Perhaps Caddy does make custom windshields for these cars, but I doubt it.
I get plenty annoyed with the reflections off the top of my dashboard from certain angles even in daylight, so I have no difficulty believing they could make a display visible at night. Depends on whether they're trying to cause something to fluoresce within the windshield to make an image, or simply project an image from below so it reflects correctly to the driver. The former is very difficult; the latter requires only a thin LCD in the top of the dash, and maybe that part of the windshield be flat. The LCD should be mirrored top to bottom, so up is up when reflected once, and inverted black-to-white so the background is dark and objects show up light.
My question is, do they try to superimpose this image like a real HUD over your actual view of where you're going, or do they put it where you would otherwise see the hood of your car? If they're going for a real HUD you won't be able to move your head much or you'll get dangerous divergence of the images.
I'm quite ignorant of the production and distribution sides of the music biz, since very little popular music interests me, but that said: why don't more artists simply do more/all of that part of the supply chain themselves?
I am neither a programmer nor a network engineer, but I have the ability to mpeg-encode an audio source, and to create a website to showcase these wares (note the lack of a "z") and sell them, through widely available free or near-free software. A bit of talking-around would find me an ISP capable of hosting my site and handling heavy downloads. Licensing/ copyrighting of work as I understand it can be done directly through BMI/ASCAP by the artists or their managers, no?
The only things that I or any musician would need to net-distribute their music that they are unlikely to be able to do themselves are a) the studio mixing and mastering of the music before it's encoded and b) the e-commerce part of the website. Both of those can be done by hired professionals, along with any other parts of the above plan that the musicians would rather not do.
As far as publicity to draw buyers: a) most music purchasers these days are web-savvy and likely to be able to find their favorites du jour on the web if those artists have a website, and b) a niche would quickly emerge to collect listings of and links to what's available and to direct buyers, just as has happened with shopping-search, airfare-search and similar web services already.
I don't get it. Why are the seven monolithic music companies still a factor at all?
Sleepy Hollow was a beautifully-staged and -shot film, with mostly good acting, some sweet subtle effects (especially the fog pinching the torches), great sword work, and edited crisply, BUT when oh when will moviemakers stop casting actors for period pieces who can't manage the accent? I mean, it just destroys any believability the sets, music, costumes, etc. produce when you hear a flat, off-key blat like Ms. Ricci's. She was almost as painful to hear as Keanu was in Dracula. Even Miranda Richardson, from whom I expect better, seemed not to have the accent down--sounded too So-Cal, I thought. Grade of B, minus a full mark for voices, for an overall C.
The new Bond, though gripping in spots, had very poor editing; it went on way too long, or just seemed so for lack of action. Preposterous plot, but we expect that from Bond films, and Cleese was surprisingly awkward (but welcome!). The opening, from the banker's office through the boat chase, was right up there with the classics, but the snow chase was pretty pathetic; I nearly choked when the flying snomos appeared. Brosnan lacks Connery's gravitas but is aging very well into the part, edging Dalton for the #2 spot. Denise Richards did look like Lara Croft, but wasn't as bad as people say, and any chance to get a camera underwater with her is alright in my book. Well acted, beautiful women, and Brosnan on the plus side; poor pacing, not enough tech (all the car did was get sliced in half! wtf?), and thin on action to the minus. C-.
Definitely a great hack, but I believe that instead of the fuel mostly leaking before takeoff they just didn't fill it up, since multiple aerial refuels were necessary for almost all missions anyway, and it's easier and safer to get off the ground if lighter.
BTW, SR-71 operational cost was around $200k *per hour*.
That's much more than I knew about it, indeed, but I will say it was my understanding that it was the ships' rigging and sails that were ignited, fire then spreading to the deck.
If true, though, it has the crucial hack elements of ingenuity, dire necessity, and success.
If Archimedes and fire are all that's in first sources, perhaps Greek fire was the tool. I know even less about that except that it was waterproof and burned.
I got a kick out of Pike's post, and I've also enjoyed seeing/. tear him a new one for his presumption.
