Actually it's 'deadzero' that is twitter's sockpuppet, it's meant to be a parody of 'dedazo'. Unless you're one too.. who even knows anymore. Twitter should be a politician or an actor if he thinks he's so entertaining when talking to himself..
While autopilot is fine for cruising, AFAIK they don't have anything reliable enough yet for landing and takeoffs? What about situations where the plane has to circle for a while until there is a runway free to land, etc etc. Not an impossible coding task but there needs to be a lot of coordination going on to stop the plane crashing into any other planes, taxi-ing to the correct destination after landing, that kind of thing.
Later in the year he accepted a job as head of security at a nearby company. Haaahahaahhaa:) "Kickeminnaballs Security Ltd"? Right lads - this weeks training, we're gonna practice booting with our dominant foot. Next week's training is going to be a bit more advanced.. we're going to use the weaker foot. How the heck does a baggage handler get made head of security? Good on him anyway:p
As someone who was born in, and brought up near Glasgow, I find the whole episode quite hilarious. I've never really been in a really threatening situation like that but I like this guy's attitude. I don't like it when people apply this violent mentality to football games of course, which is one of British footballs major failings, but I think it's a good one to have against terrorists, and highlights a lot of the reason that I find it pathetic watching America cripple itself with fear and draconian security legislation post 9/11..
The most pathetic thing about it all was that one of them was a Doctor, and the other an Aerospace Engineer, so you'd really have thought that they'd be able to come up with a better attack plan!
Uh.. well just off the top of my head, and assuming that you for some reason mean to use the passenger jet as a 'weapon':
1) you need a frickin suicidal pilot for the passenger jet
2) a missile is much faster and more difficult to shoot down (though admittedly if there are passengers in your passenger jet then it may be politically incorrect to shoot it down)
I have no idea how you got modded so insightful.. are airline jets now somehow regarded as the most effective weapon on earth since Sept 11th? Almost anything can be an effective weapon if you know how to use it. A missile happens to be one of the most effective weapons ever created though, and is much preferable in a lot of situations to a passenger jet.
Maybe it's human nature to want poverty over prosperity as long as everyone suffers equally. Sounds more like it's human nature to be jealous jerks. I think if the people who won less were really 'poor' they would have just kept the money.. otherwise they're just being bitter.
As far as actual wealth distribution goes, I'd give up a part of my wage if I knew that it was going to for example get rid of the corruption in 3rd world governments and let those countries develop more effectively, but that's not even an option open to me so I'd prefer to just keep what I have. I'm pretty lucky to have a decent job. I'm not especially rich by most western standards, but I'm not poor either, and I'm happy with that. I don't wish that Sergei Brin or whoever didn't get to spend his money on going into space or on nice cars, and I certainly wouldn't take a pay cut just so that I could hear that he lost all his money. Maybe some troll like twitter would take a pay cut just to see for example Bill Gates lose all his money.. I'd take a pay cut to see MS as a company disappear off the face of the earth, but that's something that would affect me and my job directly (in a positive way:) ). As far as individuals who work in MS or any other company are concerned, I don't care how rich they are since it doesn't affect me.
But it is also true that people don't become smart until they have to. The dumb vote democrat, the economy goes down, then they start growing brains, some actually check what happened... and start voting republican. It must be nice to live in a world where everything can be neatly divided into two slices.
Isn't there anything that could theoretically be grown in saltwater? There are a few ocean beds that we haven't made much use of yet, that are a lot more available than our dry land (so far).
I know recovering crops from the sea bed would be a bit more awkward than harvesting from fields, but the sheer volumes we'd be able to get would offset that. Obviously it would be good not to disrupt any life that already makes use of the ocean bed, but we've already disrupted plenty of nature to build our land farms too.
Imagine a person at the movies. The theater forces phones to be shut off. The email from someone's alarm system saying there is a fire is never received. When they get home the fire and police departments take them to the hospital so they can watch their two small children die of burns. Yeah, that will work out nicely in the papers. Wha? Why wouldn't the alarm be setup to phone the fire services rather than send an email? Not the best situation you could have thought up, despite the "think of the children" at the end causing over-riding of all rational thinking. Perhaps if you include your heart-tugging sentiments earlier then it would help to shut people's logic circuits down before their BS meter starts going off..
How is *limiting* the speed of a vehicle or shutting off the engine the stuff that class action suits are made of? Plenty of cars have immobiliser tech, and some have remote shutdown ability (the recent Ford GT does for example). Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist..
