It's a cell phone. Vmax is going to be extremely high: the large, flat side will provide wind resistance on a slope without a strong force backing it (indeed, as it falls it creates a slight vacuum... low pressure area above it), and unless it's perfectly flat and there is no wind it's going to rotate away from the pressure.
Yes, and it will quickly reach its vMax (terminal velocity) despite it tumbling. Its just that its velocity will be slightly higher than as if it remained completely flat for the entire fall.
Sorry, but your rely is an epic fail given the context and reasonable intelligence.
Frankly, your reply only underscores you inability to critically think.
Because everyone knows a device falling is all about maximum voltages. Holy shit, I think you literally made everyone dumber for having read your post.
There have been other stories of phones (IIRC, and iPhone and an Android) falling from great heights, both surviving fully intact. Those stories were both marginally interesting because of the fact they were undamaged aside from some minor scratches. This story is nothing but uninteresting and Apple fanboyism.
No, stupid and ignorant comments who claim people who actually know what they are talking about are trolling. Your posts are classic examples of stupid, ignorant, trolling because someone who wasn't trolling, stupid, and ignorant, would have simply asked for elaboration. But did that happen - not, stupidity and ignorance prevailed in posting a troll which led to this flame.
Go pull your head out of your ass and find a website called DIYDones. That's just one of several such projects. Literally, a MOTHERFUCKING PROTOTYPE OF HIS PROJECT SHOULD NOT COST MOST THAN ROUGHLY $400-$600 USD. IF IT DOES, YOU COMPLETELY FUCKED UP!!!!!
So instead of trolling next time, please consider removing your head from your ass and politely ask for more information rather than prove you're a troll.
Notice I said physics, not electronics. Do you honestly believe objects falling inside an atmosphere infinitely accelerate? Its the object's maximum velocity.
Whooosh. Extremely ignorant and unintelligent comment. Its doubtful he added his own wages to the cost. Meaning, only an absolute fucking moron adds their day job labor rates when they calculate the cost of a DIY project.
On the other hand, it was asked of me to make one for someone else. Accordingly, by world standard, it is extremely reasonable for me to ask for compensation since it is now a work for hire. Its literally disgusting I have so explain such basic concepts here on slashdot these days.
What do you mean you don't work for free?!?! Duhhhh! What do you mean you don't bill yourself for hobby projects?!? Duhhhhh!
It would be very reasonable to assume that this researcher spent a week on fine-tuning and construction, no?
Holy shit the average IQ on slashdot is dumber than a bag of hammers these days. Most of the work is already done. The cost of carbon fiber is much cheaper than all the extra electronics required of most of these drones. You can build one of these drones for roughly $500. Which means, its extremely reasonable to state you can construct his project (which I've seen several times before by others anyways) for roughly the same money.
Literally the responses to my comment only highlights the general ignorance and stupidity of the slashdot masses these days.
Those of you who think you know what you are talking about are really pissing off those of us who do. Sadly, the former is the majority of slashdot these days.
Yes. It depends on the surface on which it falls as well as its orientation. The story is not really surprising or all that interesting assuming one knows much of anything about physics. Many many flat objects, Vmax is frequently its saving grace.
Arizona is one of the states who actually understand the US Constitution; and specifically the second amendment. In Arizona, its legal to open carry. This story was well publicized. The Secret Service was very pissed off about it but there was nothing they could do. The Secret Service feels only the government should be allowed to carry weapons.
Accordingly, hiring private guards who can carry weapons is pretty easy. And if you have deep enough pockets, its pretty easy to do in most states.
An interesting logical offshoot of such predictions, will the masses hold religious organizations responsible for the reckless promotion of boundless reproduction? Will people demand the Pope's head on a stick after watching million die a miserable death knowing the dead and dying would have never suffered had responsible sanity been promoted rather than reckless, illogical, and outright dangerous concepts of sex and reproduction?
Since you clearly work 24/7 and never do anything other than billable work, we can thankfully expect you'll be dropping dead any day now. Hopefully this happened before you had a chance to breed.
So tired of idiots who push forward a moronic concept that nothing should even be done simply because they could have worked elsewhere. Literally, the notion is idiotic. Furthermore, not everyone can readily find extra work, especially in this economy. Such a contrary notion is literally idiotic. Not to mention, not every one the skills to sale themselves or the desire to accept both the liability of freelance work. Such a contrary notion is literally idiotic.
But hey, this is slashdot - why would we expect anything else.
Without fail, you know you have found a moron, who is generally so unintelligent they can only parrot, when they counter everything by simply saying so-n-so should have been working therefore x shouldn't have been done.
This issue has long been known. Products have long existed which also double as a sealant, frequently extending the life of asphalt shingles. One of the biggest issues is many home owner associations specifically prevent changing the color of your roofing. I would argue HOAs which prevent painting your roof white should be on the hook for 20% of a home owner's utility bills.
