It could be used as a buffer for an inconsistent high spiking energy source. Push this further along, with enough of these distributed correctly, they might be able to absorb quite a bit of the energy of say lightning. Or some other high impact energy source.
To be spammed, or not to be spammed: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The promises of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of spam,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The spam and the thousand unnatural emails
That promise is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what spam may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The spammers, that's who. The spammers.
At least animal rights activists must be happy. Then again don't they fight for the animals right to say no? Unless of course you give them a glass of wine, then this mixing of cells will be unavoidable given the natural love between human and animal within certain southern states.
I like bittorrent and all but I don't see this being a real headache for MPAA as there isn't any kind of centralized database where one can search all published torrents. True there are sites like suprnova and such, but that isn't a reflection of all torrents.
Also what's the point of sharing twenty slightly, if that, different files instead of just one common file. Plus there needs to be more privacy, while also making leaches more accountable by having internal tracking of up/down ratio for all shared files. So that one who shares more will get priority when they download anything. Instead of merely tracking the bandwidth of one file, track the up/down bandwidth for all files of that user.
It seems so murky now, but is it true? NIKKO, the leader of the flying monkeys stirring up trouble again. How does one get a flying monkey off your back? Maybe if you throw some water on him he will melt.
What is the point of paying this much for such an mundane object like a universal remote. Has society become so lazy that even several specific remotes is too much a hassle? Control that fan, control that ac, control that tv, control that toilet. Remotely controlling anything is a good thing? Just one more thing so we can sit on our big fat nerd ass. Now that is insane.
Setting up an offshore account where the MsnTv users could dial in and still have internet access. And charge by the minute($26). Thus the user would know nothing and continue using the MsnTv until their phone company smacked them with a large ass bill at the end of the month.
A month into the model-making, the peanut emerged. "The shape is comfortable in your hand," Mr. Newby said. "It's friendly and disarming. It's designed for simplicity, and it stands apart from the crowd of remotes on the coffee table."
The next challenge was to fend off an attack of buttonitis.
"Buttons proliferate on remotes like rabbits," Mr. Newby said, adding that he and his designers, who ranged in age from 25 to 45, had "bloody battles" over which ones to include. They managed to hold the number at 30, a considerable achievement given how many functions the TiVo receiver performs. Color, too, was a well-trampled subject. "Color is this very emotional thing," Mr. Newby said. Determined to come up with shades that the designers considered "warmer" than standard-issue black, they chose dark cherry as the base color, with light gray keys for contrast.
To avoid a look that was too bright and toylike, he said, all of the colors ultimately got "dusted down a notch." The pause button, for example, is a subtle yellow-orange.
Then came the feel of the buttons, for which they chose a smooth, pliable rubber. Mr. Newby likened the feel of hitting the buttons to that of playing a piano. When a button is pushed, the user feels a slight snap, signaling that the key has traveled far enough to achieve electrical contact.
"These are the devilish details that often get overlooked," he said.
In the middle of the design process, Mr. Newby turned to non-engineers on the TiVo staff for feedback. This helped the designers refine the size and shape of the keys and the amount of space between them.
By September 1998, 11 weeks into the process, Mr. Newby and his team had completed the first few hand-built functional remotes. Then came a quick tooling cycle so TiVo could distribute the remotes to beta testers, consisting of technologically inexperienced friends and relatives of employees. The testers' feedback prompted the TiVo designers to reduce the time lapse between pressing a button and seeing the command executed on the screen.
The same group helped the designers fine-tune the dimensions of the remote to maximize the comfort level. Mr. Newby said the testers also advised the designers on where to put the battery compartment so that the device would balance nicely in the hand.
Other refinements followed, and by the time the first TiVo box was shipped to stores in March 1999, the remote was being produced in high volume.
The base color of the remote has since been changed to a dark gray to match TiVo's Series 2 receiver, with buttons of much lighter gray for contrast. And the number of buttons crept up to 34.
But the look and feel of the original TiVo remote as it emerged from the design team's sketchbooks and modeling labs has survived, which is no coincidence. "We wanted to create an iconic shape that would stick," said Dennis Boyle, a team leader at Ideo, a design firm in Palo Alto, Calif., that lent its expertise early in the process.
TiVo holds four design patents on the remote's basic shape and key layout. Third-party companies that sell receivers with TiVo built in, like the satellite television provider DirecTV, supply customers with a 36-button remote that is almost identical to the one sold with TiVo boxes.
The TiVo remote has many fans. One TiVo aficionado, Pat Hughes, a software engineer in San Jose, Calif., dressed up his two-month-old daughter as the remote for Halloween in 2002. The costume, which took a week to make, was a painstakingly exact replica, complete with battery compartment in the back. "That's where she went in," he said.
Mr. Hughes ranks his TiVo remote among the most important objects in his house because of the amount of time the device spends in his hand. "I don't think that you reach that level of simple elegance by accident,'' he said. "It's designed the way remotes should be designed."
Yet even some people who admire the remote say it has room for improvement.
I can see it now. Rob Malda aka. "CmdrTaco" infiltrates the dreams of millions, causing a Slashdot effect upon countless idiots. On a brighter note, CmdrTaco is now your overlord.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly what I was thinking. I was like, dude I wonder how much space crack goes for.
It could be used as a buffer for an inconsistent high spiking energy source. Push this further along, with enough of these distributed correctly, they might be able to absorb quite a bit of the energy of say lightning. Or some other high impact energy source.
Or you could like not..
I was like, Wil Wheaton to Write/Direct Wonder Woman.. Okay. Hmm, okay.
Thanks, it looks awesome. I can just imagine what it would look like while hovering over the images.
Is there a screen shot of the screen shot?
