The only thing I miss on it is the Logitec N7's freewheeling mode on the scroll wheel to get through large docs (Or more typically deal with incredibly insensitive camera zooming in games).
That, and that silver wheel just above the thumb? That's a control, it rotates left/right. I have NO idea what to do with it.
No, noone can foresee all possible events. When I refer to planning ahead, I don't really mean that deer that jumps in front of you (Though if you're in a heavily wooded area and near dawn/dusk, slow down a bit and keep an eye out.); I'm referring to what lane you're in, that your turn is coming up, or that the guy in that drive up ahead isn't slowing down enough and maybe you should.
I'm fairly good at getting in the correct lane ahead of time; but just last week I saw an accident from a guy that waited until the last second to cut across 3 lanes into the left turn and clipped a guys bumper. I know enough to nose out carefully into the parking lot drive from an aisle, and to watch for people in those aisles that just pull out. I rode a motorcycle for several years, and learned to carefully pay attention to others, because a motorcycle will always lose.
There's a highway not far from me with a 35 mph limit. It's about a 4 mile stretch with no entrances, and mostly low cut fields on either side with large visibility. There's a cop that sits on that road, every morning and evening, that tags people. The road could easily handle 55-65 mph, and I've yet to see an accident there. More accidents happen on the same road in town because people can't be bothered to check lanes or back off the guy in front of them.
Yeah, there's some more danger at 60 than at 30, that's why you don't use the exact same driving method at higher speeds. But some people will leave a 1' gap at 60; these are the same people that swerve across 3 lanes at 15, and pull out in front of you in parking lots.
Speed doesn't kill, stupid driving kills. A good driver should be able to determine the appropriate speed for the road, traffic, and conditions. A bad driver will get into accidents anywhere, because they don't pay attention or plan ahead.
It doesn't matter how often you drive over 200 miles, so long as you do it once. Unless you have another car it's a massive hassle to drive home for the holidays, or whatever reason you have. The main hinderance for alternative fuels in cars has been, is, and will continue to be the range and the refueling time.
Weight. One of the largest issues getting anything into even orbit, much less Mars, is weight.
A Delta IV Heavy rocket could get about 14 tons to high orbit. A Virginia class submarine weighs about 8,000 tons. This would take around 570 launches to lift.
Even considering you don't need half the features, there's probably more you do need, so the final product might wind up weighing more.
Inflation decreases the value of savings more than it decreases the value of income. But if you're living from paycheck to paycheck, any decrease is difficult to handle, regardless if that other guy is getting it worse.
By UAV I'm not referring to the remote controlled toys you buy for a hobby.
In order to execute somthing like this, you're looking at a 50lb or greater lift capability, 200+ km range, a radar or other rangefinding capability, several cameras, inertial nav systems, an uplink capable of handling all this data and punching through urban clutter, limited self-guidance capabilities, stealth materials, and a pretty decent manuevering capability. Essentially, it's a medium range guided missile.
Or, like stated earlier, there's thousands of morons willing to drive a car full of explosives anywhere. If you place no value on human life this is the way to go.
This is why in the past decade we've seen such a massive influx of GPS guided terrorist UAVs?
Developing this sort of technology is not easy, nor foolproof. And UAVs aren't exactly something I can wander down the street and buy. They prefer to use the age old technology of brainwashed morons, that can find their way to targets on their own. They're cheap, effective, and available in large quantities.
Interestingly, Opera does give the option to disable all scripts on a page whenever one pops a dialog box.
Now if only they could find a way to skip the damned adds that places put now between 2 pages. Even when you block them, you still have a page that says "Click to continue"
Well, assuming the amount of energy required to move a car around doesn't change signficantly, and you still had a range of about the same, the total amount of energy stored in fuel wouldn't change either.
Of course, they probably will get higher, and there's a decent market for vehicles with thousand plus mile ranges I'd imagine (Trucks specifically).
Then again, gas tanks really don't explode or even catch fire currently...so it's possible to design a safe system.
I'm personally more worried about the possibility of flying cars. This morning 2 people pulled in front of me without looking...and we expect them to navigate in 3 dimensions?
With fission we get the Uranium/Plutonium out of the ground, it costs us only a small amount of energy to get relative to what it produces in a power plant.
With anti-matter, it costs just as much to create it as it produces, plus overhead etc. It'll never produce energy.
However, as an above poster pointed out, it's the most efficient energy storage device we're aware of, so there's potential for cars to space vehicles.
No, Nuclear is only a stopgap til we discover the next power generation technology. Just like Coal and Oil are stopgaps til Nuclear, and Wood is a stopgap til Coal and Oil.
The power problem will NEVER be solved. If you don't keep finding a new power supply, you run out, and then you're stuck.
'Renewable' power is a fixed supply, and it's all solar. Wind, Hydro, Solar...same source. Also the source that feeds us, and drives our weather. There's a hard limit to it, same as any other supply. You don't want to run up against a fixed power limit any more than you want to run out of fuel for a given technology.
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Thankfully this is a problem solved by MORE POWER. The most revered of all engineering solutions.
How could he be out in the hurricane if we don't know it's coming?
RAT7 has a cord, RAT9 is wireless.
The only thing I miss on it is the Logitec N7's freewheeling mode on the scroll wheel to get through large docs (Or more typically deal with incredibly insensitive camera zooming in games).