IMO, games generally are a waste of time, but the premise that wasting time is automatically wrong is itself wrong; humans need leisure as well as recreation and work. And games of course can teach skills, foster cooperation and just plain amuse. Because of their singular focus on weapons, targets, and reflexes, though, I find FPS's to be be more cathartic than instructive. (Though that doesn't stop me from playing Marathon 10+ hours a week. After a long stressful week, some catharsis is welcome.)
Where I think Pike has a point is that highly cerebral recreations like computer games produce "narrower" human beings than more traditional recreations when practiced to the exclusion of other forms. Forget how badass you are with a rocket launcher--can you get your first serve in? Can you bring down a tree without killing yourself or destroying your neighbor's house? Can you even stand on one foot for more than a minute without falling over? Mens sana in corpore sano (sound mind in sound body) is not just a bit of highfalutin' Latin; it's a bit of truth, and I think Pike was making a plea for a bit more balance in our activities between the cerebral and the somatic.
It's not that tennis is morally superior to Quake; I make no explicit moral argument here at all. I just think that being able to make your body perform even remotely as nimbly as one's character does in an FPS is a source of great satisfaction, and, importantly, it's a satisfaction that is available to anybody, not just "athletes." Many of us spend our work and our play sitting on our asses clicking and scrolling. What we're missing by that is not only improved physical health but [personal philosophy] fuller realization as human beings, which is not just an abstract good but a tonic for the soul, leading to happiness and longevity. [/philosophy]
No doubt many, many people reading this do strive for and to varying degrees achieve such balance, (and the effort is as important as the success) but Pike and I worry a bit about the number of kids and adults who don't even try.
OK, I'm putting on my aluminized asbestos pants now.
Of course it makes it more wired: people getting online, surfing, netgaming, emailing, telecommuting etc is wired behavior whether it's over a modem or a T3.
DC may not be cutting-edge like SV (heh, you think?), but in my book wired means "connected" more than "state-of-the-art". Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Gandhi
Mac hardware would be a nonfactor if MacOS were on more platforms.
Sorry, disagree.
Mac hardware is so bulletproof that I can ship off 6 or 8-year old machines (having init'ed the HD and installed new system sw) to newbie relatives in other parts of the world secure in the knowledge that with a phone call or two to set up user prefs, they can be working, emailing and surfing away on a box I depreciated years ago. Try that with a P90.
Apple as a company is far from perfect but the durability of their gear is excellent. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Gandhi
I know this affects only a subset of/. readers, but: those who browse on Macs can simply and surely defeat all cookie activity by replacing the "MagicCookie" file in their Netscape prefs folder with a folder of the same name. Since the MacOS forbids replacing a folder with a file, any attempt to set cookies will transparently fail. I've had it so since Netscape 2, and doubleclick just told me I had no cookie to opt-out from! For those unable to effect this method, what happens if you lock the cookie file? Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Gandhi
Not 100% sure of this, but I remember reading about a German plot to destabilize England during the war by infiltrating expert forgers and engravers via submarine to produce really good phony banknotes, thereby hyperinflating the pound into worthlessness. So, either it has been tried, or someone wrote a really cool book on the idea.:-/
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
Couldn't 3D motion be done a bit simpler and for less energy cost with 4 fans instead of 6? To move along the fan-less axis, just pitch 90 degrees up or down on one of the other axes first by briefly imbalancing the counterrotation. Speed of movement can hardly be a priority for this thing, and this way you need one-third less propulsion machinery, and you get two free faces for sensors/whatever.
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Perhaps Caddy does make custom windshields for these cars, but I doubt it.
I get plenty annoyed with the reflections off the top of my dashboard from certain angles even in daylight, so I have no difficulty believing they could make a display visible at night. Depends on whether they're trying to cause something to fluoresce within the windshield to make an image, or simply project an image from below so it reflects correctly to the driver. The former is very difficult; the latter requires only a thin LCD in the top of the dash, and maybe that part of the windshield be flat. The LCD should be mirrored top to bottom, so up is up when reflected once, and inverted black-to-white so the background is dark and objects show up light.
