Unless your piss can speak binary using the right protocol and sending the right responses up the line, there will be no power to harm you.
Luxury. When I was a lad, we had to flatten our own dried feces and perforate it into punched cards to mail to the local petroleum distillery, and two to three weeks later a salesman would come out to beat us with a rubber hose -- if we were lucky.
You can simply have a row of parking spaces with a connector in each one, or you put them in parking lots at the grocery store so that you recharge while you shop, or at the movie theatre, or at work etc.
I agree that the physical connections themselves won't be a difficult problem, but I wonder if the limiting factor won't be how much electricity the station is able to serve up at any given instant.
i.e. it's not much use to have 100 outlets available if your power supply can only saturate 10 connections at a time. (and I doubt people would appreciate it if the "bandwidth" was shared, such that every additional car that came along slowed down the charging process for the cars that were currently charging)
That also guarantees you won't install this in your house as you have a maximum of 240v at 100-200amps available (200 only in the newest houses)
On the other hand, people typically want to stay home for more than 15 minutes at a stretch anyway, so slower charging times probably aren't such a big deal there.
This sure sounds like circular, self-justifying logic. "The fact that we irrationally spaz out over terrorism means terrorism is worse and justifies our spazzing out over it."
I suppose you could look at it that way... but it's nevertheless true: terrorism, when done effectively, does most of its damage by inflicting terror, which often causes the target country to act irrationally. That is why the total cost of a terrorist attack is greater than the direct physical damage it causes.
That doesn't mean we should "spazz out" about the possibility of a terrorist attack, but neither does it mean we should ignore the true costs of one, just because some of them are rooted in human psychology and we don't like how human psychology works.
AGW skeptics are being called names like "deniers".
Is "denier" not an accurate term for someone who refuses to see what's in front of their face?
And you wonder why people don't listen...
There's no wondering about it, it's typical human behavior. If people acknowledged the problem, then they would feel pressured to do something about it, and since they believe (correctly) that dealing with global warming would create hardship for them, the easiest way to cope (in the short run) is to pretend the problem doesn't exist.
Electric vehicles are not more green than combustion engines, the pollution is just offset to a different location instead of your tailpipe...
Except when they are. Just because you use fossil fuels to generate electricity doesn't mean everyone does. Certainly someone who can afford a $500,000 aircraft might also be able to afford a solar array to charge it.
And even for us plebeians, the public utility grid gets greener every year -- which means your surrender-dorothy argument gets weaker every year as well.
engine needs to be completely overhauled every XXXX hours... and those numbers are small, most around the 2500 hour mark.
Of course, when your plane can run off of battery for the first 300 miles, it's going to take the engine much longer to reach the 2500-hours mark, since it won't be running much of the time. Dunno how much that would impact maintenance costs, but it seems like it would help.
More people died of food poisoning in any year you care to mention than died in the twin towers attack. How about we have intrusive laws surrounding food preparation.
Of course, it's not only the body count that matters, it's also the effect of the problem on the country.
Food poisoning is no fun, but food poisoning didn't keep the entire population of the US glued to their TV sets for a week straight, shut down the entire air transport system for several days, knock the economy off-kilter, and provide the political opportunity for the disastrous and unnecessary invasion of an unrelated country several years later.
Now you could argue that it wasn't the actual act of terrorism that caused most of the above, but rather the relentless coverage and replaying of said act by the television networks thereafter -- and I'd be inclined to agree with you, but short of massive government censorship of terrorist events, I don't know any real way to avoid that. So psychological trauma all around it is -- and that's why lives lost to terrorism are more detrimental than lives lost to everyday causes.
I haven't used it myself, but I've heard nothing but good things about QLab, which is a free download for MacOS/X. You might want to have a look at that.
You might also have a look at Cricket, which is commercial software but not too expensive.
And they came to Iraq from all the surrounding countrys to get a shot at killing Americans and hide among the women and children while doing just that.
Yes, the 2003 invasion of Iraq was justified by the presence of terrorists in Iraq in 2005.
