Since it's a single conducting mass, whether or not it's spinning won't matter. It won't be affected by a magnetic field to any significant effect. The OP claims they use a ferromagnetic liquid because mercury is too dense, mercury is also unaffected by magnetic fields, being nonferrous.
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Some sellers don't expect to make money from eBay, but instead use their eBay auctions to drive traffic to their own web sites. It's worked (on a small scale) for me.
Ebay will continue to make money, but as a different company. The millions of people (such as myself) who labored long and hard to make eBay a viable marketplace are being brushed aside so that eBay can transform itself into another Amazon.
I stopped selling on eBay earlier this year, and I'm focusing on my own e-commerce site which I've had even before starting with eBay. I've noticed that my "My eBay" stored searches for certain collectibles have been returning fewer and less meaningful results, which is partially the result of eBay's new "intelligent" search engine and the fact that fewer people are listing unique items any more.
But when I need to shop for a commodity item, it's often on eBay (as well as Amazon and other places). eBay is shaking off its unique aspects and spitting in the face of the people that worked to bring them to where they are today.
Um, fanboy? My point is, with the way the company is being run, HOW LONG will people be willing to stand out in the sun for their products?
Their problem today was not unanticipated customer demand (although they may try self-servingly to spin it that way). Sorry that seems to hurt your feelings. Read the other comments in this discussion from loyal Apple customers that were done wrong today. They aren't laughing.
PC operating systems: Free software upgrades. Game consoles: Free software upgrades. Routers/modems: Free software upgrades. Windows OS: Free software upgrades. Digital cameras: Free software upgrades. DVD and Blu-Ray players: Free software upgrades.
1) There's only one Apple store in the vicinity - I'm sure it was mobbed.
2) I had other business with AT&T about my current account.
3)Was it also kinda expected that their servers worldwide would melt down?
4) Apple's web site says right now: "iPhone 3G: Twice as fast. Half the price". Both of those are half-truths at best. 3G is no faster if your not in one of the upgraded 3G zones. In my neighborhood, 3G is no faster - it still uses Edge. As for "half the price", If Jobs was being truthful the statement would be "cheaper to buy, somewhat more expensive to own, faster if you're in certain places." As it is, it's hype, half-truth or lie. But it is way less than truthful. I don't really care that much if it cost less or more, but I don't like being stroked,
and I'll blame Apple for that.
I don't assume you're a fan, I assume you're an idiot. I simply reported what was happening "on the street" and my experiences are apparently wide-spread. I'm not crying or whining about anything - you are.
My threshold for bitterness is much higher. I wasted just a few minutes. There were many people who were there for hours and got nothing but a sunburn.
Ironically, part of the high demand for the new iPhone are these "loyal fans" who bought the original iPhone and want the upgrade. Apparently, they can't be all that happy with what they got last year. At some point, I think the scales will tip, and Apple may then be held accountable for their blunders and over-promising.
I also received unsolicited emails from both Apple and AT&T to come by today and pick up an iPhone. Both companies were incredibly ill-prepared for me and many others to do exactly that. Apple was free to set any day they like to release the product, and with the experience from the first iPhone, they don't have many good excuses for botching it so badly. But that won't stop the Apple apologists for somehow blaming someone else, even their (potential) customers.
Yes, I'm also fully armed with the iPhone SDK, ready to develop and sell my own software in the App Store. As a consumer, I've generally avoided Apple products.
Free upgrades? You mean like the rest of the industry? SP1, SP2 for example. Myriad bug and security fixes, along with minor new features. Why pay $10 mainly for the opportunity to buy more software. Only a company like Apple could pull that off.
Well I'm back from the local AT&T store empty-handed. Apparently they only had 30 phones to sell, and with the broken activation servers it took them hours to distribute them. I stopped by at 11:45 because the line was short, but the news came shortly thereafter that the phones were gone. The news came from frustrated customers leaving the store, not the AT&T staff.
