For the interface, I plan to fabricate a fighter plane style MFD to replace my gauges, and also do the video logging that he does, except using a camera built into the fairing. I've done video on bikes before, and vibration is a big problem, so among other things, I'm hoping to find or adapt some video stabilization code.
I've already got a computer in my car, the only things I'm waiting for before I start buying is: 1. Nano-ITX Epia motherboard (4.7" squared) 2. An LCD screen that's daylight readable and affordable.
For power supply, I'll use an Opus 90 (this guy should have used the Opus 150, it has a shutdown controller built in) like the one in my car.
Actually, it wasn't sequels he was worried about, he didn't want to see the models recycled into cheapo movies. It was common for a studio to recycle spaceships that were originally built for a lot of money by either flying them upside down, adding a fin, or, and I'm not making this up, backwards.
Kubrick was fine with 2010, it was crap he wanted to avoid.
Is that the standard being applied now?
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I know a guy that just had problems getting KDE to work with his video drivers. Does that mean I can submit a story titled 'Is Linux dead?' and see it published on Slashdot?
I'd like to visit the magical world the submitter lives in where every new technology works perfectly from the get-go and never needs to improve and be developed. Must be nice.
The two careers are completely compatible, you just need to set expectations ahead of time.
Tell your co-workers that you have a family and that they'll always come first. Let your boss know that you're willing to go the extra mile when you're needed, you're just counting on him/her to use really clear judgement about when to have you working late or weekends. You'd be surprised how reasonable someone can be if you actually talk about this with them.
Finally, offer to fill in occasional gaps by working at home. When I had my first kid and I started getting antsy, my boss suggested that I work from home occasional Fridays. It was a small thing, and I'm careful not to betray the trust inherent in it, but it definately helps.
Software development has occasional deathmarches, but it also has unprecedented flexibility other times of the year.
Adserv.alc was originally put in because Aureate/Radiant was a benign program that powered ad funded games. We monitored their traffic, and all they did was occasionally download a new advertisement, nothing nefarious. It was needed to make some popular games work.
Later, the program became a little less benign, so we removed the file from our program and released an update that deleted it. No conspiracy, in fact I'd think that our course of action would meet the approval of security minded folks because when the program shifted, we said 'no way, bucko' and got rid of the configuration file to protect our customers.
BTW, you're posting as AC. Not much of a challenge to take pot shots from an anonymous position. I have to wonder, what's your motivation here? Will you respond? I guess we'll see.
This is wrong, NIS did not make holes in the firewall for spyware. NIS had a method for applying preset rules to known programs so they would work without the user needing to be an expert. You and I might know that a web browser needs to access outbound on port 80, as well as FTP rules, but Joe User doesn't.
This is a great way to make a firewall usable for novices, but it had a flaw. It used the.EXE name to apply the rule, and it was quickly discovered that you could rename a malicious program to use the same name of a known good program and take advantage of those rules. This was quickly fixed by adding a digital signature database that tracked each known good EXE (each version released wherever possible) so that only the real programs could take advantage of this functionality.
A couple of people saw the preset rules when NIS was originally released and made the assumption that since they listed a bunch of programs, there must be spyware in there. This was not true, and the NIS team watched those new rules like a hawk to make sure that no bad guys got in.
How do I know this? Because I worked on NIS 2000 2.0 and had the privilege of leading the NIS 2001 through NIS 2004 quality assurance team.
FUD is not something that Microsoft has a monopoly on, as the parent post proves, well meaning but wrong end users can dish it out too.
Corporations have been going into space since the 1960s. Did you think that your DirecTV dish is picking up signals from NASA?
The reason this is big is that this is private manned spaceflight. As long as the government has a stranglehold on who does and doesn't qualify for space, then there can be no real human expansion. The sooner private interests are getting into space (eventually it'll be orbit, then beyond) the sooner we'll have meaningful colonization of places like the moon and Mars. This is vital to the survival of the species, as long as we're all stuck on this rock, the next comet or solar flare can wipe us all out.