Jokes on you, his post was a parody..
To be spammed, or not to be spammed: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The promises of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of spam, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The spam and the thousand unnatural emails That promise is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what spam may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The spammers, that's who. The spammers.
At least animal rights activists must be happy. Then again don't they fight for the animals right to say no? Unless of course you give them a glass of wine, then this mixing of cells will be unavoidable given the natural love between human and animal within certain southern states.
So that's what the other hand is for..
Don't misread like I did. I was like, what the hell was Einstein doing with email..
I know.. Lets try this with a regular cd/dvd, better yet make it dual sided. Hey, at least that coaster will look pretty.
Shh, in my fantasy it's called Enterprise.
It actually runs on the pent up sexual angst of slashdot users.
I like bittorrent and all but I don't see this being a real headache for MPAA as there isn't any kind of centralized database where one can search all published torrents. True there are sites like suprnova and such, but that isn't a reflection of all torrents.
Also what's the point of sharing twenty slightly, if that, different files instead of just one common file. Plus there needs to be more privacy, while also making leaches more accountable by having internal tracking of up/down ratio for all shared files. So that one who shares more will get priority when they download anything. Instead of merely tracking the bandwidth of one file, track the up/down bandwidth for all files of that user.
What about people who are ambidextrous?
I'm not talking about the entire ocean, but the immediate surroundings or rather the water they test.
Isn't it possible that the mere presence of the robots may taint the results?
Is this anything at all like flats?
It seems so murky now, but is it true? NIKKO, the leader of the flying monkeys stirring up trouble again. How does one get a flying monkey off your back? Maybe if you throw some water on him he will melt.
What is the point of paying this much for such an mundane object like a universal remote. Has society become so lazy that even several specific remotes is too much a hassle? Control that fan, control that ac, control that tv, control that toilet. Remotely controlling anything is a good thing? Just one more thing so we can sit on our big fat nerd ass. Now that is insane.
Just imagine if he had taken another route.
Setting up an offshore account where the MsnTv users could dial in and still have internet access. And charge by the minute($26). Thus the user would know nothing and continue using the MsnTv until their phone company smacked them with a large ass bill at the end of the month.
A month into the model-making, the peanut emerged. "The shape is comfortable in your hand," Mr. Newby said. "It's friendly and disarming. It's designed for simplicity, and it stands apart from the crowd of remotes on the coffee table."
The next challenge was to fend off an attack of buttonitis.
"Buttons proliferate on remotes like rabbits," Mr. Newby said, adding that he and his designers, who ranged in age from 25 to 45, had "bloody battles" over which ones to include. They managed to hold the number at 30, a considerable achievement given how many functions the TiVo receiver performs. Color, too, was a well-trampled subject. "Color is this very emotional thing," Mr. Newby said. Determined to come up with shades that the designers considered "warmer" than standard-issue black, they chose dark cherry as the base color, with light gray keys for contrast.
To avoid a look that was too bright and toylike, he said, all of the colors ultimately got "dusted down a notch." The pause button, for example, is a subtle yellow-orange.
Then came the feel of the buttons, for which they chose a smooth, pliable rubber. Mr. Newby likened the feel of hitting the buttons to that of playing a piano. When a button is pushed, the user feels a slight snap, signaling that the key has traveled far enough to achieve electrical contact.
"These are the devilish details that often get overlooked," he said.
In the middle of the design process, Mr. Newby turned to non-engineers on the TiVo staff for feedback. This helped the designers refine the size and shape of the keys and the amount of space between them.
By September 1998, 11 weeks into the process, Mr. Newby and his team had completed the first few hand-built functional remotes. Then came a quick tooling cycle so TiVo could distribute the remotes to beta testers, consisting of technologically inexperienced friends and relatives of employees. The testers' feedback prompted the TiVo designers to reduce the time lapse between pressing a button and seeing the command executed on the screen.
The same group helped the designers fine-tune the dimensions of the remote to maximize the comfort level. Mr. Newby said the testers also advised the designers on where to put the battery compartment so that the device would balance nicely in the hand.
Other refinements followed, and by the time the first TiVo box was shipped to stores in March 1999, the remote was being produced in high volume.
The base color of the remote has since been changed to a dark gray to match TiVo's Series 2 receiver, with buttons of much lighter gray for contrast. And the number of buttons crept up to 34.
But the look and feel of the original TiVo remote as it emerged from the design team's sketchbooks and modeling labs has survived, which is no coincidence. "We wanted to create an iconic shape that would stick," said Dennis Boyle, a team leader at Ideo, a design firm in Palo Alto, Calif., that lent its expertise early in the process.
TiVo holds four design patents on the remote's basic shape and key layout. Third-party companies that sell receivers with TiVo built in, like the satellite television provider DirecTV, supply customers with a 36-button remote that is almost identical to the one sold with TiVo boxes.
The TiVo remote has many fans. One TiVo aficionado, Pat Hughes, a software engineer in San Jose, Calif., dressed up his two-month-old daughter as the remote for Halloween in 2002. The costume, which took a week to make, was a painstakingly exact replica, complete with battery compartment in the back. "That's where she went in," he said.
Mr. Hughes ranks his TiVo remote among the most important objects in his house because of the amount of time the device spends in his hand. "I don't think that you reach that level of simple elegance by accident,'' he said. "It's designed the way remotes should be designed."
Yet even some people who admire the remote say it has room for improvement.
Mr. Nielsen, the de
I can see it now.
Rob Malda aka. "CmdrTaco" infiltrates the dreams of millions, causing a Slashdot effect upon countless idiots. On a brighter note, CmdrTaco is now your overlord.
How many licks does it take to get to the center?