Go to the website. Notice the drawings. Also notice the dimensions 166*133 max. All of the pictures on the website suggest the bottom of the tower (that is above ground) will be smaller. I think this is also hinted at with (max) in the dimensions. Plus the base diameter is 133*100. I still say it will fall down. It doesn't have any good footing.
"You didn't read the article very closely. The developers seem to have considered stability in the face of winds, stating the building will sway up to 8 ft at the top. This is apparently the same as the Empire State Building in New York. That seems stable enough. Additionally, the foundations are designed to stabilize and strengthen the height of the building: they resemble a tree's root system, radiating outwards in a circle, anchoring the structure firmly."
Even a tree gets blown over. A tree also snaps and falls. A lot of weight is going to be near the center of the building because these floors are the biggest. This will add extra weight to the swing. This would vary with the amount of wight on these and upper floors. If I remember my physics correctly (it has been a few years), it would swing faster with more weight in the middle. I don't think the have accounted for all varriables. I think this owuld have been better if it graudually tapered to the top of was the same width at the top. You will not catch me in that tower when it is built.
I don't know how it will stay up under high winds. All the prevous towers, or structures, had a base at ground level that was the size as most of the building gradually get smaller to the top. This doesn't. The widest point is in the middle, and that is in the air! One go Tsunomi(sp?) or Monsun(sp?) season and this tower will fall. They is NO WAY this tower will be stable!
How are the going to build it? Do we(the world in general) have cranes that to reach up to the top? Are they planning on errecting it lieing down and then raising it?
What about water pressure? I wonder how they will handle that? Will they keep a large amount of the water part way up the tower to reduce the pressure need to get the water up the tower?
Why not go with something practical like a VERY BIG pyramid?
I deffinately do not want to be in there when there is a fire.
You are forgetting Magazines, Movies, and TV. These people seem to be singling out games. That doesn't seem fair! Of course, they should also sue themselves because they JUST AS MUCH TO BLAME AS THE KIDS WHO SHOT THE STUDENTS! These parents were obviously not involved enough in their kids lives to notice these teens who showed OBVIOUS igns of problems. They were OBVIOUSLY too busy to demand that the schools and police do somehting about this.
Some parents today are making me sick. I think there should be some rules parents HAVE to AGREE TO FOLLOW BEFORE they have kids!
They even list Linux as an operating system. It has a scaleable hard drive, but the downside is the standard is only 10 GIG.
This would be great for a geek household It wouldn't be hard to setup a cool computer room. It is easy to add new computers to the network, and easy to swap computers! I definately want some!
**Piracy goes up when the cost of a product or service excedes the cost assumed by the consumer to be a reasonable price for that product or service.**
to:
**Piracy goes up when the cost of a product or service excedes the cost assumed by the consumer to be a reasonable price for that product or service, or when the prduct or service is not available in all venues or mediums that the consumer thinks they should be.**
To sum it up, they are not providing the products, and services, that the consumers want on mediums, and venues, at a price that the consumer deems reasonable.
I do not condone or condem the use of these technologies. I do believe in the Fair Use of stuff you already own.
When will these people learn (RIAA & MPAA & Microsoft) that you really need to fight piracy with the cost to the user. Piracy WILL ALWAYS EXIST!
**Piracy goes up when the cost of a product or service excedes the cost assumed by the consumer to be a reasonable price for that product or service.**
Given this, the rise in MP3 File sharing becomes obvious, and the solution becomes even more obvious low the price. If consumers could afford to buy a CD whether or not they like the CD, they would buy them. When the RIAA released there numbers the vast majority of the loss was in singles. Customers wanted to here more songs before they bought and album.
For the MPAA, if they insured that videos could be bought at a decent price and view on all applicable mediums, they will not have to many problem. Right now, DVD is causing problems because Linux users can't view it.
I wish these companies would hire some people with intelligence instead of the greedy, money grubbing people they hire now.
I'd hate to see what it will be like in a few years. I am surprised some angry hacker hasn't tried to erase these data bases. I would think they'd want to do that--at least for "I did it" value.
