Not just newspapers, but the idea of posting news stories on a public bulletin board dates all the way back to New York City in the 1890s..... or even earlier. People would stand outside Wall Street or store windows, and read the headlines scrawled across chalkboards. It ain't something new.
I'm pretty sure that everywhere there was a post near a town square, there has been an analog blog. Hell, isn't that where we get the term 'Post' from?
Even without that, there was always the town crier.
Post-Modern Warfare Modern Warfare Romantic Age Warfare Victorian Era Warfare Industrial Revolution Era Warfare Age of Enlightenment Warfare Age of Discovery Warfare Ottoman Empire Warfare Middle Ages Warfare Dark Age Warfare Roman Empire Warfare Ancient Greece Warfare New Kingdom Warfare Old Kingdom Warfare Mesopotamian Warfare
Obviously this sort of thing is a modern problem due to our culture of violence. It's only recently that our soldiers and the people they were fighting resorted to detestable acts in the furtherance of their causes.
I've got the same problem. I don't think I have large hands. (I'm only 5'8") But the DSlite really hurts if I play for more than 20 minutes. I'd really love something a little more ergonomic.
As it is now, it first reminded me of the original nintendo controller. If you pick up that thing now, after trying a 360 controller it feels like you are holding a damned caltrop.
Also, kill switches of this sort are kinda stupid: It's intentional bugs, and intentional security by obscurity. You just hope your enemy hasn't hacked your system through the backdoor you put in.
Why would you put it in your hardware?
I'm using system 3474. I'm selling you system 3474.
It's just that my system 3474 has subcomponent 7474 from Lot 243 from TI. Your system 3474 has subcomponent 7474 from lot 241 from TI.
Fixed penalty only if you just pay it. Now, I'm talking strictly U.S. experience here, but you have the right to your day in court for ANY ticket. 99% of the people wave the right to a hearing to prove innocence and either just pay the ticket or pay a ticket lawyer to plea it down to a non-moving violation. Both of those options are very much due process. Even if you are absolutely guilty of breaking the law that the ticket claims you did, you DO have the chance to get out of it. The police DO have to gather evidence and present their case if you choose to fight the ticket.
You: I didn't drive with a cell phone. Cop: You did drive with a cell phone.
Judge: Even though you are both 'equal' members of society, I will choose to disbelieve you. Guilty.
And by the power of "Slippery Slope," that could be argued (and is, hence the ridiculous state of affairs I allude to;) to apply to absolutely anything that could cause anyone to drive without "due care or attention," like drinking, smoking, talking to passengers...
Why have 100's of individual laws to cover every eventuality, when a carefully worded single law to cover them all would suffice? (Yes, I realise there's a problem with laws in other areas that are too general - I don't believe this to be the case with this one)
Because this NEW law gets passed, and the 100s of individual laws still remain.
So you don't get charged with 'Driving while using phone' you get charged with that AND 'Driving without care or attention'.
Two Thousand Seven Hundred Miles. If you walk for 16 hours and sleep for 8, it looks like you can make it there and back in 98 days.
Hmm looks like I fudged the math a bit.
37 days of straight walking. If I broke that up into 16 hour days, that becomes 55 segments. So about 110 days of walking 16 hours a day (I think a doctor might recommend against that).
Of course, if you assume that you stay in a hotel for about $85/night and budget $5/day for food (good luck with all those calories you are burning) you are going to land just shy of $10,000.
SO even ignoring the health risks, the worn out clothes, and lost income.
$10,000 and 110 days to make a visit to Sacramento.
The key here is that flying isn't a basic human right
I'd say that the burdon is on you to prove that it isn't. Since the right to travel IS a human right, how can you justify abridging that right if you choose to do anything but walk.
Let's say I wanted to travel from my current location in DC, to Sacramento. Are you suggesting that if I want to travel there without having my rights infringed, my only option is walking?
Ignore my previous comment. I'm wrong on the aileron issue. If you found that your ailerons failed, depending on the nature of the failure you might be able to control your aircraft using a variety of techniques. Differential engine thrust if in a multi-engine aircraft, very careful use of the rudder to control banking, etc.
That's an interesting point. Am I to understand that the pedals could be used to land the plane if the fly-by-wire was lost? You'd still have no pitch control, if I'm not mistaken, and the yaw pedals are less effective at high speeds, right? The quickest method of turning an aircraft is to roll, then increase your pitch in your tilted frame of reference. (Do commercial airliners use the yaw controls more, so as to avoid steep angles of roll which might disturb the passengers?)