We would have been equally justified to invade, say, Iceland, if doing so would have convinced some terrorists to follow us there to get a shot at killing some American soldiers.
I don't know about you, but I'm kind of excited about the thought of a small third world nation having a nuclear bomb dropped on it, so that I can be entertained. I'm not heartless. The people would be evacuated first, of course.
You're a bit late, we already did that. But you can still watch the footage if that's what floats your boat.
once you get below a certain speed (like these pilots did) the aircraft thinks the plane is too slow to be flying so it must be taxing, so it turns it off.
Surely the fact that the landing gear were up should have given the computer a pretty big hint that the plane was not taxiing?
this happens to be one of the few mirrors with the least amount of warp. ain't that a bitch?
What's really going to be a bitch is when Voyager finally smashes into the facet it's heading towards and breaks it into a gazillion shards. 7 years of bad luck at the very least...
I want it to look like a fantasy and that is what 24 fps makes it look like.
Fair enough. For a nominal fee, your local movie theater will set your 3D glasses to black out every other frame, so you can enjoy 48FPS Hobbits at 24FPS.
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Unless your piss can speak binary using the right protocol and sending the right responses up the line, there will be no power to harm you.
Luxury. When I was a lad, we had to flatten our own dried feces and perforate it into punched cards to mail to the local petroleum distillery, and two to three weeks later a salesman would come out to beat us with a rubber hose -- if we were lucky.
You can simply have a row of parking spaces with a connector in each one, or you put them in parking lots at the grocery store so that you recharge while you shop, or at the movie theatre, or at work etc.
I agree that the physical connections themselves won't be a difficult problem, but I wonder if the limiting factor won't be how much electricity the station is able to serve up at any given instant.
i.e. it's not much use to have 100 outlets available if your power supply can only saturate 10 connections at a time. (and I doubt people would appreciate it if the "bandwidth" was shared, such that every additional car that came along slowed down the charging process for the cars that were currently charging)
That also guarantees you won't install this in your house as you have a maximum of 240v at 100-200amps available (200 only in the newest houses)
On the other hand, people typically want to stay home for more than 15 minutes at a stretch anyway, so slower charging times probably aren't such a big deal there.
This sure sounds like circular, self-justifying logic. "The fact that we irrationally spaz out over terrorism means terrorism is worse and justifies our spazzing out over it."
I suppose you could look at it that way... but it's nevertheless true: terrorism, when done effectively, does most of its damage by inflicting terror, which often causes the target country to act irrationally. That is why the total cost of a terrorist attack is greater than the direct physical damage it causes.
That doesn't mean we should "spazz out" about the possibility of a terrorist attack, but neither does it mean we should ignore the true costs of one, just because some of them are rooted in human psychology and we don't like how human psychology works.
What, you think it magicks the electricity into motion? What do you think turns the propeller?
When in electric mode, it would be the electric motor that turns the propeller. Not the gas engine.
AGW skeptics are being called names like "deniers".
Is "denier" not an accurate term for someone who refuses to see what's in front of their face?
And you wonder why people don't listen...
There's no wondering about it, it's typical human behavior. If people acknowledged the problem, then they would feel pressured to do something about it, and since they believe (correctly) that dealing with global warming would create hardship for them, the easiest way to cope (in the short run) is to pretend the problem doesn't exist.
I know, I know, they don't teach history in school anymore. It's all about indoctrination, propaganda, and conformity instead of critical thinking.
Here's a bit of history of indoctrination and propaganda you ought to consider before branding the previous poster as ignorant.
Electric vehicles are not more green than combustion engines, the pollution is just offset to a different location instead of your tailpipe...
Except when they are. Just because you use fossil fuels to generate electricity doesn't mean everyone does. Certainly someone who can afford a $500,000 aircraft might also be able to afford a solar array to charge it.
And even for us plebeians, the public utility grid gets greener every year -- which means your surrender-dorothy argument gets weaker every year as well.
If the plane is deemed to quiet and must create an artificial engine noise, I really hope it has the option to sound like the jetson's craft.