The research on this topic is very clear. Conservatively, every roof which is painted white can easily save 10%-15%, whereby 20% should be obtainable on most roofs. Many report even larger savings.
Not true. When you have pure research versus research to scratch an itch you wind up with completely different results. The later tends to be more practical. Furthermore, the result of the research itself is frequently effected by the specific nature of the itch in question.
After playing with FF4 for a couple of weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed Chrome. Chrome still needs a few features, but all in all, it outperforms FireFox hands down.
After playing with Chrome for a couple of weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed FF5. FF5 has all the features I need and many of those are implemented far better than Chrome, but all in all, it outperforms Chrome hands down.
If you're willing to pay reasonable labor rates I'm sure we can work something out.
As for the others trolling, you can build basically this, which requires far more motors and speed controllers for a fraction of the cost, and that even includes GPS, an autopilot, and mission management. Even with all that, its still way fucking cheaper than his prototype.
Because that's what "let's see what the government got hidden!" is -- the equivalent of unicorns and pixie dust.
Generally speaking, its a well documented fact, as far as advanced weapon/aircraft development goes, what is generally known is 20-30 years behind what is actually in development.
So to address your comment, only if you're a complete fucking idiot who is completely out of touch with reality is reality anything close to unicorns and pixie dust.
Its well known the government, for example, has extremely advanced aircraft the world has been allowed to see. Knowing something exists, and knowing its been paid for by tax payers, but not knowing the exact details is in no way, shape, or form, comparable to unicorns and pixie dust. The fact you believe they are only proves you're a complete fucking idiot.
Not to mention, you're broadcasting your speed and location to every officer within 1/2 mile. They no longer need a radar/laser gun. Only now the ticket can't be disputed because you incriminated/testified against yourself. The police officer only wrote the ticket based on your confession.
Parents don't want to deal with their kids. They'd rather drug them and let the TV babysit. After all, being a parent is hard and a complete life changing event. If its not, you're doing it completely wrong. Most parents completely fuck up their children by trying to be their friend rather than their parent. And even then, a large number of parents are extremely poor parents because they don't want to be a good parent by ever telling their child, "no." A parent who doesn't believe in saying, "no", and standing by it, is no parent at all.
Those caring for the elderly don't want them able to resist. Compliance makes for a happy worker. They'd rather medicate them which makes them compliant.
The explosive grow of these medications says nothing about the mental health of American citizens consuming these medications and everything about those prescribing and who are providing medicating. Its disgusting.
Isn't the limiting factor for current bandwidth power rather than speed anyways? My understanding they've long had the technology for much high bandwidth but the limitations are always power demands.
Secondary to power is usability. There's a big difference between pointing an antenna in the general direction of home and precisely aiming a laser million of miles away. Several orders of magnitude more accuracy is required.
Personally I don't find anything practical about this project. At least not today.
Thanks for telling us you only see the world in black and white and can not comprehend obvious exaguration for the sole purpose of making a point. Which seemingly wouldn't have gone over the head of the majority, of the rest of the world.
While its likely the number is larger than 7, the actual number is as equally inconsequential. In other words, no one gives a shit in the grand scheme of things. Be it 7 people living in their parent's basement or 10,000 people living in their parents basement, in the grande scheme of things, most everyone else has a life and doesn't give a shit that 7 people living in their parent's basement doesn't like the same solution the rest of the world finds more than palatable.
Nvidia claims that a significant amount of their graphics technology IS the driver and that opening it up would expose too much of their IP
For many, many years now NVIDIA has claimed they don't own the IP to large chunks of the code in their drivers, therefore it can not legally be exposed.
The truth of the matter is, NVIDIA's drivers, more often than not, have proved to be very reliable and fast even while ATI was openly bragging non-Windows platforms is for suckers. Beyond that, 99.999999999% of the world doesn't care if the driver is proprietary or open source so long as it performs well and is bug free. NVIDIA easily qualifies. And simply put, ATI's drivers still tend to have far more bugs and compatibilities issues than does NVIDIA.
Furthermore, I've been personally bit by ATI obsoleting GPUs twice. My brother once. I've never one had that bite with NVIDIA. When I dropped ATI I've never once seen a reason to regret it. Inversely, I've constantly seen reasons over that span where I'm extremely glad I gave up on ATI's "sucker bet" a long time ago.
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It's a cell phone. Vmax is going to be extremely high: the large, flat side will provide wind resistance on a slope without a strong force backing it (indeed, as it falls it creates a slight vacuum... low pressure area above it), and unless it's perfectly flat and there is no wind it's going to rotate away from the pressure.
