Just a heads-up: it isn't pure gyroscopic stabilization. It's a feedback loop with the rider, due to the offset nature of the front fork. Turning into the falling side will produce a centripetal force away from the fall. Try to ride the bike in a straight line without moving your body or handle bars; you'll fall. Gyroscopic force does help a little because tilting the wheel will make it twist into the turn, providing a little compensation. That's why you can ride hands-free above a certain speed.
Ummm...I wonder if the wide-eyed little Daleks will run to the hearth and find their stockings full of EXTERMINATE? Will Dr. Who don a white beard and hitch a team of reindeer to the Tardis because Santa's sleigh can't hold enough presents for everyone? And what about the smash holiday hit at the end, "We Wish Who a Merry Christmas"
No, I never said anything about cable. I was referring to broadcast television, which existed before cable. The whole argument can also be transferred to radio.
Many stations now have ties to larger companies and other industries, but there are independent ones out there too.
Television stations seem to survive pretty well on ad revenue. The better the coverage, the richer the station is. Advertising in general is an industry that won't go away soon, and the product (a favorable impression in the mind of a customer) has never been tangible anyway. Television integrates their advertising into products such as entertainment and news. Google integrates advertising into the most popular search tool.
The only thing that can bring Google down is not the tangibility of their assets, but the quality of their product. Linkfarms and bloggers and blogspammers erode the usefulness of Google and will eventually result in less advertising value. It's as if every time your local television station did an on-scene report, there were hundreds of people crowding around the camera with ads for companies, screaming and running and making faces to get your attention, to the point of drowning out the new reporter or even overpowering the cameraman and showing only ads. How long would you watch that news program in order to get news? And how many advertisers would spend money there, only to have their message diluted by freeloaders?
It seems that Google is losing the battle here. I hope that they do win the war, though it seems an impossible task. Perhaps Google will be driven to create better algorithms until they approach artificial intelligence.
I know, I was actually interested to see if that would affect my rating. Strangely, my comment wasn't all that unique, yet it got a 5 almost immediately and no comments despite the short bus sentence. Did everyone miss it, did they think it was a valid assessment of an intelligence level, or did they just not care?
We had a female friend with us on the trip and from talking to her we learned that not only was the women's bathroom the same way, it contained different stuff!
See, here we have proof of Studio Ghibili's subtle-yet-pervasive push to get men into drag. What other reason could there be? Miyazaki: cackling at men in dresses.
The reviewer obviously rode the short bus to school. For starters, they complain about being unable to download the file, it got corrupted, etc. I had no such troubles, obviously their computer or internet connection has issue.
THEN, we hear about a few lame attempts to use bitmap functions of the product, comparing it to Photoshop. Not one word about the vector functions. Come on! This isn't going to be a Photoshop replacement. The whole point of Acrylic is drawing clean vector-based objects with a pressure sensitive digitizer.
My review of the reviewer? Stay away from their blog at all costs.
Wacom's tablet digitizers did not at first, if you remember. There was a big uproar about users being unable to get pressure sensitivity in Photoshop on their shiny new Tablet PCs. So, and I've spoken with a Wacom engineer who verfies this, they duct-taped a Wintab wedge into their original HID Ink driver. Adobe wouldn't update Photoshop to work with Ink. So lesser-known digitizer makers develop a digitizer they way they're supposed to, with the HID Ink interface that's been common knowledge since 1999. And then it doesn't work in all applications, since some software companies can't be bothered to move to the updated input system.
Well, if someone only has a mouse, they certainly won't get what this program is all about.
However, with a tablet, it's looking really good.
The thing that makes this a killer app for me? It doesn't require Wintab at all. It works great with Microsoft's own Ink on a Tablet PC. This is one of the few applications where I can't tell the difference between drawing on my desktop with Wacom, and drawing on my tablet PC with a non-Wacom digitizer. I'm really impressed and will probably buy this thing when it's for sale. I had considered getting rid of my Tablet PC due to the lack of support for Ink in applications.
And I'm no Microsoft sycophant; I've got more computers running Linux than I do Windows. I just like to use each OS where it works best.
The head itself might have fit on a desk, but the printer wouldn't have even fit into a semi trailer...the sound was kind of like a lawnmower and garbage disposal in mortal combat.
We also did lithography at 1000+ fpm. Bare paper, though of course I'd guess that gloss litho stock is a lot stronger than newsprint. But the inkjet thing was for on-the-fly customized text and images, something litho doesn't do.
The company I used to work for does high-speed printing. They developed their own inkjet array drum, looked like one of those radial aircraft piston engines. We're talking over 400 feet per minute, continuous...
Hollywood has succeeded in reshaping the way men think about women. Specifically, the idea of what is doable. In old times, it basically came down to two criteria: alive and able to cook. What you're seeing now is the effect of the "not-so-doable" ones, who in fact nobody ever did.
Using them for diving is NOT still science fiction. I knew an ex-military diver years ago who was involved in deep-sea experiments with liquid breathing. I'm not sure if he was supposed to talk about it at the time. He said it was definitely weird. The main thing was how cold it felt.
