Why not a two part probe: half is a broadcast station to relay info home, the other half is a capsule with a spool of wire (fiber, whatever), and RTG, and whatever science tools are feasible.
The probe lands, splits into two, and the RTG side just sort of melts/sinks its way in with the spool playing out wire to the surface station. Spool has to be on the sinker side because the ice will refreeze on the wire as you go. Don't know how long it would take for it to sink say... 2 kilometers, but assuming it melting a meter a day, that would be 5.5 years to hit the ocean.
We don't know too much about the seismic activity and makeup of the ice, so I'd give a well-engineered probe like this a 1 in 3 chance of reaching the liquid part. But if it did... what a payoff!
I've donated to them online before... didn't get a single piece of junk mail at all. I was worried they wouldn't respect the "don't add me to lists" box, but they did.
I'm pretty sure they'd have just maybe thought this through.
A SATA HDD isn't an external peripheral. It's something that needs the case cracked open to install, I don't see anything else like that in there. My conclusion: it's something else in the bags. In fact, that row has two things on the left, which aren't rectangular enough to be HDDs, and something in a standard impossible-to-open bubble package that's probably a USB key or memory card.
Yes, but if the OS and preinstalled apps took up the same proportion of your disk as they do in this POS, you'd be looking at 320gb of used space out of the box.
23gb free space is pretty anemic for something that's supposed to be a laptop killer.
You know, I'd always wondered about this myself, I've NEVER seen anything but the standard 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, and 1" drives. So i just did a quick search and turned up this Wikipedia quote:
" Despite being denominated in inches, these are international standards and no metric counterparts exist. "
So it looks like inches is the international standard, even in the most metric countries. Crazy. Time and socket drive sizes.
That is why for many years (before ABS), manufacturers would put disk brakes on the front but old-style drum brakes on the back. Because IF you are going to get a lockup, you want it to be your front wheels, not the rear.
Except that this is not true. Drum brakes are much more prone to lockup than disk brakes. Drums don't just brake using the hydraulic cylinder that presses the shoe into the drum surface. The drum is rotating, and the twisting motion of the shoe mechanism gives it additional force without having to press the pedal (why cars could get away without brake boosters when they were all 4 wheel drums). This effect is called "self applying." It's why cars with rear drums have more effective parking brakes (rear disk parking brakes SUCK).
Every shop I've worked at just had a concrete slab floor... all the power and network came in drops (literally dangling in space) from the ceiling. There's usually some conduit running along the rafters and the hanging wires connecting the machines was usually that armored flex conduit. Not really much I can think of you could do "on the floor" to enhance future-proofness.
I'm guessing it's because all the sockpuppet/shill accounts get mod points the same as everyone else and they go through and downmod everything that's anti MS.
Alternately, maybe the writer actually works for MS?
Sad, because that was a great comment, I've never used a Windows phone, and it laid out several practical ways that it fails in a real workflow without resorting to incomprehensible ranting. Whoever wrote it should get a +5 Informative.
Another thumbs up for Neato. I got mine about 18 months ago, and I basically only take out a regular vacuum to hit the stairs/corners (and cobwebs) occasionally.
The "robot" part of the Neato makes a Roomba look like a toy, and the suction is much more powerful... however, they did have some QC issues and I had to return mine twice... once for a broken wheel spring (new ones are redesigned), and once for an RPS error (the lidar unit wasn't turning).
Not to sound callous, but this sounds like a problem the "free market" will take care of eventually.
A dearth of girls in this generation will lead them to value girls more highly, eventually offsetting this "if it's not a girl, I don't want it" mentality that exists now in China.
Whitelist, everything else can go straight to voicemail, which is transcribed (good enough to get the gist) and emailed to you, so you don't even have to listen to it.
You can mark messages/calls as spam so you never even have to let them go to voicemail too.
I just use google voice... I get prompted to press * for unknowns if I want to answer, otherwise it goes to voicemail, and it's easy to mark calls as spam, then they don't ring me again.
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I think you're being purposefully obtuse to try and win an argument on the internet.
Given the quality of his analysis, I'd say "eating for free" is a pretty apt description.
All the articles on that are from 2010... yet searching for Boeing solar gives you... articles from 2010.
Sam
This is idiotic.
Apple did exactly this with Webkit, which is a fork off of KHTML.
Why not a two part probe: half is a broadcast station to relay info home, the other half is a capsule with a spool of wire (fiber, whatever), and RTG, and whatever science tools are feasible.
The probe lands, splits into two, and the RTG side just sort of melts/sinks its way in with the spool playing out wire to the surface station. Spool has to be on the sinker side because the ice will refreeze on the wire as you go. Don't know how long it would take for it to sink say... 2 kilometers, but assuming it melting a meter a day, that would be 5.5 years to hit the ocean.