Apple had over a year to correct the supply/activation fiasco of the initial iPhone launch, and so far it's going worse, not better. The new iPhone is also more expensive to own - Job's "half the cost" pitch is an outright lie. 3G (where available) simply provides the "user experience" that people expected from the original iPhone. I already had a bad experience with Edge, so I didn't waste my time with it.
They intentionally planned both an iTunes software upgrade and the release of 2.0 software for the original iPhone and iPod Touch for today, and they didn't plan for overloaded servers? I was fortunate enough to have gotten the iTunes update before the rush, but all day long, the "Buy Now" button on apple.com for the 2.0 upgrade (for my iTouch) is "temporarily unavailable".
By the way, It's $10 to "upgrade" the iTouch to accept the 2.0 software upgrade. This upgrade is needed to run 2.0, which is required if you want to install any additional apps from the Apple Apps store. An original iPhone and my iTouch both cost the same ($399), but if I had an iPhone, the software update to 2.0 would be free. Also, I made the mistake of buying the earlier $20 iTouch software upgrade. Turns out the 2.0 upgrade includes that upgrade as well, and already having it doesn't make the 2.0 upgrade any cheaper (or free, as it should be)
How much longer before the masses will finally see through the bad customer experiences with Apple (they go on and on - unreplaceable iPod batteries, rip-off price of the original iPhone (reduced shortly after release to really tick off the loyal early adopters), and now another botched product release. When will the loyal fans finally say "ENOUGH!"
That's one take. The "unusual" shape may get it some extra attention, but I think most people's first impression of the looks is not a positive one. Larry David drove one in his improv semi-reality show "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and there were many cracks about his "ugly car".
Also, it's a well-known marketing ploy to flaunt a negative characteristic of a product as proof that it's really good (e.g. bad tasting cough syrup). The Prius would be easier to dismiss if it was just ordinary looking. Then to many it would be just another slow overpriced car. But make it stand out (one way or another), and people will wonder "what's up with that car?"
Back in the 70's, the school's computer jobs were submitted on punched cards and then you waited for your output to be printed on the big line printer. Most people would have to look at the header pages to see if it was their job, but some enterprising types noted that the line printer made a distinctive tone when it printed out all of a particular character. They took this further to print out their particular fanfare at the head of their job, so they could tell from across the room when their job was being printed.
It would be impractical to provide power and IDE controllers for 100+ drives simultaneously, but if you're mechanically handy, you could create a robotic handler to insert up to four drives into a standard PC, using off-the-shelf removable drive cases.
Um, it was you that proposed that Pluto hasn't cleared its orbit because it may intersect with Neptune's. All I point out is the arbitrary meaning of "clearing the area", and you help prove my point.
Again, the logic fails. Because the orbits of Pluto and Neptune are not in the same plane, the fact that radius of Pluto's orbit is sometimes less than Neptune's does not mean that it "intersects" the orbit of Neptune. I'm sure the probability for such an intersection has been calculated, but the odds of it occurring are extremely remote.
And if you consider this rare intersection a violation of the "clear the area" rule, you must in fairness also apply it to Neptune. So using your criteria, Neptune should also be demoted as a planet according to your interpretation of the IAU rule.
And that makes my point - the decision and the rules are arbitrary and un-scientific. They simply made up a set of rules that led them to the conclusion that they wanted in the first place.
Of course, if you're a dog, your odds are not that good. Of the 13 launched, five died (38.5% death rate). Four of the five died in the atmosphere, and one died in space. So if you're a dog, you have about an 8% chance of dying in space.
Bzzt. Wrong. Anything emitted by a spacecraft in (or on its way to) low earth orbit will eventually descend into the atmosphere.
The ISS loses about 1 kilometer in altitude every week due to atmospheric drag. Without periodic boosts, it would surely fall into the atmosphere in a matter of years. Every molecule of exhaust gas from an ascending rocket will end up in the upper atmosphere.
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Dude lost his blackberry, not his cherry.
Since it's a single conducting mass, whether or not it's spinning won't matter. It won't be affected by a magnetic field to any significant effect. The OP claims they use a ferromagnetic liquid because mercury is too dense, mercury is also unaffected by magnetic fields, being nonferrous.
