After reading another comment, and looking at TFS again, I concur with the other poster that the bit you are complaining about was added by our favorite [southparkVoice] Timmie [/southparkVoice] and not the OP.
Motorola Razr v3xx is probably one of the best handsets of all time.
Which is why I still use my 7 year old Razr. The only problem I have now is that something is sporadically killing the jog-dial (not sure if it is mechanical or electrical or software), which makes a bunch of functionality impossible to use. Fortunately I have my wife's old Razr of the same era as a backup.
As a bonus for my model Razr (depending on your paranoia).. it also is pre-GPS chip E911.
In the Ars story about this they pointed out a website that tracks beaches that I hadn't heard of before: ';--have i been pwned?
I plugged my email addresses into this and found out that I had been a part of the Adobe breach fro October 2013. And I don't remember Adobe telling me about it
The intelligent design involved in the Hycopter would allow it to stash 120 grams (4.2 oz) of hydrogen gas at 350 bar (5,076 psi) in its current structural tubing, and this means that there would be no need for any kind of separate canister.
5000psi?!?!??! Seriously?!?!? (and there is a religious joke in there as well) I'm not buying that until I see the damn thing fly. Oh and BTW
The refillable tubes will eventually be made from polymer-lined 5 mm-thick carbon fiber tubing as opposed to clear acrylic that is part of the pictured display model. It is touted that that amount of hydrogen ought to be able to deliver a similar amount of energy as 3 kg (6.6 lb) of lithium batteries.
I have one on my keyring. I know exactly what it is, and what it is used for.
In other words you have prior information that makes sense out of the word salad that passes for summaries these days.
The rest of use just look at the summary and go WTF?!?!?!?
And yes, I have heard of that Google thing, but one of the prime tenets of good communication is to not make your audience go elsewhere for fundamental information. Because sooner or later they will be going to other sources for all of their information and will be by-passing you completely.
I've never considered the sales and marketing people to be the smartest part of any organisation. They have a limited scope of action and limited deliverables.
Yet without sales and marketing you have no revenue and your whole business grinds to a halt.
The only SciFi franchise I'm familiar with that has sensibly designed ships is the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.
That is because Honor Harrington IS 17th to 19th century naval warfare dressed up as sci-fi. You can also see exactly the same thing going on in his Safehold series, where he is basically retelling the history of warfare as a backdrop to the story.
I guess many/.ers like yourself only care about the hyped property,
Slow down skippy, you'r projecting there.
but I want to know what the other properties of this material are and I assume many others do to. Why write an article and leave out so much potentially interesting information? Laziness, lack of thoroughness?
While the first FA looked like a frat boy wannabe reporter, the second FA was a link to the published paper about the material properties of this foam. And if that isn't enough of you then there is always google - or a materials science degree at a reputable school.
ANd what are its other durability properties, like brittleness/flexibility/fracture toughness? . Ability to withstand piercing? Just because it can withstand tensile or compressive stress doesn't make it a good solution for ships.
Given that TFA says that the Navy is using this foam for the deck of the USS Zumwalt, I'm betting that they have already thought up and answered more questions that the average slashdotter could have envisaged - and that they are happy with all of the answers.
Captain Scarlet had it right.. not only did the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle not have any windows, the occupants had rearward facing seats to better protect them in the case of a crash, and they used video monitors to view where they were driving.
It is actually a secret ICBM (Intra Continental Ballistic Missile) base that is being built to defend Texas* from the likes of the Jade Helm 15 plans**.
* Although if Texas has Chuck Norris, why would they need a secret ICBM base for defense?
** Jade Helm 15*** being the plans that were dictated to the chief KIO (Kenyan-In-Office), by the UN in order to suppress opposition when the veil is finally lifted off the global climate change deception. And I am pretty sure that the Illuminati dictated those plans to the UN.)
*** 15 in base 23**** is 28 in decimal and Texas was the 28th state - so Iowa better watch out for Jade Helm 16!
**** 2+3=5 and there are 5 permanent members in the UN security council.
I'm not sure why a simulator would ever want to bash people that hard. You'd think it'd be almost more jarring to have the simulation just stop completely -- lights go on, screen dark.
