Looks from the video, though, that they each traveled in a horseshoe shaped path, clearing off both sides of the tables. If you're just doing that in one pass, you're gonna miss one side of the table/half the score you would from a there and back trip.
If I think about it, and am close enough to the pay kiosk, and there's a decent amount of time left on my ticket, I'll just insert the ticket back into the machine where it prints it out, so the next person will hopefully see it before the swipe their card/insert their coins.
2 wheels, basically just a powered axel with wheels... kinda like a small Segway without the handlebars
Taking the first design you mentioned, the car that works right-side-up or upside down, you could make the two wheeler have the body hanging below the axle, instead of balanced/gyroed on top of it, so that it just naturally balances itself.
I wonder if it's related to Japanese carpenters not using benches to work on, instead kneeling/squatting and working on the floor. I remember from woodworking days reading this, and thinking that it made sense from a space perspective, in that the floorspace in a shop isn't hindered by a bench that has a sizable footprint.
What about a device that loops and delays the signals coming from the keyboard, and runs those down the line. With the current keystrokes as well as those from 30 seconds ago, and those from 3 minutes ago, etc, that might be too much similar signal to get something coherent out of.
Similar to a looping/distortion pedal for a guitar/instrument.
I used to get Snopes candidates from my mother-in-law a few years ago. I used to delete them without saying anything. Then I figured I'd try to teach her about the internet, and trusting things you receive in your inbox. I made an effort to track down whatever outrageous story she forwarded on snopes or wherever else, so that she'd see they weren't true, and stop sending them.
Now, instead of getting emails from her with "I wonder if this is true. It sounds so amazing!", I get "I already checked Snopes, and while this one isn't real, it makes for a good story!"
MLIA.
Actually, the clay tiles are used in most desert areas not for aesthetics. Well, not directly. They're the material that's been used in that area for hundreds of years. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with.
One more reason they've been the material of choice for so long? They don't spontaneously combust the same way asphalt shingles or other popular materials can.
But why is it this way? I've not visited one of these overrun-by-scammers foreign pages, but I'm willing to guess they have the same exact setup as the one I use locally here in the US. This includes the "flag this post" button. If the forums are overrun with scams and spams, then it's up to the local users to police that. I don't know the specifics of how it works, but it seems pretty straightforward. If the (foreign) locals don't care enough to police the spammers and scammers away, why should Craigslist?
I may have spoken too soon...I heard a snippet of news on the radio about a bill in front of Congress, and assumed it had passed. Google tells me it's still in the works, but some quick Googling tells me it's likely to pass in some form.
Searching for "credit card reform" will get you on the right track.
It's not exactly the same thing, but it has to do with conniving ways to make customers' payments less effective towards paying down debt, and more to do with increasing income to credit card companies...
It took me a while to figure it out, but it really is in their best interest long term to make it as difficult as possible for me to pay a bill. They then get to add on late charges, etc. The credit card companies all just got reamed for similar.
I have a hard enough time remembering all of my details enough to satisfy the people at whatever utility I'm trying to pay. I've had a conversation on several occasions with the operator about "I just want to pay my bill. I don't need a balance, I don't care the due date, I don't want any information. I just want to give you money." And they can't help me without my PIN, password, elementary school, etc.
"I have to weigh the time it takes me to be quite this careful against the damage that the one-bad-one-in-a-hundred does to me."
Seriously? The few seconds it takes you to sit back and read through your email one more time is going to cost what? a few minutes at most? Are that many of your emails that time sensitive? I realize there are pushy customers who want everything yesterday. We all have those. But in my experience, it's those customers especially who warrant a few extra seconds of "wrap-my-head-around-wtf-i'm-saying" time.
What comes to mind isn't an answer to the parent question, but the flip side of it, and a good reason why we shouldn't blur any buildings.
Much like the "parental warning: explicit lyrics" stickers on music, the blurriness will just attract attention.
What's that? You weren't aware there was a government building in your neighborhood? Well, now that it's blurred out, you know there's something of political/social value there. Something that would probably make a good target...