What about TV shows? Auto-synchronize your PVR to your portable video player and watch TV shows while on the bus, train, etc. Play it in your office too, why not?
Are you familiar with sarcasm? At the risk of burning karma, that was the mechanism I was using in my post. The parent post said 'why bother going to space?' and I used their exact structure to say 'why bother going to the new world?' to make a comparison. Of course it was immensely profitable to come to North America, and I'm suggesting in my reply that the same logic applies to space.
Was there any real reason for non-explorers to visit North America back in the 1400-1500s?
I mean, aside from the wow-factor of, "I've been to the New World!", there wasn't really a reason for the average civilian to go. It's not like they're going to visit relatives or anything.
There are no stores in space. Every penny spent on space exploration is spent here on earth. It employees scientists, engineers, clerical types, food workers, maintenance staff, and so on.
If they did this, they would not be 'spending it on the moon'.
Actually, you are mistaken. For centralized power production to be 'orders of a magnitude' more efficient, it would need to be hundreds, if not thousands of times more efficient. That is simply not true.
It's true, centralized power production is more efficient then an infernal combustion engine in a stop-n-go car, but it's more like two or three times as efficient, not the fantasy number syou stated. Don't forget about the amount of current lost between the powerplant and your charging station, as well as the power lost in the AC to DC conversion.
Also, when you burn coal, you're also releasing considerable amounts of radioactivity into the air that you aren't when you burn petrol or biodiesel. In their zeal to get rid of radioactive threats, the environmentalists have pushed contained nuclear plants aside in favor of coal plants that pump rads into the air 24-7.
Finally, it doesn't matter if electric vehicles 'open themselves up to' things like solar or wind power if that power source is not where you get your watts. Just because 'you can' doesn't mean 'you will'. You might as well cut your legs off and shave all your hair as 'it makes you more desirable' as an astronaut because you aren't carrying excess weight.
It's hardly green transportation, not when the source of the electricity is coal and gas burning plants. All you've done is relocate the pollution out to wherever the power plant is.
It seems as if many self-styled environmentalists (who wear their badge in the form of an all-electric vehicle) are the personification of shortsighted NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). They either don't understand that electricity comes from SOMEWHERE, or they don't care about the pollution, only that it doesn't happen where they live.
Your 87 day has a lot wrong with it. First, it doesn't account for the time it takes to recharge the battery. Second, it assumes that some crazy eyed bandit is charging the battery, then unplugging from the wall and running it down to 0% while cackling madly, then replugging it into the wall.
A modern Lithium Ion battery can only be recharged about 100 times before it starts to fail rapidly, and the charge from those lasts 2-3 hours.
How, exactly, is this supposed to be bad again? Oh yeah, you're an idiot.
Is there scientific value to you driving your car to a movie? The future of space will not be driven by science, it will be driven by industry. Hobbyists are usually a reliable indicator of directions that industry will follow.
What are the odds that VoIP ports are either blocked or the latency makes it unusable? The airline industry has put quite a bit of effort into explaining why Airphone is The Only Right Way to talk from a plane.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we must ask that you not use your laptop as a phone over the internet as it... may cause cancer."
Right, but how do you expect to grow your core competencies when your cross functional objectives are unilaterally denied? How can you cogenerate a cohesive team-building eduverse when your analysis of synergy fails to take into account multi-cultural diversity in the workplace?
As someone who influences purchasing decisions for my company, I must first insist that the product be completely buzzword compliant.
For example, unless it uses JAVA (which my staff assures me is the next big thing), then I'm not interested. Also, I insist that the files are XML, PDF, or maybe even SATA or RAMBUS so that they can leverage my various cross-functional team building objectives.
Now, I see that this is going to be on the 'web'. I once clicked a link and found an unpleasant photo of a gentleman with a distressing condition that exposed his bottom in a most unflattering fashion. If I'm going to 'synergize' and align behind this eSolution, I certainly hope such a thing won't happen again.
