But you're missing the part where suckers who buy the blu-ray disc are given free silicone skins because the blu-ray drops calls when they hold it in their sweaty palms.
OK, no hack, just an "unfortunate in-game action." However, what is stopping the game designers from coding it so such valuable cargo has less chance of surviving an attack? In this case, the pirates saw the loot before they attacked, and hoped they could scoop it after destroying the cargo ship. What if the game was designed to trash the $$$ so it couldn't be recovered?
Did Wally just decide to "write himself a new minivan?"
What will they do with the money?
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TFA doesn't give any hint about what they plan to do with the IPO cash, and without that info, it's hard to put a wager on this deal. If this is just a way for Ebay to get a nice payday, count me out.
Years ago, but not since. There used to be a lot of transcription work on MTurk. Once I had a good rating as someone who could transcribe a technical speech, there were jobs out there that were worth it to me... but only if I was already interested in the subject matter (transcribing helps me really learn the material).
Things like transcription and translation made MTurk worth it, but soon it devolved into $0.01 per task work, without sufficient volume to make it worth writing a script. I haven't checked for tasks in a long time.
According to a quick google search, the fastest flight-time from London to New York is 7 and a half hours. The SkyCat200 flight time should be 15 hours. I think you'd find that very many people prefer 15 hours of comfort to 7.5 hours of cramped hell followed by 7.5 hours of recovery. A lot would depend on the price difference between the airship and the airplane, though. If the price were equal, or close, I'd choose the airship if I were on vacation.
Did your "quick google search" tell you that the Skycat 220 cruises at 80 knots? It can "sprint" at 95, but that'll still mean that the trans-atlantic trip will take over 30 hours. Where'd you get 15? Reading TFA? They're liars.
Enjoy your vacation - while you're stuck hanging from a balloon over the Atlantic, I've climbed the Empire State Building, taken a ferry over to the Statue of Liberty, and had my picture taken with the Naked Cowboy. But at least you beat the passengers who decided to book passage on RMS Titanic.
The article mentions that the airship will be at 20,000 ft, or 3.4 miles, elevation. How many weapons even have that kind of range, straight up?
So why did TFA mention that they shot at it with a "Russian machine gun loaded with.22 cal armor-piercing incendiaries" (sic)? They were trying to say that the ship is "almost invincible to attack," which doesn't really help if the crew (or the automated avionics) can be blown out of the sky as it saunters by at 90 knots.
Sure, there is a place on this planet (or just above it) for airships. However, trans-atlantic passenger service isn't one of them.
‘You go to Richmond Park International. At 11 o’clock on Thursday you get on board the SkyCat200. There are hundreds of staterooms on it and you dinner dance your way across the Atlantic. At two o’clock on Friday afternoon you’re getting off at the East River in New York. You’ve travelled 3,000 miles overnight and there’s no jet lag.
Or, you could get on an airplane, be in New York in a fraction of the time, and spend the rest of the day recovering from jet lag.
Realistically, SkyCats would be most useful in the transport of heavy loads – the largest SkyCat can carry up to 200 tons – to harsh environments
That's more like it. If you attack problems like heavy lifting, surveillance, even tasks like fighting forest fires, you don't have to sell it by saying "it's a hybrid"
At that time they tested a full-sized airship against a range of artillery including a Russian mounted machine gun filled with.22 calibre armour-piercing incendiaries and a SAM-7 surface to air missile. What they learnt was this: the airship is almost invincible to attack. Helium is an inert gas, so it doesn’t explode.
Did the test include shooting at the crew? I'm sure they'll find that sitting nearly motionless over a well-armed enemy does not make airship pilots invincible.
Why is it so obvious that I'm not familiar with it?
Here's the "inside" scoop, as I used to work for a large OEM who used Intel processors. We would work on an AMD solution, and let Intel see it, and then give us a better deal (which would allow us to cancel the AMD project...until next year). If you are correct, just talking to AMD would get us thrown off the Intel bus (pun intended).
Mod parent down -1, INCORRECT! (OK, since you realized how correct I was about Itanium, we'll let it slide)
Poor Cousins? Rarely seen in Enterprise? How do you explain this? For those too lazy to click, it's Dell's PowerEdge Rack servers. Nice mix of Intel and AMD CPUs.
