Can't believe nobody actually checked the preferences. "Automatic services" is where you can disable receiving exciting business opportunities.
Yes, it's sneaky. No, I didn't realize what it did the first time I went thru the settings. Yes, I went back to the settings when I started getting spam to my desktop.
I assume that the critter is already patented. Much like the patents on silkworms. They still can't reproduce silk, much less spider silk.. Will the industrial process on growing these crystals be any easier?
The biggest problem with motorcycle accidents is spinal cord and head injuries, which this device will do nothing to prevent.
Doesn't protect your back? Did you look at the link? This suit has BIGGER airbag protecting your back than ribcage! Anyone riding a bike without a helmet deserves what they get IMHO.
Why, I believe at the current exchange rate you could've bought a few 3G UMTS licences in UK or Germany! And fat lot of good that's doing to the corps who got suckered. And everyone in tech industry.
IR leds give most output for the energy. I don't know if their CCD element is sensitive to IR thought. Many optical detectors are in fact much more sensitive to IR than visible light.
Everyone's pointed out already that maintaining a vacuum is not going to work out in the long run. However, reducing the pressure of a metro *sounds* doable.
Passenger jet cabin air pressure is, what, 50% of sea level pressure? Less than that? Nobody seems to suffer too much except your feet expand a little after several hours.
So anything fundamentally problematic with reduced air pressure in existing metro systems? Since the air resistance grows exponentially, this should bring quite a bit of savings. Waaay easier to do than vacuum, too.
Interesting. Here the unions think workers should shut up and pay their dues. I never got anything except bills from them. To make it better yet, industries have been subordined..
That means electronics industry is subordined to metal workers union. EE guys don't give a toss about union crap. Therefore metal workers + electrical workers are combined so they can say some 75% of the group belong to an union so we can decide these things for you.
Looks like my original post was modded as a troll. I knew pointing out getting goverment contracts is not exactly exciting is going to irritate the thought police.
In any case, you missed the point. There's much more to free market than making goverment services into private ones. Such as being able to live off your salary without goverment hand-outs. And not having the way people work decided by some guys you never ever elected. (that means unions).. Oh, and having services industry since you don't have to pay big-ass VAT and welfare tax every time you get a haircut. VAT is 22% here and the employers pay about tax 33% on top of the wage.
A few good examples on the kind of Correct Thinking I mentioned, later in the thread.
Europe and progressive social policy (or, if you live there, I guess you'd just call it "social policy":) ) are practically synonymous and the US is once again made to look like a country run by bankers...
Err. What's so very progressive about the welfare society, again? Last time I checked, even German economical growth is grinding to halt and unemployment rates are on the rise. No small part of this can be attributed to the huge tax load on inviduals and companies as a deterrent to enterpreneurial spirit. The tax goes, of course, to support abovementioned welfare state. Throw in Byzantine co-mingling of banks, corporations and goverment and you have a recipe for progressive social policy.
Of course we have the example of UK to show it is possible to transition from a welfare state to a free market. Shouldn't shock anyone that Correct Political Opinion asserts UK retarded into a developing country with the social reforms.
Perhaps there really is something to the socialist nature of open source if it's principal appeal is to monolithic goverment organization.
Yeah, they probably had some drinking water included. So, okay, the doggie probably could replace liquid at the same rate it was sweating it. Probably means it got a heat stroke..
What actually happened to the Microsoft trial? Dissenting states shot themselves on the foot over some technicality wrt CE XP modularity. After that, nothing. Nada. Did MS get out of the jail free?
Engineering a CPU is much, much easier than inventing a lightbulb. In one case, you have more powerful tools than you can shake a stick at. Moreover, you're probably just revising a proven old design. A lightbulb, on the other hand, is a new idea. You have to take the known fact that a metal will glow when you heat it up enough. Then you have to have the innovation that in a vacuum it will not burn..!
Most importantly, there are vast amounts of readily available information these days. References and textbooks, free design ideas and tons of other engineers to ask stuff from. Oh, and high quality courses, seminars, etc etc. None of that existed in bad old days.
Op amps are not black boxes. Oh no. There are literally hundreds of different models in production and with the commercial realities, if one size would fit all, we'd get a single model.
