It could come with perpetual free beer and pizza and I still wouldn't buy it. I will not purchase another Sony product as long as I live. They treat people badly, and I've had quite enough of them.
Not even if they release the source code of that beer?
The idea is that you eat the chicken, and use the waste products for fuel. I don't think the plan is to set up chicken farms specifically to turn them into jet fuel.
Of course, the big question is how big the supply of waste products actually is. I would guess it's not all that big.
Should be enough to ship a cargo of low fat chicken meat/beef to KFC/Macas?
Is it because this fuel packs more bang for the buck than traditional one, or is it because everyone wants to "feel" being green, even when trying to fly to other planets (and using all of 0.0000001% of world's "non-green" emissions of "whatever")?;)
Just curious,
Paul B.
I'd rather bet it's because the Middle East became "an unreliable supplier" in a way CIA and whatever "war on concepts" can no longer fix.
Have you considered making it light enough that your arm doesn't ache after 5 minutes?
Wonderful. Make it 5-6 pounds worth of battery... you'll have enough juice for 24 h without recharge.
Then make it rugged, throw in some handles, hooks and elastic chords... and sell it as the "tablet for the health conscious people always on the run. A convergent device, portable gym, light only if you consider the Silverlight running in a IE10". Seems distinctive enough for me...
Now, look... both of the issues answered by the assumption of appropriateness of your example to the context of TFA. Here's the quotation in my message you didn't answer, thus I assumed you accepted it.
if this is the example you found appropriate, I'd say TFA is damn'd on spot...
I'm not saying selling pizza to Indians is bad, but I do say that being pleased/complacent in just selling pizza to Indians (as opposite to have a vision in regaining the momentum in technological dev) is bad. C'mon, mate, US used to have visions inspiring the world, should I understand they are no longer capable of this?
How is enabling American businesses to do business overseas a bad thing?
And... where did I say that?
I posit there's a lot more money is basic business services than there is in space travel at the moment and for the foreseeable future.
I may be right, you know? But, if TFA article is also right, you'd be right for the wrong reasons. I mean, space travel aside, wouldn't it be preferable to sell technology than pizza chains? Or did indeed US vision about its future changed to "heck, by the end of this decade, nobody will sell more pizza than we do"?
We're successfully sending quite a lot of pizza to India. American chain restaurants are a worldwide phenomenon.
Well, well... if this is the example you found appropriate, I'd say TFA is damn'd on spot... from the "send a man to the moon" worldwide phenomenon to "Americas chain restaurants" worldwide phenomenon... in only 50 years (it was May 25 1961). Ummm... yes... I'd call this progression "stupid design" rather than evolution.
| Well, I'd be happy to hear how US helped Mexico and Canada.
Well you are and endless source of amusement and really bad ideas. Without you, our smug condescension would need a new target. Don't ever change, we need you just the way you are...
Happy to serve as a target, it's at least as amusing for me as I reckon it's for you:)
Wishing you good luck... the way I see, you'll need it.
Your neighbor
But long term this is investment in future demand for our goods and services.
Mate, I'd be happy to invest some more on the stock market. Reality is my bank asks me to pay the mortgage on the spot every month.
Has US paid the "cumulated" mortgage that went bust a couple of years ago? Can US afford to invest in neighbors? If yes, would it be a better investment in R&D?
What makes you think the leaders will change when the people won't?
Think? Well, that's preposterous... You need to have faith to maintain the minimal degree of optimism required to continue living.
Here, repeat after me:
1. "Creationism is as good as Darwinism, both theories must be equally presented to the kids"
2. "Scientists arguing for and against AGW are equal. Who one chooses to believe is an undeniable freedom".
Now, repeat this mantra a few times a day. After a while you'll realize that nobody needs to worry about technological decline in US.
"Our goods" refers to the only thing we make anymore, intellectual property: Ideas, music, movies, lawsuits, patents.
As I said: fast pizza delivery and thanks for confirming it.
