This is why we need to start "Operation Add an A" and try to convince some sneaky congressman to insert a single letter into the budget appropriations bill, and hope nobody notices until all of the NSA's checks start getting routed to NASA instead.
Let's strap a couple rockets to it and move it to lunar orbit. Empty it out of personnel, let it do a nice, slow burn to lunar orbit. Slower is cheaper in space. Let it take however long it does to get there, and then we can start sending unmanned Dragon capsules back out to resupply it and lunar shuttles via SpaceX. This would be a good "next step" toward eventually building a permanent structure on the lunar service, and could eventually serve as a sort of waystation for missions on the way out to Mars.
Bear in mind: The lunar soil is full of O3 and H3, which both make for excellent rocket fuel. An unmanned refinery on the moon could turn Luna into a gas station for any interplanetary mission at a fraction of the cost of lifting all that material out of Earth's orbit.
Just put a gun on every drone. Then nobody in Congress will give a shit no matter how many people your drone inconveniences, maims or kills, because NRA lobby.
... Elon Musk has one hell of a rager over this. This could make electric cars that could go from Florida to New York on one charge, and recharge in similar time to a gas refill, a possibility.
Say you got 500 miles to a charge, which is a reasonable amount if these numbers are to be believed. That's the amount of miles driven by the average US driver in 2 weeks. So if the battery needs to be replaced after 8-10 charges, you're talking once a quarter. If the battery costs $250 and is easily user-replaceable, this isn't a big deal:
My quick, rough math says that if it lost 5% of the original maximum after every charge and the maximum charge of a brand new battery were 500 miles, 10 charges would come out to 3875 miles. If the battery can be produced for $250, that comes out to 15.5 miles to every $1 spent on the battery. Now, consider experiments are in progress to allow free/nearly free recharges, so the cost would really be reduced to just the battery. The current gas price I see out my window is $3.33/gal and my Scion xB gets about 30 MPG.
So, my Scion costs $3.33 to go 30 miles. The Tesla with a $250 battery would cost $2, and not explode the environment.
I'm sold.// of course these costs are pure conjecture until we know more.
Let the DNC hire the programmers and keep them on staff. Keep the code closed-source (so the Rs don't get it) and also expand it to work with local races in the House and Senate.
My shop used Rhino (JS running in the same JVM as your Java) to write JS automated test scripts. We've got about 800 of them now, and it's awesome. We've built it to run on multiple machines, aggregate logging, report failures, all built into our nightly build with Jenkins so we sit down in the morning and there's a list of issues waiting for us on all new code builds.
My shop has over 800 automated test scripts, all of which have been running on machines that think it's 2013-2014 for over a year, and will be bumped up to 2014-2015 by the end of the month.
I'm looking for a new one with a warranty, to give as a gift. I'd prefer not to buy a fragile, commonly-counterfeited product out of the back of somebody's van for $500.
From the looks of the store, they've completely dropped the iPad 3. Their comparison now shows an iPad 2 vs. an iPad 4. Does anyone know if there will be some sort of clearance event anywhere to clean out stock of 3s? Looking to get one for my girlfriend for her birthday.
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You're correct, I meant He3. Typos. Good catch.
This is why we need to start "Operation Add an A" and try to convince some sneaky congressman to insert a single letter into the budget appropriations bill, and hope nobody notices until all of the NSA's checks start getting routed to NASA instead.
Let's strap a couple rockets to it and move it to lunar orbit. Empty it out of personnel, let it do a nice, slow burn to lunar orbit. Slower is cheaper in space. Let it take however long it does to get there, and then we can start sending unmanned Dragon capsules back out to resupply it and lunar shuttles via SpaceX. This would be a good "next step" toward eventually building a permanent structure on the lunar service, and could eventually serve as a sort of waystation for missions on the way out to Mars.
Bear in mind: The lunar soil is full of O3 and H3, which both make for excellent rocket fuel. An unmanned refinery on the moon could turn Luna into a gas station for any interplanetary mission at a fraction of the cost of lifting all that material out of Earth's orbit.
A thin, hollow cylinder breaks the skin, then uses negative pressure to draw blood up into it? Don't we have those?
Oh, yeah. It's called a syringe
Just put a gun on every drone. Then nobody in Congress will give a shit no matter how many people your drone inconveniences, maims or kills, because NRA lobby.
The Atari 2600 was released in 1977.
... Elon Musk has one hell of a rager over this. This could make electric cars that could go from Florida to New York on one charge, and recharge in similar time to a gas refill, a possibility.
Say you got 500 miles to a charge, which is a reasonable amount if these numbers are to be believed. That's the amount of miles driven by the average US driver in 2 weeks. So if the battery needs to be replaced after 8-10 charges, you're talking once a quarter. If the battery costs $250 and is easily user-replaceable, this isn't a big deal:
My quick, rough math says that if it lost 5% of the original maximum after every charge and the maximum charge of a brand new battery were 500 miles, 10 charges would come out to 3875 miles. If the battery can be produced for $250, that comes out to 15.5 miles to every $1 spent on the battery. Now, consider experiments are in progress to allow free/nearly free recharges, so the cost would really be reduced to just the battery. The current gas price I see out my window is $3.33/gal and my Scion xB gets about 30 MPG.
So, my Scion costs $3.33 to go 30 miles. The Tesla with a $250 battery would cost $2, and not explode the environment.
I'm sold. // of course these costs are pure conjecture until we know more.
Kraid and Ripley.
Bebop and Rocksteady.
Palom and Porom.
Mordor and Shayol Ghul.
Orpheus and Persephone.
Pain and Panic.
*tosses the Companion Cube into the incinerator* WIIIILSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
They tried... there was a /. article about what a train wreck it was.
Let the DNC hire the programmers and keep them on staff. Keep the code closed-source (so the Rs don't get it) and also expand it to work with local races in the House and Senate.
This.
My shop used Rhino (JS running in the same JVM as your Java) to write JS automated test scripts. We've got about 800 of them now, and it's awesome. We've built it to run on multiple machines, aggregate logging, report failures, all built into our nightly build with Jenkins so we sit down in the morning and there's a list of issues waiting for us on all new code builds.
How many people will be using a 50+ year old OS/app in 2050 when it would become a problem?
My shop has over 800 automated test scripts, all of which have been running on machines that think it's 2013-2014 for over a year, and will be bumped up to 2014-2015 by the end of the month.
Yes. A thousand times yes.
I'm looking for a new one with a warranty, to give as a gift. I'd prefer not to buy a fragile, commonly-counterfeited product out of the back of somebody's van for $500.
I would have loved them to slot the 3 where the 2 is now, and further lower the price of the 2.
From the looks of the store, they've completely dropped the iPad 3. Their comparison now shows an iPad 2 vs. an iPad 4. Does anyone know if there will be some sort of clearance event anywhere to clean out stock of 3s? Looking to get one for my girlfriend for her birthday.
I have a patent on the letter E. Everyone in this thread owes me money.
Given their tanking financials, it's time they listen to SOMEBODY in the marketplace.
Oww.
Even if you lost 90% of the power, you're still talking about 50 TW. That's not small change, when what you're shooting is made out of ice.
Good thing comets are made out of ice.