ThinkGeek also includes an explaination on how their putty works. Not sure how much it applies precisely to this body armor, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Went out to Crown Point, Portland Oregon. In about an hour, only saw maybe a dozen, but there were a few sweet tails. One seemed to move really slow, just amazing to see. Mostly in the south sky, with one or two to the east.
Beer and good company made it a fully worthwhile night.
There are probably a lot of regulations to get through, but also keep in mind that in nearly all states, water ways are public modes of transportation. So if a craft can navigate it, it's officially public (up to mean high level mark) unless challenged.
There are currently a few states with high-profile challenges going on, where a river runs through a persons property, so they own both sides of the river. Will be extremely interesting how these turn out.
In NYC I saw a guy playing the trumpet while driving. Luckily you can keep a hand on the wheel while playing. Not as dangerous, but I thought it was pretty classy.
You know what's really freakin impressive at high speed? The newest aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan (bummer about the name, though). During sea trials, there was footage of this huge freakin ship doing 30 knots. 30 knots! And the top speed is classified. Just impressive as hell to see a bunch of sailors, standing on a metal island, leaning into the turn that the island is making.
I haven't been following the dancing robots much, but now that I've seen it, I gotta say, it is somewhat impressive. The movements and balance involved have come a long way, it looks like they acheive it with some efficiency.
I'm a little disappointed, though- no Robot Dance? I guess the break dancing robot is a little ways away.
When I switch users on WinXP, moz definately takes the longest of any app to become responsive again. Sometimes it's like 20 seconds or more, which is a freakin eternity when you're sitting there waiting to get a webpage. More memory in my machine definately helps, though the machine crashes like crazy with that extra memory (which is another issue again).
A water proof version of this would be sweet for scuba diving. You could pull this off without the need for a full face mask.
Also this could finally make voice recognition useful. The biggest drawback to voice rec is having to talk to a computer with other people around and feeling out of place. On a bus, in a cube farm, etc. If you could talk to a computer without disturbing people around you, that would be sweet.
I tried using voice rec some years ago. I got a lot of cool things done, but always felt really wierd with my coworkers around, all working away quietly, and me talking outloud ramdomly to a computer.
I know some people, particularly some girls, that will wear headphones and just let them dangle in their pocket. Not attached to anything. As noticed, you treat people differently when it looks like they're engaged in something else, except studying. So to keep people from bothering them (much) while trying to study they'll fake the headphones.
Just pondering here, as I don't run a huge software company myself, but shouldn't companies this size kinda expect that at some point, for any of the dozens of reasons, that at least some of their code will be leaked? Especially MS. They're huge, there has had to have been dozens or hundreds real attempts at infiltration or breaking in and getting that stuff.
There's really not much you can do, but at least minimize some damage. Maybe MS will serve as an example. Everyone's going off on the cursing in the comments. Well, don't curse in the comments. It's not a big deal overall but it does seem to affecting the view of the programmers there.
As said there's not much you can do about the main damage, but a couple of the things we see going on here could be avoided or minimized.
I'm really looking forward to someday using one of those projected keyboards that display a layout on a flat surface and detect your finger movements. It's different, but surprisingly takes nearly not time to get used to. Plus, the coolest thing about them potentially, is rearranging the layout with software. You could have a really simple layout with just the keys you need for gaming, a layout for programming with common characters for the current language, quickly switch from qwerty to dvorak, etc. It's probably a couple years out to custom projected keyboards, but I just love the idea.
Here's one random idea I'll throw out- if you're right handed, get left moused. I grew up using the mouse with my left hand, because I'm right handed. Now I can keep my dominant hand on the keyboard while mousing and keep things speedy.
Yeah, it's a bummer for hobby overclockers. But, one area that this is good for is to prevent resellers from selling overclocked machines at a higher price, without telling the buyer it's overclocked. This is a pretty big problem in some areas.
Well, lucky for us a sci-fi writer, in this case Asimov, already has an idea of how this will be solved. One of my favorite short stories: The Last Question ("for educational use") talks about entropy and the end of the universe as a whimper, with a great ending.
Slashdot Mirror
Why is it that everytime I look at their name, I see Fake Solutions.
Actually that seems to be a pretty simple question.
J
ThinkGeek also includes an explaination on how their putty works. Not sure how much it applies precisely to this body armor, but it's interesting nonetheless.
J
Actually the article says that stab resistance is better than standard armor.
J
Went out to Crown Point, Portland Oregon. In about an hour, only saw maybe a dozen, but there were a few sweet tails. One seemed to move really slow, just amazing to see. Mostly in the south sky, with one or two to the east.
Beer and good company made it a fully worthwhile night.
J
The rio karma does something similar. Random shuffle depending on genre, most often played, never played, certain years, etc. Mighty cool stuff.
J
and the only prescription is more cowbell!
(not funny to non-snl fans).
J
There are probably a lot of regulations to get through, but also keep in mind that in nearly all states, water ways are public modes of transportation. So if a craft can navigate it, it's officially public (up to mean high level mark) unless challenged.