Yes, and it will quickly reach its vMax (terminal velocity) despite it tumbling. Its just that its velocity will be slightly higher than as if it remained completely flat for the entire fall.
Sorry, but your rely is an epic fail given the context and reasonable intelligence.
Frankly, your reply only underscores you inability to critically think.
Because everyone knows a device falling is all about maximum voltages. Holy shit, I think you literally made everyone dumber for having read your post.
There have been other stories of phones (IIRC, and iPhone and an Android) falling from great heights, both surviving fully intact. Those stories were both marginally interesting because of the fact they were undamaged aside from some minor scratches. This story is nothing but uninteresting and Apple fanboyism.
'News for people, wanna be nerds, largely stuff that doesn't matter.'
No, stupid and ignorant comments who claim people who actually know what they are talking about are trolling. Your posts are classic examples of stupid, ignorant, trolling because someone who wasn't trolling, stupid, and ignorant, would have simply asked for elaboration. But did that happen - not, stupidity and ignorance prevailed in posting a troll which led to this flame.
Go pull your head out of your ass and find a website called DIYDones. That's just one of several such projects. Literally, a MOTHERFUCKING PROTOTYPE OF HIS PROJECT SHOULD NOT COST MOST THAN ROUGHLY $400-$600 USD. IF IT DOES, YOU COMPLETELY FUCKED UP!!!!!
So instead of trolling next time, please consider removing your head from your ass and politely ask for more information rather than prove you're a troll.
Notice I said physics, not electronics. Do you honestly believe objects falling inside an atmosphere infinitely accelerate? Its the object's maximum velocity.
Whooosh. Extremely ignorant and unintelligent comment. Its doubtful he added his own wages to the cost. Meaning, only an absolute fucking moron adds their day job labor rates when they calculate the cost of a DIY project.
On the other hand, it was asked of me to make one for someone else. Accordingly, by world standard, it is extremely reasonable for me to ask for compensation since it is now a work for hire. Its literally disgusting I have so explain such basic concepts here on slashdot these days.
What do you mean you don't work for free?!?! Duhhhh! What do you mean you don't bill yourself for hobby projects?!? Duhhhhh!
It would be very reasonable to assume that this researcher spent a week on fine-tuning and construction, no?
Holy shit the average IQ on slashdot is dumber than a bag of hammers these days. Most of the work is already done. The cost of carbon fiber is much cheaper than all the extra electronics required of most of these drones. You can build one of these drones for roughly $500. Which means, its extremely reasonable to state you can construct his project (which I've seen several times before by others anyways) for roughly the same money.
Literally the responses to my comment only highlights the general ignorance and stupidity of the slashdot masses these days.
Those of you who think you know what you are talking about are really pissing off those of us who do. Sadly, the former is the majority of slashdot these days.
Yes. It depends on the surface on which it falls as well as its orientation. The story is not really surprising or all that interesting assuming one knows much of anything about physics. Many many flat objects, Vmax is frequently its saving grace.
Arizona is one of the states who actually understand the US Constitution; and specifically the second amendment. In Arizona, its legal to open carry. This story was well publicized. The Secret Service was very pissed off about it but there was nothing they could do. The Secret Service feels only the government should be allowed to carry weapons.
Accordingly, hiring private guards who can carry weapons is pretty easy. And if you have deep enough pockets, its pretty easy to do in most states.
An interesting logical offshoot of such predictions, will the masses hold religious organizations responsible for the reckless promotion of boundless reproduction? Will people demand the Pope's head on a stick after watching million die a miserable death knowing the dead and dying would have never suffered had responsible sanity been promoted rather than reckless, illogical, and outright dangerous concepts of sex and reproduction?
Since you clearly work 24/7 and never do anything other than billable work, we can thankfully expect you'll be dropping dead any day now. Hopefully this happened before you had a chance to breed.
So tired of idiots who push forward a moronic concept that nothing should even be done simply because they could have worked elsewhere. Literally, the notion is idiotic. Furthermore, not everyone can readily find extra work, especially in this economy. Such a contrary notion is literally idiotic. Not to mention, not every one the skills to sale themselves or the desire to accept both the liability of freelance work. Such a contrary notion is literally idiotic.
But hey, this is slashdot - why would we expect anything else.
Without fail, you know you have found a moron, who is generally so unintelligent they can only parrot, when they counter everything by simply saying so-n-so should have been working therefore x shouldn't have been done.
This issue has long been known. Products have long existed which also double as a sealant, frequently extending the life of asphalt shingles. One of the biggest issues is many home owner associations specifically prevent changing the color of your roofing. I would argue HOAs which prevent painting your roof white should be on the hook for 20% of a home owner's utility bills.
The research on this topic is very clear. Conservatively, every roof which is painted white can easily save 10%-15%, whereby 20% should be obtainable on most roofs. Many report even larger savings.