Losing control of the ailerons at almost any point is pretty much a dead end situation. I don't know of any aircraft that lost control of their ailerons and still landed successfully. If someone knows of a story, I'd like to hear it.
The rudder is there to counteract adverse yaw when you roll your aircraft (ie. in a turn). There is an indicator for which you will want to 'step on the ball' (indicating which pedal to press). I HAVE heard of aircraft landing after losing their rudder.
Hulu (or similar service) tells your OS that it is running an ad for a show you are streaming. Your OS locks you out as your computer turns into a television while the ad runs. Once the ad finishes, your show starts up again, and you have access to your computer again.
I'm not saying I like that AT ALL, but that is what I think this ad is for. To prevent people from muting their computers, or ignoring ads.
I do my part and write a letter to any company that blocks the mute button or even worse, includes 'interactive' advertisements. I let them know that I will avoid their product and encourage all of my friends and family to do the same.
I agree with you completely, and I love the fact that I can make a ";)" comment and have it moderated at +insightful. (Though I was amused that I did get an Overrated modifier before I was even moderated)
. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable
Now that's a confusing sentence. It implies that the Communications Act of 1934 granted the authority to regulate satellite communications. Quite forward thinking legislation since there were no artificial satellites in 1934.
And 'television' jumps out at me. The other items listed in that sentence refer more to the physical transmission medium, whereas television is just a nickname we gave to broadcast video signals.
I'm not knocking on you, but that definition is by no means a proof of your statement for the authority of the FCC.
If it becomes a standard, I'd like to see the patent holder paid an award at the moment for the creation of the standard and then the patent is released into the public domain.
There are several problems with this idea.
What if the standard never takes off, did you just pay a lot for a useless patent?
Or, what if your patent is useful outside of the standard? You wouldn't want it to become public if you are licensing it for other uses.
Though you may be referring to EU countries... I find it important, from a US perspective, to reinforce the idea that the Constitution was never intended to grant freedom or rights. It was, and should be a limitation on the powers of government.
I guarantee there are forces in an aircraft that are not perpendicular to the plane of motion of the joystick. Your absolute statement about the forces in a car are also incorrect
There are forces, but they are not the major forces that a person would be experiencing.
The point is that the major forces are perpendicular to the plane of motion of the joystick in an aircraft, and they would not be in a car. The lateral forces you would experience in a car are VERY hard to counteract when dealing with a joystick control system.
My original post was not intended to be exact, it was simply to illustrate one of the major reasons why aircraft can be controlled by joysticks due to the different planes of motion they control.
I also have a boatload of complaints that deal with the typical usage that you expect to see in an aircraft vs a car. The precision required when guiding a car is actually pretty tight. The wheel allows us spread the variations over a wide range. Even in closely coupled sports vehicles, a U-turn probably requires a point on the wheel to rotate at least 15-30cm. How much would be required of a joystick?
I've seen proposed systems where the 'joystick' was more like a verticle handle that was rotated by turning your wrist. Even that faces problems as the range of motion of your wrist for clockwise and counterclockwise motion is not equal from a verticle=neutral position.
It can be done, but it would require so much engineering, so much background processing, complete retraining. Even then, there is no guarantee that it would be the preferrable solution.
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Not just newspapers, but the idea of posting news stories on a public bulletin board dates all the way back to New York City in the 1890s..... or even earlier. People would stand outside Wall Street or store windows, and read the headlines scrawled across chalkboards. It ain't something new.
I'll go with even earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses
I'm pretty sure that everywhere there was a post near a town square, there has been an analog blog. Hell, isn't that where we get the term 'Post' from?
Even without that, there was always the town crier.
Without reading the GPs posting history, I suspect there's a good probability he's using irony in the dictionary sense of the word.
:)
The two responses prior to yours sent chills down my spine. I never thought I'd see the day when someone didn't expect a sarcastic remark on Slashdot.
Post-Modern Warfare
Modern Warfare
Romantic Age Warfare
Victorian Era Warfare
Industrial Revolution Era Warfare
Age of Enlightenment Warfare
Age of Discovery Warfare
Ottoman Empire Warfare
Middle Ages Warfare
Dark Age Warfare
Roman Empire Warfare
Ancient Greece Warfare
New Kingdom Warfare
Old Kingdom Warfare
Mesopotamian Warfare
Obviously this sort of thing is a modern problem due to our culture of violence. It's only recently that our soldiers and the people they were fighting resorted to detestable acts in the furtherance of their causes.
