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Oh, Your Private Jet Is Just Subsonic?

Posted by Hemos on from the technology-innovation dept.

zerogeewhiz writes "Found this article here at The Sydney Morning Herald . It seems that Bill and his mates need to move a bit quicker these days and for a cool US$80 million, you too can overtake the Concorde on a dash to Harrods for dinner. As described in the article, the main complaint about Concorde is that it can only fly supersonic over water and creates those nasty sonic booms that punch holes in buildings and shatter windows. They reckon they can get rid of these waves by making the plane longer. These are gonna be fast but hideous. 737-700s are suddenly passe as a corporate jet..."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. Can you imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh wait, nevermind.

  3. Concorder by crumbz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The gap between rich and poor is just getting w-i-d-e-r.

  4. Sonic Boom! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Guile and Charlie are the best chars. in the Street Fighter series.

  5. Private jets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hmm, is it just me or should Hemos start posting articles on unemployment compensation or how to write a resume instead of on private jets and expensive stuff he can't afford anymore?

    -sting3r

  6. woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    VA Linux stock just went up 3 cents! oh shit! 1.40 oh ya!

    Oh darn Microsoft is up 1.59 to 58.64!

    Now that VA Linux has switched to a proprietary closed source business model things are really looking up! Microsoft stands no chance! Lin0x rulz0rz!!!!

    1. Re:woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      doh, back down to 1.37...

  7. Dertouzos said it better... by cascadefx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Michael Dertouzos, Chair of MIT's Computer Science Department and columnist for The MIT Technology Review said it better in an article titled The People's Computer: E-mail: Freedom or Jail?.

    He is more concise and he offers some simple rules that would help stem the tide if everyone abided by them.

    The meat of his point is summed up in the following paragraph:

    Just because we have become electronically interconnected, we have not acquired the automatic right to send a message to anyone we wish, nor the automatic obligation to respond to every message we receive.

    Here, here!

  8. The +Mach 1 Club. by Macfox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gone is the Mile high Club.

    Enter the Mach 1!

    "Boom... Oh!... Darling!... "

    Rob

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