I'm stunned no one has yet mentioned it's use as an acoustic concentrator.
You could use it like one of those bionic ears, but the db gain would be absurdly high. Replace the LNA with a high-quality microphone.
THEN, you could point it at something REALLY interesting.. like... uh... a pigeon, or... uh... a squirrel...
And hear what they REALLY have to say......heh... I knew there was something conspiratorial about those squirrels... Don't get me started about the chipmonks.
What about biplanes and triplanes? This isn't much different.
Even so, there is likely some loss of efficiency from the lower blade being in the downwash. The downwash "blows" across a much larger area than the lower wing. There is likely a velocity between maximum speed and hover, where the efficiency is best due to maximum downwash going between blades.
Clearly, though, it is adequatley efficient, as the video shows.
I think it's ingenious... although I can see why it's far easier to accomplish on very-small craft.
It's a catchy tune... Weeks after listening to the song, you find your self enjoying the song again, in your head, purely from your own memory...
Surely, that is a COPY of the song, created simply by the act of hearing the original.
However absurd it is, someone out there thinks it should be illegal to do so.
Publishing scribed-by-ear guitar tabs is out now, apparently.
If you plunk a few notes by ear on the piano in your own home, is that illegal?... Or sing it in the shower? (Horrible singing voices notwithstanding).
"We hereby charge Bob with the heinous crime of remembering a copyrighted work in the privacy of his own mind..."
Pinup girls printed in 80-columns of delicious Courier(ish) typeface.
I would be stunned if smiley faces were not in use to some degree in the 70's, or even the late 60's, when teletypes (with 110-baud modems) were how most news services sent and received news...
They had the nice pin-up girls...
And, what work it must have been to make ACII art back in the day, before video-card drivers had ASCII-effect filters...
But, it doesn' have to comepte with land lines (which ARE stable)... as much as it has to compete with regular wireless services (which ARE NOT STABLE).
Most of the discussion about reliablity makes it seem as though the existing wireless services are "all-that"....They are not.
I simply wanted to applaud you for proper spelling of the word "existence."
Thank you, sincerely.
Being bereft of mod points at the moment, I could not award you by simply modding you up.
Your implication appears to be that nothing can succeed without funding by the U.S. government.
That is not only untrue, but it could be argued that the converse is true... and that due to government incompetence, it is often government involvement and/or funding that spells doom for any honest project.
We cannot both distrust our government and insist that it solve our problems. We cannot both insist that it let us live in liberty and insist that we become indebted to it.
Back to my point, there is plenty of private investment, and even other-government investment. But, the privately-invested dollar will go further, because private entities keep far better track of their money than the U.S. government does.
Insisting that stem-cell failure is only due to lack of funding does at least oversimplify the situation.
If we can help all mankind equally well (or better) with adult-stem-cells as we can embryonic-stem-cells, then we've done a better job of adhering to the Hippocratic oath, of first doing no harm.
It is not insanity to respect that very old and very useful creed. Age does not make a thing false. A thing is not inherently false by cause of antiquity. Wouldn't it be nifty if I could stick to one point? Thank you.
That's a good idea... I think there are numerous slashdotters that are sufficiently in love with themselves to prefer a their clone... Wait... what about the gender! Oh No! What have WE DONE?!?
There are people doing embryonic stem-cell research, they simply are not government/public funded here in the U.S.
From what I can see, however, the folks doing research with the adult-stem-cells are outpacing embryonic research by leaps and bounds.
This sounds like a bona-fide adult-stem-cell success.
From what a vaguely remember, the embryonic-stem-cell experiments have either failed outright, or ultimately failed after initial success. We've heard lots of promises, but adult-stem-cells are delivering, where embryonic-stem-cells do not seem to be.
If I'm ignorant, it's honest ignorance.
Let's see some links to comparable embryonic-stem-cell successes...
I think peer-reviewed periodicals are our best bet for the straight-story, but even those articles may have biases. And, it's probably heresy in the medical field to oppose embryonic-stem-cell-research... which is an important clue.
Although I appreciate your differences with RMS, the tendency for the FSF to divide and separate GNU and Linux goes back almost to the birth of Linus' first Linux kernel, because the FSF and Linus have important differences of opinion regarding software, and because GNU is hoped to be bigger than Linux, or at least not limited to Linux.
I have no problem with GNU and Linux shown together in the parent. It will help us understand the different players, and the different philosophies in the F/OSS arena.
