Because it costs more to get you form A to B than her. You're bigger, you require more fuel expenditure. If they carried two of her, they'd carry the same weight, and get twice the money, than if htey just carried you.
because he said something you dont like he must be a romney voter? dude. let it drop. your bias is both obvious and misplaced. you spew vitriol at every opportunity it seems. you tie everything back to an election you already wona nd (mis) characterize people based on completely seperate and unrelated topics. give it a rest
what's ok on a small, insignificant scale can quickly become not ok when applied on a large scale.
you're no longer some random person in a red shirt in the back in one family's photos, but instead are now John Smith who lives at 239 Maple Drive, New Town, New York, whos likes are bunnies, orange sherbert, and bisexual porn, and a few thousand pages of other collected and collated data over which you have absolutely no control.
oh yes. that will go swimmingly. look, i know its the "in" thing to mock the anti-drug mentality. but you people have to stop ignoring the consequences of yoru own ideas.
you throw things out into a vacuum of unbalanced evaluations. you say 70k people died, and present it liek there is no similar consequence, no similar detrimental impact if your alternative would happen. you assume that people are all rational actors, and will make smart choices. but they arent; most people are irrational actors.
and it amuses me to no end when you people rail against the drug war in one hand, and then campaign against smoking and alcohol and a dozen other things, all the same breath, ignoring all the bad of tobacco and alcohol, and pretend the exact same crap wont happen if you then loegalize everything else too.
if presented with an easy chemical happiness in lieu of one created by years of hard work, they will choose the easy and run themselves into the ground just the like the rat with wires in its head pressing the lever til it dies of starvation.
people are stupid. people are irrational. people are lazy.
and if the same irrational people who will smoke and drink themselves to death, to their and society's detriment, just what in the hell do you think will happen with destigmatized, legalized, and accepted "drug" use?
No magic coefficients? Oh ye ignorant peons. Try measuring somehting in the real world and doing something with it. There are no "pretty" coefficients unless you assume measurements only take place in the ivory tower of single dimension "science" labs...wwhich doesnt exist. Real measurements and applications of them are not pretty.
This whole stupid psuedo intellectual holier than thou "debate" is waste of time, perpetrated by people who dont even know what they are talking about. Constant whining on/. only proves to me very very few people on here actually make real world measurements on a regular basis. if you did, you'd know that: -one unit is as good as another (unless you're afraid of numbers....) -everything is traced back to actual official standard -it's all just numbers, and in this day and age, conversions arent about the CF used, but about actually keeping straight what you are even doing because... -very few measures are ever just "one dimensional" in nature
Ever had to measure rainfall in acre-feet and convert it to runoff flow rate, and volume change in a river system over some distance? Ever had to convert flow to velocity over a distance to match different sized pipes and select the best one, then account for the weight of fluid in the pipe of choice and determine strength characteristics and anchoring points? Ever had to measure the dbm of a noise source and convert it to electrical db, then to energy then to vibration dampening factor of a wall material?
In the real world of people who actually make measurements for a living, no one gives a flying f about meters or inches. You use what's most convenient for the job at hand, and conversion is only a calculator away.
Make more sense? you must not be someone who makes real measurements in the real world often.
This whole stupid psuedo intellectual holier than thou "debate" is waste of time, perpetrated by people who dont even know what they are talking about. Constant whining on/. only proves to me very very few people on here actually make real world measurements on a regular basis. if you did, you'd know that: -one unit is as good as another -everything is traced back to actual official standard -it's all just numbers, and in this day and age, conversions arent about the CF used, but about actually keeping straight what you are even doing because... -very few measures are ever just "one dimensional" in nature
Ever had to measure rainfall in acre-feet and convert it to runoff flow rate, and volume change in a river system over some distance? Ever had to convert flow to velocity over a distance to match different sized pipes and select the best one, then account for the weight of fluid in the pipe of choice and determine strength characteristics and anchoring points? Ever had to measure the dbm of a noise source and convert it to electrical db, then to energy then to vibration dampening factor of a wall material?