Sometimes it actually makes sense to "design an op amp".. I just actually designed a circuit from transistors (yeah!) and diodes that could've been replaced with a comparator. However, it wouldn't have been easy to find a model that would've done the exact thing I needed done.
The reason you don't get lock-ins with proprietary and incompatible technology because most engineers treat proprietary anything like it had HIV. 2nd source? What 2nd source?
I didn't vote for them, it's not my goverment. I wish mine was that consistent about where they do stand. You could say that the governing body believes in something..!
In any case, if the people don't like this kind of thing, there's always the next election. Someone want those committees run themselves free of any external pressure whatsoever? Jack Valenti anyone?
Weird as it might sound, I'd feel a lot safer if Your Elected Reps were behind this kind of scheme. Instead of Uncle Bill. At least there are laws about liability and the like.
don't know where the 50% figure comes from, but it is certainly not official Danish policy. We're currently producing 10-15% of all electricity in Denmark with wind-energy and nobody wants that number to increase currently due to the problems we are facing.
I think it comes from the department of "facts" to support alternative energy. It's unfortunate that the emotional approach works so poorly in things like power generation, but very well in things like getting elected. Windmills are a cool tech, but you'd need to come up with a way to balance the energy production variances. I don't know what's the efficiency of H20->2*H + O conversion when you burn the hydrogen. My guess would be, not good. And hydrogen's a bitch to store in any case.
Everything said and done, I'll always pick nuclear over coal. Yeah, you can dump the waste in my back yard, go on ahead. With the big honking hole going into the crust where my house used to be, I'd buy a nicer apartment with the compensation!
All you want is the moon from the sky? The only way you're going to charge batteries in 5 minutes for 2 hours of driving is by using liquid acid batteries and actually replacing the acid in the cells. And the liquid batteries ain't that great otherwise.
Anyways, here in Finland they actually have a punitive tax for any alternative cars. If you try to dodge gas tax by driving an electric van, they slap you with a fat annual tax to cover up the "loss". Delightful.
Only problem with that is that some clever fellow figured out there's no particular reason why the control system has to be integrated into the launcher.
Most current gen launchers allow you to set up the tripod with the missile and walk some ways away with the control box. Presto, return fire will miss you quite nicely! Not to mention the launch signature is neglible. Something like the Javelin will actually spend most of it's flight time out of the FOV of the tank crew!
Mind you, I think someone mentioned APILAS is not tandem warhead. Doesn't really change the penetration of composite armor this way or that, but it sure would be nice to have if you're going against Kontakt-5 or similar.
Not to miss the point, there's one huge benefit RPGs' have: They're cheap! You can actually give each infantry squad a pair! So you have ubiquitous weapon system that will take out any APC and is threat even to MBTs with a little luck. Sort of limits what you can do with your panzers. Drive tanks into Groznyi, get your ass handed to you.
My original point was and is that the RPG-7 is the least dangerous rocket launcher around, except for the Nato LAW. Russian weapon exports exceeded US exports in 2001 (4.9 billion USD vs 4.5 billion) and the latest RPG revision is far more dangerous than the venerable RPG-7 which has been around since 60s..
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Composite armor can pretty much ignore HEAT weapons *head on*, but let's see which way the Abrahams jumps when hit on ass with an RPG. In any case, the RPG-7 everyone and their grandmother owns in 3rd world is pretty damn old. Current generation weapons such as APILAS and Panzerfaust-III have a tandem warhead and bigger diameter overall. Have to wonder what the precursor charge will do to the capacitor.. I guess not very much!
Maybe. But until the implant technology becomes radically better, you don't want it. Having red/green blind "natural" vision beats the living crap out of having kind-of-working artificial vision. For now, it has nowhere near the dynamic range or ability to re-adjust on the fly of the real thing. As I recall, red-green blindness is caused by simply not having the right kind of cells in your retina. Or you have them, but they're sensitive to wrong wavelengths. So an artificial retina should fix it, but it's a different story whether your brain could process the new information unless the device was installed at birth.
Ditto for hearing implants. As long as you have any hearing of your own, it's better to make do with hearing aid. The technology's just not mature enough, not yet.
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Can't believe nobody actually checked the preferences. "Automatic services" is where you can disable receiving exciting business opportunities.
