After going to the website itself for the boat, the boat has one large foil 3/4 of the way toward the stern and the bow has a pod with a rudder. The pod on the stern is there only for low speed flotation as it is clearly completely out of the water at full speed in the video.
You can see the foil is bent where a significant portion is parallel to the sail to help counteract the lifting force of the sail and sideways force of the wind itself.
This problem with virus-ridden ads came to the fore with ad services. It used to be that websites had control over who bought ad space on their pages, but efficiency of scale gave birth to ad services, where the operator gives up control over what ads are served to the ad service.
It's no longer whether a website is trustworthy, but rather whether an ad service is trustworthy, and there are no metrics for this.
I've run across a few sites here and there that won't display any content unless I disable ad-blocking. I'm surprised this isn't more prevalent.
I have too, and I never go there again.
I whitelist sites that I think are worth reading and don't have obnoxious animated or too-numerous ads (I turn it off, hit reload, and see if it's stupid or not).
But if you're going to outlaw adblocking plugins, you'd better outlaw the hosts file, too.
Could browser ad blocking one day become so prevalent that it jeopardises potentially billions of dollars of online ad revenue, and the primary business models of many online and new media businesses?
No. 99 percent of people don't bother blocking ads and 90 percent don't even know that you can block ads. This is a ridiculous question to ask, especially since ad blocking has been around for so many years with solutions ranging from a custom hosts file to browser plugins and built-in adblock (opera).
1. You're missing out. 2. You don't have deep fryers in jolly ol'? 3. Deep frying is basic cookery. 4. The turkey comes out juicy and not dried out. 5. It akes 30-45 minutes. 6. Crispy turkey skin. 7. It's safe if you read the instructions and warnings and *pay them heed.*
It has been known for years, and publicly admitted by Bill Gatess 14 years ago that piracy is Microsoft's key to building and keeping market share. While Ballmer has threatened in the past to turn up the anti-piracy knob to 11, that was all bluster. The goal is not to eliminate piracy, but make it just inconvenient enough for most people.
If you are willing to jump through the hoops to pirate Windows and Office, Microsoft would rather you do that than try any alternative at all. Because they know that those who try alternatives and get by with "good enough" are gone for good.
Bill Gates' original "Open Letter to Hobbyists" can be completely disregarded as the writing of a naive young man soon to figure out that piracy builds market share.
My "diagnosis" of the situation is that this was not by accident. My prediction for the future is that Microsoft will not fix this, or at least make a half-hearted attempt to make it look like it's harder. They will not close this hole.
>"These hunting events involve capturing or breeding pigeons in cages, and releasing a large number of birds from cages to immediately be shot or wounded by hunters."
But that's not how a pigeon shoot goes. You don't release them all in one go, you release them one at a time, in turn, much like skeet, with wings. How else does one keep score?
And like the other guy said, breeding pigeons for shooting is perfectly legal.
>immediately to be shot or wounded.
So? That sentence is also redundant and silly. If a bird is wounded, it is to be killed humanely after. Either the bird flies away clean or it's dead at the end of the day. There is no in-between.
âoeThe shooting of pigeons in Pennsylvania is unquestionably legal,â the release stated. Efforts by Seeton and others to persuade the Pennsylvania General Assembly to ban pigeon shooting failed as recently as December 2011.
The DAâ(TM)s office agreed however that efforts must be made to ensure that animals wounded but not killed by shotgun are humanely killed. Gun clubs must conduct a complete search of their property and adjacent areas for the purpose of retrieving wounded birds at the end of the pigeon shoot.
And good luck getting pigeon shooting banned in PA, or any other kind of shooting and hunting. The first day of deer season is a state holiday, for instance.
They raided his home in the belief he was making Meth while he lied to them and told them he was doing pharmaceutical research.
The only thing wrong with their assessment was that it was worse than meth. He got all butthurt and mad and tried to paint the Belize authorities as bumbling idiots and corrupt when they were actually right all along - that McAfee is a fucking tweeker and drug manufacturer, which he admitted himself on a drug forum.
He is a crazy old man who was making Substance D in his own basement and is now as batshit from it as Bob Arctor.
WinFLP boots in 8 seconds on this machine after clicking the icon. Reboots are between 4 and 6 seconds. And it takes up about the same memory footprint as W2k.
>Ubuntu ruined their distro with Unity that I had to hop to another one
This is silly, because in the Ubuntu repos, there are a couple of dozen window managers and all the standard DEs. And Unity itself is just a Compiz plugin. You can just go into ccsm and turn it off.
Changing distro because you don't like the default window manager or DE (if you did a dist-upgrade, you'd have kept your own settings) you're doing Linux the wrong way.
