The cable company. The phone company. The electric company. Microsoft. Viacom.
These companies have NO ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER to the public. They can do whatever the hell they want, pass whatever laws they want, charge whatever prices they want, and people don't have another option.
What do they have in common? They're all monopolies. Those are bad, remember?
A supersonic combusting ramjet is way way way incredibly more technically challenging than a regular ramjet.
Managing the shock wave systems to provide adequate fuel mixing and ignition is only barely possible today with the biggest computer simulations on the planet.
I don't know what you consider "revolutionary", but sustained supersonic combustion is a Really Big Deal.
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It's a/totally different/ thing.
A ramjet has the air-fuel mixture traveling at sub-sonic speeds in the combustion chamber. The air is compressed by a system of shock waves in the inlet. As the air is compressed, it slows down and heats up. Then you light a fire in there, with an apparatus similar to an afterburner flame holder.
A scramjet keeps the flow moving supersonically throughout the combustion chamber (hence Supersonic Combusting RAMJET). Mixing in fuel, and successfully igniting the mixture before it goes out the back of the airplane is seriously difficult.
Imagine trying to light a match while sticking it out the window of a car. Now go two orders of magnitude faster. Seriously non-trivial.
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Boy, are you ever wrong. The press conference is at 4:00 PST (according to the splash screen on my TV). The flight was at 4:00 CST.
Yeah, those Soyo motherboards in those G5's really suck.
Huh?
IBM hard drives and Sony optical drives (at least in my Mac) aren't exactly cheap or generic. And they've worked great for ten years. But hey...it's Apple. It must be sucky, right?
Yeah, because the numbers on the box are real sustained throughput numbers. And there's not a lot of EM interference inside the case (from, oh, I dunno, that 2.4 gigahertz processor you might have) You're right. I can't believe I was so pessimistic.
Dude, I stand corrected. If you build it, they will come. I recommend sinking your entire retirement portfolio into this idea. It'll be the biggest thing, like, EVER!
Even better, I think you should license your idea to Intel. I think wireless hard drives inside laptops will be the perfect complement to their Centrino brand.
Go on with your bad self. I am now your biggest fan.
"Real Angus Beef" means that the cow was more than 50% black in color. It tells you NOTHING about the quality of the meat. (Not to say that they're not using good beef in their Six Dollar Burger...just watch out when you go to the grocery store)
Angus's Gold and Silver labels (or maybe it's platinum and titanium...whatever) are excellent beef. But "Certified Angus" alone doesn't say anything about quality. You'll be much better off looking for USDA Prime beef, preferably grain (not grass) fed, from the Midwest (not Texas).
I'm not any fun, because I think the idea of spending hundreds of dollars on wireless ribbon cables is ridiculous.
Right.
No, I DON'T know what the appeal would be of destroying the performance of your computer (like, to the point where I think it'd take about 20 minutes to boot) just because it's wireless.
It's bad engineering, lousy design, and a really stupid idea. There are many more fun ways to waste your money.
Then go buy yourself five $20 buckets of 1000 bricks. They're available at any Toys R. Us.
I'm so tired of hearing people cry about "specialized" pieces. Use some imagination. The new pieces are great. You can build things that were not practical with just the old ones I had when I was a kid.
Are 4" by 4" pieces of wall good Lego? No. But an interestingly-shaped angle brick can be used for any number of things.
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So, which set of organizations should Google show preferential search results for?
Their algorithm is good enough that I don't think gaming it to return any given page is a good idea.
I don't like any channels, just as I don't like any book publishers, or movie production houses, or video game developers.
I like certain shows/books/movies/games, but I have exactly zero loyalty to those distribution firms.
...which is fine, if you take the profits from those safe bets and re-invest them in new ideas.
Which never happens.
To this day, TA is my benchmark for Ultimate User Interface Design. It totally spoiled me on every other RTS.
We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
When those civil penalties are obscene, the answer to your question is "no".
What planet are you on?
The cable company.
The phone company.
The electric company.
Microsoft.
Viacom.
These companies have NO ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER to the public. They can do whatever the hell they want, pass whatever laws they want, charge whatever prices they want, and people don't have another option.
What do they have in common? They're all monopolies. Those are bad, remember?
Yep. A steam locomotive from 1852 and a four-turbocharger W-16 engine in the Bugatti Veyron are also damn similar.
But completely different.
You are wrong.
A supersonic combusting ramjet is way way way incredibly more technically challenging than a regular ramjet.