Once upon a time, Linux was THE example of FOSS to me. I learned that FOSS movement and the philosophy that gave birth to it are older than Linux. Yeah, that's lame of me. But we all have to start somewhere.
I may learn a great deal, too, from replies to this post... Or I might unlearn some things I thought I knew.
If it's wintertime, and there is a furnace of some sort keeping the space warm, than any waste heat from your electronics is going to -help- heat the airspace and reduce the amount of energy consumed by the furnace. Even if your machine was only 2% efficient, it would still be an effective heater... LOL.
The point being that energy consumption by electronics in colder weather does not have a very large impact on energy in your home, when compared to the hot weather situation. Where the energy loss is two-fold:
Your electronics consume energy and produce -unwanted- heat.
Your HVAC system consumes energy to move the unwanted heat outside.
That's not a small point.
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If you had more than 1 MAME machine, or even with just 1, but not as fun... You could have little tournaments with your friends for fun. Offer a real-world reward, maybe even something legal! (as opposed to a miniature snarfblatt, which is endangered in its native country of whoozeewhatsia and is therefore illegal to trade)
If you had a board that continually displayed all-time-high-scores for each of the popular M.A.M.E. games, your friends might try in earnest to beat each other and stay on the top.
Again, the purpose, by whatever means, is to create incentive to excel while playing the game, instead of just playing it for 5 minutes for nostalgia.
Yes, yes, of course, you could light someone's pants on fire and require that they hit 80,000 points in Joust before you'll use the extinguisher... But come on, folks... That'd only work once... So we need a better solution.
If the attract track was long enough, and played on another system, it would play all-the-time, and would not sound as redundant as, say a 2-minute track.
Better still, would be to have several tracks of different lengths mixed together. In this manner, it would be harder, after hours in your arcade, to find yourself saying, "I just heard that Pac-Man-Death, which means I will hear a Joust respawn in 3...2...1..."
I've used M.A.M.E, and it's great. Emulation beats a rewrite/port any day of the week.
The feel is totally authentic, because the emulator executes the original ROM code opcode by venerable opcode.
What I'd hope to see in a book by that title, is some advice on creating the atmosphere of the arcade.
My fond arcade memories are of dark rooms or halls, with black paint or wallpaper. I remember one called "Space Station something-or-other" that had murals on the wall of deep-space.
Back to my point: Suggestions for decorating.
How about a home-theater room that with a few curtain-pulls-or-other becomes an authentic-looking arcade?
How about a 5.1+ audio stream playing through your home-theatre system that generates appropriate background noise? Yes, it's almost like a bad laugh track. But, let's face it, you could have the best single-cabinet ever, and you are not going to capture the arcade atmosphere. Does playing a movie in your living room with an LCD projector make you feel like you are at the drive-in? - Rhetorical, the answer, were it solicited, would be "No. LCD in living room != drive in"
Without regard to the colossal waste of time and resources this would be, it would definitely be pretty cool... DEVO in 5...
P.S. Let me get this off my chest: "Finite" "Infinite" "Definitive" "Definitely"...
That notebook is overpowered until it has to run Vista...
Then it's underpowered again.
Nonetheless, I've gotten real work done on original IBM PC 4.77 Mhz 640K computers, a while back... Gotta love those daisy-wheel printers, and whatever those IBM printers were that had that interchangable spherical printhead.
Your right about that, but I can guess a rebuttal:
But, what if your laptop gets 120 fps at 1440x900 at full detail?
And the repsonse to that would be:
Great! That means my desktop can hit 120 fps at 4800 x 1200! Yay! tripple-screen output!
However much of an exageration that is, the point is that however powerful laptop hardware gets, more performance will come form the hardware that is free from the power, heat, and size restraints of the laptop.
And for hardcore gamers, it's not about whether "it's fast enough" it's about whether "it's faster than YOURS."
The supply of desktop parts is likely to continue also for this reason:
Newer tech is easier, though more expensive, initially, to produce "large."
The newest nVidia card will be big (sometimes requiring 2-slots). Only after a new design has been tested, produced, sold (recovering -some- capital) can the process of optimizing and miniaturizing begin. Yes, a manufacturer could step out-the-door with a very small, low-power, low-temp chip, but only by skipping all of the revenue they could have received by marketing earlier revisions of the tech... for the desktop, of course...
And I'll be happy to buy it, handing down my previous "best card" to one of my other computers.
I upgrade my best computer, and pass on the replaced part to one of my other 5 desktop machines. All my machines slowly get upgraded. The cycle takes longer when I have to buy a whole new mobo/cpu/ram/vid card (PCI-Express).
