I agree with the grumbles about mixing vibrations and data. Could/. find any less informative article for us. This thing could be a friggin etch-a-sketch on speed for all the detail in the article.
I don't get to bug a mathematician for another 4 hours, but why are these huge primes of any concern.
ugh, only in math do all the digits count. In all the other fields a few decimal places will do. (unless your atomic modeling, then 10^128 numbers might be usefull). Thats a quick summary of why I suck in calculus, but can apply it perfectly. Give me usable numbers, like Pi to five places. (except in tennesse, where it's sometimes defined as 3)
The shuttles are masterpeices of engineering.... circa 1980. Unfortunatly they invested $$$ in a short production run vehicle that seems to still serve the original purpose. If you were to start building one new replacement it would take a long time and cost big bucks.
If they were to start off with a new design they could apply modern techniques/materials to create a lighter, stronger, more reliable system (i.e. a carbon monocot frame, carbon heat shield skin, computers that have more than 640k of ram, etc)
After working out the kinks on paper they could build a few dozen (price per unit should go down with increased volume) and launch more regularly. But then again, I'm just smoking crack here, NASA will never see that kind of budget again. Unless we can convience the public that Bin Laden is camped out in his secret moonbase.
Since the site went down like a Clinton intern I can't see if it actually works or not. The guy could afford to put together a outfit with a $2000 tablet PC etc but couldn't afford a good hosting service.
When or if I get around to building a HTPC (college student with no parts budget)I want a box with an unfinished aluminum enclosure. That way I can anodize/die the case whatever color I please.
After all the obstructive heads up type units we finall have one with the potential to co-exist with our normal field of vision. The "augmented reality" could give us new ways of seeing the world, with a 3-d overlay on reality. In the article they mention and automotvie expert system which will give the user a visual overlay of the system their looking at.
Also it should give you the ability to use PDA's in a private fashion while still having a large view. In fact, this could redefine the PDA format, instead of the little notepad style device. Just gotta get the production levels up, cost down, so it's more affordable than the $4000 price tag.
Perhaps, Disney and other companies, but on a title by title basis. At $25,000 a pop disney could pay down our debt just covering the stuff from before 1950.
The GWTW estate would have to go suck lemons. Heirs often wind up saying either "hey here's a royalty check for $10, ya know, that book gramps wrote" or they whore out the works, encourage use in school reading list, make horrible remake after horrible remake, etc.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and DiscoveriesAricle I Section 8
I glanced over the wikipedia article on the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, and it looks like Bono were working to protect the hugely profitable characters and works, but without thinking about other works, such as all those crap films that wind up in the $2 bin after two years.
I think that perhaps what is needed is language giving copyrights extensions but with a high fee(much more than the $25 it currently cost to get a copyright), that way items that have been forgotten about or no current holder intrest can pass into public domain.
This isn't fully thought out, but a blanket extension approaching perpetuity should probably be denied by the Supreme Court. Heirs rights are an interesting issue, but corporations can be around forever. Therefore, if you say for the "Authors lifetime" and you define the corporation as the author the copyright WILL NEVER EXPIRE.
This ramble left open for riddiclue, but at least I'm not trying to be funny.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein http://www.quotationspage.com/
It was really an observation that science was coming up with some really scary ideas in the realm of making things that go "BOOM"
When I went to vote in 2000 it was a multi-fold 8.5"x11" (I think) ballot with the names in large type, use a marker to connect an arrow by the candidates name. None of this punch card chadding, miss aliging of marks, or any of the many faults in the butterfly ballot. The only way you could screw that up was to drool until the ink smeared.
Oh my god, did I just figure out the next big problem, drooling idiots shorting out the touch screens.
The dean of the College of engineering at my school does a class on technological literacy in the general population (pet peeve of his). Many people never learn the skills to quickly learn a system./.'ers are the opposite, super literate and techno-savvy to a fault.
Giving a civicly minded old biddy(who probably just wants to gloat in her gossip circles about who didn't show up to vote) a crash course in operating the machines wont make her any better off than the person she's trying to help, except she can say "I know how to do this" even if she can't. (I think I've been reading too much BOFH)
Lightwave got ported, but video toaster never left amiga. Shame, too. Was a great system, relativly inexpensive. But I'd still rather work a Mac media 100 than an WinTel AVID. But since I don't have the $20-40 k to spend, nor the need, I'll stick to what I can find.
I vaguly remember seeing LightWave(maybe 4 or 5) on an alpha box. Then I had to go back to class and use LightWave 2 on an amiga 2000 video toaster. A blazing 16mhz with a whopping 16meg of ram. (~1995-96, high school budget)
I remember asking a computer teacher in middle school why the programs on the Macs wouldn't work on the PC's, and I was just told "Thats the way it is" Here we are, within striking distance of program/platform interoperability and independence.
