The first option I'd want is a body frame and panels which I can replace with simple tools. Cheap repairs and changing of body type. Bolted joints may be weaker than welded, but I don't mind a few pounds more to have wider/longer body fastening points.
Also, some of those "suppliers" would be making variations of a few standard body parts. Some would be making more expensive and more customized body parts. If you want a unique wing-and-fin spoiler on your trunk, send that design to the supplier which offers that service, and order a spare in case of future damage (or keep the design on file).
I would like to have the outside panels be easily removable, and various body frames underneath which can also be replaced. Removable panels allows cheap replacement of damaged body parts (including rusting of metal panel components). Changing the frame underneath also allows cheaper repair, as well as altering my station wagon into a two-seater (a pickup with flat bed) if I accept a contract which involves a lot of driving with little cargo.
Of course, I'd order a skateboard with little battery capacity then add a gasoline-powered generator. If that set of metal parts banging back and forth wears out I'll just replace that tiny engine.
"Take us to sector ZZ9 plural Z alpha."
"Where?"
"ZZ9 plural Z alpha."
"And where would that be?"
Never mind, your former navigator unit is now taking these units to the proper sector. And ignore that mention of "us", the unit which used that irrelevant term has been reincorporated.
> You think english verb conjugations are difficult? You don't speak any latin language, do you?
Latin? Hell, ask him about KLINGON!
Klingon, difficult you think?
Warriors and linguists, Klingons think they are.
Speaking well a warrior not be making.
Grammar lessons enlightening be, grammar enforcement threats darkness be leading to.
Can you imagine the complexity of a language where you can conjugate a verb in the "future-past" tense?
In this mission the time travel ship will be sent to Earth's past and conquer Earth's now then. Begin now so soon Earth will be preconquered. This now will then never be becoming now because the past future is becoming a past future as the future history of now will show the new future which will have been created now.
...or else just look at the printout which says who you voted for, before you drop it in the ballot box. If there is any question about the results, the papers will be counted. Or the electronic results will be reported quickly while the paper ballots are being counted.
It is a bad thing however for a Capitalist. We'd end up having a civil war over this.
No, a Capitalist simply tries to create wealth by adding value to something. If there is no market for mass-produced physical objects, such as buggy whips, there still will be markets for unique things, such as custom-fitted buggy whips.
This tech is not quite an energy-to-object "replicator", but if it were there would still be a market for designs (click here to download my BSD cup design), communication services suitable for replicator designs, design search engines, customization tools, specialty replicators (click here to download my desk-sized replicator which you can build from desktop-sized replicator parts), and other things which those in such an environment will discover.
As pointed out in a "Venus Equilateral" story, there would be a market for services and "uniques". Of course, replicatable dollar bills would not be the payment method -- there would be some other exchange credit system. If such a new economy began as a barter system, someone would quickly create an exchange system for the same reasons we now use money (primarily because the chicken farmer from whom you buy eggs weekly won't want more than one of your custom mailboxes, but you can pay him with money with which he can buy from someone else what he wants).
Slashdot needs a location-adjusted Funny moderation system to compensate for differences between the gravity of the article at the locations of the poster, moderator, and reader.
The technology for a manned Mars mission has existed for decades. Look up the "Orion project" designs. There's a lot of room in something the size of a multistory office building. Supplies, farm animals, tractors... Yes, may as well take along colonization supplies when there's so much room and the trip is so short.
sillyness from physics point of view(hyperjump is one)
An antihyperjump moves you a very short distance?
Or it moves you a very great distance in a time longer than it would take to travel there in real space?
Several of us have pointed out that there is a large cross-over between the people who buy these things and the people who run linux... our boss is kind of convinced that this might sell some more units,
Oh, your boss noticed that if "several" of his own techs are interested in Linux, that there must be a huge number of techs (and non-techs) involved in Linux? Some companies are awfully slow at figuring that out.
You probably don't want to wait to find out what type of licensing decisions Diebold makes now, as people already are helping them with programming problems.
Main Entry: 1 dupe
Pronunciation: 'düp also 'dyüp
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French duppe, probably alteration of huppe hoopoe
Date: 1681
: one that is easily deceived or cheated : FOOL
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Also, some of those "suppliers" would be making variations of a few standard body parts. Some would be making more expensive and more customized body parts. If you want a unique wing-and-fin spoiler on your trunk, send that design to the supplier which offers that service, and order a spare in case of future damage (or keep the design on file).