In the real world of people wh actually make measurements for a living, no one gives a flying f about meters or inches. You use what's most convenient for the job at hand, and conversion is only a calculator away.
because everything is in only single dimension units, ever.
This whole stupid psuedo intellectual holier than thou "debate" is waste of time, perpetrated by people who dont even know what they are talking about. Constant whining on/. only proves to me very very few people on here actually make real world measurements on a regular basis. if you did, you'd know that: -one unit is as good as another -everything is traced back to actual official standard -it's all just numbers, and in this day and age, conversions arent about the CF used, but about actually keeping straight what you are even doing because... -very few measures are ever just "one dimensional" in nature
Ever had to measure rainfall in acre-feet and convert it to runoff flow rate, and volume change in a river system over some distance? Ever had to convert flow to velocity over a distance to match different sized pipes and select the best one, then account for the weight of fluid in the pipe of choice and determine strength characteristics and anchoring points? Ever had to measure the dbm of a noise source and convert it to electrical db, then to energy then to vibration dampening factor of a wall material?
In the real world of people wh actually make measurements for a living, no one gives a flying f about meters or inches. You use what's most convenient for the job at hand, and conversion is only a calculator away.
their accomplishments actually did have practical value, showing it was possible to fly across the ocean. but they also didnt oversell what they did.
and that's essentially what im saying, is that these guys are overselling their project; that solar power as a practical propulasion system has almost no place in airplanes, because the energy density and engineering design required to use it simply arent there.
rhetorical question, because i already know the answer. the satellite needs expend almost no energy to maintain position, whereas the aircraft needs to fly, and if something breaks it crashes. the main advantage is speed of deployment, thus lending itself as a temporary solution. but in the end, the satellite, unless completely unfeasible, is the superior solution.
But the optimism is rather misplaced. Let's be realistic: by their own words, it takes wings the size of a jumbo jet's (A340) to hold enough solar cells to fly one person at 43 miles an hour, while also having to be extremely light. Even if we assume only needing half or a quarter of the duration/endurance, say 3 hours of night travel, or even no night travel so no batteries and just day time use on cell power, that's still a fairly large amount of cells taking up a lot of space. And reailisticlly, it's gonna need the batteries even on day use to account for cloud cover to keep engine output optimum. In order words, so far the "power of greeen technology", or at least the solar variety, is terribly impractical for air travel. and it will remain so until it can be used to fly at least a small commuter plane load of passengers (30-70 persons).
You are completely ignorant of materials science. And the computer quote is irrelevent.
A 3d printed chamber will blow up on the very first round, not the 50th. Anyone who tries to use one with end up either maimed or dead.
Even if you could somehow use iron/steel in the sintering, that still doesnt make it as strong as a piece of rolled and milled steel, just because its the same material.
ya...still not strong enough to make a chamber and barrel out of it. it'll blow up the first time its used. THAT is why they arent concerned: the important part of the weapon cant be 3D printed. The material simply isnt strong enough, and anyone who tries will kill themself.
I recognize my responsibilities as a parent. But as a parent let me tell you....toddlers are crafty devils, and you'd know that if you actually had any kids. You think think you found everything hazardous? Hah. Those little fingers get into places you can't even see as an adult, and they're surprisingly strong too.
you do realize that each package probably only pays a fraction of a cent in taxes on gas right? and thats a totally seperate fund than sales taxes. registration? really? that wont even come to a 1/1000th of a cent per package. dumbass.
Slashdot Mirror
i still have the soundtrack.
Tim Schafer truly is a god among men.
Or least game designers.
Because it costs more to get you form A to B than her. You're bigger, you require more fuel expenditure. If they carried two of her, they'd carry the same weight, and get twice the money, than if htey just carried you.
because he said something you dont like he must be a romney voter? dude. let it drop. your bias is both obvious and misplaced. you spew vitriol at every opportunity it seems. you tie everything back to an election you already wona nd (mis) characterize people based on completely seperate and unrelated topics. give it a rest
signed, a fellow obama voter
or Day of the Tentacle, or Secret Weapons of hte Luftwaffe
Gamers these days.