But in any case, my DELL laptop is left out in the cold... becoming a relic that must be replaced in its entirety, or nearly so.
Mind you, the manufactures might well prefer that incremental upgrades not happen, and that, in order to get an extra 5 fps in your FPS of choice, you must replace your entire system.
However, I am comfortable that the death of the desktop would NOT be in the best interest of the consumer...
LOL. Except the people who use Linux enjoy it and use it to further free communication. However much the U.S. (and Windows) has been going downhill in Free Speech, Cuba is NOT much of a Free Speech zone.
And Linux is about as free as it gets. The O.S. is free, it's open, and it extends its freedom to the users who embrace it.
Scientific Consensus is a threat to democracy.
Scientists are people and therefore, like any other body of people, is corruptible.
The general population is not part of the Scientific Consensus and cannot hope to understand that "scientists" who would rule them.
The ruling class will not be striving for a scientifically-competent populace because it would reduce the need for the ruling class to "take care of them." The ruling class will insist that there is just no way you could understand why they had to dictate every aspect of your existence, and you must simply trust that "science is right."
So, the Scientific Consensus is THE MOST dangerous thing to democracy, because it has exactly nothing to do with the will of the people. It is antithetical to democracy. This -might- have been a good thing, but the would-be-tyrants of the world will harness Science, as they do everything else, and twist it to suite their needs.
Oh, and who are you to disagree?
You are not qualified to argue with me unless you have a doctorate from (insert dogmatic establishment university here).
Yes, shutting down and switching to batteries is out...
But, you can undersize the fuel cell, so that there is a surplus at night that charges batteries. Then, during the day, the batteries supplement the fuel cell during those higher loads.
The fuel cell, being smaller, will require less fuel to remain hot, and the "off-peak" energy it generates will still be captured and available.
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I'm stunned no one has yet mentioned it's use as an acoustic concentrator.
You could use it like one of those bionic ears, but the db gain would be absurdly high. Replace the LNA with a high-quality microphone.
THEN, you could point it at something REALLY interesting.. like... uh... a pigeon, or... uh... a squirrel...
And hear what they REALLY have to say... ...heh... I knew there was something conspiratorial about those squirrels... Don't get me started about the chipmonks.
I see a previous post mentioning prior art... Missed it the first time, sorry.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned this documents' potential as prior art? (Or have they).
Are there any patents that would could be revoked based on prior art found in this document?
"Fascinating, Jim."
Wait now... Peer-to-peer is an evil tool used only by hackers, pirates and other miscreants. /sarc
No, they may -resemble- their constituents by signing what they have not read, but they are still misrepresenting them.
Perhaps if we were not so conditioned to skip the fine print... The EULA effect...
What about biplanes and triplanes? This isn't much different.
Even so, there is likely some loss of efficiency from the lower blade being in the downwash. The downwash "blows" across a much larger area than the lower wing. There is likely a velocity between maximum speed and hover, where the efficiency is best due to maximum downwash going between blades.
Clearly, though, it is adequatley efficient, as the video shows.
I think it's ingenious... although I can see why it's far easier to accomplish on very-small craft.
Is it illegal to have the song in your head?
It's a catchy tune... Weeks after listening to the song, you find your self enjoying the song again, in your head, purely from your own memory...
Surely, that is a COPY of the song, created simply by the act of hearing the original.
However absurd it is, someone out there thinks it should be illegal to do so.
Publishing scribed-by-ear guitar tabs is out now, apparently.
If you plunk a few notes by ear on the piano in your own home, is that illegal?... Or sing it in the shower? (Horrible singing voices notwithstanding).
"We hereby charge Bob with the heinous crime of remembering a copyrighted work in the privacy of his own mind..."
Absurd?! Perhaps to some.
Yes... That "Old School" porn...
Pinup girls printed in 80-columns of delicious Courier(ish) typeface.
I would be stunned if smiley faces were not in use to some degree in the 70's, or even the late 60's, when teletypes (with 110-baud modems) were how most news services sent and received news...
They had the nice pin-up girls...
And, what work it must have been to make ACII art back in the day, before video-card drivers had ASCII-effect filters...
Sheesh!
Yes, the stability of the mesh is important.
But, it doesn' have to comepte with land lines (which ARE stable)... as much as it has to compete with regular wireless services (which ARE NOT STABLE).
Most of the discussion about reliablity makes it seem as though the existing wireless services are "all-that".
