Australian Physicists Build Reversible Tractor Beam
No they didn't. Not even remotely.
the ANU tractor beam relies on the energy of the laser heating up the particles and the air around them
Exactly. If I built a system that deployed a wheeled robot controlled by RF signals to drive over to something and push it toward me, that would be as much of a "tractor beam" as this is.
If you did it without the robot and only used the rf beam in some way sure. This may not be a true tractor beam but at least it is a beam and it does tract. So your remote controlled fetchbot is just that. Did they say in Star Trek "use the tractor beam" to which some red shirt gets in a shuttle to get whatever they wanted?
Tractor's pull. A tractor beam would pull. This pushes. It can't pull. This means its not a reversible tractor beam, which would mean it can pull and be reversed to push... it can only push.
Its a pusher beam, and it only works in a fluid, on objects with tiny amounts of mass that can stand to be roasted into oblivion in order to move them less than distance of a reasonable sized dictionary.
Not really. A cargo ship of that size is as complex as an aircraft carrier.
Considering this ship is designed to hold however many thousand cargo containers and the crew to support it, it needs a lot of empty space inside. Considering an aircraft carrier is essentially a city at sea, complete with nuclear reactors, aircraft hangars, repair shops, weapons bays, accommodation for a few thousand and mess facilities for the aforementioned plus its own empty space storage areas. I'm willing to bet the aircraft carrier is still more complex in terms of design and construction.
No no, this could turn out to be an HaterGate. Please do not try to bring facts into it! Let people who don't even use OS X come in and rant about the poor choices Apple consistently makes.
If they didn't consistently make such poor choices more people might be less against them. Basically unless you want to use your mac in the way they deem acceptable then fuck you. Fonts aside I find the mac deliberately obtuse and designed very much with form over function.
Just because you don't understand the actual use, doesn't mean it's not useful to transfer data at 20Gbps.
Niche uses like 1 product type. I say that's pretty niche. Practically every keyboard (musical) has a MIDI port, but I doubt you'd argue that's not niche.
Considering that my Black MacBook (2006) lasted eight years, it was a good investment.
My XPS from 2006 is still with me, but the equivalent Macbook would have been far more expensive. What is your point?
Today that price difference is not nearly as much. Looking at (as best I could find, not exactly) comparable systems, a Dell 15" XPS laptop is $0.99 MORE than a MacBook Pro 15". The Dell has a touch-screen but the MacBook Pro has an SSD and other differences. Perhaps if you took more time than I just did to build as close a system as possible the Dell would be cheaper, but I didn't find that.
You can bet dell but an extra chunk of cost on just because apple showed them people will pay that much and apple overcharge because they know most people who buy one want the badge more than any actual feature of the machine.
It's like you don't understand what "effects" are.
The long, long history of American jurisprudence has determined that your effects are materials held at home. Your smartphone travelling in your pocket as you go out in public, just like your wallet, is not an effect. Things on your person can be searched based upon probable cause without the need for a warrant.
So if they bust through your door when you're sleeping looking another (probably innocent) guy 2 streets away, is your phone safe then?
One day corps might get their dream and have no wage bill at all, but then no one will have any jobs to get any money to buy their stuff so where will they be then? Dead and gone ready for the whole system to reset.
This is Chewbacca, he lives on Endor. Why would a six foot tall Wookie want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense, if Chewbaca lives on Endor you must rise up, this does not make sense!
Both Stealing and Copyright infrigment are both illegal in most jursisdictions. So specifying one over the other, just reeks of attempting to get rid of a guilty concious.
So are murder, rape, fraud, drug use and loads of other things but you don't say it's them. You're trying to call a spade a digger when they're not the same.
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Australian Physicists Build Reversible Tractor Beam
No they didn't. Not even remotely.
the ANU tractor beam relies on the energy of the laser heating up the particles and the air around them
Exactly. If I built a system that deployed a wheeled robot controlled by RF signals to drive over to something and push it toward me, that would be as much of a "tractor beam" as this is.
If you did it without the robot and only used the rf beam in some way sure. This may not be a true tractor beam but at least it is a beam and it does tract. So your remote controlled fetchbot is just that. Did they say in Star Trek "use the tractor beam" to which some red shirt gets in a shuttle to get whatever they wanted?
Lets learn to speak the language, shall we?
Tractor's pull. A tractor beam would pull. This pushes. It can't pull. This means its not a reversible tractor beam, which would mean it can pull and be reversed to push ... it can only push.
Its a pusher beam, and it only works in a fluid, on objects with tiny amounts of mass that can stand to be roasted into oblivion in order to move them less than distance of a reasonable sized dictionary.
Did you read more than the headline?