I wonder how this will play out with regards to illegal downloads? If one gets caught/charged/accused of transferring "digital goods" to which they don't own the copyright to, are they then responsible for the taxes those goods would have generated had they been legit?
Reminds me of Al Capone's downfall...
I work for a company that produces paper products. A large part of what we do is die cut the sheets into different shapes. We charge our customers for these shapes according to how many we get out of a sheet.
Sometimes the shapes are square/rectangular, which nest next to each other very well. Generally, they do not. Among other things, I am tasked with figuring out how many shapes we can get out of a sheet of paper. With the irregular shapes, the best method I've found is just to brute force the problem, trying various layouts to see if orienting the shapes one way will get us one or two more shapes out of a sheet. It's not a simple area problem, since some shapes nest very well, and some don't. I do have tricks I've learned to help speed the process, but I'd love to have something like this software, which would take the one-up shape, and tell me how many I can get out of a sheet of paper.
I've actually used this very concept to explain how looking into the past would be possible. There's one thing you've missed, I believe.
When you begin decelerating, it will appear that the light from the clock is speeding up, but in fact it's only going to appear to speed up until you reach 0, and it is at the speed of light relative to your motion away. Then the light will continue to pass/hit you at the normal speed of light.
Imagine that once you reach your destination, you set up camp, and bring out your big ass telescope. Point it back at Earth, and the light you're seeing hit your telescope is hundreds/thousands/etc of years old. This represents events that have already happened.
It's a similar idea that they go over in the movie Explorers. The kids build a space ship, wind up on an alien ship far away, and the alien ship is just now receiving television/radio signals from the 40's and 50's.
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Looks from the video, though, that they each traveled in a horseshoe shaped path, clearing off both sides of the tables. If you're just doing that in one pass, you're gonna miss one side of the table/half the score you would from a there and back trip.
If I think about it, and am close enough to the pay kiosk, and there's a decent amount of time left on my ticket, I'll just insert the ticket back into the machine where it prints it out, so the next person will hopefully see it before the swipe their card/insert their coins.
2 wheels, basically just a powered axel with wheels... kinda like a small Segway without the handlebars
Taking the first design you mentioned, the car that works right-side-up or upside down, you could make the two wheeler have the body hanging below the axle, instead of balanced/gyroed on top of it, so that it just naturally balances itself.
+2 Informative?
Really, slashdot?
I realize there's no +/-1 gross, but Informative?
Sorry to reply to myself.
/.er, i didn't bother R'ingTFA before posting. Mod me down if you must.
Disregard the above comment. Like any good
I wonder if it's related to Japanese carpenters not using benches to work on, instead kneeling/squatting and working on the floor. I remember from woodworking days reading this, and thinking that it made sense from a space perspective, in that the floorspace in a shop isn't hindered by a bench that has a sizable footprint.
Odd numbers for unstable releases?
That you, Gene Roddenberry?
What about a device that loops and delays the signals coming from the keyboard, and runs those down the line. With the current keystrokes as well as those from 30 seconds ago, and those from 3 minutes ago, etc, that might be too much similar signal to get something coherent out of.
Similar to a looping/distortion pedal for a guitar/instrument.
I used to get Snopes candidates from my mother-in-law a few years ago. I used to delete them without saying anything. Then I figured I'd try to teach her about the internet, and trusting things you receive in your inbox. I made an effort to track down whatever outrageous story she forwarded on snopes or wherever else, so that she'd see they weren't true, and stop sending them.
Now, instead of getting emails from her with "I wonder if this is true. It sounds so amazing!", I get "I already checked Snopes, and while this one isn't real, it makes for a good story!" MLIA.
Actually, the clay tiles are used in most desert areas not for aesthetics. Well, not directly. They're the material that's been used in that area for hundreds of years. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with.
/nitpicking.
One more reason they've been the material of choice for so long? They don't spontaneously combust the same way asphalt shingles or other popular materials can.
So what you're saying is....
Once you go white, you never go back?
