I hope this subthread of the conversation gets modded up.
Mail fraud is a big deal, and insurance would cover you at least the cost of the loss. I like the plan for videotaping the packaging. I'm not sure how one would handle the time between packaging and handoff to the post office, but it certainly sounds like a way to ensure that your Valuable Thing at least doesn't get away from you without you getting compensated. (And, fraudsters are at much greater risk.)
And, you can bring it camping or have it in an emergency pack. It might not be immediately useful, but it's great (I expect) if you can plan its usage a day ahead of time.
To be fair, as I've watched more samurai films that same frantic pace has been present in most of the fights, except for the ones where someone is so completely outmatched as to not challenge their opponent. My impression has been much more that lightsaber combat is frantic and requires complete concentration, much as a real sword fight would. So, I can certainly see how showing relatively emotionless combatants works. It's not because the Jedi are cold that the fights turn out that way, it's that fighting well is a science that requires both discipline and concentration.
Thanks to you both for insightful commentary.:) The Republic Wireless link that someone mentioned below seem more useful, in that it's (once out of beta) a normal cell phone that prioritizes routing over wifi instead of cell networks. Then I'd only need 1 device instead of two.
But, you're right: the Galaxy Player and iPod both perfectly fit the bill of "wifi only smart-device-that-can-phone". I just realized (from reading this thread, ironically) that I want one less than I thought.:D
To be fair, the phone replaces (mostly) your iPod, and perhaps the fact that you find Visor/Palm/Smartphone indispensible is that they are very good tools for whatever it is that you do. Multi-meters are complex things that not everyone needs, but they are certainly the Right Tool for some tasks.
I haven't gotten a smartphone because I'm unwilling to pay the seemingly-exhorbitant price for a plan. I'm tethered to a PC all day anyway, except when I'm driving, and the only person that texts me is my wife, so I don't need a smartphone at home.;) I have an inkling of how it could be Nice to Have (maps, GPS, find-a-restaurant-near-me, music player, etc), but since I generally don't use any of those _currently_ I tend to see them as nice toys, rather than a slick consolidation of my existing toys.
I'd love to have a wifi-only "smartphone" -- VoIP and texting, an app store, etc... down side is, I'd need a separate phone in the car or something, but it could be a dumb phone w/ bluetooth input.
Yeah, like curing cancer is anywhere near as cool as doing mach 2 with your hair on fire....
I mean, really, which one can you make better video games and movies about?
Well, I seem to recall that they had a protein matching game that was pretty neat, I bet you could make a cancer-curing one too that would appear to puzzle gamers. Many more iPhone gamers than flight sim gamers, after all.:D
I'm not sure I care as much about the certificate's prestige, but rather more that I can get a very good bit of instruction in areas which I am not very knowledgeable (statistics). Cool stuff.
My GPG fingerprint is also written on my business card, so that everyone who I met can fetch my private key from any of the major key servers, and check its fingerprint.
Not necessarily. One could see things like the likelihood of gaining X yards from all the times you (or others) have used a particular tactic against this particular team (or against all teams), or weigh with more math the relative risks of passing vs punting vs running a ball. I think that the communication impact would be huge, but I am certain that statistical analysis of what's the "smart" or "safe" choice (risk vs reward) of a set of plays could make things interesting from the coaching side.
However, when it's done from a kilometer away, how will they identify who hosed the cameras? People already walk up and burn them with tires, which seems decidedly more risky.
Unless you can provide a link, I haven't seen any evidence that talking to someone on a cell phone is different than in person because "your brain is devoted to paying attention to the 'other world.'"
Here's the relevant part. It's not that talking is inherently less distracting, but that someone in the car with you will understand if you're suddenly very quietly intent on driving safely, whereas we are ingrained with a much greater sense of urgency when talking to someone on the phone.
We suggest that during normal in-car conversation, both the driver and passenger will suppress conversation when the demands of the road become too great. However, a remote speaker on a mobile telephone has no access to the same visual input as the driver, and will be less likelyto pace the conversation according to roadway demands
The results are interesting. The number of words spoken in an urban area was almost double for a phone conversation versus with someone in the car. There was also more talking on the phone while on a highway ("dual carriageway"), though by a smaller margin. When driving in an urban area, the remote conversation partner asked MANY more questions than an in-car partner. The amount of conversation was very dependent on the type of road, too, which seems (to me) to support the hypothesis that in-car passengers are aware of (and temper their conversation to reflect) driving conditions, whereas remote conversation partners do not.
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I hope this subthread of the conversation gets modded up.
Mail fraud is a big deal, and insurance would cover you at least the cost of the loss. I like the plan for videotaping the packaging. I'm not sure how one would handle the time between packaging and handoff to the post office, but it certainly sounds like a way to ensure that your Valuable Thing at least doesn't get away from you without you getting compensated. (And, fraudsters are at much greater risk.)
And, you can bring it camping or have it in an emergency pack. It might not be immediately useful, but it's great (I expect) if you can plan its usage a day ahead of time.
The selection, on the one hand, is relatively poor, but on the other hand you don't need to maintain a library.
