Camera? Yeah, cameras in RC planes have been done since at least the 80s, complete with video transmission back (often, but not always, in the amateur UHF bands)
6 mile range? Yes, if left alone in stable flight most gas RC planes can cover 6 miles before running out of gas. Controlling it would be rather difficult since you couldn't see it unless you were doing something like driving along following it.
Ceiling of 15k ft? Probably possible, but not likely from a control standpoint - again, you can't see it.
Speed up to 60 mph? Easily surpassed, and has been for several decades.
Autonomous navigation is the only "new" feature these things have over RC planes people have been playing with since the 80s (and probably before, but my experience with RC planes only goes back to the mid 80s). None of the rest of your list is anything new, or unique.
We're both assuming they've actually read the summary.
So, no. It's not going to be a new era, unless you mean one in/. readers don't even read the comments, because that's about all that's left for them to ignore.
Fair enough -- I refuse to participate in the "follow the trail of blogs linking to other blogs in the hope you might eventually find an original source", and I've (obviously) given up on slashdot submitters to find real sources when their favorite blog has a two bit summary they can use almost in it's entirety instead.
So we know now that the iPhone 4 can survive a 1000ft fall as long as it doesnâ(TM)t hit concrete, I wonder if Apple will talk about this at one of their next iPhone announcements.
Until the phone companies actually provide a lower rate for people that bought their phones outright, that won't change. I think there's one company in the US that does that, and if its the one I think it is, they're being bought by AT&T so you can expect that lower rate to go away.
You do realize that I didn't make any claims about it being shitty beer because it was "light"? So your entire response is based on as assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about.
I, and my friends, make fun of the big brands as producing shit beer, because it all tastes like crap. Yes, it's high quality crap, but it's still crap all the same. Most beer drinkers that I know with similar opinions of the big American brands know it takes a lot of quality control to pull it off, but don't accept that quality control as being a marker of "good" beer, because in the end, it tastes like crap. Of course, we're almost all homebrewers, and as such have a better understanding of what goes into making a good beer, and the processes therein, than the average guy-on-the-street.
Most people that I know of that make fun of "American beers" are making fun of the absolute shit carrying the budweiser, michelob, coors, etc "big" brands.
As you say, there are plenty of American micro- and regional- breweries making great beer.
I guess I don't understand why one would want to launch WebOS applications when they're sitting at their desktop or laptop. Is there an actual desire for this that I'm just too dense to understand?
Or with the proper amount of thought, you can "talk" to it with a system of any voltage. Alternately, you can "talk" to a system of any voltage using Arduinos. Of course, if you're depending on someone else to do the hardware, then you might just be out of luck. If you care enough, well, building interfaces to deal with different voltages isn't all that hard.
Around here, any identifying number is, as often as not, taped over, so you do have to ask. Which pretty much guarantees that life is going to get worse for you in the future since now that officer and his buddies know that you're someone who's likely to complain.
Creative Labs shipped software with their soundcards about the same timeframe that was also doing this. Also, a rather fun way to annoy college roommates was their "prody parrot" software that would randomly repeat things said within microphone range in a slightly parrot-ish voice.
In all fairness, if the intended use is merely to get from point a to point b in accordance with all appropriate motor vehicle laws, then you can make the case that either is sufficient.
Ah, OK. I was slightly confused, since I remembered B5 as being pretty decent, unlike anything that I remember JJ Abrams having been involved in. I'm not saying he hasn't done some good stuff -- I just don't remember his involvement in anything good.
Amen! My original intellimouse optical finally died, after nearly 10 years; I suspect it would have lasted even longer but the last three years it's been a laptop mouse and the cable has been rather abused.
Luckily, I found a small store that still had a few, and purchased all of them. Best mouse ever.
And because slashdot requires me to wait a certain amount of time before replying with what should be a one word answer, and because one word isn't a good enough answer, you get this annoying run on sentence of complete crap before I can post so I'll just keep typing random stuff to kill some time.
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Camera? Yeah, cameras in RC planes have been done since at least the 80s, complete with video transmission back (often, but not always, in the amateur UHF bands)
6 mile range? Yes, if left alone in stable flight most gas RC planes can cover 6 miles before running out of gas. Controlling it would be rather difficult since you couldn't see it unless you were doing something like driving along following it.
Ceiling of 15k ft? Probably possible, but not likely from a control standpoint - again, you can't see it.
Speed up to 60 mph? Easily surpassed, and has been for several decades.