Not only that, but there is a lot more involved in this. What happens in this particular case will set China's attitude towards the US for atleast the next 4 years (and maybe more).
In the Chinese culture, an appology is equal to assuming fault. If we appologised, we would be say that it was our fault. Well, from the given evidence we KNOW it is not our fault.
With that said, what is wrong with us saying we are sorry (even if it means we will be taking the blame for something we didn't do)? Simple. China will then feel superior to us. They will continue to create "incedents" like this and contually push us. We will be face with have to deal with all these incedents. If we don't appologise and don't take the blame because we KNOW that this is really the fault of a careless, hotshot, communist Chinese pilot, then we will be "drawing a line in the sand" saying, "we will take the blame when it is our fault, but we will not pander to your fantacies of being blameless all the time." When we bombed the embacy by mistake, we took the blame and appologised. That was the right thing to do then.
In retrospec, the Chinese may be demanding an apology this time because we did give them one last time, but this time there is no need for an appology becuase we are not to blame. China is holding our men hostage.
As for the Virtual state, the was never a virtual state. It was the fantacies of people who refused to account for political and religous differences on the internet. If we as a "virtual community" were to avoid talking about these things. a vitual state might be possible.
Again, Jon Katz shows his complete misunderstanding of the situation. China is simple testing where the line is drawn much the same way a child will test their parents to find out where the lines is drawn that will get them in trouble. Simply put, China is feeling out the new administration to determine if they can put Bush on their payroll like they put the Democrats on their payroll in the 1990s.
Yup. It's part of there "we are not a monopoly" face they are trying to wear for the public. That way they can exscuse all of there underhanded tactics.
Don't get me wrong. I know Microsoft "borrows" from other people/companies, but what exactly did Microsoft copy from Mac OSX? Aqua is not as original as Apple would believe. I worked for a company 3 years ago that had published a gui similar to Aqua and it was a year or too old then. Somewhere I still the CBT course that has the gui.
Now when you consider a good part of the OS is just another flavor of UNIX, there is not that much that is original in OSX. Therefore, what can Microsoft copy that Apple has not already copied?
That's just plain wrong! Espcially the part of making of the sterile seeds. This need to be stopped before it becomes to common spread! Think about it. We could end up depending on the companies like we depend on oil. Food prices will sky rocket, and farmers will go out of business faster because people won't be able to buy as much vegtables!
I am all for improving the crops this way--except when it comes to making the seed sterile! That will lead to potential problems in the future. Why don't they work on producing plants that can take root and servive in desert areas. Plants that can help prevent the increasing size of the worlds deserts! Plants that thrive off of the gasses emitted by oil burning products.
I am so sick of these money grubbing companies. Trying get a buck in the short term and screwing us all in the long term.
Not only that, but this has far reaching effects. Think about those farmers that get their seeds naturally. Technically, they'd be illegally growing the crops if the seed came from genetically altered plants they actually paid for origanally. A lot of farmers get the seed from some of their best plants and use the next year!
I don't think plants should be pantentable. That is stupid. Almost as bad as software patents. What's next we have to pay royalties to eat these plants? I say we eliminate all patents! Have truely open and free market! Let the companies compete with their engineers and not with their lawyers picking on farmers and ordinary people.
I know Verizon offers higher DSL speeds, but it costs more. 4.48 to 7Mbps will cost you $189 a month, while 1.6Mbps will cost $100 a month. I think it might have to do with the number of customers. I don't know how populated that area of Canada is, but I would suspect that that might be a reason.
Also, it have to do with the type of DSL offered. Around here most of, if not all of, the DSL providers are providing ADSL.
On the other hand, American companies could just be greedier! We always seem to charge more for more.
Technically very few parts of the body were designed to do many, rapid, pricise movements repetively. You will have problems with the neck and your wrists/hands/arms.
The underlieing technology doesn't seem the complicate. I think I/R triangulation is what they you. I think a glove setup might work better. To press a button you'd just click touch your finger to your palm and the I/R device would be on the top of your hand.