No sense of heritage.
Here we go. the full list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LucasArts_games
feel free to tell the drug dealers "no" when they show up at your house demanding your services.
what's ok on a small, insignificant scale can quickly become not ok when applied on a large scale.
you're no longer some random person in a red shirt in the back in one family's photos, but instead are now John Smith who lives at 239 Maple Drive, New Town, New York, whos likes are bunnies, orange sherbert, and bisexual porn, and a few thousand pages of other collected and collated data over which you have absolutely no control.
you are assuming people are rational actors.
they arent.
oh yes. that will go swimmingly.
look, i know its the "in" thing to mock the anti-drug mentality.
but you people have to stop ignoring the consequences of yoru own ideas.
you throw things out into a vacuum of unbalanced evaluations. you say 70k people died, and present it liek there is no similar consequence, no similar detrimental impact if your alternative would happen. you assume that people are all rational actors, and will make smart choices. but they arent; most people are irrational actors.
and it amuses me to no end when you people rail against the drug war in one hand, and then campaign against smoking and alcohol and a dozen other things, all the same breath, ignoring all the bad of tobacco and alcohol, and pretend the exact same crap wont happen if you then loegalize everything else too.
if presented with an easy chemical happiness in lieu of one created by years of hard work, they will choose the easy and run themselves into the ground just the like the rat with wires in its head pressing the lever til it dies of starvation.
people are stupid.
people are irrational.
people are lazy.
and if the same irrational people who will smoke and drink themselves to death, to their and society's detriment, just what in the hell do you think will happen with destigmatized, legalized, and accepted "drug" use?
No magic coefficients? Oh ye ignorant peons. Try measuring somehting in the real world and doing something with it. There are no "pretty" coefficients unless you assume measurements only take place in the ivory tower of single dimension "science" labs...wwhich doesnt exist. Real measurements and applications of them are not pretty.
This whole stupid psuedo intellectual holier than thou "debate" is waste of time, perpetrated by people who dont even know what they are talking about. Constant whining on /. only proves to me very very few people on here actually make real world measurements on a regular basis. if you did, you'd know that:
-one unit is as good as another (unless you're afraid of numbers....)
-everything is traced back to actual official standard
-it's all just numbers, and in this day and age, conversions arent about the CF used, but about actually keeping straight what you are even doing because...
-very few measures are ever just "one dimensional" in nature
Ever had to measure rainfall in acre-feet and convert it to runoff flow rate, and volume change in a river system over some distance?
Ever had to convert flow to velocity over a distance to match different sized pipes and select the best one, then account for the weight of fluid in the pipe of choice and determine strength characteristics and anchoring points?
Ever had to measure the dbm of a noise source and convert it to electrical db, then to energy then to vibration dampening factor of a wall material?
In the real world of people who actually make measurements for a living, no one gives a flying f about meters or inches. You use what's most convenient for the job at hand, and conversion is only a calculator away.
Make more sense? you must not be someone who makes real measurements in the real world often.
This whole stupid psuedo intellectual holier than thou "debate" is waste of time, perpetrated by people who dont even know what they are talking about. Constant whining on /. only proves to me very very few people on here actually make real world measurements on a regular basis. if you did, you'd know that:
-one unit is as good as another
-everything is traced back to actual official standard
-it's all just numbers, and in this day and age, conversions arent about the CF used, but about actually keeping straight what you are even doing because...
-very few measures are ever just "one dimensional" in nature
Ever had to measure rainfall in acre-feet and convert it to runoff flow rate, and volume change in a river system over some distance?
Ever had to convert flow to velocity over a distance to match different sized pipes and select the best one, then account for the weight of fluid in the pipe of choice and determine strength characteristics and anchoring points?
Ever had to measure the dbm of a noise source and convert it to electrical db, then to energy then to vibration dampening factor of a wall material?
In the real world of people wh actually make measurements for a living, no one gives a flying f about meters or inches. You use what's most convenient for the job at hand, and conversion is only a calculator away.
because everything is in only single dimension units, ever.
