You do realize you and the GP haven't been married long enough to actually comment right? Your first 10 years are a walk in the park. Tell me how rosey it is after that.
WTF? Get your ass to work and do something to earn the money you want to blow.
Why the hell should any one give you money when the most effort you appear to put into it is asking someone else how to do it on slashdot.
You are part of the problem. You seem to believe you are entitled to other peoples money because you want to start a 'non-profit'.
Heres a hint. A non-profit is still a business just like every other business. You still have to provide something people care enough about to give you money.
Stop expecting people to throw money at you and DO SOMETHING.
Stop blowing your political ideals about software all over it as well. I shouldn't see Linux plastered on both of the links you give. You want to not alienate people, Linux is a good way to do that. GPL scares a lot of people with money, they don't even actually know why, take that crap out and stop making it clear your more concerned with your biased view than accomplishing the goal at hand.
Stop trying to sell your crappy books as some awesome bundle that people will want to buy to donate to your cause. Dude, you've got a grand total of about 15 reviews. You are not popular. People don't care about your books or what you write and they certainly aren't going to donate because some random dude published a book being that anyone can publish a book on Amazon for almost exactly 0 effort and certainly 0 cost.
Looking at your front page... I see a lot of begging 'because I'm going to do something good' but pretty much nothing that tells what you actually do.
In short, its clear you want people to give you free shit, but it is unclear how you are any different than a street begger who just doesn't want to actually work for a living.
WHY SHOULD PEOPLE GIVE YOU ANYTHING?
'Because' isn't an answer. 'I'm going to do 'good' stuff for people' isn't an answer. Have a plan, tell exactly how funding will be spent, then people might listen.
Right now, you're sites just a semi-pretty scam as far as anyone is concerned.
but larger organizations tend to have less overhead and better accountability
What reality do you live in? In my experience that is exactly the opposite of how it works at every organization I've ever seen. Be it an organization of friends, a shoestring non-profit, or too-big-to-fail businesses.
The larger ones may have more paper trails, but that doesn't actually mean ANYONE is accountable, as we can see the world over as big businesses fuck up economies left and right and the only thing that happens to them is... nothing. They don't even get fucking fired for needing the government to save their asses.
50 BJs a day? Thats pretty damn impressive in and of itself. Seems like you could do better in a circus or carnival or something with that kind of speed. Maybe a glory hole at a truck stop?
Observation != reality. Just because you think you understand why somethings happening, doesn't mean you actually do, or that you were actually observing all the inputs, as is the case here where you utterly ignore power, weight, and efficiency and pretend one is far better than any other. Clearly you figured out something that the Wright brothers... and well, every other aeronautical engineer for the past hundred years have utterly failed to grasp... THAT is why you're teacher was sad for you.
You're ignoring energy required and efficiency of flight.
A properly designed wing, using the Bernoulli principle can achieve lift with a negative angle of attack, I have an R/C helicopter with asymmetrical blades that requires negative angle of attack at hover. (It has an extremely high head speed and should be flown with symtrecal blades, its just my biggest most stable, relaxing flying aircraft with asymmetrical blades.
I also have a electric ducted fan jet with 0 incidence (built in angle of attack) that will be happy to fly at high speeds with a zero angle of attack as well.
I have an old trainer that flies visibly nose down when you fly at full throttle and requires constant input to force the aircraft to maintain a nose down orientation to avoid climbing.
None of these things are unique to my aircraft, they are extremely common in the R/C world where your power to weight ratios are ridiculously high.
What you completely ignored is how much energy it took to achieve flight. You'll notice in two of my examples these were extremely high energy aircraft to start with, and the third does it in an state that you generally don't aim for (high speed flight is generally not what trainers are for).
I can fly all of these aircraft inverted, indefinitely as well. For instance, my heli has a maximum positive rotor pitch of 8 degrees, and a maximum negative pitch of -15 degrees. The energy required to beat the air into submission with an inverted asymmetrical airfoil is considerable higher than a symmetrical, and even more so than the same airfoil would require to fly sunny side up.
All of these aircraft are capable of accelerating vertical flight, straight up, until the air gets too then or the batteries die. They have far more power than weight. So does your airplane example.