Yes, it's sneaky. No, I didn't realize what it did the first time I went thru the settings. Yes, I went back to the settings when I started getting spam to my desktop.
Hah. That's one to remember..
Disciples 2? Crappy? Under which rock did you slither from?
Turn based fantasy strategy at it's most addictive. Way better than HOMM..
I assume that the critter is already patented. Much like the patents on silkworms. They still can't reproduce silk, much less spider silk.. Will the industrial process on growing these crystals be any easier?
Doesn't protect your back? Did you look at the link? This suit has BIGGER airbag protecting your back than ribcage! Anyone riding a bike without a helmet deserves what they get IMHO.
Why, I believe at the current exchange rate you could've bought a few 3G UMTS licences in UK or Germany! And fat lot of good that's doing to the corps who got suckered. And everyone in tech industry.
Oh, I can just see it. Housing wants to be FREE! When you think about it, free housing is just as sensible idea as free software.
Pfft, it'd do you more good to talk to the BOFH. Get them to change user environ to include screen saver!
IR leds give most output for the energy. I don't know if their CCD element is sensitive to IR thought. Many optical detectors are in fact much more sensitive to IR than visible light.
Everyone's pointed out already that maintaining a vacuum is not going to work out in the long run. However, reducing the pressure of a metro *sounds* doable.
Passenger jet cabin air pressure is, what, 50% of sea level pressure? Less than that? Nobody seems to suffer too much except your feet expand a little after several hours.
So anything fundamentally problematic with reduced air pressure in existing metro systems? Since the air resistance grows exponentially, this should bring quite a bit of savings. Waaay easier to do than vacuum, too.
Interesting. Here the unions think workers should shut up and pay their dues. I never got anything except bills from them. To make it better yet, industries have been subordined..
That means electronics industry is subordined to metal workers union. EE guys don't give a toss about union crap. Therefore metal workers + electrical workers are combined so they can say some 75% of the group belong to an union so we can decide these things for you.
Looks like my original post was modded as a troll. I knew pointing out getting goverment contracts is not exactly exciting is going to irritate the thought police.
In any case, you missed the point. There's much more to free market than making goverment services into private ones. Such as being able to live off your salary without goverment hand-outs. And not having the way people work decided by some guys you never ever elected. (that means unions).. Oh, and having services industry since you don't have to pay big-ass VAT and welfare tax every time you get a haircut. VAT is 22% here and the employers pay about tax 33% on top of the wage.
A few good examples on the kind of Correct Thinking I mentioned, later in the thread.
Err. What's so very progressive about the welfare society, again? Last time I checked, even German economical growth is grinding to halt and unemployment rates are on the rise. No small part of this can be attributed to the huge tax load on inviduals and companies as a deterrent to enterpreneurial spirit. The tax goes, of course, to support abovementioned welfare state. Throw in Byzantine co-mingling of banks, corporations and goverment and you have a recipe for progressive social policy.
Of course we have the example of UK to show it is possible to transition from a welfare state to a free market. Shouldn't shock anyone that Correct Political Opinion asserts UK retarded into a developing country with the social reforms.
Perhaps there really is something to the socialist nature of open source if it's principal appeal is to monolithic goverment organization.
Yeah, they probably had some drinking water included. So, okay, the doggie probably could replace liquid at the same rate it was sweating it. Probably means it got a heat stroke..
Oh come on. The mutt bought it due to heat stroke/dehydration/what have you. Talking about the space doggie, of course.
What actually happened to the Microsoft trial? Dissenting states shot themselves on the foot over some technicality wrt CE XP modularity. After that, nothing. Nada. Did MS get out of the jail free?
Engineering a CPU is much, much easier than inventing a lightbulb. In one case, you have more powerful tools than you can shake a stick at. Moreover, you're probably just revising a proven old design. A lightbulb, on the other hand, is a new idea. You have to take the known fact that a metal will glow when you heat it up enough. Then you have to have the innovation that in a vacuum it will not burn..!
Most importantly, there are vast amounts of readily available information these days. References and textbooks, free design ideas and tons of other engineers to ask stuff from. Oh, and high quality courses, seminars, etc etc. None of that existed in bad old days.
Just to correct you on some things..