If you're worried about hitting unsuspecting pedestrians, you're flying too low :^)
engine needs to be completely overhauled every XXXX hours... and those numbers are small, most around the 2500 hour mark.
Of course, when your plane can run off of battery for the first 300 miles, it's going to take the engine much longer to reach the 2500-hours mark, since it won't be running much of the time. Dunno how much that would impact maintenance costs, but it seems like it would help.
More people died of food poisoning in any year you care to mention than died in the twin towers attack. How about we have intrusive laws surrounding food preparation.
Of course, it's not only the body count that matters, it's also the effect of the problem on the country.
Food poisoning is no fun, but food poisoning didn't keep the entire population of the US glued to their TV sets for a week straight, shut down the entire air transport system for several days, knock the economy off-kilter, and provide the political opportunity for the disastrous and unnecessary invasion of an unrelated country several years later.
Now you could argue that it wasn't the actual act of terrorism that caused most of the above, but rather the relentless coverage and replaying of said act by the television networks thereafter -- and I'd be inclined to agree with you, but short of massive government censorship of terrorist events, I don't know any real way to avoid that. So psychological trauma all around it is -- and that's why lives lost to terrorism are more detrimental than lives lost to everyday causes.
To continue with your metaphor, these fakes--though of reasonable quality--are priced so low that only boobs would be taken in by them.
Is there anything that prevents the FBI from pricing them realistically?
I haven't used it myself, but I've heard nothing but good things about QLab, which is a free download for MacOS/X. You might want to have a look at that.
You might also have a look at Cricket, which is commercial software but not too expensive.
You kill 3,000 of ours, we'll kill 100,000 of yours. Do that often enough, maybe people will learn not to fuck with us.
It's when both sides start using this logic that things get really fun.
And they came to Iraq from all the surrounding countrys to get a shot at killing Americans and hide among the women and children while doing just that.
Yes, the 2003 invasion of Iraq was justified by the presence of terrorists in Iraq in 2005.
We would have been equally justified to invade, say, Iceland, if doing so would have convinced some terrorists to follow us there to get a shot at killing some American soldiers.
Right?
"silicon â" a material which will probably reach its physical limits in the next 5-10 years" Haven't they been saying that since 1980?
Yes -- and therefore silicon has no physical limits and Moore's Law will continue forever.
I don't know about you, but I'm kind of excited about the thought of a small third world nation having a nuclear bomb dropped on it, so that I can be entertained. I'm not heartless. The people would be evacuated first, of course.
You're a bit late, we already did that. But you can still watch the footage if that's what floats your boat.
once you get below a certain speed (like these pilots did) the aircraft thinks the plane is too slow to be flying so it must be taxing, so it turns it off.
Surely the fact that the landing gear were up should have given the computer a pretty big hint that the plane was not taxiing?
Plus $99 per year to enable installation of applications from unknown sources, if that's your thing.
If that was your thing, you probably wouldn't have chose the iPad.
...it has the words "DON'T PANIC" inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
Come to think of it, this is exactly the device that Mr. Adams was imagining back in 1978.
800 years, and neither of your civilizations has figured out that you can pipeline multiple communications to save time?
Apathetic bloody planets, I've no sympathy at all.
this happens to be one of the few mirrors with the least amount of warp. ain't that a bitch?
What's really going to be a bitch is when Voyager finally smashes into the facet it's heading towards and breaks it into a gazillion shards. 7 years of bad luck at the very least...
According to the FBI a suspected terrorist is someone who [...]
Can you point to where the FBI says this? Because it sounds like something you just made up.
I want it to look like a fantasy and that is what 24 fps makes it look like.
Fair enough. For a nominal fee, your local movie theater will set your 3D glasses to black out every other frame, so you can enjoy 48FPS Hobbits at 24FPS.
Time travel won't happen. If it could, where are all the time travelers?
They'll start showing up almost immediately after the first time machine is invented. They aren't able to travel any farther back than that.
In fact, that's how you'll know when someone has invented a time machine, by the sudden influx of obnoxious tourists.