I wouldn't use a search engine that charge. More than likely they'd end up chargign a company some pay per slot fee to allow companies to get better positions in results. Oh course this means all the porn sites will come to the top, and they I'd have to pay to get this?
That is just what we need...computers that use more electricity. California is have power problems as is. How much would this add to there power problems? I would like to see more chips made that are cooler.
Like there has been a lot of real inovation lately? Most of the inovation has been inprovements on existing ideas. This would open up the information allowing more people to hack away at it and somebody might come up with somethign truely inovative.
The adds are not exactly in the way. The adds are at the top of the page, and the adds tend to relate to geeky, Linux, or other stuff most of us like.
I personally wouldn't pay to view news. Let's face it. You'd be paying to here some liberal paint a verbal picture of how they want you to see the world. That's why I look at/. first./. tends to eliminate those articles (usually with the exception of Jon Katz;) ).
I would just find another service. If everybody charged, then I think peope would more often chose to be uniformed. The wide spread information revolution that is happening is a result of the information being free. When people have to pay, they tend to go for only the information they want to know from sources they trust as painting a decent verbal picture for them (regardless of whether or not that picture is complete).
Can't we use this action against them in the Napster case? Especially there petition. Use it to point out that they obviously were wrong about napster?
You forget. A lot of the UNIX world was created by these types (and of course the corporate geeks). They do have a point. What did you use to enter in your respounce? I bet it was a keyboard, and I bet you have a mouse type device too. These technologies are old. Speech recognition technology has been around for about 20 years (or more). I was playing with speech recognition hardware as a kid in the early to mid eighties. We should have better alternatives to inputing our desires into the computer--such as talking to it.
Last I heard the song titles were now in Pig Latin. Unless, CDDB come with filters, especially Pig Latin, I don't see how useful this will be. Plus all of the typos. Then there is all of the possible slang and abbreviated spellings. I don't think this will have a big impact. You might want to brush up on Pig Latin if you want to Napster.
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Go to the website. Notice the drawings. Also notice the dimensions 166*133 max. All of the pictures on the website suggest the bottom of the tower (that is above ground) will be smaller. I think this is also hinted at with (max) in the dimensions. Plus the base diameter is 133*100. I still say it will fall down. It doesn't have any good footing.
"You didn't read the article very closely. The developers seem to have considered stability in the face of winds, stating the building will sway up to 8 ft at the top. This is apparently the same as the Empire State Building in New York. That seems stable enough. Additionally, the foundations are designed to stabilize and strengthen the height of the building: they resemble a tree's root system, radiating outwards in a circle, anchoring the structure firmly."
Even a tree gets blown over. A tree also snaps and falls. A lot of weight is going to be near the center of the building because these floors are the biggest. This will add extra weight to the swing. This would vary with the amount of wight on these and upper floors. If I remember my physics correctly (it has been a few years), it would swing faster with more weight in the middle. I don't think the have accounted for all varriables. I think this owuld have been better if it graudually tapered to the top of was the same width at the top. You will not catch me in that tower when it is built.
I don't know how it will stay up under high winds. All the prevous towers, or structures, had a base at ground level that was the size as most of the building gradually get smaller to the top. This doesn't. The widest point is in the middle, and that is in the air! One go Tsunomi(sp?) or Monsun(sp?) season and this tower will fall. They is NO WAY this tower will be stable!
How are the going to build it? Do we(the world in general) have cranes that to reach up to the top? Are they planning on errecting it lieing down and then raising it?
What about water pressure? I wonder how they will handle that? Will they keep a large amount of the water part way up the tower to reduce the pressure need to get the water up the tower?
Why not go with something practical like a VERY BIG pyramid?
I deffinately do not want to be in there when there is a fire.
You are forgetting Magazines, Movies, and TV. These people seem to be singling out games. That doesn't seem fair! Of course, they should also sue themselves because they JUST AS MUCH TO BLAME AS THE KIDS WHO SHOT THE STUDENTS! These parents were obviously not involved enough in their kids lives to notice these teens who showed OBVIOUS igns of problems. They were OBVIOUSLY too busy to demand that the schools and police do somehting about this.