The agency said Intel forced computer makers into exclusive deals and blocked rivals from making their chips work with Intel’s.
Forced? How'd they do that? Giving a customer a good deal doesn't mean they are forced into doing business. Intel showed a profit, so they weren't exactly dumping chips either. I think it's a good thing Intel "blocked rivals" from making compatible chips. While Intel was busy screwing up Itanium, AMD came out with a good 64-bit technology, which Intel is now using. That saved us all from having to switch to Itanium (thanks, AMD!)
How will this change? Intel knows how many systems Dell, HP and others ship. They don't have to sign exclusive deals, but they can sign "volume sales" deals. Where does the huge discount kick in? At X units (where X is just about what your total sales forecast is).
Sure, there are people who abuse the stock market. There are also people who abuse drugs, so should we call aspirin therapy "tantamount to shooting heroin in an alley?"
The stock market allows corporations to raise capital by selling equity in the company. It lets small investors own a piece of a company (and share in any profits and losses of that company) without requiring enough cash to buy the whole company. Without these markets, companies wouldn't be able to raise enough cash to build infrastructure, and we'd all have to do without a lot of things we consider "necessities" today. If you believe in the products a company produces, and trust the management, why would you not want to own a piece of it?
That would make it much harder for me, as an educator, to require my students to use a textbook written by one of my colleagues, who just happens to require his students to use the textbook I wrote (because, of course, it would be unethical to require your students to purchase your own textbook.
Once we have that tidy arrangement going, we merely have to make minor changes to the texts (new pictures - you know, the important stuff), and then obsolete the previous editions.
Mr. McNealy, you already got your payday - why are you trying to prevent me from getting mine?
OK, it's not an OS, but Excel had a flight simulator hidden inside it. Getting into it was a pain, but popping it up on someone else's computer was as much fun as the game itself.
The rovers weren't made to last forever! They have far-exceeded their design life, and have given us a lot of data to help decide our next step in the conquest of Mars.
I think we can raise a glass and toast the team for a job well done. If only all NASA missions were this successful, we'd have nothing to complain about!
Yes, you could, but the owner has tossed aside lots of complex calculations required to achieve a delicate balance of tire diameter, tread width and tire pressure (to calculate the size of the contact patch), plus the torque factor of the wheel diameter. All because he wants to impress the ladies (who are not impressed).
Normally, a gopher will run away at the first sound of Kenny Loggins, but if you can catch one of their legs in a snare, then crank up "I'm allright," the gopher will start dancing.
First of all, do you really think people shelling big bucks for an exotic are satisfied with 500 horsepower? A Mustang GT ($30k ish) has what, 460?
Satisfied? No. Waaaay above their abilities? Yes. I teach people to drive cars like this, and the last thing they need is more HP.
Second, do you have any idea what kind of torque curve a 3.4 liter, V-8 with a 9200 rpm redline is going to have? If you look up the term "gutless wonder", this motor would be pictured. The flat torque curve of the electrics will be a huge addition for extra passing power.
It all depends on how well you place the engine in the power band. If you just punch the throttle, you're not going to get much, but if you downshift and put the car right on the torque peak, you'll do fine (turbos notwithstanding).
I'm an engineer...and a race car driver. You can decide if that qualifies me to answer.
Electric motors can produce torque at all RPMs, so you don't have to mess around with complex gearing to keep the engine in the "power band."
Sure, if you wanted to burn rubber, an electric motor would be happy to comply, but if you want a car that is easy to control, you only supply as much torque as the tires can handle (even ICE-powered cars do this). You don't want super-wide tires, because you increase rolling resistance, making the car less efficient. Tire contact patches are optimized for traction and resistance (and then the owner screws that up because he thinks 22" wheels on a sub-compact looks "gnarly!").
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But you're missing the part where suckers who buy the blu-ray disc are given free silicone skins because the blu-ray drops calls when they hold it in their sweaty palms.
OK, no hack, just an "unfortunate in-game action." However, what is stopping the game designers from coding it so such valuable cargo has less chance of surviving an attack? In this case, the pirates saw the loot before they attacked, and hoped they could scoop it after destroying the cargo ship. What if the game was designed to trash the $$$ so it couldn't be recovered?
