So? Let the company buy them for real. You're telling me that a company with an earnest marketing department, which might be trying as many a few dozen domain names can't afford to keep them for at least a year--at the pittance of $10 bucks a pop? Bullshit.
No shit. I saw Bourne #2, and I got a little motion sick when the movie was over. Not like there was vomit, but I wasn't all that sturdy, and I've never been motion sick in my life... Never before. Not in little planes flopping around in turbulent air, not on little boats out on the ocean--you get the idea.
The rest of the theater audience wasn't looking so hot, either. Directors who use that damned shaky camera should be sat down in front of a giant screen, have their eyes taped open, and be forced to watch their god awful photography until they lose their lunch.
Well, that robot arm it's far too inefficient for use as a catapult. We are, however, working on a direct monkey->giant-robotic-arm neural interface, for superior Furry battering ability... Which if you think adds a pinch of irony; who would expect a furry little creature to use a giant robotic arm to splatter humans dressed in animal costumes?
It's not even that bad. There's no need to get a license of any sort. Here's what you need to do: #1 The firearm must be registered with the BATF. #2 get a signature from your county Sheriff, or chief of police. #3 pass an extensive background check #4 receive BATF permission to move the device across state lines (getting it to you) pay a $200 transfer tax. Most importantly, you need to live in an area where the weapon you want is not outlawed, and that obviously precludes any of the above. In other words, good luck in Kalifornia... And you need to find someone willing to sell you what you want, and this is the hard/expensive part. NFA registrable Glock 18s are probably pretty rare, for example, unless the important components are manufactured on US soil. Other US auto guns will be much cheaper because of the rarity value of the genuine auto pistol.
The class 3 license of which you speak is a license which is simply needed to sell weapons, as a dealer.
This is the same business model that many specialty gas suppliers have worked on for a while now (bottled gas for industrial purposes like welding, etc.)
The problem is that the form factor for every car battery produced from now to eternity would basically have to be standardized... And the physical location of the battery and method for changing the battery will have to be standardized, so that it can be done by robots. Physical labor will drive up the price, and lower the speed of changing the battery substantially (just imagine the gas prices in Oregon, where a clerk does fill your car up--and quadruple that), and let's face it, it just isn't practical for men to manhandle batteries like the ones which drive electric forklifts.
Also, because having batteries accessible via the top of the car will drastically limit the freedom of designers to differentiate makes and models, it just wouldn't work that great--also, it would mean the center of mass would almost certainly be much higher than it should be, making the car less stable; I can imagine a robotic changer being built into a pit, so that you drive over it; the robot unbolts the battery from the bottom of the car, retrieves a new one from an underground charging pit and so on... So, either batteries are going to have to be built in semi-modular banks, to allow greater versatility--rather like a giant AA cell, or as one very large, structural unit, which may supplant more permanent structure in a car--acting as a sort of industry-wide standardized undercarriage.
It's going to be a long and hard path, whichever direction we go.
Quoth Owen Wilson: "Look at the size of this thing! Size matters. But in the spy world, it's reversed. You want people to say, "Look how small and sexy and sleek this is." Not "How huge this is!"
Except small is sexy outside of the spy world, too. (excepting the bedroom perhaps)
Hey, you little anonymous shit: if the person bought the disk, it's a backup. There's no arguing this, and the law clearly supports this situation, much to the chagrin of the media companies; they wrote and passed a law which made it illegal to circumvent copy protection, not to outlaw backups. If said person rented it and copied it, then it's an infringing copy--and like I said, that's not something I support, even though I'm as anti-copyright as a person only slightly less crazy than Stallman can possibly get. Also, quit using that stupid fucking dysphemism!
A lot of the "parents" I know would not trust their HD-DVDs or Blueray discs to their "Disney aged" kids, in the first place. Pretty much all of them back up their original DVD and give the kids the backup... Surprisingly, a lot of them are "non geek" parents. Of course, a lot of them rent the DVD, and then create a backup, too... Not that I really support that.
The kids won't and don't care because they're not looking at the definition of the video, and the parents are happy because they can burn another disk for under a buck, if the backup gets fucked up enough to not play--which it inevitably does.
