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Glad your kid is alright. The driver was totally responsible for the accident. I've come closer to getting creamed many more times on the sidewalk than I have riding in the street (and I probably spend less than 10% of my riding time on sidewalks). It's a personal decision, but I feel that, in most cases, riding in the street is safer than riding on a sidewalk. Drivers are looking for slow-moving traffic on the sidewalk and fast-moving traffic in the street. When I'm forced to ride on the sidewalk, I make myself go slow and keep my head on a swivel anywhere a car might cross my path (intersections, driveways). I'm especially wary of cars coming up behind me and making a right turn across my path. The rule of thumb is "assume that you are invisible."

Took me a little over an hour the first time I tried. There's a time attack video here... Dude beats all 100 levels in less than 6 minutes.

Yes, I know what day it is. Yes, I'm familiar with Google's penchant for April 1st nig-noggery. But Google Rides seems to be real. I used to think that joke about asking Google "where are my car keys?" was funny, now I'm starting to think it's only a matter of time.

The lenses that he is talking about are designed for small-frame digital cameras. They are similar in concept to the Digital Rebel kit lens: smaller frame mean less glass, means cheaper/lighter lens. The use a standard EF mount, so you could put them on a 35mm camera or something like a 1DS, but the pictures would be cropped. They depend on having a cropping factor of something like 1.5 or more.

I wouldn't believe the math. For example, my PC105 manual claims a 35 mm equivalent of 50 mm. With my Kenko .5 lens, the math says I should be using about a 16 mm lens on my Digital Rebel. In practice, I find that a 24 mm matches fairly well. Your best bet is to borrow an 18-55 or similar lens and see what matches.

I've seen the Illinois SKYDIVE tag. I was nowhere near a dropzone, and I didn't recognize the person in the car.

It should be noted that this maneuver, even at relatively light wingloadings, can easily cause unrecoverable line twists. Students should never try this without consulting their instructors, and more experienced jumpers should have a lot of practice with less drastic stall recovery options before attempting this. (You couldn't pay me to do it, even with my "big" Triathlon 160)

Nobody on this site who is worth listening to is bothered by "newbie" questions. Seriously. Just because there isn't a newbie section at dz.com doesn't mean you aren't welcome here.

Ben Folds at Foellinger Auditorium. Torrent here

I'm in the process of selling my wingsuit right now (no other wingsuiters in southern Wisconsin, and you know what's the only thing more boring than a 60 second solo? A two minute solo). If I still have mine by the time the Expo rolls around, or can borrow one, I'd love to jump with you. I'll be the dork in the Falling Illini t-shirt. Speaking of Falling Illini, I can't for the life of me remember if I've met you or not. I did my last jumps at Archway in the fall of 2002.

The Java applet was compiled with a newer version of the Java compiler than your plug-in can deal with. Install the most recent plug-in and you should be good to go.

There is a speed skydiving league. The current world record is over 300 mph.

Works fine for me now. Who likes outfacing slots?

I think the problem is that the page is trying to load the stylesheet from http://localhost/DivePool/Divepool.css

Reloaded. "Items remaining" counts down from 60-ish. Click on jumper. New jumper is created on the page. Clicking and draging the new jumper produces no change and no javascript errors. Control-clicking to change the jumpers symbol also fails silently.

Creating a jumper works, but dragging fails with IE 6.0.2900. Also, unchecking the caption box causes a Javascript error (line 56, char 5, "Object doesn't support this property or method: objCurrentJumper.setImage"). Sometime in the last few days I saw a cross-browser library for doing image drag/drop, among other things. Might be worth checking into. update: Found it!

Most tablets have wifi built in, so sharing printers and drives should be a piece of cake. When I bought my laptop, I purposely avoided a "desktop replacement" system. Even my slimmed-down notebook (no floppy, relatively small screen, little battery) still feels damn heavy after I've been carrying it around all day.

A loaf of rye bread and three pounds of corned beef showed up in the fridge yesterday, so we'll probably just cook that up and have a few beers.

You mean do it while building custom motorcycles? 'Cause I haven't seen any nature shows on that channel in a looooong time.

I've done worse than that on just the back nine.

You want to shoot up a store full of PO Boxes?

Read this. It covers most of the important points. There is also an extremely long thread about SkyRide in this very forum that has lots of details.

I read about this earlier today, and I still can't figure out how they plan to market it. When I bought my first Voodoo, it was to play Quake 2. It was the same game before I bought the Voodoo, it just didn't look as pretty. It was optional and made the game better, but it didn't change the gameplay between systems. Having that 3D option eventually led to today, when most games can get away with requiring a 3D card. As far as I can tell, this Ageia thing won't be optional like early 3D accelerators were. You can't realisitically have two versions of a game, one with so-so software physics and another with awesome hardware-accelerated physics. The Ageia system needs a "killer app," a game so awesome that people are going to throw down $200 on top of their brand-new Radeon just to play that one game. Whoever decides to try first is taking a huge risk. Developing a top-of-the-line game like Doom3 or HL2 costs tens of millions of dollars, and if it's not quite good enough to convince hundreds of thousands of gamers to buy a new physics accelerator, then it's a multi-million dollar failure. I'd love to see this come to fruition, but Ageia has a tough road to hoe.

I don't see this feature in my edit profile screen, nor do I ever recall seeing it. ARe you trying to use the "Other" fields? Those are only for if your gear doesn't appear in the dropdown boxes to the left.

Have you considered how you would mount a camera on that helmet? I can't think of a good way to attach a camera to a Havok.