Did Wally just decide to "write himself a new minivan?"
TFA doesn't give any hint about what they plan to do with the IPO cash, and without that info, it's hard to put a wager on this deal. If this is just a way for Ebay to get a nice payday, count me out.
Years ago, but not since. There used to be a lot of transcription work on MTurk. Once I had a good rating as someone who could transcribe a technical speech, there were jobs out there that were worth it to me... but only if I was already interested in the subject matter (transcribing helps me really learn the material).
Things like transcription and translation made MTurk worth it, but soon it devolved into $0.01 per task work, without sufficient volume to make it worth writing a script. I haven't checked for tasks in a long time.
According to a quick google search, the fastest flight-time from London to New York is 7 and a half hours. The SkyCat200 flight time should be 15 hours. I think you'd find that very many people prefer 15 hours of comfort to 7.5 hours of cramped hell followed by 7.5 hours of recovery. A lot would depend on the price difference between the airship and the airplane, though. If the price were equal, or close, I'd choose the airship if I were on vacation.
Did your "quick google search" tell you that the Skycat 220 cruises at 80 knots? It can "sprint" at 95, but that'll still mean that the trans-atlantic trip will take over 30 hours. Where'd you get 15? Reading TFA? They're liars.
Enjoy your vacation - while you're stuck hanging from a balloon over the Atlantic, I've climbed the Empire State Building, taken a ferry over to the Statue of Liberty, and had my picture taken with the Naked Cowboy. But at least you beat the passengers who decided to book passage on RMS Titanic.
The article mentions that the airship will be at 20,000 ft, or 3.4 miles, elevation. How many weapons even have that kind of range, straight up?
So why did TFA mention that they shot at it with a "Russian machine gun loaded with .22 cal armor-piercing incendiaries" (sic)? They were trying to say that the ship is "almost invincible to attack," which doesn't really help if the crew (or the automated avionics) can be blown out of the sky as it saunters by at 90 knots.
Sure, there is a place on this planet (or just above it) for airships. However, trans-atlantic passenger service isn't one of them.
‘You go to Richmond Park International. At 11 o’clock on Thursday you get on board the SkyCat200. There are hundreds of staterooms on it and you dinner dance your way across the Atlantic. At two o’clock on Friday afternoon you’re getting off at the East River in New York. You’ve travelled 3,000 miles overnight and there’s no jet lag.
Or, you could get on an airplane, be in New York in a fraction of the time, and spend the rest of the day recovering from jet lag.
Realistically, SkyCats would be most useful in the transport of heavy loads – the largest SkyCat can carry up to 200 tons – to harsh environments
That's more like it. If you attack problems like heavy lifting, surveillance, even tasks like fighting forest fires, you don't have to sell it by saying "it's a hybrid"
At that time they tested a full-sized airship against a range of artillery including a Russian mounted machine gun filled with .22 calibre armour-piercing incendiaries and a SAM-7 surface to air missile. What they learnt was this: the airship is almost invincible to attack. Helium is an inert gas, so it doesn’t explode.
Did the test include shooting at the crew? I'm sure they'll find that sitting nearly motionless over a well-armed enemy does not make airship pilots invincible.
Why is it so obvious that I'm not familiar with it?
Here's the "inside" scoop, as I used to work for a large OEM who used Intel processors. We would work on an AMD solution, and let Intel see it, and then give us a better deal (which would allow us to cancel the AMD project...until next year). If you are correct, just talking to AMD would get us thrown off the Intel bus (pun intended).
Mod parent down -1, INCORRECT! (OK, since you realized how correct I was about Itanium, we'll let it slide)
So, why does /. modify your post so that it only has one space between sentences? Did you just call CmdrTaco an insensitive clod?
Poor Cousins? Rarely seen in Enterprise? How do you explain this? For those too lazy to click, it's Dell's PowerEdge Rack servers. Nice mix of Intel and AMD CPUs.
The agency said Intel forced computer makers into exclusive deals and blocked rivals from making their chips work with Intel’s.
