There is an Engineering Professor who does online videos of powerpoints. In place of lectures.
They drone on. It's funny, in lecture, he doesn't speak in monotone. In his PowerPoints, he does. Almost impossible to get through.
Toyota has a serious problem. Have for years. It's not the floor mats.
I was driving a '98 Toyota Camry. Foot on the brake. B-R-A-K-E. Yes, I know the difference. Car in drive. Waiting for a right turn. The car revved up high. I did manage to throw it into neutral, and the engine continued to surge. Luckily I didn't hit anything. And it was pure luck.
The car did not have All-weather floor mats.
I have racing experience, and a background in Mechanical Engineering.
The reason the problem hasn't been found is that it's probably a subtle fault (like the AT&T crash back in the early '90s, or the stress concentrations in the DeHavilland Comet) and they're (by they I mean the NHTSA) probably not looking very thoroughly, due to lack of manpower. They don't do investigations of car crashes the way they do for other serious engineering failures, like plane crashes or bridge collapses.
Finally there is the point that a lot of Segway owners are, like the author of this, smug dickheads. They have this attitude of "Oh this thing is so amazing, and I feel so sorry for all you plebs who are uninitiated in to the glory of Segway."
Nail on the head right here. I talked to some guy going around town in one of the "off road" (I laugh too) versions. He was talking about how when gas hits $5 a gallon, I'll get one too, along with everyone else. I was walking at the time. The look on his face, when I said I'd rather invest $20 in shoes than $6000 for a toy was priceless.
Then he went into fits when I said it wasn't as fast or versatile as a bicycle.
They're not even practical for people who have limited mobility, because you can't sit down on them.
I suppose they hand out a questioneer before letting you enter:
1) Are you an agent of a foreign power? (y/n)
2) Are you a terrorist? (y/n)
3) Are you an IAEA inspector (y/n)
4) Did you vote for Jimmy Carter (y/n)
5) Have you ever read any works by Linus Pauling (y/n)
If you resopnded 'Y' to any of the above, please step out of the tour line, and onto the bus for Gitmo. Thank you, and continue to write your congresssman for more WMDs.
Brought to you by the government that used Smallpox to wipe out tens of millions of natives.
They say that was what killed the Atari 2600, and caused the video game crash of '83. The platform was wide open, so too many games came out, flooded the market. None of the games were profitable, due to fierce competition.
Of course, the consumer won out. Games could be had real, real cheap. So when a small Japanese playing card company decided to release their own system a year later, everyone said they were crazy. But, with the lockout chip, they kept most unlicensed games off their Famicom, and almost all of them off the US version, the NES.
"it's really quite simple. You just look for anything that is PGPed. Only criminals would want to hide what they're doing. Give me grant money!"
-Possibly from Dr. Skillicorn. Possibly from Dr. Doom.
The average action movie has something like 20 weeks of preproduction these days. Sci Fi is more (you can't even hope to shoot on location). The script probably has to be tossed. I hated 28 Days Later! Garland is not the best choice to script it, Dan O'Bannon would have been better.
As for the writer's bible, these are fairly common... on TV. The movies are a whole other game.
I also wonder why M$ didn't buy out a small studio, or build one. They could (would) have shot it on spec if they really believed in the project. My guess is that they just want to use this as lead in advertising for Halo 3. They don't expect the movie to do better than break even, if that.
I may be wrong, but I think the Studios are concerned that MicroSoft will leave them high and dry.
Yeah, but there wasn't much homebrew on the PS2, which Sony opened up for home dev witht the linux kit. There may not be a groundswell of support.
Nintendo has a pretty nasty reputation with homebrew games (at least in the US. In Japan, they made a programming kit for the Famicom).
And I've seen some pretty bad bugs in games that were officially signed off on. How many games for the N64 showed clipping errors?
