They'll be happy to fleece the rest of the 99% of us that don't have fiber. And if the heat gets to be too much, they'll just charge those in single provider areas more and roll out fiber to compete where Google forces their hand, letting everywhere else languish, all the while pointing out that rolling out Gfiber is causing their rates to go up, up, up, and there's nothing they can do about it because the FCC keeps upping their costs through redefining broadband.
When you run a marathon, nobody asks the runners why they don't bring all of their own water on the run.
When you're payload mass fraction to get into orbit is less than 2%, there's little incentive to keep spare fuel for decommissioning, and that doesn't count all of the little bits that fall off along the way.
However when a plane falls out of the sky in a fiery ball of death, it doesn't destroy the rest of the airspace in the system so badly that all of the atmosphere has to be rebuilt before air travel can be started again.
Based on what's been posted, Pearson (and, presumably Apple) promised a product/curriculum combination with essentially a custom use case in mind, the district purchased based on the sales literature, and then Pearson couldn't deliver what they promised. It's called false advertising and Pearson may be left holding the bag if the allegations are true and hold up in court.
We do, but this aero doesn't do all that electrons stuff. I deal with the magic that makes thousands of pounds magically levitate; it's the EEs that magically make disembodied human voices come out of nowhere and blinky lights obey the commands of hidden daemons.;-)
These are gut reactions, based on a career in engineering structures spanning 25 years including 8 of those with NASA directly, 2 with Orbital Sciences Corporation, and 15 in private practice as a licensed professional engineer. I also happen to build and fly amateur (well, high-power, technically and I don't formulate my own propellant) rockets as a hobby.
A good deal in the first year, but it's an ongoing expense. Now $70k will get you a shit-ton of options to choose from for lower level job hiring, but anyone looking to hire in at a higher salary is going to know that there isn't as much headroom in the budget for the overall salary cap. It may work; it will certainly gain him at least a huge short-term morale boost (unless you were already making 63-69k, in which case, not so much) in addition to the press.
Its still a nice gesture, even if it's a calculated publicity stunt.
The forces required are enormous, and even 10m away the rocket thrust would toast most materials. It still has to be caught in a specific orientation to minimize stresses, which means stabilization. As for stopping further, a 10m fall would probably far outstrip the capacity of the structure. (For comparison, more heavily built high power / amateur rockets are designed for touch down forces equivalent to a drop of about 2 meters). The fuel difference is near zero since the full motion of the rocket must be arrested prior to that final "fall".
It also means that the rockets could never land on an arbitrary location, which would be a future goal. Solving it now is a Good Thing (TM).
Yeah, I was wondering if I missed that Kamen had bought the farm on some ill-fated attempt to jump the snake river on a segway. Oh well, one can dream.
There is, and it tends to be expensive for the hobbiest. I have simple simulation programs and they cost several hundred to a couple thousand dollars, plus an annual maintenance fee in the 10-20% of the original purchase price. The thing is - the more complete and automatic you would like it, the more background programming is necessary, such that the most automated and simple programs often cost the most (i.e. - they allow less skilled users to produce more complete output).
OTOH, I assume structural analysis programs like NASTRAN, as well as programs in similar fields, have open source or free as in beer versions out there. It's brace and bit or hand file vs CNC machining/3D printing, but you can get just as good results (possibly even better) with enough know-how and effort. But time is money, as they say, so you decide which time is valuable and which is not.
It's only taken us 150 years to go from happenstance discovery of oil on the earth surface to deep water rigs, and we were working with non-fossil fuels back then. Somehow, I think 50 years would be more than sufficient to bring us back to where we are given that political stability existed, and 20-25 might be more realistic.
Really, because this is pretty damned close to what the G3 has. Replaceable battery - check; uSD - check; wireless charging - check; f1.8, no, but the lens is f2.4, the individual photosites are 25% larger than on the G4. Up until now, I'm not aware of any phone which has a maximum aperture larger than 2.2.
The paid reviewer mark would be an ideal checkbox. It allows them to declare, can make Amazon enforce purchase from that user, and can ban reviewers who violate the terms. They can even use that to weight the reviews differently vs paid and unpaid. I presume they already weight the Amazon vs non-Amazon verified purchasers. (And if the feedback is good, a paid reviewer isn't necessarily a bad thing).
" every reviewer would state their skillset and experience with similar products"
That's often evident from the reviews. 2-4 star reviews tend to be the most helpful, and there are often good points made in them. Expecting all of them to be useful or applicable to your situation would be like expecting all the/. story comments to be insightful, or to have a MS or Apple thread without trolls and fanbois in the mix. It just ain't gonna happen.
If we put humans on Mars, I'm guessing that would be considered life beyond earth. If NASA sends someone who isn't a US Citizen, they would be an alien.
So, really, not too far fetched for the pedantic among us. And, being/., that would be pretty much all of us.
At the (relatively low) burdened wage of $50/hr, you've both increased you costs by 50% and reduced your flight capacity by 25%. Need a co-pilot? You've doubled your flight cost per hour and halved your available payload, Congratulations, you've just increased the cost to fly by a factor of 4.
Not that anyone is flying a 172 for commercial purposes, but $100/hr for four passengers ($25/hr/passenger) vs $200/hr for two passengers ($100/hr/passenger) is a pretty big difference.
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There are plenty of humans who would volunteer for tests with full knowledge and understanding of the risks.
You are vastly overestimating the ability for even the average human to assess such risks, much less a significant majority of the population.
They'll be happy to fleece the rest of the 99% of us that don't have fiber. And if the heat gets to be too much, they'll just charge those in single provider areas more and roll out fiber to compete where Google forces their hand, letting everywhere else languish, all the while pointing out that rolling out Gfiber is causing their rates to go up, up, up, and there's nothing they can do about it because the FCC keeps upping their costs through redefining broadband.
