This is just such a fantastic idea. We all love the excitement & intrigue of a journey, and sending these wooden people out on their own with only the hope that the public helps them on their way must be both exciting and slightly nerve racking for the artist. Almost like a father letting his children free to roam.
It reminds me of http://www.bookcrossing.com/ where you set a book free by giving it to someone or leaving it on a bus or train (don't try this with a plane, they are a little jumpy about this) and the idea is that someone picks it up, reads your note and enters the details on the site. You can then track your book's journey.
I wish this art project all the best and love the juxtaposition of materials used in its construction
This is fantastic news, so what if it goes over schedule and over budget. So what if it is plagued with problems. It is such a fantastic idea that I wish them all the luck in the world (and moon).
Britian is more than likely to miss getting London ready for the Olympics and Japan is thinking of starting a moon base only 8 years later!
A clever bit of marketing to increase sales. There is nothing wrong with the old version of Monopoly with 'real' money.
Same with the World Cup Edition, I can imagine the fights in the lounge as nobody wants to be the England team. 'Do not go past go, do not collect £200, do not win'.
I think we will stick to our original version bought from a charity shop with real money.
AC,
that's a shame. I had my fair share of resets when I first got it. Updating to the latest O2 Rom has helped out a lot. Since then it has been fine. Apart from sometimes hanging for a few seconds when opening up an app.
I don't think the phone is that bad either. I can get a signal both at home and work which some other phones haven't managed (poor signal area). The voice dial works well (but not over bluetooth headset so that is minus points).
Regarding it's size. Again, I don't think it is that bad. My last phone was a Motorola C775 or something like that and it was a useless brick. This is wider, but thinner and as long and it does loads more.
To be honest, I have heard lots of complaints and lots of raves about this item. I wonder whether there are different batches about causing these problems. Some people love them and they work well. Others hate them and they run like a brick.
I have the O2 Exec... otherwise known as the HTC Universal and I love it.
It does all of the usual PDA stuff as well as being my mobile phone, GPS (with additional matchbox sized receiver) and I can walk round town using MiniStumbler to detect open WIFI.
It syncs with Exchange so I can access my work public folders and Global Contacts. It also does email, texts, web, etc etc.
Sships have been using a similar system for years. Thales make a shipboard radar controlled automatic missle defence system that shoots down incomming missles.
First thing I did was add links to all my sites to help them in their Google rankings. I wonder if Google adds weight to their own pages in the Page Rank system
I still don't understand how this is going to improve security.
Being able to see under cars... why don't they just use the old technique of "extended reflective imaging"? Ie a mirror on a stick.
Also, at which point do these fake holograms help spot the the guy with a beard and a rather large jacket, or the two blokes with rucksacks?
Sounds like a waste of money to me. Would have been better to spend the 100's of thusnads of dollars on more Icams, yup, that;s right, people walking around the stadium looking with their own eyes.
And btw, when is the Superbowl. Must be soon as there is an awful lot of adverts on tv about it.
I really don't believe that there are so many people who didn't get your humour/sarcasm/irony/joke... call it what you want, it was funny and there are some really stupid people here on/. who shoudln't be allowed near a computer, let alone reading this site.
I was conned on the 10th December 2004 by a company who had a feedback rating of several 1000. I am still in the process of trying to get my money back through Ebays Fraud protection department.
They spent the first couple of months denying that I had bought anything through Ebay, despite me supplying them with my user ID and the item number (how hard is it to look up on their system). Then I had to fax details to them of my bank account. A month later I emailed them and they said that I had not put my bank details on the fax, despite their original email saying that if I want to be paid into my PayPal account to give this and leave the bank details blank.
Then we entered the 'we have already paid you' phase, where they are stating that they have refunded my money on a specific date, but my bank statements do not show this. So far, I have been paid on 5 different dates, each one I have queried and each time they have had to go back to the Accounts Department to check (and come up with another rubbish date).
The last I heard from them was a month ago when they said that they had ordered bank statements to show the payment. The whole process has taken over a year and been like banging my head against a brick wall. I can not understand how incompetent the staff are, in particular Toni Tylor of the Fraud Protection department, who must win this years Darwin Award for being born with a genetic defect of having no brain.
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
By Sidney Blumenthal
Aug. 31, 2005 Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to thousands reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an act of nature.
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which before the hurricane published a series on the federal funding problem, and whose presses are now underwater, reported online: "No one can say they didn't see it coming... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation."
The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge. In 1990, a federal task force began restoring lost wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised "no net loss" of wetlands, a policy launched by his father's administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency then announced they could no longer protect wetlands unless they were somehow related to interstate commerce.
In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. "There's no way to describe how mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection," said one of the report's authors. The chairman of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as "highly questionable," and boasted, "Everybody loves what we're doing."
"My administration's climate change policy will be science based," President Bush declared in June 2001. But in 2002, when the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a study on global warming to the United Nations reflecting its expert research, Bush derided it as "a report put out by a bureaucracy," and excised the climate change assessment from the agency's annual report. The next year, when the EPA issued its first comprehensive "Report on the Environment," stating, "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environ
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He was an amazing guy, full of life and had a huge respect for animals.
/Mad
My heart goes out to his family.
At least he died doing what he loves most.
"Aparently the "War on Caps Lock" is spearheaded by someones who's entire computer world revolves around chatting with immature pre-teens online."
/Mad
that made me laugh
Absolutely!
This is just such a fantastic idea. We all love the excitement & intrigue of a journey, and sending these wooden people out on their own with only the hope that the public helps them on their way must be both exciting and slightly nerve racking for the artist. Almost like a father letting his children free to roam.
It reminds me of http://www.bookcrossing.com/ where you set a book free by giving it to someone or leaving it on a bus or train (don't try this with a plane, they are a little jumpy about this) and the idea is that someone picks it up, reads your note and enters the details on the site. You can then track your book's journey.