Just slap your favor flav of linux on whatever system you want, forget Windows, forget MacOS. And forget vendors that wont follow the lead to platform interoperability.
Countries like China and North Korea are not exactly poster children for copyright enforcement. North Korea's economic position is not favorable and that makes it more dangerous. They want the ability to manufacture goods better and cheaper," the security expert said.
I don't see how industrial espionage from the mechanized world is going to help a 4th world nation. Though this does show that when you don't have a culture of innovation you do have one of immitation.
I was beginning to wonder if/. was supporting itself by doing affiliate programs. Though I think us/.'ers pretty much trash anything that comes across.
Oddly enough, Steel with 6.67% bw Carbon is Iron Carbide, a ceramic. According to my material science book, Ceramics are compounds of metallic and nonmetallic elelments. Ionic or Covalent bonds form which are stronger than metallic bonds.
Glass is an amorphous solid, a liquid that is cooled at a rate too high to allow crystals to form. Glass ceramics have a high crystalline component to their microstructure. As a result the hardness of a glass ceramic comes to a higher level.
And yes, I am a Mechanical Engineering student. (Who should be typing a lab report for his material science class right now)
I had to look, just out of curiosity. I have a heavily mod'd host file that keeps 90% of ad-servers off my browser, and the google blocker was sounding like a bag of microwave popcorn. I clicked on one news link and there was a sliver of article and more pops, plus those dammned overlays that keep making me ask why I havn't uninstalled the macromedia plugins.
I think this is the first level headed article on the subject I've come across in a while. By looking at the globe in a widespread fashion they've seen logical causes to CO2 rise.
The article does wrap up with "Based on those two years alone I would say it was too soon to say that a new trend has been established, but it warrants close scrutiny."
I've come to belive in a closed carbon cycle, but the easy "pump and use" nature of fossil fuels make biofuels a hard prospect.
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Shake my data like a british nanny.
/. find any less informative article for us. This thing could be a friggin etch-a-sketch on speed for all the detail in the article.
I agree with the grumbles about mixing vibrations and data. Could
I don't get to bug a mathematician for another 4 hours, but why are these huge primes of any concern.
ugh, only in math do all the digits count. In all the other fields a few decimal places will do. (unless your atomic modeling, then 10^128 numbers might be usefull). Thats a quick summary of why I suck in calculus, but can apply it perfectly. Give me usable numbers, like Pi to five places. (except in tennesse, where it's sometimes defined as 3)
The shuttles are masterpeices of engineering.... circa 1980. Unfortunatly they invested $$$ in a short production run vehicle that seems to still serve the original purpose. If you were to start building one new replacement it would take a long time and cost big bucks.
If they were to start off with a new design they could apply modern techniques/materials to create a lighter, stronger, more reliable system (i.e. a carbon monocot frame, carbon heat shield skin, computers that have more than 640k of ram, etc)
After working out the kinks on paper they could build a few dozen (price per unit should go down with increased volume) and launch more regularly. But then again, I'm just smoking crack here, NASA will never see that kind of budget again. Unless we can convience the public that Bin Laden is camped out in his secret moonbase.
Since the site went down like a Clinton intern I can't see if it actually works or not. The guy could afford to put together a outfit with a $2000 tablet PC etc but couldn't afford a good hosting service.
When or if I get around to building a HTPC (college student with no parts budget)I want a box with an unfinished aluminum enclosure. That way I can anodize/die the case whatever color I please.
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Being that I'm an ME student I could just build such a box from sheet aluminum, and that VFD can be had through the mini-itx comunity. http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=9&cur
After all the obstructive heads up type units we finall have one with the potential to co-exist with our normal field of vision. The "augmented reality" could give us new ways of seeing the world, with a 3-d overlay on reality. In the article they mention and automotvie expert system which will give the user a visual overlay of the system their looking at.
Also it should give you the ability to use PDA's in a private fashion while still having a large view. In fact, this could redefine the PDA format, instead of the little notepad style device. Just gotta get the production levels up, cost down, so it's more affordable than the $4000 price tag.
Perhaps, Disney and other companies, but on a title by title basis. At $25,000 a pop disney could pay down our debt just covering the stuff from before 1950.
The GWTW estate would have to go suck lemons. Heirs often wind up saying either "hey here's a royalty check for $10, ya know, that book gramps wrote" or they whore out the works, encourage use in school reading list, make horrible remake after horrible remake, etc.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries Aricle I Section 8
I glanced over the wikipedia article on the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, and it looks like Bono were working to protect the hugely profitable characters and works, but without thinking about other works, such as all those crap films that wind up in the $2 bin after two years.