I hate the idea of control being forced for me, but if there were an optional system in place to limit the speed of my car to speed limits, I would probably choose to use it in all built up areas (but not out on more open roads).
And as for the sci-fi stuff, are you saying that Gene Roddenberry or whatever other sci-fi author came up with it first gets the patent on warp drive even if someone else works out the implementation? I know those authors will be dead by the time (if ever) that we work out how to sidestep the speed of light limitation, but still I would have thought that patents have to have a bit of detail to them rather than just for example having a patent on something trivial like a 'vehicle with four wheels that can travel over 50mph'.
No, it will prevent you from sitting in them though. It only affects normal operation, not projectile weapon usage. If the chair was designed especially as a projectile weapon then presumably it would stop it from flying though.
I'd think it would be quite a good excuse if you own a ferrary. "Yeah it's been limited to 10mph right now for consideration to others, it's not always this slow".
I'd be pretty happy if MS got this patent - if they put it in their Zune and whatever other copycat products they have spawning in the bowels of hell.. uh.. Redmond.. then that means that nobody has to care. If they start licensing this kind of stuff out to other companies, and a product I actually care about ends up with this tech, then I'll be upset. I don't see Canon or any big camera companies putting this in their cameras though, it's just a waste of space and weight. I wouldn't be surprised if a few mobile phone manufacturers try to get on board though, they're quite into the whole DRM thing..
Unless perhaps you're running IE, clicking through to a news article on the front page of/. probably is a safe enough bet o_0 A healthy bit of neurosis is good, but panicking that an article about the storm worm is probably an evil ploy by the storm worm to propagate itself is a bit far fetched.
Well, I think the 13 hours may have included stopping for breakfast and lunch, but we'd also done a few hours of of driving through France before that so the actual journey time was even longer! Though it was my mum driving through France. For me 13 hours at the wheel was quite a landmark thing as I'd probably only done 6 hours at most before that, though in hindsight I think it would have been more sensible to switch around a bit more as I was getting pretty tired by the end, and that would have been affecting my concentration.
Commute times around Aberdeen where I live pretty much suck because there are a few bottlenecks in and around the city, it was definitely best when I had my motorbike and could just scoot between all the cars:) But the bike got stolen and I'm not getting another until I have a safe place to store it.. public transport is used quite a lot in the UK yep, and most places have bus lanes that only buses are allowed to use at certain times of day, though not all roads have them so again the buses can be caught in traffic just as much as the cars..
Brothers In Arms was actually the first picking type song I learned to play on guitar:) Love Knopfler/Dire Straits!
There's a Steve Ray Vaughn song on Guitar Hero, Pride and Joy, I do love a bit of blues. I don't actually have any Hendrix - the first time I heard Little Wing was actually a cover by the Corrs (my sister's album in case you're wondering:p ) but I love it all the same. So I spose the only time I've heard Hendrix playin is on TV, and Wayne's World =p He is very good, there's a lot of good albums that I just forget to buy.. Led Zeppelin are another glaring gap in my music collection (only have 3 of their songs right now).
I've never really been into Bjork, have only heard 2 or 3 of her songs but they have been quite varied so there probably would be a lot of her stuff that I'd like without even having to 'get used' to it like I did when someone sent me Oceania.. she can obviousy do light hearted stuff like It's Oh So Quiet as well as the more sombre tracks.
I remember reading about the level of storage or RAM aboard the Enterprise a few years ago, tried to find some similar info: http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Petabyte this page claims that the human brain can store about a petabyte of information, that's pretty cool. I wonder how much a layered SSD the size of a brain would currently hold..
Well, as someone who said above I don't see the point for that kind of money, if I could do it for free then I'd definitely consider it. I do vaguely remember hearing about a Soyuz blowing up though? The benefits would probably outweigh the cost if it cost up to 1000 pounds for me, but over that I wouldn't consider it worth it:p
If I had a billion I might think about it, but if I 'only' had $5-30 million I could think of things that would give much more satisfaction overall. It would be cool to experience Zero G, see the earth from space, see the stars more clearly, etc, but personally I think I'd probably find SCUBA diving in the carribean much more fun.. you don't have to pee into a bottle when you're in the sea.
hahahaha.. panda 'mid-sized'? Ouch. My parents used to have one of them when I was a kid so it can't have been too bad (dad is also 6'2" but he had a motorbike as well and I do remember him using that or giving one of us a lift while the rest used whatever car we had at the time), but yeah we must have been rid of it before I was about 6 as that's when my fourth sibling popped out.. I'm not sure what the new Panda is like but I still would think it's on the small end of the scale:s
I wouldn't want a car that was any smaller than my Fabia, there would be almost no point having back seats in that case, but there does seem to be a trend for "super-mini"s at the moment.. if I were to get something like that it would have to be 2 seater only.