Now lets see your plank wings perform against a sail plane. A sail plane with a modified washed out asymmetrical airfoil. That means not only does it have a curved top... but the bottom curves upwards as well, matching the top, the curve is up on both sides. ( something like this, http://airfoiltools.com/airfoil/details?airfoil=e377-il however not that thin ), and at the tips, it actually has negative incidence built in to the wing as it is warped going out from the center so that the center has a positive incidence (angle of attack at level flight) but the tips have negative! This is called washout, and it exists because having the wingtips at a lower angle of attack helps prevent tip-stalls when the aircraft departs ( angle of attack so high the aircraft ceases to generate lift and falls from the sky because the AOA is so high it pulls the air apart or doesn't generate enough lift to hold the aircraft in the air... you might know it as 'a stall' ) Because of this design, the sailplane can have nearly an order of magnitude more surface area and lift generation ability than your planks for the same energy input.
What you claim to have done is what everyone does who thinks they know more than the world around them while not actually understanding a damn thing. If there was any teacher crying, it was simply because they had given up on you for being so obtuse and not seeing the forest for the trees. Unless it was the teachers first year, they've dealt with idiots like you in the past. You think you're way smarter than you actually are.
You can find all the required parts by visiting pretty much any website of a large Raspberry Pi dealer (Adafruit, Element14) that has a dedicated RaspPi section and you'll find a list of all the parts, ready made, to be shipped to you to do just this.
Its not like this guy had to even 'find parts'.
And these are cooler (alas, the don't really qualify since they don't have monitors attached):
Coding a video game can still be done by one person, and in fact, good games (smaller) are often led by one developer who is the mass of the project and a few other people helping out.
Keep in mind that iD, Epic and Crytek were all basically started by one guy who made almost all of the engine and game the first time around, then once money came in from smaller successes, they turned into the power houses we see today.
While the Pi can't do what my laptop can, that doesn't mean its not incredibly capable of making a good game.
The PRIMARY ingredient in a good game is GOOD GAME PLAY, not graphics or sound.
It has to be fun first and foremost.
If you watch the recent wayland demo using the VideoCore properly, you'll see that while its just a dinky, old ARM core, the GPU core is FAR FAR FAR more powerful. The original purpose of this chip was more of a video card type of thing than general purpose processing and video output. Its meant to power pretty displays more than it is made to run a general purpose OS doing general purpose things. The Raspberry Pi's use case is a lot different than what the chip was designed for, so don't under-estimate the available processing power and capabilities, we've not seen what this chip is truely capable of yet. I expect to see the same sort of impressively cool hacks on the RPi as were done on the C64 and Amiga to get unexpectedly impressive output.
No, I won't hold the bus, you're an ignorant douche clouded by being a rabid fanboy. Its clearly just me who feels this way since... this is the very first time anyone has pointed this on slashdot... Okay, its the first time on this particular thread? The warping of the word 'Open' by RMS cultists isn't exactly a new debate on slashdot, yet here you are trying to pretend I'm the only one who says such radical things!
I support Apple, BSD, Linux, and Windows, I do say it proudly, so go fuck yourself. I'm not a fanboy. I support the best tool for the job. You're just a zealot too stupid to know when your favorite tool sucks for the purpose at hand.
RMS is a rather well known douche to everyone outside the GPL zealots fan club, you have to be pretty oblivious to the world not not recognize that you're either part of his worshippers or likely don't find him the least bit impressive.
'Your Cook'? Seriously? He's not 'My Cook'. He's just a guy who runs a company. I don't give a shit about him, YOU DO.
I don't attack RMS for his accomplishments, which are many. I attack RMS for being a douche who does far more damage than good because he has this hippie commune fantasy about how the worlds politics should be and if you disagree with him, you're an evil bastard. Good, he's consistently a douche, that doesn't change anything. He's likes to think he's got the power over the world that Steve Jobs or Bill Gates had, but he doesn't, he's not anywhere even close.