This whole stupid psuedo intellectual holier than thou "debate" is waste of time, perpetrated by people who dont even know what they are talking about. Constant whining on /. only proves to me very very few people on here actually make real world measurements on a regular basis. if you did, you'd know that:
-one unit is as good as another
-everything is traced back to actual official standard
-it's all just numbers, and in this day and age, conversions arent about the CF used, but about actually keeping straight what you are even doing because...
-very few measures are ever just "one dimensional" in nature
Ever had to measure rainfall in acre-feet and convert it to runoff flow rate, and volume change in a river system over some distance?
Ever had to convert flow to velocity over a distance to match different sized pipes and select the best one, then account for the weight of fluid in the pipe of choice and determine strength characteristics and anchoring points?
Ever had to measure the dbm of a noise source and convert it to electrical db, then to energy then to vibration dampening factor of a wall material?
In the real world of people wh actually make measurements for a living, no one gives a flying f about meters or inches. You use what's most convenient for the job at hand, and conversion is only a calculator away.
their accomplishments actually did have practical value, showing it was possible to fly across the ocean. but they also didnt oversell what they did.
and that's essentially what im saying, is that these guys are overselling their project; that solar power as a practical propulasion system has almost no place in airplanes, because the energy density and engineering design required to use it simply arent there.
ok, but how is it better than a satellite?
rhetorical question, because i already know the answer. the satellite needs expend almost no energy to maintain position, whereas the aircraft needs to fly, and if something breaks it crashes. the main advantage is speed of deployment, thus lending itself as a temporary solution. but in the end, the satellite, unless completely unfeasible, is the superior solution.
I like the optimism. I love the plane.
But the optimism is rather misplaced. Let's be realistic: by their own words, it takes wings the size of a jumbo jet's (A340) to hold enough solar cells to fly one person at 43 miles an hour, while also having to be extremely light. Even if we assume only needing half or a quarter of the duration/endurance, say 3 hours of night travel, or even no night travel so no batteries and just day time use on cell power, that's still a fairly large amount of cells taking up a lot of space. And reailisticlly, it's gonna need the batteries even on day use to account for cloud cover to keep engine output optimum. In order words, so far the "power of greeen technology", or at least the solar variety, is terribly impractical for air travel. and it will remain so until it can be used to fly at least a small commuter plane load of passengers (30-70 persons).
you're still not gettign it.
this thing will not just "wear out".
you are making all the wrong comparisons.
this is not like a tire wearing out.
this is like trying to use a toothpick made of sawdust loosely glued together to support an elephant.
its not going to fail gradually.
its going to fail spectacularly, the very first time you try to use it.
You are completely ignorant of materials science. And the computer quote is irrelevent.
A 3d printed chamber will blow up on the very first round, not the 50th.
Anyone who tries to use one with end up either maimed or dead.
Even if you could somehow use iron/steel in the sintering, that still doesnt make it as strong as a piece of rolled and milled steel, just because its the same material.
ya...still not strong enough to make a chamber and barrel out of it. it'll blow up the first time its used. THAT is why they arent concerned: the important part of the weapon cant be 3D printed. The material simply isnt strong enough, and anyone who tries will kill themself.
I recognize my responsibilities as a parent.
But as a parent let me tell you....toddlers are crafty devils,
and you'd know that if you actually had any kids.
You think think you found everything hazardous? Hah.
Those little fingers get into places you can't even see as an adult,
and they're surprisingly strong too.
nice to see my mod stalker got some more points to abuse.
yes. relating a factual anecdote is "trolling".
nice to see my mod stalker got some points to abuse.
a belief in nothing is still a belief.
Irregardless, persons using YOLO should be drug into the street, and shot. Literally.
you do realize that each package probably only pays a fraction of a cent in taxes on gas right? and thats a totally seperate fund than sales taxes. registration? really? that wont even come to a 1/1000th of a cent per package. dumbass.
no different from buying it in person and paying the tax.