Better yet would be to fly by camera. I know they are currently working on something like this. But I was under the impression that the ultimate dream was to make the floors out of TV screens, and to project what's underneath the plane on the floor. So while landing you could see the run way. They could do the same thing with the window. So if they get a laser, the worst that can happen is that you might damage a camera. In that case, you fly by wire, and open the shutters on the window when you pass the laser.
-Derek
I was watching it on the Nasa live feed. I was sitting there in awe, and then the ship started to spin. I heard the commentator saying "Oh no... oh no....", and I started to say "Oh no! Oh no!", and then BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!!
I got the machine rebooted and was very relieved to to see that Mike was still alive and on decent.
I just hope that ship doesn't use windows, and if I does, I hope it has 5 backups. Because the I wouldn't want to bet my life against the chance of 2 windows machines crashing at the same time.
Or you could jump.. jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump jump. For days... jump jump jump jump jump... for weeks.... jump jump jump jump jump jump.
Eventually you will accumulate the same as the 225 seconds of zero-g that you get with $3000, but do you really want to jump for weeks on end? That sounds like more work then fun.
The simple fact is that it's not the same thing. It's a little hard fly like superman on a roller coaster, even if the roller coaster is called "fly like superman roller coaster".
They've already been there and done that. I would find a link to the proper video, but I'm currently at work. Look for a video called 'the uranus experiment 2'. It's about 3-4 years old now, but they have about 30sec - 1minute of zero-g 'footage'.
What's funny is that they could only afford to the dive a couple of times, so they only have a little bit of footage. But there is other footage where they "simulate" zero-g with very tacky and hysterical porn special effects.
It's not a very good video. Although it does have some killer 3d special effects, that appear to be done with 3ds r4.
You are obviously wrong here. If you had listened to Arnold at the Republican convention you would already know that this is not a possibility, because... well.. because the Governator said so! If you don't like then your just being an economic girlie man!!!!
Personally, I agree with you, I just don't think Arnie will though.
He probably doesn't notice the performance hit because his comp is a Ferrari. Also he's praizes the quality of products that SCO produces, and we all know the amaizing stuff SCO makes.
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, but I'm really hesitant to do something like this. One of the main reasons why I would want to do it is for GPS, now how would that work? I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to GPS. Do you just buy some device that plugs into the usb port of the computer or what? How does any software on the computer get your position? Kinda like a twain driver???
Sorry to bug you, but I've been wondering about this, and you seem to be pretty knowledgeable.
But... do they cover Kerry? Fox's man covering Bush in 2000 had family (his wife) in the Bush campaign. How could he be objective?
In 2000 a CNN anchor started to work for Gore and they removed him from all Gore stories because of the appearance of impropriety.
They'll just work it in, in other ways...
"This just in, a 1 ton gorilla has escaped from the zoo, causing mass hesteria. The zoo custodian was the only witness and has released this statement: 'It was all George Dubyah's fault!!! He was drunk, n' snorting Coke, just like in his o'lllll college days. He kept on yelling at da ape and rubbing his nipples, n' saying 'I'm gonna get you ape. I'm gonna make hot'n wild ape love. You want that don't you, don't you! You're a good ape, and dosh garn good ape. I'm gonna make you want me, yeah and Cheney too! He's bringing the apple sauce.. You love apple sauce don't you? Of course you do, you're a good ape.'
It didn't take long for the animal to fear for his life. The animal bid his time, until he saw an opening to make his daring escape."
Actually, there are remote controlled air baloons that might be good for that. I don't think they work all that well though outdoors. I believe any slight gust will over power it's small motors.
Regardless though, even with the wind you would atleast have some control.
Wasn't Clerks just a rehash of Porky's, National Lampoons Animal House?
Isn't that one of the reasons why Kevin Smith made Mall Rats, the studio wanted to make a new Porky's for the next generation?
I personally loved it, but it failed to be a massive teen comedy, and became more of a teen cult classic.
I might be missing something. Clerks was a bit before my time. I fail to see how a girl having sex with a dead guy is revolutionary. Yes it's vulgar and dirty (Dick a fart jokes). But it's also shit that people joke around with before, it's wasn't a new form a humor. It's just that someone had the balls to put it on film. It's Kevin Smith's "thing". It seems that people see that as revolutionary, and then complain when his next movies are not as revolutionary, but they're just the same toilet humor.
How was Clerks edgey? Watch it again, it is pure toilet humor.