Finally, I want the interface to be 'webbish', but not TOO webbish.
The idea of the Shadow battlecrab scream is truly awesome. I have a computer in my car, and I'm definately finding a good WAV of that tonight to blast from my speakers at the right moment.
The trick is for auto makers to tie that sound in to play out loudspeakers whenever they detect something in the way with the parking sonar.
In regards to sound effect, how long until people release mods that play properly pitched jet-turbine sounds? You could do your own Aliens-style drop ship sounds. When parallel parking, you could be 'in the pipe, five by five'.
While this may be a factual study, I find myself more interested in the alarmist reactions people have to news like this.
Life is not about walking from one hermetically sealed clean room to another, there's all sorts of things out there that we interact with on a daily basis. Every time you breath, you inhale pollen, dust mites, various chemical vapors, and all sorts of organic detritus.
Every time you drink water, there's a certain quantity of dead organic material, traces of various excrements, and so on, even if your water is bottled.
We do not live life as individual colonies of humanity, sailing through deserts of sterility, instead we walk through a cloud of sloughed off bacteria, viruses, and other debris, and it's O-K.
Humankind has lived for millenia with these things, and for the most part, we've been O-K.
People lived before pasteurization, people lived before water filtration, people even lived before MOUTHWASH! And they were all... O-K.
The world we live in is much cleaner in terms of organic residue then ever before, and the legions of bacteria on your shower curtain have not spontaneously appeared out of the ether, so calm down, take a deep breath, and stop panicing.
It's just a matter of time before someone figures out that there's a correlation between good health and some non-obvious combination of bacteria and organic waste. In the meantime, let Howard Hughes-style cleanliness craziness pass you by and just live your lives peacefully.
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I'm in the planning phases of doing something like this with my Bandit 1200.
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For the interface, I plan to fabricate a fighter plane style MFD to replace my gauges, and also do the video logging that he does, except using a camera built into the fairing. I've done video on bikes before, and vibration is a big problem, so among other things, I'm hoping to find or adapt some video stabilization code.
I've already got a computer in my car, the only things I'm waiting for before I start buying is:
1. Nano-ITX Epia motherboard (4.7" squared)
2. An LCD screen that's daylight readable and affordable.
For power supply, I'll use an Opus 90 (this guy should have used the Opus 150, it has a shutdown controller built in) like the one in my car.
Actually, it wasn't sequels he was worried about, he didn't want to see the models recycled into cheapo movies. It was common for a studio to recycle spaceships that were originally built for a lot of money by either flying them upside down, adding a fin, or, and I'm not making this up, backwards.
Kubrick was fine with 2010, it was crap he wanted to avoid.
I know a guy that just had problems getting KDE to work with his video drivers. Does that mean I can submit a story titled 'Is Linux dead?' and see it published on Slashdot?
I'd like to visit the magical world the submitter lives in where every new technology works perfectly from the get-go and never needs to improve and be developed. Must be nice.
Absolutely correct, great point.
The two careers are completely compatible, you just need to set expectations ahead of time.
Tell your co-workers that you have a family and that they'll always come first. Let your boss know that you're willing to go the extra mile when you're needed, you're just counting on him/her to use really clear judgement about when to have you working late or weekends. You'd be surprised how reasonable someone can be if you actually talk about this with them.
Finally, offer to fill in occasional gaps by working at home. When I had my first kid and I started getting antsy, my boss suggested that I work from home occasional Fridays. It was a small thing, and I'm careful not to betray the trust inherent in it, but it definately helps.
Software development has occasional deathmarches, but it also has unprecedented flexibility other times of the year.
Adserv.alc was originally put in because Aureate/Radiant was a benign program that powered ad funded games. We monitored their traffic, and all they did was occasionally download a new advertisement, nothing nefarious. It was needed to make some popular games work.