Not true. When you have pure research versus research to scratch an itch you wind up with completely different results. The later tends to be more practical. Furthermore, the result of the research itself is frequently effected by the specific nature of the itch in question.
After playing with FF4 for a couple of weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed Chrome. Chrome still needs a few features, but all in all, it outperforms FireFox hands down.
After playing with Chrome for a couple of weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed FF5. FF5 has all the features I need and many of those are implemented far better than Chrome, but all in all, it outperforms Chrome hands down.
Fixed that for you.
If you're willing to pay reasonable labor rates I'm sure we can work something out.
As for the others trolling, you can build basically this, which requires far more motors and speed controllers for a fraction of the cost, and that even includes GPS, an autopilot, and mission management. Even with all that, its still way fucking cheaper than his prototype.
He waaaayyy over spent. I could build that easily for less than $500-$600.
Hash does not imply one way. Not all hashes are cryptographically safe. Nor or all hashes guaranteed to be collision free or even resistant.
I don't think hash means what you think it does.
Because that's what "let's see what the government got hidden!" is -- the equivalent of unicorns and pixie dust.
Generally speaking, its a well documented fact, as far as advanced weapon/aircraft development goes, what is generally known is 20-30 years behind what is actually in development.
So to address your comment, only if you're a complete fucking idiot who is completely out of touch with reality is reality anything close to unicorns and pixie dust.
Its well known the government, for example, has extremely advanced aircraft the world has been allowed to see. Knowing something exists, and knowing its been paid for by tax payers, but not knowing the exact details is in no way, shape, or form, comparable to unicorns and pixie dust. The fact you believe they are only proves you're a complete fucking idiot.
Holy shit /. has fallen.
Not to mention, you're broadcasting your speed and location to every officer within 1/2 mile. They no longer need a radar/laser gun. Only now the ticket can't be disputed because you incriminated/testified against yourself. The police officer only wrote the ticket based on your confession.
Parents don't want to deal with their kids. They'd rather drug them and let the TV babysit. After all, being a parent is hard and a complete life changing event. If its not, you're doing it completely wrong. Most parents completely fuck up their children by trying to be their friend rather than their parent. And even then, a large number of parents are extremely poor parents because they don't want to be a good parent by ever telling their child, "no." A parent who doesn't believe in saying, "no", and standing by it, is no parent at all.
Those caring for the elderly don't want them able to resist. Compliance makes for a happy worker. They'd rather medicate them which makes them compliant.
The explosive grow of these medications says nothing about the mental health of American citizens consuming these medications and everything about those prescribing and who are providing medicating. Its disgusting.
Isn't the limiting factor for current bandwidth power rather than speed anyways? My understanding they've long had the technology for much high bandwidth but the limitations are always power demands.
Secondary to power is usability. There's a big difference between pointing an antenna in the general direction of home and precisely aiming a laser million of miles away. Several orders of magnitude more accuracy is required.
Personally I don't find anything practical about this project. At least not today.
Thanks for telling us you only see the world in black and white and can not comprehend obvious exaguration for the sole purpose of making a point. Which seemingly wouldn't have gone over the head of the majority, of the rest of the world.
While its likely the number is larger than 7, the actual number is as equally inconsequential. In other words, no one gives a shit in the grand scheme of things. Be it 7 people living in their parent's basement or 10,000 people living in their parents basement, in the grande scheme of things, most everyone else has a life and doesn't give a shit that 7 people living in their parent's basement doesn't like the same solution the rest of the world finds more than palatable.
Your comment is even worse than the AC's. He's talking about extremely advanced technology. You're talking about unicorn and pixie dust.
Of the two posts, yours should have been anonymous.
Nvidia claims that a significant amount of their graphics technology IS the driver and that opening it up would expose too much of their IP
For many, many years now NVIDIA has claimed they don't own the IP to large chunks of the code in their drivers, therefore it can not legally be exposed.
The truth of the matter is, NVIDIA's drivers, more often than not, have proved to be very reliable and fast even while ATI was openly bragging non-Windows platforms is for suckers. Beyond that, 99.999999999% of the world doesn't care if the driver is proprietary or open source so long as it performs well and is bug free. NVIDIA easily qualifies. And simply put, ATI's drivers still tend to have far more bugs and compatibilities issues than does NVIDIA.
Furthermore, I've been personally bit by ATI obsoleting GPUs twice. My brother once. I've never one had that bite with NVIDIA. When I dropped ATI I've never once seen a reason to regret it. Inversely, I've constantly seen reasons over that span where I'm extremely glad I gave up on ATI's "sucker bet" a long time ago.
Just what we need, yet another retarded manager.
Redundant much? How do you think he qualified to be manager?