It is illegal for anyone without special permission to fly a drone over(sic) a tornado without a lot of special clearance. The "top" of a tornado will be well above the altitude limits on RC aircraft.
So you're saying that it's illegal to do something that you can't possibly manage to do anyhow...?
My guess is far greater than that, what with today's brushless technology... but that's just a guess. Nonetheless, it's great enough that that weight-adding batterypack is what's going to add range, losses-due-to mass notwithstanding.
We shouldn't really expect a full-size luxury car, with a huge range (ie heavy batteries) to hold this title in the first place.
Actually, that's incorrect. Sure, it requires more energy to accelerate a heavier mass up to speed but you get that back when you hit the brakes (regenerative braking). What you don't
(This, by the way, is why the Model S can get away with weighing ~600lbs more than my extended-wheelbase 7-series BMW...)
Reality is, the U.S. doesn't have a gun problem. Guns prevent 2 million crimes per yearaccording to statistics compiled by the FBI. What the U.S. has is a violent gang problem fueled by drug money, which makes up the majority of gun-related crime (still orders of magnitude lower than what is prevented).
Stop complicating the issue with facts; it leaves people flustered and confused...:p
However, intelligence clearly doesn't preclude the ability to create blatant typos (such as inserting quotes a redundant number of times) in one's post...:p
but their ID-checking gun seems to default to an unfireable state
I hate to shatter your stereotype but not all "gun nuts" are necessarily less than hyper-intelligent nor phallically-challenged... you might even go so far as to say that some of them are downright culturally-aware, environmentally-conscious, theologically-secular and (*gasp* *cough*) vegan...
but their ID-checking gun seems to default to an unfireable state
At the end of the day, the problem with this is that there's a non-zero chance that the fucking thing isn't going to work when you need it most.
The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
However, if we were to learn anything from history, it'd be that those in charge have no qualms about poisoning, maiming or starving everyone else if it furthers their agendas (and in some cases even if it doesn't)...
I was thinking the same thing. Efficiency is the real question. I assume the article would have mentioned this if the efficiency was available to the authors. The fact that efficiency figures weren't available means they were not very impressive at this stage.
I seem to recall that this type of design and others aren't limited to the same maximum theoretical efficiency of a conventional combustion engine as described by Carnot's theorem but it'd be useful if an actual physicist could chime in...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to find the most raw, concentrated evil per-capita, you'll find it in fundamentalist cultures like modern-day Afganistan and the American Bible Belt.*
*It should be noted that I'm merely speaking from experience and my comments concering [the Bible Belt in general and Oklahoma in particular] might be tainted with a degree of personal bias because (A) I am not a cultural-relativist and (B) I live there.:p
A model of something you don't understand won't give you insight into the unknown. Perhaps one might discover something like human intelligence but you'll never know if it is the same thing.
I suspect we'll end up recreating it without actually understanding it.
No. The NRA is intended to look like they're trying to preserve the 2nd Amendment; they're actually yet another front for the fascists controlling both sides of the debate.
For an actual gun-rights organization, check out the GOA (Gun Owners of America)...
Not everyone that wanted to keep the Japanese and Norwegians from slaughtering sentient marine mammals or the French from irradiating Polynesian atolls prefers coal, oil and ecologically-disruptive hydropower to responsible nuclear technology (thorium-salt and pebble-bed designs come to mind)... nor should you even assume that they're all "bleeding heart left-wingers who want the government to save us" so you can take your blatant generalizations and over-used memes and stick them back where they clearly came from.;)
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It is illegal for anyone without special permission to fly a drone over(sic) a tornado without a lot of special clearance. The "top" of a tornado will be well above the altitude limits on RC aircraft.
So you're saying that it's illegal to do something that you can't possibly manage to do anyhow...?
The question is, will all of you?
Yes.
Do most implementations even get 50%
My guess is far greater than that, what with today's brushless technology... but that's just a guess. Nonetheless, it's great enough that that weight-adding batterypack is what's going to add range, losses-due-to mass notwithstanding.
She's baking a loaf of bread and I think it's sourdough.