We don't know too much about the seismic activity and makeup of the ice, so I'd give a well-engineered probe like this a 1 in 3 chance of reaching the liquid part. But if it did... what a payoff!
The same way it currently does, by storing power in the batteries during the day.
What do you mean, "it's heavy?" You just want the job to go fast.
NASA should just be like this guy:
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/man-digs-out-basement-with-rc.html
I've donated to them online before... didn't get a single piece of junk mail at all. I was worried they wouldn't respect the "don't add me to lists" box, but they did.
Sam
I'm pretty sure they'd have just maybe thought this through.
A SATA HDD isn't an external peripheral. It's something that needs the case cracked open to install, I don't see anything else like that in there. My conclusion: it's something else in the bags. In fact, that row has two things on the left, which aren't rectangular enough to be HDDs, and something in a standard impossible-to-open bubble package that's probably a USB key or memory card.
Hah! Another happy No-Ad user here... I also buy it specifically because they don't advertise.
Yes, but if the OS and preinstalled apps took up the same proportion of your disk as they do in this POS, you'd be looking at 320gb of used space out of the box.
23gb free space is pretty anemic for something that's supposed to be a laptop killer.
How is this not flying off the shelves as fast as they can make them?
Miak? I bet you didn't even think I could find it this time of year.
They all have an option in the BIOS to switch the Fn and left Ctrl key.
First thing I did when I got my x100e.
Sam
You know, I'd always wondered about this myself, I've NEVER seen anything but the standard 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, and 1" drives. So i just did a quick search and turned up this Wikipedia quote:
" Despite being denominated in inches, these are international standards and no metric counterparts exist. "
So it looks like inches is the international standard, even in the most metric countries. Crazy. Time and socket drive sizes.
Sam
Were proven to be BS.
That is why for many years (before ABS), manufacturers would put disk brakes on the front but old-style drum brakes on the back. Because IF you are going to get a lockup, you want it to be your front wheels, not the rear.
Except that this is not true. Drum brakes are much more prone to lockup than disk brakes. Drums don't just brake using the hydraulic cylinder that presses the shoe into the drum surface. The drum is rotating, and the twisting motion of the shoe mechanism gives it additional force without having to press the pedal (why cars could get away without brake boosters when they were all 4 wheel drums). This effect is called "self applying." It's why cars with rear drums have more effective parking brakes (rear disk parking brakes SUCK).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_brake#Self-applying_characteristic
Sam
Every shop I've worked at just had a concrete slab floor... all the power and network came in drops (literally dangling in space) from the ceiling. There's usually some conduit running along the rafters and the hanging wires connecting the machines was usually that armored flex conduit. Not really much I can think of you could do "on the floor" to enhance future-proofness.
I'm guessing it's because all the sockpuppet/shill accounts get mod points the same as everyone else and they go through and downmod everything that's anti MS.
Alternately, maybe the writer actually works for MS?
Sad, because that was a great comment, I've never used a Windows phone, and it laid out several practical ways that it fails in a real workflow without resorting to incomprehensible ranting. Whoever wrote it should get a +5 Informative.
Sam
Another thumbs up for Neato. I got mine about 18 months ago, and I basically only take out a regular vacuum to hit the stairs/corners (and cobwebs) occasionally.
The "robot" part of the Neato makes a Roomba look like a toy, and the suction is much more powerful... however, they did have some QC issues and I had to return mine twice... once for a broken wheel spring (new ones are redesigned), and once for an RPS error (the lidar unit wasn't turning).
Sam
Not to sound callous, but this sounds like a problem the "free market" will take care of eventually.
A dearth of girls in this generation will lead them to value girls more highly, eventually offsetting this "if it's not a girl, I don't want it" mentality that exists now in China.
I hope.
Sam
It may not be Linux, but it is not-Windows...
Dell has been offering their workstation class computers for federal government procurement with FreeDOS for years:
http://www.dell.com/us/fedgov/p/precision-m4600/fs
Sucks they won't do this for mere mortals though.
Google voice.
Whitelist, everything else can go straight to voicemail, which is transcribed (good enough to get the gist) and emailed to you, so you don't even have to listen to it.
You can mark messages/calls as spam so you never even have to let them go to voicemail too.
Sam
I just use google voice... I get prompted to press * for unknowns if I want to answer, otherwise it goes to voicemail, and it's easy to mark calls as spam, then they don't ring me again.
Sam
You inserted the question: "...why hasn't anyone implement it on a phone before Apple with or without using an actual bolt?" into the argument.
I replied with an example of a phone that did this exactly, and you just bluster on about moving goal posts?
Sam