I've never had a car that powerful. That sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.
My original comment was in reference to all the hype about how the rotary engine was going to "change the world" back when it was introduced. It reminded me of the breathless tone of this announcement.
If I remember correctly, the Wankel rotary had some serious seal problems which were fixed quickly, but ended up dooming the engine commercially - sort of like the Vega's aluminum block.
...and show screenshots that were all more or less exactly how we were doing things back then.
I haven't seen the flick yet, so forgive me, but I find it hard to believe that Hollywood couldn't resist making the computer monitors go "zzzzzzzzz" every time something changes on the screen.
...during which he will challenge Adam and Jamie to revisit an ancient and somewhat controversial myth: Did Greek scientist and polymath Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun during the Siege of Syracuse?
Oh. I thought he was going to ask them to help him find his birth certificate.
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Skin-Tight Bodysuits Could Protect Astronauts From Bone Loss
"You're going out into space wearing that?!
Miniature Human Livers Grown In Lab
If only I'd stuck to the miniature bottles of vodka all these years.
...at PDC 20910 today.
Isn't that 90210?
Where's my Microsoft Flying Car?
In the cargo bay of the Google interstellar transport vehicle?
On the Apple holodeck?
Hell, I don't know - why can't you keep track of your stuff yourself?
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Well, actually, it sounds like you know more than I.
But I have to say, I'm not sure I'd be too crazy about an aircraft engine that just dies, "no fuss, no sputter" :)
I've never had a car that powerful. That sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.
My original comment was in reference to all the hype about how the rotary engine was going to "change the world" back when it was introduced. It reminded me of the breathless tone of this announcement.
If I remember correctly, the Wankel rotary had some serious seal problems which were fixed quickly, but ended up dooming the engine commercially - sort of like the Vega's aluminum block.
Can you say "Wankel"?
...and show screenshots that were all more or less exactly how we were doing things back then.
I haven't seen the flick yet, so forgive me, but I find it hard to believe that Hollywood couldn't resist making the computer monitors go "zzzzzzzzz" every time something changes on the screen.
...during which he will challenge Adam and Jamie to revisit an ancient and somewhat controversial myth: Did Greek scientist and polymath Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun during the Siege of Syracuse?
Oh. I thought he was going to ask them to help him find his birth certificate.
...and can lead to confusion between reality and virtual reality.
Religions hate competition.
...once NELL changes a fact to a belief, it stays a belief. It cannot unlearn stuff.
Sounds like NELL should run for office.
Inflatable ... Weapons.
...there is some time left to come up with a new Linux (Windows?).
Windows, the new Linux.
You read it here first...
Wasn't this already figured out by Ancient Greek mathematicians?
Are you referring to that old "Angle of the dangle, mass of the meat something, something" calculation?
"...found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive."
Get out! Men don't like old, short, stubby-armed women?
Sacre-bleu!
...of what may be the hot, dense state of matter...
Wow. Just like the last time I used a microwave!
"BSA. Because not enough people are using Open Source"
Maybe Paul Allen will buy them.
I live in Las Vegas and drive to So Calfornia and quite a bit.
Just about everyone is already going 90mph.
Times must be tough if Paul Allen is running out of money too.
...people making nothing from it do not have the incentive or the time to produce the kind of music of the standard the majority want to hear.
Awww. No more Britny or Manufactured Boy Bands?
The world is truly going to suffer.
Cyber-kinky.
Prii.
... got their hands on a machine called the Sequoia AVC Edge ... they reprogrammed it to run Pac-Man
April First is a long way off...
Whatever happened to bubble memory and optical buses?