Later, the program became a little less benign, so we removed the file from our program and released an update that deleted it. No conspiracy, in fact I'd think that our course of action would meet the approval of security minded folks because when the program shifted, we said 'no way, bucko' and got rid of the configuration file to protect our customers.
BTW, you're posting as AC. Not much of a challenge to take pot shots from an anonymous position. I have to wonder, what's your motivation here? Will you respond? I guess we'll see.
This is wrong, NIS did not make holes in the firewall for spyware. NIS had a method for applying preset rules to known programs so they would work without the user needing to be an expert. You and I might know that a web browser needs to access outbound on port 80, as well as FTP rules, but Joe User doesn't.
.EXE name to apply the rule, and it was quickly discovered that you could rename a malicious program to use the same name of a known good program and take advantage of those rules. This was quickly fixed by adding a digital signature database that tracked each known good EXE (each version released wherever possible) so that only the real programs could take advantage of this functionality.
This is a great way to make a firewall usable for novices, but it had a flaw. It used the
A couple of people saw the preset rules when NIS was originally released and made the assumption that since they listed a bunch of programs, there must be spyware in there. This was not true, and the NIS team watched those new rules like a hawk to make sure that no bad guys got in.
How do I know this? Because I worked on NIS 2000 2.0 and had the privilege of leading the NIS 2001 through NIS 2004 quality assurance team.
FUD is not something that Microsoft has a monopoly on, as the parent post proves, well meaning but wrong end users can dish it out too.
Corporations have been going into space since the 1960s. Did you think that your DirecTV dish is picking up signals from NASA?
The reason this is big is that this is private manned spaceflight. As long as the government has a stranglehold on who does and doesn't qualify for space, then there can be no real human expansion. The sooner private interests are getting into space (eventually it'll be orbit, then beyond) the sooner we'll have meaningful colonization of places like the moon and Mars. This is vital to the survival of the species, as long as we're all stuck on this rock, the next comet or solar flare can wipe us all out.
Because the german army hates to march up and down hills, of course.
You pay, and they tell you that "You've done a man's job." Goddamn unicorns...
What about TV shows? Auto-synchronize your PVR to your portable video player and watch TV shows while on the bus, train, etc. Play it in your office too, why not?
Are you familiar with sarcasm? At the risk of burning karma, that was the mechanism I was using in my post. The parent post said 'why bother going to space?' and I used their exact structure to say 'why bother going to the new world?' to make a comparison. Of course it was immensely profitable to come to North America, and I'm suggesting in my reply that the same logic applies to space.
Did you really not get that?
Was there any real reason for non-explorers to visit North America back in the 1400-1500s?
I mean, aside from the wow-factor of, "I've been to the New World!", there wasn't really a reason for the average civilian to go. It's not like they're going to visit relatives or anything.
A Space Hayabusa
Please? I'd hate to be the only dork out there....
There are no stores in space. Every penny spent on space exploration is spent here on earth. It employees scientists, engineers, clerical types, food workers, maintenance staff, and so on.
If they did this, they would not be 'spending it on the moon'.
How righteous can you be if you post as Anonymous Coward? The numbers support my argument, does pixie dust support yours?
Actually, you are mistaken. For centralized power production to be 'orders of a magnitude' more efficient, it would need to be hundreds, if not thousands of times more efficient. That is simply not true.
It's true, centralized power production is more efficient then an infernal combustion engine in a stop-n-go car, but it's more like two or three times as efficient, not the fantasy number syou stated. Don't forget about the amount of current lost between the powerplant and your charging station, as well as the power lost in the AC to DC conversion.
Also, when you burn coal, you're also releasing considerable amounts of radioactivity into the air that you aren't when you burn petrol or biodiesel. In their zeal to get rid of radioactive threats, the environmentalists have pushed contained nuclear plants aside in favor of coal plants that pump rads into the air 24-7.