"Are you wanting to make fuck... BERZERKER!!!!"
Common.. Kevin Smith's work is toilet humor and mixed in with social commentary. Jersey Girl was different. It was meant to be a cute movie. It's a bloody romantic comedy/drama. Don't be bitter because you watched the movie expecting mall rats, and got a "cute" movie.
I get annoyed when people bitch about how people like George Lucas keeps on peddeling old shit over and over again, but when he does something different, IE. Jersey Girl. People then still bitch.
Personally my favourite movie of Kevin Smith's is Dogma. I love it how he plays with Catholicisim. What's cool about Dogma was that Kevin Smith was presenting the Human side of the bible. The main idea behind it was that Jesus at one point in time turned to one of his disciples and said "Hey Buddy, pull my finger!"
As a Catholic who has parents that are kinda nutty about religion, I really liked the movie. So maybe he made that movie for me and not you. I always appreciated the Golgotha monster.
When you boil down Clerks, Mall Rats, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob strike back. They are all based on dick and fart jokes, plain and simple. So it really erks me when people put Clerks on this pedistal. The movies all use the same formula.
If you consider this the final plunge into "hackdom". Then I would say that clerks was his final plunge into hackdom, and he's only been swimming around in it for 10 years.
If everytime a government agency screams "open source" Microsoft has to cut there margins by paying a study and cutting the cost of Windows. That would be a nice start to open source. Not exactly what we want, but it's a start. If these people used all MS software before, then nothing has changed except Microsoft will not be making as much money as it did before.
Hopefully the next time they want to do more work, they get Microsoft to cut there margins again, and again, and again, until Open Source is clearly the better solution.
That Lake Ontario wasn't a shit hole of chemicals and pollution. It's not that bad, you can swim in it and fish can live, but it's dirty enough that there is no way that you would want to go into it.
I live in Toronto, and I watched a show on them building this thing. Apparently the first thing they did before they started any construction was to do a study on the environmental impact, and that is one of the highest concerns.
It's been a while since I've seen that show, so I can't remember if it was a representive of the company or of some environmental agency, but they said that using this system for one year would have the same environmental impact as the sun shining on the lake for an hour and half.
So in other words, you would have to heat up a lot more water then they are to warm up Lake Ontario.
Not now, but eventually. Especially now that we have more and more wireless products. I think with wireless this will totally be the way to go.
Imagine carrying around this thing and it will have all your stuff on it. You get up and go to work, you toss this thing in your suit case. You get in the car and your computer's stereo starts reading your mp3s via wireless. Get to the office, toss the thing on the desk, and via wireless it's already talking to your monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
Get home, you toss this thing on it's recharge station, and you can start puterizing from home.
Going on a bike ride? Toss this thing in your backpack, and start listening to your mp3s via wireless headphones.
Or if you go on vacation, and you start snapping off photos with your digital camera, this computer could be automatically uploading the photos to the internet for your family to see. (hopefully you're not taking photos of yourself and some women of the night)
I think this will totally be the future, but not yet.
I've seen this kind of thing first hand. Well, everyone has, but I saw it in the numbers of a 1 - 2 thousand people.
There were two people fighting for a certain position of a political party. The first person had small numbers, but those small number of people were rather loyal to this person. The second person had a lot of people, and also was very influential and had a lot of money. He had about twice as many supporters as his advirsary. The infulential person got his supporters by doing his "thing" at his local church, and then asking the people at his church to sign up to vote for him. He would then PAY for every single person's party registration fee. Remember this is for a candidate for a party, you can only vote if your a member of the party, this is not any normal election.
So when I arrived at the place to vote, the guy with all the money had even bussed in supporters. He had banners, he had t-shirts, he had people that couldn't vote running around chanting his name. The person with the small number of supporters only had some photocopied yellow sheets with his name on it that he got from kinkos for $20 bucks.
The problem with the election was that there was WAY to many people inside this building. It was about a 2-3 hour wait to vote. So people that were paid to be there, and that really didn't care that much saw that they had WAY more people voting, and also saw the line up. They figured that they had it in the bag, so instead of waiting 2 hours to vote, they went home. The people that were supporting the not so rich guy ended up staying to make there vote count.
In the end the not so rich guy won by a few hundred votes.
The hope that I have is that people have become so used to google, that they will ignore whatever Microsoft puts into there operating system.
