You should check out the trailer for the movie Good Stuff. They have that car in it. Its actually surprisingly stable. Most cars will just keep flipping on end, but some of them float neatly.
I think it would be really neat to sit in a car in freefall. It'd be so weird. The only scary thing is if the thing starts spinning... you have to take care not to get whacked by it.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Re:Sounds interesting...
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Check out the movie G they made where they dropped a camera from 30,000 ft. You can probably find the movie itself at: ftp://ftp.skydivingmovies.com
Cheers,
Costyn. (220 jumps)
Re:I have a better goal!
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In Arizona they have trash day, where you can take up anything you want. You pay for the weight/space and they'll let you drop it out, provided you clean up the crap afterwards. I bet you could probably find some people to drop PCs for you and film them on their way down. I wonder what the terminal velocity of an ordinary PC would be.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Re:Yes, but can they aim?
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I bet these people probably have one. But like other posters have said, they won't be attaching a parachute to this one.:-)
Cheers,
Costyn. (220 jumps)
Re:people aren't subtle enough these days
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Eh, but they're actually gonna get out on the way down. I wonder if they're gonna saw the roof off... 60 seconds is not a lot of time to get everyone out one door. Pretty funny idea, though. That'll be some great footage.
Skydiving survives pretty well as a sport, not to mention an industry making all the materials. It doesn't get much media attention, unfortunately, until something goes wrong, and then the media is suddenly whipped up into a frenzy... guess it's not much of a spectator sport.:-)
Guess not...:-) Mine was comment nr 6, and still I get marked "Redundant"... I guess it was redundant after some german guy posted his translation, which was, of course, a lot better.:-)
karma whoring is not all it's cracked up to be.;-)
Dude, Then you haven't looked harde enough. I dunno if this is what you are looking for, but there's an excellent MP3 CD player the iRiver SlimX. Very sexy design, very slim, and has an FM tuner.
Don't forget durability when you talk of 3rd world. Spare parts are always a problem in 3rd world countries (at least, it was in Africa where I lived for 16 years). And personal transport isn't a high priority. Public transport would be (efficient public transport is a Good Thing), but still not as important as clean running water (and other sanitation), health care and education.
There's something similar here in Utrecht, the Netherlands to the above mentioned machine only the one we have is about 12 feet wide. Its maintained by the supermarket next to it (Albert Heijn), and is especially popular on sundays, when all supermarkets are closed (stupid, yes I know) and people forgot to buy food on saturday for sunday... or they're just craving for some potato chips. They sell everything from sandwiches, drinks, candy, magazines, condoms, bread.
You punch in a code in the machine, and a basket goes towards the place the product is in. The machine then shoves the product by way of some sort of internal conveyor belt into the basket. The basket then places it into a receptacle in the wall which opens up and you can take your product.
Very useful, although it does seem prone to breaking down. There are times when it isn't working. And of course the long lines on sunday are a little discouraging at times...:-)
Hmm... wouldn't that get your IP number on some blacklists as being an open relay? I mean, it does as if it's an open relay... even though no spam will get delivered...
I am really curious what you are thinking of in terms of a replacement for a hierarchical representation with files and folders. You mention 'Recent Letters'... so when is a letter no longer recent? Where does it go then? And what is Aunt Ginny's OS gonna name those recent letters so that Aunt Ginny can differentiate between two letters that are in that folder?
I totally agree with you, though, that if she can't find it because of upper/lower case that there is something wrong.
Re:Spread of US "culture"
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Is it me or is there no Fanta in the US? I've never seen it in stores or fountains the couple times that I've been to the US.
Geez, talk about confusing measurements... You people don't know how many quarts are in a pint? Or how many pints in a gallon? Or quarts to gallon? Or oz. to a gallon? You actually have to look it up somewhere? I'm just glad here in Europe we use the bloody logical metric system.
I actually did a little 'study' a while back when I was in the US. I asked a bunch of people how many feet there were in a mile. That doesn't sound like it's too hard. I mean, after feet, mile is the next larger measurement, right? (oh, a yard figures in there somewhere too, doesn' it?) Well, a lot of people that I asked had no idea! What's up with that?</rant mode>
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Next to the ones listed above, these are some of my favs:
- GLTron, 3D lightcycle game
- Parsec, 3D space shooter (no single player mode, though)
- Crack Attack!, based on SNES Tetris Attack.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Not the users, the editors! No more spelling/grammar errors. :-)
I guess that means that everybody can now access NYtimes articles by adding &partner=Google to the URL... no free reg. req. :-) (haven't tested it)
Check out products from iRiver. They have a lot of cool, feature-rich stuff. I'm not sure if they have a sub $100 player. Check it out...
In the beginning there was nothing... then God said, let there be light, and there was light.
There was still nothing, but at least you could see it.
Ah, that's why my mozilla died, froze and refused to do anything any more... killall mozilla-bin
sigh...