That, and that silver wheel just above the thumb? That's a control, it rotates left/right. I have NO idea what to do with it.
You mean like when you type in about:config in Opera?
He should still have enough left.
They already do; counterfeit parts are a massive issue.
But what better cover for a spy than a profession that cannot be used as cover for spies?
It's about .1nm, so 40 atoms across.
The circuit breaker trips.
No, noone can foresee all possible events. When I refer to planning ahead, I don't really mean that deer that jumps in front of you (Though if you're in a heavily wooded area and near dawn/dusk, slow down a bit and keep an eye out.); I'm referring to what lane you're in, that your turn is coming up, or that the guy in that drive up ahead isn't slowing down enough and maybe you should.
I'm fairly good at getting in the correct lane ahead of time; but just last week I saw an accident from a guy that waited until the last second to cut across 3 lanes into the left turn and clipped a guys bumper. I know enough to nose out carefully into the parking lot drive from an aisle, and to watch for people in those aisles that just pull out. I rode a motorcycle for several years, and learned to carefully pay attention to others, because a motorcycle will always lose.
There's a highway not far from me with a 35 mph limit. It's about a 4 mile stretch with no entrances, and mostly low cut fields on either side with large visibility. There's a cop that sits on that road, every morning and evening, that tags people. The road could easily handle 55-65 mph, and I've yet to see an accident there. More accidents happen on the same road in town because people can't be bothered to check lanes or back off the guy in front of them.
Yeah, there's some more danger at 60 than at 30, that's why you don't use the exact same driving method at higher speeds. But some people will leave a 1' gap at 60; these are the same people that swerve across 3 lanes at 15, and pull out in front of you in parking lots.
Speed doesn't kill, stupid driving kills. A good driver should be able to determine the appropriate speed for the road, traffic, and conditions. A bad driver will get into accidents anywhere, because they don't pay attention or plan ahead.
That was from the ingestion of infected tissues, not splicing in genes.
It doesn't matter how often you drive over 200 miles, so long as you do it once. Unless you have another car it's a massive hassle to drive home for the holidays, or whatever reason you have. The main hinderance for alternative fuels in cars has been, is, and will continue to be the range and the refueling time.
Large enough impacts will throw mass back into orbit. See the moon for reference.
They probably have, but why kill off an income source for no particular reason?
Weight. One of the largest issues getting anything into even orbit, much less Mars, is weight.
A Delta IV Heavy rocket could get about 14 tons to high orbit. A Virginia class submarine weighs about 8,000 tons. This would take around 570 launches to lift.
Even considering you don't need half the features, there's probably more you do need, so the final product might wind up weighing more.
Inflation decreases the value of savings more than it decreases the value of income. But if you're living from paycheck to paycheck, any decrease is difficult to handle, regardless if that other guy is getting it worse.
By UAV I'm not referring to the remote controlled toys you buy for a hobby.
In order to execute somthing like this, you're looking at a 50lb or greater lift capability, 200+ km range, a radar or other rangefinding capability, several cameras, inertial nav systems, an uplink capable of handling all this data and punching through urban clutter, limited self-guidance capabilities, stealth materials, and a pretty decent manuevering capability. Essentially, it's a medium range guided missile.
Or, like stated earlier, there's thousands of morons willing to drive a car full of explosives anywhere. If you place no value on human life this is the way to go.
This is why in the past decade we've seen such a massive influx of GPS guided terrorist UAVs?
Developing this sort of technology is not easy, nor foolproof. And UAVs aren't exactly something I can wander down the street and buy. They prefer to use the age old technology of brainwashed morons, that can find their way to targets on their own. They're cheap, effective, and available in large quantities.
Stop being paranoid.
Interestingly, Opera does give the option to disable all scripts on a page whenever one pops a dialog box.
Now if only they could find a way to skip the damned adds that places put now between 2 pages. Even when you block them, you still have a page that says "Click to continue"
You're going to trust people that are buying and selling laws to record their conversations?
Ever seen a battleship firing a few heavy guns at once? Moves em quite a bit sideways, in water.
Well, assuming the amount of energy required to move a car around doesn't change signficantly, and you still had a range of about the same, the total amount of energy stored in fuel wouldn't change either.
Of course, they probably will get higher, and there's a decent market for vehicles with thousand plus mile ranges I'd imagine (Trucks specifically).
Then again, gas tanks really don't explode or even catch fire currently...so it's possible to design a safe system.
I'm personally more worried about the possibility of flying cars. This morning 2 people pulled in front of me without looking...and we expect them to navigate in 3 dimensions?
With fission we get the Uranium/Plutonium out of the ground, it costs us only a small amount of energy to get relative to what it produces in a power plant. With anti-matter, it costs just as much to create it as it produces, plus overhead etc. It'll never produce energy. However, as an above poster pointed out, it's the most efficient energy storage device we're aware of, so there's potential for cars to space vehicles.
No, Nuclear is only a stopgap til we discover the next power generation technology. Just like Coal and Oil are stopgaps til Nuclear, and Wood is a stopgap til Coal and Oil.
The power problem will NEVER be solved. If you don't keep finding a new power supply, you run out, and then you're stuck.
'Renewable' power is a fixed supply, and it's all solar. Wind, Hydro, Solar...same source. Also the source that feeds us, and drives our weather. There's a hard limit to it, same as any other supply. You don't want to run up against a fixed power limit any more than you want to run out of fuel for a given technology.