>rest of message
I dunno man, I've been doing this stuff since 1994, and Ubuntu has been stupidly easy to set up and change around to my liking. Ubuntu doesn't look or act at all like default over here.
Barcodes are cheap and easy to print out on Avery labels. Barcode readers are cheap and easy to use. Hell, there was a time when a company *gave away* barcode readers. You may remember Cuecat. I still have mine.
And now that you're turning up your nose at barcodes, consider that large libraries have been using barcodes for decades now. They are proven technology.
As for organization, you can look to the Library of Congress for that. The Library of Congress indexing system is a proven system for small and large libraries. Indeed, the LOC number is typically printed next to the ISBN on the copyright page.
Software? For a home sized library, a flat file database should be enough.
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OK, so I'll take that back, as you're reasonable.
It's been happening a lot lately though (the new-account shill thing).
With regards to your argument that 8 is for tablets. Microsoft *had* to go to a touch interface for tablets . I agree, totally, that touch is needed on tablets, PDAs, music players, and phones. It's even better than vocal control. What Microsoft has done is continue on this path to their mythical "universal interface" that totally ignores the fact that people use different sized devices for different purposes. What they did instead was take the touch interface for tablets and shoehorn it into a desktop operating system. This goes against every study over the past 40+ years showing that people don't like holding their hands in front of them with light pens or their fingers touching a screen. SAGE is dead. Light pens are dead. Touch on the desktop never took off, and that wasn't because of a lack of touch software or touch enabled monitors (NEC had a great one in the mid 80s). Touch winds up doing data collection on factory floors, industrial equipment, and POS terminals, tablets, PDAs, and phones, for the reasons I listed in my previos message.
Anyone who has seriously interacted with Metro on the desktop hates it and it's not like you can avoid Metro. And you can't claim that I don't know what I'm talking about, because I've used it ever since the same day the Developer Preview came out. People have been talking about this for over a year.
Yet Microsoft refuses to listen to the desktop and laptop users, because they have an agenda to push, and they think that pushing touch on desktop and laptops will get people to do everything on tablets. The first sign that they don't give a shit about the desktop and laptop users was when they ripped out, the start menu registry entry and the code tied to it just to make sure.
Touch on a desktop or laptop? Not a chance. I'm not rubbing my greasy fingers all over a 27 inch monitor. I'm not doing CAD on a tablet. No.
The hate for 8 (hey that rhymes) is not unfounded. It's from people who have screwed around with this Frankenstein Monster since 2 Septembers ago. And despite all the naysaying of the Windows shills that "Microsoft's gonna fix that" even past the RTM, the root criticisms of 8 were never addressed. Instead, the reaction was more like the reaction from the Gnome 3 devs - "Fuck you, we know what we're doing."
8 is a failure on the desktop. It is inconvenient to the point of unusable.
It's the Microsoft shills that have invaded over the past couple of years that this "downmodding of MSFT dissenters" has happened.
Also note the vast number of newly minted accounts when an article critical of Windows 8 comes out. You never hear from these again, they are used and abandoned for new accounts created when a new Microsoft article comes out.
Slashdot should rangeban Microsoft.
-- BMO
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>I don't really understand why there is so much hatred of the Windows 8 interface.
Because on anything other than a tablet, it's shit. It's a schizophrenic interface that tries to deprecate the desktop interface in favor of this new touch bullshit.
The thing is though, keyboards and mice are better input devices than touch. Touch is only useful when you have no other way to input, have an enviroment that is hostile to other input devices, or external input devices are inconvenient, even if it's just a stylus.
Microsoft is chasing this mythical beast called the "universal interface" which doesn't friggin' exist. They've been doing this shit since trying to force a desktop metaphor onto tablets and PDAs, eventually finding out that people don't like poking at tiny icons with a stylus which can be lost down a catchbasin. But instead, we have error in the opposite direction - forcing an interface suited to tablets and phones onto the desktop, where it SUCKS.
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>Looks more like a hydroplane than a hydrofoil.
After going to the website itself for the boat, the boat has one large foil 3/4 of the way toward the stern and the bow has a pod with a rudder. The pod on the stern is there only for low speed flotation as it is clearly completely out of the water at full speed in the video.
If you look at picture #5, you can see the foil.
http://www.sailrocket.com/node/298
If you go here: http://www.sailrocket.com/sites/default/files/VSR2-force-alignment.jpg
You can see the foil is bent where a significant portion is parallel to the sail to help counteract the lifting force of the sail and sideways force of the wind itself.
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I think that's a lot more descriptive...
Thanks.
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>The boat has practically no resemblance to any other sailing vessel.
No, it looks like a catamaran with different geometry and hydrofoils.