I've got the same problem. I don't think I have large hands. (I'm only 5'8") But the DSlite really hurts if I play for more than 20 minutes. I'd really love something a little more ergonomic.
As it is now, it first reminded me of the original nintendo controller. If you pick up that thing now, after trying a 360 controller it feels like you are holding a damned caltrop.
Hint:
Had he said 100 degrees it would have been boiling.
Hint 2:
C not F
Why do you assume that he was veering at all?
By your logic you could take this statement:
I walked across the street today, with no adverse consequences.
And respond with:
No consequences except that you were throwing rocks through the windows of passing cars.
Did he say he was swerving? No, but you just decided to fabricate a portion of the story to bolster your own point.
I certainly can't argue with that line of reasoning. (ad hominem)
That wasn't an ad-hominem attack.
An ambulance blazing through a stoplight isn't safe. Do you think they should stop and wait for the light to change?
They should slow down and stop if necessary to confirm that it is safe to proceed before going through the intersection if the light isn't green.
An ambulance blazing through a stoplight is putting their crew, their ward, and everyone at that intersection at risk for their lives.
Also, kill switches of this sort are kinda stupid: It's intentional bugs, and intentional security by obscurity. You just hope your enemy hasn't hacked your system through the backdoor you put in.
Why would you put it in your hardware?
I'm using system 3474. I'm selling you system 3474.
It's just that my system 3474 has subcomponent 7474 from Lot 243 from TI. Your system 3474 has subcomponent 7474 from lot 241 from TI.
Same part/version numbers on every component.
Fixed penalty only if you just pay it. Now, I'm talking strictly U.S. experience here, but you have the right to your day in court for ANY ticket. 99% of the people wave the right to a hearing to prove innocence and either just pay the ticket or pay a ticket lawyer to plea it down to a non-moving violation. Both of those options are very much due process. Even if you are absolutely guilty of breaking the law that the ticket claims you did, you DO have the chance to get out of it. The police DO have to gather evidence and present their case if you choose to fight the ticket.
You: I didn't drive with a cell phone.
Cop: You did drive with a cell phone.
Judge: Even though you are both 'equal' members of society, I will choose to disbelieve you. Guilty.
And by the power of "Slippery Slope," that could be argued (and is, hence the ridiculous state of affairs I allude to;) to apply to absolutely anything that could cause anyone to drive without "due care or attention," like drinking, smoking, talking to passengers...
Why have 100's of individual laws to cover every eventuality, when a carefully worded single law to cover them all would suffice? (Yes, I realise there's a problem with laws in other areas that are too general - I don't believe this to be the case with this one)
Because this NEW law gets passed, and the 100s of individual laws still remain.
So you don't get charged with 'Driving while using phone' you get charged with that AND 'Driving without care or attention'.
All it takes to preserve your rights is to not enter the line.
So how do I get to Sacramento CA from Alexandria, VA while preserving my rights?
Two Thousand Seven Hundred Miles.
If you walk for 16 hours and sleep for 8, it looks like you can make it there and back in 98 days.
Hmm looks like I fudged the math a bit.
37 days of straight walking. If I broke that up into 16 hour days, that becomes 55 segments. So about 110 days of walking 16 hours a day (I think a doctor might recommend against that).
Of course, if you assume that you stay in a hotel for about $85/night and budget $5/day for food (good luck with all those calories you are burning) you are going to land just shy of $10,000.
SO even ignoring the health risks, the worn out clothes, and lost income.
$10,000 and 110 days to make a visit to Sacramento.
The key here is that flying isn't a basic human right
I'd say that the burdon is on you to prove that it isn't. Since the right to travel IS a human right, how can you justify abridging that right if you choose to do anything but walk.
Let's say I wanted to travel from my current location in DC, to Sacramento. Are you suggesting that if I want to travel there without having my rights infringed, my only option is walking?
http://tinyurl.com/yzz46xl (Tiny URL of Google maps showing the walking path from DC to Sacramento)
Two Thousand Seven Hundred Miles.
If you walk for 16 hours and sleep for 8, it looks like you can make it there and back in 98 days.
Not to mention that it likely goes along a path where I'll be exposed to oncomming traffic, and I'm certain that some sections don't have sidewalks.