1. Ideas? Cheap. TFA seems to point that technological implementations of these ideas are coming slower lately.
2. music/movies? One can live without Bieber and Lady Gaga, thank you. Besides, China and India (supposedly the neighbors that received help) are somehow tuned a bit different when it comes to music/movies.
3. patents/lawsuits? Tell this to China: if they decide to be polite, they'll pat you on the shoulder for the good joke.
Why do you think the USA is strong-arming the rest of the world to implement draconian protection for Big Content? It's the only thing we make and the powers-that-be know that.
Yes, I understand the desperation for scrapping the bottom of the economic barrel. However, creating dumb content (as opposite to being ahead in the technological race) can't help even on medium term.
There are more people in the world who distrust the US government than there are people who distrust the Russian government
Now that's an interesting statement. How can you claim to know that? Is it because the statements you pull out of your ass are usually true?
Just think how many in this world are affected by the US govt (including the recent domain name blocking) and how many are affected by the Russian govt. Seems quite plausible to me.
“On the contrary, the development of modern technologies is a natural process that needs to be assisted,” said an FSB spokesman, according to a report by state news agency RIA-Novosti.
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Yep. Nice big screen on one, portability and fun stuff on the other.
And two screens should be great for people with split personalities?
My personality is split in more than 2, you insensitive clods!
Anybody can do two screens.
Except Microsoft?
It could come with perpetual free beer and pizza and I still wouldn't buy it. I will not purchase another Sony product as long as I live. They treat people badly, and I've had quite enough of them.
Not even if they release the source code of that beer?
Decent ones.
Wrong, try again. Decent ones don't set a DRM in the first place.
The idea is that you eat the chicken, and use the waste products for fuel. I don't think the plan is to set up chicken farms specifically to turn them into jet fuel.
Of course, the big question is how big the supply of waste products actually is. I would guess it's not all that big.
Should be enough to ship a cargo of low fat chicken meat/beef to KFC/Macas?
Is it because this fuel packs more bang for the buck than traditional one, or is it because everyone wants to "feel" being green, even when trying to fly to other planets (and using all of 0.0000001% of world's "non-green" emissions of "whatever")? ;)
Just curious,
Paul B.
I'd rather bet it's because the Middle East became "an unreliable supplier" in a way CIA and whatever "war on concepts" can no longer fix.
Logic, though makes sense to us techies, aspies, and Volkins (sp?), .
Definitely the list should include Vogons as well
Have you considered making it light enough that your arm doesn't ache after 5 minutes? Wonderful. Make it 5-6 pounds worth of battery... you'll have enough juice for 24 h without recharge.
Then make it rugged, throw in some handles, hooks and elastic chords... and sell it as the "tablet for the health conscious people always on the run. A convergent device, portable gym, light only if you consider the Silverlight running in a IE10".
Seems distinctive enough for me...
Reps judging Dems, I reckon. Or vice versa... anyway, it doesn't matter, all politics is the same
I mentioned to him, if the plane went down, the company would probably be dead within a week. He just laughed it off.
And... and... c'mon why the cliff hanger? Tell us already... did the plane go down or not?
I didn't RTFA since, after all, I am on Slashdot.... but I didn't realize that Fortran & C were both part of the Algol language family.
Why, yes! Of course they are related. And Common Lisp is the mother of all.
if this is the example you found appropriate, I'd say TFA is damn'd on spot...
I'm not saying selling pizza to Indians is bad, but I do say that being pleased/complacent in just selling pizza to Indians (as opposite to have a vision in regaining the momentum in technological dev) is bad.
C'mon, mate, US used to have visions inspiring the world, should I understand they are no longer capable of this?
How is enabling American businesses to do business overseas a bad thing?
And... where did I say that?
I posit there's a lot more money is basic business services than there is in space travel at the moment and for the foreseeable future.