Some parents today are making me sick. I think there should be some rules parents HAVE to AGREE TO FOLLOW BEFORE they have kids!
They even list Linux as an operating system. It has a scaleable hard drive, but the downside is the standard is only 10 GIG.
This would be great for a geek household It wouldn't be hard to setup a cool computer room. It is easy to add new computers to the network, and easy to swap computers! I definately want some!
Let me rephrase this:
**Piracy goes up when the cost of a product or service excedes the cost assumed by the consumer to be a reasonable price for that product or service.**
to:
**Piracy goes up when the cost of a product or service excedes the cost assumed by the consumer to be a reasonable price for that product or service, or when the prduct or service is not available in all venues or mediums that the consumer thinks they should be.**
To sum it up, they are not providing the products, and services, that the consumers want on mediums, and venues, at a price that the consumer deems reasonable.
I do not condone or condem the use of these technologies. I do believe in the Fair Use of stuff you already own.
When will these people learn (RIAA & MPAA & Microsoft) that you really need to fight piracy with the cost to the user. Piracy WILL ALWAYS EXIST!
**Piracy goes up when the cost of a product or service excedes the cost assumed by the consumer to be a reasonable price for that product or service.**
Given this, the rise in MP3 File sharing becomes obvious, and the solution becomes even more obvious low the price. If consumers could afford to buy a CD whether or not they like the CD, they would buy them. When the RIAA released there numbers the vast majority of the loss was in singles. Customers wanted to here more songs before they bought and album.
For the MPAA, if they insured that videos could be bought at a decent price and view on all applicable mediums, they will not have to many problem. Right now, DVD is causing problems because Linux users can't view it.
I wish these companies would hire some people with intelligence instead of the greedy, money grubbing people they hire now.
I'd hate to see what it will be like in a few years. I am surprised some angry hacker hasn't tried to erase these data bases. I would think they'd want to do that--at least for "I did it" value.
Not only that, but there is a lot more involved in this. What happens in this particular case will set China's attitude towards the US for atleast the next 4 years (and maybe more).
In the Chinese culture, an appology is equal to assuming fault. If we appologised, we would be say that it was our fault. Well, from the given evidence we KNOW it is not our fault.
With that said, what is wrong with us saying we are sorry (even if it means we will be taking the blame for something we didn't do)? Simple. China will then feel superior to us. They will continue to create "incedents" like this and contually push us. We will be face with have to deal with all these incedents. If we don't appologise and don't take the blame because we KNOW that this is really the fault of a careless, hotshot, communist Chinese pilot, then we will be "drawing a line in the sand" saying, "we will take the blame when it is our fault, but we will not pander to your fantacies of being blameless all the time." When we bombed the embacy by mistake, we took the blame and appologised. That was the right thing to do then.
In retrospec, the Chinese may be demanding an apology this time because we did give them one last time, but this time there is no need for an appology becuase we are not to blame. China is holding our men hostage.
As for the Virtual state, the was never a virtual state. It was the fantacies of people who refused to account for political and religous differences on the internet. If we as a "virtual community" were to avoid talking about these things. a vitual state might be possible.
Again, Jon Katz shows his complete misunderstanding of the situation. China is simple testing where the line is drawn much the same way a child will test their parents to find out where the lines is drawn that will get them in trouble. Simply put, China is feeling out the new administration to determine if they can put Bush on their payroll like they put the Democrats on their payroll in the 1990s.
Yup. It's part of there "we are not a monopoly" face they are trying to wear for the public. That way they can exscuse all of there underhanded tactics.
Don't get me wrong. I know Microsoft "borrows" from other people/companies, but what exactly did Microsoft copy from Mac OSX? Aqua is not as original as Apple would believe. I worked for a company 3 years ago that had published a gui similar to Aqua and it was a year or too old then. Somewhere I still the CBT course that has the gui.
Now when you consider a good part of the OS is just another flavor of UNIX, there is not that much that is original in OSX. Therefore, what can Microsoft copy that Apple has not already copied?
