me - so the effectiveness of the "walk around confidence and like you own everything" might vary from person to person.
I shave my head and have a goatee and usually wear all black. That, combined with my size - I walk down the street and other people excuse themselves from my way. I hope that this isn't out of fear but out of courtesy or respect that being large and confident may get you. When I'm at a bus stop or standing in line someone, I try to appear friendly and offer the occasional small-talk or make frequent eye contact with a pleasant nod or "how's it goin" when I pass people on the street, specifically because I am a bit self-concious about not wanting to come across as unfriendly and imposing to people - even strangers.
As far as knowing your neighborhood... I have no idea where you live, but in my city, you don't really know your neighbors. I have lived in the same apartment complex for five years and I don't know any of my neighbors event hough they're about 18 inches away. Previously, I grew up in this same neighborhood for 20 years in my parents' house and only knew one neighbor out of everyone. I couldn't tell you people's names let alone anything about them. I know some places in this country are still friendly and close-knit, but I've never seen that first hand.
: If you want to have this much worth of equipment, not just in photography but in anything, all you have to do is focus only on that area and find every way possible to become as good at it as you can, and then to improve the field in every creative way you can imagine.
Our many Slashdot trolls have the same work ethic.
So your third choice should be to get a girlfriend who likes to be tied-up and hitch your ride to her. Then tell here ther'es a Dove bar at the end of the streeet.
This sounds like Galloping Girdy that was in Tacoma Washington. You've seen video of it before (and it's the bridge in Kuro5hin.org's logo). It's the bridge that wobbled in the wind like a long piece of paper and finally collapsed.
Yeah, you're right. I haven't been over it in years but for some reason I remembered it as a suspension bridge. If I recall, Suicide-Bridge is Saint Johns, right?
The Hawthorne bridge is trippy, too. When I was 17, I went down there to watch fireworks with my girlfriend and I had to muster everything I had not to instinctually freeze as I walked and stood over the mesh-steel road beneath my feet. With the river rolling past beneath it really screws with your head and your balance. I couldn't get off that damn bridge quick enough.
I'm a South Easter, but as bad as driving is around here and downtown, nothing in the metro-area beats the crappy driving of the Beaverton area. There's always a handfull of assholes who has to keep going across the intersection even though traffic on the other side isn't moving, so they end up blocking the entire intersection through other people's green lights. Jackasses...
Hell yeah. Full time listener. Nice to meet you. :)