I like the scam they pulled, but to be truly poetic, the bank transfer should have gone to Friends of the Earth. Anyone who knows of Clarkson will understand.
The alternative to the color wheel may be that they are using separate RGB LEDs for illumination, and the LEDs can surely pulse much, much more quickly than a six color wheel can spin.
I'd like to try this bad boy out in a less illuminated room. It's hardly fair to demo a rear projector in such an over illuminated place like a trade show floor.
The larger the plant gets, the more inefficient it gets.
This is one of the most grossly uninformed opinions I've yet to see, and I've seen a lot of uninformed opinions. Even the Intelligent Design people are intelligent enough to observe this opinion as idiocy. If it were so, we would be powering our houses with dozens of natural gas burning weed-eater engines (at best 25% efficient), instead of huge industrial plants, and nobody would be researching even larger processes; and the world's ocean freight would be carried by a fleet of hundreds of thousands of outboard powered skiffs instead of colossal freight ships powered by engines like this one. Go tell General Electric that they're full of shit for researching combined cycle turbines that are probably bigger than your house, and put out over 500MW per shaft, (and do it at greater than 60% efficiency).
Metals can be a great conductor alright, but most aren't all that great at storing heat, especially compared to water, which has every metal beat to a margin greater than 5:1. At any rate, you misunderstand the purpose of the molten salt. It's there to move heat alright, but not entirely through heat conduction. Heat conduction is far too slow a process be used in a multi megawatt power plant. The molten salt is there because it's pumpable, so that it can quickly gather up a bunch of energy from the reflectors, and just as quickly dump it through conduction when the heat is used to make steam. Water is king, in terms of storing heat, unfortunately it turns to gas at a relatively low temperature. Fortunately, it can be stored under pressure, unfortunately the pressure goes up very much at very high temperatures, which makes containing it more expensive, more dangerous and generally harder to do.
Heat engines also require a big temperature gradient to do work at high efficiency, which makes using steam directly a harder proposal. Molten salt is well understood in used as a coolant in some types of nuclear reactors, and it works well for this purpose, and that's why it's used.
So, go tell that to the motherfuckers who are blowing themselves up. That aside, I find the first bullet in your link to be a unique and unexpected insight, that could never have been fully understood before the 1940's.
Well, at any rate, the Luxor Hotel and Casio just might be getting a big bill here pretty soon. Wonder who's bill collectors are most ehm... dedicated?
Well, in my case, they wouldn't have to worry so much about the smell, but they would wonder about my excessive collection of those little pine tree air fresheners.
Freedom is a right. You don't earn it, you protect it.
And this is why, when you have a locksmith open a safe with a dead body stashed in it, you kill the locksmith and put his body in the safe as well--and then you damn well better remember the combination, or someone is going to eventually wonder where all the locksmiths went!
And I damn sure want to keep it that way because I'm creative, I like my job security, and I need schools to churn out people to fix my plumbing so I don't have to crawl around under my house. I would hope my fellow/.ers would feel the same.
I like to crawl around under my house, you insensitive clod!
I used fat, as in meaning "not starving, and generally suffering good opportunities", not meaning that he was physically obese, though I'm sure he was never by any means describable as skinny.
Does "white" have the same kind of pejorative negativity, hateful history, and attitude associated with "nigger"? You're right, you'd get modded into oblivion, alright; and justifiably so. Contextualize my usage of "white", and empathize with the perspective of a black man in the Eastern South, prior to, oh, say 1950, but not before the 1670s. If you can't do that, you have no chance of understanding what Jefferson's use of "liberty" describes, no less why the statement and the man who used it, in the context it was used in, deserves to be ridiculed.
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So? Let the company buy them for real. You're telling me that a company with an earnest marketing department, which might be trying as many a few dozen domain names can't afford to keep them for at least a year--at the pittance of $10 bucks a pop? Bullshit.
No shit. I saw Bourne #2, and I got a little motion sick when the movie was over. Not like there was vomit, but I wasn't all that sturdy, and I've never been motion sick in my life... Never before. Not in little planes flopping around in turbulent air, not on little boats out on the ocean--you get the idea.