When you run a marathon, nobody asks the runners why they don't bring all of their own water on the run.
When you're payload mass fraction to get into orbit is less than 2%, there's little incentive to keep spare fuel for decommissioning, and that doesn't count all of the little bits that fall off along the way.
There's no way you could use all of that water. It's unpossible.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Two hours and nobody has posted this until now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's like you all aren't even trying anymore.
Well, actually, they do: http://www.flyingmag.com/news/...
However when a plane falls out of the sky in a fiery ball of death, it doesn't destroy the rest of the airspace in the system so badly that all of the atmosphere has to be rebuilt before air travel can be started again.
Based on what's been posted, Pearson (and, presumably Apple) promised a product/curriculum combination with essentially a custom use case in mind, the district purchased based on the sales literature, and then Pearson couldn't deliver what they promised. It's called false advertising and Pearson may be left holding the bag if the allegations are true and hold up in court.
We do, but this aero doesn't do all that electrons stuff. I deal with the magic that makes thousands of pounds magically levitate; it's the EEs that magically make disembodied human voices come out of nowhere and blinky lights obey the commands of hidden daemons. ;-)
These are gut reactions, based on a career in engineering structures spanning 25 years including 8 of those with NASA directly, 2 with Orbital Sciences Corporation, and 15 in private practice as a licensed professional engineer. I also happen to build and fly amateur (well, high-power, technically and I don't formulate my own propellant) rockets as a hobby.
A good deal in the first year, but it's an ongoing expense. Now $70k will get you a shit-ton of options to choose from for lower level job hiring, but anyone looking to hire in at a higher salary is going to know that there isn't as much headroom in the budget for the overall salary cap. It may work; it will certainly gain him at least a huge short-term morale boost (unless you were already making 63-69k, in which case, not so much) in addition to the press.
Its still a nice gesture, even if it's a calculated publicity stunt.
Stop trying to fix the weakest part of the driving chain, and replace it.
The forces required are enormous, and even 10m away the rocket thrust would toast most materials. It still has to be caught in a specific orientation to minimize stresses, which means stabilization. As for stopping further, a 10m fall would probably far outstrip the capacity of the structure. (For comparison, more heavily built high power / amateur rockets are designed for touch down forces equivalent to a drop of about 2 meters). The fuel difference is near zero since the full motion of the rocket must be arrested prior to that final "fall".
It also means that the rockets could never land on an arbitrary location, which would be a future goal. Solving it now is a Good Thing (TM).
Yeah, I was wondering if I missed that Kamen had bought the farm on some ill-fated attempt to jump the snake river on a segway. Oh well, one can dream.
...and pirate regalia, just remember where the faux-religion persecution started.
There's nothing like a good, strong RF+IR signal to home in on for pinpoint accuracy.
There is, and it tends to be expensive for the hobbiest. I have simple simulation programs and they cost several hundred to a couple thousand dollars, plus an annual maintenance fee in the 10-20% of the original purchase price. The thing is - the more complete and automatic you would like it, the more background programming is necessary, such that the most automated and simple programs often cost the most (i.e. - they allow less skilled users to produce more complete output).
OTOH, I assume structural analysis programs like NASTRAN, as well as programs in similar fields, have open source or free as in beer versions out there. It's brace and bit or hand file vs CNC machining/3D printing, but you can get just as good results (possibly even better) with enough know-how and effort. But time is money, as they say, so you decide which time is valuable and which is not.
3.86 is very much equal to 4, just as 2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.
Significant figures FTW
(I could point out that 4K is actually 4096 x 2160 pixels if you're talking DCI/Cinema sizes, but that's a whole different argument)
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It's only taken us 150 years to go from happenstance discovery of oil on the earth surface to deep water rigs, and we were working with non-fossil fuels back then. Somehow, I think 50 years would be more than sufficient to bring us back to where we are given that political stability existed, and 20-25 might be more realistic.
Really, because this is pretty damned close to what the G3 has. Replaceable battery - check; uSD - check; wireless charging - check; f1.8, no, but the lens is f2.4, the individual photosites are 25% larger than on the G4. Up until now, I'm not aware of any phone which has a maximum aperture larger than 2.2.
You clearly have not heard of the contract you sign when you get service(d) by Verizon or AT&T.
The paid reviewer mark would be an ideal checkbox. It allows them to declare, can make Amazon enforce purchase from that user, and can ban reviewers who violate the terms. They can even use that to weight the reviews differently vs paid and unpaid. I presume they already weight the Amazon vs non-Amazon verified purchasers. (And if the feedback is good, a paid reviewer isn't necessarily a bad thing).
" every reviewer would state their skillset and experience with similar products"
That's often evident from the reviews. 2-4 star reviews tend to be the most helpful, and there are often good points made in them. Expecting all of them to be useful or applicable to your situation would be like expecting all the /. story comments to be insightful, or to have a MS or Apple thread without trolls and fanbois in the mix. It just ain't gonna happen.
Paint him green and give him a funny looking helmet and we have a deal.
If we put humans on Mars, I'm guessing that would be considered life beyond earth. If NASA sends someone who isn't a US Citizen, they would be an alien.
So, really, not too far fetched for the pedantic among us. And, being /., that would be pretty much all of us.
At the (relatively low) burdened wage of $50/hr, you've both increased you costs by 50% and reduced your flight capacity by 25%. Need a co-pilot? You've doubled your flight cost per hour and halved your available payload, Congratulations, you've just increased the cost to fly by a factor of 4.
Not that anyone is flying a 172 for commercial purposes, but $100/hr for four passengers ($25/hr/passenger) vs $200/hr for two passengers ($100/hr/passenger) is a pretty big difference.