Helium is far more important as a shielding gas for welding than for any transportation use, especially one that will waste millions of cubic feet by venting.
"Reading the story, it seemed like they wanted the airplane's maintenance systems to communicate with ground crews over the Internet, as well the aircraft reporting status to the airline while in flight."
Aircraft equipment trending and diagnostics are normally read-only with no capability to change any parameters. If this aircraft is different, then someone screwed up.
I have one with DSL running from a 512 meg CF card. (Load using a USB card adapter with a machine that boots from CD.) It has 96MB memory and battery life is several hours.
They make cool little appliances but I'd gladly swap for an Asus.
For some folks, the price difference matters. While most geeks either have heaps of computers and parts or could if they wished, non-geeks may not be so fortunate.
"Let's see a story in a few months or so about the Peruvian XOs and their educational benefits once the novelty wears off and the laptops start having problems that the kids will have to fix."
The geeks among them (there will always be geeks) will use the working lappies to learn how to fix the borked ones, and that will be just as valuable to them as similar experience was to us.
"And if you were smart enough to get a fixed-rate mortgage, you don't have some idiot landlord deciding it's time to milk you for everything they can before too many move out."
I've owned, rented, and been a landlord. Either the owner pays the mortgage or the tenants pays it through rent, so I bought at the LOW end of what I could afford and paid it off by renting after I moved elsewhere.
"Keep it small to own it all" as the saying goes, then once you pay it off your housing expenses can drop dramatically. When you want to upgrade, don't off the old house, rent it and use the money on the next home.
"Want to remodel? Do it. Want to add a room? Do it."
Yeah,baby! If you learn to remodel you can save stoopid money, buy premium tools (which you keep instead of paying a contractor to use his), and get tasty empowerment and granular control of your living space. It's also fun.
"Who the hell buys ANY cable from a retailer like Best Buy or Circuit City?"
Who buys anything except maybe media? I browse brick and mortar stores to eyeball monitors, but don't buy from them. If they die, I won't care because I can still rely on forum reviews.
There are also people who just psychologically toxic and should never be inflicted on another person. Slam-bots might keep some of them from bothering other humans.
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Helium is far more important as a shielding gas for welding than for any transportation use, especially one that will waste millions of cubic feet by venting.
"Reading the story, it seemed like they wanted the airplane's maintenance systems to communicate with ground crews over the Internet, as well the aircraft reporting status to the airline while in flight."
Aircraft equipment trending and diagnostics are normally read-only with no capability to change any parameters.
If this aircraft is different, then someone screwed up.
"The downside is that if I lose the USB stick in my travels I'm screwed."
Not if you periodically back up stuff that matters to a webmail account.
"It would suck if I couldn't log into my notebook just because I was wearing my leather bondage hood and bridle."
"You WILL like Face Recognition Security! Now do as your Mistress Lenovo tells you!"
"Used as part of a rehab programme, it kills the drug use without addressing the underlying weakness of character that created the addict."
So does religion as used by AA against alcohol. Weak people don't get strong, they switch crutches.
"If Sears goes out of business do my Craftsman tools still have a lifetime warranty? Who will honor that warranty?"
Considering the Craftsman user base, the brand could be sold off.
Danaher makes most of the tools so if Sears dies it needn't affect production.
"Of course, the U.S. and most of the rest of the world is making too much money off of the exploitation of Africa to actually want to fix things."
The Africans who get rich off the exploitation of Africa are not known for wanting to share.
I have one with DSL running from a 512 meg CF card. (Load using a USB card adapter with a machine that boots from CD.) It has 96MB memory and battery life is several hours.
They make cool little appliances but I'd gladly swap for an Asus.
The "people's car" concept wasn't new in the 1930s. :)
The original people's car:
http://www.modelt.ca/background.html
"If he was Muslim his community would have tried to put him straight and told him to stop making the rest of them look bad."
What is the evidence that such a community exists and, if it does exist, what is the evidence that it has important influence?
"...spray a mist of this drug in his face"
"Aaagh! My eyes!" Hilarity ensues.
I've traded in truck and car calipers, but it is becoming less common nowadays. If your casting is less common a core will more likely be required.
For some folks, the price difference matters. While most geeks either have heaps of computers and parts or could if they wished, non-geeks may not be so fortunate.
"Let's see a story in a few months or so about the Peruvian XOs and their educational benefits once the novelty wears off and the laptops start having problems that the kids will have to fix."
The geeks among them (there will always be geeks) will use the working lappies to learn how to fix the borked ones, and that will be just as valuable to them as similar experience was to us.
"But 10, 20, 30 years from now, that crowd will be *everybody*. What will happen then?'"
They'll "grow up"/sell out like the Hippies and turn into reactionary fear freaks who will be as easily manipulated as all previous generations?
"And if you were smart enough to get a fixed-rate mortgage, you don't have some idiot landlord deciding it's time to milk you for everything they can before too many move out."
I've owned, rented, and been a landlord. Either the owner pays the mortgage or the tenants pays it through rent, so I bought at the LOW end of what I could afford and paid it off by renting after I moved elsewhere.
"Keep it small to own it all" as the saying goes, then once you pay it off your housing expenses can drop dramatically. When you want to upgrade, don't off the old house, rent it and use the money on the next home.
"Want to remodel? Do it. Want to add a room? Do it."
Yeah,baby! If you learn to remodel you can save stoopid money, buy premium tools (which you keep instead of paying a contractor to use his), and get tasty empowerment and granular control of your living space. It's also fun.
"There's more important things here than money."
:)
Not to the people selling "alternative" bulbs.
Why compete on merit when your competition can be killed off by legislation?
From the POV of personal profit, there is no reason not to loot and destroy a company if there are no negative consequences.
Depends on the power of the laser.
Laser illuminators on tanks have caused serious eye damage and blindness, and US aircrew have been lased during the Cold War.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IAV/is_3_90/ai_82009542
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/194147_laser07.html
"Who the hell buys ANY cable from a retailer like Best Buy or Circuit City?"
Who buys anything except maybe media? I browse brick and mortar stores to eyeball monitors, but don't buy from them. If they die, I won't care because I can still rely on forum reviews.
Reasons may vary for lack of Linux support, including the manufacturer not supporting efforts to develop Linux drivers.
"Should I just buy a new scanner?"
Not if XP does everything you want in an OS.
"I can turn off the TV or radio, close a magazine or close my eyes, but soon the only option left will be to not go outside."
Nothing like the safety of the maternal basement.
"The real solution also involves burly men and baseball bats."
My first reactions to that are "yuck" and "ouch".
"the fact that someone is trying to pass off another's hard work as their own is simply despicable."
That is why they should be identified so the netizens can make appropriate choices about who to deal with.
There are also people who just psychologically toxic and should never be inflicted on another person.
Slam-bots might keep some of them from bothering other humans.