Everything he has written is being or had been replaced by an alternative without his political looney bin ideas, what does that tell you? So he started GCC, big whoop. It was never 'good'. It has always been just 'better than nothing'. I've written a compiler or two myself, but I didn't pretend that was impressive. Incase you haven't noticed, GCC is a big example of how to do it wrong in the open source world right now. Its big, bloated, a pile of crap and its management has its head so far up its ass the rest of the open source world and computer world in general has put their full might in creating a new compiler JUST to get away from his crap.
GPL has its place, but its not like it wouldn't have existed without him. Its not like he was the creator of an original idea that no one had thought of before, copyleft wasn't new when GPL came into existence, just the new name for it.
And lets get one thing clear, without Linus and Linux, you wouldn't even have any clue who RMS was. And if you pay close attention, the Linux that is ruling the world, isn't based on RMS's work EITHER.
Again, Open was a word being used for something different than your or the previous posters skewed little perspectives for longer than any of this stuff you rant on about even existed.
People like you give open source a bad name due to your ignorance and zealotry.
And yes, this is intended to make all you fanboys lose your shit and rant off about how wrong I am, all the while proving my point for me. So please, go ahead and respond...
Is 10 years supposed to be a long time? I've come close to having uptime longer than that. You're lack of experience shows in your comment.
Well, not really, you're just making shit up, this very discussion has come up on slashdot thousands of times, so if you haven't seen it before, you've really got no business posting on slashdot, anonymous or not, its like a weekly flame war.
Sign the right NDA and most of what you are missing becomes available.
Open does not mean what you think it does. The cult of RMS thinks open means you give away house and everything in it.
The rest of us consider open to be fair and non-discriminatory terms, as we have for longer than you, RMS, GPL or the entire Loony libre movement has been alive.
If I'm looking for things and have 50+ tabs open and youtube etc back and forth without closing it(normal use case for me)
So its an ID10-T error then, is it? 50 tabs open? Seriously? You do realize your nearly an order of magnitude beyond what your mind can analyze on the fly right? Just counting tabs names, not even the content, you're already well past the point of information falling out one side of your head while you're cramming it in the other.
vSphere has some great features, but that doesn't protect you from human error.
Just because you configure vSphere to properly throttle the playground doesn't mean someone can't easily come along and modify that resource in a horrible way.
Seriously? When you start with NetBeans as your base platform, you've already got a word processor built in. You've already done most of the work, for the presentation and spreadsheet apps as well, controls built in for displaying database data.
Seriously, you're building word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation apps on... a word processing, spreadsheet capable database app. It probably does presentations too.
Linux gaming at best follows way behind Mac gaming, and that is only because porting to OSX from Windows means you've done a lot of the work. The only remaining work to do to go to linux is figure out which abstract set of libraries you need to use in order to get the basics of sound, video and input.
Surprisingly, I've found dealing with the 18 different ways to do everything in Linux to be the hardest part of the porting process.
Either way, you're still far behind 2nd place. Linux has always had 'games' by this standard, some of them rather good. Currently Steam doesn't do anything to really change Linux gaming. I think it will long term possibly have an effect, especially if Valve goes Linux Console with it, but right now, Steam on Linux is an academic exercise, nothing more.
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You do realize you and the GP haven't been married long enough to actually comment right? Your first 10 years are a walk in the park. Tell me how rosey it is after that.
'bots' ... you know, software robots have been around as long as I've been doing computer related crap ... so what, 30 years?
God, you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near slashdot without knowing what at least freaking eggdrop is.
The brushes will look the same as they did the first day it was used ... non-existent.
Unless you need variable speed, brushes are not required in AC motor designs. A fridge generally doesn't use variable speed.
If I wanted a good beer, I certainly wouldn't drink something from Australia would I?
WTF? Get your ass to work and do something to earn the money you want to blow.
Why the hell should any one give you money when the most effort you appear to put into it is asking someone else how to do it on slashdot.
You are part of the problem. You seem to believe you are entitled to other peoples money because you want to start a 'non-profit'.
Heres a hint. A non-profit is still a business just like every other business. You still have to provide something people care enough about to give you money.
Stop expecting people to throw money at you and DO SOMETHING.
Stop blowing your political ideals about software all over it as well. I shouldn't see Linux plastered on both of the links you give. You want to not alienate people, Linux is a good way to do that. GPL scares a lot of people with money, they don't even actually know why, take that crap out and stop making it clear your more concerned with your biased view than accomplishing the goal at hand.