I simply wanted to applaud you for proper spelling of the word "existence." Thank you, sincerely. Being bereft of mod points at the moment, I could not award you by simply modding you up.
Your implication appears to be that nothing can succeed without funding by the U.S. government.
That is not only untrue, but it could be argued that the converse is true... and that due to government incompetence, it is often government involvement and/or funding that spells doom for any honest project.
We cannot both distrust our government and insist that it solve our problems. We cannot both insist that it let us live in liberty and insist that we become indebted to it.
Back to my point, there is plenty of private investment, and even other-government investment. But, the privately-invested dollar will go further, because private entities keep far better track of their money than the U.S. government does.
Insisting that stem-cell failure is only due to lack of funding does at least oversimplify the situation.
If we can help all mankind equally well (or better) with adult-stem-cells as we can embryonic-stem-cells, then we've done a better job of adhering to the Hippocratic oath, of first doing no harm.
It is not insanity to respect that very old and very useful creed. Age does not make a thing false. A thing is not inherently false by cause of antiquity. Wouldn't it be nifty if I could stick to one point? Thank you.
That's a good idea... I think there are numerous slashdotters that are sufficiently in love with themselves to prefer a their clone... Wait... what about the gender! Oh No! What have WE DONE?!?
There are people doing embryonic stem-cell research, they simply are not government/public funded here in the U.S.
From what I can see, however, the folks doing research with the adult-stem-cells are outpacing embryonic research by leaps and bounds.
This sounds like a bona-fide adult-stem-cell success.
From what a vaguely remember, the embryonic-stem-cell experiments have either failed outright, or ultimately failed after initial success. We've heard lots of promises, but adult-stem-cells are delivering, where embryonic-stem-cells do not seem to be.
If I'm ignorant, it's honest ignorance.
Let's see some links to comparable embryonic-stem-cell successes...
I think peer-reviewed periodicals are our best bet for the straight-story, but even those articles may have biases. And, it's probably heresy in the medical field to oppose embryonic-stem-cell-research... which is an important clue.
Now, if only Windows didn't require hardware, then we wouldn't have all of those driver-based atack vectors to contend with!
Although I appreciate your differences with RMS, the tendency for the FSF to divide and separate GNU and Linux goes back almost to the birth of Linus' first Linux kernel, because the FSF and Linus have important differences of opinion regarding software, and because GNU is hoped to be bigger than Linux, or at least not limited to Linux.
I have no problem with GNU and Linux shown together in the parent. It will help us understand the different players, and the different philosophies in the F/OSS arena.
Once upon a time, Linux was THE example of FOSS to me. I learned that FOSS movement and the philosophy that gave birth to it are older than Linux. Yeah, that's lame of me. But we all have to start somewhere.
I may learn a great deal, too, from replies to this post... Or I might unlearn some things I thought I knew.
If it's wintertime, and there is a furnace of some sort keeping the space warm, than any waste heat from your electronics is going to -help- heat the airspace and reduce the amount of energy consumed by the furnace. Even if your machine was only 2% efficient, it would still be an effective heater... LOL.
The point being that energy consumption by electronics in colder weather does not have a very large impact on energy in your home, when compared to the hot weather situation. Where the energy loss is two-fold:
Your electronics consume energy and produce -unwanted- heat.
Your HVAC system consumes energy to move the unwanted heat outside.
That's not a small point.
If you had more than 1 MAME machine, or even with just 1, but not as fun... You could have little tournaments with your friends for fun. Offer a real-world reward, maybe even something legal! (as opposed to a miniature snarfblatt, which is endangered in its native country of whoozeewhatsia and is therefore illegal to trade)
If you had a board that continually displayed all-time-high-scores for each of the popular M.A.M.E. games, your friends might try in earnest to beat each other and stay on the top.
Again, the purpose, by whatever means, is to create incentive to excel while playing the game, instead of just playing it for 5 minutes for nostalgia.
Yes, yes, of course, you could light someone's pants on fire and require that they hit 80,000 points in Joust before you'll use the extinguisher... But come on, folks... That'd only work once... So we need a better solution.
Sweet!
Thanks for the tip, and the link!
If the attract track was long enough, and played on another system, it would play all-the-time, and would not sound as redundant as, say a 2-minute track.
Better still, would be to have several tracks of different lengths mixed together. In this manner, it would be harder, after hours in your arcade, to find yourself saying, "I just heard that Pac-Man-Death, which means I will hear a Joust respawn in 3...2...1..."
