Man tries to kill him self live on the Today Show

[Fritzo]

I guess the cooking segment sucked?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=STCbm3MgUT0

http://www.today.com/news/man-knife-injures-himself-today-plaza-6C10223426

Security crews temporarily shut down parts of Rockefeller Plaza early Thursday morning after a man with a knife attempted to harm himself.

“He was controlled by our security team out there. However, he did harm himself in some way, so he’s now being attended to by medical personnel,” Matt Lauer said on TODAY. The man made it clear he did not intend to hurt anyone else but himself, Lauer said.

The area was kept clear by the New York Police Department and the NBC security team investigating the incident.

Shortly after the incident Thursday morning, Matt Lauer sent out two tweets: "All secure on the plaza after a scary incident. Thanks to our security team and the NYPD," and later, “Sorry, a man attempted to harm himself with a knife. He is under police control. In custody.”

 

[Platypus]

look at me!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[momeNt]

I guess the cooking segment sucked?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=STCbm3MgUT0

http://www.today.com/news/man-knife-injures-himself-today-plaza-6C10223426

There is a small part of our brain that functions purely to stop ourselves from committing suicide, it seems that that part of his brain temporarily stopped working. Scary.

 

[MisterJackson]

Damn, he could have at least taken Lauer with him first. Leave Al alone though. He's good people.

 

[jagec]

There is a small part of our brain that functions purely to stop ourselves from committing suicide, it seems that that part of his brain temporarily stopped working. Scary.

A surprising amount of your brain is devoted to repressing the crazy impulsive thoughts that would otherwise drive your behavior. Civilization depends on this fact.

 

[twinrider1]

I'm surprised it hasn't happened more often.

 

[BoomerD]

If I had to watch the Today Show live...I'd probably want to kill myself too...

 

[KeithTalent]

I have no idea what I am looking at on that video.

KT

 

[NFS4]

Should have taken out Roker. That blowhard just irks me. Actually, a Roker/Lauer two for one special would have been awesome.

 

[momeNt]

Should have taken out Roker. That blowhard just irks me. Actually, a Roker/Lauer two for one special would have been awesome.

Roker has admitted on air that he has pooped his pants, when you show that level of bravery, you be the one to knife him.

 

[NFS4]

Roker has admitted on air that he has pooped his pants, when you show that level of bravery, you be the one to knife him.

Whenever he gets up on top of a crane hovering over the crowd (which is often) saying "My People...MY PEOPLE", I just want to put a bullet in his head.

 

[Fritzo]

Roker has admitted on air that he has pooped his pants, when you show that level of bravery, you be the one to knife him.

I like Al. I met him once in Chicago and he seems to be a genuinely good person. He has no problem with people coming up and talking to him (if fact, if he sees you looking at him he often comes over to you and says "I saw you looking and you looked nervous about coming over---Hi, I'm Al."

 

[momeNt]

I like Al. I met him once in Chicago and he seems to be a genuinely good person. He has no problem with people coming up and talking to him (if fact, if he sees you looking at him he often comes over to you and says "I saw you looking and you looked nervous about coming over---Hi, I'm Al."

I've heard that too, he apparently was very nice to people during the Chicago marathon. I wasn't there because I don't want to destroy my heart and kidneys doing a trivial accomplishment, but if you were as slow as him you would have got to meet him and come away thinking he was a nice man.

 

[zinfamous]

great. another vertical video.

I think it's time we start holding accountable the people that post links to such videos. Stop feeding the beast--it's the only way to eliminate the problem.

 

[momeNt]

great. another vertical video.

I think it's time we start holding accountable the people that post links to such videos. Stop feeding the beast--it's the only way to eliminate the problem.

Phone cameras with gyroscopes should not rotate the screen and instead force the image being taken to appear in the correct format on the screen. As soon as people saw that the video was appearing sideways, they would rotate the phone.

 

[NFS4]

Phone cameras with gyroscopes should not rotate the screen and instead force the image being taken to appear in the correct format on the screen. As soon as people saw that the video was appearing sideways, they would rotate the phone.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[WelshBloke]

look at me!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah.I can some what understand where people are coming from that just have had enough of life and quietly decide to call it a day.I don't agree that its a particularly valid choice but I can see the reasoning. But the whole "I'm going to make a big statement" thing I don't understand. If you care that much in the first place why are you bowing out?

 

[Drako]

Phone cameras with accelerometers ...

FTFY

 

[zinfamous]

Phone cameras with gyroscopes should not rotate the screen and instead force the image being taken to appear in the correct format on the screen. As soon as people saw that the video was appearing sideways, they would rotate the phone.

I think I have a better solution, which I discussed in a thread some time ago.

Free app, called "HD VIDEO!!1!" that I would design and distribute. It contains a few meaningless filters that do absolutely nothing--but will satisfy idiots because they don't know what they are doing anyway. The real function of the app is that it simply turns off the camera if you are recording your phone in the wrong orientation.

Does it let you know that the camera is off? No--you think you are recording, but you get nothing when you try to playback. Eventually, you learn to rotate horizontally and it records just fine. And if you never learn to rotate the phone, then all the better: the world is spared hundreds of idiotic material recorded by your idiotic self.

 

[Farang]

Lame.. I would think it pretty easy to pull a Budd Dwyer on that show. Guy didn't even get in the frame

 

[momeNt]

FTFY

I suppose that's right, technically they have both, but a 3-axis accelerometer would be the one to determine if the phone is in the wrong position, the gyroscope provides for rotational velocity.


FWIW, just experimented on my SGS3 and when I start a video in vertical, rotate the camera, stop, and replay, it is in vertical the entire time and shows a 90degree rotated image once the phone is recording horizontally. Even in playback when I rotate the phone to view horizontally it plays vertically.

Same holds true for when it is shot horizontally, so it would be quite easy to simply just force horizontal recording and not allow the accelerometer to dictate the aspect ratio.

 

[Drako]

I suppose that's right, technically they have both, but a 3-axis accelerometer would be the one to determine if the phone is in the wrong position, the gyroscope provides for rotational velocity.


FWIW, just experimented on my SGS3 and when I start a video in vertical, rotate the camera, stop, and replay, it is in vertical the entire time and shows a 90degree rotated image once the phone is recording horizontally. Even in playback when I rotate the phone to view horizontally it plays vertically.

Same holds true for when it is shot horizontally, so it would be quite easy to simply just force horizontal recording and not allow the accelerometer to dictate the aspect ratio.

LOL, just giving you a hard time.

I've actually worked on designs for several smart phone prototypes, and none of the APIs I've seen use the gyro for "phone position".

 

[Saint Nick]

Lol @ thread Only on AnaNdTech!

 

[Mixolydian]

Heck, I'd want to kill myself just WATCHING the Today Show...

 

[edro]

If NYC allowed concealed carry, an armed citizen could have shot him and prevented this.