But this scares me, like linux should scare Microsoft. The problem is that as long as Microsoft controls the root of people's machines, they can put there search ahead of google.
In other words, if people turn on there machine, and find a search box right on the desktop, they are going to start using that first before heading over to google. I really believe that the "average" (that's not the/. community) person won't give a damn about accurate results, because they won't be able to tell the difference. If that is the case, then Microsoft will have 0 problem overtaking google.
I hope that I'm not giving the average person enough credit to tell the difference between an accurate result and a non accurate result. Then again, I've seen news reporters claim that because they typed in the word "Botox" into google, that there are 750,000 sites of doctors that do Botox work. You would think that a reporter would be able to understand the basics of how a search engine works. They should obviously be a little smarter then the average bear.
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What are they going to do next? Put kids playing baseball on the five dollar bill???
-Derek
Better yet would be to fly by camera. I know they are currently working on something like this. But I was under the impression that the ultimate dream was to make the floors out of TV screens, and to project what's underneath the plane on the floor. So while landing you could see the run way. They could do the same thing with the window. So if they get a laser, the worst that can happen is that you might damage a camera. In that case, you fly by wire, and open the shutters on the window when you pass the laser. -Derek
Better yet
I got the machine rebooted and was very relieved to to see that Mike was still alive and on decent.
I just hope that ship doesn't use windows, and if I does, I hope it has 5 backups. Because the I wouldn't want to bet my life against the chance of 2 windows machines crashing at the same time.
-Derek
Eventually you will accumulate the same as the 225 seconds of zero-g that you get with $3000, but do you really want to jump for weeks on end? That sounds like more work then fun.
The simple fact is that it's not the same thing. It's a little hard fly like superman on a roller coaster, even if the roller coaster is called "fly like superman roller coaster".
-Derek
What's funny is that they could only afford to the dive a couple of times, so they only have a little bit of footage. But there is other footage where they "simulate" zero-g with very tacky and hysterical porn special effects.
It's not a very good video. Although it does have some killer 3d special effects, that appear to be done with 3ds r4.
- Derek
Personally, I agree with you, I just don't think Arnie will though.
-Derek
-asoap
Sorry to bug you, but I've been wondering about this, and you seem to be pretty knowledgeable.
-derek
They'll just work it in, in other ways...
"This just in, a 1 ton gorilla has escaped from the zoo, causing mass hesteria. The zoo custodian was the only witness and has released this statement: 'It was all George Dubyah's fault!!! He was drunk, n' snorting Coke, just like in his o'lllll college days. He kept on yelling at da ape and rubbing his nipples, n' saying 'I'm gonna get you ape. I'm gonna make hot'n wild ape love. You want that don't you, don't you! You're a good ape, and dosh garn good ape. I'm gonna make you want me, yeah and Cheney too! He's bringing the apple sauce.. You love apple sauce don't you? Of course you do, you're a good ape.'
It didn't take long for the animal to fear for his life. The animal bid his time, until he saw an opening to make his daring escape."
-Derek
When you check out this photo you can see a kite in the sky, with something dangeling underneath it.
It looks like they are also taking the photos of the sky at roughly the same time so that the colour/images line up somewhat.
Regardless they have done some very stunning work.
-asoap
Regardless though, even with the wind you would atleast have some control.
-asoap
Really it should be NE, but that's not as Xciting.
-Derek
Isn't that one of the reasons why Kevin Smith made Mall Rats, the studio wanted to make a new Porky's for the next generation?
I personally loved it, but it failed to be a massive teen comedy, and became more of a teen cult classic.
I might be missing something. Clerks was a bit before my time. I fail to see how a girl having sex with a dead guy is revolutionary. Yes it's vulgar and dirty (Dick a fart jokes). But it's also shit that people joke around with before, it's wasn't a new form a humor. It's just that someone had the balls to put it on film. It's Kevin Smith's "thing". It seems that people see that as revolutionary, and then complain when his next movies are not as revolutionary, but they're just the same toilet humor.
I don't know.. maybe I'm just a moron.
-Derek
"Are you wanting to make fuck... BERZERKER!!!!"
Common.. Kevin Smith's work is toilet humor and mixed in with social commentary. Jersey Girl was different. It was meant to be a cute movie. It's a bloody romantic comedy/drama. Don't be bitter because you watched the movie expecting mall rats, and got a "cute" movie.
