My point is that Sri Lanka does not have Albuquerque's ideal ballooning wind pattern, so the envisioned usage for broadband distribution is going to be even more problematic.
First, you have to be really lucky to find a place that has directly opposig winds at different nearby altitudes. This is what makes Albuquerque such a favorite place for ballooning.
Then...what happens to your broadband signal as the balloon changes altitude while whiffling all over the place trying to keep station?
Especially because those were the days when any error in a Windows app would cause Windows itself to terminate by "dumping to DOS." You would never know what caused the termination, since there was no longer a Windows environment in which to display the message, just that cryptic little blinking C:>.
Had I thought to buy a share of Apple when that happened instead of beating my head on the desk like everyone else, I would be a brazillionaire now.
The hapless Segway would have been hero technology had it first been marketed to those handicapped who can stand but not walk. It would be intermediate tech between fully mobile and chairs, which take you out of the eye-contact world of the normally upright.
In the same way, Glass could have been introduced as a niche product for stock traders and surgeons who need some HUD information in their peripheral vision while performing a task that they want others to look in on. Instead of sneering at Glass, hipsters would be vying to get their hands on "surgeon glasses" to impress their dates.
You're describing a special purpose vehicle, the kind which is often customized for some job. If we move away from the everybody-owns-a-car model, the first type of vehicle to be affected will be the commuter jellybeans you take to work every day. If you can set up a standing order for a rental to be available at time X every morning at your home address, and if you could fire up an app at work to call a car for 30 minutes from now, a lot of people would gladly move from ownership to a subscription rental model. All idle cars could be kept at the community solar farm, charging away until calls come in, absorbing the midday generation surge; at night they would sit at the same place, giving back any extra charge to the Smart Grid for the evening's local usage.
But hey, our academics are the best in the world at identity politics technology. Its researchers have added an unprecedented number of new letters and symbols to that gender preference string, making it the DNA of the anti-DNA world.
Have fun filing an environmental impact statement for that thing. It would contain so much paper that for the first time, the environmental impact statement would require a second environmental impact statement, for itself.
Worse, Slate could buy it, trying out a succession of new commenting systems that don't work properly. At the end the first year, we'll be wishing we had Beta back.
The scenario being explored here is, "Suppose we replace our existing baseload sources with flickery, fluctuating small renewables. And oh, that one really big, reliable renewable doesn't count, because it was the evil energy source my grandpa opposed even before there were nuclear plants to mindlessly protest against."
As an added added bonus, such a drive would accelerate faster at a given thrust, because of the absence of reaction mass. Conventionally, acceleration steadily increases at a given thrust as reaction mass is ejected, with maximum acceleration being reached just before reaction mass is exhausted.
This is like those feel-good petitions against landmines. It's easy for us to recuse from using them until, suddenly one day, they get used against us.
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"how do I get to be a multinational corporation so I can tell local authorities to fuck off too?"
France is free to make it illegal for its citizens to use Google. This would be the kind of money pit bureacrats love, like British TV licensing.
Let Paris implement its own Grand mur de la France, behind which it can spend what it takes on a search engine with a Forget Me feature.
My point is that Sri Lanka does not have Albuquerque's ideal ballooning wind pattern, so the envisioned usage for broadband distribution is going to be even more problematic.
You're going to blow up a planet of dyslexics?
""Crappy power" is normal. Manufacturers need to design for that. "
Get a UPS.
First, you have to be really lucky to find a place that has directly opposig winds at different nearby altitudes. This is what makes Albuquerque such a favorite place for ballooning.
Then...what happens to your broadband signal as the balloon changes altitude while whiffling all over the place trying to keep station?
Especially because those were the days when any error in a Windows app would cause Windows itself to terminate by "dumping to DOS." You would never know what caused the termination, since there was no longer a Windows environment in which to display the message, just that cryptic little blinking C:>.
Had I thought to buy a share of Apple when that happened instead of beating my head on the desk like everyone else, I would be a brazillionaire now.
But now imagine if all your computer interaction before Win 3.1 had been on the command line?
The hapless Segway would have been hero technology had it first been marketed to those handicapped who can stand but not walk. It would be intermediate tech between fully mobile and chairs, which take you out of the eye-contact world of the normally upright.
In the same way, Glass could have been introduced as a niche product for stock traders and surgeons who need some HUD information in their peripheral vision while performing a task that they want others to look in on. Instead of sneering at Glass, hipsters would be vying to get their hands on "surgeon glasses" to impress their dates.
Lower cost option for Comic Store Guy: An iPhone in his shirt pocket, with just the lens peeking out.
You're describing a special purpose vehicle, the kind which is often customized for some job. If we move away from the everybody-owns-a-car model, the first type of vehicle to be affected will be the commuter jellybeans you take to work every day. If you can set up a standing order for a rental to be available at time X every morning at your home address, and if you could fire up an app at work to call a car for 30 minutes from now, a lot of people would gladly move from ownership to a subscription rental model. All idle cars could be kept at the community solar farm, charging away until calls come in, absorbing the midday generation surge; at night they would sit at the same place, giving back any extra charge to the Smart Grid for the evening's local usage.
But hey, our academics are the best in the world at identity politics technology. Its researchers have added an unprecedented number of new letters and symbols to that gender preference string, making it the DNA of the anti-DNA world.
Besides, I've never come across a drone recipe that was at all edible.
"Prior to the 1980s there were no GMO organisms anywhere in the world."
You mean that there were no manmade GMOs. But as we have found out since, natural transgenics already existed.
Since the ecosystem already contains barley and rice, what possible harm can come from a plant that incorporates DNA from both?
" a rocket propelled steerable solar system."
Have fun filing an environmental impact statement for that thing. It would contain so much paper that for the first time, the environmental impact statement would require a second environmental impact statement, for itself.
The Obama White House dithers and dithers and dithers, after which it carefully and deliberately makes the wrong choice.
Shemya, AK! Go for it.
iSlash!
"Watch Fox News buy it and bring back myspace."
Worse, Slate could buy it, trying out a succession of new commenting systems that don't work properly. At the end the first year, we'll be wishing we had Beta back.
The scenario being explored here is, "Suppose we replace our existing baseload sources with flickery, fluctuating small renewables. And oh, that one really big, reliable renewable doesn't count, because it was the evil energy source my grandpa opposed even before there were nuclear plants to mindlessly protest against."
"Maybe this will be one that turns out not to be a scam..."
It won't be a scam. It will be some tiny bit of unaccounted for noise in the experiment.
And where would the colder place be to vent that heat? Sacre bleu!
-Yours, S. Carnot.
As an added added bonus, such a drive would accelerate faster at a given thrust, because of the absence of reaction mass. Conventionally, acceleration steadily increases at a given thrust as reaction mass is ejected, with maximum acceleration being reached just before reaction mass is exhausted.
We can dream, can't we?
This is like those feel-good petitions against landmines. It's easy for us to recuse from using them until, suddenly one day, they get used against us.