A king who's been dead for 5000 years from Egypt is out in front in this race. We still know THAT guy's name! This guy, I have to scroll back up to the top of the article to remember this one. Sounds like he wouldn't mind having 10000 slaves build him a pyramid, but might be having some trouble motivating them to. His efforts, of course, will be as useless as that dead king's. People have been trying to cheat death as long as there have been people, and all those people are dead. At each point along that time line, they've always used the most modern technologies money could buy. Didn't matter. Dead, every one of 'em. I'm not a bettin' man. Well, actually, I am. And I'll put my chips on Death every time. Will this time be any different? Obviously HGH and The Paleo Diet are WAY more advanced than the humors and mercury the last guy shot himself full of. Oh... heh heh heh, sorry, sometimes I kill myself...

Here's an idea, why not try actually living for a while instead of cowering in fear of the reaper? Why waste your entire life living in fear of something you can't do anything about? Just take what you have, squeeze everything you can out of it and laugh in Death's face when he comes for you.

Everyone's going to shake their head and go "Tsk tsk, glutin finally got him." Especially once we start the rumor that he accidentally ate some glutin and died, and that's why there's not a display anymore. Right? Who's with me here?

Heh heh heh

Yeah, sometimes a story just kind of works out that way -- Cage deathmatch between Hanson and the Spice Girls, Fox News and Dish Networks at war, Sony Vs. North Korea, etc. You just gotta figure no matter who loses, Humanity wins.

They always say my videos are shaky, and that's because my videos ARE shaky and are supposed to be. The camera's sitting on my head, not a stable platform. If I preview the corrections they suggest, they're moderately less shaky and are also blurry. I think I'll stick with the uncorrected video.

There are only two ways to fix that; put big black bars on either side of the video and resample it to 16:9 or stab the person who took the video in the face. So I'm guessing you want Google to automatically detect VVS and stab the user that uploaded it in the face over the internet?

Foo! 16:9 isn't invented until 2337!

I'd been on Java for a while but started moving back toward C++ a couple years ago. Between boost, the Eigen math library and the new C++11 standard features, I haven't had to code my own utility libraries unless I want to. I've also started playing around with Qt as an easy-to-use and modern GUI library. The majority of my development has been on Linux, and these tools get me where I need to be.

i think you'll find you're wrong about the C standard library being "nothing compared to what's out there". If it seems that way, you probably haven't learned enough about the C standard library. The C standard library provides an API to all your system resources. You can take full control of the hardware with the library. Things you never thought to ask if you could do. Most programmers, in my experience, never get much past the system("rm ...") stage. I've been doing maintenance programming for 25 years now and every fucking C program I've ever had to maintain has had one of those somewhere in the code. It makes me wish I could reach back in time through my monitor to slap someone.

What happens when they start unionizing and demanding voting rights?

Or, you know, hypothetical kid could do it from his cell phone when it happens, which would be a number that's in my contacts list. That would probably also be the only way emergency personnel could get the number, since no one memorizes numbers anymore. They just select a person from their contacts list. Anyway, rejected calls go directly to voicemail, so I can decide later if they're important or not. I can also turn it off if I'm expecting a call that's from someone who's not in my contacts.

I run a call blocker on my android phone that only allows people in my contacts list through. Keeps the riffraff out -- an endless swarm of poor quality technical recruiters, phone soliciters, scammers and Comcast salespeople. Best $3 I ever spent.

All that pot was crossing their borders before, they just weren't paying attention. A majority of states now allow it for medical use, so it's not like Colorado's the only source of the stuff. And it's not hard to get a medical card. Find the right doctor and tell him you have a headache, stress or PMS.

I don't think I could do better than my house in Longmont, Colorado right now. Weed's legal, we're rolling out a gigabit municipal fiber network, there's a skydiving dropzone 10 minutes from my house, a vertical wind tunnel ("indoor skydiving") an hour from my house, the food here is amazing and the gays can get married in the state now. Suck it, rest of the world!

Heh. Imagining... *Guy puts change in vending machine*
arms: Doink-doink-doink-doink-doink-doink-doink!

What's this "we" stuff? Anywhoo, a portion of the "normal" population IS easily paralyzed by fear or prone to hysteria. Sometimes both. Another portion of them think they are but find they are able to act when push comes to shove. If it weren't for the big-ass herd, the first group would quickly be eaten by bears. Since they're not, we just have to deal with their hand-wringing. Sony obviously knows this, since they were very supportive and didn't just say "We think you're being a bunch of pussies, so show our damn movie already." Mr. Singer apparently doesn't, since that's pretty much what he said.

And have GlaDOS preside over the funeral, cancelling the deceased's membership in the Being-Alive Club and talking about what a horrible person they were. Later on in the webcast she could serve cake and then release the neurotoxin.

As it so happens, I DO have an array of t,x,y,z points. My GPS tracker records time, latitude, longitude and altitude. I wrote a bunch of code in C++ and have a data factory to get the points from the GPS tracker into an array. From there, I convert the points to ECEF so that I can do linear speed measurements on them. ECEF is an X/Y/Z coordinate system that measures its coordinates as meters from the center of the geoid. IIRC the two axes are the north pole and the intersection of the prime meridian and the equator. Could be wrong about that, I don't often have cause to check.

Canopy detection turns out to be pretty easy. I just find the first place in the jump I'm doing less than 10 meters a second. It seems to be pretty accurate. I haven't got around to aircraft exit and landing, as my GPS source up until recently has been too bad to get decent data. I'll have to do a few test jumps (In the name of science!) with a new, more accurate phone and see if it's worth the effort now.

For output, I'm rendering to KML. I can display that directly on Google earth or OpenLayers or write my own thing to do it.

Once I have a decent data set, I'll also have to add some statistic gathering. The upcoming holiday time off might be worthwhile for cleaning up some of the code I have. Hmm... :-D