My question is, do they try to superimpose this image like a real HUD over your actual view of where you're going, or do they put it where you would otherwise see the hood of your car? If they're going for a real HUD you won't be able to move your head much or you'll get dangerous divergence of the images.
I'm quite ignorant of the production and distribution sides of the music biz, since very little popular music interests me, but that said: why don't more artists simply do more/all of that part of the supply chain themselves?
I am neither a programmer nor a network engineer, but I have the ability to mpeg-encode an audio source, and to create a website to showcase these wares (note the lack of a "z") and sell them, through widely available free or near-free software. A bit of talking-around would find me an ISP capable of hosting my site and handling heavy downloads. Licensing/ copyrighting of work as I understand it can be done directly through BMI/ASCAP by the artists or their managers, no?
The only things that I or any musician would need to net-distribute their music that they are unlikely to be able to do themselves are a) the studio mixing and mastering of the music before it's encoded and b) the e-commerce part of the website. Both of those can be done by hired professionals, along with any other parts of the above plan that the musicians would rather not do.
As far as publicity to draw buyers: a) most music purchasers these days are web-savvy and likely to be able to find their favorites du jour on the web if those artists have a website, and b) a niche would quickly emerge to collect listings of and links to what's available and to direct buyers, just as has happened with shopping-search, airfare-search and similar web services already.
I don't get it. Why are the seven monolithic music companies still a factor at all?
Sleepy Hollow was a beautifully-staged and -shot film, with mostly good acting, some sweet subtle effects (especially the fog pinching the torches), great sword work, and edited crisply, BUT when oh when will moviemakers stop casting actors for period pieces who can't manage the accent? I mean, it just destroys any believability the sets, music, costumes, etc. produce when you hear a flat, off-key blat like Ms. Ricci's. She was almost as painful to hear as Keanu was in Dracula. Even Miranda Richardson, from whom I expect better, seemed not to have the accent down--sounded too So-Cal, I thought. Grade of B, minus a full mark for voices, for an overall C.
The new Bond, though gripping in spots, had very poor editing; it went on way too long, or just seemed so for lack of action. Preposterous plot, but we expect that from Bond films, and Cleese was surprisingly awkward (but welcome!). The opening, from the banker's office through the boat chase, was right up there with the classics, but the snow chase was pretty pathetic; I nearly choked when the flying snomos appeared. Brosnan lacks Connery's gravitas but is aging very well into the part, edging Dalton for the #2 spot. Denise Richards did look like Lara Croft, but wasn't as bad as people say, and any chance to get a camera underwater with her is alright in my book. Well acted, beautiful women, and Brosnan on the plus side; poor pacing, not enough tech (all the car did was get sliced in half! wtf?), and thin on action to the minus. C-.
American Beauty is a must-see. 'Nuff said. A.
Oh, and we're still talking about it 2200 years later. ;-)
Definitely a great hack, but I believe that instead of the fuel mostly leaking before takeoff they just didn't fill it up, since multiple aerial refuels were necessary for almost all missions anyway, and it's easier and safer to get off the ground if lighter.
BTW, SR-71 operational cost was around $200k *per hour*.
That's much more than I knew about it, indeed, but I will say it was my understanding that it was the ships' rigging and sails that were ignited, fire then spreading to the deck.
If true, though, it has the crucial hack elements of ingenuity, dire necessity, and success.
If Archimedes and fire are all that's in first sources, perhaps Greek fire was the tool. I know even less about that except that it was waterproof and burned.
I nominate Archimedes' use of mirrors, lenses, and sunlight to burn the Roman fleet at Syracuse.
Also, does cracking the Enigma machine qualify? It was an incredible achievement and of huge importance, but is it a hack or just applied research?
...try using a differential equation to tell an Eskimo his pants are on fire.
(but you're right!)
OK, I guess my moderators missed the Life of Brian reference to all the people lining up to importune Brian...