E020 A0 07 LDY #$07. Aaaah. The memories!
Some sellers don't expect to make money from eBay, but instead use their eBay auctions to drive traffic to their own web sites. It's worked (on a small scale) for me.
Ebay will continue to make money, but as a different company. The millions of people (such as myself) who labored long and hard to make eBay a viable marketplace are being brushed aside so that eBay can transform itself into another Amazon.
I stopped selling on eBay earlier this year, and I'm focusing on my own e-commerce site which I've had even before starting with eBay. I've noticed that my "My eBay" stored searches for certain collectibles have been returning fewer and less meaningful results, which is partially the result of eBay's new "intelligent" search engine and the fact that fewer people are listing unique items any more.
But when I need to shop for a commodity item, it's often on eBay (as well as Amazon and other places). eBay is shaking off its unique aspects and spitting in the face of the people that worked to bring them to where they are today.
When we're counting humans, don't we also count dwarf humans?
Um, fanboy? My point is, with the way the company is being run, HOW LONG will people be willing to stand out in the sun for their products?
Their problem today was not unanticipated customer demand (although they may try self-servingly to spin it that way). Sorry that seems to hurt your feelings. Read the other comments in this discussion from loyal Apple customers that were done wrong today. They aren't laughing.
The industry is consumer electronics.
PC operating systems: Free software upgrades.
Game consoles: Free software upgrades.
Routers/modems: Free software upgrades.
Windows OS: Free software upgrades.
Digital cameras: Free software upgrades.
DVD and Blu-Ray players: Free software upgrades.
$399 iPhone: Free software upgrade.
$399 iTouch: Software upgrade: $10
1) There's only one Apple store in the vicinity - I'm sure it was mobbed.
2) I had other business with AT&T about my current account.
3)Was it also kinda expected that their servers worldwide would melt down?
4) Apple's web site says right now: "iPhone 3G: Twice as fast. Half the price". Both of those are half-truths at best. 3G is no faster if your not in one of the upgraded 3G zones. In my neighborhood, 3G is no faster - it still uses Edge. As for "half the price", If Jobs was being truthful the statement would be "cheaper to buy, somewhat more expensive to own, faster if you're in certain places." As it is, it's hype, half-truth or lie. But it is way less than truthful. I don't really care that much if it cost less or more, but I don't like being stroked, and I'll blame Apple for that.
I don't assume you're a fan, I assume you're an idiot. I simply reported what was happening "on the street" and my experiences are apparently wide-spread. I'm not crying or whining about anything - you are.
My threshold for bitterness is much higher. I wasted just a few minutes. There were many people who were there for hours and got nothing but a sunburn.
Ironically, part of the high demand for the new iPhone are these "loyal fans" who bought the original iPhone and want the upgrade. Apparently, they can't be all that happy with what they got last year. At some point, I think the scales will tip, and Apple may then be held accountable for their blunders and over-promising.
I also received unsolicited emails from both Apple and AT&T to come by today and pick up an iPhone. Both companies were incredibly ill-prepared for me and many others to do exactly that. Apple was free to set any day they like to release the product, and with the experience from the first iPhone, they don't have many good excuses for botching it so badly. But that won't stop the Apple apologists for somehow blaming someone else, even their (potential) customers.
Yes, I'm also fully armed with the iPhone SDK, ready to develop and sell my own software in the App Store. As a consumer, I've generally avoided Apple products.
Free upgrades? You mean like the rest of the industry? SP1, SP2 for example. Myriad bug and security fixes, along with minor new features. Why pay $10 mainly for the opportunity to buy more software. Only a company like Apple could pull that off.
Well I'm back from the local AT&T store empty-handed. Apparently they only had 30 phones to sell, and with the broken activation servers it took them hours to distribute them. I stopped by at 11:45 because the line was short, but the news came shortly thereafter that the phones were gone. The news came from frustrated customers leaving the store, not the AT&T staff.