The base machine is a cat - two hulls and a sail.
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>Windows 8 has taken care of that.
Wait, what?
*google*
http://www.howtogeek.com/122404/how-to-block-websites-in-windows-8s-hosts-file/
Hnnnnngggggg....
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This problem with virus-ridden ads came to the fore with ad services. It used to be that websites had control over who bought ad space on their pages, but efficiency of scale gave birth to ad services, where the operator gives up control over what ads are served to the ad service.
It's no longer whether a website is trustworthy, but rather whether an ad service is trustworthy, and there are no metrics for this.
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BMO
I've run across a few sites here and there that won't display any content unless I disable ad-blocking. I'm surprised this isn't more prevalent.
I have too, and I never go there again.
I whitelist sites that I think are worth reading and don't have obnoxious animated or too-numerous ads (I turn it off, hit reload, and see if it's stupid or not).
But if you're going to outlaw adblocking plugins, you'd better outlaw the hosts file, too.
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It's Bill Hicks. Worth watching.
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Could browser ad blocking one day become so prevalent that it jeopardises potentially billions of dollars of online ad revenue, and the primary business models of many online and new media businesses?
No. 99 percent of people don't bother blocking ads and 90 percent don't even know that you can block ads. This is a ridiculous question to ask, especially since ad blocking has been around for so many years with solutions ranging from a custom hosts file to browser plugins and built-in adblock (opera).
Try to make it through this video without raging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLVWD2UNvVI
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The way things come out greasy in a deep fryer is if your oil isn't hot enough.
Anything lower than 350F/175C and you're doing it wrong.
Anything higher than 375/190 and you start smoking the oil.
Having a thermometer helps.
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1. You're missing out.
2. You don't have deep fryers in jolly ol'?
3. Deep frying is basic cookery.
4. The turkey comes out juicy and not dried out.
5. It akes 30-45 minutes.
6. Crispy turkey skin.
7. It's safe if you read the instructions and warnings and *pay them heed.*
You can take your American bashing and shove it.
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Turducken you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjrI91J6jOw&feature=g-all-u
This easily wins the geek category.
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It has been known for years, and publicly admitted by Bill Gatess 14 years ago that piracy is Microsoft's key to building and keeping market share. While Ballmer has threatened in the past to turn up the anti-piracy knob to 11, that was all bluster. The goal is not to eliminate piracy, but make it just inconvenient enough for most people.
If you are willing to jump through the hoops to pirate Windows and Office, Microsoft would rather you do that than try any alternative at all. Because they know that those who try alternatives and get by with "good enough" are gone for good.
Bill Gates' original "Open Letter to Hobbyists" can be completely disregarded as the writing of a naive young man soon to figure out that piracy builds market share.
My "diagnosis" of the situation is that this was not by accident. My prediction for the future is that Microsoft will not fix this, or at least make a half-hearted attempt to make it look like it's harder. They will not close this hole.
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>"These hunting events involve capturing or breeding pigeons in cages, and releasing a large number of birds from cages to immediately be shot or wounded by hunters."
But that's not how a pigeon shoot goes. You don't release them all in one go, you release them one at a time, in turn, much like skeet, with wings. How else does one keep score?
And like the other guy said, breeding pigeons for shooting is perfectly legal.
>immediately to be shot or wounded.
So? That sentence is also redundant and silly. If a bird is wounded, it is to be killed humanely after. Either the bird flies away clean or it's dead at the end of the day. There is no in-between.
I have no problem with this whatsoever.
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FTFA
>âoeSHARK used the drone to successfully videotape illegal animal abuse committed at the pigeon shoot for nearly the entire day,â
No they didn't.
Pigeon shooting is legal.
http://bensalem.patch.com/articles/da-dismisses-pigeon-shoot-citations
And good luck getting pigeon shooting banned in PA, or any other kind of shooting and hunting. The first day of deer season is a state holiday, for instance.
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They raided his home in the belief he was making Meth while he lied to them and told them he was doing pharmaceutical research.
The only thing wrong with their assessment was that it was worse than meth. He got all butthurt and mad and tried to paint the Belize authorities as bumbling idiots and corrupt when they were actually right all along - that McAfee is a fucking tweeker and drug manufacturer, which he admitted himself on a drug forum.
He is a crazy old man who was making Substance D in his own basement and is now as batshit from it as Bob Arctor.
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But then you descend into bullshit in your message body.
You're a troll and should be modded such.
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Then why do anything fun at all? Why must everything have a purpose?
Your world must be a dreary rainy day in December.
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>why bother trimming it?
Total process footprint and boot speed.
WinFLP boots in 8 seconds on this machine after clicking the icon. Reboots are between 4 and 6 seconds. And it takes up about the same memory footprint as W2k.
