Yes, but if you use the meta-materials correctly you can fully demolish the building and burn any survivors before any insurance payments have to be made out. Saves on costly search and rescue efforts as well as demolition fees and permits. Extra profits can be made by using anonymous corporations to sell/promote the building "cloak" while being the owner of the upstanding and completely ignorant meta-materials manufacturer.
True, that did surprise me, but I was replying to the comment that Canada had "more guns per capita than the US". I'll accept that we have way more guns then I ever thought.
Yeah, well a business that call's itself "foc us" and sells a few dollars(cents?) worth of "simple circuits, and a couple of electrodes" to couch bums for $250 is definitely just out to "relieve some people out of their money."
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
Not if it is passive from the ATC and pilots point of view. They should be using separate equipment. This device would be for safety/security of the plane, not for the ATC/pilots benefit. If it started giving data that doesn't correlate to known positions it should be red-flagged for maintenance, but in the meantime just recorded and ignored as usual.
For a 'charging only" cable we have the technology *today* to have an excellent standard, that allows auto-negotiation of charge rates, voltages, limits, etc. with no-stress connectors that will disconnect when pulled too hard. The same connector could be used to power your computer, your laptop, your cellphone, your mp3 player and more, with no foreseeable issues with the connector format for the future. (A weaker charger would refuse to run a device that is too big, but a strong charger would lower its output to devices that can't charge that fast.) That isn't science fiction, it is a distinct possibility. We can't, on the other hand, know what the next year will bring in data transmission technologies.
You're average computer can't charge your phone/tablet at full speed anyway, a wall charger - maybe. Trying to make them work well together will always be a challenge and will always have improvements on the Data side. (Next year there will be a cable with higher speeds that will have transmission formats that are incompatible with last years model(usb2, usb3, lightening, fibre optic, etc?) But I don't want that to force me to change my chargers every time there is an update in data transmission, at least not until they perfect the data transmission speeds/error rates to a theoretical maximum.
What I want is for someone to separate data from charging! Aside from innovations that should have a backup (like wireless charging) there is no needed magic behind analogue audio ports or charging ports. With those separated out, we can leave innovations on the data ports open to the manufacturers until we have reached something that could honestly be proven to be a pinnacle of technology (doubtful in the near future).
An after thought: I hope they choose a magnetic connector that negotiates charge rates for the charging (yeah I know Apple probably has a patent on that, but it would be really nice).
But why bother? Better a microSD system like others have mentioned. The form factor is good, but the disk space is really unacceptable 8 years after the first 2GB iPod Shuffle came out. Memory prices have actually come down since then... You can buy a 2GB SanDisk microSD card on Amazon for 10 cents plus $5 shipping and handling... If you go to the HC varieties you can get 16GB for $4... Look I'm not saying I have a problem with form factor, I'm saying they should splurge a little to update their device to the times.
Isn't that the problem? Now it doesn't take any human involved even caring about it to be detected, flagged, and investigated before hauling your children off to a gov't training camp^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H orphanage, and you in front of a judge.
209 comments and this is the first mention of a logout button... Really, this is what I personally would have expected... This and closing the program (fully).
My biggest complaint about the mp3 music player industry is: Why are they still over selling 1/2/4GB devices!?!?!?!?!? Honestly, I can't even imagine why Apple, Sony, Philips and other large brands that I find in my average tech store even bother to have/sell, but actively promote these minuscule devices. At least 128GB approaches a reasonable size for today's music collections. To me it is similar to Linus' rant about laptop monitors.
True enough:/ Though I doubt a personal boycott would really slow them down either, and I'm not about to be the one to change careers to flight price activist any time soon. So I'll have to live with any increases they try to shove down my throat anyway:( Though the other point still stands, it just plain doesn't make sense anyway, esp just to retrieve an "after the fact" diagnostics tool.
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So they just have to paint up to 6 people with the brush of terrorist to get you, that is just collateral damage.. They are at war after all.
Yes, but if you use the meta-materials correctly you can fully demolish the building and burn any survivors before any insurance payments have to be made out. Saves on costly search and rescue efforts as well as demolition fees and permits. Extra profits can be made by using anonymous corporations to sell/promote the building "cloak" while being the owner of the upstanding and completely ignorant meta-materials manufacturer.
Yeah, why not have masked leaders with digital voice changers.... Couldn't be worse then we have now :/
True, that did surprise me, but I was replying to the comment that Canada had "more guns per capita than the US".