Sometimes the bashing part IS the reason for the simulation HUET Train to Survive (although in this case there is no actually bashing.. but you get the idea)
Same as with real property (house, boat, business office complex, etc.). A trust account, a trustee, and the keys in escrow (envelope in a box at the bank or the lawyers office).
Indian and Chinese tech workers are often excellent technically, but run into road blocks trying to talk to Americans over the phone, because their accents are sometimes horrendous.
Aside from the accents there are also other cultural issues at play*. Last week I had an Indian guy leave both an email and a voice mail saying "I've got great news for you." And didn't tell me what the effin "great news" actually was. I had to call him back in order to find out what he was actually talking about. And when I did get on to him he then had to lead me along this extremely verbose description of events leading up to why he called me (a series of events that I was well aware of as it had been developing over the last 2 weeks and I had been involved in them.)
In his case I felt he was suffering from a major dose of 3rd world bureaucratic empire building, and couldn't come straight to the point even if it he had to do it to save his own life.
* EG The classic Asian personality of not being able to say "no" to something.
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The Williams X-Jet did it better and did it 40 years ago.
45 min duration, speeds of up to 60 mph, and no flying in a straight line over water, but flying in and around trees over land!
That would be timothy, the editor from hell.
I know think of him as [southparkVoice] Timmie [/southparkVoice]
Well, good luck with that.
After reading another comment, and looking at TFS again, I concur with the other poster that the bit you are complaining about was added by our favorite [southparkVoice] Timmie [/southparkVoice] and not the OP.
Motorola Razr v3xx is probably one of the best handsets of all time.
Which is why I still use my 7 year old Razr. The only problem I have now is that something is sporadically killing the jog-dial (not sure if it is mechanical or electrical or software), which makes a bunch of functionality impossible to use. Fortunately I have my wife's old Razr of the same era as a backup.
As a bonus for my model Razr (depending on your paranoia) .. it also is pre-GPS chip E911.
In the Ars story about this they pointed out a website that tracks beaches that I hadn't heard of before: ';--have i been pwned?
I plugged my email addresses into this and found out that I had been a part of the Adobe breach fro October 2013. And I don't remember Adobe telling me about it
That's got propellers, and its go tubes, but no wires so its not a drone, its crude mockup.
It might even be just a rendering of pipes and propellers even, certainly not an engineering rendering.
I assume they'll try to crowd fund it without a working prototype?
From this link Hycopter Runs Off Fuel Cells it has a wonderful little bit of design data:
The intelligent design involved in the Hycopter would allow it to stash 120 grams (4.2 oz) of hydrogen gas at 350 bar (5,076 psi) in its current structural tubing, and this means that there would be no need for any kind of separate canister.
5000psi?!?!??! Seriously?!?!? (and there is a religious joke in there as well) I'm not buying that until I see the damn thing fly. Oh and BTW
The refillable tubes will eventually be made from polymer-lined 5 mm-thick carbon fiber tubing as opposed to clear acrylic that is part of the pictured display model. It is touted that that amount of hydrogen ought to be able to deliver a similar amount of energy as 3 kg (6.6 lb) of lithium batteries.
Agh, wtf is a salad?
Apparently you need some help with understanding something. So here is a helpful link: Word salad
Try Google.
I have one on my keyring. I know exactly what it is, and what it is used for.
In other words you have prior information that makes sense out of the word salad that passes for summaries these days.
The rest of use just look at the summary and go WTF?!?!?!?
And yes, I have heard of that Google thing, but one of the prime tenets of good communication is to not make your audience go elsewhere for fundamental information. Because sooner or later they will be going to other sources for all of their information and will be by-passing you completely.
I've never considered the sales and marketing people to be the smartest part of any organisation. They have a limited scope of action and limited deliverables.
Yet without sales and marketing you have no revenue and your whole business grinds to a halt.
So does this mean Apple Maps will stop guiding people out into the middle of nowhere, off cliffs and into lakes?
Do you mean like every other nav system in the world also does?
The only SciFi franchise I'm familiar with that has sensibly designed ships is the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.
That is because Honor Harrington IS 17th to 19th century naval warfare dressed up as sci-fi. You can also see exactly the same thing going on in his Safehold series, where he is basically retelling the history of warfare as a backdrop to the story.