Autonomous navigation is the only "new" feature these things have over RC planes people have been playing with since the 80s (and probably before, but my experience with RC planes only goes back to the mid 80s). None of the rest of your list is anything new, or unique.
That was the 90s and early 00's. Then something happened and they turned into the bible/ufo/aliens/ghosts/monsters channel.
Yes, yes it was.
We're both assuming they've actually read the summary.
So, no. It's not going to be a new era, unless you mean one in /. readers don't even read the comments, because that's about all that's left for them to ignore.
Fair enough -- I refuse to participate in the "follow the trail of blogs linking to other blogs in the hope you might eventually find an original source", and I've (obviously) given up on slashdot submitters to find real sources when their favorite blog has a two bit summary they can use almost in it's entirety instead.
That WAS the article, minus the last sentence.
So we know now that the iPhone 4 can survive a 1000ft fall as long as it doesnâ(TM)t hit concrete, I wonder if Apple will talk about this at one of their next iPhone announcements.
There, now you've read the entire article.
That doesn't invalidate the point about people being willing to give away stuff they create.
Anticorrosion coating, color helps make sure no parts are missed and un-coated.
Until the phone companies actually provide a lower rate for people that bought their phones outright, that won't change. I think there's one company in the US that does that, and if its the one I think it is, they're being bought by AT&T so you can expect that lower rate to go away.
You do realize that I didn't make any claims about it being shitty beer because it was "light"? So your entire response is based on as assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about.
I, and my friends, make fun of the big brands as producing shit beer, because it all tastes like crap. Yes, it's high quality crap, but it's still crap all the same. Most beer drinkers that I know with similar opinions of the big American brands know it takes a lot of quality control to pull it off, but don't accept that quality control as being a marker of "good" beer, because in the end, it tastes like crap. Of course, we're almost all homebrewers, and as such have a better understanding of what goes into making a good beer, and the processes therein, than the average guy-on-the-street.
Most people that I know of that make fun of "American beers" are making fun of the absolute shit carrying the budweiser, michelob, coors, etc "big" brands.
As you say, there are plenty of American micro- and regional- breweries making great beer.
I guess I don't understand why one would want to launch WebOS applications when they're sitting at their desktop or laptop. Is there an actual desire for this that I'm just too dense to understand?
Or with the proper amount of thought, you can "talk" to it with a system of any voltage. Alternately, you can "talk" to a system of any voltage using Arduinos. Of course, if you're depending on someone else to do the hardware, then you might just be out of luck. If you care enough, well, building interfaces to deal with different voltages isn't all that hard.
Around here, any identifying number is, as often as not, taped over, so you do have to ask. Which pretty much guarantees that life is going to get worse for you in the future since now that officer and his buddies know that you're someone who's likely to complain.
Creative Labs shipped software with their soundcards about the same timeframe that was also doing this. Also, a rather fun way to annoy college roommates was their "prody parrot" software that would randomly repeat things said within microphone range in a slightly parrot-ish voice.
Alternately, indicate that you've never met an honest police officer, and that their word is never, ever, to be trusted.
The music you stream cannot easily be downloaded for storage for offline play.
A quick glance at the search engine of your choice shows that doing exactly that is trivial.
In all fairness, if the intended use is merely to get from point a to point b in accordance with all appropriate motor vehicle laws, then you can make the case that either is sufficient.
Ah, OK. I was slightly confused, since I remembered B5 as being pretty decent, unlike anything that I remember JJ Abrams having been involved in. I'm not saying he hasn't done some good stuff -- I just don't remember his involvement in anything good.
Let 'em fail. It wasn't that long ago that motorola could barely GIVE their phones away.
I prefer the BOFH approach to dealing with office robots.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/17/bofh_2010_episode_10/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/01/bofh_2010_episode_11/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/15/bofh_2010_episode_13/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/29/bofh_2010_episode_14/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/05/bofh_2010_episode_15/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/12/bofh_2010_episode_16/
I think you're confusing the shooter in arizona with the wikileak crap.
Amen! My original intellimouse optical finally died, after nearly 10 years; I suspect it would have lasted even longer but the last three years it's been a laptop mouse and the cable has been rather abused.
Luckily, I found a small store that still had a few, and purchased all of them. Best mouse ever.
But using Ayn Rand gets more discussion amongst the /. crowd.
equipment
And because slashdot requires me to wait a certain amount of time before replying with what should be a one word answer, and because one word isn't a good enough answer, you get this annoying run on sentence of complete crap before I can post so I'll just keep typing random stuff to kill some time.