I'll accept that we have way more guns then I ever thought.
Curious, where do you get your numbers? Not as good as I wish we were, but not quite
more guns per capita than the US
Given that it is all drive by wire, I don't see why it couldn't be adjustable to foot size...
Obligatory: What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?[IMG]
Yeah, well a business that call's itself "foc us" and sells a few dollars(cents?) worth of "simple circuits, and a couple of electrodes" to couch bums for $250 is definitely just out to "relieve some people out of their money."
No, we all know that the Universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
Not if it is passive from the ATC and pilots point of view. They should be using separate equipment. This device would be for safety/security of the plane, not for the ATC/pilots benefit. If it started giving data that doesn't correlate to known positions it should be red-flagged for maintenance, but in the meantime just recorded and ignored as usual.
For a 'charging only" cable we have the technology *today* to have an excellent standard, that allows auto-negotiation of charge rates, voltages, limits, etc. with no-stress connectors that will disconnect when pulled too hard. The same connector could be used to power your computer, your laptop, your cellphone, your mp3 player and more, with no foreseeable issues with the connector format for the future. (A weaker charger would refuse to run a device that is too big, but a strong charger would lower its output to devices that can't charge that fast.)
That isn't science fiction, it is a distinct possibility. We can't, on the other hand, know what the next year will bring in data transmission technologies.
You're average computer can't charge your phone/tablet at full speed anyway, a wall charger - maybe.
Trying to make them work well together will always be a challenge and will always have improvements on the Data side. (Next year there will be a cable with higher speeds that will have transmission formats that are incompatible with last years model(usb2, usb3, lightening, fibre optic, etc?)
But I don't want that to force me to change my chargers every time there is an update in data transmission, at least not until they perfect the data transmission speeds/error rates to a theoretical maximum.
A historical document who's only modern significance is that sometimes pitchforks work.
What I want is for someone to separate data from charging!
Aside from innovations that should have a backup (like wireless charging) there is no needed magic behind analogue audio ports or charging ports.
With those separated out, we can leave innovations on the data ports open to the manufacturers until we have reached something that could honestly be proven to be a pinnacle of technology (doubtful in the near future).
An after thought: I hope they choose a magnetic connector that negotiates charge rates for the charging (yeah I know Apple probably has a patent on that, but it would be really nice).
Nope, you're all wrong! It was a strong AI that hijacked the plane remotely for political reasons that will only become clear some 20 years from now.
But why bother? Better a microSD system like others have mentioned. The form factor is good, but the disk space is really unacceptable 8 years after the first 2GB iPod Shuffle came out. Memory prices have actually come down since then... You can buy a 2GB SanDisk microSD card on Amazon for 10 cents plus $5 shipping and handling... If you go to the HC varieties you can get 16GB for $4 ... Look I'm not saying I have a problem with form factor, I'm saying they should splurge a little to update their device to the times.
Isn't that the problem? Now it doesn't take any human involved even caring about it to be detected, flagged, and investigated before hauling your children off to a gov't training camp^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H orphanage, and you in front of a judge.
209 comments and this is the first mention of a logout button... Really, this is what I personally would have expected. .. This and closing the program (fully).
My biggest complaint about the mp3 music player industry is: Why are they still over selling 1/2/4GB devices!?!?!?!?!?
Honestly, I can't even imagine why Apple, Sony, Philips and other large brands that I find in my average tech store even bother to have/sell, but actively promote these minuscule devices. At least 128GB approaches a reasonable size for today's music collections.
To me it is similar to Linus' rant about laptop monitors.
Read up on sovereign immunity. We need pitchforks.
They tell me I'm too young to understand ... /sarcasm>
So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
True enough :/ Though I doubt a personal boycott would really slow them down either, and I'm not about to be the one to change careers to flight price activist any time soon. So I'll have to live with any increases they try to shove down my throat anyway :(
Though the other point still stands, it just plain doesn't make sense anyway, esp just to retrieve an "after the fact" diagnostics tool.
Knowing the airlines it would somehow be permanently added to the plane ticket price....
Given the number of unrecovered flight recorders and the amount of time that list has been growing and the risks of being involved in a plane crash vs a car crash(no black box)
Since prices are already seem pretty high for me for those cramped seats, I think I side with "the industry" on this one.
Also a recent TED talk on the topic