I can tell you weren't alive during the Reagan administration.
Was anyone?
I would do a lot harder work than just fucking voice-over for $14M for just two years.
It really pisses me off when I hear about people who turn down so much for doing so fucking little
So you are saying that rather than being able to make a choice, he should of been forced to dance like a monkey for you or other peoples benefit?
Why hackers are stupid. Stealing somebody's coffee money is one thing. Putting a $2B industry at risk will probably get you killed.
Maybe they really like coffee!
You do realize that this is Starbucks we are talking about, don't you??????
I guess many /.ers like yourself only care about the hyped property,
Slow down skippy, you'r projecting there.
but I want to know what the other properties of this material are and I assume many others do to. Why write an article and leave out so much potentially interesting information? Laziness, lack of thoroughness?
While the first FA looked like a frat boy wannabe reporter, the second FA was a link to the published paper about the material properties of this foam. And if that isn't enough of you then there is always google - or a materials science degree at a reputable school.
ANd what are its other durability properties, like brittleness/flexibility/fracture toughness? . Ability to withstand piercing? Just because it can withstand tensile or compressive stress doesn't make it a good solution for ships.
Given that TFA says that the Navy is using this foam for the deck of the USS Zumwalt, I'm betting that they have already thought up and answered more questions that the average slashdotter could have envisaged - and that they are happy with all of the answers.
Captain Scarlet had it right .. not only did the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle not have any windows, the occupants had rearward facing seats to better protect them in the case of a crash, and they used video monitors to view where they were driving.
This is not a spaceport.
It is actually a secret ICBM (Intra Continental Ballistic Missile) base that is being built to defend Texas* from the likes of the Jade Helm 15 plans**.
* Although if Texas has Chuck Norris, why would they need a secret ICBM base for defense?
** Jade Helm 15*** being the plans that were dictated to the chief KIO (Kenyan-In-Office), by the UN in order to suppress opposition when the veil is finally lifted off the global climate change deception. And I am pretty sure that the Illuminati dictated those plans to the UN.)
*** 15 in base 23**** is 28 in decimal and Texas was the 28th state - so Iowa better watch out for Jade Helm 16!
**** 2+3=5 and there are 5 permanent members in the UN security council.
I'm not sure why a simulator would ever want to bash people that hard. You'd think it'd be almost more jarring to have the simulation just stop completely -- lights go on, screen dark.
Sometimes the bashing part IS the reason for the simulation HUET Train to Survive (although in this case there is no actually bashing .. but you get the idea)
Same as with real property (house, boat, business office complex, etc.). A trust account, a trustee, and the keys in escrow (envelope in a box at the bank or the lawyers office).
But .. but .. but .. this is with a computer!
But it's with a 3-D printer! That makes it novel and non-obvious, right?
Wait until I incorporate a drone in the 3D printing process .. that'll really shake up the drug delivery industry!
So yea, the smart money is on not doing personal projects on company time.
The smarter money is on doing company projects on company time!
Except your situation is different. In this case this kid is an employee
Indian and Chinese tech workers are often excellent technically, but run into road blocks trying to talk to Americans over the phone, because their accents are sometimes horrendous.
Aside from the accents there are also other cultural issues at play*. Last week I had an Indian guy leave both an email and a voice mail saying "I've got great news for you." And didn't tell me what the effin "great news" actually was. I had to call him back in order to find out what he was actually talking about. And when I did get on to him he then had to lead me along this extremely verbose description of events leading up to why he called me (a series of events that I was well aware of as it had been developing over the last 2 weeks and I had been involved in them.)
In his case I felt he was suffering from a major dose of 3rd world bureaucratic empire building, and couldn't come straight to the point even if it he had to do it to save his own life.
* EG The classic Asian personality of not being able to say "no" to something.
Perhaps for IT monkeys. However, the security engineers (level 3 or 4) I hire in the DC area are in the $150-200K range.
How does that compare to non-clearance people of the same level? DC is not exactly a cheap place to live, so I expect salaries to be higher there.
If you have polygraphs....15-20%.
Sigh, when is the belief in magical things going to end?