"Dell" and "nice" in the same sentence? (Ignore the irony of that for a few moments.)
I travel a LOT and am part of a company with many loosely connected divisions. Therefore I get to see all kinds of laptops. The Dells are always in the shop, the users expect and accept frequent lockups and crashes, and they generally use a "bar-of-soap" design strategy. Meaning, a lot of the plastic has very thin paint on it, and it a different color underneath...designed to show scratches and look old faster.
IBM Thinkpads and Toshiba laptops stand up MUCH better, have great battery life, and are designed to be lugged all over the country instead of sitting unused on Grandma's sewing table. I've also used Apple's Powerbook series, which obviously have more styling but manage to keep the laptop solid and usable.
The Metaverse in Snow Crash did not have physical feedback. The Metaverse was accessed via 3D goggles, with some of the input controlled by sensed body motion.
I'm perfectly satisfied right now with my $10 one-time fee. You can go anywhere, build stuff and sell it, basically anything except own land. It takes time to develop modeling skills, so if I'd purchased land I'd be wasting it.
If you've read Snow Crash, Second Life is currently the closest thing we have to Snow Crash's cyberspace. As time goes on, I only see it getting closer to that concept.
The ultimate Leatherman would be the Gerber Multi-Plier. I've had mine for 15 years. It's a true tool, not some flashy gadget that you don't actually use. Leatherman is like McDonalds and Multi-Plier is like steak grilled in your backyard.
Lotsa sex in Second Life. Basically there is financial competition to produce the sexiest clothing, poses, "accessories", and animations. Since you can make anything, there are some pretty advanced genitalia out there. Second Life allows you to tack anything anywhere on your avatar, including the Barbie- and Ken-like flat nether regions.
My favorite game in Second Life is Primtionary. Objects within Second Life are constructed out primary objects ("prims" for short) based on several basic shapes. Primtionary is like Pictionary; the contestant is given a word and must quickly construct a 3D model while other players try to guess the word. LOTS of fun. More than worth the $10 I've spent on Second Life so far. That's what I like about Second Life right now; you can spend $10 and have complete access to the game. If you decide to own land and build on it, then you can upgrade to a monthly account. Meanwhile, you can practice building in the sandbox regions and get good enough to build something meaningful once you do decide to upgrade. And nothing prevents you from making clothes, vehicles, pets, etc and selling them while still landless.
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Why would someone just throw in the name of a musical instrument before saying "there's your murder suspect"? Are violas hiding something from me?
what make the bike stable while it is moving
Just a heads-up: it isn't pure gyroscopic stabilization. It's a feedback loop with the rider, due to the offset nature of the front fork. Turning into the falling side will produce a centripetal force away from the fall. Try to ride the bike in a straight line without moving your body or handle bars; you'll fall. Gyroscopic force does help a little because tilting the wheel will make it twist into the turn, providing a little compensation. That's why you can ride hands-free above a certain speed.
http://students.guildhall.smu.edu.nyud.net:8090/ec lipse/index.html
Ummm...I wonder if the wide-eyed little Daleks will run to the hearth and find their stockings full of EXTERMINATE? Will Dr. Who don a white beard and hitch a team of reindeer to the Tardis because Santa's sleigh can't hold enough presents for everyone? And what about the smash holiday hit at the end, "We Wish Who a Merry Christmas"
No, I never said anything about cable. I was referring to broadcast television, which existed before cable. The whole argument can also be transferred to radio.
Many stations now have ties to larger companies and other industries, but there are independent ones out there too.
Television stations seem to survive pretty well on ad revenue. The better the coverage, the richer the station is. Advertising in general is an industry that won't go away soon, and the product (a favorable impression in the mind of a customer) has never been tangible anyway. Television integrates their advertising into products such as entertainment and news. Google integrates advertising into the most popular search tool.
The only thing that can bring Google down is not the tangibility of their assets, but the quality of their product. Linkfarms and bloggers and blogspammers erode the usefulness of Google and will eventually result in less advertising value. It's as if every time your local television station did an on-scene report, there were hundreds of people crowding around the camera with ads for companies, screaming and running and making faces to get your attention, to the point of drowning out the new reporter or even overpowering the cameraman and showing only ads. How long would you watch that news program in order to get news? And how many advertisers would spend money there, only to have their message diluted by freeloaders?
It seems that Google is losing the battle here. I hope that they do win the war, though it seems an impossible task. Perhaps Google will be driven to create better algorithms until they approach artificial intelligence.
I know, I was actually interested to see if that would affect my rating. Strangely, my comment wasn't all that unique, yet it got a 5 almost immediately and no comments despite the short bus sentence. Did everyone miss it, did they think it was a valid assessment of an intelligence level, or did they just not care?
We had a female friend with us on the trip and from talking to her we learned that not only was the women's bathroom the same way, it contained different stuff!
See, here we have proof of Studio Ghibili's subtle-yet-pervasive push to get men into drag. What other reason could there be? Miyazaki: cackling at men in dresses.
The reviewer obviously rode the short bus to school. For starters, they complain about being unable to download the file, it got corrupted, etc. I had no such troubles, obviously their computer or internet connection has issue.