I think that perhaps what is needed is language giving copyrights extensions but with a high fee(much more than the $25 it currently cost to get a copyright), that way items that have been forgotten about or no current holder intrest can pass into public domain.
This isn't fully thought out, but a blanket extension approaching perpetuity should probably be denied by the Supreme Court. Heirs rights are an interesting issue, but corporations can be around forever. Therefore, if you say for the "Authors lifetime" and you define the corporation as the author the copyright WILL NEVER EXPIRE. This ramble left open for riddiclue, but at least I'm not trying to be funny.
divide by banana error
reload "UNIVERSE"
RESTART Y/N ?
I think you misquoted old Al.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein http://www.quotationspage.com/
It was really an observation that science was coming up with some really scary ideas in the realm of making things that go "BOOM"
I'm still waiting for the flying toaster.
/. challenge. First one with a working real world flying toaster gets to have his server crashed.
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I had to read down the post before I called this old stuff. Well done, but I think I remember one of these from an RC Modler, early 90's.
That, or americas funniest home videos.
When I went to vote in 2000 it was a multi-fold 8.5"x11" (I think) ballot with the names in large type, use a marker to connect an arrow by the candidates name. None of this punch card chadding, miss aliging of marks, or any of the many faults in the butterfly ballot. The only way you could screw that up was to drool until the ink smeared.
Oh my god, did I just figure out the next big problem, drooling idiots shorting out the touch screens.
The dean of the College of engineering at my school does a class on technological literacy in the general population (pet peeve of his). Many people never learn the skills to quickly learn a system. /.'ers are the opposite, super literate and techno-savvy to a fault.
Giving a civicly minded old biddy(who probably just wants to gloat in her gossip circles about who didn't show up to vote) a crash course in operating the machines wont make her any better off than the person she's trying to help, except she can say "I know how to do this" even if she can't. (I think I've been reading too much BOFH)
This could make the carts a great target. Also, will the bag lady's get wi-fi on these things.
I read the article brief and my mind thought this was a new pen plotter.
Cool stuff, though.
Lightwave got ported, but video toaster never left amiga. Shame, too. Was a great system, relativly inexpensive. But I'd still rather work a Mac media 100 than an WinTel AVID. But since I don't have the $20-40 k to spend, nor the need, I'll stick to what I can find.
I vaguly remember seeing LightWave(maybe 4 or 5) on an alpha box. Then I had to go back to class and use LightWave 2 on an amiga 2000 video toaster. A blazing 16mhz with a whopping 16meg of ram. (~1995-96, high school budget)
I remember asking a computer teacher in middle school why the programs on the Macs wouldn't work on the PC's, and I was just told "Thats the way it is" Here we are, within striking distance of program/platform interoperability and independence.
Just slap your favor flav of linux on whatever system you want, forget Windows, forget MacOS. And forget vendors that wont follow the lead to platform interoperability.
I don't see how industrial espionage from the mechanized world is going to help a 4th world nation. Though this does show that when you don't have a culture of innovation you do have one of immitation.
I was beginning to wonder if /. was supporting itself by doing affiliate programs. Though I think us /.'ers pretty much trash anything that comes across.
Oddly enough, Steel with 6.67% bw Carbon is Iron Carbide, a ceramic. According to my material science book, Ceramics are compounds of metallic and nonmetallic elelments. Ionic or Covalent bonds form which are stronger than metallic bonds.
Glass is an amorphous solid, a liquid that is cooled at a rate too high to allow crystals to form. Glass ceramics have a high crystalline component to their microstructure. As a result the hardness of a glass ceramic comes to a higher level.
And yes, I am a Mechanical Engineering student. (Who should be typing a lab report for his material science class right now)
I had to look, just out of curiosity. I have a heavily mod'd host file that keeps 90% of ad-servers off my browser, and the google blocker was sounding like a bag of microwave popcorn. I clicked on one news link and there was a sliver of article and more pops, plus those dammned overlays that keep making me ask why I havn't uninstalled the macromedia plugins.
Sounds like my mountain bike, except after I've had a can of beans.
I think this is the first level headed article on the subject I've come across in a while. By looking at the globe in a widespread fashion they've seen logical causes to CO2 rise.
The article does wrap up with "Based on those two years alone I would say it was too soon to say that a new trend has been established, but it warrants close scrutiny."
I've come to belive in a closed carbon cycle, but the easy "pump and use" nature of fossil fuels make biofuels a hard prospect.