Op amps are not black boxes. Oh no. There are literally hundreds of different models in production and with the commercial realities, if one size would fit all, we'd get a single model.
Sometimes it actually makes sense to "design an op amp".. I just actually designed a circuit from transistors (yeah!) and diodes that could've been replaced with a comparator. However, it wouldn't have been easy to find a model that would've done the exact thing I needed done.
The reason you don't get lock-ins with proprietary and incompatible technology because most engineers treat proprietary anything like it had HIV. 2nd source? What 2nd source?
I didn't vote for them, it's not my goverment. I wish mine was that consistent about where they do stand. You could say that the governing body believes in something..!
In any case, if the people don't like this kind of thing, there's always the next election. Someone want those committees run themselves free of any external pressure whatsoever? Jack Valenti anyone?
Weird as it might sound, I'd feel a lot safer if Your Elected Reps were behind this kind of scheme. Instead of Uncle Bill. At least there are laws about liability and the like.
don't know where the 50% figure comes from, but it is certainly not official Danish policy. We're currently producing 10-15% of all electricity in Denmark with wind-energy and nobody wants that number to increase currently due to the problems we are facing.
I think it comes from the department of "facts" to support alternative energy. It's unfortunate that the emotional approach works so poorly in things like power generation, but very well in things like getting elected. Windmills are a cool tech, but you'd need to come up with a way to balance the energy production variances. I don't know what's the efficiency of H20->2*H + O conversion when you burn the hydrogen. My guess would be, not good. And hydrogen's a bitch to store in any case.
Everything said and done, I'll always pick nuclear over coal. Yeah, you can dump the waste in my back yard, go on ahead. With the big honking hole going into the crust where my house used to be, I'd buy a nicer apartment with the compensation!
All you want is the moon from the sky? The only way you're going to charge batteries in 5 minutes for 2 hours of driving is by using liquid acid batteries and actually replacing the acid in the cells. And the liquid batteries ain't that great otherwise.
Anyways, here in Finland they actually have a punitive tax for any alternative cars. If you try to dodge gas tax by driving an electric van, they slap you with a fat annual tax to cover up the "loss". Delightful.
Only problem with that is that some clever fellow figured out there's no particular reason why the control system has to be integrated into the launcher.
Most current gen launchers allow you to set up the tripod with the missile and walk some ways away with the control box. Presto, return fire will miss you quite nicely! Not to mention the launch signature is neglible. Something like the Javelin will actually spend most of it's flight time out of the FOV of the tank crew!
Mind you, I think someone mentioned APILAS is not tandem warhead. Doesn't really change the penetration of composite armor this way or that, but it sure would be nice to have if you're going against Kontakt-5 or similar.
Not to miss the point, there's one huge benefit RPGs' have: They're cheap! You can actually give each infantry squad a pair! So you have ubiquitous weapon system that will take out any APC and is threat even to MBTs with a little luck. Sort of limits what you can do with your panzers. Drive tanks into Groznyi, get your ass handed to you.
My original point was and is that the RPG-7 is the least dangerous rocket launcher around, except for the Nato LAW. Russian weapon exports exceeded US exports in 2001 (4.9 billion USD vs 4.5 billion) and the latest RPG revision is far more dangerous than the venerable RPG-7 which has been around since 60s..
Composite armor can pretty much ignore HEAT weapons *head on*, but let's see which way the Abrahams jumps when hit on ass with an RPG. In any case, the RPG-7 everyone and their grandmother owns in 3rd world is pretty damn old. Current generation weapons such as APILAS and Panzerfaust-III have a tandem warhead and bigger diameter overall. Have to wonder what the precursor charge will do to the capacitor.. I guess not very much!
Maybe. But until the implant technology becomes radically better, you don't want it. Having red/green blind "natural" vision beats the living crap out of having kind-of-working artificial vision. For now, it has nowhere near the dynamic range or ability to re-adjust on the fly of the real thing. As I recall, red-green blindness is caused by simply not having the right kind of cells in your retina. Or you have them, but they're sensitive to wrong wavelengths. So an artificial retina should fix it, but it's a different story whether your brain could process the new information unless the device was installed at birth.
Ditto for hearing implants. As long as you have any hearing of your own, it's better to make do with hearing aid. The technology's just not mature enough, not yet.