Actually, never mind. Stupid question.
Apple products are designed using focus groups
They've testified under oath to the contrary during some of the recent patent litigation. Your whole comment is predicated on an untruth.
Because no one has ever lied to a court under oath before.
No, when you are working on such a massive scale they really aren't simpler, the engineering and sheer weights alone are astronomical.
For the hull sure, but what about the insides?
Not really. A cargo ship of that size is as complex as an aircraft carrier.
Considering this ship is designed to hold however many thousand cargo containers and the crew to support it, it needs a lot of empty space inside. Considering an aircraft carrier is essentially a city at sea, complete with nuclear reactors, aircraft hangars, repair shops, weapons bays, accommodation for a few thousand and mess facilities for the aforementioned plus its own empty space storage areas. I'm willing to bet the aircraft carrier is still more complex in terms of design and construction.
No no, this could turn out to be an HaterGate. Please do not try to bring facts into it! Let people who don't even use OS X come in and rant about the poor choices Apple consistently makes.
If they didn't consistently make such poor choices more people might be less against them. Basically unless you want to use your mac in the way they deem acceptable then fuck you. Fonts aside I find the mac deliberately obtuse and designed very much with form over function.
niche uses like most all video cameras.
Just because you don't understand the actual use, doesn't mean it's not useful to transfer data at 20Gbps.
Niche uses like 1 product type. I say that's pretty niche. Practically every keyboard (musical) has a MIDI port, but I doubt you'd argue that's not niche.
What does that even mean?
That to mac users form>function.
Yeah, like firewire isn't used in most video cameras still.
Thunderbolt is just 25x faster.
What else is it used in? Exactly, niche.
Considering that my Black MacBook (2006) lasted eight years, it was a good investment.
My XPS from 2006 is still with me, but the equivalent Macbook would have been far more expensive. What is your point?
Today that price difference is not nearly as much. Looking at (as best I could find, not exactly) comparable systems, a Dell 15" XPS laptop is $0.99 MORE than a MacBook Pro 15". The Dell has a touch-screen but the MacBook Pro has an SSD and other differences. Perhaps if you took more time than I just did to build as close a system as possible the Dell would be cheaper, but I didn't find that.
You can bet dell but an extra chunk of cost on just because apple showed them people will pay that much and apple overcharge because they know most people who buy one want the badge more than any actual feature of the machine.
Do the math.
But you already did it!
Anyways, Apple products can be pricey, but if you want excellent quality and usability, nothing on the market offers the same value.
Quality, fair enough. Usability is entirely subjective. For me using the mac at work is an exercise in frustration. Does look nice though.
Considering that my Black MacBook (2006) lasted eight years, it was a good investment.
You say that as if a regular laptop cant last that long. And I bet you paid more for that than you would of an equivalent specs windows based machine.
The long, long history of American jurisprudence has determined that your effects are materials held at home. Your smartphone travelling in your pocket as you go out in public, just like your wallet, is not an effect. Things on your person can be searched based upon probable cause without the need for a warrant.
So if they bust through your door when you're sleeping looking another (probably innocent) guy 2 streets away, is your phone safe then?
It was putting them online and/or trusting apple not to.
What's deadlier? A million dollar system that requires huge infrastructure and hours of preparation or a million machine gun bullets?
Well, the million dollar system. A million bullets ain't doing jack shit on their own.
Trade secrets only work for things that are so difficult and complicated that there is little chance of someone else duplicating the invention.
Things so difficult and complicated.... so things like a cold fusion reactor?
One day corps might get their dream and have no wage bill at all, but then no one will have any jobs to get any money to buy their stuff so where will they be then? Dead and gone ready for the whole system to reset.
This is Chewbacca, he lives on Endor. Why would a six foot tall Wookie want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense, if Chewbaca lives on Endor you must rise up, this does not make sense!
...Fuck that.
Public = funding poor
Corps = funding rich
Corps = win
Their telephone system doesn't have enough capacity either. The Post Office is the only option really.
What's the betting that the post office and folks on the phone are just using the website anyway.
and drugs. Oh and milk/beer/petrol for some reason but other liquids come in litres. Get the dealers to go metric and it will all finally fall in.
Both Stealing and Copyright infrigment are both illegal in most jursisdictions. So specifying one over the other, just reeks of attempting to get rid of a guilty concious.
So are murder, rape, fraud, drug use and loads of other things but you don't say it's them. You're trying to call a spade a digger when they're not the same.
Yeah I'm sure they'll be able to patch in more structural integrity. I guess in the quest for thinness they forgot about strength.
Surely a big fat arse would be better? Spread the pressure around a bit. Don't sit on it with your bony arse is what the advice should be.