So my only option to not have my rights infringed is to give up 1/4th of a year and put my life in jeopardy just to travel to one US city?
Sorry, but it is infringing upon our Rights.
Ignore my previous comment. I'm wrong on the aileron issue. If you found that your ailerons failed, depending on the nature of the failure you might be able to control your aircraft using a variety of techniques. Differential engine thrust if in a multi-engine aircraft, very careful use of the rudder to control banking, etc.
It's too late for me to be commenting.
That's an interesting point. Am I to understand that the pedals could be used to land the plane if the fly-by-wire was lost? You'd still have no pitch control, if I'm not mistaken, and the yaw pedals are less effective at high speeds, right? The quickest method of turning an aircraft is to roll, then increase your pitch in your tilted frame of reference. (Do commercial airliners use the yaw controls more, so as to avoid steep angles of roll which might disturb the passengers?)
Losing control of the ailerons at almost any point is pretty much a dead end situation. I don't know of any aircraft that lost control of their ailerons and still landed successfully. If someone knows of a story, I'd like to hear it.
The rudder is there to counteract adverse yaw when you roll your aircraft (ie. in a turn). There is an indicator for which you will want to 'step on the ball' (indicating which pedal to press). I HAVE heard of aircraft landing after losing their rudder.
Hulu (or similar service) tells your OS that it is running an ad for a show you are streaming. Your OS locks you out as your computer turns into a television while the ad runs. Once the ad finishes, your show starts up again, and you have access to your computer again.
I'm not saying I like that AT ALL, but that is what I think this ad is for. To prevent people from muting their computers, or ignoring ads.
I do my part and write a letter to any company that blocks the mute button or even worse, includes 'interactive' advertisements. I let them know that I will avoid their product and encourage all of my friends and family to do the same.
I agree with you completely, and I love the fact that I can make a ";)" comment and have it moderated at +insightful. (Though I was amused that I did get an Overrated modifier before I was even moderated)
. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable
Now that's a confusing sentence. It implies that the Communications Act of 1934 granted the authority to regulate satellite communications. Quite forward thinking legislation since there were no artificial satellites in 1934.
And 'television' jumps out at me. The other items listed in that sentence refer more to the physical transmission medium, whereas television is just a nickname we gave to broadcast video signals.
I'm not knocking on you, but that definition is by no means a proof of your statement for the authority of the FCC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
This is a wonderful paradox to consider when discussing these sorts of topics and I think it applies very well to your repair questions.
Nokia is just angry that they are profits are down and Apple's profits are up.
Source: CNN Money
Profits tend to be down when people aren't paying you for your work. ;)
If it becomes a standard, I'd like to see the patent holder paid an award at the moment for the creation of the standard and then the patent is released into the public domain.
There are several problems with this idea.
What if the standard never takes off, did you just pay a lot for a useless patent?
Or, what if your patent is useful outside of the standard? You wouldn't want it to become public if you are licensing it for other uses.
constitution-granted freedoms.
Though you may be referring to EU countries... I find it important, from a US perspective, to reinforce the idea that the Constitution was never intended to grant freedom or rights. It was, and should be a limitation on the powers of government.
I guarantee there are forces in an aircraft that are not perpendicular to the plane of motion of the joystick. Your absolute statement about the forces in a car are also incorrect
There are forces, but they are not the major forces that a person would be experiencing.
The point is that the major forces are perpendicular to the plane of motion of the joystick in an aircraft, and they would not be in a car. The lateral forces you would experience in a car are VERY hard to counteract when dealing with a joystick control system.
My original post was not intended to be exact, it was simply to illustrate one of the major reasons why aircraft can be controlled by joysticks due to the different planes of motion they control.
I also have a boatload of complaints that deal with the typical usage that you expect to see in an aircraft vs a car. The precision required when guiding a car is actually pretty tight. The wheel allows us spread the variations over a wide range. Even in closely coupled sports vehicles, a U-turn probably requires a point on the wheel to rotate at least 15-30cm. How much would be required of a joystick?
I've seen proposed systems where the 'joystick' was more like a verticle handle that was rotated by turning your wrist. Even that faces problems as the range of motion of your wrist for clockwise and counterclockwise motion is not equal from a verticle=neutral position.
It can be done, but it would require so much engineering, so much background processing, complete retraining. Even then, there is no guarantee that it would be the preferrable solution.
Wheels work, and they work well.
More important question:
Would Disney ever promise that?