Managing the shock wave systems to provide adequate fuel mixing and ignition is only barely possible today with the biggest computer simulations on the planet.
I don't know what you consider "revolutionary", but sustained supersonic combustion is a Really Big Deal.
It's a /totally different/ thing.
A ramjet has the air-fuel mixture traveling at sub-sonic speeds in the combustion chamber. The air is compressed by a system of shock waves in the inlet. As the air is compressed, it slows down and heats up. Then you light a fire in there, with an apparatus similar to an afterburner flame holder.
A scramjet keeps the flow moving supersonically throughout the combustion chamber (hence Supersonic Combusting RAMJET). Mixing in fuel, and successfully igniting the mixture before it goes out the back of the airplane is seriously difficult.
Imagine trying to light a match while sticking it out the window of a car. Now go two orders of magnitude faster. Seriously non-trivial.
Boy, are you ever wrong. The press conference is at 4:00 PST (according to the splash screen on my TV). The flight was at 4:00 CST.
How do I know? I watched it.
Sure. Grain and corn are the best cattle feeds. They make yummy meat.
Yeah, those Soyo motherboards in those G5's really suck.
Huh?
IBM hard drives and Sony optical drives (at least in my Mac) aren't exactly cheap or generic. And they've worked great for ten years. But hey...it's Apple. It must be sucky, right?
Yeah, because the numbers on the box are real sustained throughput numbers. And there's not a lot of EM interference inside the case (from, oh, I dunno, that 2.4 gigahertz processor you might have) You're right. I can't believe I was so pessimistic.
Dude, I stand corrected. If you build it, they will come. I recommend sinking your entire retirement portfolio into this idea. It'll be the biggest thing, like, EVER!
Even better, I think you should license your idea to Intel. I think wireless hard drives inside laptops will be the perfect complement to their Centrino brand.
Go on with your bad self. I am now your biggest fan.
Yep. BS Aerospace Engineering. That's a rocket scientist, buddy.
Yep. I'm just out of school. And I've built more aircraft than you have.
But, hey...you have a wireless hard drive cable idea. And 20 years in "software engineering". I'm glad that makes you happy. Your penis is big.
OK, guys. You heard it here first.
"Real Angus Beef" means that the cow was more than 50% black in color. It tells you NOTHING about the quality of the meat. (Not to say that they're not using good beef in their Six Dollar Burger...just watch out when you go to the grocery store)
Angus's Gold and Silver labels (or maybe it's platinum and titanium...whatever) are excellent beef. But "Certified Angus" alone doesn't say anything about quality. You'll be much better off looking for USDA Prime beef, preferably grain (not grass) fed, from the Midwest (not Texas).
That is all. : )
*sigh*
I'm not any fun, because I think the idea of spending hundreds of dollars on wireless ribbon cables is ridiculous.
Right.
No, I DON'T know what the appeal would be of destroying the performance of your computer (like, to the point where I think it'd take about 20 minutes to boot) just because it's wireless.
It's bad engineering, lousy design, and a really stupid idea. There are many more fun ways to waste your money.
(Software engineer...that's amusing.)
Uh, yeah, but since I think through the solutions to problems, I typically don't destroy the utility of the device in question.
I AM an engineer. Engineers judge the quality of solutions based on utility.
Dude. It's a stupid idea. Get over it.
Yeah, because your computer works great when you cut the bandwidth to the primary storage system by a factor of 100.
Heh. Don't hit the swap file. You'll be gone for a week.
I like my Trogdor hoodie. : )
Then go buy yourself five $20 buckets of 1000 bricks. They're available at any Toys R. Us.
I'm so tired of hearing people cry about "specialized" pieces. Use some imagination. The new pieces are great. You can build things that were not practical with just the old ones I had when I was a kid.
Are 4" by 4" pieces of wall good Lego? No. But an interestingly-shaped angle brick can be used for any number of things.
So said Neville Chamberlain in 1938. We all know how that ended.
Uh, cooking the books is not legal. Failing to meet your criteria for successful product rollouts is legal.
It amuses me that anybody who disagrees with you must be in insecure Apple apologist.
Apple is growing like crazy. Lots of companies are bad at that.
My only point is this: On the list of problems to have, this is a really good one.
Settle down there, big guy. Somebody needs a hug.
You understand that the reason they're delaying the European roll-out is because they're selling more than they can make, right?
Would it be better if Apple was selling fewer iPods?
It's thinking like yours that makes me laugh every time I think of how "beleaguered" Apple is.