I would like to have the outside panels be easily removable, and various body frames underneath which can also be replaced. Removable panels allows cheap replacement of damaged body parts (including rusting of metal panel components). Changing the frame underneath also allows cheaper repair, as well as altering my station wagon into a two-seater (a pickup with flat bed) if I accept a contract which involves a lot of driving with little cargo.
Of course, I'd order a skateboard with little battery capacity then add a gasoline-powered generator. If that set of metal parts banging back and forth wears out I'll just replace that tiny engine.
I'm more worried about what comes before that:
Yup.
A single one can broadcast its data with the flash.
And use the image sensor to detect flashes.
My cluster is so brilliant you have to wear shades.
Isn't that why the helicopter has GPS?
"Where?"
"ZZ9 plural Z alpha."
"And where would that be?"
Never mind, your former navigator unit is now taking these units to the proper sector. And ignore that mention of "us", the unit which used that irrelevant term has been reincorporated.
Latin? Hell, ask him about KLINGON!
Klingon, difficult you think?
Warriors and linguists, Klingons think they are.
Speaking well a warrior not be making.
Grammar lessons enlightening be, grammar enforcement threats darkness be leading to.
In this mission the time travel ship will be sent to Earth's past and conquer Earth's now then. Begin now so soon Earth will be preconquered. This now will then never be becoming now because the past future is becoming a past future as the future history of now will show the new future which will have been created now.
Isn't that what this dash-dot key, with the four square stylized dots, is for? It seems to pop up a menu, obviously so I can start a Morse code app.
Any guesses whether exploits will appear before or after Election Day?
Your first guess doesn't count.
...or else just look at the printout which says who you voted for, before you drop it in the ballot box. If there is any question about the results, the papers will be counted. Or the electronic results will be reported quickly while the paper ballots are being counted.
This will only work if there are polling places at all recreation centers.
No, a Capitalist simply tries to create wealth by adding value to something. If there is no market for mass-produced physical objects, such as buggy whips, there still will be markets for unique things, such as custom-fitted buggy whips.
This tech is not quite an energy-to-object "replicator", but if it were there would still be a market for designs (click here to download my BSD cup design), communication services suitable for replicator designs, design search engines, customization tools, specialty replicators (click here to download my desk-sized replicator which you can build from desktop-sized replicator parts), and other things which those in such an environment will discover.
As pointed out in a "Venus Equilateral" story, there would be a market for services and "uniques". Of course, replicatable dollar bills would not be the payment method -- there would be some other exchange credit system. If such a new economy began as a barter system, someone would quickly create an exchange system for the same reasons we now use money (primarily because the chicken farmer from whom you buy eggs weekly won't want more than one of your custom mailboxes, but you can pay him with money with which he can buy from someone else what he wants).
Steal gold between those two regions.
Slashdot needs a location-adjusted Funny moderation system to compensate for differences between the gravity of the article at the locations of the poster, moderator, and reader.
That's "trying in vain", unless the submarine which you're dealing with is a shrunken one inside a human and Raquel Welch is in it.
Time.
Organs must be donated immediately. That is what causes exceptions. The hospital staff have to be told what should be done.
There is time for a will to be read, executor prepared, decisions about details in completing the issues, time required for completion of tasks, etc.
Well, you could set a bunch of LCD panels next to each other and use Xinerama to use the whole wall as your computer display.
The technology for a manned Mars mission has existed for decades. Look up the "Orion project" designs. There's a lot of room in something the size of a multistory office building. Supplies, farm animals, tractors... Yes, may as well take along colonization supplies when there's so much room and the trip is so short.
I hope it is compatible with the contrast tuner BlaKPlaKue, the personal contact restrictor Klamidia, and the compact presentation tool SmallPoK.
An antihyperjump moves you a very short distance?
Or it moves you a very great distance in a time longer than it would take to travel there in real space?
Oh, your boss noticed that if "several" of his own techs are interested in Linux, that there must be a huge number of techs (and non-techs) involved in Linux? Some companies are awfully slow at figuring that out.
He is having difficulty getting his updates past the Editor.
You probably don't want to wait to find out what type of licensing decisions Diebold makes now, as people already are helping them with programming problems.
Main Entry: 1 dupe
Pronunciation: 'düp also 'dyüp
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French duppe, probably alteration of huppe hoopoe
Date: 1681
: one that is easily deceived or cheated : FOOL