The rest of the theater audience wasn't looking so hot, either. Directors who use that damned shaky camera should be sat down in front of a giant screen, have their eyes taped open, and be forced to watch their god awful photography until they lose their lunch.
Well, that robot arm it's far too inefficient for use as a catapult. We are, however, working on a direct monkey->giant-robotic-arm neural interface, for superior Furry battering ability... Which if you think adds a pinch of irony; who would expect a furry little creature to use a giant robotic arm to splatter humans dressed in animal costumes?
It's not even that bad. There's no need to get a license of any sort. Here's what you need to do: #1 The firearm must be registered with the BATF. #2 get a signature from your county Sheriff, or chief of police. #3 pass an extensive background check #4 receive BATF permission to move the device across state lines (getting it to you) pay a $200 transfer tax. Most importantly, you need to live in an area where the weapon you want is not outlawed, and that obviously precludes any of the above. In other words, good luck in Kalifornia... And you need to find someone willing to sell you what you want, and this is the hard/expensive part. NFA registrable Glock 18s are probably pretty rare, for example, unless the important components are manufactured on US soil. Other US auto guns will be much cheaper because of the rarity value of the genuine auto pistol.
The class 3 license of which you speak is a license which is simply needed to sell weapons, as a dealer.
Oh, don't worry. I'm sure that with my training in mechanical engineering and some basic materials, we won't have to get all that close. >;)
Don't be too hasty, now... I've heard that throwing rocks is a great reliever of stress, and and excellent source of exercise!
This is the same business model that many specialty gas suppliers have worked on for a while now (bottled gas for industrial purposes like welding, etc.)
The problem is that the form factor for every car battery produced from now to eternity would basically have to be standardized... And the physical location of the battery and method for changing the battery will have to be standardized, so that it can be done by robots. Physical labor will drive up the price, and lower the speed of changing the battery substantially (just imagine the gas prices in Oregon, where a clerk does fill your car up--and quadruple that), and let's face it, it just isn't practical for men to manhandle batteries like the ones which drive electric forklifts.
Also, because having batteries accessible via the top of the car will drastically limit the freedom of designers to differentiate makes and models, it just wouldn't work that great--also, it would mean the center of mass would almost certainly be much higher than it should be, making the car less stable; I can imagine a robotic changer being built into a pit, so that you drive over it; the robot unbolts the battery from the bottom of the car, retrieves a new one from an underground charging pit and so on... So, either batteries are going to have to be built in semi-modular banks, to allow greater versatility--rather like a giant AA cell, or as one very large, structural unit, which may supplant more permanent structure in a car--acting as a sort of industry-wide standardized undercarriage.
It's going to be a long and hard path, whichever direction we go.
Quoth Owen Wilson: "Look at the size of this thing! Size matters. But in the spy world, it's reversed. You want people to say, "Look how small and sexy and sleek this is." Not "How huge this is!"
Except small is sexy outside of the spy world, too. (excepting the bedroom perhaps)
Hey, you little anonymous shit: if the person bought the disk, it's a backup. There's no arguing this, and the law clearly supports this situation, much to the chagrin of the media companies; they wrote and passed a law which made it illegal to circumvent copy protection, not to outlaw backups. If said person rented it and copied it, then it's an infringing copy--and like I said, that's not something I support, even though I'm as anti-copyright as a person only slightly less crazy than Stallman can possibly get. Also, quit using that stupid fucking dysphemism!
Entirely possible, that.
A lot of the "parents" I know would not trust their HD-DVDs or Blueray discs to their "Disney aged" kids, in the first place. Pretty much all of them back up their original DVD and give the kids the backup... Surprisingly, a lot of them are "non geek" parents. Of course, a lot of them rent the DVD, and then create a backup, too... Not that I really support that.
The kids won't and don't care because they're not looking at the definition of the video, and the parents are happy because they can burn another disk for under a buck, if the backup gets fucked up enough to not play--which it inevitably does.