Sorry to waste bandwidth.
I got a kick out of Pike's post, and I've also enjoyed seeing /. tear him a new one for his presumption.
IMO, games generally are a waste of time, but the premise that wasting time is automatically wrong is itself wrong; humans need leisure as well as recreation and work. And games of course can teach skills, foster cooperation and just plain amuse. Because of their singular focus on weapons, targets, and reflexes, though, I find FPS's to be be more cathartic than instructive. (Though that doesn't stop me from playing Marathon 10+ hours a week. After a long stressful week, some catharsis is welcome.)
Where I think Pike has a point is that highly cerebral recreations like computer games produce "narrower" human beings than more traditional recreations when practiced to the exclusion of other forms. Forget how badass you are with a rocket launcher--can you get your first serve in? Can you bring down a tree without killing yourself or destroying your neighbor's house? Can you even stand on one foot for more than a minute without falling over? Mens sana in corpore sano (sound mind in sound body) is not just a bit of highfalutin' Latin; it's a bit of truth, and I think Pike was making a plea for a bit more balance in our activities between the cerebral and the somatic.
It's not that tennis is morally superior to Quake; I make no explicit moral argument here at all. I just think that being able to make your body perform even remotely as nimbly as one's character does in an FPS is a source of great satisfaction, and, importantly, it's a satisfaction that is available to anybody, not just "athletes." Many of us spend our work and our play sitting on our asses clicking and scrolling. What we're missing by that is not only improved physical health but [personal philosophy] fuller realization as human beings, which is not just an abstract good but a tonic for the soul, leading to happiness and longevity. [/philosophy]
No doubt many, many people reading this do strive for and to varying degrees achieve such balance, (and the effort is as important as the success) but Pike and I worry a bit about the number of kids and adults who don't even try.
OK, I'm putting on my aluminized asbestos pants now.
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I continue to worry about the number of people who can't spell "lose". For one thing, what do they do with their neckties after work?
Yeah, I know, offtopic...
Sorry, but what are you smoking?
Of course it makes it more wired: people getting online, surfing, netgaming, emailing, telecommuting etc is wired behavior whether it's over a modem or a T3.
DC may not be cutting-edge like SV (heh, you think?), but in my book wired means "connected" more than "state-of-the-art".
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Gandhi
Mac hardware would be a nonfactor if MacOS were on more platforms.
Sorry, disagree.
Mac hardware is so bulletproof that I can ship off 6 or 8-year old machines (having init'ed the HD and installed new system sw) to newbie relatives in other parts of the world secure in the knowledge that with a phone call or two to set up user prefs, they can be working, emailing and surfing away on a box I depreciated years ago. Try that with a P90.
Apple as a company is far from perfect but the durability of their gear is excellent.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Gandhi
I know this affects only a subset of /. readers, but: those who browse on Macs can simply and surely defeat all cookie activity by replacing the "MagicCookie" file in their Netscape prefs folder with a folder of the same name.
Since the MacOS forbids replacing a folder with a file, any attempt to set cookies will transparently fail. I've had it so since Netscape 2, and doubleclick just told me I had no cookie to opt-out from!
For those unable to effect this method, what happens if you lock the cookie file?
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Gandhi
Not 100% sure of this, but I remember reading about a German plot to destabilize England during the war by infiltrating expert forgers and engravers via submarine to produce really good phony banknotes, thereby hyperinflating the pound into worthlessness. So, either it has been tried, or someone wrote a really cool book on the idea. :-/
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
Is this anything like Intermapper? Quite a good network diagramming tool, and still available for reasonable cost from Dartmouth Uni, I think.
Couldn't 3D motion be done a bit simpler and for less energy cost with 4 fans instead of 6? To move along the fan-less axis, just pitch 90 degrees up or down on one of the other axes first by briefly imbalancing the counterrotation. Speed of movement can hardly be a priority for this thing, and this way you need one-third less propulsion machinery, and you get two free faces for sensors/whatever.
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