Nintendo is in trouble. Their longtime cash cow, the venerable Game Boy, is going to lose market share to the PSP. If they add the hard drive to the PSP, and bring the price down $100 (or even $50), Sony's going to eat their lunch. Nintendo can't afford the development costs that M$ and Sony can (not that there was much in the way of Development costs for the Xbox). And they really can't afford the same marketing costs. This approach is intended to be a sort of grassroots marketing campaign. And is laughable considering Nintendo is the group that set up this whole proprietary, licensed marketing scheme, and now wants to change course because its been biting them in the heiney.
If they really wanted to reach out to the fans, they should make an add on (or better yet, build in) an adapter for old NES and SNES cartidges. They've been touting the emulators, and a third party sold one for the N64. I HATE having to repurchase games (or any media) that I've already bought, and I'm sure you all do too.
Yeah! Quit whinning Sony. Your *customers* (the guys that fund your takeovers of American movie companies) want to buy a product you're already selling.
And add a hard drive to it too! I don't want to buy those stupid memory sticks you keep pushing!
The price has to go a lot lower than that if they want to undercut M$. My current (windows) system ran less than $350. Granted that was without a monitor, but it included a printer. If they get the price to around $50, it'll be something. But why would I spend $200 on a stripped down system, when I don't have to. M$ has more to fear from Live Linux distros at the moment (Dynebolic rules!).
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There is an Engineering Professor who does online videos of powerpoints. In place of lectures. They drone on. It's funny, in lecture, he doesn't speak in monotone. In his PowerPoints, he does. Almost impossible to get through.
Toyota has a serious problem. Have for years. It's not the floor mats.
I was driving a '98 Toyota Camry. Foot on the brake. B-R-A-K-E. Yes, I know the difference. Car in drive. Waiting for a right turn. The car revved up high. I did manage to throw it into neutral, and the engine continued to surge. Luckily I didn't hit anything. And it was pure luck.
The car did not have All-weather floor mats.
I have racing experience, and a background in Mechanical Engineering.
The reason the problem hasn't been found is that it's probably a subtle fault (like the AT&T crash back in the early '90s, or the stress concentrations in the DeHavilland Comet) and they're (by they I mean the NHTSA) probably not looking very thoroughly, due to lack of manpower. They don't do investigations of car crashes the way they do for other serious engineering failures, like plane crashes or bridge collapses.
Finally there is the point that a lot of Segway owners are, like the author of this, smug dickheads. They have this attitude of "Oh this thing is so amazing, and I feel so sorry for all you plebs who are uninitiated in to the glory of Segway."
Nail on the head right here. I talked to some guy going around town in one of the "off road" (I laugh too) versions. He was talking about how when gas hits $5 a gallon, I'll get one too, along with everyone else. I was walking at the time. The look on his face, when I said I'd rather invest $20 in shoes than $6000 for a toy was priceless. Then he went into fits when I said it wasn't as fast or versatile as a bicycle. They're not even practical for people who have limited mobility, because you can't sit down on them.
This brings back fond memories of Ralston Purnia Chow, Coke Wins, and Yo! Noid. Why bother making games that aren't marketing tie ins?
GPS works well enough in cell phones, inside buildings. Well enough for these purposes.
I suppose they hand out a questioneer before letting you enter:
1) Are you an agent of a foreign power? (y/n)
2) Are you a terrorist? (y/n)
3) Are you an IAEA inspector (y/n)
4) Did you vote for Jimmy Carter (y/n)
5) Have you ever read any works by Linus Pauling (y/n)
If you resopnded 'Y' to any of the above, please step out of the tour line, and onto the bus for Gitmo. Thank you, and continue to write your congresssman for more WMDs.
Brought to you by the government that used Smallpox to wipe out tens of millions of natives.
They say that was what killed the Atari 2600, and caused the video game crash of '83. The platform was wide open, so too many games came out, flooded the market. None of the games were profitable, due to fierce competition.
Of course, the consumer won out. Games could be had real, real cheap. So when a small Japanese playing card company decided to release their own system a year later, everyone said they were crazy. But, with the lockout chip, they kept most unlicensed games off their Famicom, and almost all of them off the US version, the NES.