You should check out the trailer for the movie Good Stuff. They have that car in it. Its actually surprisingly stable. Most cars will just keep flipping on end, but some of them float neatly.
I think it would be really neat to sit in a car in freefall. It'd be so weird. The only scary thing is if the thing starts spinning... you have to take care not to get whacked by it.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Check out the movie G they made where they dropped a camera from 30,000 ft. You can probably find the movie itself at: ftp://ftp.skydivingmovies.com
Cheers,
Costyn. (220 jumps)
In Arizona they have trash day, where you can take up anything you want. You pay for the weight/space and they'll let you drop it out, provided you clean up the crap afterwards. I bet you could probably find some people to drop PCs for you and film them on their way down. I wonder what the terminal velocity of an ordinary PC would be.
Cheers,
Costyn.
I bet these people probably have one. But like other posters have said, they won't be attaching a parachute to this one. :-)
Cheers,
Costyn. (220 jumps)
Eh, but they're actually gonna get out on the way down. I wonder if they're gonna saw the roof off... 60 seconds is not a lot of time to get everyone out one door. Pretty funny idea, though. That'll be some great footage.
Cheers,
Costyn. (220 jumps)
Skydiving survives pretty well as a sport, not to mention an industry making all the materials. It doesn't get much media attention, unfortunately, until something goes wrong, and then the media is suddenly whipped up into a frenzy... guess it's not much of a spectator sport. :-)
Cheers...
Actually Big Brother started off in the Netherlands. It was then licensed to other countries, first in Europe, then the US, too.
200 ft... cool... you could have your own personal BASE jump tower!
Guess not... :-) Mine was comment nr 6, and still I get marked "Redundant"... I guess it was redundant after some german guy posted his translation, which was, of course, a lot better. :-)
;-)
karma whoring is not all it's cracked up to be.
(some karma whoring :-)
Here is the link to the translated article (Google)
Dude,
Then you haven't looked harde enough. I dunno if this is what you are looking for, but there's an excellent MP3 CD player the iRiver SlimX. Very sexy design, very slim, and has an FM tuner.
Don't forget durability when you talk of 3rd world. Spare parts are always a problem in 3rd world countries (at least, it was in Africa where I lived for 16 years). And personal transport isn't a high priority. Public transport would be (efficient public transport is a Good Thing), but still not as important as clean running water (and other sanitation), health care and education.
Cheers!
Costyn.
There's something similar here in Utrecht, the Netherlands to the above mentioned machine only the one we have is about 12 feet wide. Its maintained by the supermarket next to it (Albert Heijn), and is especially popular on sundays, when all supermarkets are closed (stupid, yes I know) and people forgot to buy food on saturday for sunday... or they're just craving for some potato chips. They sell everything from sandwiches, drinks, candy, magazines, condoms, bread.
:-)
You punch in a code in the machine, and a basket goes towards the place the product is in. The machine then shoves the product by way of some sort of internal conveyor belt into the basket. The basket then places it into a receptacle in the wall which opens up and you can take your product.
Very useful, although it does seem prone to breaking down. There are times when it isn't working. And of course the long lines on sunday are a little discouraging at times...
Cheers,
Costyn.
What about Go Fast! Energy Drink? It's tasty (unlink Red Bull) and it's got all the right 'energy' ingredients:
TAURINE
GINKGO BILOBA
GUARANA EXTRACT
MILK THISTLE HERB
SIBERIAN GINSENG
INOSITOL
NIACIN
AUSTRALIAN HONEY
PANTHOTHENIC ACID
Try it, you'll like it!
Oh yeah, they have lots of cool t-shirts and other clothing too!
Hmm... wouldn't that get your IP number on some blacklists as being an open relay? I mean, it does as if it's an open relay... even though no spam will get delivered...
If you just typed in the URL, you wouldn't get an referrer, would you?
And yeah, could someone make a script out of this? Like a daemon that runs in the background,
perhaps using some anonymizing proxies across the globe?
I am really curious what you are thinking of in terms of a replacement for a hierarchical representation with files and folders. You mention 'Recent Letters'... so when is a letter no longer recent? Where does it go then? And what is Aunt Ginny's OS gonna name those recent letters so that Aunt Ginny can differentiate between two letters that are in that folder?
I totally agree with you, though, that if she can't find it because of upper/lower case that there is something wrong.
Is it me or is there no Fanta in the US? I've never seen it in stores or fountains the couple times that I've been to the US.
Geez, talk about confusing measurements... You people don't know how many quarts are in a pint? Or how many pints in a gallon? Or quarts to gallon? Or oz. to a gallon? You actually have to look it up somewhere? I'm just glad here in Europe we use the bloody logical metric system.
I actually did a little 'study' a while back when I was in the US. I asked a bunch of people how many feet there were in a mile. That doesn't sound like it's too hard. I mean, after feet, mile is the next larger measurement, right? (oh, a yard figures in there somewhere too, doesn' it?) Well, a lot of people that I asked had no idea! What's up with that?</rant mode>