Forced? How'd they do that? Giving a customer a good deal doesn't mean they are forced into doing business. Intel showed a profit, so they weren't exactly dumping chips either. I think it's a good thing Intel "blocked rivals" from making compatible chips. While Intel was busy screwing up Itanium, AMD came out with a good 64-bit technology, which Intel is now using. That saved us all from having to switch to Itanium (thanks, AMD!)
How will this change? Intel knows how many systems Dell, HP and others ship. They don't have to sign exclusive deals, but they can sign "volume sales" deals. Where does the huge discount kick in? At X units (where X is just about what your total sales forecast is).
Watching Wall Street? Hanging out with Bernie Madoff?
Sure, there are people who abuse the stock market. There are also people who abuse drugs, so should we call aspirin therapy "tantamount to shooting heroin in an alley?"
The stock market allows corporations to raise capital by selling equity in the company. It lets small investors own a piece of a company (and share in any profits and losses of that company) without requiring enough cash to buy the whole company. Without these markets, companies wouldn't be able to raise enough cash to build infrastructure, and we'd all have to do without a lot of things we consider "necessities" today. If you believe in the products a company produces, and trust the management, why would you not want to own a piece of it?
where it is definitely a good idea to take the blue pill!
which explains that Coronal Mass Ejection it just spewed at us.
That would make it much harder for me, as an educator, to require my students to use a textbook written by one of my colleagues, who just happens to require his students to use the textbook I wrote (because, of course, it would be unethical to require your students to purchase your own textbook.
Once we have that tidy arrangement going, we merely have to make minor changes to the texts (new pictures - you know, the important stuff), and then obsolete the previous editions.
Mr. McNealy, you already got your payday - why are you trying to prevent me from getting mine?
Germany could market these as "Self-Cooking Boar!"
Too lazy to cook? No fuel for your stove? No problem - just shoot, wrap in foil, and a few hours later...DINNER!
OK, it's not an OS, but Excel had a flight simulator hidden inside it. Getting into it was a pain, but popping it up on someone else's computer was as much fun as the game itself.
were...successful...making mistakes and weren't learning from them.
The rovers weren't made to last forever! They have far-exceeded their design life, and have given us a lot of data to help decide our next step in the conquest of Mars.
I think we can raise a glass and toast the team for a job well done. If only all NASA missions were this successful, we'd have nothing to complain about!
Yes, you could, but the owner has tossed aside lots of complex calculations required to achieve a delicate balance of tire diameter, tread width and tire pressure (to calculate the size of the contact patch), plus the torque factor of the wheel diameter. All because he wants to impress the ladies (who are not impressed).
Screw the gopher??? It sounds like you already know way too much about hybrid grass, man!
Normally, a gopher will run away at the first sound of Kenny Loggins, but if you can catch one of their legs in a snare, then crank up "I'm allright," the gopher will start dancing.
And as usual, Tory gets to be the subject of the test.
Damn you, Mythbusters!
When we leave the bag of dog poop in their cube, we don't light it?
I think I can handle that.
First of all, do you really think people shelling big bucks for an exotic are satisfied with 500 horsepower? A Mustang GT ($30k ish) has what, 460?
Satisfied? No. Waaaay above their abilities? Yes. I teach people to drive cars like this, and the last thing they need is more HP.
Second, do you have any idea what kind of torque curve a 3.4 liter, V-8 with a 9200 rpm redline is going to have? If you look up the term "gutless wonder", this motor would be pictured. The flat torque curve of the electrics will be a huge addition for extra passing power.
It all depends on how well you place the engine in the power band. If you just punch the throttle, you're not going to get much, but if you downshift and put the car right on the torque peak, you'll do fine (turbos notwithstanding).
I'm an engineer...and a race car driver. You can decide if that qualifies me to answer.
Electric motors can produce torque at all RPMs, so you don't have to mess around with complex gearing to keep the engine in the "power band."
Sure, if you wanted to burn rubber, an electric motor would be happy to comply, but if you want a car that is easy to control, you only supply as much torque as the tires can handle (even ICE-powered cars do this). You don't want super-wide tires, because you increase rolling resistance, making the car less efficient. Tire contact patches are optimized for traction and resistance (and then the owner screws that up because he thinks 22" wheels on a sub-compact looks "gnarly!").