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Actually it's 'deadzero' that is twitter's sockpuppet, it's meant to be a parody of 'dedazo'. Unless you're one too.. who even knows anymore. Twitter should be a politician or an actor if he thinks he's so entertaining when talking to himself..
Post 9/11, the passengers tend not to matter so much as the plane not flying into a building.. I can see the logic there even if it is a bit harsh.
Come on, give people some credit man - I'm sure Jeff Goldblum could do it with his PowerBook and a couple of crocodile clips..
While autopilot is fine for cruising, AFAIK they don't have anything reliable enough yet for landing and takeoffs? What about situations where the plane has to circle for a while until there is a runway free to land, etc etc. Not an impossible coding task but there needs to be a lot of coordination going on to stop the plane crashing into any other planes, taxi-ing to the correct destination after landing, that kind of thing.
I reaaaaaally hope you're not in charge of anything important
As someone who was born in, and brought up near Glasgow, I find the whole episode quite hilarious. I've never really been in a really threatening situation like that but I like this guy's attitude. I don't like it when people apply this violent mentality to football games of course, which is one of British footballs major failings, but I think it's a good one to have against terrorists, and highlights a lot of the reason that I find it pathetic watching America cripple itself with fear and draconian security legislation post 9/11..
The most pathetic thing about it all was that one of them was a Doctor, and the other an Aerospace Engineer, so you'd really have thought that they'd be able to come up with a better attack plan!
Uh.. well just off the top of my head, and assuming that you for some reason mean to use the passenger jet as a 'weapon':
1) you need a frickin suicidal pilot for the passenger jet
2) a missile is much faster and more difficult to shoot down (though admittedly if there are passengers in your passenger jet then it may be politically incorrect to shoot it down)
I have no idea how you got modded so insightful.. are airline jets now somehow regarded as the most effective weapon on earth since Sept 11th? Almost anything can be an effective weapon if you know how to use it. A missile happens to be one of the most effective weapons ever created though, and is much preferable in a lot of situations to a passenger jet.
As far as actual wealth distribution goes, I'd give up a part of my wage if I knew that it was going to for example get rid of the corruption in 3rd world governments and let those countries develop more effectively, but that's not even an option open to me so I'd prefer to just keep what I have. I'm pretty lucky to have a decent job. I'm not especially rich by most western standards, but I'm not poor either, and I'm happy with that. I don't wish that Sergei Brin or whoever didn't get to spend his money on going into space or on nice cars, and I certainly wouldn't take a pay cut just so that I could hear that he lost all his money. Maybe some troll like twitter would take a pay cut just to see for example Bill Gates lose all his money.. I'd take a pay cut to see MS as a company disappear off the face of the earth, but that's something that would affect me and my job directly (in a positive way
Isn't there anything that could theoretically be grown in saltwater? There are a few ocean beds that we haven't made much use of yet, that are a lot more available than our dry land (so far).
I know recovering crops from the sea bed would be a bit more awkward than harvesting from fields, but the sheer volumes we'd be able to get would offset that. Obviously it would be good not to disrupt any life that already makes use of the ocean bed, but we've already disrupted plenty of nature to build our land farms too.
How is *limiting* the speed of a vehicle or shutting off the engine the stuff that class action suits are made of? Plenty of cars have immobiliser tech, and some have remote shutdown ability (the recent Ford GT does for example). Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist..
I hate the idea of control being forced for me, but if there were an optional system in place to limit the speed of my car to speed limits, I would probably choose to use it in all built up areas (but not out on more open roads).
And as for the sci-fi stuff, are you saying that Gene Roddenberry or whatever other sci-fi author came up with it first gets the patent on warp drive even if someone else works out the implementation? I know those authors will be dead by the time (if ever) that we work out how to sidestep the speed of light limitation, but still I would have thought that patents have to have a bit of detail to them rather than just for example having a patent on something trivial like a 'vehicle with four wheels that can travel over 50mph'.
No, it will prevent you from sitting in them though. It only affects normal operation, not projectile weapon usage. If the chair was designed especially as a projectile weapon then presumably it would stop it from flying though.
I'd think it would be quite a good excuse if you own a ferrary. "Yeah it's been limited to 10mph right now for consideration to others, it's not always this slow".