"it's really quite simple. You just look for anything that is PGPed. Only criminals would want to hide what they're doing. Give me grant money!" -Possibly from Dr. Skillicorn. Possibly from Dr. Doom.
This guy should really try OO2 beta. It is a little more friendly, and works better too.
But then, Office wouldn't really stand a chance, would it?
That's also the irony of the development of Halo 3. The dev kits for the Xbox 360 are (were?) Macs.
The average action movie has something like 20 weeks of preproduction these days. Sci Fi is more (you can't even hope to shoot on location). The script probably has to be tossed. I hated 28 Days Later! Garland is not the best choice to script it, Dan O'Bannon would have been better.
As for the writer's bible, these are fairly common... on TV. The movies are a whole other game.
I also wonder why M$ didn't buy out a small studio, or build one. They could (would) have shot it on spec if they really believed in the project. My guess is that they just want to use this as lead in advertising for Halo 3. They don't expect the movie to do better than break even, if that.
I may be wrong, but I think the Studios are concerned that MicroSoft will leave them high and dry.
There weren't that many games for the Linux PS2 kit. Some cool hacks, but not many games.
Let's hear it for the courts!
Not many times You'll ever be able to say that in your lifetimes.
Yeah, but there wasn't much homebrew on the PS2, which Sony opened up for home dev witht the linux kit. There may not be a groundswell of support.
Nintendo has a pretty nasty reputation with homebrew games (at least in the US. In Japan, they made a programming kit for the Famicom).
And I've seen some pretty bad bugs in games that were officially signed off on. How many games for the N64 showed clipping errors?
Nintendo is in trouble. Their longtime cash cow, the venerable Game Boy, is going to lose market share to the PSP. If they add the hard drive to the PSP, and bring the price down $100 (or even $50), Sony's going to eat their lunch. Nintendo can't afford the development costs that M$ and Sony can (not that there was much in the way of Development costs for the Xbox). And they really can't afford the same marketing costs. This approach is intended to be a sort of grassroots marketing campaign. And is laughable considering Nintendo is the group that set up this whole proprietary, licensed marketing scheme, and now wants to change course because its been biting them in the heiney.
If they really wanted to reach out to the fans, they should make an add on (or better yet, build in) an adapter for old NES and SNES cartidges. They've been touting the emulators, and a third party sold one for the N64. I HATE having to repurchase games (or any media) that I've already bought, and I'm sure you all do too.
Yeah! Quit whinning Sony. Your *customers* (the guys that fund your takeovers of American movie companies) want to buy a product you're already selling.
And add a hard drive to it too! I don't want to buy those stupid memory sticks you keep pushing!
Come on. If the MPAA wasn't supposed to be a conspiritorial monopoly, then there would be laws against conspiracy and monopolies.
You see how your logic falls apart, and they're really "fighting terrorism?"
Why not? I've heard of early radar guns clocking parked cars at 12 MPH.
Seems likely to me that they'd just design them to display anything less than 15 MPH or so as 0.
How do you know they haven't already done so?
Ever seen any "commentators" on Fox News?
I guess they're too busy with their RIAA and MPAA initiatives to worry about attacking open source.
It still doesn't make up for the American SS' behavior in the Hacker Crackdown.
For those of you who don't know about it, check out Bruce Sterling's book. I believe it is still a free download.
I saw a moddified, electric RX7 (first gen) that beat down a Viper in the quarter mile.
The power has already been there for electrics.
The problem has been battery weight.
If it doesn't, then AMD is supporting terrorism.
-Potentially attributable to the RIAA/MPAA
What's there to be pleased about?
The price has to go a lot lower than that if they want to undercut M$. My current (windows) system ran less than $350. Granted that was without a monitor, but it included a printer. If they get the price to around $50, it'll be something. But why would I spend $200 on a stripped down system, when I don't have to. M$ has more to fear from Live Linux distros at the moment (Dynebolic rules!).
"Besides, if we supported our products with our products, nobody would have reason to buy our new products."
Dramatized for your enjoyment.