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>Ubuntu ruined their distro with Unity that I had to hop to another one
This is silly, because in the Ubuntu repos, there are a couple of dozen window managers and all the standard DEs. And Unity itself is just a Compiz plugin. You can just go into ccsm and turn it off.
Changing distro because you don't like the default window manager or DE (if you did a dist-upgrade, you'd have kept your own settings) you're doing Linux the wrong way.
>rest of message
I dunno man, I've been doing this stuff since 1994, and Ubuntu has been stupidly easy to set up and change around to my liking. Ubuntu doesn't look or act at all like default over here.
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The only way to reliably play Silverlight stuff is to install the most trimmed back XP you can get (WinFLP for me) and install IE8.
And you know what?
I never watch Silverlight stuff anyway even with the ability to do so.
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Yes, you have bad kerning.
Install Ubuntu.
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Barcodes are cheap and easy to print out on Avery labels. Barcode readers are cheap and easy to use. Hell, there was a time when a company *gave away* barcode readers. You may remember Cuecat. I still have mine.
And now that you're turning up your nose at barcodes, consider that large libraries have been using barcodes for decades now. They are proven technology.
As for organization, you can look to the Library of Congress for that. The Library of Congress indexing system is a proven system for small and large libraries. Indeed, the LOC number is typically printed next to the ISBN on the copyright page.
Software? For a home sized library, a flat file database should be enough.
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BMO
OK, so I'll take that back, as you're reasonable.
It's been happening a lot lately though (the new-account shill thing).
With regards to your argument that 8 is for tablets. Microsoft *had* to go to a touch interface for tablets . I agree, totally, that touch is needed on tablets, PDAs, music players, and phones. It's even better than vocal control. What Microsoft has done is continue on this path to their mythical "universal interface" that totally ignores the fact that people use different sized devices for different purposes. What they did instead was take the touch interface for tablets and shoehorn it into a desktop operating system. This goes against every study over the past 40+ years showing that people don't like holding their hands in front of them with light pens or their fingers touching a screen. SAGE is dead. Light pens are dead. Touch on the desktop never took off, and that wasn't because of a lack of touch software or touch enabled monitors (NEC had a great one in the mid 80s). Touch winds up doing data collection on factory floors, industrial equipment, and POS terminals, tablets, PDAs, and phones, for the reasons I listed in my previos message.
Anyone who has seriously interacted with Metro on the desktop hates it and it's not like you can avoid Metro. And you can't claim that I don't know what I'm talking about, because I've used it ever since the same day the Developer Preview came out. People have been talking about this for over a year.
Yet Microsoft refuses to listen to the desktop and laptop users, because they have an agenda to push, and they think that pushing touch on desktop and laptops will get people to do everything on tablets. The first sign that they don't give a shit about the desktop and laptop users was when they ripped out, the start menu registry entry and the code tied to it just to make sure.
Touch on a desktop or laptop? Not a chance. I'm not rubbing my greasy fingers all over a 27 inch monitor. I'm not doing CAD on a tablet. No.
The hate for 8 (hey that rhymes) is not unfounded. It's from people who have screwed around with this Frankenstein Monster since 2 Septembers ago. And despite all the naysaying of the Windows shills that "Microsoft's gonna fix that" even past the RTM, the root criticisms of 8 were never addressed. Instead, the reaction was more like the reaction from the Gnome 3 devs - "Fuck you, we know what we're doing."
8 is a failure on the desktop. It is inconvenient to the point of unusable.
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Some of us know you're right.
It's the Microsoft shills that have invaded over the past couple of years that this "downmodding of MSFT dissenters" has happened.
Also note the vast number of newly minted accounts when an article critical of Windows 8 comes out. You never hear from these again, they are used and abandoned for new accounts created when a new Microsoft article comes out.
Slashdot should rangeban Microsoft.
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>I don't really understand why there is so much hatred of the Windows 8 interface.
Because on anything other than a tablet, it's shit. It's a schizophrenic interface that tries to deprecate the desktop interface in favor of this new touch bullshit.
The thing is though, keyboards and mice are better input devices than touch. Touch is only useful when you have no other way to input, have an enviroment that is hostile to other input devices, or external input devices are inconvenient, even if it's just a stylus.
Microsoft is chasing this mythical beast called the "universal interface" which doesn't friggin' exist. They've been doing this shit since trying to force a desktop metaphor onto tablets and PDAs, eventually finding out that people don't like poking at tiny icons with a stylus which can be lost down a catchbasin. But instead, we have error in the opposite direction - forcing an interface suited to tablets and phones onto the desktop, where it SUCKS.
Also
>new account
>buzzword bingo
Shill.
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