Thanks for that. A good laugh once a day makes you live longer. Amongst the innumerable aerodynamic engineering issues:
- Center of gravity is well forward of center of lift, so the only possible stable flying attitude is straight down
- Wing loading is off the end of the scale. If you put a big enough engine on it, anything will fly - this one would would stall somewhere over 300 Mph, if it could ever fly straight that is, which is doubtful. Too bad it's limited to 200 Mph, I guess it's a helicopter after all.
- Vertical and horizontal stabilizers are miniscule and tucked away in the turbulence of the fuselage. Control surfaces are apparently nonexistent. To get an idea how that might work, tie a string to a shoe box and fly it as a kite while driving down the freeway.
- How much will those retractable engine engine covers weigh, if they ever exist? Which they never will.
- Where are the roof racks? It needs root racks. And a trailer hitch.
It's the male counterpart of Marissa's management style (Muscles & Ass vs Tits & Ass.)
Seriously, It's alarming the number of posters who whined about not being able to find their way to a search engine to learn a term that they'd be best advised to tattoo on their entitled behinds right now, because in all probability they will lose a job one more more times in their career because of it. It's very much a part of technology.
Never mind being flat wrong about old CRTs, which are 6 bits per color except for some insanely pricey specialized monitors that don't work with standard equipment. Also wildly wrong about 64 bit color depth. Perhaps this particular internet monkey was thinking, 64 bit total of all components, or 21 bit depth.
Instead of public shaming, perhaps cutting off their service will get them to pay up?
Some droid figured out that people who are cut off aren't receiving services they will need to pay for. So by dropping the ethics, services continue, debt continues to build up and revenue is higher. Now the cool thing is, we find that shaming is a two edged sword, except when we do it it's ethical.
the weasel words here are pretty obvious: Google admits to collecting students personal information, but tries to hide behind "we only use it in aggregate".
What is the minimum size of an aggregate, one might fairly ask.
I'm just stating you are an idiot because you can't think of a single catastrophic thing that could happen from this.
Oh, I know, right? For example, the drill's high pressure oil system could spring a leak and cover you with black icky stuff from head to foot. Or you could drop a pipe wrench on your big toe.
Yahoo wasn't late to webmail, they just sucked at things like spam filtering and web design so Google ate their lunch in spite of coming out considerably later. Yahoo's infrastructure was also complete crap - Netapp filers I seem to recall - allowing Google to blow them way on storage limits. Remember Gmail landed with 1GB limit on april fool's day, but it wasn't a joke. Yahoo eventually got a clue and went to a Linux + raw disks data center strategy like Google but they were too far behind to catch up and the corporate culture was one of sloth from too much easy living. Yahoo just did an endless number of things wrong... springing Mariss Mayer from Google when they were more than happy to be rid of her was just one more.
I have my doubts about the ratio of money that goes into Mozilla foundation versus the amount of development that actually gets done, especially debugging, cleanup, refactoring... the unglamorous stuff that is necessary for true quality software. So I would prefer that Mozilla foundation lets go of tbird, provided some group of experienced devs is ready to pick it up. In other words, the impetus for dropping tbird should come from outside Mozilla foundation. Just dropping it and leaving it unmaintained on the assumption somebody will be forced to pick it up would be irresponsible and an insult to the community.
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Facebook is the new AOL?
The full-size wing will be 10x as long, with 10x the chord, and the same curve, so it could be 100x the weight.
No, 1000x, if not otherwise structurally altered.
I can definitely see something like this being very useful in a military version, though, or as an emergency vehicle version
I suggest that you snap up some shares of Terrafugia while you still can!
Thanks for that. A good laugh once a day makes you live longer. Amongst the innumerable aerodynamic engineering issues:
- Center of gravity is well forward of center of lift, so the only possible stable flying attitude is straight down
- Wing loading is off the end of the scale. If you put a big enough engine on it, anything will fly - this one would would stall somewhere over 300 Mph, if it could ever fly straight that is, which is doubtful. Too bad it's limited to 200 Mph, I guess it's a helicopter after all.