Stop trying to sell your crappy books as some awesome bundle that people will want to buy to donate to your cause. Dude, you've got a grand total of about 15 reviews. You are not popular. People don't care about your books or what you write and they certainly aren't going to donate because some random dude published a book being that anyone can publish a book on Amazon for almost exactly 0 effort and certainly 0 cost.
Looking at your front page ... I see a lot of begging 'because I'm going to do something good' but pretty much nothing that tells what you actually do.
In short, its clear you want people to give you free shit, but it is unclear how you are any different than a street begger who just doesn't want to actually work for a living.
WHY SHOULD PEOPLE GIVE YOU ANYTHING?
'Because' isn't an answer. 'I'm going to do 'good' stuff for people' isn't an answer. Have a plan, tell exactly how funding will be spent, then people might listen.
Right now, you're sites just a semi-pretty scam as far as anyone is concerned.
but larger organizations tend to have less overhead and better accountability
What reality do you live in? In my experience that is exactly the opposite of how it works at every organization I've ever seen. Be it an organization of friends, a shoestring non-profit, or too-big-to-fail businesses.
The larger ones may have more paper trails, but that doesn't actually mean ANYONE is accountable, as we can see the world over as big businesses fuck up economies left and right and the only thing that happens to them is ... nothing. They don't even get fucking fired for needing the government to save their asses.
50 BJs a day? Thats pretty damn impressive in and of itself. Seems like you could do better in a circus or carnival or something with that kind of speed. Maybe a glory hole at a truck stop?
Observation != reality. Just because you think you understand why somethings happening, doesn't mean you actually do, or that you were actually observing all the inputs, as is the case here where you utterly ignore power, weight, and efficiency and pretend one is far better than any other. Clearly you figured out something that the Wright brothers ... and well, every other aeronautical engineer for the past hundred years have utterly failed to grasp ... THAT is why you're teacher was sad for you.
You're ignoring energy required and efficiency of flight.
A properly designed wing, using the Bernoulli principle can achieve lift with a negative angle of attack, I have an R/C helicopter with asymmetrical blades that requires negative angle of attack at hover. (It has an extremely high head speed and should be flown with symtrecal blades, its just my biggest most stable, relaxing flying aircraft with asymmetrical blades.
I also have a electric ducted fan jet with 0 incidence (built in angle of attack) that will be happy to fly at high speeds with a zero angle of attack as well.
I have an old trainer that flies visibly nose down when you fly at full throttle and requires constant input to force the aircraft to maintain a nose down orientation to avoid climbing.
None of these things are unique to my aircraft, they are extremely common in the R/C world where your power to weight ratios are ridiculously high.
What you completely ignored is how much energy it took to achieve flight. You'll notice in two of my examples these were extremely high energy aircraft to start with, and the third does it in an state that you generally don't aim for (high speed flight is generally not what trainers are for).
I can fly all of these aircraft inverted, indefinitely as well. For instance, my heli has a maximum positive rotor pitch of 8 degrees, and a maximum negative pitch of -15 degrees. The energy required to beat the air into submission with an inverted asymmetrical airfoil is considerable higher than a symmetrical, and even more so than the same airfoil would require to fly sunny side up.
All of these aircraft are capable of accelerating vertical flight, straight up, until the air gets too then or the batteries die. They have far more power than weight. So does your airplane example.
Now lets see your plank wings perform against a sail plane. A sail plane with a modified washed out asymmetrical airfoil. That means not only does it have a curved top ... but the bottom curves upwards as well, matching the top, the curve is up on both sides. ( something like this, http://airfoiltools.com/airfoil/details?airfoil=e377-il however not that thin ), and at the tips, it actually has negative incidence built in to the wing as it is warped going out from the center so that the center has a positive incidence (angle of attack at level flight) but the tips have negative! This is called washout, and it exists because having the wingtips at a lower angle of attack helps prevent tip-stalls when the aircraft departs ( angle of attack so high the aircraft ceases to generate lift and falls from the sky because the AOA is so high it pulls the air apart or doesn't generate enough lift to hold the aircraft in the air ... you might know it as 'a stall' ) Because of this design, the sailplane can have nearly an order of magnitude more surface area and lift generation ability than your planks for the same energy input.
