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Is "The Vehicle" a euphemism for something? ;) What exactly are you talking about loosing?

(And I hardly think that suggesting a more powerful RCS as a backup (backups being critically fundamental rocket design) is "redesigning the whole thing"). I don't know why they went with cold gas thrusters, but hydrazine RCS thrusters are mature tech, one that even SpaceX themselves uses - they're reliable and have a good power to weight ratio for their size. I presume there's a reason they went with nitrogen instead, but I don't know that reason.

Hear hear!

I think you mean "Here, here."

Hear hear!

It will be just an other obscure mobile OS - But If Samsung actually start to manufacture Tizen devices over Android. They will loose the market just like NOKIA did a few years before.

Ahem.

You appear to have confused the verb 'lose' with the adjective 'loose'

http://loseloose.com/

And modern electric cars do loose half of the battery capacity in cold climate

That's simply not true. As GM points out, most of the winter difference, which isn't as dramatic as you make it out to be (25-30 miles instead of the average/nominal 40 miles, with 45-50 in spring) has nothing to do with loss of battery capacity, and is simply that it takes more energy to drive a car of any fuel source in the winter, between increased tire losses, snow, harsher driving cycles, interior cabin heating, etc. In case you didn't notice, your gasoline car also gets worse mileage in the winter. Also, the Volt unfortunately doesn't have a reversible heat pump, just a standard resistive heater, which is a big hit. Most future EVs should be expected to have reversible heat pumps for climate control, with the motor and/or battery pack as the "hot" reservoir.

Lastly, a pet peeve of mine...

Pirates that hide cowardly and are ashamed of what they have done. They loose, because they act like loosers...

Don't be a looser.

Just point loosers at this site; it's self-explanatory.

You've got it backwards, though -- read the summary. Jobs doesn't want to lose DRM; he wants to loose (unleash) it. In other words, if you think the stuff that they offer is protected now, wait until you see what they do for the higher quality stuff. :)

Either that, or someone doesn't know how to spell simple words. Doesn't seem likely, so I'm going to go with the "Jobs wants DRM" theory.

Seems to me the Texan got it right.