That's just plain wrong! Espcially the part of making of the sterile seeds. This need to be stopped before it becomes to common spread! Think about it. We could end up depending on the companies like we depend on oil. Food prices will sky rocket, and farmers will go out of business faster because people won't be able to buy as much vegtables!
I am all for improving the crops this way--except when it comes to making the seed sterile! That will lead to potential problems in the future. Why don't they work on producing plants that can take root and servive in desert areas. Plants that can help prevent the increasing size of the worlds deserts! Plants that thrive off of the gasses emitted by oil burning products.
I am so sick of these money grubbing companies. Trying get a buck in the short term and screwing us all in the long term.
Not only that, but this has far reaching effects. Think about those farmers that get their seeds naturally. Technically, they'd be illegally growing the crops if the seed came from genetically altered plants they actually paid for origanally. A lot of farmers get the seed from some of their best plants and use the next year!
I don't think plants should be pantentable. That is stupid. Almost as bad as software patents. What's next we have to pay royalties to eat these plants? I say we eliminate all patents! Have truely open and free market! Let the companies compete with their engineers and not with their lawyers picking on farmers and ordinary people.
I know Verizon offers higher DSL speeds, but it costs more. 4.48 to 7Mbps will cost you $189 a month, while 1.6Mbps will cost $100 a month. I think it might have to do with the number of customers. I don't know how populated that area of Canada is, but I would suspect that that might be a reason.
Also, it have to do with the type of DSL offered. Around here most of, if not all of, the DSL providers are providing ADSL.
On the other hand, American companies could just be greedier! We always seem to charge more for more.
Technically very few parts of the body were designed to do many, rapid, pricise movements repetively. You will have problems with the neck and your wrists/hands/arms.
The underlieing technology doesn't seem the complicate. I think I/R triangulation is what they you. I think a glove setup might work better. To press a button you'd just click touch your finger to your palm and the I/R device would be on the top of your hand.
I wouldn't use a search engine that charge. More than likely they'd end up chargign a company some pay per slot fee to allow companies to get better positions in results. Oh course this means all the porn sites will come to the top, and they I'd have to pay to get this?
Anybody else notice they said hi to /. readers? I think this might end up hurting our necks or hands.
That is just what we need...computers that use more electricity. California is have power problems as is. How much would this add to there power problems? I would like to see more chips made that are cooler.
Like there has been a lot of real inovation lately? Most of the inovation has been inprovements on existing ideas. This would open up the information allowing more people to hack away at it and somebody might come up with somethign truely inovative.
The adds are not exactly in the way. The adds are at the top of the page, and the adds tend to relate to geeky, Linux, or other stuff most of us like. /. first. /. tends to eliminate those articles (usually with the exception of Jon Katz ;) ).
I personally wouldn't pay to view news. Let's face it. You'd be paying to here some liberal paint a verbal picture of how they want you to see the world. That's why I look at
I would just find another service. If everybody charged, then I think peope would more often chose to be uniformed. The wide spread information revolution that is happening is a result of the information being free. When people have to pay, they tend to go for only the information they want to know from sources they trust as painting a decent verbal picture for them (regardless of whether or not that picture is complete).
Can't we use this action against them in the Napster case? Especially there petition. Use it to point out that they obviously were wrong about napster?
You forget. A lot of the UNIX world was created by these types (and of course the corporate geeks). They do have a point. What did you use to enter in your respounce? I bet it was a keyboard, and I bet you have a mouse type device too. These technologies are old. Speech recognition technology has been around for about 20 years (or more). I was playing with speech recognition hardware as a kid in the early to mid eighties. We should have better alternatives to inputing our desires into the computer--such as talking to it.
Last I heard the song titles were now in Pig Latin. Unless, CDDB come with filters, especially Pig Latin, I don't see how useful this will be. Plus all of the typos. Then there is all of the possible slang and abbreviated spellings. I don't think this will have a big impact. You might want to brush up on Pig Latin if you want to Napster.
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2025: Politicians and Media people are proven to stretch and distort the truth. They are running to 4th world countries that only have basic cable and dial up net access....