Finally, it doesn't matter if electric vehicles 'open themselves up to' things like solar or wind power if that power source is not where you get your watts. Just because 'you can' doesn't mean 'you will'. You might as well cut your legs off and shave all your hair as 'it makes you more desirable' as an astronaut because you aren't carrying excess weight.
It's hardly green transportation, not when the source of the electricity is coal and gas burning plants. All you've done is relocate the pollution out to wherever the power plant is.
It seems as if many self-styled environmentalists (who wear their badge in the form of an all-electric vehicle) are the personification of shortsighted NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). They either don't understand that electricity comes from SOMEWHERE, or they don't care about the pollution, only that it doesn't happen where they live.
Your 87 day has a lot wrong with it. First, it doesn't account for the time it takes to recharge the battery. Second, it assumes that some crazy eyed bandit is charging the battery, then unplugging from the wall and running it down to 0% while cackling madly, then replugging it into the wall.
A modern Lithium Ion battery can only be recharged about 100 times before it starts to fail rapidly, and the charge from those lasts 2-3 hours.
How, exactly, is this supposed to be bad again? Oh yeah, you're an idiot.
Is there scientific value to you driving your car to a movie? The future of space will not be driven by science, it will be driven by industry. Hobbyists are usually a reliable indicator of directions that industry will follow.
What are the odds that VoIP ports are either blocked or the latency makes it unusable? The airline industry has put quite a bit of effort into explaining why Airphone is The Only Right Way to talk from a plane.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we must ask that you not use your laptop as a phone over the internet as it... may cause cancer."
Right, but how do you expect to grow your core competencies when your cross functional objectives are unilaterally denied? How can you cogenerate a cohesive team-building eduverse when your analysis of synergy fails to take into account multi-cultural diversity in the workplace?
As someone who influences purchasing decisions for my company, I must first insist that the product be completely buzzword compliant.
For example, unless it uses JAVA (which my staff assures me is the next big thing), then I'm not interested. Also, I insist that the files are XML, PDF, or maybe even SATA or RAMBUS so that they can leverage my various cross-functional team building objectives.
Now, I see that this is going to be on the 'web'. I once clicked a link and found an unpleasant photo of a gentleman with a distressing condition that exposed his bottom in a most unflattering fashion. If I'm going to 'synergize' and align behind this eSolution, I certainly hope such a thing won't happen again.
Finally, I want the interface to be 'webbish', but not TOO webbish.
The idea of the Shadow battlecrab scream is truly awesome. I have a computer in my car, and I'm definately finding a good WAV of that tonight to blast from my speakers at the right moment.
The trick is for auto makers to tie that sound in to play out loudspeakers whenever they detect something in the way with the parking sonar.
In regards to sound effect, how long until people release mods that play properly pitched jet-turbine sounds? You could do your own Aliens-style drop ship sounds. When parallel parking, you could be 'in the pipe, five by five'.
While this may be a factual study, I find myself more interested in the alarmist reactions people have to news like this.
Life is not about walking from one hermetically sealed clean room to another, there's all sorts of things out there that we interact with on a daily basis. Every time you breath, you inhale pollen, dust mites, various chemical vapors, and all sorts of organic detritus.
Every time you drink water, there's a certain quantity of dead organic material, traces of various excrements, and so on, even if your water is bottled.
We do not live life as individual colonies of humanity, sailing through deserts of sterility, instead we walk through a cloud of sloughed off bacteria, viruses, and other debris, and it's O-K.
Humankind has lived for millenia with these things, and for the most part, we've been O-K.
People lived before pasteurization, people lived before water filtration, people even lived before MOUTHWASH! And they were all... O-K.
The world we live in is much cleaner in terms of organic residue then ever before, and the legions of bacteria on your shower curtain have not spontaneously appeared out of the ether, so calm down, take a deep breath, and stop panicing.
It's just a matter of time before someone figures out that there's a correlation between good health and some non-obvious combination of bacteria and organic waste. In the meantime, let Howard Hughes-style cleanliness craziness pass you by and just live your lives peacefully.
Y'all are O-K.