I get annoyed when people bitch about how people like George Lucas keeps on peddeling old shit over and over again, but when he does something different, IE. Jersey Girl. People then still bitch.
Personally my favourite movie of Kevin Smith's is Dogma. I love it how he plays with Catholicisim. What's cool about Dogma was that Kevin Smith was presenting the Human side of the bible. The main idea behind it was that Jesus at one point in time turned to one of his disciples and said "Hey Buddy, pull my finger!"
As a Catholic who has parents that are kinda nutty about religion, I really liked the movie. So maybe he made that movie for me and not you. I always appreciated the Golgotha monster.
When you boil down Clerks, Mall Rats, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob strike back. They are all based on dick and fart jokes, plain and simple. So it really erks me when people put Clerks on this pedistal. The movies all use the same formula.
If you consider this the final plunge into "hackdom". Then I would say that clerks was his final plunge into hackdom, and he's only been swimming around in it for 10 years.
-Derek
Hopefully the next time they want to do more work, they get Microsoft to cut there margins again, and again, and again, until Open Source is clearly the better solution.
-asoap
BTW, excellent post.
-Derek
It's been a while since I've seen that show, so I can't remember if it was a representive of the company or of some environmental agency, but they said that using this system for one year would have the same environmental impact as the sun shining on the lake for an hour and half.
So in other words, you would have to heat up a lot more water then they are to warm up Lake Ontario.
-Derek
Actually.. that puts you in orbit. Which isn't flying, it's just constant falling. -Derek
All they need now is to get it secure, and make it common enough that these things will work together easily.
I think we are close. The pieces are there, they just have to make it all work together. Plus they have to make it faster then 1 ghz.
I think one of the biggest issues is going to be security.
-asoap
Imagine carrying around this thing and it will have all your stuff on it. You get up and go to work, you toss this thing in your suit case. You get in the car and your computer's stereo starts reading your mp3s via wireless. Get to the office, toss the thing on the desk, and via wireless it's already talking to your monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
Get home, you toss this thing on it's recharge station, and you can start puterizing from home.
Going on a bike ride? Toss this thing in your backpack, and start listening to your mp3s via wireless headphones.
Or if you go on vacation, and you start snapping off photos with your digital camera, this computer could be automatically uploading the photos to the internet for your family to see. (hopefully you're not taking photos of yourself and some women of the night)
I think this will totally be the future, but not yet.
-asoap
There were two people fighting for a certain position of a political party. The first person had small numbers, but those small number of people were rather loyal to this person. The second person had a lot of people, and also was very influential and had a lot of money. He had about twice as many supporters as his advirsary. The infulential person got his supporters by doing his "thing" at his local church, and then asking the people at his church to sign up to vote for him. He would then PAY for every single person's party registration fee. Remember this is for a candidate for a party, you can only vote if your a member of the party, this is not any normal election.
So when I arrived at the place to vote, the guy with all the money had even bussed in supporters. He had banners, he had t-shirts, he had people that couldn't vote running around chanting his name. The person with the small number of supporters only had some photocopied yellow sheets with his name on it that he got from kinkos for $20 bucks.
The problem with the election was that there was WAY to many people inside this building. It was about a 2-3 hour wait to vote. So people that were paid to be there, and that really didn't care that much saw that they had WAY more people voting, and also saw the line up. They figured that they had it in the bag, so instead of waiting 2 hours to vote, they went home. The people that were supporting the not so rich guy ended up staying to make there vote count.
In the end the not so rich guy won by a few hundred votes.
Bloody hilarious.
-asoap
But this scares me, like linux should scare Microsoft. The problem is that as long as Microsoft controls the root of people's machines, they can put there search ahead of google.
In other words, if people turn on there machine, and find a search box right on the desktop, they are going to start using that first before heading over to google. I really believe that the "average" (that's not the /. community) person won't give a damn about accurate results, because they won't be able to tell the difference. If that is the case, then Microsoft will have 0 problem overtaking google.
I hope that I'm not giving the average person enough credit to tell the difference between an accurate result and a non accurate result. Then again, I've seen news reporters claim that because they typed in the word "Botox" into google, that there are 750,000 sites of doctors that do Botox work. You would think that a reporter would be able to understand the basics of how a search engine works. They should obviously be a little smarter then the average bear.
Then again, I guess not.
-asoap
It's time I get in touch with my geek heritage.
-Derek
But my inital reaction is that, that dude looks like one screwed up storm trooper.
-asoap