THEN, we hear about a few lame attempts to use bitmap functions of the product, comparing it to Photoshop. Not one word about the vector functions. Come on! This isn't going to be a Photoshop replacement. The whole point of Acrylic is drawing clean vector-based objects with a pressure sensitive digitizer.
My review of the reviewer? Stay away from their blog at all costs.
Wacom's tablet digitizers did not at first, if you remember. There was a big uproar about users being unable to get pressure sensitivity in Photoshop on their shiny new Tablet PCs. So, and I've spoken with a Wacom engineer who verfies this, they duct-taped a Wintab wedge into their original HID Ink driver. Adobe wouldn't update Photoshop to work with Ink. So lesser-known digitizer makers develop a digitizer they way they're supposed to, with the HID Ink interface that's been common knowledge since 1999. And then it doesn't work in all applications, since some software companies can't be bothered to move to the updated input system.
Well, if someone only has a mouse, they certainly won't get what this program is all about.
However, with a tablet, it's looking really good.
The thing that makes this a killer app for me? It doesn't require Wintab at all. It works great with Microsoft's own Ink on a Tablet PC. This is one of the few applications where I can't tell the difference between drawing on my desktop with Wacom, and drawing on my tablet PC with a non-Wacom digitizer. I'm really impressed and will probably buy this thing when it's for sale. I had considered getting rid of my Tablet PC due to the lack of support for Ink in applications.
And I'm no Microsoft sycophant; I've got more computers running Linux than I do Windows. I just like to use each OS where it works best.
I hope I'm not the only one who sees something wrong with a person who believes that a cable channel's website is reason enough to hate me.
The head itself might have fit on a desk, but the printer wouldn't have even fit into a semi trailer...the sound was kind of like a lawnmower and garbage disposal in mortal combat.
We also did lithography at 1000+ fpm. Bare paper, though of course I'd guess that gloss litho stock is a lot stronger than newsprint. But the inkjet thing was for on-the-fly customized text and images, something litho doesn't do.
The company I used to work for does high-speed printing. They developed their own inkjet array drum, looked like one of those radial aircraft piston engines. We're talking over 400 feet per minute, continuous...
Hollywood has succeeded in reshaping the way men think about women. Specifically, the idea of what is doable. In old times, it basically came down to two criteria: alive and able to cook. What you're seeing now is the effect of the "not-so-doable" ones, who in fact nobody ever did.
Using them for diving is NOT still science fiction. I knew an ex-military diver years ago who was involved in deep-sea experiments with liquid breathing. I'm not sure if he was supposed to talk about it at the time. He said it was definitely weird. The main thing was how cold it felt.
So says the Cowards who can't spell "apparently" to save his life.
"Dell" and "nice" in the same sentence? (Ignore the irony of that for a few moments.)
I travel a LOT and am part of a company with many loosely connected divisions. Therefore I get to see all kinds of laptops. The Dells are always in the shop, the users expect and accept frequent lockups and crashes, and they generally use a "bar-of-soap" design strategy. Meaning, a lot of the plastic has very thin paint on it, and it a different color underneath...designed to show scratches and look old faster.
IBM Thinkpads and Toshiba laptops stand up MUCH better, have great battery life, and are designed to be lugged all over the country instead of sitting unused on Grandma's sewing table. I've also used Apple's Powerbook series, which obviously have more styling but manage to keep the laptop solid and usable.
The Metaverse in Snow Crash did not have physical feedback. The Metaverse was accessed via 3D goggles, with some of the input controlled by sensed body motion.
I'm perfectly satisfied right now with my $10 one-time fee. You can go anywhere, build stuff and sell it, basically anything except own land. It takes time to develop modeling skills, so if I'd purchased land I'd be wasting it.
If you've read Snow Crash, Second Life is currently the closest thing we have to Snow Crash's cyberspace. As time goes on, I only see it getting closer to that concept.
The ultimate Leatherman would be the Gerber Multi-Plier. I've had mine for 15 years. It's a true tool, not some flashy gadget that you don't actually use. Leatherman is like McDonalds and Multi-Plier is like steak grilled in your backyard.
Lotsa sex in Second Life. Basically there is financial competition to produce the sexiest clothing, poses, "accessories", and animations. Since you can make anything, there are some pretty advanced genitalia out there. Second Life allows you to tack anything anywhere on your avatar, including the Barbie- and Ken-like flat nether regions.
Not that I get involved in such things.
My favorite game in Second Life is Primtionary. Objects within Second Life are constructed out primary objects ("prims" for short) based on several basic shapes. Primtionary is like Pictionary; the contestant is given a word and must quickly construct a 3D model while other players try to guess the word. LOTS of fun. More than worth the $10 I've spent on Second Life so far. That's what I like about Second Life right now; you can spend $10 and have complete access to the game. If you decide to own land and build on it, then you can upgrade to a monthly account. Meanwhile, you can practice building in the sandbox regions and get good enough to build something meaningful once you do decide to upgrade. And nothing prevents you from making clothes, vehicles, pets, etc and selling them while still landless.