I wish this art project all the best and love the juxtaposition of materials used in its construction
This is fantastic news, so what if it goes over schedule and over budget. So what if it is plagued with problems. It is such a fantastic idea that I wish them all the luck in the world (and moon).
Britian is more than likely to miss getting London ready for the Olympics and Japan is thinking of starting a moon base only 8 years later!
...buy the game?
/Mad
A clever bit of marketing to increase sales. There is nothing wrong with the old version of Monopoly with 'real' money.
Same with the World Cup Edition, I can imagine the fights in the lounge as nobody wants to be the England team. 'Do not go past go, do not collect £200, do not win'.
I think we will stick to our original version bought from a charity shop with real money.
And you have a small penis.
Yet again /. has become a playground for little nerdy children to argue.
/Mad
yawn,
AC, that's a shame. I had my fair share of resets when I first got it. Updating to the latest O2 Rom has helped out a lot. Since then it has been fine. Apart from sometimes hanging for a few seconds when opening up an app.
/Mad
I don't think the phone is that bad either. I can get a signal both at home and work which some other phones haven't managed (poor signal area). The voice dial works well (but not over bluetooth headset so that is minus points).
Regarding it's size. Again, I don't think it is that bad. My last phone was a Motorola C775 or something like that and it was a useless brick. This is wider, but thinner and as long and it does loads more.
To be honest, I have heard lots of complaints and lots of raves about this item. I wonder whether there are different batches about causing these problems. Some people love them and they work well. Others hate them and they run like a brick.
May your next phone/pda bring you more joy.
regards,
I have the O2 Exec... otherwise known as the HTC Universal and I love it.
5 972
:-)
/Mad
It does all of the usual PDA stuff as well as being my mobile phone, GPS (with additional matchbox sized receiver) and I can walk round town using MiniStumbler to detect open WIFI.
It syncs with Exchange so I can access my work public folders and Global Contacts. It also does email, texts, web, etc etc.
And yes... the Universal can run Linux: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=3
Oh, nearly forgot, it also doubles up as an mp3 player with an additional SD card (up to 4GB). So quite a step up from my previous Palm V
What do you call a cow with a machine gun?
:-)
/Mad
A military Coup!
Sships have been using a similar system for years. Thales make a shipboard radar controlled automatic missle defence system that shoots down incomming missles.
/Mad
No forcefields, no Star Trek, just bullets.
yawn.
By the time I upgrade to Vista, the minimum PC specs will be way higher than required and Vista will be at least 3 years old.
/Mad
I have only just moved up (down) to XP
A news story about an Alpha version which doesn't even exist.
/Mad
Cor, that's entertainment!
Come on guys, at least Trading Standards were prepared to actually do something for once.
/Mad
Now, if it had been a rogue Builder.......
I like it.
/Mad
First thing I did was add links to all my sites to help them in their Google rankings. I wonder if Google adds weight to their own pages in the Page Rank system
I still don't understand how this is going to improve security.
/Mad
Being able to see under cars... why don't they just use the old technique of "extended reflective imaging"? Ie a mirror on a stick.
Also, at which point do these fake holograms help spot the the guy with a beard and a rather large jacket, or the two blokes with rucksacks?
Sounds like a waste of money to me. Would have been better to spend the 100's of thusnads of dollars on more Icams, yup, that;s right, people walking around the stadium looking with their own eyes.
And btw, when is the Superbowl. Must be soon as there is an awful lot of adverts on tv about it.
Jeez. If you don't like it, use a different Search Engine. /Mad
I really don't believe that there are so many people who didn't get your humour/sarcasm/irony/joke... call it what you want, it was funny and there are some really stupid people here on /. who shoudln't be allowed near a computer, let alone reading this site.
I was conned on the 10th December 2004 by a company who had a feedback rating of several 1000. I am still in the process of trying to get my money back through Ebays Fraud protection department.
They spent the first couple of months denying that I had bought anything through Ebay, despite me supplying them with my user ID and the item number (how hard is it to look up on their system). Then I had to fax details to them of my bank account. A month later I emailed them and they said that I had not put my bank details on the fax, despite their original email saying that if I want to be paid into my PayPal account to give this and leave the bank details blank.
Then we entered the 'we have already paid you' phase, where they are stating that they have refunded my money on a specific date, but my bank statements do not show this. So far, I have been paid on 5 different dates, each one I have queried and each time they have had to go back to the Accounts Department to check (and come up with another rubbish date).
The last I heard from them was a month ago when they said that they had ordered bank statements to show the payment. The whole process has taken over a year and been like banging my head against a brick wall. I can not understand how incompetent the staff are, in particular Toni Tylor of the Fraud Protection department, who must win this years Darwin Award for being born with a genetic defect of having no brain.
"No one can say they didn't see it coming"
... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation."
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
By Sidney Blumenthal
Aug. 31, 2005 Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to thousands reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an act of nature.
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which before the hurricane published a series on the federal funding problem, and whose presses are now underwater, reported online: "No one can say they didn't see it coming
The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge. In 1990, a federal task force began restoring lost wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised "no net loss" of wetlands, a policy launched by his father's administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency then announced they could no longer protect wetlands unless they were somehow related to interstate commerce.
In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. "There's no way to describe how mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection," said one of the report's authors. The chairman of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as "highly questionable," and boasted, "Everybody loves what we're doing."
"My administration's climate change policy will be science based," President Bush declared in June 2001. But in 2002, when the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a study on global warming to the United Nations reflecting its expert research, Bush derided it as "a report put out by a bureaucracy," and excised the climate change assessment from the agency's annual report. The next year, when the EPA issued its first comprehensive "Report on the Environment," stating, "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environ