What you claim to have done is what everyone does who thinks they know more than the world around them while not actually understanding a damn thing. If there was any teacher crying, it was simply because they had given up on you for being so obtuse and not seeing the forest for the trees. Unless it was the teachers first year, they've dealt with idiots like you in the past. You think you're way smarter than you actually are.
Jibbing/tacking is not traveling 'directly downwind' by definition, which you illustrated your self
Directly downwind at the speed of the wind has zero potential energy.
Tacking is not traveling directly downwind.
This should be on slashdot because ...
If you were smart, you'd just get any one of the VESA mount Raspberry Pi cases and mount the pie on the monitor
Oh, and in a 10 second Google search, here are a few that do the same thing but you know, a long time ago.
http://blog.parts-people.com/2012/12/20/mobile-raspberry-pi-computer-build-your-own-portable-rpi-to-go/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1952418207/all-in-one-raspberry-pi-case
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/05/17/raspberry-pi-in-oak-case-with-monitor-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/
You can find all the required parts by visiting pretty much any website of a large Raspberry Pi dealer (Adafruit, Element14) that has a dedicated RaspPi section and you'll find a list of all the parts, ready made, to be shipped to you to do just this.
Its not like this guy had to even 'find parts'.
And these are cooler (alas, the don't really qualify since they don't have monitors attached):
http://supernintendopi.wordpress.com/
http://raspi64.blogspot.com/2013/03/all-buttoned-up.html
If this kind of crap post belongs on slashdot, so does everytime I take a shit, as its equally as impressive and as rare of an accomplishment.
Coding a video game can still be done by one person, and in fact, good games (smaller) are often led by one developer who is the mass of the project and a few other people helping out.
Keep in mind that iD, Epic and Crytek were all basically started by one guy who made almost all of the engine and game the first time around, then once money came in from smaller successes, they turned into the power houses we see today.
While the Pi can't do what my laptop can, that doesn't mean its not incredibly capable of making a good game.
The PRIMARY ingredient in a good game is GOOD GAME PLAY, not graphics or sound.
It has to be fun first and foremost.
If you watch the recent wayland demo using the VideoCore properly, you'll see that while its just a dinky, old ARM core, the GPU core is FAR FAR FAR more powerful. The original purpose of this chip was more of a video card type of thing than general purpose processing and video output. Its meant to power pretty displays more than it is made to run a general purpose OS doing general purpose things. The Raspberry Pi's use case is a lot different than what the chip was designed for, so don't under-estimate the available processing power and capabilities, we've not seen what this chip is truely capable of yet. I expect to see the same sort of impressively cool hacks on the RPi as were done on the C64 and Amiga to get unexpectedly impressive output.
No, I won't hold the bus, you're an ignorant douche clouded by being a rabid fanboy. Its clearly just me who feels this way since ... this is the very first time anyone has pointed this on slashdot ... Okay, its the first time on this particular thread? The warping of the word 'Open' by RMS cultists isn't exactly a new debate on slashdot, yet here you are trying to pretend I'm the only one who says such radical things!
I support Apple, BSD, Linux, and Windows, I do say it proudly, so go fuck yourself. I'm not a fanboy. I support the best tool for the job. You're just a zealot too stupid to know when your favorite tool sucks for the purpose at hand.
RMS is a rather well known douche to everyone outside the GPL zealots fan club, you have to be pretty oblivious to the world not not recognize that you're either part of his worshippers or likely don't find him the least bit impressive.
'Your Cook'? Seriously? He's not 'My Cook'. He's just a guy who runs a company. I don't give a shit about him, YOU DO.
I don't attack RMS for his accomplishments, which are many. I attack RMS for being a douche who does far more damage than good because he has this hippie commune fantasy about how the worlds politics should be and if you disagree with him, you're an evil bastard. Good, he's consistently a douche, that doesn't change anything. He's likes to think he's got the power over the world that Steve Jobs or Bill Gates had, but he doesn't, he's not anywhere even close.