I've used M.A.M.E, and it's great. Emulation beats a rewrite/port any day of the week.
The feel is totally authentic, because the emulator executes the original ROM code opcode by venerable opcode.
What I'd hope to see in a book by that title, is some advice on creating the atmosphere of the arcade.
My fond arcade memories are of dark rooms or halls, with black paint or wallpaper. I remember one called "Space Station something-or-other" that had murals on the wall of deep-space.
Back to my point: Suggestions for decorating.
How about a home-theater room that with a few curtain-pulls-or-other becomes an authentic-looking arcade?
How about a 5.1+ audio stream playing through your home-theatre system that generates appropriate background noise? Yes, it's almost like a bad laugh track. But, let's face it, you could have the best single-cabinet ever, and you are not going to capture the arcade atmosphere. Does playing a movie in your living room with an LCD projector make you feel like you are at the drive-in? - Rhetorical, the answer, were it solicited, would be "No. LCD in living room != drive in"
Without regard to the colossal waste of time and resources this would be, it would definitely be pretty cool... DEVO in 5...
P.S. Let me get this off my chest: "Finite" "Infinite" "Definitive" "Definitely"...
That notebook is overpowered until it has to run Vista... Then it's underpowered again. Nonetheless, I've gotten real work done on original IBM PC 4.77 Mhz 640K computers, a while back... Gotta love those daisy-wheel printers, and whatever those IBM printers were that had that interchangable spherical printhead.
Your right about that, but I can guess a rebuttal: But, what if your laptop gets 120 fps at 1440x900 at full detail? And the repsonse to that would be:
Great! That means my desktop can hit 120 fps at 4800 x 1200! Yay! tripple-screen output!
However much of an exageration that is, the point is that however powerful laptop hardware gets, more performance will come form the hardware that is free from the power, heat, and size restraints of the laptop.
And for hardcore gamers, it's not about whether "it's fast enough" it's about whether "it's faster than YOURS."
The supply of desktop parts is likely to continue also for this reason: Newer tech is easier, though more expensive, initially, to produce "large." The newest nVidia card will be big (sometimes requiring 2-slots). Only after a new design has been tested, produced, sold (recovering -some- capital) can the process of optimizing and miniaturizing begin. Yes, a manufacturer could step out-the-door with a very small, low-power, low-temp chip, but only by skipping all of the revenue they could have received by marketing earlier revisions of the tech... for the desktop, of course... And I'll be happy to buy it, handing down my previous "best card" to one of my other computers. I upgrade my best computer, and pass on the replaced part to one of my other 5 desktop machines. All my machines slowly get upgraded. The cycle takes longer when I have to buy a whole new mobo/cpu/ram/vid card (PCI-Express). But in any case, my DELL laptop is left out in the cold... becoming a relic that must be replaced in its entirety, or nearly so. Mind you, the manufactures might well prefer that incremental upgrades not happen, and that, in order to get an extra 5 fps in your FPS of choice, you must replace your entire system. However, I am comfortable that the death of the desktop would NOT be in the best interest of the consumer...
LOL. Except the people who use Linux enjoy it and use it to further free communication. However much the U.S. (and Windows) has been going downhill in Free Speech, Cuba is NOT much of a Free Speech zone. And Linux is about as free as it gets. The O.S. is free, it's open, and it extends its freedom to the users who embrace it.
Scientific Consensus is a threat to democracy. Scientists are people and therefore, like any other body of people, is corruptible. The general population is not part of the Scientific Consensus and cannot hope to understand that "scientists" who would rule them. The ruling class will not be striving for a scientifically-competent populace because it would reduce the need for the ruling class to "take care of them." The ruling class will insist that there is just no way you could understand why they had to dictate every aspect of your existence, and you must simply trust that "science is right." So, the Scientific Consensus is THE MOST dangerous thing to democracy, because it has exactly nothing to do with the will of the people. It is antithetical to democracy. This -might- have been a good thing, but the would-be-tyrants of the world will harness Science, as they do everything else, and twist it to suite their needs. Oh, and who are you to disagree? You are not qualified to argue with me unless you have a doctorate from (insert dogmatic establishment university here).
Yes, shutting down and switching to batteries is out...
But, you can undersize the fuel cell, so that there is a surplus at night that charges batteries. Then, during the day, the batteries supplement the fuel cell during those higher loads.
The fuel cell, being smaller, will require less fuel to remain hot, and the "off-peak" energy it generates will still be captured and available.