secondForty
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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Kamen has demonstrated a great talent for generating media coverage of his products - think back to the incredible level of media attention around launch of "It"... which turned out to be the segway. If he's working on a new product, expect a similar level of media engagement.
There's a good book about development and launch of the segway "CODE NAME GINGER: The Story Behind Ginger and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World"[1]. It's in paperback as "Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition"[2]. It also has some interesting coverage of what happened inside the company during that time.
[1] http://www.stevekemper.net/disc.htm
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Wheel-Genius-Innovation-Am...
Comment · 12 years ago
Really neat that you've updated this. One issue: The graphs of grey bars on white background have very little contrast even in different browsers on a nice monitor. The old version of the calculator has much more color contrast between the graphs and background and doesn't have this issue.
Comment · 12 years ago
The business school is located right behind the medical school
Comment · 12 years ago
And it'll be great at selling ads!
Comment · 12 years ago
Neat example.
So nobody in the class just waits until you're not looking and weighs the whole bag with the scale?
Comment · 12 years ago
This is a GREAT book about the SR-71. I'm submitting since there are so many posts on this topic recently. It's unfortunately out of print, but I'd encourage anyone who enjoyed the recent posts on the SR-71 to look for this in the local library ( I know who does that anymore! ).
Comment · 14 years ago
Tanks Krsunny! Really helps to have some advice on what's current and where to start.
Comment · 14 years ago
This is REALLY COOL!
Could someone explain how this is built or give an overview of how it works? In the 'about' page http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/100000-stars/ it says WebGL and CSS3D, but I'm wondering how they fit together and what does what.
Is there a better way to view the source than just 'view source' in chrome?
I know a number of programming languages and I'd like to learn more about how this project works. [Saw the link to book on graphic programming in other comments below http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/index.html, but how to "take apart and study" this project? ] Kudos to anyone who can point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Perhaps the parent poster didn't intend to offend, and just wanted to pass along some personal information? It's hard to tell. To be clear, this type of gender-based ban is rediculous.
A brief search on this shows there's a much more balanced information out there. Here are some interesting snips from a CS Monitor article on Tereshkova.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0614/First-woman-in-sp...
She actually solved the first big problem in her flight: On the first day, the ship's autopilot mistakenly steered her away from Earth, leaving her facing the prospect of being lost in space.
After her trip, the Soviet space program canceled any future trips for women, and indeed, Tereshkova remained the only woman to go to space for almost two decades. In 1982, the Soviets launched a second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, and the next year, America sent up Sally Ride. Since then, 48 other American women have gone to space, but only one other Russian: Yelena V. Kondakova, in 1994.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-t...