The cost to launch something like this is still several orders of magnitude more than most Kickstarter campaigns could fund, however.
He could publicly allow other nations to fly in their own transports to remove people; that's not spending our money. :)
No, but it should be legal to have a photo of stolen property.
To be fair, as I've watched more samurai films that same frantic pace has been present in most of the fights, except for the ones where someone is so completely outmatched as to not challenge their opponent. My impression has been much more that lightsaber combat is frantic and requires complete concentration, much as a real sword fight would. So, I can certainly see how showing relatively emotionless combatants works. It's not because the Jedi are cold that the fights turn out that way, it's that fighting well is a science that requires both discipline and concentration.
To be fair, he was buying a condo in New York. He probably saved more than the cost of the phone+service.
Thanks to you both for insightful commentary. :) The Republic Wireless link that someone mentioned below seem more useful, in that it's (once out of beta) a normal cell phone that prioritizes routing over wifi instead of cell networks. Then I'd only need 1 device instead of two.
But, you're right: the Galaxy Player and iPod both perfectly fit the bill of "wifi only smart-device-that-can-phone". I just realized (from reading this thread, ironically) that I want one less than I thought. :D
Thanks for all of those links to bookstores all at once. I'd never heard of a couple of them. :D
I wish I had mod points for you; thanks for the informative post!
To be fair, the phone replaces (mostly) your iPod, and perhaps the fact that you find Visor/Palm/Smartphone indispensible is that they are very good tools for whatever it is that you do. Multi-meters are complex things that not everyone needs, but they are certainly the Right Tool for some tasks.
I haven't gotten a smartphone because I'm unwilling to pay the seemingly-exhorbitant price for a plan. I'm tethered to a PC all day anyway, except when I'm driving, and the only person that texts me is my wife, so I don't need a smartphone at home. ;) I have an inkling of how it could be Nice to Have (maps, GPS, find-a-restaurant-near-me, music player, etc), but since I generally don't use any of those _currently_ I tend to see them as nice toys, rather than a slick consolidation of my existing toys.
I'd love to have a wifi-only "smartphone" -- VoIP and texting, an app store, etc... down side is, I'd need a separate phone in the car or something, but it could be a dumb phone w/ bluetooth input.
Yeah, like curing cancer is anywhere near as cool as doing mach 2 with your hair on fire ....
I mean, really, which one can you make better video games and movies about?
Well, I seem to recall that they had a protein matching game that was pretty neat, I bet you could make a cancer-curing one too that would appear to puzzle gamers. Many more iPhone gamers than flight sim gamers, after all. :D
I'm not sure I care as much about the certificate's prestige, but rather more that I can get a very good bit of instruction in areas which I am not very knowledgeable (statistics). Cool stuff.
My GPG fingerprint is also written on
my business card, so that everyone who I met can fetch my private key
from any of the major key servers, and check its fingerprint.
Can I have one of your business cards? :D
So you mail them a CD.
Not necessarily. One could see things like the likelihood of gaining X yards from all the times you (or others) have used a particular tactic against this particular team (or against all teams), or weigh with more math the relative risks of passing vs punting vs running a ball. I think that the communication impact would be huge, but I am certain that statistical analysis of what's the "smart" or "safe" choice (risk vs reward) of a set of plays could make things interesting from the coaching side.
I believe that Orbital Lasers (and other orbital weapons) are banned by international treaties.
I think only Admiral Nelson has that high of a BAC. :D
And, with all the savings in weight, you can afford to carry a folding chair too. :D
I was going to say, "It's all of us!", but you gave much much MUCH more information. Thanks!
However, when it's done from a kilometer away, how will they identify who hosed the cameras? People already walk up and burn them with tires, which seems decidedly more risky.
Unless you can provide a link, I haven't seen any evidence that talking to someone on a cell phone is different than in person because "your brain is devoted to paying attention to the 'other world.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safety#Comparisons_with_passenger_conversation
They reference a study done in the UK: (PDF)
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/dec/references/inpress.pdf
Here's the relevant part. It's not that talking is inherently less distracting, but that someone in the car with you will understand if you're suddenly very quietly intent on driving safely, whereas we are ingrained with a much greater sense of urgency when talking to someone on the phone.
We suggest that during normal in-car conversation, both the driver and passenger will suppress conversation when the demands of the road become too great. However, a remote speaker on a mobile
telephone has no access to the same visual input as the driver, and will be less likelyto pace the conversation according to roadway demands
The results are interesting. The number of words spoken in an urban area was almost double for a phone conversation versus with someone in the car. There was also more talking on the phone while on a highway ("dual carriageway"), though by a smaller margin. When driving in an urban area, the remote conversation partner asked MANY more questions than an in-car partner. The amount of conversation was very dependent on the type of road, too, which seems (to me) to support the hypothesis that in-car passengers are aware of (and temper their conversation to reflect) driving conditions, whereas remote conversation partners do not.
Maybe it was a pun, given that one of the works was all about optics. ;)
It would have been more helpful if you'd linked those blogs.
http://www.zerohedge.com/ .. now to actually look more closely and read them. :) Thanks for sharing!
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/