I like the scam they pulled, but to be truly poetic, the bank transfer should have gone to Friends of the Earth. Anyone who knows of Clarkson will understand.
Hahah, no kidding!
Totally RAD, dude!
Yup, just verified it myself as well. Happened in less than 5 seconds.
The alternative to the color wheel may be that they are using separate RGB LEDs for illumination, and the LEDs can surely pulse much, much more quickly than a six color wheel can spin.
I'd like to try this bad boy out in a less illuminated room. It's hardly fair to demo a rear projector in such an over illuminated place like a trade show floor.
If I can't buy it yet, then it doesn't exist yet.
F-22 Raptor: so expensive that it's practically invisible!
That's nice and all, but where can I get my eyes upgraded to 150Hz, so that I can complain about the refresh rate?
The larger the plant gets, the more inefficient it gets.
This is one of the most grossly uninformed opinions I've yet to see, and I've seen a lot of uninformed opinions. Even the Intelligent Design people are intelligent enough to observe this opinion as idiocy. If it were so, we would be powering our houses with dozens of natural gas burning weed-eater engines (at best 25% efficient), instead of huge industrial plants, and nobody would be researching even larger processes; and the world's ocean freight would be carried by a fleet of hundreds of thousands of outboard powered skiffs instead of colossal freight ships powered by engines like this one. Go tell General Electric that they're full of shit for researching combined cycle turbines that are probably bigger than your house, and put out over 500MW per shaft, (and do it at greater than 60% efficiency).
Metals can be a great conductor alright, but most aren't all that great at storing heat, especially compared to water, which has every metal beat to a margin greater than 5:1. At any rate, you misunderstand the purpose of the molten salt. It's there to move heat alright, but not entirely through heat conduction. Heat conduction is far too slow a process be used in a multi megawatt power plant. The molten salt is there because it's pumpable, so that it can quickly gather up a bunch of energy from the reflectors, and just as quickly dump it through conduction when the heat is used to make steam. Water is king, in terms of storing heat, unfortunately it turns to gas at a relatively low temperature. Fortunately, it can be stored under pressure, unfortunately the pressure goes up very much at very high temperatures, which makes containing it more expensive, more dangerous and generally harder to do.
Heat engines also require a big temperature gradient to do work at high efficiency, which makes using steam directly a harder proposal. Molten salt is well understood in used as a coolant in some types of nuclear reactors, and it works well for this purpose, and that's why it's used.
Suicide is forbidden in Islam. http://www.answering-islam.org/Index/S/suicide.html
So, go tell that to the motherfuckers who are blowing themselves up. That aside, I find the first bullet in your link to be a unique and unexpected insight, that could never have been fully understood before the 1940's.
Well, at any rate, the Luxor Hotel and Casio just might be getting a big bill here pretty soon. Wonder who's bill collectors are most ehm... dedicated?
Well, in my case, they wouldn't have to worry so much about the smell, but they would wonder about my excessive collection of those little pine tree air fresheners.
Freedom is a right. You don't earn it, you protect it.
And this is why, when you have a locksmith open a safe with a dead body stashed in it, you kill the locksmith and put his body in the safe as well--and then you damn well better remember the combination, or someone is going to eventually wonder where all the locksmiths went!
And I damn sure want to keep it that way because I'm creative, I like my job security, and I need schools to churn out people to fix my plumbing so I don't have to crawl around under my house. I would hope my fellow /.ers would feel the same.
I like to crawl around under my house, you insensitive clod!
I used fat, as in meaning "not starving, and generally suffering good opportunities", not meaning that he was physically obese, though I'm sure he was never by any means describable as skinny.
Does "white" have the same kind of pejorative negativity, hateful history, and attitude associated with "nigger"? You're right, you'd get modded into oblivion, alright; and justifiably so. Contextualize my usage of "white", and empathize with the perspective of a black man in the Eastern South, prior to, oh, say 1950, but not before the 1670s. If you can't do that, you have no chance of understanding what Jefferson's use of "liberty" describes, no less why the statement and the man who used it, in the context it was used in, deserves to be ridiculed.
By the way, I am white.