Everything he has written is being or had been replaced by an alternative without his political looney bin ideas, what does that tell you? So he started GCC, big whoop. It was never 'good'. It has always been just 'better than nothing'. I've written a compiler or two myself, but I didn't pretend that was impressive. Incase you haven't noticed, GCC is a big example of how to do it wrong in the open source world right now. Its big, bloated, a pile of crap and its management has its head so far up its ass the rest of the open source world and computer world in general has put their full might in creating a new compiler JUST to get away from his crap.
GPL has its place, but its not like it wouldn't have existed without him. Its not like he was the creator of an original idea that no one had thought of before, copyleft wasn't new when GPL came into existence, just the new name for it.
And lets get one thing clear, without Linus and Linux, you wouldn't even have any clue who RMS was. And if you pay close attention, the Linux that is ruling the world, isn't based on RMS's work EITHER.
Again, Open was a word being used for something different than your or the previous posters skewed little perspectives for longer than any of this stuff you rant on about even existed.
People like you give open source a bad name due to your ignorance and zealotry.
And yes, this is intended to make all you fanboys lose your shit and rant off about how wrong I am, all the while proving my point for me. So please, go ahead and respond ...
Is 10 years supposed to be a long time? I've come close to having uptime longer than that. You're lack of experience shows in your comment.
Well, not really, you're just making shit up, this very discussion has come up on slashdot thousands of times, so if you haven't seen it before, you've really got no business posting on slashdot, anonymous or not, its like a weekly flame war.
Sign the right NDA and most of what you are missing becomes available.
Open does not mean what you think it does. The cult of RMS thinks open means you give away house and everything in it.
The rest of us consider open to be fair and non-discriminatory terms, as we have for longer than you, RMS, GPL or the entire Loony libre movement has been alive.
Isn't that, by definition, what they are supposed to do?
They take in one type of currency and give you back a different set of currency.
I bet every TV, monitor, PC and portable device (smartphone/tablet) you own has several foxconn components in it.
You more or less can't buy a PC motherboard without Foxconn components.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
If I'm looking for things and have 50+ tabs open and youtube etc back and forth without closing it(normal use case for me)
So its an ID10-T error then, is it? 50 tabs open? Seriously? You do realize your nearly an order of magnitude beyond what your mind can analyze on the fly right? Just counting tabs names, not even the content, you're already well past the point of information falling out one side of your head while you're cramming it in the other.
Except it won't be better, because the next patch will make it buggy, slow and crash more often than you load a web page.
Being open source doesn't mean its not crap, you really should open your eyes.
vSphere has some great features, but that doesn't protect you from human error.
Just because you configure vSphere to properly throttle the playground doesn't mean someone can't easily come along and modify that resource in a horrible way.
Moving Windows machines around different Hypervisors is generally non-trivial.
An open standard does not mean it is a no cost standard. Just because RMS. has. Mad you a freetard doesn't mean you get to redefine the language.
Seriously? When you start with NetBeans as your base platform, you've already got a word processor built in. You've already done most of the work, for the presentation and spreadsheet apps as well, controls built in for displaying database data.
Seriously, you're building word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation apps on ... a word processing, spreadsheet capable database app. It probably does presentations too.
Guess what I can do! In 20 minutes I can make a complete IDE. I'll just start off with NetBeans RCP! https://netbeans.org/features/platform/
Steam is just a launcher. Launching a game from steam is really no different than running a command line on clicking an icon on your desktop.
Some games can be launched directly, without Steam running, if they don't need to talk to the steam client to validate their DRM.
Linux gaming at best follows way behind Mac gaming, and that is only because porting to OSX from Windows means you've done a lot of the work. The only remaining work to do to go to linux is figure out which abstract set of libraries you need to use in order to get the basics of sound, video and input.
Surprisingly, I've found dealing with the 18 different ways to do everything in Linux to be the hardest part of the porting process.
Either way, you're still far behind 2nd place. Linux has always had 'games' by this standard, some of them rather good. Currently Steam doesn't do anything to really change Linux gaming. I think it will long term possibly have an effect, especially if Valve goes Linux Console with it, but right now, Steam on Linux is an academic exercise, nothing more.