Apple had over a year to correct the supply/activation fiasco of the initial iPhone launch, and so far it's going worse, not better. The new iPhone is also more expensive to own - Job's "half the cost" pitch is an outright lie. 3G (where available) simply provides the "user experience" that people expected from the original iPhone. I already had a bad experience with Edge, so I didn't waste my time with it.
They intentionally planned both an iTunes software upgrade and the release of 2.0 software for the original iPhone and iPod Touch for today, and they didn't plan for overloaded servers? I was fortunate enough to have gotten the iTunes update before the rush, but all day long, the "Buy Now" button on apple.com for the 2.0 upgrade (for my iTouch) is "temporarily unavailable".
By the way, It's $10 to "upgrade" the iTouch to accept the 2.0 software upgrade. This upgrade is needed to run 2.0, which is required if you want to install any additional apps from the Apple Apps store. An original iPhone and my iTouch both cost the same ($399), but if I had an iPhone, the software update to 2.0 would be free. Also, I made the mistake of buying the earlier $20 iTouch software upgrade. Turns out the 2.0 upgrade includes that upgrade as well, and already having it doesn't make the 2.0 upgrade any cheaper (or free, as it should be)
How much longer before the masses will finally see through the bad customer experiences with Apple (they go on and on - unreplaceable iPod batteries, rip-off price of the original iPhone (reduced shortly after release to really tick off the loyal early adopters), and now another botched product release. When will the loyal fans finally say "ENOUGH!"
Where is Dr. Hfuhruhurr when you need him?
That's one take. The "unusual" shape may get it some extra attention, but I think most people's first impression of the looks is not a positive one. Larry David drove one in his improv semi-reality show "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and there were many cracks about his "ugly car".
Also, it's a well-known marketing ploy to flaunt a negative characteristic of a product as proof that it's really good (e.g. bad tasting cough syrup). The Prius would be easier to dismiss if it was just ordinary looking. Then to many it would be just another slow overpriced car. But make it stand out (one way or another), and people will wonder "what's up with that car?"
Who in their right mind would want to create a car in the likeness of a Prius?
Back in the 70's, the school's computer jobs were submitted on punched cards and then you waited for your output to be printed on the big line printer. Most people would have to look at the header pages to see if it was their job, but some enterprising types noted that the line printer made a distinctive tone when it printed out all of a particular character. They took this further to print out their particular fanfare at the head of their job, so they could tell from across the room when their job was being printed.
I'm shocked, shocked that file sharing is going on here. Round up the usenet servers and have them shot.
It would be impractical to provide power and IDE controllers for 100+ drives simultaneously, but if you're mechanically handy, you could create a robotic handler to insert up to four drives into a standard PC, using off-the-shelf removable drive cases.
Um, it was you that proposed that Pluto hasn't cleared its orbit because it may intersect with Neptune's. All I point out is the arbitrary meaning of "clearing the area", and you help prove my point.
Again, the logic fails. Because the orbits of Pluto and Neptune are not in the same plane, the fact that radius of Pluto's orbit is sometimes less than Neptune's does not mean that it "intersects" the orbit of Neptune. I'm sure the probability for such an intersection has been calculated, but the odds of it occurring are extremely remote.
And if you consider this rare intersection a violation of the "clear the area" rule, you must in fairness also apply it to Neptune. So using your criteria, Neptune should also be demoted as a planet according to your interpretation of the IAU rule.
And that makes my point - the decision and the rules are arbitrary and un-scientific. They simply made up a set of rules that led them to the conclusion that they wanted in the first place.
Of course, if you're a dog, your odds are not that good. Of the 13 launched, five died (38.5% death rate). Four of the five died in the atmosphere, and one died in space. So if you're a dog, you have about an 8% chance of dying in space.
RIP Laika!
Bzzt. Wrong. Anything emitted by a spacecraft in (or on its way to) low earth orbit will eventually descend into the atmosphere.
The ISS loses about 1 kilometer in altitude every week due to atmospheric drag. Without periodic boosts, it would surely fall into the atmosphere in a matter of years. Every molecule of exhaust gas from an ascending rocket will end up in the upper atmosphere.