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There are currently a few states with high-profile challenges going on, where a river runs through a persons property, so they own both sides of the river. Will be extremely interesting how these turn out.
Some good info:
Navigability:
http://www.americanwhitewater.org/access/navigabi
access issues:
http://www.americanwhitewater.org/access/
J
I may have been seen a few times driving down the rode with my pants off, using both hands to undress the girl in the passenger seat and uh... wait..
Hmmmm there seem to be some voices in my head telling me to stop this story. I usually listen to them.
J
In NYC I saw a guy playing the trumpet while driving. Luckily you can keep a hand on the wheel while playing. Not as dangerous, but I thought it was pretty classy.
I wish I knew how to play the trumpet.
J
These look exactly like Tiki BOBs. I'm guessing it's the same company and everything, they're just hopping on the segway bandwagon. Didn't look around a lot, but here's a link or two:l
http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i031220/i031220.htm
http://www.aquatica-dive.com/actibob_us.htm
It sounds like this scubadoo is limited, like the tiki bob, to only a few meters of depth.
J
You know what's really freakin impressive at high speed? The newest aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan (bummer about the name, though). During sea trials, there was footage of this huge freakin ship doing 30 knots. 30 knots! And the top speed is classified. Just impressive as hell to see a bunch of sailors, standing on a metal island, leaning into the turn that the island is making.
I mean, damn.
J
I haven't been following the dancing robots much, but now that I've seen it, I gotta say, it is somewhat impressive. The movements and balance involved have come a long way, it looks like they acheive it with some efficiency.
I'm a little disappointed, though- no Robot Dance? I guess the break dancing robot is a little ways away.
J
When I switch users on WinXP, moz definately takes the longest of any app to become responsive again. Sometimes it's like 20 seconds or more, which is a freakin eternity when you're sitting there waiting to get a webpage. More memory in my machine definately helps, though the machine crashes like crazy with that extra memory (which is another issue again).
J
How dare you compare this litigious schmuck to the Man in Black!
Bush has a slashdot account?
A water proof version of this would be sweet for scuba diving. You could pull this off without the need for a full face mask.
Also this could finally make voice recognition useful. The biggest drawback to voice rec is having to talk to a computer with other people around and feeling out of place. On a bus, in a cube farm, etc. If you could talk to a computer without disturbing people around you, that would be sweet.
I tried using voice rec some years ago. I got a lot of cool things done, but always felt really wierd with my coworkers around, all working away quietly, and me talking outloud ramdomly to a computer.
J
I know some people, particularly some girls, that will wear headphones and just let them dangle in their pocket. Not attached to anything. As noticed, you treat people differently when it looks like they're engaged in something else, except studying. So to keep people from bothering them (much) while trying to study they'll fake the headphones.
J
Here's a thread on a big discussion on headphones:
Headphone discussion
J
Nasa's site has a lot more info, especially if you do a search on their site for 'tumbleweed'.
Some early research
Video from June 2001.
J
That should be: The second to last thing heard was "Hold my beer and watch this!"
The last thing heard was:
"Yer doin' it! Yer doin' it!"
J
Just pondering here, as I don't run a huge software company myself, but shouldn't companies this size kinda expect that at some point, for any of the dozens of reasons, that at least some of their code will be leaked? Especially MS. They're huge, there has had to have been dozens or hundreds real attempts at infiltration or breaking in and getting that stuff.
There's really not much you can do, but at least minimize some damage. Maybe MS will serve as an example. Everyone's going off on the cursing in the comments. Well, don't curse in the comments. It's not a big deal overall but it does seem to affecting the view of the programmers there.
As said there's not much you can do about the main damage, but a couple of the things we see going on here could be avoided or minimized.
J
I'm really looking forward to someday using one of those projected keyboards that display a layout on a flat surface and detect your finger movements. It's different, but surprisingly takes nearly not time to get used to. Plus, the coolest thing about them potentially, is rearranging the layout with software. You could have a really simple layout with just the keys you need for gaming, a layout for programming with common characters for the current language, quickly switch from qwerty to dvorak, etc. It's probably a couple years out to custom projected keyboards, but I just love the idea.
Here's one random idea I'll throw out- if you're right handed, get left moused. I grew up using the mouse with my left hand, because I'm right handed. Now I can keep my dominant hand on the keyboard while mousing and keep things speedy.
J
Using this in cell phones would be cool. The phone could increase the screen size as you wouldn't need room for a speaker.
But then you'd end up with ear wax on your screen eventually. Ich.
Jason
Yeah, it's a bummer for hobby overclockers. But, one area that this is good for is to prevent resellers from selling overclocked machines at a higher price, without telling the buyer it's overclocked. This is a pretty big problem in some areas.
Jason
Well, lucky for us a sci-fi writer, in this case Asimov, already has an idea of how this will be solved. One of my favorite short stories: The Last Question ("for educational use") talks about entropy and the end of the universe as a whimper, with a great ending.
Jason