I may be right, you know? But, if TFA article is also right, you'd be right for the wrong reasons. I mean, space travel aside, wouldn't it be preferable to sell technology than pizza chains? Or did indeed US vision about its future changed to "heck, by the end of this decade, nobody will sell more pizza than we do"?
... the record sells for capsule??
2. - Says who? apparently there are a large number of people who buy there music.
Not nearly large enough to even dent the US trade deficit (1975 being the last year US had a trade surplus).
Yes, Americans will pay more, but only for the cheapest goods, and they will have more money to spend.
Sleep well, my friend, I see you already have sweet dreams.
We're successfully sending quite a lot of pizza to India. American chain restaurants are a worldwide phenomenon.
Well, well... if this is the example you found appropriate, I'd say TFA is damn'd on spot... from the "send a man to the moon" worldwide phenomenon to "Americas chain restaurants" worldwide phenomenon... in only 50 years (it was May 25 1961).
Ummm... yes... I'd call this progression "stupid design" rather than evolution.
| Well, I'd be happy to hear how US helped Mexico and Canada.
Well you are and endless source of amusement and really bad ideas. Without you, our smug condescension would need a new target. Don't ever change, we need you just the way you are...
Happy to serve as a target, it's at least as amusing for me as I reckon it's for you :)
Wishing you good luck... the way I see, you'll need it.
Your neighbor
But long term this is investment in future demand for our goods and services.
Mate, I'd be happy to invest some more on the stock market. Reality is my bank asks me to pay the mortgage on the spot every month.
Has US paid the "cumulated" mortgage that went bust a couple of years ago? Can US afford to invest in neighbors? If yes, would it be a better investment in R&D?
What makes you think the leaders will change when the people won't?
Think? Well, that's preposterous... You need to have faith to maintain the minimal degree of optimism required to continue living.
Here, repeat after me:
1. "Creationism is as good as Darwinism, both theories must be equally presented to the kids"
2. "Scientists arguing for and against AGW are equal. Who one chooses to believe is an undeniable freedom".
Now, repeat this mantra a few times a day. After a while you'll realize that nobody needs to worry about technological decline in US.
(GRIN)
"Our goods" refers to the only thing we make anymore, intellectual property: Ideas, music, movies, lawsuits, patents.
As I said: fast pizza delivery and thanks for confirming it.
1. Ideas? Cheap. TFA seems to point that technological implementations of these ideas are coming slower lately.
2. music/movies? One can live without Bieber and Lady Gaga, thank you. Besides, China and India (supposedly the neighbors that received help) are somehow tuned a bit different when it comes to music/movies.
3. patents/lawsuits? Tell this to China: if they decide to be polite, they'll pat you on the shoulder for the good joke.
Why do you think the USA is strong-arming the rest of the world to implement draconian protection for Big Content? It's the only thing we make and the powers-that-be know that.
Yes, I understand the desperation for scrapping the bottom of the economic barrel. However, creating dumb content (as opposite to being ahead in the technological race) can't help even on medium term.
We'll start seeing innovations in how people will live.
... or how they'll die, for the matter. For example, UAV drones spring first into my mind.
In the short term, perhaps it is, but as more of the world achieves our standard of living, there are more consumers for our goods as well.
Excuse me? Can you please repeat? I didn't quite get the idea of "our goods". What goods? Fast pizza delivery?
Long term, raising up your neighbors only helps you.
Well, I'd be happy to hear how US helped Mexico and Canada.
I wonder what would happen to the birds who fly into the beam near the focal point.
Are there many birds in Mojave?
There are more people in the world who distrust the US government than there are people who distrust the Russian government
Now that's an interesting statement. How can you claim to know that? Is it because the statements you pull out of your ass are usually true?
Just think how many in this world are affected by the US govt (including the recent domain name blocking) and how many are affected by the Russian govt. Seems quite plausible to me.
“On the contrary, the development of modern technologies is a natural process that needs to be assisted,” said an FSB spokesman, according to a report by state news agency RIA-Novosti.
Come on guys, le'me assist you.