-Jim Carrey's character in Me, Myself & Irene
I support bacteria. Its the only culture some people have.
Actually, most have an overabundance of fungus.
:p
Damn keyboard...
We shouldn't really expect a full-size luxury car, with a huge range (ie heavy batteries) to hold this title in the first place.
Actually, that's incorrect. Sure, it requires more energy to accelerate a heavier mass up to speed but you get that back when you hit the brakes (regenerative braking). What you don't (This, by the way, is why the Model S can get away with weighing ~600lbs more than my extended-wheelbase 7-series BMW...)
What if Zenimax isn't operating alone here; what if they have a silent partner, someone with an incentive to delay Occulus; say, for example, Sony...
Reality is, the U.S. doesn't have a gun problem. Guns prevent 2 million crimes per yearaccording to statistics compiled by the FBI. What the U.S. has is a violent gang problem fueled by drug money, which makes up the majority of gun-related crime (still orders of magnitude lower than what is prevented).
Stop complicating the issue with facts; it leaves people flustered and confused... :p
However, intelligence clearly doesn't preclude the ability to create blatant typos (such as inserting quotes a redundant number of times) in one's post... :p
but their ID-checking gun seems to default to an unfireable state
I hate to shatter your stereotype but not all "gun nuts" are necessarily less than hyper-intelligent nor phallically-challenged... you might even go so far as to say that some of them are downright culturally-aware, environmentally-conscious, theologically-secular and (*gasp* *cough*) vegan...
but their ID-checking gun seems to default to an unfireable state
At the end of the day, the problem with this is that there's a non-zero chance that the fucking thing isn't going to work when you need it most.
The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
However, if we were to learn anything from history, it'd be that those in charge have no qualms about poisoning, maiming or starving everyone else if it furthers their agendas (and in some cases even if it doesn't)...
I was thinking the same thing. Efficiency is the real question. I assume the article would have mentioned this if the efficiency was available to the authors. The fact that efficiency figures weren't available means they were not very impressive at this stage.
I seem to recall that this type of design and others aren't limited to the same maximum theoretical efficiency of a conventional combustion engine as described by Carnot's theorem but it'd be useful if an actual physicist could chime in...
they are already joking that Alaska is called "Ice-Crimea"
What was that quote that was famously misattributed to Admiral Yamamoto?
"You cannot invade Alaska. There would be a high-powered rifle behind every drunken indigenous person."
I think it went something like that...
I mean, they made Sheldon downright asexual.
He acts as queer as can be...
But, they might find people suddenly saying "to hell with that", and go read a book.
They're addressing that...
Yep, "Pay-per-Pixel." I can see that.
In other news, DreamWorks executives can afford to smoke shit that the rest of us haven't even heard of... :)
Soylent Prime. :)
*It should be noted that I'm merely speaking from experience and my comments concering [the Bible Belt in general and Oklahoma in particular] might be tainted with a degree of personal bias because (A) I am not a cultural-relativist and (B) I live there. :p
Looks like she's bought and paid for.
It's insanity, we are watching real life crazy people.
Huh? She's bought and paid-for; how insane is that? Evil, perhaps; sociopathic, certainly...
No, the ones who tend to be insane are those watching the real-life evil people.
A model of something you don't understand won't give you insight into the unknown. Perhaps one might discover something like human intelligence but you'll never know if it is the same thing.
I suspect we'll end up recreating it without actually understanding it.
Sasaki-san, NRA wa uso, des-yo: The GOA is grassroots and the NRA is astroturf...
For an actual gun-rights organization, check out the GOA (Gun Owners of America)...
You are just a greenpeace troll
Not everyone that wanted to keep the Japanese and Norwegians from slaughtering sentient marine mammals or the French from irradiating Polynesian atolls prefers coal, oil and ecologically-disruptive hydropower to responsible nuclear technology (thorium-salt and pebble-bed designs come to mind)... nor should you even assume that they're all "bleeding heart left-wingers who want the government to save us" so you can take your blatant generalizations and over-used memes and stick them back where they clearly came from. ;)
That's an excellent comparison....as long as you know absolutely nothing about Joe McCarthy.
This. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.