But why is it this way? I've not visited one of these overrun-by-scammers foreign pages, but I'm willing to guess they have the same exact setup as the one I use locally here in the US. This includes the "flag this post" button. If the forums are overrun with scams and spams, then it's up to the local users to police that. I don't know the specifics of how it works, but it seems pretty straightforward. If the (foreign) locals don't care enough to police the spammers and scammers away, why should Craigslist?
Try www.ascap.com for starters.
See also www.riaaradar.com for a search engine of records that are on RIAA labels.
Facebook, huh?
What about:
Myspace
Friendster
Classmates
Usenet
Etc...
What's that? these don't do the things you want them to do, like Facebook does? Huh.
I may have spoken too soon...I heard a snippet of news on the radio about a bill in front of Congress, and assumed it had passed. Google tells me it's still in the works, but some quick Googling tells me it's likely to pass in some form. Searching for "credit card reform" will get you on the right track. It's not exactly the same thing, but it has to do with conniving ways to make customers' payments less effective towards paying down debt, and more to do with increasing income to credit card companies...
It took me a while to figure it out, but it really is in their best interest long term to make it as difficult as possible for me to pay a bill. They then get to add on late charges, etc. The credit card companies all just got reamed for similar.
I have a hard enough time remembering all of my details enough to satisfy the people at whatever utility I'm trying to pay. I've had a conversation on several occasions with the operator about "I just want to pay my bill. I don't need a balance, I don't care the due date, I don't want any information. I just want to give you money." And they can't help me without my PIN, password, elementary school, etc.
Yeah, too much prior art, methinks.
What if we used this idea--that the computers can't come up with questions which are intuitive for humans-- to solve the captcha problem?
"I have to weigh the time it takes me to be quite this careful against the damage that the one-bad-one-in-a-hundred does to me."
Seriously? The few seconds it takes you to sit back and read through your email one more time is going to cost what? a few minutes at most? Are that many of your emails that time sensitive? I realize there are pushy customers who want everything yesterday. We all have those. But in my experience, it's those customers especially who warrant a few extra seconds of "wrap-my-head-around-wtf-i'm-saying" time.
What comes to mind isn't an answer to the parent question, but the flip side of it, and a good reason why we shouldn't blur any buildings.
Much like the "parental warning: explicit lyrics" stickers on music, the blurriness will just attract attention.
What's that? You weren't aware there was a government building in your neighborhood? Well, now that it's blurred out, you know there's something of political/social value there. Something that would probably make a good target...
I wonder how this will play out with regards to illegal downloads? If one gets caught/charged/accused of transferring "digital goods" to which they don't own the copyright to, are they then responsible for the taxes those goods would have generated had they been legit?
Reminds me of Al Capone's downfall...
I work for a company that produces paper products. A large part of what we do is die cut the sheets into different shapes. We charge our customers for these shapes according to how many we get out of a sheet.
Sometimes the shapes are square/rectangular, which nest next to each other very well. Generally, they do not. Among other things, I am tasked with figuring out how many shapes we can get out of a sheet of paper. With the irregular shapes, the best method I've found is just to brute force the problem, trying various layouts to see if orienting the shapes one way will get us one or two more shapes out of a sheet. It's not a simple area problem, since some shapes nest very well, and some don't. I do have tricks I've learned to help speed the process, but I'd love to have something like this software, which would take the one-up shape, and tell me how many I can get out of a sheet of paper.
I've actually used this very concept to explain how looking into the past would be possible. There's one thing you've missed, I believe.
When you begin decelerating, it will appear that the light from the clock is speeding up, but in fact it's only going to appear to speed up until you reach 0, and it is at the speed of light relative to your motion away. Then the light will continue to pass/hit you at the normal speed of light.
Imagine that once you reach your destination, you set up camp, and bring out your big ass telescope. Point it back at Earth, and the light you're seeing hit your telescope is hundreds/thousands/etc of years old. This represents events that have already happened.
It's a similar idea that they go over in the movie Explorers. The kids build a space ship, wind up on an alien ship far away, and the alien ship is just now receiving television/radio signals from the 40's and 50's.