- Vertical and horizontal stabilizers are miniscule and tucked away in the turbulence of the fuselage. Control surfaces are apparently nonexistent. To get an idea how that might work, tie a string to a shoe box and fly it as a kite while driving down the freeway.
- How much will those retractable engine engine covers weigh, if they ever exist? Which they never will.
- Where are the roof racks? It needs root racks. And a trailer hitch.
For further research, see here.
And it has magic morphing rearview mirrors, apparently based on a new quantum metamaterial, only stable in cyberspace.
They've squeezed all the marketing juice out of that early model, and now they need something new.
A new transfusion of capital.
Don't AMD announce some new open source initiative every year?
Nothing ever happens.....
Then please inform me, wise coward, what this "radeon" driver is, that has satisfied my needs for years?
What exactly is M&A?
It's the male counterpart of Marissa's management style (Muscles & Ass vs Tits & Ass.)
Seriously, It's alarming the number of posters who whined about not being able to find their way to a search engine to learn a term that they'd be best advised to tattoo on their entitled behinds right now, because in all probability they will lose a job one more more times in their career because of it. It's very much a part of technology.
Anybody with a clue could have told Jobs the same thing, and he did end up respecting the GPL then he did nothing more than respect the law.
huh?
You illustrated my point about specialized hardware nicely.
Does "development" of GCC these days consist of anything other than backporting improvements from LLVM and slapping GPLv3 on them?
It certainly does, however you draw attention to one of the principal superpowers of copyleft.
It seems to be exactly what happened. A "front end" is clearly a "derived work".
Never mind being flat wrong about old CRTs, which are 6 bits per color except for some insanely pricey specialized monitors that don't work with standard equipment. Also wildly wrong about 64 bit color depth. Perhaps this particular internet monkey was thinking, 64 bit total of all components, or 21 bit depth.
Instead of public shaming, perhaps cutting off their service will get them to pay up?
Some droid figured out that people who are cut off aren't receiving services they will need to pay for. So by dropping the ethics, services continue, debt continues to build up and revenue is higher. Now the cool thing is, we find that shaming is a two edged sword, except when we do it it's ethical.
the weasel words here are pretty obvious: Google admits to collecting students personal information, but tries to hide behind "we only use it in aggregate".
What is the minimum size of an aggregate, one might fairly ask.
I'm just stating you are an idiot because you can't think of a single catastrophic thing that could happen from this.
Oh, I know, right? For example, the drill's high pressure oil system could spring a leak and cover you with black icky stuff from head to foot. Or you could drop a pipe wrench on your big toe.
You're right, a hole that small won't make the world blow up unless you drill it through the exact center of the Large Hadron Collider
Yahoo is the new Myspace
Since yahoo bought the entire backlog of SNL footage...
Don't tell me, Marissa's idea?
Yahoo wasn't late to webmail, they just sucked at things like spam filtering and web design so Google ate their lunch in spite of coming out considerably later. Yahoo's infrastructure was also complete crap - Netapp filers I seem to recall - allowing Google to blow them way on storage limits. Remember Gmail landed with 1GB limit on april fool's day, but it wasn't a joke. Yahoo eventually got a clue and went to a Linux + raw disks data center strategy like Google but they were too far behind to catch up and the corporate culture was one of sloth from too much easy living. Yahoo just did an endless number of things wrong... springing Mariss Mayer from Google when they were more than happy to be rid of her was just one more.
Brilliant, sell Marissa to Apple too. That'll fix 'em.
When was the last time you recovered the data from an actual failed hard drive?
Three years ago. Why do you ask?
It's not something I have any desire to do again, but being able to do it... that's another thing entirely.
What... doesn't everybody know that tibblebytes are better than terabytes?
I have my doubts about the ratio of money that goes into Mozilla foundation versus the amount of development that actually gets done, especially debugging, cleanup, refactoring... the unglamorous stuff that is necessary for true quality software. So I would prefer that Mozilla foundation lets go of tbird, provided some group of experienced devs is ready to pick it up. In other words, the impetus for dropping tbird should come from outside Mozilla foundation. Just dropping it and leaving it unmaintained on the assumption somebody will be forced to pick it up would be irresponsible and an insult to the community.