I'd be pretty happy if MS got this patent - if they put it in their Zune and whatever other copycat products they have spawning in the bowels of hell.. uh.. Redmond.. then that means that nobody has to care. If they start licensing this kind of stuff out to other companies, and a product I actually care about ends up with this tech, then I'll be upset. I don't see Canon or any big camera companies putting this in their cameras though, it's just a waste of space and weight. I wouldn't be surprised if a few mobile phone manufacturers try to get on board though, they're quite into the whole DRM thing..
Unless perhaps you're running IE, clicking through to a news article on the front page of /. probably is a safe enough bet o_0 A healthy bit of neurosis is good, but panicking that an article about the storm worm is probably an evil ploy by the storm worm to propagate itself is a bit far fetched.
Yeah I typod my typo :p
:) But the bike got stolen and I'm not getting another until I have a safe place to store it.. public transport is used quite a lot in the UK yep, and most places have bus lanes that only buses are allowed to use at certain times of day, though not all roads have them so again the buses can be caught in traffic just as much as the cars..
Well, I think the 13 hours may have included stopping for breakfast and lunch, but we'd also done a few hours of of driving through France before that so the actual journey time was even longer! Though it was my mum driving through France. For me 13 hours at the wheel was quite a landmark thing as I'd probably only done 6 hours at most before that, though in hindsight I think it would have been more sensible to switch around a bit more as I was getting pretty tired by the end, and that would have been affecting my concentration.
Commute times around Aberdeen where I live pretty much suck because there are a few bottlenecks in and around the city, it was definitely best when I had my motorbike and could just scoot between all the cars
I'm sorry I can't seem to find them. You anonymous cowards never have anything approaching balls..
I shall check out some of those albums :)
:) Love Knopfler/Dire Straits!
:p ) but I love it all the same. So I spose the only time I've heard Hendrix playin is on TV, and Wayne's World =p He is very good, there's a lot of good albums that I just forget to buy.. Led Zeppelin are another glaring gap in my music collection (only have 3 of their songs right now).
Brothers In Arms was actually the first picking type song I learned to play on guitar
There's a Steve Ray Vaughn song on Guitar Hero, Pride and Joy, I do love a bit of blues. I don't actually have any Hendrix - the first time I heard Little Wing was actually a cover by the Corrs (my sister's album in case you're wondering
I've never really been into Bjork, have only heard 2 or 3 of her songs but they have been quite varied so there probably would be a lot of her stuff that I'd like without even having to 'get used' to it like I did when someone sent me Oceania.. she can obviousy do light hearted stuff like It's Oh So Quiet as well as the more sombre tracks.
You're a great guy, NCL, and very helpful/informative (hence I'm avoiding the simple, cheeky "whoosh"), but I'm pretty sure he was kidding ;)
:)
The claims that the RIAA make about levels of lost revenue are pretty hilarious sometimes (to those that aren't on the receiving end at least!)
I remember reading about the level of storage or RAM aboard the Enterprise a few years ago, tried to find some similar info: http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Petabyte this page claims that the human brain can store about a petabyte of information, that's pretty cool. I wonder how much a layered SSD the size of a brain would currently hold..
Well, as someone who said above I don't see the point for that kind of money, if I could do it for free then I'd definitely consider it. I do vaguely remember hearing about a Soyuz blowing up though? The benefits would probably outweigh the cost if it cost up to 1000 pounds for me, but over that I wouldn't consider it worth it :p
You must be new here - I for one know that in Soviet Slashdot Meme-phrase, green is people, and lawn envies you!
If I had a billion I might think about it, but if I 'only' had $5-30 million I could think of things that would give much more satisfaction overall. It would be cool to experience Zero G, see the earth from space, see the stars more clearly, etc, but personally I think I'd probably find SCUBA diving in the carribean much more fun.. you don't have to pee into a bottle when you're in the sea.
hahahaha.. panda 'mid-sized'? Ouch. My parents used to have one of them when I was a kid so it can't have been too bad (dad is also 6'2" but he had a motorbike as well and I do remember him using that or giving one of us a lift while the rest used whatever car we had at the time), but yeah we must have been rid of it before I was about 6 as that's when my fourth sibling popped out.. I'm not sure what the new Panda is like but I still would think it's on the small end of the scale :s
I wouldn't want a car that was any smaller than my Fabia, there would be almost no point having back seats in that case, but there does seem to be a trend for "super-mini"s at the moment.. if I were to get something like that it would have to be 2 seater only.